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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-01
'CORC0RAN SCHOOL
| PRIZES PRESENTED
Over 700 Persons at Gallery
Witness Awards to Art
Students.
DIRECTOR MINNIGER0DE
LAUDS LATE F. B. MCGUIRE
Principal Messer Makes Short Ad-
dress Discussing Purposes and
Work of the Institution.

over 200 persons gathered at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art last evening to
witness the presentation of the gold
the Corcoran School for the year just
closing and to view the work of the
students. which is on exhibition.
AS usual. the presentation and brief
ceremonies in connection Herewith
took place on the platform of the grand
staircase. half way between floors. the
audience thronging the stairs. the up
per atrium and the main entrance hall.
At o'clock the notes of a bugle call
summoned attention, and at the same
time the director of the gallery. G. F.
Minnigerode, a member of the board of
trustees; Gen. John NJ. Wilson. mem
Der of the jury of award, and John
Breyfogle and the faculty of the school
took their seats.
Mr.. Minnigerode called attention to
the loss both gallery and school have
suffered in the death of r. r. Mcclure.
for more than twenty years director.
and paid tribute to his memory. He
spoke. also, of the school. emphasizing
the excellence of the quality of the
work produced in past years as well as
during the term just ended, noting
especially the admirable showing made
by students competing for the gold
medal. Later he read the report of the
jury of award, composed of Paul Bart
lett, Hugh breckenridge and John
Breyfogle. and as each name was given
the winner of the award stepped from
among the audience, assembled the
received the medal or certificate from
Cen Wilson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-01
List of the Awards.

The awards were as follows:
Life and antique classes-Gold medal
to Douglas r. Hansen. bronze medal to
Mrs. Hope Durfee Wagner. honorabl
mention to Genichiro Nishio, honora-
BILE mention to Charles C. Adams and
honorable mention to Claude A. Spig-
gle.
Portrait class-Silver medal to Miss
Edith Maude Harris ION two can
vases. honorable mention to Miss
Constance Weaver and honorable men
ton to James B. Richardson.
Draped life class-Silver medal to
James 5. Richardson, honorable men
ton to Miss Constance Weaver. and
honorable mention to Miss Alice Brice.
Still life class-Silver medal to Miss
Edith Maude Harris. honorable men
ton to Mrs. c. l.. Drake and honorab BILE
mention to Mrs. c. G. Abbott.
Composition class-Silver medal to
Miss Mary E. Mcnamara. honora bic
mention to Alfred G. Schmidt and hon
orable mention to Miss Constance
Weaver.
Water color class-Silver medal to
Mrs. Myron A. Cole. honorable mention
to Miss Lottie Lee Fahrenbruch and
honora BILE mention TO f 6 Thomas
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Fourth Floor.
The Washington times., 1916-04-09
Similar Chain of Events
At Home of Mrs. Baugher

About the same time. in Basic City
twelve miles away from Grottoes. a
similar chain of events was transpiring
in the home of Mrs. Hattie Baugher. a
sister of the KyRer girls.
Receiving a box Identical with the one
sent to Lille KyRer. Mrs. Baugher took
II to her home. where one OF her house.
hold ate of 1t, was made seriously i'll.
but saved through the efforts of a ply
sician.
Tho finger of suspicion was at once
directed toward aged Mrs. sipe-at first
because the gentle old woman was
known to dislike Lille KYger on ac-
count of her sons "keepln' company"
with the girl. and then on other ac-
: counts. And so. Sheriff d. Il. Crous-
horn, of Rockingham county. aided by
Deputy Robert Long. after investiga-
ting the case. placed Mrs. Sipe under
arrest oN the night os April g. at her
little home in Grottoes.
She was placed In the sheriffs au-
tomobilC-perhaps the first time she
had ever ridden In motor vehlcle-and
the trip began toward the Rockingham
county iail which stands grim and
forbiddinr on Graham street. Just off
the court house square, In Harrison
burg.
The car had hardly left the corporate
limits OF Grottoes. however, when the
mild-faced little woman. who had wept
AT leaving her twenty-one-year-o old
daughter, Jessie. and son Leemoer.
IN the house alone. leaned toward the
she riff
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Admits She Denied
"a Lot O. Things"

"I denied a lot o. things back there In
the house." she said II couldn't seem
to bear to tell them before the children,
But I'll tell YOU all now. did send that
candv."
But to get back to the Rockingham
Jail, where on Friday morning the little.
Eentle-faced, motherly woman scrubbed
windows, and frowned when the little
sspecks OF red paint would not come OF
the otherwise glistening pane.
She was engaged In that occupation
because she told Sheriff Croushorn that
she Just couldn't stand bein' idle. Z"
And so the sheriff. well knowing that
the Sisterhood of Martha can, never be
happy unless their hands are busy, told
her that she might wash the windows
II she wished.
There was one other occupant of the
big, steel grated room. over which hung
heavily the prison smell-that odor
which comes from the bodies OF human
beings herded together by the law for
long terms.
She was a black-eyed chit OF a girl,
eighteen or thereabout. who had teen
eAksn up for vagrancy. In sharp con-
The Washington times., 1916-04-09

Why should Government Money
be spent for an Armor Factory?
Tohe Members gConrsr
plant The before the House
here nbeouytwo x1lereaous usfouc ependhur
mpnyue dheccu
at than
The Bethlehem
FIRST %%SS % s s @ % ne Ns s for $ %s : sRt @ have
$4,000 o*" enough absorb the
Bethlehem to ddund
ehtn nyems -
m$: foregoing pr" not %saa%y will
mtwh eeueary
sG%anmea taking % % proper h%Ss %
estimated
effect building
there would not be for both
nNvdA nanuny2s RarAdmn
%h"N"d Bureau Ordnance
$s$:sss.s=s.$S. -I-~r
'~"-
Existing plants ample
S1anE @ @ eSnf %% P.sa Bethlehem Steel Company
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Her Boy Came Across
Bottle of Strychnine

"Shen my husband died. m? father
came to live with us. and one day Lee
moer was going through box OF Pap's
rlunder. and come across a bottle.
"'Why this Is strychnine.' he sayR.
and then Pap told me he'd gotten II to
kill rats with.
II had a mind ther 10 take Il out and
bury II. but II somehow slipped me
and / forgot oil about 1t till I got to
thlnrin' and thinkin. And then. all OF
a sudden. l remembered II, and knew
just what 1 was R-Soin' to do.
Yes. sir; yes, sir; I bought them
two boxes o. candy at the store. and
bought thcIl chocolate drops.
mo, sir. ! didn't have INT oh trouble.
ies' dug them drops ont with a knife
and put the stun in with another knife,
and then smeared the place over again.
Yes. sir; l rot Leslie to address EN-
for me. She came upstairs while I was
a-doin' the fIxin', and asked me what
was doin'.
IT told her: Go long now. What
yluh can't see Suh can't tell An she
cbeycd me-"
A note Of I,otherly pride crept into
Eer voice as she continued:
81 will say this for both my child
ren-they always would do what I
told 'em.
81 tied them boxes all up and took
EN- downstairs. Then I united 'em
and told Lessie TO write April Fool"
on two pieces OF paper ! gave her.
and told her how to address the pack
The Washington times., 1916-04-09
Greed Has Come Down
From Ancient Wild

The creed has come down to woman
kind-at least to the kind of women
who dwell in the open spaces-from the
furred and feathered. beast and bird
mothers OF the ancient wild.
And 1t was that subconscious prompt
ing. ringing down the ages which drove
Mrs. Margaret Sipe. the white haired
gentle little old woman into the shadow
of the Rockingham county jail.
Because she knows nothing OF sub.
conscious promptings and less oi
psychology, she says:
MY boy, my little Leemoer-yes; he's
twenty-five now-was a-keeping comp'ny
with one o. them wimmin, and didn't
know no other way to stop II.
And 30 1t was that into a lifetime OF
service as wife and mother amid the
most peaceful and domestic OF sur
roundings, the ancient command sounded
sudden and clear into the ears Of aged
Margaret Slpe.
She did not stop to question whether
the women she disliked were actually
exerting an influence upon her boy, ol
whether 1t was an unfounded belief, en-
gendered In the mother-heart of her.
On the impulse of the moment, she
acted. With what weapons she found
at hand she struck-very much al
q mother rabbit would attack a
lioness, in defense of her young. Anc
straightway a strange chain of event,
began to happen In Grottoes. Va. ant
neighboring Basic City.
The Washington times., 1916-04-09
Two Sisters Went
To Village Postomce

Miss Lille Kyger, seventeen years
old, and her sister. Cora. three years
younger. daughters OF Bud" Kyser. OF
Grottoes, went to the postoffice on the
afternoon OF April l.
Postmaster Littell handed the Older
girl a small package, addressed to her
Together the sisters left for home
Miss Lille Kyger unwrapping the par
eel as she walked along. Inside of the
box there appeared a torn scrap OF
paper upon which was scrawled april
Fool" But beneath It, In contradic-
tion. lay a dozen chocolate drops.
Paying no attention to the slip OF
paper. the younger girl ate two Of the
bits of candy. and remarked. after
swallowing them: They tasted awfully
bitter, Lille"
Whereupon the elder sister tasted the
candy. found 1t was as her younger sis
ter had said, and spat II out.
On the way home, they stopped at the
home of a neighbor. There little Cora
was taken suddenly and violently i'll.
DR.. W. F.. Wissler. summoned to the
house, administered emetics, and brought
the girl out of danger
The Washington times., 1916-04-09
Wallet and Will
Sent By Mail

Tho package also had an anonymous
letter from a man who said that he had
held Nicholas up and robbed him on a
roadway in the. county here about a
year before his death.
He had kept the wallet because Il
contained what seemed to be a will,
and then reading of Nicholas death
had determined to Send the wallet back.
The package was mailed.
THE will was found just as the let
ter predicted. II was written on a scrap
OF paper, In handwriting which beyond
doubt was that of the dead man. 1t
devised $4,000 in cash and the Nicho-
las farm, which was worth many thou
sands Of dollars. to a woman in st.
Louis. This woman, according to the
will, had befriended Nicholas on one oc-
dent.
The woman was located and the case
was under investigation when she was
arrested in connection with the use of
the mails, and, convicted. IL now serv-
ing a short sentence.
80 the will case had never been dis
posed of either"
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sir and Rot off at the depot But
didn't hear nothln' about the candy
TIL Monday"
Aud ut the end Of her story she
ask
but what in the world ever made
you fix II on met"
Sheriff Craushorn then told her
he had heard OF her dislike for Miss
kyger' that he had traced her puf-
chase OF the boxes which contained
tte candy at one time, and her pur-
chase OF the chocolate drops Mt
another; how he knew the packages
had heen mailed on train IS because
they bore no poRtoffice mark and no
sendtr's name; bow she had been seen
coming up on Train 13 on Saturday
and half a dozen more OF his clues.
while he was talking she indus
trtously scrubbed on at the little red
paint spots and when he had finished
she made but one comment. It was
The Washington times., 1916-04-09
Wealthy Old RecIuse
Died of Poisoning

After the Nicholas case had been
brought into the conversation. Sheriff
Cruushorn told what he recalled Of the
mystery, and Il Is worth repeating. Here
Is the sheriff's story:
"George Nicholas was a character
we'll known In the county. On the day
OF his death, there at the Nicholas
farm, everybody who drank coffee for
breakfast was taken III. All OF the
others, however. recovered: but Mr..
Nicholas, Who was we'll along in years,
died that night.
The county authorities were called in
and 1t was established beyond a doubt
that the old man had died OF araenic
poison. but both the coffee and the
grounds had been thrown out before
the authorities reached the place, and
no clue was ever discovered which
would, in the opinion OF the authorities,
warrant obtaining en- Indictment charE-
Ing murder In the first degree against
any particular person.
And so from the first, the case pre-
sented a wall of mystery which has
been penetrated. But about a year aft
erward another unusual phase of the
case developed.
THE prosecuting attorney OF Rock
ingham county one morning found q
package in his mail. That package
contained an old wallet and a letter!
The wallet was practically positively
Identified as one which had belonged
The Washington times., 1916-04-09
MOTHER.LOVELED
/ TO CANDY POISONING
Virginia Woman Sent Packages
to Sons Sweetheart to Pro.
! teot Him.


about II. reckon the devil nuvt "a
been IN me-
The woman who washed the window
vas Mrs. Margaret sipe. who so nearly
caused the deaths Of Lille and Cora
Hyger. OF Grottoes. Va. and OF Mrs.
Hattie Baugher. Of Basic City. Va. by
sending them strychnine-treated April
Foo" chocolate drops.
She Ia unlettered and untraveled. She
IL the product OF q sparcely settled
country known as THE Flatwoods," In
the foothills "out q ways" from Harri-
sonburg. Her early womanhood and
her Eray-haired years were spent In
Grottoes. a village Of less than thou
sand and a relic of the boom days OF
the early nineties which placed 30 many
Shenandoah valley towns upon the map.
And 90. II one mentioned psychology
Rockingham county Jail. she would
probably indulge in one of her motherly
smiles and ask: Whats that meanr
There is a creed Of motherhood which
drives the timld doe rabbit baretoothed
at the predatory otter, and the hen
dove In futile huttering against the
talons of q hawk.
II is a code which is not amenable to
reason or to civilization. 1t does not
ask whether its promptings are tusti-
fed. Upon the spur of some vital mo-
mcnt II springs full grown Into being.
urging In a voice which cannot be de-
MED; xiii for your offspring"
The Washington times., 1916-04-09
Did Not Come From
Mountains. She Saw.

mid you come from the noun
tainsr the reporter asked, and In
stantly Mrs. slpe waA up IN arms.
Her gentle old face lighted with n
kindred flame 10 tfat which has
always kept separate the people OF
the high and the low lands, and she
answered shortly:
"No..f was raised in the Fiat
Then q word here, a sentences there.
she told how she and ives" who was
her husband, had come TO orottoes in
the boom days. Now . great deal OF
shenandoah valley history dates from
The Boom" either backward or for
ward. II was the time when capitalists
SiYIs:d SH%s ana; iS. buying n up farm lands sub
with streets 30 and 100 feet wide, and
come.
But the. factories never came. and bit
py bit the town lots appeared more
frequently at tax sales until almost all
tns land has become farms again.
City. Buena Vista, ana GLASGOW, was q
Room town. and Il had the only car
line ever In the valley. The street cars
were drawn by mules, and It's chjsf at
traction was Its proximity TO Wyer's
cave. series of cavernb much like
L.ilray and the Mammoth.
30 with the boom debated and but n
memory. the Sipes finally settled down
and made their home in Grottoes.
As she talked OF the high hopes
which buoyed her heart and her hus-
bands, In those early boom days, tears
came to heTeyes for the first time when
had worked SO hard. and Il gave more ore
than little insight to the kind of
woman Margaret Sipe H.
The Washington times., 1916-04-09
Walked All the Way
To Port Republic

"Yes. sir; did mail 'em in Port Re-
public. 1 walked there and handed
'em to the man on the train. He says
Mt first he wouldn't take 'em. Then l
eez What's the reason YOU can't?'
and he said All right and took 'em -
Into the gentle old lady's big black
eyes there had crept look OF visit
fulncss as she added:
"Maybe II he hadn't a. took 'em,
everything 'ud he all right now.
~ rode back or No. 13 train, yes
The Washington times., 1916-04-09
Proud That She
Owns Her Own Home

When Wes' died We had It most paid
for. Only about $500 was due on It, and
once i thought they were goin to take
the place away from me. But worked
and did everything could, and finally,
We paid II up. Yes. sir''-again q little
proudly-"we own the place"
Since arriving In Harrlsonburg the
newspaper man had heard considerable
mention Of what Is known IN colloquiai
mysteries as THE Nicholas Case"
Nov THE Nicholas Case concerned
the taking of by arsenic Of a wealthy
recluse-a colonel OF the Confederate
army, who had left one of his legs upon
a battlefield of the civil war.
He died In August. 1912. at the height
OF threshing time, on his big place out
side OF Han risonburg. and the origin of
tho poison which caused his death IL
today as great a mystery as ever.
IL Is to this happening that Mrs. Sipe
believes she owes the suggestion which
developed into the poisoned candy case
In which she is now meshed.
That Nicholas business might "a put
II In my mind" Is the way she ex-
The Washington times., 1916-04-09

trast to the old black serge waist and
the black-and- white polka dotted skirt
which the older woman wore. was The
Chlt's awnng-striped lavender dress.
She lay in her cell. the door OF whlcn
was open, and with chin In hands
watched the Rentle-faced old woman as
she scrubbed at the windows: ,,,.,
"Are YOU all right now. Mrs. Sipey'
asked the sheriff. by way OF breaking
the ice
The Washington times., 1916-04-09
Taunted By Girl
In Nearby Cell

"l'm gettin'' 'em Clean" the httle oio
lady replied. proudly.
eyes. YOU are-notl" The Chit taunted
from her cell. "They look lot worse'n
when yuh started!
The gentle little old woman's under
fin ouivered, and she caught 1t between
her teeth. The Chit had administered
n deep and telling blow to Mrs. Sipe's
'housewifely soul.
"Weli. why don't you help herr" the
sheriff asked The Chit.
"WhoY Me7 I'm goin' out o. here
tonight JOhnnie,s comm, min rta to pay IS,o my y
silence which said as plainly As words
that she couldn't understand why
woman who had sent poisoned canuy 10
two other women could find any pleas
urs in washing yibdoSSsd yMRS Sad been prepared
woman. was taken eback by the scene,
For there was nothing about MRS. nipe
TO suggest the potential poisoner' , ano
her very presence In the cell ioo'i'
Her kind Of women are more oIten
seen with a background OF huge opsh
fireplace, and children and granachh-
dTen. Rathered around her skirts.
So when the gentle old woman arhsd no
had she been in her windows. ano
turned with a motherly smile' ne Was
more embarrassed than she.
care the things folks say about you
here true?" he asked.
i don't know what the papers arc
a-sayin'" :" she replied easily, but
reckon they are"
''And you sent the poisoned candy
because YOU didn't want your boy to
keen company with Miss Kygerf" he
"I lust tell YOU. I don't rightly
knows whether them wimmin was TO
blame or not" the woman answered.
"You see. there amt no tellin' about
them things. lust felt deep down
that I didn't want Leemoer to keen
comp'ny with that KvRer girl. 80
went and done what / did. reckon
after all II was the devil In me"
The Washington times., 1916-04-09
Not Like Case Of
New York Man

Now. within the last two weeks
man In New York clty-Dr. Arthur
wsite-accused of having poisoned his
parents-in-law. Mr.. and Mrs. John Peck.
of Grand Rapids. Mich. declared to
the prosecutors that he had been driven
to the deed by q maliRn genius whom
he called THE Bad Little Man From
ERvpt."
Psychologists and scientists explained
that he was probably establishing an
altcr-ego, or a dual personality. upon
whom the blame might be laid.
Put when aged. white-haired Mar
garet sine. down in the Rockingham
county tail last Friday. said that the
devil must have been In ner, she refer
red. to 10 alter-eRos or dual personali-
ties.
Her devi! was a personal one. the kind
that valley preachers" have been teach
ing up and down the Shenandoah since
the days OF circuit riders.
IND you think all this out?" Mrs.
Sipe was asked.
I'D been hrooding over things.
never talked much to l.eemoer about his
keepin' crmp'ny with that girl Said
somethin to him once hut he didn't
| like II. So I shut up. Then IL all come
over me all of sudden. and here
am
Then little by little, M she continued
scrubbtng the window the little woman
now hangs over her II came by p!ece-
meal, a little now. and more later. just
as she took the notion TO talk or att
swer questions. And this Is the sum
OF II all. in her words:
mo; didn't buy the poison. II was
let me see-all Of Ave years, reckon.
and Inayhe more
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-05-03
HoPE FOR COMPROMISES.

Secretary Baker Gets Long Message
From Gen. Scott-Congratulations
for Dewey.
washington. May 1.-Secretary of
War Baker today received a long mes
sage from Gen. Scott, which he took
to President Wilson for a conference.
1t Is hoped that there can be q COM
promise on the Mexican situation and
additional instructions have been sent
Gen. Scott with the idea of CARRYING
out this plan.
AFTER comforting with President
Wilson, Secretary of War Baker an
hounced that another conference
would be held between Gen. Scott
ana Gen. Obregon. Further instruc-
lions will be sent as to the withdraw.
al OF the American troops. following a
conference between Arredondo. Car.
ranza's representative in Washington.
and Secretary Lansing.
All OF Washington today was con-
graduating Admiral George Dewey
on the eighteenth Anniversary of the
battle of Manila Bay.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-05-03
SCHOOLS GOOD WORK.

Salem, Black River. April So.---
Thursday and Friday night the teach.
ers of Concord school gave final ex-
hibitions Of the training they have
given their pupils. Thursday night
the principal feature was q '.TUm
Thumb Wedding" Friday MINT
"Topsy Turvey." Both nights thA
scenes were interspersed with driii5,
music and amusing by-play.' It was q
fine entertainment and thoroughly "a.
joyed by the 400 or more patrons ana
friends that packed the auditoriuni 60
its full capacity. ''f
The teachers are Miss Finn of
Lancaster. principal; Miss Wilson os
Mayesville and Miss Blackwell ef
Brogdon, assistants. t1,
This school was consolidated from
four schools several years ago. tt ID
perhaps the best monument to the 10.
cal Farmers union-for the idea OF
one good school began in the meetiAgs
of the Farmers union and discussion
soon bore fruit in work.
Five diplomas were given for con-.
pieting the tenth grade. Miss Pearl
Brunson was the valedictorian OF her
class.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-05-03
BURN PROVES FATAh
Mrs. James T. Carroll Succuuhs | q
Columbia. sf

Columbia.
Bennettsville, April 2s.-Airs. Jxneo
7. Carroll, the wife of 4 prominent
citizen Of Bennettsvills, died last 6itht
at q hospital in Columbia from ths
effects Of a burn received at her h0ate
here on April 19. Her dress caughk
from a burning trash pile in the y&fl
and was burning flercely In the back
when she discovered the flames. sxa
and a negro servant tried in vain 10
extinguish the clothing and when
other help reached her she had tetn
srtously burned. She was taken 70
Columbia that afternoon. Reports oS
her condition received here were "a.
couraging till the city was shocked
this morning by the news Of her
death. Mrs. Carroll was 3S years Of
age and daughter Of the Rev. \. n.
Pratt of Hendersonville. She 10 sur-
vived by her husband. Ave daughters.
two brothers. Robert NJ. Pratt OF Ben.
nettsville and James NJ. Pratt OF
Charlotte. and one sister, Miss Jean
Pratt of Lumberton, N. C. The funer.
al will be here at 10 o'clock tomorrow.