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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-09
TO LENGTHEN LIFE OF GUNS

In an effort to. increase the life
and efficiency of guns constructed
for the Government members of the
Naval Consulting Board will meet
with the American Institute of Min
ing Engineers for discussion of this
subject at the annual convention OF
the institute, to be held during the
week of February 10. Officers Of
the army and navy as well as Gov
eminent and other experts will at
tend.
The erosion of guns will be the
particular subject to be studied. DR..
Henry Fay, of Massachusetts instl-
tute of Technology will announce the
results of a series of tests on metals
made at the WATERFOWL arsenal.
About 500 mining engineers from all
parts of the country will be there.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-09

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-09

Details of the plot to destroy the
% German merchant ships in Amerl-
can ports in the event of hostlii''es
between the United States and Ter
many are contained in the papers
seized six months ago in the New
York city office of Wolf Won lgel'
secretary to Capt. Won Papen when
he was military attache of the Ger
man embassy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-09
TRY OUR COFFEE

We Call For and Deliver Your
Order. Bell Phone 494J.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-09
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

German American regiments are to
be organized in case Of war, accord
iag to dispatches regarding the meet
ing in Philadelphia Wednesday; night
off officials of the : crmap-Amer;aan
National a tltance, z which 4 represents
3.eoo,0oQ$ AmeriIcans\ of German birth.
1t is also said have been decided
at the meeting that in the event of
!:o.t:;!.ies between the fatherland
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-09
FoRTf.sEvEN YEARS AGO.

A DIRECTORY of Washington, George
town and Alexandria, compiled ny
w H. Boyd, of Washington pup
lished in 1870, has recently oeen
placed in the window OF George w.
Bontz's shoe store, on Royal STREET.
near King. This company is making
preparations to issue another d'rec-
tory.
The great mass of those whose
names appeared in that puoi'ca'loH
have, as may be supposed, joined the
great majority. 1t is said that
person living forty years sees thlf-
teen hundred MILTON people swept
from the earth.
The advertisement of rallfoaa
between Alexandria and Washington
known as the Washington, AleXan-
dria and Georgetown Railroad, APP
pears. The depot was at the north
west corner of King and St. AsaPh
streets. O. A. Stevens was general
superintendent, and w. ]. Phelps
general manager. These names VIII
bring to. mind the suits and cross
suits which for years were On the
Alexandria Courts docket. The late
James S. French, who was President
of the ante bellum road which ran
from the corner Of Princess and st.
Asaph streets to the south end OF
the Long Bridge, was one Of the
litigants, while Stevens, Phelps and
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
were fighting for possession of what
was seen at that time was destined
to be the main neck of travel between
the north and the south. The last
train from Washington was at $50
y. m. and the last from Alexandria
at ITO p. m.
The Washington Branch of what is
now the Southern Railway was then
known as the Orange, Alexandria
and Manassas Railroad. The adj
vcrtisement states that two trains a
day were run between Washington
and Lvnchburg John S. Barbour
was President, II. W.. Vandegrift
Chief Engineer and General Superln-
tendent, W. n. Marbury, Treasurer,
l.. WILDER Reid, Clerk, a. Mclean,
Auditor, +. 7. HAWKS, General
Freight Agent, J. NJ. Broadus Gene
raj Ticket Agent, and James Z
Waddey, Master of Machinery.
George C. Hewes was at that time
Superintendent OF Gas, and W. W.
White, Clerk. (These were hold
overs who had been appointed when
the state was under military govern
ment. Virginia was received back
into the union in 1870 and next year
other officers appeared in every
branch of the city govemment.)
Comparatively few advertisements
appear in the directory. A. J.
Wedderburn was publishing what was
known rs "The Alexandrian."
Among the other advertisers were
Louis Appich, Ashby & Wood, S.
Dealham, B. F. Bruner, John A.
Field. James j. Coleman, Cooney
Brothers, George w. Harrison, "
Makeley, A. G. Luther, f. Paff, w.
S. Moore 4 Sons, Green Brothers, S.
Lunt, and George L. Seaton, the lat
ter coiored, who conducted the
grocery and liquor business On the
north side of King street, between
Washington and Columbus.
There were at that time lines of
steamers which piled between Wash
ington. Georgetown, Alexandria, Phil
adelphia, and New York. The steamer
Lady of the Lake. Captain Joseph
Denty, was also making trips to
Norfolk.
OF course, many changes will ne
cessarily take place in forty-seven
years, but to those who were cotcn-
poraneous with the people men
toned above the time seems short.
Truly, tempus fugit!
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-09

r,+er.d at the Postoffice at Ae1an-
.,,. virginia. as second class matter
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-09
punLIsnEp EVERY AFTERNOON
Except Sunday

n, The Alexandria Gazette CORPORATION
ait King Street. Alexandria Va
unwARD W. SMITH, President :auo
Treasurer.
wrI,IdAM ALBERT sMoOT, 1r'' VICE
President.
-,v,r ppADLEY HARD, Editor and
General Manager. 90
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-09
Stock Exchange Guarded.

New York, Feb. S.-Long night
sticks of locust have been given 10
the special guards in gray uniforms
who watch the entrances OF the Nc"
York Stock Exchange building. 1t Is
the first time the guards have been
SO armed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-09

the friend who accompanied him to
put him in charge of the police. In
stead, the friend is said to have taken
him to his room and left him there.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-09
SPECIAL BARGAINS
FOR FRIDAY

Mems $1.OO value Negligee Shirts,
with Soft Cuffs, special price,
each 49,. ...... 49,. ....f5c
Mems $500 Wool Sweaters, all
sizes and coiors, special price $3.50
Twenty dozen Mems Blue Work
Shirts, with collars attached, ex-
ceptional value, special price each eoc
so dozen Mems Heavy Gray and
Tan Hose, special price 2 pair for Csc
Six pair Mems black fleece-lined
Automobile Gauntlets Reduced
from $3.50 to $50. ........ A.7S
Nine pair Mems Heavy Buck
Work Gauntlets Reduced from :
$1.75 to ...... ...... ........ SiisS
One Mans $3.50 warm Bath
Robe, with Slippers to match,
Reduced to ........ ........ 5000
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-09
Author Left $4,000.

Mt. Vernon, N. Y, Feb. S.-Ficn-
ard Harding Davis, novelist and wal
correspondent, who died in April last
loft an estate valued at 500, loo'
which was reduced to S4o,391 atter
debts and administration expenses
had been paid.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-09

Van Camps Soups, 3 for Csc
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
PETER PIPER.

When Father Hecker was novice
in the Redemptorist order in Wittem
in Holland bishop of a neighboring
diocese visited the monastery. Hear
ing that there were two American stu
dents there, he asked that they be
sent for.
Brother Hecker and Brother Wal
worth came down to the recreation
room. The bishop spoke with them in
French and then asked them IL they
would be good enough to say some
thing in English, for although he read
that language he had never heard
others talk it.
Will you speak little piece for
me?" he inquired.
Certainly was the answer.
After a few moments consultation,
the two young men in all seriousness
recited together Peter Piper picked a
peck of picked peppers" etc.
The prelate, not unnaturally, was
astonished at the peculiar sound of
English.
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OPTICIANS

upon him, and kissed their father,
and were full of delight
Then there came messenger bring
ing nice little hoped barrel; it
was filled with delicious wine of
Hochheim, to gladden. the fathers
heart. The father rejoiced, when he
saw that it was sent by his eldest
son; and the children danced round
their father and the little barrel
After a while, the father stepped
to the table, and found there fine
large sheet of paper, on which the
second son, who had come home from
abroad, had written beautiful touch
ing poem. When the father read it,
he. smiled, and his tears fell on the
paper.
The three little ones looked at their
father, and said: Dear father, we
cannot yet give you or work you any
thing; we are still too young"
Then the father took them all three,
the little maiden and the two boys,
to his bosom, pressed them to his
heart, and said: 'Oh, do not think
that your gift is Insignificant, in my
eyes. Do not your little hearts beat
for me as well as the others? and my
fathers heart beats for you ALL
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
RoB's SILVER DOLLAR.

There were some trees that Rob
farm, and some that Grandpa said
must wait until his legs grew an
other inch or two. But the old apple
tree, in the corner Of the cow-lot, was
our little boys favorite tree. The
branches were low, and easy to reach,
and the crotches were wide and fiat,
and made good seats; and it was quite
out of sight of the house, so that Rob
could easily play being wrecked on a
desert island.
One bright June day, as he sat in
one of the crotches of this old tree,
Rob heard the strangest sound; was
it fire roaring? There was no fire
in sight. Was it a train? You could
not hear the train from the cow-lot
Was it thunder? 1t was too soft
and too steady for thunder.
Presently Rob leaned far back, and
there on the other side OF the tree,
on the lowest. branch, was what look
ed like huge bunch of grapes. with
every grape alive! Rob had never
seen swarm of bees before, but
Grandpa had told him that when the
hive got too full, they chose a queen.
and sent off a new family to set up
housekeeping for itself. Grandpa
had been watching for a swarm from
one Of his hives, SO that he could
catch 1t before 1t got away to the
woods, and now here 1t was!
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
INSURANCE
THE CHHDREN'S HOUR.
THE GREAT TRANSITION.

'Hello!" said I, what's that?"
And l stopped to pick it up.
THAT" replied the boy, who hap
pened to be passing through the
schoolyard with me. THAT is moth
ing but lead-pencil.'
But it is a whole one," said I,
"and with a rubber on the end
II know it, said the boy.
What? Do you mean to tell me
that you have seen this here before 2"
Yes, everybody's seen it."
'All the children in your school
have seen this lying here day after
day, and not one boy has picked it
up?" -
"Of course. What should we pick
it up for? There's plenty in the
schoolhouse; the town buys 'em'
/ had been given text for long
meditation. Not pick up a whole new
lead-pencil! And pencil with a
rubber on it!
When I was boy, we priced even
slate-pencils. A boy who hooked any
body's slate-pencil was baited until
he gave it up; but lead-pencil-
fought for lead-pencils as the Greeks
and Trojans fought for Helen. We
secured the countryside for old horse
shoes to sell to the blacksmith for
money enough to buy a lead-pencil;
and, having it, we cut our private
mark on it, guarded it, kept it as our
last resource in trade. Many a time
precious two-inch lead-pencil has
turned an important jackknife trade
one way or the other. | never had
but one lead-pencil at time, and Of
ten hardly that, until l was fifteen
years old; and these ten-year-olds
scorn to pick up a whole one with a
rubber! Think of it! The best eraser
/ had was piece of rubber-boot heel!
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
MYSTICAL sLAv TEMPERAMENT

A deep religious instinct seems to be
Unborn with the Slav peasants, both
Russian and Pole, according to the
Christian Herald. The only difference
is the form of his religion, for prac-
tically all the Poles are adherents of
the Church of Rome. With both races
religion and patriotism are closely in
terwined. The Slav temperament
seems to be particularly susceptible to
religious impressions and devotion to
the church reaches degree for which
it is difficult to find analogies in any
other part of modern Europe. In the
daily life of the Polish peasants the
name Christ and the Virgin will be
heard repeatedly. He would not think
of living in house that had not been
blessed by priest. A manufacturer
would find it difficult to keep his hands
if the factory had not been blessed.
A theater would die from lack of pat
ronage if the priestly blessing had
been denied the building. The Pole is
one of the most faithful of all the
adherents of the Church of Rome.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
FIELDING ON SUFFRAGE.


One of the earliest references to the
enfranchisement of women is to be
found in Henry Fielding's newspaper,
the Champion. in 1740. In an imagin-
airy report of suffrage meeting, the
writer, who may have been Fielding
himself, sets out the arguments of an
eloquent Lady Belinda, who, after be-
wailing the fact that "a cobbler is rep
resented in the legislature, but a
duchess is not" moves a resolution in
favor of parliament of women to
make the laws affecting the sex and to
guard it's rights and privileges against
the He-Part of Creation" Her meet
ing adjourned without carrying the
resolution, because "all the ladies
spake together"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
pug.

1t was a hot day, and most of the
beasts of the jungle were taking maps
in their dens, where the earth was
cool, and the shadows deep.
A pair of splendid elephants stood
for a moment on the bank of the
river, their small eyes blinking sleep
lily, their enormous ears Tapping like
slow-moving leather fans. Then they
plunged their trunks into the water,
which they proceeded to squirt over
their backs, and over tiny creature
Of their own kind who toddled be-
tween his parents.
The baby squealed as the first jet
Of water struck him. but his mother
would not let him off until he had
been thoroughly washed. Then she
waded into the river, followed by
her huge mate and the baby. All
three lay down, wallowing about in
the refreshing mud until only their
heads were above the surface of the
stream. II was cool and nice!
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
MOTHERS.

Mothers are just the queerest things!
Member when John went away,
All but mother cried and cried,
When they said goodbye that day.
She just talked and seemed to be
Not the slightest bit upset
Was the only one who smiled!
Others eyes were streaming wet.
But when John came back again,
On furlough safe and sound,
With medal for his deeds
And without single wound,
While the rest of us hurrahed,
Laughed and joked and danced
d about,
Mother kissed him, then she cried
Cried and cried like all git out.
-EdDfn L. Sdbin. In Humber Posts.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
I'm SORRY; WAS WRONG.

There may be virtue in the man
Who's always sure he's right,
Who'll never hear another's plan,
And seek for further light;
But like more the chap who sings
A somewhat different song,
Who says when he has messed up
things,
I'm sorry; was wrong"
It's hard for any one to say
That failures due to him
That he has lost the fight or way,
Because his light burned DIM
1t takes a man aside to throw,
The vanity that's strong,
Confessing: That's my fault.
know,
I'm sorry; I was wrong"
/.
And so figure, those who use
This honest, manly pharse
Hate it too much their way to lose
On many future days.
They'll keep the path and make the
fight,
Because they do not long
To have to say when they're not
right,
I'm sorry; l was wrong"
Chicago EDsnfn0 Post.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
REMINDERS.

All sins have blue eyes and dimples
when they are young.
Brains can beat muscle with its
right hand. tied behind it's back; and
it can do it every day in the week.
A man with good gray matter UNI
der his hat can learn more by stub
bling his toe in the dark than fool
can learn by going to college.
The right kind of man never
loses more than one finger by fooling
with a buZZ-saw.
Aim high. 1t won't be any harder
on your gun to knock the feathers
out of an eagle than to splinter barn
door.
The young man who is willing to
GO through life saving on the second
fiddle will never lead the band.
An honest man will get there with
the goods while his half-hearted
brother is putting on his mittens.
When the devil wants to run his
claws clear through man and clinch
them on the other side, he makes him
believe that fooling with booze won't
hurt him.
The devil hates happy home as
bad as a saloon-keeper hates a pro-
hibition preacher.
Every man would like to build a
beautiful house. Why not go at 1t
and build beautiful character?
The man is headed straight for the
pit who is living as the devil wants
him to, whether he is a gambler or
a pillar in the church.
Nothing so blocks mans way to-
ward destruction as the love OF wife
and child.
Nobody spends much time in look
ing at wax figures in the store win
dows. but live man there who is do
ing something always draws crowd.
The higher you lift little man the
more he shrinks.
We should look up for help and
then down to help.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11

Rob was good and scared, you may
be sure, and at first he thought he
would keep still, and let the bees go.
But would that be treating Grandpa
right? So the short legs climbed very
softly and slowly down the other side
from the bees and set out for the
house on a mighty run. And soon
nice new hive, with little molasses
and water sprinkled on it's doorway
had been put under the apple tree
to attract the swarms policemen, or
couriers, and they had taken posses
sion of their new dwelling.
Grandpa said that swarm was
worth five dollars to him, and Rob
had earned one of them for the pocket
of his own short trousers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
WHEN MARY PLAYS.

When Mary's finger-tips prelude
Her simple little first "etude,"
The room around her disappears;
Vanish the children with their play,
The various deeds of workaday;
The humdrum noises HE away;
And all the sweetness i'm my ears
Is tuned to old-time love and tears.
There is a magic in those slim,
Swift, undeveloped hands, to dim
The present. Back her music brings
The charm of faded fooleries
In days of lost delight and ease
Gay-dancing ladies, lads on knees
Before them.-But the pain that
springs,
AS when bird at twilight sings!
So sweet she plays, her mothers heart
Seems finally to break apart,
Its crystal ravishment to cool,
And all it's separate pieces fly
Like silver raindrops through the
sky
Meeting and melting tenderly
Again in one bright, trimming pool
She stops sand now it's time for
school!
-Dorothp Leonard.
knowledge is proud that he has
learned 50 much Wisdom Is humble
that he knows SO little.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
THE OLD MAN.

Backward, turn backward,
0 Time, in thy flight,
Make me a boy again,
So I can fight.
Make me a boy again,
Just tWenty-one,
So | can shoulder
A knapsack and gun,
Give me the muscles
| had years ago,
Give me step that's
Not wobbly and slow.
Give me the strength that
I may play my part,
All that | have now for
War is the, heart.
Give me the vim and
The vigor of youth.
I'll fight till doomsday, and
That is the truth.
Turn back the decades and
Give me a chance
To sail with the legions for
PARKWAY France.
What a chastisement it
Is to be told:
Back to the fireside,
You're no good-too old"
Time, you're criminal,
That's plain to see.
You've made a confounded
Old Stacker of me.
-NeD York EDenIn0 Nail
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11

Suddenly there arouse a tumult on
the opposite bank of the river Men
appeared, and guns were fired. The
three bathers struggled to their feet
and turned toward the forest, the IA
Their trumpeting wildly. But they
were met by a number of tanned ele-
plants, each with a human rider.
Frantic with fear the dripping mon
sters crashed through the jungle and
escaped.
The baby tried hard to follow his
parents, squealing and tripping over
fallen trees as he scrambled after
them; but he was soon separated
from them, and found himself in a
sort of pen, where he was tied fast
to stake. The small elephant, who
was hardly year, old, thought his
end had come. But strange creatures
on two feet brought him milk and
delicious, tender leaves; and before
long he got over all fear of them.
AS he grew older he forgot about the
jungle, and became quite contented.
One day, about a year after his
capture, he was dismayed to find that
his milk-white little tusks, only two
inches long, had dropped out. But
another pair came, and grew fast.
Soon after he had "cut his teeth, "
like any other well-behaved baby, he
was brought to America and sold to
menagerie, where he became great
favorite with all his keepers, on ac-
count of his good temper and funny
ways. They named him Pug" and
petted him every time they had a
chance
If you 60 to a menagerie this sum-
mer, you may see Pug.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
THE PRESENT.

-
When the time of the fathers
birthday arrived, his three youngest
children secretly collected the most
beautiful flowers, and wove them. in
the absence Of their father, into a
handsome wreath; and they could not
close their eyes all night for joy.
When, the day dawned, they went
all three into their fathers chamber
with naked feet, lest he might
be aware of it. The father perceived
it, however; but he pretended to be
asleep.
When it was morning, the father
came with the beautiful wreath, and
said: Where are the little angels
who brought me flowers In the night,
when / was asleepg'
And the children came and hung
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11

welding process is described by
Parker and DaHaday to the Faraday
Society of London, the glass surfaces
to be Joined are placed in good OPP
teal contact under pressure and are
heated to a carefully predetermined
temperature, which, to avoid distor-
ton of OFFICIALLY worked surfaces
must not approach too near what is
defined as the "annealing point. Z
This point of appreciable softening is
determined for any kind of glass by
noting the temperature at which the
internal heat stresses seen in the
glass with polarized light quite sud-
denly disappear. Similar glasses
unite perfectly well below this point,
but with very unlike kinds the softer
becomes distorted before the harder
is hot enough to make a good weld.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
DENTISTS.

mon origin. The mother nation" here
referred to is supposed to have ex-
listed in Central Asia, long before
Europe was inhabited From this CEN
ter, in obedience to law of movement
which has continued to act through
took place toward the northwest into
Europe. Part of the population set
tied in India and Persia, and for these
reasons the race is named the Indo-
European. The Hindoos belong to the
native Aryan race of India.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
INDo-EuRoPEAN OR ARYAN RACE.

The Indo-E European or Aryan race is
the name given to that division OF
mankind covering the most of Europe,
Armenia, Persia, Afghanistan and
northern Hindustan The evidence on
which a family relation has been
established is that of language. In the
different languages spoken by the ma
tions which comprise this race, there
are similarities which, according to
expert philologists, can be accounted
for only BY supposing that the nations
who originally spoke them had q com.