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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
HIGH PRICES AND
The GOLD SUPPLY
Over Production Bound
Leave | Effect.
DIRECTOR ROBERTS REPORT.
Great Gold Supply Stimulates In
dussry and In Consequences
Forces Up the Cost OF
Living.

Washing George e. Roberts, d.
rector Of the mint, predicts that the
production Of gold viii not materially
increase during, the next 10 years.
The Importance of this prediction,
made in Mr.. Roberts annual report
for the fiscal year 1912, just obtained.
lies in its relation to the economis
law that over-production OF gold tends
to increase prices.
1t is not probable, says Director
Roberts. that any harmful results viii
come from slowing down in the rate
Of accumulation Of gold, for, he added,
1t must be recognized that the growth
of gold supplies during the past, 20
years has been at an abnormally high
rate.
The United States has been particu-
larry successful. Mr.. Roberts says, in
obtaining the holding large share Of
the new gold Of the past u years. the
gains Of the Treasury and national
banks from 1900 to 1912 aggregating
1925, ZOE, 900, an increase of more than
100 per cent.
The volume of trade and bank
credits, of private, corporate and pub
lie indebtedness and the general level
Of prices undoubtedly have all been
affected to some degree, the Director
says, by the engagements of bank re-
serves through the great production of
gold in recent years and by the
stimulus thereby impaired to enter
prise and industry.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28

King Nicholas IS Given One
Week to Comply.
the OAR IS NEARING AIN END.
Powers Have Practically Agreed With
Austria That Montenegro Shall
Not Keep seutari Even. IT
She Takes It.

London. The developments OF last
week appear to make the conclusion OF
the Balkan War matter Of only a
few days. Turkey having no hopes Of
obtaining more money, has entrusted
her interests to the good Offices Of the
powers, and the allies have accepted
the powers OFFER of mediation
The representatives Of the powers
ct Sofia handed the Bulgarian Premier
their schemes, ernbodying bases for
mediation. Their plan includes two
provisions to which the allies will like
~ object The demand for indemnity
is vetoed and the powers stipulate that
hostilities must cease when their pro-
posals are accepted.
It appears improbable, however, that
the allies will refuse to settle on the
terms now offered. The war has come
practically to q deadlock. Fighting on
the Tchatalja Lines has been indie
cisive. Adrianople, which the Bull
garians proposed to reduce to submits
sion In few days, seems to be hold
ing out as strongly as ever after a
i've months siege, and messages from
there declare that the Turkish com
mander has no thought of surrender.
Austria has sent a second note to-
the Montenegrins, requesting that the
bombardment of Scutari be confined to
the forts and giving one week for King
Nicholas to comply with her other de-
mands.
Russia is not blocking the Austrian
policy, and as the powers have agreed
that Montenegro shall not keep Scutari
even If she conQuers the garrison, but
that that city shall be incorporated in
the new Albanian state, King Nicholas
seems to have no alternative but to
make virtue Of necessity.
If the allies attempt to Withstand
the mandate Of Europe they might
prove to be hornets nest, but the
weak point in their armor is that their
finances are almost dis near to an end
as Turkeys
The ambassador In London, who had
scattered for the Easter holiday, have
been recalled and are In constant con-
sultation over the details OF the situa-
ton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28

all. sorts of odd places, just where
they could be found. When the cot
tage was complete. she white-wash-
ed the walls and ceilings. Scores Of
women in the village have done the
same thing-a mason and joiner be-
ing merely called In to do the expert
work.
Nearly all the villagers own their
cottages. donkey and cart. and a fish
ing boat. Living chiefly on bread, with
a liberal spreading Of butter, they
have saved and scraped until they
could buy the freehold. Their thrift
has grown, too. since the women agi-
tated SO much against the liquor traf-
&c that the last public house In the
village was closed.
Most Of the men work In Pembroke
dockyard, leaving their homes at 4:S0
or 5 in the morning for long journey
on foot and in big rowing boats. These
men are not home until Z In the even
ing. and all the time the women or
the village do the work that In every
other place is done by men.
Some years ago when the fishing
feet went down the haven the won-
en- who manned it all wore picturesque
red skirts and nat felt hats.
But now the influence Of modernity
is felt even in Llangwm, and only the
older women wear the garments which
once made even the palmer ones look
charming. The young ones are not
at all proud of the fashions Of THAR
grandmothers.
''Why can't we wear modern clothes
like other people?' said young wAm'
an. Folks only laugh at old fash
ions nowadays"
But Mrs. Palmer. VINO, beauty in
her day, has had her photograph pub
lished all over the world, still wears
her red skirt and felt hat when, with
jaunty step. she goes on her rounds
selling fish, just as she has done all
her life.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
60 killed IN
FURIOUS STORM
Winds in Varying Forms Cause
Devastation.
WORST KNOWN IN YEARS.


Washington More than so persons
are reported killed and hundreds were
injured, some mortally, by a storm Of
tornado intensity which ragged over
Central, Western, Southern and parts
OF Eastern States and took different
forms in different places. Property
damage will run wen into the millions.
Definite advices have been received
accounting for at least 40 persons
dead.
Reports from Alabama show the loss
of life was heaviest in that State, the
number of dead there being already
defnitely placed at %, with additional
fatalities reported but not confirmed.
The town Of Lower Peachtree was
practically wiped out.
Two persons are dead In Indiana,
three In Ohio, three is Tennessee, five
in Missouri, two in New York. one
in Michigan. two In Louisiana, one in
Arkansas and one In Texas.
Accompanying the death lists are
estimates Of the injury totaling more
than 200, with additions coming in at
brief intervals. :
Coming up out of the Southwest
early Friday morning, just as spring
was ushered In, the storm swept with
startling suddenness diagonally@ across
the country from Northern Texas to
Western Pennsylvania and New York.
bisecting the Mississippi Valley and
moving northeastward across the Ohio
into the Great Lake region.
Buildings toppled before the blow II
nearly dozen States and death lay
all along In Its wake.
The property loss was heavy al
along the storms track. Besides de-
molishing or unroofing buildings and
telling trees, the high winds, rain. hail
and sleet did serious damage to early
crops, according to reports from some
Of the affected sections. Estimates of
damage to property from Indiana and
Michigan alone aggregate $4,000, 900.
about evenly diyeded between the two
States.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
WEATHER CHIEF RESIGNS.
willis l. Moore viii Retire From
Bureau July 81.

Washington - Prof. Willis Luther
Moore. who has been chief Of the
United States Weather Bureau since
1895, was asked to tender his resigna-
ton and, after talk with President
Wilson, 1t was announced that Pro
fessor Moore would retire from Office
on July 81. There were several rea-
sons that brought about the decision
Of President Wilson and Secretary OF
Agriculture Houston, to whose depart
ment the Weather Bureau@is attached,
to request Professor Moore to hand in
his resignation, but the compelling
cause was the activity shown in behalf
OF Professor Moore's candidacy of the
Agricultural portfolio in President
Wilson's Cabinet, which was ultimate
~ offered to Mr.. Houston
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
JAPAN SERVES WARNING.
Will Withdraw Exhibits To Fair 4
Allen Land Law Passes.

Sacramento, Cal--An alien land
law to exclude Japanese from owner
ship Of real property in California.
can be enacted only at the cost Of
Japanese support Of the San Diego and
San Francisco expositions in 1915, ac-
cording to messages and personal
warnings received by members of the
legislature Before the sub-commit-
tee in charge of land bills. Frank Brit
tan, attorney for the Panama. Pacific
Exposition, declared today that not
only would such a law offend Japan.
but that it would seriously effect Eng
land and Germany. both Of which
nations desire liberal Oriental rep
resentation guaranteed before their
merchants and manufacturers CO.
operate.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28

They Do More Than Men in the
Welsh Village Of LlangMn.
Builders Of Houses, Too-Mrs. Mary
Palmer, s2 Years old, Tells Of 4
Days Work Carrying 100 Pounds
Of Oysters to Market.

London "A special correspondent
OF the Daily Mirror sends from Hav-
erford an interesting account Of con-
ditions in the village Of Ilangwm.
Pembrokeshire, where women man"
the fishing feet, and at times even
build the houses. They actually work
harder than the men.
Never In all my experience have
known such industry or such uncom-
planning effort, /" the Rev. d. M. Pryse,
the Baptist minister. said. Mr.. Pryse
and the rector are the only two
Welshmen living In this village, for
all the rest Of the $50 persons, all re-
lated to each other, are descended
from the Flemings, who settled near
there In 1195.
Mrs. Mary Palmer, aged 50, is o re-
markable old woman. She walks with
stick now, and age is making the
burrows deep in her forehead, but un-
til few years ago she tramped for
miles selling fish, which she carried
in pannier on her shoulders.
Eyes, I have flshed in Milford Ha-
ven." she said, lever since was q
little thing. We women here manage
the boats as well as the men, and, al
though we go out in all weathers, !
have never known a life lost or boat
wrecked.
Il have dredged for oysters with the
other women. and then tramped to
Carmathen with q hundredweight on
my back in day; sold the oysters
that night, sometimes for as little as
eight cents q hundred before going to
bed, and then tramped all the way
home the next day. ! brought up q
family, too. and have been a widow
for rs years.
.Mr. Lloyd-G George gives me PEN
sion now of Ave shillings week, but
Ithink AN old woman who's worked as
hard as have ought to have more,
don't your
Mrs Palmer also pointed proudly to
her cottage, which she helped to build
herself, working like Niger" as
she said, In the interval OF catching
behring's and taking oysters. She dug
the foundations, made the mortar, car
ried stones by the, hundredweight from
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
SHOT TO DEATH
IN THE PALACE
Startling Accusations Made by
a Mexican Editor.
suAREz WAS sTRANGLED.
Charges That AMERICAN Representa-
tive Declined 70 lntercedc 70
Save Madero From Arrest
and Execution.

San Francisco Colonel Manuel
Blanche Alcade, publisher Of the New
Era. a Mexico City newspaper, gem
orally regarded as the mouthpieec Of
the late President Madero's admins
tration, arrived here with the asser-
tion that he lis in q position to prove"
that Madero was shot to death and
that ce-President Suarez was strang-
led In the National Palace on the night
of February %. and their bodies taken
to the prison in an automobile.
'The reported assault by the guard, ;"
said Alcade, twas merely a farcical
ruse and part of the plot. If the
automobile was Aired upon the guards
were only pouring lead into the dead
bodies OF the President and Vice-Presi-
dent, who were murdered in the palace
hours before.
Colonel Alcade described himself as
an intimate friend of Madero. His
mission IL this country, he said, would
be to expose the plot which brought
about the Diaz uprising and the deaths
of Madero and Suarez.
Disguised As PeasahtS.
Accompanied by his wife, two small
children and his brother. Joaquin, and
army captain, Alcade fed from Mex
leo City February 20, taking an
obscure route to Salina Cruz.
Colonel Alcade asserted the news of
Madero's fate was known IN Washing
ton before the hour named in the OFF,
cial version as the time of the alleged
attempt to rescue him.
"As q matter OF fact" said he,
president Madero and Vice. President
Suarez were killed between 8 and $50
O'clock, Mexican City time, on the
night of February %. The President
was shot from behind and the powder
burned his neck. Suarez was choked
to death. His secretary, Dernandes
de la Feguera, saw the body two days
later. and there were finger marks on
the throat"
The Wife's Appeal.
madame Madero and Madame
Suarez went together to the Ambas-
sador to implore him to intercede for
their husbands lives" he said.
Il saw them when they left the en-
bassy, and they told me there was no
hope. They said Ambassador Wilson
had expressed to them his belief that
the President and Vice-President
would be executed, as the Huertistas
regarded their deaths as necessary for
the good of the country
General Ascarade was in command
OF the guard that night. was told
by another officer of the guard that It
was he who slew Madero and Suarez."
Bitter in his criticism of Ambassa-
dor Wilson, Colonel Alcade declared
the American diplomat had declined
to intercede to save him from arrest
and death.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28

The New York board OF superintend-
ents has issued formal instructions to
teachers In the high schools Of that
city to do all in their power to improve
che oral English OF the pupils. It il
declared that the use by high school
popils Of "t'row' for thSow, tom for
turn. foil" for girl, "erster" for oyster,
"lawr'' for law. "thoydg for third. and
other similar expressions no longer
will be tolerated. II, as seems to be,
implied, It prevails at the present
time, the fact would seem to indicate
not only a lack OF diligence on the part
Of the teachers OF the grade schools 40
well as the high schools, but alae
slovenly pronunciation ON the part Of
some Of the teachers themselves.
Bright pupils usually initiate the pro-
nunciation OF their teachers. Mil
Waukeeans are aware from observa-
ton Of this tendency. Children be-
longing to homes where foreign Ian
guage was habitually employed have
grown up with good idiomatic Eng
lish because they initiated the speech
Of their teachers IN the public schools.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28

Surgical treatment to turn con
frmed criminal into useful citizen
received bad setback In case
where . great apparent change after
such an operation led to the pardon
Of the remade man. His release was
followed BY series OF burglaries
which necessitated his return to dur.
ance vile. Perhaps one Of the reforms
% come win be the better protection
of society from theory and expert
ment connected with the criminal
classes. SO far. the experiments made
to prove that morality is merely .
matter OF physiology have not been
brilliantly successful.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28

RISING sun.
ARE MEN LESS cAARMlNG7

ARE MEN LESS cf4ARMlNG7
The adjective Is not ours. 1t II used
BY Mrs. Charles Henrotin Of Chicago.
who very emphatically asserts that
men Of today are. in matters Of court
liness and charm. IN no way equal 70
the men with whom her father and
mother associated 50 years ago. The
word Behavior she says. seems to
have been dropped out Of the language.
Forty-five years ago the men were bet
ter educated. they knew literature.
they were better conyersationalists.
wonderfully wen read, had leisurely
bearing and good breeding that now
seems, she thinks. to have passed out
of existence. says the Pittsburgh Dis
patch. Big cities and the modern
civilization, in their tendency to part
the sexes. and the influx OF foreigners.S
are the causes she offers In solution.
But are her charges true? Grant that
the greater strain of life has crowded
out courtlinesa, that few men can af-
cord leisurely bearing in these days
Of increased cost Of living, and that
modern manners are more abrupt than
those Of the old school, what OF her
other specifications? Are men less
well educated, less well read. less able
to converse intelligently? OF course
not. INDICATION. reading and intelli-
gence were never SO generally DIFF
fused as today. snd the broadening
process has not iessened the proper
tion Of well-educated, well-bred and ex-
ceptionaIly intelligent men. compared
with 50 years ago. but rather the re-
verse, because the natural effect OF
wider diffusion has been to create .
larger proportion Of leaders.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
DESTRUCTION WIDESPREAD.
Six States Are Devastated and Small
D Towns Wiped Out.

Chicago. A terrific windstorm,
causing widespread destruction and
loss Of life and practically wrecking
the already demoralized telegraph
service, ragged over the Central West
and Middle States Sunday. reports
from Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and
Indiana indicate heavy damage, but
owing to the wrecking Of the telegraph
lines, the reports are fragmentary and
lacking In detail. The loss of life and
property In Iowa was less severe, ac-
cording to messages from the storm
swept district Dust storms, rain, hail
and tremendous electrical disturbance
prevailed over Kansas and Nebraska
the greater part of the day.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
SONS STORY coNvicTs.
Father Found Guilty or Murder Upon
Boys Testimony.

New York. With 12-year-old Frank
Spear as the chief witness against his
father in the 1atter's trial for the kill
ing of his wife, state counsel brought
about the conviction of Alexander
Spear, Al years old, for murder in the
first degree. A Supreme Court jury,
impressed by the sons testimony that
his father took him on his knee and
showed, with the aid of knife and
an apple, how he would slash his
wife's throat, deliberated less than
half an hour.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
ASSISTANT SECRETARY RESIGNS
Attitude Toward the Chinese Loan
Princlpa. Reason.

Washington. - Huntington Wilson.
assistant and acting Secretary of
State has resigned and insisted upon
immediate acceptance of the resigna-
ton, because Of his radical difference
of opinion with the Administration re-
garding its Chinese policies, for which
he declined to act as spokesman.
President Wilson Immediately accept
ed the resignation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
MEMORIAL 70 RIoELow.
Committee In New York Formed To
Raise Fund OF 100000.

New York. Announcement was
made that a committee has been form
ed to erect memorial to the late John
Bigelow. the distinguished publicist,
diplomatist and United States minister
to France during the Civil War. The
precise form Of the memorial has not
yet been decided. but it is proposed to
raise fund of 100000 to defray the
cost.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28

Kansas professor has discovered
surest way to become ugly is to try
and force beauty. Any manager who
has tried to force any of his stage
beauties TO I've up to their contracts
could have told him that.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
TRUST PUTS MINIMUM PAY AT IS.
Harvester Company First To Recos-
nIze Claims OF Women.

Chicago. President Cyrus H.. Nc
Cormick, Of the International Har.
vester Company, made the announce
ment that, beginning Monday. the
minimum wage for girls and women
employed anywhere In the United
States by the company win be IS a
week. The present minimum is IS a
week for apprentices.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
TO ENFORCE HATPlN ORDINANCE
New Orleans Women Offender May
BE Fined Or Locked Up.

New Orleans The police mere will
be given special instructions to arrest
any woman found violating the hat
pin ordinance of the city, recently
passed. The ordinance provides that
NO hatpins shall protrude beyond the
hat unless the point is covered.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
ELIOT HAS NOTHING 70 SAY.

Information Az To Enthusiastically
Must Come From White House.
Cambridge, Mass.-'I have no infor-
nation to give about that ambassador
ship; all Information must be obtain
ed at the other end Of the line" said
President Emeritus Charles w. Eliot.
of Harvard, tonight. DR., Eliot had
been asked for a statement on his
attitude toward a diplomatic appoint
ment. He celebrated at his home
Thursday his seventy-ninth birthday.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
BOY SCOUTS GIFT TO TAFT.
Gold knife Presented To Former
President BY Delegation.

Augusta, Pa-The Boy Scouts Of
Augusta presented ex-President Taft
with gold knife. A delegation Of
scouts called on Mr.. Taft at his hotel
just before he went to the golf course.
He expressed his deep appreciation Of
the gift and told the scouts he would
be back here next March to see how
they were progressing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
Bows Get Biggest Bite.

New York.-Harry Glen and John
Kock, two youngsters. received, big.
ger bites than any fisherman ever
told about. They were fishing or the
railroad bridge with chain as .
fish line. The line touched some
electric feed wires. and the boya
were tossed in the air by II. 900 volt
charge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28

a doctor in Rome caused riot
and then was kept busy patching up
the wounded. It was rather strenu-
Gus and risky way Of drumming up
trade. hut that business energy il ac-
counted the best which gets a market
for it, supply by creating demand.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
fouR WOULD CONVICT MINISTER
Jury Trying Preacher Charged With
Exorcide Disaarees.

Topeka, Kan.-The jury in the case
of Rev. w. L. Beers. a Methodist min
lister, charged with Staying his wife by
forcing her false teeth down her
throat, reported a disagreement and
was discharged The final ballot was
eight for acquittal and four for con-
Iviction
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
LIGHTNING STRIKES JAIL.
Negro Prisoners Thrown into Panic Al
Covinaton, Ky.

Cincinnati Lightning struck the
county jail at Covington, KY, hurl-
ing the 15-foot chimney to the ground
and bouncing the so prisoners, all
negroes, from their iron cots. The
prisoners were thrown into panic.
The iron cells and cots made perfect
conductors and the lightning created
the impression that the dollhouse was
on fire.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
DOLLAR IN HIS HEAD.
Doctor Washes Out Coin To Make
silver skull Plate.

Omaha, Ark.-John Crickmore, Of
this place, viii always have 81 on his
person, but it will never be available
as cash asset, as it lies in the front
part Of his head over a jagged hole
more than two inches long and one
inch wide. An Omaha doctor made
the skull plate from coin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
TURKS WILL NOT YIELD.
Commander OF AdrianopIe Determined
To Hold Out.

Adrianople. Shukri Pasha, the COM
mander Of this fortress. and his troops
are determined to continue the defense
they have now carried on for FIVE
months. and all reports as to offers
made by them to surrender may be
dismissed as pure inventions. Only
starvation can force the capitulation
Of the beleaguered garrison.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-28
NEWS STAMPS ron PARCEL POST,
Different colors and Figures win Dis
tinauish Denominations.

Washington. The design of new
and smaller parcel post stamp to re-
place those now in use has been APP
proved by Postmaster-G General Burle-
son. Numerous complaints that the
present stamp. all denominations of
which are the same color, is hard to
distinguish as to value and easily
raised" caused the change.
Putnam patriot., 1913-09-05

Mir. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie will be the guests of the Belgian Govern ment. The King will give banquet in their honor on the day of their ar. rival. ard other official functions are being arranged.
 The Canadian Minister Of Justice and the Premier of Quebec left Mont. real for West Point where they will meet Yiscout Haldane, Lord Chaneel- Tor of Great Britain, en route to the American Bar Association convention al Montreal.