5 FOR HAGUE MEETING BEFORE WAR ENDS World's Court League Consider- ing Calling of Conference. MIGHT TRY PEACE MAKING Plan To Organize An International Council — League Would Be Clearing-House Of Peace Movements. world’s Court inaugura- New York. The League announced here tion of a movement to organize an in- the ing a third Hague conference perhaps before the close of the war. In the latter event the conference prepared to act as & proposals. After the war it serve for formulating flew rules of international law “Po iy Jeading thin tions will be inviting would medium and consiru statesmen kers” of all na this Te i week, 1 them to accept pointments as members of the tional c¢ lL The league, in Yish itself as movements, plans BO world “not as a sh force peace,” it wa a permanent body tained by however, the armed might be called to its ing to the lic opinion a clearing house of before } would be If neces which public opinion ary, power support league's plans, should not 1 prove to have vincing influence nations. The league's upon an annout mede llc a new gram of ac meeting } Wesley secretary and Dr a number of leading American societies, Under Council of would be ciated with an i 1 ex justice repre court, “subject treaties.” in connection wi set of principles and tion ited at is it h on Oct general Samuel T peace was elected in his place ation Ass0- of hm be sume jurisdiction over questions in dispute that are and that are n tled by negotiation The league “afford the common which and co-operate able in character intends its program ground” peace workers may PURE FOOD FINES $116,000. Violation. Washington food inspec tors of 1916 uncos: Pure Food criminal action and seizures of in 577. Total Pure Food, Meat Quarantine tered by of ture amounted to with fines collected of more than $116,000. Of these, indictments under Inspection, and other acts the Department a 209 “Ded, COLLIER TO BE XMAS SHIP, Will Carry 4000 Tons Of Food and Clothing To Syria. New York.-—-A Christmas United States naval collier, will sall from this port about December 1, carrying 3,000 tons of food and 1,000 tons of clothing for war sufferers In Armenia and Syria, it was announced here by the American National Red Cross. The destination of the collier will be Beirut, Syria. ship, » BANK ROBBER RETURNS $5. Money Taken At Point Of Gun Sent Back After Three Days. Scranton, Pa—From a man signing himself “Would-be Bank Robber,” the Pine Brook Bank recelved a letter with $5 inclosed. On Monday a young man entered the bank, pointed a revolver at George Browning, a teller, and de manded $5. Browning handed out the money and the robber escaped. GERMANS RAID CHANNEL. Take Two Suspicious Vessels Port; Third Still Out, Berlin.—A rald was made by Ger man naval small craft on the shipping route between the mouth of the Thames and Holland on Wedneaday night, the Admiralty announced. Sev eral steamers were stopped and searched and two of them deemed sus picious were brought into a German port. into “NICK” YOUNG DEAD. Former President Of National Base ball League Was 73 Years Old. Washington.—Nicholas E. Young, ago 73 yearsfor 18 years president of the National Baseball Ledgue, died at the home of his son, Robert H. Young, He bad been {ll several years, Young was the original Secretary of the Na tional Association of baseball players from 1871 to 1875. FAVOR FARM BANKS| Leading Financiers Indorse Dem- ocratic Legislation. “Tremendous Saving to the Farmer Through the Elimination of the Middle Man in Lending Money” Is One of the Tributes. When the federal farm loan act to relieve the farmer it was expected that the bankers would naturally would business of loaning money to the farmers. Such has not proved to be the case. When the board met dt Topeka, Kan, with William Mec- Adoo, secretary of in the congress passed yppose it because it cut into their the treasury, chair, a number of prominent bankers gave their views of what the new arm without ¥ ih banks would accomplish, and exception the their praise, R. T. Forbes, Kirst National bank at St. Joseph, Mo, said: banker = spoke O11 president of the ve the federal loan act is a agnificent pie conomie legisla- | tion very short | I believe it will in a i tremendous si the | the elimination of the | ending iyment of farmer ough middle money. It will | and and i COLINISSIONns save the the expense of frequent extension abstracts, which ww items, Mr. the riuer examinatien of { 1 o i me” TT Forbes | solnetimes t double 1007 and the evidences of from conditions j had no control said Mr. Gobel, “our | Ve ATriSell, the fed- i WE 1] SO { ation of ay have h ne to de Interest rates have are i coded, : perhaps they vy as lo Wilson Administration Changed This. Under Repul » eCtion CAN CONS tarifl profs on Ay mers were taxed ANIM) ERY) 0 i nbhove the prices § annie American that is not sani rile there Ameri fF het Summers tao HM) per oent Shipping Under “the New Siavery.” Ihe gepartment of eo has i of d nating shit gis i HEE Ig i building f wines Vigencs appears thn Fier private American ship yards now nye or steel ships of 1.454.270 gross tons tion ontract 417 merchant This is wteel merchant tonnage struction in British shipyards on July 1 last. It is nearly ten times the av- erage annua! domestic construction in half a dozen years prior to the out. break of the great war. It Is more than the total American ton- nage engaged in the foreign trade be fore the war, as the bright, consum- mate flower of half a century of Re publican tariff and trade policies As one item in what Mr. Hughes calls “the New Slavery” which is stran- gling American industry, he has men- tioned the government shipping law. What a strangle-hold that law has on private ship constriction is here placed in evidence, pearly equal to the under actual con steam Democratic Legislation, The Democratic principle of legisiat- ing in the business fleld is this: It first asks what the public néeds in the way of service from the particular business or industry. It next inquires what kind of law will best enable the given business or Industry to supply this public need. It has no “pet groups.” But it is helping groups in the most effective way because it is re- garding Just one thing—their ability to serve the public. It is this spirit which has written the federal reserve act, the new agricultural laws, and the acts for the promotion of foreign trade, Country's Business Needs. What are the business needs of the coming day? Not protection, but, first, the development of American branch banks In the debtor countries, that want our eapital, and our manu factures, For this the Democratic pare ty, through the federal reserve act, has opened the way, and the development goes forward apace. With this must go the upbuilding of our merchant ma- vine, on which the administration has made a constructive start through the creation of a shipping board, and the provision of a fund for ship purchase, tobacco”, ALL Virginia! Made Lively and mellowed a cigarette, IE - ¢ = garettes and 1 een x ¥ as Pe them fregh — ! condition Treatment of Walis If a molding Is liked fre whi homelike, the bes height for the molding is in Hue The modern ides to bring the wi rooms wit} seems to be ndow w ork to the floor by using a paneli and and windows to a fixed Thus the rectangular spaces the decorative effect of a good paper A plain paper has the lignity of a panel when so used neath the sill, to carry the tog f doors he molding line walls are livided into an Thought. had expression We must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in 8 half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they de scond In rain, will never bring up fruit or flower. So it is with all the inward opment. guage the opening bud; trult behind it—H. W. Beecher. Sign of Convalescence. “You have a splendidly equipped hospital and a very efficient and charming corps of nurses. What | do not understand, however, is how you can always tell when a patient is the hospital.” to sit up and try to kiss his nurse he is strong enough to be sent home.” To Clean Marble. common soda, one part of pumice stone and one part of finely powdered alt. sieve and mix it with water, then rub it well all over the marble and the stains will be removed. Rub the mar ble over with salt and water. off and wipe dry. Don't Put Oil Into the Ear, In an address on diseases of the car Dr. 8. MacCuen Smith of Phila delphian gave an earnest warning against using blisters or poultices to relieve acute earache, as well as put ting oil or anything else into the ear. Either may do irreparable daw age. a ———— Ministers Live Longest, Statistics show that a religions life «nds to prolong cxistence in this country, and that ministers are among the longestlived individuals, Brain workers live longer than those who ‘abor with their muscles, women long 5 than men and the married longe: han ha single. Durable. The admiration whicl his aunt Mar tributes. “1 don't care teeth like mine, Bob after a} ing which he had laughing conversation with Li or “1 wish | had some } ones like yours.”'—Youth's ica. Hot ied al! her at much fur plain felt for ret inc Aunt Margare® ng seller walche! * sald one day Shade for Light. For the electrie light in the bon doir or bedroom there is 8 useful nov elty In the way of a shade This te en exquisite little lady dressed in rose silks and gold lace, aller the style of the ladies of the court of Louis Quinze The skirt forms the glow, World's Oldest Flower, The chrysanthemum fs the oldest cultivated flower In the world, and Confucius who lived approximately 000 years B. C, mentioned it in his writings, and antique Chinese pottery In British museum is decorated with con ventional designs of the same flower Forethought. Willis—"They say Doctor Bump is very quick to send a bill" He is premature. I hap morrow morning's services.” Judge. Reason for Old Jokes. “Why are there so “Oh, “they go good. That is due to the feeling of superi- know the answer, while the actor gink who is being told the joke apparently does not.”"-—Kansas City Journal Good Habit. You will get accustomed to living in it. We all have to do that. You will get accustomed to wanting, and this habit will come to be a part of your life. You will be all the better for it -H. 8. Merriman. At the Dinner, Dashaway (nervously )-"Look here old fellow, don’t youu think you'd bet ter tell them not to call on me? Meverton—"Don't Le worried: thes won't! heard you before.” Judge. lithesome Profession r read in San ue funeral directo fawning self-conscious not bossy 1. but ing master of Herald alert not nery Wouldn't Be New to Mer. Miss Glgglegum (single and roman The and {rom Vesuvius must awe ‘napir ing sight. Woul negs It?” Mrs. Pottson Pans (mar ried and prosaic)-"Oh, I don't know- I've seen husband take down 8 stovepipe. "Judge tic) shower of soot an not like to ashes he you wit my Mow Did He Know? Elizabeth was studying in her his ocean by Balboa. “Well,” said she business is how Balboa knew the Pacific ocean when he had never seen it before.”—Harper's Magazine. Treat in Store for the Boarders. wveauction iid you draw from Egyptian fessor of d 80 at the Arvists, the perficial student jded th id Egyptiax id heir comic the same as we Lines to Be Remembered, So long NE as we are Kk would almost say we are in man is useless while he Robert louis Steven as we love we gorve by 1 ved ble: end no has a friend »0On The Up-to-Date. The girl of yesterday had an old the girl of to thing but a check book Florida Times Union On Him. “You haven't got anything om my husband.” said the woman in the drug “Oh, ves, | have,” replied the | druggist; "he's wearing a porous pias- a the boarding housekeeper, “what shall I do with these basting threads? “Give them to me and I will stir them into the frosting for cake.” sald her mother — Youth's Com: panion. Sober and Industrious. “Yes, ma'am, he shore When he's sober dere ain't a troit Free Press. — Good Judge. “1 take great pride in my ability to judge human nature,” sald lke Van Quentin. “A few months ago I let a friend have $10 and | was confident at the time he would not pay it back. And he didn’t" Kansas City Star. Evealrg Thoughts. At night a man usually realizes he didn't do so well as he felt he would when he tackled the job in the morn ing, but he expects to do better the next day.~~Atchison Globa. ad Gonuilive, Joule: ease, auntie, the new ady next door says, hor compliments, nd will you play very low, because jor bhushand is extromely musical," yvdney Bulletin, Ce] Daily Thought. If instead of a gem, or even a flow er, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that | would be giving as the angels must How Much Sugar We Eat Americans eat more sugar than the people of any other land. Our per Werth Remembering. The world would be both better and brighter if we would dwell on the duty of happiness as well as the happiness of duty. ~8ir John Lubbock. Typical, “Is he a typical American?™ “Yea, he likes baseball, has a motor car, owes a mortgage, pays alimony and thinks the moving pictures have grand opera beaten a mile." Life. Worth While Quotation, “No inberitance can supply the want of a virtuous education.”"—Thom- as Wilson. Many Reject Fork. More then hall of the world's popu- lation still regards meat of swine as unfit for human consumption.
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