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SS5tf pe Masbinatoti oet ftesjw vviTi ra5 tHi5vVivjA Jr mSiwrtwinwini Mr TBlBWTMIBMFfWriJ 1 i a I i wtj a i itfi C1 i a fr4 7Tr Tsi WJTTSvrTWlLii aur rtT Tif fWW ii i i i i i 1 4 Pennsylvania Avenue near Fourteenth Street TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Delivered by Carrier In Washington and Alexandria Daily Sunday Included one month TO Daily Sunday included one week 0 Daily Sunday excepted one month 5 Daily Sunday exceptsd one week 1 By Mail Postage Prepaid Daily Sunday excepted one year 6 00 Daily Sunday included one year 0 Daily Sunday excepted one month 50 Daily Sunday Included one month TO Sunday one year 4 AH Subscriptions by Mall Payable In AdTance Remittances should be made by drafts hecks postofflce orders registered letters or express orders payable to THE WASHINGTON POST CO Washington Entered at the postofflce at Washington as second class mall matter sincere desire to aid the movement by appointing a commission which includes Vincent Astor and Chairman Yoakum of the Friscp lines to go to Europe to make a three months tudy I of the various European systems of agricultural credit The Southern Commercial Congress is taking an active part in the movement and is giving every assistance to the investigators who will go to Europe By next year there should he ml results from the plan set on foot by President Taft Foreign Advertising Representative PAUL BLOCK 250 Fifth Avenue New York Mailers Building Chicago Tremont Building Boston SUNDAY FEBRUARY 16 1913 THE BILLION DOLLAR POLICY As Uncle Joe Cannon told the Democrats a day or two ago and as they themselves are beginning to realize the higher cost of government results from divesting the Speaker of power and responsibility and distributing it among fourteen heads of committees However the former Speaker only had in mind the specific case of the present House and its nonsuccess in giving effect to the program of economy by which it was hoped to demonstrate the truth of the campaign cry that in voting a billion a year for public purposes the Republicans under Mr Cannons lead were guilty of gross extravagance Doubtless Speaker Clark if control of appropriations were in his hands could have arbitrarily fixed a limit for each committee chairman as his predecessor had done and kept the total to or under the customary billion But if we take the bugaboo quality out of the billion dollar maximum and get back to the healthy state of mind that led Speaker Reed fourteen long years ago to glory in the fact that we had grown to be a billion dollar country would either Mr Cannon or Mr Clark feel impelled to say to the louse Thus far and no farther Who could deny that if Tom Reed had continued in the chair until now the House would be preparing appropriation bills on a billion and a half basis The country is fully as able to bear that outlay in 1913 as it was the lesser amount in 1899 The courftry has developed enormously and its governmental needs have expanded in proportion as was inevitable but partisan politics pegged the cost of government at a billion a year and commanded Uncle Sam to stand still Thus is Congress held in restraint tied to i he billion dollar mark as if it were a sheet anchor we dare not cut loose from for fear of going to smash on ihe rock of national bankruptcy Still more unfortunate is the tendency of Congress its mind obsessed with the fetich of false economy to put limitations on the expansion of finance and commerce unwittingly perhaps but effective just the same Everything that spells billions is out of bounds and must be dismembered and thrown back to its old proportions as if we could handle a business of 7o000u00000 a year with the ame facilities that were put to a strain in handling half as much Of course a government that is growing like ours cannot be held in ueck for all time And if Congress could come to a realization of that fact if it could see that what has happened is that the cost of government has burst the bounds in face of fetich and fiat there need be no consternation on the Democratic side no occasion for taunts on the Republican Mde Far better is it to proclaim that Democratic failure to economize is a blessing in disguise and to those back home preach the gospel that no violent hand should be laid on government or business Congress has only io recover a due sense of proportion WHY THE DISTRICT IS CONTENT Mrs Robert La Follette in common with many others who take a deep interest in the local affairs of the National Capital expresses surprise at the indifference of the men of the District of Columbia to securing the right to vote If they wanted to secure the right to vote said Mrs La Follette in an address in Washington the men could do so If the men were mindful of the great wrong done them they would go after the vote The trouble mostly is that those who are perplexed over the neutral attitude maintained by the potential voters of the District have not gone deeply into the complex situation in the District but seemingly take it as a matter of course that conditions here as regards suffrage do not differ from conditions existing elsewhere in the United States whereas the differences are radical and such as erect barriers to popular rule which have not been overcome by any system of local government which legislative ingenuity has been able to devise in a century of theorizing and experimentation The Constitution puts the seat of government on the same basis of exclusive Federal jurisdiction with forts magazines arsenals and other government reservations and the organic act of 1878 which the Supreme Court has construed as disposing of the whole question of a government for the District was drawn along constitutional lines The framers of the Constitution knew from experience that Federal and local jurisdiction would not mix and the framers of the organic act had signal proof before their eyes of the same thing The voters of the District and the country at large gladly acquiesced in the extinguishment of suffrage so that the present form of government is what it is by sanction of all the powers congressional judicial and popular Conversant with the past the people of the District are convinced that they are as well governed as could be They are content and that is the reason they are not responsive to the honest but mistaken activities of those who are not aware that their volunteer offerings have been tested by experience and thrown into the discard Once our well wishers become thoroughly imbued with the fact that the Constitution does not make for rampant politics in the District and that the organic act lifted the District out of the mess resulting from a departure from first principles they cease from troubling themselves or ourselves about securing suffrage for the men of the District They Tiav not worked as harmoniously FIGHT FOR ANCIENT as they might have worked i DAprWTV tc DTTtmnm The government employes have not DAKUJNY lb RlLLLU succeeded In inducing Congress to take action upon a pension retirement system because Congress has always been in a position to tell them that they had better get together on some plan of action before urging legislation It is no longer argued that superannuated employes of the government are not entitled to be pensioned Twenty two railroad companies in this country and more than 100 of the industrial corporations and many commercial institutions have within the past ten years instituted pension systems for their superannuated employes This system has proved an excellent investment It has brought adequate return in the shape of greater efficiency What has been found profitable by private business would be profitable to the government The merit of the proposal for civil pensions has been demonstrated All that now remains is for the government employes all over the country to get together on some definite plan of action which will have the support of all of them and then put their shoulders to the wheel and keep pushing until they get justice When the seventeenth Lord Borthwick died in the fall of 1310 leaving an only daughter the Hon Isolde Borthwick now 8 years of age I intimated that his demise was IfkelyHo lead to a revival of the lltigaQon which was carried on during a considerable portion of the nineteenth century between the rival claimants to his ancient barony which dates from 1452 This prediction has now come true through the petition of William Henry Borthwick of Borthwick castle Midf lothlan to King George that the latter declare him entitled to the honor and dignity of eighteenth Lord Borthwick in the peerage of Scotland The king has referred the matter for investigation to the committee of privileges of the House of Lords which after due investigation and an inquiry comprising hearings of evidence in the case will make a report to the sovereign recommending him either to grant the petition or to reject it the king being free to accept or reject their advice according to his caprice One of the questions which will arise in connection with the affair is as to whether the little daughter of the late lord has any right to succession to her fathers honors Many of the ancient Scotch dignities of this kind are heritable in the female as well as in the male line But the original patent of the creation of the Borthwick peerage has long since disappeared and while there is abundant contemporary official evidence that it existed nothing whatsoever is known as to its limitations Fasted Into Female Line As a general rule the Borthwick prop erty has descended In the male line only PARKS AND PATRIOTISM Establishment in the Department of the Interior of a bureau to be called But when the ninth Lord Borthwick died the national park service to have the supervision management and control of the several national parks the na AGRICULTURAL CREDIT Not only have the President the President elect and the former President cordially indorsed the proposal for the establishment of an agricultural credit system but the governors of the various States have taken such a deep interest in the subject that concerted action is likely within the next year President Talt put the matter THE BORDER COMMISSION The questions asked in Congress with reference to the work of the international joint commission have served to direct attention to the fact that no better plan possibly could have been devised for settling disputes between Canada and the United States It is remarkable that the relations between these countries have been preserved in harmony for so many years Here is a 3 000 mile frontier absolutely unfortified on either side with many of the people on one side speaking a different language from those on the other side and yet never a thought of war between the two It is inevitable that disputes should arise between neighboring nations but it is to the credit of both the United States and Canada that a broad view of such difficulties always has been taken and an amicable understanding reached Arbitration however has been frequently necessary and in the international joint commission the two countries have what has been aptly called a miniature Hague tribunal of their own The joint commission has done away with the necessity of appointment of arbitration commissions to tlonal monuments and lands reserved or acquired by the United States because of their historical associations would have the important result of doing away with much of the friction which has hindered the development of the national park system Senator Smoot of Utah has introduced a bill to establish such a service in the Department of the Interior and it has been favorably reported from the committee on public lands Under the bill the Secretary of the Interior would be able to make rules for the management use care and preservation of all national parks making improvements and protecting game natural scenery and curiosities He would be able to develop the resources of the national reserves for the benefit of the people granting leases and permits where scenic attractiveness would not be reduced and using any money thus received for the general improvement of the whole park system Probably there is no other country in the world with more natural wonders than those of the United States Tourists tell of the sublimity of the scenery in Switzerland when they have not taken the trouble to explore their own country For every wonderful view in Switzerland there are one hundred in the United States One of the best things that the proposed service could do would be to spread the gospel of seeing America first Appropriations should be made for educational work pamphlets bulletins and other publications which would give Americans some idea of the vastness and beauty of their own country Thousands of persons go to Europe every year without having seen one tenth of the United States They have no knowledge apparently that there are valleys here far more beautiful than any in Europe that the chasms mountains and wonders of nature of this country would stir them far more than any of the scenery abroad Much of the money spent abroad by Americans every year should be kept here and the national park service would be a force working to that end If even one half of the American tourists who go to Europe annually could be induced to make pilgrimages through their own country there would be a great increase in patriotism and national development after holding out his castle of Borthwick against a siege by Oliver Cromwell and obtained honorable terms of surrender all his property went to his nephew John Dundas his sisters son who assumed by virtue of his will the name and arms of Borthwick while the title remained dormant until revived in 1727 not by a descendant of this John Dundas but by a descendant of the fourth Lord Borthwick As the result of a protest against his vote at the election of Scotch peers at Holyrood of members to represent their order in the House of Lords at Westminster directions were issued by the crown that he should abstain from voting until he had established his right to the title which he proceeded to do to the satisfaction of the committee of privileges of the House of Lords This was in 1782 Ten years later the title again became dormant and much litigation ensued between the various claimants which lasted until 1870 when the father of the late peer was recognized By the committee of privileges of the House of Lords and by the crown as the lawful heir of the peerage Aephctv Claim Title The new claimant is a descendant of the John Dundas mentioned above as the nephew and heir of the ninth Lord Borthwick and is the owner of the ancient Borthwick property including Borthwick castle in Midlothian The founder of the family was Sir William Borthwick who was employed on various embassies between England and Scotland from 1398 to 1415 and in 1410 received a charter from the Regent Albany of the land of Borthwick where he built the castle of Borthwick now owned and occupied by the new claimant He acted as hostage for the safe return of James I in 1421 Another Lord Borthwick was keeper of Edinburgh castle A third Lord Borthwick was Wiled at the battle of Flodden Field in 1513 while a fourth acted as guardian of the infant king during per haDs the most stormy period of Scottish history Ills son John was one of the foremost men of the time of the Reforma tion a movement however which he op posed with all his influence while his grandson became one of the most ardent and chivalrous supporters of the cause of Mary Queen of Scots CHANQEiNlECTTIREPIAM TEEED BY FIERCE DOGS National Geographic Society Adds Two Policeman With Gun and Club Rescifed Him After Three Hours From the New Torts Evening Tefegraip Bittten three times by a pack of wolfish Wild dogs that haunt the recesses of Highland and Forest parks Brooklyn which have attacked many pedestrians in lonely places during their nightly forays Will lam Schimpel 29 yeare old took to a tree and was held prisoner there for more than three hours while his hungry pursuers sat beneath him with lolling tongues or ran about howling dismally Numb from cold he was op the point of dropping when Policeman Brown rescued him An expedition to exterminate the outlaw animals will be organized Schimpel lives in Old South road Woodhaven and was walking along Fresh Pond road from Glendale early today when two dogs leaped upon him They were scrawny and lean and seized his legs without ceremony Schimpel had a heavy stick With this he belabored the two animals so that they drew back howling In a few moments answering howls were heard In the distance and soon the rest of the pack in full cry approached on the dead run Schimpel turned and Potash Interests Urge a Change and fled t0 a nearby apple tree up which he Speakers to Its Program A change in the regular program announced by the National Geographic Society yesterday will add two additional lectures to its winter course and several lecture dates will be canceled in favor of lectures which should prove more interesting The additional lectures will be given on Tuesday February 25 when the subject will be The Passing of the Crescent in Europe by Frederick Moore who has just returned from the seat of the Balkan war and on Friday afternoon March 7 when David Fairchlld will lecture on the Monsters of Our Backyards and show a marvelous collection of photomicrographs of locusts flies and other Insects President Emeritus Charles Eliot will lecture on China on the evening of March 7 Cherry Keartoh of England will lecture on big game hunting February 21 George Kernan on the Caucasus February 28 and Claude Bennett on the South March 14 Dr Gore will lecture on Slam March 28 ASK NEW MUTE LAW HIPPOPOTAMUS TH ENGLAND Fisher May Appeal to Congress Legislation needed properly to develop the potash Industry of the United States was discussed at a hearing yesterday before Secretary Fisher An adequate leasing law was favored and It is said Secretary Fisher doubtless will recommend to Congress the passage of such a statute Clinton Dolbear of San Francisco declared that the chief fault with the present mining laws was in the opportunity given for unscrupulous persons to take up and hold large tracts not for the purpose contemplated under the law but for some foreign purpose such as timber land townsite lands or water power sites DENIES RESTRAINING TRADE Elgin Board of Trade Answers Charges of the Federal Government Chicago Feb 15 Answer was filed today by the Elgin board of trade to the governments charges that the corporation operates in restraint of trade A general denial was made He Voted for Dad Washington Dispatch to the New York World Master Edwin Webb the 8 year old son of Representative Webb of North Carolina is the youngest person to have a vote recorded in the House Young Webb returned home from school Monday and found the apartment door locked and his mother gone He walked to the Capitol four miles away and went upon the floor of the House to hunt his father Mr Webb had stepped out of the room for a few minutes The roll was being called on a bill When the clerk called out Mr Webb the boy who was resting in his fathers chair voted yes A handful of nearby congressmen laughed the vote was recorded Mrs Webb who was in the gallery saw what happened and she was embarrassed Soon she caught the boys eye and motioned for him Why did you vote child asked Mrs Webb Why mother daddy was out and that was his liquor bill he wanted to vote for it The lad did not know that the Webb liquor bill had passed and was doing what he could to help his father out climbed with the pack biting his legs and attempting to pull him back Schimpel was riot very warmly dressed The pack settled down to wait for him to drop and the treed man tried to brace himself in a crotch In such a way that he would not fall even though he should become unconscious from the cold He tried to button his coat about a small limb but found this Impracticable From time to time a couple of the dogswould come to the foot of the tree and leap up as high as they could snarling and snapping When the clatter of a horse was finally heard Schimpel redoubled his cries Policeman Brown rode up while the pack boldly surrounded him Brown dismounted and dealt out blows with his club to no effect Only when he drew his revolver and dispatched one of the dogs did the remainder sullenly withdraw Schimpel was in a state of collapse His hands and legs were stiff and the extremities were almost frozen He was suffering severely from three wounds two in the legs and one In the hand where the dogs teeth had closed He was taken to St Marys Hospital for treatment Seeing Stars From the New York Sub The astronomers say that every day or maybe every other day 20000000 me teors shoot through space close enough to this sphere to be seen without the aid of telescopes The name of the astronomer who counted the meteors Is not given in the essay on the subject In August the scientific folk assert more meteors scorch themselves Into vapor However the Beast Has Been Dead 150 OOO Years So Dont Worry From the London Chroctele What are stated on the authority of Mr Henry Dewey of the geological survey and the officials of the British Museum to be the remains of the head of a hippopotamus and two pieces of an ivory tusk probably that of a mammoth have been discovered on the estate of the Cane Hill Asylum at Coulsdon in Surrey There are several considerable frag meats of the head of the hippopotamus which include portions of the jaw with teeth in position the articulation of the jawbones two of the larger teeth and some of the vertebrae and there are also a number of small parts of bone which so far It has not been possible to piece together Discoveries of this nature are not unusual though the remains as a rule are not in a good state of preservation About fifteen years ago the skull and some bones of a hippopotamus were found near Kew bridge A little later in a brick pit at llford a number of remains of the pleistocene period were uncovered including those of a mammoth cave bear and a woolly rhinoceros When digging for the foundations of the new admiralty buildings the bones bf animals belonging to the same period were found But most of these latter relics were In such a state that It was difficult to say to what species they belonged The most Important find of this description in recent years was made nearly ten years ago in July 1903 In the course of excavations between Whitefrlars street and Salisbury square Bones of several extinct animals were unearthed These included a very fmo skull of the woolly rhinoceros together with part of Its lower jaw and portions of thtrlimb bones The specimens were presented to the Natural History Museum where they are now exhibited The continuation of these excavations led to the discovery of further remains bones of the rhinoceros the mammoth the reindeer the horse and the great extinct ox The woolly rhinoceros is represented by a beautifully complete skuli of a young animal In which were still the milk teeth Curiously enough the second half of the lower jaw of the rhinoceros whose skull was found In 1903 was also discovered and the two are now reunited The remains were all entombed in mud deposited In the valley of the ancient Thames or perhaps more probably of some small tributary or backwater Various estimates of the time which has elapsed since these animals lived In the Thames valley have been made and it is probably more than 150000 years At that time the North Sea was a big hay into which the Thames and the Rhine flowed into a common estuary and there were no Straits of Dover The climate must have been a cold one for the woolly rhinoceros and the mammoth were both INTERVIEWS WITH CAPITALS VISITORS than in anv other month Capt Abbot of the British freight I thickl clothed wlth wo1 and alr and Birds Take a Turkish Bath From the New York World A choice bit of Wlnsted news happened right here in New York when a flock of sparrows took a Turkish bath in the rear of the Pulitzer building A cloud of steam was pouring out of a pipe on the top of a building on Gold street A dozen or more sparrows were circling around when one adventurous Thought of Cuba bird darted into the hot vapor remaining From the New York TimeB steamship Zafra which finished a very leisurely trip across the Atlantic from Huelva with a cargo of iron pyrites says that August i3 not in it for meteors with February He was about 780 miles off the South Carolina coast when the sky artillery began to bombard him The meteors were fired slowly It took 6 minutes for 40 of them thats the skippers count and he thinks he is an amateur compared with the 20000000 counters to write their glowing bluish white autographs across the sky In this six minutes of incandescent glory the skipper read over the love letters of his youth and made his will as he thought that the last day might be pretty close He says the stream of meteors passed from northwest to southeast and appeared to be about 2000 feet above the ship None slzzed in the unquiet sea The scientists say that 40 miles would be a better guess than that of the skipper who Is not a practical astronomer and never could count 20000000 meteors in a day or 10000000 metors in a night nearly a minute Flying out it perched on a roof and shook its dripping feathers Lord Mayo Xoted Sportamnn Lord Mayo who has just published a history of the famous Kildare Hunt of in great glee which he has been for a Ions time mas I Within the next five minutes the entire before ihe governors several months ago and ihe re ults so far have been settle disputes between Canada and ery gratifying I the United States The appointment Xo one denies thai there should be I of special commissions to take up sep an agricultural credit system such as will gke the farmers the same kind business meR At the present time the farmers must put mortgages on their arate questions is not only more expensive but is less satisfactory The An Ohio Rough Rider has already volunteered but why is the Colonel holding back Ormsby McHarg the well known lifelong Democrat is pie countering on Pennsylvania avenue Representative Fergusson says that is a Democrat but wont admit it Neither will the Democrats Mr Taft has absolutely refused to give the country a war again demonstrating that he is a hopeless reactionary Its mighty hard to make street fighting picturesque now that asphalt has supplanted the reliable old cobblestones of elastic credit thai is enjoyed by joint commission has provided a body of trained men who have become familiar with conditions along the bor homes or give other real estate secur der and the mental habits of each na itv even when thev need loans for uon only a few weeks or a few months There are times when farmers need a few hundred dollars fo tide them over the harvesting period but a small loan causes them just as much trouble and embarrassment as a large one The banks do not care to go through all ihe formalities of a mortgage transaction for a short loan of a small sum of money President Taft states the condition in this way The entire system of agricultural business which is practiced by the farmers of the United States needs to be greatly improved in view of the failure of our food supply to keep pace with the increase in our population I trust that every State in tho Union will participate in an inquiry which It is quite certain will be of real and lasting importance to our rural population This permanent commission was needed for a long time It is the ideal method of preserving the harmony which has existed between the two nations for so long a time and is far more economical and efficient than any other method that could be devised HARMONY AMONG EMPLOYES i The proposed conference and convention of representatives of all Fed eral civil service employes which has been called to meet in this city April 4 and 5 should be made to serve the useful purpose of eliminating factional warfare from the ranks of the forces i which have been striving for a pension svstem for superannuated government Speaking of desperate struggles whats the matter with the finish fight between John Barrett and the Mexican situation Will Porf Diaz kindly inform Pancho Madero If there is a vacancy in the Expatriated Latin American Presidents Association of Paris Canada may finance Stefanssons arctic dash but When he reaches the pole he ter is no novice In literature dealing with sporting matters being the author of a remarkable entertaining volume entitled Sport in Abyssinia De Rebus Africanis He Is the head of the great Irish house of Burke and is that rara avis an Irish resident landlord Born in 1S31 he succeeded to the earldom and to the estates In Counties Meath and Kildare which have been In the possession of His family for centuries on the tragic death of his father who while viceroy of India was assassinated by a native convict while inspecting the penal settlement on the remote Andaman Islands Lord Mayo served for a time in King Edwards own regiment the Tenth Hussars and afterward in the Grenadier Guards but resigned In consequence of eccentricities which he has long since outgrown 0 se caused him on one occasion to mysteriously disappear without leaving any trace whatsoever of his whereabouts Several weeks later after all the police resources of the United Kingdom and of the private detective agencies had been employed to discover what had become of him he was found in a dazed condition near Lands End in Cornwall without being able to give any account of himself Mystery Xever Explained Treatment in a sanitarium restored him to health and to soundness of mind though he has never been able to account for the mystery of his sensational disappearance and since then without being on an intellectual level with his father or with his uncle the late Lord Connemara he has been sufficiently clev er to write the very readable books which I have mentioned above and to win for himself a knighthood of the Order of St Patrick a seat in the House of Lords as a representative peer of Ireland and a membership of the privy council Queen Victoria was much moved by the late Lord Mayos assassination and flock had imitated its example Who Counted These Lady bugs I Sacramento Cal Dispatch to New York Tribune The ladybug season has opened and collectors for the State horticultural commissioners are going to the mountains to gather the tiny creatures The ladybugs save the cantaloupe crop of the Imperial valley each year by devouring the aphis which would destroy the vines Last week 100 pounds of lady bugs were gathered in the Coast Range Mountains As there are 30000 to the pound this makes 3000000 bugs in captivity The collection of ladybugs will continue in Humboldt Canyon until the melon vines are out of danger ARMY ORDERS will find an American flag there and I aPPinted his widow the new Dowager t0 that regiment Leave3 absence Capt JOHN WRIGHT Seventeenth Infantry extended one month Capt ISAAC JENKS infantry five days Capt THEOPHILUS STEELE coast artillery corps to June 14 First Lieut ROY GLASS Philippine scouts three months The following assignment and changes in the stations and duties of officers of the quartermaster corps are ordered MaJ LOUIS GARRARD Jr now in New York city Till proceed to Fort McPherson Ga and report to the commanding officer of that post for duty as quartermaster and in addition to that duty will assume charge under Instructions of the chief of the quartermaster corns of construction work at Port Me Pherson relieving MaJ LAWRENCE MILLER The following officers of the medical corps will report as the department commander may direct on recommendation of the president of the boaid to MaJ JAMES 11 KENNEDT medical corps president of the examining board at Fort Shatter Hawaii Territory for examination to determine their fitness for promotion First Lieut CHARLES DEMMER First Lieut LARRY McAFEE First Lieut ADAM SCHLAXSER First Lieut EDWARD KREMER3 and First Lieut JAMES MOUNT Capt JACK HAYES Infantry now attached to the Seventeenth Infantry is assigned to that regiment Capt ROBERT VAN HORN Seventeenth In fantry general staff Is relieved from assignment For a few hours Roosevelt the Presidential candidate ceased to exist and Teddy the Rough Rider took his place at a private dinner given him by 22 of his boys In the rose room of the Plaza The colonel had stipulated that he should not be called on for a set speech and when after the last course had passed he rose for a few remarks and thrilled his comrades of the Santiago campaign by telling for the first time the thoughts that flashed through his mind when he heard the report of the would be assassins revolver at Milwaukee last October and felt the bullets bite while his fellow rough riders were too moved to cheer He spoke In a low voice Referring to the moment when he was shot he said For an instant It flashed on my mind I must behave as the brave boys of my regiment would expect me to behave If I had been shot down in Cuba I would have had to keep up to the limit Thats what the boys would have expected of their colonel to keep on leading them to the end Well thats the way I felt out there and thats how I tried to act About Bagpipes From the Loudon Chronicle The Bulgarian delegates would have been Interested if they had heard before leaving that the Prince of Wales was learning the bagpipes For the pipes are the Bulgarian national Instrument as Sir Charles Eliot shows by a striking illustration Until lately at any rate the servants who waited at the porte on the grand vizier were mutes though not as in former times persons specially mutilated but children born deaf and dumb They used a language of signs with a special gesture to describe the representative of each nation To indicate the Bulgarian agent they imitated a man playing on the bagpipes It was not the Bulgarians who invented the pipes however They are among the oldest of musical Instruments An ancient gem shows Apollo with them and two Instruments In the Book of Daniel were almost certainly bagpipes the presence of reindeer which is essen tially an Inhabitant of cold countries Is a further proof WATCHING GOD GROW Edmund Vance Cooke in Everybodys Are your nerves as a harp for the devil Does he pick at the strings as he screech 11 sings And ask you to Join In his revel Are you barrenly hurried and halted Are you pettily sieged and assaulted Out of doors with you dig In the yard Be a grub In the garden a blade in the sward Theres a blue sky above and a firm earth below And youre sure of them both as you watch things grow i Is your God but a mummified man Is the Universe sick Is Creation a trick A planless and pitiless plan Out of self with you look through the years At the tempests and triumphs and tears Look backward to Chaos look forward to Us From an infinite Minus to infinite Plus And whatever of faith or of unfaith you know You are one with it All as you watch God grow THE MYSTIC Witter Bynner in Poetry By seven vineyards on one hill We walked The native wine In clusters grew beside us two For your lips and for mine When Hark you said Was that a bell Or a bubbling spring we heard But I was wise and closed my eyes And listened to a bird For as summer1 leaves are bent and shake With singers passing through So moves in me continually The winged breath of you You tasted from a single vine And took from that your fill But I inclined to every kind All seven on one hill The proposition for an extraordinary session of the Republican national con TV vention to be held next Marctf will not get much encouragement from the regu lars if the views of prominent Jlepub Hcan politicians go for anything William Barnes jr KepSpilcan national committeeman from few York and the man who as foremost ini the fight for the renominatlon of President Taft at Chicago came to Washington yesterday to attend the dUnnep Biven to Uncle Joe Cannon Mr Barheft When asked his views regarding a convention of Republicans said Mr Hilles is chairman of the Republican national committee Any inforrna tion about an extraordinary convention of the Republican party should come from him As for a reorganization of the Republican party that is not only not necessary but impossible It ia not likely that any member of the national committee elected for four years is going to resign because some persons want him to There is no doubt that thfr Socialist party Is going to continue to exist In this country But the time Is not far distant when the people Of the United States will not only realize but appreciate the Intelligence of the Republican party The reaction has already set In Mr Barnes visited the White House yesterday and saw the President Democrats for One Term It is to be presumed that Woodrow Wilson will not seek another term as President of the United States said Flngy Connors former chairman of the Democratic State committee of New York at the Willard Gov Wilson is going to make a great President I was for him many months before a great many others were and I have confidence that he is going to make good But Gov Wilson ran on the platform adopted by the Baltimore convention and that platform declared for a single term for Presidents It makes no difference whether Congress legislates and the country adopts a constitutional amendment limiting the term of our Presidents the Democratic party is on record for a single term and I assume that the Democratic party Is going to carry out Its pledges I am sure of It The Democratic party has come Into power to stay for a long time It is not to be supposed that vye are going to allow the rascals to turn us out now that we have turned the rascals out The Democracy as I have said is going to carry out Its pledges It is going to reduce the high cost of living 30 per cent or more and it Is going to do it by reducing the tariff The tariff Is the bane of life Show me a commodity that is necessary to life and that Is protected by the tariff and I will show you a trust Thank goodness the Democratic party will not be plagued by the cry that it is not progressive The principles of Democracy have always been progressive Was not the party progressive when It won in the last election It is going to continue to he progressive until the whole country becomes Democratic We must turn em all out all the Republicans Mr Connors came to Washington be said to see President Taft and Secretary Knox and left last night after having had a conference with them Collects the Most Mileage Representative elect Albert Johnson of Washington is at the Sterling having arrived yesterday from his home on Grays harbor Mr Johnson will collect more mileage than any other member of Congress except of course the delegates from the Philippines Hawaii and Porto Rico He lives 130 miles farther west than Representative Humphrey of Seattle Mr Johnsons district the Second Washington is Republican and the new representative thinks it will stay Republican Twelve of the thirteen counties in the district went for the ticket from top to bottom said Mr Johnson and as the Republicans of my State have for many years been just about as progressive as the growth of the State would warrant there has been and Is little excuse for a third party Besides in the western part of the State we have been too busy with Bill Haywood and his Industrial Workers of the World propaganda to warrant experimenting with new parties Less than a year ago the revolutionary socialists overran the northwestern part of the State and this spring they threaten to repeat their strikes in the lumber camps This week the Socialists have been voting as to whether Haywood shall be expelled and in our part of the country the vote will show that his brand Is much stronger than the Berger Spays Hilquit brand or perfumed socialists as St John and Haywood contemptuously call them Canadas Railroad Boom The much talked of physical value of railways in only one of a number of items that go to make up the operating value or economics of a railway said A WT Buel a prominent civil and rail wafy engineer of New York at the Wil lard It Is often the least important Item and taken alone is likely to lead to entirely erroneous conclusions A correct analysis of all operating costs and an estimate of the efficiency ratio of the management are requisite and can be made but the problem is so complicated that few have reached a clear conception of it Mr Buel has just returned from Vancouver British Columbia where he was associated with Virgil Bogue In the preparation of a report for the Canadian Pacific Railway on lines between Cal The Sublime Porte From the London Chronicle The sublime porte where Nazim Pasha was killed is the French name for the Bab I Humayun or Imperial gate originally erected by Mohammed II the conqueror of Constantinople It is made of marble and designed to represent a triumphal arch but the present gate which has become for Europe the symbol of sultanism is mainly a somewhat modern restoration The high sounding title is not justified by the unlmposing appearance but has been derived from the period when this was the principal entrance for the sultans into the old seraglio On either side of the gateway are niches in which the heads of grand viziers and other officials who had incurred the sul tans displeasure were formerly exposed gary and Edmonton in Alberta province maybe two of them Mayor Gaynor had a man arrested for sweeping dust on his trousers but he is more lenient toward those who are throwing dust in his eyes Those Nevada convicts who expressed a preference for death by shooting instead of hanging overlooked a bet by not electing to die of old age This thing of sitting up until 3 over the Mexican situation will play hob with a Presidents ambition to obtain nine hours of sleep every night Most of the Slates are already coop i employes Much ot the blame for the failure to prating in the work of establishing an agricultural credit system all realizing apparently ihai the government alone cannoi nieel the needs of the situation Gov Sulzer of New York has shown a establish a pension retirement system has been laid at the door of Congress but a large part of the responsibility rests upon the employes themselves Harry Thaw is a bookkeeper at Mat teawan now that he has nothing to keep tab on but he scorned the job when he had 80000 a year to throw away A Connecticut man has invented a gastograph which produces on the palate the sensation of eating and drinking without the actual presence of food or drink The boarding house keepers beat him to it years ago Countess of Mayo to be one of her ladles in waiting also manifesting particular liking and kindliness toward the present earl and his brothers Lord Mayos wife a Ponsonby granddaughter bf the fourth Earl of Bessborough is a thorough Irishwoman passionately devoted to the Emerald Isle and has taken an active part in all the various schemes for the development of its industries and for tho relief of its poor She has no children and the heir to the earldom is the Hon Ali gernon Burke a member of the stock cx change and formerly attached to the staff I of the London Times Algy Burke is perhaps best known however as the reorganizer of Whites and of several other of the older and historic London clubs which had fallen into evil days and into which he Infused new life and blood MARQUISE DE FONTEXOT Copyrtfht 1913 by the Brentwood Company Movements of Naval Vessels Arrived Arkansas Guantanamo Dea Moines at Blueflelds Brutu at Smyrna Mohawk at icrfolk Colorado at Mtzatltt Raised Tweuty six Children on Pork Philadelphia Dispatch to the New York Tribune After raising 26 children all of whom have become successful Joseph Hinch man a bachelor 88 years old of Mer chantville is recovering frorn the first Illness of his life Hinchman adopted all the children when they were infants A plentiful diet of fat salt pork is tho food recommended by the old farmer and each of tho foster children wa3 fed liberally with this meat At the age of 21 the children were cast on their own resources regardless of their success on the farm From all their earnings their foster father deducted the expenses of board Lieut junior gride PLGH placed on anj clothing and placed the balance in Capt CHARLES 0 MORTIMER First field ar tillery is detailed for service and to fill a vacancy iu the Quartermaster corps vice Capt CHARLES BUNKER quartermaster corps who is relieved trom detail In that corps Capt THEOPHILUS STEELE coasi artillery corps will proceed to his home preparatory to hi retirement from active service Second Lieut SHERMAN KISER Philippine scouts recently appointed will proceed to San Francisco Cal and thence to Manila Philippine Islands qn the transport which leaves San franclsco on or about April 1913 and upon his arrival In Manila will report to the commanding general Philippno department fur assignment to duty to public view on silver plates POINTED PARAGRAPHS From the Chicago News Even a lazy man never gets tired running for office Naturally a beauty doctor likes to demand a handsome fee An artist may paint his wife but usually she paints herself The nicest girl a young man knows is the one he Is most afraid of Its far easier to form a good character than it is to reform a bad one Anyway the pen Is mightier than the sword when It comes to muckraking Yes Alonzo theres a vast difference between being cordial and drinking one Every time a man gets his monthly gas bill he is glad that he doesnt have to buy the stuff by the ton Occasionally a man manages to remain Ignorant notwithstanding the efforts of lot of women to nit him wist and Vancouver through the Canadian Rockies and through or around the Selkirk Mountains The rapid growth of traffic on the Canadian Pacific has made It absolutely necessary to double track the road Immediately said Mr Buel and CO000 000 has been appropriated for this work between Medicine Ha and Vancouver Mr Bogue who is prominently connected with this work built the Cerro de Pasco Railway in the clouds in Peru and the western end of the Northern Pacific discovering and naming the Stampede Pass and the Western Pacific the only 1 per cent maximum grade line across the Sierra Nevada An Unsatisfied Guest NAVAL ORDERS the reUred list ot officers ot the navy Ensign LA BOUNTr detached duty connection 2 and 3 to Astatic station A Surg STREATON detached Slorida to Tonopat Paymaster A McMILLAN to navy yard Mare Island Cal Paymaster GOODHUE detached receiving ehip at Boston Mass to Rhode Island Paymaster STALNAKER detached Rhode Island to home wait orders A Paymaster WlLTERDIXK to re i wiring ship Boston Mass REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR From Judge Writing from his cell in the Asheville jail an inmate who presumably had inside information on the subject complained some years ago to a local newspaper of the crowded and Insanitary I condition of the prison Buncombe county jail said he aint no fltten place reat man is to tell for a gentleman ter stay the bank until they became of age Foxy Pa From the Kansas City Star ather Young Dobson has asked me wears for your hand and I have consented From the New York Pre The way to be a 1 It yourself Where a thin woman is so lucky is she 1 rant oVmrvA In as far as a fat one ran mit uu il A girl thinks she really needs a differ 1 UB ctu1 1 ent beau for every different color she As a lifelong Democrat I presume you Doesnt Need the Job Now Daughter You dear old dad Father So never mind going to the dentists tomorrow about that crown I work wait until you are married what ttijitM a man a verv comfortahlc home is for all the family to be away an expect to be appointed to a postmaster jihuk ot at an i maue enough money I mdoesnt care how generous he the Pn Republican admln trThis wife with money if he can borrow titration no longer to be under the ne Ut all back from her right away jcesslty of public office 1 4 Sj sV Ss gsE 1 T4SiV 35Elis ys iJraag v4.