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The evening world., 1915-03-13
WOMAN KILLS HERSELF.
utsuorrspher Turns ON Gas AfteI
Leaving Letter.

Miss Mary Mcclure. a stenographer'
Killed herself with gas to-day In her
furnished room In the home OF Mrs
Louise Cook at No. lat East Twenty
frat Street. Mrs. Cook told the po-
lice that Miss Mcclure kept very
much to herself. and apparently had
NO friends.
She left a letter addressed TO MRS
NY. Her employer, Orville @. Ben
nett, said he would arrange for her
burial III no one else came forward.
The evening world., 1915-03-13
scoFFs At HUMAN PROGRESS
AND EVOLUTION OF THE RACE.


DR.. Walsh has been called "the busl-
est man In New York." but finally
co-nered him In his home at No. ITO
West Seventy fourth Street and asked
him IL he really meant what he said In
his recent lecture in the New York ex-
tension course Of the Catholic summer
School Of America. He had called at.
tention to the fact that the great
Worlds Fair of London, where 1t was
proclaimed that now no longer would
there be war between nations. hut
commerce instead, was followed by
series Of the worst wars in human his
tory.
"And yet the generation that
had seen these wars talks calmly
about human progress and the
evolution Of the race" he COM
msntsd. I'VE fight now quite %
We did at any time, and ws try
TO kill a. many people and to
MAIN a. many more. We cannot
svsn be kinder to non-conbat.
ants. Man does not progress"
"rhere is no such thing as pro.
eression," DIR. Walsh repeated to me
with emphasis. 81 do not know OF .
single thing We are doing that 10 not
copied.
"Take our architecture. All the best
and most beautiful buildings are imita-
tions of classic and mediaeval models.
There is nothing new architecturaiiy
about the Public Library. When we
want to build q beautiful cathedral Ne
search the world for artisans and then
model after somethin' in the middle
ages. All around US handsome re-
naissance buildings are arising. One
Of the city's most famous skyscrapers
10 nothing but Giotto's Tower set down
In New York square.
There has probably never been q
period when so many supremeiy
great things were done or whep SO
| many mon whose enduring accom-
plishment has influenced all the after
generations were alive US during
the nearly seventy years OF CO.
lumbus's lifetime. In Italy the list OF
names Of painters who were at this
| time doing work which the world viii
never willingly let die is long and
| glorious. There has never been
period OF equal influence and achieve
ment In this mode OF art In the his
tory OF the race. In sculpture the
roll of great names Is scarcely les'
wonderful than that Of the grea
painters. Modernism In the sense o.
thinking our generation ahead OF thu
past Is just our vanity"
There are those OF US who below
Rodin q greater artist than Michel
angelo, but I didn't want to get int
an argument on art. 1t seemed to M
there was q moro obvious refutatiol
of DIR. Walsh's theory Of non- prog
ress.
LEARNED DOCTOR Has A Def
NiTioN FOR HUMAN PROGRESS.
"sureiy tho twentieth century ha
advanced over all others In the fiel,
OF mechanical inventionr put It I
him.
Even in that Geld We are deins "
The evening world., 1915-03-13

about them the better In all the enduring expressions
Of human intelligence generation 10 wofuly behind
Homer. the Hebrew literature, the Temple Of Karnak
the Book Of the Dead but above ALL the decorations by
the cave men Of their caves. show doing better
things in old times than we are doing now"
II you look at It way. that's paean to pessi
mism II you look at II from another angle It's caution
to cocksureness However you take II. DR.. James J..
Walsh gives to his honest, carefully thought
out conviction.
DIR. Walsh is NJ. D.. q Ph. D., an Sc. D. and q
The evening world., 1915-03-13
Oddities In the War News

Inhabitants
r. M, and A. M.
have
China
Of Rus nj 8
United States to the allies New
declined
this Poincar while King George house
NO." no
drink while
The evening world., 1915-03-13

Lift For Fordham
School,
College the author
The Columbus"
throughout which boaes thousand
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Nothing New Under Sum- Sufragettes
We're Agitating EUen in Ancient Ron
"There 10 No Progress" Says Dr.. Walsh. 1--WE Do
Nothing but Copv-In Shakespeare's Time They
Had Clean Minds and Dirty Bodies, N0p We
Haze Clean Bodies and Dirtv Minds"
Bv Maysuevite Mooe,s Marshall.

here In human history War emphasizes this All the
literature before time idea
Architecture 400 Our said
The evening world., 1915-03-13

merely have We OF the twentieth GEN.
tury failed to progress. but that In
many ways We have actually retro
gressed.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
MILLIONS GIVEN TO
SOUTHERN EDUCATION
ARKANSAS RECEIVED TOTAL OF
$175,o00 FROM THE GEN.
ERAL BOARD.
Western Newspaper UnIon News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New Northwestern states have
been favored slightly above Eastern
and middle Atlantic states in the Gen
eral Education Boards donations OF
s10,5S2,591 to the cause of education.
Southern states rank third, although
all three groups are close.
To Western states the fourth Install
ment of the boards report made pub
lie Thursday, sets forth there has
been given outright S3,S67,7S1 and par.
tial contributions, the exact amount
of which is not stated, have been made
to a supplemental sum of $15, 5,406, TAI.
To Eastern and middle Atlantic states
the sum given outright was $780,
1855; the supplemental sum, to which
the board subscribed an amount not
designated, was s15,247,939; Southern
states received outright, S3,052,625;
the supplemental sum to which the
board contributed in this case was S9,'
147.152.
Following are ne donations made
to educational institutions in the
Southern states by the board since its
inception: Maryland, $250,000; Vir
ginia, $49O,0OO; North Carolina, 1873,
416; South Carolina, S154,176; Georgia
1922, ,233; Alabama, s21,7O0; Mississip
pi, S15O.0OO; Arkansas, $175,000; Ten
nessee, $625,OOO; Kentucky, $125,OOo;
| TaxaS, Sam OOO. Florida $40 OOO. IN
tai, S3,O52,625.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
BRITISH SHIPS
IN GERMAN BAY
BERLIN REPORTS THAT THE At
TEMPTED RAID OF ENEMY
WAS WITHOUT SUCCESS.
WERE METBY FOES AlRsHIps
Bombs Dropped at cuxhaven Without
Damage-ZeppeIin Bombards the
French City of Nancy.
WERE MET BY FOES aIRSHIPS

London.-A Berlin report says:
Eight British ships made a dash into
a German bay December 25," says an
official announcement issued by the
German admiralty Saturday.
Hydroaeroplanes conveyed by
them made an advance against the
mouths of German rivers and drop
ped bombs on ships lying at anchor
and gas tank near Cuxhaven with
out hitting them or doing damage.
THE hydroaeroplanes were fired at
and withdrew in a westerly direction.
German airships and aeroplanes re-
connoitered against the British forces
and succeeded in hitting with bombs
two British destroyers and one other
vessel of the convoy. On the latter
fire broke out.
Fog prevented a continuance Of
the fighting"
From the reference to Cuxhaven in
the German announcement it would
seem that the German rivers indicat-
ed, but not named, were the Elbe and
Weser. Cuxhaven is a fortified sea-
port Of Germany 5S miles west-north-
west of Hamburg. 1t is at the mouth
of the estuary of the Elbe. The ap-
proximate distance across the North
sea from the English coast to Cuxha-
ven is $50 miles.
| A Zeppelin airship few over Nancy
early Saturday morning and dropped
total of IA bombs.
Two persons were killed and two
others wounded. Several houses in
Nancy were slightly damaged, but
none of the public buildings was in.
jured.
| This is the first report or any hos
tile activity on the part of Zeppelin
airship against French city. The
last notable exploit of Zeppelin was
over Antwerp early in the war.
Nancy has population of about
100000. 1t is due east from Paris and
about 10 miles from the German from
| tier.
The Berlin official announcement
Sunday said German airmen had
thrown medium-sized bombs into the
outskirts of Nancy in retaliation fol
the throwing of bombs by a French
airman into an unarmed German vii
lage.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
Citv Officials in Jail.

Indianapolis, Ind.-Practically every
member Of the city administration Of
Terre Haute is in the hands of United
States authorities as a result of the
wholesale arrests on indictments
charging conspiracy to corrupt the
election of November last. Early
Saturday SO persons, including Mayor
Don M. Roberts, who is a candidate
for the DEM cratic nomination for
governor in 1916; Dennis Shea, sherin
of Vigo county; Circuit Judge Eli H.
Redman; City Judge Thomas Smith
and other leading Terre Haute politi.
clans, had been arrested. Unable to
furnish bond of $4,000, Mayor Rob-
erts was included in a party Of % of
the prisoners who had failed to pro-
vide bond and was brought to this city
to be placed in jail.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
Gutierrez Leaves the Capital.

San Antonio. Tex.-That Provision
al President Eulalio Gutierrez has
quit Mexico City, due to enmity be-
tween him and Felipe Angeles and Ia
patista chiefs, was reported Thursday
to 7. r. Beltran, local Constitutional
ist consul. The message said the
capital is governed by a commission
composed equally of Villa and Zapata
adherents and that another provision
al president will be selected JAN
uary 10. according to the. plan at pres
ent agreed upon.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
French Confident of Victory.

Paris.-Premier Viviani, stating the
views of the government, said France
will not sheath her arms until after
wreaking vengeance for outraged right
and uniting for all time to the French
fatherland the provinces ravished from
her by force, restoring Belgium to her
political independence and until Prus-
sian militaresm has been crushed. to
the end that it be possible to recon
struct on a basis of justice, Europe
regenerated. Success, he declared. Is
certain.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
Japanese Diet Dissolved.

Tokio.-Owing to the rejection Of
the measure for an increase in the ar
my, the emperor Friday dissolved the
Imperial Diet, thus upholding the pro-
gram of the ministry for military de-
velopment. The premier, Count Oku-
ma, scored the opposition for "im-
peding the national welfare" Failing
to find flaw in the policy of Foreign
Minister Kato regarding China, he
said, they centered. their attack on the
army. He denied,that the proposals
meant the expansion of the army.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
To Open San Diego Fair.

Washington. - Secretary McAdoo
left Washington Saturday for San
Diego, Cal, to open the Panama-Cali-
fornia exposition there on the night of
December 81. Mrs. McAdoo accom-
panied him. They will be gone until
January 10. Mr.. McAdoo will repre-
sent President Wilson at the formal
opening.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
Trade Balance Increasing.

Neutrality-suspicious. on imports
and exports at the 13 customs dis
tricts handling Sc per cent of the ma
tons foreign trade, show a. balance in
favor of the United States for the
week ended December 19 of S27 7,02S,-
263, an increase of approximately ST.
100000 over the balance for the pre-
yious week.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
schwab Sees Prosperity Coming.

New York.--European nations have
placed contracts in the United States
for more than s3OO,6oO,OOO worth of
supplies since the beginning of the
war, according to Chas. M. Sehwab,
president of the Bethlehem Steel Cor.
I '-.son. 'rho returned Thursday from
! .,,,. 'r. Schwab predicted that
wha' 'S yoai a United States IS
ne leaves college, Jor-,s,-s
Bronson
Well i don't know yet; but he
knows so little about everything tina,
have a hunch hell take up what he
calls httratcha," said 1orrocks.-Judge
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
Railroad Stock At Auction.

New York.-Ownership of a rail-
road, represented by millions of dol
lars worth of stock, was auctioned Off
on the steps of the New York county
courthouse The old stock of the Chi
cago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway
Company was put up at foreclosure
sals ~ was bid in for s7,135,900 with
why sition by James N. Wallace,
militant srh the ProtStive Commit
TO the front ih-,r A--arf Al
what an ideal"
well, why wouldn't a hen COT
be fitting one to send against Va
Kluck?"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
Mexican Leaders Object,

Naco, Ariz.-The proposition sub
mitted by Brigadier General Hugh L.
Scott, chief of the United States army
staff, to remove the Mexican warfare
in Sonora out of dangerous proximity
to the American border, has met with
several objections on the part of con-
tending Mexican leaders, Jose Mayto-
rena and General Benjamin Hill.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
81 900. .nna Film Suit Filled.

New York.-The greater New York
Film Rental Company, an exchange for
the regulation of moving picture films
in New York city, filed Sherman
law suit against the General Film Com
pany, its officers and component COM
panies, for $1,SO0,OOO, three times the
amount of damage alleged to have
been caused by the defendants acts.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02

According to Petrograd, Russian
successes are reported officially from
the battle front before Warsaw and
from that around Cracow, but with
out materially changing the general
situation in these regions. Especially
vicious attacks have been made by the
Germans between Pinczow, 40 miles
north of Cracow, and Nowmeiasto
Korczyn, at the junction of the Nida
and Vistula rivers.
In, this place the Austrians initiated
the tactics of the Germans and tried
to force a passage by sheer weight and
numbers. Time after time they ad-
vanced in solid formation against the
Russian front in the face of a heavy
artillery fire. The net result after two
| days fighting-December % and %
was the capture by the Russians of
nearly 5000 prisoners, including so
officers and the retention by the Rus
slams of the left bank of the Nida,
where they are strongly entrenched.
Three months ago the same Aus
trian troops opposed the first Russian
advance on Cracow.
Christmas brought no rest to the
embattled European armies. 1t found
the Russians still fighting desperately
in the SHOWS of Poland against the
fierce attacks of the German and Aus
trian allies; Przemysl still in the grip
of the invading army; the French
making spasmodic thrusts against the
long German lines of trenches ir
northern and northeastern France
and the British and Belgians engaged
in almost hand-to-hand warfare agains
the German trenches in west Belgium
Although armies of the allies hav,
scored some successes in the battles
in the west, they are meeting will
stubborn resistance and military meI
warn the public that very heav!
casualty lists must be expected befor'
any serious impression can be mad
on the German entrenchments.
Activity seems to have been resum
ed along the Belgian coast, for it 1
announced slight progress has bee
made by the allies between the se
and the road from Nieuport to Wes
Ende. At other points similar figh,
ing is proceeding with varying fol
tunes.
The airmen on both sides have bee
extremely busy, and the airships ar
swarming over Belgium, the aviator
reconnoitering movements of oppo'
ing troops and dropping occasiona
bombs. Bruges and Brussels hav
been visited by aviators from tn
ranks of the allies while Bethune an
other towns in northern France hav
received attentions from the Ge
mans.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
WILSON DEMANDS
COMMERCE RIGHTS
PRESIDENT SUBMITS STRONG
NOTE OF PROTEST TO BRIT
ISH GOVERNMENT.
SEIZURES CAUSE TROUBLE
Note Carefully Drafted But It Is None
the Less Effective in the Vsor
Of Its Demands.

Washington. - The United States
government Monday dispatched long
note to Great Britain, insisting upon
an early improvement in the treat
ment of American commerce by the
British fleet. 1t gave\wY ming that
much feeling has been areised in this
country and that public criticism Is
general over unwarranted interfer-
ence with the legitimate foreign trade
of the United States.
The document, constituting the
strongest representation on this sub
ject made by the United States to any
belligerent since the outbreak of the
war, was cabled to Ambassador Page.
to be formally presented to Sir Ed
ward Grey, the British foreign secre-
tary. Its preparation was begun a
month ago by Solicitor Cone Johnson,
Counsellor Robert Lansing and Secre.
tary Bryan, and 6nally during the two
weeks had the personal attention of
President Wilson, who revised it's
phraseology with minute care.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
Oldest Woman Is Dead.

New Yo-"-Mrs. Hannah Koskoff.
said to have been the oldest woman
in the United States, died here
Wednesday. According to authentic
records in the possession of the de-
scendants, she was III years old, hav-
ing been born in Kief, Russia, in
1897
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
MISS CLARK WILL
WEDHEXT SUMMER
SPEAKERS AUGHTER TO MARRY
EOI1OR r NEW ORLEANS
ITEM.
SHE M HIM IN BALTIMORE
James M thompson Was One of the
Leader, ~ re Fight to Nominate
Char cork For Presidency.
Wa hington, ID. c.

W as llnSJOn, IL. u
Speake~ mp clark and Mrs.
Clark SUI f.g nuuuuced the engage
ment of rHc.r laughter, Genevieve, to
James NJ Thomson. editor of the New
Orleans It.u The Wedding will take
place in t.a carly -ummer at the
Clark no .. iu bowling Green, Mo.
Miss Clark met Mr. thomson in Bal
timere airing the 1912 Democratic
convent gH... .. was one OF
the Lead r.r H..' 60 nominate
the speat . tnc ~ldenCy.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02
$500. 900, 900 Railroad Mercer.

Observation-Disclosures Of the
Lake Shore Railroad with the New
York Central Railroad was effected at
a meeting of Lake Shore stockholders
when they ratified action taken by
New York Central stockholders July
20. The merger involves $500. 900, 600.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02

Il am not a candidate FOR the gov
ernorship of Louisiana. No one has
even suggested to me that run. This
is the first that | have heard OF my
name being used in connection with
the office" These were the asser-
tions of Gen. Albert Estopinal when
apprised that it was rumored in New
Orleans that he probably would be
candidate. II is understood in Wash
ington that a group of the friends OF
Gen. Estopinal expect to urge him to
make the race.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02

Alleged failure of the local typogrph-
ical union to agree to conditions plac'
ing the composing rooms more direct
ly under the control of the managers
of the papers resulted Sunday in the
announcement that hereafter the
Times-Picayune, Daily States and New
Orleans Item would operate or a non
union basis.
Sunday night the editorial staff OF
the Times-Picayune operated the COM
posing room of that paper.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02

James Mahoney and man calling
hismelf Edwards, who were arrested
in Terrell, Tex, December IA, both
suspected of completely in recent
Fort Worth and Dallas robberies and
taken to Dallas for Identification, were
identified by Chief OF Detectives John
Connolly. Sunday, as two convicts who
escaped from the Louisiana State Pen
itentiary at Baton Rouge, November
Is. 1914. where they were both serv-
ing eight year sentences for burglary.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02

Washington.-Dispa from Mex.
leo City indicate Zapata and Villa are
nearing a break in their relations.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02

The well-meant effort or the Sugar
Exchange to bring about a. compro-
mise between the state, the Hsugar
planters and the American Sugar Re
tinery over pending litigation, and
which would permit the immediate re-
opening OF the Chalmette refinery has
failed. That much is freely admitted
even by the Exchange officials. The
attorney for the Sugar Exchange, w.
S. Parkesson, called on the states at
torney, Donelson Caffery, and on the
attorneys having charge of the big
suits of the sugar producers against
the refining company. and suggested
some sort of a compromise, but he
was met with fiat refusal. This fall
ure to reach an agreement, leaves the
whole matter where il was before, and
precludes any prospect of the big re-
finery taking any part, at least for the
present, in absorbing the Louisiana
sugar crop. All expressed sympathy
for the 1900 or more men out OF en-
ployment during the Christmas season,
but every one seemed willing to shift
the responsibility for that distressing
state of affairs to the shoulders OF the
other fellow.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02

Mrs. Charles F. Brandt OF New Or
leans, with the assistance of a revol-
yer and her husband, December %
routed a burglar who entered a.
home of the late William BarthS.,
millionaire uncle, in Denver, QSo nre-
sumably in search of his wXor other
valuable papers. *
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02

Competing with nine other engi-
neers. the plans submitted by Prof
Donald Derickson of Tulane Unive~
sitv for two iron span bri9-s am.
approaches in Arcadia pa b. We"
accepted by Eberson K Waite, eugi-
neers IN the parish.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02

The BiG-d of Directors Of The Alex
andria Chamber Of Cor me-ce Eas
adopted a resolution endorsing the
proposed plan Of issuing bonds to the
amount of 100000 for the construc.
tion OF good roads in Alexandria.