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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-12
RAILROAD EARNINGS

CANADIAN PACIFIC
1920 Increase
First week March. s32 0O0 $4,000
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BAR SILVER

Bar silver was quoted In London to-
day I'D higher, at 70d.
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Dividends
THE ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY
COMPANY
Dividends
Allegheny Avenue and 10Th Street

Philadelphia. March 3 1870
The Directors have declared a dIarlerIv
dividend Of two 5000 dollars (S2. .5Ol per
share from the net earnings Of the Com.
pany on both Common and Preferred Stocks.
payable ABril I, 1920. to stockholders of
record at the close Of business on March ID
1920 Checks will be mailed.
WALTER q. HENDERToN. Treas
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE

q New York. March Preliminary
quotations show that the reaction in
foreign exchange was still underway,
demand sterling being quoted &c below
the low figure of yesterday. at 3.66L.
and cables at 3.67. Other exchanges fol-
lowed in the decline
Quotations were:
Belgian cables 1890, checks l2.92: lire
cables 1910 checks 1872; marks I3O :
Swiss cables j.9l. checks 500; Euildcr
cables 36h, checks 5000; pesetas cables
lI55, checks l745; Stockholm cables
1926, checks 1880; Christania cables
l7.t5, checks 1880; Copenhagen cables
1915, checks 1850
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Financial Briefs

clifford A. Watson has become asso-
ciated with tho local office Of Stolsey.
Slmnri & ca
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-12
Philadelphia Stocks

met change made bv compari rison with last
sale on New York Stock Exchange
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-12

'RatoS on Outstanding cor'IirHteR of in,
dcbtedness con'lnu" unchanged at Is, per
cent.
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fits the part like q glove.
 The insistent spirit of mirth arrives with the opening scene of the picture and never once forsakes the plot until a knowing police dog takes up the trail of the buried slipper and actually trees the pretty star for her lover in the final closeup And. by the way, the incident of the buried slipper" is in itself a moment of rare humor, it being the put ting into practice of an old Irish tale asserting that the girl who buried the slipper with money in it would surely find out straightway the identity of her real lover.
 As elfish Kitty Mccarthy, Miss Thomas s scored the biggest success of her screen career. She is pleasing and at the same time convincing, making the part per fectly natural and true to life. She is supported by most capable cast, in- cluding Walter McGrail as leading man. The picture is superbly directed and shows excellent photography.
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| In the shadow of the sulphurous clouds of Mont Pelee. on the Island of Mar unique, was born the girl who was aft erwards to become the Empress Jose phine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
 She left her volcanic home at the age of 16 to become the wife of the Vis- comte de Beauharnais, son of her ia ther's superior officer in the French l navy. It was a marriage of convenience and, naturally enough, not very sue cessful one. Both had had their early romances, and the count still fondly chung to his sad, sweet pre-nuptial ex- periences, which had been a passion Tor woman older than he. Josephine, nav ing given up hers. insisted that ehe count should do likewise.
 The count, after eight years Of re- proaches, filed suit for divorce. This pleased Josephine who had already re- marked that the more she saw of mar ried life, the bette rshe liked her vol canic home. The court awarded the daughter of Mime. Beauharnais to the mother, and their son to the father.
 JOSEPHINE LOSES HIM
 FOR GOOD
 Two years and Josephine decided that pineapples looked better on the island oi Martinique than grass widows, so sne lolled back to Paris and was reunited with her husband just in time Tor the l French revolution. The Viscount Beau harnais was a revolutioner-er. but an anti-bolshevik, which came under the head Girondists. He made the mistake of opposing the execution of the royaf family, and MT. and Mrs. Beauharnals l had to check their offspring with some friendly Cheyenne and move to iron up holstered apartments in two or the pest 1 and most popular prisons in the Parls a' | the time.
 Josephine was not allowed to commit nicate with her husband. One day sne found the task allotted to her that or reading to those about to be executed. on the list she read her husbands name. Josephine shrieked and tainted. but that did not stop the greedy appetite or La Cuillotine It sniffed the count up ana waited eagerly for the next. | With the fall of Robespierre, all ms batch of enemies leaked out or lail' Mme Beauharnais among others. ol, began a hard siege for the widow. So many of the workers had been bumped off by the terrorists that the present high cost of living is jazz selection compared to the hardshps endured py the French people during the lisos.
 Fortunately for Josephine, Talhen-i power in the rickety government-g@oe @ her pension. Tallerand and Barras' a.se higher up in political pull. took cnuI- my interest in her. and soon the wioow mite began to net 4 per cent.
 Out of the chaos of revolution, 3 prancing young officer yelled down with autocracy,'' and by outyeiilng .ne others got himself made 8 general. lnis was none other than Napoleon sne TIE LITTLE CORPORAL
 IS INTRODUCED
 One evening at the home or Mme. Reauharnais. Barras let slip remark about what fine lad this Napoleon was. Josephine knew Barras had sometnihs mn his sleeve She sniffed. :.
 But, my dear, he's a coming man, Barras remonstrated. ..
 "Eh bien. but he's not coming here' the widow cried ps ,;rs
 "cherie, you understand not. Ia nxe to have this lad marry we'll Ion.s na rts,-I like not his very name. TO 'no it reminds one of an ill-fed horse that
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Cured Rupture

was badly ruptured while lifting trunk several years ago Doctors said my only hops of cure was an operation. Trusses did me no quickly and completely cured me. Years have passed and the rupture has never returned. although an doing hard work as carpen- ter. There was no operation, no lost time. no trouble I have nothing to sell. but will give full information about how you may find a complete without operation. if you write to me Eugene M. Pullen. Carpen. ter. 395g Marcellus Avenue. Manasquan. N. J. Better cut out this notice and show it to any others who ruptured--you may save . life at least stop the misery of rupture and the worry and dangers of an operation'- Adv.
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Thomas Hardy

From The New Republic.
 Thomas Hardy, the great English novelist, who celebrated his eightieth birthday on June 2, has remarked oi some of his own rustic characters that they possess "an almost exhaustless bio graphical or historical acquaintance with every object animate and inan'nate within the observers horizon" This is true of the novelist himself; and his horizon is all Wessex. He watches the march of the cancellations and records the progress of the storm, the contrast ing and increasing brilliance of the light ning the various rollings of he thunder.
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ito his brother, Louis Bonaparte. and
 made them King and Queen of Holland. They reigned several months before the Dutch knew that they had new sover- eigns. He made Josephine's son viceroy of Italy. He found the apartments at the Palais Royal too cramped. and transferred his court to the Tuileries. Like all parvenues, he laid it on thick. He initiated the very morals of those sovereigns that he in the name of hb- erty had helped to tear down. Touring Europe as Americans do, Ma poleon conquered as he went. He just about jugged the entire continent, and brought back the best to Paris, when those who felt tether string of yearn- ing. to their own home and fireside got toge ther.
 THE EMPEROR
 NEGLECTS HIS WIFE It was after his great victory al Wagram. in 1909. that Josephine took him to task for never coming home ex- cept for mealtime any more.
 "Nappie, I don't believe you like me any more." she began, but he cut her short.
 Woman, don't call me Nappie Call
 me Emperor. It isn't that don't like you. Josephine. but I'm royal now, and I must marry into the royal family. It 1 is noblesSe oblige."
 Josephine was ditched, and Napoleon married Louisa, the Austrian princess, who proved to be his jinx. He suffered | his first defeat al the hands of tha 1 Russians, and down the slippery hill l of Hard Luck he rolled till Josephine, residing peacefully at Malmaison, heard 1 that he had abdicated. Josephine's days were drawing to an end. and she died | four weeks after Napoleon had landed
 at the Isleof Elba.
 L. Napoleon came back, and had a grand | and glorious hundred days run on the 1 big circuit but the world had learned 1 that all this freedom and government control stuff was just blind to cover 1 the greed of a man who wanted to rule and had the military genius to back his desires. Napoleon met his Waterloo
 He was shipped to St. Helena for safe deposit.
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trees of different species. From their dssimilar flames he can distinguish the sorts of wood used in the November bonfires. Night in all her moods is fa- miliar to him; and dawn no less than morning. No event is too small for his sympathy. He notes the musical breath-
 ngs'' of the pine which begin as soon as the young tree is set in the ground. The toad seeking shelter. and the spiders that drop from the ceiling are signs of the coming rain. The indifference of the birds to wetting is token that sprins is on the way. The urge and stir of re- turning life in spring is a rapturous and ever-new experience to him which he de- lights to picture. In a recent poem he expresses his hope that if. when he is goLe, men remember him at all. II will be as one who noticed the beauty of the spring, to whom the hawk and the thorn were familiar sights, who strove to- pro- tect the little creatures of the couhtry- side from harm, and who had an eye for the mysteries of the full-starred heaven<
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Wood lots yield to farmers something like s195, ,0oo,000 in simple year, says the American Forestry Magazine, but they might, with systematic manageemnt and care produce several times that much.
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OEue Thomas, Darling Mine" At AlcazaI First Of Week

Olive Thomas, the screens beloved star, will be tn feature attraction at the AL cszsr theatre Monday, Tuesday and "Wednesday in Darling Nine" a new picture by John Lynch and Laurence Trimble
 The added feature will be a new Sun shine comedy, Chase Me" The always popular musical programme will be rem dered " Earl N Wiley and George L. Hamrick, the Alcazar's premier organ fsts.
 Darling Mine" is an exquisite comedy drama; it is the epitome of effervescent bumor characferistic of the Littoral Isle of perpetual smiles and romance, Ire- land.
 Although it's scenes are laid in Amer lea, the leading character role is that of a real Irish lassie, who never once loses her Gaelic identity, e,en in the maelstrom of the worlds greatest melt ing pot, New York. And wnsome Olive, herself daughter of the Emerald Isle.
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After a. controversy that lasted ten years, French scientists have decided that the use of old corks in wine bottles is not detrimental to health.
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sConplsinins that the non-attendance at church services had discouraged him in his work the Rev. Fleetwood Haynes of Little Hope Va. has offered to recon vey his church and all it's effects to the original owner of the site and take up pascorate in another church.
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R. s. Melone and Walter. .Mayes had some good fishing in barn on an island in the Mississippi river near Ellisberry, Mo. the first catch being a twenty-four pound buffalo. The island was flooded and the barn was standing in several feet of water.
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He contrasts the sound of rain-drops as they fall on different kinds of ground
 and of the wind as it blows through
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Alum IS valuable agent in hardening saIow.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-11-19
EARLY MAILING FOR TROOPS
Christmas Packages for American
Troops Abroad Should Reach Ho-
boken Dec. 5 and Nov. 20.

WASH tngton. - Christmas packages
for American troops IN the Rhine
must reach Hoboken by Dec. 5 to in
sure delivery before Christmas day,
the war department 0 d. They
shuuld be sent care of the general gu
~'rintendent, army tran. port service
Houoken. n. j.
Pare. Is for men station in Hawaii
and the Philippines. should reach the
depot quartermaster. Fort Mason, San
Francisco, not later than Dec. s,
while those for shipment to the Paa
ANA Canal Zone and Porto Rico should
be In the hands of the general upper
intendent, army transport service, pier
3, army supply base, South Brooklyn,
New York. by Nov mber 20.
Packages for Germany must not ez.
coed seven pounds In weight and y
inches combined length and girth.
Those to man on duty in the Canal
Zone and insular possessions are lin.
tied to 20 pounds In weight and two
cubic feet In volume.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-11-19
ISSUES GALL.
THANKSGIVING WILL BE OBJ
SERVED THROUGHOUT NATION
ON NOV. 2s-ABUNDANT
CAUSE TO REJOICE.

Washington. President Wilson is.
sued his Thanksgiving proclamation.
saying that I'm plenty, security and
peace our victorious and self-reliant
people face the future" and setting
aside Thursday, November %, for the
usual obseryances. The text follows:
"The season approaches when II
behooves us to turn from the distrac'
tions and pre-occupations Of our daily
life, that we may contemplate tho
mercies which have been vouchsafed
to us, and render heartfelt and un.
feigned thanks unto God for His mani.
fold goodness.
This is an old observance Of the
American people, deeply imbedded in
our thought and habit. The burdens
and the stresses Of life have their
own insistence.
1--WE have abundant cause for
thanksgiving. The lessons Of the
war are rapidly healing. The great
army of freedom which America sent
to the defense of liberty, returning to
the grateful embrace Of the nation,
has resumed the useful pursuits of
peace, as simply and promptly as 1t
rushed to arms in obedience to the
country's call. The equal justice OF
our laws has received steady vindica.
ton In the support of a law-abiding
people against various and sinister
attacks, which have reflected only
the baser agitation of war, now hap.
PLY passing.
"In plenty, security and peace our
vlrtuous and s~elf.reliant people face
the future, It's duties and its oppor.
tunities. May we vision to discern
our duties, the strength, both Of
hand and resolve, to discharge them,
and the goodness of heart to realize
that the truest opportunities are those
of service.
IN q spirit, then, Of devotion and
stewardship we should give thanks
in our hearts and dedicate ourselves
to the service Of Gods merciful, Low.
ing purposes to His children.
Wherefore |, Woodrow Wilson,
president OF the United States, do
hereby designate Thursday, the
t~wenty-flfth day of November next,
as a day OF thanksgiving and prayer,
and | call upon my c0untrymen to
eas from their ordinary tasks and
a~vocations upon that day, giving up
to the remembrance of God and His
blessings and their dutiful and CRATE
full acknowledgment"
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-11-19
HE'S FOOTBALL FOR A "IlNX"
California Man Thrice Robbed, Thrown
Out Of Hotel and Finally
Jailed.

Los Angeles.-At just noon pick
pockets relieved l.. r. Schuster. q
salesman OF S11 East Fifth street. Of
his purse and SOS.
One hour later thieves stole HIS grip
while he was riding on a Hollywood
street car.
Half an hour after the loss Of bis
grip he discovered That his room on
East Fifth street had been entered by
burglars and most of his remaining
property stolen.
Five r'nutes later he was thrown
out Of the hotel after accusing the
elevator operator Of being the burglar.
At central police station ten min
utes af'er having been thrown ont Of
his hotel and lust after he had drawn
a loaded revolver from his pocket TO
exnloln 10 Detective Sergeant Lyons
that he was ready to defend the re-
mining portion Of his property, he
landed behind the hars on n charge
OF carrying a concealed weapon.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-11-19
VESSELS COLLIDE
IN n Y. HARB0R
IMMIGRANTS ABOARD THE SPAN.
lsH STEAMER MoNTsERRAT
THROWN INTO PANIC,
CAPTAIN RESTORES ORDER
Montserrat seaehsd on Brooklyn
Shore Before Sinking San Marcos,
With Bow Smashed In. Reaches
Pier Safely.

New York.-As her passengers, $50
OF whom were immigrants, lined the
rails for a glimpse oil New York's sky.
line, the Spanish royal mail steamship
Montaerra. collided November IA with
the Mallory Line fieighter San Mar,
COS. The vesse.s, moving in from
quarantine, were under tie lee of the
Statue Of Liberty. The Montserrat
was beached on the Brooklyn shore
before she sank. The San Marcos, her
bog smashed in, made her pier safety.
Water poured through a gaping no Q
in the ~starboard side OF the Mon ser
rat. Seized with fear CT disaster, the
immigrants dashed for life RATS ana
boats. Capt. Mulsera, a skipper in
the Spanish service for more than a
quarter OF a century, rang for a full
speed ahead, turned the v ssel sharp
ly toward the Brook yn shore, jump
ed from the bridge Into the excited
crowd and restor d order.
Others of the ships officers, with
Raymon Manuel V'lova Nova, Span.
lsh consul at Vera Cruz. rendered as.
sistance with Capt. Mu'sera, by ticking
charge OF lifeboat and raft stations,
and prevented immigrants from jump
ing overheard. One man, however,
Ieaped over the side. He fell on the
deck of a tug that had come along.
side and was not seriously injured.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-11-19
LOUI MAIL j. i
SECURITIES AND CURRENCY Es
TIMATED AT MORE THAN MIL.
LION DOLLARS TAKEN AT
COUNCIL BLUFFS.

omaha.-Postal inspectors, depart
ment Of justice agents and the police
forces Of Council Bluffs and Oman,
are seeking clews that might enable
them to run down bandits vino robbed
the Chicago. Darlington & Quincy fast
mail train between Council Bluffs and
Omaha.
Reports of the amount of the loot
obtained vary. II is declared by de-
tectives working on the case that Il
will total $1,000, 600. Railway officials
declare that the amount taken will
not exceed $4,000.
Ten pouches of registered mail we're
taken, six of them consigned to Chi.
cago. 1t is believed that these
pouches contained shipments Of gold,
currency, bonds and stocks beiEg sent
by banks in California to their cor
respondents In eastern cities. The
value of the loot will not be definite
ly known until these shipments are
traced and VALIDATED.
The robbery was discovered when
a postal clerk was found chained TO
the floor Of his car. 1t occurred be
tween the union passengers transfer
at the western edge of Council Bluffs
and the Burlington city depot on the
southeastern edge Of the city.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-11-19
SAVING LIFE SERBS PROBLEM
War and Disease Have Placed Nation
In Perilous Positlon-Populatlon
Depleted.

Nlsh.-Sanltation and preventive
medicine are the greatest needs Of
Serbia.
With the approach of cold weather.
the country viii be called on I % com
bat her old enemy, typhus. American
and foreign relief organizations will
aid the Serbian authorities Ia this
work.
Human conservation Is one of Ser
bias great problems. War and disease
have sadly depleted the population.
Before the war the birth rate Of Ser
bia was higher than her death rate. In
spite Of the inroads Of e~pldemics. her
population was increasing al the rate
of $4,000 a year. Now II Is decreasing.
Bereft OF her man power and with her
women and children org~anlcaiIy vast
ed. The question Of population TO tin
the soil and build up the country is q
most serious one.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-11-19
SEA FLYER AWARDED MEDAL
Chief Elmore Cleared Propeller OF
Line Which Had Placed ship
Out OF Commission.

Pensacola Fla.--Capt II. H. Christy.
u. s. n, commandant OF the naval
air station here, and Lieut.. Command.
or Albert G Read, wsre awarded dis
tinguished service medals. Command,
er Paul T. Dessez, Lieut. ]. G. Rodd,
Chief Machinists' Mate e. G. Rhoadl
and Chief Gunners' Mate Arthur FL
more were awarded distinguished
service crosses.
Capt. Christy was commanding NJ
ficer OF the cruiser San Diego and
later of the battleship Wyoming. Both
vessels were in European waters dar
ing the war.
Lieut. Commander Reads medal
was for his services as pilot Of the
seaplane NC-4, on the transatlantic
flight. Lieut.. Rodd was radio officer
OF the NC-4, and Rhoads was engi
neer.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-11-19
EMPLOYERS MUST SETTLE
Mexican Congress Will Compel En-
ployers to Pay for Accidents
and Death Of Workers.

Mexico City A bill providing
prompt compensation in cases Of &C.
cident or death in industrial plants
and other places where labor Is EN-.
ployed has been sent to the Mexican
congress by President Adolfo de la
Huerta.
The bill calls for the payment Of
5000 pesos ($3,OOO) to every work.
man who is completely disabled by
accident while at work. If the work
man is killed 5000 pesos are to be
paid to his dependents.
Workmen who are injured but not
completely disabled are to receive
compensation according to the ma
ture of their injuries.
Compensation is to be paid by en-.
ployers,