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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19

composed of Miss a Perkins and
Messrs. Gibson and George Fisher.
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A vaudeville entertainment was givel
by the Sigma lambda Alumni of Cen
trail High School Friday evening al
| Pythian Temple A large audience saw
the performance.
Among those who took part in the
performance were Ethel Cooke, Helen
Durnin. Gertrude Carpenter, Anna Hell
Ethel Clark, Olive Wright. Florence
, Coumbe, Belle Meyers. Esther Sweet
Lillian Menaugh, Dolly Cunningham
Jane Gardner, Rose Carol and Alice
Rae.
The total number of boys entering
the high schools February / who en-
listed in the cadet companies was near
ly half a hundred. They will be sup
piled with uniforms in the near future,
measurements already having been
taken for most of them 1t is probable
that extra drills will be provided for
these boys to aid them i'll attaining
equal efficiency with other members of
the company in which they are enroll
cu OS1oAC aiic VI Tie
drill which is to be held unusually
early this year.
i:
The junior class of the Business High
School entertained the senior class in
the schools gymnasium Friday after
noon. The occasion was declared to be
most enjoyable.
*
Valentine day was celebrated by al
most every school in the city, the most
popular celebration being in the form of
opening u valentine box, in which the
pupils had been allowed to deposit valen-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19

Reductions limited few specials right through
desirable lines have made many pieces you
supply Furniture need
The following lists small goods
spondingly low prices
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19

Mr.. White, a teacher of the Business
High School, is in charge of the indoor
base ball practice at that school, and is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19

Mrs. Frederick William Clcmons, vice
regent of the Maj. l. Enfant Chapter. en-
tcrtaincd the chapter at its February
meeting in her apartments i'll the Abe
marie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19

The basket ball team of the Eastern
High School went to Front Royal Va,
yesterday, where it played the Randolph
Macon Academy team.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19

The Collegiate Club devoted the entire
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1911-11-08

and didn't know how to spell his own
name,
Bob, boy who worked in the same
mill, owned up to fifteen years. and
said he had been working there for
eight years. He showed 1t, too, in his
oVergrown. thin. anaemic frame, and
looked fertile ground for the seeds of
tuberculosis. His intelligence had
stood stationary with the flight OF
years. and SO he was still doing the
same thing he had started on-tak-
ing of the empty spools from the spin
dies. Anything more complex was too
much for his stunted intelligence.
In the coal mines OF PENNSYLVANIA
and West Virginia they found boys of
twelve masquerading as sixteen They
worked in the damp and darkness
alongside Of mules and took their lives
in their hands every time they went
down into the shafts to their daily toll.
hundreds Of feet down I'm the bowels
OF the earth
IL haven't grown any In five years :"
said Charlie, a thin, hollow-chested
anaemic lad of fourteen, with a dull
stupid face. He has been on the night
shift for seven years and makes his
60 cents a night
At Fairmont, w. Va. at work I'm the
glory hole" Of the glass works. where
the temperature ranged as high as the
human system can stand, there we're
more boys than men at work.
THE works is cluttered with kids.
remarked native.
One of the saddest cases was that Of
little Savannah, frail eleven-year-old
The boss says she's a cracker.jack
at spinning" declared her gaunt faith
er proudly She amt satisfied unless
she's in the mill"
Poor little Savannah owned I'm that
she had never had a doll and never
played on Sundays because she was
too tired. Her tense, drawn face was
that OF an old woman.
The gruelling labor Of the mould
boys In the glass works was really aw.
full. Here were tender youngsters
down In cellars guiltless Of sunlight
sitting In cramped positions and tend
ing moulds all day long and all night
Other boys worked the molten glass
at the furnace maws In heat unbear-
able by those unaccustomed to II. One
baby boy OF five was found earning his
rev pennies day in the mill where
his mother worked. He was too
young to go to school! And he was
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such a golden-haired. blue-eyed. rosy
checked boy that it seemed a shame
he was doomed there so soon In life.
or course. fatalities among child
toilers are far more numerous than
among adults. Obviously youth is
less cautious than experience Not
day passes that death does not take
its toll OF the child workers and
passes along many more to the ranks
of the crippled and helpless
In Pennsylvania the fatalities and
accidents to the boys in breakers pick
ing slate out OF the coal with their
little fingers is 300 per cent. higher
than among adults and minors over
sixteen. In Indiana the physical risk
to children in factories under sixteen
is $50 per cent. greater than among
adults. In Michigan it is 450 per cent
against the child
Children who go to school under the
most Objectionable conditions are con-
fined 1000 hours annually. In Massa-
chusetts the factory child is confined
3.l2O hours a year and in New York
where the eight-hour day prevails. he
is still subjected to 2,496 hours of con.
finement
All states with important canning
industries employ children without re-
striction. They can dc the work just
as well as adults and for far less pay
In the chief cities, where clothing, ar
tificial flowers and other articles are
made in the tenements. there are no
laws to protect little children. Three
and four-year-old fingers find plenty to
do for few pennies a day more to
the family fund.
This tenement-house work, done to
save rent, carfares and to impress the
children. has other dangers besides
those Of the child. The consumer Is
just as likely to become the victim
Physicians who will agree to conceal
the contagion from the health authori-
ties are the most popular with the
tenement-house workers. Agents found
women and children working on gar
ments while children were in the
same room suffering with contagious
diseases.
In some OF these city tenements
where the child is put to work as soon
as it can use its hands and before 1t
goes to school-nearly always by COM
pulsion from the authorities-two chill
dren die for every one in localities
where the child is not put to work be-
fore its timel
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No More Room.

The railway carriage was crowded,
but very fat old gentleman who sat
by the window calmly ignored the
ominous looks of the passengers for
taking up so much room.
boy selling buns poked his head
IN ut the window and inquired:
Buns, sir?"
The old gentleman was slightly deaf.
and. not noticing the buns, thought
the boy wanted seat in the already
packed carriage; so he remarked:
Full up, my boy! No more room
inside!"
A roar OF laughter followed his re.
ply. and the old gentleman innocent.
ly wondered as to the cause of their
merTiment.-London Tit-Bits.
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science After Oespising eroths for
Long Time Finds Out Why They
Are Good.

From time immemorial beef tea, or
a broth made in a similar manner
from mutton or chicken has been
feature Of the sickroom. the pride of
the hOusekeeper nurse. a source of
comfort to the invalid, the InyariabIe
staple of the menu permitted by the
physician.
When II was indisputably proved
that the homemade broth was ia no
sense food. humanity refused Gre
deDce and invalids went ahead with
their consumption OF millions OF gal
Ions. persisting I'm the exhibition of
sure signs OF convalescence and de
manding with insistence further SUP
plies Of the fragrant potion.
Dr. Thomas Darlington. in n recent
issue Of the New York Medical Jour.
nal. shows at last the reason of this
unghakable faith. Broth is one OF the
few genuine stimulants IN the arma-
rneutarium now that alcohol is known
to be narcotic. The experiments Of
Pawlov on dogs demonstrate that the
savory liquid Is powerfully stlmuIant
go the gastric secretion and other d.
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THE MATTER
WITH YOUR BABY !?

The young rnother-and mar. an old
one, tools often puzzled TO know the
cause OF her childs ill nature The
loudness OF its crying does not ncces-
sarily Indicate tho seriousness OF it's
trouble. II may have nothing more the
matter with u the n a headache or a feel
ing OF general C1llncss. 10 cannot, Of
course. destr'Je ifs feelings. but as a
preliminary measure you are safe in
trying a mild laxative.
Nine times outs OF ten. you will find 70
Is all the 'hid r aeds. Tor IT'S restlessness
and peevishness arc perhaps due to OBJ
struction OF the bowels, and once that
has been uedied the headache the
oluRgishnesS and the many other evi-
1ences OF constipation and indigestion
will quickly disappear.
Don't give the little one salts, cathar-
tic pills or nasty waters for these Will
act as purgaSives, and they arc too
strong or child. In the families OF
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Tickets Not rransf.rabl.

The Brighton Railway company.
which has just passed its SEVENTEEN
anniversary, was, although not the
first company TO run an excursion
train, the first one to run a regular
service OF such trains at low fares
Half a crown was the fare for a day
trip to Brighton and back in the
early '7Os, but after a time the com.
pany found that It was losing money
by the return halves being openly
sold. Rather than stop the cheap
trains. however, It prosecuted the
touts who crowded Brighton station
and lmpOrtuned persons TO sell or buy
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ERUPTION COVERED BODY

Three years ago this winter / had
a breaking out that covered my whole
body. 1t itched so 1t seemed as If I
should go crazy. 1t first came out in
little pimples on my back and spread
TIL 1t covered my whole body and
limbs down to my knees. also my arms
down to my elbows. Where I
scratched 1t made sores, and the ter
rible itching and burning kept me
from sleeping. / tried several RENE.
dies all to no purpose. Then l con-
Guided to try the Cuticura Remedies.
used tie Cuticura Soap and Cuticurt.
Ointment, also the Resolvent, for
about four months, and they COM
pletely cured me of eczema. I have
had no return of the disease since.
never had good nights rest after the
skin eruption first broke out till com.
menced using the Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. | had only used them
few days before 1 could see they were
beginning to heal, and the terrible
itching was gone.
Those that lived in the house at
the time know how l suffered, and
how the Cuticura Soap and Ointment
cured me. l never take bath with
out using the Cuticura Soap, and 1
do not believe there are better rem
edies for any skin disease than the
Cuticura Soap and Ointment" (Signed)
Miss Sarah Calkins, Waukegan, ILL.,,
Mar. 16, 1911. Although Cuticura
Soap and Ointment are sold by drug
gists and dealers everywhere, sam
pie of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to "Cutl-
cura,' Dept. X, Boston.
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Abundantly Able

The most inspiring thought about
this mighty promise is that II reminds
us that God himself Is the creator of
that which he promises to do. He IL
not confined. in answering our prav.
ers. to resources and materials al.
ready on hand. but out OF his infinite
power and wisdom he can make the
thing we ask even out OF nothing
Surely this is encouragement TO ask
the greatest things and TO prove ali
the possibilities OF faith and prayer
Rev. A. b. Simpson.
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and Mrs. Herman wilson. Stoutsviils
Ohio, the only laxative given is DR.
Caldwelis Syrup Pepsin. It has been
round 10 answer most perfectly ali
the purposes of a laxative, and it's very
mildness and freedom from grfpinE
recommend II especially for the use OF
children, women. and old folks gener-
cNy-people who need a gentle bowel
stmulant. Thousands OF American
families rave beeM enthusiastic about IL
Tor more than a quarter OF a century
Anyone wishing to make n trial Of this
remedy before ouying II In the regular
way or a druggist at fifty cents OF one
dollar a large bottle family size) can
have a sample bottle sent 20 thu. homo
free OF charge by simply addressing DR.
w. u. Caldwell. 2ol Washington ST.
Monticello. I'll. Your name and address,
on postG card will do.
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They were very good friends" Mrs
Guyer told the court.
Did the defendant live tberay.
asked the magistrate.
II don't know" the witness said
He came there often for a long time F."
Magistrate Butts glanced at Camp.
bell, who had given his address as the
st. George apartment house Camp-
bell Is a tall. slender man OF thirty.
he held his soft gray hat with its rim
Just touching his cheek and gazed
earnestly at the Judge; but he said
nothins.-New York Evening Mail.
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all of its nutritive principles. had lost
its aromatic constituents, gone to
make the despised extract for the
preparation Of broths
The physician may henceforth ad-
wise beef tea and meat broths gener.
ally with a clear conscience and sci
entific satisfaction; they have tri-
umphed over their enemies and de
tractors and will resume their honored
station upon the invalids tray as I'M
approachable adjuvants to digestion
and assimilation. adding one more ex.
ample TO the list of remedies founded
In Grass empiriclsm. but finding at last
true scientific basis for their raison
d'etre.
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In Defense of Beef Tea

9estive fluids, with the result that
real food. given with or after the
broth, Is speedily and gratefully assim.
Hated
MIX which disagrees with so many
people. will cause no distress If ad.
mintstered after cup OF hot broth
The mere flavor of meat Is thus shown
10 De necessary and valuable to diges
ton. What caused disgust among the
troops In the Spanish war was that
the preserved meat. while retaining
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DO not marry the .Je6ung WON m
who allows herself 10 float around .hs
neighborhood in a top buggy or auto
mobile until 2 o'clock In the mornin.
with a counterfeit sport with a weak
Jaw and weaker morals Rev f.. n
Askey, Methodist. Sharon
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gravel, and his treatment helped the
temporarily. but soon the symptoms
returned with greater severity than
before. Being urged, I used Doan's
Kidney Pills and received aim. st
instant relief. In few weeks time
l was completely cured"
When Your Back Is Lame, Re-
member the Name-DOAN'S. soc. a
box at all stores. Foster-Milburu Co..
Buffalo, n. Y.
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ties. follow the ad-
vice OF G.. II. Tut
tie, Rogers street.
B r o k N Bow ,
Nebr. Says Mr..
futile: II w a 8
confined to my
home for weeks,
unable to walk
more than ten feet
at a time. The
doctor said I had
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1911-11-08

s56A has been holding a com
prehensive exhibit in
New York City of the horrors and
evils that follow the slavery of little
children In our mills and mines. The
evidence OF the camera the bald facts
or statistics and government reports
have told the story only too truly.
Few today realize that such things
can be.
Hundred OF thousands OF children
nave grown old before their time: hun
dreds OF thousands more have been
crippled for life at an age when they
ought to be running in the woods and
neids. Thousands have died before
they had even begun to live And OF
all the misery and injury and vice and
disease and death-it Is too shocking
10 be more than limited at!
The exhibit which the public saw In
the rooms at Fourth avenue and Tween
ueth street has been doing its good
work all over the country since last
.autumn--in fact. 1t has been a travel
ing exhibit. Miss Elizabeth Mem Din
wfddle. who is in charge Of 1t. has been
from one end OF the country to the
other. showing it where 1t could do
the most good at the psychological
moment. 1t had been intended to
show IL in New York first, but urgent
reasons called 1t to other places first.
II was taken to North Carolina.
where the inadequate law against
child labor is more honored I'm the
breach than in the observance Just at
the time that child labor law was
pending In the state legislature. Ii
went to Providence X. L. I'm order to
meet federation of women's welfare
clubs convened there. 1t went to the
state capitals OF Alabama, Tennessee
and Wisconsin I'm the hope OF in
nuencing the Legislators when in,
nuence was badly needed to protect
the American child life against the
rapacity OF money-mad employers
Better than words do the pictures
and posters tell their story of the
twentieth century crime against child
life The boys I'm the coal breakers.
the girls In the cotton mills, the kid
dies In the night shift at the glass
works who ought to have been i'm bed
dreaming of baseball and trout brooks.
the anaemic. understood, over-worried,
sfckly boys and girls who should have
been at school instead OF at the ma
chines-they all told their own stories
by their faces alone.
Go to the glass work, the mines. the
cotton mills. the canneries. the tene-
ments-there you shall see them! In
some cases the rapacity OF the en-
pioyers is to blame: In others IL Is
the greed of the parents In some
cases 1t Is both.
She just happened in" said the
ourly overseer in a South Carolina
cotton mill when an investigator ran
across baby girl OF eight tending her
sides" like veteran He was living
The child was Just as handy and use
ful as grown-up and cost only half as
much for her labor.
In a Pennsylvania coal-breaker thew
photographed nine year-old Leo. He
was toiling nine hours day In CRIME
and dirt for pitifuI wage And there
was found on a musty, dusty school
HE the sworn affidavit of his parents
that he was too sickly to stay I'm
school!
-Four years." answered a cookbook
Ing twelve-year-old boy In a South
Carolina cotton mill. when asked how
Long he had been there. He couldn't
tel the letter "A" from the letter "B &"
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Uroent Nece..It-.

A distinguished theoiogIan was in
vlted TO make an address before q
sunday school. The divine spoke for
over al hour and his remarks were OF
too deep a character for the average
Juvenile mind to comprehend. At the
conclusion. the superintendent. accord
ing to custom. requested some one in
the school to name an appropriate
hymn to sing
Sing Revive Us Again." shouted q
boy In the rear of the room.-Life.
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Man Stole Love Letters

bell stood silent throughout the pro
ceedings; Detective Taczkowskl, who
mad the two dozen letters. kept them
ana their contents carefully con
cealed and the only touch or color in
the brief hearing was that furnished
by ~ bright red hair OF Mrs. Lottie
ouyes, the jar.tress. whose prompt
tude In calling the police led 70
Campbell's arrest.
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return halves. It was successful and
settled the important question from
me railway point OF view that a
tlcket expresses a personal contract
and is therefore not transferable
London Chronicle.
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a Gond PI.L

Why did you trust this struggling
young man for all these goods?" de
manded the senior partner.
thought his prospects looked
pretty fair" replied the junior part
ner Hes struggling to marry an
heiress' with very good prospects OF
success"
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Then tho Girl Had Him Arrested Tor
sOrglsry-And Trouble
Grows.

charged with taking love letters
from the apartment OF Miss Adelaide
Lander. the orchestra leader in the st.
George apartments. Archibald NJ
Campbell was held IN $1,000 bail by
Magistrate Butts in YorkVille court.
Miss Lander was not In court: Camp
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A SERIOUS ERROR.

Many case OF kidney disease has
proven fatal because the symptoms
were not recognized. II you suffer
from backache or bladder frregulari-
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PUT YOUR
TRUST
IN GOD
GEORGE r. SCOTT
In Sabbath Reading

OW necessary Is is for the
business man to put his
trust in God to help him
through his trials and dis
appointments. How many
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ES, why? Today II 10
one of he crying evils
OF the United States.
Recently the National
Child Labor committee
has been holding a COM
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-08-14

Bill Nye had: the truth well told
when he said: "a man may use a
wart on the back Of Of. his neck e X, for, a
collar button, ride in the back coach
of a railroad: train to save interest
on his money till the conductor. gets
around . IN stop his watch at at night to
save wear and, tear, leave ca: J, his IL or
It. without dot or cross to save :. ink,
pasture his mothers grave to save
corn, but man of this sort is a gen.
tleman' and a scholar compared, to
the fellow ell that will t k, a !. newspa:7
per two or three years, and, when
asked to settle for it puts it t into aF' the
postoftice and has it marked :.l!, re
fused IT,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-08-14
Governor Decision PllariIe.

The governor has responded to the
demand Of .Viggo. Peterson, chairman
of the Beltrami county commissions.
ers to return his. application, for. the.
removal Of Sheriff. HAGEN ands his de-
cision is as ,puerile and simpla as the
most ignorant school boy I'M the state
might conceive The governor and
his attorpeyt general SEEM to- have an
idea that Sheriff, Hazen is prime
necessity when. the trial of Or. Dumas
is = pullled off at Bemidji and want to
keep, him, in line: Of: duty until they
have used him. and! then they are will
ling to chop his head off and throw
his carcass to the dogs Dumas cares
nothing about who shall SUMMON the
jury to try him., the. general panel is
drawn by the. board of officers pro-
vided by law and if the panel has
been exhausted by the court a special
venire is called foT,. then there is or
might be an opportunity for an evil
minded, officer to do the man. On trial
some injury. But in such cases the,
Law in it's: fullness of power, makes
provision; that if defendant make,
an, affidavit that the officer to whom
the. venire. is, directed is prejudiceG
and, will not make a proper selection
of venire, men, he may be suspended
and, a. safe. man. appointed in his
place. Che law presumes that every
one, charged with q criminal act shall
have a fair and impartial trial and
it. is, his; own neglect If he does not
get it.-Cass Lake Times.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-08-14
Blames Simpson for sDiscord.

A fine bunch Of discord is trailing
it's way across the marble floors of
the state capitol. This has been
brewing for a long time, and: the;
reckless, extravagant conceit of the
attorney general is mostly, to blame,
Some. way George, Simpson IF has
broken away, with the idea that: he.
is a world beater and from the tow
ering height IS Of his self elevation he
has looked down upon the other Of
ficials at, the capitol, not; excepting
the governor and the supreme, court.
He~Wants to be governor.
State Auditor Iverson is inspired
with same laudable ambition, it; has
been said that Secretary, Of. State
schmahl has similar desires.
Where ambition reigns, strife: IS.
Redwood Gazette: