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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31

and Brazilian bank all the way from 15 to IT per cent, running at times as high as 20 per cent. The Banco Aleman has paid per cent for a number of years, and the Banco Espanaol pays 12 per cent on its common stock and over 8 per cent to the holders of the founders shares.
 A large amount of these great profits are made in investments outside the banking business, and the men inter- ested in the banks have stock in the best dividend-paying corporations. In order to show something of what the country is doing industrially, l give you the profits of some of its institutions. The Argentine Navigation company. founded by sailor known as Mihano- vich. is capitalized at $10,000,000, and 1t pays dividends of from 9 to F per cent. The Liebig Extract Meat company has a British capital of over five millions and it pays dividends of 20 per cent, while the La Slanco Cold Storage company, backed by the Armours has paid as high as F per cent. The La Plata Cold Stor- age company, owned by the Swfts, has a capital of two and one-half millions and it undoubtedly does well. The River Plate Fresh Meat company has paid divi- dends up to b per cent and the Smith, field and Argentine Meat company pays 10 per cent. One of the street railways of Buenos Aires is paying per cent and others 6, while the city waterworks pay from to per cent. Among the money makers of small capital is whal- ing company known as the Argentina de Pesca. It owns four steam whalers and i- makes from p to 50 per cent per an- mum upon a capitalization of $20O,000.
 The electric light companies pay from to 20 per cent, several iron and 1 { and insurance companies from nothing to 20 per cent. Some of the savings banks pay their stockholders as high as 20 per cent and some of the land and colonization companies pay as much. while others give no dividends whatso- ever.
 There are several big department stores here that are doing well. Gath & Chaves has a stock value of about $S,e00.000 and is said to pay good div idends. It has several branches in Buenos Aires and stores also in the provincial cities and in Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile. There are num- Der of breweries that are paying from s to 15 per cent, and some exporting companies which have good dividends
 The railways are mostly owned by private parties, the bulk of them held in Great Britain. They have cap- italization altogether of about $1 1.000,- 900 900 in gold and their profits aver age more than 4 per cent.
 Times are hard now in the Argen- time republic. The country is finan- cially sound, but it is one of ups and downs, and as rule it is like old Egypt, with it's seven years of plenty and it's seven years of famine. When I was here in 1898 the people were still suffering from the panic which followed the Barring Brothers failure Argentina had had a boom for 10 years, during which more than SCOO,- 100000 worth of stock had been float ed, and of that more than $500. .00O, ,0OO was totally lost. The country 1ecoy-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31
With the Czar's Soldiers Behind the Firing Line

ing''-a great deal more so than a use ful bag of canvas.
 "Petrusha" is in good humor and So are his six comrade Petrushas. Ail, like myself, sit or lounge on barrels. One has a bullet hole through his hani and cannot return to the war because he's lost two fingers, and cant use the oth- CTS. He has seven stray hairs instead of a beard and he is probably a Finn. His name is Tchernoukhoff, which means "black ears.' l get into talk with him and find out why he and his unwounded comrades are waiting at Wilma. His unit, which is the fifth army corps. was cut to pieces outside Lodz by the ninth German army. which is commanded by Lieutenant General MacSensen, the crown princess tutor and friend. One regiment, says Techer- nouk hoff, was entirely captured and with it fell S5,O00 men from other reg iments into Mack hands. How do you find the war;" l asked. Tn teresting," says Tchernoukhoff. "At first it wasn't interesting. Ne-interesno! Six days out of seven we did no fight ing, but sat in muddy trenches and carved sticks. We had one interesting day a week. Now it's always interest," ing. They fight all the time. Interes- uyGtsya. They take interestl'
 I asked Tchernoukhoff to give me de- tails of the interesting fight in which he lost his fingers. He told me this tale. The fifth corps was stationed on the Sgersh- -Strykow- Glovno line north east of Lodz. a bit in advance of the main road It held strong position with scores of field guns, On the 22d of November the Germans began a ter rife attack. Their aim was to push the Russians southeast so as to cut them off from Warsaw. Tchernoukhoff' bat talion held the extreme right. The Germans made a charge against the Russian right center. They used two infantry divisions to attack a trench not 400 yards long. They raced in thick formation at the Russians though i cross fire of shrapnel tore paths through them, flooded the Russian
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31

At Wilma, apart from the military chief. is only one man who sees no interest in war. That is the town commandant, Colonel Afanasieff. Colonel Afanaseff is the man you apply to if you want to go to Warsaw. That needs 8 special permit. When I arrived at Wilma depot, and asked for ticket to Warsaw I was told I could not have one unless I first got permit. I called on Colonel Afanaseff for a pass and found him drinking tea and reading Russian translation of Ger hart Hauptmann, whom the translator writes "Gauptmann." "Why do you want to go to Warsaw" "To write about the war. It's inter" Out came the thau- maturgtc word. T don't see how you are interested" was the answer. And he took up "Gauptmann" He told me must wait two days until reply came from Petrograd. These two days I spent at the Officers club, finding out many things of interest.
 met Captain vologodinsky, whom I knew as lieutenant during the Man churian war. and heard many interest ing things. He it was who brought me to the "Officerskaya Sobraniye." It is a big, whitewashed building, worthy of Vil- ma. which is the headquarters of the Third Army corps At the "sobraniye" met seven wounded officers. who fought in the defense of Ivangorod against the Austro-Germans in October. They told me the amazingly interesting story that the defeat of the Austrians and Germans was due to the conduct of Lieutenant General Schwartzs horse. General Schwartz is the fortress brave defender. When the forts on the Gnewostcheff road were smashed to bits by fire from Aus trian 27 centimetre mortars. and the vic- torious Austrians and Germans were making a successful infantry attack, the horse put them ignominiously to flight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31

trench. and clove the, Russian line in two.
 Tchernoukhoffs battalion and three batteries of field guns were entirely isolated. The impetus of the German rush set the Russians in disorder, All except the fifth, sixth and ninth com pany ran away. These, to the number of 500, retreated under terrific Ger man rifle fire. About hundred, among. them the man with the wounded hand, escaped. About 900 unwounded men fell to the Germans. The final disaster was caused because the officers lost their heads and gave confusing orders. Ut was massacre in which we had no chance. Six men from my village, among them by own foster brother, were killed. It was terrible" said Tchernoukhoff. He took off his aN kettle and a tobacco hag (not of pink sillS), laid them solemnly on barrel and said, "I<ak builo interesno" How interesting 1t was!'
 Because war is interesting everyone at Wilma who has been wants to go back and everyone who has not been wants to go. I learned that north of Wilma is a whole colony of men who so thirsted for the interest of war that they brought war on themselves. This is at Werli and at Meisagola. I borrowed horse from a livery stable man who is known to Wilma as the American" because he was six months at Atlanta. Ga, and rode to Werlii, to see these remarkable people. Here is the finest bit of north Russia. There are real hills--half as high as Wall street skyscrapers, covered With mot tied birches and there are green houses, green fences and still some green winter corn. There is a war hos pital full of men who want to go back. x4-bs ic cba al a c Lithuanian road in which your horse sinks up to his knees
 The peasants of Werki and Meisag- ola all have broken windows, stuffed with rags The cause is the extraord1- nary interest of war. When back to Werki came Viatcheslav Palamonoff with three bullets in his body he so seduced the villagers with the interest of war that all offered themselves as volunteers. They came down en masse to the military chief of Wilma and de- manded uniforms and rifles. The mill itary chief. dull, unimaginativa man. said he had no orders. The interest thirsting moujiks bawled. Give us rifles!" q have no orders." said the military chief. The interest-thirsty peasants returned home, smashed the offices of the local policeman and then smashed everything in the village t,.ey laid hands on. The gendarmes came up to pacify them. Give us rifles!" shout ed the Werkiites and Meisagolans. The gendarmes gave them bullets. After vain entreaties to them to go home and smash their windows from the in- side volley was fired. Four men lay dead. Having got this proof that war is really interesting the Werkiites and Meisagolans did go home. Since then the two villages have been at peace and life has lost it's interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31

automobiles have no speed limit, and they cut across from one side of the pave ments to the other, their wheels missing only by the thickness of a hair. That there are many accidents seems to make no difference. The machines are costly, the most of them coming from France.
 I see no signs of hard times in the store windows. The shops are filled with the costliest of goods, and the prices seem higher than ever. There are jew elry stores here equal to anything in Chicago, and I might almost say New York, and the milliners and dressmakers have their models from Paris, notwith- standing the war. There is undoubtedly plenty of money still left in the country. and every one is anticipating a great boom to follow the advent of peace
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31

The horse (swears Major Lentitcheff. the wounded officer responsible) was white charger, dyed green-gray. so that the enemy should not see it. It is Schwartz's favorte charger. On the third critical day. of the attack when the Gnewostcheff forts were in danger, General Schwartz rode four miles in straight line through a terrific rainstorm. The rain washed all the dye off the windward side of his horse. except where the dye was pro- tected by the generals saddle and leg. When he saw his infantry wavering the brave general rode right into the firing line. At that time the enemy was only 400 yards away. Frightened by the fire, the horse bucked, kicked and shied and the enemy got a view first of the horses windward side and then on it's leeward side. They turned and fled. Some mat er-of-fact Russian officers swear that they fled because a five-inch shell ex- ploded among them, but all the soldiers believe they fled when they saw the gen. erals double-dyed horse, which they took for the animal in Revelation on which Death customarily rides. This notion that you beat the enemy with double dyed horse so caught the Russian imag- nation that next day when Colonel Pies- kinin visited his stables he found his orderly carefully scrubbing the gray-green dye off one side of his white horse. "It was extraordinarily interesting"
 Other interesting things seem to have happened at Ivangorod. The seven wound ed offices sat there till midnight, each capping the others tales. Good stories were about this General Schwartz. Schwartz by race is a German, and he seems to have some good German ways. In particular he is famous for his pedan- tic accuracy and Journalism. He carries his Journalism so far that even a drink of vodka cannot be had unless . shell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31

comes to destroy formalities. At least, so says Captain Vologodinsky. In all Ivan gorod, says Vologodinsky, there was no vodka except seven vedras which were locked up and sealed at the house of the Apothecary Bloch. The vodka was re- served for scientific and medical pur- poses and not a drop could be given out except under order signed jointly by Gen eral Schwartz himself and by the Ivan gorod mayor. At the height of the Oc- tober fight a shell chose as victim the mayor, who lay insensible for three days. There were 10 more than usually brave men who had spent two days up to their neck in a marsh near the Salisse forts, and as they were threatened with ague and badly wanted drinks the anti-aico- holic Schwartz relaxed. But the mayor lay insensible and the rigid Schwartz refused to break the seals and locks with out his consent In vain officers, who always sympathize with warriors want ing a drink. thrust a pen into the half dead mayors hand. He could not sign. 'Then there shall be no drinks" said Schwartz. "I cannot break orders which I myself have framed" Ingenious off cers arranged everything. They arranged that second "shel' should explode in the apothecarys store. When the gem erals adjutant rode round to make sure that the vodka was in order he found fragments of a shell, which had done ex- traordinarily little harm, but had broken three saucers, and with extraordinary
 sagacity broken also the locks and tu seals on the vodka store It had judi ciously spared the vodka bottles. That night the 10 heroes from the Saliesse forts had their drink of vodka and all re- covered from ague and returned to in- teresting war
 At Wilma at present is Old Man Melnit- sky, the prophet II, stands outside the "Sobraniye' or outside the Furnished Rooms Pimenoff and he tells people that the Kaiser will bo captured on March s. Melnitsky till lately was a priest of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31

IIL.NA, Russia. January IS.
 W Special. )-War is interest I:=:s=S ing and amusing. Above all, iseaSaSI interesting. That is. to sol
 diers. Czar Nicholas soldiers won't take it tragically. They leave tragedy to protesting ministers, screaming newspapers and weeping widows; and themselves take an in terest' War gives them something they subconsciously panted for It saves them from boredom. When there is no war they are dull moujiks, brick layers. clerks, and the only interest is drinking vodka and stealing cash from the till; there is nothing to talk of and coals rise in price. Against such base conditions of humanity the hu- man properly revolts No matter how much he walls that war is barbarous, he likes it at heart because of its in terest.
 That is why all over holy Russia you hear the chorus: 'Interesno! Interesno, Interesno,' Interesting At Wilma ey- lnteresno!" Interesno At Wilma ev- cry man and woman is absorbed in tho war or wants to be absorbed. l realize this truth as I sit on a barrel in Yilna. railroad depot and overhear seven very ugly soldiers who do nothing but praise the war. All have been there and all want to go back. Loudest misses .interesno, interesno" he whom his friends call Petrusha. This Petrusha has a very black beard and might be q Jew; on his back is knapsack, an ordinary sackcloth sack, a pink silk bag, an aX, kettle, panniker, a bas of oats and rolledup straw mattress and he has an enormous scar on his cheek. l ask him where he got the pink . silk bag. "Barunya prislala," says he. "A lady sent it. The lady read news paper appeal for bags in which the sol diers might carry tobacco, penhnives and writing materials, so she cut up her silk petticoat and made Ii pink bag which will rot to pieces on the first rainy day. The bag is interest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31
UNCLE SAMS SOUTH AMERICAN BANKS
1914 by Frank G. carpen-
ter9
Buenos. Aires. Argentina.

 F lNCLE SAM has at last begun
 banking business in the south -.s.=st ern half of our hemisphere. The kz2aSsI National City bank of New
 York opened its offices here last November, and it is now organizing a system of banks and credits which will eventually be extended to every part of the South American continent It has already established q branch in Rio dc Janeiro, and it has agencies and credit arrangements in Montevdeo. Santiago, Lima and La Paz. Its chief banking es- tablishment in Argentina is in the Stock Exchange building, and in the very heart of the business section of Buenos Aires The offices open out upon the Calle Riva- david, and they are not Tar away rom the Pink House. where the president has offices. The bank here is under the supervision of Mir John II. Allen. former manager of the Bank of Haiti. and one of the chief men who aided in its establish r1ent was MT Robert o. Bailey. formerly assistant secretary pf the treasury of the United States. The staff of clerks IS made up of men trained in the National City bank of New York, and of others who have had experience in South Ameri- can trade. In addition are some bank clerks who have been connected with the large financial institutions or this city.
 The National City bank is doing a gem eral banking business. It deals in ex- change, issues letters of credit, handles collections, and has already a large amount of deposits. It does its business in American dollars and Argentine pesos, and for the first time one can buy drafts here on the United States without having to translate the local currency into pounds, shillngs and pence, and then translate the pounds, shillings and pence back into American dollars. l have travelled extensively in the South Amefi- can countries, having been here, off and on for the past 1G years. I have always had to carry a letter of credit on Lon don, and have paid a tribute of about l per cent to the greedy "Old Lady of Threadneedle street"
 It is estimated that our total business with South America gives the English steamers and bankers at least l per cent of the whole as q toll for their share in carrying the freight and in making ex- changes. This trade amounts to nearly Ssoo,0o0000 a year. and the annual English rake-off is in the neighborhood of $S,o00,-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31
Foxes Killing Off Deer

From the New York Sun.
 Munsing, Mch.-Human hunters are not the worst enemies of deer in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Foxes in droves are reported by game wardens to be play ing havoc with game and unless these bands are broken up, the deer in these parts will be more scarce than ever.
 A farmer named Olson returned here from a trip and said he saw F foxes defeat and devour four dear. Wolves are more numerous than usual and are killing many deer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31
Such a Pity

From the New York Sun.
 Poor Mrs. De Reegur is broken hearted. They can't send her any more Paris gowns. That suit she's wearing was made here in town"
 What a pity. I never saw her lock- ing so well.%
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31

lILNA, Russia. January 1S. Special. )-War is interest ing and amusing. Above all, interesting. That is, to sol
 diers. Czar Nicholas soldiers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31

-Ait ~-'' -A' = N-a 'ta-
 SCLE SAM has at last begun a banking business in the south ern half of our hemisphere. The National City bank of New York opened its offices here last
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-26
Jitnes Wait For Court
Decision On Injunction;
Few Nickel Cars Running

Jitne car drivers and owners con-
tinue to await the decision Of judge p
r Price in the 41st district court
and few jitnes were in operation Sat
urday.
The injunction hearing was resumed
this afternoon and a decision is eN-
pected by Monday. The application for
an injunction was filed by the Nickel
Drivers association to restrain the city
from enforcing the new 1itne OrdI-
nance, claiming IL was discriminatory.
A few additional nickel cars were
to be seen on the streets Saturday.
but the east side of san Jacinto plaza
continues TO resemble the sunny side
Of a court house square in a middle
western town for there were no Jitnea
parked there during the day.
The bond Of H. L English for $1,000,
made in compliance with the new or
dinance, has been approved. This
makes seven jitne operators who have
qualified.
While the Jitne company has made
application for permits to operate q
cars, bond had not been filed Saturday
morning
Jitne operators continue to apply to
the permit clerk for Information, and
some have taken blanks preparatory to
making application to operate under the
new law.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-26
VINTON FARMER SHIPS
HAY TO NEW YORK CITY

VintOn. Texas, June &c c. Martin
is shipping alfalfa to W H Curtis <
Co, at $50 ". End avenue. New York
city. Mr.. Martin hopes 10 be able TO
place a large amount Of alfalfa at that
point in the next few months.
Darby Ford has purchased a binder
to harvest the wheat crop on his ranch
on the west side.
Hardy White captured a baby eagle
on the Franklin range It IS Tine
specimen OF bald headed eagle
J. J. Mundy was out from Il Paso
looking after the harvesting Of the
wheat crop on the Mundy ranch
Dr.. and Mrs. WarnOck and family
and Mr.. and Mrs. II. T. Etheridge and
H. T.. IT., mOtOred out from FL Paso
and visited at the Henley home
Mr. and Mrs. c. A. Kinkel and family
and maid expect to leave for California
soon to take in the eXpositlons- WINE
away they will visit at Berkeley, Mrs
Kinkel being a former graduate OF the
University Of California
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-26
TELOCATED
OVER IN DALLAS
California Man Causes Lo-
cal and California Off
GERS Much Worry.

Abe White arrested here early in the
week on 2 telegram from California,
has been CAUSING the court and police
officials and certain others a number
Of restless hours. but Friday night he
was located in Dallas.
When White was taken before jus
tice J. N Deaver and held on bond OF
$500. he applied TO district judge Bal
lard Coldweu for a reduction and got
il, the amount being placed at $500
This he gave, furnishing W c WlnlSier
and J. D. Campbell as sureles- Judge
Coldwell set next Monday as the date
fhat White must appear, and gave the
California officials notice that they
must show cause for his removal 10
California on that date. Frank Atkin-
son, of Sacramento, acting as an as
sistant attorney general OF California;
was here to prosecute the case ana
left Immediately for Austin to ask the
governor for a requisit1on-
Meantime, White appeared at the pO-
lice station Wednesday night and, ac-
cording to night captain Lee Hail. read
the police a lecture on the rights OF
IN American citizen and informed him
that he inteded to leave the city A
wire from California said that a peace
Officer. was en- route here after w mite.
When the peace officer arrived mere
Thursday night, the police informed
him that White had gone east, having
ascertained that he bought ticket for
Fort Worth. The California OFFICER
took a train east, also.
FRIDAY the police got word that White
had taken a Fort Worth & Denver train
out of Fort Worth bound for Colorado
and later Friday they received what
thew believed to be reliable Information
that White had passed through Dal-
hart hound for Colorado. This caused
the bondsmen to do some wiring ana
a message was received Friday night
from a man in Dallas stating that
White was there and that he would De
49, in n Paso Monday for the hear
ing, Why he had gone to Dallas was
According to justice J. NJ Deaver,
white is charged in Sacramento. Cant,
with having uttered certain checEs IN
the bank TO meet them