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THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1911. GOTHAM GOSSIP New York, May 4. Emphatic, de nial Is made of the reported engage ment of young Vincent Astor and Miss Catherine Hamnvsrsley. By way of explanation for the frequent public ap pearance of the young people in each other's company, it is said they are simply good friends and have no no tion of marrying at this time, in all events. Astor is the only son of Col. John Jacob Astor and since the sepa ration of his father from his mother, the beautiful Ava "Willing Astor, has been his constant companion. He is being trained to assume active charge some day of the $500,000,000 estate of the Astors, and although just out of his teens, Is said to show great apti tude for the work and a sense of busi ness shrewdness that is uncommon among young American millionaires. Inheriting the democratic manners of his father, who affects none of the snobbish childishness of the tetter's expatriated brother, William "Waldorf Astor, of Chieveden. young Astor is as Bcseftsible to strangers as any clerk in the offices of the estate. Because of his youth, those who know Colonel Astor well enough to share In his con fidences, placed little credit in the re port of his son's engagement and had discounted the gossip of society long before the official repudiation of it be came known. The colonel thinks Vin cent should accumulate more worldly experience before he takes the step that may blight his whole f uture If made without due consideration. "Mil lionaires," William K. Vanderbllt once said, "have little real happiness In this world, despite the common Im pression to the contrary, and little should be conserved as tenderly and solicitously as a miser conserves his treasure." Colonel Astor does not say that he agrees with this philosophy o? that it has been his experience, but he does not think it Judicious to allow his son to precipitate himself into a contract that he might wish that he had never made, as the years glide by. Miss Hammersley's family hold to the same views. The young woman Is one of the richest heiresses in the city. She Is the daughter of the late J. Hooker Hammersley and niece of Ixmls Hammersley, whose widow sub sequently married the Duke of Marl borough, father of the present holder of - that title, who married Consuelo Vanderbllt. Her fortune Is estimated at between $20,000,000 and $25,000,000. Having beauty as well as wealth she is regarded as one of the prizes worth coveting in society. Only Near Princess. Society read with some surprise this weekvjhe statement of Judge Sanford B. Dole, of the United States district court of Honolulu and former head of the provincial government of Hawaii, that Miss Annie Douglas Graham, the fiance of Jay Gould, grandson of the famous railroad builder, is not a royal Hawaiian princess after all. For sev eral months New York has been treated to a number of picturesque stories concerning the noble origin of the swarthy young woman who is to be, married shortly to the brother of Lady Decies (Vivien jGould). Judge Dole, who has been visiting in the east on a leave of absence, is quoted as saying that the only claim that the bride-to-be can establish' to any noble pre-eminence and it is a collateral rather than a direct claim proceeds from the fact that a sister of her grandmother married a famous Ha waiian chief. Gotham thinks it is a shame that the romantic interest awakened in the prospect of the mar riage of the scion of one of the city's richest and most prominent families to a real, live "princess" should have re ceived such a Jar at this time. Where the story started originally no one pre tends to say. Whoever is responsible for putting it forward. It is apparent it pleased, the Gould family, which has not taken the trouble to disavow the daim. In their behalf it Is said that they had nothing to do with the perpe tration of the Joke on society and they saw no reason why they should under take to straighten the thing out. Is Happy Woman. Before sailing for England this week. Mrs. Maldwln Drummoned, former widow of the late Marshall Field, Jr., of Chicago, set at rest the vagrant ru mors that' have been floating about town to the effect that she and her present husband were having trouble. The report of domestic discord was given an element of confirmation, the gossip mongers figured, by the return of Captain Drummond to England some weeks ago. "I am one of the happiest, if not the happiest woman In the world," said Mrs. Drummond as she stepped aboard the ship, and she looked as If she rotght be. "Mr. Drummond sailed ahead of me simply that he might Join his sons at Eton over Easter. We are of one accord on all subjects and have The Enthusiasm I Remedies Was Surprising to The number of people who are be ing cured or greatly benefited by the Quaker Herb Extract and Oil of Balm 13 far In excess of the expectation of the Quaker Helath Teacher. For his part, experience in the thousands of different cities and the hundreds of thousands of people he has seen com pletely cured by the use of Quaker Herb Remedies, even though some of them had tried almost every treat ment they ever heard of. Now you have some of these same kind of cures right here in your own city, and the Health Teacher has given you the names and addresses of these people through your daily papers. If they are not completely cured they have receiv es uce benefit than they have ever i had no occasion to quarrel. I hope we never shall." Although a horde of detectives, pub lic and private,- have been searching the country for some clew of the thieves who raided her Jewel box on the steamer en route to this country six weeks ago, and got away with $100,000 worth of. precious stones, no trace of them has been found as yet. Eventually, Mrs. Drummond said she expected that the stolen gems would be restored to her. . . , - Will Reolsim Desert. John Hays Hammond, special am bassador of the United States to the coronation of King George, expects to leave this city next week for London. While abroad the noted - mining, en gineer Intends to undertake what h considers one of the most interesting and Important exploits In his long and eventful career the reclamation of the famous desert of Kara Kum, In Russia Turkestan. Mr. Hammond has already gone into the gigantic scheme with the czar, of Russia, who has given it his hearty approval. The Russian department of agriculture also has approved it, and as Mr. Hammond is well supplied with American capital besides stand ing ready to invest plenty of his own money his unprecedented irrigation idea will soon be put to a test. In effect, the plant is to construct irrigation works In the southeastern part of the desert of Kara Kum, In the Transcasplan territory. Owing to lack of water this territory has never been colonized, and is now only slightly known from the researches of a party sent out by Moscsw merchants In IMS. With permission from the Russian government, Mr. Hammond intends trans forming the desert into good pas turage and farming lands and then colonizing it. If the plan succeeds, It will mean a valuable addition of fertile lands to Russian Turkestan and mil lions of dollars for the American capi talists Interested in it. But Mr. Hammond isn't promoting the scheme for the money he thinks there is in it. To successfully Irrigate the Kara Kum lands means that other deserts may be similarly reolalmed. He Is simply following out one of his pet theories. Worse than "Peek-a-oBo." Denouncing it as more pernicious than the "peek-a-boo" waist and as likely to encourage ogling by an un desirable group of men. Gotham's club women -put a kink this week In the suggestion to adopt as a fad the use of a golden anklet, introduced, accord ing to prevailing reports, with much success In Chicago by Mrs. Harold McCormlck, daughter of John D. Rockefeller. It was the Judgment of the majority of the clubwomen who considered the subject that It would prove an Invitation to every wickedly disposed creature along Fifth avenue and Broadway to focus attention upon the sex and embarrass its members. Jeweled anklets and gem embellished garters may be all right in Chicago, where the genus homo Is tractable to restraint, but in New Tork, where the rijtarre and the risque are a tonic for the jaded. It would exercise a demor alizing Influence upon the community. The suggestion emanating from Wash ington. D. C, where the clubwomen have prescribed that the monthly dues for women's clubs shall In future be computed from the size of the mem ber's feet, was likewise put on the shutter and given early interment. It almost provoked a riot when the vice president of one of the smart clubs. wearing a No. 2 shoe, proposed that a similar rule be made effective. "What's a woman's feet got to do with club dues," burst out a heavy heeled woman in the front row. "It would be Just as logical to regulate the amount of dues by the size of a member's waist line, her shoulders, or the length from the top of her corset to the bottom.", "Here, here," shouted a medley of members in chorus. "Are all you ladles afraid of ac kpowledglng the generosity of nature in giving you large feet," retorted the officer with a sarcastic Inflection of her voice. If the president had not step ped In at this Juncture there would have been a C. D. Q. call for the police. Punishment for Criminals. Judge Rosalsky, the terror of New York's evil doers, has evolved a plan for the punishment of the confirmed criminal that is attracting much at tentlon from those interested in rais ing the standard of American prison life. "I 'believe It would be better." he says, "to sequestrate the criminal and still keep him productive. Let him earn money, and, if he has a wife and children, devote a part of his earnings to their support. Let him not, when he has completed his sentence, face a cold, hostile society empty handed. ss and. the Sale received before. . Some were afflicted with rhumatism, catarrh, kidney, liver, stomach, blood troubles, indigestion, weak and all run down, nervous, full of aches and pains; these are the dis eases the Health Teacher claims for the Quaker Herb Remedies to cure and also expel all worms and germs from the system. A report from Mr. Hozzle Williams, of 530 E. Garden street. He suffered for years with catarrh in head, hawk ing and spitting a great deal breath bad, nasty taste in mouth, especially In the morning, bad stomach, very badly constipated. His wife was af flicted very much the same as her hus band. They both had taken a number lof different remedies, so-called ca By FRANCIS PHILLIPS. "I believe that the labor unions can be persuaded to give way to the in terests of society in this matter. The habitual criminal has a, fierce hatred of society. He knows that, because of his record, not one person in a thou sand will give him work and so he Justifies himself in continuing to steal. "Under the present system the only thing for a judge to do is to shut up for- as long a term as possible the violent criminal who Is a menace to his fellow men cage him as you would a dangerous animal. That Is what we have to do until we get a better sys tem of dealing with the criminal,' Judge Rosalsky repeated. Another Victim. To the Hon. "Bobby" Bereeford. the younger brother of Lord Decies, the most amusing experience he has had in this cfty since he came here several months ago to attend the marriage of his brother, is the persistence shown by society writers in engaging him to first one rich and eligible miss or ma tron and then another. "Bobby" is no chicken in the affairs of the heart, con fessing to some forty-two summers and a few cold winters. He vows he never will surrender his freedom of action to any woman. If she has gold reaching to the top of the pyramids and the attractiveness of a Diana. But notwithstanding this, his name con tinues to be coupled with various wo men, the Impression seeming to be that. like Lord Decries, who was once held to be an Irreconcilable bachelor, he will thaw out under the melting Influence of some bewitching woman with a healthy bankroll. This week his name was linked with that of Mrs. Burke Roche, whose father, the late Frank Work, a noted banker and horseman, died a few weeks ago leaving her most of his estate of 10.000,000. Like "Bob by", her first husband, James Boothby Burke-Roche, brother of Lord Fermoy, was an Irishman. She divorced him many years ago and startled society by secretly marrying Aurel Batonyi, a professional whip, from whom she also secured a divorce when her father threatened to disinherit her. "Bobby" and the two time grass widow both deny that there Is any match on be tween them, but society is not dis posed to believe either of them. Women Smoke Cigarettes. Those who pretend to know are of the opinion that the estimate fur nished the other day by one of the largest cigarette manufacturing estab lishments in the country that 95,000 New York women are addicted to the use of the weed, is too conservative. Of late years the habit has been grow ing tremendously with not only the so called "smart" women of the city but those without society's golden gate. The steady increase In the number of women who go abroad yearly and visit Paris and other continental cities where cigarette smoking by women Is regarded as an lndispensible part of the daily regime, ,1s believed to be re sponsible for the popularity of the coffin nail" here. One woman who has thus acquired the habit abroad en courages others at . home to believe that there Is nothing offensive in it. While it has been generally conceded that cigarette smoking by the fairer proportion of Gotham's population Is ennsung new recruits every day, some surprise was occasioned by the an nouncement by the manufacturing con- ecrn in question that out of the total of 8,500,000,000 cigarettes sold last year In the United States, fully 637,000.000 were consumed by women. Chicago, next to New York, is the best cus tomer. In the widespread use of the cigarette by women, it is said the United States is following the present day trend of not only France, but Eng land, Germany and Austria. Married Woman Eloped. The government immigration officials on Ellis Island have been wrestling this week with a pathetic case. Sev eral months ago Joseph Winkel re turned to his home one day and found that his wife had eloped with another man, leaving the father to care for tneir two little children. Recently Winkel, who was devoted to his wife. learned that she had been abandoned by her lover in Panama and went there to reclaim her. On reaching the Canal Zone he learned that the wife was under suspicion of the authorities there in connection with certain of fenses with which, it subsequently de veloped sne nad nothing to do. Win kel was arrested as a fellow consDira tor and was locked up several days before he had an ODDortunitr of nmv- lng his innocence. Wlth his contrite wire he started home last week. When the ship reached the pier the couple's two children were waiting to greet mem, Dut tne immigration authorities on advices from Panama that the wo man was of bad character, sent the couple to the detention pen on Ellis Island. The husband protested that of Quaker Herb the People. tarrh cures, but with no Williams called about three weeks ago, procured a treatment of Quaker Herb Extract and Oil of Balm, and after using them three weeks called back find tr1A Hrr. that they had received more benefit from Quaker than all the remedies they had ever used. Thev at ior. and feel well, and the bowels act naturally. Call today at Balkcom's and ask about the Quaker Remedies it you are a sufferer, and see If it Quaker Cough Syrup, 25c, 5 for $1. 3 for $2.50. Oil of Balm. 25c, 5 for Jl. Quaker Cough Syrup, 25c, 5 for $1. Quaker White Wonder Soap, 10c. 3 for 25c Quaker All-Healing Salve, 10c, 3 for 25c SPECIAL TREATMENT For Rheumatism, Kidney, Blad der, Prostatic Trouble, Obstruc tion, Varicocele and Urinary Diseases. WE NEVER USE THE KNIFE. DISEASES OF WOMEN Cured by latest and most painless method. Leuchorrhoea (whites)," Inflammation, -Misplacements, Irregularities, Con gestion, Weakness, cured with out the use of the knife. PILES CURED without pain, confinement or 'Surgery. The treatment you must have if properly , cured. Young men suffering from Weakness, Nervous Debility, De spondency, Loss of Memory, Kid ney Troubles or any Disease of the Urinary Organs can find a safe and speedy cure. Free con sultation. UNITED SPECIAtlSTS 300-302 Thiesen Bldg. Pensacola, Fla. ' Hours, 9 to 12, 1 to 5.- Sunday, 9 to 1; Monday, Wednesday, Saturday evenings, 7 to 8. he had forgiven his wife for her indis cretion and she had promised him that she would never run away again. The authorities were immovable, however, and ordered husband and wife detained pending an investigation. Telegraph Invention. Army and navy officials here are highly enthusiastic over the new secret military telegraphic invention of Pat rick B. Delany, by which a demonstra tion- was given the other day between this city and St. Louis under the aus pices of the New York World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The inven tion breaks up the dots and dashes forming the letters of the telegraph code and required the use of two cir cuits, traversing, widely separated ter ritory. One part of the message went to St. Louis by way of Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Columbus, Indianapolis and Terre Haute, and the other by way of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo and Chicago. Ever since telegraphy be came a potential auxiliary of the modern army it has been the most fruitful prey of the secret service agents of the opposing sides. By De lanys Invention, government officials say it will be Impossible to extract anything from a wire that will be of any value to an enemy. Two circuits, operated by a single Morse key, are used, each alternate dot or dash going over one wire and the other dots and dashes over the second wire. The cir cuits traverse widely separated routes, many hundred miles apart and do not joint each other until they reach the receiver at the end of their journey. By tapping a wire over which the gov ernment is sending a message but one section of it, having no meaning with out the other, would be secured. In view of the disturbing conditions along the Mexican frontier and the constant reiteration of future trouble with Ja pan, the army is taking a lively in terest in the Invention, which is the latest work of the ..inventor of the telepost automatic telegraph system, the multiplex, the anti-page relay and other important telegraph and cable inventions. A Matter of Taste. With a lion cub as her companion, a stalwart bodyguard in gaudy uniform and a private physician to minister to her petty ills, Her Serene Highness Princess Lwoff-Pariaghy sailed for France the other day. The cub was a present from General Daniel E. Sickles, and caused no end of a commotion among the fellow passengers of the princess when they realized that she was going to have it at large in her stateroom instead of having it chained up in the hold of the vessel. The dis tinguished foreigner intends to return In the autumn to the Plaza, where she Is having fitted up for her the most elaborate studio ever seen in this city, In contrast to her fellow voyagers she was arrayed as for the opera when she strode aboard the ship, and was as radiant as a spring blossom in her low cut silk gown, embellished with jewels. Only Poachers. Avaunt nnrt nhaa nHtH ttinaa rvnirnl ly constituted men who decry the harem skirt and otherwise seek to reg ulate the aparel of the women of the nation. Mft T-Tuatast Harnep ViirvffTH- pher of the late Susan B. Anthony and militant sunTraglst, says they are noth ing but poachers and second story men who stole the trousers from women and gave her their discarded skirts and lone hair. "Man has been trying." she says, "to dictate woman's dress from the begin ning of time. The Bible, from cover to cover, is filled with regulations con cerning women's anklets, bracelets veils and everything else that men could think of. "St. Paul said women must remain covered In church v&t mndm evan gelists are trying to force us to take our cats on. Suppose woman should try to regulate man's costumes, what a hue and cry there would be!" "Women first wore the trousers and men skirts and long hair. One has only to look at the pictures of Bible times to realize that. But when men realized that skirts were hampering to activity and that long hair was trou blesome and hard to be kept tidy they Imposed their discarded customs and costumes with every other restriction they could think of upon woman. Per haps woman is to be congratulated. Certainly she should think a long time before taking the trousers back. "It's a queer thing," Mrs. Harper philosophized, "that having put aside both skirts and long hair man should make them the symbols of femininity, should, In fact, impose his old clothes upon his supposed ideal. Even today, when a man refers to a short-haired woman he uses the most opprobrious epithet in his vocabulary." Would Not for Nice Sum. Edna Goodrich, the former chorus girl who married Nat Goodwin, the actor, and got from him something like 1500,000 before she sued him for . di vorce, is believed to meditate going back to the stage. This suspicion is based on the fact that she has just written a book a novel, she calls It on stage life. By those who know the wiles of the actor folk, this is inter preted as presaging her return to the giddy life behind the footlights. The book, it Is said, will picture several characters well known along the "Gay White Way." Her assertion that they will be easily recognized has""whetted curiosity as to who they are and how she will depict them. EUREKA CO. GETS THE FIRE HOSE COM BOARD OF PUBLIC SAFETY YES TERDAY MORNING ACCEPTED BID OF THIS FIRM TO FURNISH 1,500 FEET AT $1 PER RUNNING FOOT. The board of public safety held an adjourned session yesterday morning at 10 o'clock and accepted the bid for Are hose submitted by Frank Griffith, special agent for the Eureka Fire Hose Co., this bid being the most satlsfac tory. The goods of the Eureka Fire Hose Co., were approved by the chief of the fire department. The sample selected was the Pyra mid brand, which is the second best grade of hose manufactured by the company and the price paid was $1 per running foot. The hose Is guaranteed to stand 400 pounds pressure to the square inch and to last for three years. The amount of hose ordered is 1,500 feet. STATE SUPT. HOLLOWAY' NOUNCES SEMI-ANNUAL DIS TRIBUTION OF ONE MILL TAX. Hon. W. H. Holloway, state superin tendent of public Instruction, has made the following semi-annual ap portionment of the one mill tax: Amount for apportionment, ?75, 502.40. Rate per pupil, 72 cents. COUNTY Av. Att Amount. Alachua 5,602 $ 4,033.44 Baker . . 841 605.52 Bradford 2,196 1,581.12 Brevard 729 524.88 Calhoun 988 711.36 Citrus 795 672.40 Clay 862 620.64 Columbia 2,968 1,136.96 Dade 1.227 883.44 DeSoto 2.253 1,622.16 Duval 6.893 4.962.96 Escambia .4.458 3,209.76 Franklin .. 568 408.96 Gadsden 3,434 2,472.48 Hamilton 1,789 1,288.08 Hernando 661 475.92 Hillsborough .. 7,785 5,605.20 Holmes 1,635 1.177.20 Jackson 5.252 3.781.44 Jefferson 3,034 2,184. 4S Lafayette 923 664.53 Lake 1,308 91.76 Lee 773 5.c,6.56 Leon 4.631 3.334. Levy 1,524 1,097.28 Liberty 599 431. 2S Madison 3,446 2,481.12 Manatee 1,435 1.033.20 Marlon 4.169 3,001.68 Monroe 1,208 twr Nassau 1,413 1.017.36 Orange 2,710 1,231.20 Osceola 859 t"... Palm .Beach ........ 799 575.2S Pasco 1,065 766.S0 Polk ....3,768 2,712.96 Putnam ......1,784 1.284.48 St. Johns 1,331 958.32 St. Lucie 698 502.5C Santa Rosa 2.070 1,490.40 Sumter 1.192 858.24 Suwannee .....3,182 2.291.04 Taylor 920 662.40 Volusia 2,339 1,684.08 Wakulla 885 637.20 Walton 2,112 1.520.64 Washington 2,779 2,000.88 374,802.24 Amount for apportionment, $75, 502.40; amount apportioned, 74.802.24; balance not apportioned, 1700.16. 5 or 6 doses "666" will cure any case of Chills and Fever. Price, 25c APPORTlIEfJT OF SCHOOL FUND N iceberg in the midst of the Sahara desert would be no greater phe nomenon than a single cotton thread in Kirschbaum Clothes. We could sell clothes that cost us less. But we couldn't have built our good reputation that way. We must sell clothes that will wear, holdr . i i tneirsnape, always look well. They must be made right, from absolutely "All-Wool" fabrics. Kirschbaum Clothes have 50 years of highest tailoring-reputation behind them. We're safe in s selling them and you're safe in buying them. Yet the prices are remarkably low considering the quality. There is such a variety of models, fabrics and colors in two- and three-piece Suits, Raincoats and Top-coats that you can't fail to find yours. . : ; The Kirschbaum Fancy Worsted Suits at $21 have all the points of superiority that make the Kirschbaum Clothes the best and finest made. Always look for the "Kirschbaum LabeL" It guarantees satisfaction. HiJES & CO. 29 S. Palafox. JAMES A. FOWLER IS UNCLE SAM'S v 5 - ,T y ' V ! , Washington, May 4. At the Whit Houee it is learned that James A. Fowler, of Tennessee, assirtant attor ney general, will succeed William A. Kenyon as assistant to the attorney general in charpe of the trust prose cutions. Mr. Kenyon has been sworn In as United States senator from Iowa, Mr. Fowler, it is said, is personally fa A Long Stern Chase. "Could you do something for a rjpor old sailor?" asked the seedy looking wanderer at the gate, says the Wash ington Star. "Poor old sailor?" echoed the lady at work at the tub. s 'if If: i tyfi'Ai. - " KirschhHnunGothes. A1X WOOL HP THJIP... H - pji. i iiipb . iii .1 in j i I winiHM m m m in I l i j n wmmmmmmm 1 biubi TO BE NEW TRUST BUSTER f miliar with the cases left pending by j' the election of Mr. Kenyon to the sen ate. Mr. Fowler was engaged in active ' politics in Tennessee before coming to ; Washington. lie opposed Senator Fra- zier for thj governorship when Mr. Frazier was elected. For a number of years he has been connected with the :i department of Justice. - . .:, J A V V - Tes'm. I followed the wotter for eighteen years." . ; "Well," said the woman, after a crit- ical look, "you certainly don't look as if you ever caught up with if , Subscribe for The Journal. ) -1