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The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
HASHISH SMUGGLERS
ARE ACTIVE AGAIN
Various Tricks Are Resorted to in
Order to Get Article Into
Egypt.

Once more hashish smugglers are be-
coming active and the customs authori-
ties have succeeded in making important
hauls. One of their recent noteworthy
captures was a consignment addressed
to a welI-known English company in
Alexandria, Egypt. The consignment
consisted of twenty-eight cases of sweets
from Belgium.
AS the cases left the yard one of the
have it opened. To his astonishment.
writes a Cairo correspondent of the Pail
Mall Gazette, he found the case con-
tanned jars, one-Quarter filed with
sweets but the other three-quarters full
Of hashish- Thereupon all the cases were
opened and their contents were found to
be the same.
This discovery has created a sensation,
In view Of the firm concerned. 1t is con-
sidered that the company is In no way
implicated. but that it has been made a
tool of by smugglers.
Another case, which reminds one OF the
tricks resorted to by lace smugglers, is
reported from Port Said. A welI-dressed
European damsel OF somewhat bulky
proportions appeared at the railway sta
ton and took her ticket for Cairo.
Stout women are more the rule than
the exception in this country and the
size of this passenger should not have
attracted any attention. But for some
reason the policeman on duty was sus-
Dicious and asked her tc accompany him
to the office. She was made to undress
and was found to have a good quantity
OF hashish, four okes eleven pounds)
being packed around her.
A third and most mysterious case oc-
CURED recently. A box arrived by the
Austrian Lloyd steamer. and as no one
claimed 1t it was placed in the store.
The customs were informed that it con-
tained hashish. and to ascertain whether
this was so holes were bored into II.
A few days later by the merest chance
the inspector in charge of the shed
1t was remarkably light for its size.
Closer investigation was made and ii
was found that it was empty-all the
hashish had been removed!
The authorities are at a loss to dis
cover how the trick was played on
them, for the box during the daytime
had never been out Of the sight of re-
sponsible officials, in whose charge it
had been placed. while at night the pre-
cautions are such that the stores can
not be broken into, nor can anything
be removed.
As the market price OF hashish today
in Cairo Is over thirty shillings a pound,
and the drug costs. alongside quay, Alex
andria, but a shilling or so pound, 1t
can be understood that it pays the
smugglers to resort to all these elaborate
and expensive devices for lodging the
authorities.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
WHERE LIFE IS CHEAP.

Within two weeks after the recent
assassination Of Mahmoud Shefket Pasna,
| the Grand Vfzer OF Turkey. thirty-two
men were put to death for taking part
in the conspiracy. According TO Turkish
custom, handed down from the time OF
Mohammed. there is no limit as to the
I'r.umber of lives that may be taken as a
penalty for the murder of one man. Even
those interested in the remotest degree
are liable to the Sultan's vengeance. IT
is not so much the number the ruler Of
Turkey is authorized to put out OF the
way, but rather where the line is to be
drawn.
The Turks have a story of one OF the
earlier successors of Mohammed whose
life was only endangered because of a
rock falling down a declivity near which
the Sultan was riding with his retinue.
Half a dozen of those in charge OF the
trip were put to death as an ordinary
matter of course; then half a dozen
more who might have remotely known
something about the facilities afforded
by the road for killing the Sultan. Finally
all the members of a secret club or lodge
were ordered executed because 1t was
ascertained that one of the responses TO
password was: "Will you roll down
the stone?
Despite the protestations OF the club
members that the words had no signifi-
canoe at all with respect to the Sultan
or the Sultan's trip along the road, they
were ordered to the scaffold. They num-
bered lis In all, and died bravely, assur-
ing their eXecutioners to the very last
they were innocent. Later a eunuch who
told how the falling of the stone was
merely an accident, was also put to death
for daring to say so.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24

the Martinique, he had his soldiers quiet
ly unloose the moOrings OF the steamer,
and as it drifted away from the dock, had
it announced that NJ. Tainy had left
Venezuela, and that consequently if he
wished to return as representative OF
the French government, he would have
to be accredited all over again by France.
In this way he insured the absence of NJ.
Tainy for several months at least
Time Is Ripe Mt Present.
France was furious. She threatened
Castro and even sent a warship into
Venezuelan waters, but never did any
thing. Castro merely laughed. France
would probably have made things hot for
him, had not the little Venezuelan select
ed the very psychological moment in
which to insult the great republic. For
France at that time was deeply con-
cerned in the European controversy over
Morocco. Somehow Castro always man
aged to select psychological moments to
break out. His present breaking out
is a psychological moment. Castro must
have thought the time ripe for his revo-
luton when the United States had just
got over a diplomatic clash with Japan
and was all mixed up ingthe Mexican
situation.
Gustavo Sanabria, young man of a
prominent Venezuelan family. while
standing before a Caracas hotel with
some friends, was summoned to appear at
the palace before Castro.
Here" said Sanabria to a friend,
take my watch and jewelry And
come inside a moment while l write a
note TO my wife. 1 may not see her
again. The President has just sum-
moned me. Farewell, my good friends"
few hours later the young man
returned to his friends and greeted
them with shouts and laughter. They
were very much astonished to see him.
Come, have a drink" he cried. Il
have just been made the new Minister
for Foreign Affairs"
That was the way Castro worked.
Gen. Antonio Paredes led an insur-
rection against Castro. The insurrec-
tion was put down without much
trouble, and Paredes and his associates
were made prisoners. Shortly there
after their bodies were found floating
in the Orinoco. They had been "shot
while trying to escape" The fugitive
law, "ley fuga," had been invoked.
Many prominent Venezuelans did not
hesitate to say that Paroles had been
murdered. The law in Venezuela for
bids capital punishment.
Tbe United States made the murder
OF Paredes one of the grounds upon
which admission TO the country was
forbidden Castro on his visit here. A
brother OF Paredes living in Berlin
charged Castro with murder while the
latter was still President, and for
warded the papers to Venezuela. But
as Castro controlled the government
completely, they were pigeon -hoIed. In
1903, however, after Castro had been sue
ceeded by Juan Vincente Gomez, who is
now President, the former dictator was
indicted, tried, and convicted of the mur-
der of Paroles. His exile abroad did not
interfere with the trial.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
BnrbcrA in EgYpt.

In Egypt a large proportion of the bar
bers are state functionaries. According
to an edict issued by Ibraham Pasha, in
lSiS, every village barber was ordered.
when death occurred in his district, to
make a careful examination of the corpse
and report to the authorities any death
occurring through epidemic, disease or
foul play. Severe penalties were imposed
for any neglect OF this duty, and fee
of cents was paid for each death regis
tered. Five years ago the system of pay
ment by fees was abolished and each
village barber now draws from the gov
ernment a fixed salary for his services.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
BODY MAY Be FOUND in GLACIER

nights Not one of the eleven climbers
was seen again alive.
The next day when the clouds disap-
peared. fourteen natives of Chamonix
started along the route, but were unable
to reach even Grands Mulets on their
mission Of mercy. owing to the depth of
the snow. The heavy fall Of snow 1000
feet down forced back the hardy noun
taineers.
About eight days after the skies be-
gan to brighten a party OF twenty-thres
| men Jared forth from Chamonix, and on
the very same day they discovered Mr..
McCorkindale and two Of the guides
about 75O feet from the summit. lying. as
the searching party expressed 1t, here
and there. and with their clothes some
what torn, as II they had slipped and
fallen.
About 800 feet higher they came upon
Mr.. Bean and another guide, seated, the
former with his head supported by ons
hand and the elbow on a knapsack:
ropes coiIed, batons, axes, and knap-
sacks were round about them, one of ths
latter still containing meat, bread, and
cheese.
A careful search was made about the
peak of the mountain for the body of
Mr.. Randall and for those of the five
ether missing mountaineers. but with no
result. 1t is hoped by guides that the
six bodies will be delivered up by the
glacier this year. !
Procession Starts Back.
The bodies of two of the tourists and
three of the guides-all Of the original
party that could be found-were placed
in sacks, and the sad procession started
back to Chamonix- Dragged across
chasms in the snow or carried or Oft
clivities, the victims of the storm re-
turned to the saddened valley. 1t re-
quired three days Of labor.
The remains of Mr.. Bean and Mr..
McCorkindale are buried in the little
English church cemetery at Chamonix
at the foot of Mont Blanc.
By Mr.. Beams body was a notebook
and a pathetic letter to his wife, ex-
planning the tragedy and the sufferings
OF the party.
Although "A years have passed, the
six other bodies, including those Of Mr.
Randall and the guides, have not been
delivered up by the Alpine River of ice,
though 40 years up to now has been
the longest period the glacier has been
known to retain 1t s dead During the
present year Miss Edith Randall hopes
the glacier will give up the body of
her beloved father.
The Blossoms glacier is 52s feet deep
at its deepest part In this, as in all
glaciers, motion is least at the bottom
and greater toward the surface. The
middle flows faster than the sides.
These facts have been proved by driving
pegs into various parts Of a glacier.
Scientists are interested, as it may
supply evidence to prove their theories
on the speed OF the annual march OF
glaciers toward the valley.
Should Miss Randall meet with sue
cess this year, the body Of her father
will be shipped to Quincy, where it will
be placed beside the grave of Mrs. Ran
dali in Mt Wollaston Cemetery, under
the same headstone.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
sunrngette PsNchics.

The London Lancet, in trying to explain
the psychology Of the militant suffra-
gists, decides that while there are no
symptoms of insanity or hysteria in the
actions Of the reckless performers. ego
tism has much to do with their danger
Gus work. The psychology of the lead
ers, the Lancet holds to be near akin
to that of several of the leading trous-
cred politicians; that notoriety is the
breath of their nostrils and self-advcr-
tisement is habit that once contracted
is as hard TO break from as opium TAX
ing
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
Massachusetts Woman Hopes
to Discover Remains Of
Her Father, Who Lost Life
on Mont Blanc in 1870.

Miss Edith Randall, daughter of John
C. Randall, the wealthy Quincy, Mass.
banker. who lost his life about forty
four years ago while climbing on Mont
Blanc, has just left her Bay State home
for Chamonix, Switzerland, on one of
the strangest OF errands. She hopes to
! find in the glacier there the body OF her
father.
Five years ago Miss Ethel Randall,
granddaughter of the lost banker, visited
the scene where her grandfather was
frozen TO death and remained for more
some trace of the body. On her visit
there Miss Ethel Randall stayed at the
same hotel at which her grandfather
lodged and she met the children of the
guides who also lost their lives on the
memorable occasion.
Many American and English Alpinists,
as well as guides, Joined in the search
for the body. but without success. Last
year a searching party discovered the
lice axe and several other small articles
belonging to Mr.. Randall at the foot OF
the Glacier des Blossoms.
Miss Edith Randall hopes for better
luck, and she expects to visit the same
spot where her fathers articles were
found last year.
His J.ife's Ambition.
Mr.. Randall at the time of his death
was fifty-one years old. 1t had been his
life ambition to reach the summit Of
Mont Blanc. For years and years he
planned a trip through Europe, and to
scale the summit of the mountain had
been his one great desire. Being director
Of several banks in Quincy had occupied
his time SO much that he had never
been able to take a vacation.
At last, in the summer of 1870, he did
find the required time, and started on
the great trip. On August 26 1870. two
INSTRUMENTATION and Marshall
with nine guides, arrived at Chamonix
exhausted, having been caught in a vio-
lent snowstorm on Mont Blanc.
II The English climbers met at the hotel
John Randall, of Quincy, and H. NJ. Bean,
of Jonesboro. Tenn. and a Scotchman, the
Rev. G. McCOrkindale, of Glasgow. The
latter three had already engaged eight
guides at Chamonix to conduct them to
the top of Mont Blanc. They were
warned against attempting to ascend.
But they were in a hurry to return
home, and the warnings were disre-
garded.
The party set out on September from
the hut for the summit. Their progress
was watched with telescopes from Cha
monk.
Hidden by the Clouds.
Later they were hidden from view by
clouds. When the clouds parted the
climbers were seen coming down the
same place. Then the snowstorm be-
came violent and they were again hid
den. The storm. lasted eight days and
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
Revolt VS.. Schools.

When the rebel cry, "Vive le revolu-
ton" rang through Mexico and tumbled
Porfirio Diaz from the Presidency, the
public school system of our sister re-
public practically ceased. according to a
statement recently issued by the United
States Bureau of Education.
Although the DiaZ regime showed rag
ged in spots, the public school system OF
Mexico was a noble monument TO the
dictator and his administration. Diaz
fostered the Mexican school system dur
ing his term as it was never fostered be-
fore, and his plan for establishing
school refectories throughout the country
was so excellent that Madero considered
it worth while to maintain it until his
administration also tottered and crashed
about his ears.
The school refectory as inaugurated by
Diaz was considered the best plan of
Mexican education that country had ever
known. The people being poor. Diaz not
only sought to dispense education, but
through these refectories the admins
tration supplied food to some $500 pupils,
either at cost or free. Thus the very
roor Mexican children were not Obliged
10 ACQUIRE an educauon on an empty
stomach.
Soon afterward Diaz conceived the
idea of supplying the pupils with shoes,
on the same basis of distribution and
killing two birds with one stone under
his somewhat paternal system, he had
the shoes made by native shOemakers
who could find no other work. About
5000 pairs of shoes were distributed
Before the Diaz rule crumhled.
When Madero took Office he saw the
value of the plan and the refectory
school system was one OF the Diaz
schemes that survived sheerly on merit
But soon Madero heard the rebel cry.
and the schools were abandoned for more
sinister efforts on the part of the gov
ernment, so that today the refectory
system is hardly more than a memory.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
Talking" to Panama.

When the United States government
recently built the gigantic wireless sta
| ton at Arlington, Va, across the Po-
| tomac River from Washington, wireless
experts believed that Arlingtop repre-
sented the last word in size, power, and
| telegraphic radius, but Uncle Sam was
not content.
Announcement is now made by the
Isthmian Canal Commission that work
on the new Darien Radio Station, at
Caimito, Canal Zone, will begin within a
feE weeks, and when completed the new
station will be the biggest wireless plant
under government control
When the Darien station is completed
San Francisco can talk direct with the
Isthmus, without the present relay
method through Key West, Fla. Ships
on the Atlantic, half way from New
York to Gibraltar, can be spoken" with
ease by the radio waves of the big wire
less
The Arlington station has three aerials-
three steel towers, one 600 feet high, and
the other two $50 feet each. The Darien
station will also have three steel mast
aerials, but each one will tower 800 feet
in the air. Messages can ordinarily be
sent 5000 miles from a station of the
Darien type. with a wider radius under
exceptionally good weather conditions.
This radius from Caimito will include
point 421 miles south of Valparaiso,
Buenos Ayres, and st. Vincent, the last
place being 500 miles west OF the coast of
Africa
Radio waves from the Darien station
will start with what wireless experts
call a good grip" because it is located
on an arm of Gatun Lake, and the water
will be a help in sending. Only govern
ment messages will be handled.
The Darien station will cost approx
mateIy $4,000. The work will be in
charge of Lieut.. R. E. Crenshaw, U. S. n.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
After the Premiere.

From Judge.
you're a gay kind of a friend?' said
Whimper to wigglesworth. Laughing
like hyena all through the first act of
my tragedy
Tragedy? Tragedy?' echoed Wig
ellsworth. ''Why, Whimper, old man, i
really was trying to help you! thought
all along the darned thing was a very
amusing farcer
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
He's Wise.
Ernn IndC.

TOM JUugt.
Every seat in an outgoing street car
had been taken. At the next corner
several welI-dressed ladies were let on
AS the conductor passed through tax
ing fares, he noticed a gentleman on an
end seat who had fallen asleep.
Wake up here" he shouted to him
mo sleeping on this carr
I'm not asleep, sir" said the man"
''If you wasn't asleep, what did you
have your eyes closed, then, for?"
We'll" said the gentleman, 'you know
I just hate to see ladies standing up."
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
UNCLE SANS WORKSHOP

titles at Quartz Hill. in Colorado, and
although the announcement was received
with intense interest abroad American
capital thought little OF the possibilities
OF extracting radium from the Colorado
ore.
Not very long ago the United States
Bureau of Mines issued a warning 70
American industry in the form of a bu'-
letin which showed that Colorado was
yearly supplying two-thirds of the
worlds supply of radium, and that ever
ounce of the ore mined in Colorado was
being exported to Europe American
scientists then purchased back the pure
radium at fancy prices.
Experts of the Bureau Of Mines were
convinced that American capital was
overlooking a golden opportunity for
profit in allowing American radium to
leave the country without a protest.
The bureau toiled early and late in
its efforts to convince American mining
men of this fact, and within the last
few months its efforts have been re-
warded by the establishment in Pitts
burgh of a concern for extracting
radium from the Colorado ore
The bureau experts feel an honest
pride in announcing that through their
activities in the interests of home in
dustry prices on radium ore destined
Tor abroad have risen fully 25 per cent
since the Pittsburgh concern started
doing business, and they feel confident
that within short time all the radium
used in America will be Made in Pitts
burgh" radium.
So scarce is this precious mineral
that although it is quoted at nearly
$3.0O0,0O0 an ounce. not a full ounce
has been extracted from the ore I'D TO
date. Radium, however. is practically
indestructible, and can be used innum-
erable times.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
CHANGES IN COUNTRY PREDICTED

lem. The cessation of migration from
Europe to the United States, which prob
ably will come by 1865, will aid in the
solving of the problem of the poor, un-
less the lower classes break out in some
sort Of civil war worse than strikes be-
fore that time"
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
Things in Keeping.

From Judge.
"Can you build me a plano and leave
the bark on the wood?"
II guess so,'' oplned the piano sales
man.
II want it for my hunting lodge. We
rough It up there, you know"
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
Pittsburgh Radium.

When Prof. and Nine. Curie startled
the world with their discovery of radium.
that strange, rare mineral which does
such wonderful things in the realm OF
science, a handful of shrewd European
scientists Immediately sought the best
sources of radium.
Soon after the discovery Of the mineral
It was found.in comparatively large guam
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
Where Did They Get Itf

From Judge.
Hobson-I understand that Uncle Sam
doesn't pay living wages.
Dobson-That's funny! Most Of the Of
ficeholders seem to be rich when they
get out
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
You Can't Phase 'Em.

From J1dge
"You can't expect US to accept stun
like this" said the indignant literary
editor. 1T isn't poetry at all-it's SIM
Ply gas!"
81 see," said the unruffied poet. as he
meandered toward the door, something
wrong with the meterp'
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
Aid to the Stork.

That secretive and humorous bird, the
stork. which brings all .the babies, is
greatly overworked these days, Uncle
Sam believes. Business has picked up
marvelously in the United States for the
stork in recent Years, despite the cry of
race suicide, and if his storkish high
ness is to properly deliver the goods
he must have help.
This led the National Congress of
Mothers TO request Miss Julia c. Lath-
rop, chief of the newly created Chill
dren's Bureau of the Federal Department
of Labor. to have issued a government
publication on the prenatal care of the
infant which could be placed in the
hands of every mother in the United
States, particularly the mothers of the
poor.
The booklet prepared by the Children's
Bureau was written by Mrs. Max West.
Mrs. West is a member of the bureau
staff and also has a growing family of
sturdy youngsters at home, so the book
let is not all glittering theory. It out
lines comprehensively the proper hy-
gienic measures for the mother to in
sure the successful arrival of the new
baby. 1t helps get things ready for the
stork.
Calling statistics to its aid. as II such
were necessary, the bureau announces
that practically 30 per cent of the in
fants who died under the age of one
year die because the proper arrange
ments were made for their arrival Or
dinary hygienic measures on the part
Of the mother are advised, and the
oklet does not intrude nn the more
Complicated features of the subject.
which would require professional advice
to suit the case.
One of the best things about the ad-
vice given is the fact that IL doesn't
cost any more to be hygienic. according
to Mrs. West, than II does to be care
less. Infant mortality can be laid at
the door of sex. ignorance in many
cases, 1t is believed. particularly among
the poor, and this booklet really carries
the remedy. 1t received unqualified med
ical Endorsement before it was ever pub
lished.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
Defined.

From Judge.
Tommy-what's a settlement worker,
dad?
Dad-One who finds the silver lining to
the other fellows clouds. -.
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ant in the poison pen" case at Eliza
beth, appeared in Newark on the Fed
eral charge of sending Objectionable
matter Though the mails. Both Mrs.
Pollard and her accuser, Mrs. Charles
f. Jones, were handsomely garbed
when they appeared in the Elizabeth
Police Court before Magistrate Owen
P. Mahon. The magistrate reserved
his decision
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Later they were hidden from view by
clouds. When the clouds parted the
climbers were seen coming down the
same place. Then the snowstorm be-
came violent and they were again hid
den. The storm. lasted eight days and