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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-18
Continued from yesterdays
ccpyriEht. 1910. BY American pEeIs
Association

4t-A4 t4R04u ySsGS4 0Agty
"ElevenF shrIeked Red jOyousIy.
after moment OF facklng suspense.
i've got It! uvs got I'll" cried Val
entine. IF thissi # Reds-reyersing
the dial again-eshe's oars IN another
minute. MatchF'
Red struck another match.
TenF' he cried
A half turn OF the dial forward.
Valentines sharp ear detected tie
sound as though another bolt had
drawn back. "Here we are againl
MatchF'
.Forty.two,p exclaimed Red.
THAT'S it=forty that's what 1t
should he. poSyou hear kitty no%?;'
mo. Good God. Jimmy, suppose.
after all, she's dead?'
Two more turns Of the dial
Keep your nerve, old pal-there-
match"-
To George Doyle. standing in the
doorway. the scene was one of grip,
ping interest The consummate. ala
most uncanny, skin Of Jimmy yalen.
tine WIS something to canse in the de-
tecttSe, experienced even us he was
with resourceful and intelligent
cracksmen, u thrill Of genuine a6mira,
tion. No wonder Valentine had proved
the despair of the safe makers. the
banking officials and the sleuths Of
half a dozen states. And lieutenant
governor had pardoped him!
AS Doyle surveyed intentiy the op-
erations of Red Flanagan and Jimmy
Valentine in their superhuman effort
TO rescue their beloved little playmate.
Kitty Lane, from the sitting clutches
of the steel vault he became aware of
sudden though very slight change
in the darkenpd room. The windows Of
which. opening into3a shaft. gave al
most no aid~ul all 10 inquisitive eyes.
lie glanced across the room to the
Joint from which the light seemed to
e
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HOUSE cLPANING noRRoRs

The time for the great annual
roundup of dirt of all kinds, microbes
and all that are obnoxious to the
Clearly housekeeper is about at hand,
1t is hard piece of work and means
tired heads and hands, tagged ont
mentally and bodily.
Hewitt's Easy Task Soap will reduce
this work one-half and make the
home brighter than. ever. 1t is as
good for woodwork as for bed linen.
lace, curtains, porcelaIns, dishes and
all that is washable. Five cents a
cake.
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come and saw that the door leading
from the assistant cashiers Office had
been partly opened. Next. to his utter
amazement, he saw a plumed hat
thrust forward into the opening, and
then a girlIsh figure appeared. The
figure halted and turned its face to
ward the vault where Red Flanagan
and Jimmy Valentine were at work.
In practically the same position us
himself. though at the opposite side
Of the room. Doyle recognized that the
girl could watch the operations of
the two expert craftsmen without de-
lection unless either of them should
neglect his work and glance in her
direction, and, as he thoroughly ap.
preeiated, both Valentine and Flana.
gan were too intent on their mission
of rescue to turn for an instant from
their task.
As Red struck the match at the
latest command Of Valentine Doyle
saw the girl bend forward to better
gain a view Of the proceedings. The
side Of her face was illumined by the
light in the assistant cashiers office.
and-could it be true2-yes, Doyle was
positive that the form Of the witness
In the opposite doorway was none 9th.
er than that Of the young girl who
had seen Jimmy Valentine In Warden
Handlers Office at Sing Sing and who
had prevailed on the lieutenant gov
ernor to obtain his release.
CTO be contlnued).
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When given rs soon as the croupy cough
appears Chamberlain Cough Remedy will
ward off an attack Of Group and prevent all
danger and cause of anxiety. Thousands
Of mothers have used it successfully. Sold
by all dealers.
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CTO be contlnued).

Mrs. Frank ]. welch has gone to
Cincinnati to meet Mr.. WEIGH who Is
returning from Hot Springs.
William j. Nixon, Of Gypsy, was a
city business visitor Saturday.
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WHAT YOU OUGHT TO %


IL yuor rheumatism has resisted oil
other treatment, or IL you think your
case incurable or chronic, and II vol
have Just about given up hope of ever
being cured, especially urge you no;
to give up hope until you have tried
Martins Rheumatic and Blood Elixir
Mr. A. o. Quinn. photographer. act
Fifth street, POTkersburg, w. va, say.
Il. j. Martin, Dear sir:-"Four year.
ago was badly AFFLICTED; with rheuma.
tlsm in my shoulders and back. got
no benefit at all from the many differ.
ent treatments that were prescribed
for me. About two years ago my at.
tentlon was called to Martins ,Rheu.
matte and Blood Elixir, and l can say
in all truth that I consider this medi.
cine the leading remedy of the preseu.
age for rheumatism"
Martins Rheumatic & Blood Elixir
IS purely vegetable preparation. Ii
has reached some of the most Difficult,
cases of Rheumatism. Liver, Kidney.
and Stomach troubles that have beer
known in this section. 1t is for sale
by druggists and dealers. Price s1.OO
bottle. Gaylord Co., whole
sale distributors.
t. j. MARTIN, Sole Manufactures,
Parkersburg, w. Va.
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
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The smallest store in the city could
soon nave people going out of their
beaten paths 70 find It II It were adj
vcrtiscd in the Telegram clcverly-
even though in the smallest way.
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a lot of prices LAKE been cut since
you read an nd. >or visited store.
Keep informed.
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onARKsBUKGis STORES are big
ger, better, newer, moro appealing TO-
day than ever before. And the Telc-
gram ads. arc keeping pace.
The Washington times., 1911-05-19
REGULATION OF ELECTRIC
LIGHT COMPANY.

President Norment, of the Washing
ton Railway and Electric Company,
says his corporation is satisfied" with
the control and regulation exercised
over it by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, which was given jurisdic-
ton over the street railway companies
of the District in 1908. He intimates
that, in view of this condition, there
is no need of creating q local public
service commission, so far as the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company is concerned.
Even were we to grant, for the sake
of argument, that real control and ef-
fective regulation of street railways
has resulted from the act of 1908, We
would still find reason for the crea-
ton of a commission to deal with
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company. The operation of street
railway systems is not the only bust
ness in which this corporation is en-
gagged. 1t also has a monopoly of the
electric light and power business of
Washington.
The Potomac Electric Power Com
pany is the concern which makes and
sells all the electricity used by pri-
vate consumers for light and power.
1t is a subsidiary corporation of the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company, and is not answerable to
any law, commission, board, or other
Government agency except Congress,
to which it merely makes an annual
report.
The Potomac Electric Power Com
pany is free and independent in every
respect. 1t fixes its own rates on the
old basis of what the traffic will bear.
Congress has never authorized the
District Commissioners or anybody
else to exercise the slightest authority
over it. No laws limiting its charges
to consumers stand on the statute
books today. 1t does an enormous
business, and produces enormous earn
ings; 33l, 900 people depend upon it for
light and power, but the public is no
where represented in its operation.
What has Mr.. Norment to say about
the need of a public service commits
sion to control and regulate this
public utilityf
The Washington times., 1911-05-19
x In the Mail Bag X

very high. Willow Tree alley is by
far the most densely populated of any
OF the interior courts Of the city, con-
tanning at the present time seventy
seven occupied houses, and this num-
Der is less by about a dozen to what It
was before the board for the condemna-
ton of unsanitary dwellings got busy
among them. There are in the south
west about forty inhabited alleys, ali
told. Placing the cost of retaining
Willow Tree at $4,000, and three Of the
next largest alleys at an equal amount
for each one, and sum equal to the COM
bined cost of the four, will wipe out
every remaining alley shack in the
southwest section.
You certainly are mistaken, Mr. Edi-
tor. when you assume that every one of
the 80 alleys that you mention are on
par with the now famous, or infa-
nous, Willow Tree. Far from It, In
fact, there are three or four alleys in
the same section with only one house
each: several more with from two to
six, and twenty that average less than
ten each. The same conditions that
are met IN the southwest section, will
also be found in every other section of
the city. Therefore, instead Of figuring
with Willow Tree alley, and its seventy
seven houses as a basis, an investiga-
blocks will average less than fifteen
houses to the block. Therefore, 1t is
safe to take your figures Of 81. 20, o0C
and divide them by five. leaving the
actual cost of this plan about $4,000
These figures could be further reduced
by reselling the sites and old material,
to less than g, ooo.0 900; Just about double
the amount that was spent in construct
ing an ornamental but unnecessary
bridge over Rock Creek, and about one
half the amount that Congress pro-
poses to spend in opening a short cut
between the Capitol and Union Station.
In closing. Mr.. Editor. I desire to
call attention to one of the reasons
why people who get their knowledge OF
the alley slum, from observations in
stead of from a map of the city, can
find no benefit In the proposed minor
street solution. In the alleys. Of any
size, the houses are built, not only along
the long way Of the block, but in the
alleys at either end, and often you will
also !ind houses built on a cross alley
through the center. making really four
alleys in one block. Therefore. 1t Is
an easy matter to see that to attempt
to remedy this condition. by the minor
street plan. would be futile and would
be only throwing good money away.
B. EDWARD McCANN.
The Washington times., 1911-05-19
CONSOLATION FOR ONE
GROWN WEARY OF LIFE"

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
The pathetic wall of a solitary soul
which appeared In Saturday evening"
Times has attracted my attention and
fsss1 d syBpRSshyi t the PSsa
Times comprehends more truth than
poetry. / will transcribe one Of Clara
Laura Baidwtn's beautiful poems which
should afford at least a spark Of con-
ISOLATION to a soul in such prison.
GOD OUR REFUGE.
When the last hope OF life
Has been crushed in the dust
And the last of our loved ones are gone
When we feel that there's none
Left, who love US and trust,
And we stand ii the. wide world
alone
When the friends of the past
Have become all estranged
And forget its divine to forgive"
When cold words are said,
And cold looks exchanged
And there is naught left to hope
Then, rs Joy to the soul
To know that there's One
Whose mercy and love reaches all
Who In tenderest love
C1ings till life's journey Is done,
And pities US still when we fall.
This beautiful effusion clearly hints
at the source of a consolation due all
who will accept it; 1t is free to all.
rowing soul IL only appropriated: Shorn
of Its political features Mr.. Dwyer's
note gives a bit of truth, but without
Offering that deep and lasting relief
so much need for the responding mil
lions" he mentions.
The card Of sympathy takes the man
and says to the dear one:
No longer gaze longtngly, yet cring-
ingly into the open sepulchre, but lift
your eyes to heaven and study and adj
mire the wonderful works OF your God
and my God.
Be an astronomer. like Kepler or Job.
Turn your attention to the amazing
mechanism Of your own being. Devote
a few days to the consideration Of the
wonderful operations Of the engine OF
life-the heart Penetrate into the depths
and study the book Of rocks, the hid
den history of world-building and you
may find relief when you give your
mind work to do.
No longer bow to the cogitations of
an over rested intellect, carroding for
the want of proper use; nursed into in
activity by self pity.
II then you fall, study the influence
Of the mental over the physical and you
should there find that busy mind Is
the acme Of temporal happiness. II yet
your soul Is not satisfied and that peace
not fonud, look into Jesus the friend
of the sinner and Savior Of all who
want salvation.
He offers a consolation deep and last
ing and nowhere else to be found.
You don't have to Join church nor
call a minister for Jesus Is always avail
able, ready and willing. Forty years ex-
perience without denominational affil-
fation enables the writer to speak with
certainty of the unfading 10Y of de-
voted Christ life. The same is for the
nameless responding writer.
ALBERT d. RUST, SIR.
1910 Ninth street northeast.
The Washington times., 1911-05-19
FAIR PROPOSAL FOR TEACH
ERS' PENSIONS.

Even the most strenuous opponents
of civil pensions will have hard work
to muster a reasonable argument
against the new public school teachers
retirement bill, which has been sent to
the Senate and House District Com
mittees with the Endorsement of the
teachers, the Board of Education, and
the District Commissioners. A PEN
sion system in which the teachers
themselves furnish more than half the
money for old age annuities must COM
mend itself as being at least fair to
the Government and to the District,
and that is the sort of system pro-
posed by this measure.
The only contribution from public
funds consists of an appropriation of
IL per cent of the annual teachers
salary roll. This would produce about
$4,000 a year. The rest of the an
nuity fund, comprising more than half
of it, is to be contributed by the
teachers. Those who have been teach
ing ten years or less are to contribute
l per cent of their salaries; those who
have been teaching more than ten
years and less than twenty are to con-
tribute 2 per cent, and those who have
been teaching more than twenty years
and less than thirty are to contribute
8 per cent.
Provision is also made for convert
ing to the pension fund any balance in
the annual salary fund up to $4,000
and for crediting to it any gifts, be-
quests, or donations received from the
public.
approximation in the public schools
of Washington is rapidly becoming
serious. Unless a retirement system
is provided soon about thirty OIL
thirty-five teachers who have given
the best years of their life to the edu
cation of the youth of the city viii
have to be discharged, some of then
without adequate means for caring
for themselves in their old age.
The Washington times., 1911-05-19
UNITED STATES TO
LEAD WORLD IN ART,
BRYCE SPRED|CT|ON
New Era to Come When
Americans Slow Up In
Race for Dollar.

UsurpIng the place now held by
France, the United States will eyentu-
ally be the leader in the worlds artis-
tic endeavor, according to the predic-
ton of Ambassador Bryce, Of Great
Britain. at the closing session Of the
American Federation of Arts Conven-
ton at the Pan-American Union Build
ing.
have been too busy developing their
country and making money to develop
artistcally. He said this development
will be nearly completed within nifty
years, and cultivation OF the fine arts
will then be turned to.
Taking a slam at statues in Wash
ington, declared to be conspicuous ex-
amples OF artistic ugliness, Ambassador
Bryce said those OF London are even
less artistic.
Washington's Statues.
THE majority. of Washington statues
are Of value only to show people how
ugly bad art is" said the British am
bassador, praising the energy Of the
nation in first building up its material
resources before turning to the artistic
NO DA@A6
was thronged by an audience represen-
tative OF the highest artistic success OF
the nation. Following the address OF
Ambassador Bryce, John Barrett, d.
rector OF the Bureau Of American Re-
publics, spoke briefly. F. d. Millet,
secretary of the arts federation, pre-
sided at the final meeting OF the Sec
ond annual convention.
Hutchinson Elected.
At the business session of the con-
vention yesterday afternoon, Charles l..
Hutchinson, of Chicago, was elected
president Of the federation. Secretary
Millet and Assistant Secretary Leila
Mechlin, both Of Washington. were re-
elected. Marvin F. Scalfe. of Ptttsburg,
was made treasurer.
The directors of the federation are:
Bryan Lathrop, Franklin Mac Veagh,
Francis Billiard and Gilbert GrosVenor;
The vice presidents are: Edwin Howland
BIashfield. Gardner w. Lane, John
Frederick Lewis, Robert DeForest, r.
l.. Blayney, George w. Cable, Prof.
Mitchell Carroll, Robert Fletcher, Cass
Gilbert, Mrs. E. w. Pattison, Henry
Read, and Mrs. Charles Scheuber. Up
on the executive committee are: +.
d. INLET, Glenn Brown, James Rush
Marshall, Thomas Nelson Page. A J.
Parsons and Gilbert Grosvenor.
Most of the delegates to the conTen-
ton are today returning to their homes.
The Washington times., 1911-05-19
WEARY OF LIFE" EDITORIAL
TREASURED AS CLASSIC
To the Editor Of THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Anent the editorial In The Washing
ton Times of May Is, you have answered
one man and have spoken to many.
. - Wonderful are the God-gtven
attributes in man. The heart back Of
that pen, which answered the Weary
Of Lite" note, has doubtless throbbed to
its limitations-that writer understands.
No, suicide Is never Justifiable, and al
ways the act Of q coward, however ad-
mirable he may be in various other
qualities.
haps, to learn that God takes care Of
discipline and trialthe lions den and
the fiery furnace are typical Of His
own abuses and suffering. Indeed. his
tory proves to US that 1t is a mark Of
pass through the valley and the shadow
Of mems injustice here, as his mock
trial, contumely, and death reveal to
us. Though in moments in our Geth-
semane we shrink and wish that the
cup might pass by, ever the still, small
voice says: Peace, be still.
Your editorial is classic, and finds
an abiding place in one woman's scrap
book. where only gems may find a page.
It is a great sermon. Discipline Is good
for US all. When we come to under
stand that in the hurly-burly Of this life
matters seem awry, and that In all
there is a purpose, which doubtless at
fects more than ourselves, as He was
also called upon to suffer for others, and
the martyrs song takes on new and
deeper harmonies. All, the evolution
and development Of the spirit, and Its
qualification, so to speak.
It Is the old text, God gets his best
soldiers from the highways Of affhc-
ton" Mankind Is too prone to be
"perked up in a little brief authority, "
and our manhood and our womanhood
sometimes seem very threadbare.
So you. have touched a dominant
chord in earth's great symphony: To
be, to act, to wait, to trust, to believe,
to accept-these are the privileges In
answer to prayer for strength-to bear,
to trust, and to wait! To wait upon
and for the probable enlargement OF our
usefulness for which we are doubtless
being prepared when great stress comes
to test US.
Let our reverence for our being and
its source grow, and never diminish.
Let each day bring its gratitude and
thanksgiving for whatsoever He sends,
as for the air we breathe, which we
ourselves could not create. And, above
all, for His promises, which We must
oniyt reread and repeat to be forever
renewed in our consciousness and con-
viction, ever remembering that in the
soul there are many sprtngtides and
fresh moynings." L u. n.
The Washington times., 1911-05-19
CHILD CHAMPION AMONG
OKLAHOMA SPELLERS.

By series of spelling bees the best
speller in Oklahoma has been found.
Those who have devoted great deal
of attention to the subject are not so
much surprised as one might suppose
at the announcement that the cham
pion is a girl of twelve tender years.
She ought to have mural crown, half
cord of laurel, or a padded leather
copy of Lucille" seeing as how she
stood up for twelve mortal hours and
thirty minutes while the board of
education hurled words at her which
the members themselves couldn't even
pronounce. It's always the way.
OF course, the ability to spell is no
real evidence of intelligence. The
Egyptians, for instance, were such
poor spoilers that they had to make
signs. Some of our great thinkers,
like Josh Billings, have given spelling
a studied afront by going out of the
way to spell words exactly as they are
not put down in the book. George
Washington was no orthographist, and
probably wouldn't have boosted of it,
or realized it, if he had been. Byron
left it to Fate and the printer.
But all the same, the old-fashioned
The Washington times., 1911-05-19

spelling bee viii always call up tender
memories, whether as survival in
some out-of-the-way district school
where the new pedagogy has never
penetrated, or as revival in virgin
fields like Oklahoma. Whittier's ain
School Days." as we have more than
once had occasion to remark, is a
faithful transcript from the experience
of more than one grown-up whose
childhood idol spelled the word"
whether she meant to or not, and
turned him down. The immortal
blue backed speller from which the
words were given out has firmer
place in the recollection, if not the
affection, of the older generation than
any text book that was ever bodied
forth in the awful solemnity of print.
Those were proud days when the future
politicians, and panhapdlers
turned over to the magic column which
began with baker" and VISIONS
ample page had but little more to
teach when "phthisic" and "incompre-
were mastered. 1t was
the most homogeneous bunch of words
ever brought together in a book, and
most of them, so far as many of us
are concerned, only now begin fully to
unfold their meaning. Youth itself,
which, in the familiar blue-back was
but "the sign of an idea," takes on a
more pathetic meaning as age ad-
vances, and among the few bright spots
of the dead and gone days which we
appreciated at the time none was
brighter than Friday afternoon and the
spelling bee.
The Washington times., 1911-05-19

That another change is impending in
President Taft's Cabinet is the per-
sistent report In high political circles
in the last two days.
On one point the political sharps are
very posi- dive in their demonstrations.
They declare that the change Is to be
made, and that II viii introduce into
:he Presidential household one more ma
tionally known progressive of the first
caliber. He Is to be q Republican, 1t
Is stated, Of unQuestioned party fidelity
and regularity, ana a progressive OF the
widest note for affiliatton with the radi-
But what position Is he to take in the
Cabinet? Two are named in the cur
rent gossip at the Capital and among
the Important public men. First Is the
portfolio Of State, second that Of the
The logic of the situation points to-
ward the latter post, which in now held
by Democrat. To replace Secretary
Macyeagh with a Republican would be
when the Administration is stifrening
Its lines for the great quadrenniai poll
teal tourney. It would be, moreover.
In line with the policy upon which the
President entered when Secretary of
War Dickinson. another Democrat, re-
Can. Finally, It would be logical in
view Of the acute interest which the
Administration has been reported to
feel in Strengthening out conditions IN
have been displeased with the represen-
tation Of the State by two Democrats
In tie Cabinet.
But despite the logic, the politicians
generally believe the man who Is 10
retire next Is not Secretary MacVeagh.
but Secretary Knox. It Is well known
that a sweeping shift in diplomatic as
signments is impending, and report has
1t that before. or about simultaneously
with this changing Of the personnel
abroad, the change Is to be made al
the head of the organization.
For more than a year persistent re-