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VOL. LXXXI1I_NO. ITS.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 29. 1914.
THE Kl'SH OF EVENTS IN EUROPE.
Events move quickly in Europe. Austria's wai
declaration followed almost on the heels of her ulti
matum to Servla. All the armies of Europe are con
centrating or mobilizing. A week ago Russia's atten
tion was occupied by a great labor strike. With th(
first breath of war the strike vanished, the Slav senti
ment was aroused and Russia began her preparations
for a great struggle. Tn fact, she was prepared. All
France was profoundly Interested In a sensational
murder trial In Paris, without a thought of war, and
the Austrian ultimatum changed the national Interest
in a wink. French armies, inactive a week ago, are
on the move. Governments do not advertise tbetr
military operations. The great British navy haB sud
denly developed activity, but there are no official an
nouncements of tbo movements of ships. Italy as yet
seems passive. Germany Is already booted and
spurred. Hers is a waiting game Just now, waiting
for Russia to give the signal.
Plans for a war such as now seems Inevitable
have long been prepared by all the great powers.
When the Franco-Prussian war was precipitated It
was found that Germany not only had France com
pletely mapped for military operations, but that Von
Moltke had prepared In advance all the strategic
plans for the war. This foresight was not lost upon
the military staffs of other nations. Probably every
foot of Europe has been mapped by military engi
neers and the different war offices have strategic
plans prepared and ready for the uses of their armies.
More than that, the Triple Alliance no doubt has
advance agreements for the division of the spoils if
their plans do not miscarry. In brief, the events
which we see marching so swiftly have all been calcu
lated and prepared for. They are Incidents of settled
programs. How far these programs will miscarry
time will tell.
r BELGRADE THE CITY OF SIEGES.
One of the first incidents of the great drama of
war now unfolding in Eastern Europe will be the
taking of Belgrade, the Servian capital, by an Aus
trian army, as the historic city on the Danube faces
the Austrian town and fortress of Semlin on the op
posite bank of the stream. Belgrade is famous in
history for its sieges, for the city has had great
strategic importance.
Nearly four centuries ago. wl^en an Austrian city,
Belgrade was taken by the Turks under Solyman. It
was retaken in 1688, and again lost to the Turks two
years later. Prince Eugene invested the city and
took it in 1717, and twenty-two years afterward it
was recaptured by the Turks. The city became Aus
trian again in 1789, but it was restored to Turkey in
1791. The Servians revolted in 1806 and occupied
Belgrade, and afterward it endured several sieges
until 1867, when it received a permanent Servian
garrison.
When Austria takes Belgrade it will be with the
intention of making it permanently Austrian. The
sentiment of the Austrians has ever been offended
by the Bight of an old city, historically theirs and in
view across the Danube, figuring as the capital of a
small Slav state. <
jT MAYBE RACIAL REPUBLICS.
As a traveled American reads the aspect of affairs
In Europe he sees that Europe is about to break up
into republics. With monarchism swept away by the
deluge of war the races now split up among a num
ber of nations are to be reunited in these republics.
And can any student of history afford to sneer at this
prediction?
The most astonishing fact in history was the rise
of the American republic in the western continent
at a time when all the world was monarchical and
nobody but some visionary dreamed of a government
of the people, for the people and by the people. It
was a phenomenon to Europe. To European states
men the experiment was too absurd ^to last. But
witness its effect on Europe itself. Within a few
years it shook the whole monarchical system of
Europe, 'destroyed feudalism, and in time brought
about vast cllanges that have been going on evei
since.
Who shall say what republican dynamite may
not exist, ready to explode, beneath the monarchleE
of Europe as they prepare to fight each other with
' their immense armies? The most astute states
man is only a man groping in the dark.
The counselors of George III. and of Louis XVI.
r dealt with what they saw and understood. They
• could not see beneath the surface of things,. And
> may it not be true that in all the great events and
1 changes of the world statesmen are merely the blind
1 instruments of Providence?
A FITTING CITY MEMORIAL.
The Mayor’s suggestion that a fitting memorial
to the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
’ i birth of Newark should take a permanent form is, of
. course, most sensible. And what could be more per
manent and lasting than a building?
Mayor Haussling seems to have the proper idea.
Erect a building to serve as the temporary home for
birthday exercises, but build it of such materials
and of such a design that it will serve later and for
years to come as a civic forum and a monument to the
greatness of the city which it is intended to com
memorate.
As a matter of fact, the entire proceedings of the
initial meeting of the Committee of One Hundred,
which will plan and execute for the big celebration,
in the City Hall yesterday, breathed earnestness of
purpose and manifested a civic pride that augurs
well for a success.
The remarks of City Clerk Connelly, in presenting
the name of former Governor Franklin Murphy as
permanent chairman of the committee, in themselves
outlined a policy, and the brief address of Mr.
Murphy indicated that he had given the subject deep
thought and had ideas that he would communicate
to the others as the work progressed.
Cordial co-operation was requested, and cordial
co-operation will be the keynote of the committee, as
it will undoubtedly reflect the spirit of all Newarkers
with affection for the city and a desire and ambition
to make the great occasion one that will mean re
newed honor and credit to the metropolis of New Jer
sey and one of the foremost of munleipillties of the
nation.
A NATIONALIST WAR FUND.
When Michael J. Ryan, city solicitor of Philadel
phia, issued a call for funds foh the purchase of
arms for the Irish Nationalists he did not ask others
to do what he himself was not ready to do. He
! headed the list with a subscription of $1,000.
And this willingness to give for a cause that
cannot bring a material advantage to its supporters
in the United States is typical.
For what can It advantage a man in this country
whether or not arms are procured to uphold o» to
prevent home rule in the Emerald Isle? What in
terest can he have other than an academic or an
ideal Interest? And yet q)en of the Irish race in the
United States have had no hesitation in asking for a
"war” fund of $300,000, with every prospect of get
ting it, for one Philadelphia club alone has sub
scribed $5,000.
ARMY WORM HAS A FLY TO SWAT.
While the ravages of the army worm upon lawns
are worrying park commissions and householders,
and the pest is rapidly spreading over this part of the
country, it is comforting to be assured by government
entomologists that this pernicious species of caterpil
lar is not likely to be with us next year. Its nemesis
has appeared in the shape of a parasite, something
like a microscopic house fly, which is rapidly killing
off the craw'ling destroyers of the greensward. Here
seems to be a beneficent application of the lines of
Swift:
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite ’em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
SIXTY HOURS’ CONTINUOUS COUNTING.
The new primary law of Illinois seems to impose
a strenuous task upon election officers in Chicago.
It requires that the official count shall continue until
it is completed. Up to yesterday no less than 505
Democratic candidates alone had been petitioned for,
whereas in 1912 the candidates of all parties num
bered only 4 50. It will take sixty hours to complete
the count of ballots in the primaries.
As women have the ballot In Illinois, there are
many women on the district election boards, and
it is noteworthy that none of them has withdrawn
in the face of this prospect of a sixty-hour session
of their election boards.
A STATE’S GREAT ASSET.
Jersey clay is a valuable State asset. It has placed
this State in the second rank of the pottery-producing
States of the country. And that this Is true 1b
vouched for by the latest figures made public by the
United States Geological Survey. During the year
1913 New Jersey produced pottery articles valued at
more than eight million dollars, and her output was
only second to that of Ohio, which must, therefore,
be classed as the first clay State of the Union.
|_OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES |j
(lubber Houses.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is now seventy-six years since
Charles Goodyear, after going bank
rupt in this city in the hardware
business, discovered the process of
vulcanizing rubber by mixing the
crude gum with sulphur. His process
was further perfected in 1851 by mak
ing hard rubber. Since that time rub
ber has been put to an infinity of
uses It has become one of the lead
ing manufacturing industries in many
countries. From the comb in my
lady's hair to the shoes on her feet,
the tiles on her floors, and the tires (
on her automobiles there is no end of
Intermediate uses. Great quantities j
of rubber are used in the making of
electrical appliances. No household,
even the meanest, is without its rub
ber utensils in some form. And the
end is not yet.
At a late exhibition of cotton and
rubber goods in London, at which
were representatives of fifty govern
ments, a feature of the show was a
writing-room completely furnished in
rubber. The apartment was 20x15
feet in size. The walls were of rub
ber so cleverly designed as to be in
distinguishable from ordinary wall
coverings. The pictures on the walls
had rubber frames. Writing tables,
chairs, other furniture, inkstands,
penholders, etc., were of rubber. Pret
ty rubber curtains attached to rubber
rings and hung on rubber poles
adorned the windows. Rubber tiling
was on the floors. There was also a
rubber tennis court. Who can doubt
that later on we shall have rubber
houses to live in?
Rubber is actually one of our most
indestructible materials. Having been
once used and flung in the scrap
heap, it can be reclaimed and used
again. We now import yearly about
100.000.000 pounds of raw rubber, and,
besides making use of our own home
gathered scrap, import over 25,000.000
pounds of foreign scrap from which
the rubber is covered and fashioned
to new use#, Jiy Judicious adaptation
of rubber and cement for future
building purposes there is a possi
bility of durable house construction.
Lumber is getting so scarce and
costly that some substitute building
material is exceedingly to be desired.
It may be better to grow more rubber
trees than to try to restore our pine
and oak forests.
Prefers Tigers to Pigs.
From a Consular Report.
A curious instance of the bad result
often obtained by tampering with
nature’s balance is contained in a re
cent communication by an Indian
olllcial to the effect that the cam
paign against tigers in several place*
in India has resulted In the enormous i
Increase of wild pigs, which are doing
great damage to crops.
The native farmers are forced to
watch their fields carefully at an in
creased expense. This damage and
increased expense must be taken into
consideration in fixing the new land
lax, and thus the strange situation
exists that by the destruction of the
tigers the farmers may be out of
pocket.
Business Prospects.
From the New York Times.
The reports on the business situa
tion all over the country, which are
printed in the Times this morning,
carry an unmistakable message of
good cheer. The statements of the
bankers, manufacturers and mer
chants are not academic or theoreti
cal. The truth is not evaded or
glossed over. There has been depres
sion ip many branches of trade.
But in these statements of the views
and experiences of business men of
all sections there is evidence of an
obvious and Justifiable feeling of
confidence In the future. The Idea
that we have reached the turning
point is not founded on personal op
timism, and is shared by nearly all,
even by those who have felt most
i strongly the resent trade depression.
Of course, the abundant crops have
much to do with this hopeful outlook,
but not all. Trade Is already better
In branches which have sufferecfcleast,
and is picking up in others. The con
dition of the steel trade, in which
the signs are now encouraging, is as
suredly a better index of economic
conditions than that of the motor car
trade, which is veritably booming.
The facts set forth in these well-filled
columns are indisputable. The opin
ions are sound and unprejudiced. The
result does not justify over-enthusi
asm. There are difficulties yet to be
encountered. General prosperity has
not yet set in, but there Is no doubt
that the worst has been passed and
the good times are coming.
Why Not Pen-ions for All*?
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Subject to the provision that the
date of marriage must have been
prior to June 27, 1900, every widow of
one who fought on the "right” side
in the Civil War receives a pension.
As the Herald says the object of this
provision was to discourage the in
dustry of wedlock between designing
women and old soldiers tottering on
the brink of the grave.
Now comes the annual raid. This
time it takes the form of a bill under
the operation of which, no matter
what the date of marriage to a vet
eran, all widows shall be pensioned,
thus stimulating rather than discour
aging the industry referred to. It is
estimated that with the removal of
this limitation will come an addition
of $7,500,000 to the yearly disburse
ments.
Of course protests will be futile.
They always come and they always
go—unheeded. After the limitation
has been set aside, why not so amend
the appropriation bill as to pension
the second husband of every widow
who sees fit to marry again, with
reversion in favor of the descendants?
Then all the sisters and cousins and
aunts might assert a claim. Tear
fully, of sours®. _____
“HAL” HAS TALK
ON WAR WITH
MR. GARRISON
your Special corlspondint.
Allenhurst, N. jersey, July 29.—I
fergit too tel you mr. Edter of the n.
Star that me and Sec of War mister
hon. Garlsen whom presydes over
Destinnies of natiuns War office at
distreect of Col. wich is Washington,
D. C, an other well-nown celebrates
enciudin jim Feidler whom as is com
enly nown Is guvner of are State N.
Jersey carefully watche manuvers of
war Troopes at Sea girte N. jer
Recently, after Trooped was gone
Buy are Boxx I say 2 hon. Sec with
Hevey an Serius look mister Secre
tary me minde am Terible perplexed
as I seen those Brave and Noble so
jers of the Natiun goe Buy accuted
with awfull enstriraients of Bloodly
war. "yes, But them our needed me
young fren,” say hon. Sec with Tap
on me Backe.” I say 2 hon. War man
“what Wil you do fer job wen hon w.
Jengs Brian your coleage in Wash at
Cabinit meetins of how w. Wilson
gits all Hole wurld under Peice Tree
ties wich will enclude shutlng upper
Natiuns war Office? if noe wars our
two Bee lighted in futer why war of
fice an war colege, an ships, an armle,
an Troopes Revews?” I pauzed hear
four questioned too Be ans. guv.
Feidler seaing me givln too much
Time two hon. Sec war man, called
me attentiun 2 a troops of preattle
girls and Ladies whom was Stormeing
the Breasts AVorks of a grupe of
youngs and helples sojers whom whs
standing likes as they wood 1st Be
praized Buy the Young Ladies an
girls after wich hon. Sec culde pas
jedgemint wich He did saying: "I
are Proude of your War records,
two goe 2 war without Loselng 1 roan
are a feet O K alrlte you Bet.” this
closed Greate day four me, hon. Sec
war ofice man an guv. Jim Feilder .1*
his owns Private Staffe of war He
roes. moore Soon again Shortly,
yours Truelly,
HAL.
Pedestrians Have Right of Way Over
Autos, Court Rules.
CINCINNATI, July 29.—Pedestrians
won a big victory today when Munic
ipal Judge Fox ruled that they may
take all the time they need in cross
ing streets in front of automobiles.
"A pedestrian may walk as slowly
as he chooses," declared Judge
Fox; "he has first right to the
street crossings, and automQbilists
are bound to respect those rights.
This court will uphold the pedes
trians' rights."
Runaway Girl Captured in Surf After Ex
citing Swimming Pursuit.
NEW YORK, July 29— Hannah
Nann, seventeen, of 438 Bristol street,
East New York, was in the surf at
Coney island yesterday afternoon
when she saw two men standing on
shore beckoning and yelling "Han
nah!”
One of the two was Hannah’s
father. She hadn’t seen him since she
left hQme on Junc 29, so she paid no
heed tb the summons. The other man,
although she didn’t know it, was De
tective Joseph Connors.
As Hannah kept right on swimming
the detective hired a bathing suit and
swam after her. She splashed to
ward Europe, but Connors was the
better swimmer and got her ashore,
where her father was waiting with a
warrant.
Death Beaten In Arduous Race by Ty
phoid Patient’s Comrades.
FORT SMITH, Ark., July 28—Car
ried in relays by twenty-three com
panions on an improvised stretcher
for twenty-five miles through moun
tains in Western Arkansas and East
ern Oklahoma, Johnson Young,
twenty-seven years old, of Mount
Sterling, Ky, a civil engineer, em
ployed by the United States geologi
cal survey, teas brought here today
and won a race against death.
The trip began at Smithville, Okla.,
Monday, evening, and ended at Hat
field. Ark., the nearest railway sta
tion. For thirty-one days Young lay
in the camp of his surveying party,
suffering from typhoid fever. Mon
day his fever leaped to 104 degrees.
A physician said he had twenty-four
hours to live unless he reached a hos
pital, and a trip by wagon would be
fatal. Hastily constructing a stretcher
Chief Engineer J. C. Herpending or
ganized the surveying squad into re
lay parties of four. They crossed the
Kiamiehl mountains, forded three
turbulent mountain streams and
landed Young at Hatfield in seven
hours. There he was placed on a
train for Fort Smith.
Old Memories
Representative Simeon D. Fees, of
Ohio, met an old friend in Washing
ton the other day and they fell to
discussing the ravages of time, dSpe
cially in regard to loss of hair.
“Yes, I have a great prejudice
against being bald,” remarked Fess’s
friend, "but I guess I'm elected.”
"Well, you know the old story about
the big fly and the little fly,” said
Fess. “The big fly and the little fly
were promenading across an expan
sive bald head, und the big fly re
marked to the little fly, 'See this fine,
wide boulevard here? I can remem
ber when it was nothing but a nar
row cowpath.' ” ' j
Shantung Beef
There were shipped through the
port of Tsingtau from central Shan
tung during the year 1913 93,000 quar
ters of dressed beef, the bulk of
which was destined to Vladivostok
for the use of the Russian army.
Two thousand to three thousand head
of cattle a month are being shipped
from Tsinanfu via Tsingtau to
Vladivostok for this purpose. These
cattle weigh 800 to 900 pounds each
and sell for about 3 cents a pound on
the hoof. It cost $20 United States
currency per carload of fifteen head
to ship them from Tsinanfu to Tsing
tau, where they may be loaded upon
steamers which come alongside piers.
:
Aubwer to Yei*ter<Jitjr’» I’uzzle;
•__ Crimson._
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If We Only Knew
If we knew the cares and trials,
Knew the efforts all in vain,
And the bitter disappointment,
Understood the loss and gain—;
Would the grim eternal roughness
Seem—I wonder—just the same;
Should we help where now we hinder,
Should we pity where we blame?
Ah! we judge each other harshly,
Knowing not life’s hidden force—
Knowing not the fount of action
Is less turbid at its source;
Seeing not amid the evil
All the golden grains of good;
And we’d love each other better
If we only understood.
Could we judge all deeds by motives
That surround each other’s lives,
See the naked heart and spirit,
Know what spur the action gives,
Often we would find it better
Just to judge all actions good;
We should love each other better
If we only understood.
—Rudyard Kipling.
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How Norman B. Ream Studied a Cyclone
Norman B. Ream, who for many
years was a citizen of -Chicago, and
who has long been esteemed one of
the leading business forces of the
United States, sometimes narrates
to his friends the manner in which
the inspiration came to him from
which has been developed the modern
structural Iron and steel building. It
came at a moment when he stood on
the rear plattorm of a car of a train
bound for Denver, which had been
Magged upon a bridge. There came,
closely following this train, another
train at the head of which was a
very heavy locomotive. The steel
bridge supported these two trains
without perceptible vibration and it
suddenly occurred to Mr. Ream that
if steel and iron were strong enough
to do that it would not be impos
sible to ergot a structure upon the
perpendicular which would bear as
heavy a strain as a horizontal steel
and iron structure like a bridge.
When he reached Denver, he com
municated with an architect of Chi
cago In reference to this idea and
speedily thereafter the first structural
steel building of Chicago was erected.
While I was chatting with Mr.
Ream at a time when he was de
scribing the first construction of lofty
steel and iron buildings he told me
that one of the most difficult prob
lems to solve was so to contruct a
building that it would be cyclone
proof and would be able to stand the
force of any appreciable gale.
He knew something about cyclones
and he narrated to me two personal
experiences which served him when
the proposition before the architects
was how a cyclone-proof structure
could be built.
"I have seen the approach and the
tvlld-careering, terrific sweep of two
cyclones,” said Mr. Ream. "Both
were in the southern part of Iowa.
Both occurred a good many years
ago. At one time I had been in
Missouri, Just over the border line
from Iowa, to visit a cattle ranch,
and It was necessary for me In order
to reach a train to drive several
miles across the border into the Stats
of Iowa. Heavy clouds were piling
up in the west and southwest. And
there appeared to be two distinct
storms separated by an interval of
two or three miles.
“My friends in Missouri warned me
that the danger of a cyclone was
very great. They knew from experi
ence how these gigantic terrestrial
forces appear and what their destruc
tive work is. I thought, however,
that it was best to go on, but I had
driven but a few miles before I saw
the two storms gradually approach
ing each other. The appearance of
the clouds was very ominous and
there was a stifling atmospheric con
dition.
“I thought, however, that I could
drive so as to escape the storm,
which I knew would extend over a
comparatievly small area. Yet no one
can tell the course of an approaching
cyclone. I judged that it was the bet
ter part for me to drive my horse
into a gully which fortunately was
near at hand. It was a deep gully,
the top of my carriage being about
on a level with, the prairie.
"Only a moment or two after I had
driven Into the gully I heard a tumult
that was appalling. I had been In the
thick of battle in the Civil War, but
I never heard any sound equal to
this. It was a frightful roar. No
words could describe it. In a moment
the cyclone had passed on and Its
track was only a little way beyond
the gully where I was. I noticed the
curious efTect upon the grass of the
prairie and I was especially impressed
by the extraordinary litter of articles
—boards, shingles, hay and fences—
which lay strewn In the path of the
cyclone, and which had been picked
up by the prodigious force of this
ugcncy and carried along as though
they were feathers. When I got my
horse and carriage out of the gully
the storm had completely disappeared
so for ns I could see. But I heard that
It had been very devastating before It
was entirely dissipated.”
(Copyright. 1014, by E. J. Edwards.
All rights reserved.)
POLITICAL DESIGNATIONS AND TITLES
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Dear Sir—1There is little to be
commended in the attempt of indi
viduals to appropriate current po
litical designations, the evident pur
pose being to mislead some of the
voters who are adherents of the or
ganization generally known by the
designation appropriated, and by
which designation the party adher
ents are guided in their preference
fbr the nominees with whom they are
not personally acquainted.
There are occasions when it is al
most impossible for the average
voter to become acquainted with all
of the nominees, and no one can ques
tion the right of a voter to select
his candidates by the party designa
tion if he so wills, and in a selection
so made he should be protected from
all subterfuge.
The persons holding certain polit
ical beliefs form parties, maintaining
organizations which in time become
known by particular designations, the
beliefs ai*l the designations becoming
associative, and it is as manifestly
unfair to permit other persons to
pre-empt the use of any such deals
nation or anything approaching a
definite and accepted designation of
an organization as it would be to
permit them to assume for their own
purposes the name of a successful
commercial corporation or to appro
priate to their own use a registered
trade-mark.
It Is not enough for the individual
desiring to use an accepted and cur
rent designation to declare that he
has been affiliated with the party
whose designation he desires to use,
and, therefore, should be permitted
to upprupriate that which by long
usage has become the property of
many persons who Jointly make the
party which has given the designa
tion whatever distinction, power or
value it may possess. As well claim
the right to use the name of a cor
poration because of once having held
a share of stock.
The Individuals thUB seeking to
appropriate party designations are
none too sure of their popularity as
candidates, and evidently are only
too willing to profit by deliberately
misleading the voter. Very truly
yours,
JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRAT.
Ban on Interstate Shipment of Nostrums
The Department of Agriculture has
recently Issued a large number of no
tices of judgment involving ship
ments of drug products adulterated or
misbranded'ln violation of the food
and drugs act.
A shipment from the State of New
York into the State of Minnesota,
consisting of 539 boxes and 322 car
tone of a microbe killer, was alleged
to be misbranded for the reason that
statements appearing on the labels of ,
the packages regarding the curative
and therapeutic effect of the product
were false and fraudulent. This case
was one of the lirst brought by the
government under the Sherley amend
ment to the food and drugs act, passed
August 23, 1912. The purpose of this
amendment is the more effectual pre
vention of interstate traffic in that
class of preparations or patent medi
cines purporting to be cure-alls.
circular accompanying the shipment
represented the medicine as being a
remedy for practically every ailment
to which the human syetem is subject.
In this case, after a jury had found
for the government, the court or
dered the goods destroyed by the
United States,marshal. '
A product called Fernet Milano
shipped into Michigan was alleged to
be misbranded. The product, offered
for sale under the name of another
well-known article. Fernet Milano,
was merely an imitation, and the
label failed to bear a statement of the
quantity or proportions of alcohol
contained in the article, which was
shown to be 33.7 per cent, by volume.
The article, furthermore, was so
labeled as to create the impression
that it was of foreign manufacture,
when as a matter of fact, it was made
in the United States. The defendant
pleaded guilty and the court imposed
a fine of 340.
A firm of Memphis, Tenn., was
charged with the interstate shipment
of quantities of adulterated and mis
branded wine of coca leaves, ace
tanilid and sodium bromide compound
tablets, antivomit tablets, aspirin tab
lets, cold tablets, quinine tablets,
salol tablets, and sodium salicylate
tablets, and misbranded bismuth and
calomel compound tablets. The com
pany pleaded guilty and the court im
posed a fine of 310, with costs of
312.95.
Two other cases against the game
company alleged the shipment of a
quantity of neuralgic pills, and
diarrhoea calomel pills, which were
adulterated and misbranded in both
instances. The labels stated that the
pills in each shipment contained, rer
spectively, one-twentieth and onq
sixteenth -grain of morphine sulphate
each, when, ns a matter of fact, the
morphine content was much less than
represented. In each case the court
imposed a fine on the defndant com
pany of $10, with costs of $12.95.
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
JULY 29
Isabel Graham
Copyrlgnted 1*14.
BY MARY MARSHALL
The celebrated woman whose birth
day occurs on July 29 was one of
the pioneers in charitable work in
the United States. Her name is Isa
bella Graham and she was born in
Lanarkshire, Scotland, July 29, 1742.
She was the daughter of a doctor
and from her earliest childhood she
was a devotee of outdoor sports and
pastimes. For the days in which
she lived she received a superior edu
cation for a woman. At the age
of twenty-three she married a Dr.
Grahapi, who was a surgeon In the
British army, and soon after their
marriage he was ordered with his
regiment to Canada. Mrs. Graham,
fearing neither the rigors of the
strahge climate nor the dangers of
the sea, followed her husband and
for several years they were posted
at Fort Niagara. Then Dr. Gra
ham was ordered to the rather des
olate Island of Antiqua in the West
Indies. Here in a strange land Dr.
Graham suddenly died, leaving his
widow and three little daughters.
After this misfortune Mrs. Gra
ham went with her little children
back to Scotland confident that her
father, wlio had been a man of wealth
and position in Lanarkshire, would
be able and very glad to give them
the support of which their father's
death had deprived them. But the
aged father had suddenly lost all his
money and instead of being q.ble to
help his daughter It was she who
was able to assist him. Mrs. Gra
ham at once opened a boarding school
for young women in Edinburgh.
The remarkable part of Mrs.
Graham’s career was that even in
her days of closest economy she put
aside a tenth of ail that she had for
charity, and, Instead of brooding over
her own sorrows, she turned her
thoughts to the men and women in
Edinburgh whose plight was worse
than her own. Out of her own small
resources she often lent money to
young men and women starting, out
in business, and was the prime factor
in the establishment of the first
“Penny Society” in Edinburgh,
which was a loan society for tha
poor. Then she organized the "So
ciety for the Relief of (the Destitute
Sick,” which was a provident and
loan society for disabled Workingmen
and women.
In 1789 Mrs. Graham returned to
America and started a fashionable
school in New York city. From five
pupils the first day her school in
creased to fifty In a single month,
and for thirteen years tills school
continued to be a financial success
for Mrs. Graham. In New York Mrs.
Graham continued her charitable
work, and started the Society for the
Relief of Poor Widows and Children,
one of the first to organize charities
in New York city, and in 1814, a little
while before her death, she brought
into being the Society for Promoting
Industry Among the Poor.
The diminishing size of families in
the (lvtiized poiUon of the white race
arid the frequency of childlessness ir.
married pairs prove, beyond question
that large numbers of women are
missing their most Important and
their happiest occupation, says Dr.
Charles W. Eliot.
No gains in other directions can
possibly compensate women for this
loss: for the work of bearing and
rearing children and making a home
for a family gives a woman her best
chance of physical well-being and of
sound Intellectual spiritual develop
ment.
No accessibility for women to the
callings or professions which until re
cently have been open Only to men
can compensate women for the loss
or stunting of their opportunity for
rendering loving and devoted service.
No economic gains for women, no
better access to the social excitements
and so-called pleasure which city life
affords, can possibly compensate
young women for any Impairment of
their chances to win the natural joys
of normal family life.
No social or political service can
bring women opportunity to contrib
ute to the real progress and develop
ment of mankind comparable with
that of the healthy wife and mother
who bears and brings up from four to
eight children.
any active-minded mother who fob
lows the mental development of five
or six children will receive herself a
second schooling greatly superior to
her first. It Is a lively mental exer
cise to keep In touch with the succes
sively developed interests of a group
of children from two to twenty years
of age.
What, then, is the reasonable view,
concerning the entrance of young
women into all sorts of occupations
that used to be reserved for men, such
as school teaching, service as clerks,
cash'ers or secretaries, and as sales
women In shops, operatives in mill®,
or operators in telegraph offices or
telephone exchanges?
These are all good occupations for
young women, provided they do not
Impair health or prevent or unduly
postpone marriage.
When the period of child-bearing Is
over, or a young wife has been wid
owed, democratic society welcome®
women to many interesting and use
ful occupations which afford women
of intelligence and good-will excellent
outlets for energies of later years.
The best school, however, for these
later activities Is normal family life
from twenty to fifty or thereabout®.
The ultimate wcfman is, then, the
vigorous, nursing, teaching mother of
a family, whose motherhood grows
more and more comprehensive as life
goes on, and finally comes to embrace
four generations of kindred and
friends, and all cast-down and un
happy people.
French Women Who Kill
They have got out of the habit of
executing women in France. For
the past ten years there have been
about 350 murders a year In France,
two-thirds of them crimes of pas
sion, as the French call them. Rare
ly, Indeed, Is a murderess executed.
There Is a very notorious case that
may be recalled, that of Mme. Lam
berjack, the wife of a well-known
automobile manufacturer. She had
been divorced from a former hus
band for twelve months, and the for
mer mates, accompanied by their at
torneys, were to meet for the pur
pose of arranging for an equitable
division of tho furniture. In the pres
ence of the witnesses Mme. Lamber
jack drew a revolver and shot her
former husband. She even pursued
the wounded man into the garden
and there emptied the contents of her
revolver Into his body. Her defense
was that she loved him too much to
see him married to another? She was
acquitted.
Another case was that of Mme.
Poeckleis, who kept a small school In
the suburbs of Paris. One night as
she and her husband were returning
home together a couple of gunmen
opened Are and killed the man. At
the trial It was proved that Mme.
Poeckles had hired them to commit
the murderer. She said that her hus
band was a man of dissolute char
acter and had been unfaithful to her.
She was acquitted. France does not
punish her murderesses because the
average Frenchman is very Impres.
slonable, and pays more attention to
the emotional appeals of defending
counsel than would the average Ca
nadian juror. On account of this
forsenlc eloquence reaches a high
pitch in France, and scores of mur
derers are saved every year for no
better reason than that they have
eloquent advocates.—From the To
ronto Mail and Express.
| Weekly Pay in Belguim
The average weekly pay In Belgium .
of mechanics, machinists and tool- |
makers is 35 francs (36.75), helpers 20
francs (33.86), and usually time-and
a-half pay for overtime. The work
day is ten hours, six days a weak.
If a mechanic loses an hour or more
WKUcro'jnt of sickness, lateness, etc.,
it is the custom to deduct It from his
pay.
There is no regular apprentice sys
tem in Belgium in the metal indus
try nor any stated period for serving
as apprentice, which depends entirely
on the manager. The boy begins at
some simple work and receives about
25 cents per day while serving his
apprenticeship. It is never the cus
tom to pay for the privilege of learn
ing this trade.
There are no trade unions in the
metal industry in Belgium, but co
operative societies, which are social
istic and political, exist for the benefit
of laborers and those affiliated.
Women are sometimes employed as
machine hands, especially in the nut
and bolt factories, and receive as a
rule about one-half of men’s wages.
Old age pensions are not granted
by the government to ft great extent,
but the subject is under considera
tion. When the age of sixty-live
years is reached the small amount of
65 francs ($12.55) annually is granted
to those who can prove that they
have not sufficient income for self
support.
The Belgian government compels
the employer to carry employes’ lia
bility insurance, and the employer is
fully responsible for all accidents
from any cause whatever, but is pro- ,
tected by insurance against such ac-'
eidents issued by companies estab
lished for this purpose subject to the
government’s approval. There are no
loan banks established by the gov
ernment for loaning money in small
sums to laborers.
s
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