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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
A Famous Hudson River Boat

There are people well on toward old age
during whose whole life time the Mary
Powell has been making her regular trips
up and down the Hudson river. Proba-
bly, no river boat in this country is better,
known than she is by reason of her half
a century of service As queen of the
river she has held her own against all
comers until the Sandy Hook boats were
built, says the New York World. To
speak of the speed of any other steam
boat was to challenge comparison with
the Mary Powell
Now that she is to he degraded what
Will residents along the Hudson do WHO
for years have set their clocks by the
Mary Powell? With some other boat in
her place it can never be quite the same
What will the daughters and grand
daughters OF all the brides who have
travelled ON the Mary Powell on their
wedding journeys have to say when they
hear that they are to be cheated of the
privilege of viewing the same scenes In
the same way? There are family tradi-
tions that even a steamboat company
should hold in respect
The builder who named the Mary
Powell after his wife left more endur-
ing monument to her than he could have
imagined at the time Still, if the Mary
Powell, at the respectable age of 80 odd
years, must make room for something
bigger and newer there is compensation
in the thought that the use of the Hudson,
which has been too little appreciated as
a waterway for commerce and pleasure,
is increasing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
BY STEPHEN AsPDEN

the Prussian diet the word "Prussian'
was last year used as an abusive epithet
the lett parties when they desire to stig-
Matte any act or law as reactionary call
1t "Prussian," and for rough police meth
DDS anywhere .Prussian' is the word.
''Simplieissimus' and other political
comic journals make bitter war on
"Preussen." ''Prussianism" as an all
German grievance sometimes comes be-
fore the op-Prussian diets. In SaXony
the issue Prussia or Germany" was
openly raised in the diet, in the sense of
despotism versus free government. And
often Prussia S politics and the ideals oil
Prussian conservatives give an excuse
for this reasoning.
Prussias internal policy, compared with
the policies of the south German states,
is distinctly retrograde. In south Ger
many progress has gone so far that even
the social democrats are making peace
with the government. Where Prussia has
influence on the small states it is always
of a reactionary character. She lends re-
dictionary ministers to these small states,
and sometimes borrows reactionarv min
listers from them. The present states
minister, Schwarzburg- -Rudolstadt. who is
fighting the socialist diet majority. and
the present Prussian minister of interior,
Dallwitz, are cases in point. Prussia S
agrarian-c conservatives who fill all minis
terial and high administrative posts are
Prussian in spirit and are Indifferent to
the imperial idea. They are, in the old
German sense. "particularsts." Their
ideal is an agrarian territorial state with
a big army which will provide officers
posts for their sons and buy at high
prices their horses and grain. For manu-
factures, commerce. finance and the
fleet they have no understanding-these
things they regard as Jewish innovations,
and being anti-Semites to a man, they
have no room for such innovations
The quarrel between Prussia and Ger
many is a quarrel between country and
town, between agriculture and industry,
between land and sea. Prussia is un-
friendly to the fleet. and resents the
manner in which Kaiser Wilhelm has
backed it up. When Kaiser Wilhelm first
publicly appeared in naval uniform and
thereby violated the Prussian tradition
tthat the sovereign should always appear
as a soldier, a courtier who could afford
to take liberties, looked at him in sur
prise. whats the matter, prince %
asked the Kaiser. The courtier's lips
twisted into inexpressible irony, and he
answered, ooh, nothingl | suppose mai
estat has been at the aquarium To such
Prussians Wilhelm II is too German Not
only has he created the fleet but he has
made friends with commerce., tolerated
high finance and become bosom friend of
Ballin, Rathenow, Simon and other Jew
fsh merchant princes. In these respects
the Kaiser is a German rather than a
Prussan and Prusslans of the old school
condemn him a backslider.
But that is only in politics. In per-
sonal matters the Kaiser backs the Prus-
sian idea against the German. He exag-
gerates to a dangerous extent the rights
of leadership given by the constitution to
the King of Prussia. and he has injured
the imperial idea by his collision with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
GERMANY'S FIGHT AGAINST RUSSIA

n ERLIN, August 2s-(specaD-
sia is victorious in another round
A--~ of her secular fight with Ger
many. The recent diet elections ended
without any material party change. The
solid conservative party which is the bull
wark of Prussian hegemony in Germany,
came back nearly as strong as it started,
and its center ally came back actually
as strong. In the old diet the conserva-
tives had 215 members out of 443, so that
they lacked only seven for an absolute
majority. In the new diet they have POS.
The 1903 strong Catholic center, which tra-
diton declares cannot be changed in
strength, confirmed the tradition by re-
turning with 103 The national-liberals
gained a few seats and the socialists, who
started with six members. have now 10.
But roughly, Prussia's s diet retains the
party divisions which We're established
nearly 80 years ago. For practical pur-
poses it is a conservative diet. And the
meaning of that is that Prussia. which is
essentially the conservative state, will
continue to rule all Germany, and to
BATTLE all efforts to modernize and liber-
alize the German constitution
Briefly put, the battle fought at all
such elections is a fight between Prussia
and Germany. 1t is this unceasing fight
which more than any factor prevents the
complete consolidation of the empire. The
states of Germany and the mass of Prus-
slams themselves, resent the domination
of Prussia in imperial councils. A GER
tain domination, they admit. Is inevitable
because Prussia owns 1S4,55S of the en-
pire's 20S $50 square miles. and 40, 165. 600 of
the 64,925 600 population. But the perils of
too much Prussan domination were fore
seem. Bismarck, prussan though he was
devised special safeguards in order to
prevent Prussia from incurring the Jeal-
ousy of her weaker allies. He based the
Reichstag ON universal suffrage, thus
putting a democratic counterpoise to the
bureaucratic Prussian state; he gave
public assurances to Bavaria and Saxony
that the rights of the separate states
would be respected, and he laid down
financial rules to prevent the states feel
ing their association with Prussia to be a
burden. Despite Bismarcks measures, not
one of these questions is finally settled
Prussia-by which is meant the domi-
nant Prussian tories-openy shows her
desire to abolish universal suffrage which
she sees is responsible for a socialist
Reichstag, and to replace it with prop
erty franchise like her own. The sepa-
rate states are persistently chafns. at
alleged incursions into their domains by
the empire, and Bismarcks financial
principles are being thrown overheard
And all this makes for Prussian hege-
mony which 40 years ago was so little in
mems minds that Bavaria seriously pro-
posed that the imperial crown should be-
long alternately to Prussia and to her.
self.
Prussia Is unpopular with Germany
This does not mean merely in the nom
Prussian states, but throughout the whole
entity known as the empire, including
Prussia herself. Probably jibes and jeers
at Prussia are used more often by Prus-
SLAMS than by non-Prussian Germans. In
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
BY XAVIER NoLDEN

orders to find Mirl5o at all costs and drag
him back.
During the second assault on Tara
bosch Mirko behaved nobly and man
aged to get a bullet through his coat.
Everyone rejoiced and hailed him as pen
itent Tannhauser redeemed from the We
nusberg. But amative Mirko felt bored
as a paladin. The day after the fight
he was discovered oeling the elderly wife
of the Voyevode Riehtseh. Voyevode
Riekitseh wanted to challenge Mirko.
But Mirko had an appointment some
where with somebody, and disappeared
before the duel came off
During the peace negotiations when old
Nicholas was doing his best to finish
with Skutari, alternatively threatening to
slaughter and offering to bribe Comman-
dant Essad Pasha, Mirko appeared in the
trenches for a few days. After Nicholas
made his triumphal ride through the
fortress. Colonel Stoyanitsch and seven
other officers lodged formal complaint
against Mirko The King turned green
and said to Mirko: You are not my
SON. MrSo promised to do better. And
he did better for several weeks and actu-
ally showed some soldiers in the town
how to do police work. But not long
afterwards the army learned that MlrSo
was back at Podsoritsa, and that he was
deeply enamored with a lady doctor of
law.
Since then MirlSo has got himself into
the worst trouble of all, again at fateful
Antivari, the scene of striking exploits
Mirko disappeared to Antivari at a criti-
cal moment when Nicholas, Danilo and
all brave Montenegrins We're preparing in
the cause of Slavonic brotherhood to help
their brother Serbs to slay their brother
Bulgarians At Marina hotel AIirlSo s
comprehensive eye spotted the proprie-
tors wife, a youthful, good looking
woman respectfully devoted to her hus-
band and babe. Lovelace Mirko, presum-
ing on his royal rank, made love to her
Mirko got no encouragement. He tried
various stratagems to bring about meet
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ings deux The wife told the husband:
the husband brought out his gun, and
swore that he would have Mirko's amor
GUS blood. On hearing that Mirko had
asked for his wife 'fn order to give her
Instructions he posted himself outside
the door When the wife arrived Mirko
sent away his servant and made him a.
sign, the result of which. was that the
servant locked the door. Mirgo. in Gus
tomary style, fell on his knees. The lady
rushed to the door and pushed a bell,
which the servant interpreted as an order
to Open lie opened, and before him in
rushed Mr. Hotel Proprietor and found
the wife of his bosom busily busting his
royal highness' face with a dampish dish
cloth. The hotel proprietor pointed his
gun at MirlSo, swore he would shoot him
dead and covering him with the muzzle,
guided him downstairs and into the
street. Mrko's luggage was sent after
him, and he knew Antivari no more
This adventure which rang throughout
Montenegro and got into the Austrian
and Hungarian newspapers made the
trouble between old Nichalos and young
Mirko worse than ever The officers
again demanded Mirkos punishment
They We're all the more angry because
the hotel keepers brother is a valiant
warrior who shed his blood at Beranie.
Also Crown Prince Danilo, who has be-
come a model of virtue. was highly in
censed. though he calmed down the Off
GERS who wanted incontinently to shoot
incontinent Mirko. Crusty Nicholas could
not make UP his mind to chastise Mirko
as he deserved. but he summoned him
to Cettinje and told him that he will not
have the joy of helping his brother Serbs
to slaughter their brother Bulgarians.
All this is bad for Mirko, for when a
Montenegrin stays at home during strife
he is eternally disgraced. And Mirlxo is
not by nature a sluggard or a craven.
When he likes to fight he can fight, and
when he likes to drill he can drill But
he is never on the spot. He is COM
petent artillerst and his guns would go
off splendidly IL at the critical moment
he did not go off himself. Petticoats,
alas are his bane. However. he is a man
of natural courage. That is sufficiently
proved by his tackling a lady doctor of
law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
Real Rooa1ces of the Business WordT1e Pickle King
Copyright, 1918, by the Mcclure Newspa-
ner Syndicate1

Copyright, 1918. by the Mcclure Newspa-
per syndicate)
VUYHEN the firm failed, Mr. shultz
M could not understand why peo-
w pie didn't get excited and the
newspapers did not devote columns and
columns of space TO the event. To him
the collapse was the most crushing dis
aster in commercial history. He was only
% and had been a partner less than eight
months. He had $500 In the concern and
that was lot of money to youth who
had been working for small wages and
had been in America only few years.
There are some sorrows that are bear
able if they stir the sympathy or inter-
est of other people. It would have been
soothing to Mr.. shultz if men stopped
him in the street and told him how much
they grieved over this great business
tragedy. but instead they seemed canous
or scornful. lie had asked some of them
if they knew about it. A few said they
expected it. When he told them the fail
ure was a complete surprise to him, they
were incredulous.
Slowly the truth dawned upon him. The
firm had been in financial straits for a
long time. Both Hoffman and Gerhardt
had deceived him. Hoffman, for whom he
had so much respect, had lived beyond
his means. Gerhardt. who was out on
the road most of the time was intemper-
ate. When they heard that the youth
who worked for them had come into an
inheritance of $500 on his 2lst birthday.
they had deliberately set their plans to
get hold of his money in order to tide
them over. And now the whole concern
had gone to smash.
It would not have been so bad if
Shultz, glorying in the fact that he had
become a partner, had not married and
had not brought his mother over from
Germany. To furnish his new home it
had taken every dollar he possessed. Now
he was broke. What to turn to he didn't
know. The only business he knew was in
relation to making preserves. His father
had been engaged in that line in the old
country. When Shultz came to America.
it was to go to work for Hoffman &.
Gerhardt.
The meeting of the creditors was a
'lodge of sorrow" The men who had
trusted the firm couldn't see where they
could get 10 cents on the dollar out Of
what was left Hoffman shrugged his
shoulders and let it go at that. Gerhardt
was maudlin to the point of tears. Shultz
was the only one who acted manfulIy
He assured the creditors that he would
pay every dollar he owed, some day
Then he went home
That failure, which seemed so crushing
at the time, was the best thing that ever
happened to Shultz. His wife and his
mother did much to reassure him. His
mother had a little more than $1,000 laid
by as the result of many years of frugal
living. She advised him to take this and
go in business for himself. She and his
wife would make the preserves and he
could sell them. They probably would
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built for them was not all their hearts
desired. for they loved to linger about
the great vats and cauldrons that had
taken the place of the small vessels
they had employed. They could not help
being impressed by the great change.
but somehow they never were quite sat
isfied with the new order of things.
One day the creditors of the old firm
OF Hoffman. Gerhardt & shultz got
checks in their mail, together with
note from the junior partner lie re-
called the promise he had made years
before. He was paying, he explained,
not only his one-third with interest, but
the other two-thirds with interest, for
neither Hoffman, nor Gerhardt had
prospered or seemed likely to be able to
pay.
1t was S0-odd years since the firm
of Hoffman. Gerhardt & shultz failed,
and Shultz was shocked that the papers
paid little. attention to the happening.
It would be a different matter today il
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
NEW USES FOR RIVER BOATS
Ancient Mississippi Craft Sent to
Mexican Waters

Galveston. Tex. August 23.-(Speeial0
Mexican traders, planters and steamship
men engaging in eoastwise and river
trade are demanding steamboats, of the
old Mississippi river type and this de-
mand has created n market which is
being supplied to some extent by the
steamboat owners of the southern states.
During the last month two river steam
ers which have outlived their usefulness
in the rapidly growing river commerce of
the United States have been made ready
at Galveston for their transportation
across the Gulf of Mexico to Tampico.
where they were delivered to their buy
ers. The steamers are the Jennie Bar
bour and the John II. Kirby.
The Barbour was for years engaged in
the cotton traffic along the Mississippi;
later was used on the Neches river be-
tween Port Arthur and Beaumont. She is
OF the plain old river type, fiat bottomed
and broad-beamed. Her stern wheel has
churned the waters of many American
streams and many tales of romance and
adventure dating back to the days of the
civil war are told and retold by those who
have trod her decks.
The John II. Kirby is slightly smaller
than the Jennie Barbour and has seen
much service and is still capable of much
usefulness ON the rivers of Old Mexico.
The shipping OF these steamers was one
of the most unique occurrences in the his
tory of Galveston as a port. After the
sale was consummated the vessels were
brought here for the purpose of UNDER
going a course OF preparation for what
might prove a stormy voyage.
: The Kirby had been passed up as a
freighter, but was still used in excursion
business at Galveston and Houston She
was put on the ways at Galveston last
summer and given a complete overhaul
ing. with new bottom and other parts.
The Barbour was pronounced capable of
making the journey on her own keel, but
the Kirby was loaded on a large barge
and thus shipped.
1t was necessary to build water wall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24

other courts. For years Wilhelm II was
on bad terms with the late Bavarian
Prince Regent; he quarelled openly with
the court of Lippe, and strained his
rights in Lippe as commander-in-chief of
the army, and he lately had a quarrel
over court etiduet questions with the
young Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
The larger German states have more
than once privately protested against I'M
justified pretensions of the court of Prus-
sia. At present the leader in this protest
is the new Bavarian Prince Regent Lud-
wig. Ludwig's distrust of Prussia's pre-
tentions has always been marked and
Il years ago he showed this distrust pub
licly This was during the coronation
of Car Nicholas, when at a Moscow ban
quet a careless speaker implied that the
German representatives present were sent
by the Kaiser. LET me make clear to
the speaker" said Ludwig sharply, that
the German sovereigns are allies of the
King of Prussia and not the King of
Prussia's yassals."
Germans complain that Prussia s lead
ership in legislation goes far beyond the
leadership, provided for by the constitu-
ton The constitution recognizes a Prus-
sian vote in certain legislative branches
but nothing more. Prussian elects 1856
members to Rechstag of 397, but in the
federal council she has only II represent
ness in the federal council Bismarck
claimed for Prussia the right to veto new
laws concerning army, navy, taxation
and tariffs. He claimed nothing more.
The practice, however, has grown up of
taking Prussian ministers into council
before imperial bills are submitted to the
legislatures. Chancellor Bethmann-Holl-
veg last March admitted this to the
Reichstag Prussia has now not only the
power to say what bills shall not pass
but also the new power of sayingswhat
bills shall be prepared. Also in foreign
affairs, Prussas power exceeds Prus-
sia's constitutional rights. Bismarck gave
Bavaria the presidency of the federal
council committee on foreign affairs
meaning that Bavaria and the non-Prus-
sian states should have real control
but for years ON end this committee did
not meet and the Kaiser carried on a
foreign policy of his own
The Prussian-Ge German conflict cannot be
fully allayed until the political Influence
of Prussia and of Germany are made 70
coincide by granting to Prussia an cleo
toral reform as democratic as that which
Germany has Hence progressives de-
mand the abolition of the Prussian three
class electoral law" which is based on
property and its substitution by universal
suffrage. which is based ON individuals
II this reform We're carried, Prussia
would become a modern state and her in
terests would be identical with. those of
the empire The prospects of such re-
form are remote. Even the very mod
crate reform bill drafted by Bethmann-
Hollweg in 1910 was cut to pieces by the
lower Prussian house, and again cut to
pieces by the house of lords. And as
the Prussian aim of abolshing the Reich
stag universal suffrage cannot be at
tanned, the quarrel of Prussia with Ger
many is likely to last
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24


~ ErTINJE. August 2s.-Cspecial)
Fat King Nicholas and slim
~ Prince Mirko, his seventh infant,
are at war The trouble is Mirlxo's anna
tive ways Being well over 20. sturdy
Nicholas wants only to fight, write verses
and speculate in Vienna; whereas anna
tive Mirko's one occupation is making
love. During the siege of Skutari fat
King Nicholas and his heir. Danilo, be-
haved like Hector and Agamemnon at
Troy. but shameless Mirko acted like
dallying Paris. And now old Nicholas
and young Danilo and all Montenegro s
officers corps are furious and the black
eyed Black mountain women call AIirko a
knave.
Mirko is "a, welded to a Servian prin-
cess and father of two babes lie ought
to know better. But instead of knowing
better he has for nine months past been
supplying scandal by his smistresses, his
married ladies and his fake nursing sis
ters. and the brave Black mountain SOL
diers who, being hungry, are always vir-
tuous, are deep in excessive wrath.
Mirko's amours started with the war.
In camp at Skutari was a French sister
of mercy of the smiling, straw haired
type that follows arms-and the man.
Mirko made love. In the middle of criti-
cal December, Mirko suddenly cut his
military work and flew with the sister
to Antivari. Fat Nicholas was wrathy
He sent mere vulgar corporal to bring
Mirko ANONYMOUSLY back, and issued an
ukase that the sister of mercy quit Mon
tenegro's decent soil.
Mirko dutifully returned to Skutari and
with his old zeal set making love to other
sisters, not of the straw haired kind. One
boxed his ears. Disappointed, Mirko shot
off few bolts at Essad's defenders, and
then fled to Murics a town on Skutari
lake. The officers growled more fiercey
than before and said that Nirko must be
forced to fight. Messengers flew to the
palace in Dvorska Utica, where Nicholas
holds sway, and back they came with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
Looks for Coin, Finds Gem

Chicago, August 23.-(SpeciaI. .)--Mau-
rice Sanders of No. 1858 Kenmore avenue
lost a diamond horseshoe tis pin at night
on hissway home and could find no trace
OF it.
Five days later Alice the S-year-old
daughter, came home crying. She was ex-
pected from the grocery with some pro-
visions and % cents in change
THE quarter fell out of my hand and
rolled in the grass" she said. IT lost It.
] looked all over. I couldn't find the
quarter. but l found this old pin in the,
grass" i
1t was her fathers diamond horseshoe.
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about the Barbour to keep the gulf waves
from swamping the lower deck, and this
was done with great AXIS timbers. The
sternwheel attachment of both steamers
was left intact When all preparations
We're completed the company handling the
shipment of the vessels issued bills of
lading and accepted the shipments in good
order for delivery to eonsisnecs at Tam
pico
TO offset the cost of transportation the
owners of the Barbour permitted her to
be loaded with barrel oil and with this
cargo she was toNed to Tampico by tile
tug Pan-American. Both shipments
reached Tampico in good order and the
river boats are now ehurning the waters
of the scenic Mexican streams.
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at the kettles or acted as SUI
perintendents Occasionally they came
n and looked about at the hundreds
Of men and women who had replaced
them. Possibly the new house Shultz