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New Britain herald., 1916-01-11
INVESTIGATING CASE
 OF AMERICAN CONSUL
Higgins Accused of Making Unneutral and Anti-Ger-
 man DenunciatiOns.

Berlin, Jan. II, via London, 12:55 D. m.:--A Wolff bureau despatch from Stuttgart announces that an official investigation has been begun of the case of Edward Higgins, American consul at Stuttgart. MT. Higgins was accused by the Staats Zeitung of New York of unneutral and anti-German declarations. The Staats Zeitung S article was reprinted last week by the Cologne Gazette.
 Berlin, Jan. II, by Wireless to Say ville.-The newspapers of Berlin, says the Overseas News Agency, as sert that the German government has taken up the case of Edward Higgins, American consul at Stuttgart, who is said to have made statements hostile to Germany and in violation of neu- trality.
 Washington, Jan. 11.-Amb bassadOr Gerard at Berlin has been authorized by Secretary Lansing to investigate unofficial charges against American Consul Edward Higgins of Stuttgart, alleging that he is O-BritiSh, and objectionable to the German govern ment. Should the charges be proved, it was said, MT. Higgins will be in formed that this government will not permit unneutral activities on his part. No official charge or complaint has been made against him.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-11
Clan MaCFarlane Sunk in the
 Mediterranean
NO DETAILS OF INCIDENT
AustIians Advance on all Fronts and Nontenegrins Evacuate Two Towns cd-Champagne Reports Conflict.

London, Jan. II, 3:4S D. m.-The British steamer Clan MacFarlane of ' 4, 823 tons has been sunk in the Med iterranean. There are no details of the sinking
New Britain herald., 1916-01-11

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New Britain herald., 1916-01-11
Admit Austrian Advances.

Paris, Jan. 10, 10:35 D. m.-Aus- trian advances on all fronts and evacuation by the Montenegrins of the towns of Berane and Kouk Rhtatz are officially admitted in a statem ent given out tonight by the Montenegrin consulate.
 Text of Statement.
 The statemen follows:
 ''The Austrian offensive was pushed furiously on all fronts. The Mon tenegrins evacuated Berane and have fallen back on the left bank of the River Linn.
 The Austrians occupied Kouk -I.htatz on the Lovcen after gas attack"
New Britain herald., 1916-01-11
Forged Notes Found.

MT. Curtis left no estate with the possible exception of a small life in surance policy in favor of his wife.
 This became known last night af- ter a lengthy meeting of the directors of the institution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29
THE SONG OF THE MACI

Edwin Markham in Pulitzer's Review. With a burning in our spirits, with .
 lifting of our hands, We have threaded fallen kingdoms long
 forgotten in the sands Dead kingdoms where the thistles crowd
 to guard the empty thrones, Where lone owls boot their loud disdain
 among the scattered stones.
 the windy waste, Where once the angel of the sword paths
 of Eden paced, We trod on crumbled Babylon, where
 once, on lowered height, Her winged lions watched away the lone
 Assyrian night. Out of the hush of the holy east. out
 of the night of old, We seek the one, the keepers of the sa-
 cred fire foretold Long centuries the wise have watched
 upon peak afar. Twelve Magi keeping vigil for the rising
 of the star; Long ages they have waited for the her.
 aid of the birth The great hour when a child should rise
 to boise the shaken earth. We come commanded by star, and sent
 by a dream we go, Yet of this hour hereafter all the worlds
 and heavens shall know Here is the One we worship in the splen.
 dor of the fire He is the dream of every heart, He is
 the worlds desire. This is the child of mystery drawn down
 to earthly years. To bear the common burden and to taste
 of mortal tears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29
HOTEL .LOBBIES
Shining hH Water

Both Mobile and Birmingham are be- ginning to realize some advantages and benefits from the use of the Warrior river" said H. U. Feibelman, a promi- nent young attorney from the Gulf City, who Is in Birmingham. However, ship ping on the Warrior river is just in its infancy. It may seem that the use of the stream since the completion of Lock r has not been as great as 1t should have been, but there were many obstacles to be overcome. The development of mines along the river, the arrangements for getting products to and from the stream and the lack of wharfage facilities have all contributed In holding back the use of the river.
 However, we people of Mobile believe that shipping by water from the mineral district to the port of Mobile has gone far enough to demonstrate the wonderful possibilities for the future. In time the Warrior should develop into one of the great commerce carriers of the country. With the movement on foot for the tm- provement of the port facilities at Mo bile and the various plans under way for further developments along the river In the mineral district. added inn petus will be given the shipping by boat and barge"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29
THE BRITISH ROOSEVELT

Lloyd George. the active little man who recently added the responsibilities of prime minister of England to his numer- ous other political honors, is compared to our own Theodore Roosevelt by Isaac F. Marcosson, whose intimate study of Eng lands war chiefs appears in the January issue of Everybodys MT. Marcosson says:
 Reducing the wizard Welshman to a formula, you find that he is 50 per cent Roosevelt in the virility and forcefulness of his character; b per cent Bryan in the purely demagogic phase of his makeup, while the rest is canny Celt op- portunism. It makes dazzling and we'll nigh irresistible composite. M
 Its with Roosevelt that the best and happiest comparison can be made. In deed I know of no more convincing in- depreciation of the thing that is Lloyd- George than to point this live parallel velt-the imperial rough Rider. Instead of using the Big Stick, he employs the Big Voice. No two leaders ever had SC much in common.
 Each is more of an institution than 8 mere man; each dramatizes himself 1T everything he does; each has genius foi the benevolent assimilation of idea anc fact They are both persistent but bril- liant crammers.' Trust Lloyd-George te know all about the man who comes te caa hin, uyh ha be statesman author explorer. or plain captain of industry. I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29
TO YEARS OF THE SMITHSONIAN


 From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 Ninety years ago James Smithson died. His life had been peculiar. His father was a man of note, but unfortunately James was born out of wedlock, a fact which embittered his whole life. Having been unusually successful for those times, he determined that he should have an immortality of a terrestrial kind, and his eyes were turned toward the young re- public across the Atlantic, which became the beneficiary of his wealth, to found an institution for the advancement of science.
 It is interesting to read the accounts of the early years of the Smithson fund. For years there was objection to accept ing the gift on various grounds, but bet ter sense prevailed and the Smithsonian institution came into being a score of years after the founder died. How great has been it's agency for good only those who have inquired into its workings are aware It gave an impetus to practical science which was notable in it's day and which has continued without inter- ruption in spite of the fact that its man. agenlent is of a peculiar sort.
 To Professor Henry, its first director, is due much of the credit for making the institution factor in ethnology. He early saw that the aborrigines of the coun- try were passing away and that their arts and crafts would be lost unless a concerted effort was made to preserve them. AS a result of his labors and his inspirations upon successors the Smith sonian has not only remarkable col lecticn of specimens of the arts and crafts of all the American Indians, but has in it's publications preserved the myths and folklore, the habits of mind origires, which are in many respects the most remarkable which survived into the nineteenth century.
 In late years the institution h4ls widened it's scope by being given many former governmental agencies. The process might well be continued so that 1t should become not only an institute and a museum, but a great national uni- versity. Much as it has accomplished by itself it has done even more in giving inspirations to similar institutions all over the country. There are several hum dred so-called museums in this nation and all are more or less engines of popu- lar education and scientific research, but pra cttcaIlv all If them owe their origin to the Smithsonian.
 That is what makes the seventieth an- niversary of unusual importance. The ~name of James Smithson will last for centuries after some of the highest born Brtons who had legal inheritances and who made name for themselves have been forgotten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29
MINERAL MEAT
l the Cleveland Plain Dealer,

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Science is hurrying to the rescue. Along sanitary and military and me- chanical lines it has made marvellous progress. In the culinary field it leaves much to be desired.
 Now comes a Philadelphia chemist and offers mankind a mineral soup that Is pronounced fully as nutritious as the finest beef extract He told the Franklin institute the other night how the sub stitute is prepared. It is decidedly pe- culiar recipe and one that might well make the ordinary cookbook shudder. You take portions of sodium phosphate sulphate add a little sugar and a small amount of yeast. These ingredients are mixed and set away until reaction by autolysis ensues, and a brown sticky paste that has all the nutritive qualities of commercial beef extract is produced.
 According to the chemist. it is the yeast that transforms the inorganic minerals into the pronounced organic meat sub- stitute. The yeast contains fermentation agents called enzymes, which are respon- sible for the alteration, and produce the food qualities from the chemicals. There were doubters about the table at the Franklin institute. They insisted upon tasting the stone soup" and pronounced it good They even declared that it was fully equal in nutrition and appearance to the market variety, and each of the sam piers pronounced the odor remarkably beeflike.
 that the cost of 'stone soup" he called it synthetic meat is less than that from the OK or sheep-which. of course, was to be expected
 However, 1t can be assumed that even if the substitute is cheaper and equally nutritious, it will be a long time before it takes the place of scrapple on the Philadelphia dinner plate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29
STORIES OF MARK TWAIN

moment he had begun to sing the words and to wave his arms wildly for all the company to join in the national anthem. The response was hearty, and. when the band had passed, MT. Clemens thus com cluded his address:
 "Gentlemen, you will find my speech in full in the morning papers. Only the nlu- sic will be omitted
 AS AN ART CRITIC
 The late H. H. Rogers, his most inti- mate friend, once took Mark Twain to see a very beautiful and valuable piece of sculpture It represented young woman coiling up her hair, and the work manship was such that the owners other companions stood open mouthed in ad- miration.
 well" said Rogers. turning to his companion for his verdict, what do you think of it? Grand, isn't it?"
 ''Yes, it's very pretty said Mark Twain, "but it's not true to nature!'
 why not?" inquired every one In sur prise.
 "She ought to have her mouth full of hairpins," replied the humorist, gravely. Mark Twain was a good sailor, and he often spent happy weeks cruising with his old friend. H. H. Rogers. in his steam yacht, the Kanawha. Once they were caught south of Cuba in 8 heavy sea, the effect of a long-drawn and violent gale The Caribbean was heaving at its worst. For once in his life Mark Twain was upset by the rolling and pitching of the ship. He leaned over the lee rail and clung desperately.
 ''Mr. Clemens, can't I get you some thing?" asked a steward, solicitously.
 "Yes," Mark drawled. earnestly-'yes; get me a little island!'
 SHORTENED HIS WAIT
 "Experience,'' said Mark Twain once. makes us wise, but it also makes us hard. Consider the old, experienced man in the busy restaurant He took seat, looked around him, and, pointing to we'll dressed gentleman who had not yet been served, said to the waiter:
 Waiter, how long has that gentleman been here?
 About 12 minutes, sir the waiter an swered.
 Whats his order?
 'Porterhouse and French fried, sir, with mnce pie and coffee to come
 "The old man, hardened by experience, slipped quarter In the walters hand.
 Waiter he said, I'm in a hurry Put on another porterhouse and bring me his.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29

Collected by Albert Bigelow Paine, Au-
 thor of ''The Biography of Mark
 Twain"
 MARK TWAIN ON SMOKING
 "I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. l have no other restriction as regards smoking.
 "I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; wake up in the night sometimes once, sometimes twice, sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these op- portunties to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got meaning the chairman-if you've got one I am making no charges. I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then for a few months at time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.
 Today it is all of 60 years since I be- gan to smoke the limit I have never 
 them. I early found that those were too expensive for me. have always bought cheap cigars-reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me $4 barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay $7 now. Six or seven. Seven, think. Yes. it's seven. But that includes the barrel. often have smoking parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge I wonder why that is?'
 WITHOUT MUSIC
 Mark Twain got his training as a speaker in the palmy days of the lecture, when every popular American author and some British ones-used to go about the country from town to town giving readings" But even in those days MT Clemens was not subject to stage fright, and by no means easily annoyed Once, in Boston, he was interrupted in the midst of his lecture by the sudden rising of teacher and her attendant pupils, evidently bound for the suburbs. As the party passed before him Mark Twain
 "Ah," he drawled, going to catch the 9:30 train, eh? It seems to me that when ever I want to talk, people always have to catch the 9:30 train"
 On another occasion, at a political speaking, Mark Twain's address was in terrupted by the passage, just outside, of band, playing "The Star-Spangled Ban- ner" The speaker never hesitated. In a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29
ExERCIsE YoUR wILL

In the January Woman's Home Com panion a writer says:
 Let us keep it in mind each day that a weak will is the sign of inferiority; it means that we belong to the lowa classes, to the weak and inferior; and then remember that If we remain weak and inferior, it is not because we must, but entirely because We prefer to; and remember that we can become one of the intelligent ruling class if we choose. Let us set ourselves certain tests of will, and remember to let them be tests, not tasks. Let us throw away if we can, all somber ideas of duty and all ideas of our weakness being sinful Perhaps 1t might be accounted so by those of a strongly religious trend; but let us remember that our task, our whole splendid and joyous task in this instance, is to learn to ex- ercise and use our own powers.
 "It is Emerson who says: What you are speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you say"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29
Germany Will Let Her Terms Be Known


 Germany has let it be known through diplomatic channels that she is willing to state the which she will make peace However this will not be done publicly. Neither does Germany expect the allies to make public avowal of their terms.
 Whether the simie is applicable to their not the central powers certainly grapng at the suggestion made by President Wilson like drowning sezing straw.
 Germany and her allies virtually acknowledge that they not hope to make any headway toward settlement of the without the aid of the United States the powerful among neutral nations.
 Although there is still a strong sentiment among the allies in favor of change in the military situation what first deemed the most nsupabe obstacle peace conference has been removed by Geanys willingness her fdenay in advance Whatever else they may offer in op position to barley the allied statesmen longer bring this argument to bear
 Of cose there of telling at present whether Germany will make the expected of her. and
 conference held it may nothing but the prospects of meeting neutral city brighter than at any
 time since President Wilson's notes to the belgeren were sent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Maybe it would help some if they would let the dogs alone and muzzle some of the men.
 Among other funny things in life are a fat woman trying to look indig- nant and a fat man trying to look im- portant
 The stubborn man who would rather lose a friend than an argument usually loses both.
 What has become of the old-fash- toned man who referred to women as the female sect?
 Even the geometrical expert who knows that there is no such thing as the biggest half Is always trying to get it.
 Another bore is the orator who an- nounces that "The time has passed for words,' and then uses about 15,000 of them.
 Some people get so much exercise out of batting themselves on the back that they do not require any other kind. People are always willing to do you la favor when they know that you do not need it. Maybe one reason why Mexico is so sassy is because it doesn't think much of any nation that has only two living eX-PreS1dentS.
 Any dub can die for a woman. But 1t takes a hero to marry her and earn a living for her. After man has been married for a while he knows enough to apologize to his wife every time she does something to offend him. None of us admit it. But most of us have a sneaking idea that the rest of I | L h nr1 ftxx.o rying along without us. It may sound paradoxical. But it takes a man with staying qualities to make a go of thing. Maybe the reason why women get off street cars that way is because their | clothes button up the back. | It Is a wate of time for married woman to advise a single girl against marriage The single girl has just enough curiosity in her makeup to find out the reason for herself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29
SWELL TIE MARY GARDEN TALKS

eat too much cake and candy. When they see others grow thin they say, What did she do to herself?
 For breakfast I have tea and a roll. For luncheon I have oysters-I adore oysters-and a glass of milk. For dinner I again eat oysters and whatever else I want, but no sweets or afternoon tea"
 What Mary did for the fighting forces of France she will do for her unfortunate countrymen in America. She accepted an invitation to sing to the students of the Hobo college.
 These men are the industrial Belgians of America" said long-haired repre- sentative of Mike Walsh superintendent of the institution. '"rhey are the victims of economic frightfulness. You sang for the wounded in France. Will you sing for us?'
 Yes. indeed" answered Miss Garden with a puzzled air Are they badly wounded?"
 You do not understand. the plain of industry. They have been crushed in the maw of greed"
 All right, I'll be there. don't know what you are talking about, but tell me when to come and I'll sing"
 'Oh. yes, about that lingerie. The story was all nonsense. It was 25,00O francs worth, not $25.OOO worth. Good ness. there is not that much underwear in the world, is there?"
 Her audience of men fidgeted
 well anyway, a woman made me some things. She tried to overcharge me and I wouldn't pay. That was all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29

is one of the reasons why he maintains his amazing political hold.
 Lloyd George has Roosevelt's striking gift of phrase-making, although he does not share thes Americans love of letter writing. As have already intimated, whatever may be his future, Lloyd George will never be confronted by accusing epistle. None exists.
 Like Roosevelt, Lloyd-George is past master in the art of effective publicity. He has a monopoly on the British front page Each of these remarkable men projects the fire and magnetism of his dynamic personality. Curiously enough, each one has been the terror of the Cor porate Evil-doer-the conspicuous target of Big Business in his respective country. Each one is dictator in the making, and it is safe to assume that if Lloyd George lived in republic, like Roosevelt he would say: My Army My Navy and My Policies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29

New 1ork woman, permitted by a judge to sentence her husband for intoxi- cation and disorderly conduct, gave him five months more than the law allowed. Perhaps 1t is just as well to keep irate wives off the bench in cases like that. A farmer living near London says he occasionally gave his cows pint Of whisky before the new liquor regulations went into effect The chances are he wouldn't treat one of his cows to a pint of whisky now.
 Addressing the American Genetic asso- ciation in New York, a Massachusetts doctor said every family should have three children. Somebody ought to tell him that the stork is not a mathematical bird
 An enthusiastic traveller says cham pagne flows in New Orleans like water. If it flows like the water in the grand old Mississippi we'll have none of it for drinking purposes
 * *
 Having signed a contract for another important match which promises a fat purse, MT. Jack Dillon will soon be in a better position to combat the high cost of living.
 One reason-and perhaps the chief one why Madame de Thebes became famous was the fact that she had Alexander Du- mas for press agent.
 * * Lassen Peak celebrated Christmas by Smoking up," but the wise natives in that part of the country knew nobody's house was afire.
 France honors General Joffre anew. After all, he seems to have been the man of the hour during decidedly criti- cal hour.
 The chief objection most people find to Christmas is the reaction by which it is inevitably followed. Even the small boy feels it.
 A Chicago man named Haman hanged himself in a basement. His biblical name- sake was hanged at considerable alti- tude.
 Maybe "Pancho'' Villa is planning to start the New Year off with a pillaging party. to which his followers are in vited.
 life when a military figure wearing a spiked helmet tried to embrace her. Having "reduced' to a mere 119 pounds, Mary Garden is not unwilling to tell newspaper men about it.
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 Judgin from General Won Mackensen' S activities, he hasn't the remotest idea that peace is in the air
 * * *
 Evidently Carranza has never heard that good old adage, He who hesitates is lost.''