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The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-14
NINE MEN ARE KILLED IN
AN EXPLOSION ON LINER

Norfolk, Va. May II. Nine
were killed in an explosion on
board the Old Dominion liner.
Jefferson, off Cape Henry last
night. Another man is missing.
The jefferson came into Norfolk
today with the bodies of the
dead. The explosion was due to
the bursting of tubes in the main
boiler while the Jefferson was
on her way from Norfolk to New
York.
The dead are. K. Brooks. fire
man: L. Brown fireman; K. Coul-
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-14

banker, it was announced that
Nordiea would retire from the
stage. But after a honeymoon
spent in part at the old Norton
honest ad in Maine, she decided
on farewell concert tour of the
world. Ii was while making one
leg o. this trip on the Dutch
steamer Tasman that the vessel
ran ashore on Thursday island.
in the AnliDades. The shock OF
the accident and exposure
brought on pneumonia.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-14
REBELS WILL NOT AGREE
TO ACCEPT MEDIATION
Say They Will Stand For Moth
ing But Elimination Of HUI
erta And Party.

FL Paso, Tex, May II. The
plan for the pacifcation of Mex.
leo now being worked out by the
South American mediators and
which, it is announced, would
eliminate Huerta and establish
a provisional government in
which both the adhertnts of Hu.
erta and the constitutionalists
would be represented, will not
be acceptable to the constitu-
tionalists, according to constitu-
tionalist officers here.
The cOnstitutionalists will
agree to nothing less than the
complete elimination, not only of
Huerta, bpt Of his entire party.
They declare the ousting of HUI
erta will be but an empty vic
tory unless the system for which
they say Huerta and his follow
ers stand, is abolished.
plans of the constitutionalist
government can contemplate
nothing other than complete vic.
tory for tie reform for which we
are fighting" said Roberto V.
Pesqueira, confidential agent of
General Carranza here. Mr..
Pesqueria spoke as a member Of
the constitutionalist party, but
his utterances heretofore have
accurately outlined the express
sions which later have followed
from his chief.
why should we compromise
with themW he asked. 1--WE
have beaten Huerta at every
turn and why should we yield
our advantage when we have
the reforms for which we strive
almost within our grasp? This
has been a fight of a hundred
years for reform and we will moi
be content to have these years
of fighting wasted" "
Other constitutionalists ex.
pressed the belief that there wa:
no basis on which the adherent.
of Huerta and the constitutional
lists could work together in ;
provisional government.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-14
Atlanta Is Royalty Entertain
ing Many Sons of The
Desert.
CITY GAILY DECORATED
Festivities Continue Throughout
Week City in Charge Of Mobiles
of The Mystic Shrine.

Atlanta, May PA few
thousand fezes, riot Of red.
green and yellow banners, a wei.
kin ringing with strains of ORR
entail music, have transformed
Atlanta from a twentieth CEN
tury American city into a sort of
fairy-tale Bagdad.
Although American stars and
stripes are patriotically displayed
at occasional intervals, the for
eign-looking Shrine colors pre-
dominate, the tall office building
are swathed in the gorgeous
draperies and festoons, and the
color scheme if it suggests any
thing modern at all looks more
like Madrid on a great bull-fght
day, or Mexico City in the old
days Of the iron-handed Diaz.
The crowds in the streets are
wonderful to behold. Every
other man you pass wears a red
fez in place of the conventional
straw or felt bat; many of At
hnta's beautiful young girls and
matrons are wearing the white
fez, and scattered here and there
like poppies in a wheat field are
the luridly beautiful uniforms of
the Arab patrol and other uni
formed Shriner bodies.
The Atlanta Journal says:
We'll, folks, they're here-or
most of them.
Just stick your head out of
the window and listen, if you're
in doubt. Hear those bands
playing Old Kentucky Home
and 1 Love You California and
always winding up with the tune
that sets 'em yelling, Dixie
See the dust way up the
street, That's another temple,
just arrived. It's marching be-
hind It's own banl and its Grim
son velvet and gold braided Arab
patrol. 1t is still trying to yell,
but it's a bit hoarse from shout
ing out of train windows for a
thousand miles.
"Oh, you missed that one, did
you? Well, you should worry.
There'll be another along in ten
minutes.
They've been steaming in
and marching around since Sun
day at noon, They've been land
ing at both stations, received by
a company of red-uniformed
Yaarab patrol members. lined up
and sent marching away uptown.
Their ladies have been handed
into automobiles furnished by
open hearted Atlanta folks and
sent speeding TO the hotels. They
have doffed the dusty duds of
travel, climbed into tubs and
under showers. and emerged to
the open air again, ready for fun
and deyiltry.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-14

MIR. Hugh Slaughter has been
seriously i'll the past several days
at his home on Military street.
His many friends hope soon to
hear Of his recovery.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-14

berry, fireman; R. Uxton, fire.
man; L. King, coal passer;, j.
Lapez, coal passer; Henry Miller,
oiler.
X. Mitchell. a fireman. is the
missing man. He was seen just
after the explosion running about
the deck and it is believed that
he jumped overheard and was
drowned.
The injured. ali OF whom were
badly scalded. were taken to the
Sarah Leigh Hospital in this city.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-14

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Stillmarl
and baby, of Starkville, and Mr.,
and Mrs. Harwood. of Nashville.
Tenn, spent Sunday in the city
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Johl
w. Steen. They came through
tie country from Starkville in
DIR. Stillman's Overland car.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-14

Mr.. Philip Solomon of Heller .
Ark. has been spending the past
several days in Columbus the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. L. H
s iapira.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-14

The U. d. c. will meet this
morning at 10 O'Clock at the
home of Miss Mary B. Harrison
on North 7th street.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-14

Mrs. w. J. Mattox and little
son. James Lewis. are vis,iting
relatives in Birmingham.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-14

Mr.. J. ?. Woodward is spend
ing several days in New Orleans
on business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20
This Is an AZ" Month.

Oyster boosting, is the latest she'll
fish game 1t is done by the Oyster
Growers and Dealers Association, =
which modestly begs free advertising.
Here is specimen claim:
"Oysters possess decided advantage
over other meats. Besides having no
feet oyster have neither fur, fin, feath-
ers, bone nor gristle. Consequently there
is on waste to them. Bought at 40 cts.
per quart with each quart containing
two pounds of meat. you have excellent
food at only 20 cents per pound. Where
can you get that value in any other
meat?'
Thus you will see that with all his
faults, the humble oyster is entirely
free from hoof disease or soft corns-
he is taken as he is, with no Maine
law requiring that he enter the mar
ket previous to dissection. If the oys-
ter has pin-feathers, they are served
in the altogether. II he has saved
anything from his muddy home for a
rainy day, that goes with the rest-it
is all solid meat" according to the
boosters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20
British Praise of German Courage.
tBrooklynn Standard Union)

tBrooklynn Standard Union)
The distinguishing feature of the
latest report by the British official
observer at the front in France is
the high tribute to the unfiinehing
bravery of the German troops. He
describes their courage as something
which challenges the warmest admird-
ton and whether the men are season
ed soldiers or fresh from the recruit
ing stations, whether they are imma
ture boys Of is and Il years or men
beyond the age when the fire and dash
of youth is to be expected, they at
tempt any dangerous and almost GER
talnly fatal attack ordered with SUI
perb willingness and calmness.
1t would be absurd to think for a
moment that these same qualities are
not being displayed daily by the Eng
hsh. French. Belgians. Russians and
other belligerents. but unquestionably
historians will not overlook this praise
which the war office pays to the Kais-
ers men. The observer is speaking
not only for General French. who has
seen all this, and for Secretary of War
Kitchener, who is well acquainted
with 1t, but for the entire English peo-
pie. 1t is an unusual and generous
compliment not TO be expected while
the bitter conflict is raging.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20
Another Chest Laid Low.
New York Globe

tNeW 1Ork GloDe)
Chandler p. Anderson and Chandler
Hale. the two Americans who were
delegated to investigate the treatment
accorded British prisoners detained in
Germany and Austria, report condi-
tons to be as we had expected. They
found no evidences of cruelty or mis-
treatment On the other hand, the
quarters occupied by both civilians
and soldiers are comfortable and the
food provided abundant.
AS Messrs. Anderson and Hale re-
mark, "the newspapers of both Ger
many and England have great re-
sponsib;lity in printing matter about
the mistreatmen of prisoners There
is enough hard feeling now between
the two nations without unwarranted-
" intensifying it. War does not nee
essarily wipe out all traces of ma
tion's civilization. Germany and Eng
land both may be relied upon to treat
prisoners within their borders with as
much consideration as circumstances
permit. and now that reports to the
contrary have been found to be with
cut basis let us hope we shall hear
no more of them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20
Hunting Casualties Near the Minimum


The record of the deer season in
New York. just closed, is remarkably
good.
Only two injuries to human beings
and three fatalities have been report
ed to the Conservation Commission
by the game protectors.
Best of all, there is no evidence
that any one of the five victims was
shot by mistake for an antlered crea-
ture of the forest.
The amateur sportsman evidently
looked sharply before he pulled the
trigger of his high-power rifle.
So far this Fall the accidents of all
kinds in the woods due to firearms,
have numbered %, of which II occur
red in connection with the bagging of
small game.
The total figures, like those of the
deer season. show that the careless
of yore are now generally cautious.
When 1t is remembered that there
are more than 100000 licensed hunt
ers in the State, besides thousands
Who can legally hunt on their own
farms without licenses says the New
. York Conservation Commission truly,
the list of score of accidents is
reducing casualties in pursuit of a
hazardous sport close to the mini
num-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20
Must Tell the Truth.


Some people invariably make a
great commotion IL a newspaper prints
a story that is not absolutely accurate,
yet these same people have been
known to take keen joy In ''stringing'
a cub reporter or even in giving mis-
leading information direct to the news
paper offices. just now Ohio Journal
lists are rejoicing over law. recently
enacted, which undertakes to punish
newspapers for publishing false state
ments. The cause Of their joy lies In
the fact that the same law automatic
cally provides for the punishment OF
any person. be he advertiser, cam
paign manager or private citizen. who
prevaricates to a newspaper repre-
sentative for publication. so to speak.
The male gossip has already been ar
rested for telling a false story to a
reporter.
The Editor and Publisher, and Jour-
nalist comments that everybody knows
who has ever been employed In a
newspaper office il there is any one
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20
Every Day Is apple Day"

If there's anything this side the old
home days we'd fall for" it is a good
apple. Mother Eve did and in our
humble opinion, apples have been i'm
proving ever since. And so, when the
"House-keepers Apple Book" pub
lished by the apple Advertisers of
America and containing "1s7 Ways
to Cook Apples" came along, we fell
for the free advertising. 1t is this
way: Just to look at the little paper
covered book and anticipate makes
ones mouth water, and all you have
to to to obtain one is to write
to The Apple World, Baltimore.
Md. Along comes the book and you
eat apples in 1877 ways and out
live everybody else and happy ever
after If you don't believe it try it. 1t
won't cost you anything and we have
apple grower, the middle man, the re-
taller and the consumer. We are as
sured that promotion of apple con-
sumption is life saving service and is
within the possibility of hero medal.
We are in the life saving business
every day, so far as apple consump-
ton is concerned. We raised much
less than Il, 900 barrels on our little
farm and don't dare to feed them all
TO the cows, so we are saving the lives
of our associates by urging them to
eat cur apples-before they (the APP
plesl rot.
We are preaching that apples are
food. tonic and cosmetic; that their
food properties are as great as meat,
and that they do not have F. & M.
disease; that there are more than 81
varieties, and that there are just 1871
ways of serving each variety; that
apple habit is not the same variety as
that contracted in the first garden
and that if you can't buy coal to cook
'em they are just as palatable and
easily digested raw.
These are some of the reasons why
we are urging you to send for "l9a
Ways to Cook Apples"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20

thing that is emphasized over and
over again it is the necessity CT being
accurate in what is written for pub
LEGATION. Those who secured the pas
sage of the Ohio law already referred
to doubtless sought to make trouble
for the press. The newspaper men
had no objection to the law when it
was introduced if it was also made
to include persons who lied to them,
and a clause was added to the original
bill to that effect. Now the news
paper men of Ohio are chuckling with
glee, for if any one OF them prints a
false story furnished by anyone out
side the Office and is arrested and
fined for doing So the man or woman
who told it to the reporter is also
arrested and fined
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20
Huntino Accidents.
(Albany, N. Y. Argus)

(Albany, N. Y. Argus)
The conservation commission calls
attention to the fact that in this State
this season there were only five deer
hunting accidents, with three fatali-
ties, and although there were more
than 100000 licensed hunters in the
state, besides thousands, who can
legally hunt on their own farms with
out licenses, out of % hunting acct
dents reported to the commission II
occurred in the pursuit Of small game
1t is evident that some hunters are
still careless, but this seasons record
Is a big improvement over those of
previous years.
The newspapers deserve most of the
credit for this improvement, for they
have persistently urged hunters to
exercise caution when in the woods,
and have impressed upon them the
idiocy of firing at an object until they
were perfectly sure it was not a hui
man being.
Colonel Chauncey P. Williams, of
this city, who is a hunter of many
years experience, advocates an
amendment to the game laws which
shall make it impossible for a man to
get hunter LICENSE uHicSS lie Sdii
give proof that he has had some ex-
perience in hunting and in handling
firearms. The suggestion is an ex-
cellent one and ought to be carried
out. Twenty-Five hunting accidents in
one season are % too many. The con-
servation commission declares that
most of the casualties indicate gross
carelessness on the part of the hunt
ers. No man who is careless or mex
perienced in the handling of firearms
should be allowed to go into the
woods with gun. Give hunters
licenses only to real sportsmen and
there would be very few accidents
Eduring the open season.
One of the men killed this season
was actually mistaken by a COM
panion for woodchuck, IL we are to
credit the report of the conservation
commission. This seems impossible
yet the investigation of the case re-
suited In this conclusion. The man
who cannot tell a human being from
a woodchuck should never be en-
trusted with gun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20
Poor Old Farmer,

Oh. S. Haskins in the New York SUM-
The Great White Way with joy is rife
Where eutups congregate at night.
The farmer leads quiet life,
And early bed is his delight.
poor old farmerD
The urbanite sleeps late. You see
His social duties make him do it.
The farmer shores till half past three.
Then beats the morning sunrise to it
tPoor old farmerD
The city man wears nice kid gloves
And takes a taxi round the block,
While all day long the farmer shoves
A pillow, or reaps. or feeds the stock.
(Poor old farmerD
The city man, he rarely stops
to think about the rainy day.
The farmer gathers in the crops
And salts three billion bucks away.
poor old farmerD
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20

enlightened and Christ-spirit act Of the
present dispensation.
Strong liquor of any kind Is TO-DAY
nowhere available in any part of the
great Russian empire. There can be
no notification or violation of the
law. These words of the statement
are significant:
In spite of the general depression
caused by the war; the paralysis OF
business and the interruption of rail-
road traffic the people felt no priva-
ton. Savings banks showed an In
crease in deposits over the preceding
month. At the same time there was
boom in the sales of meats, groceries,
clothing, dry goods and house furnish
ings. The s0,000,000 rubles a day that
had been paid for vodka were now be-
ing spent for the necessities of life.
Women and children who seldom
were without marks showing the ply
steal violence of the husband and
father suddenly found themselves in
an undreamed-of paradise. There
were no blows, no insults and no
rough treatment. There was bread on
the table, milk for the babies and a
fire in the Kitchen
O. had Americans the intelligence
and character of the Slav!
Russia and China lead the world.
They are entitled to use the word
enlightenment" They have seen the
light. Six hundred million people,
more than one-third of all the earth S
population, throw off the bondage of
personal liberty poison.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20
The Industry of Poverty Making.


ITO rear and protect industries, one
product of which is poverty, is queer
condition."-The Journal of the
American Medical Association.
The only man in the world with the
courage of his convictions and in posi-
ton to act effectively on the above
quoted wisdom, is the Car of Russia
He saw that great industry produced
only poverty, disease, degeneracy and
death for his people. and s5O0,0O0,000 a
year revenue for the government.
He slew the blood sucker. That is
why an Associated Press statement
from Petragrad says:
There is prohibition in Russia to-
day, prohibition which means that not
drop of vodka, whiskey, brandy, gin
CT any other strong liquor is obtainable
from one end to another of territory
populated by 150,000.000 people and COW
ering one-sixth of the inhabita BILE
globe
The story of how strong drink has
been utterly banished from the Rus
sian Empire was related to the AS
ISOLATED Press by Michael Demitro-
witch Tohelisheff, the man directly re-
sponsible for putting an end to Rus
sia's great vice. the vodka habit"
The details. published Thursday by
the Kennebec Journal, are revelation
Instead OF the people supporting their
government by paying two billion dol.
lars for disease and poverty, in order
10 realize one-fourth of that sum in
revenue" renewed and reawakenet
people throw aside the deplorable re-
suits. save l.soo.ooo,ooo, and support
the government direct. 1t is the mos
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20
He Knew.

Son, I don't want you to marry a
chorus girl"
But. dad, she's good and beautiful"
That may be- But let us consider
some of the other angles"
No angles about her, dad She's all
curves. From the Louisville Courier
Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20
We csll This unneutraI.

Last year. said the Buffalo man.
when some German friends visited me,
l asked one of them what they thought
or our American railroads, and he said:
They are very good; but our wives
don't seem to like the upper berths.'"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20
Editorial Comment
Hunting in Massachusetts,.


New Bedford, Mass, Mercury
The open season on shooting deer
in this state commenced yesterday
and will continue through Saturday.
The rain will increase the sportsman's
difficulties since the drought had dried
the small brooks and streams and
driven the deer to seek permanent
watering places, where the hunters
had planned to shoot. Deer are very
numerous in spite of four open
seasons in which over five thousand
were killed. There has been the usual
number of complaints to the fish and
game commission of crop depreda-
tons. The number of deer killed the
past few months in the act of damag-
ing crops-249-is exceeded by only
two other years, 1910 and 1912. One
farmer, H. ]. Blanchard, Of North
Ashburnham, has killed four deer
alone in the past two months. In pre-
vious years a farmer has been allowed
to shoot a deer during the close season
only when it was in the act Of eating
vegetables or fruit, but now, by a
law passed by the last legislature,
he can kill a deer If he thinks 1t is.
going to damage his crops. This may
account III part LOT Tic &c
shot by farmers this year. Mr.. Blan-
chard says that it is not uncommon
to see two to six deer on his farm
land, and that at one time this fall
he counted a herd of thirty. Other
letters received by the commission
indicate how tame some of the game
are. A Montague farmer writes that
he caught one deer in his cabbage
field a North Wilbraham farmer says
that deer have caused much damage
to his peach orchard, a deputy re-
ports that deer was killed by train
IN oxford recently, while the first of
the month buck met disaster when
it disputed the right OF way of the
road between Taunton and FAN River
with an automobilist. The largest
damage caused by deer was s19,9I7 In
1918. The county suffering the most
was Franklin, with a loss of $3.50.
The year 1912 was second with a loss
of S15,6S2 In 1911 the loss was 1924,
in 1910 S654S, and in 1909 1920. Out of
the total for 10 years of S59,651. Frank
lin county's loss was S19,430. Deer are
reported most numerous in Berkshire,
Plymouth, Norfolk and Worcester
counties.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20

Hating of work on the whole dual
rapid transit system, making idle 1900
men who are being paid 100000 week,
tying up the citys great Investment and
DELAYING the subways until court con-
tests can be decided is threatened by the
action of labor unions. made known to
the Public Service Commission yesterday.
New York Dispatch in Boston Tran
script.
All experts? Hundred and 'leven
dollars a week is a very fair average
for so many.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20

We repeat, that it is an unappre-
ciative country which allows it's Presi-
dent to do all the praising of his ad-
ministration. In his umpteenth in
stallment he says a new day has
dawned. Good morning. new day!
Glad to meet yer-AND we hope you
are not psychological.