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A Durable President.

From the Philadelphia Record.
81 understand YOU have new pres
iderit down In your republic said the
Philadelphian.
Net at ALL" retorted the Central Amer
lean, eve have had the same president
TO- six weeks"
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Literary Lights And Shadows
By $. MAYS BALL

statements of fact and elegance of
diction. If these lectures are as en-
thralling as the two / have read, then
indeed he who secures them will re-
joice dai,g in his possession"
Regarding the address on James Ed
ward Oslethorpe. delivered before the
Sons of the Revolution, among 9TH
err things Judge Spear said and still
says in his book:
ITO my mind Oglethorpe was the
most picturesque and romantic figure
In English history He was born while
James IL was King of England; be-
fore the pious and immortal William
of Orange assembled the throne with
his consort. He lived to be about the
only man to welcome John Adams as
the first minister of the United States
of America ito the court of ST. James
He was the familiar of Johnson, Rey-
nolds. Burke and Sheridan, and in a
previous generation of Pope and the
wits of his period. He connected the
age of Marlborough, whose officer he
was. with the age of wellington, Ma
poleon and Washington. and the over
whelming defeat he administered the
Spanards at Bloody Marsh on St. 81
mons Island Ga, preserved North
America for the Protestant religion and
the English speaking race. OF this
struggle, Carlyle writes: The existence
self was involved"
| AS regards a book of this magni-
| tude, which would by worth require
full page of this paper. only hints
of that worth can be made here and
there. For instance:
That the address on Alexander Ham
ilton was one of the Stoors courses
at Yale. BY many 1t is regarded as
the ablest paper in which Hamilton is
presented
The address on Joseph Emerson
Brown, war governor of Georgia, WAS
delivered as the commencement ora
ton of Mercer university and later in
the Storrs course at Yale.
The address on John Marshall was
made on John Marshall Day, Sa-
vannah, February A. 1901. Thomas h.
Watson, that stalwart biographer of
great men, in a letter to Judge Speer,
said: Il remember distinctly the pro-
found impression 1t (the Marshall ad-
dress) made upon me and remember ed
writing you to the general effect tina.
1t was the most striking tribute ever
paid to him so far as l knew. 1t GER
tainly impressed me more than any
study of the question that ever fell
into my hands"
The address on TIL omas Lord Erskine
was first delivered as the baccalaurea tie
address to- the law school of Mercer
university ana IN august or the same
year 190s) IL was given at the BAN
quet of the American Bar association
in Seattle, Wash. .Erskine" saws
Judge Speer after the expiration Of
four generations that constitute the
Augustan era of the legal profession.
is yet to be regarded as facile princeps
among the English speaking, living or
dead"
This is really a great volume. This
scribe hopes, from the space he has
overplayed will convince you that such
volume should be in your library:
considering this review some thing on
the order Of C. @. D. wireless wave
TO youTto get busy for your own
sakes.
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Reliable Optical Service

We pride ourselves in giving
our customers the most thor
ough and reliable optical ser
vice obtainable.
No slip-shod methods are en-
ployed by us-We make a
careful
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Marie of AreaGy," by F. Hewes Lam
caster. tSmall. Maynard & Coz
The scene of this alleged story Is the
settlement in the basin of a bayou along
the lower Mississippi river, remote from
this world, particularly remote from this
century.
In the face of all we can do we again
have thrown at us a novel based on the
life OF the "Ca5ans,' descendants of ex-
lies out along with Evangeine-whereve
that and many other fought-over loca-
lions may be.
This scribe has seen some of the Ca
jans-Never again ID. Wand he. there
fore, goes on record here as believing
no such Evangeline myth, or the fable OF
the descendants of those who came along
with Evangelne, as he should have put
it-life is entirely too short to believe
that-lf you have ever seen one of the
Cajans
While it is a fact-a condition. not a
theory-that ever so often a novel dealing
with the Cajans should be turned aloose
at us-oue thousand times too often.
really-he 1t known that Marie of Ar
cady" Is quiet story dhank goodnessl y
and enters with simple delight into the
gentle tenor of. the life of the Cajan PEG.
pie.
There may be places in Louisiana where
a man ia known a scholar because
he can simply sign his name-Mr., Miss
or Mrs. Lancaster says so-this reviewer
does not know but I was in St
Louis. Mo, recently-and, well, explana-
lions seem in order.
Then, too, tDere is entirely too much
dialect in Marie of Already Dialect of
any kind-even Catan-grows monotonous
after q bit. and to have a book filed with
it--well. isn't there any law In this land?
Anyone who could and did write the
real. very good indeed portions of this
book should. In the language of the
street. as regards dialect, simply cut
1t out In the first place, no one wishes
to read dialect these days, whatever they
did five years ago and In the 9s9 other
places dialect is bore in this day
and generation.
Say, F. Hewes Lancaster. give us what
is really in you!
You can do 50 very much better than
Marie of Already" and you know it.
Verses" by wilson Jefferson. (Rich G.
Badger).
This department two weeks ago dis
cussed IN a very short review Verses
by Wilson Jefferson. talented negro OF
Augusta. Ga.
Since that time this scribe has run
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|DEN NT|FY
DEAD IN
BIG FIRE.
Partial List Of Known
Dead In Today's
Catastrophe.

Until County Physician Mckenzie
raises the ban at the morgues identifl-
cation Of fire victims will necessarily
be slow. Nine bodies are at Mullen's
morgue. The work of Identification
will be started not later than o'clock.
Following is the list of identified dead
at the City Hospital:
CITY HOSPITAL.
Miss Bessie ROsen.
Mrs. Mary Lnpiere, $40 Bergen street.
Gertrude South Seventeenth
street.
Mrs. Abbie Washington.
Mrs. Francis Korchia, SO Livingston
street.
ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL.
Miss Melvin, 83 Warren street.
MULLINS MORGUE.
Sarah Creernn, so belmont avenue.
Mildred walters, 10 years old, ~
Columbia street.
Mrs. - Rosen, South Orange ave-
nue..
Sophia Macusby, 275 West Kinney
street.
Ida wooIey, IA, ~ BeIIevilie avenue.
- KOlxseka.
Gertrude Denton, 4ss South Seven
teenth street.
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AMID FIRE
SHE SEEKS
2 Sis STERS
Jumps to Life Net Only
When She Thinks
They're Saved.

Probably no one person that survived
the fire had a more narrowing expe-
rience than did Sophie Diehm, of 131
Norfolk street, who is now at her home
suffering from a sprained ankle. Miss
Diehm had two sisters employed in the
Wolf Company factory with her and
when the fire broke out she rushed
wildly into different rooms on the top
floor looking for them.
Believing they had escaped safely,
Miss Diehm, who is 10 years old, her
sisters being older, rushed to one of
the windows facing High street. Be-
low was Ladder Company No. 4, with
life-net outstretched. Miss Diehm
did not hesitate a moment, but made
the leap for the net. In landing in it
she sprained her ankle, and was rushed
to the City Hospital by the police am
bulance OF the First Precinct When
1t was discovered that she did not need
as much attention as the others In the
hospital. Driver Herbert Williams, of
the First Precinct, was ordered to take
her to her home.
''She was the gamest little girl / ever
saw" said Driver Williams afterwards.
"She never whimpered until we were
carrying her into her home. Then she
asked: Where is Catherine and
Clara p"
Finding that they had not returned
home Sophie became hysterical and re-
fused to be quieted. My sisters are
dead couio not find them while the
building was burning up. They are
dead / know they are" Relatives
and friends tried to quiet the frenzied
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5 BODIES
FOUND IN
The RUINS
Corpses Lowered to the
Street from Third
Floor.

A soon as the flremen could force
their way into the ruins the bodies Of
five girls were found on the fourth
floor. Recognition was impossible, and
the remains, wrapped in canvas. were
lowered to the street.
A throng which began assembling
at the first alarm at 9:20 o'clock had
swelled to vast proportions, and as the
bodies, twisting and turning, came
slowly downward there was a mighty
surge as someone shouted:
"They are finding bodies!"
Policemen were swept from their feet
and the mounted officers had a des-
perate struggle to turn the human tide
of frenzied people.
In a space about ten feet square, near
one of the windows. the five bodies were
found Two f1remen had clambered
through window. In a second one OF
them leaned out and shouted:
''Send up rope!"
whats the trouble?. was the an
swering cry.
sSend up a rope!' came the reply.
within a few moments the first
freight of horror was lowered. AS soon
as the last body touched the pavement
the firemen slid down the ladder and
reeled against the still hot walls.
Questions were hurled at the men,
but each refused to answer. Horror,
written large on the face of each of the
men who made the gruesome find,
told q story too terrible to be put into
words. The finding of these bodies
makes practically sure the prediction
OF the firemen that scores more will be
discovered as the search goes on.
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NARROWING
) SCENES AT
MORGUES
Relatives ClamOr to En-.
ter and Claim Their
Dead.

At Mullins n1orgue a crowd that
filled the street fought for entrance.
Relatives, sweethearts and friends
struggled madly with the police tsta-
toned In solid line before the build
ing. All were denied admittance, and
the cries of one mother rent the air
as she threw herself madly from right
of her little girl" Men, themselves
grief and terror bowed, tried In vain
to comfort her.
At MullinSs morgue eight bodies were
stretched, and the twisted limbs and
smoke-b -blackened faces told of how they
met their deaths. In the City Hospital
three bodies were held, and one at st.
Michaers Hospital.
Neither pleas nor prayers moved the
physician from his determination, and
men and women paced the streets vain
ly trying to master the fear that
tugged at their hearts while they gazed
at the walls that screened the victims
as If their eyes might pierce the brick
and mortor barrier that stood between
them and their dead.
Besicge City Hospital.
Many girls who escaped with their
lives hurried to the City Hospital
clamoring for news of their friends.
The spectacle was most depressing be-
cause for a long time no information
concerning the identity or condition or
the injured could be obtained Among
the girls visiting the hospital were
Sophia Gatay. Bess Sackmeister. Bess
Carmody and Elsie Schfeitzer. all OF
whom were trapped on the fourth floor
<Contlnued ON second Page).
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QUEEN ELIZABETH IMPROVES

BRUSSELS, Nov. 26.--Bulletins is
sued by the attending physicians today
indicate that the condition of Queen
Elizabeth is improving. 1t Is under
stood that she is suffering from ty-
phoid.
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LIST OF
VICTIMS
Names Of the Many Suf-
fererS Treated in
Hospitals.
A partial list of the injured thus far
identified at hospitals follows:

A partial list of the injured thus far
identified at hospitals follows:
At City Hospital.
/ Mary Dauriano, 2O5 Eighth avenue,
fractured left arm, fractured right leg.
abrasions and contusions.
Freda Elba, 20S Lake street, broken
left arm and contusions over left eye.
Not serious.
Anna Meyer, 50 Bowery street, con-
tusions on side, shoulder and head.
Catherine Diehm, 1S1 Norfolk street,
fractured left ribs which penetrated
lungs. Very serious.
Mary Schweitzer, 466 Avon avenue,
compound fracture OF left foot, may
be amputated. Bodily contusions
Blanch Balsom, 58 West street. frac-
tured shoulderblade and internal injur-
les. Condition serious.
Anna Deepfer, Tiffany place, Irving
ton, left arm fractured and body
bruised.
Margaret Bolinsky. 80 Beacon street.
fracture right thigh and right shoulder
blade.
Annie Ross, 4s1 Springfield avenue.
bruised and injured in shoulders and
limbs.
Elizabeth Miller. 5Ss South Twelfth
street, compound fracture left arm and
fracture of right arm. .
Lena Koenig. 141 Springfield avenue,
condition serious.
At st. Michaeis Hospital.
Mrs. Minnie Smith. AZ years old, 4s
Highland avenue. Kearny, fractured
leg, contusions and bruises; recovery
doubtful.
Miss Angela Rizzolo, % years old. 2sS
Ssymss&fnusk 0n aeopua Ynraa.
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Many Of the Young Women Who Leaped from
High Windows Are Dying from
Injuries in Hospitals.
FlREMEN FIND GROUP OF BODIES TANGLED
ON FRAGMENT OF The FOURTH FLOOR
SearCherS Believe Third Floor Holds More Vic
Tins in Its Charred Ruins Catastrophe
Worst That Has Ever Occurred Here.

nENnATH
snuned which
to death 4 the fourth floor Five bsdl | a about an four hours ss %
the blaze started at s1S o'clock this morning Of the fourth
hoor
sfounds
the the
an ortuniy flee
building
Der of dead to scores is almost nournful certainty
Gasoline Causes Holocaust
gasoline occupied by the
and Incredibly short time the whole interior building
This afternoon en going the fourth floor Of the ruted build
found five bodies huddied together which had
fallen through The charred bodies ot lowered
the ground
ruins
IN of
OF
the floor followed by leaping punsng flames From the one tiny dag Of
h bund
building and
women writing on the floor Soon was checked and then began the piunse
building which adjOins
waterfall the bodies the victims poured the filling
Only Few Use Fire Escapes
1bo
noS ls az Inc aaa - % @ s aa u. a rev psn a @ o.
safety the and the sha
the
BIB within
of
of
those the fourth
fire
buildings like wild misnco
crying
ment
Chief of Police cobt stated that building in which the occurred
the
FOrew0man Tries to Save Lives.
the alarm 0
all
andhe % OUT
vain
their attention injured Mansfield Gum Corn
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II. p. tyenIon a sons Fire Underwrfters.
ESTABLISHED 1873. ONCE, 7N1 Broad
street Insurance to any ano otnE--Ad
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Horse blankets, New stock.
k<as1nst q poxaznus o., 7pe Broad strssk--AAs.
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Edited By
HUGH w. ROBERTS
Great College Game
On Alabama Campus
WASHINGTON AND LEE TRIMS ALA
BAMA THROUGH MOTrAN's GREAT
TwIRLING-'TwAs GREAT FIGHT
BETWEEN TWO YOUNGSTERS

Tuscaloosa, May 13.-(Specia1.)-
Washington and Lee squared up mat
tiers with Alabama this afternoon by
tax ing the second game of the series
by a score of 2 to 0.
1t was a beautiful contest between
the pitchers with the fielders of both
teams giving almost perfect support.
Moran of the visitors, however, out
pointed Pratt and gave, in fact, the
finest exhibition of flinging seen on
the campus in several seasons. He
struck out Is men, gave up only two
hits and did not allow a base on
balls or hit man.
The yirginians scored in the first and
ninth innings Smith, first up. hit safe.
ly and went to second on Rectenwald's
slow inf1eld scratch, only to get put
out between second and third. The lat
ter got to second, however, and scored
on two rather wild pitches that got
by Anderson. In the ninth Erwin drove
one against the canvas for three bags
and cantered home when Efird poked
out a neat single. Alabama had only
one chance to score. In the sixth An
derson and Pratt, the first two up,
hit safely and with none out rested
On second and third. Moran frightened
UP, however, whitfield McEniry and Car
ter and let Baumgartner send a weak
fly to loft field
The box score and summary show the
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New York. May 1S.-The intercollegiate
football rules committee at meeting in
New York today decided to retain the for
ward pass unrestricted. The committee
framed a number of rules designed to
throw safeguards around portion of this
and other plays and adjourned sine die
having completed the task of reforming
football, which has kept it busy much OF
the time since the LIST of last February.
The working out of the details of the
new game was left in the hands of a sub
committee composed of Walter Camp of
Yale, DIR. Carl Williams of the University
of Pennsylvania, and Percy d. Iaughton
of Harvard, but as the new regulations
are largely theoretical, it is admitted the
precise results will not be known until
the football season of 1910 is under way.
Members of the committee hope, however,
that they have devised a plan which the
game will not be robbed of its spectacular
features, yet will be more safe than it
has been in the past.
At former sessions the committee adopt
ed six rules. They are that the offense
must keep seven men on the line of scrim-
mage; prohibition of the diving tackle;
permitting quarter back runs to be made
through any part of the line; that an on
side kick must not go 20 yards to be on
side; prohibiting pushing or pulling of
players or interlooked interference, and
dividing the game into four quarters of
Is minutes each.
At the last session held in Philadelphia
the committee decided to ascertain the eff
feet of limiting the forward pass to behind
the line of scrimmage, with eight yards
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Baseball Cameo Scheduled

Admission, May 1s.-(Special.) -Hamr
Draper, manager of the Oxanonians, the
baseball team which will jointly repre-
sent Admission and Oxford on the field
this summer, stated Friday that he will
open the season here with a fast. Bas.
semer amateur team on May 10, on which
date the first of series Of three games
will be played. Beginning May % another
series will be played here with Greater
Birmingham team, later games to be
pulled off with Alabama City and the
Birmingham Y. M. C. A. Manager Draper
has searched three states in the selec-
ton of his team which, he says. will be
one of the fastest amateur aggregati lions
ever got together in the south.
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to gain on three downs instead of 10
yards. A subcommittee was appointed to
frame system of play on this basis. The
committee presented its report today and
at the same time there was presented an
other plan allowing the unrestricted use
of the forward pass. The latter plan was
adopted.
The rules adopted today follow:
1. The forward may cross the line of
scrimmage at any point. but the player
making the pass must be at least five
yards behind the line of sormmage when
the pass is made and the player receiving
that pass shall not be, when the catch is
made, more than 20 yards in advance of
the place where the ball was passed.
2. Only the end men on the line of
scrimmage and the four men in the back
field shall be eligible to receive the for
ward pass and the backs in order to be
eligible must be at least one yard back be-
hind the line of scrimmage when the ball
is put in play.
3. A forward pass which crosses til e
line of scrimmage or a kick off at
any description must be made from a
point at least five yards back of the
scrimmage line.
4. Penalties: On the first and second
downs, in case of an incompleted for
ward pass, the ball shall be brought
back to the spot where the pass was
made, the play TO count as one down
and the distance to be gained to re-
main the same. On the third down the
ball shall go to the opponents on the
spot where the pass was made.
5. Players on the defense who have
crossed the line of scrimmage must
not interfere with the defensive play
ers on kick until the ball shall have
gone 20 yards or on a forward pass
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Troubles of Gremminxer

Montgomery, May 1S.-(Special.)- IMAM
ager Greminger is up in the air about
getting down to the limit. Osteen must
CO. as he is out of the game for the
rest of the summer. Pratt is also a GER
tainty to leave, as his shoulder Is a
failure and can hardly get well In time
to play third or any other place, and
Burnett is just short of being a. cripple
with bad ankle. Molly has failed to
measure up. but with DR.. Thomas arm
in bad he may have to be kept.
Wednesday, May IS. opening day with
Chattanooga, is to be made a star oc-
casion and people from all parts of the
country are to be invited. On that day
Montgomery meets the team from the
town where it secured It's franchise many
years ago and the whole town is going
to close up and see the fun.
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BRIGHTON BEACH GRIND
OF "a HOURS COMMENCES

Brighton Beach, N. Y, May 13-Twelve
racing automobiles. handled by IL drivers
for whom speed and sharp turns have no
terrors, shot away on the oval motor
drome here at 500 o'clock tonight in the
first 241hour automobile race of the season
here. Burman, driving the Buick No. 2,
was first to sweep around the mile track
in 1:13, closely followed by the other Buick
entry. At the end of the first hour Bur-
man had negotiated So miles. equalling the
Brighton Beach record made by car of
the same make last year. Buick No. ]
was second at the end of the hrst hour
and the Fiat entry third
The race WAS to have started at 3
O'Clock, but was considerably delayed,
and the cars did not get away until
$40. The track was in excellent condi-
ton and the weather conditions were
promising. The entries we're as follows:
/. Stearns No. 1, Ralph Milford.
g. Stearns No. 2, Frank Dearborn.
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until it shall have been caught. ex-
cept in actual attempt to catch the
ball.
g. Players on the defense except when
they are behind the line of scrimmage
may play as heretofore. Players on
the defense behind the line of scrim-
mage may use their hands only upon
their opponents bodies in order to
get at the man with the ball, until
the ball shall have advanced across
the line five yards back of the scrim-
mage line. After the ball has advanced
across this five-yard line they may play
as heretofore. Defensive players behind
the line of scrimmage on "a forward
pass shall not in any way Interfere
with their opponents until the oppon-
ents have done 20 yards beyond the
line of scrimmage.
No player on tho offense or defense
While in the act of catching a for
ward pass shall be tackled, thrown,
pushed, pulled, shouldered or straight
armed until he shall have caught the
ball and taken more than one step
in any direction; provided that any
such interference which Is incidental
to a bona fide attempt to catch or
interrupt a~pass shall not come within
this prohibition.
In addition the committee adopted a
rule designed to safeguard the players
in another direction. This rule reads
In case a player with the ball crawls
after the ball is declared dead his
team shall be penalized five yards.
Piling up of players had been forbid
den previously. The committee also
formally adopted a provision that any
player withdrawn from the game for
any cause except disqualification may
return once at the beginning of any
subsequent quarter. This Is to remove
the temptation to keep players in the
game when they are not in fit condi-
ton.