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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-25

NOTlCE-The regular annual meeting
~ OF the stockholders Of Nations al
Manganese Corporation will BIZ held at
the office Of the Company, l07 North
Fairfax street, OH Wednesday tho 3lst
day Of January, 1912, at eleven nD
O'Clock a. NJ, Tor the election Of officers
and the transaction OF any other bust
ness that may properly come before
the meeting.
J.. NJ. LA KkIN,
a SsiStaDt Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-25
CLASSIFIED ADS.
SPECIAL NOTICES

THE annual meeting OF the stock
l. holders OF the AIaihcrs-Lalnm
Paper Com pany, Incorporated, will be
held at the office Of the company, III :.
Fairfax street, Alexandria, Virginia, 1T
II o'clock III. Tuesday, February 9Th.
1917, to elect directors for the ensuing
year, rnd to transact such other bust
ness rs may properly come before tho
meeting.
ISAACL, LAMM. Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-25

NOTlCE-Thc regular meeting OF the
~ stockholders Of the Lyndhurst and
Sherando Railroad Company will be
held ut the Office Of the Company, lT
North Fairfax street, OH Wednesday
the 3lSt, day Of JANUARY, l9l2, at eleven
thirty nl.%0 20 clock Il. m. for the elec-
tlon of officers and the transaction OF
any other business that may properly
CONC before the meeting.
T.: NJ. LARkIN.
Assistant Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-25

When given as soon as The croupy
cough appears Chamberlain Cough
Remedy will ward off al attack OF
Group and prevent all danger and
cause of anxiety. Thousands OF moth
ers use it successfully. Sold by W.
r. Creighton and Richard Gibson.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-25
All Fixed.
Il think I'll propose ut the party "a

Il think I'll propose at the party u
night
Ec. you won't"
Why wont II"
Ny sister knows 'be young lady
IN the case. aud It has been arranged
for YOU to propose at the ball next
week. -Louisville Courier-J ourna.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-25
In Control.

man always likes to feel that he
u in position to reward his friends
ana punish his enemies
That's irus. replied Senator sor'
seum; sometimes | am tempted to
tsAe, position as ianitor Of rig
suilaiss
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-25

Fine Paper Hanging at very low
prices. Have it doue DOW before the
busy Scasou. uIce paper at DC per plecs
up. All work guaranteed satisfactory.
Window Shades made to order. Leave
order auu | will Gall with samples.
II, F.. WEBB
921 King Street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-25

al 10 minutes after train am
bIed in from somewhere. and, Keeling
from 1earin ess. We dashed TO the
sleeper end Of II. T wish | owned
this road. conhded 70 the Pull.
man conductor I'D like TO hack il
M with a little Ratchet and use II for
kindlins hun ne retorted. II /
owned il wouldn't take so much
trouble with it. I'd just step on II
and exterminate it,
After hurting umbrellas and suit
cases into our section and hndins
without doubt that 1t wasn't out sec
ton at all. because there vas a man
Ia the lover berth. who vas annoy ed
because the corner Of a suitcase land.
ed against his stomach. We finally go;
adjusted and snatched about two min.
utes Of sleep think IN the. midst OF
the switching and dumping and back
ing up. =
when ! woke up Ia the morning
at daylight ! looked at the scenery q
long time before j addressed Louise
Cilsst in shrIll whisper. She looked
nit and said =. weren't in Chicago,
wbsre wa were supposed to De. but
,+gtba junction twenty-five miles from
wh.re we had started. There was a
wreck ahead Of US, the porter told .us
cordially, and maybe Be could pro-
coed IN about Ave hours: -
That was when ny desire to NEE!
the president Of the road came into
exis,erce-anA In till living OF
hope"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-11

was the unnotced witness of their play soh, say" railroad and chawrins tobacker." There was genuine horror in Cecis tones: Maybe it would kill you to chawr tobacxer there's thing in it that's awful poison so you have to spit it out: and you'd spoil the rugs"
 Silly" retorted the small of the world. q got I wouldn't chawr real tobacker."
 Apparently he was proffering his sticky sweet to Cecil, for sOrrowful voice to Miss Wentworth:
 "NeverI Why not?'
 T prommussed my mother" he explained in tragic tones and what you prommus you must keep! That's what the king said"
 This lofty moral standard seemed to impress the yis some candy and thereat chewed away at the '' pro hibted dainty.
 benssa sss oa esay he .s.s sd s n al cause was good"
 But If envy gripped hard on CeciPs little heart stomaeh--the loyal creature gave no sign; he an- swered, with touch of of, scorn: Maybe you'll get rnodeyshun. Anyhow, I prommussed But didn't prommus not to play with matches, though they tried
 Say, Cecil, what makes you like to play with matches? Maybe you might set the house a6re."
 T did once," said Cecil with sombre pride.
 s amHst 3 as i hs beg t M boys had moved to the other end of the room, and only occasional words shaped themselves out of the back, and distinctly Miss Wentworth heard Cecil say:
 ''No, you don't know how. You mustn't! Taint safe" Then Elsa And little Godfrey went away.
 How extremely good Cecil was all that morningi He had sung his little kindergarten songs and when he had weared of them he scanpered up to Miss Went wo5t sa and lh{ begged her tG sing ;eethns
 @No, -Auntie, somc6n about prison"
 "Is it good sign bad that he should be think ing of prisons" his aunt wondered but making no comment, she sang out of year-dinmed memories, an old war lyric, and Cecils facile caught the melody. She heard him hummng:
 Tramp tramp. tramp, the boys are marcingi
 Cheer Up, timrades, they will comep
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-11
THE FIREBUG By OCTAVE THANET
 by Harper

anned the package of clippings which she found in the rght-hand corner of the desk. Setting fire to the valance of the bed, throwing matches into the basket plainly he IS going through the lst reflected Hester 'I wonder will he consider great-aunt proper substitute for paralytc grandmother"
 had lost faith in valiant and time-honored remedy The punishment of last resort she shrewdy suspected had been used before by Elsa of the strong hand Af ter little she went to Cecil He listened with polite and fatterng attention while she explained in small words of few syables and nearly kinder garten style of approach her unskjlled mind per- mtted, how wicked it was to destroy other peoples property She drew pathetic pictures of the suffering of burned child and Cecil nodded brightly, inter- posing: If you hit yousef hard it Is just like burn ing; only, fire is than spanking; but it IS that kind!" He spoke with the modest pride of the good child who willingly contributes his experience to the kindergarten There not trace of humiliation shrank closer his aunt at the sonnd of determined step on the tiles of the bathroom floor It Elsas step; it. Elsa's outraged expression that like red light of anger, seemed to precede her figure and the outstretched from which Imply depended wailing and writhing cat. Kitty in sorry case, great smooch her flank and her fur fattened and drenched with water At the instant Miss Car gill appeared, returning from her walk. She stood, amazed, in the doorway. Not word spoke Elsa; tragcally she extended the pathetic cat.
 "What does this mean? demanded Miss Cargi1. But Miss Wentworth thought that she knew and her calm face flushed with anger.
 He set the kitty afre dot wat it is, said Elsa. He tie her to forces of baftub an set her fire, an put her out py towels hembroidered towes-tzOo; dat Ventwort, Miss Cargil dey please kinder tell vat do like ask de plicemans to talk him to chails."
 Elsa kitty ain't hurted you give her to me-" Cecil spoke up, still very close to his aunt; and 1t was
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-11

singular how much the soft pressure of the small body inclined the lattefs heart to mercy; but she looked severely down at the little eager face and the little % Auntieh s Socs was ' earnest tied her sts tight to the forcets she couldn't jump and get away fire I put her out wiv the towel. The only reason she rnned away is cause she don't like being washed 'cept she washes her own self wiv her tongue; an guess she fought she was being washedw.
 "I think understand" said Miss Wentworth. "1i explain to you, Miss ,cargll we would better talk
 To-day as she sat by the window Miss Wentworth recalled almost every word of the little council of and she was admitted Miss Wentworth told the story of the warning but it appeared, actually seductive
 Then, for the first time Miss cargin opened her lips. "The explanation is quite simple ] wish the problem simple, she pronounced. "The chids imagination has been cultivated to It is of our azoms Miss Wentworth, that we should never speak in the cilds hearing of those forms of moral evil which lie beyond its experience This has been done"
 "Wel, how are we to help it? We have tried ap- pealing to his conscience and 1t hasn't worked We have tried-or, rather, we might try good spank
 SDat yunt vurk neider," pronounced Elsa, gloomily.
 "The proper thing, of course"-Miss Cargin at tackled the dilemma with assured countenance and in a firm voice, yet, some wise one of her hearers suspected that she displayed all of her confidence and had reserves-"the proper thing is restraint. He must find that he dangerous that he cannot be tolerated at liberty Elsa has plan which may prove ecacous, although 1t is not entirely according to methods"
 Thereupon Elsa unfolded her scheme; and Miss Wentworth consented.
 But the great-aunt hoped it might not need to be used For several days indeed, it had seemed as if Miss Cargilrs serious lecture and the prospect of held forth by Elsa and confirmed by the teacher must have affected the small incendary But he was watched necessarily, and every match in reach confscated. So possibly, Miss Wentworth admitted. conscience nightly reinforced by lack of oppor tunity
 She found herself all the same, growing fond of her responsibility; he gentle SO affeconate so interested in everything; as she wrote to Patience Holworthy, he was the flower of the kindergarten training, and he had only this thorn.
 This very morning, she remembered he had im- pressed her pleasantly. A small chum had been al- chidrens garden, who said bad words, nor was disobedient, cruel to animals! The name of this paragon Godfrey Loomis, and his mothers beauti- full motor-car left him at the door, The children were playing with assortment of "gfts" pre- serbed by the Master, under the supervision of Elsa the vgilant. Elsa had left the room for moment to refresh them with innocent luncheon of biscuit
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-11

aHe is evidently impressed" explained Miss Car: gill The prison thought has been given him. and he is working upon it with his own iaaeinaton This
 Alas therein Miss Cargil was mistaken. Not three minutes later Elsa appeared, followed by Lena the Mss % ssy please norteas room, ballroom! he in bat-room lock up,
 Maybe he will burn hisseff to def, and we can't get at him !" walled Lena.
 As the four elders stood heplessly without, sweet matches, chanting:
 "In the prison Sally sits Finking n1udder dear of you
 Yum tum tum tumtitum ii do!
 And the tears they fill my eyes spite of all that
 tan do
 If tries to sheer my tumrades and be gay"
 Miss Cargl sent her voice above the dolorous music: cecill Are you there? Will you please come cecirs answer through beautiful curly maple
 They isn't all snapped up yet. I'll come in a .ninuteF"
 How did this happens" asked Miss Cargitl.
 T suppose he got m the matches from that little the natural desire to shift the blame from ones q dare say he'll go home and set the house a6re
 "Miss Cargl wish me to speak to the plcemans?" ?"
 "very well,S said Miss Wentworth .but first. let's have him out. He may burn himself; he can't very we'll set tiled bathroom afre."
 "But there's towels; he kin burn towels, remarked Elsa with gloom; towels belonged to Elsas partic- Already the efficient Miss Cargill had despatched word to the coach1an and the chauffeur but before their suppressed grins appeared the top of lad der the cuprit emerged and fled to the bed of justice And this is why Miss Wentworth sat by the window and the kindergarten library and altered the of her mind.
 This sinaile is suggested by the lady herself; she took in solitary machine chuck1ing and grooming up it. "The hill you can't make on the high gear you may make on the fowl" thought Hester Wentworth. She put down her book and took up bundle of letters. The letters from her neice Agatha. Miss Wentworth had confined herself to postals. She had said that Cecil was well and the household rum ming smoothly, but she had not enlarged-to be quite frank she had mentioned Cecils falls from grace. Miss Cargilrs conscience of less maleable metal; she had written with absolute and literal fidelity, meyer slurrng lapse. Mrs. Barnes's answers were prompt. She wrote daily. She full of remorse for the trouble that she causing her aunt she ai most fevershly unhappy about the child Could it be the beginnings of insanity? Did Aunt Hester think they should send Cecil to sanatorium? Her worry swallowed up her thanlfuness about her mother, whose operation had been most successful
 "How seriously she takes everything! wender if
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-11

rSS HESTER WENTWORTH sat by the window in her niece's charming bedcham-
 Der; and while her eyes absently took in the broad white driveway emerging from the porte-cochere and slipping gradually
 down the hillside to the street, she was conscious of the martyrs crown priclsing her brow In her hand she held bulky black volume. The title was visible; it
 was Kindergarten and Child Culture. On the table by Miss Wentworth's side were several other volumes of imposing aspect, and in a bookrack at her elbow the famous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29
MISS MARTHA COLLIER
 A HOSTESS AT HEARTS

Hearts is favored game for the young people of the school set and has been the feature of many happy after noon. It is particularly appropriate now that Halloween is approaching. Yes
 terday Miss Martha Collier celebrated Ter 12th birthday with a party at which this game was the feature. The l.. W. Coi- Her residence was gracefully decorated to do honor to the little lady who was a flawless hostess to the score or more of friends who shared the pleasures of the afternoon. Red hearts were used as score cards and flowers of the same shade were employed with other red ac- cessories in the tasteful decorative scheme. A salad course and an ice fol- lowed the conclusion of the games. A Parisian ivory puff box was the score trophy. Those whom Martha asked to be with her on her birthday were Miss Will bur Leake. Miss Mary Patterson, Miss Elizabeth Cornell. Miss Eleanor Murdoch, Miss Anita Latady, Miss Ethel Latady. Miss Jewel Camp. Miss Lucille Martin. Miss Helen Davis. Miss Virginia Jemiso.,. Miss Katherine Lynch. Miss Ebbie Has, senger. Miss Rosa Wilson, Miss Annette Hoyt, Miss Kate Smith. Miss Martha Prince, Miss Jennie Hammond Copeland, Miss Caroline Copeland. Miss Elizabeth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29
SEMI-MONTHLY DANCE
 AT UNIVERSITY GLIB

With little diversion other than week. ly visit 10 the vaudeville shows the club furnishes grateful entertainment for at least two or three evenings each week. There is the semi monthly dance at the University club, which is a joyous event for the dancing element allied with that pleasant organization, though 1t comes but every other week.
 Thursday night the usual simple affair was enjoyed There was not a crowd and that made the dance more plea sa mt for those who were there. Among them were Miss Virginia McDavid who lad but reached town that afternoon and was giving merry greeting to old friends whom she had missed during her stay in Eu- rope, and her pretty cousin. Miss Rose owen McDavid, who was out for almost grippe, and Mrs. Robley Munger, who has also been away for a little while, and Miss Julia Penn. an attractive visitor from Virginia Mrs. Archie DeBow, Miss Florence Coffin, Miss Dorothy Johnson Miss Evelyn Reynolds and some of the others who are always welcome members of a dancing party. besides an unusually large number of the clubmen. amou, them MT. Robert McDavid, Jr., Mir Glenn Harris, Kennon Bowling. MT. Francis Weiss, MT. James Scriven, MT. John Simpson, Mir. Robinson. Mr. Jack Fred MT. Douglass Henry, Mir. Roland Lide MT. George Wilkes, MT. Ernest Sifford Mir. Steele Andrews, MT. Watson An drews, MT. Alwyn Lewis. Mir. Cary Baker MT Davis. MT. Julian, Bibb, Mir Martin Lidc and Mir. Clyde Hunter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29
A CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA
 DOING GOOD WORK

Did you know that a fine crop of violinists had sprung up In Birming- ham? That is what they suggest when you sit behind them, as I did the other night, and listen to them play; a fine fiourishing crop of violinists. Fancy twenty boys and girls, sitting together in a little studio and playing the va rious parts that go into the raaking of the Marche Funebre or Schumann's Slumber Song or Handers Largo. The studio isn't big, the students aren't big either, nor, if the truth be told Is the master; but gathered together and with their bows in motion the room seems fairly bursting with them as they and the music swelling and swell ing and just pouring out into the little hall of the Watts building. And before you know it MT. Thomasons juvenile orchestra looks as big as MT. Dam roschs.
 They began with just a quartette of MT T, M. Thomason's pupils, but as his classes grew in size and proficiency he added to the number meeting for en- semble work and now after almost a year under his direction the class is really doing excellent work There arc with the little people one or two grownups, but these are qualified to play in the childrens orchestra only as beginners. There is another ensem- ble class for advanced pupils but that is, of course, not unusual; this one with it's tiny tots, and others a bit larger, and with them one or two grownups content to learn their simple lessons for the sake of a great love of music is an important peg in the musical
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29
ANNUAL MEETING OF
 MISSIONARY UNION

The annual meeting of the Baptist Woman's Missionary union will be held at the Fifty-sixth Street Baptist church. Woodlawn station, Wednesday, october ?, at 10 o'clock. The programme, morning anf afternoon sessions. with box luncheon served at 1 o'clock, includes the following:
 1O:O0-Devotional service. led by Mrs. J. M. Hankns: repeating in concert of Ala bama watchword. John 15:S.
 Prayer, by Mrs. J. w. Willis.
 Words of welcome, Mrs. W. M. Ander- son.
 Response, Mrs. Sumter Lea.
 Talk, "Our Immediate Task Mrs. s. l.. Webb.
 Repeating in concert, Luke 1916; Eccle. Talk, "Redeemng the Time" Mrs. c. A. Stakeley. Report of superintendent.
 General discussion, state w. M. U. work. Library. Mrs. H. E. Dalby.
 Standard of Excellence, Miss Sallie Vail. Tithing, Mrs. A. k. Wright.
 Personal service from the missionary viewpoint. Mrs. Vines,
 Our apportionment considered monthly, Mrs. F.. P. Dunham.
 Report of district superintendent Of mis- sions, Mrs. J, E. Barnes.
 Report Of district superintendent Of T. W. A. work, Mrs. Stamps.
 Report of district superintendent of sum- beams, Mrs. M. E. Bell.
 Morning service closed with service in memory of Miss Julia Ward, correspond- ing secretary-treasurer of the Alabama w. NJ. U., by Mrs. T. H. Johnston.
 1:3O D. m.-Devotional service. led by Mrs. J. F. Wood.
 Repeating in concert of southern w NJ. U. watchword. Matt. 2s:20.
 Prayer, by Miss Alice Hale.
 Talk, Our State Work" Mrs. Gwylym Herbert.
 Blackboard drill. "Our Home Mission Work" Mrs. w. P. McAdory.
 Talk on Foreign Missions, Mrs. Ed Lykes.
 Talk Bearing Fruit in Every Good Work Mrs. c. A. Stakeley.
 Business session.
 Report of committees.
 Singing of doxology.
 Repeating in concert the Mizpah bene- diction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29
By MYRTLE MILES

It Is not often that southern girl steps out of her happy environment in a brisk southern city and whisks away to demand a place in New York journ- alism. We of Birmingham and Atlanta are prone to be complacent about our respective surroundings, to think that it's all very well to go away for a visit, chiefly that we may more keenly appreciate home when we return to it. Nannette Lincoln, clever Atlanta girl, was one of tho exceptions. Not con- tent with the south. she lived In At lanta, not Birmingham--though she still loves it. she sought a broader hori- zon and, with little luggage other than a press pencil landed few years ago in New York city. Such course re- quired courage of a southern girl for tradition means much even today when many of the southern pre1udices are forgotten, and 1t required self confi- dence surely. More than that success asked not only ability but tremendous energy and infiite patience. But Miss Lincoln was prepared to give all that, and this Is why her work appears on
  exacting journals of the metropolis.
 = Before going east, Miss Lincoln was editor of the woman's page of the Att fanta Evening News; after going to New York she published. weekly. spe- cial articles in the same paper for some time. Fashion articles for the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate com posed her first work in New York. but later she became fashion writer and editor, as well as special writer and Interviewer for the New York Evening Mail When the "Gothamite," a week ly society fashion and art journal, was launched she was it's society and fash Ion editor. and continued so until 1t discontinued it's publications she re- tains its bound copies as one of her cherished possessions, and refers to 1t with the affection that one voices in speaking of a deceased child.
 Last winter many of Miss bincoln's friends here among former Atlantians and those who knew her at the Yors- toun during her former residence at that place in New York, unwittingly read her fashion articles In the Delin- cator for which she expended most of her efforts during the season. Signed articles in Bit and Spur. Rider and Driver. Munsey's Scrap Book, Social Life and other fashionable publications s sften ring with the originality of her
 terary style and she has had feature
 ge stories in the New York Ameri-
 n, New York Sun, as well as syndi-
 ated articles in many of the southern .and middle west papers.
 So she may be said to have arrived; but success is sure to como if one wants it badly enough and is willing to ntake enough sacrifices-and Nannette Lincoln works very earnestly. In her cunning little eyrie down on SiXty- ninth street, New York; I found her this summer. composing her notes for a fashion journal. Her apartment is typical of bachelor girl who is alto eether grlish and fond of frivolity but suggestive, too. of the work day side of her life. It has living room that in that city of cubby hole apartments she regards as a marvellous treasure; a tiny dining room and kitchen which suggests rather chafing dish suppers than the serious business of living. She shares the apartment with her