The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01
Divers Now Seeking to Recover More Than Eight Million Dollars Buried in Sands of
 Zuyder Zee
By PAUL LAMBETH

these remarks to the Royal sanitary ln-
 stitute, accompanying them with an ad- vocacy of reforms of the marriage laws so "progressive' as to astound both clergy and laiety. The ideas of his grace
 gre notable as coming from the second highest ecclesiastical dignitary in the three Kingdoms and as 6 member of the Royal Commission on Divorce, whose re- pert is now awaited with great interest.
 Recourse to Reno would be less com mon among Englishmen and English women,' said the Archbishop, If English
 laws were more in keeping with common sense and human necessities. He ex- pressed approval of the principles of the bill for dealing with mentally deficient persons, and expressed a hope that par liament would find time to pass 1t into law. Proceeding his grace said he would
 so further and declare himself in favor of an amendement of the marriage laws providing that marriages should be de-
 clared null and void if. within certain time it was shown that facts had been withheld disclosing insanity, epilepsy or yenereal disease. This opens up a wide vista, and Is a distinct advance upon any opinions which have been hitherto ex- pressed by those representing the church. Under the presidency of Sir Frank Las
 
 lin, a congress to be composed of leading British and German peace advocates will open in London on October 30. The imme- diate objects of the congress are to take steps to bring about return of good feel ing between the people of the two coun- tries; to outline. the advantage of friendly competition in commerce and economies; to broaden the field of civilized colonial
 development. and to urge the inviolabil- fly of private property In time of war. Leading statesmen of both countries have been invited to speak.
 In the waters of the Zuyder Zee Brit ish divers are fishing for millions in gold bullion. The gross value of the treas ure is estimated at $S,570,000. It is en- tombed in the wreck of the British frig- ate Lutine, which foundered in a storm at the entrance to the Zuyder Zee in De- l tcber, 1799 For the better part of cen | tury a dispute continued between the government of the Netherlands and Great
 Britain as to the rights of salvage. An agreement was ultimately come to. but in the meantime the sands covered the wreck, and now many charges of dyna- mite will have to be employed before the divers can hope to get at the gold. Many | old cannon and curious relics have been | fshed up from time to time. The de- struction of the upper deck by explosives l is to be attempted next week and the
 salvage company then expects to begin
 fishing up the gold, which lies many | fathoms under water.
 | The chauffeur of Baron Marscha1l von
 Rieberstein the German ambassador.
 figures as the defendant in an interest," | ing case and the ambassador himself
 las lent piquancy to the proceedings. | Hugh Snowie Jones, a Welsh-Cockney.
 charged with speeding, invoked immunity
 under the act of parliament of 1706
 which ''exempts foreign ambassadors and
 their domestlcs from arrest on legal pro. cess Baron Marschall declined to in-
 dorse his domestic's claim, telling the
 court that the man had evidently "a bet | ter head for excuses than for beer" The I law however, gave the magistrate no dis
 cretion but to discharge the prisoner.
 You are discharged, Jones' said the judge Jones' repeated Baron Mar | schall consider yourself discharged. | Jones walked out of the court and was | about to resume his seat on the Barons
 auto when the elderly ambassador antic- | ipated him at the crank. NO, Jones. repeated the diplomat. you see you are
 discharged" After the auto turned the
 corner in cloud of dust the chauffeur saw the point.
 After six years, during which no Derby ! shire couple dared lay claim to 1t, the | 'Dunmow fitch famous for centuries as | the reward of those married, but still happy, has been won by two sets or Dar- by and Joan-Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith | of Crewton and Mir and Mrs. Butcher ! of Tilty, Essex. Thousands attended the court of Cupid to hear the arguments
 by counsel for the Bacon and for the | happy pairs. Following the rule which | is as old as Derbyshire, six bashful maid | ems dressed in white and six extremely self-conscious young men-being bach
 elors and spinsters heart-whole,' thus
 able to deliver verdict without bias
 sat with the judge to decide the contest famous lawyer. Gibbon. appeared for | the Bacon," which was placed next to
 the mace of assize The two couples had \ to sit upon a stage and be heckled by
 "co,nsel for the Bacon" whose business | it is to try and show that the husband and wife spend most of their time bick- | ering The slightest deviation from per | feet domesticity destroys the claim to the l fitch" Under examination. Smith said | of his wife. "She is an optimist When | it's raining and sky's black as thunder
 she can always see the sun smiling
 through. She gets up before the dawn to
 fill my pipe for me- He refused to ac- l cept a latchkey-the only request he ever denied,'' said Mrs. Smith. Tt was love | at urSI SlBnt, sdlu DutEhcip SiiO 'esiAe | herself into my heart. had to coax her
 to be a suffragette, just to please me;
 and, to please her. became home ruler. For six and half years her mother has lived with us.' That got | Butcher the fitch.
 Yoricls the jester. immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet" is to have a tablet erected to his memory at St. Leon- ard s church, Shoredtch. Yorick, or Rich ard Tarlton, was clown to Queen Eliza
 beth and died in 15SS. movement has
 been started to honor the Elizabethan players. following the revived enthusiasm in the things of the Bards time occa- stoned by Mrs. Cornwallis-W Vests success full work at Earls court.
 II Among those whose burial at St. Leon ards has been established by the parish register are: Tarlton otherwise Yorick; Will Somers. Henry WITS jester (died 156O: James Burbage, the builder of the first English playhouse (died i59D; Rich- ard Burbage, the original impersonator of many of Shakespeare's characters (died 16ls-19); Gabriel Spenser. William Sly Richard Cowley and other actors in the original and early productions of Shakespeares plays. At the request of Mir. William Poel, who initiated the pro- Iposal, the London Shakespeare League has consented to organize committee to raise the necessary funds.
 | Death from wasp sting was the verdict