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The Washington herald., 1911-01-15

Retail prices which prevailed last week
IN meats, vegetables. and fruit were
higher than in any corresponding periot
in years. The high price Of meat is due tc
the lack of grass-fed cattle. according to
local butchers. This is to be expected,
they claim. every year from early Janu-
ary until June. as it costs more to pro-
cuce beef in this time than during the
months when the cattle can be fed on
grass.
III high price of vegetables, the prod
uce merchants say. is due to frosts in
the South. Potatoes, which a month ago
sold for so cents a bushel, now sell for
95 cents Tomatoes. which seldom go
over 80 cents during the winter months,
are selling at 40 to 45 cents. Elephants
are selling at 81 and 40 cents. String
beans are soaring at $40 n peck. Apples
are selling ut SO cents a peck
Prices of Meats.
Prime rib roasts sold yesterday at is
cents a pound. chuck roasts Ii cents.
sirloin steak % to % cents, and porter
house steak q cents. Lamb remains sta
tionary. but pork has advanced from !
to cents a pound, now selling for l5 and
IS cents.
Prices of butter. eggs, and cheese re-
main steady.
supply of Fish Il Low.
Shipments from the South Atlantic and
Gulf coast fisheries have been few, and
as a consequence prices are higher.
For the first time in weeks the oyster
supply has met the demand, there now
being about 6,C0 bushels on hand at the
Eleventh street wharves. They range
from GO cents to $lO per bushel.
Shipments of Potomac bass will arrive
to-day and tomorrow. Spanish mack
erel caught off Pensacola. Fla, and along
the Gulf. are arriving in small lots.
They sell for about IA cents per pound.
Pompano, king mackerel, and jumping
mullet are also scarce. Red snapper
caught only in the Gulf of Mexico) are
plentiful. big supplies of them coming
from Mobile. Pensacola. New Orleans,
and Galveston. Snapper sells for 10 and
IA cents per pound. Pompano. mullet. and
king mackerel average Is cents per
pound.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15
NEW HOMES IN NORTHWEST.
Houses Near kalOra ma Road an Ex
ample of Good Values,

AS an illustration of the high class
houses at low price that are being con-
structed in Washington. and as further
emphasizing the fact that building opera
tions can be conducted cheaply in this
city during the winter months, the row
of nine-room residences in Nineteenth
street northwest. between kalorama
road and Belmont street. may be cited.
One of these. sold during the week &c
a private party as a residence, with a
frontage of twenty-one feet, deep lot
supplied with hot water heat, electric
lights. and trimmed in white and ma
hogany, was sold at a less price than
similar homes in the same suburbs
1t is understood that the Sypret w.
Hendrick Company. real estate brokers.
were agents in the sale reported.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15
Would Enjoin DruEEist.

Declaring that Philip G. Aff1eck had
broken the terms of an agreement where
by he was to purchase certain cigarettes
and TO display them in the window of his
store at the corner of Fifteenth and F.
streets, Christie Nicolaidis. who conducts
a cigar and cigarette store at 1929 F.
street, has asked the District Supreme
Court through his attorneys to enjoin
Mr.. Affleck from selling cigars and cigar
cites at his drug store
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15
VIII BE Buried in Arlington,

Military honors will mark the funeral
Of Louis Johnson. a veteran of the Span
ish-American and Philippine wars. to-
morrow. Interment will be in Arlington
Cemetery. Mr.. johnson. who was Dane,
had no relatives In this country. and
the funeral arrangements are in charge
Of Capt. J. Walter Mitchell. He was
forty-five years old, and had been a
watchman In the State, War. and Navy
Department building for a number of
years. He had commendable record
for bravery both in Cuba and the Philip
pines.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15
HELD AS WIFE'S ASSAILANT.
James A. Adams Accused of Trying
to Poison Woman.

10 O"ons
Charged with assaulting his wife by
trying to make her swallow carbolic acid.
James A. Adams. an employe Of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad. will be given
a hearing tomorrow morning in Police
Court His wife. Mrs. Sarah e. Adams,
lives at 1915 North Carolina avenue north
east.
The couple have been separated for
several months. Adams went to the
house yesterday. he claims. to try to ef-
feet a reconciliation. Shortly afterward
Mrs. Adams screams attracted several
neighbors, who summoned Policeman
Hill. Mrs Adams ran to Hill and begged
his protection.
Her dress and her husbands clothing
were burned by acid. and an empty vial
labeled '.carbolic acid was found on the
floor. Adams admitted that he bought
the fluid. but denied that he tried to force
his wife to drink it.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15
Promotion for Charlie, A. Kline.

The Southern Railway announces the
appointment of Charles \. Kline as
assistant general passenger agent, with
offices at 1900 Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington. D. c., effective January H.
This is a promotion for Mr. Kline,
he having formerly been chief rate clerk,
then chief clerk of the passenger de-
partment of the Southern Railway, and
has been with the company about
fifteen wears
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15
FOOD PRICES HIGHER
Meats, Vegetables, and Fruits
Take Jump.
LACK OF CRASHED CATTLE

Butchers Claim 1t Costs More to Pro-
duce Beef from January to June.
Oyster Supply at Eleventh Street
Wharves Is Meeting the Demand.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15
WI SANS QUEUE.

And his queue
Parted. Bueue hueue!
Sad all thrueue
Is the poet whueue
Is inspired to get busy and sing
adueue
To Wueue.
AS well as skiddueue
To the queue:
And the jokesmiths, tueue,
Are distracted and blueue.
For Wueue
Sans queue
Is no longer the wueue
That they knueue-
Asker of questions far from .
fueue.
Next he'll eschueue
His garb Oriental in hueue
For hand-me-downs nueue.
Think OF 1t. dueue!
In jimswinger-wueue
Our wueue!
Whueue!
Song turns turtle and drops
from the blueue
Ere the songster's half thrueue.
Oh. yueue
Queue!
WILLIAM rIProN TALBOT.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15
NEWSOFALBXANDRIA
Additional Receivers Asked
for Banking Concern.
PETITION ACCUSES c. ]. RIxEY

Declares Examiner Discovered that
He Had Embexsled $4,000 of
Money and Property of Corpora
Appear Before Grand Jury Probe.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15
BUYS SHOW GIRLS
BARRELS OF WINE
Now Man Wants to Get His
"ROll" Back.
DRINKS COST $40 PER ROUND

"Party' with Vaudeville Actresses
Costs Mill Worker Over 81 900.
Bought 400 Pints of Champa gne in
Two Days, He Tells COurt-Girls
Are Freed-Spent All but 40 Cents.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15

The Relief Hook and Ladder Company.
at its annual meeting. elected these Off
GERS to serve for the ensuing year: ]. r..
Trimyer, president: F.. c. Spinks. first
vice president: G. r. Yates, second vice
president. X. NJ Latham. captain; A. e.
Hullings. first lieutenant: Charles Clark
son, second lieutenant; }. T. Waddey,
secretary; William Cleveland, recorder
+. Steuart Smith, treasurer.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15

A Bcstoa inventor hss brought ont an tceharyest-
Ing machine equippsd With motor - rsUpel Il osse
. fus0 azzfA0 and 70 oDesaas dsunlas - 80.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15

started moved their effects to the street.
assisted by hundreds of people.
A youth named Muller had narrow es-
cape from suffocation, but was aroused
and made his exit without injury. \ cat
in the house of Charles F'innegan was
suffocated.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15

George Smith. for many years employed
at the plant Of the Alexandra Fertilizer
and Chemical Company. died tonight at
his home on Lower Princess street. The
body was taken to Demaines undertaking
establishment and prepared for burial.
Smith was unmarried
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15

There were foee frisht c.u huix in the United
staaes IN laa. ~ psAsneE an, and l.s9 looo-
0otiysA
The Washington herald., 1911-01-15
A.S.DoNIPHAN. News Agent
KING AND COLUMBUS sTs-

Alexandria, Va.
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cred to any address In Alexaa.
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Daily and Sunday. :. .l0e per mo.
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The Washington herald., 1911-01-15

An open meeting of the Ancient Order
Of Hibernians will be held at o'clock to-
morrow afternoon at St. Mary's Hall.
when the recently elected officers will be
installed. Those expected to make the
speeches are p. T. Moran. national direc-
tor Of the association; Judge De Lacy.
and Francis Kilkenny
Harry F. Mcdonald. four years old,
died to-day at the home of his parents,
1917 Princess street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Regarding "PoIitIcaI Parsons"

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 | Your correspondent at Montgomery for the past two days has been sending to your columns for publication the state ment that political parsons are going to sweep down on Montgomery" when the Parks local option bill comes up In the house. I never asked for any office nor held any in Alabama. I have been a minister in this state 42 years, and have tried to fight the whisky traffic all this time. I have paid my taxes and never have been arrested for any crime. I was born in Alabama and am a voter with citizens rights.
 If I want to go to the capital this week or at any time, I have as much right to go there as has any other man. l pro- test against your columns being used by vour correspondent or any other man to
 try by sheer or innuendo or ridicule to
 designate our ministers who are loved by
 all good citizens, pretty nearly as well
 as any other class of men, as political
 parsons" And I protest against his
 assumption that we go there as meddlers. We have rights to defend as minister's rights of innocent children and helpless
 women. We feel we are entitled to visit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09

during the late summer of the year and
 continued increasingly during the fall and
 winter The 1910 volume of the coke movement reported by eight leading east ern carriers was 26,769042 short tons, as compared with 25902. 732 short tons the year before nearly all the leading roads showing substantial increases as com- pared with the 1903 tonnage or thls coin- nodity
 The exports of coal and coke constitute
 but a small portion of the commercial product. While these figures show on the whole a satisfactory development, the progress in domestic consumption during recent years has fully kept pace with the large growth of production, leaving but n small portion available for shipment to foreign territory. The total coal ex- ports for the past year were made up of | 3O21. .627 long tons of anthracite and 15,- | SO5, ,S66 long tons of bituminous coal. or | the total Dituminous coal exported, about | 9S per cent was consigned to Canada, | which also took about 50 per cent of the
 total soft coal shipped out of the coun- | try. The quantity shipped last year to Cuba, S5s,776 long tons, was the largest | on record while shipments to Mexico, | 675 9S0 long tons, show a large decrease | when compared with like shipments be- | fore 190S as the result of the increasing | output of domestic coal and the larger use of liquid fuel of both domestic and Amer ican origin.
 The export figures above quoted are exclusive of the quantities of bunker or fuel coal supplied to vessels in the for eign trade for consumption on the high seas Of the 75O long tons of bunk
 CT coal placed on foreign-bound vessels in all United States ports during the past year, 5,499.S15 long tons were loaded
 at Atlantic ports; 569, ,0S1 long tons at gulf ports; 129,12S long tons at Pacific ports and 252, ,T26 long tons at ports on the Great
 Lakes. About 59 per cent of the bunker coal supplied to foreign-bound steam CTS was handled at New York, quan- tity larger than that loaded on vessels in the foreign trade at Cardiff, the largest coal port in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09

his dying love. Keep the tonic up in- definitely. DOLLY, M D."
 Of course, I'm not a Miss Ruth Grey but being 'as how that lady has gone I am delighted to have chance to venti- late my views on such an important sub ject.
 First of all. let me say that there is nc thing so unenthusiastic as a warmed over affection"
 Perhaps he's not worth it after all.
 Further on in the letter the young lady says:
 i've given up everything and every body for him. Four evenings a week we spend together and all my other beaux havo stopped coming to see me. He comes Sunday afternoon, and stays through Sunday evenings; then again Monday evening. which always seems to get on his nerves. Tuesday he is always fesrfully indifferent. In fact, it was ''of a Tuesday" evening that I first noticed his indifference"
 My dear girl, don't you know that a double bill," including Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening is enough to disgust the most ardent lover in the world? And as for Monday. why 1t hasn't even place ir "Love's calendar" It's merely a gkastly isthmus that connects Sunday with the rest of the week. Monday is only the cold leavings of Sunday; it is impossible.
 Tack on the back of your dressing ta- ble this little motto
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09
COMPLEXION POWDER FREE ,5O. .OOO Sample Boxes of Carmen Powdei For Birminghnm's Dainty Women

Ladies. MT. Newton Chipley, the Car men Powder representative, is here to see that every lady in Birmingham and suburbs receives liberal sample box of Carmen Complexion Powder ana one of the dainty Carmen mirrors.
 Mr. Chipley does nothing but travei from city to city in order to see that several million women receive sample of this greatest of beautihers.
 Tomorrow he begins an immense 10, cal distribution through all tine reading drug and department stores, where ev- cry ladys is expected to receive abso- lutely free upon demand an apprecia- ble gift that includes a generous sam pie box of Carmen Powder and one of the purse size Carmen mirrors. 4 This is a bonafide offer, full part9cu- lars of which will be found in adver. ',tisement in tomorrow's Age Herald
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09
Miss Helen Lake Little Hostess
 To Bachelor Girls
NOTES HERE AND THERE
Sponsors for Basketball Game This Evening Between Local and Visit ing Teams-Sloans-Lane
 Cards Are Issued.
BY MYRTLE MILES
THE CLUB CALENDAR


 The North Haven Circle will meet this afternoon at the home : of Mrs. N. P. T. Finch at o'clock. Boys Club chapter No. meets - this afternoon at 3 o'clock with ! Mrs. H. W. Taylor. 2425 Twenty : second avenue, north.
 The Teachers Training class of : the First Methodist Sunday school ; will meet this afternoon at o'clock < with Miss Willie Scott Emond, 1124 ; North Twenty-sixth street.
 Mrs. H. c. Miller will be hostess : tomorrow afternoon for the Twen- < tieth Century club at her home on < Fountain Heights.
 The Culture club meets tomorrow < morning with Miss Emily Good < rich, 1881 South Twentieth street, < at 10 o'clock. Mrs. Will Brown will entertain ; the Shakespeare club tomorrow < afternoon.
 Mrs. Willard Wilson will be the <
 hostess for the Quest clubs open ! meeting tomorrow afternoon at her ! home. Mrs. J. H. Phillips will be < the speaker of the afternoon and < the programme will be interspersed < with musical numbers. <
 Mrs. John Pugh will be hostess < tomorrow afternoon for the Study < Circle. 
 The Amaranth club meets tomor- < row afternoon with Mrs. Lyman.
 The Clionian club meets at the < home of Mrs. A. R. Dearborn to- < morrow afternoon at her home, ITO < Fifteenth avenue, south.
 
 The Catholic Woman's club of < West End will have their next < meeting on February IA, with Mrs. ! O'Neil as hostess. SIP Princeton ave- ! nue.
 A special meeting of the Council | of Jewish Women is called for this < afternoon at a:3O, at the residence ! of the president, Mrs. M. Lenk, 32l0 : Glen avenue. Plans for the enter < tainment of Mrs. Caesar Misch will < be finally arranged. Mrs. Misch < is president of the national organ < ization and will be the guest of the < local section February IT and Is. !
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09
Stimulating Agriculture

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 paper devotes to the agricultural interest
 The amount of space your splendid of the state is to be highly commended In the analysis of a community of in. terest, the industrial development of the state depends largely on the agricultural development as we'll Manufacturing plants employing laborers, who have to be fed from the food products raised by the farmers of the west, are handicapped in the proportion to the cost of the living to their operatives. In the first place the farmers of the west have to make living out Of their farm operations, and the wholesale dealers, railroads and jobbers so in the end the money has left the state and the industrial plants giving employ ment to labor, are bound to pay them enough for their high-priced living, so in the end they foot the bills.
 If the living for the operatives at the industrial plants of the state were raised in the state and the farmers could realize the profits now realized by the western farmers and all the expenses incurred. as it is now. in reaching the operatives at the industrial plants could be saved to them, at the present scale of wages it would give the operatives plenty of money to educate their children and to patronize other stores besides the family grocery stores and supply themselves with dry goods, clothing, shoes, etc.
 A community of interest is like an end- less chain and every business and every thing represents link in 1t which can be readily seen on a proper analysis of the matter. The Business Mems club of Gadsden, appreciating the importance of a community interest and the necessity of stimulating our agricultural interest. had bill drawn up, and is advertising same, to be enacted into a local law for Etowah county. authorizing the county commits sioners to appropriate not exceeding $2500 annually to offer and pay premiums on agricultural products, live stock and poul- try in order to stimulate same, and to encourage greater development of the agricultural interest of the county, which will at the same time encourage and promote industrial development. I don't believe single county in the state could spend money for a better cause than along the line of the bill we expect to have enacted into a law for Etowah county. w. R. PHILIPS,
 Secretary Business Mems Club
 Gadsden, February [, 1911.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09
Alleged Robber Released

Muskogee, Okla, February S.-FranlS Collins, charged with the robbery of the postoffce at Nokata, Okla. of s1t00. was released from custody yesterday on the testimony of the principal witness for tho government. Cleo Roher. Collins brother in-law, whose previous confession inpli- cated Collins and was responsible for his imprisonment. Yesterday Roher told the jury that his confession was secured under threats and that 1t was not true. Withdrawal of the charge followed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09
MISS GRIMA's BRIDAL PARTY ENTERTAINED AT DINNER

Mrs, Alfred Grima entertained last evening at handsomely appointed din- ner at Antoine's, in honor of her daugh- ter. Miss Emma Grima and Mir. Bradlsh c. Johnson and their bridal attendants, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat. The floral decorations of the table. car ried out with white hyacinths and pink Killarney roses, were unusually beauti- full Pink shaded lights completed the ap- pointments. Palms and potted plants decorated the room, and an orchestra gave q delightful programme during the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09

Montgomery when the liquor interests are alleged to be there, to do our part to keep whisky, the enemy of God and man, from returning in any form of sale 10 our great commonwealth. We ministers try to build character, encourage so- briety. comfort sad hearts and like our Master, destroy the works of the devil" Of course, expect criticism, but feel that the column of great daily should be free from such sneers and filings as have appeared in its columns the past two days. As subscriber, a patron, I beg you give me space for this protest, as you always claim to be fair to both sides. 'I am not mad. most noble Festus, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.' l.. F. WRITTEN, Pastor Twenty-first Avenue Methodist Church.
 Birmingham, February 8, 1911.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09
MRS. E. T. DOUGLASS
 HOSTESS FOR VISITOR

In compliment to Mrs. James DeVal Clark of Monroe, La, Mrs. E. T. Doug
 lass entertained coterie of friends yes- terday afternoon very delightfully."- at bridge. There were seven tables of play CTS and the decorations of southern smi-
 lax and other greenery, with spring now CTS showing against 1t, made the rooms of the hostess exceptionally attractive. The score was kept on cards hand paint ed in jonquils. In its every detail the af- fair was charming. Three handsome urizes were awarded rby the hostess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09
Dolly Essays Roll of Mind
 reader to Anndbelle Who
 AdOreS Him and BOres HiY
Very Smart Little LetterA Double Bill Including Sunday Afternoon and Evening, Too Much Strawberry Ice Three Times Day Ug-g-h-Maybe the Man Loves You-One Gan Never Tell-f This Be
 Treason Let Some Other Woman
 Tell the Truth
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

There's a very smart little letter that is staring me in the face on my crowded desk
 It's gay looking little letter, although it's contents are far from festive.
 It Is signed "Annabelle," and the re- quest has come that it be answered through an 'open artlcle.
 What a chance!
 The gist of the letter is this:
 1T am a very unhappy woman; l love man who has ceased to care for me; he still talks about our marrying, but there is the eternal question in his voice; he wonders if he can make me happy. There has been no falling out we have merely drlfted. Can you tell me how I can win him back?'
 Prescription for Miss Annabelle:
 Get a large. tall black bottle marked Indifference" and administer frequent doses to the gentleman in question:. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09
MISS HENEN LAKE LITTLE
 HOSTESS TO BACHELOR GIRLS

Miss Helen Lake Little was the hostess at this weeks meeting of the Bachelor Girls, entertaining at her home on South twentieth street yesterday afternoon Valentine symbols were in evidence, ir score cards decorations and the dainty refreshments served at the close of the afternoon. Crimson hearts with blooming azaleas made decorative motive both ar tistic and suggestive of the season. This made the table in the dining room, where the girls gathered after the games for tea especially attractive. A pleasant innova- ton was the introduction of a musical programme Miss Ruby Munger and Miss Clara Shelby, who were among the extra guests, each gave several lovely vocal se- 1ections
 The club prize and the guest prize were both very pretty. One was a hapdsome silver belt buckle and the other 8 water color painting.
 The club members taking part In the games were Miss Little. Miss Virginia White, Miss Ruth Smith, Miss Gladys Enslen. Miss May Fox, Miss Maybelle Cosby, Miss Serena Kirkpatrick, Miss Su- sic White. Miss Madge Chisholm, Miss Jamie Going, Miss Gamaliel Dixon, Miss Carrie White Bean, Miss Alice Coughlan, Miss Kathleen VanHoose, Miss Emily Somerville, Mrs. Bryant Mccormack Miss Frederika Ferguson, Miss Norma Hood, and Miss Elizabeth Norris The additional guests included Miss Ruby Munger, Miss Ellen Linn Motion, Miss fVloro ChaIbv Mfee Nnllia Harris Mics Jamie Harris, Miss Abigail Crawford Miss Ruth Julien, Miss Avirett. Miss Sa- die Gillespy. and Miss Mary Tardy.