14 CEGCALDI ON STAND 111 CIJWIIIX CASE First Wife of Former Premier Late in Arriving in Court Today <r Paris, July 24.—"Ca1l Mme. Guey <Jan" was the command of Judge Louis Albanet when the court opened to-day i for the fifth day's hearing In the trial of Mme. Henriette Calllaux for the wilful murder on March 1G of Gaston ! Calmctte, editor of the Figaro. Mme. Gueydan, former wife of the j prisoner's husband, Joseph Calllaux, j an ex-premier of France, had, how- j ever, not arrived, and Pascal Ceccaldi I the most intimate p.rlvate and political | friend of M. Calllaux, was called to the j stand. M. Ceccaldi amazed those in court' by giving his testimony in the form of a speech, in which he reviewed the political and newspaper attacks on the former premier. The. auditors meanwhile kept tip a continuous murmur of protest or ap- j proval. The protests caused M. Cec caldi to shout: "If I defend M. Call laux It is because he is an honest man." Calllaux Speaks When M. Ceccaldi had spoken for | an hour ex-Premier Barthou was j called to the stand and defended his j action in making public the Victor j Fabre documents. M. Caillaux also I spoke briefly. Maitre Labori and Maitre Chenu | then explained their ideas for and I against the publication of the letters placed in Maitre Labori's charge by Mme. Gueydan. Maitre Chenu remarked that the letters did not concern the case, to which Maitre Labori retorted that ho • thought three of them did. Maitre I Labori then returned the letters to Mme. Gueydan and asked her what her wishes were In the matter and she replied: "I do not care what you do. Publish them all if you want to do so." It waf thereupon decided to place three of the letters in evidence, but to read only one of them. This would be done, it was announced, after recess. Irish Representatives Fail in Their Effort to Agree on Boundry Line London, July 24. The fact that the j conference at Buckingham Palace be tween the leaders of the various politi- j cal parties had been rendered useless | by its failure to agree on the area of! Ulster to be excluded from the control I of the Dublin Parliament was confirm- I ed by Premier Asquith in the House of ! Common to-day. The Premier's statement on the sub ject of to-day's meeting of the con- i ferees was very brief. He said: "The possibility of finding an area to be excluded from the opening of Irish home rule bill was considered, but the conference, unablp to agree in prin ciple, or in detail on such an area, brought its meeting to a close." Will Spend Honeymoon Crossing Atlantic in Small Boat Mr. and Mrs. Slgne Slv&rd and the power lifeboat in which they will try to cross the ocean. New York. July 24.—Mrs. Signe Sivard will be the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a small boat. She Is planning to spend her honeymoon with her husband on his trip across the ocean to demonstrate the capabili ties of his thirty-six-foot power lifeboat to foreign shipbuilders. "No, this will not be my first long trip in a small boat," says Mrs. Sivard, "I once rowed two other girls frorrt my home at Gothenburg to Fredrikshal and Lack—2lo miles. The papers called us three girls in a boat." FRIDAY EVENING. HXRRISBURG TELEGRAPfI JULY 24, 1914. Attacked by a Man Militant Suffragette AUGUSTINE BIRR ELL I Bristol, England, July 24.—A vlo i lent attack was made on Augustine j Blrrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, |by a man militant suffragette, who | rushed at the statesman immediately on his descent from the train here, | July 11. The assailant hurled a heavy j bundle of papers In Birrell's face, at | the same time shouting: "You cur! You torturer of women!" The man was later arrested. JOHN MASON'S NEW ROLE John Mason Is an actor. The dra matic critics say so. So does he. That makes it unanimous. Moreover, he's a professor when it comes to ex plaining the intricacieß and difficul ties of the English language. The night that he and Martha Hed man, the beautiful Swedish actress, who was then giving her first perform ance in English, opened in "The at tack," Miss Hedraan asked Mason how she had gotten away with her Eng lish pronunciation. "Fine," said Mason. "There were two or three instances of quaint ac cent which added to the charm of your work. But there was one word which you pronounced in such a way that it got on my nerves. Instead of pro nouncing 'resign,' meaning to 'give up in despair,' as if the second syllable began with a slow, slimy and crawling z, thus, 're-zine,' you persisted in pro nouncing it as if the second syllable began with the sharp, crackling, and sizzling s—which it does, but only In the spelling book, not on the tongue. "Let me illustrate, my dear Miss Hedman. If you get sick of looking at me every night in the play, you will 'rezine' at the end of the season. On the other hand, if we get along all right together, you will probably 're-sign' with Mr. Charles Frohman as my leading woman for next sea son."—The Popular Magazine. SCENES AT PLAYGROUND GIRLS' CAMP ON M'CORMICK'S ISLAND The Telegraph staff photographer made another trip to the playground girls' camp on McCormick's Island, and the pictures above show what the camera witnessed. The picture on the upper left shows the campers playing volley ball. On the right two girls are engaged In a game of tether bail. Below on the light two are teaching a third to swim with the aid of water wings; center, "July Morn." One of the camp girls did not want to be snapped, she ran into a tent and then threw back one of the flaps to see If the camera was watching her and to her surprise, it was, as is shown in the lower left hand corner. Passing Impressions of Finance By H. L. Bennet Not within the memory of the pres ent generation has there ever occurred so scathing an arraignment of promi nent men by a government investi gating body as the bombshell proved to be which the Interstate Commerce Commission hurled last week into the camp of the New Haven board of directors which presided over the affairs of the road while Mellen was the proud and dominant cock of the roost. The commission charged these directors with being guilty of almost every known offense in finance repugnant to upright dealings from gross maladministration of a great trust to- the petty ways of a ward heeler bribing legislators. The im pression the commission s report of its investigation of this one-timo premier New England road left on the public mind could not have been worse than if there was found beneath the robe of a saint the black and sinister figure of Lucifer. i The sins of the McKinley generation of hothouse financiers are now being visited upon the present generation. The broad license then allowed to our buccaneering promoters of overcapi talized trusts is now reaping its whirl wind. A time had to come when a full accounting had to be made to the people for the millions raised to put such deals through, and the reckoning has shown a monumental deficit not only on the side of profit but also in character of some of our eminent financiers. Our financial heroes like Morgan, Melleu, Yoakum, Moores, Reid and others have turned out men of straw and the people have come to the conclusion that they have been truck ling to false gods: even to men who in the scale of human character were as thoughtless of the rights of others as were the men who made the history of the old Erie a byword of piratical financing. While we are cleaning the mire out of our Angean stables there should be no pause until the job has been thor oughly done because of some tender fear that it is not doing general busi ness any good. The work that is now going on should have been finished in 1907, but it was covered up then. The panic in that year was the first symp tom to show itself, indicating that the financial structures we had built up with the advent of the great period of prosperity that followed the Spanish- American War were faulty. The bil lions of dollars of watered capital ization with which we loaded up our railroads and industrial corporations had settled to their foundations, but these foundations were found far from strong enough to bear the weight, and one by one the flimsy structures have toppled to earth, bringing down in their crash myriads of fortunes, small and large, of American anfi European investors. There Is but one way to get back to sound financing and that is by thor oughly cleaning up the ruins. So let the work proceed, for it cannot help but lead to much healthier conditions, and this is the omega toward which all honest men should turn their faces even though in doing the work tem porary suffering must be endured; otherwise we shall have to contend with the recurrence of problems we are now trying to solve. In face of the New Hav£n investigation Wall Street will hardly dare to further assail the good intentions of President Wilson to make bad "big" businoss change its me'thods. There are to be other probes. The Rock Island financing, also the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal and the> New York Central are still awaiting "x-raying" by the Interstate Com merce Commission. From what reports have leaked out from Washington it will possibly be a week yet before the commerce com mission will render its decision on whether the railroads are to get a rate increase or not. Confidence is not running as high now as it did a few weeks ago that the roads will get all they have asked for, but only as much as the commission can consistently give, and that it will not amount to more than the evidence has shown the roads to have lost through in crease in wages and cost of material. This as figured will not come to more than .$16,000,000, or a third of what, the railroads wanted, so if reduced to figures the rate increase will average aout 1 2-3 per cent. On the other hand the Interstate Commerce Com mission is expected to point out to the railroads how they can materially in crease their net incomes by rooting out excessive charges that high financ ing has needlessly fastened upon them. Although no receivership has been announced for any of the Gould roads, the week has seen the unusual de velopment of the formation of pro tective committees, which is taken to mean that the insiders have full knowledge of what is about to happen and have made arrangements to be in the field long before Independent com mitees have had time to for®i. Who- ever compose the committees which will assay the role of financial doctors for the Gould roads, they will meet with little encouragement from the majority of holders of these securities unless they can satisfy these investors that their first demand will be the en tire elimination of the Gould control. An estimate of the losses In the Gould securities has been published this week and It shows from their high prices there has been a decline which has wiped out over $400,000,000. No such terrific losses have been shown by any other group of railroads. Opponents of President Wilson who have ridiculed his "watchful waiting" policy in Mexico must now feel rather sheepish, for the abdication of the dictator Huerta has fully vindicated his attitude. Instead of plunging into a costly war involving the expenditure of at least half a billion dollars and the sacrifice of many lives, the Presi dent has patiently waited and defied bitter criticism, for he knew Huerta's fate was sealed long ago, and that it was but a question of how long a time he could hold on. Huerta has fled to the coast and is now on his way to join the colony of Mexican refugees abroad, there to enjoy likewise the millions he has sent ahead and which he has accumulated as a result of the de spoiliation of the Mexican people. The glory of this peaceful conquest belongs entirely to the President, who, had be been a weaker man, would possibly have been forced to recognize as presi dent a man who had lifted himself Into this position through cold-blooded assassination. What a sorry picture this would have been for our republic, which turned out phlegmatic English George for much less oppression! The small investor is becoming a much-catered-to individual nowadays. His money Is no longer viewed with contempt, but solicited as any man of wealth and affairs. Stock is being re duced in par value to fit his purse. The financiers who have in charge the management of the United Cigar Stores Company have reduced their shares from SIOO down to $lO par, so that the stocks can be widely distributed among small investors on the general theory that it will be doubly helpful; first, in securing a larger distribution of shares among investors, thus reducing the concentrated floating supply, and sec ond, the more stockholders there are, more salesmen and boosters of the company's business could be com manded less expensively. The idea is logical and has merit to it. THE DISAPPOINTING DOLOMITES Writing of her recent motor-trip through the Dolomites in Harper's Magazine for August, Louise Closser Hale tells amusingly of her disap pointment in finding the mountains quite unlike the gay pictures on the brilliantly colored postal cards. "The Illustrator took a hand from the wheel to wave toward with all the enthusiasm of personal discov ery. Gazing at them, Rabby and I dwelt bitterly on the false prophecies of colored postal cards. Nature has been referred to as a lavish creature, but her tints are pale as compared to the glowing replicas on the cartes postales. " 'Madame, where is the red on your cheeks?' So Bonaparte once ad monished a court lady, accustomed as he was to Josephine's rouge-spots. And 'Mountains, why aren't you Pink?' we severely apostrophized the soft blue peaks. "Our driver glared back at us fleet lngly. He possesses a maddening quality of adopting as his own the country through which he is passing, and recents any reflection upon its appearance or character as a sight that embodies him. 'They are pink," he asserted, doggedly. 'lt's just the way you squint.' "I reflect upon this, then, and many times during the next few days of frantic pass-cllmblng into which I had been cunningly lured. Squinting oouleur de rose Into his life is part of his happy philosophy, and I have no doubt that he squinted himself Into believing all the sophistries which he propounded daily to tease me through the lengths and heights and depths of the Tyrol." ARREST RESTAURANT OWNERS The city health authorities to-day hrought suit against N. Notarys and A. Collis, proprietors of the Manhattan Restaurant, 317 Market street, charged with violating the city health laws. It Is alleged that their restau rant is kept in an unsanitary condi tion. They are held under ball for a hearing on Monday morning at 10.30 o'clock before Alderman Hoverter. CORSETS MADE OUT OP TELE GRAPH WIRES Th> telegraph, pioneer of electrical Invention in all new countries, has had many remarkable experiences in link ing up the outposts of civilization, and nowhere more than in the still half savage islands of Malaysia, says a writer in the June Wide World Mag azine. In Sumatra, for instance, the rebellious Achinese took the wires to hammer into slugs for their muskets; in Celebes unprotected lengths of the early lines were torn down and im provised into fish-traps; while in Dutch Borneo the white porcelain insulators gave such a striking effect as necklace beads for the dusky jungle belles that the natives still steal them when ever opportunity offers. But it has remained for the Dyaks of Sarawak— Rajah Brooke's remarkable little State in North Borneo —to cap the climax by stripping many mill's of telegraph poles of their wire in order to turn the latter over to their tribal "mod istes" to manufacture into "clothes" for their ladies. Long before the tele graph wire came, the principal article of trade with the Dyaks of Borneo was brass wire, some of which was used for the making of bracelets and anklets, but the bulk was worked up into a remarkable corset for the wo men folk. This "garment," beginning a little below the waist where it fixes the bedang, a strip of cotton cloth falling to the knees ascends in broadening sprals to the shoulders. The spirals are connected up with oth er pieces of wire, which hav« the ef fect of depriving them of all elasticity, and rendering the contrivance quite as rigid as its modern prototype of the enlightened Occodent. Under foreign influence it is becoming the custom to make these "cages," so that they may be removed at will, for bathing and even for sleeping, but in the remoter Dyak villages this reform has not yet begun to make itself felt. There a girl, on reaching maidenhood, has a loose wire corset of fashionable shape built upon her, and to this her figure must grow, whether it chances to be along its natural lines or expansion or not. Only extreme sickness—usually only the shadow of death itself—gives warrant for the removal of the galling grill, though it is also occasionally done in other cases. Wire is wire in Borneo, and though brass trade wire was more refulgent and "dressy" than telegraph wire, as long as the former cost a picul of damar or five plculs of copra for the*, requisite number of spirals, while a dress length of the lat ter could often be had at the expense of a little climbing, there was no ques tion which was going to be the more In demand. The flexibility of the telegraph strand admitted of a great variety of treatment, and very chic effects in weaves and twists were ob tained with it that could never have been approached with the stiff brass trade wire. PRIZE TEXAS BEAVTIE S DIDN'T WEAR FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: TOP ROW—NATTIE BELLONT, BESS DENNING. FRANKE THOMPSON. CEN TER ROW —LILLIAN SHANNON, ELLEN BLAUTON, LOLA SOLOMON. FRONT ROW ANNA DAUGHERTY, CLARA McCORMIOK, MAMIE O'REILLY Nine Texas prize beauties who went to New York on their way to Europe after winning a trip because of their good.looks, found just before they sailed that their type of beauty was not at all appreciated. Strong, healthy girls, with rosy cheeks that needed no paint for color, they were, but they met with sneers and even ridicule in New York. They sailed away without learning why they hadn't caused something of a sensation. But a hotel clerk, who hadn't spent most of his life on Broadway or the Bowery, explained .the case. "Why they didn't wear any paint on their faces,' said he. "Yes, they had rosy cheeks, most of them almost perfect, natural complexions. But nature doesn't suit New York. Your lover of beauty here believes that nature Is crude and art can improve it. He likes a cement sidewalk, not a country lane. He wants to see the lawns closely trimmed and flowers laid out on them in geometrical figures. A field is to him something unfinished. How much prettier it would be were It closely cropped like a woolly dog In the summer. Just so with these Texas beauties. Had they gone around the corner to a hairdresser how much their looks might have been Improved in the eyes of the New Yorker. True, they would have looked as if they were ready to take part in a girl show, but that's what New York wants. Don't eight-tenths of the fashionably dressed women you meet on the average istreet have a make-up on strong enough to stand the glare of stage lights? "What's nature good for anyway when you have art?" HOMEMADE MUSICAL FUN Every boy with a spark of music in him loves to try his skill at making strange musical instruments. Is there a country boy or girl living who does not try playing tunes upon a folded leaf? I have heard boys and girls play very nice tunes upon % leaf. I have heard really sweet music produced by stretching a blade of grass between the tips and fieshy parts of the two thumbs, leaving an opening between the first and second joints, where the music is produced by blowing upon the taut grass with the breath. The balance of the two hands are pressed in close contact, so as to form a hollow sound ing body, like a violin, says a con tributor to Farm and Home. < Flutes are made by cutting a stem from a pumpkin or squash leaf, leaving one end closed. A lengthwise slit is cut near the closed end and this end is to be inserted in the mouth so as to include the whole of the slit. Keys to be covered by the fingers are then cut by making notches in the stem. To play the breath is forced out through the slit in stem and tones are made by covering and uncovering the notches with the fingers. A cornstalk fiddle is an old Instru ment which our great-grandparents used to make. Cut a Joint off a large cornstalk. Slip the knife under the tough bark, loosening it for a few inches near one end, but do not cut the ends. Now remove about half the stock beneath the loosened bark. Cut the bark into strips an eighth of an inch in width, and cut away every other or alternate one. These strips are your strings ,and you may, by doing your work neatly, have quite a creUit ab'e-looking instrument. You may put in a bridge with notches for the strings and thus change the tone of each string a trifle. For a bow you may use lon£ strips of corn stalk bark stretched in a bow frame, or well-rosined thread, or you may be able to (fet horse hair for your bow. TRINIDAD'S GREAT ASPHAI/T LAKE The proverb about the folly ®f building on sand might be rewritten to induce the vicinity of the Trinidad asphalt lake. This remarkable body of pitch is perhaps the nearest thing to the "goose which laid the golden egg" that has ever been found, for it has the obliging faculty of replacing during the night the asphalt which has been dug from its surface during the day. That the replenishment "comes from somewhere" was graphi cally illustrated a short time ago when a house located near the edge of the lake began settling to one side, not to stop until the digging of pitch in that vicinity ceased. The pitch is dug laboriously from the lake by ne groes, using pick and shovel, and is carried on an overhead tramway di rectly U> the waiting ships. The in vent ionof an electrical cutter for the pitch is expected to greatly facilitate and cheapen the handling of it. The lake is owned by an American com pany, which also operates in Vene zuela. —From Wide World Magazine. PASSENGERS HELD UP ON WESTERN 11 Robbers Get More Than $2,000 in Money and Valuables Near Los Angeles By Associated Press Los Angeles, Cal., July 24.—Deputy sheriffs were hunting the hills north of Los Angeles early to-day for two or possibly three men who boarded train No. 22 of the Southern Pacific Company last night near Chatworth Park and robbed passengers in two cars of more than $2,000 in cash and valuables. Two men did the work of robbing the passengers, but a third man, who appeared from the smoking car as the two boarded the train, and is said to have kept in advance of the robbers during operations, is believed to have been an accomplice. The bandits dropped from the train as it slowed up at Hewitt, a small sta tion about ten miles north of Los Angeles. Brakeman G. T. Gundry was stand ing on the rear platform when the Jobbers swung aboard. One of the masked men, armed with a shotgun, ordered the trainman to hold up his hands. The second robber drew a re volver and Gundry, still, holding his hands above his head, was forced to walk ahead of the men as they robbed thf* passengers. Men in the cars were forced to stand by their seats and drop their money Into the pockets of the bandits as they passed. Women passengers were allowed to remain seated but commanded to deliver their purses promptly. Both of the men appeared to be young, but they worked coolly and quickly. ROOSEVELT RENEWS ATTACK ON BARRIES I [Continued From First Page] mood to-day, dictated this statement: "I'll do all I can to help hurry for ward the suit. I "I regard the action of Mr. Barnes las the most striking proof that could [be given that the bosses recognize in me personally the one enemy that the type of machine government for which (they stand has to fear and further [ more recognize that the most danger ous menace to the present situation of bi-partisan politics in this State is i contained in the movement to elect Mr. Hinman as governor on a non partisan ticket which I hope will con tain the names of such anti-machine Democrats as Mr. Hennessy, as well as Progressives and anti-machine Re publicans. "I shall continue with increased ag gressiveness to attack Messrs. Barnes and Murphy and the kind of machine politics which they typify, which I j hold must be eliminated from the | State." Colonel Roosevelt went out for an hour's walk after breakfast and when he returned began preparations to hasten the suit. William Barnes, when shown the statement made to-day by Colonel Roosevelt in Oyster Bay, said: "The question Involved in this mat ter is only whether he tells the truth." At that point Mr. Barnes was re minded that the Colonel had declared he could prove everything he had said. "Well, that's what we're here for," replied the Republican state chairman, "but we are not going to discuss it here. We will discuss it in the courts and under oath." Hedges Announces His Candidacy in New York By Associated Press New York, July 24.—Job E. Hedges, formally announced himself to-day as a candidate for the Republican nomi nation for governor of New York. For some time Mr. Hedges had been look ed upon as a candidate but his state ment, issued to-day, was generally re ceived and a reply to announcements made by Harvey D. Hinman, of Bing hamton, and District Attorney Charles S. Whitman, of New York, who are seeking endorsement outside the so called regular Republican ranks. "I shall seek the regular Republi can nomination for governor at the approaching primaries and will accept none other," reads Mr. Hedges' state ment. "If nominated, my appeal for election will be to the people at large." For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor tilings to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God. which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom, 8:38-39.
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