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FIRST RUN FICTION.

" HERE is prologue to this story
= and an epilogue, too. They are
both brief The prologue goes
i thusly: He was an American,
from Georgia, and his name was
Lee What he was doing in Russia III
those troubled times no one knew. He
travelled much. He did not remain
numerous antiques, old and precious
rhinestone of them in the village OF
NikClaevSk.
Nlkolaevsk is remote village and its
people are of the dark people" dark.
III that the benefits fro tAa- S1ht OF
education never reached ITEM. Their
children are going to school now and
the darkness will end when the old gen.
Grafton dies. They are dark people"
but there is cleverness that does not
come from books. When they raided
the country house of their neighbor
Count Gryazov, in 1918. they took to
themselves all they could lay their
hands on. To the count, who had
strung some of their fathers over his
gate. they accorded the same privilege.
, One-room peasant hutS were frightened
for some time after by a Louis XVI
chair and piece of Chinese rug. From
the headhoard of an Empire bed one
peasant made: box for the new calf
beside the stove. The smaller things,
jeweled ikons. glassware, little things,
diers did not care about the furniture,
but they would take anything too prom
inently displayed that could be put in
the pocket.
The initiation period came in the land.
Rubles were reckoned by lemons, a
million. and limards billion. Then the
Amerikanyetz, Mr.. Lee, visited the vil-
lage. He stayed for a week before the
peasants were willing to admit there
might be things to buy. The chairs
the hangings, even the headboard of the
Empire bed, long had passed. And these
things did not interest him. He wanted
ikons, preferably jeweled; glassware,
little things and precious There were
no offers These things were better hid
beneath the clay floor of the izba than
to be exchanged for mass OF limafdS
that few could count properly, and none
could say when they would be utterly
worthless.
At the end of the week Mr.. Lee
quietly limited that were there any old
things in the village it was possible
that he might give dollari. amerikanskl
dengi for them. The people OF Niko-
lcevsk we're dark people" but some
knowledge comes from hearsay. they
had heard of dollari.
Ivan Petrov mad been to Moscow. Il
say a man who for a dollar, real dol
lar, got more rubleS than he could
carry One dollar is worth, yes. I say,
a hundred "limards." thousand linn
ards. 1t never changes. 1t is green
paper, this American money Russian
money is more beautiful, but 1t Is
trash"
Ivan obviously spoke the truth. Rus
sian money was trash. That every one
knew.
* X X
r ATE at night, while only the dogs
Il prowled the muddy market place,
Andrei Invanov came to Mr.. Lees quar-
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in middle October. The harvest ha
been poor and there was barely enough
food to last until Spring. Worse. there
was much sickness: however. with time
hanging on their hands, the peasants
could afford the time to go to the hos
pital. Almost all went. Except for the
old women, there seemed to be def
mite boycott against Marousha.
In January the weather became
frightful. Snow almost every day, and
most unusual. strong winds which
closed the roads. The cold was worse
than ever and no one left the bed atop
the lofty stove for the outdoors except
to get more firewood. And then it
began.
Little Volodya Invanov cried all day
At night his forehead was hot and he
said his throat hurt. Each hour 1t was
more difficult to breathe. There was
nothing to do except to call MarOuSha
You call me now" said she. when
she came, out of breath. now that it
is impossible to get to the hospital
Old MarouSha is good enough when you
are afraid your child will die. l can
cure him. But you must pay me. :"
I'VE will pay, only cure our SON"
and you must pay me with
dollari I know, / know that you sold
the Amerikanyetz that jeweled ikon YOU
stole. There is not much time. Pay
me all the dollari you have and I will
cure your son. your son Andrea Alexe-
vitch-your only son.
Andrei refused but his wife insisted
He took a hammer and beat on the
wall of the stove. A brick loosened and
he pulled it out From the crevice he
took the two American dollars and
almost threw them at her.
She then prepared tea with bun
die of herbs which she drew from out
her voluminous skirts. In an hour the
child was breathing more easily.
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FromC WNm
Garfield tandt Develop

Indeed, I know of one man who died
here not long ago. and who was born
in this section, who left more than
million dollars. and, what was better
still. a host of good and loyal friends.
I went to both private and public
school with some of the boys and girls
of this place, and I always found them
to be the best of friends. Many are
now filling the most prominent posi-
tons in the city and are regarded
and justly so. too-aS of the first
families of Washington
GARFIELD Memorial Hospital. which
occupies the tract to the west of
Cowtown, also brings back fond recol-
lections to the writer. for many times
he has romped over its fields with Ferd
Schneider. the youngest son of Louis
H. Schneider, who kept the hardware
-tore at 1910 and 1912 Pennsylvania
avenue for so many years. and who
made some of the earliest parts for the
Morse telegraph. Mr.. Schneiders
gardener, whom he also used as his
coachman, was William L. Courtney.
When We first moved into the neigh
borhood Mr.. Courtney lived in a little
brick house in the extreme southeast
ern corner of the hospital grounds
Mr.. Schneider had this house removed
and built another house for his gar
dener at the extreme north end of
the grounds. facing Sherman avenue
1t is still standing. and is a small two
story frame
Adjoining L. H. Schneider's property
lived his brother, Christian G.. Schnei-
der. and his family. at first in a large
frame cottage. which later gave way
to more substantial one of brick. In
this family there were four boys and
two girls. namely: Louis H., Julius M
Carrie A.. Ella. George A. and Walter
E. I believe all of these are living
except the first two. Christian G.
Schneider for many years carried on
a bell-hang!ng business on F street
being later succeeded by three of his
sons.
Louis H. Schneider, who was the first
to sell his property for hospital pur-
poses, had several daughters and two
! sons: Harry. who was in business with
his father for many years. and Ferd
whom went to school with. I knew
MIN quite we'll OF the girls knew
little. One married DR.. A. c. Adams
and just what became of the others
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Der of COWS and conducted an extern
slve dairy business.
When the wagon was stuck there
were but two horses hitched to it,
but gradually sympathizing bystanders
added to this number from their own
stables until six or eight were strung
out in a line, alternately jerking and
tugging away-working as some people
do, without any concerted action or
cooperation.
Seeing the mess his neighbors were
making of the predicament, John r.
Alcorn, who kept grocery store at the
southeast corner of Barry place and
Florida avenue, went to his stable and
brought out two fine white mules. which
he said would pull the load up the hill.
The horses were all removed from the
wagon and the two mules substituted
and when Alcorn said get up" they
bent forward with their bodies almost
gan to move. they Strengthened up and
carried the load up the hill on a run.
1t was indeed a most beautiful sight.
Being steep, this hill made wonderful
coasting when there was snow on the
ground, although it required much skill
to swing the sled into Barry place. since
houses then .:ned the south side Sf this
thoroughfare, where the avenue now
continues on to the city.
In addition to the mule episode
another thing saw here which shall
never forget was colored boy in his
bare feet, participating in the sport of
coasting down this hill. A few years
later he was shot and killed, for which
his assailant was afterward acquitted
in court.
x **
EIFTY years ago Ninth street was not
cut through above Barry place
and Eighth street. was called Wright
street. Down this street, or perhaps
paralleling it in places, ran Reedy
Branch, along which number of
SlaughterhouSeS were located. This
stream had its source somewhere to the
north and flowed down the east side of
Sherman avenue In narrow deep cut
it had made. At about Euclid street it
turned almost abruptly into Eighth
street, passing close to the National
Home for Destitute Colored Women and
Children, which institution I remem-
Der as being here from my earliest
days.
One of the sights one will never for
get is the great droves OF hogs, sheep
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east corner of Barry place and Sher-
man avenue, and extended to the top
of the hill. Well do 1 remember his
ferocious- looking bloodhounds; no one
ever attempted to modest Mr.. Rupert.
Rock Greek, Soldiers Home lake, and
ponds. and nearby streams supplied
for this neighborhood the necessary
ice years before the manufacturing
plants became popular.
At one time I believe knew most
everybody living in Cowtown, who.
with the exception of a family or two
still living on the Georgia avenue side
of the place, have all moved away. and
nearly all the houses are now owned
by or rented to colored people. But
it has undergone little change. and
many Of the original houses are stand
ing today as they were more than half
century ago, and we can almost see
standing in their doorways Mrs. Keefe,
Mrs. Shugrue, Mrs. Lynch. Mrs. Dunn
and the ancestors of some of Wash
ington's most prominent business men.
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and cattle which were driven through
the streets of Washington to these
slaughterhouses, sometimes even spread
ing out beyond the curb line onto the
sidewalks. Legislation finally cured this
evil and everybody was better off and
happier thereby. One of the sights,
however, which many will recall while
these slaughterhouses were in operation
was the large number of OK tails COM
monty seen thrown over the shoulders
of the colored men who helped to do
the killing. No doubt they were given
them as part of their pay; but now
they are sold for making ox-tail soup,
considered by many as delicacy.
Another sight we used to see around
Cowtown in the early days was the
cutting of ice by the butchers for their
icehouses. especially recall the large
quantities gathered by Henry Rupert,
who had two meat stands. one in the
Center Market and another in the
Northern Liberty Market. His slaughter
house and residence occupied the north
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tiers. He was sleeping in a hay loft
behind the village. The American
spoke little Russian, but the bargain
was soon made. For two of the Amer
lean dollars. he received a fifteenth CEN
fury ikon, with jeweled frame. The
following evening there were two sales.
For q few more American dollars a
carved amethyst cup and small set OF
golden spoons went into his suit case.
BY the end of the week he had no more
of the American dollars, and there was
a spot in nearly every izba floor in the
village where there had been recent dig
ging. Mr.. Lee departed. The affair
was no longer spoken of lin the village.
1T is remarkably fortunate" was the
general opinion. Some OF those things
were hard to hide, we were afraid to
sell them in the city, and at any mo-
ment the soldiers were liable to come
and search our houses. But let them
try to find our dollari."
MarouSha was the Znarkara in the
village. the witch doctor, the charlatan,
but the only doctor-an old apple
wrinkled woman whose house children
feared to pass at night. She was the
stick that parents held over their chill
dren'S heads-"HuSt, or Marousha will
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DOLLARS AND DARK PEOPLE w. s.-
By Murray Dodge
Real Money Changed the Course of True Love.

get you," carried great weight until the
age of IL. But she was the authority
in time of sickness. It was she who
knew how long the baby should be kept
in the oven to cure ricketts,. She knew
how to ease childbirth. 1t was she who
compounded, with the knowledge the
black devil had given her, the paste
which stopped eye pains. And she
knew many things which the women
whispered about among themselves but
which the men never heard spoken of.
All was not we'll with her. A new
government hospital had opened 20
miles away. Many former patients went
there without consulting her at all, be-
cause it was free and there were new
kinds of medicines to try Others went
after taking her treatment and getting
worse, which happened frequently.
When they recovered, thanks to the
hospital, ugly stories passed through
the village about her. When, as hap
pened to a few, the hospital did little
good, and the sick came back to her.
that was her triumph. Then. too, there
were some operations which the hos
pital doctor would not do: here
Marousha had no competition. But she
spoke Ill of the hospital and her
prophecies about those who went there
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kept some of the timid from going.
She made great capital from the death
of old Alexevna. ,,' :.
"She went to the hospital. Her SON.
in-law had to. take. a day off from
harvest in the fields to drive her there.
There she died. And who was it that
kept her alive until the. day she died in
the hospital?"
" \ 4 X X
MAROUSHA had daughter. Taty-
Az ana. Why that old wretch should
have one Of the prettiest girls in the
village for child was problem. God
was good. She was strong, WELL and
worked all day in the house while her
mother went about her many affairs
When the young people of the village
went of singing In the evening, Taty-
ana always walked with Kolya Petro-
witch. 1t was the same on Sundays.
when they hunted mushrooms or klukvi
berries in the woods E# '
The village felt that MarouSha would
never permit her daughter to marry
Who would there be to do the house
work, to milk the cow, to clean out the
pots Marousha used for her devilish
messes? 1t was not as though she could
not afford dowry, and splendid one.
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Able Sufferers.

MANY educators have hell that
suffering is an evidence of
psychopathic traits in the mental
makeup. and that the child who slut
tiers Is handicapped in his educational
progress. But according to recent tests
made by DR.. Elizabeth d. Mcdowell
of Columbia University, the fault of
suffering in pupil carries with it no
leSsening of ability.
DR.. Mcdowell experimental with
7,l38 school children. making tests to
indicate the comparative standing in
Intelligence of Sufferers and non-stut-
terers. school achievement. emotional
adjustment. physical fitness. and va
riouS speech defects.
She found that the suffering pupil
has as high intellectual capacities as
the normal child. that his vocabulary
is just as good, and that physically he
is better off. II was even found that
a suffering child could rattle of as
many words in a three-minute period
as any one else.
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| Common report had 1t that she was
wealthy and kept her money buried in
q corner where the souls of children
stillborn gathered to guard it,
Another Summer passed. The harvest
was bad, but that was temporarily for
gotten in the arrival of the government.
Several young men came from the city
and said much about the results of the
revolution and how each village would
have its own government now. There
was some mysterious affair about voting.
At the close of the meeting one of the
young men from the city declared that
he had been elected president Of the
village Soviet. though no peasant knew
just how. and that he would stay and
govern them. Not that they cared
meetings to talk about the government
would help while away the long Winter.
There was bitter criticism when the
village found that the government,
meaning the young man from the city,
had power. There was peasant coun-
Gil, the Soviet, and he listened to them
for time and then did what he wanted
About raising the tax on the mill, for
example. They all opposed, but he did
it. Then the millowner raised his price
to the peasants The Soviet immedi-
ately met and voluntarily and with fury
raised his taxes again. There was much
confusion.
The young man from the city also
established police force, bringing two
other young men from the city. No
longer could wife go to the hospital
with bruises and get treatment until
she had explained how and why her
husband had beaten her. Then the po-
lice stepped in. there was court. and
there were fines. The government took
them. The government had power.
MarouSha, like all the peasants,
watched this new thing with suspicion.
but after a few weeks she announced
that the young man from the city was
to marry Tatyana. She had carefully
thought it out. He had demanded a
tremendous dowry. although he con-
coded that she was very pretty. and
they argued several days before reaching
an agreement Tatyana's marriage with
him would give Marousha unique place
IN the village, worth. eventually, all the
dowry cost. But he must wait until
Spring-she would then have sufficient
money.
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The isolated province of Chiriqui is
o be connected with the outside woric,
by new steamship service connecting
1t with Panama City.
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A ND what of Kolya Petrovitch? The

HldlLCI was dlSSliooCO IA CNCAI ACo
in the village and everywhere aroused
only stern disapproval. "Marousha. old
sukinadotch, is wise. She knows we
would have run her out of here in six
more months. Now she can call on the
government And what of Kolya Petro-
witch? They went walking together,
they went to church together, they were
as good as engaged.
Tatyana was heartbroken. She re-
fused to talk to the young man from
the city and she spent great deal of
the day crying. The housework suf-
fered and the mother fumed: I'm
grateful daughter. make match for
you better than any these village pigs
could dream of. Some day you can
leave the village and live in the city"
The only answer was. But I'd rather
live in the village. with Kolya." And
more tears followed
The Winter began early, with snow
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BY JOHN CLAGGETT PROCTOR.

the beginning Of the Dis
l. triot. of Columbia until almost
r recent days undoubtedly there
1 have been several places in ana
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TENANTS ROUTED
BY MIDNIGHT FIRE
Blaze of Undetermined Origin
Causes $4,000 Damage at
Cathedral Mansions.

Fire that brought hundreds Of scan
tily clad persons to the street shortly
after last midnight, destroyed the IN
terror and furnishings of an apartment
on the third floor of Cathedral Man.
| sions, center building, at 5000 Connec-
ticut avenue, causing damage approx
imating $1,000. Lieut.. Kenneth San
ford. U. S. NJ c., in whose apartment
the blaze started and to which it was
confined, was severely burned on the
hands while fighting the flames. The
origin is not known.
For an hour after the fire was ex-
tinguished apartment holders en- the
third and fourth floors were unable 10
re-enter the corridors because of the
dense smoke which filled the passage
ways Of the block long building.
The fire alarm was sent in by tele-
phone by the house operator under d.
rections of Mrs. Hilda Doyle, manager
of the building. Lieut. Sanford was in
nearby apartment when the fire was
discovered. He led an impromptu
brigade of tenants. armed with fire ex-
tlnguishers, in an unsuccessful attempt
to combat the blaze. He was burned
on the hands while attempting to save
valuables. Onlookers said.
When the firemcn arrived a hose line
was run through the building to the
third floor and the flames. which, by
that time, were leaping from a front
window, were soon brought under con-
troll.
Lieut. Sanford's hurts were cared for
by DR.. Bernard Cohen, druggist at the
Cathedral Mansions Pharmacy. He re-
fused hospital treatment
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BURKE ISSUES STATEMENT.

James Francis Burke, general counsel
of the Republican national committee,
denied in statement made public
today, that during the presidential
campaign last year he urged or sug-
gested" that Mrs. Mabel Walker Willie
brandt, former Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral in charge Of prohibition, discuss
any mans religion or any religious sub
ject."
Mr.. Burke's denial was made in reply
to statement by Mrs. Willebrandt i'll
one of her series of newspaper articles
covering her work as Assistant Attorney
General.
Ordinarily pay no attention. Mr..
Burke said, ito campaign canards, but
in the interest of truth and all con-
cerned I am compelled to deny that
during the last presidential campaign
l ever urged or suggested that Mrs.
Willebrandt discuss any mans religion
or any religious subject, nor did ever
insert or attempt to insert any religious
comment in any speech she made or
intended to make nor was any manu-
script OF hers containing any attack
on any mans religion or personal char
acter or raising the religious issue ever
submitted to or Scrutinized by me. nor
did any manuscript of her Springfield
tOhio) speech. which came to head
quarters contain any such expression
as go back to your pulpits and preach
this doctrine or anything akin to it.
1T Is needless to say that had Mrs.
Willebrandt or any other person sub
mitted to me a speech attacking my
own religion I would have resented
and repudiated it,"
Mrs. Willebrandt declared in the first
of her articles that the day before her
Springfield speech was delivered every
word Of 1t was carefully edited by Mr.
Burke.
Current News Features, sponsors of
the series, today issued statement re-
ferring to Burke's announcement. The
statement read:
1T was stated on behalf of Mrs. Will
lebrandt that the remark. Go back to
your pulpits and preach this doctrine
referred to in the statement by James
Francis Burke last night, was not in the
prepared manuscript Of the speech de-
livered nor did she deliver any such re-
mark extemporaneously. nor did any
press association which covered the
meeting report any such remark"
Mrs. Willebrandt has written that
Burke edited the speech in question,
which was delivered at Springfield.
Ohio. in the last campaign. Burke. in
his announcement. said the manuscript
Of the Springfield speech received at
Republican headquarters did not con-
tain the sentence and that he never had
inserted or attempted to insert ANY
religious comment" in Mrs. Willie
brandt's speeches.
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see in the speech any religious issue or
attack on anybody's religion. In Mr..
Burke's statement issued today there
is no denial that he knew about Mrs.
Withdrawals speeches or that the
Republican national committee was
without knowledge Of her purpose in
addressing the Methodist Conference
at Springfield, Ohio. The whole point
seems to be the attitude Of the Re-
publican national committee in con-
nection with the Interpretation placed
on the Willebrandt speech by the press
and Catholic critics later.
Mrs. Willebrandt insists that not
withstanding the storm of criticism
which was visited upon her when the
speech was delivered the Republican
national committee did not come to her
defense and admit responsibility. She
says that she suffered In silence during
the campaign, but that there Is no
reason now why the public should not
know the truth.
Many church organizations entered
the campaign and in the South partic-
ularly there were groups afhliated with
the Hoover leagues. but, while the Re-
publican national committee on every
occasion denounced any attack on
religion, 1t claimed no jurisdiction over
the many campaign organizations and
especially church bodies. which carried
on anti-Smith campaigns.
Mrs. Willebrandt resigned recently