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casino" printed in small type at the
bottom of the artistic pictorial posters
that advertise Enghien to the world ex-
plains the towns real attraction.
Since gambling was officially abolished
in France about 20 years ago, it has
hourished like the green bay tree at va
rious seaside and health resorts which
obtainsd permission to open casino for
the benefit of visitors. About this time
an enterprising landlord at Enghien dis
covered that the little town possessed a
lake and mineral springs, and so might
be described as a health resort He at
once communicated these interesting
facts to a number of impecunious depu-
ties, who persuaded their friends to vote
a short bill which authorized the con-
struction of a municipal casino at En-
ghien These authorized gaming houses
pay certain percentage of their win
nlngs to the government. According to
the figures puglished in the "Oficial
Journal the Enghien casino netted $780,
100000 last year. There are, of course,
some fine pickings in this, and it is not
surprising that a number of deputies
strongly oppose the closing of this gam
bling he'll at the gates of Paris 4
Anybody can obtain admission on pay
ment of 20 cents, and stakes of the same
amount are accepted at the roulette
tables. This enables the young clerk,
the working man. and the little dress
maker to risk their weekly earnings on
the rolling ball As the maximum
stake is So the small punter has about as
much chance of winning as If he ex-
changed pocketbooks with confidence
trick man 1t is pathetic sight to see
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IN ARIS, July 19.-(Special. Just eight
miles northeast of Paris is lively
- little town of about 10000 inhab-
tants named Enghien, which is euphemis-
fically described as health resort" Its
attraction, however, is so potent that the
Northern Railway company finds it prof
liable to run 150 trains day to and from
center of Paris take you there in an
hour. Economical people who like a lit
tie exercise can walk there In two hours
Enghien is advertised by the munich
pality and the Northern Railway COM
pany as .'first-class thermal station"
in the world; it also contains large
pond. described as a beautiful lake"
where boating and other aquatic sports
may be INDUCED in" The salubrjty of
the lake" is, however, open to question:
as DR.. Calmette. director of the Pasteur
institute at Lille, reports the presence
in its waters of sewage and other ppres-
cent matters, and describes it as dan
sefousiy Contaminated. Another attrac-
tion advertised is the superb concert
hall. where music-lovers can listen to
opera every day of the week at mod
crate cost As a dollar viii buy a good
seat at the Opera Comique in Paris
where you can hear some of the best
singing In the world, it hardly seems
worth while to go and hear lot of third
Iaters at Enghien. The charm of this
town, however. lies neither in the sui
phurous springs nor on the odoriferous
lake, nor in the concert hail. The word
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favur Of bill to enlarge the ocean. uther-
wise fleet of battleships of the number the
captain advercates, and the size they air
now proposing would be little crampped.
1t would be very annoying if we should
have war with Japan or sum uther for
rain country and would get all reddy to
sail our fleet to meet the enemy and would
discuvver that sum friendly power like
Great Britain was using the ocean; it mite
Iced to international complications.
Emmy how we started out to rite peece
about Secretary Daniels and not so much
about the navy. As we have sed, to be
Secretary of the Navy it is not at all neces-
sary that you be a Tar Mr. Daniels is no
Tar-not at all He never tarred emmy to
speek of He is a newspaper man. and one
of the reelly few newspaper men-who ac-
tnelly lived outside of Inderanny that has
jumped into fame at one fell swoop. When
it Gums to fell swoops Secretary Danniles is
rite there.
Secretary Daniels don t add ennything
much to the symitry and buty of the vii
sun cabinet In fact Presidint Wisun, in
making up his cabinet, overlooked the
symitry and buty features very much;
there is not man in the bunch that emmy
ordinery obsurver could not tell mile
away without glasses that it was not Apol-
ler-whoevver he was. But what Secre-
tary Daniels lacks in buty, and it is a
CRATE dee, take it frum me-he makes UP
in uther things; | don't know just what
uther thinks he makes it up in, but am
reliabully informed that he does so. | got
this frum a man who is close to the admin
nistrason and who newer told me I've
in his life, and why should | doubt it?
Secretary Daniels begin his trade in
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porhood of the Casino. On the other
hand, every train crossing the frontier
is carefully watched. In France tbev
peieve In keeping money in the country
How many ruined homes, bankruptcies
and suicides the gambling hell at I'm
ghien is responsible for it Is imnossbla
to calculate. but hardly a dav nassss
without the papers mentioning it in con-
nection with some unfortunate creatures
downfall.
Ihe scandal reached such gigantic pro-
portions last week that a public snirited
Partisan deputy, George Berry. succeed
ed, after many years efforts in forcing
parliamentary debate on the eovern
lnent with view to suppressinc the
casino In the course of the debate he
produced report made by police com
missioner on April 4. last. This report
states that the croupiers employed ut
Ehshien are mostly men with a bad
Ieeoru' ana that frequent complaints
are made of 'irregularities'' at the gam
ing tables. He further offered to nrn-
uuce list containing the names of 40
deputies who are In receipt df monthly
subsidies from the Casino company.
NJ Berry was not allowed to produce
TINS document, which would have created
d storm violent enough to sweep away
the present government. 1t looked at
one tiine, as II another Panama" scan
uai would shake the French parliament
10 It's foundations, but Berry like Glenn
enceau was persuaded to keep the list
Oh compromised deputies in his pocket.
After heated debate, lasting all day,
the chamber voted the suppression Of
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fell swoops down in North Carolenna where
he runs newspaper called the Charlotte
Obsurver. Mr.. Daniels is not unniver-
sally admired by the od-t time polytisians,
of North Carolene who have becum peeved
at his abrupt and fluint manner of obsurv-
wing in the collums of his Obsurver When
he first began his obsurvasions down there
they appointed a spesial committee to wait
on him and tell him to vamoos, skeedadle.
beat it, hit the grit or words cattamount
thereto, or they would be compelled to ship
his classic remains out of the state packed
or ice ,and ice was blamed expensive.
In reply to this Secretary Daniels
printed anuther job lot of obsurvasions
which maid all his preevius effurts appear
mawdling attempts at piking, and cassuelv
obsurved amung uther things, that he was
IN there midst and that he had cum to stav
until helfrozovver or sumthing like that.
Having maid this announcement in
double. type and skeer-heds Mr.. Daniels
proseeded to sharpen his pensI and went
rite In to making a speshalty of remaining
IN there midsts and and also of harpooninp
and fell swooping evvery prominent citi-
zen IN the state who failed to cum eileen in
all his transactisions with the public.
Being one of these demmycrats that re-
garded all republicans as his persunnel
enemy and for being entirely responsbul
Tor all the misfortunes that ever befell
the human race, including drouwths, cottnn
rust, boil weevils, eppidemicks and niopcr
postmasturs Secretary Daniels naturelly
drew attension to himself not only as
harpooner of those in his own party who
failed to tow the mark but as regnler and
consistent harpooner of the Republican
party regardless. Early in his fife for tbe
nomminasion, therefore, President Wilsun
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tne Enghien Casino by a large majority.
AS the original IS years concession ex-
pres next December, it looked as if the
health resorts days We're numbered.
But the minority who voted against the
suppression looked so cheerful that a
deputy of an inquirng turn of mind hap
pened to ask the finance minister IL the
concession had been recently renewed.
He was informed that "a few davs pre-
vious to this debate a further concession
OF lS wears was granted to the Enghien
Casino"
AS sop to public opinion a parliamen-
tary commission has been nominated to
Inquire into the charges brought against
the Casino by George Berry, but by
the time they have finished their labors
some new scandal is likely to monopo-
lie the attention of the press and the
public
As the French say. there are still fine
days ahead OF the picturesque lake,
the thermal springs. the superb concert
hall and the Casino of Enghien'e There
is, OF course, q remote chance of its
being blown up by some anti-gambling
crank, but until that happens the impe-
cunious clerk. the "midinette.' and the
trusted cashier will continue to rub
shoulders with the thief and the -demi-
mondaine round the roulette tables
where the s. limit sucks up money an
The vacuum cleaner sucks up dust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20
Mistur Edditur;

mY1T'S a mitey fine thing to be the
S-AS5 Secretary of the Navy and chew
navy Tobacco and indulge in
the NAVY brand of profanity,
which is sed to be the most eff
fective in the world The Secretary of
the navy is the highest job in the NAVY
departmint, and the only one in which no
preevius training is required. We have
had Secretaries Of the navy in the past
who couldn t tell the differense between a
battleship and a rit of replevvin, and
whose closest experience with watur was
the occasional Saturday mite tussel
far as to drink emmy Of it. Everybody
else connected with the NAVY must have
(. experience on the watur and must be abull
off hand to explain the prinsiple points of
difference between a armorred cruuzer and
skooner of book beer, without stopping TO
think The Secretary, who is the hole
works, in times of peese and a peese Of
cheese in times of war; does not have to
munkey with such triffles All he has to
do, is to go round the country and make
speeches and advocate peese in large and
hefty gobs, and at the same time lobby with
Congress and urge them to kick enuff to
bid IA battleships, 16 armored cruuzers, 70
torpedo boats and 81 torpedo boat destroy
ers, SO as to give employmint to our pore
little infint steel industries.
1t takes about four years to bid a bat
tleship, and by the time one Of our 81 II
millyun dollar battleships is completed and
reddy to go to see, she is four years and six
months behind the times, and aftur she
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HolO It Feels to be
Secretary of Many

maid it a point to engage Secretary Dan
niels to do few plain and fancy harpoon-
ings for him.
Secretery Daniels did SO. He did so
with so much enthewsiasm and abandun
that it ticl1led the President very much
indeed, and when he was dewly elected he
straitway appointed Secretery Daniels as
the Secretery of the navy, where he has
absolutely nuthing to do exsept to draw
his sallery and few plans for new battle
ships SO they can be purloined by sum for
rain spy.
In forrain countries they appoint admi-
rels as the he'd of the navy departmint,
and gennerels at the he'd of the army But
we don t copy aftur forainers in this coun-
try Sum times they try to but the peepul
won Il stand for it. In the House in making
up the committees they sumtimes try to
foler this rule, but it don't GO For in
stance sumone wanted banker put at the
he'd of the banking and currency commit
tee, and an ex-postmaster at the he'd of the
postoffise and post roads committee, and
soldier at the he'd of the millerterv af-
fairs committee, and so on, till sumone OBJ
iected, and sed aftur while if this thing
kept up sum boldly would want lawyer
at the he'd of the iudissiary committee
thereupon Uncle Henry Clayton let out
holler and sed he thought that sumboddy
was trying to pull off very bum joke.
Getting back to Secretary Daniels and
the navy; we want to say in passing that
ii we have war or ennything, Secretery
Daniels, is the boy to put plenty of pep
in the boys, though off hand he mite not
know the difference between turret and
a washpot. Yours trooly.
BILL VINES.
Washington. d. G.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20
BY ELLIS MOREL

limit roulette tables where the bank
wins by mathematical certainty, are
open to the public, and no questions are
asked
The doors of the Casino are open to
the humble worker, the absconding clerk
ana the prodigal son. The dishonest
cashier can either fritter his money away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

all the aldermen put together? A town can
easily get another bunch of city fathers, but
when and where and how will it get other
trees hundred years old9
Why does the cook grandmother al
ways die, or her baby always have fits on
the day you are having company for din
ner?
Why will the wind always blow when
you We got on your very worst looking
shoesY And why won t your shoe ever come
united when you are wearing your prettiest
oxfords, and the right man is around?
Why does thin Mrs. A. say she wouldn't
be as fat as Mrs. T. for anything in the
world? And fat Mrs. T. says she thanks
heaven she's not skinny like Mrs. A.?
Why does it pour down rain Saturday
afternoon when you want to 90 to ball
game, and then clear up beautifully Sunday
morning when you don't want to 90 to
church?
And to complete the circle, why, oh whv
is the speed fiend?
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at roulette or pay SO and plunge at the
baccarat tables upstairs. The impassive
croupier, like the bloated British book
maker cannot be expected to know the
numbers of stolen notes. Although it Is
We'll known that a thief who has made a
successful haul takes the first train to
Enghien. 1t is a significant fact that no
arrest has ever been made in the neigh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Who cannot hear a person S name men
toned without setting in Immediately to
tell you the age, character and state Of that
person, and likewise his family history
from the great grandparents unto the third
and fourth generations?
Who is that dreaded person?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

them doubling until they have reached
the maximumat which point their week.
iy earnings are raked in by the wooden
faced croupier. The upstairs rooms are
devoted to baccarat, ''trente ct quarante"
ana 'ehemin- defer but admission to
these can be obtained only by joining
the club, at a yearly subscription of $40.
These rooms are mostly frequented by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Who is the person who knows every
body's business, and tries to tell them how
to manage it, acting in the unsolicited ca
pacity of Private Investigator, Public Ad-
wiser and General Town Nuisance9
Who in the world is he?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

And who is the equally misguided
woman who thinks that the paint on her
face is fooling anybody? And vainly mag
ines that the more she rouges the younger
and more attractive she appears?
Who is she?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Who is the mistaken man who clings
fondly to the antedelnvian and thoroughly
exploded theory that the more dissipated
a man becomes the better women like him?
Who is that poor, misguided man?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Who gives herself aristocratic airs when
she hasn t an ancestor to her name Ga men
tionable one at least), and can boast of
nothing in the way of lineage excepting her
own small descendants?
s Who does that?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Who are those people who go to church
twice every Sunday, who sing the loudest
and kneel the lowest, and in their daily
lives cherish unrelenting enmity to their
neighbors?
Who can these good Christians be?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Who keeps her complexion in china
box, her hair in a bureau drawer, her teeth
in glass OF water, and then sneers at the
woman who hasn't good figure?
Does any one do that?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Who is the man, green and ''fresh off
the farm (and looking it) who raises his
voice and howls the loudest in legislature
about things beyond his understandings
Who is he?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20
By KARL KAFFER

back, and then gets insulted if you joke
about his bald head, or place bent pin in
his chair?
Who in the world can he be?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20
Some Who's and Why's at Random Sent

lIATlHO tears along at high speed in his
wv newly acquired machine, grinning
lsEsNj like a hyena in the faces of people
he has barely missed running down?
Who is the idiot?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Why is it person who cannot swim al
ways rocks the boat?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

, Who is the friend who calmly looks on
and says nothing while you are being mis-
judged by another persong
What manner of friend is that?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Who stops at the follies of 1S, and stays
right there until he dies?
Who is the man?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Who thinks it is terribly funny to put
a bug in your hair, or bit of ice down your
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Why does the lumpyest and homeliest
baby generally win the prize at baby
show?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Why does woman marry the sorrest
specimen OF masculinity on the market. and
then rail at Fate because her life is not col
ored with rose, and redolent of the PEI
fumes of Araby9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Why is it that the lady who breaks into
society with hatchet, as it were. cannot
see the difference between herself and those
who are 'to the manner born"?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

why does man spend all of his time
devotion and salary on fool until he mar
RES her, and then get an everlasting crouch
because his wife has no brains?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Why will city council elect to cut mag
nl1lcent trees that are of more value to a
town than the existence of the mayor and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Why is it that people dwelling in domi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Giles OF frailest glass will indulge in stone
throwing, and then go into rage over their
own shattered walls?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20
Answered.

From the st. Louis Republic.
What your idea of a red hot Joker
DO you mean the off-color ones,
toor'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

And to complete the circle why, oh WHY
is the speed fiend?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Who is the man who never grows up?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

Who is the idiot?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20

w ashington, D. G.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-16
THos. ]. OWEN & SON. AUcTs.

THos j. OWEN & SON. AUCTs.
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE REAL Es
TATE, IMPROVED BY STORY
BE IL REAR. NTMREkEb 1oi4 AvESU 4 +
OF THE PRESIDENTS, FORMERLY 18tt
STREET NORTHWEST. WASHINGTON
BY virtue of decree of the Supreme Cour,
of the District Of Columbia. passed in Equity
Cause No. 3O317 (wherein William H. Arnold Il
complainant and Eugene F. Arnold ct al. are
defendants), the undersigned trustee will QneI
ises, on MONDAY. THE TWENTY-SIXTH DAY
OF MAY, AID. 1913, AT HALF-PAST FOUIs
O'CLOCK PM. the following described land
and premises situate In the city Of Washing
ton, in the District of Columbia. and described
as and being the north seventeen l7I feet SIX
t6, inches front the Avenue Of the Presi-
dents. formerly 18th street northwest. by full
depth Of original lot twenty t20l in square NUM-
bered one hundred and eighty four IS4, with
the improvements thereon.
Terms Of sale: One third (1-3) Of the pur.
chase money TO be paid in cash and the balance
In two (2) equal installments payable in one
and years, with interest at six per cent t67e)
per annum, payable semi annually. from the date
Of sale secured by a deed of trust the property
sold, all cash. at the option OF the purchaser
A deposit Of three hundred dollars $1,000 will be
required at the time of sale. All cOnveyancing
recording and notarial fees at the cost OF the
purchaser. Terms Of sale to be complied with
within fifteen 49, days from the date of sale
otherwise the trustee reserves the right to re-
sell the property at the risk and cost of the
defaulting purchaser after five Is, days adver
tisement of such sale in some newspaper publish
cd in the city of Washington. in the District
of Columbia.
UNION TRUST COMPANY OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA Trustee. Aforesaid by
GEORGE F.. FLEMING. Second Vice Presi
dent 18th and III SITS. NV
(Seal.> Attest: WIN. l.. CRANE.
my14. 1lt.eSu Assistant Secretary.
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ADAM A. wESCHI.ER. AUcTIoNEER.
ADAM a. wEsoHLER. AUcT1oNEER.
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE PROPERTY,
IMPROVED BY A TWO-STORY BRICK
DWELLING. KNOWN AS NO. 4o5 18th

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE PROPERTY
IMPROVED BY TWO-STORY BRICK
DWELLING. KNOWN AS NO. 405 18th
STREET SOUTHEAST.
Under and by virtue of a certain deed Of trust.
recorded in Iiber No. 3lSS ar folio 320 ct sed..
one OF the land records of the District of Co
lunbls. and al the request of the party secured
thereby. we. the undersigned trustees. Will offer
for sale at public auction, in front of said
premises. WEDNESDAY. THE TWENTY
FIRST DAY OF NAY. AID. 1913. AT HALF
PAST FOUR O'CLOCK PM. the following de
scrfbed land and premises. situate and being in
TIE ciIy OF Washington. in the District of Co
,tsSi in Fritz D. Brandts subdivision OF original
lots numbered seventeen 17i. eighteen u.s. and
nineteen f19l in square numbered ten hundred
and seyenty-hve tl0i5t. as per plat recorded In
Book 3d. page .191. In the Office Of the
veyor for the District of Columbia, together with
Terms of sale: One-third Of the purchase
money TO be paid in cash and the balance in
two equal installments. in and two years
from the day of sale. with interest at the rate
of six per centum per annum. payable semi-a
nually, and the deferred pay ments are to be Sc
sold. or all cash. at the option Of the purchaser.
deposit Of 5000 will be required Of the pur-
chaser at the time Of the acceptance OF the bid.
All conveyancing examination of title. record
ing and notary fees at the cost Of the pur-
chaser. Terms Of sale are to be complied with
wise the trustees reserve the right to resell said
property at the risk and cost Of the defaulting
purchaser. after at least five days. advertise
ment Of such resale In some Newspaper published
in the District of Columbia.
CHAPLIN BROWN. Trustee
1923 John Marshall place NV
HENRY II. BERGMAN. Trustee.
nv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-16
ADAM A. wEsCHLER, AUCT1oNEER.

=, TY. IMPROVED BY TwO-sTORY BRICK
STREET NORTHEAST. ' 1''A
Under and by virtue of certain deed of
trust. recorded in Liber No. 1912. AT folio 3}l
OF Columbia. aud at the request of the party
secured thereby. We, the undersigned trustees
VIII offer for sale at public auction. in front Of
said premises, WEDNESDAY. THE TWEEN
TY-FIRST DAY OF MAY. AID. 1913 AT FIVE
O'CLOCK PM. the following described land
Washington. in the District Of Columbia and
described as lot twenty-five (25, in b. Francis
Saul's subdivision OF lots In square nine hundred
and nfty-s $3.50. per plat recorded in
Book IS page 81. in the surveyors office for
the District OF Columbia. together with all the
Terms OF sale: One-third of the purchase
money TO be paid in cash and the balance in
two equal insta llments. In and two years
from the day of sale, with interest at the rate
of per centnm per snnum. payable semi
annually. and the deferred payments are to be
sold. all cash. at the option of the pur
chaser. deposit of 500 will be required OF
tl-. purcha ser the time of the acceptance of
the bid All conveyancing. examnat ton Of title
recording and notary fees at the cost of the
purchaser. Terms OF sale to he complied
otherwise the trustees reserve the right to
resell said property at the risk and cost of the
defauliing purchaser. after at least five days
advertisefpent Of such resale In some newspaper
published in the District OF Columbia.
CHAPLIN BROWN,
a23 John Marshall place NV
HENRY II. BERGMAN
Trustee,
myIOd1dseSu 511 9TH st. NV