e" 4 WEEK'S NEWS BY TICK AND FLASH ‘What Interests the World Chron: XEfed by Telegraph and Cable, ELANCE AT FOREIGN AFFAIRS + "Wiastiimgton Looms Large as a Center a 'nterest—Legislatures Busy in Many States—The Lights and Shadows of the News. L Washington ‘Wee peace treaty signed by the " @Mel@erlands and the United States was the sixth since President Wilson amg Secretary of State Bryan began to smiisocate universal peace. “Mie Senate passed the Currency MW, 54 to 34, six Republicans and one Wasgressive voting with the Demo- exalts. Wives of United States Senators and of Cabinet members decided to $erve the question of social precedence @p ithe President. The Republican National Commit- dime: voted to reduce the number of - dldhgates at national conventions by mmaty-four, the negro representation Wwsivg hardest hit. f Personal 4 copy of an English newspaper gublished at Lima, Peru, which @sezhed Washington, reported that ei. Theodore Roosevelt and Dr. Mar- kal Martinez, former Chilian Minis- Rer to the United States, had clashed ®antiago de Chili over the Monroe ine. ®ice-President Ma-shall signed a somtract to appear on the public plat- enn on the Chautauqua and Lyceum seircuits. He will receive $300 a lec- ere. Hrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her mtfece Margaret Roosevelt, arrived at Mew York from South America, where «abe left Col. Roosevelt during his tour «ff Chile. & London newspaper predicts a #wrrage for former British Ambassa- rr Bryce. ; I Three persons were killed and six wnsended in one day in “gunmen” bat- es in New Yory City The First National Bank of Eliza- "Jes, Pa. has closed its doors and ummsked that receiver be appointed. Postmaster-General Burleson asked @hagress to appropriate $1,000,000 to amerate the parcel post until June 3. Senator Ashurst introduced a bill, mgpropriating $350,000 for a barbed- wire fence along the Mexican border. Zhere were 206 automobiles stolen Be NC. 1.ck City to date this year, af which. 154 have been recovered. Puring the 1913 fiscal year, the hited States revenue cutter service amscued 327 persons from the sea. Mrs. Kate Wood Ray declined the «fice as chief of the Gary, Ind., police #irce, because she could not vote. Melvin H. Couch, a prominent law- wr of Monticello, N. Y., was found #=md in the Masonic Temple of that asty. The New York, New Haven & Hart- #erd Railroad will rename the Kent sation on the Berkshire line, Wood- InW. A new comet has been discovered Sy Washington astronomers, which will soon be visible with ordinary tele- - gwopes. Barnard Bennett, known to Harvard #udents as “Poco,” the oldest clothes “wan and money lender, is dead at Bos- wn. Philip Tomashefsky, “father of the Jbwish stage in America,” is dead at General Sain @entreville, N. Y. He was 69 years ald. Sunday, February 1, will be “Go-to- ghurch” day in Chicago. All residents mre requested to attend church on that My. In order to avoid congestion of the mails in the holiday rush, 8,000 ad- ditional men were employed on the ailway mail service. Only 2.434 members of the New York National Guard qualified as marksmen or better under the new afiooting rules calling for moving tar- gets. Secretary of War Garrison and Seec- metary of the Navy Daniels recom- mended that the officers who attended Wie recent dinner. of the Military Or- #r of the Carabao be reprimanded. @ov. Glynn in his refusal to grant " Pistrict Attorney Whitman's request at he be given State-wide power to vestigate and prosecute, said Whit- san 1s playing politics and knows the -@@wernor has no authority to do as the . ~gpusecutor wishes. Mrs. Catherine Becker, mother of wd rmer Police Lieutenant Becker, con- + wicted in New York of murder, is s<died at Calicoon, N. Y. She did not ‘Bmow of her son’s plight. The Board of appeals decided in fa- mor of the Long Acre Company against “i=: Edison Comrany’s ten-year fight] 4%: keep competition in supply of elec. | ~é@ieity out of New York City. The United States Court of Appeals] 1 Federal District Judge Ray’s| t the Waltham Watch rnot fix the res “| Joliet, Quebec. ER £ Newberry, N. C., is fighting an epi- demic of typhoid fever. Chicago saloonkeepers urge the abolishment of free lunches. Secretary Bryan signed a peace treaty with the Netherlands. : Boston police are forbidden to chew tobacco or gum on post. The tenth birthday of the aeroplane was observed by many aviators. Hunters in the Adirondacks, New York, shipped 1,269 deer carcasses during the season. San Francisce is prometing public dances to do away with public dance halls. New Year's greetings will be flashed to all the world by the United States Navy. The City of New York divided $15, 678 among 603 blind persons, each re- ceiving $26. The Orange County, Cal., Supervis- ors offer a $100 prize for each set of triplets born in the country. Vandals wrecked the Carnegie Pub lic Library at Oberlin, Ohio, causing several hundred dollars damage. The Maine State grange, Patrons of Husbandry, in session at Bangor, de clared itself in favor of woman suf- frage. The new destroyer Benham at tained a speed of 29.81 knots an hour in her trial trips off Delaware Break- water. Motor car bandits broke into a store in the business district of Kansas City and escaped with jewelry valued at $2,000. ' Adeleina Buttacadoll, five years old, was awarded a $10,000 verdict in New York against a trucking concern for the loss of a leg and an arm. Governor Foss appointed Ezra Rip- ‘ey Thayer, dean of the Harvard Law School associate. justice of the Mas- sachusetts Supreme Court. Anthony C. Douglas told the Grand Jury in New York of a Tammany at- tempt to sell him an aqueduct con- :ract for $50,000 cash. The raising of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor cost Uncle Sam $900,000 according to the final report submitted to Congress. Dr. G. H. Grout declares blindness [8s cause by the use of wood alcohol in face lotions, such as bay rum, and in varnishes. Inhalation or absorp- tion through pores produces the same affect, he claims. The New York State Board of Char- ities adopted the report of a commit- tee which recommended the removal of girls from the George Junior Re- public at Freeville, N. Y., and the slimination of William R. George from that institution. Officials of big wire concerns said the Government must face an enor- mous outlay if it takes over telegraphs and telephones as suggested by Post- master-General Burleson. Clarence H. Mackay put the figure at $2,000,000,000. A bolt of lightning shattered the main top-mast of the American liner St. Louis in mid-ocean, passed down into the hull and shocked many pas- sengers, during a violent electrical storm that suddealy interrupted win- try gales. In filing the annual report with the new Legislature at Albany, the New York State Athletic Commission will show that since the boxing law went into effect in August, 1911, about $110,- 000 has been paid into the State Comp- troller’s office, this money being the amount of the 5 per cent. tax on the gross receipts. Hn Sporting mn When Sam Langford decisively whipped Joe Jeannette in Paris he was hailed as the new heavyweight champion of the world by the French Federation of Boxing, which recently declared forfeited Jack Johnson’s right to this title. Johnson, the heavyweight champion of the world, and “Battling” Jim Johnson, another negro pugilist, of Galveston, Tex., met in a ten-round bout at Paris, France, which ended in a draw. Jack Johnson's left arm was broken in the third round. Charlie Herzog, who comes to Cin- cinnati along with Catcher Hartley of the Giants in trade for Bob Bescher, was selected to manage the 1914 team of the Cincinnati Reds. What is said to be a new two-mile record for roller skating on a flat rink was made at Detroit by Stanley Keyes, when he covered the distance in 6 minutes and 8 seconds. The previous record of 6.15 was held by Carlson of Chicago. {Te Foreign : rire caused damages amounting to $5,000,000 at the Portsmouth, England, navy yard. Lue sourth centennial of the discov- ery or the Pacific Ocean has begun at Seville, Spain. Cardinal Rampolla, late of Rome, left $60,000 to his sister and a similar amount to the Church. The failure of the rice crop in north- eastern Japan, is causing famine and distress among the inhabitants. The validity of the recent elections will be discussed at a special session of the San Domingan Congress at San- to Domingo, Jan. 4. It was reported that Cuba is offer- ing to pay the passage of acceptable European laborers, now employed on the Panama Canal, to that country, to work on sugar plantations. Major-General Vittorio Cuniberti, of the Italian naval engineers, and who drafted plans for the first Italian su- perdreadnaught, is dead at Rome. Lieut. Von Forster, German army officer, was sentenced to 43 days’ im- | prisonment for striking a crippled Al- | satian shoemaker Canadian Secre men dis- | rest near | covered a coiner’s den in TAT5 ot Progressive Notes. The great big fact that stands out prominently in connection with the meeting of ‘the Republican National Committee in Washington this week is that it formally and deliberately con- fessed its sins and if there was any- where in the Urited States a lingering doubt as to who broke up the Repub- lican party, that action of these gen- tlemen in Washington this week must dispel any such doubt. Whatever else their action amounted to, it confesses that their position at the Chicago Convention in 1912 was wrong; yet it was that very position that brought about Mr. Taft’s nomi- nation and defeated the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt. I take it that thereis no one who will now question this statement. Mr. Taft’s nomination was not only forced by the use of South- eran delegates from states that had no possible chance to cast an electoral vote tor a Republican president, but forced by the usurpation of power bv the National Committee in seating such delegates from other states as arbitarily chose. In the election which followed, Mr. Taft was overwhelming- ly defeated... Mr. Roosevelt received more votes than did Mr. Taft. Mr. Wilson received a minority number of all the votes cast,even a smaller num- ber of votes than Mr. Bryan received one time when he was a candidate; and the Demccratic party was placed in charge of our federal government. The first thing that the Republican National Committee did when it met in Washington this week was to set up the calamity howl and talk at length about the depression in busi- ness, the number of men who are being thrown out of work, and the general sad straights to which the country in their judgment, have been reduced, industrially speaking—the whole idea being that this is because the Democratic party is in power. If we are facing an industrial shutdown, if we are facing soup-houses and bread lines,and these gentlemen are right in saying that it is because the Demo- cratic party is in power, then in view of their confession at Washington re- cently they and they alone are respon- sible for placing the Democratic par- ty in power, directly responsible for the dire conditions which they claim the country is facing. i At the Chicago Convention in 191 this same sort of talk was heard, viz., that rather than let Roosevelt get the nomination and be elected it was bet- ter to let the Democrats have it for four years, plunge the country into depression and trouble, starve the country into submission, and then these men would come back into pow- er again and be able to carry out their political plans and ambition as they individually pleased. They are consistently carrying out this program. They do not care what becomes of the country so long as they individually can survive politically, The so-called plan adopted at Wash- ington this week by the Republican National Committee is already spoken in the papers as the ‘‘Barnes plan.” The meeting of the Republican Nati- onal Committee was yery much like the conference held in New York City a few days ago. Everything was postponed ; sometning is going to be done sometime in the future provided something else is done meanwhile. It is very much like Col. Carter’s famous promissory note to his niece which read something as follows; ‘‘As soon as possible after date I promise to pay to my beloved niece as much as I can afford for value received.”’ After the Chicago convention. when the Progressive party was organized, the Progressives were roundly blamed for not remaining within the ranks of the Republican party and reforming it from within. Does an open-minded man now believe that anything at all could have been accomplished by fol- lowing any such course? The mem- bers of the National Committee of the Republican party are only making the motions they are now making because of the hardest sort of hammering from Progressives all over the country. They are making them for no other 2ason; they do not believe in what they are doing; they do not intend to carry out their program in good faith if they can possibly avoid it; they haven’t the slightest possible sympa- thy with the program from beginning to end. In putting out their prospec- tus for readjusting representation in future Republican National Conven- tions they arbitrarily usurped the power which clearly belongs to the party, exactly as they usurped power at the Chicago Convention in 1912 in seating delegates. Their own Law Committee, appointed for the purpose of determining whether the National Committee had power to do this thing reported back to the National Com- mittee last week that it had no such power; that only a National Conven- tion of the party could exercise it. This report was ignored in precisely the same manner that reports were ignored at Chicago in 1912, They have can it be conceivable to any man who cares a rap for his country or its free institutions that there can be any get- ting together movement between the Republican party, so-called and the Progressive party? Which branch of the Republican party as it stands to. day is the Republican party—the branch that wanted in Washington to call a conventicn of the party, or the branch that did not want to call a con- vention? Forms and symbols are not interesting the American voters of tar day. He is after something that is real and tangible. He is interested in principles as such, and not forms and phases. Roosevelt left the White House with a united Republican party. In 1908 Taft was nominated in Chicago on a platform that was clear and distinet. Definite pledgs to the people were made, but no sooner did he and his associates begin to do business in Washington than they began to go back on their platform and failed to keep their promises to the people. re—— Evergreen Trees in B d Con dition. evergreen trees supposed to have been damaged by scale insects, were re- ceived from Washington County, Pa., at the Division of Zoology of the De- partment of Agriculture, Harrisburg, with a request for information as to the causevof their impaired condition. One of the specimans'was from a tree that appeared to de diseased when it was planted some twenty years ago, according to the correspondent, who stated that ‘‘it has never done any good.”’ Professor H. A. Surface, the Eco- nomic Zoologist of the State, in re- porting upon the specimens wrote as follows: : . ‘‘I have recieved the twigs and bark of your evergreen trees, which you sent to me, and must confess that I can not find any insects present, and the subj. ct of plant diseases belongs to the specialist known as a plant pathologist. For that reason I would advise you to send some of the sup- posed diseased bark and twigs to Prof. N. B. Waite, U. 8. Plant Path- ologist, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Also if you wish you might send some twigs to Prof. Hugh Buker, Forester, State College, Pa. ‘‘It appears to me that the tops of your trees are too dense, or, perhaps they are too much shaded. I would advise cultivating the ground about them, and opening out the tops by a little pruning. Sowe fertilizer con- taining phosphoric acid and potash, such as would be‘obtained in phos- phate rock and wood ashes, should be mixed with the soil around the roots. 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Hokara, is the only antiseptic massage cream, and pimples, eczema and all skin blemishes soon disap- pear when it is used, Although far superior to the or- dinary massage creams and sold on a guarantee of ‘‘best you ever used or money back’, yet the price is a trifle, only 25¢c for a liberal jar; iarges size 50c. Sold on a guarantee by S. E. Thor- ley, Druggist. ad —————————— IRI Look to True Accomplishment. An idle mind 18 possible with busy hands; so often this is forgotten. We may do many things and accomplish little, simply because the activity is skin deep, outward, superficial. We want rest for our attainments to sink in, to gather our harvest; understand and sift it. We may see too much to see anything clearly, bear too much to really listen; with much hastening we do not always arrive. The Man Who Neglects Him- self. When his condition points to kid- ney troubles takes an unwise risk. 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