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The San Francisco call., 1913-11-06

To the Editor: By request, pub
lished in your paper of last Saturday,
/ will try and be your much looked
for dancing champion"
In speaking of dancing I do not
oppose dancing, but / do not wish to
go from the sublime to the radical.
In your article you~mention old
and new styles of ballroom dancing,
but / do not see it that way, in the
first place waltzing two-step and
other similar dances are within the
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-06

A large percentage in one
Christian institution in China is
composed of children either
mentally or physically defective.
The letter which is appended
makes one ponder on the why's
and wherefores of our American
methods of charity and benevo-
lence. The letter came as a re-
sponse to an article in this coli
umn, which spoke of the ram
pant sin everywhere prevalent in
civilized lands-of willful race
suicide" in the destruction of un-
born children. II
The Chinese mother waits un-
til her unwelcome child is born
before she destroys it; the Chris
tian American mother in Chris
tian lands is quite as much in
need of missionary work as the
Chinese woman; and her helpless
offspring are even more in need
of crusade for their salvation.
Margaret Murray Dow, who
wrote the following letter, was
asked if she would consent TO its
publication before it was herein
presented. Therefore, its rather
severe accusations of sins of
omission on the part of Anreri-
can Christian clergymen and
church members must be regard
ed as authentic:
For IA long years have
been voluntary missionary to the
men of the u S. M. c. In every
way have tried, as a Christian
woman, to guide them Alright.
Left alone as they are, neglected
and without the influence of
Christian women and men, save
for my gospel meetings and my
home, it is no wonder they go
away from mothers prayers
THE street woman hounds
them to the very gate of the bar
racks; waits for them in the back
room of the miserable saloons
on the avenue (Flushing and
Sands street,. Every temptation
that can be presented is before
them
Not a church goes out of its
way TO save them. Not minis
ter but the Rev. T. B. .Griswold
ever comes TO help the meet
ings.
about 25 ministers of this
great city have been written of
the work, with the one response:
The big salaried ministers have
no time for such small CD un-
known work
"In this service it has been my
aim to help the lads as mother
would-to warn them against the
surroundings at the garrison, to
get them to churches and to be-
friend to them.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-06
g. IAPIS LAZULI @
By CONSTANCE CLARKE

NULL drops of blue and burning deep,
Like frozen jewels without gleam
OF fire within their depths, and yet
The east where Cleopatra met
With Antony as in dream
Is here refected-perfumes rise
And drift beneath the tropic skies
And languorous songs of eastern lands
Float out across Egyptian sands.
And jewels-dull stones of burning blue,
Passionless drops of frozen dew
Reflect the orient's changing skies
Down deep within their mystic eyes,
The secret of the east they keep;
If we. would read we must read deep.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-06
Mrs. Harriman's Effort to Develop and
Encourage American Workers
1t Sets a Good Example MEN With Money. Better De
veop ONE American of Ability Than Enrich
the Foreign Art Dealers

H. Hartman left one of the biggest of the
shortest wills record.
He had collected lifetime through his extraordinary
genius for organization and constructive work great network OF
way be the powerful in the
country when death ended his labors.
Everything had, his entire fortune his railroads
EVERYTHING he left to his wife.
should interest Americans especially those who make
speciality of spending their abroad and who believe that
buying old stuff proves good learn particular thing
widow whom Mr. Hartman left his fortune and his
affairs.
ALL OF THE MONEY THAT SHE SPENDS IS SPENT
IN AMERICA TO ENCOURAGE AMERICAN WORK AND
DEVELOP AMERICAN RESOURCES
Hartman gathered together good tens of millions of
American money his short life His widow is spending the
money WHERE HE MADE IT.
When Mrs. Hartman work done she hires
American artist
When she builds she doesn't heplaces in
Europe pull locks bolts off the of old converts
bribe somebody to sell the inside of a church.
She insucts American architects find American worken
artists scuptors capable doing
that she wants done.
Mrs Hartman probably knows that this by any
"an age in America She is well that nobody living
country
the days of Francis the First
But she knows also that the work of such Michael
Angelo Benvenuto
done had those who possessed money combined with that
money sufficient patriotism encourage the workers of their
land.
The idea that thing be OLD order be GOOD is
American idea.
When Michael Angelo young he chiseled piece of
sculpture initiating the style ground
and let get reasonably aged changed appearance
Then he it rich cardinal in Rome fond of antiques
The cardinal delighted and wanted know where
Michael Angelo had done his digging The artist replied that
could dig many the cardinal
he able make them quantity and better things
modern
Fortunately the cardinal good natued and could
merit, and he helped the young artist
When the pope wanted his made, and the great
church of St Peter built he did hire
Greek style of sculpture copy Greek temple.
He let Michael Angelo make the build the great DOME
do the wonderful painting in the Sistne chapel paint
ings that chapel worth all the other paintings
That the elimination of the genius great
Ita greatness that age due the
preceded Michael Angelo and his day willing encourage
their countrynaen
Ut interest know that the older Medici son
did much for his country almost the image
John D. Rockefeller.)
likely that Mrs Hartman will live see any great
outburst of genius in American But least she will
satisfaction of doing what she help the country
she and her husband bon the ability
country great little And she will
of knowing that the seed of encouragement today
bear fruit the future. Men who think their interiors;
please take notice
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-06
EUening Calls

Can they come baekf Just ask suzeI
say election of next
Tuesday?
good suffrage Senator Works
failure.
all the peril has been the introduction of kmonos
into Americ
II looked for while Tuesday as President Wilson would have to
End a ulmatum New York city.
A Economy according the birth
ports IS that economy these high Of living daysa
The president Of China expelled 800 members of parliament It
gratifying his methods copied in ia
m Peking
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-06
Copyright. 1913. Star Company

WHUCH home missionary
IW work is done by churches
49, all over our land; yet
that much is left undone
which could be done, and
that time and money spent in
large part of the foreign mis-
sion work could be better en-
ployed at home, is painfully
true.
The world is Gods house, and
in house cleaning good workers
know they must distribute their
labors over the whole mansion
and not leave any part of it un-
tidy.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-06
Women Are Worse Than
Men When They Sin
Against Gods Law

Women need not down men
for a dual life. They have only
to regard their attitude to the
marriage law in the light of the
Almightys keen eye to know
that they are worse than the men
when they sin against his law,
"A nation is Judged by the
standard of its women. Let
America take care how she low
ers the standard at the awful
pleasure of women.
MARGARET M. DOW"
253 Putnam av., Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-28
A NOVELTY IN MYSTERY STORIES
,n fME FSEG&EG dMr
SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
AUTHOR OF AVERAGE JONES ETC

/ see, II flashed on me that il Was a
trap. You can never tell, in our line.
when the detectives may be after You,
or what kind Of game they'll put up.
looked around for the rest OF the
bunch to come and jump me. but 1
! didn't see thing. Her next words
put ME on.
1.-The stars, The stars she whis-
pered. See ours, how they light our
pathway across the sea. The sea that
awaits u.s.
More breath came back TO me. II
wasn't trap, then. She was only a
crazy woman, that had to get rid OF.
! I looked down at the handcuff. IL
was OF iron, and had dull rusted
edges. A hammer would have made
short work OF IL; but | did not have
any hammer. | did not even have
stone There would be stones In the
broken land beyond the thicket. 1
thought | saw way.
Ives. Let's Co. l said.
1--WE set out. At the edge Of the
thicket was fiattish rock with small
stones near IT, Here l pretended to
slip. fell with my right wrist
across a rock, and caught up a cob
blestone with my left hand At the
first crack OF the stone on the hand
cuff | could feel the old iron weaken.
got no chance for second blow.
Her hands were at my throat. They
bit in. Then | knew IL was night
for my life.
She was light; but she was strong
like q panther. II her dress bound
her, was as bad of in my robe. At
the first grip | was forced back into
bush. and sprawled there, in q
tangle OF branches and flying cloth.
Somehow, l twisted her fingers from
my throat. We struggled out into the
moonlight again. got fair look at
her face. and guess I went mad my
self, with the terror OF It, The next
thing | remember clearly she was
quiet on the ground and | was ham,
mering, hammering, hammering at my
wrist with a blood-stained stone.
do not know If it was her blood or
mine. Both. maybe, for my wrist was
like pulp when the iron finally cracked
open and was free. caught a
glimpse OF blood on her temple. /
! fuppOSt III uCi thciC WIN NhS
stone. She looked dead.
"All | wanted was to think--to
think-to think. How could | think
with her lying there? crept ont or
sight OF her and kneeled down. Her
star. the star | had faxed for hers,
was shining in my eyes like a colo
are That very minute wisp or
cloud blew across and wiped 1t out,
md heard myself squeal again. /
was pretty much dotty, I guess.
While | was trying to think she
came alive. She didn't stir slow and
moan like have seen men. in my
sea days, when they were knocked
out. She was OH her beet before
knew il, and of at dead run. The
broken handcuff went Jerking ara
jumping around her as she ran. That
was an awful night full OF awful
things. But the one worst sight or
all--worse. even, than the finding or
her afterward-was that mad figure
leaping over the broken ground to-
ward the cliffs edge
Even If had tried to follow I
never could have caught her. Ana
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-28

the hrst time in Funk q Wagnall's
New Standard Dictionary, announced
for publication this season. There
was a time. for instance. when the
biplane was unknown, the cabarei
,show formed no part Of our civiliza'
ton, the cattalo. citrange, plumcot
tangelo. zebrass. and zebrule did not
exist. The radiogram Is fast displac
Ing the wireless telegram. and altho
We have aerogram and marconigram'
these terms being. SO 10 speak, pro-
prletary terms. may perhaps some day
be discarded except in the special
uses OF the companies who have ac-
CURED title 10 them. The necessity
for moro rapid intercommunication
led 70 the coming OF lettergram. day
letter. and night-letter. The suggest
ing OF the term minxette recently
helps 70 recall that such parsonage
as suffrsgette or such thing az a
kitchenette was unknown 20 years.
more or loss. ago Our new methods
OF locomotion have given us the taxi
cab, popularity cut to tax. and taxi
meter. the motorboat. notorious, and
motorcycle. not TO mention the auto
mobile, limousine. chauffeur, garage.
speedometer. etc.
We have. also, the dirigible and
various types Of aeroplanee. al the
monoplane. triplane. hydroplane. and
hydroaeroplane, together with the
hangar which gives them shelter, and
the veiodrome where some are tried
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-28
LANGUAGE EXPANDS
With The YEARS
No Country on Earth Has Add
ed to Vocabulary as Has
the United States

No one living in this country could
possibly deny the virility OF English.
Tor no people on earth have added 10
the English vocabulary more copious-
" than the people OF the United
states Our slang is the richer be-
cause II is untrammeled by conven-
ton. and so much OF II survives which
NAV some day become a part OF the
literary language that We have good
reason TO Halter ourselves on our
native resourcefulness In expression.
IL Is FOR this very reason the reason
that people here speak their minds In
their own way, that We are told, every
TOW and then. that In America Eng
iish is quite too free and admits of
expletives that are not IN the best
use.
apart from slang we are creating
ana assimilating reputable works
efefy-tis " Many Of these appear for
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-28
CHAPTER XIX.
(Contlnued.)

CONTINUED
We'll, there was only one answer
10 that. said was. She opened her
package and took out a coil OF rope
II was this gray-white rope, sort oil
c!othes-line, and IL looked strong.
What now ! asked her
10 bind us together, she said
Close, close together. and then the
plunge This time there shall be no
failure. They shall not find one OF
us without the other. You are not
afraid
Afraid, My neck was bristling
The woman was proposing. as near az
could make out, that we go out In a
boat, tie ourselves together. and Jump
overheard. She seemed 10 think II
was an encore TO some previous per-
formance.
Go slow said, thinking mighty
4 hard. 4 don't quite see the point OF
this
"'All. all is as II is foreordained In
the stars; the curve of the astral
courses. the illimitable, Interchangeable
curve that has made us what we are,
and shall draw us on and on to our
? mighty destiny. You, you have point
ed out the way
THAT is what she gave me, wav-
ing her arms in the air
Didn't curse myself for not re-
Numbering what | had written her!
No clue. except that the poor soul
was plumb dippy-too dippy Tor me
10 marry at any price. II woulon I
have held In the courts. Yet. there
might have been five thousand dol
lars OF diamonds on her. 1t was
tight place. / wanted TO duck the
whole thing; but the rings held me.
have always been dotty about dia-
monds. | suppose she felt me weak
cning Women are queer, that way.
You dare to break our pact?' she
says In voice like woman on the
stage Then she changed and spoke
very gently. You are looking at
these gewgaws.' she said, and took
diamond circlet from her finger. what
do these count for?' And she put II In
my hand. Another ring dropped at
my feet. Mind, she was giving them
10 me. do not know II II would hoid
in law, she being lunatic; but was
going to take all | could. on the
chance, and watch for a getaway. The
diamonds had me hypnotized.
These are as nothing compared
TO what We shall have she went on,
after the plunge. Wait.
"She had dropped the rope, and
now she went into her paper parcel
again, kneeline at my side. had
stopped 10 look for the fallen ring,
/, when | felt her hand slide up my
wrist, and then quick little snap OF
something cold and close. bracelet,
/ thought And IL was a bracelet
Forever. Together. she said.
and stood up beside me. chained to me
by the handouts she had slipped on
my right wrist and her left. Never
you think your nerve is sound till you
have felt something like that.
thought mine was-and | squalleo
aloud like child at a ghost
Hush, she said and her free
arm pressed across my mouth.
"'IIow much to let me on? asked
as soon as | could get breath. You
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-28

she was going straight for her death
She dropped down out or sight into q
hollow and came up on the rise be
Gods sake to stop. Then l held my
breath 10 listen for her scream when
she went over. | never heard II.
But I heard something else.
heard a mans voice. II was clear
and strong and high. There was
death in II, tell you. Mr.. Kent, liv
ing horror gripped at the throat thai
gave that cry. Then there was a
rush OF little stones and gravel down
the face OF the cliff. That was all;
Beyond me tho ground rose.
ran up on IT, II gave me a clear view
OF the clifftop. thought sure
from there. Not a sight OF him. Moth
ing moved in the moonlight thought
he must have gone over the cliff. too
threw myself down and buried my
face.
How long lay on the ground
do not know The wisp OF cloud han
blotted out the woman's star, now.
and by that knew she was dead. But
the moon was shining high. II gave
ME light enough to see my way into
the gully, and | stumbled and SLID
down through to the beach.
Il found her body right away. II
lay with the head against rock.
But there was no sign OF the mans
body. the man who had yelled. So
thought perhaps he had not gone over
the cliff, and | sat and waited TO see
II he would come and care for her.
1t was quite clear to me what l must
do, IL he did not come. Perhaps my
own brain was queer from the shock
and the beating she had given me
with her manacled wrist; but l felt
that before | went away from there
must conceal the cause OF her death,
and everything about II that I could.
n II was known how she was killed,
they would be more likely TO suspect
me.
Il went back and got the rope. |
got an old grating from the shore.
dragged the body into the sea and
let it soak. dashed 1t to the grating.
I stripped the jewelry from her. But
l could not take It. That would have
made me a murderer.
There is a rock in the gully that
| marked. Nobody else would ever
notice IT, Under II hid the 1ewelry.
| can take you TO 1t, and | Will.
II got on my coat and sunk my
robe in creek, and got myself IT,
the railroad station for morning
train. And when I got home | mar
ried Irene. and | am through with
the crooked work forever.
This Is the whole truth. l did not
kill her. | do not know today who OF
what she il. have looked IN the
papers, and there is nothing, and thai
Is so strange that ! would think IL
was all fearful dream, II It was not
for my smashed.up wrist. But II any
human being knows more about the
death OF Astrea, II must be the man
who shouted as she fell from the clin'
and who went away and did not como
back.
And may God have no mercy Tor
me If this is not all true statement,
so far as know the truth.
(Signed
PRESTON JAX, S-M."
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-28

affair was wounded.
Owen ID. Conn was the burglar. and,
In his confession he told remarkable
story OF crime. He was "Raffies" I'm
the true sense OF the word stopping
at the most exclusive and highpriced
hotels. disappearing for q day or two
at time while on lob" and return.
ing to his expensive suite with the
loot. In his rooms at one or San Fran.
cisco's best hotels was discovered a
collection OF jewels worth $4,000.
Conn in his confession claimed to have
been forced into, life of crime by the
wife Of a Chicago minister, Mrs. Mes
tor Clarkson. The minister confirms
the story and said his wife had de.
serted him on Christmas eve. The &C.
companying picture shows scene ut
police station In San Francisco while
police were trying to sort the S3O,0OO
worth Of property found In Conn's
room, also photograph OF Mrs. Sher.
man, who captured him. and picture
Of c. d. Conn. the s1oo. 900 "Rafnss"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-28

According to all present indicor
tons. the sugar output OF 1913 WilI|
be by far the greatest in the histosy
of the industry in Cuba. The lstsot
statement Of production. which caxs
ried the figures to Feb. 3. showed =
total of 397 .988 tons az the output ~
1866 mills, this result being lo7,3@o
tons larger than = similar date II
1919. when 1876 mills were grinino
cane
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-28
CHAPTER Xxx.
In the White Room.

"ANNALAKA, July 10
ITO Hotel Eyrie, Martindale Cen
ter: Dust 81 and send up sever
chairs. Chester Kent"
Now l wonder what that might
mean" unused the day-clerk OF the
Eyrie, as he read the telegram
through for the second time. Con
vention in the Room Of Mystery
maybe?"
To satisfy his curiosity he went up
to the room himself It's white bare
ness confirmed suspicion OF long
standing.
ANY man." he remarked to the
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-28

out Manicure ana nnnlcrrl
terms compared with ulsSnoR
seur. and masseuse. vet ~
part OF our everyday speech g
dictagraph and dictaDhooG, y
most daily in the newopannr
more recent birth and With ~
De clsssed the sisnasTAph -
motor, Attic the popultae ~ O5~
crat have come and gpne, W 49,
more virile subjects IN fho pDo
sives and the Bull Moose. In alhI6lfl
the revival OF the Olympic gameS 16
given US olympiad. marathon, dooo<1
lon. and pentathlon. In England O.
laborite Is an addition to political ~
as was the Unionist before him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-30

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The Star Branch.
One i'll your neighborhood.
NORTHWEST BRANCHES,
Board 4 Mcclure, 9th and . SITS
Butler 4 Field. Druggists srd aud Indiana ave-
Criswelfs Drug store 9TH and and, ] SITS.
e b . Ga p9sg;s Drn s15 AMI an s,s
FIemer's Pharmacy. 18Th and Columbia road.
;Gen,ner Drug Store. l4th audi and I Sts
Uerhst's Drug Store. 18th and Pa.
HotzcIaw's Newsstand, 1905 Pa, ave.
Interior Dept, sth and +. Postal Telegraph.
&. ksnn. Sons 4 Co. informant lion Bureau
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Paul Pearson. Druggist 18th and Florida ave. NV.
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Roland Wallace. Newsstand and Stationery Store,
Tewksbury's Drug Store. $40 14th NV.
.lnlon Station Postal Telegraph.
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6radleys Drug Store, 18th and Pa ave. sc.
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