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The Washington herald., 1916-12-08
Baltimore & Ohio
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
CHANGES IN SCHEDULE

Effective Sunday December 10th. important changes
in the schedules of passenger trains will be made all d.
visions of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Numbers and names of trains have been changed in
many instances.
A new through train leaving Washington at sos A.
NJ, will through to Cincinnati and ST. Louis. traversing
the mountain section daylight afordng passengers an
opportunity the beautiful scenery; reach Cncn-
nat evening 40 in time for all street cars and
St Louis at 40 next morning, making important Western
connections. Through parlor arriving Wheeling at
730 P NJ, connecting with train reaching Columbus at
l0:45 P. NJ. evening.
The INTERSTATE SPECIAL" will hereafter be
known THE CHICAGO SPECIAL" leaving Washington
Union Station 735 P. NJ. as heretofore Eastward from
Chicago the INTERSTATE SPECIAL" will be known as
the WASHINGTON SPECIAL"
The ROYAL SPECIAL" will hereafter be known as
the CAPITOL SPECIAL" and leave Washington Union
Station, 100 A. NJ, heretofore In the opposite d
rection the CAPITOL SPECIAL" will arrive Washington
5:4OP.M
The ROYAL LIMITED" will hereafter be known as
the NATIONAL LIMITED" and will leave Washington
Union Station. 2:45 P NJ, arrive Philadelphia 537 P
NJ in time to make connection with the 600 o'clock
Reading train for Atlantic City, and arrive Wayne juno
hon 5:5S NJ time to make connections with
Wikesbare and Scranton. Pa arrive New York 7:45 P
M; fifteen minutes earlier In the opposite direction the
NATIONAL LIMITED will arrive Washington 900 P
M as heretofore.
new sleeping car line will be established between
Washington and Cumberland. leaving Washington l2:46
A. NJ. and returning leaving Cumberland $50 A. NJ
Passengers may remain in sleeper until 7:30 AM
Detailed information concerning all changes may be
obtained at ticket offices.
o. P. McCARTY,
Passenger Traffic Manager.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-08
EPIPHANY LUNCHEON TODAY.

A luncheon consisting of turkey and
other good things was given by members
OF Epiphany Church yesterday in the
parish house for the benefit of the Rec
tors Guild. The luncheon will continue
today, starting at 11:3o o'clock and end
ing at 2 o'clock.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-08
TWO KILLED IN WRECK.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec 1.-Two men
were killed and six men and women in
jured, one woman probably fatally, in
rear-end collision in the yards of the
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad at
Price, Utah, today.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
A KENTUCKY citizen. alleged to
~ have been implicated in moon
n shining" is quoted as expressing
qualification over the experiences incl
dent to his arrest. The arrest Jared
his sensibilities. The rude wrenching
from his familiar surroundings was not
pleasant. But he says
IT haven't ever before had an automo-
bile ride, or one in train, and 1 have
learned a lot more than I ever expected
to learn
Here is a man who appreciates the ad-
vantages OF travel, and is disposed to
look upon the experiences of the road,
and the information gained along the
way, as being more than mere compen-
sation for the humiliation of arrest and
the discomforts of the Jail house" And
he is altogether right To get a ride
III an automobile and another in a rail-
road train, and to see the great world
beyond the home horizon, ought to be
worth being arrested and lying awhile in
jail to anyone who has not had such OPP
portunities in the ordinary course of his
life.
Railroads and good public roads grad
ually are reaching the remoter sections
of the Kentucky Mountains. Many of
the mountain counties have shown a good
deal of grit, and the spirit of progress,
in the manner in which they have I'M
dertaken road building. The time will
come when such diversions as those
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
Strike Would Be Grievous Mistake

The action of certain railroad executives in declaring
barge perishabe freight and the unyeng tone of the reply
made yesterday to President Wilson by the executives
mttee indicates that there hope of compromise in that
quarter The railroad officials have not only refused to accept
his suggestion originally made but they preparing for
strike
Monday September is the day set by the tranmen for the
beginning of the strike. Unless tremendous influences
brought into play and the President supported by the full
of Congress- the greatest calamity the nations history
may result But while Mr.. Wilson is endeavorng with the aid
of Congress avoid open rupture neither side to the
roversy should resort to the last extreme The situation
critical but it is yet late bring about amicable
settlement.
With the welfare of approximately 0000 people at stake
possible should be tried before taking step too
disastrous contemplate 1t will be mistake the railroad
ployes persist their determination to call strike Labor
Day. without waiting what be done adjust their
Unless the railroad executives blufngand that does
appear all probabe-the employees will lose nothing by
posponisg wakout until action be taken by the
federal authorities.
The gravity the situation such that both sides should
patience Public sentiment support the eghhour
day. but the other hand is strongly opposed to strike
Too many people made to suffer because minor
ity have grievance.
Some will be found to prevent this threaten
ed disaster The necessary legislation will be forthcoming
the tranmen and the railroad executives will wait.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
ADVANTAGES OF TRAVEL

which have contributed to the education
and the qualification of the alleged moon
sinner will be within reach of thousands
of Kentucky mountaineers whose faith
ers and grandfathers were benighted
backwoodsmen. There will be more hap
piness, and less lawlessness, as a result.
Better schools will open and expand the
mental horizon of the rising generation.
Opportunity to engage in well paid la
Dor will mean better homes. better fare.
better clothes
1t has been said that in some sections
Of the mountains, remote from railroads
and inaccessible to other vehicles than
farm wagons, men who have been to
Frankfort = former convicts return
broadened by contact with strangers, and
with new conditions, and count their So
journ at the state capital not wholly a
period of punishment and a source of
shame The assertion, made frequently.
seems not unreasonable. Imprisonment
by the absence of railroad transporta-
ton, by roads fit only for pedestrians
and mules, and not encouraging either.
by inadequate schools and poverty Is
more narrowing than Imprisonment be-
hind iron bars. The effect may not be
realized by the prisoner of conditions un-
ii: after some unlocked for event has
taken him out of his environment, but it
Is not incomprehensble that returned
convict might, like the returned stu
dent in Asiatic countries. feel conscious
of his superiority to the untraveled and
untaught.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
THE MAN AROUND THE DEPOT

FROM Collier S.
The trainmen get most of the advertis-
ing news space these days, but anyone
who moves himself or family out to the
country in the summer time is certain
to find out that the station agent pretty
nearly is the railroad. If he isn't there and
doesn't know this or do that times with
out end, a lot of folks have their vaca-
ton spoiled or their business injured.
Fairfax Harrison, president of the
Southern railway, gave a mighty good
description of the man who runs the
depot in a recent address before some
body of railroad workers:
In addition to having the qualities
which make for success in the manage
ment of a general merchandise store, he
must usually be a telegraph operator, a
rough and-ready lawyer, a first-aid sur
geon, a substitute for a certified public
accountant, pretty good bank president,
a political economist a peace-maker, a
captain of men in action, and an organ
izer of victory. He must interpret and
do his best to enforce multitude of de-
tailed and often obscure regulations pre-
scrbed by law and by public regulating
authority as well as those which origi-
nate at the railroad headquarters. He
must have a patience and good humor
which will qualify him for a robe and a
harm and a seat in Heaven alongside of
Job himself, and, with all this, he must
be a self-respecting citizen, a church
member and rear a family a modest
wage"
That's very handsome, indeed, and the
only thing that ought to be added is the
Railway Age-Gazette's editorial note as to
recognizing the commercial value of these
qualifications while the occas ional pos
SCISSOR of them is still on earth. The
man around the depot deserves it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30

| it is presumed, will necessitate the use
of smaller type in the printing of the
menu card, but as to a cultailment of
items, nothing is said. White paper
must be saved, for white paper is
scarce, but food is plentiful. so the food
need not be saved.
Therefore the defenseless reader of
the hotel menu will be constrained, as
usual, to read through a million, more
or less, items of food which interest
him not at all in an endeavor to find
something which sounds and savors of
home. His sense of panic in finding
himself face to face with a weighty
document half the size of bed sheet
will enjoy only slight surcease when
a more diminutive menu is handed to
him, only for him to find that on this
smaller card, as on the greater one, he
Is confronted with the woeful problem
of making up his mind to one of a
great number of unknown dishes, with
only the figures on the right side of
the card to act as a semiguide. On the
less bulky but no less diversified menu
milkfed boot owls will, it is presumed,
still be $1.S9 q portion; surgar-cur
albatross la Artzibasheff will still
leave one wondering what it was all
about and where one can go for a sand
witch, and deserts a la Media, Lillian
Russell, and every other celebrity on
the grand opera and vaudeville circuits
will still leave void that would have
been pleasantly and soothingly filled
by wedge of old-fashioned pie.
The menu is to be smaller in size
because of the shortage of white paper.
But where is the heroic innkeeper who
will reduce the number of items on his
menu, be it large or small, not because
of a shortage of white paper, but be-
cause of an unexpected and yet uni
versally admitted shortage in the pa
tience of his patrons.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
Hammer Barbecue

The barbecue to be given the Alabama
merchants at East Lake next week is to
be the real barbecue of the season." said
c. c. F1emming of the barbecue committee
for the Chamber of Commerce. I'VE
are making preparations for feeding $500
or 5000 persons, and expect to be able to
handle the crowds in first class order
We have already completed most Of our
arrangements. despite the threatening
conditions of the probable railroad strike
We are not buying anything, however,
only on conditions, as we cannot afford
to get so much tied up in case of
strike"
The barbecue committee is composed of
Jack P. Phillips, C. C. Flemming and
E. w. Beavers, who are known as the
big three" when it comes to handling
affairs of this nature. These three men
were in charge of the mess hall for the
ole soldiers at the fairgrounds during the
recent reunion, and won for themselves
and the city the warm praise of every
veteran on the ground for the capable
manner in which they handled the situa-
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
BORROWING WISDOM
ON the New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram.
Not always have the disciples of Robert
Burns, the Scotch peasant and poet, bor-
rowed their wisdom from the master and
eschewed his follies.
To base uses has this skeet singer of
social mirth been put, with the role forced
upon him of select patron of the royster-
ing and soaking crew who find an excuse
for bibulous excuses in Tam oShanter
and Scotch Drink, and such imperishable
lyrics of the social hour as 20, Willie
brew'd a peck of maui and Aud Lang
Syne."
Wisdom's purer water of admiration
for Burns exists in the silent deeps,
where reading and thinking are done. far
below the soiled, brawling foam created
by Burnsite roysterers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
HOTEL LOBBIES
Trying Many Cases

According to Assistant Solicitor Walter
5. Brewer, one of the busiest courts in
the country is that of Judge H. B. Aber-
nethy of the municipal court
Judge Abernethy is the busiest indi-
vidual in the county" said Mr.. Brewer,
and he is doing great service by the
summary methods he is applying to the
vagrant negro men and women who
are placed on trial before him. He is
not a severe judge, but he is keen stu
dent of human nature and he knows the
ways of the negro probably better than
any other jurist in the south.
Throughout the summer months while
the higher criminal courts have been in
recess Judge Abernethy has been holding
sessions daily, with the result that the
streets have been cleared of vagrant ne
groes and white men"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
A sTENoGRAPHER's APPEAL

From the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
Ir the nature of human document
it a letter recently sent to New York
paper by a man stenographer. His plea
for more tolerance and sympathy be-
tween dictator and stenogra pher indi-
Gates that a good deal of unnecessary
friction often exists between those use
full and independent functionaries. The
mar who does the debating generally
possesses authority and more highly
rated ability, but still it is important for
him to have efficient cooperation in at
tending to his correspondence.
Taking this view of the mater, the
writer in question asks the dictator not
to waste the stenographers time unnec-
essarily by frequently calling him from
his work, but to dictate as much as pos
sible at one time; to treat him in
friendly maner, to encourage as we'll as
criticize him, and to permit him, if he is
competent to edit dictation He requests
the dictator to ask himself occasionally
if his own work would bear such close
scrutiny as that which the stenographer's
"oIh usually receives. Inc writer Qe-
clares that in return for the above the
stenographer will promise service, eff
cheney, interest, loyalty and economy.
In the business world there is undoubt-
eddy certain amount of dissatisfaction
between those who give and tax dicta-
ton, one side charging inefficiency and
the other inconsiderate treatment Bar
ring extreme cases, there appears to be
no good reason why such a condition
should exist. Kindly treatment will incite
most persons to work faithfully, and
earnest effort will overcome many def
ciencies in education If there is really
any problem involved in the smooth
working of the average office force, a
little common sense, loyal service and
forbearing conduct should speedily
straighten matters out
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
SPOON RIVER COMMUNITY
From E. w. Howe's Monthly.

From E. w. Howe's Monthly. 3,
~NE of the recent successful books
- Edgar Lee Masters.
saw it is successful it is at least
published by the Macmillan company, and
I have seen it mentioned three or four
times In the newspapers and magazines.
I doubt If it has paid its author any
thing: but writing is a poor business a
man may become a fairly successful au-
thor and starve to death
Spoon River Anthology contains
about 200 short sketches written in what
may be called blank verse;" a style of
&C IMPOSITION fortunately rare. The 200 or
more characters represent the people of a
country town; and not half dozen are
decent. Page aft& page one reads of a
Judge who got religion, and thereafter
gave the poor the worst of it; of ruined
and abandoned women; of old men mar
ried to young and unfaithful wives; of
CT ooked police; of husbands who ruined
wives by secret cruelty; OF unfaithful
bankers: of men unable to get work, and
are compelled to steal; of prohibitionists
who are drunkards in private; of men
setting fire to houses, of sons poisoning
fathers: it is a terrible indictment of
humanity.
have lived in country towns all my
life, but never in one at all like Spoon
River. The real incidents of life are
not of the criminal character this author
dwells upon so persistently. We have
many follies: we do not take advan-
tage of our many opportunities as we
should, but we rarely burp our houses
every citizen who behaves gets along rea-
scnably WELL and our leading citizens
are the most useful and worthy citizens
We have. 1 have never heard of anyone
being compelled to steal because Of lack
credited to Spoon River are unknown in
my town; except as you take local his
tory in the past 80 years. and pick out
rare instances far apart
Vt the history of the average little town
could be accurately written, it would
show 100 good and creditable deeds for
every criminal act. Except that they
have the little mean ways that critics
also have, the people are rather well be-
haved. Wherever / go. l see human in
cidents worthy of admiration. All of us
might truthfully say we have received
kindness and appreciation 100 times fol
every vicious attempt to do us HARM
Very many of the people are tiresome
because they talk too much; too many
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
o. HENRY IS PRISON FAvoRIrE.

From the Columbus (O.) Dispatch.
is Anna Karenina,' by Tolstoi, in ?"
Let me have 'Barnaby Rudge' and
Irving's Conquest of SPAIN"
How many ahead of me for Harold
Bell Wright's Their Yesterdays'?'
| Public library conversation? 1t might
be, but it's also what you can hear at
the library of the state penitentiarv.
where 10000 books and all the popular
magazines are available for the pris-
oners, thanks to the generosity of So
cieties, clubs and people throughout tho
state.
| Many of the books are dirty and al
most worn out by the constant read
ing. A. set of o. Henry given to the
penitentiary little more than a year
ago is already showing signs of hard
wear, because o. Henry's works are the
most popular among the prisoners.
This is partly because William Sidney
Porter was once an inmate of the insti-
| tuition, but largely because of the in
tensely human stories he told. The pub
fishers of his latest authorized edition
presented it to the penitentiary be-
cause of his earlier connection with
the prison.
| Harold Bell Wright is second in pop
ularity as an author. Then come in
order Jack London. E. Phillips Open
helm. George Barr McCutcheon, Alexan-
der Dumas, Honore de Balzac and
Charles Dickens. Joseph Conrad. con-
sidered one of the finest writers in
English at the present time, is rarely
Trend hV the His dirtinp ic
too fine, is the reason given.
Not that the prisoners do not read
good literature. Their 107-page cat
alogue of the library books has a
goodly section devoted to classical
fiction" and according to the prisoner
| librarian, the better educated men read
the masters constantly. AS a marked
contrast to the best in literature is the
large number of juvenile books for the
prisoners with little education.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
CAUSE FOR ALARM
rom the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
My nephew, Virgil Fucker, had been
sick for quite awhile" related old Riley
Rezzidew. land as soon as he was able
to totter around in the house he wabbled
out into the kitchen. Presently we heard
a thud, and ran there to find him sense
less on the floor. When he came to him.
self he told us that II was practically
al. over with him-he knew he would
never be any better. for his face was so
bulged and twisted out of shape that no.
body could possibly look as he did and
live longer. 1t was sometime before we
discovered that he had been looking at
himself in the old mirror over the sink"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30

are slow about paying their bills; prob
ably all hem give themselves the best
of 1t in small things and probably none
of us do as well as we might but when
it comes to the graver crimes. we are
more cautious than Mr.. Masters indi-
Gates. We are gossipy, and we tell white
lies, and we haven't as much sense and
thrift as we should have, but l have
never been robbed by a real thief in my
life. L have been wronged in little ways
very frequently but could have avoided
most of that had l been more careful.
A just criticism of the people is that
they are guilty of many little meannesses
and follies that they might reform to
their own advantage; but those who do
not balk at the jail. or open disgrace. are
rare.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
STRING MUSIC

STRING MUSIC
At archery she's very slow,
l speak of Daisy Diver;
But yesterday she found beau
And now she's all a-quiver.
Luke McLuke.
And when he's broke she'll throw hin
down,
For girls prefer high livers,
And lug a brand-new beau around
Juse like all Daisy DIVERS.
Florida Times-Union.
The ending of this pretty yarn
Must never be forgot,
For Daisy tied her beau up in
matrimonial knot.
Memphis Commercial-Appeal
The pretty yarn was in a snarl,
Yet now, it's beauties sung,
Miss Daisy's lawyer and the judge
Have left the beau unstrung.
-Pittsburg Post.
And now he goes all hard of heart,
Whatever life may bring him,
No other maid, what'er her art,
Can ever hope to string him.
Houston Post.
Enough of that. Another beau
Came speeding in a flivver
And now tbs said he stands show
Of winning Daisy Diver
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
MORNING

BY Wadsworth.
There was a mourning in the wind all
night;
But now the sun is rising calm and
bright
The birds are singing In the distant
woods
over his own sweet voice the stock-dove
broods;
The jay makes answer as the maybe
chatters;
And all the air is filled with pleasant
noise of waters.
All things that love the sun are out of
doors;
The sky rejoices in the mornings birth (;
The grass is bright with raindrops-on
the moors
The hare is running races in her mrth !;
And with her feet she from the plashy
earth
Raises mist; that. glistening in the
Runs with her all the way. wherever she
doth run.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
Legitimate Advertising

Il am agreeably surprised at the vol
ume OF business done this August" said
R. l.. Sparkman. president of the Retail
Furniture Dealers association, yesterday,
My business has exceeded expectations
and ! understand the August sales have
been good all over town.
MY observations convince me the
housekeepers of Birmingham are quick
to realize good values in furniture and
respond to legitimate advertising of sea-
sonable goods. September is also a good
furniture month and 1 anticipate consid-
cradle activity in the furniture business.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30
A VANDERBILT IN GALLUSES

From the Des Moines Register.
We always learn something from tho
annual cruise of the New York Yacht
club. We make a point of doing so. If
we won't, the cruise seems wasted. This
year we note with interest that suspend
ers are being worn.
William X Vanderbilt has them on in
the official pictures of the start. He
stands at the gangway OF his yacht.
hands in pockets, coat thrown back and
galluses clearly visible He does not
favor the single gallus, thanks be; we
won't have to come to that.
But our very best people are clearly
going back to suspenders. We never
know about such things till the New
York Yacht club sets the pace. But we
know what's what now.