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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
YOU WON'T BE FAT
IF YOU'RE A LEMON
Washington Club Women, Thin
and Happy, Give Away Mystic
rious ti-Obesity Secret.
From The Tribune Bureau. }

Washington. March :. - The Congress
sional Lemon Club is not quite what its
name implies, but peaceful organization
for the excessive consumption OF lemons
10 reduce obesity. 1t is made up of women
from the Congressional Club, many OF
them living at Congress Hall. and is be
got Of too high living. One woman who
thought she had put on too much fat
though her friends protest IL IS not true
has reduced her weight from l3 TO 167
pounds in the space Of two weeks.
So proud are the Congressional women
Of their club and It's work that one or
them graciously gave the formula. 1T is
pretty hard to keep a straight race whhe
talking about 1t. much less taking IT, are
the prefacing remarks. The advice Is 10
begin with the Juice OF one lemon, taken
straight" before breakfast, the second
day. two lemons, the Juice taken at differ
ent times; the third day. three lemons at
intervals. and so on until twelve lemons
are consumped in each twenty-four hours,
or a lemon an hour during tho day Ihen
the consumer must start backward ana
leave off a lemon each day unul she
reaches one which must remain her per-
uanent dose. No cheating with sugar or
water is allowed, and grape juice WIN
the medicine" IS absolutely prohibited.
What with the lemon cure and the nun
dreds OF gallons of fruit punches, grape
juice lemonade and other citrus refresh
ments used in Washington I'm this admin
stration. the lemon is quoted at 50 cents a
dozen at fashionable Stops 10 Is cents al
the questionable stands.
But If you are really going In for the
lemon treatment" advises the loser or
twenty pounds. buy them by the Twelve
dozen, for the big. fine lemons, which re-
tail al 30 cents a dozen, sell wholesale
for 49,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
From n. rnsun. Correspondent.


Metuchen, y j.. March "A small boy
a bean shooter and a well aimed bean,
or rather two OF them. shot at the bald
spot on the head OF Professor NJ. 4. Nc
Queen. created a great stir In the Board or
Education last night The beans also
came mighty near preventing literary Me-
tuchen having any more opportunities TO
hear free public lectures in the Metuchen
High School.
This is how it happened Professor Nc
Queen. advertised as man who had tray
elled the world over, came here AZ the
earnest solicitation OF the Board OF Eiu-
cation and SO retainer to lecture on
the Panama Canal. Reing so close 10
Mexico. Mcqueen got of the beaten track
and began TO talk on Mexico.
Getting deeply into his subject he
waxed warm, and interposed few opin-
ions or his own on President Wilson's
"watchful waiting" policy.
one OF the audience was Thomas Marcus
Byries. who occupied a seat in the front
row. Tommy wears knickerbockers, and
his father is a Democrat and an admirer
OF Woodrow Wilson. lie didn't like what
Mcqueen said about the President little
bit. 1t was Tommy who had his father
chrsten the last Byrnes child Woodrow
Wilson"
Turning 70 friend. ne whispered Just
watch me hit that old gink on the bean.
On the screen the MeXicans were shooting
prisoner at sunrise. Mcqueen was
waving his arms and talking earnest
". There was a whistlng noise, ping
and Mcqueen hesitated. There was not a
sound. except the sputter from the moving
picture machine. Mcqueen went on.
Again there was ping" and another
bean from Tsmmy's bean shooter hit the
mark. The deadly" missile had done IT'S
work. Mcqueen, with two Jumps on his
head, faced about and looked at row OF
innocent looking small boys.
stop that he yelled. and everybody
thought he had reference to somebody
talking.
Shortly after that the professor brought
the lecture TO a close. Later he remarked
TO the janitor: This is the worst place
ever struck" It IS alleged he said the
same thing to the school principal. Then
School Trustee Bernard Wttnebert got
hold OF It and soon the entire board knew
Of Tommy and his bean shooter.
Trustee Wittnebert and President Ed
ward c. Potter recalled that Mcqueen had
said he had travelled the world over and
so after prolonged discussion the board
figured that it would never do to allow
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
SUFFRAGISTS THINK
THEIR FIGHT IS WON
Mrs. Medill Mccormick De
clares Debate in Senate Has
Made Victory Certain.
From The Tribun. Bureau

Washington, March Mrs. Medill Nc
Cormick, chairman of the Congressional
committee Of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association declared to-
day that our fight is practically won in
discussing the campaign for a consttu-
tional amendment enfranchising women.
After a week of debate in the Senate
upon tine subject OF woman suffrage We
see victory for equal suffrage in the
United States as plain as day" Mrs. Nc
Cormick asserted in a most positive man
ner. 1T has been simply glorious. Not a
single argument was made against suf-
frage that would stand a moment against
logic and facts. The Senator's have made
our campaign for US. Our friends have
made unanswerable arguments, and our
opponents have not presented anything
10 cOntrovert them.
NO matter what may be the result Of
the vote on the pending constitutional
amendment. the ultimate result will be
our enfranchisement Just think OF the
number of Senators who were for suf-
frage. but did not want it brought about
by amendment 20 the United States Con-
stitution That shows which way the
wind blows. II shows the sentiment in
their home states. II presages our speedy
victory in the near future.
I'VE are well satisfied with what we
have accomplished I'm Washington this
winter We have advanced the cause OF
suffrage by leaps and bounds. Surveying
the field from this point OF vantage, and
after listening TO the debates in the Sem
ate, we are assured of success. Why,
many Senators who said they could not
vote for the amendment declared that
woman suffrage was as sure 30 come "a
the coming Of the day. And we are bound
10 helieVe them"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
DISCUSS OVERSEE FLIGHT
Curtiss and Wanamaker Confer
Latter Determined to Win.

Rodman Wanamaker will send an aero
plane across the Atlantic II he has 10
build dozen and spend many times the
cost OF the first according 60 Glenn II.
Curtiss. who came here Yesterday TO meet
Mrs Curtiss and their infant son when
they arrived ON the kaiserin Aususte
Victoria.
Mr.. Curtlss spent several hours with
Mr.. Wanamaker. and afterward talked
freely OF the new dyer. The craft VIII
not infringe on the Wright patents NJ.
Curtiss said. and he intends 10 try II NJ
Hammo adsport. \ month before the
transatlantic attempt IL made machines
will be taken TO Newfoundland, with a
view 10 learning the weather conditions
off the coast.
Lieutenant Porte made some good sug-
gestions while al Hammondsport. SAID
Curtiss. and We shall adopt them Net
Their the lieutenant nor considers wireless
apparatus necessary. and it is possible
that the Wanamaker machine WI not Pc
fitted with IL. II the craft is finished hy
June the attempt may be made then. nut
I hardly think it will be ready.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08

said that the revision commission. COM
posed OF eminent jurists and professors.
is In favor Of abolishing capital punish
ment. but that the German public is op-
posed TO 80 radical a step.
Homicides are very frequent in Ger
many. and in many cases are punished
with lighter sentences than are usually
States.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
BEANS BOUNCED BY BOY
PUT OUT LITERARY LIGHT
Lad Sends Missiles Professor McQueens Bald Head
During Lecture That Assailed Wilson's Mexican
Polcy-Now All Metuchen, N j. Apologies.

Mcqueen 10 so around the country telling
people that literary Metuchen was the
worst place he had ever struck And SO
Mayor Tnorfn TAFT has been duly author
tied by the Board OF Education unani-
mously 10 send a letter Of apology to Nc
Queer.
The Mayor was instructed TO say that
such thing had never occurred in Me-
tuchen before. and that IL was really not
a Metucren lad who was guilty as inves-
tigauon showed that the culprit had only
recently moved from Perth Amboy with
his family.
Strange TO relate. Tommy has gone un-
punished His father won't apply ,he
stick because Tommy says he was only
standing by the President.
In the mean time. with bean shooters
eliminated and money in the treasury
the board decided by vote OF 10 to
continue free lectures
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
WOULD LET PEACE
WAIT ON HONOR
oscar Straus Against Cele-
bration Until Canal Cues
ton Is Ended.
TALKS AT LUNCHEON
AT REPUBLICAN CLUB
would Not Be Yielding TO Great
uould Not Be Yielding to Great
Rritain. but TO Right, He Says
Other Speakers.

.c..cer was the topic at the Re
.si,sn club luncheon yesterday-peace
P..,shed with a discussion on present
irrational unrest-peace, rs advocated
.rdrew Carnegie The speakers were
-, straus. William l.. Mackenzie
49,, formerly a member Of the Cabinet
I, PREMIER Iaurier. and Miss Mabel T.
o..rdnan representing the American
Red Cross
" straus referred TO our 4coo-mile
r.,,6ian border. which for a hundred
,.ars has not been guarded by sentry.
:. the great exhibit we give TO the world
- ubat can be done by two great nations
=. tho way Of peace by arbitration He
Ia however. that the United States
..,not well erect the proposed monument
4. celebration of the attainment Of Anglo
c.xon peace-a bridge over the Niagara
p,rsr-until she settles the canal question
.,,bodied in the liay-Pauncefote treaty.
on this point Mr.. Straus said:
Dopr President has risen above the
.,,,v nsne of partisanship to the higher
Ia NJ national honor. Senator OGoT-
nan saws that national honor imposes
rnen the Democratic administration the
5r,v OF observing the Democratic plat
so.,, The President answers that ma
,oral honor imposes on America the duty
:, maintaining her International obliga-
ton.
q belong 70 a party which has as
rlank in its platform that coastwise yes
sells ought TO pass through the canal free
toll. throw that platform to the wind
when a question Of international obliga-
ton comes forward.
We are not yielding TO Great Britain
Tor We are secure behind fence of self
confidence. We arc yielding only to
sense Of International right When the
Panama question is ended in the way
hone 10 God IL will he. l am sure Great
Britain and an nations Will unite with US
IN the celebration Of hundred years o.
Anglo-Saxon peace
Although the United States has not
made any official provisions for the cele-
bration. much has already been done. The
peace bridge between Buffalo and Fort
Erie has been designed. and at the re
quest Of the English committee a copy of
the St. Gaudens statue Of Lincoln Will be
sent 10 England and a tablet OF com
memorauon will he placed in Westmin-
ster Abbey.
The home Of the Washingtons has been
dedicated 10 Americans as a sign of good
viii. and for the same purpose the women
% America will place statue OF the
queen in Washington. The English com
mit,se asked for a statue Of Washington,
with the explanation that he taught Eng
and how 10 govern her colonies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
Fare Reduction Asked.

In response to q suggestion by Record
sr McGoyern. Of Hoboken, that the fare
in the Hudson Tunnel from Jersey City
and Iloboken 10 Ninth and Christopher
streets Manhattan, be reduced from
seven 70 Eve cents. ". 6. Fisk, president
Of the Hudson & Manhattan Railway has
written 70 Mr.. McGovern saying that he
will take the matter under consideration.
1hs Recorder pointed out TO President
Fisk that the majority of persons using
The tube we're workers. 10 whom the
extra four cents a day means much
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
Rryan to Talk in Bay State.

Washington. March Secretary Bryan
left Washington tonight for Springfield
Mass. where he will address the Young
Mems Christian Association tomorrow
carrying out promise which he was pre-
vented from fulfilling several weeks ago
He expects TO return to Washington on
Monday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
CARPET PLANT CUTS WORK
Biz Amsterdam Concern Adopts
Five Day Schedule.

Amsterdam, y Y. March IS. Sanford
& Sons. manufacturers OF carpets and
rugs. and one Of the largest employers of
labor in the city. notified their employees
tonight that the plant will be operated
hereafter on five day week schedule.
The McLeary. Wallin & Cruise Company
~ which Representative Samuel Wallin
is a member, has been working only four
DAYS week for the last month.
The two companies employ nearly one
fourth Of those employed in the city. A
general falling of in the wholesale trade
IS assigned for the curtailment
Cotton and woollen mills are working
full time and report no perceptible de-
crease In the demand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
All Quiet in Brazil.

Washington. March 7.-Dispatches to-
cay 70 Sefor da Cana. the Ambassador
from Brazil. reported conditions quiet
and unchanged in Rio and other cities
which have been declared in state OF
siege because Of revolutionary activities
and added that there was trouble In only
one state. Ceara.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
May Revise Persl Code.

II cannot be said that the mass 81 Ger
man people are opposed 10 the axe ana
block. except the socialists, who oppose
capital punishment in principle. The pres
ent movement. which as yet Is merely 30
ginning. comes rather from among the
educated class The first step in that IL
lection is the accommodation OF the com
mission for the revision OF the Penal
code. recommending that the impo'ins OF
death sentence or life imprisonment be
left to the discretion of the trial judge
Or Ernst Rosenfeld, Public Prosecutor
in Berlin and general secretary or the
international Union OF Criminal Law.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08

sanitary corps fell back on incubation
with anti-typhoid serum. at that time just
coming into notice through experiment IN
the British army.
The results were convincing. NO az
tempt at compulsory incubation was
made, but volunteers were invited to SUB
nit to incubation. Statistics showed that
out Of every thousand soldiers submitting
10 the first incubation only htty-one
caught typhoid. while the general rate Tor
non -inoculated was 80 per thousand, al
most twice as high. one OF every ciSh,
OF the latter died. as compared with one
TO fifteen OF the inoculated persons. Inc
number OF cases among those submitting
to the eecond and third NEGOTIATIONS was
still more convincing and tho mortality
rate among the latter fell almost to moth
ing.
Tho Germans are preparing TO use
prophylactic NEGOTIATIONS against other
diseases in case of war. a serum against
lockjaw is TO be carried with all advanced
hospitals, the anti-diphtheritic serum VIII
be found at all base hospitals, and eX-
perimcnts are also being made with
serums TO prevent dysentery. which, with
typhoid constitutes the chief medical
horror Of war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
Prussians Would Retain System.

Prussians OF the aggressive, ruthless
tyne. who made Prussia the main factor
in the empire, oppose the abolition OF
the medieval executions. They claim
that the German axe and block method
is no more grewsome or inhuman than
the form of executions I'm other countries
They assert that things have been known
TO 20 wrong with mechanical appliances
such as used in CuillotininG, hanging ana
electrocution, while an accident is prac-
ticallv impossible with an axe I'm the
hands of a public executioner who knows
his business. 1t is actually contcnded by
some that the axe is more humane than
the rope.
In German beheadngs the condemned
man has little opportunity TO see any
thing of mis- executioner or Of the means
ernployed In Berlin the executions tdhe
Mace in the courtyard OF the Ploetzensee
nenitentiary 4 large. fat naGstone, on
which the headsman stands in order TO
have firm footing, marks the spot. Wheh
the hour arrives warders enter the cell OF
the condemned man and quickly cut away
the collar OF his shirt. in order TO leave
the neck bare. He Is led outside. AS ne
enters the courtyard through small door
he is quickly wheeled about. so that MS
hack is toward the fatal spot, and faces
two officials. who read 10 MN tnat tHc
sentence Of law is about TO be eAecuten'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
Fire Destroys Pattern Shop.

Fire destroyed the large pattern shop
OF the Peter Cooper Clue Works. AT Mas
peth ana Gardner avenues. near Newtown
Creek. Williamsburg, Yesterday the
b,aze gained great Roadway az tho fire
apparatus WAS delayed because OF 'ho
snow. The main buildings were saved
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
Drauoed Backward to Block.

Immediately and quickly lie Is selzed oy
two strong warders, who half carry hai'
drag him backward several yards to the
"block." This latter, al least IN berll"'
differs from tho old English headsllidn
block. Instead Of being forced to khee'
down IN front Of It. the condemned ma"
10 thrown face down on a long. heavy
log. a bench-lil<e block to when nc Is
strained. His chin and head M INTO
semi-crcular hole in the END OF t"e
"hlocls" The headsman, immaculatey
clad in black evening suit. who until no"
has been invisible, suddenly steps 1oI
u,,rd with a huge axe I'm his hands He
does not swing" the axe to his shoulders
with wood chopping motion-the axe Is AZ
most too heavy for that-but "dihS
quickly TO the victim. poises the instru
mont for a moment about two ana ua'l
coot above the end Of the loG-block ana
with unerring aim drops II upon the hecN'
7, IS over. The axe is of such raZor-hhe
SHARPNESS and is so heavy that us euso
sinks deep into the log-block win
crunching sound The execution con-
eur,es loss time than is necessary 10 read
this description OF IT,
perbaps one reason that there has oecn
no movement before toward the apoiiuo"
of the axe and block lies in the iact ,ha'
details OF executions are never printed III
tho German press Usually an execution
&c told IN two or three lines, reading so
and So was executed to-day for the muir
dor Of So-and-So" The public rarely
learns OF any narrowing details even
when they occur In connection WIN eN
cutions. and they ~ occur, just as tney W
occasionally with hssSings. IL Is known
that terrible scenes transpireu durlne
a beheading last year IN Dresden in7
condemned man suddenly became terror
tied with fear as he neared the BLOCK ana
fought with maniacal strength. lie hsu
10 be dragged TO the block Ike an animal
and even then broke away from II once
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
Radium in the West Indies.

Kingston. Jamaica, March An Eng
ush expert. after considerable prospecting
osre. declares he has discovered large
'sTosit OF radium bearing ore, and that
sample Of the ore sent 10 the United
stalss has been pronounced satisfactory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
Man and Horse Die in Snow

Binghamion ~ y, March The bod!
Of Francis McRoric. assistant postmaster
Of Milford Otscgo county, was foUn"
dead I'm a snowjrift tins morning short
distance from Middlencld. lie started 80
drive TO Milford last SUNDAY evening"
Both man and horse were found frozen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
Axe and Block, Long Super
seeded Elsewhere, Still
Linger in Prussia.
ACCIDENTS ARE FEW.
ADVOCATES CONTEND
Descriptions of Decapitations Not
Printed in Newspapers
Reform Movement.
From the Tribune Correspondent ]


Berlin. Feb. pa widespread agitation
is now being started in Germany TO abol-
ish the use OF the axe and the block In the
execution OF criminals As is well known,
Germany is the only civilized country
which has retained this barbarous form
Of executing the death sentence OF the
law. The human butcher block has been
suppressed in France. in England and
even in Russia, while in other countries,
like Belgium, the death penalty, though
still written In the law, is never turned
into fact and always means lifelong hard
labor.
In Germany the law provides that the
sentence Of death must be executed
through decapitaton. Moreover, advo-
Gates of the present system contend that
the glstening axe and the black draped
block are a greater and more efficient
symbol of the terrible final act OF the law
than any of the apparatus used in other
countries.
Still. number Of the German states
have abolished the axe and the block It's
use is now confined principally TO Prussia
and the old Prussian provinces OF Bran
denburg, including Berlin, Silesia, Pome-
rama. Posen, Saxony and East Prussia
Hesse. Hanover and Westphalia' the later
Prlssian provinces, use the French guillo-
tine. In Bavaria, because OF the repug-
nance OF the late Prnce-Resent Luitpold
and his son, King Ludwig, to capital pun
ishment, death sentence was seldom
passed. When Judges did impose IT the
Prince Regent almost invariably commut-
ed the sentence to life imprisonment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08

London, Feb. 1.-THE Registrar Gen
erals figures for the last week OF Janu-
AIRY furnish additional evidence 10 support
the belief that typhoid fever will soon
become a rare disease in London The
total deaths from typhoid only numbered
six, and during the period only thirty
cases were admitted to the London Fever
Hospital. A specialist in the disease
claims that il has become as rare in Lon
don as typhus became twenty years ago,
Many of the younger medical men have
never seen a case, and they focked TO a
city hospital recently when 10 was learned
that there was a typhoid patient there.
This specialist believes that in few
years typhoid, like smallpox and typhus,
will become almost a memory. This re-
suit is due almost wholly TO improved
sanitation.
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