BRIDGES 0 WARSHIPS New York Police Patrol Those Cruiser Passes Under. PEOPLE KEPT ON THE KOVE Commissioner Woods Takes Preeau tlons When Cruiser Washington Cam Into the New York Navy Yard. New York. Believed to bo In furtherance of the aim of Police Com missioner Arthur Woods to protect every arm of the United States Navy and Array when in this city from pos sible damage at the hands of spies or other enemies of the eountry. tM Bruiser Washington came Into the New York Navy Yard Sunday under one of the strongest guards maintained in this city in many years. Extra policemen, whose only orders were to "watch every one, allow no loitering and move back and forth," were stationed on the central spans of both the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, directly over the course the warship must take to go to her moor ings. Six extra men were placed on the older bridge and four additional on the newer, the full complement of men beln 17. While every man pretended to be as mystified as the general public was, the Impression gained wide ground that the unusual surveillance had been brought about through the attempts that had been made recently to Injure United States warships by men who have confessed to being German agents acting directly or indirectly under orders from the Imperial gov ernment. These instances have awak ened Commisloner Woods to almost the extreme limit of precaution and the keen scrutiny of the policemen on duty made it quite apparent that they were not on any ordinary patrol to prevent photographers from tuking pie tures that would show too much of the detail of the American war craft VILLA NOW AT TENEZAS. Was 25 Mites North Of Chihuahua City On Saturday. El Paso. Tex. Gen. Francisco Villa was at the Rio Tinta Mining Company property, at Tenezas. 23 miles north of Chihuahua City, Saturday, accord ing to a dispatch to mining men here. Previous reports had stated that Villa, with a small band of followers, was In the vicinity of Bosque Bonito. A party of mining men arrived here by auto mobile from the capital and reported that the district from Chihuahua City to Juarez was infested with small bands of bandits. NEXT MOVE ON THE MAP. Austro-German Offensive Against Salonlkl Imminent London. An Austro-German of fensive against Salonlki Is Imminent, according to Saloniki advices from a German source to the Exchange Tele a-ranh'a Athens correspondent, who says that the Gievgeli-Strumitza Hall way has been repaired and that Field Marshal Von Mackensen is now at Monastir. A portion of the Monte negrin Army, this correspondent adds, has effected a Junction with the Serb- Ian troops and fallen back on Durazio. OLD RAIL TIES FOR TREfXHES. Ennland Buys Timbers Hitherto Burned At 5 Cents Each. Boston. An offer of 5 cents a piece for 100.000 cast-eff railroad ties was received by the Boston and Maine Bail- road from the British Government, Formerly the railroad burned all its old tiei, but orders were tent through out the system directing that they be saved. It is understood that the Brit ish Government Is negotiating with other railroads in the hope of obtain ing 500,0( 0 ties for uae in constructing trenches in France. DEAN WHITEHEAD DEAD. Head Of Medical Faculty Victim Of Pneumonia. Charlottesville, Va. Dr. PJcard II. Whitehead, dean of the medical fac ulty of the University of Virginia, died of pneumonia at his residence at that Institution. He had bt-en 111 for some days, when pneumonia developed in both lungs. While his condition was serious, It was not regarded as hope less until a few hours before his dnalh. WILLIAM T. MITCHELL DAD. Former Consul Was Oldest Masonic Past Mister In United States. Port Huron. Mich. William T. Mitchell, United States consul to Quebec during the administration of President Cleveland, died at his home here. He was 98 years old. Mr. Mitchell for many years was judge of the Circuit Court here, and is said to bave been the oldest Masonic past master in the United States. ANOTHER M. P. FIRE VICTIM. Body Of B. B. Law In 'Phone Booth In Canadian Capitol. Ottawa, Ont The body of B. B. Law, M. P., of Yarmouth, was found In one of the long distance telephone booths In the burned section of the House of Commons. A government survey h.ii resulted In ranking tne Yukon River In fifth place among the great streams ol North America. mm y AT WORD "ILLEGAL" Negotiations In Lusitanla Case Again Critical. SEEKING TO AVOID A BREAK Berlin Declares Its Stand Is Final. Not Delivered By Bernstorff Admittedly Creates Grave Situation. Washington. The one word "il legal," as differently Interpreted in the United States and Germany, protrudes from the tentative draft of the Lust tania agreement, perfected by Ambas sador von Bernstorff and Secretary Lansing, as the Btumbling block which has caused Berlin to refer to the nego tiations as having reached a crises and Washington to characterize the situa tion as grave. New Concession Offered. Germany's answer, presented to Sec retary Lansing by Count von Bern storff, proposes, Instead of an out-and-out admission of Illegality of the method of submarine warfare used by the German naval authorities In sink ing the liner, an acceptance of liability for the loss of neutral lives, which Berlin hopes will satisfy the United States and still not bind Germany from continuing the submarine campaign. German officials believe that their previous promise to discontinue sink ing unresisting merchantmen without warning brings the submarine cam paign within the pale of International law and that any Inclusion of that phase in the Lusltania agreement Is unnecessary and humiliating to the Imperial Government. The word "illegal" in the draft the German Ambassador transmitted to his Government as meeting all the con tentions of the United States is taken to have been regarded in Berlin as be ing susceptible of application not to the Lusitanla case alone, but to the entire submarine campaign. Demand Called "Impossible." That is the only explanation which officials here can find for the state ment of Dr. Zimmerman, Under Secre tary of Foreign Affairs, that "the United States suddenly made new de mands which It is impossible for us to accept." Secretary Lansing declared that the position of the United States was un changed, and the German Ambassador knew of no demands which were not embodied in the. proposal he sent to Berlin. It Is known that the only change the Berlin Foreign Office has made In the agreement drawn by the Secretary and the Ambassador is to substitute for the word "illegal" a phrase which, while assuming liability for the lives of neutrals lost on the Lusitanla, does not admit of construction into prohi bition of submarine warfare. Brief Note Sent The dispatch the Ambasador re ceived and presented to the Secretary was very brief and covered only that one point. Otherwise the document Is unchanged, as it was drawn to meet all the contentions of the United States. After the Ambassador's vi -.it to the State Department Secretary Lansing dec'ared "the situation is unchanged." BALKS That may authoritatively be stated ,QW Fta.g ,n tne kltclipns and mints' to represent the situation accurately. quartcr, A tne pubIlc buildings are It had become no more grave, and by F,ronKly cuarded. Soldiers are every that fact It has become no less grave. The goJ bulon under cnarp,e Its status has not materially changed of (he Finance r,epartmpnt Is guarded and it may remain so for four or five . . . f oade(J rlflea aays ai leasi i h-siui-ui and Secretary Lansing consider Ger many's answer fully. In a like manner. It may be stated authoritatively that It does not follow that either a completely satisfactory settlement or an open break must fol low at the end of that time. The nego tiations may continue. REJECTS MINERS' TERMS. Anthracite Operators Say They Can. not Afford To Pay More. New York. The anthracite coal operators rejected here the demands of their miners Tor a per cent, in- crease In waues, complete recognition 01 the LMtea June worhers oi auk-i- ica, a two-year wonting agreement, mi eight-hour day and changes In the methods of fixing wages. forences cannot be settled by the "In - terested parties" themselves, they be submit ted to the board of conciliation provided for in the award of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission of 1302. The miners' demnnds were formu lated la:'t September at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and were ratified last week by the United Mine Workers' convent ion at Indianapolis. FOOD PRICES DROP. Decrease In First Nine Months Of 1915 One Per Cent. Washington. Relative retail prices of the principal articles of food In the United States dererased one per cent. during the first nine months of last Figures issued by the Bureau of year, lbor Statistics also show that prices in September, 10 15, were five per cent, lower than in September, 1914, but were the same as for September, 1913. HARRIS DENOUNCES LYNCHINGS. Georgia Covernor Threatens To Ask More Rigid Law. Atlanta. Lyncliinga cf more than a dczon negroes in Ge.jrgia recently are denounced by Governor Harris in a statement In which he dec'ared that "unless conditions Improved by the time the next uenerai AsscniD'jr meets," he will ask for tho enactment of "more stringent laws to stop lynch ing In this State." The General As sembly meets in June. LITTLE ALECK mi. w. Mtfc MUCH H no fO Z7 CANADA'S CAPITOL ParliamentHouse Fire Officially Declared Accidental. FIVE KILLED, SOME MISSING Detectives Guard Residence Of Duke Of Connaught Premier Promises Searching Invectigation Of Fire's Cause. Ottawa, OnL Every energy of the Canadian Becret police Is being em ployed In a search for the man who set lire to the famous parliament build ings. There Is no question in Ottawa that tho fire in which seven lives were lost and which did at least $3,000,000 damage was incendiary. The theory now Is that some one who hated Britain placed a chemical bomb in the reading room. Col. A. P. Sherwood, C. M. G., di rector of the Dominion police, stoutly held In an Interview that the fire was accidental. At tho same time, how ever, scores of his men were searching Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal for a "man with a small satchel." This man Is one of six forelnprs who were seen In Montreal Tuesday and in Ottawa on Wednesday. Considerable excitement was caused by the news that a suspect had been arrested at Windsor, on his way to Chicago. The man gave the name of Charles Stroncy and said he was a Belgian. He had a passport signed by a Belgian consul. Regiment Guards Building. Ottawa is a military camp. No less than 1,200 men of the Seventy-seventh Regiment stand guard about the Par liament House grounds. No one Is permitted to enter. RIadeau Hall, where the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and their daughter, the brilliant "Princess Tat," 1 dwell, has a cordon of detectives drawn nhnnt It. Others are hidden be- WILSONS GIVE RECEPTION. Members Of Judiciary Guests Of Honor At White House. Washington. The President and Mrs. Wilson held the second state re ception of the White House social sea son, with Justices of the Supreme Court and other members of the Fed eral judiciary as guests of honor. Mem bers of the Cabinet stood In the Blue Boom with the President during the reception nnd their wives assisted Mrs. j vllsorli Nearly 2.000 persons, Includ ,nR boslde9 members of the judiciary, 1 many otnpr high Government officials, were present. ! MORGENTHAU REACHES BERLIN. i 1 win Make Brief Stay There, Then Come To United States. Berlin. Henry Morgenthau, Ameri can Ambassador at Constantinople, ar- rived In Berlin on his way to tho United States. Ho was accompanied by his son, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Mr. Morgenthau will remain here a day or two b -fore leaving for New York by way of Rotterdam or Copenhagen. $12,800,030 IN GOLD IMPORTED. Exports For December C5,4S0,000, Says Reserve Board. Washington. Gold Imported Into tho United States from January 1 to January 21 was worth tl2.SOO,000, while exports for the same period were ; worth $0,480,000, according to figures made public by the Federal Reserve Board. Foreign coin Imported amount ed to $10,403,000; foreign coin exported to $2,307,000. ; , GRAND OPERA AT TEN CENTS. San Francisco To Hear Them At Very Low Prices. San Francisco. Ten-cent opera be came an imminent reality here with tho signing of a CO day lean by S. M. Par'quali on the Civic Center Audi torium, authorized by tho Board of Supervisors. The Theatrical Man- i tters' Association protected, deciarin that such competition, with pr-.os ranging from 10 cents to 75 cents, would be unfair. PARTLY DESTROYED fHB FULTOfl COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURQ, PA. ,'. JitriTiirn nmr KILL JOY 100 r Mijrte 'vm ioio it, My TRAIN LIBERTY GIVEN ALL German in Charge Yields to State Department BRITISH SET OUT FOR HOME Russian Quartermaster Of Captured Liner Loud In Praise Of Ger. mans' Treatment Of Prison, ers Raider la Moewe. Nowport News, Va. Nineteen days of ceaseless vigil for the short-handed German prhsa crew aboard the former British liner Appam ended here when the last of more than 400 British prisoners climbed over the Bhlp's side to liberty on Americnn soil. And for tho first time since Lieutenant Berg and his 22 men boarded the liner from the raider, which captured her on the night of January 15, most of the Ger mans slept peacefully, with but a few of their number on watch. All British subjects and the one na turallzed American, G. A. Tagliaferrl, quit the ship, leaving the prize com. mander with his crew and the 20 Ger mans who had been prisoners on the Appam, Including three women. Captain Harrison and the Appara's British crew left their vessel only after a sharp controversy between agents of the owners, the Elder-Deirpsey Com pany, and the British Embassy at Washington. The company desired Its men to remain on the liner to support the claim that the Germans forfeit their prize by remaining in neutral waters. But the embassy Insisted that every British subject depart as soon as permission had been granted by the prize commander on the demand of tho United States Government Plans were changed every hour dur ing the afternoon and evening, but the embassy's authority prevailed Anally and a special boat was provided to take the Appara's crew of 155 to Nor folk to await the sailing of a steamer for New York. Meanwhile the 114 passengers nnd the 136 British seamen rantured with the other seven ships taken by the raider Ponga or Moewe had been transferred ashore by steam ers. Five of the seamen, one English man and four Lascars of the crew of the Clan MacTavish, all wounded were removed to a hospital. All tho others with most of the passengers were placed aboard river steamers for Norfolk. An Old Dominion liner was being held at her dock to take them to New 7ork. The British Government is caring for all passengers and crews of the captured freighter and will send them on to England aboard the first avail able ship. The Elder Dempster Com pany will arrange for the return of the Appam's crew. Lieutenant Berge, commanding the prize ship Appam, tallied for the first time of hLs cruise. He ridiculed tho suggestion that his raider was the new fruit trader Ponga. Insisting that she was the Moewe. He confirmed the ac counts of his capture of the seven Eng lish vessels and declared he had noth ing to say regarding his future plans. $135,000 FIRE IN WAYNESBORO. Half a Block In Business Section Destroyed. Wavnesboro, Pa. The buildings oe- I cupvlng half of an entire block In the business section were destroyed by (ire, with a loss of $135,000. A volun teer fire brigade saved the First Na tional Bank and the American Nation al Bank after they had been damaged. DEATH IN CREAM PUFF BY MAIL. Woman Alleged To Have Sent Pack age To Man Is Held. Woonsoc'.tet, R. I. The presence of arsenic In the stomach of Almand Vadehoncoeur, who died, It is asserted. after eating a cream puff sent him by mail, was reported by Dr. Henry S, Bernstein, State pathologist. Mrs. HnUie Oakley, who is alleged to have mailed the package, is awaiting a hear ing on the charge of murder. MADE FIRST CHEWING GUM. John Cslgan, Former Druggist Is Dead At Louisville. Loulsvillo. John Colgan, reputed to have been the first chewing gum manu facturer in the United State3 died at his homo here. He was 75 years old. Forty-five years ago, while engaged In the dng business In Louisville, It is said, ha hit upon a combination of balsam tolu and chicle, out of which grew the chewing gum industry as It Is known today. THIS- li WWI " ttm markup IMT WEEK J 1' ABOARD APPAIi ABLE TO WIN OUT War Situation Described by Re turned Ford Delegate. BOTH BLAME UNITED STATES lad Talks With Doth British and Ger. man Officers and Civilians Each Side Thinks It Would Have Won But For United States. Annapolis, Md. Two wrestlers locked In each other's embrace, unable to gain any decisive advantage nnd hoping only that some one would step in and bring the contest to an honor able draw, was the comparison of tho condition now prevailing in Europe made by Edgar T. Fell, son of Dr. Thomas Fell, president of St. John's College, this city, who was a member of the Ford peace party during lis mis- slon to Europe. Two matters bave be come the deep-seated convictions or Mr. Fell. One Is that bitterness and rancor between the warring peoples has come to an end, and the other that none of the great nations which are at war Is In any special danger of a serious lack of food or other neces saries. He regards It as equally Im possible that England can starve Ger many out, or that Germany can Inflict any serious Injury on England. Mr. Fell formed his opinion from first-hand Information observation while in Germany and talks with Ger mans and English people, and by state ments of unprejudiced people who had spent much time In Gennany during the war. Each Blames United States. He was himself a member of tho party which traveled through Germany to Holland by way of Lubeck, Ham burg and Bremen, and he talked with German officers and civilians during nearly the whole of the 24-hour trip. It was particularly dulng this trip that he received the conviction that there was now no Buch intense bitterness to ward the EngllBh as the Germans are alleged to feel. Both In Germany and England," Mr. Fell said, "you constantly hear the statement that the war would havo been over except for the stand taken by the United States, but on both hands the statement is made without bitterness. The Germans believed that they woftld have won decisively before now, except for the fact that the Allies have been able to secure munitions from the United States. A very in telllgent officer with whom I talked made this statement, and It reflects, I believe, the views of most of the Ger man people. He did not contest the right of the United States to engage in this business, and simply said that it was Germany's misfortune that she was not able to Import the same things from the United States. "On the other hand, the English say that they would have compelled Ger many to give In before now except for the refusal of the United States to accord her the right to stop food stuff the ultimate destination of which Is Germany. There Is no doubt that a vory large traffic of this kind exists. Grain and other foodstuffs are shipped from the United States, un loaded at Danish, Swedish and Nor wegian ports and shipped to Germany from those countries. England Is desperately anxious to put a stop to this traffic and feels that the United States should not interfere with her. "I do not believe that Germany Is In any serious danger of starvation or even serious Inconvenience for lack of foodstuffs My experience and that of many other Americans is that about the only thing which has Increased notably in price is eggs. It is true that Germany has regulated the use of bread and meat, but this Is only In line with her policy, and making cer tain that the use of Germany things are going along as these things is In keeping with the means of production. Everywhere in usual. For instance, I know that the Kaiser was at the opera in Berlin two days before he was re ported In England as being desperate ly ill." NEW OFFICE CREATED. An Adviser On Commercial Treaties Is the Latest Washington. To prepare for pos sible revision of commercial treaties and negotiations of trade agreements at the end of tho war, Secretary Lan sing has created the office of advise! on commercial treaties In the State Department and appointed to the place W. B. Fleming, formerly one of the Department's trade advisers. He will investigate and analyze trade re lations between the United States and other principal nations. TEN BLOWN TO DEATH. Great Loss Of Life Caused By Explosion On a Towboat. An Huntington, W. Va. Ten persons were killed and four seriously burned by the explosion of the boilers on the towboat Sam Brown, of Pittsburgh, In the Ohio River here. The explosion is believed to have bec-n due to the admission of cold water into the boilers. OU PONT PLANT WRECKED. 15,000 Pounds Of Powder Explode In Mixing Houce. Shenandoah, Pa. About 15,000 pounds of powder exploded in the mixing house at the Du Pont Powder Company's plant at Ferndale, near here. The building, a one story struc ture, was destroyed, but so far as can be ascertained no one was injured. All wires to the plant, which is several miles out in the eountry from Fern dale, were wrecked by the explosion. KEYSTONE STATE IN LatestNswsHappenlngsGather ed From Here and There. TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS The State Workmen's Insurance Board war informed that the nunibei of policies written by the board now was close to 8,000. Agents of tho State Dairy and Food Commission brought suit against ten persons in Philadelphia for the Bale of candy not up tc State standards. While conversing with several friends at her home In Reading, Mrs. Victoria E. Pcnn, sixty years old, fell dead of heart failure. The Jamison Coal & Coke Company, Greensburg, has announced a wage in crease of about ten per cent for Its several hundred employes. Announcement Is made that 7,000 have Insured in the State Workmen' Insurance fund against employers' lia bllity. At a meeting the citizens of the Bethlehems and Lehigh University de cided to celebrate the tercentennial ol the birth of Shakespeare with an out door nairennt on the campus on May 19. At a meeting of the West Reading Borough Council, on ordinance for a public loan of $35,000 for Improve ments was passed finally. Twen ty-three thousand dollars will be used for new streets. While on his woy to work at the Le high Coal & Navigation Company's Nesquehoning Colliery, Sam Benegal was struck by a mine locomotive and so badly Injured that he died shortly afterward. According to the annual report of Fire Chief Hoy, of Norristown, less than $4,500 damage was entailed in 1915 In a half hundred alarms of fire, and the damage was covered by $28,000 Insurance. The fire loss 1b but fifteen cents per capita. Earl Grosvencr, a Northumberland county youth, shot and killed himself in the presence of bis sweetheart, Bella Specks, near Rockvllle. The girl haii declared that she was waiting for hlra to name the day, and ho drew a revolver and killed himself. The girl was prostrated and Is seriously 111. While brushing gas away from a breast at the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.'s Sterling colliery Michael Casinos, carrying a naked limn, caused a terrific explosion. He and James Gassego wore hurled fifty feet to the bottom of a gangway. Both were senseless and badly burned when found by a rescuing party. The officials of District 2, United Mine W'orkers, have received word that the first advance In central Penn sylvania became effective at the mines of the Cambria Steel Company, in Cambria county, with a 10 per cent Increase becoming operative. The mine officials .say the advance will place the miners on a par with the union scale. ML Holly Springs postofflce was rob bed of $200 In money and stamps, the burglary occurring two years to the dav from a former robbery of the of fice. The burglars fired three rounds of explosives before they forced open the safe, and made their escape be cause women living near the office who heard the sound of the explosions were too frightened to give the alarm. A statement issued by the State Bureau of Vocational Education says that there are in operation In Pennsyl vania 415 continuation school classes. These clashes are in 104 schoc dis tricts and in Order to accommodate the classes it has been necessary to pro vide to equip 377 class rooms and to employ 218 continuation school teacn- ers. The Hershey Chocolate Company dis tributed among Its employes a bonus of twenty per cent on salaries or wages of those continuously In Its em ploy for the six months preceding Jan uary 1. Of tho whole force, 8 per rent, received the bonus. The amount distributed was over $100,000.- All em ployes, from office boys to executives, participate, and there are about as many females as males. , Anrnrfiinir in the renort of Aaroc Raker, Shamokin, Northumberland fnnntv Pontroller. J592.289.55 was re- ce'ved from all sources during the fiscal year Just ended, ana z&s.b&f.u spent, leaving a balance or ?&J,t)J:.4. Central Dauphin county farmers at Halifax,, !n annual Institute, were told it -n their business to be gooa sell ers, as well as producers. Advice was riven us to how to make the soil yield r more, and conservation, rotation and the sales end of farming were dis cussed. Althnusrh American fertilizer raanu- rnrt umrg ha'- failed to develop a do- retic supply of potaah which can be bandied economically, there is no reo rn fnr the farmers of this country to take a gloomy view of the fertilizer outlook for 1916. This Is tho belief of Dr. William Krnar, chemlnt of ihs Pennsylvania Department or Ai?rlcul tnre. and vice director of tho State ex periment station at State College. In hH report to the State r.oard or Agri rn'ture Dr. Frear says that most soils will grow stap'e crops well without special applications of potash. SHORT ORDER Jgf (Conducted by the National Woman's inriatian Temperance umun.i LOGICAL STEPS. Edith Smith Dalrs, world's and n ac tional W. C. T. U. superintendent of scientific temperance instruction In public schools and colleges, says: "The truth concerning tomporance has been In a deep well for generations and there have beon many logical steps that we have been forced to take in order to reach tbs water of truth. The first step Is the scien tific investigation which has shown the poiBonous nature of alcohol. The second step demonstrates the effect of the poison upon various organs of tho body. Tho third step makes clear the fact thnt alcohol has special af finity for the brain and thorefore af fects the moral character of man. The fourth step has proven that a drug that affects the organs of the body and injures moral character must render less efficient the user of it, and, thorefore, Its use becomes an economic problem. The fifth step places this experimental truth with all Its resultant conclusions In a form whereby the largest numbor of people may bo Instructed, that Is, In text books containing scientific facts con cerning alcohol. The sixth step Is tho placing of the facts In the school cur riculum and making the text books and the scientific charts a part of public temperance education. Tho public school Is the most democratic Institution In the world and Is mora than that; It Is, as Dr. Newell D. Hlllls says, 'the machine which takes In all kinds of material and grinds It out made over into good American citi zens.' In this fact we see the pos sibility of our reaching the final step to our goal." RESENTS LIQUOR DOMINATION. The Milk Wagon Drivers' union of Chicago Is dry. and refused to permit one of Its banners to be carried In tho so-called "personal liberty" demonstra tion of November 7. "None of our men were In that parade," said the secre tary of the union, "and I don't bclievo there would have been very many union men there at all, outside of tho beer keg drivers and other lines of the liauor business. If they badnt been driven to march. I saw a letter myself sent to a member of the Ice Drivers' union threatening the loss of his Job if he didn't appear In the pa rade. That's a nice brand of personal liberty!" Within the ranks of union labor there Is growing up a fighting senti ment acainst the domination of the liquor Interests, and Incidents like this, nnd others which might be cited, are giving Impetus to the movemonL FOR THE GOOD OF THE GAME. A license was granted for the sale of liquor on Chicago's new automo bile speedway, but the management decided to keep It dry. A member of the committee thus explains the ac tion: "For the good of the automo bile racing game and for the uplift ing of the sport here and everywhere wa have decided to prohibit tho sale of Intoxicating liquors on the grounds. Baseball would never be what It is odav if It had not boon for the pro hibiting of Intoxicants on the grounds, and we want to make a clean ana pleasing start at our new speodwny. Reer should not be allowed on tne grounds, leave alone sold Inside the park, and this rule which prohibits the sale will stand as the speedway races continue and that will be for years and years." TEACHERS TOTAL ABSTAINERS. The superintendent or scnooic oi Ithaca, N. Y., told the following Inct dent at a W. C. T. U. meeting: When a lad eight years old he recited a temperance selection and the teachor induced him to sign tbo picdgo. Atter many years he went back to hit boy hood home Intending to tell the teach- oi. viint that nledco had meant to him. He found her resting In an un- kent country cemetery, but on his kneea before God he told her what had been tho saving Influence of his life. "I havo never hired as a teach er anyone who was not a total ab stainer, neither will I sign a paper of recommendation for a teachor who Is net a total abstalnor, doclarea tne superintendent WATCH RAILROAD EMPLOYEES. Arm ah with ramp.r&B. detectives of a certain eastern railroad, are taking photographs of every employee they see in the act of taking a social urum. ainro Rnntemher 1 several employees havo been called Into headquarters and discharged, uno man, who ubkou for a reason, was shown a photo of himself in tho net of araining a wnis- ky bottle while standing in a box car. WETTEST CITY IN WET STATES. The city of Butte, Mont., IS stig matized as the wettest city In tho wettest state. It is Interesting to tintn that recently forty people or Butte were indicted by a grand Jury on tho charge of bootlegging. MAN BEHIND THE BAR. They talk about tho man behind tho gun, And tho deadly work that ha has done; But much more deadly work by far Is done by the follow behind tho bar. SOLD FOR JUNK. The Hammond (Ind.) browcry, cap ital stock $200,000 and ansctB estimat ed from $250,000 to $500,000, was re cently sold at a receiver's salt for $10,000. The only bidder besides tho purchaser was a junk doalor. LICENSES DECREASE IN VALUE. The Chicago Daily News says that according to the record of tho city collector's office saloon license values have droppod from ?2,700, tho premi um a tew years ago, to $100, tho mar ket price today,
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