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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

The Salvation Army complains that the re-
Gently published advice OF Secretary of Commerce
Red6ed to householders to conserve all rags and
waste paper has seriously nterfered with its
charity work. This result is of course regrettablc,
though the Secretary will no doubt be delighted
to learn that his advice in such vital matters is
taken so seriously.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

Editor OF The WASHINGTON Herald
Mrs. Mahonys assertion that women
cannot vote on account of their duty
of motherhood displays her ignorance
Of western methods. A woman who
for any good and sufficient reason
cannot go to the voting booth on cleo
ton day. is provided with a ballot box
of her own. This ballot box is taken
to her home by a woman Judge or
elections and the necessary witnesses.
The prospective mother marks her
tallot, places IL in her individual bal.
lot box and this box. containing the
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

The Dutch passenger ship Tubantial with
Americans on board, was torpedoed while at
anchor. and the French liner Patria with Ameri-
cans on board narrowly escaped torpedo fred
at her without warning. And now we are being
fed lot of unofficial hot air from Berlin to the
effect that these things won't happen again be-
cause Won Tirpitz has resigned.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

Ii Cabinet officer should undertake to read
all the letters he is required to sign the business
of the government would probably suffer from
delay; but it may be taken for granted that the
new Secretary of War has early discovered the
advisability OF reading all letters the subject
of preparedness legislation before he signs them
especially those addressed to Republican mem.
bers of Congress.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

purscr the American liner ST. Paul has
Just started his IIooth trip the Atlantic
and intends to retire after this voyage. Probably
regards his experience complete, since he has
lived to see piracy on the high seas regarded as
an everyday affair.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

A Socialist member OF the Reichstag is quoted
as saying in speech that the assassination of
Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand OF Austria at
sarzjevo which brought on the war, was clutched
al in many circles in Germany "a gift from
Cod" If the truth is beginning to come out in
the Reichstag may look for the establishment
of drastic news, censorship in Berlin.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

The allies have spent SI3I9I4ooo in this coun-
try for horses and mules since the war began,
ard when it is remembered that the horses were
nearly all of the best type, selected after careful
examination. it would that the condition Of
or own market should offer a decided incentive
to breeders for the next few years.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19
THE OPEN FORUM
In Which Numerous Readers Of The Herald Give Their
Views on Current Topics.

Editor Of The Washington Herald: In
the name Of the Society OF Washington
Artists, / beg 10 thank you for the very
generous notice you have given our TWEEN
ty-hfth annual exhibition just closed.
think you will be pleased to know
that, thanks TO this publicity, the exhi-
bition was by far the most successful in
the history of the association. both in
the number Of visitors, which on several
occasions reached as high as LOO as well
as in sales, which were quite substsn-
tial
On the other hand. IL was conceded on
every side that this exhibition has at
tanned a remarkably high degree OF ex-
celience. which speaks well for the ar
tistic development of the city, and ]
have no doubt but what this success has
given TO every one of our artists the
necessary stimulus for even greater ef.
forts. GEORGE JULIAN ZOLNAY.
Vice President. s. W. A
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

Ii there is anybody in Washington who knows
how many there in the United States
army and how much two and two make there is
an opportunity for him to make name for him.
self m history as pacIhst.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

For several days past, owing to accident
New York has been unable to talk to Brooklyn
+, by Telephone; and since regular New Yorker
ever goes to Brooklyn that town has probably
begun to feel itself part Of the United States.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

Plea for Suburban Car Men.
Editor of The Washington Herald:
Now that a settlement of the Issues
between the street railway companies
and their employees has been made the
citizens Of the District naturally feel
thankful TO the Commissioners. De-
psrtment Of Labor. officers OF the rail
way companies and the Representatives
Of the employees as well as every one
Of the employees concerned in the
strike for peaceful and orderly con-
duct and the good work OF all par
ticipsting in the conference which
brought about an agreement
While these facts and some other
Impressions are fresh in our minds II
seems that there are some very seri-
Gus conditions staring sUburbsnites in
the face. l am a subUrbsnite. com
ing into the city every day over the
Washington and Old Dominion Rail
way and therefore am acquainted with
the conditions under which officials
OF this road work their employees. They
are working under conditions far
worse than those OF employees in the
city have been and the question which
naturally arises Is, are We 70 be the
next TO be put to Inconvenience be-
cause of employees striking Being q
patron OF said road / have observed
that employees are held in readiness
without pay a number Of hours before
being put 10 work. and when finally
employed are kept until 1885 a m. to
report next morning to make one trip
in order to finish one days work. II
is utterly impossible for them to get
sufficient rest to be in proper condi-
ton to do their work. Therefore as a
patron OF said road in the interest OF
the safety OF the public ! ask you to
use your efforts to bring this to the
consideration Of the railroad officials
and any officials Of the District who
may have any authority in the prem
Uses. Z. II. JACKSON
Great Falls. Va.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

II would seem to be almost time for Congress
to consider measures to protect the citizens of
Washington from the police force.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

Heavy frost in Florida failed to damage the
fruit crop, according to dispatches. Delaware
and New Jersey may consider their bluff called
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

registered opinion OF a free woman. is re-
turned TO the voting booth by the Judge
and witnesses defeated for that duty.
Mrs Mahony should 20 West and
see woman suffrage In actual opera
tion-she has much TO learn
MARY SWALE.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19
A Line o Cheer Each Day o the Year.
BY JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.

First printing Of original poem. written daily
fer The washington Herald
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

This situation is clearly recognized by the
friend who has vigorous and so wholesome a
dislike for the word "unfortunates" | once said
to him: What would you do if society were to
threaten to put your son in PRISON." Without a
moments hesitation he replied al would do
everything could to keep him out. l would move
heaven and earth, if necessary, | would commit a
crime. 1855
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19

In spite of all this reasoning, however, | wish
that we might stop using the word unfortunate
in connection with the wild birds. 1t annoys the
people whose help we need. 1t makes it mpossi-
BILE for them to sympathze And in this business
Of dealing with crime and criminals society ought
to have all the aid it possibly secure. We
have made OF it fearful mess. Instead of pro-
tecting ourselves, we have actually created hot
beds of criminality. They are like plague spots.
not only throughout this country. but throughout
the world. We must clean them up if only in self.
defense. -
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16
GREAT WRITER NOT ALONE
Elizabethan Age Was Memorable for
Its Drama Without the Famous
Bard of Avon.

The score OF busy playwrights who
preceded Shakespeare and prepared
the ground with experiments in which
he was to triumph were reviewed re-
Gently by Prof Felix Schelling. head
of the English department of the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania.
Doctor Seedlings lecture was on
"shakespeare's Competitors in the
Drama"
For, had Shakespeare's death been
untimely like that of Marlowe,p' Doctor
Schelling said, according to the Phila-
delphia Bulletin, I'VE might question
his primaey. Had Shakespeare never
lived, his age would still have been
memorable in the drama for the group
OF playwrights OF extraordinary. stat
urea group In which the lesser
names can easily match our Shaws,
Barries or Pineros." Doctor Schelling
compared tho modern problem-drama-
lists unfayorably with those Of the
past.
Doctor Sehelling expressed regret
that it has been the habit of the older
scholarship ito disregard the environ
ment of Shakespeare and to neglect
the lesser luminaries who surround
him." He said, In part:
Shakespeare is not the inventor of
Elizabethan drama He did not find his
dramatic London brick and leave it
marble. Shakespeare added no single
new form of the variety that already
nourished on the stage.
1--WE have to deal with the group of
writer's known to every school book as
the predecessors of Shakespeare: Lyly,
Peele, Greene, Lodge, Kyd, Nash and
Marlowe.
Among the competitors of Shakes
peare none was SO important as Ben
Jonson."
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16
BRINGS DEATH TO HoPPERs
Simple Little contrivanee That Should
Prove Boon to Farmers In
Many Localities.

You have to hand 1t to the United
States department of agriculture.
Here without any fuss and beating of
tomtoms, and without an advisory
board of inventors, it has forged right
ahead and invented all by itself the
cutest little hopperdozer you ever
heard tell OF. II you have nice level
farm thickly infested with grasshop-
pers you ought to invest in a hopper
dozer, for a hopperdozer will end the
earthly existence of a grasshopper as
quickly as a 42-centimeter would.
OF course, few of US city folk. have
farms; but we all eat food raised on
farms, and the more grasshoppers on
the farm the less food we get, so you
see why we ought to appreciate this
hopperdozer invention. 1t is only the
name that causes US to view the in
vention in this semifrivolous light,
There, we had almost forgotten to tell
you what hopperdozer is, so inclined
to mirthful handling OF the subject
were we. 1t is nothing more than a
pan of water concealed beneath a film
of kerosene. When this is drawn
through a, grasshopper-infeste field
the hoppers all hop into the kerosene
1--WE don't know whyl and are drowned
in the water. - Wilkes-Barre Times
Leader.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16
Steam TO Clear the Soil.

Al new piece of agricultural appa-
ratus has been developed for the pur-
pose of combating the destructive bugs
and undesirable vegetable growths by
an application of steam to the soil peri
etrating some distance below the sur
face. The machine carries steam
generating plant and moves, oversize
surface on large drum the periphery
of which is staggered with protruding
steam outlets in the shape of blades or
spines. AS the apparatus is ,draYn over
the ground the spines embed them-
selves in the soil and while In this po-
sition the steam is released and pene-
trates the soil for some distance
around the outlet, killing the worms,
larvae and bugs and the undesirable
crop of weeds which seed themselves
from one season to another.-Scien-
tific American. =
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16
Eli Prince a Private Soldier.

A translation of young Fijian
chiefs Impressions of the fighting in
France is given in; the Field. He Is
Ratu Sukuna, a nephew of the late
King Thakomban. who enlisted In the
Foreign Legion. He writes "A thing
that amazed me were the shells that
were fired. They seemed like the
noise of trumpet; then like whis-
tie with devilish voice, and we were
not at all comfortable. 1t was as II
the elements were kicking our sides
and our heads shook, and it was as
If our stomachs were on fire. When
the Germans attacked they came twice
under the fire of our great guns and
we scattered them like. a flock, OF
fowls, and then our artillery and MAJ
Chine guns ate them. up =.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16
CANNOT USE CAPTURED GUNS
Those Taken From an Enemy Are
important Only as They Reduce
His Fighting Efficiency.

Guns captured in battle are seldom
used by the captor, and for very
good reason. Take the case of the
field guns, for example, used by pres
ent-day armies. They all take prac-
tically three-inch shells. but there is
a very slight difference in the actual
diameter, amounting in many cases
to only few hundredths of an inch,
which prevents German guns, say, TAX
ing English shells. The diameter of
the shell used with the Belgian field
gun, for example, is 2.95 inches, a
tenth of an inch smaller than that of
the German gun.
A Belgian shell would enter the
bore OF German gun too easily, and
it would be impossible to fire it accu-
rately. II German shell were forced
into q Belgian gun that gun would
burst when fired, because the shell is
too big to go down the barrel. Unless
a gun is captured unchanged, togeth-
or with supply Of its proper ammuni-
ton, 1t is useless The capture only
means reducing the fighting power of
the enemy.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16
SEXTON MANUFACTURING CO.
nm FRMKR Watson E. Cnssrrnn, wssss
VA 4 y IN - fDgton, DC Bo0kA fsfse Aax1s@
. - hhS - est referenass. B-ss ssszsssss
Rule of a Hlaher Court.

do you realize, John Hays. that
you are guilty of contempt OF oourt,
sir, and that. you maybe Sent tCtethe.
chain gang for six motths Scr resaa-
ihg, to go home qdiary2s 1fwEff' DeE~
NIT you to join your family, 81 yerr
court conduct shows you worthy 81
parole ONCE again.. - &in y0a &c
directly home FROM hefe?'> 1he sadgD
was plainly indignant. =
But Hays merely shiyered aEs1 steb-
bornly, shook his head, mo, sir.
Am to, understand you prefer jan
to home ibis honor demanded "iarEg
you no conscience?"
1T .ain't my conscience, Judge. 20
Hays replied. sadly, sits my Enoahszs-
inlaw. t.She dared me to come bBek -
Case and Comment.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16
Enso,I1s. sIl1Gnnaffha. Device.

The sound defles.or installed by the
bureau of lighthouses at the Buffalo
light station. TO lessen the distract
ing noise spreading from the fog siren
back over the city, Is a saucer-shaped
plate Of steel. IA feet In diameter.
This shield is given vibration re-
ducing lining of asbestos board on the
face toward the lake. A space of four
inches between the. steel and asbestos
is filled with mineral wool, corrosion
of the steel by the sulphur impurity
Of the wool having been, guarded
against by suitable treatment, This
Bilencing device has cut OF. much of
the undesired sound
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16
War Alta Nice Hard.

Bankruptcy is staring Nice in the
face. says a Paris newspaper. Nice
is the land of sunshine and smiles,
but the world has other things to
think about just now than to bask
in the SUM- Generously, the town has
thrown open its doors to the sick and
wounded, whose gratitude is great, but
whose purse is slender. Fun and
frolic. giddy gayety and splashing
spendthrifts are essential IL the
wheels of Nice are to run smoothly;
and since the war started Nice knows
none of these. The Casino is closed.
The city reaped a rich harvest from
the. spin Of the, roulette wheel and
the turning OF the baccarat cards, All
this is stopped. and Nice is now be-
ginning to feel the pinch seriously.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16
GOT MONARCH TO .lHTERc EIDE
Frenchwoman's Clever Idea to Secure
Release of Friend Who Was
Prisoner of War.

They tell very pretty story about
the charming Mile. Mistinguett, a
widely and justly celebrated person in
Paris. Mile. Mistinguett had friend
"a very dear friend-who wag serving
his country like other brave French
men when he was captured and car
ried off to be a prisoner among the
Germans. Months had passed and this
important individual was still a pris-
oner-and months are very long for
those who wait at home. Mile Mistin-
guett was almost in despair when she
remembered that she had been pre-
septed once upon time to his ma
jesty Alfonso XIII, king of all the
SPANS. ~
Suppose she said to herself, ~
ask the king to intercede, sothat they
will let him come homer. y
It was mad idea, perhaps, but the
maddest IDEAS are sometimes those,
that accomplish most. Mile. Mistin-
guett did actually write to the king
of Spain, and in answer to her letter
received one from the kings own
chamberlain. Therein it was set down
that his majesty was very happy to
serve her, and was going to do what he
could to hasten the return TO France
of M. Henri Cheyalier" The word of
a king is the word of a gentleman.
Mile. Mistinguett is serenely confident
that the long months of waiting will
soon be at an end. And the teller of
the story thinks that Nile. Mistin-
guett is right. .
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16

Dr.. N. e. -M'Indoo sof' the. Smith,
sorian institution, Washington, has
recently completed four years expert
ments on the senses OF smell and
taste in $500 honey bees He, has
reached the conclusion that these two
ssenses are combined Gin them so
closely that they cannot bas separated.
He has also investigated the be6s'
sense of touch. and finds that it ss
by this sense It u.s.. able to Iaold tH6
walls of all its cells Ia uniform thick.
ness. -. ,sksleaI.t - ~
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16
sword swaIIower in the Navy,

AS proof to friends. of his I'M
hyphenated devotion to the land of his
adoption, signpr GregoTio Carcuiti, a
sword swallower and cannonball Jug
gler, tass'offeref his services to the
United States riarfnes- corps, in ! the
event of this country being plunged
into a''forefgr war, ~ : -
I. "Now,fif we could only get Bosco,
who eats 'em alive. to volunteer"
said Recruiting Sergeant Putnam, I'D
feel that, the United States marine
corps was pretty well prepared for
any eyentuality. Philadelphia North
Americans
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16
May BE !. Weather sian.

Thomas Warner cannot explain It
SO he took them downtown and placed
them in the show window of a Column
bus store He owns a white rabbit.
ghreeslittle rabbits came TO her house
% sail her Mother" and to seek her
haraTtal care Two OF them are az
white as the proyerbial driven snow
The other one is as black as the ace
of spades in a hew deck.-Indianapolis
News.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16

A farmer OF Monarch. Alberta.
claims the distinction OF being the first
in tho province TO sell carload OF
hogs at the high price OF eleven cents
a pound. 1--we weight, The sale was
made short time ago at Calgary. and
al that time was a record. although
prices have since gone as high a.
siii2n per hundredwelght. With
such prices available for hogs the
farmer has market for everything
his farm produces. as there Is prac-
ticaiiy no farm product which cannot
be converted into good hog flesh. The
uncertainty of results which attends
grain farming even under mogt favor
able conditions Is removed when the
settler goes in for raising hogs. beef
and dairy products. With Western
canadas cheap lands. heivy'erops. and
climate free from Diseases of sstock..
the stock farmer Is as sure Of, success
al anyone can Standardization
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16
LARGEST. Car Ferry.

The largest car ferry In the world
transports both freight and passenger
cars across carquinez straits. between
Port Costa and Benicia. Cal II recent
ly has been put Into operation as q
part OF tho Southern Pacific railroad.
The ferry boat is 80 feet long. The
hull and snpefstructure are OF wood
and required over 2,000.o0o feet Of
lumber The lumber is held in place
by &c tons OF spikes and. many tone
of smaller nails The ferry has a
capacity Of 30 freight cars aud two
engines, or "a passengef. cars with
two engines. &c Is operator by eiec-
trio power. IL. ~ .i.f.,
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-16
DAIRY|NG IN
WESTERN CANADA
Accompanying industries Also
Prove Highly Profitable.

Tho cheese industry throughout
western Canada today is I'M highly
nourishing condition and is bound in
avery short time TO become much
more important The war has created
q great demand for that article, and
It's use abroad has given 1t lot of
useful advertising. The article known
as Canadian cheese Is now sought not
only by the soldier In the trenches.
but by the ordinary civilian consumer.
who having used IL, Is quick to ap-
preeIate its value This means that
after the war there viii be a demand
created. for 1t that would not other
gise have been. Up to the present
the war needs have limited the local
supply. but with the Increased eaort
that Is now being pat forth It Is hoped
that this viii be met. As a matter OF
course the prices are high. and the
farmers who contribute TO the cheese
factories are making money.
The cheese season Is now fully open
and there Is every prospect OF an ex-
cellent year because the high price
which obtained last year will undoubt-
eddy be maintained this season. West
ern Canada has all the natural re-
sources for the making Of cheese. the
feed and the cool nights. two things
essential. and IN time II ia bound. to
become one OF the finest cheese coun-
tries OF the continent.
The lower foothills OF Alberta. used
only at the present tlrno as ranges or
for no purpose, VIII in time produce
cheese In great quantities. and doubt
loss viii soon eqpai the famous up
lands OF Denmark.
s. Tho cool nights mean the better
ke1plng OF milk and cream and
cheese. and that II a great thing for
tho industry. especially wheE COM
blnsd With possibilities OF cattle feed
hucll as exist on the long slopes from
the Rockies eastward.
The hog market. which may BIO
classcd as an adjunct OF farming. 10
an exceedingly good ons.. and the low
cost at which tho feed can be pro
daced. coupled With the high prices
realized. make this industry very prof
table.
One OF tho FIRST thoughts that occur
70 the mind OF the average prospective
settler II the likelihood OF suitable
markets. Ia this connection the fol.
lowing table viii DO Illuminating. II
is supplied by the r. Burns company.
packers and exporters. of Calgary. and
shows the average monthly price paid
for hogs for the six years 1ei0to 1916
incluaive whsfbne considers the low
initial cost Of tho land aud the small
overhead cost 81 maintenance and
feed. these priess challenge compari
son.