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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-16
TEN PER CENT GIVEN
LEAVE OVER SUNDAY
Many Men Allowed to Go Home
From Camp Stuart on
Visit.
ENGINEERS ARE MUSTERED IN
Orders Telegraphed to Officers Of
Fourth Regiment to Report Here
for Special Work as Recruiting
Details-Serviccs in Camp.

Ten per cent of the men in each
command at Camp Stuart received
leave OF absence from ) o'clock yes
terday afternoon till 6 o'clock to-mor-
row morning. The order issued from
camp headquarters yesterday after
noon permits about 100 soldiers TO
spend Sunday a 5 they choose and gives
them well-earncd holiday from the
routine of camp life
Filled with hard work. healthy liv-
ing and freedom from care. the days
of the soldiers at Camp Stuart are
profitable, but not sensational Few
developments occurred yesterday. The
engineers were mustered into State
service last night, siXty-two strong.
and will receive uniforms and equip
ment to-day. it is stated.
Although these men took the State
oath several days ago. they did not
then have the required number to be
officially recognized a 5 a company in
the organized militia. From taking
the oath the only advantage gained
was that desertion was prevented, and
the men already on the list were held
until enough others joined for the
whole body to be mustered in.
ORDERS SENT TO
RECRUITING OFFICERS
Recruiting officers from the Fourth
Regiment will report tomorrow in
stead OF yesterday, as was previously
reported. Orders were teleGraphed ID
yesterday afternoon to the following
officers: Major y. B. Percy. Lynchburg:
Captain j. l.. Mitchell, Norfolk: Cap
tain j. Y. Bidgood. Jr, Norfolk: Cap
tain G.. w. Burns. Portsmouth: First
Lieutenant Blair Wilson. Norfolk !:
First Lieutenant Robert C. Kent. Jr.,
Norfolk, and First Lieutenant F.. IL.
Bondurant. Norfolk.
The telegraphed order follows:
Richmond. Va, July 10. 1916.
Report this office first train Monday
with enlisted detail. one sergeant. one
corporal and one private for physical
examination. muster into Federal SER
vice and instructions recruiting duty.
SALE.
Ad Adjutant-General.
Adjutant-General Sale yesterday re-
ceived from the Department of the Ea st
detailed Instructions for the men on
recruiting duty. Recruits for the or
ganizations now in Camp Stuart will be
sent directly to the camp. but those
for the regiments on the Mexican bor-
der will be sent to Fort Myer. the re-
cruiting rendezvous for Virginia and
the District of Columbia.
CLOSE COOPERATION
BETWEEN RECRUITING OFFICERS
The instructions state that immedi-
ately after being received. the recruits
will be inoculated against typhoid fever
and vaccinated. If necessary, against
smallpox Close cooperation is as
sured between recruiting officers for
the militia and for the regular army.
Either arm OF the service is instructed
TO receive men for the other. and the
more experienced regulars are to give
all possible aid and advice to the mi
litiamen.
Intensive training for the recruits is
specified in the order. Each man will
receive full field and ordnance equip
ment at once. and will learn ns fully
as possible the work OF the soldier
In the rendezvous at Fort Niyer each
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-16
.ORPET ACQUITTED BY JURY.
OF KILLING SWEETHEART
Verdict in Favor of University Stu
dent Returned After Five
Hours Deliberation.
AGREEMENT ON THIRD BALLOT
Freed Youth Silent Through Excess
of Emotion-Shakcs Hands With
Each of Jurors--liistory of Per-
picking Case.

WAUKEGAN. ILL, July 15.-William
H. Orpet. the university student.
charged with numbering Marion Lam
bert. high-school girl, and his former
sweetheart. was found not guilty by a
jury in Judge Donnclly's court after
I'VE hours deliberation.
The jury retired at $50 o'clock. At
6 o'clock its members were taken to
dinner. where they spent half an hour
One hour later came word that YER
dict had been reached. Probably fifty
persons were still waiting for it.
Orpet was sent for in his cell and Judge
Donnelly was still at the courthouse.
Three ballots We're taken. The first
two stood II to for acauittal.
Orpet was silent through excess of
emotion. He was barely able 10 return
the handclasps of his attorneys He
made his way TO the Jurors and shook
their hands one by one smiling, but
saying nothing.
Mrs. 0rpct noted that Il photographer
was trying to snap picture OF her son
and herself. and warned him. mean
while shielding her own face with a
newspaper
The defendant, his father and mother.
his brother and several friends hurried
into tho witness room. where their
privacy was safesuardcd by bailiff,
Half an hour later they emerged
Well go home now, William" Mrs.
orpet said. and they made their way
down the back stairs and TO the iail
ONE OF MOST PERPLEXiNG
CASES IN CRIMINAL HISTORY
The case of Marion Lambert and
William II. Orpet in the course of its
development became one OF the most
perpleNinG in the annals Of criminal
history. Motive paralleled motive ac-
ton paralleled action, opportunity par
alleled opportunity until the marks of
murder and of suicide became sub
stantially IS one.
In the end, the guilt or innocence of
tho defendant. so far as the abduction
OF actual facts was concerned. went to
the jury on the mystifyng nicetics OF
chemical analysts and Orpct's own com
promising conduct The mystery at
| tracted unusual interest in all parts of
the United States and Canada
Trial of the case. including selection
OF jury. occupied the better part of
! two months. There appeared in evi-
dence forty-four letters written by
Orpet to Marion over period OF a year:
bottles and boxes containing samples
of cyanide from the Mccormick estate.
from the Deerneld High School labora :
tory, from kraft's drug store at Lake
Forest and white powder scraped from
Marion's hand and FROM spots on her
cloak: the girls garments: n maga-
zine article dealing with the use of
cyanide as fumigator in greenhouses;
the chemistry textbooks used respec-
lively by the high school girl and the
college student, copy OF the Wiscor-
sin statute dealing with the sale of
poisons. and bottle OF molasses and
water
Five chemists, all of whom were spe-
cialists In toxicology: one alienist, two
surveyors. druggists. street car men,
CONTINUED OF SiAth Page.)
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-16
RIDGE COUNTIES
PRESENT STRONG CLAIMS

natural assumption Ia that the
trans-Blue Ridge counties will lay
claim to the office on the ground that
Madison. Mr.. Hays home, ono Of the
four counties east Of the Blue Ridge,
has had the honor for eighteen years.
The district is split by the mountain
range. Albemarle, Madison. Greene and
Rappahannock Counties and the city
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-16

The Most Delightful Water Trip In America.
UP CHESAPEAKE BAY TO BALTIMORE.
YORK RIVER LINE. New and paiatial
steamers; a restful and refreshing over
night trip.-Adv.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
CELEBRATE 81 YEARS
OF MARRIED LIFE
81 Children, Grandchildren and
Observation-Disclosures to
Feast Aged Couple

Thrty-sevcn persons, varying in age
from months to 81 years, will celebrate
tonight the wedding anniversary of Mr.
and Mrs. Timothy Brophy. They were
married on February .. 1865, just 81
years ago There arc still the two who
used to wander about the grassy lanes
OF Kensington more than half a century
ago, before that section was built up,
and also there arc % Others their
descendants and daughters-in-law.
This large family consists Of the six
children of the couple, their 9 grand
children, their 6 Ereat-ErandChildren and
the wives of their sons There will be
reception tonight at the home of the
old couple. 2t07 East Huntington street.
Last year was the golden wedding" on
that occasion Nuptial Mass was celebrated
at st. AIMS Catholic Church by the Rev.
Matthew A. Hand, the rector.
Mr.. Brophy is 81 years old and his
wife is 80. They both came from the
same county in Ireland but did not meet
till they were in this country. During
the year there have been two additions
to the family, twins, the children of An
drew Brophy, Jr. These new great
grandchildren are named Catherine and
Thomas; they are six months old.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
ISAAC PYLE, 03 KIN OF NOTED
REVOLUTION INVENTOR, DEAD
Pennsylvania Was Descendant of
Oliver Evans

WILMING ron, Del, Feb. 2.-Isaac
Pyle. a prominent Wilmington man, died
here today at the age of 80. He was born
in salisbury township. Pa, February IL.
1928 lie was educated at the famous Old
Friends Seminary at Westtown. Pa.
and afterward apprenticcd to learn the
trade of carpentry. For 30 years he was
u builder here.
On April &c. 1916, he married Anna NJ.
Wells, of Wilmington. n great-grand-
daughter of Deaware's celebrated engi-
neer and millwright, oliver Evans, of
Revolutionary lays, who was born at
Newport in 1855, and concerning whom
exSccretary of the Navy Trueman H.
Newberry wrote Howard l.. Pyle, a de-
scendant, n few years ago. after detail
ing n commission to investigate his rec
ord, that the Navy Department accorded
Mr.. Evans the high honor of being the
father of the high pressure steam engine
and one OF the most ingenious inventors
America ever produced.
The following children survive: Harry
M. Pyle, residing at st. Louis; George c.,
at indianapolis; Howard L., Clarence w,
Victor r., Leonard H., residing in Will
mnEton Alfred c. Pyle, at Newark,
Del; Mrs. w. b. Twilley, at Baltimore,
and Miss Sarah w. Pyle. of this city.
Mr.. Pyle lived under q Presidents and
voted for l6. He was an ardent Demo-
Crat up to the nomination of Lincoln, for
whom he voted, following the fortunes
of the Republican party since, but with
pronounced independent tendencies.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
BAPTTSTS OPEN FIGHT
FOR MILLION RECRUITS
Revival Starts in First Church.
DR.. J. E. White, of At
lanta, breaches

The first gun in the Northern Baptist
conventions plan to win 1000 900 converts
has been fired in the First Baptist Church,
18th and SAMSON streets, at the first re.
vival campaign held in that old conserva-
tive church In 216 years And the first
shot was fired with careful precision
directly into the camps of the conserva.
tives.
The Rev DIR. John =. White, of At.
lanta, Ga. who Is the evangelist in charge
is no respecter of persons when II comes
to telling them of their duty. This became
evident last night at the opening services
when he hit hard at the Indifferent, in.
active church members and officers. He
is being assisted by the Rev, DR. George
H. Ferris, pastor of the church.
The campaign will continue this after
noon at 8 o'clock. and there will be serv-
ices each afternoon at that hour during
the 10 days Doctor White is here II the
attendance warrants holding the daytime
meetings.
The interest and the singing at the
opening of the campaign were remInis-
cent of the "Bily" Sunday revival. Back
of the pulpit there was choir of %
persons, which led the audience in such
Old-time revival hymns as "Stand Up,
stand Up for Jesus" and ~ Need Thee
Every Hour" The choir will sing each
evening during the campaign.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
CHINESE NEW YEAR
FEAST TIME BEGINS
Debts Paid, Music Played and
Big Holiday to Continue
Several Days.

"Kuong hu fat ioi."
Chinese i'm Chinatown and other parts
of Philadelphia today greeted each other
with those strange words. This Is the
Chinese New Year. And for them 1t
isn't a one-day affair. The Chinese New
Year began last midnight and will con-
tinuc for the next 10 days.
Those who have chop suey appetites
won't be able to get any "chop" while the
New Year celebration continues. Every
Chinese restaurant in Chinatown is cosd
today.
It is a custom for Chinese to pay their
debts on New Year. Hundreds of Chi.
nese were in Chinatown today, settling
their personal obligations. Some were
gambling debts Chinese will tell you
pay his personal debts will have consid.
cradle difficulty in reaching happyland
after he dies
The Chinese Merchants Association
had a parade today. Tie parade was
headed by Lee Sing, merchant. a ban
quet followed. All sorts of strange mu-
sic was heard today in the joss houses
Americans lined the street and listened
attentively to the strains of the banging
of Chinese musical instruments.
Joe Sing, for Is years kecper-n-c chief of
the Chinese Temple, had the rooms of
the temple washed. He was on duty in
viting Americans to visit the place. For
hours Chinese packed the temple, where
they dropped themselves to the floor and
delivered prayers to the bronze figure.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
TRAINS AND TROLLEYS
IN PERIL OF WRECTLERS
Tool Box and Ties Piled on
Track-Several Attempts
Near Cambridge Station

RIVERSIDE, n. j., Feb. 2.-Train
wreckers have made several attempts in
the last three nights to derail trains and
trolleys near Cambridge station.
A freight on the Pennsylvania Railroad
struck a toolbox used by a repair COM
pany and smashed 1t TO splinters.
Last night almost at the same spot
several ties we're placed on the railroad
between 10 and II o'clock. Two young
men on their way home near Cambridge
saw the ties and notified the operator at
Riverside station, who wired the dis
patcher at Camden, who notified all
trains to run slow at this point until
the ties had been removed.
About midnight the trolley tracks of
the Public Service Company were piled
up with seepers about half n mile from
the Cambridge station.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
and the Public Service Company have
detectives patrolling the tracks for sew
cral miles
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
CHANEY AND KILBANE
OFFERED $4,000 PURSE
Champion Agrees to Meet Bal
timore Contender in Six
Round Bout Here

johnny Kilbane, worlds featherweight
champion, and George Chaney, of Balti-
more, will meet In a siX-round match IN
this city on a date to be decided by the
boxers after February H. If the contender
agrees to terms wired him this afternoon.
The olympia A. A. will stage the bout on
Wednesday night, as n special show, II
definite arrangements are made with the
Baltimorean.
An offer Of $4,000, with privilege of
10 per cent of the gate receipts. has been
made the boxers Silbane has agreed to
box for $4,000 or 35 per cent Of the gate,
while CLANCY has been wired n purse OF
$4,000 with the same percentage privilege
agreed to by the champion
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
SHIFTS ATHLETIC FIELD CASE
City Solicitor Decides Frankford
School Plea Is Up to Educa-
tion Board

city Solicitor John r. Connolly, in de-
Gliding that bill introduced in Councils
to provide an athletic field for the stu
dents of the Frankford High School, is
a question for the Board of Education.
puts an end to councilmanic action on
the project.
An opinion to this effect made public
today dispOses Of the bill for the con-
dcmnation of q plot of ground bounded
by Harrison, IIorrocks, Wakelng and
Large streets. The price was fixed at
100000 Mr. Connolly finds the bill was
improperly drawn, and that the subject
matter is such that the educational au-
thorities and not City Councils should
act upon 1t.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
For Store
Illumination

A number of indoor gas arc
lamps that were selling at $40
and S12, will be sold during the
sale for So and $40, as long as
the supply lasts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
COUNTY BOARD DEADLOCK
Luzerne Commissioners at Odds Owe,
Clerical Forces

WILKES-BARRE. Feb 2.-John Tosa
Walsh and Michael Mclaughlin, major !
County Commissioners, refused TO al,
vote when they were practicaIir
forced to attend meeting of the Saaty
Board. which is made UP oe the thra.
Commissioners and Controller Fuller n
Hendershot.
Minority Commissioner Beisel and Con.
troller Hendershot have declared them.
selves opposed to an oversupply of clerL,
in the Commissioners office and tbss
banded together for the purpose of r..
moving clerks whose services are ma,
needed. The refusal of the majority Com'
missioners to vote prevented the transas.
tion of any business.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
WHITE PLAGUE MENACES
RUSSIA, NURSES REPORT
tuberculosis Rife in Prison Camps,
Say Americans

BERLIN, Feb. IA great plague will
soon sweep the Russian Empire unless
counter-measures are taken to stop the
spread of tuberculosis in Slav prison
camps, two American Red Cross nurses
reported TO Ambassador Gerard today.
The nurses are Miss Louise Warnecke,
OF Hartford, Conn, and Miss Louise
Kochert, of Wheeling, w. Va. They are
returning to America after spending sew
eraI weeks in Russia. Miss Warnecke
distributed warm clothing and food TO
prisoners at Moscow. Hundreds of them
are suffering from disease because of
overcTowding and because of the severe
Russian winter. she reported Miss Koch
ert visited civil prisoners near the city
of Orenburg, in the Ural Mountains The
camp. she said, is located so miles from
a railroad. 1t is badly Overcrowded and
tuberculosis is fourishng.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
For the Front Porch

Special Portico Lamps RE-
DUCED FROM So TO $3.50
DURING THIS SALE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
FEW VOTES AGAINST BRANDEIs
Nomination to the Supreme Bench
Seems Certain

WASHINGTON Feb 2.-That the
nomination of Louis d. Brandeis, of Bos-
ton, to be an Associate Justice OF the
Supreme Court of the United States will
be approved. with few dissenting votes,
seemed certain today. His friends today
asserted that the opposition was entirely
broken down Fear that their opposition
might be misconstrued because of aroused
racial feeling has led several Senators
who originally had criticised the appoint
ment 10 withdraw their criticism.
So far. no charges of any sort have
been filed with the subcommittee named
TO pass upon the Brandeis qualifications
and no request for a hearing has been
received.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
May Bar Minors From Cigar Trade

HARRISBURG, Pa, Feb. 2.-Thc State
Industrial Board has authority to for
bid employment of minors between II
and Ii years of age in the making of
cigars is the gist of an opinion sent to-
day to Commissioner John Price Jack
son, of the Department of Labor and IN
dustry, by Attorney General Brown.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
Reading Concerns Raise Wages

READING, Pa, Feb. g 49, The Birds
boro Steel Foundry and Machine Com
pany and the nail department and sheet
mill of the Il. e G. Brooke Iron Com
pany have announced an increase in
wages. The two plants employ more than
500 workers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02
Worth While Savings for February

Because need a
sacihc
The sale includes of the cabinet (hIh
table
desirable goods
Some hafhe reductions rom2O O% must
look o few of
dun hppng EeJJ
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-03-23

goods first had to be hauled over
roads or streets from farm and for
est and mine and mandatory and
storehouse to the railroads. At the
end of railway transportation they
had to be conveyed over city streets
and rural highways to distributors
and consumers. These hauls before
and after the conveyance by the rail-
road family indicate the enormous
expense incurred and the imperative
necessity for good roads that will
help to lessen the outlay.
The rural highways, which are
feeders to the railroads, have to en-
dure an ever increasing burden of
country freight. The products of the
farms, the forest and the mine, which
together aggregated almost 1,500,-
100000 tons, were transported over
950,000 miles of rails, but over g.
100000 miles of roads and highways
leading to the rails. Some authorit-
les set an average haul from the
farm to the shipping point as five
and one-half miles. The road of the
farmer. compared with that of the
trainman. is rough instead of smooth,
rutted instead of solid, cruel in
grades instead of easy. 1t requires
at least four horses for the farmer
to take ton five and one-half miles
over his road and to return home.
He loses time needlessly, and suffers
unavoidable depreciation to team and
wagon. The cost of shipping from
the farm to the railroad materially
increases the farmers costs. His
business and the nations both de-
mand universal improvement of ru-
raj roads.-Spokane Spokesman-Re-
view.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-03-23
MILITARY TRAINING IN SCHOOL

Last Sunday the governors Of the
several states gave out the number
of the national guards of their re-
spective states, now ready for. service.
The figures are respectable though
they represent but little more than
one-seventh Of one per cent of the
people. To prepare then, as they are
now fitted for service has cost the
states comparatively little. Does not
that carry thought of value with it?
There are no signs that the millen-
mum is near.
An elementary military training is
a great help to man to make him a
soldier of peace, even If he never
sees a squadron set for war. Why
not then give all the young men of
the country such training? By a
little readjusting of our schools that
training could be a part of the reg
ular daily routine of boys duties
after he reaches fourteen. Begun in
the graded schools and continued
through the high school course, the
boys could receive the needed in
struction without one of the demoral-
izing influences which attach to
camps of regular armies. lh that
preliminary schooling it would be
demonstrated which boys were nat
ural soldiers, which should be sent
for higher training by the govern
ment.
General Pleasanton once said that
of volunteer American army one
half were natural soldiers, and could
swiftly be moulded into form; that
half of the remainder could be made
into good soldiers, but that the re-
mainder might better be sent home
at once as they never could be made
real soldiers and would simply be in
the way of real soldiers.
A school training would reveal
these and prevent their ever becom-
ing officers and prevent their ever
making the mistake of volunteering
in the event of war.
The public and high schools are
designed to give to the children of
the country without distinction just
as efficient training for life's du-
ties as possible. A preliminary mil
itary training for boys adds in every
way to that efficiency, and it is time
that the parents of the children un-
derstood that fact and demanded it..
Goodwin Weekly.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-03-23
THE MAIL ORDER HOUSE.

Tune, "The Old Oaken Bucket" =
How dear to my heart are the scenes
of my childhood
When fond recollections present
them to view
The church, and the store, and the
school in the wildwood,
And all the loved spots that my in
fancy knew.
Last summer l wandered again to the
village,
But found not a neighbor of old or
his spouse;
The streets were deserted, the farms
needed tillage-
The town has been killed by the
mailorder house.
The village had vanished when mer-
chants were banished,
But one lone survivor, as scared as
a rabbit,
l found and asked why the village
was uSdu.
1.-THE town got the mail-order cata-
log habit,
And that was what killed it forever"
he said.
at was not war, epidemic, or pill
age,
No foeman's invasion or robber' s
carouse;
The money that should have develop
ed the village,
Was all sent away to the mail-or-
der house
The money we earned here never
returned here,
When once it was sent to the mail
order house." Elk.