The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

much to encourage attempts to weld so- | calism and radicalism together. I Harry Plate, master plumber of Han over, has been honored by the Kaiser, I who has conferred on him lifelong mem | bership of the Prussian upper chamber. l Herr Plate is one of the leading labor l leaders. He was for years chairman of l the Hanover Plumbers union. and is now l chairman of the Hanover Chamber of | Commerce. Plate has lived in many Eu- ropean countries while working as I journeyman plumber, and speaks several languages.
 1 The Cologne Gazette says Germany is l gratified at Herr Plates elevation to the
 upper house of the Prussian parliament. l Some curious statements with regard ito the letter of Archbishop Fischer of 1 Cologne. in which the Pope stated that, though the anti-modernism oath was not
 obligatory for lay professors of Catholic 1 theology 1t would be cowardly on their I part if they took advantage of this ex- l emption are made by the vossische
 Zeitung. Even before the news was re- oeived of the excitement aroused in non- ultramontane Germany by this latest
 papal declaration of war there was an
 outbreak of the latent conflict between
 Cardinal del Val and Cardinal Rampolla. l The latter described the dispatch of the papal letter as in the highest degree in- | opportune and relieved his overburdened i heart in such a manner that it resulted in
 a sharp personal atercaton, in which ex-
 pression like eudo-diplonatist' and | ruin of the church. fell from Ram l polla's lips. The strangest thing. how | ever, Is the fact, of which I am assred
 from the most competent quarter. that l Cardinal del Val himself opposed the dis patch of the letter, well knowing that 1t
 was calculated to cause trouble The en- tire responsibility falls upon the Cologne cardinal, who, when he was here, showed himself submissive to the Pope.
 The papal manifestation was agreed
 upon between Cardinal Fischer and the
 Pope In November. They had not, how
 ever reckoned with a certain dissatsfac-
 tion of the Emperor. of which the vatican received cognizance from the Prussian minister Dr. Won Muhlberg, in January. As early as Christmas time warning
 was given here that in the matter of the anti-modernist oath the bow should
 not be drawn too far. Then a purely per sonal factor, the cause of which is still kept a strict secret, entered into the af-
 fair, and the tension between the Berlin
 court and the vatican reached its highest point. It was precisely at this time that Plus
 x considered it advisable to send to Cologne his letter, which was, in reality. destined for Berlin. Hardly had his let ter reached Cologne when important Centre voices announced themselves to Plus X, and told him bluntly that he seriously disturbed their circle by the let ter. They blame Cardinal del Val
 
 A man named Rieser possessed an ab-
 normal head, and since his death he has lost it. During life one of the professors
 in the medical faculty at Munich saw the head and arranged with the owner that it should pass to the dissecting room in the university in consideration of the sum of s3O0 payable after the decease to the family. The heirs contested the valid-
 ity of the contract, but the doctor ob- tained his coveted specimen
 Inspection of the new list of guns is
 sued by Krupp shows that the shell for the new 14-inch weapon which appears in that list weighs 1886 pounds. It is thus heavier by SC pounds than the shell of the new British l3 3.5-inch gun, which weighs de