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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-12-03

Intercourse IL best assured by the
possession OF proper means for pro.
tecting and promoting our foreign
trade.
In former messages have de
seribed the negotiations OF the de
partmont Of state with foreign gov.
ernmentH for the adjustment OF the
maximum and minimum tsriff. az
provided la section OF the tariff
Law of 1909. The advantages Sc
cured By the adjustment Of our
trade relations under this law have
continued during the last year
NECESSITY FOR
SUPPLEMENTARY LEGISLATION
These Developments confirm the
opinion that while the maximum
and minimum provision OF the tar.
II Law OF 1908 has been ful'y iuatl.
fled By the success achieved Ia 70
moving previously existing undue
discrimination against American
products. yet experience has shown
that this feature Of the law should
be amended IN such way a. 10 pro.
vide a fully effective means %
meeting tho varying degrees OF dis
crimlnatory treatment Of American
commerce by foreign countries still.
encountered. an we'll an 20 protect
aEalnst Injurious treatment on the
part Of foreign governments
strongly recommend passage OF
some such enabling measure a. the
bill recommended By the sscrctary
OF state December ~. 1911. The
object Of the proposed legislation IL.
In brief. 10 enable the executive to
apply. az the case may require. TO
any or all commodities. whether or
not on tho FREE list. from country
which diaefiminafen against tho
unltsd States. a graduated scale OF
duties up 10 the maximum OF 20 per
cent al salorcm provided in the
present law
BUSINESS SECURED nv
DIRECT OFFICIAL EFFORT
Az Illustrating the commercial
benefits Ia ths nation derived from
tho new diplomacy aud ifA effective.
ness upon the material as well az
the more ideal side. II may BE- re
marked that through direct official
efforts alone there have been OBJ
tanned In the course OF this admin.
latrntion. contracts from foreign
governments Involving an sxpendi.
tnrs Of $50. 600. 900 tn the factories
Of the United States
FUR SEAL TREATY AND
NEED FOR AMENDMENT
The act adopted AT the ieat ses.
sion OF congress 10 give effect 10
the fur.a-Al convention of July 7,
1911. between Great Britain. Japan.
Russia. and the United States pro
sidcd for suspension Of ali land
killing Of seals on the priblioi
Islands for five yoara. and an oh.
lection has nov boon presented 70
this provision by the other parties
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-12-03
ngc EssIry FOR EFFORT IN
RETENTION or FOREIGN TRADE

II IL not r0saibls 10 maze 70 con
grcsn n communication upon the
present foreign relations Of the
united States 10 detailed al 10 con.
v.y AN adequate Impression OF the
enormous Increase In the Import
ancc and activities % tbose reia,
tiona. II this government Is really
20 preserve 20 the American people
that free opportunity In foreign
markets which VII soon be indis.
penaablc TO our prosperity, even
greater efforts must be made.
America cannot take Its proper
place In the mos, important fields
for It's commercial activity and en-
terprina unless wc have merchant
marine. American commerce and
enterprise cannot be effectively
foatered In shoss fields unless we
have good American banks In the
countries referred TO. We need
20 assure the permanency OF q
trained foreign service. We need
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-12-03
Words '. BY Schasis
Music bv Con1.

at the Third and Pine fire statioa
tied with Judge Remsterg. each n.
ceiying 81 votes. Al the Emerson
school Judge Winsor ran second. re-
eeiying 10 written votes 10 q for
Rsmsberg and 8 for Nelson.
The cost Of the election, accord.
ing TO Secretary Lincoln Of the port
commission, is about 3.oot. 40 thar
every vote represented a value q
80 cents.
Remsbergs new term viii be lor
three years.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-12-03
LARGER PROVISION FOR
EMBASSIES AND LOCATIONS

LARGER PROVISION FOR
EMBASSIES AND LEGATIONS
In connection with legislation for
the amelioration Of the foreign
service. wish to invite attention 10
the adyisabillty OF placing the sat
AIRY appropriations upon better
basis. / believe the best results
would be obtained BY a moderate
scale OF salaries. with aaequate
funds for the expenses Of proper
representation. based in each case
upon the scale and cost of living at
each post. controlled by a system %
accounting. and under the general
direction OF the department Of
state. Il is high time the dignity
and power OF this great nation
should be fittlngly signahxcd by
proper buildings for the occupancy
Of the nations representatives ey'
crywhere abroad.
DIPLOMACY A HANDMADE
OF COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE
THE diplomacy OF the present
administration has sought 20
respond TO modern ideas Of
commercial intercourse. This
policy has been characterized
as substituting dollars for bull
lets. II Is an effort frankly
directed 10 the Increase Of
American trade. upon the an
lomatic principle that the GOV
ernmerf Of the United states
shall extend all proper support
10 every legitimate and tene-
fetal American enterprises
!. abroad. How great have been
the results OF this diplomacy.
coupled with the maximum and
minimum provisions Of the tar
~ Law. will be seen In the
wonderful increase In the es.
port trade Of the United States.
SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS
IN PROMOTION OF PEACE
In the field Of work towprd the
ideals OF peace. this government
negotiated, but TO my regret was
unable to consummate. two arhitra.
ton treaties which set the highes,
mark 81 aspiration OF nations to.
ward the substitution Of arbitration
and reason for war in the settle
ment OF international disputes
Through the efforts Of American
diplomacy, several wars haze been
prevented or ended.
NATIONS POLICY IN
CFiiNA'S AFFAIRS
In China the policy OF erscouraK
ing financial investment g. enable
that country to help itself has had
the result OF giving new life and
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-12-03

JOURNEY BY STAGE
ON FROZEN RIVER

s. s. Humboldt reached port last
night from Southeastern Alaska.
On board were Sid and nm Bar.
rington, owners OF the Yukon
steamer Vidette.
The Vidette was the last boat TO
leave Dawson for Whitehorse. She
carried a large passenger list and
crew OF 20. When short dis.
lance down the river. the boat be-
came frozen in the ice. The pas
sengers had TO continue their jour.
ney by stage.
nevertheless set out to complete
his revenge on the son. lie dis
guised himself with a false beard
and for two weeks he lay daily In
a house he had rented for the pur.
pose. waiting for Boyce to come
past. Two automatic guns were
always within easy reach. Finally
Boyce came. There was shot.
Boyce died.
When arrested and reached,
Snead was found To be wearing
brass breastplate. lie explained II
was TO guard him from bullets.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-12-03

Win DDycc.
AT Winnipeg, the clipping pair
was caught. Mrs. Snead returned
to her husband
Snead was still under bail for
the murder of Boyce's father. He
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-12-03

matte service. on November 20.
1909. by an executive order. ! plac.
ed the diplomatic service. NJ 10 the
grade OF secretary OF embassy. In
elusive. upon exactly the same strict
non bipartisan basis OF the merit sys-
Tam
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-12-03

infatuation was AL Boyce. gay.
debonair and wealthy.
The wife begged her husband to
give her up. He pleaded with her
to stay with him. Finally he shut
her up In sanitarium. II wasn't
long until she escaped. and fled
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-12-03

Washington. - Without deeidina
either the anthracite trust or rate
cases, the United States supfeno
court adjourned here today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-12-03
INCREASE or OUR
FOREIGN TRADE

In my last annual message said
that the fiscal year ended Juae 80.
1911. VAS noteworthy AZ marking
the highest record 81 exports OF
American products 10 foreign coun.
tries. The fiscal year 1919 shows
that this rate Of advance has been
maintained. the total domestic ex.
ports having a valuation. approxi.
mafsly. Of 5000. o00. 900. as com.
pared with fraction over 5000.
0oo. 600 the previous year
ADVANTAGE or MAXIMUM
AND MINIMUM TARIFF
The Importance which our man.
ufactursw have assumed In the
commerce 81 the world IN eompeti
ton with the manufactures Of 9th.
or countries again draws attention
to the duty OF this government 70
use its utmost endeayors n secure
impartial treatment for American
products In all morkcts. Healthy
commercial rivalry In international
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-12-03

In interest, which raises the issue
as 10 whether or not this prohibit
ton OF land killing IL Inconsistent
with the spirit. N not the letter. OF
the treaty atipulatlons.
The justification for establishing
this close season depends upon how
far IL 10 necessary for protecting
and preserving the American fur
seal herd sud for Increasing Its
number. This 10 a question roqulr.
ing examination of the present con
ditlon Of the herd aud the treat
ment which Il needs In the light on
actual experience and hcisnufic In
xentlgAsl0n A careful examination
Of the subject IL now being made.
OPIUM CONFERENCE;
FAILURE TO ENACT LAWS
IN my message on foreign rela-
lions communicated 20 the two
houses % congress December 7.
1911. ! called especial attention TO
the assembling OF the opium con
ference at Tho Hague. Ia the fact
that that conference vas 10 review
all pertinent municipal Laws fclat.
INK 10 inc opium aNH @ttt'b fFtfNf
and certainly all international rules
REGARDING these evils, and 20 the
fAsg that II seemed 10 me moss 80.
sarlfial that the congress should
sabs Immediate action on the anti
narcotic icglnlAtlon before the con.
grosa. 90 which had previously
called attention by special mes.
3aR..
II vas most unfortunate that this
government. having taken the
initiative ia the international &c
ton which svcnsuated In the i'm.
pofiant International opium consen-
ton. failed TO do its share in the
great work By negiectlng 70 pass
The necessary icglniaflon 10 correct
the deplorabic narcotic evil ia the
ffftfsaA EfGfrn
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-12-03
SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS
IN PROMOTION OF PEACE
NATIONS POLICY
CHtnAsS AFFAIRS

In China the policy OF encouraE.
Ing financial investment e. enable
that country to help Itself has had
the result Of giving new life and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-16
"SIxuukcd-Hy Gum"

Talk about hard luck stories said q sportsman, but I am the victim sure enough of one that is out of the ordinary
 ..I packed my bag and took my two dogs for q few days sport in the hills of Bibb, back in the fastncssea where that predatory person, the bird hunter doesn't often venture. Well, found some auails, but gce the man who goes after them ought to at least have the 'satyr hcofs,' for the climbing abilities of the goat are surely needed. Tho birds fly right up in the wooded steeps, yes, hills that take the wind out of fellow when he has climbed them. l. requires a steady nerve to kill birds, and mans heart and lungs must be normal to have it. well. l d,d poor shooting one of the dogs was wild and l left her boxed in the afternoon. After long drive over the everlasting hills in pursuit of drove of i5 wild turkeys that had been reported as seen day or two before, with no luck, but half dozen birds in the bag, we started for the comfortable bungalow. Presently 'Joe, the aristocrat of bird dogs, who will not chase rabbits, was foung digging and scratching vigorously down small branch. I hastened to make him desist. Well, he was trying to dig out skunk. He left his skunk trail in tie path all the way to quarters. l placed him in an outhouse with fresh, damp hay to lie on. After IS hours he came forth still odoriferous. He ran through mud, water and wet straw for five hours-stil slunlly. l toned him down enough to bring him home in trip which change of cars made necessary the use of two baggage cars. I tipped the baggage man, but still there was always that sus- picious look behind us when detraining. on the faces of the tranmen that the linn berger cheese caused in Peck's Bad Bow"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-16
DRYING OUT S3,OOO,OOO

From the New York Times.
 officers and clerks of the United States Life Insurance company are telling their friends the story of a piece of financial laundering which has probably never oc- cured befone in the history of Wall street.
 "The vault in which our company kept it's securities was the very lowest one in the burned Equitable Building said As- sistant Secretary Kenway last night. Irons of water filtered down into it who the fire department was fighting the fire. The financial institutions which occupied the vault immediately above us, when they got into their vaults after the fire, found that their securities were hardly damp, But we came to open the large tin boxes-in which s3,oOoO0O of our securities were kept, we found that there was about a bucket of water in each box. The se- curities were soaked through, but were not otherwise damaged, and we removed them safely to another vault which we had hired in the financial district. and tried to dry them, first with plotting pa per. Half a dozen clerks of our com
 
 securities for almost week. but the moisture refused to come out.
 Finally President Mum telephoned to one of the electrical supply companies Of the city and ordered half a dozen electric fans and half dozen electric irons. When these were sent down to the vault we con- nected the fans and the irons to the cleo rir light wiring of inc yai1lt We sfrto.y other wires across the vault and hung the 5000 bond certificates out to dry. The certificates were attached to the wires with regulation clothspins. hs soon as each security was made partially dry by the breezo from the whrring electric fans enc of tho officers of the company. under President Munns direction. would spread it out on an ironing board and would carefully iron 1t out with one of the electric irons. About tho only thing we didn't use which 2 laundry does is blueing and starch.
 ''The ironing of 5000 pieces of laundry isn't any easy work even for trained and the hands of most of us were red and blistered before we got through. Now, however. that the work is all over, we are quite proud of ourselves, for not one of the entire 3o00 bonds is in the slightest degree torn or damaged.
 The uncertainty of business has no more ! terror for the officers of the company, for, as Assistant tSecretary Kenway says, if they are ever called upon to leave the life insurance business they can qualify as first class launderers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-16
Fighting the HOolkMOrm

The second annual report of the Rockefeller Sanitary commission cov- ering the work done in the calendar year 1911 shows that 10000 cases of hookworm were treated in nine states. This was done at cost of $14S,O00, making the average cost of each per son treated S1.27. This certainly is a good result in every way.
 The gain was not confined to the 10000 persons treated, for whole counties were aroused by the hook worm campaigns to the dangers of unsanitary living
 Let the good work go on. It is very promising and very efficient. The physicians in each county visited by the commission are enlisted in the work, and they become as skillful in detecting the parasite as the agents of the commission. In this way pub lie opinion will be educated and it will be impossible to measure the extent and value of the work thus inaugu- rated county by county by the com mission. Not over one-fourth of the Alabama counties have as yet been visited by the Commission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-16

1 mtNtbA0SE siSfIS THE MOON
 By Baron Munehausen.
 1 I was not always successful. I had
 the misfortune to bo overpowered by
 numbers. to be made prisoner of war;
 and, what is vorse. to be sold for a slave.
 l In that state of humiliation my daily task was not very hard and laborious, but rather singular and irksomc It was to drive the sultans bees every
 morning to their pasture grounds, to
 attend them all day long, and against night drive them back to their hives. One evening I missed a bee and soon observed that two bears had fallen upon her to tear her to pieces for the honey sine carried I had nothing like an offensive weapon In my hands but the silver hatchet which is the badge
 of the sultan's gardeners and farmers. I threw It at the robbers with the Intention to frighten them away and set the poor bee at liberty but by an
 nnlucky turn of my arm 1t flew up- ward and continued rising until it reached the moon. How should I re- cover it? How fetch 1t down again? I recollected that Turkey beans grew very quick and ran up to an astonish- ing height. I planted one immediately | 1t grew, and actually fastened itself to
 one of the moons horns. I had no
 more to do now but to climb up by it to the moon, where I safely arrived, and had a troublesome piece of busi- ness before l could find my silver hatchet in a place where everything had the brightness of silver.
 At last however I found 1t in head
 of chaff and chopped straw I was now | for returning; but, alasi the heat of
 the sun had dried up my bean; it was
 totally useless for my descent; so I
 fell to work and twisted me a rope of
 that chopped straw, as long and as
 well as l could make it.
 This I fastened to one of the moons
 horns, and slid down to the end of it..
 Here I held myself fast with the left
 hand, and with the hatchet in my
 right, I cut the long, now useless end
 of the upper part, which, when tied , to the lower end, brought me a great
 deal lower. This repeated splicing and 1 tying of the rope did not improve its
 quality or bring me down to the sul-
 tans farm.
 1 I was four or five miles from the
 earth at least when it broke; I fell to 1 the ground with such amazing violence | that 1 found myself stunned and in a
 hole nine fathoms deep at least made | by the weight of my body falling from so great a height. l recovered, but knew not how to get out again. | However, l dug slopes or steps with ! my finger nails Cthe baron's nails were | then of 40 years growth, and easily accomplished it. Peace was soon after concluded with the Turks, and, gaining my liberty l left St. Petersburg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-16
uEROIsM OF MOTHERHOOD
n the Kansas City Journal.

From the Kansas City Journal.
 No playwright ever conceived a situa- tion of more dramatic pathos than was presented in little story that came over the wires the other day telling how a mother, unable to extricate her little daughters feet from a frog of rail- road track, deliberately died with her child rather than leave it to it's fate alone, an onrushng train sweeping them both
 into eternity. Mothers and fathers, too, have given their lives that their off, spring might be saved; they have strug- gled to the very last moment Of hope in order to rescue together the death which threatened all alike and from which escape seemed next to impossible. But here was something still greater. Per haps there have been instances of mother love as heroic as that displayed in this particular case. but if so they have beer exceedingly rare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-16
Political Neurotics

In his Lincoln day speeches the President made it plain that he in tends to fight from this time on the progressives, whom he calls political neurotics, and to stand up for the old republican party-in other words, for the party of Aldrich and Joe Cannon and the machine men who have since the war devised and maintained pro- lection for profits regardless of con- sumers' rights.
 No one is surprised at his position. He has been all the days of his active life a co-worker of bosses and stand batter. There is not a progressive hair in his head and never hsa' been He boldly says in his keynote speeches that tariff changes must wait upon his tariff board, and he distinctly says that any one who wants revision of schedule before that tariff board has reported is neurotic
 This is the issue as Mr. Taft defines it. He will listen to no revision, how over just or urgent it may be until the tariff board has reported, and in two years it has presented a report on just one schedule, and there are 14 schedules running from "A" to "N," '" inclusive. He promises us, therefore, revision" in the course of 2S versa. . A mans brain and nerve would natur- ally become affected in that period of time, and no one could justly blame him'if he became neurotic.
 The steam roller and the officehold- CTS have corralled delegates for MT. Taft. These delegates were not elected in contested states. They were elected in Georgia, Oklahoma, Florida, Virginia and the Philippines The steam roller did it's work nobly, and the more delegates it secures the more aggressive no doubt will Mr. Taft be- come in defense of "the old republican party" and the tariff board which bids fair to be without funds on July l next.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-16
Some Bad Highways

..Some of the worst roadbeds in Jeffer- son county are within the limits of the city of Birmingham" said man who owns an automobile.
 .s,Those of us who have travelled Tn auto cars in New England and several north- ern states know what good roads are. Tn Alabama we have excellent road building material, and there is no excuse for bad roads anywhere in this part of the coun- try. The south has been backward in good road building. but it is coming for ward steadily now.
 "As far as Birmingham is concerned the commissioners found the city living beyond it's means ,and at once started d policy of retrenchment. The commission has been in effect nearly a year. It may be that the Commissioners have not had time to do much ine the way or giVihs us better streets in the outlying sections. but if we do not have q system of per feet highways within Greater Birmingham 9nside of the next IS months l will think there is something wrong with the com mission form of government; and l say this after having voted for the change from the aldermanic board to commis- sion" I"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-16
Work Cut Out in Englnad

The opening of a.new parliament session in London is an important event simply because it has home rule, Welsh dicestabishment and woman suffrage to deal with, and the cabinet is endeavoring to put Anglo-German relations on better footing. Ger many seems to be willing If Germany and England reach an understanding the race in the building of dread thoughts will be ended to the financial relief of both countVes. Both coun- tries have too many of the expensive ships that become antiquated and use less in 20 yeras, and Germany has not fired a hostile shot since the war with Frnace 40 years ago.
 The big bills in parliament will, however, absorb public attention. The unionists say the lords will vote home rule down, thus compelling the com mons to repass it under the terms of