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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-04
VETERANS TALK MODERN WARS.
Union Soldiers /, Alliance Holds
Quarterly Meeting and Banquet.

VuaFterIy "ee"B ~~
The modern machines Of war and the
enormous armies Of Europe were dis
cussed by veterans Of the civil war.
who are ne.::; crs Of the Union Soldiers
Alliance at the quarterly meeting of the
alliance at the Ebbitt last night. Fol-
lowing the business meeting banquet
was served. Those present were:
Stephen Band. A. H. Richardson. Sam
uel B. Roane. Albert y. Roome. George
" Rose, George c. Ross. Charles G.
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Mining experts in the Philippines agree
that a steady increase In the gold pro-
duction of the islands may be expected
for an indefinite period.
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| WILL BUY

$1,000 WashinGton Gas Sc at 1885,.
$1,000 Wash. Rwy. q Elec. So at ScIk
$1,000 Potomac Consld. So ut 1907.
30 Capital Traction at 20.
. Wash. Rwy. pfd. ut $50.
20 Wash. RNy. com. ut sly.
- Washington Gas at n.
20 Ge0rEet0wn Gas ut 81.
10 MergenthaIer ut 152k.
Bank of wasbipGton ut EOS.
- Munsey Trust at %.
50 United States Trust (oner wantedD.
30 Graphephsne com. {offer wantedp.
Subject to previous acceptance or
cancellation All executions for cash.
Buying and selling orders on all listed
stock and bonds solicited.
Deliveries for cash at yssr ewn bank.
THOMAS l. HUME. Broker,
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STRIKE-BREAKER ARRESTED.
Charged with Carrying Concealed
Weapons As He Enters District,

The first arrest in the strike Of brew
cry workmen was made last night when
Frank Gray. Of Los Angeles, a strike
breaker. in charge OF the bottling de-
partment Of the Arlington Brewery
Rosslyn. Va. was taken into custody by
Policeman c. H. Steinberg. Of the Seventh
police station. charged with carrying
concealed weapons. Gray was arrested
As he entered the District from the Dis
trict- Rosslyn bridge.
Gray told police the strikers had threat
ened to throw him overheard IL he
kept on working.
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Ecuador last year exported hides val
ued at s2SS 237
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THOMAS l. HUME, Broker,
1910 q st- Roons s-l1. Tel. n. 1855.
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New York.

Furnished BY y. L. Carpenter { Co.. woodward
Building.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
CUPID IN WAR TIME
Weddings in a Hurry Are Now the
Fashion.
Romance Surrounds Almost All War
Marriages and All Records for
Speed Are Shattered-char-
tiers Ship for Ceremony.

London.-A newspaper edited and
published in some inexplicable man
ner by the British soldiers in the
trenches has the following society
note concerning the recent wedding
of a young officer:
"Tw~enty-four hours after the cere-
mony the bridegroom left for Bou-
logne by the famous one o'clock spe-
cial' from Victoria station, and before
midnight he was cozily installed in
the Carlton dug-out, pelted with
something far hotter than confetti or
old shoes. His bride went back to
her mothers and dreamed of the time
when he'd come again-unannounced
as good fortune is, and equally hard
to recognize.
We're eating cake here, and wear
ing the mufflers her bridesmaids gave
US. Meanwhile the colonel is writing
a letter of thanks and promising to
keep an eye upon young D for a
day or two, until his head comes down
out of the clouds, and the sniper be-
comes a real institution to him again."
Weddings in a hurry are now thu
fashion in Britain and honeymoons,
far from being a cal moon in length,
are often not even a day. Better be
a wife for five minutes, one bride is
quoted as saying, than an old maid
all your life. Another woman was
heard to remark: Thank God, he was
my husband for a fortnight before he
was shot. Now he can claim me in
heaven"
The other day a Glasgow man re-
ceived a summons on an hours notice
to attend the wedding of one of his
soldier friends. The intrepid son of
Mars had arrived Unexpectedly and
astonished his own particular corner
of the world by announcing that he
intended to be welded and away in
thirty-six hours. The best man was
afterward heard to assert that the ex
element of arranging and carrying
through the ceremonies at the regis.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

trar's, before the sheriff, and in
church, in addition to the lunch, the
speeches, a subsequent visit to a the
alter, and send-off at the station, all
within the time limit, had made a
confirmed bachelor of him.
A bluejacket on che of the Harwich
d%estroyers made a strong bid for the
matrimonial speed record. He could
only get two hours leave of absence
from his ship, but he used it well. His
tiancee and friends met him directly
he reached the shore, and they drove
in a motor car tn Ramsey church, a
good three miles. There the wedding
vas performed and the newly-married
c 1ple drove back to Harwich to have
a top speed" wedding breakfast.
The witty Lady Randolph Churchill
says the nearest approach she knows
to a marriage made i n heaven was the
case of the aviator who flew over from
Dunkirk recently, married his bride,
and then flew back again.
Romance surrounds almost all the
wal nOOuAhS6s AO olOly u INV q
farmers son, Sergeant Crees of the
North Somerset Yeomanry, wooed and
won a peers niece for a bride reads
more like a Pigment of the novelist's
brain than an actual occurrence.
The gallant sergeant came s~catheless
through a lot of the stiffest fighting,
but the day arrived when he found
himself among tn casualties" in
Rouen hospital. Thence he was in
valided home and sent to the v. A. D.
hospital at Oakley Manor, Shrews-
bury. The sister second in command
to a wealthy Shropshire family, and
whose father fought and died for his
country in the South African war.
Lord Hatherton of Teddesley Park,
Staffordshire, is her uncle, and she
has no end of aristocratic relations,
all of which, however, did not prevent
her devoting herself to nursing the
wounded soldiers. Thanks to her care
and devotion, Sergeant Crees recov-
cred from a serious operation, and a
warm attachment sprang up between
nurse and patient, which led to their
engagement and ultimate marriage.
Two members of the medical pro-
fession were recently made as one on
the high seas They were DR.. Percy
Wallace (First British Field hospital
to Serbia) and Miss Dora Woolcock
of the Wounded Allies First Field
unit to Montenegro. 1t was when
they arrived at Saloniki that Doctor
Wallace and Miss Woolcock decided
to marry. She was bound for Monte
negro, he for Serbia. They found
that the wedding could only be per
formed after a three weeks residence
unless the marriage could take place
in a British ship outside the three
mile limit. Accordingly, a ship was
chartered, and three miles from lane
the marriage service was read by the
vicar of Buxton. Claude Askew, the
novelist, gave the gride away.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

Antipathy to the Negro and unjust
abuse of him is born of misconception
of his place in southern Industrial life.
What truth there is in charges made
to the grand jury of abuses practiced
by city officials against Negro prison
ers this writer does not know. But the
picture drawn by charges of beatings
inflicted, of property confiscated and
of general m-istreatment of ignorant
and unprotected blacks closely paral-
lels the hideous picture of the Black
Hole of Calcutta, and constitutes a
blot upon the record of this boosted
section of civilization.
The Negro is yet a ward Of this Ia
ton, of the white men who compose,
guide and direct it, and he is entitled
to the protection and care of the
courts and Of society. He is, too, an
important integral part of our indus
trial life. BY his labor the South has
prospered, the fires of industry have
been kindled and kept alive. He guides
the pillow in thousands of fields. He
delves deep into the bowels of the
earth and brings forth treasure for
the people.
That many Negroes are ignorant is
no fault of theirs; that many are
vicious is but a natural tendency of
the human race, both white and black.
Yet the Negro must ever be regarded
as a producer, especially in this South
land of ours. Remove him from the
industrial fields of the South, and the
loss would fall heavily upon capital
and progress would be retarded.
1t is thought that the Bessemer case
is not the only n that should be ven
tilated and punishment follow. The
fee system has long oppressed the Ne
gro, and many are the victims of in
justice at the hands of official oppres-
sors. The strong hand of the law
should be invoked to protect the op-
pressed, and intelligence and morality
should demand fairness for blacks and
for whites alike. Let it be remem-
bered that dependence between whites
and blacks is mutual in this great in
dustrial district, and to discourage and
drive away one class would work seri-
Gus hardships to the other. The bone
and sinew of blacks directed by the
brain and capital of whites constitutes
the driving force in our march of
progress.
Is it not probable that such abuses
as those alleged against Bessemer of
ficials cause criminal Negroes to so
often shoot and kill deputy sheriffs
and policemen while in the discharge
of their duties in making ~arrests?-
Bessemer (Ala.) Weekly.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

the hull upon the bottom face of the
block, as indicated by dotted lines in
Fig. 3; also draw a line around the
sides and bow and stern, n inch be-
low the top (see dotted line); and
pare down the sides from the dotted
line to the line of the hull bottom. to
make them of the form shown in Fig.
4. Be careful in marking out the
hull, to get the sides exactly the
same; and use an equal amount of
care in cutting. With the outside cut
ting, scoop out one-half the length
Of the hull, for a cockpit Gig. 81.
The gunwale strips A and B Gigs.
5 and g. are Tapped over and tackled
to the upper edges of the hull. Cut
them out of thin wood. Curve the top
edge of strips A, as shown in Fig. 6.
Cross strips c and D, and the corner
blocks E and F Gig. 81, r provided
to brace the gunwales.
Finish the bow of the hull with
strip G Gig. y, and the stern with
strip H. The double-pointed tack in
G is provided for the attachment OF
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

Some of the most enterprising farm
ers in the state are colored men and
it is characteristic of them that when
they once establish a record they hold
to it. Such is the case with G. w.
Kistler, a colored farmer of Cumber-
land county. For a number of years
he has been the seller of the first bale
of new cotton on the Fayetteville mar.
ket, and he has just repeated the per.
Torrance for the present season,
Should Kistler ever lose the record
the Observer would confess to disap
pointment. The Negro who holds 9
record in any line of good endeavoi
deserves the encouragement of his
white neighbors and friends, and gen
orally has it-at least that is the sen
timent in this section of the state
Charlotte IN, c. Observer.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

The queen of Bulgaria, whose ability
as a nurse has been manifested time
and time again since she established
in Sofia one of the finest and best
equipped hospitals, has again taken
actively TO the work which she loves
80 dearly. The alienation of the SUIT
ferings of her subjects has always
been the thing nearest her heart, and
SO, while the soldiers of her kingdom
are marching to the war, she is de-
voting her time and attention to nurs-
ing the sick orphans in the orphan
ages of her country.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

enough to run up to a peak at the cen
ter. By screwing a screw eye into the
tops of uprights B, and one into the
under side Of poles G Gigs. 5 and g.,
the poles can be joined by tying to-
gether the screw eyes with cord.
Screw a screw eye into the upper end
of poles c to tie the cord to for sus-
pending the poles from the ceiling.
Crepe tissue paper in different col
ors is the best covering material for
the booth framework. Figure l sug-
gests how strips of the paper may be
wound around the corner uprights and
canopy poles, how a latticework
frieze of twisted ropes of crepe pa
per may be extended around the sides
at the top. and how ribbons of crepe
paper may be used to inclose the
canopy framework. Pretty home
made cardboard lanterns hung from
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

the foresail. Make the rudder as shown
1T l Zig. 81, with a tiller stick u,
Fig. 81 tackled to its top. Drive a
couple of brads into the long edge of
the rudder, and bend them over for
hooks to fit in a pair of small screw
eyes driven into stern strip H Zig. y.
Figs. 9 to IL show the mast. gait,
boom and bowsprit. Bind a loop Of
wire to one end of both the boom and
the gaff, to slip loosely over the mast,
as shown. Drive a do~uble-pointed
tack into the bowsprit near n end,
and slip the other end through a hole
in ono Of the g%unwales. Set the mast
in a hole bored in the hull, and brace
it on each side with stays tied to it
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
Women R,palr the Roads.

Harmon, Okla.-Their husbands
busy harvesting the crops and at.
tending to other farm work, the WON.
en- of Spring Greek neighborhood.
near here, got out and repaired the
roads. and did a good job.
Luke Trent. the mail carrier, com
planned about the ~culverts and bridges
being out. The men were too busy
with other work. Trent said he would
have to quit carrying the mail If the
roads and bridges we're not fixed.
The women used a plow and a scrap.
err and in two days had the work done.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
. GIRLS HANDlcRAFT BOOTH
FOR A FAIR.

Here is a plan for a handicraft booth
which a class Of girls can make n
of the most attractive and best-patron-
lied features of the church fair. Your
OWL handicraft can be placed on sale,
and you can build the booth itself, by
following the plan have worked out
in Fig. 1.
Fig. 2 shows how the booth is con-
structed. You will need a grocery
box about thirty inches long. fourteen
inches wide and ten inches deep for
the rne supports. These boxes
must be mounted on legs "a, Figs. 4
and 81, made of pieces two inches
thick, four inches wide and twenty-six
inches long. The supports for the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
canopy are nailed to these boxes (B,

canopy are nailed to these boxes (B,
Fig. 81.
The distance apart to place the box
supports will be determined, of course,
by the size that you want to make the
booth. Seven feet square, outside
measurement, is a good size. The coun-
ter boards should be twelve inches
wide, and long enough to make a
continuous counter extending from
corner to corner. This is NOT shown
in Fig. 2, but it is indicated in the
plan diagram of Fig. 3.
The canopy framework is made Of
four poles &C, Fig. p. The lower
ends of these are secured to the tops
of uprights }, and the upper ends
are suspended from a screw eye
screwed into the ceiling directly over
the tops of the booth. These poles
must project six inches OF 80 over
the tops of uprights B. and be long
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
NOVEL FEAT IN SURGERY

Dallas.-With two ten-inch strips
of skin knitting perfectly on his
back, David Reed of Denison. a Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas railroad en-
gineer, presents what surgeons here
state il one of the most remarkable
surgical cases aver known In the
Southwest.
Reed lost two-thirdE OF his skin
surface by escaping steam in a train
wreck four months ago. Physicians at
the time believed he would die, but
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
Bans Dope Kiss in Prison.

Seattle. Wash.-County Prison Su-
pe~rintendent Hally has put an official
ban on the kissing of women prison
ers by visitors.
A few months ago he ave notice
that no more kissing would be allowed
in the visitors lobby of the mems sec
ton, following the discovery that
dope" in various forms was being
transferred to prisoners by the lip-to-
lip route. A similar discovery, he
says, was made in the women's ward.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

Probably the longest and most luxu-
RANT beard in the world is that of
Zachary T. Wilcox of Carson City,
New, a veteran of the Civil war. He
has not shaved or had it cut for 80
years, and his hirsute adornment is
now Sh feet long. Ordinarily it is
worn wrapped around a piece of card,
board and thrust under the owners
vest.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
Found 500 Pearl in His Lunch.

Toledo. OIL, G. Wanamaker re-
ceived full value for his money In a
restaurant at South Bend. Ind. when
he found a pearl worth more than
$500 in a 25-cent dish of raw oysters.
One OF the walters ~contended the
pearl belonged t o him but the Toledo
man refused to give 1t up.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

the ends OF the canopy poles will add
a finishing touch to the roof.
Tack heavy wrapping paper to the
counter boards, and then cover this
with cheesecloth of a color to har-
monte with the ti%ssue-paper trim.
mings. A pretty effect will be OBJ
tanned by plating this as indicated in
Fig. l. One side of the valance must
be made to part, to provide an en-
trance into the booth.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
TyrannIcal conventlonaIIty.

There is little doubt that n OF the
most oppressive, injurious, d~etestable
forces in the world is the force of con-
lventionality. that instinct which
makes men judge character and IN ac-
ton, not by its beauty or its mer-
its, but by comparing it with the
standard of how -he normal man
would regard it. This vast and in
tolerable medirm OF dullness, which
penetrates our lives like a thick. Clark
mist. allowing us only to see the OBJ
1ect IN range of an immediate vision,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
Ihvn~aa
! HANDICRAFTFOR BOYS AND GIRLS :
p By rt Es. s
$ A. NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS Z
ivevfyaa 10000 1890 .haaHHaasH
lCopyright. by A. Nicely Hal)
A TOY sAILRoAT.

In Fig. 1 ] have shown a sailboat
with a broad hull Of a satisfactory de-
sign that is easy to prepare. A solid
block of wood of the dimensions shown
in Fig. 2 is required for the hull. First
mark out the curve of the deck, as
indicated by dotted lines Gig. p,
upon both top and bottom faces, then
cut to these lines Gig. 81. Next,
mark off the shape Of the bottom of
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
and to double-pointed tacks driven in

and to double-pointed lacks driven in
to the gunwale edges.
Have mother make you a mainsail,
a ~foresail, and a jibsail. of the pro
portions shown in Fig. 1, with each
edge hemmed. Four f%ancy-work rings
should be sewed to the mainsail for
mast hoops. and the top and bottom
should be dashed to the boom and gan
with thread.
Figs. 9 and 10 show the halyards
for raising ana lowering the sails. Use
beads for blocks Gig. 13). There
should be six of these blocks tsee X
Figs. Q and 10). The wire bars l.
M and N Gig. 81 are provided fol
tying the halyard ends to.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
MAKES MODEL OF HIS JAIL
San Francisco Prisoner Works for Fun
Wouldn't Work for His
Children.

San Francisco Joseph Swanson,
serving a term in the county Jail for
failure to provide for his children, has
proved his ability to provide for them
if he cares to try.
During three weeks in Jail he mod
eled a wooden replica Of the building
in which he il imprisoned, with a saw,
jackknife and a pot of glue. The win
dows are made of celluloid panes,
Swanson has presented his model to
Sheriff Barnet, who has placed it in
his collection Of curiosities.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

against an officer of the government is
a suit against the government itself,
and the government cannot be sued.
Suit already has been filed by four
persons. The treasury statement, how
ever, expressed the opinion that it is
more than probable that the case
will be dismissed by the court on a
preliminary motion"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
VIM Harsh Words Hurt.

Most people seem to feel hard words
more than hard deeds, and r more
upset by insults than by actual In
juries. What we do to an enemy in
war is done from necessity. but the
evil we say of him seems to arise
from an excess of spite.-Plutarch.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

There are still three survivors OF
the original Mormon band to find it's
way into the valley OF the Great Salt
lake in 1847. One is Lorenzo So
beski Young, who belonged to the
third ten" of the original company.
to which Brigham Young also be-
longed. His first home was a wagon
box lifted from it's truck and supported
by posts.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

hostile to all originality, crushingly
respectable. that dictates our homes,
our occupations, our amusements, our
emotions, u religion. is the most
ruthless and tyrannical thing in the
world.-Arthur Christopher Benson.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

Now a scientist announces that kiss
ing is a sign Of insanity. But that
would appear to be a gross exaggera,
ton. At the worst it can scarcely be
considered anything more than a
symptom Of emotional intoxication.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
onA ceneral Mlatake.

We try too much to surpass others.
II we seek ever to surpass ourselves
we r moving on a uniform line of
progress, that gives a harmonious uni.
flying to our growth in all its parts.
The true competition is the competi-
ton Of the individual with himself
Jordan.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

The United States treasury depart
ment has started out to defeat the
scheme of certain persons operating
in the South who are collecting money
from former slaves by telling them
they are entitled to share in a fund
of SOS 900, 900, an amount said to have
been collected in Civil war times as
an internal revenue tax on raw cot
ton. There is no fund of SOS, 900, 900
or any other sum in the treasury of
the United States for former slaves
or their heirs, or for any other per-
sons who worked in the cotton fields
of the South" declared an official
statement issued over the signature
of Secretary McAdoo. The former
slaves, according to the statement, are
informed by the persons behind the
project that a part of the alleged fund
is due them on account of labor per-
formed by them during the years from
1859 to 1868. Those who would make
the collections for the former slaves
or their heirs generally propose the
institution of a suit in the District
supreme court against the secretary
of the treasury with utter disregard,
1t is said, of the fact that it is a
familiar law that a suit of this nature
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

Nine. Caillaux, the French expire.
mier's wife, lately acquitted of the
charge Of numbering M. Calmette, is
finding in the war an opportunity OF
escape from a position which must
have been, after all, very trying. ever
though the jury acquitted her. She
is now in command of a nursing corps
at the rear of the main French army
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
undsr the onoIoth.

Oilcloth when used to cover tables
will last much longer II the tables
first be covered with paper. we'll
rubbed with machine oil to keep the
under side o. the oiicloth moist.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
%AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

tinued by white and colored people
working together for better housing,
better schools and better home life
Southern Workman.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

mo, | don't speak to him." seid the
convicted b~anknote connterfeiter.
He's hardly in our set, He's in here
for making bogus nickela