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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-22
NctU COTtce DtiOn of Neutral Rights
H Proposed Code Inspired by u. s.

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No,,trollty ,s tho yit,.tf,,, of STATES
/ -, -.
""'e'h >" '''' ''''' '' VI st ""'' ''' '''
| participants.
Neutrality, especially maritime ucu-
trallty. must hereafter be regulated not
merely on the basis of the rights Of the
Ibelligereuts but especially ON that of the
rights of neutrals. bv. safcguarding com
mercial liberty and releasing n"utrals
from the useless burdens resting on them
with a view to observing neutrality
In case of war between two or more
countries The rest of the states must re.
fraiu from incrcasings the number of bel
ligerents
If not able to prevent the conflict they
must do all they can to put an early oud
20 IT,
When war is dcolarodncutra Statessof
the entire world shall upon ErquCsJ Of
the Administrative Council of the Pernn
ncut Hague Court meet to take measures
to maintain freedom Of commerce and
navigation Of the neutral countries TO dc,
trrminc contrabaudi to see to the observ-
ance Of all neutral rights ana duties eS-
tabishcd in the new rules.
Belligcrents shall he invited 20 send
rcpresentatives who may take acttvc'part
I'm tho discussions and have the right to
vote.
I'm important cases the conference may
authorize severe measures against bellig
creut, or against neutr-lls refusing TO re-
spcct rights and duties of neutrality
such measures may be Public blame,
pcruuiury indemnity commercial boycott
and even the use of an international ior'e
to be determined bv theronterence
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-22
200 Per Cent
Growth

We start 1917 with a production three
times as great as that of last January.
The rapidly increasing demand for the
Cole Eight would allow an even
larger expansion.
But we prefer to grow with great care.
1t tends to a sounder stability.
We prefer to increase by logical and
reasonable steps rather than by too
spectacular strides.
We consider the ultimate consumer
first. Therefore we always take the
utmost care to protect Cole Eight
purchasers by painstaking, unhur-
ried workmanship and the use of the
best materials it is possible to obtain.
We are building for the future along
the lines of established permanence.
Our long experience and our extensive
facilities are devoted entirely to one
llANb Pul pOoN - W OllC ClldSSlS-
Americas foremost Eight
We aim to obtain and maintain the
highest standard in the manufacture
of fine motor cars.
This constant, diligent and persistent
effort towards bettering the best has
placed us in very advanced position
in the motor-car industry
AS result we start January shipping
200 per cent more cars than at this
period last year.
L. S. Bowers Company
Distributors
245 N. Broad Street, Phila.
Bell Phone, Walnut 1852
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-22
Love Vanished When wife Cot Fat

READING. Pa, Jan. 22-Declaring that
her husband rcpented Of his marriage to
her, telling her he did not like her because
she was too big and fat Mrs Matilda
Zimmerman testified before a master here
TO-DAY in her suit for divorce from Albert
thinner Of New York The master recon-
mends q divorce on the ground Of deser-
tiOn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-22

sented hmself'to be a clerk for Pittsburgh
law firm, which was interested in a suit
here, and borrowed So from the Attorney
General until he could get a remittance
At the office of John w Huxley, another
lawyer where he tried the same plan he
was arrested.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-22
DEALERS MAY GO
TO RATE HEARING
City's Merchants Expected
to Testify to, Preserve Rail
Differential, Rate
MUST SHOW ADVANTAGE
Cheapness of Facilities Should
Be Demonstratedyto Answer
North Jersey Plea
Ru a slan cotrespondent

NEW YORK. Jan 22t-lThe third week
OF the freight rate hearrlgt was opened to-
day when the railroads. lprcsented their
final testimony against tld application Of
the northern New Jersey Gties for diff
ferental I'm rates equivalent No that enjoyed
by Philadelphia over New York. Although
the rail carriers made big factor of the
two-cent differentlal awarded TO Philadel-
phia as argument against tile New Jersey
plant, but little direct testimony has beon
presented to show in detail THU mileage ad.
vantage from western points aud the cheap
and adequate facilitieslof the rort Of Phta.
delpha
To effectively present their ca,so before the
Interstate CommercoN NCommssian It will be-
Necessary for the witnesses Of the various
trade bodies Of Philadelphia, who have filed
Intervening petitions toSdirect much Of their
Testimony along these paths whSn they ap-
pear before Special Examiner Wilbur La
Roe next Thursday
MERCHANTS TOF TESTIFY
From tho representatives Of Philadelphia
Chamber OF Commerce, thp Commercial Tx
change and the PhiladclphtIiBoard Of Trade
It was learned that severan prominent mer-
chants trading with points ini northern New
Jersey, rate experts aud other persons
familiar with the general conditions Of tho
port of Philadelphia will be brought here
as witnesses
Today the state and city lor New York
and their respective commercial OrguniZa-
lions began their testimony 20 hCln pre-
serve the present freight rates. that govern
points on both side of New York Harbor
A hint that the New Jersey Taction may
inject new issue IN tho cascH that would
be bitterly contested by tho New York
bodies was evidenced during, tho cross-ex-
animation of Harry Wilson, assistant gen
eral freight agent of the Erie Railroad, who
was asked to explain the effect on the rail.
road IL the rate to New Totk should be
raised to create the dlrcrental asked by
New Jersey.
THE ERIE's POSITION
Assuming" said John II, walker. as.
sociate counsel for New Jerscy.1 that tho
Interstate Commerce Commissions made an
order that the New Jersey side of the port
should have a differenual and that the
differental should be brought about by
raising the New York rate instead of low
erlng the New Jersey rate, would the Erie
Railroad have any objection
mot unless II affected other conditions !
responded Wilson. SJ'he Erie Is always
looking for increased revenue but it might
result in raising the New York Central
Railroads all-rail-to-New York route which !
is a determining factor in tiXingI New York |
rates"
"Assumlng that the New York Central has |
raised it's New York rates, would the Erie !
have any objection TO raising its New York |
rate?" was the next question.
mo; not unless the increase resulted in |
decreasing our revenue by reason Of subse- |
duent demands by Philadelphia, Baltimore |
Boston and other ports"
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READING. Pa, Jan. 22.-Mrs Maria n
Leinbach, widow Of the Rev. Thomas r,
Leinbach, who was one Of Berries Countv,s
best-known clergymen, died Of heart die
ease at her home here today in her SEVENTH
seventh year.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-22

WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. 22--Fred Will
son. of Pittsburgh, is held at the police sta
ton on a charge OF obtaining money under
false pretonses from. Attorney General
David ]. Renhardt. II is alleged he repre-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-22

DERIVING the relations Of bollgerency TO neu~
trality rather than the express ruies gov
erning the conduct Of nation at war TO
nation at peace"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-22
Churches Want Jones to Re 1ua..

MAHANOY CITY. Pa, Jan % eo,,,,..,
kill County Protestant churches bayo ~ =
ttioned Governor BrumbauEh 10 s,,oi,t
John Robert Jones. Schuylkit Havsp V,nt o.
Assemblyman, as the successor of tho ,st.
Judge Charles n. Brumm aus
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
CAPTURE OF COOLING MOTHS
Old Practice Of Placing Burlap Band
Around Tree Trunk Effective
in Reducing Numbers.

One Of the new-fangled contraptions
for the orchard is a trap to catch the
codling moth. Most Of the cooling
Larvae after leaving the apples spin
n silken case or web under the rough
bark on the trunk and there change
to the moth stage. The old practice
Of placing burlap band around the
trunk to entice the worms has been
effective in reducing their number, but
is rarely used as it requires a great
deal of attention. The new trap con-
sists of strip of burlap wound around
the trunk ia the usual way, but over
this is tackled a strip OF 12-mesh
screen, six or eight inches wide, which
encircles the tree trunk over the Dur
lap band. The upper and lower edges
of the screen are turned under and
carefully tucked TO the bark, which
has been scraped smooth.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01

clamor of the paCifiSts, cnntending at
once that To prepare to resist agrees
sion was to invite aggression and that
the defeated invasion had been mere
ly a minor skirmiSh between cow
punchers and Mexican raiders, an at
fair exaggerated beyond reason; the
simmering down of popular interest;
the return of the common apathy; the
renewed reign Of lethargic indiffer-
ence TO the need for preparedness
And so she began TO understand
that the victory Of that day was nut
a barren one that she had fought ana
endured and sacrificed lives and nap
piness and treasure to no end what
ever. but only to be a beginning; that
the battle. the battle of her country,
the battle of common sense patriot
ism, was merely beginning; that ne
who would save his country in spite
of itself undertakes labor as unend-
ing as it is thankless.
Nevertheless, to this plough she had
set her hands; and there could be no
turning back.
She must fight on and on and on,
shoulder to Donald's shoulder, his
| hand in hers.
Bending forward Patria tenderly set
her lips to the lips of Donald Parr
dedicating anew her life and his, thai
was hers to do with as she willed. to
the service of their country, that II
might be saved.
(TIE END.)
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
At the Wedding Feast.

In some parts of the country II Is
the custom to send cOnsratulatory tele-
grams to friends at a distance who are
being married. That is, the message
is timed to arrive just after the cere-
mony, and during the feast which US
ually follows.
Now. a certain man, large farmer,
was about to he married. and shortly
before the time he heard that one or
his cattle had strayed. 1t being
valuable animal, he told his bailiff TO
let him know at once when IL was
found. The bailiff, being an econom-
ical man. combined the two affairs
and the happy bridegroom received the
following message just as they all sat
down to dinner:
Congratulations. The beast is
caught !"
1t is fair to conclude that the tele-
gram afforded at least as much graft
fication to the assembled guests as to
the actual recipient himself.-Tit-Bits
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01

manded the wandering interest or his
tagged staff with a single glance MS
pose gestureless. With single lm-
pulse they stiffened to attention.
After a moment he addressed them
in a level and tonelesS voice, with
rhe manner of one imparting Informal
rion concerning person of particular
unimpOrtance.
"GantJemen." said Baron HurOli, ut
becomes my duty To impart to you GER
tain odvices. | have here message
from his majesty, the emperor.
He paused tn make obeiSance to the
effigy symbollzed by that name.
81 need hardly remind you that, up
on the untimely death. day before yes
terday. of the late commander III chlef'
Count Nogi. |. acting on authority
vastad in me by his imperial majesty,
assumed the functions OF commander
/ in chief. and in my supreme discretion
initiated that invasion OF the United
F STATES which was the ultimate pur-
nose of our presence in Mexico. For
this action l assumed. protested, and
accept full responsibility.
That my action was iII-advised IS
beside the point. | alone was, and am
liable for its consequences. The ohus
of failure rests upon Il single head,
my own.
"By nv lack of sound judgment, my
haste and rashness. l have brought
down defeat upon our forces, l nave
needleSsly sacrificed unnumbered Tel
low servants of his majesty, the EN-
peror. | have wrought confusion with
his imperial designs, l have set al
naught his ends.
$50 be it. explain without attempt
10 extenuate the consequences OF my
madness. accept without protest
the penalty of failure.
"Tbe command of our scattered and
; shattered forces l resign TO youl
capable hands. You are instructed
10 reorganize them as quickly as
posSible and withdraw from this
! mart of Mexico, marching westward,
= 70 effect IA junction with the army en-
) camped at Magdalena Bay. This yoU
} will do not only with all possible eX
pedition. but with all feasible secrecy
81 have one request to make of you
: pity: if it be within your power,
, would like my dishonored body to b.
' conveyed to Nippon for burial.
? Gentlemen. l go to join my fore
{ fathers, in full confidence that tn
: honorable fashion of my death viii
3 secure for me the freedom of thei
{ company"
: Huroki ceased to speak, drew him
e self up, and saluted his staff. Tha
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01

salute returned. he executed an about
face and strobe into the adobe build
ing.
After him went Kato.
For an hour he sat in the office OF
the commander in chief, industriously,
methodically putting in order all his
affairs, official as well as personal.
When there was no more to do, he
rose without hesitation, and strobe in
to the adjoining room, which had been
his sleeping quarters.
Here Kato was awaiting him-kato
translated from the trim and soldierly
aide in the field uniform of the Japa-
nese army into a figure that might
have been conjured from some Japa-
nese print, a servile, fawning. obse-
quious figure in the robes OF his race
and humble caste.
Upon the plain canvas cot which
had been Huroki's bed were laid out
the magnificently embroidered robes
| of q Samurai.
Beside the cot stood the steel trunk
which had contained these robes, ana
which for many years had formed an
essential adjunct to Huroki's travel
ing gear.
Assisted deity by Kato, Baron HUI
roki Invested himself Of his soldiers
clothing, bathed and dressed in the
robes of his nobility.
Throughout neither uttered a single
word.
And in silence Huroki turned and
entered the room beyond. leaving his
footwear at the threshold.
The door closed behind him. On Its
other side Kato, the imperturbable
knelt and ground his forehead into
the dust of the floor.
In one stride Baron Huroki had
passed from Mexico to Nippon. Paper
screens masked the earthen walls anC
the matched roof of the room. INT
: floor was covered with a clean white
cloth. In the middle of it rested
small rug of glowing, sanguinary scar
let. At the edge of this small ru'
! was a low stand on which rested
5 jeweled dagger in jeweled sheath.
2 Kneeling on the rug, Baron Hurok
: swiftly denuded his body to the waist
t Then taking up the dagger and draw
[ ip- n from its sheath he tested II
ede. nd point upon the thumbnail.
Y Satisfied. he held the dagger b
;. fore him on his two hands, outstretcf
: ed. open palms uppermOst; and in TIL
: posture remained motiOnless for man
: minutes, his grave, intelligent eye
fixed in meditation upon a point.
e scene. or memory. thousands of mile
+ removed beyond the narrow contln'
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01

sviftness of an angel of death into
the great valley devoted to the allied
encampment. and drew up sharply, as
if checked by some invisible but i'm
movable barrier, before the adobe
building dedicated to the uses OF the
commander in chief and his staff.
Half dozen men, worn, haggard, 81
lent, in uniforms stiff with sweat and
dust, alighted from the car and weari-
ly threw themselves, rather than
walked. up the steps to the veranda
in front of the headquarters building.
Deepest disconsolation was the key
note of their common demeanor.
In the lines that furrowed their dust
masked faces, in those red-rimmed
eyes which stared out of them. despair
was written plainly-the despair OF
gamblers who have staked all on
single throw and have lost.
Foremost in their number was Baron
Huroki, that arch-conspirator, that
gambler incurable-a presence OF COM
handing distinction even in the shad-
ow of defeat, disgrace, and death.
At his heels moved his shadow, that
one whose devotion and loyalty to his
master passed even that devotion and
loyalty which was the due of his en-
peror-Huroki's aid de camp of today,
his body servant of yesterday, his IA
miliar spirit of all days, that japanese
who answered to the name of Kato.
Their four companions were officers
of high rank, subordinate only to the
commander in chief of the army which
japan had thrown into Mexico to CO
operate with the native troops in that
great drive" designed to split the
United States asunder by invading the
| Mississippi valley via the Southwest
:. ern states, leaving the Pacific slope de
= fenseIess against invasion by way OF
, Lower California and the sea.
/ As Huroki moved toward the door Of
the adobe building, japanese orderl!
came out. paused, saluted stiffly, will
a countenance expressionless, ant
l proffered a folded paper.
) Huroki recognized the form OIL
: which incoming telegraphic dispatche
? were transcribed. He could hav
hazarded a shrewd guess at the ma
e ture of this communication if pu
e to il. could have foretold it almos
|. word for word.
; None the less he extended stead
hand TO accept it, unfolded the paper
read it without permitting the slight
a est phase of his emotions to be r.
{ fiected in his face, and deliberately n
folded ii.
8 At pause before the doorway, b
v rounded smartly on his heels and con
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01

10 leave on that early morning train
this morning and mother and the girls
got up before daybreak TO get an extra
good breakfast. The table was decked
out with a fresh tablecloth and all the
best china and glassware, and they had
fried chicken and made cream gravy
and hot biscuits, and there was strip
and preserves and goodness knows
what all.
But just before they called the
company out, mother decided that she
wanted one more glass Of jelly to put
on. One Of the girls came up out of
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01

would happen within the next Few
days and weeks; the storm Of popular
Indignation: the massing of troops
along the border; the intereNchanGe
of diplomatic amenities: Japan'S stu
diously polite diSavowal Of Hurok
and all his alleged works; Mexico :
diSavowal of the part its troops had
played in the conspiracy and the at
tempted invasion: the adminiStra-
tons grudging acceptance of both
demands for measures of prepared
ness" voiced in congress; the shrill
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
CULTIVATION OF AN ORCHARD
Summer Work Is Necessary II Profit
Is to Be Made-Three Metnocs
Given by Expert.

summer cultivation of the orchard
Is necessary if a profit is To be made.
IN the opinion eff r. :. Merrill, assist
ant professor of horticulture ia the
Kansas States Agricultural college.
Three methods may be- pra"tirrd in
the cultivation IT am orchard" said
Professor Merrill. "Tuc first of these
is the Sad-mu-rh system. This is prac-
tfc.I ON bottom land or land high In
fertility. Orchards ca fertile land ar"
likely o. produce Il heavy growth Of
wood. which prevents the formation OF
fruit buds. J. order to overcome this
a grass crop should be sowcd in the
orchard. The grass crop is moved
when necessary and allowed To re-
main on the ground.
1.-THE second method often used.
consists Of sowing Il grass crop in the
orchard and harvesting the hay. This
system is injurious To the trees and re-
ducrS the size and value of the fruit.
"Whors the topography and slope ~
the land will permit, clean cultivation
is advisable. Ii kills the weeds and
cnu>crycS the moisture. Orchards cul-
rivated in this manner will produce
larger fruit than under other systems
of cultivation.
"Clean cultivation will keep down
insect pests by destroying their hiber-
mating places and food supply. The
buffalo trce-hopper is less injurious
I'm clean cultivated orchards because IL
removes their food supply"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01

Nses in--which they dia with trained
epedition and efficiency. throwing up
! me Of Entertainments roughly par
saeilng those on the Interest.
And their batteries, presently finding
meter, rained shells upon the Ameri'
eans to keep down their fire, until Pa.
uias guns again searched them out;
Snen the battle passed into a tempo
aiy phase Of big gun dueling. and the
iniantry had a little time TO breathe
,nd take account of its losses.
These last proved astonishingly
suent' out none the less terrible in Pa
ia understanding. Already the field
aospitai accommodations which she
mao provided were overcrowded and
'ne staff OF surgeons with their as
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01

Of that little room in the adobe build
ing in the mountains of Mexico.
There was neither hesitation nor /
mutiny in his temper. but only repin- !
ing that his efforts in the service of .
his emperor had been so Inflated. :
He would have been glad Of a long ,
er life if that permitted him to repair
the errors of which he had been guilty.
But he had had his chance. and had
failed.
What must he, must.
With a sudden, swift turn of his
hand this unhappy gentleman of ia
pan reversed the point of the dagger
and drove it in toward his diaphragm.
THE COST.
When Patria appeared in the door
way the nurse rose and with friend
. ~ and reasSuring smile slipped out Of
/ the room.
/ Donald Parr lay movelesS on his
/ cot asleep. The girl snt down on The
/ chair by his side and gently dropped
/ her hand upon one of his that lay
. outside the sheet, dark. strong hand
that seemed. in her sight, 10 dwarf
and render altogether puny and in
significant the slender white grace or
her own.
Still Donald did not stir. She was
content with that. Sleep was what
ne needed, the best Of all medicines
for his hurts. She asked for herself
no more than this. that she be- per-
mitted To rest Il little by his side, 10
touch his hand. to know that, though
his wounds were grievouS. he would
live, and in day 10 come be whole
and sound once mOre-and hers.
She was very weary. The need to
rest oppressed her like a heavy bur
B den. Yet she did not dream of clos
ing her eyes in sleep. She had toe
much To think about. the victory OF
the day to contemplate. its cost 10
reckon. Her brain seemed To burn
with thoughts. doubts, fears, regrets
memories; the screen of its vision re-
ilected in endless succession flashing
scenes from the splendid. awful
pageant of that day and night Of
fighting.
1t was three o'clock in the after
noon. The last shot at the routed anC
| fleeing armies of invasion had beer
fired hours ago. The last fugitive hat
long since disappeared. The las
stricken horse had been killed, the las
: wounded man had been found ant
cared for. the last dead man buried
Remained only the stricken field
blOodied and defiled and trampled ant
furrowed almost beyond recognition
+ the consciousness that the day wa
I won, the invader disastrously defeat
), ed. the country saved in spite OF II
| self; the bitterness of victory.
| Sitting there in that close little roor
| that reeked of iOdOform, with he
| hands touching the hand of her b'
| loved, the girl abandoned herself
| reverie, her dark eyes fathomiEg in
| measurable depths of thought.
| Unconsciously she began to con tn
toll of victory: Donald wounded mig
unto death, ROdman Pillsbury an
i Bud Morgan dead-and these but IN
i beginning. names that headed the hui
i dreds upon the lists of casualti'
n merely because they were most int
II mate to Patria; the hacienda wreckt
II beyond repair, the fair countrysit
u that surrounded it turned into stin
81 ing shambles, a great treasure expen
II ed in ammunition and the business
Ri war.
And all to what end?
She foresaw quite clearly WI