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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-26

MISS ANNIE KATE GREEN en-
tertained the members OF the
Young Iadias, Book Clnh Fri
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
MISS RITTENBERRY GIVES
DETAILS OF THE ROUTE
OF JACKSON HIGHWAY

with the gulf. nor was named to the
memory of Andrew jackson.
Il think all of MS, individuals as well
as automobile and good roads associa-i
tions. are working. for the same, pur-
pose, #though we may differ as to plan
and method.
we who have studied the good roads
question know that the condition of the
country dirt road has much to do with
the prosperity of both town and coun-
try: that 1t enriches the farmer and
raises him socially, commercially anu
financially that it widens his influence.
contributes to the happiness of his fami-
ly and brings him in touch with all the
improving and civilizing influences of
the buster world, there can be no doubt
We are spending in this country millions
upon millions every year for the main
tenance of our common schools. Official
statistics show that by far the larger
proportion of children absent on, school
days Is made up of farmers children.
To every one acquainted with the diff
ficulties of travelling the ordinary. road,
especially during the wet weather of the
spring and fall, the reason for the. falling
Off In attendance at the public schools
will be clearly traceable to the impass-
able state of the farmers highway, and
thousands of famers in all parts of the
country viii testify that they feduently
are compelled by this unfortunate con-
dition to send their children to inferior
schools, which have little to recommend
them except mere convenience of To-
cation. At every political election, too
the question of public roads plays an
important part and results have repeated
ly established the fact that "A heavy rain
storm just before a general election day
will reduce the aggregate vote in many
of our states to so great an extent as
to prevent an adequate expression of the
popular will.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
Momentous In Farmres

Sy uWellerS III c1tleS the actual con-
dition of these country roads during the
wet season is scarcely known. The COM
mercial bodies, however, have awakened
to the fact that 1t means much to trade.
To the farmers who have never before
seen or known a highway better than
that which they have used from boy
hood, the dirt road was an accepted fix
ture, which long habit and use had inn
pressed as a natural and necessary adj
junct TO farm life. They have awaken
ed to the fact that the question of good
roads is the greatest question before the
American people today, and it is up to
them to answer it. When I first took
up this good roads work I was like many
of the farmers who think that the build
ing of these national highways will work
a hardship on them in increasing their
taxes but after studying the question
out thoroughly I am convinced that the
trunk line roads should be built first and
from them the accommodation roads
will work to the decided benefit of the
FARMERS.
AS to the Jackson highway, we, the
Daughters of 1872. of Alabama, thought
1t more practical and appropriate to
work to create the sentiment in an edu-
cational way to build big trunk line road
from Chicago to New Orleans, splitting
the middle basin, going through the
cities of Terre Haute, indianapolis,
Louisville to Lincoln's Farm Elizabeth
ton. Bowling Green, Franklin. Galatip,
by the Hermitage. Nashville on down the
I louisville and Nashville turnpike through
Franklin, Tenn, Columbia, Pulaski. Elk
ton. Athens Decatur. Hartselle. Cullman,
Birmingham. clanton, Verbena. Mont
gomery coming back out of Montgomery
over the bridge that crosses the Alabama
ITiver, Prattvlle, Selma, Mobile. through
Biloxi, skrting the gulf. coast to New Or
leans
"a Mr. Ferguson recently went over
the identical route of the Jackson high
way through Alabama and Mississippi
that the chairman went over last fall
Cooperation is what we need
THE proposed route of the Jackson
highway from Louisville. Ky. to Elk
ton, Tenn, is over the old Louisville and
Nashville turnpike. The old@ roadbed is
faRly good and the grade is as good as
the new road. From Elkton to the
Tennessee river there are patches of
good roads. The Tennessee river at De-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
Popularizing English Shops

Ihough 1t is often said in. England that
English school boys spend too much time
playing games, and the continental fboy
is held up as a model Of what hard
working boy should be. the tendency on
the continent seems to be quite the other
way. There it is being recognized, that
games-and especially English games-are
useful and educational institutions, SAYS
the London Daily News.
About so German. Dnych. Austrian and
Hungarian schoolboys have, in fact. lust
come over to Eastbourne to learn among
other things how to play games. Not one
or these boys has ever played football or
cricket, but they are very keen on learn
ing and teaching other boys when they
get back. Few boys would care to play
football in August, but these continental
boys care nothing about the heat. They
are determined to learn football, and they
play as If their very life depended on it,
Unluckily there is no football they can
watch, but they go to every cricket match,
and have discovered already that cricket
rs very serious business, entirely free
from any suspicion of being played for
pleasure. That is what surprises them
more than anything. They had expected
to find games Played in high-spirited
NOISY way and they have realized that
the first thing they have to learn is to
take games seriously. Already they have
managed to PLAY football with sufficient
they will be able to resist the temptation
to laugh at cricket. There is one great
difference between the continental boy
and the English boy. If you give, say. an
Austrian boy ball he will throw 1t at
another boy and laugh. If you give an
English boy a BAH he Will do something
serious with it,
The Eastbourne visitors who have been
brought over bv the International Asso-
citation of Holiday Students, are staving
at Clovelly Keppleston~ school-a bic
girls school facing the sea and with lawn
tennis courts and skating rink. Here the
bovs, chiefly Austrian and Hungarian
mas be seen making efforts to play ten
mis- with sufficient gravity On The whole
they fail. Many seem to think that the
chief object is not to pun she ball out Of
Your opponents s reach. but ,sto hit him.
They were playing for the fun of it, and
not for the game No English hoys would
have consented to play In the same way.
But onsthe whole 1t is clear that games
are making headway on the continent.
Already the French and Germans are
pretAy good at lawn tennis and golf. and
when these Eastbourne Visitors return
there may even be a football match
played between schooloys in Vienna.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
Mad Doe

Probably there is no subject upon which
the public Knows SO MANY things that
amt SO, as rabies. The popular mind is
saturated with transformation about
''mad dogs!' M
In the first place a mad dog" does not
a fush,t attack or froth at the mouth and
twill not fight when cornered.
& The dog who shows these symptoms has
|epilepsy, which As not colnmunicht tive
even by bite. Epilepsy lis caused by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

A green ribbon Of grass edges each SIDE
Of a double car track up Capitol Hill way.
There are big leafy trees that make
shady spots for children to play under.
and aluays--nearly always-there IS
breeze.
Every morning a man comes with a
spiint rocker and pipe and props him
self under a tree He gets there about
the time the birds are awake and stays
until a small boy comes and takes him
away. That means breakfast
As soon as that is done with. the man
~ back under a tree with fnoTfihs
rsper. And there. in the comfy GOODNESS
Of crash trousers and china SIX shirt
with no collar and a leather thong belt
TO keep himself together, he smokes and
reads and talks with whoever happens
along, until the small boy who bosses
lam shows up at lunch time and pilots
the way to home across the street. All
afternoon, until dinner, the man reads
magazines and smokes and dozes, and
moves his chair to fresh shade-spot
whenever the sun gets around TO NM
and once in awhile. takes looks at the
grass and white clover and dropped oak
leaves through magnifying lens.
In the evenings he comes back to the
trees with coat over his shirt and col
lar and tie. Ard cigar. Later on. ms
wife and the small boy come over Tor q
visit and the neighbors drift out with
chairs and camp stools, while odds and
ends of children play all around. After
they have laughed and chartered the
clock around to bedtime. the wife and
small son and the neighbors and the ba-
bies drift back to where they came from,
but the man stays on and on-until ne
has the night to himself. The sky full of
stars and the bits of cool breeZes. and the
silence, and the darkness-streaked now
and then with whizzing cars.
What about 1t? Oh. nothing. only
The man is taking his. two-week vaca-
ton with pay. Before this. he has al
ways gone to Atlantic City and come
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03
VINEYARD OWNERS PROTEST.
Tell Senate Committee Tax on Grape
Spirits Is Injustice.

A protest against the proposed $1.1o
tax on grape spirits used as preserva-
tive in the manufacture OF pure sweet
wines Is to be registered by committee
of vineyard owners and wine producers
OF California before the Senate finance
committee tomorrow. The brief which
the committee will file was made public
last night 1t outlines at some length
the growth Of the sweet wine industry,
and tells Of the great damage which will
be done by the imposition OF the new
tax which is included In the proposed
new tariff law.
They point out that the average cost
Of producing one gallon Of pure sweet
wine is now 20 cents, and the average
selling price 29ls cents. while IL the pro-
posed tax is put into effect there will
be an increase in the cost of production
Of so cents. They believe that the adop-
ton of the tax will result In de-
moralixed condition OF the industry
through 1.-The undoubted production Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03
Wharf Has Awakened.

The coming of the watermelon season
means the awakening of the 18th street
wharf. which for the past two months
has been so deserted that grass Is be-
ginning to grow on II. From the OPEN
ing of the melon season to the end of
the spring fishing season the wharf will
be busy place. for before the melon
season is over the oyster season will
ing uncommon to see watermelon and
oyster boats lying side by side at the
wharf market 1t was proposed to make
the minimum number Of melons that
could be sold from a vessel twenty 1--WE,
in order to protect the retail dealers at
the wharf. The managers OF the wharf
market. however. decided not to make
such a rule. but they have determined
that no melons are to be eaten on the
wharf and purchasers of single melons
will have to take them away TO enjoy
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03
SENATOR'S EFFORT FAILS.
Printing Of Suffrage Proceedings
Blocked for Time Being.

An effort was made yesterday by SEN
ator Chamberlain to have printed ~ q
public document the speeches and records
OF the proceedings In the Senate Friday.
when the suffragists presented their Pc
titionss. Senator Chamberlain was asked
by Senator Thornton II speeches on both
sides of the question were included.
Il want mine to be there or I will OBJ
ject to anybody elses going in," he said.
Senator Chamberlain admitted he was
not sure OF the contents. and Withdraw
his requests temporarily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

home broke and so dead tired from over
strenuous efforts to enjoy himself that he
couldn't get in working trim for month
This year he figured that what he most
wanted was a rest. You can't get rest al
Q seashore resort. You have got to go &c
the quiet country, where there are grasi
and trees and birds and shady spots ano
nothing to do but keep company with
your soul And what the man wanted
next was to get ahead In his payments or
q little place he was buying on the other
side of the suburbs.
III the conductor, who was telling pas
senger about it may be believed. the
country scheme has worked like q
charm. The man has enjoyed every min
ute of his vacation and is going back to
work as fit as fiddle and with an extra
hne coating of outdoor tan.
And he has got his $50.
Three men stood on the pavement in
front of a hotel near The Star building.
and noted that the Avenue tracks were
torn up-again. They must have been
5ovial fellows. for as a woman stood
under nearby tree waiting for car
that wasn't in sight. one of them insisted
with exuberant loudness:
Yes, sir. makes the old street look like
q roof garden-there' your colored lights
and your flags
Where's our summer girls?
Sure. And our soft drinks and oul
cabaret dancers.
Say. boys, don't he so hard on m,
beautiful imagination, If you had an,
Of your own you could see for yourself
that IL looks like roof garden"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

II sure did. The grace of twilight had
soothed the mangled street into peaceful
rest. red lanterns cleaned like glow
worms-oh. well, OF course. glowworms
are yellow and don't happen on roof
gardens. anyhow, but who minds little
thing like that? Red lanterns cleaned
like glowworms. and many little green
and scarlet flags that had done sentinel
duty all day at tracks and crossings
dropped as II asleep at their posts. A
tinkl. OF music came from the hotel. and
somewhere around the corner street
piano was grinding out ragtime tunes.
The tree-woman must also have had a
beautiful Imagination. for she threaded
the maze of rope-guarded planks on her
way to her car she said to herself:
1T looks exactly like roof garden
especially IL you have never seen one.
Here Is another, delay ed-in- transmits
sion, proof of the come true" potency of
that wishing tree in Lafayette Park. \
bright woman from Maryland has writ
ten TO ,et the Ann woman know that:
Edward. Prince of Wales, in company
with Miss Harriet Lane Johnson. made a
wish under the tree that he might be
King OF England"
This is what a man saw:
a woman got out of an automobile be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

colored men he met at It'll and H streets
northwest. and felt satisfied that they
were actually going to give him one
third of a -hundred-dollar bill they
claimed they had found.
In reality the strangers merely stopped
Hartman and played the ''pocketbook
game. on him. He fell for the game,
swallowing hook. line and sinker. gave
nm "a and waited for the return of the
men with the one-third Of the hundred.
When he became tired OF wai.ng ana
to the police and asked them to help
him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03
MILITARY STUDENTS ON HIKE.
Rife Practice to End Instruction
Camp at Mount Gretna, Pa.

GETTYSBURG. Pa, August 2. = The
students in the military instruction camp
have started on weeks hike,
by easy stages. to Mount Gretna,
where their six-week tour OF instruction
will be concluded with rifle practice and
maneuvers.
The march will be in the nature OF q
continuous maneuver, and every night
the boys will sleep under shelter tents.
Accompanying them are one company OF
regular engineers and a son train.
carrying tents and supplies. the students
being relieved of the customary fifty-six
pounds of baggage in order to allow
more thorough maneuver work.
The departure OF the students marked
the close Of the big camp which has
been in existence since the middle of
May, when the first regulars arrived to
guard the property Of the veterans
camp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03
THREE PERSONS MISSING.
Two Washingtonians and Visitor
In Citv Cannot be Found.

Two washingtonians ana VISITOR 10
this city were reported to the police last
night as missing and search IL being
made for them.
Stanley Hartman. fifteen years old. Of
III bates street northwest left his home
yesterday morning and had not returned
last night. The missing boy is described
as being Ave feet six inches tall. weigh
ing 100 pounds, has dark hair. brown
eyes and when last seen wore blue
coat and trousers and a gray cap.
Robert Gray. colored. left his home,
1910 Corcoran street, July q and has
not since returned. .n,.
Friends of Harry B. Lowery, at. lob
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

feur who put 1t in the car. and when
they whizzed off the dog went with them.
At about the same hour, and near the
same place. girl. pretty enough to be
the pride of some loving mothers heart.
reeled along in the sun. Her face was
flushed with the red that youth and in
nocence should never know: her hat was
tilted at the wrong angle and in her
eyes was the silly daze of-never mind.
Passing men and women stared at her,
but in the time that the man watched
her, no one laughed-which means a good
bit
Finally, policeman came along. took
her by the arm. and led her, in kindly
fashion. to a telephone box. And pretty
soon the wagon came and took the girl
away and-thats ALL
Only, she wasn't as lucky as the dog.
x X
cement tagging had been laid on an
uptown street, and when departing la
borers had spread canvas over the wet
mass, with planks before each front gate,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03
VESSELS SUNK IN STORM
NOW ARE BEING RAISED
Several Craft Will Be Forced
to Undergo Extensive
Repairs.

Active work now is in progress on the
vessels that were sunk and damaged in
the big storm OF last Wednesday. and by
the middle OF this week it is thought that
they will be at local boatyards being re-
paired and made ready to return to
service.
A holster and several scows are lying
alongside OF the sunken tug Edith God
dard Winship. which went to the bottom
Of the river near the steel plant pier. and
wreckers are employed In sweeping
chains under her so that she can be
brought to the surface. How badly the
tug is injured cannot be ascertained until
| 1t Is raised, but from what can be seen
| 1t looks a. IL she will spend seyera
weeks undergoing repairs.
Clarke & Winston's piiedriver, which
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OFFICE NOT IN POLITICS.
Supervising Inspector Sloane OF
Steamboat Service Will Re.;or

John y. Sloane supervising inspector
OF steamboats, at Boston, which district
includes most OF the New England coast,
Is about to resign Omcials Of the De-
partment of Commerce recently investi-
gated his Office.
Both secretary Redfield and myself, !"
said Assistant Secretary Sweet yester-
6 Day; OF tine opinion that the steam
be kept free from politics. n Wa can
find democrats competent to iii vacan-
cies that occur, probably they viii be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

stacks are to be placed on one Q, the
Smoot dredges and on dredge NO D. pc
longing to the Columbia Granlte anu
Dredging Company. No. VIII aiso pe
suppiied with new spuds and will have
work done to her house to repair dam
age done by the wind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03
FIRST WATERMELONS
Of SEASON At DOCKS
Schooner N. D. Nutter and the
SIoop Borem Bring Initial
Shipments Here.

The watermelon season is at hand, and
it is only question Of day or two be-
fore the docks at the 18th street wharf
market will be filled with melon-laden
craft and the wharf will be thronged with
buyers. The first melon-laden vessels Of
the season. the schooner n. ID. Nutter
and the sloop Borem. came into port yes
terday and are lying at the wharf market
They brought about $500 melons from the
Rappahannock river, and yesterday after
noon they were selling at from $40 to $50
per hundred.
Hucksters. with their wagons loaded
with melons long and green striped, or
round and plump. will be parading the
streets tomorrow disposing of their wares
to housewives.
Crops Not Up to Average.
Melons have been on sale in the city
for several weeks past. but they were
brought from the south and have not the
delicious sweetness OF the melons from
the farms on tributaries of the Chesa-
peake. like those that will this week be
on sale at the wharf market. Usually be-
fore this time several vessels with the
fruit aboard have arrived at the wharf
from North Carolina or from southern
Virginia. but this season the first cargoes
came from the Rappahannock as the
crops farther south have not been up to
the average in quantity.
Before the vessels now here complete
unloading other melon-laden vessels will
have arrived, and from now until the
coming of cool weather the arrival of
melon-laden boats will be a daily &C.
currence Reports received from the
! melon-producing country along the
Chesapeake and from the lower Potomac
state that the crop this year will not
weather of the spring and the dry sum-
mer. Hailstorms, reports say, also
have visited the reproducing Sec
ton of Virginia and have cut the grow
ing fruit so that ii decayed before ma
turing. This also will tend to make the
melon crop short
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

Fafrmont street northwest, reported. to
the police of - .ghth precinct that the
young man, VIM was visiting them. left
the house yesterday morning and had
not returned last night. He is twenty
seven years OLD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

sweet wines preserved by neutral spirits
chemicals and what not; destruction
of millions of dollars worth Of property
now devoted wholly to viticulturaI pur-
poses in California and throwing thou-
sands out of work.
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Working on Two Vessels.

Workmen are engaged in raising the
sloop Harriet T. Smith and the
schooner Mary Francis. sunk at Alex
andria, but considerable work will have
to he done on them before they will be
ready again for service.
The tug Minerva. belonging to the Meet
Of the Columbia Granite and Dredging
Company. which had woodwork broken
while lying at Alexandria during the
rine railway at Deans boatyard for
repairs. Work. will be pushed on her
and she will be ready to resume tow
ing work in q few days.
The schooner Margaret and F. Moore.
which had hole punched in her SIDE
by striking pile as she raised and fell
on the seas, will go to an Alexandria
shipyard for repairs as soon as she
COMPLETES unloading her cargo OF pulp
wood. In addition to the damage done
her hull. 1t is said. the vessel was con-
sfderabiy damaged in rigging and else
where. and several days will be res
quired to overhaul the vessel and put
AS a resul. OF the q I'm new smoke
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an old colored Waterman with a lantern
was left in charge. 1t was that last
rainy evening, and as the dusk deepened
into wet black and chilly night the
Waterman huddled under tree.
Midway of the street. with fine nag
ging of its own. is a church which was
gay that night with some festival given
by the young people of the congregation.
Along about 3 o'clock the colored sexton,
with a kindly thought for the old watch
man out in the night, took him some
party" done up in a paper napkin.
When he had gone back to the church
and the Waterman had eaten his refresh
ments. and, most unwisely. spread the
napkin over his head. he growled out
cynicism worthy of that other old gen
tleman who used to be out nights with
lantern:
"What'n de debble do dey want to
gimme cold ice cream fun, when m
already friZ to de marrow an got rheu-
matsm in ev'ry j'int 1 owns. What
needs is a drap o. hot toddy. Effer l had
even a raw toddy."
But the couple keeping tab at an un-
lighted window knew that the watchman
would get no toddy of any sort that
night. Not from that church.
So one of them chuckled to himself,
went to a sideboard in the dining room
and
You see, it was really a wet. chilly
night and there is nothing quite sd good
for old, rheumaticy bones as
And men are so sympathetic.
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WARY OF srRANoERs NOW.
J. F. Hartman, colored, Loses So
Through the pockefhooL n.u.

John F. Hartman. co,ored. pa 18th
street southeast, probably will never
again trust stranger Yesterday sfter-
noon he put his trust in two i anse