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Others setting the troops motion Within weny-or hours after
such an order expected that the distant organizations within the
brigade will arrive at Newport News
Dseiasauo. msa. to-day
" ''s' 1.', . VI. . Of :, n;
com. y .a.s '. "'' -:
s. % min. tina.
MaoCenera Aeshre to-day followed up
the orders to commission the army transports Newport News by
eg the immediate assembly Of food supply wagon transportation
other equipment for troops foreign service
THREE TRANSPORTS CARRY 500 MEN EACH.
The transports the Meade Mcleland Sumner and fitzpatrick
Tie Mceland the smallest with capacity for three hundred troops
1.-THE three others able to carry about 800 EACH There doubt
that the four can easily accommodate the entire P Brigade of the First
Division constituting the advance guard OF expedonary force of
900 men available for foreign service in an
conference
with his aides RearAdmra Fletcher
Vermont ordered from
batteshp Nebraska This SUI.
tentative orders
Of Mexico
already
orders for Mexican and other ships follow them
TROOPS ON TRANSPORT READY
department reported COM
Naws with an expdounry force Of roou. Whether other % m
will determined
Mexico
There will be three in Mexican waters reua TO a. tho
speeding
Switzerland his big
Friday On
his flagship
Virginia. and earAdmiral Fletcher OF Vermont.
that wnsows by the Iinois
perhaps the Rhode Island thei
Atlantic fleet
All the ships under orders for Mexican service are o, the s class
will have
effective about Ave thousand
side OF Mexico before the end of the week
WILL PROTECT ALL FOREIGNERS. s'
Unless there should be fresh demonstrations outside the
which threaten foreign
Americanss probably sum
needs An pointed
early to-day there nothing
afford refuge
towns where nonombatants safely gather should
spread.
While orders
military York
Georgia. which, expedonay
effect with which
become involved hosies not IN
movement
for the signal to take train ship for the
Secretaries Knox Sumson had
after luncheon White conference thew
said had reviewed there
dinner with President TAFT tonight
CAIMANERA Cuba Feb l2The bleship Nebraska,
sailed for Mexico morning remandor ~ h
American feet here is awaiting orders,
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Mutual Esc O@csrs Hear Of DAM
a0e - UutIAtHs,
er9asat Charles 4. Peabody Of tie
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THE ELECTED MOTHER. .

BY Maria Thompson Davies. The Bobbs
Merrill Co, indianapolis.
THE Elected Mother" the latest
story from the pen of that gifted
southern writer, Maria Thompson Da
yiess. is a tiny little volume of only
30 pages. and can be read while one
Is waiting for coffee a breakfast OF
between lunch and dinner, or any time
In which one has few minutes to
spare
1t Is a story Of "womans rights. :
rs the author very frankly announces
in the fly leaf and in consequence the
suffragist and the anti-suffragist alike
Will be Interested 10 know just what
Miss Daviess thinks OF this all import
ant subject.
The story is toD in the authors hap
piest vein and with all the clever and
attractive mannerisms of speech and
thought in which she is so wonderfully
efficient
Mrs. Pettibone, whose first remark
makes us sit up and take notice." Is
q very clever character.
"Yes. and one of the very incest
parts about getting home Is to find the
astonishing faithfllnoss of pa, she OBJ
served,
She makes herself heard and felt In
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for dress pattern for a woman of your
size?''
II guess I could get 1t out of as little
material as that as well as you could"
LAS matter OF fact 1t was not for my
self I was considering it for my maid
and she's even smaller than you are
In the excitement the original owner OF
the piece of voile, dropped it to the floor,
"Ensues scramble as our friend Mr..
II. G. Wells would put 1t.
False hair mixes W promiscuously with
You did,, and you didn't" and please
stop pushing and pulling" and Cat,
and Deliver me from such rudeness,
and many other similar epithets.
After, the struggle is about over a
third woman-a Dark Horse" as 1t
were, energies with the seven yards of
brown yoile.
She hadn't been counted on at all.
She won by mere strategy.
The other two attempted to argue with
her.
She refused to listen.
Sc takes fight, carrying with her the
seven yards of voile.
She finds a Floor Walker" at the end
of the aisle and explains her desire to
obtain the material at once.
She has to make a train to Billy Goat
Hill in three minutes.
The affable Floor Walker even now
has provided her with a Clerk whose
business it is to take care of just such
emergencies. and while he has made Out
the check and is about to hand to the
lady from Billy Goat Hill her bundle, the
other two come trailing down her track
| Seeing they've been outwitted they pro-
| ceed to turn upon each other as they re-
| turn once more to the counter where all
the fuss began.
They were like my friend Betty Bees
wax, who. going to sale to buy one
thing. had her mind distracted with an
other. and il they couldn't get what they
wanted they'd take what they could get
Their object was to buy remnant OF
voile and buy they would or die IN the at
| tempt. and the last we see OF them they
are in the skirmish once more, tearing
and pulling at each other-breathless,
wild and determined.
The tall woman and athletic woman is
the one who declares a dividend at a
Bargain Sale, although she is In danger
of being mobbed by her shorter compan-
| ions.
A dozen sharp elbows are jabbing hef
fercely, but fortunately for herself she
has a phlegmatic temperament and can
stand abuse as well as jabs, and she al
ways gets what she wants.
From the fray she may emerge as
heveIed, miserable, undone and while
| her nlaciditv may have lasted her en-
tirelv through the year, she loses 1t in the
excitement of a January Sale-but comes
out triumphant.
| Mr. Elbert Hubbard and other noted
magazine writer's have been writing OF
late about who the 90 greatest women o.
history are.
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<what are the women coming for?"
asked Aisle,
-'The January sales are on" the Naughty
Damsels smile,
'-rhey are hauling and appalling, cater
walling, calling, brawling,
And they're killing one another In the
morning
what are the women fighting for?"
asked Aisle,
'Tor January remnants the Naughty
Damsels smile.
"They are buying while they're eyeing,
lying, signing. even dying,
And they're killing one another In the
morning"
"What are the women dying for?" asked
Willie-of-th Aisle,
For victory in bargains" the Naughty
Damsels smile.
"Though you may not understand 1t Just
how grand it is to land 1t
just by killing one another in the morn
ing
From January Sales
The rest of the Litany belongs to Miss
Mary McIane of Butte and-oblivion.
Therefore
Let us llnger with the "Sales."
If there is a single. blessed daughter of
Eve who hasn't fought and scrambled
and fallen and risen and been taken in
an ambulance and come right straight
back the very next morning, before the
doors of the big shops were opened, let
her step forth and give her testimony!
We are waiting!
No response.
Then let us proceed, for the woman
who hasn't been to a January Sale at
some time in her life is either too sick
or too old or too decrepit to move, and
her heart tkrobs with envy of those who
struggled in the opening hours of the
great conflict.
Ny friend Betty Beeswax has always
cherished a secret sympathy for that
much anathemzed individual who, when
asked for bread, promptly handed out a
stone.
Betty argues from the premise that the
aforesaid person had an inclination to
hand out Cream Puff or Chocolate
Eolair, or some other form of Glorified
Pastry, feeling actually that the plain
"makingsr of toast weren't good enough
for the hungry one and that the effort
TO do so much more than was asked
turned out to be. just a plain old stone.
All of which isApropos of Bettys ideas
about people not doing what they intend
ed to do. but then If we all did what we
started out TO do-well, many stories
would have other endings.
As it is
For instance" Betty said the other
day, Il went in a great furry to one OF
the big Department Stores to get a
Garbage Can in our small menage and
] was delegated to purchase the de-
spsed but useful alley ornament, but In
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THE SIEGE.

"THE SIEGE"
"A NOVEL OF LOVE AND WAR; by
John S. Williams. The Cosmopolitan
Press, New York.
In this novel. The Siege" by John
s. Williams, q panoramic view of the
great American war unfolds while we
read. That war we see as a whole, and
even in detail, as in no other single
volume. Yet, with battles raging about
us, and with the sound of clashing arms
ringing in our ears, we witness at the
same time n fierce battle of another
sort--the fight waged between love and
duty the fight that was waged in the
heart of Jessie Carlton. Jessie, Vicks-
burg girl risks her life for her coun-
try, amid all the hardships and dangers
of the Vicksburg siege But she never
quails, she never grows faint of heart
how could she. with young Mason
fighting the epoch making battles that
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"a BOOK OF HAND WOVEN COVER
LET'S"

BY Eliza Calvert Hall With Numerous
Plates in Color and Other Illustrations
Little Brown and Company. Boston.
In "A Book of HandWoven Coverlets''
Eliza Calvert Hall has set herself the
task of raising the apparently common
place into the realm of art Many books
have been written about the Oriental
rug, but not till now has a similar recog-
milton been accorded the hand-woven
coverlet. Yet it is a subject worthy the
pen of any American writer, and whoever
reads these pages will hereafter see in
tire American coverlet all that the author
sees: Poetry. romance, religion, soci-
ology. philology. politics and history
1t may seem long distance from works
of fiction like Aunt Jane of Kentucky
and ''The Land of Long Ago. to a mono-
graph on coverlese but - In the Aunt
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OUTLAWS AT SUNDAY SCHOOL
A Streak of Gold in Every Man, How
ever Bad HIS Is

From the Kansas City Journal.
That there is a streak of gold in every
man. no matter how bad he is, is shown
by an early Kansas incident.
Among the desperadoes and outlaws
who used to- rendezvous at Greenwood
City, an abandoned town in Greenwood
county, were Kinch West, Jack Tedford,
Bill Hoffman, vid Farr. Leather BILL
'William the Innocent" and many 9TH
ers. While these gentlemen fingered on
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Same Old Thing

Prom Tlt-Blts.
gentleman was strolling across large
estate where he came upon man fish,
ing.
What sort of fish do you catch hersfs
he asked
mostly trout" replied the man.
How many have you caughtT'
about 10 or II, SIR
what is about the heaviest you have
caught?" continued the gentleman.
We'll, 7 don't know the weight, but the
water sunk two or three feet whom
pulled it OUT
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thoughtful and the truth seekers. 1t mas
to do with primal conditions IN iaia
where there amt no 10 commandments,
where savagery naked and unashamed Is
not confined to the blacks. 1t Is record
OF the life in the African tropics ann IL
is a powerful and fascinating story OF d
scene that has been rarely depicted IN
fiction. and Ida Vera Simonton, etc.
brilliant author has scored good sue
cess.
The book is virile, Photographic ana
intense. and permeating 1t is the fateful
spell of ..Hell's Playground'-fas
and awful Informing and accurate IN
it's descriptions, 1t stamps its author as
a writer of rare ability.
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED-RE
VIEWS LATER.
THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP.
By Jacob Fisher. With a Frontpiece in
Full Color From a Painting by Modest
Stein. L. c. Page & Co, Boston.
"BROTHERLY HOUSE"
BY Grace s. Richmond Frontpiece by
Thomas J. Fogarty. Doubleday, Page
& Co., New York.
"a JEWEL OF THE SEAS
BY Jessie Kaufman. j. B. Lippincctt
Company, Philadelphia.
"cANIBALS OF FINANCE"
BY Arthur Edward Stillwell. The Far
mum Publishing Company, National
Book Company, Chicago.
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every quarter and is a character real
| ly worth becoming acquainted with.
She has many quaint and original
expressions and from the start to the
finish Miss Daviess has made most
unique and unusual story based upon
one Of the greatest questions of the
| day.
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THE PICTURES OF POLLY"

our lovers, we are held by an irresis-
tible spell.
THE PICTURES OF POLLY
BY Mary King Courtney. illustrated. r.
Harper Brothers. New York.
1t is a gay and winsome love story
which Mary King Courtney has told in
THE Pictures of Polly" Seldom, indeed,
is so much sheer delight in the FUN CT
romance. and so much of the sincerity
which makes romance something more
than mere sentimental adventure. packed
into a tale of bizarre but plausible plot.
lovely young womans coquettish ca
price that turns to warm, whole-hearted
earnest. lures the reader on from page
| to page.
Allan Harrington was an Psychologist,
and therefore, one would think, not
promising subject for romantic expert
| ment, though he was young and good
! looking. Moreover, he was confirmed
woman-hater. Nobody can do anything
with Allan" his cousin Mrs Wyatt, told
| Polly. who commented favorably upon ms
| photograph. Hes as impenetrabie as one
of those rock tombs he's always hacking
at" But this merely interested the enter
! prising and wilful Polly. So, full of love
| of mischey and mystery. Polly did some-
thing quite unconventional. Naturally,
| Mr. Allan Harrington. when he received
| calendar for the current month bearing
| the photograph of a strilSingly beautiful
| young woman with filmy gray scarf
about her neck, was not especially
| pleased In fact, he thrust 1t into
drawer with very little ceremony. When,
somewhat later the identical scarf came
| to him through the mail, his 4nterest was
| aroused. indeed, but it was not interest
| of very deep or flattering nature. AS
| this sort of thing went on, he became
| quite impatient. You're little rcol.
he informed the Photographic perfect
| little idiot to cut up such tricks on me-
But. strangely, he found himself actually
! awaiting with eagerness the arrival or Inc
| CALENDARS The truth was that Polly had
| a gift of conveying. through various ue-
| vices, her thoroughly nice and attractive
personality that amounted to genius Al
| length. Harrington did something that
| few months earlier he would not have be-
lieved himself capable Of He lent NM
self to the game to the extent of wearing
a ridiculous ribbon in his buttonnole at
| wedding, but then the word was: mo
ribbon, no calendars After that. what
had been one-sided wooing became an
| exciting chase. in which a former woman
| hater was the humbled and tantaiized
| pursuer. Written with a tang OF breezy
originality. the Pictures of Polly mas
the rare quality Of really good sentimental
| comedy. We seem to be reading about
Irritation as a fine art. and we t'nd pe-
| meath the fun an artfulness the appear OF
sincerity and wholesome lovableness-
| mo NIDLANDERS.'
| BY Charles Tenney Jackson. Illustrated
| by Arthur william Brown. The Bobbs-
| Merrill Company. Indianapolis
Charles Tenney Jackson--that is now a
name to conjure with. Only few years
ago and he was a newspaper man. COM
paratively unknown, writing anony-
mously for the daily press, but laying
plans for thu future He WAS z gouiu&
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There's no need to go to these writer's
though: 1T is so much simpler to call
caucus of women who attended the JAM
uary Sales and, if l mistake not they'll
nominate their leaders thusly
"The woman who hid herself from
Saturday evening, January 4, until Mon-
day evening, January 6, under the coun-
ter where the remnants of silks and
satins were set in readiness for the Mob.
and who won her reward just as the
doors opened by compelling an unsuspi-
cious Clerk to sell her so remnants she
had chosen during her two days captiv-
ity She was a martyr, dying OF Pneu-
monia three days later.
1.-The woman who attended the Bargain
Sale of Marked Down Lingerie and
bought a hand embroidered 'Nightie'
worth SO for 81 cash.
''She tore her beautiful seal skin coat
(Which cost her $50 for being mended)
and she broke her glasses Costing $3.50 to
be duplieated), but she got the Marked
Down Nightie, proving herself a Heroine
when others failed.
"The woman who married Baseball
player and on the day of the first jan
uary White Sale compelled him to lift
her high above the crowd while she
grabbed all the towels and sheets ana
pillow cases that the other women never
even saw"
Market
'Steen others of Equal Courage, not to
say Equal Rights.
If any Mere Man" happens to read
this-and I'm morally sure there'll be
many who will, because next to reading
batting averages" a man adores to read
about how women have been Slaughtered
and killed at a Bargain Sale-he will be
hattering himself IL he thinks his sex
has escaped the discomfort and the blame
for they haven't.
January Sales attract men who are
sent hither by their better halves to
purchase Black Serge and White Duck
and Rose Colored Messaline and hand
embroidered lingerie.
Maybe they don't want to attend tho
sale. but they do just the same.
An aged old lady stopped short the
other day at one of the big January
Sales in her choice of some Black Merino
and said:
1--WE been coming to January Sales for
more than 40 years and never till five
years ago did / ever see a man at ono
Now I can count from where I'm stand
ing Is plush hats and five derbys Next
year 1t will no doubt be worse. Once a
man comes to January Sale, it means
he'll come always, because he'll like 1t.
AS for me I thinl it's no place for the
male creatures. They are infringing upon
Woman's Rights In every way, and next
year I shall stay at home and send my
john"
And with the four and half yard rem
nant of Black Merino which had form
erly sold for S2,9S a yard, now reduced to
3S cents per yard, waving in the afr like
the Star Spangled Banner, she vanished.
| o tempora. o moresi
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'NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
stead of getting it went home with a
Canary Bird. Now He is my witness
that | never in my fondest dreams ever
expected to own a Canary Bird, nor can
understand the mental processes that OBJ
liberated clean from my memory the I'M
minent and immediate need of our FAM
lily for a Garbage Can, but the cold facts
were staring me in the face. The worst
of It all was that the darned little old
Canary Bird only lived "a hours. He
pined and wilted and finally died In the
sunshine and fresh air, when there he
was trlling and warblng like Tetraz
zini in a dark corner of the shop, whore
the air was so thick you could cut 1t
with an axe"
"A person who can't be trusted to buy
a Garbage Can is a poor one to send to
a January Sale" 1 ventured presently.
whether it's a silk Sale or a Glove
Sale" I ventured at the first opportunity.
"a January White Sale sounds exact
ly like a Yacht Race to me-" Betty be-
gan facetiously." 1t always brings to
mind Sir Thomas Upton or"
This Memorandum which is about to
wilt in my glove" I interrupted. shows
nicely tabuated list of Sheets, Towels,
Tablecloths. Napkins. Swiss Embroidery
and Lingerie"
What was that you wrote on the pro-
gramme at the Matinee the other day.?
Betty suggested. ION. yes, 1 know. It
was counterpane. You know you are
L. 10, T,,I,v
somebody who is a perfectly good house
keeper who has bought all her lovely
bed spreads at a January White Sale
cheap!"
On the day after New Years the jan
uary Sales begin and from that moment
every woman you know is rushing away
from her happy home. from her hungry
husband, crying children, fathers, BROTH
ers sisters. mothers, boarding the crowd
ed street cars, while they search In their
new Christmas bags for the elusive
nickel to pay their car fare.
There have been great battles fought
on American soil
The Battle of New Orleans, fought over
cotton, was probably one of the most
sanguine Of the contest.
| But
Almost any January there is a battle
fought over SILK and Wool and White
Goods, on the site of any big Depart
ment Store, that would make the battle
of New Orleans look like a plugged Can
| adian dime, for Old Hickory did not
adopt his magnificent axiom
| ITO the Victor belong the Spoils-'
| Until he was President and every fight
er on the fields of silk and White Goods
has that motto on the front of her mind
and on the tips of her fingers, when
they make an attack upon Counter"
where the goods are displayed.
When Betty and l reached a certain
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Jane" stories she showes us the pathos
and romance that lie in humble lives, so
in the present volume she shows the
beauty the art, the historic associations,
that cluster around the old hand-woven
bed covers of Aunt James" time.
The material for the book, however,
was gathered north, south. east and west.
The work is one of original research ex-
tending over a period of four years. The
author has the facts of her subpect wei.
in hand and leads the reader from chap
ter to chapter where no detail Is dry
and every page is interesting.
The first chapter invites the readers
interest in things of long ago, and recrc
ates the atmosphere in which the first
hand woven coverlets were made. TIE
same spirit pervades the second chapter,
in which the author suggests the coverlet
as a means of bringing home to peoples
minds the customs of a former age and
its conditions of living
The chapter on Mountain Weayers"
gives a short history Of weaving from
the earliest times and describes the homes
OF the mountain people, their looms and
spinning wheels. Here we read of how
the materials for the coverlet are select
ed made and dyed. and the author paints
vivid word pictures of the typical noun
tain woman as she sits before the loom.
"Coverlet Names is the title Of a
chapter which shows that its name is not
the least of the charms of a coyerlet A
list of names, fanclful, poetic, sentimen-
tai piquant. historical. and homely are
.yiven, many of them with the date Of
their christening, others with the name
of the place where they were invented. A
discussion follows as to how certain
names came to be chosen, how apt some
are and how obscure Is the connection
of others The derivation of names and
their historical associations form an in
tercsting study. The author stops to de-
scribe the pictures which various names
suggest 10 her and explains many of The
local and historical connections. She an
swers the old question. whats in a
name?" with the words, All that's in
human life' "Coverlet Covers gives
the old fashioned recipes for various dyes
and is an appreciation of the wonderful
color sense displayed by the weavers OF
these coverlets. =.
other Illustrations in black and white en-
rich the interesting subject matter of rca
book Color and texture are faithfully
| re produced and on the heavily coated pa
per each detail of the intricate patterns
| stands out distinctly. They are photo
graphs of actual coverlets and form
valuable collection. not only for those who
weave or are interested in weaving. bu,
for all who appreciate works of art.
"a BUILDER OF SHIPS"
BY Constance M. Sheldon, george n
Doran Company. New York.
! A story of a typcally American sue
cessful man whose supreme amoition Il
| to build the most powerful sea-goiht
engine of war in the world. Is "A buiioe'
of Ships." by Constance NJ. Sheldon.
In pursuit of his patriotic schemes
he grows unscrupulous and brings apou
sweeping civic catastrophe
| Having suffered social eclipse M
gathers himself together to fight ms way
back to respect. This fight and the Ell
] feet which 1t has on his character makes
an impressive novel-Mr. Sheldon pest
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shop that was packed and jammed with
shoppers attendant upon one of these
famous sales. the fray was opened by a
very petite woman who was engaged in
almost a fist fight with woman of huge
proportions and adamant nerve.
The object of their competition was a