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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-01-18
Flags ut Half Stan.

on public buildings in Washington
were placed at half staff today, in
conformity with the Presidents ex-
ecutive order, and will remain so until
after the funeral.
Secretary. of the War and Mra- Baker
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-01-18
Roosevelt Adds Praise.

Former President Roosevelt, after
praising Admiral Dewey as one Uf
the finest figures in American life,
said:
mo other single service by any
American living ranks with the ser
vice he rendered this country on that
memorable May morning in Manila
Bay"
Officers OF the Senate today sent
to Mrs. Dewey a copy OF the joint
resolution adopted by the Senate and
House late yesterday which expressed
profound regret for Admiral Dewey's
death and arranged for adjournment
as q further mark of respect.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-01-18

A touching incident of the funeral
services at the Capitol will be the
presence as officiating clergyman of
Chaplain j. B. Frazier, of Norfolk,
who was. chaplain of the Olympia,
Dewey's flagship, during the memoir
able battle of Manila Bay.
Eloquent tribute to Admiral Dew
ey's sterling character, and to the
services he performed for the nation,
are given in the official statements
and private expressions Of public
men,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-01-18
5000 Uniformed Men.
Fort Myer Cavalry.

In the Army contingent there will
be three troops OF cavalry from Fort
Myer, a comany Of engineers from
Washington Barracks, and detach-
ments Of coast artillery from Potomac
and Chesapeake stations.
At noon, as the remains are being
borne from the Capitol to their last
resting place at Arlington, a salute
OF nineteen guns will be fired at the
Washington navy yard
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-01-18

The President OF the United States,
members of the Supreme Court, the
Cabinet, members of Congress, and
naval attaches of the foreign powers
will attend the funeral of Admiral
George Dewey in the rotunda of the
Capitol Saturday morning at IL
o'clock.
No ceremonies of such imposing
character attending the burial of a
public man have been held in Wash
ington since the death of President
Mckinley, as will attend the last rites
for the'hero of Manila Bay.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
ONLY THING THEY COULD
 DO FOR THEIR FATHER

Herbert Corey has written the fol lowing piece of humor-pathos:
 1 had gone to the Macedonian town let of Slivitaka with Serbian officer who was inquiring into the recent be- hayior of the Bulgarians. We held court in COW stable during a pouring rain.
 Outside a German prisoner wan dered, asking an unintelligible ques- ton. He had lost his wits completely during the battle. He fumbled about aimlessly. Sometimes he stood oppo- site the open door of our COW stable, the tears on his cheeks mingling with the rain. Wounded men lay on the sopping straw.
 A dozen or so compact, sturdy, cheerful little French soldiers dried their clothing at the fire which smoked on the dirt floor. A notably sullen priest stood by. A peasant told the village story.
 'The Bulgarians were unlind to our father here" said he. indicating the pope. Also they were cruel to us. V The pope sneered ostentatiously. l have never seen a pope who seemed on such bad terms with his parishion- CTS. He half turned to go away. Then he turned back as though to listen to the story.
 "The Bulgarians said they would
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
DON'T DESPAIR" URGES
 FAMOUS RUSSIAN WRITER

Leonid Andreyev, one of Russia's foremost authors, in recent inter the friends of Russia throughout the view, advised the Russian people ana world not to despair at the situation. now prevailing there.
 Don't despair" he said. Every thing still may be saved. Lose nc faith in the revolution. Remember that our revolution is only four months old while the autocracy which it has over thrown already reigned for thousand years, distorting the physiognomy of the people, killing the ideals of civic duty, liberty and conscience and creat- ing millions of slaves. The autocracy filled Russia with rogues and murder CTS, horse thieves, traitors and spies.
 'The ignorant masses have trusted everybody, even those persons who were instigated by German agents as provocateurs, and those ambitious madmen who are thirsting for power. Thus the mob was ready to attack the government, the people, cities, women, themselves, like fright ened horses. they refused to leave .the burning stables.
 Those disgraceful men who fled from the front or surrendered or be- trayed their comrades are slaves of the Black Hundred.' Those who yes terday stopped that mad flight and who, with bleeding hearts but steady hands, shot down the fleeing slaves they are the men of today, they are the children of young liberty.
 That same liberty is ehlightening their minds and their conscience.
 To-day is terrible. To me the nea. future also appears as terrible to 
 T have seen bearded men weep while they read the newspaper ac- counts of what is happening. The smile is gone from the faces of our men and women. The streets of this un- fortunate city appear to me to be mournful and deserted, but in her suf- fering and fears Russia will find her strength.
 With all the great power which lies in her spirit she will tear from her na- tional body the dishonest ones and the traitors-the only foes of RGssia's young liberty"
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
DOUGLAS HAiG NOW A
 KNIGHT OF THE THISTLE


 On his recent visit to the front King George made Field Marshal Sir Doug las Haig, commander-in-chief of the British forces in France and Belgium, Knight of the Thistle. The honor is most unusual, as Sir Douglas is a commoner.
 This is a Scotch order of ancient origin. Tradition has it that it was established A. D. 7S7 as the result of a vision of bright cross seen in the heavens by Athaius, king of the Scots, and Fungus, king of the Picts, while they were engaged in prayer on the night before the battle with Athel- stan, king of England. So far as the records show, however. it was either re-established or founded in 1887 by James II of England by the appoint ment of eight knights.
 The order collapsed but was revived by Queen Anne on December l, l703. In 1927 it was decreed that it's mem bership should consist of the sover- eign and Is knights, but others of the royal family were admitted. The Duke of Connaught and Prince Arthur of Connaught are members of the order
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
HAYWOOD A WIFE pEsERrER

recent issue of the Rocky Mountain News of Den long article setting forth the fact that Big Haywood leader of the W. w.. is wife deserter. Press declares that should be and pon dered by every member of organized labor in this country.
 Briefly this article forth that Mrs Haywood and two daughters in Denver. the mother in hospital, and that for four past Haywood has contributed nothing to their support few weeks ago her friends complained the district attorney and this official Haywood who promptly sent fifty dollars his deserted wife.
 After Haywood released from prison in Idaho his friends made hero of him. But listen what his wife says of the other side of the story:
 q noticed change in Bill after we got home from Idaho The attentions people paying him made him lose his head. He longer attentive to and the girls He went to Chicago Five years ago he came home He different man. Drink and fame spoilt Bill You couldn't get him to handle pick He and work don't know each other any He left us five years ago and has come back"
 And this is the true story of the L w. w. leader who poses the friend the poor aboring man. and more especially the friend the poor aborng mans wife and children He deserted his home family and left penniless His oldest daughter supported them til her health gave way and then U S. official fright ened Haywood into sending fifty dollars to his family the first money in five years.
 The two Colorado papers printing this story got it from the wife herself and from U. S. officials friends of the family who know all about the case
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
AS MAN TO MAN

"Oh, very we'll" muttered Vance Johnson with a vexed grin upon his face; have it your own way" and he reversed the gears and the big car began to crawfish in a half circle to make the turn. The newspaper man breathed sigh of relief. The man with the cement face and the formid- able sixshooter turned on his heel with almost the same motion he had made with his hand for the car to go back He knew that his gesture would be obeyed. He knew that his grim, gaunt, Gorgon face impelled obedience and excited fear in all the sons of men who crossed his flint rock trail. He took no particular interest in either the car or it's occupants. He would have brushed away fly with more expression upon his cliffed, creviced, cast-iron countenance.
 Vance Johnson twirled the wheel and his craft sheered away from mesquite stump. That's a new guard on me- he said. Must have been hired lately. He's a daisy"
 Vance" said the newspaper man solemnly. "the county is being imposed upon by someone and the taxpayers are being made to pay out unneces- sary money"
 "How's that?" demanded Vance Johnson half turning in his seat and looking very much interested.
 They have two or three guards for that gang of forty prisoners when all they need is that one man with the terrifying face and the chain lightning eyes"
 Vance Johnson laughed. And at that I don't know but what you're right" he said.
 The car lurched along through the mesquite bushes and sand. Thought sure I'd be able to show you a rattler or two before this" said Vanle apolo- getically.
 You won't show me any this trip" declared the newspaper man.
 "Why?" asked the big county com missioner curiously. You seem to be mighty cock sure about it."
 No rattlesnake will dare show him. self in this section of the San Pedro while that guard is on the job. His face has every rattler scared to death and hugging the bottom of his hole"
 Vance Johnson laughed again. And at that don't know but what you're right" he said.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05

Reading about the monster mass meeting of one thousand strikers" in Miami day this week, brings to mind the fact that long, long there strike here in Bisbee Men with scowling faces and sulen brows and jeerng lips walked streets and lined sidewalks and leaned against the walls of the buildings and formed picket lines in public pazas They threat ened every who worked. wanted. to work. They every citizen who did not openly and actively pathize with them It all back like terrible nightmare sped with the spavins Miami has sym pahy Bisbee has been through all Two weeks under the red flag. Meetings every night. A cataract of words. Then the picket lines morning Same scowl ing and hulkng loafers blocking the streets and walks next day Over and the same thing And then morning dawned and before night drove her horses the mountains all that had been swept away. Ugh! what a nightmare it What fine awakening after that miserable dream!
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05

hang our pope at noon if we did not give them 200 dinars," sai dthe peas ant, impressively. It seemed to me that he did not meet the eye of the pope.
 What did you do?" asked the Ser bian officer who was conducting the examination. The peasant explained that they were poor folk at Slivitska. They did not have 200 dinars. Fur thermore, most of the people of Sh- vitska had hidden in the hills when the Bulgarians came.
 ''So the only thing we could do for our father" said the peasant, suavely, twas to ask the Bulgarians to postpone the event until o'clock. That would give our people time to come in from the hills and see our father hanged"
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
LATEST RUsE OF BooTLEeeERs

Bootleggers devised a simple but
 effective scheme for running the
 blockade of officers with a cargo of juice Tuesday night. Shortly after dark Duncan officers were notified by
 phone from Lordsburg that murder
 had been committed near there and that the suspected murderers were headed toward Clifton and advising them to take the Clifton road to inter
 cept them. While the officers were scouting for the 'murderers" Hud-
 son Super-six sailed through Duncan and didn't even whistle for crossings. The officers came back to town and -elieving that the "murderers" had changed their route. telephoned Saf- ford officers to be on the lookout. or ficers here took a car and went out beyond Solomonville. The official fiver met the Hudson coming over a rise. Officers Jagged it and the driv- CT pretended to be willing to stop but as he came close stepped on her" and sailed past. Both officers fired sever al rounds at the fleeing car. they sad. and thinking they had winged it. rave chase. But if it was crippled at to get over the road so rap ily that the fiiver didn't stand any show and the officers gave up the chase.
 Investigation of the Lordsburg mur- der report proved that nothing was dead there except dead soldiers" and of course it was then perfectly plain that bootleggers had worked the stunt to get Duncan officers out of the way for clear sailing but they had forgot ten to reckon with the telephone line between Duncan and Stafford.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
THE DUMB MAN WITH
 THE ELOQUENT LOOK

Vance Johnson took the newspaper man over to Tombstone the other day. It was his first trip up Tombstone canyon and through the wonderful
 San Pedro valley. where the mesquite is in yellow bloom and he mountains on the distant skyline are bluer than the sky itself. But it is not of the majesty and beauty of nature that this story has to do. This is an hon. est to goodness Man to Man story. and, perforce, it must relate to man, and a most homely man at that.
 The car sped along one of the best roads in the world for many miles and then it came, just as we do in life. up to one of the worst roads in the world. A gang of county prisoners were working this road. bootleggers most of them, under the eye of armed guards. A sign half blocked the way upon which was lettered the warning that the road was closed But John son pushed on. Directly there rose up from among the men who bent over pick and shovel in the roadway a man in a yellow shirt and brown trousers and black felt hat who came forward to meet the auto.
 Ye gods, what a man, A weeks growth of black whiskers failed entire ly to cover the hard lines of his face. His jaw bulged on both sides. but on one side little more than the other. It was set in cement, this jaw. The frown upon his brow was like the wrinkle in a mountain caused by a small gulch. His eyes glared from caverns in his face and the look of them made cold chills chase each oth- CT up your back like the little waves on the shores of the sea. His lips were thin and so hard they might have been cut from bronze. A big six shooter swung from his hip as easy and natural as a baby in cradle.
 Roads closed" said this terrible guardian of the highway in a low and growing voice. Go round"
 Vance Johnson is no chicken him self and he started to argue with the man. Was he not county commits sioner and vested with the high jus tice. the middle and the low?
 But this man declined to argue. Sparks shot from his half closed eyes and he made an imperative gesture with a hand that might have crushed a rock like hammer The hand indi' cated the dim road through the mes quite to the right.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05

Four and one-half million German soldiers have been killed. wounded taken prisoner since the begun. These figures appalling. They represent than many soldiers comprised that first grand army six weeks of the In other words, all of that great grey picked troops that swept Belgium and into France the beginning of the has been destroyed and another army the size has been called and it. too, destroyed If the Kaiser could have been given know, that Potsdam conference that four and onehalf millions of his picked troops would be wiped after there years of and that calamity only the beginning would have rushed impe riously An if he had known of the grey German ghosts that his words that night to make. would he have spoken?
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
BATTERED

You haven't been much if you haven: been battered And knocked around in the world a bit; You haven't been much if it hasn't mattered All that went on with its woe and wit; The knocking and trampling. the worry and care You haven't been much if you've not had your share. You haven't been much if you haven't been beaten, If you haven't gone down for a while in the strife, With ashes of salt on the bread you have eaten, And clouds and rough places some where in life; The smother and struggle and effort to please You haven't been much if you haven't known these. You haven't been much if you haven, been bludgeoned W ith failure and falsehood and mani fold lies. Till the soul of the giant in your sys- tenn repellent Helped you throw off the burden ana look to the skies; Helped you laugh at defeat and from loss grasp a glory You haven't known much if you've mis- sed such a story.
 Author Unknown.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
ATTEMPT MADE

An attempt was made to wreck a train on the Ray and Gila Valley rail road near Ray Junction last Sunday night and it was only by the greatest miracle that a great deal of serious damage and loss of life was aver ed The switch lock had been broken off and the switch was cooked so that it signalled the engineer of the train that the coast was clear. Fortunately the train was moving slowly and the tender was the only car that went into the ditch. The engine jumped the track, but did not go over and more than 300 feet of track was torn up.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
ADVENTURES OF TWO BISBEE PILGRIMS
 IN OLD TUCSON

These two had just returned iron
 Tucson and one of them was led or
 by the newspaper man to speak of the
 fortunes and misfortunes of that pil
 grimage. We landed there shortly
 after midnight" said this loquacious
 pilgrim, "and went direct to a hotel
 A cheerful darky with whistle on his
 thick lips took us to our rooms.
 Leaving the elevator we followed
 our guide down long dark, dank cor, ridor that might have been one of the underground passages that connected the pyramids of Egypt. The darky's whistle trailed off into a dirge- He opened the door of a room that had been dramatically sealed for three months. We had no gas masks but we were brave and took a chance. One small window tried to furnish the room with air
 "I walked up the next morning at five o'clock gasping for breath. By the flames of fire in Nebuchadnezzar's furnace, but it was hot l poured a pitcher of water on my head and this improvised shower bath brought me partly back to consciousness. I stag gered down to the lobby and sat there wondering how much hotter it was go- ing to get that day. Pretty soon my friend appeared upon the scene. He looked haggard and wan. We got into a fierce debate as to who had occupied the hottest, smallest, most uncomfor- table room. We finally decided to call 1t a drawn battle.
 Then came Tucson friend, good Samaritan, and took us to the Old Pu- eblo club. May blessings rest upon the head of the man, or set of men. who founded and do now maintain this institution. It is haven of rest for pilgrims far from home. Its rooms are large. and there are four windows to the room. Its shower baths restore the soul
 "The thermometer may have reg istered as high our second night at Tucson as it did the first, but the ther- is a liar. It was twenty de- grees cooler that second night. The Old Tucson club was designed to defy the heat and it has justified all the hopes and ambitions of its designer. In Chicago there is a famous hotel called the Blackstone where they charge three dollars for a room and seven dollars for atmosphere" The Old Pueblo throws the atmosphere in for good measure and in the name of the city's hospitality.
 We had a good visit in Tucson and we came away with pleasant thoughts of that famous old Arizona municipal lty and it's palm trees and broad thor oughfares and modern ideas and fine but the chief credit should go to mine host of the Old Pueblo. Bisbee is a summer resort and peo-l pie call for more cover at night no matter where they sleep, for the mid night breeze from the mountains all ways slips in to administer unto them. and it fails not. But Tucson is win ter resort, and when you visit there in August much depends upon the place where you are assigned to slumber."
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
Gems From tue NeUs Field
HE WAS FIRST TO PUT
 CREASE IN TROUSERS

The death of Herbert Kelcey has re- called the interesting fact it was this actor who introduced the fashion of creased trousers. A quarter of cen, tury ago gentlemen wore their trous- CTS smooth and ready made suit was never delivered until the middle creases had been ironed out of the pant legs. But one evening Kelcey astonished an audience by appearing with pair of trousers with their legs sharpened like two-edged swords.
 The creased gallingskins were laugh ed at by the public. and the comic pa pers ridiculed them by picturing dogs being cut in two by pedestrians, but the crease soon grew into universal and lasting popularity.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
RossINe WAR" GARDENS
AT MIAMI.

With the maturing of the vegetable war gardens in Lower Miami has de- veloped a problem which is causing not only the gardeners but the author ities no little perplexity. During the past two days eight arrests, all of them children under the age of nine years, with the exception of one wo- man. have been made on charges of stealing the vegetables under the cov- CT of darkness.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05

"A few drops of water less. cost Napoleon his crown at Waterloo" wrote Victor Hugo in his i'm mortal classic battle drops of or less saved the Kaiser this week Both bat ties were fought Belgium the freedom of Belgium involved in both of them. The rain from heaven falls alike upon the just and upon the unjust
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
POefS Corner
THE SONG OF THE TANKS.

 We are the strangest spawn there he of that man-made Devil, War: We seem some horrible drunken dream
 yet actually We ARE. We are the gruesome. gibbering
 beasts, playing our ludicrous
 pranks.
 Straddling over some death-flled ditch
 terrible, merciful Tanks. In the flare of Hell men see us and
 iaugh-as we drunkenly lurch and
 roll:
 We climb. we dip. we reel. we trip, yet
 ever on, to osr Goal, Our entrails burn with the fire of
 youth. gun muzzles at our port. And the steady hand of the gunner
 moves as though this thing were
 sport,
 We wallow and creep through mud.
 man-deep. through wire meshed
 barricades, We spew forth Death to the crazy Hun
 and haunt him. gruesome Shades, Wherever we go we scatter the foe:
 no beast and no mere machine May track our path as we squirm along
 belching our deadly spleen. Within us cluser our soldier boys.
 laughing their rollicking laugh. Steady and ready and strong: md young, from Tommy to Chief-of- Stan.
 For we are the natural spawn of War as made by the Kultured Hun. The kindest. chuelest, ugiiest beast that prospers under the sun. Tariible Tanks of Death we. are. ter Unbelievable. too, For. though we slaughter. it is to save; they love us. our working crew. The day shall come when. our work well done. you'll keep us just for
 show Just to remember the Things We Did to the Heather, Long Ago, We'll hold our court in some prim room. with the great grim Dinos- aur.
 And men shall gasp at our ugliness- then laugh as they laughed before, You see. though blundering Tanks we be. gigantic Beetles or Toads. We are the Autos who do not need your well-made. wellkept roads, Nor shall we spraddle and lurch in vain-we'll do our bit till we've won.
 Till the Earth is clean and the World Is free and women safe from the Hunl NEWPORT HEPBURN