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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

That half of the farmers in Bullock county, Georgia, bring their chickens and eggs to market in automobiles was learned by Richard H. Edmonds, editor of Manufacturers Record. Business men in Statesboro. the principal town of Bull lock county, say that most of the E, ,OOO 900 deposits in four banks is surplus money of the farmers, whose prosperous condition they attribute to the use of automobiles in the quick transportation of farm products.
 All through the south MT. Edmonds found a marked enthusiasm for the auto mobile and in most counties this has stimulated the building of good roads. Millions of dollars of bonds have been voted in Texas Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Flor ida for highway improvement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
FRANCIS JOSEPH
 |NN0RMAL HEALTH

vienna, May 20.-(Special)-It is de- \ clared officially that the emperor's health !. is normal but for a slight cold. It is re- garded as significant however that King Peter of Servia has been requested to postpone his visit to Vienna.
 That his majesty is very feeble Is not denied, and the recurrence of these colds is giving very serious concern.
 It may be that international politics was really at the bottom of the postpone ment of the Servia kings visit, as there is strongly backed report that King Peter is in trouble with his people, and that the announcement of his abdication need cause no surprise.
 Passing as Mine. Juliette," a Haps- burg and a distant cousin of Emperor Francis Joseph, has been unearthed car rying on dressmaking establishment in Gzegedin an obscure Hungarian town.
 But htat is a decided step up the social ladder from Baroness Julie Eichhof- Hassberg- -Battner who has followed the occupation of a maid-of-all- in sta- tionmasters menage. Tragedy has marr- ed no less than three matrimonial at- tempt on which she has embarked dur ing her career. Her first husband, a. lieutenant of hussars spent her fortune and blew out his brains. The second, a chemist, poisoned. himself within six months of the wedding day; and from the third tho baroness obtained divirce.
 Then 1t was that she entered domestic service. Subsequently better opportuni- ties offered themselves, and she became established as a modiste.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

Captain Toguri of the Japanese navy says the strongest feature of the Ameri-
 can navy was not in it's rapid numerical
 progress, backed by inexhaustible re-
 sources, or in superior shipbuilding facil- ties. but in Americas highly advanced knowledge of naval architecture.
 When it comes to the application of
 electricity" said Captain Toguri, Amer ica easily beats all other nations. The
 successful circumnavigation of the globe few years ago by the American fleet really broke the worlds record and fur nished America with practical knowledge
 of the handling of fleet which must be
 added to the store of her qualifications. All her naval bases and forts in the Pril- lppines and Hawaii are nearing comple- tion and when the Panama canal Is opened America will occupy a predomi- nant position in the Pacific.
 '1t is very difficult to discriminate be-
 tween two navies in the matter of supe- riosity of armaments and the skill of of ficers and men, and hence the best way of comparing navies, is to take just the ships If Japan wishes to retain control over the Pacific, she must build a fleet powerful enough to beat off the squadrons which belligerent power might be able to send to the scene.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

1nsensate jealousy on the part of Lieut.. Racich, an officer in the Austrian army, has led to his arrest on the charge of attempted murder Mme. Racich's life was made utterly miserable by her hus- band S baseless suspicious. and at last she left him and began proceedings for a divorce
 One day as she was walking in the street her husband met her and begged her to return. She refused, whereupon he produced a revolver and fired several shots at her face, exclaiming that no other man should enjoy her beauty. A crowd gathered and threatened to lynch the lieutenant. who had to take refuge in house. where he remained until he was arrested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

Mile. Emmy Destinn (whose name in private life Is Emile KitteD, the great Bohemian prima donna of the Kaiser's Royal opera, and well known in America, has won an unusual case in the Austrian
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

''These cotton men, the raisers of cot ton, I mean, had better not be too im- portunate in their demands" declares Herbert N. Tillnghast, from the Sheboy- gan district of Wisconsin. we have made almost everything out of our spruce timber, including lot of trouble for the tariff adjusters. Paper from wood Is an old tale, and now comes the proposition to make clothes from wood, and good clothes that will wear better than the most of the cotton stuff. The cotton spinners have long been experimenting with cellulose extracted from our spruce timber, and they have proceeded on the assumption that bleached cotton is really almost pure cellulose. Following that idea the investigators have discovered a meth cd of making thread from wood pulp.
 ''The advantage of the spruce thread over cotton is that 1t will be much cheaper and the finished product-the stuff ready for the tailor-will be cheaper than cot ton in the bale and on the wharf waiting to be shipped to the New England mills. The Maine woods have plenty of spruce, not only for paper, but for clothing, and are near the mills of the east. There is hope that the process of making cloth from wood will be developed, and the problem of a fast dye, holding of color, has already been solved by the patient students. There is suggestion, too, that the wooden clothes will wear longer than cotton goods, and a process is suggested 70 make wooden garments that will not burn. There has been much attention paid to this wooden garment idea in Europe, only they have no forests of spruce like America to draw from. and the cotton growers of the south, will continue sending their product abroad much as usual for many years to come"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

There is good news for the small boy in the announcement made by the health officer of the District of Columbia that the prodigal use of soap is injurious to health. There is hardly one of us who remembers his boyhood days who will not sympathize with this doctrine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

The directors of Skoda works have de- clared dividend of 20 kronen per share, or 10 per cent and decided to raise the share capital from 9, 900 to 30,0O0,000 kronen by an increase of new 200 kronen shares at the price of 80 kronen. The increase of capital is required for the ex- tension of plant in the steel and gun de- partments. Wild speculation in Skoda shares on the Vienna bourse has caused heavy losses, the price having varied from 200 to aboI1t 6O0 krOnen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

Annoyance has been occasioned among the singers of the Vienna opera house by an order that they are to appear clean Shaven
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

In the opinion of some of the peace ad- vocates Banker James Speyer has solved the problem of universal peace in his plan to have an agreement by which no loans should be made to belligerent powers who went to war without first submitting their grievances and differences to arbitration or judicial settlement The Hague.
 Some famous war expert once remarked that an army, Hike a snake, moved upon it's belly" In these days a nations ca pacity for war is guaged largely by the size of its pocketbook, with the cash shut off the fighting ceases.
 MT. Speyers plan is beautifully simple The only trouble about it is the same as it was with new press which was to revolutionize the printing business which I once financed. The idea was fine, but it wouldn't work.
 Bankers are not in business for their health. and when a fighting nation wants money bad enough to pay the price for 1t, the bankers will furnish it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
NEW YORK CITY
 ACTUALLY LAZY Slow in Correcting the Sub
 way Evil THE NAVY'S STRENGTH
Lies in Advanced Knowledge of Naval Architecture, Says Toguri. Farmers of Georgia and
 Automobiles
By ROBERT LEE CARTER

New York, May 20.-(Specal) )--New York is to double her subway capacity some day. The way she goes about get natured city. I know it Is the generally accepted idea that New York Is type of American push and energy which. wanting a thing, goes after it and gets it. There never was a more mistaken idea. Individual New Workers may be that way, as molasses in January Witness the fact | that New York is the only city in the country with more than 10000 population that has horse cars, the only city of any size Which permits grade crossings for steam railroads in the most congested section of the city and above all the only city in the world of any size whatever which would tolerate for 24 hours the sup way crush
 l The situation would be funny if it was not sad. The city has plenty of money with which to build all the subways she needs, no less than three concerns have
 declared their readiness to operate them
 and help to build and equip them. Yet the
 authorities discuss and consider and post pone, while the citizens with more or less
 good humor submit to be compressed into the present subway cars to a degree which would make any self-respecting sardine rise in wrath. In the matter of manana, the New York city authorities having this subway mat ter in charge have the TMexicans beaten seven ways from the ace
The Washington times., 1911-01-02
MOTHER WILL BURY
DRESS SUIT BURGLAR
Girl Who Acted as His
Partner Now May
Go Free.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-The mother Of
Thomas wandless, alias kid" Howard.
alias Tom Hanlon. the dress suit burg
lar" has claimed his body at st. Mary's
Hospital, in Passaic. N. j., where he
died Friday night from the effects of a
pistol shot received three weeks ago
as he was attempting to break into a
house in that city.
Jean Mitchell, the nineteen-year-old
girl who acted as his lookout and de-
scribed herself ds the burglars Chicken
STALL" may not be sent to prison now,
but there was no rejoicing in her cell in
the jail, for she was genuinely attached
to the dead man.
Wandless was shot by Peter A. Tai
pey as he was in the act of entering his
house. He managed to get away, and
the girl got him to a drug store, where
she had his wound bandaged. but they
were captured Wandless was taken to
the hospital, and when told that the
man was dying she broke down. After
declaring that he should not die with his
wrongs unconfessed, she disclosed her
identity and that OF Wandless.
She was arraigned In court In Pater-
son on Friday and pleaded guilty to be-
ing an accomplice Of Wandless, but
now that the principal Is dead, 1t Is
thought likely that the girl will be re-
leased on suspended sentence.
She told the police that she and Wand
legs had been in nearly every large
city and in some Of the smaller ones,
and had committed many robberies.
The Washington times., 1911-01-02
AMERICANS FEAR
POLITICS IN ART
Artists in Paris Hesitate to
Enter Competition for
Rome Exhibition.

PARIS. Jan. 2.-American artists in
Paris arc said to believe that politics Is
riaying strong part in art in the
United States.
Or that account they are disinclined,
1t Is reported, to submit their WORK in
competition for selection for the Ameri-
can display in the universal exhibition
in Rome next year. The American ar
lists on the committee-W. M. Chase. J.
w; Alexander. and J. A. Weir-are not
subjected In the least to personal on-
Jections by artists here. 1t Is the influ-
ences that may be imposed on them that
are feared. The Selection of the exam
pies OF American art is to be made by
!he committee acting under a Congress
sional act carrying an appropriation.
One artist has cited instances of what
he termed unfairness and discrimination
In the past. One incident he declared
had occurT ed at Washington, where the
selection OF recipients of awards was
said by one of the judges to have been
made before the pictures had been in
spected. Politics in the art schools of
the United States was declared to be
especially harmful.
The Washington times., 1911-01-02
y ~
Unearthing of Ancient Stat
ute May Change Present
Conditions.
WOULD READJUST
RATES NOW USED
Instead of Postal Deficit There
Would Be a Good
Surplus.

monopoly Of the business of transport
Ing letters. This Is provided under Sec
tioil @9SE, of the Revised Statutes. which
prohibits anybody except the pcstoffice
from carrying letters or packets" II
the word :'DaCkets' Is synonymous with
parcels" this section was designed to
give a monopoly of the whole parcels
CARRYING business within the weights
and regulations OF the department
"Packet" Differs From "Parcel."
But 1t seems that packet" has been
iudiciallv defined as something very diff
ferent from parcel" The substance
of It is that a letter consists of one
sheet of correspondence. and that a
packet is a letter OF more than one
sheet! Under this construction. the
statute means that private carriage Of
letters, of one or more sheets, is forbid
den. But the prohibition has nothing
whatcver TO do with parcels.
There Is a good profit to The Govern
ment in carrying letters. There prob
ably would not be, IL the express COM
pani"s were allowed to appropriate to
themselves the most profitable part of
that business. and leave the unDroflt-
able part to the Government, as in the
case Of fourth-class matter.
Some OF the interstate commerce in
quisitors have gone 50 far as to doubt
whether, II II were properly presented,
the word ''Dacket'' would not be sub
1ected To n different definition than that
which now applies TO it. They suspect
q possibility that a new definition riight
be secured which would give the post
office monopoly in carrying parcels
up 10 four pounds, just as II now has a
monopoly of carrying letters.
Questions Being Considered.
All these questions. as we'll as others,
Of the largest significance to both the
postof!ce and the express companies,
are getting consideration at the hands
OF the interstate commission, in connec-
tion with the express rate cases. The
Postoffce Department. likewise, is look
ing into the thing, and a good man.
Legislators are studying with the view
to framing amendments to the postal
laws in the hope of increasing the reve-
nues OF the postofflce, making its mer-
chandise business more profitable, and
its parcels-carrying function
The postal authorities recognize that
any legislation or regulation which
should suddenly have the effect Of dump
volume of merchandise business, would
be extremely embarrassing because of
the physical limitations of the service
More cars, more railway mail clerks.
more city carriers, and rural carriers
would be necessitated Immediately.
Postoffice Department aims to secure,
among other things, data on which Judg-
ment may be formed concerning the
necessary increase of facilities in case
rates are so readjusted as to increase
the volume Of these classes of bushes.
The Washington times., 1911-01-02
Making Desperate Efforts to
Prevent Criminal
Prosecution.
FOLLOW PATH OF
BATHTUB TRUST
First Time Defendant Has Asked
to Have Dropped Case
Recalled.

The millionaire beef packers who are
under indictment at Chicago, as an out
come of the proceedings of the Gov
ernment to crush the Beef trust, are
making desperate efforts to prevent
criminal prosecutions.
As a matter of fact, the Department
of Justice is making such headway in the
direction of getting offenders against the
Sherman law sent to jail, that there
are evidences of a good deal more con-
Germ among those who are indicted
nowadays than there was formerly.
This is indicated by the recent visit
to Washington of certain of the repre-
sentatives of the offenders in the case
of the Bathtub trust. They came for
the purpose of entering pleas of nolo
contendere. under which they hoped to
escape with fines. The Department. of
Justice refused to enter into any such
arrangement.
Will Press the Cases.
The purpose of the department is to
press the criminal proceedings against
the offenders, and it is declared the
prospects are that some Of them will
find themselves up against jail sent
enCes.
In the Beef trust case, there is just
now a remarkable situation. Not long
ago, the Department of Justice sudden
ly dropped the civil suit under the Sher-
man law for the dissolution of the Ma
tional Packing Company. This was
looked on, in some quarters, as a sign
the Government was weakening in the
war on the Beef trust.
AS a matter of fact, the counsel for
the packers had been interposing every
possible technical objection to the Grim
inal prosecution of the indicted men.
The endeavor was made to get the civil
suit tried first, in order to hold off the
criminal proceedings, and, still more
important, in the hope that the packers
would give testimony IN tho civil case
that would enable them to get immunity
baths.
Dropped the Civil Cases.
Seeing that the packers were trying
to outfank the criminal proceedings,
and were seeking to make use of the
civil case TO shield themselves from the
criminal prosecutions, the department,
without warning to the packers, and
giving the packers no chance to get ink
ling of the move, dropped the civil case.
The purpose was to center all energy
on the criminal case, and prevent the
criminal case being baked through the
obtaining of immunity.
Now the packers are trying to get the
civil case reinstated by order Of the
court.
In the annals of Sherman law prose-
cutions, it has probably never before
happened that an alleged trust sought
to get a suit the Government had drop
ped reinstated, but this strange pro-
ceeding is now going on.
The Washington times., 1911-01-02
New Year Brings Baby
To Old Women's Home

MILWAUKEE,. Jan '2.-As Mrs. NJ,
Chase, the matron Of the MilwaukesI
Home for the Aged. heard the din and
uproar welcoming in the New Year al
midnight. she stepped out on the front.
porch to see II any reyelers were in
sight, and discovered girl baby on the
doorstep.
1t was evident that the package had
been LETT there only few minutes, for
the babs was gurgling happily. Some
of tbs old women were Up to greet the
New Year. and they were unanimously
of the opinion that the baby should be
kept and raised by the institution.
The Washington times., 1911-01-02
Year 1910 Was Merciful
To Gloucester Fishermen

GLOUCESTER, Miss, Jan. 2-One
vessel lost and nineteen men drowned
is the splendid record of the Gloucester
fishing fleet for 1910.
For the seventh consecutive year no
vessel has left port and failed to re-
turn leaving no tidings behind, save
the record of missing with all hands.
The crew of the one vessel wrecked
were able to row ashore.
The Washington times., 1911-01-02
Victim of Fall to Rest
In Grandfather'S Grave

The funeral OF John Cleary, who died
at Providence Hospital yesterday as the
result of injuries received last August
when he fell from a building, breaking
his spine, will take pace at Mt. Oivet
Cemetery tomorrow.
His grandfather, Patrick Cleary, died
at the Georgetown University Hospital
on Saturday at the age of seventy-nine
The two bodies will rest in ne same
grave. Services will be conducted by
the Rev. DR.. Cassidy, of st. Stephens
Catholic Church, where requiem mass
Will be celebrated at 10 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1911-01-02
Sir Walter Burgess
To Wed Store Clerk

SOUTH MANCHESTER, Conn, Jan.
1-Formal announcement was made to-
dav of the engagement of Miss Agnes
Mower, daughter of Mrs. Jennie Mower,
Of 81 Summit street, and Sir Walter
Burgess, of the English embassy at
Paris.
Sir Walter and Miss Mower were in
Roduced at a private reception at
Greenwich, Conn.,, about two months
ago. Miss Mower is twenty-five years
The Washington times., 1911-01-02
Gypsy Rigo Weds Again;
An American Woman

BUDAPEST, Hungary. Jan. with a
brand new American wife the famous
gypsy, James Rigo, has arrived here
Rigo acquired fame as the husband Of
Clara Ward. He says his new wife is
Catherine Hartley, daughter of a rich
professor, and that he married her in
Astoria.
The Washington times., 1911-01-02
High Cost of Living
Limits Stamp Sales

The high cost of living is considered
responsible for the falling off in the
sale of Red Cross stamps, or Christmas
seals. during the holiday season just
passed.
Only about 5000 was realized by the
sale Of the stamps in the District, while
5000 worth were sold last year, and
the sales in the entire country netted
only $500, 900, as against 1891, 600 last year
The Washington times., 1911-01-02
Anchors Ice Coated.

ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Jan. O.
Several steamers, which came in here
today, are tied up at the different har-
Dor bouys because the coating of ice
on their anchors made 1t impossible to
use them.
The Washington times., 1911-01-02
Mr.. and Mrs. Alt Observe
Tenth Wedding Year

The tenth wedding anniversary OF Mr..
and Mrs. John Alt, IA X street north
west, was celebrated at their norue last
night.
Members CT Columbia TuYnvsrein were
invited, and after refreshrn :a.s sS-
tourned to the club rooms.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-27
SHIPPING NEWS
Port of New York, Sunday, February
26, 1911.
ARRIVED

Steamer "alabrin d}rl. Leghorn February T.
Na.l,s and Palermo 10 to Henderson Brothers
with II cabin and POI Arerage passengers and
mdsc. Arrived 40 the Bar al = ~.
steamer san Giovanni 0tan. Palermo Fcbru-
cry !" ard Nanes ". 70 llirzcn. Feltnann a.
Co with II cabin and 5l5 storage passengers
and mdse. Arrived at the Bar at II m 18th.
Steamer Nanchuria G}r. ClcnfueFo- February
f. and Ma'anzas 20 - th, Munson - Line
with sugar Arrived 81 th. Bar at 10 y M.
steamer R0mscal tNorl. ManZanilia February
- 10 the MunsYu Ss Line. with sugar. Arrived
at the Bar Al 10 O. 18th.
Steamer PHrth"nia tBD, shields FcbuIarv o. 10
the United states ana Australasia ~ 90. In
ballast. Arrived 81 The Bar at 80 M.
steamer Amerika tGcU. Hamburg III and
s0uihlmuton ana CheTbouTg H. 10 the Hamburg
American Line. with 4ij cabin 232 third class
aud GSS stecragc passengers. malls and Indsc
Arrived ai the Bar at $40 M.
-teainc~ Irinz Eitcl Friedrich 0ier MontegO
lay February >. Port au- Prince 10 Jcremie II. =.
Aux tayes H. Sayana 10 Cartagcna rs King
ston -. Jcremo - and Inagua 20 10 the Ham
burg American Line with 80 passengers and
mdso Arrived at the BHT at = IS y m.
Steamer CristObal Cristobal February 10. 20
the Panama Railroad S. Line. with ~ passcn-
gers. mails and mdsc. Arrived AZ the Tar at 2
steamer Phmbus (Ger Hamburg February 10
IN PhiliD Ruprccht. In ballast. PASSED. In Sandy
Hook a. :b5 m.
Steamer Frl.da ON. Mazarclll January * AMI
Oran February .. to Simpson. Spence Young.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-27
CONNECT QUEENS MANHATTAN
Work Begins To-day at Bridge Plaza on
First Direct Trolley Service.

Work will be started to-day on the plaza
OF the Queensboro Bridge, in Long Island
CITY. on the loop from the trolley tracks
crossing the bridge The plan is to accom-
modate the Third Avenue Railway Com
pany Of New York city. Later connec-
ton is to be made in Manhattan at Second
avenue and 59th street with the trolley
tracks on the south side of the bridge.
AS soon as these tracks are laid and the
connections made the Third Avenue COM
many is 10 establish a service across the
oueensboro Bridge 10 Long Island CITY
Under the terms Of the franchise TINS com
nanV will give n five-cent fare from Long
island CITY across the bridge TO Third ave
uue and then n transfer either up or down
town This will be the first direct C'nncr-
lion of Queens Borough with any or The
transit lines Of Manhattan.