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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-20
KAISER PARDoNs ENGLIsHMAN.
Alleged Spiel Set Free Following
British Protest.

Berlin, May 1s.-Emperor William today
issued pardons for Capt. French, Lieut.
Brandon. and Solicitor Steward. three
citizens of England, who were recently
sentenced TO long terms of Imprisonment
in German fortress for espionage.
The British government lodged a strong
protest against the imprisonment of the
three men, who, at the time of their
trials, denied any intention OF spying on
German military works.
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Horace Greeley Burt Dead.

Chicago, May 19.-Horace Greeley Burt,
former president of the Union Pacific
Railroad, died today at the Oak Park
Hospital. He was operated upon three
weeks ago for a malignant trouble and
complications of the heart set in, caus-
ing his death.
Mr.. Burt started in railroad work as
a road man and worked his way up to
president of the Union Pacific. He was
succeeded in 1904 by the late E. II. Har-
riman.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-20
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE

Columbia Railroad $. 5000 at 100.
Potomac cons. s.. 81 600 at lOl.
Washington Railway and Electric 4, 81 900 at g;
Sl.oo at Sc. 5000 at 8. loo at g. Noo at g.
81 900 at 50. $1,000 at s.
Capital Traction. IS at IDs; 100 at I'D
.Mergenthsler. 10 at 2lsis.
After call:
Washington Gas. 3 at s.: 8 at IS.
Mergenthaler, 10 at 2l6
GnvERNNENr nnNna
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-20

ern, ll.so; refined continent. n.75; South American
28i refined Brazilian in kegs. ISIS: beef stearine
loalok; lard stearine quiet; New York L.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-20
InexpIica bic.
short Interest Increasing.

Interests connected with the com
pany state that funds are in hand to
take up a large part of the maturing
note issue of S2,250,OOO. due June /.
and am extension has been arranged
for on the balance. All things con-
sidered, they claim that Frisco is o.
X. and that the bears are simply seek
ing and finding soft spots where there
is no opposition 10 their raids. In the
meantime the short interests but
Icngthen against the day of final ac-
counting.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-20
COTTON STATISTICS.

furnished BY n. l. Carpenter & Co
New York. May -.
ReceiptA Aiddmgs.
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Cotton being sustained by support
against the short interest and because
drought in the two Carolinas has only been
partially relieved, there is little local or
outside selling pressure. Official forecast
is for no rain in either North or South
Carolina today or tomorrow, but further
showers in Georgia, Alabama. and Missis-
sippi. No rain reported on the completed
map from Sunday morning to this morn
ing.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-20

Based upon earnings for the nine
months ended March 81. 1913, the Consoii-
dated Gas Electric Light and Power COM
pany of Baltimore. according to the Wall
Street Journal, estimates its gross earn
ings for the fiscal year ending June 30.
1913, at se121,3oo, as against IS. ass, 2S for
thes preceding fiscal year. Net earnings
for the present fiscal year are estimated
at $s.173,eoo, as against s2,s22, 500 for the
fiscal year ended June 90. 1872, while the
balance, after interest charges. for the
year ending June 30. 1913. is placed al
81. 7os, 500, as compared with 81, 4o5 131 for
the preceding fiscal year.
Included in operating expenses are APP
preparations for renewals, &C., the amount
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-20

A special meeting Of directors of Ten
nessee Copper has been called for Thurs
day, at which dividend action is expected
to be taken.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-06

dressed poultry in other butcher
shops comes from the packing plants
of the West either frozen or shipped
in barrels packed in ice. But the
craze for unrighteous and unholy
profit is there. Alike are the dishon-
est methods of the chicken grafters
to those of the rascally horse dealer
who by few def touches transforms
a sorry broken down hack into a no.
BILE prancing steed. Something for
nothing is the modern cry and no
where has it's fragrant grating meth
DDS been more obvious than in the
to the food of the people.
False weights and measures, adulter-
alton, baskets with false bottoms and
manv other familiar devices are but
types of the tendency of many men
to succeed, by fair means or foul, at
the expense of their fellows. WA
tering stock" is no more reprehensi-
BILE in principle on the part of Wall
street than on the part of the cattle
dealer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-06
$4,000, 100000 FOR A NAME
Washington 5-Year-Old to Receive
That Consideration for Adopting
His Original DESIGNATION.

SEATTLE. Wash.-The name of
Henry Barclay Perry, the 5-year-old
adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Perry of Seattle, was changed by SUI
perior court decree here to Henry
Francis Shoemaker. He is the son
of Henry w. Shoemaker of Altoona,
Pa, and grandson and namesake of
Henry Francis Shoemaker, retired
banker of New York, and was made
the promised heir to 100000 for
his paternal grandfather, who is re-
ported to be on his deathbed.
Under the courts decision the
child retains his home with his moth
er, Mrs. Beatrice Barclay Shoemaker
Perry, wife of DR.. Perry and former
wife of Henry w. Shoemaker.
The petition of the grandfather for
annulment of the adoption decree
contained a clause that he was I'M
married and not likely to marry
again and that the boy was the only
scion of his stock to perpetuate his
name.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-06
HELD A POKER IN HER HAND
A PARADISE FOR THE BIRDS
Mrs. Russell Sage Purchases Marsh
Island in Louisiana and Will Ded-
icate 1t to Feathered Tribe.
icate 1t to

With a fortune of 100000 at
her disposal and a sincere desire to
use it for the benefit of humanity
Mrs. Russell Sage, even in her eighty
fifth year, is hardly to be classeG
among 'tthe idle rich" She has lately
purchased Marsh island off the coast
of Louisiana, which is to be an in
violable sanctuary for all the birds
of the air that may seek its hos
pitable shores. This island, 8 miles
long with an area of 115 square miles
and a total coast line of about 65
miles, is a natural refuge and breed
ing place for many kinds of aquatic
birds and a port of call for great
flocks On their spring and autumn
migrations. Mrs. Sage purchased the
island for $15O,O00, vesting the title
in Edward McIlhenny as trustee I'M
til such time as it shall be decided
to turn over the property either to
the state of Louisiana or the federal
government.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-06
STUFF CHICKENS WITH SAND
THE TRAIL OF GRAFT LEADS
INTO POULTRY INDUSTRY.
Its Ubiquity Exemplified by Recent
Fight in New York City Over
Birds Fed ON Gravel.

f1IfuS FSu Oh OEdSSIs
Instructive, yet depressing, in the
light it sheds on business honesty
or rather dishonesty is the chicken
row between jobbers of New York,
who distribute live poultry to the
shops and wagons, and the receivers,
or big dealers, who buy poultry in
the country and ship it to the metrop-
oils in cars. The trouble arose over
the custom of the receivers of feed
ing the chickens with sand and gravel
to increase the weight; and the job
bers stand pat on an agreement not
to buy a pound unless the receivers
agree to fix prices before the sand
and gravel stuffing process begins or
bind themselves to abandon the GUS
tom in the future. 1t is estimated
that the profits of the receivers from
the extra weight they obtain by sand
and gravel feeding amount to ST.
100000 or more every year.
1t used to be customary to feed
chickens received from the West all
of the corn they could eat before sale
to the jobbers. But there was not
enough extra profit in that method
and it soon became obsolete. OF
course there is an unavoidable
shrinkage in weight on a car from
the Missouri river, amounting gen.
orally to 500 or 900 pounds, and it
is the business. of the car man to neu-
tralize this. The shipper gives him
IS for every car arriving without
shrinkage. If it is 500 pounds over
weight he gets $40, and 1000
pounds SIS. Some of the cars have
been known to run overweight re-
Gently as high as 1850 pounds.
But it is not unusual for the
weight of the whole carload to be in
creased $500 pounds at the time of
the sale to the jobber and here is
how it is done: The night before the
chickens are to be unloaded the man
in charge prepares for them a supper
of thin meal and red pepper. That
course merely whets their appetites
and makes them thirsty. Then a
mess of soaked bread and buttermilk
mixed with sand and gravel is pre-
pared. The chickens eat this raven
ously. Often they gain from IA to
Is ounces in weight.
With an average of 1000 chickens
to a car this sharp practice often
means an extra profit to the receiver
of over $500 on every car. Dealers
throughout New York city claim that
all of their profits have been eaten
up by the shrinkage in weight of the
chickens they bought from the re-
ceivers.
The trouble is in way localized,
as all live poultry entering New York
is sold to the Hebrew trade. The
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-06
THE SKUNK FINDS FRIENDS.
OHIO Lawmakers Protect the Animals
With a Closed Season.

Men usually do not like skunks.
There is a reason. And yet it is not
a good reason. A skunk is neither
aggressive nor quarrelsome. He
makes use of his peculiar means of
self-defense only when he is COM
PEELED to protect himself. He is,
in fact, rather an admirable member
of universal society.
The lawmakers of Ohio have been
wise enough to recognize the skunk S
worth. They have signified this rec
ognition by extending the closed sea-
son for skunks.
Skunks are killed for three rea-
sons; for their pelts, because they
occasionally steal hens eggs, and
third from mere human 'cussed-
ness"
They are protected for one very
excellent reason. Their diet consists
very largely of insects which are in
furious to plant life. They are death
to white grubs, and when there is
an abundance of grasshoppers the
skunks grow fat and sleek. They
supplement their insectivorous ra-
lions by such field mice as come their
way; and when other rations are
short they steal few eggs. They do
much more good than harm to the
farmers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-06
WIFE HIDES IN AUTOMOBILE AND
GIVES HUSBAND SURPRISE.
He Pleaded Business Engagement,
But Wife Hides in Car and Learns
Cause of His Hurry.

Cause of His Hurry.
According to the Macon News a
we'll known young business man with
an office in the heart of the city went
home about o'clock Tuesday night
and told his wife that he wanted an
early supper. He said that he had
a little business engagement, and had
to leave in a few minutes. When
pressed by his wife as to the nature
of the business he politely, but none
theless firmly, declined to say why he
had to be away from home for sew
eral hours.
After supper he told his wife good
bye, busted himself about the house
4 few minutes and then went out to
his garage, where he had five-pas-
senger automobile. This gentleman
did net examine his machine closely,
sat cranEed it up, mounted the front
seat and chugged away. Ills alto
mobile led him to the home OF
young lady, who happened to be his
stenograplier-and an attractive
looking lady she is, too. The young
lady, desiring a cool ride in the au-
tomobile in the moonlight ald feeling
entirely safe and secure in the pres
ence of her employer, accepted the
invitation. and together they started
for a ride
When several miles past the city
limits Mr.. Employer and Miss Ste
nographer became engaged in very
interesting conversational inter
esting, in fact, that they did not OBJ
serve Mrs. Employer when she sud
denly rose from under rug in the
tonneau. In her hand she held po-
ker, which she had brought from
home. Plying the weapon right and
left she whacked her husband and
his young lady friend over the heads
and wherever else she could strike
them. 1t is said that for few min
utes the atmosphere was crowded
with excitement.
On the ride back to the city Mrs.
Employer sat on the front seat with
her husband still holding the poker,
and Miss Stenographer, in tears and
greatly chagrined, occupied the back
seat. It is said that the husband is
still explaining that his intentions
were perfectly proper.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-06
ORGANIZING COUNTRY LIFE
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
INTERESTED IN MOVEMENT.
The Town Is Organization ITSELF
While Farmer as Rule Does EV-
erything on Individual Basis.

While Farmer as a Rule Does EV-
erything on Individual Basis.
The trouble with country life, with
agriculture, is that it has never been
organized, that it has seemed impos-
sible to organize it. Concerning the
attempt which Secretary Houston of
the department of agriculture pro-
poses to make in this direction the
Worlds Work says:
when you come to think OF it the
essential difference between the town
and country is this: One is organized
and the other is not. The town is
organization. Street cars, the very
streets themselves, banks, churches,
exchanges, clubs, Libraries, sewers,
water, shops-all these denote or
ganization. 1t is by these that men
do their business, live their lives
with the least waste of time and
effort and enjoy what we call civil
ization. Everything in the town is
organized, correlated, conducted, not
on an individual but on a community
basis.
con the other hand, the farmer as
rule must do everything on an
individual basis, or too nearly on an
individual basis. He grows his crop,
harvests it, gets it to the market,
sells it; he buys his necessities indi-
vidualIy; he is a man far too much
by himself, far too much deprived of
the economic and social advantages
of combined action. This sums up
his disadvantages. Now there are
of course in many parts of the Unit
ed States, in spite of our backward
ness in cooperation, many success
full organizations, some for selling,
some for buying, some for both, some
for other economic duties, some for
social help of many sorts. But the
great mass of our country folk are
yet unorganized.
1.-The department of agriculture
has at once set about the task of
finding out what sort of organiza-
lions exist and do good service in
the several parts of the country
how they work, what they achieve,
how they were begun and how more
like them may be started.
''Now, if the department of agri-
culture, after it collects accurate in
formation about all these agencies
and forces, each working in its own
way but all toward the same great
task-if, along with this investiga-
ton, it can use the knowledge and
authority of the government to slim
ulate and to coordinate them,
great movement toward a general or
ganization of country life through
out the United States will have be-
gun"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-06
HUFF GUILTY OF CONTEMPT
MACON MAN DECLARES VERDICT
is WHAT HE EXPECTED.
Sentence Has Not Reen Pronounced
ON Aged Attorney Who Wrote
Caustic Letter to Judge Speer.

CauStlc Letter TO Judge Speefs
MACON, Ga.-C0lonel w. A. Huff,
formerly mayor of Macon and one
time the city's wealthiest citizen, was
adjjudged guilty of contempt OF
court by Judge w. l. Grub of the
Northern district of Alabama, presid-
ing in the United States court here,
Judge Speer being disqualified.
Colonel Huff said: THE verdict
is what I expected. At the time I
sent Judge Emory Speer those letters
last summer / had vague idea that
was committing contempt of court.
However, was not as familiar then
as / am now with the law on con-
tempt.
81 wrote those letters nicely and
simply for the purpose of telling
Judge Speer, man to man. what |
thought about him and the way he
had handled my bankruptcy case.
There was never intention on my
part to bring the judiciary into dis
repute.
Having been found guilty by a
tribunal, which l consider absolutely
fair and impartial, am satisfied with
the decision, and will accept without
a murmur whatever punishment may
be meted out to me-"
May Not Distribute Letters.
AS to whether or not Colonel Huff
will distribute the 10000 copies of
two letters, which he had published
some time ago, is not known, the
colonel being silent on that point.
However, since he has been held to
be in contempt for sending the let
tiers to Judge Speer it is hardly prob
able that he would put himself in
the position of committing further
contempt by giving the letters gem
eral circulation.
The news of the finding Of Judge
Grubb was eagerly devoured by Ma
con people, for it has been a long
time since there has been case here
which has attracted so much general
interest. There was no surprise over
the finding of the court, for every
body seemed to be of the opinion that
there was nothing left for the court
to do but find the aged ex-mayor
guilty. There was one cause alone
in the letter sent to Judge Speer
which would have been sufficient to
base a verdict of guilty and that
clause was: your court lives TO
steal"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-06
REVIVAL OF WEDDING BANNS
Movement to Make Old Custom Conn
pulsory Is Started by Episcopal
Convention in Chicago.

CHICAGO.-A movement to pub
fish the banns for a reasonable period
preceding a wedding was started at
the annual convention of the Chicago
diocese of the Episcopal church. The
commission of clergymen and lay
men which asked the convention to
pass a resolution authorizing return
to this tradition said its adoption
would mean a long step in marriage
reform. Formal action of the pro-
posal will be taken at tomorrow's
session of the convention, and both
the clerical and lay delegates say
it will be passed without opposition.
The delegates representing the d.
Geese at the general convention of
the church in New York in October
will aid in an effort to have publica-
ton of the banns made compulsory
in all Episcopal churches of America.
They say there is no doubt that the
New York meeting will order the in
novation.
According to the custom which was
observed generally by the church of
England up to recent years a clergy
man performing a marriage cere-
mony was required to have the APP
preaching ceremony announced in
his church for required number of
Sundays preceding. Amy one who
might know of any reason why the
wedding should not take place was
called upon to come forward and
state his reasons cor forever hold his
peace
Dean Walter T. Summers plan OF
requiring a medical examination pre-
ceding marriage was endorsed with.
out qualification. Every clergyman
in the diocese was urged to require
certificate from some reputable
physician before uniting candidates
for matrimony. Several clergymer
urged that the moral qualifications
of parties seeking to be married also
be made the subject of a rigid in
quiry by the church.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-06
THRAsHING STANDING GRAIN.
Machine That Will Harvest 25 to 80
Acres a Day.

Acres Ddys
A Kansas farmer has invented a
machine that thrashes standing grain
in the field, without cutting. Four
horses push the machine over the
field, and a small gasoline engine
drives the thrasher Only two men
are required to operate it; one drives
the horses and the other ties the
sacks of thrashed grain and looks af-
ter the engine.
A machine was made and tried
last summer in a wheat field. 1t
thrashed from 25 to so acres a day
of 10 hours. The principle of the
machine is simple. D.. A strong blast of
air from revolving fan is blown
against the standing grain and forces
it against a toothed cylinder, which
thrashes off the grain, depositing it
in trough, from which it is elevated
by an auger to another toothed cyl
inder, which Tethrashes it. The chaff
is blown out and the clean grain falls
into sack or may be carried through
a tube into wagon driven along
! side.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-06
HOW WINDER is SITUATED
One Street in Georgia Town Is Lo-
Gated in Three Counties. Town
After New County.

ATLANTA it comes to
casting votes and going to court the
queerest street in Georgia and proba-
blv in the world is Athens street in
the town of Winder. The western
side of this street is in Gwinnett
county, the eastern side is in Jackson
county, and if you stand in the mid
die of it and go south a few hun
dred feet you will be in Walton coun-
ty. At one point on Athens street
a father and son live just opposite
each other. When the father goes to
court he travels towards the town of
Jefferson. When the son goes to
court he travels to Lawrenceville.
Although their houses are immedi-
ately facing each other if burglar
would break into both the same night
they would have to send in two di-
rections for two different sheriffs.
Each time there is an election Win
der has to have three different poll
ing places.
The people of Winder are hoping
to solve these complications by the
creation of the new county of Bar
row, with Winder as the county seat.
This new county would take in parts
of Gwinnett, Jackson and Walton,
all three of which are among the
large counties of Georgia, and which
will not be materially hurt by the
change
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-06
SELDOM IF EVER HAPPY.
Marriages of White Women to Orien-
tails Result Only i'm Tragedy.

IalS Result OhlJ III AA"SSuS'
Sad and revolving are the lives led
by white women who marry men OF
the Orient and cases where this hap
pen are much more frequent than
most persons have ever suspected.
1T is amazing" says a traveller ana
student of Asiatic life, ito find the
number of white women who are IN
the harems of Persia, for example.
They are mostly English and Amerl-
can dancing girls who have met Per-
slams who were travelling abroad and
fascinated by tales of life in Eastern
palaces, have married them.
when l was in Persia | came
across a typical case. 1t was that of
a girl who had been an attendant at
a stall in the Crystal palace. There
she was seen by a Persian in the en-
tourage of Nasr-ed-Din, a previous
Shah, when he visited England. sac
married him according to christian
rites and went to Persia with him.
Once in his own country, however.
he Immediately placed her in the
harem, where she found herself but
one of several wives and was forced
to live life of seclusion. She met
| only the persian women of the royal
harem and her life was not only stu
pid but from an Occidental point of
view at least degrading.
Marriages between Chinese, Jap
anese, Egyptian, Siamese or Persian
men and white women are rarely if
ever happy. The men from these ma
tons who travel are naturally veal
thy, and women who become fasci-
mated by them forget that they have
to live in totally different atmos-
phere. An intolerable longing for
home comes to them, but escape is
impossible.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-06
Ancient City Under the Sea.

The Greek ministry of marine
states that Lieutenant Bakopulos,
while carrying out the observations
entailed by the naval duties assigned
him, happened to notice on the sea
bottom to the east of the Island of
Lemnos, on the reefs marked on the
British admiralty charts under the
name of the Pharos Bank, at depth
OF from to 25 meters, some ancient
ruins which are perfectly visible and
prove the existence of a town about
three miles in circumference.