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A SUCCESSFUL WOMAN
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Copyright, 1918. by Frank Crane.l

There is a woman OF my acquaintance
who is success. She is not rich, not
gifted in the usual arts that gain no
toriety, not young and peachy, not cele-
/ brated.
She is i'm quite moderate circumstances
and lives with her husband in fat in a
neighborhood that is not select" She
has no children.
She is past fifty and glad of it,
Why is she successful?
Because she is cheerful and because
she cheers everybody around her.
And she is cheerful because she is the
enc woman out of. say, fifty l know who
has succeeded in perfectly adjusting her
self to her surroundings.
The secret of the art of life is adjust
ment, and whoever can accomplish that
is entitled to be called successful. And
to this title other person has a right.
No human being is able to secure an
entirely ideal environment. No woman
ever lived who had a perfect husband
perfect children. a perfect home. perfect
clothes. a perfect income and perfect
friends. Those who complain because
they lack in any one of these respects
are foolish and know nothing of how to
take hold of life.
This woman is content with the hus-
band she has. she loves him for precisely
him over. To have tinkered him and
changed him to suit her fancy of what
husband ought to be was, of course, inn
possible, though many silly woman
wrecks her happiness at that task She
has done the better thing: She has ad-
justed herself to the man as he is.
Housekeeping is her lot So she has
adjusted herself to il. She has learned
to love it. Her home is beautiful within.
restful tasteful, altogether delightful.
incama at certain figure To
that figure she has adjusted all her de-
sires. She lives just as contentedly as il
the figure were ten times great
She said to me the other day: Il wish
YOU would write something to persuade
women to love the common things. the
! everyday things. You ask me why ] am
so contented. 1t is because | love every
thing / see constantly about me. | love
that chair. that table. that desk, those
pictures. curtains and rugs. They are all
friends of mine.
every piece of glass or china on my
table means something to me. There is
not an article in this apartment that does
not please me when look at II.
Il love my friends. l love my days
duties | love the way We live.
"When any thought of unlove presents
itself TO me, put it away. just as If IL
were unclean. I will not give room TO
dislikes-
This woman is a point of sunshine in
cloudy world. II the Lord were angry
with the city. as tie was wroth against
Sodom, and should look about to IL
there were at least three souls worth
while, for whose sake He might spare
the town from His consuming fire, this
woman would be one of the saving sort.
For she is a radiating center of helpful
ness. She boosts all spirits.
ANY woman can be successful. as this
woman is il she will learn the art of ad-
justment For better than a billion dol
lars il is TO be adjusted. Better than
having everything just as you d like TX, is
10 like things just as they come to you.
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Longest Tunnel in the World.

From the Engineering Record.
In the Jura mountains no fewer than
five tunnels from two 10 five miles IA
length have recently been driven TIE
Pvrenees. the natural barrier between
France and Spain. have likewise been
pierced by several long tunnels, and the
Caucasus mountains are TO be tunneled
by a bore which is TO be not less than
SO miles long.
In the Alpine region the Simplon and
Lotschberg tunnels have proved that
length combined with great everything
depth is no longer an insumountabe
obstacle. and that high rate of progress
can be attained with the assistance OF
modern tunneling methods, machinery
and proper organization.
In this country several large projects
are now being elaborated and il is but
a question of a few years before the
Rockies and other ranges will be pierced
by long and deeply overlaid tunnels. serv-
ing the purpose of eliminating heavy
grades, sharp curvature and the necessity
of reaching high attitudes under most adj
verse conditions.
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EETuRE DAYS.



ruE1Ic SALE OF va u! IMRRoyE2
M NM 10 1t29 EIGHTH III r., STREET e NV.
The undersigned heirs at law of Margaret r.
estate. win orer for sale by public auction in
real estate in the District of Columbia:
,, BEGIN !, At FOUR R., O'CLOCK Pm. on
tinuing ON said day until all the property has
been offered in the order here enumerated. viz. ::
453 in the city OF Washington. made by James
H. Shreeve and John W. Wade. executors ard
q e' Of Columbia 1 Book
folio %. improved by substantial business
building 1o 20 s 9TH s,reet NV " ,ots i
AZ IN the city OF Washington made by James
III. Shreeve and John W. Wade. executors and
vcyor OF the District Of Columbia in Book 10.
NJ foiio Al: improved by substantial dwelling
u in block II. Bloomingdale. recorded in the
once OF the surveyor Of the District Of Coumbia
substantial brick dwelling house. No 81 Quincy
building shall be erected on said lot costing less
than twenty -fve hundred dollars. within ff-
that no spiritnous liquors shall be sold on said
lot or In any building erected thereon.
Terms: one-half cash and the balance in two
equal installuents, in and two years, Sc
cured by deed Of trust property sold. with
interest at six per cent per annum. payable SENT
Annually. VI al edsu ut puiCndscf > optiOn Dc-
rnsit Of hundred dollars at sale on each
parcel sold. Terms to be complied with in
twenty days property may be resold at risk
and cost Of defauting purchaser Conveyancing
aud recording at purchasers cost.
JAMES 4. DORSEY.
FRANCIS ALLAN DORSEY,
RICHARD A. DORSEY,
ROBERT H. DORSEY,
GEO NJ. DORSEY.
HARRY G. DORSEY
GERTRUDE DORSEY STALEY
SUSAN B. DORSEY.
GERTRUDE ID. HELM,
Hears at Law of Margaret r. Dorsey.
". ". MILAN. Attorney. Columbian bldg.
j. ENOS RAY, Attorney, Columbian bldg.
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turned to the north Pacific coast from
duty in Boring sea. and went to Seattle.
has been ordered to her station at As
toria, Ore, to take up her regular duties
in that vicinity.
The cutter Bear. on her way from
Nome, Alaska. with American survivors
of the big storm and tidal wave at that
point, at last reports had not arrived at
Seattle. where she was looked for about
November - The receipt at any NOM
ent of a message announcing her arrival
was yesterday looked for by the officials
of the revenue cutter service. who are
not at all worried by her failure to ar
rive in port on schedule time
Capt. De cites report of the operations
of the cutter Onondaga in taking charge
of the American bark Magma Riva, the
crew of which had mutinied. and of the
arrest of the members of the crew who
were taken to Wilmington for trial, has
been received at the department The
report contains no details regarding the
rebellion of the sailors beyond the fact
that they objected to the treatment they
received from the master and first mate
of the ship.
only officer OF the service to register at
the department in the past week
Second Lieut.. Thomas ). klinger of this
city, who has been attached TO the cutter
Mackinac at Sault Ste Marie, Mich,
has been assigned to duty near his home
Orders this week transfer him from the
Mackinac to the Apache, on the Chesa-
peake bay station.
Orders for the week ending yesterday
are as follows:
Capt w. V. L. Jacobs. to jacksonville,
Fla, duty in connection with inland wa
ter ways convention.
Second Lieut.. W. F. Towle, to Guard.
temporary duty.
First Lieutenant of Engineers Urban
Harvey, to Norfolk, Va, on official bust
ness.
Capt c. S Cochran, detached Thetis to
Bear, granted thirty days leave of alb
Sence.
Second Lieut.. L. L. Bennett, granted
forty-five days leave of absence
First Lieutenant of Engineers G. A.
Wheeler, granted fourteen days leave of
absence on account of sickness
Third Lieut.. Thomas S. klinger de-
tached from the Mackinac and ordered to
the Apache.
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Sober Peterborough.
From the London Chronicle.

The dean of Peterborough has said that
during the five years he has been in Peter
borough he has never seen a drunken
person in the streets. Peterborough, it
appears, is free from the reproach that
attaches to most cathedral cities. 1t can
regard Winchester with a lofty scorn.
Many years ago Lord Tennyson drove
through the streets of Winchester on the
boX-seat of a coach. and the poet said to
the coacnman. What sort of a place is
this?" "Debauched, SIR" was the sad
reply. 'Debauched, like all other cathe-
dral Cities
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Horse Still Holds His Own.
I'M Farm and Preside.

From Farm and Fireside.
Reports from the Union Stock Yards of
Chicago give the interesting fact that
there are now employed in Chicago -, 939
horses. or only 2S7 less than year ago.
In Boston the number Of horses Is only
fifty less than ten years ago Mime
apolis has 1873 more and ST. Louis 73O
more than ten years ago. Inasmuch as
the city driving and carriage horse has
rapidly disappeared the figures show that
more draught horses are in use today
than ever before, motor vehicles notwith-
standing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-23

do you think that big fortunes may
contaminate? asked the new member OF
the club.
We'll / have known cases in which
both the money and the heir became
dissipated,' remarked the professor
Buffalo Express.
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She Knew.

From the Sacred Heart Review
IF there were four flies on a table and
killed one. how many would be ieft?'
inquired a teacher.
One" answered bright little girl
1.-The dead one"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-23

Ii matters little what 1t is that YOU
want-whether a situation or servant
want ad in The Star will reach the
person who will fill your need.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-23

From Town Topics.
Mr.. Hoyle-I admire a good liar.
Mrs. Boyle-You egotist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-23

There is no question about the absolute accu-
racy of the statements in this timely book.
Mr. Haskin's ''The American Government"
which has been read by millions of Americans, is
proof of his ability to handle cold facts in an alb
sorbing manner.
Every man and woman in the land will now
want to be posted on the story of our great
national enterprise at Panama.
Business men will learn of a 375 million dollar
investment self-supporting from the start.
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Berlin's Population Decreasing.

The population of Berlin is decreasing.
Not only are the laboring classes moving
out to the country to find work, but the
wealthy are forsaking the city for more
pretentious homes in the nearby suburbs
The exodus has been SO steady during
the past eight months that Berlin today
has over 41,0OO less inhabitants than it
had March !.
The present year is the only one to
show a decrease in population since 1873.
For six years past the rate of increase
has been comparatively slow, but as re-
Gently as 1906 there was a gain of $4,000
in twelve months. Now the tide has
turned the other way. and the municipal
ity is alarmed over the departure Of
nineteen millionaires, in the German
sense. in the three months ended June
30. The city's tax receipts are CORE
spondingly reduced.
wholly due to the movement Of the peo-
pie into suburban towns, for such pros
porous neighbors as Charlottenburg and
Schoeneberg also show small losses. and
the gains In other adjacent municipalities
are not large enough to account for the
removals from the capital. The demand
for labor in Greater Berlin this year has
been very slack, and in spite of the
emigration to fields where work can be
secured the number of the unemployed
is assuming alarming proportions. Even
the building trades. which normally EN-
ploy many thousands, report very limit
ed activity.
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TOMORROW.
ADAM A. wESCHLEI. ACCrIoHEER.
Trustees Sale OF Valuable Lunch
Room Business. at No ,,o7 9TH

BY. virtue Of a chattel deed of trust duly re
corded In Liber :;642. folio ;;aS seq, of the
land rccords for the District of Columbia. and ai
the request of the party secured thereby. the uu
dersIgred trustees will sell ny public auction
within the above premises on MONDAY. THE
TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1919
At ELEVEN O'CLOCK AN. the above lunch
room business including Opolite Glass Tables
Chairs. Marhle-top Counter. Mirror. Fans. Ice
Boxes. Gas Range. Cake Stove, Sllverware, Glass
ware Crockcry. etc
VIII first he offered as entirety. and II
50 tisfactory bid Is not received will be immedi
ateiy sold in detail
Terms cash.
SoTERIOS NICHOLSON.
Hcnl-d6dbs JOSEPH STEIN.
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Aerial Routes Fixed.

From a recent issue of the aerial
time table it appears that regular air
routes and fixed sailings will be main
tanned. Between Friedrichshafen and
Copenhagen the airships will sail either
via Hamburg and Brunswick, or by way
of Brunswick, Potsdam, Leipzig, Gotha
and Stuttgart. Another line will connect
Dresden and Hamburg by way of Pots
dam and Brunswick Vessels travelling
between Bremen and Emden will follow
Between Dresden and Dusseldorf the
route will also be by way of Brunswick
The last named city is thus to be a sort
of central station for the whole system.
Owing to the large number of stations
that eventually will be in operation. it is
expected that the aircraft will be able
to find ready refuge when surprised by
bad weather. Most of the stations are
constructed to accommodate two ships.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-23

Engineers will revel in the lucid description of
the engineering problems solved in building this
Canal of yours.
Medical men will read how Col. Gorgas made
yellow fever but memory.
Patriots will glory in the story of this great
WORKOUT through by their countrymen
without breath of scandal-and with hands un-
stained by dollars worth of graft.
first page to the last.
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DISASTER IN AIR
NO BAR TO FLIGHTS
Aerial Navigation on Regular
Schedule, Notwithstanding
Zeppelin Losses.
GERMAN COMPANY PLANS
ELABORATE EXTENSION
Decrease in Berlin Population
American Agent Investigating
immigration.
BERLIN November 10 1919

DEFtLiN, november IT, I!lo
The two disasters to Zeppelin airships
in September and October are not to re-
suit in checking the use of these craft
in Germany. This is the decision ap-
parently reached by the government, the
concerns that build airships. and by
what may be called the aerial travelling
public /
The recent fatal accidents in the North
sea when fourteen men were killed. and
at Johannisthal, when twenty eight per-
sons lost their lives, have not reduced
the number of sailings i'll the vicinity
of Berlin of the Hansa, stationed at
Postdam. This airship is still making
two trims daily, and only recently it
celebrated it's three hundredth flight
Moreover. the German Airshp Navga
ton Company, which owns the Hansa
and two other airships. is preparing for
much more extended schedule of sail
ings. To the company's eight stations.
located at Potsdam. Hamburg, Dussel-
dorf. Frankfort. Baden Baden, Gotha
Leipzig and Friedrichshafen. are to be
added eight more-at Emden. Bremen.
Hanover, Brunswick. Dresden, Stuttgart,
Munich and Copenhagen. 1t is also in
tended later TO establish stations at
towns in the more eastern part of the
empire. such as Bresau, and probably
at DantSic and KONG
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
GOLD PLATED CANS
TO PRESERVE FOOD.

COLD plate is ao.oea,ed by the Ger
- man chemist, Gudeman, as a sub
stitute for tin plate in making cans
for containing food. II is well known
that tin plate-which Is plate Of iron
covered with thin layer of tin
'corrodes when exposed to the acids
of fruits and meats. The reason is
that the tin does not entirely fill tbs
pores of the iron.
Gudeman experimental with gold
and found that when this was applied
to the iron it filled all the pores, there
by making the metal absolutely rust
proof. He supplied a liquid amalgam
of gold and mercury to the iron plate
and then distilled off the mercury.
The Scientific American says "the re-
sulting plate looks like gold, resists
acids like gold and Is absolutely uni-
form and continuous in surface. II
was also found that the pores of iron
could be filled with enamel or even
with glass, il a pressure or 10000
pounds to the square inch were ap-
piled, and the resulting product was
Just as resistant as enamel or glass"
The only trouble with this process
is that it costs fifteen times as much
as tin.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20

TT HERE passed into the beyond the
i other day one Of the worlds
most picturesque criminals. He was
a suicide. He had lived a life of ro.
mantle lawlessness. He had flched
hundreds Of thousands. He has had
his periods Of real magnihcence. He
died penniless, deserted. alone. And
be was the last of his clan.
In his own world he was known as
Dutch" Alonzo--his real name was
Alonzo Hem. He was one of the ex.
traordinary group Of individuals whose
criminal exploits and audacious depre-
cations earned them the sobriquet of
The Forty Thieves"
The name suggests an association OF
persons bound together in common
cause against property and civilization.
This was not the case Nor were there
e1actly forty. The friends and com
patriots OF Dutch" Alonzo were far
too primitiYely individual for real con-
federation. Often several of them
might cooperate for a single robbery,
but that achieved and the booty divid-
ed they separated to take new pals OF
the order for some fresh foray. The
link between them was first, "Shans"
Draper, whose saloon in New York
City was their meeting place, and Sec
ond, the confidence IN each others
daring and ability which successive ex-
potts had engendered.
Civilization produces both its hawks
and It's pigeons. The forty thieves
preyed on unsuspec.ing wealth in the
late seventies and the eighties, but
cleaned their richest harvests in the
nineties after the setting in Of the
material millennium that followed our
Spanish war They reaped great
booty among the men who had sud
6enly found or inherited millions in
ell or gold or wheat without knowing
what to do with their pelf. These fat
squads they relieved OF their loose
money. And moreover. the Forty were
rioneers in crime, carrying beyond the
seas their depredations into foreign
lands. For they were not ordinary dull
burglars, but brave and competent
daring unbeaten paths n the achieve.
ment of their nefarious aims.
The record Of each being closed
bank burglar and sneak, gambler and
bunco man, wire Taper and green
goods agent-opportunity is given to
contemplate its membership fairly, for
one may do justice even to crook.
One fact above all others stands out
Thieves" Retribution followed each
man to the end. 1t sprawied Johnny
Irving, the first to pay the penalty.
dead upon the sand-sprinkled floor of
the crime nursery, as "Shang' Drap.
er's saloon used to be called. the victim
of the bullet of a former pal; it made
Dutch" Alonzo, the last to have his
miserable record written, swallow a
burning poison as he lay hid away in
a garret room pinched by poverty. 1t
sought out each man in turn. For the
zucst +Art they died with their boots
ON. as the literature of the ilk holds to
he perfectly good form.
Had you been in London twenty
years ago. with time on your hands and
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1
blood. you might easily have met at
the Savoy bar a suaye and charming
would have introduced as Count Pap
penheim. About his otherwise perfect
English there was just trace of the
German cultural but Inevitably you
must have been enchanted by ais
charming and not too condescsndins
manner. An aristocrat, obviously. and
| you would have been fattered by the
frank interest the Count proceeded to
take In your affairs. "A stranger Ia
London? Your first visit? Seeing the
sights--you must allow me, an ole
habitue." Would you not go anywhere
so pleasant and SO distinguished a
gentleman took you? OF course you
would be delighted to have such
mentor.
Contemplate Count Pappenheim--
tall. distinguished, broadshouldered,
handsome, liberal and admirably tail
ored-with the gossip of courts at his
tongues end, his fluent conversation
interlarded with the names of the
celebrities OF sport and society-he was
a figure calculated TO enchant. with
glimpses Of remote and romantic
worlds far beyond the ken Of the aver
And this was Alonzo Hem in his hey
| day.
At this particular time big Bill"
Hawley and Frank Tarbeaux, them
selves leading members of the Forty
Thieves, were associated in a gambling
club in London. 1t was conducted
with all the precautions of genteel re-
serve essential to give it eclat in Lon
dol's smart sporting set To enter.
| introductions were requisite, but once
inside you were In surroundings of re-
fined sumptuousness. A club truly, as
finely appointed as the Brook or the
Carleton, and there you met the real
giish, French, Austrian or Russian.
Before ascending to the tables one
dined-and there was no better chef
In London.
Upstairs one played baccarat or rou-
Il tie, or any other game your daring
urged, and you found the Count quite
1 faIy hn hon fho
cards If you lost, and one always did.
why suspect such agreeable and ad-
mirably hammered person?
! And this was but an episode in an
| extraordinarily checkered career. Not
Always did Dutch" Alonzo practise his
arts so agreeably. With him there was
always the steel hand In the velvet
glove. Before he reached the British
metropolis he had run the gamut Of
high and low crime.
1t was said he was born of good par
entage in Philadelphia-his father q
well-to-do merchant. He must have
| had education, for he was widely read.
duQ he Ldu LIE duu dCLOul
plishments of gentleman. With bis
daring he had extraordinary physical
! strength and he sang and played like
professional. But of his origin no
| one had definite information. He be-
gan early-such a boy as this man
I must have been was inevitably un-
!: rtstrainable. He ran away from home
4 and literally fell among thieves. First
he was a pickpocket in Philadelphia,
hen in New York-supple, clever, bold
but he was caught and sent to Sing
Sing. There among the masters OF
crime he was fully inoculated with the
bacilli of lawlessness He emerged
graduate. an audacious. resourceful
epemy Of society. He returned to New
York and began to practise his nefar-
ious arts. His exploits soon won him
! place among the most daring free
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The Career
and Miserable
Ending Of
"Dutch" AL
ONO, Most
Daring and
Picturesqueof
theExtraordi-
nary Associa-
ton Of Grim
inals Who
Looted
Millions in
Europe and
AlllCllId dlkA
All Of Whom,
with Two
Exceptions,
Periished
In Violence.