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DOMESTIC AFFAIRS

Presidential electors of the States
met January - and went through the
Formally OF voting for President and
Vice President of the United States,
Calvin Coolidge and Charles Gates
Dawes We're declared elected. and on
March I they We're duly inaugurated.
Before that. event Congress had put
through the usual grist OF appTopria
ton bills and had passed a measure
increasing postal rates and the pay of
postal employees. 1t ais! raised the
salaries of it's own members TO $4,000
and of the cabinet members 70 SI1, 900.
Associate Justice NCkenna OF the
Supreme Court resigned January 4
and the President appointed Attorney
General Harlan F. Stone TO the va
cancN a few days later he nominated
Charles 3. Warren of Michigan TO be
Attorney General. When the Senate
met in special session after the In
auguration one of its first acts was 10
reject the Warren nomination because
of his former business connections.
The President sent in the name again,
and again it was rejected. Mr.. Cool
idEe thereupon nominated John G..
Sargent for the place and he was aC-
cepted. Secretary of State Hughes
retired from the cabinet on March 4,
and was succeeded by Frank Il. KEEL
1ogg, then Ambassador TO Great Brit
ain. Secretary of War Weeks, who
had been i'll for many months. re
signed on October 10. and Dwight f.
Davis. Assistant Secretary, was given
the portfolio. Mr.. Davis position was
filled by the appointment of Col. Han
ford MacNider, former national com
mander Of the American Legion. Will
liam NJ. Jardine OF Kansas was made
Secretary of Agriculture on February
IA. A change in the White House it
self that was of especial interest to
politicians was the resignation of C.
Bascom Slemp as secretary 10 the
President and the appointment of
Everett Sanders of Indiana TO the
place
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Gales. In September Great Britain
resumed full diplomatic relations with
Mexico. and the restored friendship
or the United States was marred only
by one event Secretary OF State
kellOgg IN June addressed a note to
Mexico warning her that she must
protect the lives and property Of Amer
lean citizens and meet her interna-
tional obligations President Gales
replied promptly. repellinE with in
dignation the implications and declar-
ing his country was quite capable of
managing her own affairs.
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Trips of Coolidge.

President Coolidge spent the sum
mer vacation at Swampscott, Mass,
and during the year he made several
trips for the purpose OF delivering ad
dresses. The more important of these
were to st. Paul. Mimi, for the Morse
American centennial celebration; to
Omaha for the meeting of the Amer
lean Legion. and to Chicago for the
convention of the American Farm Blu
reau Federation. Vice President Dawes
was exceedingly active in carrying on
his campaign for revision of the rules
of the Senate, making speeches on that
topic In many parts of the country.
When the Sixty ninth Congress opened
Its sessions on December z he was
ready to go on with his figth, but with
out glittering prospects of success.
The Republicans Were in full con-
troll of the new Congress, but the old
inSurgent bloc In the party was there
again undaunted by disciplinary meas
ureS by which It's members We're de-
prived of most of their important COM
mittee assignments. In the lower
house they refused to support the Re
publican candidate for Speaker, Nicho-
las Longworth of Ohio, who neverthe-
less was elected. The Republicans
also amended the rule concerning dis
charge of committees so that a ma
jority of the House must sign a petit
ton to take legislation out of a COM
mittee's hands and place II before the
House. In the lower house sat three
woman memberships. Rogers of
Massachusetts, and Mrs. Kahn of Cali
fornia on the Republican side and Mrs.
Norton OF New Jersey on the Demo
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NEW INDUSTRY RECORD.
Baltimore Reports Best Year in
Last Half Decade.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
BALTIMORE, December S1.-AIam
ufacturing and commercial activities
in the Baltimore district in 1925 set
record for volume for the last FIVE
years, and in some cases for all time,
according to leaders of industry.
So great was the demand for mer-
chandise in the closing weeks of the
year that manufacturers We're forced
to very largely increase output. In
some lines three shifts were worked
which means 24-hour operations.
While the margin of profit in some
branches OF industry was not as large
as ii was in other years, this shrink.
age was more than made up in heav-
Ter production and consumption, and
as a result the key industries will
round out the 12-month period with
the greatest net earnings ever re
ported.
Outlook for trade in 1926 is more
promising than it has been on the eve
OF a year for a long time.
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PREDICTS GOOD YEAR.
Steel Magnate Expects Large
Orders to Continue.

NEW YORK, December 81 Or
John A. Topping, chairman of the Re-
public Iron and Steel Co, sees good
demand for steel continuing through
1926, with operations comparing favor
ably with those of 1925. A possible
decline in demand for building ma
terial and automobile requirements, he
believes, will be more than offset by
Increased purchases from the railroads
and in the agricultural districts.
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BN EDN ARD PICkARD.

Standing far above all other events
OF the year 1925 is the signing of the
Locarno treaties. Though they do not
mean the Immediate coming of the
millennium. they do mean that the
European powers have decided that
war does not pay. and they give to
Western Europe at least a measurable
assurance of security ana peace. This
holds good 50 long as the SignatorN
powers keep the promises made in the
tacts, and should any of them fail to
do So, the League of Nations il ready
10 step in Germany has resumed
her place in the family Of nations,
and as the year drew To Il close there
was great hope that Soviet Russia
would abandon her voluntary iSoia-
ton and consent 10 closer association
with the "capitdiiStic powers that
she has so long condemned. i4oCarno
was q magnificent triumph Ton Aus
ten Chamberlain. Aristide BRAND DR..
Hans Luther and Herr Stresemdnn,
the statesmen mainly responsible for
the treaties and tor the legislators
and people in their respective Coun-
tries who gave them hearty support.
Another important development OF
the year was the growing revolt of
Islam against the rule of Christian
powers This manifested itself eSpe-
Cially in the war i'm the Riff main
tanned against France and Spain
throughout the year by Abd-el hriln.
and in the rebellion against the
French regime in Syria. The latter
vas primarily carried on by the
Bruises. nun-Mo~iem tribeSmeu. but
clc Mohammedan Arabs took at times
m active part in it Turkey took war
Ike measures because she WAS con-
-Hn 9 H.. I If
decide the Nusul dispute in favor of
Great Britain, and in Egypt there was
unrest that occasionally broke out into
violence
Twelve Month of War.
Twelve more months of almost in
sessent civil warfare. complicated by
,oisheVik plotting and threatened up
isings against foreigners. was the
-ecord OF China. Nevertheless, the
entraI government was maintained
md The international conference at
9eking held out some promise of set
ling he affairs OF The distracted
.ountry.
Though the negotiations for the
.urding OF the French debt To the
-nited States failed for the time be-
ng, Italy. Belgium and several of the
smaller debtors made settlements in
hitch they We're granted very favor
Die terms.
The United States was blessed with
neral prosperity and progress dur
the year and this was reflected in
&c bill introduced in the Sixty-ninth
Congress- providing for reduction of
axes which would reduce the national
avenue by $325.736.000. Enforcement
{ the prohibition law continued to
te a serious problem. nut toward the
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Politics in Great Britain were not
especially eventful. The Liberal party
recovered somewhat from it's crushing
defeat in the elections Of 1924. and
Herbert Asquith, who was raised TO
the peerage as the Earl OF Oxford,
was continued as It's leader. LLOYD
George pledged to him his unqualified
loyalty. The Labor party did all IN
its power to combat the Baldwin gov
ernment, but was itself badly split
between radicals and conservatives.
All these parties and elements except
the radical 14aboriteS We're kept busy
hghtinE the schemes OF the Commun-
lists. The government refused to adj
NIT foreign Communists TO the coun.
try 10 attend the conference of The
British Communist party in Glasgow
and later Cancelled the permits Of
many communists 20 live in Great
Britain
What was called one of the most
important events in the post war his
tory of the British Empire occurred
on April 2s. when Great Britain re-
turned TO the gold standard. Austria liza
ana New Zealand took this step ar
the same time, and the Union of South
Africa followed suit on July !. Can.
ada was already back on gold ba sis
so that at the midyear the currency
OF the entire empire was virtually on
a pre-War footing
The government was confronted IL,
July with a threat of a general strike
of British coal miners. which would
nave been ruinous to the country. Tho
only means found to avert 1t was the
SubsldlZlng Of the industry for nine
monthS to the extent of nearly $50
nop,oVV. so that the miners wages
should not be reduced. Within a
month II was found that the necessary
payments had been greatly underesri-
mated General unemployment In
creased during the year and the cost
II living continued to rise.
French Financial Troubles.
Frances troubles, aside from the
warfare in Morocco and Syria. were
mainly financial Premier Herriot
held on until April 10, when the gov
ernments finance bill was defeated
IN Parliament. Paul Painleye there
upon became premier and he gave
the finance portfolio to Joseph Call
lauX, who was convicted during the
war OF treason. Aristide BRAND took
he post of foreign minister CaillauX
was no more successful than his pred
ecessors and the cabinet resigned
October o. Painleve formed a new
ministry, but this went on the rocks
in November. BRAND was made pre-
mier again and Louis LoucheiIr, one
Of the wealthiest Of Frenchmen, be-
came minister of finance.
The revolt of the Druses in Syria,
held by France under a mandate, be-
came serious in July and the tribes
men defeated the French forces sew
eral times. They filtered into Damas-
Gus and started an uprising there. I'D
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the suppression OF (which the French
shelled the Moslem quarters OF the
ancient city and battered il 70 pieces.
Reinforcemcuts We're poured into
Syria. bur the tribeSmen kept up
harassing guerrilla warfare, which
was extended into Lebanon.
Germany'S new ReiChstag convened
January , and Or. Hans Luther be
came chancellor. pledging himself to
maintain the republic and the Dawes
plan. The Monarchists and National
lists were strong in his cabinet. March
90 the first popular elections for Presi-
dent We're held and resulted in no
candidate receiving a majority. The
NationaliSts and several other groups
then made Field Marshal Won linden
burg their nominee and at the second
elections. held April &c, he was
elected. It was freely predicted that
this meant the early restoration of
ne German Empire, but the old sol
der took the pledge OF loyalty TO the
republic and thereafter gave not the
slightest indication that he desired a
return TO uonarchism. Chancellor
Luther was ably seconded by Foreign
Minister StresemauT in his efforts TO
restore Germany t. her proper place
among the powers of the world.
Economically the year was not good
for Germany. Agriculture suffered
severely and industries We're ham
pered by heavy taxation and cut
throat competition. The breaking up
of the immense SHINES fortune after
death of its founder was marked by
a long and picturesque duel between
his heirs and the banks.
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NTERNATiONA AFFAIRS

prompted hy Great Britain the
s. rrndn government suggested the in
national conference" that finally re-
tied il the I.pcaruo treaties bat
mere We're months of conversations,
exchanges Of notes aud secret talks
before the great tact was accom-
gllshed. BRAND was forced 10 move
cautiously because of political Compli-
fattons and Luther and StrcSemann
ways had the irreconcilahle German
EatiOnalistS 10 contend with. II was
IN October that the foreign minis
-ers of France, Germany. Great Brit
in. Belgium italy Poland and Czecho-
ioyaki came together in the little
>wisS town Of LocarnD. Eleven days
tater they had completed their task,
znd on December I the momentous
treaties We're formally signed in Lon
ron. The main treaty, known as the
security pact. binds France and Ger
many and Belgium 90 respect the
boundaries between those countries
y fixed 10y the tr.aty nf Versailles:
ZACH promises not 10 attack either OF
he others. and Great Britain and
italy guarantee the inyiulahility OF
he frontiers. Provision is made for
referring disputes t. Cancellation
commission. the Permanent Court Of
international Justice 81 the council Of
signed between Germany and Poland
and Germany and CzechoSlovallia. and
in subsidiary pacts France guaranteed
the carrying OUT ri these. The allies
made immediate plans for speeding
10 the evacuation of the Cologne area
md the reduction Of their forces in
he RhineIaud.
DenOuuCrs Alliance.
ions and disa rmameut demands OF
ne allies, Germany had entered into
/ secret alliance With Russia, and she
lad to deuumce this before she could
ign. the LUcaruo treaties. TChitche
IN, Soviet cuIumiSsdT' for foreign al
fairs, eXacted as the price for this a
commercial treaty between Germany
and Russia His movements after the
London ceremony led To the belief
hat Russia might be persuaded 10
DIN the League 1T Nations. The So
Wet government during the year re-
axed in various ways its policy
..Rainst capital returning factories TO
their former owners under lease and
inviting foreign investment.
As soon a. the security pact became
Z certainty President Coolidge let It
ps known that he would like to call an
International conference on land dis
armament In Washington The reac-
ton To This in Europe. especially in
France, was not favorable. because
the League Of Nations was planning
he same thing Early in December
the leagues disarmament council an
nounced that Il special commission
would be created TO prepare for such
conference. and the United States and
Soviet Russia We're invited 10 appoint
representatives on that commission.
The League of Nations, which held
It's annual meeting in Geneva in Sep
TENDER. with Senator Raoul Dandu-
rand of Canada as president, received
Great Britain's protest against viola
lion of the Mosul frontier by Turkey
and referred the dispute over that rich
oil region to The Hague court. This
tribunal turned it over TO the World
court and referred back to the coun-
d I'll of the league. but Turkey gave no.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31
Prohibition Debate.

smuggling plot. which involved the
bribery Of coast guardsmen.
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MussoIini's Rule Still Firm.

In December the cabinet resigned
so that new ministry fully in favor
of the Locarno treaties might be
formed.
Benito Mussolini continued 70 rule
Italy with a firm hand and the posi-
ton of the Fascist was strengthened
in the Autumn by a. split in the OPP
position, the MaximaliSt Socialists
severing their connection with the
other groups forming the Aventine
bloc. The dictator began the year
by taking steps to suppress the OpPo-
sition organizations and newspapers
and before the twelfth month was
ended the Parliament had at his be
hest passed number of laws. cleo
toral and otherwise that made
Fascism supreme and MussolinIs die
tatorShip complete. In November the
police uncovered a plot to assassinate
the premier and overthrow the gov
eminent, and one result of this was
renewal of measures to suppress the
Free Masons.
Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain
caused some surprise in December by
announcing that the time to end the
military dictatorship had come. He
formed a civilian cabinet, retaining
the position of premier. On the whole,
the rule of the directorate seemed to
have been beneficial to the country.
In Portugal cabinet crises. small
military revolts and Communist upris.
ings We're rather frequent.
Belgium experienced several changes
of ministries, and 50 did Poland when
Skrzynski came into power in Novem-
Der
Gen. Pangalos led a successful mill,
tary and naval coup d'etat in Greece
In June and the government was upset
without bloodshed Pangalos there.
upon became premier. In September
he dissolved the national assembly
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Mexico Prosperous

Despite labor disputes and agrarian
excuses in some of the Mexican states,
our neighbor to the South enjoyed IL
months Of remarkable prosperity un-
der the administration Of President
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nuSSidH ACTIVITY.
Soviet Russia did not gain the con-
fidence of the other powers to any
great extent, for the diplomatic eff
forts of her rulers in that line were
offset by the continuance of bolshe-
visit propaganda abroad. Having failed
to entice the proletariat of western
Europe, they turned their attention
especially to Japan and China. At
home their chief concern was the
state of mind of the Russian peas,
antry, which was so dissatisfied that
revolt was in the air. AS usual, there
were crop failures in various districts
and famine conditions were predicted,
despite which the government ex-
ported wheat for political purposes.
After trying prohibition for IL years
Russia was put back on a wet basis
on October 8, when distilled liquors
containing 60 per cent of alcohol and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-27

Tennyson gained reputation in
his later years for rudeness. 1t was
due perhaps to his dislike OF intru-
sions upon his solitude. When the
mood was upon him he was apt TO
disregard entirely the conventional
tiles, says the Kansas City Star.
A neighbor of the poet laureate
once asked If he might bring TO Aid
worth woman who was visiting in
his home. She was well known in So
ciety. 1t was carefully explained to
Tennyson that the woman had great
admiration for the poets works and
desired very much to see him. Tenny-
son assented quite readily, telling the
neighbor to bring her to luncheon and
named the day. When the day ar
rived the poet had forgotten all about
1t and, as 1t CHANGED, was In one of
his solitary moods.
The woman was introduced; Tenny-
son bowed. Luncheon was announced
and they went in. She sat next her
host, who throughout the meal did not
utter O word. At the end OF 1t he re-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-27
Death in Triumph

Edouard Remenyi was famous
Hungarian violinist who made several
world tours and settled In New York
for some years. He died of apoplexy
on the stage of the Orpheum theater.
San Francisco, on May Is, 1898. This
was his first appearance on the vaude-
vile stage and he was enthusiastical-
ly received on playing two or three
classical pieces. He responded with
"Old Glory" which created tremen-
dous applause. Then he commenced
to play Delibes' "Fizzicati." but after
a few measures he leaned over and
then fell forward on his face. dead
1t is interesting to know that at one
time the composer. Brahms, Travelled
with Remenyi and acted as his ac-
companist.
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her, and knowing all the while the flu
tility Of it. Joyce was not in the
house.
She had fled into the snow, and,
desperately weary as he-was after his
encounter, Lee had no alternative but
to take up the quest. She could not
have gone far, but she must have been
in a state of desperation to have gone
out into that storm. Which way? The
falling snow had surely long since OBJ
liberated her footprints.
He made his way down toward the
trail beside the river. Only two ways
were possible: one ran toward the
mission, nine or ten miles away, the
other in the opposite direction to the
Free Traders headquarters.
But suddenly Lees hopes and
spirits leaped up confidently. Stoop-
ing, he traced the tracks Of sleigh
along the trail. 1t had been drawn by
single horse, and it was going in
the direction of the mission.
There was only one reasonable in
ference. Father McGrath must have
been passing, perhaps he had met
Joyce, and he had taken her with him.
Lee took up the long walk imme-
diately. The snow was deep, progress
was difficult without snowshoes, and
the frost had already crusted the sur
face, so that his feet sank in cum
brously at every step. But great
load was removed from his mind; the
future now looked roseate.
At last the mission came into sight
n group of log huts clustered about
larger one on low elevation, sur
rounded by the forest. Lights cleaned
pleasantly inside them. A horse was
neighing in some stables. Over the
largest hur q wooden cross stood out
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By
Victor Rousseau
tCopyright by W. @, Chapman.)
WNU Service.

He was torn between apprehension
for her and speculation as to his assail-
ant. His first thought had been that
the man was Pelly. But now he be-
gan to doubt this. An old man might
have had his assailant's strength-he
would not have had the endurance
But stronger still was the, conviction
that that monstrous form which had
attacked him in the shaft could never
have been the father of Joyce
Yet who but Pelly knew the secret
Of the mine?
The problem was at present insol-
uble. but its consideration brought
with 1t the fear that Joyce might have
been attacked as well. Lee quickened
his footsteps through the storm,
which was now subsiding, though the
snow still fell steadily. He blamed
himself bitterly for having left the
| girl. Surely the strength of that love
and tenderness he felt toward her
would reach her, and she would
respond!
And he planned what he would say
to her. He would advise her that 1t
was improbable that her father would
| receive anything but q nominal SEN
tence, that he might even go free, that
| in the absence Of witnesses q convic-
| ton might prove impossible. His best
course would be to surrender. Lee
began to grow more hopeful.
The loo houSp cama into SIGHT
standing bare and bleak in the snowy
wilderness. There was no light within.
Lees alarm increased. He hurried
to the door. He called, but no
answer came. He struck a match.
BY the tiny light he saw that the
kitchen and the adjacent room were
empty.
And he began going from room to
room. striking matches and calling
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Here's the big question. VIII
1t separate the lovers, in spite of
their lover
tTo BE coNTINUED.)
GroDth of Jellyfsh

The manner in which jellyfish pro-
duces its children" is really wonder
full.
In most cases the beginning Is an
egg, which, lying on the bottom, pro-
duces beautiful tree-like growth. The
tree" fastens itself to the bottom and
brings forth buds which, when ripe.
drop off and develop into jellyfish. The
latter, in turn. lay eggs and the process
is repeated, as told in London Tit-Bits
Most of the very large species have
different way of reproducing them
selves. The egg is set free in the water
and develops into pear-shaped larvae.
which for while swims about rapidly,
being provided with hair-like append
ages that serve the purpose of ears.
Then the larvae settles down. anchors
itself to the bottom, increases In size
rapidly and finally splits up into thin.
fiat discs which swim off and grow up
into large jellyfishes.