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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
BY BERNARD ACTON

were terrified by the thought that the ire
sponsible count would give away the
family estates. Angriest of all was the
millionaire aunt She withdrew from
Count Erwin the light of her countenance
and turned it on another Batthyany,
Count Batthyany Janos. who rode, drank,
swore and gambled SO hard that no one
would ever think of donbting his sanity.
Count Erwin persisted. He announced
that he would give the peasant workers
on his lands a share in the profits of
farming. This Overwhelmingly convinced
Hungary that he was mad. His rela-
tives, Is indignant counts and countesses,
held family council and resolved to ad-
dress a solemn monition to their erratic
kinsman. Count Erwin thanked them for
their interest and invited them to try
profit sharing with their own peasants.
The council met again. 1t decided that
the moonstruck relative must enter a
sanatorum for nerve sufferers. This plan
failed. Mad as was Count Erwin in the
eyes of respectable society no doctor
could be found who believed he was m
sane. Count Erwin replied to his reia {
tives' move by publishing "a pamphlet on
1.-The Shame of wealth. It was written
in the spirit of Andrew Carnegies aphor-
ism: ',He who dies rich dies disgraced'
He who lives rich lives disgraced,' was
the view of the count.
The newspaper war on Count ERWIN
continued. He was declared to be not only
mad and foolish, but also malignant ana
vicious. The mad count appeared as
the traitor count" the atheist count. I.
and so on. Things might have developed
slowly in this direction had not the reckss
less Erwin taken step which transcend
ed all his past iniquties and inanitles.'
He began campaign in favor OF educa-
tion of the poor OF all the preJudices
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
Hungarian Noble1nar, Without Country

Copyright, 1918. by Curtis Brown0
D IDA PEsTH. May S.-(special)- -
~ Mad Count Batthyany" has
- abandoned his family, his
title, his citizenship, his es-
tates and his invested millions and taken
refuge in England. The mad count"
is the hero of the quaintest drama of re-
nunciation and self sacrifice in European
aristocracys history. Sooner than be a
useless drone, sooner than look on with
out protest at the social and economic ills
which retard. Hungary's development. he
had fought his family. his fellow patri-
clans and his government; and only this
month, after a four years struggle, has
been obliged to confess himself defeated
Count Erwin Batthyany, aged So, is head
of the proudest of all Magyar clans. He
traces descent to Arpad, the creator Of
Hungary. His family, during the thou
sand years since Arpad, has played a not
able role; and amassed a vast fortune
With the Szechenyis, the Batthyanys led
In the great campaign for the revival of
Magyar culture in the early nineteenth
century; and in 1S49 Count Erwin's grand
father, Count Louis Batthyany, became
Hungarian minister president and was
barbarously executed by Haynau for his
part in the anti-Austrian revolt Count
Louis is one of the national heroes whose
memory is embodied in the Buda Pesth
Honvel monument In the districts of
Pesth, Pozsony, Bihar and DeBreczin and
in five other ''Komitati," Count Batthyany
has vast estates He has an income OF
$l,000,000 a year, and millionaire. aunt
who till lately proposed TO leave him
another million.
-Four years ago Count Erwin was a
wealthy, pleasure loving hussar officer,
who seemed destined to live the ordinary
cavalrymans life; and TO doe happily of
port wine. overeating and idleness. His
life. like Tostoy's, was changed by IA
call lie came to the conclusion that
lie must change his worldly ways: that he
had responsibilities which were as great
as his wealth; and thai soldiers idle life
in peace time is no worthy career. When
he broached these germs OF thought to
his fellow officers they laughed Later.
when he repeated them they began to
think him bit of bore; and finally they
and the rest Of Hungary had to conclude
that he was mad. For he announced chat
he would throw mp his officers commits
sion and henceforth devote his life TO
the poor and downtrodden
Count Erwin added that in order to tit
himself for his new career he would he
gin Il course Of study OF social and pollt-
ical life science. Naturally his brother
maenstes. who do not know social and
poliuesl science from tligqnomet y : were
hofrified. Their horror was intensified
when tho millionaire count anpeaTod on
the platform of the Social Science union,
sepi-socalist and anti-aristocfatic
league And the horror knew no bounds
when the count proceeded from reading to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04

sacred to the Hungarian magnate
hatred of education for the poor is the
chief. 1t is held as bad to found school
as in England it is to shoot a fox. The
magnates depend upon illiterate labor for
theirv wheat growing estates. There is
conscious governmental policy against
schooling: and 5000 or 5000 municipal dis
tricts are without any schools at all. II
not only demand schools, but shall get
them" said the mad count" And he
decided to found his own schools.
He started the first schools on his es-
tates near Pesth and near Debreczin. The
schools were to be equal to the best in
Europe. The count took the advice of
Kirschnsteiner, Germanys famous ped
agogy expert; and from Vienna to put up
the school buildings was brought the
school architect, Klausens. Four schools
We're built, and equipped with every ap-
pliance of the most advanced pedagogy
The enterprise was run practically, mas
much as everything was done in a cheap
way, and so as to prove a model to estate
owners elsewhere. When the schools We're
opened q hood of professors, not few
socialists and many other mad persons
came to see them The peasants fought
in order to get their children into them
For three weeks the schools fiourished
On a January morning when the little
Magyar children with red 'kerchiefs over
their heads, appeared at the school build
ing they found the door shut. On the door
was posted notice: CLOSED by ordinance,
dated the 18th of January. 1913, of the
Minister of the Interior"
With that ended the school experiment
.The tfmad count had forgotten the
CLERGY. With the idea that education is
a highly specialized thing. which should
be kept away equally from religion and
politics. the count refused to admit re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04

writing and published fiery articles
against wealth in the Twentieth Cen
tury,' the organ of the Social Science
union.
The Twentieth Century focuses the
views of the semi-revolutionary youth of
Hungary, the youth which fights clerical
ism, big landed estates, aristocratic preiu-
dices, and all the various things which
usually men like Count Batthyany call
blessed. In Hungary classes are more
solid against classes than they are In
proved to be a sensational event. The
whole Magyar press took it up The
mad count" was attacking the reaction
airy diet franchise, the influence of the
church, the3 official ideal of patriotism,
and the neglect of politicians to provide
schools for the peasants. Fiercest of all
he attacked the privileges of his own
class Some of these privileges date from
the middle ages, and they give a power
over the peasant population which practi-
cally means serfdom OF course, mag
nates landlords, high officials, clercs,
and conservatives We're up in arms. The
mad count" was denounced as incen-
diary, anarchist traitor to his class and
to his country To such vituperation
Count Erwin made no reply. He pursued
his own resolute way, and two. years ago
abolished all the feudal customs on his
estates without taking any return from
the peasants who benefited. The local
magnates saw that their own interests
were threatened and started boycott.
When Count Erwin appeared in the pro-
vincial council of nobility, AZ of his fellow
nobles demonstratively left the hall.
Angrier still We're the members of the
noble line of Batthyany. In addition to
sharing in resentment felt by the land
lords, clericals and conservatives. they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
Ready for Any Emergency
the Chicago Record-IIerald =

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
Are you Mr.. Leftwieh?'
That is my name
Your uncle died few days ago, be-
lieve. Fs
The doctors declared him dead-yes
have just read that he left his entire
fortune to public institutions
Well, what about it? Are you re-
po'4osg lf you are. don't wish to be
.aserviewed
No, my deas fellow, I an not a re-
porter. | am a lawyer. I thought you
mi3ht have some will breaking 20 be done,
! an sn expert VIII bTeaker.
don't want any OF my uncle s
money Since he preferred to cut me Of,
without dollar | an perfectly willing
to work for my living
Permit me to hand you my card. In
case they ever wish to try you for lunacy
please remember me- have kept a num-
Der of crazy people out Of asylums.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04

Human sacrifices began in Mexico 200
or 300 years before the spariards landed
and at the time of the conquest it has
been estimated that the annual sacrifices
were about $4,000 In addition to the
Teocali in Mexico City, there were pyra-
mids and mounds In different parts of
the country and sacrifices increased In
number whenever drought, plaques or
other calamities came.
An Aztec God
The idol in whose honor much of the
sacrificing took place was the god of
war and of bloodshed, whose chief rep
resentation is here in the National mu-
scum This is a block of stone nine feet
in height covered with carving. If rem
resents squattY figure with a great flat
mead, out of the top of which peeps two
cynhdrical eyes, above four little horns
winch serve as the noses, The mouth is
large and the head rests without a neck
on the shoulders. This statute stood NOT
iar from the sacrificial stone when Cor
tez' IN company with King Montezuna.
ilrst saw It, 1t was then covered with
gold and studded with jawels. Golden
serpents were wound about its waist
and a necklace of human heads and
hearts, life size, made of gold and sill
yer eneircled the neck Before il a nan
of incense was burning. and in this pan
the hearts of three human beings were
roasting After the Spaniards had con
quered' they tore off the gold, silver and
Jewels They threw down the statue
and 1t was years later that it was
Drought forth as an archaeological relic
Mexico City Excavations
The Mexicans of y TODAY are thor
ouGhly alive to the archaeological possi-
hillt1es OF their own country. They are
anxious to have it explored, and have
given concessions TO foreigners to dc
societies of archaeology and they have
been given to Americans connected
with the Smithsonian Institute and our
societies of archology and they have
made great discoveries. The Mexicans
themselves have done a great deal
helr work began with viceroy who
lived more than 100 years ago. lie
ordered that all the relics dug IN IN
Mexico City should be sent to the uni
Nerslty and from there they came TO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
This came from back of the

show that 1T came from over the noun
t;tins. distance of many leagues. The
Aztecs had neither horses nor oxen
and it must have been carried by
men.
Aztec Civilization
This museum shows that the Aztecs
had higher civilization than is generally
supposed. They had their own literature
the most of which was destroyed by the
Spaniards. They used picture writings
and much of their science and customs
were committed to manuscript, many rolls
of such manuscripts having been burnt
by the Spaniards. They knew how to
make paper, and they used cotton cloth
ing. They had fairs for the encourage
ment of trade, and agriculture. and they
were expert workers in metal. Some of
the articles carried to Spain by Cortez
were vessels of gold. silver and copper
and among them some silver basins so
big that they could not be encircled by
the arms of man. They made dyes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04

Of one of the cathedral towers. wher'
it remained until 27 years ago, al whicl
time Ii was removed to the museum
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
How They Keep the Time

VI one Oh the Hcatnedral towers. Wnere
it remained until 81 years ago, at which
time 1t was removed to the museum.
How They Keep the Time
This calendar stone gives some idea
of the advance of the Aztecs. 1t was
used as sun dial and calendar. and
the hieroglyphics upon it are supposed
10 represent the years, months and
days. The psychologists disagree as to
the exact meaning of some of the idio-
graphs, but certain figures are thought
to correspond with the year A. D. 1879
and others show that the ancient In
dians knew how to adjust their fes-
tivals by the movements of the heaven
iy bodies. They We're able to fix the
length of the tropical year even bet
ter than the philosophers of antiquity.
Snd they had means of settling the
hours of the day with precision and
the times of the solstices and equinoxes,
This alendar stone original =
weighed about so tons, and the records
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
They Were High Livers

cloth out of the fur of rabbits.
They Were High Livers
The records show that the Aztecs ate
at tables. using silver and gold plates
and that they had chafing dishes to keep
their meats warm. They had napkins
and finger bowls and they smoked ega-
rettes after dinner They had good cooks
and ate all kinds of vegetables. fruits
and meats. NTontezuma had fish brought
to him from the ocean over the noun
tains, distance of 200 miles, by fast
runners. and the Spaniards say that the
markets of the capital contained domes-
tic poultry, game from the mountains.
fish from the lakes. fruits of the tenn
perate and tropical zones and also green
vegetables. The market stalls were dec
Grated with flowers. and the market
throng was SO great that it usually mum
bored about 10000 eortez says the mul,
titude was three times as great as that
OF the market al Salamanca and also
that the cloths ia pestry. etc. made him
think of the silk markets at Granada.
One part of the market was assigned
to the goldsmiths another to toy peddlers
anu othcis 10 potteFN ana the sellers of
copper and obsidan, of which the razors
and mirrors We're made. There were also
drug shops, paper shops and places sell
ing blank books and maps.
Toltec Marcus Aureius
AS 1t is now, there are perhaps 120Oo. :
coo of the descendants of these people
VINO cannot read or write They are mere
hewers of wood and drawers of water.
ana their future is one of the big prob
lens of Mexico. There is no doubt. how
ever. but that they have natural ability.
Tor the greatest men OF modern MexIcn
nave had more or less Indian blood in
their veins President Juarez was an In
dian, and President Diaz had Indian an
cestors. The records show that some of
the ancient Indian emperors wrote po-
etrN and philosophy. and there is one
NeXahualcoyatl, whose utterances make
you think of Marcus Aurelius. Antonius
or the proverbs of Solomon. This man
was Toltec. He belong to the ma
tion which preceded the Agtecs and he
revolutionized the laws and government
of Mexico during his reign Here is a
quotation from one of his poems which
has been translated into Spanish and tho ,
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DIES OF HEART DISEASE.
War Department Messenger Stricken
While on DUTY.

Wallace Grant. messenger In the War
Department. became i'll while carrying a
message through a corridor OF the de.
partment. about Q o'clock this morning,
and. falling to the floor, was dead before
assistance reached him. An officer Of the
medical department said that 1t was q
case of heart disease. The coroner of the
District was notified, and on his certif-
cate that the mans death was due to
natural causes the body was removed to
an undertaker's establishment.
Grant was born in Virginia more thar
eighty years ago, and had been connected
with the War Department, in variou!
capacities. since July, 1874. He was ap
pointed messenger In the paymastel
general's Office in May, 1880. and con.
timed in that Office up to the time 1t was
merged into the new QuartermasteI
Corps last November.
He lived at 1854 Swami street north.
west, with his daughter, Miss Julia
Grant. who is teacher in the public
schools
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Deaths Reported.

The following deaths have been reported
to the health department in the last
| twenty-four hours:
Mary E.,Reynolds. SIS years, the Kene-
saw apartment.
!, Elizabeth q. Harper. So years. 1886 NJ
street northwest.
William Young. 81 years.-Masonic and
Eastern Star Home.
Pauline Gohl, 45 years, Is 9Th street
southeast
Anna Klein. 81 years, Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital.
| Maggie v. Benner, IS years. 914 9Th
street northeast.
Samuel Koockogey, 81 years, SIG New
Jersey avenue northwest.
Fannie w. Denney. 60 years. 2139 !
street northwest
Edmund L. Hinson, so years, 174s kalo-
rama road.
Augustus Bishop. jr., 5: years. sibley
Hospital
Frances M Seal. Il months. 1928 r
street northwest.
Joshua P. Hunnicutt. jr.. is days. 647
Susan Tyler, 1O4 years, 1902 D street
Idnia B. Frost. a5 years, 1919 NJ street
northwest.
Henry Spinner, "A years, 300 Vine street,
Rena Smith. IS years, rear ass N street
northwest. 49,
Willie Saunders, years. a212 Grace
street.
Daniel Webster. 42.years eos Delaware
avenue southwest.
Charles A. Gorham. 2 months. 1912 s3d
street northwest.
Infant OF James A. and Bertha E. Will
Hams. - hours, 1851 Champlain avenue.
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Driscoll, pastor of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South. at Acconacls, Va, one
Of Virginia's commissioners to the South
ern Sociological Congress- which will con-
vene at Atlanta. Ca. April ..
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HER INJURIES PROVE FATAL.
Nearly Ali the Skin Is Burned Oh
BODY Of Mrs. ALA Cornell.

Mrs. ALA Cornell, twenty-one years old,
who was severely burned Saturday morn
ing when her dress ignited while she was
in the kitchen at her home at Cherry
Hill. Va, died at Emergency Hospital
yesterday afternoon about Z o'clock.
When Mrs. Cornell reached the hos
pital her friends were told by DIR. Harry
Lewis, superintendent, that she could no,
recover. Practically no skin was left
on her body. although the flames did
not reach her face. and It was necessary
to keep her noated in warm water to
relieve pain.
1t is said that Mrs. Cornell was pre-
pairing breakfast when her dress ignited
Her six-month-old baby. Neighbors re-
One with her at the time Neigh5ors re-
the blaze. Coroner hewitt gave a Ger.
tificate of accidental death.
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Jewish Women Alliance.

The Washington Alliance Of Jewish
Women will hold Its regular monthly
meeting at the Eighth Street Temple
tomorrow at $3.50 pm. Mrs Edward
Cohen will present paper on MARY
Antin." while current. topics will be
discussed by Miss Sara Koenigsberger.
The musical program will be provided
by Mrs. Nathan Frank, vocalist, and
Mrs. Levi David. pianist The GUS
tomary social hour will follow
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In Memoriam.

dear SON and brother. FRANCIS d. CON
March month once more is here.
To me the saddest Of sill the rear,
THsrs ye. ,o0s sro todaF March To- ieoi
Oftentimes when sit alone
In my heart there comes feeling IL my son
BY HIS LOVING PARENTS AND SISTER.
and grandmother, HANNAH +. GEORGE.
| who died two years ago today, March 10,
.BY HER CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.
LIVERPOOL. In sad but loving remembrance Of
our beloved husband and devoted father. 10
sEPH LIVERPOOL, who departed this iifo
two years ago. March 10. 1911.
God called him home.
1t was His VIII;
But I'm our hearts
We love him still.
BY HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER.
mother, AIMATHA MORRISON. who died
twelve years ago today. March 10. 1901.
A tear within daughters eye,
A daughters breaking heart,
Can only tell the agony.
How hard it was to part.
BY HER DAUGHTER NETTIE.
PADGETT. In loving remembrance OF our dear
! daughter and sister. LILLE A. PADGET-r
9nce Gsrrettl. who departed this life one year
ago today, March 10. 1872.
Day by day we saw her fade
ANA slowly pass away:
But in hearts we often prayed
That she might longer stay.
While you lie In peaceful sleep
Your sacred memory we hallRiways keep.
BY HER MOTHER AND SISTER.
REED. In sad but loving remembrance Of my
dear brother OWEN z. REED. who died
one year ago today, March 10, 1912.
Gone. hut not forgotten.
= By HIS SISTER, BRIDGIE MCCARTHY.
REED In memory OF our beloved brother. OWEN
f. REED, who departed this life year
ago today. March 10. 1912.
Gone. but not forgotten.
May his soul rest in peace
BY HIS SISTERS.
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DIED.

BEAL. On Monday. March 10, 1913 JOHN
ALBERT BEAL.
Funeral Wednesday, March IL.
BENNER. On Saturday March 8. 1913 at 4
pm, at her residence. 914 9th street north
OF DR.. Alien r. c. and Joseph n. Benner.
Requiem mass at st. Aloysius Church Tuesday.
March II. at 10 am. lnterment at Mount
BISHOP. On Saturday. March s. 1918, at is;i i;
Augustus A.. ST., and the late Dora Bishop;
Bennett. No 2s3 street northeast. Tuesday.
March II. at 2:30 pm. Relatives and friends
invited 10 attend. To-
BRIGHTLEY On Sunday. March o. 1913. JEN.
ME H. BRIGHTLY tnee Goddard. beloved
wife OF Thomas Fl. BriRhtley.
Our mother is sleeping free from all pain:
We miss thee from our home. dear mother;
We viii miss thee from thy place.
shadow our life is cast:
We will miss the sunshine OF thy face.
We will miss thy kind and willing hand.
Thy fond and earnest care.
Our home is dark without thee,
We will miss thee everywhere.
Funeral from her late residence. 1912 eth street
northwest, on Tuesday, March IL, at pm.
Interment at Congressional cemetery.
dence. East Fail Church. va. CoRDELiA
ae |. rfs p1 long ssrs ssd
Joseph Evans. Mrs. Milton OAamber1ain and
Mrs. Chancellor Marcy. and one sister, Mrs.
Funeral win take place from wise's undertaking
parlors on Tuesday at O'clock pm Friends g
Tcnleytown cemetery.
CHARLES On sstssd.y n Ma satAs 49, at IS
II. A. Charles, at Glen Echo Heights, Md.
CHASE. On Sunday, March Q. 1913, MARTHA
ELIZABETH CHASE. in Ypsilanti. Mich.
DILwORTH. On. Sunday. March Q. 1919. at 2
pm. Mt Freedmen's Hospital. MAUD Dill.
o9bsr Z, s ss II Minnie aad sD
Interment at Lynchburs. Va.
am, at her home. s2e 22nd street northwest:
DORA A. DUCKETT, beloved daughter Of
and sister Of the late Nettie Ducfett. Alex
apdria.
sasusiIDes Gbn9eh .i@sre and Chicago
papers please copy.)
son OF J. L. Enderie of this city.
FIELDS Departed this life March 8. 1913, at
LANES FIELDS. beloved son Of SARAH
Funeral services at Vermont Avenue Baptist
sssass .ss ss. s:ss Invited . attend
FOLLMER. Suddenly. on March .. 1918, at 9
pm. at Los Angeles Cal. anna NJ, aged
.Folimer Of Los Angeles, Cal, and beloved
mother OF Louise and Raymond ]. Fonmer Of
Los Angeles, CAL. Maud and Willard r.
Folimer and Mertie Follmer Howe Of Wash
ington. d. G..
Funeral at Milton. Pa. Tuesday. March 49,
philadelphia and. Chicago papers please
copy) IL
GoTT On Sunday. March Q, 1913, at Alameda
CaI NJ GERTRUDE, beloved wife OF Fred
Il. Colt and daughter OF Mary 4. and the
late Gpstavus Jones.
GRANT. suddenly, an Monday, March 10, 1918,
WALLACE GRANT. father Of Miss Julia
Funeral Thursday. pm.. from Niaeteenth Street