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The Washington times., 1913-09-09

her small foot and a clerk thought he
had dropped penholder.
That settled 1t. Captain Avis status
may or may not have figured in the
matter. Maybe flashing brown eyes
had something to do with it.
At any rate Secretary Daniels sail.
ing schedule was temporarily suspended
while the young pair was ushered into
the private offices.
"Then l told the Secretary just how
II all happened" Miss Johnosn said aft
erward, in describing her interview.
II told him Frank was all right; all
he needed was five pounds more weight
and a slight operation On his tonsils.
Mr. Daniels said he would authorize
another examination to be given.
That's all there was to It. Every
body was very kind to me up there.
ANYBODY who has a sense Of justice
would do the same, considering the cir
cumstances, wouldn't they?'
Back to the Naval Academy the young
prospective seaman bore his special in
structions from the Secretary Of the
Navy that he be given another chance
ct q naval career. And that's why
some eminent officials are limiting at
fayoritism on the part Of Daniels.
II don't see any favoritism in that. =
she continued. Its simple matter OF
Justice to the boy"
II don't see what all the fuss II about.
'"' '' EDITH LoBERT.
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FATE OF AMERICANS
IS UNKNOWN HERE
Cables to Puerta Plata Cut.
Arrival of Des Moines May
Stop Bombardment.

Pending the arrival Of the Des Moines
at Puerta Plata, Santo Domingo. and
the establishment of wireless communi-
cation. the State Department is in the
dark today as to the fate Of the Amer
leans now there. who are in danger
from the bombardment of Puerta Plata,
now in progress.
After the brief message sent through
yesterday to Washington announcing
the alarming news of the shelling of
the unprotected town, the cable was
cut by the rebels. and since then the
events have been shrouded in dark
ness AS far as the State Department is
concerned, the fate Of the Americans is
unknown.
The arrival Of the Des Moines will
have. tits hoped. a strong moral erect
on the rebels, for this Government, in
It's instructions to Minister Sullivan,
who will soon start for Santo Domingo,
made 1t plain that the United States
would stand solfdly behind President
Bordas.
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EDWARD H. BROWN.

Funeral services for Edward III
Brown. one Of the oldest residents OF
the District. who died at his home
1927 n street northwest, last Satur.
day, were held at the family residence
this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial
was in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Brown was engaged in the dry
goods business here for nearly forty
years. He was a native of Maryland
During the civil war he was appoint.
ed a member Of the Christian com.
mission. At the time Of his death he
was one Of the oldest members OF
the Dumbarton Avenue Methodist
Episcopal Church and Of Potomac
Lodge, No. 8, +. A. A. NJ
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tonight, and the speakers will be E. o.
Conner, of Spokane: w. A. Foulton.
Of Westfield. and J. T. Letcher, Of
Montgomery, Ala.
The American Indian Guards Band.
of Alexandria. from Lone Star Camp.
No. l.. will furnish music.
Tomorrow the Red Men will make a
trip to Mt. Vernon. The convention
probably will close Thursday.
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WEATHER REPORT.

The forecas. for the District Of Co
lumbia-Fair and continued cool tonight:
Wednesday fair and slightly warms-.
For Maryland and virginIa-Fair and
continued cool tonight; "wednesday fair;
slightly warmer In north and west por-
tion; moderate northeast to east winds.
For Pennsylvania-Fair and continued
cool tonight; Wednesday fair and slight
ly warmer; moderate northeast to east
winds.
tonight and Wednesday; moderate north
east to east winds
For New Jersey-Fair and continued
cool tonight; Wednesday fai- and slight
ly warmer; moderate northeast winds.
The temperature today as registered
at the United States Weather Bureau
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CHARLES M. TOMPKINS.

Funeral services for Charles NJ.
Tompkins. who died at his home. 1872 c
street northeast last Saturday, were
held at the residence yesterday after
noon. The Rev. w. I. Mckenney Off
ciated Burial was at Congressoonal
Cemetery. Mr.. Tompkins, who had
been in the employ of the Pension
Bureau for nearly fifty years, was
ninety-one years old
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OBITUARY NOTES.
LEONARD WILLIAM BATES.

Funeral services for Leonard William
Bates. old resident of the District and
for years enga ged in the Iuncbroor,
business on upper Fourteenth street.
VIII be held at his residence. 1920 Four.
teenth street, this afternoon. Burial
VIII be in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mr..
BATES leaves a widow and three small
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CHARLES McDERMOTT.

Funeral services for Charles McDer-
mott a Philadelphia contractor who
was once resident of Washington.
will be he'd at his PHILADELPHIA home
today. Mr.. McDermott died in a Balti-
more hospital several days ago
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MOTHERS PENSION
PLAN IS GROWING
Every State Soon Will Have
Law, Declares Official at
Red Mans Session.

Every State in the Union soon will
have widowed mothers pension laws.
So George L. Green of Binghampton,
n. Y, predicted today in reporting to
| the sixty-siXth Great Sun session Of
| the Improved Order of Red Men at the
willard Hotel. Already nineteen
| States, acting under pressure origin
ating in the Red Mems society. have
adopted laws which aid widowed moth
ers. A few years more, Green de-
clared. will see the universal adoption
| of such laws in this country.
He added that the movement for
these new pensions is a step toward
decreasing the expense Of maintaining
! almshouses, insane asylums, and cor
-ectional institutions. Children may
continue to have home surroundings
after the fathers death. under the laws
] proposed by the Red Men. This means.
| Green said. that the States. instead OF OF
shouldering a new burden Of debt will
reduce II by reason Of having less chill
| drne to maintain in improper surround
ings.
He urged the Red Men to stand to-
ethes in forcing ts,d the new pension nae :, plan
low differences Of opinion hinder the on
ward movement. He pictured the Red
Mems plan as a method of preventing
| hundreds of children from "going
wrong"
Report Is Adopted.
The convention adopted his report
from the committee composed Of him
| self. Carl Foster. and Frank A. Day.
and agreed To pursue the work Of the
past year with renewed vigor. A move
nent will be started to get more accu-
rate data than now exists with respect
to the cost Of maintenance Of children.
In presenting the report Of the COM
mittee on the national orphans fund.
Green recommended that the organiza-
ton should not attempt to force any
new regulations the coming year. The
balance on hand was reported as $12,-
322.4O
Great Incohonee Carl Foster declared
today that the order has not gone on
record in opposition to labor. He
merely ruled out of order a reso-
luton which sought to force the
use Of union label on all Of the orders
printing. The convention sustained his
ruling. which he based on q contention
that politics. religion, labor, and capital
have no part in the order.
Labor men in the convention today
declared that this ruling was correct,
Tine union label will still go on some Of
the Red Mems printing. but not under
orders from the national council.
g. Secret Meeting.
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Margaret White, eolored. was Aned
$50 In Police Court on a charge Of styins
Intoxicating liquor to Mabel Brown. a
hfteen- year-old colored girl. The EirI
was taken to Casualty Hospital as q
result of too much GIN
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Blame for the wreck on che PennsyI.
vania railroad at Tyronne, Pa, Jul,
so, when a passenger train crashed
into another at the station, was placed
on Engineer Funk. who lost his life
in the wreck, by H. W. Belknap, chief
inspector Of safety appliances. whose
report was made public today.
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Daniel Mccarthy y saloonkeeper,
whose saloon Ii at 201 Massachusetts
avenue, filed a suit In voluntary bank
today.
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Secret Meeting.

The chief business Of the morning
session was secret consideration of
several changes in the ritual. While
the men debated this, the visiting
Pocohontas made a sightseeing trip
around the city.
| Memorial services for the dead oil
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TIDE TABLE
High tide go a. m. and 3:23 p. m.
Low tide 9:43 a. m. and S:52 o. IN.
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SUN TABLE.
Sun rises. SIS Sun sets
Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-22

The story carried by the Associated Press Tuesday morning from the City of Mexico, it seems. was nothing more
 than another of the many yarns that have been imposed on this news agen- cy during tn last two years. The Asso-
 ciated Press has not covered itself with glory along the border and the stories now appearing from the bor- der correspondents do not longer at tract attention, but it would seem that correspondent is the city of Mexico woSld pot send such a story as that carried Tuesday without yer ifcation Coalitions are too serious in Mexico plese days to warrant sto- ries of t:ds character, which seems to have been utterly without foundation
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ican citizens in Mexico who are in danger. Indeed it may well be doubted if any one is overly safe there Presi. dent Huerta publicly announced that he could not guarantee the safety from physical harm of John Lind. This was something less than a week before MT. Lind's arrival there.
 Americans having property in that country may prefer to take the per. sonal risk of staying there, but they have all had ample opportunity to send their wives and families home. The fact of such danger, even if gen eral. is not sufficient of itself to war rant intervention.
 Nor if there was acute danger would this warrant at this time ...,y senator's seeing 10 force ,he hand of the president Mir. Wilson is not un. mindful of his duty: he is not remiss, he is not inactive. That he has a def. ntse policy is certain. ani h. is at this Grae entitled to ,hs serious. earnest and united support Of all citizens.
 Moreover. it should be the wish of all Americans to avoid war, and inter vention means war; it means another conquest of Mexico. It is tn presi- dents evident desire and determina. ton 10 avoid war. He is exhausting e-ny resource of dip'o8aCy to bring a nct | peace,n Il adjustment between the belligerents.
 In sending John Lind on this deli cate mission he picked the right man. Events are proving this. MT. Lind may not succeed in gaining a settle. ment, but he will. if any one can, and at least he will definitely fix the issue. He will do this, too, so sharply and definitely, and this on such clearly
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now be more vigorous in enforcing a naninterference policy by allowing Mexicans to settle their own troubles in their own way. In doing this 1t is likely that the border will be watched closer than ever before to prevent the exportation of arms and ammunition for either party to the Mexico revolution. Americans in the danger zones will be warned to re- turn to their own country.
 The Review believes that another policy, that of allowing all cortending factions in Mexico to have all the arms and ammunition from the United States that they can pay for, would bring a more speedy end and final peace in that troubled country How ever, this paper has great faith in the purity and honesty of the motives of President Wilson and believes that whatever policy he adopts toward Mexico should be Loyalty supported by the citizens Of this country and that the Jingoes who have done every thing possible to create a sentiment in favor of intervention and conse- quent war in Mexico should be sat or and relegated to the rear.
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NO BOOM FOR
 PARTIsANSHiP.

It is not the part of patriotic citi- zeuship to criticise the action or pol icy of the administration as regards Mexico. When Senator Penrose in jects this into a senate debate and threatens to extend the discussion over several days, he is injecting par. tisanship where there should be only patriotism.
 There are, without question, Amer.
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 Whatever may be thes result in So nora there appears good surface ap pearance of harmony since the confer ence which followed the reappearance of Maytorena in the governors office at Hcrmosillo. However. there is no disguising the fact that there is in tense loyalty along the border to Act ing Governor Pesqueria and those who were connected with him in upholding the cause of the constitutionalists in Sonora while he held the reins of government at Hermosillo.
Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-22
CONVICT WORK ON OoADs.

ON OoAOs.
 Kentucky's road commissioner, af-' ter an investigation of results in other states, reports in favor of the em-, ployment of able6odied shortier7n convicts in road-making. Georga's prisoners employed on the hishways are healthy. tractable and more than ordinarily contented. and that their labor is satisfactory. Aiahama's high way engineer reports that when prop erly managed convict labor on the reads is more effective than paid work. and that the cost of thus using convicts is from 40 to 65 cents day Georgia empIcys 5000 convicts on the, roads. an estimates the cost at one half that of paid labor. California adopted the system last year and is pleased with it. Colorado's cOryicts bnIlt l57 miles of mountain road in 1912 at a cost of g. cents day per man. In Illinois sixty-six convicts are kept at work in quarries and at crush. ing stone at cost of 50 cents day. Kansas officials think the effect good on convicts. Louisiana built twenty
 five miles of permanent roads last year with convicts and found the ex' pense 40 cents per man.
 In Michigan the .convicts prefer road work. and Minnesota considers stone crushing by eonyicts success Montana works 225 prisoners or the roads ard thinks they are much bene- 6ted by the outdoor labor. North Car o,ina is another state that has gone into the system extensively. Its 2SOo ccnvicts thus employed cost from 4z to 72 cents day each. Oregon makes
 favorable report. It's 16o convict
 road workers cost $14 per month
 vyreinia's 735 convicts are kept busy
 o, inc road sat a cost of 34.3 cents dav per man. Washington is satis- fed with convict labor in stone quar- ries Cole County, Mo. has had from twenty to forty convicts at work on
 roaas and the state highway engineer .os,ifes that the work, at a daily cost os .o cents. is equal to that of free .abor The movement is growing m overv ease the sanitary benefit to the
 man Is stated to be marked and the I discinline is easily enforced. This re
 source for getting good roads has be
 come one of the most important.
 The road work done so far in Ari- zona by conviets has proven to be more expensive than it would have beeu had the work been done by con tract In the GHa county the repor' of the taxpayers association showed that the road work done by the pris oners in that county cost double Whai it would if doRe by contract Bu' this result does not prove that work
 lne convicts on roads cannot be don't proftabiy. It can he made profitable to the state and beneficial to the pris oners wherever it is carried on unde proper direction and management a' has been proven in many other states
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1hE MEXICO TROUBLE.

News from Washington confirms previous reports that Huerta and his administration has refused to accept the Friend8y oafces of the United
 States in the settlement of the revo- Iutionary troubles fn Mexico. This leaves Mexico in a bad fix. according to general belief. As a result it is believed that President Wilson will
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i spair of their own strength. are to cry out, as in one voice. for help from that source of all strength to which. in times of peril end helpless ness, mankind turns, if only until it is saved. in that faith which can some times move mountains.
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defined basis as to make a policy.
 In the meanwhile, no man In con. gress or out, can be excused for using the Mexican situation to make party capital.
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PRAYERS FOR RAIN.

begin to mend" perhaps for the req son that not until the worst Is reached do men abandon all conf dence in themselves and begin to pray. All Kansas. and other parts of the drought-stricken section, are turn ing to prayer for rain now. There Is public proclamation of days of prayer. Nobody will doubt the earnestness of the praying. The land is blighted with a dry desolation. Suffering is in- tense. and threatening to grow great CT. Men have seen their valuable property shrivel into iasignificance under the glare of sun shining day after day in a eloudless sky. They have had to part with herds. either through death by water famine or forced sale to avoid it the loss of which, in either way, means loss of wealth. Not until disease, springing out of such prolonged evil conditions threatens them and their families, do they prostrate themselves with one accord" before that supreme power which holds worlds in the hollow of a hand.
 And because this prayer wave. yelling up in a mighty flood from broken and contrite hearts, will surge high and long and, have in it that hope and trust in an unseen power which is so nearly akin 10 faith, who shall call it vain? Faith is the sub stance of things hoped for, the. evi. deuce of things not seen" wrote that greater intellect whose analysis of faith, and the mode of it's operation. must convince even the most worldly mind. capable of grasping its deep meanings, of the power Of the human spirit, divested of pride and all self ishness, and no longer seeking to de clare it's own ways against the better purposes of God, to move nature it. self This is plainly one of the things seen by the master seer and inter- preter who wrote: 'There are more things in heaven and earth. Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philos- ophy"
 Prayer, sn greet extremity. is as in stinctive to man as is the instinct of self preservation. natures first law. says the GIobe-Democrat Prayer is, in fact. or so it often becomes under such affliction and danger as now be set the wasted lands, part of tbe instinct of self-preservation. and there fore a part of natures first law. He who scoffg in hours Of ease and safety goes down on his marrow bones ii times Of peril or diversity. That character in the Pike County Ba lads who admits that he don't @ much on religion because he "ainf never had no show nevertheless tell us that when he realized his owr helplessness he dropped crotch deel in the snow and prayed" He is rsthef pusillanimous in saying. after hi prayer was answered, that he think the angels ought to be better enl ployed in doing such tnarkless worl than in 'loafin around a throne" Bu what glorious foil to such a soTdi' character as his, was the great Con federate captain who never lost a bat tie. perhaps because the prelude ti every one of them was a short, hurrie' prayer. which is best described b one of his own men in the line.
 Lay bare thine arm. Stretch for tn rod. .Aplenl That's stonewsIR
 way.
 it has been the way of many othe great soldiers. It is the way of stron men, who alone can realize huma weakness at it's strongest It is th way Of strong men now, who in d
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HIGHEST CASH PRICE

Paid for Secondhand furniture, cloth ing, tools.
 Uncle Jim's" Successor to Harris Fur. Co.,, Brewery Gulch. Phone 257 59O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-18
HELPING HAND HINTS FOR THE HOME
Pictures for Children

Il have come again for help. l acci-
dentally found another lot of pictures.
and offer them with cards to some one
desiring to paste pictures for children
Do you know of any one else? Please
let me know. hate to throw them away,
for I've been years collecting them-but
my day is ended now. NJ p. H."
At 81 you are excusable for confounding
a proposition. Lou mean that you come
to- help, not for" help. Unless, indeed
that is your beautiful way of express
ing the pleasure it brings to your heart
to gladden. other lives. Age has not
cooled the fount of loving kindness in that
heart. To get one OF the pictures or cards
you hold out to our co-wrkers will be
something to remember for a lifetime
Don't say again that your day is end
ed" We refuse to believe it. I am hold
ing your address, and mean to keep on
doing it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-18
For an Elderly Woman

Il have an oil heater I should like to
pass on to some one in need of it.: also
cot bed l prefer to give them to an
elderly woman. 1 hope to find just the
right need, for it exists, we know I
have always been interested in your Help
ing Hand Corner, but something has
interfered, and now as my own dear
mother has just passed away, it seems
as though l must help some ones mother.
MY heart aches so! DORA L. d.
By one of the inexplicable (so-called)
accidents that befall the best regulated
corners, the above letter has just come
under my eye. A batch Of peculiarly rich
material was side tracked, perchance
by the malign influence of the dog star,
and is just now in hand. / hasten to
share it with the constituency, hoping de-
votedly that it is not too late to do all
the good designed by our benefactors. The
noble letter of Dora L. d. was in the
misguided budget She has our affec-
tionate sympathy in her sorrow May the
comfort she would bring to other souls
fill her own with healing and refresh
menti
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-18
MR.. JAMES MOORE WEDS
MISS FLOYD OF AUBURN

A marriage of interest to friends
throughout the state was that of Miss
Jessie Floyd of Auburn and Mr. James
w. Moore of this city, which occurred
Wednesday at $50 o clock at the Baptist
church in Auburn.
The decorations of the church were ef-
fectively arranged with pink and white
cut flowers used in profusion and a num-
ber of potted plants. The ribbon space
was indicated by gateways formed of
pink roses and bridal gates forming the
letter M in white roses.
Six of the brides girl friends acted as
ushers. They were becomingly gowned,
three in pink and three in white roses,
with corsage bouquets to complete their
costumes.
Miss Mary Whatley of Opeika was
Miss Floyd's maid of honor. She wore
a lovely pink brocaded charmeuse cos
tune and carried an arm bouquet of pink
carnations. The bride wore lovely
white crepe meteor robe with pearl garni-
lures and duchesse lace bertha. Her veil
was confined with a chaplet of orange
blossoms, and she held a bouquet of
bride roses and lilies of the valley. Mr.
Moore's father, Mr.. James T. Moore, was
his best man.
A buffet supper followed at the home
of the brides parents, and they left for
southern trip to the gulf coast to be
absent two weeks. After November /
they will be at home with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed S. Moore 2601 Madison avenue
Mr.. Moore is well known young bus
mess man of this city and has large
number of friends. His sister, Mrs. Ed
S. Moore, was one of the out-of-town
guests at the marriage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-18
Death in Blasting Caps
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Continued From Page Four
as the capsule or shell is sealed up with
a sulphur plug, through which the wires
are carried down to the illuminate, not so
many accidents occur in playing with
them. They are generally dipped in darlo
colored wax and are not such attrac-
tive playthings as the bright copper blast
ing caps: but they get there just the
same" Amateur electricians are earnest
ly advised to bury the electric cap a
foot or two in the earth before trying to
pass electric currents through the wires,
and they had better not do 1t then Don't
open to see what's in i'll Explosive man
ufacturers are not given to imparting
trade secrets promiscuously, but they will
gladly tell what's in the caps and how
they are made rather than have you blow
your hands off trying to find out for
yourself.
Don't carry caps around in your pocl-
ets Don't take them home with you!
Don't leave them where children can get
at them, Don't monkey with them