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The Washington herald., 1915-05-22
League to Hold Last Meeting,

The Washington League of Right
Thinking and Right Living will hold
its last meeting for the season on
Wednesday at IL o'clock at Studio
Hall, 1919 Connecticut avenue. The
public is cordially invited. Mrs.
Vance Cheney, of New York, will
speak on Faculty of Intuition and
How to Develop It." The league will
resume its meetings early in October.
The members include: Mrs. A. B. Brit
tain, F. c. Bryan, J. ]. Dickinson,
Calm. Lorin Johnson. Kelly. Fulton
Lewis, Lackey, McNair, w. B. Orme.
Robert Peck, PickfOrd, F. Phelps, L.
E. Rauterberg. Sewer. Shafer. Shelton.
Smoot. Sparrow. Underwood, Walker.
Wenderoth. Wilson, ID. L. Wilson,
Wheeler. r. White, and the Misses A.
b. Abbott, Atkinson, Bestor. Anna G..
Blauvelt, Duer. Graves. Holcomb. An
nette Hull, Lockwood, Eloise Orme,
Patterson, Julia Peck, Julia Smoot.
Sutfield. and Wells.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22
The Cal Of the Sell.

These are the days when desk men cast dis
approving eyes on their soft city muscles and
grow restless. For it is May and men have heard
the irresistible call of the black soil After win
ter on the stone pavements and marble floors the
animal Man has the desire to walk on the naked
ground and feel the cool earth. to take out his
spade and rake and fiddle and fuss in his garden.
Generations of houses, clothes and books have sub
dued. but not smothered the ancestral fires There
is something more than mere satisfaction IN die.
ging. planting and lingering in the dirt II is his
communion with his first mother. Pity the poor
fat dweller in May time He has no back yard
Chicago Tribune. :. -
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

1t is dscouraging that comes from Paris
to the effect that number OF important contracts
for manufactures with firms in the United States
have been cancelled because goods furnished have
not come up to requirements samples. 1t is
asserted that "of twenty-five of the largest Amer-
can houses with which the French government is
doing business only one has record of never fall
ing below sample" 1t is almost incredible that
manufacturing firms in this country thus de-
hberately throwing away the greatest opportunity
they have ever known to establish permanent and
profitable foreign market for their wares merely
that they may pick up some quick but dishonest
money. The news from Paris is advertisement
which it is to be hoped will escape the notice of
the distinguished South American fnanciers now
gathering in Washington for conference, though
this is hardly likely.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

victed Of murder. His death
sentence had been commuted
to. a life sentence and ended
in pardon.
Here, perhaps, there was
an approximation of the
divine mercy.
At any rate, we like to
hope that, in the other world,
all life sentences end in par
don.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

In New York has just been placed in
jail because he is unable to pay judgment for
$I6o rendered against him when child tripped
and injured itself premises maintained by the
defendant Not only he unable to pay the
judgment, but he could not earn enough money
to support his family. The officers of the law
who arrested the unfortunate man provided cash
enough to keep his family from immediate star
walton. The State, OF course, will support the
debtor and perhaps charitably disposed persons
will provide food for his family until some
Solomon finds a way out of an absurd situation
created by law enacted in modern times to
govern intelligent community.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

Physicians informed the New York Academy OF
Medicine at its last meeting that celebrated Euro
pcan remedy Tor heart disease be administered
just effectively at a watering place in this
try abroad This is at least interesting. for it
is difficult to think OF many places in Europe
where sojourn just would be calculated to
cure heart disease.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

The New York heress who married the ele
vator boy OF the apartment house where she lived
has deserted her husband after eight weeks Of
welded life. 1t is to be regretted that honorable
employment for young men chaufeurs,
elevator boys and gardeners is no longer safe
when there rich young women around.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

The allies fighting for the principles for
which we stand and our people right in hop
ing and believing that they will win," says Gift
ford PinchOt 1T is almost important for US
that they should win it is for the allies them
selves And yet the people OF the United States
remained neutral against their own interests I'M
til the crime OF the Lusitania made neutrality
impossible for any American.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22
A Line O. Cheer Each Day o the Year.
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
First printing original poem. written daily
The Washington Herald.
PRIDE OR CONCEIT2

Pride
Is often quite a goodly guide
As DER life's ways we swiftly stride,
And saves US much mischance
When some grim Devils dance,
Or siren song
Would lure our steps aside
To paths of wrong.
But mere Conceit-
o how that tangles up our feet,
And lays US prone at fullest length
In spite of our imagined strength.
Pride or conceit? Intending no offense
/ beg you, reader. heed the difference!
Copyright. IslaJ
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

A New York salesman gave his personal card
to a woman customer and when his bride learned
of it through a ncighbor she committed suicide.
a visiting card and the words of kind neighbor
like a simple combination to make a
wdower of a man.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

1t is not surprising to learn that there is diff
ference OF opinion among members of the Indus
trial Relations Commission as to the propriety OF
the methods adopted by Chairman Walsh in ex-
amining witnesses. The surprising thing is tina,
the witnesses themselves do not seek some
method OF protection against the treatment &C.
corded them, ii the law compels their presence
before the commission.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

1.-THE Americans of tradition World events of to-
day are making some of them, who have been
msled by deluded teachings, think for themselves,
and already results are appearing
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22
Morning Smiles.
Reward or Punish mentS

As a general thing when We talk to q
man who uses a lot of Latin We crave
to give him a Roman punch.-Dallas
News.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

According to the computation of the Federal
census authorities every man. woman and child in
the United States credited with $Io65 Of
wealth in 1912. But don't try to collect; lot of
things have happened since then
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

A California has been granted divorce
because his wife eloped six times with "a beauti-
Jul dancer" H is going to hurry away and join
the Russian army before she return and
again ask his forgiveness Coward
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

1t is difficult to how Nine. de Thebes. the
French seeress, added anything to her reputation
by predicting last September that Italy would en-
ter the She had much better than even
chance of being right.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22
she Doesn't Meet EN-.

1T takes a woman to do fool things"
1T certainly does. But I never saw
one buy bottle Of hair restorer from 9
bald headed Naturalization Post.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

The rose may be expected to lose some of its
popularity since the thornless variety has been
introduced.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

Luck is an uncertain performer. It
doesn't always feel like responding to an
encore.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22
Thnty-nine Years.
BY JOHN ID. BARRY.

BY JOHN d. BARRY.
- HE other day old colcred man. healthy and
vigorous, came out of prison in the South.
He had been there for thirty-nine years, con-
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

Miss Hemphill. daughter of Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. ). H. Hemphill, enter
tanned at bridge yesterday afternoon at
the Chevy Chase Club.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22
Cheering the Patient.

Cautious Doctor-'Excuse me fol-
bringing you my bill; but you know how
dimcult II II to get money out OF any
ones Naturalization Transcript.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22
TIE Cl1b,a Verdict.

IT thought Jiggs was going to use his
influence to get you elected to member
ship IN the club"
He did"
What happened?"
Hes been asked to resign."-Buffalc
Express.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

Mrs. James L. Karrick entertained at
luncheon yesterday in honor of her guest,
Mrs. Charles Dodd. Of Boston. and Mrs.
William Wallace. The other guests were
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

This particular murderer
seems to have been a good
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22
Our COUNTRY 50.
HOUR PRESIDENT
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|SR0ODR0K WILSON
Published by special arrangement President through
The Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
A SLOW TRANSFORMATION.

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by
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

Mrs. John E. Osborne was hostess at
an informal bridge party yesterday aft
ernoon in honor of her house guest. Mrs.
John r. Dixon, of Denver.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

The treatment Of that prisoner suggests that
society is far wiser and far more economical in
dealing with its animals than in dealing with its
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

Monday-ColOnial Politics.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

Capt. L. A Stuven, of the Chilean
navy. arrived at the Willard yester-
day for a stay of some length.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

Maj. and Mrs Alexander Sidney
Lanier are in Richmond. Va, where
Mrs. Lanier 10 visiting her .ixt.r
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

1t is worth while noting what happened to the
prisoner when he began to realize that his life
sentence might not prove to be life sentence.
when l learned" he said, that there a
chance for me to get out the time began to drag,
and began to have the blues. | didn't sleep any
on the last night and not very much the night
before. My, how long the days were!"
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

Miss Daisy Peck and Miss Maize
Porcher are the guests Of their aunv.
Mrs Delos Blodgett.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

Mrs Shelton Evans entertained at q
luncheon yesterday at the Shoreham.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Rollins Morse are
in New York en- route to their sum-
mer home in Newport.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

Miss Cornelia Ormsby, of Paris, and
Mrs. Lytheker Purcell. jr.. Of Baltimore.
have arrived at the Shoreham.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

Philosophers have written volumes about the
delights of anticipation. But in even so joyous
an anticipation this prisoner had there could
prison p broke down. they even grew stronger,
more combining, more cruel.
The world outside had been to the prisoner
a kind of paradise, forever lost. AS a reality he
had put it away from him forever.
As the world assumed reality to him
again, within possible reach, it became both a
joy and torment
The Washington herald., 1915-05-22

When man has been in prison for thirty mine
years he becomes an object of interest He stands
out from the rest of humanity So he is likely to
find fellow-creaturcs interested in him.
On emerging from prison there were good
many people ready to help this colored man.
They must have enjoyed his joy in the free
world his amazement at seeing the things that for
years he had heard about and read about, the
trolley cars, the telephone. the subway, the ele-
waited trains, the marvels revealed to man during
the thirty-nine years.
And yet, in retrospect. those years didn't really
seem so longi
Douglas Island news., 1915-01-06

events of the year to the copper indus. try of Alaska were the reopeuing of the Mamie mine, in the Ketchikan district; the installation of a shipping plant and the opening of the Midas mine, near Valdez: and the completion of aerial trans at the Jumbo and Mother Lode mines, in the Chitina district.
 SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
 The four mines of the Treadwell group, in the Juneau district, were op erated throughout the year on the seme scale as before. In the Ready Bullion and Seven Hundred Foot mines of this group ore is being devel oped on the 2,2OO foot level.
 The Alaska Juneau is the only other mine in the district which has reached a productive stage. At tbis property 90 stamps of the first unit were com- pleted in the spring, and work on the installation of the rest of the GOO stamp miu was continued. The main adit tunnel and raise at this mine were completed in 1913, and the underground work in 1914 was therefore devoted to the opening of stoping ground.
 Underground work was continued on a large scale at the Alaska-Gastineau mine during 1914, the main adit tunnel and connecting shaft having been com. pleted in 1913. The water power plant on Salmon creek belonging 10 the same company was rapidly nearing com pletion in the fall of 1914, and it is eX- pected that the first 1900 ton unit of the G,OOO-ton mill will be in operation about the fret of January.
 At the Alaska Ebner miue a 3,500- foot adit tunnel was completed in. tended to undercut the old workings at a depth of 400 feet. A crosscut was being driven at the end of the adit in the fall of 1914. About l, ,15O feet of de- velopment work has been done on the Salmon Creek Gold Mining Co.'s prop erty. of which about 300 feet was done by the present company. A 15 stamp mill is under construction, which is in- tended as a test mill until mine devel- opments justify a larger installation. Iu all, about 2,25O men were employed during the year in mining and milling operations on the mainland and on Douglas Island, near Juneau.
 Large operations were continued at the Kensington mine, in the Berners Bay district, where a 47OO foot adit tunnel has been completed. Plans have been made for the installation of a mill. In the same district work was continued at the Jualin mine, but this was interrupted by the breaking out of the war, the enterprise being financed by foreign capital. The old Jualin shaft has been continued to a depth of 36O feet, with some crosscuts. Some 2,OOO feet of the 7,5OO foot adit was completed. A water power has been developed on Johnson creek by this company. Prospecting was continued at Che Yankee basin, Canyon creek and other properties in the Eagle River region. At the Eagle River mine an adit has been driven 700 feet below the old workings to a depth of 1,S00 feet, and several ore shoots are reported to have been crosscut. Detailed informa. ton regarding prospecting at Lime. stone inlet and other localities in the Juneau district is lacking at this writing
 The Rush $ Brown property ia the
Douglas Island news., 1915-01-06
MINING IN ILASEA IN I9I4
Advance Statement by the United States GeOlOg-
 iCal Survey

The annual report on the mineral re- sources of Alaska and production in 1914 is now in preparation under the direction of Alfred IT, Brooks, of the United States Geological Survey. Some of the important features of this re- port relative to mining development during the year are abstracted in the following statement Complete statis- tics of the mineral production of Alas ka cannot be collected within less than four or five months after the close of the year, but meanwhile it appears ad- visable to give prompt publication to preliminary estimates, which are be lieved to vary not over per cent from the actual figures.
 VALUE or MINERAL PRODUCTION
 Mining began in Alaska in 1880, and since that time the territory has pro. duced mineral wealth 10 the value of s268 100000. Of this S2l43OO,O00 has been gold, s1g. g.SOOOOO in copper, S2, ,25l,- 900 in silver, s37OOO0 in coal, and the rest in lin, lead, quicksilver, marble, gypsum, petroleum, etc. Copper min. ing began in Alaska in 1901, and the total production is about l33,0OO,OOO pounds.
 It is estimated that the value of the total mineral output of Alaska in 1914 is 519,2l8,OOO, compared with s19,4l6,0OO for 1913. The preliminary figures on gold output for 1914 show a value of sl590OOOO; in 1913 tue value was 3D.. 62GSl3. Silver Co the value of Sl9l,00O was produced in 1914, compared to S2lS.988 in 1913. Though the low price of copper since midsummer greatly curtailed the output of that metal, about 20,850OOO pounds, valued at about S2, ,S72,O0O was produced in 1914, against 21,65995S pounds valued at 3357 ,293 in 1913 The output of the other minerals, including Gin, marble, gypsum, quicksilver, coal and petro- leum in 1914 had a value of about S2S5OOO, compared with S272,242 for 1913.
 Had it not been for the depression in tEe copper market the value of Alaska's mineral product would have been con- siderably greater in 1914 than in 1913. The gold mining industry of the terri tory as a whole was prosperous during the year,as is made directly evident by the figures on output, but more i'm portant item of progress is the exteu sive dead work accomplished on large plants that have not yet reached a pro- ductive stage. No progress was made in coal mining, tbere being in 1914 only one small productive mine in the terri tory, and that in one of the Ignite fields. Itis expected that the new law providing for leasing of coal land in Alaska will lead to the exploitation of the fields containing high grade coal. The tin, gypsum, marble and petroleum mining industries of Alaska had a sue. cessful year.
 The certainty of railway connection with the Yukon basin has greatly stim- ulated both prospecting aud mining
Douglas Island news., 1915-01-06

development. There was a noticeable increase in investigation of large min ing enterprises in 1914 compared with previous years This was due solely to the expectation of cheaper transporta. ton. GOLD
 PLACER NhNEs The data in hand in dicate that the value of the placer gold produced in 1914 was about 1O7O0O0O, or practically the same as that of 1913, which was s1OGSO,OOO. The distribution of this output is, however, not the same in the two years. Some increases in the output of the Ruby, Seward Pen insula, Iditarod, and Hot Springs die. tricts were made, but on tue other hand, there was a marked decline in the placer gold output from Fairbanks and lesser decreases in some of the smaller camps. The abundant rainfall which occurred in most of the Yukon aud Seward Peninsula camps during the mining season of 1914 greatly favored placer operations.
 The Chisana district Is the only new placer camp developed in 1914 Prom isiug discoveries are reported in the HeaIy river region of the middle Tan ana, and also a find of placer gold in the upper Toloyana basin, between Fairbanks and Rampant.
 About A gold dredges were operated in Alaska for the whole or part of the open season of 1914. Preliminary esti- mates indicate that these dredges pro duced gold worth between s2050000 and s2.3OOOOO In 1913, 39 dredges were operated in Alaska with an output valued at s2,2OOO0O The decreased output per dredRe in 1914 is accounted for by the fact that in 1913 several of the dredges were working in very rich ground and that several of the new machines were not completed in time to operate for more than a brief period in 1914. A further handicap to the dredge this year was the fact that the dredging season at Nome opened later than usual. In addition to the A dredges operated there were about half a dozen under construction.
 LODE MNEs.-About 26 gold lode mines were operated in Alaska in 1914 and produced gold to the value of s5,lOO,OOO. Iu 1913, 30 lode mines pro- S4814,8l3 worth of gold. The decrease in the number of mines is due to the fact that several which were operated in the Fairbanks district in 1913 were idle in 1914. Juneau is aud will con. tinue to be by far the most important Alaska lode camp. Important progress was made during the year in the Willow creek district. The'Port Wells district was added to the gold lode producers.
 COPPER
 The development made up to mid. summer gave promise that 1914 would be the most profitable year in the his- tory of Alaska copper mining. The financial stringency and collapse of the copper market that followed the break ing out of the European war not only closed down some of the producing mines, but also put a stop to some very important developments. Up to about the first of August seven copper mines were in operation, but at the close of the year only three were still working. Had it not been for the war at least niue copper mines would have been ready to ship ore before the end of the year. Probably the most important
Douglas Island news., 1915-01-06

only copper miue in Southeastern Alaska which was operated throughout the year Work was continued on the Jumbo mine at a normal scale until the fall in the price of copper. The Mamie mine was being opened in the early summer by the Granby Company, work was continued at Big HarbOr, and prepararations were being made to opep the Dean property, near the It mine. Some work was also done at the Mount Andrew, Red Wing and Copper Noun tain mines and at other prospects. All these operations were suspended soon after the war broke out. The Ready Bullion gold mine, in the Ketchikan district, continued on productive basis, and considerable development work was done at the Valparaiso. The English company which took over the Martin Bugge gold lode claims con- tinued developments until the out break of the war Some minor devel- opmeuts, including the unwatering of the Sea Level mine for examination and some test shipments of ore, were made on other claims in the Ketchikan district.
 Three hydraulic plants were operated in the Porcupine district. The Chich- agof gold mine in the Sitka district, was operated as before. In the Wran- gell district developments were con tinued on the copper properties of Woewodski Island and on the galena properties of the Groundhog basin.
 YAKATAGA AND EATALLA REGION
 There was a little beach mining at Yakataga, and the White River Mining Co.,, in the same field, operated it's hy- draulic plant At Katalla the Alaska oil & Refining Go. operated it's wells and plant during a part of 1914. Late in the year it was reported that the company was in financial difficulties and that operations had been sus- pended.
 COPPER RIVER REGION
 The Kennicott Banauza copper mine continued operation throughout the year, and the total length of under ground workings is now about 4,OOO feet. Au aerial tram has been built to the Jumbo mine, where the ore body has been opened to depth of 400 feet. Some ore shipments were made from the Mother Lode mine in the winter of 19131914, but most of the operations were said to have been discontinued when the price of copper fell in mid- summer Developments were contin- ued on the Hubbard & Elliot property by a long adit tannel on the Albert Johnson claim, and work was done on the properties of the Alaska ConsoE- dated Copper Company and Great Northern Delopment Co.,, and on the Rarus group of claims in the Kusku- lana River basin.
 Four hydraulic plants were operated in the Nizina and one in the Bremner placer district. There was one hy- draulic plant operated in the Chisto- china district, as we'll as eight or ten smaller plants.
 The placers discovered in the basin of Nelchina river, tributary to Tazlina river, in 1913 have not proved either rich or extensive. Auriferous grayels were found on several creeks, but only those on Albert Creek have proved rich enough to exploit, and the output of gold SO far has been insignificant.