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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15
BANQUET Of. r. E.lEE CAMP
Preparations Completed for Grand
Reunion OF Veterans Next
Monday Night

AS has been stated, the annual
banquet of r. E. Camp, Confederate
Veterans, generally held on the night
OF Robert E. Lees birthday, will be
hel dthis year on Monday night, the
Goth, as the 10Th falls upon Sunday
this year.
For many years the annual gather
ing of the survivors, of the wearers OF
the grey and their friends has been
anticipated with pleasure. The re-
unions have heretofore been the hap
piest which are held in Alexandria
Generally a sprinkling Of those VINO
wore the blue mingle with the survlv-
ors of the army of northern Virginia
and exchange remipiscenses around
the festive boards.
While the ranks of the battle
scared veterans, are gradually being
reduced by the tooth of time, the sons
of those who followed the great Vlr,
ginian are always in evidence al
these reunions, and they are manifest
ing the interest which is meet in the
progeny of all who had the honor tt
wear the grey in the memorable con-
test for the perpetuation of prlnci
plies handed down by the forefather:
OF the republic.
The committee having the banquet
in charge are veterans in their calling
as they have for many years showed
their skill by anticipating everything
which could in any way add to thc:e
interesting reunions. The ladies, wht
have for so many years exerted them
selves in preparing the banquet anc
arraying the tables in so inviting man.
ner, are, of course, again at work
and all who attend are assured al
evening of unalloyed enjoyment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15
LIBRARY MEETING.

The Alexandria Library board OF
management held its January meeting
at the home Of Miss Emily Gibson.
700 Duke street, Tuesday. The conf
mittee reports show the library to be
in d most satisfactory condition
with a gratifying increase in member
ship over last year. The board IS
most encouraged in its experiment in
keeping the reading rooms open ev-
cry night, quite a number Of people,
especially young men, have taken ad-
vantage Of this opportunity to spend
a pleasant evening in warm room
with plenty of good reading material
to hand. For the benefit Of newcom-
ers in our city, the MANAGEMENT would
like to explain that their reading
rooms are absolutely free and most
of the magazines, Scribner, Harpsr. Nc
Clure, Munsey, Puck, Judge, Life,
Saturday Evening Post, Harper's 6a-
zaar. Harper's Weekly, etc, besides
the Alexandria Gazette and AleXan-
dria News, are on the library table.
The subscription department Of the
library is % cents for one month,
soc for three months. and $l.50
for year. A book can be taken every
day if desired.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15
MINISTER IS NEAR DEATH.
Rev, w. M Clark, Editor Southern
Churchmau in Richmond
in Critical. Condition

Richmond, Va, Jan. 15.-After hav-
ing survived a railroad wreck in
which his skull was crushed, his
jaw shattered, his teath knocked out.
his ribs fractured, and one of his legs
was cut off, Rev. William Meade
Clark, editor of the Southern Church
man is near death here today, with a
bit of chicken bone lodged in his
throat.
In the hope of saving the life Of
her father who was bleeding to death
internally, young Miss. Emily Clark
bravely barred her radial artery to
the knife of Dr.. J. Shelton Horsley
yesterday and allowed him to trans
fuse a quantity of her health-g giving
blood into the veins of the stricken
minister. Her sacrifice, in the opinion
of Dr. Horsley and DR.. j. n. Upshur,
will be the means of saving his life.
Miss Clark and her father were laid
on the operating table side by side,
and after local application Of cocaine.
an incision was made in the young wo-
mans wrist, and her artery sewed 70
the big vein in her fathers arm. The
physicians allowed her heart to pump
blood into DR.. C!ark's vein until the
death palIor fled from his checks. the
natural color came back to his ears
and healthy action of his heart re-
suited.
Immediately following the trans
fusion of blood, Dr.. Horsley made an
abdominal section on Dr.. Clark, found
am ulcer in the small end OF his Stom-
ach and quantities of blood in the
small intestine. The ulcer was ligat-
ed to prevent further troubleS the
blood clots removed and new pass
age opened for the drainage of the
stomach. The patient showed no
signs of nausea and quickly came
from under the influence Of the ether
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15
SONS OF VETERANS.

A ell-attended. and interesting
meeting Of the Sons of Confederate
Veterans was held last night. 1t was
decided to give social on the second
or fourteenth day of next month. The
election of officers was postponed un'
tt the next regular meeting. The
members of the organization will meet
OH the night of the Goth for the pur-
pose of attending in body the ban
quet to be given by r. E. Lee Camp,
Confederate Veterans.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15
BUILDING ASSOCIATION ELECTS

At a meeting of the Alexandra
Building and Loan Association held
last night the following officers were
elected:
E. S. Leadbeater, president; c. P
Waller, Jr., secretary; M. L. Dinwid-
die treasurer. The following direc-
tors were named:
d. NJ. Hulfish, H. Kirk, w. Fl,
Sweeney. P. Won der Westerlaken, },
NJ. Duncan, c. B. Swan and R. L.
Knight. Carroll Pierce, Worth HUI
fish and G. S. T. Burke were elected
trustees and G. Washington Lewis.
counsel.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15

Following on the heels of the i'm

Following on the heels of the i'm
parchment of Judge Robert W Arch
bald, Senator Pomerene, of Ohio, this
afternoon introduced joint resolu-
ton proposing constitutions! an1end
r,ent that Congress may provide for
other causes of impeachment than
those now provided FOR, and other
methods for the trial Of ali civil
officers except the President, vice
president ard supreme court mem
bers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15
DEGREES ENTERED.

A final decree has been entered in
the Circuit Court for the city in the
cas- of John Harris and wife VS..
Gertrude Level ct al. In the case of
John Blake Gordon VS.. the Southern
Hydraulic Construction Company, an
order has been entered overriding the
motion to quash return and allowing
ar appeal to the Court of Appeals.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15

Many Virginians will take part IN
the inaugural reception to be tend
cred to President Wilson. Among
those named in the list issued by
Thomas Nelson Page, general chair
man of the reception committee, are
the following from Alexandra. Con
gresham Charles C. Carlin, and Mes
srs. Julina T. Burke, and Lewis II
Machen.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15
DISSOLUTION.

The Law Partnership between j.
X M Norton and Amos c. Crounse,
under the name of Norton & Crounse'
has been dissolved by mutual consent
J. K. NJ. NORTON,
AMOS c.. CROUNSE.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15
SOCIAL AND. personal ? | RI;
Interesting News Notes About People
OF Alexandria Happenings
in Society.

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry O'Bannon Coop
er entertained the Young Marieo
Peoples Five Hundred Club last
even at their home on Cameron street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15

Shamokin, Pa. Condemned to
death for the murder Of companion,
Frederick Nye, IS, smiled broadly. put
out his hands hanGcutfed, and thanked
Che Judge for the sentence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15

Richard ". Green has been reap
pointed notary public by Governor
Mann.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15

If your children are subject to at
tacks of Group. watch for the first
symptoms, hoarscness. Give Cham
pertains Cough Remedy as soon as
the child becames hoarsc and the at
taci: may be warded off. For sale by
al dealers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15

FOR RENT.-Two large light Office
rooms, water and toilet. n. E. cor,
Fairfax and Prince. Would also do
for small business. Inquire l2e
S. Fairfax street, Alexandria, Va
26 2wks.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15

The Exit kats" met yesterday al
ternoon with Miss Jean Brent at he1
home, 115 north Columbus street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15

Miss Sophia Bendheim leaves TO-
morrow for Richmond where she VII
spend the remainder of the win
with her brother, MIR. Samuel Bend
helm.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15

Mrs. David Janney Howell is whiting
in New York.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15

Mrs. Frank S. Harper is entertain
ing this afternoon in Lee Camp Hall
at card party from 200 to $3.50 and
a tea from 400 to 500 o'clock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15

Mr.. D. Moxley Low is suffering
from an attack of grippe his home
3O3 south Washington street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-15

A delightful masquerade party was
given last evening in honor OF MIS-
Sol Genzberger, of Butte, Mont, and
Mrs. Magnus Schrier, of Cleveland
Ohio, who is sister of Messrs'
Samuel and Louis Bendheim, OF this
city, at the residence of Misses, Ame-
liza and Hannah Genzberger, 4OS Wolfe
street. After the Mosques were re-
moved cards were INDUCED in until a
late hour when the guests repaired to
the Hotel Rammell where an elegant
supper was served.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-02
Rats of the Season.

+ Summer Is over. The melancholy
days have come, and the rats of the
cellar, like the dwellers above stairs,
have returned from their outing. In
the quiet of the night the mother Of
the family will be awakened by a
faint faraway music. 1t is a rat Civ
ing xylophone performance on the
woodwork of the pantry, for the colder
weather has sharpened his appetite,
and he is trying to get some of the
dainties so carefully laid away under
lock and key to be brought out when
fresh fruits will no more be attain
able in the market.
The noise grows louder and louder
and more exasperating to the listener.
1t now seems that the first worker
has been joined by a colaborer, and
they are at it with a savage energy
that means no good to the contents
of the larder. 1t is high time to set
the trap. This should have been done
before the rats came into the house.
TO set them is much like locking the
| door after the horse has been stolen.
How sharper than serpent's tooth it
is to have g. rat gnawing away at
ones pantry and no getting at him!
There's Hamlet thrusting his rapier
through the arras. How now! a rat ?
dead for a dueat, dead!" 1t was poor
old Polcnius received the perforation.
There was no rat there, or if there
were it escaped. 1t is foolish, too, to
hunt rats with a rapier at any time
O. night.
You begin at this season to miss
eggs, choice eggs. fresh from the
country, out of the basket which the
careful domestic placed upon a shelf
in the cellar. Perhaps you have read
how adroitly this felony has taken
place. A wise old rat takes the egg
in his paws, and lying upon his back
with a heave, no! to the rats who pull
away at his tail carries it off to the
rodential banquet hall. Then, like as
not, the mistress of the house, alert to
all alarms, will hear them at their
feast in the small hours of the night.
and like as not the eggs will be gar
nished with other articles from your
we'll furnished cellar. You will find
that they are fond of sweet potatoes,
but that unless very hungry they'll
not take more than a nibble OF an
Irish potato.
rats come out Of their holes to die"
used to be the display on pharma-
ceutical preparation designed to cur
tail the oyerproduction of rats. Take
no chances on a slogan OF that KIND.
Every household should care Tor lts
own rates. Get an old-fashloned cop
per wire cage trap. Then comes
the bait. Rats are quite as fastldi-
ous-or as the southern darkey says
as "permicketty''--as the small mouth
ed bass about bait. Sometimes they
rise most readily to carefully select
ed portion of new cheese, at other
times to the rich crust Of fresh baked
bread. 1t is said that now the new
bread is the most fetching palt.-
indianapolis News.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-02
Russia as a Grain Producer.

Russia is one of the principal grain
producers of the world. She Is, how
ever, far from taking the place which
she ought to occupy in view of the
flrst-class quality of her cereals. of
the predominance of farming, and of
the extent of the arabic land under
cultivation, which could easily supply
tho requirements of Western Europe
Her proximity to foreign markets is
also an important factor.
Unfortunately, there are many OBJ
stacles preventing Russia from taking
her proper place, especially in such a
desirable market as that Of the United
Kingdom The chief reason is the
absence of organiza tion in the grain
trade. Too little capital in invested
in it, and there are few large and
well established firms engaged in it,
The business is chiefly in the hands of
small dealers and commission agents
Getting for foreign importers. who of
course care very little for improving
the Russian grain trade. Defective
equipment of the ports, absence of
granaries and elevators both in the
ports and on the railways, and in
adequate means of railway transport
may also be cited as contributory
causes for this condition of affairs.
OF late the grain trade has to a
large extent come into the hands of
the bankers owing to the opening of
cheap and favorable credits to small
middlemen, who act as Intermediates
between the growers and the local
millers and foreign importers. These
middlemen deal with small, average,
and sometimes large growers, and
with dealers who buy up grain from
the peasants and make them small
advances and afterwards settle ac-
counts through the banks, the latter
having made advances on bills of lad
ing. Competition between the banks
often results in their lending money
in excess of the actual value of the
produce, and occasionally involves
considerable losses.
This state of affairs offers no en-
couragement to large firms, as they
cannot hope to compete with small
middlemen or with the banks. 1t is
impossible also to buy up large
quantities of grain In the hope of OBJ
tanning good prices. because, on the
one hand, these prices depend upon
tie werld's crop, and. on the other
hand, there are neither elevators nor
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-02
HotU to Make the Best
Cough Remedy at Home
A Family supply at Small Cost,
and Fully Guaranteed.

Make a plain syrup by mixing one
pint of granulated sugar and "A pint of
warm water and stir for minutes.
Put "a ounces of pure Pinex fifty
cents WORTH in pint bottle, and fill It
up with the Sugar Syrup. This gives
you a family supply of the best cough
syrup at a saving of 81. 1t never spoils.
Take a teaspoonful every one, two or
three hours.
The effectiveness of this simple remedy
is surprising. Ii seems TO take hold al
most instantly. and will usually con-
guer an ordinary cough in "a hours.
It tones up the jaded appetite and is
just laxative enough to be helpful in
a cough, and has pleasing taste.
Also excellent for bronchial trouble,
bronchial asthma, whooping cough and
epasmodic Group.
This method of making cough remedy
with Pinex and Sugar Syrup (or
strained honey is now used In more
homes than any oeher cough syrup.
This explains why it is often initiated,
though never successfully. II you try
1t, use only genuine Pinex, which is a
most valuable concentrated compound
OF Norway white pine extract, and is
rich in guaiacol and other natural
healing pine elements. Other prepara.
tions will not work in this combination.
A guaranty of absolute satisfaction,
or money promptly refunded, goes with
this preparation. Your druggist has
Pinex, or will get it for you. II not,
send TO The Pinex Co, 1T. Wayne, Ind.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-02
Raw Food and Cancer.

Professor Metchnikoff announced
this week a discovery in connection
with the search for a cancer cure
which in his opinion is even more i'm
| portant in it's consequences than
Noguchi's discovery of the rabies
| microbe. The savant VINO Is re-
sponsible for the latest progress Of the
| medical science is Professor Fibiger.
of Copenhagen.
Two facts stand out prominently
from the experiments Of Professor
Fibiger: First, a convincing proof that
cancer is microbic disease and, Sec
ond, that it is transmitted externally.
Professor Metchnikoff points out that
the cancer which Ffbiger studied
among rats is one of the forms of the
disease most to be feared, as it bears
very marked resemblance to human
cancer. In discussing these expert
ments the noted French savant said:
TT has been my unswerving belief
for the last fifteen years that cancer
penetrates into the body by means of
raw food. The frequency or cancer
Gus growths on the face has become
thing of the past since the use of
soap has become more general in the
country districts. This hygiene of
the face should be applied to our d.
gestive tubes, as it is from them that
all the evil comes.
Hereditary cancer is a myth. If
cancer finds several victims in the
same house and in the same family
1t is because their hygiene is equally
bad.
THE only and sure way to protect
oneself from cancer is to eat nothing
raw. The precautions are elementary
and do not cause great Inconvenience
Take, for instance, the case of fruits,
or to be more precise, bananas. Be-
cause bananas are protected by a
thick skin many pepole imagine that
this fruit is free from microbes. Now
it is a well known fact that in order
to ripen bananas must be affected by
air germs which reach the pulp of the
fruit after traversing the peel protect
ing it. And that is the reason why,
at my home, bananas are always
sealded. l plunge them for minute
into boiling water, and the fruit loses
none of its exquisite flavor.
All knives, forks and spoons used
in my household are passed through
the flame of Bunsen burner, and
toast my bread to destroy the microbes
which might have settled on the sur
face of the loaf. 1 have barred all
raw vegetables from my meals.
never eat Strawberries and | advise
those who like them to plunge the
berries for minute or two into boil
ing water. New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-02
Editorial Comment
A PitiabIe Case.
(Pittsburg Dispatch.)

Hearts were wrung as the hours
sped telling of the desperate but futile
struggles of medical skill to save the
doomed life of that young Georgia
millionaire, the first victim of bichlo-
ride of mercury poisoning to attract
national attention. Since then read
ers everywhere have watched similar
battles reported from many quarters.
But none, we think, has been more
pitiable, more poignant than the case
of the 19-year- old mountain girl at
Charleston, w. Va, carried fainting
into court, lin the face of death trying
to do something to put an end to the
traffic" of which she is testifying as a
victim.
Altogether apart from the issue be-
fore the court the fate Of this young
girl presents at once a withering ex-
posure of the social plague and ter
rifying warning to young womanhood.
1t is the other side of the bright
lights and the gay life" Read her
piteous testimony: when finally
got free / was like a bird out of a
cage and life was sweet again. l al
ways wanted to be good" And now
at 10, just when life should be opening
to Ter, her course is run. Doomed by
the poison she took, she says, in fear.
her days ebbing, she wearily recounts
the sordid story to the court and
hopes 1t may save some other from
her plight.
The need of the Mann act has been
abundantly established by the record
of what the Department of Justice has
been able to accomplish under it. 1t
should be more than punitive meas
ure. The knowledge of such law
should afford protection to victims
struggling to be free. But such cases
should be got into court as quickly as
possible. There should be no oppor
tunity for mischance in delay, or If
delay is unavoidable the witnesses
should be protected. even against
themselves.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-02
An Up-to- Date Newspaper Outfit.

1t is altogether probable that nearly
every Kennebec Journal reader notic-
ed tho appearance of his paper, on
Monday morning. Perhaps he did not
understand wherein it differed from
previous copies, but laying the papers
side by side brings out a striking i'm
provement. The new paper is not quite
as wide because the margins have been
narrowed slightly. but the columns
are the same width as before. The pa
per is a little longer, giving a more
pleasing proportion. The product is not
yet perfect but it is better and is to be
improved.
On Monday, Dec. l. all editions Of
the Kennebec Journal were run off on
the new Duplex Tubular press. the
very last word In modern newspaper
presses. 1t is the climax of the skilled
machinists art and capable from one
set of plates of $4,000 copies per hour
And, on the same day. the page
plates" that were run on the new
press were hot from the new stereotype
outfit, also the last word in stereotype
mechanism.
Both press and stereotype plant are
modern to the minute Nothing newer
OF better is made, and this is the first
press and stereotype equipment of this
kind to come into Maine.
If you noticed the clear-cut letters
in every word of your paper, Monday
morning. you will now understand that
1t is because every letter is new and
ciean-large, plain, easy reading type.
transferred to paper by the best ma
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-02

fectual means of helping the unfortu-
nate-the real good that we do. A
| penny now and then builds the treas
ure that cuts away the shackles OF
disease from the forms of many an
unfortunate brother.
| You know something Of what the
Red Cross Christmas seals are doing
to halt the invasion of the common
enemy white plague, but do you
know the origin of the seals? 1t Is
interesting. Nearly s1,50O,ooo has been
raised by Red Cross Christmas Seals
in the last five years, and yet many
people do not know how this charity
stamp idea originated.
Some of your grandmothers hrst
played post office" with stickers sim
liar to Red Cross Seals way back in
1862, when they conceived the idea
of selling stamps at fairs for the BEN
eft of the relief funds for the soldiers
hospitals in Brooklyn, Boston and
elsewhere. Nearly s1,0oo,o00 was raised
in this way before 1865. After the
war. this method of raising money
was discontinued in this country for
generation, although it found vogue
in Portugal, Switzerland, Austria,
France. Spain, Denmark, Norway,
Russia, Sweden and other European
countries. There are now thousands
of different types of charity stamps
used in all parts of the world, as
many as forty being used in Austria
for childrens hospitals alone.
Stamps or seals were first used TO
get money for the anti-tuberculosis
crusade in Norway and Sweden In
1904. To Jacob Riis, the well-known
social worker of New York, and to
Miss Emily p. Bisseil, the energetic
secretary of the Delaware Red Cross.
jointly belong the honor of originat-
ing our American Red Cross Christ
mas Seal In 1909, Mr.. Riis interest
was aroused by the receipt of
Christmas tuberculosis stamp on
letter from Norway. He published an
article about this queer looking stamp
in the Outlook and suggested some
possible uses for it In this country.
Miss Bissell at once saw an oppor-
tunity here and prepared stamp,
from the sale of which her society
realized 5000 for tuberculosis work.
So impressed was she with this sue
cess that she induced the American
Red Cross 10 take up the sale in 1908
on a national basis. With very little
organization and with hardly any at
tempt at careful advertising. the sale
that year brought in, nevertheless,
over $135,o00 for anti-tuberculosis
work in various parts of the United
States. In 1909, with more thorough
organization, the sale was increased
to $3.50, 600; in 1910 to nearly $4,000;
in 1911 to over s3so.Ooo, and over 40,
ooo. 900 seals, netting 100000, were
sold last year.