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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-10-24
MANY ARE INJURED
IN ACCIDENTS DUE
TO SLIPPERY WALKS
Street Cars and Automobiles
Hurt Several Through
out City.

SNNpery pavements To-Day resulted IN
. number Of traffic accidents being ad-
ded to the already long list Of similar
mishaps In the District in the last
twenty-four hours.
George windham, sixty years old, Of
Silver Spring. Nd, was bruised and cut
about the head and body shortly after
8 o'clock this morning. when his wagon
was struck by q Ninth street car near
demolished and windham was thrown
about fifteen feet. He was taken TO
Emergency Hospital.
skidding on the wet macadam at Nine
teenth street and Benning road. an au-
tomobile truck Of the T. T. Keane Com
pany. driven by walter Grimes.
rammed delivery wagon OF the Hav-
ener Baking Company, in charge OF
Horace Lindsey. OF go Fifteenth street
northeast, and Walter Dulin, of 412 Sec
ond street northeast. Both were thrown
out, Dulin receiving q fracture Of the
left arm and Lindsey bruises about the
body. Dulin was taken to the Casualty
Hospital.
Pair In Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Story. both nifty
seven years old, of the Darlington
apartment house. arc at Garfield Hos
pital, today suffering from injuries re-
automobile accident at Six
teenth and Irving streets northwest.
The couple were crossing the street last
night when they were knocked down by
an automobile driven by DR.. Francis s.
Mschen. OF S1H Mt. Pleasant street Mrs
Story received q deep cut over her right
hurt about the ieft arm and side.
Mrs. Margaret Allen, seventy years
old, OF Twenty-hrst and @ streets
northwest. who was knocked down at
northwest BY an automobile driven by
Frederick Mertens. of $40 East Capitol
street, still Is In a serious condition In
Emergency Hospital. II IL believed the
aged woman has a fractured ,I skull, skull: Mo-
Dowell Milling Company was rammed
q streets northwest late yesterday az
severely shaken up and several win
badly hurt. Traffic was tied up for
about fifteen minutes.
Knocked Down by Wheel.
Charles H. Fowler. fifty-nve years
old. Of 1121 street northwest. was
knocked down at Fourteenth and F
streets by q bicycle ridden by Clifton
Brown and hurt about the face.
An automobile belonging to c. F.
Logan. Of 662 Columbia road northwest.
and driven by Joseph Miller, was hit by
. Capital Traction car at Fifteenth and
@ streets northwest. The automobile
was damaged. but no one was hurt.
A Washington Railway and Electric
car oolided at Thirteenth street and
New York avenue With an automobile
truck of the Adams Express Company.
Both the car and the truck were dam
aged. but no one was injured.
While getting on car at Seventh
street and Pennsylvania avenue north
west, Mrs. @. d. McGarvin, OF go Thir-
teenth street southwest, fell and in
jured her back and hip.
While working In the street In front
Of his home. David Erlick, thirty years
old, Of go Four-and- a-half street south
west was struck by an automobile
driven by Ernest Ludwig. of TOT FIJI
teenth street northeast. He was treated
at Emergency Hospital for bruises
about the body.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
HIGHLAND DIXIE

Horace Kephart in the December Out
ing.
The mountaineegs of the south arc
marked apart from all other folks by dia-
lect. by customs, by character, by self
conscious isolation. SO true is this that
they call all outsiders "furriners." 1t
matters not whether your descent be from
Puritan or Cavalier. whether you come
-from Boston or Chicago Savannah or New
Orleans, in the mountains you are a
''furriner." traveller, puzzled and
scandalized at this, asked a native of the
Cumberlands what lie would call a
"Dutchman or a Dago." The fellow stud
led a bit and then replied: 'Them's the
outlaudish.'
Foreigner, outlander, it is all one; we
are different" we are quar-" TO the
mountaineer. He knows he is an Ameri-
can: but his conception of the metes and
bounds of America is vague to the van
ishing point. AS for countries oversea-
well, when a celebrated Nebraskan re-
turned from his trip around the globe,
one of my baczwoods neighbors proudly
informed me: II see they give Bryan a
lot of receptions when he KEN back from
the other world"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
A MOUTH KNIFE

From the December Strand
Some years ago, in the district OF
Jalpaigori, Bengal, there was sudden
epidemic of petty thefts and burglaries.
The police, completely baffled for some
time, finally arrested an individual on
suspicion, who, after a preliminary
magisterial investigation, was remand
ed in custody with a view to further
inquiries as to his antecedents. On be-
ing searched, police officer, suspect
ing he had something concealed in his
mouth, ordered him to open 1t, when,
embedded round one of his back teeth,
was found hard substance. which, on
being extracted. proved to be small,
semicircular clasp-knife. The suspect,
who had hiterto protested his innocence,
now made a full confession, and event
ually turned out to be a member of the
notorious criminal tribe of "Burwars"
from the district of Gonda, in Oudh,
and had already been convicted of IA
previous offences! He admitted that the
knife had been specially made for him,
and that he used it for cutting open
bales of cloth and also for pocket
picking.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
An Alabama Cabinet Member

IF Alabama secures a member OF
the cabinet she must concentrate her
efforts. She cannot scatter her force
on half dozen aspirants with rea-
sonable prospect of putting a repre-
sentative in the Wilson cabinet.
Hilary A. Herbert was put in the
second Cleveland cabinet, and the
state should be represented in the
Wilson cabinet.
Oscar Underwood has studied fiscal
questions beyond, perhaps, any other
public man, and it is reasonably GER
tain that he would be offered the
secretaryship of the treasury if he
would accept it. Would Mr.. Under
wood ignore the unanimous wish of
Alabama?
The Age-Herald does not believe he
would, if that wish were made distinct
and pressing. His work on the tariff
will be largely completed by the 4th
Of March, and it would be good sense
to put him where he would be called
upon to carry out his own revenue
policy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26

Adriatic as an outlet, and Italy is Bit
terly opposed to the acquisition by
Austria of Durazzo and Valona, both
lying in Albania, across the Adriatic,
less than 100 miles from the Italian
shore. So bitter are the Italians be-
coming over the Albanian question
that it may lead to the breaking of
the triple alliance in case Austria
dictates the control of the ports on
the Adriatic. Italy simply desires to
control the Adriatic, and Austria
wants either Salonica or Durazzo, and
in either case she wants Albania left
so she can at some favorable time
seize it.
Germany wants to preserve the
triple alliance by retaining Italy in
it, and Russia's sympathies are all
with the Slays in Servia.
Albania is the hardest problem that
the plenipotentaries in the armistice
have to handle. But the
chances are that way will be found
to satisfy all except Turkey, and she
will have to take what the i'll fortune
of war has allotted her.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
TELEPHONES
Beu fprivate exchange connecting all
departments), No. 1900.
Renroacb and everlasting shame
ST knocking in our pIumes.
king Henry v.
Mr.. Underwood's Currency Views

L
The Memphis News-Scimitar does
not accuse Mr.. Underwood OF stand
ing at Armageddon, but it does say
that he stood for the Aldrich currency
bill. The News-Scimitar has in some
wav been fed on transformation, or
else it would never have said that
Mr.. Underwood announced that he
favors the Aldrich PLAN"
The Age-Herald challenges the
News Scimitar to present that an
nouncement. Let us have the words
that Mr.. Underwood used, or failing
to do that let us have disavowal of
the charge in the columns of the
News-Scimitar. The News-Scimitar
has in some way been misled into
making an erroneous statement, and
it will beyond doubt do justice to Mr..
Underwood when it has investigated
the matter.
Mr.. Underwood has made no such
announcement. He wants no central
bank, even of quasi-public nature.
He doubts the feasibility of putting
the government money in banks at all.
The vast reserves held to redeem
gold and silver certificates certainly
cannot be justly placed in banks, for
if the Roosevelt panic of 1907 should
be repeated, what assurance would
there be that gold and silver would
be forthcoming? Further than that
Mr.. Underwood believes that the free
balance in the treasury should not
be permitted to exceed $50, 1000,
and that amount could be held in the
treasury without affecting seriously
at any time the general business of
the country.
No doubt the banking system needs
revision. Mr.. Underwood has not
studied currency and banking reform
as he has tariff reform, but he does
hope to see the day come when ma
tional bank notes will be based on
cotton bales as we'll as on govern
mept bonds.
The majority leader stands with
both feet on the democratic platform
made at Baltimore last June. Nor is
that all. He Is a progressive of the
sound and sane sort on all questions,
and the News-Scimitar should not
jump at an opposite conclusion simp-
" because he and Mr.. Bryan do not
admire each other.
However, the purpose of this ar
ticle is to ask the News-Scimitar to
show when and where Mr.. Underwood
"announced that he favors the Aldrich
plan," and failing to do that to ask
it to do justice to statesman whose
currency and banking views do not
conform to those of the ex-senator
from Rhode Island in any particular.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
DID HE KEEP HIS WORD,

Writing her memories of Anton Rubin
stein in Barper's for December. a former
pupil tells strange story of the great
pianist's death.
zone wild and blustery night found
myself at dinner alone with Rubinstein,
the weather being terrific even for st.
Petersburg. The winds were bowling
round the house, and Rubinstein. who
liked to ask questions, inquired of me
what they represented to my mind. I re-
piled, The moaning of lost souls From
this a theological discussion followed.
There may be future. he said.
There is future. ] cried. "a great
and beautiful future. If ! die first. l
shall come to you and prove this
"He turned to me with great solemnity.
Good, Iiloscha, that is bargain; and
I will come to you'
six years later in Paris I woke one
night with a cry of agony and despair
ringing in my ears, such as l hope may
never be duplicated in my lifetime. Rub
instein's face was close to mine, counte-
ance distorted by every phase Of fear,
despair, agony, remore and anger. l start
ed up, turned on all the lights, and stood
for moment shaking in every limb, till
put fear from me and decided that it
was merely dream. l had for the mo-
ment completely forgotten our compact.
News is always late in Paris, and it was
lie Petit Journal, published in the after
noon, that had the first account of his
sudden death.
-Four years later, Teresa Carenno, who
had Just come from Russia and was tour
ing America-I had met her in st. Peters.
burg frequently at Rubinstein's dinner
table-told me that Rubinstein died with a
cry of agony impossible of description.
knew then that even in death Rubtnstein
had kept. as he always did. his word
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
WINTER LIFE OF ANIMALS

Walter Priehard Eaton in Harper's Maya
zine for December.
II Is a clear, crisp morning when yoiNset
out There was snowfall the day before
yesterday-not yesterday. before ami
mails usually remain in their holes sew
eral hours after a storm. The country
side is spangled white. The rusty tama-
racks in the swamps, the tawny roadside
willows, the delicate lilac of the bare
blackberry vines give a note OF subdued
but rich color to the landscape. From
the village behind, wood smoke rises in
the still air. Ahead you see the slender
second growth trees up the mountains
like delicate cross Matching made with
gray crayon on a white ground. The world
is lively, but not wild. Winter is In her
best mood. Not mile from home you
enter the still woods, where there Is no
sign of life save for an occasional squirrel
or chickadee, but where, through break
in the trees, or over the wall where the
weasel lives, you can still see the village
spire. What wild things passed through
high school sleigh ride party went shout
ing by on the road. But let us look at the
telltale snow and see.
Here is a little clearing, a small meadow
or forest lawn, no doubt. The snow by
the border is all crossed and recrossed
with delicate lacy design, made by tiny
feet. See, between the prints often trails
line. This little four footed creature
had tail. But why do the tracks here
cover the snow like lace work? There was
a moon last night. That was why the
high school went on a sleigh ride, and
why the deer mice danced Had you been
hidden at the edge of this bit of moon
balanced open, you might have seen them,
like tiny sprites, or like dead, curled up
russell brown oak leaves wind blown over
the snow, with their tails for stems. Fol-
low one of the tracks back from the
open. 1t leads to a rotten old stump. In
side, somewhere, the mouse is sleeping.
We have passed Mr.. Weasers wall, and
the spot where the deer mice danced.
Keeping our eyes to the ground, we see
innumerable squirrel tracks, groups of
four prints, sometimes three feet apart
when the squirrel took a long bound, and
every now and again they disappear into
round hole in the snow. Usually there
is a second hole few feet farther on.
The squirrel came up again probably with
a cone. Follow his track, and 1t will
lead to the base of tree or an old
stump, and there you will find fresh bits
of the cone-crumbs from his table You
will find tracks of cartridges, too, and
he
snow on a southern bank till the fresh
green of the partridgeberry vines CLEANS
through and perhaps a red berry or
two. overlooked by the bird. Squirrels
and patridges, to be sure, are day neigh
bors rather than night, but you may be
certain they were up earlier than we were.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
ARNOLD BENNETT, DRAMATIST
J. Moses in the December Metro.

Montrose ]. Moses in the December Metro
poltan.
For FIVE years Arnold Bennett was a
dramatic critic. Then, in 1900 he exiled
himself from London, to return nearly a
decade thereafter. as he says, in his
preface to Cupid and Common Sense"
"a member of the public. man of BUSH
ness. critic. a novelist. dramatist, an
habitue of managerial sanctums, a ia
mliar of the Partisan stage and per-
feet stranger" Then he began writing
for the theatre, though his popularity
sprang up with such novels as Buried
Alive Finally What the Public
Wants. four act play, appeared in a
magazine. The London success of last
season, "Milestones," which he wrote with
Knoblauch, author of 'Kismet," has been
produced in New York. Bennett contends
that between Sheridan and Shaw there
has been no literary drama In England.
He asserts that Authors are the ex-
preston of nations force, the symptoms
of its developing change" and he adds,
'Tf the supply of plays fails. it is a
proof that the racial mind has discovered
employment in another art than that of
the theatre.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
JOHN GALswORTHY
Montrose j. Moses in he December
Metropolitan.

Montrose j. Moses in t he December
Metropolitan.
The dramas of John Galsworthy have
perhaps impressed the public more since
the effect of Justice" upon Winston
Churchill, NJ P-who set about prison
reforms because of it--than before that
event. Galsworthy serves in the triple
capacity of novelist, dramatist and poet
and is also an essayist, as everyone
knows. If anyone were asked to charac-
terize Mr.. Galsworthy, one might be JUS
titled in calling him a sentimentalist
with a keen sense of the irony of things.
In his novels he is less conventional than
in his plays; he is more formless. But
is keen. He is man with a philosophy
of life, with a social conscience
Born in 1867, he is Harrow and Oxfo>-
bred; ne was educated for the law. Pos
sessed of independent means. he travelled
the world over. writing many novels
and bordering many social questions.
His Strife is a discussion of capital
and labor from the uncompromising
standpoints of both sides. The "Silver
Box" demonstrates that there are two
laws, one for the rich and one for the
poor Justice" pleads for the human
exercise of law. THE Pigeon" is notable
for it's incisiye exposition of organized
charity and it's human delineaton of
character. All of these display Mr.. Gals
worthy as a dramatist of significance.
There is nothing Haunting about his per-
sonality; 1t is quiet, determined, serious
and gracious,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
Birmingham College Fund

The gathering Of building and an
endowment fund for the institution at
Owenton concerns all the citizens of
this city, for Birmingham college is
no more denominational than is
Princeton or many other colleges in
the country. The burden should not
therefore rest entirely on the great
denomination that stands behind the
college, and which will subscribe for
the major part of the sum needed,
$250,000. About one-third of this sum
has already been secured from the
UNCONVENTIONAL friends of the col
lege.
There is no reason why the sub
scription lists should not be laid be-
fore people other than those of the
Methodist church, for the upbuilding
of the college will promote the growth
of this city. The sum stated is great
ly needed, and when it is procured a
college will be established here equal
to all the demands that will be made
upon it from Alabama, at any rate.
The generous and patriotic in all de-
nominations should aid in completing
the fund.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
THE FASCINATING "DANZON.

From Havana in the December Metro
politan.
The damon" which is the universal
Cuban dance, is the oldest, most inde-
scribable of dances, at first the least in
viting. at last the most insdiously fas-
chatting. Long before turkeys trotted or
Dummies Rugged in our land in Havana
they walked through dances. But you
can dance the damon all night on
three feet square of floor A crowded
ballroom is almost motionless; few
steps, a queer SILVER that runs down the
body. rest, then a few steps again-so
hundreds of couples so on for hours. 1t
would be inexplicable but for the music,
the music that seems hideous at first but
ends by pulsating in your very blood with
some strange magic. 1t seems forever los
ing its rhythm. dropping its beats. while
at times the barbaric rafting and din OF
crashing gourds wholly browns the mo-
notonous melody. There is very little
that seems Spanish in tie damon mu-
sic; it hints rather at Africa and trans
planted voodoo rites in the Cuban for
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26

BIG LOSSES OF CORPORATIONS

FROM 1eSlle >.
Lossesi We hear great deal about the
Ell ormous profits of the big corporations.
We never hear anythoing about their
Il sses. 1t was recently stated that the
Corn Products Refining company's works
at Glen Cove. supposed to be worth 81
100000, were found to be antiquated and
badly located and were sold for $4,000.
The works at Peoria, Ill, which stood on
tho company's books as worth several
millions, brought about 100000 at an APP
praised value. We have heard of costly
steel plants, newly erected, that were
torn down and dismantled because of the
discovery of a new process in steel maxi
ing that made them obsolete and too ex-
pensive to run. The Standard Oil COM
pany has time and again invested hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in the con-
struction of tanks and pipe lines in a
new oil territory. only to find that they
lad to be abandoned because the expected
supply of oil was not Forthcoming. If the
books of our great Industrial corporations
we're searched, numerous similar exam
pies of enormous losses could be found
but the public never hears OF these, and,
il IL heard, would not believe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
Drennen for Lieutenant Governor

'I have a suggestion to make" said
a well known politician yesterday.
Why can't we run Mel Drennen for
lieutenant governor? He would make
notable success as presiding officer
of the senate, and would reflect great
credit on Birmingham.
AT the present time two men, it is
reported, are planning to make the
race, Senator Tom Kilby of Admission
and Archie Carmichael of Tuscumbia.
hardly believe that b.. Fl. Cooper of
this city will run. I feel sure that Mr..
Drennen could make a successful race
against either of the two gentlemen
mentioned
II heard today that Henry B. Gray.
of Birmingham might run for lieuten-
ant governor, but scarcely believe this
report to be true as 1t is generally I'M
derstood that the former lieutenant
governor has permanently retired from
politics."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES


The dinners of the Birmingham
Press club said Henry b. Gray yes
terday, have been among the most en-
joyable I have ever attended in Bir-
mingham, and the most delightful of
all was that of last Friday night
Beginning at $40 and concluding at
1890 o'clock was an exceliect feature,
and the limiting of the speaking to
those on the programme was another.
The slxits introduced by the members
of the club were exceedingly clever.
1T is time that Birmingham had
permanent quarters for its Press club.
and 1 hope that plans to this end will
be put under way as soon as possible"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
Mr.. Wilson and the Civil Service

Mr.. Taft has put $1,000 fourth
class postmasters in the classified
service, and it is reported that he is
about to issue an executive order
placing the entire customs service
out of the range of politics.
1t becomes an interesting question
as to what the President-elect will do
in relation to these wholesale political
seizures by moribund party and a
discarded President. The new Presi-
dent can suspend these executive or
ders. He may do this, coupled with
an opportunity to all to take civil
service examinations.
No one knows what policy Mr.. Will
son will adopt. He has long been a
civil service reformer, but snap or
ders issued at the close of a discred-
tied administration are one thing,
and offices filled after careful exam
nations in the civil service are quite
another thing. The question presented
is one of the most interesting that
will came up at the opening of the
new administration.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
RErLECTroNs OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New 7 OK PresS,
Flattery can gain a persons ear when
it is deaf to reason.
What makes a girl willing to marry a
man is for him not to ask her.
No man ever had judgment enough to
know whether woman's hat cost $65 or
IS cents.
When a man sets out to get rich quick
he makes chance for somebody else to
get it,
woman can feel very sure her shirt
waist is unbuttoned in the back II people
keep looking at her feet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
What Austria Really Wants

Beyond doubt Austria wants an
autonomous Albania which would be
savage and anarchial and to large
extent Mussulman. Austria wants
this because she does not see way
to grab at present Albania. Servia
wants Durazzo, a fine port on the