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"if- TWH5ry ". Lt& ;.' m i'f J ti. The Commoner ITS TOO) .. .mm mi. 1 1 Ifcl Ml III " "I. ' ' -l : l WWWIirm. W.'u. I -"-& i iSN3ffFOT. W&V ' rr -" -'fif"r w- 1 tion; ill conformance with the willies of President Wilson, to allow lier to enter the United States to fill her lecture engagements, subject to a promise not to advocate militant methods for American suffragists. Milwaukee has adopted a new inethod of handling inebriates, under Which county guardians will "be jiamed for them, and they will bo sent to a hospital instead of a jail. v m ''&&& JTA- ' . ." -" .C Horace Havemeyer states that the Colorado beet sugar interests, which he represented, Svoiild go right along with their business, regardless of the hew free sugar provision of the new tariff law. tfOli. 13, NO. 31 "WATCH PAI'A TAK13 S0.11H. PAI'A IilIvISS IT.". Datlinj? in, .tUo'l-jes 'follies' Register' and' Leader. Gleaned From the Month's News At the convention of the National Confectioners and Ice Cream Manu facturers' Protective association in Atlantic City the practice of offering prizes to induce children to , buy cjheap candy- whs' ' vigorously de nounced, . .;. . ,. I ' - 1 Delegates to the Upper, .Mississippi Ajttver association, in session ) at. an- liibai, Mo., declared iii " favor ' of a .deep sea charinel'for the. tipper river, and said millions were reau'y-.to hid' in tho lhiprovement. 1 V'.t. o as the flagship of the new German aerial navy, was intended as a test of the ascending properties of the ship, which took on 'board an- unusually large ,orew. to take the, place of the machine" guns, the bombs; the wire less kequipmeut and other, fittings with which the air vessel was eventu ally to have been provided. . The last fiscal year of the Panama Railroad and Steamship company proved highly successful. The opera tions across and to and from the isthmus, under government owner ship and administration, shows net earnings of $2,179,175. The steam ship company, which is worked in conjunction with the railroad, made a profit of $221,000 approximately, whereas last year, according to spe cial reasons explained in the annual report just made public, the- opera tions showed a deficit of approximate ly $201,000. affinnno 4-lin- r,i.i.a vv mv uut;u mucn to its his. toric glamour. President Wilson nar ticipated in the ceremonies and made a, notable address, standing as ho spoke on the spot where Washington delivered his farewell address. Champ Clark, speaker of the national house of representatives, was among tho list of notable speakers. The old structure has been restored to almost its orig inal appearance by architects who sought to make tho building look juBt as it did when Washington delivered his 'farewell address within its walls Troops of all warring Balkan states committed gross attrocities, according to. the evidence gathered by the Carnegie commission in Us inquiry just ended. Colonel Oliver II. Payne, a grad uate of Yale, gave $4,000,000 to Cornell university medical college. The Central Presbyterian church of Detroit, Mich., personally invited 11,000 persons to attend its services in a neighborhood canvas, and card indexes were made from the infor mation obtained for use in a "follow up" campaign. The indictment' (charging Thomas iC. Watson, Georgia' editor, with' hav ing sent obscene rhrttter through the mails; was quashed. The demand for horsehair to make artificial aigrettes; the real article blpg .barred, by . the new tarjff , sent ,th'e Nqw,' Xork. price up -to the record , marie or $y.&,u a pound. The probate of the will of. J. Pier- . ' . ty , '; , , ; . . pont Morgan in London showed that The German' Permanent , Exhibi ts British estate amounted to' tions' commission announced that it $5,8d9,lf)C, of which the' government' would lend its moral support to the will receive about $950,000 in death German unofficial exhibition at the duties. .' ' Panama-Pacific fair at San Francisco.'i The new graduate college connect ed with Princeton university was dedicated in the presence vof a dis tinguished gathering 'of eminent men. Ex-President Taft delivered an ad dress in which lie paid an eloquent tribute to ex-President Grover Cleve land. The new' graduate college is a building of ' remarkable' feeaUty, strik ing fitness and 'high' appeal; whose dominating 'architectural feature is the stately Grovel' Cleveland Mem brial'Tower, the gif.t bf citizens 6f all the states to Princeton as a tribute jtftlie life 'and services of the former nrpRiffivrit' " .' ' " E. H, Gary announced at a meet ing of the c! iefs of the United States Steel Corporation that the company would close none of its mills and 'lay off none of its' men unless forced hy trade dullness. It was expected that normal business 'conditions would re turn in the spring.' American Ambassador Gerard has succeeded in obtaining a house in Berlin suited for an embassy. He has rented the"Voh Schwabach Palace for $157000 a year. . The first French aerial mail was carried from Villacoubia' to Pauline, aj distance of 400 mileSi by Lieu tenant Andre Roin, in seven hours and a quarter, beating the mail trains byanoro than an hour. " Winston Churchill, first lord of the British admiralty, in a speech at Manchteter, invited Germany, in the name of the British government, to join in a "naval holiday" and made an offer for delaying naval construc tion for a period of one year, malipjg the proposal for the year 1014,, pr of that is too near, in 1015. This dfCer, was made while he was discussing the question of the expenditure next year4of$37 5,000,000 oriHh&havy. ?&,;; .t ' :- r;: ,:... ... RettUulrug 'and cfgar ,:d6rs.;crl clare" that "they., anticipate a lively price war as a result 01 uio proposeu combination of the United ..Cigar Stores and the Riker-Hagemrih-Jaynes interests. ..-.; The largest monument in the world was dedicated at Leipsic, Germany, in comemmoration of the centenary of the "Battle of the Nations," which ended just 100 years ago in a victory for the allies against the French and resulted in tlie. emancipation of Ger many. Fifteen years of labor were expended on-the monument and the cost amounted to $1,00,0,000. Secretary RedfielcF, in an address at "Flint, Mich., declared 'that the de partment of commerce had not aban doned its' intention to 'investigate general wage redactions made under the plea that the hew tariff com pelled retrenchment; ' ' Prof. August .yon Wasserman, di rfeqtorbt 'tjienew intifjutp of .exueri mental I'tHerapeutics, .declared that the investigation "of cancer has made such pro'gress ' j?hal there is now hope that a solution, of -the 'problem of its cure Would- be- reached- iliortly. For the first timesince 1SS6, when Pasteur .began tlife trgatment of hydrophobia, no patient at. the Pas teur lns.tjtute , has .&$d during the year., Tiiree hundred and ninety-five persons nave been .treated iu this period. '.- ;" ; .. , .'" - Captain George Wellington Street er, on legal advice, has "eoccupied Chicago lake front -land worth millions,- to which he hoi's claim by reason of his "squatter rights," and prepared--to repel all invaders. Preliminary stepB were taken in Berlin for the formation of a German-American, economic, association devoted to the cultivation of friendly relations in the fields of business and economic politics. . . Te,hty-eight r-en, all except ..one German naval officers,, were, killed w11pu the L-2. the latost and1 largest of 'the Zeppelin air ships, exploded 'at! Johannisthal. The disaster occurred jiVmast above :he main street V bf .Toh$Vulsthal on the morning "pf bpt.o-i oer'ii.ir ine nignt, wnicn was; pre liminary to the dirigable's acceptance1 The.-Austrian; pbji'.o cl.)sid all. the fefflc.es. of the Qaiidih Pacific railway uiivuitBiiuut Lue.ouiiJiit),. xujbauuon Svas taken .it "is said, a. a sequel to tho arrest of Samuel Altmann, the coinijany's agent at Vienna, in con nection with a charge that he had as sisted Atistrtans to t evade military; service by emigrating ' to Canada', without passports.' ; -Altmann . is an American. ' . The Austrian budget for the first half of 19 14 showed a deficit of $30, 000,000 due to the Balkan war. President Wilson sent his first veto to congress when he disapproved a resolution to reinstate a cadet who had failed in Ills West .Point examinations. .1 . . , . ., , , , ... Mrs. . Emmeline Pankhurst ,was re leased from Ellis 'Islr.nd- where she was' diataindd by the'.ihlmigratidn au thorities; following a decision of. the, 'commissioner- goheral of immigra- Mrs. Emmeline ' Pankhurst de nounced agents of the white slave trade as being responsible for attacks oh her magazine, the "Suffragette." . Congress Hall, 'in Philadelphia, the building wherein George Washington, first president of the' United States, was inaugurated for his'second term, wliere he m'ade his farewell address and where Johri Adams,. 'second presi dent, also took the bath of office, was rededicated October 25 undet circum- Federal Judge' McPherson, of the southern district, of Iowa, and Fed eral Judge H-.' Tv Reed, of the nortli erji district, have placed themselves along side .FedeVal -Judge Van Vliet, of California, in their interpretation of the Mann "white slave" law, by holding that the Mann act is intended to punish men who transport women to other states for immoral purposes, regardless of whether it is done for commercial gain. Judge Polloc or Kansas, in his interpretation of tlie law, held that it is-necessary to show an element of commercialized vice m order to convict. Arnold Martin of Dubois, Neb., is the champion all-around farmer 01 the eighth international dry fai;ml"fr congress. At the exposition ol ur farmed produots held in connect on with' the congress ' at Tulsa, pitm.. Martin showed fifty-five .vaneu -crops grown,. on thirty-six acres. e won a $r750 hay baler, and gas engine for grass, and forage seeds ania" took' first for best general collectne exhibit best, -grasses and toiab crops, best sheaf, grain, best coin aim best threash.ed., grain. The total 0 his winningsamounts to $1'10 ' s. eighth congress is the most 1 uc cess ful in its history, Delegates ftom twenty states were present. Construction of tlie San Francisco position buildings was sa id to progressing so. satisiajAu. they would all be completed foi for opening, February 20, .1915. w z A in .tills country " 1913 promises to be the mos able this or- any other nation produced', 'although the. Pfe,nIml";ri. reports of the department of aDr a . V . .1 '-.,..' ...tiliiksft.