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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10
A Poem a Day
EPILOGuE.

EPILOGUE.
Into a land
Storm wrought, a place OF quakes.
all thunder-scarred.
Helpless, degraded. desolate.
Peace. the White Angel, comes
Her eyes are as n mothers. Her
good hands
Are comforting and helping. and her
Falls on the heart as. after winter.
Falls on the world. and there is no
more pain.
And. in her influence. hope returns
And the passion OF endsavor; so that.
soon,
The idle. ports are insoient with
The stithies roar. and the mills
With energy and achievement; wsaid
Exult; the cottage garden teens
and girl
Mate prosp'rously; there are sweet
There are good women to breed. In
golden fog. ;.
A large. fuli-stomachsd faith In
Kindness
All over the world. the nation. In .
o, money and Low. and sport. hang.
at the paps
OF well-being. and 80
Goes fattening. mellowing. dozing.
rotting down
Into q rich delirium OF decay.
Then. II the Gods be good.
Then. IL the Gods be other than mis-
chievous.
Down from their footstoois, down
With million thr Dated shouting
swoops and storms
War. the Red Angel the Awskener.
The Shaker OF Souls and Thrones.
and At her heel
Trail grief and ruin and shamsi
The woman weeps her man. the
mother her son.
The tenderling IL, father. In wild
A people. haggard with defeat.
Asks IL there be q God; yet sets its
teeth.
Faces calamity. and goes into the
IRE
Another than It was. And In vic
hours
a people. roaring ripe
With victory. rises. menaces. stands
renewed,
Sheds it's old peddiing aims.
Approves its virtue. puts behind It
self
The comfortable dream. and goes,
Armoured and militant.
New pitched. new souled. new-vis-
Toned. up the sleeps
To those great attitudes. whereat the
weak
Live not. But only the strong
Have leave 10 strive. and suffer and
achieve.
w. e. Henley.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10
A WHACK AT THE CENSOR.

The censor is not a bit more popular than be
was His recent order barring the use OF a line
of asterisks to show that article has been
deleted prompts the poet Of the London Globe
to sing:
They won't let stars
Appear In pars,"
Exclaimed the sub, with muffled sob
"The press bureau
Has told me so
I'd be an my job"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10
THE OPTTMIST SPEAKS.

DIR. Elizabeth Sloan Chesser, in n lecture be-
fore the Institute OF Hygiene. declared recently
that the hard work. imposed upon Englishwo-
men az a result OF the Is a splendid thing.
"One more convention regarding our sex has
gone into the melting pot" she said. Woman
is neither delicate nor fragile. Where are all
the neurotic women today? Most Of them are
cured and cheerily doing their work In hos
pitals, depots, canteens and munition works"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10

c tri b ute to
make II so. The
nervous strain OF
holiday shopping
and living in oy-
er-crowded cars
and shops gets
the people pretty
well tagged out.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10
WOEFUL LACK.

although Chugson has had car for almost
six months. he still seems TO think pedestrian
has some rights"
How do you account for that attitude7"
"Its very peculiar "a certainly shows a WOO
full lack OF sef-confidence. - Birmingham Age
Herald
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10

and then while in this condition the
digestive system IL often loaded 20
the breaking point.
That's the program for a very
large percentage OF our population
about this time OF the year and
even q layman when he reads 8,
over heyn't very much dificulty In
pr
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10
OFFICE HOLDERS PARADE.

municipal parade Is the method by which
the authorities In Atlanta recently passed UNI
der the inspection OF the taxpayers
II didn't dream Atlanta was such a great
city" an old-time resident said after he had
stood for an hour and half watching the EN-
ployes-Kansas City Star.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10
Let the People
Rule-and Write
Ample Room For Us.
To the Editor Of The Times:

To the Editor Of The Times:
recent, discontinued a paper
that admits liquor advertisements
TO It's columns and subscribed for
yours, because understand that
you endeavor to run your paper &C
cording TO the Sermon on the
Mount. There Is ample room for pa
pers OF this sort.
J. NEWTON BROWN.
Oberlin. Ohio, Dec. Z. 1915.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10
The Keep Well Column
INDUloENCEs.

The holiday season Ia busy
lime for the doctors. Many things
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10

Play Santa Claus All BY
Yourself and Have Some Fun
Christmas, "the gladdest of birthdays
III al the year." is coming soon now to
nphasize the cases of poverty, of suf-
oRing and misery that the big city
kcws.
We have been prosperous here in De-
3u1t fact that should make us truly
t4&eful, but prosperity is thing, un-
oEtunately, that cannot be general.
Society has not arranged itself to pro-
MD for any such happy state.
"A city upon which Fortune has smil-
e. - abe has upon Detroit, not one home
nenld be passed this year by Santa
There will be organized effort, plenty
- but II we are to make doubly sure
nt saint Nick misses nobody, there
@St h individual effort, and it is indi-
MI effort The Times solicits of YOU,
oder. IN this column today.
IL your own purse be bit slim this
II, you can help just the same in what
Times proposes doing.
r ars begging only from those who
- AFFORD to help US with our plan.
J ask only for the least bit of effort
<1n those who cannot afford to aid
II their pocketbooks.
v y did last year. The Times will act
I'D clearing house between the deserv-
$500 that Santa would be likely to
and those who would like to help
o leses.
~ this Is the way in which those
III they cannot afford to help from
"a pursss, CAN help:
3 they know Of deserving case
11p Christmas remembrance would
welcome, they can drop The Times
fteF, addressed to the Santa Claus"
ortment. stating the nature of the
6 the address, the number in the fam
md the kind of help needed.
The cases reported to The Times will
- carefully investigated.
Il Every year we are almost overwhelm-
q by our readers for suggestions as to
where Christmas basket might bring
cheer.
For the benefit Of these readers, we
win this year, as last, when the thing
worked out beautifully, print the list of
worthy cases by number, without names.
and from it they may select a case for
fheir charity.
Watch for the list
Il Last year We invited the individual to
play Santa Claus all by himself by MAX
ing It point to assume responsibility
Tor at least one family which otherwise
would not experience the gladness OF
christmas day.
We invite you, this year, to practice
.snselfshness to the extent of MAKING
SOMEBODY HAPPY.
s Look about you and let us know if
there is family in your neighborhood
which faces cherries Christmas, and
|Mxite US about it.
e And when our list of deserving cases
pears pick out one for your personal
eontion.
Garry basket to some home yourself
1 - what lot of joy very little
Sr11eo can bring to the hearts of less
INMATE brother and sister.
1ts the finest kind Of fun to play
rln III BY ones self, and fellows
N turkey tastes q whole lot better for
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10

too MANY side lines. But who wants a
political job if fellow has to work for
his board?
Burglars who were frightened away
from a Detroit drug store may have
wanted only stamp.
Preparedness
"Now, she told me not to breathe a
word to soul, and if she should start to
tell you about it herself, be sure and act
surprised, just as if you hadn't heard a
word about it"
Friends who have searched in Detroit
for Miss Burr, whom relative has left
s2S, 900, have been unable to find her.
Miss Burr would do well, it would seem,
to stick around.
The widow of c. w. Post has with
drawn her suit to establish her rights in
the Postum properties. There's reason !;
she gets 100000.
"Billy" Sunday has refused now for
! the second time to accept a call TO De-
troit. Somewhere BILLY" appears to
have gained the impression that we are
alot of tightwads.
Pa seldom hangs up his stockings,
Christmas eve by the side of his bed,
Because mother, for hers,
Wants no less than some furs;
So he hangs up loan shark, instead.
Daisy Morgan and Daisy Hastings, af-
fnities of a st. Paul man, have volun-
.teered to testify for the wife in her suit
for separate maintepalee. The fellow
who wrote that song of some years ago
would be unable to convince this st. Paul
man that Daisies won't tell"
C. T. S.
Possibly there is word
That you may rhyme with Christmas
Suppose you look now, just for fun,
Away across the isthmus.
True, that's long ways, but it may
relieve your anxiety.-B. G.. Chappie, jr.
No. q Oregon-ave.
A Detroit husband who wants a di
vorce, declares he has had to do his owl
cooking. And probably can't stand eat
ing it any longer.
wANTED-Saloon porter; must be ex-
perienced man and sleep on East
Side.--I,tner ad.
| If this doesn't bring him the,
try offering the fellow a bed all to him-
| aeh
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10

William Jennings Bryan has quite uis
turbed the newspapers that do not like
him, that never have liked him and never
will like him while progressive thoughts
continue to come to him faster than to
any other man in the country.
It is a part of Mr.. Bryan's propa-
ganda for world peace that the great ma
tions embroiled in hostilities over in the
Old World are fighting without any good
excuse, and that ALL wars are, in the
last analysis, fruitless and without any
good excuse.
He is assailed at this time by his news
paper enemies as q part Of the respon-
sibility of these newspapers in cam
paign to keep up the war abroad and for
preparedness and for more profits for the
munition makers here at home.
Mr. Bryan is chided as the man who
before anyone else. ought to know what
the nations are fighting for.
If he failed to find out as secretary OF
state. one newspaper says, he could cas-
ily have done so from the newspapers
or the magazines.
This is flippant treatment of the Bryan
question.
He knows. and that newspaper knows
that he knows, the causes OF the war,
and that newspaper knows that Mr.
BRYAN has in mind the bigger question
of foolishly keeping up the fighting at so
great a cost.
Mr.. Bryans question is put with the
knowledge of old world history.
He recalls the Prussian comeback, the
French comeback; he knows the story
of the Balkans and of Alsace-Lorraine.
One thing we have observed and that
is that none of his newspaper critics has
cared to tackle the question he asks, be-
vond the observation that "Mr. Bryan
ought to know"
The fact of the matter is that the
thing is well nigh unanswerable.
The best we can do ourselves is to
suggest that Germany is at war because
war is German sport and the great ma
tional game, and France, Russia and
Italy are fighting because England has
put it up to them to do the fighting.
This isn't denying those brave Cana
dian and Irish sons any of the glory that
is coming to them, but, incidentally, what
are THEY fighting for?
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10

seem TO regard the overlooking OF
the digestive tract az an essential
part OF the holiday festivities.
As matter OF actual practice
there Is great deal more enjoy
ment to be derived from conserva-
tive indulsences In tempting viands.
than eating to satiation. and this Ia
the case even though the feasting
results In no noticeable distress.
When excessive quantities Of food
are consumed the digestive organs
are overworked and certain poisons
are formed which are absorbed by
the blood and carried through the
body to the extent OF taking life.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10

The younger a man IS the more he
has 20 unlearn.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10

Buy and Boost Red Cross Christ.
mas seals. and do good as well as
.Ona
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10

Those who can AFFORD to do so
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10
" Haven't Answered
Ne Pryan's Question Yet

rent nations know why
ct why not tell the
-. ncHSrs q var
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10

Burglars who were frightened away
from Detroit drug store may have
wanted only stamp.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-10
From Another Point of TeD
BIZ c. T. S.

Out in Dakota they have fired the sec
rotary of a school board because he had
too many side lines. But who wants a
political job if fellow has to work for
his board?
The Washington times., 1915-06-25
BARS IN GEORGETO
!, NOW PLAN APPEAL
p. F. Carr and James w. War
: dell to Protest Ruling
Against Licenses.

Z An appeal will be taken from the rul-
ing of Justice Mccoy, Of the District
Supreme Court, who granted an IN
junction restraining the Excise Board
from issuing or continuing licenses for
the saloons of p. r. Carr and James w.
wardell, adjoining the electric railway
station at Thirty-sixth and NJ streets
northwest.
Leon Tobriner. one of counsel for the
defendants, said today that an appeal
would be taken at once. In the mean
time 1t is understood that the two es-
Establishments will continue to do busi-
ness.
Members OF the Excise Board said to-
day that each of the two licenses In
question contained a clause to the
effect that they were valid only until
an adverse ruling of the court. The
board has received no official notiflca-
tion of the Injunction issued yesterday
by Justice Mccoy. g.. ,.E.p
Francis H. Stevens, assistant corpora
ton counsel, who represented the Ex-
that ne supposed the two saloons in
question would be allowed to remain
open pending the appeal of their cases
but declared he could not speak authori.
tatively. .. d
The petition for an Injunction was
filed by Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert
and Crandall Mackey. representing the
Washington and Old Dominion Railway
Company. 1t contended that the Excise
licenses to the places in question, as
they were outside the fire limits at the
time the act creating the board was
passed. i.
The Washington times., 1915-06-25
Read II Here
N0zO
SEE 1T LATER IN
THE MOVIES
Continued from Yesterday


He forced his way to the middle Of the
crowd, and then he had to give up. 1t
was all he could do to fight his way
out again.
The other end of the room was in
flames. Through the soles of his shoes
Tommy knew that the whole floor was
burning on its underside.
A glance at Celestla filed his heart
with pity that was almost intolerable.
She, too, 1t seemed. had gone mad with
terror. Along the walls of the room
were many tire buckets half full of
water. Celestia had caught up one of
them and was running toward the
struggling mass of humanity around
the door. But Celestia had not gone
was still capable Of putting two and
two together.
She hurled the contents of the bucket
into the thick of the crowd, and raced
off for another. The effect of that sud-
den shower of cold water was extraordi-
nary. 1t seemed to change the psychol-
cgy of the crowd from fear of fire to
fear of water.
himself caught up bucket and began
to fling water on the crowd. And be-
tween them they besa:2 . clear a way
: to the door. But the fact that the floor
was beginning to burn through helped.
Tommy got to- the door at last and
dragged 1t open. That started another
stampede that had to be controlled with
more water and with more violence. But
gradually Tommy ut the door and Celes-
tia in the crowd begun to bring little
order out of the chaos, and to herd the
girls through the doorway like sheep,
not too many at time.
Twice there was a jam, but Tommy
Strengthened the half-witted girls out
hurrying one and restraining another.
He was too busy to see what Celestia
was doing. but he called to her from
time to time.
1t had been q slow business. and by
now the floor was BURNING clear
through in many places, so that some
of the last girls to pass through the
door to safety went with burned feet.
Hurry. Celestial" called Tommp. 1--WE
can 60 now
She did not answer.
He saw her at a window struggling tc
open ii. She was, you may say, on lit
tie island of floor surrounded. we'll not
yet by a sea of flames. but by strong.
lv rising tide thereof.
This way. Celestia! For Gods sake
don't iump!"
And he ran to her across the smok.
ing and burning floor. AS he reached
her a portion OF the floor over which
he had Just passed fell in with a crack,
ling, crashing sound, and through the
aperture flame and smoke roared up
ward as from the crater of a volcano.
Celestia had not succeeded yet In
opening the window. AS Tommy reach,
ed her she staggered and fell into hi:
arms.
He turned with her toward the door
and groaned like thing that had beer
hurt TO death. Escape that way looked
impossible.
Supporting Celestia with one arm III
succeeded in opening the window. Th'
crowd in the street below saw them
and q kind Of groaning and lamenta
tion arose.
The Washington times., 1915-06-25

PEKING, May 1s.-There was fire
down by the Chen gate last night,
and the way II was handled Is an I'M
perishable proof that Mark Twain's
advice to firemen was not given In
vain.
The Chinese followed II to the let
ter, and even improved upon it, for they
not only yelled all the time. but they
beat gongs and blew trumnets and rat
tied bells and employed several other
unusual but highly efficient means of
making a row.
Twain, you remember. insisted that
uninterrupted yelling was absolutely
the first essential of successful fire
fighting The Chinese have that skinned
mile. Not that they are not good
yeilers. They are, most decidedly. They
can yell .all together and keep 1t up
longer than any crowd of college foot
ball rooters that ever escaped from cap
tivity. and that without sign of help
from any recognizable leader. ~
Home of the Tom-Tom.
Yelling. perpetual. incessant. unfnter-
rupted, brass lunged and steel throated
yelling, Is only. a mere Incident Of Chi
nese fire fighting. 1t takes the tom tom
and brass gong to make a proper rum
pus at a fire, and the Chinese have
that down to a single alspice. :.
This Is the ancestral home of the tom
tom and the gong. The other evening
as was walking down one. of the main
streets I heard a most bloodcurdlins
racket proceeding from small snop,
and poked my head inside to see what
II. was about.
A cheerful old great-grandfather was
bent on buying new gong ana Wat
busy trying out the entire stock In tnt
shop before making his selection. Ane
half thousand people were ncrow,nr1t croWn,hs
around They blocked the street unit
the police cleared the way.
But about this fre. Just at the wes
OF the big gate. and inside the wall
there were four or five little buildingi
used for various purposes. all one story
cheaply constructed, with brick wail'
and very little wood or other inf1amma
BILE material in them. That was th'
| habitat of this fire.
| there is a small we'll. out of which th'
Pekipg white wings draw the wate
| they sprinkle by means of long HANDLED
! wicker baskets. on the dusty street
thereabouts. That was the water sup
ply for fighting this fire.
YellcrS Arrive FIRST.
Peking is we'll equipped with fire ap
paratus, but 1t is like most of the tenn
pies, built before the days OF Noah ant
| never required. 1t consists of hand en-
gines-the kind that served as the mode
tfor the old Honeybee s. when Pop Glib
son, the oldest living Vamp, was a kid
The Peking service Is furnished wit
| two styles Of these evidences OF ancien
| ingenuity. One Is large enough for fou
men on each brake, the other for onl
two men on side.
First of the Peking fire fighters I
| reach the scene of this confiagratio
were the yelIers. or course. everybod
| belongs to the yelling brigade. but tn
| advance guard does nothing but vel
while the later corners have some othe
duties as well, although these duties ar
not permitted to interfere with the yell
1 ing.
! Immediately behind the advanc
The Washington times., 1915-06-25
Electrical Vehicle Men
Enjoy "Eva's June Party"

With q baseball game between team
OF ten men and one of nine, followed
by buffet luncheon and other things,
the Washington branch of the Electro
cal Vehicle Association of America
made merry in a vacant lot on Shop
herds road yesterday afternoon and
evening in what was officially termed
"Eva's June Party" .. &,
There is some doubt as to the outcome
Of the game since Charlie Marsh, secre-
tary and keeper of records under ordi-
nary circumstances, says this morning
that he thinks Harry Duckstein figured
out the score. but he cannot be certain
team which was awarded conditional
victory by Bruce Emerson, who was en-
powered to pick the winner If he could.
Emerson was a member of Bartram' 8
team, but this fact was not allowed to
influence his Judgment. Accordingly
Bartram was decorated with medal
made of a five-inch copper casting sus-
pended by q dog chain from n heavy
Iron bar suitably engraved with a record
of the event. The presentation speech,
however, pointed out that the teams
would play it off some Saturday after
noon in the near future. the loser to buy
dinner for the crowd jun Orme was
captain OF the other team. .
About twenty members OF the associa.
ton TIC m, participated in a. "Gya,s June Party.
feet of automobiles. followed by ar
munftion." Among those present Were
Messrs e Mesks, Fisk; Dncksteln, Jones
Emerson, jr.s orrne, HarVeSc%tte2 ut, q
Hines, Keiser, Bartram, Hall, Young
MMarsh: M: Foraker. Erkman, Ward. and
The Washington times., 1915-06-25
Celestia began to revive.


Tommy had turned his back to the
window. Not until the last moment
would he let her jump. and then only
to escape a more shocking death. Mean
while his heart beat strongly, and he
pressed her closer and closer to his
breast as II he thought as they had at
best but a few minutes to live he must
make her understand how much he
loved her. Speech could not help much.
And Of speech he had not in those
pressed her close to his breast and
kissed her upon the eyes and the mouth
and murmured and murmured over her.
oh" he thought. IF only she could
love me, could let me know she loved
me before the end"
1t seemed to him that he couldn't die,
that he mustn't die without her know
ing that.
Then a sudden and moro practical
thought came into his head. If he was
| to die, he must die trying to save her.
| Then she would understand. He looked
about him wildly. and his eyes fell upon
| great roll of black and white striped
| material for making shirts. Leaving
/ Celestta leaning against the wall near
the open window, he made dash for
the shirting and unrolled a number of
! the fire buckets that still contained
| water
| 1t was his notion to wrap Celestia
| in the wet stun, to take her in his
! u,
| and to that safety which seemed to
| exist beyond.
| BY some strange freak of the fire there
was still quite Il large area OF floor
ing Celestia, as yet unburned. But be-
tween that and the door, to make the
chance In hundred. The one who was
carried might live to tell the tale. The
one who did the carrying could hardly
| hope for Sc much He would be so bad
| hIIFnn1 hpt oil Ia olr.L.
alive when he reached the street, he
| would not live long thereafter.
| 1t takes many words often to tell OF
| what happens in a few instants of time
From the first cry of fire to the time
when Tommy had wrapped Celestia In
the wet shrting, and was preparing
you may say. to wade through hell fol
her; was only a few minutes.
The, last girls to leave the sewing
machine room had only just reached the
street. Fire engines were still coming
The crowd that watched the confagra,
tion was still growing.
Now for it," thought Tommy, and
to Celesta he shouted (he had to shout
to make himself heard:
Don't be afraid. dear. I'm going t.
get you out of this!'
And he gathered her strongly In his
arms, pictured out. with swift eyes
through the flames. drew one great
long breath OF fresh air. and just theI
another great piece of flooring fell in
and Tommy saw the narrow hallway
beyond the door burst suddenly into {
He was too late by a matter OF in
stants,
II he had not wasted those preciou,
saved her. The agony Of soul that h
went through with this realization wa
fTightful. Death by fire seemed almos
Itoo good for such fool