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surrounded by high levee against which
the ocean beat with an ever increasing
advantage. 1t might perpetuate itself
indefinitely by artificial means, but In the
end it will he put in an impossible posi-
:ion Tlt waters will follow over the
fats Of New Jersey and of Long Island.
They will even beat back Though ths
Delaware and the Chesapeake and got
Ieyond the city and cut of communica-
ton with the main part of the land. FL
nally New York will find itself CITY
Gown q well far out from the MAINLAND;
Gradually the people who dwell IN II win
desert 1t and repair to the then main
land The waters will eventually lap
away the great walls that have poea
built to keep out the sea, VIII tuinoie
in among the skyscrapers. perhaps IL
will fail to reach the tops OF some tnat
have mounted to countless stories. These
will stand for a while as landmarks OF
a rassed civilization and be commenttl
upon by transatlantic passengers as tney
fishes will play about the mar be cor
r.dnrs that are now the habitations OF oi
men and the sprites of the deep VIII
reyel I'D and down the Great White way
The same things are true s,s'rans, OF Masm,ns
ton, the nations capital. PennsylvaniA
avenue in front OF the Post ONCE Depart,
ment is but four feet above the leVei
of the sea. The White House. the rIea
ury, the State. War and Navy punarns, en,,
the Mall with its proposed new struc
Iures. are all but a little higher. INC
.'.nt.r In the centuries that are to come
will mount and swallow all these InaI
,,on IF the city beautiful which Is oes-
timed 4, make Of Washington the Athens
of the future is likewise destineo 10 ,"
down to watery grave. Inc aneu
oiog:sts of future generations VIII NUM-
IN the waters of the Atlantic TOT the es
Cenc. . Of our civilization as we NUM- 40
the ruins Of Pompeii.
*
This condition of affairs 10 sure 10
come. The eminent geologists VINO haNs
studied it exhaustively would stake tnef
renutations upon it. OF course. tney
1vouId not be here to suffer IL time dis-
nroved their theories. for ii will be
long time. But at the rate the coast IL
declining and the facts in winch coh-
nection are absolutely known New forh
will be a hundred feet lower than IL IL
now in just 10000 years. This wouia
he in the year 1910. Then Philadelphia
would also have disappeared, and Wash
fneton and Savannah and Jacksonville am
Houston Tex. The coast line will nave
moved back an average of fifty miles
and other cities will have taken the
place of those Of old. The people oil
that time will hold in utter scorn race
that was so foolish as to build tenl-
porary great cities in regions where tnelf
destruction was absolutely known to be
inevitable And the archeologist witt
his submarine will revel in such mazs
of ruins of old as have been denied tha
digger in the mounds of the past as we
know him.
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tions of a disappearing coast line. But
the same evidences written in even more
detail may be found at almost any place
from Maine to Texas. At any rate they
may be seen in any salt marsh along
the coast and these are abundant. In
the salt marshes there is an influence
at work which is counteracting the sink
ing coast. Season after season luxuIldi'
grasses are being grown 'on these marsn-
es. These grasses are allowed to remain
where they have grown and to there de-
cay. Each season adds just so much 10
the elevation of the ground. The amount
of vegetation produced is self-regulating
and is Just equal to the sinking OF the
coast. If an over amount IS proouceu
the ground is raised too much, gets m
sufficient water and a lighter crop the
next year or the next century. II the
ground sinks a little more rapidly more
water is let in more vegetation pro-
duced and deposited and the level mann
tanned This is up to 4 certain pclnt Wnicn
is the limit of production. AFTER 'lal
the deposits give up the contest ana lhe
land is given over to the waters
X
Now. geologist can dig down through
these deposits and determine what man
ner Of vegetation made them This has
been done all along the coast. 1t has
been found from MAINE 10 ioi iiu1 eiieAe G.
a level of from ten to twenty feet down
there was originally the bed OF forest.
Stumps of great trees still In a reasonable
state of preservation are found at thes'
depths, indicating that 1t was at nc
remote period when all this land was at
the level where forests grew. Then, fol-
lowing the forest growth, there is veg,
etable deposit that is not forest but still
of sort that does not grow in salt
water. When this was deposited the land
was still above the level of the tides.
Then, finally, there came the grasses that
grow in the salt marshes. There Is an
average deposit of salt marsh growth
from New England south that is ten feet
through The surface of this deposit Is
now at the same level that it's bottoms
was when the process began. Yet the
tree stumps are beneath 1t, and they were
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graphed in gum boots. No. we nave
our public and our private looks" she
said. Gum boots are private. You can
buy our post cards, made when we were
dressed up"
The good girl, having rented US her
husbands boots, threw him in for good
measure to take us to see an oyster
schooner loading for Marennes or Bor-
deaux.
"A woman ought not to guide men to
an oyster schooner she said.
"Why not?" we asked.
you'll see,'' she said, turning her back
on us.
What we saw, standing authoritatively
in a noisy, hustling multitude of girls
and women. were three severe, whiskered
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ing Bellies Sablaises in all their summer
bravery of short skirts. striped aprons.
lace-trimmed colts and big-sleevcd
waists, to make bit of landscape for
the summer boarders. We had recog
nized one-biting on stick Of barley
sugar-in the girl who sold them to us.
Now we recognized another-pose1 at
being kissed on the cheek ty a sailor
boy. beneath big umb. ella. She came.
But how changedi
Changed was the bright girl, embroid-
cred at both ends, who smiled ecstatical-
ly under the umbrella. She advanced
listlessly. all in black even to her poor
little headdress. She was pale. and her
eyes were red with weeping. She turned
out to be one OF the waiter girls. and
we asked what allied her.
'Tt is Adrienne." they said. "She was
married last spring, and her husband had
to go off, almost at once. His ship Is
now three months overdue. 1t may be
lest"
.Adrienne does rot know if she IS q
wife CT. widow We mussd' paiIfu'ly. Ro.
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coAsT IME OF NORTH CAROLINA Is SINKING MTo The SEA,
o ~ DROWNING HER FORESTSA

once many feet above the present surface.
and this was not SO long ago. In 1act,
this estimate is conservative, for 1t IS
conclusively proven that in many places
the New England salt marsh deposits are
fifteen feet thick and in Florida it is
twenty feet through the deposits.
The marks of man during the last three
or four hundred years offer no. great
coast line. No thought having been
taken of it, no marks have been made by
which it might be measured. Where
landing places were made by the early
the level, adapting them to changed con-
ditions. Few of the early marks along
the coast remain. and this may be due to
their submergence.
Back from the coast on the lands that
were originally used in farming and as
pasture there is. however. an interesting
evidence of the sinking of the land. With
it goes a pastoral story Of the milk OF
the COW.
The early settlers Of New England built
and Industrious people. and the stability
of the stone fence appealed to them. Be-
sides, they had to do something with the
stones from their hiilsides Then. too,
marshes and eat the succulent grasses
therefrom. 1t was mighty fine for the
cows. but marsh grass gives the milk OF
the COW a flavor that is not at all pal
atable to the human consumer.
-
So 1t happened that the early New
Englander built him fence to keep the
COW out Of the salt marsh. This fence
was of stone and still stands. There was
originally no salt marsh within it for the
reasons above stated. But today-and
here is the proof Of the geologist's the
ory-the salt marshes of New England
have stolen past the old stone fences and
intruded themselves into the meadows OF
the farmers, and unless Bossy-or Paul
inc, to be more up-to-date-is carefully
guarded the milk is brackish.
Chesapeake bay was originally a mar
row river bed which went rushing on t.
sea right merrily. But the bottom of Il
subsided and the banks overfowed. Nov
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January 10, iDii
NE woman in pants
may mean eccen-
tricity. but when
all the women OF a
town wear pants.
they are all hero
ines.
No summer board
er OF the Sands OF
Olonne can boast
having seen the
strange town in Its
all-pants aspect.
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the pathetic sailing-of dance, wild with
love and grief and reckless abandon!
Two of our party were collectors OF pic
torial post cards and specialists of local
types" and one of them, at lunch, ex-
claimed:
Here comes one of the postcard
girls!''
1t was so. Among the cards that we
had bought was type" series, show
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CANDS OF OLONNE
= Present New Solution to
Marriage Problem-Women
Run the Town and Do All
the Work-Have Their Own
Police, and Even Wear Mems
Trousers Take Charge OF
Famous Oyster Beds While
Their Husbands Are at Sea
The Public and Private
Garb-Many Ships Lost at
Sea, and Husbands Are
Never Heard of After They
Leave Home.
BANDS OF OLONNE. Coast OF Franc
Opposite New York and Boston
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KNIGHTY Manhattan Is in
lVl the End to Be Devoured
by the Waters-Washington,
the Nations Capital, Will in
the Centuries to Come Offer
Her Public Buildings as Ar
tistic Grottoes for Fish Fes-
tivities Boston, Baltimore,
New Orleans and All the
Cities of the Atlantic Sea-
board Are in the End to Be
Submerged-For the Eastern
Coast of the United States is
Sinking Into the Ocean.
Copyright. 1871. by ". 4. Du Puy.)
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make the sands look gay for summer
boarders.
Their pants are near to tragedy. When.
toward the end Of August. the hotels
close and The Joyous sands become
wind-swept waste. the last boarder sees,
astonished. a town of lone women
Walters, shopmen. cabmen. Wallets, MT
ting back to cities, unmask the true state
OF the sands-manless.--a town OF lone
women sloshing In gum boots.
They put on pants to do the town
hard work. because their men have not
got back yet.
Their men-the true men of Olonne-are
due to come struggling In next month,
or in two months, or three, as God Wills
and as they venture. Some will come from
Iceland. some across the wild Atlantic
from cod fishing in American waters
Some are on shorter but more frequent
voyages, sailing funny or picking an
chovies and kilkies as far south as their
secret fishing grounds Of the west coast
Of Africa. Some work in the oyster parks
OF Marennes. where the oysters OF Olonne
are .'colored nasty coppery green 10
please the cultivated taste of Europeans.
So, when the girls put on pants again
in autumn, IL means also that the men
will soon be starting home. Thus they
are pants of hope and promise.
long-voyage fishers of the deep sea. abb
sent six and eight months yearly; SO II
is the heavy work OF Olonne that makes
the girls dress like men. Coast-goins
ships load in the port, and women uo
the loading A big oyster industry mas
it's beds he:e, and women do the culti-
vating Women till the ground. make
wine and run windmills TO grind gram
of their raising.
DO YOU not see the SANDS oeyoiiu'
so gay in summer with smart city IolR
in white hotels. striped tents and avn
ings and brass-decOrated motor Doats
make bu, a passing dream Of luxury?
Real life means to hold the fort uhti
the men return: each with his Sl2O te
Sl6O earned by risking life for months
!. in a crazy tub that shoots up mountain
high Atlantic waves and dashes down
down. down into the trough.
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Usually there is one ship that does no
come back. and there are always mer
of each ship who do not come back
Therefore the wives OF Olonne have thre'
I. famous distinctions. They are known a
once as the prettiest and earliest 7
: marry OF the whole coast. Also. Olonn
has the greatest proportion of willows
' and the youngest widows of all France
We had pitiful example of it a
the White Horse Hotel, the great ram
/, bling local hotel. open all the year TO
: travelling statesmen. government function
: aries. stray travellers and the mass
: peasant farmers who drive in. mere TN
folks of Oionne have their marriag es
0 taptisms, banquets-of-safe-iet an
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Great Giles That are SlnRln8C
H|;=3= g]z:== Into The Sea n 60 @2a1| = Il

HE time will come
when that coast
line OF the United
States which boasts
such cities as New
York. Boston. Bal
timore. Wa shington
and Galveston will
be 3Co miles out to
sea and those cities
will have been sub
merged. The whole
Atlantic coast is
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sANDS OF OLONNE, Coast of France
Opposite New York and Boston
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-19
DAY IN CONGRESS

Senate in session at ? D. m.
 Foreign relations committee considered abrogaton of Russian treaty, which aft erward was taken up in the Senate.
 Presidents notice to Russia regarding abrogation made known.
 F. w. Kelsay of Orange, N. J., attri- uted business troubles to fabulous capi- tafization of corporations in hearing De- fore interstate commence committee,
 Recess pending executive session to con sider abrogation.
 Foreign relations committee reported resolution abrogating Russian treaty of 1892, on January l, 1913.
 Senator Culberson spoke on his resolu- tion, identical with that passed by the House, abrogating the Russian treaty.
 President Tafts message announcins abrogation of the Russian treaty was read. On objection of Senator Hepburn of Iiaho to precipitate actioJ the whole Russian matter went over one day.
 Adjourned at 3:12 p. m. until noon Tues day.
 House met at F m.
 Bills considered under unanimous con sent privileges
 Sulzer, author of Russian abrogatipn resolution, agreed to change phraseology to make it less offensive to Russia.
 Steel trust inquiry resumed.
 Rules committee heard Humphrey on resolution for investigation of foreign shipping combines.
 Ajourned at 1929 o'clock until Tuesday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-19
PATTERSON TALKS
 ON PEACE TREATIES


 Kansas City, December 1S,-To an audi ence that filled Convention hall tonight Colonel Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-J Journal, delivered an address in support of the general arbi- tration treaties with England and France Colonel Watterson predicted that the rec ognition of the principle of arbitration by the United States, England and France would mark the beginning of world movement toward peace.
 For the United States to fail of it's opportunity now said Colonel Waiter son, would bring severe reproach upon us. In my opinion it will not fall
 Colonel Watterson said that everywherr he had spoken on the subject he had found an appreciative understanding of the importance of the arbitration treaties now before the Senate. ~ s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-19
WANT ID SETTLE
 BIG TRUST SUITS

Washington, December 1S.-Attempts to reach a basis of settlement without a contest of the federal governments two biggest pending alleged trust proposi- tions-the International Harvester com pany and the United Shoe Machinery probably will be made as soon as Attorney General Wickershaw returns from Panama, January 10.
 Negotiations looking to the dissolutio? of the socalled harvester trust were be- gun several weeks ago by the departmen, of justice, and representatives of the company, but recently were suspended pending an examination of the books of the concern.
 MT. WicSersham also has advises Charles F. Choate. counsel for the United states Shoe Machinery company. that he will discuss with representatives of that company after his Panama trip the gov ernment's criminal and civil prosecutions, already begun against it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-19
STATE RESTS IN THE REPRESENTATIVES.

New York, December 1S-The prosecu- tion in the case of Harris and Blanck propretors of the Triangle Waist com pany, charged with manslaughter in con- nection with the death of Margaret Schwartz, one of the 147 victims of the fire in their factory last March, rested today
 V Kate Alderman, an employe at the time of the fire, testified today of the locked door on the ninth fioor and of how she saw Margaret tugging at the door knob in vain.
 My god, the door Is locked, and l am lost" the witness said she heard Mar garet7exclaim.
 ''The last I saw of her she was on her knees, and her hair and dress were burn ing" said the witness.
 Attorney Stuer, for the defense, de clared in outlining his case that the key was in the lock of the door at the time of the fire, and that the door could easily have been opened had not the girls packed themselves SC tightly against it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-19
ID FERTILIZER
 OUT OF THE DESERT

Washington, December 1S.-The conver- sion of desert basins into fields of supply for the fertilizer industry is part of the scheme of agricultural advancement fa- vored by Secretary of Agriculture Will son and heartily indorsed by President Taft in a message to Congress today. The message was a cordial letter of transmttal of a preliminary report on the fertilizer resources Of the United States The report showed that the use of fertilizers involves an annual expen- allure of about s12O,0O0,OoO which is likely to be greatly increased as modern agri- cultural methods are adopted.
 The report stated that there had been some public alarm, not only on account of large shipments of phosphate rock to foreign ports, but also on account of the phosphate lands passing into the hands of foreign owners. The report, however, found that great majority of these lands were in American hands and that the tendency was distinctly towards an increase in that direction
 From American sources an ample sup ply of both classes of fertilizers can be obtained readily and in the case of pot ash the supply may be maintained in definitely If obvious methods of control are adopted. The annual production of ammonium sulphate should be approxi- mately 640.000 tons, valued at $SO, ,O0O, GOO. Actually 35,000 tons, valued at sl,s4O,O coo, are being produced. while about 1O4. GOO tons at about $5,3Oo,O00 are annually i'm ported.
 
 investigations are under way for the extraction of potash from silicate and other minerals and from wastes and by products.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-19
LITTLE RESISTANCE . ID ITALIAN TROOPS
 
Turks and Arabs Have Retired to Hills-Sup-
 plies Are Cut Off


 London. December 1S.-Continued ad- vance of the Italian troops toward the | interior of Tripoli without meeting serious resistance seems to prove the correctness of recent information that the Turkish troops and their Arab all | lies have withdrawn to the hills. Their
 only chance of renewing supplies has been shattered by Viscount Kitcheners closing all possible avenues of leakage along the frontier between Egypt and Tripoli.
 The Italian forces now concentrated in the former Turkish province of Tri-
 poll number S0,0o0 and military experts
 think that when their means of trans-
 portation have been perfected there will apparently be nothing to prevent the effective occupation of the annexed ter ritory.
 The cession of the Sollum district of
 Barca, the eastern division of s1Tripoli
 and its occupation by Egypt has sig nificance in connection with the Turco- Italian war At the beginning of the ewar it was supposed that Italy desired to place troops at Kaba to protect the projected naval station at Tobruk, but the Italians were induced to retire and recognize the old frontier.
 Some experts state that as Kaba has the possibilities of finer naval station
 than ever Bisserata and would deprive Toburk of much of it's stratgetical value;
 hence there is considerable curiosity as to why Turkey ceeded Solum to Egypt
 and what will be it's eventual fate. Constantinople, December 1S.-The parliamentary situation is becoming critical The forces of both parties are at high tension over the proposed mod ification of article 35 of the constitu ton and this led today to a personal encounter between a unionist deputy and a member of tic parliament on the floor of the house. The former attempt ed to strike the opposition deputy with chair but was prevented from doing so by the intervention of several
 of the members. A tumultuous scene
 ensued and the president was compelled to suspend the sitting.
 The unionist majority then held
 meeting and decided to provoke a dis
 solution of the chamber at all costs.
 Cairo, Egypt, December 1S-The Egyptian government is taking possess sion of the Sollum district of Barca which forms the eastern diyiison of Tfipoli. The Sollum district borders on Egypt and was ceded by Turkey to the Egyptian government which will re- tain possession pending the end of the war when the definite status of the ter ritory will be determined.
 Tripoli, December 1S.-The oasis of Zansaur, which is about 12 miles west of Tripoli, and is composed of d num- Der of villages, was occupied without resistance today by the Italians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-19
FLORIDA PRESENTS
 SERVICE ID SHIP

Pensacola, December 1S.-Preceded by a parade of American and German blue jackets, regular army soldiers and mi litiamen, the silver service from the peo- pie of Florida was presented today to the battleship bearing the name of the peninsular state.
 9overnor Albert w. Gilchrist presented the service to Rear Admiral Lucien Young, representing the navy. and to Captain Harry W. Knapp, commander of the Dreadnaughts. q
 A silver tablet in memoriam of United States Senator w. J. Bryan, who got the vessel named after his state, low ing cup and two flags from the Daugh- ters of the Confederacy also were turned over to the officers of the big fighting ship.
 The silver service consists of 25 pieces and cost more than $l0,000
 The days events were brought to a close tonight with a banquet given in honor of the officers of the battleship. Governor Gilchrist and the mayors of several Florida cities made appropriate addresses.
 Tomorrow a public reception will be held on board the Florida and the war ship will leave this port the following day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-19
CALHOUN CONFESSES ID BRUTAL MURDER

Huntingdon, Mass, December 1S.- Frank M Calhoun of Portland, Ore, to- night confessed that he had called Ben jamn P. Gallup to the latter's door late Saturday night and had blown off the top of his head with a shotgun. He says he shot Gallup because Mrs. Gallup was being abused and because he feared for his own life.
 Gallup is still alive, although part of his skull and brain have been shot away.
 The old man sold his farm in Kansas two years ago, answered a matrimonial advertisement and came here and mar ried His wife had been married twice before. By her first husband, a man named Wallace, she had 10 children. nine of whom are alive. Her second husband, named Roberts, a contractor, living in Johnstown, Pa, it is said, was killed by falling from building
 Calhoun. who is 52 years old, left 8 wife in Portland and came here shortly after Galiups marriage and took up his residence in the latters home as a boarder Gallup resented Calhoun's at tentions to his wife and compelled him to leave.
 George Wallis, aged r years, a step- son of Gallup and Mrs. Gallup, are being detained in connection with the case.