The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-23

enSe, same as automobiles.
Thousands of graduating college
students have agreed to go to Kan
gas this month to help harvest the
wheat crop.
The legislature OF Hawaii has sent
to the United States Senate a petition
asking that Hawaii be admitted to the
Union as State.
Charles K Blatchly, of the Charity
Organization Society, reports that one
hundred thousand beggars, 5000 OF
them professionals, infest New York.
The air in one OF the London under
ground railways is to be ozonized, and
more than S0,00O,00O cubic feet of air
charged with ozone will be furnished
daily to the passengers.
A thorough investigation OF the
headache powders, so widely distri-
buted and SO dangerous to use,is being
made by DR.. Wiley, chief of the Nat
ional Bureau of Chemistry.
Representative r1ODSORs VI AldUd1l6
has introduced a bill looking toward
the formation of two highways for au-
tomobiles across the country, one from
east to west, and one from north to
south.
Public-spirited citizens Ct Chicago
are trying to raise 100000 for boys
hotel, for the benefit of boys who come
,k,,f H. ,fryy a INV
NO homes. The first $4,000 has been
subscribed.
500 college students of Budapest
will become walters in summer resorts
this summer. They will lay aside
their own names, carrying on their
coats letters of the alphabet, and will
be addressed as Mr.. A, Mr.. B, and SO
on.
Now our State Department is con-
ferring with Germany with a view to
drawing up an arbitration treaty. Such
treaties between the United States and
Great Britain and France were lately
drawn up but have not yet been rati-
fiod.
The Post-office Department is plan
ming to send a large part of its heavy
magazine mail in freight-cars to six
distributing points throughout the
country, SO as to save the cost of
transporting them in the ordinary
way.
The British Parliament has made
two grants of money-one OF 1885,
~4I @r %0
the expenses Of King Georges corona
ton this month. Most Of it is to be
spent by the Lord Chamberlain and
the Lord Steward for the entertain
ment of royal visitors, form abroad
and the other representatives OF
foreign countries.
President Taft went to Chicago to
make a speech before the Western
Economic Society there, in favor of
reciprocity with Canada. He said the
principal opposition did not come
from the farmers, as the opponents
OF the bill tried to make out, but from
the lumber trust and the manufactur-
ers OF print paper. He practically
said that the farmers were being de-
ceived III the Ia:eresr rt the trusts
The greatest naval display ever
made by one country will be seen at
Spithead, near Portsmouth, on the
south coast of England, June "a. The
British navy will be exhibited as a
part of the coronation festivities. There
will be no less than 40 British war
ships, from Dreadnoughts to subma-
rines. These will require six square
miles of wateE- Besides. there will be
eighteen foreign warships.
The Government is borrowing from
the people $50,000,O00 with which to
carry on the work OF making the Pan
anna Canal. In other words, IL is
selling Government bonds to that
amount, and selling them in small
denominations. Anyone who has $50
or 500 may bid for a bond. The
bids were opened June II. UP to
the beginning Of this week over 900
bids had been received at the
Treasury.
To tempt high school and college
graduates to enter the army, Gen
Leonard Wood is asking Congress to
authorize short enlistments, for six
months. He thinks that many would
enlist for half year who would not
enlist for five years. Once in the
army some would remain, and all
would get a. military training which
might be useful to the country in
time of need.
The Treasury Department lately de-
cided that dogs coming into this coun-
try must pay duty-or their owners
must pay 1t for them-although they
may be native here and to the man
ner born. Custom House officers are
having an unpleasant time collecting
this tax, for there is none which caus-
es SO much indignation among return
ing travellers Even the most extreme
protectionist grumbles at having to
pay SO or $40 duty on an American
dog that he took abroad with him and
is simply bringing back.
National Association Says Congress
Pays Scant Attention to Disease