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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-06-17

anu dllSIllIoll Sl'Sii ~ ii''' W Wv
iitical game has been disastrous to
lis professional work. interfering to
4 large degree with his practice Of
aw. Wherefore, finding that he cam
not successfully do both, he has de-
ermined to give up politics and prac-
ice law.
An Author Of Laws.
The announcement Of the retire
ment of but few other men in the pub
.ic eye in Virginia would attract so
much interest. Speaker Byrd has not
jeen satisfied with the honor or pre-
siding over the deliberations of the
House, but has always taken lead
NC part in the inception and adop-
ion of new legislation. Many meas
res bearing the stamp of his author
ship are now on the statute books Of
he state. and many others are the
.esult of the campaigns conducted by
1im and of the help he has extended
conference, in committee or in debate
N the floor.
Mr.. Byrd's position as speaker has
yiven him a commanding position in
he matter of making new laws. Be
tides. he is always a close observer
# current events. and sees the needs
Of the times. So it happens that he
: at each session the patron OF meas
lres designed to fill what he thinks a
public want.
Cost Him Too Much.
But he has had enough. Of course.
n the wears to come when he has
made money enough by hard work to
,frord to play politics, the attract
ons OF the game may lure him again.
Gut he has made up his mind to retire
It once and says that his determine
ion in this respect will not be shaken
lie loves politics. but prefers to make
/ living.
Always he has had opposition for
he Democratic nomination for the
House from his district composed OF
Frederick county and the city of Win
chester. These fights have demanded
some attention on his part, taking
him from the practice of law. Then,
IS speaker, the demands upon his time
are practically constant between the
November election and the converting
If the legislature in the succeeding
January. The legislative session
means sixty days of solid work. with
10 chance to do anything else.
Four or five months out OF two
years means too big a slice out Of u
mans professional! life, in his iudg-
ncnt. At least. they mean too much
or him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-06-17
RAILROADS.
Southern Railway.

PREMIER CARRIER OFTHE SOUTH.
L aing leave Union Station. Alexandra.
In effect May 26, 1912.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15
The Destruction of Pompei

The cloud, which had scattered so
deep a murkiness over the day. had
now settled into solid and lmpene-
trable mass. II resembled less even
the thickest gloom of night IN tie
open air than the close and ulind
darkness OF some narrow room. But,
in proportion as thA blacknesS gath
cred, did the lightnings around Vesu-
vius increase In their vivid and
scorching glare. Nor was their hor-
rible beauty confined TO the usual
hues of fire; no rainbow ever rlyaled
their varying and prodigal dyes. Now
brightly blue as the most azure depth
or southern sky-now OF livid and
snakelike green, darting restlessly to
and fro. as the folds OF an enormous
serpent-now OF a luTid and lntoler-
able crimson, gushing forth through
the columns of smoke, far and vide,
and lighting up the whole city i'om
arch to arch--then suddenly dying
into a sickly paleness. like the ghost
OF their own life!
In the pauses OF the showers you
heard the rumbling OF the earth be
meath, and the grooming waves or the
tortured sea; or, lower still, ami aud
fble but TO the watch OF intensest
fear, the grinding and kissing muir
muir OF the escaping gases through the
chasms OF the distant mountain.
Sometimes the cloud appeared 10
break from It's solid mass, and, ny
the lightning, to assume quaint and
vast mimicries OF human or OF mouh-
tain shapes. striding across the
gloom, hurting one upon the other,
and vanishing swiftly into the turou-
lent abyss OF shade; so that, TO inc
eyes and fancies OF the anrlghted
wanderers, the unsubstantial yapors
we're as the bodily forms OF sigantic
foes-the agents of terror and dSatn'
From Bulwer-Lytton's Last Days
OF Pompeii"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15
On Getting in Debt

What you'd you think OF a prince.
or OF that government. who should is
sue an edict forsidding you 10 dress
like gentleman or gentlewoman, on
pain OF Imprisonment or servitude?
Would you not say that you were
Tree, have right TO dress as you
please, and such an edict would be
breach OF your privileges and such e
government tyrannical?
And yet you are about TO put your
self under such a tyranny when You
run In debt for such dress Your
creditor has authority at his pleasure,
10 deprive you of your liberty, TO con.
fine you in Jail till you shall be able
10 pay him. When you have got your
bargain you may, perhaps, think little
OF payment, but. as poor Richard says,
creditors have better memories than
debtors; creditors are superstitious
sect, great observers OF set days and
times. The day comes around before
you are aware, the demand IS MADE
before you are able TO satisfy it; or,
II you will bear your debt in mind,
the term. which at first seemed so
long, will, as II lessons, appear ex-
tremely short. Time will seem TO
have added wings to his heels as well
as his shoulders. Those have short
Lent who owe money to be paid at
Easter. Benjamin Franklin, In
Great Truths by Great Authors
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15

wool OF the Bull Moose movement
compounded OF intellectual topsy.tur.
vydom?
"A political party which undertook
to translate the Roosevelt speech into
legislation says the New York
World. still disputing the Courier.
Journals diagnosis OF madness,
would soon end in an insane asylum
Ii could be held in control only by a
straight jacket" Presently the Chief
Bull Moose will break out in some
paroxysm which can only be restrain
ed by straight jacket, whereby all
may know that he is and has long
been as crazy as a bed-bug-mad--as
mad as March hare.
And his followers? Fools, just plain
fools. I'VE nave never yet had a CEN
sus of fools, says the World. but in
the Roosevelt vote We are going TO
get one. louisville Courier-J Journal.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15
A Strange World

The men who keep watch and ward
over the laws OF the states to which
they belong, and the prison houses in
which unfortunate men and women
are confined, have much TO answer
for.
II will be remembered that the state
OF Florida enacted a law making in
sanity a ground for divorce, at a
time when one Flagler, Standard
Oil millionaire. was eagerly seeking
for a place where such law was in
force.
Flager got his divorce from a wom-
all who, at the worst, was merely I'M
fortunate, and whose alleged condi-
ton would have made any normal
man alert with pity for her and with
schemes TO alleviate her suffering.
Now We find that the physician in
charge of the institution where Mrs.
Flagler Is confined has decided that
his patient shall be permitted $4,000
more out OF her own estate than she
has received heretofore, the total OF
her income now being $4,000 annual.
ly She Is TO receive the additional
$4,000 annually because Of the
greater cost Of living" added to the
upkeep of an automobile"
What can an insane woman want
with $4,000 a year Can IL be easily
believed that the woman who receives
this sum is In reality as insane as the
people who are managing her affairs?
st Louis Times.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15

Ru.,nsss-Iik- Printing. No fuss and
M feathers The plain. neat kind that
looks right Times Printing Co.,
John R-st Phi. Main 1898 or city $3.50.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15
Editorials By the People
How Socialists Are Made.


To the Editor Of The Times:
II would seem that these are the
times when satan is let loose upon
the earth and it is evident that his
satanic majesty is doing all he
agreed to do, and then some. We
read In the papers of communities
and cities, far and near, whose citi-
zens are dashed into fury and fever
heat over the unearthing OF con-
spiracy, fraud and plumber, but
when II comes home to our own fair
city 1t certainly places us in very
awkward land humiliating position.
When We consider that disgraceful
scene in Chicago a few weeks ago
and the system by which President
Taft was nominated. We must admit
that every intelligent voter who sup
ports such a system is guilty OF Grim
inal negligence OF duty The same
is true OF our home city affairs. The
sleepy voters OF Detroit have, In a
large measure. themselves 10 blame
for the present state or affairs.
Detroit at the present time is
splendid specimen OF brewery DOM
mated and monopoly controlled gov
eminent, and there seems no way TO
bring the real offenders to justice.
At any rate we have a fine looking
bunch OF aldermen held up 10 public
gaze-city officials II you please, with
only few dollars between them and
the prison cell; lawmakers whose
intelligence is bartered away like so
much produce. now trying TO swap
confessions for immunities.
In view OF these ugly looking
things, and the further fact that the
tag burden is becoming unbearable
as a result Of this reign of graft and
plumber, Is II any wonder that in
telligent men are daily swelling the
army OF common people who are
turning TO socialism in the hope OF
relief. j. A. BELL.
1906 Pennsylyania-ave.
Aug. IA, 1912.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15
Gov. Wilson's Key Story

Tell the story about the key. gov
ernor' said Joe" Tumulty. Gov Will
sons private secretary, one night
when Wilson was standing in front of
the correspondents tent at Seagirt
exchanging anecdotes.
The governor was making a speech
one night" explained Tumulty, and
this story took EN- just right They
went up in the air over It."
Why, We had been discussing the
high cost OF living problem said
Wilson, and had remarked what We
needed to do was to find the solution
Then this story popped into my head
and | couldn't resist telling II:
II was one OF those Hypothetical
questions which the English weeklies
are so fond OF printing, with the
query, What you'd you do under the
same circumstances? The hypothesis
was this: A young man has come &c
cali on young woman, and they are
sitting somewhat stifiy IN the parlor
waiting for the mother to come dowt
and act as chaperon as Is customary
in English homes. While they are
waiting, the young woman's nose be
gins W Dlttu, anu tuc yOuH6 man
who remembered having heard that 6
piece OF cold metal applied to the
back OF the neck will stop the trouble
looks around the room for piece o.
cold metal.
He sees the key in the door, anC
in his embarrassment he locks the
door in getting the key out. He ap
plies the key to the young woman:
neck, but just at that moment the
mother comes down. and. finding thu
door locked, demands entrance. Ii
his excitement the young man drops
the key down the young woman''
back The question then was 'Wha
would you do II you were the yount
mann and | told the audience that
thought the answer certainly was
Get the key at any cost New
York Evening Post
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15
The Gambler Lower Degree of
Sneak Thief and Pickpocket

The murder OF Rosenthal will have
public mind TO the gambler char
acter The cowardly crime which
put Rosenthal out OF the way. with
out a chance 10 defend himself is
Just such crime as any one who
knows the true character OF the
gambling fraternity might expect.
II seems unbelievable that they
wohld have undertaken this murder
II they had not strong assurance OF
immunity from punishment For
the gambler is essentially coward.
His business is cowardly business.
Ii is sneaking. sinking. despicable
business. II gathers around itself
horde OF the meanest and low est
OF humanity.
Their trade is 10 prey upon So
ciety. and when they find ,rade poor
in that way they prey upon one an
other The proverb that there is
honor among thieves is untrue, as
every policeman knows. But much
less is there honor among gamblers,
While the pickings are good. they
maintain a semblance OF fair play
among themselves, because IL is
profitable TO do so.
But they are never lair TO the
foolish outsiders. who supply their
profits There is no such thing as
an honest gambler The gambler is
human hyena, without the courage
or that vile beast A hyena could
not be honest without starving TO
death The gambler is in business
for the profits that IL gives him. lie
! could not be honest and stay in bus
| mess.
The character OF the business is
clearly shown by the pack OF dirty
| little jackals that follow II. the
smaller fry OF the fraternity. the
cappers and runners. and dealers and
other attaches OF the gambling
| houses.
Who are they? Criminals. actua
or potential. every one. When the
| gambling houses are closed these
creatures turn TO their other natura
employments. They are the sneal
thieves, the pickpockets. the cadets
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15
The community's Menace.

To the Editor Of The Times:
II every citizen who has the well
fare OF the city at heart could only
read the Loud call for reform" pub
lished in The Times OF Aug. 10, ana
written by C. c. Dowswell, No. ll4l
Mack-ave.. don't think II would be
very long before the crooked alder
man and his machine would be a
thing OF the past. Like the jury sys.
tenn. they are both probably good In
theory. but when put in practice by
dishonest or corruptible men they be
come a menace TO any community.
It's about time the decent conserya-
tive element OF citizens had a say as
TO how the city should be run, and
II we had a commission form OF gov
eminent made up OF fearless, public
spirited men, like Commissioner
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15

of the red-light district. the unnama-
Bile creatures who live I'll the wages
OF despoiled womanhood.
Dress gambling up In its gaudiest
attire. Give II setting OF mahog-
any and cut glass and chased silver.
and IL Is still the same. Its pro-
meters and camp followers are the
same obscene birds. the same evil
vultures. They feed on carrion. on
human cadaver
Their aim In life is 20 take the
money OF the fools who come 10
them In good faith TO play game
of chance. Rut II is no game OF
chance. The victim hasn't a chance
in the world.
One way or another the cards are
stacked against him. the machinery
worked by secret wires. the per
centage" fixed SO that the victims
money Is taken from him Just as
surely as If the gamblers put their
Shiny fingers into his pockets, and,
far more sneakingly and cowardly,
for II is often done under the guiss
of good fellowship or even friend
ship.
The gambler is an ontcast or So
ciety. The moral sense OF the com
munity has made him So The COM
mon sense Of the people has made
him so. The law has made him So
Yet. by sharing his profits with the
police, he continues 10 sneak back
into society and TO fatlen on the
ruin he creates
He is aided in this. to some ex-
tent, by the false romanticism that
is thrown about him. the silly ira
ditions OF IA gamblers honor and a
gamblers word. A gambler has no
honor. and HIS word is lie. lie is
Just lower degree of sneak thief
and pickpocket
III the murder OF Rosenthal serves
to drive home TO the public a sense
Of the true character OF the gambler,
OF the utter Stiffness OF expecting
from him anything but sneaking.
cowardly crime, il can proceed with
'calmer mind 10 catch the assassius
and put them to an appropriate
ieath. Philadelphia North Ameri-
can.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15
AS Crazy as a Bed Bug

That Theodore Roosevelt Is of UNI
sound mind the CourierJournal has
never doubted The idea fits through
the thought even of those who deny
It. The Chicago gathering" says
Reedy, in the Mirror. lis very near to
the ridiculous in its frenzy to get
votes amid in It's entire subservlence,
not TO say servility to one parsonage.
This country doesn't like bad losr
in the political game, and 1t has little
more than a smoker for a party based
upon personal grudges and almost
paranoiac hatred" Why almost,
dear Reedy; are not the warp and
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15
CHILDREN SEE MOTHER
KILLED BY INTERURBAN

SAGINAW. Mich. Aug l5.-Mrs.
George Myers. aged So, OF Saginaw,
was struck and instantly killed oy
Saginaw & Flint interurban car three
miles from the city limits last night
The car failed 10 slow up at cross
ing Her daughters saw her hurled
80 feet. She leaves husband ana
family.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15

Croul. who consider the office en-
trusted TO them an honor far ABOVE
any mercenary consideration, We
would indeed be we'll on the road to-
ward municipal reform, which is GER
tainly badly needed in Detroit. Is
ii too late to vote on this question
in the primaries?
HOWARD ID. ROBERTS,
SO Aggressive.
Aug. IA, 1912.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15
Dead eodv in Quarry pi..

KINDE, Mich, Aug. 15.-The body
OF Andrew Glasgow was found in the
water OF quarry pit near here. 1t is
believed Glasgow walked of into the
hole in the darkness. Glasgow left
Bay City, where he was employed, last
Thursday, TO visit his father and
brothers in Grindstone City.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15
The Choosing of a Wife

When il shall please God TO bring
thee TO mans estate, use great provi-
dence and clrcumspection in choosing
thy wife For from thence viii
spring ali thy future good or evil.
And II Is an action Of life like unto a
stratagem Of war, wherein man can
err but once If thy estate be good,
match near home and at leisure; II
weak, far off and quickly Inquire
diligently OF her disposition and how
her parents have been inclined In
their youth. Let her not be poor
how generous soever. For man can
buy nothing in the market with gen
tllity. Nor choose a base and I'M
comely creature altogether Tor
wealth; for II will cause contempt In
others and loathing in thee. Neither
make choice OF a dwarf, or q iool'
for. by the one thou shalt beget
race of pigmies; the other viii be
thy continual disgrace, and 1t VIII
virke thee to hear her talk. For thou
shalt find it. TO thy great grief that
there is nothing more fulsome than
a she-fooi-Lord Burleigh
BusIness-Iik- Printing. No fuss and
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-15
ggERE'S THE RELATION OF STEEL
~ BILL TO THE PRICE or BREAD

President Taft on Wednesday vetoed the steel bill
Just moment PLEASE!
FA Don't away
AeA We have something here will interest you
Not interested in steel
Let's you not
You may not own of lake vessels railroad and may not
contemplate building but ARE interested thus suOec'
Of STEEL just the
M YOU eat bread subject Of steel and the tariff on steel are nns'
that you ought to be GREATLY interested in
Follow please
Breadis made from -four
Flour is made from wheat
Wheat is grown by the farmer
Before -four can be the wheat has to be out and
threshed.
be cut the farmer must buy nnoef
Not N a binders
We know it. that isn't the point
The binder has to be shipped the farmer
The shipping requires steel rails
The puts price rails high a. it likes
The railroads pay price and then they turn around
farmers freight bill when he calls Tor nus onoer
Then the game of pass it along
The price by his wheat must justly take INTO
account the amount of freight bill his binder.
And the miller
He helps pay for the steel rails he pays freight the wheat
from
He pays more on the freight the coal that
he into power to run his mill.
He contributes to price rails when he freight
on the miller.
AND NOW YOU COME
Dig Deep because we will have to bother you contribution
to the steel
you shell the WHOLE exbant
bill for the rails
little tough course but that the system YOU
are interested in tariff IN steel.
As we said President Taft on Wednesday by
congress, revising schedules downward
He vetoed the not drawn the
We going infant
dustries
they drawn the basis of protection to THE
STEEL TRUST.
And up date dipped his ink
once to good campaign promise
The veto message Progress
congress than voting under
pass the over the presidents which done
The will of but the and the action
of the lower house enough make clear the positions the
iProgresives Reactonaries the tariff
the bill because the schedules drafted to
provide solely for for running the government
That $ progressive position in the campaign.
prefers will provide for the running the
government by the with the people bearing the Of
that kind Of government.
Progressive Republicans joined with the passing
steel bill the that presented somewhat
pcated progressive Republican
Roosevelts third the the progress
these Republican
form WHICH DECLARES PROTECTIVE TARIFF
brand progsiveness exhibited Baltimore
that this caled protective tariff rather stngy its protection
places the heads Of the people unreasonable that nothing
than tribute wealth country which
been robbed
There isn't much declaration for
sort Of thing
tariff for only provides square
double for steel rails before family
Adolf Was FOO Tioht1v Pa,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-24
BONFIRE BULLET FATAL
Cartridge Explodes, Causing the
Death of Boy Playing Near BY.

The third fatal accident In the Schrle1
family. of No. 242 Sd street, occurred
yesterday when FIorian, lad FIVE years
old. was killed by bullet from a cart
ridge that had been thrown into a bon
fire.
The child was playing in front OF his
home with several other children.
short distance away some older boys had
a bonfire blazing in the centre OF the
street. One Of them threw box ~
cartridges on the fire. There was an eX-
plosion. and little Florian fell with "A
bullet in his heart. Patroman smith
took the child to 4 drug store. An am
bulance surgeon said he had been killed
instantly.
About two years ago Florian's oldest
sister, seven years old was run over and
killed b. an automobile. About five
months ago a brother, twelve years old,
was killed by brick falling from a roof.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-24
President Speaks in Three Cities in Evening
Following Opening by Colonel Roosevelt
Of His Campaign in the State at Noon.
i A TOILETTE ALSO IN THE FIELD
Streets Lined with Cheering Multudes, Militia Escort
and Big Audiences Mark Visits Of Nations Head
ExPresdent Also Greeted Enthusiastically.

New jersey which holds its Presidential convention prlma
Tuesday, found itself yesterday and last night the field
f tremendous for delegates with President Taft and
Colonel Roosevelt entering it's confines and Senator La Toilette
continuing the speechakng which he began on Wednesday,
The President spoke in the evening at Camden Burlington
and He entered New Jersey from Philadelphia where
he spent most of the day.
Before speaking Camden he motord several miles through
the CITY streets and was loudly cheered brigade carrying
Chinese lanterns and red fire met him at Burlington and wildly
cheering crowds lined the in Trenton through which he
driven.
Everywhere he deprecated the necessity which, he sad had
compelled him enter the raging controversy saying ne was
not moved by personal ambition the matter but because ne
felt obliged the people of crisis in the country history
that threatened constitutional government.
Theodore Roosevelt visited seven Congress districts
and four counties in New jersey his trip of twenty-five miles
attracting crowds that while not large in Pennsylvania
were more demonstrae than his Ohio audiences He continued
his assaults on the bosses paying particular attention to Will
lam Barnes, jr.
Senator La Toilette devoted two hours in his afternoon
speech at Trenton attack Colonel Roosevelt lie sald
John Sherman dreamed that President of the United
States would receive Perpnt Morgan before breakfast and
with him to violate his oath of office he would have included
the office of President the Sherman antitrust law as well as
the Attorney General and the District Attorneys.
Mr. La Toilette said that when Roosevelt became President
there were 40 illegal combinations and that when he left the
White House there were 1920,