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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
CUSTOMS UNION FOR TEUTONS IS OPPOSED
Budapest Chamber of Com merce Thinks It Would
 PrOlOng Hatred

Budapest. Hungary, April 1S.-(Cor- respondence of the Associated Press) The Budapest Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution expressing it's opposition to the proposals for cen tral European customs union, embrac- ing Germany, Austro-H Hungary and pos sibly Bulgaria.
 The resolution was passed at spe- cial meeting attended by representa- tives of the ministry of agriculture and commerce, by men prominent in indus try and commerce, managers of all the big banks. and mine owners. The chief argument against the proposed customs union was that it would be mainly to the advantages of Germany and Austria, and would merely hamper the development of Hungary.
 Dr. Paul Szende, delegate represent ing the Union of Hungarian Traders and Manufacturers, was the principal speaker He opposed the customs union declaring: Surely hatred will not al- ways be dominant in Europe. and you will only be prolonging the era of hatred by establishing a union which will antagonize the other group ot powers, with the result that Austria Hungary will soon find herself isolated in spite of the unity thus established. The question of Greater Austria has already caused us enough trouble, and all our economic concern is centered in opposition to the idea of this Greater Austria. Now they want to drag us into a union still more dangerous, in which we should have to face not only
 Austria, but Germany also, with her highly developed and marvelously or ganized industry and commerce, which would be likely to strangle our own na- tional industry and commerce."
 Speakers who favored the customs union contended that small cities are not in a position to exist under present European conditions and that when peace comes they will be exploited, while in wartime, they are liable to suffer the fate of Belgium and Servia. pr. Szende replied that Belgium had been one of the most prosperous coun- tries in Europe and that Servia had also led happy, independent life, and their ruin was brought about by the fact that they lay in the path of invad- ing armies. This caused their ruin, he said, not their smallness.
 The resolution finally adopted de- clared that the proposed customs union would entail the total destruction of Hungarian industry and commerce, and that "the culture of the nation is not dependent on central Europe but on the nation itself, which is proud of its culture, developed by itself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
SALONIKI IS WILLING. FOR BRITISH ID STAY.
Thrifty Greeks Growing
 Rich Off Foreigners
CONTRACTORS HEAVEN
English Have Been Barrier Marks Than French-SOld Rejected Lum- Der to Another Department for
 Ten Cents More Per Foot

Saloniki, April 5.-(Correspondence Of the Associated Press. .)-The inhabitants of salonih do not share the indignation of their sovereign over the presence here or the French, British and Servian troops They are making their fortunes out or it. Besides huge added profits on every thing bought and sold by the local tradesmen there are numerous less usual ways of turning a penny that are evolved from the fertile brains of the spanish and Portuguese Hebrews who constitute the greater part of the population or Greece's second city.
 There have been depots, docks and bar racks to build, roads to construct and improvements of every kind to make to render the old Turkish city of squalor fit for the habitation of an European army. Then, too, there have been the extraordinary works of fortiication and defense of the entire Chalcidic peninsula. With one thing and another, the allied occupation of central Macedonia has proved a contractors paradise and many a willy Greek has come all the way from Egypt to get share in the exploitation of the strangers.
 BRITISH ARE EASY
 The British, particularly, have been the victims of close dealing, as they have lacked that complete organization for the care of a large armed force that makes French army management so efficient. Many of the officers enlisted in the army service corps also, have been used to dealing with Englishmen and not with Greeks. Their lack of experience in the latters character costs the government no little money.
 In one instance a local Greek took contract to furnish several thousand feet of lumber to certain department of the British expeditionary force at 36 cents a foot-and on that he was making a round profit. Naturally, when the lumber was delivered 40 per cent was found not to come up to specifications and was prompt ly rejected. The Greek was not very happy over this outcome of his little deal but by no means in despair. After scout
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divide the fees of office equally with him. Re- ceved onehalf of fees of clerk of circuit court for two terms or 12 years and is now receiving fees from this office to which he now aspires. While in charge of this office for 12 years, failed to make final record in 2OOO chancery cases and wrote no minutes in chancery or criminal cases-kept fee book up to date however, and charged and col lected fees for such final record; has been con- nected with this office for 2S years.
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ing about a. bit he found another depart ment of the British army in need of lum- ber and offered the rejected timber. A brief bout at haggling over the price and the Greek received 46 cents 8 foot for the lumber that had been rejected at 10 cents less.
 SHREWD FINANCING
 On another occasion British officer in charge of certain road construction solved the problem of securing his labor by let ting the contract to employ the men to a Greek. There were to be something over 1000 workmen who were to receive three drachmae (60 cents) per day. The Greek contractor was to receive, in ad- dition, 10 cents head per day for each man so fupaished As all Macedonia is full of refugees from Thrace and Asia Minor who are in most desperate want, the contractor had no difficulty in secur- ing all the men he wanted and collecting, himself, 10 cents a head per day from each of the men whom he turned over to the British officer.
 Though the Greek was making S2O0 per day and over out of the arrangement with no personal effort he was unsatisfied with his bargain. So he engineered a strike among the men, and then offered to act as mediator, persuading the la borerS to return to work on condition of an increase of a franc (20 cents) per day in their pay. Of this he himself levied .on the men for an additional cents per man per day--and made the arrangement on consideration of receiving from the British officer in charge of the work an- other cents CT man per day in addition to the 10 cents he was already drawing from that source for his services.
 The work lasted over a month. With his double rake-of of 30 cents per man per day, the Greek cleared something over $S000 on the job
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
Centenarians
Walt Mason in Judge.

WdlL MdSOn III JuuSc.
 Old Wax has lived a hundred years in this unwholesome vale of tears, this will derness of woe I ask him how he turned the trick, Please tell me all about it. quick, for Judgs would like to know"
 q follow certain simpler rules" said old Bill Wax, "and only fools will spurn these rules of mine; I rise each morn at 8 o'clock, and in the country take a walk, nine miles, in storm or shine. I've never smoked, I've never chewed; such practices are vain and lewd, and shorten human life; I've lived a bachelor for I am sure that health and comfort fly when one secures wife. I've never swallowed beer or gin, for when you pour such liquors in. your health you undermine; observing simple rules like these, I'm sound and healthy as you please. beneath my fig and vine.''
 I unused, "It is an easy thing to live hundred years by jing, I'll follow his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
What Is a Square Deal?

w. J. WaldrOp was elected by the people in 1916, having served one term, and has made an efficient and courteous public officer and is ask ing a second term in ac- cordance with demo- cratic usage; never held office before.
 Walter Howard began running. for clerk circuit court in year 1898, agreed to withdraw from that race if an other candidate would
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07

London, April 10-(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)-The proposal for British ministry of commerce, patterned after the American department of com merce and labor, continues to gain ad- herents, notwithstanding Premier Ash quith's statement that he Is not in favor of thus adding to the size of the cab inet. Advocates of the new department in- clude several members of the House of Commons, particularly those identified with commercial interests.
 Those who oppose the idea of such an addition to the ministry declare that it's work is now being adequately performed by the Board of Trade. whose president is a member of the cabinet. But advo- cates of the new department declare the Board of Trade is not ministry of com merce.
 Exactly what would be the functions of such ministry are variously defined, but they may be generally stated in the words of a member of the House of Com mons, one of the members of the delegn- tion which called on the prime minister to ask his opinion. ''The great trouble with the present machinery of the Board of Trade" he said, is that if there is a dispute or a strike there is no one at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
ADVANTAGE WITH GERMANS

"The Germans have always had the advantage of a superior intelligence de- partment operating in every country in the world through it's emigrated workmen and office employees.
 Wages will probably be higher after the war" M. David -Mennet thinks. "and there will be a consequent increase in the cost of manufactured goods, but I don't think the advance will apply to raw ma terials for the reason that fixed charges and general expenses apply to them in so much sllghter measure than to manu- factured goods"
 The cotton industry, in which M. David Mennet is particularly interested, he says. has recovered very well from the effect of the first conditions of the war. ex cepting in the case of the few spinning mills established in the invaded regions Commerce in luxuries has also made great gains, he says, but not so much as com merce in products of current consumption which, in spite of the war, partly because or 1t, IS about normal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
Hopeless

FTOW J uuBc
 wlliis The new cook is jewel, dear.
 Mrs. Wiilis-Yes. but I'm afraid that I must discharge her.
 Willis-W Whats the matter?
 Mrs. Willis-Sm suspicious of her I went to the libfsSy this afternoon and spent three hours in the reference room and couldn't find any of hers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07

Costly From the Boston Transcript. Did veg give yer wolfe anything on her birthday Pat?'' "Oi did" "Phwat did it cost yez?" "Tin dollars or tin days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
FRANCE WILL HAVE NO TRASH ID DUMP Cheaply Made Goods Are
 Not Available TAKE GREAT PAINS Necessary to Import Labor to Make Cheap Stuff-France Will Have
 to Frame New Tariff Law
 When the War Is Over
TAKE GREAT PAINS

Paris, April -(Correspondence of the Associated Press s)-"The United States need not fear being used by France as a dumping ground for prod ucts to be sold at sacrifice after the war" is the opinion of Monsieur David Mennet, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Paris and an important man in the French cotton industry
 ''French goods" Monsieur David Mennet observes, "are generally so well made that they must be sold dear. If you have seen French machines or artisans at work you have noticed that it is as natural to them to give to their product the precision and tasty finish that characterize our productions as it is for them to go through any of the details of daily liE that have be- come second nature to them. You may have noticed that even the clerks in shops take infinite pains in doing up the most trifling packages they may have tried your patience, but to them 1t is only natural to hold on to the package until 1t responds to a critical idea of what is presentable. It is the same with all workmen in France; ar ticles don't leave their hands until they can take pride in them. When we find it necessary to make things cheaply, we are obliged to import the labor to do it. Such products were never spe- cia1ized in any branch and what we made with imported labor was never, so far as I know, exported at a loss before the war. I have no reason to believe that it will be done after Ne war we shall no doubt have exhausted our stocks and have to begin practice ally anew in such branches of manu-
The Dolores star., 1916-08-25

Of all the expeditions, the journey into
the UNEMPLOYED forest in southern Brit
ish Guiana.
Melville did his best to dissunde DR..
Farabee from the trip, declaring that
the chances were against his coming
out alive. DR.. Farabee refused to be
dissuaded, but persuaded Ogilvie to go
with him. Six months later Melville
passed them on the street. and SO
changed were they by the effects of
the journey that he did not recog-
nize them. DR.. Farabee's account of
that trip is thrilling.
1T was most successful" he said.
From December 16, 1913. to April l.
1914. we were among tribes who had
never seen white men before. All of
them were very interesting. None
had ever seen matches or guns or
salt or clothing before. All had beads
and knives; all wanted fishhooks, and
many got their first ones from us.
ION our trip into the Waiwai coun-
try 1t was necessary to reduce the
party to six, four Indians. Ogilvie and
myself. A larger party couldn't live
on the country. The tribes live far
apart. often ten or twelve days over
rough mountains and across rivers
Three-fOurths of the time and all of
the last month we had to depend upon
the game and fish we could catch.
Our ammunition got low, but the In
dams with us used their bows and ar
rows well. When we got out we had
two loads of shot and seventeen rifle
cartridges left-a narrow margin.
"Ogilvie had been fourteen years in
the bush and was the best man | ever
saw for such work, but he found here
the worst waterfalls he had ever seen.
In what are known as the Great
Falls we spent several days. 1t was
impossible to get through. We car
ried everything overland to the foot Of
the falls on the Dutch side and there
to our joy we found four large canoes
belonging to men hunting balata gum,
who were deep in the forest. took
one Indian and followed trail for
two days, but could not find them.
This was the worst trip of my ex-
perience. Ogilvie was too weak to 90.
There was nothing else to do but to
take one Of the strange canoes. a great
crime in Dutch Guiana. The next day
we met some negroes and persuaded
them to take us down to the first store
and to return the canoe.
I'VE got out none too soon, as Ogil-
vie was having fever every night and
1 severe chills and fever every other
nj h uox oil =
working hard all day on poor food
cut us to pieces rapidly. When I left
Philadelphia my weight was 1893
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pounds. When we reached the Dutch
storehOuse 1t was 145 pounds. We ar
rived bareheaded and barefooted and
starved. Of course"
OF the characteristics and customs
Of the natives he met during the
course of the expedition DIR. Farabee
Is enthusiastic. After their first tlmid-
ity at the appearance Of white men
had vanished they were courteous and
gracious and received the explorers
with hospitality from which the
white man could well take lessons.
One Of the most picturesque expert
ences encountered by DR.. Farrabee and
his party was when they came upon a
village assembled for the purpose of
curing one of its inhabitants of a
poisonous snake bite. The victim was
stretched upon the ground. Around
him were dancers who after sucking
the wound alternately blew and spat
upon not only the bite but all Of the
mans joints. In an outer circle sat
the musicians. who played such an
insidiOus. plaintive tune that even the
strangers had difficulty in resisting
the hypnosis 1t was designed to in
duce. The bitten man was more or
less hypnOtized and by this method, as
far rs the visitors could observe, was
cured.
Marriage takes place at very early
age among these abOrigines.
Many of the villages have but two
houses, one communal affair in
which there is Il big general court with
the apartments of the individual
families admitting on 1t. and the other
house which the women seldom en-
ter but which Is, maintained as a sort
Of mems club. in which they entertain
visitors from other tribes.
The women would delight the hearts
of the anti-suffragists. Moral suasion
is their big stick. There is n native
liquor which is very intoxicating. The
women. however, do not touch 1t, al
though drunkenness Is prevalent
among the men. During the periods
of intOxicatiOn of the men the women
restrain them from barterng and the
men obey with lamblike obedience.
The men entertain a deep affection
for their wives and will barter any
thing else IN their possession with
neighboring tribes except the "cush-
ma" or ceremonial shirt which the
wives make
Cassava, root similar to the potato,
is the staple article of food. Agri.
culture in its broader sense Is unknown
to these newly discovered Indians,
The men hunt and fish and do the
bartering. The women gather the
fruit and nuts and CRATE the cassaya,
The Dolores star., 1916-08-25
Cleanliness and Goodness.

Two members of a Latin-American
family, staying at a New York hotel,
were paying their first visit to the new
Turkish baths in the basement of the
hotel recently. They stopped for a
moment, to survey the room. The pot
plants held their attention for a brief
moment. but the oil paintings, pictur-
ing Biblical subjects, hung so as to
almost completely cover the walls,
seemed study to them. "Why has
the management of this place put such
divinely religious subjects at the en-
The Dolores star., 1916-08-25

Serbia Is said to lead In centena-
rians. and Ireland is a close second.
There are about 1900 gas plants in
this country.
Serious troubles, If they be not too
serious or numerous, are beneficial in
that they teach us the folly of taking
the trivial ones much to heart.
Father will carry an armful Of
packages two miles for the cookbook
ing wife of neighbor, but mother
says If she wants him to bring in one
scuttleful of coal he raises all Sorts
Of a racket.
The Dolores star., 1916-08-25
Men and Women

Women a. well as men are made miser-
able by kidney and bladder trouble. DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root. the great kidney
remedy. II highly recommended by thou
sands.
Swamp-Root stands the highest for the
reason that SO, many people say 1t has
proved to be just the remedy needed IL
thousands Of even the most distressing
cases.
At druggists in 6oc. and 500 sizes. You
may receive a sample size bottle Of
pamphlet telling you about Il. Address
DR.. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton. N. r,
and enclose ten cents. also mention this
paper.
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purposes recognize
claiming
planned will throw safeguards
evidence indubtably
officials that unclaimed
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WORTH KNOWING

A stick Of wood was recently shipped
from British Columbia to England,
which was PIG feet long. 1t will be
used as flagpole In Kew gardens.
Balloons possess remarkable in
stinct for finding water, and have been
used for that purpose in South A.
fica.
The tusks of an African elephant
sometimes weigh as much as 100
bounds, and reach nine feet In
lsngth.
The Dolores star., 1916-08-25
A woman's Way.

Cornelius Vanderbilt said, In a re-
cent argument on preparedness:
"They who would rely or volun-
tary militia, instead of on conscript
army. know as little about real pre-
paredness as a woman about tobacco.
"'Why,' said she, it's all nonsense
to say woman can't buy her hus-
bands cigars. AS for me, never
have the least difficulty
"'No? What's your systemr she
was asked.
"I just take along a sample stump
she said, and there's never the least
trouble about matching the shader"
Washington Star.
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The demand for war literature in
Germany can be surmised from the
fact that between the beginning of
the war and December l, last, 1900
books and pamphlets falling into that
classification were published, while by
now the volume has swelled to approx.
imately 5000 separate works.
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its IDEALS Lastly
preference to the generally Italian marble.
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fused into whole The central idea
Genius
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holding
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groceries for more than n thousand
government clerks. and thereby cuts
the cost Of living for each family from
SIS to $50 month.
A saving of from $4,000 to S25,-
600 month on the cost of living to a
thousand of the eighteen hundred
members of a single club sounds exag.
gerated. and yet it is being done by
that number of the employees of Uncle
Sam.
Mr.. Weston was employed by Sec.
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trance to a Turkish bath?" asked one.
The others brow knit for moment 4
then came the slow response: THE
reason here seems easy" he said;
cleanliness Is Goodness"