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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-16
Nature whispers that ex-
istence hangs upon
persistence.
The Man Who Knew Mexico

MIAZ Mexico He understood what best for his
country and for his people lazy, sullen ignorant
horde representing the lowest traits of the Spaniard and the
worst phases of the native these hafbreeds and
still utterly unfit for autocracy. weak Nation must be
managed mpacaby For hirtyve years he ruled the Re
public with qur-Presdent tyran occasion called
He assumed office in the midst of chaos and his control
sacked of barbarty at least brought order and naugu
rated progress Except for few raids by the Yaqu there
outbreaks during his tenure.
They knew the voice of their master and walked the
chalk line.
He lifted them of slough of incompetence and turned
them toward the ways of civilization.
Schools sprang up, fields cultivated cattlerasing
roads built, colleges founded He gave Mexico dgnfed
standing among the great created confidence in her
financial stability, brought billion dollars of foreign capital
into the mines and oil fields.
Life continued hard for the peons but the promotion of
huge land efficiency necessarily bears cruelty upon the
backs of few generations The salvation of children is
heavy with price to their fathers.
He dreamer-his vision to be betrayed
by false conceptions of existing conditions.
Madero, the sentmenalst destroyed what he could
replace and betrayed the very people he asped hep-be
trayed them to themselves.
Time has taught the of the Oaxacan The
old Indian giant and patriot. He towers with the
years.
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The Testing Hour

wAR is not new to US. We spring
wv From folk who boldly told king
That neither on the land nor sea
Could he deny our liberty.
We are nation battle born.
Our mothers filled the powder horn
And nodded bullets for the guns
They blessed and pressed upon their sons.
There goes the flag that holds our pride!
Beneath its folds our fathers died)
And drums are beating through the land;
The testing hour is at hand.
Now shall we know the veins that hold
The fighting blood that leaped of old
In answer to the summons when
The call rang out for Minute Men.
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Raise Wages; Not Rivals

~ tent that numbers can't replace them. Give good
worker his due he'll collect later with compound in
tereSt.
You hide your appreciation from satisfactory
poye but you can't conceal his ability from competitors Eff
hciency that everybody willing pay the limit
for it.
After you lose the services of undersaared assistant
you'll likely find the of your own business turned
against YOU Nobody loyalty that isn't earned How
many would still be fourishng if meagery close
listed policy had driven their strongest other houses
independence?
Merit will make its way Deal right it less than
future fight Don't train your rivals and then them
loose to put you out of the running
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self from being real and Independent
rulers of Hesse, like their ancestor.
who jobbed out Hessian troops to fight
against US in our revolution. And the
little Lippe knew. surely, that he would
have been a reigning prince but for
the Hohenzollern.
Going down the stairs. the little
Hesse accidentally jolted against the
little Lippe. There was a great tea
for the princes, downstairs. At des-
sert the little Lippe got up, walked
sravely to the little Hesse and 5oitsd
said to his tutor. The thing touched
my honor
They took out of each other the jolt
which they would like to give the Ho-
henzollern. Let the Hohenzollerns lose
their prestige and the confederated
princes will be their first and worst
enemies Just before the war they
held together against another enemy
perhaps the war was gotten up to
placate it.
Socialism. 1t haunted the boy
princes.
ION election night at Dresden" says
disorder. The nationalist Heinze had
beaten his socialist opponent, but 1t
was not known yet. The king was
anxious and had even gone so far as
and means of defense
The French tutor, before going to
bed, looked into little Ernest's sleep
ing room. as the boy had been feverish.
Marco" said the boy prince from
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A Door,.

IT HE late James ]. Hill of railroad
fame did not believe in sudden
conversions or reforms. good man.
he held. was good from the beginning.
Reformed drunkards or reformed loaf
ers or reformed crooks could seldom
get job on Mr.. Hills roads
A journalist once said to Mr.. Hill of
very grasping millionaire:
BLANK is going to retire. He'll de-
vote the rest of his life to doing good"
Doing good. eh?' said Mr. Hill. John
Good, the banker, or Jim Good the
pQIk k1nET.-
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The Conceit of Fools

TT HERE is no conce so insuferabe hopeless that of
u fool.
Every community has its allotment of dull didactic POM
pous opnonated bores, whose vanity denies possibility
of accurate Without of hmor and
therefore of proportion is in their philosophy admit
of situation which render them ridiculous
Those who know nothing always talk about it.
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birthday, sent him magnificent toy
models and albums of warships. With
German docility, little Ernest studied
the specifications and dreamed only of
sea combats." says Balignac.
MY fleet is organized. monsieur" he
said. one day. The tutor found the
piayroom floor covered with dread
naughts. cruisers and what-not, and,
he found no Immediate reply to
make to the ten-year-old prince. his
silence was mistaken for criticism.
All" said Ernest you judge that 1
have not enough submarines? Perhaps
you're right. I'll think about it," and,
as Christmas eve was shortly due,
when all good little Saxons write let
ters to the little Jesus, he wrote briefly:
Little Jesus, l want Submarines
Prince Ernest, Duke of Saxony."
1t was, probably. about this time that
little Prince Peter of Greece appeared
on the scene-if the anecdote be true,
which / cannot guarantee. as Balignac
have been there. Youngest of them
all. little Peter. although pure Slesvig-
Holstein -Sonderburg -Glucksburg by his
father. inherits the Bonaparte genius
by his mother, and is as smart as
steel trap
You need submarines" he said to
Prince Ernest. Il can get them for
you, but you must lend me Some dread
naughts in return"
Sure enough. in ten minutes the little
son of Marie Bonaparte returned with
six toy submarines which he had bought
on the Paris boulevard while on visit.
only week previously. to his grand
father, Prince Roland. They were tin,
cheap stuff in comparison with Saxon
Prussian dreadnaughts. but they were
smart with new paint, and its their
works which counts" said little Peter.
Studious Prince Ernest willingly traded
dreadnaughts for submarines. and be-
gan to maneuver.
where's your cannons? inquired
Peter. why. they're pop guns. Here's
my cannon-a read dreadnaught can
nom" and he fetched out a compressed
air shooter. utilizing solid rubber balls.
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~ M
\V\V den, where, daily, they
" " attended SPECIAL class
with eight noble little Saxons of their
own age, the palace guard presented
arms. the officer saluted. the trumpets
blew and the three boy princes graVeiy
touched their hats. their eyes hxed on
the soldiers. looking the soldiers
souarely in the eyes.
Trained up from childhood to domi-
nate men.
I'm the Dresden study hall their pro-
fessors commanded. as in barracks:
.S,;r-.Standr-.Eyes front! - Break
ranks" The high-born youths obeyed
like jumping-jacks.
Trained to command. trained to obey.
One is the future King of Saxony.
Crown Prince George. The two others
are his younger brothers. Princes
Frederic and Ernest
The speaker is Guy de Balignac. their
former French tutor But there are
others as you will see II was the
habit of reigning Teutonic houses to
employ French tutors. Since the war
these Frenchmen have been speaking
out about their experiences.
Here are boys born to command with
an iron hand. They are too young TO
be killed in the war, but are growing
I'D in the confia gration-thrust. against
all expectations. into national mourn
ing. losses, disappointments. trials ana
discomfort How will they win out?
The three Saxon boys were frank,
brave. dnisent and intelligent, says
Balignac. But they mad a cultivated
idea for domination and their own i'm
portance. Baiignac gave them as COM
position subject; Tell what you saw
at Cannes, on the French Riviera. at
the wedding of your uncle, John
George" crown Prince George saw the
sea. sky. mountains. FIG and orange
trees "full of tempting fruits. the
first French fort at Antilles and
French infantry company doing exer-
cises IF. some day. German war
ship should come before those fortifi-
cations" he wrote. lit would easily
DESTROY them
Crown Prince George was thirteen
wears old at that moment. In his com
position he remembered the names and
titles OF all the French dignitaries he
met at Cannes. from NJ. Jolly. project
Of the Maritime Alps. TO the bishop.
Mgr Chapon We went amid the ap-
plause of the French population: he
wrote TRANQUILITY. AT the wedding
dinner I had on my right the project
Even when they entered a grocery
store TO buy chocolate the grocer
guessed Immediately who We were. and
proudly showed me his uniform of fire
brigade lieutenant
At home. the brothers had divided up
the palace park of Wachwitz into
three domains George claimed to
reign over the biggest. Frederic the
best. and the two together planned
jokingly to make brusqued attacks on
the territory of little Ernest, who was
easy" because his heart was else
where.
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keep his dignity. explained the facts to
his uncle, Prince John George. who
happened to look into the playroom:
portion" the kings brother. who is a
grown man and Saxon general. replied
Hum, hum. why didn't you have one?"
And. looking with kindly approval on
the destruction. he concluded, medi-
tatively, Cannon out of all proportion
seem a good thing"
Did he mediate it? The story-not
guaranteed-is supposed to have hap
pened four or five years ago, so would
1t not be queer II little Peters Ma
with imperial Germany's notab BILE in
crease Of giant artillery in the two
years which preceded the war?
Later. they took away Prince Ernest's
warships from him. in spite of the
kaiser's wishes. Gentlemen" said
Baron OByrn to the instructors and
tutors. sit is desired that Prince Ernest
forget his marine passion. Saxony is
an inland country. and the king wishes
his three sons to occupy high directing
positions at home. The lackeys have
been ordered to discreotly remove the
kaiser'S albums from the boOkshelves"
So much for the kaiser's wishes.
1t happened. as 1t were. only yester-
day.
So long as imperial Germany shall
make them great, all right. but there
federated vassals. At that moment,
the sickly little son of the kaiser's
brother. Prince Henry of Prussia, was
under tTsstment at the Weisser Hirsch
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MY future is on the ocean, ex-
planned Ernest
The kaiser himself had given him the
idea-younger brothers, among Ger
manic princes. should enter the i'm
perial navy. So, the kaiser, on the boys
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Where Pluck Won't Turn, Luck Will
By HERBERT KAUFMAN


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Bang. Bang! The tin submarines got
knocked about in a brief battle, Saxon
cruisers lost their smokestacks. Saxon
dreadnaughts rolled upon their sides
beneath superior artillery. The Greek
flagship was everywhere And as Prince
Ernest, being the elder and anxious to
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his bed-"Marco, 1 hear cries in the
street. They are the cries of socialists,
Yes" replied the tutor. but it will
all blow over"
why, then, Marco, did papa say that
If our troops prove insufficient we
would call the Prussians to our aid, as
in 1913? think it would be more
prudent to go. right on. to Koenig-
stein
"Erni. a prince ought not to fee"
I'm not afraid replied the boy.
I'm only thinking of our means Of
defense. The socialists may attack us
tonight. I'm ready
He pulled something from beneath
big stones" he said. I've got half
a dozen"
Later in the night, says the French
tutor, the confused cries changed to a
hymn Of the empire. He heard cries of
"Hoch der kaiser"
TT was a solemn moment" said
Balignae. Looking out into the dark
ness I could imagine a>vertiginous
current carrying houses. crowds. mon
uments. lights. everything. toward a
far-off and unknown aurora The old
royal chateau itself seemed to slip
away on tho Irresistible current toward
the dream Of the great empire, carry
ing with 1t the sacred principle of
Saxon liberties"
Yes. but
If the empire turns out to have made
false calculations, and brings. rather.
mourning, taxes and disappointments
to the Germantc populations. what will
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CTERI HELLO Children Royalty
- Boy Princes WrTranng Childhood Dominate
Musical ChasCown
Prince George and His Composition.
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Stories of the Home Life of Teutonic Princes
Special Correspondence of The Star.

epecial Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS July s. 1915.
-HEN the boys started. in
Us MAN. the morning, for Ores
\V\V den, where, daily. they
" " attended special class
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Miss Marion Holton is

several weeks. Miss Marion Holton is
better.
Mrs. Adam Thurman is here from
the West, a guest of her sisters, Miss
Ethel and Miss Marion Moody.
Mrs. F. @. Britton and Miss Beth
Britton of Springfield spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Britton
Leland Powers, the famous imper-
senator will give an entertainment in
Mount Hermon chapel Saturday even
ing.
Mrs. Horace A. Sibley of Wendell.
formerly of Mortified, conducts a mis-.
sionary service in Mount Hermon chap
ell today.
THE church committee of the Congre-
gational church held an important
meeting Tuesday evening in the par
ish house.
F. A. Davis took. large party of
high school students and faculty to
The Birth of Nation at Lawler s
theater Tuesday evening.
The Saturday club of Hermon will
have q lecture this week by Prof 10,
siah H. Penniman of the University OF
Pennsylvania on Ideaiism in Public
Life.
DR.. Richard Smith of Boston spent
the weekend with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. K. Smith. He gave lecture
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PERSONAL.

Guy S. Stockwell is visiting his
brother, Puzzle, in Greenfield a few
days.
Miss Sadie Clark of Charlestown,
y. H., is a guest of her aunt, Mrs E.
NJ. Smith of High Lawn road
The jolly Sixteen will have a
covered dish supper with Mrs. F. G.
Adam, Forest street, this week Fri
day.
Mrs. A. Z. Hadlock and daughter,
Bernice, of West Townshend spent
Sunday and Monday with Miss Addie
and Miss Grace Morse of Thomas
street.
Mrs. J. NJ. Knight, who has been
spending the winter in Brattleboro
left yesterday for a visit with her
daughters in New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore. Mr.. Knight will go to
his summer home in Dummerston fo1
few days before going south.
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BROOKLINE.

There was social at Oscar Law
renee s Friday evening.
Rev. H. Y. Vinol of Rock, Mass,
will preach as candidate in the
Baptist church next Sunday. 1t is
hoped there will be good attendance
to hear him.
School closed Friday, March 10, and
Miss Frasier left for her home in Alb
ington, Mass, the next morning. All
are glad to hear that she will return
for another term. Following is the
record of the best attendance for the
past term:-Not absent or tardy,
Ruby Landfear; absent two days,
Eva and Frank Johnson and Harry
Stevens; absent 214 days, Alton Pot
wine; absent three days, Winnie Ste
yens; absent 31a days, Louise Eel
lows. The school held box social at
the Methodist church Wednesday
evening, March s.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE NOTES.
Tragic Death of Aged South Acworth
Woman

Mrs. Gardner Smith, an aged inya-
lid, who suffered a severe shock and
exposure during the fire that destroy
ed her home, on Gates Mountain,
South Acworth, died at the home of a
neighbor where she was taken.
Mrs. Smith lived with her daughter
Mrs. George Smith. The fire was dis
covered by neighbors some distance
away, and it was some time before aid
could reach the place.
When volunteers arrived they found
the elderly lady, lying unconscious in
the deep snow and upon investigation
found the daughter stretched out on a
floor of the burning house The daugh-
ter was rescued but is in serious
condition. 1t seems that the daughter
dragged her mother from the burning
house and then returned in an attempt
to save some of the furnishings, but
was overcome by smoke.
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at Mount Hermon Saturday on Modern
Medicine.
The board of trade held a regular
meeting Monday evening in the town
hall. Only few were present, on ac-
count of counter attractions. Subjects
OF vital interest to the town at the
present time were discussed. The next
meeting will be held in two weeks.
The Lyman Howe travel festival
drew packed houses at each production
Monday. Stone hall was arranged to
seat 600 and every seat was taken at
the matinee and evening pictures. All
the seminary students, with the excep-
ton of the senior and junior classes,
attended in the afternoon. Many came
from Mount Hermon also. The Boys >
Brigade secured a good sum to apply
10 their running expenses.
The Fortnightly held 2 very enter
tanning meeting Monday afternoon.
Mrs ). G. Richardson was in charge
OF the program on American Art. The
nfst number on the program was Top
tcs OF the Day, given by Miss Marion
george Mrs. Richardson gave a paper
on American Art and Artists, which
was full of interest. She told of many
famous art productions in Boston and
New York and had prints to show of
many. She says that Ii is predicted
that New York will be the great art
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-15
NEWFANE INN SOLD
TO BOSTON MAN
T. A. Whitcomb, Who Has Had Exper-
ience in White Mountains and Flor
ida, VIII Open 1t April l.

The Newfane Inn, located near the
court house in Newfane, has Just been
sold by the Newfane Hotel Co.. of
which William II. Newton of Newfarc
is president, to f. A. Whitcomb OF
Boston. Mr.. Whitcomb is weu-knovn
hotel man, having had wide experienc Q
in the White Mountains and in Florida.
His wife also has had experience in the
hotel business.
Mr.. Whiteomb plans to make extern.
sive improvements. He will open the
hostelry April | and will make an ef-
fort to build up automobile tourist pat
ronage and to secure summer boarders.
Several of the rooms will be refurnisk
ed and ultimately practically all of the
old furniture will be replaced with new.
There are Is bedrooms suitable for
guests, two large attic rooms, a large
parlor, dining room, reading room, bill,
iiard room equipped with one table, a
commodious kitchen, two large pan
tries, and over the shed is an unusued
ball room which can be made over into
sleeping rooms.
There is good-sized barn equipped
with 10 stalls, large shed and the
property is IN q good state of repair.
The late Judge j. l.. Martin of Brat
tlehOro was president of the hotel com.
pany 10 years or more and was sue
ceeded in 1913 by Mr.. Newton. For
z number Of years J. f. Smile, proprie.
tor of the Melrose on Linden street
was landlord and for two years pre-.
vious to last fall a. w. Rawson OF
south Londonderry conducted the hotel
Mrs Selfors OF West Wardsboro leased
the property last fall for a year, but
was obliged to leave on account of ill
ness and during the past winter the
hotel has been closed.
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ern New York, causing serious inter-
ruption to transportation lines.
The weather forecast predicted
that the snow would continue through
the night and that the snow fall would
be from six inches to two feet. The
storm was accompanied by a north
east gale, which is expected to change
to northwest before morning with much
lower temperature
New York city streets were coated
with sleet, which seriously interferred
with traffic. The snow cast a blanket
over the harbor and bay and move
ments of shipping were impeded An
unknown schooner was reported in dis
tress off the New Jersey coast.
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GREEN RIVER.
Miss Gladys Weatherhead is
with rheumatism.

Miss Gladys Weatherhead is Ill
with rheumatism.
Perley Pond, who has been on DUN
.merston hill two months, is at home
for vacation.
Misses Catherine and Elva Gallup
have returned for a visit in the home
of their grandfather, s. c. Severance,
IN Leyden, Mass.
Ray Gates is running his mill and
getting out stock for rakes for the
Rugg Mfg, Co., of Greenfield. This
enterprise gives employment to sever
al men.
With the heavy snow and drifts,
making the travelling extremely 4 f
fieult, the Green River and Jackson
vile stage made every trip with onlg
one delay. The Saturday evening mail
was brought in Sunday.
George Thompson was in town last
week packing mp his household goods
and visiting his brother, Myron
Thompson, who has been moving the
goods to Christian hill, Colrain, for
him. He has position on the Fisa
fruit farm, where the Massachusetts
agricultural college is conducting a
demonstration orchard.
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STORM VERY SEVERE.
And the Weather Bureau Predicts the
Worst Is Yet to Come.

NEW YORK, March ia snow
storm which the weather bureau pre-
dicted would be the heaviest of the
winter broke over the eastern section
OF the country today, following several
hours of sleet and rain.
It moved up from the southwest to-
day and early in the afternoon from
six inches to o foot of snow was re-
ported in parts of eastern and north
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-15
PERU.

Congregational church, Rev. Stephen
5. Wood pastor. Morning service at II
0 clock. Sermon, / Am Not Ashamed of
the Gospel of Christ Sunday school
at the close of the morning service.
Christian Endeavor Sunday evening at
80. Subject, Getting Power from Our
Pledge. Leader, Miss Freda Jones.
Cottage prayer meeting Thursday even
ing.
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center after the war has closed. Mrs
George i. Thompson read a paper writ
ten by Miss Sarah Minot, who is in
California. Miss Minot gave fine ac-
count of the art exhibits she had visit
ed in the months she spent in Califor-
mia. A delightful social hour followed,
when refreshments of sandwiches, cake
and tea were served, in charge of Mrs.
s. T.. Whitmore.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-15
BELLOWS FALLS.

Howe G Davis and friend, Mr..
Stratton of Mt. Hermon school, Mt.
Hermon, Mass, spent Sunday and
Monday with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. c. L. Davis of II Atkinson
street.