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erecting as an adjunct to the abbey. was
destroyed by fire. Thus was the prophecy
fulfilled with relation to the line of Sir
Anthony Browne.
The Duchess of Cleveland next came into
possession Of the abbey. She was the
widow OF the last Duke of Cleveland.
and mother Of Lord Rosebery. Her Oc-
cupancy was brief and accompanied by
so much misfortune that she was COM
PEELED to sell the estate at auction. Sir
Godfrey Webster, a descendant Of Sir
Thomas Webster, once a transient owner
of the property. bought the abbey from
the duchess. The purchase price was
the equivalent Of $4,000 but the noble
had scarcely come into possession of it
before he was forced to get rid of it be-
cause of financial difficulties.
In 1902 Michael F. Grace, a brother Of
former Mayor Grace of New York.
bought the estate for a winter residence.
and here it was that young Grace, who
dubbed himself an Irisll-American."
spent much OF his time while pursuing
the conquest of the air. The Graces all
knew of the traditional curse upon the
house. and were repeatedly warned of it
by the rural neighbors. but they paid
slight heed to 1t. In this day of en-
Iightenment they regarded such super
used 10 Joke about the Course" He never
for a moment considered it seriously. and
II is doubtful whether he ever thought
about 1t In relation to his aerial flights.
Certain IL Is lHdt Ho thoughts OI SUCH
a plague were I'm his mind when he
started off December - for his fight to
France and return. 1t is very sure also
that in his flush of success of having
flown across the channel he did not recall
even for the space of a second the des-
tiny meted out by the monk to all the
dwellers of Battle Abbey. Encouraged
by his triumphant journey across the
channe' he set off fer the return fight,
buoyant and in high spirits.
I,i Of nx,p
vet knows positively what his fate was.
but every one believes that lie perished In
the North sea--died by water" as the
monk centuries ago foYetold that the in
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Aviator a Victim of Battle Abbey

with adversely and calamity. 1t had it's
birth in bloodshed. However hazy ones
recollection Of English history may have
become there is always one date and
one incident which remains indelibly fixed
in the memory-1O66 A. D.-the battle of
Hastings. Then 1t was that William of
Normandy, with a retinue Of mobiles, re-
trainers and men-at-arms, landed at Pew
ensey, near Hastings. and proceeded to
give battle to Harold the Saxon, who
was encamped on the heights of Senlac.
Harold was crushed, and the Saxons, be-
coming demoralized, fled before the vic
torious William, who was subsequently
named the Conqueror
X
Either from precOnceived determina-
ton in the event of victory. or as a re-
suit of remorse at the death Of a heroic
enemy like Harold, William caused to be
built over the spot where Harold's "Ladye
Edith found his body an abbey. The
by Robert of Gloucester. who credited
William with compa ssiOnate motives In
thinking himself of ''folke that was for
lorne" or actually "slayn'' in battle The
historian declares that for this reason
IAN abbey he lete rere of Saint Mar
SENT Martin This abbey was called
in .'Englonde Abbey Of Batails.'
The abbey was intrusted to the Bene-
dictine order. It's desecration occurred
when King Henry began the general pill
lage and dispatched the monks from
the place. Within three months after
the confscation of the abbey 1t was
granted Sir Anthony Browne "by the serv-
ice of two knights fees and a yearly
rent Of twelve pounds"
Sir Anthony became Viscount Montague
or Montacute, and at once started to pull
down the greater part Of the historic
pile. and convert 1t into a dwelling. 1t
was when he had completed the erection
Of the banquet hall and was feasting his
friends that the monk appeared with his
grewsome message of evil.
Henry VIII was characterized by the
monk as the despoiler Of the church. and
the entire gathering was scathingly de-
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The WONDERFUL
ROTOR.

current ceases to be uniformly distributed
inside the wire. and travels nearer and
nearer the surface. Thus you have what
the telephone man calls skin effect
This phenomenon exactly is what Nal
Squier employs to advantage in his new
multipleX phone. But by increasing the
velocity OF the vibrations Ire made the
phenomenon appear far out from the
skin of the wires.
THE conversations travel in a layer
of ether around the wire.'' he explained.
They don't get into the wire-are merely
guided by it. III there is a twisted pair OF
wires the messages will cling so close to
each wire as to pass through the tissue
paper wrapping on each wire, while IL
there are two straight wires, a foot
apart, some of the messages will pass be-
tween the wires. the inside, while
others will be darting along two feet or
more from the wires, on the outside.
Between our laboratory and the ma
tional bureau of standards, seven miles
away. we receive them over all sorts of
telephone lines of the city circuit-un-
derground wires and overhead lines-and
they pass through several of the city
switchboards or .centrals.'
The apparatus which the talker uses is
exactly the same as employed in ordinary
phoning. You may receive the messages
of the visible apparatus at all. But in
the hidden connections the devices used
i'm wireless telegraphy are connected.
There are TO buzZes or cracking sparks
such as the wireless operators of our
thrilling melodramas create for stage ef-
feet. And only one wire is necessary,
whereas in our phones OF today PAIR
are needed.
But how can you send several messages
along the same wire and then sort them
out again, SO that the proper ear receives
the message from the mouth that is talk
ing to it?
This is effected by proper tuning" The
wire has a separate fork. so to speak. for
each message to be sent or received along
it, Let us say that there are f1ve forks
and one man connected with each fork.
All five are talking at once along the
same wire.
The first mans phone is tuned to 100000
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French Barney.

CENATOR DEPEW. at the Lotus Ciuo $
- recent dinner in New YORK IN hohol
of the French ambassador, NJ. Jusserahu'
said with smile:
M. Jusserand writes Enshsh petter
than an Englishman, he speaks 1t petter
than an American, and he uses II pettef
than an Irishman.
Il violate, l believe, no commence "heli
T relate one of NJ Jusserand's mots. NJ.
Jusserand at a dinner, sat next to
matron in the prime of life. This matron,
putting her hand to her soft and pretty
hair, said with a laugh none too gay:
this morning.
Madam said NJ. Jusserand. as long
as gray hairs can be counted. they dom
count"
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A Popular Platform.

~ OV.-ELECT DIX, at dinner at the
" Hotel Manhattan in New York, said
of politics:
.'Sneering at politics. the Goncourts
once said that no party could ever lose
office if it gave the people free fireworks
every night and free vaudeville every
day.
"But I heard of a candidate in the
south who went the Goncourts one bet
ter.
"'Fellow -citizens,' he shouted from the
stump, my platform is just this. First,
no pay for any elected candidate. Sec
ond, pensions for all voters
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Cabby's Badinage.

T ORD DECIES. the fiance of Miss
- Vivian Could talked to a reporter.
during the recent horse show. about tho
inexcusable dearness of New York's cab
service.
And these dear turnouts. said Lord
Decies ARE none too luxurious. l said
to cabby the other day:
How much to take me to the Hotel
Gotham
-Four dollars, the man answered.
"Oh.' | said, i didn't ask the price oe
the rig. l don't want to buy it,
We'll, / shouts think not said the
cabby. The horse alone cost four dollars
and a half
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vibrations per second, the second mans
to 5000. the third mans TO $4,000. the
fourth to 10,O0 and the fifth TO @Oo
Each talks to a phone at the other end of
the line tuned for the time being exactly
aE its is. And each pair OF joined
phones is like a pair OF ears having the
same peculiar and limited rang or audi
bility. To put ii In another way, sup
pose that you have five men seated on
the north and five more seated on the
south side of the parlor. Each has a
range of voice and ear exactly Ike the
man directly opposite him. but oey ohd
the range of audibility Of any one else Ia
the room The five pairs Of men could
then talk at once, could they not. with
out confusion?
Thus YOU have wireless along the wire
which guides ii safely between the Scylla
of bad weather and the Charybdis or
meddling "tappers.'' The farther our phone
messages of today PASS through the wires
inside them-the greater Is the resistance
and the fainter the sound at the other
end. BY the new system they slip along
outside the wire with tremendous saving
of resistance. That is why it will soon be
possible to talk from one side OF the
continent to the other. Tests lately made
with music produced by the most
delicate talking machines-show that
the new system carries the voice VITA
much greater clearness than can DO ell
fected with the old.
The first great use of the new system
will be for long-distance service, Maj.
Squier tells me. Today the limit is from
New York to about Omaha. Today when
you get wire from yours to another city
you monopolize that entire wire as long
as you talk. Shortly nine other men,
perhaps, will use the same wire with you.
without your knowing it. The number or
simultaneous messages will depend upon
the character of the line, whether run
overhead. by conduit or by subway. the
free, overhead wires giving the best re-
suits so far. The submarine cable IL as
yet a stumbling block. The major has
not very roseate hopes of hearing his
multiplex messages from across seas.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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rded for its sacrilege. 1t is recorded
that the noblemen crouched in their
seats and skulked to the corners or the
great festive hall, SO awful was the re-
proach. A few days later. long before
the improvements to the structure had
been completed. the owner of the abbey
met violent death HIS son came into
the title of viscount as well as into pos
session Of the abbey. He had a short
and turbulent career, and met death upon
the scaffOld.
The last of the Montagues was drowned
in 1907. Just day prior to his drown
ing the Coudrey Castle, which he was
Evening star., 1911-01-22
Trees Have Diseases That Cause Death

amenable to the simple treatment of ir-
rigating the soil.
According TO the government experts.
the beauty of the trees of Washington
is largely due to the fact that this is
not manufacturing city. The leaves
of trees I'm such cities, owing chiefly to
the presence of sulphur gases. become
dScolered. dead in spots and finally en-
tirely dead A chemical examination at
the laboratory OF large number or
specimens of leaves from trees in such
places throughout the country reveals the
presence OF sulphur trioxid in abnormal
amounts Two trees are recommended by
the experts as being able TO withStand
such adverse conditions. These are the
sycamore and the alianthus. the former
on account of its habit of shedding an
nually the outer layers of its bark. pre-
senting bright and clean appearance III
the dirtiest surroundings, and the latter
being even harder and of more persist
ent growth.
ing the ground about street tree with
metal grating, or grill is advocated by
Mr. Metcalf This, he said. allows
free access of air and protects tho SOIL
from being trodden hard, thus serving To
obviate fatal disease, namely. root suf-
location. Wherever conditions exclude
air from the soil about tree root asphyX-
iation is liable to occur. The tulip and
the beech. both beautiful park trees, are
particularly sensitive in this regard, and
generally fail as street trees in conse-
quence.
x *
1t Is now possible, say the pathologists,
to successfully treat a number of tree
ailments by surgical methods. The re-
moval of diseased tissue, the treatment
and filling of wounds. amputation. Incl
sions, etc, are now scientifically practiced
and even antiseptic methods in these
operations have lately been adopted.
AS new epidemic diseases of trees are
perpetually brought to the attention OF
the pathologists. the latter have plenty
to do in the way of original scientific in-
vestigation. In the case OF the now well
known bark disease of the chestnut, which
threatened the existence of the chestnut
forests and orchards of the eastern states.
a special course of treatment was devised
by the government tree doctors, and de-
tails thereof We're sent to all inquirers.
Special attention is devoted to the pre-
vention of ili-advised methods, which are
only too likely. in the case of widespread
tree disease to be followed by those ignor-
ant of the subject of tree pathology. In
short. Uncle Sans tree physicians now
play no unimportant role in the general
welfare of the country.
Evening star., 1911-01-22
Men and Women.

MINE. BERNHARDT. at supper in
4vl New York, smiled sympathetically
over the story of a young actor who had
applied vainly for the post OF secretary
to a very rich widow.
He failed, l understand" said Nine.
Bernhardt, because he didn't wear his
best clothes Now, a young girl apply
ing for secretaryship to an elderly mil
lionaire. would never make such q mis-
take as that.
II believe, do you know, that the one
great difference between men and women
is this:
when an important step is to be
taken, a man asks, What shall I say?'-
a woman, What shall put on?"
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wires being required for one talk. is now,
"A single wire with silent earth connec-
tions can be used for a multiplicity of
talks
But why arc you giving away patents
which would assure you a great fortune?'
l asked.
Being an army officer, 1 shall receive
a salary as long as l live and the gov
ernment will bury me when / die.
shall always have enough. / am bach
elor and the only other one of US now is
my sister. who lives comfortably upon
the old homestead farm at Dryden
ago. 1t is upon the same farm which
my grandmother took up in 1880, before
Michigan was a state.
Being an army officer. how did you
come to devote yourself 10 inventions so
yitally related to commerce.?
An appointment to the Military Acad-
eny took me away from Michigan when
l was eighteen said Mai. Sduier. Upon
the artillery. from which I was detailed
to Johns Hopkins University for post
graduate studies in physics. mathematics
and chemistry, which, in 1s93. earned me
Hopkins j studied in the laboratory of
the late Prof. Rowland, the inventor of
the multiplex telegraph. and from him |
imbibed the ideas which have now cul-
minated in the multiplex telephone. The
Signal Corps of the army having charge
of the development of the military tele-
graph and telephone lines / was transfer
red to that branch of the service.
Il was lieutenant colonel and chief
Signal officer OF volunteers during the
Spanish war, and became a captain of
regulars in 1901, then major in 1903.
I am now assistant chief signal officer Of
the army.
You have also made researches in
military aeronautics?'
Yes. The Smithsonian Institution has
lately reprinted q paper the subject
which / read before the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers
Asked for detailed explanation Of his
nlultpleX telephone system. Maj. Squier
gave me data too technical to be quoted
in fun. but which / will transpose into
popular language within the comprehen-
sion of the popular mind. Some of his
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Now in ordinary telephony much slower
electric vibrations must be used. Inc new
generator which the major has instalied
is the only type which has ever supplied
vibrations of such high frequency TO tele-
phone or telegraph wires Through our
nhones of commerce the electric ylbra-
tions which carry our conversation have
q Frequency of only 800 to 700 per second.
They are all audible to the human ear
which can hear vibrations coming not
slower than about IS per second ana not
faster than from $1,000 to 2o.Oo0 per sec
ond. But the vibrations employed IN
Mai. Sauier's invention are much faster
than the most acute ear can perceive, al
though the messages which they carry are
made audible by complicated details OIL
the apparatus. They rush through space
at a speed varying from 5noCo 70 hUoo'
ner second. The vibrations used In Wire
lass teIegraphy are still faster-so fast
that they radiate in all directions, regard
less Of wires.
So the new invention employs an inter-
mediate class of vibrations, which are
faster than the fastest audible vibrations
vet slower than the slowest wireless tele-
graph vibrations. Never before nave VI
brations of such speed been successfully
applied to- wire lines.
They are so fast, indeed. that they jump
from the wire, instead of travelling
through it. like those used in all teie-
phones which we have seen heretofore.
yet they arc not SO fast as to leap on
into space and travel independent OF the
wire as in the case of wireless teiegrapny.
Or let us put it in another way. II the
vibrations used in our ordinary battery
phones are increase to certain limit the
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supernatural affliction upon the place, as
the superstitious aver, does not lend it
self TO argument here. but the fact does
remain that whatever the cause, Battle
Abbey has been since the days of Sir
Browne the abiding place of disaster and
death.
When Grace attempted to refy across
the English channel, he flew against
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TOW 1t Works It's Won
j u ders-Who the Inventor

TOW 1t Works Its Won
i i ders-Who the Inventor
Is-What He Looks Like
How He Made His Discov-
ery-Why He Gives 1t Away
Will Save Millions and In
crease Volume of Business
Tenfold on Present Equip
ment-Ten Simultaneous
Messages on Single Wire
Where Two Wires Are Now
Needed for a Single Message
"A Wonderful Wheel Which
Would Garry You to Europe
in Four Hours - Electric
Waves Which Would Reach
the Sun in Eight Minutes
Messages Travel Faster Than
Light.
Evening star., 1911-01-22
Home Rule.

DATRICK FORD, the Irish leader, talk
ed at a dinner in New York about
home rule.
Home rule he said. sis at last as
sured to Ireland The Irish, with their
great love of the shamrock, are now up
to their necks in clover
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greater odds than he knew. BY the curse
OF Battle Abbey he was doomed man.
and the fate which awaited him in the
North sea was inevitable. AS a habitant
of Battle Abbey, his destiny was as
clearly traced, according 10 tradition, as
If the lines had been blue printed.
The history of Battle Abbey abounds
Evening star., 1911-01-22

In pnone messages
at once by a single
wire-not through
the wire, but dart
ing alongside it,
maybe, a minute
fraction of an inch
from il. maybe two
feet away, maybe
more,
Wireless p n o n g
messages guided by
wire-guided surely,
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infauibly. instead OF radiating in all di-
rections. instead of yielding TO vasaries
Of weather, as now.
Ten of US speaking at once by long dis
Evening star., 1911-01-22

"The rotor Of this generator revolves
10000 times per minute, he explained,
land is one foot in diameter. Its speed is
so great that. if used as a wheel. it would
roll as far as from here to Europe In
four hours.
The electric vibrations which this ma
chine sends out along the wires will
travel as fast as light. They will pass
around the earth seven times in a single
second. If the generator were connected
by wire to the sun. any one of these VI
brations or waves would pass from MaJ,
Sauiers laboratory to that orb of day in
eight minutes.
Evening star., 1911-01-22

PAS Cecil s. Grace. the intrepid
aviator who perished in the
North sea, while attempting
10 return to England from
France in an aeroplane. a
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NCLE SANS tree doctors-in
other words, the experts or the
laboratory of forest pathoiogy
Of the Department of Agricul-
ture-haye come to extend their
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Copyright. 1911, ty John EIfreth watkins.>
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-10
Former Princess Not Mother of
Her Child, French Court Rules
in Case Against Californian

PARIS, Nov. 1O.-Judge Monier, of
the Tribunal of the Seine, has handed
down an extraordinary decision to the
effect that the little Franco-American
princess, Jasmonde Estelle Alexander
de Brogiie, has no mother legally. This
decision Is equivalent to saying that
Estelle Alexander, the music hall
singer. of California, and former Prin-
cess Robert de Broglie, is not the
mother of her own child. Thus the
Princess Jasmonde, now 7 years old
has a father but no mother in the eyes
OF the French law.
The decision annuls the ex-Princess
de Broglie's recognition of her W
child and is granted at the request
of her former husband. Prince de
Broglie recognized the baby as his son
on July 9, 1904. eight days after her
birth and before a divorce wac granted
Estelle Alexander from Sydney b.. Welt,
her first husband. This recognition
still holds good.
Little Jasmonde, although legally
deprived of her mother, remains a
princess of the great house of de Brog-
lie.
Estelle Alexander arrived in Paris
yesterday. After the decision she de-
clared natures law was higher than
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-10

the code of Napoleon and engaged a
lawyer. Charles Philippe, to take the
case to a higher court.
She threatened to personally whip
all the De Broglies in France II her
maternity of her own child was not adj
mitted. The former Princess Estelle
is now Madame Martha, wife of a mu-
sic hall singer of Rome.
Prince Robert De Broglie had just
been divorced from his first wife when
he married Miss Alexander. The
Princess Robert was the Baroness dss
Landes, who herself had just been d.
vorced when she eloped with the prince
They lived together only a few months
Then Prince Robert met the beauti-
full singer, fed to Chicago and married
her. When the news reached France
Prince Robert was d~isinherited, but
that troubled him not at all. He and
his wife went into vaudeville and
toured the United States, she singing
and he conducting the orchestra. DE
Broglie made quite a hit as an orches-
ira leader, particularly as he knows
nothing about music. They added tc
their act by putting their child in a
stage box each night and training hel
to call Mamma when the Princess
appeared.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-10
MEN REACH
NEW YORK CITY SAFELY

NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-The American
liner New York brought from South
ampton last night c. Thompson, the
mate, and the second mate, steward
and and Ave seamen of the four-mested
schooner William L. Park, of Camden,
who were rescued from their wrecked
craft by the British cotton steamship
Elaine on october 0. Captain William
Reed, the only remaining member of
the crew, is still at Hayre, where the
Elaine landed the shipwrecked mari
ners. The mate said that after leaving
~Bridgewater, N. s., for Buenos Ayres
a hurricane struck the schooner, blow
ing for nine days. She was stripped of
her sails, her cabin was battered in,
her rudder broke, both steam pumps
and hand pumps gave out, and the
men, Western Islanders, gave up the
struggle.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-10
TAFT IGNORES REQUEST
TO SAY WORD FOR WOMEN.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 1O.-A plea
that President Taft SAY a word for
the women while he was asking sup,
port of the people for his peace treaties
was without result here last night, for
Mr.. Taft ignored the letter passed int
his hands until after he had completed
his formal address.
The suffrage movement recently in
vaded Nashville, and a great crowd
that heard the Presidents talk about
peace also wanted to get his ideas OF
the votes for campaign.
The President left early today fol
Sewanee, Tenn, site of the University
of the South, where Major Butt spent
part of his youth.