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I WHY SOME MEN LEAVE HOME Wife Could Not Clsarly Understand Husband'« Explanation of Ossified Man’s Hard Life. "Circus mon must l«avo a hard llfo I” "Indeed they du Kspoclally the ossl fi«<1 man." "Thu ossified manT" "Yes, th« uaalfied man. see? A barn life Hard ha! ha! ha!" "You don't mean that rually, du you?" "Of course. dear. Ikin't you ••«, u hard Ilf«! II A It ll hard. Ilf« I think that's a pretty smooth uno. Ha! ha! ha—or, don't you get It?" “But I don't understand Th« ossl- fled man certainly doesn't have any work to do——” "Of course not. but you boo —" • "Thon If he doesn't have any duties to attend to, how can ho lead a bard IlfeT" "Ho doesn't! Hn doesn't! Ho doesn't! It's the married man that leads IL Weil, I vo got to be getting to town." COURTS PRAISED FOR WORK SEVEN INQUIRIES ON TAPIS SNOWSLIDE CRUSHES TRAIN COST OF LIVING j 38 CONVICTED IN Rain, Wind and Snow Do Immense Speaker Declares Rights of People Eatimated Cost of Investigations Placed at Over $100,000. Damage to Property. Are Fully Protected. UP TO FARMERS DYNAMITE CASES Omaha Frank II. Kellogg, of St. Paul, s|Htaking before the meeting of the Nebraska State Bar association, vigorously defended the integrity of th« American judiciary and condemned what ho said was a disposition of these days to criticise the courts. He said that of all the branchos of the government, the judicial, in hia opinion, is the least subject to the ex ercise of arbitrary (tower, to scandal or to improper influence. Kellogg said he believed It to be a fact that the Supreme court of the United States is the most progressive and lib eral branch [of thia government and that it has always Iteen solicitous of the rights of the people. Kellogg argued at length against at tacks on the judiciary, because he said he felt that the reiteration of these unfounded charges has hud a prejudi cial effect upon the public mind. He continued: "The people (few, I am glad to say) who arc denouncing the Supreme court as reactionary and the ’last resort of the vested interests,’ should remember that but for the decision of that court, commencing with those written by John Marshall and ending with the lat est decision under the commerce clause, the nation would have been powerless before the greatest combina tions of wealth and jx>wer that any age has ever seen.” WILSON EXPECTS TO FIGHT "Why la Mrs. Wombat wearing such dowdy clothes lately? She spends half her husband's Income on dress But why Is she wearing such bum clothes Just now?" “Her husband's mother Is visiting her just now. Beer Th« other woman saw. WHAT DID HE MEAN? POWER CLAIMS ARE HELI) UP Hla Tip. Do You See? Secretary Sees Plan to Block Gov ernment Control. Washington, D. C. By the joint action of the War, Interior and Agri cultural departments, extensive land patents of the International Power & Manufacturing company of the state of Washington were held up because of the belief of Secretary Fisher, as expressed in a statement, that the company wax trying to “free itself from all control by the government by securing patents to lands under the guise of mining claims or by railroad scrip filings in combination with a special dam license.” The company was planning to build a series of power plants which, it was estimated, would produce 200,000 horsepower, having a value of $5,000,- 000 to $8,000,000 a year. Miss Gusher—Oh! bow I wish 1 The power site is in the so-called could paint a pretty face! "Z” canyon of the Pend d'Oreille De Auber (the artist) — You river, situated partly in the Kaniksu wouldn't If you possessed one! National forest ami partly in a power site reserve set aside by President The Gift Horss Idea. Taft. Wiseman—I see a dentist says a inan Intending matrimony should look Motive for Attack Myatry. carefuly at the teeth of the young London—The motive for the attempt woman selected Cynlcua—No doubt a scientific con on the life of Baron Hardinge, viceroy elusion. But It will not appeal to the of India, is a mystery on which it will foreigner of title in search of Amer be impossible to hazard a guess until it is known whether the miscreant is a lean money.—Judge. Hindu or a Mussulman. It is not known whether the bomb-thrower has Bathing Suita, Mayhap. Hub (looking up from newspaper) been arrested. Intense indignation is _ My dear, have you seen any ol expressed in Calcutta and here over the incident. Fears are expressed those Invisible suits yet? Wife—Invisible suits! What are that it may have been a manifestation of Moslem resentment at the British you talking about? Hub—Why, here's a New York la occupancy of the ancient Mohammedan dles' tailor advertising: "Sults mnde capital of India. to order with or without material." Herrin's Position Secure. Promise Well. Intimate Erlend—Squiggles, how does It seem to have a baby In the house? Young Father—1 didn't think much of him at first, but the little—er—beg gar Improves wonderfully on acquaint ance. The Anxious Husbsnd. "My love, I don't want you to do your work when we aro married.” "That’s considerate of you.” "And that brings me to a dellcats question Have you enough money to enable us to keep a hired girl?” Appropriate. "Tinkers, the watch-mender, la often heard to quote Shakespeare." "What la his favorite quotation from Shakespeare?*’ •• ’Tba time Is out of Joint.*" FANATIC’ HURLS BOMB AT NEW VICEROY OF INDIA President-Elect Believe«, However, Delhi, India Baron and Baroness in Retaining .Manners. Hardinge, viceroy and vicereine of Stuunton, Va. President-elect Wil son, by birth a Virginian, but byadop- tion u son of New Jersey, proclaimed the hope that his administration might mean the final obliteration of every thing that in the past divided the North and South. "I suggest an added significance to the occasion," said Governor Wilson, in presenting the greetings of New Jersey to Virginia, "because it is a son of the South who brings the greet ings of the North.” Standing on the porch of Mary Bald win Seminary, in the chapel of which he was baptized, the president-elect spoke to a great crowd gathered from fur and wide on the occasion of his return to hia native town on his 56th birthday anniversary. While Mr. Wilson spoke with feeling of his hojtes for a spirit of reunion that would rec ognize "neither region nor section, nor North nor South, ” he talked sig nificantly of his future course in pol itics, with particular reference to the conduct of business. The presidency, the governor said, he regarded "ax an office in which a man must put on his war paint," but he add<*d that his visage was such that he "did not mind marring it, fur a man can keep his manners and still fight" Billy—Then your engagement with Maud la off, old fellow, ohT Tom Yea; I'm rather afraid Maud will bo contrary In matrimonial har ness Hhu will not earn for team work. Billy - No? How did you reach that conclusion? Tom—Well. I asked her. supposing we were marriod. If sho would vote as I did Billy—And what did she reply? Tom She said: “No. 1 should vote the other way."—Judge Washington, D. C.—An era of in vestigation probably unprecedented in the history of the house will be ush ered In when congress reassembles In January. Members of the house will divide their attention among seven distinct investigations scheduled to be gin immediately after the holidays. They are: Inquiry Into the so-called money trust; hearings before the ways and means committee preliminary to tariff revision by the next congress; the probe Into the New Haven-Grand Trunk railroad in New England; the grand jury's hearings on genera) trust legislation; the inquiry into the rami fications of the so-called foreign and domestic shipping trust by the mer chant marine committee; the Glass subcommittee's investigation incident to the framing of a currency bill, and the inquisition into the affairs of the office of superintendent of insurance In the District of Columbia, with tes timony to be taken not only In Wash ington, but also probably in New York. The insurance inquiry will begin with the District of Columbia commis sioners on the witness stand. These committees will endeavor to complete their work by the end of the session. It is estimated the investi gations will cost in the aggregate more than $100,000. San Francisco W. F. Herrin, vice- president of the Southern Pacific com pany, who arrived here for a five-day visit, said that the recent merger de cision of the Supreme court would not affect his position with the railroad or that of President Sproule. "It will affect such positions as the chairman of the board of directors,” said Her rin, "director of maintenance and way and other positions on the Union Pa cific and Southern Pacific railroads.” India, narrowly escaped assassination by a native fanatic while making their ceremonial entry into Delhi, the new imperial capital of India. The splinters of the powerful bomb, which killed one native attendant and injured another, penetrated the back and shoulders of the viceroy and he was also wounded in the neck by the screws with which the bomb was filled and which passed through hia helmet. The «lectors who removed the metal splinters from the wounds declared it was marvelous that the viceroy es caped fatal injuries. I.a<ly Hardinge immediately after the explosion asked her husband if he was hurt. He replied: "I am all right. Goon." Lady Hardinge then said: "We cannot. There is a dead man behind.” The elephant on which they were riding halted and the viceroy tried to stand up, but reeled and fainted and th«- officials who gathered ar«>un<l had much difficulty in removing him from the elephant's back. The howdah in which he an«l Lady Hardinge had been seated was blown to matchwood. Wilson Somewhat Fagged Out. Princeton, N. J.—"1 feel like a squeezed sponge,” exclaimed Presi dentelect Wilson when he returned home after an all day's session in Trenton with the state board of par dons, over which, as governor, he presided. Governor Wilson’s attention was called to the recent discussion of par don systems in Arkansas and other states, and he was asked whether he preferred that the state executive have full responsibility or that the pardoning power be lodged in a board consisting, as in New Jersey, of the governor and the chancellor and six judges from the court of errors and appeals. Though the governor has the power of vetoing any application, his affirmative counts no more than that of the other members. "1 like the New Jersey system bet ter,” said Mr. Wilson. "I admire verr much this court, ax it is open minded and certain to do the right thing.” Chriatmaa Cost Carnegie $75,000. New York—Andrew Carnegie’s mer ry Christmas to his friends and rela tives cost him $75,000. This amount of money was sent out in checks espe cially engraved with a border of holly in amounts ranging from $50 to $1000. Altogether about 500 persons had the Christmas brightened and made a bit more merry by Carnegie's remem brances. He did not give any amounts larger than $1000. and it was charitable organizations for the most part that received more than $500 of the $75,000. Fight by Shoe Trust Starts. Washington, D. C.—Solicitor-Gen eral Bullett filed with the Supreme courtithe government's brief asking for the reversal of the decision of the Massachusetts Federal court dismiss ing four of the five counts in the in dictments returned under the Sherman anti-trust law against the United Shoe Machinery company. This brief marks the opening of the legal fight over th«» criminal prosecution of the alleged trust. For "Non-Partisan” Commission. Washington, D. C.—Senator Poin dexter, of Washington, after refusing to give regard to the reports of the old tariff board when the various tariff bills were under consideration in the senate last s«>ssion, has now prepared and will introduce a bill creating what Home Left for Museum. he terms a "nonpartisan, high-class Paris The will of the Plate French Federal tariff commission.” battle painter, Edouard Détaillé, Greek Army Routs Turks. leaves his residence as a museum of historical costumes. One floor of the Athens- The Greek army has driven house is to be devoted exclusively to the Turks from the Kiari defile, where uniforms of the French army. De- they entrenched after their defeat at taille also bequeathed $40,000 for the Goritza. The Greeks are continuing reconstruction of the house, so as to the pursuit in the direction of Lias- koviki. make it suitable for a museum. Government Expert Says All Depends on Size of Crops. Soil Must Be Made to Yield More Proportion of Farmers Growing Smaller. Washington, D. C.—The 'ever that will break the backbone of high prices of foodstuffs is more intensive farm ing, cultivation of unoccupied lands near the large cities and more intelli gent methods of agriculture, in the opinion expressed by Professor Milton Whitney, chief of the bureau of soils, of the department of agriculture. Dr. Whitney is a leading authority on soils and their uses and his many publica tions on soils and their adaptation to crop pnxluction and their relation to f«Mxl consumption have attracted world-wide attention. Dr. Whitney is preparing a bulletin on soils of the country and their rela tion to the nation’s future f«x>d sup ply. He draws apeci I attention to the vast am««unt of uncultivated areas of land, the decline in the cultivated areax compared with the rapid in- creax«- of the country’s population. “The country is advancing in every line,” said Dr. Whitney. "People are living better than ever before. As a result we are stronger physically and mentally. We are consuming more foodstuffs per capita than the popula tion of the European countries and I would not for a moment attempt to discourage leas food consumption. It is plain that until we get a larger sup ply of foodstuffs, and if the period of high xalaries continues, we can expect the present high cost of living to con tinue. "So let us touch the producing side of the question. For instance, the states north of the Potomac and east of the Ohio river have a total area of 12,822,880 acres. The area under cul tivation in this territory is estimated at a little over 40,000,000 acres. Add- ed to this is 27,000,000 acres used for forestry. So we have over 42,000,000 acres of idle land in the territory lying in the states. "During the past 30 years the amount of land in use has steadily de creased until it is now about 20 per cent less than in 1880, while the coun try ax a whole has been growing at a phenomenal rate. “The number of persons engage«! in agricultural pursuits in the states above mentioned has also decreased during the past 30 years, while the total population has largely increased. “There are at present, mark you, about 1,300,000 persons engaged in agriculture in the area under consider ation with a population of over 30,- 000,000 non-agricultural producers to be fed. "The bureau of soils estimates that the land under cultivation in the area can be made to yield at least four times as much as at present by more intelligent and intensive methods of farming. Moreover, the same up-to- date methods used on the idle lands will have a yielding capacity of over eight times as much as at present. “Careful investigations conducted by the bureau prove that these lands are well adapted to all classes of crops from the early fruit, truck and vege tables to the latest storage fruits and vegetables for winter use, and to the most intensive kind of dairy farming. "The conditions in the eastern sec tion of the country are similar to those existing in other sections. So whether the cost of living is to be reduced or not, it is perfectly plain to even the layman mind that to feed the present and constantly-growing population of the country a greater production of foodstuffs must be raised. "To do this more people have got to return to the farms; it is necessary to put more land under cultivation; more improved methods of agriculture, and more intensified fanning must be fol lowed.” ________________ World's Crops Reported. Washington, D. C. — The Interna tional Institute of Agriculture at Rome has reported to the department of ag riculture on the year’s crop figures. According to the institute, the produc tion in Germany was: Wheat, 160,- 227,000; rye, 456,608,000; oats, 965,- 999,000; barley, 159,927,000 bushels. Austria produced in wheat 69,640,000; rye. 117,114,000; oats, 167,423,000; barley, 78,384,000 bushels. In 10 European countries and Canada the production of sugar beets was 136 per cent of last year’s production. Taking of Town Confirmed. El Paso, Tex.—Despite the denial of Minister Hernandez, the taking of Ascencion by the rebels is confirmed officially at Juarez and reported by nu merous refugees coming from the town. The taking of Casas Grandes as reported by rebels, remains uncon firmed. Railway reports say nothing of the Casas Grandes attack. The Seventh Federal cavalry is proceeding slowly behind railroad work trains toward Ascencion. Flying Santa Sheds Furs. San Francisco -Santa Claus in an aeroplane flew over the heads of thousands of persons gathered here Christmas at the third international aviation meet of the Pacific Cost, and dropped bags of candy and nuts into the crowd. The warm weather, how ever, made it uncomfortable for Santa and he soon alighted, to shed his furs. Ellensburg, Wash.— Snowslide crushes 15 freight cars into kind ling. Seattle Boiler on rotary snow plow on Great Northern road ex plodes, injuring five, two fatally. Aberdeen Traffic and wire com munication badly hit by storm— landslide throws two house» from foundations- shipping tied up. Falls City, Or. — Heaviest rain an«l wind storm ever recorded. Newport Rain heavy and wind blows a gale, but no shipping dam age reported. Dallas — Telephone lines down and bridges washed out with I.a- Creole river flooding adjacent land. Chehails Chehalis river on a rampage for two days. Big log jam likely to break any time. Vancouver- Several Clark county bridges and roads washed out and rainfall of Sunday 1.92 inches. Centralia—Surrounding country flooded -citizens fear inundation in business district. Every Count of Indictment Is Upheld by Jury. All But Two Are Members of Iron worker«* Union -Two Ac cused Men [Cleared, Indianapolis — The United States government with stern and decisive swiftness took into its possession 38 union labor officials, convicted of con spiracy, of promoting explosions on non-union work throughout the land, of aiding in the destruction which brought loss of life in Loe Angeles, and of carrying on a "reign of ter- rorr” declared to be unparalleled in the history of the country. Almost the entire executive staff of the International Association of Bridge & Structural Iron Workers was convicted. Only two officials of that union now remain out of jail. At the head of the list of those con victed stands Frank Moran, the presi dent. It was of this union, with 12,000 members, that John J. McNamara was secretary-treasurer while he conducted the dynamitings out of which the pres ent convictions grew. The convictions, coming on a scale unprecedented in a Federal court, were an aftermath of the killing of 21 per sons in the blowing up of the Los An geles Times building on October 1, 1910. McNamara and his brother, James B., the Times dynamiters, are convicts in California, and his fellow officials, former associates of McNa mara, are Federal prisoners here, awaiting sentence. Two of those convicted were not affiliated with the Iron Workers’ union, but they were found guilty of joining with the Iron Workers’ officials in promoting the conspiracy. One of these is Olaf A. Tvietmoe, of San Francisco, a recognized labor leader on the Pacific Coast, the testimony against whom was that he aided in causing explosions in Los Angeles, wrote letters about them an«l referred to them as “Christmas presents” after the fatal explosion in Los Angeles, and that he aided in concealing evi dence wanted in California. He is secretary of the California Building Trades Council. Ellensburg, Wash.—The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound eastbound fast freight, which was stalled in a drift one mile west of Laconia, in Snoqualmie Paas, Saturday afternoon, was wrecked late Monday by an ava lanche that swept down the mountain just when the train wax almost free from the first drift. Two locomotives were knocked off the track and wrecked, 12 cars loaded with Oriental imports were smashed into small bits and 23 other cars were buried under the snow, part of which is 15 feet deep. Roadmaster W. R. Hunt was caught in the slide and severely injured. Snow conditions in the Cascade mountains are the worst in 20 years, according to railroad officials here. The Milwaukee was completely tied up by slides. The Northern Pacific refused to handle Milwaukee trains over the mountains. Snow plows at Easton and Lester were wedged in the snow. A plow stationed at Ellensburg, with a 15-foot double fan, released one imprisoned plow. A locomotive left the rails at Easton and turned on its side. A wrecking outfit left here by spe cial train, with 95 laborers following. A foot of snow an hour was reported at the summit. Lower down rain fell and then froze, forming a heavy crust on the snow and making conditions GALE SENDS BARK ON BEACH much worse. 33 C0NV1CTEDDYNAMITERS RECEIVE THEIR SENTENCES Indianapolis, Ind. — Imprisonment in the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., was imposed as a punishment up on 33 labor union officials convicted of having engaged in the destruction of property by dynamiting over an area stretching from Boston to Los An geles. Ax the head of the union whose strike was given as the motive for promoting the dynamite plots, Frank M. Ryan was sentenced to seven year»’ imprisonment, the heaviest sentence of all. He is president of the Ironwork ers’ International union. Of the 38 men convicted as conspir ators and aiders in the McNamara dy namiting schemes, eight other men affiliated with Ryan were each sen tenced to prison terms of six years, two men each were sentenced to four years, 12 men were each sentenced to three years, four men were sentenced to two years each, six men to one year and one day each, and six men, includ ing Edward Clark, of Cincinnati, a dynamiter who pleaded guilty, receiv ed their liberty on suspended sen tences. The elimination "of those who re ceived suspended sentences left 33 who are to go to Leavenworth, where the shortest sentence will be one year and one day. Municipal Carline Pays. San Francisco—In the first day and a half of its operation, San Francisco’s new municipal railway line returned to the city a profit of $632.75. The first car was sent out Saturday noon and the receipts for the half day were $748.75. Sunday’s receipts were $910, making a total of $1658.75 for the day and »half. The estimated operating expenses of the road are $450 a day and the fixed charges on the bonds $234 a day. There is an owl service with cars running every hour between 12:30 and 5:30 in the morning. British Four-Master Is Wrecked— Crew of 30 Saved. Aberdeen, W’ash.—Heroic work by the Westport lifesaving crew was all that saved the officers and men, 30 in all, of the British four-masted bark Torrisdale, which went ashore half a mile south of the jetty near the en trance to Grays Harbor early Satur day. It was the fate of the vessel’s crew to realize that they were drifting to a most certain death for several hours before the Torrisdale finally struck. Seven hours' work in a lifeboat in one of the worst seas ever known along the coast was the form of Providence that saved Captain Collins and his men. The Torrisdale lies a total wreck on her beam ends and with waves dashing over her, not more than 800 yards from the high water line. Her back is broken, anti her crew aver that she was leaking badly when she finally laid over. Chicago Drinks Less Beer. Chicago—Chicago and surrounding territory consumed 224,945 fewer bar rels of beer in 1912 than in the preced ing 12 months, according to a report filed recently by S. M. Finch, collector of internal revenue. Brewers explain the decrease by the cool weather in the early part of last summer, which decreased the consumption of the pro duct. The amount of spiritous liquors consumed showed an increase. Taxes collected this year on spirits in this district amounted to $451,500 as against $414,626 last year. Chinese Asks for Baby. Los Angeles—A petition bearing the signature of a Chinese seeking the adoption of an American baby has been placed on file in the Superior court. The child, at the age of one day, was found three years ago by Lute W. Jimmie, the Chinese peti tioner, on the porch of a neighbor’s home, where it had been abandoned. Lute is an American-born Chinese and conducts a flourishing mercantile busi ness. His wife is a Caucasian. Darrow Trial to Begin, Arms Stored at El Paso. El Paso, Tex.—At least 4000 rifles and untold quantities of ammunition, in shipments of from 5000 to 50,000 pounds each, have been received here within the last three months, official figures show. That the arms and cartr idges were not all sold to sports men s ¡self-evident. Some months ago enforcement of neutrality was remov ed from the Department of Justice’s secret agents along the border an«l turned over to the War department. Greeks Ix»se Naval Battle. London—A naval battle between Turkish and Greek forces occurred Wednesday off the island of Tenedos, in which the Greeks suffered severe losses, according to a news agency dis patch received here from Constantino ple. Los Angeles—The second trial of Clarence S. Darrow, the Chicago at torney who was chief counsel in the trial of James B. McNamara and who was indicted by the county grand jury a year ago on two charges of jury bribing, will be begun here January 20. John D. Fredericks, district attor ney, said the conviction of the 38 union men in Indianapolis would have no effect upon the Darrow case. City’« Carline Running. San Francisco — The Geary-Street Municipal railroad, running from the center of the business district to the ocean beach, was formally declared in operation Saturday. Mayor Rolph paid the first nickel taken in. The road is five and a half miles long and the estimated cost of construction and equipment is $1,543,721.