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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-19
Prominent Engagement.

An engagement Of partIculay inter
-st 10 virginians Is that Of Lieutenant
william Taylor Smith, United States
navy. and Miss Ellen Dickinson Wal
lace. eff FREDERICKSBURG. Va. which
has lust been announced by Mrs
dowson Hooe Wallace.
Lieutenant smith Is closely related
to the Randolph family Of Alhemarie
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-19
the secretary OF the Houston Coal and
Coke company.

the secretary OF the Houston Coal and
Coke company.
Mr. James Boyd, Of Haverford. Pa,
has announced the engagement of
his daughter, Miss Helen Longstreet
Boyd, to Ensign Edward Orrick Me
Donnell United States navy, son Of
Mrs Eugene Mcdonnell.
Miss Boyd Is one of the most popu>
lar members of the Main Line con-
tingent and is well known in Philadel-
phia society.
Ensign Mcdonnell, who has lately
returned from Vera Cruz, Is the
younger Of three brothers, Lieutenant
Austin Mcdonnell being stationed at
Fort Howard and Lieutenant John
Clinton Mcdonnell being in the Elev-
enth cavalry. He is the first mem
Der of the family that has seen active
service~ His sister Is Mrs. Thomas II.
Vickery.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-19
In the North.

fSrs. r. r. Roberts and her aaugh-
ter Miss Martha Roberts, have gone
10 Marble head Neck, Mass. to spend
several weeks. Later they Will go 10
Nova Scotia and will not retaru 20
Richmond until some time IN Sep
TENDER.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-19
Return Home.

Saws the Baltimore Sun:
Mr.. and Mrs. Warner Moore. of
Richmond. Va, who have been visit
ing the latter's brotherin-law and
sister. MT and Mrs, William Fl. Wight.
a Kinloch. their country place. a.
Coekeysville. have retarned TO Viz
s!pia." -,----
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-19
Mrs Bowling Better.

Mrs. Ernest T.. Boiling. who was
operated on at the Memorial hospital
last week, was reported better yester-
fjav
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-19

Omce-Madison 1924
Restdenee--M . d ! en
177e-J.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-19
On
Sale
One
Hour

BRAID TURBANS AND SMALL
HATS-All new, black and all coll
ors. Braid Turbans and Hats.
trimmed with maline and silk:
sold up to s2.9S. One hour. en-.
each JUG
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-19

MALINES-Our finest grade Of
Silk Malines. ali new colors; sold
for CSC yard, usually SSc. M
One hour tomorrow. yard -. Ao~
Not more than ten yards to one
customer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
BANDITS COMMIT SUICIDE
Gang Responsible for General De La
Rey's Death Driven TO Bay.

JOHANNESBURG Sept. ls.-Qulet pre-
walls here today following the dramatic
suicide yesterday Of the gang Of daspera-
does under the leadership of n man
known as Jackson. The bandits had COM
mitted many crimes and were Indirectly
responsible for the accidental shooting OF
General JaCobus Hendrix de La Rey. a
noted Boer general.
Jackson and his companions took ref
uge IN a cave on the east Rand, which
was Immediately surrounded By the po-
lice The bandits refused to surrender
al hrst, but later Jackson offered q give
up their arms TO JacksOns wife. Urged
on BY the police and her husband she
entered the cave and was Immediately
shot by him, Then all the despersdoes
committed suicide.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
TOMMY ATKINS TRIBUTE
FIELD MARSHAL FRENCH
Private Writes Commander Is No
Show Man" But worker.
LONDON, Sept. IS


\ high tribute was paid to Field
Marshall Sir John French in letter re-
ceived from the front today. 1t was writ
ten by George Busby, a private, and Is
a graphic pen picture of the British COM
mandcr in France.
General French is very popular with
his men," Busby wrote. There's no side
about him. and when he passes along he
is Just as ready to smile on the ordinary
Tommy as on the highest officer. He
takes keen interest in our life in the
trenches. and we all feel that he is just
the man to turn to in trouble, and there
is not one Of US who wouldn't go through
fire and water for him.
"He never asks the impossible from us.
but always acts as though he could rely
on us to get out OF a tight corner He
knows We are doing our best for him and
the country in this war, and he always
gives us credit for it.
He is not one of your show mon. but a
hard fighter and worker from head to
toe. and he expects every man under him
to be the same. No matter how tired we
may be we always turn out to give him
a cheer when he passes through the lines,
as he does now and then.
"IIe stops when he has time, for a chat
with us Just for the sake OF finding out
what we think about it all, and whether
we are being properly looked after. He
doesn't like shrkers, and most Of them
know they have no chance in this army
at any rate.
He does his best to see that We are
we'll provided for regarding food and
clothes, and II things do go wrong now
and then it's not his fault"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
REPULSE OF GERMANS
FORETOLD BY MONK
Documents of 1000 Prophesied Con-
flict With BLACK Eagle"


PARIS, Sept. 1s.-The Figaro continues
today the Latin prophecy dated in 1860,
which was written by an unknown
author ana transcribed by the Monk
Johannes. Previous excerpts prophesied
the coming of "Antichrist' as mon
arch. a son Of Luther, with the motto
God with Us"
The instalmcnt printed today contains
these verses.
Nersicle IS "Antichrist will manifest
himself about the year 2-ol. His army
will surpass the imagination for number
and will have Christians, but the de-
Tenders Of the Lamb will have Moham-
medans and savagcs."
Ncrsicle %. "Thc Black Eagle Ger
many) will hurl himself upon the Cock
(France), who will lose many feathers.
but whose spur will strike heroically.
He would soon be exhausted without
the aid of the Leopard CEngland)."
Ncrsicle 81 "The Black Eagle will
come from the land of Luther and will
surprise the Cock and invade half OF
the Cocks land"
Nersicle %. THE White Eagle CRus-
sia) VIII come from the north and will
surprise the Black Eagle and the other
eagle tAustria) and will invade Anti
Christs country completely"
Ncrsicle %. The Black Eagle will be
forced to abandon the Cock to fight the
White Eagle The Cock will pursue the
Black Eagle into Autlchrists country"
Nersiclo "a, Previous battles will be
nothing as compared TO those fought in
Antichrst's country"
Nersicle %. "Only princes and cap
tains will be buried, Hunger and plague
will be added to carnage. The battles
will make too many corpses to bury"
Versicle p. "Antichrist will often de-
mand peace, which will he refused until
he be crushed"
Versicle 80 "Antichrlsts last battle
will be fought where he forges arms"
Nersicle 81. "Antichrist will lose his
crown and will die in solitude and mad
ness. His empire will be divided into
% states none HAVING any fort or army
or vessel"
The Figaro adds that verse 90 refers
to Essen, in Wcstphalia, which the other
prophecies foretold as the scene Of the
last battle.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
ROMANCE, TRAGEDY AND COMEDY
FROM BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE

ner with their arms stacked, the British
soldiers, unable to reach their weapons,
rushed upon the foe and attacked them
with their bare fists. The Gordons ar
rived in time to aid them and beat off
the Germans.
a British seaman, writing OF the recent
naval battle off Heligoland, tells of
slaughter on the bridge of the Liberty,
when all except one man was killed, and
of n freak of the fight where a clock on
one of the boats had it's glass face
smashed and one hand carried away, but
Kept right on running.
THE destroyer Laurel seems to have
suffered the most" the seaman wrote.
She had one funnel carried away and
the others riddlcd like pepper boxes. One
shell struck her right forward, went
through her bulkhead, through the gal
ley door and out. The cookie was in
there at the time, but it missed him and
went out through the other side of the
ship.
ut was on the bridge and around the
guns where they suffered most. On the
Libertys bridge everybody except one
was killed; in fact, they were never
seen since. They must have been carried
right overheard. The skipper of the
Laurel had both his legs shot away.
The scout Arethusa came in last. She
brought in 100 Germans picked up from
the cruiser Mainz. Two cooks were in
the galley of the Arethusa, just having
their rum. when a shot killed one and
blew the others arm off"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
KAISER PLAYS LAST
DIPLOMATIC CARD,
ITALY'S AID STAKE
Victor Emmanuel Declines to
Receive Imperial Repre-
sentative and Is Called
raitor,' According to
Report.
ROME. Sept. Il

ROME, Sept 1s.
Germany has played its last card in the
diplomatic game that has been in progress
here for weeks with the assistance of
Italy in the present war as the stake,
and apparently has lost.
1t was learned from a reliable source
today that special messenger arrived
here from Berlin on Wednesday evening
and departed last night. 1t is reported
he came as a personal representative Of
Emperor William Whether his sudden
departure was due to the refusal OF
King Victor Emmanuel to receive him
canot be ascertained.
Several papers in Paris report that
the Kaiser sent to the King of Italy the
following telegram:
"Conqueror or conquered I shall
never forget your treason"
Italian reservists have been called for
September %, which is taken to mean
Italys withdrawal from the Triple Alli-
anie on that date.
The Italian radical party today will vote
an ordere of the day in Parliament asking
the Government to forsake its policy OF
neutrality and to ally itself with the
Triple Alliance. The anarchist party has
declaret against war.
Demonstrations against the Govern
ments policy of neutrality continue ant
the war fever is aggravated by popular
resentment at unemployment.
The Italian military attache at Berlin
his been recalled and 1t Is understood that
the German military ttche will be with
drawn from Rome.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
COOL LOGIC MARKS
BELGIAN ATTITUDE
TOWARD GERMANY
Treaties in Ink Violated,
Must Be Rewritten in
Blood, SO Plucky Little
> Kingdom Fights Against
Great Odds.

ANTWERP, Sept. 1 CBy Courier to Os-
tend and Mail to New York
The little Belgian soldier who climbed
into the compartment was dead tired; he
trailed his rifle behind him, threw himself
into the seat and fell sound asleep. He
was ready to talk when he awoke all
hour later.
"Yes. / was UP all nisht with German
prisoners" he said. at was n bad job.
There were cnly sixteen Of us to handle
goo Germans. We had four boNcars, and
we put % prisoners in one end of the
car and % at the other. and then four
OF us with rifles sat guard by the cardoor
I'VE rode FIVE hours that way, and
expected every minute that the whole 90
Germans in the car would jump on US
four and kill us Four to 50; that's heavy
odds. But We have to do it. You see
there aren't enough soldiers in Belgium
10 do all the work, so we have to make
cut the best we can"
That's the plucky little Belgian soldier
all over. In the first place he's different
from most soldiers, because he is willing
20 fight when he knows he's going to
lose.
1--WE have to make out the best we
can" is his motto. In the second place,
he's a common sense little fellow. Even
while he's fighting he's doing it coolly,
and there is no blind hatred in his heart
that causes him to waste any effort He
gets down to the why and wherefore OF
things.
~ really felt sorry for those German
prisoners said a comrade Of the first
soldier. They were all decent fellows.
They told me their officers had fooled
them. They said the officers gave them
French money on the German frontier
and then yelled to them: on to France
They went on for three days and got to
Liege before they know they were in
Belgium instead of France.
I'VE didn't want to hurt Belgium,
they told us. because were from Alsace-
Lorraine ourselves.
You see" continued the logical little
Belgian, ut wasn't their fault so we
couldn't be mad at them
That is the Belgian idea-Cool logic. I
why did you fight the Germans a I
high Government official was asked
Because civilization can't exist with /
out treaties and it is the duty that n .
nation owes to civilization to fight to the /
death when written treaties are broken"
was the reply. 1T must be a rule among |
nations that to break a treaty means to |
fight. The Germans broke the neutrality
Win belgium ana we Itu 10 HEHL.
But did you expect to whip the Ger
mans?"
How could We? We knew that hordes
Of Germans would follow the first Corners. |
but wa had no right to worry about who |
5s7a,,L hs whipped. all We had TO do was |
to ~ and we've done It the best we !
coul&
It has been a cool-headed, logical mat
ter with the Bel-ians. from the start
Treaties are made with ink; they're
broken with blood, and just as naturally
and coolly as the Belgian diplomats used
Ink in signing the treaties with Germany, |
so the Belgian soldiers have used their
blood In trying TO maintain the agree
nents,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
MILKMAN DRIVES OFFICERS
FROM HOME WITH A GUN
Germantown Milk Dealer Resents
Levy for Non-payment of Taxes.

Levy 4yi Null pa y I44GIlL VI 4dAeSs
As his goods were about to be levied
on 5 D. Johnson, sol Allen lane, Ger
mantown, a milk dealer. grabbed a shot
gun and threatened 10 kill Constable Q.
II. SUPER and Deputy Constable G. g.
Super II they attempted to carry out
the execution As the constabes pro-
C"edod 10 levy Johnson raised his gun
and drove them from tho premises.
Th" milk dealer was called TO the front
door and found tho COustables waiting
10. nlm and when they served him with
the notice. Johnson told them 10 remain
for a few minutes. He ran into the house
and in a moment returned with a gun In
his hand. The conEtables stood amazed
and before they were able 10 recover
their wits Johnson grabbed the papers
from the hand OF Super. placed two
cartridges in his double-barreled gun and
drove the constables from the premises.
Tho Judgment On which the levy was
10 be made was granted by tho City
Treasury for 2 delinquency in payment
OF tho mercantile tax and was in favor
% the Commonwealth OF Pennsylvania
Tn" cOustables attempted the cxccu-
tinu ON Wednesday when they We're
iriyeu away. Johnson was arrested on a
warrant from Magistrate Reushaw, and
at a. hearing today I'm the central police
station he w1- held under $1,000 ban on
charge uf assault and battery, threaten
l~- aLI attempting 70 kill and inter-
frruE with au officer attempting 20 serve
.'-t. documents.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
ANNOUNCES DISCOVERY
Flexner Declares Germ of Infantile
Paralysis Has Been Found.

SARATOGA, n. Y, Sept. 1s-The sole
topic Of discussion today among dele
gates to the convention of state health
ment made by DR.. Simon Flexner, di-
rector Of the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research. that the infantile
paralysis germ had been found, He spoke
on the Influence of Scientific Research
on Public Health"
The micro-organsm of this terrible dis
ease, he said. had been grown in test
tubes and were visible through powerful
microscopes when viewed in masses He
intimated important results would be
produced from those experiments. He
defended vivisection by explaining that
the most modern facts of medicine had
been discovered through the use of ami
mails for experimental purposes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
FOOTBALL GIVES RELIEF
TO ENGLAND'S SORROWS
Managers Decide to Continue Game
During Winter Months.
LONDON Sept Is

LONDON, Sept. ls
Football and its relations to the war
continues TO he IN" subject Of earnest
discussion both In England and in Scot
land. Despite the recent statement Of
. Lord Roberts that this is no time for
games" the trend Of opinion among
football managers is that II would ha
unwise. rather than the contrary 10
abandon this scheduled winter sport
J. McRenna, Liverpool, presided over
a meeting OF the management commit
tee OF the English Football League in
London yesterday. At this great crisis
In tho history Of the British nation, he
said, they desired 10 make the following
public pronouncerert:
When scores OF thousands have
gone, and scores OF thousands must
follow, there Will be millions Of peo-
pie who must remain behind, and
in other ways lend all possible aid
In considering the course % he
adopted with reference to our great
winter game. We are not uumudful
of the days Of deep sorrow now with
us and yet 10 come, days when Jae
dark clouds that surround us w'
Cypress and appa'l us. To st amt
moan is 10 aggravate the nations
sorrow.
ANY national sport which can mini
mlze the grief, help the nation 10
bear its sorrows relieve the mrrros-
zion OF continuous strain arI save
the people a. home from panic and
undue depression, is great rar.ora.
asset which can render lasting serv-
Zee 10 tine people.
We, therefore, without the slightest
reservation appeal 20 the clubs t1e
press and the public that our great
winter game should pursue its usual
course. Especially do we aruosl 10
the press that rhe same prominence
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
Pinchot Talks to Small Crowd.

BRADFORD, Pa, Sept. 1S-Gifford
Pinchot was scheduled TO address a
crowd on the public square at noon to-
day and the crowd was there, but Mr..
Pmchot, who arrived at 1880 in an auto.
waited to eat his dinner and good
part of his audience went home as they
had dinners of their own to eat. so he
lost some of his audience. The candidate
discussed the issues to a fair sized
crowd. Others, who spoke, were Guy b.
May, candidate for Congress, and Messrs
Smith and Watkins, Assembly candI-
dates from this county.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
WAR BY BALKAN STATES
REGARDED AS INEVITABLE
Missionary Tells of Preparations for
Hostilities

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 1s.-General
Ralph e. Prime, a missionary, who re-
Gently returned from Italy and Syria,
today said extraordinary preparations
are being made in anticipation of war by,
Italy, Turkey and Greece. The troops
of those nations, he declared, are being
drilled constantly and the people con-
slider the outbreak of hostilties newt
able.
The common belief in Syria and Tur-
key is that the German cruisers Goeben
and Bresldu We're sold by Germany to
Turkey to prevent their capture by the
allies fleet" said General Prime. There
Is bitter feeling between the Turk and
the Greek.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18

The Exchange Telegraph2correspon
at Bordeaux says:
"1 saw in the hospitals here among
the prisoners a beardless Teuton boy,
who was 10 years and months old. He
was student in the technical school
at Mannheim and was wounded and made
a prisoner at the battle of Marne. He
said, in broken English, that all the stu
dents of his school who were over Is
years of age had been modified and
placed in different regiments"
in n letter from Sergeant Cahill to his
friends in Bristol is the tribute of an
Irish soldier to the RED Cross girleens,"
Cahill wrote:
THE Germans give us no rest night or
day, and those of us who have come
through It will never forget to our dying
day what it is to have to fight here. The
Red Cross Eireens, with their purity faces
ard their sweet ways are as good men as
most of us, and better than some OF us.
They are not supposed to venture into
the firing line at all, but they get there
all the same. and devil the one OF us burst
turn them away"
shouting an inconsequent vaudeville jim
gle that has In it not a word about death
or valor, glory or pathos.
And lest Americans do not know the
words of this epoch making chorus here
they are, fated for some unfathomed rea-
son to become historic:
It's a long way to Tlpnerary,
It's a long way 70 go;
TO. the sweetest girl know!
piRfu1ll1N
Farewell. Leicester Square,
It's long, long way to Tipperary
But my hearts right there
The author-composer of this imperish-
able lyric is Jack Judge. a music hall ar
tist, and there Is probably no man in the
world more surprised than he-unless it
is his publisher, Bert Feldman-at the
far flung" vogue it has so suddenly re-
ceived. The British hero sings it when
reveille sounds; he sings it route march
ing to drown the monotony of Boots
boots-boots- boots, sloggin' up an down
again"
AS they go into battle the Germans
thunder their Die Wacht Am Rhein,"
the French chant their "Marseillaise"
sonorous and impressive, and the Bel
gians fight gallantly with their beautiful
"Brabanconne" on their lips, but the
British sing no national air.
A British sergeant major says he be-
lieves the regiments recruited in the big
cities are proving the best on the battle
fields because they are accustomed to
noise. ITS the quantity not the quality
of the German shells that is having its
effect" he says. THE hellsh noise is
nerve racking."
A young artilleryman, writing to his
wife in London, tells of being left on the
field for dead, but finally was found and
dragged from beneath his horse which
fell on him when shot. This alone saved
his life, as all other members Of his
battery were killed.
-
When the Fourth Middlesex regiment
was surprised by Germans while at din
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
LUSlTANIA MAY TRANSPORT
CANADIAN TROOPS TO WAR
Cunard Liner. in New York, Gets
Rush Orders for Halifax.

nuSn OluefS TOT HALIFAX.
NEW YORK, Sept. is.-The giant liner
Lusitania had hardly warped into her
dock at 1880 o'clock this morning when
her crew began Immediately the work Of
recoaling the speedy Cunarder.
Although the Lusitania's officers refused
confirmation. It was reported the boat
would be rushed TO Halifax tonight to
carry Canadian troops 10 England.
The Lusitania arrived of Quarantine
about midnight She was TO have re-
mained at anchor IN the Narrows al!
night and a big dance had been planned.
Rush orders 10 proceed to her dock un-
der permission from customs officials
ended the festivities
on board were 1902 passengers, COS in
the saloon. Among the latter were Mrs
George Vanderbilt, Miss Cornelia Van
derbilt, Chauucey NJ. Depew, Jr, and Mrs.
Thomas Bailey AdTich. Servants of An
drew Carnegie, who were on board. said
the steel King would be in the Baltic
later tOda".
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
"DUM-DUMS" EXHIBITED
BY FRENCH WAR OFFICIALS
Reported to Have Been Taken in
Early Alsace Campaign.

bOINDIlNUNl sept. TO.
The Foreign Office today exhibited to
the French and foreign newspapermen
assembled here a quantity Of dum-dum
bullets, which. it was explained, were
taken by the French when they originally
occupied Muelhausen. in Alsace in the
early days of the war
1t was the discovery OF these bullets.
and reports of the French surgeons that
they actually had been used that resulted
in the original French note of protest of
August IS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
FRENCH METHODS SOON
HEAL SOLDIERS WOUNDS
DR.. Alexis Carrel Commends Per-
centape of Cures

DR.. Alexis Carrel Commends Per-
centage of Cures.
PARIS. Sept. ls.-Dr. Alexis Carrel, of
the Rockefeller Institute in New York,
who has been placed in charge of all the
military hospitals at Lyons, declared that
he believed the French methods of caring
FOR the wounded could not be surpassed.
The only dangerous wounds with
which we have to contend" he said, "are
those caused by German siege artillery
Others generally heal without difficulty
We have lost only 20 out of 1000 wounded
at Lyons"
THE German pavilion Mt the Lyons
Exposition has not been touched, and Is
still flying the German flag. Above this
flag however, has been placed a French
banner and a notice on the pavilion says,
Property of France"