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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12

LESLIE NJ SHAW, a. the Conmtrciai
Treyelers' Ascent or dinner 10 New
York, last uight tod what he feared
would htppan 20 Us if We had war With
Jspan Hith,u any merchant marine TO
back up our warships. The former Sec
re.ary, able man as he is, seems to be a
victim of Hobsonism. By allowing his
mind to feed entirely upon one subject he
is Espldly becoming man with one idea
and tist au erroneous one.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
Plans DESTROYED

Camden, N. j., April II Plans fer
many vessels including those of The
Un ted Sat,a batiesaips U .ah sud Ark
aDsss and those OF The proposed bttt!e-
ships for the A'g milne R public were
destroyed By ire in ihe Gran2tt'og ie-
parlmest OF The New York shIpbuildirg
Company here this moraipg. The loss
II plsce1 st any where from 800, 900
TO 100000 The origin of the Gre is
saio to have re u'tsd from stove In the
res!su ant kitchen.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
Reached too OF Mount Mckinley

Seattle, April l2.--Word reached here
from Fairbanks, Alask', that The Fair.
banks Mount Mckinley expedition, or
pauIzed BY practical AlRszs explorers,
hes succeeded 10 climbing to ths top OF
Mount Mckinley. They required one
month ID make the ascent. Che party
reports tha! they found 10 trace Of tue
records which Dr.. Cook claims be left at
the TOP OF the Continent"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
Sixty.first Congress.
Second Session
Washington, April II.
SENATE

SENATE
In scorchirg denunciatlon of the
Taft administration charging bad faith
10 the psepa!stiongof the presidents
railroad bill and accuaiug Attorney Gen
eral Wickershan OF bstrsying the public
Interests IN abandoning federal prosecu-
tion of gasat railroad merger in New
Eogland, Senator LIS Toilette paid bic
respects to the Taft-Eikius bill In the
Senate today. he said the bill i, tie
boldess raid upon public right In the
form Of legislation upon this great sub.
isct that the high binders of big busi-
| ness have ever succeeded in having
forced upon the serious consideration of
O,pgress. Never before has any one ur-
dertaken sericu ,ly to put through Con-
gress a1charter for the monopolization
and oppression of the commerce of tais
country, auch az is carried In the deVlous
language and hidden purposes OF this
measure.
Never before has 1t been attempted to
foreclosa the people of this country Of their
rights witheDt hesring and 10 fasten
irrevocably upon the commerce of the
country the public burden of trauspor-
tstion charges to pay .ilterest end
dividends upon all the wsered stocks
snd bonds which unrestraiued corporate
greed hiss SIT afoat in the financial
channels of this country.
Mr.. La Toilette denounced J. P.
Morgan as the controlling factor in the
New Haven Railroad Company, for his
arrogant disregsrded OF pubic iItsrests
In New England.
A bill vas passed refuodiug SCI, 900
contributed by private individuals to q
fund for the ransom of Ellen NJ. Stone,
aho was signed BY Bulgarian br!gands.
The same action has twice before been
takeu 5y the S,na'e, bat the House re.
fused to approve the appropriation.
The presidents message relative to H.
| ves.igations regarding the transmission Of
cancer through 6sh Iss read. An sppro'
pristion of $50, 900 is asked for the work
of inquiry.
HOUSE.
Declaring that the time has come for
new step for~ssd in the ISOLATION CT the
transportation problem, Representative
Manp, chairman Of the Interstate COM
merce committee, today opened the de-
bate in tle House on the sdmi1istr.-
tioa's railroad bill. Hs went into an
exhaustive explanation of Its alleged
merits.
Wet Point cadets charged with hsz.
ling will hereafter be granted court
martial, according to a provision 10 the
military appropriation bill, adopted by
the House this afternoon sftsr consider
| debate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
p r KnoY Aurtioneer.

CALEOF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.
- Pursuant to decree OF the Corporation
Court of the city of Alexandria, Virginia.
entered on the 4h day If April, 1910, in the
chancerv suit there in pending, wherein
Carrie +. Beckbam is complsiosnt and &.
Ross Beck ham and other Gre defendants, the
undersigned viii! offer for sale. in front of the
Market House, on Royal street, on
WEDNESDAY,
the twenty.ssventh day of April. 1910, at
eleven o'clock a. H., all that lot of ground
with the buildings thereon. in the city q
Alexandria, Virginia, on the north side OF
King street, between Lee and Union Streets,
formerly occupied and used by j. T. snd j.
G. Beckhanl nj a store and warehouse, bound.
ed aud described as fellows, to wit:
Beginning on the north side Ct King street,
sixty 1861 feet east of Lee street, and running
thence west On King street about thirty (3G)
feet to brick wall If the building adjoining;
thence north. parallel with Lee street. eighty.
one ISL feet to thirty (3O) feet alley;
thence esstwardly OF said alley about thirty
{ o. feet; and thence south to the point OF
beginning.
Terms of sale: One.fo7rth cash, and the
bslsnce in six, twelve, and eighteen months.
from the date of sale; title to be retained until
all the purchase money is paid and the
deferred payments to bear interest at six per
centum per annum, from the date Of sale, and
to be evidenced by negotiable notes Of the
purchaser.
Commissioner Of Sale.
+, Eevell g. Greenaway. Clerk OF the Cor
poraton Court, do certify that the bend re.
quired in the foregoing decree has been duly
executed, with sufficient surety.
TEsTE; NEWELL :. GREENAWAY, Clerk.
eprI2 I'd
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
Facs Down On Live Wire.

York, Pc, April 12.-Workiug 80
feet above the ground upon the cross-
tees OF pole 10 the Sorti End yester-
day. JIhu D:lr2k, an -Ediaou Electric
Light Company liusnau, i,uched the
bare end of live wire carrying 1900
vo!ie. He fell vita bis face upon live
wires, but was reslued before be had re-
czi7ed fs;a! injury.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
Meat Plots

New York, April 12-The meat riots
of tine jewish women, who demand that
all Kosher restaurants remsiD closed uz-
t the price of meat is reduced, broke
out afresh in the williamsburg dis ret
OF Brooklyn today, aud shortly before
ncon several hundred women st acked
al! the Jewish meat markets, forcing all
bot one 10 close and pouring coil oil
on the meat.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
Strike at Mars eIlies

Marseilles, April 70 4 general strike OF
the sailors and mar time engineers in every
French port was declared this afternoon
Leaders declare that within "a hours they
will have completely tiei up the shipping
Industry Of France. The government is tr5ir g
to get the marines to act as strike.breakers
but they have so far refused. The local strike
is complets today, $1,000 workers having
quit. bus ness is at q standstill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
EarthUuake Shocks

Kansas City, April l2-Slight earth.
quake shocks we're recorded on the Sells
mogrsph OF ne University of Kausss t.
da7, apparently between fifteen u idred
aud sixteen hundrtd milsa II the south
ward Two shocks, lat Dg one second
aad the other fire minutea sr, report ID.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
Presentation OF Silver Service

Charleston, s. O., April IA FIVE
thousand dollar silver service, Iurohased
BY the people CT South Caroline, wss
presented to The officers of the ba.,lt-
ship s. nth Carolina at Otarlest>n t,day,
Governor Ansel making the speech Of
presentation. A sIate flag was pIeser t d
to the vessel By Mrs. Molttie Ba tor,
State regeit of the D. A R. The sap
will remain here until Friday and there
will be one round oil festivities.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12

Governor Hughes recommended 10 8
special message to tie general assembly
o: New YORK, thst jolt legislative
committee be appointed to csrry forwsrd
the FIRE insurance investigation and to look
auy int, suggestions of bridge lcgIsls-
ton corruption.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12

Diarrhoea should be cured without loss
of time and by q medicine which like
Cham bersin's Collie, Cholera and Diar.
rhoes Remedy not only cures promptly
tut produces no unpleasant after effects.
Il never fails sud ia pleasant and sale to
axe. Sold by ". F. Creighton 4 90.
and Riehsrd Gibson,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
Plot Discovered.

London, April II -Auother plot for
the release of Abtu! Hemid, tie deposed
Sultan OF Turkey, bss btea discovered at
salouids, according to d'spsch todsy
from the Vienna correspondent. of the
London Globe. TIE plot Is presumed to
be the utsroath OF the uprisiDg in A.
bsris,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12

Dr.. Mark w. Blackburn, a member
OF prominent aud wealthy family OF
pntsburg, Pa, is dying. and Mrs. Vic
lei Gst'y, who rj.cted his alleged suit,
la severely w,uaded from sh: t, which
Blackburn fred in q roomipg house 10
that city las. night
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12

That Justice William H. Moody. Of the
Supreme Court, has no intention ofresigning
and that with health restored, he will return
to the bench this fall, are statements made in
Boston today by DR.. joel Goldths ta. his
physician, end by W. Otis Wardwell, former
partner of the iurist
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
New York Stock Market.

SONS in prices were made at the opening and
in some pronounced weakness was in eyi.
dence. Amalgated copper declined point
in the fr.t few minutes. Most of the active
railroad shares yielded slightly at the start,
but developed a 6rner tone in the late deal
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12

Prompt relief 10 all cases of throat and
lung trouble 1t you use Chsmberlain's
Cough Esmsdy. Pleasant to take, sooth-
ing aud healing in effect. Sold By W.
F. Oseigtt,n & Co.,, and Richard Glib.
SOD,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12

nectiel with movement begun year ago
by NJ. Wsnsmaker.
The prospects for the war between Peru
and Ecuador are closer today than at any
time since the resent outbreak. Reports to
the State Department are to the effect that
the war enthusiasm is running high at Lim4
and in Peru, in general. and the probable
NC Utilization of troops in Ecuador is repor ed
from Quito. The chances for a peaceful set
Element in the dispute are rapidly dimin-
ishiug.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
TUESDAY EVENING. APRIL -, 1910

TIE az. c,avsssion to Christianity ty
Halle,'s contt is recorded in Btooklyr.
A. $3.50 O'Clock yesterday morning a
nom ser OF people who bad sh"'tsced
their s.ambers to watch t1e comet
from t1s roof of an spsltnent h7nse
~e.e startled By hui cry from one OF
their runber. The man, q professed
sksp'ic and sgnostc, named Ohsries
Stimsop, was standing " tn arms ont
stretched t, the heavens, weeping pro-
iusely. "This conviucss me that there
Is God" be said 10 his friends. "HeIe.
sf;er shsll always live as Christian.
These stars c: I'D not be uBle:s there is 9
ODD" Tns men assured bis friends ne
msaut TO attend church regularly here
after scd 10 cont ,s himse!f as God-
feariug man should. II had never seen
the heavens ss cid ,heu," he declsrtd.
eI did not realzs what a wonderful
world i, is; 1u.ed aud regulated by 8
noges canuos comprehend"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
MARRIED.

At the rector7 Of st. Stephens Church,
Washington, D. c., on april II, by the Rev.
Father Cassidy, WILLIAM F. ALE aad
GRACE N. ARLINGTON, both of this city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
Fifty NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of an Old Nurse

Fifty years'eNpertence of an Old Nurse
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is the
prescription of one of the hest female physic
ians end nurses in the United States, and
has been used for fifty years with neTer-faii.
ing success by millions of mothers for their
children. It relieves the child from pain,
cures diarrlea, gripping in the bowels. and
wind collie. By giving health to ths child it
rests the mother. Twenty-Five cents bottle
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
DIED,

On Mondav, April II, 1910, at her residence,
3oS north Wasbin. ton street, Mrs. HEN
RtETrA LYLE', wife Of Edgar Lyles,
Funeral on Wednesday at : p, m,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
Ten Men Drowned.

Paris, April I2-Ten of the crew of the
pilot boat Hirendelle were drowned today in
the snJing OF the boat while going from St
Brieu to Ffescf el.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12

The Ssabotrl Air Line has granted 8
six per cent. iocrsa,e wages to it's euRi'
neera, aud all danger OF ttrike is ended.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-17
RAT AND WEASEL.
Sharp Trick Whereby Big Rodent Was
Cornered,

Once a sawmill in a western town
was infested with rats, which, being
unmolestcd, became very numerous
and bold, and played round the mill
among the men while they worked dur
ing the day. But one day there ap-
oeared upon the scene a weasel, which
Immediately declared war on the ro-
dents.
One by one the rats fell victims to
the weasers superior strength, until
only one very large, pugnacious rat
was left of the once numerous colony.
The weasel had go at the big rat sew
eral times, but on each occasion the
rodent proved more than a match for
his slender antagonist, and chased the
weasel to a hidingp place
Shortly thereafter the weasel was
seen busily digging under a LUMBER
pile near the mill. He was engaged
for some time, but later appeared again
in the mill, seeking his old enemy. He
soon found him, and at once renewed
hostilities. AS usual, after a lively
tussle the rat got the better of the ar
gument, and the weasel ran, pursued
closely by the rat, straight to the hole
under the lumber pile.
He ran in, still followed by the rat
almost Immediately reappeared round
the end of the pile and again lodged
into the hole behind the rat. Neither
was seen again for some time, but the
weasel finally reappeared. looking no
worse for the fight.
The curiosity of the men in the mill
being aroused, they proceeded to m
vestigate the hole under the lumber
pile. They found that the weasel had
dug the mole sufficiently large ut the
opening to admit the rat, but had grad
ually tapered it as he proceeded until
at the other end it barely allowed his
own slender body to pass.
When the rat chased him into the
large end of this underground funnel'
he quickly slipped through, and WhiIe
the rat was trying.to squeeze MS large
body into the smaller part of the mole,
the weasel lodged in behind hlhl'
caught him i'm the rear and IN place
where he could not turn round, ana
finished him at his leisure.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-17
II know it's somewhere about. bu

Il know it's somewhere about, but
just exactly where can't tell from
here. But l think if you get off at
Canal and ask somebody you will be
steered all right"
The man who was about to discover
the Subway Mole stepped in and told
the old woman how to get to Hester
street from Canal After she mad
alighted and the train was on its way
again, the man in the vestibule. wish
ing to offset the guards humiliation
at being unable to give the informa-
tion required by the woman, said:
81 guess you get a bunch of Ques-
tions like that thrown at you. 1t must
be pretty hard to give directions from
the subway"
That's just it," said the guard, but
not the way you mean or the way you
think. The fact Of the matter Is,
man who works in the subway all the
time begins to get haZy about streets
that are not stations, and in time he
even forgets the names Of them"
The Subway Mole was discovered,
and the passenger began to ask ques-
tions and listen eagerly to the mole's
view Of the matter.
Fact" said tine Subway Mole, You
don't know what's going on in New
York if you work in the subway. You
live In a tunnel all the time, except
when you go home for a sleep, or drop
upstairs for luncheon.
Look at me. I've been a subway
guard since the hole in the ground was
opened in 1904. Five and a half years
have l been shouting Step lively!'
down below the ground. Just think of
it for a minute and you'll catch on.
when got off duty went home to
my wife and kids. If l had been on
duty on the night shift I slept while the
sun was shining. If it was the day
shift I'd been on, of course, it was
dark when l climbed out of the hole
in the ground.
"Of course, I've been to a snow at
odd times, and with the kids in the
park. But most of the time | live In
in the electric light, with no scenery to
look at If what they say about evolu-
ton is true maybe in time a subway
guard will be n kind of beast that can
only see by artificial light, hates the
sight of green and has forgotten the
United States language, except as much
of 1t that warns people to take a big
step-and lively.
"Tm not stringing you-honest l
have a pretty poor idea of what's going
on in New York, except what l learn
from the newspapers that are left lying
on the seats, and which maybe get a
flash at between stations.
That's why, when that woman asked
me where Hester street was, 1t took
me about a minute to remember there
was or used to be. street by that
name AS for telling you where 1t was
or now to get there, if you hadn't
butted in and helped / might have
been trying to tell her yet."-New
York Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-17

Gated short distance beyond the quar-
saw her step up to the door and heard
ner knock; then there came flood of
light-more light than was usual in
the opening door of a frontier cabin.
walker showing her tall and gaunt and
a little stopped; so that, after all, |
took her to be only one of our Amer
can frontier women, being quite sure
that she was not Indian or half-breed.
This emboldened me, and mere
chance-an act whose mental origin !
could not have traced-to step up to
the door after it had been closed, and
myself to knock thereat.
I heard women's voices within, and
as | knocked the door opened just a
trife on it's chain. l saw appear at the
crack the face of the woman whom /
had followed
She was, as | had believed, old and
wrinked, and her face now, seen close,
was as mysterious, dark and inscruta-
BILE as that of any Indian squaw. Her
hair fell heavily and gray across ner
forehead, and her eyes were small and
dark as those of native woman. Yet,
as she stood there with the light
streaming upon her. l saw something
in ner face which made me puzzle, pom
der and start-and put my foot within
the crack of the door.
"Threlka," I said quietly, "tell Madam
the Baroness it is l, Monsieur Trist
of Washington"
ITO be Continued
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-17
kNOCkER AND KICKER.
Comprehensive Distinction, Between
Good and Bad.

The Baltimore Sun is in accord with
the Star in its animadversion on the
knocker but it is a friend to the KICK
er. Our esteemed Baltimore contem-
porary draws q nice distinction between
the two, showing the possibilities for
usefulness on the part of the kicker,
but it gives the knocker his well de-
served swat See what the Sun says:
There is a great gulf between the
knocker' and the Kicker The latter
is an efficient and often an indispensa-
BILE factor in the maintenance of good
government. Without the kicker
there would often be inefticiency and
perhaps stagnation in municipal, state
and national administration. Abuses
would never be corrected: there would
be no progress. In the case of a GER
tain class of public officials there
would be fragrant indifference to the
welfare of the community, if not open
exploitation of the people. The kick
err is, therefore, a necessity-an ala
and inspiration to good government
when his activities are prompted by
q, public spirited desire to improve
the methods of government and to get
results which will conduce to the ad-
vantage of his fellow citizens. Every
important and useful advance in gov
ernment has been the work of kick
ers'
THE right of the citizen to KICK
against abuses in municipal admins
tration is recognized by the official
publication of the city Of Boston, the
CITY Record In q recent issue 1t ad-
vised the citizens of the Hub how to
make complaints about inefticiency In
any of the departments of the govern
ment of that city 1t suggested to
them to write to the heads of depart
ments in which there was just ground
for public complaint, and if these Of
ficials fail to reply in a reasonable
time to bring the matter directly to
the attention of the mayor. Thus BoS-
ton not only approves, but encour-
ages the kicker 1t recognizes his
usefulness and stimulate his activi-
ties. A city without 'kickers' is either
a city with a perfect government ana
with no room for improvement or II
is a city in which the people are in
different to their own welfare ana
nrogress Is an unknown element. The
kicker has a work to do, and II ne
does II in the right spirit he is an
agency for good. But there Is no
place for the 'knocker.' He is mem
ace to every community in which he is
tolerated. He Is an agency Of destruc-
ton. the mouthpiece of calamity and
stagnation. On the other hand the
Kicker who kicks wisely and well Is
often n builder, a man who produces
results. and therefore an ally of prog
ress"
A knocker is the fellow who opposes
propositions for the benefit of his town
and grouchily blocks the progress OF
reform in any direction. A criticism
aimed at bettering condition, correct
ing an evil and intended to promote
Improvement and progress is not
knocking. The knOcker causes the rlSht
thing to be done and the knocker
keeps it from being done.-AndcrSon
Mail
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-17
a BIG LENS COOLING.
Will Take Several Months For Big
CASTING to Cool.


Within q month or six weeks there
will be an item of news at the Mount
Wilson Observatory which will inter-
est the entire world, says the Los An
geles Express. 1t will be known at
that time whether the lOO-inch lens
recently cast in France is to be Il sue
cess or not. The attempt to cast the
big reflector was once before made
and the result was a failure. 1t takes
several. months for the big casting to
cool. and the second one is i'm that pro-
cess now. The first reports are that
it will probably come out all right.
Some idea of the difficulties to be
overcome in mounting big lens that
is coming will be gained from the TACT
that it weighs five tons. Thls piece
of glass must be hung 50 that 1t VIII
move with perfect ease in order To De
kept i'm a fixed position by the clock
work attachment which overcomcs
the motion of the earth. Br. Halc's :
invention is Il steel bearing floating in
mercury, Il principle in use on the 6O-
inch lens, which weighs u ton.
Astronomers originally doubted the
efficiency of the larger lenses. 1t has
been demonstrated that the spcctra oi
the stars are increased in Il ratio cor
responding To the size Of the lens, ana
with the 1OO-inch disc there are re-
markable possibilities of developing
new facts in regard To the universe.
This lens. weighing five tons, Will
have to be transported to the top "t Il
mountain a mile high. where tons Oh
the original material for construction
had tn bp hacked over Il narrow trall
on the backs of burrOS The wagon
trail built for the purpns" of g"ttlnS
the 60-inch lens tn the top VIII again
nrnXc inhiSpCnSnblc.