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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
By
ELLIS PARKER BUTLER

$50 he was still for awhile, and then he
says Ma!
let on to be asleep.
"'Ma! he says again.
"Well, what? says, KNOWN he'd keep
on until | walked up.
add you notice if that clock cuckooed
at nine o'clock
"No, | didn't says, real provoked,
and what's more, John Higgins, you
know as well as | do that if it went off at
all it didn't cuckoo! 1t coocuked. So go
to sleep and forgit about it,
"'Say' he says, 4 wonder if she did COO
cuck, or if she didn't9 1t would be the
dickens and all if | worked all day on that
clock and then she didn't coocuck or
cuckoo or nothin.' I'm goin' to get up.
"'Lie still, and don't be so foolish |
says. You'll have plenty time come
morning to see about that clock
"'Can't get to sleep he says, for Won
derin' does she or don't she. I'll just get
up and take look at her, he says.
$50 he did.
al heard him fallin' over chairs and
bumpin' into tables, and then | didn't
hear nothin more. and | guess | fell off
asleep What woke me up was John shak-
in me by the shoulder.
"Whats the matter? | says, sittin'
right up in bed; for Toodles has the Group
off and on, and always git scared.
MA says John in a whisper, where
did you put that little screwdriver when
got through usin' it this evening"
"'In my SEWN machine drawer, right
hand, top says, and went to sleepagain.
81 don't know when John come to bed
next. He wouldn't say come mornn'.
"'Fix the clocko' | says.
elk nothin'!' he says as grumpy as you
please
"Won't she cuckoo | says.
mo, she won't! says John, cross like.
She won't cuckoo, and she won't COO
cuck, and she won't co., and she won't
cuck.'
".Just then the clock went 'Whr-r-r-r!
Whir-r-r-r! Whir-r-r-r!' and the little
door slammed open like it was angry, and
the bird popped out like shot out of a
gun, and she says, Observation-Disclosures
hookhoohook" all in one breath like, and
the door slapped shut so fast it hit the
bird in the nose
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az thought you said began; but be-
fore could get the words out of my mouth
the clock went Whir-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r
again, and the little door slapped open,
and the bird popped out and went Hoo
Observation-Disclosures! and was
back in the clock again.
"'Goshv says John, looking at the
clock with his mouth wide open. 'Gosh!'
he says.
"At that the clock set at it again.
Whir-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-rv she goes. Bang!
comes the door open, and out slams the
bird.
"'Look out! says John; and he says it
just in time, for the bird comes clear loose
and falls on the table right along my ham
and egg. 'Hoo--oo! says the
clock-and then says no more.
"But all three of the children were fight
ing to get the bird. John had to box their
ears to get it away from them.
"'Now you let this bird be-, he says,
putting it up by the clock. i don't want
none of you to touch it, because I'm going
to mend that clock tonight, and you might
break it. Don't touch it!
"Well, of course, after that all of them
had to have hand on it before the day
was over; but guess they didn't harm it
none, and didn't say anything to John
about it, He didn't ask me. He hurried
through his supper, and got out his tools.
He had a gimlet, and pair of tweezers,
and his pocket knife, and my screwdriver
from my sewing machine, and he set right
to work.
TT took John a couple of nights to get the
clock together again after he had it all
apart and then he says:
"Now! Now, Mama! just as proud as
pumpkins, and he pushed the hand around
to the hour mark. Now you listen to
herr he says, and the little door tipped
open and out come the bird.
"'Whir-r-r-r! Whir-r-r-r! Whir-r-r-r!'
goes the clock, and then the bird opened
it's mouth and it says Hulk! Just like
that, it says it, Hulk!
"'Whats the matter with the contrap-
ton, anyway says John, real mad. You
go to bed if you re so tired you got to be
yawnin' like the Mammoth Cave he says.
I'm goin to fix this clock, or know why!
$50 | went to bed John didn't come
till don't know when. woke up when
he come; but didn't say anything. He
wasn't in any mood to be said to. So |
kept still and waited to hear what time it
was; but couldn't hear Birdy wasn't
hookhooing. So l went to sleep.
"Next morning John didn't seem to
wish to converse about the clock, so let
it pass; but he hadn't no sooner left the
house than it come the full hour, and out
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" her eyes at the shelf over the melo-
deon, Eve got cuckoo clock; but
l. it don't cuckoo no more. don't
know as | mind it not cuckooing either.
First off when you get cuckoo clock you
take real enjoyment out of hearing it.
Seems sort of companyish to have the
door flop open and the little bird come out
and say Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
now and agin, and the children just go
mortally wild over it; but bimeby you do
get sort of cuckooed out of patience.
Come noon and your dinner amt ready
and you know John will be home in min
ute, it sort of rifles person to have a fool
wooden bird pop out at We and start
squawkin' Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
at We dozen times hand runnin'. Many's
the time I've shook my fist at it and said
oh, hush! Yes'm! Gettin' on my
nerves that way!
But John he never felt that way about
it-not until the end. First off, when he
bought it, him and me and the children
we used to stand in row and wait for the
little brdy to come out and cuckoo.
Along about hour time John would start
lookin' at his watch, and begin to get I'M
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

ain I L! ne says, as
proud as a parsOn.
Next Sunday I'll fix
up that wing and get
her so she'll hook
before she hoos, and
she'll be as good as
new
"Hoohook! Hoo
hook! Hoohook! Hoo
hook says the clock.
"John hoohooked
her clear around the
dial until she was at
ten minutes before
nine, Whlch was what
timeit was, and then
he went to bed. He
was all tuckered out,
poor critter, workin'
so hard at the clock
all day!
WELL, | fixed &c her.
he says, after we
was in bed. She was
as good as gone; but
| fixed her
"All right | says.
Go to sleep, and let
me have my rest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

easy, and start round
in up the children.
oh, George he'd
holler, come quick!
The cuckoo's goin' to
cuckoo! and Hurry,
Mary, if you want to
hear the little birdy!
and Come, Toodles!
Toodles goin' hear
pretty birdy sing!' and
then it would be Ma
ma, don't you want to
hear the clock?' and
I'd have to drop what
ever | was dom and
hurry into the parlor
to hear that mis- able
bird lift up its wings
and say Cuckoo!
Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
dts all right for a
man that's away at
business all day, and
Just comes home meal
times and to sleep, to
take pleasure in a
cuckoo clock, but
when a woman is
around the house day
in and day out and
has one of them clocks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

2 ES'M," said Mrs. Higgins, casting
her eyes at the shelf over the melo-
deon. Eve got a cuckoo clock; but
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-01-26

that his mother was an iIliterate old
woman. Laura had never seen her;
Larrimore had been ashamed to let
her know. And when he was SEN
fenced Laura had, by his orders, writ
ten to the old woman that they were
going abroad to live. Larrimore had
provided for his mother before MS
conviction. He Rugged that thought
to his heart. He was pretty decent
sort of man. -.-
Still there had been trying episodes,
which, as a man of the world, he had
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-01-26
LARRIMoRE's TRUMP
ByAIlan Inglis

BY Allan lnglis
copyright by W. G. Chapman)
The prison gates closed behind Lar
rimore. He was free Nobody had
come to meet him except the report
ers, but that caused LaTrimOre no dis
tress. Of course Laura would not
have come to the prison gates. She
had pride, and, though he had been
unjustIy condemned, Laura was not
going to publish her shame before the
eyes of the newspaper men.
Larrimore had done no wrong.
True, he had beggared few score OF
women and trusting men who had put
their all in his wildcat scheme, but
then everybody did things like that
every day in the course of business.
The five years in the penitentiary that
he had served had been a gross inJus-
tice. Larrimore felt no. degradation.
He meant to repeat his trick, but
more craftily, in order to secure the
funds to start things going again.
Still, he was thinking, as he sat in
the train, a lot of things which dis
tressed him; and yet he could not
shake them out of his mind. He had
gone to the metropolis twenty years
before, a gawky farmer boy, to make
his fortune. He had become wealthy
in an incredibly short space of time,
for Larrimore was quick to adapt
himself to the dubious ways Of
finance. In ten years he was married
and had a house on the avenue.
He had married the daughter Of his
employed. He had not loved Laura
exactly. but she had thought he had.
No children had come to them, and
of late years Laura had seemed dis
satisfied. LaTTimOre had laVished
money upon her and had never
known what allied her. But then he
had not understood her.
After his marriage he seldom went
home. He made his old mother an
,5oC,7o+o allowance hIIt he had not
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-01-26

found difficult to explain to, his wife.
For instance, old Mrs. Larrimore's
letters. The old woman had been
growing lonely. She wanted to come
to town and live with her son. OF
course that was impossible, and he
had told his mother so, frankly. But
Laura had seen, one of the ill-spelled
letters, and LaTTimoTe had been
ashamed,
''You see, she never could learn to
spell very well" he explained to his
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
STANDARD TIME.
Men Who Worked Out the Principle
That Mr.. Allen Applied.

To THE EDITOR or THE S~US-Sir. The
COMMUNICATION from Saratoga Springs
In THE SuN OF November II in regard
to the connertion OF Professor Dowd
with the adoption OF standard time
recalls his indefatlgahle work for the
reform. No history If the movement.
however. is complete which fails To
recognize the important and influential
labors OF benjamin Pierce, one time
professor of mathematics and astronomy
at Harvard. afterward Superintendent
of the United States Coast Survey Sir
Sanford Fleming. CHIEF engineer OF the
Government railways OF canada Or.
Thomas Hin. president OF Harvard Uni
versity Or, +. \. L. Barnard. presiden.
OF Columbia Professor Cleveland Able.
m~eteorologist OF the United States
Weather Bureau. and other pioneers to
whom also the scheme Of hour differ
ences was obvious IN principle. but it's
Application in detail had presented In
superahlc difficulties.
Perhaps the relation Of William +.
Allen to the present system OF standard
time was never better stated than by
Professor John X. Rees Of Columbia IN
1856. as recorded in the reports OF the
American Neurological Society, Pro-
fessor Rees said
NJ. Allen stood in very much the same
relation 70 the standard time movement
as Morse d!d to the electric telegraph
Tho scientific theory upon which tho sys-
TEN VAS based Is wei known. what was
needed was the presentation Of the sys-
tenn In such shape as To convince practical
men Of is feasibility. This Nj. Alien dil,
and the manner in which Il has been &C
coInpi!shed and the results attained have
been a surprise - men Of science. who
locked for the result eventually, but had
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
The Babuna and Beyond.

The Serbian defence OF the Babuna
Pass. which according to dispatches
failed In the face OF overwhelming
numbers, was the stand OF n nation
in extremity. This pass, like the
katchanik on the north. Is Il rate to
the highlands of old Macedonia, the
prize o by the Serbians In the last
Balkan war from Turkey and the
only part Of their nation that yet
remains TO them.
The retreat of their army is along
the same line by which three years
ago 1t advanced as Il conIuerer. The
fate of its ragged. broken numbers.
practically cut of from the delayed
aid that the Allies are now hurrying,
seems that of the Turkish legion that
it forced into surrender or drove into
the Businesses of the Albanian noun
tains.
From the heights Of Babuna the
Serb. If his eye could carry - far.
might see almost the whole of his
hard won new possessions. 1t was not
such a vantage point for fighting as the
narrow wooded gorge Of katchanik.
where Il handful OF Albanians used TO
hold back a Turkish army: but n
Wide valley. It's slopes denuded Of
trees, its only bits Of color the poppy
farms. Along It's western wall zig
Jagged the road from Neles 10 Monas-
tir, the road that the Young Turks
built to convince Europe that they
were in earnes in their reforms In
Macedonia. the road that gave the
pass It's strategic value and made Ii
worth fighting for. The Serbians
fought from the heights down upon
the invaders; the Bulgars met the at
tack and opened a way to the rear Of
the defenders. The pass was lost.
BEYOND Babuna the road clings TO
the foot OF cliffs and skirts n wide
fertile valley. On the way to Monas
tlr the only important town, Prilep,
in the shadows Of the once great
castle Of the heroic Mako, is already
in the possession Of the Germans and
the Bulmrlans, The route is open up
the valley to MonaNir.
This big struggling Macedonian
town Is not easy Of defence. The
Turks thought as much when they
made it the headquarters Of an army
corps and their principal military sta
ton in the vest. They knew 1t in the
last Balkan war, The Serbs fought
up the flooded valley from Prilep In
water 10 their waists; they swarmed
over the eastern ridge from Rasna.
The trenches thar they dug are not
yet oblitcraicd, They forced DJAvID
Pasha's retreat into Albania they
took more stores and prisoners than
In any other victory In the war. That
they In turn will now be driven be-
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fore their advancing enemy seems
not unlikely II IN hat q short escur.
sion for the Bulgarian rcnquerors N
Ochridn why should FrspISASp wall
for the Bysanfinn cruwn nj ~. 80.
rhlaf Why not ~ crowned car ~
the Bulsars in the ancient castle ~
Ochrida. as was the great SAMUEL,
when his empire vas the whole Of the
Balkan te%ninsulai
The only hope Of the Serbians II In
the nrrivnl Of aid. The plight Of their
northern army. driven back into the
mountains before the Teutonic forces.
Is as serious rs that Of their southern
army. The arrival OF Italians at Sa.
lomca and the despatch Of troops from
England and France indicate that the
Allies have undertaken In earnest a
Balkan campaign. But will this help
come In time to hearten the Serbians
in their resistance and to save their
army and nation from the threaten.
ing annIhilation7
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
IN JUSTICE 70 M. cAfLLAvx.
We Prat Ms Disninrd Reply IN
Certain Statements In Siened
Article In 1.-THE sun" Last August.

To THE EDiron ~ THE SrS-Sir. In
It's number Of August %. which | saw
only n few weeks ago. THE srs pub
lished n long and violent article
against me which I can say IL a tissue
OF calumnies. brlstling with material
errors. ] will not lower myself TO
discuss and refute line by line the
allegations OF your occasional CORE
spondent. who either is animated by
singular and passionate bias or is ex-
tr~aordinarily III informed on matters
concerning France. I will merely re-
mind him that in the month Of July,
1914. before the Assize court OF the
Seine, in the course Of a trial very
painful for me. I called upon those
who had attacked me or were inclined
TO attack me TO produce or repeat
their accusation and no one rose to
contradict me. and that accumulation
Of calumnles cunningly piled up by
certain people with the object of ar
resting the development of the policy
Of democratic reforms Of which I am
the champion collapsed in the total
absence OF proof.
rely. sir. on your sense OF Justice
to permit this letter TO appear in an
early number OF THE Sun in the same
place and the same type as the article
of August. Yours faithfully.
J. CALLAUx,
Deputy and Former President OF the
Council.
PARIS. November =.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS.
A Plan TO Increase the Efficiency Of
the Educational Plant.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuH-sir: I
propose az substitute for the Gary sys-
TEN the Junior high school.
The principle Is sound that all children
between Z n II should have a full
school day and regular seat under one
designated class teacher During the
compulsory education period II is wrong
TO shunt the little ones about In mass
formation with changing teachers In va
rious buildings or Fairgrounds In all
kinds OF weather. Double sessions will
do least harm outside the compulsory
period and with the youngest children.
propose that all high school pupils
or tenth, eleventh, and twelfth years In
their respective elected courses be or
ganized In double sessions without
formal study periods in the upper two
floors OF the regular high school build
ings. and that these two sessions be
from $ O'Clock TO IL o'clock and from
! o'clock 10 5 o'clock. or from s to IL 81
and from IL 80 TO 8. would have tho
hour from ~ TO ! for lunch at home or
In school. II session is four and a half
hours the school. lunch periods would be
thirty minutes each. The four hours OF
the session ! would divide into six Pc
RODS Of forty minutes each. with abso-
Lutte promotion Ivy subject. and the two
hours OF evening school I would divide
into three forty minute periods also. I
would organize evening sessions like day
sessions and permit day pupils to attend
In evening also when desirable.
The first and second floors OF all high
school buildings l would organize as
Junior high schools under the same prin-
cipals. and covering seventh. eighth and
ninth years. Each teacher in seventh
and eighth years at least would teach
two subjects. and this would be true IN
the ninth year also II convenient. BY
putting all pupils over II on double ses-
sions n the kindergar,ens and first
year primary pupils also on double ses-
sions part time would disappear. In
addition TO the lower two floors OF high
schools one central elementary school
building In each district set apart for
seventh. eighth and ninth year pupils
under semi-departmental teachers would
suffice. CHARLES :. HARTwELL.
BROOKLYN. November -.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
Is Mr.. Burkitt Being Hased?

Can 1t be possible that Assistant
Postmaster BURKITr Of Winnetka, ILL.,.
Is being hazed? II the news kilograms
are trustworthy It would almost
seem 80.
Mr.. BURKITT, whose expression OF
views on second marriage proprieties
recently lifted him from an unobtru-
sive status to national celebrity, Is
back on the job which his CONVERSE
tional i~ndlscretions cost him-back by
peremptory order from the White
House itself. With undoubtedly re-
vised conceptions OF the advantages
incident to r~efraining from combining
sociological discussions with his cleri-
cal duties, there Is no reason why he
might not have dlsappea red from view
as suddenly as he emerged.
But apparently this is not to he.
Originally merely n victim to his own
delivery window conversational gifts,
he now promises 10 become again con.
spicuous as a martyr to the rigors OF
official tyranny.
The plain implication Of recent
Chicago news dispatches Is that his
august superior, the postmaster OF
Winnetka, has it in for him." II VIZ
may he permitted to use the phrase.
To begin with, Mr.. B%uRKITT's recep
tion when he returned 10 his duties
was chilling. He was met with II,
bruslue order 10 get back there and
shuttle mail" The "shufning." further
more, had to do with p~lgeonholes, and
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
Preparing . Lesson for the Bosses.

The New Jersey preprimary con.
vened in Washington on wednesday
discussed the situation Of the Demo
cratic party in the State and adj
journed subject to call without agree
ing on n programme TO be carried out
10y the direct nominators next year.
Another convocation Of the leaders
imiends. The enrolled voters should
not be downcast. They will be told
what they want to do before the time
comes to put their ballots in the box.
This failure 10 adopt n plan for the
enlightenment Of the electorate IS not
to be taken as evidence Of the I'M
practicability Of the preprimary. It
merely indicates the desirahillty OF
strengthening its machinery and re-
stricting its personnel. Three Lead
ers endeavored TO harmonic their
opinions at the Washington congress
Of statesmen. The President. the
Governor and the State chairman
composed the assembly. SO many
minds inevitably bred disagreement.
The weakness Of the system imme-
diat-ly became apparent. 1t will be
corrected.
In Washington and Trenton II Is
credibly reported that Mr.. WILSON
has already acted to relieve the en-
barrassmeut created by this multi.
plicity Of c~ounsellors. He plans to
reduce the preprimary to w~orkability
by eliminating from its councils the
Governor and the State chairman.
Composed OF one Leader. the pre-
primary will be permanently harmoni-
Gus. an enduring rebuke to the cowed
and Inundated Bosses.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
The Death Sentence Of the Baby
styled Defective.

The division of opinion concerning
the case Of DR., H%AIsELDEN Of Chicago
IN almost rs extensive and pronounced
among the members of his " pro.
fession AS elsewhere in the commu-
nifty. We note some names honorel
In the medical world attached to the
severest criticisms of the course which
DR.. HAlsElDEN pursued under the i'm
pulse, We doubt not. Of the highest
motives which Il sense of duty and an
active conscience could supply. This
Is therefore no question Of scientific
competency a. against the more or
less emotional judgment OF the medi-
cally u~ninstructed Physicians take
this or that view Of Or. HAIsELDEN's
fatal act Of omission according Ia
individual opinion exactly as do those
men and women of the laity who rea.
non solely from their own ideas of re-
ligious obligation. of philanthropy. of
what is called sociology, and of plain
common sense
In another column We print n lucid
and forcible statement by an emf.
nent physician Of the considerations
which In his estimation justify the
Chicago surgeon in refusing to per
form the operation indicated rs a
chance Of life for the unfortunate
child. We cannot, however, agree
with the conclusions Of u valued
contributor and this for the reasons
here briefly set forth
The question, ms already said. II
not medical. II Is not merely a ques.
ton OF medical ethics as the phra SO
Ia commonly understood. II Or.
HAIsELDEN had refused to operate he
cause n physician or II consulting body
Of hyAclans regularly in charge OF
the case had decided that the opera.
tlon IA ~inadyisable, while the pre-.
ponderatlng professional opinion IA
vored the attempt, then ii would be
a question Of medical ethics in the
ordinary sense, Bur he withheld his
surgical skill, with the ac1uiesccncc
Of the parents Of the baby, because