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Evening star., 1914-12-27
Dance Given for Belgian Fund,

To aid the Belgian sufferers a dance
was given last night at Rauschers.
which was largely attended by the
members of the younger social set of
Washington. Those in charge of the
affair were Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Lewis
Elmer F. Sauter. Harold West. Carl os-
wald and Miss w. Blanchard. The pro-
ceeds of the dance are to be turned over
to those in charge of the Belgian relief
fund
Evening star., 1914-12-27
Training School Girl Escapes.

The police were asked last evening to
search for Ruth Smith, colored. who
escaped yesterday afternoon from tile
National Training School for Girls. She
is twenty years old and wore a black
hat, trimmed with a white feather, was
dressed in dark blue suit and wore
black shoes With gray uppers> ~.
Evening star., 1914-12-27
Disapproved by War Department.

Federal improvement of Lynn harbor
and Saugus river. Massachusetts. to
provide 15-foot channel up to East
Saugus. and for proposed improve
ments. of Feather river. California,
from it's mouth. to Marysville. so as to
deepen and straighten the channel,
were disapproved in War Department
reports to-Gongress.
Evening star., 1914-12-27
Ethel a Pictorial Treat.

1T is probably unfair to pick out one
bobbed head. from .zninety-eig1t, but
Miss EtheFs dark brown bobbed hair
was decorated with such fine touch
of red ribbon that 1t must be DONE
That red ribbon was the costume hit
of the show. And Ethel was the pic
torial treat. .
Act showed the Ruggles family
at home. AS an entry the FANNY
the middle of the. room. thus bringing
the spectators in close and intimate
touch with the actors 1t must be ad.
Immensely, especially the Ruggleses
of the boy species: 1t must also be ad-
mitted that the members OF the Rug-
giles family of the genus % BOY aid a
it was about their trousers or IN sym
pathy with the audience it would be
hard to say.
of the performance. In this act Carol
Bird sat in her chair in the sitting
room-the stage-while the Ruggies
| family sat out in the dining room-the
that in the least)-eating the great
Christmas dinner. As the climax. Carol
was .wfTeeled where she could watch
| the evening star and hear the Christ
mas carols coming from afar. No one
| had a bit of trouble seeing the star,
such is the blessing of an active imag-
| ina ton and as for the Christmas
carols, wasn't the whole Ruggles
| family out there in the dressing room
--pardon,-the dining room, singing
| for all it was worth?
After the Play, More Joy.
| At the final curtain actors and spec
| tators, to the number of ninety-eight,
ably assisted by sixteen adults, in
dulged in all sorts of singing and
| dancing games around the Christmas
tree. The tree, by the way. forms the
nucleus of all the gatherings at
Neighborhood House, this week, in the
| many parties that are to be held dur
| ing the 'yuletide, Following the games
| the children went upstairs, where re-
| freshments of all kinds. including ice
| cream and fudge with nuts in it, were
served to twenty-one children at
time. there being just that many places
| around the table
| The festivities were partly in the
nature of a reunion for club teachers
and their charges. Old friends and
| former helpers in the work met to re-
new friendships. Among the older
folks present were Mr. and Mrs ].
2. S. Neigh and Miss Anna B. Browne.
House: Norton NJ. Little. president of
the board of trustees; Mrs ellison
| Gardner, Miss Louise Endicott, Miss
Mary Endicott, Miss Ruth Hender-
| schott. Miss Lena Barghausen and Miss
Edna Hail..
The boys clubs are to give parties
o'clock and the older ones and young
men at 1880 pm. The following night
| the women's clubs are to meet at s
| o'clock.
Evening star., 1914-12-27
PEACE CLUB GIRLS
IN YULET|DE PLAY
"The Birds Christmas Caror'
Given at the Neighbor-
hood House.
NO SCENIC EFFECT USED
TO MAKE STAGE ILLUSION
Audience Satisfied With Perform
ance and Performers and Equip.
ped With Proper Imagination.

Shakespcare's time and methods and
Neighborhood House are not so far
apart as one might think. For at the
Christmas party given by the girls
clubs at the house at 40 n street
southwest at $50 o'clock The Birds
Christmas Carol" as presented by the
Peace Club, one of the girls organiza-
tions, was with a minimum Of scenery
and to the great satisfaction OF an
audience Of ninety-eight girls OF all
ages from six to sixteen.
1t was a true Shakespearean perform
ance, in which the imagination OF the
spectators ably seconded the efforts OF
the actors-in this case mostly the IA
nous .Rusg!es family. There were
Mrs. Ruggies and Sarah Ruggles and
Peter Ruggles and Peoria Ruggtes ana
a whole lot more Ruggleses, to say
nothing of Larry Ruggles.
Those in the Cast.
A few favorite visitors were taken
straight to the dressing room OF the
actors and introduced to the actors
or rather actresses. There was Naomi
Schoenberger. who took the part Oh
Mrs. Bird; Louise Gallahorn as Carol
Bird, Ethel Downs as the nurse, caro-,
line Barghausen as Aunt Louise, ana
Ethel Coleman as Mrs. Ruggies. Ihen
the Rusgles family was made up as
follows: Irene Williams as Sarah,
Heleu Thrift as Peter. Eleanora Dant
as Kitty, Gladys Torbert as Peoria.
Doris Flaherty, as, Susan, Ada cooper
as Clement, Ruth Wells as Ely; Lille Lille
Downs as Cornelius and Pearl DeseeS,
as Larry. 1t was decidedly some"
family. .
That was what the small guests
thought, too, when the play began. and
as it progressed they had no reason 70
change their opinion. Nobody minded
in the least the lack of scenery, and
everybody seemed to enjoy manufac-
turing their own scenery in their own
minds in true old English fashion
The acts had the charm of briefness
and directness. too. Act one showed
Carol Bird in her wheel chair planning
the great Christmas dinner for the poor
Russles family. Miss Louise Gala
horn as Carol shared the honors OF the
act with Miss Ethel Downs, the fetch
ing young nurse who wheeled her
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
REMARK ABLE CAVERN
DISCOVERED IN ARIZONA

What is perhaps the most remark
able natural cavern in this country,
If not in the world, was discovered
the other day in the course of devel-
opment work in the mine Of the Shat
tuck Arizona Copper company, at Bis
bee, Ariz., writes geologist in the
Engineering and Mining Journal.
Other caverns somewhat similar
have been opened in tho Blsbee dis
trict. A cavern in one of the older
portions of the Copper Queen mine
has become famous locally as the au-
ditorium in which large fraternal
organization met in solemn conclave
in the earlier days Of the camp, and
another cavern brought to light more
recently in another part of the same
mine has been transported almost in
its entirety to the Muaeum Of Nat
ural History in New York. But both
of these and others of less renown
are insignificant before the one more
recently opened.
1t was first discovered by drift
on the 300-foot level, which forfuit-
ously struck it In its lowest and in
a central point. A drift few feet
on either side would have passed be-
meath it and have left it perhaps un-
known for years.
Ones first impression Of this great
cavern, now electrically lighted, with
its stalactite gilded dome, is that of
the shadowy interior Of gothic ca
thedral. Close examination reveals
myriad forms Of calcite, crystalline
and amorphous, with all its vagaries
of structure and color. 1t is appar-
ent from the structure that lime
impregnated solution has filed por-
tions of the cavern subsequent to the
original formation Of the stalactites
and stalagmites; left its quota Of min
eral as arborescent, coral-like depos-
its on the stalagmites and afterward
drained away.
Several conjectures have been ad-
vanced to explain the origin Of this
cavern. It is probable that the shrink
age contingent upon the solidification
and cooling of the intrusive mass shat
tered and opened the rock mass for
a great distance above it. The con-
temporaneous induration of the brec-
ciated material by the siliceous mag
matte emanntions from the porp'iy1y
entailed further loss of volume. This
left a large open space easily accessi-
BILE to acid meteoric waters which en-
larged the cavity to its present size
and left it ready for the calcium car
Donate.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
MAYOR AND COUNCIL
ARE SENTENCED TO JAIL

MUNICH, May 6.-The Bavarian
district court has sentenced the nav
or of Partenkirche, large town on
the edge of the Vavarian Alps, to-
gether with the entire town council,
to Jail for libeling young woman
teacher in the schools there. The may
or was given three days in Jail and
the members of the council each two
days. All have appealed. If the high
er courts sustain the sentence, the
town, which is an important summer
resort. will be without government
for several days. The trouble arose
out of derogatory remarks made by
the mayor and councilmen in row
with the teacher as to the house
which the town has to furnish her
while engaged as teacher.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
Colorado Family Takes
Cross Country Jaunt

DENVER, May 6.-R. B. Martin
his wife and their boy, 8, and girl, 6
years of age, are walking across the
continent, from Loveland to Cleveland
Ohio. The jaunt will cover some I,4IC
miles, and they expect to arrive at
their destination by September l.
They left here yesterday, having
made the first leg of the trip from
Loveland to Denver, without mishap
They made from 1S to 20 miles day
and the children were just as sturdy
pedestrians as the grownups, the par
ents said.
Martin is horseshoer. He found
that business at Loveland was practi-
cally ruined by automobiles and decid-
ed to go to his former home in the
east. He decided that by making the
trip on foot and working as oppor-
tunity offered. he would do better
than to spend his money on railroad
fares and arrive in Cleveland dead
broke. He carries roll of blankets,
with tarpaulin, and his wife carries
the basket containing provisions. They
stay in houses wherever possible, but
in case they are overtaken by night
with no shelter handy they are pre-
pared to sleep under the stars.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
Children Drug fiends
in Amur Territory
United Press.

United Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 6.-Thai
whole districts in the Amur territor,
are morphia-mad and that even child
rem are dope fiends, was the state
ment made by DIR. Straokotlitzky, lee
turing before the medical society o.
Blagovestchenck Children acquired
the dope habit he said, before reach
ing their teens, and the villages wer,
populated by morphia-maniacs. In on,
jail out of every 1000 prisoners, 30l
were dope fiends, and the same pro
portion applied to hospital patients.
A large number Of morphia club
existed in Blagovestchenck and il wa!
common sight to see morphia
maLiacs making injections in tn
open streets. The use Of cocaine als'
was declared to be general.
Official statistics also show that 9l
per cent Of the boys and 96 pc
cent of the girls at school in th'
province Of Veronjsky are in the habi
of drinking intoxicants. Children o
seven and eight frequently becom
drunk, the boys prefcrrin9 spirits an,
beer, and the girls red wine and beer
Strong measures are being taken l.
stamp out alcoholism among the child
ren.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
ARK ANSAS RIVER HIGH
AS RESULT RECENT RAINS
United Press.

United Press
PUEBLO, May 6.-The Arkansas
river is still high and the rainfall
which was more than twice the nor
NAL amount last month, has still fur
ther contributed to swell the stream.
The Fountain river is also flowing
bank full, and dredging company
which has been enlarging the bed Of
the creek, has been forced to stop
work.
Persons along the river bottom
whose houses are not Of the most sub
stantial build, have gotten their be
longings ready to move at short no
tice.
Farmers lower down the valley are
also feeling some alarm, fearing thai
their fields will be inundated. Up tbs
river from Pueblo, however, there i
little likelihood of any damage.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
STOCK INSPECTORS SENDING
NOTICES OF ASSESSMENT

DENVER, May 6.-Notification has
been sent out by the state board of
stock inspection commissioners to all
owners of brands notifying them that
an assessment of 81 must be paid if
the brands are to be kept recorded
in the state office and brand book.
The assessment Is made by authority
of law passed at the last general
assembly, which became effective July
15, 1918. The object of the law is
to provide revenues for the printing
of brand books and other like ex-
penses. Many stockmen have record
ed brands and then discontinued their
use, so that of the brands recorded
probably fifty per cent are not in use.
The brands on which assessment is
not paid by July is Of this year will
be stricken from the records, and
may be appropriated and recorded by
any person who desires to do so, on
payment of the assessment
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
Says Many Women Of
Springs Tobacco Users

COLORADO SPRINGS, May O.
Not few women of Colorado Springs
use tobacco, according to local spe-
cialist who is giving treatment design
ed to cure the tobacco habit. Since
he has been practicing here, he states,
one out of five of his patients is a
woman or girl.
ut is surprising to see how many
women are addicted to the weed" the
specialist said. "Some of them arc
mature women. Some are school
girls. don't know-I suppose for
the same reason that the men do
One woman learned to smoke because
her husband wanted her to; school
girl confessed that she had learned
out Of curiosity, to see what there
was attractive about it. One girl said
she learned to smoke cigarettes while
away at college, and now that she Is
to be married, she wants to give up
the habit"
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
Viper in Bed Of
faithIess Lover
United Press

United Press
VIENNA. May Ga viper which
was placed by young girl in the
bed of faithless lover is one of
the many interesting exhibits in the
new special poison department OF the
institute of crimnology at Cratz.
Brilliant moonshine caused the snake
to crawl out from beneath the bed
clothing before the intended victim
had retired, and he captured it. There
is also collection of poison bees,
and numerous varieties of poisoned
food. Lectures are given on the kinds
Of poisons used by various criminal
types and the different methods of
preparation and administering.
Another section of the institute is
devoted to recording the cabalistis
signs by which European criminals
convey warnings or other information
to each other.
Most of these symbols have been
traced back to the fifteenth and six
teenth centuries. A triangle with n
point upward. for instance, signifies,
81 have been in prison. Two hori-
zontal lines mean 'beware of the dog"
A cork signifies that there is an
alarm apparatus inside A cat marks
the presence of woman only in the
house.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
AMERICA EXPECTS
REBELS TO END war
President Believes Rebels Will Overthrow hudta
Before Mediation is faded---Two fngIShmsa
Killed and Two Americans Wounded in Riots
United Press.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. May g.
Americans are relying on the constitu-
tionalists to save the Mexican situa-
tion. 1t has been learned the presi-
dent believes that rebels will over
throw Huerta before acceptable med
iation plans are reached. Therefore
he is satisfied that formal mediation
session at Niagara Falls, Ont, will
not begin until May Is.
Villa has predicted that he will cap
ture Saltillo, San Luis Potosi and
Tampico within ten days. The only
hitch is the possible international dis
sension Of rebels. 1t is rumored that
Villa is quarrellng with other chiefs.
Meanwhile General Funston reports
the concentrating in vulnerable points
near Vera Cruz. Railroad bridges be-
tween Vera Cruz and Mexico City are
reported mined.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
BELLyUE TOWN HALL TO
BECOME PLACE OF WORSHIP
United Prese

United Press
FORT COLLINS, May 6.-The
Bellvue town hall has been sold, and
with its sale and remodeling for use
as church, goes the last monument
to the fact that Bellvue was once an
incorporated town.
Bellvue, which is near here, some
time ago voted that the additional ex-
pense Of maintaining municipal
government was not commensurate
with the benefits derived.
The Holiness congregation, which
has been seeking some building to be
used as church, decided that the
town hall would be suitable, and the
purchase was finally effected, the
price, it is understood, being $3.50
The hall will be remodeled slightly
before use as church.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
COLLEGE MEN TO
LEARN SOLDERING

WASHINGTON, d. c., May g.
Army camps for college students will
soon open in four or five different
sections of the country two months
from today. The youths will find
the camps pleasant place to spend
vacation and cheap. The cost will be
only SIT for five weeks of the reg
ular army fare. Transportation and
81 for equipment will have to be
paid by the man joining the camps,
the objects of which are to give the
collegians short course in military
training to prepare them for war.
The war department will furnish
cots, blankets, tens, cooking outfits
and other articles necessary for camp
life.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
Jews Again Threatened
in Suburbs Of keiff

ODESSA, May, 6.-More than 5000
Jews are threatened with expulsion
owing to the Incorporation of several
suburbs with Keiff, the city made
famous by the Mondel Bells trial
and which is outside the pale The
suburb of Demiovka with 1884 Jew
ish families, comprising 5,048 per-
sons, and that of Shulavka with 129
families or 556 persons, were within
the pale, but as part of Keiff, Jews
are no longer permitted to live in
those places.
The governor of Keiff has recon-
mended to st. Petersburg, that the
residents of these suburbs be attach
ed to the pale district of Lukamovska,
but in the meantime the police are
inspecting permits of residences with
view to prosecution and expul-
sion.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
Scientists Honor
Airship Inventor

WASHINGTON, d. c., May g.
Scientists and aviators today joined
in doing honor to Langley, inventor
Of the heavier-than-air machine.
Langley died practically broken heart
ed from ridicule about his original
machine, and not until some years
afterwards did the scientific world
realize that his invention was prac-
ticablc. DR.. Zang, of the Langley
aero-dynamic laboratory under the
Smithsonian institution hoped today
to have the original "aerodrome" or
exhibition and he expected to demon
strate that with proper engine II
could be operated as successfully AZ
any of the later machines.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
Aerial Machine Gun
Invented by German

BERLIN, May 6.-An invention
which is declared will give Germany
the lead in aerial warfare is being
thoroughly tested by military experts
at Doeberitz camp. The apparatus,
which is the invention of an army Of
ficer, enables machine gun to be
mounted on an aeroplane in front OF
the pilot, who will thus be able to
control both gun and machine. The
gun can be turned in any direction and
can be used against an enemy beneat
So far, it is stated, the experiments
have been most successful.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
FR||)AY|S
R0ADDAY
Board Of Trade lakes up
Matter of Observing
State Road Day

The Durango board of trade has
taken over the work Of obtaining sig
natures in La Plata county to initiate
state law providing for half mill
levy to raise funds for. road improve
ments. A special meeting was called
for this purpose last night, at which
seven directors were present. The ac-
tion was the result of a conference
between the county commissioners,
President G. II. Charlton of the Mo-
tor club, A. w. Ayres, chairman of
the good roads committee of the board
of trade, and Secretary Bradford of
the organization.
Secretary Bradford was appointed
to circulate the petitions. After Gov
ering Durango he is expected to visit
the Bayfield, and lgnacio sections
Special arrangements were made for
the circulation of the petitions in the
Kline and Red Mesa district, Good
roads day will afford an excellent op.
portunity to meet and secure the sig
natures of many of the county peo-
pie.
In addition to perfecting arrange
ments for circulating the petitions the
directors discussed the proper recog-
milton Of good roads day. The board
of county commissioners have pledged
the entire road equipmentof the coun-
ty, in addition to the services of the
road overseers for special work on
the day. Bayfield, and Igpacio people
have signifed their intention of going
out in force and improving the high
ways in .their--aelaas.sfit &r-akf,,4e Mo
tor club members will transport com
panies of men with implements to
different parts of the county where
work is most needed. A number of
residents of the city who are unable
to leave their business will send sub
stitutes.
At the meeting c. L. Herr of the
state highway commission, gave the
board detailed account of his inves
tigation of the two proposed routes
to the San Luis valley. Louie Wy
man, Fred Catchpole and Roy Good
man were the members of the party
who with Mr.. Herr went over the
west fork route, the one selected by
the commission last fall as being the
most feasible. The snow was all
gone, except in few low places, and
the other objects advanced against
the route were found to be not worthy
of serious consideration. 1t seems
that most of those who opposed this
route misunderstood where it would
run, thinking it lay through the heavy
spruce timber. After they learned
that it is to run above the heavy tim.
ber, great part of them withdrew
their objections, and those who did
not, only protest mildly now. Being
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Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
THERE is NOTHING NEW.

The Woman Rebel includes in list
of the "inalienable rights" of women:
The right to be lazy.
The right to be an unmarried n.,th-
er.
The right 70 destroy.
Evidently the publishers Of he
Woman Rebel believe this to be rarh-
er advanced and Revolutionary"
On the contrary, it is quite reaction
ary.
There have always been women in
every generation who have exercised
those rights Fortunately they have
been in the minority.
And when they die It il very sell
dom that their children 20 to the trou-
Bile of putting up monuments for them
reading:
Here lies our beloved ancestress.
She never married. And her grand
children are proud Of IT, She was 20
lazy she always swept the dust under
the rugs. When peeved, she broke
chairs, dishes, heads, windows, With
joyous impartiality. When = tooth
fell out she was too languid 70 Rst Z
new one. Her youth was disordssiy.
her maturity contentious, her age was
ugly. but she cot her 'sriGhts.r ~
quiss cat in pace. New Yovk nv>n
ing Sun. Il i.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
BRITISH CELEBRATE
ACCESSION DAY
United PresA.

United PresA.
LONDON, May 6.--Artillery salut-
es were fired in st. James Park,
London, at Windsor and all the big
naval stations today, in honor of the
fourth anniversary of King George
accession to the throne. Flags were
flown on all government buildings
and British warships in all parts of
the world dressed ship" but these
were the only official celebrations.
The king and queen, with other men,
bers of the royal family placed
wreaths on the grave of the late
King Edward at Windsor, and attend
ed a private memorial service at St
Georges chapel. King George cele-
brates his forty-ninth birthday on
June 8, having been born in 1865. He
succeeded his father May 6, 1910, and
was crowned June %, 1911. In 1893
he married Princess Mary of Teck
who had been engaged to his elder
brother, the late Duke of Clarence
who died in 1892, and by which mar
riage he has five sons and one daugh-
ter
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-07
POLITICS AT COLLEGE
ARE AT FEVER HEAT
United Press.

United Presg.
COLORADO SPRINGS, May g.
Politics are at fever heat in the Colo
RADIO college student body. The an
nusl elections take place May 8. and
the campaigning is just as lively as
1t is in municipal or state elections.
The chief office is that Of president
Of the student commission. John
Heron, w. ID. Van Stone and Wesley
Dennis are candidates for the place
which is now held by e. B. Jackson