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The Washington herald., 1913-02-24
SPECIAL SERVICES FOR
FRATERNAL SOCIETY
Junior Order United American Me.
chanies of Anacostia Attend
Church in 4 Body.

Members OF various councils of the
Junior Order of United American Me-
chanics in the District of Columbia were
present in large numbers last evening
at the special patriotic service held In
the Anaoostia Methodist Episcopal Church
| under the direction OF Anacostia Council
No. 16. Rev. Samuel W. Graffiin, psstcS
Of the local church and an active MEM
ber Of the mechanics. delivered the ser
mon. The choir was under the direction
Of Daniel C. Smithson.
Irving S. Hall was chairman of the
committee on arrangements Of the affair
| in charge Maurice McGrath IL councillor
of the local council and headed the dele
cation last evening.
Athletic apparatus has been purchased
by the new athletic association of En-
manuel Episcopal Church and has been
installed in the main hall of the parish
hall
Anacostia Lodge, No. q. r A. A. NJ,
was in charge OF the religious service
yesterday afternoon at the Masonic and
Eastern Star Home and Rev. James e.
Arnold, a member OF this lodge. was
chosen by Milton ]. Fillius. master. to
conduct the service and preach the ser
mon.
II tu De SUD
ject OF Joint debate between a team
of the Mems Club OF the Anacostia
Methodist Episcopal Church and the
similar club from the Congress Heights
Methodist Episcopal Church. to be held
on Friday evening next At the Congress
Heights Church.
The first anniversary OF the organiza-
ton Of the Mems Club of the Congress
Heights Methodist Episcopal Church was
observed last evening by the members Of
that club at a special service held in
the church in Nichols Avenue at 80
o'clock. Judge w. F. Norris. of WASH
ington. delivered the address. W. p.
Ballard. president of the club presided.
Andrew T. Mcnamara. secretary. read
a history Of the club since its organiza-
ton.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-24

Milwaukee threaiens to regulate by law the length
Of hatptns.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-24
LOCAL MENTION.
EXCURSIONS TODAY

Steamer Charles Manchester leaves from foot o.
Seventh Street Southwest for Mount Vernon. HON,
and tomb Of Washington. daily, except Sunday, al
10 a. and a5 p.
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
steamers from foot Of Seventh Street for Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk daily at 6a5 p.
Cars from Fifteenth Street and New FORK Avenue
every quarter hour for main entrance Zoo Park and
Chevy Chase.
To Great Falls-Washington and Old Dominion
Railroad every few minutes from Thirty-sixth
and NJ Streets
To Mount vernon-w ashington- Virginia RAILWAY
every hour on the hour from 10 a. m. to D. m ,
last CIR. Sutton. Twelfth Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-05-08
Clothing Dept.

We have not the space in this circular to tell you all the different numbers we have in stock, but our entire stock of Mems, Boys and Children's Suits and Mens' Boys and Childrens Odd Pants have been raked together and will be shoveled out as though the entire stock were odds ana ends, for it is necessary that we raise money out of this Clothing.
 We might go ahead and state we will sell 5000 Suit for $750, etc, but what IS the use? You would not know whether 1t was a real bargain or not until you saw the suit. We will have this stock of Clothing arranged on bargain tables and every su!t marked down to such low price that It will not be hard for you to make your se- lection. Do not overlook the Clothing
The Mena weekly star., 1913-05-08
1OC Table

The most wonderful 10 Cent Table ever shown in a dry goods store in Mena. We will have on this table Hosiery that is worth 20c to 25c per pair Ladies' and Mems Handkerchiefs that are worth any where from 15c to 25c; 20c to 25c Laces and Embroideries at 10c; 15c to 25c Notions in fact, we expect to make this table so in- teresting that you will have to wait your turn to get to it. It is not necessary for LIS to tell you not to overlook this table, as the crowds around it will attract your atten- tion.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-05-08
Shoe Department

We have raked out of our Shoe Depart ment all the odds and ends in every line, and we will shovel them out regardless of cost In great many instances they will be sold great deal under cost In addi- tion to these odds and ends which we have raked out, we expect to reduce the price on our entire stock, even on our latest pur- chases; for, as stated before in this cir cular, it is necessary that we raise money.
 We see no use in quoting prices in this circular-it would be the same proposition as looking through a Montgomery Ward or Sears Roebuck catalogue at picture of pair of shoes on paper, at price quoted. You know from your own experience it is very hard to tell what a shoe is, even after you have examined the shoe, and utterly impossible to tell anything about it iron a description or price quoted. We will have the shoe stock arranged in such way that it will be easy for you to make a selecti) :. and they will certainly be priced in Way that will please you.
 This is the time of year when all the children want slippers, and we have them in great quantities. Be sure and see our Shoe Department
The Mena weekly star., 1913-05-08
Mems, Boys Hats

The above prices are on our regular stock. We have also raked out of our stock odds and ends that we will shovel out at prices far below the prices quoted above Do you need lid? You will come to the conclusion that you do after looking through our Bargain Counter
The Mena weekly star., 1913-05-08
Mems Furnishings

We have Work Shirts, Dress Shirts, Reasonable Underwear, Mems Neckwear, Collars, Collar Buttons, Mems Hosiery in fact, everything that the dear, sweet boys wear for the summer picnics will be raked together and shoveled out at ri- diculously low prices.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-05-08

Don't get the idea that just because we have only given few prices that this Sale will be of small consequence. Instead of having a big lot of prices to take your time to read, we have just given you few sam ples of the great Price Reductions that will be in every department of our store. Come and see for yourself.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-05-08
Notions

We give you below some prices on bunch of notions:
 ? Papers Hairpins .1c 2 Papers Pins ....................- .lc Basting Thread .............. 1c 100 Yard Spool Silk Thread .. 5c Dc Safety Pins ...................., Pc 25c Talcum Powder ...............12 12c Paper Hooks and Eyes ...........2c .2c Good Quality Ladies' Black Hose. ... .7c Good Quality Mems Black and Tan Hose 7c Good Quality Misses Black and TanHose 7c
 On this Notion Counter we will have hundreds of items it is impossible for us to list here. Anything we can rake out of our notion department will be shoveled out at prices about equal to the prices quoted. You should spend at least an hour looking through these Notions.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-05-08
Dry Goods

Sl.5O Pure Linen DamaSk, yard. ... S1.19 $1.00 Pure Linen Damask, yard SIC 75c Mercerized Damask, yard .49c soc Colored and White Damask, yard 39c 35c Damask, per yard ..............2 .21c Good Full Size Sheets, each. ......... .37c
 Counterpanes Almost Given Away.
 The prices on Ladies' and Misses Un- derwear Almost Cut in Two.
 10c Dress Ginghams, per yard ...7Hc
 It is useless for us to go ahead and quote prices on all the piece goods we have in stock Believe us, when we say we have raked everything out of our stock which we care to shovel out at loss, and in ad dition to this we will reduce the price on every piece of Dress Goods we have in stock If you expect to dress up you can not afford to miss this
 We have a very heavy stock of Ladies House Dresses Muslin Underwear Dress Skirts-in fact, everything you would eX- pect to find in ready-to-wear garment will be on display at prices which you cannot afford to overlook.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20
BY J. S. STEELE

on a couple of square inches of skin
was scar from an old operation or
crease caused by the skin being
folded when it was buried in the cellar
of Cripens house. One set of experts
swore that the arrangement of the cells
proved it to be a scar and the other
swore just as positively that it was a
crease. The jurymen- peered at it
through a miscroscope, looked wise and
pumped for the scar and Crippen was
hanged. In this case no one believes
that a mistake was made, but IL the
jury in their wisdom had decided for
the crease theory-which was just as
strongly supported by experts as the
theory they accepted-Crippen would
have been alive today
Another serious cause of complaint,
this time not from the lawyers, but
from the public, is the waste of time
involved for the man who is unfor-
tunate enough to be summoned on a
jury. Some one in the sheriff's office
takes the tax books and picks out at
random a number of names of persons
who occupy houses worth more than
f-OS
times as many as will be needed to
provide for all emergencies, and the
unfortunates thus summoned must at
tend court. When a jury is selected,
if the case is likely to be long one,
the judge tells the men who are not
chosen that they may CO. but that they
may be detained for a day or a month
as the case may be. The men chosen
may be detained for day or amonth
listening to the evidence which is of
no interest to them and thinking OF
their neglected business.
British jurymen are not paid and
real hardships sometimes results. One
of the witnesses before the Royal COM
mission was laborer who lived at
Bournemouth, south coast watering
place. He earned 81 a week, but he
was the nominal occupier of a house
worth $3.50 a year. He sublet half of it,
however. He was summoned on a jury
and had to attend at Winchester, the
country seat, 40 miles away, pay his
own railway fare and support himself
for more than a week, during which of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

for him in vain the next day. They
haven't seen him since.
Fogarty strolIed Into an office in
the Monadack building the other day
and surveyed the place and the man
at the desk with a sense of satisfac-
tion.
Thought you could run out on me.
eh?' he said Thought you could
open quiet little Joint and rake in
the cush' without anyone getting wisei
I'm on to the whole game. I've been
sleuthing you for weeks and I've got
the goods. You'll either come through
proper. or I close you up ana make
lot of trouble"
You wouldn't do that to an old
pal. would you. Fogarty?e
mo palavering.e said Fogarty. You
will have a hard time squaring your
SELF
rs it to 5e pinch9" asked caplin.
Sure, If necessary" replied the fly
cop.
DO you want to pinch the bugs,
too?' asked Caplin.
The what!' exclaimed Fogarty
Caplin showed some of the spect-
mems held for demonstration purposes
and told what he was doing. Then he
turned on his visitor.
"Fogarty," he said. "I think you're
as mean a white man as I've ever
known. You're worse than any crook
You're disgrace to the police force
and disgrace to the city but you've
done me one good turn unwittingly.
You forced me into finding way to
live respectable. I'm not only making
money but my partner and 1 are GO
Ing to be fairly rich in time. If you ever
want to be honest and decent, come to
me and MI give you a job
Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20
Notoriety Forced on O'Leary Cow

Maj. John b. Jeffery of Chicago, who Is
said to have founded the first 1-cent
newspaper was recalling at the Hotel
Cumberland some incidents of a career
that began as a printers devil" In Ham
ilton, Ontario, and lead him by way Of
Chicago and the Philippines to undertake
to obtain the recognition of the Chinese
republic, cause for which he worked al
most for two years, says the New York
Times. Major Jeffery is the man who i'm
mortalized Mrs. OLeary's COW, and the
part that recalcitrant animal played In
the Chicago FIRE
Il went to Chicago in 1862" said Major
Jefery, started in on the old Morning
Post, now the Inter Ocean. / worked on
the paper with the late Charles A. Dana,
when it was called the Republican / have
handled the copy of many notable men,
among them Mark Twain, Frank WillSie
and James Whitcomb Riley. Riley, by
the way, was sign painter when | was
business manager of the Indianapolis
Sentinel. He was writing little squibs
for the theatres on the side. He used to
come over to our office In the middle of
the day and tell us yarns about the old
swimming hole, and other spots he has
since written about.
AT that time the Morning Journal was
cratic, and there was lot of news that
neither would print. John Holiday was
president of the Sentinel company He
and l decided that Indianapolis needed
another paper. and the result was the In
dianapois News. Holiday prepared all
the copy for the new sheet himself, and
| actually set the type for the first COPY
of the paper. The News afterward sold
for over 100000. but didn't get any of
the money.
For many years / was manager of the
Chicago Evening Journal. During the
fire, In October. 1871 while the opposite
side of the river was burning, we got out
the only paper that appeared. / wrote
and set up the story of Mrs O'Leary's
cow. That originated in a curious way.
My cashiers name was Dan Horan. We
had taken temporary quarters In an old
building and General Sheridan had given
me company of soldiers and told me to
get out a paper II could
Il didn't have any copy. but | set up
the first column and half of type, with
the exception of one tiny paragraph The
first column was composed of a head
line.
well Dan came in drunk. | asked him
where he had been. Sure. sir he replied
I've been saving the files of the Journal.
they are in your stables on the West
Side
What do you know about the origin of
the fire." | asked him.
Sure. I know all about it, he replied
IT started in stable on DeKoven street
A woman was milking a COW there. and
the COW kicked over the lamp He added
that the woman was Mrs. O'Leary. 7
set up the story without any copy. and II
made about a stickful. 1t went ALI over
the country. Mrs. O'Leary denied II IN
to the day of her death, but nothing could
stop the story"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

ledge and high character who were
sworn to speak the truth and they
were known as Sworn recognitors. "
They did no more than agree on a state
of facts, and swear to it, and the Judge
formed his opinion and gave his YER
dict on the evidence Gradually the
jurors lost their character as witnesses.
This was due to the process known as
enforcement" which was applied when
the jurors felt they had not sufficient
information. They were then en-
powered to "afforce." or add to their
number, persons who had the necessary
knowledge, and gradually the afforced
jurors became separated from the un-
formed, Jurors who assumed the semi
judicial character they now hold
The reason for most of the present
complaint against the jury system as
an instrument of justice is that life
is much more complicated than than in
the days when any 12 lawful men" of
all about any of the problems which
might be brought before them. If Giles
moved his boundries and encroached
on Hodges land there was little diff
Guilty in arriving at the truth of the
matter, and if the lord of the manor
unduly oppressed his tenants the men
of the village knew what was just.
Now, however. the complaint is made
that the ordinary juryman is incapable
of understanding the intricate COM
mercial and scientific problems that
come before him. The clauses of a
charter party, for instance, are often
so involved that they puzzle skilled
admiralty lawyers and yet common
juries in the city of London, made up
of small shop keepers, caretakers and
such persons, are daily called on to
interpret them
In murder trials, too, common juries
are compelled to decide between the
conflicting statements of hcientific ex-
perts. In the case of the American
dentist, Crippen, for instance who was
hanged for the murder of his wife
the indentification of the fragments of
Mrs Crippen's body which were found.
depended wholly on whether mark
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

course, he earned no wages. If he
hadn't done so the Judge would have
sent him to Jail.
Somewhat similar is the complaint
made by the lawful men" of the county
London The high courts of justice are
situated in London and much the
greater part of litigation for the whole
country is tried in them. MiddleseX
must supply the juries for the high
court, so that in addition to settling
the troubles of their own neighbors
the men of Middlesex have to judge
between the citizens of Liverpool and
Birmingham and other places of which
they know nothing. 1t is hard to see
how, if the jury system is to be retained
at all this can be avoided, for it would
obviously be greater hardship to
compel men from Yorkshire and Lam
cashire, for instance to travel to
London to serve on jury
Particularly severe criticism is lev
elled at what is known here as the
special" jury. AS stated above, the
ordinary petit" jury is composed of
men living in houses of the value OF
$3.50 a year or more Litigants who
want a more intelligent jury have the
privilege of demanding special jury
whose members must. live in houses
rented at $1,000 or more. But in Eng
land the great majority of persons
living in $1,000 houses are publicans
because of the value of their liquor H.
tells you that the coroner wants you
to their premises and the result is that
most special juries are jures of publi-
cans and in many cases less intelligent
than petit juries Add to this the fact
that most publicans are tories and you
can imagine the plight of liberal
candidate for Parliament, for instace
who sues before such a jury for dam
ages for a campaign libel.
Then there is the coroner's jury II
you are walking along the street and
man taps you on the shoulder and
tells you that the coroner wants yop
go along with him. The coroner does
not want to 'sit on" you. He merely
wants you to sit with him on a corpse
and If you happen to be an alien he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

it. He was to win two successive days.
He would have more than $1,000 Then he
would stop. With $1,000 he could float his
invention and be rich.
He played the next day and lost to ev-
cry race. For a while his philosophy left
him and he became deeply detected. Cap
lin felt sorry for him.
say. Pop" he said. you ought to quit
the ponies. You can't beat them. No
body can. Take my advice and give 1t up.
You'll never get a thousand in the world
this way Why. you've lost more than a
thousand to me-
The old man said it was too late for him
to stop. lie had to make a big winning
or he never would succeed with his inven-
ton.
whats this thing you've got?" caplin
inquired.
ut kills bugs" the old man replied.
Caplin smiled indulgertly. The old man
was a bit off. he saw.
Having started on the subjeE nearest
his heart the old German talked about 1t
at length He made the most extravagant
statements as to its virtues He begged
Caplin to let him demonstrate it's worth.
The old man did not have enough money
the next day to put down bet, but when
the races were over he insisted that Cap
lin go with him to see his bug killer. I'm
able to get rid of the old man otherwise,
Caplin accompanied him to his room.
There the old man was In his element.
He had various Jars of liquids. How he
prepared these liquids was his great Sc
cret Then he brought out various sorts
: of bugs which he had confined in separate
boxes TIE sprayed some of the liquid
first on one kind of bug and then on an
other. In a short time the bugs died.
There was no odor from the liquid and the
German said it could not harm humans
Caplin thought a good deal about the
OLD German and his insect spray the next
few days. He thought more of 1t when
Fogarty called to see IL Capliu was doing
enough business to warrant resumption
of contributions
There was no racing the Following Mon
day or Tuesday. Caplin. with package
under his arm, went uptown to the neigh
borhood where he was liberal spender In
the days of his prosperity He had a talk
with a big hotel man who was surprised
that Caplin of all men should go about
town selling an insect destroyer. The
hotel man, however, at Caplin's urgent re-
quest, accompanied him to the kitchen.
All hotel kitchens have bugs. To get rid
U
rles Caplin talks well. He gaze a DEM
onstration with his sprayer that was i'm
pressive. Caplin sold a sprayer and bot
tie of the liquid to him for IS. From
hotel to restaurant and retaurant to hotel
went Capln. Some of the proprietors
bought simply to please Caplin whose
patronage they had reason to esteem.
Others were glad to get something that
promised to rid their establishments of
the insect pest
The next Sunday Caplin made the
rounds of the same establishments. In
every place he got reports that the
spray had done everything he had
claimed for it, All wanted more OF
the stuff as soon as their supply was
gone Bugs have queer faculty of
returning unless they are warred upon
constantly.
Caplin got testimonials from the
most prominent of his purchasers.
Patrons of his hand book waited
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20
Trial by Jury on Trial IN, England

will excuse you. This is the coroner )
method of summoning a jury. He
sends his officer into the stret to pick
up the first 2 men he meets and If you
happen to be one OF them you are in
for a weeks work.
The commission does not see its way
at present to abolish the trial by jury
altogether but 1t does advise that in
the majority of civil cases 1t might
we'll be dispensed with. 1t also advises
the creation of one class of iurymen
only and some fair system of rotation
In summoning jurors--and, what Will
be the most appreciated by the Jurors.
1t advises that they be paid for their
services.