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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1912. HOW THE WOMAN MADE tonsville, to Ingleside, to Relay, to Elk-ridge, to Waterloo, to Laurel, to Contee. At Contee inquire which is the best road to Bowie, which is about eight miles distant. The entire distance is about 30 to 32 miles. ranch in Wyoming and raised cattle and sheep on a large scale.

Before he made his pile Nixon edited a newspaper, the Daily Silver State, at Winnemucca, and got into politics. At 43 he was leader of the Republican party, elected United States Senator to suc MARYLAND MUSINGS. Br The Bentztown Babd. The Regimentt Of Green. They're marching single and double file, Over the fields with a gallant smile.

Out of their tents at the bugle call They leap the garden and pass the wall, And down through valley and brake and glen They bring the grass to the world again. Ho! for the regiments Of the grass of the living green. Making the world a beautiful place In the glow of their emerald sheen There are clover captains and timothy knights, Who leave the valleys and take the heights There is blade grass, strong with its burnished ray THE SUN rCBLtSHED EVERY MORNING Jy THE A. S. ABELL COMPANY, CHARLES H.

GRASTY. President and General Manager. Scrx Sqdabe, Baltimore, and Charles Streets. Entered at the postofflce of Baltimore as econd-class mail matter. Telephoni Number for AllDepahtmkxti St.

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Leave orders at or telephone TFJ T.6 Fourteenth street northwest, Washington. various offensive and defensive capabilities of the several ships, not altogether without reference to future uses. These, very same gentlemen now so busy amid the roar of guns and the display of uniforms and blare of trumpets, attesting their everlasting friendship and wonderful esteem of each other's prowess, would tomorrow, at a word, try all their devilish engineering on each, other. What adds to the horrible grotesqueness of it. when the contest was over, would engage In the tenderest acts of kindness and mercy to the mutilated bodies of those whom they had thus maimed.

We would all stand with open mouth and uplifted hands admiring such Christian conduct. If a gentleman wishes to visit a friend, he will put on his "Sunday clothes," take a book, a bouquet of flowers or a lot of "Huyler's best," according to the sex of the friend, and peaceably present himself at the friend's dwelling. He would not think of taking a big bass drum and thump on it with all his might in the vestibule of the house, or take sticks and make a racket in the parlor. "What fools these mortals be G. F.

Cockeysville, June 4. A Reign Of Dnst And Despair On Calvert Street And Touching Cries For Help Are These Reform Blocks That Are Being Dnsted For Their Political Independence Send For Mr. Anderson; He Has A Water Wagon At Everybody's Service. To the Editor of The Sun Sir: you could relieve us from the great cloud of dust in Calvert street, between Read and Eager streets, you would confer a great favor on two blocks of persons who are sorely troubled. Please send a reporter and let him only remain a few minutes any afternoon in that locality, and his suit will be gray when he returns to your oflice, I fear.

A line in your paper would perhaps cause the authorities to take notice. Today they talk about people painting. We are painted daily our houses are a dull gray, all of them, inside and out. Please do something for is. A Sufferer.

Baltimore, June 6. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Writers for this Column are requested to make their communications as brief as possible. As a rule, they should not exceed 300 words, and when they do they except In cases of unusual interest or importance, be reduced to that limit or returned to the writer for condensation. Letters must tear the names and addresses of the writers, as evidence of good faith, but the names will not be made public without the consent of the contributors. Anonymous communications are never published.

But, Dear, Benighted Friend, The Trouble With. Yonr President, Mr. Taft, And Yonr Congressmen And Senators Is That The Democrats Are Too "Specific" And "Concrete" In Their Steel Bill, Their Woolen Bill, Their Cotton Bill And Sugar Bill And Don't Be So Irreverent As To Ascribe To The Tariff The Blessing Which Providence Has Bestowed On The Farmers Think Again And Come Again. To the Editor of The Scn Sir: In the Democratic attempt to make the tariff the national issue in the coming Presiden tial campaign, you are using no new argument, and seem to have nothing of a positive or specific nature to say. You and the Democratic party are merely assuming the negative position on this question that is usually assumed by your party.

To merely say the tariff Is "too high," and not say or not specify on what or how much, is merely to take the position of a faultfinder and obstructionist. What the intelligent voter requires is not abstract theories and vague generalities, but some positive, concrete facts. For 40 years the two old parties have lined up on the tariff question if not in every successive campaign, In at least eight out of 10 the great tariff question has occupied the centre of the stage, and during that time we have had eight years of Democratic rule four years, at least, of absolute Democratic control. Congress, Senate, President and nearly every State in the Union were in perfect accord, and then you had the opportunity to show constructive statesmanship, if you or your party possessed that kind of statesmanship. You had the machinery, the sentiment, the votes, the opportunity and the incentive, for men were starving all over the land.

You gave us the Wilson-Gorman act, and within sight of Blanche, and then wave something to arrest her attention. Once she sees his signal she comes bounding, purring like a windmill. 'And she's one continual example of contentment under adversity, is this kitten. And she is one continual moral lesson to the onlookers as to how what seems like a terrible deprivation may really become a blessing. As an example of this latter fact the master of the cats, hearing a terrible row the other night, went to the back porch to discover the cause.

He found standing at' the steps a ferocious bulldog barking himself black in the face and evidently anxious to tear something limb from limb. Standing on the top step was the white kitten, her back arched, to be sure, but entirely undisturbed. She seemed, indeed, to be wondering at what' the bulldog was making faces. Crouching under a nearby refrigerator was the black kitten, almost paralyzed with fear at the noise. When the dog had been driven away the black kitten flew into the kitchen, and It took a day to soothe his nerves, but the white kitten refused to leave the doorstep, and when last seen was still looking regretfully after that curious dog which seemed to be exciting itself so much over nothing.

L. C. A. STORIES OF THE DAY Circus Yarns. From the Kansas City Journal.

"Rain? Say, it always rains when circus comes to town." "Ain't it the truth "I remember once when the circus came to our town" "Back in Plunkville, eh "Back in Plunkville. Well, that day it rained so hard that the lot the circus camped on was a quagmire for a solid month. I wouldn't exaggerate it. One month." "That ain't nothing, man. The last time the.

circus came to our town it rained so hard there has been good fishing on the spot ever since." He Would Join At Once. From the Youth's Companion. A Salvation Army officer was taking up a collection in the street. One man was heard to Bay, as he dropped in a dime, "Here's 10 cents for the grafters." "You don't believe there's any graft in the Salvation Army" quickly rejoined the woman. "How do you know?" the man asked her.

"Because you would be in the army your self if you did," was the sharp reply. And the man had the grace and the humor to laugh. Enoch Arden Explains. From the St. Louis Republic Enoch Arden and Rip Van Winkle had ceed William M.

Stewart. His career in the Senate was not particularly" distinguished, but at home Nixon was a power, using his money and energy to develop Nevada's resources. Careers like George Nixon's refute the Idea that America is no longer the land of opportunity and romance. THE LATE JUDGE THOMAS J. MORRIS.

There would be no sentiment for the recall of judges if they were all like the late Judge Thomas J. Morris. Dignity clothed him as a garment; be personified the majesty of the law. But broad sympathy and eminent good sense characterized his decisions, which were seldom reversed. Modest as he was learned, his personality won the devotion of those associated with him.

"He was a most lovable man," says Arthur Spamer, who, for many years, had been clerk of his court. That was the feeling of the court ofiicials and employes toward "the Judge." Older lawyers held him in affection and younger members of the bar looked up to him as a representative of the best in the profession. Attorney until past 40, judge for nearly thirty-three years his life was bound up In the law. He could have retired on full pay at 70, five years ago, but would not give up the work be loved. After Congress had relieved him of duties that bore heavily upon a man of advanced years, creating the position of associate judge for this district, he continued to preside in cases In which Judge Rose had appeared as district attorney and relieved Judge Rose when the docket was congested.

In point of service he was one of the oldest Federal judges, bavlng been appointed by President Hayes in 1879 to succeed Judge William Fell Giles but he was less than 42 when he took his seat, and his service on the bench covered the best years of his life. In resuming the sessions of the court after an adjournment of a single day. Judge Rose remarks, "He would have wished it so." That is an index to Judge Morris character, his modesty and devotion to duty. Able jurist, just judge, amiable gentleman, bigh-minded citizen he was an honor to the Federal judiciary. ONE STEP NEARER INTERVENTION.

There is not wanting a tone of exultation on the part of certain New York papers at the increased force of American marines which is being hurried to Cuba. Thus, the New York Sun announces that the Cuban situation has advanced one step further toward a third American intervention. The New York American contrasts the vacillating incompetence of the Administration hitherto in regard to Cuba and Mexico with something which "looks like action and promises results." To our mind the policy of the Administration in regard to Mexico and Cuba has been tactful and farsighted. We do not wish to make light of, still less to attack, the sovereignty of any of the nations to the south of us. We do not wish to expand our borders by the fraction of an inch at their expense, and we wish to persuade them of that fact.

Therefore, it Is to be hoped that if the movement of marines be a step toward annexation it will also be the last step. The action of the United States so far is not strictly Incidental to the Piatt amendment. Instances can easily be recalled, notably in Central America, where we have landed marines to protect property. The present revolution again is quite a different proposition from the one which ended In the overthrow of President Palma. The fight then was between whitf, who ought to have known better than to appeal to arms for the settlement of their political differences.

The negro uprising Is incidental to the existence of a large and practically semi-civilized population in the midst of the whites. In course of time the Cuban whites should secure the mastery. But President Gomez is right that the best way to dominate the situation is to keep the troops together, moving in pursuit of the rebels, and not to split the Cuban army up into small fractions for the sake of guarding plantations. The policy of the American Government should be to protect American and foreign property; in that way it can do much good. If in a few months' time the Cuban whites do not pro'We themselves men enough to suppress the rebels, it will then be time enough to consider a third intervention and all that would mean.

OHIO SHOWS HOW A CONVENTION CAN ALMOST NULLIFY THE PRIMARY. Taft lost Ohio by Roosevelt having a clear majority of 47,447 over Taft and La Follette. How, then, did Taft manage to get the six delegates-at-large when Roosevelt carried 17 out of 21 districts In the first place, it was not a direct primary. District delegates were pledged, but the names of the Presidential candidates were not printed on the ballot, and delegates to the State convention were elected largely without reference to their choice for President. In Maryland, close as the result was, the Republioan convention carried out the spirit of the primary and though Taft men were actually in the majority, elected delegates pledged to Roosevelt.

But Ohio shows how easily THE ACQUAINTANCE OF A POSTOFFICE AND WHERE 1IN MARYLAND IS NOT LIKE THE SOUDAN The woman who has recently gone to live in the country had just made the ac yuaimaue oi a postomce. or course. there have been postoffiees in the places where she has lived be fore, but she has never visited them. When you The Woman Had Never Been To A Postofflce come to think of It there are plenty of peo pie in, Baltimore who have never been to the postofflce where their letters come from any more than they have to the laundry where their sheets and pillowcases are washed. They know that there is a Dost office; they have an indistinct recollection of having had it pointed out to them upon one occasion, but they would no more think of visiting it than of visiting the morgue.

So when the woman went to live in the country the postofflce never invaded her thoughts. The postofflce did not invade her thoughts that is, for full seven let terless days. Then she asked suddenly wnere's the postman?" mere isn any," responded her hus band. "You go to the postofflce and get your own letters." At this the woman's lower jaw dropped exactly as if she were an imbecile and she looked covertly at her Reginald to see whether he were joking. gitr xou cannot fool me," she cried.

"I know and you know that now, even in uarkest Africa, they have rural free de livery." "But not in Maryland," said the master of the house, and put on his hat and walked away, for letters are as nothing to mm. He'd rather be without them than with them. ami a person must have her mail. said the woman, and pinned on her hat with decision and walked down her Dath She asked her way of a small boy and saw directly that she had committed a solecism, for all that he did was to laueh Not to know where the postoffice was, was clearly a social misdemeanor "I'll know it when I see it," said she to herself. "It will be large and white, with postmen standing on the steps." So when she reached a small frame building, the sides or which were covered with signs ad vising "Chew Leather Strip Tobacco," "Robinson's starch is the stiffest known to man, use it!" "If your canary bird is intelligent, it will eat no other seed than Linnett's" she did not in the least recog nize it as the postoffice.

She decided, how ever to go within and make inquiries again So she went within, and she came upon a scene so Inspiring that she cried aloud. "How alike one of Mary Wilkins' stories," ana nas, been regarded with suspicion in tne community ever since, It was March, and a little red-hot stove ornamented middle of the room. The stove was placed in a large box filled with sawdust, and sitting about it on inverted buckets and cracker boxes and high stools were a number of gentlemen discussing the prospects apparently, and regaling themselves with refreshments of tobacco. And this Is an There Was A Red-Hot Stove In The Room. aristocratic neighborhood within 20 miles of Baltimore in the ear of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Twelve! As a setting for this scene the woman had a confused sight of brooms and bacon, of lard and lavender, of kerosene and crackers.

It seemed to her a most em barrassing situation. Here she had In vaded the village club, and the village club in its turn was regarding her. Near at hand was a young man in a small cage-like structure, and she turned to him. "Can you tell me where the post office is?" she asked. "This is the postoffice," answered the youth in a hurt tone.

Now, all the way down the hill the worn an had been considering what she should say when she reached the postofflce. She wondered what was the etiquette of the situation. Should she go in and say, "I am Mrs. Reginald Brown, is there anything for me?" or would not that be a little abrupt Should she lead up to the matter in some more tactful way? Would it be necessary for her to produce one of her cards and a letter from the bishop showing that she was she? It was the very first time in a varied career that she had ever asked for mail for herself, and when you think it over you will remember not even the best and most complete books of deportment tell you how to proceed In such a situation. But the woman was so upset by hearing that this was the postoffice that she forgot all her conjectures about what to do and she burst forth, "Please give me my mail." 'Name?" hinted the clerk gently, and writhing inwardly she pronounced It, for who can say his own name with an un moved countenance The clerk gave her the mail.

There were three Invitations for functions long since past, there was a card from her dressmaker, telling her to come to be fitted a real tragedy this, for the date set was also past; there Her Chance For A New Frock Was Gone. was a letter from her best friend asking if she might come to visit her for a week, and another letter from the same friend saying that inas much as the first letter was not answered she saw that she was not wanted and would go elsewhere. There was a bill that should have been settled the day before in order to gain advantage of the discount and there were several other important documents. That experiencu is now several months old the stove in the postoffice has been taken away, but the hospitable seats rc main gathered about the sawdust-filled box the tobacco, the cheese, the bacon stil hold friendly intercourse on the shelves, but the woman has never yet got used to going for the mail. For days she waits for the gray-suited postman, and then when he does not come, the situation dawns on her again In all its agonizing reality.

"I'll wager our invitation the Blanks is in that old postofflce," she says. "I will have to go for the mail." And she adds savagely that they tell her in the Soudan they have rural free delivery, but not in Maryland, of course. "And what shall I say?" she walls, "how do I ask for the mall, anyway?" Why are white cats aeaf? Has any scientist yet arisen to explain this phenomenon? What possible connection can there be between the color of a feline's fur and her auditory nerves? Anyone who says that white cats are not deaf has never had a really white cat. The animal upon which they have experimented has probably had ears fringed with black, or a tiny black spot under its chin, or a fluff of dark -tjihite Cats fur at the end of its tail, Are sufficient, all or any of Always Deaf them, to keep the cat You See. from coming in the "white" class.

A man who was a skeptic as to the deafness of white cats had two kittens sent him a few weeks ago. The youngsters are members of the same litter, but one is as black as coal and one as white as snow. The black kitten has a few white hairs under his chin, Just to show that he is a normal black cat, but the white kitten's fur shows not even a single hair of another color. The black kitten's hearing is prematurely acute. He even bears things that do not happen; the white kitten is so deaf that a cannon ball fired at' her ear would not disturb her.

Both kittens follow their owner like dogs, but when the white one loses the trail there is nothing for the master to do but to retrace his footsteps until he is INQUIRER. What is meant by "the military promenades of King Archldanius" How did they affect the people of Attica? They were the annual invasions of Attica by the Spartan King during the first eight years of the Peloponneslan War, 431-423. The people of Attica were thereby compelled to scurry into Athens and stay behind its walls while the invading Spartan army destroyed the growing crops. I cannot find just now where the expression is used. INQUIRER.

1. I am invited to a birthday party and would like to know if I have to br tig a gift. What kind of an attract-ive gift can I get for 50 cents or less for a girl of IS years? 2. If I do not wish to go. what kind of an excuse can I offer? 1.

Of course, you do not have to take a gift, but I think it would be much nicer to do so. A book is an appropriate and acceptable gift, or you might be able to obtain a pretty little picture or some nov elty for the girl's room at a small price. 2. The most courteous excuse to give is "a previous engagement." You might writ a little note as follows: "I regret very much that a previous engagement prevents my attending your party: I would like so much to be there. Wishing you many happy returns of the day, I nm." etc.

DIED. AMOSS. On June fi. 1912. at his hnms Benson, Harford oountv, B.

HOW-ARD AMOSS. in his 77th year. Funeral services nnd interment at Friendship M. E. Church, near Fallston, on Sunday.

June 9. at 3 P. M. Carriages will meet train leaving North Arpnue at S.Sfl A. M.

and 12.30 F. M. Sunday. CLENDENIN. Suddenly," on June 5, 1012.

EMILY beloved wife of Arthur A. Clendcnln. Funeral from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. W. Franois Prather.

No. 1061 Myrtle avenue, on Saturdav, nt 2 P. M. Relatives and friends arc invited. Interment private.

CROCKETT. On June 6. 1912, nt hid residence. No. 2503 East Hoffman street, PETER O.

aged 80 years, beloved husband of Laura Crockett. Interment nt Mardcla Springs, Wicomico county, on Sunday, June ft. DUVALL. On June 1912. after a painful illness.

SUSANNA beloved wife of the late Daniel Duvall. Relatives and friends of the fanillv are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her nephew. John 10 Hopkins, No. 12,5 North Patterson park avenue, on Saturday. June R.

at 8 o'clock, thence to St. Katharine's Church, wl-cre a Requiem High Mass will be said for the repose of her soul at 0 o'clock. FEEHLEY. On June 4. 1912, after a lingering illness, MA BY, beloved wife of the late William Feehley.

Relatives and friends of the fanillv ari respectfully invited to attend the funeral from her late residence. No. 1229 South Clinton street, on Saturday morning. 8, at 8.15 o'clock. Requiem High Mas'? for the repose of her soul at St.

Bridget's Church at 9 o'clock. Interment in St. Patrick's Cemetery. FOSBENNER. On June 0.

1912. at her residence. No. 1529 West Fayette street, ELIZABETH J. FOSBENNER.

Due notice of the funeral will be given. GETTIER. On June r. 1912, in his 67th year, beloved husband of Mary V. Oettier.

Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from the residence of his daughter. Mrs. Jerome Buttler, No. 502 East street. Sparrows Point, this (Friday) afternoon, at 2 o'clock.

Interment in London Park Cemetery at 3.30 o'clock, HALL. On June 5, 1912, THOMAS eldest and beloved son of George W. and Julia A. (nee Archbold) Hall, and husband of the late Hattie S. Hall.

Rest in peace. Funeral from his late residence. No. 1535 North Caroline street, on Saturday morning, at 8.30 o'clock, thence to St. Paul's Church, where a Requiem Mass will be.

said for the repose of his soul at 9 o'clock, to which relatives and friends ar invited. Interment private. HICKMAN. On June 5, 1912, MAGGIE T. HICKMAN (nee Vanhorn), beloved wife of William J.

Hickman. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at her lafe residence, No. 1033 Light street, on Saturday, at 2 P. M. Interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery.

KRATZ. On June 4. 1912. at bis residence. No.

2310 West Baltlmrre street, SIDNEY C. aged 19 years, youngest son of Geofge. C. and Emily Kratz. I Pitt sburgh, Philadelphia and Washington (D.

papers please copy. Funeral will take place from the abov residence, this (Friday) afternoon, nt 2.30 o'clock. Interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. KREEGER. On June 5, 1912, IDA aged 19 years, youngest daughter of Alexander and Amelia Kreeger.

Rest iu peace. In a casket white as snowflakes. Nestling all among the flowers. Lies our dainty, blue-eyed daughter, Who such a little while was ours. Oh.

may we meet dear Ida Where friends no more shall weep I For those who die in Jesus. Their death Is only sleep. Into sweet rest she has entered. No more to wake or to weep She is smiling upon us from Heaven Our dear Ida has fallen asleep. BY FATHER AND MOTH 10 It.

Relatives and friends of the fsmilv are respectfully invited 'to attend the funeral from her late residence. Lloyd avenue. West Arlington, this (Friday) morning. June 7, at 8 o'clock. High Mass of Requiem at St, Cecelia's Church at 9 o'clock.

lutcinient in Woodlawn Cemetery. LYNDE. Suddenly, on June 3. 1912. 'at her home at Pieolata, WILI.IAMAN-NA ELZEY, widow of Capt.

Frederick. Marcy U. S. Army, and only surviving daughter of the late James and Letltia Elzey. Interment (private) in Greenmount, Baltimore MARSH.

On June 4, 1912. at St. Joseph's Hospital. LOUIS J. MARSH, husband of Lottie M.

Marsh (nee Bell). Funeral from his late residence. Sherwood. Baltimore county, this (Fridar) morning, at 10 A. M.

Relatives and friends lnyited. Interment in Haters Cemetery. McLOUGHLIN. On June 3. 1912.

JOHN, nged 50 years, beloved husb-ind of Marguerite McLoughlln. New York papers please copy. Funeral will take pHce. from his lat residence, No. 24 Stafford street, this Friday, at 8.30 A.

thence to St. Joseph's Monastery, where a Mass will bit said for the repose of his soul. Interment in Bonnie Brae Cemetery. MED AIRY. On Wednesday, June 5, 1912, WILLIAM II.

MEDA1RY. son of the late Alex. R. and Lavlnla A. Medairy.

Funeral services at the home of his sister, Mrs. Henry W. Hanna, No. 1541 West Lanvale street, this Friday, June 7, at 2.30 P. M.

MORRIS. On Thursday morning, Juns 6, 1912. at his residence. No. 708 I'ark avenue.

THOMAS J. MORRIS. Funeral services at First Independent Christ's Church. N. W.

corner of Charles and Franklin streets, on Saturday afternoon, at 1.30 o'clock. Interment private. Please omit flowers. I PHILLIPS. On June 6.

1912. ALEX-INA CRAWFORD, wife of the late Wll-liam B. Phillips. Philadelphia papers please copy. Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral services, at her late residence.

No. 1335 Bolton street, on Saturday afternoon, at 4 o'clock. Interment private. tt POWERS. On June ft.

1912. at hep residence. No. 1620 Braddish avenue, NIE REIN'H ART POWERS, beloved wife of John H. Powers.

Due notice of the funeral will be glven.t ROADES. Suddenly, on June 5, 1912, JOHN, aged 67 years 10 months and 2f days, beloved husband of Mary E. Roades (nee Nlson). Funeral from his late residence, No. 1715 East Pratt street, on Saturday afternoon, at 2 o'clock.

STEEVER. On June 5. 1912, at 4.30 A at the residence of her daughter, Mrs Thomas. No. 1609 West Fayette street.

CATHERINE widow of Lafayette Steever. Funeral from the above residence, this Fridav, at 2.30 P. M. WICKLEIN. On June 6, 1912, JOHN, aged 66 years, beloved husband of Anna M.

Wicklein (nee Rlxse). Affliction sore long time he bore. Physicians were in vain. Until Christ, the Chief, came to his relief And relieved him of his pain. The funeral will take place from his late residence, No.

1100 South Eutaw street, on Saturday, at 2 P. M. Interment In Baltimore Cemetery. WRIGHT. After a lingering Illness MARY wife of W.

O. B. Wright, at her residence, near Fork, Md. Relatives and friends Invited to attend her funeral at Fork Methodist Episcopal Church, this Friday, June 7, at 2 P. M.

Carriages will meet train leaving North Avenue Station at 12.05 at Baldwin. IN MEMORIAM. HARDESTY. In loving remembrance of our only child. ELIZABETH HARD-.

ESTY, who died one year ago today, June 7. 1911, aged 7 years. Little Elizabeth was our darling, Pride of all our hearts at home; But an angel came and whispered, Elizabeth do come home, MAMMA AND PAPA. FLORISTS. 4 J.

CTJMMINGS, 1131 W. Baltimore nl designs a specialty; right prices. Both shone And nut grass, clogging the garden way Blue grass, rich with its pasture food, And all so beautiful, fresh and good. Ho for the regiments That the grass of summer sends, Making the land such a lovely land As over the fields it wends I They need no drums to keep in step To the old-time marching heppity-hep For ever so silent they march along, In many a massed and clustered throng, Filling the sides of the roads, the street, With so much summery greehness, sweet Ho for the regiments That rally in sun and rain To bring the glory of summer's story Back to the lanes again They march all night, or so it seems. For when we waken from fairy dreams, They have taken post by the little bill, And pitched their tents by the babbling rill, And crossed the orchard, and trooped right up To the old well there with the dipper cup.

Ho for the regiments That come with blades of light, Bringing the grace of a sweeter place And not with the ring of fight Fours-front, platoons, or single file. Over the hills and vales they smile There they come to the bluebird's tune Down the beautiful days of June, Rich with beauty and deepening glow Of cool green light as they onward go. Ho for the regiments Of the good green grass that come Not to the call of the bugle note. Nor to the roll of the drum Don't shoot the mountebank who comes And lies all o'er your desk Just feed him syllabub until He dies the silly pesk. There are heroes near you now, There are live ones right next door All the heroes did not fall In the conflicts of the war.

There are heroes every hour Leading simple lives and sweet Right beside you in your town, Right above you in your street. Sudden, when the moment calls, From the very ranks you tread Spring the heroes, whom you took To be common folk, instead. 0 little hands that reach to me as If To ask if I will take you up, I will Some day I'll reach my own, and ask and pray, Just as a child out of its childhood still. A Roman NIgrht. 1 am that night when Nero burned his way Into the ages with his fiddle's play; I am a night of revel and of song Beside the mighty Tiber; mid the throng Lithe maidens move with swaying of the dance, The legions gather, and full many a lance Gleams iu the radiant glory of my reign I am that night when passion passed to pain, When love to license drifted; marble white Im all its columns loomed against the night.

And at the base of each one leaned a rose Shorn of her freshness in a lewd repose. I am that night when heaped on golden trays Rich viands passed; they whispered: "Nero plays!" Then ran the cry: "Rome's But for me, I burned with gladness at the horrid sight. For I am history since that Roman night, And I am what dim ages hence will know Because he fiddled and the embers' glow In that great hall of festal, marble fine, Was but a shadow of this flame of mine That lit the pillared pride of Roman state, And leaped the towers, and fled from gate to gate. I am that night when lust and sin and vice Had reached the pinnacle, and named the price, And Fate, that great old fiddler after all, Swung with the legions to the tapmost wall, And shook down tomb and palace, arch and knave, Young men and mages, patriarchs lean and worn, Mothers, and maidens with the blush of morn Upon sweet shoulders and fresh slender limbs; I am that night beyond whose shadowing swims The burning pageant and the bloody sign Of lust confederate with lewd song, wild wine. I am that night when Rome was in her flower Of brutal pride, and Nero felt his power So never-fading, that he threw the names Of drunken challenge to the hungry flames, And aw great Rome sit lonesome after-while As a great widow on her funeral pile, Under the stars forsaken, broken, faint, The hooting owl for minstrel, the complaint Of some far jackal on the Roman road Filling the air with laughter that forbode Ruin and waste and down through all the years Ages of desolation and of tears.

I am that night! Look in me and behold The itch for power and might, the lust for gold, The old abandoning of moral right For one last revel through a dreamless night To utter degredation and the dark. I am the night that looms in shadows stark O'er vanished empires that have scarce a trace Of all their glory left on earth's fair face. And I am that example, set to glow That every Rome hereafter may regret My great Lord Nero never learned to know That though the fiddles and the faucets fret, The flames eat on, walls tumble, men decay, And lust's proud empire passes soon away. To make the money's not his aim, To harbor It and lend it Just so you let him have the chance To sherw you how to spend it. Our names are little matter, Our pedigrees are less; The thing is how we've counted To comfort and to bless The helpless lives around us Not who we nor what.

But how much have we lifted A mortal comrade's lot. That which we are or have been Is dust that blows away The memory of one kindness Will live beyond the day. Full many a prune is born to blush unseen And waste its fragrance on the desert air, Since they are selling for five cents apiece, And that's too much for Mrs. Prune to spare. The Little Gate.

Only a little gate between us and the green, Only a little door between us and the'alr Yet were it miles away it still would be as near For those who are bound and chained to trouble and to care. Only a little gate, and that the gate of toil. Between the blue June sky and these our things to do; And yet they were just as near if they were a thousand miles, When only the thoughts are ours and dreams that won't come true. Only a little gate between some heart and mirie, Waiting for fate to swing wide open on its hasp And yet It were all the same if the walls were mountains high, And when we seek the summit we faint and fall and gasp. Only a little gate between us and that gift Of life as free as life and love as love should be But, oh, what a sundering space, and a mountains's wall to lift, And ever tbe dream far as the farthest rim of Beat Thb Morning snx bt Mail.

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2,461,943 1,050.929 311.5-19 Average 9US3 383 TW Average Morn, and Eve, combined. 130,106 Average Dally PAID CIRCULATION For May. 1912. (All copies not actually paid for in casli beinir eliminated.) Morning 8R-243 Evening 33,745 Total Morn, and Eve. combined.

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FOURTEEN PAGES. MR. BRYAN'S OPPORTUNITY WHAT WILL HE DO WITH IT The report that Mr. William J. Bryan has determined to abandon Speaker Clark and throw his strength to Woodrow Wilson naturally creates uneasiness in the rival Presidential camps.

Exactly what following Mr. Bryan can muster in the convention it is, of course, impossible to determine at present. On the one band, it is safe to say that he will not come to Baltimore master of the situation and autocrat of the convention as he was at Denver four years ago. The Democratic party has grown stronger and more self-confident. than it was at the beginning of the last Presidential campaign.

It no longer regards its candidate as the leader of a forlorn hope or the deliberations of its national convention as a perfunctory form. It knows it has the best chance of victory it has had for twenty years, and that whether that chance shall be converted into certainty depends very largely, if not entirely, upon the result of the work to be done in this city. No man will hold this convention in the hollow of his hand, and no man will be able to dictate to it or force It to take the path that he points out. On the other hand, however, Mr. Bryan, if he has lost strength as a political autocrat, still maintains his prestige as an orator, as a leader, and, above all, as an original progressive, many of whose ideas have now been taken up by both parties, and constitute the substance of popular demands.

A large number of people still worship him as the only political Moses, and still others with the unswerving loyalty that invariably attaches in many minds to the represaatative of a lost These people how many they are it is impossible to say have stuck to him and will fctick to him through thick and thin, through defeat and disaster, in good report and in ill report. Aside from this loyal legion, however, there are many others who will be ready to back him up, without regard to his past, if his utterances at the Baltimore convention strike the dominant note of Democratic sentiment and public sentiment generally: That sentiment has on many subjects overtaken Mr. Bryan, and, if nat Bryanesque, has the spirit of aggressiveness and progressive-ness for which he stands. He will have the advantage, therefore, of being in sympathetic accord with the general thought and feeling of his party and of the country, and will have the moral backing which comes from such accord. He must necessarily be a strong factor in the National Convention, and he might even be a controlling factor, if he makes it clear that is not animated by a desire merely to punish enemies or reward friends, and that he is willing to sacrifice his own ambition to the good of his party and to the cause of real political progress.

Mr. Bryan is a good man and in some respects a great man, but he is human like the rest of us, and in the past he has sometimes allowed the self-will and the autocratic disposition, which is inherent in strong men, to carry him to lengths which have impaired his influence in the party and weakened him before the public. If he will keep these tmlts under control and Taring to Baltimore with him the simple and single-minded purpose to serve only his party and his country, without regard to past alliances or past antagonisms, he will become the hero of the occasion and will be hailed as the man who made certain the triumph of Democratic principles and the reforms in government which those principles represent. From a persona ft on grata to many he would become the Idol of the whole party, a leader beloved, not a dictator feared and disliked by many Democrats who have never done him full justice. Mr.

Bryan will find in Baltimore the p-eatest opportunity of his life the opportunity to re-establish himself in the affections of his party as a whole, as well as to set that party on the road to victory. What will he do with it? NTXON, OF NEVADA. John Nixon and his wife, Mary, failed to find wealth in El Dorado when they made the long journey in the fifties from Tennessee to California. But their son George, found and the farmer boy of. Placer county made his dreams come true.

Real life often outruns fiction. Who would have believed that the young telegraph operator and railroad agent would be la a few years a mine owner and cattle king? Nixon joined the rush of gold-seekers, plunged and struck it rich. He staked bis claims in Goldfleld, Tonopah and Columbia, and raked a fortune out of each field. Turning to farming he invested his money in Irrigation, his company reclaim-tag acres in Nevada. He bought a No Convenient Way To Reach The Graves Of Her Loved Ones.

To the Editor of The Sun Sir: Will you please help me in this matter? It is in regard to Mount Camel Cemetery, on the Philadelphia road. It is a beautiful little place, in a fine condicion, and yet not a car to take us nearer to the gate than the River View car. All of mv mother's dead are buried there, and she is 80 years old. When she goes to see the graves of those she loves she is compelled to walk up a long dusty road or go through Bay-view woods. Many times tramps are lying all about the woods.

There is another way. After Hlghlandtown is reached, a wagon is on the corner which takes one to the cemetery. My poor old mother has got in the wagon, and a lot of drunken men who frequent the saloons on Mount Carmel road have fallen over mother and made themselves very obnoxious. Please help me in this matter. The presi dent of the car company advised me to see the County Commissioners.

Now, dear editor, we have subscribed for your paper since It first gave lignt, and we ask the first favor. Give us information in regard to Mount Carmel Cemetery. Find out why we have been forgotten by not having a tripper direct to the gate. I trust you will not pass me by in your valuable column. I am not alone in the appeal.

e. Baltimore, June 4. The United Railways Company declined to comment on this letter or the request for a "tripper" to the cemetery gate. The County Commissioners should see to it that visitors to the cemetery are protected. Editor The Sun.

A Cruel Attack By A "Thoughtful Reader" Upon The Half-Witted Person Who Writes The Headings To The Letters To The Editor He Has No Objections To The Headings Put On Such Writers As Mr. Wegg, But It "Tends To Discourage Thoughtful Contrib- ators" Like Himself Well, We'll Reform And Begin With The Man. To the Editor of The Sun Sir. May I ask what has gone wrong with that portion of The Sun known as "Letters to the Editor" or "the people's column?" This feature of The Sun has been excellent as long as I can remember in fact, its general tone and the matter submitted for publication have been superior to other newspapers Since this has been its history, why should you now belittle this feature by such extended and frequently inane comment on the subject matter submitted by correspondents, and thus tend to discourage thoughtful contributors? This column must now be given over to some inexperienced member of the staff, who does not know that a person of even ordinary intelligence objects to contributing to a column subject to such comment. Similarly, your more thoughtful readers object to It.

Why not go back to the terse, crisp and informing headings that you have bad for so many years? I have before me a 74-word heading to a 91-word letter Another 75-word heading for an 85-word letter And, as another example, on the same day I find a 15-word heading for a six-word letter from Mr. Wegg. Now, no one objects to making fun of Mr. Wegg and the "Arlington Philosopher," and other constant letter writers, but one does object to your handling in this manner contributions that are worth while, as frequently they are. Please employ some one who does not like to exploit his own wit, or one who does not wish to write more than the correspondent.

Here is an example of the headlDg of a letter from one of your most intelligent correspondents. It is in today's paper, and rambles along at the following rate "No use trying to conceal the truth, better try to remedy the trouble, which Mr. Turnbull thinks is too many two-story houses. But so many people would not live in two-story houses If there were not a reason for it, and the two-story housa may be a symptom, not the cause, which probably lies not on the surface but deeper down. And, anyhow, many two-story houses contain four-story people." Suffering Reader.

Baltimore, June 6. Flags Should Be Used Only Op The Graves Of Soldiers. To the Editor of The Sun Sir: In a recent visit to Mount Olivet Cemetery, and an examination of many tombs where flags had been placed on Memorial Day, I discovered that "the flag" is no longer the distinctive mark of a soldier's grave. Other persons and organizations use it. While I appreciate and admire the patriotic sentiment that would prompt any person to place a flag on the grave of loved ones, yet it eliminates the distinctive feature Intended when adopted by the "Grand Army," which was that the flag should designate the resting place of a veteran.

Another thing that I noticed is that on so few of the tombs is there any reference to the comrade's service. This is probably an oversight on the part of the family, but it should not be. The rank, company and regiment or other organization in which the deceased served should be stated, to be there as a permanent record of his service. I appeal to all comrades and their families to consider this in the future. Thomas L.

Matthews. Govanstown, June 5. SNAKE SCARES CONGREGATION Crawls Up Centre Aisle During Delivery Of Sermon. Reading (Pa.) Correspondence in Philadelphia Ledger. A four-foot blacksnake almost caused a panic at a special service in Harmony Church, Joanna, recently.

The church was well filled and the Rev. A. Krecker, of Easton, was preaching when a black-snake crept into the doorway and found its way up the centre aisle of the church toward the chancel rail. Women and children seated along the aisle, noticing the reptile, became horrified and Instantly left their seats and ran to tne back of the church. People crowded toward the door, when William Beutevan secured a stout stick on the outside of the building and, after some difficulty, succeeded in killing the reptile.

It was found to measure over four feet. When the excitement had subsided the service was resumed, there are men who wear the scars on their bodies yet. In those days your spellbinders went abroad and wept on the neck of the farmer, and between sobs told him the cause of his and poverty was the tariff and the single standard of money. You swore to him that all powers had combined against him and on his shoulders was the weight of the world. And you really thought it was the truth you knew no better, and the tariff was to blame.

Now look The farmer rides in his automobile, unless he is afraid of the machine, and the other day Governor Goldsborough was advising all farmers to buy them and use them for social considerations, so as to be able to keep the children home. Ye god3 Buy an automobile! Nineteen years ago he couldn't buy a pair of fire tongs. And yet he is advised to vote for any man who happens to capture the Democratic nomination. Vote for low tariff? Well, I guess not! N. J.

Wimbrow. Whaleyville, June 6. Insatiate Politician, Will Not Ordinary Graft Snfflce? Is There No Limit To Yonr Greed That Yon Mnst Take Even Commencement Tickets Out Of The Hands Of Children? To the Editor of The Sun Sir: For whom are the commencements, graduates or politicians? It appears, to me it should be for. those who work for them, but, from the number of tickets given to them, it seems the reverse. If the Lyric seats 2,500, and only 1,600 are distributed among the graduates, where have the other tickets gone? Does the public consider it fair for outsiders to get th tickets of thse for whom the commencement was originally intended Indignant.

Baltimore, June 6. An Old Letter Of Whittier's On The Barbara Fritchie Story, In Which The Poet Insisted She Was "As Authentic As Washington Or Franklin." To the Editor of The Sun Sir: The Sun of this morning's issue contains a letter signed by of Winchester, Va. He claims to have possession of a letter of Richmond J. Southworth, son of the authoress, containing these words "Mr. C.

S. Ramsburg told the incident of Barbara Fritchie and the flag to my mother in my presence in the summer of 1S63. and I then and there suggested to my mother to send the story to Mr. Whittier. When he related it to her it was the current subject qf conversation throughout Frederick.

My mother wrote the story to Mr. Whittiet and the poem was the result." I am not so presumptuous as to suppose that I am able to down this Banquo's ghost, but I remember that about 30 years ago I was presumptuous enough to write to Whittier to inform him that certain literary critics were disputing claims of his poem In question. I shall give copy of his reply, which I have just found in my trunk, dusty with age. It corroborates the claim of and adds a few statements which I have never seen In print "Danvers, Mass, 10th 1883. 'Dear Friend: Barbara Fritchie is a true historical character and the story as told in my verse substantially correct.

I have seen her nephew and other friends. She died not long after the event related In the poem, between 90 and 100 years of age, and lies burled in Frederick. "I had the story told me first by Miss Dorothea Dlx and Mrs. Southworth, of Washington. I have a cane from the framework of her house and pieces of two of her silk dresses.

The brave old lady is as authentic as George Washington or "Ben" Franklin. Thine truly, "John G. Whittier." Whittier may not have received correct information, but here is the source of the information he received. E. Westminster, June 5.

"Patriot" Went Too Far, Bat What Is The Use Of Getting Excited In Warm Weather Like This? To the Editor of The Sun Sir: I protest against the lending of the people's column to vilification and abuse. "A Patriot" In this morning's Sun says that people who support Roosevelt are lacking in self-respect. This is a slanderous, albeit hysterial, statement. My self-respect does not permit me to support any of the announced candidates except Roosevelt or Wilson. The disinterested citizens who support Roosevelt are men of high character and respectability.

There are some discriminating voters and some disinterested voters opposed to Roosevelt, but almost every voter who is both discriminating and disinterested Is for him. Every man who, like Lincoln Steffens, has studied politics in a calm and scientific manner is for Roosevelt. It Is hoped that in future The Sun wTill not permit correspondents to vilify and slander some of the most enlightened and disinterested men in our country. Justice. Baltimore, June 5.

What Fools We Mortals Be. To the Editor of The Sun Sir: "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men," and Shakespeare says "What fools these mortals be I notice In your report of the reception of the German fleet by our President occurs this sentence, "and at the same time ushering in a marked fraternal spirit that will surely prevail between the German and American navies as long as the visiting ships are in American waters, and perhaps long after they shall have departed." You very properly put that saving clause in, "perhaps long after they shell have departed." Doubtless the officers on each side were carefully engaged in examining and making mental note Jand comparison of the just emerged from the cane brake and were making toward the nearest tavern. "What excuse are you going to give your wife?" asked Enoch of Rip. "I'm going to tell her the truth. I'm going to tell her I've been over in the mountains sleeping off a little toot." "Twenty years is a pretty long time.

Reckon you can get by with it?" "What are you going to tell your wife?" "I'm going to tell her the truth too. I've been over in the next county sitting on one of these change of venue murder juries." What Was Time To Him From the Chicago Tribune. At a banquet given by the Lawyers Association in Chicago, former Judge James E. Purnell declared that the use less questions used by young lawyers when cross-examining their first witnesses remind him of the answer given to a convict. "A street laborer," 6ald Judge Purnell, was digging just outside a State prison.

One of the convicts called out from his cell 'Say, what time Is "The man kept on digging and did not reply. Finally, after the prisoner had repeated the question two or three times, the laborer looked up at him and remarked "'What do you care? You aren going any THE SUN'S METHODIST NEWS Papers Devote More Attention To Religious From the Charlotte (N. 0. Observer. More and more do the metropolitan newspapers come to realize the importance of securing full reports of the great religious gatherings.

Until the past few vears the papers have depended on the As sociated Press for these reports, but it i now coming to be necessary to send staff represei'tatives to cover the gatherings. The Baltimore Sun, always a leader, sent a staff correspondent to Minneapolis, recently to cover the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Sun has received a number of letters commending Its action, and In. reference to them says "Such appreciation more than repays the sending of a staff correspondent to Minneapolis and covering the proceedings by telegraph." MEAT BOYCOTT EXTENDING Pennsylvania Women In State- Wide Plan To Lower Prices. Pittsburgh Correspondence, New Xork The meat boycott started by the Pitts burgh Marketing Club is to be extended throughout Pennsylvania.

Mrs. J. R. Flan-nery, president of the club, who has been in communication with officers of the State Congress of Women's Clubs, received assurances recently that all women's clubs will join the movement to bring down the price of beef. Members of these organizations are pledging themselves to abstain from eating meat for 10 days, beginning June 17, and to use their influence to persuade others to remove meat from the menu.

In Pittsburgh and Philadelphia many butchers have announced they will close their shops during the boycott. ANSWERS TO QUERIES W. J. L. Can you suggest anything that will take iron rust marks off a slate roof? The snow irons on the roof rusted and made streaks of rust on it.

Rust stains may be removed by using sandpaper on the slate, but the most satisfactory method would be to remove the rusted slate and substitute other slate. The latter method would cost but little more and would' be far more satisfactory. READER. Will you publish a recipe for making wine from elderberry flowers immediately, as the blossoms are now opening here? Gather the flowers on a dry day, remove all stalks, and to every quart of flowers allow 1 gallon of water, 3 pounds of loaf sugar boll water and sugar a quarter hour, then pour on flowers and let it work for three days; then strain the wine carefully through a hair sieve and put it Into cask. To every 5 gallons of wine add one-half ounce isinglass dissolved in cider and 3 eggs (whites only) beaten well; close up cask and let it stand six months before bottling off.

Or boll 18 pounds powdered loaf sugar iu 6 gallons spring water beat up whites of 2 eggs and add fskim thorough ly and put in a quarter peck elder flowers picked from their stems take off and stir until cool then add 4 tablespoonfuls yeast and 6 spoonfuls lemon juice fitrained and free from pips; mix well with liquor by stirring twice daily for four days. Stone 6 pounds Malaga raisins and put them Into a well-cleaned cask pour the wine upon them. Stop up cask closely and keep in a rather warm place. If made in July or August, bottle off in February or March. This wine, when well made, very much resembles Frontignac.

R. L. B. On a batted ball a runner starts to first base. The first baseman has the ball thrown to him.

but the ball strikes his hand and bounds into the air. While the ball is sun in tne air tne runner touches first base. Is the runner out or safe? He is safe. nr.D READER. Is there a free hospital for incurables in Baltimore? Yes; it is at Bayvrew Asylum.

A READER. Give me a good route to walk from Govans to Bowie. Md. How far is it? Follow Charles Street avenue to Mount Royal and Charles street; from Mount Royal turn into Lafayette avenue, to Fulton avenue, to Edmondson avenue, to Ca- politicians can manipulate a convention and defeat the popular will. Cuyahoga county, embraces Cleveland, voted more than 2 to 1 for Roosevelt, but the delegates were uninstructed, and Senator Burton delivered to Taft 45 of the 53.

Taft on the final call had but 25 majority. Local bosses cast tbe solid vote of counties and silenced minority delegates. If the Republicans had adopted the direct primary, Taft would have secured only 8 delegates to Roosevelt's 40. He gets 14. The Democrats did adopt the direct preferential vote, providing a separate hil-lot bearing the names of Harmon Wil-eon.

Nineteen Wilson delegates were elected, to 23 for Harmon but the State Democratic Convention adopted the unit rule and the 19 Wilson delegates to Baltimore must cast their votes for Harmon. Galling as this may be to Wilson supporters, it is in accord with Democratic precedent and was not secured by trickery or manipulation, as Harmon did receive a majority of the popular vote and the fact that the unit rule was imposed, 597 to 33, proves that he had a majority In the State convention incomparably larger in proportion than his vote in the primary. If there had been no State convention to intervene, Harmon would have had 29 to Wilson's 19. As it is, the unit rule gives him the whole 48. If the Legislature had passed a law establishing tbe direct primary and making it compulsory, doing away with the conventions, these complications in Ohio would not have arisen.

Roosevelt would not have been deprived of the delegates-at-large, to which he was morally entitled, and the Wilson delegates elected by districts would not have been silenced in the National Convention. SUNBEAMS. Looks as if it would be houn' dawgs versus mosquitoes. First call for cherry pies. It will not be necessary for the convention delegates to get the key of the city.

Baltimore's gates are always wide open. Come, girls, the paint-up boom is for buildings, not ladies. Taft is still Rooted in his determination to abscond with the chairmanship of the Bepublican National Convention. I.