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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-03-14
STEAMER WAKEFIELD

Leaves Sunday, Tuesday and Thurs.
law at 9 a. m, for Wirt's Wharf and
n intermediate landings. Returning
leaves Wirt's Wharf az a. m, the
following days, arriving at AIexan-
dria about 4 p. m.
Reardon & Grimes, Agents,
Foot of Cameron Street,
Telephone No. 3D.
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FOR MOUNT VERNON.
1oo,a Alexandria for Mount Gerhoi'

vee,. days at 6:35. Csc 1866. s;5i, lo.."'
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5i AZ 60 IS. $50, $50, 100. n.5o' +, %
su III iasO 1870 2:3O. $3.50, 1870. ':'V
$40. 1870, s:46 and 1916 p. N.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-03-14

At a Coruarotion Court of the City
Of Alexandria, Virginia, continued
and held at the Court House of said
City on Thursday, March 18th, 1913.
Present, Hon. Louis c. Barley, Judge
Stephen Davis,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-03-14
HUDSON'S PHARMACY.
WOOD.

COAL. COKE. WOou'
Order your coal before the advance
at lowest summer prices. Best qaal-
ity, prompt delivery, and bottom
price. Phone 95. De WATCHESON,
sG7, South Royad Street.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
Continued from page one.)

!. Thirteen persons are reported to !,
have been killed and property Y va l-4
at several. hundred thousand dollars
destroyed by a wind and rain storm 3}
which swept portions Of LOUISIANA,
Texas. Alabama, Mississippi and TerF
nessee Wednesday. A deluge OF ram
extended over a, more, extensive area
and practically demorallzed tee-i
graph and telephone service for sew.
eral hours. Only meagre reports
from the stricken districts? were OBJ
tainable. Great property damage and
loss CT life was reported in Provincial
and Many, La. The town OF Prov
encal practically was wiped out. The
property damage at Brookeland, Tex,
gear the Louisiana border was esti-
mated at 100000. While only one
person was reported killed at that
point many were seriously injured.
Discovery of an ancient Roman or
Greek coin in an Illinois Indian
mound at least 5000 years old may
open an unrevealed epoch in ancl-
ent American history, according to
DR. Alfred Emerson, of Chicago. DIR.
Emerson said that he had never seen
a coin like it, and could only estimate
that it had been made in Rome or
Greece during the period between .25O
B. c., and 250.A D. ait shows" he
said, "that there must have been some
prehistoric connection with the Amer
lean continent before the white IN
vasion. .!
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-03-14

FOR RENT.-Iwo large light office
rooms, water and toilet. N. E. cor
Fairfax and Prince. Would also dc
for small business Inquire 12S
S. Fairfax street, Alexandria, Va
&c 2wks.
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FOR SALE.-By first owner, Strong
gasoline rpnabout;. good condition;
" Bargain. Auto, Care Gazette. II st
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WANTED.-A man in
each locality to represent us in sec
ret service work, experience UNI
Z: necessary. Enclose stamp for par
K ticulars. international Secret Ser
vice Bureau, Hot Springs, Ark. z ct
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-06-30

could have slept serenely through q
fire, food and an earthquake all In
one. His mother used to have her
hands full-she couldn't climb that
ladder to yank him out Of bed -
easily as you do your Joseph.
"One winter morning Peter hoped
out Of bed, late. as usual, and put his
foot down between two boards that
had slipped apart, SO he punched .
hole through the kitchen ceiling. His
mother asked him and asked him to
fix the hole. which spoiled the ceiling.
but neither Peter nor his father ever
seemed to find the time.
"One morning Mrs. Siler had an
idea; 1t occurred to her after q full
hour Of trying to get Peter to get out
of bed and come down and eat his
breakfast so that he might not be late
again In going to work.
After everybody was gone that
morning Peters mother went In and
managed somehow to climb the lad
der into the attic. There she moved
Peters cot directly over the hole he
had made
Next morning she called the young
man once. then again. and then the
third time. Peter didn't make the
slightest sound Then his mother
went and got the broom, climbed up
on chair and began to poke with the
broom handle at the bottom Of Peters
bed. 1t was only cot bed, you re-
member, and so 1t was too thin to
protect him from that sort of attack.
At about the fourth or fifth poke
Peter yelled like Comanchs Indian
and leaped out of bed. In three min
utes he was downstairs, too.
From that time on It was never
very much Of job to get Peter up
In the morning. A few pokes would
do 1t nicely. Peter did move the cot
away from the hole. but his mother
went up into the attic and nailed the
legs Of the cot down, so It had to
stay over the hole.
Then Peter tried to take the beds
that belonged to the other boys. but
they combined against him and stop
ped that. Then he wanted to fix the
hole, but his mother told him that
the only way she'd have 1t fixed would
be to have it framed SO that the
ragged edges wouldn't show quite SO
bad.
Peter didn't care particularly for
that sort of treatment, but he saw 1t
would be no use to argue with Mrs.
Siler, she was so determined. He
took to getting up bright and early
every morning, rain or shine, and
when he got to being first at the store
his boss liked 1t SO well he raised
Peters wages"
HUM" said Mrs. F1unkitt, envious.
". Il wish there would come an
earthquake or something and make q
hole under my Joey's bed"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-06-30
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AID TO EARLY RISING
BY GENE SHEAR.

II heard you calling your son JOS
eph early this morning. remarked
Mrs. Bottin, taking a chair in the
kitchen. "and l want to say that II he
is as hard to get out Of bed as m.
Oscar l don't envy you your job"
Hard" echoed Mrs Flunkitt, wear
lily. Hard! l only hope the neigh
bors on the next street don't hear
me calling him. Why. actually. I'm
almost afraid at times to 90 up to
his room to pull him out Of bed, for
fear I'll find he's given up the ghost
completely. I can't see some morn.
ings how any person could fail to
notice the noise make unless he was
dead"
I'VE ought to have 1t like = woman
who lived in my home town" said
Mrs. Bottin. reminiscently. THAT
mother certainly was one lucky
woman! Her name was Siler.
"The Silers lived in . little four
room cottage-all on one floor, with
the attic extending over the whole
and there was a mighty big family
Of EN-. too. There didn't seem to be
room for all the young ones down.
stairs, 80 they laid boards on the raft.
on. or joists. or whatever you call
EN-, and made beds for two or three
Of the boys up in the attic.
Their oldest boy, Peter. slept up
there, and he was sleepy head II
ever there was one.
"You went up into that attic by a
ladder in a closet in the middle room.
and in the summer Peter always kept
his cot closest to that ladder. But
when winter came along he moved
right over the kitchen. He didn't
mind the racket of getting breakfast
for such mob Of youngsters; he
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-06-30

use q soil Of about half leaf mo'o
or smooth earth and half fine SAND
Give abundant drainage and then
plenty Of water. About once mon'n
nut them in t he washtub or bathtun
and give a thorough washing, not
sparing soap; rinse well. and slightly
loosen the sou before returning them
to the stand. A bit Of fresh beef
hurled in the soil OCCASIONALLY helpA
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-06-30
Sure.

They were viewing the animals In
the newspaper Office.
who is that nice-looking little man
with the sweet face?" asked one.
THAT is the sporting editor" was
the reply.
AID who is that coarse-looking
brute who is expectorating tobacco
Juice on the fioor?" asked another.
That is the literary editor" was the
reply.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-06-30

Every man Of sound brain whom
you meet. knows something worth
knowing better than yoursels-Lord
Lytton.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-06-30
Tho Average Man.

no average WdU'
The average man will hurry 70 .
veterinary when his pet dog gets SICK,
but he 10 willing to rely on almost any
kind Of dope" when he isn't feeling
veil himself
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-06-30
". & HRLgTcN, IkWYas
scSss gysrsirs Eas. q conss Ear
BARLOW, HaEDA.
Exrninst,on OF xitice enA klss'
Estate ksw q fDss;Esty.
JEREMIAH B. SMITH
NOTARY PUBI4U,

leans, Investments In Real H1ns
Hays some interesting snaps = ne
I'D suburban property. fArns. ~
DsttsS BEE me at once. WIN @1&
N for cash o. On easy tsrna
1"oa II. TutsA . Geaoy m
LAkalaaL IA,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
1t Must Not Pass Away.

From the Birmingham News.
To be kind is not only duty man
owes to himself and to society, but ii
is one of the strongest evidences of
good breeding and of right thinking.
Kindness contemplates not only a
ready sympathy for for those who are
in physical pain, but degree of con-
sideration for the feelings of others
that will restrain one from conscious
" inficting mental suffering upon
another
A man who is kind in the true
sense knows that to speak harshly or
abusively to a sensitive person is to
infict punishment that is often more
severe than would result from an act
ual blow; so the kind man is cOur-
teous in speech. The same instinct
that would keep him from hitting his
Istenographer over the head with a
rule when things fail to go just right
restraints him from iniicting upon
her a tongue-lashing that would send
her away with tears in her eyes and
a great hurt in her heart.
One of the happiest heritages that
has come to the New South from the
Old South is the memory of kindness
and the inseparable courtesy-of
the men and women of that noble
period. The old-time SOutherner,
with his fine culture and lofty cour-
age, was kind in the broad sense
the scriptural sense-and courtesy
chung to him as a garment. Delicate
ly sensitive and jealous of his own
rights, he counted it an unworthy
thing to wound wantonly the feelings
of others, or to invade their rights,
either by word or deed.
The memory of the fine spirit of
courtesy that distinguished the men
and women of that period comes
down through the years like the
strains of a wonderful melody-a
melody soft and low but vibrant with
the power that lifts men above the
poor and the sordid and the selfish
thing of life, and gives them a newer,
clearer vision of the nobility of man,
and the graciousness of women, as
God intended they should be.
To be kind costs so little and adds
so much to human character and hui
man happiness that it is really amaz-
ing how lightly it's importance to the
race is sometimes esteemed. 1t ought
to be the essence of all religions and
the aim of all men regardless of re-
ligions.
If that gracious spirit of kindly
consideration that once distinguished
this people is allowed to pass, as some
fear it will, and amid the stress and
hurry of more material age, it will
be a genuine tragedy, and against
such a calamity fathers and mothers,
teachers and preachers, should array
themselves as they would against an
invading host that threatened to sack
their homes and rob them of their
most cherished worldly possessions.
1t must not pass away.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
THE "OLD-FASHIONED GIRL

From the Montgomery Times.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned girl who used to pride herself
on her wasp waist? If the Balkan
war did no more than to bring about
style that would loosen up the waist
line it was justifiable," says the An
niston Star and Hot Blast
The same girl with the same soul
and the same heart is here all right,
but her environments are different.
The men of the present day pay no
attention to the old-fashioned, inno-
cent, clean-heaTted girl, but they run
after and pay all their attention to
the little butterflies who pander to
their morbid tatse and wear all the
freak fashions of the day, and so con-
duct themselves that their grand
mothers would hang their heads in
shame and be backward in owning
them.
Give us the "old-fashioned girl, "
pure and modest as the morning glo-
ry that blooms in the bright sun
shine with no cultivation except what
nature gives, and yet more beautiful
than any touch that the painter S
brush can portray. These are the
girls who make good, true men and
inspire them with love for duty and
for country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
The. Currency Bill.

A Washington dispatch says the
situation confronting the administla'
tion's currency bill in the senate has
become a matter of deep concern to
the president and members who favor
early action. There is a fear that
the committee will refuse to report
the measure back to the senate. and
several tentative plans for forcing the
measure upon the attention OF the
full senate have been considered by
administration leaders. These in
clude a proposal to have the senate
committee discharged from further
consideration of the bill, thus bring
ing it before the full senate and the
alternate possibility of having dem
ocratic caucus take up the problem
and determine what course shall be
followed.
Friends of the administration bill
recognize that sentiment is divided
on the democratic side over many
provisions of the measure, and it is
believed the exodus of senators from
Washington following the signing OF
the tariff bill makes it necessary to
withhold for several weeks any
action involving the full democratic
strength.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
Uncle Sans Trade Schools.

Secretary of War Garrison has fol-
lowed the example of Secretary Dan
iels in adapting the idea of voca-
tional teaching for enlisted men. The
battleship of today is huge mechan-
ical workshop in which the seaman
of all classes receives instruction in
any one of a dozen or more trades.
The modern sailor has little concern
with ropes or sails, but when he goes
ashore at the end of his term he is
equipped with a practical knowledge
of some occupation by means of
which he can obtain steady and lu-
crative employment. His natural apt
itude is taken into consideration
when he enlists and he is encouraged
to take up the study of the trade for
which he is suited, whether it is
boilermaking or carpentering, cleo
trical or machine work, or such other
trades as can be conveniently ana
economically taught. Mr.. Garrison
desires to add courses of vocational
training to the ordinary military in
struction so that when a man re-
ceives his discharge he is not cast
upon the world to sink or swim or to
struggle along at uncongenial labor
ing work, but has a useful trade at
his finger ends.
Such a scheme will raise the stand
ard of retired army and navy men
appreciably and will silence the re-
proach that the service has spoiled a
good man. The evolution of man
trained in the arts of war and peace
will make the period of enlistment
doubly valuable to the nation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
Don't Encourage Them.

This is the season of the year when
the pestiferous itinerant agent, ped
der. fraud and faker infest this sec
ton of Georgia. Don't let him come
into your home, and above all don't
buy any of his goods.
Nine-tenths of the peddlers and
beggars who go to the homes are
frauds, and there is nothing worthy
about them. When they pretend to
have something to sell you can be
sure you are paying over double price
if you buy; and, besides, your home
merchant has it for sale. If they
want to sell you subscriptions to
some unheard of magazine don't take
it, but get something you want from
a home agent.
Put stop to the practice by not
encouraging these itinerants.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
AUTUMN IN GODS COUNTRY.


From the Industrial Index.
With a transition that is just per-
ceptible the full-pulsed warmth OF
the Southeast Summer is being crisp
ed into the keen vigor of Autumn.
The breezes are but freshened, the
all has more G: tonic, and day afte:
day the sun shines from cloudiess
sky with something less of warmth
but with more of the golden glory of
harvest time.
In a hundred thousand fields corn
is ripening, cotton bolls are burst
ing with the white staple and many
other crops are making ready for the
harvester.
There is no sudden change from
warm to freezing weather, no snow,
no inclemency. The roses are bloom
ing in open yards with renewed Wig
or and the earth is full of just the
joy of living
Not until the Christmas holidays
have come and gone will there be
much if any of Winter, and before
Winter can hardly be recognized we
will be watching for the first violet
of Spring that we may go in welcome
to meet it on the way.
In all this broad land there are
no such weather conditions. Just
why people move to cold, bleak, for
bidding elimes when they can come
to the Southeast is beyond under
standing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
Congressional

Having deprived members OF con-
gress of their embossed stationery,
at an estimated saving of 100000
year, substituting ordinary printed
stationery, the joint committee on
printing is preparing to begin an ex-
tensive investigation of the govern
ment printing office 1t is asserted
that congress wastes S1,0OO,OOO a
year in the printing of useless docu-
ments that are sent out by members
for political purposes-in their own
interest-and which no one ever
reads.
The committee does not expect tc
find any irregularities in the govern
ment printing Office. 1t attributes
the waste to the methods of congress
itself. The committee intends to pre-
vent the printing of useless docu
ments. The annual report OF tn
doorkeeper of the house shows tina
there are millions of documents stoT
ed in the basement o. the capito
which ultimately must be disposed o
for waste paper.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
Many Fortunes
Made in Prison

|. Although most criminals find the
time of their Imprisonment hangs
very heavily it sometimes happens
that convicts have made such good
use of the hours spent in Jail that
they have earned large sums OF mon
ey to help when their sentences haVo
expired. Recently a convict, Whlle
an inmate of the Ohio penitentiary,
studied electricity to such good pur-
pose that he invented an electrical
street-sweeping machine and other
useful appliances that will probably
bring him large sum.
Another American convict made
| big fortune some years ago by IN
venting a new collar button while he
was serving his sentence. The idea
was taken up by big firm in Pitts
burg and was very successful.
| A man serving a sentence in an Ar
IONA prison invented a new device for
absorbig electricity from the air, and
the prison authorities were so struck
with the possibilities of his invention
that they liberated him long enough
cation for a patent.
1t is not only by inventing, howeyr
er, that prisoners make money. A
criminal, who was sentenced to pris-
on for completely in a murder in TIA
ly recently, had four of his plays &C
cepted by publishers in Rome. All
the plays were written within the
four walls of a gloomy cell. Another
Italian convict, a briganG who was
sentenced to thirty years imprison-
ment for his evil deeds, wrote many
clever stories while he was in Jail
which were accepted and wei! paid
for by the editors of several newspa-
pers.
A Hungarian woman prisoner who
was sent to prison for having urged
on her lover to commit murder
wrote a charming waltz while she
was in prison. The piece was pub
lished and became so popular that its
composer made a small fortune out
of the sales.
Probably the largest sum ever
made by any one while serving a SEN
tence for crime was the amount earn
ed by a convict who was confined in
the state prison at Waltham, Mass.
Finding the time hanging very heav-
lily on his hands he determined to set
to work to invent something that
would not only prove useful to his
fellowmen but that would earn him
enough to keep him when he had
regained his liberty. After much
thought he was lucky enough to hit
upon a device which abolished the ne
cessity of the bobbin in the sewing
machine. This may sound simple
invention to the uninitiated, but it
was thought so well of by experts
that it's imprisoned inventor was Of
fered the sum of 100000 for it by
company in New York. Needless to
say he accepted the offer.-Tit-Bits
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
ON TOP THE PYRAMID.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
Georgia is at the top of the pyra-
mid of Southern prosperity this year!
The September cotton condition
report of the United States depart
ment of agriculture emphatically
verities the reiterated predictions of
The Constitution to that effect.
Our statement was based original
Iy upon the slump in condition in the
western hal: of the cotton belt being
sufficient to hold prices high and sta
BILE; upon the condition in the east
ern half being near enough to normal
to insure unwonted prosperity to that
entire range; upon the fact that
Georgia's condition led the condition
of the eastern half, the volume of her
crop being larger. From this unusu-
al combination it was easy to forecast
unprecedented prosperity for Geor-
gia.
The September government report
confirms this reasoning.
The ten-year average of cotton for
the cotton belt is II.
Georgia's condition in the septem-
Der report is 72, and it is the only
state in the entire cotton belt that is
a factor in the situation which is not
below the ten-year average.
The condition average FOR the en-
tire belt in the September report is
SAL, as against Georgia's 70.
These cumulative facts spell for
Georgia a bumper crop of prosperity.
The main thing for capitalists, mer-
chants and farmers now to do is to
prepare for 1t.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
A HINT TO JOY RIDERS.

From the Buena Vista Patriot.
The cut-out of a motor car is a
noisy nuisance used by a certain class
of motorists to make a 16-candle-
power engine sound like a regular
racer. 1t is popularity supposed to in
crease the power of the motor Is to
20 per cent by letting it breathe aud
IDLY. 1t does not do that, or any,
thing like it. Any gas engineer will
tell you so. If your engine is reg
ular engine it will pull all you want
it to with the soft pedal applied in
the city or ont of it. If your engine
is regular engine unmuzzling the
exhaust won't help it. What it will
do, however, is to wake up honest
people and brighten pedestrians into
spasms and horses into fits and make
your car generally an obnoxious and
lawbreaking nuisance. There are
other things, of course, but these are
enough.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07

The beggar on horseback used to
be common everywhere, but in Kan
sas they have just. arrested beggar
who was travelling in an automobile
by night and pleading poverty by day.
His plan was to leave his wife in
charge of their conveyance every
morning while he went out and graft
ed enough money to buy a few gal
Ions of gasoline.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07

Albany's new terminal station was
opened Saturday, and from all ac-
counts it is a structure that not only
does credit to Albany, but to all of
Southwest Georgia. Our neighbor
deserves it, too, for besides being one
of the best towns on the map her
people are enterprising hustlers
They have acquired the habit of go
ing after big things, and getting
them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
Eczema and Itching Cured.

The soothing, healing medication
in DIR. HObsOn's Eczema Ointment
penetrates every tiny pore of the
skin, clears it of all impurities
stops itching instantly. DR.. Hobson s
Eczema Ointment is guaranteed to
speedily heal eczema, rashes, ring
worm, letter and other unsightly
eruptions. Eczema Ointment is a
doctors prescription, not an expert
ment. All druggists Or by mail, soc.
Pfeiffer Chemical Co., Philadelphia
and St. Louis.