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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
Sugar Naples Gone Dry?

From the New York Evening sun.
The alarmists always take the occa-
sion of an unusual season To erect tre-
mendous visions of various kinds, invit-
ing the world To mourn over the calam-
itous outlook. This tendency of the
professional Jeremiahs has resulted in a
corresponding indifference i'm the public
mind: as was the case when the boy
cried Wolf too often. But once in a
while the wolf comes in his proper person
and occasionally the warning is of an
actual danger.
The present news from Bellows Falls,
VT, is of this kind. They say that the
maple sugar crop is i'm danger, in fact,
that there will not be any maple sugar
crop The lack of sharp frosts has dis
couraged the sap and three days OF warm
rain has apparently dried ii up entirely.
To all intents and purposes there will be
no maple sugar made this year.
Not that there will be any falling Off
in the stocks of maple sugar displayed
by the grocers and the keepers of candy
shops But the dreary compound OF
brown sugar and pulverZed dead autumn
leaves will be present in the usual guam
titles although at an advanced price be-
cause the maple sugar crop has been
practical failure.
The old cd stories will be tod again
by the romantic grocers Of the nice old
ladies. .'old friends of ours. who rob
their own pantries to supply the grocers
with the pure sugar-"not like most Of
the stuff you see But Of course the
limited supply will force a becominsly
high price for this treasure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
Crown Jewels Cheap.
ON the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
If the Balkan allies keep it up and
force Turkey to realize on the crown
jewels instead of selling several of her
islands at bargain prices it won't be the
first time royal gems have gone that way.
Queen Henrietta Maria raised $4,000, 900
in Flanders for her husband s needs, large
" on her jewels, and old Charles l was
greatly indebted to the melting pot for
funds. Other nations have done 1t. too,
so if the sultan has to sell some of his
sparklers nobody will object. except, per-
haps, the harem girlies who may be
sporting them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
YEGGMEN'S TOOLS FOUND.
Woman Arrested as Witness in Cigar
Store Rohheries.

NEW YORK. April 19.-Revoivers.
nitro-glyeerin. saws. drills, fuses, fash
lights and other tools of the cracksmans
trade were recovered by the police today
in the cellar of an apartment house where
lived a woman acquainted with the band
of alleged cigar store robbers who were
arrested yesterday. Mrs. Elizabeth White.
twenty-six years old. was arrested as
material witness after leading detectives
to the basement and disclosing the place
where the explosives and tools were con-
cealed.
Many tobacco shops were robbed early
in the year by burglars who blew open
safes during the night. This method of
looting ceased simultaneously with the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
THREATENS INSURANCE MEN.
If Missouri Companies Quit Commits
siOner Nav Start INQUIRY.

ST. LOUIS. Mo. April 19.-State Insur-
ance Commissioner Revelle talked with
fire insurance agents here today relative
to the announced intention of number
of companies to withdraw from the state
after April 81.
The insurance commissioner said later
that if the companies quit writing i'm the
state on account of the enactment eX-
tending the antitrust law to the COM
panies he would appeal to Congress to
investigate them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
Eskimo Lamps.

rom Harper ; weekly.
1t is believed that the Eskimo lamp
was invented before it's possessors
emigrated from their original home,
which was probably farther south and
near the seacoast But the form of the
lamp becomes more specialized the
higher the latitude is. The lamps of
southern Alaska have a wick edge of
two inches. while those of Point Bar
row and northern Greenland have
wick edges of seventeen to thirty-siX
inches. The lamp is employed for
melting snow and ice to obtain drink
ing water, for cooking, lighting. warm
ing. driving skins and in the arts. 1t is
also social factor and the sign of the
family unit. each head of the family
having his lamp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
BROUGHT TO SAN DIEGO.
Bodies of Sailors Killed in Mexico
Returned to United States

SAN DIEGO. Cal. April 19-The de-
stroyer Paul Jones arrived today from
Gueymas, TO which port she made
record trip to carry meningitis serum
to the flagship California.
The Jones brought the bodies of w
;. Corrie and j. c. klesow. the two
members of the crew of the United
States ship California, killed on shore
at Guaymas by MeXicans, April g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
MILLIONAIRE COUNT
MAY LIVE IN j. s,
Forced to Leave Hungary Be-
cause Sympathies Were
With People.
Special Correspondence OF The Star.

LONDON. April ), 1918
Count Erwin Batthyany, the we'll known
Hungarian magnate who is now in Eng
land, has abandoned his own country
and has decided to become a citizen of
Great Britain or America, at present he
is undecided in which he will settle.
The story of how Count Erwin Bat
thyany has been driven from Hungary
is remarkable one. Indeed. parallels
may be found only in Russia, where
princes and rich mobiles are VIGOROUSLY
given to rejecting their class interests
and prejudices and joining the common
people. Count Batthyany, in the phrase of
the novelist Turgenieff underwent SIM
plification." AS result he has suffered
martyrdom. been pronounced mad So
cially boyeotted, subjected to state re-
preston and finally driven to take refuge
in England as the one country in Europe
where even millionaires may do as they
like.
Count Erwin comes of the race of Ar
pad. and he is a descendant of the ia
nous Count Louis Batthyany, who was
executed barbarously by Gen. Haynau
in 1S49 for his part in the Magyar rebel
lion. He is aged thirty-five, is enor-
mousiy rich, has vast estates in the
committees of Pest, Pozsonyn. Bihar
and six others, has large fortune In
securities, and is invested with numerous
medieval seignorial rights and privileges
Of kind which have survived more in
Hungary than in any other state.
Began as Gay Hussar.
Quite as in the way Of Tolstoy's Sim
plified'' heroes. Batthyany began life as
a gay hussar officer, and when still an
officer underwent a sudden conversion to
the simple life. He boldly declared that
the worldly and disspated career of an
officer in an expensive regiment was not
the life for him, and that he had resolved
to devote himself to uplifting the common
people.
He resigned his commission. declaring
that he would devote himself to social
science The princes and counts in his
regiments were surprised. 4 Hungarian
millionaire proprietor seldom devotes
himself to study. He does not need
study. and if he does desire to play at
the serious life he can easily and auto
mat,callv become a member Of the coun-
try's semi-feudal diet. Soon afterward
il was heard that Count Batthyany had
jo.ned the famous Social Science Asso-
citation. and that he was actually writ
ing articles and publishing them in the
Pest Twentieth Century Magasine, Q
periodical which exists mainly to make
war on all things backward ana unpro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
SCHOOL MEN ARE FINED.
Members of St. Louis Board of Edu-
cation Before Court.

ST. LOUIS, April 19.-E1even members
of the ST. Louis board of education were
fined $3.50 each in the circuit court here
today for failure to equip three school
buildings with fire escapes. The mem-
bers signed their own bonds and were
released pending the outcome of APP
peals.
1t was testified during the trial that
the board of education had appropriated
s2S0OO0 to make every school building
in the city fire-prOof.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20

The District of Columbia Commandery
of the Naval and Military Order of the
Spanish-American War gave It's annual
dinner last night at the Army and Navy
Club. Col. r. d. Simms. L. S. ". COM
mander of the organization. served as
POSTMASTER, and called upon several of
those around the banquet board for in
formal talks. Those who spoke were
Lieut. Commander D. l.. Wilson, L. S.
N: Brig. Gen. John l.. Clum, L. S. A.. re-
tired; Capt. Charles o. Pierson of Gen.
Urell Camp, L. 8. w V: Maj. r. L..
Longstreet, L. S. v; Capt Sydney r.
Jacobs L. s. "; Lieut.. Anthony HOl-
mead, L. s.. V; Chaplain G. F. Dudley,
L. S. V, and Col. Clarence A. Stedman,
L. s A.. retired
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
Guests Present.

Among those present We're Maj. Fran
els B. Wheaton, L. s. W., senior vice
commander of the body: Engineer-in-
Chief Charles A. McAllister. [. S. r. C.
S., junior vice commander; Lieut. r. III.
-Chappell, L. S. N, recorder; Capt. c. II.
Forrest, T. s. V, registrar; Maj. F. S.
Hodgson. L. S. V, treasurer; Rev Henry
A. Brown, L. S. A., chaplain; Rear Ad-
miral c. NJ. Chester, L. S. N; cOun-
cilOr; Capt. Charles T. Schwegler, L.
S. "; Ensign John E. Reeside. L. 5.
N; Naval Cadet B. Z. Lamberton,
jr., L. $. N; Brig. Gen A. c. Girard.
L. S. A; Commander Chester Wells. L.
s. N; Lieut.. Commander X. G. Moody,
L. S. N; Lieut.. Commander +: L. Pin
ney, L. s. N. Lieut.. j. IL. Mittendorff.
L. S. N: Capt. Z. e. Golden, L. S. v:
Maj. l.. Knapp. L. s. V; Surgeon &c.
Pryor, L. S N: Capt. r. J. Donnelly.
L. S. V; Maj. c. Fred Cook. L. S. V,
and Chief Engineer J. T. Smith, L. S. N.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20

beginning of series of daylight hold-lr,s
of clerks in cigar stores by taNicab BAN
dts The men arrested yesterday are
charged with robbing clerks. The police
believe the discovery of safe blowers
tools today will lead TO the identification
of the hold-up men as the cracksmen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
Wood Pulp Sponges.
From Harner's Weekly.

From HarpeFs Weekly.
Treated with chloride of zinc. wood
pulp forms a viscous mass. When salt
is added and the mixture has been
rinsed with alcohol and compressed a
fair imitation of a sponge results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
Peasants Turn Against Him.

The reactionary press persisted that he
was really mad. The bitterest blow to
Count Batthyany. however, was that his
own peasants thought him queer and
the more he did to assist and uplift them
the more their prejudice was confirmed.
"A real count" reasoned the Hungarian
hodge, lis a men who sleeps in the diet.
runs over our hens in his motor car and
trifies with our daughters. In short,
with his peasants the count had the same
experience as had TOlstoy who wrote
that even the police did not distrust
any attempt to help the muzhiks as much
as did the muzhiks themselves
So far the Hungarian magnate had not
said or done, anything which could not
have been said or done by a progressive
English tory democrat. But Hungary is
not England. This fact was realized by
Count Batthyany when he tried to put his
ideas into deeds. His schools led to the
first class conflict with the government of
Budapest. This seems strange in view Of
the fact that Hungary has 5000 rural
cornmunes without any school at ALL
Count Batthyany's schools were hygien-
ically and pedagOgically the best In all
Hungary, and the most skilled teachers
were imported at high salaries. But the
count tried to run them without clerical
assistance. He made a doubtful expert
ment of giving no religious instruction.
This was not because he rejects religion,
but because he wanted to emphasize the
necessity of education as such apart
from any exigencies of the church
The storm which burst about Batthany's
ears is beyond description. The mildest
epithets flung were atheist and con-
scious '.perverter of youth The count
prefessed to ignore the storm
Police Close His Schools.
But magnates, clericals and reaction
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20

1t pays to read the want columns of
The Star. Hundreds of situations are
filled through them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
Declares War Impossibility.

While the koelnische Zeitung not long
ago editorially asserted that France was
driving Germany toward situation when
war must inevitably be declared. Prof.
Seignobos Of the famous Sorbonne.
through the columns Of the Frankfurter
Zeitung, is trying to convince the Ger
impossibility, the thing next to It,
Il must confess that had expected
better arguments from the brilliant pro-
fessor Of history. War; he says, lis of
the same use to the trust owners and
capitalists as hell fire, with its everlast-
ing lake of sulphur and birthstone, is to
the clergy-a means to scare the ignorant
into the proper state of meekness and
subserviency to their demands. If no.
body believed in war number of mil
Honaires would find their income sud-
denly gone and these are the prime
evangelists of the gospel of the always
existing possibility of war.
Both France and Germany have great
armies, the professor goes on to say,
'but, like Frederick the Great, they love
their fine-looking soldiers too we'll to
want to expose them to the dangers OF
war.
Another of his arguments. which does
not sound very convincing at the present
time when the papers for months have
been full of war news from the Balkans,
is this, that the nations do not want war,
and the people elect the legislatures
whose consent is necessary to make war;
the representatives Of the people will
never dare go against the wishes of the
people who elected them. Particularly
weak does this argument sound here In
Prussia. where the idea that the diet
represents the people is too ridiculous to
be even thought of for moment.
The diet represents the wealthy and
aristocratic classes who might under GER
tain conditions be more than ready to
welcome d war whose victims would
principally be the lower classes whose
power would be weakened for years II a
few hundred thousand men were left
dead on the battlefeds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
KAISER JUBILEE
AID TO CHILDREN
Prospective Recipients of Ger
man Decorations Making
Many Bequests to Charity.
Special CibIegram to The Star.


BERLIN. April 19.-The shower of
the coat lapels of the just and
unjust on the occasion of the kali
ser's approaching jubilee is sure to break
all records. or there are going to be any
number of disappointed people who feel
that they have spent their money for
nothing, for the number of donations
to charitable institutions which have
been announced since the kaiser made it
known that such requests were the only
presents he would accept from his loyal
subjects already surpasses 200. and new
announcements are made nearly every
week.
The kaiser himself having indicated
what interested him most by donating a
seaside home on the shores Of the Baltic
to children of German working people, it
goes without saying that the children of
the poor will get the most benefit from
the Jubilee, for the number Of children's
homes which have already been foundd
or promised reaches nearly 800. and be-
sides this about 200 public Fairgrounds
are to be laid out all over the empire.
Adult citizens also will get benefit from
homes for the aged and q number of free
public libraries. Besides. large amount
in cash donations is to be placed in trust
as a permanent fund, the interests OF
which are to be spent in giving poor boys
good trade education. Another fund
will provide dowries for poor young girls,
who will thus be able to buy the neces-
sary furniture for their homes. All the
various funds and Institutions will bear
the name Of Emperor William II, so his
memory has thus been immortalized in
the most effective manner.
The recreation home which the kaiser
himself is having built for w6rkingmens
children is situated on the wooded beach
at the little village of Ahlbeck and con-
sists of ten cottages. the rooms Of which
are decorated according to a color scheme
designed by the kaiser himself. who has
visited the place several times during the
building of the houses and who will per-
sonally open the home on the first day
of May, while the socialists and labor
unions are demonstrating in their usual
May-day manner in the capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
gressive i'm Hungarian life A societ
boycott was the result
Aims at Mobiles Oligarchy.

The Social Science Association aims at
breaking the mobiles oligarchy. at cutting
up vast estates. fighting clericalism and
enforcing the long -promised amendment
of the electoral law. There was nothing
very terrible in the way in which Count
Batthyany preached these doctrines.
However, in Hungary a millionaire count
who IS nine times lord of the manor is
not expected to preach. The boycott
deepened. The count retorted BY making
a declaration against all the ideas and
prejudices of the Hungarian privileged
caste. He further made an announce
ment in favor of elementary education.
Hitherto. he had only preached. Now
he started "m.Itancy.' He committed
unexampled offense OF opening three
schools on one of his estates.
Here the pot boiled over. The result
was a family council, the continental eX-
pedient resOrted to whenever a youthful
magnate wastes his substance in betting,
plans to marry his cook or shows any
other siens o. mental instability. The
family council first tried sweet reason
ing. 1t implored the count to drop
his revolutionary projects.
II intend retorted the obdurate count
Ito work for Hungary and for the Hun
garian people.
The social boycott deepened, and it de-
veloped into political boycott. The
neighboring committee" magnates-real
county familes-had long refused to talk
to the mad count" They next refused
to appear III any of the local self-gov-
erning Institutions of which the count
by birth and property was a member.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
Police Close His Schools.

But magnates, ciericals and reaction
aries made such trouble at Budapest that
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-10-13

entertaining than this woman. And
Paris had no mansion where more
wealth was displayed.
Romance seemed to cluster about
Madame Humbert Her wealth itself
seemed romance. She often told
the story to her guests many
men, high in business, art or govern
ment, heard from her own lips, at her
rich dinners the story of THE MYS-
FERROUS SAFE and THE MISTER
IOUS WILL-the sources of her
wealth which she always kept in her
house.
1t now seems improbable that any
hard-headed man would ever have
believed such tale as Madame Hum
bert told, but, in fact, it required an
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-10-13

extra hard-headed individual, like Le-
pine, to disprove it.
So great was the charl3 of the wo-
man, though, that she had no diff
Guilty in persuading her hearers that
she was the possessor of tremen-
dous fortune. On the strength of her
story she borrowed nearly $2O,O0O,-
900 in France and, though she is
free woman today, she has never re-
paid cent!
81 had an old friend" she used to
say, IAN American, whose name was
Robert Henry Crawford. He was one
of New York's miIIionaires. In Sep
TENDER, 1877, when was young and
pretty, he died, and in his will he left
all his wealth to me. You may be
sure it made my future seem very
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-10-13

this fortune discovered that Robert
and Henry Crawford, nepheWs of the
dead millionaire, had a second will
which gave them tWo-thirds of the
fortune, enough of which they must
invest in France to yield me an in
come of $4,000 year.
This second will would have caus-
ed contest between me and the two
nephews," Madame Humbert's IA
nous story used to run, land this
was out of the question, because one
of the American boys was in love
with my young daughter Maria. So
the young men and decided that,
instead of courts. we would put all
the wealth in a strong safe in my
home and ko D it locked there until
my daughter should come of age,
when we would decide regarding the
division. And here all this wealth is
in my house." she used to say. 81
have one will and the nephews have
the other!"
When Maria became of age all of
Madame Humbert's famous friends
were curious to know what decision
the girl would make regarding her
marriage with the American, but the
girl announced that she would not
wed an American. Shortly afterwards
Madame Humbert told all her friends
that the two nephews had agreed to
take 100000 each from her and call
the matter closed.
But, suddenly, to the establishment
of the public, the Crawfords began
an action in the French courts. And
this action, started by TWO YOUNG
MEN WHO NEVER EXISTED, was
under way in 1902-a quarter of a
century after Madame Humbert had
first told her story of the will, when
finally the bubble burst!
The woman, famous in literary, art
and business circles, had borrowed
from banks and financiers of France
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21
GETTING GRAY? USE SAGE TEA TO
RESTORE NATURAL COLOR OF HAIR

ply ask at any drug store for so cent
bottle of the ready to use preparation,
called 'Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Hair Remedy" Customers like this
best because it darkens so naturally;
SO evenly, that nobody can possibly
tell ii has been applied Besides, It
contains ingredients which take off
dandruff, stop scalp itching and fall
ing hair. No, it isn't a dye or even
like it You just dampen a sponge
or soft brush with .'Wyeth's Sage and
sulphur and draw 1t through your
hair, taking one small strand at
time By morning the gray hair dis
appears: after another application or
two it is restored to its natural color.
What delights the ladies with
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur is that be-
sides beautifully darkeuing the hair
they say 1t brings back the gloss and
lustre and gives it an appearance of
abundance-Adv.