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The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04

old structure, which took it's name
from an old English residence belong
ing to the family.
The Germantown road, when the
original house was built, was nothing
but winding woodland path, and an
Indian trail diverging from it passed
where now stands the conservatory
on the Walnut lane side of the house.
So much did the early settlers respect
this Indian right Of way that it was
temporarily arched over in the en-
largement of the building, and so re-
NAMED until long after Germantown
avenue was opened.
Apart from its historic significance,
this fine old haphazard bit of progress
sive building, between the dates Of
whose earlier and later portions runs
the span of more than two centuries.
is favorite object for the artists
brush to capture for portrayal on
canvas.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
Racers Eye a Historic Old Mansion

% PHILADELPHIA the re.
4 cent death Of Miss Jane r. Haines,
after lifetime spent within its ram
bling, tradition-haunted halls, Wyck,
the ancestral Haines mansion, at Ger
mantown avenue and Walnut lane, Is
threatened with possible destruction,
should the historic ground on which
it stands be sold
Under it's weather-beaten caves re-
pose perhaps, more sturdy mementos
of Philadelphia's history than in any
other private manse Of the many for
which the city is famous. Flooring
upon which the blood of British and
American soldiers mingled during the
battle Of Germantown. is stored for
keepsake in it's cobwebbed old attic.
The chair in which Lafayette sat
when he visited Germantown in 1924,
and when he was given a reception at
Wyck, is still to be found in the midst
OF the silent quaintness Of the now
untenanted old homestead.
The nucleus for the old structure
was first built in 1893, by one Dirck
Jansen, whose daughter married one
Caspar Wistar; through the marriage
Of Wistar's daughter to Reuben
Haines in 1850, and by subsequent in
heritance through direct kinship,
Miss Haines came into possession Of
the long, white, notwithstanding
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
$50 MILES BUILT,
600 NOW BUILDING
GOOD ROADS CAUSE HAS PROS
PERED SINCE ESTABLISH.
MENT OF STATE REWARDS.
OVER HALF A MILLION PAID OUT
TO COUNTIES.
Gravel Roads Seem to Be the Most
Popular-Highway Department is
Proud Of Showing Made.

There have been $50 miles OF good
roads built in Michigan by the aid of
the state reward since the highway
department was established July /,
1905, according to a statement made
to Gov. Osborn by Highway Commits
sioner 7. A. Ely. On this mileage
there has been $5S5,290 paid in state
reward, which statement must appeal
to those counties that have failed to
take advantage Of the reward law but
have contributed generously in taxes
to aid their more aggressive neigh
bors. Certain counties which have
adopted the county road system have
their system of county roads connect
ing up their principal market towns
practically completed and have drawn
generously from the state for aid OF
their enterprise, while the more lag
gardly counties, which aided them,
have nothing much to show but tax
receipts for their share in the states
venture along those lines.
OF the total mileage constructed,
514 miles were gravel road and 313
miles macadam road. This is not all,
however, for as a result OF recent
activities there are 600 miles in course
of construction or just completed, III
which the reward is pending.
During the year ending June 80.
1911, there were 304 miles con-
structed, of which ZIG miles were
gravel road, the form Of highway
construction which seems to be most
popular in this state and on which
the state has paid s193,S76 in rewards.
1t is a showing all around of which
the department is proud and the Of
ficials say that several counties are
planning equally extensive operations
next year.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
DR.. sun ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF CHINA
HE ACCEPTS PRESIDENCY OF
CHINA PROVINCES AS
A DUTY.
WILL DEMAND WITHDRAWAL OF
TROOPS.
Prepared to Extend Armstce Pend.
ing Final Negotiations-New
Republics Head Is
Christian.

The republic Of China, the first gov
eminent OF that nature in the orient.
officially came into being with the
election of DR.. Sun TAT Sen presi-
dent. The republic as it stands con-
sists only of Is federated provinces
and the leaders declare that the Man
chu dynasty has only few more
weeks and perhaps days, of official eX-
istence
The delegates to the provisional
military assembly acted without wait
ing for national convention to de-
eide what form of government should
prevail in the future.
Dr. Sun Vat Sen, who left China as
a political exile, but who comes back
as the idol of the bulk of the 100000
600 Of people making up the popula-
ton, is still political outlaw in the
eyes of the Pekin government which
set price of $4,000 on his head.
Seventeen Of the IS delegates to
the republican assembly voted for DR..
Sun. Only one vote was cast against
him.
The new president is being closely
guarded by revolutionary soldiers to
prevent an attack on his life by
agents Of the Manchu government
That plots exist against him is
known. Spies of the Pekin govern
ment were sent south Immediately on
I the arrival Of the revolutionary chief
tain.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
Postmasters Not Above Labor Law

The postmaster at Bear Lake, Mich,
having taken exceptions to the order
of Labor Commissioner Perry +. Pow
ers that he must not keep girls in his
employ over "a hours week, holding
that the rules for the conduct of post
offices supercede those Of any state
department, Mr.. Powers appealed TO
the postofiice department for a ruling
in the case of the employment of
girls in postof1ices where the Offices
are maintained in connection with
some lines Of business. The ruling
is of interest in that it affects more
than half of the postoffices in the
state of Michigan. The first assistant
postmaster-general at first took the
ground that state laws relative to Ia
Dor conditions do not affect postal
employees. Since then he has ascer-
tanned the contrary to be the case.
He says: This department has no
disposition to interfere in any man.
ner with the enforcement of the Michi-
gan statute limiting the hours of labor
for women to "a hours a week and to
10 hours in any one day, and it par
ticularly has no desire to shield post
masters, who are also storekeepers,
from the consequences of violation
Of the law on their part in the en-
ployment of clerks longer hours than
are permitted by the state statute.
Not only will no objection be made by
this department. to the application of
the law by the state authorities to
cases where clerks are employed par
TALLY in work relating to the stores
u,boroip which pOct pfIicpc ORC located
but this department is in entire SYM
pathy with the attempt to reduce the
hours for women and will be glad to
cooperate with your Office in it's eff
forts to see that the law is enforced"
The assistant postmaster-general then
stated that the postmaster at Bear
Lake would be instructed to govern
himself accordingly.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
Farm Wait Wins Fortune i'm the City

tered the medical college Of the Uni.
versity of Kansas, where on graduation
she finished third in a class made up
almost wholly of men students. 1t
was the winter Of the first smallpox
epidemic in Kansas City. She was
employed by the city and cared for
1000 smallpox patients. When she
left her position with the city in 1902
she had $4,000.
With two partners she invested II
in an 11-acre tract near Forty.
third. street and the State line
This tract was plated in city lots and
marketed, and in a year she had her
$4,000 back and $4,000 more. Then
she put the $1,000 in an adjoining
tract of % acres, with the same part.
ners, and they cleared $4,000.
In the succeeding five years she
built and sold 200 houses and cleared
more than 100000. She draws her
own plans, buys her own material and
personally bosses" each job she un.
dertakes, overseeing every detail of
the work.
In 1908 this young woman Of SO,
who few years before had been an
ignorant country girl, without money,
friends or relatives, paid the penalty
Of her success by breaking down in
health. She was in a nervous col
lapse and had to cease working. She
lost more than half her fortune be-
fore her health was restored.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
Must Come Back.

Gov. Osborn has informed Warden
Russell that he desires James Cush-
way, the paroled convict under arrest
at San Francisco, returned to the Mar
quette prison. Sheriff Lehman this
week received a telegram notifying
him of Cushway's arrest, and asking
if he was wanted here When Gov.
Osborn was informed OF the matter
at st. Ignace, where he was held up
by storm on his way to Lansing, he
said that Cushway should by all
means be returned to the Marquette
prison, where he has about Is years
Of his sentence still 10 serve. The
prison authorities have sent requisi-
ton papers for Cushway to Lansing
and when they are returned Deputy
Warden Catlin will be sent for the
prisoner.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
Oldest Indian Is Dead.

David Shopennagon, the oldest and
one of the best known Indians in
Michigan is dead. Shopennagon was
born in 1903, and had spent all of his
life in Michigan. residing in a cabin
on the banks OF the Au Sable river.
Shopennagon was a member of the
Chippewa tribe and was a great IA
vorite with all whom he came into
contact with. He was great church
goer of late years.
He spent his life hunting and trap
ping and knew every Stream between
Grayling and Saginaw. He was in
perfect health until one year ago. but
since the death of his wife had failed
rapidly. He was well known among
the National Iumbermen, being a reg
ular attendant at all their meetings.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
Find Petrified Daddy of All HOLSTERS

water, receding in the course of ages.
left the lobster stranded and he got
petrified. Similar but much more
modern phenomena are not I'M
known here. Harvard and 81 ech'
students are sometimes left stranded
after buying many Holsters of night,
but they do not get petrified, Of
course.
Millions of years after this particu.
lar lobster passed away the sporty
young men of the stone age cracked
its descendants with their flint hatch
cts and treated the stony show girls
Of that period. Indeed, some geolog-
lists claim that the term lobster" as
applied to sporty young men who do
that sort of thing has descended from
the stone age; they have been doing
SO ever since.
The petrified oyster is much more
ancient than any ever found in a
church stew. 1t also lived and breath
ed and had its troubles and joys So
100000 years ago. Prof. Sinner found
it atop the Jura mountains in north
Switzerland. How it got there only
biologists can tell you; perhaps oys-
tiers carried afpenstocks in those
days.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
Canada-U. S. Lakes Treaty.

None Of the great historic disputes
between the United States and Great
Britain concerning the rights of the
two countries in North Atlantic or
North Pacific waters are involved in
the present disturbance between Cana
da and this country about fishing
regulations, says Charles B. Warren,
of Warren, Cady G. Ladd, who was
one of the lawyers for the United
States before the joint high commits
sion that settled the Behring sea dis
pute between Great Britain and the
United States and one of the lawyers
for the United States in the argu-
ment of the North Atlantic fisheries
case before the Hague tribunal in the
summer of 1910.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The progenitor
~ of all the Holsters and the orig
inal oyster that existed cons before
the first man who was brave enough
to swallow one, have been added to
the geological collection Of the Mass
achusetts Institute of Technology, and
they are only two Of 1000 specimens
of petrified remains Of prehistoric
creatures gathered by Prof. Hervey
Sinner and Mrs. Sinner during a six
months tour of Bohemia, France, Eng
land, Ireland, Wales and other coun-
tries.
The lobster, fine specimen, existed
about 100000 years ago, the geolog-
lists calculate. 1t was found in the
mountains near Bohemia and many
miles from the sea.
This is not to say that Holsters grew
on trees in those remote days; the
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
Old Wear Goes Out Like Lion.

The weather ushered out the old
and In the new year in Grand Rapids
with the winters first real blizzard
and, as a result, traffic on both steam
and electric roads was blocked and
the streets were bare of pedestrians.
Watch night services in the various
churches were lightly attended.
The last day OF the old year in Mus
kogon saw the worst storm Of the win
ter. The thermometer dropped 10 de-
grees in an hour with heavy biz
zard blowing. The streets were piled
with snow and deserted by the usual
holiday crowd.
A cold northwest gale was blowing
all day in Bay City and the mercury
dropped rapidly. There has only been
trace Of snow and reports from up
state are 10 the same effect.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04

the rest" will amount to no one
knows. However, his deposit at the
trust company was but 800. He also
had safety deposit box in his name
at that institution, which has not
been opened as the key could not be
found.
Father Eugene Coyle, pastor of the
old cathedral, said Ring had been a
regular attendant at early mass Sun
days as long as he could remember.
An Italian grocer at Third and Chest
nut streets said Ring was we'll to do
and said the old man had told of a
saving Of $4,000.
His room was modestly furnished
and orderly, but there was nothing OF
value to be seen. Ring had been sick
week, and was taken TO the City
Hospital few nights ago, friends hav.
ing telephoned the dispensary that he
was unconscious.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
Securities Are Burden to State.

About 100000 in securities are on
deposit with the state treasurer by
various companies required by law to
place bonds or similar securities
there and every now and then Deputy
State Treasurer John Haarer has a
busy time clipping coupons for the
owners. The amount is larger than
it was n year ago and keeps con-
stantly increasing, but recently GER
tain companies have been altogether
too willing to place bonds in the state
treasury and it has been necessary to
call halt.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
WIRE BULLETINS.

The election of Theodore Roosevelt
as it's president for 1912 marked the
closing sessions Of the American His
torical association in Buffalo, n. Y.
In an address issued to the United
Daughters of the Confederacy Mrs.
Alexander p. White of Paris, Tenn,
president.general, calls on all the
daughters to have a Shiloh day to re-
awaken interest in a monument for
the battlefield.
The Daily Mail says 1t has been
decided that the third son of the Ger
man emperor shall go abroad on the
protected cruiser Bremen, on the
German Atlantic station, in July. He
probably will visit New York, Boston
and other American cities.
Orlando Hartman, only brother OF
the late e. II. Hartman, died at a
private sanitarium in New York from
complication of diseases following
a protracted illness with diabetes. Mr..
Hartman was widely known real
estate operator of large wealth.
After spending 40 years in histor-
ical studies in foreign countries, Prof.
Edward Evans, formerly OF the Uni
versity of Michigan. is back in the
land of his birth. He reached Boston
on the steamer Marquette from Ant
werp.
American lemon growers won a sig
mel victory over foreign competitors
and the transcontinental railroads
when the interstate commerce com
mission reaffirmed its previous order
unset by the new commerce court, re
ducing freight rates on lemons from
California to all other points in the
United States from S11S per 100
pounds TO 81.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
GENERAL REYES SuRRENDERS
Mexican Leader, cmpletely Dlscour-
aged, Gives Up Revolt.

Defeated and stripped OF former
arrogance and pride. Gen. Bernardo
Reyes, MeXico's one-time greatest
military leader and moro recently
leader Of q revolt that threatened to
tear the country from border to bor-
der, surrendered at Linares, but later
received his liberty on his word that
he would not leave the city.
He surrendered officially to Gen.
Trevino, personal enemy of years.
The surrender of Gen. Bernardo
Reyes at Linares. Nuevo Leon, it is
believed, marks the end of the most
serious revolt yet endangering the
Madero government. Seemingly all
over the country recently have sprung
small revolts, and most of them were
in the name of the former military
leader of the country.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
China Republic Near.

Premier Yuan-Shi-Kai has submit
ted to the more prominent Manchus OF
Picking the proposal emanating from
Shanghai for the meeting of a special
national assembly to decide on the
future form of government which
should be adopted for China. This
step by the premier practically means
that he asks the court to decide it's
own fate because the members of
such a national assembly would de-
eide in favor of a republic.
II the Manchus agree to adopt the
suggestion their decision to do so
will be promulgated as an edict.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
Ask Tax Law Change.

Large manufacturing concerns Of
Detroit are appealing to Congressman
Doremus for his assistance in securing
the passage of an amendment to the
corporation tax law. The law as it
stands requires a report from each
corporation on Dec. 81. Many of the
manufacturers find it difficult to take
an invoice at that time and want the
privilege of making the report during
the dull business season, when the in
voice can be taken conveniently.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
Three Held AS Pals of McNamaras.

Three arrests in the dynamite con-
spiracy, the first since the confession
of the McNamaras, were made. Olaf
Tveitmo, secretary-treasurer of the
State Building Trades council, and
head of the Asiatic Exclusion league,
j. f. Munsey, leader Of the Salt Lake
union of Structural Iron Workers, and
Anton Johannssn, organizer OF the
State Building Trades council, were
indicted by the federal grand jury,
Their arrest followed.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
Individuai
Larger Deficit Faces Treasury.

The dying year 1911 is bequeathing
the federal government p materially
increased deficit as compared with
the close of 1910, to be wiped out, il
possible, during the remaining half
of the current fiscal year. The gen
eral fund, representing the availa-
bic resources of the treasury, showed
big growth, on the other hand, due
to the sale of $4,000 0OO in Panama
canal bonds during the year. The
principal causes of the Increased de-
felt was falling Off of probably $10,-
100000 in customs receipts and an in.
crease OF about S7,000,00O in the cost
of the navy during the last half year,
as compared with the same period in
1910.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
End of 1911 Brings Relief in Wall St.

Relief rather than regret is felt in
Wall street at the passing Of the
year 1911. 1t has been year of de-
cided unsettlement in both finance
and business. Activity in almost
every line has been repressed. Trad
ing on the stock exchange dwindled.
At no time, however, were there
threats of widespread disaster. The
condition was one of dull suspense
rather than of actual retrogression.
Business was sound but the charac-
teristic American vim was lacking
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04

Whether or not agitation for wo-
man suffrage is to continue in Con-
nectlcut is to be left 10 arbitration
by committee of three. If sug-
gestion proposed by the Connecticut
Woman Suffrage association in let
ter to the association opposed 10 wo'
man suffrage is carried out.
The seven-acre plot on Coney Isl
and formerly occupied by the Dream.
land Amusement park, burned last
spring, will be turned into public
park. Mayor Gaynor of New York,
has approved the aldermanic resolu-
ton appropriating 100000 for the
purchase OF the site
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
New U. s. Linhtship Sinks.

Jus four days before the Racine
Boat Mfg. Co., Of Muskegon, principal
subsidiary corporation OF the National
Boat &c Engine Co, now bankrupt.
was going to turn the completed light
ship Milwaukee No. % over 10 the
United States government, the $4,000
vessel sank last night at the Racine
Co.'S docks in % feet of water.
The decks are seven feet under
water. Marine men estimate that it
will cost as least $4,000 to raise the
vessel. 1t is doubtful if the boat can
he raised before ice covers the lake.
The Milwaukee is insured.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
BANKS Of THE j. S.
ARE WELL FIXED
CLOSE OF 1911 FINDS THE UNITED
STATES LEADING THE WORLD
IN BANKING POWER.
FEW REPOSITORIES FAIL IN THE
YEAR.
Policy of Merging Small Into Large
and Strong institutions is Becom-
ing More Widely Popular.

Notwithstanding the mark time"
policy. which has been pursued in
certain lines of business during the
last year by reason largely of the
agitation of the tariff and trust ques-
tons, business generally has been far
from unsatisfactory. Crops have peen
bountiful. the production of corn DC
ing two and three-quarters billions Of
bushels, wheat 6S5, 100000 bushels and
cotton 14.G50.000 bales. The prices
of these products, except for cotton,
are higher than in 1910. Our exports
of merchandise aggregated $2,050.
100000, and exceeded imports by $522,-
100000.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04

George w. Mccormick of Monomi-
nee, is being mentioned for the posi-
ton of delegate-at-largc TO the Re-
publican national convention.
Harry Lauder, the celebrated
Scotch comedian. had narrow es-
cape from death Christmas while at
tempting 10 cross the Clyde in row.
boat from Gourock to Dunoon. His
boat was several times nearly over
turned.
a Christmas telegram was received
in Coldwater from Chicago by the
members OF ST.. Marks Episcopal
church stating that the Illinois SUI
preme court has upheld the will of
the late Mrs. Il. O. Lamphere. a for
mer resident Of Codwater, bcqueath-
ing $4,000 TO the church. The will
was holly contested by distant rela.
lives of the deceased
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04
Holland Affairs viii Be Probed.

That the proposed grand jury called
by Judge Padgham at the instance Of
the Holland Gas Co, in connection
with numerous alleged bribery scan
dals, will probe many so-called SHADY
transactions" and alleged crooked
business deals of past years, in which
many prominent citizens were in
volved, is more than mere conjecture.
The Yale expositor., 1912-01-04

In paper read before the National
Music Teachers association in Ann
Arbor by Frederick Stock, he did not
defend the operas of the "Salome"
type, but declared they are the nat
ural outcome of an age which Is over
cultivated"
Because OF dark dav and cloud
of steam that cnveloped> pony en-
CINE, an incoming freight train crash
cd into it in the local Lake Shore
yards i'm Hillsdale. The freight engi-
reer discovered the engine in time
10 put on the emergency. which pre-
vented fatalities, though both en-.
gires were Damaged.