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The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1917-09-14
Two Sets of Them.

The local company boasts of another
feature, and one probably not equal
ed by many othes companies. The roll
contains two sets of twin brothers
Mention was made last week of vii
bur and Walter Atkison, who reside
at this place, and this week is men
toned Glenn and Faber McAdory of
Monte Ne. A funny incident occurred
when the Atkison boys were being
vaccinated. They came together, and
the first one was vaecinated by the
surgeon and stepped cut of the way.
As he did so the twin brother took his
place, while the surgeons back was
turned; and it necessitated some ex-
PLANTATION before the second boy was
given shot" the surgeon being of
the opinion that he had already vac
einated the soldier. The two Me
Adory boys are as hard to recognize
separately as the Atkison brothers,
and there viii probably be other
"miXupS"
Evening star., 1917-09-13
MRS. LETTIE C. STEWART
DIES AT HER HOME HERE
Wife of Ethelbert Stewart and Prom
inent in Work of Wom-
ems Clubs.

Mrs. Lettie Cox Stewart, wife of Eth
ebert Stewart, chief statistician of the
bureau of labor statistics. and for years
prominent in the work of women's
clubs, died at an early hour today at
the family residence, 2411 1st street
northwest. Death was the result of a
stroke of apopleXy sustained by Mrs
Stewart June 20. She was sixty-two
years of age.
Funeral services will be held at the
residence Saturday afternoon at 3
o'clock, with Rev. DR.. l. G. B. Pierce
minister of All Souls Unitarian Church.
ofi1ciating. 1nterment will be in Glen
wood cemetery
Mrs. Stewart was the mother of seven
chlldren. who We're present at the bed
side when the end came. They are Mrs
John Charters of New York, e w.
Stewart and Mrs. A. J. Stewartson of
Chicago. and Miss Estelle VI. Stewart,
Miss Margaret w. Stewart. Assistant
surgeon H. j. Lloyd Stewart of the
Navy. and Miss Lettie f. Stewart, all
of this city.
Before moving to Washington some
wears ago. Mrs. Stewart was particu-
larlv active in the work of women's
clubs in her home city of Decatur Ill,
and later at Chicago In 1871 she ac-
companied her husband to Europe.
where he was sent by the tariff board.
Evening star., 1917-09-13
J. EDWIN ATKINSON, JR.,
DIES AT PARENTS HOME
Native of Washington and Member
of the District of Co.
1umbia Bar.

J, Edwin Atkinson, jr. twenty-six
years old. one of the best known of
the younger members of the District
bar, died last evening at the home of
his parents, 626 Randolph street. Fu-
neral services are to be held Saturday
morning at IL O'Clock at Sacred Heart
thurch. when mass will he sung by
tev. Father ECkenrode Interment is
TO be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Justice Mccoy of the District Su-
rreme Court today directed that the
minutes of the court show an adjourn
ment out of respect to the memory of
Mr.. Atkinson. The death of the young
lawyer was called to the attention Of
the court by Attorney r. Newton Don
a1dson.
Young Atkinson was a native of
Washington. the son of James E Albin-
son. He had been in i'll health for
about three monthhs. He attended
immaculate Conception School and
Rock Hill College and was secretary
to Bishop o'Connell of Richmond when
the iatter was rector of Catholic Uni
ycrsity. His law studies were com
p!eted at Georgetown University Law
school and he was admitted to practice
about five years ago. MIR Atkinson was
unmarried. and besides his parents is
survived by brother. William &. Al
binSon.
Evening star., 1917-09-13
BRINGS VALUABLE DATA
ON NAVAL CONDITIONS
House Committee Returns From
Trip to Caribbean Sea-To
Be Used Later.

Valuable Information connected with
naval strategy in the Caribbean sea has
been brought back to Washington by
members of the naval affairs committee
of the House VINO have been cruising in
those waters. No report will be made
to the House, as the visit of the COM
mittee members is in connection with
their regular work of gathering infor-
nation to be used at the next session
OF the House. when the naval appro-
priation bill is up for consideration.
The committee visited Cuba. Porto
Rico. Haiti and the Virgin Islands. in
addition TO naval stations in the United
states on southern waters. 1t is hinted
that action will soon be taken by this
government regarding the state of af-
fairs in the Virgin Islands, where the
economic condition is at low ebb due
entirely to Stoppage of shipping on
very desperate straits, say members of
the committee.
1t is believed that no naval opera
tions, such building shipyards. forti-
fications, etc. are contemplated for the
Virgin Islands, and that better
strategic point for a naval base has
been located. The advantage in buying
the Virgin Islands was to keep some
other nation from getting them. mem
berS of the committee say.
The members on the trip were Chair
man Padgett and Representative
Hensley of Missouri Connolly of Kan
Sas. Oliver OF Alabama Wilson Of
Texas. Browning of New Jersey. Farr
of Pennsylvania and Hicks of New
York.
Evening star., 1917-09-13
BATTLES
RAGE ON SAN gabrielle
Italians Established Under Crest Re-
pulse Fierce Attacks by
Austrians.

Ry the Associated Press.
ROME, September 1.-THE battle
between Austrians and Italians for
possession of Monte san Gabrielle is
waging furiously, according to the
official statement issued today hy
the Italian war department. New
Austrian forces yesterday renewed
their attempts to disiodge the Ital-
ians from the slopes of the height.
but after advacing at a few points
they We're stopped by the main
Italian line of occupation.
UDINE. italy. Wednesday. September
12 delayed italians and Austro-
Hungarians are engaged in bitter fight
ing for possession of Monte San Ca
briele. on the IsouZo front. bulletin
issued today by Gen. Cadorna, mention
ing Monte San Gabrielle for the first
time. reveals intense lighting for pos
session of that point has been going on
since the taking Of Monte Santo by the
Italians.
While the top of Monte San Gabrielle
has not vet been captured, the Italians
now are firmly established just under
the crest and out of range OF the Aus
trian artillery fire. The Austrian re-
siStance has been of q most desperate
character and there have been heavy
losses on both sides.
ROME. September 13.-The Austriaus
Yesterday made an extremely desperate
effort to drive the Italians from the
positions they occupy along the crest
of Monte san Gabrielle, northeast of
Gorilla. The battle lasted from dawn
until nearly noon. when the Austrians,
defeated in the struggle. gave up the
effort. the war office announces
Evening star., 1917-09-13
PROTESTS FORFEITED GAME.
President Dunn Of Cleveland Objects
to Ruling in Chicago Contest.

CHICAGO. September 13.-James c.
Dunn, president of the Cleveland Amer
leans. has protested the game which
Umpire Owens forfeited to Chicago
last Sunday with the score tied in the
tenth inning. owens forfeited the
game because he believed the Cleve-
land players We're making Il burlesque
ont Of the contest. President Johnson
OF the American League said ii prob
a bly, would be three or four days before
he would announce a decision.
Dunn contends that Umpire Owens
should have expelled the offending
players from the game instead of for
feiting it, as there was no concerted at
tempt of the team as a whole to delay
the game.
Evening star., 1917-09-13
MORE RARE GIFTS
FOR MELTING POT
Numerous Donations of Value
to Aid the Red Cross
Cause.
COINS OF ANTIQUE DATE

Contributions to the Red Cross melt
ing pot include articles that have been
rarely seen and articles that Will never
be seen again. There are things unique
in themselves-there are articles Una,
helone to the handicraft of a past
generation and never known to this
While the whole display holds faS-
cination to the crowds of people VINO
Iinger to view the contents OF the VIM
dow in Gait & Bros jewelry house,
where the Red Cross melting pot is set
up for public observation. the Things
seldom seen excite not only interested
comment, but desire of possession
Many are the applicants who request
the privilege of purchasing some ar
ticIe in the window. The answer must
be the same: Nothing is for private
sale. This seems to he the only safe
rule to follow, to protect the integrity
of the disposition of the contents of
he Red Cross melting pot.
Evening star., 1917-09-13
TO COMBAT DISLOYALTY.
Organization Here With Members
From All Walks of Life.

A permanent organization TO create
a militant public opinion able to meet
and defeat disloyalty" is to result from
the meeting here yesterday under the
auspices Of the National Civic Fedora
tion. Everit Macy of New York. presi-
dent of the federation. has been en-
powered to select committee which
will represent the varied activities in
terested.
Capital and labor. sunrasists and
anti-suffragists, democrats and repub-
licans. have united through some of
their leading representatives in in
dorsing the proposed organization, and
II is expected they will be given places
on the organization committee The
personnel of this committee is to be
announced by Mr.. Macy shortly and il
will meet some time this fall, probably
in Washington.
Evening star., 1917-09-13
Other Gold and Silver Coins.

She brought other gifts. gold and sill
yer and small coins. Another fob con-
tained in her offering also was a curio
consisting of silver owl perched on
bone cross-bones. from which silver
snake dangled. holding a deaths head
Two coins from the island on which
Noses was found" We're stated by Miss
p ]. Bradshaw of Folkstone Courts to be
Hhong the number presented by her
She did not identify them and this pre-
sents another problem for the expert.
Many of the coins were rare. most of
them of silver. She also contributed
silver articles.
Mrs E. W. Burch had an Offering of
silver coins to make.
From the home of George Washing
ton. Mount Vernon on the Potomac
comes a gift from r seven-year-old
girl, Miss Heloise Young. She herself
collected the six pounds of tin foil that
she brought in. Arthur Lariviere is a
French lad whose enthusiasm has
brought many offerings and whose lat
est gift is tin foil
Miss Ellin n. Fineran gave some
plated ware and silver.
Evening star., 1917-09-13
Among Greatest Assets.

The coin contributions are going to
prove one of the greatest assets OF
the Red Cross melting pot. The con-
slant inflow of pieces of money. strange
and rare mintage. will make it n most
desirable collection for any numis
matist.
Among recent contributions of coin
was great copper piece, a British
panny much larger than of current
coinage. dated 1897. Then there was
another, an antique piece. which must
A third coin from the same donor
William Emerson. was a medal COM
memorating Franklins electrical ex-
periments with lightning.
Miss Margaret Pearson was the con-
tributor of watch fob made of four
silver Mexican coins of different values
suspended from each other. and each
coin cut through in imitation of Mex
lean hligree work. leaving only the
rim. the eagle design and the date on
the diverse of each coin.
Evening star., 1917-09-13
Auction Sale Also Barred.

An auction of some of the more valu-
able OF desirable articles. in the inter
est of better values for the Red Cross
melting pot, has been suggested, when
would be a much fairer way than prl-
vate sale where the sale might be per-
mitted to go by privilege. But this. too
would compIicate the disposition of the
contents of the Red Cross melting pot
and that task is herculean enough,
as IL stands.
It is proposed to melt up the broken
silver and gold. the foil and old metal.
where no other than an intrenSiC value
seems evident Where jewels or an
tiaues or other article seems to have
worth superior to the metal that en-
ters into its composition. these Will he
disposed of by competition. probably.
to reputable dealers. who will give 4
fair value. This will include canoes,
fntaglios, moZaics and precious stones.
The coins will be offered to the con-
sideration of dealers in valua BILE coins
Evening star., 1917-09-13
BIG GAIN IN EXPORTS.
Gross Increase in Seven Months
Nearly Quarter Billion.

The value of breadstuffs. meat and
dairy products. cotton and cottonseed
and mineral oils exported in the seven
months ending in July aggregated ST.
0O1 ,065 19O. as compared with $1S3.9S1,-
oil for the same period last year. the
Department of Commerce announced to
day. The gross increase was nearly
$225, 900 900. Breadstuffs advanced from
s25I, I,115,SGO to s373.595,J93 meat and
dairy products from $l5T,542,56S to
S235, 5,S6S,319 and mineral oils from $112,-
024,S1S to $133,620,120.
Evening star., 1917-09-13
STRUCK BY RAILROAD TRAIN.
George w. Daymude, Watchman, In,
iured at Silver Spring.

Struck by i railroad train at silver
Spring. Md. early this morning George
w. Daymude. forty five years old. of
Middlebrooke, Nd. is at Emergency
Hospital In critical condition. He has
q fracture at the base of the skull and
Is suffering from internal injuries.
Daymude was employed at a watch
man at the railroad crossing at Silver
Spring He was struck by Baltimore
and Ohio train No. %. A resident of
The Maryland town brought him to the
hospital in an automobile
Evening star., 1917-09-13
Quarter Million Men
Lost by the Italians.
Is Vienna's Claim

VIENNA. Wednesday, September 12
via London. September 13. British ad-
miralty, per Wireless T'ress-.'The
Italian losses in the eleventh Isonzo
battle" says an official statement is
sued today by the Austrian war Office
have reached almost quarter of a
million. including 10000 prisoners"
Evening star., 1917-09-13
JURY FOR AK MURDER.

RED OAk. Iowa. September I3-
Eleven farmers and q telephone lineinan
comprise the jury that is TO decide the
fate of Rev. Lyn George J. Kelly. charged
with the murder Of eleven year old Lena
Stillinger. one of the eight victims OF
the Nillisca AK murder in 1912 Com
pletion of the jury was accomplished in
district court here late Yesterday. the
seventh day Of the trial in all 100 men
We're examined to Complete the jury.
Evening star., 1917-09-13

the following state food administrators:
For Florida, Braxton Beacham of Or
lando: for Minnesota, A. ID. Wilson of
ST. Paul; for Mississippi, +. NJ. Harding
of Vicksburg; for New Jersey, James
F. Fielder of Jersey City; for Ohio,
Fred Croxton of Columbus.
Food administrators for most of the
other states already have been named.
Evening star., 1917-09-13

Mrs. Stewart came from a pioneer
family OF Illinois. her father being
John NJ Cox. the first man to abandon
the timber for prairie farming, a move
which developed into the great farm
ing work of the state.
Evening star., 1917-09-13
To Aid in Food Conserystion.

Representatives Of the Christian
Science Church met in Washington to-
day to discuss measures their denomi-
nation may take to aid the food conser-
vation campaign. They were addressed
by Herbert c. Hoover and by DIR. Ray
Lyman Wilbur. head of the food con.
servation section of the food adminis-
tration.
Evening star., 1917-09-13
Important Change in Schedule
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM

After Saturday. September Is. train
No. 1928, leaving Washington on Satur-
days at AS pm. for Harrisonburg, will
be discontinued. Train No. 81 will
leave Washington for Harrisonburg at
3:45 pm. daily, except Sunday-Adver-
tisement
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-18
THE SOUTH'S GIFT TO
THE FIGHTING, WORLD
From Southern Woman,s Magazine.

AS our first ten thousand sailed out of
harbor for their unknown port i'm France,
so the published story goes, it was "Dixie"
that broke the tenseness of the final mo-
ments and stirred the crowd to heart-ease
and to cheers.
First there was "Tipperary," raised by
blithe soldier voice as if to break the heavy
portent of GAamatic understanding that
threatened to overwhelm the waiting crowd.
But "Tpperary" would not do. 1t was the
marching son of English boys too newly
dead to be forgotten. 1t but added to the
strain
There was a silence, then a quiet note or
two, with that breath-caCching pause that
we know so well; then a whirhng uplift of
quick melody, and the ships band had burst
into the ringing strains of Dixie"
It was that same Dixie" that Lincoln pro-
claimed a national possession when he had
it played by the government band in Wash
ington on the fateful day Of Lees surren-
der. 1t is loved by Americans, North and
South. 1t now bids fair to encircle the
earth.
This was the South's battle song of the
sixties. 1t tells the story of heroic armies
long ago dissolved, and Of blood-red banners
furled these many years. It stirs the heart
to memory and to tears.
Yet it is not martial air. We do not
stand to its strains, nor do we uncover when
it is played. 1t is intimate and human, fiji
ed less with grandeur than with joy. 1t is
more than a war song-it is the heart-song
of the South
1t is our song of childhood and soft fu1la-
bies, of youth, and pride, and happiness. It
holds the perfume of magnolia and of ies-
samine. 1t is tender with the sound of the
| South wind blowing through waving moss.
! 1t is vibrant with the rustic of palmetto
leaves, and sweet with the melody of slave
voices singing in the cotton and the cane.
In the heart Of its lightness it carries the
patriotism and sacrifice of splendid youth,
the eternal youngness of our long-gone he
roes It's strains defy regret and grief. They
bring to us, through many years. the spirit
of generation that held to the JOY of life
even in the midst Of desolation and defeat
In their melody the dauntless hope of such
youth lives again.
Dixie" is the home-song of a brave and
lovely land. 1t holds no bitterness, it makes
no plea. 1t goes straight from heart to
heart.
And now, of this dear Southern song OF
ours, we make gift to the armies of the
allies over the seas. 1t will take to them
something of the same exultant eagernes.
that it always brings to us 1t will carry tc
them also message from the South more
full of truth and meaning than any thai
mere history can teach.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-18
SURPRISING FACTS.

During the fiscal year ending June Both
1917, more than 30,500,000,000 of cigar
cites were produced in the United States
the manufactured kind. In the last previous
wear the total was 100000 less. The
increase was more than 40 per cent. Off
Gals of the internal revenue department,
who assembled the statistics in connection
with the collection of taxes, indicated their
belief that growing use of cigarettes by wo-
men was largely responsible for the record
breaking showing.
Distilled spirits was included in the list
of taxed substances that showed increases,
In short, except in the case of beer, the guam
titles of inebriating liquors and of tobacc,
in all of its forms produced and used in the
United States has mounted notably This
is true at a time when, owing to war con-
ditions and accompanying economical diff
culties, the necessity for minor. retrench-
ments and abnegations is being emphasized
as seldom before.
If conclusions are to be drawn from these
interesting facts one is that the Ameri-
can drinker and tobacco user is not disposed
to limit himself in those enjoyments, re-
gardless of what he may be forced to de-
prive himself of along other lines. It also
shows that prohibition laws, which are now
in force in a majority of the states, have
not lessened the consumption of strong
drink
1t may be that the passing of the cigarette
from thing of opprobrium to an accepted
and convenient form of smoking is the most
striking of all the developments. One need
NOS like that fact in order to admit it. But
is one also to admit that chewing and using
snuff are likewise ceasing to be things of
fensive in tolerant publie's eye?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-18
THE COLD WAVE.

The recent cool wave which put the peo-
pie down here in the South to shivering, and
made blazing fires in homes look cheerful
and feel comfortable, with frosts in the
North and killing frosts in the Northwest
was easily one of the record-breakers so
far as official weather bureau records go.
With its pressures quite above 30.5 inches
and with temperatures 2 degrees below
freezing in Montana, North Dakota and
Minnesota, and with 40-degree temperatures
recorded even in New York, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, we experienced the kind
of weather that was never known before.
The contrast between this September and
many previous ones, with hot weather last
ing into October, proves once more what
has been said of American weather, that
it is constant only in its INCONSISTENCY"
Anything is possible with it save, as many
are likely to conclude, being affected by
such an insignificant physical effect as
world war. Whatever the dynamic causes,
and they are clear to meteorologists, they
are profound and far-reaching, and on
scale which all the bombardments in the
world could not affect
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-18
HE DIDN'T KNOW.
From the Macon Telegraph.

Ignorance answers for great trouble and
great wrongs, for much suffering and much
loss in the world. Men do wrong things.
think wrong things and say wrong things be-
cause they do not know, because they are
not equipped to understand that bring down
terrible consequences sometimes Original
sin is rare. The German junksters seem to
have almost monopoly on it, because their
sin is conscious and boosted policy But the
SINS OF ignorance are as, the sands on the
shores of seven sounding seas.
Tom Simons down there in Hawkinsville.
Tom Simons who was born under the Cedars
of Lebanon according to his registration
card, did not know that he was exempt; that
there were men in this just and careful land
who were not only anxious and willing to see
that he did not go to war if it was not that
he should go. When men advised him to do
certain things he thought they were hound
ing him into servitude. So he got mad and
bad, and the brain that had never had too
much of a load to carry except along certain
narrow enough lines tottered finally and he
ran amuck.
So Hawkinsville watches over the bedside
of two of her best citizens, a young wife
and her husband, strange people in strange
land, just long enough to be unstabiized by
its virtues and spoiled by its liberties, are
dead, and a man who had the markings of a
good constructive citizen is a hunted refugee
through canebreaks and swamps, while wife
and four little children see America as only
cruel, strange and hard land of wild and
sudden passions. All because the young man,
Tom Simons, who was born on the Mountain
of Lebanon, of which David the Harpist sang
so long, long ago, didn't know lust what it
took to make the right sort of a citizen in
Hawkinsville, Georgia, along the banks of
the river where De Soto, the Spainard.
baptized the first of the seventy or eighty
million christian children who have come up
alone in this generation of the great new
land.
And yet half dozen American presidents
have vetoed literacy test in our immgra-
ton machinery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-18
BELATED AGITATION.

Although Georgia is 'bone-dry," and
there is not the least probability of it be-
ing otherwise again, the prohibition forces
are opening up their drumfre in prepare
ton for another onslaught against Demon
Rum.
It would seem a trifle spiritless, as we'll
as useless, to move against untenanted de-
Tense systems and doing it all over again,
but, as this paper has before said, no mat
ter how many prohibition laws are passed
or how dry state may be it IS a question
that will never be settled as long as agita-
tors are paid salaries by some organization
or find collections good.
The campaign that is now about to open
is not of the seeking or making of the pro
hbitionists of Georgia, but will be conducted
by eX-politicians and hallelujah orators who
will invade the state under the auspices OF
outside organization.
There can be no question as to the at
titude of Georgia on the prohibition ques
ton, and there are matters of deeper con
Germ to the people at this time than prohi
bition oratory. What is wanted is rest fror
agitation. Prohibition has ceased to be a
issue here.