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The day book., 1916-01-10

7 new york.-pop said the other mite
\ that, pote what is dead now onct
y rote pome about names not cutting
: Ebmutch ice, & his name was bobbie
III fire, or some thing like that, but
n j CESS this feller wasent ackwainted
/ with nanny peepel or he woodent
- have ritten such foolish pome
-1FT & there is guy up in harlem that's
q; going to get his name changed or cut
az the Ticker
II this gay boy was beeting it home
purity late & he was on the outside
of about all the ticker he Good hold
& stand amy chanel of landing amy
weres neer his place.
+ 5 He was purity tired too so he sets
down on the curb to take ittel rest
4 6 figure out weather he was on the
rite st. or not when copper o'reilly
bumps into him
whatcher doing there, the cop in
I Ekwired
F nothing, the feller said
get up, o'reilly yelled at him, and
the lad hoped up, whats your name
l. ura hogg, the feller said standing
4 rite close to the offiser
@ss what the blankety blank do you
call that kind of stuff, mr. o'reilly said
M,& he batted mr. hogg over the been
la with his mite stick, now tell me your
name
n ura hogg, are you deaf too, the
man hollers at him, thinking the cop
dident hear well
IEbing went the club & mr.. Hogg set
tied down to rest again, while the COP
calls the Wagon
s-s-& of korse, at the station, copper |
o'reilly FINALLY got it through his nut |
that the feller's name was ura hogg |
& he dident meen to sass him
The day book., 1916-01-10
"Rstus, yo' oughta been to church
dis mawnin'. De sermon was great"
$50 heah. Who tole yo', Mose?"
TODAY'S BELLRINGER

Mack Sennett, the famous Key
stone comedy producer, tells of once
overhearing two Irishmen engage in
the following conversation:
"Shure," says Pat, 81 see b. tn pa
pers that they've cut foice cents off
the price of loaf of bread"
"Oi hope" says Mike, that it's
the foive-cent loaf"
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GREAT RUSH OF WEDDINGS
AS MEN LEAVE FOR THE ARMY

ness, so l just took the plunge, and
now ] can go away with an easy mind
If l am killed the wife is no worse of
than she was. and If ! come back will
find good business waiting for me-
Almost precisely the same tale was
told by green grocer. He had always
driven his own cart before, but this
time he was sitting beside a buxom
country girl. who handled the reins
and who jumped down with him and
came round to the kitchen door.
Il am going next week" he said. so
i have got a wife to look after the
business when l am gone. She was
brought up in the country and she
knows all about vegetables and
horses.
In reply to questions he told practi-
cally the same story as the little news
agent. He had built up his own bust
ness and didn't want to see ii grabbed
by some older man, so he sent to his
home village and found a girl whom he
had known for years and was willing
to become his partner in the double
sense.
Inquiries from parsons all over Lon
don show that they have had a rush
of marriages in the last week or two
which is greater than anything they
have known since the beginning of the
war. and that most of the bridegrooms
are small business men. so il is fair to
assume that the two cases mentioned
are typical Of the lot.
There is no reason why the marriages
should not turn out well. for in this
class in England both the men and
women are endowed with a large fund
of common sense. The men. too, have
found solution of one of the most
difficult problems of the war Men are
needed and the state is not disposed to
consider the claims of the little man to
preserve his business. 4 concession has
just been made to the men who own
small businesses which they work
themselves and which are the means of
support of at least three persons They
are to be treated with special con-
sideration by the exemption tribunals
in cases where IL is shown that they
cannot obtain satisfactory substitutes,
but this does not meet the case of the
men who are marrying now-the sin
gle men who made a good living and
called no man master.
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Special Cores pondence of The Star.
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala.
June 1. 1915.
ENHIS is an intimate word por-
trait. taken at his own lunch
con table. of Manuel Estrada
q Cabrera, president of Guatema-
la, who has been called the
greatest executive Central America
has ever known. 1t may be just as
we'll to set down at the beginning of
this record the statement that those
who have read accounts of this man
gathered from his enemies by persons
who have never met him will be dis
appointed If they expect to read here
q confirmation of the stories that have
been. told about him. l met his enc
mics and talked with them, off and
on. for ten days before l met him.
This article has nothing to do with
politics. the economic situation or
Guatemala, or the relation of its gov
eminent to the other countries of Cen
trail America. the United States, or the
world in general. 1t is not even an in
te-view with the President of Guate
mala. although ii will be necessary TO
report some of the things he said he
was interested in well as some of
the questions and answers passed.
Much less will this account endeavor
to sweepingly characterize Estrada
Cabrera as good. bad or in between.
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the most complete and minute details
of what costume to lay out for me-did
1t very well. But he got so much OF a
swelled head after he had waited on me
for a while that he began to consider
himself a sort of royal valet de
chambre. He wouldn't obey any orders
from any one else except me, and so. a
we can't have barefooted Indians scan
dalizing the housekeepers. and can't
have them packing big guns around.
frightening people to death and stir
ring up things generally. / had to tell
him where he got Off"
This is Estrada Cabrera, in his home
There are other stories to tell about
him. his capital. his country and his
relations with other governments But
this is the human side-the man as he
showed himself. at this luncheon.
One could write almost another arti-
Gle of this length on what he has done
for Guatemala, as any observant news
paper man can pick II up in the streets
especially in connection with his char
tiles. such as the magnificent new Ma
ternity Hospital he has had erected in
honor of his mother. the Hospital for
Convalescents, soon to be inaugurated
and other philanthropic works. But
found out nothing about them at this
luncheon,
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THE BOX TORTOISE. LAND VARIETY

begins to turn into a frog or toad the
hind legs first appear, then the front
legs shoot out perfectly formed, though
they have been concealed beneath
membrane, and the tail becomes mystic
riously shorter The eyes become large
and elevated. the mouth increases in
size. Then they are full-f1edged adult
animals.
Washington fish life is varied. We
have fresh water Ash exclusively,
though shad and herring from the salt
come as far as Little Falls to spawn.
The game fish most widely known
among anglers-eminently an American
fish-is the black bass. This is Wash
ington's champion. 1t was planted in
the waters of the Potomac as early as
1883 and has done well ever since.
There are two varieties. the large and
small mouthed. which seldom occurs
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zatons give them a prominence which
mere size can never claim.
In Washington, and such. most COM
mon insects as bees, wasps, ants and
flies. Some insects are so much like
twigs and leaves that they are called
walking sticks" and leaf insects"
These are seen in the city as we'll as
the country. 1t is interesting to know
that the crickets and katydids, the
most musical of the insects. are in
strumentalists and not vocalists. Their
wings are veined in such a way as to
produce chirping sounds when they are
rubbed together. The musical powers
are confined to the male sex.
Since butterfly and moth catching
has become such a lucrative business
on the Pacific coast, the idea might be
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At the Top.

A POLITICIAN was talking at a din
SN ner in New York about the Ameri-
can business man.
1T is his hard and endless work" he
said, (which puts the American bust
ness man at the very top of the tree.
He doesn't know the meaning of the
word leisure.
"A little boy said to his father, a mil
lionaire business man.
PA. what's leisure?
The father looked up from the en-
velope on which he was figuring with
his gold fountain pen and answered:
Leisure, my son. is spare time that
various jobs of unfinished work
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A Kindhearted World.

~ HAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw talked about
" old age on his eighty-second birth
day to a New York reporter
The world is very kind to the aged"
he said. 1T spares them all allusion TO
their years. Let me tell you. by the wav
that ii is painful to a man when Re
hears himself called old for the thou
sandth time as II was to him the first
time
"A boy once asked me:
What do people mean. sir when ther
say man is in the prime OF life"
They mean. my lad I answered. to
spare the old fellows feelings"
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and corn moths are perhaps best
known of all the nocturnal creatures
This nearly completes the list of
Washington fauna. OF course, the
crawfish might be mentioned, for they
are found in the swamp ravines And
it might be said that an occasional red
fox wanders into the District pre-
serves. 1t is really not necessary to
go to the Zoo to see wonderful ami
male, for they are living almost in
your own back yard.
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States. He has liked these apartments
SO much. he said, that he has retained
them for his own living quarters ever
since.
Gorgeous staff officers, in full-dress
uniform, directed US to a private en-
trance, and here, without ostentation
or ceremony. a butler took our hats
and sticks and we found ourselves in
salon of the conventional order with
gilded chairs and family portraits. The
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president came in, unannounced and
alone. American cocktails and mineral
waters were served as preliminary
refreshments on a tray covered with
loose rose leaves, and conversation be-
gan.
The circumstances could not have been
more simple IL three men had been ex-
pected to lunch in any private house
of any gentleman in the United States.
One marveled at all the rot that has
been printed and talked in foreign
journals about how il is necessary to
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had called ito give myself the pleasure
and honor of saluting you in person.
This, the president said, in view OF
the fact that the youngster is only five
years old, tickled his fancy, and. as the
president phrased 1t, he resolved 10
pursue the adventure" Asked about
his fathers station in life, the young
ster endeavored to avoid replying, say
ing That is not a proper subject for
polite company from which it de-
veloped that said father was a drunk
ard of the streets, and his mother-the
president here said as translated to
me, Let US draw the veil of charity"
IT is probably not worth while to
pursue the story farther This piece OF
fotsam and jetsam of the streets OF
Guatemala, who also told the Presi-
dent that he had come to consult
him as to what he had better do about
things at home, as there was nothing
there to eat" was provided for, his
consultation" turning out to good pur-
pose. 1t was then uman note of the
story as Estrada Cabrera told 1t that
struck home. so evident was 1t that
the president had enjoyed the almost
unbelievably grown-up language of
the young ster
No politics either national or inter-
national. was discussed at table. Es-
trada Cabrera has no need of being
informed by visitors from the United
States of what Is going on there, in
asmuch as there is wireless tower at
ly and without relay, every wireless
news bulletin sent out by the big radio
tower at Arlington outside Washington
every night.
This is supplementary to the news
service he receives by cable from all
over the world. and he devotes the
hour between II and IL o'clock every
morning to reading these reports and
keeping himself in touch with the
worlds events.
His entertainment at luncheon was
acter, and II the cares of state stalk
ed behind his chair he was careful.
as most anxious and concerned host,
to interpose what 1t is necessary to call
his undoubtedly big personality be-
tween his guests and the shadow Of
such cares.
: The service at table was of a clock
work precision. and there was never a
word uttered in regard to It, through
a meal of many courses, except upon
one occasion when A servant mad
vertently removed A fork needed by a
visitor. Admiration was expressed for
the floral pieces on the long table, and
while the loose rose leaves strewn
across the tablecloth were being ad-
grow wild in the jungles of Guatemala,
came up.
The president remarked that he
would exhibit some orchids later. In
stantly vase OF magnificent speci-
mems was set upon the table, without
request and in silence. That he is
faithfully served was evident, although
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suggested to Washingtonians, for the
city has a collection of very beautiful
specimens. The swallowtail and mon-
arch are exquisite butterflies, while
the scecropia and luna moths are al.
most indescribable in their soft love
illness.
Other common butterflies are the
cabbage. little fitting and greenish
the milkweed. usally seen lowering
around this flower. and the morning
cloak. The skipper, sphinx, emperor
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mustache. which is long, gnawed and
chewed, is almost wholly white
His eyes-whence came his sobriquet
Of the old eagle"-are the most
striking feature of his personal ap-
pearance. He has an olive COM
plexion, satin skin. a head that leans
attentively toward a speaker, a grace
full carriage and trick of half ges-
lures and OF partly doubled up fst.
which give the impression of latent
force. reserve power. as one who
might say, Il could go farther" He
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under eight inches long. In addition
are the catfish. Kill fish. better known
as minnows; perch. pickerel, brook
trout, white and yellow varieties: sun
fish, dace and sinners. The common eel
is also prolific in the Potomac.
To mention the District insects in
complete form would be to accomplish
the impossible Members new to science
are always being found. and of tho
300, 900 insects of the world only 10000
have been described. But the size Of
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Continued from Third Page)
Also the swift, a lizard so-called be-
cause II is quick to get away, and the
spotted salamander frequent this part
of the country. OF course. the frogs
and toads are well known. Their ever
interesting life history may be watched
at this season in its varying stages.
Tadpoles are Developing into toads and
frogs by the bucketful, and this meta
morphosis, one of natures queerest, is
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in white duck uniforms, blouses but
toning close around the neck in a mill
tary fashion. They wore felt-soled
slippers.
There were ten courses, an individ-
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pass tiiIoukH HeQBeS OF SOl01erS and bv
devious winding ways to reach Estrada
Cabrera.
An incident had occurred which had
made great impression on the presi-
dent. He detailed it. He had been in
specting school. and a boy with
Spanish Indian name (elusive to the
had attracted his atten-
ton by his ready answers. The presi-
dent had asked him some questions and
had been so struck by the youngsters
replies that he had said to him, Come
and see me at the palace some time"
He gave instructions when he returned
home that II the boy ever asked for
him he was to be admitted, and then
forgot all about him.
Some time later the boy showed up,
and when the president saw him he in
quired what he could do for him. The
youngster precociously replied that he
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and the writer.
About IL o'clock Mr.. Sanchez La Tour
called at the hotel to inform me of
the etiquette of the occasion, and. as
one of the presidents aids. to escort
US to the palace. a short walking dis
lance, which Capt. Hopkins, as an old
friend of the presidents. has travelled
many times. 1t was suggested that a
dark cutaway suit and a black tie
would be in order, as the president is
in half mourning.
The president himself. most precise
as to details of dress. in view of the
death of his wife and of his son, was in
black cutaway. with a white waist
coat, a white tie. and no stickpin. no
rings, not even a watch chain in evil
dence. He has the sprawling, acquisi
tive. cool, firm, although small hand of
the strong man. and a foot that
dandy might envy-in buttoned patent
leather.
OF medium height and weight, say
of one hundred and seventy pounds.
his laborious hours at the desk
have made him slightly bent over.
His hair and mustache were once
coal black. that is evident. but
he is becoming slightly bald on the
top Of his head and gray, and his
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My visit lasted from about 1890 to
about $3.50 o'clock. 1t was in the
private apartments of the presidents
residence. an old house which he has
had remodeled and attached to the
palace. AS he said, he acquired it
eight or nine years ago, when it was
the Germania Club, in order to obtain
private apartments large enough in
which to entertain Admiral Swinburne
and the officers of the United States
Pacific squadron. who were brought
by the president from San Jose, on the
Pacific coast, to Guatemala City, the
capital, on a visit of entertainment
which is famous for its lavishness in
the history of the United States Navy.
so anxious has Estrada Cabrera al
ways been, he told me, to be good
friends with the people of the United
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The luncheon. so far as its substan-
tails were concerned, was a combina-
ton of European and Guatemaltecan
cookery and edibles. 1t was served on
a service of luster ware, with the in
itials IN. E. c." in a monogram-a
service that looked like and was as
beautiful as mother of pearl. The lunch
con room was long room with the
sunlight coming in from skylight. its
walls adorned with paintings of fruit
pieces. fish, game and so on. The floor
was of cool tiles. The servants were
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ual menu having been written out and
placed at each plate. Sherry. as well
as a wine which looked like sau-
terne. and champagne We're served in
addition to mineral waters The first
course was an oyster soup, creamed:
then came, in the Russian style served
separately, macaronf; then a fish from
the Pacific coast. with an egg sauce;
then chicken, with small peas; then
f11et of beef. with mushrooms; then
patty, of which the delicacy but not
the name remains; then, again in the
Russian style, served separately, as
paragus.
Following these were three desserts,
served separately. First, an enormous
dish of fruit was passed. 1t contained
fresh manages. papayas, bananas and
something like ca binet pudding with
wine sauce. followed. The last
course was a pineapple ice.
1t developed that the president goes
ing and is in his Offices every day until
IL o'clock at night, with an hour off
for luncheon and another hour off for
dinner, except when he has visitors
has four or five secretaries. and an
swers every letter. however apparently
trivial, addressed to him.
The chief of these secretaries is Gen.
trusted friend and confidant. Another
of his aids and secretaries is Delphino
Sanchez la Tour. All of them. includ
ing the president. speak the language
of 1.-THE tribe" as 1t is known in the
United States-the colloquialisms. the
slang of the day of the sophisticated
man.
The president apparently was pleased
to learn of a new one during the
luncheon-the characterization of wa
ter powers for electrical energy as
white COAL" as it is called among en-
gineers in the United States. He
spoke of Guatemalas tremendous re-
sources in waterfalls and swiftly NOV
ing streams or. rather. assented, when
his attention was called to them. re-
marking that Guatemala has sufficient
energy in her waters to harness for
electrical purposes to take the place
of billions of tons of coal.
He is highly familiar with every
inch of Guatemala, and has had con-
structed recently at the race course
in Guatemala City "a physical map of
the country on tremendous scale
which shows every mountain, every
CITY. every hamlet every river and
every lake and waterfall as well as
the oceans on both sides.
1t is of cement, and water is pumped
or forced to the top of the mountains,
thence 10 run uOWI, III actual, ~" me
rivers and waterfalls and through min
iatures of Guatemala's lakes to the
oceans.
1t tells the school children who go
there to see it in operation more about
geography in half an hour than they
get from books in a whole session, the
president believes.
Education is one of his hobbies.
These and other affairs which keep him
and his secretaries busy from early in
the morning until late at night were
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later he amused himself in the salon,
when coffee was served, without hot
cream or hot milk or hot water. as is
the custom in Guatemala, and with
sugar in the filled cups before it was
~ 0 am sorry to say that it will be
necessary to drink this coffee the way
the kitchen has prepared 1t. Evidently
they think If it suits the kitchen 1t will
have to suit u.s."