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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-05
State Department Does Not
Admit Increased Gravity
in the Situation.
CONFERENCE TO BE HELD
WITH PRESIDENT WILSON
New Tentative Agreement Submit
ted by German Ambassador Will
Be Considered Carefully.

President Wilson and secretary
lansing will not begin discussion
OF Germany latest answer IN the
Lusitania negotiations before
Monday.
If was said that the President
already has the proposal from
Berlin before him and wants to
90 over it carefully before he be-
gins conferences with the Secre-
tarv of State. 1t was pointed out
that the situation was not one
which called for haste.
Officials in touch with the. nesotia-
tions reiterated their statement that
the situation was unchanged. 1here
was an undertone of expectation tha'
the two governments would be aoie
to find common ground for agreement
in official declarations that Berlin s re-
ply had not made the situation any
II was said in high official quarters
that some announcement might oe
mad. within the next few days.
Ambassador Ready for Conference.
Count Won Bernstorf had no appoint
ment today to confer with Secretary
Lansing, but was holding himself IN
readiness to go to the state depart
ment whenever his presence might DC
required.
Administration officials carefully re-
Trained from expressing any opinion
on the acceptability or non -accepfapll-
fly of the newest proposal Iney
pointed out that il could not be SAID
there was a deadlock, because nego-
tiations still were under way
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-05
Apparently a Stumbling Block.

Apparently the stumbling block OF the
situation is the word Illegal as dif-
ferently interpreted in this country
and Germany. The Berlin govern
ments answer proposes. instead of a
nat admission of illegality of the
method of submarine warfare In sink
ing the liner, an acceptance of 1iabil-
itv for the loss of neutral lives. which
Germany hopes will satisfy the United
States and still not prevent Germany
from continuing the submarine cam
paign.
German officials believe that their
previous promise to discontinue sink
ing unresisting merchantmen without
warning brings the submarine cam.
paign within the pale of international
law, and that any inclusion of that
phase in the Lusitania agreement is
Unnecessary and humiliating to the
imperial government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-05
Germany's Interpretation.

The word Illegal in the draft the
German ambassador transmitted to his
government as meeting all the contentious
of the United States. is taken to have
been regarded in Berlin as being sus-
ceptibie OF application not TO the Lusi-
tania case alone, but to the entire sub
marine campaign.
The American government in recent
communication to all the belligerents
openly recognized the submarine as the
factor which has brought about a great
change in naval warfare. and which de-
mands recognition in international law.
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PLEA FOR A HALF NICKEL.
II Would 81 Handy In Making Change
and Might Reduce Prices.

The ham sandwich. which was once
Scents. now frequently costs dime.
The same disturbing truth applies to
other things in common life, both in
side and outside Of lunch rooms. There
is no need Of statistics from economists
to inform us that the cost Of living
has advanced. Every spender of MOL
ey knows it. Retailers are more re-
luctant to put prices up than is gen
orally realized. They know that con-
sumption decreases as prices advance.
That means less business, and profits
depend partly on large business. When
more than the traffic will bear is
charged the traffic falls off.
Change making is one of the items
done quickly if expenses are to be kept
down. The young woman at the lunch
room desk has not time to count pen
MES. She must deal in nickels. dimes
and quarters if she is to maintain her
astonishing speed and accuracy.
We need another coin. Three cent
pieces were confused with dimes and
were hard to use because tney were
not fractions of other currency. No
one but a statistician thinks in deci-
mails. The rest Of us do our sums in
fractions. Four three-cent pieces make
IL cents, but there is no such coin.
Eight Of them make "a cents. but the
coin almost corresponding is worth
cent more. If three cent pieces were
again issued they would not fill the
bill
With a half nickel it would be diff
ferent. Half nickel is fraction of
every coin from the mint. Were there
such a coin cent raises would not
have been so common. If there should
be such coin many prices would
come down.-Boston Globe.
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hand is so stricken off and the stump

hand is 50 stricken of and the stump
scared"
Mutilation was a favorite form Of
punishment in those good old days.
following. no doubt, the Scriptural pen
atty. ian eye for an eye and tooth
for a TOOTH" Thus the slanderers
tongue was pulled out, SO that he
could at least utter SANDER no more,
and he who destroyed the sight Of
one eyed man lost both his own eyes.
By the Coventry act in the time of
Charles II. any person who should ma
liciously put out the eye. slit the nose
or disable any limb Of another with in
tent to MAIN or disfigure him was to
pay for the wrong with his life. BY
another act the man who fought with
weapons in a church had one of his
both ears, as many a malefactor had.
he was branded in the cheek with the
letter e.
By an act of Queen Elizabeth's reign
the fOrger was condemned to stand in
the pillory, to have his ears cut off by
up and scared and to be imprisoned
for life. and by a statute of James l..
an unfortunate bankrupt was nailed
bysan ear to the pillory for two hours.
and then his ear was cut off.
If an enterprising farmer were fool
ish enough to send any of bis live
sheep out of the country he paid a
terrible price for his rashness. for his
goods were forfeited, he was sont to
Jail for twelve months, and on recov.
ering his liberty his left hand was cut
Off in a public market and nailed up
there as a warning against the danger
Of illicit exports. II he offended Sec
ond time he paid for his daring with
his life. II he set covetous eyes on
neighbours sheep and annexed one OF
them he was unceremoniously hanged
by the neck until he was dead. In,
deed. thousands Of unfortunates paid
with their lives for thefts much more
insignificant.
Burning alive was. Of course, COM
mon punishment for witchcraft for
many century, down to couple OF
hundred years ago. and many Of the
victims who were accused of SELLING
their souls to the devil were children
under ten years Of age.
In 1926 Edward Burnworth, a high,
wayman. refusing to plead. was loaded
With boards and weights. For more
than an hour he bore mass of metal
weighing nearly four hundredweight.
when human flesh could bear the agony
no more. and he prayed to be put to
the bar again. He pleaded mot gull.
IT," but was nevertheless found guilty
and ended his days on the scaffold.
This cruel punishment survived to
George Ills time.-London TIT Bits.
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The Seismoqraph.

Though the man in the street might
easily mistake a seismic disturbance
for the rumbling of traction engine
or an explosion. the marvelously deli
cate Instruments which record earth
quake shocks are immune from such
decisions. The recording pen of the
seismometer ignores any local trem.
blings which have not a seismic origin.
but the faintest real earth quakings.
though they have Travelled thousands
Of miles through the earth. set the
pen tracing the telltale graph by means
of which the seiSmologist calculates
the place. time and magnitude Of the
happening Chronicle
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Is no air and no other t.ngi!lp i.....E
in the olen space. 24O,OUO miles across
that gaps between the moon an III
earth.
Then gravitatiOn eXerts the saule
force at every instant. 30 matter
how fast the falling aeronaut may be
descending at any moment. gravitation
will keep on adding speed as If he
bad just started. DiSregarding the
slight retardation produced by the re-.
sistance of the air, he will fall six
teen feet in the first second. forty
eight feet in the second second. eighty
feet in the third second, gaining thir-
ty-two feet in his velocity during ev-
cry second after the first. From a
height of 10000 feet he would fall in
about twenty-five seconds and would
strike with velocity Of 400 feet per
second. E"..
The same kind Of calculation can be
applied to the gravitation between the
earth and the moon. If the moon were
not in motion across the direction of
the earth's "pull'' it would fall to the
earth in about 116 hours.
Now. to return to the mystery, how
is this force exerted? Is it really a
pull, as it seems to be? The answer
to which science is tending is that. in
stead of being a pull. gravitation is a
push-in other words, that the falling
aeronaut is pushed toward the ground
and the moon is pushed toward the
earth.
On the face of it one might think
that nothing was gained by this the
ory, because it seems as impossible
that a push should be exerted with
out tangible connection as a pull.
But the clew is found in the supposed
properties Of that invisible, Intangible.
all pervading medium called the ether.
This, to be sure, is explaining one
mystery by another, for we know moth
ing about the ether except that it con-
veys the waves of light and electric
lty; but, at any rate. it affords a con
ceivable explanation Of gravitation.-
Garrett P. Serviss in New York Jour-
nal.
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DEATH BY B0!L!NG
The Way Prisoners Fared In the
Old Days In England.
TORTURE FOR MINOR CRIMES.

Mutilation Used to Be a Favorite Form
Of Punishmsnt, and the SIandersr's
Tongue Was Plucksd Out-Ths Pen
atty For High Treason.
In these merciful days, when q man
who publishes libel on the king es-
capes with few months imprison-
ment. it seems scarcely credible that
as late as 1870 the punishment ordain-
ed by the law for high treason was
that the offender should be drawn on
hurdle to the place of execution and
there should be hanged by the neck
until he was dead; that then his head
should be severed from his body, that
his body be divided into four quarters
and that his head and quarters be at
the disposal of the crown.
And this was by no means the worst
fate that might befall criminal in the
so called good old days." as one John
Roose. cook Of Henry Wills day.
found to his cost. Roose was convict
ed of the heinous crime of putting poi
son in the broth intended for the fami
ly of no less reverend parsonage than
the bishop Of Rochester. For such a
crime hanging, drawing and quarter
ing was too merciful a punishment
Something lingering. with boiling OIL"
or at least water. was decided to be the
punishment that best fitted the crime.
and with this object special act Of
parliament was passed ordaining boil
ing alive as the punishment for this
felony. John Roose expiated his sins
in a cauldron Of hot water. and a few
years later, in 1912. one Margaret Davy
met the same fate at Smithfeld.
So gravely was the crime Of poison
ing regarded in these days of old that,
it is recorded, a Scotsman, one Thomas
Belle, and his son were banished for
life for administering poison to cou-
pie Of noisy hens belonging to neigh
Dor.
These were indeed days when the
man Of violent temper or criminal
tendencies must operate warily. If by
any evil chance he came to blows and
drew blood within the precincts Of the
kings palace he was inevitably con-
demned to lose his right hand, and a
statute of Henry VIII. regulated the
whole grewsome ceremony, with all
its functionaries, from the surgeon who
was to amputate the offending mem
Der, to the individual who used the
soaring irons, the yeoman of the soul
lery who made the irons red hot at
his fire and the sergeant Of the cellar
who was provided with pot Of red
vine to give the same party after his
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A NATURAL PUZZLE
One Of the Great Mysteries That
Confound Science.
THE FORCE OF GRAvITATIoN.

This Wonderful Power That Keeps
Suns and Planets In Their Courses
May Be Waves In the Ether That
Push All Bodies Toward Each Other.
Il The mystery Of mysteries in science
Ia the attraction Of gravita tlon-that
very force Of nature that is the most
familiar to US all. It seems strange
that the most familiar thing in the
world should be at the same time the
most inexplicable, but SO it is.
In order to see clearly wherein the
mystery consists let US first consider
what gravitation appears to be. 1t is
gravitation that gives the property Of
weight to all bodies. If there were no
gravitatiOn we could float in the air
It is gravitation that brings cannon
ball eventually to the earth, no matter
how swiftly it may be projected. The
faster it starts the farther it will 60,
but during every second of it's flight
1t drops the same distance vertically
toward the earth, whether the speed
impaired to it by the powder is 500 or
5000 feet per second. Gravitation
acts on moving body exactly as well
as on one at rest. ..
It is gravitation that curbs the mo
ton of the moon and keeps it in an
orbit of which the earth is the active
focus.
So, too. it is gravitation that gov.
erns the earth in it's motion around
the sun, preventing it from flying away
into bOundless space. Astronomy shows
that gravitation acts between all the
planets and all the stars and controls
their motions with respect to one an
other.
Now. this mysterious force appears
to be an attraction as If there were
elastic cords connecting all the bodies
in space and tending to draw them to-
gether. But space, as far as our senses
can detect, Is empty. How, then, can
there be an attraction? In order that
body may be attracted or drawn
there must be something to draw it.
Gravitation does the trick, but COM
pletely hides from US the mechanism
through which it acts. We can dis
cover no mechanism at all.
When an unfortunate aeroplanist
drops from his machine he begins at
once to fall toward the earth as If II
were pulling him. But how can it pull
II it has nothing to pull with? You
may think at first sight that it is the
air which acts as an intermediary. but
that Is not so. because the earth anG
the moon pull upon one another with
a force equal t" the strength of a ac
cable 800 mile; III diameter. LAT 49,.
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SAVING THE RUG.
Tale Of . Bottle Of Ink, = Quick Witted
Friend and Some Salt.

Friend and Some Salt.
While stopping at new and expen-
sively furnished hotel guest spilled
a bottle Of ink on a costly velvet rug,
light blue and pink in color. A friend
who was calling on her at the time
quieted her fears by assuring her that
she would fix it so that not the slight
est stain would be left.
First she had quart Of fine table
salt sent up at once. Sitting the salt
through her fingers. she covered the
ink spot entirely. TO all appearances
there was nothing but a pile Of fine
table salt on the rug
Over this she placed a heavy chair.
cautioning the guest not to disturb it
nor to allow the maid to do so. After
promising to return the next afternoon
to finish the job she went cheerfully
about her own affairs.
True to her word, she made her ap-
pearance the following afternoon and,
calling for dustpan and whisk broom,
removed the salt. There was not the
slightest stain Of lux on the rug. The
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-10-19
Our First Tariff.

The first tariff act in our country
was signed by President Washington
on July 4. 1889. near the very begin
ming of his first administration. Ham
ilton was the author Of the measure.
which provided for specific duty on
some forty seven articles and ad va
loren rates on other groups of arti-
cles. The second tariff act was ap-
proved by the president in August.
179O.-New York American.
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sat, having carefully sifted on the
spot, had slipped into the pile and alb
sorbed all the ink. OF course the salt.
except a thin layer on the outside OF
the pile, was as black as ink could
make it.
This method Of preventing ink stains
is as effective as it is simple. The Sc
cret of success lies in acting promptly.
having fine salt, sitting it on the spot
so slowly and gently that it slips into
the goods and allowing it to remain
undisturbed until it is bone dry. Then
it may be safely removed with Whlsk
broom and dustpan.-New York Sun
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japanese Festivals.

The japanese festivals are easily re-
membered: First of first month, the
new year; third Of third month, feast
Of dolls, for girls; fifth Of fifth month,
feast Of flags. for boys; seventh of sew.
enth month. the day for the god and
goddess Of love, Tonabota; ninth of
ninth month, the escape Of the noun
tains," the feast Of chrysanthemums
The latter is not now generally OBJ
served.
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An Old Superstition.

1t was a common superstition In an
rient Italy that if woman were found
spinning on a highroad the crops
would be ruined for that year. In
most sections Of Italy woman was
forbidden by law thus to spin or even
to carry an uncovered spindle on the
highway.
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Heard In Court.

. Your honor. I acknowledged the ref
erence of the opposing counsel to my
gray hair My hair is gray, and 1t
will continue to be gray as long as l
live The hair Of that gentleman Is
black and will continue to be black as
long as he dyes '-Boston Transcript
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An ORIGINATOR.

My last painting
Il never saw sunset look like that
We'll. what do you think ana
mere copyist?" Louisville Courier
Journal
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A DipIomatist.

II am amazed, sir. that you should
propose to my daughter. You have not
known her a week."
"True. madam. but ! have known
you for some time. and everybody says
your daughter takes after you.' He
got the girl.
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A tactful man can pull a singer
from a bee without getting stung.-G.
81, Lorimer. ......
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Discretion Of speech IL moro destI
able than eloquence.
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Picking . Pocket

Isn't pocket picking difficult and
dangerous art?"
Yes. till you get your hand in."-
Lamb.
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Literal Anpreheneion.

6NOto1 NPpFOnOuoIon'
9he-Let's make up our minds to tell
the folks we're engaged. He-But,
darling. I am afraid your father VIII
kick. Baltimore American.
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Mutilation Used to Be q Favorite Form
Of Punishmsnt, and the SIandersr's
Tongue Was Plueksd Out-Ths Pen
atty For High Treason.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-12-16
Our Toy City
Bring The Little
Ones To See Tt

TOY CITY is at its best
Z now with complete
stocks-displays carefully
arranged-Toys grouped so
that different makes may be
carefully compared and the
best value secured for the
sum you wish to spend.
Bring the children to see it
now-while there is plenty
Of opportunity to get about
easily. -CBasement)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-12-16
A Sale Of Fur Sets T or Xmas
At Half And Less Than Half Price

>E important sale since the establishment OF tins
store because spite of the scarcity of fine furs we
shall present them at Half and Less Than Half Regular
Prices
Fus the regal gift No gift could be dearer to the
feminine heart than set of s and this year fine furs
are modish ndeed-never was there great vogue If you
would combine beauty svle and usefulness and at the
time per and give her set of furs from
this sale. -(Eifth Floor
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-10-14
CAME PROTECTED, RENAL.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct IT, By bureaucratic order signed by Houston, Secretary for Agriculture. Moose and Sheep on the Kenai pe- ninsula are protected until 1918.
 The sportsmen who have been visiting Kenai recently discovered a game shortage owing to the fact that the railroad men and miners had killed them for food during the winter time. They made complaints that the preserves were being so de- pleted and their being unable to en- joy the big game hunt they had ex- pected. In deference to these high moguls the miners and railroad men may kill no more with meat, that's democracy.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-10-14
OVERSTOCKED

To the Public:-
 We have just finished stock talk. ing, and find that we are heavily overstocked so are making enorm- ous reductions in Hardware-as much as 509o in certain lines. Not withstanding immense advances out side, especially in Hardware and Metal Goods, we are still selling on the basis of goods purchased the past two or three years.
 We will sell for cash only at these prices, and for limited time, until we bring our stock down to the re- quirements of the Camp.
 If you have an order to be filled, let us figure on it; we can save you money. We have proved it oo others, we can prove it to you.
 DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-10-14

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