4 JObITOPEKSOIRL Dinui House Passes Measure Calling For Its Re peal In the Third Class Cities ADVANCES FULL CREW REPEALER Measure Is Passed on Second Beading in the Lower Branch and It Will Be Made a Special Order of Busi ness for Next Monday Evening The Habgood bill which repeals per sonal registration law in third class cities was parsed in the House this morning by a vote of 111 to 38. "" Mr. Habgood, of McK.ean county, in speaking for the repeal of the act of March 5, 1906. said that it had had plenty of time to be thoroughly tested and had proved a failure. He said practically all third class cities are asking for its repeal.. Representative Sarig, of Berks county, said the citi zens of Reading wanted the repeal. Personal registration was referred to as "red tape." It was declared that many boroughs, some larger than third class cities, do not have to go through all the questioning and personal regis tration features. Only slight objections were offered to the repeal. The bill now goes to the Senate. The full crew repeal bill was called np in the House on second reading by its sponsor Representative Baldwin, of Delaware county, and passed after Representative Habgood, of McKean county, had made an attempt to amend it. The bill repeals the act of 1911 and empowers the Public Service Commis sion to require railroad corporations to employ an adequate number of men upon trains. Representative Habgood tried to have the specific repealing clause stricken from the bill but the amendment was defeated by a vica voce vote. The bill was made a special order for third resiling for ner.t Monday evening at 9.30 o'clock. Jitney Bus Bill Is Amended The Jones bill regulating jitney busses aud requiring a liceuse from municipalities for their operation wan amended by reducing the amount of the bond to be filed with the State at $5,000 /or each car and making the percentage of gross receipts to be paid to the municipality at 2 1-2 per cent, instead of 10 per cent. The 50 cent a month license fee remains. The amend ed bill passed second reading. The Kline Senate bill authorizing an increase in the salary of the first assistant clerk of the court of Alle gheny from $3,500 to $4,500, passed finally by a vote of 13S to 13. The bill fixing the salary of county controllers in counties having a popu lation of 150.000 to 250,000 at $6,- 000 a year, wns defeated on final passage after it was attacked by Rep resentatives Oaks, of Cambria, and Weaver, of Westmoreland, who claim ed tl>e salary was too high. The bill received but 70 votes. The Mearkle bill to fix salaries of jury commissioners, county jailor and jail physician in Allegheny aounty, was passed on second reading. Other bills passed on second read ing were: Requiring ash value for redemption to be printed on trading stamps. Requiring locomotives to be equip ped with bell ringers. Bills Passed Finally Bills passed finally were: Providing short term notes for sec ond class cities. Regulating sale for smelting of pre cious metals. Extending to appeal to com mon pleas courts from assessment for taxation to inunicij>alities and public I corporations. t Increasing power of Department of i Public Safety in second class cities to regulate storage of explosives anil regulating fire hazirds. Regulating tender of judgment or payment in certain civil cases. Requiring steel frame ca.ges to con 'vey persons into anthracite coal mines •by perpendicular shafts. Providing for additional officers and employes in Department of Labor and Industry and fixing salaries. Senate bill requiring Justices of peace and aldermen to file acceptance of office with Prothonotaries and re- I quiring Prothonotaries to certify same. Shortly after noon the House took ft recess until 8 o'clock to-night. CITY SC ALES BV APRIL 15 That Is the Plan of the Sealer, An nounced This Afternoon The municipal scales that are to be placed in the market houses of the city for the benefit of market patrons will 4»e installed on or about April 15, so Harry D. Reel, City Sealer of Weights and Measures, reported to the City Commissions at their meeting this aft ernoon. The Seaier gave a statement of his work in the last three months. He vis ited city markets on 67 occasions Jur ing market hours. His detailed re port follows: - ~3 ~S £ o a t - i » i ~ ■T n s £ 2 3 Platform Scales ... 18 13 5 Counter Scales ... 40 29 11 Spring Scales .... 16 12 4 3il Pumps 6 4 2 Dry Measures .... 222 215 7 Liquid Measures . . 162 127 35 Boxes 25 0 25 Weights 137 93 44 Miscellaneous 56 4 7 9 Total 682 540 142 "iHas that young man given you any encouragement, daughter!'' "Oh, yes, mother." "What did he sayf' "He asked me to tell him what sort of a disposition father had."—Yonkers Statesman. f \ * > • * - V • :/\ * vV "V '" B ? ,J \fP" ' !■' WUPIrf ! . ' C | '* •,/ - , ■= f ' '/ ■: \ I f • v * yr*\ ' ■ ' • ' ' oLkRRISBTJRG STAB-INDEPENDENT, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 191?. COURT HOUSE TOWNSHIP OBJECTS TO PAVINCC6/SS7OQCBARt;E Mifflin Supervisors Involved in Court Suit Because They Have Be fused to Settle fjr Material Bought Sev eral Tears Ago Only one of the ten civil cases listed tor trial at the second day of common pleas court to-day was ready tor hear ing when court opened this morning. Consequently Judge McCarrell went on the beach and Judge Charles V. Hou ry, of Lebanon county, who is specially presiding here this week, returned home tor the day. Nine other vases sched uled for hearing either were continued or settled. Judge Kuukel was busy in chambers. In the case that was heard the super | visors of Mifflin township attempted to disclaim liability for a S7OO claim i tiled by the A. L. Greenburg Iron Com pany for pipe and other material fur nished the township some two or three years ago. After the order for the material had been placed aud the ship ment made, it is alleged, the supervisors attempted to have it canceled on the representation that the township had no use for the "supplies." The damage suit brought by Simo Rusuor against Artso Dimoff for al leged defamation of character result ed in a SSO verdict of $122.85 in his suit against R. L. Wiest. This was a claim involving the sale of farming implements. By agreement of counsel a verdict in the sum of $1,300 was taken in favor of the plaintiff in the suit of George B. Rosadeau against Karl T. Oppernian, a local contractor. This involved a claim for services rendered the defendant on an excavating job. The damage suit of Catherine Trout against the Lvkens Valley Coal Company was settled, al though the consideration was not an nounced. The defense also won out in the suit of Alfred Bechtel against Alice Parmer. Three Building Permits L. M. Davis got a building permit this morning to erect a one-story stable at 2104 Brook wood street, costing $100; Clyde Smith took out papers for a one-story garage at 2236 North Fourth street, costing S2OO, and Mrs. Ellen 'Hauer obtained a .permit to re model the two-and-one-halt story frame ■building at 43 North Thirteenth street, costing SSOO. Letters on Lantz Estate Letters of administration on the es tate of Isaa.- 1). Lautz, late of Pen brook, this morning were issued to Fred C. Miller. Deed Charges Beleased Judge McCarrell has made an order releasing and discharging two certain complaints that were contained in deeds for Derrv township farm property which now are held bv Milton S. Her sliey and Thomas Wagner. The charges are more than half a century old and are presumed to have been satisfied long ago. Bids for Water Meters Ptfblie Safety Commissioner Harry F. Bowman will open bids for furnish ing water meters during the year end" ing May 1, 1916, at his office un the Court House on Friday afternoon, April 23, at 3 o'clock. v Contractor Is Paid City Treasurer Copelin this morning paid the Maryland Casualty Company $2,019.51 as installment on the work incident to improving Paxton creek. Inspector Boyer Makes Report Harry A. Boyer, County Inspector of Weights and Measures, has made a re port to the County Commissioners show ing that during the month of March he made 669 inspections, sealed 635 weights and measures, made 53 adjust ments and issued 34 condemnation or ders. His detailed report follows: Insp'd. Sealed. Con'd. Scales 61 53 8 | Dry measures .... 80 80 0 j Liquid measures .. 156 156 Oj Miscellaneous .... 168 160 8i Weights 204 186 18 —• DELEGATES GO TO GETTYSBURG j Semi-Annual Meeting of Carlisle Pres bytery Opens To-day The pastors of the local Presby terian churches and one lay delegate from each left for Gettysburg to-day to attend the sessions of the Carlisle Presbytery in the First Presbyterian church at the battlefield town, the church which Lincoln attended on the occasion of his visit to the National cemetery for the delivery of his im mortal address there. A moderator of the Presbytery is to be elected and other routine business taken up. The meetings are held semi annually. The churches of this city represented are Bethany, Calvary, Cov enant. Immanuel, Market Square, Oli vet, Pine Street and Westminster. The delegates will return to this city to morrow. TARGET RECORDS BROKEN Harrisburg Oncers With the Fleet at Practice Off Cuba The United States fleet of battle ships, which has been engaged in tar get practice off the east coast of Cuba, has finished its practice and is back to Guantanamo, where it will rest for a while. A letter received from Lieutenant Commander Ned C. Kalbfus, chief navigator of the fleet, who with Lieu tenant Commander Harry S. Brinser, chief engineer, both Harrisburgers, is on the flagship Wyoming, saye that the fleet will be back to New York in about two weeks. The target prac tice has resulted in some world-beating scores. Miner Arrested as Murder Suspect Hazleton, Pa., April 13.—Gnut Ritchie, a West Hazleton miner, for merly employed at Park Place, Schuyl kill county, was arrested here to-day on the charge of knowing something about the supposed murder of Joseph Fletcher, of Hazleton, night watchman at the Park Place strippings, several weeks ago. Ice Company Directors Re elected The stockholders of the United Ice k Coal Company met in annual session yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock and re-elected for another year all of the nine directors. The directors will meet on the afternoon of April 21 to elect officers. WILIELITS CAPTAIN ASKS 1 TIME TO REPAIR HIS YESSEL Newport News, "Va., April I' 3. Formal request from Commander Thierfelder of the German converted cruiser Kron Prinz Wilhelm for time to repair bis vessel iu order to make her seaworthy, was awaited to-day by federal authorities here. Pending receipt of this information the mer chant raider which still is at anchor age in the James river, will not be al-' lowed to go into the dry doek at tho' Bhip yards here. Commander Thier felder had promised his formal appli cation to-day. A survey of the Wilhelm will be made by a board of naval expert* to determine the necessary repairs. They will follow tl*p precedent set by the Prinz Kitel Freidrich interned n't the Norfolk navy yard. The extent of the repairs as well as the time required will be kept a secret by the federal authorities. A preliminary survey -by experts from the ship Wilding company here disclosed that at least three weeks will be required to make the Wilhelm seaworthy. The ship was found to be leaking bndjv and her boilers in bad condition. Her 'pumps were working constantly and the bilge water from her pipes was said to be unusually heavy. The leaks were caused by loos ening of her plates as a result of fre quent coaling at sea and ramming merchantmen when shots failed to sink them. The fact that the Wilhelm will re quire considerable attention before' she can be made seaworthy, it was be lieved, may eventually cause her to be interned. 11. S. BAS NO KNOWLEBCE i OF ANY PEACE OVERTURES Washington, April 13. —Commenting on a published statement of Pope Bene dict that the latter had indicated a de sire to support any move the United States might make for peace, President Wilson declared to-day that intimations of this character had been frequently conveyed to him through different per sons. He said, however, no formal communication had come to him on the subject. Asked whether the United Btates recently had learned officially or unofficially of the terms upon which the belligerents might be ready to make jieace, the President said regret fully there had been no basis whatever so far as he knew for the rumors to that effect. While the United States government was not consulted in connection with the peace gathering at The Hague, the President indicated to-day that the movement had his sympathetic support. Although the meeting has no official status, President Wilson said he under stood the delegates had not asked for official authorities because they pre ferred to act unofficially. NO SEPARATE PEACE FOR TURKEY,SAYSOLTAN'SIMEN Rome. April 12, 9.30 P. M., via Paris, April 13, 4.5" A. 'M.—-"t'araso Kffendi, n member of the Turkish Cham ber of Deputies, and Midhat Bern, for mer secretary of the Turkish commit tee of union and progress, who arrived here last'week, have left for Constan tinople by way of Venice and J'ienne after interviewing Italian statesmen. They denied emphatically that their mission was in relation to a separate peai'e for Turkey. Their mission here, they declared, was to study Italo-Turkish releatious in the hope that the common interests of the two countries might be guarded now and in the future. LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY Caatinned From Ftrat Pift, gives no Information as to the result. l The German attack on the Russian j forces in the North, near the Prussian frontier, was resumed yesterday and another battle is in progress for pos- i session of the important Russian fort ress of Ossowetz. The abandonment of the former siege of this fortress was interpreted in Petrograd as indicating that the Germans had given np their ; attempt to break through the Russian line of defenses and advance on War saw from the north, bnt it is now said semi-officially at the Russian capital that the invaders have brought up howitzers and begun a new bombard ment. One of the German siege bat teries is said to have been damaged badly by the Russian guns. Five independent Austrian armies are operating along the Carpathian front. Petrograd newspapers publish semi-official details concerning this campaign to the effect that the various Austrian armies are under direction of the German general staff. It is said also that Emperor William personally is supervising the work of the staff. In Bukowina heavy fighting is in progress according to a Bucharest dis patch to Paris. Of two Austrian arm ored trains which advanced against the Russians yesterday one is said to have been blown up and the other forced to withdraw after being dam aged. "The highest German authority" in Rome has denied reports that Ger many is considering peace negotiations. From this source comes the statement that the German general staff has made plans for resumption of the offensive with fresh vigor. The Italian military authorities have ordered army officers to dull the metal on their uniforms and scabbards. This is described as a measure usually adopt ed on the «ve of war. Say Germany Has Defaulted in Loan Paris, April 13, 6.05 A. M.—Ger many has failed to pay to Bulgaria the portion of the loan she agreed to remit April 1, according to a Sofia dispatch to the "Petit Parisien," which says it is believe*} Germany distrusts the Bul garian attitude and suspects she al ready has decided to join the allies. Fanner Dies From Tetanus LCbanoa, * April 13^ —Bdwin H. Shaeffer, aged 55, a farmer of Fontana, died last evening at his home from tetanus after an illness which started on Friday. He had scratched his finger with a splinter and wbile the wound ap peared to be healing erysipelas set in and produced lockjaw, which caused ins death within a few hours. FINANCE BETHLEHEM STEEL CAINS 18 PUTS IN TWO HOURS Rise Thought One to Scarcity of Stock Available for Speculation. As , Shown by Sale of But 20,000 Shares During Most of Day New York, April 13.—'Another spec tacular rise iu Bethlehem Steel, which sold up to 142 in thl second hour of to-days business, a gain of 18 points over yesterday's close, was the all-ab sorbing feature of to-dfcy's early stock market. The advance was again accom plished mainly in transactions of 100 share lots, but its effect iy>on the bal ance of the list was less disturbing than heretofore. Wall street still inclined to the be lief that the movemeut, without par allel in the recent history of the ex change, is primarily due to the persist ent opposition of the short interest to gether with the small amount of stock available fcjr speculative purposes. All rumors of a contest for control of the property were scouted. Bethlehem Steel dropped back four points from its high price aud then moved up to 139. The entire market moved forward towards fhe end of the morning session largely as a result of peace rumors from Washington. By way of variation the phenomenal movement in Bethlehem Steel was said to be the precursor of an important announcement to stockholders of the company. This, it was said, would in volve an increase of fhe company's stock, with valua'ble subscription rights. . Bethlehem Steel's high price showed a £"'11 of 61 points over its low price of li week ago. During rhe midsession BethleQiem Steel ascended to 149%, from which it reacted moderately. Brokers who watch ed the course of the stock said they saw evidence of absorption, even at t-he extraordinary advance. Sales of Hethlehein Steel up to 1 o'clock barely exceeded 20,000 shares, which offered further proof of the stock's scarcity. The entire market became stronger in the early afternoon. NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS New York. April 13. Open. Close. Amal Copper 68% 70% Amer Beet Sugar 48% 48 it American Can 35% 35% do pfd 97% 98% Am Car and Foundry Co 49 50 Am Cotton Oil ..!... 51% 52 Amer Ice Securities ... 32y., 33y 2 Amer Loco 33 34% Amer Smelting 69'/ 8 71 American Sugar ..../ 108 108% Anaconda 34% 35% Atchison 102% 102% Baltimore and Ohio .. . 75% 76y„ Bethlehem Steel 126% 125 California Petroleum . . 16" 16% Canadian Pacific 167% 169 Central Leather 38% 38 Chesapeake and Ohio . . 46 46 Chino Con Copper .... 41 >4 42% Col Fuel and Iron .... 32y„ 32% Corn Products 13 131/„ Distilling Securities . . . 9'/, 9%, Erie 27% 28 Erie Ist pfd 44% 44% General Electric C 0... 151'/. 10l Goodrich B F. ... ... 50% 52 Great Nor pfd 118% 120 Great Nor Ore subs . . 39% 39%, Interboro Met 16 17'/a Interboro (Met pfd .... 68 69% Lehigh Valley 141 142 Louisville and Nash ... 121% 121% (ilex Petroleum 74 75% Mo Pacific 16 15% Natibnal Lead 63% 63% (Nev Consol Copper ... 14'/ g 14% New York Cen 89 89 NY, N H and H. .. , . 62 62 Norfolk and West .... 107% 108%, Northern Pacific 104y. 104*2 Pacific Mail 22% 23'% Pennsylvania R. R. ... 109 109% Pittsburgh Coal 23% 23% Press Steel Car 34% 35i/I Kay Con. Copper 21% 21% Reading 150% 150% Repub. Iron and Steel . 24% 26% do pfd 83% 84 Southern Pacific 91% 91% Southern Ry 18% iB7/ g do pfd 59 59 Tennessee Copper .... 31% 32yc, Third Ave 54 54% Union Pacific 129 1301/0 U. S. Rubber 72% 73% U. S. Steel 55% 56y„ do pfd 108% 108% Utah Copper 59% 62% Vir.-Carolina C'hem. ... 26 ~ 25% Western 'Maryland .... 26 25 W. U. Telegraph ...... 65% 65%, Westinghouse Mfg .... 77 7J " Chicago Board of Trade Closing Chicago, April 13.—Close: Wheat—May, 156%; July, 123%. Corn—'May, 72%; July, 75y 3 . Oats—May, 56%; July, 53%. Pork—May, 17.32; July, 17.80. l^ard—May, 10.12; July, 10.3,7. Ribs—May, 10.07; July, 10.37. FIRE DESTROYS TIMBER 100 Acres Belonging to James Leiby's Heirs in Path of Flames Newport, April 13.—Fire broke out on a large tract of timber owned by the James Leiby heirs, five miles south of this place, burning over a 100 acres and destroying timber valued at |SOO. Several automobile loads of men from this place helped to fight the fire. Watts to Address Students To-morrow afternoon S. B. Watts, local manager of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, will deliver by request a lecture to the students of the School of Commerce on "The Use of the Telephone." D. L. M. Raker, prin cipal of the school, feels that it is as necessary to instruct the students in the proper use of the telephone as it is to teach them the different courses in the school. Boy Struck By Auto New Cumberland, April 13.—Don ald Perigp, 10-year-old son of William Perigo, of Elkwood, received a scalp wound when struck by an automobile near this town this morning. He got in the way of the machine when alighting from a wagon. He narrowjy escaped fatal injury. Statue to Jefferson Unveiled Charlottesville Va., April 13. Founder's was celebrated at the University of Virginia to-day by the unveiling of a bronze statue ol Thomas Jefferson, done by Karl Bitter, and pre sented to the University by Charles B. Oane, of Chicago. I PROPOSES BPFICE 8F OTY REAL ESTATE BEOSTMR cwttiM rna imt FMr*. j vor of the city, !n the sum of 91,359, 'back rent on the grounds under a for mer lease, that it is proposed to con tinue the louse at a nominal, figure to permit the association to use the ■grounds for athletic purposes to obtain revenne to repay the city for the amount of the judgment. The associa tion has no funds and if such plan were not adopted the City in all probability would get none of the .hack rent. Because the specifications of John Barnhart, the low bidder on the pro posed Koyal company 's fire house differ a trifle from those of the architects, the contract for the new building was not awarded to-day by Commissioner Taylor. The slight change is trifling,, Commissioner Taylor said, amounting to little more than h cart load of bricks. The award will be made next Tuesday. The Health Bureau's food regula tions were slightly amended by the City Commissioners to-day and subse quently adopted The ruie prohibiting dealers frjm exchanging bread was stricken out. Another rule was made i to read so that it will be illegal to I use milk bottles for any purpose other than that for which they are intended; Dealers are prohibited from exchanging milk bottles under this same provision. An ordinance accepting u gift of a 12-acre tract of land from Mrs. Helen Boyd Dull, to be used for parkway purposes, ;ind another increasing the amount of land to be purchased from the Paxtang Cemetery Association for parkway purposes from twelve to twelve and one-half acres, was passed finally. A bill changing the name of Plum street to Grant street, also was filially approved. The commissioners were ,invited to attend the housing conference to be held in the court hmlse Friday at which addresses will be ifiade by John | Ihlder, of New York City, secretary of the National Housing Association, and John Molitor, chief of the new Bureau of Housing of the State Health Department. SA\S LEPROSY IS CURABLE Dr. Adolph Boehmer Mingled With Af fected Servants for Many Years By Asaorialeil Press. 'Sail Francisco, April 13.—"LeproBy is curable and there is little danger ofi contracting the disease, as I have shown by having none but leprous servants iu | my house for years.'' This statement was made to-day by I Dr. Adolph P. Boehmer, who has ar . rived here from Siam. For five years -Dr. Boehmer was surgeon general of that country and private physician to the late King Chulalangkern". He has studied leprosy exclusively for several years. "All the house boys I had during many yenrs in Siam were afflicted with leprosy and I cured them all, except those who~had the disease in a too ad vanced form when fhey came to me," Dr. Boehmer said. "The cure is sure and leprosy could be stamped out in this country in a short time." MAUREK TO HAVE OPPOSITION Lively Election Will Mark Federation of Labor Convention Both J. H. Manrer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of labor, and C. F. Quiun, secretary, will be opposed for re-election at the annual meeting to be held in the Board of Trade audi torium May 11. Mr. Maurer's oppo nent has not been announced as yet, but the candidacy of William Young, president of the" Philadelphia Typo graphical Union, for secretary has been launched. Due to the industrial conditions, particularly in Western Pennsylvania, there will not be as many delegates to the convention as usual. The number will be between 200 and 300. Fleck Returns to Work Desk Officer Charles T. I'Joek, who has been ill at his home for two weeks, resumed his post again this morning. Motorcycle Policeman Paul Schelhas, who substituted at the desk, is acting clerk to the police depart ment, Secretary to the Mayor C. 0. Backenstoss, being off duty on account of the death of h.ia father-in-law. Mercury to Drop To-night A further drop in temperature is expected to-night, Local Weather Ob server Domain forecasting a minimum of 35 degrees. The low temperature to-night will likely cause frost, but vegetation is not sufficiently advanced that much damage will result. .The weather will continue fair. PERIL OF RUST A Constant Menace to Structures of Iron and Steel Among the many questions which the architect and builder are called upon to consider, none perhaps is more im portant than that relating to the cor rosion of iron and steel. This tendency to decay is peculiar to these materials, since none of the ordinary metals ex hibits it to any comparable degree, and it is so strong that an unprotected piece b soon reduced to a shapeless mass of rust. It is one thing to design and erect a mighty skyscraper, but an entii%ly different matter to protect it from those influences which, if allowed to do tneir work, would ruin the great est structure in a short time. It seems strange, in a way, that un less iron is well protected it is far less resistant to natural agencies t'han wood or other building materials. It is be ing used more and more in the fabrica tion of large buildings and other struc tures of a permanent type, and the length of their life, to sav nothing of the safety of the gieo-ple employed in and around them, depends on the suc cess with which corrosion can be pre vented. Painters are constantly employed on such structures as the Brooklyn or Forth bridges scraping away rust spots and repainting. When serious rusting is once started it is very hard to check, and as it would inevitably lead to tne destruction of the framework a col lapse would 'be certain to occur sooner or later, iprcfoalrtly v wifh an appalling loss of life.—'Engineering Magazine. Nice Outlook "When we are married," !<he cooed, "I shall keep you in love with me al ways. I know the way." "And What is your recipe, denrt" he isked, drawing her closer. "I shall spend heaps and heaps of money on kice dresses and always look hs pretty as I can."—Cleveland Leader. Sin writes histories, goodness is si lent.—Goethe. mm Fonts nan Lite Our Own District Attorney De posed President Enjoy* Boeing Cows Or axe on Broadway Now York, AprU 13.—General Vic toriano Huerta began to-day to attend to the business which brought the for mer President of Mexico to New York and which ho described as," personal and family." The general occupies one of the most expensive suites of the Hotel Ausonia. Despite Huerta's assurances on landing yesterday that he would, do nothing while here to violate the neu trality of the United Stittes, it was re ported to day in Mexican circles that important conferences would be held here at once to determine whether the time was ripe for Huerta to interfere in Mexico, rally his old battalions to his support and attempt to put down tha factions contending for the control of that country. It was said that agents of the Federal government hero were keeping a close watch upon his movements. _ A statement given out by Francisco Klias, the consul general representing (Jarranza here, said that Huerta's desti nation is Zucatan, ''where he expects to inaugurate a revolution against far ran za.'' i General Huerta turned over to the police a mystefious box which was sup posed to contain .eawdy and wliiuh was handed to him as lie landed. He did not open it,.but notified the hotel man agement. At the police station the box was opened by an expert in explosives and it was found to contain rambling manuscript, apparently written by some irresponsible person. Bombardment of Matamoros Begun Hy Associated Press. I -Brownsville, Texas, April 13.—The i long expected bombardment of Mata j inoros, Mexico, by Villa artillery began to-day and rhe direction of fire'and its comparative accuracy brought distinct relief from fears for the safety of 'Brownsville. Wilson Nails Canard About China Washington, April 13.—Keports that the American government had informed China that she wonld not be able to re-, ly oo the moral support of the United States in her negotiations with Japan were declared without foundation to day by President Wilson. SIBO,OOO Blaze in Kentucky Town Lexington, Ky., April 13. Fire which threatened to destroy Lawrence burg, Anderson county, Kentucky, early to-day is reported under control. The Court House and Bcveral business houses on Main street were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $150,000.' 136 Perish in Coal Mine Disaster Tokio, April 13.—An accident in a coal mine near Shimonosoki has re sulted in the loss of 136 lives, accord ing to information received in Tokio this evening. HOW OLD ARE YOU? Do You Know Your Age and the Year and Day of Your Birth? How old are you f When were vou born? See if you really know. See if your children know how old they are. L)o not laugh at these simple questions until you try the test. According to a recent issue of the United States public health service re ports, it is a common occurrence to find school children, even high school pu pils in the junior and senior years, who cannot tell how old they are, or who, if they know their age, cannot tell accurately in what year they were born. ou will need this information when you apply for a marriage license, or in registering for voting, or in seekiug a government position, or in case you claim that you are heir to a fortune that is going to some • other pSrson. You may have to go under oath as to your age when you pay your custom duties upon return from your next European trip. So you should practice. In some of our states there is no birth registration, so you may not be able to prove from the records that you ever were born. This might be embarrassing to you if you want to marry in Europe. Perhaps the easiest way to remem ber your age is to form some jingle or rime on your birth year. For in stance, "In 1897 lit tie Johnnie came from heaven," or "In 1882 little Susie began to boo.'' Never mind what the rhyme is, just so you remember it, and if, after reaching the age of forty, you want to prove that you are only .twen ty-three years old, just change t'he rhyme and perhaps people will believe you when you repeat the jingle to prove your youth. OUR CALENDAR IMPERFECT Under the Present System a Day Is Lost Every 2,500 Years Many people are dissatisfied with the calendar. They propose to take it. back and change it. They would have to go back to an act of ' the British parliament in 1751—that irf, English speaking folk wonld—and then still farther into the recesses of time. It was that statute which later led Ameri can schoolboys into doubt as to wheth er George Washington was born on February 22 or February 11. Eleven days were lost between Julius Caesar and George Washington, but that hard ly seems appalling enough after all to justify so many preachments on the subject of lost time, does it! The way things are arranged now it will be 2,500 years or more before we lose another day. The scientist, however, is never sat isfied with anything lesq than accuracy, ati(| he wants a perfect calendar. He has taken his ideas of reform into the legislatures of several nations, but nothing ha* happened yet. Reform is sure to get into trouble, anyway, when it gets into politics. But truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again, and maybe the dream of the scientist will come true. The first day of every month will fall on the first day of the week, and so forth. The printed calendar which comes from the insurance com pany or the groeery store will be just as good one year as another, nnd the months will be all alike. Probably a more durable form will be invented, so that it will last a lifetime, be move! from house to house with the rest of the furniture and be handed down to future generations as an heirloom. Time, with such a calendar, wouMn't seem so flighty.—Philadelphia Ledger. Meek Reproach. Lady (who has given tramp a plate of scraps)— You must feel the humili ation of begging for food. Tramp—lt's not that so much, mem. What hurts me is that I 'm de priving the pore innercent fowls of a feed.—London Telegraph. A RAILWAY WIZARD Tuft Created a Sensation With His Vertical Road. FIRST PASSENGER ELEVATOI It Was Erected In the Old Fifth Av enue Hotel, In l4e«v York, In 1859 and Wee Regarded a* the Marvel of the Dey—lts Introduetion to England. Americans may lose the use of their legs. A number of authorities on this subject have made the prophecy that unless the American nynds his ways and changes the direction in which certain of his habits und tendencies He his legs will become as utropbied us has become his little toe froui close confinement in shoos nnd long disuse. These authorities have pointed out the street car. the automobile nnd the average man's eagerness to "get there" In the quickest way and with the least possible effort is the causes for the preseut deterioration In legs, and as mechanical locomotion becomes more nnd more accessible and the rid ing habit grows man will have less and les» use for his feet and legs. In addition to electric cars and auto mobiles, another modern device con tributes to the nverage man's Increas ing feebleness of limb. That modern device Is the elevator. To the present generation, accustomed to ride from floor to floor and to push the elevator bell button and wait for the car rather than cllnVb a flight of stairs, It proba bly seems queer to see or bear the ele vator mentioned as a modern device. Men tn thi'V - youth and even in their middle age have become so habituated to the elevator that they feel that such a thing always was. or at least that it Is coeval with brick and stone build ings. Yet the elevator is a modern device, aud the word "elevator" In" the application given It in America Is new er still than the contrivance It de scribes. Before the demolition of the old Fifth Avenue hotel in New York there was in one of the elevators a tablet, on, which was Inscribed this: "In this space was erected aiul operated in 18."it) Tufts vertical screw railway, the first passerger elevator ever built." That elevator was one of the chief wonders of the hotel, which, because of its luxury and magnificence, was considered one of the ponders of the new world. The "vertical railway." which saved persons the trouble of walking up and down stnlrA was widely written about, and people came from far and near to look at the strange invention and to be able to tell their admiring friends In Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington and other cities out in the provinces that they bad been able to go up and down stairs without walk ing. When travelers en me from New York and told about this vertical screw rail way to onr grandfathers, those worthy gentlemen raised their eyes and bauds in astonishment and probably exclaim ed, "Will wonders never cease?" An English trade paper, the London Builder, iti September. lßTii). had un editorial on the subject of the vertical screw railway In the United States, saying: "It is a carriage that will move from the top to the bottom of the building and from the bottom to the top. It will be forced upward bf the application of steam power, and the descent will be regulated by tl», resistance of hydraulic power." It was not until the early seventies that the vertical railway was Intro duced in England, the first "lift" being installed in Albert ball, and to ride in this pnssengers were required to pay a fee of one penny. Conservative peo ple in America and England looked on this invention with grave suspicion nnd "felt It Jn their bones" that it was only a question of time when it would fall down and kill everybody in It Today the "lift" is nothing like so common in Europe as the elevator, which is the same thing. Is In the United States. One reason for this is that the United States is the birthplace and the home of the skyscraper, while high buildings, as building heights are j measured in Americn. are infrequent in Europe.—Washington S'nr " ~ ' Aiele of the Car In a Railroad Wreck. A veteran railroad man gave a piece of valnable advice some time ago. "If you ever get Into a wreck," ho said. "nnd have time to follow out tills suggestion remember this: Always stand In the nlsle. Most of the In juries that are suffered occur because the victim Is crushed between the seats. If you are In the aisle you mny he thrown forward and bruised a lit tle. but there Is much less chance of receiving serious hurts. It Isn't always possible to get out of your seat before the crash comes, but If It Is follow that advice."—Louisville Courler-Jour naL Strong Paper, A single United States treasury noto measures three and one-eighth inches In width and seven and one-quarter Inches In length. It will sustain with out breaking lengthwise a weight of forty-one pounds, crosswise a weight of ninety-one pounds. The notes run four to a sheet a sheet belli" eight and one-quarter Inches wide by thirteen and one-half Inches long. One of these sheets lengthwise will suspend 108 pounds and crosswise 177 pounds. Modern Hoetilltlee. "A gossip is never willing to repeat uuklnd remarks to your face." "No." replied Miss Cayenne. "Gos sip Is a social attack conducted on the approved principles of modern war fare. You are not supposed to see the person at whom you are shooting."— Washington Star. Identification. "That handsome woman over there is a widow of one of the Jaggs broth em." /"Which brother is she the widow off "The dead one "—Baltimore Ameri can.
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