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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25
CHINESE MARRIAGES
IN PARENTS HANDS
Cameron Johnson Lectures on
Customs of Celestial Empire
At St. Johns Church.

They take long chances in the matri-
moniaI game in China There's no such
thing as an affinity over there
Not only that but when young people
or old people either, for that matter
are 10 be married, they are not allowed
10 look into each others faces until
The ceremony has been concluded The
parents work out the matrimonial sal
Natlon-i1 II chances TO be salvation
and the principal actors have nothing
10 do with the case That sort OF thing
has worked satisfactorily In China for
thousands IF years
Cameron Johnson, OF Washington. and
an BTien-a traveller. told al about this
and other Chinese customs before
large crowd at St Johns Episcopal
Church last night
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25
AUTO SHOW PROVES
WORTHY OF PRAISE
Opening In Convention Hall
JuStiheS Enterprise of
Association,
Continued from First PaGeJ


ling exhibitors 70 make their signs
uniform. and along both sides the
cards are obIonE, while those in the
center are circular. bearing the names
Of the car and the firm
All the decorati0uE was under the
direct charge Of the show committee
ticaTIy the same, so no dealer has any
particular advantage
Surpasses All OtheEs-
Not only IN general attractjveuess, but
in the matter Of variety Of motor
vehicles the show far exceeds anything
u the sort ever attempted in the Capt.
tai In all there ara on exhibition 40
cars, exceeding IN value $4,000, and OF
these but oue-a delivery wagons OF
The commercial variety The collection
includes representation Of practically
the more advanced types Of pleasure
cars. electric, Easolene, and steam
ranging IN price from a small runabout
listed at S510 IN the limousine cars,
which are virtually moving palaces, and
may be purchased for the pGEtrv sum
Of $3.50
Then there are the accessories From
the modest wrench, which often proves
the most welcome friend a r1otorist
could possibly have. 10 the large brass
lamps. with powerful refectors- there IS
nothing lacking As one enthusiast put
L last night. you can come here. plank
down several hundred for q car 80 out.
smash part Of it up, then bring II hack
and have it all fixed up again"
Air Craft Displayed
An innovation this year IS q display
0f air craft IN some respects this
feature is one Of the best Of the whole
show. being OF especial interest To those
who know little Of machines In the
aer0uauricaI exhibit are included six
aeropIanes. two army balloons and a
dozen models Of EffderS and kites which
embOdy the ideas Of aerial navigation
as existing in the minds OF different in
VeutOrS.
There was no afternoon opening yes
teTdav. but during the remainder Of the
week there viii b. afternoon and even
ing sessions with Eood-IooIzinE. smiling,
but busy statesmen. ready 10 demon
strate 10 the casual visitor the superb
UTity Of their particular machines over
those Of their rivals
With every assortment OF machines
aerOs. and-wel. what's the use-just 30
and see for yourself
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

One who would like 10
have a machine - What Is
the difference between the
Maxwell rUnabuut and the
Packard limousine
sam LuJtreil-HaIf the
length OF the hall
CTnis Is q joke and II Is
rot on Johnny Th0maSN
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

While the aeroplaues were
being suspended yesterday
afternoon one Of the aviator
exhibitors kicked because his
machine was being hung too
high. Don't worry. old
chap" replied Manager John
son. that's as high as your
machine Will ever get.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

The bewildering array OF
cars got Fred Lincoln s goat
last night. He wandered
around among the different
look in his eyes and when
the show finally closed he
was still undecided what
make 70 buy He Is now ar
ranging 70 get a demo nstra-
tiOn in every car exhibited
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

Two interesting show visi-
tors last night were George
w. Wheeler and Harry
Wheeler. who drove down
from PiJtSburg in a Simplex
car. Welcome to our city,
George and Harry
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

something about desiring to
be surrounded by fat men,
ne must have hsd a vision
of the auto show With
Bank Roll Johnson, Cliff
Long, Lester Moore, and q
few others on the job, there
isn't much chance for the
lean BOYS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

Fred Vanderhoof had to
close the Philadelphia show
in order 10 let Brownie"
roadster that Is attracting so
much attention. Wonder how
much che latter had 70 buy
at the Bellevue-StratfOTd to
yet this carr
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

Anxious Female visitor
Could YOU please tell me
how many different acces-
Sorles there are on eNhiOl-
1ionc
Cliff Long after answer
ing many other questlons)-
Eight thousand and four
A r V.-You don't say
so.
Q. well, my dear lady,
II YOU don't believe IL You
can count them
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

TElosa triangle cigars OF
r .aus Maxwell. Of the HUd-
son factory. made a big hit
last night. The boys are hop
ing he will be around every
evening during show week
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

Don't ask Manager Johnson
to figure out che possible size
Of the atteT3Ilg crowds for
YOU He's awful busy, and,
If YOU bother him for this
information, he viii answer
in chaSte and carefully Sc
leCted language, 'Oh, 8 wan
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

Joe Stoddard - Have you
seen PierCe2
Mac dWaTd-E1erCe
WhO2
J. S.-Pierce Arrow dawl
TIaWt Haw-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

Dave Observation-Disclosures are
those aeroDlaDeS for2
chad Hunter - Why, my
dear Dave. they make peO-
people soar.
ID. H.-Ohf
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25
Improved DID, 80 Parlor - -

Improved DINING and PaTlOr Car SeTv-
ice on daylight train to PIttsburC. Bal
timOre & Ohio Railroad Commencing
TUESDAY January 18th, 2 Pullman
BrOIieT DT9EFlnE-rOOm. Sm0kinE-rOOm
PsTlor car VIII leave Union Station
W2SnlngJoL 1Or PirtSbUrg $40 a. m on
J ram a7-L7 arriving Pitts burg 50 D m.
serving hTe2 iZTaSr- luncheon and supper
CO the popular daylight train through
the picturesque mountain districts Of
VEuia.-AdvL
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

II the northern end Of the
hall were at the southern
eTd, Il would be easier for
people To get In.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

fSeorCe Williamson - Why
don't these autos run2
Elliott HouEh-GeOrges they
are tired
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

Is demonstrating a ma
chine q business or a dis
eaSeZ
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25

When Shakespeare. or
some other SCrIS-e. said
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25
SPECIFICATION IN BRIEF.

IS h. passenger Elmore. Price, $3.50 tvo-cyce
cylinders Ak
spark with dry battery and spark shaft
all
wheels; wheebase, lilo inches; gauge inches
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
ROW OVER PEARY PROOFS
congressman and Scientists Quarrel
over Date of the North
Pole Discovery.

Washington, D. C.-Proofs Of
Commander Pearys discovery of the
north pole has caused row in the
subcommittee of the house commit.
tee on naval affairs.
Two members of the National Geo
graphical society appeared before the
committee with copies of Mr.. Peary's
proofs to urge the granting of a suit,
able reward by congress to the ex'
plorer, but the committee declined to
receive them in confidence, with the
ultimate result that the committee
has made It known that unless the
Peary proofs are forthcoming to the
full satisfaction OF the committee
that every bill introduced for the
purpose of rewarding the north pole
discoverer will be pigeonholed.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
DEFICIT TO EXCEED
MACVEAGH'S FIGURES
II Present Rate is Maintained Short
age viii Go Beyond Estimated
$34,o75,62o

Washington, d. C.-Secretary Mac
Veagh's estimate of a deficiency
of $34,O75,62O in the ordinary receipts
of the government for the fiscal year
1910. made in his annual report in
December, will be increased by
several millions beyond that figure if
the rate kept up during the first eight
months of the year is maintained.
Thus far the deficiency in the
ordinary receipts during 1910 is $24,-
Goa $50; as against SGS, 169,0S0 during
the corresponding period of 1909.
Internal revenue receipts show an
increase of $12,OOO,OOO over 1909.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
TWO CHARGE MURDER IN FIRST
GREE IN CONNECTION
WITH DEATH OF swoPEs.
8 WOMEN As TYPHOID VICTIMS
Illness Among Members Of Family
and Servants Blamed Upon PLY.
Observation-Disclosures Cause
Surprise-Doetor is Calm.

Kansas City.-Doctor Bennett Clark
Thomas II. Swope, was indicted on
thirteen counts in eleven indictments
returned by the grand jury that has
been investigating the Swope mystery
for the last three weeks.
Two indictments charged firstde-
gree murder in connection with the
deaths of Colonel Swope and Chris
man Swope. Doctor Hyde is alleged
10 have given them strychnine tab
lets.
One Indictment accuses Doctor
Hyde OF manslaughter by bleeding
James Moss Hunton. a cousin OF Col
onel Swope, in a neglected. manner.
Perhaps the most surprising OF all
the indictments returned are the eight
In connection with the alleged poison
ing Of the Swope family and visitors
and attaches Of the Swope household.
Doctor Hyde is accused in these in
1ictments, which contain ten counts,
Of poisoning with typhoid germs with
intent TO murder Margaret Swope,
Stella Swope. Sarah Swope, Lucy Lee
SwUpe. Nora Bell Dickson, Georgia
f. Compton, Mildred Fox and LeOnora
Copridge, a negro girl. All these per-
sons were stricken with typhoid fever
while Doctor Hyde was attending the
Swope family.
Three counts are contained in the
Indictment charging the poisoning or
Miss Margaret Swope The first count
charges that he attempted TO poison
her by administering typhoid germs
/ On or about November %. The Sec
/ ond accuses him OF trying to poison
her by giving a hypodermic injection
/ on December IL In the third count
| he is alleged to have attempted poi.
/ soning by on December IS by giving
/ her strychnine and other poisOns.
Indictments in connection with the
| Illness of Misses Fox, Dickson, Comp
ION and the Copridge girl came as a
surprise Miss Fox was a visitor at
the Swope home during the illness Of
members Of the family. The Misses
! Dickson and Compton were employed
at the home as governess and seam
stress, respectively The COpridge
girl was a maid.
Capiases for the arrest of Doctor
Hyde will not be issued until Monday.
He is at present under a $4,000 bond
in connection with the case now pend
Ing against him in Justice Loars court
in independence, charging him with
the murder of Colonel Swope.
Doctor Hyde received news Of the
Indictments calmly
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
CHANGE THE VIBRATION
II Makes for Health.

A man tried leaving off meat, pota-
toes, coffee, and etc, and adopted a
breakfast of fruit, Grape-Nuts with
cream, some crisp toast and cup of
Postum.
His health began to improve at once
for the reason that a meat eater will
reach a place once in while where
his system seems to become clogged
and the machinery doesn't work
smoothly.
A change of this kind puts aside food
OF low nutritive value and takes up
food and drink of the highest value,
already partly digested and capable
OF being quickly changed into good,
rich blood and strong tissue.
A most valuable feature of Grape
Nuts is the natural phosphate of pot
ash grown in the grains from which II
is made. This is the element which
transforms albumen in the body into
the soft gray substance which fills
brain and nerve centers.
A few days use of Grape-Nuts will
give one degree of nervous strength
we'll worth the trial.
Look in pkgs for the little book, "The
Road to Wellville." There's a Reason,
Ever reEd the above letter9 A new
one appears from time 40 time. TheJ
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interNst.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
WATERWAY PROJECT
GETS BIG BOOST
Traffic on Great Lakes in Vessels
Drawing Fourteen Feet, and That
Depth is Attainable in River.

Washington, d. C.-That 40 per
cent of the great lakes traffic is car
ried in vessels drawing fourteen feet
or less; that this depth can be had in
the Mississippi below the mouth Of
the Illinois river, and that improve
mept of the Missouri river is entirely
feasible and is desirable, were points
emphasized in the hearings before the
senate committee on commerce.
Captain w. G. Hamilton, manager
of the Hines company of Chicago, a
concern doing large business in lake
shipping, said that all the vessels Of
his company draw between ten and
fourteen feet.
Colonel Bixby, chairman Of the Mis-
sissippi river commission indirsed the
provision of the house bill giving the
Missouri 100000
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
Not Appropriate,

Senator Beverage was replying at a
dinner in Washington to a defender OF
the sugar trust.
You remind me of a man at his
brothers funeral. This man bent over
the grave and closely watched the low.
ering of the coffin down into the clean
cut rectangular chamber prepared for
it. He heaved a sigh as the coffin
came to a rest, and said to the under
taker heartily:
Its the neatest fit ever saw in
my life. Come and have a drink on
the head of it. Sunday Magazine OF
the Cleveland Leader.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
WANTS MOB PROSECUTED
TEXAS GOVERNOR DEMANDS IN.
VEsTIGATIoN OF LYNcHINo.
Negroes Who Were Hurried to Safety
Have Been Placed in Jail
at Weatherford.

Dallas TTexas.-With scores Of
deputies on duty and two compa-
MES of militia ready to Join them,
Dallas IS quiet Friday, following the
most serious mob outbreak in the his
tory of Texas, when more than 1000
excited men took Allen Brooks, ne
gro, from the circuit court room,
where he was being tried for attack
ing little girl, and lynched him, then
overran the surrounding country in
an attempt to overtake Sheriff Led
better, who was fleeing from the mob
ridden city with three other negro
prisoners who had been in Jail.
1t is certain a special grand Jury
will be convened and indictments
sought against the mob leaders. Not
a man taking part in the lynching
wore a mask Gov Campbell at Aus
tin declared he would request the
calling of a grand jury to carry on an
investigation.
The men taken to Fort Worth from
the Dallas Jail were not considered
safe there, and last night Sheriff Led
better continued on to Weatherford
with them.
The court room was packed Thurs
day and when the attorney for Brooks
made a motion for a continuance OF
the case, intimating that he wished a
change of venue, there was a low
whistle, a rush toward the prisoners
box, and within 10 minutes Brooks
body was dangling from the end of a
rope in the center of town.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10

There is a new pavement, intended
to resist the strenuous wear and tear
OF automobiling. In England this
pavement is called Durax. 1t is of
three-inch irregular cubes of hard
stone laid in small segments Of circles.
The stones can be cut by machinery,
and are comparatively inexpensive.
On account of its cost they are laid
without grout. Germany is putting
down a good deal OF Durax pavement,
which fact should be sufficient to en-.
courage experiments with Durax in the
United States.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
FREES "HAND-CUFF" KING
C. A. conln, Who Escaped Prison.
Ordered Released by the Cal
ifornia Authorities.

Hot Springs, Arkansas.-C. A.
Conlin, the "handcuff king" arrested
On a requisition from Governor Gil
lette of California, following an in
dictment charging grand larceny in
connection with the operation Of a
"spook parlor" in that city, and who
broke out of the county Jail here, be-
ing shot in recapture, was ordered at
liberty by the California officers.
A message to Chief of Police Moore
stated that prosecuting witnesses
against Conlin had disappeared and
he was no longer wanted.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10

Choice Of occupation is mostly a
matter Of taste and aptitude. No hon
est calling is in itself much better or
worse than others. Every business is
considered the best by somebody,
while others declare II the worst Of
all. The question is not have you
chosen the best vocation, but rather
have you found out where you belong?
The right road will seem to stretch
out before you the distance of a life
time without a barrier; the wrong
road will quickly lead to blind wall,
or at best TO a very steep hill
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10

Seattle, Wash.-Death spread its
wings over the Pacific northwest
at the beginning of last week
and in the five days reaped harvest
unparalleled in the history of this
section Of the country. With an es-
timated death list of 275 person
% person injured and many more
missing, Saturday reports of the dis
asters continue to be received in
this city from the surrounding coun.
try.
Floods, avalanches, mine disasters
and train wrecks have contributed to
the list of terrible disasters, and
weather conditions are still such as to
threaten further fatalities.
Streams are already swollen far be.
yond their banks, while warm rains
and the dreaded Chinook winds, which
melt the SHOWS as if by magic, are in
creasing the danger hourly. The
streets of several interior towns are
under several inches of water, and in
some places have been washed away.
Wheat crops worth hundreds Of
thousands of dollars have been washed
out of the fields and the live stock
losses reported are exceptionally
heavy.
SnoWslides Are Numerous.
News from the mountainous district
in northern Washington is meager
but reports so far received have told
Of numerous snowslides and a large
number of fatalities. Following close.
ly upon the slides at Burke and Mace,
Idaho, in the Occur d'Alene mine dis
trict, where thirty-one persons are
known to have been killed and at least
eight injured, while many others are
missing, came reports of slides at
Carbonate Hill, Dorsey and Adair,
Idaho, which took as toll the lives OF
five men and caused the serious injury
of six others. At Oaksdale, Wash, OF
Monday, two men were drowned in q
flooded creek. Tuesday brought re
ports of the Wellington avalanche
which, 1t was officially announced
cost seventy-three lives.
Sixty-two persons lost their live
in a snowslide that buried two rotar!
snow plows and crews in Rogers
Pass, two miles east of Glacier, at
o'clock Saturday morning.
A small slide occurred at 6 O'Clock
Friday evening and the men wert
clearing the line when the second av
alanche swept down the mountain
and engulfed both CREWS. Details o
the disaster are lacking. Rescue par
ties have been sent from Revelstoke
The Great Northern is investigat
ing report that 6 laborers were over
whelmed at Cascade by a slide.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
PANAMA PRESIDENT DEAD
Jose Domingo de obaIdIa suecumbs 70
Attack Of Heart Stroke He suf-
fered Five Days Ago.

Panama.-Jose Domingo de Obaldia,
president Of Panama, died of heart
disease.
He had been sick only since last Fri
day.
President Obaldia was elected on
Jluy IL, 1908. He had acted before as
the chief executive during the absence
of President Manador. He was former
ly minister to the United States.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
ITALIANS SHOOT SLEUTHS
Accosted by Two Officers, Three
Foreigners Begin a Revolver
sattle-One May Die.

Chicago, Fitzpatrick ]. Quinn
and John w. Wren, city detectives,
were shot down in a revolver battle
during which over forty shots were ex.
changed with three Italians. 1t is
feared Wren will die. he shooting &C.
Cured in the heart of the italian dis
trict, following the accosting of the
three as suspicious characters by the
police.
Two suspects were arrested. One
of these, Girolamo Moriori, was par
TALLY identified. The other, Gustavo
Morici, believed to bea relative of the
first man, was arrested and a long
stiletto was found in his pocket.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
PLANS A NEW REPUBLIC
RevoIutionists Will Attempt to Split
Nicaragua, Unless the United
States lnterVenes.

Bluefields, MISUNDERSTANDING =
conference with his cabinet, Gen.
Estrada announced that unless Wash
ington intervenes an attempt will be
made to organize a new republic in
the eastern section of Nicaragua and
that the Atlantic Coast Nicaraguans
will spend their last cent and sacrifice
the last drop of blood in opposition to
the advance Of Gen. Vasquez from
Managua.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10

About the time that the first bad
season strikes a young farmer, the
crops are poor, the mortgage looks
big and the work harder than ever;
then IS the time that the dog-at-root
kind OF man hangs to It and wins. But
the gutter gives up just when, per
haps, turn for the better is at hand.
He win try something else. But every
business has fits bad seasons and its
discouraging features, which bear
harder upon the beginner than upon
the man Of experience and capital
Brace up. work hard. think harder and
push through.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
No Aston Reconciliation,

White Plains, N. VA report
that Colonel John Jacob Aston and
his beautiful wife, Mrs. Ava Willing
Aston, would become reconciled and
that the divorce of the latter would
never become effective, was denied
by her attorney.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
CHIEFS BLEW OUT THE GAS
Chippewa Indians, One Nearly 100
Years Old, Die In Washington
Lodging House.

Washington, Mar. 1.-Two Chip
pewa Indian chiefs who came to
Washington from Orr, Mimi, in COM
pany with two other chiefs and an
Indian missionary interpreter to ask
congress for additional land for the
Bots Forte Indian reservation, were
asphyxiated by Illuminating gas in
their lodging house.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10

The burning of the palace of Chera.
gan in Constantinople, in which the
national parliament held sessions,
takes on the aspect of a calamity,
since the direct property loss involved
Is estimated at $16,OOO,OOO, while the
destruction of archives and other be-
lonSings adds vastly to the deplorable
consequences. The building was one
Of the SHOW places" of the Turkish
capital and renowned for its beauty
and elegance.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
Doctor Guilty Of Manslaughter

Detroit, Mich.-The jury in the
trial of DR.. George A. Fritsch, charged
with manslaughter in connection with
the death OF Maybslle Millman, whose
mutilated body was found in Ecorse
creek, found him guilty.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
Bank Teller confesses.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Confessing to
the embezzlement of 100000, accord.
ing to the police, Thomas L. Larsen,
receiving teller of the Market branch
Of the First National Bank of Cam
den, surrendered Saturday at detect
i've headquarters.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
MOT WlIIlna 10 Commit hlmself.

The teacher had called upon Fred
die Brown to give an illustration of
the proper manner in which to COM
pare the adjective clean"
Mother is Clean" said he faltering-
ly, father is-cleaner-" Here he
paused.
And" prompted the teacher.
Freddie was still silent and very
thoughtful
Haven't you some other relative?"
asked the teacher, smiling.
"Oh, yes" replied Freddie, there's
auntie--but amt sure about her!"
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
unoIe Sam 70 RuY Land.

Washington, D. C.-The senate
has passed bill authorizing the ex-
penditure Of $1O,OOO.OOO for the pur-
chase of land north of Pennsylvania
avenue as sites for public buildings.
There was no opposition.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-03-10
Mln claim Part Of swope Estate.

Parkersbuhg, West Va.-Elmer Q.
Swope, of this city, who announced
a few days ago that he was
a son of Col Thomas H. Swope, the
millionaire Kansas City philanthro-
pist, whose death is being investigat-
ed by a special grand jury, announced
Friday that he is preparing to go to
Kansas City to offer proof of his par
entage and make claim for share in
the estate.