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The Washington times., 1910-05-03
TELESCOPE MARKET
DOOMED BY COMET
Stock of Glasses Almost
Exhausted By New
York Demand.

NEW YORK. May 3.-HaHey's comet
mas all the telescope and marine and
field glass business booming at SUCH
a rate as that trade has not enjoyed
in years. one Of the best-known deal
ers said today that the business OF
last week was one OF the largest in
years, and that this week Is expected
70 be even better
All classes Of people, he said, have
become astronomers. and. as rule,
they are not buying small cheap in
struments, but frst-class telescopes
that sell from $50 10 $3.50.
The telescopes most popular with
the amateur astronomers are the
French and the English makes. Both
are modern in every particular, and
through them HalIey's comet is a
sight of rare beauty Both are mount
ed on tripods and fitted with splendid
lenses The English instrument is the
neatest- the barrel being Of polished
brass The French telescope IS Gov
cred with white leather.
The business in marine. field. night.
and even opera glasses is booming as
II has not doomed in years These
may be bought from a few dollars I'D.
and persons who cannot afford 70 bug
a telescope are buying these smaller
instruments.
Pawn shops are among the places
where the cheaper glasses or small tele-
scopes are being sold in great quantities.
One pawn shop the other day had a
window almost full Of glasses ranging
in price from 81 to SO Today all are
sold Many bargains are TO be had IN
these pawn shops If one is able TO tell
a good one when he sees It
Downtown a hardware store had a
telescope for sale at 81. This was not
a second hand affair. but one manufac-
tured expressly for the comet trade
The barrel Is made Of paSteboaTd, in
sections, and. according 20 the label on
the box. the comet viii present q beau
tift.I picture when viewed through It
II was said BY a Broadway peddlerr
who sells whatever happens 70 be the
fad, that this week viii witness the
placing on the market OF many novelties
as a result Of the appearance Of the
comet Pamphlets giving the history Of
the comet, astronomical charts show
ing its exact position in the heavens
each night. prints Of Old pictures made
Of the comet during the previous visits,
etc are some Of the things by which
the man who sells his wares from the
curb Is expecting 10 reap q harvest as
q result Of the coming Of Haley s
comet
The Washington times., 1910-05-03
BUNCOED FARMER
WORKS AS WAITER
Loses His Money on Fraud
ulent 'Inebriate Cure"
Preparation.

PORTLAND. Ore. May 3-On a day
that he viii always recall with re-
gret-FebTuary 2-Gustave SChaefer.
OF South Dakota came 10 Portland
with $500 In cash, vas buncoed out
OF the money through making a pay
menJ on The purchase OF a fake lag
cure preparation and induced TO mortE-
age his South Dakota farm for the bal
ance OF the purchase price. and is now
eking out a pTecarious living as a
waiter at Bowie's five-ceut cOfTee house.
5 North Third street
Schaener- whose present abode is in
cheap lodgings, IS not q skilled waiter.
ms hands being more used 20 the pIOw
and the axe than handling delicate
crOckery, but during the MONDAY rush
and supper hours he is allowed 10 don
the white apron and hang a fowl over
MS arm He brushes the crumbs clear
across the room when his muscular arm
sweeps the towel across the lunch COun-
ter, but he is anxious 10 learn because
the position appeared to be the only one
available with his LIES earning all gone
At the Grand Central Hotel resides
Inward Keys, the siEty-One-ye ar-Old
steeTer,' who confessed TO the city de-
tecClveS he had received, a portion Of
the $500 from which Schaeffer had been
separated by the '5firn-fiam' game and
mat George Shurlan was the principal
scheme-- Keys was arrested by Detec-
charge other than VaETanCy having been
made against him he was released He
Is not working anywhere but sits In one
Of the comfortable chairs in the lobby
Of the New Grand Central Offering his
condolences TO Schaeffer-
The Washington times., 1910-05-03

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isfaction- But II YOU DO not wish to do
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and q treatment Of the beauty doctors
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For sale in washington by O'DonneU
Drug Co. and Heny Evans
The Washington times., 1910-05-03
SPECIAL SIZE RUGS

Price Price.
Regular Sale
I Ardahan Rug, 1f.3xf2.O $4,000 $3.50
l Arabian Rug, II.3x14.3 $500 1850
1 Wilton Rug, 1O.6x12 49,. $500 1900
Administer Rug. 1O.6115.9 5000 1000
1 Tapestry Brussels, 1916
x12.6. ..... 5000 $500
1 Body Brussels, IO.6x12.O. $500 5000
1 Tapestry Brussels, 11.3
x15.O- Observation-Disclosures. 5000 $500
Wilton, 1I.I0x13.6. 49,. $500 1900
And a number of others.
Full line of Mattines by the roll
S5.25, $500, $3.50, $500, S9.25, $1,000,
s11.OO, $3.50, and S14.OO per roll.
The Washington times., 1910-05-03
A GOOD REASON.

Hamlar-Why in the dickens have you
got that string tied around your tooth
ABsente-To remind me that I must
have the tooth removed.
Hamlar-But goodness raciouss Why
don't you go as ordinary people, and
have the string tied around your fngsr2
Absente (stffiyD-Because. sir. I don Z
care to have my finger removed--Chf-
cago News.
The Washington times., 1910-05-03
FREAKS CHARGED TO COMET

ley's comet is being blamed for the
four freaks that recently were born
near here The greatest Of al is a
chicken with four less, Two, however,
cannot be used The chicken IS doing
nicely. A Jersey calf was born near
here without a tail The same Is re-
ported Of a kitten near Cherry Grove
At Bridgewater. a three-legged chicken
was born. II lived but a few hours
The Washington times., 1910-05-03
ELECTIONS PoSTPONED-

HAVANA, May s.-The house OF rep
resentatives has passed a bill postpon-
ing the municipal elections from July 70
December. when they viii be held con-
currently with the Congressional cleo
tons The postponing Of the municipal
elections indicates that the government;
is extremely reluctant to hold elections
under existing political conditions.
The Washington times., 1910-05-03
USEFUL HINTS TO HOUSE.
KEEPERS

THE JAP-A-LAC Model Floor Grain
inE' Process solves the problem Of What
shall be done with old Carpeted floors to
make them attractive and sanitary A
painter can do the work al little expense.
or you can do II yourself II you prefer.
The Washington times., 1910-05-03
BOY DlEs OF HOOKWORM.

hookworm has claimed its first victim
here In the case OF James r. ShippaTd,
a youth Of fifteen years, WI died today.
local physicians experienced their initial
defeat in fighting the disease ShipparG
had been suffering from hookworT11 two
years and all efforts Of the physicians
failed.
The Washington times., 1910-05-03

WINDOW and DOOR screens should be
coated with Jsp-s-lsC each spring. using the
Brilliant Black on the wire, and the Ma
hogsny- Oak Cherry or Walnut on the
frames It gives them new life and the
wire cloth is protected from rust.
The Washington times., 1910-05-03
BIGGEST SHIP IS BEGUN.

LONDON, Nay s.-Work on the Prin-
cess ROYAL. which will be the largest
battleship afioat, has been begun at Bar
rOv--fn-EUrness- The ship VIII be 20
feet long and have ZOO displacement
The Washington times., 1910-05-03

JAP-A-LAC is a household necessity. and
can be used in hundred and one ways,
from cellar 10 garnet" and IS especially
adapted for finishing old OF new floors and
woodwork. Ask your paint dealer
The Washington times., 1910-05-03

WEATHER BEATEN front doors are
revived and beautifed when coated with
Jap-a-Iac. and ''newness follows the brush 90
Il IS best 70 use the color nearest that Of
the old finish.
The Washington times., 1910-05-03
Beauty Specialist
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To Remove Pimples, Blackheads,
Freckles, BlOtches, Redness, Etc.
or to Preserve Compilations
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In the quiet seCIusiOn ana E--ivaCy OF
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the treatment for which society women
have paid thousands OF dollars 70 beauty
specialists.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10
HAMMERsTEIN,s BUSY LIFE.
n the New York Evening Sun.

r rom the New York Evening Sun.
Oscar Hammerstein was born in Berlin
Germany, in 1S47, and came to the United
States in 1868 as a youth of IS years. He
first worked his way in the tobacco trade
and invented and patented several labor
saving devices in the manufacture of
cigars. His practical device for an over
flow trap is used by plumbers also to this
day. The future opera impresario's ac-
tive association with the theatre began
when he was 81. Three one-act German
comedies written by him were produced
in New York in 1868, and two years later
he became manager of the Stadt theatre,
patronized by Germans here. His famous
career as a theatre builder began In 1880
with the Harlem opera house and music
hall, followed by the Columbus theatre,
the old Manhattan opera house, later
known as Roster & Balls music hall;
the Olympia, now the Criterion, and New
York theatres; Hammersten's Victoria
tt eatre, the Belasco theatre, the New
Manhattan opera house 9nd the Phil
q delpha opera house.
An unusual portrait of Hammerstein,
without his famous French top hat, shows
the leader of Americas opera war to-
day with his hair but slightly touched
with gray. He is a man of extraordinary
vigor and hardly looks over so years old
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10

Count Ladslaus Szechenyi, who has
bought an extensive estate at Feso-
Remote. in Hungary, contetemplates max
ing of it show estate. A large man
sion is to be built on the property and
is to be known as the Gladys Castle, af
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10

American telephone subscribers OPP
pressed by the rates of the telephone trust
will he overjoyed to hear that the days
OF exorbitant telephone charges are num-
hered, thanks to the genius of Cerebotani,
who has just perfected a pocket apparatus
for wireless telegraphy. Simply by car
rying a small apparatus in ones pocket
one can send and receive all sorts of tele-
graphic messages. The telephone will be
doomed. Letter-writing will be voted en-
tirely out of date. All that is necessary
Is 10 invest in Professor Cerebotani' S
wireless telegraphy pad and one becomes
a walking Geographic station, capable of
transmitting and receiving messages from
ali parts of the world.
A little wooden face of the apparatus
contains the letters of the alphabet A
pointer signifies which letter the cur
rent shot from the apparatus of a friend
in some far distant town hits, and soon
the words begin to form, expressing the
wishes of that friend as plainly as if
he were by ones side.
1t is triumph of genius and science.
Not only can 1t be used for personal
friendly communications, but 1t will prove
a most useful addition to the instruments
of warfare, enabling the scout to tele-
graph back to camp the approach of
some distant enemy, or receive instruc-
lions to return at once.
And the invention, according to Profess
sor Cerebotani, is the result of a too
vivid Imagination. A French journalist
who was apparently In the habit of ex-
aggerating, credited the learned and
world-famous professor (who was once
a roman Catholic priest) with having
invented system of wireless telegra ply
suitable for pocket use. The professor
received offers from commercial syndi-
Gates all over the world offering to buy
UP his invention for enormous sums.
He had to refuse, because the French
Journalist had credited him with an in
vention of which he had never thought
But it opened his eyes. He set to work
and today the whole world is startled
by his new discovery. At the same time
it is not yet complete, as messages may
be diverted from other people. In the
case of love letters sent by pocket wire
less, this will be rather awkward. But
Professor Cerebotani is working to obvi-
ate this difficulty.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10

The ladies of the Viennese nobility
took part in a spring hat competition"
at a charity fete here The prize was
awarded by vote to the wearer of the
prettiest hat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10
Not the Sealskin

From the Boston Herald.
Simeon Ford, apropos of wifely SYM
pathy, said at a recent dinner in New
York
How hard it is when the wife is I'M
sympathetic
Poor Jones trudged home through zero
weather the other night and, blowing on
his frozen hands, said solemnly
Well, I've got the sack
"Oh, you dear.' his wife cried. The
sealskin or the other one? 81
THE other one said Jones, laughing
bitterly"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10
NEW AMBASSADOR
ARRIVES In VIENNA

Vienna, April s.-(speciaD-Col. Richard
c. Kerens, the new American ambas-
sador, arrived in Vienna today and early
next week will present his credentials
and be formally presented to the Emperor.
The first work which will present
itself to Mr.. Kerens, will be the arrange
ments for the reception of Colonel Roose-
welt. His most difficult task Will be that
of elimination. Everybody in Vienna,
from the Emperor down is anxious to do
honor to the famous American ex-Presi-
dent and there will be dozen invitations
for every possible acceptance. Mr.. Ker-
ems is an old friend of Colonel Roosevelt
and doubtless not the least pleasant part
of the latter's visit at the Austrian cap
ital will be his talks with the Missouri
ian leader, who will be able to show
him. what has happened in the United
States while he has been buried in Africa.
The question of the position of the
Duchess of Hohenburg, wife of Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Aus
trian throne, when her husband assumes
the crown. is seriously worrying the high
Austrian nobility.
When the Archduke married countess
Sophie Chotek. he by solemn oath re-
nol1nced for his children any claim to
that the Duchess does not propose to see
her eldest son, Macmillan thrust aside
by this oath, she has quietly, but effect
lively gone ahead to strengthen her po-
sition in Austria and when her husband
ascends the throne 1t is by no means
certain that she will take her place be-
side him, with her son as crown prince.
The situation is complicated by the
fact that Hungary does not recognize
morganatic marriages. 1t is boldly as
serted in Budapest that when Franz Fer
dinand is crowned king of Hungary, the
Duchess Sophie will be crowned queen
with him and the little Macmillan will
be the heir to the Hungarian throne.
If Franz Ferdinand should stand by his
oath so far as Austria is concerned, it
may very we'll be that there will be
one heir to the Austrian throne and an
other for the Hungarian, which would
mean trouble and lots of it.
The ladies of the Viennese nobility
took part in Spring hat competition
at charity fete here The prize was
awarded by vote to the wearer of the
prettiest hat.
Count Ladislaus Szechenyi. who has
bought an extensive estate at Felso-
Remote, in Hungary, contetemplates max
ing of it a show estate. A large man
sion is to be built on the property and
is to be known as the Gladys Castle af-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10

of yawning and itchiness, the yawn of
the beholder, he considers due merely
10 suggestion, and it being only neces-
gary to mention a certain household
inesct to cause the listener to begin
scratching.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10

His three sons. William, Arthur and
Iiarry, assist him as managers of the
Victoria, the New Manhattan and Phil
adelphia opera house, respectively. a
daughter Stella, has appeared on the
dramatic stage. 50
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10

Account Atlanta Music Festi-
val, Southern Railway will sell
round trip tickets at rate $6.85.
Four daily trains.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10

For Rent-Wheeler & Viii
son and Singer sewing ma
chimes. Singer Sewing Machine
Company, 2123 Sd avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10
GREAT STRUGGLE
FOR SUPREMACY
Between Leading Airship Sys-
TENS of Germany
THREE IN COMPETITION
Pocket Apparatus for Wireless Tel
egraphy Is said to Be Perfected.
VIII Be Blow to Telephone
Trust

Berlin April 9.-(Special.) 1.-THE great
struggle for supremacy between the three
leading airship systems of Germany-the
Zeppelin, the Parseval and the Gross
VIII advance step during the army air.
ship maneuvers, which commenced at
Cologne on Monday last and will last
for six weeks, for the Zeppelin II, Gross
and Parseval III are all taking part, and
important new developments in the pro-
gress OF the airship, as an instrument OF
war, are being tested.
At these maneuvers experiments are be-
ing carried out with the new aerial guns,
which have been specially designed for
use on board these vessels, and for the
first time in the history of the world the
stiffness of the skies is broken by the
sound OF whistling shells, bearing death
ard destruction, hurled from speeding
aerial monster to the earth.
The bomb-dropping experiments, which
were d feature of the aerial maneuyers
carried out in the autumn of last year
at Cologne, are being continued, and the
progress of wireless biography as applied
to ajrskips will be further tested.
But ore of the most interesting develop
ments to take place this year In connec-
ton with the conquest of the air will be
the Introduction of the airship into the
German navy. Which system-Zeppelin,
Parseval or Gross-will be introduced? At
this moment 1t is impossible to say. All
three Inventors are striving their utmost
to secure so coveted an honor by produce
ing the very best aerial warship Owing
to its small size public opinion is in favor
of the new Parseval III, but the Cologne
maneuvers are likely to have an impor-
tant bearing on the choice.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10

Fined G44 for failing to declare" a
pack of cards when crossing the from
tier from Saxony to Bohemia, an eighty
year old peasant woman appealed to the
Emperor Francis Joseph for pardon,
which was graciously granted.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10

WE CHARGE FOR CURES ONLY

CURE OR NO PAY-ABSOLUTELY
NO FEE IS CHARGED UNLESS SAT-
IsFACTION Is GIVEN. Every patient
In given a written guarantee to refund
every dollar paid for services II they
do not receive a complete, lifelong cure
and entire satisfaction, and We have
made a deposit in a leading Btrmfng-
ham Trust Company to secure any
contract that La not fulfilled.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10

ter his American wife The count and
countess will pass the summer in America,
returning to their. new residence, as
soon as it is completed, in the autumn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-10


The exhibition of American paintings,
opened here by the crown prince some
three weeks ago has given rise to a
lively discussion as to whether there is
such thing as q. typical American art.
The discussion was really started by
the author of the catalogue of the ex-
hibition, who very bluntly writes
America is a country without art
consciousness, common to the whole peo-
pie Fundamental aesthetic principles
have never been recognized there. There
is no national American art, and no de-
velopment of it can be traced in the his
tory of the art of the New World. There
is no aesthetic tradition. Instead of
growing out of the soil, ii had to be
brought over sea from foreign countries.
AS new as a pin, or like ready-made
garments, 1t was imported from Euro
pean workshops instead of developing
through the centuries in lonely noun
tain valleys or peasant cottages to a
full and distinctive life Only with the
approach of the American people to be-
ing a really homogeneous nation is Ameri-
can art nearing more and more an OBJ
viously national type"
| While the critics may disagree it Is
| beyond any doubt that the pictures
have greatly appealed to the art-lov-
ing Berlin public and probably to no
one more than to the crown prince,
who his visited the exhibition three
times and who is honestly delighted
with the display and, like many 9TH
err people, surprised at the high aver
age merit and freedom from obnox-
| ious features of the whole. He espe-
cially admired a picture of Carl Mel
cheers, called Mother and Child very
Justly, as it is allowed to be the clou
of the exhibition, and as he stood be-
fore a picture of scene in Broad
way is reported to have exclaimed
That's a place l must see for myse II
one day.
| An ingenious German professor OF
Gottingen, Mr. Vernon, has established
10 his own satisfaction at least, the
| theory that we are all in state
of hypnotism from the cradle to the
| grave. He works 1t out logically
enough, in the following way:
All our thinking life, he says, has
for it's foundation in our brain the sug-
gestions put into it by our childhood
educators. And what are these sug-
gestions? Nothing else, according to the
professor, than conceptions artificially
put into our minds without their be-
ing in any way subject to our con
troll. They are adopted by the min
without any of that reflection to which
we subject our ideas In after life. we
are, in short hypnotized, for the es-
sence of hypnotism consists in sugges
tibility, the capacity, namely, of beins
imposed upon by suggestion. Thus, =
very large part of our correct and In
correct conceptions, of our knowledge
and prejudices. has been instilled in u
IT. childhood by the process of sngges
ton and out of habit We never asst
ourselves when wa are grown vi
whether what we have learned as CHI
dren will stand the test of criticism
Religion and political beliefs arr
cited by the learned professor as cap
ital instances of the result Of this ca!
and enduring hypnotism. He even de-
ecends to such lowly Instances as thos'
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-01-08

but actual instruction about some
matter about which the farmer needs
information right then-information
based on the accumulated experience
OF all the best farmers and agricul-
tural scientists especially adapted to
our Southern climate. soils. crops,
and conditions. Here We shall en-
deavor not merely to tell the farmer
what to do. but to give him a grasp
of the great principles Of modern.
scientific agriculture so that the far
mer may work out his own prob
lens intelligently from them. We
print herewith a list OF the subjects
for January and February. and the
later articles will be no less timely
and practical:
by Winter Flowing.
U.-By a System Of Cropping That
VIII Furnish Work for Men and
Teams Every Day In the Year.
II-By Producing the Crops at
Less Cost.
Wy Preparing the Work Stock
and Implements for the Spring
Work.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-01-08
OUR NEW HEADING

This paper will hereafter be known the PROGRESS
SIVE FARMER AND GAZETTE, instead of the Southern
Gazette" heretofore There will positively be
change in the policy, aims location management of the
paper. continue the future the past devoted
especially the agricultural interests of the states of Mis-
sissipp Alabama Tennessee, Louisiana and East Texas
The modification is solely for
advantages relative to the matter of foreign advertising
TAFT BUTLER, Editor in chief
Sfarkpiiie, Miss. Jan. I, 1910.