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insufficient. It is astonishing that such good men as the Washington policemen can be retained on such poor pay. They are excellent men, and

the work they perform and the ground they cover are proof of their individual efficiency. It is not their fault if they are not always directed effectively, and they cannot be blamed if the task imuitstm Viav i a 4rr rrroo

MBMOER OF TUB ASIOCIATWD PRESS

Tb. A.Boo!ti rM i. r.ivlv titled to the ueiciiueis ui ia auu uiuci imvc inco

no't iTE,ta"?S: VZZ:?:": ileal their death during these riots. They went down

2f.T"-?-ublJ,?ed erln- AU Tlffhts of 'p"bllctlOB doing their duty. They were as loyal, as true and 011 41ap.tche hernia ar also rMcrvsd.

as heroic as any soldier in the magnihcent torce that carried the American flag to the Rhine. Is it for a pittance that such splendid men must die in defense of the people of this town, in defense of the peace of the nation's Capital, in vindication of the honor of the government? It must have been the sense of duty that kept these men at their dangerous posts, for their pay was no inducement. They could have deserted for better pay and left the city government in the lurch. There are many important matters before Congress, but, after all, there is nothing more important than the maintenance of public order and the preservation of individual rights. It is the first duty of Congress to maintain order at the seat of government, for if it fails to accomplish that, it will never maintain a government. It is the inherent right of every individual of whatever color in this community, to go about unmolested and unafraid, so long as he obeys the law. Let Congress temporarily lay aside some of the matters that seem so important and attend to the first duty of reestablishing order in this District.

MEN SAID TO HAVE REVEALED GERMANY'S WAR PLANS TO PERSHING ARRIVE IN U. S.

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors

Public Order and Safety The Washington Post exposes tthe true source of the race riots in Washington, wjhich disgusted and shocked the country. An inadequate and under-paid police department is assigned as the reason. The whites and black3 of Washington are law-abiding. The la w-breakers cannot be controlled under the present system. Says The Post : The disgraceful and dangerous disorders that have prevailed in Washington dturing the last three days and nights are directly attributable to the inadequacy of the police system as a whole. The first disturbance may have occurred in spite of any precautions, but an efficient police superintendent with an adequate force would have made further outbreaks impossible. From night to night race feeling has been permitted to intensify until now the entire city is terrorized after nightfall, not because the. white and black people are intent upon making trouble, but because hoodlums of both colors have roamed about making life unsafe for any person, however unoffendTl ' J 1 J 1

mg. ii is an liuoieraDie situation. Y- TU' : li;J r i i. u . . . XT ,. Keep lnis in ivlind Order must be preserved here tin the National r

Capital, whether the police force is adequate or These are the days when over-sympathetic not. If the police are not properly directed, or if .persons of a certain type would do well to watch they are insufficient to meet the emergency, 'themselves and keep their memories sharpened.

troops must be brought in to patrol the city. Else they are likely to find themselves commis-j Vhat a spectacle it is when the civic safeguards j mating over Kaiser Bill when they read that hei provided by Congress break downw and the veryis 80 bad'y scared over the prospects of being j lawmakers themselves and the representatives of itried for his misdeeds that he spends his days in; foreign governments must seek protection from gloomy meditation and prayer, and that he pre-j the military power! Is Congress proud of thislers to taIk on religious subjects only. He is lit-j exhibition of its administration erf the seat of j crally sick with apprehension. We may well be-! government? lieve that his ruling thought is: "What are they ; Hundreds of millions dollars' worth of prop-!oing to do with me? Hang me or shoot me?" j erty is collected here, much of it vitally important' Americans who feel themselves slipping, who to the people of the United States. Hundreds of ,find themselves beginning to pity the Kaiser andi individuals are here from foreign lands, the off i-1 deprecate the "hard" terms thrust upon Ger-' cial guests of the United States, relying upon the;"'' w"ld do well to recall a few events in re-j government to maintain order and safety thatjcen history as these: j mark all civilized communities. When the Boxer ; The slaughter of aged men and women, as well outbreak occurred in Pekin, foreign governments jas children, in Belgium in 1914. j were forced hastily to send in an-expedition toj Tne shooting down of defenseless and inoffen-j

rescue their Ambassadors and Ministers and their ;Sive persons held as hostages.

The desecration of countless homes. The maiming of children. The Lusitania slaughter. The execution of Edith Cavell. i Poison gas, air raids, deportation of girls to ;

BRONTE Charlotte Bronte, sister of Emllv anld Anne Bronte, wu born April II, 1 SI 6, and died March 21, 1S55. Their father ws an Irishman of poor health and eccentric ways. Their mother died when the children were

young, and they were left to bring themselves up In a bleak and solitary house, close to the churchyard, their only solace aa intense enjoyment of the world of make-believe. Deaths in the family, sorrow and tribulations of all kinds, the struggle to make a way In the world by teaching and serving as governess, the necessity of acting as mother to the family, all were a part of the intense life of Charlotte. In 1846 the three sisters Issued a small volume of poems under the names of Currer, Kills, and Acton Bell. The book was hardly noticed at the time. The three sisters each began a novel. Emily's "Wutherlnfr Heights" and Anne's "Agnes Grey" found publishers, but "The Professor" of Charlotte remained unaccepted until she had made her name famous with other work. She threw herself Into the composition of "Jane Eyre." which was published In 1847. It took the reading public by storm: the literary sensation of the day was "Who is Currer Bell?" The answer did not come till "Shirley" had been published in 1849, when the author became a part of the great world of ltters. "Villette." her last book. came In 1R53. The next year she was married to the Rev. Mr. Nlcholls; she died the. year after, when success should have crowned her life.

Beginning with the life by Charlotte's friend. Mrs. Gaskell. the three sisters have been the subject of innumerable books and articles.

CHRI.OTTE nnOXTE, 1S10-1555

JANE EYRE BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE Condensation by T. L. Hood of Harvard University

Man at left is known as Alfred Scholz. One at right as Alwin Grothe. Photo taken on their arrival at New York on board Agamennon. Two German prisoners, the first to be brought to the United States, arrived recently under a guard of fifteen doufrhboys and an officer on board the Agamennon. Reports state that the two men revealed von Hindtn!urg's plans to General Pershing and the allied officers. One of the men, Icnown as Arthur Scholz. is said to have been an infantryman, and the other, Alwin Grothe, an ayiator in the German army. It is said :he men were brought here to protect them from their own countrymen.

At her very birth Jane Eyre was animal; but it was covered with cloth-

! left in the cold lap of Charity. Her ag; ana a Quantity or dark, grizzled

aunt-in-law, Mrs. Reed of Gateshead

hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and

face. "That is my wife, said Mr. Rochester. Then all withdrew. That night Jane stole away from Thornfield. The few shillings that

she possessed she gave to the driver

Hall, kept the orphan ten years, dur

ing which she was subjected to such hard, fixed hatred that she was glad enough to be packed off to Lockwood

school, a semi-charitable institution

for girls. Her career there was very honor

able from a dudi! she became a teach-1'

er. She left it to become governess of the first coach she saw, to take her

households. Does Congress wish to hear a similar suggestion made in behalf of the diplomatic corps in Washington? The civil power must be made paramount over every element in this community, at whatever

cost. The government of the United States is a 'Germany, "spurlos versenkt," the shelling of failure at the source if it must bring its military j lifeboats, crucifixion of prisoners, burning of elepower to maintain order under the shadow ofjvators and grain ships in America, bomb outthe Capitol. The lives of white and "black people images. in this District must be protected, not by cavalry! 11 do to remember that Kaiser Bill, now and cannon, but by the civil law executed by the j mumbling prayers and shuddering in his boots, civil authority. The protection must be complete, ias only a little more than a year ago brandishnot questionable. It must make utterly impos-'"g nis shining sword before the world and vowsible the crimes against white women which pre-hng that he would bring all opposing peoples to ceded the present disorders, and it must also pro-1 their knees before him.

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK

ANONYMOUS I ri'.me across a very beautiful sentiment the other day. Here it is: "Forgiveness is the perfume that the trampled flower casts back upon the foot which crushed it." The author I do not know, because it was merely marked Anonymous. I took the noble sentiment and stored it away in my heart, for that is the place for such sentiments. But what started me to thinking was the fact that the single word "Anonymous" was placed at the end of that lovely phrase. I thot of that wonderful poem by Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard," which paid such a great tribute to the unknowns of the earth, in the sea and on the land, and I eaid it is the thought and the deed that really endures. Our greatest dreams, the highest truths, the deepest wisdom, the strongest longings of our heart; are really anonymous. Even the reat Shakespere must have thought of the utter futility of a mere identification for a man, for he once exclaimed: "What's in a Name?" The unknowabler is always anonymous. It may be very great and very wonderful, tho still without a name. Some of the finest poetry ever written continues from age to age "Author Unknown." Our big deeds drop us, quite soon, as their creator and author. For they are really bigger than we are having come from many sources, embodying a little from the great All. Mere lauguage is little. And, in time, the most important name fades and rii?s. In the Museum of Natural History in New York City, you may view the skeleton of the greatest animal ever discovered. It occupies a whole rocm. But no man knows its original name. Anonymous is written into every bone of its great frame. The good grows into greater good. Every thought and deed goes on, into a million changes, perhaps but nothing, whether of good or ill, ever quite dies. Its influence floats into and becomes a part of the path of Eternity. So, do the THING and be happy in doing it. For the good that men do mo?t certainly lives after them on and on and on'.

of Adela Varens, the ward of Mr. Ed

ward Rochester, at Thornfield Manor. There she thoroughly liked her situa

tion Thf prand nld hnnsp- the nnipt

library; her little chamber; the gar-!the heather she walked

as far as he would for the money. Thirty-six hours later he let hr off

i at a crossroads in the moorlands. Into

That night

j den with Its huge chestnut tree; and she ate bilberries, and slept under a the great meadow with its array of crag. knotty thorn-trees, strong as oaks. I Two days later, famished and ! If Mr. Rochester had been a hand-J drenched, she was taken into Marsh j some, heroic-looking young genUeman, j End, the house of the Reverend St. ; Jane could never have felt at ease : John Rivers, a young and ambitious j with him. But he was a 6ombre, j clergyman in the neighboring village : moody man, with broad and jetty eye-; of Morton. His two sisters, Mary and brows, decisive nose, and grim, square j Diana, were more than kind to Jane, j mouth and jaw; and in his presence They were soon to return to their ! the plain little governess felt some- work as governesses in a large south j how happy. Yet his character was of England city. i beyond her penetration; she felt a St. John secured employment for I vague sense of insecurity. ! Jane as mistress of the new girl's j He confided to her that Adela Var- j school in Morton. His plan was to be1 ens was not his child, but the daugh-,come a missionary in India. He asked Iter of a Parisian dancer, who liad de- j Jane to become his wife and go with i ceived him, and deserted the little him. But something kept her from girl. So much he told her, but of the j consenting; he felt the call to misstrange shadow that passed over his j sionary work, but she did not. happiest moments, of his apparent af-j Then he discovered for her tha' ' fection for Jane Eyre along with his j her uncle had died, leaving her twenty : withholding from her some secret ; thousand pounds. This was confirmed grief, she could make nothing. j by Mr. Briggs, the solicitor in London. Then there came most mysterious She discovered, too, that the mother I happenings 10 Thornfield. One night :' of St. John and Mary and Dianna had ; Jane Eyre found the door of Mr. i been her father's sister, so that th-y Rochester's room open, and his bed should have been heirs to her un'.'.e on fire. She managed with great dif-;in Madeira. She insisted on a divi. . ficulty to quench the flames, and j ion of the legacy with ihf.m. 'rouse him from the stupor into which; One niehr St. John was p.-pss;ng the smoke had plunged him. He ad-j her for her final decision. The cn vised her to remain silent as to the ! candle was dying out the room ws:-

Good E

Did he waste much sympathy on anyone then? Not that we recall. "When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be; when the devil was well, the devil a saint was he."

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

tect the law-abiding negrp element. The people are nauseated by orders which leave the police practically defenseless when attacked by ruffians of either race. The direct result of these orders is death to policemen, the

triumph of lawlessness and the terrorization of!

the community. The individual poticemen are placed in an unjust light, as well as having their lives endangered, and the hoodlum element quickly learns contempt for the whole force, in spite oi the desire of brave policemen to quell the disturbances. A more efficient direction of the1 present police force is necessary. That greater efficiency can be obtained by the President whenever he desires to investigate conditions. But the in

creased force, and the adequate pay which will'

keep the force efficient, must be provided by j care to take a chance with that diet, for animals selling Congress. The pay of policemen is shamefully j for $23.50 a hundred.

LATEST AND BEST FORD JOKE Indianapolis Star. His pa says Edsel Ford was offered a dozen commissions in the army, not because of any pull or on account of wealth, of course, but in recognition of his well-known extraordinary ability.

AND YET THEY PROHIBIT BOOZE! Houston Post. We suppose the buttermilk of commerce is offered for sale to human beings because owners of hogs do not

The Best National Protection

looa evening

BY ROY K. MOULTON - ,

A LITTLE SLICE O LIFE We were looking for a cook. Everybody said we couldn't find one Be we fooled everybody. We went out and found one, A very intelligent maid, we thought, And we took her home on the 4:37 And guarded her closely Against a host of our friends Who were on th samp train. When we got to the houso The maid told us her terms. She would do no laundrv work And NO COOKING. We would have to get some one To prepare her meals If we did that, she t-aid Everything would be O. K. So now all we have got to do Is to get somebody to cook For our new maid. As somebody has remarked. We are living in a great age. Application blanks for jobs still contain the old question: "To what extent do you use intoxicating liquors?" The answer should be, "About 2.75 per cent.

AEW LEADER OF U. S. FORCES ON . MEXICAN BORDER

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From The Cincinnati Enquirer. m ANY are fond of recalling the days when they l were poor, their early struggles, and drawing

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view of the thoughtful banker referred to, we must do some things and avoid the doing of other things. For instance, it would be tragically unfortunate should this

those days, if they began to learn the

from those experiences

:o regard as valuable lessons. In profited by their experiences, they

value of the habit of thrift. A great f.nancier himself once a poor farm boy says that the new relations between the United States and the rest of the world should teach Americans this vital lesson of thrift. It is his Idea and vision that we are to become a wellspring for all the nations. He declares that it is our duty to become this living fountain of refreshment and practical salvation, the opportunity being at hand. No longer can a nation live to itself alone. Nations dare not any longer remain wholly selfish. All nations are now more or less inter-dependent. Internationalism invokes a far bigger vision than does nationalism. We are warned by thoughtful writers that we must not overemphasize the ideal of self-support, self-protection and self-containedness. There must In the future be exemplified a closer community of interest, a readier and more just reciprocity between the nations of the earth. The highest service any nation can render its people is that service which most widely operates to Insure general racial helpfulness. To take advantage of the opportunity at hand, in the

what they are pleased I nation torce the conviction on the mind3 of other peoples

that it intends to accentuate an intensive economic life. Such a policy would be obviously foolish as well. If, as suggested and we very earnestly desire and need that trade we do not buy generously from South America we cannot hope to win the permanent export trade of that vast country. We believe with him that commerce is without sentiment that is not egotistic in the last analysis. It is reciprocal and mutual. Wherefore and here comes the idea of thrift enforcing its dominant importance, now more urgently than ever before the nation must not spend unwisely or foolishly. We must look forward to what we shall have, or should have, to spend next, year. It should be more than we shall be able to spend this year. Neither must we spend selfishly, else we shall be running counter to law and truth. We must be thrifty as individuals. "We should learn ever again the lessons of the last four years. We must realize that we are a unit among many other national

units; that we cannot isolate ourselves;- that we cannot be- absolutely self-supporting, self-contained or sufficient unto ourselves if we have regard for proper and adequate national protection, for material national progress. Thrift is our one best means of continuous national preparedness. In the day's of plenty let us lay up treasure as against lean years.

New Jersey railroad conductor has been bequeathed $15,000 by a grateful passenger for "always being pleasant." There won't be a scowl on any conductor's face in this country in ten years. A nation owes its thanks to the thoughtful citizen who died and left this monev.

About the hardest job to make good at is that of being a famous man's son.

emories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Year

Ago Today

A club of men, whose wives are out of the city was organized and called the "Merry Widowers."

Many farmers in the vicinity realized that they had been swindled by an agent who sold them plants and shrubbery from a nursery supposed to be in Greenfield, when none of the plants grew. When an investigation was made it showed that there was no such nursery at Greenfield. The Y. M. C. A. baseball team defeated the Athletics, 4-3, and the StanPiano team defeated the Easthaven team.

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affair. j full of moonlight. She heard a voi e Later, a Mr. Mason, from Spanish from somewhere cry Town, in Jamaica, arrived at Thorn-1 'Jane! Jane: Jane:--field while Mr. Rochester was enter-1 Nest day she w;-s on hr way to taining a large party. That night Jane ! 'I hornfield. In thirty-six hours she arwf.6 awakened by a cry tor help. ! rived at ' The Rochester Arms," two When she reached the hall the guests j miles away. With much misgiving shp were aroused. j walked to Thornfield to find only a Mr. Roc hosier, candle in hand was i blackened ruin, descending the stairs from the third I Back at the inn she learned that

Itinrn- "A servant lias hud a nicht-i Thornfield Hali had burned down

mare," he said. about harvest time in the previous Thus he persuaded the guests back I year. The fire had broken out in thf into their rooms. Hut all that night dead of nipht. Mr. Rochester had Jane was obliged to a't-nd Mr. Mason, .tried to rescue his wife. She hsd who lay in a bed on th third floor. ! climbed onto the roof, where she had badly v. oumWl in the firm and shoul-: stood, waving her arms, and shoutinK der. From scattered hints .lane gath-!out till ihey could hear her a mil" crcd that a woman had inflicted the: away. Mr. Rochester had ascended wounds. A doctor was summoned. ! through the skylight. The crowd had and before morning Mr. Rochester had heard him call her "Bertha:" They spirited the wounded map. away in ajhad seen him approach her; and then coach, with the doctor to wau h over she had yelled, and given a sprine, him. j and the next minute she had lain dead Then Jane was suddenly summoned; on the pavement, to Gateshead, to her aunt, Mrs. Reed,; Mr. Rochester had been taken from who lay dying. Mrs. Reed gave her ! the ruins, alive, but sadly burt; one a letter, it was from John Eyre, in ' eye had been knocked out. and one Madeira, asking that his niece, Jane ' hand so crushed that the surgeon had Eyre, communicate with him. that he to amputate it directly. The other ve might adopt her, as he was unmarried ; inflamed ; he lost the sight of that and childless. It was dated three' j,1po. years back. Mrs. Reed had never ai-i He was now at Ferndean. a manortempted to deliver it to Jane Eyre, : house on a farm he had, about thirty because she disliked her too thorough- miles off; quite a desolate spot. There ly to lend a hand in lifting her to jane found him, sad, helpless and cripprosperity, i pled. She married him. Eventually When Jar.e returned to Thornfield. ; the sight returned to his eye so that Mr. Rochester proposed to her; and j when his first-born was put into his because she loved him and believed ; arms he could see that the boy had in him, she accepted j inherited his own eyes, as they once A month later, at the wedding, j ere large, brilliant and black. On when the clergyman s lips were un-!that occasion, wih a full heart, he closed to ask, "Wilt thou have this i acknowledged that God had tempered woman tor thy wedded wife?" in the j judgment with mercy, gray old house of God, a distinct and; Diana and Mary Rivers were both near voice spoke in the silence of the! married soon after, and alternately, empty church i once a year, came to visit Jane and "The marriage cannot go on I de-;Mr. Rochester. St. John Rivers left clare the existence of an impediment." tor India, to labor until at length callAsked by the clergyman for the ' ed into the joy of his Lord, fifts. the sneaker showed a document; Comrieht. 119. hv Post Publishing

to prove that Mr. Rochester had mar-Compar.y

(The Rostai Post.)

1'iihliriio.l bv special arransmfr.t

with MrOl'irp N'ewppaprr Syndl- ate. All rig-hts rest-rved.

ARTHUR LINDSTROM HOME Lieut. Arthur C. Lindstrom, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lindstrom, arrived at Newport News July 20, and is now at Washington. D. C, awaiting his honorable discharge.

Maj. Gen. Joseph T. Dickman, photographed on arrival from France on board Aquitania. Maj. Gen. Joseph T. Dickman. for mer commander of the American army of ocupation in Germany, has been chosen to head the southern department of the U. S. army. His headquarters will be at San Antonio. Tex. He will command the troops handlinsr the Mexican situation, which has been made unusually prave by recent outrages. These include the attack on members of tho U. S. S. Cheyenne's motor boat, which flew the U. S. flar. and tha v.irder of John W. Correll.

:l Dinner Stories

HOG PRICES MAKE RECORD

CLEVELAND, July 25. Hogs sold at $24 a hundred pounds Wednesday at the local stock yards, breaking the record established yesterday by 60 cents.

ricd Bertha Mason, fifteen years be-: fore, in Spanish Town, Jamaica; and; produced Mr. Mason to witness that ,

the woman was alive and at Thorn-j "The Iast of the Barons." by Bulwer field. j Lytton. as condensed by Professor Edward Rochester confessed hardily William Fenwick Harris, will be printand recklessly that he had married, 1 c-d tomorrow, as the lawyer asserted; that his wife j

was still living; tnat ne naa Kept nerj

secretly at j norniieiu tor years, sne j

was mad; and she came of a mad

lamiiy, luiots auu maniacs un uiiee

generations. He had been inveigled j "Have you tried that hair tonic I into the marriage by his family. withjsol(1 VOu?" asked the druggist. the connivance of his father and broth-j "Oh. yes." was the reply. er, who had desired him to marry a j "And did you find it brought out the fortune. He invited the clergyman, 'new hair?" the lawyer and Mr. Mason to come up i So. but it brought out the old hair toThornfield and see what sort of a' all right." being he had been cheated into es-j pouslng and judge whether or not hej "isn't that clerk of yours an Inhad a right to break the compact. jdian?" asked the girl. At Thornfield he took them to the j is," replied the druggist, third story, in a room without a win-j am ' reluctant about having him dow, there burnt a fire guarded by a ' wait on me."

l.ign ana strong renoer. ana a tamp 0b.. he's not savage. suspended from the ceiling by a chain. -j Know. But It seems to me he A trusty maidservant bent over the wears a lurking grin when I order

lire, apparently coofcing something. . naint."

In the deep shade at the further end

of the room, a figure ran backwards 1

ana iorwara. wnai n was. at iirst ; myself, and you ve never said a word

bignt, one couia not ten; u grovenea, ; about it.

"Darling. I cooked dinner for you all

teemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild

"I would have, dearest, but somehow I nate to be always complaining."