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Evening star., 1915-09-15
Sixth Corps to Rescue.

But Grant had OWNED Lees plans
and sent the 9th Corps. under Gen
Wright, to confront Gen. Earlys vete-
rams. They arrived none too soon, as
Early's skirmishers were advancing
when the flag Of the 9Th Corps was
coming up 7th street
President Lincoln was much relieved
when he learned of their arrival and
drove out to see the operations. Seeing
Cen. Wright standing on the parapet,
he climbed up and several officers fol,
lowed. This group attracted the atten-
ton of some of the enemy.S sharp
shooters and soon an officer near the
President was wounded Gen. Wright
asked Lincoln to retire to safer posi-
ton, and on the Presiden. s replying
general. received the reply that the
general had business there and as
commanding officer he ordered all civil
ians. including the President, - get
down.
This incident, which is well autheh.s
Gated. was chosen the subject of the
picture that is to hang in the 9Th
Corps headquarters The general in
full uniform and with field glasses
in one hand has the other outstretchet
toward the tail form of the President
who is seen wearing the long coat and
extremely high hat of the period, while
the smoke from nearby battery ncats
overhead.
The picture is the work of Miss
Eagiene De Land, "A teacher of draw
ing in the public schools, and a daugh-
ter of the late r. l.. De Land.
Evening star., 1915-09-15
INDIANS NOT ORDERED OUT.
Cato Sells Says Tribe Was Only Ad.
vised to Move.

Cato Sells, Indian commissioner. who
has just returned from tour of inspec-
tion Of Indian reservations in Arizona,
Nevada and California, today denied a
report in a dispatch from San Bernardino,
Cal. that orders for the removal of the
MoJave Indians, near Needles. Cal. to the
Parker reservation had been Issued
He explained that suggestions had been
,ra.e to the Indians to move to the
Parker reservation and take up land that
may be irrigated, but that nothing strong
er than advice had been used to persuade
them to leave their present homes. He
stated there was no possibility of calling
out troops to enforce the removal
Evening star., 1915-09-15
WILL MEET IN CAPITAL.
George D. Sidman Calls Military
Order of the Medal of Honor.

George D. Sidman. secretary of the
Military Order of the Medal of Honor,
has sent out notice to all the COM
panions of the order inviting them to
assemble here during the G. A. r. en-
campment and to attend an informal
meeting at Hotel Sterling. 18th and +
streets northwest, from l to pm. Sep
tember IS.
The Hotel Sterling has been dcsig
mated as the headquarters of the order
during the Grand Army week, where
the companions and their families can
meet for rest. The order has adopted
resolutions on the death of Gen. John
c. Black, late civil service commits
sfoner.
Evening star., 1915-09-15

Some years ago a former member of
the 18th New York Volunteers, who when
prisoner had carved his name on the
door, hearing that it was in Washington,
came to see it. He recognized it at once,
and taking a huge key from his pocket
tried it in the lock and it worked all right.
He said the key had been used in the lock
when he was confined in Libby prison and
that on his release he had secretly
brough it away as a souvenir of his en-
forced stay in Richmond.
The checkerboard was made and used
by the prisoners in Libby prison. 1t
is fourteen inches square and made of
rough boards, worn smooth in spots
by the moving of buttons or stones that
were used by the soldiers as check
ers. The board was made by cutting
the square with knives. Rust-eaten
nails still obtrude slightly from the
surface of the board. This board was
originally marked off on the prison
floor 1t was sawed from the floor
when the prison was being dismantled
and was then bound with brass.
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How Relics Were Preserved.

William A. Mountca stle, long a resi-
dent of Brightwood, was merchant in
Richmond at the time Libby prison was
being torn down and shipped, brick
by brick. to Chicago at the time of the
exposition there. Mr.. Mountcastle had
been using it as a warehouse. He re-
moved the door and the checkerboard.
Some years later the land in Chicago
on which the Libby prison had been set
up outside the exposition grounds be-
came valuable and the old prison was
torn down, so that these relics now in
Washington are all that remain
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ernoon. Every soldier visitor who
wants it will be served with luncheon
between those hours if he wears the
uniform or is recognized by his com
rades. The menu will consist of sand
wiches. cake and coffee. and will be
served Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday. Maj. Parker w. West.
deputy governor of the home, is in
charge of these preparations. but
everything else in the way of receiving
the visitors is exclusively in the hands
of Wilson Post.
Relics of the war at the home are
few. About the only thing which will
attract the special attention of the Wis
itors as a relic of the war is Gen. Sher-
mans saddle
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Duma to Be Prorogued Soon.

PETROGRAD. September Is. via Lon
don.-A member of the duma is quoted
today as saying that the session OF
the duma will be prorogued not later
than September Is.
Evening star., 1915-09-15
Rumanian Railroads Tied Up.

LONDON, September ia dispatch
to the Times from Athens says that
freight traffic on the Rumanian- rail-
ways had been suspended.
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TO BUILD SPECIAL STAND
FOR CIVIL WAR NURSES
Opportunity to View the G. A. r.
Parade Afforded Them and
Bronze Badge Provided.

Erection OF a special stand for the
civil war nurses from which they will
view the parade, the adoption of a spe-
cial .bronze badge, presented by the
Grand Army, and arrangements for a
corps of nurses to look after their COM
fort are features of elaborate plans to
do these women especial honor when
they come here for the Grand Army re-
union.
Mrs. Salome VI. Stewart. national
treasurer of the Association of the
Army War Nurses of the Cival War.
writes from Gettysburg that she is
looking forward to an excellent time
while in Washington at the national
enCamDment
Evening star., 1915-09-15
LIBBY PRISON RELICS
TO Be EXHIBITED HERE
Door and CheckerboardtAll That Re-
main of NotedkWar
Building.
Used by Confederates in Conflict
of 1S61-65 for Safekeeping of
Union Prisoners.

Two interesting relics of'Libby. all
that now exist of that famous Con-
federate prison, are to be exhibited
here during the Grand Army semi-cen-
tennial reunion. They are the door of
the prison, with names of some of
those who We're incarcerated carved
upon it, and checkerboard which was
sawed out of the floor. They are the
property of Capt. p. G. White, a Con-
federate veteran who has lived here
for many years and was for long
time cotton expert in the Depart
ment of Agriculture. His home is at
the Lincoln apartments. 12l 18th
street southeast. He was member of
Company II, 18th Virginia Regiment,
Corsey's Brigade, Pickett's Division
and Longstreet's Corps of the Army of
Northern Virginia.
Grewsome tales are told of life in
Libby prison by the Union soldiers
who were held there during the war.
Thrilling escapes and continual at
tempts to get away are recounted
wherever old soldiers meet.
Evening star., 1915-09-15

The navel orange has been known
in Valencia. Spain, for thirty five or
forty years. but there only $50
acres planted with this variety, as the
yield is light.
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Regarded as Angels of Mercy.

The Veterans look upon the nurses as
angels of mercy. and there is the
strongest of bonds between the ex-
soldiers and the fast-aging women who
helped to tighten the weary burdens of
the sick and wounded in the hospitals
during the civil war. They numbered
at one time about $50, but their ranks
have diminished almost to the vanish
ing point.
Evening star., 1915-09-15

The annual fire loss of Canada is
figured at s20.000,000 by the None
tary Times of Toronto.
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Dimensions of the Door.

The Libby prison door is six feet
high and three and one-half feet wide
1t is made of southern pine planking
an inch thick. five inches wide and
grooved. 1t is braced by three cross
pieces, each an inch thick and eight
inches wide. On the back the marks of
the old-fashioned. pointed hinges on
which it hung are seen, and on the top
crosspiece is the imprint and the
broken bolts of what was evidently a
stout iron bar or brace. The planning,
originally painted dark brown. is
now ashy gray with age. The lock is
d cumbersome old-styIed one, sized six
by eight inches, and is so red with
rust that it is impossible to tell
whether it ever was enameled.
The names of former prisoners rudely
carved on these common old planks are
now of gfeat historic value Some of the
initials and names cut by the inmates of
Libby during their confinement are:
j. w. Mundy, 1t. Co. B.. 10 Ind, cap
tured May 3, 1863 J. A Smith, 1t, New
Fl. Art. captured Sept. 10, 1861: w De
Roster. Co. F.. 18th New York; f. Wax
man, Co. F., 3Oth New York Vol"
One OF two attempts at artistic carving
were made, but most of the prisoners
Evening star., 1915-09-15
Of LINCOLN
ON THE BATTLE LINE
To Be Feature of Decorations at
Camp William G.
Emery.
Washington Artist Shows War Pres
ident Facing Bullets at
Fort Stevens.

One of the outstanding decorations in
Camp Emery. in the old Census build
ing, named in honor of Matthew g.
Emery who organized and command
ed the first company of Union troops
in the District of Columbia in the
spring of 1861. which is to be used as
a rendezvous of the old soldiers at the
coming semi-centennial reunion. is to
to be large painting of President
Lincoln at Fort Stevens during the at
of Gen. Early. This was the only time
in the history of the country when a
President of the United States was
office.
This picture is to hang in the place
of honor in the room assigned as
headquarters to the 9th Corps.
Capital Prize for Confederates.
The capture of this city. the seat of
government and the headquarters of
the armed forces of the nation, was
greatly desired by the men who had
established a rival capital at Rich
mond, only 116 miles away. and from
this desire sprung the incident COM
memorated by the painting.
Although chain of earthworks en-
circled the city of Washington. but
few troops were left to occupy and
defend them, as Grant with all his
force was remorselesslI pressing Lees
lines in an attempt to reach Rich
mond.
Gen Lee. reasoning from his former
experience with the comma nders of
the Army of the Potomac. thought that
a move on Washington would cause the
Union forces to hasten back to defend
the city. In pursuance of this policy
he sent Gen. Jubal Early with about
/ 900 men and thirty-eight guns to
move on the city, capture and oc-
cupy il if possible. or at least create
an alarm which would cause Grant to
relax his efforts for time.
As Early approached. defeating Gen.
Wallace at Monocacy, the situation be
came alarming. The principal advance
was toward Fort Stevens, about three
miles north of the city, and to this
point was hurried every man who
could be pressed into the service: but
they were few, consisting principally
of convaIescents and hospital and quar-
termaster employees.
Evening star., 1915-09-15
ITALIAN % FUR % AUSTRIAN ~
Has Key as Souvenir.

seem to have been content with plain lie
terinS.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-09
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
THE TIME TO ADVERTISE.

There is nothing earth peculiar news
paper advertising. The prime last and all the
time object of an advertisement is to draw trade
1t is not-was not-and never will be designed to
any other human purpose. So the merchant waits
until the busy comes and his store is full
of customers that he can't take his hat off. and
then rushes to the newspapers and puts in his adj
vertsement.
When the dull season gets along and there is no
trade and he wants to sell goods so bad he can't
pay his rent, he takes out his advertisement That
is, some of them do, but occasionally wise mer-
chant puts in bigger ad and scoops in all the
business while his neighbors are making mortgages
to pay their gas bills.
There are times when you couldn't stop people
from buying everything in the store if you planted
cannon behind the door and that's the time the
advertisement is sent out to do the work. It
makes light work for the advertisement, for a
chalk sign on the sidewalk would do all that was
needed and have half holiday six days in the
week, but who wants to favor advertisements?
They are built to do hard work, and should be
sent ont in the dull days when a customer has to
be knocked down with hard facts and almost
knocked insensible with big reductions and
dragged in with irresistible slaughter of prices be-
fore he will come in and buy.
And did you ever stop to think that newspaper
advertising is the most valuable at the minimum
cost, Of any kind Of advertising. campaigns that
are carried on these daysf
Write this down where you II fall over it every
day: The time to draw business is when you
want business, not when you have more business
than you can handle already.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-09
ON THE OLD PLAIN OF TROY.

It is a curious incident which has made the plain
Of Troy the seat of modern fighting, and it is this
coincidence which prompted an historian to note
that out in the bay through which there sailed
thousand ships launched by the face of Helen,
bearing Agamemnon and Ajax, Menelaus and
Achilles lies the superdreadnought Agamemnon,
hurting its great shells, weighing somewhere about
. ton where Agamemnon himself once flung his
spear Three miles from the coast, little more
than mile from the bank of the Mendere, lies the
mound of Hissarik, all that is left of Ilum. When
pfiam reigned at nium, the Greek horse was
dragged over the sands the French troops marched
over when they disembarked to occupy Kun Kale,
and it was on those sands Euripides placed the
scene of his play, the "Trcjan Women" In
Priam's time they called the Mendere the Seaman
der, and it still flows down from Mt. Ida as it
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-09
a MODEL APPOINTMENT.

The satisfaction felt in Washington, in all
circles over the appointment Of Robert Lansing
to the post Of secretary Of state with perma-
nent tenure, is typical Of the attitude Of the
people Of all sections, all parties and all callings
It insures continuity Of policy and method and
maintenance Of the high standard Of technical ex-
cellence which has characterized the official utter
ances defining the national position since the war
opened It therefore leaves the president freer to
met the larger issues of the hour, since he knows
BY experience that in Mr.. Lansing he has COM
petent adviser on all phases of law and of the
technique Of diplomacy that may arise.
president with less discretion might, in the
circumstances have felt it necessary to strengthen
the cabinet by adding to it person Of eminence
in law and statecraft, yet with much to learn
about events public and secret, since last August
and before A president thinking of party sue
cess and personal ambition might have made the
nomination with an eye to both filing the place
and fostering these interests. Instead, Mr. Wilson
has promoted an expert, has recognized merit, has
strengthened his own resources in meeting coming
tests, and has been quite indifferent to any but
the highest motives in filling the place.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-09
THE LABORER AND HIS HIRE.

You We heard of the fellow who's all the time
kicking because the boss don t raise his salary
the fellow who, admitting that he isn't working
any harder than when he started, puts up the
holler' that he wouldn't be paid any more if he
dido"
There's the fellow that S causing good deal of
the discomfort in this country, and he isn't very
far removed from that other who has the
notion the world owes him living The wage
Garner is not entirely to blame, of course. There
are employers here and there who believe in
grinding their men down, who believe in low
wages and cheap labor, but they fast disap-
pearing. When an employer invests his money in
the time and labor of wage-earner he is doing
so to make profit out of that wageearner's time
and labor. If he didn't make profit out of such
investment he woudn' invest. If he does make a
profit out of it, it's pretty general rule nova
days that he will share that profit with the man
who helped him to make it, but if, at the end of
period, he finds that his profit in the investment
isn't any more than when he first employed the
man, he isn't going to pay the fellow any more
and he shouldn't.
There are lot of people in this world whose
only asset is their time and muscle. They sell it
for an agreed price. Then they forget to prove to
the man firm making the purchase that the
article (f you choose to call it that they sell is
worth more than the employer is paying Instead,
they become cock-watchers, whistle-listeners or
payday waiters-merely putting forth exertiOn
enough to hold their jobs that s all. And then,
after working for year or more, they wonder
why they do not draw higher wages.
1t isn't an uncommon sight to such workers.
You'll see them everywhere-in the shops and
mills, on the streets, in the yards, on the farm.
They are neither honest with themselves with
those who give them their meat and bread when
they take such view. If they were honest with
themselves, they would admit that they are plac-
ing higher value upon themselves than they are
entitled to. If they were honest with their en-
ployer, they would admit that he isn't to blame
for not paying more when their work does not net
him more.
Pick out the wage-earner who works as faith
fully for his employer as he would for himself,
and he's the man who holds solid job at good
wages while others are searching for employment.
He deserves it and he gets it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-09

Every local interest should and undoubtedly
will get behind the Chamber of Commerce and
assist it much possible in it's efforts TO obtain
from the national government an appropriation
of half million dollars for deepening the local
harbor. To do this we must present convincing
facts to the federal officials upon whose recon-
mendations these appropriations are largely based,
and it IS in the gathering of those facts that every
local business can help
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-09

One-third Of the fools III the country think they
can beat lawyer expounding the laws; one-half
think they can beat the doctor in healing the sick
twothirds of them think they can put the minister
in the hole expoundng the Gospel, and all of them
think they can beat the editor running a paper
And maybe they can
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-09

Come to Olympia next Wednesday evening and
see the famous Liberty Bell, the bell whose won
derful tones first rang out to the world the free
dom of this nation and whose historical associa-
tons are such that they stir the heart and mind Of
every patriotic citizen. The bit of homage we pay
on such an occasion to this emblem of our nation
atty should come yelling forth gladly from hearts
overjoyed our reverence for it, for what it stands,
for its historical significance and fame, should
make us eager for glimpse of it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-09
LUKE M'LUKE
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Another reason for the high cost
of living is because every woman
wants to be dressed better than other
women.
1t is strange how fond of bathing
a boy is in summer and how much he
detests bathing in winter.
A woman at a bargain sale always
acts as if there is never going to be
another one.
When a woman is around 80 and
still unmarried she does an awful lot
Of talking about "us girls"
A city man sees so much silk and
plush and paint that 1t would be good
for sore eyes to get look at rosy
checked country girl wearing a calico
dress.
Every married woman wonders
why her husband can't keep up his
life insurance without paying the
premiums.
A lodge emblem that is so big that
|it makes one side 81 q mans coat sag
down never adds much to his impor-
lance.
Some men retire to caves and be-
come hermits 30 they will be obscure.
And others marry suffragettes.
Before marriage he would lay
down his life for word from her.
After marriage he won't even lay
down his newspaper to talk to her.
Judging from the way they get
along some couples seem to have
married for the sole reason that the
man wanted an excuse for not going
to war in case his country needed
him.
You may imagine that the war In
Europe is a calamity. but real ca
lamity is when the mother of Ave
small children in poor family is SO
sick that she can't get up and work.
A woman is as certain that her
brand is the best brand of baking
powder as a man is that his brand is
the best brand of booze.
Maybe you can't blame the fellow
who is engaged to girl for six or
seven years before he marries her.
Maybe he figures that he is getting
the bsst of 1t because the longer he
is engaged the shorter he will be
married.
The old-fashioned man who used
to come home loaded down with gro
ceries and bundles now has son
who is too heightened to carry q
bundle. but who brings home . pack
age almost every night.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-09

Was it the irony of fate that hit Ed Sims the
other day-yes, our same old legislative Ed-when
he discovered that relief he asked from the state
department of agriculture in removing a nuisance
adjoining his cannery, could not be granted be-
cause during the last session Ed had smothered in
the rules committee sanitary code proposed by
this Democratic department. smothered on the
general policy Ed followed that nothing suggested
by Democrat should be passed.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-09

The old-fashioned man who used
to come home loaded down with gro
ceries and bundles now has q son
who is too heightened to carry q
bundle, but who brings home . pack
age almost every night.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-05-14

doed ship, that is their lookout, she
argues-they Shouldn't have been
on rd"-though it is the immem-
orial right of neutrals to travel on
the unarmed vessels Of belligerents.
The opinion of the majority of bel
ligerent nations in this war, and the
universal opinion of neutral nations
which is to say, the sentiment of
the vast majority of mankind which.
gives international law it's form and
sanction-holds that in the case of
a ship like the Lusitania, the Ger
mans had perfect right to capture
her as prize of war. They had
perfect right, in case of danger to
themselves, to sink her. But they
had no right whatever to sink her
without giving those on board, un-
armed enemies and particularly un-
armed neutrals, every opportunity to
escape. -
"But to give them due warning,"
OUJcCLS OcIuduy, WOuAu nave 61VCA
them time to escape with the ship,
or to bring warships to attack u.s."
There is just the point. Germany,
pleading military necessity" as
sumed to abolish the rules because
the rules are not suited to the only
form of naval warfare that she is
able to wage.
The simple answer is, that there
were submarines before this war
started, that the limitations of SUBJ
marines have been recognized by ev-
cry nation, and neither in any inter-
national conference nor during the
present war has any power except
Germany (and her allies) tried to
change the. rules to suit the c0nven-
fence of the submarines.
AS Senator John Sharp Williams
says, when submarines admittedly
cannot comply with international OBJ
legations, "the answer is that sub
marines should not be used to sink
merchant ships"