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The searchlight., 1912-04-19

The Embroidery Club met with Mrs. F.
5 Reed last FRIDAY afternoon and enjoyed
the usual good time. II was decided not TO
hold regular meeting next week as the
ladies were all invited by Mrs. w. 5.
Evans to meet a, her house on Wednesday
evening Of next week and have a card party.
Husbands of the married ladies are to at
tend as well as the gentlemen escorts of the
bachelor girls Each memtrr OF the club
is also to bring or invite one extra couple.
II all come there will be about 40 couple
present. This will be one of the main So
cial events OF the season. The next meet
ing OF the club will be announced later.
The searchlight., 1912-04-19
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. q they cannot reaeA
the seat OF the dsea.r Catarrh = blood conssi-
tutioaal disAse. and N order u you muss take
internal remedeA Hans CatArrh Cure \ takea b-
tenaily. and acts directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Halls Catarrh Cure n not . QuAck medt.
cine IL prescribed by Of the bess phyddAna
IN this country for yean and regular prescfipeion
II b eompord Of the beSt tonics known. combined
with the best blood purAers. acting directly On tn
mucous surfaces The perfect combhattoa Of tn
txo nsredlents = What produces such vondesfu ~
suits IN curing catarSh send for Ses1fmonlals free.
FL. CHENEY 4 CO.. Propa. Toledo. O.
Sold BY DruxKtsts. price ise.
TAke Halls Family ftis for coassipasaon.
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lent. and has found that ID is especially
rife in certain villages, where a whole
FAMILY live in one hut, often OF straw,
and where breakfast lunch and dinner
consist of the same articles Of food, he
staple food being cornbread However,
We do have entirely too much of II in
some of our institutions, where people are
forced to live close to each other. and
where the food is rarely what it shou. d
be
Conditions in Asylums.
Some believe that the insane asylums
are filled as a result of pellagra, but it
seems much more reasonable to suppose
that the disease has actually developed
therein. The problem must be faced
squarely-on the one hand there is no
need for foolish denun citation, and on the
other hand every institution in which pei
iaSra has developed should he carefully
inspected. both for more cases and as to
the quality of the food. and to the pos
sibility of the spread OF the contag.on
either by too close proximity or through
the agency Of some insect, such as he
bedbug. This last point is made advis-
eddy. because in the past it has been
found that most of the diseases that occur
in crowded quarters are either directly
due to bad food or to vermin.
IT is to be hoped that the exact cause of
pellagra will soon be known. Our corn
industry is SO great that 1t is unpleasant
to have 1t resting under any stigma, how
cause We can combat the disease and it's
means of spread, and wipe it out as eff
fectually as we have done malaria or vel
low fever.
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Heard, Seen, Said and Done
18th its nose pointing straight into

stand with its nose pointing straight into
the water.
why the dog should stand on the
bank and refuse to bulge" Garrison
big pike swimming against the tide and
shot 1t. When l opened the fish I
found 1t had swallowed a bird
William Goat has disappeared from D
street. William is really a billy goat
but many business men in the vicinity of
9th and ID streets. and hundreds of Pc
destrans. never looked upon him as just
an ordinary animal.
Year after year the goat made prac-
tice of visiting business places along D
street. chewing tobacco, eating cigarettes
and discarded pieces of smoked cigars
Tin cans and paper had no attractions
for him.. In fact. the animal cared very
little for anything but tobacco. Some
of the goats admirers declared it had
been known to smoke a cigarette.
The answer Is that the goat has de-
serted the business houses for the stage
A stranger witnessed the several tobacco
stunts and bought the animal for SO.
\ j
The industrious negro janitor of an
apartment house, finding leisure from his
duties for Independent endeavor. solicited
the patronage of the apartment jewellers
in a communication in manifold, copies
of which were slipped into all the letter
boxes The document read:
ITO the Tenants:
Il beg to inform you that ] have in
stalled one of the latest and most modern
knife and scissor-grinding machines. and
will be very glad to have YOU give me
your work along this line. This machine
will also sharpen a silver silver-pated
knife without injury to the blade.
Respectfully, JANITOR.
II
4 Washingtonian who is interested in
Montgomery county politics has a colored
gardener on his country place. The gar
dener is a politician, too. though not al
ways of the same persuasion as his en-
ployer. Some time ago the proprietor met
the gardener and remarked casually
We'll. George, how's Maryland gong?"
Dunno. sub; dunno. sun
WELL you ought to have a pretty good
line on the colored vote
.sOh. dey's all gwine t vote fer Roose-
Welt"
.Well. l guess dey sorter like de noise
an excitement
bered down Pennsylvania avenue at fair
speed.
And just as 1t reached one of the busiest
points some one had to step out in the
street Immediately before 1t, as usually
happens.
"Baa'' sounded the warning. and the
pedestrian stepped aside to make room
for the petroleum centaur.
Il didn't know they We're allowed to
have such ugly-sounding horns,'' ex-
claimed the individual Indignantly.
And then, as it passed, several horns"
began blowing at the same time. The
truck was loaded with live calves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

In the Congressional Record of last
Tuesday perhaps one may find places
where the ordinarily smooth flow OF Ian
guage employed by several well known
representatives seemed to stumble and
to act like stream when it finds itself
blocked by a brand-new obstruction. 1t
would take a keen observer to discoye.-
these places. but the newspaper men in
the press gallery who were watching
things that afternoon while the Panama
canal bill was being debated could tell
you exactly what was the matter.
In the southeast gallery a beautiful
vision in blue fioated in about o'clock
She was radiant with smiles and had a
fine-looking hat. which did not conceal
the glories of her golden hair She took
a front seat and Immediately dragged
out of her reticule Tor whatever you call
it, pair of opera glasses. Like an army
ofhcer on a high peak, surrounded by a
level plain, she scanned the situation
through her lenses She swept the floor
or the House from the point where Rep
resentative Roddenbery was reading
paper to the place where Representative
Dalzell was gIowering She trained her
glasses on Minority Leader Mann and
ms whiskers. and took long look at the
youthful appearing Mr.. Underwood. She
looked directly at the empty seat of Mr..
Longworth. and as she trained her
glasses on the press gallery, seventeen
members of that organization began feel
ing their neckties to see if they were
properly arranged
rms sort of thing went on for forty
minutes by the clock. and il had an eff
feet on the House. Members began to
steal glances in the direction of the
vision. Members who never make a
speech swelled up and got the floor. en-
ploylns the most graceful Delsarte move
ments as they delivered their forensic
ultImatum- The interruption to the flow
OF their thought and language would
cur as they raised their eyes to see IL
the vision was looking at them. Invari-
ably she would be. And her steady
glance always stopped their talk.
In this great country as one speaker
said. there are more millions of dollars
employed In the upbulding of civiliza-
ton then he looked up at the vision.
She was cycling him steadily. He stopped
He gazed. The whole House was watch
ing him and her She looked. He
wavered:
Mister. Er-ah Speaker l beg leave to
extend my remarks in the Record
And everybody applauded.
Whereupon the vision went over to the
Senate and did the very same thing.
Tom Garrison. policeman of Prince
Georges county. Md. boasts that he has
And | have witnesses who will make
afiidavits in support of my claims he
declared to Star reporter.
The owner of Hunter" the prize dog
described incident of cunning trip
along the Eastern branch. There was
not bird in sight, and the gunner saw
the dog race to the shore and come to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
MEMORIAL TO GEN. BRADD0CK.
Monument to Be Unveiled at His
Grave in September.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
CUMBERLAND. Nd. MAY 25.-It Is the
intention of the Braddock Memorial Par
Association to have the monument to 4 :
memory of Gen. Braddock erected :
Braddock's grave in Fayette county. Pa.
and dedicated in October 1913. Ded.ca-
ton arrangements were determ ned at z
meeting on the grounds of the proposed
site this week of members of the execu-
tive committee of the Braddock Memorial
Park Association. together with {. T.
Childres. British vice consul at Pitts
burgh The park will be completed by the
time stated and il s proposed TO make
the dedication great international
event
Gen. Braddock is linked with the
French and Indian war history of this
locality. He blazed the way through this
section. passing through the eastern eni
of the county through the great Green
Ridge orchard valley and through the
Cumberland narrows. There yet remain
traces of h road.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
Roosevelt Forces Aggressive.

\ Few days ago IL goin. through tie
iorHiaHties OF naming the sic delegates
al large To Chicago the Hu5bard-DaV-
son-Giasscock crowd decided to take over
the state committee as we'll They had
things all their way at the state delegate
convention. and easily jammei through =
resolution which provided for the addition
81 seventeen members to the state com
mlttee. and they followed this up bv
nanins mem. then and there. and de-
caring the matter closed incident
Ihis extra seventeen was made nm of !,
member from each. of the fifteen sena-
torlal districts AMI two colored delegates
al large. and would bring UP the member
snip or the committee to thirty-three. Tn
oer the rules adopted for the state
pr, mares June the republican voters
VIII choose sixteen members. one TO be a
all. -
The state committee. at a midnight ses-
Ion IohoWlnS the unexpected develop
neht al the Roosevelt convention met
the play by deciding to increase the num-
Der OF committeeman to thirty-thr but
specifying the extra seventeen should De
e.ected by popular vote. The committee
mus narkened TO an apparent demand
Tor larger membership but refused 10
countenance any scheme for partial selec
ton ny primary vote or recognize the
bunch arbitrarily named by the Roose-
Welt shouters.
TO date there is no other development.
ne lists for entries for all purposes have
heen held open until today by the com
mittee. and the Roosevelt or Hubbard
lawson faction may enter their seven
teen suggestions in the primaries and
tnen, again. they may stand pat on their
convention selections Should they stand
Tat there VIII be two state committees
and all the bitterness and confusion that
would mean
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
ALL CARRY KNIVES
War in Ranks of Both Parties
in West Virginia.
FACTIONS SEEKING POWER
Want Control of the Party Ma
chinery in State.
ROOSEvELT-TAFT FEUD GROWS
Democratic Division on Clark and
Wilson, With Chances Favor
ing the Latter.
FACTIONS SEEKING POWER
R00SEvELT-TAFT FEUD GROWS
srce!al ,.erre.pcnde nee II The Star.

WHEELING W. Va May -. 1912
The most important feature of the pres
idential contests in West Virginia al pres
ent is the intense struggle for control Of
the republican and democrat state or
CARNATIONS. Since il became certain that
Roosevelt would set the sixteen delegates
10 Chicago the next step of taking charge
az the organization became paramount
u IL was not already paramount with
most of the republican state leaders The
democrats are now entering somewhat
duplicate situation, the battle for or
sanization control running parallel TO The
Wilson-Clark contest, and growing i'm in
teFest as Speaker C1arks chances of bag
Einc the Baltimore delegation Increase.
The Roosevelt forces IN West Virgini
were led conspicEously by Gov Glass
cock, eX-Gov. Dawson. Representative
w r. Hubbard and William Seymour
Edwards. a wealthy man of leisure ana
kinsman of the popular Teddy lined
up with them Was a large collection %
ltpubhcans who rad been beaten fot
elective Offices or for party nor1nlt,o.Is
or who had failed to o-inect WITH i.p-
pOintiye offices
The Taft crowd was, in short. the fed
tfal crowd composed of federal office
holders and remnants of Senator SCOTS
old guard. and many who are in office
and who took an optimistic view of the
Office proposition if Taft and their ticket
went through This organization included
also majority of the state committee.
which, in turn. Notwithstanding the much
talked of reorganization. is dominated
ny the federal crowd Its rnainstays
we're Isaac L. Mann. prospective can
didate for the United States Senate: \.
=. Scott, who. however. kept out of West
Virginia. ". Z. Ogden. the Wheeling n,Ib
Hsher: : = Denhdm and V. l.. Highland
Of clarkshurg and A. H Fleming of
Fairmont
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
COAL FIRM REIMBURSED.
Railway Company Ordered to Refund
Excessive TRANSPORTATION Charges.

The Interstate commerce commission
has ordered the Lehigh Valley railroad TO
pay 10 Meeker g. Co. of Pennsylvania,
slo.sl3. with interest aggregating 1.526.
The award was made by the commission
in reparat.on for alleged unreasonable
and discriminatory charges exacted by
the Lehigh Valley for the transporta-
ton OF anthracite coal from the Wyom-
ing region in Pennsylvania TO tidewater
al Perth -imboy. y. j.
The so-called Meeker case has been
pending In various forms before the COM
mission for many years. and the ag-
sregate amount of reparaticn thus far
granted against various anthracite lines
exceeds SS0,o0u.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

say. 'Sergt Anderson. Sergt. Ander-
son" and there were two or three or
the boys creeping around on the ground.
We got owe. to the trees without waking
any one and some one boosted me up:
When a turkey stuck his head out l
hit him with a big stick and he dropped
into the hands of the men below. We
knocked down about sixteen and felt
like schoolboys robbing an orchard
The next day the general looked doubt
fully at the turkey soup and the white
meat that was brought in, but ne had 10
make allowances in those times and
merely remarked that he knew the boys
had been up to some devilment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
Candidates Forge to Front.

However the democratic troubles end
next month. the optimism of the average
democrat will not be impaired. They are
announcing themselves in droves for
nominations A small army wants to go
TO Baltimore. And it is significant that
many of them figure the sinews of war
necessary to conduct a successful cam
patgn are more likely to come with Wat
son ascendancy a reason for the predic-
ton that the Watson organizers will run
things.
There Is some talk of the rabid Nc
Graw men looking with favor on the re-
publican ticket and Hubbard and Daw-
son will not overlook the possibility OF
combinations But any democratic de-
lection promises 10 he a ripple to the
threatened slump in the republican vote
unless the next few months pours few
oceans of oil on the troubled surface.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
DROUGHT HITS PHILIPPINES.
Principal Crops Will Be Curtailed
ty Lack of Rain.

The market for the principal Philip
pine staples. rice, hemp. sugar and to-
bacco. may be affected by a report by ca
BILE to the insular bureau from the gov
ernor of the Philippine Islands 10 the
effect that due TO almost continuous
eight months drought there will be
shortage i'm all OF these products. - per
cent for rice. > per cent for hemp. 20 per
cent for sugar. and 10 per cent for tobac-
co. Copra was not affected by the drought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
Plans for Long Trolley Line.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star
MORGANTOWN. w. Va, May 1.-THE
Monongalia county court has author
lied the citizens of Clay district to vote
on a bond issue of S2co.0D 10 insure the
immediate extension of the Morgantown
and Dunkard Valley street railway 10
Blacksmith. This connects with The
Waynesburg- Blacksv.lle line now N
process of construction. and eventually
will be part of a trolley system from
Grafton. w. Va. TO Pittsburgh. There Is
every ind cation that the bond issue viii
carry by an overwhelming ma jority. The
district bonds are to be exchanged for
the trolley company bonds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
Democrats on Still Hunt.

Md in the same way the democratic
leaders are shifting around for control Of
Ire r state committee. Of county commit
t.es and Of the conventions that Will
nam, national delegates. the STATE and
county legislative tickets col John T.
Nc raw has made three trips to Wheel
lrs Within as many weeks lie appears
- bc interested only in Woodrow Wilson
hit ne is looking after the organizat I! IN
49,. sihtities. and he wants first Of all TO
- returned as national committeeman
tl4s friends are picking OFT candidates
also for the state committee. They have
i9eir = = on the legislative tickets and
al candidates down the line, but there
are growing evidences that this is not TO
-. NcGraw Year.
MctSraW uonin2lly represents the oppo-
: tom To the return OF Senator Watson
hut McGraw's personal following is not
general II i largely in the northern coun-
ties and II is making a last stand now.
Recent primaries and conventions in the
WpTeT counties show the Watson people
have been getting in their work. ard il
looks like Watson's friends-practical
men all % them-will rule.
Watson success in this preliminary will
mean in all probability that he will have
no opposition in the proposed post election
primary, while McGraw would certainly
follow m. any success this summer in
entering the November stakes While
Nsifrdws crowd may fall down. he may
gel MS place on the national committee
again II harmony is necessary. for the
followers of Senators Watson and chi on
are disposed TO honor him # he does not
interfere with their plans OF succeeding
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
Cumberland's New Water Supply.

Special Dispatch Ia The Star
CUMBERLAND. Nd. May .5.-Mayor
Young. the city council, the members o.
the advisory board and J. III. Fuertes OF
New York. the hydraulic engineer n
charge of construction, yesterday visited
the site of the Eyitts creek dam; nine
miles north of Cumberland, which viii
be the source of the new water supply OF
Cumberland The ill-Ruckgaber Con-
struction Company, the contractor, has
installed a liant at cost Of Sl5o,O0 at
the dam, and the work or construction is
being pushed. The filters are being built
and the conduit line to Fort Hill, back
of Cumberland, is being laid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
Feared the Outcome.

As matter of fact. there was nothing
10 prevent the Hubbard-Dawson faction
from capturing control of the state COM
mittee II they could elect majority of
Inc original sixteen 10 be voted on by
primary. hence their action is viewed as
rejecting fear that they could not pull
OF their desires that way. Many repub-
leans who supported the Roosevelt
cause against Taft in this state say Hub
lard and Dawson went too far in their
unprecedented action at convention
which was called purely To name national
delegates. and in face of the primary
provision.
Hubbard's campaign against Scott for
the United States Senate was waged
with the slogan Of Let the People Say"
ing certain sarcastic comment. The
fact that Hubbard also led the fight to
abolish a credentials committee at the
Wheeling convention which nominated
aWson fer governor over Teter eight
ears ago Is be NJ cited by the Taft Or
cid state committee crowd evidence
~ steam-roller methods. and others are
saving the so-called war on the bosses
meant simply d change 10 the bosses
tW~i ruled half dozen years ago.
TIE same convention that stirred up
th~ hornets nest went record OPP
rcSins the suggestion of Davis Elkins
iaat candidate for the United states
senate be voted on al the primaries. and
tFe committee also turned the young
man request down. All of which has
: smulated the talk that Hubbard and
lawson figure on setting up legislative
,.4tcs n each county.
20 that tbe Roosevelt contest in
West Virginia has got back TO the first
~ piles thar have been ruling in re-
@t.bi.can politics fer years in West Vir-
& MIA namely. battle between factions.
md - il happened that on the strength
= Roosevelt's name the faction support
~ HIM expect to dethrone the present or
@aaization and take for themselves Inc
eats of the mighty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
Honduras Agrees to Opium Treaty.

The government of Honduras has APP
pointed its consul. general in Belgium TO
sign the International opium convention
recently agreed upon at The Hague, thus
signifying the intention of Honduras to
adhere to the convention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
Prevention Serious Problem.

How TO prevent the spread of the dis
case threatens to become a very serious
problem for the American nation. We
now have thousands of cases in this coun-
try. and more are being discovered every
day. The problem will never be so Sc
we're with us as IL is with Italy. for we
do not have the extreme poverty here that
they have there.
The writer has visited the country dis
tricts of Italy, where the disease is preva-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

1t matters little what il Is that YOU
want-whether a situation or a servant
"a want ad in The Star will reach the
person who will I'LL your need.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
An "Intolerable- Position,

Nevertheless. the minister again. in re-
stating his position. asserted N most
positive form that officers who in GER
tain cases refuse 10 fight a duel place
themselves in such sharp antagonism to
the furdame ntal convictions of their COM
rades as cannot be tolerated THIS. as
was pointed out BY various newspapers.
was but 10 reassert in other words what
ne had said before
The declaration of DR.. SPAIN has at
tracted much attention in army circles
and many officers have written to mem
bers of the reichstag to express their
hope that compulsory dueling be abol-
ished. meeting of officers held al Berlin
took a similar attitude II Is even as
serted by newspapers supporting the anti
dueling cause that majority of German
officers are secretly opposed to the duel.
but only acquiesce in il because the domi-
nant circles OF the army maintain it.
Meanwhile the clerical party has brought
forward motion demanding that com
pulsory dueling be abolished, and II ap-
pears highly probable that this motion
viii secure majority in the reichstag.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
Current Jumps Over Space.

Another surprising quality of the buzz
Ger Is its ability to carry messages even
when the wire is broken and the broken
ends separated for many feet. The cur
rent jumps across the space and MAIN
tains the communication. In several in
stances the buzzer wire has been broken
and the ends placed on either side of a
pool of water. 1t has been known to
work even under these adverse circum-
stances
The reliographing last Sunday was done
from a distance of more than a mile. The
brilliant flash Of the mirrors at this short
distance was so great that the men had
to wear smoked glasses as they read the
messages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

themselves Watson, II is said, was anx-
ioLs for McGraw 10 run for governor at
ay,o