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The Washington herald., 1911-09-17

A deep-laden freIghter from the Con-
go whistles for tI.s right OF way. Black
seamen are chatterins at her hatch
ways. and under the deck awning is a
group Of colonial oficials bouhd home
on leave, gaunt, somber men. dressed IN
tropical duck, who have been marooned
for years in fever-stricken ports that
the rubber, oil, and ivory might De
fetched to Antwerp warehouses.
In her wake crawls a Norwegian
steamer almost hidden under O deckload
Of lumber which rises higher than her
bridge. Bad weather and a shift OF
cargo have listed her so far to port that
the landsman expects her to -capsize be-
fore his eyes. The skipper and his crew
are used to living on a fearsone slant
however, and display practiced agility in
climbing up a deck that slopes like
house top.
Grimy coIIiers from Hull and Cardiff
surge past French and italian craft from
the Mediterranean. whose disorderly
decks are bright with the flash Of red
neckerchiefs and the CLINT Of earrings.
Ore boats from Spain. rusty tramps
from Hongkong and Manila with blue
clad Chinese crews, tall barks from the
nitrate coast cotton-laden steamers from
Savannah and New Orleans. dodge the
sinai lelSuTely AOA bhC
route to Holland and the reaches of the
Zuyder Zee. Dutch fishermen and
coasters are working clumsily to wind
ward with leeboards down, their models
more like the lines OF a wooden shoe
than anything else, and long strings OF
barges blunder across the fairway.
At a blight Of the broad river. fifty
miles from the North Sea, Antwerp re-
veals itself behind an immense expanse
of quays and docks and ships. Built on
the low marshlands and surrounded by
fat meadows which the Scheldt would
overflow but for the dikes, the city has
an inconspicuous sky line beyond the
water front and the dominating spire
Of the cathedral rising as FROM a broken
plain. is certainly the noblest landmark
to greet the mariners eye in any port
Ralph P. Paine. in Scribners.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17
ANTWERP'S FOREIGN TRADE
MAKES HER RIVALSENVIOUS

The tourist goes to Antwerp to see the
cathedral, the paintings, and other
storied attractions duly recommended in
his red guidebook. It may reveal shock
ingly crude taste, but ], for one, would
rather loaf at my leisure among the
crowded docks and basins and along the
swarming uuays. There are other ma
jestic cathedrals in Europe, and no lack
OF old masters, forsooth, but there Is no
water-sIde like that Of the mighty port
on the Scheldt,5 its atmosphere so
medieval, its equipment SO amazingly
modern. Up the broad estuary that leads
from the North Sea, into the river held
between the ramparts of the dikes, the
shipping rolls home from all the world
and Antwerp empties the holds to put
the cargoes afoat again in vast fiotillas
of canal boats and barges which traverse
the myriad waterways Of Holland, Ger
many, and France.
1t is this far-hung inland traffic by
river and canal that has given Ant
werp her rank among the greatest sea-
ports, a prestige won almost 4OO years
ago. when her commerce was waxing
more splendid than that OF Geona or
Venice and the house flags OF her mer-
chant princes foated over vessels in
every known sea. There followed two
centuries of such misery and stagna-
ton as would have obiliterated a port
less advantageously situated and bro
ken the spirit of a people less tena-
cious Battered and gutted. swept by
the Spanish fury, Antwerp was given
no chance to rally and one generation
after another Of her burghers beheld
the blockading fleets of the Dutch
closing the Scheldt at Flushing to
commerce in order that Amsterdam
should have no rival. AS recently as
1903 Napoleon found this melancholy
CITY little better than a heap OF
ruins" as lie expressed it. The canals
were choked with debris. the streets
grass-grown, the wharves empty of
shipping
Hamburg Fighting Hard.
The greatness of Antwerp is there
fore not a matter of slow growth, but
a renaissance, swift and brilliant The
awakened Hamburg. giant of the north,
is its only Continental rival. and the
gaze of Germany is hostile and envious
as she surveys the streams OF traffic
which flows in and out OF the Rhine
country through the gateway of the
| Scheldt.
a few miles inland and the checkered
patchwork of titled fields fenced by
| tiny canals. and the cheerful red brick
villages begin to drop below the sur
face of the river. a topsy-turvy phe-
nomenon in which the keelS Of the
shipping are level with steeple, roof.
and windmill. Along this elevated
highway moves a singular variety OF
traffic under steam and sail.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17
An Artificial Sponge.

An artificial sponge, the outcome OF
German ingenuity, is now to be had.
The process OF making it consists princi-
pally in the action of the zinc chloride
on pure cellulose. This results in
pasty, viscous mass. which is mixed
with coarsely grained rock salt.
Placed in press mold armed with pins
the mass is pierced through and through
until 1t appears traversed by multitude
of tiny canals, like the pores of natural
sponge. The excess Of salt is subse-
quently removed by prolonged washing
in a weak alcoholic solution. The arti-
ficial sponge swells up with water but
hardens on drying, just like its protor
type; It is said TO be eminently adapted
for fltering water for sanitary or indus
trial uses, and 1t can be employed for
all the purposes that are usually assign
ed to the genuine article.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17
Change of Habit. Of Sea Gun..

1t is reported that the habits Of sea
gulls in some districts along the north
east coast Of Scotland seems to be under
going q remarkable change. This sum
mer It has been noticed that these BIRDS
have built nests In the heather ana
bushes q few miles inland. fact never
observed before.
A disturbing feature Of this invasion
is that the birds In forsaking the ses
have abandoned their exclusive nsn elet
ana have taken to eating corn, thus
adding another to the many feathered
foes with which the farmers have g
contend.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17
Items, General and Personal,
OF Interest to @. p. O. Workers

Government Printing ofice in the sos,
and was assigned to the document
room. After working here about seven
years, he returned to his home. He was
a member Of Havand Lodge, No. Sc. I.
o. o. F., Chequaga Lodge, K. of p,
and the Red Men. Mr.. Rowley was in
his SEVENTEEN year. He is survived by
his wife and a son, Walter, of Penn
Yam, n. Y.
Alexander Piper Beatty, in charge OF
the proof press on the specifications. will
visit Western Maryland and Carlisle, Pa,
while on his vacation.
Peter P. Peeler, of the sanitary section,
and his wife will spend his fifteen days
upon their farm in Northern New York.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-28
AGUA PRIETA IS
 SCENE OF STRIFE
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED IN BOR- DER TOWN AND CUSTOMS OF
 TIGERS ARE ARRESTED.
Raid on Spanish Stcre-Trouble Fol. lows Strikes at Mines in North
 ern Mexico.

Douglas, Arizona.-Agua Prieta, Mexico, is under martial law and no one is allowed either to enter or leave the town.
 Captain Romero, paymaster, was ar rested when, after paying off soldiers who were to be discharged, he insist ed on taking their guns. Captain Herrera, commanding the garrison, ordered his arrest. J. l.. Lubbert, customs collector, also was placed un. der arrest. Cannon have been placed in the streets and guards patrol the border, otherwise permitting no one to pass. All customs officers at Agua Prieta have been placed under arrest. Americans who were in the town when the trouble started have been permitted to return to the American side, but no others are allowed to en- ter. The Maderis as were offered $40 for their guns, it is said, but re- fused it.
 Sabinas, MeXico-7Women and boys, armed with machetes, raided the com missary at Rosita mines, a Madero property operated now by Blanco & Co.,, Spaniards, and took all the stock and 100000 pesos, while the striking miners watched the raid from the distance. The authorities, too, made no attempt to stop it. Trouble has broken out at Lampacitas mines. Twenty soldiers have been sent from here. Fifty were detailed to go, but only 20 could be found. These sol diers are the same that came here from Torreon and on their arrival shot up the town.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-28
State Capitol News Notes
NoRWOoD CONTENDS THAT THE SPECIAL ACT OF LEGlSLA-
 LATURE IS INVALID.
Says Counties Cannot Be Exempted From Act Relating to the
 Equalization Boards.

In an opinion rendered the Arkan- sas Tax Commission, Attorney Gen eral H. L. Norwood holds that sec tions of the acts of Jne legislature relating to the appointment and du- ties of county boards of equalization, which were repealed and then restor- ed by another act, are not constitu- tional, so far as they exempt certain counties from the provisions of the sections mentioned. The constitu- ton provides that all property shall be taxed uniformly according to value, he says, which uniformity can best be obtained by a general law rather than by having one system for one county and one for another.
 The constitution also provides that where a general law can be made ap- plicable no special law shall be en- acted, the attorney general asserts, but the contention that the supreme court had held the legislature to be the judge in all cases of the neces- sity of special act is not true. The legislature is the judge of whether a general law can be made applicable except in cases where the constitu- tion requires that laws upon given subject be general. The attorney general says that in the matter of the valuation of property for taxation the constitution requires that the laws be equal and uniform and there fore any act of the legislature re- quiring exemption, etc., cannot be constitutional.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-28
NUMBER 30.
MACKAY co. HAS
 INVADED ARKANSAS
FILES ARTICLES OF iNCORPoRA- TON AND WILL COMPETE
 WITH WESTERN UNION.
Affiiiation of Texas Postal Company With Western Union Is Said to
 Be Cause of Move.

Little Rock.-The sequel to the re- cent split between the Postal Tele- graph & Cable Company of New York and the Postal Telegraph G Cable Company of Texas, was the fil- ing of articles of incorporation of the Mackay Telegraph 6 Cable Company, which proposes to construct, main- tain and operate telephone and tele- graph lines in the state of Arkansas" The capital stock of the company is given as S10,00O, and the incorporat- ors are F. w. Conger, C. T. Coffman and J. c. Marshall, but it is admitted that the Postal Telegraph & Cable Company of New York, or the Mackay system, is behind the movement and that the plan is to construct tele- graph lines over the state to con- pete with the Postal Telegraph & Cable Company of Texas and the Western Union Telegraph Company.
 While the capital stock is placed at S10,000, this will be increased, as it is found necessary, and within a short while, it is said, the Mackay system will be ready to compete with the other two lines operating in this state at present. The Mackay Telegraph & Telephone Company will soon be- gin the construction of line to Tex arkana and another to Pine Bluff, and will establish headquarters for the state in Little Rock. It is the intention of the company to buy the right of way to these two cities i'm mediately, and if it is not possible to do this will seek the right of way by right of eminent domain. These two lines will be constructed at once, after which lines will be thrown out in all directions.
 At present there is a wide gulf ex- iSting between the Mackay system and the Western Union & Postal of Texas Some time ago the Postal Telegraph & Cable Company of Tex as withdrew from alliance with the Postal Telegraph & Cable Company of New York, with whom working agreement had been arranged, with the explanation that better service could be secured by making a work ing agreement with the Western Union.
 The Postal Telegraph & Cable Company of New York, or the Mackay system, gives a different explanation of the split with the Postal of Texas. It is charged by this company that the Western Union and the Postal Of Texas have both fallen under the con trol of the American Telegraph & Telegraph Company, or the Bell sys- tenn. For this reason the Postal of New York claims to have thrown down the gauntlet and will compete with both companies in Arkansas.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-28
To Look Into Excise Tax.

The excise tax of the private car companies operating in this state, which is distinct from the franchise tax now being prepared by the Ar kansas Tax Commission, will prob ably be investigated later on by the commission. Some of the private car companies have turned iii statements of taxes on intrastate traffic, which have been certified to the treasurer but the commission has not held that they are not required to pay the re maining taxes assessed, which the companies assert is interstate traffic. The entire amount of taxes. according te the statements of the private car companies, which have been turned in, is $776.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-28
See Financial Breakers Ahead.

It now seems almost certainty that the state is going to be in a bad way financially again before the end of the year. The money is com ing in fast these days and also going out rapidly. It is now estimated that there must have been about S200, 900 worth of warrants outstanding when the collections began 70 pour in this month. During the month many of these warrants have been redeemed, but the claims of the agricultural schools, university and other state institutions have drawn heavily on the treasury About S20,000 will be taken up by the university. About two-thirds of the counties have set tied with the state, ana or those that have not settled yet there are some that have already made advances to the state, in complinee With the dis tress call' issued by the legislature last April. However, there will be revenues from new sources coming in this year, such as the automobile tax, and it is believed that the col lecctions from the franchise tax under the new law will be larger. Even at that the old ship of state will be blowing shallow water again by the first of next year, if not before.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-28
Qualify as Expert Ritlemen.

That Arkansas will cut a decided figure in the National Army and Navy Shoot at Camp Percy, O., next month is made a certainty by the un- usual record of Company M, First h. fantry, which has just returned to Blythesville from Beebe. The com pany, together with Companies E and l., of Black Rock and Piggott, has been trying out on the Beebe range. Company NJ qualified seven expert ri- flemen, record which, according to army officers, is unusually good. It was the only company on the range that qualified a single expert rifle man. Besides this record, two sharp shooters and eleven marksmen quail fled. The scores were: Sergt. Nor ton, ,356; Capt Little, 355; Sergt Nc Leod, 354 Private Webb, 345; Sergt Damon, 344 Sergt. Beall, $40; and Sergt. Seat, 335. The complimentary feature of this record is seen when it is understood that in range work an expert rifleman must hit the bull S eye almost every time If he makes 40 points on the 200, 300 and 5O0- yard ranges, totaling 120, he qualities as sharpshooter, and this record must be kept up on the 600-yard range to qualify as a rifleman. Capt. Little stated that the adjutant gen eral, in choosing the state team to par ticopate in the national match next month at Camp Perry. Ohio, will choose from the members Of the Ar kansas Guard who made the best scores this summer on the state ranges. In this event it seems eer- tain that the BlythesviIIe company will be we'll represented; in fact, no other military organization in the eastern part of the state has any such record. The national match will be participated in by representatives from every military and naval organi- zation of the American government, including teams from the possessions. Arkansas and Tennessee have not been making good records, because they have not been able to accustom themselves to the Lake Erie winds. However, in both states this year special attention has been given to windage, and better records are eX- pected this year
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-28
NEW SENSATION IN
 THELORIMER CASE
CHICAGO TRIBUNE MAN SPRINGS STORY OF ALLEGED PLAN TO
 BUY DEMOCRATIC VOTES.
Edward Hines Also Causes a Sensa- tion by Bringing BouteIe's Name
 Into the Case.
Washington.-A detailed account of

Washington.-A detailed account of a reputed attempt to buy enough Democratic votes in the Illinois legis- lature to re-elect Albert J. Hopkins to the senate was told on the witness stand before the senate Lorimer com mittee by James Keely, general man. ager of the Chicago Tribune.
 It was the sensation of a day of sensations in the hearing It followed Nr. Keely's testimony as to how he Happened to buy the confession of Charles A. White, the legislator whose story about graft at Springfield re- suited in the Lorimer investigation. It was subsequent to the testimony of Edward Hines that Henry S. Boutelle, now American minister to Switzer- land, told him that President Taft would assist in the election of Lori mer to the senate Mr. Hines had heen placed on the stand to tell about visits he paid last winter to E. H. Gary, R, s. Lovett, successor to E. H. Hartman, J. s. Bache & Co.,, and others in New York. None of these visits, the witness declared, had any thing to do with the Lorimer case.
 His testimony connecting Boutelle's and Tafts name with the Lorimer election caused a sensation. however.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-28
HEPBURN AGAIN
 RAPS THE SOUTH
DECLARES iT IS "INTOUERABLE" THAT DEEDS BE REFERRED
 TO IN LAWS.
Senator Taylor of Tennessee Defends the Confederate Cause in
 Sharp Debate.

Washington.-Th bitterness be- Senator Williams of Mississippi on the subject of the Confederacy broke out anew in the senate. Senator Hey burn objected to the taking up of a bill appropriating S100,000 for Con- federate naval monument in the Vicksburg national park Senator Williams won it's consideration by a vote of 29 to f9.
 The Vicksburg park commission and the senate committee on military af- fairs had approved the measure, and MT. Williams said it was desired to have the monument complete for the semi-centennial blue and gray re- union at Vicksburg in 1913.'
 Senators Cummins of Iowa and Works of California urged it's pas sage. Senator Hepburn again at tackled the principle of federal recog- milton of Confederate acts, and Sen ator Williams abruptly left the cham Der when he began to speak.
 MT. Hepburn declared it was "in- tolerable" that the deeds of Confed- crate armies should be recited in laws that call upon the public treasury for contributions. He characterized the history of the war between the states as a history of murder"
 He attacked the newspapers, declar- ing many of them were disloyal and were delighted to express their disloy- atty. He had been characterized as waving the bloody flag in the sen ate," he said, and had been so mis- represented that he was receiving scores of anonymous letters from towards threatening him with phy sical violence for his opposition to the use of government funds to recog- nize Confederate service" he said.
 Senator Taylor of Tennessee took up the Confederate issue.
 ''The war is over," he said. Time has pulled down the forts and healed the wounds The men who wore the gray delight to honor the men who wore the blue, but they do not delight to honor the men who never smelled powder and who stand here and un- Timber their batteries of bitterness against the simple proposal to erect monuments to Southern heroes"
 Senator Hepburn displayed letter he had received from Little Rock, Ark, the envelope of which bore representation of the Confederate flag. He said the postoffice authori- ties said there was no law.to prevent the use of the flag on mail matter. "No law ought to be needed" said Senator Hepburn. There is but one flag in this nation entitled to such reproduction
 The envelope in question was one used by the Confederate reunion en- tertainment committee in an effirt to bring people to Little Rock.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-28
Deposed Sultan Is Active.

Teheran, Persia.-The flag of Mo- hammed Ali Mirza, the deposed sul- tan, flies at Astrabad, where the peo- pie have declared in his favor, but opposition to him has developed among the Turkoman tribesmen on whose support he relied. Some of the tribes are beginning to show hostility to him. The Kakhtriris, the great tribe of central Persia, have remained loyal to the constitution.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-28
Director Sends Open Lines.

From school director in a remote district there has come good sug- gestion to statehouse officials for form with which to begin their cor respondence. In a letter to tlte de partment of public instruction, in which he wished to refer certain difference of opinion existing among the members of his district, this di- rector began with the following head lines: Open Lines 10 the Superin- tendent of Public Instruction" Ques- tions had arisen in his district which seemed to have divided the people. Some took one view and some another, and into this maelstrom of argument the directors had been drawn without being able to decide anything. Whereupon the decision was left with the superintendent of public instruction under the heading quoted above.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-28
Civil Service Examinations.

The United States Civil Service Commission announces the following examinations: On August 9, for ca det engineer in the lighthouse serv- ice; for laboratory aid in the bureau of plant industry in the department of agriculture; on August and 10, for positions of aid in the coast and geodetic survey and for customs agent in the treasury department, and on August 23 and "A, for the posi- tion of colorist Examinations in Arkansas will be held at Fayetteville Fort Smith, Helena, Jonesboro, Little Rock and TeXarkana.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-28
ANGRY MAN SHOT
 UP A STREET CAR
TWO ARE KILLED, TWO MORTAL LY WOUNDED AND THREE
 INJURED.
Mad at Motorman, Boy Kills Him, Then Empties His Revolver on
 Defenseess Women.

North Adams, MasS.-Infuriated at back from the running board and re- main in his seat until the car stop ped, Faldo Mallak, a Syrian, 21 years of age, suddenly drew an automatic revolver and fired ten shots into q crowded electric car in the Cheshire motorman, George E. Hoyt, of Pitts field, and Miss Martha Esley, aged 21, of Adams, wounding two women, probably fatally and severely injuring three other women. AS he fired the last shot Mallak was seized by J. J. Mooney, of Pittsburg, who took away the revolver. Drawing a knife, the Syrian jumped from the running board and down the embankment, where he was captured by other pas sengers.
 There were about sixty persons on the car when Mallak, who sat directly behind the motorman, signaled to get off. He stood on the running board as the car slowed up and Motorman Hoyt was heard to caution him about getting off while the car was in mo- tion, telling him to get back to his seat
 Just as the car stopped Mallak drew his revolver and began firing He aimed the first bullet directly at the back of the motorman and then turn ed upon the women passengers in the seats behind hlm and fired till his re- volver was empty.
 Mallak refused to talk after his arrest. The police believe that he went suddenly insane.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-07-28
School Reports Are Filed.

Saturday was the last day for the filing of reports by the school di- rectors over Arkansas with the va rious county examiners. Reports are made out showing the condition of the district, school enumeration, etc, and these are turned in to the exam iner or superintendent The county examiner, or county superintendent, then has until August 10 to file his report in turn with the department of education. The superintendent of public instruction is then required to report to the State Board of Educa- tion, which now has charge of school apportionment, by the first Monday in September, at which time the ap- portionment of the common school fund is made by the board. The fund apportioned last year was $1,200,000, but it is not known yet what the fund will be this year, although it is ex- pected to be more than it was last year.