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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
Sunnly of Pistols

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeai.
 Times may be hard, provisions may be hard to get, but some people always have enough money to provide themselves with pistols of the latest patterns A farmer and his tenant living near Fulton began quarrel. One man used bed slat as an arbter. The other man drew and began to fire his trusty .3s. Then the tenant dropped the bed slat, and drawing on his reserve also whipped out .sS. Both men are dead. The abolition of the carrying of deadly weapons would result in more lives saved than have been de- stroyed by liquor. Once we charged up shooting scrapes to liquor, but where the anti-liquor laws are enforced killing by firearms is still a going and prospering business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

That is typical of the attitude of most of the men, although they do not gen erally express it so clearly. They want something to take their minds off their misfortunes, and the best thing for that purpose is work and the knowledge that although maimed they are still of use in the world"
 Many of these disa bed men if trained in the socety's workshops need not lose touch with the army which they have learned to love. The society makes a speciality of training men for army sup ply work, and in ordinary times under takes contracts itself for saddlery, har- ness, woodwork and the host of small ar ticles which are included in the soldier s kit and equipment. The men are paid the full trade union rate of wages. and as an official of the society said the other day, they are worth every farthing of It. They are highly skilled workmen, and not gifted amateurs when they have fin- ished with our training. The training is not stereotyped, however Every effort is made to find out if a man has any spe- cial gifts or aptitudes. It was discovered thdt uiit ol tHc HIGH VI Hu lOSl u lC6 III Oilo of the early battles of the war--a sergeant in the Buffs-had a taste for wood carv- ing, although he had never received any technical education. This was provided, and now he is earning larger income than many middle class professional man turning out comic toys for children funny German and French and British sol- diers and comic animals something like those popularized by the late Gran d Ache. Another man who had talent for water color drawing was also instructed, and is able to add substantially to his pension by drawing war pictures, some of which have had large sale as picture post cards.
 most elaborate organization has been worked out by the society in order that no disabled soldier may have any diff culty in getting into touch with it. In practically every town and village in Eng land it has voluntary agent, usually some one with military connections, who is known as the soldiers friend" It is the duty of the friend to hunt up every returning soldier in his district and find out if he needs any help and what kind of help is most suitable. If the war of flee is slow in sending his pension or pay, as often happens in these days of pres sure. the friend advances him money to go on with. If he wants work 1t Is the duty of the friend to find out what he can do, or if he has no available trade to discover what his tastes and aptftudes are and to arrange for his training Some times this can be done locally, if the men prefer to remain at home, but in most cases the men are sent Up to the society's workshops in London. Surrey, Dublin and Edinburgh for their training They often elect to remain there as permanent em- ployes.
 Earl Grey, formerly governor-general of Canada, Is at the head of another scheme
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER

America II stands on the Plaza San Martin. The jury that gives this prize is composed of the director general Of public works. the director of the bu- reau of architecture, delegate of the faculty of exact sciences and delegates from the Central Society of Architects and of Fine Arts. The jury is pre- sided over by the city surveyor
 The building regulations are strict. No structure can be higher than the width of the street upon which it stands. and so far the average new business block is Of five or six stories. The skylines of the new streets are even, and the effect is delightful There are now within the city something like l2o,0Oo houses. or these about 100000 are of brick. 5000 of wood and the others are of Iron. zinc. stone and rein forced concrete Ninety thousand or more of them are of only one story.
 The vast expenditures of the muniei- pality are transforming Buenos Aires. It is changing from Spanish city 10 one like Berlin or Paris and the loJ landmarks are being swallowed up i1 the new constructions The town is one of the oldest of the new world. It was begun 200 years before there WAS house on the site of our city of Bos ton, and 43 years after Columbus dis- covered America. The first buildings We're mud huts matched with straw. Then a brick kiln was made and later tiles and bricks were imported from Spain. The first city was of Spanish architecture, and that style prevailed for more than 300 years. The most of the buildings were of one story. Thsy were built close to the sidewalk and around patios and courts. They had iron barred windows, facing the streets and behind the bars the senoritas sat and watched their lovers playing the bear act" or, as 1t is sometimes called "eating iron The girls could admiie their suitors and cast sheep's eyes al hem, but the bars were always be tween
 Now the buildings have changed The patios are fast disappearing, plate glass windows have driven the irpn bars to the rear. and the senorita has become an up-to-date twentieth century maiden. Nevertheless four-fifths of the houses of Buenos Aires are still of one story. although there are streets lined with six-story palaces, and skyscrapers are going up facing some of the parks. Many of the people now live in apartments; and many buildings have shops on the ground floor and apartments above. There is extensive flat buildings, and In cer- tain quarters great palaces, each of which cost for than $100,000 to build. This is especially so about the Plaza San Mar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

YoNDON. Apru 2S.-(Speclal Cor
 respondence.)- )-What is to be-
 come of the discharged sol l4k6s34ty diers after the war and more
 particularly of those who are disabled?
 This double question is being asked by thousands of public spirited people in England today and already, although the end of the war can hardly be said to be in sight, organizations are at work prepar- ing 10 solve the problems which will arise when Johnny comes marching home"
 At first sight it would seem that the problem of the discharged soldiers from a national army, such as that of Eng land is today, would not be difficult one. The men joined the army from civil life and in large number Of cases their jobs are being kept open for them This applies to the class of clerks, bookkeepers and salaried men generally. but it does not affect the hundreds of thousands of mechanics and laborers who paid by the day when they are at work. Even those whose jobs are open for them may not be able or willing to resume them.
 First in importance, however there are the thousands of wounded and disa bled soldiers to be dealt with. No one will deny that a who has lost a leg or an arm for his country or who has contracted chronic rheumatism or chest disease from the terrible winter condi- tions in the trenches in Flanders, is en- titled to the best the country can do for him. The country has already done something in providing a new pension scheme under which the totally disa bled man will draw about E week for life and the partially disabled proportionateiy smaller sums, based on the extent of their incapacity to support themselves. It is these partially disabled who present ,ne most difficult problem, for the country owes it to them to protect many of these men against themselves Take the case, for instance, of a strong, vigorous young man who has lost both his legs or who has lost his sight In each case he will be classed as totally disabled, and if he comes from the ranks of unslsilled labor he will receive pension equal to his earnings before he enlisted. and coming every week with the regularity of the clock. He Is a hero to his friends and neighbors and he has nothing to do. What more natural than that he should drift into the saloon, the poor mans club, . where he will always find someone 10 treat him in return for his stories of the war? The danger is that such men un- less provided with employment will drift into undesirable habits and will be in jured rather than helped by the pensions
 The remedy Is to teach them trades at which they can supplement their pen eions, and in the case of unskilled la borers rise to the higher level of the skilled workman. In the case of the man of skill or of the commercial or pro- ' {fessional class, he must be taught some work which will enable him to maintain himself at something like the level of comfort to which he has been accus- toned.
 One of the most interesting of the schemes for helping disabled soldierl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
Rabbit Highly Prized

From the Portland Press.
 One of the most serious. crimes that can he committed in the state of New Jersey- is to kill a rabbit. They think a good deal of their rabbits in that state for some reason, and if anyone kills one, either by accident or design. he must at the least expect to serve . term in jail In most of the states of the Union the rabbit is thought very little of and in the great continent of Australia the problem has always been how to get rid of the little animals, rather than how to protect them But in some of the southern Atlantic states they look on timid bunny something as We look on a moose in this state, and they have surrounded him by the most drastic protective laws
 It will be remembered that Col. Will liam Jennings Bryan was threatened with arrest last winter because he. shot a rabbit while visiting at the home of friend in Virginia during Christmas week This shows in what respect the rabbit is held in that state. and in New Jersey 1t is much the same. Not long ago a young man killed New Jersey rabbit by throwing some missile at the animal. He was apprehended and sen fenced to four months in jail. Hunters have killed men in tue Maine woods and escap ped with a mrch less severe punishment This youth served but eight days as some friends intervened ir hts behalf and had his sentence coni- muted.
 But his example did not prove warn ing. In spite of the fate of this boy, a young man by the name of Jasper Sverka last week threw stone at a rabbit which crossed his path and killed the animal He was arrested, tried and convicted and sentenced to 90 days In jail. Sverka's defense was that he was hungry and killed the rabbit to eat It may be that this influenced the judge not to impose as severe a sem t6aaee as he otharWtee might have dono.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

ings already erected It makes new streets Alexander the Car of the Rus sians, made the trunk railway from Mos COW to Petrograd. His civil engineers laid out snake track taking in all the towns. Alexander laid ruler on the map and drew a straight line from one city to the other. There is the route for my road said he It is just so that the new Buenos Aires is building The old streets are being widened, and the new ones be- ing cut right through the heart of the costliest properties. The only question seems to be what will be best for the city, the extra cost being a mere matter of bonded indebtedness that can be paid in the future. Before laying out a street the city buys the property on both sides of 1t. and in the increased values it has made some of the biggest improvements pay for themselves. This was largely so on the Avenda de Mayo, the land for which cost $0.OoO,0 ,0oO,. although the street is not more than one mile in length. It will be the same as to the other great avenues which are to run out from the Plaza de Mayo like the spokes of wheel These improvements have been stopped for the moment on account of the war and the lack of borrowing capacity, but they will surely go on later
 The plans for extension are made upon the belief in the great city of the future. The waterworls already installed are after scheme that will fit city of five or six millions, and the construction now under way involves n expenditure that is close to fifty millions in gold. The plant already covers about 50 acres and the water passes through seven filters before it enters the houses.
 We shall next turn the X-ray camera on the Avenida de Mayo, with the great Plaza de Mayo at one end and the na- tonal capitol building. or Palace of Gold at the other. This is one of the new avenues with a made-over plaza Be- sides the streets, the town has 9T plazes promenades and parks, with q total area of almost 100000 square meters some Of the parks covering acres. It has many new streets paved with asphalt or with wooden blocks laid in cement: and new buildings like those on this avenue are going up in many parts of the city
 The Avenida de Mayo is the great boulevard of Buenos Aires. It was nothing few years ago. It has now an almost even skyline of six-story palaces, with bay windows running from pavement to roof. At one end of it is the Plaza de Mayo. upon which face the house of the president, the stock ex- change and the famous cathedral At the other end are the marble houses of con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

landing facilities. It has single grain elevators with a capacity of a million bushels of grain in the bulk. and gran aries which will hold twice that much in sacks. II has great flour mills. one of which cost s3.5oo.eoo. and along the RiachueIo river the mammoth meat fac tories, where thousands of cattle and sheep are frozen each day and shipped to the markets of the United States and Europe.
 me narbor machinery is moved by elec- trlcity and its electric lights enable the work to go on Knight The lighting of the city is excellent. For years it relied upon lamps of mares grease set upon posts in the streets Today there ar. more than s0o0 electric globes and abo,f ls,oet wrose fuel is gas. The chief ave. nues have great Brush lights artis+icallv hung and in places the posts run through the center of the streets. forming islands of safety from the fast-flylng automobiles l understand that most of the electricity Is furnished by German company that pays dividends of 9 per cent II mas more than loo'oeo horse power, generated by turbines
 It costs something to run Buenos Aires The municipal budget of last ven, amounted to more than s20.00o 900. ana that notwithstanding the government paid for the police. fire brigade, schools. water supply and drainage. as well as for the hospitals. warehouses and some other charity institutions. The city is governed by a council and mayor It has a city hall facing the Plaza de Mayo, where the surroundings are pust about the same as those of the city halls of New York and Chicago. During a visit to the mu- T T class hanging around, and saw no end of contractors and jobbers and men with all sorts of axes to grind. 1 don't know about graft, but am told it prevails here to as great an extent as in the worst of our American cities. some of the new public buildings having cost so much that they ought to be plated with gold
 The mayor of Buenos Aires is ap- pointed by the President of the Argen- tine Republic, and his term of office is three years The council is elected by such taxpayers as pay s100 or more per annum, and the only qualification for councilman is the payment of city taxes to the amount of $500 per year. There are p councilmen. each elected for a term of four years. They receive no pay and the position is orfe of honor alone. The council makes all the tax laws, and it passes upon all appropriations for city expenses
 The chief revenue of Buenos Aires comes from taxes and licenses. These are more numerous and more heavy than those of the United States even now at the time of our war tax. Everything has to be stamped and business documents must be written upon stamped paper. Every business pays license that of the banks running all the way up to sS0,o00 A. year. Each profession pays tax. Architects and surveyors have licenses which cost $50 each. dentists pay $50 per annum and photographers sl5 and up- ward. Pawnbrokers pay S2500 and up- ward, and all wholesale and retail Sus- ness houses are assessed from $7b to Sl50o. There are also internal revenue taxes. im- port and export taxes. and, in fact, taxes upon everything and for everything under the sun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

and will keep the politicians up to- d keen sense of their duty to the old soldier
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

And now let us take a look at the streets of Bdenos Aires. The city is being repaved. It put down 55 miles of new roadway in 1912 and it was then estimated that 1t would take s200 GOO 600 to finish the plans for new paving and street construction. The city is laying out avenues without regard to the buld-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

)NDON, April 29.-(Special Cor
 respondence.)-What is to be-
 come of the discharged sol diers after the war and more particularly of those who are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-18
COTTON MARKETS.
NEW YORK,

NEW YORK, October 1S.-The cotton
market opened active and firm today,
with prices to 1 8 points higher as the
result of drmness at Liverpool and a
very bullish crop report by a New Or
leans paper. together with continued
unfayorable weather in the southwest.
Many private reports were received
telling of unsatisfactory conditions in
Texas and Oklahoma. There was also
some apprehension over a new gulf
storm, said to have been formed in the
Caribbean sea. A London cable report
ed the India monsoon to be more en-
coura cling. and Berlin advices were to
the effect that army orders for cotton
goods were less voluminous owing to
enormous supplies having been stored.
Trade here continued active after the
opening. and at the end of the first
hour the market was still firm, with
prices about 12 to IA points net higher.
Futures opened Arm; October, 1916;
December. 1858: January. 1887; March,
1910. and May. 1923.
During the balance of the forenoon
trade was quiet. with the undertone
steady on firmness at New Orleans and
predictions by a number of prominent
operators to the effect that prices are
likely to go much higher. At noon the
list was about to 10 points above Sat
urday's close
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-18
MAKES FIRST DISTRIBUTION.
United States Express Company l..
sues sos Per Share to Stockholders.

NEW YORK. October 1S.-The United
States Express Company, which decid-
ed last year to go into voluntary
liquidation because of the inroads into
It's earnings resulting from the intro.
duction of the governments parcel
post system, today announced a FIRST
and partial distribution of SIS per
share to stockholders. ~
It has taken the company some time
to dispose OF its personal property. real
estate and securities, the latter alone
having a reported book value exceed
ing 100000. Total assets of the COM
pany as shown in the financial state
ment of 1914 amounted to about $14,
100000.
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NEW YORK.

Quiet: spring patents, 5.50a5.s0: winter
patents, 5.20a5.40; winter straights. $40
a5.25; Kansas straights. 5.35a5.50.
Pork-Steady; mess, 16.00a16.50; fam
lily, 20.50a2250: short. clear. 1S.50a20.50.
lily. 1s.00a19.50.
Lard-Firm; middle west, 9.90a10.00.
Enthusiastically: New Orleans open
kettle. 40a50.
Hay-Quiet; No. 1. 120a125: No. 2,
1:o5a1.15; No. 8. s0a1.00; shipping, 75a
So.
Hides-steady; Bogota, 3oas1; Central
America, 20.
Leather-Firm; hemlock firsts, 32a33;
seconds, 31a32
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Two Wives Seek Divorce.

Mamie E. Booze filed suit today for
an absolute divorce from James Booze.
They were married June 10. 1900. At
wife
Fannie Toliyer also asks an absolute
divorce from James Toiiver. They were
married January 8, 1904. Attorney W.
Cabin Chase represents the wife.
During the war the promiscuous dis
charge of fireworks is prohibited in
Grear Britain. --~--S -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-18
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO. October 1S.-Hogs-Re-
ceipts, $4,000 head; market slow: early
advance Of SC mostly lost: bulk Of sales,
S20aS.s5: light. S.OOaS.s0: mixed. S.l5a
s.95: heavy. S.05as.s5; rough. s.05as.20:
pigs, 5.25a7.75.
Cattle-Receipts. $1,000 head; strong:
native beef steers, 6.00a10.5o; western
2.s5a8.35: calves. 7.75a11.75.
Sheep-Receipts. 1900 head; easy:
Wethers. 6.o0a7.0os lambs 6.75aS.s0.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-18
BALTIMORE.


| Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. October 1s.-wheat-
Quiet and easy: spot No. red. LIS
spot No. red western. 1.15h: Octobe,
No. red, LIS: November No red
Lag: steamer No. 2 red. 10y; receipts
532,05S bushels; exports. 33o.741 BUSH
els.
corn-ouiet and easy; year, "a: Jan.
uary. 63A; receipts. 11.016 bushels
Oats-Firm; No. 3 white, 41ka42: No
white. s5haash; receipts. 44,s4s
bushels.
Rye-Firmer: No, 2 western, export.
1ossI0s: receipts. 1856 bushels; ex-
ports, 37.714 bushels
Hay-Quiet; No. 1 timothy, COCOA
20.50: No. l clover. mixed. 17.50a18.00.
Grain freights-Quiet and easy; steam
to Liverpool .per bushel, 1sd Decem-
Der; picked ports. per quarter, 12s Sd
October-Noyember
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-18
GRkpHOPHj)NE STOCKS
MAKE new HIGH RECORD
Common Sold at 1191During
1915 It Was Down to 30-Lo-
cal Market Active.
Traction and Railway Shares Firmer
Bankers Association to Meet.
Financial Notes.
BY I. A. FLEMING.

There was real activity on the local
stock exchange today. many of the pub
lie utilities showing on the sales sheet,
while the development of strength IN
Graphophone, both common and preferred.
was remarkable. These stocks have ad-
vanced in Boston and New York and set
the pace for traders here. A few months
ago they We're quoted at 20 for the pre-
ferred and so for the common. Sales on
the local exchange were at 119 for the
common. the preferred probably being
around 114H. There is much of this
stock held by Washington investors, and
it is giving them the thrill that must go
with the ownership of rapidly advancing
war stocks in other markets 1t IS pre-
sumably on war orders that the rise Is
based
Lanston and Mergenthaler. supposed
to be busy with locks and parts or
rifles. fuses etc. have. for the time
being. dropped out of the active list of
stocks of this character.
Capital Traction was active at S112,
with one sale at S1as. Railway common
also was in demand at 81, while the
preferred was firmer, moving up to
S11aS2.
American Security and Trust sold in
odd lots at 263 and $50.
Lanston was nominal, other than for
an odd share or two selling at So
Bankers Association Meets.
The District Bankers Association will
meet this evening at the rooms of the
Washington Chapter. American Insti-
tute of Banking. for the purpose of
hearing annual reports and electing Of
ficers. In the absence of George E.
Fleming, president of the association,
W. T. Galliher, its first vice president
and the successor of the president as
well, will preside. John Poole. second
vice president, will rotate to the first
vice presidency. while a second vice
the examining committee will also be
chosen.
Financial Notes.
Prominent New York bankers are
urging Great Britain to turn to dollar
exchange. 1T will mean the develop
ment of international trade never
dreamed Of" said one banker, adding.
displace London as the international
money market" 1t is believed that
England will follow the lead Of South
American countries and adopt dollar
exchange to do business with the
United States.
The clearings of New York banks Sat-
urday were ss13.s45.423. are the record
and are due in large part to first pay
ments on the Anglo-French loan.
Foreign loans in this country since
the outbreak of the war total about
$685., 00e, 600.
Westinghouse Electric Company has
orders for war supplies totaling $780,
100000 and expects soon to make it
$1oo.Oo0,oO0.