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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-16

'T am the victim of conspiracy Your Honor" she charges hates me because am what am and she is what she is."
 The court released her on s1,500 bail.
 "A lawyer who there trying another and who heard my story and believed signed for my ball. is Maria Desmoninis explanation of her second escape from prison cell
 Back to the brliance of the Great White Way, back to friends, indignant sympathetic went the harassed Brazilian beauty. To avoid the drain upon her time made by her popularity she moved to lodgings Upper Broadway Hudson River. Finding the quiet irk- some she chose new and exclusive quarters Wash ington Square. There it the meddesome law once more overlook her.
 "We want you, Maria Desmonini, for stealing three hundred dollars worth of clothing from Miss Margaret Tevis at the Hotel Martha Washington said the law in the person of an officer
 This time the judge obdurate Tears rage stories of splendor and influence moved him not The baffled beauty tainted in the Fftyseventh court At this time she is awaiting in the Tombs trial for theft.
 To the Tombs came no Broadway satellites of the Brazilian beauty" faithful bevy of seven paid her visit Came shoemaker, bent shouldered and pale from drudgery her father; the mother, with the gray shawl sister, cloak 1nisher who walked with crutch; hunchback brother troop of younger ones, the youngest baby year and half old. All sobbed and cried, "Maria Maria!'
 The Brazilian beauty" finging off her air of dis guise, fervently embraced them
 My sister was good girl. She worked hard at aloak Innings for seven years. She and my mother worked together in the cloak shops said the crippled snster m ter ss sne M was so kind she met hungry woman woman had no home Maria would bring her home to sleep She was engaged to young man, salesman Tn Sixth avenue store She was in love with him and wanted to get married She and my mother quarrellei about whether she should get married On February 8 sne and my mother quarreled and she went away. We thought sne was at my aunts in Brooklyn We never knew what had happened until read it in the papers The sister wept.
 Maria laughed.
 Anyway fooled wise old Broadway for six weeks iakes wlse person to do that, doesn't it?' . T got tired working hard and giving all my money o @ ny motner mad been working hard for years and getting nothing but my keep out of it. I wanted pretty clothes and wanted to see life told
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-16

health. Of course, am not referring to cases of serious illness, but to cases when a man is "seedy," out of sorts or possibly sickening for some illness.
 Let us suppose that a man is slightly feverish. Now, fever invari. ably hastens all the processes of the human body. For example, it pro- duces an increased flow of ideas. In the case of novelist or a man whose work requires wild imanination such . state of mind would naturally be valuable up to a point. ! But an increase of fever beyond
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-16

tnat point does not imply an increase oI ideas-at least coherent ideas. It IS this vast profusion of ideas due 10 increasing fever that finally pro- duces delirium.
 ? But the chief cause of a man do- ing better work when he is i'll is the increased will power he summons up on such occasions. When a man is exceedingly fit he thinks everything else in the world is all right. He feels that everything is going on ex- cellently. He does not do quite his best. He tries only three-Quarteys as hard as he can.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-16

By PHILIP OSTERMAN, M. b.
 IF you want to do your very best
 brain work don't keep yourself
 too fit. But remember, too, that the longer you work when you are really i'll the greater will be the breakdown which must follow.
 It Is generally considered that a man who is physically fit necessarily does better brain work than a man who Is slightly of color. This is by no means the case, for under certain circumstances man who is not physically fit Is capable of better work than man in the best of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-16
How Poor But h1geni' n7onir1i, Tired of " Day ir, q Slueatshop,
 Street in the World,

A Y, W1Se, f< Side girl, the daughter of poor shoemaker. The 4~ Great White Way that boasts that it can never be taken in has been up rdicule by nineteen year-old sweatshop worker
 The highway of amusement, known throughout this country the the wise guy Of streets has been duped outwitted laughed to scorn oy proo uct of the tenement districts.
 Maria Desmonini, whose fathers shoemaklng shop is in a basement of one the fire escapedraped dwell ing places of the many at No 6lo East Fourteentn street has been feasted and toasted and peen though for brief time, belle of Broadway
 The "wise oneso of the wise street" wondering how happened. Maria Desmonin albeit in the Tombs laughs She thinks Broadway is as gullioie as any other part of Manhattan. More gullibe, indeed than her own earnest-eyed East Side
 q got tired working ten hours day and giving all the money to my mother So I ran away and made them believe was rich woman, the owner of conee plantation in Brazil; And they believed it for two months, the fools," she says, and laughs.
 pretty girl, with deepset, shrewd black eyes, little too close together an engaging smile and envaole fuency speech is Maria Desmonin She is tall, with ability to wear her clothes we'll She has litne swinging grace exotic earnestness of manner, wealth of gesture Ruth Downes, the name she gave herself she something new In it's never ending quest of novelty Broadway discovered her
 For two months she lived at fine hotels exclusive boarding She had the best rooms and the best places at table. Every one who met her was charmed by Her stories of life in Brazil vastly inter- esting-to those who visited the South Amer ican country Her romance sad and greatly to credit She told it so we'll with alternate sghs and smiles the tale of how her proud, tyrannical mother had tried to marry her to California multi millionaire whom the daughter did not love and how her pure proud soul revong at such slavery she had taken drawing room palace and crossed the con nent in the fastest train that runs between San Fran cisco and New York
 Mamma, dear foolish woman, is so proud She would not let me marry mere millionaire There several of them whom l might have loved lie must have many millions. Dear mamma, l know she is weep ing her eyes out She is such picture-always wears rustling black silks and high gold comb blazing with jewels, and a priceless lace mantilla. handsome woman, but proud of her blue blood and our great fortune"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-16

"And Night After
 Night She Dipped Into Luxury- and Not One Even Sus. -.nAnl Tl~x R1>a
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24
PUNY PUNISHMENT.

After having wasted by appropriat-
ing it to his own financial operations
the savings which trusting people had
deposited in his department store bank
Henry Siegel is paying for his act by
serving a sentence of less than nine
months in model New York state
penitentiarya The loss to the depos-
itors reaches the sizeabIe sum of
81, 900, 900 and the act was committed
by a merchant who knew thoroughly
well what he was doing and who was
aware all Of the time of what the
penalty for such failure to protect the
deposits was. He has nevertheless
made a determined effort to crawl
from under by the offer Of restitu-
ton, an attempt which for a time
made an impression upon the court.
Not so however with the depositors,
They had been fooled once and they
were not to be pIacated by sanction
ing settlement of the matter and
thus allow Siegel to escape through the
payment of seven and a half cents on
the dollar
If the banks can be looted in such
a manner and the guilty one escape
punishment through paying back a
small amount and the handing out of
1. o. us it only lends encouragement
to that kind Of business. To those
who would otherwise refrain from
using other peoples money the re-
moval of the punishment for law vio-
lation eliminates one of the great
fears of wrong doing. Thus while it
may have been the only means of get
ting back any Of the their money the
depositors offered their limit of dis
couragement to such operations in the
future when they insisted that Siegel
go to Jail even though the sentence
would appear to be wholly inadequate
in comparison with the amount that
was involved.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24
INDIANA CORRUPTION.

There were revelations made dur
dng the prosecution Of the Terre Eaute
cases, recently disposed of by send
ing a score or more to a federal prison,
which disclosed the rottenness of
political conditions in that city. There
were also indications that there were
Others higher up in the corrupt ring
and this appears to be substantiated
by the wholesale indictment of poIiti-
clans and off1ceholders in Indiana for
election frauds.
Having made good beginning in
one city it is proper that the move
should be followed up until the state
is purged of the scandalous methods
Of conducting elections and the gov
eminent of cities. The action which
has been taken and is still being fol-
lowed up indicates that the people
are aroused to the real situation and
are determined that it should be end
ed. Just as long as improper condi-
tons are wfnked at and it is con-
sidered that nothing can be accom-
pIished by attacking them because of
their strength there remains a task for
that community to perform which can
not be looked upon as impossible. The
condoning of corrupt officials and I'M
lawful political methods only lends
encourag cement to its continuance, but
the setting up of a strong and per-
sistent opposition such as that which
is being manifested in Indiana gives
promise of results which will be eff
fective. Not only should it result in
an immediate betterrnent in those
cities but throughout the state and in
other states it cannot fail to have its
good effects.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24

public, will not agree with the gov
ernorfin his remarks upon the cam
paign by the railroads to repeal an
absurd law that costs them several
milliops. of dollars every year. Like
theiqs light for higher freight rates. it
waN peculiarly a campaign OF educa-
ton and publicity. To deny any man
or any industry the right to defnd
himself or it's own interests openly
and squarely is surely strange doc
trinet in the twentieth century and in
the; United States. Such a campaign
of<education and publicity is the very
thing which the enlightened public
has long demanded"
By his veto of the repeating bill
Governor Brumbaugh has by no means
ended it. On the contrary he has re-
vealed his lack Of understanding of
theNentire question and supported a
law which the people of Missouri by
popular vote wiped off its statute
books. His course simply prolongs the
law until the state can speak again.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24
WHAT THE BOY SCOUTS ARE DOING

were also made for an over night hike
to Poquetanuck cove on July 3-5 in
elusive. A short hike at which all the
scouts passed the fire lighting test and
Scouts Fred and Arthur Lamb passed
their cooking tests.
Troop No. 8.
Scout work of Troop No. on
Tuesday evening consisted of separate
instruction for candidates, tenderpet,
and second class scouts. Phillips
Cook, and honorary member of the
troop, gave an interesting demonstra-
ton of bandaging to those scouts try
ing for that test. After this a troop
meeting was held, at which time An
drew Mush Avery was presented as
scoutmaster for the troop, to succeed
B. NJ. Bruce, who has resigned in or
der to assume the duties of scout
commissioner.
Mr.. Avery is a graduate of the N.
F. A, 1904, and holds the degree of
A. b, Yale, 1910. Second class scout
Halsey Gallup was elected in place of
Scout Johnson who has resigned be-
cause of his duties as patrol leader.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24
IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW
What Heap of Happiness it Would
Bring to Norwich Homes.

Hard to do homework with an ach-
ing back.
Brings you hours of misery at
leisure or at work.
If women only knew the cause
that
Backache pains often come f,om
weak kidneys.
'Twould save much needless woe.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys.
Read what a Norwich citizen says:
Mrs. John Wozniak, % Elm ST.,
Norwich, says: 81 suffered from kid
ney trouble for three or four years
and was unable to find relief until I
began using Doan's Kidney Pills, pro-
cured at n. D. SEWN & Sons Drug
Store. They removed the dull pain
in my back, just over my kidneys. and
made me feel like a different woman"
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Wozniak had. Foster AIilburn
Co., Props, Buffalo, n. Y.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24
Exhibit at Jewett City.

Assistant Scoutmaster Barwell, Pa
troll Leaders Eaton, Dolbeare, Hines
and Scouts Gallup Jennes and Cole
man were a patrol of picked scouts
who gave an exhibition at Jewett City
on Friday night. Mrs. A. n. H.
Vaughn of Norwich was responsible
for the trip of the scouts, and the Jew
EFT City audience was greatly pleased.
Sight of Boy Scouts Cheers the Presi-
The following letter was received at
the national headquarters on June ):
THE WHITE HOUSE.
Washington.
June 4, 1915.
My Dear Mr.. West:
I am very much interested by what
you say of the special edition of Boys
Life you are planning to get out, and
as honorary president of the Boy
Scouts of America, I cannot let this
opportunity pass to send my warmest
greetings and best wishes.
1t is fine to have the boys of the
country organized for the purposes the
Boy Scouts represent, and whenever l
see a group of them I am proud of
their manliness and feel Cheered by
the knowledge of what their organiza-
ton represents.
This is just to bid you Godspeed.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON.
James z. West,
Chief Scout Executive.
The Presidents Letter.
All men of the Boy Scout movement
will be very glad to know not only that
the president of the United States is
proud of the manltness of the Boy
Scouts but that he is cheered by the
knowledge of what their organization
represents.
The presidents letter of June 4th
was written at a time when the presi-
Dent was busy with the preparation of
an important international note, and
with the then impending crisis which
was to be soon precipitated by the
resignation of Secretary of State Bry-
an. Not only the letter but the cir
cumstances of it's writing attest in a
striking way President Wilson's high
regard for and devotion to the cause of
scouting, and his keen appreciation of
the influence of Boys Life, the official
scout misunderstanding.
Business Mems Interest.
In order to stimulate the efforts of
the local scouts, the business men of
Carlville, n. Y. have offered to pay
the expenses of a trip to Niagara
Falls for the first first-class scout in
the town.
Supper to Scouts.
About As scouts sat down to boun-
tiful supper at the buckingham Memo
rial on Saturday which was given by
the Woman's Relief corps. The menu
consisted of baked beans, pickles, rolls
coffee and ice cream and cake. Mrs.
Manning, president of the W. r. c., de-
!ightfully entertained with humorous
selections, after extending a greeting
to the scouts To this the boys re-
sponded with their America yell.
Troop I.
Troop 1 held a meeting on Friday.
This was the last meeting of the sea-
son. Several tests were taken and the
troop received their troop banner and
patrol flag. Scoutmaster Wyckof has
gone away for the summer, and in his
absence Troop Leader Graham will
have charge of the trooD
Troop No. 2.
A regular meeting was held Tues
day evening at which plans for the
summer camp were discussed. Plans
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24
SUPPORTS "A ,Vcious5sl11,

Ex-Governor sBrumbaughio f fPennsyi-
Faq1a thinks that he shassresponded to
popular demand or that he has
btr1ck a .'lobby" by. .vetoing thet bill
Rhichswasspasseds by the legislatureaof
That. statearep ealing thief full crewqlaw,
be is likely to find cuts his mistake.
Py his, act shek ignores the fact that
Pernlsylvania's Legislature sacted as
the.result OF experience, .thatf1t rocog-
hized that ssuch ga law was pieceIof
blass Legislation. and that it failed ito
accomplish what wass claimed forkit
tveu though 1T pusheds up Ythet expense
which in the end comes out@@of the
hublic.s
Termfngs theS 7aw4 agvicious spiece of
sn-American smeddling. the Philadel-
shia PublicALedgersd declares that the
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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Well Bridgeport went and did it,
accepted the commission form of gov
eminent. There remains nothing for
the other cities of Connecticut to do
but wait and see how it works out
The fact that twelve thousand vot-
ers refused to vote at all on the
proposition, however, fails in our opin-
ion to give the question the real acid
test-Waterbury Democrat.
The Italians are making hay while
the AustrianS are busy in Galicia.
They have achieved some notable
triumphs and now hold a substantial
portion of Austrian territory. But
they probably realize that their task
is far from accomplished and that
they are soon to be called on to meet
Germany and Austria. 1t is well for
Italy that she has made her footing in
the mountains secure before the real
storm breaks.-Ansonia Sentinel.
When the flag of the United States
is on parade it behooves every man to
acknowledge it, with salute or barred
head and when the national anthem
is played Americans stand. But when
to stand and when to salute is con-
fusing when the national anthem and
the flag are used for purely mercenary
reasons to get a thrill into a moving
picture or a vaudeville act. There
can be neither dignity nor a great re-
spect for the custom of rising when an
audience stands to the strains of the
Star Spangled Banner" only to find
that it has drifted into Way Down
South in Dixie or Yankee Doodle"
in the grand finale for Her Only Son"
or some other film thriller-Hartford
Post.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24
Syria in Bad Way.

With cereals and foodstuffs scarce
and the Turkish officials exacting every
possible cent out of the people for war
taxes. Syria is in bad way. But this
is not all. The country is becoming
as dry as a desert. and the lines of
communication between different parts
of the country have been almost all
stopped by the military.
At Beyrout itself. the schools are
closed with the exception of the Amer
lean Protestant College, which. owing
to the neutrality of the United States
and the diplomacy Of Its president, DR..
Bliss, has continued to work peacefully.
Three of the professors of the medical
department of the college, DIR. Graham.
DR.. Webster and Dr.. Day. were sum
moned before the military authorities
recently as they were thought TO be
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24
Stories of the War

British Canadians. But they returned
after three days detention.
British missions in the Lebanon have
so far been undisturbed. The inhab
itants of this hill country have been
exempted from military service, but
economic conditions are bad. Instead
of daily trains, as formerly, between
Beyrout and Damascus, there is now
only one or so a week.
Anyone leaving Syria for a neutral
country is not allowed to carry with
him more gold than is needed to reach
his destination. If going to the United
States he can not take more than $3.50.
Generally the sums limited TO travellers
range from $50 to $125. The, Turkish
government pockets the rest and gives
a receipt.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24
DIFFERENT TACTICS.

If the action which was taken by
the German submarines in giving mer-
chant vessels the alternative of being
sunk or disposing of their cargoes.
or so much of them as they<designated
is Indicative Of a change in policy it
must be looked upon as an improve
ment even though it may not be con-
sidered. a full recognition of the rights
of neutraIs.
1t disclosessa higher regard for hu-
mainly even though belated. In such
cases it gives protection to the lives
of the crews and to the passengers
when such are carried, and in that
respect would indicate that the sound
ness of the appeal which has been
made by this country in it's several
notes has been recognized. 1t is how
ever no more than the submarines
should do in view of the course which
Germany has sworn to pursue.
1t is a decided departure from the
Won Tirpitz method of maintaining a.
var zone and had it been followed
from the first would have eliminated
much Of the severe criticism which
has been heaped upon that country in
the past few months. By it's decIara-
ton of a war zone Germany ATTEMPTED
something which it knew it could not
carry out. Reliance was placed upon
the evasion of the rules which govern
such a blockade. as it was attempting
to set up and it has steadily gone
from bad to worse until the rights of
almost every neutral has been violated.
and a large number of innocent lives
taken Whether the two cases which
have been reported as displaying a
new policy are simply isolated ones
remains to be discovered but it is
much nearer the course which it
should have taken in the first nlaca
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24
GRANDFATHER" CLAUSE LOSES.

1t has taken a great may years but
the United States supreme court by
its decision that the "grandfather''
clause in state constitutions is I'M
constitutional has dealt a master
stroke for Justice. In this particular
case it is the Oklahoma constitution
which was under fire but the decision
is applicable to all those common
wealths which have seen the posi-
bilities of political advantage through
the adoption of such a clause This
prevailed only among the southern
states and its provisions were aimed
at the Negro vote.
The situation developed following
the passage of the fifteenth amend
nent to the constitution of the United
States which granted suffrage to the
Negro. Though no race was men
ftioned discrimination was practised
against the Negro when state consti-
.tutions were so altered as to disfran-
lchise those who were illiterate bar
ring those who had a right to vote in
Bhe years previous to the passage of
The fifteenth amendment Such changes
operated directly against the Negro
voters and gave control to the whites
who were much disturbed by the pros
pect of losing the power which they
had held for so long a period.
Though directed against iIIiteracy
according to the wording, it was in
tended to and did accomplish the
shutting off OF the black vote since only
whites and their descendants, whether
n1herate or not could vote prior to
1859. The contention has not been
against a literacy test concerning the
right of suffrage but that it should
operate against both white and black
alike, (which it did not under tthe So
called. grandfather clause. Even
though they have a. strong southern
representation thereon the supreme
court has looked the ,situationfstraigh
In the4face~wfthout5pr ejudiceean con-
cededtthe rights of @the NEGRO.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24
Hot Weather At Front.

A season of extremely hot weather
has set in along the British and Belgi-
an fronts and the soldiers find it al
a few months ago. Chloride of lime is
being used plentifully to subdue the
unsanitary atmosphere in neighbor-
hoods where there has been heavy
fighting
The strictest care is taken regarding
the purity of the drinking water fur
nished the troops. In the trenches the
men drink principally tea and coffee.
When in reserve most of them indulge
moderately in the local beers and
wines, although the British soldiers
find little that is admirable in either,
characterizing the wine as sour and
the beer as bitter