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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
DENIES JAPANESE
WILL GRAB CHINA
Count Okuma Says What Japan
Is Doing Is to Insure Peace
in Orient--Sees No
Clash With u. S.

Toxic. Japan. March 1.-The Japanese
premier. Count Okuma, said today that
in presenting its demand to the Chi
nese government Japan had no inten-
ton of t~respassing upon the rights of
China or Interfering With the open door
policy. The desire of Japan. he said,
was that China should attain the real
dignity of independence and not fan the
prey of any nation.
Count Okuma's remarks We're made
to Prof. Smaller Mathews. of the Uni
versity Of Chicago. and Prof. sydney
l.. Gulick, of New York. as they We're
taking leave of the premier. They
sailed for San Francisco on the steamer
Mongolia. having completed their mis-
sion to Japan. under the auspices of
the Federal Council of Churches of
Christ in America. In the Judgment Of
the Japanese press. the work which
they have done in fostering cordial re
lations between Japan and the United
States is OF historic significance and
will prove to be most helpful in main
tanning the friendship OF the two ma
lions.
Count Oklna stated to Professor
Mathews and Professor Quick that the
integrity and prosperity of China not
only We're to the advantage of Japan.
but that they constituted the sole guar
anty Of peace in the orient. To secure
his peace. he said, was the underlying
motive of japanese diplomacy. Japan
had no thought of infringing upon the
rights of other nations and acceptance
Of her demands by China would involve
no such Infringement.
No Chance for War.
Efforts recently have been made to
invent some plausible reason for a dis
ruption of the relations between Japan
and America" the premier continued.
"These attempts having failed, the mis-
chlef k now look to China as a
field in which the two powers may be
made to clash. | see no reason for
such a conflict"
Count Okuma stated with emphasis
that Japan and Great Britain possessed
q We'll grounded understanding CON
corning equality Of opportunity in Chi
ma and the integrity of that nation. In
accordance with the well known policy
Of the United States he believed that
American manufacturers would find
Chinese markets open to them. japan
had no intention OF rcsoTting to unfair
means Tor the purpose of monopolizing
these markets.
Professor Mathews said that he was
convinced of the deep rooted Friendship
of the japanese for America.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
Of STEGLER
WANTS HIN FREED
Says She Cannot Support Her.
self Unless Spy Suspect Is
ReIeased-AppeaIs to Will
son-DeniaI by Boy-ed.

Washington, March President Will
son today received a letter from Mrs.
Richard p. Stegler, wife of the German
charge of fraudulently obtaining an
American passport. declaring that
Stegler had been led into the project by
Captain Roy-ed, German naval attache
here. Mrs. Stegler asked that her hus-
band be set free. Her letter was re-
ferred to the department of justice,
which is in charge of the investigation
of the case.
Mrs. stegler wrote the president that
her husband had been promised $3.50 Il
month for her support by Captain
Begged, while abroad, and that she
would be given $3.50 a month for life If
no none now and did not know 10Y
she could support herself unless her
husband were released.
Gives Out Letter.
Stegler last night rave out q letter
in New York which he said was written
by Boy-ed. The letter, which was
typewriter, was anonymous. Stegler
said comparison with letters written
by Boy-ed would show similarity. The
letter follows:
Reading today's New York Ameri-
can. allow me to tell you that 1T was
your fault that your husband has been
arrested and Will have to go to Jail for
many years and will be always looked
at as a %scoundrel. Accept the advice
to keep our mouth shut and do not
open it before o at first consult a
lawyer. Besides You put your country
in a bad position. because your ease
viii only increase the ill feeling Of the
Germans against the Americans, and
o know that 81 war with the Ger
mans would be the greatest disaster
for the Americans"
This thing is too ridiculous to an
swer.' Captain Boy-ed said When asked
If he wrote the letter. IAN the letters
that have gone out of this office have
been addressed by my stenographer,
and | suppose there must be thousands
OF tyDewriters like the one she uses. r
have been accused of SO many things
that / would not be surprised If they
tried to fix the Ttosenthal murder on
me or the responsibility for the next
subway accident"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
FRUIT laxative
FOR SICK CHILD
california Syrup Of Figs" can't
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels.

Every mother realizes, after giving
her children California Syrup Of
Figs" that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love its pleasant taste
and it thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach, liver and bowels with
out gripping.
When cross, irritable, feverish, OF
breath is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother! If coated, give q
teaspoonful of this harmless fruit
laxative" and in a few hours all the
foul, constipated waste, sour bile and
u%ndigested food passes out of the bow.
els, and you have a we'll, playful child
again. When it's little system is full
of cold. throat sore, has stomach-ache,
diarrhoea, Indigestion, colic-remem.
Der, a good inside cleaning" should
always be the first treatment given.
Millions OF mothers keep California
Syrup of Figs" handy; they know a
t%easpoonful today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for a SO.
cent bottle of California Syrup OF
Figs" which has directions for babies,
children of all ages and grown-upa
printed on the bottle. Adv.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
TRUTHFUL HUNTER TELLS ii.
Speed Contest Between Deer and Rifle
Bullet That Probably Never
Was Duplicated.

"Talkin' about runnin'," remarked
Hon. Ananias Munchausen, about
the finest bit OF sprintin' / aver saw
was up in Maine the shootin' season
before last. I'd been out all day deer
shootin', and had had most awful luck
when l spied a whoppin' great buck
about eighteen hundred yards away.
Takin' a careful sight, l let fly. But.
bless your soul, the instant my bullet
touched him, and bef.re it had time
to penetrate his hide, that beast was
Off like a flash!
II never saw two such evenly
matched things as that deer and my
bullet. For over half a mile they
sped on together, neither gainin' any
on the other, the bullet just managin'
to keep in touch with the deer's skin.
At the end Of a mile, however, the
pace began to tell on the deer, and he
faltered just for a moment. Twas
fatal. The bullet sped on, and the
poor beast keeled over. He deserved
his freedom If ever an animal did.
He'd have got it, too, if he could have
stuck it out for another twenty yards,
for that's about as far as my ride
carries"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
EAT MORE POTATOES
ADVICE OF EXPERTS
Government Officials Suggest
That Spuds Be Substi-
tuted for Bread.

Washington. ID. G.. March 1.-"Tf
wheat remains at its present high fig
ure or continues to rise in price, and
If there is a corresponding increase in
the price of bread, scientists in the de-
partment of agriculture suggested that
the ordinary household will find it adj
~VantageouS to eat more potatoes and
less bread" says a statement issued to-
day at the department.
With potatoes at 60 cents a bushel,
~ cents worth, or 10 pounds. will give
the consumer a little more actual our
iSilAeht than two One-pound caves of
bread at . cents Zach. IF prices change
sufficiently to make it desirable from
a financial point of view. there is no
scientific reason why potatoes should
not be substituted to a great extent
for bread"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
WILL ALLOW REPORTERS
TO VISIT BRITISH LINES

London, Feb. 27.-Six newspaper cor
respondents are to leave london next
Monday morning for the British front,
They are going out under the auspices
of the British war office. Among them
is one American. This will be the first
time neWspaperInen are permitted to
visit the British lines. The same six
men went to the French lines some
weeks 20.
There are in all Is correspondents
credited to the British war office. They
will go to the ron in detachments of
six each. the second group startinr
when the first eturns and the thir,
following the second.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
MAY BE COFFEE
That Causes all the Trouble

When the house is afire, It's about
the same as when disease begins to
show, it's no time to talk but time to
act-delay is dangerous-remove the
cause Of the trouble at once.
For a number of years." wrote q
Kansas lady, Il felt sure that coffee
was hurting me, and yet l was SO
fond of 1t, l could not give it up. At
last | got so bad that l made up my
mind l must either quit the use Of
coffee or die.
Everything ate distressed me, and
| suffered severely most of the time
with palpitation of the heart. l fire.
quently woke up in the night with the
feeling that | was almost gone-my
heart seemed SO smothered and weak
in it's action. Ny breath grew short
and the least exertion set me painting.
l slept but little and suffered from
rheumatism.
1.-TWO years ago l stopped using the
coffee and began to use Postum and
from the very first / began to improve.
1t worked a miracle! Now I al eat
anything and digest it without trouble.
l sleep like a baby, and my heart beats
strong and regularly. My breathing
has become steady and normal, and
my rheumatism has left me.
II feel like another person, and 1t
is all due to quitting coffee and using
Postum, for / haven't used any medi-
cine and none would have done any
good as long as l kept drugging with
coffee" Name given by Postum Co.
Battle Creek, Mich. Read THE Road
to MELVILLE" in pkgs.
Postum comes in two forms:
Regular Postum-must DO well
boiled. 15c and rs packages.
instant Postum-is a soluble pow
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
in a cup Of hot water and, with ream
and sugar. makes q delicious beverage
instantly. 3Oc and soc tins.
Both kinds are equally delicious,
and cost per cup about the5same.
There's = Reason for Postum
-sold Nv Groces.h
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
WILSON DECIDES NOT
TO CALL SENATE BACK

Washington. d.. G., Feb, 27.-Presi-
dent Wilson has practically decided
not TO cali a special session of the Sen
ate to consider the Colombian and Mic
araguan treaties. AT the White House
today it was said hat while the ques-
ton still is under consideration, there
was little prospect of a special session
being called. The opposition Of some
republican senators makes it improb-
able that any action on the treaties
can be taken during the present ses-
sion. The president expects, however.
that at least some of his nominees for
the federal trade commission will be
confirmed before March 4. Any not con-
firmed are expected to get recess APP
p~eintrnents.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
ADVOCATES TO
BEGIN UNITED EFFORT

Chicago, Feb. "A national peace
conference was opened today for the
purpose of adopting a plan by which
the sympathy, influence and aid of tho
American people may be rendered ma
lions involved in the European war
and the cause of early peace promoted.
The conference. which was attended
by advocates from all parts of
the nation, was held under the aus
pieces of the Emergency Federation of
Peace forces. Miss Jane Adams, OF
Chicago. was the chairman. The con
ference will close tomorrow night.
Edwin d. Mead, director of the
worlds peace foundation of Boston. in
an address said that in the present war
the neutral nations had been silent toe
long.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
SOUTH DAKOTANS ACCUSED
BY GOVERNMENT AGENTS

Yankton. S. D., Feb. 81. Frank
max, operator of a pool hal, at Dante.
and NJ. Tawrinek, a Merchant al
Wagner, today gave bonds before mi
ted States Commissioner L. r. White.
10 appear for triad at Sioux Falls in
April, on q charge of Introducing Iiouot.
on the Yankton Indian
Others caught in the government net.
to nave a hearing here Monday. are:
l.. ID. HelmeS, Wagner; John
Wagner: hoina Whalen, Geddes and
three Indians, John Blaine, Adam
Feather. and Abel Thomas, of Green
wood.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
TAKES SHOT AT LEADER
OF TURK MILITARISTS

Sofia, tvia London). Feb. 27.-Accord-
ing TIC advices from Constantinople. rig
Id measures to control the night life of
that city have beer put into effect as
the result of an attempt to aSSassinate
Ialalat Bey. Turkish minister of the
interior, finance, marine and war. The
3ssasSlllatlon was attempted while the
minister was passing through II street
IN tn" STEAMBOAT district. q man armed
with a revolver firing at him. The as
sassin was some distance away and
the bullet missed its mark.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
DRIVE OUT CHINESE TO
CONSERVE FOOD SUPPLY

London. Feb. 27.-The Evening News
publishes a dispatch from Rotterdam
saving h a owing to the shortage OF
food in Germany the German author
tiles have ordered the expulsion of
500 Chinese. A strong Netherlands po-
lice force has been sent to he frontier
to prevent these men from entering
Dutch territory and complications are
expected. the correspondent declares.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
CONNOLLY I'M FAVOR
OF ARMY TRAINING

Washington. d. c.. Feb. 27.-rrging
military training of citizens saying the
country faces grave danger. and now is
the time to prepare. Representative
Connolly, at a Cornell banquet, SAID:
Il would like to see every public school.
every high school and every university
in our land training pupils and students
for that day when a crisis may cause
a calling to arms He said when that
dread day came ii would be to uni
versity men the nation would look.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
FOOD SITUATION IN
MEXICO CITY BETTER

Washington, d. c.. Feb. 27.-Carran-
as agency here today announced re-
ceipt of Il report from Vera Cruz say
ing:
The food situation in Mexico City
Is better and food supplies are being
received from various sources and be-
ing distributed among the poor.
Villa and Zapata factions" it added,
are reported lighting at Cuernavaca.
C~arranZa forces defeated the enemy at
Tacuba, neal Mexico City, yesterday"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
OF GERMAN HIGH
SCHOOL BOYS IN ARMY

Berlin, Feb. 27.-by wrieless)-The
budget cornittee that out
of 1850 male high schoo! teachers in
country 1000 are serving in the army
While nearly half the high school pu-
pills over IL years old have entered the
military service.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
lowA ul.

Washington. d. c., Feb. 27.-Sena-
.ors Kenyon and Cummins returned 10
he Senate today after a siege of grippe.
Senate Cumnafas has been at Pine
hurst, n. c.. with Judge Prouty and
i~enator Kenyon has been in bed at his
tome. here several days.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
TWO GERMAN AVlATORs
RESCUED IN NORTH SEA

Lowestoft. England. Nia London).
feb. 27.-Two German aviators who
Tor two days have been ciinging to
heir machines in the North sea, were
anded here today by the British traw-
ter which rescued them. The Germans
met with their accident while at
tempting to fly from Ostend to England
last Sunday. Both of them were handed
over to the naval authorities.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
CREDITORS GET
SO PER CENT OF CLAIMS

Mason City, Ia. Feb. 27.-In stipula-
ions agreed upon at 400 today in the
Colby-Walsh case. creditors reveiye
s120,oD0 in lands. and $4,000 in stocks.
which amounts to so per cent of their
c'"imS.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
To Herd Sheep With Aero.

Stanley Smith arrived here today.
bound for New York, where he ex-
poets to buy an airship to round up
the sheep on his rs, 000-acre ranch at
the foot of Crazy mountains in Mon
tana.
Smith lives at Martinsdale, which
has 40 inhabitants, each of whom has
an automobile. He said he had used
autos to round up his stock, but ex-
poets the airship to reduce the cost
and expedite the speed about 25 per
cent.
He has decided on a dirigible.-Chi-
cago Dispatch to New York Herald.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
To Be Expected.

The other day a young man went
to get a marriage license and the blum
dering clerk gave him a dog license"
What did the prospective bride.
room do?"
Il understand he emitted a howl"
Evening star., 1915-12-18
PREPARING FOR EVANGELIST
BILLY SUNDAY IN BALTIMORE
George Sunday at Meeting in Monumental City
This Week Reports 1900 Have Professed
Conversion In Syracuse.

BALTIMORE. December 1s.-George
Sunday, son of Evangelist Billy
Sunday, came Ito Baltimore on
a flying trip from Syracuse, n. Y.
and in brief speech before
the : executive committee of the
William A. Sunday Baltimore cam
paign at headquarters. in the Equitable
building, during the week, told what
was being done in Syracuse and how
the Baltimore campaign was being
looked forward to-. Much interest is
being manifested in Washington in
the coming meetings. which, it is ex-
pected, will be largely attended from
that city.
He said that 1900 persons in Syra-
cusa had "hit the trail' and that in
the preliminary prayer meetings in
Trenton. N. J., already more than 240
conversions had taken place. From
mere meetings to engender enthusiasm
in the campaign, which opens there in
January, he said, they had developed
into genuine revivals.
Hardly any other city had interested
his father more than Baltimore, he
said, and Billy Sunday and his whole
official family were awaiting with
keen interest the campaign here. He
Evening star., 1915-12-18

Who can forget never TO be forgot,
The time that all the world In sunoef lles'
When like the stars the singing angels shot
To earth and heaven awakened all his eyes
To see another sun at midnight rise
On earth: Was ever sight of equal fame,
For God before man like Himself did frame.
But God Himself now like mortal man became
The angels carolled loud their songs OF peace;
The cursed oracles were stricken dumb;
To see their Shepherd. the poor shepherds press
To see their King. the kingly sophtcs come'
And then. to guids unto his Masters home'
star comes daicing up the orient,
when aold to make their Prince a crown, they
Giles Fletcher.
The words of the angels song are
familiar to all ears, and though SO oft
repeated, especially at this season OF
the year, we never grow weary OF
hearing them.
GLORY to God in the highest. and on
earth peace, good will toward men,
This song is ever new. 1t can never
grow old or wearisome. 1t is as fresh
today as when at first
1t came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song OF old.
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps OF god
Peace TO the earth, good Will to men
From heavens all glorious King!
The world In solemn stiffness lay
70 hear the angels sing
Evening star., 1915-12-18
The Ever-New Song.

Why is the angels Christmas song
ever new?
There are few words. or phrases that
do not become stale by constant repe-
tition. Many compositions which de-
light at first afterward seem dull and
improbable.
This is not true of the angels song,
because the fullness of its meaning to
the finite mind can never be exhausted.
1t Is so with all Scripture and with a
few of our choicest hymns which en-
body suggestions of the unending reve-
lations or gospel truth. They contain
the elements of bread for the soul.
We cannot live upon sweetmeats. but
We eat bread every day. The bread of
life cannot become stale or unpalatable.
For this reason we never tire OF
gospel truth, which is for our spiritual
nature as daily bread Is for our
physical nature.
There is that in the gospels which
makes their messages bear constant
Iteration and reiteration.
Like pictures or tine old masters, we
recur to them again and again, and
find both that their beauty never wears
out and that there is some new beau
ty we did not observe before.
How the prophecy of the angeis
Christmas song may come true is by
our preaching the Angels gospel to
the pOor-to those in need OF deliver
ance from poverty Of body and soul.
Evening star., 1915-12-18

viour. while the commingiing of awe.
wonder and delight upon the faces of
Cleopas and the other disciples as they
recognize their risen Lord -is' striking.
The coloring which characterizes this
artists work, 1t is pointed out. is rich
~ displayed in this large painting. The
words of the Washington artist, Rich
ard N. Brooke. who wrote to a friend
regarding another of OerteIs canyases,
might apply in some respects. 1t Is said,
to this latest work of the artist to be
placed before the public. Mr.. Brooke
said: after very careful study OF Mr..
Oertefs picture am fully
confirmed in the conviction that 1t is
a great work of art. Looking back /
can recall no painter out of quite an
extended acquaintance who in my be-
lief would have met all the require
ments as fully, at the same time pre-
served a harmony Of color, excellence
of technique and an absolute perfet-
ton of composition as ] consider Mr..
Oertel to have done in this instance"
Other works in Washington churches
done by this master of religious paint
ing are to be seen in the Cathedral of
SITS. Peter and Paul at Mount St. AL
bans. the Church of the Incarnation,
81. Stephens. st. Mary's and st. Johns
Church. Georgetown.
1t was the aim of Mr.. Oertel's life, 1t
is said. to rescue religious art from the
neglect into which 1t had fallen, and he
sacrificed all other ambitions to this
effect.
Evening star., 1915-12-18
AMERICAN LUTHERANS FAIL TO
GET FOREIGN MISSIONARY NEWS
Are Unable to Secure Information Concerning lie
nomination 5 Work Supported from Germany
Accordins to New Year Book.

81, ,7oo on total membership that now @
reaches 2,414116. American foreign
missionary income last year amounted TO
s5os 900. The general council reports port ;. an n
said to revisions of church rolls. Ihe
general synod. the Oldest OF the Lutnerah utnndil
cal conference. chiefly German. gained
41,000.
Sunday school membership just about
feId its own, save in the general coun-
ell, where there was gain OF 1i.oeS otn
children. Money contributions, ootn
for parish support and for benevo-
lences, gained steadily in spite of con-
tributions to war funds, which nave
been large from ,the Germans in par
ticular.
General council and general synod
gained each 100000 in benevolent
gifts, while the synodical conference
gifts went ahead by s241,000. American
Lutherans have now no fewer than
sixty-fve synods. many of them hold
ing no fellowship whatever with other
Lutheran synods. There are 9,627
Lutheran ministers, the largest number
yet reported.
Evening star., 1915-12-18

also said that the preliminary work
up to this point had almost exceeded
his fathers expectations.
With Mr.. Sunday was Rev. ]. Wal
lace Welch, Billy Sundays advance
man, who came to consult with Chair
man T. Davis Hill of the entertainment
committee about the housing of the
official Sunday family. They left the
city late in the afternoon.
OF the forty-nine members of the
executive committee, forty-five were
present at the two,hour session, over
which Chairman Daniel Baker presid-
ed. The members decided to meet at
pm. Monday, and to begin their
weekly prayer meetings on Thursday
of next week. During this week the
various subcommittees will carry for
ward their work in their departments.
The men who have accepted commit
tee chairmanships are as follows:
Finance. John T. Stone; building.
Richard P. Baer; prayer meetings.
Rev. DR.. Don S. Colt; entertainment, T..
Davis Hill; auditors, John b.. Ramsay;
ushers, Robert Garrett; Bible study,
Rev DR.. John Mcdowell; hospital. DR..
Winford H. Smith: music, Hobart
Smock; personal workers. Rev. DR.. De
Witt NJ Benham; business men, Henry
S. Dulaney: educational institutions,
Rev Dr. Hugh Birckhead: publicity
and site. w. o. Atwood, and shopwork,
Rev. H. P. Jackson.