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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04
OVER $4,000
This MORNING
Change in Figures of Hospi-
tai Board Hailed With !,
/ Delight.
WORKING FOR $4,000
Alexandria and Fairfax Counties and
Washington Have Shown Generosity
in the Movement.

The change in the board this morn
ing brings the hospital fund over
$35 900 mark, which together with the
$4,000 that will be appropriated by
the City, the Board Of Alderman hav-
ing again yesterday unanimously
passed the new bill making the ap-
propriati9a, carries the hospital ther-
mometer over the forty thousand dol
lar mark, and everyone connected
with the work is exceedingly gratifie-
as every. citizen of Alexandria should
also be.
The Executive Committee will COM
plete its work and turn over the
contributions to the Trustees Of the
Hospital on next Wednesday and they
would like to be able to hand over
$4,000 and therefore again urge ali
who have not heretofore contributed
to send in their pledges and contri-
buttons.
3 When it is remembered that out of
our 10000 or 1900 people that less
than 1900 including our young
friem1s of the schools have contributed
to the fund the large sum secured.
it seems that the committee is not
too urgent in" requesting the refrain
ing $4,000 or $4,000 people of Alex
andria. who have not contributed and
who have deep interest in this
work as those who have made up the
large sum secured should make ur
the remaining $4,000 and odd dollars
1t would be great credit to the
CITY of Alexandra if on next
Wednesday their committee could
turn over to the Trustees of the
Hospital contributions amounting to
$4,000.
Too much praise cannot be given to
our neighbors in Fairfax and Alex
andria Counties and Washington City
who have been very liberal in Their
contributions toward this great work
but there are many citizens both ir
the county and City OF Washington
who have not contributed to this fund
but who doubtless would if their at
tention were called to the matter.
Letters will be sent out from head
quarters not only to our citizens, but
to those in the county and in Wash
ington. directing their attention to the
fact that less than $4,000 is now
nee:ed and if the contributions are
promptly sent in. this amount can be
raised before next "Wednesday.
The various factory employees
should remember that up to the pres,
ent time only one factory has made
a factory contribution which amount
ed to $4,000. from the employees OF
the Corby Bakery. The employees of
every factory in the City ought to
show their patriotism by subscribing
small sum to this fund. For example
if there are fifty men employed in a
factory, payment of ten cents per
month for ten months by each Of
them would mean a contribution of
$4,000.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04

Mrs. Jennie May Eaton, tried ami
acquitted of the charge Of having
poisoned her late husband, Rear Ad-
miraI Joseph Giles Eaton, U. S. N,
retired, at Plymouth, Mass, last Octo-
per, yesterday remarked D. Henry
Ainsworth, whom she divorced eight
years ago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04

A telegram from Park City, Utah
says the auto party of Woodward
Duke, son of Brodie Duke, the Amerl-
can tobacco magnate, was wrecked
near there Yesterday and young Duke
was killed!
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04
LOCAL BREV1TIES.

A decree was entered in the Cor
pcration Court today confirming the
report OF G. L.sBoothe trustee in ref
erence to the sale of house and lot
at 905 Duke street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04
NOTICE.

A stated convocation Of Mt. Ver-
non Royal Arch Chapter, No. IA, will
be held Friday, June 3, 1914, at 8
o'clock D. m. Full attendance is re-
quested.
Work P. NJ, and Council Degrees.
A. G. UHLER, Secretary. 4-2t.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04

R. D. Brumback, trustee, has sold
to Christopher Curtain and wife, a
house and lot on the west side Of
Henry street, between Queen and
Princess.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04
THE CONFEDERATE MoNU-
s4iENT.
MONU-

~ 7ssl y. = .s>fsRSsS ~ ~,
At this Westminster Abbey,
From rise tcS set of sun, 55
Blue and Gray with fragrant flowers,
Shall march through Arlington,
Aid on the graves of heroes
Snail plant sweet roses bright,
10 g!isten in The sunshine,
With weeping dews of night.
/ hear thir spirits singing,
In biyouacs above,
Around the heavenly camp fires,
Whtle everlasting love,
AS perfume from sweet flowers,
Shall ever more increase,
And saints and angels lipgor
In pure celestial peace.
This monument erected
To the valor If the Gray,
Shall shine adown the ages,
Unto eternal day,
And tell to all the nations,
The victor's glorious plan,
To make of every freeman
A true American.
Yse.s
The daughters of the sunny South,
With patriotic pride,
Secured this monumental fund,
For heroes who have died
For what they thought was truly
right,
Their honor and their State,
A band of brilliant fighters,
Testing the laws of fate.
The Old Dominion triun1phs,
In the glory Of this day,
By this classic monument
In honor of the Gray,
Teaching the lasting lesson,
That this Union is secure,
And those who stand united,
Shall evermore endure.
We now must cling together
In this proud country free,
Where nothing can disturb US
In our march from sea to sea,
And through the coming ages,
While waters flash and flow,
Stand until the crack of doom,
BY the Doctrine of Monroe!
This great republic is the. wall
That monarchx~can't climb.
And built FOR all the people,
To test all tide and time,
While potentates and princes
/, With every secret breath
May wish forN our destruction,
Would glory in our death.
The victor. and the yanquished
Rest here, in peaceful gloom,
With flowers and trees above them
Equal in 2their earthly bloom,
With Stars, and Stripes still waving
In honor of their clay,
Great American heroes,
Once clad in Blue and Gray.
Yet, while the North and South are
one,
Her sons Of Blue and Gray
Shall still defend that banner
7 In it's universal sway,
And. like the boys of 'G1,
Shall fight as true and free
AS those who, battled, at the front
With Glorious Grant and Lee!
JOHN A. JOYCE.
Arlington, Va, June 3, 1914.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04

Why a Ford Because what counts
isn't what you pay, but what you get
for what you pay.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04

The monthly meeting of the city
school board will be held tonight in
the Lee school building.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04

George Kitchener, an engineer, re-
siding at 7O4 South Washington
street, died yesterday afternoon. He
is survived by wife, several broth
ars and a sister.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04

Price and Cook will have on sale
Friday and Saturday, mackerel, sea
bass, butter fish, trout, sturgeon,
croakers, rock fish.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04

Only routine business was trans
acted at the meeting last night of
the Columbia Steam Fire Engine
Company. Two new members were
elected.
Mrs. Mary Ann Head, wife Of
George J. Head, died at her home,
Munroe Head, Fairfax county, yes
terday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04

HELP WANTED-Girls at the Ban
ner Steam Laundry.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04

.r, TOTAL to 1000 A. NJ. Thurs
day. June 4th -. s35, ,022. II
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04
June 4th, 1914.

Amount previously published S34,-
971.13.
Received Today.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-04
WEATHER REPORT.

Unsettled tonight and Friday;
probably unoccasional showers.
Sun rise 4:97,~ Sun sets 7.1s.
: a.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03

by colleague with sidestepping a
vote the day before. Angrily
his finger in the face OF
his accuser, Mr.. Moore shouted
that he did not favor exempting
Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison
Or any others from the operation
of the criminal laws of the country
and make special class of them
or any hundred of them. The con-
gressman declared he was not in
favor of exempting even John D.
Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie,
and that Il have not waited for a
nod from the gallery to tell me
how to vote This shot was
aimed at the A. T. of l.. Legislative
committee, representatives of the
railroad brotherhoods and farmers
organizations, who formed an in
terested party in the gallery listen
ing to the debate on the bill.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03
FORCED THEM TO FIGHT.
How "Honor" Was Satisfied by Com
puIsory Duel In Hungary.

The code duello as insisted upon
abroad is strikingly illustrated by the
story Of a happening at Budapest, Hun
gary 1t appears that a lawyer. Ba-
bocsay by name, quarreled with his
wife over new hat. The wife called
her brother, Lieutenant Hajdu, mill
tary aviator, to her aid The husband
used words deemed insulting by Hajdu.
This coming to the hearing of Hajdu's
superior officer, the latter ordered the
lieutenant to fight a duel with Baboc.
say. Neither party wished to fight.
Babocsay offered to apologize, and
Hajdu was willing to accept the apol-
ogy and thus end the affair.
But the military martinez was mex
orable. The duel must be fought to
satisfy the honor of the army. Conse-
quently these two men, closely related,
were compelled TO attempt TO try TO
take each others life. They met, Ba-
bocsay, firing aimlessly, nevertheless
sent bullet through the lung of his
adversary, and Lieutenant Hajdu died
of his wound.
Upon hearing of the death of her
brother at the hand of her husband In
her quarrel Nine. Babocsay went in
sane, twice attempted suicide and was
finally confined to an asylum.-Chicago
Inter Ocean
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03
Momentum and Velocity.

In answer to the question "Is it not
velocity that produces gravitation? II
we throw a stone against window Of
sufficient resistance with too little We
locity it will not break, but If we
throw it with sufficient velocity the
window will break" the New York
American says:
eve do not know the cause of gravi-
tation nor Of anything, but the increas-
ed speed of stone thrown is not the
cause of grayltation; 1t is the cause Of
momentum, which is product of mass
multiplied by velocity. Momentum
would be the same If the stone were
thrown close to the earth, where the
full attraction of its gravitation would
be felt, or out in space trillions of
miles, where the earths gravitation
would be almost infnitesimal-tha is,
the glass would break by increasing
the speed Of the stone as here on
earth
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03
HAD NO SENSE OF HUMOR.
He Couldn't Clearly See the Joke the
Boys Had on Him.

Some people have absolutely no sense
of humor. A little London urchin ran
into a bakers shop and, placing half
penny on the counter, asked nervously
and timorously, Mister, ave you a
'alfpenny buster (bun)"
Eyes, my little man. Here is one
quite hot"
Thanks, mister. Would you mind
a-shoyin' it down my back?"
Down your back, my little man!
Why down your back"
"Cos, sir, I'm only a little un, and If
those chaps outside know I've buster
they'll take It, and I am sc 'ungry, /
am"
Dear me, how wrong of theml
Come round here, my little chap. There
there it is down your back"
The boy ran off. In an instant anoth-
er entered-a bigger boy.
81 say, mister, as little boy just
been in 'ere?
yes"
"And did e buy 'alfpenny busterY'
Eyes"
AND d1d arSK you TO SnoVe IL down
is back, as us big fellows would take
it?"
eyes"
"Yah! Where's your watch and
chain? 'Es got 'em. 'E's just round
the corner"
Out rushed the baker. In a trice the
big boy collared the till and bolted
The shopman never saw the comic
side of the transaction at all-London
Strand Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03

New York is the most wonderful city
in the western hemisphere. 1t has the
tallest Office buildings in the world; it
has the greatest bridges on the North
American continent; 1t has more hotels
than any other city in the world; It's
Stock Exchange is the greatest in ex-
istence; it is the worlds greatest sea
port; it has the most magnificent rail
way stations in America; it is the great
est banking center in the country; more
popular songs are published in New
York than in all other cities combined;
1t has more Pittsburgh millionaires
than Pittsburgh; it has larger Irish
population than Dublin, a larger Jew
ish population than Jerusalem had in
its most glorious days, and, according
to estimates made by some of our most
able estimators, it has a larger number
Of native New Workers than Cohoes.-
Chicago Record Herald
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03
His Age and Qualifications From an
Enolsh Point of View,

English Point of View.
There Is a general agreement in Lon
don legal circles that the best jurymen
are TO be found among men sixty years
Of age. The opinion Is that jurymen
at that age show better judgment than
younger men.
A leading London barrister, asked for
his opinion, said: II prefer men about
fifty years of age A defending barrts-
ter in, say, criminal case which has
certain sentimental elements will al
ways welcome young jury. He knows
he can touch their emotions far more
easily than he can those of men over
and man Is cold and purely logical.
The average man who has reached the
age of fifty looks upon things from
materialistlc point of view, and his
Judgment is therefore unaffected by
sentiment.
Education, save in certain civil
cases, is no great asset to juryman.
The bricklayer or the mechanic has
just as much knowledge of human ma
ture and a sense Of justice as the pro
fessor, and in many respects barristers
snd judges prefer the unlettered jury
man to the man Of culture, though in
the case of the latter he is less sus-
ceptible to an emotional plea. The man
with sound common sense, learned not
from books, but from everyday life, Is
III, Ial ~ ;,,I, ar.
counsel as many suppose, and if you
add the wisdom of years you get the
ideal juryman. Exchange.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03
SHOWING CONFIDENCE.
IL Has a Strong Influence In Making
Business and Good Times.

j f1de d SIOT9 fTItuCffSo tn WANING
Business and Good Times.
Preachments about the value of op-
timism are trifie bromide, so instead
of hurrahing for optimism | have q
few instances of the influence that
comes from putting a good face steadi-
ly toward bad fortune, and contrari-
wise the bad effect of mourning be-
cause business is not better.
"How's trader / asked stationer.
"Trader' he exclaimed. Trade! There
isn't any. Things are rotten" Now,
IL | had had any intention of buying
anything from him, which | had not,
that depressing statement would have
gone long way to keep me from buy
ing.
'Hows things?" | asked the boss of
a mems furnishing store few hours
later Little quiet, just now," he
smiled; "but | can't complain. We
have run ahead of last year and pros
poets are good" / felt like buying a
new hat because the cheeriness Of his
reply made me feel that money was
coming to me.
"How's trader" l asked a tobacco
mist Good he replied emphatically.
Little slow today, but trade is mighty
good with me, coming right along
and | bought cigar.
Confidence is the influence that
makes good times because 1t quickens
trade. But If all business men were
to croak about bad business, would
not that influence make us ali very
careful about doing anything? We
would all want to sit tight and wait
The way to get good times is to face
the world hopefully and go to work
The croaker is trade killer.-Inland
Stationer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03
MONEY TO LOAN
ON FARMS
At 5h and g per cent
Hiram s. Mathers
Lyric Theater Building
CINCINNATI
To Abolish Child Labor,

oscar +. Nelson, state factory In
spector of Illinois, has announced that
In his next annual report to the gov
ernor he would recommend the child
labor act be so amended as to make it
Illegal for one under sixteen years to
be employed. In order not to impose
hardship upon parents he said that
at the same time he would recommend
the mothers pension act be amended
TO include children up to sixteen years.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03

THE Retail Merchants Associa-
tien passed resolutions at their last
meeting and voted unanimously to
keep their stores closed all day
Saturday, July, 4th. The stores
will be open Friday night and pur-
chases can be made then. The
merchants did the proper thing
when they decided to close and iu-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03

plotted to the limit. Father, moth
er ard little ones sacrificed to the
Cotton Juggernaut, crushed and
broken in mind AID body, they are
fed to the flying wheels of the cot
ton mill, and spun into profits for
the company.
Organized labor, all men worthy
the name, should give their fullest
moral and financial support to the
fight, and blot out for all time this
cruel injustice to the men, women
and children of the cotton industry
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03
stead of working their clerks allow
them to celebrate the 4th.
WORLD OF LABOR

Trades unionists in Cedar Ra
pids, Iowa, have taken up the fight
of four girl operators who were
discharged by the local telephone
exchange because they favored un-
ionism. Two of the girls are the
sole support of widowed mothers,
and the organized workers are not
onl y conducting an agitation
against the company, but are pay
ing the girls an amount every week
equal to their former wages.
Returns received by the Massa-
chusetts State Bureau of Statistics
from l 0S2 labor organizations in
that State for the close of March,
1914, representing more than 49,,
900 organized wage earners and ap
proximately Is per cent. of all the
members of local trade unions in
4 Massachusetts, show that II 9 per
cent. were unemployed. This,
with one exception, is higher than
any corresponding percentage since
December %, 1908.
A delegation of trade unionists
called on Minister of Labor Gro
theirs at Ottawa, Canada, TO urge
the establishment throughout the
Dominion of free labor bureaus,
to take The place of private estab-
lishnents, and remove many abuses
which have developed under this
system. The government official
indicated that he was N sympathy
with the prop sal, and that while
he had investigated the English
plan, his department would contin-
ue Investigations in the hope OF
supplanting the private concerns
and their swindling practices with
bureaus controlled by the govern
ment.
Judge Prewett, of Placer Country
Cal. has upheld the eight-hour un-
derground work law, which prohl-
bits more than eight hours Of con
tinuous labor in any mines, tun-
nels, or underground work. The
defendant contractor claimed that
he did not violate the law, as the
work performed was on railroad
tunnel, l 300 feet in length. To
this the court answered: There
appears to be no justification for SC
narrow construction. The act
, was evidently passed to meet the
conditions often prevailing in un-
derground works and it should not
be limited in its construction by
any narrow Interpretation of its
meanings In the opinion of this
Court, the act as much applies to a
1900 foot tunnel as it would to a
1900 foot tunnel projected for
mining purposes.
Congressman J. Hampton Moore
of Pennsylvania, became excited
during the debates over the labor
sections in the Clayton anti-trus!
bill, and charged that organized
labor was terrorizing this House "
The Philadelphia solon was tainted
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03
WHITE SLAVES"
OF THE
COTTON MILLS

The attention of organic, d labor
is directed to the splendid struggle
being waged for the liberation of
the "White Slaves" of the Cotton
Mills of the South. In the city of
Atlanta, Ga in the Empire State
OF the South where child labor
laws are the worst in any state in
the union, or any civilized country
in the world The Cotton Work
ers have organized and revolted
against the intolerable conditions
imposed on them by the Fulton
Bag & Cotton Co., and under the
direction of Organizer Miles are
fighting for the elimination of child
labor, recognition of the union and
the blishment of a "a hour
week.
The Fulton Bag & Cotton Co. is
supported by the Southern Cotton
Manufacturers Association and
and the National Manufacturers
Association and are resorting to
the cruelest tactics in their efforts
to break the strike. 1t has been
the rule of this company TO hold
back weeks wage, and when the
workers struck they had from
week to nine days pay due; this
money the company declared for
feited on the grounds that the
strikers left without notice. Credit
was cut off at the store and starva-
ton was Immediately upon them.
They are being evicted from the
company's shacks and are black
listed in the mills, intimidated in
every possible way to force them
back in subsection to the company.
For weeks before the strike, ef-
forts were made by the employees
committee to get conference with
the mill officials, bur they abso
lutely refused to meet any commit
tee. Under these circumstances
the international Organization of
Textile Workers, the Georgia Fed
Grafton Of Labor and the Atlanta
Federation of Trades have deter
determined to come to the assist
ance OF the cotton mill workers,
and make this strike national is
sue, the success of which will elm
mate for all time the disgraceful
condition of servitude imposed up
on the workers in the cotton mills
of the south.
Much has been written in an ef-
fort to describe the abject poverty
of tn southern cotton mill workers,
but neither tongue nor pen is sde-
quate to describe the awful wretch
edness of the their existence. Men,
women and little children, thou
sands and thousands of them, are
in chronic state of poverty, al
ways on the border of starvation
frsm childhood to the grave.
Working in the company's mill,
dwelling in the company's shacks,
dealing in the company store, own
ed body, soul and boots by the
company, they are robbed and ex
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03
Too Much Decoration.

Mr.. Smith, out walking with his
small son Bobby, met Mr.. Brown, fel-
low architect. They strolled along to-
gether To keep their minds in work
ing trim, the two men patronizingly
picked out the good and bad qualities OF
the new buildings they passed.
Presently Bobby spied spotted dog.
"Look, father" he said scornfully-
"look at that dog don't like it, There's
too much work on it!'-Everybody's.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03

WE are told that the police have
been asked not to hold converse
tions with the citizens along the
streets. 1t is not clear to us why
the police should not gable little
BIT, you know it is natural to do so.
Labor unions believe in free speech.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03

The mistress of the house had mis-
laid her eyeglasses. She asked the old
negro servant If she had seen them.
Nom, honey" said Aunt Missouri,
II amt seen 'em. But I'll fin 'em fo'
you. Jess tell me now was dey In de
she'll ?"-New York Post.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-07-03
Moss Bread.

Along the shores OF the Columbia
river a kind Of bread is made by the
Indians from moss that grows on the
spruce fir tree. This moss Is prepared
by placing 1t In heaps. sprinkling it
with water and permitting 1t to fer
ment- Then 1t Is rolled into balls as
big as a mans head, and these are
baked In pits.