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The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
BREAKINGHEART'S TALE
TOLD BY A MOVING VAN
Mrs. BelvS lockwood. s5. obeyins
Law. Paris from Home in Which
She Lived 80 Years.
ARM M sLINc-FRIENDs HELP

Four burly perspiring negroes climbed
from moving van in front OF 61e +
street northwest at 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. They consulted an order card
compared 1t with the number on the
door, said in unison: dis am de place
and entered the building.
Furniture Of all descriptions from the
old colonial period. style TO the latest
modern patterns in green plush uphol-
stored mahogany gradually filled the big
van outside.
Inside the house directing the work
from a wicker rocker sat a little woman
Of eighty-five years with a broken arm
in a sling. She gave orders for the
clearing OF the house In a heroically
cheerful voice.
The little woman was Belva A. Lock-
wood, the. eminent lawyer and suffrage
leader, and she was bidding a heart
re nding farewell TO what had, been her
home for the past thirty-nine years, the
loss OF which Is a weil-known story. To
escape the service of writ OF election,
issued by the District Supreme Court to
casualty company. she was moving her
personal effects into a rented house at 3e4
Indiana avenue, where she will re-estab-
lish her law office and create "a new
home for her last years
Many attempts have been made BY her
friends to assist her In retaining the
property, which Is estimated at between
SIS. COZ and so 600. by money-raising cam
paigns, but without success. The only
assistance her friends were able to give
was to help her to move and settle her
as comfortably as possible in the new
abode.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
MEAT PRICES RISING;
WE SHOULD RHUBARB!"
Vegetables and Fruits Are Good
Substitutes for Steak. Think
Housewives.

Porterhouse steak is 40 cents a pound.
Have some rhubarb?
Just how far the Washington women
will cooperate with the clubwomen of
New York and Chicago to arrest the ad-
vancing prices of meat is a matter that
will require time for decision. Many
women of the District say that only in
combined work against the beef king
can they accomplish a reduction.
Mrs Mary s. Lockwood. founder of the
Daughters Of the American Revolution.
expressed herself against the govern
ment's generosity" with the feeaing
lands Of the West that were used for
cattle raising.
why could not the great waste spaces
have been retained fot the cattle?" Mrs.
lockwood asks. TT s the crux of the
economic problem OF fneat There is no
place left for the herds to feed"
housewife, Mrs. Nora Rafferty,, Hv.
ing in the Alendale apartments, believes
that the speediest remedy to the high
meat price Is the boycott.
The housewives will have to substi-
tute vegetables and fruits" Mrs. Raf-
fefty declares. TT is the only alternative
il the prices continue to soar, so why
not do 1t nowT'
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
RED CROSS IN NEW
SAFETY CAMPAIGN
National Society Equips Car for Teach
ing Coal Miners and Extends
Its Sphere.

Supplementing the efforts of the coal
operators in the West Virginia and Penn
sylvania coal fields to minimize accidents
in the mines, the American National Red
Cross Society. according to officers of the
organization in this city, is engaging In
a campaign to lessen the accidents in
cident TO an occupation which is natural
ly hazardous.
For several years the national society
has had agents in the coal fields in Penn
sylvania, but recently its operations have
been extended to those of West Virginia
and Ohio. Some time ago the Pullman
Company donated a car to the society
and this has been fully equipped with
model apparatus and literature The ap-
paratus shows how sufferers may be re-
viyed and relieved of pain, while the liter
ature deals with methods of preventing
accidents and of treating the injured after
accidents have occurred.
In order that the operations of the
Red Cross Society in this direction may
be facilitated, the Interstate Commerce
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
HIDES HIDDEN TREASURE.

SPECIAL to The Washington Herald.
Savannah, Ga. July 13.-Secret Service
men are still shadowing Mrs. Charley
Craven, whose desperate husband wal
killed five months ago. leaving his wife
an Inheritance of buried treasure Rather
than tell the location of the loot she
will suffer poverty. She is said to know
where $4,000 worth of cash and jewelry
lies buried.
Charley risked his life 10 get the
money and jewels for me-" she said.
''and they are mine. viii de before
1 will tell where they are"
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14

Yes"
And I may have Bob backr'
And welcome
DO you know how I'm goin' to bring,
him back? read it In a book 1 sent
"weu?"
Il shall write him a letter threatenin'
TO drown myself That will sure skeer
him back"
But will it hold him." was asked. :
1T will. If no more skulemarms coma
about" ~O--'''
The farmers daughter. went her vav,
In cheerful spirits. and after two or
three days Miss Frances had reason TO
know that the letter had been written
and received Bob Burton was absent
from school for half day and when he
returned he seemed to have a heavy bur-
den on his mind. When school closed for
the day he fingered behind. and. as the
last scholar passed beyond hearing, he
turned 10 the teacher and said:
Miss Frances. you must have known
for some time that I admire YOU"
CThat speech was taken from a love
story)
Aye. you must have realized that I
loved you
y Same book)
Il have thought Of you by day and
Hedtheu On you oy night
Turn to page ID
You have been my one bright star in
the heavens"
CHalfway down page ~
i know that I am not 1T to kiss your
tracks in the mud. but if-if-if-'
Found on page 9)
Il say, he has went where il should
be gone but-but-but-
Il have felt your heart responding 20
the throbbing of mine. and IT has given
me an idea of what paradise is
Back to the bOok-page. 22)
Il would not have you believe that I
would trifie with a woman's heart. am
no such villain. but
Next page. but not committed to
memory
In fact. Miss Frances, I must give you
back your heart
CTears and sobs looked for. but in
vain-)
The fact is, that another is going TO
hold me to a sacred promise given before
you came into my life
page 81
"Fare-fareweIl, lost one,'
And Bob Burton passed out OF the
schooIhouse and down the road 10 be met
by Ella Davis.
Was she tarnal mean about it?''
Mum. She was tarnal good about it."
And the schoolma'a am went home gig
Cling.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
125,ooo STRANDED AT CoNEY.

New York, July 1a-Dawn today found
the beaches at Coney Island covered with
the figures of sleeping men, women and
children. Fully 125,0O0 were caught IN
the playground Of the Metropolis when
a blowout in the power station tied up
both trolley and elevated lines The
lines worked all night to relieve the con-
gestion caused by the accident but
thousands abandoned hope of reaching
their homes and slept in the open.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
JOURNALISTIC "DICKER" ON.

London. July 13.-Negotiations are pend
ing for the sale of William Waldorf
Astor's Pail Mall Gazette and the OBJ.
server.
A syndicate of Midland business mer
and member who has distinguished
himself in the Unionist ranks during the
present Parliament are engaged in con.
sidering the conditions and the price.
Mr.. Astor recently sold the Pail Nal
Magazine.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
AND THE PLOT THICKENED!

Special to The Washington Herald.
New York, July 13.-Charging that the
plot of the book and the play by the
same name. The Trail of the Lonesome
Pine" by John Fox, jr., has been in
fringed in a moving picture play, the
publishers, Charles Scribners Sons, today
brought suit for an Injunction and ac-
counting. The defendants are the Broad
way Picture Producing Company.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
FAMOUS TURFMAN DEAD,

London, July 13.-Lord Francis Charles
Ellesmere, patron OF literature and the
turf, and one Of the biggest landowners
in England, died today. aged sixty-seven.
He was the author of several books and
for many years maintained one of the
finest racing stables in the country. He
was the owner Of nearly 1900 acres and
his family seat at Worsley Hall, near
Manchester, is one of the show places of
England.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
Ewes BEAT anUBBERNEcK..
seven Little septemher Morn- Lick
Nan who spiea ON Them.


Milwaukee. July la-seven little steno-
graphers. seeking a swim. hung theii
clothes on a hickory limb. finding q
place where the water was shallow, their
bath was spoiled by the rubberneck fel-
low, and at this spot even doggerel win
not begin to tell the awful tale Of what
followed
The seven little giriies. resented the
rubberneck fellow. trapped him on the
brink, and beat him to the traditional
frazzle. Then when his eyes were 90
bunged up that he could no longer see
whether the seven stenographers had
donned their clothes OF not the girls
called a policeman.
John Smith. as he registered at police
headquarters. appeared 10 answer q
charge Of disorderly conduct today He
is said 20 be son Of an exclusive fam
lily who heard the seven stenographers
on a street car plan 10 take swim in
the Milwaukee River, north Of the city,
attired only as September Morns.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
ANARCHIST IS sHADowED.

Special to The washins1op Herald.
New York, July l3.-Detectives are
watching Alexander Berkman. the An.
archist, and have orders not to let him
leave the city. Under the New York
law, the utterance Of seditious Language
Is a felony.
18th street. where the ashes Of the dead
were on display all day. were crowded
with the curious
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
BILLY" SINGS NO MORE.
Veteran Minstrel Baxter MourneC
by Newspaper Men.

Chicago, July 12-"BiIly'' Baxter, old
time minstrel, who had played with
nearly all of the leading minstrel COM
panies of America and who had appear
ed before the royalty of Europe with his
banjo, died at a hospital here last night
Of cirrhosis of the liver. Born in Gin
cinnati, Ohio, in 1851, he turned early to
the stage, where his musical talent soon
won him a place among the stars of min
strelsy.
He made several tours Of the world.
and on many occasions rulers of Europe
requested him to play and sing the old
darky songs.
A few years ago he retired from the
stage and since then had made his home
at the Press Club In this city. Nearly
every night he entertained the news
paper men with, his stringed instruments
and old-time Southern melodies. He will
be buried under the auspices Of the Press
Club.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
HIT BY CAR, ACCOUNTANT DIES

Struck by a street car early last Fri
day morning while on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. northwest. between Sixth and Sew
enth streets. William F. Bergman, forty
three years old. an accountant of Pitts
burgh, visiting at 334 F street northwest,
died in Emergency Hospital last night.
Coroner hewitt will hold an inquest to-
day.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
DENoUNCEs sToRsTAD DECISION.

Montreal, July 1a-Denouncing as an
outrage" the decision by which the COL
lier Storstad was held responsible for
sinking the Empress Of ireland, with a
loss OF more than Loo lives. Capt
Thomas Anderson declared today that
the case would be carried into the courts.
Anderson, who commanded the Storstnd,
asserted that Lord Mersey, president Of
the Investigating commission was unfair
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
ABBEY IS 1900 YEARS OLD.

Disintis, Switzerland. July 13.-The can
ton of Grisons today celebrated the
1.S0Oth anniversary of the foundation Of
the Benediction Abbey here by Saint
Sigisbert, an Irishman. who in 6l4 con-
verted the Wild hunters of the Alpine
forest The abbey is reputed to be the
Oldest in the world. except one in Rome
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
OH THE GRIM, FIRM EARL
He Left Her on Ash .wednesday-t
Return New Year's9

London. July 1a-The Countess Of Rus
sell today obtained restitution decree
against her husband who deserted her
in February without quarrel or other
apparent reason. The countess wrote,
begging him to return to the wife who
will be prepared to welcome youaand
forget the past
The earl replied that he was ''griml
and firmly resolved" TO discontinue liY-
ing with her. One of the countess let
tiers said: Il look upon your action in
leaving me as a form of self-denial. for
you left on Ash Wednesday. the begin
ming Of Lent would really advise you
to take the middle line OF abstinence
like the boy who determined to give
up soap during Lent"
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
UNCLE JOHN" PEEvED.
Representative Burnett Can't Make
Democrats Loosen Up.

Representative Burnett Can't Make
Democrats Loosen Up.
Uncle John Burnett. Of Alabama,
who would be chairman of the Public
Buildings Committee, instead Of second
map in the list. II he were not the head
of the immigration Committee, is on the
warpath. He's after the scalps of GER
tain unappreciative members OF the In
valid Pensions Committee, Here is his
plant. in part:
When the Republicans were in power
I used to tell my people that touidn't
get any Spanish war pensions for them
because the Republicans were too busy
increasing the civil war pension rolls.
When the Democrats came in / expected
to get something, Rnd my people ex-
pected me to. Do get II? do not.
can't seem to get a look-in."
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
GOSSIP DROVE WOMAN TO DIE.
Secret of Wife in Name Only Be-
came Known to Neigh bOrs!

Secret of Wife in Name Only Be-
came Known to NeIEhbors!
New York, July 13-Leaving a note
saying she wished a $500 funeral. Mrs.
Antoinette Garrison, forty, killed herself
by inhaling gas at her home in Garfield,
near Passaic, N. J. Relatives said today
gossip Of neighbors led her to suicide.
For fourteen years she had lived as
the wife of John O'Hosxy, and neighbors
talked when they learned Mrs. Garrison
was not his wife.
Miss Garrison was living in New York
City when she and O'Hosky met and fell
in love O'Hosky's wife, 1t is said, left
him, leaving her baby, John. He wanted
to sue for divorce, but Miss Garrison
would not let him.
When O'Hosky returned home he found
little John asleep in bed and the woman
dead in the bathroom, with the gas
turned on.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
SENTENCES HER HUBBY.
Not to Bean Soup, But TO Fifty
Days I'm Jail.

Special to The Washington Herald
Atlantic City, July 13.-Thomas Bren-
nan was taken before Recorder Keffer
this morning for drunkenness and nom
support.
Judge Keffer stepped down from the
bench today and said to Mrs. Brennan:.
Get up there, madam, and give him
a dose Of the medicine he deserves"
The wife climbed upon the judges
bench, picked up the gavel. turned, and
asked:
whats the limit. your honor?"
Fifty days"
Then that's II. So long, Mr.. Thomas" I"
said the skirted justice.
Take him below" ordered Judge Kef-
fer, and below went Brennan to await
transportation to the county prison.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
BUNcoED OUT OF $4,000.

London, July 13-Another American
has fallen victim to the ancient English
confidence game and the London police
are tonight seeking three men who
buncoed $500 out of the wallet of the
young visitor named Hermann The trick
was worked along the old familiar lines
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
100 SOLDIERS COLLAPSE.

Frankfort on the Oder, Germany, July
l3-One hundred soldiers collapsed in
the intense heat today while participat-
ing in army maneuvers. Two died be-
fore they could be taken to field hos
pitfalls.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
MONK DIES OF STAB WOUNDS.

. st. Petersburg. July 13-Gregory Ras-
putin, the lay monk. whose mysterious
influence over the Car and Czarina has
caused widespread comment, died today
at Pokrowloole ass the result Of stab
wounds inflicted yesterday by a woman
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
LYNCH NEGRESs FOR MURDER.
CoIored Woman who Beat Child to
Death Hanged to Tree.

Orangeburg. S. c.. July I3.-Rosa Car
son, a negress, was taken yesterday from
the Jail at Eloree, near here, and lynched
by a mob of 800 white men. She is said
to have confessed to killing the twelve
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. d. F.
Bell yesterday. The child was beaten to
death with a stick Of wood
The negress was taken to the scene
of the crime by the mob and hanged to
a tree. Afterward the body was riddled
with bullets. The alleged confession was
made just previous to the hanging. The
negress had been rebuked by Mrs. Bell
and killed the child for revenge About
thirty negroes watchd the lynching of
the woman. but offered no resistance.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
BALLOON GOODYEAR WINS.
All Bags Down in National EIImI'
nation Race from st. Louls.

ST. Louis. Mo-, July 13-The balloon
San Francisco has landed near McLeans-
boro, Ill. The balloons are now all down
and the Goodyear is the winner, the Of
ficials say.
Thrilling adventures marked the voyage
of the balloon Uncle Sam. William H.
Threfts, aid to Paul Mccullough, pilot
of the balloon, said they were carried
at times to an altitude Of 1900 feet and
nearly perished from cold. Suddenly the
gas contracted and the balloon began to
drop at a sickening pace. striking the
ground with terrific force, the aeronauts
falling from an intensely cold atmos-
phere to one in which the temperature
was over 100 degrees
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
SOCIETY STARS TO SEE FIGHT

Special to The Washington Herald.
Denver, July 13--Dr. and Mrs. William
Whitridge Williams. members of Denver's 8
exclusive society set, will be hosts at a
box party Tuesday night, when Stanley
Xoakum and-Gharley White fight a
twenty-rQund battle.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
SMOKES HIS LAST PILL"

Chicago, July B-Louis Kalman, 20
years old, who boasted he had smoked
cigarettes for sixty years without harm,
will smoke no more. His before-break-
fast 4iT'' Ignited the bed clothing to-
day and he was fatally burned.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
BE DIPLOMATS, SAYS DANIELS.
As.ert. U. s. Foreign Policy Often
Hangs ON Naval ofacers' Acts.


Hangs ON Naval ofacers' Acts.
Newport, r. l.. July a-DiplOmats
commanding battleships is Secretary
Daniels latest idea OF a real navy, ac-
cording to a talk here today at the open
ing Of the Naval War College session.
The governments foreign policy often
hangs upon the discretion of a naval Of
ficer. the Secretary declaEed.
The navy. in the technical diplomatic
sense" said the Secretary. must leave
to the Department Of State the settle
ment OF International policies. and prop
erly so. But. in the practical operations
OF policies affecting other nations, the
action of the youngest naval officer COM
mandlng the smallest vessel in a foreign
port might determine the action Of our
government. independent OF the policies
which the trained diplomats might have
planned"
The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
STEAMSHIP ARRIVALS.

New York. July 13.-Arrived; Lapland.
from Antwerp; Berlin, from Bremen;
Campania, from Fiume; Colorado. from
HUI; Mihnetonka, from London.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-04-10
Uric Acid is Slow Poison

Unseen in its approach, hard to de-
tect In its early stages, and cruelty
painful In its later forms, uric acid
poisoning Is disease too often fatal.
Brights disease is one OF the final
stages Of uric acid poisoning. 1t kills
In our country every year more men
and women than any other ailment
except two-consumption and pneu-
monia. Bright's disease and S-ic acid
poisoning usually start In some kidney
weakness that would not be hard TO
cure. II discovered early, 30 1t is we'll
to know the early signs Of kidney dis
ease and uric poisoning.
When uric acid Is formed too fast
and the kidneys are weakened by a
cold, or fever, by overwork, or by over
indulgences, the acid collects, the blood
gets impure and heavy, there is head
ache, dizziness. heart palpitation, and
a dull, heavy-headed, drowsy feeling
with disturbances OF the urine.
Real torture begins when the uric
acid forms into gravel or stone in the
kidney, or crystallizes into jagged bits
In the muscles, joints or on the nerve
tubings. Then follow the awful pains
Of neuralgia, rheumatism, govt, sciat.
lea, neuritis, lumbago or kidney collie.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-04-10
BROUGHT HER BACK TO LIFE
Remarkable Cure That Was Effected
by the Administration Of Ar
dent Spirits

On his return to his native heath
a year or two ago, p. J. O'Keefe found
Nellie, the Oldest woman In the parish,
was dying.
Her friends, arriving at her home,
found her lying back In her easy chair,
apparently about to pass over the last
threshold. Nellie, being good house
wife, carried bunch of keys at her
girdle and, thinking that she was now
gone, one Of the neighbors reached
under the folds Of her dress to find
the key that would unlock the closet
where her shroud was kept. AS the
good woman was fumbling at the CIR.
die she felya sly pinch OF her hand
and knew by that that there was still
spark of life remaining.
Perhaps" she suggested, "a wee
drop of brandy would revive her"
A teaspoonful Of brandy was ad
ministered, but with only a Pickering
response. So the friends departed sor
rowfully, forgetting, however, to re
move the bottle from her side. Or
their return few hours later they
discovered that the brandy had van
ished and that Nellie had completed,
recovered. She lived to be more thai
one hundred years old. But that,
says Mr.. O'Keefe, was the story o
Nellie's dying"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-04-10
WAS NOT REVENGEFUL MAN
But at the Same Time Dog Owner
Meant That His Pet Should
Have a Fair Show.

II am not a revengeful man." said
q Brooklyn real estate dealer, but
now and then l do want to get even.
A few days ago drove out as far as
Mineola in horse and buggy, and my
dog followed me. He's no fighter as
a dog, and 1t was bad trip for him.
Every time we passed farmhouse a
dog came rushing out to roll my ca,
nine in the dust, and he was licked SO
different times before we got homo.
] was sorry for him and mad at the
other dogs, and three or four days
later ! got loan OF mastiff and
made the trip over again. There was
fun from the start to finish The same
farmers dogs came bounding off the
fence to chew up Something, and most
of them got hold of the mastiff before
they knew whether he was a poodle
or an elephant. They saw their mis-.
take too late. Lord, he Stayed 'em
right and left. He simply left a trail
Of bowling, limping dogs from Pros.
pect park to Mineola and back, and
I've been told that some of the farm.
ers along the road have offered as
high as $20'for my scalp. No; I'm
not a revengeful man, but I want to
see my dog have fair show in this
world, don't you know"