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T THE time of the coming of as
of the Crown Prince of Japan
there was great public rejoicing-.
Hundreds of grlrls were busy for months
In advance making: artificial chrys
. anthemums, which were sold to the
people on the streets, and everyone
3wore one.
The first reg-lment has been organ
ized by Armenians in the United States,
at Philadelphia.
These men are bound together by a
common cause. They are all refugees
from Armenia, driven here by some
tragic family misfortune. They drill
at regular intervals, have learned the
manual of arms and the handling of the
rifle, so that when the time is ripe, they
will pay off old scores with their rulers
and oppressors, the hated Turks.
George Barnard, the American sculp
tor, is at work on the 15-foot head of
Abraham Lincoln, in his studio at Fort
Washington avenue. New York City.
When completed the head will be placed
in position on one of the heights over
looking the city of Cincinnati. v
Mr.N Barnard, a Pennsylvanian and
sculptor of note, started five years ago
on the Lincoln Head, and never for a
moment realized that it would grace
the heights of one of the largest cities
of the United States. When the head is
entirely finished it will be cast in
bronze and sent to the city of Cin
cinnati with another statue of Lincoln
by the same sculptor as gifts of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Taft. sister-in-law
and brother of the ex-President.
Women are doing everything In
Great Britain. The men's work has al
most" entirely been taken over by the
women. The women are now the wage
earners of the household. Their pay for
working in the munition factories Is re
' munerative. and for that reason women-and
children of the poorer classes
.are more prosperous now that ever be
fore. Thelatest thing in the motor line
the "monauto," is a low-seated, two
wheeled vehicle a miniature edition of
the motorcycle. The affair is smooth
running and does not need a garage for
storing. It can be taken upstairs un
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Scenes Are Snapped in Japan, England, America, Roumania, Switzerland Missing French Battleship "Suffren" Is Depicted. -
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der the arm and slipped tinder the
kitchen tubs or. If there are no tubs,
push it under the bed, to remain there
till the wife goes Christmas shopping,
or the young lady of the family takes
it in charge to make it her own con
veyance for travel to and from high
school. .
The machine weighs 60 pounds and
has been tested by the United States
Government with a view of carrying
enough of them on board battleships
to equip landing parties of marines.
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Tutrakan Is one of the cities of Ru
mania which has fallen beforethe tri-v
umpnarnt aavance or tne Teuton armies.
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. The French battleship Suffren has
not oeen neara rrom since she sailed
from Gibraltar November 24, with . 730
officers and men, and it is believed she
has been sunk. '
The Connaught tunnel, the longest
continuous double-track mountain rail
way tunnel on this hemisphere, has just
been completed. Three years and a half
were allotted to the construction, and
it was finished three weeks ahead of
time, its metnoa or construction was
unusual. A small tunnel was first
driven, through which were carried the I
working pipes. This allowed continu- I
LEGAL SIDELIGHTS FOR
LAWYERS AND LAYMEN
BV IlEYXELLE G. K. COItXISII, OP PORTLAND BAR.
THE- Mexican Problem There Is a
tendency on the part of some peo
ple to maintain that our difficul
ties with our neighbors to the south
have all arisenunder the present Ad
ministration. But that Mexico occa
sionally presented a problem even be
fore the days of "watchful waiting"
may be gathered from the case of
Mexican Central Railway Company vs.
Mitten, 36 So. 2S2.
The cause of action in this case arose
as far back as 1S99. The plaintiff was
a newsboy Injured by the derailing of
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ous work at all points. The tunnel, I
wnicn runs under Mount Macuonaid. in I
the Selkirks, is five miles long, and it
reduces the mileage of the Canadian
Pacific by four miles. The cost was
$6,500,000.
French nurses took luncheon at the
railroad station in Geneva, where they
went for a rest after work at the front.
On the suggestion of Gustave Ador,
of the International Red Cross Com
mittee, and Mine. Hoffman, the nurses
were entertained by the Red Cross
at Swiss hotels, S0O of which ordered
free entertainment to the nurses of all
the warring countries.
a railway train near Ahe now well
known city of Chihuahua, Mexico. The
newsboy, sued the Mexican Railway
Company, a corporation organized in
Massachusetts and having a local of
fice In El, Paso, Tex., for the injury.
The suit was brought in the Texas
court.
The railway company offered as a
defense the claim that "no cause of ac
tion was shown by the petition that
was cognizable by the courts of Texas,
because the injury was inflicted in a
foreign country, and it does not appear
from the petition that the laws of Mex
ico would entitle appellee to recover
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damages of appellant by reason of thei
injury.
The court, however, indignantly re
pudiated the idea that the United States
would deny to her citizens the right
to the benefit of her courts, and re
fused to turn over her citizens to the
tender mfe-cles of the Mexican laws,
saying in part:
-e "are not willing to subscribe to
the doctrine that a citizen of Texas
who has suffered wrongs, transitory
in their nature, in a foreign country,
at the hands of one who has his legal
domicile in this state, before he can
obtain redress at the hands of our
courts, must show that he has been
refused aid in the foreign courts, and
make it apoear that he comes to the
courts of his own country unwillingly
and as a last resort. Jurisdiction of a
cause should not be made to depend
upon any such state of circumstances
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"It is practical denial of remedies for
wrongs which may be Inflicted by one
of our citizens upon another in Mexico,
by relegating him to trial in the courts
of a country where the laws are said
to be- enforced without precedent of
authority, and which laws are said to
be so uncertain and obscure that our
courts cannot undertake to construe
them.
"We are not willing to subscribe to
such doctrines. We hold that the pe
tition showed a cause of action, and
that the District Court of El Paso
Wunty had Jurisdiction of the case."
An Economical Candidate One would
think that a political candidate who
had, attempted to save the taxpayer'
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pooketbooks by offering to accept "less
money" than the salary stipulated
would be rewarded for "conspicuous
merit." The candidate for an Ohio
judgeship tried it recently, and was
promptly indicted for a violation of tha
provisions of the corrupt practices act.
The case Is reported in Prentiss vs.
Dethune, 112 N. E. 1020.
It seems that Prentiss, during his
campaign, had promised, if elected, to
accept only the $3000 remuneration
payable annually from the state and
not to accept the additional f625 pay
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able lawfully out of the local treas
ury. Prentiss was elected, but before
his induction Into office this contest
wan brought.
The corrupt practices act provides
that a"ny person is guilty of corrupt
practice if he, in connection with, or in
respect to any election, contributes, or
offers to contribute or expend any
money or valuable consideration for
any other purpose than certain ones
detailed therein.
The court held that Ahe candidate's
offer to accept a smaller salary than
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the stipulated one "is - but little less
reprehensible ... than to offer
to contribute to the taxpayers, indi
vidually, their pro tanto proportion of
the amount of salary forgiven; since
in either event the taxpayer is required
to pay less taxes.' Irrespective of the
personal fitness fit the candidate.
The theory of popular government
Is that the most worth' should hold
the offices. Personal fitness and in
that is Included moral character. Intel
lectual ability, social standing, habits
of life and political convictions is the
single test which the law will recog
nize. That which throws other con
siderations into the scales, and to that
extent tends to weaken the power of
personal fitness, should not be toler
ated. It tends to turn away the
thoughts of the voter from the one
Question which should be paramount
in his mind when he deposits his ballot.
It Is, in spirit, at least, bribery, more
lnsldl9us, and therefore more danger
ous, than the grosser form of directly
offering money to the voter."
DRESS MAKES MEN FALL
Pastor bays Men Are Helpless In
Face of Women's Stjles.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. Women's
clothes of today make mtn "helpless"
In guarding their morals. Dr. James L.
Gordon, a Congregation clergyman, told
a large meeting, composed principally
of young women, in a sermon here.
"If the young men of this genera
tion have not gone heliward head first
it has not been the fault of the young
women," Dr. Gordon said. Doctor Gor
don declared present-day women "will
gamble away their honor, womanhood,
reputation and even their destiny."
"No stake is too high for a woman,"
he added.
Thieves Rob Clinrch.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 10. Entering
the vestry room of St. Andrew's
Episcopal Church, Eighth street, above
Spruce, early in the morning, thieves
forced open an old vault built in the
wall. The only objects of value In the
vault were the pieces of a silver com
munion set, but the thieves were evi
dently afraid to take It for fear of the
difficulty in disposing of it. They had
pulled the service out of the strongbox
and scattered ft over the floor. En
trance to the church was gained by
forcing a small window opening from
the vestry, room into the churchyard, .
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