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ATLANTA, UA„ SUNDAY, MAY
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President’s Nearest Advisers Con
fident That Mikado’s Answer
Will Be Even More Emphatic
Than Nation’s Original Protest.
European Powers, Washington
Hears, Feel America Has Ex
hausted Every Means for Peace.
Issues in Dispute Are Clear Cut.
Lack of Money and Realization of
This Country’s Resources Alone
May Hold Japan in Check and
Prevent Declaration of War.
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
WASHINGTON, May 24.—In the
serious international suit of the Em
pire of Japan against the Republic
of the United States the defense
"rested" its case to-day upon the
reply cabled last night by Baron
Chinda to the Foreign Office at Tokio.
The American reply reached the
Japanese Capital about noon to-day.
The prosecution of this suit now rests
entirely with Japan.
Officials of the State department
tnd the Japanese Embassy believe
.hat Japan’s rejoinder will reach
Washington within the next ten days,
as the issues are now clear cut, and
po delay is necessary to a close.
* The American Government in its
polite reply has denied every con
tention of the- Japanese Government, j
Will Japan’s answer be peaceful |
or provocative of strife? This is I
the question upon which the Wilson |
administration and the American
people wait now with intense inter
est and with resolute temper.
There is no doubt that the adminis
tration' has practically tied its own
hands in any further reply to Japan.
The American Government can not
6ttack the California law because it
does not violate the treaty and is
distinctly within the right of the
State. Japan has not indicated the
slightest inclination to test this law
in the courts.
The Vision of Dreamers.
Only dreamers and theorists of
government and Chautauqua orators,
like Mr. Bryan, believe that Japan
will be governed in the vital issue by
any consideration of national friend
ship or of abstract right.
The men who think more and talk
less are fully persuaded that two
considerations, and only two, will re-
strafin Japan.
First—The size of Japan' s national
debt and its financial fitness or unfit
ness to undertake and endure a long
struggle with the United States.
Second—The full tinderstanding
which these last several years have
t given to Japan of the unlimited re
sources of the United States and of
the really titanic energies of a people
now seemingly asleep in the apathy
of commercial opulence and of luxuri
ous enjoyments.
Even the. most casual observer can
siec that the administration is deeply
- concerned. It is reported from the
’White House that the President is
showing deeply the effects of the
strain.
Some of President Wilson's nearest
advisers are confident that the Mika
do’s rejoiner will be even more em
phatic than the protest and will elab
orate the question of national honor
and the discriminatory spirit which
the California law exhibits toward the
Japanese people.
Others hold the forthcoming re
joinder will be strongly argumentative
and transfer future negotiations to a
strictly legal basis..
Pacific Means Exhausted,
in the judgment of other nations
the American Government has ex
hausted every pacificatory expedient
to satisfy Japan and to demonstrate
that no treaty is violated.
Between these two opinions the in
telligent American citizen will have
to take his choice and await results.
The undersurface views of thinkers
in Washington look with most serious
apprehension toward the racial issue.
At first the protest along this line
was confined to the hotheads and
jingoes in Japan. Latest dispatches
indicate that even the ''on - erv;t.i ' |
Moments are taking up this cry with
restrained, hut intense . ...... - ^ ,
* Even titcse men. upon whom our
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AMERICAN’S FARM
ARTICLES CALLED
BEST EVER PRINTED
The following Utters were
written to Charles A. Whittle, of
the Slate Agricultural College,
anil win■ inspired hg his articles
which are a regular feature of
Hcarst's Sunday American.
I have read with much inter
est your articles which have re
cently appeared in Hearst's
Sunday American on agricul
tural subjects, and must say
that they are by far the best
articles on these subjects I
have ever seen in the daily
press. They are, as far as I am
able to judge, thoroughly relia
ble and contain just such mat
ter that will be appreciated
and understood by the average
farmer. I most heartily con
gratulate you on these articles,
and would add that they ought
to do much in calling attention
of the people to the work of
the State Agricultural College.
Yours very truly,
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State Geologist.
I wish to congratulate you
on the series of articles which
you have been contributing to
The Sunday American. Your
presentation of the various
subjects has been markedly
clear, forceful and interesting.
I have enjoyed reading each
one.
Very truly yours,
n, n
Asst. State Entomologist.
Why Some Men Lose
Money in Poker Game
New York Bankrupt, Contributing
$800 a Week, Ignorant on
Hands, in the Game.
NEW YORK. May 24—NPokei
ruined me," said Louis Appel to-day
when he was under examination be
fore United States Commissioner Gil
christ to explain why Appel Brothers,
fur merchants, failed. "I lost $800 a
week ago playing poker."
"Where did you play poker?” asked
Stephen B. Rosenthal, counsel for the
receiver.
"There are so many gambling
houses in New York I couldn’t re
member." answered the witness.
"What is a straight flush?” asked
the lawyer.
"I don’t know," said Appel.
"Does a flush beat a straight?”
“Don't ask me; I don’t know'.”
"Does a full house beat a straight
flush ?’’
“I couldn't say.”
"No wonder poker ruined you,”
commented the lawyer.
Paprika Soon to Take
The Place of Whisky
Government Expert Says Its Use
Destroys Desire for
Strong Drink.
WASHINGTON, May 24.’—It’s go
ing to be the paprika highball and
paprika cocktail soon if experts of the
Department of Agriculture are right,
and they declare that a generous
sprinkling of the Hungarian product
will take the place of whisky. The
experts are going to disclose the re
cipe in an official document soon to
be issued as an argument for the
cultivation of red pepper here.
Professor Augustin, of the Univers
ity of Berlin, after investigation, de
clares that in Southern Germany and
Austria-Hungary where large quan
tities of paprika are used, the de
sire for strong drink has almost
disappeared. He will be quoted by
the Department experts.
Paprika is now dutiable at 2 1-2
cents a pound, but the beneficent Wil
son tariff bill is going to reduce it
to one cent.
FLOOD VICTIM RECEIVES
AFTER WAITING 25 YEARS
JOHNSTOWN, PA., May 24.—After
almost 25 years, W. C. Wolfe, of Lily.
Cambria County, has received assur
ances that he will recover $2,520, with
interest, for a house destroyed by rep
resentatives of the State Board of
Health following the Johnstown flood
of May 31, 1889. Wolfe had a special
bill enacted by the Legislature in 1901
He obtained judgment against the
State and Governor Tener just signed
a $2,520 bill to pay it.
Wolfe owned a house in Johnstown
and the flood moved it from its foun
dations. State representatives demol
ished it, whereas he claimed the build
ing coulrl have been replaced on its
foundations with little expense.
NO TREAT FOR
HOTEL GUESTS
Patrons of Savoy, London, Com
plain Against Singer for Morn
ing Vocal Exercises.
“PIGS!” EXCLAIMS TENOR
Knuckles Are Musical, Says Dr.
William Lloyd, the Famous
Throat Specialist.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 24.—Caruso has
been highly insulted.
It is almost certain that he will
never stay at the Hotel Savoy again,
and if his present bad temper con
tinues he may slight ail England by
cutting it off his list.
Objections amounting to positive
kicks have been made about his voice,
and this right after Dr. William
Lloyd, the famous throat specialist,
had said that he was a human sing
ing machine and even his knuckles
were musical.
But the tremendous insult came last
and is uppermost in the tenor's mind.
"Pigs,” is Caruso's only comment,
but this one remark hides a multitude
of profane thoughts that are evident
ly surging through ills brain.
It all came about because Caruso
arises at 6 o'clock in the morning to
test his voice.
Clad in his pajamas, the singer
opens wide the windows when he first
gets up and fills the room and most
of the hotel with a series of scales
and other vocal oddities.
Fashionable Guests Object.
Fashionable London, and this in
cludes the people staying at the Hotel
Savoy, has been having an unusually
gay time of late, however, and the
other guests were losing much valua
ble beauty sleep each morning when
n waiter
They delighted in Caruso at the prop
er time, but objected strenuously to
him as an alarm clock, especially at
The first morning or two passed
without any remonstrances, but on
the third day some of the bolder per
sons gave vent to their feelings.
"Stop that noise” and "For good
ness sake let us sleep!” made several
C sharps fall off pitch, and Caruso's
temperament began to sizzle. It
boiled over when a formal protest
was made to the management. There
fore. the expressive "Pigs.”
The kicks of the Savoy guests were
registered against the world's perfect
singing machine, according to Dr.
Lloyd, who has just finished a thor
ough examination of the tenor's
throat.
He found absolutely no traces of the
catarrh which two years ago threat
ened to end hi's career.
Bones Are Musical.
“Caruso's very bones are musical,"
said the doctor. "If you tap one of
his knuckles, it gives out a higher
pitched and more resonant tone than
the average person. Among other
things I have observed is the abnor
mal length of the vocal tube. The
distance from the front teeth to the
vocal chords is half an inch longer
than any tenor I have ever seen, ac
counting to a great extent for the
extraordinary compass pitch and vol
ume of his voice.
"Another point is that his vocal
chords are extremely long, fully an
eighth of an inch longer than any
other singer's I have ever examined.
When he sings a C sharp, they vi
brate 550 times a second, which is
phenomenal for a man, although in a
soprano the vibration is much higher.
Tetrazini, for instance, on a high jiote
registers 2,200 vibrations a second."
19-Year Search
For Heirs Ended
George and Edward Walton Come
Into Estate of $750,000 Left by
English Uncle.
OTTAWA, KANS., May 24—After
having searched the United States
nineteen years for George and Ed
ward Walton, machinists, Marchant
Walton, their cousin, found them
here to-day and informed them they
are heirs to $750,000.
When William Walton died in Eng
land he left an estate of approximate
ly $1,500,000. He willed half the es
tate to Marchant Walton and the re
mainder to his two nephews, whose
whereabouts he did not know. Mar
chant Walton had practically given
up hope of finding them.
While traveling through Kansas on
an automobile tout. Marchant Walton
stopped at the Madison House.
He noticed a blacksmith and
plumbing sign opposite the hotel. He
was attracted by the rutme Walton.
Recognition of bis cousins followed.
There will be a settlement soon.
Six-Year-Old Girl
Dies of “Old Age,”
Physicians Assert
GOV. BROWN DEFINES LYNCH LAW
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Hair of Child Snow White and Face
Wrinkled Like That of an
Old Woman.
Advances a New and Startling
Theory
CLEVELAND, May 24.—Cleveland
medical circles are deeply interested
in the death of Dora Crzybeck, a
six-year-old girl who died of “old
age.”
The child’s hair was as white as
that of an aged person, her face
wrinkled as though with age and her
whole appearance that of a woman
of seventy years.
The disease of which the child died
is known as Raynaud’s disease, and is
very rare. Coroner Byrne called af
ter the little girl's death and said
he knew of only one other such case
during his years of practice.
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Calls Jail Mobs ‘Murderers'
iOVERXOR JOSEPH M. BROWN, who, with absolute can
dor. reiterates his intention to rigidly enforce the laws
while he remains in office, lie is shown seated at his desk.
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Huck Finn Swimmin’
Hole Now Abolished
Famous Palmyra Creek, Made
So by Mark Twain, Is a Sewer.
Young Boys Desolate.
HANNIBAL, MO., May 24. ^Pal
myra Creek, where Huckleberry Finn
and Tom Sawyer, two famous char
acters in Mark Twain’s book*’, waded
barefooted and dammed the spring
that they might use it for a swim
ming pool, is to-day a thing of the
past.
Years ago, when Hannibal was first
All Georgia Evildoers Are Scourged by
the Executive With Amazing Frank
ness as He Serves Notice That the
Statutes Will Be Enforced.
settled, the main portion of the vil
lage was around the mouth and along
the sides of Palmyra Creek. A little
more than a year ago work was
started to convert the creek into a
large sanitary sewer.
The work has just been finished of
closing the gap that made Palmyra
Creek a matter of history.
Baby Girl Is Born
With Pair of Teeth
Sprouts Two More, Too, the Day
After Her Arrival—Signs of
Great Strength.
NEW YORK, May 24,—A normal,
healthy, nine-and-a-halt-pound baby
girl, born to Mrs Fannie Axter, came
into the world not with a gold spoon
in her mouth, but with two pearly
teeth.
Yesterday, when Dr. Abraham A.
Levy called to see his little charge, he
found that two more teeth had de
veloped. The first pair were incis
ors, the last are molars.
The baby, who will be christened
Dora to-day, is the fifth child born
to Mrs. Axter. Dora gives every
promise of unusual strength.
Shoots Man He Finds
Talking With Girls
Youth Fires Four Times at Victim,
Two Bullets Take Effect With
Serious Results.
CHICAGO, May 24.—Albert E. Sny
der, twenty-four years old, was shot
twice la9t night by Robert M. Cnger,
nineteen years old, while Snyder and
two companions were talking to two
girls.
Cnger became enraged when he saw
Snyder and his companions talking
vith the girls and he fired four shots
at the young men. twl of the balls
striking Snyder. L nger was arrest
ed.
Steals for Sick Baby;
Gives Thanks in Note
Burglar Enters Minneapolis Home,
but Leaves Apology Behind
Him.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 24—For the
sake of a sick baby at home a bur
glar broke into the home of Andrew
Fisher, 142 Girard Avenue N, early
Thursday and stole one quart of
milk and $6. He left a note of thanks.
Fisher told Captain of Police John
Galvin that he had heard a sound in
his house, but did not leave his bed.
When he arose early he said he found
a window removed from a easing in
the basement and the back door was
standing open. On the table was a
note, which read as follows;
"Thanks, old man, for the money
and the milk. I have a sick baby at
my home, and I can use bothf’
Fisher made a hurried inventory of
his belongings and found that $6 had
been taken from his trousers, which
had been hanging on the foot of the
bed. A quart bottle of milk was
missing also.
Mysterious Shears
Snip Ostrich Plumes
Woman Separated From Most
of Her Headgear While Out
Walking.
CINCINNATI, May 24. .Viable
Coyle, owned a fine ostrich plume
which she wore in her hat. Last
evening she was walking toward her
home, the plume vfaving proudly in
the breeze. Suddenly a hand project
ed itself-from a window In a building
near Miss Coyle's residence. In the
hand was a pair of : hears. After a
snip of the shears the hand and the
plume vanished as if by magic. Miss
Covie reuorted the th.it to the do-
Married Half Nephew;
Daughter Her Cousin
Woman Seeks Divorce in Order to
Straighten Out Badly Tangled
Relationship.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 24.—Mrs.
Jennie Golden, who when thirteen
years old was married to her half
nephew, then twenty years old, filed
suit here to have the marriage an
nulled, so the relationship of their
four-year-old Margaret may be
straightened.
She does not want the daughter to
go through life as second cousin to
herself. Christian Golden, the hus
band. also wants the marriage an
nulled.
Willoughby Babcock, attorney for
the woman, said Golden did not learn
of the degree of their relationship
until recently, owing to the second
marriage of Mrs. Golden’s grand
father.
Municipal Poolrooms
Needed, Says Pastor
Places as Privately Operated Form
Great Temptation to Young
E'oys, He Charges.
GALESBURG, ILLS, May 24— Rev.
F. E. R. Miller, pastor of the First
Baptist church of this city, declares
for the municipal ownership of pool
halls and emphasized his position in
a sermon. He aserts that under pri
vate ownership the crowds that fre
quent pool halls and the gaming
practices that are frequently allow
ed are demoralizing to boys. He con
tended that under municipal owner
ship these places would be properly
conducted, as they now are under
the auspices of the Young Men’s
Christian Association. His position
is based on recent revelations regard
ing poolrooms here, the closing of one
place bv the mayor and the suppres
sion of slot machines in others.
Governor Joseph M. Brown in an interview for The Sunday
American, amazing in its frankness and engaging in its absolute
candor, serves notice agaih upon the people of Georgia that so
long as he is Chief Magistrate, the laws of Georgia must and shall
be rigidly enforced.
The Governor minces no words in stating his position, and
cites specific instances of law violations of a character repugnant
to his sense of right.
The Governor's interview, which is sure to create a stir, follows :
By JOSEPH M. BROWN,
Governor of Georgia
I am not now and never have
been a pessimist, but, neverthe
less, I will sa.v that certain events
within the past few month* have
been tendering to this and some
other .States the issue of anarchy
or illegally administered law.
Among these events were
strikes on public service corpora
tions and factories, the dynamit
ing of residences and other prop
erty in the night, the threatened
interruption of the courts in I he
very act of applying the process
prescribed by the Constitution
and the invasion of jails by mobs,
who. with the muzzles of guns,
have forced officers of the State
to surrender prisoners, who have
then been unlawfully hanged.
Georgia is a large State with
a large population, and the
events to which I refer have been
but occasional and in different
parts of her area, but they are
developing a spirit of disregard
of law which, if not sternly
checked, will ere long hurst
forth as anarchy, pure and sim
ple.
Now, it is an indisputable fact
that an enormous majority of the
people of this State is composed
of lawabiding people.
They have framed a Constitu
tion and enacted laws for the protection of persons and property.
THINKS PEOPLE SUPREME.
They do not intend to lie down at night with the apprehension
that the habitation of the humblest person will be dynamited as
he and his family sleep.
They do not intend that jails shall he broken into and parties
in the custody of the State taken forcibly from the officers and
killed. The State holds such killing as murder.
And I will add that, since certain organizations have tendered
to the State thp issue as to whether their will or the State's law
shall be supreme, it will be demonstrated ttiat the vast majority
of the people do NOT intend that the law shall bend to the power
of any or all organizations.
Taking a concrete case for illustration, when the State char
tered the Georgia Railroad she not only gave it consent to run
trains, but she commanded it to do so. And in her amended
j Railroad Commission law she made it the duty of the- commission
i "to order and compel the operation of sufficient and proper passen-
! ger service, when in its judgment inefficient or insufficient service
I is being rendered the public or any community.” Code of Georgia,
| Section 2864.
SEES INJURY TO POOR.
About 250 trainmen struck and forced the owners of the road
to stop running the trains for twelve days. They and their con
federates paralyzed the power of that road to serve the publk The
public in the counties traversed by that road consisted, as shown
by the last census, of 582,182 inhabitants.
Thus these trainmen and those who incited them to this course
openly and boldly affronted the State by setting her laws
at naught; they injured hundreds of thousands of people by tem
porarily depriving them of the powers of transportation which are
necessary to their welfare. They struck a blow especially hard to
the poor people, who were not able to pay the higher prices for food
and other necessaries during the period of the strike. In fact, in
these cases this suspension of transportation facilities shut down
factories, thus depriving the employees of daily wages, which were
needed for the purchase of food itself.
Can anybody advance a plausible excuse—we can not say rea-
1 son—for this nullification of the State's law which commanded the
.operation of that railroad for the benefit of the public?
< an anybody claim that every other element of the State's citi-