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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-26

For this section fair tonight and Wednes
dav: cooler tonight with minimum tsmpersa
ture near the freezing poiut moderate north
westerly winds. becoming light and variable
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-26

s. veral candidates we're INFLATED at
tie regular meeting lat night OF Alex
aodris Lodge Of Elks. Blsines' Of in
porisnce to the organization was also
transaeled.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-26
Local Matters.
Sun and Tide Table.
Weather Probabilities.

sun nses tomorrow at 7.10 and sets at OLE
Higb water Al If So a. IN. and II "a p. m.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-26

The Red Gross Shoes for tender feet
The allies who wear the Red Cross
Shoe always wear g smile. Sold only
by j. A. Marshall & Bro, 422 King
street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-26

Keep your feet dry. dry q Tair OF
the celebrated Walk Over Shoes. j..
A. Marshall d Bro, 422 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-26

4 OST.-On King street between the wharf
L. and Henry street Monday afternoon, a
small nickel WATCH and black silk FOB.
A suitable reward will be paid for its return
to Mrs. B. 4. BARNETT, Sl3 south Patrick
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-26

Don't miss seeing Avaano, the Renowned
P lmisi, Annory Hall, February to IL in
elusive
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-26

Buy your boy pair Of Storm King
Boots-ihe high top fellows-thsts
p hst the boy wsnts-from John A.
Marshall 4 Bro, 422 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-26

The Hess Hopkins FOOT FORM
SHOES makes life q pleasure. Sold
only by J. A. Marshall & Bro, 422 King
street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-26
u,rLavoneon half shell Chat:
LynulidftuS ing dishes Broiled

on toast and BRlLLS Celeb ated Single
Fried st the OPERA HOUSE CAFE.
Cherrs stone CLAIMS
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-26

Want TO learn German?
Want to Learn Latin?
Rev. May will teach you. Tuition. 81 a
month. Apply 2O7 north Alfred street.
JANIS Tvs
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-26
WANTED.

WANTED one or two MEN for large front
w room on King street. References APP
ply 81" Gazette Office. JANIS 30
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06
ROYAL FOLKS ON TANTRUMS.
Queen Boxes Ears-When Kaiser
Didn't Have His Own Way.

Queen Boxes Ears-When Kaiser
Didn't Have His Own Way.
ROYALTIES seem to be getting un-
pleasantly handy with their fists these
days, says Pearson's Weekly. A
story is even going around that our
beloved Queen Alexandra has been
guilty Of assault recently, though 1t
must be admitted that her majesty
fought in a good cause.
Her majesty, driving in pony cart
in a quiet lane near Sandringham'
came upon a tinker boy i'll treating a
dog. She was unattended. and having
no one to send to the dogs rescue, she
left the trap by the roadside and went
herself to rescue the bowling animal.
The boy, seeing an unknown lady
bearing down upon him in threaten
ing manner, left beating the dog. Then
the queen, not content with giving him
a scathing lecture, brought the inter-
view to an end by giving the dogs per-
secutor a resounding box on the ear.
Some one has appealed to Princess
Victoria to say If the tale is true, but
her royal highness has refused to be
drawn" All she will say is: 1T Is
just what my mother would like to do"
The recent death of the Chinese SOW
ereign recalls another historic slap.
The young emperor went to call on
his august aunt. He was attired very
smartly in garments that might have
been cut in Savile Row. an outrage
against Oriental tradition that was
more than the old Dowager Empress
could stand. In an outburst Of fury
she covered the reforming emperor
with bitter reproaches. and snatching
up her fan she enforced her remarks
by dealing him a vicious blow on the
cheek.
An incident that occurred in connec-
ton with the recent Greek army man.
oeuvres resulted in the crown prince
losing his temper and two railway Of
ficials getting themselves arrested.
The prince had ordered a special
train to be prepared at once. This was
done but before the railway officials
would allow the crown prince to start
they insisted on the special train being
paid for The prince flew into a pas
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06
YOUNG AMERICA TOO DAINTY.
Prof. Fritz Koch of Switzerland, Writes
of Children Here.


American children are too clean,
too vain and too 'puffed up" Amer
lean school teachers are too much in
clined to be fashionable. American
parents are too anxious to earn mon
ey.
This is the view Of conditions in the
United States pictured by Prof. Fritz
Koch Of the Lake Geneva New School,
Switzerland. His opinions, gained
during a recent investigation Of Amer
ican educational institutions, are stat
ed in an article on THE Conservation
of Childhood" in the Elementary
School Teacher, issued from the Uni
versity Of Chicago press.
Professor Koch believes the chill
dren would lose a part Of their van
ity If the too fashionable school teach
ers were banished from the school
rooms
Not least among the detriments to
a natural development Of children is
fashion, a forced culture Of vanity and
extravaganza" he declares in discuss
ing the tendency to place clothes
above learning Not only do the
parents but also the teachers set ex-
amples. To follow slavishly all the
extravagances Of fashion appears to be
far stronger tendency' than the de-
sire to be refined and simple. 1t Is
so utterly common to be fashionable
nowadays that I should think teach
ers, at least, would refuse to initiate
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06
is SURE.
to Deceive the Almighty
Are Futile.

TX, II. Depart We cursed into ever
lasting fire" Matt. XIV, Al. 1T Is a
fearful thing to fall into the hands OF
the living God" Heb. x, 81.
There is one door Of hope for the
sinner; one way Of escape from sin.
He that enters that door, that travels
that way, sin will not find him out.
God Himself has opened that door, and
invited the sinner to enter, assuring
him that sin can not follow him there.
Christ is that door. He that takes
refuge in Christ is safe. There Is no
other hiding place from sin. There Is
none other name under heaven given
among men whereby we must be
saved" Acts iv, IL.
BY repentance. renouncing and for
saking sin, and believing on Christ,
the sinner enters this open door. That
man now in Christ has no sin to find
him out. Christ has taken 1t all away,
nailed it to his cross, and thereby de-
stroyed 1t forever. "The Lord hath
laid on Him the iniquity Of us ALL" lsa-
iii, 6. God was in Christ reconciling
the world unto himself, not imputing
their trespasses unto them. II Cor.
" 10. Blessed is the man unto whom
the Lord imputeth not iniquity." Ps.
xxxii, 2.
Look at the pit Of hell where your
sin is taking you. Look at the cross
where Christ takes your sin and makes
It His. Look at the crown which Jesus
offers to pardoned sinners. Hear His
loving call, Come unto me-" Heed this
tender loving call Of Jesus. and live,
and love, and reign with Him forever.
Saved, w. B. Arrowood.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06
SOME SHORE EXPENSES.
Tremendous Cost of "our Navy on the
Land" Cited.

Land" Cited.
The American navy on the land en-
ploys from rs to so per cent more men
than the navy on the sea, writes G. K.
Turner in McClure's. Directly and in
directly 1t pays nearly twice as much
in wages. 1t costs es much to maintain
it, before a stroke of work is done, as
to maintain the whole fleet at sea.
Twice as many admirals, twice as
many captains, three times as many
commanders work for 1t. Many Of
these, of course, are required for i'm
portant military posts ashore; but
great and growing number merely for
the manufacturing plants Of the navy
yards. These military offlcers-trained
at high expense for one Of the most
important and delicate Of national SER
vices "a duty requiring in peace the
qualities Of a diplomat and an inter-
national lawyer, and in war the high
est qualities Of character and person.
al skilD are withdrawn from the prac-
tice Of their difficult profession for the
manufacture of chains and boats and
spittoons and the signing Of reams Of
the dullest routine papers. OF the $685.
100000 spent to maintain and extend
this system every year, one-half would
be more economically spent II it were
spilled into the sea. For every dollar
wasted here invites the wasting Of
another. OF s2O,OO0,OOO or s25,OO0,0 900
of manufacturing it does a good third
in excess over the value of the prod
uct And when 1t is all done, the mil
itary navy is left with it's one and only
great necessity on shore-a repair
shop for its fieet-absolutely unfulill-
ed
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06

Comic Side of Crime.-It is a gen.
orally accepted fact that one can see
humor Is most things If one looks
deep enough, says the Strand. The
following is, perhaps, rather a queer
story, but 1t is worth quoting II only to
emphasize the futility Of choosing ju-
ries in the haphazard way still followed
in England:
A man was tried on evidence irresis-
tible ito anybody but a jury" for
most terrible murder. He had slain
his father and mother on testimony
SO clear that there could be no shadow
of doubt as to his guilt.
The jury brought in verdict Of mot
guilty"
1t was an example of the comic jury
yes, screamingly funny comedians
"a troupe Of twelve led by comic
foreman.
The Judge was furious, and asked the
comedians what they meant by such
an outrageous verdict, when they
knew the culprit was guilty and ought
to be hanged"
That's just it. my lord" said the
foreman Of this distinguished body. Il
assure you we had no doubt about the
prisoners guilt but we thought there
had been deaths enough in the family
latelyi"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06
SOMETHING ABOUT BIRDS.
The Hawk on Washinston's Postoffies
Affords a Theme.

1T may have been fortunate thing
for ornithologists that the hawk Of
the postoffice tower has been spared
from execution, but 1t perhaps would
not have been spared had the sex Of
the pirate been discovered before the
execution was stayed" said James B.
Green, to a Washington Post report
er. ''The bird in the postoffice has
been termed 'peregrine falcon The
real meaning of peregrine is not ma
tive and, strictly speaking, in the
language of falconry, the female
peregrine Is exclusively called the fall
con. There are falcons and falcons.
1t occurs to me that the hawk that
has been destroying the carrier pig
cons Of Washington may not be such
a valuable species, after all. 1t would
be well to investigate.
Cain was the first man to study the
falcon. Having slain his brother and
not knowing what to do with the
corpse, according to the Koran of Ma
homet, he carried II about on his
shoulders until he saw a raven that
had also destroyed one Of his feath-
cry fellows, scratch up the earth and
bury the body, and Cain did likewise.
Falconry is a lost art in this country.
1t flourished in Italy and was esteem
ed Of equal importance with the
sword. In the thirteenth century, in
China, Kublai Khan had in his SER
vice no less fewer than 10000 falcon
ers, who attended him on his great
hunting expeditions. 1t may be in
teresting to modern bird fanciers to
know that every falcon OF this king
had a silver band upon one Of the
legs with the kings name on 1t.
These birds were extremely swift
in fight, and so powerful that upon
being unhooded and set upon the
chase, they would not hesitate to at
tack nor fail to subdue such large
quarry as wild swan, crane, geese and
other great fowls. So intense was
Kublai's interest in this sport that
even when old and incapable Of TAX
ing part in the chase on foot or horse
back, he caused himself to be carried
on q litter and thus reclining, enjoy
ed great satisfaction from the view
alone. The people Of the avenue who
have been watching the hawk In the
postoffice tower have been enjoying a
sight that kings paid to see."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06
MIGHTY Hard to Please.

A New Englander, travelling on FOOT
through the southern mountains, stu
dying the people, asked man whom
he met to direct him to certain cabin
at which he had been advised to stay
overnight. Going thar?" said the
man. well, Toms a f1rst-rater, take
him Just right, but he's mighty queer.
What do you mean?" asked the
traveller.
"Well, it's like this" and the man
looked at the stranger in calm, I'M
personal way. Hell be setting out
side, most probably, and he'll see you
coming; he'll take a good look at you'
and eff YOU don't suit him he may set
the dog on you.
"Ef he don't, and you get to talking
with him and say anything he don't
like, he may throw you down and
tromp on you. But eff you're careful
in your talk, on the other hand, he's
liable to take you for spy and use his
gun fust and listen to explanations al
terward.
But it's no use trying to get by
without stopping" concluded the man,
with evident relish Of the prospect he
was opening up to the stranger. Ell
YOU was to undertake that, 'twould be
all up with you, for he'd think you was
proud and big-getty.
EFF you want to come out Of the
mountain whole, don't go past Toms
cabin without stopping, whatever you
do!"-Youth's Companion.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06
The Plea of InSanity.-We are dal

The Plea of Insanity.-We are dan
gerously near permitting cold-blood-
ed murderers to escape on all occa-
sions. The more shocking and brutal
the murder, the more easy 1t is to
plead insanity. Once the plea Of in
sanity is entered, expert physicians
can be secured to help it along.
All men are more or less crazy at
periods in their lives. Pick up the
foolish and absurd things that even
the most brilliant men do; form a
chain Of these Incidents; make them
the groundwork of hypothetical
question, and an alienist will tell you
at once that a person who does these
things is more or less insane.
We need a statute to define the diff
ference between medical insanity and
legal insanity. We also need a stat
ute that provides when a person Is ac-
quilted of a charge on the ground of
insanity that that person must there
after be presumed to be insane, and
confined in an asylum for the insane
until he can prove his present sanity.
Commercial Appeal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06
WASTE OF GAS.
The Natural Product Treated AZ
Though InexhaustibIe.

The Natural Product Treated as
Though Inexhaustible.
Natural gas sufficient to light the
streets and homes, heat the buildings
and turn the factory wheels Of every
enterprise in Chicago, st. Louis and
New Orleans is going to waste In the
Caddo gas and oil fields near Shreve-
port, La, at the rate Of 100,O00,000 Gu
bic feet day, says the Technical
World Magazine.
Gas Is rushing from the bowels Of
the earth through two wild wells and
more than fifty gas and oil wells left
uncapped. The crater Of one wild well
covers more than two acres.
The attention Of ex-President Roose-
welt had been attracted to conditions
and by his order all public lands lying
in Caddo and Bossier parishes have
been withdrawn from entry until the
government may take what steps are
deemed necessary to stop the terrific
waste and preserve what Is conceded to
be the greatest gas field in the Western
Hemisphere.
In the meantime, the city Of Shreve-
port is thronged with oil investors from
every section of the country, rival
claims have been filed on government
lands near the oil wells, the price OF
real estate has reached heretofore un-
heard Of figures, men who a few
months ago held nothing but few
scant acres Of cut-over pine lands now
count their wealth by the thousands,
and armed guards stand watch over
ground which is claimed under various
acts and entries applicable to the Sc
curing Of public lands.
This territory is underlaid with two
strata of gas sand, averaging from 40
to 140 feet in width, the first 500 to 900
feet beneath the surface and the Sec
ond lying between 1900 and 1900 feet.
The gas sands show their greatest
width at Mooringsport, which lie IN
the more southern portion Of the field.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06

sion, ordered the officials to be arrest
ed and himself commanded the driver
to proceed.
| Another crown prince, he Of Germa-
ny, wanted to put up at a certain hotel.
The manager explained that his hotel
was full and respectfully declined to
admit the imperial party. His high
ness's "carryings on were something
scand'lous!" o.
The question Of women's rights al
ways reused the ire Of the late Queen
Victoria. When she heard that GER
tain Lady - had been making pub
lie speech in favor Of votes for women
the queen wrote this indignant note in
the third person:
Lady Ought to get a good whip
ping. It is a subject that makes the
queen so furious that she cannot con-
tain herself"
King Victor Emmanuel is very
"touchy" on the subject Of his shortness
of stature. One day when he was out
motoring the car broke down. The
king left the car to watch the mechan-
ic and very soon crowd gathered.
A woman asked, which is the
King?" On his majesty being pointed
out to her she gasped out in horror:
What! That tiny little man there!"
The spectators Uttered. The king,
his face purple with fury, jumped into
the car and sat there scowling until
the car started again.
The kaiser does not often get In
temper, but even when he does his
sense of humor often gets the better
of him.
A short time ago he summoned Ba-
ron Boetticher, the secretary Of state
for the Interior and gave him the name
of a man to whom he wished certain
appointment to be given. The baron
protested that the man was entirely
unsuited for the post, and in spite OF
the emperor's growing irritation he put
forward the convincing proof Of the
mans unsuitability. He then asked II
there was any one else on whom his
majesty would like to confer the ap-
pointment.
"Oh, confer 1t on Satan, IL you like"
The minister bowed to conceal a
smile.
Shall !, then," he asked blandly, "is-
sue the patent to be signed by your
majesty in the usual form To my
trusted and well beloved cousin and
COUNCILLOR"
This was too much for the emperor.
He burst into a roar of laughter. his
irritation entirely gone.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06
UNDERGROUND WATER.
Wonderful Supply That Does Not APP
pear on the Surface.

Wonderful Supply That Does Not APP
pear on the Surface.
One night a professor Of mathematics
was at work in his little study looking
over the lake at the university Of Wis
consin, says the Technical World Mag
azine. He was theorist, whose main
interest in life was the speculation as
to what a particular sort Of curve will
do IL 1t ever encounters another par
ticular sort of particular curve on
dark night somewhere just this side OF
infinity.
And his name, not unknown among
other such theorists, was Charles Sum-
ner Slichter. .
To him, thus studying the manners
and customs Of irrational curves, came
another professor, from the agricultur-
al department Of the same university
one c. /. King He, too had his hobby,
and 1t was the study Of academic par
ticles of soil under the influence OF
academic particles Of water. What
King wanted to know from Slichter
was the precise mathematical formula
for determining how much water would
reach the acre of potatoes In the north
west forty, when one inch OF rain fell
on the 500 acres just north of your
farm, and similar problems.
The first thing a bona f1de, anti
Barrios theorist does when he Is given
a new problem is to find out what the
Germans have done. Slichter looked
I'D what the Germans had done and he
was very much panied to find that they
had done very little. He couldn't even
agree with their estimate of the amount
of water there was under the earth, In
the first place. He corrected that
amount until he brought 1t around to
a neat 565,OOO, 900 100000 cubic yards
one third the volume Of all the waters
in all the oceans on the surface Of the
earth.
But that was merely a spin up
side lane. The real road he was fol-
lowing led to an Introduction and pos
sible acquaintance with those millions
and millions of cubic yards Of water
that had been hiding themselves In
places like California, and Kansas
and Colorado, so successfully from
man.
OF course he did not know 1t himself
at that time. He did not guess IT at
all, any more than he guessed that
few years would find him making the
plans for a s35O,000 pumping station,
which would catch and harness 60,ooo,-
900 gallons of those waters in one day
in one place alone, like Garden City, or
that he would be assisting cities with
more drinkers than drink, like Brook
lyn, to overtake other millions OF gal
Ions that were running away under
ground to the sea.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06
Huuuruas Department.
The Essence of Economy.

Secretary Crowley Of the Cattle
Raisers' association praised the other
day in Galveston, the cowboy
bile.
"The cowboy automobile has come to
STAY" he said. "A cowboy at the wheel
can handle a hundred times as many
steers as a cowboy in the saddle"
But the expense?" said an English
rancher.
ITS cheaper in the long rum" said
Col. Crowley. II don't believe In
cheeseparing on these western plains
of ours Cheeseparing out here, amid
this bounteous nature, looks as ridicu-
lous as the tactics Of the ST. Joseph
miser.
There are, you know, two famous
misers in st. Joseph-two old oache-
lors, Of course. The old miser called on
the younger the other night and found
him sitting in the dark. He lit up,
however, when he found there was a
mortgage paper to be examined. YES
he lit up a small candle. But as soon
as the paper was read through he blew
out the candle again.
"why did you do that% his guest
a little offender, asked.
Now, my dear SIR said the most,
can't we talk just as well in the dark!
OF course we can; and think how 1t
saves the candle
so they talked on. Money, money,
money. But the host noticed strange
sounds coming from his guests chair
strange creaks and rustlings-and at
last he said:
What are you doing there, any
way?
"'Why,' said the other, it's dark and
nobody can see me, so thought 10
take off my trousers and save wear
and tear'"-Washingto Herald.