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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-19
REV. D. E. WISEMAN PRESIDENT
Elected Head of United Colored Cit
zens' Associations.

Forty delegates from fifteen colored citi-
Zens' associations gathered at the col
ored Y. NJ. c. A. building Monday and
held the second conference looking to the
organization of a federation of colored
citizens associations. Henry E. Baker of
the Howard Park Citizens Association
presided. Following the reading Of re-
port by Rev. J. c. Van Loo and a pro-
longed discussion a constitution for the
federation was adopted. The name select
ed for the federation is the United Citi-
zens' Association of the District of Co.
lumbia.
Rev. D. E. Wiseman was elected presi-
dent: Rev. J. c. Van Loo. vice president;
William Richardson. secretary; H. J. Da-
bis. assistant secretary: G. w. Brent.
treasurer. Henry E. Baker, Robert ell
ham and w. H. Lewis We're nominated
for offices, but declined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-19
Two Held on Grand Larceny Charge.

William Smothers and Frank Lam
caster colored, the former residing at 400
Locust court, and the latter at 346 3
street southwest, will be given pre-
liminary hearing in the Police Court
tomorrow. having been arrested last
night by Policemen Bailey and Pierson
charge of grand larceny. 1t is al
legged they took S38 worth of butter
from a wagon belonging to Golden &
Co. The butter. it is said, was recov-
cred in Libbey's lumber yard, at 5th
and l. streets northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-19
Charge Against Crismond Dismissed

The charge of disorderly conduct pre-
ferred against Edward r. Crismond Of
Congress Heights by Miss Rose Van Ruth
of S13 New Jersey avenue northwest, has
been dismissed by Judge Pugh after a
hearing in the Police Court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-19
Separate Street Cars Condemned.

A resolution condemning the activity of
various citizens associations of Wash
ington in urging the segregation of the
races in street cars was adopted last
night at the regular meeting of the Bap-
list Ministers Union OF the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-19

Amos Bittinier. a farmer of Pleasant
valley. Md. WAS stricken at the United
Brethren Church while attending service
Sunday evening. He was removed to his
home and died at IL o'clock the same
night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-19
Mutton Finds Little Favor.

Australian mutton has not yet found
favor, chiefly because mutton is
unpopular in Berlin, and few German
cooks can roast even fresh joints salts
fsctorily. Some excellent mutton recipes
were distributed gratis.
Much amusement was provoked by the
indignant Wilmersdorf butchers, who re-
fused to sell frozen meat and stood watch
ing the municipality taking their profits.
Some middle class purchasers said they
could only buy frozen meat comfortably
under municipal aegis.
Charlottenburg will open a similar mar
ket shortly. The necessity for this mu-
Hicipal enterprise is significantly demon
strated by the official statistics Just pub
lished showing that the slaughter of pigs
I'm Germany in the last quarter of 1912
was 10000 less than in 1911, whereas the
slaughter of horses for food was 5000
more than in 19i1-an increase of 30 per
cent--and the slaughter of dogs showed
~ per cent increase.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-19
FROZEN MEAT SHOP
OPENED IN GERMANY
Store Conducted by Municipal
ity to Combat High Cost
of Living.
-orcisu correspondence Of The star.

BERLIN, February . 1915.
The first municipal frozen meat shop
for Australian mutton, Russian beef and
pork has been opened at Wilmersdorf. In
.. big. clean hall, with seats where the
weary housewives sat to discuss the
Joints. and tables to rest their loaded
market bags was an appetizing display
cf meat Waiting rooms. an ice cellar
and a counting house adjoin the main
building. while the municipal fish market
stands close by.
fessonals TO serve the public, while
municipal butcher clerks kept the ac-
counts. Payments are made al the desk.
purchasers receiving a check, against
which the packers hand out the goods.
The prices were so decidedly lower than
those Of ordinary German meat that big
crowd of all classes collected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-19
SERV|AN WOMEN FIGHT
IN RANKS Of THE ARMY
Their Devotion to Country One
of Bright Chapters of
Balkan War.
Correspondence of The Star.

BELGRADE, February L. 1913,
All the world has been filled lately with
admiration for the valor, endurance and
military skill of the Servian soldiers,
qualities which have earned for the army
an enduring place in the annals of Eu-
rope. Servians themselves think with
pride of their soldiers, not only fighting
and defeating the Turks and passing
from Rumanovo to Uskub and from U.s.
kub to Monastir but of the men who.
not resting from their tolls. climbed
mountains. waded rivers and passed
through deep snow, bringing horses and
cannon along tracts where no road ex-
listed till they reached the Adriatic-the
longed- for goal. OF all this the world is
aware OF what Servian women have
done less is heard.
Yet Servian women have never shown
go much activity, sacrifice and energy
as during this Balkan war. They nave
proved their extraordinary tenacity,
great interest in public affairs, as Well
as deep patriotism and love toward those
who have SO heroically fought for their
country.
Some Serve in Ranks.
No Seryian man who considers what
the women of his country are doing at
with admiration for their achievements.
The Servian women are not only work
ing in Belgrade. but in the remotest
towns and villages of the country. as
well as In those places in Austria inhab-
tied by Servians 1t is felt by every
Servian woman of every class through,
out the country that it is her sacred
duty to help Her nation when in need.
some even have played a soldiers part
in the conflict.
The Servians can well be proud OF the
courage of ofe Yovanovics who fought
as a comitaji in several battles. dressed
as a soldier. Her father on his death
bed dedicated her in his place to the
service of her country. She Is the Serv-
Ian Joan Of Arc of the twentieth CEN
fury and the pride of Servian women.
When the conflict with the Turks began
Princess Pavlovna, who lately married
Russian prince came at once from st.
Petersburg to Belgrade, bringing with
and all materials for hospital, herself
sharing in the nursing.
Worked in the Hospitals.
She mas visited the different hospitals.
consoling the wounded with kind words |
and gifts, such as cigarettes. sweets etc. |
Many women who are earning their live
lihood as schoolmistresses, clerks, dress |
makers, etc, have sacrificed their salaries !
to help in this noble work: the peasant |
women are also helping the Red Cross
Society by sending linen. knitted socks, |
towels of their own weaving and so forth. |
Among the various societies that Of the |
Sisterhood has pre-eminently con- |
tributed funds for the Wa and the re- |
lief of the wounded. The chief aim of |
one of the sections of this society is to |
fit women of all classes by means Of lee |
lures, demonstrations and practical train |
ing to be nurses, and every nurse who !
the obligation to enroll herself as vol |
unteer nurse in hospitals in war time.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-04

$500 day, policeman came to the
room, and he served a warrant on
William, warrant sworn out by the
United Charities.
William was taken to Desplaines
street jail. His hearing came up in
the Court of Domestic Relations.
He had committed no crime, but
the array of witnesses at the trial
would have done credit to the most
desperate criminal.
DR.. Ritter of the Rush Medical
Hospital, Miss Lunn, nurse, Miss
Bergen and another United Charity
eight were all there.
Mrs. Corrigan says she was asked
by Miss Lunn if William hadn't abus-
ed her, but, alas for the plans Of
charity, William is a model husband.
There was nothing left, if the United
Charities was to succeed in exploit
ing Mrs. CorTigan, but to have Viii
liam forced to go to Dunning.
William doesn't know the name of
the judge who presided at the Court
of Domestic Relations. All he knows
is that everybody seemed to be
against him-that he felt hopeless,
bewildered, and wished he never had
gotten into the clutches of the char
ity trust.
The judge ordered that William
should go to Oak Forest for month
and "try it" and that if he couldn't
be taken in there and must go to
Dunning, they should respect his
wishes and not force him to shave
his moustache.
And then, though William had
been guilty of no crime, he was re
leased under bond and told that he
would be sent to Oak Forest that day.
He waited all of the day, afraid
to go out and work, brooding over
the fact that he had $3.50 a day.
job that would have been a God-send
to him, bitterly disillusioned regard
q
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-04

ing over and over: 81 haven't tuber-
culosis. feel all right"
But nobody came to take him
away, so he went over to the County
Hospital. They laughed at him at
the County Hospital when he told his
story, and said that no order had
come from the Court of Domestic
Relations that he be sent to Oak For
est.
Yesterday he sat in the one room
where the family live, and looked out
of the window, up and down the
street, dreading to see the wagon or
some of the United Charities inves-
tigators, yet afraid to go out and
hunt work, lest he be arrested on
some other warrant sworn out by the
United Charities.
He has lost $3.50 this week that
he might have earned He lost at
least $40 before that while he was
obeying the U. C. dictates and being
examined, etc.
On the OCner side OF the slate, Mrs.
Corrigan has been given ten days
work by the Mary Crane Nursery, at
40 cents day less than she would
have been paid anywhere else.
And the United Charities, in the
period of over a month has given Mrs.
Corrigan, according to her state
ment, about and not over SO in gro
cedes, milk, and the trif1e they paid
on her rent.
Meanwhile, William sits at the win
dow wondering what new thing the
United Charities will do to break up
his family.
why don't they stop bounding
me-" he cried. 81 can take care of
my family if they will let me alone.
l am guilty of no crime. Why don't
they let us alone?"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-04

Sarah" said a lady to her maid,
"I'm vexed at your neglect and care
lessness. Just look at all that dust
on the piano! It's six weeks old at
the very least" Sarah suddenly be-
came very dignifed. "Then's it's no
fault Of mine. You know very well,
ma'am, that I've been with you only
four weeks!"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-03

the Junk wished upon them by
the Children of the Far East
and didn't know whether to de-
clare it for what it cost or what
it was really worth.
Being conscientious members
Of the Church, they modified
their Perjury and smuggled only
the usual amount Of Carvings
and hand-embroidered Stuff.
Two hours after landing, Ed
win saw a Porter-House Steak
and burst into tears.
They sped eastward by the
first Train, still busy with the
little Red Books, for they knew
they would have to answer los
OF questions.
"Shall we own up and iel
them the Awful Truth?" asked
Selena.
mot on your Esoteric Budd-
hism," replied Edwin. "We
never will be rewarded for our
Sufferings unless we convince
the Neighbors that we had
run for our Money. 1t was
troubled Nightmare, in Spots,
but when | lecture in the Church
Parlor [ am going to burn Joss
Sticks and pull every variety of
Bunk made famous by Sir Ed
win Arnold and Lafcadio
Healn."
On the following Tuesday Sc
lena appeared at the Club with
her Mandarin Coat and the long
Hindoo Earrings. She had
them frozen in their Chairs.
MORAL: Be it ever so hard
to take, there is no Place like
away from Home.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-03

1 toughest Passage he had evel
Known.
After spending a few days IL
London, trying to get warm
they moved on to Paris, which
they remembered long after
ward on account of Napoleon's
Tomb and the price of Strawber.
ries.
Selena pulled her tall-grass
French on Hackman, but there
was nothing doing. He had
taken it from a different teach
er.
So they employed a Guide who
knew all the Shops. If Selena
happened to admire a Trinket OF
some outre Confection with Lace
shattered on it, a perfumed
Apache in a Frock Coat would
take Edwin into a side room,
give him the sleeve across the
Wind-Pipe, and bite a piece out
of his Letter of Credit.
Edwin did little quick work
with the Pencil and said they
could either hurry on or else HE
back to the Home Town and be-
gin Life all over again.
Three weeks after saying
goodbye to Griddle Cakes they
were in Naples, which they had
seen pictured on so many Calen-
dars.
Looking back across the Cen
turies they recalled the Clerks
standing in the Doorways and
the friends of the Progressive
Euchre Club. 1t was sweet to
remember that the world was
not made up entirely of grating
Head Walters.
Once in a while they would
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-03

recover the brave Spirit of Trav-
el and blow about what they had
seen.
The Towns and Temples and
Tombs and Treasures of Art
were all iumbled together, but,
by daily reference to Baedeker
and Murray. they were enabled
to find out where they had been
and what they had seen with
their own Eyes and how it i'm
pressed them, at the time.
Before touching at Honolulu
they were real enthusiastic
about India. They advised the
awe-stricken Listener who had
not been all around to be sure
and take in Penang and Johore
and, if necessary, they would
give him Letters of introduce
ton,
They said it had been Won
derful Experience. Yes, indeed.
And broadening. Very. Then
Edwin would wander to the
front end of the Ship and want
to climb out on the Bowsprit SO
as to be in Frisco ahead of any
body else.
He convalesced rapidly as
they approached the Golden
Gate, for he knew that i'll few
days he would unpack for good
and gallop down to the office.
and not have to worry about
Travelling.
The only Dark Cloud on the
Shore Line hung above the Gus
tom House. They looked at all
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-03

Once in a while they would learn
that Congress had met or anoth-
er Colored Person had been
burned at the Stake. 1t cheered
them immensely to know that
the Land of the Free was still
wiggling.
At Rangoon they met a locoed
Countryman headed in the op-
posite direction. He was a hard
faced Customer who was fight
ing the Climate with Gin and
Bitters, but they fell upon him
and wanted to Kiss him when
they learned that he had once
met Selena's Uncle at Colorado
Springs,
They told him how to save
time in getting across India, and
he gave them a list of Places in
China and Japan that might be
lodged to advantage.
Year after year in the months
of March and April they contin-
ued on their tedious. Way
through the burning Tropics.
Sometimes they came to dis
couraged belief that the World
was one bluey eXpanse, dis
turbed by Flying Fish.
Then they would spend weary
Ages along the avenues of white
Liine-Kilns, looking at countless
millions Of hungry Brunettes in
fluttering Nighties.
Their principal Occupation,
when not setting down Expires
sions of Delight on the Post
Cards, was to study Time Ia
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-03
THE DREAM THAT CAME OUT WITH
MUCH TO BOOT
b. the MccnreN

even on the Imperial Suite at SO
a Day was to make the Folks
back at the Whistling Post think
they were playing Guitars and
dancing the Tarantella, what
ever that is.
Next we see them in Egypt,
still addressing Postcards, and
offering anything within Rea-
son for a good Cup of Coffee.
Someho,y, sitting in the dusky
Tombs didn't seem to help their
Nostalgia.
Not that they would own up
to being Home-Sick. No, indeed
They kept writing back that
they enjoyed every Minute spent
among the Cemeteries and
Ruins, or sailing up the Nile,
and Edwin was holding up Won
derfully for an Invalid.
Only, when either of them
spoke of the Children, or
Corned-Beef Hash, or the Cana
ry, a long Silence would ensue,
and then the Nervous Wreck
would cheer her by computing
that they would be in Gods
Country within four months, if
they escaped Shipwreck, Sun
stroke and Bubonic Plague.
While parboiling themselves
down the Red Sea it began to
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-03
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pies dnQ caDle aneaQ Tor ReSer-
vations.
The Invalid's one desire was
to get home and take a regular
Bath before being laid out.
Hong Kong pleased them ex-
ceedingly because they learned,
by consulting Mr.. Mercator's
Projection, that they were on
the Home Stretch and, with
Luck in their favor, might live
to see another Piece of Pie.
Japan they liked the best Of
all. At Yokohama they received
a bundle of Dailies, only six
weeks old, giving full Particu-
lars of a Wedding and telling
who was about to run for Mayor.
AS soon as they were Oh the
Pacific and headed for a refined
Vaudeville Show, they began to
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venture from the Hotel to run
foot races with the yelping Laz-
zaroni or try to look at Vesuve
without paying seven or eight
members Of the Camorra for the
Privilege.
After being chased back into
the Hotel, they would sit down
and address Postcards by the
Hour, telling how much they
were enjoying the stay in Ma
poll, home of Song and Laugh
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Their only chance of catching
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-03

centuated by Butter brought in
Tins all the way from Sweden.
Although the Heat was in
tense, they found occasional Re-
lief in sitting next the Britons
and getting a few Zephyrs di-
rect from the Ice-BoX.
Each day they would pur-
chase a Newspaper about the
size of a Bed-Spread and search
eagerly for American News.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-03

soak in on them that, east Of
Suez, the Yank has about as
much standing as the Ten Com
mandments.
They could have endured
sleeping in a Trough and bath
ing with a damp Towel and eat
ing Food kept over from the
year before, if their Fellow Voy-
ayers had made a slight fuss
over them or evinced some in
terest in the wonders of North
America.
The Congressman at home had
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-03

Jim Of the Ocean and the most
upholstered portion of the entire
Foot-Stool.
Consequently, it was some
what disconcerting to meet Brit
ish Subjects who never heard Of
Quincy, Ill.,, and who moved
their Deck Chairs every time
they were given a chance to hear
about it.
Back in the Middle West, Ed
win and Selena had been Noun
tains arising from the Plain. At
all points beyond Greenwich,
they were simply two unconsid-
cred fragments Of Foreign Sub
stance.
The Passport did not seem to
get them anything. While be-
ing walked upon by the naughty
Tea-Drinkers they could not
claim the protection of the
American Flag, because they
didn't see the Starry Banner af-
ter leaving New York, except in
front of Fake Auction Sale, ar
ranged especially for Tourists.
BY the time they found them
selves in that vast bake-oven
known as India they were be-
numbed aid submissive and had
settled into a Routine. They
would arrive in New Town, fly
to the Hotel, unpack, go out and
buy their colored Postcards,
come back to the Dump usually
called the Grand Hotel Victo-
ria). address Cards to all the
Names on the list, then pack up,
pay the Overcharges, and ride to
the Railway Station, accompa-
MED by a small regiment of
Bashi-Bazouks who were looking
for Theirs.
The sight Of a Temple threw
Edwin into Relapse, but he
would have given $4,000 for one
peek at the galvanized Cornice
of the Court House.
Selena was still buying Souve-
Mrs, but doing it mechanically
as if in a trance.
They had been stung with so
many Oriental Phoneys and
stuck up so often that they had
gone yellow and lost their
Nerve.
When they saw an out
stretched Mitt, they came across
without q Whimper.
Cousin Ella, back among the
Corn Fields, pictured them as
riding a caparisoned Elephant
up to the marble Palace Of the
Gaekwar of Baroda, where Ed
win would flash his Passport
and then the distinguished
Guests would be salaamed to the
Peacock Throne.
Nothing like it, They were
led up to highly odorous Bazaars
conducted by lineal Descendants
of the 40 Thieves.
Often, while riding in the
dusty Cattle Cars and looking
out at the parched Plains, they
would think of the shaded Front
Porch, only 5 minutes from Bar
clay's Drug Store, where they
sold the Ice Cream Soda. Moan
ing feebly, they would return to
the italicized Guide Book.
The Chow consisted largely of
Curry and Rice, the medicinal
flavor Of which was further ac-