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in thirty years and had to fry some more. In such
a hurry to put on her other dress" and run over to
Mrs Pratts to tell her: MY boy is coming home
The boy came home When he took mother in
his arms and held her for full minute, she couldn't
speak All choked up. So glad to see him. she
couldn't say word And, when she did speak, the
first thing she said, she looked up into his brown
eyes, was: "Oh my boy, how pale you are!"
He was pale He knew 1t. Subway air makes no
red blood-corpuscles. Kills some of the red ones
that exist Nor does the electric light Of the sub
way brown the cheek the sunlight browns the
cheek of the farmer. All the year that he had
been away mother had carried In her mind the pic
ture of her farmer boy. Never had dreamed that
her farmer boy would come home with grayish-
white face Didn't need to say she was shocked.
Looked it. The boy caught the message and laugh
ingly replied:
"Oh, mother, all city folks are pale"
During the week that he remained at home, the
boy was kept talking Father and mother con-
stantly asking questions Seemed to mother as II
she couldn't ask questions enough Wanted to get
frsthand information about everything of which
she had read
Six months after he returned to work, his mother
had opportunity to see for herself, Just how big
was New York. telegram told her that her boy
had been hurt. She and father found him in a hos
ptal with his head bandaged until they could bare
ly see his eyes. At the end OF his run, he had
tried to the tracks to catch another train back
and get to dinner more quickly. Didn't see train
Picked up for dead. Seemed to have fractured
skull Fortunately, did not Revived in the hos
pital and would get well.
Oh but the mothers heart was glad when she
heard the best instead of the worst Glad until she
and father went to the boys room. Not his room
in the hospital, but his room in lodging-house.
Glad until she saw how miserably he had lived A
dirty street. dirty house. dirty hall. A cheer
less room Little light Bad air. A skinny bed. A
frayed counterpane. Not decoration, save her
own picture. stuck in the edge Of . mirror.
Her boy could afford no better place to live. His
pay was only $2.25 day. That is his pay from
the company was only $2.25 day. The lure Of
New York made up the rest that was needed to in
duce him to stay.
Such Is life for millions In New York. Not life
as the newspaper dispatches describe It Not life
as the stage pictures It. Life as 1t is
few draw colossal prizes. few more draw
good prizes. But If only those should come to New
York who can earn better living here than they
can elsewhere a handcar, running once day. would
almost bring them in. Ninety-two per cent Of the
population have not drawn enough prizes to enable
them to own their own homes. Yet people come
Come from every state in the Union Come from
every town in every state-every hamlet Come
from Italy. Norway. Sweden. Turksy-come from
everywhere.
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meal ticket at every restaurant. left my chum
right there. paid my fare far as could and
beat 1t the rest of the way"
The court, some years back, having broken into
town in substantially the same way. did not hear
the boys story without feeling. During the
eftal. the judicial mind had gone back to that
other day. now long gone, when he. penniless
lad. had said good-by to his native town. So he
said to the boy:
my son. let me commend your judgment. Any
boy who will ride the trucks to New York, in
preference to going to Chicago and living with
his chum's aunt has the right spirit. think this
town needs boys like YOU and am going to let
you stay Discharged"
Nothing can illustrate better than this incident
the lure of New York. Perhaps no other city ever
had SO large percentage of the worlds popula
tton blufed. bigger word than "bluhed" Is
needed here but 1t does not come. The point is
that the city has the power to cast great spell.
And casts It, She makes no comparisons. To
make comparisons would be to admit that there
are others in her class. She says only: Il am the
wonderful city-come."
The call goes north to the edge of the frozen
world; east to the point where the east is west;
south as far a white man lives, and west till
the west Is east. Not everybody comes, but every
body hears Millions would like to come but
can't Everybody would like at least to see the
rsiren city. And untold thousands do come. One
railroad thinks nothing of dumping 100000 stran-
,xers into New York in a day.
The reason for much coming Is plain. Ev-
erybody likes to be mixed UP with a success The
bigger the success. the better. New York Is uni
versaiy regarded big success. 1t has the
tallest buildings, the richest men, the whitest
white Way that ever cut streak through the
might. and some Of the most prodigal disbursers
al the circulating medium that ever dazzed any
community.
In a variety of ways comes the message to
mix with this great success-to become a part
II this wonderful bgness. Perhaps the newspa-
pers and the stage do the most to spread the lure
New York date lines appear over the most impor
4ant ftema Of news. There seems to be only one
place In which anything worth while can happen
Has Mr. Morgan bought an old master or formed
. new trust? Where did he do it? New York.
Has Mr.. Rockefeller paid his annual visit to the
once Of Standard Oil? Yes--a New York dispatch
says SO. Has Mr.. Carnegie slipped In the icy
park and sprained his ankle? What park Why,
Central Park in New York. of course. And, when
ever an italian opera singer. Russian revolu-
Zionist. an Irish patriot comes to this country.
where does he land? At New York What city
sends out the news? New York.
AS an advertiser of the glories and splendor Of
this great town. the stage is second only to the
press.
Twenty years ago. a. Nevada youth went to see
a show in Carson City. The show was that old
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classic The Two Orphans" In the cast were
extremely few persons besides the orphans them
selves, as railway transportation and board were
both high. But the show made up in scenery what
1t lacked in cast. One scene. In particular, ap
pealed to the chuckle-faced youth. 1t was scene
in which the two orphans were sitting on the
steps of Trinity church. The snow was drifting
down over their thin shoulders. Broadway was
throhged with pedestrians. Horse-cars few along
at eight miles an hour. Nobody looked at the or
phans. But the orphans, silent as little sphynxes.
looked straight ahead-straght up the street.
There Broadway! The infinite skill of the
scene painter seemed to have carried the street
clear to the horizon. Nothing but buildings and
people and people and buildings till they blended.
at the finish, into an indstinguishable haze Of
paint.
The Nevada youth could hardly keep his seat.
The painted scene had fired his mind with an
intense desire. He must be of to New York.
All during the show, which he not though he
looked straight at the stage, he kept his eyes
riveted to the splendid vista Of Broadway. The
whole thoroughfare seemed to him to be treas
urehouse OF opportunity. And, at dusk, when the
lights begin to blaze up along the Great White
Way"-ah. 1t is all just he had dreamed 1t to
be- All grand! All surprisingly great
But, kind friends, he dimes at no lobster palace
that evening. Nor do his magnificent jewels glis-
ter in the horseshoe crescent" at the opera With
the money that he can spare for his evening meal
he couldn't buy Holsters tail, and drygoods
box In an alley would fit him better than box at
the opera. &c. he dimes poorly for sixty cents at
side-street restaurant. gets CLASSY eye from the
waiter for not giving tip. finds room In which
there is no light by day, pure air night or day
and goes to sleep to dream of home and mother
The next morning, he is awakened by mis-
cellaneous assortment of noises, ranging from
elevated car wheels to horses hoofs AS he puts
on the shirt that mother laundered for him. his
heart takes a sudden lurch back to the old roof
He calls his heart back. He Is In New York to
make good. 1t is up to him to do 1t. And, by the
time he is ready to go out to hunt for breakfast,
his nerve Is all back.
With nothing to do but get job or starve. he
looks for work. He hears that motormen are
wanted on the subway Half afraid to offer his
services, he nevertheless decides to do so. On the
way to the company's onices. he considers all of
the situations glorious possibilities Never in
the country did he dare dream that some day he
might make battery of motors bite on 1000
horsepower Of electricity and snatch eight loaded
cars through the subterranean night
The good news goes home to the old folks that
their boy Is going to run train In the New York
subway. Oh II the boy could only see the min
gled sorrow and pride that light up his mothers
eyes when she reads the letter. 1t breaks her
heart to have her boy away, but 1t mends 1t to
know how emphatieaiiy 10 has made good in the
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nome. and why he left home.
He and another boy craved
the big life They wanted 70
be I'm the midst Of something
and be something. Only. the
.sther boy had a little hitch to
lhis ambitions. He wanted to
20 to Chicago, where he had
an aunt who, In an emer-
.gency. might be induced TO
provide food.
The boy who stood before
His Honor waved his COM
.rade away.
.T told my chum." he said.
that would rather be In
New York, broke and hungry,
than be in Chicago with a
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A fine, large case of chills carried
of by Cheatham's Chill Tonic, the mo
Cure, No Pay" chill medicine of TWEEN
ty-five years reputation. Ask your
dealer or write A. B. Richards Medi-
cine Co., Sherman, Texas.
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HoneIessIx OutcIassed.

Mrs. Caswell, while you were in
Venice did you see the Bridge OF
Sighs?"
'Oh, yes; saw what they called
that. But, my land. I've seen bridges
ten times it's size without ever going
out of Pennsylvania"
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Use Red Cross Ball Blue. 1t makes clothes
clean and sweet as when new. All grocers
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Every man is just enough of liar
to keep himself amused.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-06-03

Let amusement fill in the chinks of
your life. not the great spaces there
of.-Parker.
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big town. Going to run a
train driven by electricity!
Going to run a train bearing
fifteen hundred human be-
ings, each Of whom has put
his life, for a time, in her
sons keeping! Such conf
dence as the company must
have had In her boy to In
trust him with so grave a
responsibility. oh, it is such
a comfort to her to know
that her son, whom she has
loved since she felt his first
heartbeat; for whom she has
toiled and suffered and de-
MED herself-it is such a
comfort to her to know that
he has been recognized at
what she knows to be his
true worth, by the most won
derful city in the world.
A year later, what rejoicing
there was In the little home
when the boy wrote that he
was coming back on a vaca-
ton. Mother could hardly
read the letter, she was so
excited. Ran to the fields to
tell father. Ran back to get
dinner. Could hardly cook
burned the eggs to a crisp,
something she had not done
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II am going to ask your father to-
night for your hand in marriage"
How dreadfully old-fashioned you
are"
I'm what way?"
Don't ask him; tell him."
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Ccloma, Wisconsin. I" For three years was
troubled with female weakness, Irregularities,
backache and bearing down pains. L saw an adj
yertisement of Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and decided to try it. After taking
several bottles found it was helping me, and
must say that am perfectly well now and can
mot thank you enough for what Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has done for me-"
= Mrs. John Wentland, r. F. D., No. 8, Box 60.
|COlOma, Wisconsin.
Women who are suffering from those dis
ocular to their sex should not lose sight of
doubt the ability of Lydia E. Pinkhams Veg
und to restore their health.
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.~.;nst them as the law is, patrons OF the box
ears pour into New York at all seasons Oh inc
year. a.,
An Ohio boy, one morning last winter. was IN
~,c,-t for heating his way into the metropolis He
Vas only sixteen years old, and rather small 10.
hts age His coat fitted him little too soon ana
anxiegrease was on It. Hadn't nad .ime ~ SAsA
-, inc he was pulled from the trucks Stu. he
-. cbearful Answered the courts questions as
:, n we're pleasure Told all about the folks at
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q ride into New York on freight
train Is a heinous offense. The law
saws SO. Railroad companies sus-
gested the law and secured its enact
ment They prefer to handle tneir
passenger traffic in the regular way.
Fares cannot so easily be collected
from messengers who are secreted
around the trucks. Besides, freign'
train travellers have gained the repu-
tation of being uncertain persons
They sometimes steal small Things
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cesful in relieving the suffering of secured
many genuine testimonials, has Lydia E. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound.
In almost every community you will find women who
have been restored to health by Lydia E. Pnkhams Veg
etable Compound. Almost every woman you meet has
either been benefited by it. or knows one who has,
In the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn, Mass are files
tanning over million one hundred thousand letters from
seeking health in which many openly state over
their signatures that they have reganed their health by
taking Lydia E. Pnkham's Vegetable Compound.
Lydia E. Pnkham's Vegetable Compound has saved
many women from surgical operations.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is made exc
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The reason why is so successful because contains
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restoring it to healthy and normal activity
Thousands of unsolicited and genuine testimonials such
as the following prove the efficiency of this simple remedy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-01
Prizes and Conditions.


Twenty prizes of 81 90 each. 900
Total In prizes. 100
Contest opened Monday, July "a.
and will close at 1890 am. Satur-
day, August ).
Entrants must be children under
sixteen years Of age.
Flies must be delivered. after be-
ing killed. between the hours Of 10
and II am. at any one of the fol-
lowing seven stations of the Asso-
ciated Charities: Georgetown, Cen
trail, Southwest, Northeast. South
est, West End and Northern. The
stations will not be open Sunday,
July 30, and no flies will be receiv-
ed that day.
Specially made boxes in which
the flies must be delivered have
been provided, free of cost, by the
George P. Killian Manufacturing
Company Of 452 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. northwest. and can be had
upon application at any of the
above-named stations.
The names, ages and addresses of
the contestants must be carefully
written on the boxes.
The flies will be collected daily
and taken to the District building,
where they will be counted under
the supervision of DR.. Arthur L.
Murray of the health department
A separate card for each contest
ant will be kept on file at the
health department, which will show
the daily progress made in the
campaign.
Flies caught on sticky paper can
not be counted, but they may be
caught in traps, ''swatted" or
poisoned and exterminated by
drowning, the use of sulphur
fumes or other means.
Results Of the contest and win
ners of prizes will be announced in
The Sunday Star. August 6.
Employees Of The Star and men,
bers of their families are not eligi-
BILE to the contest for the prizes.
Where Flies Must Be Deliv-
cred.
Flies must be delivered at one Of
the following Associated Charities
stations not later than IL o'clock
am. every day the campaign Is on
except Sunday. July 30:
Georgetown, 1915 o street
Central, 323 H street northwest.
Southwest, I'LL Az street south
west
Northeast. 922 H street north
east.
Southeast, 319 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. southeast.
Northern, 7O1 Rhode Island ave-
nue. northwest.
West End. 1922 G street north
west
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Personal Notes of River Men.

+ Capt. Mech. master of the fve-ma sted
schooner James Paul, jr., unloading ice
at the 9th street wharf, has gone to Bal
timore to spend a few days with his
family.
Capt. w. F. Taylor of A. ]. Taylor &
Bro, tugboat owners of this clay, has
gone to Norfolk, Va. on business con-
nected with his tugboats in service there.
G. P. Lohr, manager for Johnson &
Wimsatt. lumber dealers, who with his son,
Lennox r. Lohr, has been on a visit to
Atlantic City. has returned home. The
trip to and from the resort was made in
Mr. Lohr's automobile.
George Petty, chief clerk for Johnson
Brothers, at the 18th street wharf, has
returned from a vacation of about two
weeks In the country
Capt William Neitzy has returned home
from a months trip with his family to
the lower Potomac aboard his power
yacht Benjamin n. Colonial Beach and
all The resorts on salt water were visited
and several days were spent in Coan
river and at the mouth Of the Potomac.
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tends to get an early start counting the
flies
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MAKES BACK PAYMENT.
George T. Jones Pays Up for Sup.
port of His Family.

Judge De Lacy was treated to sur
prise yesterday afternoon. when George
T. Jones, who had been threatened with
q workhouse sentence for not making his
weekly payments for the support of his
family, walked into the Juvenile Court
and handed the clerk $45. the amount
due.
Jones had not made payment for sew
eral weeks and for this Judge De Lacy
was about to sentence him to the work
house. When he appeared in court yes
terday with the necessary amount Judge
De Lacy admonished him to hereafter
keep up his obligations and avoid the
necessity of another attachment
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LEGAL NOTICES.

SUPREME ri OF THE DISTRICT OF
eelnmhla: Holding Probate Court.nSo; ls2 ..s
subscriber. of the District of Columbia. has OBJ
tainc1 from the Probate Court of the District of
Columbia letters testamentary on the estate Of
Ira G. Scott. late Of the District Of Columbia.
deceased. All persons having claims against the
deceased hereby warned 10 exhibit the same,
with the vouchers thereof. legally authenticated.
10 the subscriber before The 25th day Of
July. AID. l912; otherwise they may by law be
excluded from all benefit If said estate. Given
under my hand this 31st day Of July. 1911.
NATIONAL SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY
hv FRANK W. STONE. Second Vice President.
tSnall Attest: JAMES TANNkR Register OF
Wills for the District OF Columbia. Clerk of the
suI 1aw.3t
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SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
Columbia. Holding Probate CouE,.-No. 1888
Administration Is give notice That
the subscriber. OF the District OF CounIbfs has
OBJ aimed from the Probate Court of the District
81 Columbia letters Of administration CT a.
on the estate of Mary II. Lewis. late of the
District Of Columbia, deceased All persons hay-
ing claims against the deceased are hereby
thereof legally authenticated. to the subscriber
on or before the 14th day OF July. AID. 1914
otherwise they may by law be excinded from all
henent Of said estate. Given under INV hand
this 18th day of July. 1911. MARGARET ES
TEI.IE JONES. 1916 Sherman II. tSeal. }
Attest: JAMES TANNER Register of Wills for
the District 81 Columbia. Clerk OF the Probate
Court. JAMES A. TOOMEi and LORENZO A.
BAILEY. Attorneys. tylS-1aw,3t
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Formal application has been made by
the authorities of DenVille, Va. for
requisition papers for Rev. ID, p. Tate,
former Methodist minister and re-
Gently a real estate ard insurance
agent Of that city. now under arrest
in Knoxville, Tenn. on numerous
charges Of fraud.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-01

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
Columbia. Holding Probate Court.-No. 1920
the subscriber, Of tine District OF Columbia has
obtained from the Probate Court OF the District
Of Columbia letters Of administration on the
estate Of solomon Weinstein. late Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia. deceased. All persons having
claims against the deceased hereby warned
20 exhibit The sams. With the vouchers thereof
legally authenticated. to the subscriber on or
before the lith day OF July, 4 ID. 1912: other
wise they may ny law be excluded from all ben
EFT of said estate. Given under nv hand this
l4th day Of July. 1911. LANES L. CHASE PHI
18th st. NV tSeaiJ Attest: JAMES TANNER
Register of Wills for the District OF Columbia
Clerk Of the Probate Court LEON TOBRINEK
Attorney. tylS-law.3t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-01
GIRLS LEADING BOYS
Combined Scores Highest in
Stars Fly Contest.
LEADERS SHIFT POSITIONS
Burdette Boy, However, Still Top.
notcher With 115,4O0 Flies.
YESTERDAY RED LETTER DAY
Dead Delivered to Health Office
Number Nearly Three
Quarters of Million.
Leaders in the Fly Campaign.

Layton H. Burdette, Is years old.
$3.50 Wisconsin avenue northwest,
115,4oO flies.
Lawrence Fitzgerald, 10 years
old, 4O4 Rhode Island avenue north
west, $500 flies.
Bessie B. Fillius, 13 years old,
$40 9Th street southeast, 5000 flies.
Edwin n. Guide. Il years old.
Gudemont, Anacostia, 76,1OO flies.
Cora Briscoe, IL years old, 4cs n
street northwest. a, 400 flies.
Elsie Cornwell, Is years old, 224
18th street southwest, $500 flies.
Mildred Zuschnett. II years old,
1907 Sd street southeast, 40. 700 flies.
Edna Davis, IA years old, 800
T street northwest. SO. 200 flies.
Wallace Club, Ii years old, 142
n street southeast. 1880 flies.
Lillian Portion, IL years old, Good
Hope. D. c., 1880 flies.
Total of ten highest contestants,
647, 500 flies.
Lead of girls over boys in first
ten contestants, $500 flies.
Number of insects delivered yes
terday, approximately three-quar-
tiers of a million.
Total slaughter of flies to date,
nearly three millions and half.