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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-31
Absurd Comment.

Theodore Dresser, the ~realist, said
Of an idealist at the Players club In
New York.
"The mans comments on life are
ludicrous and absurd. They remind me
of the old lady's comment on the work
Of the militant suffragettes.
after the ~suffragettes in London
had slashed a Valesquez, a Bellini and
a Gentle. the old lady said, with a
kind Of sanity expressions:
but, thank goodness, they're all
old pictures that are being s~lashed.'"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-31
CHAPTER Discontinued.

discontinued.
He trudged away into the shadows,
but presently as the new master Of
Damory Court stood In the gloomy
hall. he heard the shambling step
again behind him. "Ah done neglect
uated ter ak yo' .uame. sub. All did,
TO- er fac"
my name is Valiant. John Val
liant"
Uncle Jefferson's eyes turned up
ward and rolled out of orbit. Nah
LAwd!" he calculated s~oundlessly.
And with his wide lips still framed
shout the last word, he backed out
Of the doorway and disappeared.
Alone in the ebbing twilight, John
Valiant found his hamper, spread a
napkin on the broad stone steps and
took cut a glass, . spoon and part Of
. loaf Of bread. The thermos flask
was filled with milk. . 1t was not a
splendid banquet, yet he ate 1t with
. great content as the bulldog at his
feet gnawed his share OF the crust.
He broke his bread into the milk as
he had not done since he was a child,
and ate the luscious pulp with a keen
relish bred Of the long outdoor day.
{ Il was almost dark when the meal
Was done and, depleted hamper in
hand, he reentered the empty echoing
house. He went into the library,
lighted the great brass lamp from the
motor and began to rummage. The
drawers Of the dining-room sideboard
yielded nothing; on a shelf Of the but
ler's pantry, however, raj a tin boz
which proved to be half full of wax
candles, perfectly preserved.
THE very thing" he said triumph.
antly. Carrying them back, he fixed
several In the glass-candlesticks and
ret them, lighted. all about the somber
room till the soft glow flooded itl
every corner. There" he said
that is as 1t should be. No big bla
tant searchlight here! And 40 glare
Of modern electricity would suit that
old wainscoting. either"
He dragged the leather settee to tie
porch and by the light of the motor
lamp busted 1t thoroughly, and wheel
Ing It back, set 1t under the portrait
which had SO attracted him. He
washed the glass from which he had
dined and filled 1t at the cup Of the
garden fountain. put into it the rose
from his hat and set it on the read
lng-stand. The small china dos
caught his eye and he picked it VI
casually. The head came OF in his
hands. It had been a bon-bon box and
WAS empty save for q narrow strip Of
yellowed paper. On which were writ
ten some meaningless figures: 1928
DO. He ~pondered this q moment
then thrust It into one Of the empty
pigeonholes Of the desk. On the lat
ter stood an old-fashioned ~leaf-calen
dar: the date It exposed al MAJ
14th. Curiously enough the same date
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-31
CHAPTER xI.
Sanctuary.

The tawny scudding streak that led
that long chase had shot into the yard.
turning for a last desperate double.
It saw the man in the foreground and
it's bounding, agonized little wild heart
that SO prayed for life gave way.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-31
Her Discovery.

"Oh. George, I've got splendid news
for you"
THAT SOL"
YES, something that will Save you
q lot of money"
What ID it,"
I've discovered that your last win.
tag,s oveecoat Win ~ again this year.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-31
svNoes,s.

John Valiant. a rich society favorite.
suddenly discovers that the Valiant cor
poration, which his father founded and
which was the principal source OF his
wealth. has failed. He voluntarily turns
over his private fortune to the receiver
for the corporation. His entire remaining
possessions consist of an old motor car. a
white bull dog and Damory court. a neg
lected estate in Virginia. On the way to
Damory court he meets Shirley Dand-
ridge, an authenticated beauty, and de-
cides that he is going to like Virginia i'm
mensely. Shirley's mother, Mrs. Dand-
ridge, and Major Bristow exchange rem
l~niscences during which 1t is revealed
that the major. valiant's father, and q
man named Sassoon we're rivals for the
hand OF Mrs. cambridge In her youth.
6assoOn and Valiant fought a duel on her
account in which the former was killed.
Valiant finds Damory court overgrown
with weeds and creepers and the build
ines In z very much neglected condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-16
Chatterer Hits on a Plan at
Last.

Each time that Chatterer the Red
Squirrel thought himself smarter than
Sammy Jay he found thai he wasn't as
smart as he thought he was. and this
always made him feel>mortified- He just
couldn't admit even to himself that Sam
my was the smartest, and yet here he
was every day bringing corn for Sammy
from Farmer Browns corn crib, when
ever Sammy told him to, and running
the risk of being seen by Farmer Browns
boy, all because he hadn't been able to
think of some way to outwit Sammy.
Once, after he had such a narrow es-
cape from old. Roughleg the Hawk. he
had tried going down to his storehouse
on the edge of the corn field, but he had
found Roughleg on watch and had turned
back. From the way Sammy Jay had
grinned when he saw Chatterer coming
back Chatterer had made up his mind
that Sammy knew something about how
old Roughleg happened to have found
out about that storehouse and SO been
on watch.
Now all this time Sammy Jay was
having a great deal of fun out of Chat
terer's trouble. Each time that Chat
terer thought of plan to outwit Sammy
he would find that Sammy had already
thought of it. and way to make the
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over to Farmer Browns corn crib at
break Of day, before any one in Farmer
Browns house was awake, just as he
had been doing, on,y make two or three
trips and store lot of corn in a safe
Kidding place in the old stone wall. Then,
when Sammy Jay demanded corn he
could get 1t without trouble or danger He
tried it and it worked splendidly. Sam
my Jay got his corn. but he didn't get
any fun, and he cared more for the
fun of seeing Chatterer in troub e than
he did for the corn. So, after two
or three mornings, Sammy didn't come
up to the Old Orchard, and Chatterer
chuckled as he stored up the corn, not
in one place. but in several places
Now, while Sammy Jay seemed to have
grown tired of corn he was doing a lot
of thinking. He had no idea of leaving
Chatterer alone. He had just got to
think of some way of upsettins Chat
terer's simple plan. 1t was Reddy Fox
who finally gave him the idea. He saw
Reddy trotting down the Lone Little
Path through the Green Forest, and right
away the idea came to him. He would
tel. Reddy where Chatterer was storing
the corn In the old stone wall and Reddy
would hide close by.
'Of course. ! don't want Reddy to catch
Chatterer, but 1 can prevent that by
warning him Just in time. But he will
be so frightened that he won't dare go
to that place for corn again in a hurry,
and so will have to go to the corn crib
for it, thought Sammy, and hurried to
tell Reddy Fox about the place half way
along the cd stone wall where Chat
terer had hidden his corn.
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ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
M. Rawlings Austin Dies at His
Home, Near Alta Vista-Miss
Thompson Weds.


ROCKVILLE, Md, January 16, 1914.
NJ. Rawlings Austin, a resident of
Bethesda district, died last night at his
home, near Alta Vista, aged forty eight
years. He had been in poor health sew
eral months. Surviving him are his wife,
two daughters and son. Mr.. Austin
was a son of Mahlon H. Austin and was
a lifelong resident of this county.
Miss Madeline Thompson, daughter of
William Thompson, retired farmer of
Clarksburs district. and Roger D. Mich
oils of Germantown were, married in
Rockville yesterday afternoon by Rev.
Samuel r. White.
At a meeting of the Bethesda District
Home and School Association held at Be-
as follows: President, Charles II. Becker:
vice president, Mrs. Frederick Kepiinger:
secretary. Wharton Moore; treasurer w.
Thomas Owens Chairmen of commit
tees were also named as follows: Build
ings, William Holiday; entertainment.
Mrs. Wharton Moore; santa ton and
health, DR.. Morris; grounds, Mrs. James
Wilson; school laws, Frederick KEEP
linger
Mrs. Achsaw Dutrow. widow of Philip
Dutrow, died Wednesday morning at her
about sixty-five years. She is survived
by four sons and five daughters.
The annual missionary tea of the Rock
vile Baptist Church was held Wednesday
evening. A musical program was given
by Charles w. Prettyman and G. Norman
Bouic and Miss Amy Robertson and Dor
othy Lehman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-16
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.
Thomas Busey Identified as Man
Who Mistreated Doris Kaldenbach.

Thomas Busey colored. forty years
old. who was arrested yesterday on
suspicion Of being the man who We'd
nesday afternoon called at the apart
ncnt OF Mrs. kaldenbach, 1901" c
street northeast, and tied her dauSh-
ter. Doris. fifteen years old, to the
balustrade, is charged with assault
Last night Miss kaldenbach saw the
prisoner at the ninth precinct police
station. conversed with him and iden-
titled him as being the man who mis-
treated her. Sergt. Whalen and Police
man Jerry Brodercs arrested Busey. The
prisoner gave his address as 1864 3Jth
street northwest.
Busey told tire police he was under the
influence OF liquor Wednesday afternoon
and he did no. recoliect everything that
happened. He said he was certain. how
ever. that he had not tied Miss kalden-
bach.
The prisoner said he recalled having
entered two or three yards and asked
for car tickets OF money. the police say.
and they say he also stated that he re-
membered having seen woman on !.
back porch and he thought she asked him
to come up the steps
Several residents of the vicinity of the
Kaldenbach home identified Eusey as hav-
ing called at their houses Wednesday
afternoon and asked for food or money.
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Wills Filed for Probate.

BY the terms of the will of Mrs Eliza
beth F.. Wheeler, dated April last, a
bequest of 50 is made to her daughter,
Alice F. Wheeler. known in religion as
Sister Mary De Sales. The remaining es-
tate is given to two sons, William D.
Wheeler and Charles De Sales Wheeler.
William d. Wheeler is named as executor.
DR.. Greed w. Childs is named as sole
beneficiary of the estate of Mary A,
Miller. who in her will calls him her
esteemed friend and benefactor" The
document is dated September H. 1912, and
names the physician as executor.
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Teachers Locked in School,

Two teachers in the Wilson School
building, al nth and Euclid streets
northwest, yesterday afternoon remained
in their rooms later than usual doing
school work, and the janitor. taking it
for granted they were out of the build
ing, locked the doors and Wen. home.
About 5 o'clock when the teachers were
ready to depart, it became necessary
to summon assistance. Capt. Doyle of
the tenth police precinct responded to
call for help and released the teachers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-16
Miss Gaines a Bride.

Miss Sadie irene Gaines, daughter o.
Mir. and Mrs. !. w. Gaines of Fairfax
county and Oscar g. Herfurth, son Oh
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugo Herfurth, this city,
were married Wednesday afternoon at
the parsonage of the Emmanuel Lutheran
Church by Rev. c. +. Brandt, pastor
Mrs. G. F. Brandt played the wedding
march The bride was attended by hef
sister. Miss May Gaines. and wore a
gray travelling suit. with hat to match
After February | they will be at nome
al 91a Kennedy street, Northwest WASH
ington.
The Bar Association of the sixteenth
judicial circuit will hold its annual meet
ing at II o'clock tomorrow morning at
the office of Col. +. l.. Smith. Afte:-
ward there will be a dinner at the Hotel
Ra1nnel
Funeral services for Mrs. Anne Muir
laugh will be held at $50 o clock Mon
day at ST Mary's Catholic Church.
very large crowd last night attended
the dance in the auditorium of the Elks
Home under the auspices OF the EiNs
dancing committee.
F,yangeiistic services tonight Will pe
held at the NJ. L. Church South. Serv-
ices last night We're held at the Second
Presbyte.: ian Church and I; sermon was
preached by Rev. w. =. Morton, rector or
Christ Episcopal Church.
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would have a meeting late today, at
which the request of Deputy Chief Sui
liran would be considered.
Commissioner Siddons likewise stated
that the board would give immediate
consideration to the request, made
formally yesterday by Charles w. Darr
He said he hoped to have the matter
considered today If IT was possible To
have a board meeting. Ii is believed
that the request of the fire official will
he granted, and that he will be given
opportunity to present his side of the
present controversy to the board before
further action is taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-16
Nine. Mountford to Lecture.

Nine. Mountford of Jerusalem is an
nounced to lecture on CITY Life in Jeru-
salem.' in the parish house of St. Thomas
Episcopal Church, this evening at 8
o'clock. The public is invited
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-16
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Insurance Company Loses to
Board Companies.
MUST PAY 2 BIG POLICIES
Awards Total $25, coo-Roy Wise,
Runaway From Washington,
Is Captured.
MUST. PAY 2 BIG POLICIES
csj. adcncc o. The Star.

Spocia. Correspondence OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA,, Va, January Ii. 1914.
The state court Of appeals has handed
down a decision affirming the decision OF
the circuit court for this city in the suits
Of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York against the Board-Armstrong
Company and III" +. +. Board Motor
Truck company, both OF this city.
This therefore. means a victory for
both Of inc Eoard concerns for a total of
S1a.otu and Sldcp. respectively, they
holding policies on the life of the late l..
T. BOARD. who was president of both
concerns for the foregoing amounts. The
payment on the policies was refused,
among other things, on the ground that
these. concerns had no insurable interest
in the fife of the deceased, Mr.. Board
was killed at Wake Forest, n c., March
Is f9i. as the result OF 4 faii IRON q
waite tower. Verdicts favorinG the Board
concerns we're given in the circuit court
for this city January and ii. 1913.
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THE LONE LITTLE PATH.
plan quite useless. You see, Sammy
used to spend q great deal Of his time
when he was alone in the Green Forest
pretending that he was in the same fix
as Chatterer and then trying to think of
some way out of it. So it was that
Chatterer never could think of a plan
that Sammy hadn't ready thought of.
And yet there was way to cheat Sam
my out of his fun. though not out of
his corn, and it really was the fun of
seeing Chatterer so worried that Sam
my cared most about. Sammy had
thought of it almost at once and 1t
seemed to him that Chatterer was very,
very stupid not to think of it, too.
He will think of it some day and
don't see any way to upset such a simple
plan said Sammy to himself and then
fell to studying some new way to tor
ment Chatterer.
And at last Chatterer did think of
it. 1t was such simple plan! Probably
that was why he hadn't thought of it
before. All he had to do was to go
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Vandiver Again State Treasurer.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, January 16-Murray
Vandiver, chairman of the democratic
state central committee, was elected state
treasurer yesterday for the eighth time
by the genral ASSEMBLY,.
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SULLIVAN HEARING LIKELY
Believed District Commissioners Will
Grant Request of Deputy
Fire Chief.

Commissioner Newman stated today
that the request of Deputy Fire Chief
Sullivan for a hearing before the board
will be taken up at once. The Commits
sioner considered it likely the board
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-16
Military Bill Carries Ss3, Soo,eoo

Carrying approximately S93.S00 600. the
military appropriation bill will be re-
ported from the House military affairs
committee next week Tie bill carries
no important increases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-16
PROHIBITION OF LIQUOR
URGED BY THE CHURCHES
Nationwide Movement Made Sub
ject Of Prayer, and Hobson
Amendment Endorsed.

Practically every religious denomination
hibition by constitutional amendment at
the special fast and prayer service held
at the First Congregational Church I'M
der the auspices of the District W. c. T.
U. BY order of the national organiza-
ton similar meetings we're called through
out the United States. The services did
not conclude until after pm.
Miss Ellen Stone, captured and held for
ransom several years ago by Turkish
bandits, was one Of the principal speak
ers in favor of the Hobson amendment.
providing for the prohibition of the sale,
manufacture and importation of liquor
This measure received general indorse-
ment by representatives of tho District
churches.
List of Participants.
Presiding over the services was Mrs
Emma Sanford Shelton, president of the
local organization.
A chorus from the Negro Training
School sang, and among the speakers of
the day not previously named. were: Mrs.
William Ballard. Mrs. B. A. Lineback,
Mrs. T. S. Henry, Mrs. T. T. Moore,
| Mrs. Washington Topham, Mrs. Teresa A
Williams, Mrs. George 7. Shinnick, Rev.
| c. f. Fultz, Mrs. L. G. Mattingy, Mrs.
| Don P. Blaine, Mrs. Fred Beall, Mrs.
| NJ. A. TyndaIL, Mrs. G. r. Prewitt,
Mrs. W. F. Lewellen. Mrs. ]. w. Allison,
Mrs. Mary E. Brown, Mrs. Arson s.
| Taylor, Mrs. c. E. Emig, Mrs. w. H.
| Janet Richards. Mrs. Margaret D. Ellis
and Dr. Mary Holmes
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List of Participants.
Rally at Hyattsville.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, January 16, 1914.
The Hobson constitutional amendment
prohibiting the sale, manufacture and i'm
portation of Intoxicating liquor was adj
vocated at an all-day rally, held in the
loca Baptist Church yesterday, under the
auspices of the local union of the ma
tional temperance organization
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-16

The Washington county (Md) school
board has reaffirmed its action taken in
May, 1912, in favor of compulsory edu-
cation law for that county.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-16
To Subscribers:

Subscribers to The Star
who are served by the route
boys will confer a favor by
promptly reporting to The
Star Office, either in person.
by telephone or by mail. any
negligence on the part of the
route boys.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-16

II you want work, read the want col
umns of The Star.
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AMERICAN LIFE IN The
PHILIPPINES.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

Say, hombre, alika, ditoi Spara aqui
for me-" This is not new language,
although it might be called an orientalized
Esperanto. We are listening to a lin
guistic American in the Philippines as
he converses in three languages with his
little brown brother The newcomer
pauses in amazement, but he Is merely
face to face with one Of the many oddi-
ties of American life in the Philippines.
In that group of far-away Pacific islands,
5000 miles from San Francisco, 1000
civilians and 1000 soldiers pcrspire their
way through two, three, five or seven
dozens of their every day experiences
would make fiction look like the multi
plication table.
This matter of lingo is case in point.
The American who tells the little Fill
Pine to ''alka ditto" is neither a teacher
of languages nor a doctor OF literature.
Nor is the native a chocolate highbrow.
The first may be a humble clerk and
undoubtedly the other Is a house boy,
messenger or something of the sort.
and the jargon they are talking is a
wonderful mixture of English, Spanish
and Tagalog. 1t is heard from morn
ing to night on the Streets in offices and
at home. 1t is potpourri in which
good diction and grammatical construc-
ton have no part. With every breath
the American or European resident and
their native companions in crime murder
three perfectly good languages.
The Americans cultivate among them
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Americans Have exp
Outlandish Expression. .he :.

can globe-trotter who has dropped IN from
Singapore or Hongkong hears his eXiled
fellow-countrymen. obviously American,
despite complexions of leathery tan or
pasty yellow, say to one another quite
as matter of course, 'hindi. nothing
doing" or no puede." or 'backat nor
This means no Il cannot and why
not?'
When words are banded with Chi
nese rich and rare pidgin is turned on.
Smiling and suave in its corruptness, II
flows forth unadulterated by any in
fusion of Spanish or any other language
or dialect known to man. For stray
Illustration. suppose an American VISITS
a warehouse and tells Chino attendant
to go upstairs and ask the manager 10
come down right away. He says: wong,
you go topside goodwin tell number one
master come bottomside chop chop
There is lot more like this
The ancient and the mode.n stand side
by side in the Philippines nowadays In
Manila the street car, telephones. cleo
trio light modern water and sewer works.
daily newspapers. In English, paved
streets. automobiles. schools churches,
clubs gardens, California bungalows and
many other evidences of American life
have robbed the capital city of much Of
IT'S rustic beauty and quaintness. \ lot
of the customs or scenes SO dear to the
old-timers of Dewey's and MacArthurs
day have been swept away in the rush
for business which followed the begin
ming of free trade between the Philip
pines and the United. States in 1909.
The appropriate .'manana.' of the place
is gone for the only way to enjoy
peace and health in the tropics is to
amble along like old Dobhin kipllng
tells all to well the fate of the man who
tried to hustle the east"
x
X
Ppt cannot Njthar nor DrOpreSS
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Freakish Things
Always Will Remain.

ling tree lizard, with his disccncerting
"wuk VI. wuk yu." As long as trees
grow and tropical grass stands high he
Will continue to insult pedestrians who
have sought the springy grass of the bo-
tanic gardens or walked afield in the
evening In search of cooling breezes.
The long-horned carabao, the beast of
burden of the islands, will wadde his
leathery bulk through the narrow streets,
dragging a CARLOAD of leaf tobacco, no
matter how many motor trucks there may
be- 1t will be long distant day when the
native pony and his less intelligent broth
or. the driver, fade from view. The pony
looks like an overgrown rat. He is not
much larger than a Newfoundland dog.
and he goes pattering down the street
a level with his ears. The driver, called
cochero ''bonehead," if there ever was
one. perches precariously on a wee seat,
his torn hat over one ear, and saws like
a maniac on the pony's mouth.
Nothing could dislodge the Manila
houseboy The boy can be sixty years
old. if he feels like it. but as rule his
span of life is as verdant as his intellect.
Not all the boys are as distressingly
original as the one whose master in
tended to make limburger cheese. crack
ers and beer the motif of a little stag
party. When all the guests had assem-
bled the boy walked in to tell their most
that there would be no cheese, because
each tin smelt SO bad that he threw
them all away,
!: ::
Not even the lava of Mount Taal, the
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Around a certain oval board in the cen
ter of Manila most of the town charact-
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The Americans cultivate among them
selves the same bad habit of easy and
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But age cannot witEer nor progress
submerge all of the joys. freaks and