THE WASHINGTON HERALD FRIDAY JUNE 19 1908 1-r

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With the growing hoat of summer comesthe increased danger of typhoid and In-

testinal diseases the majority of whichare spread by that ever active pest thocommon house fly With the fear of epi-

demics has come a cqnoftrted effort on thepart or progressive cities to exterminatetho fly There are 160000 cues or ty-phoid fever In the United States everyyear and 10 per cent of these cases arefatal The fever Is spread through threeroutes water milk and flies Water IB

responsible for the greeter number ofcases but infected milk has its hun-dreds to account for and flies many hun-dred more Last years investigations inYork City showed that there wore 680

deaths from typhoid and 7000 deathsfrom other intestinal diseases that weretraceable directly to diseases spreadthrough the agency of flies

Diseases of a distinctly unpleasant na-

ture are those which the fly spreads bestAsiatic cholera typhoid fever dysen-

tery and tuberculosis Bred In the filthof barnyards and city dumpe the house-fly lives up to its greatest possibilities asa disseminator of fllth and disease Onits fuzzy hairy little legs It can carryIMOOO bacteria that It drops In an indifferent and careless way into the nearcit milk pitcher on the moat convenientmarket table or the moot attractiveconfectionery stand It Is never a directami intentional malefactor for It doesnot bite and infect in that WIlY It merelytrails through the filth that It loves and

the gathered bacilli fall off on anypurfaco that it passes over Those bac-teria may live for two weeks and so oaRbe carried long distances on the flyslegs or as they are Indigestible they canbe carried in the alimentary canal of thefly and spread the contagion many milesfront the original source a fact that aChicago woman has established aftercareful work in her laboratory

It was only in 19W scarcely four yearsthin the charge of criminalwas first preferred against the house

fly Up to that time and even now Inthe rural districts It was believed to bo-a useful scavenger a worthy and harmlees member of the insect world Then

medicine men got busy In their pri-vate and municipal laboratories andamong other valuable things that theydemonstrated to the world was that thehouse fly was directly responsible for sometwenty or thirty thousand deaths in thiscountry each year So war was declared-

It is to be a hard sad bitter war forthe house fly seat reproduce specieswith a rapidity and in numbers thatparalyze the modern statistician DrPackard a short while ago put one flyIn a bottle and kept it there for fourteenhours In that time It laid ISO eggsal-niost ten for every hour As it takes onlyfrom eight to twentyfour hours lo hatchthe eggs aad a Sly is mature and readyto reproduce its kind in ten or fourteendays from the time the egg is laid itmay be seen that even one fly in a givensummer can do much toward increasingthe death roll of a community and lustdomally people Us world with uncount-able millions of pests within a year

The crusade against flies has been sofar confined to the cities and to a veryfew of these In the country and ruraldistricts where there is most typhoid andwhere the faculties for flybreeding areunlimited the death rate from typhoids higher There are nearly three times

as many eases of typhoid in the countrys there are in the city and it is

that the city rate always goes uphighest in September when the peoplewho had spent the summers in the coun-try turn cityward again bringing thegerms of typhoid ready for the fly to dis-tribute when the disease has developedThe death rate Is rower in the city wheremore intelligent handling of the diseaseprevents its spread The Indiana StateBoard of Health recently began a vigor-ous campaign against the fly distributingeducational literature and encouraging awider knowledge of the danger lying inthe tolerance of these pests Detroit overa year ago recognized the danger of con-tamination from flies in typhoid casesand Issued Instructive circulars makingcppecial point of the fact that food muatbe kept isolated from flies The nationalgovernment has evidenced a greater in-terest In the control of preventable dis-ease by considering a bill that will al-low the United States Marine HospitalService greater latitude In handling con-tagious diseases and providing for co-operation with State Territorial districtand municipal authorities In this workWhen It is known that Insects of variouskinds disseminate the germs of leprosyrholera dysentery elephantiasis fllariasisanthrax trachoma typhus cancer tuber

vjlosls and typhoid the need of nationaland interstate eooperatlon is keenly evi-dent

Chicago has begun an educational cam-paign on a large scale Now York hasben working with a will and indomitablecourage ever since one of the city bac-teriologists intercepted a fly on Its wayfrom a stable to a milk depot and dis-covered that HHOW bacilli were on its

and that when these were left on a-plns plate In the laboratory by the ImIrl red fly a mass of swarming deathdealing bacilli sprang into life each cap-able of endangering a human life NewYork has found that infant mortality isKratest In that city at flyUme andlialth authorities aro beginning a crusade-t at will make ill screens an imperativeresslty on all houses and that willhbolish rank garbage and stable refusefrom Illtended alleys

Evidence against the fly is plentifulDuring the SpanishAmerican war a com-mittee appointed by the Surgeon Generalft the Army found thAt typhoid was notso prevalent among men who ate Inrpned tents and that as the fly dlspppenred In camps at Knoxville andMoade typhoid greatly decreased DrH A Veeder claims that fly Is adangerous agent in spreading typhoidthan either water or milk J Q Cobbof the Marine Hospital Service has provedthe fly a carrier of tuberculosis bacilliInvestigators in the Philippines foundrholera spread by that had boonexposed on public stands and Infected byflifR In Chicago two women from HullHouse conducted exhaustive experimentsto discover the cause of a typhoid optdemic in a certain quarter and after astudy of foods screening sanitationwater and milk supplies finally provedthe fly to be at fault

Tho medical world Is working to geth notion to understand the great needf using an ounce of prevention rather

than a pound of cure The mieroblo-srigin of disease as discovered by KochPasteur and Llsner is not so very old

it has ravolutio ed modern thoughtPlttaburg is already conducting a notableampaign in the study of typhoid and

San Francisco believing disease is spreaday rats has recently had 2500 aughteach day for experimental work in herterlological laboratories Southern

titles with screens and kerosene are an-nually anticipating any attack from thencsquito and her yellow fever germs and

Jersey Is keeping a watchful eyea tho mosquito that has become known

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pension money could have been savedhad the nation been as eager to preventdisease as It has been te cure Campfever and prison fever have beenaccepted as necessary evils of war fonduntil Japan established a record of onlyone death of disease In her army to twoof casualty in battle the world had fortwo centuries lust from preventable dis-

ease five times as many as it had lostin battle In the FrancoPrussian

por coat of the deaths were from thatand other diseases The nations shameand crowning imbecility was reached inthe SpanishAmerican war when it wasshown that on September 10 IMS 90 percent of the force were on the hospitallists while in Porto Rico there wore 282deaths from disease to three killed inbattle Many of those diseases werethose spread by the busy and unclean fly

The war on the fly is being conductedalong both educational and practical linesThrough circulars through the pressthrough lectures through housetohouse canvasses in slum districts andcountry sides people are to be told

scientific but very revolting truthabout the dally swarm through un-

screened homos trailing their way acrossthe food on the tables across the facesof the children and on everything thatIs to be touched eaten or handled TheyWill be told that those flies breed In thofilth of the stables and that It fromthis pest heap from Impure drains fromopen sewers and diseaseladen groundthat they come into the house to spreadhundreds of millions of bacteriahour They are thus menacing theof the family and tint of the nation andIndirectly piling up a long expense account by encouraging illness and con-sequent idleness and materially loweringthe standard of national efficiencyWhere stable sweepings are not availablefor breeding places garbage trash pilesand dust bins have been known to prodace a goodly quota of flies and on theselending municipality mean to keep acloser eye in the future

The educational campaign will ottersuch suggestions as these Do not allowtrash garbage and organic matter to

Keep damp dark cellarclean and sprinkled liberally with limePour liberal doe of kerosene down alldrains and over all refuse Have allkitchen waste moved daily Have all ma-nure cleaned daily from the stablesand carried aWL to dry on thefields or keep it in a screened receptacleuntil a convenient time for removal canbe Keep alt foodstuffs whetherIn the market or at home carefullyscreened Tile killing of flies is no easytask Fly paper and poison should beliberally used and while the processseems sometimes slow the comfortingthought comes that In the slaying ofone the propagation of millions of othersis prevented The crusade is one that re-

quires cleanliness for its cardinal prin-ciple and patience and persistence for Itswatchwords but with the public becom-ing more Intelligent and more widelyread oven year the health authoritiesbelieve that the mortality from diseasestraceable to flies will be markedly

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REFLECTIONS OFA BACHELOR GIRL

DY HBbBN ROWLAND

Making hay while the sun stringsis very tame sport beside makinglove while the moon shines

When a man says that circum-stances have forced him to breakhis engagement with you it ispretty safe to conclude that Circunwtances wears smarter frocksor has a more fascinating way ofdoing her hair

A married woman allows herselfto grow fat because she scarcelysees the necessity for keeping awaistline when the only man sheneeds to ptoaae Is legally bound tofeel like thit

Women lose that subtle mysteri-ous charm for a man as soon a hehas married one of thorn and foundout what her clothes are for andhow she makes her hair curly

It le a mistake to propose to agirl with whom you have beenmooning all morning on the beachuntil you discover whether thatpang you feel is really hUrt hunger or only tho other kind of hun-ger the two have such similar ef-

fectsYou can lead a husband to the

restaurant but you cant makehim order champagne unless itsanother womans husband

The dollar sign is the only signin which the modern man appearsto leave say real faith

HELD ON SUSPICION

False Pretense Alleged AgainstCollection Agency Promoter

J M Drffenbaugh alias Clyde B Willlams thirty years old was arrested lastnight by Central Office Detectives Barbeeand Vermllllon and is being held on atechnical charge of investigation Thopolice are Investigating alleged charges-of false pretenses

DeOanbaugh or Williams told thopolice he came to Washington yesterdaymorning from ROAnoke Va He securedrooms at the Mount Vernon Hotel andadvertised in the afternoon papers foryoung men to take positions as collectors

Twenty or more young men answeredthe advertisements and were given nblank bond or application for a bond to thoNational Surety Company of New YorkThe applications were to be filled outand given back to Deffenbaugh togetherwltji 5360 the money to be used in se-

curing the bond Detective Barbee readthe advertisement and having a suspi-cion that all was not right applied for aposition Detective Barbee was given abond and took the promoter to headquar-ters where he acknowledged to LieutPeck that his real name was WilliamsHe acknowledged that he had no connec-tion with the firm he pretended to repre-sent but sakl he was transacting businessfor his partner and wan using his name

CASTLE IN SPAIN LOCATED

Madrid Detectives Discover lleuclquarters of Estate Swindlers

The State Department has been advisedby the Spanish minister that the author-ities at Madrid have discovered a pri-

vate office from which swindlers operatedwho sent to the United States fraudulentletters forming part of what has beenknown in thIs country as the Spanishestate swindle Tho person in chargeof the office the minister said has beenarrested and hiv books have been seIzedwhich the addresses of manypersons residing In the United States

A large number of letters were seizedalso which were to boonto HIP persons selected as victims of theswindle

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CLUBMEN LAUNCHf TAFT CAMPAIGN

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earvod that the Tafu wore very muchin the limelight on the first night ofthe campaign

Prediction Is RecalledThe genesis of the celebration lay In

tho fact that Secretary Tuft tho firstpresident of the University Club and itwas largely through his interest in thorounding of such an organization at theNational Cnpital that it was started ona suceoMful cantor Aa long ago as thefirst banqtitt of tho club in the spring of1KB when he acted as toastmaster theprediction was made that his fellowbanquetors of that evening would gatheragain to cheer him as the American Pres-ident It was recalled last night thatSecretarys achievements had made groatstrides since on that occasion ho hadlaughingly observed that with those as-

surances of the votes of the citizens ofthe District of Columbia he felt no anx-iety as to the futuro

It was the same spokesman last nightwho recalled this piece of club historyand drew from tho Presidential candidatean Impromptu speech of roal heart In-

terest which skipped over mere politicallimitations and dwelt on good fellowshipand home ties It was a response in ad-

mirable keeping with the tidy front lawnand Its family group flanked around byscores of people the Secretary could callby name without any tax on his memory

Long accustomed to finding every dayhis busy day yesterdays excitementpending the announcement from Chicagodid not wilt the Secretary the least bitHo entered into the spirit of tho oventrigs celebration with at great zest as ifIt wore only a customary Fourth of Julycelebration somewhere out in Ohio withhis neighbors expecting him to do hisshare Yet between the receipt of theconvention news and his first frontporch speech at one of his homes hevisited the Washington Barracks andworked in his dally horseback ride at thesame time Arriving home he slippedinto a dinner jacket dined heard threespeeches and made one himself shookhands with 300 clubmon and their guestsat the University Club and got to theWhite House by a quick dash in an armywagon in time to keep a 9 oclock ap-

pointment with President RooseveltReturn on Horseback

Dusk was just settling and the En-

gineer Dand was seated expectantly entHe K street lawn of the clubhouse whenSecretary Taft was espied approaching onhorseback from Seventeenth street Im-

mediately strains of Halt to theChief were wafted forth and an n-

thueiastic clubman with a megaphone onhis arm darted through the crowd to theSecretarys front yard

As the Presidential nominee alighted hewas apprised of the clubs plans to theextent of promised a redAre Humination when he started for his WhiteHouse appointment With no greater

than this be quickly changedto evening dress and dined while the bandplayed merrily over at the clubhouse theclubmen sang their favorite Taft

to the tune of Tammany andMaster Charles Taft assured himself thatthe red fire was the real thing and

burned just likeAt SMO Secretary Taft was ready for

the frontporch initiation The clubmen became hilarious when the bandstarted off a snappy march All tell

and the short distance over to theTaft mansion was quickly coveted MajSylvester in person had charge of thepolice detail which cleared tIM sidewalkfor the clubmen When they had rangedalong the railing the other hundreds ofspectators closed in sad the historymaking was begun The rod ftre was started-to announce coming of the candidate

Tnft In the LlmoIiRlitMr Tafts appearance was the signal

for uproarious cheers such as come frommen who have Improved the early yearsof their careers by heeling the varsityThe candidate saw he was in the handsof his friends The elubs vice presidentDr David T Day made a few introduc-tory remarks and then Henry K Davisof the local bar took up the pleasant taskof recalling the banquet prediction ofsome years back Next District Commis-sioner Macfarland expressing his appre-ciation of the clubs Invitation spoke inbehalf of all the people of Washington

The Secretarys features were a studyas he listened to the adulation of hisfriends He couldnU Intervene He hadbeen captured by his admirers and hehad to take the full sentence The spokesmen claimed the credit for rare astronom-ical achievements In having discoveredhIsS Presidential star long beforeelse Just a few steps back of the Secretary however was one who seemed almost disposed to challenge the right ofdiscovery so publicly asserted It wasMrs Tart whose beaming pleasure wasreflected in the youthful replica in pink ather side Mr Davis said

Mr Secretary a little over three yearsago t was my privIlege as a member ofthe University Club to be the first toname you for the Presidency I amneither a prophet nor the seventh son ofa prophet but tonight your fellowclubmembers without regard to party affilia-tions come to welcome you as the stand-ard bearer of a great party We alsowish to let you know that we are lookingforward eagerly to March 4 with the hopethat the prophecy which we nave mademay be even better fulfilled than It lisabeen today May God Wesa you MrSecretary

Snug Tnt for 3IcAs Mr Taft was on the verge of re-

plying the band struck up the Tam-many air and the clubmen sang lustily

Taft for mo Taft for mefo mr nut Piwktot

Here toidctit on ptasuraTat ter me Tuft for moUiriHnlwrfualVarsUy-

By this time Commissioner Macfarlandwas also in the limelight to extend greet-ings from the municipal government

It Is nearly twenty years since firstyou camo to reside In Washington hesaid when first you came as SolicitorGeneral and ever since you have beenone of us You have taken a deep andabiding interest and pride in the develop-ment of the National Capital and we arccounting on ybur support and sympathyto make tho National Capital first Ineverything We as your fellowmembers-of the University Club come tonight toextend our congratulations as you standforth as the great leader of a great po-litical party and as the next Presidentof the United States We are glad to bothe first to celebrate your nominationand next March the people of Washing-ton wIll take pleasure in doing for youwhat this District always does to Inaugu-rate the President of the United States

Deafening applause followed this con-cluding statement and moro red fIre wasset ort so that the Secretarys beamingCountenance be seen plainly by alltho thousands crowded together In Kstreet for a great distance The tonor ofhis response was immediately gathered

began with clear ringing voice anddeliberate cadence

The Candidates ResponseHe saidMy fellowmembers of the University

ClubYou dont expect mo to make a speech

tonight much loss a political speech Agreat honor his fallen to me today tolead a great political pttrty in the contest

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Any spring coat in stockw-orth from 15 to 25

Of course they are odd sizes but the size we have in the styleyou want may Just happen to be your size exactly and If It is youve abargain Indeed10 Satin Coats worth to J260016 Voile Coats worth to D TC25 Taffeta Coats worth to Wi CL J25 Covert Coats worth to Iji20 Broadcloth Coats worth 171015 White Serge Coats worth to J17M10 LACE and Coats worth to 250Q J

A coat of this character is a necessity on oool at asummer resort At these prices less you could buythe material for and then the work IB all strictly mantailored

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FeJkwioz fc Mst of the candidate nomlasted and those promoted theto the aenvectton-

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Seeator La PttMteHtwr F Ceekew

that Is to come This expression of goodfellowship I value greatly as I deem itthe expression of good will by my neigh-bors and not as a political demonstration It Is one of yuur number on whom-a groat honor has been conferred and towhom you are here to extend congratula-tions

My home Is In Ohio laughter andbut circumstances here prevented

my being there for a number of yearsDuring those years of absence half ofmy time has been spent In WashingtonLooking at the mayor of Washington MrMacfartand you would not think hecould go back in memory twenty yearsto the time that I first came here Asfar back as 1910 our acquaintance beganand even then I realized how fine Wash-ington Is as a residence city LaughterFrom that time I have realised its na-tional grandeur and all that a capital cityshould be

My friend had an unhappy taskin prophesying as a Democrat that a ItspuMieaji would be President But he isthe best lawyer in the District and Iknow he always makes the Mst of abad case But In this welcome of myfellowclub members tontgfct it is notfor me to predict who will be the nextExecutive when the really great occu-pant of the White House shall have leftIt on the fourth of next Marsh

I thank you gentlemen for your goodfellowship I thank you in behalf of thereal ruler of the family Mrs Taft whoI hope is nearby looking on and listen-ing For those who conduct themselvesproperly in their family life no greatermeed of approval could be desired Greatapplause

I em most deeply indebted to you allGoodnight

ties n Jolly Good FellowThe clubmen joyously warbled with

must gusto For Hes a Jolly Good Fal-low and the great crowd cheered andapplauded while Mr Taft shook handswith the speakers and slipped indoorsfor his hat to start to the White HouseWhen he emerged the clubmen by join-ing hands formed a long lane diagon-

ally across the street to the clubhouseEvery window there was blazing forthlight and long streamers decorated theexterior from the second story windows-to the trees nearby-

A huge Yale was displayed near-est the Secretarys home and the othergreat universities were represented Theband camped on the lawn near the en-

trance and proceeded to put even moreenthusiasm into its quicksteps and pa-

triotic ditties The neighboring streetswore black with spectators MasterCharles Taft took advantage of the op-

portunity to set off some more soaringskyrockets and Roman candles

The humorously inclined old guardnamed the first easyexploding singlecandles after the favorite son candidates but when the finale came with agrand display it was always christenedTaftSecretary Taft signed the register as a

memento of the occasion and found hisson Charlie had sUpped In ahead of idesand gotten the position at the top ofthe page Many notable names of guestswere added thereafter while Mr Taftreceived the members in line and greetedeach cordially-

At two minutes before 9 oclock a mem-ber whispered to the Secretary about theWhite House appointment and he fas-tened away saying he would walk theshort distance scram Lafayette Squarerather than call his carriage

Two clubmen escorted him down thestreet but before he had gone a blocktile crowd had closed in on him so thathe remarked ho would have to call hiscarriage after all At the I street cornerhowever the Engineer Band army buseswore waiting and the suggestion wasmade to him that as head of the WarDepartment he commandeer the convey-ance Approving this as tho best meansof escaping tho crowd and likewise keep-ing lila appointment at the White Houseon time ho jumped lightly in and was

away before the crowd realizedthe Presidential candidate had disap-peared

After Mr Tafts departure the olubmembers devoted themselves to a buffetluncheon in which a hundred or moreguests joined them

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NEWS CUT SHORT

Since last Saturday the finance com-mittee in charge of the fund the celebration atthe opening of the nevr Municipal Building on Job4 hiss roctfirtd 0260 in contributions from publicipirltcd citizcas and firms

Capt Edwin White and Capt CharlesE Wiistit itMiRboat Inspectors for the District

exonerated from blame Capt Williamof Alexandria master of the steamer Pica

too of the Potomac Navigation Company vrblchsank at the dock in Alexandria drowning the childef Aubrey Percy of Brooklyn N Y about aix

toThe new militia board yesterday recom-

mended to tho SfcreUry of War that tho calling outof tho militia should precede a call for volunteers Increst of war thus tasking a change in the art idea

f wnr The board she reccmmoBds that beginningJuly 1 ieoues of equipment be pro rata on thebasil of the organized enlisted strength of themilitia u thoTTQ nr official resorts

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Woman Suicides Words Written asfrom the

Found Beside Doily of MrsAlida Pitman Alleged to Be

trout Spirit World

Arrangements for the funeral of MrsAlida Pitman fortythree years old whoeommtued suicide yesterday morningwere not completed last night bat It I

probable that services wilt not be helduntil relatives from Albany N Y canreach the city

The wveaUgatlon started by the policewhen It was learned that Mrs Pitmanwas aa ardent spiritualist wa sdiscon-tinued in the afternoon when CoronerXevitt gave a certificate of death bysuicide and stated that an iaqtiest wasunnecessary

Mrs PHnsin was found in theof the of her sister Mrs

Marion Gamble at I oclock yesterdaymorning Sh was lying on a mattressand on one side of her ws a bottlewhich had contained carbolic acid andon the other a number of slates

messages supposed to have comefrom another world Mrs Gamblewhen she first saw her sister believedher to be in a trance Failing to arouseher she summoned Dr E Butler Al

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and sister of the dead woman said yesterday that Mrs Pitman had been anardent spiritualist for some time Thespiritualistic teaching they said seemedto have affected her mind and causedher to take her life The relatives wereanxious to have a rigid investigationmade to fix the responsibility for MrsPitmans state of mind

Mrs Pitman was a widow her husbandFrederick Pitman an insurance agenthaving died several years ago She wasa native of Albany X Y and had beenIn Washington about six years

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long before this but for the appearanceor quitting under lire I would nothowever permit the prospect of the workalone to make me quit If that were allI am actuated solely by the idea thatthe course that I am taking Is bestfor the party

In sending in the resignation thisearly so that you can have It publishedInstead of waiting until next December-I have been actuated by the ides that Itwas fair only totho members of theparty that they should have time between now and then fully to considerwhom they wanted to succeed me

I have nothing but good feeling for allthe Democrats In the House I am gladthat In laying down the weapons withwhich they have armed me I can do sowith the recollection that the last Con-gress was one almost unprecedented inDemocratic annals in harmony of actionand unity of purpose on the Democraticside

If the next campaign could be foughtsimply upon the issues made in this lastsession of Congress I would have nosort of doubt of Democratic success Nomat tor what the Issues may be and howthings will turn out we will have therecollection of having stood shoulder toshoulder with one another and we cannow with great reason entertain stronghope of Democratic governmental refor-mation Whether we earn success at thepolls next November or not we have deserved It and that is all that poor mor-tals can do We cannot compel Fate-

I sincerely hope and express the hopeto you and to the Democratic caucus thatthe tide of centralization and of Federalusurpation of governmental power hasseen Its height and is now on the ebb

With thanks for a cooperation and apersonal affection that I do not feel con-scious of having deserved

Very truly yoursJOHN SIIAIIP WILLIAMS

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Boyds Md June 18 Mrs Elizabeth-A Anderson of Clarksburg widow ofThomas Anderson and daughter of thelate Obadiah Hurley of that place diedlest night aged nearly eighty years afterseveral months Illness Mrs Andersonhad been a resident of Clarksburg all herlife She is survived by three sons Wal-ter A Anderson of Clarksburg andThomas Anderson and Harry Andersonof Washington

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PRESS OPINIONSNow York World William H Taft is

the next President of the United Statesprovided the Democratic national conven-

tion nominates William J BryanIt is an silica for which Mr Taft has

conspicuous qualifications But best ofall Ms nomination menus the end ofRoosevelt and Rooeevelttesa It meansthe end of personal government of autocratic regime of militarism of jingoism-of rough of administration byshouting and clamor tumult and denunelation It moans the end of the Roose-velt reign of terror and the restoration ofthe Presidency to its historical dignityunder the Constitution

Mr Taft may be pledged to Mr Roosevelts policies but be is certainly notpledged to Mr Roosevelts methods

New York Press There are Repub-licans who have btteved that a strongercandidate than William Howard Taftcould be named for the bead of theirnational ticket They have had no doubtfor example that a man like GoY Hughescould poll more votes than the Secretaryof War and they nave not hesitated tosay so Probably they will adhere totheir opinion

There are Republicans who have re-

sented the selection of a candidate forthem by methods and forces which arenot truly representative of the votingmembers of the party Perhaps they stillgrieve ever those fact But WilliamHoward Taft is tbe RepubttCM nomineefor President and no one CM doubt hiscapacity to administer the greatest officein the world as it should be adtatnistered

The Amerteaa will sayIn nominating Mr Taft the Republi-

can party baa mightily pleased the plunlerhund gentlemen who have so bitterlydenounced Mr Roosevelt

The interests which accused theof melting riot and panic of throt-

tling business of crushing trade beneatha brutal and despotic beet attended theconvention in force and voted aad cheeredfor Taft

And Mr Roosevelt in hisfriend and appointee upon hk fcaamade a complete and sufficient apology toall the practical men whose prehensilefingers be has bees rapping tor the lastfour years

The storm is put The terrible Teddyhas come and gone and in his stead aathe Republican nominee there to a manso safe anti sane that J P Morgan cangreet him cordially and H H Rogersthink of him without frothing at themouth

Whatever Mr Roosevelt has done to-

ward frightening criminal corporationstoward classing thieves as thieves wheth-er rich or poor he has now completelyundone

In the eyes of the trusts be has seenthe error of his ways and made handsomeapology

Chicago Tribune The Republican na-

tional convention responsive to the wUlof the Republican party and to the bestopinion of the country has selected ascandidate for the Presidency the manbest equipped for the office It has se-

lected a man of action whose previousofficial experience and tried characterqualify him to enter upon the duties ofthe Presidency as few if any or hispredecessors were qualified

It has been said of Taft that he was acombative altruist The phrase describeshim well His official statements in thePhilippine are splendid tributes te thefine and sane idealism of his statecraftand to his warm qualities as a man

And it is as a man that the Americanpeople will look to him as their ChiefExecutive He is a citizen whose democ-racy is broad straight and redblooded

The charge of want ofis known to be false by every oae

informed on the history of thisfor it is Taft more than any other

member of the Presidents council whodid not hesitate to state his differencewith his chief and oftener more thanothers made his difference prevail

Cincinnati Enqutrer It were superflu-ous to rehearse in the city of his birthwhere from boyhood his life baa been anopen book and where he commands uni-

versal love and respect those high quali-ties and generous manly traits which soamply fit him for the arduous task be-

fore himVirginia has long been called the

mother of Presidents Five have sprungfrom her soil It Mr Taft takes his seatrt Washington he will be the seventhborn in Ohio and the proud title mustpass from mother to daughter

REV ME LAMPE HONORED

Special to TIM Wwktogtoii HeraldFrederick Md Junq IS Among the

honors announced at the commencementof Princeton University is the conferringof the degree of doctor of philosophyupon Rev William E Lampe formerly ofthis city who for a number of yearshas been a missionary of the Reformedchurch at Sandal Japan and Is now athis home here on a furlough The

was conferred upon Rev Lampe-magnacumlattde something rare atPrinceton

Mr Lamp graduated from PrincetonUniversity in ISM taking the degree ofA B In ISM he received the degree ofA M The degree of doctor of philoso-phy which is the highest degree confer-red by the university was awarded upona dissertation written by Rev Lanpe thesubject of which was Tho Japanese so-

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