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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-06
Held on Open Charge

IL. 6. Block, an automobile salesman.
vas arrested yesterday by Detectives
Lyon and Gillespie and booked at police
headquarters on an open charge IL Is
alleged that he received canera from
The western Arms * Sporting Goods
company by misrepTeseniinr himself and
receiving the camera on credit
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-06
Christmas Sale.

The Women S auxiliary Of the Th|
Presbyterian church will hold xm
sale IN the Linden Hotel building, II
door east of Auerbach 3 store, u
broadway, today, December 6, 1919.
tAdvetiaensrtb
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-06
STARTLING CHARGES
IN DIVORCE ACT||
Husband Brands Wife. 81
Vampire; Says She
Robbed Him. M
TELLS THRILLING ia
Wife Declares That Husbs
Has Ruined Her Financio
ly; Other Complaints.
TELLS THRILLING

Startling charges and counter chn
involving thefts OF property ranging
stocks and bonds to pianos and van
paintings were aired in divorce
yesterday when the case OF Kate J.'
derson against William c. Ands
came before Judge C. w. Morse oI
order TO show cause why al!mony Cd
not be paid.
Anderson branded his wife ss
plre. declaring that she had al
driven him insane by her treatmsn
him. He charged that she had q
valuable papers from his room and
actually entered his plano store
"ca rT!ed' of half g dozen pianos.
Mrs. Anderson declared that her
ba nd had ruined her financially, tn
she had $4,000 when she married
and that he had mIsappropriated s2
held In trust by him for her gram
Testifying concerning Anderson's al
10 pay her 800 q month alimony.
sold that he had $50. 600 in cash In
cal safety deposit box. This money.
said, belonged 10 tho Anderson p
compa ny, in which she claimed a BIZ
terest, and had not been credited %
regular account OF the company.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-06
Painting Involved.

AT this juncturc Mrs. Anderson's
torney asked Anderson II he had (
session OF a certain valuable pain
an original canvas, the discovery
which In n local safety deposit vault
Gently aroused considera bic into
Anderson admitted that he had had !
session Of the painting. but had sold
raise enough money TO buy ticke|
New York. This painting, II Is said,
appeared under mysterious Giro
stances from New York art gall
1t was not brought out at the hea|
how Anderson came into possession Of
painting and he would volunteer no
formation. The subject of the pain
Is THE Raising OF Lazarus From
Dead
Attorney Joel Nibley, who represer
the interests OF Mrs. Anderson, said
night that from Information which he
secured after the adjournment Of a
the picture IN question had been =
chased By Mr.. Anderson IN Boston. 81
and that Il was not an original. bu
COPY
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-06
Saws He Was Robbed.

II haven't $40 In the world" An
son said when he took the stand. =
not know whether I have any pror
left or not Mrs. Anderson arrfyeI
town two days before I was aware
and during that time somebody ea{
my room and stole all my stocks
bonds"
Anderson went on to soy that he
engaged in the piano business, but
his wife had practically broken Up
business by carrying away much Of
stock In trade
"That woman has led me such a "
plre existence" he went on. that i
palms In my head and my health has
undermined. 1 never know what sh
going to do next In the last eight .
she has Jumped UP suddenly and gon
New York six times, staying from
TO eight months at time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06
THE AUTOMOBILE

From Current opinion (January).
There was a time when the horseless
carriage was the luxury of the very
rich. Today the automobile rivals the
one time popularity of the bicycle. The
automobile industry, though but two
decades old, Is equaled in volume and
Importance only by the industries
producing raw materials, such as coal
and steel. There are, according to an
990,73S cars in use to-
day in the United States. In Califor-
MIA, one person in % owns an auto
mobile. In Maine the proportion is one
to 30 New York is fairly representa-
tive of the country at large, one out
of 80 inhabitants being credited with
horseless carriage. Kentucky stands
at the tail end of the list, with one IN
602. No distinction is drawn, in COM
piling the figures, between commercial
vehicles and pleasure cars. Prices, too
have undergone considerable modifi-
cation In 1907 the average price per
automobile was little over two thous-
and dollars. Today the average price
is only a little over one thousand DOL
lars. The threatened revision OF the
tariff may open the market to still
cheaper cars from abroad. Five or SIX
hundred dollars will already buy a
respectable car. What is home with
out an automobile?" may soon be the
leit-motif of the average American
household.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06

Leonard Hirshberg, In Harpers Weekly.
That smoking causes diseases of the
respiratory passages is a matter of COM
mon belief, but there is no evidence that
this is true. A man who smoked 100
cigars a day might possibly irritate his
bronchial tubes In such a frightful man
ner that death would follow, but am not
dealing in this article with lunatics, but
with sane men who smoke in moderation
and know that there is a time and place
fur all things. Ordinary smoking pro-
duces no perceptible irritation of the air
passages Indeed, the London Lancet has
recently advanced the view that its ef-
feet upon them is decidedly antiseptic and
beneficial
Hoarseness, which sometimes follows
excessive cigar or cigarette smoking, par
ticularly in winter, is to be laid, not to
tobacco, but to the general imbecility of
the smoker. A man who smokes In the
open air when the temperature is at 20 de-
grees, and thus inhaes alternate blasts
of hot and frigid air, or begins to smoke
before breakfast and keeps his mouth
membranes and muscles OF suction busy
until he falls asleep at night, is certainly
not to be regarded as normal man, and
1t is unfair to condemn smoking in normal
men because this one simpleton happens
to be injured by it. If man talked all
day or drank all day or walked all day,
he would be vastly more damaged. Again,
he would grow hoarse much more rapidly
il he ate snowballs or inhaled wood smoke
OF stood watching fire in a hay ware
house. Indeed, | am convinced that the
smoke of tobacco Is less injurious to the
air passages than the smoke of any other
substance that burns.
That tobacco engenders taste or crav-
ing for alcohol is a prehistoric fallacy
preserved for us, in fossil form, by the
Sunday school tracts and physiology
books. Against it lies the fact that no one
has ever produced an iota of evidence
that smoking and drinking have any rea-
tionship whatever. Indeed, it Is a COM
mon observation that devotes of the weed
are often teetotalers, and that dipsoman-
| iacs not infrequently avoid tobacco alto
| getiier. 1t may be alleged with some rea-
| smoking if We base the charge upon the
honorable American custom of calling for
| a cigar when ones capacity for liquids
has been reached, but the opposite transit
ton is something that occurs only in the
pages of moral romance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06
Cipriano Castro in Court

The former president of Venezuela
has cancelled his passage back to Eu-
rope, and he proposes to stay here
until the courts decide upon the
nature of his detention at Ellis Island.
The Taft administration now becomes
the practical defendant in the habeas
corpus proceedings, or perhaps we
should say that Philander Knox does,
and he must explain to federal judge
why he is keeping the Venezuelan out
of this country. He must put his
finger on the section of the immigra-
ton laws that authorizes him to take
this autocratic Russian-like action.
The ex-president Of sister republic
says he desires to tour the country
for three months only-that he is a
traveller only--a globe-trotter, so to
speak-and that he has no ulterior
plans or motives, and yet Mr.. Knox
says he must be kept out Of the coun-
try. Secretary Nagel is also taking
q hand in this curious and mysterious
effort to keep a mere man from visit
ing this country. But no order to
deport General Castro has been is
sued. He is simply held up at Ellis
Island by order of the administration
Castro is now ready to fight back
and it begins to look as if the admin
istration would either have to plead
in the habeas corpus proceedings oil
back out altogether. The holding up
of any immigrant should be plair
matter of fact and law, but both seem
70 be lacking in the Castro case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06

the republic he would lose rather than
gain ground. As he stands today no
statesman of the republic, past or
present, out ranks him save only Gam
BETA.
A man of real executive power Is
not needed in the French presidency.
The office pays well. The annual al
lowance is 100000 francs, with a
further allowance of 100000 francs
for expenses, but it brings small
honor to a really great man, fol-
lowed by obscurity. M. Poin-
care is willing to accept the place,
and he may be more than mere
figure head in it France is ruled
by her legislature. BRAND successfully
defied the deputies in the railway
strike, and Poincare, equally great,
may show his teeth in an emergency
in case of his election to the presi-
dency. The senate and chamber of
deputies meet as national assembly
at Versailles on January II to elect a
new president.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06
In the Financial World

Henry Clews in his Saturday review
says in part:
"rhe new year opens under conflict
ing but more hopeful circumstances
than it closed. The main source of i'm
provement is the monetary outlook at
home. The strain incidental to the
first of the year passed almost without
notice. Our banks. owing to recent
liquidation, are in much stronger posi-
tion than for some weeks past The
zenith of the crop demands has been
successfully passed. Very soon funds
will begin returning from the interior
with increasing freedom, and there will
be little, IL any, prospect of stringency
until preparations for the April settle
ments are in order.
"The political outlook, though COM
plicated as usual, is really brighten
ing. No legislation of Importance is to
be expected until the new administra-
tion comes into power two months
hence. Next week the tariff banking,
ship trust and Pujo committees will
give hearings, at Washington and inter-
esting results will follow. Mr.. Wilson
will promptly call an extra session,
and 1t is to be hoped it's attention will
be confined strictly to the tariff. A
good way to meet the emergency for
the extra session would be to pass over
again the last sessions tariff bills
which failed to become law owing to the
Presidents veto and then adjourn.> 1t
seems hardly likely that the demo-
Gratis will encourage any destructive
policy, because they are already obli-
gated not to disturb business and il
they did their chance of a renewed lease
of power at the next election would be
very remote.
From the broad point of view we
are inclined to take a more hopeful
attitude regarding the stock market
! The unfavorable features above allud-
ed to were largely discounted by the
decline of from 5 to 20 points in the
market which occurred in December.
There are today many good investments
offering at very attractive prices, and
capital is now beginning to secure the
better terms to which it is fairly en-
titled under present economic condi-
TONS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06
Senatorial Elections This Month

The Illinois legislature meets next
Wednesday and two United States
senators are to be elected by it-one
to take Senator Cullom's place and
the other to fill the Lorimer seat. No
one can say what the legislature will
do, simply because no party controls
it. A band of 26 progressives holds
the balance of power. The progressives
and standpatters in Illinois hate each
other bitterly, and either two demo-
cratic senator's will be elected, or else
one democratic and one progressive
senator may be the outcome. Much will
depend upon the contest over the or
ganization of the two houses.
Besides the Illinois elections sena-
tors are to be chosen this month in
Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, South Da-
kota, Minnesota, Kansas, Tennessee
and West Virginia. These states,
including Illinois, will probably elect
three democrats, four s5andpat repub-
licans, and two progressives. In no
one of them has any one walkover.
A battle will be fought in every one
of them and the republicans will have
no patronage to throw into the scales.
The Senate will be close after
March a, but small majority is as
sured to the democratY even though
they did lose a seat in Maine and one
in West Virginia. They gained one in
New Jersey and also one in Oregon
and the final footing will show a small
majority in their favor without count
ing single progressive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06
Woodrow Wilson's War Paint

Woodrow Wilson said at Saunton
that the presidency is "an office in
which a man must put on his war
paint" Indeed he must if he intends
to carry out the pledges of the plat
form on which he stood when he was
elected. Great reforms are to be de-
vised and executed and in this task
war paint will be needed. The inter-
ests he will attack or give attention
to are well intrenched and they are
thorough believers in getting all that
the traffic will bear, be it in the
tariff, in combinations or in the cur
reney.
While the next President proposes
to get in fighting trim, yet he says he
will not lose his manners. He will not
use the Big Stick in any case to which
persuasion can be applied. Persuasion
first and compulsion as last resort,
will be his rule.
He warns all reactionaries, be they
democrats or republicans, to get out
of the way of the Baltimore platform,
for that platform is to be the guide
of his administration. The manner in
which he lives up to it will be the true
test of his administration. That is
what he means when he uses the
phrase, "war paint"
Unless all signs fail the country has
a courageous, not to say ideal, admin
istration in sight. Governor Wilson
has never yet failed to live up to his
convictions, and he proposes, it is
plain, to keep ON as he has begun. This
is why he will put on his war paint.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06
A TELEPHONE NUMBER
BY BILL VINES

/ derwood closed the trade. Some faeetious
person remarked that Mr.. Underwood
thought that | would move to some other
distant part of the city just as soon as
my rent fell due, but that Is not true.
pay my rent in advance, the landlady
makes it an object for me to do so. So
living so close to Mr. Underwood, 1 SIM
ply called at his house to see him.
Mr. Underwood said that he would give
me the telephone number of course, pro-
vided that would not divulge it to other
newspaper men; he said, however, that it
would only embarrass me, for L would
either have TO say that had it but could
not give it, or deny having it at ALL
Knowing me SO well, he said that he was
satisfied that the latter was impossible
could not deny having the number; my
conscience would not permit me stating a
falsehood. Mr.. Underwood is certainly a
great reader of character; he is also a
great jollier.
told Mr.. Underwood that he did me
a great injustice. That had associated
so long with members of Congress that l
had learned to chloroform my conscience
into abject submission. told him 1t was
a little difficult at first but now that it
came perfectly natural.
Mr.. Underwood said that he didn't mind
being called up over the phone, but he
said the newspaper men during the tariff
hearings if they had his telephone num-
ber. would hardly give him time to eat.
He said that 1t was very pleasant to stand
on one foot with rubber tube at ones
ear and listen to the well moduated voices
of 70 newspaper men while his mince pie
was getting cold, but his system wouldn't
stand the strain. So | had to admit de-
feat; he out-talked me. I dislike very
much for congressman to get the best
of me in an argument
Now there is conspiracy afoot Mrs.
Underwood of course knows the tele-
pht ne number. Mrs. Underwood has many
lady friends in Washington to whom she
will confide that number. The lady friends
will call Mrs. Underwood up over the
phone. Some mere man will overhear one
of them doing so, when that happens in
Just about three hours every newspaper
mar in Washington will have that mys-
terious telephone number down in his
memorandum book, and the only way the
genial demoosauc leader will get a whaclx
at that mince pie will be to cut the wires
You can't down the newspaper men or
Keep anything from them. It is as hard
job as keeping order in the House of
Representatives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Looking Southyvnrd

People sometimes express surprise at
the ignorance in Europe about the ge-
ography of America and the agricul-
tural and mineral resources of the differ
ent sections of tile United States, but
% to 30 years ago there was dense ig-
norance in the northern part of our
own country about climatic and agrlcnl-
tural conditions in the cotton states"
said F. j. Wheeler of Chicago.
Il used to come in contact with the
farmers in the northwest and those with
whom I talked had an idea that south
ern lands were unsuited for anything
but cotton. They believed that the eli
mate was wel1-nigh uncomfortable in
TO break out at any time. As late as
10 years ago many northern people were
still very ignorant about the advan-
tages of the south. Today l find it very
different. 1t is generally known now that
the cotton states are coming forward rap
idly as corn producing states and that
the south presents a particularly at
tractive field for truck farming.
Il am a business man and am not in
terested directly in farm lands or ag-
ricultural development but l believe that
within the next FIVE years thousands of
homeseekers now living in the rorth-
west will buy small farms in the SOUTH
Until very recently Texas attracted
more homeseekers than any other south
ern state but Alabama and Georgia are
much discussed in the north now as
states holding out fine inducements for
the small farmer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06
CURIOUS LEGACIES


Ancient bequests for having bells rung
guiding travellers by night are quite nu-
merous, which is hardly to be Won
dered at when one considers the apologies
for roads and the absence of fences in the
.geod old days"
Il plot Of land, rejoicing in the name of
"Fetticoat Hole'' is held at Stockton-on-
the Forest, in Yorkshire, on condition of
providing a poor woman Of the PLACE with
new petticoat once a year.
In the old days, when rushes were
strewn on the floor in lieu of carpets,
many persons left bequests of money and
land for providing rushes for the floors
of churches. Their use, of course. has
Ions been discontinued, says the Weekly
Telegraph, but In certain places the
church wardens attend to the preserva-
ton of their rights by cutting little
grass each year and strewing it on the
church floor.
There may be seen on the benefaction
table at Deptford church a record to the
quarter of wheat. to be given in bread
OH dOOu fTluay, anu Hdii q iodu VI "shcs
at Whitsuntide, and load of peastraw
at Christmas yearly, for the use of the
church." This bequest has since been put
upon a strictly money basis. an offer OF
2is per annum being accepted in 172l In
the place Of the straw and rushes, and
los in 1744 in lieu of the wheat.
But perhaps one of the most eccentric
bequests was that of certain John
Rudge, of Trysull, Staffordshire, who left
pound year for a poor man to go
round the parish church while the SER
mon was being preached. awakening the
slumberers and incidentally to eject any
stray dogs that might invade the sacred
premises.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06
President Fallieres' Successor

This month 597 deputies and 300
senators will proceed to elect sue
cessor of President Fallieres, who has
been in office since January II, 1906.
All presidents in France are elected to
serve seven years.
The recent refusal of NJ Leon
Bourgeois to become a presidential
aspirant renders the selection of the
present premier, M. Raymond Poin-
care, almost a certainty. He is strong
and popular and even his political op-
poments are willing to see him kicked
upstairs into the Elysee. The latter
say the elevation would consgn him
to political oblivion as it did Loubet.
1t is now known that Poincare is will
ing to be shelved in that manner.
He was made premier to get France
out of the Moroccan hole and his ad-
ministration has been remarkably sue
cessful. He is now successful figure
T. European politics, As president of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06
FEATS OF SLEEPWALKERS

could not see his manuscript was obvious.
for once, when some blank pages were
put into his hand in place of his manu-
script, he declaimed his sermon word for
Word just the same-and this, although
ms memory was so poor that he invarl-
ably read his sermons in church.
a similar case is that of a rising young
oarrlster, who, after reading his briefs for
the next day, would retire to bed. and
would get up in the middle of the night.
open his cases, and examine and cross
examine imaginary witnesses, exactly as
IL no were in court. And SO remarkable
was his anticipation of the actual trial i.
that his cross examination in court was
SO friend assured me-almost literally
weird for word the same.
I. Another one time patient of mine.s who
was fine chess player, used to leave his
bed in the night and solve problems with
ease which had completely baffled him
when awake, and still another. a clever
billiard player, used to spend hours during
the night practicing difficult shots. and.
as ms wife told me, played far more bril-
nahtly when asleep than at any other
tlme, thus proving that, although abso-
iutely unconscious of anything around
2i''Se nav seen the DdllS Derfect-
ly well.
But the most remarkable case of literal
~ hundreds that have come within my
own observation is that of man who can
do and does anything when asleep that
a waking man can do. Not long ago this
man was staying with a friend in the
country, and, not feeling well, retired to
bed before his host and fellow guests.
About an hour later he came downstairs
into the smoking room, to all appearance
as wideawake as any of the others, mixed
himself a whisky and soda, lit a cigar
and joined i'll the general conversation.
He talked quite brilliantly. argued OH
a wide range of subjects, from home rule
to theology, and at last went off to he'd
with the rest When at breakfast the
next morning, he was reminded of some
rather startling statement he had made
the night before, he declared he had no
recollection whatever of the circumstance
and that he had not even been in the
smoking room at the time. He remem-
bered going to bed early, and nothing
more until he awoke that morning. He
had been asleep the whole time,