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TUB NORFOLK WBKKLY NEWS-JOURNAL , FRIDAY , NOVKMUKIl 11 , 1010. HoffOk Weekly News-Journal The NCWH , KMnbUdied 1881. Tlio .lutirnnl , Established 1877. THE HU8E PUDLI8HING COMPANY \V. N. HIIBO A. Huso. President. Secretary. JSvory I-'rltlay lly ' " 'ill ' per year. $1.50. Untored at llio postofllco at Norfolk. , , as second class matter. Telephoned : Editorial Department No. 11. HuslnosH Office and Job HOOMIH , No. 11 22. The hobble skirt has besn beaten tea a frazzle by the cocoon gown. It IB no longer necessary for wo men to ask "Is my hot on straight ? " It isn't Intended to bo. Johnatono not only went up 9,714 foot , but he came down 8,714 feet right aide up and "ship shape. " Grahnmc-Wlilte's name IB Bald to be pronounced 'Urnimnlt. " This hardly Bounds like a good Sunday Bchool word. South Dakota had n ballot seven feet long. ThlB making every voter n member of the legislature IB of doubt ful wisdom. Robert J. Durdetto says there arc two days about which ono should never worry , these are yesterday ami tomorrow. The sultan of Sulu nays ho Is con verted to Americanism after his visll hero. Ho should send quick for r nerve specialist. Candidate Dlx proposes T. R. foi entrance to the Ananias club , but 1 is rumored that the charter member ! nre going to blackball him. The express company magnates nn so worn to n frazzle cutting coupon that it would bo too bad to ask then to listen to their striking drivers. Pink beans are now being raised li Texas , but It Is not thought that the ; will drive out the tan and terracotti shades for some time. People talk about "breaking th laws of nature , " but no one ever nc complishcd that feat. They only triei to and broke themselves. We begin by jeering at every Innc vation until the pioneers In Improve inents have proved the value of thel now Ideas , then we cheer enthusiastic ally. If tne puDiic understood better tn ndverso conditions with which the av atar Is compelled to contend , the ; would not be so critical of what the get at the aviation shows. The government's aviation exper says brains are the most valuable as act of an aviator. The same hold true of the men who walk the eart' ' in the ordinary pursuits of life. It must bo rather discouraging t those who have spent weary week climbing to the summit of Mt. McKIr ley , that It Is a mere Infant compare to a mountain farther up the line. President Taft wants to have co lectors of customs under civil service too. If this thing keeps on , it wil tie as hard to get caucus and conver tion packers ns hired girls. Vice President Sherman Is stumpin , North Carolina. His hard work t elect the Now York ticket remind us of those weepy things the poet said about thy galley slaves. The rural free delivery , the Ion distance telephone and the an to me bile give the well-to-do farmer nearl ; all the advantages of the town , am none of the disadvantages. Postmaster General Hitchcock I succeeding In reducing expenses in hi department without impairing the sei vice. It would be a good Idea if h could extend his sphere of influence. While Canada may not need a nav ; for defense , we certainly hope nol the tirao has come when every natioi needs ships for sea patrol , for the prc tcctlon of commerce and other pui poses , beside military defense. If an attempt were made to assas sinate n poor man and his life wer saved at a cost of $34,000 worth o doctor hills , the chances are he wouli prefer that the assassin should finis ] his Job.Ve don't know how Mnyo Gaynor felt about it. The railroad rate hearing is ovei and the commissioner who can do jiu tico to nil these vastly complicated in terests ought to be able to run tli < fiolar system through the Christina shopping season. Mr. Roosevelt and Judge Baldwli are arguing about law. T. R. shoult know that the farther ono penetrate : the legal Jungle , the less Inclined hi is to stake his reputation on any om path ns the one leading out to God'i country. The proposition to sell literature bj the pound seems hardly a fair ono It must have been made by those wh < furnish heavy reading matter to got ahead of the writers of light litera ture , It takes a nuui who IB already load ed with work , to shoulder more and pack It with eiihe. .Men of large ex perience who want a thing well and promptly done , always give the job to the busiest man In town. There Is almost always "anothor aide" to the stories which are told "Btrlctly In confidence" from one to another , which leave some person's character less pure than It was before the gossips got In their work. A spectator at the LJelmont park aviation meet said the most astonish- thing ho saw was the vast con course of automobiles. A bystander ilrst put the value of the mass of hun dreds of machines nt a million dollars , then Jumped to three millions and : it last gave it up with the remark that a million more or less didn't mat ter. Will air craft some day bo as numerous and common ? Eight hundred thousand children made use of New York's public play grounds last year. Is any further proof necessary to convince the public of the need of some open air sanitary place for the children of congested districts to get recreation and fresh nlr. Seacoast cities are discovering that they can conserve their fresh water Biipply by using the ocean water to flush the streets , extinguish fires and for every purpose where salt Is not in jurious. This Is ono reservoir that will not run dry and for fighting fires and flushing paved streets the salt water Is found to be superior to the fresh. The thing for nil right minded men to do everywhere Is not to undertake the fruitless task of crushing out po litical partlzanshlp , but rather to di rect It Into channels where It will operate for the good of humanity. The reformer will best help his cause by recognizing existing conditions and working for their improvement along rational practical lines. Among the unique benefactors to so ciety , Dr. McCutchcon , a wealthy physician on the Pacific coast is en gaged in one of the most original forms of philanthropy. Ho maintains a private aviary from which he re leases each spring hundreds of singIng - Ing birds , which are gradually mak ing the forests of that country , before so silent , sweet with their songs. Secretary MacVeagh , after looking over the situation carefully has de cided that one of the needs of the country Is more dollar bills. There are plenty of people who could have told him that was the case long ago , but it is encouraging if he has finally discovered it. The people are not at all particular about a new design , cith er. The same old dollar looks good to them. President Taft is making a study of the Immigration problem and among other suggestions for the relief of the present undesirable congestion of Im migrants in New York City ho would establish other detention or examina tion stations nt different points along thp coast , and have the influx of for eigners distributed widely Instead of centered In New York. This Is un doubtedly a wise plan. A most encouraging sign of the in dustrial times is the increasing inter est employers are taking In their em ployes. A recent evidence of this tendency its the sanitarium which has been established at Watrous , New Mexico , for the treatment of the em ployes of Chicago firms who have tub- wrouloals. This Is the first sanitarium to be established by a combination of firms for the benefit of their workers. Thirty-two firms hold stock in this cor poration and the cottages will accom modate thirty patients nt a time. A socialistic newspaper of Germany tells of a new warship which Is being built by the German admiralty , which is much on the plan of our Monitor of civil war fame. The deck of the new ship is only five feet from the water and is PO heavily armored that no projectile can pierce It. It Is driven by a gas engine and throws shells of over two tons weight that would smash in the high sides of a Dread- naught. This will make Dreadnaughts and Super-Drendnaughts obsolescent and reduce all existing navies to the value of scrap iron. More naval ap propriations ! The manager of ono of the largest fountain pen companies was keen enough to see "opportunity" written In large letters for his business In the announcement in ado some months In advance that on April 1 , 1910 , 70,000 census enumerators were to ho start ed out , and that each ono was re quired to make certain very mlnuto annotations In ink on the schedules ho carried around. Everyone of those 70,000 enumerators must carry n pen. Why not his company's pen ? He planned a careful advertising cam paign on this Idea , and about ten days before April 1 , opened It up simul taneously In newspapers nil over the county not only In English but in line other languages , The enumera- ; ors In this census who did not car ry a fountain pen were few and far jetwoen , and thlH clever company reaped n tremendous harvest which exceeded even their highest expecta- Jons. T OF PAVING. Already the fact that Norfolk's busi ness street Is being paved. Is having ii good effect up " the city. Every- whoio then ; Is more confidence In the lown's future. Strangers look upon us with a now viewpoint. There's a stir In real estate , a good many people believing that this is the best oppor tunity that they will ever have to ac quire Norfolk property reasonably. The paving Is going to put a new tone In the atmosphere. It will be a stimu lant to the town that will bring now unforeseen results. President David Starr Jordan of In land Stanford university spoke aftct his return from Europe of the high cost of living which he attributed part ly , nt least , to the expense of main taining armaments , pensions and mili tary paraphernalia. Ho snld : "The whole world helps to pay the penalty of any war. " The drain of war has lowered the quality of the race , and has placed the nations under bonds to the Invisible empire of wealth that can never bo paid. " The glory of war may bo a fine thing , " but economic waste lasts longer and pinches the in dividual long nfter the glory ceases to thrill. A Mississippi exchange says : "Never In the history of this county has there boon such general prosper ity as now. If there Is a farmer In this county who has not raised a bet tor cotton crop than last year , we have not hoard of It. Coupled with the largo crop is the fact that the price Is much higher than last season , and the further fact that a bumper corn pen , potato and hay crop has nlsc been raised. The farmer Is now more nearly on a cash basis than ever be fore , and prosperity Is In the very nlr. The calamity howler is a ram avis , and If any should bo discovered they should bo sent to a first class Burgeon and operated on for liver trou- ble. " A MODERN MARVEL. One of the big scientific triumphs of the twentieth century is the mar vellously quick collection and an nouncement of election returns. Wei ! wo recall the Impatient sessions ol all night election watchers of twent > years ago. In what driblets the news used to come ! We would learn thai seventeen precincts out of 10,000 it New York gave Smith 125 and Jones 100 , and goodness only knew how thai compared with previous years , anc ! whether It was an occasion for repub lican or democratic cheering. What a torture It was to collect re turns over the undeveloped telephone How ono would bore his ears into the recesses of the obstinate Instrument trying to find articulate and intelligl bio sounds in the babel of voices us Ing the single wire at once. Today It is an unusually close elec tlon where a state result Is not fore casted with some certainty , and flash cd to the smallest telegraph and tele phone office by 10 p. m. of electior day. MORAL OF CRIPPEN CASE. The United States , which is not t little boastful when it finds evidence of its superiority , should hide its head in shame when the record of the Crip pen trial in England Is compared witi that of any similar case In this coun try. Here was the real cause celebre Everybody In two continents read ol the flight of Crippen and his girl com panlon , of the discovery of remains supposed to be those of his murdered wife in the collar , of the apprehenslor and return of the fugitives. All thai is but of yesterday , yet the case it over. Crippen was tried almost as seer as ho landed in England. The trla lasted but four days. The evidence was purely circumstantial. Witnesses could not even be sure that the re mains in question were those of t woman. Every circumstance was present ent about which the American attor ney and the American public loves tc weave a web of possibilities looking toward the escape of the accused This London jury deliberated Jusl thirty minutes , found Crippen guilty the judge sentenced him to hang , and hanged he will bo. If this case had happened in the United States It would have occupied not less than two years , and there would have been scarcely n chance ol punishing the murderer. He would not have been brought to trial at nil foi from six months to a year , durlnj which his counsel would have been busy fashioning , plausible theories and fabricating evidence. His trial would have spun out over another two 01 three months , with endless arguments with the court ever technicalities ol procedure and endless evidence ol alienists to prove or disprove the man's sanity. The Jury would have hung fire for another week or two , and then almost certainly disagreed , If , by any miracle , a conviction had been secured , execution would have boon stayed for n year or more by end less appeals , carried to the supreme court of the United States in tUo last resort. And then n petition would , have been started , and obtained mil * lions of signatures , praying for the man's pardon. English criminal pro- i redurc Is civilized. Our'u Is sentl mental to the VIM KG of Indecency , and j to the gieat encouragement of crime , j lloth courts and public need to pay the ( ompnrirfon to heart. LATTA'S POOR IlKCOHD. rongic.sMmin J. P. Lntta , who has mlHrepioFentod the Third Nebraska district for ono term , has spent a gient deal of money In the campaign just closing , tiylir , ' to cover up his utter inwoi thlness tor re-olertlon. A rich man. lie believes that ho can return to congress by the check book route , without being called to account by the people of the Third district for the 'act that he has been a cipher In the j matter of achievement for his district and that his votes have been cast for his own selfish special Interest rather than for his constituents. i But all the money in Latta's banks won't erase fiom the minds of the citizens of this district the record that Mr. Lattn has made. He can not point to one single thing that he has accomplished during his two-year term as congressman for the , people of this district. Ho has shown himself incapable of voting for the interests of his consti tuents when his own selfish Interest was Involved. Despite the fact that both republican and democratic par ties had declared for n postal savings bank , Lntta voted against the bill be cause ho said ho was looking out for his own interests , first of nil. Instead of voting to help Nebraska farmers , when there came up a bill appropriating funds with which to ex periment In the kinds of trees that would grow to advantage in this state , toe voted against the bill. That's how carefully Mr. Latta has been on the job in the interest of the state that sent him to congress. Mr. Latta hat not dared refer to his record In congress , In seeking re-olec- tlon. He has not dared mention his vote against the postal bank bill. He was the only congressman from this state who cast his vote against that bill. Even Hitchcock and McGulre , both democrats , voted for the bill , as pledged to do by their national plat form. form.Mr. Mr. Latta has attempted by under handed methods to win a re-election. He has sent out a circular letter claim ing that Judge Boyd , the republican candidate , "stands for Cannonlsm. " It is a matter of record that Judge Boyd , two years ago , announced that he was opposed to Cannon for speaker of the house and that if elected he would vote against Cannon. Falsehoods of this sort do not help Mr. Latta to erase his own do-nothing record from the minds of the people. As a con gressman he has been a cipher with the rim rubbed out. Judge Boyd , dur ing his term In congress , did things for the people of this district. He's the right kind of timber for the job. AROUND TOWN. And don't forget to vote. Correction in that Christmas list : Change "one dozen golf balls" to "a dozen dozen golf balls. " They would only cost $108 , and ought to be enough to last an entire summer. And be sides , it would give the giver the sat isfaction of doing the thing up brown. The News want ads get sucn quicK results that we're thinking of estab lishing a rate for merely setting the want nds Into type , without printing them. Even that would seem to be enough in some cases to get results , and it would guard against getting excessive replies. ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. After a man passes 40 , ho begins to remark that he is a bettor , stronger man than he ever was. He is begin ning to fear old age. When girls nre good looking , they hear about It from the moment they rise until they go to bed at night. No wonder they are spoiled. The man who takes more pleasure working on Saturday than ho does in loafing on Sunday will never have any trouble getting along. There are plenty of women who , had they been born men , would have made a success as guerrillas , poker players or expert witnesses. Ever think of the great amount of time you waste in "talking things over ? " The valuable time wasted In this way Is almost criminal. ! When Doc Robinson , town drunk ard and horse doctor , orders a case of beer sent over from East Atchlson , Mo. , that's Interstate Commerce. I The commonest form of showing the Yellow Streak Is for a man to say : "Of course , I don't want to bo connected with It , or my name men tioned. " You may have noticed that the supreme premo court judges , who have from ' four to six months' vacation a year , 1 complain n good deal of being behind with their work. J. E. House , bachelor and cynic , says that murder of Mrs. Olln Castle by Jesse Morrison was duo to the dullness of the little country town in which they lived. Wo have lived in dull country towns all our life , but have never yet felt n desire to cut n woman's throat. In fact , wo have an ' Idea we would hnto the sight of a I woman's blood Our Idea of a devoted husband Is ono who will quit his work In the nltcinoon to drive his wife to n party. \\'e haven't learned n great deal during our life. but. for a wonder , wo know enough not to go 'coon hunting. "Whatever you do , " a man said to his son In a show , "ho careful that' ' you do It yourself. There are no easy jobs. " i Advice Is so cheap that people not only won't take It , but will feel that you are trying to unload something on them. Plenty of women will , with the blue-eyed Innocence of a child , throw a railroad switch , or afllrm that black Is white. Our idea of modesty is a man who will whip a man much larger than himself and then not tell anyone about it. Some men nro not only willing to fight for their rights , they go farther , and take up that line as a steady oc cupation. Tell a womnn just once that she Is good looking , and If you want to re tain her friendship , you'll have to keep it up. We often wonder how Nat Goodwin fools when ho accidentally meets one of his divorced wives. It must be embarrassing. People may convict you of being a hypocrite , which Isn't so serious , but If they convict you of being a fool , that's serious. An Atchlson man hates a badge so much that he dislikes It when the conductor on a railroad train puts a check in his hat. It is a pleasure to note the hole In the atmosphere thiough which the Abernnthy boys disappeared Into the vastnesses of Texas. What has become of the old-fash ioned woman who made apple butter for the children to take to school and to take quinine in ? If the business men wore as enthus iastic about advertising as advertis ing solicitors are , there would be a newspaper on every corner. Colonel Roosevelt is overdoing. We hear many complaints because of his determination to occupy front page space in the newspapers every day. No matter how many friends you may have , and how popular you are , you must not lose sight of the fact that you must make your own living. If you quit work frequently to work on the committee for nothing , we'll bet that the bankers notice it ; the bankers loan money , and they watch the actions of the men \ery closely. A girl who will sue a man for breach of promise has as much nerve as a man who will back out of a wed ding at the last moment , and still re main in town. The women are already beginning to "take notice" about Christmas pres ents , but in the delicate way which characterizes a new widower when he first begins to "take notice. " Alois Philipp , the fiddler , claims that he is a hard worker. Which is funny , when you remember that people ple fiddle to while away idle time. " 1 don't want to go to that party , but I have to , " said an Atchlson wo man this morning. "If I don't go , people will say I wasn't invited , and the hostess won't take the trouble to explain. " It always makes us mad when an automobile driver toots his horn as a warning for us to get out of his way. As though we haven't sense enough to get out of the way of an automo bile ! If a man tells you his age , and you say , politely : "Well , you don't look it , " ho feels queer , because that ' in dicates ho is getting old. If you ac cept his age without any comment , It looks as though you thought he looked every day of his ago , and he doesn't like that either. A confession from a young man which contains a lot of truth : "It Is easy to turn my head. If anyone compliments my work I Immediately begin to think I am a great man , and start to rest on my honors. I don't do much then until someone tolls mo how rotten I am. Then I Jump in to show people there Is something to me. and then , just ns soon as I think I have shown them , I get the swellhead - head again , and spoil It nil. " "When any man tells mo a mg siory , and If I can't get away , " said a man today , "I tell him of a remarkable cure I once knew of. A newly dis covered spring had wonderfully heal ing qualities , especially for rheuma tism. It is pretty hard to euro a case of rheumatism. Doctors would rather treat almost any other kind of trou ble. Well , this man wont to the newly discovered springs so badly crippled In his hands that ho had no use of them , nor In his arms. Ho bathed In the waters but twice before ho began to show signs of marked Improvement and In less than ono week ho was ar rested for picking pockets. " SURFACING OF COUNTRY ROADS Problems Thai a Highway En gineer Must Solve , THREETYPESOFTOPDRESSING Sand-Clay , Gravel and Macadam the Materials Used Character of Rooks Suitable For Building Macadamized Roadways Must Be Known. In an address recently delivered be fore the Appalachian Engineering as sociation at WltiHton-Salcm , N. C. , Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt , president of the Appalachian Good Roads association , spoke as follows on the surfacing of roads : "The question of surfacing material for a road Is one that is causing road ' > ulldcrs considerable trouble , for with tne introduction of the automobile , the wrnr and tear on our public roads , especially of the surfaced roods. IK very materially Increased. It Is not due to the automobile alone , but to a combination of the cutting action of the narrow Iron tires of heavy wagons and the suction of the rubber tires of the automobiles. The iron tire him n cutting and grinding action which re- ducea the surface of the road to a powder and loosens up small frag ments , which nro readily lifted up and thrown to one side by the suction power of the rubber tire of the auto mobile. The Iron tire alone or the au tomobile alone would not do such great damage , for the niiuvrinl ground up by the Iron tire acts as a protection for the surface of the road beneath It and remains as such protection until blown oft by the wind or washed on * by heavy rains. When removed , however , the Iron tire at once comes In contact with the stone surface of the road and be gins to wear It out. The automobile alone would not do anywhere near as much damage to the public roads , as the suction power of the tires would not seriously affect the well surfaced road. It Is the combination of the two. however , that causes the great damage that Is laid to the automobile. "For country roads there arc three types of surfacing material In use mncadnm , sand clay and gravel. "In considering a macadam road the road engineer has many problems to solve Ho must not only be fa- MACADAM ItOAU CONHTltnOTIOn [ From Southern Good Roads. Lexington , N C. ) mlllar with the met hud of construc tion of the macadam road , but lie must a No know when It Is possible to use a thinner layer of stone , thus re ducing the cost of construction. He also must be so familiar with this type of road that he will not make a mis take of using too thin a coating of macadam. According to the character of the subsoil and the hardness of the roadbed , the thickness of the macadam will vary from four Inches to ten Inches. The cost of a four Inch mac adam Is so much loss than a ten Inch that nn engineer will wish to use It as often as possible , and there Is often n tendency to use the thin coating where the thicker one would give bet ter results. "Tho character of rocks suitable for use In the construction of n macadam road must also bo known to the road engineer for the reason that many rocks are not at all adapted for this purpose on account of their softness and lack of minerals that make a good binding surface. The best rocks for this purpose are trap , diabase and gab- b i. These rocks nre nil bnslc In cnaracter nnd when used as a top dressing for macadam give the very best binding qualities. Many other rocks , OH granite , gneiss , quartzite , "mestone , etc. , have to be used on ac count of the inaccessibility of rocks of the other type. There is n great variation In granites and gneisses In their chemical composition , those which contain a great deal of horn blende giving the best results In the construction of mncadnm roods. They are , however , rather soft nnd wear down quickly If the traffic is very heavy. The limestone , although a soft rock , tins exceptionally good bind ing qualities and makes a good mac adam road , but one that has to bo watched constantly. "The sand day road which Is coming Into general use throughout many of the southern states Is one that the road engineer must know how to build. In some Instances this road can bo built to better advantage than macadam and will glvo Just as good results. All sander or all clay will not make good sand clay roads , nnd In building this type of road both the sand and the day must bo tested as to Its adaptability to use for this purpose. " The Investor whether inclined to ward real estate , promotion of nn in vention or n business partnership- reads the want nds for hints , Information mation and opportunities. WASHINGTON , LINCOLN AND CLEVELAND ON NEW BONDS. Three Denominations Inued For Postal Savings Depositors , The new $20 postal Havings bond will have the fneo of George \Vunh- Ington displayed In a simple medallion frame ns KM distinguishing feature. The features of Abraham Lincoln will appear on the $100 bond and ( ! rover Cleveland on the $ r > 00. These nro the three denominations chosen for Imme diate Issue. "So far as the $10. $ (10 ( and $80 bond * nre concerned the treasury department Is not yet prepared to make an an nouneemcnt. The designs will be simi lar to those of the first three denomi nations mentioned , but the vignette medallions * will differ , " said Assistant Secretary A. Plntt Andrew. Under the postal Havings law depos itors may Hurrender their deposits or any part of them In sums of $20. $10 , $00. $80 and $100 and multiples of $100 and $500 and receive nn equal amount of a new Issue of United States coupon pen registered bonds In like denomina tions , the Interest payable Homlnnnual- ly , redeemable In one year and payable In twenty years In gold coin. They are to bo exempt from any form of taxation , but nro to bo Issued only when there are outstanding bond of the United States Hiibjoct to call or when the government wants to replen ish the treasury. KAISER POOR ARCHITECT. Design For Cologne Bridge Inartistic and Will Be Changed. The German emperor Is fond of giv ing examples of hlfl versatility , not al ways with happy results. Among oth er things ho prides himself on being something of an architect. Ills hljb opinion of bis abilities in this respect , however. Is not shored by all his sub jects. On more than one occasion the kaiser has meddled in architectural matters with unfortunate results , nnd now the Berlin press l.s mildly satirical at his expense over bis "Improvement" of the new bridge recently opened over the Rhine at Cologne. This bridge IB decorated with nn equestrian Btntuo of the knNor himself , the first that III\B been erected The bridge Is flanked by four towers. The architect Intended the towers to be of equal height , b it the kaiser wont over the designs and Insisted that the two downstream towers should bo higher than those facing upstream. This expensive alteration was duly carried out. but the effect Is so unfor tunate that the experts as well as the ordinary public and oven the minister of communications agree that the plnn must apaln be altered and the two \ high towers reduced to the level of the others. DUELS GROWING DANGEROUS. German Severely Wounded When Bul let Ricochets From Trees. Duelists will really have to be more careful It is becoming qulto danger ous to intrust them with pistols. I "or the second time recently a combatant has been struck accidentally by a bul let. It was only by a happy duuice that lie escaped a wound. Ilerr .loactilm von Hctlnnann-Iloll- weg of Ktinowo. cousin of the Gorman chancellor , went out In the Grlmownld forest to light a duel with the owner of a neighboring estate. Count Helnrlch von der Goltz. The reasons for the combat were not stated , but It l.s held that they must have been very grave. Inasmuch as the conditions were that shots should be exchanged until one- of the parties was Incapacitated. At the second shot n bullet from Herr IJethmann-Hollwcg's pistol rico cheted off a tree and struck his adver sary In the abdomen. Count von dor Goltz , who Is fifty-five , was not wound ed , but was so severely shaken by the Impact that the seconds decided that he was Incapacitated under the condi tions agreed upon. Hall of Fame. Names recently chosen for the Hall of Fame , with vote.s for each : Votes. Harriet Beecher Stowe 74 Oliver Wendell Helm 69 Edgar Allan Pee . . . . .69 Roger Williams 64 James Fenimore Cooper 62 Phillips Brooks BO William Cullen Bryant 59 Frances E. Willard 56 Andrew Jackson 53 George Bancroft 53 John Lothrop Motley 51 Names previously elected : George WuBhlnuton. Horace Mann. Abraham Lincoln. Henry Ward Deech- Daniel Webster. er. Benjamin Franklin. James Kent. Ulysses 8. Grant. Joseph Story. John Marshall. John Adams Thomas Jefferson. William B. Chan- Itnlph Waldo Kmer- nliiK. Eon. Gilbert Stuart. Henry W. LancfeU Asa Gray. low John Qulncy Adams. Ilobfirt Fulton. James HUSMCU Ix > w- \Vnihlnnton Irvine. cll. Jonathan Kihvnnls. William T. Sherman. Samuel F I ) . Morse. James Madison. David (3. Farrofrut. John G. Whlttler. Henry C'lay Alexander Hamil Nathnnlnl Haw ton. thorne IoulH AKIFHZ. | Georie J'caborty. John I'nul Jones. Robert K l.ee. Mary I.yon Peter Cooper. Kmrna Wlllnrd. Ell Whitney. Maria Mitchell. John J. Audulmn. Mexican Trade Increases. In 1010 Mexico's Imports were $07.- 428.700 pold. nn Increase of $10,000.000. and her exports $130.028.000 , nn In crease of $ Hr)00.000. Answer all help wanted nds that appear to bo even "probabilities , " nnd you'll eventually find the right ono. And you may find the right one nt once !