The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-10
NOUN TAIN BEARS
 4 LITTLE MOUSE KaiSer'S BenevoIence to Ger
 many's Unemployed IA WIDOWS STRANGE ACT She Murders Her Guest With An AK and Forgets All About It Till Re-
 minded of It By the Arrest
 ing Officer.
A WIDOWS STRANGE ACT
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

Berlin, May 9.-When the problem arose of how to provide work for the army of suffering unemployed men in Berlin which has been greater than ever this winter the Kaiser recommended the municipal authorities to begin some public work and engage all who applied. AS usual. the Kaisers wish was law and 750O00 marks were set aside to pay the wages of the thousands wiling to work, but unable to get employment.
 This was four months ago and now with the arrival of spring the mountain has given birth to a mouse. The Sralauer Anger is to be evened with the ground and the contractor who i5 to do the work for the city announces that he will give 1 work to 50 men at wages of three and half marks a day. The number of men may later be increased to 100
 The socialist press is making many sar- castle remarks at the paternal way in which the city authorities look after the needs of the unemployed, and what the 1 Kaiser's feelings are may only be imag , ined, but no one has heard any rumors of any city officials wno are to be deco rated for their humanitarian efforts.
 From Grosswardein comes the news that a former lieutenant of huzzars, Count Ed mund Foltody, an old man of 76 has been murdered by his landlady, the widow Szilagyi.
 i When one of the sons of the landlady opened the door to the old officers room ! the other morning he saw Count Ed mund's body seated in chair. His skull ! had been split in two by blows from an axe, which was later found in the kitchen.
 The suspicion immedia ,ely fell upon the ] widow, and when the police came to ar rest her she calmly walked up to the body and cried: Look I killed this man. He was sitting with me in the kitchen this morning reading his paper. My eyes caught sight of the axe and something gave me the irresistible idea of killing him. hit him three times and when he was dead l picked him up and carried him into his own room- I had really for ! gotten all about it, put now l remem- | ber.'
 The Kaiser has conferred the life-saving medal of the first class on Miss Grace Davenport of Fairmont for gallantry in saving life within his empire.
 i She was walking along the banks of the Oder while staying at Carlsruhe, in Si- lesia, last June. when one of her party. young girl, slipped and fell into the 1 river. Miss Davenport was only just talk l ing an elementary course in swimming lessons, but she plunged Into the water and succeeded in saving the life of her companion by keeping her afoat until boat was sent to their rescue. The King ! had granted Miss Davenport permission to wear the medal counterpart of which was one of the most prized possessions of | Prince Bismarck.
 A Dane. MT. Ellehammer of Copen- hagen, has invented a flying machine ! which is far superior to any hitherto l shown, and the German government is l anxious to buy the invention before any ! other power gets hold of it, because of it's adaptability to military purposes.
 The Ellehammer flying machine has 1 the advantage over the Farman machine | that it keeps 1t in a horizontal position. , While Farman's machine weighs about HOO pounds, the Ellehammer machine weighs only 70. and when folded together takes up no more room than automo- 1 bile. It has a motor of 34-horsepowor
 and has made speed of 15 miles an hour
 against the wind.
 That this is indeed a time when even
 the most oppressed, and formerly so pa-
 tient, demand their rights has never been
 shown more clearly than in the petition
 which the Mohammedan women of Oren-
 burg, Russia, sent to the men represent
 ing them in the douma. The wording of
 the petition has just become public. It
 reads in part:
 "The chariat prescribes that women
 have the right to study. to travel, to pray
 in the mosques to make pilg.images to
 Mecca, to engage In all branches of trade,
 to sign bills of exchange, and to be sis
 ters of charity.
 "Mussulman women exercise this right
 in Arabia and other countries where they ! doI h1fil
 mosques and organized charitable institu-
 tions.
 Many have written books, and among
 them are several famous authors and
 poets
 "Our prophets wife accompanied him
 to the wars and studied science and for
 elgn writers
 Now our husbands prevent us even from studying our own religion. We
 are not allowed to read religious books. Our Iman servants-Mullahs-wh are
 proud of their designation are conniving
 with Black Hundred journalists against
 our emancipation. They wish us to re-
 main for ever in ignorance.
 Our husbands deprive of liberty
 and keep us confined within four walls. They take unto themselves women who l please them. and have many wives. 'As for us, we are condemned to live in a state of continual oppression, and in the majority of cases to die perIna- ture death from pulmonary or other causes.
 | ''Mussuman deputies, It is your duty | to demand all rights for Mussulman wom- l en- You must obtain laws which vii safeguard us from the arbitrariness of oui husband despots, from oppression anc l martyrdonl. Yes, martyrdom . "We are the mothers of the people the companions of men. The education nf fha a n I hands If men do not change their at q titude toward us, let them know thai the day will come when they too will bt slaves, and then the whole Mussulmar race will perish"
 Councillor of State Rudolf Martin whose books on the United States and Germany created such a sensation, has again published volume which is 8 thorn in the flesh of the ruling monarchs and princes with whom Germany is af- ficted.
 'When we are in financial difficulties here in Germany" the councillor says, "it is because we maintain and support o2 ruling monarchs and the aggregate amount of the respective civil lists is an enormous financial burden on the coun- try. Owing to the fact that the in- dividual states of the empire maintain their own separate governments Germany possesses more than a hundred cabinet ministers and a corresponding proportion of government officials of lower grades, 1 bair mai int ipVOlVaS a bRa