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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12
Police Court
(L. II. Thompson. presiding.)

Randolph Jones, charged with dis,
orderly conduct and fighting, forfeit
ed his collateral by failing to appear
A white man, charged with assault
was dismissed, the charge having
been withdrawn.
Henry Lewis, colored, charged with
assaulting Rachel Williams, also
colored, was fined $40.
George Levigene, charged with
throwing rock into the house OF
Mary Belmont, was fined $50.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12
Mrs. Schley's Pension.

Washington, Aug. 12.-The Senate
adopted a conference report g.V3ns
Mrs. Annie R. Schley, widow OF the
late Winfield S. Schley, a pension OF
500 per month.
It was originally proposed by the
Senate to allow Mrs. Schley Sl5O a
month, but House forced a reduc-
ton.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12
SUNDAY SCHOOL LEAGUE.
PRESBYTERIAN VS.. Methodist Tomorro"
st. Marys VS.. Del Ray Baptist
On Thursday.

The game scheduled to be played
at the Base Ball Park next lhnrs-
day, August Is, between the Del
Ray Baptist Church team and st,
Marys Church team OF this city,
promises to be an exciting contest,
as the County lads are coming 10
town with q bunch of players VINO
are determined to win their hrst
game in the series for the champion
ship of the Sunday School League
and, although they have met defest
in the two games played with the
city boys, think it is about time TO
wake up" as they have been prac-
ticing hard to give their team an
honorable place in the League col
umn of winners Of positions at the
close of the season, are sure they
will be some where near the top.
The st. Marys "hustlers" say they
are going to show their county
cousins" how to play the good old
game, and if the visitors take their
scalp" 1t will not be through any
fault of theirs, as they want the game
and are determined to win 1t.
NOTES
The Sunday School Base Bail
League of Alexandria, Va, is now
in existence, and, no doubt will prove
success. The officers are hne
body OF gentlemen whose sole pur-
pose is to give the young amature
base ball. players a chance to I'M
nroye themselves in playing the ma
tionaI game, and, at the same time
aid them mentally and physically
The captains and members OF all
teams should work in harmony and
avoid causing their superiors en-
barrassment by quarreling over de-
cisions made in good faith, by UNI
pires who have the contests. The
umpires who officiated at previous
games have acted in an Impartial
manner to all teams, and have tried
to be honest in their decisions, and
no doubt, may have made mistakes
at times, but are conscientious men,
and are entitled to the respect OIL
all base ball players, and should
never be insulted when they are act
ing the role of umpires.
If the members of all teams in the
League will follow these few words
of advice the Sunday School Base
Ball League will be a success and
will be a credit to Alexandria. /
Obey the orders of the executive OIL
ficers. 2 Treat the members OF
rival teams in courteous manner
Do your best and always try to
win. Shosld you meet defeat 1t Is
no disgrace, but be more determined
TO be successful the next time.
Pc punctual and never delay game
bv being late. 5 Remember the
| fans" are the folk who give fnan'
cial aid to the teams and without
their help no club can be success
full, so do not keep them waiting
If you do, they may not come
again.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12
AWAIT ARRIVAL Of
SAM | SCHEPPS
Alleged Paymaster of Muir
derers Arrested at Hot
Springs.
ELATED AT CAPTURE
New York Authorities Believe Pris-
ones VIII Tell All He Knows of
Police Graft.

New York, Aug. 12.-Thrills OF
varying emotion, beginning in the West
Side prison and extending dowr
through the Tombs and thence to
Police Headquarters today await the
expected arrival in New York of Sam
Franklin alias Schepps, alleged pay.
master of the Rosenthal assassins
Jack Rose, "Bridgie" Webber" and
Harry Vallon, in the West Side pris.
on were said to be apprehensive OF
Schepps since a letter from him to
Rose, confiscated in Hot Springs,
Ark, where the fugitive was arrest
ed, apparently indicated that the
prisoner was not wholly in accord
with their stories told to District At
torney Whitman and might not back
them up.
In the Tombs it was said that Lieut.
Becker was deeply interested in the
capture of Schepps and at headquar-
tiers there was open dissatisfaction.
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty, de-
clared he knew nothing about the cap
ture and said that Schepps was not the
prisoner of the police and would not
be.
The office of the District Attorney
however was clearly elated at the
capture and it was believed that the
arrival of Schepps in New York would
throw considerable light on the MUIR
der graft investigation.
When he was taken at Hot Springs
Scheps was said to be i'll, exhausted
from worry and almost penniless,
and the belief today was that he
would tell all he new. The alderman
ic probe of the graft charges against
the police department following in the
wake of the Rosenthal murder today
began officially with the meeting OF
the probers to select counsel.
Hot Springs, Ark, Aug. l2.-Sam
Schepps arrested in conection with the
Rosenthal murder in New York anc
who is said to have handled the mon
ey paid to the actual murderers OF
TIE gambler will probably leave fol-
New York this afternoon accomp-
anied by representative from the
Office of District Attorney Whitman
schepps insisted to the authorities
that he be turned over only to mer
from the district attorneys office say
;,p that he feared the "police gang
would kill him if he fell into thell
hands.
"There are thousands Of police II
Now York who would be out of the
wav if they thought they could 90 II
and get away with it," Schepps de-
clared.
schepps is badly broken up over the
fact that he has finally been drawn
into the case: he says he did MOI
sanction the killing and denies ina
he handled the money.
He has indicated, however, tha'
once in New York before District Al
torney Whitman he will tell all NJ
knows, although he thinks the o'her
have talked too much.
GAS Mr.. Franklin of California
schepps was entertained in high SO
ciety here for a few days, and MS ai
rest caused sensation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12
Accident to a IRAN.

New York, Aug lz'-oevera
hundred men and women were shaken aSet
,,a and had narrow escapes today
when the train known as the bank'
ars M snec;ap that daily brings wea':
elr .s,, onn,nters from Long Island sounc
towns was derailed in the fark ave
.,ns tunnel at Fiftyffth street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12
N ews S Of t h e D a y
Initiating what he said he had seen

Initiating what he said he had seen
in moving pictures, four-year-old Leo
Avery, son of Merton Avery, of Au-
burn,N. Y, picked up a revolver he
found lying on a mantelpiece in his
home yesterday and fired bullet in
to the brains Of his two-year-old
brother, Floyd, killing him instantly
The father of the boy, who is night
watchman at factory, left the revol-
yer where he thought it out of reach.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

Walter C. Foster has appointed Har
ry D. Kirk an expert accountant in eN-
aiming the accounts OF the receivers
of the Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust
Corporation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

Several thousand people yesterday
afternoon saw 1S-year-old Elizabeth
Lebar, a baloonist, drown in Lake
Michigan, Muskegon, Mich. Her par
achute landed in the lake, and by the
time rescuers arrived in boats the
young woman had disappeared.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

The Cameron baseball team of West
End, defeated the Lloyd Reds yester-
day by score of II to 8. The bat
ting of the Cameron's featured. It.
ner of the Cameron's pitched a very
much better game than the score in
dicates.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12
Local Brevities

At meeting of the Holy Name So
ciety of St. Mary's Church last night,
arrangements were made for the pur-
chase of musical instruments for the
band recently organized among men,
bers of that organization.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

John Dugan, who was struck by a
train at the intersection of Duke and
Union streets last week, had three of
toes amputated Saturday at the AL
exander Hospital. DR.. Warfeld per-
formed the operation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

A deed was recorded in the clerks
office of the Corporation Court today
from John NJ. Johnson, special COM
missioner, to w. A. Barnett, conveying
to the latter house and lot No. 115
King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

The crop of cantaloupes this year
has been far above the average. Many
ore of fine variety and sold at moder-
ate prices.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

X Examined and found correct
VIM. NJ. SMITH, Chr'm of Board
HARRY D. KIRK, Clerk
WI SWEENEY, Division Supt'
Finance Committee. II: lhom'
CON cbairman; P. NJ. Bradshaw j.
Gilbert Cox.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

AS Barnet Mirsky was charging
the tanks on his soda fountain yester-
day in Passaic, N. Y, one of them
exploded, killing him almost Instant
ly.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

The schooner Rosa. Pearl, loaded
with lumber for the lower Potomac by
Henry X. Field & Co., has sailed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12
w. F. Powell, of Clifton Forge illeo
, notition in bankruptcy today. La
b;,;ties SIT, ,O5O.29; assets $l5,329'

~ was cured of diarrR9;sio G@;ia * };hoIere %re
dose Of chamberiain'Si G"tir; tr,;,cs M NJ r. !.
and Diarrhoea RG,ne"Gsr; srborc Is nothinl:
h.ttnr '.nnitr"'' For i sale by all dealers. adv
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

The schooner R. F. Bratton, from
North Carolina with lumber to
Henry X. Field & Co., has arrived.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

Fighting a seventy-mile hour gale
with their aeroplane dipping ana
swavinp until it seemed likely at any
minute to turn turtle, Harry Blng-
ham Brown and J. Jordan Wiison'
the latter a passenger, battled WIN
the wind for ffty-seven minutes yes
+ordav and managed to make sate
landing at Hampstead, N. Y. Flying
against the wind, the aeroplane S'oou
st;Il. going with the wind, Brown de-
clares they made $50 miles an houf'
At short periods the machlhe was
even driven backward.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

Accused of numbering her huspana
for his money and life insurance less
than a week after her marriage 10 10
him Mrs. Freda frost, 40 years ola'
was arrested last night in Phllaoel-
mia William frost, "A years oiu'
tbe woman's second husband, was
n,arried to her on August l. he dieu
on August 7, and telephone mes
.aoo informed the coroncrs oh'ee
tba+ his death was due to trolley ac-
o;dort The coroner's physician
t,orover, insisted on holding an au-
+onsv and. it is alleged, found traces
IS noisoning in the stomach. fur'l.ei
in,estioation is said to have us
n,osod that the dead man had maoe q
vii leaving his estate, valued "'
ee ooO to the woman now uhaeF "t
ract
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

Tomorrow afternoon at the ball park
at 500 o'clock, the Southern Meth
odist baseball team will line up
against the Presbyterian nine. These
two teams are considered two OF the
host in the League and fast game
is expected. 'Boe' Cox, the stat
slab-artist of the c. A. c. will be on
the firing line for the S. NJ. and
Owens will be at the receiving end
.1ummy" Raison will toe the slab
for the Presbyterians and Hayden OIL
Nails will do the back-stopping job
'Arrow"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12
CITY SCHOOL REPORT
Financial Statement Shows That S24,
7O5.71 Was Spent on Schools
Last Year.

The city school board has issued its
annual financial report for the year
1911-1912 which shows that the sum of
24,7O5.71 was expended for school pur
poses during that time. The report is
as follows:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

Steamed crabs at Rammel Cafe to-
day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12

1t would be a treat for the fans
if the Hon. Harry B. Cation could be
induced to act as an umpire in the
Sunday School League series. He
knows the game from A to and
would be most valuable as an arDlt-
er Think it over, Judge. the boys
would be pleased to have you.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-12
Receipts.

Balance on hand from 19lO-1l l.4o
Amount received from State
School Fund ....... SSOO4.23
Amount received from City
Eund 100000
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-11-07
Winter Hats.

Most picturesque and becoming are
the new plush and velour hats for the
autumn and early winter which are
now being shown in the smart shops.
The hats are in small, medium and
large shapes, quite soft, so that they
can be rolled and crushed TO suit the
face of the individual wearer. There
are small hats with high round
crowns folded in around the top.
Two-toned velour hats are among the
newest models and there is an irid-
escent blue and black plush hat which
is most striking and becoming to the
average woman. A large sombrero of
green velour with a facing of black
velvet is trimmed with black leath-
er belt, dull leather with gilt buckle.
The shape is extremely smart. A
rather high-crowned narrow brimmed
hat of two-toned iridescent plush is
in blue and black. The hat has
crown Of shot silk and is trimmed
with two made plumes of the plush. A
small black plush hat, extremely dash
ing in effect, has white satin band
inside the brim and three fancy black
feathers at one side.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-11-07
NEW MATERIAL FOR fEGLIGEE
Madras Curtains Make Up Into ths
Very Finest Boudoir Garment
That Can Be Devised

IL you are needing a new negligee
don't seek for the material for it il
the dress goods department of your
favorite shop, but go to your house
furnishing merchant. He will have
precisely what you need-a pair OF
extra curtains in madras-that he'll
sell for a song. If they are Of white
or cream or black, large-fgured in
pale blue, light green or vivid cer1se,
so much the better for you. They'll
make up into stunning negligee OF
the sort that cut in two pieces, and
slipping on over the head, buttons
from throat, to shoulder tops and halt
way down the outer side Of the XII
mono sleeves, with oriental beads of
huge size and lurid tone enhanced
with fecks of gold. About the throat
and the edges of the sleeves place
heavy cordings in silk matching the
color of the figure on the madras,
but use no further trimming. The
material trims itself. A negligee in
this design is unquestionably modest.
1t falls straight from the shoulders
to the toes, does not cling to the fig
ure and may be flung on in a second
of time above princess slip OF tat
feta or lawn.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-11-07
DR.. CALDWELL'S GUIDE
TO GOOD HEALTH

The natural tendency of people In
this busy age to demand of the d.
gestive organs more than nature in
tended they should perform, frequent
ly results in throwing the entire di-
gestive system into disorder. When
the stomach fails to freely digest and
distribute that which is eaten, the
bowels become clogged with mass
of waste and refuse which ferments
and generates poisonous gases that
are gradually forced into the blood,
causing distress and often serious Ill
ness.
DR.. w. B. Caldwell says that II the
bowels are kept regular there will be
much less sickness, and prescribes a
combination Of simple laxative herbs
with pepsin that is most effective in
relieving any congestion of matter In
the bowels. This compound can be
bought in any drug store under the
name of DR.. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin,
and costs only so cents bottle. 1t is
mild in it's action, pleasant to the
taste and positive in effect, dose at
night bringing relief next morning.
naturally and without gripping or 9TH
err discomfort. A bottle of DR.. Cald.
wells Syrup Pepsin in the house will
save many times it's cost in doctor
bills. Your name and address on a
postal to Dr. w. B. Caldwell, 203 West
ST., Monticello, ILL.,, will bring free
trial bottle by return mail. Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-11-07
Open Air Schools Grow in Favor.

With the opening of the fall school
term, over 200 open air schools and
fresh air classes for tuberculous, and
anaemic children, and also for all chill
dren in certain rooms and grades, will
be in operation in various parts Of the
United States according to the Nation
al Association for the Study and Pre-
vention OF tuberculosis. All Of these
schools have been established since
January, 1907, when the first institu-
ton of this character was opened in
Providence, r. l. On January 1st
$780, there were only Is open air
schools in this country and year
later the number had increased only
to 20. Thus, the real growth in this
movement has been within the last
two years. Massachusetts now leads
the states with SO fresh air schools
and classes for tuberculous, anaemic
and other school children, Boston
alone having over 80. New York comes
next with 20, and Ohio is third with
81. Open air schools have now been
established in nearly so cities in 10
different states.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-11-07
FIRST SCULPTOR is FOUND

DR.. Captain, professor at the Col
lege de France, has had the good for
tune to discover the remains of the
first sculptor in the world, buried at
the foot of his masterpiece, executed
some 10000 years ago.
Last year the archaeological world
was deeply stirred by the unearthing
under the pick of Dr. Lalanne of Bor-
deaux of a prehistoric Venus, carved
In the native rock of a grotto near
Lauselle. The rocky pocket in which
this momentous discovery was made
was filed with archaeological deposits,
bones OF animals, especially reindeer,
which were common game for the
hardy hunters of the Magdalenian
epoch in Dordogne. Many utensils
of the hunter, the fisherman and the
artist were also found-delicate
chisels, scrapers, harpoons and spears
of bone.
Most of these, evidently, could only
have served for the hunt, the house,
the kitchen or warfare; but there were
others mingled with them, exception
ally big and heavy-whose use remain
ed unexplained until the dust of ages
having been cleaned from the wall of
NAMED unexplained from the wall of
the grotto, five life-sized horses, cut
in the rock in free and living work
manship, were revealed. The excava-
lions were continued and soon spade
struck on the skull of the author. The
old artist lay crouching on his left
side, something in the attitude of
Robins statue, "The Thinker" which
stands outside the Pantheon at Paris.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-11-07
SHOULDER STRAP COMES BACK
Modistes Return to Style of a Few
Years Ago, Which Has Much
to Recommend It.

You remember the jumper dress
that women liked a few years ago?
1t was virtually skirt; wide girdle
and shoulder straps, and was worn
over blouse of washable fabric. Well,
1t is here again in a charming re-
vival of style, having profited by its
respite, according to the New York
Press.
Modistes have launched few mod
els of the dress that has braces" or
suspenders, and it bids fair to be one
of the features that spell practical
beauty. From comparatively small
piece of material and a variety OF
separate chiffon, net or washable
blouses, this new favorite will assure
a change of dress at little expense.
Shoulder straps are seen on some
of the advanced blouse models, show
ing that this idea has been seized by
designers as a welcome change for
the perennial favorite. These extern
sions are generally of the same ma
terial as the girdle and act as con-
trast over lace and tulle.
Buttons are used as trimming on
these shoulder straps with great eff
feet. They afford excellent. back
ground for continuing any decorative
idea.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-11-07
WEAKENING CHURCH SLEEPERS

One John Rudge IE on record as
having bequeathed to the. parish of
Trysull, in Shropshire, England,
twenty shillings a year to be paid to
"a poor man" employed to go about
church in summer to keep people
awake.
At another English church, that of
Acton in Cheshire, it was the practice
during the middle of the last century
for one of the church wardens to pro-
coed through the church during serv-
ice with huge wand in his hand.
wherewith, If any one of the congre-
CATION were observed to be asleep he
was instantly awakened by tap on
the head.
In Warwickshire a similar custom
prevailed. A warden bearing a stout
wand shaped like hayfork at the
end stepped stealthily up and down
the nave and the aisles and whenever
he say an individual asleep he
touched him so effectively that the
nap was broken-this being some
times accomplished by the applica-
ton Of the fork to the nape OF the
neck.
A more playful method obtained in
another church. The beadle went
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-11-07

This prayer-book, "Office de la d.
vine Providence a PUsage, de la
Maison Royale de Saint Louis. a
Saint Cyr ct de Tous les Fideles"-
has been identified as relic of Marie
Antoinette, and contains probably the
last words she wrote before her execu-
ton on October 16, 1898. The inscrip-
ton, which is on the back Of page 219
and in the Inflated queens writing
reads (translated) This day, Octo-
Der 16, at 4:30 in the morning. Ny
God! have pity c7, me. My eyes no
longer have tears to shed for you, my
poor children. Goodbye, Marie An
toinette." The prayer-book, which
has been in the museum at Chalons-
sur-Marne for long wr!ie and has
only just been recognized ecr what it
undoubtedly is, was printel in Paris
in 1857. There are various signs Of
mutilation during the revolution; the
fieur-de-lis on the binding has been
erased and ornaments have been de;
faced.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-11-07
INVENTION OF LAZY MAN

We see stories of the meanest men,
the stingiest,. the LATEST, etc., but
klamath Falls, Ore, has combination
of laziness and inventiveness hard to
excel
This genius likes to sTeer with his
windows up and curtains as well, but
he does not enjoy getting up early
His bedroom faces the east. and his
slumbers are disturbed by the early
rising sun. He has attached weights
to the curtains which are released
when the sunbeams strike a sensitive
plate attached to machinery which acts
on pawl, releasing the weights. To
check the sudden stop of the weights
so that there is no unnecessary jar or
noise in the working of the mechanism
a spring holder has been attached.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-11-07
HAS SEA GULL FOR A PET

Louis II. Hamm of Bangor, Me-, has
a strange pet, a sea gull, the survivor
of a pair, which has attracted great
deal OF attention on his lawn at his
home The other gull, when 1t was
found that it could fly left its home
at Hamm's, and since then has been
swimming in the pool at Chaplin park
and also in TIE stream. Both birds
were well tanned, and their strange ap-
pearance excited a great deal or COM
ment. Early in July Hamm was on
fishing trip. He found the two young
gulls. then just week old. He cap
tured them and brought them home.
and until one of them flew away, they
have been well contented, catching
angleworms and finding their own liv-
ing on his lawn.