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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17

ika-
Edward ID. winslow. of Illinois. now
AZ Plauen. TO be consul general at Cop
enhagen.
Lester Maynard. California. now al
Yladiyostok. 20 Hardin.
John r. Jewell. Illinois. now al Mel
bourne, to vladivostok.
w. G. p. Magelsson. Minnesota, now
az Colombo. to Melbourne.
Isaac A. Manning, Oregon. now at
La 0uaira. 10 Barranquilla.
Phillip r. Holland. Tennessee. now
at Puerto Plata. 10 Saltiilo.
George b. McGoogan. Indiana, now
at Progresso. to Georgetown.
Albert w. Pontius. Minnesota, now
at Chung King. to Dalny.
Il. Carleton Baker. California. now
at Antung, To Chung King
Ralph ID. Totten. Tennessee, now at
Maracaibo, 10 Trieste.
John A. Hay, Texas, now at Maskat,
TO Maracaibo.
Alexander Heingartner. Ohio, now
ut Batum. TO Liege.
Consular assistants made consuls:
Maddin Summers. Tennessee. 20
Chihuahua.
Milton B. Kirk. Illinois. to Manxan.
lilo.
Hubert G. Baugh. California. TO Sal
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17
SAYS BRITAIN IS
LOSING INDUSTRIES
with Free Trade Policy Can't Stand
Competition Of United States,
Writes J. +. Hartz.

In q letter written from Turin,
Switzerland. TO q Detroit friend. J. f.
Hartz, who with his famiiy has been
travelling In Europe during the sum
mer. makes the following interesting
comment on industrial conditions In
Britain:
we spent about month In Eng
land and one cannot fail To observe
the great difference between The la
boring class OF London and that OF our
larger cities In America We are
much more prosperous At home. five
dollars per week Is the income or the
average wageearner In London. We
nav this to our servants and then
have difiicnlty In securing satisfact'
DRY help.
1T was my pleasure 70 meet num-
Der or merchants In England, and they
were unanimous In their opinion re-
harding the undesirabiity OF con-
tfnced free trade for Great Britain
she has lost many industries because
she cannot compete with modern
methods on q large scale. as carried
ON In America. To re-establish some
OF the lost industries. such as wire
making. Il would require q protective
tariff against the American market
The last election would Indicate that
the people are not ready for this, me
glory OF Britain Ia on tho wane unless
the tide changes. Lloyd George. as one
al their conspicuous members OF par
liament. N trying 10 tax the unusued
I1pds and force chapge OF owner
an In order to mako the land pro
du6@ye. They have Q great many
larFA estates, surrounded with stone
wallis, The land ought 10 be produc-
tive ana employ labor. but II USED
onlv for the lord OF the estate TO hunt
over. free from taxation There ID
growing sentiment OF discomfort. In
britain today, on the part OF the MID
dle-class that will have to be oeait
with sooner or later. Britain mas 70
Inv nine-tenths e her food stun II ID
chiefy 4 grazing tpuhtry and yet they
INV their cheese from Canada and
United Stztes, and their mutton HUM
Australia
Germany In very progressive ano
nrosperuus and has advanced wonder
fnIlv In ali her Industries, the past
Few years. This may be one OF the
rrasons why Kaiser wilhelm 10 20 az
rreeaiye for more territory. Germany
Wants more colonies for the output o.
her products and the enlargement OF
her empire. Germany has had an eye
20 the future welfare of her merchants
ard manufacturers that has not been
the case with Britain"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17
FOOTBALL RULES ABOUT
THE SAME AS LAST YEAR
Those Who Managed TO Keep Up With
the 1910 Legislation Didn't
Waste Time.

Few changes have been made in the
football rules for the coming season,
and the style of play will be the same
as last year. Only changes regarding
technical points have been made. The
new rules will be made public nexr
week.
Coaches have been able this season
TO do early planning, and the game
should be better played than last
year Changes In the rules regarding
the forward pass, the big play OF the
new game, ere made last year, and
coaches couldn't lay their plans until
the rules were issued.
Stage. Yost and other coaches are
expected to start early the execution
OF shifts ind passes that will dazzle
opponents. Plays that failed last
season will be revised or dropped.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17
MOTHER AND BABY ARE
BLOWN FROM THEIR BED
Husband Of Woman Refuses Black
Handlers Tribute and Home 10
Wrecked With Bomb.

NEW YORK, Aug. ia mother
and her newborn baby were literally
blown from their bed In the beehive
section of New York's seething easI
side early today. The outrage was
committed by Italian. Black Handlers
enraged because a prospective victim
had refused to pay tribute.
That both were not instantly killed
was due entirely to the Iact that the
bed, In anticipation Of the arrival Of
the stork. had been moved from its
original place to the front of the room.
Because OF the dastardly nature OF the
crime Police Commissioner Waldo and
Inspector Hughes took personal
charge Of the detectives trying to find
the dynamiters.
The woman was Mrs. Jennie Collar
usso. Her boy baby was born just "a
hours before the attempt on his and
his mothers lives. The exploding
bomb threw them out Of the bed onto
the floor. where they were covered
with plaster and falling debris. They
were hurried to a hospital.
Fifty inmates of the house rushed
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17
TAFT HANDS OUT
APPOINTMENTS
Many Changes To Be Made in Per
sonnet of Consular Service at
Home and Abroad.

WASHINGTON, Aug. i7.-President
Taft this afternooh nominated;
William Spencer. of Philadelphia.
Pa. now private secretary to the as
sistant secretary of state, to be sec
ond secretary OF the embassy at Ber'
lin.
Arthur H. Frazier. OF Pennsylysnia.
charge daffaires al Bogoto, Columbia,
to be second secretary OF the embassy
at Vienna.
George Horton. OF Illinois. now con-
sui at Salonika. to be consul general
at Smyrna
John e. Kehl. OF Ohio. now at sgd
ney, ". s. W.. to be consul at Salon
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17

con. Cochin China
Consuls:
Walter II. Schulz, Oklahoma. %
Alden.
Charles II. Hathaway. Pennsylvania.
10 Puerto Elata.
George r. Davis. Missouri, to Ceipns
Graham III. Kemper. Kentucky. 70
Cartagena.
Frederick T.. K. Edmont. Pennsyl'
vania, to Guadeloupe.
Emil Sauer. Texas. TO Bagdad.
Homer Brett. Mississippi. to Naskat.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17
WOMAN BLOWN TO
ATOMS IN EXPLOSION
Mr.. Calvin Loveft Victim OF Mys-
terIous Tragedy In Her Own
Home.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. Aug. IT.
Mrs. Calvin Lovett was blown 70
ntosns shortly before nine o'clock
thia morning, In q mysterious explo-
aion which wrecked her home
Tho force OF the outburst tore the
head Of the victim from her Dooy
and severed one arm at the shoulder.
The belief of police officers 10 that
the house was blown up with nitro
elycerine, and they suspect that the
woman herself set on the explosive.
She was a former inmate OF the
asylum here. about so years old. Her
husband, a retired farmer, left for
Grand Rapids this morning. II 10 not
believed there was anybody In the
house with the woman at the time oil
the explosion.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17

SAULT STE. MARIE. Mich, Aug
i5.t-Shot through the heart by a
gun. with which he IL supposed to have
been playing. eight.year-old Paul
Beck was Instantly killed al the sum.
.nor home OF his parents, about eight
miles from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. His
sisters we're out berrying when they
heard a shot and hurried back. The
body was found by a younger sister.
Tie lay On front Of the muzzle OF the
frn. whilo the butt was resting on q
sewing machine.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17
CAPT. MCDONNELL VISITED
BY FRIEND OF WAR TIMES
Leo schuman and Chief Of Detectives
Fight Over Again Battles Of
Lonu AGO.

6S"to ~
The detective bureau In the central
police station was converted into a
yeritable battle-ground, Thursday
morning. when one Of Capt Melon
nell's warrior friends dropped In on
him for q little chat The friend In
Leo Schuman. The last time the cap
tain saw Mr.. 5chuman was 46 years
ago. when the pair fought side by side
right where the bullets flew thickest.
Schuman was In the 175th New York
regiment and was only few feet
away when the colonel of Capt Nc
Donnell's regiment was shot and kill
cd The captain and his visitor went
over many an engagement together.
Mr.. Schuman's business keeps him
In Chicago and St Louis. He hap
pened to be passing through Detroit
and dropped into headquarters to fight
over few old battles with the head
OF the detective bureau and recall
memories OF days when they were
young men together.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17

this Is fulfilled. there will be great re
joicing In Zion for 1t will mean that
the receivership for the town will be
abolished and the lace and candy fac
tories reopened.
Accompanying the declaration"
was a letter asking the amount Of fee
for fling the paper. The fees will be
sent az soon as the paper 81 filed.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17
BELATED HYDRoPHoBIA.
Woman Develops Disease From Bite
Five Years Old.

NEW YORK, Aug. i7.-Barkins
and frothing at the mouth, Mr.
Amanda irwin, confined In IN, psy'
chopathic ward OF Bellevue hospital
is today suffering from enc Of the
worst cases OF hydrophobia that ever
came to the attention OF the hospital
stan It was Ave years ago that Mrs
Irwin was bitten by dog. now sup
posed to have been rabld. but II was
not until few days ago that she de
yeloped symptoms Of hydrophobia.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17

to the streets In terror. when the ex-
plosion took place. Antonio Colarus-
so. retired wine and olive merchant.
husband and father Of the victims,
told the police he had received letters
signed by the Black Hand, demanding
money.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17
Electric Workers Cult.

LIVERPOOL. Aug. 1.-THE electric
supply workers went on strike today
and orders have been issued directing
the soldiers TO 60 TO work In the
power and lighting plants OF the city.
These plants will be operated by the
government until the strikers can be
replaced
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17
COL ROOSEVELT NOW
PROUD GRANDFATHER
wife Of Theodore Jr., Gives Birth TO
Daughter.


BAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. H.
Il 10 Grandpa Teddy" today. A daugh.
ter was born 70 Mr.. and Mrs. Theo-
dore, Jr., early today.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, and Miss
Eieanor Butler Alexander we're mar,
ried In New York city, on June 20,
1910, their wedding being made q
big society event. Previous to his
marriage the son OF the former presi.
dent had learned the carpet business
IN Hartford, Conn, and was made
western manager Of the manufactur.
ing company just after his wedding.
Following their marriage the
koosevelts came to this city, where
Theodore Jr., has been engaged In
the carpet business and has been
very successful II is stated at the
Roosevelt home that mother and baby
are doing nicely.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17
Physicians Recommend Castoria

AST0RA has met with pronounced favor the part physicians pharma
ceuca societies and medical authorities It used by physicians with
gratifying The extended Of Oastoa PROFESSIONALLY the
three facts: fse ndisputabs evidence that is harmless:
shat not only aays stomach pains and qe the but asm
food: TI agreeable and perfect substitute for Castor Oil
absolutely SAFE does not contain any Opium Morphine other narcotic
stupe unlike Soothing Sypa Bemans Drops Godys
Cordial This good deal for Medical Journal say Our duty how
danger and record the Of advancing health The day
for poisoning Innocent children through greed ignorance ought TO end 10
knowledge Oasa remedy which produces and health BY
regulating the by Supplying and readers entitled to
the information Journal of Health
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17
IT IS STRANGE HOW ATTENTr

China Sea, En- Route to Hong-kong.
Dear Bill ... ... -
After a trip on the British India
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17
Hav. the Markings"

Grifnth's Cubans have the max
ings OF good ball tossers. They are
able TO roll a cigarett with one hand.
Rufrles became fashionable in mas.
cuiins attire IN tic year 1920 and went
out OF style In 1890.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06
An Imaginary Woe

notony, always monotony! Always the
same side OF the bed to get out Of
the same way the same time every
morning. the same routine in getting
in my clothes. the same round of du-
ties all day the same monotonous cir
Gle to be travelled till / go to bed at
night trying to be grateful that have
a good bed, and can sleep and be re-
freshed for tomorrow with the same
circles TO be travelled over again t-
you ungrateful creature, my con-
science cries: have you forgotten the
girl who cried for anything to break
the monotony, and whose wish was
answered by misfortunes that came
thick and fast?
Have you disregarded the warning
in the life Of every one who suffers
the jolts and jars that come to those
who leave the rut and know monotony
no longer?"
Il do not forget: every punishment
sent 70 the ungrateful is my danger
sign always in sight. but must I al
ways keep these dismal signals in
view? VIII I always have to whip
myself into a reconciled mood to this
spending Of life, moving in circle2
win the battle never be fought. and
contentment be won?
Must my W be devoted to conjur-
ing up the misfortunes OF others that
/ may bo able to look my few bur
dens in the face and see that they are
not burdens at all? VIII l ever find
peace in monotony?'
Then the woman walled and walled,
and those who heard and who believed
their troubles were real shifted in scorn.
They didn't know that she suffered as
much as they; they didn't realize that
all who wall and groan and lament have
troubles that are imaginary.
They didn't know that II is always
the one whose affiction Is highest who
makes the most sound; that it is the one
carrying the smallest burden who stops
oftenest to drop his burden TO the ground
and wall.
Neither did they know that the only
sop to an imaginary grief is a real one.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06
BY FRANCES L. GARsIDE.

There appeared at the waiting place
recently a woman who apparently had
more than the average share OF the
good things Of life, but she walled and
walled and walled, and finally her wall
ing drowned all other complaining
when I get up in the morning she
walled, Il try to be grateful that l am
able to get up, and reflect with thank
full heart that l am not sick or crippled.
A procession OF the belfast passes before
me, and am grateful that | am not as
they.
Then I think of those who are able
TO work. but can't find work TO do;
who seek with willing hands for en-
ployment, and face want with an army
Of unemployed. and with these two
reasons for contentment in my mind
begin my daily fight against monotony
For that is what | am wailng about,
lifting her voice 10 a piercing shrek
'Monotony, monotony, monotonyl mo-
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06
By Dorothy Dix
Copgr4Sht 1911. National New Association.

Great Unit till ell shah he unit again
Secondly, l should wish for love. Tt
those that love, life eternal is a mag
nificent reality; 10 the loveless how
dreadful IL the thought of immortality
Then ! would wish for faith, not so much
in God as in my fellow man. These things
l would wish for, and In finding them
find all things"
Then comes two letters that glimpse
two OF the real tragedies of life-ont
from an old woman. who says that she
would ask for only $50 a month TO ease
her pathway to the grave and make hen
last days comfortable And the other
letter is from young man. dying with
tuberculosis. and whose one desire is fol
life
Maud Stoutenburgh Elliot, like the late
Mr.. Webb, drops into poetry and writes
Three wishes
Fairy dear of by-gone ages,
Come from childhood storied pages,
Touch with your wand my wishes three
And so transform the world for me.
First wish
That ! may never bitter be
For what life hath denied to me;
Learning to smile and bear my cross,
That others may not know my loss.
Second wish
that ! so bind may never be
fail brothers woe 10 see,
cut rather share with him his pain
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06

moderate in their desires, especia,
when they are young, and here's VIII.
a 17-year-old girl says she would ask
her fairy godmother. She writes:
Il should ask first to be beautiful, re
ond, to marry a rich professional m;
and third, to have pretty children"
However, as women grow older tn,
acquire more judgment, and one, "
ought to be a good suftragette, II
isn't, writes:
My first wish would be that we mig
have a better government in our
My second wish would be that men mi
have a better opinion Of women
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06

answer has been health, moderate pros
perity and love. They are the great
eternal needs, and it grips one by the
throat TO think of the many pain-racked.
hungry-hearted and empty-handed who
ask nothing of life but that which should
be the common heritage of all.
But these letters. lifting for an instant
the veil that convention forces men and
women to hold between their faces and
the world, and showing their innermost
desires. make a human document that is
wonderfully interesting and suggestive.
For instance read this from an intelligent
young man who says that il he can
realize these three wishes he will die
content:
First" he writes, Il desire a good
wife; one who will make a man happy
and comfortable home. but be not merely
housekeeper; a pal a chum, a COM
panion, a friend counsellor, between
whom and myself there will always be
perfect understanding
Second congenial work at a task that
l like, and that will return sufficient
financial returns TO give me the com
forts and harmless Injuries of life. and
enable me 10 make provision for old age.
But do not ask for wealth, as a man
must have some occupation to be happy.
Third; children. place this last be-
cause man should not bring children
into the world until he has the means
10 care for and educate them Well"
One who has seen the world writes
and his wishes come pretty near to secur-
ing a cinch on happiness-thus
II a could have my three wishes l
should ask for country place with suf-
ficient acreage to enable a worker to
get a yearly profit. Secondly, for a
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06

An editorial. recently printed, asked
readers to tell what three things they
would ask for should a good fairy APP
pear to them, as in the old nursery tale,
and offer them their hearts desire.
Many letters have been received in an
swer to this question, and it is curious
and pathetic to note how reasonable are
the requests that most people make Of
fate, how little they ask and how similar.
how universal, is the cry that goes up
from every heart to the high gods.
A few wish they might have the wealth
OF a Rockefeller, the power Of a czar,
the beauty Of Venus or the genius Of
Napoleon, but in more than 20 per cent of
the replies TO the query What would
you p,'- " . tf Won had three wishes" the
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06

sood sensible wife who knows herself and
who would understand me. and, thirdly,
eversl children. The result of having
hese wishes granted would mean health,
Hanpiness and independence"
Right-O-!
Here's another man who signs himself
"Frenchman," and who only needs to stop
wishing and go accounting to be his own
good fairy and get what he wants He
says:
MY three wishes would be to marry
4 good true woman, about 10 years old
and with some money so ! wouldn't have
to worry about making a living. Second,
TO travel and see the world. Third, to
he a good, true husband "
Women Of course, aren quite 80
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06

AS for me, I should wish for the fol-
wing three things:
First, Money, dreadfully much of It
much that l could give everybody
st enough to get disguised with It; sec
d, Love, very much of 4, so much of it
rat people would feel compelled by It to
cognize their neighbors as such, and
rd power to induce. and, II necessary,
n to compel people to mind their own
siness."
or my part. I hope he gets his wishes,
ecially that last o = about compelling
ople to mind their own business.
ictor Burr is a transcendental phil
ppher and he doesn't bother with com.
n mundane desires. He says:
would wish for knowledge-power Ia
in the heavens at night something
re than so many points of fire that
Il the sky'-light to read correctly the
cic page and follow the development
worlds from the time OF the first
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06
Progressive Millinery
BY Tao

Matched young left to starve in order to
obtain the priced feather which is her
badge of motherhood, was enough to
Danish this particular feather from hats
and honncts and cause women to inquire
how the ornaments to their bonnets were
obtained But It required the law to
bring about reform.
Mlllneryism is nothing Is not progress
siVe. Hats Of the fall mode are now seen
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06
BY SAM SMALL, JR.

Years of conscientious and unflagging
effort on the part Of the Audubon society
finally was rewarded in this state by
the passage OF law forbidding the sale
Of feathers of certain birds OF
rare plumaEe, Such feathers were
used almost exclusively for the
adornment of feminine headgear The
law was intended TO halt the wauton
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06

destruction and threatened determination
of beautiful and harmless native birds
and as protest against unspeakable
cruelties practised abroad by feather
hunters.
The hunting Of the egret alone, where
the mother bird is slain and her newly
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06

third wish is that a man grown old with
sorrow and labor should not be cast aside
but be able to find a position in which to
work as well as a young man"
The best isn't any too good for Ct
V Seymour. who writes:
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06

in the shops and on the streets decor
ated 90 with the heads OF white rabbits
After the rabbits, what? Heaven forbid
that with the labors of the Audubon
society at an end the Society for the
Protection of Cruelty to Animals will
have to step in.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06

From it's necessity salt in many coun-
tries has been a favorite subject Of
taxation, and important political results
have sometimes arisen from the eXtor-
ton practiced by the collectors.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06

Salt is the only mineral substance uni
versally required as an article OF food by
man and the higher orders of the animal
kingdom.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06

TIL hope shall blossom once again.
Third wish
The third and dearer than the rest
Is for the one whom | love best
That while he tolls from day 20 day,
(This is the first article by Dorothy
Dix, containing replies to the Three
The thought of me, may light his way.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-06
Sailed

In the ancient times new born infants
were rubbed with salt.
During the Crimean war the price of
salt In Russia was exorbtant.
Certain plants which grow at the sea-
shore can not thrive without salt
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-09-15
Thirty Years together.

Thity years of notwithstanding u
- How the merit of a good thlpe
st,rds ont in that time-er the worth
1essness of bad one. So there's ho
euesswork in this evidence OF mos Vs.
Ariss, Concord, Mich, who writes /
have used DR.. Kings New Discovery
for 40 wears, and it's the best cough
and cold cure l ever used" once II
6nds entrance in a home you can
-, - ont Many families have useu
+ forty years. It's the most infalliole
tbroat and lung medicine on ear'h'
Unequalod for lagrippe., asthma sdra iu may.
fever, Group. quinsY or sore '"ns
price Soc, S1.OO Trial bottle Tree
rmsTrantced by W. NJ. A. Hayden