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The Washington times., 1914-03-19

fermenting materials in which flies
breed rapidly. EntcmoiogistS say
that 1.2G0 typhoid flies is the extent
OF the hatch on single pound OF
refuse. Clean homes. clean yards.
well-kept refuse cans and stables
are necessary TO
RMINATE THE FLY.
The number OF lilies III Washington
this summer IS to be determined by
the effectiveness Uf people IN killing
the pests. The female tly is. said to
multiply one milton fold, emphasiZ-
ing the necessity of killing the fe-
male fly above every tiing else. The
flies in over-winter Information are
rot believed by the Bureau Of En-
tomologv TO be as Numerous as past
winters, but the bureau does not
mean ty this that less effective
war should be waged to sill them.
On. the other hand, DR.. l.. o. How
ard, chief of the bureau. advises
prompt action against the pests. AS
soon as they leave their winter quar-
ters and commence to carry disease
germs. the bureau advises. start TO
KILL THE FLY
The efforts of the clean city COM
mittee i'm Kidding Washington of
dirt and filth. refuse and unsightly
objects during the week of April
1918 also will be directed against the
deadly fly. The committee heieves
that the less refuse ana dirt, the
less breeding placing FOR flies, and
the efforts OF all Washington will be
urged TO thoroughly clean the city
and keep il clean during the summer
months.
The Washington times., 1914-03-19
BREAKS GROUND FOR
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
Principal Wilson, of Central,
Yields Spade Before Off,
ciaIs and 1900 Pupils.

The honor of breaking ground for the
new Central High School. to be erected
at Florida avenue and Eleventh street
northwest. fell to Principal Emory c.
Wilson. In the presence of members of
the Board Of Education. the faculty and
student body. opening exercises were
held on the site of the new building this
morning.
After the Bible reading and prayer.
the school sang "Onward Christian Sol
diers'' and Here's to Old Central,
Ground was then broken for the new
81 10000 building. which the contractors
promise to have ready in two years.
Henry P. Blair. president of the Board
Of Education; former president. Capt.
James F.. oyster: Superintendent of
Schools Ernest l.. Thurston. Assistant
Superintendent Stephen Kramer. Harry
o. Hine secretary of the Board of
Education. and Fred Fishback. Dresi-
dent Of Central High School Alumni AS
scciation, were among those present.
After the exercises the senior class
led the school, 100 strong, back to the
High School Building. at Seventh and q
stree Is. The exercises were similar to
the regular exercises at school.
The Washington times., 1914-03-19
PAVING OF SEVENTH
STREET SEEMS SURE
Senators Will Insist on Item
When District Bill Goes to
Conference.

The provision for the paving OF Sew
enth street, which was put into the
District appropriation bill in the Sen
ate, probably will remain in the
measure in conference.
The amendment allows $4,000 for
repaving between New York avenue
and Q street. Senators who are in
touch with the situation say it proba-
bly, will remain in the bill as finally
passed.
Rumors arc current that the Capital
Traction Company is trying to get the
amendment knocked out because Of the
fact that II would have to bear the cost
of the paving between its rails and i'm
mediateIy adjacent to its tracks. Sem
ate conferees. it is said, will not be in
fuenced by any such opposition, but
will insist on the repaving. The Senate
conferees are Senators John Walter
Smith, Gallinger and Lea. The House
conferees are not vet named.
II was learned today that the senti-
ment in the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee is that the amendment for the
repaving of Seventh street is one Of the
most meritorious features of the Dis
trict bill.
The Washington times., 1914-03-19
Mccormack Will Sing
At National Tomorrow

John Mccormack, the Irish tenor. will
give his only recital in Washington
this season at the National Thaater to-
morrow afternoon at 4:3O. Mccormack,
at the request of a number of Washing
ton music-lovers. will sing as the Lpen-
ing number III mio tesoro intanto.'
from Mozart's Don Giovanni His
other numbers will include selections
from "MignOn,' la Tosca,'' and Inter-
mezzo, Schumann: 'Jai pleure en-
reve." Hue; Loves Quarrel" Cyril
Scott: Mother O. Nine" Frank Tours.
ancient Irish songs C'Down by the
Sally Gardens She Moved Through
the Fair" In Sands Grove" and The
Next Market Day., Hughes.
He will be assisted by Miss Ellen
Ricamond Marshall, a young mezzo-
contralto: Donald Macbeath, violinist
and Vincent OBrien, pianist
The Washington times., 1914-03-19
White House Denies Mrs.
Wilson Is Seriously iii

A report TO the effect that Mrs. Wood
row Wilson was seriously ill was de-
MED at the White House today. as was
The report that members of the family
mad Cancelled ENGAGEMENTS because of
ner condition. Mrs. Wilson. who sus-
tained bad fall in the White House
about ten days ago, underwent q slight
operation last week, but is doing nicely.
Far from canceling engagements, Miss
Eleanor Wilson attended hop at Fort
Myer last night and DR.. Grayson was
a dinner guest at the Draper home.
The President and DIR. Grayson played
golf in the afternoon.
The Washington times., 1914-03-19
Oppose Spending S15O,OO0
For Monument to Baxter

Whether one-half OF the $4,000 estate
"- Gen H Baxter. one-time surgeon
general Of the army. who died Decem-
Der (. 1880. shall be expended for A
monument in a cemetery at Strafford.
Vt, Is a question put up to the Dis
trict Supreme Court today.
The will OF General Baxter. dated
July 3, 1876, gave his widow. Florence
T. Baxter. who died on February u,
last life use Of his estate, with the
provision that upon her death one-haIf
the estate be used to provide a fund
for the monument.
Two OF the heirs. Miss Janette H..
Baxter, of Pinehurst, y. c., and Mrs.
elizabeth Z. Baxter. of Derby Line,
Vt, object 10 the expenditure.
The Washington times., 1914-03-19

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The Washington times., 1914-03-19
Sues to Force Payment
Of Loses on MuSicales

A suit for an accounting was filed
in the District Supreme Court today
by Mrs. Nadine Wilson Ward against
Mrs. Katie Wilson Green az result
Of a series of musical entertainments
given at Richmond in February. 1912.
1t Is set forth in the petition that the
two women entered into an agree
ment to conduct the entertainments for
their joint profit, but that the enter
prise turned out to be a financial
financial failure. Mrs. Ward asks the
court to compel Mrs. Green to account
for funds and to bear her share of the
losses. which amount 10 about $50.
The Washington times., 1914-03-19
Talk of Great Strike Is
Heard at Miners Parley

CHICAGO March iS.-Serious talk
of the possibility Of great coal
strike involving between 100000 and
400, 600 bituninOus coal miners, was
heard here today when mine opera
tors from Ohio. Pennsylvania, Illinois,
and Indiana, and miners representa-
tives resumed their efforts to reach
an agreement on a wage scale.
Miners and officials We're consider
ably less optimistic today as to the
possibility OF an agreement.
The Washington times., 1914-03-19
Taken as Hugger for
Lifting Girl Over Mud

NEW YORK. March l9.-Arrested on
the Bronx river road. Yonkers. accused
BY Miss Mary Flynn. Of Riverdale, Of
hugging her, Charles Helthalen admit
ted he stole up behind her and seized
her. but declared he meant 10 harm.
The street was covered with mud and
he wished TO assist her across.
After he had carried the girl a few
feet Policeman Reid interrupted De-
cision was reserved and the defendant
rarIlei
The Washington times., 1914-03-19
Pope Celebrates
"Name Day. Today

ROME. March 1s.-In accordance
With the Italian custom of observing
ones name day instead OF birthday.
Pops Plus today celebrated st.
Joseph's Day with unusual cere-
enJnies The occasion passed for his
scventy-pinth birthday. which IL
June z.
The Washington times., 1914-03-19
VILLA SAYS ENEMY
IS NOW IN RETREAT
ConstitutionaIist Chief Says He
Expects to Enter Torreon
on Sunday.

Ell PASO, Tex, March 19.-Gen. Fran
cisco Villa. commanding the Mexican
rebels before Torreon today broke his
long silence since the battle of Torreon
began by telegraphing rebel officials at
.iuaINez that he expected 20 be in Tor
reon Sunday.
This was followed by another official
dispatch. dated Wednesday. IN which
Villa stated that the Zaragoza brigade
IF constitutionalists, commanded by
zen. Eusenio Aguirre Benavides. had
fought its way from Escalon rs far
south as Yerpo. one of The distant sub
urbs of Torreon, and expected to erter
Sermijillo Wednesday night
Federals Abandon Outposts.
The federals, said Villa. were aban-
doning all their outposts north of Tor
ICON. and were concentrating their
lorces within Torreon itself and the
"ities Of Lerdo and Gomez Palacio.
These dispatches are borne out BY a
'ong message sent TO his father here by
General Benavides himself on the night
Al which he denied rumors that he had
been killed. Benavides referred to the
hghting about Escalon, Saturday, Sum
day, and Monday. saying it was really
inconsequential, although annoying
lie added that the federals had been
aadly defeated in every skirmis:l so far,
md that all their outposts were IN full
retreat toward Torreon.
Not A word has been received from
me american correspondents with VIII
las army for forty-eight hours but it
Is hoped that Villa will be induced to
Lift the embargo today.
II it be true that BenaVides succeeded
n getting into BermejiIlo during the
':ight. il would indicate that General
Nelasquez, the Federal commander at
Tcrreon, had abandoned all idea of
caecklnC the rebel advance at that
point Benavides' Zaragosa brigade is
made ur of veterans. Just as Villa re-
lied upon General Torribo Ortega's vet
eran troops to carry the burden of the
long attack on OjinaSa last December
80 he called upon the Zaragosa brigade
to bear the brunt of the lighting around
Torreon.
Junta Jubilant
Despite Benavides' statement that the
lighting about Escalon was "inconse-
Guential," there is a general belief here
that II may have been more serious than
Villa is willing to admit. This is ex-
pected to be shown when Villa permits
the newspaper correspondents % file
their stories.
The constitutionalist officials in Juarez
are jubhant over Villas messages, de-
clarinS they indicate that the federal
defeat has been complete. Although
Villa did not mention the fighting re-
Ported about Rosario, where a federal |
thanking column was reported attempt
ing to rout Gen. Tomas Urbinas rebels !
and reach the constitutionalist rear, it !
g believed here that Urbina success
fully checked the movement
The Washington times., 1914-03-19
HiccOughs to Death.

NEW YORK, March I9.-William
Jackson. a colored man, who never
worked In his life" was Officially re-
ported dead by the Queens county bo ard
of health. after steady hlccoughins for
two DAYS
The Washington times., 1914-03-19
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The Washington times., 1914-03-19
lie; Size 6x9 Feet, S2.69

1CEso yard for 3s and 40 inch
1ATSC wide Curtain Scrim, val
ues 19c and Csc
0Qn pair for Madras Curtains.
OCC superior, will launder. worth
$1.69.
The Washington times., 1914-03-19

CC co for 6x9 feet. $3.50 for
DAsVC 7.6x9 feet. $3.50 for 9x12
feet rugs: values to $500.
Q1 20 for $500 size Utility
U1sCC Boxes. covered with mat
ting. trimmed with bamboo, and
brass handles.
The Washington times., 1914-03-19

This Greater Palais Royal Base
ment Coupon and one nineteen
S1.19) entities bearer to one $3.50
B & II Peerless Gas Iron, guaran-
teed to burn only one cents worth
of gas in 5 hours. Friday only,
March 90. 1914.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-09-04
PARCEL POST PRACTICAL
Tests Show it Brings Producer and
Consumer Closer.

WASHINGTON. September A.
The practicability of the parcel post
as a medium of direct exchange be-
tween city dwellers and producers on
the farms has been established by a
test in ten cities, the postoffice de-
partment announced this week.
Postmasters' reports stated the
new system had been welcomed in
nearly all the communities, that it
appeared as a factor in reducing the
cost of living, and that improvements
under way assured it's growth. Dam
age to parcels in shipment amounted
to less than one-tenth Of l per cent,
it was said, and that was mainly due
to inefficient packing.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-09-04
REALLY SELL MANY ARTICLES
AT, OR BELOW COST.
AdrOit Use Made of The Hundred.
Pound Minimum Freight
Package.
BY David Powell.
Copyrighted 1914; all rights re-
served.)

A fact that in most cases is ignored
by the mail-order buyer when COM
pairing prices quoted in the catalog
with the prices charged by his home
merchant, is the very important one
of transportation charges. The cata-
log house says, Here it is, come and
get it,, and your local merchant says
II have been to the expense of bring
ing it here so that you can inspect it
before buying, and have included that
in the price to YOU"
There has been no way yet devised
Ito evade transportation charges and
the consumer is always the man that
pays it, and it is right in this con-
nection that the catalog houses put
over their biggest-getting lemon. In
the explanation of how it is done will
be given an illustration OF one OF the
many ways they use to create the i'm
preston that they sell cheaper than
regular retail merchants.
All classes of merchants through
out the country. big. little. honest
and dishonest, at different times put
on sale what are called "leaders"
some article of common use at, or be-
low cost. This is perfectly legiti-
mate practice and is followed by your
local dealer as we'll as by the catalog
houses and big department stores Of
the large cities.
It's purpose of course is very evil
dent. A merchant hopes by this
means to draw you to his store, be-
lieving that he can sell you enough
other. articles at regular prices to
warrant the loss on his leaders. II
you wish, you can step into your local
store and buy the leader and nothing
else, and really save some money at
the expense of the dealers advertis-
ing fund. But how does it work with
the mail-order concerns? 1t is fact
we'll known and admitted by every
student of the subject that in the cat
alloys of few Of the larger concerns
doing an exclusive mail-order bust
ness are many articles priced less
than your local dealer could buy them
direct from the factory.
These, of course, are leaders"
% ko1 hn frn,,h1n to
through one of their catalogs and
pick out these articles. you will be
very forcibly struck with several sig
nificent facts. First you will note
that they are all articles of general
use or consumption in practically ev-
cry home in the land. Next, that
they are articles of staple standard
price carried by every store in the
country; prices with which every far
mer and housewife are perfectly ia
miliar. And further, that such arti-
cles are always of small value and
small weight, very rarely exceeding
fifty cents in value and weighing but
a few ounces.
Here is where the catalog houses
have undoubtedly the best of the
regular merchant. You can not walk
into their store and pick out those
leaders" and put them into your
buggy and drive home with them like
YOU can the sale snaps YOU can occa-
sionally pick up in your local stores.
You have to have them shipped to you
by either freight, express or post.
BY an easy mental computation it
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-09-04

tity of low grade tea, rice, beans,
spices, mOlasses, etc., an inferior lot
of stuff that his home merchant
wouldn't dare sell him under any cir
cumstances.
When the shipment is delivered the
buyer will invariably find that those
staple articles, upon which he believ-
ed he was making a saving, have been
omitted, and a notation made on the
bill to the effect that on account of
mill troubles or something else it
would be impossible lust at present
to ship them. The other stuff would
all be there however, and he will have
to accept it unless he has been wise
enough to write over the face of the
order before signing it that unless the
entire order is shipped within a GER
tain time it shall be considered can
celled. Such orders are of course
never shipped. They are considered
dead business"
A Business Proposition.
When your home merchant asks for
your patronage his appeal is based
solely on the grounds of dollars, quail
ity and service. He believes 1t means
as much to you as it does to him in
those terms to give him the opportu-
nifty to offer for your comparison his
prices and quality before sending
your order away from home.
Every up-to-date merchant now
keeps from two to half dozen mail
order catalogs in his store for the
use Of such of his customers as may
wish to use them in making compai-
sons. The merchant knows he is TAX
ing no chances; he knows what he
can do, and all he asks is a square
deal. He knows that quality and
terms considered he can sell goods
just as cheap, and in many cases
cheaper, than the catalog and city
stores, excepting Of course such ar
ticles as those houses put out as
leaders"
The next time you contemplate
sending to the city or ordering bill
OF goods from catalog house, make
out your order as usual, but before
buying your money order, take it to
one of your local merchants and let
him figure with you on the entire or
der. In a spirit Of fairness suppose
you try that just once: If he can't
save you any money you will at least
have shown him your heart is in the
right place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-01

beaver idea and accomplish far more for
less cost; for these dams would check erosion,
stop floods, supply underground water, and
store all flood water now wasted.
The Big Storm will furnish the supply by
bringing the moisture to the mountainous
regularly; but mankind should know what
to do with the gift of the Big Storm to make
it useful to all. There is but one way to do
this. and that is to study the Big Storm and
what it does, and then act on the facts,
which will be found to be as l have given
them here.
Conservation that conserves is a splendid
thing. and deserves the support of everyone;
but a theoretical brand of conservation that
does not fit facts at all, and is largely exactly
opposi, the real facts, should be done
away with, else our friend the Big Storm
might as well pull his blanket over his head
and sit in his arctic lodge forever.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-01

the pond and the water ran clear below the
beaver dam In time his pond filled up.
Then he built a new dam on top OF the old
one, and made a new pond, which in turn
filled as the first one did. In time a fiat
formed in the valley. These flats are now
fine farm land. with soil sometimes twenty
feet deep-all due to beaver dams.
Why not apply the same idea and build
thousands of these low, leaky dams on river
headwaters, and save the flood damage by
storing the flood waters for summer useo
Each pond so created becomes a settling
basin, an evaporation area, and supply for
seepage springs lower down, and ten thou
sand or more OF them could be built for the
price of one Roosevelt dam, for instance.
Why noto
The government goes too far down stream
before it stops the water and then it stops
it all in one place, when it could follow the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-01
Continued from page

But see!' says the lady. Fate urges.
Kismet7
Shall l call him on the phone and cinch
the dealo7 says l.
"Why-why-' says Bivens, starin' from
never fought pirates, and-and-'
But you a bold, desperate man, you
know" says l.
"Ye-e-es, am, says he, straightenin' up.
Tin desperate man, as you say; but
whats his number?' says |.
"It-it's Lenox $780, says he, like he
was repeatin' somethin' in dream. BILLY
Waling, you know. But don't you think
we ought to wait until
Tonight! Now!' says Madam Rouelle
1--WE should sail tomorrow.
That's the stuff says 1, jumpin' for the
phone. "Hey! Lenox 1890; yes, 80!
And breeze it up, Gladys!'
Looked like huge joke to me, and l was
for pushin it along as far as l could before
Bivens collapsed and called for the smellin
salts. But someway he held up wonderful,
almost like he'd been mesmerized. He
stands there starry eyed while I gets Mr..
Walling on the wire, and even mods when
sends the word that Mr.. Bivens wants the
yacht at once
Fifteen hundred a month"; says l.
"That all right?7
"Ye-e-es,' says Bivens.
"She's over at Hobollen, coalin'," says |.
"Where'l1 you have her lay ino he wants to
know. Will Public Pier &c. North River, do?'
"Yes,' says Bivens, prompt but husky,
"at eleven thirty tomorrow.
And, say, almost dropped the receiver.
Did he mean it?
"And remember the guns-two Of Them
puts in Madam Rouelle. a go now. Early
in the morning l return, ready
With that she grabs a long black cloak
affair off of chair, swings it around her.
door, and fits leavin' Bivens starin' at the
pink pearls.
well, says |, IL guess you get your wish;
and if there amt anything more l can do
Thanks, says Bivens. Don't forget to
tell Robert about the tournament, and-and
send Nikko up when you go down.
SAY, it had me beat I couldn't tell
~ whether he was in earnest, or just under
a spell. But I'd only followed instructions
The rest was up to him. | pixies out for a
late dinner.
l don't hear another whisper, either, until
next day about ten o'clock when Mr.. Robert
comes out to the brass gate with his brow
all furrowed up.
HAS Bivens gone crazy?' says he. 4Rout-
ing me out of bed at seven A. NJ. and begging
me over the phone to have two machine
guns and ten cases of ammunition delivered
at Pier 90 by eleven o'clock!'
@Going to get the stuff there?' says |.
"Why, yes says Mr.. Robert. Its on
the way now. But what in blazes does it all
meana What did you do to him?'
Wanted him shunted, didn't your says
l. well, he's headed out Mocha and Java
way, to kill pirates and dig pearls with a
hook-nosed widow lady. And, by the way,
YOU to sub for him on that billiard tourna-
ment job
Course, he thinks it's some josh of mine,
until Nikko shows up, all out of breath, and
hands over latch key.
an supposition honorable friend would
have longing to inspect cut pictures during
absence of honorable Bivens, says he,
backin' out hasty.
Mr. Robert he stands there gawpin fool
ish at the key
of do say it, says l, that some shuntH