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FOB THEBUSY MAN NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON BE COMPASSED. MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED Home and Foreign Intelligence Con densed Into Two and Four Line Paragraph!. CONGRESS. The territories committee members have announced an agreement on gov srment Alaskan railway. The Senate Budget committee has begun consideration of plans to re form methods of framing appropria tion bills. Senator Martin introduced concur rent resolution to suspend until ac tion by congress, customs' district con solidation order. The House in an executive session, decided to postpone renewal of limit ed arbitration treaties with Great Britain, Italy and Spain. The immigration committee has vot ed to report favorably the nomination of Anthony Caminetti as commissioner general of immigration. The Senate Commerce committee has voted to favorably report a bill to delay customs service reorganiza tion until January 1, 1914. The judiciary committee has acted favorably on O’Gorman bill allowing chief justice to assign federal judges to circuits other than their own. Representative Murdock has intro f.iced a bill for a naturalization com mission to investigate, recommend »nd redraft bills in interest of ad mitted aliens. Senator O'Gorman lias introduced a bill to create a national commission on prison labor to study prison labor question and recommend uniform legislation. Senator Hitchcoock has introduced an amendment to the tariff bill to levy additional excise on pro duction of larger tobacco factories, to prevent monopoly. Senator Kenyon has introduced a resolution instructing the interstate commerce commission to investigate the acquisition of the Chicago & Eastern railroad by St. Louis & San Francisco railroad, and the subse quent receivership. The foreign relations committee has approved renewal of arbitration treaty with Great Britain. Italy and i Spain, extradition treaty with Para- ; guay; bills for elevation of legatiou | to Spain to an embassy; independ- j ent legations in Uruguay and Para- ; guay. Domestic. Secretary Daniels plans to increase the plants in the Norfolk aud New York navy yards. The Illinois state senate is consid- ; eriug a bill appropriating $300,000 for ' the Panama-Pacific exposition. Miss Frances A. Shaw, for thirty years a resident of Minneapolis and 1 widely known as an author, is dead. Negotiations by the Mexican govern- ! meet of a foreign loan of approxi mately $100,000,000 have been complet ed. Edward M. Campbell' of Birming- I ham, Ala., has beQn sworn in as chief Justice of the United States court of claims. Thaddeus Austin Thomson of Aus tin, Tex., has been nominated by President Wilson to be minister to Colombia. i John P. Donahoe, a former national commander of the Cnion Veteran le gion, died at Willmington. Del. He was TO years old. Joseph It. Wilson, brother of the president, has accepted a position with a leading bonding company with headquarters in Balitmore. John E. Wilkie, former chief of the United States secret service in Wash ington. has been elected vice presi dent of the Chicago Railways com pany. I Jt>e Sun, Korern employed by the government is running down opium smugglers, was stabbed and fatally wounded in the Santa Barbara, Cal., Chinatown. Prof. N. E. Hanson of the South Dakota experimental station has been commissioned by the Depart ment of Agriculture to go to Siberia to gather seeds andt plants of the kind which will thrive in a dry land. Meats and flour will not go on the free list in the democratic tariff law if the recommendation of the senate finance subcommittee in charge of the agricultural schedule, is accepted. Attorney General McReynolds has received from the Union Pacific cop ies of its plans for the dissolution of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger. He will begin an analysis to determine the government's attl lUUOl Secretary- Lane has appointed John F. Murray of California agent In the Indian service to study the methods cf instruction at Indian schools. Workmen engaged in cleaning up the foundation walls of the old state house at Jefferson City, Mo., unearth ed a deck of playing cards that were In a perfect state of preservation. Mayor Gaynor of New York calls the majority -cport of the Curran al dermanic committee, recommending the removal of Police Commission Waldo a "tissue of falsehoods" and characterizes the committeemen as "poor little fellows.” New Orleans keeps warm under a municipal debt of $43,000,000. Los An geles owes $82,283,000 and San Fran cisco $19,000,000. Fire caused by lighting destroyed the barns of the Tri-City Railway Company at Rock Island, 111., to gether with forty cars, causing a loss of $400,000. Representative Merill McCormick, national progressive leader, has serv. ed notice on Governor Dunne of Illi nois that he would attempt to hold up all the administration measures until tbs women’s suffrage bill is put to a vote in the house. There are 2,490 certificated aviators n the world. Over $33,500,000 are on deposit in United States postal savings banks. Chicago is to put up 10,000 new street signs at crossings in Septem ber. Plans for reorganizing the repub lican congressional committee early in July are being considered by the com mittee's officers. Announcement was made recently that the fifth National Conservation congress would be held at Washington November 18-20. Secretary Lane has announced that hereafter all contractors engaged upon reclamation work would be prosecut ed for violations of the eight-hour law. United States immigration officials at Key West, Fla., are investigating a rumor that Cipriano Castro arrived from Havana in the guise of a Cu ban merchant. There are • 'nety vacancies in the incoming class of cadets at the mili tary academy at West Point, oc casioned by the failure of candidate previously examined. Edward V. Doyle, commissioner cf the state banking department oi Michigan, was elected president of the National Association of Super visors of State Banks. Robert J. Rubin, convicted recently as head of the "arson trust” has been sentenced by Justice Goff at New York City, to serve six to ten years in.Sing Sing prison. Practically the entire time of Presi dent Wilson and the cabinet at the re gular semi-weekly meeting was given over to a discussion of the recent dis solution of the so-called tobacco trust. Apprehensive that government re ciamati. i work might be withdrawn from Montana, a delegation of citizens of that state called upon Secretary Lane to urge him to continue the pro jects. Thirty-eight silk workers who gathered in front of a mill during strike disturbances on April 25 at Patterson. N. .J., were convicted of unlawful assemblage by a county court Jury. Fred Nevels, chief clerk of the Waters-Pierce Oil company for five years at Oklahoma City, Okl., was ar rested in Los Angeles. Cal., on a charge of having embezzled $7,500 from that corporation. Among 108 refugees who arrived in Galveston, Tex., on board the steam ship Harry Morse from Tampico, Mexico, was W. 1. Yoight, who was seriously injured while defending his wife and sister against marauders. A resolution urging congress to in crease the number of safety appliance inspectors for the Interstate Com merce commission was presented at a session of the convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineermen. Taking the role of detective in an effort to discover a woman pickpocket who has been operating successfully for weeks in St. Yibiana’s cathedral at Los Angeles, Cal., Rev. Frther Edward Brady arrested Miss Annie Murphy as she was about to pur loin the pocketbook of a worshiper. After three years’ work, government inspectors, working under \V. H. Col lier. revenue agent, arrested at St. Louis three Chinese, three negroes and two Chinese women, declared to be members of one of the most pow erful opium rings that ever operated in this territory. Opium valued at $1,000 was confiscated. Foreign. Italy raises one-sixth of the entire European corn crop. Alfred Austin, British poet laureate since 1896, is dead at the age of seven ty-seven. Japan's national debt is $1,271,145, 000 with annual interest of $70,877, 000. The cutting of queues by the Chinese has greatly stimulated the hat and cap business in Japan. In China an inferior upon horse back, meeting a superior, dismounts and waits until the other has passed. Serious washouts, due to high water, are reported along the Canadian Pa cific railroad in the Rocky mountains. The increase in imports into Japan from the Lnited States for 1912 was unprecedented, being upward of $2<> 000,000. Convicted of cannibalism and human sacrifices, forty members of the Leo pard society have been hanged in Sier ra Leone. A new Asiatic Cable will be laid from Aden to Hong Kong via Columbo and Signapore. It will be 6,000 miles long and will cost $5,000,000. Turin is the Kalian center for the manufacture of motorcycles, with seven factories, having together an output of some 1,500 machines. One hundred and ten bodies, the dead of both sides killed in the fight ing about Matamoras, were placed on a pyre at Matamoras, Mexico, and burned. since me iormation or the Ger man empire in 1871 did bo few Ger man citizens emigrate to foreign parts as In 1912. The number was 18,545, compared with 22,GOO in 1911, 25,531 in 1910 and 220.902 in 1881. Dr. Eusebio Morales, the newly ac credited minister from Panama has arrived in Washington. Count Alvaro de Romanones, who on May 30 resigned as premier, together with all his ministry, 1 as consented to resume office. General Antonio Rabaga has re signed as military governor of Chi huahua state. He will go to Mexico City. In England every day there is an output of more than 54,000,000 pins. Birmingham, the greatest center of the industry in that country aione pro duces 37,000,000 pins a day. The former French premier Aris tide Briand. had a narrow escape from death when his automobile was struck by another and dashed against a tree. M. Briand’s shoulder was dislocated and he was cut severely about the face and hand by broken glass. The Scottish home rule bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons and was then referred to the committee. It has just become known that the little island of Ada Kaieh, situaiod in t.he River Danube, near the Iren Gate of Onova, has been formally annexed by Hungary, WANT PROTECTION AMERICAN COLONY IN MEXICO APPEALS TO WILSON. IMMEDIATE ACTION ASKED FOD Three Hundred American*, Represent ing Sixty-Eighth Families, Wire Demand. Tampico, Mex. — Three hundred Americans located in southern Ta mampal, representing sixty-eight fami lies, have demanded in a long message to President Wilson, sent through Consul Miller here, to know "once for all,’ whether they can expect protec tion from their home government since they “do not desire to take measures for our own safety which would embarrass our government without giving them due notice be fore hand. The message of the Americans was transmitted by wireless through Con sul Miller to W. W. Canada, the American consul at Vera Cruz, to be forwarded to Washington. It says in part: "Having been left without any protection whatever on the part of both sides of the pending controversy, therefore we can look for protection from our own country. We must know, once for all, if we can expect the same. "Having been subjected to slights and a great variety of indignities and gross abuse in the last few days, the situation calls for most serious pre parations for our personal safety and the defense of our families and our interests. Therefore we have as sembled to consider the best way. We consider protection necessary now, since after death it will be of no use.” The message declares in addition that the petitioners have borne finan cial losses silently, but that many of them cannot obey the advice to “get away if in danger,” as their departure would mean the abandonment of the accumulation of a lifetime.” “We consider the lives of ourselves j and our families in danger,” the mess- ' age continues. "It is not longer doubtful that the slightest spark will j bring on the dread conflagration at any moment.” Oxford Man Counterfeiter. McCook, Neb.—William F. Linne bery of Oxford was brought before United States Commissioner C. D. Ritchie of this city charged with counterfeiting. Pleading guilty and failing to procure the $3,000 bond re quired by Commissioner Ritchie. Linnebery was placed in the Red Willow county jail. It was Linne bery s pastime to make $10 notes by a photograhhic process and this art will likely get him a penitentiary sentence when he appears before Judge Munger. The counterfeits were bills of the United States National bank of Omaha, the Marine National bnk of Buffalo, N. Y.. and the First National bank of Albert Lea, Minn. Linne bery confessed and said he had been at it at intervals for the last twelve years. He has passed very little of the bogus paper himself, but has sent it to other parties on the Pacific coast and elsewhere, who have put the same into circulation. He says he had decided to quit the business and had destroyed the plates from which the counterfeits were made. He has a wife and five children living at Oxford, who are largely de pendent on him for support. Juror Is Approached. Boston.—The jury in the dynamite “planting” conspiracy case, which grew out of the Lawrence textile strike are still deliberating on, the question of the guilt of the three al leged conspirators, William M. Wood, president of the American Woolen company; Frederick E. Atteaux, a dye manufacturer, and Dennis J. Col lins, a Cambridge dog fancier. Just before court opened, one of the jurors, Morris Shuman, told Judge Crosby that he had Keen ap proached last night with an offer of ?20<) and a life position if he would agree to vote as directed. It is said the man who approached him would not say for whom he was acting. Former General Manager Dead. Chicago.—Frank E. Ward, former general manager of the Chicago, Bur lington & Quincy railroad, died here aged 46. He retired last August be cause cf failing health. Mr. Ward, who was a native of Montreal, is sur vived by a wife and four children. American Fugitives. Washington, D. C.—The schooner Harry Morse, towed by the ‘ug Pan American, is en route from Tampico for Galveston with 108 fugitive Americans. Stripped by the Hoppers. Sacramento, Cal.—Many young or chards of Butte county have been nearly done up in burlap to protect trees from grasshoppers according to reports received by the horticulture commissioner. The plague is spread ing. Votes $4,000,00 For Exposition. Rome.—The Italian fchamber of de puties has approved an appropriation of $400,000 for Italy's participation in San Francisco in 1915. /. splendid exhibit is planned. To Teach Chinese To Fly. San Francisco, Cal.—Tom Gunn, the Chinese aviator, who sailed for Shanghi, announced that he was to establish a military aviation school for the new republic. He took with him a biplane, a flying boat and a military tractor. Literary Prize. Paris.—The literary grand prize of $2,000 was awarded by the French academy to Bomain Rolland, play right, novelist and i historical writer. This is a coveted honor. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. Lightning struck the elevator at Scotia, destroying the structure and its contents. The annual meetng of the district convention of the Royal Neighbors will be held at Lyons. The Farmers’ Creamery company of Hemingford is taxed to its capacity already this season. The Northern Nebraska Journal Leader of Ponca has just completed installation of a new cylinder press. There are but seven persons now living in Burwell who lived within the corporation limits during the j-ear of J884. Harold Starrett, son of S. E. Star rett of Palmer, was drowned while bathing in Burkman lake near that place. The Rev. Charles R. Scoville, who recently conducted the big revival in Lincoln, is now at work in Nemaha county. The Baker White Pine Lumber com pany of Baker, Ore., owned by Fre mont men, sustained a loss of $40,000 ?by fire. "■* ■ The Ulysses Dispatch has just fin ished installing a cylinder press. The Dispatch is the second oldest paper in Butler county. Patrick Phemmerling has the con tract for the new city auditorium that is to be built by the Ladies’ improve ment club at Valentine. D. C. Jenkins is the new editor of ,the Beatrice Express. He was former ly foreman for Milour & Scott, a job printing firm of Beatrice. The Belgrade Herald has begun the construction of a new cement block building, 20x40 feet. It will be com pleted some time in July. While trying to subdue a fractious pony Postmaster Jules Haumont of Broken Bow was seriously injured about the head and body. The postoffice department has authorized the use of mail cars on Burlington trains No. 9 and 10 be tween McCook and Denver. The condition of Harry Hall, who was struck over the head by Frank Gardiner, manager of the York base bail team, remains about the same. The city authorities of York are af ter bicycle riders who persist in us ing the sidewalks of the city instead of the streets. A number have been fined. Six head of young work horses be longing to Ed Abler and valued at $1,100 were killed by one bolt of light ning in his pasture three miles south west of Creston. The Carpenter Xews is the name of a newspaper started last week at Carpenter by Sidney Clower, who re cently finished his apprenticeship on the Prairie Herald. The largest eighth grade com mencement ever held in this county and perhaps in the state took place at Broken Bow when 325 graduates re ceived diplomas. The Dempster company has a force of men working at Zimmerman Springs, northwest of Beatrice, with a view of securing an adequate sup ply of pure water for the city. Reports from Albion say the most beautiful alfalfa harvest in years is upon the farmers and the question of help to handle the crop Is staring them in the face. Jackson, Roebuck & Hauver of Va lentine have let the contract for a $10,000 garage to Dunn & Callaway. The building is to be of cement blocks with a pressed brick front, 60 by 150 feet. Willis H. Hanner, formerly of Fill more, Mo., has begun the publication of a newspaper at Dawson, to be known as the Dawson Reporter. Daw son has been without a paper for several years. Fairbury is enjoying a building boom this year. The Rock Island is at work on the new improvements in the Fairbury yards and has two work trains operating. Word was received by Mrs. Bud Witwer of Humboldt that her brother, Orville Wittwer, aged eleven years, was killed in a runaway accident near his home in Oklahoma. The Beatrice board of education has elected Prof. T. C. Tillotson of Abi lene, Kas., supervisor of nlusic in the schools of the city to succeed Prof. L. F. Stoddard, resigned. P. H. Dodge of the bureau of public roads at Washington, D. C., inspected the road work being done by Cage county and said that the dirt roads be ing built there are better than any be has seen. a license to operate a salocn at Lanhaip was granted to Charles Eckert Tuesday evening by the board of supervisors. Lanham is located in the extreme southern part of Gage county on the Nebraska-Kansas line. William Dilling of Hemingford was thrown out of his automobile and pain fully injured while running without lights. The car was badly wrecked and took fire from the oil lamps, but he extinguished the blaze in time. The Imperial Land and Caltle com pany of Wakesha, Wis., has purchased the Charles E. Wiltsey farm of about 3,000 acres, four and one-half miles east of Hemingford,. for $27.50 per acre. The deal approximates $100,000. L. F. Langhorst of Elmwood who un derwent an operation for appendicitis at a Lincoln hospital recently, has re turned to his home. Mies Evelyn McBurney of Heming ford and Miss Cora Henderson of Cur ly have been elected primary and in termediate teachers at Hemingford. At the opening of the bids for the construction of the water system for Peru, it was found that G. A. Dunlap of the Inter-Mountain Bridge and Construction company of Tecumseh was the lowest bidder, and the con tract was awarded to him for $18, 784.84. Arrangements have been completed for the establishment of a permanent Bummer camp by the Lincoln Y. M. C. A. Several days ago Charles Strader collected a fund of $1,000 from ten .men for the establishment of such a camp. Ernest M. Pollard of Nehawka and Secretary C. G. Marshall of the State Horticultural Society have considered plans for harvesting the unprecendent ed apple crop expected this fall. One thousand men will be needed. The Nebraska orcbardists are eager for as sistance and every effort will be made to attract workers to Nebraska. BANKS SHAVE PAPER GET ONE PER CENT FOR HAND LING STATE WARRANTS. MAKE FIVE PER CENT. REVENUE Agreement Among All Institutions Ap parent, and No One Is-Able to Ereak It Lincoln.—Registered state warrants are making trouble for some of the banks of Lincoln and may result in giving people who have them a chance to get them cashed at their face value at those institutions. State warrants when registered draw 4 per cent interest. The banks of Lincoln have been charging 1 per cent for cashing the warrants, making a 5 per cent revenue from their pur chase. The other day a prominent official of the state house went to the bank where he has been doing business since coming to Lincoln, with his war rant registered in the regular way an3 put it in for deposit. He was in formed that the warrant would not be accepted without a shave of 1 per cent. He tried to r ke the banker | believe that as he was a regular cus I temer, that he ought to be allowed the | face of the warrant on a deposit, but I the banker demurred, with the result j that tfie gentleman told the bank to I go to, and withdrew his deposit. It is understood that the Lincoln ! banks have an agreement that no I state warrants will be received unless I the owner agrees to a 1 per cent 1 shave, thus giving them a 5 per cent revenue on the warrant. Depositors are obj^ting to paying 1 per cent shave and some of them declare that they will send their warrants to their heme town banks for deposit rather than submit to the shave. Church or Cell for Prisoner. Lincoln.—May a prisoner in The Ne braska state penitentiary claim a con stitutional right to freedom of religi ous belief. This is the question now before the authorities of that institu tion. G. A. St. Clair, a convict sent up from I^ancaster county refuses to at tend religious exercises either of the Protestant or Catholic faith held at the institution. The refractory" prisoner claims to be of the Jewish belief, but when Warden Fenton called up one of the rabbis of that church and asked him if there was anything in the services held at the prison which would be against the attendance of St. Clair, he was informed that there was not. St. Clair bases his stand on two things, first that he does not want to attend church with a “bunch of hypocrites” and second that the constitution of the state and nation declares that no person shall be compelled to take any religious belief or attend any religious . gathering against his will. Warden Fenton is of the opinion that a prisoner the penitentiary cannot fall back on the constitution to prevent the authorities frbm enforc ing discipline. Governor Morehead is of the same opinion and has issued an order that St. Clair be required to obey the rules at the penitentiary requiring attend ance at public worship. Should he re fuse to obey the order it will be the dark cell for St. Clair. Boost in Appropriations. Lincoln. — It will take about $2,300,000 more to run the state of Nebraska for the present biennium than it did the last, according to fig ures and estimates prepared by Dep uty Auditor Minor. According to the appropriations made by the legislature and the amounts that will probably be brought in by levies to cover ex penses, it will require $8,322,723.50 to cover the cost of running the state for the next two years. It costs the state for the last bi ennium $0,184,553. which included the federal appropriation of $160,000, which was not included by Mr. Minor in the figures for the present bienium. The boost to some extent is due to heavy appropriations made by the leg islature, such as the-new reformatory, which will cost $150,000; the appro priation for the relief of tornado suf ferers, costing $100,000; repairing cap ltol building, $64,000, and several oth er appropriations of large amounts. Will Purify Capital. Lincoln.—Chief Malone has an nounced that houses of prostitution must go. Hotels, rooming houses and all places where the Albert law has teen violated, are- to be wiped out, says the chief. He proposes to co operate with the county attorney and accomplish what many Lincoln people said he could not—a thorough clean up of all places of ill-fame. Will Soon Fix Values. Lincoln —The physical valuation department of the railway commis sion has nearly completed its work on railroad valuations. The Mis souri Pacific. Northwstern and Rock Island valuations are ready, work on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, is being pushed and on the Vnion Pacific And Burlington is practically completed. ' However, figures on the same are not sufficiently completed to give publication and none will be given out until the list is complete. Must Board In Home. Lincoln.—Dave Rowden. command ant at the Milford soldiers' home has issded an order that all families dependent upon the home cannot have their meals served to them outside the institution, but must come to the regular dining hall if they want some thing to eat. On account of the crowded condition of the home for the last year or so it has been necessary to find sleeping accommodations for some of the inmates ou side the in stitulion and it has been customary to let these eat at their homes. jj PAY HOMAGE TO ADMIRAL DEWEY -1 Fifteen years ago Admiral, then Commodore, George Dewey, with a fleet of four protected cruisers, two gunboats, a revenue cutter, a collier, and a supply ship, steamed into Manila bay and won one of the great est naval victories that ever crowned American arms. The other night Ad miral Dewey and 20 of his men who served with him as commissioned officers in the battle which shattered Spain's power in the east, gathered at a hotel in Washington for the an nual dinner of the Society of Manila Bay. There were also present two civilian members. These officers, including Rear Ad miral Asa Walker, who commanded the Concord, and is the only survivor of Dewey's fleet captains, came to re call incidents of the famous engage ment and to pay honor to their com mander, now the ranking officer in ! me uniiea siaitb navy. iue reuutuu was limited to members of the society, and the reminiscences which enlivened the gathering were not permitted to fall upon strange ears. Admiral Dewey, as president of the society, being its senior member, ■presided. The two civilian members were Edward W. Harden of New York and John F. Marshall of Norfolk, Va. Admiral Dewey, departing from his custom of the past, consented to dis cuss briefly the battle of Manila bay. "It was, indeed, remarkable," the admiral said, "although, of course, noth ing like Togo’s great modern victory in the Sea of Japan. I shall never forget today fifteen years ago, when the battle was over and the six captains of the squadron came aboard the Olympia, one by one. I said to them: ‘Well, how about it? How about your men? Are you hurt? Did you come through ail [right?’ And when they answered ‘Not a hurt, not a wound,’ and so on, I just could not believe it at first. Finally I came to the conclusion, and said: ‘Well, gentleman, a higher power fought this battle today.’ And so it was a remark able battle, for the Spaniards fired twice the number of shots that we did, and we killed and wounded hundreds of the enemy's men, but they did us no damage except on the cruiser Baltimore, where six men were injured by the explosion of a shell. And even then all six of those men were right back on duty almost immediately.” MRS. WILSON PLANS REFORMS Mrs. Woodrow Wilson’s slumming tour in Washington the other day is destined to result in a reformation of unwholesome housing conditions which is sorely needed in some quar ters of the capital. The president’s wife intends to devote her influence and a large part of her time to alle viating the distress she witnessed on her trip of inspection. When the house of representatives met a few days later bills were intro duced providing for the transforma tion of Pig alley. Goat alley, Tincup alley, and Louse alley into interior parks and playgrounds. These alleys now house a greatly congested negro population lodged in shacks and tum bledown tenements. Representative Kahn and other congressmen who were in the party accompanying Sirs. Wilson, have promised to push the proposed legislation vigorously. The Interest Mrs. Wilson is taking j in anairs in wmcn the wife of a presi ; dent can be extremely useful and effective is being warmly applauded. She j gave her view-s of the housing problem at a meeting of the women's welfare* department of the National Civic federation. This organization of Washing ton women has met with great success in its efforts to eradicate slums. It recently assumed control of 214 model alley cottages built by the Sani tary Improvement company. The women collect the rent for these homes and In a manner utterly strange to the alleys. When a family is unable to pay the rent for lack of work the women find employment for its members; through the associated charities. One negro woman told Mrs. Wilson that she had lived in her slab hovel 29 years without being able to get any repairs. She makes $16 a month i washing and pays $7.50 rent. She will get one of the model cottages at the | same rent. ■ - ' ■ —■ SECRETARY OF AUDUBON ASSOCIATION Sentiment is soft and intangible, and soppy, and all that; but it does things that dollars won’t do some times, as in the fight that the Audu bon societies have made for the pro tection of the bird life of this country. A recently enacted law' gives to the federal department Of agriculture the right to prescribe the season during which migratory game birds and mi gratory insect eating birds may be killed. A clause in the tariff bill now before congress absolutely prohibits the importation of the feathers of wild birds. The sale of wild bird feathers has been forbidden by law in the twelve states which contain all the big cities with the single exception of Chicago. Only eight states have re fused to adopt the Audubon law pro tecting nonganie birds. Bird refuges have been spotted all along the At lantic coast, and almost all the states are giving a considerable measure of protection to tneir game birds. in securing this the National Association of Audubon societies has been, forced to fight the pot hunters and the greedy amateur shooters and resortj owners and feather hunters and manufacturers of firearms and powders, and, above all else, milliners, milliners, milliners. Millions of dollars were invested the wild bird feather business. It was once testified that 32.0(H) people were employ*l in it. The Audubon leaders had to create public senti ment to accomplish these things T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary and execu tive officer of the National Audubon association, has been in direct command of the fight for bird protection. POINCARE WILL NOT SHOOT BIRDS --- President Poincare is opposed strongly to the killing of animals and birds for sport, and one of his first acts after election was to announce himself a patron of the French society the purpose of which is to afford pro tection to animals. He does not. how ever, wish to pose as an animal lo'er merely in name, and he has just made the official announcement that he will not hold a gun in hand during his term of office. This decision of the president is au ertlrely personal one. He declares he has no intention of interfering with the Bport of others, and that when his duties require him to be present at h presidential hunting party he will ful fill them. It is believed, however, that this attitude of M. Poincare will have a considerable effect on presidential en tertaining. during the coming years of his administration. Out of deference to the opinions of M. Poincare It is believed tr.ai meet royal visitors win retrain treat hununj while in France,