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The Wingham Advance, 1912-02-29, Page 7• to, ROOSEVELT CRITICISED FOR OPPOSING TAFT New York Newspapers Attack Him Viciouso, ly for Coming Out.. Taft Feels Hurt But He is Sure of Success He Says. In 1904 Roosevelt Said "Never Again;" In 1912 He Says "I'll Try Once More." Here is what Colonel Roose- velt said in a signed voluntary statement on the night of his election in 1904: "On the fourth of Mama next 1 ehall have served three and a half years, and this three and a half years constitutes my first tem. "The wise custom which lim. Its the President to two terms regards the substance and not the form, and under no circum- stances will I be again a Can- didate for or. aecept another nomination for President, Reiterates Statement in 1907. "I have not changed and shall not change that decision thus announced." -Theodore Roose- velt, December 1, 1907. este Now ,Here's the Backdown What Mr. Roosevelt said in 1904 'and 1901 referred, of course, to a consecutive third term. -From the Outlook, Feb- ruary 17, 1912. • ROOSEVELT'S NEW STAND. .New York, Feb. 26. ---Governor Jahn - eon, •of California, says that now that Col. Roosevelt has come out in the open for the presidential 1lomination that thousands of new admirers will join the colonel's friend. Governor Jelin:ton "The ziatement of Cea Roosevelt was all that we expected. We knew he would come out into the open, antinow that he is to fight we believe we will make the strongest fight in history. We in the wet are confident of his nomina- tion, and after that 'the battle is lime- ticaily over." None of the New York morning papers seem to favor Rooseve1t9n eau- didacy. This is indicated in the expres- sion of opinion as contained in the fol- lowing editorials. The Tribune regrets that Col. Roose- velt is again seeking the Republican nomination for the presidency. His can. (Edney, because of personal relations c formerly existing, can hardly fail to fel. gender unusual political bitterness and create es breach among- Republicens wider than rival candidacies ordinarily produced, and in a year, when the party will need its full strength to win, Col. Roosevelt would have served beet the party that has often honored him gen- I erously by reanceining in the back- ground. The World says: There ONO more than 7,500,000 Republican voters in the United Statee. Theodore Roosevelt-, can- not be nominated for President by the Republican national convention next C. N. R. to Build EleOtric June, unless a majority of thotie Repub., lieans favor his nomina,tion. If nominated he cannot be elected next a'Nrtyvember unless fully 7,500,000 Arneri- eun vote to make him President • again. It is not Theodore Roose-velt I but the American people who are on trial. The issue at stake is not his I qualifications for a third term in the White House, but their fitness for popu- lar self-goverument under eonstitutional 1 restraints. Mr. Roosevelt has torn up his soleme s promise of Nov. 8, 1004, that "wider no eireumetaneee will I be a candidate for •aoir accept another nomination," But -the promise remains as vaild as it was on the day it was written. 'Mr. Roose- velt ean.not nullify it. Only the Ameri- can people can nullify it. SCORED Br THE PRESS. The Sun says; Theocibre Roosebelt, twice President of the United States, is the poiseessor this mening of our profound commiseration. With all his native force he has beeo unable to nuts - ter the boyish impulses that are- lio marked a feature of his very interesting eheracter. This is purely a matter of personal peyohology. Neither the very diatinetly eecorded Pledge not again to he a candidate for and under no eireum- etanees again to atcept a nomination for President nor the ordinary oblige - thins of decent behavior toward the loyal friend who for some not yet writ- ten reation now ineurs his jealous re- sentnient, has prevailed over the selfish coneiderations, the, hunger for the ears and eyes of the multitude, thee invincible ambitioo to be at the eentre of things, the lust for power and primacy. We give Colonel Roaseitelt redit for genii. unconecionsness of the despicable nature of his pexformanee. Be is probably able to satisfy himself for the moment that he is sacrificing himself rather than eacrifici,ng •another. Snell pante- * Oyes Of confickehee are (wily procurable by a man of his resources. Neverthe. lese, we pity him eincerely eh the same• pity him for the weaktiees he has ,shown; pity him On account of the place he haat deliberately elected to hold in the pages; of history. The politleianks eonecieztee will arobably be less appalling than the direct effeet upon Colonel Roesevelt The Iferatd eftys! Oet out the big poeterst live the atreets °leered for tee parade! Weve the flaw and ring' tas bellsi How stbont the dynamite? See that it is ready: Will the big letilooe bold the hot air? feke her statute!' and tgbt Where are 'the Abernethy kid? 14 th r iktn ready, anti how about the hydroplane, to els. nothing of the FIGHTING AT JUAREZ. setinruirine? Washington, Feb, 26.---T1ie erleie has Amerieftes who are out of effiee reed arrived et juaree. 011164 reports. to have a seem to settle with Taft, listen. the Government toelay day that 700 ha I* •have braved the perils of eta Awl iand eurgent f, op have landed from a train hi the Oxen:lige of lel°. 1 Imo kept on the Mexican Centrel Railroad, tee quiet iIe they liave been smoking me tailea from that town and that the hrne. out, ate4 feel like tt Sue-lee-1mm herring. tilitles alretely have begun between the ete well smoked, Sat am now beek outposte. During a Alma% Mat night from t lbet to fight fm• ley heritage one Ameriten Waa killed And two were which le also your. wounded. ' So, "let her rip," as they say when they -elloot off the skyrockets-. True, a solemn promise was made in 1004 that, meter no eiremustaness would .astother nomination be Aceepted, but at that time nobody was angry with Tett True, another solemn promise adhering to the filet was mode in 1907, but what rit that? The tennis eabinet were not. out of jobs. Surely, little, things.; like that sbeelet not steed in the way, So clo not get hysterical. It la not as serious as -it looks. For, notice the Colonel only Say"I will acce,pt the nominatien if it is tendered to me." The Times %lye: For two years he has boon seheming and intriguing for the nomination. He hes worked for it with. out emitting, and in has; worked M the meanest way. Tbe whole country knowe that. in secret conference,. in public ut- terence, and by voluminous writing, he , •has appealed for and demandea, and fair- ly begged the nomination. CoI. Rnose- velt's veroeity hoe mope than one been slow in gnestiere. it IS now .no longer neeesgary to submit specifieetions; . eupplies them He now silos: "I wilt n e. rept the 110111illirtiOn for President if it is tendered me." On the night of, his elec- tion in 1904, Mr. Roosevelt said "This vise custom which Billies the Preaident to two terms regardthe eubstanee and not the form, and meler no eireum- PtalleeSt Will 1 be a eendiciate for or ac- cent 'mealier nomination." The States Zeitung says: A new Rooeta volt regime would indeed be a calamity for the lend. TAFT FEELS HURT, Washington, Feb. 20.---1'resident Taft was given a copy of his predeceseor's let- ter, hut he would make no continent. White 1 -louse offieiale also were rota cent, but thesomade no attempt to di. guise their interest. Th.e only remaik emanating -from We Preeident that at all bore upon the tense political sittettion was made to a senator, who asked that his name be not used. It was this: "I know teat were right, and 1 ara confident that we will be successful." it has been only in the last fortnight, that President Taft hae been willing to admit to his closest friends that he be- lieved Col. Roosevelt would enter the nee s-saiiest him for the nomination. It is doubted whether up to the last min- ute he was fully convinced that any eta flounce/110ra coming from his predecesebr would be without a string attached. That President Taft was deeply hurt to learn that from now on he must en- gage in an open -contest agitinst the man under whom he had served •for many years, heeame known soon after the Roosevelt letter was niade New York, Feb. 26. -Permanent of- fices, froin whieh supporters of Theodore Roosevelt will wage his fight to seenre the Republican Presidential nontinaton, were .operted at 1 Madison avenue to- day, in. eherge of Oliver Clinton Oarpen- ter, a lawyer, Who was one of the lieu. tenants of Geo. B. Cortelyou, ehairman of the Republican National Committee in 1904. . 4:' A NEW ROAD Railway to Guelph. Toronto, Feb. 26.-A deputation from GuelPlo reeresentmg elle City Council, the Board of Trade and the Guelph Reilway, conferred on Saturday with Sir William Mackenzie and official of the C. N. R, with reterence to the ex. tension of that road from Toronto to Guelph and the construction of radial lines from Guelph as a centre. W. P. Moore, for the 0. N. R., said that the road did not propose to take over the people's railway at Guelph, but the money for the construction of the line from Toronto is now in the batik and Sir William McKenzie said the road from Toronto to Guelph would be com- pleted by. autumn. According to plans subinitted at the conference, the proposed route extends from Toronto to Cookeville, thence northwesterly to a point two and one- half miles southwest of Brampton'and thence via Georgetown, Acton and Eden Mills to Guelph. The road will soon after be extended to Galt and Berlin, The line will be an electric one of good gradient and aecording to Sir William, will afford an hourly service and make the trip, between the two termini in about two hours. Tiltimalely the road will be coeverted into a steam line. Sir William also promised to assist in the construction of a north and south line out of Guelph. STRANGE TRAGEDY Man Drove His Auto Against Electric Car. Los Angeles, Cale Feb, 26.-H. S. Dud- ley, who drove his motet -cycle into an interurban electric ear four miles from here, causing his own death and that of his wife, who WAS riding with Ithie had attempted suicide by taking eldoro. form ten days ago, according to a state- ment made by the police today, "Next time I'll take her with hie," he is reported to have said, referrieg to his svife, when he was .reveved from the ehloreform. Aecording to witnesses eutoniobilea waiting at the crossing must have tided AS a warnieg that a train was approach. Ing, The Dudleys mine here from Syne- use, N. Y., three year ago, yr* lirokerhortorrtorimooloortor " • , I / tot - " 1"4"r"1" ! FROZEN TO DEATHICity Wonlan Makes a Fortune With Her Broilers' RAcE FoR GAS EXPLOSION SHE Tragic Death of North Bruce Farmer in Storm, Wiarton deepatehe Thomas Stewart, farmer, alio lived a few miles west of Lioe'e Head, in North Bruee, wits found frozen to death in a snowbank beside the road, near his home, last night. He had been nt Colpoys during the after- noon and on hie way home encountered fae fierce blizzard that omen this (Ds. treit, His horses managed to get through le Lion'litael and a little beyond, There Stewart went to a farmhouse ana bor. rowed a lantern to help him out along the arifted roads. That was the lett Seen OZ him alive. it ie supposed that in his ab.leece the team move4 away from where he had loft them, as they were limed, In a, feece corner. almost buried hi the snow. Stewart was over - Nene by the cold iota atone, and col- lapsed before reaching his sleigh, and Ins - body wee later discovered in a' drift alongside the farni next to that owned I by him. ITe is survived by a widow and four children. HER CHICKENS ARE CLEAN, WHITE, FAT AND TENDER; AND ,ULTIMATE CONSUMER.' TO MEET (AMU President Fallieres andGer- man Emperor May Confer, An Effort to Satisfy Peace of Europe. Paris, Feb, 26. -Both French and Ger- man diplomats and members of the French and German Cabinets are con- sidering at the present moment plans for a meeting between President Fel- lieres and the German Emperor, accord- ing to a report current in well-informed quarters. The meeting,, like the visit of Viscount Haldane, 13ritih Secretary of War, to Berlin, will represent an- other effort to solidify the peace of Europe and be an indication to the world that France is ready to do every- thing possible in the interest of the world's peace. o The recent ratification of the Franco. German accorde on the subject ef Mor- occo paves the Way for still another step toward the establisaraent of more friendly relations between France and Germany. The idea is that President Fallieres should go to Belfort, the French fortress town on the frontier, in September next and that the Emperor should cross the frontier and greet the French. President. As this is the last year of President Fallieres' term of offiee, the meeting between the head of the French nation and the German Emperor would be es- pecially appropriate. The matter, how- ever, is one of the greatest delicacy, as the diplomats naust-reckon with public opinion in France, which has not yet forgotten Alsace-Lorraine. 40.41. -41 - SHELLED BEIRUT. Three Italian Warships Bombarded Place. London, Feb. 26. --Three Italian war - shims are bombarding Beirut, the prin- cipal seaport of the Turkiele Province of Syria on the Mediterranean, according, to a special despatch receiva, here this morning. A terrible panic prevails am- ong the inhabitants of the ecity the ma- jority of whom are Christians. NO FOREIGNERS HURT . Beirut, Feb. at. -None of the foreign' institutions in the &Asc.:4311112Ra any in- jury from the explosion of the shells. The professors, missionaries, studente and employees are all safe. The Rev. Howard S. Bliss, son of the founder of the Syrian Protestant Col- lege, isopresident in actual charge of all the work- Of the institution, Where con- siderable consternation was felt when the Italian vessels opened fire. There was almost a panic among the inmatee, but their fears subsided when it was dis- covered that tre gunners were not aim- ing at the building. The report of the boinbardnaent of Bei. rut by the Italians ics the first sign of Italian naval activity in the Mediter- ranean for a, long period, andappears to be part of the new plan of campaign an- nounced recently by the Italian Govern- ment. The city has only a email Turk- ish garrison consisting of 500 infantry, 250 eavalry and detachments of artillery and engineers. It is not strongly fortis fled. In Beirut, which is the most import- ant commercial city in Syria, there is a large foreigu population, most of W110111 are Christians, and there are 38 ehurches of various Christian denomina- tions ie. the town Sixty people were killed and a large ntunber of others were wounaed as a re. suit of to -day's bombardment by the Italian warships. These are theeoffa cial figures, but it is probable that there were ,many more casualties. eeas PORT COLBORNE .ok • ror,..earotrotni Extension of Boundaries Takes in About 500 Acres. Port Colborne despatch: The corpor- ation Of Port Colborne has been permit- ted bY the Ontario alevernment to ex- tend Re preseet boundaries to the con- cetslon road, due north seventeen hun- dred feet beyond the shore line south, , and west, making in all about five hun- dred acres in the greater municipaiittt As the doubling of the present popula- tion -within a year is net improbable, ad- ditional territory may then have -to be soured. The tewlyaacquired acreage inch:dee the Maple Leer Milting Com-- ortey'e plena the Government elevator, and the site of the aiutfete Taniee Fer- rates) ComPanY, which, when completed, Will rank AS one of Canada's gteatest industries In the menufaeture of iron and Steel, 10. THE PATERSON TROUBLE. Paterson, IsT, J., Feb. 20. -Eight out Of the tweety.five broad milk mills which have been effected by the strike of the Weavera for a new vale of pricesigned the new achedulee teeley, At the same time the weevers in five other mine teas- ed work. There Ives no disorder to. day. (ay E. C. Rodgere) Wheaton, Ill. -Four years ago a waitress in a Mimeo reetaurant got tired of bringing "ham -and" to tilde one and "coffee-andesinkere" to that one. Shehad eaved $450;. also elle had studied the ohieken raising bus,a, ne.se, both sides of it. Mee had noeioed, teat fastidious diners were w•ing to pay well for MO, teuder broilers,. Se Miss Anna Sharpley hung up her wait-ree& apron, took her eavinge over to a real estate agent and paid $200 down on an acre of land. She invested most of what was left in a good-sized chiolien house. Then she moved on her "farm," out on the prairie, 15 miles west of Mileage, with not another dwelling in eight. Eighteen obiekena kept her conspen3t at first; thee° the made at home in a large elergoode box., while she her- self occupied the chicken. hoase. The 18 dhickens nu1tiplied, and their chicks waxed fat and tender, and became like unto high-priced broilers. That is Miss - Sinixpley'e fr ".• ‘oile r SELLS DIRECT TO THE see Lee ee MISS SHARPLEY AND SCENES ON HER 'CHICKEN epecialty-broilere. She aimed fOT he highest and best trade, and one lay he sot out with a basketful of broilers nicely cleaned and ready for delivery. She visited the homee of 4ome of the wealthier citizens of the fashionable north side of Chicago and at each elle left a broiler. Attaehed to the broiler WM thie message: "I mean to maintain this standard." -Now Mies Sharpley keeps nearly 100 Chicago farnilleis and many insti- tutions in broilers. The Northwestern Railroad depends upon her for the broilers eerved on ite dining cue. She sells about, 600 broilers a week, and ehe gets above the market price bemuse of the euperiority of the broilers, and the ears with width it is killed and cleaned. "Once every two weeks, I call on every one of my cuetomers," explains lVfies Shexpley,"to keep in touch with them. If they have any complaints I want to hear them." Farmers for 60 miles around sell eggs and ltttle eleicke to Miss Sharp - ley; besidee that she has a large flock 01 hem Wl1080 rnajor duty it is to lay enough eggs to keep the ineubat- ere filled during hatching time. The eggs MISS STIIIXIXIey- sells to her owe- tomers are moetly bought from near- by farmers; the in -come from the egg - trade is pin -money, the broiler sales CAUGHT AT LAST The "Spanish Prisoner -is Under Arrest. Madrid, Feb, 25. - With the arrest in Bilbao of a. gang of swhillers and the capture of their complete para- phernalia, the Spanish police believe that they have at last suceeeded ih putting an end to the machinations of a rogue who for the last ten years has been known to the press of Europe and America as "The Spanish Prisoner." His agents nt The Hague and an Francisco have been operating extensively of late. The agency at The Hague caused to be published in the English press no- tices of the demise of certain persons whoee ancestors had fled to Holland during the religious persecution of the middle part of the oixteenth century and had died wealthy without any Dutch heirs. In these cases certain London solicitors became the uncon- scious agents of "The Spanish Prisoner," and actually transmitted the znoney ne- cessary to present the claim to The Hague, where it wae never heard of again. • In the house raided 'by the polite in Bilbao were found a collection of pho- tographs, letters, and other documents, and long Este of Spanish, American, and English IlaMe-S, with biographical notes attached, showing how it' bad been pos- sible to conduct the business with 80 nezeh Inquiry among the police here ehow that several foreigners had from time to time arrived here, who had, fortunately, inquired of the police before looking up "The Spanish Prison- er," and had therefore been saved from hie machinations. MAY BE CRAZY. . A Montreal Man Assaults Mrs. liebert's Lawyer. •••• Montreal, Feb. 26. -Maurice Alexare der, a, partner of Arnold Wainwright, the young lawyer -who acted for Mrs. 1:16bert in the reeent suit, was assaulted yesterday by Abraham Lineoln rutted, who is now under arrest. Peteatut was swearing out a warrant for the arrest of many of the most prominent financiers in town, who, he said, had swindled him, when Mr. Alex. ander entered the room in hie lawyer's gown. Pacaud made a savage attack on him, knocking hint down. It took the cent - bitted efforts of five inen to drag Pa. caud away. It is underetood that he thought Mr. Alexander was a judge. When placed in the cells Paeaud start- ed to fight with the other prisoners. Pataild's sanity will be inquired into, as he has been acting strangely of late, one of his itallucinatioes being that his doctor had ordered hint to carry a men in eaeli hand from Montreal to Lach- ine IIS a remedy for nervoleateee Mr, Alexander was not India, hurt. . G. T. R. EAkNINGS, Montreal, Feb. 29. --The Grand Trunk earniege from Feb, 15t1 to Feb. 21, 1912. were: $818,72a as cigainst $748,988, for the eorreeponding period of bet year, en itiereate of $99,741. 'a There are four Woios of manlike apes -the tfibbot, the oreteg, Ott gorilla and the ehisepatzee. make up moat of the $2,500 a year net profit Mise Sharpley enjoye, The original chicken house and the dry goods box have grown into eev- er-al long, modern "colony houses," A $5,000 bungalow provides a libme for Mies Sharpley and her two wo- men assistants,. The one acre is seven to -day. All up-to-the-minute de- viees in poultry farms axe here, "Whet's the &tore*" "There's no secret at all," Mires Sharpley answered, "juist knowing how to raise ehiekens, and how and where to sell them." There is the seeret-how and where to sell! 'Wjeli a commessionmen, and a retailer, in between Miss Shapley and her customeres she wouldn't have that $20,000 poultry plant, and pos- sibly her customers would have had to pay higher prices. Miss Sharpley, the city reared wo- man, cut -out everybody between her and her. CUStOTTIOTS. That, with untir- ing labor, and study of successful poultry methods has made her a good-sized fortune in fonr years. "I don't like to talk to newspaper- men," Mies Sharpley said, "for once a newspaper told about my Lenin, and I was so busy answering letters and ehowing visitors about that 1 couldn't attend to rey business properly. But if you have to write me up, I wish you would put in your etory that ITALIANS SANK TWO WARSHIPS Sixty Persons Killed in the Bombardment of Beirut, Warning That: War Must Come to An End. The British Consul Protests Against Armed Mobs. Rome, Feb. 25,-T1ie first official re- port of the destructioa of two Turkish warships yesterday in Beirut harbor was received to -day froan .Admiral Favarvelli, commanding the squadron to whieh the cruisers Giuseppe Gari- baldi and Frances° Ferrueio, the at- tack•ing vessels; are attached. The ad- miral sent the following despatch: e"I surprieed the Turkish gunboat Avnillah and the torpedo boat Aneora city - break in the port of Beirut': These alupe were ordered to surrender, the time limit being fixed at 9 o'clock. My deci- sion was comnumieated to the Governor and consuler authorities through the Turkish officer who came aboard. "At 9 o'clock a, signal demanding surrender was again hoisted. Aa no answer was givensfire was opened on the gunboat, whieh replied energeti- cally. At 9.20 the gunboat was eilenced, fire baying broken out on board. Hav- ing suspend -ed fire 1 praceeded aboard the Giuseppe Garibaldi to the mouth of the harbor, where an action ensued with the Angora-, Willeh was badly demeged. Her destruction was completed with a torpedo. "The report that the town of Beirut was bombarded is absolutely false, The squadron then deputed." Beirut, Feb. 25.-Martie1 law was preelaimed here to -day, although all is quiet within the town. No lees than 00 persona were killed and 100 wounded during the bombardment by the Italian warships on Saturday. FRENCH OPINIONS. (By Times Special Cable.) Paris, Vele 26. -Although opinion here is almost unanimous that Italy Was ab- solutely within. her rights ia destroying the two Turkish warships lying in the roadstead to Beirut on Saturday, when 60 people were killed and a large num- ber wounded, the eontinuation of such a programme by Italy is generally re, garded With apprehension, as it is thought possible that it might lead to European eemplicatione. In some quer. tare it is believed that the bombardment was really Italy's warning to the world that the wee ageing Turkey ehould be brought to an end. It is understood the Powers are misty to make a proposition for the set- tlement of the dispute by which Italy would take merely the coasts of Tripoli and Cyrenelea, leaving the interior in the halide of Turkey. The diffieulty in the way of the oeceptenee of this pro- position is tilItt the itttlimt Parliament has voted the ennexation ef the v hob of Tripoli and 0yrenaisa, TROOPS AT ntrittpr. Beirut, Me 20, -Trope to the num - her of 1,30(i have Arrived here from Iktmamee. The Britieh lemma W1141 is the dean FARM, 'allatlearasease,,,;ear - Thursday is my visiting day -the only day I can talk to visitors. Tell thoee who would write to me, to write in- stead to a leading poultry journal - and subeeribe for it. Then they can learn all about chicken raising." HOW I RUN MY POULTRY FARM. (By Mies Anna Sharpley.) Spray roosts twice a week with kero- seine and carbolic acid, and spread fresh ashes about the floor. On top of every coop there ehould be a ven- tilator and skylight. Uee canvas doors, so fresh air eau get in. As soon as chicks are hatehed, sort out weaker one, and take special care of them; beware of dampness, impure water, and over -feeding. To fatten chickens, put them in wire pen, where the temptation to run -around is absent; feed them liberally font tines a day; keep food from them several hours before they are to be killed. Don't ch -op their heads off, or strangle them. Run a thin, slender knife through the mouth into the brain. Death es then instantaneous, and the meat is not affected, by the death struggle. Be as regular -as a clock in feeding, and never stint on fresh water. Clean your chickens to 411‘owy whiteness. That means a pletieed pat- ron, and a 'higher price. of the insular corps, protested to the Governor on Saturday against the pres. ence of an armed mob in the streets. The Governor replied that he would guarantee the security of the foreign residents. TROUBLE AT TUNIS. Tunas) Feb. 26a --A hostile demonstra- tion was made by large crowdss of natives this morning in front of the _Italian 'consulate here, following on a street disturbance in whiah an Italian was killed. The strictest measures have been taken for the preservation of order in the city, and troops have been ordered out to patrol tilie Italian quarter. FORTY MEN KILLED, London, Feb. 26. -Disquieting news has come from Albania, The valleyof Kossovo and Scutari liave demanded re. inforcements, aecording to a St. Peters - blues despatch to the Daily Telegraph, and the War Minister has ordered the mobilization of 00,000 men. A skirmish between tribesmen and. Turkish troops guarding the Prisrend Railway ocenera recently, 40 men being killed. : JAP RELIGION Christianity, Shinto and Bud dhism In Combination. • 4•111.m1.•••••1=1MOI Outlined in Circular From Minister of Interior, •••••••1%.•••WIN.110 Tokio, Feb. 25.-A remarkable cite eider has been issued by the. Vice -- Minister of the Interior, Mr. Tokotiami, which sets forth a scheme by which the various forms - of Christianity as practised inJapanmay be brought into closer relation with the native religione, Shinto and Buddhism. At an early date the Japarmae Did will arrange a meeting for representa- tives of dm three sects, whiell will be addressed: by the Minister of the In- terior, and further steps token to bring about a triune religion for Japan. Meanwhile Mr. Tokonamits circular reads as follows: "In order to bring about an affilia- tion of the three religions, it is eeces. eery to connect religion with the state more closely, so as to give it (religion) added dignity, and thus impress upon the publie the necessity of attaching stealer importance to religious matters. Tho culture ot national ethics east be per. feeted by edueatioit combined with re- ligion. At Present moral doctrines are - inculcated by education alone, but it is impossible to inculcate firmly fitir and upright ideas in the minds of the nation unless the people are breught into toueh with the fundamental eoneeption known as God, Buddha or heasen, as taught in Op religions. It is neetessery, therefore, that education and tong/ion should go hand ht hand to build up the basis of the national ethies, end it is therefore desirable that a, eeheine h °It'd be devised to bring aliteatioa and te- ligIon into closer relations to enable them to promote the national welfare. "All religions agree hi their Mao mental principles, but the preeentelay coneeptions of morale differ aeoording ti' the different pointe of view. It is .ever -evolving. It may, therefore, be neeessavy for Shinto and Theldhiain t� entry their st-PpA tt)wara NvikxtE‘ro iUfl WO. Till‘r01:4 )11 diffreiteott '641 Wt&fq't lto411111.1 awl Ining used. SOUTH POLE Captain Scott and Amund- sen Are in the Running. Who Will be First There and Give the News? Word Ma,y be Expected of the Discovery Any Day. London, Feb. eet.---Newe of the discov- ery of the South rote is expected to reach London any mometta and already the newspapers are beginning to discuss the chances of the rival expeditions of Captain Roald Amundsen and Captain R. N. Scott. The Westminster Gazette has a time- ly article by a men experienced in polar matters, who say: "At auy mo- ment one of the eouthernmoet cable Sta.: tions may sprea,d over the world the meseage that the seeond if the great polar mysteries has been solved and that an explorer has succeeded in do- ing in the Antarctic what .Admiral Peary did and Dr. Cook said lie did in the farthest north. "In the midet of all uncertainty all that we know practieally certain is that the great race, which is surely the most remarkable that has ever been made, is by this time lost and won. "Who was the winner, only a cable- gram from Stewart Ieland or Tasman. i, to which it is expeeted Amundsen will steer the Fram, can tell us, but if Amundsen made th° earlier start, and the earlier return, the two expected messages should not be far apart. "The Franz has the longer journey to make, and the Terra Nova is the fas- ter veesel. so that what we are awaiting may actually be the result of a lace to give the news of the result of the greater race that preceded it." Sir Ernest Shackelton, the famous Antarctic explorer, when interviewed on the subject yesterday, favored the chances of the Norwegian. "Of eaerse Captain Scott ha e great experience," he said, "but then you know, the Norwegians can live on the smell of a bone. On the other hand Cap- tain Scott's equipment is splendid, and that is a great point in his favor. The to parties nmet meet somewhere on - the journey, and which ever: party loses in the race will join hands and, come beck with the winners, If they should both meet at the pole 14. will be a race to see who sends the first news. Amend - en's ship is slower, but Scott has a party to pick up at Cape Adair." A Copenhagen despatch say a that the Geographical Society at Christiana held a meeting to discuss when Amundsen might be expected back from the ex- pedition to the South Pole. All the members agreed that no news of the ex - edition could reasonably be expected fore March. $ . WOMAN SUFFRAGE Lloyd -George Tells Suffra- gettes Why Votes For Women Measure Can- not be Introduced. London, Feb. 26.-Lloyd.George„ the Chancellor of I,T.e &chequer, had a very mixedreception to -night when ha ad- dressed a huge suffrage gathering in Al- bert Hall. Although the members of the Cabinet Attended the meeting for the ad- vocatine of woman suffrage, the mili- tant Suffragettes, who do not like him, continually interrupted his address with taunts and booing. The majority of those in the hall, hovever, supported Mr. George and enabled him to get a hear- ing. The Chancellor said the Suffragettes would never get a Government measure giving women the right of the franchise. Such a measure would hopelessly shatter the Government. The only way they could sueceed was by bending all their energies to secure the amendment of the proposed lt.lanho-od Suffrage 1.3111, while it was being diseussed in the House of COMI110118. Two-thirds of the members of the Cabinet and three-quarters of the House of Commons, the Chaneellor said, leculd support an amendment to the bill giving the women, the right to vote, and oeaurcrhi eda.n iettniNevuoeslrihieolit)teloes,,°;,usldai deetti6npoly a itcie. er, for the NVOInell to look to the Union- ists for help, ts three-quartere of the Con- servatives were opposed to weillan c3uf. frage. A resolution was adopted unanimous- ly calling upon Parliament to grant the franehise to women during the present year. STRUCK HOUSE People Hurt by an Engine Bumping Into It, Battle, Creek, Mich., Fob. 26. -De- railed by the breaking of a tire on one of its drive wheels, a, Grand Trunk switeh engine plunged into the resid. deuce of Dane Kowrij, 104 River street, this city, demolishing the rear hall of the house and wreckingthe locomo. tive. Mrs. Kowrij was seriously Nur- ed whale her three children, aged front one to four years, were hurt. Wilhlani McCann, switchman, who was riding on the pilot of the engine, wan badly cut And sealded, 4, • WOULDN'T SHOOT DOG. New 'York, Feb. 20. ---After refusing to shoot a rabid dog several days ago be- cause he had but one cartridge for hie shotgun and "wanted to use that one for himself," John Hall, a shoemaker, of „tisithiee. Made good his threat te-day. The left side of his head WatI blown aWity, Itieareh of his effeets revealed the truth of his statement that the i'JI tido, mete hie last, -- -, ow or • krvItor GOVERNMENT ro Act. London, Feb. 20. -It 14 tepotted in 1 realm1 drain toeley that rimier As- ' quith hefi deteltnitIN1 in the everd of a national strike, the governaleet will take ever flea work tempoierily ell the veal mines and thus preveet t pude in Two Young Nen Hurt In Dunnville Church. Dunnville, Feb. 25, -About 4 O. rte. on Satarday an explosien, Of sewer gas occurred in the basement of the Ping; Baptist Church. Preparatiene were in progress to entertein the Monarch Knitting Company's hockey team of St, Thomas in, the Dunnville club rooms atter the game this even- ing. NV, I. Connors and Ben john. son had gone into the church base, ment to get dishes and tables, On teetering the basement an odor wae detected. Upon entering a mall room where tb,e dishes are kept Con- nors struck a match. The explosion immediately followed, burning both seriously about the face and hands. Johnson, being the stronger of the two, assisted Connors to his room at the Victoria. Hotel, where doctore were Immediately summoned, The basement of the church was wre-eked, windows and doors being blown out elle plaster and wainscotting also torn loose. BOLO ROBBERY House of Edward Gurney Robbed of Valuables. Stones and Jewelry Valued at About $1,500 Taken, Toronto, Feb. 26.-A valuable haul of jewelry was recede by some unknowu sneak thieves at the house of Mr. Ed- ward Gurney, 44 \\Telmer Road, and so far the pollee have been unable to get any trace either of the thieves or the missing valuables. The robbery' took place about e enclock inthe evening, when the family was at dinner, and it is likely that the robber or robbere gain- ed access to the house by a rear wins dow. it was later on in the evening when Miss Gurney went to her room that she discovered her personal loss. An exam. ination of other rooms showed that other members of the family had, not been neglected, the intruders having taken everything they could get their hands On. The following is a list of the jewelry taken: One lady's solitaire two karat -diamond ring, low claw setting, value $250; one lady's lye karat solitaire dia- mond ring, low claw setting, value $150; one solid gold necklace, set with peri - dots, value $80; one solid gold collapsi- ble spring watch bracelet, value $60; one Solid gold chain bracelet, set with two pearls and a turquoise, value $80; one blue enameled medallion loeket and gold chain, value $70; one solid gold pen. dant in grapevine design, with whole pearls, value $180; one gold brooch, set with large diamond in centro and stir - rounded by five or six small stones, about 1 karat each, value $500; one pear-shaped conethyst brooch, mounted in gold, one stick pin set with small amethyst, one small staid gold pin, set with baroque pearls and diamonds, one small carbuncle pendant setin. gold, one small .cameo pendant set in gold, one gold-plated silver filigree chain and bracelet, one string of imitation pearls with imitation platinum clasp, set with rhinestones, one imitation platinum veil pin, set with rhinestones arid imitation pearl, and several small safety pins, cuff links, ete. .: GHANGES IN ACT Respecting Building Socie- ties and Loan Corporations. Toronto, Ont., Feb. 26.-/mportant changes are contained in the Act res- pecting building societie.s and loan cor- porations that had been- revised by the Statute Revision Commission and intro. duced in the Legislature as a bill by Hon. J. X. Foy, Hereafter the majority of the directors must at all timesbe residents in Ontario, and be British sub. jeets by birth or naturalization. No per son shall be qualified to be a director miless he is 21 years old, is a share, holder in his awn right, has subserib. ed at least $1,000 on his sharee, and is not in arrears on any calls made on hie shares. Wider powers are given those societies and corporations to hold real estate. Not only may it hold such reels. ty as may be neceseary for the trawl - action of lie business, but what it may acquire or hold bona fide for building upon or improving for that purpose, met may sell mortgage or dispose of it when authorized by •supplementary let- ters patent. A. coneern may construct on its lands a building larger than is required for the transaction of its businese and 'may lease any part of such building not so eequired. All loans or advancee mule by building aocieties and corporations unless made under a contract upout which all the terms and tonditions are set out cannot be varied as to terms or conditions. This shall ap- ply to every "contract or loan" Made doaryreoifiewJune, 19 eide001tario since the first ss-ae WIVIR it BRYAN Willing to Campaign for Another Candidate. Denver, Colo., Feb. 26. -William Jen- nings Bryan, ill st speech here hot eight, definitely set at rest reports that he might be induced again to make the raeo for the Presidency. In eoueludiog hie address, he Raidl ani stitiefied that some one else ean poll more votes than 'myself. bet I am ready to enter upon a compaign in behalf of true Denweraey, with even more vigov than that eith which I have fought at any time on nry OWII behalf." ,1111.4.410*.rwoon mt. PERE MARQUETTE DiRECTOR New York, rob. eta -.Newman Erb, a tinaneial aeseelate .of the late Valwin Hawley,bus been eleeted a director -of the Pere "1\la.r41iette Railroad, and atoll.. mat of its exeeettive amunission, elettge in the menagement of the mai whicb appaientiv trinfir111:4 l'epent re- pot ts tliet *air. till atie others formetly astmeieted with Mr. Bewley bed els, alinea steck «ontroh of the read from .2. Pt 'Morgan & Co.