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The Washington herald., 1915-02-07
Annapolis Notes.

In the semi-annuaI examinations re-
Gently ended not a single failure oc-
CURED in the first class, with a mem
bershlp of 1sj; nor one in the second.
with n membership of 2N4 In the third
class. numbering pa. fifteen failures are
reported. and in the fourth. the "plebe''
class. with a membership of So sixty
seven were found deficient. 1t is Gus
tOmary for the academic board and the
Navy Department to deal with a reason
able leniency toward the most meritori-
Gus of those who fail, and to give these
midshipmen until the June examinations
to make up their marks.
Nicholas Altrock. Washington's veteran
pitching coach, has been engaged by the
Naval Academy authorities to start work
with the baseball squad on February Is.
The following officers have reported
to take the postgraduate course: Ensign
Earl F. Enright. Edward C. McGehee.
Frederick G. Crisp. William L. Wright
and Everett l. Gayhart. Commander
James p. Morton. L. S. N, dean of the
school. has been detached for sea duty.
Prof Walter S. Harshman. L. S. NJ
and Mrs Harshman have been visiting
friends in Washington.
The order remaining most OF the build
ings of the Naval Academy has been
issued. Bancroft Hall retains its name: {:
Buchanan Field becomes Farragut Field :
the Seamanship Building is now Stephen
r. Luce Hall; the armory, Dahlgren
Hall; Physics and Chemistry Building
Sampson Hall; library and auditorium
Mahan Hall: Academic Building, Maury
Hall; Marine Engineering and Naval
Construction Building, Isherwood Hall;
the wharf, Reina Mercedes Wharf; the
concrete wharf. in course of construc-
tion, Santee Wharf: the smaller basin,
the Santee Basin: the larger basin, the
Dewey Basin: the walk between the aca-
demic group and Bancroft Hall, Stribling
Walk: the main walk. from Annapolis to
Bancroft Hall, Chauvenet Walk: the
walk past the officers mess. Colds
borough Walk. the road from Gate No.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-07
Local Rife Team Loses

The District of Columbia Rifle As
sociation. composed of students OF
Technical High School, was defeated
during the week ended January 2S in
the sixth match of the National Inter-
club Gallery Competition by the Park
Club of Bridgeport, Conn, according
TO official statistics just issued by the
National Board for the Promotion of
Rifle Practice.
The Park Club score was 9SS, seven
points above the record made by the
local marksmen. The individual scores
of the Washington students were: ].
d. Hood, 1913; L. L. Johnston, 1877: f.
Gerber. 1876; p. D. Gibson, 1876, and c.
Z. Groome, 1876.
The District team has won four
matches and lost two. Its aggregate
score is 5,9o9; its percentage, 9S, and
its standing, fifth in class A. The
Park Club holds second place in this
class.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-07
Fort Monroe Notes.

Fort Monroe. Va. Feb. 6-Henry Phipps
and Miss Louise Phipps. who have been
staying at the Sherwood. left recently
for Washington. Mr.. Phipps is a brother
of Lieut.. Frank Phipps.
Tuesday afternoon Capt. and Mrs W.
c. Baker entertained at tea for Miss
Louise Phipps and the Misses TownsIey.
Other guests were the Misses Kimberly,
Miss Anne Holt. Lieuts. Haskell, Lara
bee, Hannum, Stuart Mccain, Loomis,
Villeret and Mr. Henry Phipps
Maj. and Mrs. George Nugent enter
tained at an attractive Welsh rarebit
party recently after the presentation of
moving pictures for the Misses Townsley.
Those present were the Misses Helen
Ohnstad. Ann Brown and Bessie Kim
berly and Ann Holt and Lieuts. Loomis,
Haskell. Larabee, Stuart. Colladay and
Packard
The Washington herald., 1915-02-07
Stops Tobacco Habit
in One Day
Sanitarium Publishes Free Book
Showing How Tobacco Habit Can
Be Banished in from One to
Five Days at Home.

The Elders Sanitarium located at 6S5
Main St, ST. Joseph. Mo-, has published
a free book showing the deadly effect OF
the tobacco habit, and how II can be
6anished in from one to i've days at
Men who have used tobacco for more
than fifty years have tried this method
and say Il Is entirely successful, and
IN addition to banishing the desire for
tobacco has improved their health won
derfuIly This method banishes the de-
sire for tobacco. no matter whether Il
Is smoking, chewing, cigarettes CT snuR
dipping
any one wanting copy should send thar
name and address at once.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-07
Uric Acid
~ lever Caused
Rheumatism

IwANT TO prove it to your satisfaction.
II you have rheumatism, acute or chronic
today for my FREE BOOK on ''RHEU-
NATISM-Its Cause and Cure. Thou
sands call Il the most wonderful book
ever written. Don't send a stamp-it's s
ABSOLUTELY FREE.
JESSE A. CASE. Dept IA. Brockton.
Mass.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-07
District Signal Corps

Preparation for the inspection to be
held March 9 is commanding the at
tention of officers of the Signal Corps
of the District National Guard, and Capt.
o. c. Terry, in command. asserts that
this years inspection probably will be
the most satisfactory and gratifying
The Washington herald., 1915-02-07

the Zouaves, who had been killed at
Alexandria. Va. and two verses were
added to work in the name OF Ellsworth,
but it was OF no use. The John Brown
words had caught on" Increased pop
ularity was given to the song when the
Twelfth Massachusetts sang it while
marching down Broadway, New York, on
its way to Virginia.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-07
Army and Navy Jottings

The Navy Department has issued a
call for bids for the construction Of
six hydroaeroplanes for the navy.
They will be opened February II The
department requires that machines be
able to carry pilot ard observer
with rate of speed from fifty to
eighty miles an hour and q radius of
action at full speed of four hours,
and that they be able to climb al least
$50 feet a minute for the first ten
minutes and glide at an angle of six
to one. The hydroaeroplanes must be
able TO allght on and rise from the
water in open sea under ordinary con-
ditions and be capable of operation in
q wind of thiTty-fve miles an hour.
The motors must have means of start
ing and stopping from either seat and
provide for driving a wireless tele-
graph apparatus.
Students of eugenics should take
into account the fact that up to the
present time the loss of life in q gen.
Grafton caused by war has been only
a small percentage of the violent
deaths resulting from other causes,
and that men of fighting age have
been the chief victims of the disasters
of peace. The battle casualties of our
civil war numbered 11O,07o. This is
an average of 2T,51S a year for the
four years. Ida Tarbell, in an article
in the American Magazine, estimates
there are approximately $4,000 fatal
industrial accidents per annum in the
United States and 100000 serious in
turies (the percentage of accidents to
fatalities being in this case as one to
twelve. when in the civil war the
killed were 40 per cent of the wound
ed, the total wounded, not mortally.
being 275,175).
The British admiralty has organized
4 mosquito feet of thousands of the
steam fishing trawlers for the three
fold purpose of mine sweeping, pro-
tecting battleships from submarines,
and operating in the shadows of the
Belgian coast against the Germans.
Following the German raid on Scar
borough and the Hartlepools last
month, as many as 1900 mines were
picked up in one week.
The military authorities are not en-
thusiastic over the provision in the army
appropriation bill appropriating $4,000
for the construction of armored cars.
Some time ago a bill was introduced by
Mr.. Smith, of Idaho, authorizing the
Secretary of War to purchase ten ar
The Washington herald., 1915-02-07

mored cars capable of operating on any
terrain and designed to carry a corps
of four men and two machine guns be-
hind armor covering all sides, capable of
defeating the penetration of muslIet fire
at shore range, the cars to be pro-
vidcd with four drive wheels and weigh
less than 5000 pounds" When this meas
ure was submitted to the War Depart
ment for comment, the Acting Secretary
of War remarked: 1T is not believed
that such a car would be of any great
value in military operations. The tech
nical use of machine guns necessitates
secrecy Of location and places them in
many positions where no wheel trans
portatiOn could go. Such a car would
offer good target for artillery, too"
The Navy Department is opposed to
the proposal that the government shall
20 into the manufacture Of air craft, eX-
cept on an experimental scale, mainly
for the reason it would mean loss
TO the advancement OF acronautical work
in the discouragement of ideas and re-
suits OF private invention and expert
ment. Preparations have already been
under way for about two years looking
to the design and construction Of an
experimental machine. with view to
developing ultimately the necessary
plans, specifications. and detail instruc-
~tions for the manufacture of aerOplanes
both hulls and power plants, by private
manufacturers. including shipyards, and
by navy yards in an emergency. This
experimental work includes a continued
series of laboratory experiments on a
large scale at the navy yard at Wash
ington.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-07

Wearing a new all-metal diving suit,
divers have succeeded in going in safe
ty to a depth Of 213 feet in the ocean,
the deepest ever known.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-07
NEWS OFARlNY, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS
Proposed Corps Personnel Social Posts and Navy Yards Told Dispatches

2 to Tecumseh's statue. Buchanan road.
The present Sampson road and Sampsor
row are changed to Porter road anc
Porter row.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-07

The army board of ordnance and forti-
fications is interesting itself in the aero
plane gun designed by Commander Gle
land Davis. L. S. N, and representatives
of that board have been at Groton, Conn,
TO examine the weapon and to ascertain
of what use it may possibly be in con-
nection with the problem OF arming air
ships for offensive purposes. There still
is considerable question as to the extent
TO which the aeroplane may be utilized
in actual warfare. Its principal functions
for the present appear TO be as a vehicle
for the observer. who is provided with
facilities for communicating the results
OF his observations. Under these circum-
stances aerial observation becomes a val
liable factor in the direction of fire.
II the Senate restores to the naval bill
the House committee provision for a
chief OF naval operations. taken out of
the measure on a point of order. it will
reappear in somewhat different form
than the original draft. That would have
been the result. in any event. had the
provision been retained. 1t was realized
at the Capitol that the phraseology was
defective. principally for the reason that
it did not define. beyond danger of con-
fusion and controversy. the duties of the
new office. Mr.. Daniels has expressed
his views on this subject to the chair
man of the Senate Naval Committee in
anticipation of any purpose to have the
provision put back in the bill
a new edition of small-arms firing reg
uIations for the navy and Marine Corps
has just been issued. There have been
many changes. the more important Of
which are that the regulations apply to
the naval militia as well as to the navy
and Marine Corps; that prizes will be
paid without delay after the days firing;
that no medals will be awarded for quail
ifcation. but. instead. the men so quail
flying will wear insignia upon the right
sleeve; the qualification for expert team
rifleman is established. and every en-
couragement Is offered team competition;
a new system of credits has been fixed.
a new form of target has been adopted.
and new instructions regarding the issu-
ance OF small-arms ammunition have
been promulgated.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01
OFFICERS OF ELECTION
JUST WON'T LEARN LAW

That election officers will never
get accustomed to the multifarious
details OF the election laws and prop
er procedure. seems evident from the
reports coming from every section
of the State. In some precincts the
election officers are still burning the
ballots, thus destroying all the evil
dence should contest be raised
One OF the latest amendments TO the
election laws provides that all the
unvoted ballots shall be stamped
unused" and returned with the 9TH
'er pharaphernalia, but In many pre-
cincts in the State this provision
seems TO nave been completely over
looked or disregarded Only in rare
cases are disputed or contested
ballots sent TO the Election Commits
sioners in a shape to he considered
because of the absence of any state
ment of the precinct officers as to
whether or not they have been
counted by them Louisville
riY1oc
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01
TOBACCO MARKETS. PLAN
F OR.AN. OPENING. SOON
And Brisk Trading Will Com
mence In the Dark Type
District.

Hopkinsville, KY, Nov. 29.-Sev
en- loose leaf tobacco floors will oper
the season in Hopkinsvillo December
Z. In addition to the six already
open a new one, to ne called the
Farmers loose floor, will be opened
bp r. NJ. Woodbridge and Henry Alb
ernathy on Campbell street. The
recent rains have made fine season
and already some tobacco has been
received
No sales have been made and
great interest is shown in the first
sales to be made
The movement to open the foreign
market will be pushed with vigor
and prospects are good to improve
the market in the near future.
The announcement from Washing
ton that restrictions on tobacco ship
ped to neutral agents in neutral
countries had been removed caused
rejoicing in this region, following
the statement that tobacco may be
re-exported from Holland to Germa-
ny and Austria.
Tobacco men say that Germany
and Austria use about 80 per cent.
of the dark tobacco crop and always
take the best and highest-priced
grades. and therefore are not only
customers here, but largely looked
upon as makers Of prices.
Since the British Order-in-Council
has been in effect tobacco could not
be shipped to neutral countries for
re-export into Germany and Austria.
The action of Great Britain in miti-
eating this order so as to permit
such shipments, if it is made perma-
nent, means more than anything else
for an active market here and
the dark district this
season. with correspondingly stron-
ger prices.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01
Coiloquialisms.

one of the most common surprises In
reading is 10 come across in old books
what We have been accustomed 10 tax
ing for modern coll0quialisms. We
have just struck this: why. then. d.
you walk as if you had swallowed a
rod?" Where? In Epictetus. The
modern form is likely 10 be a poker.
but we had always looked upon the
whole image as essentially American.
IL is in reading the Elizabethans that
this experience Is most frequent. al
though one is likely 10 have II in read.
ing any classic. The best eolloquial-
isms are likely to be the oldest.-Har-
per's Weekly, +,
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01
THE THRICE-A-Wttk tUlIIOh OF
THE NEW YORK WORLD.
Practically a daily at the
price of "a weekly. No other
newspaper in the world gives so
much at so low a price.

There has never been a time when
a newspaper was more needed in the
household. The great war in Eu-
rope has now entered its second
year, with no promise OF an end for
long time. These are world-shak-
ing events, in which the United
States, willing or unwilling, has
been compelled to take part. No
intelligent person can ignore such
Issues. r,-
The Presidential contest also will
soon be at hand. Already candi-
dates for the nomination are IN the
field, and the campaign, owing tc
the extraordinary character of the
times, viii be Of supreme interest
No other newspaper will inform you
with the promptness and cheapness
of the Thrice-a-Weok edition of th,
New York World.
The Thrice-a-Week Worlds regu
lar subscription price is only $40,
per year, and this pays for 1856 pa
persr We offer this unequallec
newspaper aud the Hartford Herald
both one year for only $1.65.
The regular subscription price OF
the two papers is $500.
Just think OF 1t! Four papers .
week. one year. for only $1.65.
Subscribe for The Hartford Herald
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01
Negative Suggestion.

Legend tells of Hindu fakir who
seemed to have a working knowledge
Of practical psychology and made him
self rich selling plain wicker hiskets,in
the streets of Calcutta. .rl..ur
The peculiar virtue If the baskets. he
explained TO the buyers. lay IN the fact
that If one filled his basket with 0rdi-
nary pebbles. placed himself Ia re-
ceptive attitude of mind and stirred
them with stick for an hour. each
and every pebble would lie transmitted
into nugget of gold--provicied the
stirrer did not think Of hippopotamus
while stirring.
The baskets were sold. but the idea
of bipnopotamus was so firmly fixed
in the minds of all the purchasers that
not one of them ever had legitimate
grounds on which to demand his men
ey back, "sE t.r
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01

took strong part in an effort to
brand the Democratic party of the
State as the "whiskey party" This
occurred in the report on Temper
ance. The report would probably
have been adopted as read had Il
not been for the objection Of Col.
Thomas d. Osborne, of Louisville. a
we'll known Democrat and one Of the
most prominent Baptists in the
state. Really. we thinl>Dr. Palmer
is more the head OF the Anti-Demo-
cratic League than the Anti-saloon
League.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01
HORTON.

Nov. 29.--Mr and Mrs Ray Dan
iel were the guests Of relatives at
Red Hill Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. II. A. Porter lost q fine cow
last week.
Mr.. Estiil austin is moving TO his
farm near Cromwell.
Mrs. Essie Baze died Saturday
and was buried at Salem sunday,
Miss Beulsh Smith. who has been
visiting relatives ct Louisville for
the past three months, returned
home last week.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01
FINANCIAL POLITICS
PLAYED by "JNTERESTS'

Why is this country short about
$4,000 freight cars of the number
needed to transport its commodi-
tiesg
Prosperity? That is no answer at
ALL Why was not prosperity fore
seen and provided for? Why have
railway magnates kept droning a
chorus of gloom up to the very mo-
ment when they find themselves ut
terly swomped with profitable bust
ness? Why. with panics banished
by the Federal reserve act, with
higher freight rates granted BY the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
with every sign pointing to increas-
ed activity in every field, did the
railroads still palter and delay in or
dering equipment and fail TO keep
up. necessary repairs?
Because the interests which con-
troll the railroads and good many
other industries we're playing poll
tics. Because the trusts and tariff
grafters had sworn a mighty cath
not TO let the country have prosper
ity until the Republican party was
returned to power. Because a group
of financial barOns have been delib-
erately trying to make hard times
last long enough to beat Wilson"
The job of driving big business
out of politics is eth unfinished. but
it is going forward -I Chicago
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01
German Paners snsnended.

London, Nov. 29.-According to .
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company from Copenhagen a dozen
German newspapers have been sus-
pended for discussing the food ques-
ton
Ia his newspaper Die Zukunft.
Macmillan Harden, says the dis
patch. concludes an article on the
subject with this sentence:
I'VE must confess that the Ger
man people for the moment are suf-
fering great want"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01
NINETY COUNTIES START
ON STATE ROAD WORK

Frankfort, Ky, Nov. 29.-Ninety
of the 104 counties which applied
for state aid already have begun
road construction under that plan,
Commissioner Terrell announced to-
day Powell, Robertson, Marshall,
MagoGin, Lyon, Livingston, Leslie,
Knott, Johnson, Hancock, Floyd, Es-
till. Breckenridge and Bracken, for
various reasons, did not start work.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01
How Much Iron Car We Maker

Iron furnaces Of this country. In.
Guiding all In blast or Idle. could. ac-
cording TO tue Iron Age. apparently
produce about 40OO0.Ot,0 tons II they
remained In blast year" This would
be 9.0O0.0OO tons above the maximum
calendar year output The Iron Age
doubts. however. II all the furnaces
could stay In blast a full year. aud
suggests trine over 3s.OOO.O00 tons as
maximum capacity
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01
DESERTED VESSELS.



Times May Meet at Sea.
At least once In my life have hat
the good fortune to board desertet
vessel mt sea. | say good fortune
because II has left me the memory of .
singular impression. have felt .
ghost Of the same thing two or thres
times since then when peeping through
the doorway Of an abandoned house
writes Wilbur Daniel Steele in Har
per's Magazine.
Now, that vessel was not dead. She
was good vessel. u sound vessel. even
a handsome vessel. In her blunt brOwed
coasfwise way. She sailed under -four
lowers across as blue and gliiter.ng O
sea as ! have ever known. and there
was not point in her sailing that one
could lay n finger upon as wrong. And
| yet passing that schooner at two miles
one knew somehow that 10 hand was
on her wheel Sometimes | can imug-
inc vessel stricken like that nroving
over the empty spaces of the sen carry
ing it or quite well were 1t for for that
indehnaJle suggestion of stagger, and
| can think of all those ocean gols. In
whom no landsman will ever believe.
looking Mt one another and tapping
their foreheads with just the shadow
of smile.
wonder IL they all scream-these
ships that have lost their souls? Mine
screamed. We heard her voice like
nothing ] have ever heard before.
when we rowed under her counter to
read her name-thc Maripnette II was
of Halifax
l remember bow II made me SILVER.
there in the full blaze of the sun. to
hear her going on so. railing and
screaming in that stark fashion. And
| remember. too. how our footsteps,
pattering through the vacant Intervals
In search of that haggnrd ntterinre.
made me think of the. footsteps of
hurTying warders reused IN the night.
And we found parrot in cage:
that was all. 1t, wanted water We
gave it wafer and went away to look
things over. keeping pretty close to-
gether all of us. In the quarters the
table was set for four Two men had
begun TO eat, by the evidence Of The
plates. Nowhere in. the vessel was
there any sign. of disorder. except one
sea chest broken out. evidently In
haste. Her papers were gone. and the
stern dayits were empty. That IL how
the case stood that day. and that Is
how 1t stood TO this. saw this same
Marionette week later. tied up In a
HObOken dock. where she awaited
news from her owners. But even
there, in the midst of all the water
front hustle, l could not get rid of the
feeling that she was still very far
away-in sort Of shippish other
world.
The thing happens now and then. |!
Sometimes half dozen years will go
by without a solitary wanderer Of this
sort crossing the ocean paths, and then
in single season perhaps several of
them will turn up. vacant waits. im-
passive and mysterious.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01
A Real Thanksgiving.

Lexington. Ky. Nov 26.-ollie
Bradley, son OF Mr. and Mrs. ID. S.
Bradley, Of this city. who was be-
'ioyed by his parents to have been
Killed in the wreck of the Kennedy
Carnival Company trsin atColumbus,
Ca. when eleven persons lost their
lives and forty-two were injured,
brought a happy Thanksgiving 10 his
family by returning home sound and
wen last evening. Young Bradley
was with the carnival company, but
fortunately had left the train at At
lanta. Ca. two hours before the IA
tai wreck.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01

"a can't bear these men uovellsrs"
declared one lady.
"wby notf" the other inquired.
"They calmly tell you that the hero.
inc wore a gown which fascinated a
duke and not word as TO what II was
made Of or how II was trinmed"--
Louisville Courier-JournaL