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The Washington herald., 1916-11-14
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF TIE
D1stnct OF Oolsmha Washington, D. C.. No
rembG u 1915. Notioe il hereby given that the
Cosnnlisssooen Of The District Of Columbia intend
20 MAKE NE following named improvements which
IN their Judgment, Necessary for the public
nGn safety and comfort Asessnents for one
nan OF the Cost Of the same will be made as pro
nIoed In public act No. III approved August Z,
Aest' All peTSons interested in the proposed work
are noaned that the Commissioner Will give .
puoAe hearing At the District Building wednes-
1S Notenoer q, 1915. at 10 O'Clock q. m, in the
p1Aru Room OF the said Commissioner 20 any and
AZ peIsons who may desire TO object thereto:
Northwest Section:
rave alleys with Vitrhed OF Hsphah block or
concrete: Unpayeo aley in square Sess at an esti-
mated cost Of s. SO ALLEY in square N1. at an
eStnAted cost Of Si2 North and south alley in
s1uHe 20, At an estimated cost Of N.lB. North
Aod south alley in square ~. at an estismted
coS Of S.7S. Cnimproved alley in square 2Ssl, At
an estimated cost Of NSB. Ten and nftsen-foot
aueJs In s1uare 2sl2. at estimated cust Of q 81
Lay cement sidewalk on the south sids Of VITnum
sueet northwest. between Seventh street and Grant
1rcle' from alley TO alley, at estimated cost Of
~" 10 Be- assessed HgAinst all lots In square ss6
abuttlng the said work. Set new Er1nite curb and
lay cement Sidewalk on the side Of Fifteenth
street northwest from Lamont street TO Sixteenth
street at estimated cost Of ss3 TO be ASSESSED
against all lots in square Z55 abUttinE the said
work
Northeast Section:
Paw UsFh ,s.-
The Washington herald., 1916-11-14
The Crimson Stain Mystery

NoveIized by ALBERT PAYsoN TERHUNE.
From the Consolidated Motion Picture Triumph
The Washington herald., 1916-11-14
ROYAL
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ATTENTION.!

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you will learn something of great i'm
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TABLE BOARD.
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The Washington herald., 1916-11-14
FOR SALE-SUBURBAN,
SPIRITUALIsM,

MRS. BROWNELL RETURNED
Chirvoysnt. trsnc-
medium. tels past. present. future advice b1sps..
etc seances Sun. ?. N. SOS Eve a, NJ Pho,.
NJ. SOS
The Washington herald., 1916-11-14
CHAPTER XI.
"The Tortured Soul"

.ARoLD STANLEY was In
no mood at all for visitors, as
he paced the floor Of his pri-
lNyate office in the Examiner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09

language Is poured as full of sentiment as it can hold. Words are only the slightly varying instruments on which we run the unchanging human diapason. Barbarians are but men who wear boards when 1t Is our custom to shave; outlandish peoples and customs are but those which characterize other lands than our own; aliens and for eigners are merely people who have gone from their own country into another. In Poland or China an American Is an out lander, his crisp American slang a bar barous Jargon, and his habits ludicrous in the extreme.
 The universal language may never come So long as distinct languages and distinct customs help to stem the world sweeping tide of dreary uniformity it is better that it should not come. Russian literature would not stir us much if 1t were painfully composed is Esperanto. It Is possible, however, to break down the tradition that foreignness is in itself humorous or unintelligent. Intrinsically, there are no foreigners; the world over there are only human beings, of about the same intellectual capacity, struggling with more or less friendly environment. We are all in the same boat, though some of us call it bateau, some a schiff, and some by other names which, for the moment, do not come to mind.
 Do not make fun of Meshirjetsche. For some tens of thousands of human beings it's queer letters flow together like har- monious music spelling the most beauu- full of words-home and friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09
GLASS BEER CONTAINERS

New York Correspondence Pittsburg
 Dispatch.
 Good news for Pittsburg where glass as well as steel comes from The next man you see walking down Broadway with glass jar-greatly resembling one of mothers preserve jars-don't think he's headed to the bedside of a sick friend While to all appearances he may look as if he carried a jar of apple jelly or some other delicacy, he's not Far from it; he's taking home a night cap of beer There's to be no more wax paper containers The new substitute for the old-fashioned growler is a glass jar, made in pint and quart sizes. When the old- fashioned growler was put aside, a paper container, which could be slipped into ones pocket, came into form. Liquor dealers were able to purchase them for $10 thousand. Now the paper growlers increased until they were $17.50 per 1000. Yesterday the price was again advanced to $22 thousand. This reduced the deal CTS profit on each sale over 2 cents. Several glass manufacturers were ap- pealed to. Now when New Workers pur- chase container of beer they will be asked for a 5-cent deposit on the con tainer which will be refunded when the empty is returned. In this way the liquor dealers will lose nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09
TRAJAN,s WALL

From the Boston Herald.
 The great war thrusts its tongues of flame into scenes that mark the begin nings of human history and the founda- tions of religious and empires. In this moving picture our attention has been called to the traditional site of the Gar den of Eden, to rivers that are supposed to have watered the earthly paradise. to Mount Ararat, Mount Sinai and Mount Lebanon, to relics of the Assyrian, Baby louian, Egyptian, Parthian and Roman empires, and to places that are closely connected with the rise of Judaism, Zcroastrianism, Christianity and Mo- war can but tread on ancient ground Not long ago we were reminded by the fighting at Ctesiphon, on the Tigris, that tLere the Parthians defeated Trajan, and now comes the mention of Trajan's wall IF the Dobrudja as battle line with the Russians and Rumanians on the north and the Germans and Bulgarfans on the south.
 It was in the year 1o1 that Trajan led his legions forth from home to conquer the Dacians, whose country comprised the provinces of Moldavia Wallachia and Pennsylvania, which the Rumanians are now endeavoring to reunite under one sovereign. Dacias warrior, King Decebalus, defended his land so well that Trajan had to start second campaign four years later before Dacia would &C., knowledge Roman rule. The wall that bears the Emperor's name is an earth work extending from the Danube above Czernavoda to Constanza on the Black sea. It is no great rampant, being just an earthen ridge from eight to fifteen feet high, but the Turks defended it against the Russians in 1854, and it might be useful in the present Dobrudja fight Other traces of Trajan are still to be found in the military road he constructed along the banks of the Danube includ- ing a commemorative tablet, and the pier of a bridge he built across the river near Orsova-the important point from which the Rumanians have driven the Austrians back into their Banat province. And there the war now bridges more than 1900 years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09
Hot Fight in St. Clair

The democrats of St. Clair county are making their plans to trounce the republicans next month all along the line," said Horace c. Afford, local att torney. who lived at Riverside for many years. "St. Clair has always been one of the strongest anti democratic counties in the state, but we are hope ful of winning all the offices this year.
 Prominent leaders from St. Clair held caucus here Saturday night and outlined plans for an active campaign. We will have plenty of able speakers and the outlook is very favorable. The republicans are in a rather peculiar position. Their leaders in the north are crying that the south Is getting too much from the democrats and their leaders in St. Clair are denouncing the democrats on the ground that the ad- ministration has turned the back of its hand to the south. They will have some trouble reconciling these two statements, both of which have been made by their leaders,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09
Heard Wilson Speak

T had the pleasure of hearing Pres ident Wilson speak at his summer home at Shadow Lawn some days ago. said Thomas Bragg, athletic director of Auburn. who was here with the A. P. I. football team yesterday. From re- ports in the north and east it seems to be very evident that Wilson is con- stantly gaining ground while, Of course, Hughes seems to be slipping slowly.
 "All over the east the people are talking that Hughes has proved a dis appointing candidate. He has not meas ured up by any means to the expecta- tions of the republicans and the demo- crats have been agreeably surprised that he has failed to be as strong per sonally as they had anticipated.
 q attended the notification of Will son at Shadow Lawn and his speech was one of the ablest I believe that has been delivered on politics in this country in many years. The notifica- ton speech of Senator Ollie James was also a splendid effort.
 The situation seems to be getting brighter for the democrats and while it still appears that there is a hard fight ahead, I am of the opinion that the President will be able to pull through"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09
Learning About School

"One of the best things about the educational amendment is the fine ac- quaintance the people of the state are getting with our public school sys- tenn" said w. F. Feagin, state super intendent of education, yesterday
 Whatever the material benefits that come to the schools directly from the amendment campaign it is certain that the people are thinking as never be- fore about the opportunities their chill dren have to get an education
 Tt is remarkable that there has been no effort to inject any spirit of par tisanship into the campaign, that men in every walk of life, leaders in all political parties and adherents of all creeds. the merchant in the city and the farmer in the country, all see in the amendment the only avenue by which they may hope to provide the funds the state so much needs to se- cure better schools"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09
STOP MY PAPER

ccmforted and consoled and their suffer- ings assuaged by tender expressions conveyed in the rhetoric of pity and hu- man sympathy. And in spite of all this the decree goes forth that the paper be stopped, summarily, while the outstand- ing 30 cents due on subscription remains unliquidated and unpaid.
 Editor Beck has a right to feel out ragged, and, considering everything, his excoriation of this rich tightwad is re- markable for it's moderation. But Editor Beck can comfort himself with the re- flection that men of this type do not, always prosper. They may hold on to their money with the grip of grim death, but life has nothing for them and they get nothing out of it, for the simple req son that they put nothing into 1t. The retributive rod of justice will yet swish and swirl like scorpion scourge and land upon the unprotected anatomy of this unappreciative miser. His punish ment will come in this world, and we may be sure that in the next he will get it again with compound interest Editor Beck may let him go his way, because tkis is big world and there is plenty Of room and plenty of people to get along without him. He is only one in Q billion and a half of people, a mere atom in infinity. And then the poet has told us:
 That man may last. but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love. whom none can
 thank.
 Creations blot, creation's blank
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09
HUMoRoUsNEss OF FOREIGNERS

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
 Place names on the eastern front are quite humorous to us Americans, if not to the soldiers who are killed or wounded there nor the peasants who are driven from their homes. Who would not laugh at Zaleszcki, Zloczow. Czartorysk. and Pinsk? Who could read with a straight face the names of Podbrodze Mir, Snof, and Pomorzany? Yet these have been familiar syllables on millions of tongues first spoken in childhood and not forgot ten in old age. They are as dear and companionable as Bingsham's Corners or Sedleysburg, or Jonesville; they near as much and their names are as reasonable combination of sounds as any of our own. A dying Pole might long as desperately to glimpse the roofs of Lukow as Stevenson did for the sky line of Edinburg, or an exiled San Fran ciscan for last look. by evening. at the Ferry building, the Twin Peaks. and tho in-rolling fog.
 Every word and place name in every
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09

done as much in the way of develop ing a musical atmosphere as Bir- mingham; and the progress that has been made here in raising the stand ard is the result chiefly of the efforts of the Music Study club.
 The active membership of the club is composed of women, but men are enrolled as associate members. With limited revenue the club has done a wonderful educational work. It has not only brought symphony orches- tras and famous singers and instru- mentalists to Birmingham season after season, but in recent years the spring festivals have been given under it's auspices.
 In order to extend it's activities, the Music Study club is about to start a membership campaign. The present enrolment is between 300 and 400, but this should be increased to 1000. The dues are only $3 year, and for this small outlay every member is en- titled to admission to every concert. for the four high class entertainments already announced for the season of 1916-17 contributing member will get double the worth of his money, 1 judging the value by the single ad- mission price. To hear the celebrated ensemble, which is one of the attrac- tions, New York music lovers pay S2.
 The men of Birmingham should be only too glad to show their apprecia- tion of what the women of the Music Study club have done for the cultural life of this community, by subscrib- ing for a membership card.
 There should be no doubt as to the success of the campaign. Indeed it should not be too much to expect an enrolment of 1900. The club has a great future and the. larger it's re- ceipts the greater will be the achieve ments in the musical field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09
LOVE BESIDE THE FIRE

Denis A. Mccarthy, Heart Songs and Home Songs QIittle, Brown & Co) The pride of autumn fades away on
 wooded vale and hill, The days are growing grayer and the
 nights are growing chill. Then, hey for home. and happy eyes,
 and joys that never tire! We'll face the worst that winter brings
 with love beside the firel Q. sweet as youth the springtime was,
 and fair were summers bowers. And gaiiy flowed the pageantry of au-
 tumn's golden hours! With sadness from the hills we saw their
 sunlit days retire, But winter brings us back again to love
 beside the fire! So bolt the door against the blast. and
 start the cheerful blaze, And let us sit, sweetheart of mine. and
 talk of olden days, Of days when first you woke in mo the
 dream of young desire. When yet l hardly dared to hope for love
 beside the firel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09
ROOSEVELT AND THE KAISER

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Few things are more delightful in the Biography of John Hay, a statesman who possessed the saving grace of humor than the way Tn which he depicts how he snd President Roosevelt refused to take the flamboyant advances of the war lo:l too seriously. And yet, as Colonel Roose- welt has just revealed it, when the same brilliant Secretary of State and the same strenuous President in the case of Am bessador Won Holleben found they were dealing with an ambassador who had ad- vised his government that the United States would do nothing to interfere with the Kaiser's intentions to terrorize vene- zuela, the Kaiser had to reverse his pol icy and the ambassador got his walking rGrers in quick order. Yet Von Holleben had been the conspicuous agent in fetch ing Prince Henry over to demonstrate to the world the soliditary of German and American interests and the prince had scarcely gone before the ambassador fol- lowed him.
 This resolute action of President Roose- welt brought on neither war nor the threat of it; it merely called an impe- rial bluff. Moreover, in getting rid of Von Holleben the country was rid of the man who conceived and was carrying out the deliberate undermining of the cld-fashioned loyalty of the German Americans to America in favor of a hy- brd sentiment and fealty which was to take it's chief inspiration from Potsdam. Naturally neither President Roosevelt nor any other American then or now objected or objects to the commendable love md regard of American citizens Of German birth for the fatherland. That sort of regard had existed long before the in- trigues of Won Holleben began without injuring the quality of German-Amcr- ican citizenship, but his rallying was foi another purpose, the results of whic.t have borne evil fruit even today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09
A WALL FROM KENTUCKY
'om the Providence Journal.

From the Providence Journal
 The Breckinridge News of Kentucky has raised it's price. Gan you blame us?" it walls in making the announce ment to its subscribers. We used to pay cents a dozen for our eggs; they now cost us 25 cents a dozen and be- fore the winter is over they will proba- ply cost us 30 or 40 cents. And there is the old rooster we used to buy for 10 cents; he now costs us 75 cents and a dollar. Flour meal and meat are double the price we used to pay These things all go into the cost of producing a paper, We are up against it good and hard, and our only way out Is to advance our price, Can you blame us?"
 No, we can't blame the News. but we can console it with the thought that the
 high cost of living has not really reached Breckinridge county yet. The editor was indeed fortunate when he could buy his eggs at cents. That was beforeo the railroad was put through. He is still fortunate when he can buy them for 30 ceints And as for the "old rooster,' perhaps he can get along with out him. We would not take him at any 1 price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09
From the Christian Science Monitor.

From the Christian Science Monitor.
 If If P near the top of the world" O just 20 years ago this last sum
 mer, a stalwart, rugged, native American. fishing and hunting amid some Of the noblest scenery of the continent picked up, here and there in the water courses of the canyons, shining metallic substances that appealed to his sense of the beautiful. In the course of a few weeks he had accumulated quite a col lection of them in different sizes and shapes. Exhibiting 8 specimen. to an itinerant fur trader, he noticed that it brought a strange light into the mans eyes, and he caught from the mans tongue word that sounded like mug get'' The fur trader endeavored to draw from him where the shining thing had been found. but the strange light that he had seen in the mans eyes made him cautious. He would wait and learn. He showed the yellow pebble to others, and always he heard the word nugget" Only now 1t was preceded often with an- other word, gold" Soon he learned what a gold nugget would do for he ex-
 
 station for things of which he was in need. Then he traded in another, and arother, and another, and then
 Up near the top of the world,' where he had been fishing and hunting and rambling, and picking up shining pebbles, the occasional fur trader was the only white man ever seen. A few weeks fol- lowing the passing of his yellow pebbles over the counter of the fur trading sta- ton strange white faces. eager white faces, faces with yearning expression. began to appear, at first singly, then in couples, then in scores. And in the eyes Of every one of the strange white faces was the strange light seen in the eyes of the fur trader. The native referred to was silent He would tell nothing. He vas watched. He was shadowed. He was trailed. At last the secret was dis covered. And then began the rush from ali parts Of the inhabited earth to the Klondike.
 The stalwart, rugged, native American who picked up the first gold nuggets in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09

From the Memphis News-Scimitar.
 N1( v E received a notice from the
 wW postmaster at Rogers to dis
 continue the Pod to wealthy citizen. We have given this man and his family number of nice notices in the clumns of this paper, and some of them were so well written that they appeared not only in the dailies of this state, but were even copied by the New York dailies. A son won high honors at col lege-we wrote him up in our best style; another member of the family married we published a column write-up of the wedding; two of the family had been in the hospital-each got g. consoling notice from the Pod. If they had undertaken to buy all this with money they would have failed. It cost money to put the notices in type, and money to buy the paper to print them on For this expenditure of money we receive dscourteous notice on his part from the postmaster to dis
 continue his paper. Under the circum- stances, had he been as good as he thinks himself to be, he would have writ ten and asked the amount he was in ar rearage and would have sent the little 30 cents he owed on the paper, along with courteous request to discontinue 1t. The trouble with these people is that they have some money, and little of the education that money can buy, and they think that they are better than other people, and it is their business to show other people how smart they are. We'll, it just makes us tired. that's all.- Pea Ridge Pod.
 All tender hearted people will commits crate with Editor Beck. The iron has enterd his soul, and he has felt the sting
 of that marble hearted flend. ingrati- tude. In his ever interesting newspaper
 he gave this wealthy citizen many splen-
 did personal notices and carried his
 name not only to the extreme limit of the circulation of tho Pod, but flung 1t into the maelstrom of the New York dailies,
 that swirl about and circulate over at least one-half of the universal globe. IEgratitude is the worst of vices, and one of the most dangerous. Great Caesar, whose name at one time could stand against the world, was vanquished by ingratitude and injured more than by the daggers in the hands of traitors.
 When an editor uses his very best style I in writing up a wealthy citizen he does not go beyond the bounds of legitimate expectation when he places himself in a I mental attitude to accept an invitations | to dinner, or to receive a contribution of farm products so abundant in Ar l kansas, and so welcome to the editor of ! an enterprising newspaper. The rank | turpitude of this wealthy nonpaying sub | scriber is accentuated by the fact that 1 the Pod wrote up an elaborate account l of a wedding that occurred in the fam ! fly, that valuable space and much labor were devoted to sounding the praises of a scion of the house who won honors in college. and when members of the family
 were stricken down by Illness and i'm
 prisoned in the home of pain they were