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The Washington times., 1911-03-15
SEEKS INJUNCTION
AGAINST CONv|CTS
Howe Totten Files Suit to
Prevent Prisoners
Trespassing.

Charging gross ineffiCiency in man
agement OF the District penal colony in
Fairfax county, Va, Howe Totten,
owner of a fve-acre tract adjoining the
wurkhouse, has filed suit in the District
Supreme Court against the District
Commissioners and Superintendent Will
liam II. Whitaker. asking an injunc-
ton against Convicts trcspassing Oh his
land.
so lax and inefficient is the admins
tratiun that large number of COnviCtS
have escaped" Totten declares in his
petition, presented by Attorneys a. S.
Wortnington and Charles l.. Bailey.
Tutten says his family has been i'm
prisoncd al home because Of fear of the
COnviCts, asserting the prisoners run at
large without guards until the penal
colony has become a public nuisance.
That he finally moved his wife and
children from their home last Novem-
Der, fearing the prisoners. and that his
business of raising pedigreed Great
Dane dogs has suffered is declared by
TOtten, who has ineffectually fought
loCat tion of the workhOuse near his land.
He seeks a permanent injunction, order
ing the Commissioners to keep the con-
victs closely guarded and stop their
trespassing upon his land
The Washington times., 1911-03-15
WOMAN FRUSTRATES
AN ATTEMPT TO ROB
Mrs. w. H. Fowler Finds
Burglar on Porch and
Summons Police.

A daring attempt at housebreaking
was made by an unidentified white man
at the home of W. H. Fowler, 10 Eighth
street northeast, shortly after u o'clock
this morning.
The fearlessness and presence Of mind
OF Mrs. Fowler. who was alone in the
house at the time, frustrated the rob-
berry.
Mrs Fowler retired early and was
awakened about midnight by hearing
some one fumbing at the lock of the
front door. Thinking it was her hus-
band, she went down TO let him in. As
she reached the door the noise suddenly
ceased. She then went to a window
facing the door and saw a man crouch
ing in the VeStibule.
She then ran to the telephone and
called up the Ninth precinct. Her story
that a man was trying to break into
her home sent patrol wagon with half
a dozen policemen to the place on the
run. When they reached the Fowler
home the man had escaped.
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Blocking Traffic.

Then you won't marry me-
II must really decline" answered the
popular belle. Step aside, please.
You are delaying the line
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Shock of Bank Robbery
Kills Wife of Cashier

ROCHESTER, n. Y, March 15.-
Mrs. W. 7. Jones, wife of the cashier
Of the RushVille Banking Company,
near Geneva, is dead from shock oc-
casioncd bv the news that the safe
of the bank had been broken open.
The robbers took $1,000
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Camorrist Jury Ready;
Trial Started TODAY

VITERRO, Italy. March ia jury
of twenty-four men. twelve acting as
substitutes, was completed today to try
the cases of Enrico Alfano and the
thirty-five other Camorrists for the
murder of Gennaro Cuoccolo and his
wife.
The examination OF witnesses began
as soon as the afternoon session of
court convened
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Have You Sent in Your Contribution?

The Joint Finance Committee of the Associated Charities and
Citizens Relief Association desires to thank all those who have
thus far contributed to the work, 1902 in number. The
committee still needs 500 before close its aborS for the
current year. This committee composed of business men and
women who have however, not been too busy to meet every week
since the first of January. What they ask the cooperation of
the community general order that the committee may speed
y adjourn for year. These societies only do what the good
people of Washington furnish funds for They work to prevent
distress we'll TO relieve it, They seek to find substitutes for
charity enable the poor to help themselves in the meantime
giving other relief in The way food fuel and other necessities
as required, promptly and adequately
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A Preference.

After ALL" said Mrs. Oldcastle, as
they were returning from the picture
gallery to the drawing room, Il think
my preference is for Boticelli."
We'll" replied her hostess. Il can't
say that mine is For me it don't seem
that there's anything to beat good old
fashioned rawsberry jam" - Record
Herald
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When Shopping at Kann's You Can
!eave your Times Want Ads at the In
formation Desk.
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Dancer Dislocates Hip
During the Performance

LONDON, March 15.-Bessie Clayton,
dancer in the ballet OF "Perriot" is
suffering from dislocated hip sustained
last night during the performance.
She left the stage without letting the
audience know she was hurt.
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CorCoran Thorn, chairman
Howard S. Reeside, treasurer
Milton +. Allies
Scott e. Bone
Walter {. Clephane
John Joy Edison
William p. Emo
Mrs. VIM. COrCOran Eustis
William J. Eynon
William T. Galliher
Isaac Cans
William D. Hoover
Archibald Hopkins
Walter StilSon Hutchins
DR.. George NJ. Kober
J. r. Larner
NJ. J. Lawrence
Fred S. Lincoln
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"A. Lisner
Mrs. n. B. +. Macfarland
George y. McLanahan
John r. Mclean
Arthur D. Marks
Frederic l.. Moore
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey
Thomas c. Moves
Mrs. Charles w. Richardson
DR.. William G. Rives
Cuno H. Rudolph
Thomas W. Smith
G. W. F. Swartzell
Col. George Truesdell.
F. A. Walker
NJ. I. Weller
J, Louis Willige
s. w. Woodward
Walter S. Ufford, SECRETARY
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must return to my office,
 "Don't excite yourself unnecessarily said the president in his cold, even tones, ''you may leave here after the securities are in my hands, not until then. " ou are verging on the hysterical now. Calm your self. That door is locked. It will not be opened until I so desire. If you know of any way of getting out of here until I want you to go you alc at liberty to avail yourself of it. The telephone? It is dis connected The door? Absurd. Windows? There are none. I am inclined to think you are not going to keep your appoint ment with Clapton this evening. You and will remain here until this little matter of ours is settled"
 But this is shameful, outrageous, pre- posterous! exclaimed Thompson.
 The president did not answer him and soon he was still again. It was not long before the ticking of his watch got on his nerves once more. He wondered how long this torture would continue. His judg- ment told him there was no yielding to the cold -blooded man at the desk. Nature had not given the banker that square chin without reason. The more Thompson thought of the possible duration of his detention the more acute became his men tai and physical distress. .t~t.
 "I cannot stand this any longer" he acknowledged at last. ''Ill write the or der you demand. but I warn you now I'll fight you in the courts. This is Illegal, unheard of outrageous.
 "Wel take our chances in the courts If we have to- replied the president. Don { worry yourself about us Just sign this. had the order written before you came over"
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about the room. There were no decora- tons on the walls, for the room was severely plain. The desk, with it's equip ment, a stock ticker, a hat and coat rack and a few chairs were all the furnishings of the private office. Once when the president opened a drawer Thompson saw a shining object within that made him shudder
 The stiffness of the sound-proof room the calm of the man at the desk and the turmoil he had been through during the day began to affect the visitors nerves He could hear the ticking of the watch in his pocket. and mechanically he began l., count the beats. Then he studied the face of the man at the desk and somehow he could see in his minds eye that same i'm placable man, pistol in hand, marching across the Nebraska prairie and search ing for the money in the cattleman's s house. Then he got to wondering who had been the traitor who advised the bank of conditions in his office and of the plans to leave the bank in the lurch
 He felt a mad desire to throttle the traitor But whatever his mind turned te
 1t was not for long, Always 1t returne l tc the man before him. What did he pro- pose doing? What would he do if Thomp- son sprang up and defied him? Fhomp- sons fast beating heart told him such an act would be extremely hazardous. Thompson's eye told him, too, that the banker watched him like a hawk. But something had to be done to break the strain, and Thompson. after swallowing hard several times, attempted it.
 'I must return to my office," he said. And when the banker did not reply to him he raised his voice. 'I tell you I
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every drawer upside down, the bed inside out and even oyerturn his woodpile. There was not hiding place on the ground floor or the attic that I did not. make him explore, while I stood by gun in hand. As last resort took him into the cellar There was lot of junk there and he raked that over. In the pile of junk was a Seg.
 'In the keg I found the missing money, MT. Thompson, there was no more doubt in my mind when I started over the prairie with that man Jackson that l would get the money he owed than there is that I am going to get from you the securities that belong to me. I woulc not let Jackson rob hat bank in Nebraska and I'll not let you rob this bank in New York. Human nature is the same in the west as it is in Wall street. A thief is a thief the world over. I am the same man today that I was in those early days You are another Jackson. I want an order 1on your managing clerk to turn over to us all the securities that are in your safe. There was $67S9 in that keg and I returned to Jackson what belonged to him after our debt had been lquidated, just as I'll return to you what belongs to you after We get what belongs to us.'
 'I'l not be intimidated,' said Tholnp son, who showed on the surface of a spirit of defiance he did not really feel
 "Intimidatedn's said the marker. In tmidate you? Why, you craven creature, you are trembling with fear now
 Once more Thompson started to rise and once more when the banker ordered him to sit down he sank back into his chair.
 For two orathree minutes Thompson sat and stared at the president. or looked
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BANKER AND THE


 "Yes,e replied the vice president. Then he departed.
 The president threw the stub of his cigar away and turned to his visitor.
 MT. Thompson" he said, "you owe this bank $32OeoO,'
 "Yes, I know and I'm doing all I can to-
 MT Thompson" said the president, 1T know exactly what you are doing. Rob- erts, our cashier, certified your checks to- day. He should not have done it. But here in Wall street wee have to tax | chances, and he foolishly took too wide a chance with you. He tells me that when your last check for $lS6,000 came in you promised to have the securities to cover your overdraft in the bank within 30 minutes. Is that true?
 "Yes, but it has been such fearful day." said Thompson, .that we are all in a tangle. As soon as I can get matters strengthened out I'll make my, overdrafr good.
 Why lie to me?' asked the. president Thompson flushed and half rose, but the stern eye of the banker checked him. q did not come here to be insuted,f ? he sputtered as he wiped his brown in agita- ton.
 MT. Thompson,'' ss:d the president, you're been on the wrong side of the market and you're broke. There Is such a thing as falling honestly and such a thing as failing dishonestly. You're pre- pairing to fail dishonestly. You plan to rob this bank. You took a desperate gam bling chance today in the hope of saving yourself but when you did not succeed you determined to throw the burden on us. The checks we certified were to pay for ctn hat 1,a to llo after delivery. You have that stock in your safe now. I want it.
 Thompson face was red. He closed his fist convusvely as the president spoke. It was not the spoken word, however, that made his heart beat so fast and made him fearful Somehow the eyes of the cold blooded man sitting looking at him so keenly. searching his very soul. as 1t seemed, carried more of a message than the words themselves, bitter as they were.
 You do me a great wrong" Thompson declared. q assure you you are mistaken. assure you I mean to turn the stock over to you as soon as I can get my af- fairs out of the tangle they're in. This has been the heaviest day the street has had this year. Just as soon-'
 Why lie to me-" the president re- peated. 'I told you I knew exactly what you were doing. You mean to rob us. You mean to fail tomorrow. You have an appointment with Clap ton for tonight. He is to engineer it for you"
 You seem to have been spying on me-" Thompson exclaimed in a rage. Then, losing control of himself, he de- clared with an oath that 1t was true he was going to fail. and he was glad of it, so long as he could revenge him self on the man who had been so cow ardly as to put spy in his office to watch him. He was sorry only that his debt to the bank was not double, treble, quadruple what it happened to be-
 He was not looking at the president as he talked. but when he did look at him something in the gfnt of the pres ident's eye caused him to stop sud- denly and sink further back in his chair.
 MT. Thompson" said the president. in the same cold. calm voice as before, "I have had various experiences with
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Thompson looked at him and for mo- ment he felt like tearing the paper in shreds, but he thought better of 1t and signed Then the banker touched a buzzer and soon the door opened and the vice president entered. The paper was handed to him.
 Now are you satished?" asked Thomp- son.
 "Just a few minutes more" said the president "The securities will be here presently
 Thompson sighed. It seemed a long time, but it was less than 10 minutes when the vice president returned.
 Now. Mir. Thompson" said the presi- dent ''if you care to wait while Roberts examines thees all well and good. If you prefer 10 have what does not belong 10 us returned to you in the morning I'll see that it is done.
 MT Thompson said he did not care to wait He rose from the chair and drew a long breath a he strengthened himself out. Then, as he passed the desk to. get his hat, he was impeled to look into the drawer. A pistol has a strange fascna- ton for some persons. But Thompson did not see a pistol. ln- stead he behed a heavy. massive key. | highly polished and of old design. | The president saw him looking at the key. and Thompson was mpelled to ex- plain.
 q thought that was a gun" he said. T could see the glint of light on a portion of 1t from where l sat
 That's odd said the president. That old key is my mascot. It's the one that we used in the door of that Nebraska town I told you about" Copyright 1911, by Richard spillane)
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REAL RCNAANCED OF THE BJLCINEJD WORLD

70 one would suppose from the ap- pearance of things that there
 was anything unusual happen ing in the bank. It was more than an hour after closing time and the scores oQ clerks were still engaged on the days accounts. Now and then one of the young men would look at the clock and estimate how much longer it would take him to dispose of the mass of detailed work before him. Wall street was only 50 feet distant, but its hum and roar sounded far away There was little conversaticn. for the clerks were well trained Now and then you could hear the scratching of pen or the crackle of paper as the pages of big ledgers were turned.
 In a little room in far corner of the bank the president sat at his desk smoking. A sheet. which showed the condition of the account of one of tho banks clients. was before him. Oc- casionally he glanced at it and when he did he drowned.
 For a mild hammered man the pres ident bore a queer reputation. No one about the establishment ever had seen him angry. but from high official down tn the humblest clerk there was a wholesome fear of him. He was cour- teous and fair In his treatment of tn em but he had way of rebuking an of fender that made others loath to merit his displeasure. There was a sting in his words at such tiEle, softly though he uttered them. that hurt. And tn en his eyes expressed so much and sug- eested so much more of his real feel ipgs.
 The vice president entered and the president glanced at him inquiringly.
 q fear it is as you think he said. "Morse reports that an appointment has been made with Clapton, his coun- sel. for tonight at his home.'
 Well wait five minutes more" said the president. The vice president went out and the president resumed his smoking. He leaned far back in his chair as he blew the smoke ceiling ward and seemed to enjoy to the fullest the quality of his cigar. When the five minutes were up the vice president again appeared.
 Nothing yet" he reported.
 Ask Roberts to telephone to Tn omp- son to come here.' said the president. There was phone the presidents desk, but usually the president had others do his teleph oning.
 Roberts tells me Thompson says he is too busy to come now that he'll
  president announced a little later.
 Have Roberts tell him I say to come at once" said the president The pres ident had not raised his voice. In fact. he spoke slower than before, but the vice president almost ran to carry the message to the cashier.
 A few minutes later large man, who had too much fat on his frame for a person under middle age, was ushered into the room by the vice president. The newcomer was perspiring.
 Pardon me- he said, as he came for ward and extended his hand. "I would have been here an hour ago but this has been terrible day and I have been rushed to death. I am sorry if detained you"
 "Sit down." said the president. not noticing his callers extended, hand. but pointing to chair in the corner. Then, addressing the vice president he said: "We are not to be disturbed on any ac- count. Understand?
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OUR SIGNAL CORPS
Vital Part It Plays in Nations
 Army

From C. H. Claudy's "The Nerves of an
 Army" in March St. Nicholas.
 If you touch a hot iron your finger pulls itself back, apparently without any com mand from you. Really, though, the in- jured skin sends q telegram by way Of the nerves to the brain, which again tel egraphs back again by some more nerves to the muscles. Pull that finger away, and away it comes. When boy plays football or swims, we say he is doing these things, but, as a matter of fact. various parts of his body are doing them. in response to the commands of another part-the brain-commands that arc obeyed without question.
 We are accustomed to think of big battle between arraies as while lot of little fights, all taking place at once. between a whole lot of men. Really, how ever, big battle is a fight between two men-two generas-each of them armed with an army"
 An army is a very large body of sol diers. It has corps and divisions and brigades and regiments and companies It has cavalry and infantry and artil- lery and a host of on-combatant bodies, such as the medical corps, the quarter masters department, etc. All these are the arms and legs and ears and eyes and HngefS ana rect or tne army, uolnS what they are told to do by the brain of tho army, the general in command.
 Tn days gone by, when the brain want ed an arm or leg to do something. he either told a messenger to go find tho particular arm or leg and tell him, or he wrote it down on paper and sent the message in that manner. Not infrequent- ly the messenger would be killed before he found his journeys end, or was un- able to find the command until too late.
 Nowadays things are done differently. Of course orderles and written and spoken messages arc still used. but most ly for short distances, The commanding brain has nerves of many kinds through which to sendAcommands to the fighting members of his body. the army; these nerves are the methods of communica- tion. devised and employed by that arm of the service known as the signal corps.
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Mohammedans say that Adam lived In the mountain which looks down upon 1t, and that it was near the oasis itself that Cain became jealous of Abel and slew him. have always thought that Abel was killed with club, although I see now that the Bible does not mention the weapon used in the murder. According to the Moslem tradition it was a stone. The story is that Adam had divided the world into two sections and had given one of them to each of his boys. They had marked out their respective possessions with stones, when dispute arose con cerning the boundary line. Cain claimed that Abel was inching on him, whereupon high words sprang up. and Cain threw a rock which struck Abel in the temple and killed him.
 According to the Moslem tradition Cain was thereupon filled with remorse. He did not know what to do with his dead brother. and he took the body on his n-tftN 'Aa -rl 3f- rk-- A- af ft41<< -+iAn 4ftTff
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Solomon, and by St. Paul when he was blinded by the great light and warned not to kick against the bricks.
 The road to Jerusalem goes over the plains where the Israelites fought with the Philistines, through the country of Samson, which I have already described and near the place where David with his little stone the great Goliath slew.
 A New Story of Cain and Abel
 The railway from Damascus to Beirut shows you Mount Hermon, so famed in the Psalms, and passes numerous places, which, according to the Mohammedans were the homes and tombs of the prophets. Take, for instance, Suk Wadi Baroda, a little valley oasis, made up of fat-roofed mud houses,' surrounded by orchards and vineyards, on the way to Baalbel1. It is mentioned by Josephus and is referred to in St. Luke as the home of the tetrarch Lysanias. The
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nficent views of the Lebanon mountains. The track winds it's way up and down the hills, and the western side of the range is so steep that the cars are taken up on cogs. after the same manner as on Pike's peak. Mount Washington and the Rigi. There are 20 stations, mostly two story buildings of stone.
 The passengers are made up of con- slomerate mixture of humanity found in this part of the Orient. There are scores of Syrians in long coats and trousers, some wearing red fez caps, and others having turbans or handkerchefs wrapped around their heads. There are Turkish officers in uniform, with swords at their sides, fez-capped boys in silk gowns, and other Moslems in turbans and gowns. There are Mohammedan women clad all in black and wearing black wells. There are pretty Greek girls, with bare faces, brown-skinned women from the moun-
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back and carried it with him over the world for 800 years. At the end of that time he returned to his mountain, where he saw two birds fighting. At last one killed the other and it then washed and buried the one 1t had slain. Cain did like wise with Abel. and straightway there sprang up seven oak trees, which are pointed out to this day.
 According to the same authorities Seth, Adams son. who took the place of Abel, lived on the western slope of the Leba- non range. and his tomb is still there. A mosque is built over 1t and the tomb may be seen through an iron grating It is so feet long, but the people living in the village nearby say that 1t was too short, notwithstanding, and that Seths legs had to be doubled up in order to fit. Not far away is the tomb of Noah, which is 40 feet longer. It also has q