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| Looked For? Feared!
It is now considered polite table
ethics to lean one elbow on the table
while eating. The ban is still on
throwing bones to the dogs, but con- con-
cessions allowing souping the soup
and picking the fnger-nails are look
ed for. Hokah Chief.
5+
| Amen.
We can wish no better thing for all
our reanders then that they begin the
new year animated by firm resolve
to turn all their experience into profit
for themselves, mentally, morally, So
scially, and: materially, and then. to
faithfully CARRY out the resolution
Red Wing Eagle. q.
--3.
Entirely Possible.
The Germans are reported to have
succeeded in manufacturing an imi-
tation rubber that can be used for
automobile tires. If this thing keeps
on it will be possible for an ordinary
man. to support an automobile in the
syle to which it has been accustomed.
-Biwabik Times.
.t-4-t
The Value of Silence.
Once upon time there was rich
man who shaved six times a week
and sometimes seven. His favorite
barber gave him the silent shave and
hair cut, ETC., for. years. When the
rich man died he didn't forget the sac
riice this barber had been making;
mo sir, he left him $4,000 in his will
land the barber hasn't been sober
since.-Stillwater Gazette
.+-'+
Washburn, the war correspondent
home from the Russian front says
THAT he has been asked many times
what the foreign policy of the United
States means and he has never been
able to explain it because he could not
understand it himself. Well the for
|eign policy may have rather pecu-
liar appearance, it may be subject to
lapses of one kind and another, but it
has thus far kept us out of a war
that is at bottom crudely commercial
and at best nothing to be proud of.
If it can do this and win some respect
from the wild fanatics abroad who are
busy killing each other, let's just ac-
cept it as it is and not try to ex-
plain.-Perham Enterprise. - !:
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Sound Advice. i.
Some radical >proMbitionist pro-
tests against submitting the question
Of statewide prohibition to the vot.-
ers in the form Of a constitutional
amendment. He says that too small
q percentage Of the voters never mark
the amendment ballots, and that, in
asmuch as every blank ballot is count
ed in the total and that an amend
ment, to carry, must have a majority
of this total, therefore, this method
should not be used in endeavoring to
make Minnesota dry. Well, if the
voters Of Minnesota are not interested
enough to even vote on such an
amendment they are not very anxious
to make the state dry, and the state
should not be made dry until the vot-
ers are sufficiently anxious to cast their
ballots ON the matter.-Luverne Jour
nal.
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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10
The Nations Garbage Can.

Senator Shoots assertion in the Senate on Sat-
urday that "the American garbage can is the
latest in all the world" will not be CHALLENGED.
If all the food that is wasted in the United States
could be shipped to Germany her people would
be in no danger of starvation so long as we
refused to reform our habits of living In this
land of plenty the people have always been ex-
travagant, and in the face of failure in recent
years of the production of foodstuffs to keep very
far ahead of the demands Of the growing popu-
lation are slow to learn the lesson of conser-
walton and economy, even though admonishe d
by rising prices. AS the country grows colder,
however and the mouths that must be fed multi
ply, we shall be forced to learn it, even though
no great war other national calamity befalls
US and gives us a hard problem of mere exist
ence to solve.
1t may be that some great crisis calling upon
all our energies and resources and demanding
sacrifice of and luxury would in the end
result in Strengthening us as a nation. In the
past score of years or more life has been too
easy for too many of us, to whom the means to
procure luxuries has come with too little effort
Vastly as the lot of those who garner the riches
of the soil has been improved the farm cannot
compete successfully with the attractions of other
vacations, and every year a part of the harvest
is wasted for the want of men willing to labor
Prices go higher, but somehow the cities produce
the money to pay them.
And yet there arc too many in rich Americ.
whose garbage cans are not fat" who in fact
have no need of garbage can at all, though there
is work waiting for them to do. They belong to
the other half and to them Senator Shoots
remarks do not apply. There is plenty of room
for them in the fields, and if our statesmen can
find the way to get them there while the Con-
tributors to the fiat garbage can" learn the les.
son of thrift and economy we shall become
stronger and better nation
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10
We Should Raise More Sheep.

High prices now prevailing for WOOL skins
and meats should make sheep raising a very
profitable business, but farmers do not take TO it
with much confidence because they fear that
some fine night dogs may kill or MAIN large
part of their flocks. Sheep are prolific, mature
early and yield their most valuable clip of wool
when only year old. They thrive on rough
pasturage that will not support cattle and they
eat weeds and underbrush that COWS will not
touch. 1t costs little to winter them, and their
wool is improved in yield and quality by cold
weather.
Wolves in the West and dogs in the East are
the bane of the sheep breeder. In some coun-
tries the goats herded with sheep as a pro-
lection against dogs, because a pugnacious goat
will fight off an ordinary dog Dogs do less harm
by biting sheep than by chasing them. A small
terrier that cannot hurt sheep often drives them
to death or. causes them to injure themselves.
few nights ago a small dog got after the fancy
flock of sheep in Central Park in the heart Of
New York City, and several of them broke their
legs and were otherwise badly injured. This
shows how dangerous dog can be when
small and muzzled. Sheep are easily stampeded
and will run into over anything. 1t is a conf
mon thing for wolves or mountain lions to drive
a. thousand sheep high cliff in the Rocky
Mountains.
If dogs could be Suppressed the billy and
mountainous regions of the Allegheny range
from Vermont down to Alabama would be ideal
for sheep raising. The finest merino sheep in the
world are raised in Vermont, only few, it is
true, but that is the fault of the dogs and not
OF the environment. Dog owners should be taxed
and the proceeds used to reimburse sheep owners
for losscs.-New York Commercial.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

The same month that witnessed the
withdrawal of the troops OF France from
Mexico saw final arrangements made for
the withdrawal of Russia from the Pa
cific coast of North America.
On the SOth of March. 1867, a treaty
was agreed upon between Mr.. Seward
and the Russian minister at Washington
for the sale of Alaska to the United
States for the sum of seven million two
hundred thousand dollars in gold.
In May the treaty was ratified; and
in the following October formal transfer
of the great territory was effected.
Mr. Monroe had checked the movement
of Russian power southwark upon the
Pacific coast by his message Of 1923. and
in the forty odd years which had elapsed
since that notable announcement of the
supremacy of the United States in the
western hemisphere the government at
st. Petersburg had grown very indiffer-
ent to the retention of the bleak frag-
ment of America left in its hands-so
far away, so difficult. it might be. Of
defence.
Informal communications in regard TO
its sale had passed between the two
governments so long ago as 1859. Russia
was anxious to sell; and the final pur-
chase of 1857 was easily arranged for.
There was a certain dramatic con-
sistency in the association of the pur-
chase of Alaska with the forced with
drawar' of the French from Mexico.
They stood together as logical conse-
quences of the Monroe doctrine, whose
avowed object had been to keep the
American continents free from the con-
troll OF European monarchies.
The deep effects wrought by Mr..
Stevens's policy of Thorough in the south
ern States worked themselves out more
slowly than the tragedy in Mexico, but
with no less revolutionary force. Its
operation brought on as profound a So
cial upheaval as its most extreme ad-
vocates could have desired.
The natural leaders of the South either
would not take the oath prescribed or
were excluded from the right TO enroll
themselves as voters by the very terms
of the Reconstruction Act.
The negroes were the chief voters. The
conventions which they chose and the
governments which those conventions set
UP were constituted to secure them
power.
In Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas,
after the conventions had acted, the
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10
Our Smallest ARMY.

The smallest regular army which the United
created the first regular or Continental army was
eighty men.
Those eighty were arterymen, being the very
in I776 year after the Revolution ended, Con-
gross enacted on juno ?, 1884 law to disband
the whole Continental army with the exception
at Fort Pitt. which is now Pittsburgh and fifty
FIVE men ITO guard the military stores at West
Point
There was to be nc officer with rank above a
captain This very slender military link of eighty
men is all that joins our regular army of today
to the Continental army of Washington, but that
link weak as it became, was never broken.
That small organization of troops in the pay
of the United States never lost its identity, and
It is today Company F, Fourth Regiment of Ar
tiilery, U. s. A. 1t is exactly as old our
Public Ledger.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

( If l had dozen daughters and was able to
give each Of them 100000 the day of their
marriage" declared Senator Smoot, 81 would still
want each one to know how to cook, make her
own clothes, and in fact be superior house
keeper. 1t is a crime, and is wicked in the sight
of God, to have the products of the farm made
next to useless by poor cooking. Tens of thou
Fands of homes are ruined by helpless and ig-
horant housekeepers, and the American garbage
can IS the latest in all the world" American
men may still hope, so long as we have Senator's
with the courage to address such noble STATE
ments to the women, instead of urging men to
prepare for the future by perfecting themselves
IN domestic arts and science
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

white voters rallied strong enough al the
polls, as IL turned out, to defeat the con-
situations they had framed when they
were submitted for ratification: but they
were only kept so much the longer un-
der military government, and were
Obliged 10 accept them at last
In Georgia the new constitution was
adopted; but the statutes of the recon
stituted State debsrred negroes from
holding office, and Congress would no;
admit her to representation so long as
those statutes stood unrepealed.
In the Carolinas, in Florida, in Ala
ban1a- Arkansas and Louisiana nothing
stayed the execution of the congressional
plan, and by midsummer, 1858. Congress
was ready to. readmit those States 70
representation.
But South Carolina, Louisiana, and
Florida were utterly given over in the
process to the government Of adven'
turers
Negroes constituted the majority OF
their celebrates; but political power gave
them no advantage of their own. Ad'
venturers swarmed out of the North &c
cozen, beguile, and use them.
These men, mere carpet ,baggers'' fol
the most part, who brought nothing with
them, and had nothing TO bring, but q
change of clothing and their wits, be.
Naiilt AiAt llt" AhdSAtTE OF lue DldChE
They gained the confidence OF the ne.
groes, obtained for themselves the more
lucrative Offices. and lived upon the pub
lie treasury, public contracts, and their
easy control Of affairs.
For the negroes there was nothing but
occacio nal allotments Of abandoned OF
forfeited land. the pay of petty offices
per diem allowance as members OF
the conventions and the State legisla.
lures which their new masters made
business for, or the wages of servant,
in the various offices Of administra ton
Their ignorance and credulity made then
easy dupes. petty favor, a slender
stipend, a trifling perquisite. a BIT OF
poor land. a piece of money satisfied oil
silenced them. 1t was enough, for the
rest, to play upon their passions.
They were easily taught to hate the
men who had once held them in slavery
and to follow blindly the political party
which had brought on the war Of theiI
emancipation.
Tomorrow Under Carpet-Bas
Rule.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10
No Faith in the Chancellor.

AS to the chancellors assurance that "after the
end OF this war Germany will refrain from adj
ventures in the Western Hemisphere, il need only
be said that the United States has lost faith n
the professions of the European chanceiieries
and the pledges made in treaties soiemnly nceo-
pare the army and navy for the defense Of It's
territory and for the enforcement of the national
policies, including that doctrine which declares
that the American continents "are henceforth moi
to be considered subjects for future COLOMBIA
ton BY any European power."-New York Sun
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

! One E Parsons, of Detroit, demands that
Congress reconsider its action and yet pass bill
warning all United States citizens to keep of
armed vessels. In view of the fact that UP to
date, since March I, armed vessel has been
attacked by German submarines, while only I'M
armed and helpless have been sunk, with
many Of their crews and passengers killed, it
would seem that the mind of E. Parsons might
have been steadied trifle if he had demanded
a bill warning American citizens to keep off all
unarmed ships.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

According to cable dispatch New Yorker
took his wife to the Foles Bergere in Paris
where she recognized her $4,000 string of pearls
adorning the neck of the premier danseuse, who
insists that the husband gave them to her in
consideration of the affection she lavished on
him. Come to think of it, it is much more likely
that it was the keen-eyed wife who organized the
expedition to the Follies Bergere
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

/ Senator Harding, who is to make the keynote
speech at the G. o. P. convention, says he cam
not see any reason why Col Roosevelt should
not be consulted regarding the choice Of can
didate, if he is back in the party. Now if the
Colonel will only concede that the party has a
right to be consulted, the outlook for harmony
will be excellent
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

Bryan is accused of seeking both prohibition
and anti-prohbition votes in his contest for cleo
ton as delegate-at-large to the national conven-
ton. If it's possible to carry water on both
i{houders, why not water on one and booze on
ithe other?
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

1. In an address before the Twentieth Century
Club woman told her audience that gardening
is more conducive to health and happiness than
golf But it would be mean man who would
Suggest that housekeeping is better for the COM
plexion than the two-step.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

Il The de facto government denies that permits
lsion has been given the United States govern
ment to use the Mexican railways for any pur-
pose whatever. 1t is not unlikely that Carranza
jeontemPlatcs ordering our army out of Mexico
before it will have any actual need Of the rail.
ways.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

{. At any rate the official orders governing the
punitive expedition so worded that if it
should be found impossible to kill or capture
Villa, Funston and Pershing will not be charged
with failure in the War Department records.
Evidently some appreciated the magnitude
OF the undertaking and how inadequately our
forces were equipped for it.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10
SPRING SONGS.

SPRING SONGS.
love to sing
These days of Spring,
Fen as the bird pours forth his cheer
With little care
If anywhere
It falls on any listening ear.
With little thought
If il be wrought
On principles or lines Of Art,
But just to prove
The boundless love
Of life and living in my heart.
Copyright, lsls)
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

/. Some observers will see in the Root boom
and the Roosevelt boom indications of a program
that is to have a climax a spectacular COM
promise Hughes at nominating time, to be
followed by a great reuniting of the factions.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

! Congress had better look out. They are hav-
ing tax riots in China and certain distinguished
citizen has already discovered indications that this
country is in danger of being "Chinafed.'
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

The Weather Bureau predicts a week more
Of winter, and the public will hope that the con-
tentiou of its chief in a recent controversy that
long range predictions are worthless, is correct
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

This war gas must certainly be a
deadly varor."
Yes. I had to quit going to the club
on account Of it"-Judge.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10
"A Line o Cheer Each Day o the Year,
\ By JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.

First printing of an original poem. written daily
y for The washInP1on Herald.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

Maj. Gen. Commandant George Barnett.
of the Marine Corps, is on an inspection
tour Of the Marine Corps stations in the
South. He expects to return to Wash
ington on April 20. While on his trip he
will visit Charleston, Port Royal, Pensa-
cola, Key West and New Orleans.
When the Atlantic fleet returns from
southern waters a number of the Marine
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

Tomorrow Under Cnrpet-Bas
Rule.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10
Samples Free by Mail

Curicura Soap and Ointment sold svsrywh~.
Dbe-Al sample Of each mailed fr~s win xs-p boss
address postcard "cUtiourA.- Dept. u. Bass~a.
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Rule.
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Published by special 7cifh the PresdHf through
The Mcclure Necsbate, Syndicate
THE PURCHASE OF ALASKA.

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by
The sun., 1916-02-03

fiscal wisdom the differentiation Of
the corporate particles composing the
Standard OIL Company.
Unhappy Des Moines, that took a
Cassius after losing a Solomon!
It Is CAssrrs who now comes fus-
silly forward with resolution for
investigation. Hating the Standard
Oil combined he more abhors It's sep
arated parts. Welded, they sold gas
olene to Iowa automoblists at ten
cents a gnllon. and Iowa groaned un.
der the burden Of the tax; divorced.
they double the price. and CAssius
demands to know II this Is n vista
tion related to alimOny requirements.
or pure cussedness.
No thought in the mind Of Repre-
sentative CAssIrs. as there would
have been in the mind of Representa-
tive SOLOMON, that a possible shortage
In the supply coincident with an evil
dent increase in demand might ac.
count for 1owa's agony. What are
supply and demand to him?
Bereft Des Moines!
The sun., 1916-02-03
THE SEVENTEEN INCH GUN.
An Opinion That the Germans Can
Use II on Their Ships.

To THF Enron or THr SUN-Sir. Al!
taat Rufus j. Rug!er SAYS in letter TO
The SrH Of January 81 about the in
which ] sad WAS - be used hy ,hs
Germans on their battleships is per-
feCtlE v"ll known, but he misses the
point, The technical argument which
he advances against this gun for naval
purposes Is almost exactly parallel TO
the objection which "eNpcrts' raised
against tho possibility Of Germany haul
Ing. emplacnG and firing the short lived
huge land guns which crushed the mod
orn fortrcsses Of Namur and I1sce.
The amount OF ship space required hv
not detc- III" Germans from using II
against the British fleet once mounted
and well directed Il Will do It's work AS
effectively as the gun which smashed
Namur.
| viii add that the dav when GER
many sends out her feet armed with -
inch guns II may h" expected that that
Meet viii h" accompanied ny Xepnelirs
which will discharge seven foot aerial
'orpcdoes directed by wireless over A dis
tance Of two miles. Tho British r,p.
would then he subjected 70 Nre In two
planes and II r. my belief that dav win
see radical change in tho numerical
superiority Of the British feet. 70 Rr,t.
ain risks too nranv NJ her dreadnough,s
without adequate preparation.
7 Y MACMECHrS.
NEW YORK. February
The sun., 1916-02-03
A City Bereft Of Wisdo m ,

Alas for lovely Des Moines. in the
State Of Iowa, where all good things
grow and flourish except. occasion,
ally, good sense! In the House of
Representatives the city Of Des
Moines was recently represented by
SOLOMON FRANCIS PRoUTY, scholar
jurist, golfer. sane, controlled by good
sense. He loved peace, but never
shirked fight on the floor or n
match on the links. He had earned
an abundance Of this worlds goods
and, though youngstcr OF but sixty.
two, longed for leisure and refused
again to represent his town In Con,
gress. In his place Dos Moines sent
CAssIrs G. DowELL who may have
lived many or few years (hc rpfruIns
from revealing his age In his Con
gressional Directory biography, but
many or few they have not brought
him conspicuous wisdom.
His State contributed much. includ
ing Senator CrMMI>s. to the racke,
raised against the Trust Terror which
dashed on the legislative turmoil. nc
complishlng among other feats ot
The sun., 1916-02-03
Police A0ONt.

The water front Of every great city
that has one offers abundant oppor-
tunity and rich booty to persons who
have the thieving instinct and nauti-
cal skill. The waters about this city
are theatre of ceaseless warfare be.
tween these outlaws and our courage
Gus harbor police. In keeping these
highwaymen Of the rivers and bay In
check. and in guarding in ways less
sensational the safety of lives and
property on our waters. this branch
Of the municipal service is useful
with an efficiency equal TO its unos-
tentatious devotion to duty.
In 1915 the Marine Division Of the
city police made twenty arrests for
felonies and thirty-one for misde-
meanors: gave first aid to seventy
five injured persons. and rescued
twelve from drowning. II gave as
sistance In twelve collisions of boats.
worked with tile Fire Department nj
fifteen water front fires. and rccov-
cred $1S.S17 worth of property. In
the course Of the year 1t recovered tho
bodies OF o60 persons who had been
drowned in city waters.
The police fleet now consists of nine
launches and two dories. The flag
ship Of the little navy. the Patrol. *
to be sold and replaced by an oi, fuel
boat Of greater power and speed and
less cost of maintenance. The train.
ing OF the police in deep sea diving,
signalling and the use Of machin"
guns is to be expanded and improved.
there IL to be floating precinct sta
tion house, and the present quarters
Of the Harbor Il men at old Harlem
Manor House will I've turned back To
the city. releasing TO more pressing
uses n valuable site. while II new pre-
cinct house will he set up on barge
moored Mt Randall's Island.
The foot and mounted men are
more in the public eye, hut not Il bit
more deserving Of public grateful ap-
probation than the brave fellows who
keep peace and order on the watcry
| highways of Gotham.