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ia McLeod's schoolhouse, near the navy
yard.
Mr.. Rothwel1 names the persons who
united with the First Church from its
constitution. in 1902. up to 1920. In
the list many persons will find record
ed the name Of some ancestor. These
ma ales follow:
CrIeb LETTERS Susnnrah LETTERS. Jane Watson.
Hannah Jones, Nancy Craven. Hannah Ustick.
ton. Thomas Ic Teller. Job Hagrt, Elizabeth
IIaGst. Rartlcson Fox. Martha Rouse. Clement
BOSWELL. Joseph Huhdleston. Thomas Carpenter.
Mnry Carpenter. Mary Guyer. Annie Minite.
Isabella Craven, Harvey Eestor. Obadiah b.
Brow, Jacob Hoyle. Richard Gaines. Peter
knight. Elizabeth Fox. Edward Langley, Nancy
Langley. Isaac Clarke. Eleanor Davis. Polly
Fox, elizabeth Hunt Margaret Duckworth,
Jeremith Hunt. Nathan Cornwen. Eleanor Still
Gaines. Ann Warner. Mary Wells. Charlotte Hub
bard. Ann Sherwood. Joseph Gibson, Margaret
Gibson, Daniel Campbell. Margaret Campbell.
Enoch Reynolds. Mary McChesney. Greenburg
Gather. Elizabeth kilton. Margaret Brumler.
Eliza Hllison, Elizabeth Reed Oliver c. Com
stock Samuel Wallace. Catherine Norvell Re-
becca Pickercll. Spencer II. Cone. Thomas Hull
dIestoii. David Stewart. Mary Pickere, Mary
OFT. Elizabeth smoot. Anne McKerraher. Re
Cuthih Mary Ann Wallace. Eliznbeth McCutchin.
Elizattath Mcdaniel. Richel Hoakland. Sarah
Reyno DIS. Ann Riley. Maria Diggs. Ruth Lord.
Chnrle,s Bell. Joseph Jones. Joseph Thaw; Solo
mon stewart. Samuel smoot. Daniel Brown.
WILLIAM Paradise. Charles Polkinhorn. Polly
Browni Anne Polk Patrick Rogers. Elizabeth
MayheAi. Barbary Lee. Mary Ann LETTERS Eliza
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many years. and was famed far outside
of his UNCONVENTIONAL lines for his
eloquence and pious fervor. Spencer
Cone was an actor who professed re-
ligion and left the stage in 1915. He
came to Washington and was employed
as clerk in the Treasury. He attend
ed the little church so closely aSso
ciated with Elder Moore, was ordained
to preach by this church and soon aft
erward he became the pastor of the
Baptist Church in Alexandria. There
is another item of interest: Oliver c.
Comstock came to Washington from
New York as a member of one of the
early Congresses. He was baptized
and received as a member of this
church. BY it he was licensed to
preach in 1919.
Rev. jeremiah Moore also played his
part in the organization of the Second
Baptist Church, which was THE Navy
Yard Baptist Church" constituted June
3. 1910, as Regular Baptist Church"
The constituting council were Elders
jeremiah Moore, William Grimstead
and Robert Latham, all of Virginia.
The constituent members were Bartle-
son Fox, Clement Boswell, Harvey
Bestor. Joseph Borrows and Sarah
Borrows Services were held at first
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man who discovered the great salt de-
posit- He tells me that they have al
ready gone down through the salt with
1000 feet without reaching the bottom.
The island is underlaid with a great
block of salt which is about two miles
long. half mile wide and almost half
a mile deep. This salt is Joined to-
gether in one great rock, and by chemi-
Ell ananysis il Is more than 99-s
pure. 1 have Clipped of pieces of it.
They look like the finest quartz and
much like rock candy. The salt crystals
are of different sizes. Some are as
large as a marrow-fat pea, others as
big as my fist and larger. The salt is
taken by the elevator to the shaft
house, where 1t Is run through presses
and put up in bags and barrels to be
shipped to the market.
This is only one Of the great salt
mounds of southern louisiana Four
others are known to exist. the Eve
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prairie. and has a height of eighty
three feet. The area is about 5000
acres. 1t was discovered in drilling for
oil. The drills first went through blue
and red clay. then through clay and
sand. and then passed through. bed OF
gypsum 37s feet thick. After that there
were sulphur and gypsum. and then
the pure salt was reached. Texas also has
salt lakes. and there is a great deal Of
salt mixed with the marshes of south
ern Louisiana.
I have been much interested in the
story of the salt mines here at Avery
Island. The first known of them was
when George Washington was still
serving as President OF the United
States. 1t was in 1891 that hunter
and trapper named John Hays found
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IN telling a part of tho story of
Mooreneld. the homo Of Jeremiah
Moore, the primitive Baptist
q preacher, tho Rambler made
brief reference to tho fact that in 1902
this clergyman with the Revs. Lewis
Richards. Adam Freeman and William
Parkinson constituted the First Baptist
Church of Washington. This church.
after lis years of vigorous LIE, Is ono
of the great and earnest congregations
of the capital. Turning back through
the scar and crinkly files of the Ma
tional Intelligencer, the Rambler
{ found the following advertisement in
the issue of March 10. 1902:
On the FIRST Lords day in March. 1902 the
hssm freeman and William Parkinson min.
listers of the Baptist denomination. having met
P" Aftes suitable sermon delivered by Mr..
Moore they constituted church ny tne name
The ssipp Of tns pnbcaon is to inform
the Baptsts far as Il may extend nd that on,te
herr 'As Which ven hope will adj
tioual inducement to such as may feel incnned
p rg of that denomination to visit their
brethren and preach to the people In this place.
In 1867 there was printed for Andrew
Rothwell by W. Ballantyne History
of the Baptist Institutions of Washing
ton. D. c." Before extracting from this
old book some interesting facts reiat-
ing to the Rev. Jeremiah Moore and
the first of the Baptist churches OF
Washington. the Rambler Will reprint
the following advertisement:
1t having become known to some of the mem
tuf (Nhurrh
Andrew RothweI had been recently engaged
in collection of facts and statistics relating TO
the rise progress and present condition OF the
several BAPTIST churches in Washington city as
also of the literary and benevolent institutions
established at the National Capital unoer me
auspices of the Baptist denomination. his breth-
rem BY vote of the church TO that effect, re-
quested him at such time might suit his con-
he had prepared. In kindly accedng to this re-
request Mr.. Rothwell designated the evening OF
Friday Aps 70 ,s the wf tsey had n
Gated. As II not doubted that the members
I of the other Baptist churches In Washington
would gladly share in the privilege thus Afforded
an invitation extended to them on his be-
half by the pastor and friends of the Street
Church.
Accordingly. on the evening that had been Sc
Iected a large and intelligent audience was as
sembled in the lecture room Of the street
the Baptist churcles of Washington with the
exception of those exclusively organised by col
ored bre.hrenp. and also from the Columbian Col
Iese and the National Theological Institute, in
whose hearing Deacon Rothwen proceeded to
read the historical sketch he had compiled.
The praise given Deacon Rothwell
was unstinted, and the paper was
printed under the auspices of several
eminent Baptist churchmen. and among
the names of those gentlemen promi-
nent in preserving this record the
Rambler finds those of Rev. DR.. S. P.
HILL q. Richards. DR.. Samson, presi-
dent of Columbian College: Rev. DR..
Gillette, j. c. yelling. DR.. Gray. j. 8.
Poler and Messrs. Norton. Wood. Fore.
Dulin Beard and Yeatman. After CIV
ing substantially the information
which may be CLEANED from the ex-
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smooth in movement and lightened by
as much of Imagination as the char
acter of the study allows.
ARE WE CAPABLE OF sELF-GoV-
ERNMENTf BY Frank w Noxon.
Introduction by Harry A Wheeler
New York: Harper & Bros.
This contribution to business litera-
ture covers the years 190o-1916 Its
purpose is to analyze national problems
and policies as these have affected BUSH
ness within the period covered by Mr.
NoXon's investigation. 1t is, therefore,
somewhat in the nature of history,
something of a study of economies
somewhere near to a survey of politics
and legislation. All of these in part it
sums as whole to competent all
around summary Of the subject put
across to readers in a terse and strik-
ing medium Of plain hard sense. There
is no answer to the question embodied
in the title of the study. Rather does
the writer provide the material for in
divfdual answers by his thorough re-
view OF the strictures-good and bad
together-placed upon organized bust
ness by the law makers and the bu-
reaucrats. BY virtue of its manner as
well as by virtue of its sound sub
stance, the book stands as an admirable
one for the use of the practical busi-
ness man and woman who need must
know the working relations of the gov
eminent. not only to business in gem
eral. but to their own particular field
as well. 1t Is an equally desirable
book for the student who ;hould have
at hand just such wildly put sum
mary of the subject as this one is in
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Frank G. Carpenter Visits Salt Caves of Avery lslar
island


SAT- crystals were FORMED me-. mere - to .
"ere Loiuieu as 1870, 80 ~
LOT mo 1saiias anu p'o' -
'housahof, OF years e..
sS , W. h,,,a
leel SAFE as " 4's 81. sup ~ -
enough SAT- IN oilieie pal - VI ~
Union tG supply ourselves anu W. .a.i
drens ohiloren 10 any huihpeI o. sen ~,
eratiohs 10 come. anu 10 eia"ie
export vast amounts 10 other pai.s "
the world Our present consumption
is about l07 pounds a year Tor every
man. woman and child in the country.
1t amounts TO about ten POUNDS per
week Tor every 1amliy, ana large
part of this goes into manufactures
such as the packing of meat and in
other preservative works which are
now important on account Of the war
The salt mined in 1915 was valued at
the average price of 81 cents a barrel.
or in the netghborhood of one-tenth of
a cent per pound We used a little less
than $4,000, 900 worth that year
,..,
mat SAT- came from ioui
ent states, and it was sold in all
,-,des from, tho htr ,urnDs used for
cs+
the saitlnB OF cattie 10 the "i''St
of dairy and table salts More than
..... 49, ,od,ct o,ne from,
-, >-o,,
the salt wells OF MichlRah ana Ne"
York. Almost 6.ooo,Ooo parreis cdiie
from Ohio. while the mines or Kansas
supplied almost 3,00o,Ooo. more imam =
million tons came from California
and there was quite a lot manufactured
on the shores of the great Salt lake.
The Great Salt lake Is six times as
salty as the oceans, and the Dead sea
has far more saline matter than the
Great Salt lake. Nevertheless, the
waters of the oceans have so much min,
eral salt that the amount Is beyond
human comprehension. The scientists
who have made chemical analyses of
sea water estimate that every 100
pounds of it contains nearly 3ik pounds
of salt They estimate that cubic
mile of ocean water contains salt to
weight OF 10000 900 tons. which would
be enough to load 10000 steamers of
$4,000 tons each They have figured
out what would happen IL the salts
were all taken out OF the ocean: that
is. If it were evaporated and laid down
on the bottom of the sea. The result
would be that the seabed would be
built ,,p with salt to n height of rs
feet or to a height something like that
of a sixteen or seventeen story fat
Now the surface of the land is only
about one-third that of the oceans, so
that If the salt in the oceans were
snread ont over the land the earth
Would he buried in salt to n depth of
over 500 feet, or as deep almost as the
Washington monument is high. II it
wore drouncd down en- the United States
II would cover every hit Of this coun-
trv%rnountains. valleys and plains-to
a den.b Of between one and two rli,.s
and leave enough to form n deem salt
80 ~, oil NJ our outlvtny nossesstops
N.verthe,ess there arc narts of the
nr,d that have nracticsllv mo salt at
NJ have heen in some If tho wet
,ands of Africa where salt was so
nroa tbat the children sucked ~ ,ilse
sa ca. ,,.ssas al MONEY In CIV. sait &c
sals paSI ~ tho ,overnpent ,nd tha
IN n,bo gets a concession for sei1ips
~; i,nost apy large district 10 soo,,
~ IN a'n IT, 49,, fnrtnna ~ $50 so
ape 70 say, ~ cbina comns frer, pa ~
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Points of Offense.

A PAcIFIsT said at banquet in New
"a York:
After all. gents. let US remember that
Prussia has got her good points
Yes" said a heckler, "the same as o
porcupine has got his"
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in the first place. my guardianship account for
my ward Julia Anne Davis and the whole of
these debts will be due by the 1st day of July
next l wish the money to be collected and the
settlement with the court TO be made as soon
as possible. The money I have received belong
ing to the orphan may be seen TO the and
the time 1t was received stated in my book OF
accounts.
Robert B. Semple, an early Baptist
minister in King and Queen county. Va.
in his History of the Rise and Progress
of the Baptists in Virginia.. had the
following to say about the Rev. Jere-
miah. whom he knew well:
In point Of talents Mr.. Moore certainly stands
in the front row Of Virginia preachers. His per
son and voice are extremely advantageous his
style is strong and energetic, and indeed, eIe-
giant. especially as he had not had the advan-
tnGes OF refined education. His ideas nre bril-
limit and really flow upon him 50 abnndantly
that by some Of his friends It has been thought
rather hurt. as 1t prevented him from making
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22

LOUIS Beer, author of British CO.
lonial Policy" etc. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
Mr.. Beers study stands as an argu-
ment for a cooperative alliance Of the
English speaking peoples of the world,
an alliance that would bind together
all the continents and many of the is
lands of the seas. Such a cooperative
world bond is. according to the writer
the essential condition Of freedom and
liberty for the present civilization, as il
is. also, the essential of common Sc
curity Defining the International an
archy that is now prevailing against
governments Of any sort. the writer
draws from this confusion the affinities
OF purpose and objective that draw the
Engltsh-speakfng peoples toward one
another in the interests Of a common
alliance He gives circumstantial ac-
count of the opening out Of American
foreign policy since 1914 and of the i'm
mediate reaction of the United States
to the great war itself A specially
informing chapter is that on Economic
lnterdependence." This the student of
current movements and trends will find
TO be thoroughly considered and au-
thoritative outlook upon economic in
terrelations. The whole study is adj
dressed to the student and arranged
Tor his use by ample notes that lead
toward a larger examination of the
subject.
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Reviews of New Books

BIS OWN COUNTRY. By Paul Kester
indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill
Company.
is an easily supposable
case. A negro lad. sired by
one Of the gentry of Virginia,
might go to some locality
where race Drei,,dice was
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-08-07
EVIDENCE OF ECONOMY.

The present state administration gave much time last
fall to spreading the gospel of economy campaign
slogan At the time there great many people in
clined to charge it up to political buncombe
Whatever doubts may have existed in this matter be-
fore since the election should be expelled for the
administration has given substantial evidence that it is
doing business economy basis Its greatest economy
plan to be to reduce the cost Of maintaining desper
ate criminals at the state prison. The plan is simple
enough and it is strange that thought of it
before. The system is to show criminals the open
road, give them wagon room" and assure them it is
long ways to the end of the world That the system is in
every way successful is shown by the fact that in
weeks fourteen desperadoes have taken advantage of the
opportunity and left for parts unknown.
Now and then tmid murderer hesitates to leave
the ills he has and fly to others that he knows not Of
In such the criminal is given heroic treatment The
guard simply supplies him with and ammunition
and says, "Good-by jim; take keer of yourself" With
this there record of convict refusing
CO. and each day finds few less plates at the table
1t works saving in food and materially lightens the
abors of prison officials 1t is also saving the board of
pardons considerable worry, and should eventually work
further saving by making that body entirely unneces
sary The economy plan is working fine.-Herald- Re-
publican a4-
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-08-07
teregts Many women took to producing art objects and

teres Many took to producing art objects and
artistic home furnishings.
Their product was interesting, original and harmon
GUS 1t enabled many families to buy material giving
their dwellings distinctive character with beauty of It's
own. The craftswoman found mental simuloLs and con-
genial employment in turning out superior product
Unfortunately this kind of work brings in money re-
turns far below its merit AS the craftswomen
worked out idea the factories initiated it with machine
product for half the money and made fairly good but
of it. too Of course there will always be many tasteful
people who will form market for high grade of hand
work But factory products are made SO much more
cheapy and often good that the market for hand
made house furnishings will always be limited.
was said by people interested in this movement that
person could about ten cents an hour making high
grade raffia baskets While these highly cultivated and
gifted turning out these lovely art products
for that pittance the most ignorant alien earn
twenty-five cents hour scrubbng floors. Which sug
ges that the people who in for art professionally need
other Of support and in far they depend on
art their food must be largely spiritual rather than
teria.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-08-07
THE TELEPHONE SITUATION.

The local telephone company has stated its pretty
clearly There to be intention of holding out
the public in any way, but rather to give every sub
scber the best possible service under the circumstances
AS public service corporation it has learned long ago
that service is asset and has worked to that end
At the present time the telephone company is confront
ed with conditions which it has control. The
shortage in materials necessary to increase and improve
the service is not confined to Salt Lake alone The same
conditions exist in Denver Chicago, Seattle and other
cities and there is way to them The gov
eminent in the to win and must have first consider
alton in the demand for supplies 1t is patriotic duty
for telephone companies and other to stand
aside when doing will best the urgent needs of
the government for materials
That the service will be willingly and gladly improved
just as soon materials available fully as
sured In the meantime the public asked to be
ably patient with service that is par perhaps
a little better than the service in other cities.
There are great many people who abuse the tele-
phone The girls at the switchboard could testify to this
If they permitted to do So Too many women and
great many the telephone short circuit for
social gossip Children permitted to view the tele
phone plaything all of which causes trouble
delay and to other subscribers and to the OBJ
Grating department than the offenders realize little
more consideration little common sense in the use of
the telephone and due regard for the rights of others
and Salt Lake will be able to bridge its telephone troubles
without srous incompetence to the public-Herald-
Republican.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-08-07
WHAT MAKES MILITARY SUCCESS.

The qualities that make military success
and another military failure are rather obscure
Some of the finest drlmasters West Point ever turned
out have not out in actual fighting They knew the
theory of out Of books but lacked power to command
On the other hand there have been neer do wells who
never succeeded in business but great soldiers.
Gen. Grant somewhat of this class. He was failure
in business careless in money matter becoming involved
in debt until finally his father took him out of the wet
and gave him job at SIS per week. 1t is hard to account
of it. One would thing that the man who was careless
in his business, would display in his army work similar
carelessness that would be runOus.
Yet the minute Grant got command of body of men,
he woke up, displayed gift for determined action fol-
lowed up with stubborn pernacity, and governed by
far reaching foresight 1t to take the intensity of
battle to arouse some natures from their torpor.
For the army to pick from the mass of raw ma
teria in training the fellows who have this excep-
tonal gift is task calling for fine discrimination. The
old standards won't count in these days of trench
fare 1t will not necessarily be the who make his
company produce the best appearance in dress parade
certain habit of positive command will be large
factor The officer must have the ring of authority in
his voice. almost the note of severity 1t takes the
to urge the aggards to action Strong and forceful
characters needed with quick perceptions and
common sense to size up situations. But perhaps the
first quality is the power for domination only through
which leader induce his followers to dare and do
the impossible. ,..-..... ~, r
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-08-07
PROVES GERMANY WAS
EAGER TO BEGIN WAR

Washington. Aug. 3.-Positive in
formation that Germany had knowl-
edge of Austria's ultimatum to Serbia
which plunged the European CONT
nent into war is in possession of gov
eminent officials. Foreign Secretary
Zimmerman admitted this when
pressed by the reichstag.
German and Austrian diplomats
held war council in Potsdam and
there decided to wage battle against
the world IL necessary.
This council discussed the note toS
Serbia twelve hours before that ep-'
ochal document was delivered in Bel
grade. according to Deputy Cohn.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-08-07
DISCARDED ELDERLY MEN.

The head of large printing office in New York re-
Gently wanted three boys to office workers and
messengers. He advertised and got replies 1t
cured to him try for elderly who out of work
He advertised with that in view, and had so replies.
Most of these men wrote good letters and seemed in
teent He put three of them to work and found them
very satisfactory 1t a suggestion that there is
large class of elderly who have been discarded from
shops and stores yet who capable of doing very good
work.
Industry is swift today and great many drop
out at premature age At sixty man should still be
able to do lot of work. but many find themselves unable
to keep up with the younger fellows If is sick
and out week, he may find in his place when
he back The firm may not have turned him off,
but they not sorry for to put in younger
Men of this age are serious minded, they work with
fidelity and often their experience enable them to offer
useful suggestions. great many of them losing their
regular employment will take up the doing of odd jobs
Men of much intelligence often seen doing small
tasks below their abilities.
Many elderly men spending this summer in garden
and farm work AS long the lasts they can find
employment the land Very likely they would be better
off there permanently than taking precarious positions
In factories and stores There many speciates in
food raising they could learn If good crops this year
reduce the price of feeds poultry raising will again offer
wide field for such workers.