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The Washington herald., 1915-09-19
Daughters Of Rebek.h.

AT the regular meeting of Esther
Rebekah Lodge, No. s. last Monday
evening. the lodge was favored with
. visit from Mrs. Lama L. Coleman,
Of Lynchburg. Va, president of the
Rebekah Assembly Of Virginia She
gave splendid talk on the Odd Fell
lows Home Of Virginia, showing the
prominent part the Rebekah's took in
its estabhshment and the grand work
accomplished by this home.
A surprise was given the lodge By
the entertainment COMMITTEES in the
form OF . well rendered program.
After . piano solo by Niss viola wal
lace and several songs and dancssr
by Miss Viola Enpy Q yory unSave
The Washington herald., 1915-09-19
improved Order Of Red Men,

1os,r Tribe. No. 8, held their regu-
lar meeting Thursday night AT hea
Mems Hall, Wisconsin avenue ana n
street northwest. Sachem Powell Lau
than presided. The bowling team IS
growing. and all the tribes OF the Dis
| trict will take part
Usage Tribe. No. 6. met Monday
night at Society Temple. Fifth and g
| street northwest. Business OF i'm
! nortance was transacted in reference
to the visit Of the various tribes to
Herndon. Va. next Tuesday night.
Seneca Tribe, No. II. met Friday
night at Bank Hall. 31e Pennsylvania
avenue. The matter Of bowling team
was discussed and it was decided to
enter a team in the Red Mems League.
The various members are busy in get
ting candidates for the fall class to be
held in October. The tribe Will go TO
Alexandria. Thursday night. septem-
| ber %. to attend the seventh anniver-
sary of Semenola Tribe.
Mineoia Tribe, No. II. met Friday
night at Masonic Temple. Anacostia.
The Great Representative DR.. Tibbitts
was present and stated that he was
going to leave soon for Chicago. Ill,
to attend the meeting of the Great
kCouncil of the United States.
osceola Tribe. No. 1s. met Wednes-
! day night at Masonic Temple. Tennaly-
town The regular routine OF business
was transacted and reports OF the sick
committees were acted upon. Past
Sachem o. NJ Borrows Is reported as
improving. The degree team Is busy
at work.
Red Wing Tribe. No. 20. met at s4s
Louisiana avenue northwest Monday
night The tribe received a visit from
| delegation from the various tribes OF
| Alexandria, Va, headed by the Great
Junior Sycamore Sullivan, who spoke Of
the visit that he and the great sachem
of Virginia intended to make to Hern-
don and invited the Red Men of the Dis
trict to accompany them. Great junior
pleased when Past Sachem Boyer. Of
Red Wing Tribe. presented him with q
beautiful floral offering.
On behalf Of Semenola Tribe an fnvi-
tation was extended to the Red Men Of
the District to visit the tribe on their
seventh anniversary. to be held In Alex
andria. Va. on Thursday night. Sep
tember q. and the Red Men Of the Dis
trict Will be escorted by the Indian
Guard Band from the Union Station at
Alexandra.
The Red Mems Club had the pleasure
Of entertaining Past saehem Lem Suili-
van, Of Alexandra. Va, who II presi-
dent Of the Red Mems Club In Alexan-
dria. The great junior sagamore of
Washington, Jacque Heidenhetmer, well
coined the visitors on behalf Of the To-
sal club.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-19
Mount Pleasant Lodge to Confer
Two Degrees.


Mount Pleasant Lodge, No. 20. will
meet in regular session Tuesday night.
Fourteenth and Kenyon streets north
west. The first and second degrees
will be conferred. The lodge album.
recently adopted. has proved to be an
interesting feature. and more than
one third Of the membership has ar
ranged for photographs. Capt. R. W.
B. Roe, of the lodge duckpin team, is
busily engaged arranging for the
series Of games to be rolled with a
team from Eastern Lodge. No Z, OF
which Past Grand W. E. Lawson 10
captain. John ]. verleger will be an
chor man for the Mount Pleasant az
gregation. Past Grand Samuel e.
Boyce will serve in q like capacity for
Eastern Lodge. Noble Grand Edwin
Allan Swingle announces that there
will be degree work each meeting
throughout the remainder of the year,
except the frst meeting In December,
when the Grand Lodge visitation will
take place. An invitation 10 extended
to the fraternity to be present at the
meetings OF the lodge.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-19

Rritain's big naval guns are lifted With
teIeacopes to enable the gunner to have
:. clear view Of the object 70 b hit.
one drop Of petrol WIN kill q wasp In
stsntly. but II applied to Q oee q ~.
4 Vfll b quite ineBoc&3xA
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Nete. OF Pythian sisters.

Nathbone Temple. No. 8. Pythian SIS
tsfs. WIN hold It's annual ron e! may
Siiik and - most excellent CHIEF Ma
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Third DEGREE to BE Conferred.
spslding Council met last Thursday
svsuing. Grand xnigAt Btggs an
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1ratsraal Hevs On Pags xias.
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September ao-National Tent. No. /, Old Masunts
Temple
September z2-District Tent, No. g. hall, FUu.
and-a-haf and G streets southwest
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Joint Installation Announced.

The sixty newly-elected officers of
Washington Keane. Carroll. Spaldins
and Potomac councils viii he installed
Thursday evening, September 80. at 7:3o
o'clock in K. Of c. Hall. A public meet
ing follows at 9 o'clock. arranged In hon
or of the G. A. r. veterans and visitors.
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knights Of Pythias Events.
Calendar.

a'rt LODGES
September D-Amaranth. No. .; Century. No. %
ssptembsr 1-wehster. No. Z; E6eslsisr. No. u
Capital. No. n. knight rank: Myrtle. No. ..
September 0-Mount Vernon. No.. S: Hsfnioue
Ne. u; Union. No. 2: Columbia. No. B. work
September HLHsrmony. No n.
septeanber ESyracusians. No. 10; Rathboue-su
pefior. No. o. rank Of page
PYTHIAN SISTERS.
September 2o-Monthly meeting Of Past Chiefs
Association.
September E-Fnendship Temple. No. 3
September ARathbone Temple No. g. roll call
HALL ASSOCIATION.
September 3-Mouthly meeting.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-19
H. p. Mcintosh to Give Lecture.

Past Master to Confer Degree.
Worshipful Master John W. Ward. in
his circular. calls special attention to
the communication of Hount Pleas
ant Lodge No. 33, tomorrow night
when the NJ. N. degrees will be con-
ferred by past masters of Harmony
Lodge. after which refreshments will
be served.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-19

The funeral services for Joseph NJ
Frizzell, a member Of Equal Lodge. No
II, who passed away Tuesday at Vienna,
Va, were held Thursday at Oak Hill
chapel.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-19

Matthew e. O'Brien ImprOvfnG.
Matthew E. O'Brien. past grand OF
Union Lodge and past chief patriarch
OF Fred D. Stuart Encampment has
been confined in the Providence Hos
pital for the past week suffering from
a nervous breakdown. but is now al
is home, 202 A street southeast on a
fair way to recovery within the next
few days.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-19
First Visitation to BE Given.

Grand Chancellor William A. Kimmel
announces that the subcommittee Of the
council of Grand Lodge officers is again
active in the work of organizing q new
lodge in Mount Pleasant. He expects
the plans outlined to result in the estab-
lishment Of a lodge in that section with
in q few weeks.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
''NEvER AGAIN." SAYS
YANKEE, Ex- SOLDIER
Seven Foot Baltimore Man Tells
Of Experiences In Trenches.

New York. Never again. This
was the whole souled utterance of Rut-
ledge F. Gardner of Baltimore, seven
foot (almost passenger who went to
England in December and enlisted in
King Edwards horse and went to
France with his regiment. He return
ed with much experience and a wrist
watch. This is his chronicle:
1--WE were sent to France in Febru-
airy, where we mounted at Calais and
rode to. Neuve Chapelle. There we
spent lot of time in holes in the
ground, shooting at an unseen enemy
and being shot at ad lib.
LAS i was a pretty big man was
often detailed as 'creeper' They're
quite an institution in the service now.
The duty of the 'creeper' is to sneak
toward the German lines at night to
locate snipers. The way you locate
them is by letting them fire at you.
You catch the fash OF the rifle, see?
Then your side fires at the flashes. It's
quite game, believe me!
"A trench fell in on me, and l was
sent back to England and there dis.
charged.
THE Americans fighting with the
English are not very popular. They
are called Yanks and come in for lot
of spoo6ng. In my regiment there
wasn't much future
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
nero WAS MODERN
HAD THREE ELEVATORS
And AobaIe Skirt Reigned In
Moses Time, Says Scholar:

Philadelphia. = The palace of Nero
had three elevators.
In the year 6 A. D. an income tax
was established in Rome on all in
comes in excess of $4,000.
The hobble skirt was one of Dame
Fashions DEGREES in the days of Moses.
These and many other interesting
facts going to show that life among
the ancients was not so different from
that of today were brought out by
Professor Camden M. Cobern, explorer
and archaeologist, who has just re-
turned from a trip to Palestine.
Professor Cobern in a series of lec-
lures upon his archaeological discov-
cries pointed out that the Jews had
three systems Of shorthand reporting
In the first century and that in every
Jewish court shorthand reporter or
clerk sat on each side of the judge
Many Of the Roman aristocrats took
"stenographers" with them upon their
travels.
Some of the other advantages enjoy.
ed by the ancients according to Pro.
lessor Cobern follow:
In St. Pauls time there were seventy
labor unions in Rome; hence struggle
between capital and labor must have
been waged even then.
There were several great monopolies
In the first century. the greatest of all
being the oil business, although no
mention of Rockefeller appears on the
papyrus examined by the American
scholar. The trust" had not cornered
kerosene. which was unknown at that
period. but dealt in olive OIL There
also were monopolies in eggs, perfumes
and bricks.
AS to homes the ancients made the
New York millionaires look like pix
ers." Professor Cobern says he has
read In manuscripts dug from ancient
tombs and houses of Roman who
spent $12.OOO.OOO upon decorations for
his house
Another plutocrat. spent $4,000 900
In one year. Even Nero was no SLOUGH
when It came to burning money" On
one occasion he spent S175.OOO for roses
on his banquet tables. The roses were
brought from Egypt.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
TO PARDON ALL DERELIcTs,
Many Old Inmates Of Georgia Prisons
to Be Released

Is y - j ly1 d 4 ~
to Be Released.
Atlanta. Ga.-One Of the last official
acts of Governor John Nj. SlatOn, who
will be succeeded this spring by Gov.
ernOr Nat F.. Harris. will be the par
doning of some hundreds Of Georgia's
forgotten prisoners. who have been in
prison so long that about all their
friends and kindred have died.
The governor recently visited the
state farm at Milledgeville to learn
something about these human dere.
licts. AS they approached one by one
to lay their petitions before the gov
ernor they seemed very weary.
The governor found convicts who
had been imprisoned for twenty five
years or more. learned that their
friends were dead. that nobody re.
mains to bring their petitions before
the pardoning board: that in fact they
are human beings utterly forgotten
He talked with them and then had de-
tails Of their lives prepared. and now
he is considering their petitions.
Those who | think deserve pa.
role" the governor says. have expiat-
ed fully any crime they have done.
While l am opposed to maudlin senti-
ment In paroling prisoners. found
at the prison men who have lived
without complaint or violation Of the
rules for twenty-five years or more.
They are exhausted. worn out old peo
pie after half a lifetime in prison
They almost have forgotten what it is
to have liberty. They are listless. and
their faces have lost animation They
simply are very tired. think consid-
GRAFTON might we'll be shown for them"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
SEEKING PARDON
FOR LEO FRANK
Condemned Mans Only Hope
: Is Executive C|emency.
COURT SAYS TRIAL WAS FAIR

Manager Of Pencil Factory, Convicted
Of Murder of Fourteen year. old EN-
ployee, Exhausts All Legal Actions
Without Avail, but Still Remains
DISQUALIFICATION Watching Case.
Atlanta, Ga.-Although the highest
court in the land has decreed that he
must pay the death penalty for the
murder of little Mary Phagan, Leo
Frank has not given up his fight. His
attorneys are now busy on new plans,
and the young man, condemned to the
gallows, is still hopeful. The supreme
court Of the United States in deciding
that his trial had been fair, that the
jury had not been Influenced by public
sentiment. apparently blasted his last
hope.
There was one ray Of light, however.
He could appeal to the governor of
Georgia for clemency, but there was
no further legal action apparent.
All the nation watched this case
closely. Friends of Frank held that
race prejudice entered into the trial.
frank is Jew. Hundreds Of letters
are pouring into the Office Of the gov
ernor Of Georgia asking for a pardon
or for communication Of the sentence to
life imprisonment.
Frank was manager and also a share
holder In a pencil factory at Atlanta.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
MONTHS IN PRISON
''HAPP|ES1 OF LIFE"
Also Most Useful, Says Exon
Wet, a California Millionaire.

Atlanta, Ga. - When Frederick A.
Hyde. sixty-seven years old, million
aire land dealer and former president
Of the board Of education of San Fran.
cisco. left the federal penitentiary
here. after serving sixteen months, his
first statement was that those months
had been the most useful of his whole
life. He added that he would return
to his home in California, where bis
wife, daughter and three sons are wait
ing for him, not afraid to look any|man
in the face.
"Not only have these sixteen months
been the most useful in my career"
said Hyde when interviewed in his
apartments at the Piedmont hotel, "but
this period has been the happiest of
my life, and have derived more good
from my work at the prison than at
any other time" .-...
Hyde was imprisoned in December.
1913, after one Of the most sensational
court battles in the history OF the. coun-
try. He was sentenced to serve two
years for alleged conspiracy in land
frauds, but the sentence was commu-
ted by President Wilson.
At the penitentiary Hyde was known
among his fellow prisoners as the IAN
gel convict because Of his work to
better the conditions of the other pris-
oners, especially those who were poor.
He was assigned to the prison news
paper, Good Works. and in the per-
Torrance of his duties was allowed to
go to all parts Of the prison and min
gle with all the convicts.
From the first he took an interest in
their welfare. He found that baseball
and a few wornOut movie films were
the only amusements in the prison.
He laid out plans for complete ath-
letic field which. with money furnish
ed by himself, was constructed by
Hyde and his fellow prisoners.
Hyde's greatest work in the prison
was with the unfortunate men who
finished their terms but looked upon
freedom with no pleasure because they
were without friends or, money TO
make a new start in life. To hun
dreds of these Hyde gave encourage
ment and money, in many cases fur
nished them with sufficient funds to
re-establish themselves in business.
One Of Hyde's philanthropies in the
prison was the establishment of H.
brary. He bought hundreds of valua-
BILE books with his own money and do
mated them to the prison.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
PLAYS TUBA ALL DAY LONG.

After Twenty seven Hours Of Blowing
He Drank Gallons of Beer.
+ New York.-Lambaertus Johannes de
Jung says be is the champion tuba
player Of the world. He plays the big
horn in the band Of the Holland Amer.
lea liner Potsdam. recently in port
here. Lambaertus says he won the
championship about year ago in a
contest at Rotterdam with Rintje You
erinus. also celebrated Holland
tubist
In this contest De Jung played for
tWenty-seven hours continuously. east
~ understanding his competitor. who
blew himself out at something over
tWenty-three hours. After this long
period Of playing Lambaertus said he
was not particularly tired but very
thirsty and had thirty-four seidels,
which was also record. it was said.
even for Rotterdam.
From constant playing the lung pow.
er Of Lambaertus has developed to
such an extent that he often has to
run around the deck several hours be-
fore playing. Otherwise. he says. the
tremendous pressure might blow the
lining out of the tuba. When steam
Is low In the boilers be is often called
upon to blow the Potsdam's whistle.
This is especially helpful in fog,
economizing on steam. -,.
Lambaertus halls from Leyden and
has been an expert on the tuba ever
since he can remember, as his father
was before him. He has many decora-
tons and is also barrel shaped to
great extent, as tuba players often be-
come. according to DR.. Taft, the ships
surgeon. This makes him an expert
wrestler. He has played the Potsdam
IN and out Of Hoboken for six years.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
SENIORS SPENT $1,079,111.
Difference In Expenses of Richest and
Poorest Yale Students.

Difference In Expenses of Richest and
Poorest Yale Students.
New Haven. The members of the
Yale class of 1915 will get their diplo-
mas In June at total cost of $1.O79.-
Ill, according to the expense accounts
of the men who gave the figures in
their personal statistics published in
the Yale News.
The figures show the great difference
in the financial resources Of the men
who go to Yale and testify to the
continued existence of democracy there.
In freshman year, which is the most ex-
pensive, the most aft1uent man spent
$4,000. while the most frugal got his
education for cash outlay of $500.
Perhaps due to parental conferences
over freshman years expense accounts
or to the financial depression. the rich
est man in sophomore year spent but
$500, while the poorest man spent
$500 cash. The average for the year
was $1,O76 man. Last year the aver
age expenses a man were 81. LOG. indi-
vidual expenses varying from $4,000
to 5000. This year the richest man
expects to spend a total of $500 and
the poorest man $3.50.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
Electric liaht Good aait.

Mount Vernon, III. Chauncey Houch-
In, Fred Van NADIA and Rex Fowler.
White river fishermen, have invented
a plan which has been helpful to them
IN catching fish. They made an ar
rangement for lighting the water.
which attracted hundreds Of fish to the
place, and these eagerly bit at the bait
dropped to them on hooks. The catches
were unusually large. The arrange
ment for lighting the water consisted
OF eight dry batteries, to which an
electric light was attached and drop
ped into the water. The wire was
heavily insulated to prevent charging
the water with electricity.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
HUNGRY CHICKS PROVE CASE.
Come Home With Quantity Of Neigh
boris Corn and Few Massaoe.

Come Homo With Quantity Of NEIGH.
boris Corn and a Few Messages.
Stevens Point, Wis.-Frank M. Sack
EFT, after great deal Of difficulty, has
convinced II. K. West of this town
that his chickens are a lot Of bandits
at heart. He told him about it long
ago, and now, Mr.. West. blushing, adj
mits it.
MI. Sackett complained that his seeds
We're being dug up faster than he could
plant them. Mr.. West spoke about
Missouri, and Mr.. Sackett agreed to
SHOW him." He scattered corn in his
garden. but first ran thread through
each kernel. and OH the far end he tied
little cards.
Hanging from each chickens beak
when they went home were the evil
dences Of guilt. No jury's verdict was
ever more damning.
Here are few Of the inscriptions on
the cards:
81 have just been scratching in Mr..
Sackett's yard"
II am naughty chicken"
II have been trespassing."
II am a feathered bandit"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
LINK HORSE FOUND.
Discovery Of Three Toed Fossil Re-
ported to Scientists.

Discovery Of Three Toed Fossil Re-
ported to Scientists.
Berkeley, Cal.-The missing link in
the evolution Of the horse has been
discovered in the miocene strata of the
southern Sierra Nevadas, it was re-
ported to the Pacific coast division of
the archaeological Society of America
in convention here.
The fossil form discovered by j. P.
Buwalda of the University of Cali
fornia is that Of three toed horse of
the merychippus type. said to have
been long sought by scientists to fill
the gap in the history Of the horse. 1t
Is said the fossil fits precisely the de-
scription of the hypothetical animals
which scientists have maintained must
have existed in horse history.
President Henry Fairfield Osborn of
the American Museum Of Natural His
tory in New York said that fossils Of
the merychippus of the miocene period
had been found In the western Dakotas
and Nebraska. but not before in Cali
fOrnia.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
FARMERS BIG PROFITS,
War Demands, It Is Said, Added 5000,
100000 to Growers Gains.

War Demands, It Is Said, Added $780,.
100000 to Growers Gains.
Chicago.-Europe's war has enriched
middle west farmers approximately
$2OO,0OO,OOO. the money going chiefly
to growers Of grains. What spectators
have made by the war perhaps never
will be known.
A prominent grain merchant said the
$2OO,OOO,0OO extra received by farm
ers for their bumper wheat, corn and
oats crops can be readily accounted for
by citing the one instance in regard
to prices for cash wheat. He pointed
out that wheat now is selling and has
been for months at from 35 cents to so
cents more bushel than it would have
brought but for the war; t.-.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
KICKED BY MULE; RETALIATES

Because WoIton Kicked Back He Was
Put In Jail In kentucky.
independence, Ky.-Were you ever
kicked by mule? If so. did you ever
attempt to kick back?
Doing the latter is what caused the
arrest Of Robert Wolton. He is charg-
ed by an s. P. G. A. officer with being
cruel to mule in that he kicked it
with so much force that the animal
suffered great physical pain and ag-
ony."
Wolton declares the mule kicked first.
He said he kicked back in self de-
tense. and that the special officer only
saw that part of the entertainment
and arrested him.