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The Washington times., 1913-05-13
SEMINARY
TO GRADUATE NINE
Young Women Who Receive
Their Diplomas Represent
Several Far Away Sections.

Annual commencement exercises take
place tomorrow evening at Madison
Hall. 800 r street. Nine young wpmen
will receive degrees. among the nine
being representatives Of several far.
away States and Territories. The
graduates are the Misses Margaret
Crutcher. Kentucky; Annie e. Dent,
West Virginia: Myra We. Griffin,
Missouri: Reta Jeanne Harris. Okla,
homa Henrietta ]. Mc0ie, Montana: :
Julia r. Montgomery. West Virginia; !;
Helen B. Sayer. New York; Grace c,
Simms, West virginia
Graduates Of Chevy Chase College
heard United States Commissions. OF
Education Claxton last evening In plea
that cGlleGe-bred women interest Them
selves In bettering civic conditions.
While the home Is the woman's
sphere" said Mr.. Claxton, "higher edu-
cation has broadened the work Of the
home until women should. and in many
cases do. interest themselves in clean
Ing the city. the State, the nation. and
the world. Only one-hftieth Of the
women Of tie world have educations
~ good as YOU have received, and your
influence and opportunities are reia-
A musicale was given before the ad-
dress by Mise Alice Glascock. Miss Mary
OToole., Miss Madeline Keiter. Felix
Garzfglia. and George H. Miller. The
Rev. DR.. T. 8. Childs said prayer.
The Washington times., 1913-05-13
EXPERTS" PLAN FOR
TRADE BOARD DINNER
Committee in Charge Of the
Annual Shad Bake Holds
Out Great Promise.

A dinner At for king. il guaranteed
the attendants at the nineteenth annua
shad bake Of the Board Of Trade by
Chris Go .keler and the committee which
he today selected to serve with him.
The committee was carefully selected
each merber being either an expert
cook or waiter. Chairman Gockeier
has not made up his mind whether ht
will be head chef or head waiter.
Following are the men selected for the
dinner COMMITTEES:
Chris Gockeler, chairman; George
Pitt, vice chairman; G. Hanlon. ste
ward; Charles l. Bowman. Bert H.
Brockway. walter NJ. Brown, Frank A.
Butts, John j., Cannon. Aubrey l..
Clarke, Jules A. Demonet, William M.
Dougal, Frederick 8. Dudley, B. B.
Earnshaw. Joseph w. Gibson. w. c.
Haskell. NJ. H. HERMAN, Joel Hill
man, F. g. Hight. George L. Isemar'.
George H. Judd. Leverett NJ. Kelley,
]. Edward Lewis. Adolph Loshl, II. G..
Mccormick. E. ]. McQuade. Townley
A. Mckee, Charles E. Miller. Charles
Rauscher. n. L. sansbury. e. G. Scha-
fer, George F. Schutt, Charles II. ST.
John. Joseph N. stoddard, Harry c.
Talbert, W. H. Turton. G. Taylor Wade.
John c. walker. e. J. Walsh. L. Perry
West. william D. West, Denwood s.
White, e. o. Whitford, AQuilla R.
Yeakle. A. Stuart Young, Charles 6.
Zurhorst.
The Washington times., 1913-05-13
New Hampshire Society
Elects New President

DIR. Charles II. Bowker, regimental Of
ficer Of the Second Regiment, District
National Guard. has been elected presi-
dent Of the New Hampshire Society Of
Washington. A meeting Of the society
vas held last night at the w. c. T. U.
Hall, In sixth street northwest.
Mrs.. william e. Abbott was elected
first vice president: Charles Hoyt. Sec
onl vice president; H. n. Fulton. re.
cording secretary; Homer ]. Brown. cor
responding secretary. and Arthur Sar-
gent. treasurer.
The society will give theater party
at the Columbia Theater July 10. the
committee having the affair in hand be-
ing Elmer f. Fisher, chairman; DR..
Charles II. Bowker, Charles II. Turner.
and H NJ Fulton.
The Washington times., 1913-05-13
WASHINGTON TIMES BUREAU,
ALEXANDRIA VA. MAY l3

Charles Lewis, colored, who Is serv-
ing a sixty-day sentence in the city jail.
was brought before Police Justice Cation
five-year-old son of his wife. Rose
Lewis. today. Lewis, who is twenty
three years old and who has a long
police record. removed the child from
the home Of another colored woman
last February and since that time no
trace of the boy has been found.
He declared that he had left the child
one night in his old home In McDer-
of the city, and that II was gone on the
following morning. Police Justice Cation
ordered the man locked up while the
police make a thorough search of the
premises to endeavor to md some trace
of the boy.
According to the testimony CT the
mother. who has been married to Lewis
for three years, she left him last Feb
ruary and went to Washington to live.
The child was left with woman ty
she was gone Lewis appeared at the
Wright house and took the child away.
He carried him to his parents home.
out they refusing to let him stay there.
went to his old home. He induced his
wife 70 come back to live with him by
of her boy. The woman testified that
Lewis had tried to kill the child on a
previous occasion.
A mass meeting, to be held in Alex
andria at an early date, at which viii
be represented all the Organisations,
county supervisors. road commissioners.
and city officials. to take action toward
the completion of q section OF the
Richmond-Was highway. south
OF Alexandria. will be the result OF the
report made by c. 8. Taylor Burke and
The Washington times., 1913-05-13
Trades Council Will
Help Hospital Funds

Pledging its moral support to the
movement to raise funds for a new
Emergency Hospital. the Washington
BuiIdins Trades Council has decided to
appoint af its next meeting committee
to assist in the raising OF the fund and
in other ways to further the aims OF the
proposed Institution.
Members Of the council were unani-
nous At the last meeting In declaring
that the new hospital should be second
to none In the city. and that the move
ment to erect IL was one Of the greatest
movements ever started In the District
ment VIII also be put on foot at the
next meeting Of the council for the keep
Of beds In the new hospital for the
bensflt OF workmen holding union cards
who may happen to injuries.
The Washington times., 1913-05-13

Sol Cutchins. grand high priest of
the grand chapter Of Virginia, will
pay an official visit toniSht to Mt.
Vernon Chapter, Royal Ar. Masons.
bouquet will be served after the
meeting at the Young Peoples build
ing
The Washington times., 1913-05-13
Takoma Lodge Will
ExempIit Degree Work

At a stated communication fer mem
bers Of Takoma Lodge, F. A. A. NJ. to-
night the E. A. degree viii be exempli-
fed by Senior Warden Enos s. Harm
den on II. ID. lawson, Harry Loeb.
Morris Needle. and possibly others.
A special communication II announced
for May Is. when the Master Mason
degree will be exemplified on William
Y. Avery. James w. Dyre. william 4.
Mellen. and Hugh E. Reppert.
The Washington times., 1913-05-13

The fixing Of the tax rate for next
year, and the passage Of the annual
bills will be the princi-
pal business before the city council At
its monthly meeting tonight.
The Washington times., 1913-05-13
FATHER HELD AS
POLICE SEEK BOY
Mother Of Missing Lad Says Man Once Tried to Kill Child
Which Cannot Be Found by Alexandria Force.
News Notes Of Suburb.

A. D. Brockett. directors of the high
way corporation, to the chamber ot
commerce at meeting which was held
last night.
1t was shown that practically the en-
tire highway had been, provided for
with the exception of the stretch be-
tween Alexandria and Lorton. a dis
tance of sixteen miles. preliminary
report was also made to the chamber
BY the committee, of which John. w.
equal assessment of taxes in Virginia
by which twenty-nine counties and
nineteen cities pay into the State $780,
900 more than thev receive.
The chamber is in Correspondence
nineteen cities of Virginia, looking to
concerted action. ii. p. Wilson. OF
New York. who recently purchased
Holland Hall, near Alexandria, vas
elected to membership.
Exalted Ruler James Bales. of Alex
abdria Lodge Of Elks, accompanied by
several other members. will leave ON
Friday for Danville to attend the open
ing of the new Elks' Home in that city.
Many Of the most distinguished Elks
in America. including Thomas B. Mills.
Of Superior, Wis. grand exalted ruler
OF the order. and Fred &. Robinson,
grand secretary. will be in attendance.
A: last nights meeting of the lodge
the local Elks. A committee. composed
OF James B. Martin. Thomas NJ. Dun
barr, r. NJ Petit. Herman Freid!aIdeT.
and the Rev. Edgar Carpenter, was
appointed to decorate the graves Of the
members of the order on Decoration
Day.
Another committee composed of
James B. Martin. James B. Fitzgerald.
the Rev. Edgar Carpenter. and Herman
Freidlander were appointed to have
charge of the orphans excursion on
June Is ARRANGEMENTS were madc for
the annual observance Of Flag Day, on
June II.
The Washington times., 1913-05-13

William Bathurst Daingerfeld to the
marriage Of her daughter Beall to
Ensign Henry Be lie Bourgeois, U. 8.
N. to take place June in st. Paurs
Church.
The Washington times., 1913-05-13

Announcement II made that the En-
erson Steam Pump Company. which is
now In the bankruptcy courts, having
effected a settlement with the majority
of its unsecured creditors. who hold
$4,000 in claims against the company,
by which the latter will receive 80 per
cent Of their claims the bankruptcy
proceedings will be dismissed and the
plant will resume operations at an early
date.
The Washington times., 1913-05-13
Cat Club to Meet.

The care and breeding OF cats will he
the subject Of discussion at the meeting
OF the Washington Cat Club tonight at
the aps rtment of Mrs. West. In the Oc-
tavia, at 8 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1913-05-13

John Steil, a Greek employed as a
fireman on the tugboat DonnRlly. fell
overheard near River View yesterday
afternoon and was drowned. His body
was not recovered.
The Washington times., 1913-05-13
FIGHT FOR PENSION
RENEWED BY WIDOW
Former Army Nurse, Whose
Husband Was a Veteran,
Seeks $4,000 Claim.

/ After eighteen years Of continuous
defeat. Mrs. Mrie ]. Blaisdell today
returned to Washington to take up
anew contest with the United States
Pension Bureau for a sum now amount
/ ing to $4,000. She Is a civil war army
nurse, was Treasury clerk under the
! last days of the Lincoln Administra-
tion. and Is the widow of a veteran.
| She Is now an aged women, almost
totally disabled in body. but her spirit
and viSor Of purpose are as young as
| ever.
| Mrs. Blaisdell came back to Washing
ton again because a new Administra-
| ton is in power and. with a new PEN
Sioh commissioner. she hopes that the
Pension Bureau will reverse its ruling
regarding the back pension due her on
account OF her husband. A special PEN
won Dill before Congress once provided
wnat she regards as her due but point
OF order killed that bill and Mrs. Biais-
deli now 10 concentrating her hopes on
action by the Pension Bureau, Though
that bureau has been against her in the
past.
/! Hopes For Employment.
Mrs Blaisdell meantime hopes to
, get some sort of employment to help
! her while she pursues her claim. She
has a pension Of $24 a month. Sl2 OF
this as the widow of a soldier and
$1e from having been herself an srmy
nurse.
Mrs. Blaisdell is the widow OF Lieut..
William Blaisdell Of the Fifth Min
nesota Volunteers. Blaisdell became
insane after the war and was put in
| an asylum. His wife supported her.
, self with a pitiful salary as q Treas
ury clerk of the lowest grade
Finally Mrs. Blisdell got q pension
OF S72 a month on her husbands ac-
count. this being due him rs veteran
! who had gone insane from the hard
, ships Of the service.
Cut Down Pension.
But the Pension Bureau reversed it.
self in the Blaisdell case. declared
that Blaisdell was not incane and cut
the pension to SO . month. 1t 10 for
the back pension due on the theory
that BlaisdeH was always insane that
hie widow is now contending and as
she has been contending for nearly
two decades.
The special Congressional committee
which investigated the case found
unanimously In her favor. and the bill
urged strongly that she be granted the
relief sought. Crowded into the closing
days Of q session q point OF order was
made against the bill, and II perished.
Mrs. Blaisdeil IL said to have been
the author Of the Temperance plank"
In the Republican party platform "a the
Harrison-CIeveland campaign, and she
believes that this incurred for her the
enmity of liquor interests and that these
have always fought her pension claims. !
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-16
NO ACCOMPL|CES,
STOLE II HIMSELF
Larceny of Famous "Mona
Lisa Was Not From "Mere
Motive of GAIN"
by he Associated Press

Florence, Italy. Dee. 13.-Vincenzo
ferugla. from whom Leonardo Da-
Vlnc1s Masterpiece Mona Lisa was
recovered here yesterday declared ah-
soiutely to the police today HI he
a no accomplices, either direct or
indirect, in the theft Of the painting
from the Louvre in Paris.
1 did not take the painting through
a desire for gain" he said, "bu wish
ed to accomplish a good and holy
work by returning to my country one
ofNbe many treasures stolen from it"
While working in the Louvre. he
he was overcome with
shame on hearing visitors indicate the
pest works as Italian. One day he
too this oath: II will be Unworthy
or Italy II | do not return to her one
OF these masterpieces"
The idea obsessed him and the
Mona List" was ever before him
A1ter the theft he was i-nterrogated
oy the police but his frankness dis
armed suspicion. Similarly, when he
crossed the French frontier he so
readily opened his work box for the
authorities that they neglected t"
search 1t. Apparently it contained
only a lew rags and his tools.
frugia declared he did not intend
70 sell the picture to the government
out ne hought he ought to have ade-
quate compensation for "the great ser
wee rendered Italy"
The antiduary, Geri, will claim tho
rewards offered by the French gov
eminent and Paris newspapers for the
recover OF the picture. The Mona
nisa mas been placed temporarily in
~ .Hl1l gallery where it reposed four
hundred ago. 1t will hang for
d Day or two in the Hall
tween the ~Annunciation and the
Auoration or the Magi. Tomorrow
the pubic will be admitted.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-16
Hurdles for Hogs.

De q great hetp TO your Sect1On. l
shall be interested in the result.
Hurdles for Hogs.
"Please publish directions for max
ing cheap but strong hog hurdles for
fencing them in pastures?' When
one has plenty Of rail timber the old
fashioned worm fence is about as
cheap a hurdle as can be made. When
l was farming in Albemarle I had a
lot OF chestnut rails that I used for
temporary fences, and when not in
use stacked them on end in any con
venient place. But where rails are
not available, the best temporary
fence is made Of any Of the woven
wire fencing with galvanized inch gas
pipe to drive down for posts.
Smu in Sorghum.
81 never heard Of smut in sorghum,
but this year fully 80 per cent Of my
sorghum heads, planted for syrup,
were black and smutty. I got my
seed from a Southern seed house. Is
smut on sorghum prevalent in the
South? AS we had the worst drought
for a in this part of the State,
perhaps that would account for it.
The smut you send is very similar,
IL not Identical, with the smut in In
dian corn. But in the case of Sor-
ghum, it may be carried by the seed,
for the specimen you send has some
good seed in the head, and a. these
are covered with spores they will
carry the Infection, il planted with
out treatment. The dry weather had
nothing to do with it, and the smut
was probably carried on the seed.
You m have bought the seed from
a Southern seed house. but that does
not tell where they were grown. and
[ have no reason to suppose hat the
fungus is more prevalent in the South
than elsewhere. Before planting any
seed from this crop, I would soak
them half an hour in a solution Of
formaldehyde. n pint to twenty gal
Ions IF water. This will destroy the
Sporee. But at the same time I
would select seed from plants that
are not smutty. The snut fungus has
been growing through the plant all
the season, and the black smut is the
fruiting of the plant, and every grain
of it will grow like a seed if it is in
contact with the terminating seed.
With this fungus growing through its
tissues, l would assume that the quail
ity OF the sap for syrup-making would
be very seriously affected. Like you.
I have never before seen the. smut III
sorghum heads, though it may oe
common in some sections.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-16
To North Carolina

dedicated by the Author to Hon. Josephus, Secretary OF tho Navy
Here's o the land OF the longleaf and bright yellow pine,
Where tho trees grow up sc fast, % tall and s fine,
That though the mill and the x may have full sway:
Yet another e forest is born in s day.
Land Of peanuts cotton and the bright yellow weed
Perimmons, potatoes and everything o feed,
Berries. melons and-our cornucopia will show
That anything raised this side the tropics, we grow
The fish OF the SCI pay tribute sound and stream.
The fowls from the North come with the frostS frs bright CLEAN.
Pond and creek abound with game-speckle n the bass,
In field and meadow, Bob White nestlesi in the grass.
A land Of great plenty, where the pastures re green.
And the fat 1ocks beside the still watersa r e
And the best OF all, if o will just stop to think!
Here's to the land where the mountains IRE the highest.
Here's o the land where the sea shore is the longest,
Here's % the land where the maidens are the fairest,
Peopled by a bold that must be free,
1t is hers not just to seem. but rather to be.
Her tokens of pleasure Are her working mans tools,
Her music marks progress in the bells OF her schools
The hum OF her wheels browns the echo OF the sea;
The power in her waters, and her mines Of gold.
Will sooner OF later bring her riches untold.
Her hard-woods and minerals r known far and wide:
The unfolding of this wealth will come in q day:
The keen-eyed capitalist is looking this way.
Her people, the same that first landed o her coast;
Holding the fath Of the fathers has been her boast,
Her temples OF worship adorn hamlet and town,
Where the gospel is preached and high critics held down
The Down Homer may roam, but he will surely find
That his land is Q leaving all others behind.
Here's to the land Of long leaf and bright yellow pine.
Where the Mocking-bird sings in the Scuppernong vine
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-16

Musical Event Announced for Thurs
day Night at Chapel Hill.

Chapel Hill, Dec. 3.-The church
choirs Of Chapel Hill will give Han
ders Bethlehem on Thursday even
ing, December Is, at $3.50 O'Clock at
the Baptist church The solos will be
talk en- by Miss Kitty Poole. Of Clayton.
and Mr.. Meel1s, Of Chapel Hill.
Miss Poole did solo work in tire last
summer school concert. conducted bv
MIR. Gustave Eagedorn, of Raleigh.
She has a high soprano voice. full of
81 mpathetic and appealing qualities.
Mr.. Meeks. a student at the Univer-
sitS. Is well-knoWn here as one OF the
best of the tenors who ever resided in
n town His voice is rich and full
and he sings with y simplicity ad'
! mired by all vino nave heard him
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-16

Orlando. Fla.-Mrs. Lid uaina
wife Of former Congressman Charles
=. Haines. of New York, died here
iaee TODAY. She had been in bad
nNaieh Tor sometime and am t,
orlando to cooperate.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-16

Biueiield, w. Va.-Sam wv.t+
farmer OF TazeWen county. Va. va~
$40 and killed at his home ,odavby
'asiof George B. Fuller, of the Taze-
Wen county Jail. Fuller had bean de-
Naiieo TO arrest Wyatt on a Warrant
him with beating his wife.
"heh hniier and another man reach
81 the house Wyatt IL said to hayn
oegun firing at them. Fuller return
60 the lire Wyatt vas struck f.u-
times and died Immediate. Fuller
vas not arrested
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-16

be q great help to your section.
shall be interested in the result.
New Ulm review., 1913-07-23
Young Man Is Drowned

Sunday afternoon Mr.. A. j. Miller
received telegram containing the
sad information that his q year old
son William had been drowned that
morning at Huron, S. D. in the river
commonly known as Jim" River. AT
the time the telegram was received the
body had not been recovered. Mr..
Miller left for Huron the same night
to bring the body to New Ulm rs soon
as it should be recovered.
The victim of the accident is %
years old having been born Feb. Is,
1891 on farm in Dexter township,
Codington Co., S. D. He is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Miller who re-
side on South German St. Twenty
one years ago the family removed to
Mankato where they lived for IA years.
They then moved on to a farm where
they remained for years. Since then
they lived in New Ulm. The young man
worked at the Loretto Hospital all last
year and he left the latter part of
April or the beginning of May for
Huron to perfect himself as an elec-
trician. This is the fourth death that
this family has to record since they
came to New Ulm. They had hardly
been here two weeks when three of
their children fell victims to that
dread disease, diphtheris.
The body was recovered Monday
and brought home Tuesday morning
on the early Northwestern train. The
fu neral will be held this (Wednesds sy)
afternoon with services At the house at
2 O'Clock and at the Congregational
church at 2:3O p. m., Rev. Wheeler
o ficisting. The deceased is survived
b y his parents, two brothers one older
and one younger than himself and two
sisters, both younger.
New Ulm review., 1913-07-23
Two Cent Rate
Now Effective !:
j, T--- - ].
Railroads Go Back to Former
Passenger Fares
Monday.
So. l6 Is At Present The Cost
of a Ticket To Twin
Cities.

A conference was held in the Office OF
the Railroad and Warehouse commits.
sion Thursday with the attorney gener-
al and representatives of the railroad
companies which are to be affected by
the decision in the Minnesota rate
cases. After the meeting the follow
ing statement was issued:
"It was agreed that the 2-cent pas
senger rate, merchandise and the COM
modify rate schedule be filed and made
effective Monday, July 2l, 1913. AZ
to passenger claims for refunds the
receipts speak for themselves, and no
itemized claim need be made.
'Where the receipt cannot be fur
nished the claimant must mako and
file sn affidavit setting forth facts suf-
ficient to prove the claim. The form
OF af8davit has been approved by the
commission and can be obtained at the
local railroad station. As to freight
claims. the original or duplicate ex-
pense bill or prepaid bill of ladinR
speaks for itself, ard no itemized claim
is strictly necessary.
ssBut the shipper will aid the rail-
roads and insure prompt returns if he
ma kes out detail statement. When
the original or duplicate is missing
the shipper should prepare au affidavit
of the fact upon a form which has
been approved by the commission and
can be obtained at the local railroad
station. This is for the purpose of
giving the railroad companies infor-
m alton which will enable it to inves.
tigate the shipment.
"Shippers should file claims direct
with the railway companies. but atten-
tion will be given by the commission
on all claims or communications
which come to this Office.
In response to an inquiry by the Re-
view at. the local passenger stations
Monday the information was given
that both the Northwestern and the M.
& St. L. had that day returned to the
2 cent fares. The price of the ticket to
a competitive point is determined by
the mileage of the longer line. For in
stance the distance to the cities over.
the Omaha line is 1OS miles and IS
over the NJ. & St. L. The fare there
fore is S2.16 at present but the shorter
road expects to drop to the sl.75 rate
which formerly prevailed as soon as
the courts remove the injunction
against SO doing. Under the new dis
tance tariff the short line will also
have the advantage, for q time at
least until the legislators get busy
and grind out some more rules and
exceptions. !