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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
BROMO SELTzER KING
SUING SUING FOR OR DIVORCE! D! ! o||CE
Captain Emerson Accuses His
Wife of Undue Intimacy With
Clubman.

Baltimore, Md. Jan. 23.--Captain
Isaac Emerson, millionaire drug manu-
%facturer, the bronze settler king, whose
daughter Margaret recently wa di-
vorced from DR.. Smith Hollis McKim,
has secretly filed suit for divorce here
from Mrs. Emerson. Contrary to the
usual procedure, the papers We're hand
ed to the judge Of the circuit court and
not sent into the clerks office.
Mrs. Emerson, who has been
ing alone the mansion near Druid Hill
park for some time, 1t IS said, has
been served with summons to APP
pear and answer. 1t has been reported
that c.. Hazeltine Basshor, manufac-
turer and club member, has been named
correspondent. Mr.. Basshor when in
formed hat he had been named CO.
respondent appeared surprised.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
'BRADSTREET and Dun
REPORT ON BUSINESS
Strong Improvements Shown In
Financial Conditions, IS the
Statement Made.

New York. Fan. 23.-Dun's review
Saturday said:
Improvement In financial conditions
aas been a marked development In
the last few days, and to some extent
has been accompanied by o more ac-
tive trade distribution, although the
Industrial contraction OF the last half
year is still in evidence.
This Improvement also is reflected
IN more encouraging aspects of the
Iron and steel market. While produc-
ton is still only half capacity, and
there is no decided change In condi-
tons, yet there is new export busi-
ness of note and increased buying by
the railroads. Copper is slightly weak
er, because stocks are heavy, notwith-
standing the big world consumption.
MANY large dry goods buyers have
been in he primary markets. but their
operations are still along conservative
lines. A considerable export trade has
last seven weeks. Printers are get
ting a very fair share of trade.
Bleached sheetings have been adj
vanced and common blankets have
been priced for the eason at very
slight advances"
Bradstreet's today says:
TRADE undercurrents are running
more freely in with the
progress of the season. While the
larger centers report that statesmen
are sending in better orders for dry
goods and kindred lines, less important
cities, principally in the south, agree
trade is only fair to good.
"At the moment jobbers are busy
on early spring shipments, and whole
sale trade a not vet assumed an ac-
tive appearance. In fact, buyers are
still displaying a conservative attitude,
preferring apparently to buy frequent
Iy rather than In large volume at any
one time. In Industrial lines little in the
way of Improvement has developed.
On the one hand there is a better de-
mand for lumber at southern points.
fertilizers were active, farm machinery
is in GOOD request and builders hard
ware is in demand. Profits In this
line are scanty. Brightness in those
lines is offset by further weakness in
pig iron, by continued dullness in
the steel rad in general, by quietness
in curtailments OF leather output and by
the widespread demand, north and
south, for a further reduction in cot
ton mill products. In the cotton goods
trade, ginghams and the finer makes
Of goods are relatively best situated,
but coarser articles do not make an
enyiable shoWing-1n b east h shoa
industry is quiet.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending January
10 were 302, against 1853 last week, 275
in the like week Of 1910, BOZ in 1909, 408
in 1908 and 1852 in 1907.
Business failures In Canada for the
week number 80, which compares with
SO last week, and 40 in the like week
Of last year"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
SPEAKER CANNON Mo
DEVOTEE OF THE PIPE
uncle Joe" Refuses to Be
Photographed With Corncob
Presented by Champ Clark.

Washington, Jan. 23.-"Uncle Joe"
Cannon admits that he swears like a
trooper, ciIews tobacco and smokes
cigars, but he refuses to be known as
a pipe smoker When asked to pose
for a photograph showing him smoking
a Missouri corncob presented to him by
Champ Clark, ne said:
NOW, don't ask me a favor like that.
I cannot comply with it. My public
character is even now all too clearly
marked with foibles. The public knows
me as a constant smoker of cigars:
they know that l sometimes chew to-
bacco and that l swear like a trooper.
But I am not a pipe smoker. When
Champ Clark gave me that pipe l
loaded It up and smoked it Just once.
/ used to smoke a pipe and l used to
like it, but l have been a cigar smoker
SO long that the pipe Is not a part of
my makeup.
Everybody thinks I am a regular
old devil now, SO please don't make
them think any worse of me. 1 have
put the pipe away with a lot of other
trinkets and mementoes. 1t will be fun
to look over them some day when I am
out OF the run n ave time hanging
heavy on my hands"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
CUMMINS is AGAINST
SHIP SUBSIDY GRAFT

.sAHu G5ErTE ESaE=f
washington, Jan. 2s.-Asserting in
the Senate h a the pending ocean mail
bounty bill is a mere entering wedge to
q general subsidy which may require
an annual expenditure of from $751;
100000 to $780, 900, 900, Senator Cum
fnins, of Iowa, yesterday made vigorous
onslaught OIL that measure. Senator
Burton, of Ohio, also attacked the bill,
as calculated to be very expensive and
do little good.
Senator Gallnger defended the meas
nre, asserting that 1t would constitute
q much-needed stimulus to a decadent
shipping. He asserted that in the
pending bill, the postmaster general is
given a power of discretion never yet
imposed in mortal man."
Declaring that we might not always
have a postmaster general of the
thighest integrity and greatest wis
DOM" he urged amendments to the
measure. He said the language Of the
bill contemplated compensation for
both the inward and outward voyage.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
NO RESULT IN VOTE
FOR SENATOR As YET
Quorum Fails to Appear at AL
bany and Single Ballot Shows
No Change.

Albany, II. Y, Jan. 23.-The fourth
joint ballot for United States senator
today esulted in no choice. No quorum
Of the Joint legislative assembly was
present and the votes cast indicated no
change in the situation.
Mr.. Sheehan returned to New York
last night, but intends to return Mon
day. His departure emphasizes che gem
eral belief hat the truce will last
over today's session. Before he depart
ed he paid his secon visit to the ex-
ecutive chamber and made another ef-
fort to enlist Governor Dix's aid.
All the governor would say about
this conference was that Mr.. Snee
han showed him a copy of the letter
written in his behalf by Mr.. Parker.
The governor added that his position
on the senatorship question was un-
changed. He believed 1t his duty to
keep his hands off.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
RECIPROCITY DEAL IS
FIXED UP With CANADA
American Commissioners Reach
Agreement With Their Neigh
bors In the North.

Washington. Jan. 23.-The American
and Canadian reciprocity committees
today began their last session OF their
treaty conference. All members were
present and also Secretary Knox. They
met behind closed doors at the state
department shortly after announcement
was made that an agreement had been
reached.
commissioners Jointly issued the fol-
lowing statement, which was all they
would say in regard to the result Of
their undertaking:
1.-THE negotiators have reached an
agreement which, when certain form
alities are completed, will be made
public at Washington and Ottawa. It
is thought this may be done next
Thursday"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
Washington
DATE IS FIXED FOR
DOLLIYER EULOCIES
Senate Will Pay Tribute to De-
ceased Iowa Senator on
Saturday, February 18.

washington, Jan. 2S.-Saturday, Feb
ruary Is, was ixed by the Senate TO-
day as the time for eulogtes on Sena-
tor Dolliver. Eulogies on Senator Clay.
OF Georgia, will be held the same day.
Senator Cummins will speak In honor
OF Senator Dolliver and so Will Senator
Young il present. Eight or 10 other
senators Will speak.
!. Senator Hale wanted two days fixed
on which TO dispose OF all eulogies on
the six senators who have died since
the last session. Senator Cummins OBJ
Jected that this would not be fitting.
and would seem to crowd too many eu-
logies into q short space of time.
Iowa postinasters have ben appointed
ed as follows:
James c, Scott, Glidden; Oscar Nc
Crary. Keosauqua; c. j. Schneider,
Garner; Henry O.. Walker. Iowa City,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
SECRETARY NORTON is
TO RESIGN POSITION

Washington, Jan. 23.-The fact that
Charles Norton, secretary to the presi-
dent would retire from that position in
the near future and return to private
business in Chicago was disclosed yes
terday in connection with the proposal
to Increase the salary of the position
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
: 1t was said in the subcommittee Of
the Senate committee on nance that
while Mr.. Norton strongly urged the
increase in connection with the re-
organization Of the White House staff,
he had declared that he would not him
self get the benefit Of the increase.
\ It was further said that MI. Norton's
successor vas long ago decided upon,
but that no announcement on that
question would be made at present.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
NO INJURY
TO HOME OF WASHINGTON

Washington, Jan. 23.-The commits
sion Of the fine arts, which was called
upon by President Taft several days
ago to decide whether the District of
Columbia should be allowed to build
a reformatory neal Mount Vernon, has
decided that it sees no objection on
esthetic grounds to such ACTOR.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
TO BOAT.

Copenhagen, Jan. 23.-The newly
built torpedo a yesta. which left
Karlskrona, Sweden, yesterday on a
trial trip INC was later reported as
missing was towed into this port today.
She was discovered drifting with her
propeller shaft broken.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
INsTITuTE.

Detroit, Mich, Jan. 23.-The sessions
Of the National Playground Institute
at which a paper on Civic and Social
Centers in Public School Buildings"
was read by e. j. Ward. Of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin. IFS was followed
by a Round table discussion" led by
George w. Ehler. Of the same institu-
ton
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
RAZOR FOR SIR THoMAs.

had an awkward adventure at his
country place today with a supposed
%lunatic, who exhibited a razor to em-
phasiZe a request for financial assist
Sir Thomas xcNsed himself
from the visitor and notified the DO
lice who took the man into custody.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
HILLEs OFFERED POST
OF SECRETARY TO TAFT

Washington, Jan. 23.-charies
D. Hilles, assistant secretary of
the treasury, has been offered
by President Taft, the position
Of secretary to the president,
This information came TO-DAY
from a reliable source. Ii was
added that MI. Hilies is con.Sd-
erina it.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
BOwLINe

st. Louis, Mo. Jan. 23.-BowIers from
SIS cities and towns. representing l6
states. will be on the alleys of the nth
annual tournament of the American
Bowling congress-, which begins here
tonight and closes February &
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
COLD FoR EGYpT.

London. jan. 23.-Bullion amounting
to $4,000 was taken into the Bank of
England today, and s100.0 600 was with
drawn for shipment to Egypt. !,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
Aviator Atwood's Great Flight

Aviator Atwood completed his flight of 1265 miles in a little over eleven days. He could carry but twelve gallons of gasoline and he used one gallon to every ten miles. So far as can be foreseen, airships will, for long time to come, have to come down at the end of about every one hundred miles of straight-away flight.
 If an end could be put to meets and that circus feats and all flights confined to straight-away attempts, not only would disasters be largely avoided, but aviation would begin to assume a practical commercial form. Glides and all similar feats are of little value now. Let the country be filled with men like Atwood, who flew from St. Louis to New York in an actual flying time of 29 hours and 31 minutes. Flights of this nature are what is needed at this stage of aviation, and meets of the Chicago sort are no longer needed and they should not be called for. The man. agement of the Alabama State Fair would do well to cut out circus feats and compel it's. aviator to fly to Bes- semer or to East Lake and return for given purse. Speed and safety in straight-away flights are what are needed BOW. The circus stage with its inevitable disasters is passed and it should not be recalled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
Truly, madam, he holds BeIzebub at the slaves end, we'll as a man in his ease may do. Twelfth Nirbt.
Onward Movement

I During the prohibition amendment campaign in 1909 the president of one of New York's large national banks spent week here, and as he was leaving, gave The Age-Herald an interview in which he said that if the people were to poll a majority in favor of the amendment Alabama would be thrown backward many years; that capital naturally avoided a state or community dominated by : any radical or narrow element. The decisive defeat of the amendment was a turning point in Alabama's history. 5 It was telling reaction from sump- tuary legislation. It spelt progress.
 The election of an anti-prohi- bition governor and legislature the year following the defeat of the proposed amendment was an- other blow to radicalism, and the day that Alabama returned to the local option column property values moved to a higher level. Jefferson county had been regarded as a hotbed of ultra a-prohibition, and when the prohi- bitionists met defeat here on Thurs day, last, the business community breathed freer. It was practically a last word-a word with emphasis. The result was followed by a buoy ancy of spirit that had not been felt since the county went dry nearly four years ago.
 With the growth of Birmingham there is steady increase in the lib- eral vote, and there is also corres- bonding confidence and stability in the business world. It is safe to say i that prohibition will never win an-
 other victory in Jefferson county.
 The get-together spirit will be more
 fin evidence than ever before for the 1. upbuilding purpose has received a mighty stimulus. Birmingham's pub
 lic-spirited citizens, full of civic pride,
 will go forward with pluck and energy
 to make this the cleanest and best
 city of its size in all the land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
SOUTHERN ORE SUPPLY

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
 Dr. John Sharshall Grasty, mining and economic geologist and adjunct professor Of economic geology in the University of Virginia, has been discussing in the Balti- more Evening Sun the development of the steel, industry in the south- He has had wide experience in Investigating the ore supplies of the Birmingham district, and he points out that since the Stanley in- yestigatlng committee began it's work the mistaken idea has gone abroad that the pany, which was absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation, owned practi- cally all of the ore supplies of the south. "As a matter of fact" said Dr. Grasty, that company's holdings constituted about one-ffth of the total tonnage of the south.'
 Members of the United States Geological Survey say that tbere is moro iron orc in the south than in the Lake Superior region. Southern ores are not as high grade as those of the Superior district. but their proximity to the coal and limestone beds, and their peculiar character of two kinds, limey and silicious make them more profitable to work than the Sue perior ores. When properly mixed these ores form natural Aux from their im- purities, requiring but little addition of dolcmite or limestone.
 .~rhe south,'' concludes pr. Grasty, 'is Idestined to be the center of the steel in- dustrv in this country, notwithstanding the contrary opinion of J. J. HILL"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
Unwarranted Executive Action

MT. Underwood correctly presents the stand taken by the President in tariff matters. He is, however, too polite to say, as he might truthfully have said, that the President has gone straight over to the standpat camp and that he expects vast fund raised by the tariff beneficiaries to re-elect him president next year. He knows that presidential elections in the past have gone in accordance with the biggest campaign fund, and he, no doubt, believes history will re- peat itself next year,
 But it will not. The people have deal of horse sense. When they see home prices advancing, when they know that trusts and monopolies, sheltered by the Payne wall, are sell ing products cheaper abroad than at home, when they see honest revision of the tariff downward thwarted by presidential vetoes based on bogus tariff board-when they see all these things as they do and will, it is fool ish to say they will not act up to their information at the. polls next year.
 Congress did revise downward the woolen, cotton, chemical and iron and steel schedules, and it did pass free list bill covering many of the neces- saries of life. President Taft vetoed these bills contrary to his pledges to the people. He based this unusual display of arbitrary power on the non-action of so-called tariff board, which exists without authority of law. The three men on that board are not tariff makers. They are men little known. To say that they may stand in the way of the expressed will of the people and lawful lawmakers is preposterous, and the people op- pressed by rising prices will say so next year.
 The vetoes of a despotic executive who proposes to override in that way both expressed public sentiment and the legislative branch of the govern ment will be met by voters next year that will make unmistakably plain the will of the consumer in a period of rising prices. It promises to lead to a landslide, and the vetoes will, therefore, have served a good pur- pose by hanging up before all the diff ferences between standpatism and honest downward revision.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
"LITTLE LORD FAUN1LEROY"

From Best Sellers of Yesterday. V. F. H.
 Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy.'
 By Arthur Bartlett Maurice in the
 September Bookman.
 Finally the day came when she made up her mind to write story about him. She would put him in a world quite new to him and see what he would do. Then the problem arose how bring a little American boy into close rela- tionship with an English nobleman- irascible, conservative. disagreeable? He must live with him, otalk to him, show him his small, unconscious repub- lican mind. He will be more effective if I make him a child who has lived in the simplest possible way. Eurckas Son of a younger son, separated from ill-tempered father because he has mar ried poor young American beauty Young father dead. Elder brothers dead Boy comes into title, How 1t would amuse him and bewilder hm." Then came the question of the title. Little Lord Som ethng -Other! A day later it was Little Lord Fauntleroy. A story like that is easily written, for as Mrs. Burnett said, 1t was in part being lived before her eyes. For example, on the evening of the day before Fauntleroy spent his morning with Lord Dorincourt the inspiration of the story took into his mothers room a parlor baseball game which he endeav- ored to explain to his own huge de- light From that grew an episode Tn the book In like manner almost every day the author recorded some thing he said or suggested. And how delightful 1t was to read the mann- script to him and his brother He used to sit in the large armchair, holding hfs knee or with his hands in his pockets. DO you know he said to me once, I like that boy There is one thing about him, he never forgets Dearest When the first appearance of the false claimant occurred he turned quite pale So did his brother oh, dearest they Erasped, why did you do that? Oh, don't do it'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

Stephen French Whitman, in Harper's Weekly
 There is one game that Americans have taken at sea with them, until it has finally learned to go out of it's own ac cord romping and ravaging and laying waste up and down the main. And if you want to see it, though it is carly fcr it yet, we will go out and look for it in the smoking room.
 You may put in time very agreeably at this pastime. Any solitary man who wears large diamonds and shuffies a wfist-deck nimbly is legitimate prey. Sit where you can see him and he cannot see you and watch him narrowly. Your con- victions is bound to deepen, and if he refuses to be drawn into cash games, you may denounce him fretfully to yourself as a clever rogue. The next morning, per haps. as you are passing along, the gal lery above the dining-saloon, you will see below you another man, peaceably con- veying portions of pancake to his mouth with a jeweled hand. At that, like a flash. you know that you have been mis- taken. This is the man, undoubtedly,
 
 forward.
 The game may be continued, varying pleasantly, until the landing It is more popular than you would think
 Sometimes-and those times are red-let- ter days indeed-they do discover real one in time. There was, stout, jolly man, once, who simply had to be dragged into a game His luck was phenomenal. There was a good deal of money on the board, finally, when one player suddenly lay across the table and, quite in the Western Stonybrook manner grabbed the | stout, jolly mans hand. And the stout. | jelly man--dd he rise. angry and indig- nant, and say he had been insulted? No: he forgot that. He broke a bottle of short at the neck and tried to stick the jagged part of it Into the inquisitive gentleman's counenance.
 They tried the stout, jolly man in the smoking-rooN next day-a court-mari- time, as it were. Every one agreed that his way of showing his temper was beast ly, but. what was more to the point, the inquisitive gentleman declared that the suspect had dealt a very peculiar hand and they were trying to prove that The suspect was allowed to testify for him. self, and said, among other interesting things, that he had served at Khybel Pass and been mortally wounded there They let him go. They had not ths heart to convict man who had beer mortally wounded at Khyber Pass.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

ent, and Governor Wilson proposes to put up a fence between Spring Lake and Long Branch and New York city.
 Thus far the meetings of the gov ernors have been strictly social. In some cases they have been junkets, for some states have made appropri- ations for them. If at Spring Lake plans could be laid for uniform mar riage, divorce and probate laws the house of governors would cease to be joke, and it would, perhaps, be put in a way to become valuable part of the government. Uniformity must ever remain the keynote of this academic body.
 The meeting at Spring Lake under the strong guiding hand of Governor Wilson will, perhaps, determine the fate of the house of governors. It can loaf. It can, however, work in until it formulates con- structive bills that it's members can push through their respective legisla- lures if they make use of all the in- fluence they possess. Will they do it?