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The Washington herald., 1914-03-18
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE

Ssles-Reguiar call, u O'Clock noon.
Mergenthaler, at 2isii.
National Metropolitan Bank. 10 at a4. 10 at 81.
After call:
Merzenthaler. at a5iz. at Hyi.
CAPITAL Traction. I at 100.
National Metropolitan Bank. 10 at a4
Washington Railway A Electric pfd-. 10 at g, ai
81.
Washington Gas. I at ~. ! at 0H. at 50.
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-18

New York. March T-Three billion, fve
hundred million bananas were consumed
in the United States last year. Unless
you ate forty you did not get your share.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-18

were seen basking in the sun on the Ice
foes in the Hudson River OF here
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Ever Hear of Such Things !
727 18th Street Northwest.

Yonkers. ". Y. March lI-HearinS
burglars, Philip Priore hid slSs in the stove
Fearing pneumonia. his wife lighted .
fire. The money was burned.
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COTTON STATISTICS.

Furnished By n. L. Carpenter 4 Co
New York March II.
Receipts. Middlings
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET.

Total sales s. sl .oO against s. i76.ooo yesterd
!. .5Ss coo a week ago. and 8 N.i2iooo a year ago.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-18

Hammond. Ind. March 17.-Receiving q
letter from Greece that he is heir to
S.0Oo0oO estate, Mathes Constsnte. a steel
worker. hired five friends at $500 a year
to help him spend the money.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON.

Furnishsd by n. L. Carpenter < Co.
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Local stock Market.

Metropolitan National Bank stock was
the feature on the Washington Stock
ISchance Yesterday Thirty shares OF
the stock were sold at eG. Two hun
drcd and three then was bid but the
stock asking price was 205.
There was increased activity in Mer-
rcnthaler six shares selling at 2lJ L.
Eleven shares of Railway preferred
sold at 81. one share of Capital Trac-
ton at 100. and three shares of Washing
ton Gas, S;aS4
The Washington herald., 1914-03-18

Sag Harbor. N. Y, March N.-Mrs.
Russell Sage. who founded the Athe-
neum Social Center here. has agreed to
help the towns folk in their efforts to
master the tango. hesitation and other
modern dances.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-18

ohicers OF important railroads In the
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07
SUBSCRIPTION BATES
DYING Poor.

1t Is no disgrace to die poor. but It's
mean trick to play on your relatives.
-PoEton TranGnrint
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07
wayiayinq Msndels.ohn.

After the London performance Of EST
PauI' by the Sacred Harmonic society
ut Exeter hall I'm 1887 Mendelssohn's
roach was waylaid at midnight on his
way to Dover. but instead of being
robbed the composer was presented
with On silver snuffbox by group OF
devotees. He had behaved with charm
ing grace In an awkward incident
The London performance In question
was to have been conducted by him
But the Birmingham festival was just
due and he was the great attraction
there in the same oratoriO. 1t was felt
that his appearance as conductor in
London at that juncture would detract
from the Importance of his visit to
Birmingham. Mendelssohn saw the
point and Cancelled his London en-
gagement. But he attended the per
formance and was so winning to all
concerned-audience. performers. Off
cials-that he turned disappointment
into scene of wild enthusiasm.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07
Fashionable Faintina.

I'm an old English scrap book Is the
following clipping. dated June I. 1880:
No Woman can now discover her
Distinction OF true Breeding better
than by well-timed FAINT al the
musical Festival in Westminster Alb
bey. The Noble Managers ny from
their Box To her Assistance. Who Is
she?"-"Loyely GirI!"-"Feeling Crea-
turer instantly reverberates from one
Aisle to another. But like all tonish
Airs. this. IL seems. Is now descending
to inferior Ranks; for no less than
three City Ladies were among the tive
female Painters of Saturday last. To
prevent therefore the further Extent
of this fashiona Bile Influenza the Man
ayers. we learn. intend issuing Some
thing ike the following Notice. in lmi-
tation of the Lord Chamberlain's No
tice to the Courtly Dancers. viz:
such Ladies who intend to Faint at
the next Abbey Performance. are de-
sired to send their Names. Rank. and
Places OF Abode to Mr.. Ashley. on OF
before II O'Clock tomorrow; that a
sufficient Proportion of Bars Rest may
be set apart. In Order TO give to the
whole Performance the desired Ell
fectp
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07
All nOStri 1ettOrie { abbOnati

Richiamiamo Fattenzione di tutti i
nostri lettori ed abbonati sullavviso
che pubblichiamo in ottawa pagina del
Magazzini del "Bon Ton, ), b una
vera occasione che 81 presenta tutti
coloro che desiderano far spesa di og-
getti di vestiario, scarpe ecc. poiche'
presentandosi con i cuponi al detti
Magazzini godranno di un notevole
ribasso. Ayvertiamo percio' tutti CO.
loro che ne hanno interesse, di ta-
glare cuponi perche' senza di essi
non potranno usufruire dello speciale
sconto che magazzini del bon Ton, ).
fanno per speciale CONCESSIONS al let
tori del ''Patriota,,. Approfttatene
'lunque: questa vendita speciale dura
per tutto il mese di ot.obre.
Simili occasioni capitano di raGc.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07
A Phil May Anecdote.

One winter night an old hawker en-
tered the bar Of the Old Bell tavern,
Fleet street. and offered the customers
sets of three studs for a penny. Phil
May said 10 him:
"You are just the man l want!'
He took only one stud and gave the
hawker five shilling piece The bar
maid said to Phil May:
81 believe. Phil. you would give your
coat to the first beggar who asked for
itr
swell, miss replied the artist.
there would be no harm IN that St.
Martin gave his coat to beggar. and
he was better man than Phil May.
| am only a wicked sinnerr'-London
Taller.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07
II nOstrO gi0rnaIe

81 vende ogni sabato, nella
citta' d'Indiana, Pa, presso
la cartoleria ed agenzia gior-
nalistica di Huey&Moorhead,
in Philadelphia st. (di fronte
ALA stazione del carrD.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07

The proprietor Of Paris cafe no
ttced that after he had refused to give
his pianist an increase OF salary the
number of his customers dwindled
rapidly. 1t was only when all but
oRe diner had deserted him that he
discovered that the pianist had been
fnflicting Chopin's Funeral March,
ON the audience nightly. The pianist,
who was proceeded against In the law
courts and was fined s francs, pleaded
that he played according to the mood
he felt In after his request had been
refused.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07
Two Killed. One Hurt

Dayton, o., Nov. 6.-Edison L. Rine-
hart, chauffeur. and John Papp were
killed and Mrs. Mary Balorin probably
fatally injured when a touring car
driven by Einehart tore through the
coping Of the bridge over Mad river
and catapulted to level twenty five
feet below.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07

Europe and Asia were covered by
fog during the summer Of 1888. Says
Gilbert White DETER 109): ''The sum-
mer Of the year 1888 was an amazing
and a portentous one, for, be-
sides the alarming meteors and ire.
mendous thunderstorms. the
peculiar haze or smoky fog that pre-
vailed for many weeks in this island
England and in every part Of Europe
and even beyond its limits was a most
extraordinary appearance. The heat
was intense. Calabria and part of the
isle Of Sicily were torn and convulsed
with earthquakes" Cowper also re-
fers to this phenomenon in speaking of
nature, with dim and sickly eye"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07
Rockefeller Pleads Not GUILTY

New Yor'-, Nov. 6.-William Rookie.
feller, Standard Oil multi-millionaire,
appeared in the criminal branch of the
United States district court and en-
tered plea of not guilty to the indict-
ment charging him with conspiracy in
connection with his acts as a former
director of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad company. He
was placed under $4,000 bond to in.
sure his appearance for trial.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07
Never Touched Him.

Landlady Ito new boarder. crushing
ly)-Mr. Newcome, that is the cream
and not the milk you are pouring on
your oatmeal. 1t was intended for the
coffee. Mr.. N.-Oh. never mind, Mrs
Balkins. I like it just as well.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07
The cutup.

'@There goes the village cutup."
as he joker or surgeonT-Baih
more American.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07
Being Right.

You can't be sure you're right sim
ply because you believe you are.-Al
bany Journal.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-07
A Demonstration.

~ distinctly saw you with police
mans arms around you"
"Oh. yes. mum! Wasn't it nice Of
him? He was shown me how to hold
a burglar If found one in the house" !"
Life.
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QUESTIONS THAT
A GOOD CITIZEN
SHOULD KNOW.

r. The Congress.
D. What does Congress consist of ?
z. Senate and House of Representa-
tives.
D. Who is the chief executive of the
United States?
r. President.
D. For how long is the President of
the United States elected?
r. years.
D. Who takes the place of the Presi-
dent in case he dies?
R. The Vice President.
D. What is his name?
r. Thomas r. Marshall.
d. By whom is the President of the
United States elected?
r. BY the electors.
D. By whom are the electors
elected?
R. BY the people.
D. Who makes the laws for the
State of Pennsylvania
R. The Legislature.
d. What does the Legislature con-
sist of?
r. Senate and Assembly.
D. How many States in the Union?
r. 48.
D. When was the Declaration of
independence signed?
r. July a, 1776.
D. By whom was it written?
r. Thomas Jefferson.
D. Which is the capital of the
United States?
r. Washington.
D. Which is the Capital of the State
of Pennsylvania?
r. Harrisburg.
D. How many Senators has each
State in the United States Senate?
r. Two.
D. By whom are they elected?
R. By the people.
D. For how long?
R. 6 years.
D. How many representatives are
there?
R. According to the population one
to every 10000.
D. For how long are tl-ey elected?
r. 2 years.
Z How many electoral votes has
the State of Pennsylvania?
r. 81.
D. Who is the chief executive of
the State of Pennsylvania?
r. The Governor.
D. For how long is he elected?
R. years.
d. Who is the Governor?
r.. Tener.
D. Do you believe in organized gov
ernment?
R. Yes.
D. Are you opposed to organized
government?
r. No.
q. Are you an anarchist?
R. No.
D. What is an anarchist?
r. A person who does not believe in
or rganized government.
D. Are you bigamist or poliga-
mist?
R. No.
D. What is bigsmist or poliga-
mist?
R. One who believes in having more
than one wife.
D. Do you belcng to any secret So
ciety who teach to disbe,ieve in or
ganiZed government?
r. No.
D. Have you ever violated any laws
of the United States?
r. No.
d. Who makes the ordinances for
the City?
r. The Board of Aldermen.
D. Do you intend to remain per-
maneutly in the U. s.?
r Yes.
Tutti quegll ltdIidni che desl'
1efdDO fare la CdPta dl Cittadi.
lanza americana, pOsSOnO PlVOI'
Jefsl al nOstrO uffiCiO, che un
lOstrO lmpiegatO 81 inCdriChefa'
Ii pSnlicafn iUffn lo nnafnho No
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apart if the 125,ooo French were to have any chance to win.
 That night of the 18th while Ney, in front of luatre Bras, was held in check only by some Dutch battalions, Yelling ton and his officers were at the Duchess of Riehmond's ball. whose sound of rev elry in Belgium's capital Byron has sent echoing down the corridor of time. There in the midst of fair women and brave men, dance orders contended with battle orders until o'clock in the morning of the 10th, when the British commander, be- coming once more the Iron Duke started for the front after gentle fingers had bucltled on his sword
 The first necessity of the allies was to unite their forces. The Prussans already were hurrying along the road from Ma mur when Wellington hastily proceeded to concentrate his contingent at Quatre Bras on the Chareloi- Brussels highway. For the purpose of concerting measures, the Duke and Butcher met late in that forenoon of the 16th at windmill near Ligny.
 As the two allied commanders sat there on that eminence. they lifted their field glasses and distinctly saw Napoleon ir the midst of his staff beside another mill on another hill only little way across the wheat fields. Between the two mills flows little brock, the Ligne, and on it's banks was little cluster of houses, the hamlet of Ligny.
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A Patriot

Aside from that episode, there is hardly another tale to tell of any enthusias sm displayed by tine Emperor in the course of the Hundred Days. It was a period crowded with prodigious activities under his direction, but he himself seemed to dwell apart from the stirring scenes he in- spired.
 The quiet of Elba had aggravated his tendency toward corpulence. His jowls overhung more than ever. His waistcoat and brooches now failed to meet over his protiuding paunch and left his linen in View. His lips seemed to be engaged in nervous struggle to keep the saliva flow ing and he drew his eyebrows closer to- gether in an increasing near-sightedness
 When his brothers returned to him, each from his own place of exile, even Lucien came with them and made peace with the Emperor. But Lucien was sur prised to find his brother so sleepy and he wondered how he had thrown off his drowsiness sufficiently to return from Elba. His minister of the treasury re. marked his unusual calmness and pen siveness, his lack of the old audacity and the strange lassitude that overcame him after a few hours at work.
 When Baron de Meneval arrived with reports from Marie Louise and the mes- sage from the King of Rome, he found niin at the Elysee palace, Whither he had moved from the Tuileries because 1t was more quiet and had a garden. The Elm peror was sitting in idle meditation, with his head leaning on his hand, as his faith ful secretary entered, and the baron seems to have perceived in him at once a loss of confidence and power.
 Day after day for hours he sat alone with Meneval. Once after he had spoken of the future, he said, with a grave mel anchoy, God is great and merciful."
 He went out to .Mamaison with Queen Hortense. who had been the first woman to welcome him on his return to the Tuileries. There he shut himself in Jose phine's room, to commune with her mem- ory in solitude. He tread once more the paths she had laid out in her garden. 1Aer flower beds were blooming again. Poor Josephinei' he sighed. 'I feel as if should meet her at every turn.''
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The Conquest of Vienna

The efforts of the Emperor to estab- fish relations with the Nations of Eu- rope were met on every hand with scorn- ful rebuffs. He had expected on arriv- ing in Paris to find the Congress of Vienna adjourned and the inonarchs and statesmen dispersed Unfortunately for him, 1t was still in session when he ap- peared like specter at the feast.
 After a long and ugly wrangle, the powers had most opportunely came to an agreement on the very eve of the flight from Elba and completed the dis tribution of the spells of their conquest The Czar insisted and obtained the larger part of Prussian Poland which Napoleon had wrested from Frederick William. In return, Prussia was permit ted to expand her borders to the banks of the Rhine and to receive besides u portion of Saxony that Kingdom being dismembered as punishment for its ad- herence to the Napoleonic cause in the war of 1913.
 France was left in possession of only a few acres of conquered land and the pictures and statues she had taken in war Otherwise she was stripped bare of the fruits of her hundred victories Belgium was handed over to Holland, Savoy Nice and Genoa were given to the King of Sardinia. Italy was ruth lessy partitoned. Austria taking back Lombardy and gaining yeniee, while Harsburg Princes were set over the duchies of Modena. Florence and Parma
 The Congress had only just finished re- casting the map of Europe when Napo- leon burst in upon the scene. The con- sternation caused by his apparition was succeeded by united determination to beat him down. The armed coalition of 1S1S-14 was renewed and plans adopted
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Lignx and Quatre Bras


 Even as Wellington galloped away to- ward Quatre Bras, he could see the French moving down upon Ligny for the purpose of stopping the Prussian advance westward. But Napoleon, unlike the thunderbolt he was in other and earlier days, had hesitated and withheld the blow until Butcher was enabled to assemble nearly 99000 men against the 10000 he himself could put in the battle.
 All afternoon the French artillery poured it's deadly hail upon the Prussian masses that held the slope beyond the village, while the infantry of the two armies trampled the grain l.elds and wrestled at bayonet length in the narrow, winding lanes, in the church yard, in the barnyards and within the very cottage walls of Ligny. Then in the waning of day of sulphuro1s heat the warning forces of the air burst into battle. Lightning flashes shot across the dark heavens; salvos of thunder shook the heavy air: the leaden skies opened and the floods de- scended upon the embattled armies. Under cover of those Oewiderng flashes and crashes of Jove's artillery the Elm peror led forth the Old Guard and they leaped the brook and snatched the vil- lage.
 Butchers horse was shot from under fiiiI anu n6 was only SdNeu rom cap ture by the timely appearance of a squadron of Uhans. The old Guard swept on irresistibly over Ligny and up the slope to the windmill. leaving a path through the Prussian center and the en- emy's army broken in pieces. Perhaps 15,000 Prussians and HOO French lay dead or wounded on the field of Napoleon's last victory in battle. For as Toulon was written at the top of the red roll of his victories, so Ligny is inscribed at the bot tom
 The Emperor went to sleep that night in the chateau of Fleuris. congratulating himself that he had opened his cam paign with a blow as crushing as that of Jena. But there was a fatal difference. While he was winning the battle of Jena. Davout was winning the battle of Auer- stadt, 12 miles away. But now. while he had been winning the battle of Ligny. Ney had lost the battle of Quatre Bras. seven miles away. There, with an irresolution foreign to his impetuous temper in his prime. the marshal had dallied with the hours until Wellington returned from his visit to Butcher by the windmill and until he was heavily outnumbered. He was! seized with the frenzy of desperation when he saw the day slipping away from him and recolected the Emperors mes sage to him in the morning, 'The fate of France is in your hands, He well knew that his own fate also was at stake Hav- ing first deserted Napoleon fin 1874 and now the Bourbons in 1915, the hapless marshal fought with halter around his neck" and waving his sword like madman, he cried out for the English bullets to deliver him from his despair.
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Lightning Changes

On his arrival in the Tuileries at 9 o'clock in the evening. Napoleon found the palace crowded with his old min lsters and couftiers. out of the crowd he chose his cabinet on the spot. H., filled most of the posts with former ministers, but he appointed Marshal Davout minister of war and gave the portfolio of the interior to Carnot the infleXible republican, who had held aloof from the empire in the days of its glory. but who had come to it's aid in 1874, when alien armies invaded his loved fatherland. Seemingly unable to escape his evil genius. the Emperor made Fouche minister of police again, but he appointed Savary to the coE- mand of the gendarmerie. and thus the two Gucal detectives could spy on each other.
 Among the marshals. Soult MasseEa. Suohet, Brune. Moncey and Mortier, IS well as Davout. came back to their old master. Augureau. who had betrayed him the year before, and insulted his misfortunes. sought with a noisy proc lpmation of fealty to regain his conti- dence. But the Emperor coldly repulsej him. Nor could he conceal from Ney his disgust with that marshafs abandon nent of him in 1874. and his threat to bring him to Paris in an iron cage. Tho poor prince of the Moskova slunk away and felt like blowing out his brains.
 Marshals Berthier. Marmont and Mae donald went with Louis XVIII in his flight from the throne. But when the King passed from Lille to Ghent. where he vas destined to remain in a Belgian exile throughout the hundred days, Macdonald, rather than quit the soil nf France took his leave and entered into m honorable retirement Berthier saw Louis settled at Ghent. when he, too, withdrew. Marmont alone stayed by the Bourbon monarch. Junot, another of Napoleon's Toulon comrades, whom he had made duke but not marshall was also absent from his side. for the eucklcss Duke of Abrantes had gore mad.
 Although the ink was no more than dry on Marshal Soults proclamation danouncing him as an adventurer and usurper, the Emperor took him to hls bosom and appointed him his chief of staff until Berthier should return Tho pnrase, "When Berthier returns was continually on his lips But he waited and watched in vain.
 Berthier was in painfully trying sit- uation. between his lifelong habit of loyalty to Napoleon and his duty to his wife. who was a Bavarian princess Some say in the end he hearkened to his duty to the Emperor and started Tor France. but failing to make his way through the military lines of the allies he returned to the palace of his father ir-law. at Bamberg. in Germany. One day as he stood by window in the palace and watched the Russian troons file by in their march to overwhelm f's old commander he suddenly pitched for ward and was hurled to his death But whether he had fallen in n swoon or had leaped from the window no one could know.
 Another of the old marshals who of feied his sword was spurned by the Emperor. When King Murat saw that
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Battle of New Orleans

Crawford found the Emperor deeply in- terested in the Anglo American war of 1Sl2-13. When he heard of the terrible slaughter which Jackson's backwoods mill itia inflicted on the veterans of Yelling tons peninsular campaign in the be ttlo or New Orleans, he was astounded and ir,credulous. There must be some mis- take, he said But James Monroe sent him a translation of General Jackson s official account of the engagement, in which the general declared that the Brit ish loss in one hour was 2l17 and the American loss only 13.
 Still further to satisfy the Emperors S curiosity, four rifles, such as the militia men employed in their deadly work, were sent to him through Stephen Girard of Philadelphia. As he examined the long barrels of the rude weapons, much too heavy, it seemed to him, for his troops. he marvelled at the manner of men who could wield them and is said to have ex- claimed, If l had battalion that could shoot like those Americans at New Or leans, I could promenade across Europe with it."