Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 6, 1912, Page 6

—E —_ woismsvngnte PAGE SIX BIG MASSACRE Government Sends Warning | to the Powers. WARSHIPS RUSH TO SCENE Porte Decizres That if Bulgarians En- ter Constantinople It Will Be im- possible to Prevent an Anti-Christian Uprising. Berlin, Nov. 6—The Turkish govern- Ment intimated to the German foreign office that if the Bulgarians enter Constantinople it will be impossible to prevent an anti-Christian uprising, it was stated on semi-official authority here. j The sultan, therefore, renewed his ‘@ppeal to the kaiser to use his infiu- ence with the Balkan allies to agree to an armistice. Germany is the one power which hes not frowned upon Turkey’s efforts to make a cessation of hovtilities pre- eede an offer of concessions to the al- lies. The Fatherland alone can ac- fomplish nothing, however, so there Was no prospect that the latest appeal from Constantinople will have any bet- | ter result than the earlier one. The sultan’s virtual admission that he cannot control his enraged Mo- bammedan subjects was considered ex- tremely ominous. The powers are all rushing warships to Turkish waters ‘to protect foreigners, but there are many who will surely be unable to feach the ports where the fighting raft will anchor. As one of the largest cities in Eu- Tope the gravest concern is, of course, felt for Constantinople. Foreigners ‘there may insure their safety by going om board the warships, but it will be impossible to protect the entire Chris- tian population, which runs into the hundreds of thousands. | Jw ss NOT VERY WELL RECEIVED Turkey's Appeal for Mediation Still t Under Consideration. | London, Noy. 6—Although all the | Powers have not yet replied to Tur- | key’s appeal for mediation it is known fhat it has nowhere received a very warm reception. As to the future of the Balkans a gery sharp line divides Germany, Aus- tria-Hungary and Italy from France, Russia and Great Britain. Public opin- fon in England, France and Russia ar- gues that the allies should have the territory which they have conquered. Austria-Hungary, which after all is the most directly interested of the great powers, being the nearest neigh- | ~bor to the Balkan states, will, it is be- | lieved, not sit quietly by and see the Balkan league establish itself across her path to the Aegean sea, in which | direction her trade is expanding, | | while at the same time the Servians pread to the Adriatic sea. The Aus- trian government points out that the | Albanians are as much a nation as any of the allies and that Albania | should be reserved for the Albanians. | WARSHIPS TO NEAR EAST) Austria Starts Four Vessels for Con- stantinople. Vienna, Nov. 6—The First division | of the Austro-Hungarian fleet, con- sisting of three battleships, one cruiser and two torpedo boat destroy- ers, left the naval station at Pola for the East. The exact destination of the warships is not known, but the commander of the division has been ordered to report to the Austro-Hun- garian ambassador at Constantinople, from whom he will ascertain where the vessels can best be employed. ADRIANOPLE IS BOMBARDED | Czar Ferdinand Ready to Begin Last | Dash to Turkish Capital. j ‘Vienna, Nov. 6.—The Buigarians are Feported on the point of carrying the Chalatja forts, Constantinople’s last line of defense. It is reported that the Turkish army is scattered and that Czar Ferdinand is all ready to begin his last 25-mile dash to the capital. At latest accounts a tremendous bombardment was in progress at Adrianopie. Greeks Occupy Island of Ipsara. Athens, Noy. 6.—The Greeks have ! occupied the Turkish island of Ipsara,_ im the Aegean sea northwest of Chios. ‘The people of this island were massa- ered by the Turks in the war with Greece in 1824. General Ricciotti Garibaldi arrived here and received an ovation. Fighting at Tchatalja Forts. Lendon, Nov. 6.—It is officially an- mounced in Constantinople that fight- fmg bas begun between the Bulgarians and Turks at the Tchatalja forts, ac- wording to a special dispatch from that city. The result of the fighting is not stated. Turkey Asks for Warships. Paris, Nov. 6.—The Turkish govern- TURKEY FEARS — ON SINKING SHIP Another Hero Among Wire- less Operators... VESSEL FINALLY SAVED Continues to Flash Appeals for As- sistance in Face of Death and All on Board Are Saved as Steamer Is About to Founder. Norfolk, Va., Nov. 6—-Another hero of the sea was born when the Nor- wegian steamer Noreuga and the Nor- wegian sailing ship Glenlui met in dis- astrous collision at sea. The Noreuga arrived here in a sinking condition in tow of the revenue cutter Onondaga. The Glenlui is expected later. The man to whom credit is given is the wireless operator on the Nor- euga, who declined to give his name, and whose desire to avoid notoriety Was respected by Captain Hansen. When the crew were for deserting the stricken vessel the operator re- fused to leave his post and with death Tiding the gale continued to flash his appeals for help. He finally succeeded in raising both shore stations and ves- sels of the Atlantic fleet. The rescue of the vessel’s crew was accomplished as they were about to founder. The Noreuga will be repaired at the Newport News shipyard, where her eleven passengers, including eight women, and her freight will be trans- ferred to the steamship Mexicano, which has been awaiting her arrival. The passengers were on board the Onondaga. Squadron Aids Ships in Distress. Washington, Nov. 6—In a terrific gale off Cape Hatteras the squadron of the Atlantic fleet abandoned battle practice to become a high seas life- Saving service, according to a radio- gram received at the navy department from Admiral Osterhaus. The vessels gave their entire attention to search- ing for wrecks and standing by dis- abled veeaale. iceman’ MAN NABBED AT TAFT HOME Visitor Tries to Force Entrance in Effort to See President. Cincinnati, 0., Nov. 6—A man who insisted on seeing President Taft was removed by the police from the door- step of Charles P. Taft’s home, where the president is staying. The man’s ring at the doorbell was answered by a maid. He tried to push past her, but she succeeded in closing the door against him. “T served in the Civil war and I was never mustered out,” he called, “And Taft's the man who can do it.” Two policemen put the visitor off the grounds. HYMNS FORCE CONFESSION Texan Says He Killed Man Twenty- four Years Ago. Dallas, Tex., Nov. 6.—Strains of sa- ered music coming from a church so affected G. H. Rose, the police say, that he surrendered at a local jail, de- claring he had killed W. H. Morris im Covington, Ky., twenty-four years ago. Rose is quoted as having said that at the time of the tragedy he was known as N. W. Ingersoll. He has lived in Dallas twenty-three years. GIRL FIREBUG CONFESSES Says She Burned St. Louis Hotel for “Excitement.” St. Louis, Nov. 6—Barbara Gladys Reynolds, eighteen-year-old nurse girl in the family of Rev. William J. Jame- son, confessed that she set fire to the Berlin hotel last Friday night to “cre- ate excitement.” In the Berlin hotel fire two women and a retired banker were burned to | death. WHOLE FAMILY SMOTHERED Man, Wife and Three Children Found Dead at Toledo, 0. Toledo, O., Nov. 6—A family of five was found dead from gas asphyxi- ation at their home here. They are George W. Hassen, his wife and three children. Danced at Taylor Inaugural. Washington, Nov. 6.—Mrs. Martha | A. Trammell, who came to the capital sixty-three years ago to dance at the inauguration of her cousin, President Zachary Taylor, is dead here at the age of ninety-one. Mrs. Trammell probably witnessed more inaugura- tions of presidents of the United States than any other woman for she lived continuously in the national cap- ital after coming from her girlhood home in Virginia. Classmate of Wilson Killed. Philadelphia, Nov. 6—Peter A. Van Doren, a lawyer of Princeton and a classmate of Governor Woodrow Wil- son, was killed and Henry G. Bunn, ‘ment asked the powers to send an ’ PEPYS’ LITTLE FEAST. | At Which the Diarist Fared Better Than He Did on Washday. Mr. Samuel Pepys. of the femous “Diary,” had rather more than his -|share of human weaknesses and frail- ties, but had he been a begter man it is certain that his “Diary” would have been a duller book. It is. for example, an undoubted fact fhat Mr. Pepys was something of a yormand—was rather fonder of the lable and of the delights thereof than 'a really wise man ought to have been. It is to this trait in his character and to bis curious habit of jotting down tough notes of what he had had for flinner that we owe a thousand little fletails regarding the table of well to do Englishmen in the reign of his majesty King Charles I1., of hilarious memory. What will be thought of the follow- ing for a nice, dainty little meal? It is the menu of a little “feast,” as he calls it, which the diarist gave every year in commemoration of his being operated on successfully for a danger- ous disease. He proudly chronicles that the dishes on this occasion includ- ed “a fricassee of rabbits and chickens, a leg of mutton boiled, three carps in a dish, a great dish of a side of lamb, a dish of roasted pigeons, a dish of four lobsters, three tarts, a lamprey ‘pie”’—a most rare pie—“a dish of an- chovies and good wine of several sorts. And all things mighty and noble and to my great content.” be adds com- placently. The number of guests on this occa- sion is not given, but at another time, with six guests, he has “after oysters a hash of rabbits and lamb and a rare chine of beef; next a great dish of roasted fowl—cost me about 30 shil- lings—and a tart, and then fruit and cheese.” About 10 o'clock at night he sends his guests away “after a good sack possett and cold meat.” The whole will cost him, he observes, about £5— say £20 of present day English money. These are what the diarist calls “feasts.” On ordinary occasions the fare is, of course, much more modest —for instance: “Dined at home with my wife. It being washing day. we had a good pie baked of a leg of mutton.” No doubt the poor man was thankful enough to get that, for one gathers from the “Diary” that he generally —washing day. Mrs. Pepys and her “people’—two' or three maids and a cook maid—did it themselves—no washerwomen, and the good lady and her helpers were generally up at 4 o'clock in the morning in summer. Men Who Walked on All Fours. In the kingdom of Poland there was formerly a law according to which any person found guilty of slander. was compelled to walk on all fours through | the streets of the town where he lived accompanied by the beadle, as a sign that he was disgraced and unworthy of the name of man. At the next pub- to appear crawling upon hands and knees underneath the banqueting ta- ble and barking like a dog. Every guest was at liberty to give him as many kicks as he chose, and he who bad been slandered must toward the end of the banquet throw a picked bone at the culprit, who, picking it up with his mouth, would leave the room on all fours. t An Easy Way to Stretch Shoes. To ease a tight boot or shoe take a wrap the blades with cloth and insert the handles into the toe of the shoe; then spread apart the blades. That will, of course, spread the handles at the same time. If the shoe presses un- duly in one particular spot place the round handle of the shears at the point of pressure; if it is desired to loosen the shoe equally from toe to instep turn the oval handle toward the side to be stretched. The stretching is made easier if the shoe is first moistened with alcohol. It does not injure the leather.—Youth’s Companion. The Snipe’s Bill. ‘The bill of the snipe is provided with a nerve running down to the tip and then distributing itself over the end of the beak. This is the only instance of this kind ameng birds and is a | singular case of the care of nature in providing for her creatures. The snipe seeks for his prey in mud and water, where he cannot see, and it is believed that the nerve advises him of the pres- ence of food when his eyes give him no information. The New Yorkers, “Are they fond of their-New York home?” “Oh, awfully fond. They spend their winters in Florida, their springs in Lakewood, their summers at Newport and their autumns at Lenox, but they ; are simply devoted to their New York | home!”—Chicago Mail. —————_ Setting Her Right. soft place must be in his head —Lon- don Telegraph. had cold meat on washing days. In | those days, look you, washing day was | lic festival the delinquent was forced | pair of shears—the longer the better— | cg ee ce ce SS er re en RRR De RE CCN ~ EZRA'S HARD LUCK. ie ‘9% Began With His Name and Ended on His Tombstone, Tom McNeal of Topeka was talking to Abe Peters about luck, so Tom re- ports. Tom thought there was no such thing as luck, but Abe protested. “Take the case of Ezra Boil,” said Abe. “To begin with, think of his name. A name like that is hard enough luck to prove my contention, jut Ezra lived up to it. When he was a baby he fell into the horse trough and was almost drowned. Then he got hold of a can of concentrated lye and it took them four weeks to bring him round. He fell out of an |apple tree when he was six and broke both arms and a leg, and just as he was hobbling round again he went on & watermelon stealing expedition with six other boys. The others got away. but the dog caught Ezra and chewed him up until the farmer came along and he put on finishing touches with a harness trace. He fell in love when he was seventeen, spent all he had for \bugey rides and candy for the red cheeked object of his adoration—and she shook him and married another. A mule'kicked him and broke six ribs. He had a lot of hogs arid they died of cholera on the identical day when hogs ‘reached 9 cents a pound, live weight. He had a big crop of wheat and a hail- storm came along and ruined it one hour after his hail insurance policy had lapsed. He got $500 to make a payment on his land, put in the bank and the bank busted. “A cyclone wrecked his house and cept his mother-in-law. who escaped unhurt. He bought four gold bricks jand took some counterfeit money -in pay for two good horses. “Then he died. When they were tak- ing him to the cemetery the team pull- ing the hearse ran away going down | bill and -scattred the remains of Ezra lalong the side of the road. “In the course of time his family ‘marked his grave by an appropriate stone on which the stonecutter got the |date of his birth wrong and misspelled his name in two places. | “And still you say there is no such ithing as Inck!”—Saturday Evening Post. A LIVING TOWER. Captain Meeker’s Unique Idea In the Building Line. What is known as the “living tow- ler,” says a writer in the Wide World | Magazine, stands on the very summit of a hill more than 200 feet high at Camp Meeker, a summer resort in So- noma county, Cal. It was Captain | Meeker, an old pioneer, who first con- }ceived the idea of building a tower on {the very summit of a high hill near his hotel, and while looking around one jday for a suitable site he found four young redwood trees standing about | twelve feet apart, representing a per- | fect square. The trees were each | about 150 feet high. Fifty feet of each | top was lopped off. and the work of | building six stories was- then com- 'menced. From top to bottom the liv- | ing tower was a hundred feet high. {rests on strong timbers, the ends of | which are securely attached to the four | trees by means of steel_cables and | bolts. So strongly was every part braced that the whole structure does | mot move as much as one would natu- |heavy winds. In the building great | eare was taken by the workmen to cut ‘jonly the branches growing on the in- | side of the square, and the trees were |not chopped, mutilated or weakened | any more than could be avoided. Leading up from each story are broad stairways, so that one may as- cend and descend with ease and per- | | leach floor are strong railings to pre- | vent accidents. Since this tower was | completed the trees have grown and | flourished just as well as before. This | living tower is claimed to be the only | one of its kind in the world. Paint of Our Forefathers. | A white lead and oil paint, the finish of our forefathers, is easily and eco- nomically mixed from the raw mate rials as it is needed for use. With each | 100 pounds of white lead mix five gal- | lons linseed oil, one pint turpentine and one pint drier. An allowance of 50 |eents for the labor of mixing gives $13.15, or $1.64 a gallon. Two coats of | this, or better three, after coating knots and pitchy, sappy places with erange } shellac, provide a good finish either outdoors or in.—Country Life In Amer- ica. i | Conkling’s Invective. Roscoe Conkling, like John J. Ingalls, was a master of invective. Conkling, it is said, once upon a time in summing up to a jury thus attempted to belittle the testimony of a rummy faced, knob- | by nosed witness for the opposition: “Methinks, gentlemen, I can see that witness now, his mouth stretching across the wide desolation of his face, a sepulcher of rum and a fountain of falsehood!” Contradictory. Randall—I’ve written an article on “Why Men Do Not Marry” and illus- trated it with photographs of dreadful looking, strong minded women Rog- ers—Where did you get the pictures? Randall—They’re wives of the men I know.—Life. She Knew Best. Visitor—Tell me now, professor, are you suffering much from your head- barn and crippled all his family ex- | Each floor is about 12 by 12 feet and | |rally suppose, even when rocked by | | fect safety, while around the edge of | é Clearance Sale £ of Waists eight gallons of white paint for about | SPEED Ur SUUND. | fin Easy Method of Judging the Dis- tance It Travels. — | There is an old saying that if you’ van count five between the flash and the thunder you are safe. Modern science tells us that if you can see the fash at all you are safe, because if it struck you you would have no time to see it. The speed of lightning is about 4380 times that of sight. The old idea was that if you could sount five the storm was a mile away. which was considered a safe distance. Sound travels at the rate of 1,142 feet 4 second, or about a mile in five sec- ends. In order to count seconds ac- surately many photographers start by saying to themselves: “‘No one thou- sand, one one thousand, two one thou- jsand. three one thousand,” etc. This fives about the right space between each count of one, two. three, etc., if you stop at the number of seconds you want to time. With a little practice with a watch beside you this is ac- curate up to half a minute or more. If you see a steam whistle blowing and note the instant it stops you can. rount the seconds until you lose the sound, and by allowing a fifth of a} ;mile for each second you can judge the fistance. The same is true of guns, or an explosion, or even of hammering \or any joud sounds.—New York Press. { MARRIAGE BY PROXY. | This Curious Ceremony Is a Purely Dutch Institution. Some time ago a Boer in Pretoria | was married to a girl in Amsterdam, in Holland, the ceremony constituting |what the Dutch call handschoen, or glove marriage. | In spite of the fact that a distance of |6,000 miles lay between the bride in the Netherlands and the bridegroom im the Transvaal they were just as ef- |fectually married under the Dutch law as if both had been present in the same church. ; The bridegroom sent to his friend, or best man, in Amsterdam a power of | \attorney to represent him as his proxy at the ceremony and at the same time \forwarded his glove, which at the | proper moment, when the two were |made one, was held by both the bride jand the proxy. | The wedding was duly registered at | | Amsterdam and at Pretoria, where the \bridegroom filed an affidavit with the landdrost, or magistrate. This curious form of marriage is a |purely Dutch institution, the custom |having originated, it is said, in the old | |times of Dutch-Batavian rule. It is, | WOMEN OF FRANCE. They Are the Bosses Even Though the Men Won't Admit It. The women of France have been de- scribed as the backbone of the French pation. The remark applies more to the middie class than to the aristoc- racy. The bourgecise, truly a helpmeet to her husband, is in fact more often a manager and as a rule efficient in that capacity. It is she who carries on the little shop, while ber husband. perhaps nominally the head, runs errands at ber bidding. Not that the Frenchman would admit that; nevertheless it is the truth. It may be, too, that he has busi- ness interests elsewhere as well. Thus be may work for the railway or for some other enterprise. In Paris one enters an attractive lit- tle picture or jewelry shop on the Rue de Rivoli. A smiling Frenchwoman comes forward to cajole the tourist into buying all sorts of fascinating things he really does not want. It is the same at the shops where are sold kodak supplies and posteards—not a man to be seen except as a purchaser. If one ferrets out a little hardware store and goes in to buy rope or nails or anything of that sort, there may be 8 man, the proprietor probably, to bunt for just what is desired, but even then bis wife sits at the desk, guarding the money drawer and keeping a close watch over all that is happening. Likewise at the butcher's madame sits in state at the receipt of cash. The case is the same at the grocer’s. where she gives out change and keeps the accounts. No mere hireling is to be trusted with such weighty matters. All customers should stop to greet the mistress of the shop as they enter and must on no account forget their “Bon jour, madame!” on departing. ‘These little courtesies are among the essep- tials with the French, and if the for- eigner forgets or neglects them he fre- quently fares badly.—London Spectator. The Human Voice. One’s surprise at the fact that no two persons’ voices are perfectly alike ceases when one is informed by an au- thority on the subject that, though there are only nine perfect tones in the human voice, there is the astound- ing number of 17,592,186,044,415 differ- ent sounds. Of these fourteen direct muscles produce 16,383, and thirty indi- |rect muscles produce 173,741,823, while all in co-operation produce the total | given above. Unconscious Sarcasm, ‘A Scotch visitor to the Carlyles, in |however, a dead letter in the Trans- ‘Cheyne row, was much struck with |vaal since the English took over that the soundproof room which the sage \eolony.—New York Press. |had contrived for himself in the attic. | SS he |lighted from the top, and where no After the Deluge. | She had just returned from her first | trate. | trip to Europe and everybody was igiven an opportunity to know about it. {One by one they gently extricated \themselves, but at last she found a si- ‘lent youth in a corner who proved to | |be an attentive listener. To him she irhapsodized on the beauty of life \“abroad,” and especially in England. fficult, however, for the most ic tourist to exist long with- out eliciting from an auditer some ex- | pression of wonder or applause, sv she sought to break her listener’s respect- |ful silence even at the expense of los- ling a little time herself. “Were you lever in England?” she asked. “Yes,” he said modestly. “I was born ‘there, and I am thirty-six years old. I lived there until 1 came to America | |three months ago. If you can tell me |anything about America I should be awfully glad, as 1 wish to learn all I | vy New Vor Deann sight or sound from outside could pene- “My certes, this is fine!” cried the old friend, with unconscious sar- casm. “Here ye may write and study | all the rest of your life and no humap | being be one bit the wiser.” Not to Be Bitten. | ‘Andrew Cherry, the actor, once re | ceived an offer of an engagement from a theatrical manager who had not pre- viously treated him very well. “I have been bitten by you once,” he wrote, “and am resolved that you shall not | make two bites of A. Cherry.”—London Telegraph. REPRE Consistent. “That big fellow certainly does act in @ very silly way.” “Perhaps, being stout, he thinks to match it his conduct ought to be fate- ous.”—Baltimore American. i | in Grand Rapids. of summer waists we lots and will sell for | tifully trimmed. you to inspect. We are offering this week one of the finest ry oe in Ladies’ Shirt Waists ever made To clear out our stock are offering all waists | from $1 to $5 values at a clearance price | which means a saving of half the original cost. These waists have been sorted in 69c, 98c, $1.48 and. $1.98 These are handsome waists in muslins, | embroidery, wash silks and messalines, all this season’s styles, well made and beau- A new shipment of those comfortable Ladies’ Mackinaw Jackets, priced from $5 to $8. We have just opened up the winter line of Ladies’ Long Coats, Ker- seys and Chinchellas which we invite -