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Evening star., 1909-04-17
Death of Mrs. jenkins at Baltimore.

OSoeA Va AxAAS. 0CAhAAS a. 0dAlA1o1c.
BALTIMORE. April 17.-Mrs. Gertrude
Seckel Jenkins. widow of Mr.. Joseph
Jenkins, ST., who was for many years one
of Baltimore's leading business men. died
early yesterday morning at her residence
here. For the past year her health had
been declining. and when a severe cold.
contracted during March. eliminated in
pneumonia fortnight ago, fears were
felt regarding her recovery. Early in the
present week, however. the disease
seemed conquered and her condition was
considered more hopeful. But she failed
to rally from the attack, and her strength
failed until the end came peace
fully yesterday morning. Her maiden
name was Miss Gertrude Hawkins Seckel,
and she was born in Philadelphia, June
%. 1879. her parents being Adam Seckel.
who died in 1912. and Rosannah Hawkins.
who died in 1865
Evening star., 1909-04-17
To Stand Trial for Fathers Murder

NORTON, Va, April 17.-Deputy Sheriff
Dean passed through town yesterday with
two boys, Pat and Arthur Craig, aged
nine and twelve years. respectively. tax
ing them to the county jail at Wise for
the murder Of their father John Craig,
at Roaring Fork. 1t is said the father
was brutally treating the boys. and while
he was asleep they planned to kill him.
A pistol was used. One of the boys was
to fire the bullet. but when the hammer
went down the weapon failed to go off,
The other boy reached for the gun. say
ing. "You can't Shoot" and, pulling the
trigger, their father was shot in the head,
dying almost instantly.
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sent by G.. W. Hefin, was brought before
United States Commissioner r. p. w.
Garnett yesterday afternoon and held in
the bond of $500 for his appearance April
26. The accused will be represented by
Attorneys Keith & Fletcher of Warren
ton. Va. The checks are alleged to have
been taken at Sumerville. Fauquier coun-
ty, Va, December 30, 1903.
Washington Man Injured.
During the progress of fight last night
near King and West streets Charles E.
Bristol of Washington was struck on the
head with rock alleged to have been
thrown by Jack Washington. colored.
Washington has not yet been apprehend-
ed by the police. Bristol, who says he is
a salesman, said he would appear against
Washington when wanted.
Cases disposed of in court were as fol-
lows: Edward Bryant. colored. assault
ing and beating Annie Freeman, also col
ored acquitted; Bertha Reynoid, colOred,
assaulting and beating Carrie Burke. also
colored, acquitted; James Lucas, colored.
assaulting and beating Thomas Mitchell.
also colored. acquitted. Thomas knight,
colored. suspicion of stealing coke from
the city gas works, continued until Mon
day.
Before large and appreciative audi
ence the E1ks' Dramatic Club presented
at the Opera House last night a four-act
drama, entitled "A Debt of Honor" The
play was under the direction of A. d.
Montier. The participants included D.
+. Robey. F.. r. Birrell Thomas
Chauncey, F. J. Fleming. r. NJ. Latham.
H. Linden Wheatley, Harry Fleischmann.
Mrs. H. Friedlander, Mrs. A. D. Monitor,
\. X Dunbar. Frank Won de Westlaken,
Herman Godfrey, Leonard Evans. Rich
ard Rambo, Raymond Reeves and Robert
Tomlin.
Tho c+ata corparafiop coypr,jSe,o, No..
granted charter to the f. William
Limerick Company, Incorporated with
maximum capital stock of 5000 and
"A minimum of $1,000. The objects .of the
and egg business. The following are the
officers: J. NJ. Carmody, president: F. J.
Sherrer, secretary and treasurer; E. w.
Limerick, vice president, all of WASH
ington.
Notes.
The funeral of Richard H. Lyles, who
died Wednesday last. took place at $50
o'clock this morning from ST. Marys
Catholic Church. and was largely attend
ed. The church services were conducted
by Rev. Father L. F. Kelly, and the COM
mitment services were coducted by
Rev. Fathers Cutler and Patrick. Those
serving as pallbearers were Thomas Hoy.
p. F. German, Walter Roberts, r. w.
Arnold, James McWiliams and Henry II.
Kelley.
Two other indictments against T. c.
Roderick, formerly superintendent of the
Alexandria Electric Light Company, for
larceny, will be heard in the corporation
court Friday next. Gov. Swanson has
designated Judge Harrison of Winchester,
Va, to try the case.
The Alexandria German Club last night
gave its final Easter dance of the season
at McBurney's Hall. 1t was led by r.
Ii. Beverly
At a meeting of. Potomac Lodge of Odd
Fellows held last night the third degree
of the order was conferred upon three
candidates. This now gives the lodge an
even membership Of 200
The various male organizations and
societies of st. Mary's Catholic Church
will attend holy communion services to-
morrow morning in body.
Evening star., 1909-04-17
Negro Ravisher Dies in Death Chair.

RICHMOND. Va, April 16-Perry Sea-
born. colored. was put to death by cleo
tricity at the penitentiary, in the presence
of jury and witnesses yesterday. Sea-
born was typical young negro of the
laboring class. He was sentenced in Feb
ruary by the circuit court of Greenville
county for committing a criminal assault
on young colored girl and then forcing
her. at the point of pistol. to reveal to
him the hiding place of her savings.
to several hundred dollars He
was convicted Of highway robbery along
with the greater crime. Seaborn made
his escape after the commission of the
double crime. being captured several
weeks later at Suffolk. He had already
served a five-year term in the penitentiary
for burglary in Southampton county.
Evening star., 1909-04-17
District Union Rally and Reception.

The District Union of Baptist Young
Peoples societies Is planning to hold a
rally and reception Friday evening, April
80. at the Second Baptist Church, 4th
and Virginia avenue southeast There
will be appropriate services from 8 to 8
o'clock. including an address by Rev.
will speak on THE Dignity Of Selfhood."
Following this. the representatives from
the various churches will be received by
the pastors OF the churches. whose Young
Peopie's societies are afhliated with the
District B. Y. p. u. and their wives, and
the presidents of the local societies and
their wives or husbands.
Evening star., 1909-04-17
to get their money out of the common
peOnle-the consumers

to get their money out of the common
people-the consumers.
THE large majority of wheat has left
the hands Of the farmers. fictitious
price has been created. The farmers are
not beneffciaries of such conditions. They
will naturally plant more wheat and next
years crop is likely to be abnormally
large. when the gamblers will not be in
the market and mischief will be done by
disturbance of the crop system
In the corner of 1898, when the price of
wheat was run up to S1.S5. the price was
depressed the following year below 50
cents. the result, undoubtedly. of the up
setting of the equilibrium of normal sup
ply and demand
Evening star., 1909-04-17

Court Decree With Unusual Feature.
William H. Walmsley has been granted
an absolute divorce from Mae Horncr
Walmsley. An unusual feature of the
decree signed by Justice Barnard Is
the privilege granted to the wife to re-
sumo her maiden name. Mary E. Grubb.
although the divorce decree Is against
her.
Attorney George p. Hoover repre-
sented the husband.
Evening star., 1909-04-17
2. William Limerick Bankrupt.

JUSTICE barndrd mas adJudged BANK
rupt E. William Limerick. a Center
market merchant. who yesterday filed
petition in voluntary bankruptcy.
Limerick, through Attorney Walter a.
Johnston. lists his debts at $15,O36.37
and his assets at $4,435.57.
Evening star., 1909-04-17
Married at Chevy Chase.

Miss Lena Rye and Mr.. Maurice Con-
nor, both Of Washington, were married
Wednesday evening at Chevy Chase bv
Rev. T. s. Childs. rector of the Chevy
Chase parish.
Evening star., 1909-04-17

While a serious decline is shown in
the International trade of last year, the
balance of trade is greater than ever
before in favor of the United States
Evening star., 1909-04-17
REACHING THE TO|LERS
Y. N. c. A. Meetings in Shops
and Car Barns.
CAMPAIGN BEGINS TODAY
Evangelist Fenno Opens With Two
Addresses to Street Car Men.
WILL CONTINUE TWO WEEKS
Plans Formulated at a Dinner At
tended by Representative Reli-
gious Workers and Employers.

Added impetus to the work of the relig
ious department of the Young Mems
Christian Association at the navy yard
and in the shops. car barns and fire en-
gine houses of the District will be given
by two-week campaign conducted by
w. f. Fenno of New York, beginning to-
day. The opening meetings were held at
noon today at the P street repair shop of
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company, and at 3 o'clock this afternoon
at the Georgetown car barns.
Mr.. Fenno, who is special religious work
secretary of the international committee
of the Y. NJ. c. A. comes to the Capital
city with the record of having directed
many similar successful campaigns in all
the large cities of the country. He is
we'll known in Washington among rail-
road and army men, having visited here
on two previous occasions. He was for
many years in the service of the New
York Central railroad. He showed such
strong interest and achieved so much
success as a committeeman in the rail-
road Y. M. c. A. that he was invited to
give his whole attention to this work
Most of the meetings which he will con-
duet will be held in the shops car barns
and fire engine houses of the city. and
his reputation as a speaker is said by
association officers here to assure him
large audiences
Evening star., 1909-04-17
CANNOT LOSE.
Continued from First Page.)

Wilson reiterated the opinion he expressed
yesterday that the figures given by Patten
are such as gambler, interested in pro-
ducing an effect upon the public, would be
likely to give out.
Evening star., 1909-04-17
Consumers to Be Victims.

''There is sufficient wheat In the coun-
try at normal prices to make bread for
the American people up to the time when
the new crop comes. Those who attempt
to keep prices up at present rates expect
Evening star., 1909-04-17
Schedule of Meetings.

The schedule of meetings so far ar
ranged:
P street repair shop, noon, April II. 81,
"a and 2s.
NJ street repair shop. noon. April 10 and
26
Navy yard. storeroom No. TO- noon,
April 20, D. q and 30.
Lincoln Park car barn. 2 pm, April
Maple Grove car barn. 2 pm. April 10.
%. % and 80.
Columbia car barn. pm. April %, %,
&c and 80.
lexington car barn, pm. April 20
and %.
Seventh street ear barn. pm. April
% and %.
- Georgetown car barn. 3 pm. April IL.
q. - and %.
., Navy a yard car barn. pm, April 81,
%. 26 and 30.
Four-a -anda-half street car barn, pm.
April 10. %. 81 and 20.
Special services-Noon. April 90 and %,
r. r. Y. NJ. c. A.; II am, April 1s and
= Army Y. M. c: A.; pm. April 81 and
S. E. Club. 9Th street and Virginia ave-
nue.: $50 pm, April 25. Central Y. NJ. c..
A; 7:3O pm. April 1s, Hamline Church
40 pm. April %. Eastern Presbyterian
Church.
Plans Formed at Dinner.
AS preliminary to the campaign rep
resentatives from the several shops. car
barns and fire engine houses met at
dinner In the banquet room of the Y. NJ.
c. A. building last night and talked over
the plans for the campaign. w. E. Fenno
was the guest of honor. Miles NJ Shand
OF the religious work committee of the
associations board of directors, presided,
assisted by d. A. Davis, religious work
director, and r. W. Bone, his assistant
Among the others present were Messrs.
Grayson. W. F. Dement,. Cranshaw. H.
w. Lynn. M. II. Ford. NJ Frazier Bay
den, Hitchcock. S. A. White, Payne. Fer
rell. j. P. Tarbox, Lewis T. Stallings,
Rev. c. p. Wiles and Rev. I. c. Rynder.
Many Of those present spoke of the sue
cess of the meetings In the various shops
and other places and promised their
hearty cooperation during the campaign
during the next two weeks.
Not only was the meeting last night
preliminary to the special campaign
about to start. but it started what is
hoped will result in permanent
strengthening of the work. Following
suggestion made by Religious Work Di-
rector Davis, the group decided to form an
industrial work council, composed of one
representative from each of the shops,
car barns and engine houses, at which the
meetings are held. This will meet twice
a. year and have direction, in co-opera-
tiOn with they. NJ c. A. officers of the
work.
Evening star., 1909-04-17

sent by G. w. Heflin, was brought before
United States Commissioner r. P. w.
Garnett yesterday afternoon and held in
the bond of $500 for his appearance April
26 The accused will be represented by
Attorneys Keith & Fletcher of Warren
ton. Va. The checks are alleged to have
been taken at Sumerville. Fauquier coun-
ty, Va, December Do 1905
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
PROPOSED ACT GOVERNING
SUCCESSION AS GOVERNOR

Olympia, March 30.-A bill which
passed both houses at the last session
of the legislature provides for an
amendment to the state constitution
which will cut down the term of sue
cessors to governors who die in office
to two years. The amendment, which
will be voted upon at the next general
election, reads:
Gin case of the removal, resignation,
death or disability of the governor, the
duties of the Office shall devolve upon
the lieutenant governor; and in case
of vacancy in both the offices of gov
ernor and lieutenant governor, the du-
ties of governor shall devolve upon the
secretary Of state.
''To provide perpetual succession
to the office of governor the following
state officers are named to scuceed to
the duties of governor: Treasurer,
auditor, attorney general, superintend-
emit of public instruction, commissioner
of public lands. They may serve until
the next state biennial election.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
from which country the dogs were frs
brought to England.

from which country the dogs were first
brought to England.
A terrier is dog that digs. He
gets his name from Latin word mean
ing earth, and a skye terrier is a ter
rier from the Island Of Skye, north of
Scotland.
A pointer is called so because he Is
trained to point at the game while
hunting, and setter because he is
trained to crouch.
A King Charles spaniel means a
Spanish dog. The best came from Hal
tt in the West Indies, which used to be
called Hispaniola. They were the IA
vorite dogs Of King Charles 1. of En-
gland, so they were named after him.
The word cat is Arabic, but puss is
Egyptian. The Egyptians called both
the cat and the moon pasht, because
they both liked to be out at night and
because the cats eyes and the moon
both changed their shape. From pasht
the word shortened to pas, and then to
puss, so that now when you call "Puss,
puss, puss )! you are calling just exact
ly what the children in Egypt used to
call thousands Of years ago.-Chicago
News.
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my hrst meeting with Winnie. dear
thing! I'm glad to have that WHY.
why!' Her voice trafled OF curiously
a. her eyes ran down the page.
Nelly Kent Joined u.s. she read.
with her new chum, Lavinia Brown,
that tall, scrawny girl, whose mouth
screws up at the corner as If she'd
just tasted pickles. Nell calls her Vim
n1e-such a silly-sounding name! but
the other girls call her Vinegar, and II
nts her much better. l suppose she's
bright, If she is gawk; but l don't
take to her lite Bit"
Eleanor hastily tore out The leaf,
dropped It in the waste basket, and
glanced along farther.
Edith Emery walked to church
With me. Sweet as ever. She's Inn
mensely popular, but l despise SUGAR.
ness"
Out came second page. Winnie and
Edith! How could she have misjudged
so speedily? She read on:
Missed call from Sylvia Dane
Glad Of it! hate chatterbox.' That
stolid, uninteresting Mrs. Ross called
and mamma summoned me back just as
l was escaping by the kitchen Round
Of formal calls with mother everybody
In, worse luck!' Those three prim
Joneses, all in a row on three prim
chairs"
Rip! rip! rip. Eleanor had not the
courage to finish the record of those
calls. Mother" she demanded, impet-
uously, was I perfectly horrid five
years ago? I seem to myself an utter
" detestable little sharp-tougued chit :"
Mother laughed outright. "Oh, no"
she answered. mot so bad as that But
you often judged without charity and
spoke without reflection, as green youth
is apt to do. Is the little book so very
critical?"
Critical! It's hateful! Everybody
except the few loved pulled to pieces.
It's the last thing I'd want to read
when I'm old. It's made up Of just
what I hope I'll have forgotten by
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
NOT WORTH KEEPING.

schol Days Diary Not a. Interest
~ Sho Thought.
housekeeping in the attic with hel
mother, Eleanor found with dismay
that the mice had worked havoc to the
box in which she kept the letters and
diaries Of her later school life, now Eve
years ago.
II haven't kept up my journal as
meant" she owned, sadly, 'but !
thought had these to read when I'm
old; and they cover the years when
most of my friendships began, too
Those hateful mice! I could sit down
and cry"
Instead, she sat down to inyesti-
gate.
They've spared something. at any
rate" she murmured, fiuttering the
leaves Of badly-gnawed dairy. "H9e's
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02

A doctor, now eminent, served at one
time as intern in a Philadelphia hospi-
tai, and also held his own with q
coterie of rather gay friends. On q
certain morning, says writer In the
Chicago News, he awoke to find that
he had sadly oversight.
Sleepily putting on his clothes, he
fastened to the hospital. The first pa.
tient was stalwart young Irishman.
"Well, my man, what seems to be
your trouble this morning?" inquired
the doctor, concealing yawn, and
taking the patient by the hand to ex'
anime his pulse.
Faith, it's all in me breathin', doc
tor. can't git me breath at all, al
ALL"
1.-The pulse is normal, but let me ex.
anime the lung action moment" re
piled the doctor, kneeling beside the
cot and laying his head on the Irish
mans chest.
Now let me hear you talk" he con
tinued, closing his eyes and listening
attentively for sounds of pulmonary
congestion. A moment Of silence.
"What will I be sayin', doctor r
finally asked the patient.
"Oh, say anything. Count one, two
three and up, that way" murmured
the physician, drowsily.
EVAN, two, three, four, five, SIX" be
gan the sick man.
When the young doctor, with start
opened his eyes, Pat was continuing
huskfly, ''Tin hundred and sixty-nine
tin hundred and sivipty, tin hundred
an sivinty-wan."
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An old farmer Of the County Of Dur
ham called at roadside public house
where he was well known. The land
lady asked him to buy ticket for q
lottery they had on there.
"Well," he said, II haze naught In ma
pocket, or 1 might"
"Oh, that's a. rect, john" she says
''take the ticket and pay for it any
time"
Some time later John called again
and the landlady asked him II he knew
who had won the lottery.
NO." he said, who won?"
"well, hardly burst tell you, but ooz
Sam won. Wasn't he lucky?"
AYE" said John, ''he was lucky
And who was second, then"
II burst hardly tell you.. Who would
you think now" she said.
81 couldn't say" said John.
"well, it was DOR Sally. Wasn't she
luckyT'
.Aye, she was lucky" said John,
"and who was third?" he asked.
"well," she said, you would never
puess. and might as well tell. I waa
third, Wasn't lucky?
"You WERE" he said. Did l ever
NV Won for that ticket, missus?"
.sNo. John, you didn't" she said'
fawning upon him.
"Well," said John, isn't I luckyT
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MDu1AHcz or THE Honu
Drivsa Daily, the Distance He Cen
Go II Not Great.

DE1vea Daily, the Distance He Cao
Go II Not Great.
What is q fair days work for =
horseY' Is q frequent question and very
difacult to answer. The London bus
horse does eighteen miles day, at .
rate OF seven miles an hour In double
harness with a four-ton bus; pair Of
post horses used to do twenty-six miles
with one-ton coach at eight miles go
Ing and six returning.
Il have known the horse in the
heavy deer van of H. M. Buck
hounds to do over eighty miles In
q day." says writer in Coun-
try Life in America, "but they
were never worked more than twice a
week. A good horse will trot his twen-
ty or thirty miles day for several
days consecutively, but cannot keep it
up; he may do sixty miles In one day,
but then must have rest the next.
"Small horses, other things being
equal. stand more work and recover
more quickly than big horses. Some re-
markable instances of the powers Of
ponies are given in William Days book,
which records run of 1O7 miles in
fourteen hours by two boys on ponies,
and one of 172 miles in twenty three
and half hours by twelve-hand pony
Qed), which beat the coach from Lon
don to Exeter; the times given includ.
ed all stops.
Town work, on account Of the fire.
quent stops and the hard pavement, in
duces fatigue, and especially leg weari-
ness, sooner than country life. Two
horses worked well within their powers
will always prove more economical In
the end than one that is habitually
driven to the utmost limit of his ca
pacity.
There are, however, many cases
where from different causes one horse
represents what the schoolboy called
the 'irreducible maximum then the
animal par excellence to be bought Is
the cob, though he will not be be too
easy to find in this country, where the
1--we O1 IdSC CrOLI0rS HAS UOuludL0O Cu0
question Of general utility.
"Yet the true cob, sturdy in build,
with plenty of bone but enough blood
to keep him from being sluggish, is one
Of the most useful specimens Of the
equine race. Well under fifteen hands.
he is easy to mount and sufficiently
short in his stride to be comfortable
back for even elderly men, and he is up
to quite considerable weight; in har-
ness he is sprightly, quite fast enough
for ordinary purposes, and being low
and thick is capable ef surprising
power of draft.
"In England, where he is as common
as he Is rare here, he is the mainstay
of the small and the general drudge
of the large establishment, and is usu-
| ally an ornament to both. He should
| carry his head well, have undenied
good shoulders, short back, and pow
erful quarters, being, in short, a big
horse in a small compass"
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Names OF Animals

ror, vaars ago. whenever Enei,SA
meakine people Travelled into foreisn
countries and saw a strange ne" am
NAL they hadn't seen oe1ore' 10y
would point to it and ask the n ~,
what It was, and the natives Woulo '0'i
them # was a camel or giraf1e' OF an
opossum. or whatever 1t happeneu -
no after which the English spea KING
nau,le would thank them k1ndly ain!
on home to their own land ana tell
their friends and relations that tney
had seen a camel or a giraffe, or an
onossum. or whatever it happened 20
be. And so that foreign word got into
the language, for English Is sor' VI
patchwork language made up OF io'
of pieces of other languages.
The porcupine gets his name lro !,
two Latin words, porous, from WHICH
we get the word pork, ana spine' =
thorn. so his name really means q pig
with thOrns.
The word lion is Latin, also from the
worn leu, anu lcOpuAu 10 -
word and from pardus, spotted-so ina
a leopard really means spotted non.
The word hippopotamus means river
horse, and rhinoceros comes from TWO
words meaning nose and horn.
The badgers Latin name is oiada-
RUS, from the word blada, corn (he
was 80 called because he used to steal
the corn from the fields).
The words elephant, camel and 81
raffe are from Eastern languages, 81
raffe coming from two words meaning
long and neck. 1t Is easy to see how
he got that name.
Most Of the names Of one syllable are
all from that language. Mouse comes
from the Anglo Saxon-from the word
mus. the plural of which is mys, so that
is why we have mice in the plural in
stead Of mouses.
Donkey is dun, gray color, and kin,
meaning little, but greyhound does not
mean a gray dog but a Greek dog. Graf
koi being the native name of Greece,