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The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-08-19

the saloon and drank himself stupio
With whisky. Only that way coulu no
find relief for his overwrougnt leef
ings.
But for that debauch he might nave
won. AS It was, the TWO men foueu'
each other to a standstill once more
And Sorenson, staring stupidly from
the ground at McTavish, also upon
the ground and incapable OF move
ment swore that he would meet MIN
once more and win The fight was
fixed for April 10.
All that winter Sorenson worked
like a demon. His hate OF McIaVlsn
had become a madness now, ano
warped his brain Each OF the men
was resolved to win or die the next
time. They were buoyed up by the
mad desire. like that which comes 10
rival leaders in a caribou herd.
"Sorenson," said Father Flynn, you
have had two chances now. Give up
your plan"
Sorenson turned on the padre with
an oath.
IF don't best him III never flght
again" he said I'll come to you,
father, and you can make one of your
canting sniveling hypOcrites out OF
me. I'll kneel at the sinners seat
and say I'm one of them. But | tell
you I'll kill the dog, padre I'll mash
him softer than the bogs in spring"
Such things, and more, Sorenson
had dreamed at night when he lay
sleepless In his bunk.
April arrived, and Sorenson, ac-
companied by his followers, started
off along the trail to the meeting
place. They were the first to arrive;
presently the other party came into
sight In the center was STRIPPING
Of eighteen or nineteen years.
What's this? Where's McTavish?" ?"
shouted Sorenson.
Dead answered the young man.
"What?" yelled Sorenson wildly.
Typhoid" explained the stripping.
1T generally gets the beefy men. I'm
the new king cf Watson's camp now"
You are?" screamed Sorenson, pre-
cipitating himself upon him.
That was a Homeric fight, the rec
ord Of which has come down to this
, day. For never once did Sorenson's
blows land home. He hit the air, and,
in return, felt sting after sting upon
! his face and body. The youths blows
were light as thistledown, but they be-.
gan to tell after a while. There are
no rounds in lumbermen's battle.
Before ten minutes had elapsed the
Dig SWede was glaring at his 1.-the
opponent out of bloody haze.
Come on-unless you're beaten"
said the other calmly.
Sorenson, with a bulls below.
rushed at his man. That gave the
youth his opening. His fist caught
the northern king upon the point OF
the jaw. Sorenson staggered and col.
lapsed upon the snow. His last mem.
ory was Of seeing half hundred
gaudy socks borne off in triumph by
the men of Watsons.
Late the next afternoon a battered.
shamefaced figure staggered into the
little mission church
I've come, padre" said Sorenson
humbly.
Copyright 1914, by W. G. Chapman1
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-08-19
nAInhhnnwn portralturr.

The Sitter-But surely my eyebrow
is not blue?
The Futurist Portrait Painter
That's not your eyebrow; that's your
character!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02

Troublesome Canal Problem
Again in Congress.
A TWO YEARS SUSPENSION.
The Measure introduced BY Chair
man Adamson and Referred
To His Own Com
rnittee.

WashingtOn.-Chair Adamson,
of the House Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee, struck his first
blow at free. Panama Canal tolls for
American coastwise vessels.
In joint resolution he proposes q
suspension Of the existing law for free
tolls to American ships for two years.
Inat the cost of operation Of the Pan
anna Canal may be ascertained. Dur
ing these two years American ships,
coastwise and ocean freighters, must
pay the same tolls as all foreign ships.
The President of the United States
is given authority to pass on the re-
lative cost Of using the Panama Canal
and its maintenance, and at the end
of two years may decide whether the
tolls thus collected will be more than
sufficient for maintenance Of cost Of
operation of the canal. In this event
the President is to enforce the law for
free canal tolls for American ships.
The Adamson resolution was refer
red to his own committee. He has
been beaten twice on a like PROPOSE
ton and the committee membership
has not been changed in the last two
years.
Adamson's resolution provides:
.That Ine operation and enforcement
of the following provision: No tolls
shall be levied upon vessels engaged in
the coastwise trade of the United
States, which provision is the second
sentence in Section Five Of the act en-
titled, An act to provide for the OPEN
ing, maintenance, protection and
operation of the Panama Canal and the
sanitation and government OF the
Canal Zone approved August "a, 1912,
shall be and hereby is suspended sub;
|ject to the following conditions:
cat any time after the Panama
Canal shall have been opened and sue
|cessfully operated for two years, If, in
the judgment Of the President the
revenues derived from tolls of vessels
other than those engaged in the coast
wise trade Of the United States. shall:
be sufficient to defray the cost Of
maintaining and operating the canal
and the expense Of government and
sanitation of the canal zone and all
diplomatic questions touching. the
treatment Of vessels as to conditions
or charges of traffic at the canal shall
have been adjusted, then the Presi-
dent is authorized to issue an execu-
tive order declaring such suspended
exemption Of full force and effect.
From the date of such executive order
such exemption shall be allowed and
enforced, but until such executive for-
der shall have been issued the vessels
engaged In the coastwise trade of the
United States shall pay the same tolls
required of other vessels
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
HOT FIGHT FOR
FEDERAL BANKS.
Big Cities Have Commenced An
Active Campaign.
HALF DOZEN IN THE ARENA.
Treasury Department Receives TeIe-
grams Giving Reasons Why the
Contestant Cities Should
Be Selected.

Washington. Active campaigning
for federal reserve banks to be estab-
lished under the new banking and cur
rency system has been begun by a
half-dozen big cities in different parts
Of the United States, and among the
scores of kilograms received at the
Treasury Department more than half
were devoted to laying bare the rea-
sons for executive approval of their
claims.
Secretaries McAdoo and Houston,
the Organization committee" author
lied by the new law to choose the re-
serve cities, considered tentative plans
for making up the list of not less than
eight and not more than twelve cities
to be given federal banks. Under the
law the organization committee is
given the utmost freedom in naming
the cities, and the two cabinet officers
intend to make an exhaustive but
rapid inquiry into the geographical adj
vgntages and financial relations of
most of the large cities.
One plan that has been suggested to
the secretaries is that they make a
personal investigation of the claims of
cities which are regarded as possible
locations, and another is that they
hold hearings in Washington. Officials
who favor the first plan believe that
it can be carried out more quickly and
to greater advantage by reason of the
number of persons who could be
reached A decision probably will be
announced within few days.
The campaign for a reserve bank
has been pressed most vigorously by
Seattle, Wash. Scores of kilograms
were received from bankers and bust
ness men of Seattle pointing out its
proximity to Alaska, which is to be
included in the system, it's advantages
as financial center and urging other
reasons for giving it reserve bank.
According to one telegram, Seattle is
planning a big demonstration to cele-
brate the enactment of the law and to
boom her chances for getting bank.
Kansas City, Mo-, is making SINH
lar fight, with the support of many
nearby cities. Minnesota banks and
business houses took up the cudgels
in behalf Of st. Paul and Minneapolis,
and bankers in the South are speaking
up in favor of Atlanta, New Orleans
and Dallas. Philadelphia and Balti-
more are at odds over one bank. Al
together, it promises to be lively for
the organization committee before its
work is done.
Banks in the following cities applied
for membership in the reserve sys-
tenn: Beaumont, Tex; Union. s. CT;
st. Adams, VT; Portland, Me-; San
Diego. Cal; Adams. Mimi; Milwaukee,
Wis; Rochester. N. Y; Little Rock.
Ark; Austin, Tex; Portsmouth, N. H.;
Mobile, Ala; Carbondale. COL;
Tacoma. Wash. and Lewiston. Mont.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
PUTS QUESTIONS
TO RAILROADS
interstate Commission Has Not
Sufficient Data.
SOME POINTED SUGGESTIONS
The queries Framed BY Louis o.
Hrandeis Intimate That the Trou-
bic May Be Due TO Conflict
ing interests.

Washington. Eastern railroads
must show conclusively to the Inter
state Commerce Commission that
shrinking profits are due to the de-
creasing value Of the dollar, rather
than to the evils Of stock manipuIa-
tion, interlocking directorates and
frenzied financing. Otherwise there
will be no grant of increases. This
condition was emphasized by the com
missions public announcement that
it has sent to all lines a set Of IS
questions, divided in seven groups.
which go straight to the heart of the
railroad finance problem
It Is the understanding of the COM
mission that some Of the railroads are
in position to make full responses to
the questions submitted without sub
stantial delay, while others will re-
quire some time to compile the data
ordered.
These questions, bearing in every
line the impress of the views of Louis
D. Brandeis. the peoples lawyer" en-
gagged by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, may be summarized in
the question: Are you paying proper
attention to economics, and are your
earnings shrunken because of inter
locking directorates, because of Wall
Street smilkings,' because of too much
attention to finance and too little to
railroading?"
One group of questions was aimed
at the possibility of increasing reve-
nues otherwise than through a gen
eral increase of freight rates" in such
savings as might be erected through
Standardization of supplies and IN the
consumption Of coal.
Under the head of financial" the
commission queries the roads as to
their holdings in industrial or mining
corporations or other railroads. The
question as to conflicting interests"
the commission says. is designed to
secure data to determine the extent to
which the directors and officials Of
railroads have other financial inter
ests in the transactions Of the cars
,riers.y
Among other things it is desired
70 determine TO what extent connlctlng
and INTERVIEWING interests commonly
described as interlocking directorates
prevail the announcement said, land
what influence If any this practice has
had In increasir g railroad costs"
Other angles of the commissions
inquiry involve the possibility of in
creasing revenues through more favor
able contracts on Pullman sleeping car
service and on the possibility of In.
adequacy Of passenger rates.
The commission win renew its hear
ings January Z. giving shippers an op.
Iportunity to present their testimony in
Opposition to the railroads unchal-
llenged financial statements already
submitted Already the shippers have
made arrangements to present a mass
Of testimony to contest the railroads.
claim for recognition.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
FINDS LONG-LosT BROTHER
English Young Woman's Months Of
Quest Ends With Joyous Dis
covery Through Accent.

Jamesburg, N J-Hurrying along
the street, anxious to catch train.l
Frederick Greenslade, superintendent
of the Jamesburg Light and Water
company, bumped into young woman
and blurted out polite, but hasty,,
Excuse me, madame" The young
woman seemed to be astonished at
the accent and the appearance of the
superintendent. She wheeled about
ran after him and caused that gentle+
man no end of surprise by hating him
and asking him If he knew Frederick
Greenslade. The biggest surprise
awaited him, however, when the youAg
woman disclosed her identity as MS
sister, Miss Ethel M. Greenslade, W
had come all the way from Londo
England, to search for her brothe
who had been as one dead to the fam
lily for rs years. 1t was the English
accent Of Mr., Greenslade that caught
the ear of his sister and caused her
sudden turning.
Not once since Mr. Greenslade had
left his home in London has he COM
municated with his people. Shortly
after the beginning of the Boer-Eng1
lish war it was rumored that he had
been killed in battle, but Miss Ethel
did not give up hope. She arrived in
America last February, and has trav-Y
eled over a large part Of the United
States ever since in her search. She
received a clue while at Chester, WI
va, that her brother was In a New
Jersey town, after reading newspal
per containing the use of his name.
Her arrival and reunion with her rela-
tive followed.
Miss Greenslade will make her
home with Mr.. and Mrs. Greenslade for
the winter, and return to England in
the spring, where reunion of the fam
lily win be held and all honor done the
prodigaPs return home after so long
an absence. Greenslade told Of his
wanderings around the world, enlist
ment in the English army, serving
through the Boer war, and roaming the
seas until three years ago, when he
came to Jamesburg and assumed his
present position.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
KILLED IN XMAS
FESTIVAL PANIC
False Alarm Of Fire Causes
Panic in Hall.
IA BODIES IN CHASTITY ROW
Perhaps a Dozen Other corpses
Thought To Have Been Taken
Away BY Friends and
Relatives.

Calumet, Mich. -Fourscore persons,
mostly children, lost their lives at a
Christmas celebration by copper mine
strikers in an Italian hall because of
needless panic caused by a false
alarm of fire.
While several hundred miners and
their wives looked on, the children
pressed eagerly toward the stage to
receive Christmas, presents. At that
instant man put his head in at the
door of the hall and yelled "Fire!'
The cry was taken up by those in
the hall. Everyone rushed for the
doors. The weaker were thrown to
the floor and those behind tried to
climb over those ahead of them.
A merciless, frightful scramble, a
desperate fight forE life ensued. The
narrow exits soon become completely
choked upon the shgieking and frenzied
humanity. Cries Iof agony mingled
with the screams lof women and chill
dren in mortal terror, filed the air.
The principal exit was a narrow
stairway at the back of the hall. When
THIS naQ DeeQ cleared OF tue DOu1co
that filed it to the top and a quick
accounting had been made, it was
found that IA cdrpses were piled up
beside the building. It is thought that
dozen others Were carried away by
friends.
Victims Mostly Children.
The dead included 81 girls, 10 boys,
13 women and men.
Excited men and women stood about
the building, some, dazed by the sud
den change from holiday festivities to
tragedy, others calling Historically for
missing children land few even
threatening violence to the rescuers
for keeping them back from the long
row of bodies.
There was not much work for the
many doctors who hurried to the scene
as soon as the alarm was spread, for
those not killed in the first rush were
held upright and safe by the very
force Of the onrush howard the exits
Only three injured persons were
taken to hospitals and few went
home with assistance OF friends.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
ARCH OF DESPAIR
Stands at West End Of City D.
Irkutsk, Central Siberia.
he Gateway Through Which Have
Passed for Centuries All the. Rus
sian ExIIes and convicts En-
Route to Penal Settlement.

I.ondons-At the west entran
the city Of Irkutsk, Central SiBs
stands an arch through which haN
passed for century or more al the
exiles and convicts en- route to e,enali
settlements in eastern Siberia and the
Island of Saghalin. The road which
passes through 1t is the old postal
route between Moscow and the Pacific.
In times gone, the prisoners trampedi
all the way across the dread steppeA
from Europe, a Journey Of many
months. Now conducted in trains,
they arrive at Irkutsk in few days
and are allotted their places of resi-
dence or Imprisonment
Despite the efforts of the municipal.
public safety bureau, the old Arch Of
Despair is gradually falling to bits.i
Last year, the passage through wass
closed to traffic and those who tread
the Moscow pike must make detour.
Exiles still pass it. A few hundred
yards beyond, the road forks to the
north, leading finally to the Yakutsk
government which fringes the Arctic
ocean. Sixty versts Gao miles) beyond,
Irkutsk on this road is the Alexandrof-|
ski prison where are confined several
thousand men and women exiles serv1
ing short terms for criminal or po-l
litical offenses. a fortnight's tramp
from the Alexandrofski brings the prisA
oners to the first Of the Lena river
penal settlements where live the long
term and life sentence men and wom-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
szss,s2o,zss in FAVOR OF i. 5.
Trade Balance For the Past Twelve
Months Is Heavy.

eshington. November's foreign
brought the balance Of trade in
the United States against for
nations s642, i0O,4OS for the II
his OF the calendar year. while
the IL months ending with No
!. vember the excess Of exports over i'm
ports was s73S.S2O,766. The exports
for November totaled $245,645, 1896, the
second largest for that month in the
last six years, being exceeded only by
November, 1912. The imports were
$14S,594,741, also the second largest
for November in the last six years.
November last year exceeding it by
$4,5OO,0OO.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
Id pEcoME A DEAcoNEss.
Admiral pahIsren's Granddaughter To
Enter Religious Life.

New York.-The latest addition to
the ranks Of society women to enter
religious life is Miss Romola Dahl
gren, granddaughter of Rear Admiral
Dahlgren, u. S. N. Miss Dahigren al
ways has been interested in the work
Of the deaconesses of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. and soon win enter,
Il is announced, the Deaeoness'
Home in New York
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
AN ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED.
husband Shot Wife and, In Attempt.
inc Suicide suffocated Children.

New York. Henry Knell, his wift
and their two young children wera
found dead in their bed at Glendale.
Long Island, the mother with bullet
through her head, the father and chill
dren suffocated by gas. Knell appar-
emily had shot his wife then tried to
hang himself from the chandelier.
which broke and let the gas flow into
the room. Knell was a secretary EN-
ployed by the Philadelphia Steel and
Forge Company, with offices in this
city.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
ADMIRAL DEWEY is 70.
Hero or Manila Bay Has No Formal
Celebration.

washington. George Dewey, the adj
miral of the Navy and hero Of Manila
Bay, began the celebration Of his
seyenty-sixth birthday Friday by APP
pearing early at his Office to dis
charge the duties entailed upon him
as president of the Navy General
Board.
He received many birthday gifts and
congratulatory kilograms from all
parts Of the country and spent part
of the day visiting with his son, who
came from Chicago for the occasion.
There will be no formal celebration.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
NO REVIEW OF "FAsTIsT's' CASE
Conviction Of Woman For MansIaugh-
ter Stands.

Observation-Disclosures McKenna. OF
the Supreme Court, refused to grant
an application for review by the
court of the conviction of Linda Bur
field Hazard. licensed osteopath and
"fastist' in Kapsap county, Washing
ton, Of manslaughter. The woman
was charged with causing the death
of Claire Williamson by Withholding
food from her.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
CHILD KILLED BY MOTHER.
Shell Exploded As Woman Took II
From Gun.

Southboro, Mass.--Alice, the IL
year-old daughter of c. w. Whitney,
q Boston publisher, was accidentally
khot and killed by her mother. Mrs.
Whitney was extracting shell from
magazine of rife when the
Epon was discharged, the bullet
hing the child's heart.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
CHINESE EGGS IN MARKET.
Compete successfully With Cold stor
age Variety IN Seattle.

Seattle. Wash. Imported Chinese
eggs are competing successfully with
storage eggs on the Seattle market.
The Chinese eggs are Of dark shell.
even size. well packed and slightly
smaller than standard ranch eggs, but
larger than pullet eggs. They are
poachable in this respect. being su
perior to storage eggs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
LESS HOURS, NO CUT IN WAGES
New Hampshire Mill Decision Affects
10000 Employees.

Manchester. N. H.-The Amoskeag
Manufacturing Company announced
to the 10000 operatives Of its cotton
mills that the new law limiting en-
ployment to SIS hours each week would
not bring any reduction in wages. The
mills now run So hours weekly. Opera
ton under the new schedule viii be
gin January 2.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
BORDEN REFUSES TITLE.
Premier OF Canada Was Selected Fc
New-Year Honor.

Ottawa.-Premier Robert L. Borg
mas again declined title in cor
ton with the forthcoming New
honors. according to Londq
patch to the Journal. Mr.. Be
is stated, is democratic in b
and prefers to follow the q
Balfour. Chamberlain. Gla
Bright. each of whom re
cept title
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
He'd for SHOOTING Al Mob.

New -Conitobosto Betrano,
twenty-four, was arrested. charged
with firing shot at mob who at
tackled him. No one was shot. but the
deskman at the police station has
writers cramp-"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
REFUSES TO PAY INCOME TAX.
Or. Anna Shaw Says Taxation With
out Representation is Tyranny.

New York. DR.. Anna Howard Shaw.
president Of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, has re-
fused to pay her income tax and an
nounces her intention to fight the law.
While at her house in Moylan. Pa, re-
Gently she was asked to fill out a
paper stating the amount of her in
come and from what source it was de-
rived. Instead Of obeying she wrote
on the official sheet her declaration
of principles, which in brief are that
taxation without representation is
tyranny"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
Arch Of Despair Through Which Thou
sands Of Siberian Exiles Have
Passed.

en-. Russia is still exiting political
prisoners at the rate of about 1000 a
year. Siberia, holding the bulk Of
them, counts some $4,000 exiles and
criminals within its vast domain
Popular Electricity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
ONLY 5 UNION MEN NEEDED AID.
Seattle, Wash, Provides Employment
To Help Its Destitute.

Seattle, wash OF 1900 men who
have applied to the city for employ
ment on work specially provided to
aid the destitute only six are mem
bers Of labor unions. The city Off
cials question the applicants for re-
lief in order that those who belong
to fraternal and other organizations
may be helped by such bodies.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
BOTH DEAD IN PIsNoL DUEL.
Town Marshal and Deputy Sheriff In
Street EnccunterA

Copper, Hill, Tenn.-As result of a
street duel with reyolvers here Town
Marshal Gus Barclay is deaf and
Deputy Sheriff G. Z. Hood IS aaid to
be dying, with two bullet pds in
his breast. Barely had Hood
twice in the last week aken-
ness. They fired on fell
within few feet Of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
suDsoN 6. CLEMENTS RENAMED
Senate Confirms Him As Interstate
conmerce Commissioner.

Washington G. Clements.
Of Georgia, was reappointed by Presi-
dent Wilson a member of the Inter
state Commerce Commission and his
nomination was hurried to the Senate,
which Immediately confirmed him.