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Evening star., 1915-01-16
EVERY FRIDAY is NAMED
At HOME DAY FOR SEWING
Belgian Relief Committee to Follow
Up Success Of First "Bee"
at Headquarters.

Success for the first sewing bee at
the headquarters Of the District COM
mittee for the relief of the Belgians
in the Real Estate Trust building, yes
terday, has persuaded the committee to
make every Friday an "at home" day,
when sewing will be done by the visi-
tors for the destitute in Belgium.
Besides making dozens of garments
for the children of the stricken coun-
try yesterday, a number Of the women
who worked all day at the headquar-
ters took partly finished clothing away
with them and many pledged that they
would bring in other garments when
they came again.
Empty condensed milk cans in which
dimes are to be collected with which
to buy milk for the Belgian babies
were distributed.
List Of Those Sewing Yesterday.
Among the women who worked all
were:
pleton, Miss Hortense Smith. Mrs. @.
F. Linellee. Mrs. j. r. Miller. Mrs. M
Bartlett, Mrs. Wheat, Mrs. G. A. Bill
ings, Mrs. A. E. Mckay, Miss o. M
Coupon. Miss Albert Mann. Miss
W. c. Gwyn. Mrs. Beall. Miss
p. S. Talbert, Miss w. +. Malone,
Mrs. w. o. owen. Mrs. Bartlett, Miss
Porter, Mrs ndrew G. Grinnan. Miss
McNeir, Mrs. Gregg. Mrs. c. b. Brit
tain, Mrs. Charles S. Robb. Mrs. James
s, Delano, Mrs. Allyn Williams. Mrs
Victor Cushman, MISS L. w. Tney'
Mrs. NJ. H. Patterson and Miss Patter-
SON. Miss Foster and Mrs. Paul.
A woman who has been a constant
contributor to the Belgian relief fund
brought in some new shoes for women.
several other new garments and bolt
of outing flannel, to be made up into
garments for babies.
Sewing Circles Started.
Women in Friendship Heights. Falls
Church and College Park have started
sewing circles for the needy, as sug-
gested by Mrs. John A. Logan. chair
man of the District relief committee.
Some women who are visiting WASH
ington Joined in the work. A woman
who has been bringing in 50 twice a
month brought in her customary con-
tribution. and said she is trying to get
a number of her friends to make SINH
lar donations.
A quantity of heavy cloth to be made
into coats for the children in the war
some was donated by Mrs. George w.
Davis Of Worcester, Mass.
Evening star., 1915-01-16
ARMY-NAVY.
Army Orders.

BY direction of the President. Mai
Herman Hall. infantry, is detailed for
service as chief. Philippine constabu-
larry. with the rank of brigadier gen.
eral.
First Lieut.. Lloyd B. Magruder. Coast
Artillery Corps. is relieved from duty
as Inspector instructor of the coast ar
tillery militia of Georgia. and Will pro-
ceed to Fort Barrancas. Fla. for duty.
Cook Thomas Coyne, 4Sth Company.
Coast Artillery Corps, is placed upon
the retired list.
Second Lieut.. Walter w. Vautsmeier.
Coast Artillery Corps. is relieved from
the nth Company and is attached TO
the aviation section of the Signal Corps.
as an aviation student at San Diego.
Cal.
Leave of absence for two months is
granted Second Lieut.. Robert l.. Eich-
elberger, 10th Infantry.
Second Lieut.. Chester A. Sheppard,
18th Infantry, having been examined
for promotion by a board of officers and
found physically disqualified for the
by reason of disability incident to the
service, his retirement, by the Presi-
dent, from active service is announced.
to date from September is, 1914, the
promoted to that grade by reason of
seniority If found qualified.
Leave of absence for three months is
granted Capt. Earl Biscoe, Coast Artil-
lery Corps.
Maj Edward A. Shuttleworth. infan-
try, will proceed to Boston, and after
conference with the adjutant general
of Massachusetts, to Natick, Mass, and
inspect tract of land near the latter
place which the state desires to pur-
chase from federal funds for use as a
target range.
Leave of absence for twenty days is
granted Col. George w. Mc1ver. fnfan-
try.
Leave of absence for two months is
granted Capt. Edward M. Welles, jr..
Medical Corps.
Color sergt. Samuel Rhodes, 18th In.
fantry. is placed upon the retired list at
Each Of the following named officers
is assigned to the regiment indicated:
Capt. BRYAN Conrad. to the 18th In
fantry: Capt. Gustave A. Wieser, to the
11th Infantry, and Second Lieut.. Pat
rick Frissell. to the 11th Infantry.
, Cavalry officers recently iy,, promoted Gef
George H. Sands. to 4th cavalry: Col.
Joseph T. Dickman. to I'd Cavalry;
Lieut.. Col. Lewis NJ. Koehler. to 18th
Cavalry; Lieut.. Col. Robert E. L. Niche.
to the Quartermaster Corps: Maj. James
G. Harbord, to 1st Cavalry: Maj. John
O'Shea, to 4th Cavalry: Capt. Brice 2.
Disque. to Sd Cavalry: Capt. Alvin s.
Perkins. unassigned: Capt. Robert NJ.
Barton, to 5th Cavalry: Capt. Walter ].
Scott. to 9Th Cavalry.
Naval Orders.
Lieut.. N w. Post. from receiving ship
San Francisco and wait orders.
Ensign J. u. Edwards, from navy yard.
Washington. ID. c., to Baltimore.
Ensign Z. c. McGehee, from Louisiana
to receiving ship at Norfolk, Va.
Civil Engineer c. A. Carlson, from
bureau of yards and docks to navy yard,
Portsmouth, n. H.
Boatswain F. l.. Mayer. to Culgoa
Boatswain Z. w. Hill, from Glacier to
Marblehead.
Paymaster's Clerk P. A. Caro-, to naval
station, New Orleans, La.
Evening star., 1915-01-16
NEGROES ARE CONVICTED.
Haskins and Benjamin Found Guilty
of Felonious Assault.

After considering its verdict from 6
o'clock last evening until noon today a
jury in the Criminal Division of the
District Supreme Court found a verdict
of guilty of felonious assault against
Richard Haskins and Raymond Benja-
min. colored, who attacked a young
colored woman April last. A verdict
of not guilty as to the charge of rob-
berry was reported by the jury.
The verdict does not carry tho death
penalty. as the jury expressly stated
that 1t was without capital punishment.
The maximum sentence under the law
on the verdict is thirty years in the
penitentiary.
Assistant United States Attorney
Hawken conducted the prosecution.
Hasaskins was represented by ttorney
r. c. l.. Moncure and Benjamin by At
torneys John Lewis Smith and Glenn
Willett.
Evening star., 1915-01-16

anti-suRragist as the other is an unre-
lenting foe to King Alcohol. You
would scarcely think any regular news
paper correspondent would ask Hobson
how he would vote on the liquor ques-
tion. or ask Heflin how he intended to
vote on suffrage.
Yet that is what George Manning. a
good correspondent. did a few DAYS ago
he actually asked Representative
Heflin how he stood on woman suf-
frage, or how he intended to vote.
Heflin. the leader of the anti crowd.
looked aghast. Could 1t be possible
there was a man in the world who did
not know his position!
With wonderfully successful effort
to prevent his lips from wreathing up
in smiles, Hef1in answered.:
Il have not made up my mind"
And the funny part il that Manning's g
newspaper printed 1t in that way.
It's a wonder they wouldn't get Irving
Cobb to ask the kaiser whether he
thinks the German cause is the right
one.
Evening star., 1915-01-16
GIVE PLEDGES TO AID
MADE IN US. LEAGUE
Washington Women, Heading Pat
riotic and Other Organizations,
to Cooperate.

Pledges of cooperation with the work
of the Woman's National Made in U. s.
A." League, which has opened head
Quarters in Washington, have been made
by several women Of the District.
IA number of these new co-operators
Iare heads Of patriotic and other Or
ganizations.
Among the women who were made
honorary chairmen today were Mrs.
Frank K. Greenawalt, state regent OF
the D. A. R. in the District of Colum-
bia: Mrs. E. A. Logan, president of the
District Federation of Women's Clubs;
Mrs e. K. Knight, District president
of the International Sunshine Society;
Mrs. Henry L. Meyers. wife o. the
senator from Montana: Mrs. John
sharp Williams, wife of tho senator
from Mississippi; Mrs. Carol Page.
wife of the senator from Vermont;
Mrs. James A. Reed, wife OF the sena-
tor from Missouri of ana the Tbompsen miases
Baker Of New Jersey.
Others Who Indorse Movement.
Others, not resident in Washington,
who today pledged their support Of the
movement were Mrs. Frederick S.
Spieeel, wife of the mayor of Cincin-
natl. Ohio; Mrs. Henry w. KLEIN. wife
Of the mayor of st. Louis; Mrs. Wal
lace C. Nye, wife Of the mayor of
Minneapolis. Mimi; Mrs. c. B. Colquitt.
wife Of the Governor of Texas: Mrs.
Moses Alexander. wife of the Governor
of Idaho; Mrs. Emmett D. Boyle, wife
Of the Governor Of Nevada. and Mrs.
John B. Kendrick. wife Of the Governor
Of wyoming.
Mrs Greenawalt, saying that she would
bring the matter of buying goods made
in America before the members Of the
D. A. R, said today: Il hope that every
daughter will consider it her duty, as a
patriotic woman, to join this splendid
movement SO full of the true spirit of
American womanhood.
Mrs. Logan declared: 1.-THE idea is
patriotic and philanthropic, and will do
much to relieve the unemployment and
financial stringency in this country"
Mrs knight heartily Endorsed the league
and its work.
Evening star., 1915-01-16

and Tuesday. washing off about all the
WIND had left of the mulch, together
with lot of the soil and a good many
plants. Today my strawberry patch
looks like about most anything YOU
want to think of-except a straw berry
patch.
The only thing can do is to save all
can OF what is left. so am going to
and re-mulch the patch. # we fail to
GET crop OF Strawberries next sum-
mer IT will knock a hole in James can
ming and preserving program. for she
mad inquired on having not less than 500
quarts OF berries more than needed for
family use. all Of 1t to be made into
the Jam that was one Of the most popu-
lar OF her last summers products.
Failed to Harvest Ice.
Nor is my possible loss as the result
of delay confined to Strawberries. The
icehouse, over the construction of
which l have done no little gloatins.
remains a yawning void, and our pond
Is as barren of ice as an alligator
stream in Florida. What hadn't been
melted by the thaw went out in the
freshet caused by the heavy rain.
This. however. was chance 1 took
deliberately. knowing that 1 was taking
II. Tho ice hadn't made as thick as ice
should be for harvesting. so / took the
advice Of old-timers out this way and
waited. As this is only the middle of
January, with six weeks of winter vet
to come. there is every reasonable prob.
ability l will have plenty of ice before
| warm weather. If l don't 1 won't and
that's all there is to it. I'd rather have
my icehouse full of thin ice, of course
than to have none; but If I had gone
ahead and filled il with thin ice and
then thick ice had made. I'd have been
filed with righteous Indignation. Hav-
ing made my choice and taken the
chance, therefore. 1t Ill becomes me to
grumbie At the weather.
"Friendly Neighbour Near Riot,
Wednesday nights meeting of the
Friendly Neighbors' Club wasn't ex.
Evening star., 1915-01-16
SAYS WIFE CAN AID SELF.

Declaring that his wife. Sophie r.
Shipman, supported herself before her
marriage, and is as able to do SO now,
Sydney A. Shipman. jr, has asked the
District Supreme Court to dismiss her
suit for maintenance. He denies that he
makes $500 per week, and says he has
large travelling expenses, and his net in
come is little more than necessary for a
livelihood.
The husband asserts that his wife was
employed In a candy store when they
were married, and now conducts a retail
bakery. which affords a good income. He
says she is Of a very jealous disposition
and continually nags him. Attorney
Walter G. Bsldsrston appeass for tn
husband.
Evening star., 1915-01-16
Have Plan for Partnership.

Jane and Mrs. Brown are talking OF
forming a partnership and they have
visions of building up business that
would be really worth while. 1t was
Mrs Brown who taught Jane how to
make the apple butter that was such a
hit, and both she and her husband are
people you could bank OH to the limit.
1 think Jane would be foolish, and I
have about convinced her that she
would be, to sacrifice the reputation
her goods have built up for the sake of
selling under an association label. 1t
isn't likely she would get any better
prices, and with the variation there
would be in quality 1t Is highly proba-
BILE that before long she wouldn't be
getting as good prices, If she had a
market at all.
Jane and her jellies offer pretty fair
Illustration as to why cooperation in
the sale of miscellaneous products
doesn't seem practical. People who are
producing superior goods and have a
satisfactory market can't see any ad-
vantage in letting others in on their
good things. With uniform product,
like chickens or table poultry, the
proposition would be a different one,
but members of the club generally are
vet to be convinced of this fact.
E. S. NJ.
Evening star., 1915-01-16

on since early last summer, and up to
the present writing none of the bor-
rowed eggs has been returned. / saw
Jane gasp when he made his declara-
tion that nobody that had any sense
would fool with chickens. Then the
humor of it seemed to strike her, and
she had to use handkerchief to stifie
her laughter.
Evening star., 1915-01-16

After being told to leave the house
of his mother, Mrs. Annie Hardesty, at
Baltimore, Frank Hardesty. thirty
seven years old, swallowed poison and
will probably die.
Evening star., 1915-01-16

same as their President. and there is
awaited by US an opportunity to dem
onstrate to the American people that
we shall be able to reciprocate In
loyal manner the friendship they have
given us proofs of and realize our
destinies.'
Evening star., 1915-01-16
Your Wants Are
Well Provided For

By advertisers in The Stars
classified columns. Do you
wish
Carpets cleaned?
Hats reblocked in the latest
styles?
Dresses made or remodeled?
Furs repaired?
Floors renovated and refin-
ished?
Mattresses remade?
Rooms papered. plastered or
decorated?
Houses painted?
Pianos tuned?
Roofs repaired and re-
painted?
Furnaces. ranges or latrobes
repaired?
Umbrellas repaired2
Furniture upholstered or re-
paired?
Carpets or rooms vacuum
cleaned?
Windows cleaned or
Window Shades made?
You can get quick and de-
pendak.e service in any of the
above lines through adver-
;!sers in The Stars classified
Business Announc ents
column.
Evening star., 1915-01-16

When Waterloo was fought both
Napoleon and Wellington were forty
seven years old. Wellington's Prus-
sian ally. Blucher. was seventy-three.
Evening star., 1915-01-16
TAKING A FAMILY
BACK TO THE SOIL
Being the Experiences Of . Gov.
ernment Clerk Who Sets Out
to Lower the High Cost Of
Living.

am doing a good deal Of wondering
as to whether neglect has ruined the
several hundred strawberry plants 1
put out last spring. They lack a lot
OF showing the January condition the
experts prescribe for them.
If lose them it will be my own fault,
or, letting myself down easy. the result
OF my having too many irons in the
fire at one time. The plants should
have been covered with a mulch of
straw or stable manure as soon as the
ground was frozen. had both the
straw and the manure and fully in
tended doing it, but there is no day
light to speak Of now before 1 leave
in the morning and it Is about dark
when I get home. I had used up all my
1914 leave and could not have taken a
day off to do the work until after New
Year. The result was that it slipped
by me.
The ground froze hard and deep and
when the sudden thaw came there was
q good deal of heaving. 1t isn't the
freezing, but the thawing and heaving
that Injuries strawberry plants, and
mine seemed to get all they had coming
to them in that respect. l think the
bulge" In some parts OF the patch
was as much as three inches. That's
where the damage comes in. The heav-
ing tears loose the roots, and If the
plants are not entirely killed their vi
ta1ity Is SO weakened as to make them
almost worthless as fruit bearers.
Evening star., 1915-01-16
Did the Job Too Late.

Like the man who put lock on his
barn door after his horse had been
stolen. got out last Sunday morning
and mulched my strawberries. I stayed
away from church in order to do it.
and didn't feel bit conscience strick-
en-. AS rule think every one should
keep Sunday as a day of rest, but l
don't believe there Is any injunction
that absolutely necessary work shall
be neglected in order that the day may
be spent in idleness.
It is very likely. though. that some
folks would find a splendid text for a
sermon in the utter failure of my Sun
day labors to result in any practical
good. Before the mulch had a chance
to get settled along came the high
wind of Monday night and blew all the
loose straw away. This was followed
by the terrific rain of Monday night
Evening star., 1915-01-16
Up Against Hard Proposition.

So that is the proposition with which
we are going to have to contend. Many
of the men are unwilling to take up
chickens seriously or are Indifferent
and skeptical. while their wives are
inclined to let well enough" alone. 1t
is going to be pretty hard ito persuade
woman who, getting her feed for
nothing, figures the gross returns from
eggs as clear profit, to keep cost ac-
counts and content herself with what
ever the real profit may be. I don't
know but that I'd take the same view
of 1t If I was a woman on a farm
whore chickens are merely tolerated.
AZ near as 1 could Judge from the
expressions Wednesday night. there
are about a dozen members of the club
Evening star., 1915-01-16
Had Some Support.

don't mean to convey the impression
that the man who held me up as a city
galoot and the fellow who was so
scornful of chickens represented a pre-
dominating sentiment at the meeting.
Several members spoke in outright
support of the project and declared
themselves ready to go into it. The
proposal was worthy of serious consid-
Grafton, and that 1t ought to have very
serious and very careful consideration
before any decisive action was taken.
No one could reasonably complain of
that attitude-if they will only go
ahead and give it the consideration
and not put it off until next week and
next month and next year.
Judged by the tenor of speeches at
the meeting, the hardest thing I am
going to have to combat is the fact
that farmers are reluctant to depart
from the practices they always have
followed and which have been measur-
ably profitable wherever there has been
applied the amount of intelligence and
industry which would be necessary to
make a success with chickens Men
who are equipped with stock and i'm
plements for general farming argued
that they couldn't afford to drop this
and go in for chickens until it had been
demonstrated that the chicken pro-
gram could be made a success, The
only answer to that argument was to
urge that they should undertake chick
ems on a small scale, or let their wives
undertake them, and keep books on the
result for a year or two.
Evening star., 1915-01-16
Old Timers Contemptuous.

This suggestion of keeping books on
chickens was received rather contemp-
tuously by several old timers, but the
younger and more enterprising men
agreed that it was the only thing to do
if poultry culture was to be made
commercial undertaking. A good many
of them. I learned. already are keeping
careful cost accounts on their cows and
hogs. and to them "hen bookkeeping"
as one man expressed 1t, was a perfect
ly reasonable procedure. Time was
when nine farmers out Of ten wouId
have been insulted had you suppasfad
that he keep books on his chickens hut
the agricultural press and the Denart-
ment of Agriculture have been doing a
lot of missionary work along this line
for the past few years.
Most of the farmers out our way.
though, are still disposed to leave
chickens to their woman folks. The
fowls are fed from whatever grain
happens to be available. and the eggs
are sold once a week for whatever
"haulers" to the Washington market
are willing to pay, generally to 8
cents below the wholesale price. The
women get the money, and as they are
not called upon to make any settle
ment for the feed, it looks to them
like all clear profit. The men, too, are
satisfied, for in many cases the egg
money is all the cash they feel called
upon to let find its way into their
wives' hands
Evening star., 1915-01-16

who make some effort to handle chick
ems along modern lines, and almost
without exception they are in favor OF
the cooperative scheme. We couldn't
do much, of course, with only dozen
active members, and I'm afraid that to
enlarge the circle is going to take so
much time and effort that we haven't
much chance Of getting the thing un-
der way this year.
There is to be another meeting next
Wednesday night, and in the meantime
the poultry project Is the chief subject
of neighborhood interest. AFTER mem
bers have had a chance to talk the
matter over at home and with their
neighbors. we ought to be able to get
a better line on the sentiment OF the
community.
Other Schemes by the Board.
One thing seems to stand out pretty
clearly: If the chicken program doesn't
go through no other scheme of CO.
operative selling is likely to be un-
dertaken, at least not this year. II
was pretty generally agreed among
the leaders in the club movement that
no plan had yet been suggested that
gave promise Of being workable.
Even Jane, who was the CHIEF booster.
operative idea as she was in the begin,
ming Her experience with 1ell1es ana
preserves and apple butter TINS year
her ardor. Not only did she realize a
very satisfactory sum in the way of
clear profit, but she figures the reputa-
ton she established is worth good
deal more than the money she actually
made. The merchant who handled her
product reports that the goods have
moved rapidly and that not only has
there not been a single complaint, but.
on the contrary. his customers have
been highly pleased. He wants Jane to
enlarge her capacity and increase her
''pack" the coming season, and offered
again to furnish her all supplies at
cost and to supply any capital she may
need.
Evening star., 1915-01-16
"Friendly Neighbors" Near Riot.

Wednesday nights meeting of the
Friendly Neighbors' Club wasn't ex-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-03-10
STATIONS OF THE CROSS.
st. Francis de Sales Church Being
Put in Condition for Their
Reception.

The walls and ceiling of ST. Fran
els de Sales Catholic church are un-
dergoing a cleaning this week
Messrs. Conkey and Wright of Allan
tic, Iowa, having been employed to
do the work. Smoke and dust have
somewhat marred the beauty of the
frescoing, and it will be given a
thorough cleaning by these gentle
men, making it appear practically as
good as new when completed. They
have a process of some kind that will
cut the dirt without injury to the
frescoing.
New Stations of the Cross will be
installed in the church some time be.
fore Easter, and in keeping with the
beautiful Stations the church will be
placed in good condition for their
reception. These Stations, fourteen
in number, are among the finest and
best in the land, and will cost, in
stalled, nearly fifteen hundred dol
lars. They were purchased from the
European Statuary Co. of Milwaukee,
and were donated to the church by
individual members of the parish,
whose names we did not learn.-Os-
sian Bee.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-03-10
COMPILE TABLE ON AUTO SALES
Northeastern Iowa Leads State in
Number of Automobiles.

Northeastern Iowa leads the state
in the sale of automobiles, according
to table just compiled by the Wat
.erloo Overland company. Nineteen
counties embracing northeastern
Iowa claim 21,329 automobiles of all
makes or a car for every 1908 peo-
pie. The per capita in the entire
state is one car for every 20.9 peo-
pie. These records were compiled
for the year ending December 81,
1914 and are taken from the secre-
tary of states Office.
In the nineteen counties embrac-
ing northeastern Iowa, Hardin coun-
ty maintains the lead with an aver
age of one car for every 2.31 fami-
lies, Grundy is second with one car
for every PSI families and Bremen is
third with one car for every 2.74
families. Black Hawk county has o.
238 automobiles or one for every
four families.