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The Washington herald., 1916-09-25
ADVENTISTS TO RAISE
$4,000 ENDOWMENT

An endowment fund Of 5000 70 AID
worthy students 70 attend denominarionsI
schools Of the Seventh Day Adventists
will be raised by the executive commit
tee Of the Columbia Union Conference
OF that church, II was decided Al a meet
ing OF the committee In TslzoraA Park
The conference has supervision over the
District Of Columbia Maryland, Virginia
West Virginia New Jersey, Delaware
Ohio, and Pennsylvania Students will be
sent to the Washington Anssaona-y CO..
lege at TsJComs Park or tia academy at
Mount Vernon Ohio, the schools Of the
Adventists- improvements 70 the extent
Of $1,000 viii be made at the Takona
Park institution
The Washington herald., 1916-09-25
TRIES TO DIE, LANDS IN JAIL.
Manayunk Man Who slashed Wrist
Sentenced for Intoxication.

Philadelphia. Sept. 4-An attempt to
commit suicide by cutting an artery In
his wrist was made by Emil Geist, So
years old, Manayunk, after he had been
arrested and placed in a cell in the Mama
yunk police station early this morning.
Geist had been arrested by Price. a
policeman OF the Manayunk station, for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct. The
turnkey, passing Geists's cell at o'clock.
1und him bleeding profusely from a cut
lie had made in his wrist After being
taken to st. Timothy's Hospital, he was
arraigned before Magistrate Price, who
sentenced him to three months in the
House Of Correction for habitual intoxi-
cation.
The Washington herald., 1916-09-25
"CY" CUMMINS LOSES
In RACE WITH BOYS

Andrew J. C'Cy'D Cummins. chairman
of the Excise Board. at one time a lead
ing base stealer, was outdisLanced by
two little boys the other day. He was
out inspecting saloons. when he saw two
whom he suspected of being minors
leaving a saloon with liquor evidently
purchased there.
Come here a minute said Mr.. Cum
minis, but instead OF obeying, the young
sters bolted. A short chase convinced
the official that two hundred pounds in
one lump can't move as fast as two hun
dred pounds divided into two parts, with
two legs each The boys escaped and
so did the evidence.
The Washington herald., 1916-09-25

KEW. IEOMAS = fOSIEh.
the true worth Of the object in question.
This Is so Of various preparations, soaps,
proprietary medicines, beverages, and
other articles sold by advertising. Among
the few popular articles now before the
public. which make any effort to indicate
the nature Of the object named, Is Plant
Juice the new herbal stomach remedy.
The name, Plant Juice" instantly in
forms one Of the true nature Of the rene
dy. II is the juices OF plants-the ex-
tracts from medicinal herbs, and this Is
one Of the outstanding reasons why Plant
Juice has taken such a hold on the Amert-
car public.
Since its introduction here, many testi-
mOnials are daily received, telling Of the
great benefits derived. One Of the most
recent is that Of the noted evangelist,
Rev. Thomas F Foster, who resides at
No. s. Frambes avenue, Columbus, Ohio,
and whose fame has spread throughout
the United States on account Of his bril-
hancy and good work in the evangelistic
field. He writes:
In making my statement as to the
benefit derived from the use Of Plant
Juice, want TO say, for the beneft of
others, that am glad TO recommend It
to anyone suffering from stomach trouble
It is certainly a charm, and it has been
more TO me than could have reasonably
expected, considering the little bit Of
relief ! had experienced from good ply
sicians, and one of our expert stomach
specialists, who is considered among the
best thank you for the benefit OF
Plant Juice"
The Plant Juice man is at the Peoples
Drug Store, corner Of Seventh and z
streets northwest, where he is daily meet
ing the local public, and introducing and
explaining the merits of this remedy
Free samples given.-Adv
The Washington herald., 1916-09-25
WAR PRICE INITIATION
SKIPS OPTICAL GOODS
Retail Cost of Spectacles Does Not
Share General Advance.

Here is one on the war!
There is one article, at least, in the
whole wide world that has not had its
price raised by the war. Guess!
Give up?
spectacles
Yes, the cost Of good eyes viii remain
the same, and spectacles will cost the
consumer no more than they did before
the war started. And to be perfectly
exact, you may stretch the definition Of
spectAcles to include all forms OF optical
goods-nose glasses, monocles, lorgnettes,
and nagnitytng glasses-for the word has
gone around that retail prices on all these
goods viii remain the same.
That does not mean. however, that the
cost Of optical goods to the dealer has
remained the same" last night explained
II. A. Lesse, manufacturing optician and
photograph supply dealer, located at 6l4
Ninth street northwest The dealer
has bean hit hard by the war, for the
shortage OF glass has caused a material
advance in the price, but the retailers
have agreed not to boost prices unless 1t
Is 10 be absolutely necessary, and judging
from the present outlook, 1t will not be
necessary to take this step.
Before the war the high grade
glass used in optical lenses and for
Photographic purposes came almost
entirely from Germany. France and
England. This supply, OF course, has
been cut on. and to make matters
worse. much Of the inferior grade of
glass made in this country has been
sent abroad to meet demands there.
At the outbreak Of the war there was
q tvo-years' supply on hand, but this
supply has become entirely exhausted.
To meet the situation. one Of the
largest glass manufacturing firms in
the country, located at Rochester.
y. 2, erected a plant for the making g
Of high grade glass. 1t is asserted
that the glass now turned out by this
firm 10 Of a quality equal to that for
merry imported. But the output of
this hrm at present is limited. and it
probably will be a year before the
demand is met.
The shortage has resulted in the
Wholesale price being raised between
90 and 40 per cent And. in addition.
orders are far behind. Our firm placed
orders four months ago that have not
yet been filed. The shortage Of la
Dor, due to the high wages being paid
by munition plants, also has con-
tributsd toward raising the price OF
glass.
TT Is hardly likely that there will
be any real relief before the end Of
the war. But consumers should not
become frightened, for It is extremely
unlikely that the retailers will md 1t
necessary to raise prices"
The Washington herald., 1916-09-25
WILL WAGE FIGHT ON DUST.
Or. Anders Joins Campaign Against
Paralysis Agency.

Philadelphia, Sept 4-Dr. Howard S.
Anders, who recently sharply criticized
the municipal authorities for not flushing
the streets, declaring that dust aggravat-
ed the spread of infantile paralysis in
Philadelphia this summer, has Joined the
Walnut Street Business Association and
been made chairman of dust legislation
committee. His fellow-committeemen are
Franklin Spencer Edmonds, ]. Washing
ton Losue, Mrs. G. s. Bassett and w. s.
Jones
The committee expects to draft an anti
aust law for submission to the 1917 legis-
lature. II was largely through the efforts
Of DR.. Anders that the anti-spitting or
dlnance was passed in Philadelphia and
tnat plush seats were removed from the
cars OF the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Company.
The Washington herald., 1916-09-25
BOY SAW BAD MAN. SHOT.
Stranger Lured Ex-Convict TO W oods
Killed Him and Vanished.

has been found to the stranger who
killed Annerizato Lingeria in the
woods near Tuckahoe yesterday. and
then walked through the village as
calmly as though nothing had hap
pened and disappeared.
Lingeria was known as a bad man
1t was said he had killed a man in
Italy. and he had served a term for
a Brooklyn Black Hand crime in 1903
Lingeria and the Stranger had a
drink in q Tuckahoe saloon and ther
walked to the woods, where they sat
on a rock. Allen Aaggerdorn, nine
years of age, saw the stranger, after
a brief talk. draw a revofver and fire
six shots. The boy gave an alarm
All six of the shots struck Lingeria
in the head and neck. He was in.
stantly killed.
The Washington herald., 1916-09-25
Relating Is Barred.

Harrisburg, Sept. A.-An opinion waS
rendered yesterday to Insurance Commits
sioner O'Neil by Deputy Attorney General
largest to the effect that no rebating or
other procedure which will give an ad-
vantage in writing Insurance is permitted
under the act OF 1915.
The Washington herald., 1916-09-25
THE EVANGELIST'S
MESSAGE FOR ALL
Rev. Thomas F. Foster, Evan.
gelst, Gives Reasons Why
Afflicted Should Take
Plant Juice.

Daily We see peculiar names fartns
out from bilIboards and electric signs
Ths idea Is TO cause inquiry, create in
tsrest, and In many cases, so inspire
curiosity, so as TO raise a false idea as to
The Washington herald., 1916-09-25

small bag Of unslaked lime fastened
inside a piano, Just under the lid, will
absorb dampness and prevent the strings
rusting.
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WHERE THE WALKING is ROUGH.

they made no cracking sound ones
worst fears might be realized.
1t is written of the true laurel. which
is native to the Caucasus, northern Per
STA. northwestern Asia Minor and the
Crimea, that it's leaves contain so much
prussic acid that when bruised OF
crushed a yapor strong enough to Kill
insects arises from them. 1t has the
odor and taste of bitter almonds, and Il
weak solution made from the leaves
has been used for centuries as flavor
ing material for food. Oil of bitter al
monds may be distilled from the leaves
of the true laurel.
You will at length pass out OF the re-
gion of rocks and laurel and come TO
where the stream flows gently over
sandy bed with earth banks along it's
sides and rather open woods along the
way. These woods are marked by nu-
merous old but little travelled roads.
About two miles down stream from the
mill. and where the stream flows quiet
". concrete dam has been built across
it so that when the sluice gates are
closed the branch for a long distance
may be converted into lake. BY the
branch side near the dam Is frame
building, evidently built for boat and
bath house. on which the Rambler read
=
w A. Wimsatt. 1914" The Rambler
pa ssed on. Mr.. Wimsatt has a fine farm
and summer home which stretches over
many acres of the level lands far up
above the bed of Northwest branch.
The Rambler continued down stream.
intending to revisit Riggs mill and
keep on to College Park. But the way
had been hard and the camera heavy
and he climbed out of the branch bot
tom and took the New Cut road into
Takoma a trif1e over three miles or 50
from Northwest branch. Something
under mile from the branch the road
forks, the right fork leading TO Silver
Spring and the left into Takoma. That
line of the road from Takoma across
Northwest branch by Avenel to White
Oak is still called the New Cut road.
though it was built in 1860. At white
Oak it connects with the Sligo Burnt
Mills Colesville road. About two miles
from Takoma this New Cut road crosses
one of the very old roads of the region
and one which the Rambler means at
some time to travel. 1t is called the
'old Bladensburg road" 1t runs paral-
lei to Long branch until that stream
Joins the Sligo, then ii parallels the
Sligo until that stream joins Northwest
branch. and then il parallels that branch
to HyattsNille and Bladensbu burg. North
of the head of Long branch ii has many
forks and it seems hard to trace that
which was the original road but the
Rambler makes the guess that the main
stem is that which swings west To
Wheaton on the Union turnpike and
then travels on to Rockville. At the
junction of the New Cut road and TINS
old Bladensburg stands Browns store,
one of the landmarks Of the region.
The stroll which the Rambler took
last Sunday, and which he has tried to
tell of here. is recommended TO all per-
sons in need of exercise
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people. and good housing makes for
good citizenship.
Much good can be accomplished h.
women's organizations which demand
right legislation and see that II ls
enforced. Too much cannot be said ot
the service into which even the most
modest and timd may enter by join
ing in the work of the federated clubs
civic organizations. Go and see Tor
yourself is my parting plea to every
audience. How else shall We under
stand the causes that are piling UP
social wreckage faster than our schools
can educate or our churches evan
gelize? How else shall we be able to
help our city's morals, of which one
half is in darkness.
What an outlook any woman has
these days If she is willing to see. How
in perspective things assume their
right proportions. The great. simple.
vital facts of life rise above the tribes.
Looking over the social wreckage. one
realizes more than ever before the
sanctity of the home and the rights OF
children to fair ideals"
Mrs. Bacon manages successfully TO
maintain her position as the mainstay
of cheerful household and the head
home between her flying trips hither
and yon to talk upon the theme on
which her heart is set. The public
work of mother is always done in
parentheses.' she said. The papers
read and written and the business let
tiers indited are all done in the doa
nestle pauses of the day. My hus-
band and children are heart and soul
with me in this work. and this makes
the absences from them easier
She is one of the directors of the
National Housing Association of Amer
lea. which has its headquarters in New
York; is member of the chamber of
commerce of Evansville, Ind.
ganiZation of the leading business men
of the place, and she has been made
an honorary member of its Real Estate
Exchange. She is active in womens
club work where the lines touch her
own, and in this connection is chair
man of the subdepartment of shelter
in the home economics department OF
the General Federation of Womens
Clubs.
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his vision and set us down five years
ahead of where we were before
" finally saw how ! might be able to
get tenement law in Evansville, ana
could get a few paragraphs in the
building ordinance. Even that failed in
results, and. 1 said, What we really
want is a state law and I set to work
TO prepare one. I went through the
slums to learn every detail OF their
dwellers' need, and I sent far and wide
for housing laws that ] might gam
from others experience. My struggle
TO get this state law through and the
successive stages of the fight and the
long agony of suspense is too long
story to tell here.
1T lasted for five years. but | finally
got what ! wanted in 1913. and 1t IS
revolutionizing the housing of the poor
in a hundred towns in our state.
Through it I made hundreds OF friends
among the legislators. whose Kindness
and consideration l shall never forget.
1t was known as Mrs bacons Dill
everywhere, even in the press. The
papers everywhere took up our work
with that keen intuition by which the
press divines those things that are for
the public good. and they magnified
our efforts a hundredfold."
How did it feel to go before a legis-
lature? Did not you. as woman. feel
conspicuous"
The answer was characteristic. III
YOU were trying to save child in
burning building you wouldn't think
about the firemen and the bystanders,
would YOU, and they wouldn't notice
you?" Mrs. Bacon laughed. Not that
at this time l was not upon occasions
terribly conscious both of my sex and
my lack of ponderosity. If anything
makes it difficult to maintain lofty
dignity it is to sit in chairs built for
great men. conscious that you can't
reach the floor.
while our tenement law affects over
a hundred cities in the state, it does
not apply to our 373 towns, and last
wear I went back to Indianapolis to in
troduce a bill making it effective in
the towns and at the same time to try
to get more state control of the ad
ministration of the law; also to get
little separate bill that would give us
state control of all the affected and
would have given us power to regulate
lodging houses and lodging rooms. as
we'll a control in rural districts and in
villages.
"It has been found by the Pennsyl
vania state health department, for in
stance, that housing conditions are as
bad in rural districts as in cities. In
all states we find slum villages. The
old mining shacks cost a hundred dol
lars to build and used to rent for the
same amount year. We also md
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because that would entail too much
work for q pleasant Sunday walk. but
he entered the valley of the creek at
Burnt Mills, where the Colesville pike
from Sligo to Colesville crosses the
branch. The Rambler has often walked
along that road. past beautiful Alton
farm. and has written lengthy accounts
of such interesting places along the
ners. Burnt Mills. White Oak and Pleas
ant View. All those places are still
there and have undergone little change
since the Rambler jotted down all the
information he could gather concern
ing them.
Burnt Mills is not what its name
signifies. but takes the name from the
fact that a mill which stood near it
was probably destroyed by fire. Sew
eral years ago the Rambler was told by
Ezra Troth, the miller, that he, Troth,
had sought to trace the reason for the
name Burnt Mills He said he had
asked the question of a very old col
ored man who had lived in the neigh
borhood all his life. The colored man
said that his father had lived in that
neighborhood all his life and that he
had died at a good old age. but he had
heard him say that he could not re-
member that mill ever burned at that
place. The Rambler was told. however.
that search among the alders and
elders by the side of the stream about
six hundred yards above the present
mill would reveal traces of an ancient
mill foundation and signs of a long
abandoned mill race. AT the time when
the Rambler sought to get at the reason
for the name Burnt Mills" he obtained
the following statement from Samuel
D. Waters. at one time part owner of
the mill property:
When I moved to Burnt Mills in 1878
I talked with an old resident. Louis
Patten. then ninety years old. The date
of his birth would carry us back to
1883. He told me that the mill had
not been burned in his lifetime, but
that the story had been handed down
to him boy that mill which stood
above the site of the present mill had
been burned. He had never heard the
date of the destruction of the mill
but he thought it had occurred half
or three-quarters of century before
his birth. AS far back as my records
go. Burnt Mills was the property of
Richard Israel and after him his SON
in-law. James l.. Bond, later became
the owner. Bond was succeeded in the
ownership of the mill property in the
seventies by his sons-inlaw. Samuel D.
Waters and William E. Manakee. do
ing business under the firm name of
Waters & Manakee. The mill then be-
came the property of DR.. George W.
Broadly"
The Rambler has a theory because
Of the finding of an old copper stencil
in the present mill. that the mill
which has been forgotten was called
Glen Cairn mill. but this is merely a
theory. useful to think about in the
absence o. any facts concerning that
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mill which vanished so long ago. that
but for the present name Burnt Mills"
nobody would suspect that it had
existed.
Burnt Mills" is not an unusual name
around Washington. In 1865, accord
ing to a map prepared by the engineer
bureau of the War Department, there
was "a Burnt Mills on the Sligo. two
miles above the junction of that stream
with Northwest branch. which would
place it about a mile east of Takoma
where the road. still called the Sligo
Mills road. running from the Blair road
above Scott station to Riggs mill. cross
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many old houses used as homes Tor the
poor in the country that have as9record
of brea king up from three to SIX tami-
lies with tuberculosis.
IAN the homes of all the people
has become my slogan and that which
| have given to co-workers We are
working for the betterment of the
homes of the nation. Wherever l go
want the people to see that wherever
there are infected houses all the homes
of all the people are affected. The slum
home is a menace to general public
safety and pulls down what good peo-
Pile build up. Congestion breeds dis
ease. and most alleys are the boule-
diseases of the poor result from I'M
proper housing, and the vice and crime
from the same cause are largely pre-
vent lie if good people VIII do their
part. Jacob Riis could not say enough
about those who wiring the necks OF
the poor and permit them to dwell
in the cancer spots of A community.
The home is the key to good citi-
zenshp.' said this apostle of the down
trodden
I'VE must face the fact that so long
as We and our children are at large in
a community We shall be in danger
from all the evils that are also at
large even those which emanate from
the lowest and vilest sources. We
might shut up our children in our
homes but even there they would not
be safe for they must breathe the COM
mon supply of air; and though we may
be able to exclude from our homes the
moth and house fly we cannot exclude
germs.
They ride in on the trains of our
gowns and are tracked in on our shoes.
They come in food and drink, in laun-
dry and clothing. They come by mes
sengers, carriers and servants as do
the influences for evil. We do not need
to go to the slums if We do not wish.
They will come to US and wreak upon
us the revenge of neglected things.
I'm trying to improve housing con-
ditions l have had to deal with bust
ness men. real estate men and politi-
in a businesslike manner. The ma
iority of them meet me half way. In
my work it is my pride to do things
Just as men would do them. and ! have
unlimited confidence in the heart OF
mankind What is not practicable is
not as rule, desira BILE, and in all the
that has been done under
the laws which have torn down the
old and built up the new and improved
homes the properties have been paying
investments. AS matter Of fact, our
biggest and best real estate men have
stood by me in my work. Bad housing
is bad business. The two greatest as
sets Of a nation are its land and its