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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
BOYS D0RMITORY BURNED.
Heavy Loss at Odd Fellows Or
phanape in South Carolina.

GREENVII4LE, S. c., December IL
Fire last night completely destroyed the
boys dormitory of the Odd Fellows Or
phanage, an institution established in
1908 by the Independent Order of ODD
Fellows of South Carolina at cost of
$4,000. This particular building. erectei
two years ago. represents loss of $1,000.
The amount of insurance on the building
cannot be learned.
The twenty four inmates of the dOrmi-
tory were performing their evening chores
when the fire was discovered Supper
had been spread for them. and within a
short time they would have been housed
for the night. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
Writer'S Sanity Questioned.

SAN DIEGO. Cal, December 17.-Wash-
ington Davis. said to be special writer
for New York illustrated weekly, was
arrested here today on charge OF in
sanity. He came to San Diego a week
ago, it is said, to complete series of
articles on warship maneuvers His hal
lucination Is said to be belief that he
is in command of three fleets, one COM
pose dof aerial craft. and that he n to
destroy San Diego.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
RUNAWAY CARS HIT TROLLEY.
Dozen Passengers More or Less Hurt
in Collision.

SARATOGA. n. Y. December linear
ly dozen passengers were injured on the
Hudson Valley railroad, north of Schuy
lerville, early today, when two freight
cars broke from an electric engine and
crashed into passenger trolley, which
was following closely.
None Of the passengers escaped injury
although there were no fatalities. The
wreck caught fire from a coal stove in
one of the freight cars and the three
cars were destroyed.
The injured included the Rev Dr. DAN
iel Hoffman Martin Of Glens Falls, for
merly Of New York city. seriously hurt
internally; James Nichols of Thompson,
arm broken: Robert Tucker, Greenwich,
arm and leg broken; Daniel Salvey,
Thompson. leg broken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
Got Away With Sc, 800, 600:
TOWS IN DISABLED VESSEL.
Revenue Cutter Then Leaves Port to
Heek Missing Craft. 81

PROVINCETOWN. Mass, December
17.-After battling with heavy seas and
a high wind for the greater part of the
night, the revenue cutter Gresham. with
the disabled schooner N. E. Aver in tow
and the shipwrecked crews of the schoon-
ers Abbie G. Cole and 8. A. Fownes on
board, arrived in Provincetown harbor
early today. The Gresham remained in
port only about an hour and then pro-
ceeded to sea to search for several miss
ing craft. These included the schooner
Stephen G.. Loud. which was abandoned
yesterday in Massachusetts, bay, and
which was believed to be a menace to
navigation, and three barges which had
gone adrift from their tugs during the
gale Of Thursday night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
ONE KILLED; FOUR WOUNDED.
Policemen Shot in Revolver Battle
With Burglars in London.

LONDON, December IA police SER
geant was killed and four policemen were
wounded. one probably fatally, last night
in a revolver battle with burglars trapped
on the second floor of jewelry shop IN
Cutler street. Hounsditch. The robbers
waited at the top of the stairs. picked
off the cOnstables as they ascended and
then escaped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
Beat Little Son to Death.

GODERlCII, Ont. December 17.-Angry
because his six-year-old son Freddie
would not do his sums. George Van
Stone. sixty-one years old, a laborer is
said to have beaten the little fellow to
death with broomstick. He has been
placed under arrest. Van Stone has been
arrested on former occasions charged
with brutality to his family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
St. Louis Millionaire's Suicide.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, December 17-Follow-
ing fifteen hours of secrecy, the family
of Philip Medart, millionaire manufac-
turer. admitted today he had shot and
killed himself last night. 1t was not
until this morning that a policeman was
admitted to the Medart home. Medart
was seventy-two years old and had been
in i'll health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
NEARLY A MILLION CARRIED,
Passage of Urgent Deficiency Bill
by the House.

The House of Representatives today
Immediately after meeting took UP the
urgent deficiency bill, carrying almost
SsJ0,0Oo.
The bill was passed after an hours dis
cussion, $i46,31J being added to the
measure as reported by the committee.
1t carries total Of 1895, ,672
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
German Postal Station Pillaged.

PARIS, December IA dispatch from
Tangier, Morocco, says that a courier
arriving from Fee reports that the Ger
man postal station at Fee was pillaged
December 5 and $4,000 stolen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
Eight Year Sentence Passed
on Danish Ex.Minister.
HE CONFESSED BANK FRAUD
Looted Big Institutions of About
$2,30O,000.
FRIEND OF KING FREDERICK
Revelations Disrupted Cabinet of
Which He Was Member-Money
Lost in Speculation.

COPENHAGEN, December 17.-Former
Minister Of Justice p A. AIberti, the
revelation of whose banking frauds in
the fall of 1908 scandalized the country
was sentenced today to eight years penal
Servitude
Alberti suffered physical collapse in
March, 1909. while awainting trial. He
was removed to hospital, where he
remained until sufficiently restored to
face his accusers.
For fourteen years Alberti had held
a commanding place, both in politics and
finance. He was a member of the Deunt-
zer ministry and later dominated the
Christensen cabinet, which he entered
as minister of justice in 1905.
Looted Two Institutions
AS president Of the Bondesstandens
Sparkasse, a savings bank, and Of the
Danish Farmers Export Association he
was the custodian, really, Of enormous
funds to which he began to help him
self, according to his own confession,
seven years ago, before he accepted the
portfolio of justice.
Unpleasant rumOrs had been in circula-
tion for some time before the exposure
came. But the minister was the intimate
of King Frederick and the idol Of the
poorer classes. His financial genius, in
domitable will and brilliant oratOry re-
peatedly saved him.
But the time came when he could no
longer cover his tracks. Hard pressed.
Ahberti confessed he had misused the
funds of the bank and had systematically
robbed the export association and its
customers from the day that it began
business in 1888.
Got Away With $2,3OO,OOO
His peculations amounted, he said, to
about 81, 800, 600. The money had been lost
in South African and American mining
ventures.
Popular indignation was so intense that
Premier Christensen, who but recently
had publicly affirmed Alberti's honesty,
was forced to submit the resignation Of
the entire cabinet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
Strikebreakers Aboard Cars.

WINNIPEG, December 1.-THE street
railway company started running twenty
cars this morning with imported strike
breakers as motormen and college stu
dents as conductors. Each car carried
two policemen and was we'll patronized.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
R0UT MEXICAN REBELS:
TAKE MANY PRISONERS
Government Troops Reported
Successful in Fight at
JuichipaIa.

Ell PASO. Tex. December 17.--Mexican
papers received here today from the ma
tfonal capital give long list of names Of
insurrectionary prisoners brought there
from Silao, Guanajate and near Zacate-
cas-. 1t is stated in one of the papers that
the rebels took a small town, Juichipala,
near Zacatecas, but the town was re-
taken and most Of the rebels were made
prisoners.
The special correspondent of the FL
Paso Herald wires from Mapimi, Du-
range, that insurrectos in the mountains
near there are starving and are fiocking
back to the plantations.
Further Fighting in Chihuahua
That there has been further fighting
since the battle of Cerro Prete, in the
state Of Chihuahua. is certain. Passen-
gers for the last two mornings reaching
Ell Paso report no communication between
Chihuahua and the disturbed region,
either by wire or by mail.
There was fight last night at Hacien-
dita, just across the Texas line south of
Maria. eight miles from Ojinaga. Troops
from Ojnaga were attacked, according to
telephone message from Maria. Several
soldiers were killed and thirty horses of
the troopers stampeded across the river
into Texas.
All Quiet in Sonora.
CHIHUAHUA. Mex, December 17.-Ac-
cording to J. T. Taylor, manager of a
cyanide mill at Hermosillo, Sonora, who
has just arrived in Chihuahua, conditions
in the state Of Sonora are peaceful. The
Yaqui Indians remaining in the state, he
declares. are quietly working their patches
~,
not Joined in revolutionary outbreak, as
reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
Views of Woodrow Wilson.
No House So Foolish.

Nc House. however foolish i'm other
respects. says DIR. Wilson i'm his book,
has yet been foolish enough to make
fresh trial of electing its committees.
That mode may do well enough for the
cool and leisurely Senate, but it is not
for the hasty and turbulent House.
II was suggested today that Champ
Ciarks acquiescence in the new plan does
not put IL into force. and that il will
be carefully thrashed out in the January
caucus and put TO a vote for adoption
or rejection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17

The circulation Of The Star,
both daily and Sunday, is greater
by many thousands than that OF
any other Washington newspaper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
WEATHER

Fair and rising temperature to-
night and Sunday; probably I'm
settled weather Sunday night.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
BenefactIon.

William Marcon1 gave the forfeited
lives of Al men back to their families
with all the possibilities of support,
comfort and protection appertaining
Herewith.
Mr.. Marconis benefactions are Pc
culiar in that they are chiefly con.
cerned with the physical salvation OF
the ablebodied, rather than with the
ailing and the decrepit. In this Mr..
Marconi himself is singularly reward.
ed. Unreasonable qualification must
glow within his consciousness with
the news of the contamination Of each
Of his marvellous gifts to his fellow
men.
Somewhere on this globe there
should stand noble monument to the
invention of wireless telegraphy. It
should be In the form Of q mighty
choral hall, and called. perhaps. tho
Hall of Joy. held sacredly In waiting
for only great gatherings Of human
beings, thrilled with the one inspira.
ton of thanksgiving for some i'm
mense benefit-like the end of war.
or the saving of ship, or the inven-
ton of anesthesia-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
CANADA FORGING
AHEAD !. I ).

Thomas c.. Shotwell, one Of the
greatest market reporters in America,
writes from New York, under date OF
March Goth, and says:
"The Tariff tangle with Canada
which President Taft has taken in
hand is Of Importance chiefly because
Of the multitude of American farmers
that are crossing into the Canadian
northwest Most conservative esti-
mates of their number place it at
100000 for 1910. Some say as many
as 100000 will cross. These are all
expert farmers and their places in the
United States are being filled by IN
trained men from Europe and from
the cities. Canada is gaining rapidly
in agricultural Importance and with
in few years the United States will
have to call on the Dominion for
wheat. Production Of wheat in the
United States is not keeping pace
with the population. A tariff war
would complicate the problem of get
ting food. Even now Canadian farm
ers are getting higher prices for their
cattle on the hoof and Canadian house.
wives are paying less for meat in the
butcher shops than farmers and house
wives are receiving and paying in the
United States. The tariff on cattle
and wheat must be removed as be-
tween the two countries before long,"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
ROBBERS. BLUFF
GALLED=BY: GIRL
HoLD-UP MANS -. THREAT TO
SHOOT FAILS TO BRIGHTEN
YOUNG sTENoGRAPHER.
BOLD HIGHWAYMAN IN FLIGHT
"Money Or Your Life" Demand Is
Changed to "Give-Me.a-Dollar"
Plea Before the Bandit Takes to
His Heels,

Chicago.-The pluck and bravery of
a 19-year-old North side girl, who, in
defense of herself and her mother,
reduced a hold-up man from a mon
ey-or-your-life" demand to a miserable
MISUNDERSTANDING" plea,
was the topic of discussion in the
suburb.
Miss Edith .O'Beirne, daughter of
Mrs. Ida O'Beirne, widow, living
at 4707 Beacon street, is the heroine
who called the bluff of the hold-up
man, who was unarmed, in true Amer
lean fashion. Before she was through
with him he had made up his mind
that robbing is not his best line OF
endeavor.
The hold-up man had followed Miss
O'Beirne and her mother for several
blocks, and when he tried to overtake
them they ran into the middle of Bea-
con street, between Leland and Law
renee avenues.
"G1ve me your money, ladies'" said
the robber In a voice he tried to make
big with determination, "or l shall
shoot you. I'm desperate man."
But Miss O'Beirne did not brighten
worth a cent. She drew herself up to
her full height of something over five
feet and said:
I'VE shall do nothing OF the sort.
And don't you dare to harm my
mother. I don't belie"e you're rob-
Der anyway"
"Then shall shoot you," replied the
man as he began tn search in his hip
pocket.
But Miss O'Beirne did not weaken,
and the situation began to flatten out,
from the robbers point Of view.
Il don't believe you even have a re-
volver," said Miss O'Beirne sharply.
well, I'll settle for dollar" came
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Lovers Quarrels.

Lovers quarrels generally arise from
the merest trifle. In about nine cases
out of ten neither side could tell you
how the wrangle came about. There
was misunderstanding, word taken
amiss, a look that was misinterpreted.
Then the quarrel began in real earn
est. The safest rule for avoiding a
second quarrel, some wise person once
said, is never to have a first. Each
time the lists are entered 1t is easier
to rush into combat again.
Old writer's used to say that the
quarrels of lovers meant the ultimate
renewal of love. There is no truth in
this assertion. It may be that when
people become reconciled after quar-
tel they are kinder and more loving to
zach other for q, time by way of atone
ment, but there is rarely again the
rame sense Of confidence and security
n each others love-Woman's Lie.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

prison audience listened with breath.
less attention. and at the finish I
leaned over the desk and asked them
If they would like to know his name.
You could have heard the proverbial
pin drop In any part of that great
chapel as they bent forward eagerly
waiting, and then whispered the
name Jumbo" Silence for one
stunned moment, then they threw
back their heads and laughed and
laughed as I have never heard an
audience laugh before or since. Nor
could restore order. Every time they
managed to control themselves, some
one would be overpowered by mirth,
and the whole crowd would break out
into shouts and roars of laughter.
Officers came hurrying In from the
dollhouse to see what on earth the
Little Mother was doing with her
Boys" to find a mirth-racked audi
ence, and very perplexed Little
Mother wondering what on earth was
so funny in her story. When the
officers gathered what 1t was. they too
showed signs of risible collapse, and it
was only afterwards that I fully under
stood the reason why. Then I learned
that Jumbo's dislike Of work was the
joke Of the prison. He was by all
classed among those born idle. No
one could make him work. At one
time he feigned madness, and did 1t
most successfully that he might have
a vacation at the State Insane asy.
lum, to the great amusement of the
Boys" who knew that he had planned
1t so as to escape work. The idea of
his having reformed and being in love
with hard work on farm was to
them almost inconceivably funny. AT.
ter the meeting an officer who had
heard the news as it spread through
the prison came to me and said, rs
it really true that you got hold Of
Jumbo and got him to work and live
honestly?" When I assented he added
well. that beats all. He was in my
gang, but was the hardest man to
get any work out Of in this prison.
Besides this, he was a born thief. and
all the time he was in here he kept
stealing anything he could steal. not
because he really wanted the things.
but just to keep his hand in. If that
man has reformed. there Is hope for
anybody"
That was over twelve years ago.
Jumbo has proven steadfast. He has
had many difficulties to face. He has
come to his places of hard test and
trial. He has sometimes almost lost
courage. But he has made good rec
ord in life. He has held positions Of
trust. and has treasured away many
good recommendations won by faith
full and earnest service. No detective
or police-of1cer dogs his steps now.
No prison cell has ever opened its
doors to him again. He is married,
has happy home, and the shadow Of
the prison walls is so far in the past
that It's memory serves only as con-
trast to the glad sunshine of the pres
ent
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
GIRLS THROAT M0LE'S HOME
Mysterious illness Of Young Woman
Is Solved by Removal Of the
Animal.

Paterson, N. J.-Miss Katherine Pur-
cell has the unusual medical distinc-
ton of unwittingly harboring a live
mole in her body for several months.
For weeks Miss Purcell has suffered
pains in her chest. The pain gradu-
ally worked up in her throat. She
seemed likely to die, although tho
doctor was unable to diagnose the
case.
It became apparent that the cause
Of the trouble was a mole, which
Miss Purcell had apparently swal-
lowed when it was very small and
which kept alive until it reached full
size.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Hideous Poverty In England.

A correspondent Of the Boston
Transcript, writing from England.
says: mo country in the civilized
world has such hideous and debased
poverty as England. Such sodden.
bleary, hopeless derelicts as may be
seen anywhere about the streets Of
London of Manchester or Newcastle
or Liverpool it is impossible for the
untraveled American to conceive.
The London Lancet itself has OBJ
served that there is nothing dirtier
In the world than the poorer sort of
British workingman. Something ia
radically wrong with conditions that
cause such pauperism.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
AWFUL BURNING ITCH CURED
IN A DAY

"Zn the middle of the night of March
both woke up with burning itch in
my two hands and I felt as if I could
pull them apart. In the morning the
itching had gone to my chest and dur
ing that day it spread all over my
body. I was red and raw from the top
of my head to the soles of my feet and
l was in continual agony from the
itching. could neither lie down nor
sit up. happened to see about Cuti-
cura Remedies and I thought 1 would
give them trial. took a good bath
with the Cuticura Soap and used the
Cuticura Ointment. I put it on from
my head down to my feet and then
went to bed. On the first Of April
felt like a new man. The itching was
almost gone. continued with the
Cuticura Soap and Cuitcura Ointment
and during that day the itching COM
pletely left me. Frank Gridley, 325
East 43rd Street, New York City, Apr.
q, 1909" Cuticura Remedies are sold
throughout the world; Potter Drug &
Chem. Corp, Sole Props. Boston, Mass.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications. a. they cannot reach the Dis
eased portion of the There Is only one way to
cure deafness, and that by constitutional remedies
mucous lining Of the Eustachian Tube. When az
tube b indamed you have . rumbling sound or I'm
perfect hearing and when It b entirely closed, Deaf
nesB b the result and unless the Inflammation can DO
taken out and thin tube restored to its normal cond
ton hearing win be destroyed forever: nine cases
out Of ten arc caused by CAtarrh. which II nothing
but an indamed condition Of the mucous surfaces.
We viii give One Hundred Dollars for any case Of
Deafness (cauDed by catarrh) that cannot be cured
BY Halls Catazrh Cure. Send for circulars, Tree.
FL. CHENEY 4 CO.. Toledo. O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
TAKE HANS Family Pills for constipation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Early Mail carrxinn

In 1898 certain individuals hired a
man to go from Castine to Wiscasset
and carry letters and papers once a
fortnight. He walked the whole dis.
lance over the route. The next year
postmsaters were appointed and mail
sent once week by carriers on horse.
back. Rufus Crane, the first post
master, in Warren, collected 20 cents
as his pay for his first three months
of work.-Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
.eentlen,n,en Two,

! rSa.l ss3sF, 49, sest. ss3 3
Two street cleaning department
men were having m alteration as
they We're, driving their cars aide BY
side. along upper Broadway the other
afternoon. One was red-faced and
bulbous-nosed,' the. typical ''rummy."
The other was an adder-headed negro
Both looked utterly disreputable.
Get out o. my way!" yelled the red
faced man. Don't cher know enough
to get outer der way when you see q
gentleman"
I'm more of a gem'man than you,
you big rum" retorted the negro.
"Youall drives garbage cart, an
only picks up ashes" New York
Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
An Improvement.

YES" says the man with the shaggy
eyebrows, I'VE have a photograph
We've got several Italian grand opera
records, and last week I discovered a
way to make their reproduction abso-
lutely perfect"
'Indeed?" asks the man with the
purple nose. What is it,"
II rub little garlic on the record
before it is played"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Expert Advice.

Did you have the soil Of your back
,.lard analysed by the, agricultural de-
.lartment?" - p % -
( Yes; they said it consisted largely
Of glass, tin and putty, with traces, OF
builders hme:; and suggested that ii
might do to raise . mortgage az. -
Louisville~ Courier Journal. ss e - lsz.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

the unexpected reply. you can give
me that, can't you?"
There comes man." cried Miss
O'Beirne, and the robber, all his nerve
gone, took to his heels.
Miss O'Beirne is a stenographer
employed by the National Biscuit CON-
pany in It's Evanston Offices.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

PERRY DAVIS PAINKIILER
is "an ounce Of prevention; a. well as .
pound Of cure: For bowel troubles, skin
Wounds colds, and other ills. $50 and SOC dyes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

A Sad Case.
DO you prefer your eggs poached
or scrambled?"
II can't remember"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

Let each man think he is the one
man-for the time.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

Poetical Truth.
Man, thou pendulum betwixt q smile
and tear.-Byron.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

Some of our first Impressions were
made by mothers slipper.