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SAYS HONOR IS CHIEF THING FRIEDMANN CALLED FAKIR SPECIAL SESSION Trie* MUST SUBMIT Vice President Declare* Senate la New Herum Only On Patient* Its Special Guardian. Who Were Improving. FOR TARIFF ONLY CURE TO TESTS Currency Reform Bill to Wait- Regular Order. President Wilson Will Use Depart ment Chiefs Only to Sift Ap plication* for Poaltiona. Washington, D. C. President Wil son I iiih (oltlwl <ieop enough in office to Indicate pretty dourly some of the thing« thnl nmy be expected of him in the near future. lie Ims madu no public announcement* of policy, but there have been u few development« that ii'emel to allow the trend of the first day« of hl« administration. The preaident told visitor« that he waa inclined to favor the plan of house leaders to confine the a|iecial session of congress to tariff revision. lie indicated that while ho did not look forward to the passage of a cur rency reform measure at the «[»ecial session, such a bill might be whip|>ed into shape In the house while the sen ate was wrestling with the tariff and could be brought up immediately after congress convened in regular session in December. The President indorsed the policy of Democratic economy favored by ('hair man Fitzgerald, of the house appro priations committee and other leaders. Ilia attention was called to the needs of the passage of the sundry civil ap propriation bill at the special session. This bill was vetoed by ex-President Taft because of its provision virtually exempting labor unions and farmers’ organizations from prosecution under the Sherman anti-trust law. Friends familiar with the Presi dent's attitude toward kindred subjects declared that unless it could be shown that the paragraph to which the ex Preaident objected was not "class leg islation" he would use his influence to prevent such *a provision from being inserted in the new bill. Senators found that Mr. Wilson is observing the courtesies usually ex tended them. 11« called on several senators an<i asked If they would ob ject to several appointments he expect ed to make. It was pointed out on authority that President Wilson does not intend to turn over to his department chiefs the appointment of Federal office holders, particularly to important |»sts. His order of Wednesday was for the pur pose of allowing department heads to sift out the applications and present him with one or more suitable candi dates. Virtually every case eventually will reach the White House, even if the appointees themselves are barred in the preliminary stages. Harvester Trust Was Aid. Omaha, Nek — A variety of wit nesses, dealers, farmers, newspaper men, undertakers and general mer chandise merchants, all connected in various ways with the sale or purchase of harvesting machinery, were on the stand in the defense of the Interna tional Harvester company in the gov ernment suit against that company for alleged violation of the Sherman anti- trust law. They came from Western Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. Of the witnesses called by the de fense, some hail vigorously op|K>sed the compnny for some time after its organization. Among these was Theo dore Coffee, of Greenfield, la. He ad mitted on cross-examination, however, that he had refused to handle Interna tional goods for four years after the merger, but at the end of that time had "learned I could not conduct a successful business without doing so.” The defense satisfied itself with in troducing evidence to show that since the organization of the International Harvester company, the farmer has been benefitted by reason of easy ac cess to repairs, improvement in har vesting machinery, little advance in prices and general conditions. New York The lint demonstration in America of Dr. Frledmsnn’a treat- ment, which the visiting Berlin phyai- -clan declared is a cure for tubereulo- sia, was given by Dr. Freidmann him self In the presence of physicians rep resenting the city, the state, ami the staffs of hospitals of several cities. Three patients, two men ami a wo man, were selected by Dr. Friedmann from 60 tuberculosis sufferers gath ered from all parts of the city, all hopeful that they would receive treat ment. The woman hud been 111 throe years. Hers is a case of the disease at the knee ami was the most serious of the three chosen. The two men have tuberculosis of the lungs. Their cases are not beyond the incipient stage, according to the authorities of the People’s hospital, the institution where the demonstration was held. Each of the mon patients has been showing improvement nnd gaining weight since beginning, several months ago, the beat recognized tuber culosis treatment of the day, it was said. Physicians who were present brought forward a dozen persons suffering with the disease in all its stages. The med ical history of each was available for Dr. Friedmann's use. Statistics had been prepar<<d at his request. The Berlin physician declined to treat any of these cases, however, but made his own selection. Before the operation, Dr. Julius Broder, physician-in-chief of the hos pital, denounced Dr. Friedmann as a "fakir.” This denunciation followed the announcement that Dr. Friedmann had refused to administer his serum to the 12 patients chosen by the other doctors. Dr. Broder said the German hail found objections to every one of them. "Dr. Friedmann should be run out of the country,” declared Dr. Broder. "He is a fakir. Ilia serum is no good at all. He wants to try it on healthy people. I had a dozen incip ient cases with a full history of each case, but he wouldn’t try it on ono of them.” \ DR. HEID REPORTS SUCCESS Pittsburg Physician Say* Wife Show* Marked Improvement. New York Medical Authorities Skeptical of Friedmann. Health Hoard Insist« New Tubercu- losis Cure lie Tried on Animal* Instead of Human Being*. New York The city health author ities gave Dr. F. F. Friedmann, of Berlin, permission Thursday to test the treatment which he asserts is a cure for tuberculosis, if Dr. Friedmann decides to submit to a test which the board of health will allow to be under taken in a city institution. The board of health’s sanction, hitherto withheld, was granted condi tionally after the visiting Berlin phy sician submitted to the board a tul>e containing a culture of the bacilli. Dr. Ernst J. Lederle, commissioner of health, said his department would test the culture on animals. The chief purpose of this official analysis is to determine whether the serum is harmful. If it shall prove to be of no possible danger, the board of health will issue a permit to Dr. Friedmann. Dr. Friedmann has not fully decided to accept the latest offer of the au thorities and conduct his experiments on animals, but public pressure will probably induce him to go ahead and make the best showing possible under the prescribed restraints. Dr. Friedmann has been barred from making general use of his dis covery because he holds no state li cense as a practicing physician. "The health department will not ob ject to his use of the treatment in the city provided he lives up to the legal regulations of the County Medical so ciety,” said Dr. Ernst J. Lederle, the health commissioner, in a statement on the action of the authorities re garding Dr. Friedmann’s treatment. "His treatment will not be demon strated in city institutions, however.” The New York County Medical so ciety, which protested against tests l>ec«u«e Dr. Friedmann held no li cense, will not stand in the way if any hospital appoints the Berlin doctor a resident physician. Under such ap pointment he will not need a state license. Pittsburg — Dr. Austin B. Heid, who was the first physician in Amer ica to use the Friedmann tuberculosis serum, said when questioned regarding the serum: “There can be no further doubt of the results achieved by the serum in most of the cases which 1 have treated. The first person 1 treat ed on my arrival home from Berlin was my wife, and her improvement since that day has been so marked as Heligoland, Germany—Sixty-thr<<- to astound several of my fellow physi 'men lost their lives when the German cians who have been watching her cruiser York rammed the torpedo boat case. G-178 in the North Sea Thursday "All of the usual symptoms which night. The dead men are all members go with the disease have disappeared. of the crew of the torpedo boat, which There is absence of fever, night <ank immediately after the disaster. sweats have disappeared, her weight Lieutenant Kock, commander of the is increasing and her appetite has Im boat, and his first officer, are among proved. Although Mrs. Heid has been the dead. Seventeen were saved from afflicted with tuberculosis four years, the damaged vessel, among the num ravages of the disease had not made ber being the surgeon and the chief headway enough to prevent what I be engineer. lieve will be a complete cure. A mistake in calculation of distance "Her case, however, is only one of on the part of the commander of the many whom 1 have treated. With the sunken vessel caused the accident. exception of a few advanced cases, the The torpedo boat attempted to pass results have been gratifying.” ( between a line of moving warships. CRUISER RAMS TORPEDO BOAT; 63 GERMANS SINK Police Laughed at Women. Woman Judge Trie« Girl*. WCHING THE Washington, D. C. Vice President Marshall In his inaugural address made a personal pledge that he wmld seek to familiarize himself with his duties, and said that he appreciated the "necessities in the way of tact and courtesy” that devolved upon him. Then he struck the keynote of national honor that dominated the ad dress, and added: “With neither right nor desire to infringe upon the prerogatives of the President so soon to be, I beg the ex pression of the opinion that whatever diverse views may be held relative to the work of this Ixsly all persons are agreed that under the constitution the senate of the United States is sin gularly the guardian of the people's honor; that more and more, as right eousness ia exalted among this people, the idea is becoming more firmly fixed that it ia not vast territory, great wealth nor large learning which mark the real status of America; that America is to be measured by the golden metewand of honor; and, as the idea in her formation was the in herent right of men to rule themsel ves, that now she can ill afford to an nounce this doctrine in her own land and renounce it for an instrument of oppression in other lands.” AIR CRAFT ARE RESTRICTED Britain Take* Precaution* Against Spies of Other Power*. Iztndon—Under authority conferred by the aerial navigation act, the home secretary has issued orders prohibiting from passing over any portion of the United Kingdom or territorial waters, foreign military or naval air craft, ex cept on invitation and by permission of the government. All other foreign air craft coming to the United Kingdom are required first to obtain clearance papers from the British consuls. Landings will be restricted to certain areas of the coast, where the air pilots must report to the authorities and obtain a permit for the continuance of the voyage. They are prohibited from passing over certain districts in which are in- cludede the military and naval sta tions. Anyone infringing the regulations, it is announced, is liable to be fired on, and the offense is punishable by six months’ imprisonment or a fine. EACH SIDE BLAMES OTHER American* Will Shoot to Kill If Further Molested. Douglas, Ariz.—Each inBisting that the troops of the other command be gan Sunday the skirmish which was repeated Tuesday morning between Mexican federal troops from the Agua Prieta garrison and soldiers of the Ninth cavalry. Colonel Guilfoyle and General Ojeda stood firmly on their declarations. The American army officer declared that his men will “shoot to kill” if the border patrol is interfered with. The Mexican general asserts that his men did not begin the firing and that if proven he would execute anyone guilty of having begun the trouble. The Ninth cavalry patrol has been increased to full force, including the machine guns, stretching from Doug las to Forest station. There is much excitement here. The city authorities consider establishing a special guard. There is an unusual number of Mexicans in the American town and much excitement among them. The rebel messenger arrested Sunday by United States troops was released. Messages he carried have been sent to Washington. "I have no unfriendly feeling to ward the United States and the shoot ing by my men across the border was without authority," General Ojeda de clared.” My soldiers would not fire a shot across the line unless fired on,” asserted Colonel Guilfoyle. “I know they have not. I deplore the matter as much as anyone could, but we will return the fire and shoot to kill as long as the patrol is interfered with. It is up to the other side to stop it.” Washington, D. C.—Tales of indig Chicago -Fifteen cases were dis nities and affronts from the crowds posed of Thursday in “Judge” Mary and indifference and laughing com H. Bartelme’s court. It was the first ments from the police were recounted day of the court, the attaches of before the senate committee investi which are all women, and Miss Bar gating the alleged lack of protection tel me expressed herself as highly given the great suffrage pageant of pleased with the results. March 3. Not a man is admitted to the court Women prominent in National af room, where the hearings are limited fairs and in suffrage councils told of to the cases of either wayward girls their harassed progress through surg or those "who never had a chance.” ing crowds of men and boys, whom the Miss Bartelme was appointed by police, they say, made little effort to Judge Pinckney, of the Juvenile court, hold back. to hear this class of cases, holding Their stories as to the general atti that many girls could more easily tell tude of the police were indorsed by their stories to a woman than a man. Rear-Admiral Van Reypen, retired, Woman probation officers acted as and George F. Bowerman, librarian of bailiffs and there was a woman clerk the Carnegie library of Washington, of the court. who ap|M*ared as witnesses against the Oil Inquiry Will Go On. "It is our hope to get justice for these girls and judging by the first Washington, D. C.—The Standard police department. day’s work I think we will be success Wilsons Have Cool Rooms. Oil investigation la-gun under the Taft Fires Rage Underground. ful,” said Miss Bartelme. Washington, D. C.—President Wil administration will be continued by Chicago -Underground fires, fed by Attorney General McReynolds to dis son and Mrs. Wilson will ocupy the Warship Badly Damaged. cover whether the decree dissolving the tunnels of oil, drove 3000 men from room in the White House used by ex New York—Workmen examining the President Rosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt giant trust has been violated, it was the plant of the Standard Steel Car learned here Saturday. A tentative company at Hammond, Ind. Water hull of the United States battleship and ex-President Taft and Mrs. Taft. report by Charles B. Morrison and poured into the tunnels servea only to Arkansas in drydock at the Brooklyn It is in the southwest comer of the Oliver E. Pagan, the attorneys in spread the flames until a score of navy yard found an opening about 15 mansion and from its windows the new charge of the inquiry, is before the blazes spouted at various points over feet long and two inches wide, result- ' President can look out over the White new attorney general nnd within a few 20 acres of ground. The fire ate so ing from an opened seam on the port House ellipse to the Washington mon days he is expected to give specific deeply into foundations of some build side forward. The Arkansas several ument, the Mall, the sweep of the directions as to the lines along which ings that the men sought safety out of weeks ago struck a coral reef off Guan- Potomac and the green hills of Vir he desires the investigation prosecuted. doors. The offices of the plant crum . tanamo. She was placed in drydock ginia beyond. It is one of the few pled up nnd the engineroom and foun after arriving here with two compart cool spots to be found on one of Wash Marshall Seeks Advice. dry were damaged. The flames were ments flooded. Navy yard officials ington's sizzling summer nights. Washington, D. C.—Vice President subdued after outside aid came. said unofficially that the repairs would Marshall did not want to assume too coat about $100,000 and would take Railway Fined $39,009. Inaugural Coat $73,000. much wisdom as president of the sen several months. Buffalo—A fine of $30,000 was im ate when he convened that body and Washington, D. C.—Woodrow Wil posed on the New York Central rail asked for advice before ruling on sev son’s inauguration as president of the Strike Is Sympathetic. road in the United States court for eral communications which had been United States cost approximately $73,- Cleveland, O. — A strike of rubber failing to observe published rates of received. “The communications," he 000. The expenditures of the citi workers initiated here by Industrial demurrage at East Buffalo. The fine said, "probably will require action by zens' inaugural committee were about Workers of the World, in sympathy was paid in full. A stipulation was lioth houses anil for that reason I $48,000, while the receipts from all with the strike of rubber workers at also filed discontinuing actions against think they should not bo laid before sources were approximately $34,000. Akron, O., reached good-sized propor the Lake Shore A Michigan Southern the extraordinary session of the sen The deficit of $14,000 will be made up tions Thursday. Strike leaders said and the New York, Chicago A St. ate.” from the guarantee fund of $88,000 that 1000 men and girls had quit work tauis railroads for violations of the which was subscribed in Washington. at the plant of the Mechanical Rubber law in connection with cattle ship Gem Importations targe. The joint congressional inaugural com company. Company officials admitted ments. The railroads paidJ$25,000. New York—Gem importations for mittee spent about $25,000. ■ that 600 had walked out. The strikers February amounting to $4,229,436 are Rome Expects World tasaon. condemn a newly instituted piece work Sailors Froze to Death. more than 11,000,000 greater than scale. -. Rome—President Wilson's address, February a year ago, ami the greatest Rerlin —The total number of killed although not touching on international for that month in the history of this as the result of the ramming of the $8,000,000 Saving Made. affairs or questions directly affecting port. The big importations are ac torpedo boat destroyer "8-178” by the Washington, D. C. — The Treasury Europe, was read here with great in counted for in part, it is said, by the Yorck, off Heligoland is given official department committee on efficiency terest. It is considered by the news fact that dealers desired to increase ly as 71, including two officers and 69 and economy reported to Franklin Mac- papers generally as a frank enuncia their stocks on the chance that there men. It is said by the admiralty that Veagh that he had saved $8,000,000 tion of a policy, the carrying out of might be an advance in duties by the most of these were frozen to death for the government in his four-year which may prove^a^usefuMesaon for new congress. while clinging to loose spars. term as secretary of the treasury. the old world. HE rugged spurs of the Basses gather in a concentrated shoal close Pyrenees shelve down through to the surface; the fishing boat hedges fertile cultivated slopes to flat them round with a net, and then stretches of tawny sand, where stones are remorselessly thrown at France and Spain look at each the porpoises. The net Is one which, other across the winding estuary by of the shortening of the foot-rope, en the Bidassoa river. The romantic sit- velops the whole shoal in a mass. It nation of the Spanish town of Fuenter- may happen that at this moment a rabla, rising above Its girdle of bat boat of the opposite country comes on tered walls to the massive castle of the scene. Then the stones brought Charles V. and the graceful belfry of out to frighten porpoises become mis the ancient church soaring still high siles of combat, unless, as sometimes er, is likely to leave one unimpressed occurs, a compromise can be arrived by two torpedo-craft of obsolete types at by dividing the catch. flying the French and Spanish flags During the summer months th« upon the river below. These two craft, tunny-fishing takes the boats further however, represent the authorities for out to sea and beyond the territorial the maintenance of order between the limits. At this time of the year the fishermen of the two countries. The best of good-fellowship prevails be waters of each are considered to ex tween the French and Spanish fisher tend to a three-mile limit from their men, who sometimes gather round th« respective coasts. As it happens that same stew pot on board each other's the sardine shoals frequent this cor boats. Nothing but Basque is spoken ner of the Bay of Biscay, where the amongst them, one reason being that waters of the two countries adjoin, the amongst the Spanish Basques there necessity for International regulation are very few who can apeak Spanish. is evident. Moreover, as the flsh show Amongst the French Basques, how an especial preference for the prox ever, it is much more unusual to find imity of the French coast, it follows any who do not know French. that the Spanish Ashing boats are the Besides the surveillance of the coast most frequent trespassers. fishery, the control of the waters of Well Patrolled. the Bldassoa river Itself is another This portion of the coast la kept pa Important function of the two torpedo trolled by a French coastguard vessel, craft. The water of the river being the Qul Vive, stationed at St. Jean-de- {teld to be international, it is agreed Luz, and the last capture, furnishing that it may be fished only by the in the subject of the illustration, was habitants of the towns upon the river made on January $1. Upon an arrest banks. But for the netting of salmon being made within the boundary lim upon the banks of the estuary, the its, the delinquent vessel is detained French and Spanish can fish only on and an inquiry held by the command alternate days, using both banks of ing officers of the French and Spanish the river indifferently. At the be torpedo boats tn the Bldassoa river, ginning of every year a meeting of the and their arbitration is almost invari French and Spanish mayors take« ably accepted. If the offense Is proved, place, at which they draw lots to de the trespassing boat is held in confis cide who shall begin the fishing for cation for a limited period, and a fine the following year. And the gun which Is fired every day at noon alternately Imposed upon the owners. Although the Bfdassoa river forms by the French and Spanish torpedo the boundary between France and craft is the actual signal to notify Spain, yet Fuenterrabia is a Spanish when one party may commence to flsh port, and only shelters a Spanish fish and when the other must discontinue. ing fleet The nearest French port it As may be supposed, the maintenance St. Jean-de-Luz, only some four or five of harmony and the settlement of dis miles distant. In both of these, as putes calls for both amicable and dip well as at San Sebastian, the old type lomatic relations between the naval of fishing boat, propelled by oars and officers who represent the two nation sails, has in the course of the last ten alities. years been almost entirely superseded by steamboats. These are substantial To Save Himself. ly built launches, constructed by the ’’Do you plead guilty or not guilty to local boatbuilders, and equipped with this charge?” asked the court engines and boilers of French manu The prisoner looked around him. Be facture. A fleet of 15 of these steam side him was the doubtful lawyer he launches works from St. Jean-de-Lus. had retained to defend him. Arrayed The Fuenterrabia fleet numbers 13, against him were the best attorneys in and la increasing. It is usually ad the county. Above him sat the implao- mitted that their introduction has able judge, and across the room waa been of material advantage to the in the boneheaded jury. dustry. “Judge,” said the prisoner, ’’before I The craft need to be good seaboata, enter this plea can I ask some ques for the mild climate that prevails dur tions.” ing the winter is no guarantee against “You may.” bursts of rough weather at sea. Only "If I stand trial, will I hafter set a week or two ago the boats were her« an* listen while these here shys caught at sea by a gale, and a San Se ters ask hypothetical questions?" bastian boat foundered through spring ’’You will.” ing a leak. Her crew, however, were “Do I hafter hear all these here rescued by a Fuenterrabia boat. Dur handwrltln' experts, fur an' again?” ing the balmy months that correspond "You do.” with our winter these boats are oc "Will I hafter set right here while cupied In sardlne-flshlng. Their crews consist almost exclusively of Basques, the Insanity doctors does all their talkin'?" who, whether they come from the ‘Certainly.” French or the Spanish side of the Py "I’m ready." renees, have always their language in ’’Prisoner at the bar, do you plead sommon. As a matter of fact, no per manent animosity exists between the guilty or not guilty?” ’•Guilty.” two sides, notwithstanding the occa sional conflicts that occur upon the Smart Boy. fishing grounds. Years ago. In Jamaica, West Indies, The method of fishing pursued is julte peculiar to these waters, and a before artificial Ice was very well day at sea with the boats Inclines one known, a shopkeeper, who tried to to make some excuses for poaching. keep up with the times, thought he The main object of the fishermen, would outclass his rival across the when they put to sea. Is to look for street, and purchased a thousand porpoises. So valuable is their aid pounds of fine “cool” ice, paying about ■onsidered that the Spanish authori twelve dollars for it. He did a won ties impose a fine for killing one But derful business the next day. All the i school of porpoises does not nec town trade came to get a cool drink, essarily imply sardines. The por while the shop opposite was empty. poises are quite as anxiously looking When the shopkeeper shut up that for sardines as the fishermen, and night he had made good profits and jnce they are sighted they are fol had about 800 pounds of ice left. lowed through the most devious The next morning his brilliant black courses. boy, who opened up the shop, greeted him with a happy grin. "Morning, Stones and Porpoises. In the keen ardour of the chase the boss," be said. 'T's done a good bit of ]uestion of landmarks, or the precise business this morning, sah.” "How's that, boy, how’s that?” distance of the coast, may become a very unimportant detail. When the "Well, sah, I sold that fool nigger tn porpoises commence leaping out of the store across the street all that the water the appearance of a shoal stale Ice that waa left for 10 eaata. of sardines may be expected. Pursued and ho never knew the ■** **'***««•, aad surrounded by the porpoises, they sah I "—■very body ’s T