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her successors until Charles III gave it
away to the first Duke of Richmond He
and his heirs got ii for more than a cen
tury. until in the time of George III. OF
gioroius memory. IL was commuted for
the present yearly sum, which Is known
In the eXchequer as the Richmond Shil-
ling
In the reign Of Charles III duty on
imported wine was handed over 10 IN.
first Duke of Grafton Henry Fitzro,
In the beginning OF last century tho
bearer of the title commuted this duty
for yearly pension of 10000. and his
lucky successors still pocket this goodly
income. for which they have done moth
ing. About the most striking case, how
ever, is that of Lord Nelson, who gets
$4,000 year from the nation just be-
cause he is the holder OF the Nelson title.
despite the fact that he is not directly
descended from the famous admiral. This
tidy annuity is assured to ''all and every
the heirs male to whom title OF Earl
Nelson shall descend" As ancient fees.
too. the sums OF $40 and 500 yearly are
paid respectively to the Duke OF Norfolk
and the Duke of Rutland. though no ono
can say accurately how they arose. nor
do these annuities incur any obligations
whatsoever, except the pleasant one oc
pocketing them.
But II is not only wearers OF coronets
who get paid for doing nothing. The
English law courts alone pay over $4,000
q year in annuities, many Of which are
for compensation OF ABOLISHED Offices.
For instance, when the law courts were
removed from Westminster two years or
SO ago. ten or twelve "laundresseG' lost
m ~
work, Some of them still receive their
500 a year.
In the chancery division, a preacher at
r~lls" gets $500 every year though no
never utters word OF A sermon, just as
a housekeeper In the same division is
paid S175 every twelve months for doing
no housekeeping, her Job having bcen
done away with.
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Like the poultry OF Paris groceries dur
ing the hot weather. these are "in the
Interior
They were richer prehistoric families.
more romantically situated than the clirr
caves around Les Eyzies F'ont de
Gaume. etc.). from which Prof. Hauser
sent a mass of treasures worth a fortune
TO America, Germany and England before
the French government stopped him.
1t Is the same district-within forty
miles OF Bordeaux
There, as here, the outer grottos were
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There had been two glacial periods in
Europe.
Pre-glacial man Homo heidelbergenss)
had an apelike face and most other de-
tails. but he buried flint fakes with his
dead. and so had hazy ideas of future
state. He saw the ice gather round to
crush him. He disappears. Twenty
thousand years, forty thousand years
pass. The climate Of Europe became
warm again. Straight-tusked elephants
rhinoceroses. hippopotamuses, saber-
toothed tigers. giant lions and Irish stag
roamed over the land. And man was on
the spot again.
He reappears, a hunter. He had fiints
chipped to a sharp edge and took big
game in pits. This interglacial man
tNeander Valley was sturdy, had a skull
of low human type, with gorilla brow
ridges, arm bones and shoulder blades
but curved human thigh bone and
greater brain space. He had receding
forehead. great protruding jaw, fat nose
and hairy body. And ice again covered
Europe All animal life disppears for
twenty thousand. thirty thousand years
These figures are not exact.
When the climate finally became genial
as II has ever since remained-man
type Of Spy in Belgium) bobbed I'D Sc
renely. seemingly the same type the
old interglacial hunter-monkey arms and
shoulders, human thighs. narrow de-
pressed head, low forehead, massive
brows. great feet and chinless jaw with
protruding incisor teeth. The leg bone
below the knee was still monkey and
threw him forward while walking up-
right. But his culture was greater He
had hand hatchets and borers. At the
same time with him lived another race
Galley Hill skeletonl with dispropor-
tionately long thighs, long, narrow head
short face, good forehead, but neck of
gorilla thickness. He had better brains
than previous men, and chin and
the light structure Of his jaw permitted
him to be q reader talker.
These lower races flourished for a time
but long before the woolly mammoth.
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personal ornaments; killed lions, tigers
and even dragged dead rhinoceroses In
triumph to their caves. They had tools
skin clothes, curtains and door hang1nSs,
flint saws, stone lamps, and cooked their
food But, above all, they were artists,
loved nature and depicted 1t in pictures
on their walls. The spirited and clever
frescoes of reindeer, horses. mammoths,
rhinoceroses and men which they first
scratched on the stone surface. then
painted in with natural ochre and warm
blood. are wonderful. They were the
men who sat on the balconies of the
Atlantic and gazed. dreaming, into the
infinite.
intervening, the rich families of Bor-
deaux building their villas near the
Meschers cliffs, flee the heat of the day
for the cool darkness of the very same
"grottoes'' with laughter and luxury.
Many are beautifully furnished.
Some caves are Inhabited by poor fam
lilies, but they do not own them. Some
are fishers storehouses. but the hsners
are there on sufferance. All this prehis-
toric real estate has been bought up by
wealthy Bordeaux families.
All know the latent value OF the caves.
Unlike those of Les Eyzies etc, they are
still sealed by time and earth shifts.
Science will soon come to open them.
evicting, in one way or another, the villa
proprietors.
Many Of the caves may prove to be but
''balconies,' with no prehistoric rooms
or corridors behind them. Others. here
and there, will turn out to be entrances
to veritable treasure houses. 1t is
gamble in mans first real estate and the
prices have gone away up.
What happened in between?
There is no prehistoric history. In this
corner of the French coast near to Spain
the Basque people. with language that
has no roots in common with any other.
are supposed to be survivors OF the old
cave painters. The peasants cling to
vague traditions. calling one cliff cave
"the temple" another ''the storehouse,"
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Guichard's cave. They peer through the
old windows, try her chairs, admire her
oak chest, spinning wheel and the vast
earthenWare pot in which she cools water
by evaporation. An iron pot boils in a
chimney that may be 10000 years old.
Beyond coquettish Meshers. with its
white houses shining in its variegated
gardens and the ancient chateau of Bar
den. is the ruined town of Talmont. jut-
ting out on promontory. Once 1t was
a strong port of the middle ages With
a chateau of five towers, walled place
round bay. where rich people dwelt
secure, in houses they imagined would
last forever. Today it is a metropolis.
Two narrow winding streets, quite unin-
habited, alone remain, in piles of debris
little distance out at sea is all that
remains of the promontory that held the
middle age chateau. The Atlantic un-
dermined the middle age walled town
the prehistoric. cave houses that were
SO much older.
They say that nature began the grottos
when the oceans were much higher than
they are at present. The splash Of the
tides had washed out the softer parts Of
the stone, leaving fantastic caves. pill
lars, doors. balconies and windows. Then,
as the ocean descended. they were left
high and dry for the habitations Of pre-
historic men.
Pere Lavigne. we'll known In Royan,
was q cave dweller for over half a GEN.
tury. For fifty years he lived as q
Troglodite. snug in his cavern. When he
was ninety years OF age the Little
Sisters Of the Poor took him to their
house at Saintes: but he mourned for his
stone nest. babbling on his death bed Of
"my balcony on the infinite"
The marine painter. Bourgeois occupies
q spacious Srotto. next to the grotto Of
the New Woman: because the woman
who inhabits the latter came twenty
years ago with her young son and two
little girls az a newcomer to the neigh
horhood. The humble family live rent
free, welcome tourists with urbauity, and
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woolly rhinoceros, saber-toothed tiger and
giant lion had quit Europe another race
OF men appear.
They are the men Of these caves. They
were no relations to the big-jaWed hunt
ers or long-headed grub eaters. They
had manlike bones, chins, foreheads.
Their implements were fixed In shafts
and handles. They had lances, 5aveHns.
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HE first prehistoric
houses in the world
still exist. l have
sat on their balco-
MES with the rich
people OF Bor-
deaux. Scientific
men desire TO pos
sess them and dis
cover the first i'm
plements of man
and coquetries of
woman.
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etc. w Ueu a new cave - UpcHcO IllcS
often find layer after layer Of animal
debris above the stone relics Of man.
How long was it a happy city? How
did the first men disappear from it?
The tiger and the cave bear took the
winding steps down to the caves. Then
hyenas and wild dogs refuged in them.
Ages passed. Then man came again.
Some caves have iron and bronze relics.
How many thousands and thousands OF
years had intervened? Phoenician am
the little bays below. Roman inscriptions
exist on certain walls. Middle age tradl-
tions cling to certain caves.
There are legends of Albigenses fleeing
from CarcaSsonne, who took refuge in
them about the year 1850. A century
later desperate peasants Of some JAG
querle made them a stronghold. Ma
rauding bands Of English mercenaries re-
volted from the Black Prince held them
as robbers.
+
It is scarcely more than legend. A
hundred years or more ago the popula-
ton Of the time destroyed all the middle
age data Of the locality. In the nearby
village Of st. Georges de Didonne there
remains a vast rectangular church Of the
twelfth century, that belonged to
nr,ory. The chateau Of Luissinet was
just beyond. IN 1880 Tue iHiiauiIduls u
St. Georges gathered together in tar bar
rels all the titles. parchments, manu-
scripts and books Of prtory and chateau,
and ali the village was invited to come
to the feast Of their burning.
Immemorially the 'grottoes'' have been
used by fishers a. place to mend nets
and store provisions or have been In
habited by fisher families.
Old Marie Guichard serves tea in her
cave home. and at rather exhorbitant
prices. Laughing crowds OF tourists from
the nearby seaside resort Of Royan daugh-
ters-to-marry In their bravery, over-im-
portant youths courted by the mammns
worn men Of business. relaxed. following
their woman folk. climb down the fifty
ancient carved stone steps to Mario
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elephants trunk, rhinoceros teeth and
feet OF three-toed horse. Mexico was
cold in enough for mammoths In course
of time the ice melted. North America
reappeared. But neither before nor
after when mastodons again roamed
over the northern states and the man.
moths had gone to Alaska, is there any
sign of man.
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known and open. They had served In
more recent times as churches for the
poorer localities. smugglers lairs. fisher
mems refugees and even rustic inns for
tourists. Local curiosity had never
driven the Inhabitants TO penetrate fur
ther until in search Of porcelain clay,
they cleared away lot OF uirt, rock and
debris and discovered long series OF rooms
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KTODERN Rich Inhabit

MODERN Rich Inhabit
N4 Caves of Prehistoric
Men-Science to Evict Them
Stone and Bone Relics
Worth Fortunes-The Sealed
Balconies of the Atlantic
Looking Toward America
Memories of Beasts, Rob
bers, Wizards, Smugglers and
Fishers.
Special Correspondence of The Star.
R0X Eranca August oS 1Q1.,
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Why Don't I
Gypses wams palists hysteriacs clavoyan and astro
ogers contrary but competent system
= hard york.
Good luck Is oftener Of action than OF accident
Fortune though occasionally absent minded seldom
than his DUE
of rabbits feet astral Scrolls saskas toads toes and
effort.
Everything that dreamed scheed planned wrought
contrved devised invented engineered and built the face Of
this earth accomplished by human beings Of the
garden variety.
fin,e Nature has spirit of oagury achieved
Samese Twins rubber skinned proofed and double fingered
freaks but the enthusiastic Of side show Ananiases
proclaimed the existence of half wonderful
the Wizard who sits in the office building at the and
perform miracles by legal contract.
There simple explanation for all achievements; there
and there wiN be magic SPELL
persistence honesty, dang and
the sole factors responsible for the .Uords progress
There special Breed dipine stra
favored class genius does specialize neghborhoods
parentage.
The front ranks recruited from farm houses founding
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
ROYAN, France. August oS. 1872.
Evening star., 1912-09-08
By Herbert Kaufman

homes and oener than from mansions mano and
porte-cochere apartments.
Peter Cooper Hewitt had rich father; Edison
train butcher. Mkola Tesla boasted tutor but Otto
ergentaer dudged through apprentices John Perpont
Morgan born Millions but Andreuu Carnegie
graph operator.
Wanamaker, Field A. T. Stewart Clerks Harr-
errand and Yoakun progressed from braken,ans
eaboose to a presidents private
Ninety of the biggest Americans every genera
tfon were rocked in the cradle Of poverty
Neither weahh position lasts in the hands of fools and
weags The uctor belongs the and the explorer
OIL electricity and aoadng responsible for the largest
holdings of ealh this country hundred ago nobody
had dreamed Of the telephone heard of the locomotive
searched for petroleum.
The records of the patent office many
ingenuity vault from obscuiy into affuence and
eninece There ALWAYS for good idea; there always
a market for good judgment.
There is alOays target for r-sight. J.
Jump and take hand in the game Your only limit is
the stars. You haze anything your cards call for.
There hard times; there handcap There
Just two cLasses-fehters and cutters.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
By Percy H. Whiting.

TT HE Southern league clubs
have played about score
of games each, and to what
verdict? Just this: Thus far Mem
phts and Chattanooga have proved
themselves the stronger teams in
the northern division of the South
ern league Mobile and Birming-
ham have proved themselves the
stronger teams of the southern di-
vision
Under the workings of the pres
ent schedule the first batch of
games are played by each team in
their own division You will recall
that Atlanta has played Chatta-
nooga, Nashville and Memphis. all
northern clubs, at home and abroad.
II has yet to measure strength with
the four clubs in the southern divi-
sion.
The first intra sectional series is
ending We're off Sunday on the
first inter sectional. Watch for the
fur to fly thenl
among the northern division clubs,
it has an even break to its credit
thus far. 1t is only three full games
behind the leaders. 1t is less than
one full game behind birmingham.
If it wins from Chattanooga today
it will tie the smithies.
Evidently. therefore, the Hemp
hillites have not Jared very badly
at the hands of the northern divi
sion clubs Owing to the changes
in lineup and the lack of training
that was inevitable because of bad
weather. the Crackers naturally
made a bad start They are going
again now, and If they had nothing
worse to tackle than the northern
division clubs they would soon be
out in front.
But all the dopesters, however,
agreed before the season started
that three of the southern division
clubs were due for first division po
sitions. They were Birmingham,
Montgomery and New Orleans. And
then along come the desplsed Gulls
and blessed if they don't clean up
with all the southern division Won
ders and lead the league. So they
must be tolerably strong them
selves
1t is into this tough southern di
vision that Hemphill will pilot his
men after today's battle. For a
couple of weeks the Crackers will
prowl through the Far South.
When their trip is over we can
come a lot nearer than ever before
to answering that most momentous
OF questions:
Where in blazes are the Crack
ers going to finish this year, any
how
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04

GAN it be that we are going to
have a race in the American
league. after all? It surely looks it
now.
The Athletics, twice worlds
champions, don't look so dangerous,
with Jack Ceombs hurt The Mack
pitchers are certainly no wonders,
if you leave Iron Jack" out. Ben
der is not in trim and Plank is
aging What is likely to happen to
Mack's youngsters was demon
strated yesterday, when the feeble
Yanks hoped on them in the ninth
inning and all but beat them to
death When Plank was called to
the rescue ten runs had been scored
by the Yanks in the one inning.
which is more than they usually
make in A week
Comiskey has a scrapping. slug
ging team at Chicago and it is GO
ing some. It has a peppery man
ager and a lot of "ambish7 The
Red Sox are considerably
strengthened team this year, and
that Red Sox outfield is a wonder.
Also the Detroit team, now in the
depths, isn't likely to stay there
long. So look out for battle this
season in Ban Johnson's league
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
Cracker Club Only Three Games Behind Leaders
Must Now Measure Strength With Teams of South

THAT Bill Bernhard was about
right in saying that Otto Hess
was too old to fool with any doings
in the big leagues was pretty well
demonstrated yesterday. The husky
southpaw who pitched the Pelicans
TO victory so often last year worked
for Boston against Brooklyn. For
seven innings he was invincible.
But in the last two the Dodgers
smeared things all over him. Thir-
teen tallies were made in the two
innings. It is likely that Hess Will
find his wav back to New Orleans
before the season is out though all
Atlanta hopes not. for the Crackers
never could beat him. Bill Bailey,
former Southern Lacquer, also took
part in a bad game, and he, too, IS
probably due for a release.
I'll tell you one guy who viii
probably hang or bit longer. He
is Walter Johnson, of the Senators.
He has long been the wonder Of
baseball. but he seems even a little
better this year than he used to be
ANY club that gets three hits off
him this season is going mighty
strong, and more than one run off
him is almost equal in honor to
winning a worlds championship.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
Double Steal Went Wrong or
Crackers Would Have COPIED

o'Brien scored and the game was
tied
A double steal that went wrong
in the ninth cost the Crackers the
game. Ganley was walked and
Hemphnl hunted safe Alperman
popped and then Ganley and
Hemphrl got away for a double
steal Dunn and Evans PLAYED it
nicely and Ganley was nipped by
about an inch. AS East was passed
and as O'Brien hit safe after that
Ganley would have scored If he had
not attempted the double steal.
However. it was good baseball at
that. even If It did not produce
The Crackers continued to threat
en- through the game, but Chappelle
could always pull them up short
when danger really threatened, and
there wasn't much kicking when
the umpires declared 1t too dark
for further play.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
~HATTANooGA, TENN, May
I At took twelve good in

CHATTANOOGA, TENN. May
tit took twelve good in
nings yesterday to convince
the Crackers and Looi1outs that
they couldn't possibly do any more
scoring before midnight. and when
the twelfth came with the tally 1
to l, Umpire O'Toole called the
contest on account of darkness.
II was one of the toughest con
tests ever seen on local soil. For
seven innings big Bill Chappelle
had the Crackers right where he
wanted them. Up 10 that time the
Atlantans hadn't even made a hit.
In the eighth. however. things be-
gan to happen. O'Brien, the vet
eran who is now engaged in show
ing the knockers that he isn't all in
yet, looked over four Of Chappelle's
wild ones and walked. Sykes sacri-
feed him and J Kerr bounced one
off Moran's toes for two Dagger.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
"FITZ" CHARGES BILLS
WITH SIGNAL STEALING

NEW ORLEANS, May ACCORD
ing to Umpire Fitzsimmons, somebody
in the grandstand during one of the
recent Montgomery New Orleans
games was tipping off the signals OF
Catcher knapp to the Billiken bats
men Fitzsimmons notified Manager
Frank that something was wrong, but
the Pelican manager ridiculed the sug-
gestion. adding: They must be
guessing"
Guessing or not" said Fitzsimmons
they seem TO be getting them right.
This thing should not be tolerated, for
it isn't fair to a team. Let the bats
men try to hit the ball without any
outside aid, for the pitchers seem to
have something on the hitters this sea
son"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
DRAKE, TECHS HURLER.
is SICK, AND GOES HOME

Tech must have been the thirteenth
college started in Georgia, judged by
the i'll luck of its athletic teams
Just as the ball team looked as
though it would be a top-notcher. the
best pitcher on the staff falls sick and
has to quit school. Drake, the boy
from Griffin, has left Tech and will
hardly be seen in a Tech uniform again
Drake has been ailing since the Sc
vance trip but he is all in now.
This leaves only two regular pitch
ers to fight Georgia with-Eubanks and
Hubert-with a possibility in Fielder
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
HOWARD MORROW EARNS
AWARD OVER FITZGERALD

SAN FRANCISCO, May Howard
Morrow was given the decision over
Jack Fitzgerald in the main event Of
the Columbus clubs show here last
night The Chicago middleweight still
feels surprise today from a Earring blow
that sent him to the floor in the second
round Morrow evened up by flooring
Fitzgerald in the third. round, and in the
fourth had so much the better of the
going that Referee Toby Irwin had no
hesitation in giving him the verdict
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
GOVERNORS DAUGHTER
WINS TENNIS TOURNEY

ATHENS. GA. May 4.-Mlss Cora
Medford Brown, daughter of Governor
Joseph NJ. Brown. was the winner of
the tennis tournament which was con-
cluded here yesterday
The affair was holly contested, but
Miss Brown was a winner all the way
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04

These two eleventh hour pick
ups, Bob Ganley and Kid Graham,
seem likely to stick longer on the
Cracker club than some OF those
who were making a loud noise
through the training season. Gan
ley is a good hitter, good fielder
and tremendous worker. Graham
is youngstcr and he got away
poorly in his first game. Il is like
~ that he will be held, however,
as j. Kerr will do most of the
catching, anyhow.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
. - - REMOVES
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
MILLER, IN POOR TRIM,
TO BE RELEASED SOON

CHATTANOOGA, TENN. May A.
Doggy Miller is shortly to be released
by the Crackers. Miller and Henlphill
had a lively conversation this morn
ing. and there appears to be some feel
ing between them.
Miller was the Crackers best pitch
err last year. but he has not been in
good trim this year and has been will
as an Apache in all his games thus
far
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
GILBERT DIDN'T PULL:
KNOCKED OUT JEFFRIES

JACKSONVILLE, FLA May A.
Dick Gilbert didn't pull in his fight
with Frank ,Teffries here. and stopped
his opponent In the fourth round of a
rafting mill. Jehries fought -gamely.
being hoored five times beforeShe was
finally counted out
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
HARRY BALENTl SIGNS
WITH ASHEWLLE TEAM

CHATTANOOGA, TENN, May A.
Harry Balenti brother of Mike Ba-
lenti, of the local club, signed today
with Asheville, in the Appalachian
league.