Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

for which the manufacturer-not they
must foot the bills,
Fortunately, for the public welfare,
the development of electric cookery
has in the very nature of
things been more gradual and based
on more carefully and broadly obtain
cd data than was the case in electric |
and at the present time |
its assured place in household and
civic economies seems 10 be mainly a |
question of publicity and of the minor
inevitable in the evolu-
ton of any line of apparatus intend |
ed for general public use.-Scientific
American.
The Canadian government awarded
a contract to motor truck company
of Detroit, for motor trucks to cost
about Sl,OOO,OO0.
California, with its one-year-old
state workmen's compensation act,
pays worlmen twice as much as the
private companies had been doing.
Moreover, law suits have been avoid
ed.
fhe foreclosure twenty-one years
ago by the Union Trust company in
New York Of a s2O0,OOO,OOO Atchi-
son, Topeka 4 santa Fe mortgage was
attacked in suit filed in the New
York supreme court.
Since the passage of the act of con-
gress on August Is, admitting foreign
built vessels to American registry, 1O5
vessels with total carrying capacity
of more than 37S,0OO tons have been
added to the merchant marine of the
United States.
Mrs. Helen Kelly Thomas, who was
formerly the wife of Frank Gould, is
made heiress to the $4,OO0,OOO estate
Of her second husband, Ralph Hill
Thomas. Among other property she
will get magnificent country estate
at Sands Point, L. 1.
Mrs, Maggie O'Leary, who died a
few days ago at Escanaba, Mich, is
declared by her neighbors to have
been the Mrs. oLeary whose cow
was SAID to have kicked over lamp,
thereby starting the great Chicago
FIRE in 1871. Mrs. O'Leary denied
that She or her COW could be held re-
sponsible, although she acknowledged
that the blaze started in her cowshed.
One of series of bills aimed at
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the juvenile
court has made its appearance in the
house, introduced by Representative
Tonge of Denver by request. The bill
provides that where judges of juven-
lie, district on county courts shall have
absented themselves from their posts
for more than fifty-six days in year,
excluding Sundays, The office shall be
declared vacant, and u successor ap-
pointed.
A Berlin report says the federal
council has put into effect regulations
for the conservation of the food sup
ply, as follows: All stocks of corn,
wheat, and flour are ordered seized
by Februaryl. All business trans
acted in these commodities are for
hidden from January 26. All NUM-
cipalities are charged with the duty
of setting aside suitable supplies of
preserved meat The owners of corn
are ordered to report their stocks
Immediately whereupon confscation,
at a fixed price, will follow. A gov
ernment distributing office for the
regulation of consumption will be es-
tablishod, distribution being made ac-
eording to the number of inhabitants.
w. j. Bryan, secretary of state,
makes the following declaration on
the much discussed question of ex-
portation Of war munitions: If anvil
American citizens, partisans of Ger
many and Austria Hungary, feel that
this administration is acting in way
injurious TO the cause of those coun-
tries, this feeling results from the fact
that on the high seas the German
and Austro- Hungarian naval power is |
thus far inferior to the British. 1t is
the business of belligerent operat-
ing ON the high seas, not the duty of
a neutral, to prevent contraband from
reaching an enemy. Those in this
country who sympathize with Ger
many and Austria Hungary, appear
to assume that some obligation rests
upon this government, in the per-