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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
FARMER CHOKED TO DEATH

Charged with the murder OF Fred
erick Springman, wealthy farmer
of Prince George county, Md, and
we'll known in Washington, where he
was engaged in the express business
for many years, Harry w. Philbrook,
white, 26 years OF age, was lodged
in jail at Upper Marlboro last night,
The tragedy occurred about 9 O'Clock
Yesterday morning in the stable on
the farm OF the deceased, located about
mile from Chesapeake Junction, on
the Washington, Baltimore and An
napolis Railway, in Prince George
county.
The killing was the result OF a quar-
rel between the dead man and Phil
brook, who was employed as farm
hand and, according to the statement
of the prisoner, he choked Springman,
who was about 20 years Of age, until
he fell into his arms, Philbrook claims
that the killing was done in self defense
and that the dead man tried to bit
him with club. He lodged the blow
and struck Springman in the eye with
his fist. When the dead man re-
covered from the blow. Philbrook
claims, he grabbed him about the
neck and tried to choke him. In
order to protect himself and make
Springman release his hold, the &C
cused admits that he choked him
into submission, but had no notion of
killing him.
Philbrook claims that the dead man
auarreled with him Tuesday night
over the moving OF some grass. and
told him he would never make n
farmland. According to Philbrook,
he told Springman that he did not
care to remain on his place as he was
sure there would be trouble between
them. He asked the dead man for
the money due him since September
81 last, on which day he went to work
! for Springman. Tae latter, according
to the accused, declined to pay the
money yesterday morning. When the
two men met in the barn the troubled
was renewed.
Philbrook made no attempt to get
away after he had killed Springman.
He said he came from Richmond,
Va, at the request OF Springman.
Although giving his age as 90, he
looks much younger.
The dead man was about 70 years
OF age and it is stated that for some
years he has suffered from asthma
and, according to the family physician,
the exertion aud excitement OF the
struggle with Philbrook may have re-
suited in i:eart failure.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
How Centipedes Walk.

An eminent authority has in7estgat.
ed the peculiar wavy motion OF cent?
pedes and millepedes to determine the
manner In which these animals man
age to use their superintendent pedal
extremities SO gracefully and harmo-
niously. It has been found that the
legs move In groups or waves, each
wave including a definite number OF
legs. The number Of waves included
in the length Of the body IS constant
for each species. In millepedes the
waves of each side are synchronous
In centipedes they are symmedcaily
alternate, giving rise to beautifully &C
cordant movements. The difference
may be explained by suggesting that
the .millepede moves like q pacing
horse, the centipede like trotter.-
Chicago Record Herald.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
q pIe,eapt Surprise,

A young man in indianapolis felt
his heart sink as he pulled from bis
mail box a letter of the wedding In
yitaton type That was the fifth ne
had received this season, and he had
begun to wonder whether he had any
friends left in the single state.
Another FIVE dollar bill busted to
smash" he mourned.
Then lie opened the envelorr. Eut II
was only the announcement Of wed.
ding that lad taken place the Wees
before AID he found in the same
cover check for 50.
II was then that he recall y bel
made with friend years before. De
conditions were that the one hrst mar
ried should pay the other S5.-lndian'
apols News.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
cha Was Persistent.

A huge package once reached Sir
Walter Scott from young lady IN
America for which he had to pay so
exuressage. 1t contained a manuscript
play and a letter from the fair author
requesting Scott to read and correct
her work, write q prologue and an
epilogue, arrange for its production at
Drury Lane and negotiate with pub
Usher for the copyright. That was bad
enough, but worse was to follow. About
q fortnight later arrived another mighty
packet, charged with a similar postage.
Scott, who had not grown wiser by
experience, paid the charges and
opened the parcel. Out came dupn-
cate copy of the play and a second
letter from the autboress, stating that
as the weather had been stormy and
she feared something might have har
pened to her former manuscript she
had thought It prudent to send him q
duplicate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
NOT ALL soBERNESS.

The time has come for an essay on
Autumn, but We refuse to write 1t.
Nothing comes to mind to be written
except echoes OF things the poets have
said long ago aud which if offered in
paraphrase would be recognized, TOR
everybody remembers THE melan-
choly days have come, the saddest OF
the year." and other numbers OF the
kind. A later poet, one known and
admired by the writer, humanized
these solemn conclusions by changing
the strain to say that
The melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the year,
When fleas get in a fellows socks,
And likewise in his ear.
T5This tells OF events which come with
in the experience Of most men and GER
tainly of most women. But 1t Is not
the whole story of autumn. The season
has a note OF sadness in it at times,
but who does not like shat kind OF
pathos? Tones are changing to mild
ness, eolors are soi$sning, the breezeS
briskening, the blood leaping with a
new yigor. Who that wanders INTO
the woods does not become conscious
OF feelings singularly tender and even
poetic and of stronger belief IN the
deeper emotions of our nature? GYM
cism falls away from uS and something
much better takes. its place and cllngs
like we'll fitting garment.
It is not even all soherness in
autumn. The season has its sports full
OF the Joy and vigor of living. There
are people who jump out OF bed at .
O'Clock in the morning and hurry to
the woods to see how many chestnuts
the spirits OF the air have shaken down
during the night. They come back
gloating over the store OF brown nuts
with hearts a-leap and color heightened.
They come leisurely, as do those who
return from conquests, enjoying every
prospect that smiles for the delight OF
man, the bird in the air, the Hover by
the wayside, especially that tramp OF the
field and highway, the golden rod' ana
hundreds OF things the good God has
provided for. our delight and which at
other times and in other moods we pass
with unseeing eyes and ears that hear
not. No, the autumn is not all sad
ness. It is serious, at times and full OF
the suggestion of things beyond these
fleetiug days, but its influence inspires
to high things, improves the plane OF
our living and increases our service to
pthors
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
RAILROADS
Southern Railway.
lsains leave Union Station, .,,exanur

llains leave Union Station. .,Iexan1r,a
In effect Oct. 1, 1911.
N. B. -Following schedule figures pub
ished only as information, and are not
guaranteed.
TAT a. M.-DaiIy local between Wash
inston and Danville
SIT a. M.-Daily-Locai for Harrison
burg and way stations.
9:17 A. M.-Daily-U. S. Fast Mail.
Stops only for passengers Tor points south
which scheduled to stop. First class
coaches; sleeping cars to Birmingham
and drawing room sleeping cars to New
Orleans. Dining car service.
11:l7 A. M.-Daily-h1all train. Coaches
for Map assas, Charlottesville, Lynchburg,
Danville and Greensboro. Sleeping cars
Greensboro to Atlanta.
All 2. M.-Week de- ys-Limited 70
Warrenton, Charlottesville and uarri
sonburg.
49, T. M.-Daily-nirInlngl lam spec
ial. Sleeping cars between New York,
atlanta, Admission nu birmingham.
Through frst-class .uacnes between
Washington, Atlanta and birmingham.
Dining car service. LuuIsI 10 California
FIVE times weekly.
3:52 P. M.-Week days-LIIulreu Tor Har
risonburg and way stations on Manassas
branch. Pullman buffet parlor car.
OH p. M,-Daily-Local for Warren
ton.
6:37 p. M.-The Southern's Southeats
ern Limited for Greensboro, Denham
Raleigh, Columbia, Charleston, Aiken.
Augusta, Savannah and Jacksonville
Through Pullman drawing room, sleep
ing cars. Coaches. DininSrars.
l0.7 z. MISUNDERSTANDING aud
Chattanooga Limited (gia E,II2npurgy J.
First-class coach and sleeplG. ears 30
Roanoke, Knox ( lille and Chattanooga
sleeper to New Orleans, Washington TO
Roanoke. Dining car service.
HOP P. M.--Daiiy-New York, .itlanu,
and New Orleans Limited. All Pullman
train, club and observation ears TO New
Orleans. Sleeping cars TO Asheviile,
Atlanta, Macon and New Orleans. Sleep
ing cars to Charlotte. Dining car service.
All A. M.-Daily-Memphis special.
Sleeping cars and coaches for Roanoke,
Knoxville, Nashville, Chattanooga and
Memphis. Dining car service. Wash
ington sleeping cars open 1000 z. NJ.
Through trains from the south arrive
| 1t Alexandria 6:13 and Cos, S:30 and ~ -
4. m, 2.13, 7.2S. 1913 and Hiss J.. NJ.
daily. Harrisonburg lbs A. NJ. week
days and SIS p. NJ. Daily. From Char
lottcsville at 9.33 A. NJ.
TRAINS ON BLUEMONT BRANCH.
Leave Alexandria wv. e o. Sation)
! week days at ST. A. NJ. ). % and "A ii
p. m. for Bluemont; G:Si T. NJ. week
| days for Leesburg; 4:55 T.. NJ daily Cor
Bluemont 923 &. NJ, local, Oh Sun
| days only for Blucmont.
For detailed schedule figures, tickets,
Pullman reservation, etc, apply to
WILLIAM G.. LEllEW
| Union Ticket Agent, Alexandria, Va.
| :. FL. COAPMAN, Vice Pres 81 Gen. Mgr
| 5. II. HARDWICK, Pass. TraC Mgr
! II. L. CARY, General Passenger Agent
T.. S. BROWN General Agent,
Washington. D. c.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
COLUMBUS DAY.

While Columbus Day was not gen,
sralIyaobserved lip Alexandria, GU
neighbering scity Baltimore, mann
tested Sconsidefab1s- interest IN the
OCCASION. The Italian residents. Of the
Monumental City enteredinto its ob.
servance with will, four thousand OF
that nationality having been represent
ed in the parade. The floats represent
ing scenes in connection with the great
discoyerer's adventures we're features
of the turnout. Fitzgerald Council,
knights OF Columbus Of this city, have
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
Toys for Baby.

Among a dozen toys that have been
given my baby there were two rattles
with hard rings at the ends-1ust
right for a baby to stick down his
throat. There was ball trimmed
with loosely sewed bells that the baby
Immediately pulled off and put in his
mouth. There was worsted ball. 30
fuzzy that 1t furnished mouthfuls OF
lint. The only thing that>it was pos.
sible to leave him with was rubber
ring too large to get in his throat
Exchange.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
THE PROPOSED NIGHT SCHOOL.

A correspondent OF the Gazette in
Yesterdays issue made an earnest
appeal for the establishment of a
night school in this city for the bene-
fit OF young people who are employed
during the day.. The suggestion is
good and it meets with hearty en-
dorsement OF the publishers OF this
paper. 1t is hoped, therefore, that
steps towards this end may be in-
aueurated at once. But in this con-
pection it should be stated that this
experiment was tested in Alexandria
a few years ego. The services OF a
well.known and capable teacher were
nrocured and a room vas fitted up
Tor the benefit of such young people
as desired to avail themselves OF noe.
tnrnal tuition. The work OF estab.
fishing the school, however, proved
futile, as those for whom it vas in
tended did not appreciate the labors
OF the authorities, and the attendance,
never more than corporal's guard,
finally ceased altogether. The Ga
zette ut the time observed that iguor-
ance in this day is voluntary mis-
fortune. But = night school might
prove more interesting to many ut
this time, and, as stated above, the
Gazette would rejoice to see such an
adjunct to our public school system.
But it has no desire to see the author
tiles trifled with as those for whom
the night school shall have been es-
tablished must not, imagine it is a
work of condesconsion on their part to
attend.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12

perfected arrangements for the propsr
observance OF the occasion, and an IN
teresting evening is anticipated by all
who purpose to be present. Inc
address on Columbus will be delivered
by Rev. Charles Warren Currier, u.
D., OF the Catholic Indian Bureau. Nc
admission cards have been issued and
all Alexandrians ere cordially invited
to Join with Fitzgerald Council in the
observance OF the four hundred ano
nineteenth anniversary OF the Discovery
Of America.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
BLACK HAND CLEARING HOUSE.

What the Chicago police believe 20
be Black Hand clearing house" was
unearthed Tuesday night when An
thony Loungora, the proprietor OF a
grocery on Sholto street, and another
man whose name has not beer dis
closed, were taken into custody A
large amount OF evidence was seized
by the police. This included bombs.
dynamite fuses, percussion caps and
other explosives. The most important
discovery. however. was list OF loo
names Of persons who. it is alleged,
have contributed sums to fund to be
used in defending Joseph and Carmelo
Nicolosi, now on trial. charged with
kidnapping Angelo Marine, a seven
year-old boy. The arrest OF the two
Italians and the possession OF the list
OF names, the police say, may lead to
numerous arrests and eventually clear
up number of alleged Black Hand
murders AND bomb explosions in Chi
cago and vicinity.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
WASHINGTON Southern Ry

Schedule in effect July ,, 1911.
Trains leave Union Station for Wash.
ington and points north 81 S 0S, S .
: II, 8 53 and OIL a. m, l. OF, ? 80, o.,
) Is and / 90 p. m, daily.
Fer Fredericksburg, Richmond and
roiats south At 4 81, I 50 (Iocaij and ~ -
p, m, y 16, a -, q Qocal -, s 80 aud
: 81 p. m. daily.
Accommodation fol Fredericksburg at
5! IS 4. M, daily. On week days this
rain runs through to Milford.
NoTE:-Time ofarriyals and departures
md connections not'guarantced.
W. 2. TAYLOR, Traffic Manager,
Richmond, Va.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
WAR ABOUT TO END.

According to dispatches from Euro
pean capitals, the war between Italy
and Turkey is about to be brought
to close. An armistice, Is is said,
has been declared, and it is not be-
lieved there will be any further hos,
tilities. As was known from the out
set, Turkey is to emerge from the
conflict minus Tripoli, which is to be
incorporated with Italian possessions.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
Childish Beliefs.

Yes, children believe plenty OF queer
things. suppose all OF you have
had the pocketbook fever when you
were little. What do l mean? why
ripping up old pocketbooks in 'h'
firm belief that bank bills to All I'M
mense amount were hidden in them
So, too, you must all remember some
splendid unfulflled promise OF some
body or other. which fed you with
hopes perhaps for years, and whlca
left a blank In your life which moth
Ing has ever filled up.-Holmes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12

PROPOSALS, will be received ut the
L Office of City Engineer until l.
o'clock noon October 18th, 1911. for iur-
nishing the City Council of AleXandrEt,
Va, with sand cinders, cement, curb
stone and vitrificd block and for grading
concreting, setting, curb and laying u
yitrified brick roadway on Patrick street
from Prince street to Duke street.
Specifications and particulars can he
had at City Engineers Office.
The right is reserved to reject any anc
all proposals or to accept such proposals
as may be to the best interests o! the
City Council Of Alexandria.
+. S. LEADBEATER,
Chairman Of Committee on Streets.
oct6-tQ.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12

Pursuant to the action of the Legis.
lature of Texas, the portrait OF General
Sam Houston, which that state designs
to present to the Commonwealth OF
Virginia, has been received at the state
library. 1t will be held there until the
time. arrives for its formal presentation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
Hose or Hosiery.

A New Rochellite whose yard need
ed fall attention, called at the hard
ware department of a New York store.
81 am in need Of some lawn hose, ne
said. TRY the hosiery department,
second floor" responded the young
lady in charge.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12

Biiousness is due to a disordered
condition OF the stomach. Chamber.
lain's Tablets are essentially stomach
medicine, intended especially to act on
that organ; to cleanse it, strengthen it,
tone and invigorate it. to regulate the
liver and to Danish biliousness posi-
lively and effectually. For sale by
W. F. Creighton and Richard Gibson.
adyt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12

GAZETTE BUILDING, $40 and 3l2
PRINCE STREET.
s Suffered atthe Postohice Of Alexandria
Virginia, as second-ciass matter.
TERMS: DAILY year, $500; months
$50; months, SIPS: month, 43 Genus
week, 10 cents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
And Upside Down at That.

where does this train stop nextF
asked the nervous traveller on an un'
certain railway.
"Well, boss" replied the porter
"dar's three Washouts an some bad
track right along here, an she's liable
to stop mos any place mos any min
ute."-Washingto Star.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12

You are not experimenting on your
self when you take Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy for cold as that prep
aration has won its great reputation
and extensive sale by its remarkable
cures of colds, and can always be de.
pended upon. 1t is equally valuable
for adults and children ani may be
tsXoIlng children. with implicit
c, it contains no. harmful
d Nv. F. Creighton and
| - :.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
Widely Separated.

An uncrossable bloody chasm at
last separates the brethren of the
tribe of Snatchit from the brethren
OF the tribe Of Grabit.-Philadelphia
Record.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
FOUNDED 1884 {; {,
PUBLISHED DAILY.

The Alexandria Gazette Corporation
ioRERT s. BARRETT, President and
General Manager.
COWARD w. SMITH, Secretary and
Treasurer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
w ashington-Virgi
Railway.
In effect November /, 1910.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

For Washington, from corner Prime
and Royal streets, week days, at
6 o., 90 Gao, 6 40, IS, ! %, Is, 80, I 40
so, s o. $ 10, %, S IS, s 80, 8 10. 80, 8 10
10 10, 10 80, 10 80, II 10, II %, IL 30, IL 50 4
M, II 10, L %, T. 80, II 50, 10, %, &c;
80, , 10, > p, > 80, 80, 3 u, =, s., 3 5ts
4 10, -, 80, ] 20, 4 IS, 5 TO- s D, 81, 5 81,
6 05, G 20, 6 80 6 4d, 7 %, Is, I y, 90, $50,
800, 93H, 10 w, 10 30, II 10 and II 30 p. M
Sundays 90, I b, S 10, s 20, 40, 9 90!
9 20. 9 &C. 10 90, 10 20 10 40, II 90, II 20
II 40 a. NJ, II 70 m, T. 70, IL 40, 100, Ii
NO, , 20, 20, . 40, } ", 3 90 3 40, co, 4 "a
40 5 co, 20, 5 40, 6 90, 6 90 6 40, 7 %, 72Oj
TAO, 100, so. 800, So 10 co. 10 80 and
lll0p NJ.
FOR MOUNT VERNON.
Leave Alexandria for Mount We .non
week days, 1t 5 40, Sc, Sc, 81, l0I :.
II . a. M, II -, l %, . 25, $50, 40, SIC
$50, I 81, s 80, 0 80, 10 80 and IL 80 p. MI
Sundays %, S 80, 3 80, 10 30, IL 30si
M, u 30, 80, 30, 3 80, 4 80, 30, 1917;
$40 and 10 l6 pm.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat Co.

Every day in the year for Fort Mon
roe, Norfolk, Newport News and points
south, via superb, powerful steel palace
steamers.
Leave Washington, 6.45 p. ~
Leave Alexandria 100 p. m.
Arrive Fit Monroes 7.0Oa. N.
Arrive Norfolk 500 4. m.
Arrive Portsmouth 800 a. n.
Leave Portsmouth 500 D. M.
Leave Norfolk 600 p. m. sTs
Leave F.. Monroe 700 D. m.
Arrive Alexandria $50 a. IN.
Arrive Washington 7.00a. m.
Through connections made at,NorIo.R
with steamers of the Old Dominion
Steamship Company for New York and
MSrchants' and Miners Steamships for
Boston.
General Ticket Office, 100 18th StN.W,
Bond Building, Washington, D. q.
:: none Main 1920.
Seventh street wharf. Phone Main ,.yJ
Alexandria wharf foot OF Prince street.
w. II. CALLAHAN.
april ly ! General Passenger Agent,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
WILLIAMS KIDNEY PILLS

Have you overworked your nervous
system and caused trouble with your
Kidneys and bladder? have you pans
Won flabby appearance of the face and
under the eyes? A frequent desire to
pass urine? # so, Williams Kidney
Hills will cure you-Druggists, price SOC
Williams Mfg Co., Props. Cleveland
For sale, wholesale and retail, by f.
S. Lsadb eater & SOM.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12

Fall styles in SHOES now arriving
at 422 King street,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-12
Burke & Herbert

Mooe. ny equipped for banking ID
Its various branches.
Deposites received subject to check NJ
sight. Collections made on all points:
High-grade investment securitleF
fought and sold. ~
Letters of Credit AID Foreign fx-
change furnished.
Safe Deposit Boxes for rent. :.
A Savings Department in which IT
terest is allowed on deposits.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-06-08
ENGLISH SCHOOLS
POORLY MANAGED

London, June 8-A1though legfs1a-
partment of public education has been
prevented for the time being by a
parliamentary trick known in the
House of Commons as blocking mo-
tion,'' recent accidental disclosures Of
it's incompetency have resulted in a.
public outcry so vociferous that for
it's own political welfare, the admins
tration cannot long withhold an in
quiry and sweeping reforms.
Illustrative Of the bitterness of pub
lie comment concerning the present.
methods of the Department, the Lon
don Morning News says: "In the eyes
Or a scandinavian, a school is rightly
portant end and the schoolmaster no.
less important than his office. What
do we make of this institution and it's
chief? Managed in practice, if not
in theory. by the local vicar and his.
church wardens, the school is an OBJ
ject of contempt and a subject of
strife, its headmaster a plant Deepen
dent, underpaid, socially obscure. n
picker-up of odd jobs that involve fig
uring and spelling.
The general view is that existing
conditions are due to nismana cement
by a long series of ministers. but the:
one responsible for it at the present
moment is Minister of Education Wal
ter Runciman, a Liberal. Most poll
ticians believe that the scandal con-.
corning his department will shortlyl
force him into retirement.