or HE _ object he has in mind be attained. WILSON DEMANDS NATIONS AT WAR TELL WHAT THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR Asks All Definitely to State on What Terms They Will Make Lasting Peace, ASSERTS RIGHT TO KNOW Neutral Intrests Involved Too Vital to Be Left Longer in Present Jeop- ardy—War May Drag Nation In— Continued Harassment May Force Change in Position Taken at Star. picions, but each is ready to consider the formation of a league of nations to insure peace and justice through out the world. “Before that final step can be taken, however, each deems it necessary first ‘to settle the issues of the present war upon terms which will certainly safe- guard the independence, the territori- al integrity and the political and com- mercial freedom of the nations in- volved. “In the messures'to be taken to se- cure the future peace of the world the people and Government of the {United States are as vitally and as di- rectly interested as the Governments mow at war. Their interest, moreover, in the means to be adopted to relieve the smaller and weaker peoples of the world of the peril of wrong and vio- lence is as quick and ardent as that of any other people or Government. ‘They stand ready, and even eager, to co-operate in the accomplishment | of these ends when the war is over | with every influence and resource at | their command. But the war must first be concluded. . “The terms upon which it is to be concluded they are not at liberty to suggest, but the President does feel Washington.—Following is the text that it is his right and his duty to of the notes sent by Secretary of State fom! out their intimate interest in Lansing to Great Britain and her al- lies and to the Central Powers and their allies. The notes to the belligerents are prefaced with this instruction by Sec- retary Lansing to the American Am- bassadors presenting them; “The President directs me to send you the following communication to Ye presented immediately to the Min- ister of Foreign Affairs of the Govern- ment to iwhch you are accredited.” The texts of the notes themselves then run identically thus: “The President of the United States has instructed me to suggest to the (here is inserted a designation of the Government addressed) a course of ac- tion with regard to the present war which he hopes that the Government will take under consideration as sug- gested in the most friendly spirit and as coming not only from a friend but also as coming from the representa- tive of a neutral nation whose con- cern for its early conclusion arises out of a manifest necessity to determine how best to safeguard those interests if the war is to continue.” At this point the texts vary. In the note to the Central Powers this paragraph follows next: “The suggestion which I am instruc- ted to make the President has long had it in mind to offer. He is some- what embarrassed to offer it at this particular time, because it may now seem to have been prompted by a desire to play a part in connection with the recent overtures of the Cen- tral Powers. It has in fact been in no way suggested by them in its origin and the president would have delayed offering it until those overtures had been independently answered but for the fact that it also concerns the question of peace and may best be considered in connection with other proposals whih have the same end in view. The President can only beg that his suggestion be considered entirely on its own merits and as if it had been made in other circumstances.” In the mote to the Entente Allies the following paragraph takes the place of the one just quoted: “The suggestion which I am in- structed to make the President has long had in mind to offer. He is somewhat embarassed to offer it at this particular time, because it may now seem to have been prompted by the recent overtures of the Central Powrs. It is in fact in no way asso ciated with them in its origin and the President would have delayed offering 4t until those overtures had been an- swered but for the fact that it also concerns the question of peace and may best be considered in connection with other proposals whih have the same end in view. The President can only beg that his suggestion be con- sidered entirely on its own merits and as if it had been made in other cir cumtsances.” Then all the notes proceed identi- cally as follows: “The President suggests that an early occasion be sought to call out from all the nations now at war such an avowal of their respective views as to the terms upon which the war might be concluded and the arrange- ments which would be deemed satis- factory as a guaranty against its re- newal or the kindling of any similar conflict in the future as would make it possible frankly to compare them. “He is indifferent as to the means taken to accomplish this. He would be happy himself to serve or even to take the initiative in its accomplish- ment in any way that might prove ac- ceptable, but he has no desire to de- termine the method or the instrumen- tality. One way will be as acceptable to him as another, if only the great “He takes the liberty of calling at- tention to the fact that the objects which the statesmen of the bellig- erents on both sides have in mind in this war are virtually the same, as stated in general terms to their own people and to the world. Each side desires to make the rights and privi- leges of weak people and small States as secure against aggression or denial in the future as the rights and privi- 1eges of the great and powerful States mow at war. “Bach wishes itself to be made se- cure in the future, along with all other nations and people, against the re- currence of wars like this and against mggression of selfish interference of any kind. Each would be jealous of the formation of any more rival feagues to preserve an uncertain bal- its conclusion lest it should presently be too late to accomplish the greater things which lie beyond its conclusion, lest the situation of neutral nations, now exceedingly hard to endure, be rendered altogether intolerable, and lest. more than all, an injury be done civilization itself which can never be atoned for or repaired. “The President, therefore, feels al- together justified in suggesting an ime mediate opportunity for a comparison of views as to the terms which must precede those ultimate arrangements for the peace of the world, which all desire and in which the neutral na: tions as well as those at war are rea- dy to play their full responsible part. “If the contest must continue to proceed toward undefined ends by slow attrition until the one group of belligerents or the other is exhausted, if million after mil'ion of human lives must continue to be offered up until on the one side or the oth2. there are no more to offer, if resentments must be kindled that can never cool and despairs engendered from which there can be no recovery hopes of peace and of the willing concert of free peoples will be rendered vain and idle. “The life of the entire world has been profoundly affected. Every part of the great family of mankind has felt the burden and terror of this un- precedentéd contest of arms. No na- tion in the civilied world can be said in truth to stand outside its influence or to be safe against its disturbing ef- fects, and yet the concrete objects for which it is being waged have never been definitely stated. “The leaders of the several bellig erents have, as has been said, stated those phjects in general terms. But, stated in general terms, they seem the same on both sides. Never yet have the authoritative spokesmen of either side avowed the precise objects which would if attained satisfy them and their people that the war had been fought out. The world has been left to conjecture what definitive re- sults, what actual exchange of guar- mntees, what political .or territorial changes or readjustments, what stage of military success, even, would bring ‘the war to an end. “Tt may be that peace is nearer than we know, that the terms which the belligerents on the one side and on the other would deem it necessary to insist upon are not so irreconcilable as some have feared, that an inter- change of views wou'd clear the way at least for conference and make the permanent concord of the nations a hope of the immediate future, a concert of nations immediately practicable. «rhe President is not proposing peace; he is not even offering media- tion. He is merely proposing that soundings be taken in order that we may learn, the neutral nations with the belligerent, how near the haven of peace may be for which all man- kind longs with an intens= and increas- ing longing. He believes that the spirit in which he speaks and the ob- jects which he seeks will be under- stood by all concerned. and he confi- dently hopes for a response which will bring a new light into the affairs of the world. “LANSING.” The note to the Entente group will be delivered to Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, Belgium, Monte- negro. Portugal, Rumania and Serbia. That to the Central Allies will be de- livered to Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria. It is being delivered to all neutral Governments for their information. ee ee ee. SEES END OF WAR. Berlin Hears That The Peace Moves ment Is Growing. Berlin (via Tuckerton). —A dispatch from the Stockholm correspondent of the Neu Wiener Journal quotes a re- liable diplomatic source for the as- sertion that news reaching London from ; Entente countries confirms the general suspicion here that the peaca movement is jnereasin: in Russia, France and Italy since the launching of the peace offer. — eee SCANDINAVIAN MEDIATION. Berlin Gets Dutch Report of a Serious Peace Movement. Berlin (by Wireless to Sayville) .— According to telegrams from Rotter- dam, Deputy Schaper of the Dutch Parliament, in a speech made at Dalf- the Scandivanian countries were mnce of power amidst multiplying sus: THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA. AIR hea TERI DEFICIENCY GAUSED BY BORDER GUARD Baker Asks $28,400,000 to Pay Bills and $11,250,000 to Clothe and Garrison the Force. Washington. — A deficiency appre- priation of $28,400,006 for the army on account of Mexican border service was submitted to the house by Sec retary Baker. In addition Secretary Baker sub- | mitted a supplemental estimate of $11,250,000 to clothe and garrison 150,000 men of the National Guard for a year beginning July 1. It was considered significant in connection with the plans for retaining the guardsmen in the federal service. Testifying before the house military committee recently Quartermaster General Sharpe said that if the Na- tional Guard were retained on the border. at a strength of 75,000 men until June 30, 1917, the deficit would reach a total of $50,000,000. It was more than $25,000,000 on October 1 and has increased in excess of $3, 000,000 since that time. PARLIAMENT PROROGUED King Expresses Thanks for Loyalty of His Peoples. London. — Proroguing parliament until February 7, King George added the weight of his words to the allies’ stern rejection of a German-made peace. “The vigorous prosecution of the war must be our single endeavor,” he declared “until we have establish- ed the rights so ruthlessly violated by our enemies and established the security of Europe on a sure founda tion.” commons for its “unstinted liberal- ity” in providing funds to cover the burdens of the war. “In this sacred cause,” the king de- clared, “I am assured of the united support of all my peoples. 1 pray God may give us His blessing.” Minister May Lose His Post. Washington.—state department of- ficials learned that Minister Perdomo from the Dominican Republic had ad- dressed a protest to the other mem- bers of the diplomatic corps against the recent military control on the island by the American naval forces. Such a step, according to TS cat. is sufficient to cause the minister's removal. Peace Meetings To Be Held. New York.—Monster peace demon- strations at which will be read a manifesto “from the American peo- ple to the world in the cause of peace” will be held at midnight on New Year’s eve in Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and this city, it was announced by the American Neutral Conference Committee. W. B. Gunnison, Educator, dies. New Yorx.—Walter Balfour Gunni- son, educator, author of Latin text- books and principal of Erasmus Hall High school of Brooklyn, one of the oldest schools in the country, died here, aged 64. LATEST MARKETS Pittsburgh Cattle — Good to choice, %9.75@ 10.50; medium to good, $8.50@9.00; tidy, $8.60@9.15; common to good fat bulls, $4.75@7.75; common to good fat cows, $4.00@7.00; fresh cows and springers, $25.00@85.00. Hogs—Prime heavy, $10.90@10.95; medium, $10.75@10.80; heavy York- ers, $10.65@10.75; light Yorkers, $9.90@10.25; pigs, $95.00@9.75; roughs, $9.50@10.00; stags, $8.00@ 8.75. Sheep—Prime wethers, $9.00@9.25; good mixed, $8.25@8.85; fair mixed, $7.00@8.00; culls and common, $4.00 @5.50; lambs, $8.00@13.50. Wheat—May, $1.68%. Corn—May, 9134c. Oats—May, 53%ec. Butter — Prints, 41% @42c; tubs, 29% ¢40c. ©ts — Extra fancy, 45@46; stor- of 22@36cC. Chfcago. Cattle — Western steers, $7.26@ 10.00; stockers and feeders, $5.20@ 8.15; cows, $4.20@10.00. Hogs — Bulk, $10.10@10.50; light, $9.60@10.35; mixed, $9.90@10.55; heavy, $10.00@10.60; roughs, $10.00@ 10.15. Sheep—Wethers, $9.10@10.25; ewes, $6.25@9.65; mixed $9.20@10.10; lambs, $11.25@13.40. Buffalo. Cattle — Shipping steers, $8.00@ 11.25; butcher grades, $8.50@9.25; cows, $4.00@7.50. Calves—Culls to choice, $4.50@14.50. Hogs— Yorkers, $10.75@10.80; pigs, $9.75@10.00; roughs, $9.50@9.75; stags, $7.50@8.25. Sheep — Yearlings, $7.00@11.50; wethers, $9.26@9.50; ewes, $4.50@ 8.50. Head of Chinese Colleges Dies. Mew York.~—The Rev. Dr. William Alexander Parsons Martin, former president of Tung Wen College of Pe- king and of the Imperial University of China, died at the American Pres- byterian Mission in Peking, aged 89. Patrick to Wed. Tulsa, Okla. — Albert T. Patrick, zel, announced that Switzerland and inclined to act as peace mediators, and! that they wish ‘the co-operation of Holland. : A King George thanked the house of | i KEYSTONE BRIEFS Turkey raffles were banned in Somset. Joseph E. Infield, a barber, has been appointed postmaster at Fredonia. Claims are made that Pittsburgh is | the fourth largest city in the country. The Sixteenth Regiment is sche- duled to leave the border for home January 3. The soldiers of the Eighteenth Pennsylvania Regiment left El Paso i for home. : | The heaviest man in Greensburg | died. He was Lloyd F. Findley, who | weighed 420 pounds. | Zoologist J. W. Sanders has been ' named on a national committee to in- | vestigate the white pine disease. | State employment agencies were the means of 2,199 persons securing places during the month of November. | One man is dead and another fa- | tally hurt as the result of a $50,000 fire which swept the Erie Forge Com- | pany. ‘ A shortage of water exists at Mill- ! heim since the pipe line that carries | water from a reservoir two miles | away froze. Dr. J. George Becht, secretary of | the State Board of Education, has | been making addresses at teachers’ | institutes. Commissioner Dixon was congratu- "lated on his re-election as president of the Academy of Natural Sciences ‘in Philadelphia. | The Methodist Episcopal Church of ! Harrisville was almost destroyed by fire, supposed to have been caused by a defective heater. The transmission line supplying electric current to Corry and Union City, parted during a stormy leaving those places without light or power. A census estimate in Washington places the population of Pittsburgh | at 579,090, and makes Philadelphia the third city in the country with 1,709,518 Thomas Blaine Donaldson of. Phila- delphia, was named as special deputy | to take charge of the Pension Mutual Life Insurance Company at Pitts- burgh. : The 600 employes of the Hamilton Watch factory at Lancaster were : given Christmas week as a holiday with full pay. It means a gift of about $20,000. Four firemen were injured and dam- ‘age estimated at $240,000 was caused by a fire which started in the J. N. Buwer’s Sons’ department store in New Castle. Benjamin F. Garver, a new Cumber- land business man and strong Repub- lican supporter, has been appointed .mercantile appraiser of Cumberland county for 1917. Wood's knitting mills in Hawley were burned causing a loss of $50,000 and making 100 operatives idle. The fire destroyed 50 machines made in Germany, which cannot now be re- placed. Pennsylvania National Guardsmen to the number of 8,977 spent Christ- mas on the Mexican border the first time since 1898 that Pennsylvania troops have spent Christmas in active service. yo Considerable interest is being shown in the plans for the conference on the state game laws to be held in the week of the organization of the legis- lature. A general plan will likely be agreed upon. Burgess Fred Hummel of Worm- leysburg, announced that he will go before borough council and ask an appropriation of $200 yearly, to be used in the maintenance of a public playground. Christmas spirit was battered out of the hearts of Pennsylvania Militia- men by sand spirals that swept the desert during the most terrific and prolonged wind storm in the history of Camp Stewart. Charles M. Schwab has purchased the Lackawanna Steel Company’s in- terests in the Cornwall ore mines and also the Freeman interests in the Cornwall railroad and ore m ues and furnaces at Cornwall. Representative John Morin intro- duced in the House a bill appropriat- ing $50,000 for improvements in the | Pittsburgh postoffice building. Sen ator Oliver’s bill for the same purpose has passed the Senate. | Announcement was made that | Washington and Jefferson College De- | bating Society, known as the James | David Moffat Debating Forum, has ar- | ranged two debates with other insti- tutions and had several others pend- 1 ing. | vr W. W. Porter, wife of former | Judze Porter of the State Superior | Cotirt; her mother, Mrs. E. M. Ho- | bart and aunt, Miss S. H. Hobart, were | struck by an automobile while waiting | for a trolley car. Mrs. Porter’s moth- ler, 76 years old, suffered a fractured { skull. The Public Service Commission has | approved the application of the Penn- | sylvania railroad for the abolition of | a grade crossing over its tracks above | Speeceville, where a new state high- | way is being built on the bed of the lold canal. A bridge will take the i place of the crossing. | Probably the most unique present | | given by a corporation of this section | | to its employes was that of the Kings- ! ton Coal Company to its breaker boys. | When the boys were paid they were | led to the various barber .shops of | Kingston and Edwardsville, where | their hair was cut at the expense of ! the company. The Public Service Commission ap- { proved the so-called Panhandle merger wealthy oil man, who was sentenced | of the Pennsylvania Lines West of three times to die in Sing Sing on a | pittsburgh under the name of the | murder charge, announced his engage- ment to Miss Mildred West, daughter of ¢ Tulsa oil operator. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company. Objection to the merger was withdrawn. INTERESTING ITEMS T er 2 ‘ 4 [OD 3 gy Fv 0g v er y S =3 ‘ rey v iv er one Trt NY ir pli ihe Apa ifr 3 Jini ir 2h] Ay SOT en 5 acd New Yorker Builds Bungalow on Skyscrapers Roof EW YORK.—Life in a bungalow in the New York theater district is the experiment which is to be tried out by Earl Carroll, composer of “So Long, Letty,” and his bride, who was Miss Marcelle Hontabat, a young French actress who has been four years in this country. The bungalow is not only in the theater district, but is 20 stories up in the air, having been built on the roof of the Godfrey building, at Sev- enth avenue and Forty-ninth street. The cornerstone was laid at midnight recently with appropriate ceremonies. The bungalow will be large in or- der to permit the young couple to en- tertain. A Chinese dining room is to be decorated with a series of painted silk panels by Witold Gordon. Italian gardens, with waterfalls and foun- tains, will surround the bungalow. The gardens are to include a little grape arbor, where Mr. Carroll will cultivate this fruit in soil brought from Cali- fornia. It is his theory that grapes grown on vines 20 floors above the rock surface of Manhattan will have a flavor more delicate than Amontillado wine. California soil will be spread over the gravel roof, and besides grapes, plants of many kinds will bloom in the gardens. A tennis and handball court are to complete the conveniences of the aerial home. When his new home is ready, Mr. Carroll can write and sell operas with- out the delay of coming downtown. Mrs. Carroll may also shop with the same ease, thus spending her devoted husband’s royalties without the least delay. If Mr. and Mrs. Carroll like their new home—and home was never like this—the roofs of Broadway are expected to blossom into numerous other aerial estates, whose ample gardens may reduce the cost of living. Boston Tree Waits Long for Its: Child Planter OSTON:—Like the toy dog and the tin soldier of Eugene Field's “Little Boy Blue,” there stands beside the office of the trolley car starter at Oak square, Brighton, a sturdy tree which, the car men say, has been looking many years for'a child who, when the tree was a mere twig, thrust it into the ground and told it she would return and take it away. The story that has been handed down like a tradition among, the car men, is to the effect that 15 years ago, when the office of starter was held by a man named Mallard, a pretty ang daintily clad little girl, holding a small paper bag, approached him. “Do you take care of lost ar- ticles?’ she asked him. When he asked her what she had found she opened the bag and drew out what appeared to be the slip of a plant. She explained that she had found this on a seat in the car, and that, having a garden, she would like to plant the slip in it if the owner could not be found. Mallard told her she had better keep it, but she replied that such an act would be wrong if it were possible to find the owner. She forced the bag aud slip into the starter’s hands, and left him. She had taken only a few steps, however, when she returned. “The plant will die if it is not put into the ground,” she told Mallard. “Well, you can plant it right in there,” said Mallard, indicating a spot nexr the corner of the office. Talking to the plant as if it were a child, the little girl thrust one end of it into the ground. Then, telling it she would come for it, she departed. As the years passed Mallard continued to look for her in vain. When he died, several years agd, the plant had become a sturdy young tree. It leans toward the fence in such a manner that its branches overhang the side- walk. This position, the car men say, is due to its constant watching for the child that planted it. ee JL T [] c r rf r ’ ¢ r o r Battle With Timber Wolf in Chicago’s Wilds HICAGO.—Bang! And another timber wolf bit the dust. It was in the wilds of North Hamlin avenue. Among the precipitous flat buildings the December chill was sweeping. Hardy West ‘siders, despite an ominous gray sky, hit the trail for the corner drug "(HOLD STILL store and bought a good five-cent cigar to trim off the noon repast. Hark! A low growl. J. H. Fen- nell, who lives at 720 North Hamlin avenue, looked in the fence corner. A shaggy form loitered there. In a mo- ment Frank Fennell, a brother, arrived on the scene. “That's a funny dog,” said J. H. “Dog your great-uncle’s off hind foot!” said Frank. “That's a wolf.” Frank bore a blanket and a rope. He threw the blanket over the wolf’s head. The wolf dodged and sank its teeth three times in the forearm of J. H. before Frank could hogtie the brute. A thousand neighbors and 9,000 children hurried to view the spectacle. Presently came two detectives. Lupo meanwhile had been tossed into the barn for safekeeping. The detectives leaned their trusty weapons on a window sill and squinted becomingly. The crowd tensed up like a man way for the other shoe to hit the floor. The women held their ears. ar