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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
An English Ruling.

The cricket match was proceeding
steadily. and the home team seemed to
stand a good chance Of winning until .
stern Young man with a square Jaw
took his stand at the wicket.
Then the leather began to ny! Three
times the visitor sent the ball to the
boundary. a stretch Of long uncut grass.
each time causing a great delay to the
game.
Al last q tremendous hit proved too
much for the home umpire.
"Out!" he roared, as the ball went
soaring into the stretch Of hated grass.
"Out7" gasped the astonished bats
man. How can be outT"
Don't ask questions" stormed the
umpire. "Out says. and out you 60
That's our best bah you're, knoeking
about. and It cost us five bob. 'Tain't
s WSe want F0 Il fd to kaxSss bank
day."-Exchange. ....
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
Didn't Scare Him,

Among Mr.. Carnegie's Scotch stories
is one about a caddie of st. Andrews
This caddie's wife-so Mr.. Carpcgie's
STONY, runs-was much troubled b. her
husband's loose way OF life. He could
never have a good day on the links
but he must end II with a wet night
at the tavern. so. to cure him. the
woman lay in wait on the road one
evening dressed in a white sheet When
behind hedge. an awful white figure
with outstretched arms.
who the dell are your" asked the
Incorporate caddie.
a hollow voice, ...
Goes a shake o. yer hand. then"
said the tipsy caddie. I'm married tat
a sister q yours. She'll be waitinH TOT
us up at the hoose, an nae doot shell
MAX ye welcome. Crit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
v. RANDALL COMES
TO ARRANGE DATES
Baltimore Amateur President
Wants Baseball Park Here
for Inter-City Games.

Wilmer Randall. president of the
Baltimore. was visitor here yesterday
to try and arrange a post series
between the Baltimore titleholder and
the winner of the " Washington junior
champion. Arrangements have been
sSer bSSn oSss
juniors can play the game in Baltimore
IN the Oriole Park.
Randall Is working In conjunction
with President Harry Late, of the
Washington circuits. and expects to get
in touch with Manager Clark Griffith
for the Use OF the park here some time
The "Short Pants" Leagues here have
been having q successful season OF II.
and q post-season championship series
will be played between the winners Of
the Washington Amateur Baseball
League and the Capital City League
for the Washington tito.
At a meeting OF the Capital Amateur
League held last evening, the protests
which have been on file for some time
were settled. President Ernest will 60
on his vacation next week, During his
lay-off Harry Late. president Of the
Washington Amateur League, will at
tend to the affairs Of both leagues.
The Orioles were defeated by the
Nationals yesterday in a, closely con-
as ssd and name r SS ' s Ssot ods e
at the Fifth and Florida avenue north.
eaSt diamond. -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
Bonds.
j. s. STEEL SELLS
HIGHEST SINCE 1890

NEW YORK. Aug. l6.-United States
Steel reached the highest price today
since 1910. when Il sold at 80 during the
second hour OF the market.
Republican Steel preferred. selling at
il3. and Marine common at 3Oas. estab-
lished ne@ high records for those is
sues
The stock market opened today with
a general fractional increase In rail is
sues. refectine. confidence In the settle
ment OF the railroad labor troubles.
There was a slight falling of in other
Issues. - T.
first hour OF the market except in a
speculative issue.
u. s. Steel moved on up to COX be-
fore the close of the morning session
and seemed to give encouragement to
the rest OF the market. which became
strongr as the trading continued.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
Washington Canoists in
Regatta In Baltimore

BALTIMORE, Aug. Is-wagner, H.
Knight. Tisdeil. and Burch probably
Will represent tho Warrington Canoe
Club In the open four race to be held
Mt the Maryland Swimming Club Satur-
day. Swimming races. canoeing, and a
begin at o'clock.
The feature will be the mile outdoor
Championship swimming race Of tho
South Atlantic Association Of the ANA
events will be the 6o-yard Junior, li5
pounds and under. and the 5o-yard open
handicap. CanoeinR g. will consist Of
singis. double. and club Tours and TIT
IN the evening the canoe carnival II
expected to be hummer, for more
than nfty canoes are expected to par
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
NGSTlLL Dull
ON LOCAL EXCHANGE

Business on the Washington Stock
Exchange today continued In the rut Of
a summer dullness that has prevailed
for several weeks, and there was no
apparent Improvement In the volume OF
orders. Despite the light demand. how
ever. prices are being maintained COM
paratively well. Few lchanges were
noted In the quotation figures.
Washington Railway and Electric
common stock. selling ex-dividend.
eased OF. and after I'VE shares had
been disposed OF at 1874, the bid for
quotation lots was established at that
figure.
There was a better demand for small
lots Of the preferred stock Of the rail-
way company. Two odd lots OF four
and two shares brought soy and sok.
respectively.
Other sales consisted Of 1850 worth Of
Washington Gas 5 per cent bonds at
l07: 81, 900 worth Of Washington Railway
and Electric As at SIX, and five shares
Of Capital Traction stock at ssh.
The Mergenthaler Linotype Company
has declared the regular quarterly divt-
dend of Is per cent, payable September
%. to stockholders Of record September
s. The transfer books Will not be closed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
Browns Are Sued,

Louis Browns were defendants in a
$4,000 suit here today brought by a
fan who says he was wrongfully ac-
cused Of stealing q baseball batted
being passed about, he alleged a park
watohman grabbed him by the wrist
and led him to the clubs office whore
no claims he was detained for twenty
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
Mcnamara Out.

CHICAGO. Aug. l6.--Belated entries
received today brought the field for the
Western open golf championship, which
starts at the Blue Mound Country Club
in Milwaukee Thursday, up to eighty
three. The field Is stronger than that or
last year. Tom Mcnamara, last years
Champion, IL not entered.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
Marriage Licenses.

John H. Gresham. Richmond Va. andl Rosa
Z. winfield.-
Archie e. Cole and Ruth e. Crawford
Henry A. Sanford, Montrose, Va, aSd Mary
NJ. Baker, Montrose.
II. Yeadon Scott, Danvfle, Va, and Jfe1en
r. Sisemoore
Joseph w. Duvali, Annapolis. Md, and Marie
H. Seebohn, Pensacola, Fla.
Richard r, Rose and Ethel v. Stubs.
BENJAMIN N. Platter. Lanham. Nd. ar b Alice
Brown.
George X. Dunmore and Ethel L. Jor rs.
Walter /. Stockbower and Cathren Paterson.
William e. orion and Marie f. We pie.
Comfort w. I.ion. Manassas, Va, and Salie
NJ. Shoemaker. Manassas. ="
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
May Adopt Changes.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1&-Frederiok II.
Ruben. president of the Metropolitan
Association of the Amateur Athletic
Union. said today that the vote OF the
board OF governors Of the union. taken
changes In the events to be contested
in the track and, field championships
will be adopted unanimously, although
the vote does not close until septem-
Der Z. -.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
v. M. |. Gets Coach.

FLINT. Mich, Aug. l6.--Ellsworth s.
krantz. physical director and coach Of
athletic teams at the local high school,
has accepted similar position at tho
Virginia Military Institute. according to
announcement today.
He will assume charge of the football
squad there. this fall.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
Will Work Hard.

CHICAGO. Aug. 16.-Up at s q. m,
then q day of pitching hay will be the
new training stunt OF Ever Hammer,
Chicago lightweight. who Is sched-
York, IN a bout at Kansas City on
September IL. Hammer was en- route
to Ethel, MO. today where he has a
Job on q farm waiting him. = -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
Distance Event Slated
For Women Swimmers

=. 8. Drummer. in charge of life-saving
distance event for women to be held
from Kraxy Ramp to Dempseys today.
The race will start at 6'p. m!
Baltimore's entries are Lillian and
swirpmers are Miss Myrtle King, Miss
Phoebe Preston. Miss Caroline Nelson.
Miss Marcia George. and Miss Marion
Day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
Today's Sales.

Washington Railway IS. $1.0o09SlK.
81 .0OO9S1N.
Capital Traction. 6@s6h.
Washington Railway. CON-. 547sk
Washington Railway. pfd.. 1d60h.
After Call: -.--
l07, 8, oO06lo7 $500Q1o7.
Washington Railway. pfd. 46soE.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
Claim Slugger.

RICHMOND. Va. Aug. ls,-Manaser
Pmtth. OF the Richmond International
League baseball club. was notified to-
day that the New York Yankees would
claim Everett Bankstom. the hard hit
ting right fielder. at the close OF the
International season. In accordance with
an agreement made last season, when
Rube Madows. pitcher. was sold to the
Yanks for $500 Nt.re
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
.SOx Buy Catcher.

Joe JepSins. Of. the local Texas
Chicago White sox for 5000. Il was
announced here today. Jenkins bat
ting average to date 10 All. -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16
Will Defend Title.

CHICAGO, Aug. l6-Miss Elaine
Rosenthal, of Chicago, announced to-
day she would defend her title as cham
pionship which Is to be decided at the
Kent Country Club, Grand Rapids,
Mich. on August p to o.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-08-16

New York Stocks.

All transactions IN stocks are on the basic
Of dollars and fractions thereon.
Quotations furnished By W. B. Hibbs q
Co.. members of New York Stock Exchange.
Hibbs Building.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-24
To Save News Print Paper

A Gorden Mcintyre. Canadian pa
per expert. has been engaged by the
American Newspaper Publishers Asso-
citation to take charge of the news
print problem of that organization. He
will enter upon his duties at once.
According to Mr.. Mcintyre, the plan
he will pursue p one to induce manu-
facture and consumer to make the de-
mands more nearly equal to the supply.
Consumers must practice rigid econ
omies," he said. making oil paper nom
returnable, eliminating pressman
wastes and all avoldable consumption
of paper. Manufacturers must turn
aside from the export business. taking
care of old and permanent customers.
and should run mills at the fullest pos
sible capacity and at a reasonable mar
gin of profit"
Mr. Mcintyre is n well-known chemi-
cal engineer In pulp and paper mill
practice. He is chief of the Forest
Products Laboratories of Canada. Sec
retary and treasurer of the Canadian
Pulp and Paper Association. and is edi-
tor of the Pulp and Paper Magazine of
Montreal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-24
Bridge Party in Japan

1t wasn't long after we landed be-
fore we saw the Japanese woman, the
type that Old Japan creates. She and
some others were having bridge
party. Sounds inviting, but it wasn't.
About twenty of them were driving
piles for q new bridge. The sun was
scorching, the timbers enormous. and
the man overseer was abusing them
For weren't they only women? With
out education and with Old Japan's
idea of women crushing them down,
they deemed themselves pretty fortu-
nate to have even such work and the
princely sum of 10 cents a day.
No, it isn't enough for Old Japan
that the women should have baby
every year. They must work, work
like men and animals. In Nikko we
could see from a distance a long line
of bowed figures climbing the steep
bank of the river Daiya. and on COM
ing nearer we saw that they were old,
old women, wrinkled and gray. carry
ing barrels-not baskets. but barrels
of stone from the river bed to the
road Such is the reverence for age
in Japan.-Jean Price. in World Out
look for November.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-24
Case of Postal Clerks

"It is alleged that President Wilson
has been actuated only by principle in
connection with the Adamson law. then
1 ask why he has failed to apply the
same principle to the railway postal
clerks, where he has full power. Es-
timating six days to the week, these
postal clerks. operating between New
York and Pittsburgh. are required to
run 205 miles per day (for the present
administration has reduced the number
Of crews from six to five), whereas the
present trainmen's agreement requires
only 155 miles per day. which Is to be
reduced still further by the Adamson
law. The only possible explanation of
Mr.. Wilson's action in one case and in
action in the other Is that only 400 mon
are affected in that case where the
government has full control of the
hours of labor. whereas 100000 men
are supposed to be affected by the
Adamson bill."--Roosevelt at Wilkes
Barre.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-24
Onward and Upward

Long the pathway flowers lie brown
and dead. From tree, and bush, and
shrub the bloom has passed. Sum-
mer is dead! Is dead!
But close at hand a gleam of gold
appears. Pause! See the glory of the
distant hills-the gorgeous mantle
flung about their breast, There is
fruit to be gathered; sheaves to be
garnered; work to be done. Why
note the dropping blossoms-the skies
that may be gray-while the path
winding onward gives so rich yields
Backward lie dead hopes: joys, that
worse than failures, it may be! Heart
aches; wrongs; all Life's glad Sum-
mertime perchance, with its golden
heyday of youth. But onward are
fresh flowers; new SUBMITS to be
gained!
The path of Life leads on, and ever
on-and up. You can think of the
flowers, now brown and dead, and
the tinge of gray in the sky; you can
mourn for the summer left behind
you can dwarf your soul with repin-
ings; or, reaching out to the beauties
ahead, you can catch the CLEANS OF
the gold and red that CLINT through
the trees, and simmer the hills; you
can hear a song in the rustling leaves,
instead of a dull. dead signing. You
can smile bit as you face the day,
whatever the season, or weather, and
can give to life, as you go on your
way, a gladstone cheer and an honest
measure. till that Harvest comes, with
an Angels call, when the years shall
be set aside, and we stand at the en-
trance-wide and vast - of Gods
endless Summertide!-L. D. Stearns
in Farm and Home.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-24
Roosevelt at Louisville
New York Sun.l

The Kentuckians, whom Colonel
night. are people sensitive about their
honor and quick to resent wrong and
insult, none more so; and The Colonels
exposure of the cant and cowardice OF
Mr. Wilson's foreign policy must have
put all the corpuscles of their BLOOD
into shouting shape" to quote Wood
row Wilson in a moment of rhetoricaI
valor calculated for an occasion.
In the sharpness of it's analysis, in
its spirit of traditional Americanism.
robust yet restrained, and in the vi
rility of it's appeal. the speech de-
livered at Louisville was perhaps Colo
mel Roosevelts best contribution to the
campaign
The Louisville speech lends itself to
quotation so suggestively that to re-
frain is impossible. OF the Mexican
policy Colonel Roosevelt said that MFR.
Wilson does not mind the Mexicans
being at war with us so long as we are
not at war with the Mexicans." There
has been no keener characterization of
"watchful waiting" The Colonel must
have had Carrizal in mind when he de-
clared that "Mr. Wilson's conception
of war painfully resembles that de-
scribed by Mr.. Stephen Leacock in his
anecdote OF how Mr.. Smith took Mr..
Tompltins by the coat collar from be-
hind and began kicking him vigorously.
and the fight continued in this manner
for several minutes. Again. with
Hayti in his thoughts, the Colonel oh
served that Mr. Wilson has taught the
world that no nation which is small
enough to be helpless can insult us with
impunity."
But Mr.. Roosevelt's humor was grim
and mordant: he employed IL only to
illustrate the pusillanimity of Mr.. Will
sons policy in dealing with the Mex
leans. Stern was the speakers tone
when he summed UP the fruits of that
shameful policy:
"He has permitted the country to be
ruined and its people decimated He
has permitted our own people to be
murdered unchecked. He has prosti-
tuted our national honor to the bandits
whose cause he has espoused. And he
has won from those bandits only a
venomous and treacherous hostility to
the United States"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. J. o. c. McCracken,
Johnstown pastor, who resigned
week ago, has decided to remain in
his pastorate and withdraw the
resignation.
legislator and judge advocate gen.
eral of the division staff of Pennsyl-
vania, is chairman of the first trial
court to sit at Camp Stewart.
William Finn is to be one of the
speakers when Pittsburgh welcomes
the Arkansas commercial visitors to-
morrow.
w. f. Roberts, vice-president of
Bethlehem Steel Company. has Sc
cured four-year industrial course in
Bethlehem schools
Alvin Rupp, twenty-five years
county school superintendent of Le-
high, was presented with a picture of
himself by the teachers at the close
of the annual institute.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-24
STORMY DAYS AHEAD

6<HOSE who foreSee the defeat or
President Wilson IN November
look for the stormiest session
in years when Congress gets together
in December. With him 'in the
saddle" for the brief interval between
that and March will be scores of
defeated representatives and senators,
lame ducks" who will be anxious
to feather their own nests in prepara-
ton for the black days in store for
Democracy. Among these will be
Senator Johnson, of Maine, who is
known to feel that the ship-purchase
bill was a large contributory cause
of his failure to hold his seat. He and
the other lame ducks" on the Demo-
cratic side of the chamber, knowing
that they are soon going out and that
Wilson is going out too. will be at no
pains to conceal their feelings.
The setting sun, as is we'll known,
is never worshipped 1t is the rising
sun to which the benighted bow. AS
Wilson's sun sets. it is believed at the
capital, 1t will go down amidst
tremendous explosions of political
fireworks. The Senators of his party
are already sick of the didacticism
and dictatorial manners of their
schoolmaster President. So long as
his star was in the ascendant they
hesitated to oppose him-though a
few valiant souls did stand out on
the ship-purchase bill in its original
form; and now, when the patronage
is all distributed, wheu the White
House has no favors TO bestow, and
above all, when the Democracy is
about to go out into the desert for
long period of wandering, and all
due. as many Democrats view it, to
what they freely term the Presidents
"pigheadedness." there will be scant
disposition to do his will.
From Shadow Lawn come intima-
tions of what the President plans to
do at the short session of Congress.
The best opinion of observers is
that he will be able to do nothing
and that his party will go out of
power as badly split as 1t was in 1897.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-24
MILITARY INSTRUCTION is
GOOD TRAINING FOR BOYS

high school students don't get actively
into athletics. The military training.
which brings with 1t the building up of
strong, manly bodies. reaches the
bookworm as we'll as the athletic boy.
1t has done wonders from the stand
point of physique alone in Washington
in the short while it has been es-
tablished The stoop-shoulderedy young
ster, the slouch, soon learns to carry
his body erect, his shoulders thrown
back. If he has q defect in his physical
makeup, he begins to eradicate it. if
he can. The drills and the marches
furnish an exercise that every boy par
takes in.
But that is only one side of the
training. First aid" the knowledge
of how to take care of ones self. is
primary in the course. The training
imparts self-reliance and confidence.
1t furnishes an inspiration to develop
qualities of leadership. 1t instills a
new interest In school work and partly
meets the problem of how to keep the
young man interested in school. The
experience of one Washington father is
typical of many:
at used to offer my boy a small prize
each month If he would keep his
grades up. And he seldom won the
prize. He simply wouldn't take any
interest in his books and studies. All
of a sudden he became regular glut-
ton for study. / would find him work.
ing over his lessons at nights-some-
thing he never used to do unless I
made him. I got worried over this
change and wondered what it was all
about. Dad he said, I've simply got
to get my grades up by the first of the
year I want to be a sergeant in the
corps, and 1 can't qualify unless I push
those grades of mine up And I've
never worried about his grades since.
His desire to move up in the students
corps furnished the incentive he
needed"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-24
Gimme a Dog-an' a Gun

You can have your play on the Great
White Way,
But gimme a dog-an' a gun!
Your this an your that an your prittle-
prat,
Your jeweled dame that's nine-tenths
cat,
Your taXicab an your high silk hat,
But gimme a dog-an' gun!
Go loaf away in your swell cabaret,
But gimme a dog-an' a gun!
Drink deep o. your wine from over the
Rhine,
Drown out dull care in zone helluva
time
Dream-if you like tin arms that
entwine.
But gimme a dog-an' gun!
G.. l.. S., for the Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-24

ture of this unusual story is the as
sertion of the reporter that In all
that time mot one cross word" has
passed between the two. Refraining
from the observation that life in the
Bodino household must have been
more or less monotonous or the sus-
picicn that the writer may have been
indulging in reportorial license for the
sake of embellishing the item, one
may repeat with profit, perhaps, some
of the rules whereby the aged pair
perfect household peace. Here are
some OF Mrs. Bodines reasons for six
ty-four years of marital happiness:
Because 1 think there is no one
like father.
Because / am always willing to
humor his little ways.
Because l will do anything in the
world to please him.
Because / have always given him
plenty of good food.
Because l have always praised
him when he deserved ii.
Here are some of Mr.. Bodine's rea-
sons:
Because 1 think my wife is the
hnest woman in the world.
Because l never have vacation
unless she goes too.
Because have always been ready
to listen to- what she has to say.
Because l have never wanted
anybody else but mother.
One may believe. or not, as he
chooses, that the mellowing influence
OF the years has transformed some
early scenes of disagreement in the
Bcdlne family into pictures of sweet
domestic harmony, for it is hard to
conceive unity of spirit so perfect as
to be in absolute accord for a period
so long, but certainly many husbands
and wives may we'll read twice some of
the rules whereby this remarkable
couple have regulated their married
life.