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about $500 month the past winter.
dispensary expenses. salaries OF visit
ing nurses and school lecturer. of adj
ministrative expense, of printing, etc.
At the board meeting DIR. William c.
Gwynn, chairman OF the committee on
education, reported that the school lec-
turer had given ninety eight talks be-
fore 1926 children and 104 teachers.
Other public lectures have been given
before the nurses at Georgetown Hos
pital the Eastern High School, Salem
Baptist Church. Normal School No. L
and Neighborhood House. Two hum
dred posters have been received and
are being placed on bill boards in the
city. Two hundred letters to ministers
with blanks to secure church statistics
on tuberculosis have been sent out.
Two thousand copies of an educational
pamphlet have been printed for distrt-
button.
Contributions recently sent TO the
II street northwest are acknowledged
as follows: Mrs. s. O. Richey, SIS:
Miss Helen f.. Williams. 81: Mrs. David
j. Brewer So; G.. l.. Spencer. So; Miss
Anna 3. Boiling. So; the James Clark
Distilling Company, S. Miss Cornelia
H. Bradley, ST. Miss X. F. Dickinson.
81: Miss Margaret s. Potter. 81: Judge
Job Barnard. 81: the Misses Sedgley.
SIS; II. II. Bergman. So: Mrs. Charles
G. Myers. 81: G. W. Gray. 81: Mrs.
Jennie A.. Luebkert. $3.50: Mrs. Powell
Clayton: jr. $40, and Mrs. Maria q.
Venn, So.
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ANACOSTIA.

The residents of Randle Highlands
showed their appreciation of the work be-
ing accomplished by DR.. Benjamin T.
Wood ward. president Of the citizens as
.sociation of that suburb. when DR. Wood
ward and his family moved to their new
home on Pennsylvania avenue About
seventy of the residents gathered at his
residence and rendered the family a
houseWarming.
Rev. Charles r. Sontag. rector in charge
of the Esther Memorial Episcopal Chapel
at Congress Heights. has announced that
each Wednesday evening during the Len
ten season special services will be held
in the edifice.
The Guiding Star Mission Band of the
Garden Memorial Presbyterian Church
will hold its annual election of officers at
a meeting this afternoon in the church
on Minnesota avenue
The Ladies Missionary Society of the
Garden Memorial Presbyterian Church
gave it's annual social recently in the
house of worship. OH Minnesota avenue.
The program Included recitauons, singing,
instrumental selections and all illustrated
lecture Those taking part were Miss
Laura Sowerbutts, Miss Edith Enner, Miss
Bessie Sowerbutts. Miss Clara Byron,
Mrs. Claude KEEPER. Alexander B. Gar
den, Miss Bertha Entwistle, William NJ.
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REFLECTIONS ON THE ARMY
RESENTED BY OFFICERS
Gen. Wood Denies Assertions Made
Yesterday by Representa-
tive McLachlan.

Maj. Gen. Wood, chief of staff. and
other high ranking officers of the army
resent as unfair the statements made
Friday in the House by Representa-
tive McLachlan of California that the
United States Army lis totally inefficient
and wretchedly organized. A specific
denial o. that charge was made by Gen.
Wood 1.-The representatives. charge"
said he, that the army is not on fight
ing asis is untrue. The army is as ef-
ficient as any body of men its size in the
world. OF course. the present etate of
our fighting forces could not be of much
good in a big war. We would have to
increase the number Of men MANIFOLD
and buy new guns and other accouter-
ments.
1.-THE representative speaks as II the
army were a bunch of good-for- nothing
men living on the bounty Of the govern
ment, and the only excuse for their ex-
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Garden, Mrs Carrie Fl. Smith and Rev.
and Mrs George NJ. Cummings.
The clergy and members of st. Teresa S
parish Anacostia. are gratified to know
that the debt on the new school hall is
being quickly reduced. The hall was
erected about two years ago, and since
that time about 5000 of the original debt
has been paid. Two entertainments were
held last week to secure funds with
which to reduce this debt one by the men
of the parish and the other by the colored
society
At meeting of the Congress Heights
Public Improvement Association Tuesday
avenue the rerort of the committee re-
Gently appointed 10 bring about the con-
so;;da ton of that association and the Con-
gress Heights Citizens Association will
be made.
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TEACHING GIRLS FARMING.
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont Gives Young
Women First Lesson,

NEW YORK, March Mrs. o. II. p.
Belmont began her first class in farming
for girls today. Twenty young women
"farmerettes," she calls them. CARRIED in
blue boomers, broad-brimmed hats and
boys Shoes are comfortably ensconced
tonight In the farmhouse at BrOckhOlt,
Mrs. Belmont's thousand-acre estate on
Long Island
The young women were selected from
600 applicants from New York factories.
they will first be instructed thoroughly
in household duties a farm and. witt
the arrival OF planting time in the
spring, will take up blowing, planting
and poultry raising.
Not a man will be on the premises, even
to chop wood or tend the horses The
girls will receive 81 a week during their
two-month course of instruction and
thereafter may purchase small farms
from their benefactress il they wish to
do SO. on agreement to till the soil them
selves.
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with evidence that 1t was what 1t pre-
tended to be- a fraternal order with a
representative form of government. Col.
Joseph Button has refused to grant a Ii
cense to the Grand Fraternity, Phil
adelphia concern
The concern had been doing business
i'm this state for some years, and it was
claimed to nave lodge system. The
officers failed TO convince the department
of the correctness of this claim, and 50
there was nothing left but to shut it out
from business of that class. Col. But
ton is perfectly willing to license the
company when it complies with the state
10 w either as a fraternal ORA straight
life company This is merely one of
,ong string of concerns which has gone
out of business in the same way IN
the last few months.
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MORE FUNDS NEEDED.
Appeals Sent Out by Association for
Prevention of tuberculosis.

At the March meeting of the board
of directors of the Association for the
Prevention of tuberculosis the ques-
ton of finances was discussed. Out OF
budget of $6.123 but $3.02S.50 has
been raised. To date 5000 letters OF
appeal have been sent to S.400 per-
sons, and of that number 500 have
responded. The expenses of the asso-
citation have been on an Aerage Of
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CASE UNDER AMUSEMENT.
Result of Court Martial of Lieut.
Burchfield in Winthrop's Hands.

assistant Secretary Winthrop OF the
Navy Department is considering the case
of 1st Lieut. William l.. Burchfieid of
the United States Marine Corps, recently
tried by court-martial in this city on
charges growing out Of the alleged non
payment Of debts.
The sentence of the court has not been
disclosed, but II II involvesi the dismissal
of the officer the case win require the
action of the President.
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Peary Thanks Congress.

Robert T.. Peary sent to both houses OF
Congress a telegram expressing appre-
citation Of their enactment of the Iegisla-
ton to retire him with the rank of rear
admiral. and rendering OF the thanks of
Congress I'm recognition of his attainment
OF the north pole. The telegram was
signed "Peary."
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stence was building useless posts and
forts. All this, OF course is untrue.
THE charge that there are commands
who have never been drilled, or have not
been drilled for many years, | wish to
deny with all my power. The charge
that politics enters into the administra-
ton of the army can be taken for what
it is worth by sensible men"
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Justice John Expounds Law.

Heads of houses will not be required to
contribute TO the support Of their wives
or children when the wife forsakes the
husband and goes home to live with the
wife's mother. And the mother-in- law
cannot go to the home of her daughter
and boss the place and make things dis
agreeable Tor sOns-in-law The hus-
bands and fathers are to be made to
support their families where the condi-
tons are all right. That is the law as
interpreted by Richmond's famous JUS
tice John. case came up a day or
two ago where young wife, at the in
stigation of her mother, charged that
her husband failed to support her and
her child.
The justice learned that the wife's
mother had induced the girl wife to re-
turn to her home. the arrest of the
husband following. Case dismissed
Free them every time when there is
such a condition. You two get together
and settle this matter and forget all
about the mother-in-law end of the trou-
BILE" This was what happened when he
dismissed the case. and all hands. went
home.
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Fraternal Concern ousted.

Because Of the failure to comply with
the orders of the state insurance COM
missioner, and to furnish the department
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For Free School Books.

The temperance question is not the only
one that will engross the attention of the
aspirants for legislative honors this fall.
Already some of the secret societies of
the state have begun an agitation look
ing to forcing the state to provide free
books for the pupils. This question has
been before the general assembly on one
occa sion. when one of the parties under
took to make a play for public favor by
Incorporating such scheme in it's plat
form.
The agitation at this time is due to
the fact that the item of school books is
one which is swapping the people Of the
state. The books are selected for pc
riod Of four years at a time, and when a
pupil goes to school for four and half
months regardless of whether book
has been completed or not, there has to
be purchase of new books.
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To Build Orphanage.

The State Council Of the Junior Order
of American Mechanics is this month en-
gagged in, referendum vote on the ques-
ton of having an orphanage for the or
der in Virginia. The matter was taken
up at the last session Of the State Coun-
Gil and the lodges were ordered to vote
on the proposition this month.
The order is very strong in Virginia, and
since the adjustment Of the fractional
troubles it has gone ahead at leaps and
bounds The belief is that the lodges
will vote for the scheme and that the
orphanage will go to some central point,
perhaps in Piedmont, Va. where the nee
essary land and buildings can be &C
ouired at a reasonab BILE price and the chill
dren given a good home and made to
learn farming, housekeeping and fitted
to support themselves.
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Must Retain the Docks.

The state corporation commission has
decided that there is no power whereby
the city docks can be closed to the public.
The docks were built many years ago.
were a part of the famous James River
and kanawha canal, which was super
seeded by the Richmond and Allegheny
railroad, now the Chesapeake and Ohio.
The property was later acquired by the
old Trigg Shipbuilding Company, which
met reverses and went out of business
some years ago. Application was made
to close the place. the owners Of the
bonds of the defunct company wanting
to sell the ground. This cannot be done.
The docks are in bad condition, and
the owners declare that they have not
the least intention of expanding one cent
on them, SO that they will go out of use
entirely. 1t is expected that the matter
will be settled by the city purchas sing
them outright and opening them free to
all vessels which shall come to this port.
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Governor on Railroad Campaign.

Gov. Mann is next week to make a
campaign of some of the counties on the
peninsula in interest Of the project to
have railroad between this city and
some point on the Rappahannock river
The governor favors as the most FEAST
Bile scheme the building of a road from
West Point to Urbanna thence to Tap
pahannock. in Essex county. and on
through the counties Of Gloucester
Mathews and King William
There has been a demand for a road ia
this point for some years, and the whole
section OF the state. is up i'm arms to get
railroad to some point whereby they
Will be able to get into quick touch with
the world. The general territory is now
In touch with Baltimore. steamers being
the only means Of communication Per-
sons I'm that section of the state can go
10 baitimore by boat and come from there
quicker than they can reach here in anv
other way.
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FOR DEFEAT OF SENATORS
Its Purpose Is to Lift the Scalps of
Martin and Swanson.
OTHER ISSUES IN STATE
Free School Books Holding Place
Along With Temperance Cues
tion-Plans for Orphanage.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

|
| RICHMOND. Va. March 4, 1911.
The anti-machine forces are already
opening up for the campaign. There is
| here in Richmond headquarters of the
gentlemen who are announced as the
| unalterable opponents Of the machine.
1t is contended that there is but one
| purpose before the body. which has not
yet been named. The headquarters are
| In Murphy's Hotel. c. b. Garnett,
| lawyer Of this city. is in charge and DR..
| U. Gravatt of Caroline is the gentle
man who is at the head Of the bureau
| or league.
| DR.. Gravatt is the man who defeated
Senator Henry T. Wickham, the oldest
member Of the state senate, due to the
| fact that Senator Wickham had long
| been general counsel for the Chesapeake
! and Ohio railroad. The committee which
| is in charge of the headquarters has not
| all been named, but there is to be one
| man from each district of the state. 1t is
declared that there is no higher purpose
| than to defeat Senators Martin and
! Swanson.
The new league or faction pledges itself
never to become a machine. but to do
| all in its power to have the will OF the
people expressed at the polls and to have
exception of DR.. Gravatt. who is a candi-
date for reelection to the senate, there
is not man in the new league who has
not ha1 a run in with the machine
and come out second best. Mr.. Tucker
was defeated for governor. Mr.. Gar
nett's father was defeated for a judge
ship. Martin Stringefellow was one of
the ablest of fuckers lieutenants- r.
Lindsey Gordon of Louisa was twice
defeated for Congress in the eighth
district. r. w. Shultice Of Norfolk Is
prime mover in the reform wave in
the city of Norfolk.
Mr.. Garnett is a new man. at the
political game. but he is very earnest
and it is understood that he was OPP
posed to Senator Martin six years ago.
when he was nominated after the hardest
fight seen in Virginia for twenty years.
All the gentlemen named are democrats
and will vote for the nominee OF the
party, but they are hoping that it will
be Glass and Jones in place Of Martin
and Swanson.
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These are excellent chairs. well worth
s.. ~ or $500. Made OF quartered oak,
with panel backs and mortised box seats
They have French legs and are nicely
polished. The seats are upholstered il
black Chase's leather 0he most durable
imitation Of leather madel. Special net
price for this week, S14S
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This is one of the most COM
Portable and most durable springs
made. The frame is entirely of
metal without any wood at all In
its construction. The fabric is Of
the best National Link, supported
with heavy coiled tempered steel
helical springs at each end. All
sizes for iron beds, brass beds or
wood beds
El Democrata fronterizo. [volume] (Laredo, Tex.) 1896-1920, 1911-01-14

loS IIueSCrOS, HANNAH cdua
aflo un n1mero immense de
aventureros, avidos de hacer
pronta fortuna. Natural
mente, la condici6n de los
duenos del terreno no esta
muy segura, dado ell ambien-
te equivoco, pero la ambici6n
del orc tiene un gran poder!
En- Russia sucede 10 mismo
que en- California, cuando
Sc descubrieron las minas de
orc, en- 1848. Acuden aven-
tureros de todas parties, hom
bres honrados, bandidos, ju-
gadores y asesinos, muchos
de los cuales Sc rehabilitation
hasta ell grado de llegar &
ser filantropos!. ;. No hay
duda; algunas veces las ma
las causas producer buenos
efectos.
De todos modos, aqui NADIA
debemos temer, pues helnos
luchado victoriosamente con
los indios barbaros, y en- ca
so de que Sc ofreciara, lucha.
rfamos, todavfa con valor, con
los bandoleros que la noticia
del nuevo Eldorado hara a.
cudir a Laredo de todas par.
tes. Pero, con una Carcel
Nueva, con unos polizontes
de. .primera, con un Co.
mandante. :. colt patent y
con Jueces de. /. Tho los jue.
ces! Son lumbreras bien. :.
finchadas!
LAREDO FOR EVER.
Il. BRUNI.
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do, la dcba1nos tor1bierI al
descubrimiento del. petr6leo,
que tambien es orc lfquido.
Els in1til agregar que los
afortunados due1os de los
terrenos, Sc pondrian las bo-
tas de suela doble: Laredo
for ever!
Para formarse una palida
idea de 10 que puede produ-
cir un dep6sito de nafta, bas
ia mencionar los famosos po-
zos naftiferos de Backou, en-
Russia; hace algunos amos, un
cosaco compro un pequelo
terreno petrolifero por dos
cientos pesos, orc, y'hoy va
lie mas de un million de pesos,
pues produce, libres de gas
tos, ,cien mil pesos (oro) anua-
les.
FL Conde Echelokaleff es
propietario de un yacimien-
to de nafta, que arroja tan
preciosa substantial desde ha
.ce mas de IS amos, y toda-
via no Sc ha agotado. La
production coleetiva de la
nafta alcanza a siete Milo
mes de kilos, de cuya' 'fabulo-
sa cantidad, tres millones es-
tan en- manos de cuatro in
dividuos. Y decir que hay
gente que no tiene una tor
tilla para saciar ell hambre
de sus criaturas!
Nobel, ell rey del ,petr6leo,
tiene una production anual
de un million de kilos; en- Sc
guida, viene Rosthehild, des.
pues Montacheff.
La Sociedad del Mar Cas-
pio viene en- seguida con las
respectivas cifras de sese-
cientos cincuenta, setecien-
tos y seiscientos veinte Milo
mes.
Los terrenos de Bakou,
que antes valfan menos que
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como en- los viejos, siempre
que no Sc quiera hacer la
competencia a nuestro pri-
mer padre Noe. g.;
Lo que no prohibio Jesus
Cristo, 10 quieren prohibir
los senores puritanos: icuan-
to egoismo!
va existen en- Reiser 10
pozos, cuatro de los cuales
son muy abundantes, y Sc
sigue barrenando mas, pro-
bablemente, con ell fin de
buscar algo mas precioso que
ell gaz: ell petroleo..'
Es de esperarse que la
companfa del gaz no tarda.
ra en- descubrir tambien gran
des yacimientos de petroleo.
Seg1n nuestros> .calculos,
basados en- ell estudio diligen-
tie de las varias classes de te-
rrenos, estamos convencidos
de que en- alguna region del
basin del Rio Grande, exis-
ten dep6sitos de 1iafta, de la
cual Sc extrae ell precioso IL
guido que ,hizo la fortuna
colossal de Rockefeller y de tan
tos otros, en- America y en-
Russia.
Generalmente, la nafta Sc
encuentra a Una profundidad
de 700 a 750 yardas; pero Sc.
gun nuestros calculos, result
ia que en- Reiser sera nece-
sario Hegar a una frofundi.
dad mayor, .por 10 menos de
$50 q 900 yardas.
Todos saben que un buen
yacimiento de nafta vale tan
to como una nina de orc.
Todos saben que ,el desa-
rrollo economico de Cali
fornia Sc debe al descubrI-
miente de minas de orc en-
184S. Suisa ell desarrollo a.
gricola, econ6mico E indus
trial de esta parte del Esta.
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Una vista a Reiser.

lugar silvestre, apartado del
consorcio humane, principle
a penetrar un rayo de civili-
zacion y de progreso.
La familia de los Reiser
Sc compone, sino estoy equi-
vocado, de la madre, viuda,
de una hija casada,,y de tres
hermanos, hombres PRACTICES,
pacientes y laboriosos.
Ellos principiaron por
construir su Modesto mora
da,su "Home Sweet Home, !"
y despues Sc pusieron, con fe
y con valor, a perforar aquel
terreno, con ell fin de conse-
guir aqua para ellos Y para
SUI caballada.
Pero en- lugar de aqua,
consiguieron gas en- copiosa
cantidad.
Dado ell espiritu americana
de empresa, no tardo en-
formarse una eompanfa ex-
ploradora, y una vez asegu-
radios de la suficiente canti-
dad del gaz, 10 trajeron por
tuberia a Laredo donde uti-
llizarlo en- sus varias apliea-
clones, como: alumbrado,
combustible y fuerza motriz.
Reiser, aver, era un h6rri
do desierto; hoy, es un pue-
bio en- embrion, y manana,
tai vez, sera una ciudad, con
sus raspa-nubes (Sky Scrap
ers.)
Va tiene su fonda, SD. Gro.
Gerry Store, su .cantina con
billares y. .su'Wiskey!.
que, malgrado la estdpida
ley prehibicionista, es indis-
pensable para ell hombre,
tanto en- los paises nuevos,
El Democrata fronterizo. [volume] (Laredo, Tex.) 1896-1920, 1911-01-14

Reissr es una nueya "Flag
4 Station" en- el Texas Mexi-
can, a 2S nillas N. O. de La
redo, Texas, en- un terreno
arido, ligeramente ondulado
|y de. poca vegetaci6n. Album
dan el nopal Cactus, ell mez-
quite y muchos chaparros. es-
pinosos, naturales de los eli
mas semitropicales. La fau-
ma es tan escasa como Ia flo.
ra. Son numerosos los coyo-
tes, Qobo americano) y las
vfboras.
Entire las ayes, he notado
lei aguila texana, ,el halcon, Ia
corneja,el cardenal, la perdiz,
el falsan americana, conoci.
40 en- Texas con ell nombre
Road runner" y ell pajaro
lfluslco, es decir, ell cenzontle
mlcus poliglota) y varios O.
tros pajaritos de menor i'm
pOrtancla, pero todos intere-
santes para ell naturaIista.
1,.s Ell ganado bovine y caba-
mar ,i en- este punto es tam
Dlen escaso; de cuando en-
eualae Sc ven algunas He
: Suas ypocas vacas flacas, des
Gil IielnpO de Sequla
para Ia comida segura de los
Oaltres (vOltur Fulvius), y de
0'fos {. animales carnfvoros.
SIN embargo, este lugar
usslerto, itriste como la
auerte! a llam6 la atenci6n
ae una familia norte ameri-
saaa' i Ia cual despues de mu.
s,las sn:!. peregrinaciones, 10 es-
sollo para radicarse defniti-
'amente en- e. y dedicarse a
..laf s.s caballOs de buena san.
Desde entOnces, en- aquel
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SERVICIO CONSULAR
MExICANo.
AVS0 Q los keXIG]||Oy.

Con ell fin de que este Con-
sulado de Mexico pueda, con
'toda eficacia, extender Ia de-
bida protection a los mexi-
canos RESIDENCES en- los Con
dados de Webb, Duval y Ia
pata, Estado de Texas, es
necesario, en- 10 future, que
los meXicanos ocurran a esta
oficina a fin de matrlcularse,
cuya carta de matrfcula Sc
extiende GRATIS, advirtien-
doles que este Consulado,
por 6rden del Gobierno de
Mexico, en- 10 sueesivo, no
aceptara nj patroc.nara min
guna reclamation, presenta-
90 por un mexicano, que no.
Sc haya matriculado.
Igualmente deberan, en- 10
sucesivo, participar a este
Consulado, cuando Sc fectde
entire ellos alg1n matrimo-
nio; asf mismo deberan CO.
municar oportunamente el
Aacimiento de sus hijos y dar
aviso cuando algdn ,mexica-
no, residente en- los citados
Condados, fallezca, en- la in
teligencia de que estos tres
1ltimos requisites, en- NADIA
alteran ell que Sc sigan ajus-
tando a las disposiciones To-
Gales sobre la materia.
Laredo, Texas,
Enero de 1911.
Ell Consul.
Miguel E, Debold.
El Democrata fronterizo. [volume] (Laredo, Tex.) 1896-1920, 1911-01-14

Ell Sr. Jose Castellot paso
ell Domingo 1ltimo por esta
ciudad. Va nombrado Emba-
jador de Mexico en- Noruega,
y lleva obsequios del Presi-
dente Diaz para ell Gobierno
de aquella naci6n.