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GREAT BRITAIN FACING CRISIS. Veto Bill to Be Returned to j Unenlarged House of ; Lords. CABINET'S POLICY OUTLINED! It Measure Is Rejected Parlia . mcnt Probably Will Be Prorogued. London, August ij.?The lower tem? perature outside Westminster has not moderated the vagaries of the "mld bummer madness" within. A crisis In the fortunes of both ministry and op? position is impending this week, but the best Informed observers are vague and uncertain In their forecasts. The majorities for the government in the House of Commons and against it in the House of Lords on the mo? tion of censure will be large but Incon? clusive, Mr. Asqulth will not have a deserter among the coalition forces, and Lord Curzon may address the I largest body of peers seen in session , since the rejection of the home rule bill in 1S93. Mr. Baltour may deny that ne has declined to attempt the formation of en alternative government, and Mr. Asqulth is likely to admit, under pres? sure of close questioning, that thr?re was an understanding with the King last November respecting guarantees, and that It was based upon the result of the elections m the end of the year. Both the prince minister's request for guarantees and the King's acquies? cence will be justified by the minis? terialists by the decision ot the coun? try when the Parliament bill was re- | ferred to it, and the responsibility for revealing the conlldential relations be? tween crown and premier will lie with the leaders of the opposition. Iteaaou* Will Not Convince. The Unionists are not likely to gain anything from the debate, In which Mr. Asqulth can sum up the argument , of constitutional practice with CumU- I latlve logical power. Hin reasons fori o/terir.g to the crown advice which i was both natural and necessary will not convince his opponents and will not matter. What Is really Important Is his method of securing the passage of the bill with or without the creation, of peers. The air Is full of rumors, but the most credible information points to a declaration by the Prime Minister that he will submit the bill In Its original form to the Lords with? out additional peers, and that If it be rejected Parliament will be prorogued for a day, the measure will be rein troduced and several hundreds of peers created for placing it on the statute book. It Is probable that a plain statement of the Intentions of the government will suffice for securing the enactment Of the hill on Wednesday. The voting will be close, since Lord Halsbury's. followers are about equal In number to Lord Morley's. hut six or eight of Lord Lansd-wnt's abstainers may enter the government lobby for the sake of preventing any creation of peers. Fire Eafera Will lie Itenponnlhle, If the government takes this course It will act with moderation, and Lord Halsbury's tire eaters will be solely responsible for the degradation of the privileged order if the measure be tli tested temporarily and iinally en? acted by a big creation of peers. Apparently the passage of> the hill cannot be guaranteed by Lord Lans downe nor calculated with precision by Ix>rd Morley. The creation of fifty or a hundred' peers will release ab stalners from their pledges and rein? force Lord Halsbury's lighting force so strongly that the measure will be lost. The best weapon in the government armory is the menace of a big batch of creations. If the bfir he defeated it may alarm the main body of peers und force them to take active meas? ures against the Tory rebels. While Lord Halsbury's revolt has appealed to the sporting instincts of aggressive Unionism, It has become In spite of the protestations of its leaders, a deliberate attempt to d s cre.dit Mr Baifour. If It be .successful his authority as head of the Unionist party will be seriously lmpal/ed. It may not be true that the mem? bers of the Cecil family are punish? ing him for never consulting them nor that Austen Chamb.rla.n und the other tariff reformers are taking' vengeance upon him for playing with their cause Instead of advocating it heartily, but certainly his tactics have been condemned by the rebels and h!a prestige will he lowered If the mln ir ltv triumphs and forces the creation mt peers. Lord Halsbury's followers. Instead of reviving the martial ardor of the Unionists with their "fighting policy." may end by paralysing the party with A CABLE AD EVERY DAY ou send for a Tuner, who comes to your home, tinkers mysteriously, collects his fee and goes away. For some time your piano sounds very well, then gradually gets to behaving badly, and again the "tuner" comes, etc., etc. Make no mistake. Secure one of our experts ? regularly em? ployed to look after those* who have our Annual Tuning Con? tract. Phone Monroe 728 NOW. fidjleVUmofji. 213 East Broad. EVERYTHING MUSICAL internal faction feuds. They have ! made it impracticable for any one to forecast with confidence what will happen next week. They have also demonstrated the necessity for reform? ing an Irresponsible chamber ani con? verting It from a partisan group of .n triguers and obstructionists uent upon thwarting the will of the people into a body of trustworthy trust?:-s of tho nation. The constitutional conflict 's watched with apathy and indifference i?y '.to masses outside Parliament as though I 1*. were a game of professional politi? cians. The rhetoric of the las. ditch? ers Is lurid, but tie mock heroics <t i'-aders are oot taken seriously ly *hc people of the provinces. Another Gilbert might write a libretto It r opera-bouffe politics, and another aul llvan might set It to music, ml eveiy body would speedily be laugiiing over the comic touches of "midsummer .uad ness." WOMAN SAID TO LIVE WITH PIGS AND CATTLE When Taken In Custody Could Not \ Hecall Her Name?How She Man? aged to StibslM a Myntery. Denver, August 6.?An apparently demented woman. about sixty-five years old. has been taken in custody by Marshal Eberhart, of Edgewater. who says he found her living In a seml-harbarous state on a ranch a short distance northeast of the Na :.fTi.il Jewjsh Hospital. For months the woman, who declares ehe cannot recall her name, has been In a shack which served .is a shelter for pigs, chickens and cartle. When found by Marshal Eborhart, she was scantily drcss.cd. How the woman contrived to exist la a mystery'- Not a particle of food j was found about the place. Persons | living In the vicinity of the ranch say j that they have frequently seen her out | gathering roots .and herbs. One explanation given of the wo? man's presence on the ranch J* that she was placed there by the owner, said to be a well-to-do Denver woman, to look after the live stock. There are a dozen horses, six cows and a score I of pigs on the place. HURT IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH j lirotber und Sister Are Victims Wh?n Street Car Strikes Machine. Toledo, August 6.?Two were 'r.jured, one probably fatally, when an ajtomo blle was struck by a Maumec Valley] street car at West Federal Street and Davis Lane to-day. Miss Mary Davis, aged thirty, of Wampum, Pa . who was" riding with her brother, re? ceived a fractured skull, a broken leg, and Internal Injuries, and Is expected to die. It. L. D?vis. aged thffty-Ave, the brother, received scalp .vounds, a sprained ankle, and possibly Internal injuries. Davis and his sister hired an auto? mobile owned ahd dr'ven by n. C. Sellers, to take a trip ahout town. The machine was being turned Into Davis j I^ane when the car struck it, com- ! pletely demolishing It. Seilers escaped! with a few scratches Seriously Hurt By Fall. (Special to The Times-Dispatch.J I.ynchburg. Va., .August S.?City Electrician W. L Kent yesterday af? ternoon was seriously hurt in a fall I from a tree which he was trimming in Grace Street. He sustained a badly sprained ankle which will keep him confined for ten days or two weeks. *L Begeis HealiK Makes it possible to forget your dyspep? sia, indigestion and kidney troubles. "Atk your druggitt about it' '?He knows !Wd kr alt dmnirti?(um .. fe ftcrwa froca lb* tprjig. J. A. MORRIS & CO.. Dbtrilmtxs ?1 KwtkUij*. KJcsmIV*. IS T TIME TO RENEW YOU r\OOF WITH pe'arl-i-c Gordon Metal Co. RICHMOND, VA_ English Libel Laws Prevent Newspapers From Presenting Evidence of Fraud. London, August 6.?Those Americans | who think that police "graft" Is con- j fined to their sldo of the Atlantic would | open their eyes if they could get a glimpse behind the scenes at Scotland , Yard, the hcadquartors of the Londoit police, or at the central Offices of the police of any of the great English pro- | vlnclal towns. Lincoln Steffens ex- j pressed the opinion recently that Eng- . land was a great Held for a mucki raker, and a muck-raker who tackled the English police .would rind a rich and sticky quality of muck that could not be beaten anywhere in America. J Every now and then English observ- ? era who are familiar with the cond'- i Hons think that the public Is going to get a peep behind the scenes, but- they j never do. Incipient scandals are. hushed up. and the English libel laws' are so framed that no newspaper dares' to print what it knows. During the; last few weekB there were hopes that the searchlight was going to be turned on the London police In the trial of j Ex-Inspector Syme. Syme was dla- ? missed from the force for "lnsubordl- ' nation." Ills insubordination consisted in refusing to lock up a man brought In by a policeman, although command eil to do* so by a superior officer. He demanded an investigation, alleging that the man was being persecuted by ; the police authorities, but he couldn't ; get it Then he. threatened to tell all: he knew, and he was Informed that tile I lunatic asylumB were hungry for such ; men as he. In desperation he wrote a letter threatening to kill Winston Churchill, who. as Home Secretary, U j official head of the London police. It was not contended that the letter was, anything more than a device to attract public attention to his case, but he must go to Jail for six months. Symc's case got Into the papers, but there Is another which did not, and which has a rich flavor ot American police methods in the most unregener ate days. Some months ago a wealthy colonial was robbed by a confidence man ot $6,000. He complained to the police, who promptly arrested the con-1 (Idence man, who was tried, convicted ? and sentenced, in due time an official . at -Scotland Yard handed over to the; colonial $4,000, which he said had been j recovered from the thief. Some time later this man received a pathetic letter from the thief's wife.] who, wit!} her children, was in great: poverty. She had been getting up a; petition to have her husband's sentence reduced, and wrote that she had strong hopes of success if ihe. colonial would alg.n It. He replied that lie had no desire to be vindictive, but that he had ; been gravely inconvenienced- by thej loss of his $1,000, and that under th?| circumstances he refused to sign. Thls| led to a visit from the woman, who | assured him that her husband haft: turned over every penny of the $5,000 to the police. On this the man communicated with Scotland Yard, and in reply he re? ceived a telegram stating that he had received all the money recovered. The telegram was signed by an official at "the Yard," but the colonial was not satisfied and went to see some one "hlglu-r up." The end of It was that there was an investigation, and the colonl&l got his $1.000. The official who had kept hsrk the money and sent a lying telegram was not even dis? missed. He was reduced from first class Inspector to third-class inspector, the charge which went on the record against him being "receiving an un? authorized present and failing to re? port It." He is now at the head of the list Of third-class inspectors, and In direct line for promotion again to his old rank. TICKLING PROHIBITED IN KANSAS TOWN BY LAWj Onlinunce, .last Effective, Mukes It Punishable by Twenty-Five Dollars Flue. Topeka, Kan.. August 6.?Many towns In this country have ordinances that prohibit kissing and love-making I in public places, but the town of j Grldley, In Coffey county, Kansas, Is! believed to have the only legal enact- j mont that prohibits "tickling." Grldley Is a small town, where every | one. knows every one else and every-! body Is friendly. Most people are also : t'ckllsh, but some are more ticklish i than others and some of the people of Grldley are extremely ticklish Others know this falling, and they have taken particular delight in call? ing attention to the frallity of their friends. Tickling became such a sport and so obnoxious to many people that a considerable number of nervous break? downs were imminent. Then the cltv fnthers decided fo stop it. A special meeting of the City Council was called and an ordinance passed prohib'tlng tickling within the city limits of THE WEATHER Forecast i Virginia?Unsettled on the const i fuir In thr Interior Monday and probably Tuesdnyt light to moderate east winds. North Carolina?Unsettled Monday and probably Tuesday! light to mod ! erate, variable winds. CONDITIONS YESTERDAY. Rain. Sunday midnight tempera? ture, 72. CONDITIONS IN IMPORTANT CITIES. I (At 6 P. M. Eastern Standard Time.) ' Place Ther. H T. Weather Abilene. 98 106 Clear Augusta . SI 8? Cloudy Atlanta . 84 90 Clear Atlantic City... 74 7K Clear Boston . 64 70 Cloudv I Buffalo . . . .j... . 76 SS P. cloudv i Charleston . 78 88 P. cloudv Chicago .. "6 80 Clear Denver . 50 92 Clear Duluth . 62 72 Cloudy Galveston . 84 SS Clear Huron . 70 76 Rain Havre . 64 72 Cloudy Jacksonville ....78 92 Cloudy Kansas City.... 86 SS Clear Knoxville . 82 90 Cfcar Louisville . 84 92 Clear Memphis .'78 86 Cloudv Mobile . S4 92 P. cloudy Montreal . 76 S6 Cloudy New Orleans- 84 i>4 P. cloudy New York. "2 8'J Clear Norfolk .. 76 80 Clear North Platte.... 66 78 Cloudv Oklahoma City. . 90 94 Clear Pittsburg . 82 88 p. cloudy ?Raleigh . 76 88 Clear Savannah . SO 92 Cloudy San Francisco .. 52 56 Cloudy St. Paul . 62 78 Cloudv Tamna . 82 88 P. cloudy Washington .... 80 88 Clear Wvthevllle . 72 SO P. cloudy Wilmington - 78 88 Cloudy MINIATURE ALMANAC. August 7, 1911. Run rises .5:20 ISun SftU ?**?.j^..<v'.....7:13 The Times-Dispatch A Six Weeks' Competition Closing September 20th Boys and girls from all parts of the city and State are entering the con? test. Every mail brings nominations. The nomination blank counts 1,000 votes, and every contestant is entitled to one nomination blank. The first note coupon appears on page 2 of this paper. Save the coupons and secure subscriptions. For full information call and see or write the contest manager. Two Welsh Pony Outfits Five Diamond Rings Five Bicycles Five Gold Watches Grldley. The ordinance was published | last week in the official city paper.; the Gr'dley Light, and became effec? tive August 1, The ordinance follows: "AN" ORDINANCE "Making It unlawful for any person to practice "tickling' another person, and fixing a penalty for the same: "Be It ordained by the Mayor and City Council of Grldley. Kan.: ? "Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to punch another per? son with thumb, finger, stick or other thing in the manner commonly known as tickling. "Section 2. Any person convicted of the violation of Section 1 of this or? dinance shall be fined any sum not exceeding S25. and shall stand com? mitted tu the city jail until said fin-j and costs are palt?." TRAIN LATE, THE WEDDING TAKES PLACE AT STATION Close to Midnight, and the Girl Is Bound to Marry on Her Mother's nirthdny. Seattle, August 6.?On a delayed Great Northern train a young woman peered from a window and fidgeted. It was her wedding night. In Seattle the bridegroom, the minister and the coun? ty clerk with the license were waiting for her. It was not only her wedding night, but the anniversary of her mother's marriage day and birthday, too. Be? cause of these two Important facts the young woman and the man who was waiting to claim her as his bride felt it Imperative that the wedding should take place before midnight. The train crawled slowly, then stopped A sympathetic conductor re? ported that they had run over a dog. They moved slowly on and stopped again. A bridge had burned out. They were routed round the obstacle. When Great Northern No. l drew up at the King Street station the hands of the clock pointed to 11:15. That explains why Miss Mamie E. Schnell, of ESvansvtlle. 111., and Roy j Lelch, late of Evansville. hut now of Seattle, were married at the King Street station, the minister racing I against the hands of the clock. It was the first wedding in the King Street station, which has witnessed every other Important event of life? birth, death and tragedy. TO PRESENT KINEMACOLOR Latest Achievement In Scientific Photo? graphy Records Colors n% Well ns Life. For the first time In Richmond .Take Wells will present in the Academy of i Music to-day the Klnemacolor pic, tures. which are real photographs of life and color Klnemacolor is the latest step in scientific photography. It records all the colors of the rain? bow, so that the reproductions of life, and scenes are actual and real Science has been startled and the whole invention of photography re? volutionized by the discovery that | photographs can be shown in colors; that pictures can be thrown on a screen to represent the actual tints of i nature by an automatic system of re-j cording the varying details of shade j and color, storing up the nun's rays I that are absorbed In every color-hear-] lng maferla! and reproducing them at will. 'The possibilities are limitless, for all State ceremonials, royal page? antries and notable events may be re? corded and preserved as they actually appear for posterity and all time. The new process was discovered and perfected by O Albert Smith and Charles Urban. The pictures will be seen at the Academy all the week, matinee and night. MANY CORN PRIZES Virginia Boys' Actively at Work to Win The in at Fair. In following the example and *bn efforts .of The. Times-Dispatch In stimulating the corn-raising industry In Virginia, the. management of the State Fair Association this year has j offered numerous inducements and I prizes for exhibits in general, and special prizes in cases where the ef? forts of those who have the interests of the State at heart and the future of the youngster on the farm, who seem to feel that there ,s nothing worth living for but a career In the city, have resulted favorably. For instance, recognition has been given the boys who. during the year, have paid attention to the raising of corn, 'and a large number of special premiums are orfered jn seven classes ?single ear, ten ears, twenty ears, white corn; and singles, five, ten and twenty In yellow. These prizes range from $1 to $15. Boys who compete for these prizes must be enrolled members of some boys' corn club, and the corn must have been grown on ground tilled In accordance with terms and Instructions given the members of auch clubs. Entries close on Monday, September WAYNE COUNTY HEN LAYS PICTURED EGGS Poultryman Accused of I sing Brush Disprove* the t'hnrge. Honesdale, Pa., August 6.?Wayne county hens have been charged with strange teats since their records as prolific layers became so widely known, but it has remained for Sey? mour Barnes, a Bethany farmer, to relegate the tales of other proud own. _ers to the Mother Goose class. Barnes 'declares that one of his hens has a habit of laying pictured eggs, similar to the ones displayed In toy shops during the Easter season, and he came to town this week bearing Interesting proof of his c'alm. It was an egg of normal size, decorated \n variegated ] colors, and to the dozen or mcrce men ; who examined it. it was an astonish? ing sight. Two thirds of the snell is of a bluish tint and plotted with black specks. The specks form strange combinations, and close examination reveals a large bird, i with elonga'ted body and tall, like a cuckoo; a peacock's tall; outlines sug? gesting an artist's palette and brush, and the numerals 11 and 12. The re? mainder of the shell is white. Skeptics accused Barnes of paint'ng the egg, but when & magnifying glass was produced they discerned that all the marks, colorings and figures aro a part of the shell. The curiosity is on display at the Barnes farmhouse, and It has been viewed by dozens of j poultry raisers since its existence pe- | came known. FREE ECZEMA CURE Old, Deep-Seated Cases, Take Notice B B. B ?Bot.-inlc Bleed Balm? la taken internally and has'cured, through the blood, thousands of coses of E.-zema. Salt Rheum or Itching, erusty humors aftcr every known I treatment has failed. If you hive, pimples. I Itching humors, swellings, bumps, rlsiuss, I holla, crusty oozing skin sores, take B. B. i B. as directed on the bottle. B. B, B. rures by purifying and enriching j the blood, eending n rloid of vivifying, heal- j Ing blood direct to the akin surface, giving ! strength and healing Just where It Is need- I ed. Soon all Itching stops, pimples heal, sores disappear, and the skin takes on the I pure, rich glow of perfert health. We guarantee a perfect, lasting cure B. B. B. I Is a liquid, made up of pure hotanl.- inttre- j dlentt, and sold by druggists at }1 M> peri large bottle with directions for home cure. | We will send a free trial of this precious! remedy by mail, postpaid to any sufferer who writes (or It. .lust till out the coupon below and mull It to, BI.OOD BAl..\f CO., Atlanta. Oa. Name . Address SKELETON IN CANON MAY SOLVE MYSTERY Body Believed Thnt of Thomas Barry, former SI. l.oulsnn, Missing Since 11)00. St. Louis. Mo., August 6.?A skele? ton, supposed to be that of Thomas Barry, forty-seven years old, former? ly a St. Louis motorman. was discov? ered yesterday morning In a deep gulch in Las Flores Canon, near Mt. Wilson. Cal. Barr disappeared two and a half years ago. The skeleton was clad In clothing, which friends and relatives say he wore when, early in February. 190!). he left Los Angeles on a trip to Mount Lowe. That was the last time they saw him alive. Because of several knife cuts in the back and front of the. coat and in the shirt, It 1? believed the man was murdered. Barry Is known to have had with him^more than $10? in gold. This was missing when the body was found. About 200 yards away was a pick and near the body lay an open pocket knife Mrs. W. D. Herod, of 3201 Fads Avenue, who was divorced from Barry here In 1904, and later married again, believes that he was murdered and robbed. "I am almost certain, from what I have learned, that the body Is that of Mr. Barry, my former husband." Mrs. Herod said last night "He always car? ried $100. It was a superstition with him always to have this amount of money with him. He would not hcsl i tale at times to display his money. "He never did put any faith In I banks. 1 have known him to keep $1. | ?00 in the house for months at a time. Some one. I think, knew of the trip he was going to take, and waylaid him." ! "The last time I saw him was In : the spring of 1905. He left St. Louis, I and after that I heard only rumors as to his whereabouts." I Had Been In III Health. I E. W. Rowrary, of 119 South Men? tor Avenue Los Angeles, who was a close friend of Barry, is positive the. ! body Is that of his friend. He said Barry had been in ill health and had not been working. On the last morn , ing that Barry was seen he said he in? tended to visit Mount Lowe, and nothing was heard from him again. A brother, who at - that time lived it Mitchell, 111., went to Los Angeles and made a thorough search for him Barry had relatives in East St. Louis, whom the authorities have not been able to llnil Photographs of the dead mans cuff links and of the pocket knife found near the body will be sent to the re? latives for identification If they aro found TWELVE CRUSHED TO DEATH AS MADRID TOWER FALLS Madrid. August 6.?The old tower of I this citv crashed to the ground to-day, carrying death and destruction In Its wake. Thirty houses were crushed like *gg shells and at least twelve persons were killed, some of them meeting horrible deaths by being run through by sharp pieces 'of wood from the wreckage. A number of persons were Injured. Toledo, August ti.?Sidney, a villago near here, was visited by a cloudburst early to-day. Starren Creek and the Miami and Erie Canal overflows ' their banks and flooded the south? eastern part of the village. Cellar t were tilled and water was a foot deep on thH drat floor of some houses In several of the streets water stood from one to three feet deop The Big Four llallroad tracks for half a mile west of Sidney were under two to thre.o feet of water, t'cs floating over the tracks An eastbound passenger train ran Into the flood and w?i held i up for several hours. Ahviijs Carried #100. TOWN IS FLOODED LOSES HIS LIFE IN LAKE TQXAWAY AshevlHe, N. C, August 6.?Herbort. Matheson, the thlrtean-ycar-old son of Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Matheson, of 3534 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago. III., who, with his mother and two-small sisters, had been spending the summet ut Lake Toxaway, was drowned in tha lake yesterday afternoon at 5:30. and his body was not recovered until L o'clock this morning. , It Is >alcl that the lad was eanoeln? on the lake with a friend, Mack Davis, a native of the Toxaway section, when from some cause yet unexplained iho canoe capsized, both occupants being thrown Into the lake. The current at this point is swift, and the boy's body was carried away and disappeared be? fore Davis, who later swam to the shore, could reach him. STARVING WOMAN DIES BY MILLIONAIRES' HOMES New York, August t>.?Dying of Starvation, an unidentified woman dragged herself to the porch of a house in East Eighty-third Street, be? tween Fifth and Madison Avenues, to? day, where several millionaires have their homes, and when neighbors called a policeman she had died by the time he arrived. St. Ignatius Church Is across the street from the house on the steps of which the body was found. GIRL 0F~s7x UNDER ARREST FOR MURDER Ilahnville. La., August 8.?El.-sie King, aged s'x. is under arrest here charged with the murder of Silas Fern, aged seventeen whom she killed with a slingshot. The stone from the sling' broke the hoy's neck. It is expecti ?! that the child will not be prosecuted. LIQUOR FIGHT IS ON Legislature Has Hut Fight Days In Which to Settle Question. Atlanta. Ga., August fi.?With but eight working days remaining of the present session, the Georgia Legisla? ture. Is facing the most Important liquor fight since the adoption of State-wide prohibition In 1907. Night sessions probably u-ill be adopted early in the week. Supporters of the Tlppins antl-near ?heer measure are confident that the bill will reach Its final hearing Mon? day, ami it is expected that a hitter fight will follow. The bill prohihits the handling of any beverage con? taining more than one-half of 1 per cent, of alcohol. The anti-prohibition ists are preparing to throw their forces to the support of a bill provid? ing for licensed beer saloons and 'package houses." The temperance forces will resist It to the last d'tch. It Is generally affmitted that the Tlppins bill probably will he passed by the House, but only after a limited liquor system arid the reference of the issue to the people has been voted down. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CAS TORI A, Electrical Shoe ShineSc A T. GRAY CIGAR COMPANYS STORS 036 E. Main .Street.