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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29
CONDITIONS IN AUSTRIA
Situation Growing Worse Daily
Discomfort in Hungary

Rome, Dee 29-The situation in
Austria is growing worse daily. DIS
content is growing in Hungary, and
the recent visit of the Hungarian
premier to Berlin is said to have
been at the personal request oil En-
peror William, who asked him to do
his utmost to prevent any movement
for the separation of Austria and
Hungary at the present time.
The attitude Of Roumania also IS
causing disquiet in Vienna, which is
filled with refugees from both Galicia
and Hungary, fleeing in terror from
the advancing Russian colors. Despe-
rate efforts are being made to keep
roamania from joining with Russia.
q high official who Tor the last
two months has been stationed at
Vienna where he served the govern
mont in an official capacity and VINO
has given everything up in order to
inin his two sons who are serving in
The Italian army said yesterday that
Inc most ominous feature of the sit
nation in Vienna is the widening Of
the gap which separates the wealthy
and popular clesses.
The feeling of the common people
toward the noble and the rich foi
their frivolous life while the empire
is going through the worst crisis N
its history is, according to this Off
cal, one of contempt and irrlta-
ton.
sVicnna," he said "the gay city
whose outward appearance spelled
prosperity and JOY of life during the
past twenty days, has greatly chang
ed. What most impresses the visitor
today is the great number OF women
in mourning and the large groups OF
destitute people camping in the OPEN
under porches and colonnades, in the
court of every public building, ex-
posed to the severe cold OF the ex'
ceptional winter.
1.-THE outward appearance OF these
people tells a vivid story of suffer
ing and restitution. Clearly they
come from rural districts Of the en-
hire and their picturesque, wo1n-out
Clothing are in striking contrast with
this nent, almost elegant garments
worn by even the wage earners oil
rhe capital. Now Vienna has no more
room for them and it is Impossible
to predict what will become Of them
when the last cent has been spent
for food. Yet they continue to ar
rive.
t'The merchants of the capital who
have literally contributed to The
huge fund raised for the refugees
1shef openly accuse the nobility OF
having done nothing for them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29
SPECIAL MEETING

Notice is hereby given that on the
gath day Of December, 1914, at 1920
A. NJ. at the Companys Office, l23 s.
Royal Street, Alexandria, Va, q spe-
cial meeting Of the stockholders of
the Union Building Company will be
held for the purpose Of taking ac-
ton upon proposed amendment to
the Charter Of the Company SO en-
iareing it's scope and purpose rs to
authorize it to conduct general
garage business Mt the Union Build
ing property in the City of Washing
ton. District Of Columbia at which
meeting all stockholders are urged
to be present either in person or
be proxy.
NJ NJ. PARKER, President.
Louis Boyer, IN Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29
tHaBEAs CORPUS PROCEEDINGS
Mother VIII Endeavor 10 Recover
Daughter from Nunnery

Baltimore, Dec !. 20-Mrs. Eliza
beth Wright of Washington, institu-
ted habeas cohpus proceedings yes
terday to compel her daughter, Mad
cline w. Wright, ITO be produced in
court by Mother De Sales, superior
OF the Order of Silesian Sisters Of
the Holy Eucharist, ut St. Raphasl's
Institute Of Providence. here.
The daughter is postnlate in the
convent and claims she is Of age, and
that she wants to devote her life to
the church The mother, 4 protes-
tant. contends the girl is not Of age.
Mrs. Wright alleged that the girl
is detained Illegally. This is denied
by the mother superior.
Judge Bond heard the case year
ago. when habeas corpus proceed
ings were iinstituted in the city court.
Judge Bond ordered the girl to DO
returned to her mother, to remain
until she was of age. Then she was
to have the right to decide for her
self whether she would become 4
nun. The girl was hystcrical. She
was permitted to return to the in
stitute for her clothes, and she mys-
criously disappeared.
Mother De Sales was ordered 10
explain why the order Of the court
was not carried out. She said the
girl had left the institute with her
clothes, and that nothing furher was
known of her. When next heard
from, the girl was in the institute
and there was a report that, accord
ing to the records in Richmond courts
she had attained her majority, and
intended to resume her life as q
postulate.
Mrs. Wright contends the girl i!
eighteen years old, while Madeline
maintains she is twenty-one.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29
POET APPEALS TO AMERICA
Moves Declares We Can Bring End
to Hostilities by Unc0vering

Truth
London, Dect 29-'Let America
speak and end this war and all hu-
mainly will bless her to the end of
time" is the appeal Of Alfred Noyes,
English poet, to the American peo-
pie.
Noyes, who is we'll known in the
United States, declared that only
truth can end the war and that the
American people should tell this
truth to Germany.
1.-THE Germans are not only los
ing their lives, they are losing their
rlinds," asserted Noyes.
"Though the end is not doubted,
this is just a senseless weller Of
bloodshed.
prepared in secret, this war was
kcg,ln by the brutal wholesale slaugh
ter of unarmed citizens OF small ma
ton, whose only crime was Innocence.
"This war threatens now to be-
come one Of determination and is de-
veloping into the most appalling
disaster that has ever befallen HUI
ruanity. One country, and one alone
is openly throwing over every law OF
God and man, is numbering its own
children by the thousand and batter.
ing the ramparts of civilization.
"Thosc who are responsible dare
rot let their people have the truth;
prefe,ring to send them to their
death rather than risk revolution.
at is the duty now Of every neu-
trail country TO drive the truth into
them and then the German people
themselves will end the war.
"When they do they'll end exalted
forgers Of kilograms, crowned
thieves and lying diplomats.
"Let America speak as Lincoln
spoke, and lift up the torch Of liberty
to millions of men who are now, like
sheep, being prepared for the slaugh-
ter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29
MASONIC NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS
TRICT COURT FOR THE EAST
TERN DISTRICT OF
VIRGINIA.

In the matter Of
New Washington Brick Company,
corporation, In Bankruptcy
Alleged Bankrupt.
To all creditors of the New Wash
ington Brick Company.
Please take notice: That the White
Oak Coal Company, q corporation,
William C.. Robinson and Son Com
pany, corporation, and William Z.
King, whose petition was heretofore
filed in the above entitled cause, hav-
ing filed a second petition in this
matter, asking that the petition here
tofore filed by them be dismissed
and said proceedings in bankruptcy
likewise dismissed, all creditors of
the alleged bankrupt are directed to
appear before the United States Dis
trict Court for the Eastern District
OF Virginia, at its Court room in the
Ciy of Alexandria, Virginia, on We'd
nesday, the 9th day of January 1915,
at II o'clock in the forenoon, to show
cause why the prayer of said second
petition should not be granted and
this proceeding dismissed.
&C. lot.
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Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat Company.

Every day in the year for Fort hoa.
roe, Norfolk, Newport News SID
points south, viz guGerb powerful
steel palace steamers
Through connections made IT MOP
folk with steamers Of the Cid Dom!1
ion Steamship Company for New IocS
and Merchants and Miners Stasre
ships for Boston.
General Ticket Office, 72O l4ts 81
Bond Building, Washington, D. c.
Phone Main 1926
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29

The annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the McI.achlen Banking
Corporation for the election Of a
Board of Directors for the ensuing
year and the transaction of other
business, will be held at the office. of
the Company, No. 1873 South Royal
Street, Alexandra, Va. January 18th
1915, at II o'clock A. NJ. :. - = :: ?
A. NJ. McLAOHLEN President:
A. NJ McLACHLEN Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29
Citizens National Bank
Alexandria, Va.
December ~, 1914.

The Annual Meeting Of the Stock
holders of this Bank, for the Election
Of Directors for the enduring year,
and for the transaction Of such other
business as may properly come be-
fore the meeting, will be held at the
Parking House on Tuesday January
the 18th 1916, between the hours Of
IL noon and l P. M.
RICHARD Nj. GREEN, cashier.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29

FOR RENTED Prince street, 6
room detached frame house with
sewer connections, range in
kitchen bath and toilet, hot and
cold water. Large yard with poul-
try run inclosed. Shed in rear of
lot with packing loft Southern
exposure. Situated on one Of the
main residential streets and con-
venient to car line and shops. Apply
+. NJ. JONES, SOP north Columbus
street. 2S-1wk
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29
Potomac and Chesapeake
Steamboat Company.
Effective Oct. Is, 1914.

Effective Oct. Is, 1914.
(Subiect to change without notice.
STEAMER FRED'K DE barry
Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday,
leaves Alexandria at 500 A. NJ. for
Massey's and intermediate landings.
Returning, Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, arriving in Alexandria aboat
$3.50 P. NJ.
STEAMER WAKEFIELD
Monday and Wednesday leaves
Alexandria at 6 r. NJ. for Parham's
Point and intermediate landings.
Returning Tuesday and Thursday, ar
irving in Alexandria carly Wedncs'
day and Friday mornings.
STEAMER WAKEFIELD
Saturday, leaves Alexandria at
900 A. M. for Nomini and lnterme-
date landings. Returning Sunday
arriving in Alexandria about $3.50
2. M.
Telephone No. 81.
Reardon & Grimes, Agents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29
Annual MeetiDo.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the University Club Build
ing Co., Inc, for the election Of Of
fcers and transacting such other busi-
ness as may properly come before the
meeting will be held at the Company's
Office, 119 South Fairfax Street, Alex
andria, Va; on Monday the 18th in
slant, ut II o'clock A. N.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29
Leave Alexandria For Washington
Daily Except Sundays and

Leave Alexandria For Washington
Daily Except Sundays and
Holidays
A. Ms 90, 5 40, 6 90, G 20, 6 DO,
T 90, Z 10, 2 90, Z 80, Z 40, 7 So,
8 90, S 10, s 20, 40, 9 90, 9 20,
9 40, 10 90, 10 20, 10 DO, II 90, II 20
IL 40, Noon ~ 90.
P. M.-12 20, - 40, 90, l 90,
1 30, 2 90, 2 20, 2 40, 3 90, 8 20,
8 40, 4 90, a 20, 4 40 5 90, S 20,
5 30, 6 90, 6 20, 6 40, 7 90, 2 20,
Z SIS, 8 90, 8 80, 9 90, 0 80. 10 90,
10 80, II 10, IL s..
Sundays and Holidays
A. MI 90, Z 20, z 40, 8 90, 8 20
3 40, 9 90, 9 90, 9 40, 10 90, 10 20,
10 40, II 90. IL 20, II 40, IL 90
neon.
p. M.-12 20, IL 40, 90, . 20,
l 40, 2 90, 2 90, 2 40, 90, 3 ~,
3 90, 4 90, 4 20, 4 40, 90, 5 20,
5 40, 6 90, 6 20, 40, 100, 7 90.
T 90, 8 90, 8 80. 9 90, 9 80, 10 90,
10 80, II 10.
Leave Alexandria For Mt Vernon.
A. M.-Week Days So, 6 SIS,
: IS SIS, 10 80, II Bop. NJ
u 80, / 80, 2 80, 8 80, 4 So, 5 IS,
s IS, z IS, 81, 10 20, II so.
Sundays. MI So, So
10 80, II Bop. M.-12 80, l 80,
2 80, 3 30, q s5, 555a5. e IS, Z IS,
8 50, 10 20.
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ATTENTION RED MEN.

Called meeting of Seminole Tribe
No. IS, I. 0. R. NJ, will be held
at the Wigwam, Odd Fellows Hall
at the Wigwam, Odd Fellows Hall
on Tuesday December 20, 1914, to
confer the degrees Of the order on q
number of Palcfaces and for general
work.
Geo. X Bender, c. of f..
By order, H. II. Newton, Sachem.
24-5t
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recommended by people who have
used it for years and know its value
Mrs. 0. f. Sargent, Peru, Ind, says
"Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Is
worth its weight in gold and ] take
pleasure in recommending it." For
sale by all dealeri-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29

There arc many times when one
man questions another'S actions and
motives. Men act differently under
different circumstances. The question
is, what would you do right now if
you had severe cold? Could you
do better than to take Chamber
lan's Cough Remedy? 1t is highly
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29

FOR SALE-Contents Of small toy,
candy and novelty store. 500 Prin.
cess street. 28-1t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-29
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Alexandria Va.

The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders will be held at the
Banking House on Tuesday, Janu-
airy 18th, 1915, at eleven o'clock A.
NJ, for the election of directors, and
such other business as may regular
~ come before the meeting.
GEO. E WAKEFIELD Cashier,
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Observation-Disclosures
RAILWAY CO.

In effect December 10. 1914.
Subject to Change Without Notice
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Norfolk Oysters Il: All Styles at the,
Rammel HCtal.---
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-22

the East and with the Aggamemnons of mental stature.
 I have never believed that in the temp tn ton of the Master, Satan actually and literally led Him to a mountain top to
 show Him the kingdoms of the world I believe it was an internal vision of the kingdoms. Just as one who knows in this
 day the contents of his books may sit ia
 the quietude of his study and without
 moving from his table see the glories of the broad earth as from :, mountain top
 And so in his mind he sees and hears and rambles abroad with choice spirits.
 the first citizens of the worldl
 ! have kept in mind the figure of speech contained in the title of this paper as long as I care to continue it. shall now turn to some particular books whose interest is most engaging as af- fording lasting profit and much pleasure. On a spring day in my childhood, which was a long time ago. l saw three of the | most prominent men of the country upon whom the national limelight had been | turned by the fortunes of war. One of these men was Gen. U. s. Grant, of whom l shall have nothing to say The second was Gideon Welles, who became Secretary of the United States Navy in 1s6l and holding the office until 1869. To him I shall merely refer later. The third man was then the seventeenth President | Of the United States, taking office upon the death of MT. Lincoln. Andrew John- son. It is of MT. Johnson that I now write, for the book to which I call at | tention is a vindication of his personal and public life.
 MT. James Schouler has given the reading world what is said to be one O. the best books published within the year just passed. It is a history of the
 reconstruction period, in which one may find the vindication of Johnson. l was
 taught to believe that there could be no vindication of MT Lincolns successor,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-22

but l suppose that MT. Schoulers book will cause all wlso read it to think more kindly of Johnson. Mir. Schouler lived
 u Washington during the latter days of the reconstruction period. and formed his opinions from men and events as he saw them. He believed that Johnson had received only injustice from his torians and from his official contem- poraries; therefore. when Johnson's lit crary remains were made publicly avail able he studied them page by page.
 While he was engaged in this work tho diary of Gideon Welles appeared. Mir. Welles was Secretary of the Navy dur
 ing the Lincoln administration and oc- oupied the post while Johnson was Pres ident. The diary of this prominent man covered the time of Johnsons connection with reconstruction This book was care fully studied by Schouler along with Johnson's papers. And, although the au- period is a partisan, he has given us one Of the most interesting books on this subject that we have ever seen.
 To the statement that Johnson was of no antecedents to speak of, that he was cursed with lack of good breeding. and had debasing habits of personal life, the author makes easy reply that he was as good as Lincoln. They were both from the poor white' class of the south, although Lincoln was taken to free state when a child. Lincoln began life as a rail-splitter; Johnson as tailor. Lincoln came into politics from the bar; Johpso from nolitical office to tho praat
 est office-he was alderman, mayor. con- gressman. twice senator. twice governor of his state, then vice president, and finally President. The various offices that Johnson filled tended to equip him for the highest office that he occupied, and even so conservative newspaper as The New York Evening Post, and others,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-22

two intolerable enemies All the cheap cancellations we achieve may be eN- pressed by the exclamation, But see how much worse it might have been. and would have been," Sometimes no. even that excuse avails. but the naked fact, hungry and cruel. ravens over our whole hearts desert, without ex- cuse ;
 It does not greatly help us to recall in- dividual examples-of the bride, dead on the appointed wedding day borne to a grave instead of walking. queen, to the altar; of the man of middle life on his way to the altar, hand in hand with his bride, falling at moments notice dead in strange city, turning back to his home transfixed to eternal silence; of the mother of little children, able and tender and devoted and universally ad- mired, passing out of life along vast ave nues of indescribable agony and torture These things have occurred recently be- fore this whole community. They serve chiefly to remind us of the dread enigma always haunting us.
 Now, if the immediate happiness Of each individual is the goal of creation. creation has clearly gone far, far out Of it's course, only because the evolution
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-22

of whole race must be considered is there a foothold for faith Itself. The agones of Jesus are alone justified to history by the results they achieve in the spiritual progress of the whole race. To personal faith they become justified by the emancipation of the individual from the tyranny of a self-eentered life. his impulse towards a new race con- sciousness, what Is called the enthusi- asm of humanity. No. It is not the hap piness of the individual that Is being achieved, but the emancipation, that he, too. may accomplish something towards the Humanity that must emerge.
 And death is the supreme contributor In this direetion-we have just waved a tender farewell to an old man. talented. generous, growing infirm with the weight of more than 90 years. Humbly we con- fess that it is better that such a man spill the magnificent treasury of his brain upor the dust in the grave rather than pass into interminable years of senility and dependence, as the price of prolonged days on earth. But a bet ter confession is that all through the years this rare and splendid soul had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-22

It's very insolence. It's overbearing out rage inflicted upon our proprietary rights In life. come upon us with shock. They loosen our clutch upon things; not merely rap us over the knuckles. but almost smash our very bones. Death enforees the command that we detach ourselves from the world. Under its wheels and hammers the present order slips away from us, while we cry out in pain. Like a. vast earthquake death stears the living from their moorings. buries the dead be- heath the lacerated sod. floods the land with tidal wave of injuries, changes the contour Of tho hills and the color of the sunshine and the sky. It's immediate re- suit upon our souls is that we are sen sihly detached from this temporal and the changing horizon. this shifting stage. It compels us to seek the everlasting habitations. to drop our selfishness, to weave our hearts into the lives of the generations yet to come.
 But at how great a cost all this ia securedl DO we resent it? Would We in bovine fashion ignore the significance of it? Yet, if we must believe In God at all. we must believe that even this so lacerating agony will ultimately be justi- fled to our final experience and wisdom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-22

ready named there were thousands of learned men within the walls of the city, when it became the victim of the siege under the Turks. With their treasures Of learning in primitive form, but well preserved. these ripe scholars fled into ,he European wilderness west ward, taking with them in boxes. bun dies and chests the means of learning and found refuge wherever they might Their condition was novel and uncon- genial eiit ugh in the far interior of Europe, whence they had exchanged a residence in a gay and luxurious city. for the rough conditions with which they now met. Unused to anght else than housing among musty tones and copying from old and worn manuscripts they now found themselves face to face with conditions which necessitated a more practical turn of life.
 Consequently these men of letters ad dress cd themselves to teaching and be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-22

TIi1S is land of infinite variety.
 The rambler, moves through arid A wastes and popuous cities-through novels of poverty and palaces of pomp and plenty--throush scenes of blight and others of romantic beauty-through shrill shrieking storms, where nature riots in anarchy. and then through calms as still as the tropical doldrums-through scenes where wars red glare is followed by the moans of mangled men and on to sunny scenes where summer sings it's song of love to listening hearts. It is land of the past, of the far away past-in which immortal Homer sang, and though blind, taught the world to see'-in which song-famed captains taught the art of arms
 Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Where grew the arts of war and peace Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung in which Roman poets held the world in awe and her philosophers taught the world to reason-where sages and seers of the Jewish race were exalted to the mountain tops of prophetic vision and strangely declared things to come on the changing tides of time. It is land also of the future. The poets are the prophets. It is they who stand upon the shores of the present and unfold the curtain of futurity to them who would sec the changing panorama of the ages yet to be. It is the poet who says
 For I dipt into the future
 Far a $ human eye could 500
 Saw the vision of the world
 And all the wonder that would be- 1t is he who sees the far off divine event of final and universal harmony emerging from the chaos of the world s mad intoxication. In Book-Iand We wan der with poets, sages, wise men from