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Arizona republican., 1916-10-18
PANAMA STRIKE

IKept5Ilcan A. P. Leasla WIreI
 BANANA, oct IA delegation of the striking canal workers today memoraialized the governor of the Canal Zone asking an increase in wages of seven cents an hour. or sl0 month committee from the British cub wis tied the governor today on behalf of the British West Indians who are on strike. The British minister however. has taken no action with regard to the trouble
 Order was preserved throughout Panama today
Arizona republican., 1916-10-18
Creighton News

Rev R. C. Gray. pastor for the Fast two years of the NJ. F. church South in san Diego. and who was attending tte annual conference at the Bethel church in this valley. was the overnight guest of the osborn family Fridav night Mir. Cray was
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-03
HER INCOME So A WEEK, SHE
SPURNS TAINTED" 5000, 600
Miser Uncle, She Asserts, Squeezed
From the Poor

NEW YORK, May s.-Last February
Miss Edith Kitching refused $4,000 willed
her by Frank Ripley, her uncle, because
his money was squeezed from the poor"
Yesterday Surrogate Ketcham. in Brook.
lyn. ruled that the whole fortune, 5000, 900,
was hers.
In her little hall bedroom, at "a Bank
street where she lives on less than So
week. she majestically scorned her uncle's
fortune again last night
Does the additional $780, take the
taint off Uncle Ripley's money!" she
scornfully inquired.
Earnest and sincere, garbed in a hy.
gienic dress Of wool. loose and comfort.
able, with bare feet encased in sandals,
she went on:
Uncle Ripley was miser He lived
with two loaded pistols always beside him.
He made his money from mortgages
squeezed from the poor. The moneys
tainted. It's a moral issue with me. 1t
wouldn't make any difference If 1t was all
the money in the world wouldn't touch
it."
Money is n negligible quality or guam
tity in the life of Miss Kitching With her
mother, Harriet b. Ripley, a twin to the
uncle, she lived in France for years on
81 day. The dollar was the pension
from the United States Government for the
death of her father. ]. Howard Kitching
who was shot in the Civil War
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-03
Branch Club News

wilfred Webb. of Cd Street pike, has
organized branch club, which will meet
once a week to answer the questions in
the Rainbow News. In answer 10 his re-
quest that we name his club. we suggest
that his members call themselves the
Question Marks" This will signify that
they are always seeking after knowledge,
If this name does not satisfy. please tell
us and, we will suggest another.
Pauline RaAfman and Sarah Dlugatch,
the founders of the Rainbow Rose Club
in Woodbine, n. j., report rapid progress.
Their circle now numbers II little girls,
ranging in ages from 7 to . years. They
have very happy and Industrious times
at their meetings and intend soon 10 give
proof of their industry by sending speci-
mems of their work.
George Tanguay. of Arch street. has
plans under way for a branch club in
Ocean City, n j., where he spends his
summers. The club will be chiefly athletic
and it's interests will include swimming,
baseball and other sports.
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SARAH MARIE TAKES ON WEIGHT;
INCUBATOR CRADLE NEW WAY
Little Miss Sweiker Lost Half Her Two Pounds in
Months Career on Earth-But She's
Heavier Now!

The tiny compartment was heated by
means of two hotywater bags. placed
under the baby's swaddllng clothes and
blankets, Immediately Sarah began to
rally and take notice Of the world in gem
eral Nourishment was administered by
giving her milk through a medicine
dropper.
Baby soon began to recover her lost
weight Ounce by ounce was added to
the little body by careful nourishment,
until in two weeks she had resained her
lost pound in full. And now she has
gone over two pounds, and is making
steady progress toward the three-pound
mark
The fact that the baby is living and
Is apparently thriving is credited to the
incubator by DR.. Alice NJ. Seebrook, super
intendent of the hospital
without a doubt the child would have
died" she said today THE incubator
saved It and think the treatment will
soon enable II TO reach a normal state
The baby is vigorous and has every sign
of being a healthy normal baby. An
incubator is an easy thing 20 make and
great many babies could he saved by
using one more often. Ten years. ago,
when we were called on hurriedly to use
one, we made II out of cracker box and
hot water bags. And anybody else could
do the same"
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WILL ESTABLISH HEALTH POST
City to Conduct Educational Expert
mental Work in District of
South Philadelphia

An experimental health district Is to
be established in South Philadelphia in
order that the plan of extensive health
education, advanced by Director krusen,
of the Department of Health and Chari-
ties, can be given n thorough trial under
municipal control
The new station will be established May
is at 18th and Carpenter streets ana
the boundaries OF the district probably
will be Sth to Broad street, Fitzwater
to Ellsworth street. 1t will be under the
supervision of Director Krusen, Chief
John A. Vogleson, of the Bureau OF
Health DIR. Joseph S. Neff, president or
the Child Federation, and DR.. Samuel NC
Clintock Hamill chairman of the Com
mittee of Research OF the Child Fedora
ton.
Al the new station every facility Tor
meeting the physical needs OF any neigh-
borhood will be available Sanitary in
spectons, inspection of food. medical IN
spections treating and caring for cases
of contagious diseases and inspection of
schools will be taken care of at the sta
tion and as the work in this district Is
perfected others will be outlined and es-
tablished.
For two years past the Child Fedora
tion has conducted a health centre at the
point selected for the start of the mu-
nicipal plan. The work has been entirely
of a preventive nature, sick persons nav
ing been referred to their family physi-
clans or hospitals. The Federation has
endeavored to prove the value of restricted
health education as well as the need OF
having residents know the persons work
ing for their interest along the line OF
better health conditions.
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The loss Of one pound in weight wor-
ries the average woman little.
However, IL she weighed only two
pounds and lost one-half Of her entire
weight 1t would perhaps cause a few
wrinkles to appear In her pretty brow.
But that is not the case with little Miss
Marie Sweiker, who Is not yet one month
old. Yet this very same thing happened
to her. Miss Sarah arrived TO make more
work for the census taker on April 4,
and at that time weighed exactly two
pounds.
That wac bad enough Physicians at
the women's Hospital at 22d street and
College avenue, held conferences and made
big fuss over the exceptional baby,
which they called case unparalleled. Lit
tie Sarah was watched and to the aston
ishment Of the physicians she began to
lose weight True she didn't have much
TO lose but she set about doing II in a
regular manner just as II she were big
"grown-up" that had been careless with
her health.
First she lost few ounces according
TO the delicate scale on which she was
weighed Then the loss reached quarter
pound, a half pound and finally pound,
one-half of the baby's weight. "A con-
sultation was held and she was immedi-
atey put in an incubator, constructed
like an ordinary-looking box, with glass
cover which slid forward and backward
for ventilation purposes.
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CHAPTER VII
A Tale of Three Cities

nNo extract confessions from men de-
i terminsd to preserve silence. men con,
fident that no proofs of guilt can be pro-
duced against them, is a trying undertake
ing at best, and almost exonerates use OF
the much deeried third degree. For
months the Federal Department OF Justice
in cooperation with district attorneys all
over the country had been held at bay
by the mysterious perpetrators of a series
of the most diabolical crimes against
American thrift and enterprise. Aside from
the bombing OF Industrial plants, the pro-
curing OF labor strikes and insidious
lobbying In the national legislative halls,
there was to investigate the causes of
subtle raiding OF important raw materials
used in production, passport frauds and
the sedulous poisoning of public opinion In
foreign-language newspapers.
Justice itself was openly hampered.
Congressional inquiries, mysteriously SET
into motion, coolly pried into the secrets
OF the grand jury room, and the turmoil
of accusation and counter-accusation made
thinking men wonder whether civil war
vas not already upon the land. Actual
lighting ana bloody battles are only the
dnal setting, the eFux OF a previous pent-
up state OF mind among people who make
up the world or = single country.
Tha dastardly operations OF 4 Sigyay
gang IN the Phiiadelphia district was but
tie segment q : whole While their *
tent was 81 towering amportanes . The
particular Persons engaged II travelling
shsm: saERszea a The laFzer perspective
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> ARNOLD GARRY COLIN

SYNOPSIS -. -, x-
w.n,s crispen, upon1 os1 tsf esfate Ie'h Which s in
.ss, s' inhsrIitts otbef things. textile mil
ss.5ss among ari99n5s Following the. blowing up
! Ksn.slnn XIX, Sis newly acquired steel mhls
pc.rrsspen Pa Psssrnins ane him ShT of similar
ff5ptic crossSSraf the Kenslnston. factory,
siftmpta ta.ciSes 10 investigated ann sppsS 70
ee's sssctlon o Of Philadelpniaay as aes,Ssineer NM ~
& accoIi,,b accoI,tb,ai Mrs. Marley. her daughter
lF8 md son strong, . hn,,oi,, but
NV Mlsble the three ,are qI poad neIrhhor'
neurishlns. rs u4ljnity 10 come to the bedside
.sIss. 81 e dssSusher Jennie }enniet npestb dying
Monte SeS aed'9iSs learns rs that q e quick con-
dlssas.ees, which is contracted W un,,l ,I,s
sorsers as Ss ths me FsspSeSedlps;pp" system in
fhinery qnp aIs realizes that the old out Of
yesee equipment in his mills ssrinioves aio e on 10
Spbie p system used rs 20 rsSsTponsibie sT Tor jen:
more res 'rssui,Sd nSd the death. Of hundreds OF
MES. MES uc' Thoroughly ,awed oy me h,s cTrn nwn
nal eondl,,tInnn ,,tnnte rushes TO the telephone
factories, CrSis MSui Andrews, his lawyer and
and Ie,s Ins that change must DC maue
imTsdss,ssiryd the general MANAGER Of the the
n. RsnGIa'ssqni /. an old.fashioned man; and, aheI
nnsssiIy unpopular, not iss onsg ~ his mean
conseIrly,e,asnIsh' when Monte goes tnto, ex-
dlspoiatto" dlsp.o,,ats with him, Blanchard hIes the
postuiasyf ths mills. Monte, however. de,
eNEnsF e,Ens 10 t continue his game ana uoes not
disclose nis issyr,rnnediately after this episode,
usSts learns from strons snsiSrton MarliHy that at l.
VI. W, stir IN trouble in the. Crispen
ltmpunsl. av,n % % as the "Big Four" In a
Mi,, s..s he young millionaire recalls Thn erst tne
warnlng oI oIo,nss 10 his mind is to kidnap
plan ssi.ators.l shstt To this Andrews reluctant.
lhe rsas assss The next chapter opens with
n. Mumrners' New Year parade.
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soagiy suspect that sit" went along on
#'s circus party
pe serious-Elizabeth Gorodetzer
81 sioyamensing avenue. wants to know
~ must answer Things to Know and
sfeFy night In order TO win a prize.
must answer as many of the ques-
- ~ she can each night and mail
- IN all together at the end of the
DO not be discouraged II you can
alsNer all Of the questions each night;
euf pest and remember that other
aoo"s have the same trouble as you.
stliam Lea, Camden. and Jeanne SEN
tNaley Park Pa, write as nicely as
they were copying a page In the
ts book 1t is very gratifying and
80 more easy on the eyes to meet
- letters whose little writers have
- - pains 20 make neat and readable.
ee Moneado Is another little Camden
| 2 whom the above compliment ap-
- ana Bertha Haring, OF Rutledge
anna Boyer, of Bsrgey Pa, and
s.esskAm. q Wildwood. n j.. write
sassftainins letters. for which We
mem klAdly. Joseph AeBrlds.
street Elizabeth Chrssaan
r And Joseph Maxwell Rex-
are efher memhars mo haks
Aasa snelf Hanea 10 quf list q
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CHRISTIAN HEBREWS MEET
Alliance Seeking to Reconcile Jews to
Jesus Christ Convenes

The Hebrew Christian Alliance of Amer
lea, which. endeavoring to evolve plan
by which Jews can accept Jesus Christ
without renouncing their racial and ma
tional customs, began its second General
Conference last evening in Chambers
wylie Presbyterian Church. Prominent
churchmen of several denominations Will
deliver addresses at the sessions, whlch
will continue until Friday. The Rev. Or.
John Grant Newman, pastor of Chambers
wylie Church, made the address OF well
come at the opening session
The Alliance is composed of Christian
laws who are seeking to remove the
obstacles encountered in their propaganda
among their own people In behait OF the
christian faith. Most of the ministerial
associations are agreeing 10 make conces-
sions which will enable the Jew to adopt
Christianity without the complete sacrifice
of his racial customs
s. b. Rohold. of Toronto is president or
the Hebrew Christian Alliance MARI!
Iohn Levy is the general secretary and
Maurice Ruben, of Pittsburgh, is treas
urer.
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FARMER SMITHS GOAT BOOK
Missus Bumpus Has a Surprise

After Billy Bumpus had arrived home
from the place where he had heen for
time. his wife was all excited TO find out
what had happened.
What was your new home liSe?" she
asked Billy, seating herself comfortably
beside him. A'hem A'hem! Billy cleared
his throat very carefully, stroked his
beautiful whiskers and began: You see,
my dear. 1t was like this: There were
Persian rugs on the floor and my meals
were served to me on a golden platter"
"Is that p" asked Missus Goat
My bed was of the softest down and
sweet music played while / slept"
rs that SOP" And Missus Goat moved
her chair little closer
mo sooner had 1 pulled the lovely
counterpane over me when the soft per-
fume of roses floated through the air."
MY My :" said Mrs. Goat, rs that
so?"
NO" said Billy. looking closer at her.
I'm hbbing."
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An Excitement
Ry ANA MURPHY. aerma

By ANNA MURPHY. Germantown.
Once a man saw another man climb
throu.-i the window OF a large house. He
judged him a robber and sent for the
police. The police rang for the patrol
wagon. Every one waited outside so that
they might arrest the man as he came out
They waited for an hour but when no
one came out they said they would in
vestigate. on going in they saw a man
sitting at a table reading book Some
people who had seen the man climb in the
window Of the house said this was the
very same man.
When they told him he was under arrest
he said:
What for2"
They told him that a number OF people
had seen him climb into the window of
this house
He said TO the police and a few other
persons standing around:
Cant a man climb In the window OF
his own home II he wants to-"
He told the truth. 1t was his own home
and he had lost his keyl
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My Little Girl

My little girl is nested
Within her tiny bed,
With amber ringlets crested
Around her dainty head
She lies so calm and stilly,
She breathes so soft and low,
She calls to mind lily
Half hidden in the snow.
A weary little mortal
Has gone TO Sunderland;
The pixies at the portal
Have caught her by the hand.
She dreams her broken dolly
Will soon be mended there
That looks so melancholy
Upon the rocking chair.
/ kiss your wayward tresses,
My drowsy little queen;
l know you have caresses
From floating forms unseen
o angels, let me keep her
To kiss away my cares,
This. darling little sleeper
Who has my love and prayers'
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CHAPTER vI-Continued

.r,pcof A princess has risen In the
4 h ,,os,ern world. for a prince has called
7, New Years Day at a humble two
sr..rv avvelling house; a prince in SHIN
,r,rv tinsel, plumed hat and cape that
/. rsssed his most impudent calves. An.
s,her January 1st finds another prince
handing OF the doorstep of the domi-
L,,s of another beautiful princess; a
nr,bce arrayed more gorgeously than
~ first. with a cape that trails his
LAR and wipes out his footprints, and
rnusical director with sweet melody
4 augment his worshipful presence.
A custom like our mummers' Is a
practice resting for au-
sbority on long consent. True. the willy
sostume makers have widened the
brince capes until they are now beyond
she slender purse of a single prince, and
ahere is the pooling of many purses in
'the dozens of New Years clubs. with a
robust captain prince or king who
walks with dropping shoulders and
hrumbling legs under the great weight
b added fnery; his little pages, 20, 40,
sO, increasing In number with the
years, blue with cold to their finger tips
from keeping his monster cape stretched
tight like the head of a drum. True, the
whole prince affair has become a pub
Bic function, with prizes, politics and
betty jealousies interviewer.
stay Turn not away, The parade
8 passing; a riot of color, gaiety, music
md carnival spirit extending in Broad
street from Porter street to Girard
avenue. Watch the youngsters in the
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rear The fourth OF these from Allie
sheny avenue was the one under the
scrutiny of the masked prince.
Occasionally he crossed the street
and exchanged a few words with a
capering clown, who hoE ped about the
sidewalk with greater energy than one
would expect of a person up all of the
night before. The clown seemed to feel
a remarkable curiosity In regard TO the
contents of grocer's window around
the corner on Allegheny avenue. From
time to time a policeman passed along
that important highway, jostling against
other masqueraders.
The clown addressed by the prince
replied and passed on; and then the two
rejoined each other to laugh and say
"Good No one would ever recognize
US"
And, looking at them closely, they
had real cause for exaltation and good
reason to be proud, even II 1t was nip.
ping cold and the air was filled with
tiny dry snowfiakes.
II am not surprised that people from
the Big Four who have been passing
did not recognize me-" said the prince
quietly, "since am not able to recog-
nize myself. Where Is the car, Lars7"
up alley, Mr.. Crispen," said the
clown.
"The one that parallels this street half
block west and opens out into AL
legheny avenue2"
"Yaw"
Got her headed right and the en-
gine going?"
'rYaw, yaw," said the Morse chauffeur.
Listen, Lars! When our man leaves
the fourth house, you dance along in
front of him until you are before the
concrete walk of the second house
from the corner. Then fall in front of
him; that old jujutsu trick taught you
in Paris. Remember! After we have
him, you take his feet and l his
shoulders, and we will carry him
through to the rear yard of the vacant
house. Over the fence Is the place I
told you to leave the blue limousine.
Are you sure 1t is there?"
"Yaw," said the clown fox.trotting
toward the fourth house.
But the time for further instructions
was over. No more reflections. The
time for action had come.
-
The prince again passed the clown,
going beyond the fourth house. He
gave a low "hist," for the door opened
and there emerged a rough, foreign
looking man with steely eyes and gran
ite face, who wore tattered black coat
and baggy, ill-fitting trousers. His cap
was shabby and dirty and he smoked
large pipe as he walked briskly to-
ward Allegheny avenue, glancing fur
lively to the right and the left.
It is quite remarkable how much can
happen in the street that goes for play
There were people actually on the steps
of the terraced houses across Murdock
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-03
RAINBOW CLUB
FARMER SMITHS
WHAT 1T IS LIKE TO BE AN EDITOR?

has written saying Il would ike
|u o tell me what it is like to be an editor
the delightful task IN the world because
with the little things OF interest around
look
which, when told simple language VIII
bake interesting reading. -
An editor never working asleep HObgobns
unperformed
delicate white when ne has
gne WE'LL
the world Not
the satisfaction that when all and their
completed the best they could they would not
{ editors.
him. 1t is the audience that
|nny and not the humorist
An editor enthusiastic because Eugene Farrell says
You cannot lie enthusiastically"
Now would like be editor for really and truly day. sit
and tell what would do the
Ehldrens, Editor of the EVENING LEDGER.
print you write good what do. Is
his FARMER SMITH,
Childrens Editor, LEDGER.
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GIFT FROM PRESIDENTS WIFE
Handkerchief Sent by Mrs. Wilson to
Be Prize for Catholics

A lace handkerchief donated by Mrs.
woodrow Wilson, wife of the President,
will be offered as a prize at the annual
entertainment euchre 800" and prom
enade to be held tonight in Mercantile
Hall, Broad street above Master. under
the auspices of the Church of Our Lady
of Mercy.
Monsignor Coghlan, rector of the church,
will take an active part in the direction
of the affair Dr. L. ]. Griffin is chair
man of the Entertainment Committee. It
is expected that 1000 persons will attend.
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MONTE CRISPEN
Cote, Seq11eO
Remarkable Story of the MlonreeOs Adventures in Kennston

crowd to whom the story books have
come true. Ivanhoe! Thaddeus of War.
saw! Richard the Lion Hearted! Sir
Walter Raleighl Watch the grown.ups
who laugh at the dancing clowns, Mex.
leans, cowboys, etc, and see in many
of the costumes crisp satire on the
doings of the world, picturesque and
original.
1t is but few steps from fiction to
fact. Fortunate indeed is the city that
has a carnival time of It's own. A city
without traditions is an apple without
a taste. Abolish our mummers? Perish
the, thought!
Now, whatever good are those
enormous capes?" fault.found a visitor
in the dense crowd of spectators massed
around the Broad Street Station.
YOU a stranger?' bawled out a
leather.lunged citizen.
"Yes. am over from Baltimore"
"well, friend FROM the Monument
City, those capes are lifenets which we
can use at any big fire to catch upper
floor folk when they jump"
"Remarliabler'
"Only we have not had the big fire."
guffawed the local wit. "Haw! Haw!
That's good one to spring on Balti
more guy. No offense, stranger; this
is carnival time, and any sort of Joke
goes"
All New Years Day It was shub-
bub, hurly-burly and merry-making in
the streets of the Quaker City. Ken.
sington had its full share OF the out
door mirth, for 'mumming" goes on in
the outlying sections long after the
GRAND downtown parade had dispersed.
The units of the parade sift all over the
city. Wherever the eye turns there is
a vivid fragment of the whole, cavort.
ing himself madly. What shooter"
wants the day to ever end, this day of
days? Tomorrow comes soon enough,
so we find each carnival lad clinging to
his gay attire with the tenacity of a
puppy to a root.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon there
might have been seen hanging about
a detached house in Murdoch street one
of the hummer princes He was not a
captain prince, with cape as large
as a Silver Crown creation, nor as fan
tastic as a Lobster Club design. He
was an old.fashioned prince, with a
purple cape about the size of an ordi.
nary horse blanket. A plain mask con-
cealed his face.
He walked lazily to and fro, dividing
gantly at the passers.by and keeping
within eye-range of the doorway of the
detached house.
Murdock street, north of Allegheny
avenue, is a broken block; its east side
a solid front of yellow one-story dwell
ings, terraced up from the sidewalk,
and it's west side a mixed assortment of
two-story houses at street level, each
with concrete walk running to its