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The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
BY FRANCES sHAFFER.

Resolutions are all out of fashion. but
they are coming back for some Of us
this year. enough to permit us 10 slip
in one long thought forward, a last
glance backward and a faithful promise
10 ourselves for the days ahead.
Because, in spite of the passing Of old
traditions, the strokes OF the eventide
Of the old year would not ring out half
so true and so full of meaning unless
there was one real pledge for the future.
And for this year?
Well, there were many pleasures in the
days that have come to a close; there
was happiness and there was success.
But the setting was not all roseate, for
worries crept in. troubles stood just
around the corner. and sometimes they
dropped, full force with their sorry, sorry
effects And there were many failures
But they are all over now. We cannot
change the first or the last happening,
and We shall not make the mistake of
carrying along a single one OF the
shadows that darkeDsd the days of 1917.
i ney worked havoc enough as they set
tied and We shall determinedly draw the
curtain upon them and shut out even the
memory Of the hours they saddened.
Close Old Accounts.
The joys, the successes. the happy pic
tures-we shall remember them forever.
blows, and not the defeats. Because the
year Just at the threshold is too new.
too young to be burdened with happen
ings that belong in the past.
And il takes too heavy a toll this habit
of carrying forward from year to year
old accounts that ought to be stricken
Oh our books when there is nothing to
them but unpleasant memories.
So welcome 20 the year of 1913!
N,tSt Hyba 1. haa In
store, and We would not if We could.
But-yes, there is one more resolution!
We are not going to borrow trouble
until it looks US squarely in the face.
and then, when il comes and when We
know it will not be turned aside, we
are going 10 bow as gracefully and as
resignedly as We can TO the thing that
will not down" For the years have
not come and passed away. one by one.
without teaching us that half the sting
of the very worst blow is gone-at least.
it is greatly lessened-once We make up
our minds to square our shoulders, to
let it fall and forget it as soon as we
can.
Because as We look back to the year
that has gone and the many that went
before it. We remember the price we
paid because of foolishly struggling over
something that had TO be accepted in
the end
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
TUBE In OPERATION.
Packages Can be Sent from Capitol
to House Building.

The biggest pneumatic tube In the
world was put into successful operation
here yesterday. 1t runs between the
Capitol and the House Office Building
and was built about a year ago. although
no attempt has been made to operate 1t
since that time. because Congress re-
fused to appropriate any money for 1t.
The tube cost about $1,000 and was
designed TO carry parcels and documents
from the cellar Of the Capitol TO the
office building. where Representatives
have their Offices The carriers weigh 80
pounds each. and 1t is possible TO send a
carrier weighing with its contents nearly
500 pounds from one end OF the tube to
the other in less than thirteen seconds
An attempt will be made to secure an
appropriation. so that the tube can be
kept in operation regularly.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
REBELS HOLD DURANGO.
Federal Authorities Unable to Cope
with Insurrcctos.

The new year will come In without
any sign of peace in Mexico. according
to State Department adyices yesterday.
Just at present the situation in the
State Of Durango is the most acute. The
capital city OF Durango is now COM
pleteIy isolated from the rest OF the
world, rebels having cut the telegraph
lines and destroyed portions of the rail-
roads leading into the city.
The situation Is admittedly beyond tho
control OF the federal authorities with
the troops now at their disposal The
rebels. IL is stated. are daily growing
holder and approaching closer to the city
itself Refugees who have come IN from
the outlying districts are relating pitiful
stories of the sufferings caused by the
depredations OF the insurrectos.
Reports received from the State OF
Chihuahua indicate that the situation
along the border is somewhat Improved.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
CHANCE OF STUDYING
ART GIVEN WOMEN

Glasses for studying fine and applie's
art under the direction OF Mrs. Anna
Bogenhelm Sloane. who a few years ago
established the school which is now called
the Arts and Crafts School, are being
organized at the headquarters OF the
Woman's Republic, at the Portner. The
tuition is free, and the only condition
for admission to the classes Is that the
applicant become a member of the Wom-
ans Republic, or, II already a member.
that she bring in a new member.
The courses include drawing, design
ing, illustrating, painting, china decorat-
ing, basketwork. leather craft. lace max
ing. needle work, wood carving, and
weaving.
Mrs A H Buggy. who Is at the rooms
OF the Woman's Republic, at the Port
ner. Tuesdays and Fridays. from II to 4
o'clock, will receive registrations and
furnish further Information.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01

What would be smarter for general
wear than this stylish frock carried out
in any OF the wooden materials. The
dress is very easy to make. 1t has the
IA shionable shoulder tucks and closes at
the front. The skirt is a three-piece
model with the popular empire waist
line. The collar and yoke are OF all-over.
The pattern, No. 5932, is cut in sizes
50 to a. inches bust measure. Medium
size requires is yards Of 36-inch ma
terial. IS yard OF 22-inch all-over, and
3-s yard of 2i-inch satin.
The above pattern can be obtained by
sending 10 cents TO the Pattern Depart
ment of The Washington Herald.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
KILLED BY TAxIcAB.
Negro BOY Victim of skating he
hind . Wagon.

Percy Williams. colored. twelve years
old. of "a Van Street Southwest, was
run down and almost instantly killed at
Third and L Streets Southwest shortly
before o'clock yesterday afternoon by a
taxicab.
williams was roller skating. and had
been holding on to the rear Of a wagon.
He suddenly released his hold and started
toward the curbing. when the taxicab.
which had been following closely behind
the wagon. struck him. DIR. Benjamin
Newhouse, who responded in an ambu-
lance from Emergency Hospital, pro-
nounced the boy dead. The body was re-
moved TO the morgue, where an inquest
will be held.
John f. Simpson, twenty-six years old.
of 2l42 Street Northwest, chauffeur of
the taxfcab. was taken in custody by the
police of the Fourth precinct, to be held
pending the outcome Of the coroner's in
quest.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
Colors in Paris.

Subdued shades of every kind seem first
favorites for morning and afternoon
gowns. with just lighter tint discreetly
introduced in the trimmings. Among the
leading Colors, many OF them are light.
such as beige and gray. antique red and
brick red; next to these comes a darker
series. including Claret, rust tint, ma
hogany, and navy blue.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
Commends Justice Con.

Secretary OF the Navy Meyer yesterday
expressed great pleasure over the strong
stand taken by Justice Golf. OF the
criminal branch of the Supreme Court
Of New York. in refusing permission to
a thief to enlist in the navy. The Secre-
tary declared that the character OF the
men now in the navy Is too high to
permit the service TO be made the dump
ing ground for men who have got into
difficulties with the law.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
DEMISE OF "GROWLER"
IS SADLY OBSERVED

The going into effect of the Excise
Boards ban upon the "growier" was OBJ
served at the advent OF the new year by
the hanging OF an immense can. tied
with crepe, in a tree near North Capitol
and NJ Streets. The growler. with the
aid Of innumerable straws, had softens5
the thirst OF the mourners just before
IL was suspended, and their emotions
were mingled as their noises.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
AMERICANS In TURKEY
REPORTED In NO DANGER

All Americans registered at the United
States consulate at SaloniId, Turkey.
are safe and well. according to a dispatch
received at the State Department yes
terday from Consul John E. Kehl at that
city. Thus far. II is stated, nothing has
occurred to cause any apprehension for
the safety Of Americans in either Euro
pean or Asiatic Turkey. Nevertheless,
the American squadron. consisting OF the
cruisers Montana and Tennessee, will be
kept on the coast OF Asia Minor for an
indefinite period.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
EXIT A

Of the farm, which now have to pass through the
hands of the jobbers and middlemen, can be sold
direct to the purchaser through the parcel post.
The Washington Herald proposes to give those
who want to take advantage OF this law an OPP
portunity to place their products before tho
public by asking its readers to give their views
as means to further stimulate interest in this
latest government aid to trade.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01

Funeral services for Charles s. Shreve
will be held tomorrow. Interment will
be in the family burial plot at Glenw bod
Cemetery. Mr.. Shreve leaves three chill
dren-Misses Fannie NJ. and Cora Il.
and Charles s. Shreve. Jr.. a practicIng
attorney.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
RULES

Each contestant write on
one subject only and to COM
pete for but one prize. All
communications to be written
upon one side of the paper.
Contest closes at noon Janu-
airy 8, 1913.
The Herald reserves the
right to publish any of the
letters received in connection
with this contest.
Prize winners will be an
nounced in The Washington
Herald not later than Janu-
airy Is, 1913.
Address all communica-
tons to Parcel Post Editor,
The Washington Herald,
Washington, D. c.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
Buys Philadelphia Newspaper.

Philadelphia, Dec. 31.-Cyrus II. Curtis
to-day purchased the controlling interest
in the Public Ledger. which has been
held for some time by Adolf Ochs, the
publisher. with interests in New York
and Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
BEGINNING TO-DAY,
January I, 1913,

Packages weighing up to eleven pounds and OF
not more than - inches in length, breadth and
girth combined, may be sent through the mails.
Hundreds OF articles under this law, which
were. heretofore, transportable only by express
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
THIRD PRIZE OF S.

For the best 100-word essay,
What Buyers Are Most
Likely to Buy of Washington
Merchants for Parcel Post
Delivery"
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
SECOND PRIZE OF S.

For the best 100-word essay,
How the Consumer Can
Best Reap the Benefits of the
Parcel Post by Buying from
Washington Merchants"
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01

or freight, may, after to-day, be sent by mail at
comparatively low rates, as follows:
Local Free Delivery-Within city and free
rural delivery routes, rate up to "a miles:
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
FIRST PRIZE OF IS

For the best 100-word essay,
How Washington Merchants
Can Best Reap the Benefits
of the Parcel Post by Seeking
Trade for Parcel Post Deliv-
cry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19

that the necessary population or anti
slavery leaning, would be in possession TO
form state before southern settlers
could become numerous enough to carry
their own interests into the situation.
Thus John Brown came upon the scene
a willing and able director of the aboli-
ton project. 1t is not necessary here 10
relate this mans manner of urging war,
under the patronage of the new party IN
Kansas. 1t was bloody, murderous, in
famous beyond credence. In 1858, or about
that year. Brown returned to the east
with bloodstained hands. He collected re-
cruits for a renewal of his barbarities
and started to march across the country
to his destination. On arrival at a rail-
road station in Ohio he found there boxes
OF United States rifles consigned to the
governor He impressed farm wagons,
loaded the arms upon them and took
them with him. The governor did not in
torfere After Brown reached Kansas
and had put the arms he stole into un-
lawful use, Abraham Lincoln, lawyer OF
Springfield, H., went to Kansas 70 a
turbulent union meeting
The Confederacy was not schism, it
was not insurrection nor rebellion. 1t
was normal assertion of the American
idea There was no war of the rebel
lion' nor war of secession The gov
ernment of the Confederate States had
a flag. Under 1t the only war was waged
by sea and land. Rebellion" 'insur-
rection,'' secession had no flag on the
field. The Confederate States commits
stoned all its officers and enlisted all it's
soldiers and sailors Rebellion" I'm
surrection.'' secession had no part in
the organized life of the Confederacy
Mr. Ben Hill of Georgia told his people
it was wrong to break away from the
government at Washington; that it would
take 100 years for the south to recover
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19

piled 1t up in the public square for the
nual message. called on Congress to leg
islate to arrest the outrageous abuse OF
the postal privileges.
The grand insurrection planned failed
utterly because the negroes refused their
part.
No southern movement hostile to the
union had provoked the issues planned
by the embryo republican uparty an 1885.
No disunion party existed in the south.
Nevertheless, if the embryo republican
party of 1885 had succeeded in it's pur-
pose, the tragedy of reconstruction, y
its later offspring. would have paled i'll
comparison with the terrors of its earlier
conspiracy against the peace and tran
guilty of the union.
In chagrin and humiliatng disappoint-
ment, the revolutionists with familiar en-
ergy and tireless fanaticism opened new
avenues of assault upon the south. The
several states nullified by their legislatures
and their courts of law the provision OF
the federal constitution, which required
fugitive slaves escaping from one state
tc another to be delivered up. This fugi-
tive slave proviso was first known in
an early combination of the New England
states for their own advantage. 1T was
incorporated in the constitution of 1887
as a companion piece to the proviso toll
Grating the African slave trade, for 20
years. Without the fugitive slave pro-
viso New England shipmasters might
readily sell to the southern planters the
same negro more than once.
. The new party, by state statutes and
by state courts made 1t a felony in any
citizen to serve on the posse comitarns
of United States marshal. charged with
the duty. by decree of a United States
court, of arresting and returning 4 fIgi-
tive slave to his master. The penalty
upon the citizen in Massachusetts, sor any
kind of service in the execution of a
federal courts decree, ordering the arrest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19

drawn by four blooded horses or in
chariots drawn by six. The Sunday din
ner at homo was an institution. At the
board gathered neighbors on the way
from church in the forenoon. Upon the
board was an enormous load of the
best things to eat then known flank ed
by the most famous wines of the world.
Everybody ate freely and all drank
deeply. Virginia's gentlemen were amp
ly employed when they rode their well
groomed horses daily around their
wheat and tobacco fields, titled by ne
gro slaves and attended by an over
seer
The other source of American growth
in population and institutions was New
England. The settlers of New England
that gave distinct character to the
community were religious zealots. Sun
day was not made for man. The social
habits We're austere and restrained. The
industrial pursuits were fishing on the
seas, the manufacture of rum from
West indies molasses, trade in Africans
with the southern states and the trop-
ical countries of the new world.
The collision of the population and in
stitutions from Virginia and New Eng
land, that spread by sectional areas over
the territory of the United States, be-
gan with the beginning of political asso-
ciation of the sections The constitution
Va itot was tHt result Oh compromises
of the sections and was never a law writ
ten for ready made nation.
Tho collision of the sections that began
With the beginning of their political asso-
citation, assumed different forms from
| time to time. In 1861, as organized ma
tions. the section went to war, unpar-
aleled war .
In these columns on irregular occasions
within several months in the recent past,
historical sketches of events that marked
the 10 years" division, the first in order
of coming, of the 36 years of the recon-
strrction era in Alabama, have been pre-
sented.
We come now to take up the other
AMI final division of that weird and phe-
ncmenal era, as it prevailed for &c years.
In the 26 years the people of Alabama
elected eight governors. to-wit: Houston,
Cobb, O'Neal, Seay, JONES' Oates, John
ston and Sanford. We shall trace through
their administrations, one by one. some
what of the processes by which the gov
ernment of the state was restored, not
perhaps to that fullness of security en-
joyed by 1t before the great war, but to
the general condition of equality among
all the states. north and south.
The southern people have been hidden
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19
EIGHT GOVERNORS OF ALABAMA
No. Some Notable Facts Aforetime
1874--1901

The era of So years, the full life of a
generation, from 1865 to 1901, contains
1'within its limits history of Alabama
which when duly published must take
rank as extreme test of the capacity of
the leaders in the great science of state
craft and of the conservation of the
masses to the principle of public liberty.
The achievement attained to stands un-
challenged il Tue experience of the hui
man family when emergency arose to
demand patience. cohesion of effort, forti-
tude in time CT doubt, wisdom in the
choice of means and moderation In the
hour of final success.
1t is duty and should be the larger am
bition of the living to seek intellectual and
spiritual contact with the strength and
reach of personal and political character
of the men who and the times that pre-
vailed in Alabama from the overthrow OF
the state government by President All
drew Johnson, in 1865, and the rescue of
1t under the leadership of William James
Sanford in 1901.
The 36 years. properly considered. of
expedients of Reconstruction, was one
era of two divisions of a policy of inter-
ference by the government at Washing
ion with the government of the state, re-
versing all practice oppressive in erect
and revolving to the fundamentals oil
American liberty. The method of gov
ernment forced upon the southern states
jr that era had never been debated before
any tribunal.
1t was founded upon no precedents
in any age. No argument or appeal TO
reason was ever offered in support of
1t. 1t carried "the torch for burning
but no hammer for building
Away off in the beginning, Virginia,
one of the sources of American growth
in population and institutions. was set
tied and governed by distinct class.
The gentry ruled and determined all
things Even as late as the life of
Thomas jefferson, he the ideal demo
craft" possessed a classical education,
possessed intimate knowledge of all
known sciences and was a member of
the most select scientific societies; he
was an accomplished musician, a
wealthy land and slave owner, and
lived In enjoyment of the most lux
urious habits of gentlemen of his time.
When Virginia gentlemen escorted their
families to church, the Church of Eng
land. on Sunday they rode in coaches
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19

the same blessings of government. Hill
came on to Montgomery, a delegate TO
the congress. In less than 60 days the
congress prepared and published the
Constitution of the Confederate States
of America"-the most complete organic
law ever written and SO remains today.
On the night of May IL, 1864, General J.
L. Johnston stood at his bivouac fire near
Drcinsville, Ga. Subordinate officers mad
assembled there. The commanding gen.
eral, the greatest strategist, perhaps of
the age, exclaimed: 1.-THE Confederacy IS
as safe an institution as France or Ger
many That was a soldiers view of the
military situation; the battle was won.
That was the truth, all absorbing, re-
splendent, immortall
JOHN wITHERsPooN DUBosE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19
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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-12-19

er assortment of lines. rather heavy
ON the straight ones. within certain
specified area, and then II - up To- the
artistic imagination al the Observer
To get busy ANA sort them ont and ar
range them ~ indicated by the title
of the picture, There were two there
that seemed Ia he the star representa-
tives of true cubist art. One was n
figure an dthe other was n group Of
wrestlers, and absolutely could not
distinguish a particle of form about
them They We're simply laid on m
blocks bounded by straight and curry
"d lines ana highly coiored Think 81
the wonderful imagination the painter
must have
There Were two. however. that
seemed 10 be siraigh, paintings. moth.
ing artistic about them that | coull
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see. one looked like "a mountainous
wave when | hrsi looked at IL. hut |
noticed that the title was Shadows on
the nm 81 | looked again and saw
that 1t was hill SIDE with corn
shocks on H. Later | saw IL from
the other side of the room ana IL did
look fine, Just like a hillside of shocked
corn in the moonlight, but even AT that
| shouldn't want it la my house al
so saw an exhibit OF etchings. some
of which We're very good
Another thing ! saw today. that all
of YOU would like To have seen. was
an exhibition 90 beautiful pink Lorraine
Regonias, at Phipp's Conservatory.
My hut they We're great They were
50 well set of by greenery and Nv
some white ones And then there
We're hanging haskcts of them. Ii