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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
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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.
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