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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-13
DENIES REPORT.
Untermyer Says He Has Not Bought
Utah Copper.

New York, December 12.-Samuel I'm
termyer, who has been credited with con-
Quoting negotiations for the proposed
merger of great copper interests as coun-
sci for the Boston Consolidated Copper
company and others, said tonight:
There is no basis for the report that
the purchase by the Utah Copper COM
pany of the property of the Boston Con-
solidated Copper company or its reported
merger with the Nevada Copper COM
pany, is part of general merger of cop
per properties. 1t has no relation to any
such plan, II there be such q plan.
'.The properties of the Utah and Bos-
ton companies ad1oin one another. This
negotiation to put them together has
been under way for three years.
Although 1t is expected that the an
nual copper production of the enlarged
company will be about 200.000,000 pounds.
that represents less than 10 per cent of
the domestic production without taking
into account the large foreign output
with which the company must compete"
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Taft Leaves Washington.

Washington, December 12.-President
Taft will leave tomorrow morning for
New York, where he will be speaker at
the diamond jubilee of the Methodist
Episcopal church. In the presidential
party will be Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Laugh
lin, her sister, and Capt. Archibald Butt.
While in New York the President and
members of his party will be the guests
OF his brother. Henry Taft. Tuesday
morning the President will go 10 New
Haven to attend a meeting of the board
of trustees of YALE Of which he is a
member. He will leave New Haven at
midnight returning to washington
wednesday.
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ADMITS KILLING.
Fatal Shooting Affair Occurs Near
Centre.

Centre. December 12.-(Special. Jim
Cannady. the negro who shot and killed
Alonzo Dorset at Twin Ferry few
miles from here, yesterday evening, has
been placed in jail at Gadsden.
The shooting followed an alteration be-
tween the two men over trivial mat
ter. Cannady fred the first shot and
continued to fire as his victim turned and
fled toward his home Dorsetts body Was
found lying in the public road next morn
Ing.
Cannady admits the shooting but claims
nalf-dofO0DA
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EIGHT INJURED.
Eastbound Express From Decatur De-
rallied at Exeter.

Lincoln, Neb., December 12.-The Dem
yer eastbound express on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad was de-
rallied at Exeter, 50 miles west of Lin
coin, today. Two passenger cars. the en-
gine baggage car and mail car left tho
track and toppled on their Sides Eight
passengers were injured. only one severe
ly. A. r. Gilman, a travelling engineer.
had his head badly cut and was bruised
about the body. C. s. Hoover. q travelling
man OF Sandusky, o.. suffered cuts and
bruises. The injuries of the others were
slight.
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CLAIMS INVENTION OF
WONDERFUL AEROPLANE

Worcester. Mass, December ia re-
,markable assertion of the practicability
of aviation is embodied in the announce
ment here today of Wallace Tillinghast,
vire president of Worcester manutae-
turing company, who claims to have Sc
cretly invented, built and tested an aero
plane capable of carrying three passen-
gers and in which he says he has flown
from Worcester to New York, thence to
Boston and then back, a distance of 800
miles A speed of 100 miles an hour was
attained at times, he declares
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NEGOTIATIONS with Vatican.

Madrid, December n-The government
is about to reopen negotiations with the
Vatican for the reform OF the concordat
of 1851, which is one Of the principal
articles of the liberal programme. This
had already been unsuccessfully attempt
ed by previous liberal ministries. The
sought principally affect the
clauses relating to liberty OF conscience
and Limitation Of religious orderA
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The test was made on September at
night, according to Mr.. TIllinghast, who
says he circled the Statue of Liberty at
an elevation of 1000 feet and was seen
on the return trip b. a coast guard IN
Long Island. when dying low, the fact
being recognized and recorded in the
newspapers at the time.
Mr.. Tillinghast says the machine is a
monoplane. Weighing 1850 pounds, equip
ped with a 12O-horsepower gasoline en-
gine He refuses to tell where the ma
chine is at present. but says he will
bring 1t to Worcester in February for a
public demonstration.
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Charged with InfanticIde.

Knoxville. December 12.-W. ]. Alben
police tonight and are held to await Of
ficers from Admission. Ala. They are
charged with having destroyed an infant
left in their care by w. B. King. They
claim that the child died of suffocation.
The pair have been hunted for several
weeks hy The Alabama authorittsA
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Peru Borrowing Money.

Lima, Peru, December 1.-THE Peruvian
finance minister, DR.. Carlos Forero, has
arranged for a loan in France of $s.O0o.o 900.
The loan will be issued at "a and will
draw interest It 81 per cent
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Quiet Prevails at Manssus.

Managua. Nicaragua, December 12.--
Outwardly Managua is peaceful. There
have been no military preparations and
the people appear unconcerned. Band
concerts are given daily on the plaza.
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ordering it. It certainly helped me from the start. l have been troubled with dyspepsia more or less for sixty years and have taken many remedies, but Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin has done more for me than all others. I am an old minister. aged 79.-Rev. A. J. Fletcher, Rutherford, Tenn.
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winter When a farmer sold his crops and wanted to keep the money over till spring he would dig pit feet deep and or more feet square, and at the first frost would put down a layer of cash and sprinkle earth and water over it. By morning it would be frozen stiff. The next night he would put down another layer of coins with mud on top This would freeze and so he would go until he had a block of frozen earth as hard as ice. filled with these coins at a thou sand to the dollar The work was done secretly and the result was such that it would take days to recover the coins.
 l am surprised at the enormous interest which the Coreans are paying. Loans on good security are made at from to 5 per cent month, and the interruptions Japanese money lenders are getting much more. It is only fair to say that the natives do likewise. A common way of leaning on property is to hand over the deed to the house or lot in case the loan is not paid and as, until now, there have been no means of registration, this means the transfer of the property. The Japan ese should protect the Coreans as to such transactions. If they do not all the lands and houses of the country will soon go into the hands of the former. The Co., reans are great borrowers and they can not resist the money temptation. They do not think of pay day until it comes, and as a result are not able to meet their obligations.
 Indeed it is up to the Japanese gov ernment to protect the Coreans from one class of its subjects who are now over running this country. The Coreans are
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nation of children. They have been so ground down In the past that they have not learned to hustle and to look out for themselves. They are wonderfully gentle and trusting, and the shrewd Japanese can easily take advantage of them. He is doing so today, notwithstanding the government tries to prevent it, and the authorities should put on the screws and punish severely all such offenses. Prince Ito has tried to do this, even to the ex- tent of sending back laree number of the Japanese who have come here, say ing that they were not fit to be in the country
 It is this element that knocks the Co., rean about. cheats him out of his wages, and if possible, by means of loans, takes his houses and lands. It is the low class element among the soldiers, scattered in small bands over the country away from their superior officers, which is leading to the killing of many innocent Coreans under the name of insurgents; and which, if the government does not pursue a more rigid policy, Is likely to lose Japan its reputation as having the best, the kndest, the most refined and the most humane soldiers on earth Indeed, it seems to me that Japan has in this low class element which has come to Corea a problem far more serious than its peo- pie think If Prince Ito could transmit to the Japanese in Corea the same feeling of brotherly love and charity which he and the better class Japanese have they would soon make the Coreans the strong friends of Japan and build them up an independent but powerful element for good in the Japanese empire.
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How Capital Of Corea Is Changing
 Under Japanese Rule
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pie will thus be taught the various meth ods of manufacture and sale,
 Signal Fires Vs. Electricity.
 As we came into Seoul that night we could see the signal fires blazing on the mountains which surround the city, and were told that they were the last of the long series of watch fires built upon the hills of the other parts of Corea to notify. the King that the country was quiet and all was at peace. Today there are watch fires no longer, but in their place Corea has it's wireless telegraph stations and the capital Is covered with telephone wires. One of the oldest buildings of the palace, in which the Emperor now lives, has been turned into telephone booth, and Japanese hello girls sit there and take messages from all parts of the city. There are telegraph wires to every large village, with more than 2000 miles of line open, and cables across to Japan.
 Electric Lights and Street Cars.
 The old Seoul was pitch dark at night. The laws were that the ordinary man should not go about after dark, only off cals and foreigners and their servants being permitted to do so. Women were never seen on the streets in the daytime, and the night was supposed to be their time for calling. When we went out we took the keso of the legation to carry our lantern, and this consisted of a frame NOTks iOluliS d tdnult NllH d Ieut Nulle and blue gauge cloth thrown over 1t. The Seoul of today Is fairly well lighted. Many of the stores keep open during the evening. and most of the houses have an oil lamp or an electric light globe at their front gate. Looking down the wide maiN streets of the city makes one think of one of the larger towns of our country, for the lights alone are to be seen, and the low one-story buildings are lost in the darkness
 Seoul has now an electric car line run by Americans. It was put in long be- fore the Japanese took hold of the gov ernment, and about half of the stock be- longs to the retired Emperor, who has refused to sell out to the Japanese cap italists. The Coreans are now patroniz ing the road. At first they said 1t was magic, and d mob destroyed some of the cars. Their theory was that the line would prevent the spirits giving them rain. They said the cars were boats, and
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has lost money in taking the Corean nickels at half rate and that the counter feits they have had to accept have amounted to millions. They nave all ready exchanged about 100000 yen of them, the average nichel being worth something like three-fittieths of it's value instead of the twenty -fiftieths at which it Is taken.
 Modern Banking System.
 MT. Arai has organized a banking sys- tenn for Corea. The central treasury is now the Dai Ichi bank and there are in addition industrial banks which are loan ing money against land to the farmers. They make long loans at P and 15 per cent a year, which are considered espe- cially low rates for Corea. These indus trial banks have savings departments connected with them, and there are also postof'ice savings bankS which have more than 1400,000 yen on deposit Many Coreans are putting their money into these banks, although the interest is com paratively low.
 In addition to this the government is now organizing system of small capi- tai associations. These will have a cen tral head, with about 100 branches, and will issue small loans to petty farmers. The loans will be as low as $25. and may be secured by crops and chattel mort gages. All these things will tend to ere ate thrift among the Coreans, which heretofore has been impossible on ac- count of the squeezing and insecurity of all money.
 Indeed, one of the common Corean banks of the past has been old Mother Earth, and this especially so during the
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Seoul, Corea, 1909.

Seoul, corea. 1909. the Hermit Kingdom by the neck,
 are doing in Corea. They have taken \ WANT to tell you what the Japanese and are shaking its dry bones into ac- tion. They are establishing courts abol- ishiHg squeezing and recognizing the finances. They propose to build roads, to reforest the mountains, to open the mines and to turn this half barren coun- try into a garden All these things are in their beginnings. but start has been made and signs of progress are every where to be seen.
 The New City of Seoul.
 The capital. Seoul, is fast becoming a new city. When l came here 20 years ago the trip from the seaport, Chemulpo, took over F hours and l had to have pony and eight men to bring myself and wife to the walls. ] rode the pony and the madame came in a chair borne on the shoulders of four coolies. with a relay of four others to help them Toward the end of the journey we had to push on for fear we might not get to Seoul before the gates closed. The city is surrounded by a massive wall nine miles in length and 30 feet high. At that time this wall was entered only by gates, and these were closed at night by heavy doors plated with iron, which were not opened until the next day. We got in just in time to see the gates close. There was no hotel, and we had to be met by the soldiers of our legation, and were quar- tered there during our stay.
 The city still has it's walls, but the gates now stand open day and night. and an electric street car line runs through two of them and on out into the country. An electric light globe prevents the clos ing of the one which we entered, and an- other gate has proved too small to &C., commodate the traffic and has been cut out by the Japanese wide roads being made through the walls on each side. The gate itself, which is a temple-lile structure with a double roof of heavy tiles, has been faced with stone; and it Is now proposed to put a commercial mu- scum in the soldiers guardroom above 1t, In that old gate all the industries of the new Corea will be shown side by side with those of other nations, and the peo-
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Ideal | Laxative For The Old Folks

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MEDICAL ADVICE

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THEY WERE CURED BY DR. CALD-
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I received a sample bottle of Dr. Cald- wells Syrup Pepsin, and l can see now that I made no mistake In
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 feel 1t duty to write you that Syrup Pepsin has done good than anything took have felt that my time was at an end and up all hopes but when take the Syrup Pepsin then begin to feel like living again. 63 od.-Esther Pine Marion. Ind
 received your sample bottle and seemed to help me Then got 50 cent bottle from our druggist, ana It works like charm l am glad I found It. have been troubled with stomach trouble and constipation for 81 old and in good health.-Mrs John Bennison Kewanee, III.
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New-York tribune., 1909-10-24
SPAIN NEARER PEACE.
France Pleased - Tibune's s
; Editorial 4pwOUed.
LBy French Gable to The Tribune.

LBy French Gable TO The Tribunel
Paris, Oct. 23.-All probability of fur
ther friction between France and Spain
is removed by Senior Moret's happy
choice of his new Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Senior Perez Caballero, who, as
the Spanish delegate at Algeciras,
worked cordially with his French col
league, NJ Revolt. whom he now finds
French Ambassador at Madrid. Senior
Caballero and NJ. Pichon have, moreover.
met on several occasions and are per-
sopal friends In fact no Spanish states
man could have been selected who could
give greater satisfaction to France than
the newly appointed Spanish Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
The editorial published by The New
York Tribune referring to the possibility
of Senior Moret being able to accomplish
i'll Spain what WaIdeck- Rousseau did in
France appears in French to-day in the
"Matin" and other prominent Paris pa
pers, with comments indicating that the
French public feeling is that Senior Moret
will succeed in doing so. The popular
sentiment toward King Alfonso is now
modified to certain extent, ana Is be-
coming less hostile. c. l. B.
New-York tribune., 1909-10-24
LOUIS N. PARKER SAILS.
English Dramatist Gives His impress
sions Of the American Stage.

Louis Napoleon Parker. the English dram
atst, sailed for England yesterday, after
a short visit in this country, most of which
was spent in Boston Mr.. Parker had a
good word for the American drama, and
for Miss Margaret Anglin and Miss Viola
Allen in particular. He praised Augustus
Thomas's Harvest Moon" now playing at
the Garrick; The Fourth Estate" in it's
third week at Wallack's, and The Awaken
ing of Helena Richie" Miss AngIin's play
at the Savoy.
Miss Anglin and Miss Allen" he said,
are splendid. They are original. 1 wish
they would como TO play in London.
II admire the way that your dramatists
depict phases of your own life-the life of
to-day. AS for the acting a great
many of your stars are moving In remote
orbits. where l have been unable to reach
them"
Mr.. Parker expressed his contempt for
the person who stays ten days or so I'm a
country and then goes home to write a book
about it. He bade goodby to a splendid
climate, an hospitable people and city of
towering palaces"
New-York tribune., 1909-10-24
RUSSIA WOULD SELL
M4NCHURIAN ROADS.
Prince Ito to Meet Russian
Minister of Finance.

81 Petersburg, oct. 23-Russian ana
foreign diplomatic circles ascrloe great
,mnortance to the meeting at Harbln on
October 26 Of M. Kokovsoff, the Russian
Minister of Finance. and Prince lto'
nresident of the Privy Council OF Japan
although the exact motives impellihs
Janan to propose the conference are not
known.
The subjects to be discussed we're not
suggested in the Japanese overtures, and
Nj. Kokovsoff, in accepting the invitation
to meet Prince Ito, barred political ques-
tions. He said that he was competent
to discuss only financial and technical
subjects, these covering the status of the
Manchurian railroads.
Russian statesmen are seriously con-
sidering the sale of the Russian railroad
interests in that territory. The Japan
csc proposal to purchase the portion OF
the railroads remaining in Russia's
hands might be entertained by Russia,
owing 10 international complications,
but although it is understood that Japan
is ready to make tangible offers the
Russian government is disposed to look
with favor on a proposition for the sale
of the Manchurian lines. either TO China,
financed by an international syndicate
or to such a syndicate direct.
1t is authoritatively stated that over
lures for the purchase of the lines were
made during the summer by group OF
fnanciers, with which r. H. Hartman
was connected, but these have lapsed
since Mr. Harriman's death. The rail-
roads which may be sold include both
the main line and the southern branch
from Harbin to Port Arthur.
The Russian title runs for about thir-
ty years, after which 1t passes to
China. Only China's lack of finances
prevented earlier negotiations for the
transfer of the title, before it's date Of
expiration, both Russia and China hav-
ing agreed to this in principle.
The placing of the North Manchurian
railroad system under international finan-
cial control would have far-reaching po-
liticaI consequences, as it would virtual
Iy create a buffer state to safeguard the
political integrity of Manchuria until
China is strong enough to assert her
self.
The meeting at Harbin was arranged
when NJ. KokoVsoff was unable to ac-
cept an invitation to go to Japan.