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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-16
tion. All members are urged 70 BE-
present at this meeting.

ton. All members are urged TO be
present at this meeting.
william johnson has returned 10
his home in Crescent, W. Va, after a
brief visit e, relatives at the Chester
field.
Mrs Haskins williams, of Boydton,
IL the guest OF relatives and friends
In this city.
Mrs. Robert watkins of Houston.
is spending . short time with friends
in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs Howard Leigh, of this
city. are leaving this week to spend a
month at the Hot Springs.
Meetings.
The last meeting Of the season of
the Lee Auxiliary, L. D. c.. will be
held at the Home for Needy Confed-
crate Women on Wednesday, May II,
at 4:30 p NJ
Fonticelio Union, W. C. T. u, will
hold its regular business meeting this
afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home
Of Mrs. e. G. Cooper, s115 Hull
Street
williams Memorial Circle Of Kings
Daughters will meet with Mrs. May
Roster at Gwathmeys this afternoon.
Members will leave Elba Station at
a:i5 P. NJ.
The weekly rehearsal of the st. Ce-
celia Chorus will be held this after
noon at o'clock in the music room Of
st. Paui's Church.
The Ginter Park Woman's Club will
hold an important meeting on Wed
nesday afternoon in the Assemb Hall
at o'clock. The executive commit
tee OF the club will meet this morning
at o'clock at the home Of Mrs w
r, Rho les
Miss salffe farewell Fitzgerald Wins
Scholarship.
News has been received by the Art
Club of Richmond that Miss Sallie
farewell Fitzgerald, a former stu
dent Of the Art Club has won the
scholarship to the Bridgeman Life
Glass In the Art Students League Of
New York. Miss Fitzgerald com.
menced her studies in art several
years ago at the Art Club winning
honorable mentAens each year. Her
work in composition has been es-
pecially commented upon in each year
~ exhibition, and the strength and
technical ability com bined with char
acter appreciation displayed in her
portrait work gave the promise Of
her present achievement Miss FitZ-
geralds unusual ability was also dis
played In the I4fe and Illustration
classes at the club. Her instructors
here. Miss Houston and Miss Clark.
express themselves as Kratified though
not surprised by Miss Fitzgerald :
achievement, although 1t is unusual
for a student TO win such distinction
in go short a time, Miss Fitzgerald
having been at the Art Students Lea
que Of New York but one year.
Miss Fitzgerald is the daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. Littieton Fitzgerald, OF
| ia East Cary street, Richmond. va.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-16

Mrs. Haskins williams, OF Boydton,
IL the guest OF relatives and friends
In this city
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-16

HIS dressy garb for young ladies
Is featured In satin--biack, navy
or beige-cut with full yoked
skirt and a one button coat with con-
vertible revsrs. The shirs Of the coats
peplum are confined with a graceful
sash, while the collar and cuffs have
plated chiffon a. just the~rig nuish..
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-16

Mrs Robert watkins. of Houston,
is spending short time with friends
In this city.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-16

william johnson has returned 10
his home in Crescent, W. Va, after a
brief visit 10. relatives at the Chester
field.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-16

Mr.. and Mrs Howard Leigh, of this
city, are leaving this week to spend a
month at the Hot Springs.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-16
Meetings.

The last meeting Of the season OF
the Lee Auxiliary. U. D. c.. will BIZ
held at the Home for Needy Confed.
crate Women on Wednesday. May II
at 4:30 P. NJ.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-16

williams Memorial Circle Of Kings
Daughters will meet with Mrs May
Roster at Gwathmey's this afternoon.
Members will leave Elba Station AT
a:ib Pm
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-16

Fonticello Union. w. C. r u. will
hold its regular business meeting this
afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home
Of Mrs. e. g. Cooper, s115 Hull
Street
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-16

The weekly rehearsal of the St Ce-
celia Chorus will be held this after
noon at o'clock in the music room of
st. Paurs Church
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02
DIDN'T KNOW FOREMAN;
W0RKMEM CALL STRIKE

London-Several hundred munition
workers in a London shop went on
strike recently because a new foreman
was not formally introduced to them.
They were out for nearly two days and
25 Of them were summoned before the
military tribunal for leaving work.
One of the defendants, a man named
Burgess. told the court that In 30 years
experience he had never heard OF a
foreman being appointed without his
being introduced with the remark:
Mr.. Blank. this will be Your foreman
in future"
The manager Of the works said 1t
would be impossible to introduce a new
foreman to more than 1000 men.
Burgess said they did not expect the
manager to introduce the foreman to
everyone in the factory. and especially
not to h young ladies.
The court agreed that II would have
been much better IL the men had been
properly informed Of the new appoint
ment, and, to the accompaniment Of
loud cheers, dismissed the proceedings.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02

eastern shore Of the lake. Here the
had been killed, we saw their empty
huts as well as the empty hous of the
European who used to live here. Mon
day we am into country under the
chief Of Ukerewe. M Tuesday we were
by the channel separating Ukerewe
island from the mainland. Wednesday
we crossed in the canoes and soon were
met by the English outposts--we were
in safety. The chief official came down
to meet us, and received us very kindly.
We were brought to the camp at Bu-
ramba where we were given a very nice
and comfortable thatch hut.
"Since coming here we lave received
news Of how the natives have not only
robbed n station after another. but
how they have destroyed the buildings
and everything In them. We had hoped
to be able to stay here until the English
officials came to bring order and law
into the country, and then 60 back to
our station at Busegwe, where we shall,
Of course. find all our things gone and
the house damaged. The chief official
here thinks, however, that we will ike
ly be called to Muawza, where all
Europeans are sent who come from the
German colony. 1 suppose this place
is yet not considered without danger
from attack.
I'VE have had much sickness In our
family through these two years, but
we thank God that our lives have been
spared through these seven years of
labor In Africa"
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Wheezer Had the Last Word.

1t was az. intensely cold morning
and the city train was packed. a
crusty old gentleman with his back to
the engine preferred the window
down for ventilation" whilst u wheezy
individual facing the window persisted
In pulling it up again, as he hated
these beastly east Winds"
Although it was cold. words became
very hot.
II can't stand this stuffy herring
box" chortled the crusty man, tug
ging the strap and letting the window
drop for the fourth time.
Nor l these Siberian blasts that only
~convicts could stand" rejolned the
wheezer. Don't you know it's On old
adage that when the wind is In the
east it's neither fit for me nor your"
"Ha, hal" laughed the crusty man,
appealing to the passengers to laugh
also. Heres a ma that does not know
the old proverb. Why, sir, the last
words are man nor beast"
"Well, there's no difference in what
I said," chuckled the wheeZer, as the
passengers roared in chorus.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02
FULL OF SPIRIT OF REVOLT
Deep Feeling Against Injustice Was
a Factor in the Career Of
Bobbie Burns.

Revolt was temPeramental and
'hronic in Burns. Sometimes this re-
volt was followed by Il reaction of
feeling; then the bafIled rebel could
only fall back upon resignation, Il! on a
fatalism that sOured the heart and
turned mirth to melancholy, upon Il
pesSimism that closed all doors of
hope for the poor with added
proofs that man was made to mourn"
and death the poor mans dearest
friend, the kindeSt and Tie h"St; :" but
this revolt was Il constant factor in
Burns career.
1t made him the fiery Democrat, the
Wing partisan it got hin, into trouble
by tempting him 90 approve n public
If the earliest OutburStS Of he French
revolution.
And yet revolt was restrained in him
by profound insight Of the law OF com
prnSutiOn. He perceived that ho!-
est poverty, clean, we'll hammered,
Blessed with reverence, was never the
lit object of pity, for the poor, on the
average, were mOre happy than the
rich.
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William and Mary Conege.

At the far end Of Duke of G!ouces-
Ter street Williamsburg, Va.) stands
William ana Mary college, the second
oldest institution Of learning in Amer
lea, from which such able men have
been graduated that it is hard to he
ieve they were ever boys like these
Of today, going about the grounds with
or without white flannel trousers (you
understand me, of c~ourse). / viewed
hem respectfully. "Presidents?"
asked myself. If they had understood
and returned, "No; good mechanics"
4 would have been quite as impressive
an answer-Louise Closer Hale in
|Harper's Magazine.
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Niuht Life,

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Only the people who work at night real
ly know what night life means.
AS we advance and as the exigencies OF
the period demand electrical swiftness in
all things, day Is being forgotten In most
Of the larger cities. Night is taking It's
place.
The great morning newspapers In the
morning send into millions Of homes the
happenings Of "a hours, and those who
sit comfortably at the breakfast table do
tired bodies and the tired brains that
worked through the long hours Of night
to make this possible.
Until al early hour In the morning the
click of the telegraph instruments can be
heard. the roar of the press room, the
steady whirr of the typesetting machines
and the tattoo OF the typewriter.
r our n nlgnt @ sTs nrsp e1{ ane hre s%pPsf when hsn
sit for their breakfast when the day
worker comes home for his p
This is not as nature intended that It
should be.
It was not 70 many years ago when
good people were in bed and asleep by 9
o'clock and children were not permitted
to be seen on the streets after 7. There
were no picture shows then, there were
no ice crean parlors that remained open
until midnight.
We must not forget that there are Ger.
tain laws Of health to be observed, and
the man or woman who hopes to live out
his or her allotted three score and ten
years must observe these laws. The most
important one Is the one which requires
rest and sleep under normal conditions
and at the right time.
OF course, the night worker who ap-
plies himself night after night for years
readjusts the entire scheme Of living and
since night work Is essential for the wei.
fare of the world. this must be remedied
as best we can until we become accus.
toned to turning night into day. This IL
one thing hat the luxury loving people
forget, the awful sacrifice that men and
women make In laboring while they sleep
comfortably. hat their wants may BE-
suDDliad
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Cold Reception.

'FrOm the lays of my childhood. y
aid Sir Knight StnnZr, Il was ambi-
ion to tread the boards, and when l
innlIy butteG H. among the stage
-crEcry, l felt that l was really due"
We'll. how about it," qucried the
,rcat t~ragedian, Count DerieS.
".AInS, l was mistaken" continued
he near actor. Before | had played
me consecutive night | discovered
hat instead Of being cue l was a
FROST"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02
BAD COMPLEXION MADE GOOD
When All Else Fails, by cuticura Soap
and Ointment. Trial Free.

II you are troubled with pimples,
blackheads, redness, roughness, itching
and burning, which disfigure your com.
plexion and skin, Cuticura Soap and
Ointment will do much to help you.
The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal.
Free sample each by mail with Book
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv..
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fering. 1t Is agreeable to me for
you to publish this letter. I am glad
to have an opportunity to say to all
who are suffering as / have done that
! obtained relief by using Dodd's Kid
ney Pills and Diamond Dinner Pills.
Dodd's Kidney Pills Soc per box at
your dealer or Dodd's Medicine Co.,
Buffalo. N. Y. Dodd's Dyspepsia Tab
lets for Indigestion have been proved.
l60c per box.-Adv.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02
No Light M after.

Both Germany and Russia are hav-
ing serious difficulties in getting enough
matches ITO go around" Germany
lacks the proper kind Of wood, which
formerly was imported from Russia.
The cars country, on the other hand,
is in want IF the necessary chemicals
for matchmaking, which the Russians
used to get from Germany.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02

fered for q number of
years with ~backache,
also tender spots on
spine, and had at
times black floating
specks before my
eyes. / also had lurn-
bago and heart trOu-
BILE. Since using this
medicine l have been
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02
She Understood.

Aviator (home from the war on leave)-
And h when you are up pretty high
three or four miles, say-and you Tool
down, it's positively sickening. It Is stu,
pendous, awful. A great height Il a fear
full thing, I can tell you.
Lady Qeelingly)-Yes, I can sympathizs
with you, poor boy. I feel just that way
myself when I'm on top Of a stepladder.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02
Question of Reform.

"Look here, Mr.. Editori" exclaimed M
irate caller; you referred to me yester.
day as q reformed drunkard. You mus,
apologize, or I'll sue your paper for libel. -
Very well. sir" replied the editor. "Il.
retract the statement cheerfully. I'll say
that You haven't reformed"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02
Illusion.
Fron tba wasbippto,

From the Washington Star.
"Bliggins IN an impressive sort Of per
son."
Yes. He's one Of those people who
manage to have a superior manner mis-
taken for q superior mind"
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a GRATEFUL OLD LADY.

Mrs. A. G. Clemens, West Alexan-
der, Pa, writes: 1 have used Dodd's
Kidney Pills, also Diamond Dinner
Pills. Before using them l had suf-
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02
But He Cats L.

From the Boston Transcript.
Mr.. Blank frequently accepts no fe.s
from his patients"
"You don't say So"
HE settles with the heirs"
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Genuine.

Dasher-I don't believe the war nlms
we saw last night were taken at the
front.
Mrs. Dasher-Of course they were:
didn't you notice the bullet holes at thu
end OF each reel7
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02
A Solemn WARMING.

do you think our republic is in dan
ger?"
Certainly not" replied Senator Sor-
ghum. ut Is reasonably safe now.
All / say Is that / shudder to think
Of what may befall 1t If l should hap
pen not to be reelected"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02

Luck may be a good servant, but as
! master his pay days are uncertain.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02

Money Is useful as q servant, but
tyrannical as 4 master.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02

Motor cars fitted with X-ray appa-
ratus are used extensively by tho
French Red Cross society.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-02

Yet there must be some pleasure In
Being a model citizen.
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Marrying for money Is about as easy
q way not to get 1t as TO gamble for 1t.
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Evening journal., 1916-09-20
news HAPPENINGS IN
and ABOUT MIDDLETOWN

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL
MIDDLETowN, Del. Sept. 2O-John
Heldmyer. Jr.. has sold the Duhada-
way house in Odessa TO James Con-
ner. of Blackbird.
Miss Mabel Price. daughter Of John
Price, of near here, has been appoint
ed vice-principalof the High School, at
Millington. Md
Judson j. Northrup. who has been
with the Middletown Farms for about
twelve years, has resigned
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward NJ Records was buried in ST.
Anne's cemetery on Monday after
noon.
The Middletown public school re-
opened on Monday. with a full corps
of teachers, the same who taught last
year, excepting Miss Frances Davis, OF
Laurel. who resigned TO teach In her
home town. Miss Davis is succeeded
by Miss Helen Mcdowell. of this
town.
w. c. Green is laying a cement
pavement at the Mrs G. w. Naudain
property.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter K. Hart have
issued invitations for the marriage OF
their daughter, Lillian May, 10 George
Harvey Wright. of Brenford. The
ceremony will take place on Wednes-
day evening. September 90 at 6
o'clock. at Mr. and Mrs. Hart's' home
The last dance of the series given
by the Pool Orchestra, for the benefit
OF the Century Clubhouse, was held
last evening
William 3. Kates and Samuel H..
Buckworth have been notified by the
Postofice Department, at Washington.
that they have been appointed rural
mail carriers for routes Nos. I and ?.
They began work on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Daley. Miss
Louise Leach, Miss Elizabeth Maurer
and Frank Meany. OF Philadelphia,
have returned home after visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. James S. Moore, near
town.
Evening journal., 1916-09-20
D ATH Rate IN 1915
Lowest on RECORD
Figure is I3.5 in Registration
Area Comprising Is
States
MANY CITIES ALSO
SHOW REDUCTION

WASHINGTON. Sept. 2o-A pre-
liminary statement just made public
by Director Sam. L. Rogers, of the
Bureau Of the Census. Department Of
Commerce. and prepared under the
supervision of Richard c. Lappin,
chief statistician for vital statistics.
shows a death rate OF 13.5-the low
est on record-per 1000 estimated
population Of the registration area Of
the United States in 1915. This rate
was based on 500, ,155 deaths returned
from 25 States, not including Della
ware, On one Of which. North Caro-
lima. only municipalities of 1000
population and over in 1910 we're in
cluded), the District Of Columbia, and
Al cities In nonregistration States,
the total population OF this area in
1915 being estimated at 67.337,0 900, or
67.1 per cent. of the total estimated
population of the United States
There is a widespread and increas-
ing interest throughout the country in
respect to vital statistics. The States
of North and South Carolina, which
recently enacted the "model law for
the registration of births and deaths.
were admitted to the death-registration
area for 1916, increasing the estimated
population of the area 70 70.2 per
cent of the total for the United States
in that year.
Lowering OF Death Rates During
Decade.
The death rate for 1915, 1876 pei
1000 population. Is the lowest ever re-
corded. the most favorable year prior
30 1915 having been 1914. for which
the rate was 1876. II is markedly
lower than the average rate for the
Hve-year period 1901 to 1905, which
was 16.2. The decrease thus amounts
to 16.7 per cent. or almost exactly
one-sixth. during little more than
a decade. When due allowance Is
made for the addition OF many new
States TO the registration area be-
tween 1905 and 1915, and the COM
parison is confined to the group Of
registration States as constituted dur
ing the period 1901-O5-the present
population Of which is about one
fourth of the total for the country
there is still shown a very consider
able decrease, from 15.9 to 14.3 per
1000 population. or 10.1 per cent. This
decrease, on the basis Of the present
population, would amount 10 42,S76
deaths. On the assumption that a
corresponding reduction has taken
place throughout the entire country,
this would indicate a saving OF ap-
proximately 10000 lives in 1916 for
the United States as a whole.
The annual report for 1915, TO be is
sued later, will state that changes n
the age and sex constitution of tn,
population must be considered beforl
the exact nature and extent Of the lowe
general mortality can be understood. 4
is certain, however. that the great prog
ress made during recent years in the sci
ences Of medicine and sanitation, to
gether with the widespread awakening
Evening journal., 1916-09-20

of the people throughout the United
States 20 the support of public health
authorities. has resulted in the saving
annually Of scores of thousands Of lives
that would have been lost under the
conditionS prevailing only few years
ago.
Death Rates for States and Cities.
a table gives the death iates for the
past three years separately and for the
consecutive five.year periods 1901 1905
and l9O6-l9lO. The areas to which the
figures relate are the registration states
and the cities which had 100000 OF more
inhabitants in 1910. Separate figures
are given for the colored population in
states in which oolored persons
constituted 10 per cent. or more of the
total population in 1910 and in cities
having 10000 or more colored inhabi-
tants in that gear.
In the states for which death rates
for 1901 1905 are given, the greatest
proportional decrease between that per-
iod and 1915 is shown for Rhode Island,
l6.9 per cent. Next in order are New
York, with a decrease of l4.6 per cent. ;
New Jersey, l4.3 per cent; Massachu-
setts, III per cent; Vermont. 9.3 per
cent; Connecticut. 81 per cent; In
diana. 3.s per cent; New Hampshire, 3
per cent; and Maine, 10 per cent.
Michigan alone showed a slight increase,
eight-tenths Of per cent.
Among the cities having 100000 or
more inhabitants in 1910 the tendency is
toward a still greater reduction in NOR
tality. The following named cities
show, for 1915, decreases Of 90 per cent.
or more as compared with the 5.year
period 1901 1905; Newark, n. j., 29.5
per cent; Atlanta. 2s.4 per cent; New
York city. 26.S per cent; Los Angeles,
25 per cent; Jersey City, 24.0 per cent. (;
Pittsburgh, 23.9 per oent.; st. Louis, 22.0
per cent; Denver, 22.7 per cent; Provi-
dence, 22.3 per cent; Paterson. 2l.9 per
cent; San Francisco, 2l.7 per cent;
Fall River, 2l.7 per cent; Louisville,
oil per cent; and Nashville, 20 per
cent
II should he borne IN mind that the
rates here given are "crude" rates
which make no allowance for differ
ences in the sex and age distribution
Of the population. and that, further
more, the rates for certain localities
are materially affected by deaths OF
non-residents who are attracted to
those localities by their favorable cli-
mate or by their superior hospital IA
cilities differences in regard to the
relative healthfulness Of different
states and cities should not, there
fore. be drawn without more thor
ough investigation.