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TOMBSTONE BOX
 BURSTS; IS BOOZE

Wichita Walls, Tex, Dec. 20-The fumes of whiskey issuing from among number of tombstones which had been postled about while being ship ped from this city to the Mary Dee Cemetery. Mountain View, Okla. at tracted the attention of officers and resulted in the discovery of what is considered the latest method of trans porting intoxicants to prohibition states, according to word received here today from Mountain View, Okla.
 A considerable quantity of whiskey was packed in a box among a num- ber of tombstones and labelled in large letter "Tombstones."
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WILL OBSERVE
 LIGHTLESS NIGHT

Washington, Dec. 2O.-The first weekday 'lightless night" will be ob- served throughout the country to- night in strict compliance with the rules of the Fuel Administration. Re ports received here from public util- ities companies supplying electric current for display lighting and ad- vertising express complete willing ness to cooperate with Fuel Admin istrator Garfield in his attempt to re- lieve the heavy drain on the nations coal supply.
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Grover Cleveland, to Captain. Bosan- auet of the Coldstream Guards. Cap tain Bosanquet, son of Sir Albert Bosanquet, has been decorated with the distinguished service order.
 Miss Cleveland came to London in June of last year, after having quali- fled as a nurse and instructor of the blind, and took up work as volun- teer at St. Dunstan's home for blinded soldiers.
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Associate Justice Louis D. Bran deis of the United States Court. who extended his encouragement and con- gratulations to a convention of lead CTS of the Zionist organization in ses- sion at Philadelphia. The convention was the first concrete step toward the achievement of national character by the Jews of the world. 1ntimation was given during the meeting that the reoccupation of the Holy Land would be under way within two months
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NEGRO ACCUSED OF
 STEALING A MULE

Sam Rose, negro, was arrested yes terday morning by Deputy Street Commissioner Evan Parnell. charged with grand larceny. Rose is alleged to have stolen mule from w. E.. Smith, a planter near this city. MT. Smith recognized the mule as Rose drove it by him Thursday morning and had the negro arrested. Rose will be given trial this morning.
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An Italian aviator has arrived in this country for the purpose of build ing an airship in which to return to Europe. It is certainly none of our business, but it looks as if it would have been cheaper for him to have stayed on that side.
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'. S. LABORATORY BURNED.

Muscatine, Ia., Dec. ,20.-The United States government sustained a $6O,- 900 fire loss last night in the destrucr ton by fire of the main laboratory at the United States biological sta- tion at Fairpost, Ia. The fire will seriously laysthev progress of scien- tific work carried on there.
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BEAN SUPPER TONIGHT.

The regular weekly bean supper will be held tonight at the Young Mems Christian association, after which the boys Bible classes will be held. During the bean supper Prof. l.. E. Bassett, coach at the high school, will address the boys in at tendance on the morale of high school pupils.
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Christmas as
 uSual---

Times and conditions ay change from year to year, hut Christmas of old. Dear old be whiskered santa-rendeers- -sleighbels- evergreen mistletoe- all are with us again However the pressing gravity of the times admonshes us to make THIS Christmas a
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FALSE ALARM.

Wasn't it cold last night?'
 Gold? Why, I was awakened by the noise of my wife's teeth chatter ing on the bureau. Boston Tran script.
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POSTPONE LAFOLLETTE QUIZ.

Washington, Dec. 20.-Inability to obtain quorum compelled the senate committee Investigating Senator La- Follette's recent St. Paul speech, to postpone action again today for the fourth time.
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Another thing: If the government takes control of the railroads, will a red tape supersede the bell cord in passenger cars?
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MISS CLEVELAND ENGAGED.
Former Presidents Daughter Is to
 Marry British Officer.

London, Dec. 20.-The engagement is announced of Esther, daughter of
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new YORK POLICE
TO Be PUT ON DIET
Twelve Members of Force viii
Try to Live on rs Cents
Each Daily.

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Twenty-five
cents q day a person is sufficient to
live on. according to the belief of
Police Commissioner Arthur Woods OF
New York. To prove 1t he will begin
next Monday, with the cooperation Of
the Life Extension Institute, dietic
experiment with twelve New York re-
cruit policemen
These policemen will be placed on
the IS cents a day diet for three
weeks The squad will be divided
into two sections, one section getting
meat once a day and the other twice
q day.
The cooking OF the food will be in
charge of DE-. Mary Rose, of the
Teachers College at Columbia Uni
versity. The men will be weighed and
receive daily physical examinations.
A kitchen Will be installed near
police headquarters, and all food to
be used in the experiment Will be pur-
chased from nearby dealers.
The policemen with follow their.
daily routine, while the experiment
is being carried out. They will report
early every morning for police train
ing school duties, which includes two
and a half hours of exercise, and will
go through other police routine until
D d. m.
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immense commitments is one that
the admiralty is doubtless glad to
shift, in some part. 1t must be
borne in mind always that
an order for such supplies,
placed with a British concern,
is not absolute assurance of deliver
les: if the British navy should dis
cover, when those shells are ready
for shipment, that it needed them,
they would never reach American
shores.
The long and short Of it is that
the tender of 16-inch and 14-inch
shells at what seem astonishinylv
low prices, is performance IN
dumping" war supplies on the
United States. 1t represents the
possibilities of a situation created
since the war began. Britain, in all
probability, could supply such an or
der out of its naval reserve stocks
and not menace its safety. 1t doesn't
need to do that; but the British
plants could easily take on such an
order, to their own and the admir-
alty's great advantage, making low
prices in order to keep their organi-
cations occupied. Then if later, it
were found undesirable to deliver,
why, the deliveries would not be
made.
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Suggests Rebate For Persons Who
Carry Own Purchases Home.

TO the EQlIOT Oh lnE LINES.
Some days since the public press
stated that a careful statistical in
quiry into the cost of delivery of
various kinds of merchandise in
Washington had determined that such
cost is approximately s per centum of
the cost of the merchandise itself.
1t has occurred to the writer that
this fact might form the basis for a
very material reduction in the cost of
living. Many persons prefer to make
their own deliveries, that is: to carry
home their purchases, and many more
would do so IL a saving were there
by effected. The cost OF delivery is
almost all a clear waste.
Let the merchants adopt the prac-
tice of making a rebate of substan-
TALLY the cost of delivery as above
ascertaiped, to those customers who
carry their purchases away or who
make delivery for themselves.
1t would not be practicable, OF
course, to- give this rebate on all pur-
chases at the time, but sales slips
could be given and the allowance
made in cash or merchandise when
the aggregate of these sales slips
reaches the sum of SOS, say.
A clearing house could be estab-
iIshed by which a merchant in one
line of business would redeem the
sales slips of another merchant in the
same line or a different line. In this
way the cost of delivery would be
saved by the consumer IL he so desire
and would be an asset almost as
liquid as cash itself. w. e. II.
- January 4, 1917.
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THE SENATE THINKING 1T OVER

Senator Lodge has provided the
Senate with viewpoint from which
to contemplate its intrusion into
phases of international relations that
do not concern it. If the Admins
tration's attitude is understood, it
would prefer that the Hitchcock reso-
lutions should never have been intro
duced; but, not unnaturally, it con-
templates with embarrassment the
possibility that such an expression
should be voted down by the Senate.
The more the Senate presses its dis
cussion Of this whole affair, the more
people outside the Senate at least,
are impressed that the upper house
has been making an modifying
spectacle Of itself.
It would have been hoped with
considerable confidence that, after
the affair of the Gore resolution, the
Senate would refrain from further
efforts to project itself into such
delicate matters. Debates in legis-
lative chamber on matters of such
character are always liable to occa-
sion discomfort and embarrassment.
Senator Lodge is second to none as
a stickler for the full measure of
Senatorial prerogative and recogni-
ton; but he understands also the
proprieties of Senatorial conduct. As
a student of international affairs and
the methods of their conduct, he real
ICES that only difficulty and compi-
cation can result. from the town.
meeting method of determining such
issues.
President Wilson's note to the bel
hgerent nations amounted to an
nouncing that the United States was
ready to assume a new world rela.
tionship; to abandon its authority in
the Americas under the Monroe doc
trine, and to become one of the guar
antors of a league of nations to en-
force peace. Perhaps this country is
ready to take such step; but surely
Senatorial Endorsement of such a
vital change of policy ought to be
extended only with the utmost cir
cumspection. The time may come
when treaties presenting the specific
proposal to the Senate will come be-
fore II foT ratification mr. rejection
If that time comes, the Senate will
be embarrassed to have given "a
sweeping Endorsement, in advance, of
the proposal looking to such course.
From every point of view, the con-
servation of its own authority and
rights as well as the preservation
of its dignity and independence, the
Senate ought not at this time to be
issuing commitments that will fall
due in future.
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CODE KILOGRAMS
LEAD TO DIVORCE
Husband Finds "Key" to Mys-
terious Messages and
"Tips Off" Judge.

CHICAGO, Jan. 5.-when Harry J.
Sweet, jr., real estate broker, inter
cepted kilograms to his wife reading
Kangaroo rabbit showers bowling
salt" and, according to his testimony,
caught his wife answering the mys-
FERROUS sender with Paradise tennis
violet" he was mystified. Then he
discovered the key. Today he appear
ed before Judge Thomson and was
granted a divorce.
Sweet told the Judge that his wife
had given him a score Of messages
and their code words so that he might
blackmail the sender. The kilograms
were sent to Mrs. Sweet under as
sumed names, and were signed Ell
1ictt, Houston, Texas" Part Of the
code words and their meaning, as ex-
planned by Sweet in the hearing, are:
Kangaroo-"1 love you better than
all else"
Rabbit am lonesome, longing
for you"
Showers-"If you were but here
would be happy"
Bowling-"I want to be your sweet
heart forever"
salt-"There isn't another girl like
you on earth"
Paradise-"Have met my Waterloo
at last, and am Hisn' now"
Tennis-'T am miserable and un-
happy"
VioIet-"After all you are the best
one"
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LOW PRICED MUNITIONS FROM
ENGLAND

The announcement that a British
concern, the Hadfields, made the low
est bid in supplying IA and 16 inch
projectiles to the United States
navy, seems to have caused more as
constituent than is quite warranted.
There is, indeed, a wide disparity in
the prices. The Hadfelds offered 16-
inch projectiles at $513 each; Amer
lean concerns bid $76s, SITS, $3.50,
and 5000, respectively, for this same
shell.
More than this, the British con-
Germ offered to send its shells in
shorter time than any of the Ameri-
can firms could deliver.
Consideration of all the conditions
seems to warrant the conclusion that
this wide discrepancy is not mex
plicable. The British manufacture
ers have established an enormous ca
paeity for turning out this kind of
projectiles; and how many of them
have been fired since the war began ?
Mighty few. The British navy, with
a vast ammunition reserve on hand
before the war, and two and one
half years of wartime speeding on
orders, must be in a position to per-
nit makers to cast about for any
orders that can safely be placed, with
assurance that the goods will not
fall into enemy hands. It is not a
wild guess that the British maritime
authorities may have been very anx-
ious for a British concern to get
this contract: it would give a big
and very important plant something
to do, a chance to earn something,
to keep its force intact, during a
period when there is probably very
small need for rush work on British
naval orders. A plant such as that
of Hadfelds represents immense in
vestment. Its force of operatives
represents the highest skill in a very
specialized business. On the one
side the British admiralty likely does
not need the entire product of this
special kind of shells at this time;
yet, on the other hand, it dares not
allow such a plant to shut down and
its operating force to be disinte-
grated.
Beyond this, in order to get pri-
vate interests to create the huge pro-
ducing capacity that was deemed in
stantly necessary when the war
started, the British government had
to guarantee large orders to the
manufacturers. The time is come
when the burden of paying for such
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RVersIng the Process.

Instead of making brutes of the
fighting men, as many of the pacifists
have imagined as the result of war,
lighting men have been made OF
brutes; and the same fighting men,
except when engaged in the trenches
or in the shock of battle, entertain
for each other only the deepest re-
spect and admiration. One of the
stories told by Mr.. Barrett was en-
tirely new to his audience. He went
to the camp OF the German prisoners
in England and found them most COM
fortably cared for and under the least
possible restraint in their condition,
governing themselves, in fact, and
respected by their captors. The story
was this: that every. month the Ger
man officers detained in these camps
were paid their regular salaries by
the English authorities, to save or to
spend as they pleased and without
restraint. Even the paciflsts could
not do better than that. Human ma
ture is very much the same whether
IL speaks German or French and has
not changed very much since the con-
fusion arose at the Tower of Babel.
THE COMMENTATOR.
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IT'LL BE INVESTIGATOR

The House has directed Chairman
Henry and his Committee on Rules
to report in ten days on a resolu-
ton for investigation of the "leak"
charges. It is a bit uncertain
whether Mr.. Lawson's accusations,
or the seeming anxiety of some in
fiuences to avoid the investigation,
have done most to fix in the public
mind the conviction that there must
be some fire back of all the smoke.
One thing is very certain, how
ever. The private conferences be-
tween Chairman Henry and the Bos-
ton financier, resulting in Mr..
Henry's decision that there was no
need to call his committee together,
have not made a pleasant impress
sion. The other members of the
Rules Committee could have spared
the time, without any great sacrifice
Of public interest, to attend these
conferences. If they had done so,
the whole proceeding would have
looked nicer. The refusal of the
chairman to take the rest of his COM
mittee into his confidence, has re-
suited in a condition that brings the
whole affair before the House, and
takes up many hours of the precious
time of that body.
Back in the olden days, before it
was supposed that the House had
been reformed away from the car
ship of committee chairmeh, it was
common enough for the head of a
great committee to regard himself
as the custodian of his committees
business. He was a sort of ambas-
sador of the House organization to
consider its relations with the out
side world. That relationship is sup
posed to have ended; and the action
of the House in ordering the Henry
committee to perform. is hint that
the House does not intend to permit
return to the old system OF star
chamber considerations. .
various members have declared,
the things that happened in the
stock-dealing world made it very
clear that there was q 'leak" some
where. Mr.. Bennett Of New York
caused a sensation, we are assured,
when he named a name in connection
with these charges; yet he merely
mentioned a name, in a public place,
that has been in many minds, and
had been associated with various
stories concerning the market move
ments. It is rather more sensational
that the mention Of any name, the
statement of any specific ground for
charges, should have been sup
pressed so long.
Denunciation of Mr.. Lawson and
the application of epithets to him
does not brush aside the facts which
are apparent enough. Somebody
knew enough to justify tremendous
plunging in the market, and permit
huge profits to be won. The mere
fact that there has been such insist
ent objection to investigation has
left bad taste.
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Lecture, THE Psychology Of Color, Its Eff
feet on the Mind. Body and Finances" Miss
Louise Cults Powell. Hotel Portland, 5
p. m.
Meeting, Kate Gordon Chapter OF the South
ern States Woman Suffrage Conference
National Suffrage headquarters, 1875 Rhode
Island avenue northwest. D. m
Address, Government Mediation in Railway
Labor Disputes" Judge Martin A. Knapp,
before Federal Schoolmen's Club, Hotel
Continental, D. m.
Address, Prison Reform" W. H. Whitaker.
before Federation of Citizens Associations
board room. District Building. .. m.
Discussion, The Relations Of Philosophy to
Mathematical Science" Society for Phiioso-
phical Inquiry. Public Library, 4:45 p. m.
"At Home" Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage. Cameron House, Lafay-
cite Square. ( to p m.
Lecture Shakespeare. the Man." Justice W,
p Stafford. before Washington branch OF
the Shakespeare Society OF America, Cairo.
Address, Radio Telegraphy." Lieut.. Reed
FarweIl. L. s. N, at NAVY League House.
1906 Twentieth street northwest, q p. m.
Committee meetings. Retail Merchants As
ISOLATION grocers section, u m, haberdash-
ers' section, p. m. and ice section, D. m.
at headquarters.
Odd Fellows-Encampments. Canton Washing
ton, No. 1, business.
National Cnion-Government Printing Once
Council.
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WHATS ON PROGRAM
Many Interesting Events Of Import.
snee Are Scheduled.
Today.

Lecture. Campaigning with the italian Army
in the Alps" VIII Irwin. before National
Geographic Society, New Masonic Temple,
$50 and s:l5 p. m.
Meeting, Brightwood Citizens Association,
Brightwood Public School. D. m
Meeting. West Virginia Society. white par
lors. Ebbitt. p. m
Lecture. Law Of Love, Marriage and Busi-
ness" Miss Louise Cults P6wen, Hotel
Portland. s p. m.
Meeting. board Of governors Of the RstaiI
Merchants Association, In board rooms, :
The Tragedy of Man." by Drama Learn.
Players. Wilson Normal School, S:15 D. m.
Installation Of officers. William B. Cushing
Camp. No. 80. Sons Of Veterans. u. s. A.,
and Gushing Camp Auxiliary. Pythian Tenn
Business meeting. Kate Gordon Chapter of
the Southern States Suffrage Conference
at home'of Mrs w. n. Stoner. 1s27 Rhode
Island avenue northwest p. m.
Concert, United States Soldiers Home Band
Orchestra, Stanley Hall, $50 D. m.
Discussion. what Have You Accumulate
in Saving?" Housekeepers' Alliance IN
connection with the School OF. American
Preparedness. Theodorus Bailey Myers
Mason House. fs0 Twentieth street north
west. ESQ P. m;
No. 3O6. Sons Of Confederate Veterans. Ra-
leigh, p. m.
Installation Of officers with Inaugural
night program, National Press Club, 3
p. m.
Annual parish reception. Epiphany Church,
parish hall. p. m
Conference Of National Popular Government
League, New Ebbitt 10 a. m.
Annual dance, Business High School Alumni
Association, Hotel lafayette, 8 D. m.
Prayer week services, under auspices Of the
woman's Interdenominational Missionary
Union with Mrs. Mary Z. Morley and Mrs
- Ellis Logan on the program, st. Paul's En-
glish Lutheran Church. Eleventh and H
streets northwest. II a. m.
Committee meetings. Retail Merchants A.
ISOLATION, florists section. Il m; furniture
section, / .. m. and furrfers' section,
D. m, In headquarters.
Observation-Disclosures. No .; Lebanon. No. Z,
F. c.
Royal Arch Chapters-Grand Chapter. School
OF instruction.
Knights Templar-columbIa. No. 2. Red
Cross.
cension No. 20; East Gate. No. q.
stallation and page rank.
Pythfan Sisters-Rathbone Temple, No. g. in
stallation.
odd Fellows-Central. No. 1, and MetropolIs
No. Is. joint installation Of officers. by s.
G. Taylor, P. g. p; Phoenix, No. q In
stallation.
Observation-Disclosures No. T. installation
Rebekah Lodges-Miriam, No. 6, business
Red Men-Seneca Tribe. No. IL installation
and social meeting; Mineola Tribe No. a.
Installation and reports OF officers; Idaho
Council. No. l. installation an6 social meet
Ing.
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Continued until culsbra slides again.

There is an agitation on in Ithaca.
N. Y. we see by the papers. to enlarge
the cell capacity Of the city jail Ith-
AGA should be careful. Enlarging the
cell capacity means getting more
guests through the winter. with q con-
seqent increase OF cost to the COM
EIunity.
Prison problems puzzle great many
small communities, as well as large
ones. A village in Illinois where we
used to live had a peculiar problem.
and likely has & to this day.
As soon as the weather began to get
cold tramps were sure to come along
and break into the village jail or Gala
bose. They would steal Coal from the
railroad cars. light a fire and make
themselves pretty comfortable for days
at a time. The "city marshal" as he
called himself. felt that something
should be done about 1t. so he would
call around az the calaboose and in
form the tramps that they were under
arrest
This was Just what the tramps
wanted. Having been put under ar
rest Lssally, II was up to the village to
furnish them food as well as shelter.
After a couple of winters OF this sort
Of thing the chief OF police decided
that it was beneath his dignity to be
waiter and butler to a gang of lazy
tramps any longer. Very much peeved.
he refused to arrest such tramps as
broke into the jail Many interesting
legal complications used to arise every
winter. the tramps claiming that they
had violated the law by breaking into
the calaboose and were therefore en-
titled to arrest and food at the towns
expense. They held by the letter OF
the law. they said, One party in the
place was in favor OF abolishlng the
calaboose altogether. but the more
kind hearted citizens, while drawing
the line at furnishing food. thought
that it would be too bad to take the
shelter away from the tramps in win
ter weather as long as they promised
to steal coal from nobody but the rail-
road And the city marshal was in
favor Of keeping the calaboose, in spite
Of the tramps, for what is the use Of
being a city marshal II you have no
Jail? DON MARQUIS.