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wn« nwAnt>**t« snrvrs The Charlotte News Published Dally »nd Sunday by THB NKWi PUBLIiHIJTO CO. ■W. C. Dow4, Pr*Bi^e*t and G«*. M«». T»l*»kraMi City Editor |Bu*ln««s OfBce Job Office J. C PATTON A. W. CALDWELL City BdUor. A. W. BURCH AdvertHlng Mfr. fUBSrHlPTION rAm Tl»» Chmrlott* N«w». Daily and Sunday. On# y*i»r ***®® Bis month* • ThfM month* . On# month On» K*«k •** Sunday Only. On* r—t Six month* ' iThrM moDtht Tiaitia»Demoerat. Scml-Weekly. On* year £lz months Three montha ... AMoaaeemcftt. The attention of the public ie re- fpectfttily invited to the following: Ib future. Obituary Notlcee, In eM- neriam bketchee, Carda of Thanke. communications eipouslnj the cause of a private enterprise of a political candidate and like matter, will be cbariced for at the rate of five cents a liiSh Thsr# will be no deviation from this rule- SUNDAY MORNING, OCT 8, 1911. Hog killing time In Dixie. Summer persists in staying put. Ever}’ litrle octopus has a jack pot all its own. Editor Gonzales has also been con verted to the “Mecklenburg myth." The LaFollette boomlet looRs good to Mecklenburg republicans. The fall crop of near poeta li im mune to frost bite. Italy does not believe in waiting until Thanksgiving for her Turkey. Winston-Salem has closed a most •uccesaful fair, which reminds us that the one scheduled for Mecklen burg is to be the best ever. In a fever of state pride, the News and Observer says, "North Carolina raises everything one needs. A lady in Vance county raised enough dish rags on one vine to bring $18.75.” This story certainly takes the rag oft tha bush. SHAMS AND REAL THINGS You have seen him at the fash ionable summer resort. His hair was parted in the middle with mathemat ical precision. His tie was flashy. *^Hl8 trousers wore twelve inch cufEfe and be wore a near jewel in his cravat of rare fiashiness. He was the only and original heart smasher. He employed long words in conversation and his was the air of one wIm> bad “seen the world” and found it boring. He spoke ‘With authority on all subjects. In fact be was the real article hot from the griddle. And his income was ^fifteen per week! Over in the comer on a snug rock «r sat the gentleman who was taking a needed rest after a year of hard labor. H^ was unassuming, but when addressed, conversed in the quiet, polite tones of the inherent gentle man. He owned the concern where the young fop worked. If one should go by appearances the sport had the eld gent backed off into a shady corner of the map, but the world is ;Hot long in detecting shams from real thinga. C. N. Mather has pictured the slt- niAtion in amusing manner in the fol lowing: THE OFFICIALS. •Who gets down to the office late i^nd then presides in gorgeous state make the proudest callers wait The president. Who wears a diamond in his shirt That makes the very optics hurt? Who always is abrupt and curt? Tha Omaral Manager. Who makes you feel like thirty cents (When you would rtde without ■ ex pense? Who has a turn-down that's im mense? The General Passenger Agent (Who bores you through with haughty itare When you would travel anywhere And grabs the money for your fare? The Ticket Agent. 'Who takes 3^ur ticket with disdain And freezes you with might and main for daring to get on his train? The Conductor. iWlio s«ems aahamed to take your grlB? rWhose dignity will never slip ;^t who will never* miss a tip? The Porter. rwbo is the shabby old galoot iWho wears a fourteen-dollar suit L/Uid greets youwlth a kind salute? Oh, that’t only the old duffer who owns the railroad That’s ikll. The Norfolk Ledger-Dlspatch tells of the first venture made by the Wright brothers in this state, and their later return to take up the un finished task, in most interesting manner: "It was in the spring of 1908 that the Wrlglft brothers emerged from the sand dunes of the North Carolina coast with a flying machine that had stayed in the air for thirty mihutes and made twenty-four miles in that half ot an hour. “Five years before this pair of bicycle repairers of Dayton, O.. had announced the construction of a “fly ing machine.' It had remained in the air 59 seconds and made 852 feet. The skeptical laughed, and others quoted Darius Oreen and his flying machine and all were doubtful as to the success of such an undertaking. “The Wrights themselves realized that one very important thing about flying machine experimental flights was to flnd a soft spot - for landing, and accordingly they sought the long stretches of sandy beach and marsh land that separates the ocean from the Albemarle and Currituck sounds. “They went to Nag’s Head and thence twelve miles north to Kitty Hawk, where Postmaster Tate lis tened to their story of flying ma chines, and in the goodness of his heart, and possibly with a keen sense of appropriateness, directed them to Kill Devil Hill, a secluded spot of sandy softness with dunes high piled by the winds and tides. Here for weeks they experimented with only the occasional gaze of bewildered flshermen or the startled sea birds, whose realm they were invading, upon them. “Soon they left Kill Devil x.ill for a broader field of action and practi cally the world for an audience. The story of the biplane and the mono plane, their acHtevements and dis asters. is familiar to everybody. Re markable have been the liights, and wonderful exhibitions have thrilled thousands, but the death toll has been enormous, and the aeroplane ot today has not filled the requt ments of safety and efficiency that would establish Its commcrcial avail- ability or insure satisfactory service for the government department in the war and navy departments. Hence the Wrights have retired again to Kill Devil Hill, and, once more amid the lone sand dunes they are battling with the half-solved prob lem of aerial navigation. They have now ample funds, they have added confidence and experience, and should they flnd a way to avoid the trouble some engine they may emerge again from the sandy solitudes with a com pleted invention for which the world is waiting.” Evidently the Salisbury Post has purloined the ni’ ^piet of the Raleigh Times, if we may judge from the verse” publislied below, the only difference being in general theme. While in Raleigh the 'poet in ques tion had a fondness for the soft and slushy, love, romance, and the like. In Salisbury a real political heroic is turned forth. Hear It: Next fall when the votes are count ed— And right here stick a peg— We’ll hurrah and shout, without a doubt, For Wilson and for Craig!’ OF M mm Mr. C. 0. Again Chosen President — Mu ch Enthitsiasm Ptevaikd And a Bright Outlook foi Next Years Work £S Ahead. Secretary Ojfwith^s Annu^ R^rt Read — Showing a Great Deal Accomplished During the Past Year--- Vict-Presidents FROM OTHER SANCTUMS New Hope For Consumptives. The discovery 'by Dr. Gerald B. Webb, of Colorado, of a new method of curing tuberculosis is of the high est interest because it seems to offer a direct remedy for the white plague, which is simple and i^ositive in its action. It has long been known to medical science that the white corpuscles in the blood known as leucocytes have the power of destroying disease germs in the body, but the trouble In most cases is that the disease germs multiply much faster than the leu cocytes can dispose of them. Dr. Webb proposes by methods already partly known to cause an enormous and rapid increase of the leucocytes with the result that the patient Is re lieved of th«( enemy within and for tified against the invasion of poison ous germi(. It is stated that the experiments have attained excellent results, but that further tess mus be made be fore he remedy can be listed among the accepted triumphs of medicine. The remedy is not without its dang ers and must be applied under expert medical advice and management, but if it is the simple cure for tubercu losis that Its author believes it to be it will be placed as first among the wonderful discoveries of the piist few years, and his name will be join ed with those of Jenner Pasteur and Erlich as benefactors of the human race.—Richmond Journal. DIVORCE SWIFT AS LOVE. •ACK TO KlUU DEVIt HILL. ^c« North Carolina w^Hhe scene of the first successful flight in an aeroplane, it Is fitting th4t the in vestors of the first successful air •kip should return to Tar Heel soil to solve the further problems which confront aerial navigation. Marriage on Sight Followed \>y Suit to Untie Knot. Reno, Nev., Oct. 7.—Another secret marriage of a schoolgirl has found its sequel in the divorce courts here. Sa* har B. Pearl, on leaving school for vacation, with her parents at South Bethlehem, Pa., where her father is interested in several big enterprises, met on the train a young man, Vic- tor Lang, who represented himself, she says, as being a New York bus iness man. The couple got off the train at Elisabeth, N. J., and ‘^•re married. I^ter the facts were com munlcated lo her astounded parents They separated on the day of their marriage when her husband Inform^^d her that he was a gambler. She de> dared she could not live upon money gained in that way, and refused to live with him. Afterward a reconciliation was tem* pororlly effected. Lang demanded that a cash settlement from her father be secured by her. She then returned to her Pennsylvania home and in due time came to Reno and filed charges of non-support against her husband upon which a divorce was granted her today. It is said her husband is of Hun garian family of royalty. She resumed her maiden name. Her husband made no contest. A flow of profanity may be fluent, but it can be dammed. ^ With enthusiasm at floodtlde for the five years Of its organisation the Greater Charlotte club held Its annual meeting Friday night in the assembly hall of the eSlw3m hot^l for the pur pose of hearing the annual report of Secretary Corwith and electing offi cers for the coming year. With loud and long acclomation Mr. Clarence O. Kuester, who is admitted ly- the livest president the'club has had, who w.as chosen president to succeed himself will lead the patriotic upbuilders of Charlotte In another year’s qirenuous wtMrk for a greeted and better Charlotte. Mr. E. M. Cole was elected first vice preifcldent; Mr. C. C. Hook was elected second vice president. The election of all these gentlemen was unanimous and a rising vote was taken in each case.. The assembly hall was fittingly decorated in banners and devices of club. One of them bOre the inscription “All together for 1060 members by 1912,” meaning a club membership of 1000. Another said Charlotte must have a population of 80,000 by 1920. While the entire membership of the club was not present, those who were in attendance made amendSL. for the absentees in enthusiasm, which was ramjpant. That a few of the members were absent was their loss and they would probably have been present h«d they been able to foreknow of tl^e jollification that . took place. President Kuester, after pushing back his coat sleeves, indicating that he was going to shoot straight from the shoulder, told the members in his forceful and convincing way some things that would be' necessary for the members to do if the work of the club was to amount to anything. The keyjgote of his talk was that there must be cooperation _ on the part of mem bers; that every member must be a walking advertisement - of the Oluhi that every man must^try to influence; some other fellow oa the outside an4 get him into a condition of believinK in the work of the dub. Secretary’s Report. Paramount interest centered in the reading of the anndal regprt by Sec retary Corvith, whicli was necessarily quite long and wt^ a complete and enlightening resume of what the club has done during the past year.. The report showed that there bad been an increase of membership during th* year from about 400 up to the high water mark of 08 at one period cS the year, but resignations and a good many removals from the city had brought it somewhat below that fig ure. There are, .no outsandlnig d«bt8 against the organization which cannot be met by the funds now oija, hanc^. From the clu^ office thousands of pamphlets, booklets; buttons and, fob|; had been sent broadca.st over th# land advertising the dty. T|ke^ secre tary has written and furnished artides about the advantages of Charlotte: afid vicinity to a great number of the lead ing manufacturing and trade journals of the country arid has ms^ .it 'a point to give information along the same line to hundreds of callers .at the office during the year. The re port covered every phase of the club’s activity and was an eye-opener, even for some of the members of the club, in point of the large part ,tho club has taken in the events of the past year in the city and state, and of the things of statewide significance being the movement for a state back home* movement. Choosing of Officers. When the reading of the report was completed, Mr, D. P. Hutchison made the motion that it be adopted which was done, with the accompanying thanks of the club. This closed, Mr. Kuester called to the chair Mr. W. 8. Lee, who was the president of the club in 1909-1910, to preside as chair jnan while the election of officers took place. Disregarding Mr. Kuester’s re^ quest that the election proceed at once and without any reference to the work of the closing administration, on the ground that the work of the year was shared equally by all the mem* berghip of the club, Mr: Lee paid s high tribute and, evidently, a very sin cere one to Mr. Kuester for the unsel fish and patglDtic work he had done for the city during the year. “I am coffldent,” said he, “that Mr. Kuester has devoted time to the gen eral good of the dty that has meant pecuniary loss to hlme^U. I, for one, am ashamed to confess that I have not supported him as I should have^ done. We have not realized what we people of Chari# tte owe him. I know nls Innate motfesty and I know he would like me not to ma^e these re* marks, but I think we ought to thii^k about these things. Following Mr. L«ee's call for nomina tion for a president of the club for next y.ear, Mr. W. F. powd rote and said he believed there was but one sentiment In the hall aod that It could be felt in the air^hat was to reject Mr.~Kuester presld«tix of the dub. His remark was th# sighal for applause that left no doubt of Its seauinenesB- “Who but CUrenee ‘Bowt^r’ Kues^ ter could have piloted this organisation through a year of as successful work aii that indicated by the secretary's report? If this club had done i)oth inf else than develop olarenoe K«ea|ter it would have Jnstllled it# e^steaiCe. Decause It would hava i^ven the dty a great asset.*' Messrs. E. R. PrestOn and W. F. Harding seconded the nomination In warm terms and Mr. E. M. Cole sug- g^ted that members Udioate tlMir vote l>y rising, which was 4me. Mr. C. C. Hook responding to the chairman’s call for *vice presidential nomiattionft, aatd it had bien l&is perlenee that thk busier a man is the more work you might expeW to get Out of him. *‘I wai^t to place in nom- inStion for the place of first vice- president me of the busiest m99 this city, oqe who has always heen deeply interested in the w^fare of the dub and one of its most active mem bers. InomiAatA for first yice presi- dient Mr. E. M. Cdle. This choice was also unanimous and by rising vote. “I don^t know . what tils naothei meant the middle C iQ .Ms iiamo tc stand for,” said Mr. John A. McEae, rising to his feet, “but 1 know what it ought to stand for and I want'to plape In nomlnatioi^ for secOnd vice presi dent Of th« dub the ot a citizen who has always been at the'beck and call Of the Greater Charlotte club. I nominate Mr. Charles “Corker” HOok.” Ithls was also unanimous and by rising: vote. The meetiag sdjourned after a few more remar^ by Mr. Kuester as to. the policy of the club for the coming; year and the deciding of one or two other mattere. One of these was a suggestion of Mr. W. R. Matthews tl^at a committee from the club be appoint ed to meet with the board of aldermeh from time tp time to cooperate with the board md to offer suggestions as to certain needs for the city’s wel fare. The idea met with very hearty reception and the committee will be appointed. . The Prize Winners In News' Stortf Contest The TO iVat Winkle eoatest which has been' conducted by The News, has been almost interesting one and over a hundred compositions ipirere entored by as itoaty school children of the city. Sixreen , box seats to the matinee performance of Bip, Vaji Winjrte at the Academy of Music are tho prUes and the list ^f prize winnerii is given be low. Those winning prize^^ can call at the eNws Office any time Monday, before the matinee and get the tick- ots* ■ ' * Prize Winners, 1st Prive—Entire Bo*—Edwin filoom. 2nd Prize—Two box seats—Neal Y. Pharr The story ^h^ing dramatized, has been imm6mUzed by Joseph Jefferson a great 4ctor, and la now being pre sented hy Ills p6n fhoihas Jefferson, who bids fair to add to the laurels of his snreat father, JOs^V ' EDW B1X>0M. No. 18 ^ Clarkson St, i-Charlotte, N. C. ' 3^ond prize. Rip van winkle was a good natured man, but disliked to work. One day he went to the mountains and fell asleep and on awakening he was very much surprised to flnd a rusty gtin by his side and his dog gone. He went to the village, but saw Only strange fgoes and changed fash MUYOR ON 111- Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 7.—“That the ef fective control Of railroad terminals is to be found only in public owner ship and bperation of such facilities haa been demonstrated by the ex perience of the dty of New-Orl«^s, which hpw o^ns arid operates a belt railroad.” • Uhis was the keynote of an address delivered at yesterday’s session of the convention of the league of American mtmicipalltles by Mayor Martin Behr* man, of , New Orleans. May Behrman expressed his disapproval of the granting of valuable street fran^lses. to . private railroad corporations.^ be cause sucjx oonditions, he said. hsAip* er public commerce. After ref spring to the fact that New Orleans absolutely controls and ad ministers its water front. Mayor nehrman recited these facts concern ing the successful operation' of mu nicipally,owned terminal, laying_; par ticular stress upon the belt railroad: “The board of port commlMloners hash epent in the construction of im mense wharves covered by stMl sheds affording adequate st>ace, for' t^e ac- ctimulation of cargoes, |2,5O0,p00y E^ghty-three per cent ot the total ton nage arrlvlnir at the port is handled over the public wharf system. This board has cheapened the cost of hand ling commerce and has a surplus, r^ sultinig from operation of nearly $718,- 000. ' ' . The-total . amount eipended by. .the levee board' on adcoant; of Nleree4n»- provifi^p^to dicing the past four years has am^nted to nearly $3^S!H).00)^ in- qludtaiK t&e^rpha*e n^ property for levee i»urpose8, * . The es^stiiig trackaf® consists of miles, Induding main Ujie and s'^tches; .equfprnsnt 'se^en engines. . ^‘fivery pjiblic wharf, several public delivery tracks and humerotis large industries are being nserved. “A corps of employes subjeet to ttie civil service regulations of the city gO!?erxime]iit operates the railroad. “The munidpal belt railroad ig also uMd to adyaiitage in transporting the d^arbage of New Orleans to the rear of ^ ^ty where it. is utilized in flll- Ingw aste linds. : ' “It m#^ truly be said, that the ser vice ot the New Or^euahs belt now as- suree t^e, prompt andV economical trafisfer ?of merchandise in railway cars from railroad 4o’r^lroad, between railroftde and steamers and between riiroadsr aiid' industiles,. and' has made accessible its wonderful natural facili ties to the trunk lines which have sought entrance to the dty. . The ser vice is cheaper than the trunk lines can perform like service, for their own account; the charge being $2 per car regardless of tonnage.” Crooks Flock into Atlanta in Advance Special to The News. Atlanta, Oct. 7^—Crooks and light- flngered gentry of all (Ascriptions are beginning ^o flock into Atlanta, ex pecting to "reap a rich harvest frOm the crowds who will come next week ffom north and south for the spectac ular military ceremonies in connec tion with the unveiling of the Gate City Guard peace monument. ^veral considerable losses have been reported in addition to the loss of a handbag full of diamonds and jewelry by Mrs. Yancey Harris o^ Athens. The smoothest piece of cfooliedness was worked on a delegate to the Amer ican Munidpalities league convention this morning. Just before hei departed for the north. As the northerner was stepping out of a store on PeaOhtree street, a stranger brushed in front of him and 0dced up a 1100 MU almost at his erner, the strange said “Really you should have found it. 1 thought at first you had dropped it. but as lon^ as you didn’t 111 show that I am eouare and split even with you on the flnd. YOu give me $50 and I will give you the bill. I don’t see how you could help Unding it. You almost stepped 6n it. The $100 bill looked good to the northerner, and lie thanked the strang er for hi» klndheitt.' - Then he searched hie pockets and got up as much a^ 147 In change. “Oh, you needn’t T>other about th« other IS. This Is near enough/’ the stranger, who fended Over the $100 bill and 4epivted. -r Then the northehier ifkamiaed the bHl further. Both si^, he found toi his surpriae, Ipok^ exactly alike, but even at thait 4t > dfidfit viook inie #• couaterWt. Is'^t the navy that" enables a nation to paddle its own canoe? 8rd Prize-rTwo box seats—Eliza-^ ions." eH went to his home, but fQund ■ - • yhat his wife was dead and all his friends* goiie. ■ He was identified by an old woman and was taken hOme by his daughter^ where he ended his days telling his story and entertaining the children- NEAli Y. PH^RR. Third Prize. Poor Rip! Was there ver such a hen pecked man? Why, the men of the present day would be “on their way to Reno” in a week if they had to live with such a woman as Dame Van Winkle! Some people accuse Rip of being lazy. But he was very willing to work for an^iOne but himself, and per haps his wife. Such a good nei^bor was Rip; sc friendly;' but above all how patient’ He was in truth a second Job!' Small wonder the poor man wan dered to the mountains and slept fo? twenty years. How he deserved thal rest! ELIZABETH JAMISON. beth Jamlscm 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, $th, 9th,‘l0th and 11th Prizes—One box seat each, the follinwing being the winners: Ruth M. Robinson. Margaret Godwin. Hazellne Summerville. Ethel ^ires. Harry Grose. Annie May Hasty. Ruth McMichael. Margaret Gallant. Following are the compOsitiiImB writ ten by the winners of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizeS: . , First Prize. , The story of Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, teaches us a les son of great importance, nanlely, that a life of ind01en:e and Intemp^ince generally ends badly. Driven from home and Wandering in Catskill mountains, he fell in with a party of dwarfs, with wHom he drank until overcome by sleep. He awoke after' twenty years and found himself forgotten. Age 13 years. U. S. Commejce Court WashingtoB, Oct. 7—The United States Comxherce Court which conven* tha Chicago stock yirds eases. In Chicago the stock yards & stock yard ed on October 2 is now settled In its railway were prevented by an order of new’quarters, and has-buckeled down the Interstate Commerce Commission to Work. The Outlook is for a very from'becominig interestsed in the meat busy - season., In addition to consider-'! packing business, The 3tock yard rail- atlon and ‘decision In a number of ways protested ‘ against this order of oases which were heard at the spring session of the court there are twenCy- eight new cases on the docket. One of ■ the most interesting suits, because of a criticism of . the Com- the comisgiocL ud i]|istituted suit. The decision of the Commerce Court will settle this questibn. ' The lemon rate case is a, suit on the part Of the, railroads to set aside an or- merce Court in connection with it. Is der of the Interstate Commerce Com that of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-1 mission prescribing the ‘rates tm le- road, the Brooklyn Eastern, District mons in carloads from sOutherh Call Terminal, and John AiH>uckle against the goveniment and the jPederal Sugar Refining Company. Much interest is manifested'fn this case^^ and because of the ^publicity which it. gained la®t year^ and the embarrassing position in which it placed the Commerce Court, fornia to |)en,ver , and cities east of Denver. The argument wee made before the court that when the l*ayne-Aldrich tariff bill went into effect increasing the^^tarfff on~ lejtoctjis'friom' the Mediter- ranena^ designed to protect the fruit it'16 inore tiari likely ‘ than' the ^se, growers in :'tlrta 'cojinti^i% ^^ railroads wm be one of the first dedded at-thie .took th0 .^poit^)aity to increase thefr The qijeetion ipvolyed in the | rates on' ihlpn^nts litoons tl^e sessiqpi. case in that of^lighteraipe chaTgee on sijgar in and^near New York harbor. The Interstate Commerce Commisiiion nad equalisied li^terage chtfges, there SS^uni of thii ih^R|gBdr^riff ? on le- inohs. The irailr*ad8 .therefore, and net producers, reaped ^ the benefit of hew tarilE. , The l^ti^state Conunerce by depriving one company of its ad* Comnlission issued 'ah order prescribe vantage over another In that respect. jin^ MW. rates 09 "lem5nsv The rail* This was Just two weeks before the rOads object^ to the order, and car- dose of the spring session of the' ried the case tO-the Commerce Court, court, and all the time that remained All cases which cdnie before the in whith to carry out the order of the,; Commerce Court^^are'hppeads from or* commission. - Accordingly -the. court; ders. of the Interstate,Commerce Comr last May granted a temporary ,iujun» ission. The coijrt has bfiginal juris- tipn against the enforcement of the!, diction'in thcee cases, h*6^ver, and is coiomission’s order. . The press not a court of appeals, because the In- throughout the country characterized; terstate Commerce C«ai^i«8ion is not this as a betrayal by th:e. Commerce 'a court, and its decisions cannot be court Of the rights Of the people, and, construed as fuch. Under the act of a surrender the“inferests The Commerce Court' was bitterly assailed frpm all sides. On the face Congress creating the court all of the cases dealing with orders of the Inter state Commerce. Comihission institu bf-it is appeared as if the “interests’’/ ted in, the various* ciifcult courts had found; a friend in the court but as thrtfughout the country were transfer- a matter ^f fact the, court did not atr,r$ii to±he Commerce Cowt. tempt to pass upon the merits of thej — . ..— . -.i case, and granted the temporary ln-| ) junction merely than an opportunity T /Itl Tn/ff¥ might be had to hear the case later on UQV^TS UU YW UT Its merits. Another case to be tried at this ses sion. of the court is the Atlantic Coast line Railroad Company and others to set aside an order Of the In^rstate Paris, Oct. 7.—People In the Rue Commerce commission prescribi^ Marbeuf have had an exciting exhi- Path on Houses rail and water rates oir boots and , shoes from Boston and New York to bltion of lovers on the warpath m the .. . ^their houses. Atlanta, Ga. Another case is that of top floor of one the Baltimore ^ind OhiO Railroad to set ^ There were Romoes here and Romoes aside an order of tte Interstate Comr | f^^m a S*c^«rt StinctlOB In balcony, »nd another flrM rates between railroad fuel coal and ^ three or four shots thro^h a bolted other kind of coal. A temporary in-, dOo. Poor Juliet meanwhile shrieked junctitm was granted by the Commerce, when she thought one ^®T\^l«^n^ti^^Uni^^State8^l^ 'committed suicide, and she scream- CVcrn" suit wX a swt li.r In case is that of the AthinSon. Topfka^ and Sana Railway Cwpany, et al., to get aside an ordwr of the Interstate Commerce Commission reducing from $30 to $7.60 per car the charge for re» frigeration of citrons fruits, where such fruits are pre6ooled and Iced by, shippers. ' v There are ten cases achednled trial relating to the hours of sevice of railway employes, and Involving the Boston and Maine, and the New York, New H' m & Hartford railroads. These evS have all been appealed from various circuit conrts, and will not be heard by the Commerce Court. I J be heard is tthat the United Btatee Supreme Court has rendered a ded- fion affirming the order of the Ittte^ state Commerce Commission, prescrlb* ix^ the method and forms of monthlj reports- of hours of several of em ployes to be returned by railroad com- .panies. . TWO suite- of the Southern Pacific, involving dass rates from Sacrameoto tfr points west of Ogden, and from vari- oua easnem points to Reno, aiCe on the do;het, where they have beih held lading'the dedtdon of the Interstate Commerce Commission in t^e inner- mountain cases recently handed down. A tlUrd suit brought by the Atchison ia in same dasa. This case will a,walt the"" decislUn of the companies and their, attorneys as.te fortl^r preaeeur ^n before the court. It ia expected' thf^ tl^ soft of the Chicago RMk Ie- land ^aim-Paciflc Invoivii^ paes^^er 'Will be disndsaed bjr agn^eeihegatf Perhaps the most important matter which wm be decided at this term is actress in the handTTS^ a the hand, and came sdmawhere through the door or a wau. She is a very handsome Juliet, toO, and has been shining as a etar on the stage fOr three years. A very promisii^ young musician and com- poer had 'b€^ paying court to her. He was the director of an orchestra, and she was about to appear in a new play in the prindple role, but a few months ago there was a coolness be tween them, and finally the actress broke^ off altogether. The musician was more disappointed when he learn ed that she was belg courted by anoth er young man of good family. He re turned to the ‘actress, and she de^ dined td see him. The '^ther iyoung man meanwhile heard of it, and rush ed to her ;;^tection He secured revolver to be prepayed for any emer gency; ai^d the musician, ot course, oame to be posaessed of a simUnr Weapon.' eH went to the house where the aetress resides, and ~wm going to have it Out.“ The other yoiing inan, however got there before him. warned tha actreee. The mnaician came and found the door locked. He went to the top floor and imoeked a second time. This time she answved, but beUnd the closed do3rr, and~ he pleaded as wall as'* he could from the outside. There waa no aakin« ft up. and a re volver ahot went ^5ff. “Oh. Jje has 3h)t hiiBtaeif." scMi^ed th^ ftcitreaa, whole i|eighborho6d Waa aroused n^xt, wen the other lover fired off shot after ‘shot flum the balconv to c^l f^r .help.,Tj^ei:»W^^^ tev - and the was SCIENTIFIC miscellany Nlti^flen Products—A Wax Moon^ Magic PictuVee—Radium in Th7 Body—Lustrous ,Cioth—Toothbruju Germs—An Artificial Zodiacal Light -Pure Iron—A Sixtii Sense Mytli. The nitrogen-flxing processes, first started on a commercial scale in way and Italy about six years ago were reviewed In a British association paper by E. Kilburn Scott. The chief products are . artificial manures---ni trate of lime, with 12 1-2 per cent of nitrogen, and calcium cyanamid^ with 18 per cent—and these are made at prices comparing favorably with those of older artificial manures such as nitrate of soda and sulphate of am monia. For the nitrate of lime bv Birkeland and Eyde’s process, n’itro- gen of the alp—a unique raw material cdsting nothing—is fixed directly h the electric furnace, nitric acid from this fixed gas then acting on carbonate of lime. In the calcium cyanamide pro ems brought out by Frank and Caro the nitrogen is first isolated from the air, and is then absorbed by carbide of calcium an electric furnace product costing about $30 a ton. To offset the diffeerence in cost of raw materials the nitrate of lime process requires more electricenergy for a given amount of nitrogen fixed. Products of these processes have many other uses. Con- centrated nitric acid is sold for gun cotton, dynandte, etc., and ammonia nitrate, in demand for safety explos- ives, is made by weak nitric acid from Birkeland-Eyde towers and ammonia liquor from English gas-works. This material, with 35 per cent of nitrogen, sells at $135 a ton. A.moddle of the moon in wax was ■nearly complete'd by the late Charles rEmileEtuyvaert, of tae Royal observ atory, ErusselB. It is on the scale of one-millionth of the natural size and he had been to work on it, ten years at time of his death in 1908. One of the 24 Bections forming the hemisphere was lately shown in London. A rather mystifying picture is noted by a German photographer. On strip, ping off a negative film and breathing On the cloned glass plate a positive copy of the negative appears. Strange also is th6 impression seen on breath- ing on a polished metal surface where a coin has lain a few minutes. Human radioactivity has been Invest gated by-Prof. R. Werner, of the Heid elberg Academy of Science. Obtain ing 41 sections from 12 different hU' man bodies, he has calcined these, and then tested them with an instrument called Wulfs emanometer, which is de clared to be more' sensitive apid relia ble than the best gold leaf electro scope. The sections all gave indica tions of radioactivity by increasing the conductivity of the air. The brain was most active, followed in order by the lungs, heart and liver, and only very faint indications were yielded by the kidneys and the spleen. The organs of the old were decidedly more radio active than those of the young. Occu pation appeared to make no difference, and no effect could be traced to station in life or any living conditions. It was concluded that the phenomena are the result of the presence of radium or one^ of. its disintegration products— probably absorbed from food or drink. The new metal cloth of a German factory not Only has the original met al colors—gold, old gold, silver, copper, etc,—but is also made in- ordinary mode^ , tints, with .a brilliant metal lic Iheter; The Reiiar yam used for it is not, like other metal threads, a fibre of ordinary te3?tile wound with tinsel. Any suitable core thread is em ployed, and this-is coated by a special chemical method, which gives a dura ble waterproof covering in which the metallic particles are embedded and protected. It is claimed that the yarn cannot oxidize or blacken. It may be made into doth alone, or it may be effectively combined with other mate rials, such* as artificial silk. The bacteriology'^of the toothbrush has been,,given attention by some British physicians. The flrst using was found to (effect the brush and bacteria then developed rapidly on every hair Ordinary powders and pastes had lit tle sterlliEing effect. Keeping the brush in formaline disinfected it, but this so softened it that it was useless. Reusing with a one per cent solution of the trikresol after each using proved most satisfactory. Another effective method of disinfection was boiling the brush five minutes before and after use, and the bacteria can also be avoided by having a new brush—ran inexpensive One will do-—each day. In his curious electrical imitations of the Zodical Light and Saturn’s rings, PrOf. Borkeland, of Christiania, uses a discharging stand having as its neg ative pole a three Inch Iron ball con taining an electro-magnet. When the ball is highly polished and the cur rent sufiidently powerful, the whole surface becomes covered with sparks or disruptive discharges. But when the ma^eti^ng current iS turned on, the sparks tend to form two bands paral lel to the ball’s magnetic equator, Va rious oljservers have noted a like ar rangement of sun spots, the two bands being between 50 and 40 degrees of north and south lattltude. There sun spots'are centers of emission of cath ode rays, and it Is suggested that they are due to the piercing of the photos phere-acting as an insulating envel- ope-^by the disruptive discharge. The sun’s nucleus is supposed to serve as positive pole of the enormous currents. The catchode rays given off may ex plain not ohly the, luminous phenomena ohhe atmostprere of the earth, but pfmagnetic storms, and also—it has been added-«such heat-waves as have been lately experienced. The production of iron by electroly- tiede^aition seems to have be^ brought to a commei^ial 07 lE^ans Fischer of l^rlin, and the pro cess Is in use in^large, works at Leipsic By varying |he electrodes the product can be obtained as sheets of any de sired thickness or in the form of tubes The iron remarkably pure and this la said to make it much more easily magnetised and demagnetized than or dinary metal. The exceptional magnet ic properties seem to give it special importance for dynamos and trans- fannera «ad for pther api^ratus, In a^ uproar, and the acene was put an end to by the appearance of the police, who marched one of the lov ers to the police station. In spite of the appeal of the actress to let hi® J^o^^ipee because she thought that hiy:ni^at no harm, —
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Oct. 8, 1911, edition 1
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