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The Washington herald., 1916-02-26
Morning Smiles.

Bessie-An men are alike.
Cora-Oh. are they? Then. OF course
you are not sorry you married Harry
Judge.
The wife-Ssm Virgins, you're nothin'
better nor a Hun,
The Husband-An' you're no better
than old trsu!-SEotz...
she-Jsck. you make love like an anna
teur.
He-Thats where the art comes in
Boston Transcript
MY daughter is congratulated on the
finish she has to her piano playing"
Il wish mine had, but she never
stops."-Baltimore American.
Father, what is a veterinary sur
geon?'
Once, my son. who examines the veteT-
ans for pensions. "-Philsdelphis Record.
"Brevity is the soul of wit" observed
the sage.
Maybe" replied the fool, but never
feel very witty when 1 am shOrt"-Mil-
waukee Sentinel
The Hobo-PIease. mum. I'm a sick
man. De doctor. gimme dis medicine
but I needs nss'stence In t7ki0y 81
The Lsdy-Poor fellow: do you want
a spoon and gIuss y. ws.ucr:
The Hobo-No, mum; but dis medicine
haster be took before meals. Have yer
got a meal handy?
A few days after a farmer had sold
a pig to a neighbor, he CHANGED TO pass
his place and saw his little boy sitting
"a A.
new occupant.
How dye do, Johnny" said he
"How's your pig todsy7"
''Oh. pretty well. thank you" replied
ths boy. "How,s all your folksT'-Har-
psr'A
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

fined right UP to tn. door by the
time the elevator got down to my
floor"
Yes. yes" Marsh gssped. feverishIy
clUtching DUnn's arm. Go on. 90 on
Your story interests me STRANGELY"
We'll" continued the purveyor OF pub
licity. besning anew, u just walked Up
to the fourth floor and got on the Gle
vatOr there
Another reason why they call it Little
Old New York" The department Of cor
rection is permitting well-to-do victims
OF the drug habit from this city and else
where to take advantage OF the work
house drug cure. Now the taxpayers are
pro bono DUblicOing' the newspapers
that the city should desisL Why should
we" pay for the cure Of others? they
ask
The cost is small and the saving OF a
human being is great The workhouse
drug cure Is an offshoot OF the ideas
formulated by Charles B Towns who
practically drove opium from many places
In China.
The New Workers are kicking beos US.
two men. one a physician and one . labor
leader, and two women sisters who came
from other cities were willing 70 become
voluntary prisoners to be free from their
habits
II is hoN SousiotISos II seems better
from business standpoint alone to turn
human wrecks into selI-supportinE men
and women than to permit them to 60 TO
the hospitals over the country and the
pOorhOuses.
Theda Kara. who eats EN- alive. has
quit vampirinE temporarily to rest Il is
the first vacation for hells handmsiden
in fourteen months and she will not sp-
near before the frllsty lens NJ the WIFI. -,
Fox cameras for two weeks. She Is al
Long Beach, living a secluded life. and
has no desire TO see a living mortal until
her director whistles for her 70 come
forth in her next pictures She recently
completed a picture called Gold and
Woman" in which she completely, 50 It's
said. outvsmpired herself
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

The new year saw him forced back step
by step, the summer through, by the
successful movements of the federal
forces at his 'front.' until autumn came
and even Chattanooga had to be absn-
doned
Then tSeptember 10 and 20, 1850 he
made final stand agains. Rosecrans at
Chickamauga and inflicted upon him
defeat which nothing but the extraordI-
nary GOODNESS and irmness OF General
Thomas, who commanded the left fed
eral wing. prevented from becoming the
most overwhelming federal disaster of
the war.
Bragg advanced, shut Rosecrans UP in
Chattanooga. and drew bis force about
the place to take It,
General Grant came from vicksburs
to save II
The town lay with a sweeping smphi-
theater of hills about 1t. Upon these
coigns Of vantage General Bragg had dis
posed his army: at the one end of the
long semicircle abrupt Lookout Mountain
at the other steep Missionary Ridge, both
alike, 1t might well seem, impossible Of
assault. Grant attempted and took them.
nevertheless November Path and 25th).
Sherman was sent TO take Missionary
Ridge. Hooker to take Lookout Noun
tain: the four greatest commanders of
the northern armies directed the battle
or moved upon the held.-Grsnt, Thomas.
Sherman, Sheridan.
Their men circled and climbed the steep
ridges Of the hills in a drifting fog; regi-
ments OF volunteers threw themselves
with splendid recklessness upon the cen
ter Of Bragg's position, to hold him OF
from concentrating his force against
Sherman on his left, and, before they
could be stopped, took the heights where
his guns were.
The siege was raised; the confederate
army fell back on Dalton Grant at
tackled when Bragg was weakened by the
absence Of a part OF his force sent un-
der Longstreet to meet Burnside in east
ern Tennessee.
Missionary Ridge and Lookout Noun
tain being lost, and Bragg dislodged.
Longstreet did not return, but crossed
the mountains and Joined Lee in Vir-
ginia-
Monday; Throttied by the Blockade
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26
Lynching in Georgia.

Another lynching has been added to the long
record that proclaims the triumph of the mob
over the law in Georgia. Forty or fifty men and
boys" took negro from Jail in Gainesville and
hanged him to tree in front of the city hall,'
At least score of men have been lynched in
the State in the past year, and the belief that some
thing is radically wrong with Georgia is quite con-
hrmed. Have the people Of Georgia lost faith in
the ability or the willingness OF their representa-
tives of the law to deal with crime; have the State
officials determined that the easiest way is to per-
nit the mob to provide judges, juries and execu-
TONERS, or has iynehins become popular sport in
Georgia which the authorities are powerless to
prevent
obviousiy the government Of Georgia is not
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26
ARMY ORDERS.

Leave Of absence for one mouth and ten dsy,
is Srsnted Mai Richard n. steedman. Z. S. A
retired
Leave Of absence for month is granted Mai
officer
The leare Of absence granted Mai William we,crl
Second Infantry, February ls 1876. is extended &C
April J. lsls. Mai. Weigrl will sail for his station
on An1l 5. 1916 instead Of March S. as heretofore
ordered
First Lieut. Ralph W. Dusenbury, Eighteenth
Infantry. will proceed to Alcstrsz Cal, and 10
port in person 10 the comma ndant, Pacific Branch
United States Disciplinary Barracks, for duty
vice First Lieut. Leo !. Samuelson infantry hereby
relieved.
Leave Of absence for two months on nurseon'.
certificate Of disability Is granted First Lieut. Will
lam N. Haskell. cavalry
Capt. William G. HGrilee O. s. NJ c. having
been designated by the Secretary Of the Nav.
Is detailed assistant executive officer Of the
National Matche. for 1875
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26
NEw-oR x! DAY,
O-O.hstNTYPE.

SPECIAL Correspondent d The Washington HeraIa
New York, Feb. 25.-One of the re-
cent treats afforded by high life in
New York-sn experience without
which all the phantasmagoria Of a
winters night on Broadway would be
incomplete-wss to see Diamond
James" Brady give an exhibition tango
shortly after midnight the other night
Diamond James" is built along the
graceful lines Of a hippo and to see
them both at play is one and the same
thing. II was reported that the mas
ager OF Murrsy's had offered Brady
1000 lovely simoleons to give an eN-
hibition dance
His performance was delayed by a
beefsteak dinner OF the Undertakes
Association, but he finally made good
with Miss Agnes Dunn. his partner
hired for the memorable occasion
The Broadwayite. who is stern
business man by day and a rollicking
boulevardier by night conducted him
self just well as Vernon Castle did
before he began searching all over
the United States for a war and some
place to drop boml from an aero
plane. Brady heeled and toed and
sashayed with the greatest of sang
froid and he and his partner were all
to the allegetst-which isn't so French
as ssnsfroid. but it sounds quite
elegant
Wardrobe note-A telegram TO his
office from A. H Woods, who is in
Pittsburgh. requests that a hsndker-
chief be mailed to him Immediately.
This indicated that Mr.. Woods is to
be away for another week.
Edwin Wallace Dunn. George NJ.
Cohan's man Friday. emerged from the
Fitzgerald building yesterday. a pleas
ed smile wreathing his face
Il Just engineered a skillfuI bit OF
quick thinking" Dunn told Leo Marsh.
"I stood on the second floor of the
building for five minutes. waiting for
a car to come down with room enough
to get in. but every one OF them was
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

New York. Feb. S.-Dr. sidebottOm
a professor
In the University Of London.
He is specialist
And knows all about eyes.
In spite of his name.
He says
The movies
Are ''bombsrding'
Chiloren's eyes
And in consequence
We are approaching
An age of blindness.
Amt II swful2
According to the distinguished Doc,
The flicker does Il.
So the flicker fust go.
Rauss NIT It
IL we would save
The next generation
From being human bats.
This won't make the Doc
Very popular
With movie men.
4 know
What they'll call him,
But can't print Il
Because it's worse
Than any flicker
But there's a silver lining
To the film cloud
A man named Vane
Has found a way
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

Almost on the very day Lee was driven
at Gettysburg. vickrburg yielded to the
Siege OF General Grant
The defence of the place had been stub
born. prolonged. heroic. almost success
full Every plan Of direct attack had
failed.
General Grant found It necessary to
sweep around about the town upon every
side. clear the country back of It of
troops and all means of succor, and take
Jackson. the capital Of the State. forty
miles away. In order to command all APP
prosches.
He sat down at last in patient siege.
and forced the garrison Of the place to
surrender to him. half starved. on the
9Th of July.
On the 9Th Port Hudson. below, yielded
to the same necessity and was surren-
dered to General Banks.
The Confederacy was broken in half
Louisiana and Texas were cut of.
Throughout its entire length the Mis-
sissippi was In the hands Of the federal
power.
Grant turned from his hard-earned sue
cess at Vicksburg to take charge of the
federal army shut UP In Chattanooga.
Upon the evacuation of Corinth. Mis-
sissippi. In May of the preceding year.
General Braxton Bragg had taken thirty
nNo bHous6Hu ttoOps Sdsl tC
Chattanooga, and had struck northward
thence into Kentucky. But General Buell.
had met thin in a decisive action at
PerryvilIe. October s. 1862. and had CON-
PEELED him to retire again to his base.
General Van Dorm, meanwhile. had
sought to take Corinth again, and had
given General Rosecrans two days OF
desperate fighting to prevent 1t October
80 lsS2).
Finding It impossible to extend their
operations, the confederate commanders
drew back upon the central strongholds
Of Tennessee and Georgia.
Just as the year 1862 passed away and
the year 1858 came in December S1st to
January 2d) Rosecrans and Bragg crap
Piled in three days desperate fighting
around Murfreesboro. Bragg attacked
with a spirit, dash, and stubborn ardor
which no troops but troops Of the same
race with his own could have withstood
but Rosecrans' men held their ground
or. having lost it. regained 1t. and Bragg
withdrew.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

Warning Republicans against declaring in favor
of any particular Presidential candidate at the pres
ent time, Gov. Mccall Of Massachusetts,, said:
"The man who seems strong candidate today
may be weak in june. The times are so kaleido-
SCOPE each day international crisis is likely
to come up, and l doubt if we, as individual Re-
pubhcans should want at this time to commit the
convention in june to any particular candidate. "
Also, it would appear that there are some weak
candidates in the field now who will be even weaker
by June.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

Frank S. Monnett, former attorney general
of Ohio under indictment in New York for viola
ton of the Sherman antitrust law in melting
strikes in munitions factories, has announced him.
self candidate for Vice President against Mr.,
Marshall. Mr.. Monnett says he was urged to nun
by persons interested in Labors National Peace
Council, pro-German organization that has moth
ing to do with either labor OF peace. identification
with which led to the indictment Of Mr.. Monnett,
a member of Congress, former member and sew
eral others. Mr.. Monnett's other qualifications
are not set forth.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

To eliminate the flicker
BY projecting pictures slower
And use all the film.
No blank spaces
As now,
Which cause the flicker
And waste the film.
Half Of il now is blank,
For the human eye
Can only see
Eight pictures a second,
While the movie machines
Grind out sixteen a second.
So they have to thin EN- out
With blank spaces.
Hence the flicker.
Nane's new contrapuon
Is called a vanescope,
And it's not worked
By direct projection,
But by mirrors.
They say ii can go as slow
As a Broadway car
But / don't believe that
And utilize all the film.
The moving picture business
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

provision for enlisted men to be organ
lied into an aviation school detachment
This consists of seventy-three aviation
enlisted men, twenty-sia master signal
electricians. fifty first-class sergeants
ninety-three sergeants. III corporsis
twenty-six cooks, go irst-class privates
and ninety-four privates-
As the plans have been prepared by the
War College, there will be one aero
squadron for each Of the oversee garri-
sons and four for the United States
Aviation school sites
The commission Of army officers ap-
pointed under the law of March 4. last.
has made a report in regard to the site
for an army aviation school II recon-
mended one on North Island, where the
signal corps aviation school is now To-
Gated, provided title could be acquired
II not, then that site located at Coro-
nado Heights. a tract containing approx
imately GIG acres be acquired
in the former instance It has been
found that the question of title can only
be determined after prolonged litigation
and for that reason the War Department
has approved the second choice the Cor
onado Heights location. which can be
purchased at an estimated cost of
$500. 600.
This item. upon the recommendation of
the Secretary of War. will be included In
the next army appropriation bill
In making its report of sites which are
available for the purpose contemplated
the commission took into consideration
the elements of climate topography.
geographic location. and transportation
facilities.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26
NAVAL ODDERS.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS

NOV ENIf-.N 10 UT ' kSN Els.
ANNAPOLIS. SAILED for San Diego. February =;
ATethuss. arrived Guscsnaysbo Bay February z;
Csesar. arrived TriIuu Africa, February 2;
Chester, sailed for Porto Grando Care Verde
Islands February "a; Conynsham. sailed for New.
port. February p; Deaver. arrived Balboa February
"A; Esg.e, arrived Boston. February d; Jupiter.
sailed for Port an Prince, February q: Nereus
arrived Honolulu, FEBRUARY q: PromstheuS arrived
TihurUn February q; Tennessee sailed for Hampton
Roads, February "a; Washington, sailed for Boston,
February "a
NOTES.
The nag of the commander Of the cruiser squadron
Atlantic Fleet, has bsen transferred from the Ten
nessee to the Dolphin.
. ORDERS To OFFICERS.
Licut (jePioC gradel W. X Fitzpatrick 70 O14rf
Ncte-Capt. William I. Moore retired died Al
Mcrgantown, W, Va, February 10. Iss.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

The newest popular novel makes its college
hero slay werewolf with his hands, whip all the
big bules in the Northwestern lumber camps one
after another and finally knock out John Barley
corn himself while he falls in love only once. Thus
marches the militant spirit over the land as Con-
gress sits nodding
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

In this country
Amounts to ss5O.Ooo.eoO a year.
Films cost a big part Of H.
They figure
This vsnescope thing
VIII save
Thirty million dollars yearly
In films
The nlm makers
Will like that
AZ much as they would smallpox
Both the Doc and Yane
Seem 10 put the reverse English
On popularity.
They may be great scientists
But as politicians
They're rotten.
But thst's'>not ali.
Being done by mirrors
There Is no danger from FIRE
Or explosions
Or whatever Il Ia
That roasts movie fans alive
When they are packed
In a nickel thester
That was a show shop
And would never been been anyth
else
II the building inspector
Hadn't been blinded and led away
When the landlord
Had a change OF business heart.
Also. as they can be made cheap.
Everybody who has a Ford car
Can afford one
And turn his back parlor
Into a movie house.
While the kids wait.
The movie theater managers
VIII enthuse over that too.
Doc and Nane
VIII probably get
A set Of resolutions from them
Aimed at their necks.
Merry little michief makers
Are Dock and Vsne
When they start TO play
With business interests.
The NHnescopites
Told me a lot more
And did not extort a promise
That ] wouldn't write il
Quite the contrary.
They say
They are going 10 film
The whole story
OF the Bible
From Adam
To Revelation.
Also the history
OF the United States
And send sets OF the films
To every school in the land
And listen here.
They say
They are great public benefs ctors
For they have made Il possible
To visualize education
And turn every class room
Into a movie show.
Is all this
Too good to be true
Or not true enough
To be good for anything.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

At meeting of farmers of Montgomery
County, Md, resolution adopted in favor of
prohibition in the District of Columbia. The
suspicion is justified that Maryland is growing
jealous Of Washington as formidable rival of
Baltimore in popularity.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26
Safety In the West. Ouly.

We regret to note that eight persons persisted
in the blizzard that swept over New York City
What with the gunner that roam the trails Of
that city. and its devastating billiards and foods
we shall look for considerable exodus of its peo-
pie to the more genial, hospitable and safer re
gions of the West-Kansas City Star.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

1t may be easier for camel to pass through
the eye Of a needle. etc, and most of our rich
men of today seem content to let the poor simp
go ahead with his stunt A camel that would
fool away his time that way wouldn't be worth
much to a modern business Arab anyhow
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

However, up to the present time advertise
ment has appeared in Secretary Josephus Daniels
newspaper warning Americans that they may be
murdered by German submarines if they attempt
to cross the Atlantic Ocean
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

New York's subway and skyscrapers should be
as much inspiration TO the poet the lsrks, &C
cording to Charles Hanson Towne. We don't
know about the poets, but few other people arc
disposed either to talk or sing about larks in
New York.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

The Professor-WeH my dear young
lady, II you are interested I shall be only
too pleased to show YOU my bscrli.
Young Lsdy-Oh. professor how love
ly, And may come at feeding timef-
GEafrb
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

The Mauritania, sister ship of the Lusitania, is
no longer needed by the British government as a
transport or hospital ship and may be restored to
passenger service between New York and Liver
pool The question is whether the Cunard Com
pany will wait till the 'idcs Of March" have come
and gone
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26
Lectures on Poultry Raising

r. Lee, Junior husbandmsn OF poul-
tray Investigations. Deps rtment OF Agri-
culture, explained incubation and brood
ing 10 Wsshington's poultry farmers al
a meeting Of the National Capital PouI-
try and Pigeon Association in the Pub
lie Library last night
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

Germany may be preparing to yield" on the
submarine question, as reports have it, but she
will not yield so long Congress continues to
give signs Of disposition to surrender everything.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

visitor to Washington checked package
containing $4,000 in currency and left it in the
Capitol for two days. resolution of appreciation
of this exhibition OF confidence in Congress would
seem to be in order.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

THE Bigslewumps are going to give a
grand coming-out party for Maud on the
10TH" Mercy! ] thought Maud came
out three seasons ago." "She did: but
the Bigglewumps have made lot more
money in war stocks since then and
they have changed their set"-Boston
Transcript.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

Senator Lodge and others who, ever since the
destruction of the Lusitania, have been demand
ing that American rights be upheld to the limit of
our power and resources must experience strange
sensation now, when they find themselves fighting
on the same side as the President.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26
WHEN SHADOWS FALL

WEiE.N SFIADUWS FHLI.
Your shadow on the wall.
A flat, blank thing, that's all,
That hath no power to do
Save what you tell II to.
Wherefore when shadows come
Your spirit sore to numb,
Turn on them quick, and sing,
"Avaunt, o flat, blank, thing!
Thou hast no power to chill
My spirit with thine i'll,
And were it not for me
Thou couldst not bel"
Copyright, BlsJ
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

A Wisconsin man aged 80 dug his grave
and then fell in love. And the experience of many
aged gallants not in position to testify, in
dicaes that he has taken the shortest route to it.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

The Husband-''I do not know just how
1 offended her. I'm sure" The Wife
mo wonder. Charles. you have such .
lot of ways."-Puck.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26
A Line o Cheer Each Day o the Year.
By JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.

First printing of an original poem written daily
for The washington Herald
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26
The Defeat Of General Bragg.

Published by special
The Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
by Brothers)
; syndica te)
by usee
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

There is much-quoted passage from Marcus
Aurelius that says Begin the morning by say
ing to myself: shall meet with the busy-body,
the ungratefui, the arrogant, the deceitfu, the
envious the unsocial. All those qualities operate
by reason of their ignorance of what is good and
evil. But |, who have the nature, of good that
it is beautiful and of the bad that it is ugly. and
the nature of him who does wrong that it is akin
to me, can never be injured by any of them
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26
SEEN AND HEARD
BY GEORGE MINER

tcepyrirht IsIs By Newspaper syndicate,
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

All these thoughts, suggested by Marcus Aure-
Illus, presented merely to suggest that the ex-
pectaton Of hostility at the start of the day is not
founded reason. Suppose it does come Why
not accept it part of life and as small part
Why not let it be experience in self-control
and self-strengthening? And most important of
all, why not let it serve the shadow that is a
reminder of the presence of the sun?
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

Lieut.. Col. George II. Cameron, cav
airy, will succeed Lieut.. Col. B. A. Poore
as senior director Of the War College
class Col. Poere has been ordered to
Join the Fifteenth Infantry in China
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

Seven aero souadrons are provided for
In the army bill as it is now pending be-
fore the House Com mittee on Military
Affairs. In addition to this there 10 Q
The Washington herald., 1916-02-26

AS matter of fact, without the cooperation
OF Others perhaps OF ourselves, who are not, of
course, ever busy-bodics, the busy-bodies can do
very little mischief at all. Suppose we
were to ignore what the busy-body tried to do,
their power to do harm would instantly vanish