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Hf HIT 2 Htt fcAjt3iiX 9Vr 5s U5 ZEbe Washington oet SSSBHISBWSP THfc WASHINGTON POST SUNDAY JXlSTB 9 1912 Publication Office Pennsylvania Avenue near Fourteenth Street TRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Delivered by Carrier In Washington and Alexandria Dally Sunday lncuded one month I JJ JDftlly Sunday included one week Daily Sunday excepted one month jj Sally Sunday excepted one week By Mall Postage Prepaid ODafly Sunday excepted one year I JJ Daily Sunday Included one year Dally Sunday excepted one month Dally Sunday Included one month Sunday one year 4U All Subacriptlons by Mall Payable In Advance Remittances should be made by draft caecka postofflce orders reentered letters or express orders payable to THE WASHINGTON POST CO Washington Entered at the postofflce at Washington as second class mall matter Fortixn Advertising Representative FaTJL BLOCK 250 Fifth Avenue New York Ster Jtlldlnt Chicago Tremont Building Boston SUNDAY JUNE 9 1912 LET THE POST FOLLOW YOU Washlnrtonlans leaving the city should not fall to have THE POST follow them In this ay only can they keep fully informed about affairs at th Capital Addresses may be changed as often as desired and the paper will come promptly to any part of the country Send orders to POST Phone Main 4206 Always give old as well as new address and stats definitely how long the paper Is to be mailed Bubicrlptlon rates above Mail subscriptions re payable in advance to The Washington Post Company bigger fees for prevention than for cure Probably It Is an exaggeration to say that 90 per cent of the litigants should consult a doctor instead of ja lawyer but it is certain that most litigants need a doctor when they get the lawyers bill anyhow so they might as well consult the family physician in the first place If he is a man of common sense he will advise his patient to settle his grievances outside of court Alaska and the only beneficiaries of such a plan would be a few politicians The whole proposition shows plainly that it would be veil to give consideration t6 the suggestion that a land court be established to have Jurisdiction over all public land cases not only as to Alaska but in other parts of the country Just as there is need for the retention of the Commerce Court which Is serving its purpose in expediting cases relating to Interstate commerce so there might be a land court to decide the knotty problems BATTLESHIPS AT ALL HAZARDS A canvass of the Senate having shown that the two battleship amend concerning land especially with regard ment adopted In committee commands BACK TO THE TARIFF i Of recent day the personal element in politics has occupied the public mind fo fully that convention talk paid scant attention to the assembling of planks into platforms at Chicago and Baltimore The near approach of convention time however has forced the question to the front and made it apparent that however absorbing the excited discussion over the characteristics of rival candidates the situation will settle back once the tickets are named to a tug of war over policies All along the tariff has stood out though at times obscured by matters Of passing moment as the dominant Issue on which the two great parties would go to the country in 1912 and there is no indication that either party has been swerved from that purpose The feeling among leading Republicans at Chicago is favorable to a tariff jflank along the lines of the New York State platform which by the way is about the only fighting plank in that interesting declaration of 0 principles The plan in question runs as follows Wo believe in the Republican principle of protection to American work Jngmen American industries and the American farmer Customs duties should be adjusted so as to cover the difference between the cost of production in this and In other countries and such adjustments should be made by Congress upj aris ascertained by an impartial board of authority ti make a thorough investigation We tendemn the action of the Democratic party In the House of Representatives who long professed to favor a tariff commission to ascertain the facts upon which customs might be based and who immediately alter obtaining power repudiated their former professions and proceeded to pass tariff bills without regard to the facts reported and without Inquiring into or caring for the needs of American business or American labor It should be explained that the foregoing plank represents the views of Taft supporters There is nothing to go on as to tariff should Roosevelt be the nominee it being taken for granted that he would write his own platform except that ho has always acquiesced in the action of his party Nothing has been formulated expressive of general sentiment among Democrats with respect to the tariff but the individual views of the leaders so far as expressed indicate that the plank will commit the party to a clear majority in that body the advocates of naval expansion feel assured that the backward program which has met with no influential support outside of the House will not be carried out in any important particular While it Is to be expected that something will be sacrificed to the give and take method of coming to an agreement In conference the Senate side is not at all likely to consent to having the battleship item included in the basis of compromise The other increases made by the Senate are essential if the complementary idea of construction is to be observed but rather than give up even one of the big ships it would be better to assent to a scale down in the rest of the list Nothing ought to be conceded as to the size and cost of the proposed superdreadnoughts They should be the largest and most powerful craft ever built Development in tne smaller types of warships is practically at a standstill while the battleship is still taking enormous strides toward a maximum that naval science has not as yet fixed definitely The House theory that this country stands in no danger of going to war with any nation our superior in naval strength is in conflict with every school of opinion that makes itself felt in the consensus of views the peace advocates being among others of the conviction that a powerful American navy is the best guarantee of peace in the Western world to Alaska and the western Bection of the country At present land matters are decided by the general land office As in the case of appeals from th8 Interstate Commerce Commission to the Commerce Court the appeals from the land office possibly should be made to a special tribunal where the unsupported reports of special agents would not invariably constitute the evidence upon which settlers may be deprived of their rights The Intricate land laws and the rights of thousands of struggling homemakers require that a tribunal shall be established of such a character as to deal out prompt Justice at nominal cost to litigants A QUESTION OF EUGENICS Two pet theories one of long standing and the other of more popular vogue were tapped rather heavily on the head by David Starr Jordan recently in an address at San Francisco One theory that he assailed was that cousins should not marry On this point he said There is no sense in the theory that cousins should not marry unless they are defective in some way and then they should notmarry whether they are cousins or not The other theory that Dr Jordan attacked was the popular argument that the state should by a process of selection develop a race of supermen Various public speakers have been advocating this theory with considerable fervor They have argued that there is more reason for careful supervision of the marriage of men and women than there is for the scientific breeding of pigs cows and horses As Dr Jordan points out however the difference between animals and humans is that in the case of the latter love and Initiative are necessary to the proper development of the race State selection he thinks eliminates love and initiative and perfection must be sought by forbidding the marriage of the mentally and physically imperfect Were the marriage of cousins encouraged however in accordance with the theory of Dr Jordan the race would very soon degenerate It is the great influx of new blood that has downward revision as written into niaQP a sturdy race of Americans In MANDATORY HONEYMOONS Singularly appropriate in this festive month of June when all the girls are either being married or pretending that they dont want to be married except of course the usual percentage who are getting divorced is the judicial opinion of Supreme Court Justice Platzek of New York making the honeymoon mandatory and giving to this famous Institution a standing It has not hitherto possessed Requested by one of the counsel In a pending case for a postponement on the plea that he was about to take unto himself a wife and wanted three days for a honeymoon Judge Platzek not only acquiesced but fixed the blissful period at one week There should be a law quoth he of the woolsack compelling a newly wed man to take a week off So the court adjourned Probably it is just as well We dont know what weighty legal points may be involved in the cause thus interrupted but it is just as well that no precedents be estab lished while one of the learned law yers moons through the trial with loves fairy cobwebs befogging his brain Nevertheless It is doubtful if Judge Platzeks decision will 6trike a responsive chord The honeymoon has been going out of style for some years past and for sound economic reasons too The time was when no pair of turtle doves were permitted to settle down in their cote until they had done Niagara Falls but in recent times the barbarity and extravagance of the custom have been more apparent The matrimonial shaking down trip is now recognized as a failure It began to wane about the time Saratoga lost its prestige The modern youth and maiden are too wise and now put into furniture and crockery the money formerly wasted on railroad fares and hotel bills Tis a far far better way And after all why fix the honeymoon period at a week What good is a honeymoon that doesnt last the record of the Democratic House of Representatives Candidates Champ Clark Underwood Marshall and Baldwin are of one mind on this point and Wilson and Harmon doubtless hold the same opinion though the Jersey governor is noncommittal Perhaps the terse statement of Underwood hits it off to a nicety Says he The Democratic House has shgwn that the Democratic party will carry out its promises to the people concerning a reduction of the tariff FIRST AID TO INJURED There is food for thought in the suggestion of Russell Duane one of the leaders of the Philadelphia bar for a short cut to the simplification of judicial procedure and the clearing of unimportant cases from the dockets of the courts His idea is that most persons who think they have a legal grievance should consult a doctor not a lawyer In effect he says that 90 per cent of the cases brought into court are the result of an unhealthy liver Mr Duane said that lawyers should advise most of their clients to go to a doctor before going to court Then there would be very little litigation Jt would be better for the public probably but not so good for the lawyers As a matter of fact however lawyers are tending more and more toward settling cases out of court In some countries in the Far East it is the practice to pay doctors for keeping their clients in good health As soon as the patient grows sick the doctors pay ceases It is to his interest to hurry the patient back to health The people of the United States have not yet reached that point but they are nearing it Corporations today no longer hire lawyers to get them out of trouble They hire lawyers by the year to keep them out of trouble The lawyers who now receive the highest fees are those who donot fight their battles in court but who keep their clients out of court After a while individuals will try tokecpjjut ot court too and will pay Tti rVW termarriage among cousins in certain European nations has undoubtedly liad a baneful effect upon the royal families Many of the States in this country absolutely forbid the marriage of first cousins While this may be carrying the case too far and may work injustice in certain Instances certainly the parents of children should discourage marriage with cousins What the nation needs is new blood and that is what the family needs Probably in this as in the matter of the selection of mates generally the law of human nature works toward results that are just as good as those that might come from state regulation of such matters After all the whole subject resolves itself into a question of individual discretion LEFT HANDED CONSERVATION If the essence of conservation is to save at the spigot and let out at the bung no fault can be found with the proposed leasing system for Alaska It is proposed to exact a royalty of 5 cents a ton on all coal mined by private parties in Alaska Estimated on a basis of 500000 tons a year the royalty would amount to 25000 Of this sum 12500 would go to Alaska and the other 12500 to the United States government What would become of the governments 12500 It would go to the men appointed by the government to collect the royalty and more with it it would be necessary to appoint a collector of royalty a subcollector and a few other collectors and in addition it would be necessary to employ inspectors at the mines to see that the government was getting all that was coming to it There are already collectors of revenue in various parts of the United States who are paid substantial salaries to collect a mere fraction of their salary As part of the general system a few cases are Inevitable But why add a new absurdity to the government system It might cost twice 12500 to collect the royalties in WEDS FRENCH NOBLE OF HISTORIC HOUSE Prin Charles de Beauveau Cracfn whose marriage to the daughter Of the Count and Countess de St Aldegonde has just taken place in Faris Urtn of the iewjjreat French nobles who addition to their other honors are grandees ot Spain and princes of the holy Roman empire and therefore entitled by the flatter high distinction to be addressed as serene highness He Is the sixth prince of his line Is about 34 years old and like the fairy tale hero of our childhood the famous Marquis de Carabas owns a great number of chateaux Including the ancient castle of Craon in the department of Meurthe et Moselle which has been the home of his family ever since 1570 when Pierre de Beauveau married Jeanne last of the then already ancient house of Craon The present prince la also Marquis de Beauveau and Marquis de Craon his title of prince of the holy Roman empire having been registered by Ixmis XV who added thereto that of French prince The family of Beauveau who came originally from Anjou has furnished to France field marshals ministers of state Ambassadors prelates and men of letters Prince Marc de Beauveau Craon was made the mentor of Duke Francis of Lorraine and when the latter became German emperor as husband of Maria Theresa he was appointed viceroy of the grand duchy of Tuscany which Francis had exchanged for his duchy of Lorraine Soldier Prince Died on the Scaffold Prince Charles another of the family won fame as a soldier in the latter part of the eighteenth century and eventually became one of the last ministers of state to Louis XVI meeting his death In his seventy fourth year on the scaffold In the Place de la Concorde with the perfect calm that had always been one of his dls Ungulshlng traits The present prince is the only male survivor of his line and unless his bride presents him with a son In due course another great historic French house will become extinct since none of his German or French honors can in this case pass on to female heirs The one blot on the escutcheon of Craon Is the fact that his paternal grandmother was the famous Mme de Cayla the favorite of Louis XVIII One of her daughters by Louis XVIII married the third Prince de Beauveau Craon and brought to him the Immense wealth given to her mother by the King Mme de Cayla was the daughter of Advocate General Omer Talon and was educated at the famous school of Mme Cam pan where she had as companions Hortense de Beauharnais mother of iXapoleon III Caroline Buonaparte consort of King Murat of Naples Mile Leclalre who became the wife of Marshal Davoust and Mme de Remusat author of the most widely read memoirs of the First Empire The kings favorite died in 1852 bequeathing as I have said already ev erything to her daughter Princess Isa beau de Beauveau Craon except the chateau and park of St Ouen another gift of the king which she left to the Comte de Chambord Henri He of course refused to accept It and the city of Paris put in a claim for the ownership which was promptly contested by Princess Isabeau She finally won the suit and subsequently sold the property SAGE WASS IS CAELBBEAN THE MOHEY QJJTZ Trip 1D12 model steam roller appears to have a self starting device How grateful John must be lumbus for discovering America Those riots In Brussels Indicate there Is something on the carpet that Doc Wiley declines the offer to head Bostons health board and the boraxed sacred cod can now take a long breath Its a good deal easier to put a man in jail whom Burns convicts than it is to keep him there when the facts leak out New York will continue to suffer from gang wars until she gives to her police the same right to go armed that she accords to her rowdies Rabbi Simon says that Columbus was a Hebrew but after looking over the parade we think it more likely that he was either a Cork or a Kerry man The tribute to old Chris lacked that subtle touch which would have come from having a couple of organ grinder and a banana cart in the parade Those Atlantic City doctors who declared that you must stop kissing your baby used the word in its literal not in its modern ragtime sense so cheer up Those Bowery bandits whose exploits are winning the admiration of their fellow citizens were just a little too late to get Into Alfred Henry Lewis new book Joe Dixon says that the Taft delegates have committed murder but the chances are that when the political coroner sits on Joes remains he will call It a case of suicide Another great argument for Champ is that when he is President they can dispense with both cops and troopers at the White House for an Ozark houn makes a bully watchdog The New York white wing parade was accompanied by a pouring rain Well we know of no street cleaner who is more entitled to a place In the procession than old Jupe Pluvlus The Maine man who has been easing It up for the past year by monthly contributions of 1 to the conscience fund probably thinks that a seat in heaven can be bought on the installment plan A Kansas sheriff has been ordered by the court to open 1S000 bottles of beer and pour the contents out There should be no difficulty in getting a large supply of harvest hands in the Sunflower State this year Dairymen on the Pacific coast says the New York American say that music will induce cows to give more milk Every farmer should have a ponograph playing selections at milking time The Beautiful Blue Danube Way Down Upon the Swanee River and The Old Oaken Bucket for instance Austrian Emperors Mounted Guard Every American who has visited Vienna and especially those who have had the honor of presentation at the Austrian court will recall the superb appearance of the emperors corps of mounted guards or to give them their proper title the Leibgarde Relter Es cadron The officers of this corps delite who are recruited from the greatest houses In the land are always on duty at the Hofburg and on state occasions show their thoroughbred horses and their fine uniforms when they accompany the emperors carriage It Is often from among them that the young archduchesses seek their partners at the court balls for they are the best dancers in Austria as a rule The emperor has just appointed to the command of this corps his aid decampdecamp Prince von Welkershplm In succession to Count Felix von Thun Hohen stein who retired on account of ill health The prince is the morganatic son of the late Prince Charles Hohenlohe and of the latters wife a woman of humble birth known as Marie Grat wohl a native of the little town of Weikershelm which is comprised in the vast domain of the princely house of Hohenlohe She was created on the occasion of her marriage Baroness von Bronn by the late King of Wurttemberg and It is under the name of Prince of Weikershelm that her son who Is married to Countess Marie Czernin member of one of the grandest families of the old feudal aristocracy of Austria is known Founder of the House of Hohenlohe The princely house of Hohenlohe regards as its founder Henry I von Weikershelm who flourished in 1156 and when the son of Baroness von Bronn was advanced by Emperor Francis Joseph to the rank of prince it was considered quite appropriate that he should revive this ancient and almost forgotten name of the family to which he belongs through his father The latter was the eldest brother of the mother of the German empress and of that Prince Hermann Hohenlohe who until a few years ago was governor general of Alsace Lorraine Their mother was that Princess Feodora of Leinlngen who was a stepsister of Queen Victoria and who figured so repeatedly and In such affectionate terms in the queens published description of her life In the Highlands and in her other reminiscences Consequently Prince Weikershelm is a grandnephew of Queen Victoria and It was because he was as such a nephew a la mode de Bretagne of King Edward that he was always attached to the suite of the English monarch whenever he visited Vienna or Ischl Of course when the emperor advanced Weikershelm to the rank of prince he did not Invest him with the rights and prerogatives of a full fledged prince of Hohenlohe The Hohenlohes are a mediatized or formerly sovereign family and are thus entitled to mate on a footing of equality with the sovereign houses of Europe and the chief of the house even retains the right to bestow the Order of Knighthood founded by his ancestors In fact the Hohenlohes are of quasi sovereignsovereign rank whereas Prince Weikersheim on his promotion was merely raised from one of the lower grades to the highest but one of the ordinary nobility MARQUISE DE FONTEXOY Copyright 1H2 ty tie Brentwood Company Movements of Naval Vessels Arrived Maryland at Port Townsend Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Ohio and Solace at Guanta namo Prairie at ManzanlHo Potomac at Newport Sailed Maryland from Tlburon tor Tort Ttnrn end Maryland Irom Port Townsend lor Portland Oreg Paducan from Daiquiri for Santiago de Cuba Eagle from Guantaaimo tor Daiquiri Sylph from Washington for Hampton Roads San Ftaaclsco from Norfolk fpr AnaapIljrEetd from Norfolk lor New Yor A Problem for Us if We Should Have to Govern Cuba From the Boiton Transcript The black rate and tHe white race meet oftener than theymingle JTegroid ele mentsof population develop but they usually are socially semjoutcasts in lands dominated by tl Anglo Saxon or people of Teutonic stocjf In Latin countries there has been less race prejudice than among Anglo Saxons Latin peoples are commonly supposed to be more tolerant or at any1 event less exacting than Americans or Britons in the matter of racial purity of blood This conception of the Latin attitude receives a rude shock in Cuba where we find the people of the Island dividing on the color line the negroes protesting that they are treated with rank injustice because they are negroes and the whites falling back on the law of seU preservatlon as Justin fication for enacting the law forbidding the organization of political parties on the basis of race This Cuban outbreak Is by no means a solitary Instance of the difficulty of keeping the two races at peace with one another after a theoretical political equality has been established Throughout the West Indies one race or the other is In political ascendency In Haiti as in Santo Domingo the colored people govern in the right of a vast majority In Haiti the line has been drawn not alone on color but on tint The raulattoes are the liberal or progressive element sometimes with and sometimes without the cooperation of the small white population they have been In revolt against the sway of those whom they designate as blacks Black woman brown lady is a social definition and direction by no means limited to Jamaica even if it originated there Jamaica itself Is dominated by negroes and their descendants the whites are In a minority that would be physically power less but Is politically so well organized and so well directed that with a tactful division of offices at least peace prevails under the aegis of Great Britain Even In Jamaicas history there have been tragic chapters as all will admit who can recall the race war of more than 40 years ago when the blacks were so ruthlessly suppressed by a minority driven desperate The Jamaica massacres were a scandal that had no little influence on British politics The French have had less trouble with the colored people In their West India possessions than other nations have en countered for the reason that their tolerance on the race question amounts al most to indifference Napoleon once said that In dealing with 8anto Domingo he made a mistake that Instead or attempting to subjugate the blacks he should have sent a number of white officers as instructors to them and have given these officers orders to marry colored women as a matter of policy This typifies the sentiment of more than one French colonial administrator The Cuban whites have this advantage they are in a great numerical preponderance in the whole population They too seemed to live happily enough with their colored neighbors under the old regime but with the establishment of Cuban independence which opened new possibilities of political action to the colored race trouble began and has continued until now it has developed Into full fledged revolt We may ultimately have to govern Cuba We Irave been compelled in the last decade to Intervene by force at least once and we are now stopping short only la the formaldiplomauc sense of anotner intervention I If we should be so unfortunate as to be compelled to occupy Cuba permanently we are so forewarned by this race war that there will be no ex cuse for us If we are not forearmed also WITH THE 3JATUEE FAKEES Demands From the New York Sun Knlcker What is the matter with Smith Bocker His baby wants the moon and his wife wants the earth ARMY OBDERS Leaves of absence Lieut Col HENRY SNYDER medical corps one month JlaJ PALMER TIKRCE Fifteenth Infantry two months Capt GEORGE MITCHELL signal corp two months Capt DAN MOORE field artillery one month and twelve days First Lieut GEORGE MASON dental surgeon two months First Lieut SHELLEY MARIETTA medical reserve corps ten days Col JAMES ALLISON assistant commissary general Is retired from active service he will proceed to his home A board of officers to consift of Lieut Col EDMUND BLAKE coast artillery corps MaJ EARL I BROWN corps of engineers and Capt WILLIAM MURRAY coast artillery corps is appointed to meet at Fort Crocsett Tex about June 15 for the purpose of drawing up a project for the standard fire control Installation in the artillery district of Galveston Ma LEROY HILLMAN ordnance department will proceed to Schenectady on official business MaJ EDWIN LANDON coast artillery corps is designated to art as umpire of coast artillery target practice In the department of the East scheduled for the current year Orders assigning Ma WILLIAM JACKSON infanthy to the Slith Infantry and directing him to proceed to San Francisco Cal are revoked Ma JACKSON Is attached to the Third Infantry The name of Capt HERBERT BREES Fourteenth cavalry Is placed on the list of detached officers to take effect July 1 Capt MALIN CRAIG general staff cavalry Is assigned to the First cavalry to take effect July 1 Capt GEORGE MITCHELL signal corps is relieved from detail In that corps to take effect June 30 1912 Capt MITCHELL i3 assigned to the Fourteenth cavalry to take effect July 1 First Lieut ROBERT DANFORD Fifth field artillery will report by telegraph to his regimental commander for assignment to a station Orders relating to First LUut MARCELLUS THOMPSON coast artillery corps are revoked Each of the following named officers of the coast artillery corps will proceed to Fort Monroe Vc and report on August 28 to the commandant Coast Artillery School for the purpose of taking the regular course In that school First Lieut DEAN HALL First Lieut JAMES LYON and First Lieut EDWARD PUTNEY First Sergt JOSEPH BYRNE Company Thirteenth Infantry will be placed upon the retired list Grave Question of Individual Rights Involved Who Is Untermyei Editor Peat I waa glad to read the editorial on the TOoney Quitf lit your paper of My 29 You axe absolutely sound In your position that question of States rights of far reaching Importance Is Involved In the present tactics ot the House committee on banking That banker from Buffalo is entitled to very high praise for the courage and clearness with which he instructed the committee on some of the fine points of Democratic doctrine and American government Please keep after Chairman Pujo until he answers what the gentleman from Buffalo said about the usurpation by the Federal government of the powers constitutionally vested In the several States and the concentration of that power In Washington But the question of States rights Is not the only Important question Involved In thl aituatlon There is a very grave question of Individual rights viz the question whether upon the demand of an inquisitorial committee a depositor In a bank State or national is liable to have confidential information about his business affairs and Ms financial standing betrayed by the bank to which he intrusted that information When Mr tPujo has answered the Inquiry from Buffalo I should like to have him an swer this question and then there Is an other question that Is Interesting a great many people out this way What has become of the currency legislation of which such great things had been hoped Perhaps from Its central position from Its character as a railroad center radiating in every direction from its relation to the manufacturing of the Bast and the provision fields of the West St Louis is more intensely Interested than other sections in the free circulation of currency However that may be we here are Interested and we have viewed with no small disappointment and Impatience the failure of Congress to take any action on the report of the monetary commission which has been sleeping in the flies of some congressional committee for several months now I do not hold any brief of the monetary commission but I know that It made an exhaustive study of one of the most Important questions that has been before the American people for many years I know that men expert in financial legislation without regard to party differences agreed on a plan which has been commended by statesmen students econ omists and bankers all over the world as an honest scientific coherent and effective plan for safeguarding our national currency as a medium of ex change The measure may not have been perfect but without making any attempt to revise or perfect it Congress mysteriously pigeonholes the entire plan and starts out In a quixotic campaign that seems to be designed primarily to invade the privacy of every bank depositor in the land I do not know whether there is a money trust or not but if there is one I believe that nothing would more completely and effectually cripple its further activities than would the adoption of the report of the monetary commission in its present form If that Is desirable or if not in some form which might be perfected by a careful study of the measure in an appropriate committee of Congress Most of my acquaintances entertain the same view and the question is often asked whether the present Investigation with Its serious menace to all classes of business was started In an honest effort to improve the business of the country or was started as a means pi manufacturing political capital for some ambitious candidate It has been suggested that the voters of the country would be far more Interested In an Investigation as to the cause for the demise of the currency legislation than they axe in the present investigation The question has also been raised as to the personality and the character of the man who la acting counsel to the Pujo committee and who seems to be dominating its procedure May I inquire whether Samuel TJntermyer is a lawyer of high professional standing in his community Has he ever done anything to qualify him as an expert in probing into problems of banking and finance These questions are of earnest interest to many thoughtful peorle in this part of the country SIMMONS St Louis June 3 Rooster Dies of Old Age Same Day He i Is Eatcned From the New York Herald Three chicken experts of Cedar Grove Squire Baldwin George Henry Smith and Frank Hue agree that the death of a rooster owned by John Marshall a New York merchant who lives In Cedar Grove and which occurred yesterday was due to old age This conclusion was reached notwithstanding the fowl was hatched only yesterdays morning Mr Marshall recently moved to Cedar Grove and determined to raise chickens Having had no experience In that line he read up on the subject In one of the books he learned that it required 21 days to hatch hens eggs and that In that pe riod they must receive heat and moisture He thought that if a modicum of heat and moisture would effect Incubation in 21 days a maximum would bring about the desired result in a much shorter time Therefore he built an Incubator of his own design with a steam spray to pass over the eggs at all times He placed one egg in the Incubator and turned on the steam Yesterday jnornlng he went to the Incubator and was de lighted to hear a vigorous peep He opened the incubator and a healthy look ing young rooster broke through the shell of the egg The poultry book had described soft meal for young chicks and Mr Marshall hurried back to the house to prepare the food When he returned he was startled to hear the new arrival crowing lustily The rooster was already half grown Then he went after corn and when he returned he found the rooster fully grown When the Cedar Grove experts were called in they diagnosed the case as nat ural death due to old age Thats what comes of trying to bunko nature declared Squire Baldwin From the Maysville Ky Bulletin Sunday afternoon when the Chesapeake and Ohios fast No 2 pulled Into the station here Uncle Bill Chard started to make his round of inspection and discovered a black cat on the truck holster of the dining car The cat was seen In the Covington yard by the dining car force before the train pulled out for Cincinnati and how he managed to ride the long distance In his perilous position Is unexplainable The animal was given a home at the lunch counter WAVAL ORDERS Rear Admiral LUCIEN YOUNG to commandant navy yard Charleston 8 and Sixth naval district Rear Admiral HELM to naval station Key West Fla and Seventh and Eighth naval district as commandant Capt PLUNKETT commissioned a captain in the navy from April 27 Commander POWERS SYMINGTON commissioned a commander in the navy from May 10 Lieut ROBERTS commissioned a lieutenant In the navy from February 19 Lieut A WHITE commissioned a lieutenant in the navy from January 25 Lieut CAUSEY commissioned a llentenant in the navy from February 18 Lieut FULLER commissioned a lieutenant In the navy from March 1 Ensigns A BUTLER COMSTOCK GODWIN and SNYDER to Rhode Island Ewigns LEE A SIMPSON to Celtic Paymaster DOHERTY to connection fitting out Arkansas and as pay officer when commissioned Paymaster CHARLES CONARD to connection tlna out Wyoming and as pay officer when commissioned Par master JOHN IRWIN Jr wait ordera Passen Awistant Paymaster DOBSON to naval proving ground Indian Head Md as pay officer and general storekeeper Passed Asslsunt Paymaster SHARP to accounting officer navy yar Boston Mass Passed Assistant Paymaster TOOK WILLIAMSON Jr to connection fitting out Illinois and as pay officer when commissioned Passed Assistant Paymaster LUPTON to West Virginia Fused Assistant rajmuter rj ADBE to NortK jptroijii CHINA TO GET 58000000 International Bankers Resume Sessions to Arrange for the Loan Fears that the hostility of Japan and Russia would defeat the arrangements for the conclusion of the Joint International loan of 58000000 to China has been dissipated by the news from Paris received yesterday at the State Department Representatives of the international bankers resumed their sessions Friday the Japanese and Russian bankers participating Considerable progress toward a settlement was made although no details are available THE JUKE GRADUATES VON ZEDTWITZ ESTATE BIG Baroness Left 2660000 Part of It in American Securities From the New York World Mary Elizabeth Caldwell of Louisville who became Baroness von Zedt wltz left an estate ot 260295 of which Jl6545a4 consisted of personal property in this State and subject to the inheritance tax according to a report filed In the surrogates office yesterday by Deputy State Comptroller Fraser Although she spent most of her time abroad after marriage her Investments were American consisting of standard stocks and bonds After she became a widow she called Newport her residence Her son a minor is her chief heir She died in Frankfurt Germany in December 1910 Both the baroness and her elder sister Gwendolln Caldwell who married the Marquis Monstlers Merinville were not only famous Kentucky beauties but they called attention to themselves in later life by renouncing the Catholic faith Their mother was a Breckinridge Their father having been reared a Protestant turned Catholic and the girls were educated in the Convent of the Sacred Heart In this city Soon after coming into their Inheritance Gwendolin gave 300000 and the younger gave 50000 to the Catholic University In Washington Both returned to the Protestant faith in 1904 TAFT LEAVES ON YACHT Goes for Meeting of Trustees of Hampton Va Institute President Taft left Washington at 635 last night on the yacht Mayflower for Hampton Vai where he will atterid a meeting of the board of trustees of Hampton Institute of which he is a member A trip up the James River as far as Jamestown Island will be made by the President Mrs Taft and a party of friends on the yacht Sylph The President will return tomorrow morning ASKS ALL TO SAN FRANCISCO Pan American Union Would Make Success of Great Exposition Approval of the idea that every Latin American country be represented at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco was expressed in a report adopted at the final meeting for the year of the governing board of the Pan American Union The report emphasized the importance of the work being done by the union in bringing about closer acquaintances and increased trade relations among the i Amerlcanrepnblica feS Lampton In the New York HenlS Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet See the sweet girl graduate Shy and shrinking hesitate Ere she takes the step that leads Outward to the great worlds needs To its duties yet untried She approaches sanctified By her guileless Innocence By her inexperience Trembling on the verge she waits Final Judgment by the fates Standing with exultant feet Where the brook and river meet See the young man graduate Not much does he hesitate Ere he takes the step that leads Outward to the great worlds needs To Its duties yet untried He approaches with the stride Of a conquering hero who Knows exactly what hell do He has got the thing worked out He is troubled by no doubt He can answer any call Hes the chap that knows it all Sassy on the verge he waits To swat the whole darn bunch of fates A GOOD AVERAGE Carlyle 6mlth In Harpers Weekly My Phyllis vowed that shed be true The livelong summer season through And I I trusted her as I Would trust the stars up in the sky Steadfast to stand In spite of all Temptations that might them befall She left me for the sandy reach Of some far distant summer beach Which was so far away that neer A hope had I of getting there Somewhere up on the coast of Maine It might as well have been In Spain I moped and wailed I nearly wept As I in town my vigil kept With no relief to the distress Of unremitting loneliness The only comfort in my rue Her whispered promise to be true Some rumors came that seemed to say She flirted somewhat day by day And now and then I heard a tale That turned my rosy hopes all pale And yet with Jealous fears astir Firm in my faith I trusted her Then came the day of her return Oh how my beating heart did burn With thirst to have her back again From that far distant coast of Maine Have you been true I asked and then Her answer came Nine times in ten Popular Job From the Philadelphia Record All the worlds a stage quoted the Wise Guy And most of us want to occupy the critics seats added the Simple Mug REFLECTIOKS OF A BACHELOR From the Sew York Press Being a bit doubtful before doing a thing can help to make one more sure after it is done Theres no use being so good that everybody else is too bad to have anything to do with The more a man can pretend to cherish the Constitution the more its his own comfort thats all Important to him A woman has such an Imagination that when she Is fat she can worry about what if she should keep on losing till she was too thin When a man has ten minutes In which to dress eat breakfast and catch a train its a sign he is going to cut himself shaving break a shoestring and not be able to find his hat POIVTED PARAGRAPHS From the Chicago News A real cynic doesnt believe In love The wise girl doesnt get married until she can afford it A womans idea of a crank Is a man who doesnt like her If a man is too lazy to kick his wife insists that he is patient Perhaps babies talk funny for the purpose of guying grown up people If your wife thinks she is the whole showi dont tell her what you think The good opinion yqu have of yourself will not pass you through the pearly gates PEOPLE MET IN HOTEL LOBBIES Washington is the Ideal city to handlehandle parades remarked Cotwell of Salt Lake at the Bhoreham I witnessed the parade down Pennsylvania avenue of the Knights of Columbus this afternoon find I have never In all my experience seen a crowd handled with such ease and with less fuss and confusion There did not appear to be the least disorder There were no arrests made for violations of the law and the crowd was orderly and good natured And then you have such a fine avenue for such parades Pennsylvania avenue in my opinion cannot be beaten for such events I saw men walk down that thoroughfare twenty abreast and they might have marched down 40 abreast and yet there would have been plenty of space on each side for use in case of emergency The Capital of the nation should encourage such gatherings as that of the Knights of Columbus The city has ample accommodations In the shape of hotels and boarding houses and there is absolutely nothing lacking to make such meetings a success from every standpoint I wish to congratulate Washington and Its officials for the way In which the arrangements for the Knlght3 of Columbus were carried out There was absolutely no feature lacking in the entertainment provided The knights will go home satisfied from every standpoint and I believe they all feel that not in the very distant future will they have the opportunity of again holding their meeting In Washington Clark on First Ballot In my opinion Speaker Clark is as good as nominated for President said James A Henderson of Paducah Ky at the Ebbltt House The Speaker and his friends are not putting out any bogus claims about the delegates which have thus far been instructed for him The advocates of the other presidential candidates are making many wild claims respecting the strength of their favorites but Speaker Clark has every dele gate which Is claimed for him I look for his nomination at the Batlimore convention on the first ballot We need a man for President who has had legisla tive experience While I am a Democrat I want to make the statement that William McKinley was one of the greatest Presidents which this country has ever seen This was because he had had long service In the halls of Congress He was an experienced legislator He was acquainted with men and measures When he came to preside over the destinies of the nation he waa fully quipped to perform the duties Intrusted to him Speaker Clark has had the experience whleh peculiarly fits him for the presidential chair This is one of the strongest arguments in his behalf Saxons Love Their King Referring to the Item in the papers In regard to the King of Saxony having fallen from his horse at the military maneuvers St John Gaffney United States consul general to Dresden said at the New Willard The people of Saxony would deeply regret any mishap to their dearly beloved monarch He is extremely popular with his people and his devotion to his six motnerless children has won the hearts of all his subjects The Saxons are of the Lutheran faith but the royal family is essentially Roman Catholic The kings brother Prince Max givatiirnls distinguished and royal honbrsi toBecome a priest of the church and In fact all the members of the dynasty are fervent members of the Catholic fold This however has not interfered in any degree with the affection of the people generally for the head of the royal house The Wettln dynasty ha governed Saxony for 1000 years while the Hohenzollerns have been masters of Prussia a little over 300 years Believes Roosevelt Will Lose James CHearn of Albany who Is in Washington to attend the Columbus statue unveiling sees but slight Chance for Col TtooseveFt to win delegates from his home State to the support of his nomination at Chicago Mr 0Hearn comes from the home of Chairman William Barnes and he is confident that the New York leader will hold the entire delegation in line for President Taft At the New Ebbltt he said Col Rooeevelt will not get many delegates from New York Barnes Is against him and will he against him throughout the convention and it is a safe bet that the colonel will not be able to Induce much of a break from the President ifr OHearn also declared that the Democrats are a united party in his State factional fights now having been eliminated He could not say where the delegatlon to Baltimore would be found whena vote is taken but intimated that It would support a New York man for President Senator Nixons Generosity A Shepard secretary for Representative Raker of California tells the following bit of romance connected with the life of the late United States Senator George Nixon Senator Nixon was born on a farm In Placer county Cat said Mr Shepard 12 miles from my home in Auburn He was not cut out for a rancher so when yet in his teens he went to work for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and becoming a telegraph operator was final ly transferred and put in charge of a station out on the plains of Nevada He was agent baggage master telegraph operator and in fact was the whole thing the only living being on the place One day as the Overland Limited flew past the station George saw something fall and on Investigation discovered it to be a mans wallet containing several hundred dollars in greenbacks and some legal papers The identity of the owner was easily determined from the contents and youg Nixon lost no time in telegraphing ahead to Reno notifying the owner He proved to be a banker and some time ater when he opened a bank In Reno youngNlxon was given a7 job Nixon gradually worked himself up to cashier and then l0 president of the bank And now for the second chapter in Nixons life One day a young pale lookinglooking man came into the bank and wanted to borrow 20 on a diamond ring The cashier hesitated when President Nixon stepped forward and advanced the loan from his personal account The borrower whose name was George Wing field paid the loan in the course of a week and after that he made frequent borrows from Nixon always making good About that time gold was discovered at Goldfield and Wipgfleld got the fever He sought Wsj previous benefactor and tapped him for a cool thousand dollars Nixon thought little of Wing flelds vision but loaned him themoney without security Wingfleld staked out many claims and made Nixon a full partner in his mining operations andc when Nixon wingfleld sold the Conr solidated mines they were 3000000 to the 45000 fe iW srfe jtffe2.