i= § : .@kting Committee, : I Sporting : ‘A the ice at Soo, vigad Mrs. Emma C. Ferris will not have “am pay the. $1 EEICSNEWSBY | TGK AND FLASH What torests ha the World Cliron- | aed by Telegraph and Cable. STANCE AT FOREIGN AFFAIRS “WeI=hington Looms Large as a Center uff Interest—Legislatures Busy in + Many States—The Lights and Shadows of the News. if Washington ; . The Senate Committee on census dis- agreed on President Wilson's nomina- “ax of George W. Harris, of Georgia . @ardirector of the census. 4A. B. Kauffman, publisher of a - @uatesville (Pa.) newspaper, who gave exidence of a pooling agreement be- ‘Sire the Stanley Steel Trust Investi- complained that #8 steel interests had driven him into Wmuokruptcy by a “practi:al boycott.” Secretary Bryan left for California #8 confer with Governor Johnson and #8¢ Legislature on the proposed Anti- lien Land bill. President Wilson approved the Sea- #men’s bill, abolishing involuntary ser- withde and establishing the efficiency af the American seamen. Hii i Personal Dr. Charles W. Eliot, has received #he tender from Governor Foss of the @hairmanship of the State Commission #® investigate the white slave traffic 8 Massachusetts. Mrs. Samarelli, whom her husband amlied a “marble bride,” won a decree af separation, the court deciding she Md been undeservedly accused. Joseph H. Wittman, 69 years old, a Wather manufacturer, died in Phila- ! d@ielphia of heart disease. He was a @rector of the Northwestern National Hank and the Northern Trust Co. George R. Carter, former Governor | af Hawaii, arrived at San Francisco «an his way to Washington to oppose -#le proposed reduction of duty on ~Smgar. Ui Barney Oldfield made a world’s au- fomobile record at Los Angeles, lower- fg the former record of 47 and 85-100 seconds to 46 2-5 seconds for a mile -~ @m dirt track. : The Detroit Baseball Club released i Ritcher Boehler to St. Joseph, West- ~ arn League, and Outfielder Powell to ®rovidence, of International League. PRiteher William Powell and Infield- ax Michael,K Berghamer were sold to Me Cincinnati Nationals by the Chi- engo Nationals. It is understood Tink- ww claimed them at the waiver price. Walter Johnson pitched twenty-sev- ~ 4m innings during his three first games, . smd in that time the huge total of one en was scored off him. i General Nearly 123 grain boats are held fast Mich. Refusing to work with non-union men, 3,000 colliery employes at Shamo- Mn struck. Three leaders of the I. W. W. were diced, it was said, in Paterson, N. J But the authorities refused to con- figm the report. Swift & Co. issued a pamphlet urg- isg the people to eat more miitton and i#ss beef in order to keep the prices | down. | Steamship companies operating on | #@e Great Lakes have raised passen- @er rates 25 cents owing to an increase $i. expenses. Stealasuip statistics show “®brtugese and Russians are entering | @alifornia from Hawaii at the rate of | WO a week. | The animal industry bureau at | Washington issued 3,467 certificates | #@r pure breeding. horses imported » daring 1912. The transport Manila at Mare: Isl- | _and, California, captured at Manila | /Mpy in 1898, has been condemned and | will be offered for sale. Mrs. Charlotte Despard, a militant apffragette leader, arrested while try- @g to hold a meeting in London, was mgntenced to 14 days imprisonment in d@efault of $25 fine. | Mrs. Clarence Le Bus of Lexington, By. entertained society folk of New | ¥ork and other cities at a race meet- | fag held on her own private race | rack. Mrs. Katherine Kerigan sued for di- Worce in Jersey City om the ground | {at her husband, a ccachman, was too feiendly with his employer's wife, Mrs: Arthur T. Mahon of Midland Bark, N. J. A bill was introduced in the Massa- *4alfmsetts. Senate to prohibit the manu- | Meeture of “explosive” golf balls. * | Claus Spreckels, Rudolph Spreckels | ,000 inheritance tax de- ammmded by the State Controller on $8:500,000 of property conveyed to “era by their mother, according to a | Supreme Court. Johns pwiing of the When J: he negro pugil- protested Dr. A. S. Draper, New York State THE LAND OF THE SKY. [the Commissioner of Education, is dead. The powers warned King Nicholas of Montenegro to give up Scutari. A cage containing 12 men fell in a mine near Butte, Mont., killing them. sw Matilda Wayne, a negress scrub- | woman of Oyster Bay, L. I. left an estate of $50,000. Demanding more pay, 250 truck drivers in Rochester, N. Y., have gone on strike. The seventeen I. W. W. members in jail at Colorado Springs for vagrancy refuse to work out their sentences. Mrs. A. M. Collvert, ninety-year-old niece of President Lincoln’s mother, is dead at Idaho Springs, Col. The German embassy has again chosen Newport as its summer head- quarters. Five deaths have resulted from the bubonic plague in Manila since Jan- uary 1. Henry Clay Pierce testified in St. Louis that he had been the victim of misplaced confidence to the extent of nearly $7,000,000. A bill providing free admission of all exhibits imported for the Panama Fair, was introduced in the House by Representative Kentner, of California. Loans by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad to President Mel- len totaled $14,000,000, according to testimony given in Boston. The Honor Legion of the Police De- | partment of New York City will be | presented with the stand of colors ' given by Vincent Astor on May 9. ] President Wilson announced he will be unable to attend the congress of Governors at Colorado Springs on Au- gust 26. The Canadian Pacific Railroad will build a double-track tunnel through Rogers Pass, British Columbia, at a cost of $8,000,000. The marine barracks Alaska, have been abandoned by the Navy Department, and will be used as a home for indigent prospectors. | More than 60,000 Pittsburgh school children marched through the streets, | refusing to attend school until Super- intendent S. L.. Heeter was removed. | G. A. Leach, a lineman working at Hanover, Pa., was injured by a light- ning stroke which struck a telephone wire at Gettysburg, Pa., 12 miles away. Robert Fowler, an American aviator, flew from the Atlantic to the Pacific apross ‘the Isthmus, carrying a photog- | rapher. The 1,500 telegraphers in ‘the em- ploy of the New Haven Railroad re- ceived a wage advance of seven per cent. | Mystery surrounds the death at Colorado Springs, of young Miss Con- ger, niece’ of the late Ministér to China. Dr. W. E. Fernald, superintendent of the Waverly, Mass., State Hospital for the Feeble Minded, states that fifty per cent of the men and women sent to prisons are feeble minded. “Jack” Johnson, the negro pugilist, was fined $1,000 and compelled to for- feit a diamond necklace valued at $2,- 000 in Chicago for smuggling the neck- lace into this country. | James Crinn, Nelson W. Greenhut’s ' chauffeur, was instantly killed when a motor car he was testing hit a tele- | graph pole at Springfield, L.. I. His as- | sistant, Thomas Conroy, was mortally injured. The Boston Chamber of Commerce and Governor Foss have placed the William McKinley Memorial Hospital, with headquarters in New York, on { the blacklist, asserting it has failed to ' | carry out the purpose for which it was | incorporated. Two persons were killed, two others perhaps fatally injured and two more at Sitka, BY H. B. BRUMBAUGH. Why there is a place so named, is {not for us to explain, but there is a place, and the name is significant, when conditions are seen and un- derstood. Neither is it disappointing when seen, but you are made to feel that it only half tells its story. The told half is in the sky, while the un- told is earthly and equally beautiful. The land of the sky is located in Northwestern North Carolina, on a large plateau in tbe Southern Appa- lachian Mountains containing thous- ands and thousands of acres of land, over two thousand feet above sea level, edged around by a large num- and feet and upward. Thus an in- land basin it formed, affording all manner of possibilities for life’s en- joyments. This plateau is well sap- plied with rivers ,fountains and springs of soft pure water, that are resorted to, and successfully used, for all kinds of physical ailments With pure, sweet and health-giving water, an uncontaminated, life-invigorating air, and a fertile soil, it ought to be a place to be desired, and will be, as it becomes better known. At the late District Meetings, held by the Brethren churches in the Eastern and Southern States, one member from each District was ap- pointed to form a committee to look up a suitable location for holding our Annual Conference, when held in the East and Soush. held a. Hagerstown, Md., we were met by representatives from a num- ber ot difterent points that felt they for holding such meetings. Among them were Sanford B. Coher, f Ashville, N. C., and H. E. Wearnick, of the Southern R. R. Co. 8o kind- ly and urgent was the appeal made by them, that the committee con- cluded to accept the very liberal offer made by them. February 24th the following members of the commit- tee met at Washington, D. C.; A. B. Barnhart, M. C. Swigart, C D. Bonsack, P. 8. Thomas, Wm. Howe, I. W. Taylor, and the writer. Broth- er P. S. Miller, was added to our party at Lynchburg, by the way. At 5:45 p. m. we were taken to the Southern Pullman train, where we were to sleep and eat till we reach- ed our objective point, Asheville, N.C. The first part ot our trip was pleasant, but being made in the night time, we had not the pleasure of seeing any thing by the way. Early in the morning we stopped at Hickory, N. C., where we had a very excellent breakfast served. Here we had our first taste of south- ern hospitality and cooking and our decision was, ‘Very good.” Hickory is a hustling city of about 6,000 pop- ulation; altitude, 1,174 feet. It is beautifully located, has good schools, a Lutheran Theological Institution, and good hotels. It is a popular re sort tor hunters, surrounded by pro- ductive farm land and fine scenery. | After a layover of one hour, we | continued our journey skyward, and in the upclimbing, we passed over cut and bruised Dy an explésion of | many horseshoe curves, and viewed dynamite which destroyed the home | spouting geysers, dashing waterfalls of Michael Petron Pa. years old, and Joseph Petron. 28. Foreign The French budget for 1913 shows a | $40,000,000 deficit. near Uniontown, and varied scenery The dead are Michael Petron, 35 | feel We were to that our famous Allegheny 'M >untain, ‘‘Horse Shoe Bend’’ is completely crowded into th® shade. There we have only one but here | they have so many—at least it so | seems—that we lose track of them | and fail in the count. We formerly Duentz, a German aviator, was killed | prided ourselves in believing that we near Johannisthal by falling from his | had. at our command a fairly good aeroplane. The new Ital’an battleship Dullia ! | purposes, but we soon that | was launched at Naples in the pres- | | selves empty and dumbfounded, as ence of the King and Queen. The London Jockey Club has warned off W. H. Schwind, a horse trainer for Lewisohn, for conspiring to run horses in a way to mislead handicappers. Gilbert, the French aviator, from Villacoublay, France to Vittoria, Spain, 720 miles, in 10 hours 23 min- utes. Satisfactory progress is reported by the surgeon: in attendance on the ‘Duchess of Connaught, wife of the Governor-General of Canada. An Austrian naval division is said to have left Trieste with 10,000 men to occupy Montenegrin ports and | march on-Cettinje. An 18-year-old youth named Walkow and an unidentified girl jumped from the tep of the north tower of the cathderal at Antwerp. They were in- stantly killed. British Ambassador James Bryce gave up his office at Washington, which he held for more than six years, and left for New York, where he will leave for a trip to Yokohama, Japan. George Weitzel, American Minister to Nicaragua, is on his way to Panama City, to sail for New York. Herr Kohler, a German, was sent- | enced to seven and one-half years for spying on German fortifications at Leipsic for the French and Russian governments. German chauvinistic papers blamed the corruption in their w ar Office on he “Americanization” i ridic evenge rm ——— — flew | | supply of adjectives for descriptive found our- Iwo took the backward look at the | wondrous scene over which we passed and the unexpected glorious view which opened up to us, as we reached the summit. Surely, said we. ‘“This is the Land of the sky!” But what did we find as we reached the often described elevation or this great mountain range? A vast ex- panse of barren sand, covered oyer with serub oak, dwarf pine, huckle- berry bush and : hills and rocks? No, indeed. Instead, we have a vast plateau of undulating, fertile land, only waiting for the systematic farm- es to scrateh its surface and place the seed, and await a harvest of | some twenty, some stxty, and some even ‘a hundred fold. To us the quality of this land was a constant surprise—there being wheat, rye, oats and corn galore. And of fruits what shall we say? All that is need- ed is planting and cultivating, to rea p a rich harvest. But apples, apples, the apple belt of the world— single orchards yielding as high as twenty-five thousand bushels in one season, from the golden yellow to the ber of mountains and knobs, point- ing skyward to heights of six thous- At a meeting of this committee, | had inducements to offer our people, | isibly large orchards, the healthy, | growing trees by the thousands and the pleasure of eating, in full meas- ure, the crisp, luscious fruit to our | full satisfa tion; and the filling of our grips, to make us happy by the way, and some to bring along home. Well, so far so good, and it was good all the way. What, do you suppose, induced these southern brethren to tempt us to go down among them and spy out the land? Well, the Brethren have at least seyeral commendable points of reputation—being good farmers, industrious, honest temper- ate and law-abiding citizens. This is the kind of citizens that these people wish to have move in among them. Hence the inducement they offered us to come down and see how they do. The same is true of the railroads. The better farmers, fruit growers, gardeners, business men, citizens— and good men and women—they can encourage to move among them, the more there will be for their rail- roads to haul. On their part, they believe that they have the good things there to make good peo- so that, in filling up this goodly land with the right kind of men and women, the benefit thus aceru- ing will be mutual, a square deal, and no disappointments to follow. In addition to ferfile and product- ive soil, they haye the purest of water to drink, health-promoting air to breathe and a moral atmosphere. The State is dry as to alcoholic bev- erages; large and fine public houses, | | without a bar or a saloon, are to | be seen anywhere. We a-ked one of the landlords how it was that their hotels could succeed so well without running drinking dens, when ur hotel men tell us that they can nou run respeetable hotels without selling whiskey. The answer was; “Oh that’s all ‘‘bosh’’ It is the other way. We could not run respectable houses by having a crowd of drunk- en bum: hanging around, swearing and distur:.ing the peace and pleasure.’ It is because of the high moral standard o1 thé people that the good and the religious are seeking homes here for themselves and for their children. Here it is that the Bap- tists, Methodist and Presbyterians are buying large tracts of land, from twelye to thirty hundred or more acres and laying them out in small plots anc lots. Here they build good roads, streets, houses hotels and auditoriums. thus forming communi- ties of t! eir own and other good peo- ple; and preventing from the start, the invasiin of bad people. These places we had the pleasure of seeing, and were more than pleased with the idea. It gives a religious tone to the country that cannot help but be conducive to the moral and re- ligious uplift of the people. These places are offered to us as being suit- able for holding our Annual Confer- ence. And why not? To hold one of our meetings at such a place, un- der the conditions that are offered, would prove a splendid missio: ary scheme—one that we could pos- unite upon. It would afford an opportunity to thous- ands of our peojle to see this goodly land, and thus help to occupy it for our Lord as we Shep, The standing offer there ‘Come and see’. There are a nate of other things that we expected te speak of, and may do so in the future. —_———— 300,000 VOICES! AND MANY ARE THE VOICES OF MEY- ERSDALE PEOPLE. Thirty thousand voices—What a grand chorus! 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