PRESIDENT SPEAKS
IIEEO OF MESS
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IS - THE SU
PREME TBST OF A NATION'S
METAL.
OPENING SESSION OF D. A. R.
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Mr. Wilson Urges The Congress of
Daughters to Rally to tha Cauee
of Righteousness.
i Washington.—The need of self-poe
•fsarion, calmness and a Judicial tem
perament by the United States in the
present world crisis wss urged by
President Wilson In a speech before
the opening session of the twenty
fourth Continental Congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion.
The president said self-possession
was the supreme test of a nation's
mettJe, snd urged the Congress to ral
ly to the cause of righteousness, se
ministered hy those who hold their
mtads quiet and judge upon principle.
Following the president's speech
Ambassador Jussersnd of France told
the Congress that the Un.lt ed States
had behaved in he European crisis so
as to command the gratitude and
thankfulness of the world.
. "We In Frsnce." he said, "have
learned to know what the American
heart Is made of—the pure American
gold that is In it. I am glad that I
may affirm the thanks of France for
the generosity of America —the neu
tral I'nlted States."
The ambassador sold the "chleif
question in the Kuropean struggle."
was the same problem that con
fronted America in revolutionary
times "We thought we had solved
the problem of human liberty," he
said "Hut H again confront* us. It
will be solved now Just as It was solved
in former times, as H was solved In
the trenches at Yorktown."
Th* president In his speech de
clare! that he could speak only in gen
eral terms and that H was "Indiscreet"
for htm to speak even In that way.
John Hays Hammond, H. C. B.
Thurston, president general of the Rons
of the Revolution and John Barrett,
dlrertoT general of the Pan-American
Union also spoke.
ROOBEVELT-BARNEB TRIAL.
Jury For »50,000 Libel Suit la Com
pleted.
Syracuse. N. Y.—The Jury which
will try William Barnes' 150.000 suit
for alleged libel, against Theodore
Roosevelt was completed In Supreme
court here. It convprlaes seven Repub
licans. three Progressives and two
Democrats Twenty-two talesmen were
examined before both aides announced
that they were satisfied with the 12
men in the box. The Jurymen are:
Henry Hoag, clerk, Republican
(foreman); Irving J Mills, wood
worker, Republican; Walter J. Zulll,
manager, Republican; Franklin S.
Rhoades. farmer. Progressive; I/eon
ard K. Hungerford, palnteT, Progress
ive; F W. Pierce, carpenter, Repub
lican; Warren H, Somers, grocer; Re
publican; Ray Tanner, farm hand,
Democrat 1 , John W. Brown, farmer,
Republican; George Boschert, manu
facturer, lVogresslve; Rdw-ard Burns,
motorman, Republican; Peter Bencke, !
"\eoal dealer. Democrat.
Immediately after the Jury had been
completed, counsel for Colonel Roose
velt made a motion to dismiss the
complaint against their client on the
ground that allegations made in the
statement on which the suit is based
Mr. Barnes and Charles F. Murphy as
were privileged and that In naming
the controllers of "rotten government
I n the state of New York, he did not
mean anything personal or to Imply
that either of the two men named had
In any way profited by the alleged "rot
tenness."
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Abarno and Carbane Sentenced.
New York.—Frank Abarno and Car
lain* Carbone, the anarchists who set
ft bomb In St. Patrick's Cathedral
March 2, were sentenced to not less
Ban six years nor more than 12 In
PtSf Sing. Abarno and Carbone were
Pnnd guilty by a Jury last week,
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Sharp Fighting Occurs.
- London.—Activity along the west
era battle line seems to partake of
the nature of isolated engagements
rather than a general offensive. Ar
tillery duels have taken the place of
hand-to-hand fighting, which has been
the feature of the recent struggle
along the Meuse and near the Lor
raine border, but the latter type of
combat continues in the Vosges,
Where the official statements agree
sharp lighting la taking place on Ger
man territory. The French and Ger
mans both claim success.
Lifting Sunken Suomarins.
Honolulu. —Efforts to raise the
sunken submarine F-4 were delayed
again to strengthen a minor defect
of the drumholder of one of ths acow
pontoons. In a lifting test the other
scow to be used was found in perfect
condition. The result of the test con
vinced Rear Admiral Moore and ths
other naval authorities in charge of
the operations of tbe feasibility of the
plan to remove ths craft to shallow
water by alternate lifting by tbe
scows and towing with togs.
WILLIAM Q. M'ADOO
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
and Comproller Williams arc lead
ers In tha fight cauaad by their
aanaatloal attack on tha methoda of
managsment of tha Rlgga National
Bank of Washington.
VIEW OF GENERAL HTERTA
SIXTEEN MILLION WILL HAVE
TO BE KILLED BEFORE MEXI
CO COULD BE INVADED.
Ha ths Hsads of Washington
Administration Have Not Been
B
Fair to Mexico.
J? ———
.„ JWw York. —Asserting that he had
nothing to do with the death of Fran
cisco Madero, General Vlctoriauo
Huerta, former Provisional President
issued a lengthy slxned statement ru
latlng to the question.
General Huerta declared he knew
who was responsible for Madero's
death, but that he was keeping It as
"a professional secret."
General Huerta's statement review
ed the history of the Madero revolu
tion, his own accession to the Provl
eional Presidency and concluded with
the assertoin that "my country can
not be conquered."
Sixteen millions of men, women and
children would have to be killed be
fore Mexico would submit
The heads of the Washington Ad
ministration, Huerta declared, had
not been fair to Mexico, had been
misled by false statements and If they
had been in Mexico for thirty days
"they would have changed their the
oretical, erroneous Ideas." Had It not
been for the embargo on the exporta
tion of arma from this country Gen
eral Huerta Indicated that hie army
would have prevailed over those op
posed to It.
The former Provisional President
reiterated the assertion made when he
left Mexico last year that he had re
signed from his position only because
he hoped to bring peace to his coun
try. He pointed out that In the eight
months elapsed since that date the sit
uation In Mexico had become "too sad
for me to analyse deeply."
"Anarchy Is too soft a word to call
It," he said. Mexico eventually would
be saved, but by a Mexican, he said.
Who that would be he did not know.
Huerta declined to give an Inkling
as to his future movements. He de
nied that he would go to San Antonio,
Texas, or any other point near the
Mexican border. Discussing the death
of Madero, he said:
"That Is a professional secret. Law
years have secrets, doctors have
secrets—l ahi a soldier—why should
not a soldier have secrets? It is not
thorough friendship for any one that
I am withholding the information.
The time will soon come when my
name will be vindicated and, as Gen
eral Lee said of General Jackson, the
world will say of me, 1 stood like a
stonewall submitting to the lgnomlty
and the insults heaped upon me."
NETHERLANDS STEAMER SUNK.
Anchored Off Her Home Coaets She
le Torpedoed.
London. —The Netherlands steamer
Katwyk, Baltimore for Rotterdam,
was torpedoed while anchored seven
miles west of the Hinder Lightship in
the North Sea.
The crew of 23 was saved and
taken to Flushing, according to a
Reuter dispatch. The dispatch quotes
the men as saying that as they rowed
away they saw the periscope of a
submarine, which quickly disappeared.
Britain Apologizes to Chile.
London. —Great Britain haa offered
a "full and ample apology" to the
Chilean government for the sinking
March 14 In Chilean territorial waters
of the German cruiser Dreedsn, the
internment of which already has been
ordered by the maritime governor of
Cumberland Bay when the British
squadron attacked and sank the Ger
man. This fact was made public In
a White Paper giving the texts of
the Chilean note protecting against the
■sinking of the Dresden and the British
reply.
THI EWTEEPRISB, WILLIAMBTON, WORTH OABOLDfA.
CERTAIN NO COTTON
REACHES GERMANY
IS KEFT FROM GERMANY AND
AUSTRIA SAYS ATTORNEY
GENERAL.
BLOCKADE 13 UNNECESSARY
Attsrhey General Simon Replies to
the Conference of Chemist sr.d
Engineers.
London.—That cotton la kept from
Oermany and Austria juat as effect
ively aa if It were declared absolute
contraband, is ths tenor of a reply ad
dressed by Attorney General Simon
to a conference of chemists and engi
neers who asked whether the' Gover
nment's action waa sufficient to make
It certain that no cotton reachea
those countries.
"The Attorney General ventures to
suggest that those for whom you
write may be under some misappre
hension either as to the law of con
traband or as to tbe step* which in
fact are being taken under the order
in council of March 11. The eteps
being taken under authority of that
order in council have been extremely
effective in flopping cotton from
reaching Germany and the declara
tion of cotton aa contraband would
not alter the reault In the very least
so far as preventing cotton reaching
Germany Is concerned.
"If an article Is declared absolute
contraband, It can be stopped from
going to a German port and can be
stopped even from going to an adjoin
ing neutral port, If It Is In course of
transit through that neutral port to
an enemy country. Theae are exactly
the circumstances In which, under
the order in council any article can
be stopped, whether it is contraband
or not, and of course, this order in
council Is being put into force in all
proper caaea.
"To imagine that aince March 11
anything can be gained so far an
stopping the entrance of cotton Into
Germany Is concerned by calling It
contraband is, in effect, to suppose
that a blockade Is rendered more ef
fective If you add that specified con
traband articles will not be allowed
to break that blockade. A blockade
stops all articles whether they are
contraband or not, therefore any ad
ditional rulings would not have any
prsctical consequences. Wbet Is true
of Gennany of course, is equally true
of Austria.
"Your memorialists no doufeft will
readily believe that there may be
good reasons of quite a different kind
for not making cotton contraband In
view of the precendent wbtch would
thereby be created, but as a practical
matter in the present war any stop
page of cotton secured by calling it
contraband la equally aecured by the
order in council."
GENERAL HERRERA KILLED.
Killed by Own Msn Who Mistook
Them For Villa Troops.
I*aredo, Tex.—Gen. Maclovla Her
rera, Oarransa commander at Nuevo
Laredo, opposite here, waa killed by
his own men, who mistook him and
his for Villa troops, according to in
formation received here by Gen. 11. K.
Evans, In command of United Statea
troops here.
General Herrera and members of
his staff had taken a position on a
hill near Neuvo Laredo when, it la
said, they were fired upon from a
Carranza military train, the soidiera
mistaking the party for Villa troops.
Besides Herrera his aids and several
other members of his staff were
killed.
BERIOUB MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
Hopatcongo, N. J.—An auto
mobile plunged down an embankment
near here, killing Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Terhune, of Passaic, N. J.
New York. —Mme. Margarete Mat
senhaur, of the Metropolitan Opera
Company waa badly cut and bruised
when she was thrown from an automo
bile in colllsslon with another ma
chine in Long Island City. Her hua
band, Edocardo Ferrarl-Fontana, a
tenor of the Boeton Opera Company,
also was cut and brutaed.
Kalamazoo, Mich.—Mr. and Mra.
Paul Pare were killed here when an
automobile collided with a street car.
Two othere in the automobile were In
jured.
Egg Harbor. N. J. —Benjamin L.
Stratt, a Philadelphia underwear man
ufacturer, was killed and his buslneaa
partner. Meyer Myerson. was injured
when their automobile overturned.
Tyrone, Pa. —Dr. C. E. Shaffer, of
Wlndber, Pa., was killed and five per
sons were Injured in an automobile
accident near here. All the injured
will recover.
Sixteen Begin Prieon Term,
i Idlanapolls, Ind. —Headed by Mayor
Donn M. Roberta, 16 prisoners convict
ed in the Terre Haute election conspir
acy cases and sentenced to the Leav
enworth penitentiary started on the
trip to prieon.
The time for the departure was not
made public here and only a small
crowd waa at the station as the pris
oners, each accompanied by a special
deputy United States marshal, board
ed a special oar attached to a passen
ger train. _ -
NELSON
Nelson W. Aldrlch, great Ripubllem
Issder, was senator from Rhode la
land for SO yeore haa Juat diad at hla
Noma at New York of haart dlaaaaa.
Ha waa 74 yaara aid.
MAXWELL IS PRESIDENT
NEW LEADER NAMED BY COTTON
MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIA
TION AT MEMPHIS.
Protaat Agalnat Opa ration of Bill—-
Favora Merchant Marina.—Want
"Open Door."
Memphla, Tenn.—Endorsement waa
given propoaaia to aitabliah an Amor
lean merchant marina by Government
aubaidy and protaat made agalnat the
operation of the Palmer chUd labor
law and loglalatlon ponding In Con
gress to require the branding of goods,
In a resolution adopted by the Ameri
can Cotton Manufacturers' Associa
tion, which concluded Ita annual con
vention here. Other reaolutlona ad
opted aakod that the United Statea
Government require a new statement
of the "right of equal opportunity" to
trade In the markets of the world, par
ticularly in China and that the prln
ciplea of the "open door" be reaaaert
ed.
Scott Maxwell of Cordova, Ala., waa
elected president of the association,
John A. Law, Spartanburg, S. C., vice
president and Caeser Cone, Greens
boro, N. C\, chairman'of the board of
governors, Other membera of tbe
board of governora elected were J. J.
Bradley, Huntavllle, Ala.; Eugene
Holt, Burlington, N. C.; George E.
Spofford, Auguata, Go.; Paul J. Marra,
Henderaon, Ky., and Craig S. Mitchell,
Philadelphia.
FIFTEEN KILLED IN COLLISION.
Street Car and Freight Train Collide
In Detroit.
Detroit, Mich.—Fifteen persona were
killed and about 20 injured In a collls
lon between a Detroit city atreet car
and a atrlng of fright can pushed by
a awltch engine on tbe Detroit To
ledo A fronton Railroad.
Moat of the dead lived In Detrolt'a
foreign quarter. Four are women.
The atreet car, crowded with pas
aengera, stopped as it approached the
railroad crossing and tbe conductor
ran ahead to see If the track waa
clear. He aignalled tbe motorman
to wait, but apparently tbe latter mis
understood his meaning. Ha applied
the power and the car ran rapidly
down an incline and onto the railroad
tracks.
The freight cara pushed by the
engine struck the street car fairly In
the middle. The wreckage was push
ed along 100 feet, aeveral of the dead
and Injured dropping along the atreet
before the train waa atopped. Others
were cniahed In the splintered mass
of steel and wood and it was several
hours before they could be extricated.
Kaiser Vialta In Italy.
Geneva, via Paris. lnformation
reaching Geneva tends to conflrm the
reports that Emperor William visited
Emperor Francis Joseph laat month.
Accoodlng to thia information Em
peror William determined to aee Em
peror Francis Joaeph after receiving
from Prince von Buelow, German am
bassador to Italy, a message that ne
gotiations concerning territorial eon*
ceeslona by Austria aa the price ot
Italy's neutrality had failed.
May Soon Get Dyeetuff.
Washington.—State department offi
cials were prepared to take up with
the Oehnan government the laat atop
neceesary to supply American textile
mllla with two cargoee of German
dyestuffs bought before March 1. The
way waa cleared by the announce
ment that Great Britain had agreed
to permit theae cargoes under certain
conditions to come through from Rot
terdam. The position previously taken
by the German government has been
that it would permit dye ahlpmenta
in exchange for cotton or copper.
Gen. Funston at Brownavllle.
Brownsville, Texas.—Major General
Frederick Funston, who has Just ar
rived here from San Antonio to take
charge of the border situation created
by the siege of Matamoroe, said his
coming was due to that the
Villa artillery was advancing and that
the fighting might be expected to reach
a climax soon. Tbe day paased, how
ever, with no bombardment of Mata
moroe, the only fighting reported be
ing heard from the Brulay plantation,
about eight miles down the Rio Grande
from Matomoroa.
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT
ANNOYS ENGLAND
GERMANS MAKE THREE ZSPPE-*
LIN RAIDS WITHIN FORTY*
BIGHT HOURS.
NO LOSE OF LIFE OR DAMAGE
A* Leaet BO Bombs are Sent Down
Raiders Keep Away From All
Large Cities.
London.—England experienced Ita
third hostile air raid within 41 hours,
but the laat, like tbe others resulted
In no loss of life and no seriona dam
age to property.
Taking advantage of fine weather
which enabled Zeppelins to viait the
vicinity of the Tyns and the coasts of
Suffolk and Eesex early, a German
aeroplane flew over the county of
Kent, dropping bombs. In all. four
miaailes were dropped tn the vicinity
of the towns of Fa vers ham and Sit
tingbourne, the latter Just acroee the
Bugle from the Isle of Bheppey, wklch
le tbe birthplace of the Britiah Royal
Naval Flying Corps.
All the bombs fell In fields.
From Slttinsbourne the aeroplane
flew over the Isle of Sheppey and It
is thought probable the raider mla
took the towns attacked for Bheer
neee, the Britiah naval baae, which
le on the other side of the Island. On
his way the airman passed over Can
terbury and other towns in Kent but
did not drop any exploaives upon or
near them.
Zeppelins, for It is believed two
visited East Anglta during the early
hours dropped some 25 Incendiary and
exploalve bombs on Lowestoft, South
wold, Maldon, Burnham-on-the-Crouch,
Heytoridge and Tilllngham. but like
the raid of the prevloua night on the
Tynemouth district, there was only
slight damage, although many persons
had narrow eecapes. In Lowestoft a
bomb dropped in a garden, shattered
a row of small houses and persons
sleeping In them were cut by broken
glaas.
During the three raids at least &0
bombs were sent down by the Ger
mans. The raiders kept away from
the larger towns. There they might
have been discovered by searchlights
and come under fire from tbe land.
GOVERNMENT WILL ANSWER.
Data for Hearing In the Rlgge Bank
Caae Set for May 12.
Washington.—With almoat a month
In which to prepare for the neat ap
pearance in court, counsel for the gov
ernment in the injunction proceedings
agalnet treasury officials brought by
the Rlggs National Bank laid plans to
make full answer to all charges set
forth In the complaint.
Justice McCoy in the District of Co
lumbia Supreme Court set May II as
the date when the government must
answer chargea that Secretary Mc-
Adoo and Comptroller of tbe Currency
Williams have conspired to wreck tbe
bank. Counael for the government
asked for a postponement and counael
for the bank said they were ready to
proceed at any time.
Gorgae Cant Go.
Washington. Secretary Garrison
made It plain he would oppoae Major
General Gorges' going to Serbia for
the Rockefeller Foundation to fight the
typhua scourge unices the surgeon
general resigns his commission in the
army.
Mr. Garrison takes the posHion
that should General Gorges go to Ser
bia aa a retired officer In which ca
pacity he still would be under the
jurisdiction of the war department a
situation would be created which easi
ly might lead to trouble.
Villa Troope Leave Matamoroe. .
Brownsville, Texaa.—A report that
the 6,000 Villa troops which have been
besieging Matamoroe for more than
two weeks had started for Celaya to
aaelat General Villa in his campaign
agalnat General Obregon waa received
by Major General Frederick Funston
In command of the United States
troops here
Army Wants Prohibition.
Waablngton.—A delegation from the
antl-ealooo league called on Secretary
Garriaon, canning oomment which In
creased when he declined to make
public the reaaon for the call. The
Secretary Afterwards explained how
ever, that tbe delegation had not even
in ita own judgment slfflciently eetab
lished the facta It wished to preeenL
Rumor had It that there was an effort
to Introduce In the army regulations
similar to those which Secretary Dan
iels has applied to the Navy.
New Officers Are Elected.
Atlanta, Ga.—J. G. Beldtng of An
gusta. Ga., was elected president of
the Southern Bupply A Machinery
Dealers' Association at the closing
seeekm of its annual convention here.
Other officers elected Included:
First vice president, Ernest Howell.
Charleston, W. Va.; second vice presl
denL George H. Manning, Knoxville,
Tenn.; secretary and treasurer, Alvin
M. Smith, Richmond, Va.; W. H.
Banks, Huntington, W. Va., and W.
A. Ray. Pensacola, Fla., were elected
to the executive committee.
Carefully Treat
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lbs ether bsad.i* to harmful to eoadtoa.
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Plasty of fmh air to the bedrossa aad a
food aaipMasHna o t nek's "Vip-OJtab"
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KODAKS & SUPPLIES
Wo alio do htgfcit el— mi tll«hl«f
PrieN ud CtitloiM apn ii|Wii
1, CatoH e>id Ca.. tHaislTs.
■ate Oram r»lu*b!« dMcrlptHr* fciHIH
FTM, and *ttr«cll»» prlcta on_ choto*. »*-
lured A (UtrulMt. C. Ww.
"HOMING INSTINCr IN BIRDS
Attachment to First Horn* Is Much
the *am« m la Evidenced
in Humanity/
The habit of bird* In migrating
Sooth when wlntar cornea on la In
fluenced by the need of finding a suf
ficient supply of food. As food grown
scarce when winter approaches In the
farthest northern places where birds
live they nsturally turn to U»e South,
where, their lastinct tells them, food
will be plentiful. The return of tba
birds In the spring to their accustomed
haunts in the North is one of the evi
dences of their possession of an In
stinct which Is alao strong In man.
The environment in which a bird or
human being is brought up generally
becomes a permanent part of Its na
ture. Ornlthologißta have not yet
made It clear just whst enables the
bird to find Its way back and forth to
the same spot every year, and our
knowledge is confined to the fact of
what the "homing lnstlnct M does.
After they mate and build their
first neat and bring up their first fam
ily, birds cherish a fondness for that
spot much the same as the attach
ment that man feels for his early
home The spring migration of blrda
la their Joyful return home after a
temporary sojourn abroad to secure
the meaaa of livelihood.
Hslplsee Man.
The late Fanny Crosby, author of
"Nearer, My God, to Thee" and In
numerable other hymns, was blind,
but this did not prevent her from see
ing straight Into the hearts of men.
A Brooklyn friend of the aged hymn
writer waa repeating some of her epi
grams.
"A Brooklyn bank clerk," she said,
"had stolen a lot of money and run off
with a chorus girl. When I told Fanny
Crosby about this she sighed and said:
M *Every man becomes a fly when a
web of lace is spread.' M
After the Meeting.
Orator'e Wife—Did the people ap
plaud?
Orator (with bitterness) —Applaud?
They made less noise than a rubber
heel In a feather bed!
Educated.
"Making much progreaa in the
classics?*
"Sure; I can do every one of the
steps."
After Winter's
Wear and Tear
one requires a food in
Springtime that builds up
both brain and body.
Grape-Nuts
FOOD
made of wheat and malted
barley—supplies in splen
did balance, the dements
necessary for upbuilding
and keeping in repair the
brain, nerve and muscle
tissue.
Grape-Nuts has a rich
nut-like flavour—always
fresh, crisp, sweet and
ready to eat direct from
package.
Thousands have round
■ Grape-Nuts a wonderful
invigorate* of■ both brain
and body.
"There's m Reason"
Sold by Grocers everywhere.