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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-03-25
CHAPTER XIV.
Tho Dormltory on Wheels.

Tho DormitorS on "neoio,
OF all the shocking institutions In
human history, the sleeping car Is the
most shocking-or would be. II we
were not 30 used to It. There can be
no doubt that we are the most moral
nation on earth. for we admit 1t our.
selves. Perhaps we prove 1t. too. by
the Arcadian prosperity OF these two
story hotels on wheels, where mis-
cellaneous travellers dwell In com
plete proniscuity, and sleep almost
side by side, In apartments. or COM
partm ents, separated only by plank
and a curtain, and guarded only by
one sleepy negro.
After the fashion OF the famous
country whose Inhabitants earned q
meager sustenance by taking In each
others washing, so 10 Sleeping Car
pathia We attain meager respecta'
bility by eYerybody'a chaperonins
everybody else.
SO topsy-turvied, indeed, are our
notions. once we are aboard a train.
that the staterooms alone are regard
ed with suspicion; we question tne
motives OF those who must have a
room to themselyes!-a room with q
real door, that locks!
And now, on this sleeping car, pref
tIly named "SnoWdrop," scenes were
enacting that would have thrown our
great-grandmothers into fts-scenea
which. If we found them In France, or
Japan, We should view with alarm as
almost unmentionable evid ence OF the
moral obliquity OF those nations.
But this was our own country-tne
part OF it which admits that 1t Is the
best part-the moralest part. the
staunch middle west. This was lii
nois. Yet dozens OF cars were behold
ing similar immodesties In chastes1
Illinois. and all over the map, thou
sands of people, in hundreds OF cars
were permitting total strangers 1c
view preparations which have always
hitherto, been reserved for the most
intimate and legalized relations.
The porter was deftly Transforming
the day-coach into narrow lane en-
tirely surrounded by draperies. BEHIND
nest of the portieres, futtering IN the
lightest breeze, and perilously follow
ing the hasty passer-by. homely OF
fees were being enacted. The popu
lation of this little town was going 70
bed. The porter was putting them 70
sleep as if they were children IN
nursery, and he black nanny.
The frail walls of little sanctums
were bulging with the bodies Oh PEG
pie disroh:ns. in the aisle Wild 'hote
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-03-25

first sackers. He is considered one OF
the brainiest and trickiest infie!ders
In the game. He probably will play
as a regular for the Browns while
Kutina, who made good showing
the last part OF the season. may ba
shifted to a different position.
Stovall was found in the Texas
league by Ted Sullivan. He comes OF
a baseball family and loves the game
for the games sake.
Lefty" George has been with the
St. Louis Browns for one season and
a part of another He was heralded
as sensation when he came to the
club, but poor health interfered with
his playing. Harry Davis considers
him a pitcher of considerable prom
Use. He will aid Vean Gregg, the
great Nap southpaw, as a port cider
on the Nap pitching staff.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-03-25
GEORGE STOVALL Is TRADED
Former Manager Of Cleveland kmeri'
cans Goes to st. Louis Browns
In Exchange for Pitcher.

Manager Davis of the American
league club announced he had traded
First Baseman George Stoyall to the
st. Louis club for Pitcher Lefty
George.
Stovall managed the Cleveland team
last year after the resignation OF Man
ager Jim Mcclure. and piloted ii 10
third place in the race. Stoyall bat
ted .27I and fielded 1876 last year
The announcement OF the trade
came as a big surprise TO many fans.
1t Is one deal that came as the result
OF the American league schedule meet
Ing in Chicago. The deal was sup
posed 10 be in the making. but all
efforts to get any information were
met by the answer: THE trade has
fallen through"
George Stoyall has been on the
block for barter ever since Harry
Davis attached his signature 10 con-
tract to manage the Maps. Stovalrs
great popularity after he had brought
the Maps from sixth place to third in
few months as manager and the i'm
probability of his playing as a regular
fastened his disposal.
With Lajoie playing first and Davis
for q substitute there was nc place Tor
the former Nap manager.
George Stovall IS still one OF the
best fielding first basemen in the
American league. He led the league
IN 1909 In the number OF assists Tor
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= betYeG them and the beholder's
eve but a clinging curtain that e1-
MANNED what 1t did not reveal. from
anert,,res here and there disembooled
feet we're protruding and mysterious
hands were removing shoes ana otner
things.
Women in risky attire were scoot-
ing to one end OF the car. and men III
sbirt sleeves, or less, were fastening
to the other.
When Mallory returned to the
"Snowdrop," his ear was greeted oy
the thud OF dropping shoes. He 1onha
Marjorie being rapidly imnured. ike
Poe's prisoner. In a jail OF closing
walls.
She was unspeakably Ill at ease
and by the irony OF custom, the one
person on whom she depended lor pro-
lection was the one person whose
contisuity was most alarming-and
all for lack of brief trialogue. with
a clergyman. as the tertium quiz.
When Mallory's careworn race ap-
Deared round the edge OF tue 6ll'''o4i
now erected between her and the
abode Of DR.. and Mrs. Temple. Mar
iorie shiyered anew, and asked with
ell anxiety:
did you find minister
Perhaps the Recording Angel over
looked Mallory's answer: Not
damn minister"
When he dropped at Marjorie's side
she edged away from him, pleading:
"Oh, what shall We do?'
He answered dismally and lnel'
fectiyely: Wen have 10 go on pre-
tending to be-just friends
But everybody thinks were mar.
ried."
That's SOL" he admitted, with the
imbecility OF fatigued nope They sat
a while listening to the porter slip
ping sheets into place and humping
Dlllows into cases, few doors down
the street. He would be ready FOR
them at any moment. Something must
bs done. but what? what?
(To he continued.)
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tion. Thg porter stared at her in
HELPLESS chagrip. Then be shuflied
back and murmured: Il reckon you
beta put her out"
Lathrop withered the coward WIN
one contemptuous look, and STROBE
down the aisle with q determined
grimness. He took his ticket lEom
his pocket as a clincning proof OF his
title, and thrust it out at Marjorie
She gave 1t one Indifferent glance and
then her eyes and mouth puckered, as
If she had munched a green perslh-
mon, and a long low wall like a ols-
tant engine-whistle, stole from ner
lips. Ira Lathrop stared at ner III
blank wrath, doddered irresoluteiy'
and roared:
"Agh let her have 1t!
The porter smiled triumphantly, ana
said: She says you kin have her
berth" He pointed at the Drloal ar
Dor. Lathrop almost exploded al tne
idea.
Now he felt hand on his shoulder
and turned to see Little Jimmie "eli-
ington emerging from his berth VILE
an enormous smile:
Say, Pop, have you seen lo'e'y
rice-trap? Stick around till she hops.
But Lathrop flung away to the
smoking room. Little Jimmie tuFneo
to t.le jovial negro:
Porter. porter"
I'm right by you"
What time d'you say we get 70
Reno?"
"Mawnin' OF the 10th day. san."
well call me just before we roll
in"
And he rolled in. His last words
Ao,ted down the aisle and met Mrs.
Little Jimmie Wellington just return
ing from the Women's Room, where
she had sought nepenthe in more than
one OF her exquisite little cigars. me
familiar voice, Familiarity bibulous,
smote her ear with amazement. she
beckoned the porter to her anxiousig.
"Porter, Porter! DO you Know
the name OF The man who inst hur-
ried in?"
Nom" said the porter. Il reckon
he's so broken up he amt got any
name left"
1T couldn't be-" Mrs. Jimmie museo.
"Thines can be sometimes" said
the porter.
you may make up my berth now
said Mrs. Wellington, forgetting that
Anne Cattle was still there. Mrs.
Wellington fastened to apologize, and
begged her to stay, but the spinster
wanted to be far away from the dis
turbing atmosphere OF divorce. she
was dreaming already with her eyes
open. and she sank into number Six
in a lotus-eater's reyerie.
Mrs. Wellington gathered certain
things together and took up her hano-
bag, to return to the Women's Room
inst as Mrs. Whitcomb came forth
from the curtains OF her own berth.
where she had made certain prelim-
inaries to disrobing. and put on a
light, decidedly negligee negligee.
The two women collided III the
aisle, whirIed on one another, as woln-
en- do when they jostle. recognized
each other with wild stares Of amaze
ment. set their teeth, and made a
simultaneous dash along the corridor,
shoulder wrestling with shoulder.
They reached the door marked
Women" at the same instant, and az
neither would have dreamed OF offer.
ing the other a courtesy. they
squeezed through together in g XII
kenny tumble.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-03-25
CHAPTER XII.
A Chance Encounter.

While Mrs. Temple was confiding to
her husband that the agitated couple
in the next seat had just come from
u weddlng-factory. and had got Oh
while he was lost in tobacco land. the
people in the seat on the other eide
OF them were engaged In a little
drama of their own.
Ira Lathrop. known to all who knew
him as q communicating snapping-tur-
tie, was so busily engaged trying to
drag the farthest invading rice grains
out OF the back Of his neck, that he
was late in realizing his whereabouts.
When he raised his head. he found
that he had crowded into a seat with
an uncomfortable looking woman, who
crowded against the window with old
maidenly timidity.
He felt some apology to be neces-
sary, and he snarled: Disgusting
things, these weddings!" After he
fleard this, 1t did not sound entirely
felicitous, so he grudgingiy ventured:
Excuse me-you married."
She denied the soft impeachment
SO heartily that be softened little:
You're sensible woman. l guess
you and ! are the only sensible peo-
pie on this train"
"It-seems-so,' she giggled. 1t
fwas the first time her splnstership
had been taken as material for COM
,pliment Something in the girlish
,giggle and the strangely young smile
that swept twenty years from her
face and belied the silver lines In.
her hair, seemed to catch the old
bachelors attention. He stared at her
$50 f1ercely that she looked about for
a way to escape. Then curiously
anxious. almost a hungry. look soft
.ened his leonine jowlS into q boyish
,eagerness, and his growl became a
sort OF grutf purr:
Say, you look something like an
old sweetheart-er-frien mine.
Were you ever in ,Brattleboro, VIZ
A flush warmed her cheek, and a
sense OF home warmed her prim
speech, as she confessed:
81 came from there originally"
$50 did t. said Ira Lathrop. lean
ing closer, and beaming like big
sun: II don't suppose you remember
Ira Lathrop?"
The old maid stared at the bachelor
as II she were trying to see the boy
she had known, through the mask that
time had modelled on his face. And
then she was q girl again, and her
voice chimed as she cried:
Why, lra!-Mr. Lathrop.--!s II
vou?"
She gave him her hand--both her
hands. and he smothered them In one
big paw and laid the other on for
extra warmth, as he nodded his sa"'
age head and roared as gentle as q
sucking dove:
sWell, we'll! Annie-Anne-Miss
Cattle! What do you think OF that?
They eosSiped across the chasm OF
!of years about people and things. and
knew nothing Of the excitement sc
iclose to them, saw nothing OF chicago
slipping back into the distance, witt
ats many lights shooting across the
windows like hurled torches.
Suddenly twinge Of ancient leal
lousy shot through the. mans heart
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-03-25
he Suns Only Rival
in Artificial Lighting

Brilliant artistic and economical Store and Window
r iohtnq can be obtained through the medium of
Mazda or Tungsten Lamps at a great deal less ex-
pense than with the old carbon fiIament lamps.
LET US SHOW YOU HOW THIS CANBE DONE
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-18
Making Young Americans

The of the British schoolboy of Cedar j. who
respectfully sauted the American flag, expelled from
school because he refused to allegiance it, deserves
and reflection
OF course all sensible Americans will sympahize with
boys father-who paid his and insisted his right
send his school And Of course all sensible Americans
will be glad learn that the boy has been reinstaed his
class by the overrulng power of state school board
But what is to be said of the shr and urbd Amecanism
of the local school authorities at Cedar Grove?
Can patriotism be packed into formal oats and imposed by
law? This be putting the before the horse Young
Americans in the public schools should be made understand
that their patriotism does depend upon the strength of
Iawthat the contrary the strength of the law depends
upon their patriotism.
One could wish that had been left foreigner
Cedar protest against the imposition of upon
a schooboy. Every American in should have protested
against it.
1t fine salute the flag and to learn freely love it and
glory it. But the American Schooboys in Cedar Grove
well the Young Bron, should refuse file affidavit
the subject
Nothing could more subyersye of democratic nstitu-
tons than this Cedar Grove kind of patriosm-wch stands
its head and kicks its heels in the air seeing eveyt thing
upside down
There is a professional kind of patriotism thar not pa
trotsm at all It's yawp of noeran devotion is the bayng
Of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-18
The Display of Automobiles
Is a Display of Human
Intellect and Progress

Man eternal struggle himself power
gravtaon be free physically and mentally from stagnaon
and inactivity The automobile gives power and know
the earth.
Do not fail to see automobiles exhibited at the
automobile show.
Get automobile if you You get that is
cheaper buy and cheaper keep than good horse and buggy
And the automobile will do times the work of the horse
you only buy ONE automobile BUY AN AMERICAN MA
CHINE.
The who makes his money America spends
for machine made abroad instead of helping American
facturers, is thoughtless, something
The automobile health millions in the present
and of millions the future For health largely ques
ton of oxygen absorbed And the automobile the great OXY
GEN DOCTOR
The automobile the blessing aged No sight finer
worthy of country than young man. prosperous
ing toward prosperity rolling along the country his
family including his old father mother both them the
with him.
Usually preach economy and sticking well within your
But make exception for the automobile If you
buy machine and only BARELY keep debt IT. Do
not wait until dead until your wife
to enjoy the fun.
GET YOUR MACHINE NOW.
And you the right you will get your money in
added health added knowledge of your country and especially
the inspiration that giving happiness others
The automobile destined make all human beings acquaint
ed with nature and with wide expanses of country.
The automobile will free creatures from sav-
And the automobile will free human beings from cruelty For
beats his automobile He knows what the horse driver
not know, that the fault is with himself.
The automobile is of the greatest
genius and to mans victory the law of gravtaon that would
keep glued to the same spo-if we would let it.
See the cars big and little, cheap and dear.
Get good you can buy-withn your Re
member that price does not always quality.
Get your THIS year Study ST. care
of it. add interest to your life give health your family
encourage American and humanitarian industry
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consul babe the priest devote to
the internal gods both the head Of
the Roman general and the army Of
the enemy; and, plunging into the
thick of the fight with his soldiers
the Gauls We're scattered like chaf
Disheartened by the flight of the
Gauls, the rest OF the allies gave
way, and the battle was over. Nine
thousand OF the flower OF the Rc-
man youth lay dead upon the field
and twice that number Of the best
and bravest of the opposition ay
with them.
1t was costly victory, but it
was worth all that was paid for IT,
The army Of the coalition was dis
solved, and with it the coalition
itself
The Romans were now the undi5-
puted masters Of Italy, and had
made the first great step toward
the conquest of the world. The
city of Romulus was now $50 years
old, and the national domain ex-
tended from the Cinmean Wood IN
Etruria to the middle of the Cam
pania. 1t was called the Ager Ro-
anmus (the Land of the Romans,
and had population of 290,0 men
capable of bearing arms.
Ten years after the browning vic
tory of Sentinum the celebrated
King Pyrrhus landed in Italy with
a great army of invasion. but, al
though owing to his remarkable
military genius, Pyrrhus for time
made some trouble for the Romans
he was soon disposed Of, and then
with the whole Italian peninsula
as a secure base, the Romans be-
gan to reach out for the world
empire which they finally secured
All thoughtful people are con-
WINGED that, as conditions then
were, it was we'll that that empire
was established. Ii was necessary
that the warning tribes and nations
should be unified and taught the
great principles of law and order.
The Romans did that: and they
We're able to do 1t only because
they beat the Samnites and their
allies al the battle of Sentinum.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-18
Battle of Sentinum
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

TINE battle of Sentinum, fought
2,2r7 years ago, had as many
great issues hanging upon it
as any battle recorded in history.
Had the battle resulted otherwise
than it did it is certain that the
whole course Of human history
would have been radically different
from what it is today.
The struggle of the Romans with
the Samnites and their allies,
which began 3. c. 1928. for the po-
litical supremacy Of the Italian
peninsula, ended at Sentinum SO
years later with victory for Rome.
Allied with the powerful Sam
mites were pretty nearly all the
peoples of Italy, and more than
once during the struggle was
Rome brought close to the brink
of destruction. At the Caudine
Forks the Romans We're made to
drink to the very bottom of the cup
of humiliation, and so great was
the depression among the future
masters of the world that all but
the most heroic of them felt that
the day of doom had surely come.
But the victory at Sentinum
more than atoned for all the rest.
In this epoch making battle about
10000 of the finest fighters then to
be found on the earth took part,
about equally divided between the
Romans and the allies
All day long and until we'll into
the night the opposing forces
fought like demons, each side
seeming to realize that it was to be
the great decisive struggle Of the
war. The Samnites We're as valiant
by nature as the Romans. and their
allies were all splendid soldiers,
and more than once during the day
ii seemed impossible to forecast the
result.
on the Roman right the allies
were holding their ground In splen-
did fashion. while on the left the
terrible Gauls were beginning to
nlav baV-o 18th - abi9---, of
Romulus, when, all at once. the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-18

fectionate yield to their fathers
and mothers silly opposition and
remain at home in perpetual bond
age and vassalage, children that
never grow up, but are kept in
mental pinafores even when their
hair is gray.
The inevitable result of keeping
any able bodied, grown-up woman
in tutelage and depriving her Of
legitimate vent for her activities is
bound to be disastrous. Ii is what
has made the appellation "old
maid" a term of reproach. For the
woman who has had no business
of her own, has poked her nose
into everybody else's business and
thereby stirred up trouble While
on the other hand there are no
women more broad minded, more
agreeable, or better liked, than
those unmarried women whose lives
are filled full of the absorbing in
terests of some occupation in which
they find a compensation for what
ever they have missed in matri-
mOny.
Another phase Of the situation
that parents overlook is this, that
the income that suffices to keep
n family comfortable when they are
all together will not support the
individual members in comfort
when they go their separate ways,
and thus many spinster is thrown
out on the world with a mere pit
lance to live on when her father
dies. She knows no way of MAX
ing a living, She is an amateur at
everything because she has only
helped her mother keep house. she
has only helped her sisters take
care of the children, she has only
worked in ladylike way at every
thing. And the result Of this anna
teurishness is starvation wages.
Pale Gray Spinster No More.
The time has come when par
ents need to face the real situa-
ton of woman in the present day.
They must realize that there are
just as many chances that their
daughters viii not marry as that
they will marry and have their
girls taught some way of making a
living just as much as they do their
boys.
And they must realize, if their
daughters do not marry, that they
must help, not hinder, them in find
ing the kind of work that they want
to do in the world. For no human
being, male or female, can be either
good or happy who has not some
absorbing interest in life, some
worthy object.
The day Of the pale gray anemic
spinster. who was content with the
husks Of existence, is gone by.
The modern unmarried woman de-
clines 10 be the family martyr. and
ii is time that her parents cease
trying to thrust that role upon her.
The bachelor woman doesn't propose
to lag supertiuous upon the stage
She wants to get busy and her IA L.
Their and mother should help her TO
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-18
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.

XE1HEN New York's immense
wv new aqueduct is completed
it will rank very high
among the engineering marvels Of
the world, and will measure up to
the civic magnitude and impor-
lance of the future metropolis Of
the earth. In some Of it's details it
is unmatched in human achieve
ment. The great slphon, carrying
an imprisoned river under the bed
of the Hudson at the Highlands,
and the supply tunnels that are to
come up 700 feet out of the rocks
underneath the city are works
worthy of the hand of nature her
self In their grandeur they recall
geological phenomena.
Where We Are Great.
But while we indulge a justifiable
pride in admiring these things, We
are in danger of exaggerating their
Importance We are apt to think
that such achievements are pecu-
liar to our age and time. We be-
come unjust and contemptuous to-
ward antiquity, which is a foolish
state of mind. because it leads us
to the erroneous conclusion that we
are incomparably greater than were
the men who built empires and
cities thousands Of years ago.
AS matter of fact we are great
er only in the mastery which adj
vancing science has given US over
certain details. We are greater in
some things and smaller in others.
Even in our own chosen field OF
mechanical science we must not
boast too heedlessly. Suppose that
some proud old ROman-let us say
of the days of DiOcletian-could
examine our new aqueduct We
should look in vain for any sign OF
amazement in his eyes when he
saw a vast city supplying itself
with water by bringing it from the
mountains many miles away. The
carrying of the water beneath the
bed of a broad river might interest
him, but he would not be surprised.
He would say:
This you have accomplished be-
cause you have a better way Of
making cement and better ma
chimes for penetrating the rocks
than we had But did not the Ro-
mans, centuries before my time.
drive a tunnel 5000 feet through
the lava rock of Mount Albanus to
let the waters out of its great
crater? l see nothing essentially
astonishing in what you have done.
We could, and would, have done
similar things if we had had the
advantage of two thousand years
Of progress. Upon the whole, I
think you have been rather slow.
Still Defy Imitation.
Consider what we had accom-
plished before the barbarians de-
scended upon US. We carried wa
ter to Rome from the mountains
forty miles away, and we built
nine great aqueducts, three of which
are still bearing water to Rome,