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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-18
{ WOMAN WEAK, RUNDOWN
Finds Health in a Simple Tonic

People in Washington will begin
( to believe us when we say that our
delicious Vinol is a wonderful tonic
( and strength creator.
Here is another case where 1t
} has proved Its wonderful power to
} overcome weak, rundown, nervous,
J ana emic conditions.
Il was rundown, nervous, and
( could not do my work without be-
( ing entirely exhausted, and would
( often faint without any apparent
I cause. The doctor said was
! anaemic, but failed to help me. My
} husband brought home a bottle of
Vinol and 1 began to improve after
taking one bottle. and after taking
I four bottles 1t has built me up SO I
{ can do all my homework without
{ help. I recommended Vinol to
neighbor. who says her doctor ap-
proves of it. and said 'Vinol is
wonderfully good tonic" Mrs.
Bessie Herring, West Philadelphia,
\ Pa. =
We recommend vinol to our Gus
{ toners as the greatest strength Gre
( ator we know-due to the extractive
( medicinal elements of fresh cod
! livers, without Oil combined with
peptonate of iron and beef peptone,
all dissolved In a pure medicinal
wine.
( O'Donnelrs Pharmacies, Peoples
Drug Store, Kings Drug Store, The
Koss Pharmacy, Paul Pearson. Theo
A. T. Judd. Quigley's Pharmacy. G.
g. c. Simms Pharmacy, The Henry
Evans Co., Washington. D. Cad
vertisement. :,
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strengthening Of our economic infiu-
ence- but also the gaining OF a certain
spiritual influence. No doubt Ger
many's energy and pluck are remark
able, but Latin and Anglo-Saxon people
do not like to be made conscious OF
this fact. or to have 1t rubbed in The
less presumption is asserted in making
our influence felt the moro friends we
shall make, and II we do not change
our attitude in this respect. our OPP
ponents will get the better Of us in
spite Of our smartness."
The bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce has for the past year con-
Quoted vigorous extension campaign
In south America. A dozen special COM
mercial agents have toured the south
ern continent, and since the beginning
OF the European war aggressive steps
have been taken to secure for manufac-
turers and merchants of the. United
States the markets left vacant by the
belltgerent countries. Bankers have
established branches in various South
American cities, and already the trade
of the United States with South and
Central American countries shows a
steady increase.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-18
SEVENTY-FOUR VIOLATE
SUNDAY CLOSING LAW
Chicago Mayor VIII Be Asked to BE.
woke Licenses of. Offending
/. -Saloonkeepers.

CHICAGO, October 1s.-Seventy- four
violations of the Sunday saloon closing
law were recorded in revised police re-
ports today, an increase df forty-six
over the number reported a week ago,
when Mayor Thompson's order went
into effect. Thirty-nve of the violations
consisted of obstructing a view of the
bars.
Arrests for intoxication kept pace
with the increase on the list of closing
violations. A week ago Sunday fewer
than thirty arrests were made. Yester-
day fifty persons were arrested for
drunkenness. The average number of
Sunday arrests is seventy-five. Chief
of Police Healey said. however. that
tho Sunday closing has decreased the
amount of crime to very considera-
BILE extent"
All cases of violation will be sub
mitted to Mayor Thompson tomorrow.
with the recommendation that licenses
be revoked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-18

slider the third possible course for the
Germans to be the most likely one. So
long. they say. as Rumania must tight
If Serbia Is attacked at Orsova. and
were invaded. why should not the Ger
mans deal with the Rumanians direct
~. at once. and try to break through
to the Black sea by the shortest and
most practicable route. namely, across
Rumania from Brasso by way Of Pre-
deal to Galatz and the mouth Of the
Danube? This is. indeed. what tho Rus
SLAMS expect their opponents to do.
possibly at the same time driving down
the Dnfester toward Odessa
While not perhaps an imminent
peril, certainly the plan constitutes a
very serious danger for Russia. Cut
on from supplies either by the con-
tinued resistance of ConstantinopIe, or
by German domination of the Black
sea through seizure of Galatz or
Odessa. Russia's position would be
grave indeed-a fact which every in
relligent Russian fully recognizes"
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from our seas; they have come back
to receive the welcome of spring.
Thousands Need Your Help.

| And the thousands who have been to
the confines Of misery and who looked
into the abysses of hell! VIII you
confines and to turn their eyes away
from those abysses?
| VIII you help themf
1t is good to see human being re-
turning to hope through the gateway
of wonder, led by the hands of mercy,
of charity, of pity.
There Is spring in the land. Yes, in
to the world, and the larks dare to
sing above the graves. The wounded.
the half-suffocated soldiers see, and
hear, and perhaps they feel-indeed. I
think they do feel-'Yes, after all
there Is God somewhere" And when
the beneficent streams of pity. and
charity flow then the wounded In soul
and the half-suffocated in spirit look
up. They see that there are actually
flowers springing out of the dust. of
the graves Of their hopes. and surely
they think, they feel. Yes, after all
there is a God somewhere"
Put that belief into their souls by
about your feet the flowers will spring
up, and the larks, dropping down from
the blue, will surely come to sing be-
fore your windows.
The national allied relief committee
has been organized to centralize' and
simplify the administration Of funds
collected in this country for the relief
Of sufferers among the allies.
Clothing and other materials should
be consigned to the National Allied Re-
lief Committee. War Relief Clearing
House, $50 Bank street, New York.
Checks for single and monthly contri-
buttons, with the accompanying sub
scription slip, should be sent to Lee.
Higginson & Co., National Allied Re-
lief Committee. 5th Avenue building,
New York.
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AMERICAN AGENTS
BUSY IN EUROPE
Lure of Contracts Draws Many
Commercial Men From U. S.
to War Capitals.
HAVE ODD EXPERIENCES ~
TRYING TO SELL GOODS
One Gets Contract to Furnish Irish
Stew, as Cans Will Be Used
for Hand Grenades.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
PARIS, September 27.-The American
agent, drawn by the lure of war con-
tracts and the exceptional demand for
American goods in all lines, is becom-
ing one of the most familiar figures of
London, Paris and the other war CAPT.
tails of Europe. He is taking the place
of the American pleasure tourist, who
has almost disappeared from the scene,
and the channel boats, the great hotels
and the boulevards now have a goodly
quota of Americans telling their stories
and relating their latest experiences in
dealing with officials over war supplies.
They are of tho audacious and adven-
turous type and prepared on short no
tice to talk In round millions on a con-
tract for horses. guns, munitions or
supplies of any kind.
Two of the new type of war con-
Hotel the other day and after the usual
greetings and inquiries about home one
of them asked the other:
What Is your line""
Canned goods"
Doing any business"
Fine; just closed a big contract with
the military people for war ration"
What kind of war ratfon?
Use Cans for Grenades.
We'll, we call it Irish stew In Amer
lea. but over here since the war began
am calling it a war ration, and it has
caught on fine. We take a certain por-
ton of meat-good. first-class meat
and no poor stuff-and add a portion
of rice, a portion of onions, portion
of carrots, with seasoning. That. you
say. over here we call 1t war ration.
And what do you Think" he went
on. I'VE put up that stew in one
pound tin cans. and after they eat the
Irish stew they're going to use the tin
cans for hand grenades. Now. that's
fact, and that's where our goods
appealed to these military people the
most-the double use they could get
out of them-frst as war ration and
then as a hand grenade; and that's
what closed the contract"
This was told in all seriousness and
was not a story of the road" SO that
there is every reason to expect that
Irish stew made in America will soon
be nourishing allied troops and after
ward serving them as a receptacle for
explosives to offset liquid fire, asphyx-
iating gas and other deadly contriv-
ances
The group of American travelling. men
had considerably enlarged while this
talk was going on, and one OF the
newcomers remarked:
i've got something that beats your
Irish stew, but those people at the
London war office wouldn't adopt 1t.
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IS 100 YEARS OLD.
William W. Spence of Baltimore To.
day Celebrating Anniversary.

BALTIMORE. Md, October 1s-william
Wallace Spence. for many years a leading
financier Of this city, is celebrating today
the Tooth anniversary of his birth.
Mr.. Spence was born In Edinburgh,
Scotland. 1t took him seventy days to
cross from Scotland to the United States
in 1893. Last Saturday he returned to
Baltimore from Hot Springs. Va, where
he had spent the summer months.
For years Mr.. Spence has expressed the
determination to live to be 100 years old,
and the fact that he has done SO is
attributed largely to his iron will.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-18
SUFFERERS Of WAR
LOOKING TO AMERICA
Not Beggars by Nature, VIC
tins Turn InstinctiveH to
Peaceful Nations.
ROBERT HICHENS RECORDS
OBSERVATIONS ABROAD
Says Millions in English Pounds
Have Been Given for Charity
Since Last August.
BY ROBERT HICHENS,
Author of The Garden of Allah"

Author of THE Garden of Allah"
There is a saying, What the eye
does not see the heart does not feel
which Is much the same as state
ment that the world lacks magma
ton. And no doubt there are many
people who are insensitive to the suf-
ferings of others because they cannot
think themselves into the lives OF
others. It is difficult, for instance, for
a very rich man to realize what 1t
means to be a very poor man; more
difficult still, perhaps, for strong
healthy man to understand what 1t Is
to be a weak and ill man.
And If these things are hard, very
hard it must be for a nation enjoying
the blessings of peace to understand
thoroughly, and to enter imaginatively
petual strain upon brain and heart and
soul. which are the lot OF nation
plunged into the vortex of war.
Many Hearts Feel for Sufferers.
Yet It must be said that Americans
have proved that their hearts have
felt though their eyes have not seen
the agonies Of their European brothers
and sisters.
The help they have given has been
yery great, but the voices of the guns
do not cease, and SO the ruin and the
misery in Europe continually increase
day by day.
Mutely the sufferers from war turn
for aid to. those who still enjoy tnat
mysterious, that already by Europeans
almost forgotten blessing, the blessing
of peace. They are not beggars by
nature. these people bereft, but now
instinctively from their souls goes out
the silent cry, Can you help us? Can
you do anything more for us?"
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Americana Aid Swiss Soldiers.

GENEVA, October 1s.-The American
minister, Pleasant Stovall. has issued
an appeal for funds for the oonstruc-
ton of portable wooden houses. con-
tanning recreation and reading rooms
for the benefit of Swiss soldiers on the
frontier. A gift of $4,000 was made by
Charles F. Lembecke, an American.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-18
Millions Given In Charity,

over here in England many. mil
lions of pounds have been given in
charity since last August, but millions
vanish like drops Of water in the desert,
and still the need on all sides seems
nearly as great as ever.
Here, where 1 live. in a very little
place. when the war began a hospital
was gotten ready Sin case 1t. should
be wanted" for the wounded 1t had
twenty-five beds. the arrangements
were excellent, and we were rather
proud of it. 1 remember the time when
people hoped" we should get some pa
tents. Now we have four hospitals and
a convalescent home full to the doors
of gas victims. wounded men and brok-
en- down men from the trenches and a
fifth hospital is being gotten ready.
Before the war is over how many hos
pitfalls shall I've have, I wonder in this
one little corner of England? Vast is
the need of Europe and vast must be
the charity. prompted by pity. TO cope
with It,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-18

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the
surrender of CORVALLIS at Yorktown.
For the first time in the history of
Maryland the public schools OF Balti-
more and of the counties will devote a
period to the study Of that historical
event.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-18
Silly Night for Zeppelins.

Two nights ago I went out just be-
fore 10 to walk by the sea. which Ia
close to my house. There was not a
breath of wind. the waters seemed
asleep and the dead calm which pre-
vailed suggested to me war-thought.
"A good night for Zeppelins!' I said
to my companion.
Here and there along the coast
live on the east coast Of England-re-
volving lights winked in the obscurtty,
but all the houses scattered over the
downs were closely shattered, and in
the little fshingtown nearby not
looked up into the pale sky. in which
some dim stars were shining, and, very
high up-~almost among the farthest
stars it seemed saw a fierce flash OF
night and was gone. 1 stood for mo-
ment wondering what it could have
been. A flash Of lightning 1t was not
1t had looked like a menacing signal.
But up there among the stars!
Flash Of Light Reveals Airship.
Next morning I knew that I had seen
the flash of light carried by Yep
pelin which was on its way to lombard
London.
Trifies such as this make one realize
war as words do not make one realize
1t, in a really intimate way. The eye
has seen the enemy's menace in the
sky, and suddenly the heart feels some
thing of what war is-the concentrated
intention to do harm. to produce ruin
suffering and death, carried out as far
as may be in action.
In Europe the carrying out of this in
tention in action has been appallingly
effective. Never, 1 suppose. has such
misery been known among men since
the world began. And still we cannot
see the end. Poverty, starvation, dis
come into their kingdom.
Lamenting That Cannot Be stilled.
The cry of the women and children is
not drowned even by the cries of the
men falling ON the innumerable battle
fields. Will not. the ears of the world
become deaf because of the reiteration
of the lamenting which cannot be
stilIed?
There is surely danger of that. And
! if the sources of pity and of charity
should dry up? Well, then indeed the
oevil will reap fine harvest of human
misery from the saints and the runa-
gates alike.
1t cannot be denied that we are i'm
Fortunate in Europe But We are very
much beset. Still the homeless Bel
gians are pouring in upon us.
A friend of mine, a woman within a
few miles of my home, Is still giving
almost all her time to the finding OF
house room for Belgians, to fitting
them out with boots. clothes and the
necessaries Of life, and to searching
out work for such as can work She
has been doing this for about nine
| months now, and the end of her labors
| is not in sight. And all this time she
has been collecting money for these
poor people, many of whom have moth
ing
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Gas Victims Are Pitiful,

have seen good deal of the gas
victims. men who fell unconscious be-
fore the advancing cloud from the Ger
man trenches. and who awoke in hos
pitfalls far behind the lines at BouIogne
or elsewhere. They all have a curious
remote expression in their eyes. and a
curiously detached, almost faraway
manner They look and seem like men
who have gone to the confines and
gazed over.
II is strange to see them staring at
the flowers, wild blue orchids, lilies of
the valley. hyacinths. buttercups,
which star our English woods and
meadows just now. as they drive
through the green and budding world
in the purring motor. Their eyes seem
to be saying. Can 1t be-"
They have been to the confines and
looked over; and yet here they are
among the sweet familiar things.
among the English wild flowers. and
the blossoming hedgerows. They have
come back from the suffocating gray
green clouds to breathe in the wind
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Russian Situation Satisfactory.

Russian Situation Satisfactory.
'In this respect. therefore, the Rus
sian situation may be regarded as sat
isfactory, though the danger of the fall
of Petrograd should not be belittled.
Petrograd is almost essential to the
Russians, not on account of any senti-
mental reasons connected with Its being
the capital, but because three-fourths
of the industries directly connected
with supplying the troops are located
there. and their loss would be blow
from which 1t would be difficult for the
Russian troops to recover.
"On the south the situation Is less de-
fined. It is evident that If CONSTANT
nople falls and the allies are able to
rush arms and munitions in large guam
titles to the Russian forces. the situa-
ton of the Germans will be most Sc
rious. Over and over again I have
noted that whenever an important ship
ment of munitions has been made to
any sector of the Russian line, the re-
tor, a slow but certain advance has be-
gun, and long trainloads of prisoners
have begun to come through from that
parrot the front.
"It Is common opinion In Russia,
based on a great deal of experience,
that when the Russian is anywhere
nearly equally equipped with the Ger
man now doing the fighting on the Rus
sian front, the Russian is not only able
to stop the German. but to push him
back 1 presume that this is on ac-
count of the fresh troops which are
constantly being sent into the Russian
lines, while to judge from the prison.
ers the Russians have taken, the oppos-
ing German troops are neither young
nor very well trained. as rule.
Opening Of Dardanelles Important.
LAS, then, the opening Of the Darda
nelles means the supplying of sufh
cient arms and munitions to the whole
Russian army without the long delays
now inevitable, it would seem plain that
the Germans must do everything In
their power to prevent the defeat of
the Turks and the fall of CONSTANT
nople. Certainly this is Russian opin--
ion Moreover, 1t is believed in Russia
that the only possible way to accom-
plish this end is for Germany to re-es-
tablish, somehow, her line of COM
munication with the Dardanelles:
ITO achieve this the Russians figure
that the Germans may follow one of
these three courses. They can drive
through Serbia to Bulgaria and revic-
tual Turkey But this must be done at
once or the SHOWS in the Serbian noun
taips and the equinoctial rains Will rem
der 1t impossible.
THE second possibility is German
drive down the valley of the Dniester
to Odessa This is regarded in Russia
as a possible, but very desperate, ex-
pedient. for any German army attempt
ing 1t would have the Rumanians be-
hind (which In view Of the present
attitude of Rumania toward the CEN
trail empires, would scarcely be wise.
Rumania to Be Reckoned With.
"As In both of the first two con-
tingencies the Rumanians would have
to be reckoned with. the Russians con-
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emperor in a position which threatens
to jeopardize his personal popularity, at
the moment when it is perhaps the
most valuable. asset the government
possesseS

Two Great Dangers Are Apparent.
from military standpoint, there
are two great dangers in Russia today.
The first lies in a continued and sue
cessful German drive on Petrograd; the
second Is a drive in the opposite direc-
ton. with view to opening a way
through Russia to the Black sea, to re-
establish the broken communications
with the Ottoman empire. Both are re-
garded as most unlikely of success even
II attempted, but both must be consid-
cred in weighing the present situation
in Russia.
TT is scarcely probable that the Rus
sian armies will begin to receive in
sufficient quantities the small arms and
munitions they lack much before No
vember. It is not, therefore, very like
ly that they will be ready to assume
any serious offensive before the LIST OF
December. '-''''
Meanwhile the defensive retreat
must go on. Gen. Rousski. who Is look
ed upon as one Of the ablest military
commanders Of the empire, has the de-
Tense of Petrograd in hand. The i'm
portant defensive works which he has
caused to be constructed about Pskov
are thought to be as nearly impreg-
nable as any intrenchments have
proved in this war. His line, facing
almost south. also serves to threaten
the German communications in the
event of any further advance into Rus
sia and to render any such further ad-
vance dangerous,
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Would Gain Spiritual Influence.
'of importance is not only the
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Goods
Test Our Claim of Saving 5 to Ioc per Can
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Small Peas, No. I size can.......... 121acs
Sears Small Lima Beans
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Del Monte Asparagus Tips. .19c
Schrver's Al Very Small Peas. ... 171Ic
Jockey Club Extra Sifted Peas. .......... 15c
Moosehead Sifted Peas. ...... ..12llc
Gold Bar Hawaiian Pineapple. :. .......:: Zoe
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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-11
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Notice is hereby given that sealed pro-
posals will be received addressed to Box
1893. Punta Gorda (marked proposal for
clearing road) Fla. up to 2 p. m. Monday
March Is, 1915, for grubbing blasting OF
pulling out all brush, palmettos. stumps
and trees from n road way 80 feet wide
beginning at the Il post on East line Sec.
%, r. Al S. K. 20 e. and running thence
west to the Punta Gorda and Acline rock
road about "a miles All of said brush,
palmettos, stumps, trees and other rub
Dish to be burned or cleared off said road
way 80 feet and the road way left clean
and ready for pillow or road. Said
work to be completed to satisfaction of
county commissioners on or before July
/, 1915.
A bond with approved surety in the sum
of $4,000 will be required of contractor
When work is half done. 40 per cent of
contract price will be allowed on con-
tract
A certified check for $1,000 will be re-
quired with such bid to show good faith,
the sum to be returned to unsuccessful
bidders and to contractor when he has
entered into contract and given approved
bond.
The right Is reserved to reject any and
all bids. Said bids will be opened at the
engineers office in the Jordan building,
Punta Gorda, at 2:15 p. m. of said day.
VIM. M. WRITTEN,
County Commissioner, Bird District.