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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
Purpose of Suit Explained

New York. February 13.-Purposes OF
the suit brought at Trenton today by the
federal government against corporation
alleged to be members of the hard coal
trust were explained tonight by James
G. McReynolds of counsel for the govern
ment in the suit.
"The case is brought in two aspects"
said Mr.. McReynoids: First, 10 have
the court pass upon the question whether
parties in control of railroad company
can organize amongst themselves a cor
poratlon which continues under their con-
troll and through the form of a contract
escape prohibitions of the commodities
clause of the interstate commerce law,
while retaining to themselves all the benz
efits of the old arrangement.
Secondly, to apply the Sherman act so
as TO restrict railroads to the business OF
common carriers by preventing them from
entering into contracts or arrangements
with reference to outside matters which
interfere with the performance of their
duties as such carriers to the public.
This. I believe Mr.. McReynolds
added, rs the first attempt to apply the
Sherman act TO such arrangements"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
Thorough Investigation

Washington. February 13.-By the hard
coal" suit instituted today the govern
ment has gone more deeply into the an
thracite situation than ever before, ac-
cording to officials. AS the result of an
investigation by the department of justice
action against other alleged combinations
of railroads and coal companies is ex-
pected.
The reason the government recently re-
quested and secured the dismissal of the
suit under the commodities clause against
the Lehigh Valley railroad at Philadelphia
was to permit It Is understood, u consid-
GRAFTON of the question OF proceeding
against the company under both the COM
modities clause and the antitrust act.
In its recent decision in the general
hard coal trust suit the supreme court
threw out without prejudice the charges
against several alleged combinations of
coal carrying railroads and coal COM
p2nies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14

stormy session of the House naval af-
fairs committee today the economy ad-
vocates failed to force reduction in
the two battleship programme adopt
ed by the committee and returned to
a further conference with little likeli-
hood ofian agreement. The economy ad-
vocates demand that at least one of
the two battleships authorized by the
bill as originally framed be elimin-
ated They plan to fight the bill on
the floor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
Indorse Root Bill

New York. February 13.-The New York
Chamber OF Commerce today adopted a
resolution indorsing Senator Roots bill
to amend the Panama canal bill by strik-
ing out provisions for the free passage
Of American coastwise trade. Joseph IA.
.Choate. former ambassador to Great Brit
ain, was one of those who spoke in favor
Of the resolution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
PROSECUTION OF THE
"HARD COAL TRUST
BEGINS IN TRENTON
Continued from pnEe One)

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companies. has contriyed to gain con-
troll over the output OF most OF the
mines served by 1t and the sale of the
same. This is especially true of coal
moving to New York harbor and as a
consequence f. o. b. prices of anthra-
cite at the various terminals there are
made and controlled by the defendant
railroad and other railroad companies
and their affiliated coal companies.
These prices of their averages are re-
ported monthly by the sellers to a bu-
reau OF statistics sustained by them
Jointly and the result is then sent out
to all of them"
Practically all of the annual output of
100000 tons of anthracite produced In
the great fields of Pennsylvania is car
ried away, the government says, by the
following mine railroads.
Reading. Jersey Central, Lehigh Valley,
Lackawanna, Erie. Susquehanna and
Western, Delaware and Hudson. Pennsyi-
vania and Ontario and Western.
Railroad coal rates to New York har-
Dor, upon which the price of coal so
largely depends are declared long to have
been and now to be, excessive.
Acquire New Company
After the supreme courts commodities
clause decision the Lackawanna railroad
the organization of the Lackawanna coal
company to sell the coal owned or bought
by the railroad. The railroad declared a
50 per cent dividend to permits its stock
holders to acquire the stock of the new
coal selling company. The two concerns
entered contract by which. it Is charged,
the railroad annually sells to the coal
company about 100000 tons of coal pro-
duced by the road 8 mines and about l.
10000 tons bought by the road from
others along its lines. The coal company
in turn takes "ostensible possession III
the coal" II is added, and causes most
o, II to be transported IN interstate com
merce by the defendant railroad.
THE affairs Of both" II Is charged,
have been carried on in complete accord
with the purpose and effect Of enrlching
their common shareholders"
At least So per cent OF the shares or
both companies, the petition declares, are
in the hands OF common stockholders
Twenty-Five Of these are said TO own a
majority of stock of both companies, the
affairs of which are controlled by a still
smaller number acting IN a concert" Inn
nense profits have been made by the coal
company, 1t is added, dividends at the
rate Of 10 per cent per annum having
been declared and surplus exceeding 50
per cent OF the capitalization having been
accumulated in less than three and one
half years.
The contract between the defendants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14

Washington. February ls.--At a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
SENATE COMMITTEE
CONCLUDES HEARING
ON THE RIVER BILL
Measure Will Be Reported
Today by Senator Nelson.
The Bill Carries a
Big Increase
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.

Senate: Convened at noon.
Senator Root spoke in favor of Con-
neeticut river dam bill.
Hearing on bill for valuation of
railroad property continued by inter-
state commerce committee.
Pueblo Indians urged Indian affairs
committee to transfer Pueblo lands
to government in trust.
Postoffice committee added amend
ment TO postonice appropriation bill
to provide for primary elections for
selection OF fourth class postmasters
Adjourned at 5;3s p. m. until noon
Friday.
House: Convened at II o'clock
Disagreed to conference report on
legislative. executive and judicial ap-
rrooriation bill and sent II back for
further conference.
Resan consideration Of diplomatic
and consul appropriation bill.
Shipping trust investigating COM
mittee resumed hearings.
Chairman Adamson of interstate
commerce committee told Connecticut
river dam bill advocates his bill aid
not recommend action in the. House
at this session.
Representative Berger introduced
resolution Tor investigation of post
Office department censorship of pub
lications.
Terresentative Olmstead made
speech against Jones Philippine in
dependence BILL
Adjourned at s:15 p. m. until Il a.
m. Friday.
Washington. February is.-After addini
numerous amendments the Senate com
mittee on commerce today concluded it
of the rivers and harbor
bill and that measure viii
be reported TO the Senate tomorrow D,
Senator Nelson, chairman Of the commit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
Loan TOWNS SurpIus

Laharpe, Kan. February 1s-This towns
surplus money viii no longer be deposited
in banks to draw a small rate of interest,
but will be loaned 10 Kansas farmers. The
council today passed an ordinance an
nouncing authority given the mayor TO
lend money at ) per cent interest on Sc
curity of farms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14

the government charges, tends to keep
the railroads freight rates unduly high.
The petition filed by United States At
torney Vreeland Is signed by Attorney
General Wickersham. James A. Fowler,
assistant to the attorney general and
James c. Reynolds and G. Carroll Todd,
special assistants,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07
MAKES FIGHT ON 'HOARDINGS'
English Newspaper Proud of Action
Which Does Away With These
BIots on the Landscape.

Under the head "Hideous Hoard
ings" we find an interesting note in a
daily paper of London wherein is
shown the subordination of the bill
board to the claims of the landscape.
England is as badly afflicted with bill
boards. largely advertising American
goods, as we are, and it must be quite
a relief to find even a single county
that has relegated them to their Prop
er place, for it would now seem as
though the latter is indefinitely indi-
Gated by the following list of restric-
tons taken from the London Daily
Graphic:
in the campaign against hideous
hoardings the latest bylaw to come
into force is the following, which was
promulgated by the Surrey county
council on Saturday: No advertise
ment shall be exhibited on any hoard
ing, stand, or other erection so as to
be visible from any public highway
whether carriageway, bridgeway or
footway), or from any public water
way whether river, tributary or
canaD, or from any railway, so as to
disfgure the natural beauty OF the
landscape.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07
MOVING AIR A REGENERATOR
Why One May Sleep on the Ground in
Certain Localities Without Any
Ill Effect.

In these days of apartments many
people must sleep rather close to the
ground. The ventilation here cannot
be as good as it is higher and sun
light is usually almost an impossible
ity The renting agent pointed out the
fact to a tenant the other day that the
sunlight, during part of the day, fell
on the wall opposite and was reflected
1t was pathetic.
Nevertheless, it is true that in any
reasonably healthful climate, not in
fected by swamp miasma, people sleep
on the ground in the open not only in
safety, but with a distinct hygienic
gain 1t is particularly true of noun
tain or high hill regions. Men, out
camping, have awakened in the morn
ing to find themselves lying almost i'm
mersed in the water of sudden rains,
and yet have experienced no i'll effect.
All of this leads us back to a previ-
GUS statement that the system thrives
when air has chance to search in
and circulate in contact with the flesh.
1t stimulates and electrifies.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07

advertised for such cases and l sent and
got bottle. 1t did me so much good
that | kept on taking it and found it to
be all you claim. | recommend your
Compound to all women afflicted as l
was. Mrs. F. P. MULLENDoRE, Mum
ford, Alabama.
An Honest Dependable Medicine
is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. A Root and Herb medicine orig
mated nearly forty years ago by Lydia
E. Pinkham of Lynn, Mass, for con-
trolling female ills.
Its wonderful success in this line has
made it the safest and most dependable
medicine of the age for women and no
woman suffering from female ills does
herself justice who does not give it a
trial.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia Il. PinlIham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound will helpyOu,write
to Lydia E.Pinkham Nj edicine Co.
(cOnfidentiaD Lynn, Mass, for adj
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by a woman,
and held in strict confidence.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07
Nature-Study Clubs.

Among the older children in com
mon schools there have been organ
lied a number of nature-study clubs
the members making a business of
going afield Saturday and holidays to
study and collect. Sometimes the
teacher goes along, but more often by
far one or more of the mothers are
present. The object of these trips is
to get into closer touch with nature
than is possible at school-to really
see and come in contact with many of
the things only known at school
through hearsay. Some of the mem
bers of these clubs will be certain,
later in life, to distinguish themselves
in some branch of natural science, for
not all can escape the lure of nature
or forever remain free from a close
sympathetic appreciation of its num-
berless charms.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07
SUNDAY NIGHT TEA.

A dainty and nice little salad to pre-
pare for a night lunch is dates and
cottage cheese The cheese should be
well seasoned and arranged on lettuce
leaves, with three or four dates care
fully stoned and washed and arranged
on the cheese. No salad dressing will
be needed with such salad.
Figs and nuts ground together in
a food chopper and seasoned with a
bit of salt and moistened with a ia
blespoonful of cream makes fine fill
ing for sandwiches. For a refreshing
spring sandwich nothing tastes better
than sliced cucumbers with a bit OF
onion juice and lemon on bread and
butter.
Chopped green onions, seasoned
with oil, vinegar and salt, make an
other good sandwich filling. A cup OF
hot cocoa on a chilly night is most &C
ceptable, and with salad is enough
for simple meal.
After late heavy Sunday dinner,
very light lunch is best For those
who are not satisfied with that, a
heavier dish, such as sliced roast OF
beef with Mexican or Spanish sauce,
or an escallOped dish Of eggs, maca-
ronni and cheese and white sauce will
be found quite satisfying enough.
Milk toast made of nicely toasted
and buttered bread and a white sauce
of rich milk or thin cream, is an espe-
cially good supper for little people
A hot soup on cold night warns
one and is good beginning for a
light supper,
For older ones the addition of
grated cheese will be pleasing, and
they will not find it hard of digestion.
Small cakes of many kinss, with
a dish of canned fruit, is another good
with other things for
a supper.
Spong cakes cut open and filled with
sweetened and favored whipped
cream are never refused by old or
young, and this is one cake the young
sters like and are not injured by eat
ing.
Sardine and Pimola Sandwiches
Mix twelve boned and skinned sar-
dimes with tablespoonful of chopped
stuffed olives or pimolas, add a ia
of lemon juice and use
for filling between buttered slices of /
white bread.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07
ROMANS USED SAFETY PINS
That Many Familiar Articles Are of
Ancient Origin Has Been Proved
by Finds Made.

Pins fashioned exactly like those of
tClay called by us safety pins have
ben found in Roman and Etruscan
tmbs, some being referred to a period
pior to the birth of Christ.
The safety pin, it seems, was an ar
tile of common use in Italy long be-
fee the Roman empire attained the
hight of it's glory. The material of
which they were made, however,
SENS always to have been bronze.
The collar stud is another ancient
trenton. While it is true the old
Rmans did not make use of buttons
fer the purpose of fastening their gar
ments, and they wore no collars, yet
tEey possessed a sort Of collar stud,
witch was used in conjunction with
the safety pin in a number of ways.
Who would imagine that the little
PIPER fastener, with which we are ia
mliar, the brass device that holds a
number of loose sheets of paper to-
gdher, was more than two thousand
years old? Yet such is the fact, since
such a device was employed by the
Oman soldiers of that era as an Incl
dntal of their costumes or uniform,
The belt of thin copper worn by the
cd legions was fastened to strip of
Goth, serving as lining, with series
O. little bronze clamps precisely like
the paper fastener in principle.
Thimbles are ancient. Some speci-
mems are known to be $500 years old.
They are of bronze, and their outer
surfaces show the familiar indenta-
tons for engaging the head of the
needle. These thimbles are precisely
like our modern ones, except that they
have no tops to cover the end of the
finger.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07
Pioneers for Civic Problems.

All civic problems stand soreiy in
need OF pioneers to point the way and
create public sentiment in the educa-
ton of the masses. The great and i'm
portant task of bringing the country
into the city, the unmasking of what
nature we have and preserving it in
the fullest and highest must necessar-
lily be done by the municipal officials.
But the machinery of government on
all such matters moves slowly and a
strong and sound public opinion must
be formed and expressed in order to
push the work forward and influence
officials to tackle these problems cour-
ageously and with a determination to
accomplish their proper solution.
This they will do when assured great
numbers demand 1t. Do not forget
that your help is needed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07
Estate of Daniel c.. Spauldine
NTATE OF VERMONT,

0TATE OF VERMONT,
~ District of Lamoille, SIS.
The Honorable Probate Court for the District
aforesaid:
To the heirs and all persons interested in the ss-
tate Of DANIEL C. SPAULDING, late OF Morristown,
in said District deceased Greeting:
WHEREAS, application hath been made to this
court in writing, by the Administrator of Daniel
c. Spauldings Estate praying for license and au-
thority to sell ali of real estate Of said deceased to
wit: Home place on Summer street in the village
of Morrsvile, Vermont. being house, barn and lot,
representing to said court that it would be beneficial
to the heirs and all persons interested in the estate
of said deceased to sell said real estate and con-
vert the same into money.
And bringing into court the consent and appro-
baton in writing of all the heirs to said estate
siding in this state and setting forth the situation
of the real estate.
WHEREUPoN, the said Court appointed and
assigned the 10th day of May 1913, at the Pro
bate Office in Hyde Park, IN al District - hear
and decide upon said application and petition, and
ordered public notice thereof to be gwen to allDer
sons interested therein by publishing said order,
together with the time and place of hearing three
weeks successfully in the News AND CITIZEN,
newspaper which crculates In the neighborhood OF
those persons interested in said estate, all OF
which publications shall be previous to the day
assigned for hearing,
THEREFORE, you are hereby notified to appear
before said Court, at the time and place assigned,
then and there in said Court to make your objec-
tons to the granting of such license, If you see
cause.
Given under my hand at Hyde Park, in said
District, this I'd day of May, 1913.
II EDWIN {. WHITE, Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07
Evening PRAYER.

We beseech thee, Lord, to behold us
with favor, folk of many families and
nations, gathered together in the peace
of this roof, weak men and women sub
sisting under the covert of thy pa
tience. Be patient still; suffer us yet
awhile longer-with our broken pur
noses of good, with our idle endeavors
against evil, suffer us awhile longer
TO endure and (if it may be help us
TO do better. Bless to us our extraor
binary mercies; if the day come when
these must be taken, brace us to play
the man under affection. Be with ouI
friends, be with ourselves. Go with
each of us to rest; if any awake, TEN
per to them the dark hours of watch.
ing: and when the day returns, return
to us, our sun and comforter, and call
Ms up with the morning faces and
with morning hearts-eager to labor
eager to be happy, if happiness shall
he our portion-and if the day be
marked for sorrow, strong to endure
Il Amen.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07
blouse Sistersu

The House-Sisters Association of
Berlin was established not long ago
to ennoble domestic service and to
establish better relations between the
employers and the employed The as
ISOLATION has Mother House" near
the city, where girls are trained for
services, situations being found for
them when competent. Those in
charge of the home keep in touch
with the girls after they have gone
out into the world to make their own
way
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07
Home &5J)
nTOWNET15
50 Helps
FENCES MADE TO LOOK WELL
Climbing Flowers and Plants viii
Hide Uellness of Necessary
Backyard Partitions.

Shall we have backyard fences?
Many enthusiasts for the city beauti-
full would do away with them entirely.
The newer slogan for city life is the
city useful" Combining both, we have
the city useful and beautiful" 1t
must be useful first and then must
have all the beauty compatible with
usefulness Board fences are ugly, but
under present conditions Of city life
they are very useful. In fact many
people would have no privacy at all
If fences were removed. In ideal con-
upon parks and Fairgrounds, the fence
is not needed Well arranged hedges
and shrub paintings give the neces-
sary seclusion to each place. 1t is to
be hoped that many cities will be
planned in this way. In the meantime
we have to cling to our back yard
fences, but there is no reason why
they should be ugly. English and Bos-
ton ivy, Virginia creeper, clematis.
cobea, scandars and the scarlet runner
bean will soon transform the most un-
slightly fence. The northern border Of
the fence is often dreary, but may be
planted to our native woodwardia and
aspidium ferns. The common brake is
very lovely and gives out a delightful
woodsy odor. A shrub or two of the
wild pink currant, plenty of the com
mon white iris, pink foxgloves and
hollyhocks will make this border de-
light through the whole season.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07
IeEk<.- TAe,<e.eA-
The First Pump.

The first pump ever invented was
the heart of man or animal, and it
is today one of the most perfect
pumps in use. The heart as a pump
is decidedly up to date, and engineers
unanimously agree that its principles
of construction for the highest eff.
cheney are correct, and that it is not
surpassed by any pump invented by
man. 1t is not only a powerful force
pump OF incredible efficiency, but it is
self-repairing and self-renovating
Whlle the mechanism is in action, it
eleanses and purifies itself. For its
size and work it is the greatest pump
of the age.-From George Ethelbert
Walsh's THE First Invention" in St
Nicholas.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07
Care of Hanging Baskets.

All hanging baskets, no matter how
large, should be taken down at least
once each week and soaked in a tub
of water ten or twenty minutes. Once
each week they should also be watered
with pot when in position. Once
each month every basket should be
given some plant food; liquid manure
is excellent for the purpose, though
soluble fertilizers may either be mixed
into the soil in the dry state or dis
solved in the water in which the
plants get their weekly persion. Most
baskets suffer from lack of thorough
watering, but if above directions are
followed, satisfactory results will Ger
tainly follow