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The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

He-I love you better than NV life.
Sne-Conslderfng the life you lead /
am not surprised.-Boston Transcript
He-Queen Of my heart
she-Queen nothing! Queens can't picL
their husbands. can-and believe me,
I'm some picker.-Judge.
You're looking awfully gloomy. old
TOP. What's the trouble?"
trouble enough old top. Ne valet's
sick. dontcherknow, and I don't know
whether I've got on the proper tie and
socks that go with the suit I'm wearing. -
-Browning's Magazine
He threatened to blow his brains
out. And what did you say to
him?" Il told him he'd be foolish to
try 1t, as he had never been successful
shooting at small targets."-Boston
Transcript.
Friend-What is the first thing you do
when man presents himself to you for
consultation?
Doctor-I ask him II he has a car.
Friend-What do you learn from that?
Doctor-If he has one I know he is
wealthy, and IL he hasn't know he Is
healthy.-Puck.
Aviator (home from the war on leavel-
And then when you are up pretty high
three or four miles. say-and you look
down it's positively sickening 1t is stu
pendous, awful A great height Is q
fearful thing. can tell you.
Lady feelingly)-Yes, I can sympa-
thize with you. poor boy feel Just that
way myself when I'm going on top Of .
stepladder.-Christian Register.
"Did DR.. Founders preach q moving
sermon?"
Apparently so. Everybody in the con-
gregation was fidgeting. g."-Birmingha
Age-Herald.
Wife-(during the spaOI wasn't
anxious to marry you refused you
six times.
Hub-Yes, and then my luck gave out
Boston Globe
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21
Back to My Maryland Home.

rvs roened this fair land from ocean
b ocean.
rvs sought the bright gold In far away
NonnA
Ny poor heart has throobed and beat
with emotion.
A I List to the song Of my Eastern shore
homa.
I've been weary and tired from struggle
and worry.
rye dtnes with gay thronss and I've
dined all alone,
But always rye longed and wanted to
hurry
BACK eo my own. my Maryland home.
Lst them have their Coronado Beach.
Their moaning pines of Maine.
Their sheltering palms where love-birds
screech.
Their Broadway's gay White Lane,
But take me to the eastern shore,
And let me hear the band,
When II strikes up and starts to play,
Ny Maryland! Ny Marylandl'
I long for the sight Of the wild woven
flowers.
wnsre-I I romped through my boyhood in
the old days Of yore.
OF the fair country lassie loved meath
the bowers,
OF my dear sweet-faoed mother asleep
by the door.
I long for the scent Of the blue grass
and clover.
For the sound Of the hoof beats Of year
nngs half grown,
For the little wren's song. the low Of the
cattle,
And the true ringing voices of my loved
ones at home.
And now as watch the dim twilight fast
fading.
Many scenes Of my childhood come back
by the score.
The memories Of which start my old
heart to hutter
As think Of the friends who win greet
me once more.
The road has been long. but thank God,
it's been travelled
No more win wander. No more VIII
roam.
I'm fast speeding back to the home Of
my fathers,
Back to my own, my Maryland home.
by .Dopey Dan"
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

Some folks don't seem to be dis
turbed by the lack of money and are
merely disagreeable about It's de-
nominations Some want a two-and-
a-half-cent piece. A Representative
wants q three-cent coin. Merchants
suggest a half-cent token, but with
the District on its way to prohibition
can't see where it will help us. But
now comes the movie theater man
with a clamor for a fifteen-cent
piece. He's getting so much money
he's firing Of counting Il.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

Peace! 1t is infinitely to be desired.
The scorner of peace-the peace Of right
eousness-is the scorner OF God. The
blood of millions cries out from the
ground for it. The burden-bearers Of a
century to come cry out for deliveranc
from a load that will. II It grows much
larger, crush them into abject misery.
Let US hope that Germany honestly
wants peace, and that, whatever con-
temptuous expressions may come from
their rules, the entente people want It
too. 1t may be a hard peace for all. But
1t must be an honest peace. Prussia has
been unaccustomed to fighting any wars
even losing wars-without gaining some
territorial advantage from them.-Boston
Transcript
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

The ttimid soul may never become a con-
quering hero, but his infirmity has its
consultations. The speculative fever has
been abroad in the land. To tell the
truth, It has been an epidemic Of the
most virulent type. Everybody seemed
to be doing it-that is, holding mysteri-
Gus conversations over the telephone
with his broker and hanging over the
ticker with an opulent air. Even the Of
fee boy acted suspiciously like a specula-
tor In a small way. But in this atmos-
phere charged with paper prosperity there
were those who did not have the nerve
to get in on the ground floor and who be-
came more hesitant Of the plunge as the
market rose.-Cincinnad Times-Star.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

Talk of the nations at war in Europe
returning to the territorial status that
existed before the struggle began only
draws attention to the many instances
where the status quo cannot be restored
and the interest of humanity viii center
in what is to be done about that. The
status quo cannot be restored in the
many homes that have lost members by
the slaughter. It cannot be restored to
the men who have lost their sight or who
have been crippled in' body. It cannot
be restored for many years In Industrial
conditions. There are so many Instances
in which it cannot be restored that 1t
would be impossible to enumerate them
here.-xPittsburgh Post,
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21
NAVAL ORDERS.

ORDERS 10 OFFICERS.
Commander p. Williams, TO home and wait orders
Lieut.. W. Asgett. r.. to Navy Yard. Portsmouth
n H., January Is
Ensign b. d. Clarke to Connecticut.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
connecticut, arrived at Philadelphia Yard, Decem
Der -; FaTagut. arrived at San Pedro, Deoem5ei
10; Michigan, sailed for Philadelphia, December 20
Montana. arrived at Hampton Roads December 10
New York, arrived at New York Yard, December
"; Oregon, arrived at San Pedro, December IS; Ia
coma, arrived at Guantanamo. December 10: TEXAS
arrived at Tomphnsville, December 10; Utah ar
rived at Hampton Roads, December %.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

Wonder If Grant, Mcclellan, Lee,
Jackson and some of those inferior
soldiers of 1861 would echo the
opinion of the latter day military ex-
perts about the militia boysl Seems
to layman that the boys from the
cities and countryside did a fair
amount of blood letting without TAX
ing any postgraduate course in the
science of war In those days.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

Wonder If John B. Manning, So,
of New York, and of course q multi
millionaire, who is going to be sued
for breach of promise by Honora
Mary O'Brien, 2s, wrote her any of
those zoos little baby is oo?" let
tersf
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21
TWO POTATOES THE FEE
TO SEE CHURCH SHOW

One Of the most unique Christmas en-
ltertainments of the year. for the benefit
Of the Methodist Home for Children and
the poor of the northeast. will be pre-
sented at the Douglass NJ E. Church to-
night
The Sunday school pupils will dress in
quaint costumes. representing something
TO eat. such as potatoes. bread, -four, etc
Admission to the show will cost two
potatoes
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

Hurry up, girls and get In the
game. Peace talk Is getting fash
ionable. Time to switch costumes
and change the styles to more
Puritanical cut. Anything to keep
the cost of living up and cheer
father on to vote for prohibition.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

startled.
When 1 recall the spirit-feast
Spread for those Wise Men of the East,
Startled across the desert plain
To Him who taught that Loss was Gain,
In moments Of my stress gaze
Into the Heavens starry ways.
And choose some star of Hope to lead
Ny soul to plenty out Of need.
CoopSrtght, rss)
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

Ind now comes the meanest man
on earth. He has a corner on
Christmas trees and has tilted the
prices on the poor folks in Manhat-
tan.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

Our idea of something not to
study Is the ukalele.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

Latest ruling in Virginia is that it
Is not against the law to give a man
q drink in private alley. Get your
self a private alley today, men.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

that they are winning, the war is not
going to be ended through their
agency with any great dispatch.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

Thirteen-year-old girl arrested in
New York for robbing children of
the milk money. That child has a
future and she's living in the proper
place.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

Yes, here It is again-Do Your
Christmas Shopping Early
And late today.
But do it, and
DO IT NOW.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

Binocular sights are used in aiming
a sporting rifle that an Ohio man has
invented.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21
A LINE o. CHEER
EACH DAY O. THE YEAR.

First printing Of sn original poem. written daily
for The Washington Herald.
BY John Rendriek Bangs
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21
Jottings from Jokers

He-1 love you better than NV life.
she-considering the life you lead /
am not surprised.-Boston Transcrint
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

"Did DR.. Founders preach q moving
sermon?"
Apparently so. Everybody in the con-
gregation was fidgeting. ham
Age-Herald.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21


who hope for peace and who attempt
to find basis for their wish In the
expressions of the leading statesmen
of Europe is the indisposition of
either side to concede that it was
wrong, even in part
Both sides to the controversy pro-
fess to be humanity's greatest
friend; each accuses the other of
savagery, barbarity and dishonor.
Neither offers any concrete state
ment of why it went to the war. All
seem at a loss to know what all the
fighting has been about. Ali profess
that they desire to see the world re-
established on better basis, but not
one of the belligerents is willing to
admit that it had any responsible
part in disarranging the amity of
peoples and nations.
On a smaller scale warfare is
fought out more logically. When
two men fight and nobody interferes
they either fight until one admits he
is whipped but still contends he was
right or until one admits that he
was wrong and promises to be good
to escape whipping.
If that analogy were applied to the
European war it is obvious that with
Germany and England still con-
vinced they are absolutely right and
The Washington herald., 1916-12-21

Wife-(during the spat)-I WASH
anxious to marry you 1 refused yoI
six times.
Hub-Yes. and then my luck gave out
Boston Globe.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-04-11
TODAY IN ILLINOIS HISTORY

April II, 1501.-John Edgar, one
of the foremost citizens of Kaskas-
kia, asserted that nine-tenths Of the
inhabitants of st. Clair and Randolph
counties desired that legislative as
sembly be elected in Indiana terri
tory, to which Illinois at that time be-
longed.
Dish washing becomes a genteeI
vocation when it. is called domestic
science"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-04-11
IRREGULAR ADS

Cook County Real Estate Board
quarterly has these want ad gags
from E. P. Simpson:
Will Buy-A muscle from an arm
of the sea.
Lost - A ring from the finger of
ScOTn.
Stolen - A blanket from the
oceans bed.
Found-A petticoat made from the
skirts of the town.
.Wanted-A smile from the face of
the earth.
For SaIe-A hair from the head of
a river.
Wanted-A glove for the hand of
fate.
Wanted-A shoe for the foot of a
mountain.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-04-11
Because I don't love you as Il

Because I don't love you as L
ought, Arnold"
you will learn to love me" he pro-
tested: Lucy, you will care for me. "
She listened with dull pride. Yes,
he was a gentleman. as she had
known from the first.
mo, my dear" she answered.
''That is my decision. I have taken a
long time to come to it, and I have
been weak and foolish not to have
known before. I hope we shall be
good friends always. But I cannot
marry you. Don't make it harder for
me-"
She was trembling. Even then, if
he had taken her in his arms she
would have yielded, would have mar
Tied him without his love. She knew
it, and hated herself for it.
But he only bowed, turned, and
went toward the door. He hesitated. |
He would not pretend, or lie, but he |
would not show what was in his |
heart.
You are sure, Lucy?" he asked. |
''YOU are sure this is not"
Caprice? Oh, no, it is my discov-
cry of myself" she answered. Good |
night and forgive me if you can"
AS the door closed she saw the |
lonely years stretch out again in all |
their bIackness.
IRREGULAR ADS
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-04-11
ALICE BAILEY

Nine. Alice E. Bailey of Chicago,
one of the sponsors of the American
ideas in American dress" movement
which is sweeping the country, has
been elected president of the Fashion
Art League of America. The organ
izatiOn is trying to make the United
States the center of the fashion
world.
Middletown transcript., 1916-08-26
Official Inspection of Brands of Fertilizers
Offered for Sale in Delaware N Spring of
By CHARLES L. PENNY, Chemist

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Middletown transcript., 1916-08-26

ESTATE OF GEORGE W. PETER
SON, Deceased. Notice is hereby
given that Letters Testamentary upon
the estate of George w. Peterson. late
of st. Georges Hundred, deceased, were
duly granted unto Alice S. Peterson, on
the Fourteenth day of June A. D. 1916,
and all persons indebted to the said de-
ceased are requested to make payment
to the Executrix without delay, and all
persons having demands against the
deceased are required to exhibit and
present the same duly probated to the
said Ex scutrix on or before the Four
teenth day of June A. D. 1917, or abide
by the law in this behalf. j. Frank
Biggs, Attorney-ot Law, Wilmington,
Del. Address
ALICE S. PETERSON, Executrix,
Middletown, Delaware.
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Confident of Victory,
Hughes Smile Shows
IT.; Reveals Ontimism When He Receives at His Home
News of His Nomination-Wife
First to Congratulate.

n friend when she heard the news
shouted in the streets. she MUIR Ecu
home and added another welcome III,
tcrruption to the justices laoors V"
his telegram of acceptance. ,.:.o
II was almost $3.50 when the lus'' 80
mounted the stairs from his STUDY 10
the library and announced to the
portevs that he had resigned ana az.
cepted the nomination. He perSoh"'.S
distributed copies of his telegram ~
Senator Harding and shook hahuS an
around. His smile broadened as seN.
era! visitors hailed him as the n'N'
President of the United States
President Wilson was preparing 10
90 cor an automobile ride when NJ
Turhcs's messenger arrived WIN NV
resigration. The President lmihS 6.
diatelv dictated an acceptance ana lcI'
for the country. nA
Supreme Court Justice Brandels ana
Mrs. Brandeis were among the hrst 10
cali with congratulations after MI
Hughos's decision to accept was an
nouDced. Mr.. Brandeis and Mr.. Hughes
are Old friends. Justice Day is Ill, Du'
sent his son, Rufus 5. Day, with mes
sage Of felicitation.
About 3 o'clock Mr.. Hughes went fof
n walk with Robert II. Fuller, who was
his secretary when he was Governor OF
New York. Their walk was llberalIy
rrnctuated by the clicking OF camera
shutters.
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knows no Interior purpose, for patri
otism that is single and complete and
for preparedness, not only entirely
adequate for our defence with respect
to numbers and equipment in both
army and navy, but with all thorough
ness TO the end that in each branch
Of the service there may be the utmost
eilic ency under the most competent adj
ministrativc heads"
What he thinks Of the administra-
tion's foreign policy was told in part as
follows:
81 neither impugn motives nor un-
dercstimate difficulties. But it is most
regrettably true that in our foreign
relations we have suffered incidentally
from the weak and vacillating course
which has been taken with regard TO
MeNico-a course lamentably wrong
with regard TO both our rights and our
duties.
AT the outset OF the Administration
the high responsibilities OF our diplo-
matte intercourse with foreign nations
were subordinated TO conception Of
partisan requirements. and we present
ed to the world a humiliating spectacle
of inepttude. Belated efforts have not
availed TO recover the influence and
prestige thus unfortunately sacrificed,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11

and retired 10 the privacy OF the third
floor. with Mrs. Hughes and their ut
tIe daughter Elizabeth. The eldest
daughter. Miss Catherine. had gone to
take lesson from tutor, and Miss
Helen was in New York preparatory
TO leaving on Y. W. c. a. camping
trim. The only son, Charles +. Hughes.
ir.' n lawyer in New York City, was at
the Plattsburg military camp.
There was no news from Chicago ex,
cent such as filtered in with the arrival
of newspaper men or such as was tele-
phoned BY local newspaper Offices. Even
as TO that Mr.. Hughes had let IT be
known that he did not care to be IN
formed of tho vote by states, leaving
word that his private secretary snould
give him only the summary.
Before the balloting began kilograms
began to arrive predicting the nomina-
ton and extending congratulations. Mr..
Green went upstairs with the explana-
ton that the delay in taking the vote
was due TO further conferences between
tho conference committees. AZ o'clock
luncheon was announced for the family.
Then came the press dispatch announc-
ing the nomination. Mr.. Green mount
ed the stairs three at time.
81 simply told the justice no had been
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nominated and turned my back" he re-

nominated and turned my back ne ro-
marked later.
Ncwspapermcn crowded into the JUS
tees Office seeking an audience. MT
Hughes came down TO the recep'ioh
hall. tears in his eyes and tremor IN
his voice ms he accepted the congratu-
lations Of the newspaper representa-
tivcs and shook their hands lie was
asked for a statement.
"Now. all 7 know about this IL what
you boys tell me, and | have nothing
TO say now, but if you are interested |
may have n statement for you at
o'clock" he replied.
As the newspapermen rushed out the
Justice turned TO Mr.. Green with the
remark: "Now for the statement" and
the two entered the Office.
There, at big table. surrounded by
his favorite pictures and relics, the
Justice dictated his resignation from
the Supreme Court and his telegram 10
Chairman Harding. Back OF him hung
a photograph Of Chief Justice White
On the wall was full length likeness
of Abraham Lincoln, in the corner a
bust of Lincoln and on the mantle casts
OF Lincolns hands.
Long before the debating was I'm
ished the reporters began to gather
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Robert n. Fuller, private secretary 70
Mr.. Hughes while he was Governor OF
New York. The latter accompanied
the nominee on a short walk. Not long
afterward Justice Brandeis and Mrs.
Brandeis arrived and were received By
Mr. and Mrs. Hughes. Justice Bran.
deis was Boston correspondent Of the
Hughes law firm years ago, and the
two men have been friends ever since.
The visitors remained half an hour.
Hundreds gathered about the resi-
dence on Sixteenth Street, abou. a
mile from the White House, during
the afternoon. but there was no demon.
stration In the line Of automobiles
that filed up the street was that OF
President and Mrs. Wilson, out for a
ride.
At 9 o'clock newspaper Offices tels-
phoned 70 Mr. Green the statement
issued by Mr.. Roosevelt Mr. Hughes
was informed Of It's substance, but re-
piled that he had nothing % say There
was a decided air Of qualification and
relief about the house, however. Dur
ing the evening kilograms b. the hun
dreds poured in, and many callers left
cards, despite a violent hail and cleo
trical storm which swept over the city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11

Washington. June lO.-Charles Evans
Hughes is confident of his election over
Woodrow Wilson next November. With
out any statement from him on the sub
jeet. this much can be inferred from
the smile that broke when news came
Of his nomination and that did not once
desert him in a long afternoon OF pre-
pairing his acceptance and receiving con-
cratulations. His whole household
shares the optimism of the candidate.
When the fash announcing his nom
nation was received at his home, at
1901 Y. Street about $50, he was
lunchine with Mrs Hughes. The word
was carried to him by his secretary,
Lawrence Green. The justice rose from
his seat and went over to Mrs. Hughes,
who gave him silent congratulations,
while Mr.. Green discreetly turned his
back.
The nominee then went into another
room. where a score Of newspaper men
had been waiting since the convention
assembled. As they surged forward
with congratulations the justice smiled
beamingly, shook each vigorously by
the hand. and said:
IF this report is true, and pre-
sumo IL is, / shall have some word for
you at 8 o'clock. l have nothing to
say at present"
Resigns and Accepts.
Hastily finishing his luncheon, Mr..
Hughes retired 10 his study TO COM
rose his letter of resignation from the
bench and his telegram TO Senator
Harding announcing his acceptance Of
the nomination.
In the meantime newsboys were cry
ing extras. and a crowd was assem-
bling in front Of the house hoping for
glimpse of the nominee. Not many
minutes after the first flash came the
parade of messenger boys with tele-
grams Of congratulations and of au-
tcmobiles bringing friends TO shake
hands.
Miss Catherine Hughes, at whose
commencement the justice spoke the
other day, was visiting at the home Of
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for their statement. They were shown
10 tho drawing room upstairs. TX
pectantly they listened 10 the click
Of the typewriter on the floor below.
At last II stopped, and they heard the
Justices voice asking for a messenger
boy. Ono Of the score outside re-
sponded. and was started for the
White House. A few minutes later
q second boy was sent to the telegraph
Office with the message 70 Chicago.
With copies of the letter Of resig-
ration and message to Chairman
Harding in his hand, Mr.. Hughes
himself came upstairs 20 meet those
who awaited him. There was none Of
the subdued tone or hesitation which
had characterized his first greeting.
~ must apologize TO you boys TOT
nv typewritinp facilities, for have
been able 10 make only enough copies
for the press associations" ne eH-
Dlained. "Mr. Green is making more
SUIT il looks as if IL would be dark
before he Rad enough for all.
Among the frst callers at the nome
after the news spread was Rufus ).
Day. son Of Justice Day Of the supreme
Court. with a message from his isther'
who is III in Canton, Ohio. linen came
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and brave words have been stripped OF
their force by indecision.'
Events transpired with dramatic sud
dcnness at the Hughes home to-day as
= climax 10 monotonous weeks Of wait
inr. IL had been thought that things
would move swiftly and that night
would find the Republican convention
adjourned. its work ended. but few of
the candidates closest friends believed
that the days developments would
crowd his resignation from the bench,
his acceptance of the nomination and
his declaration OF principles into the
space of little more than an hour.
Throughout the pre-convention cam
paign Justice Hughes had insisted that
he would not be nominated. Not until
last night after the balloting began
did he admit to his intmates that he
might be drafted to lead his party.
Even then he made no statement as to
what action he would take, but his
silence was interpreted az meaning that
he would accept. certainly II the action
of the convention were practically
unanimous.
As the balloting was resumed to-day
the Hughes household went along al
most as usual. Only the justice had
abandoned his office on the first floor