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Tyra x yr oc rmmeornaar oras amer a mnend TUESDAY, DEC. 26, 1911. THE NIAGARA SUN, LOCKPORT, N. %. > a M‘ -- - ¥ jomer a - j LET'S NOT BE PIKERS! THE P. 0. BANK'S NEEDS. \PEACE QN EARTH\. A NATION OF TEA LOVERS, - Wile Niagara. Stan. {t has come out in a sort of semi- \Postal savings banking, although The world's greatest festival ‘day is The Tea Trust is endeavoring t? use 8 g @% EEK gfig m-fi , S : WEBEKLY. officlat way that talk among the 4~| mojsorty established and hedged| ot hand. Commemorating 1thffibirtht £2 the Chinese war as an exlcuse lfor a; fig 31W a § g: r EB ® t Saviour it is natural tha ecntemplated increase in the price o wre imen leads to the opinion that the eous +o rastrictions the Sa ° . aprul) ot: the Prat.Ofice ot Lockport, N. Y.. 6 (lfimfinu‘c the proposed AP9Ut by niggardly restrictions, \35| couirit of Christmas should TeACh S0 goa, ho reason is about as just 2s E By HOWARD L. RANN _ Second-class Mast Muilar\ St“? should boe $1,200 a year. Post-] WOn its own right to extension to 21] mone nundreds of millions of Christ- any given by sister-trusis in their ritual ‘ilskm uh this; has not been deg.| the money order postoflices in thC| jon nearts, The Union-Sun desires t0 p.ige upon the American public THE CHILD FORGOTTEN, G decision a Canson HAqUFACTHRHE 04, (Sucoqusors to Union-Hun Om) , CGLSON, Prosident, “£38 éfé'iim. tV-Is'x'etm. ‘uon. BL D, GCONSON, Sco'y-Trcas. M. H. HOOVEE, Editor, «Time \Ramacratic: at AT Times and In All Things.\ m a - por year, for the DEMOCRAT AND NIAG AEA SUN, strictly in advanco. Xteomit only by Post Office Ordor Fostal Note, Reglatered Leltor or Now Work Drift. Lockport UNION.SUN Ig published every afternoon., TURMS OH SUDSCAIPTION--$8,.00 por your, $1.00 for aix months, Too for three months, Go per woek, ADVERTISING RATES furnished on MpplHcation by mall or othorwlae. Papors sont to any part of the Unit: ®# #tatem froe of postrnge. AY communfeations should be ad« #romsod to MANUFACTUEL &NCG CO.. Loolpart, N. ¥ wnucrtess Mgt. re UBNDAY, DEC 15,0; if)“. PLAYING ON WEAKNESSES, \World's pleasure - ground - and Kealth sanitoriun,\ is a title that may walt boe bestowed upon Hot Springs, Arkansas, nocording to m report Just made by Efonry B. Moyers, superin- tondont to tho Secretary of tho Inter« fan | Hvoey month of last your shows more visttors than the corresponding manth af 1010, the totul number gf vigitors for the year being approgxl« mately £80,000, The imumboer olf baths sold by 24 houses, named by Moyers, was 878,174 Ine the last your, \What Kas been tho worst detri« mont and curse to this resort for 40 years,\ says the report \is what is Known as doctor and hotel drumming, Formorly it was not at all unusual for $0 or $0 hotel runfiors to meet the visttor at Little Ttock or Henton on avory | train, and frequently sorao doummer wont as far as Momphis and Kt. Louis. 'The hotol drumming was but &a more subterfuge in most in« stances, the real object being to place the visitor in the hands of somes phystolur who would give hall his fea to tha drummer. I am happy to be «blo to report thay since Qetober 16, 10909, whon United States ingpectora Wore placed on all Incoming trains to natify the public what to avold and to glve full information as to how to pro« aged, the drumming on the terming has entivraly ceased, und tho practlco of the doctors dividing foes for druramed pationts has boon reduced to the low- dont abb aver known.\ KA KING'S HOME, Lockport can today entertain with pilde i fooling that within its portals tho Huscarora club is a- polgco of #randour, a mocca of worth and a buginesse and professional mon's ren« dezvousy which is not to boe excelled in general beauty any placo In the coun« try. Voaterday's format opening pro- sented tho splondl!d instltution to the public and the city can now boast of Ite possosston with some marked do- of pride, for royalties halls offer tto more gonoral splendor than the architects of the new club tastefully designed for Lockport. Htarting off with about 200 repre- gentative mombeors the club is a credit to its foundors and a monumont to lToont progress | Citizens with heart strings beating in - sympathy | with clvia prido, reallzed tho necessity of & buslmass man's mocting place and gladly loogonod thelr purgo strings for the croation of the necessary funds for tho ogtablishment of thelr ideat, Thels antleipations have been fully and tho new clubbouso is a fuct. , Full approciation of the afforts ot tha _ constructive _ committeos | is entortainod by tho - clubmen and their friends, for It (1 due to tho onthuslagtte and indefatigable efforts 336 those geontlomon that ombryo plans wore carried to materialization. - All wore contributing factors but none do- hlow tho expressions of praise that Is Jugtly bootowed upon cach ftustlor who-worked for the ultimate consu« mation of their ideas. May prosperity attond Tascurory's caraor | Lot tho bustuoss mon givo de« serving support and the club wilt be & lasting credit to the city of Lock- (peat. imenteniiornt © | 10910 | \ Tfispano«Amorlcan * chambers of commoree have spring up Ir most of the Important cities of Spain. - Theiv objoct Is to study South Armovlcan markets for manufactured products which formerly went to tho Epgnish losular: possesssions. A Massachusetts | {nventor's - horso foading bag has i compartment to hold grain which pormite onlv a small quantity at m tima to reach an ani- mal's mouth at a timo, thus prevent» Ing waste. nitely mado either formally or in- formally among the aldermen but the \ fuct that the sum has been suggested und approved in some measure, calls for immediate consideration, The city of Lockport is about to undertake an important | proposition in tho establishment of its industrial department. 'The city will be thereby placed on an equal footing with Buf- fato, Niagara Falls, North Tonawanda, Niagara Falls, - Oht, - Wolland, | St, Catherines, Rochester and other vicin- hy places. | 'The Union-Sun has ahways held that with the cheapest electrical pewer on carth and other advantages fur excelling our sister citles, Lock- port should make immense strides if it would only have some agent to go into the marts of trade and give the city strailaur booming to that Niagara Falls is receiving from its industrial corantlsston,. To cuggest paying ar Industrial agent $1800 a year is killing the whole proposition at its inception. The City of Lockport could not hire a good bookkeeper for | that sum. | Asking any man of ability and of such ability as in industrial agent will be obliged to havo, to work for such a sum in so important a position | would - make Lockport a laughing stock. The in- dustrial agent of the city of Lockport must bo i big man in every sense of the word. le must have a fund of knowledge,. He must be naturally re- sourccful. Ho must go into a field of keen competition and approach the shrowdest captiins of | industry to vrgue with ther in behalf of this ality. If Lockport thinks it can get a man with these qualifications for $1,200 a year, it is mistaken. 200 Let's do this thing right! give other cities mn object lesson in munleipal ambition and enterprise. Put out an Industrint agent who will make other phos sit up and take notice, It would seem that the prac- timal way to settle the problem is to appoint as the three commissioners, imen high in business circles and leavo to them the matter of desig- nating tho salary of their agent. Lockport cannot afford to be niggara- ly on this all Important matter which we sro hoping means much to the cly's future. If wo start wrong the worth of the commission may be des- troyed and omco killed the harm weuld bo fimnmeasurable, Ae commet SCHEDULE K. PULLS THE WOOL Attempting to pull the wool over the oyes of the People, President Taft hastons in tho despcrate dying days of & befuddled administration to call for a downward revision of Schedule K. in a special message to Congress, Hoping to avert the revolt of the mas- gog the Prosident has penned a docu- mont which he Ropes will serve as his master campaign argument. Blunders of Mr. Taft have been re- curring with such frequency that the stand patters have become dizzy try- Ing to follow, Endeavoring to sorve two masters, 'Wall street and the Leopte, the chief executive has falled. Ho defonded the Payné-Aldrich tavift bill as \the best ever enacted\ using those words in his Winona speech. There immediately aroso from the rauks of the people ia bitter cry of condemnation at the deceit of the ad- ininistration in casting aside platform promisog for revision downward and Taft, hodged by corporate Interests, stood in foar. Eo vetoed the LaFol- lotto wool tariff bill last summer on the ground that he wanted to have his pet Tarif Board's report. The raurmuring of the masses grew apace and Taft, shaking badly, sought to rodcom himself by saying that he didn't mean that Winona speech as ho wrote it hurrledly on trains be- twcen stations. This excuso he gave woeoks after the Winona address had been read and digested. Now he comes forward with a re- nomination-hope in his mossage for a downward revision. Ho argues that the wool duty be reduced to a point of compensation for the difference in the cost of production. Therein Hes the‘posslbl'o joker. Taft knows that the Insurgent Republicans and Dem- ccerats and standpat Republicans will diffor upon this polut and the sched-| ule reviston may go to pleces on the rocks. _ Senator Smoot, the wool champlon, tells the President and the 'Pariff Board 'hat tho producer is muking nothing in the wool business. The Courlit Board says tho retailer is making all the profit and once again the party which has been the party of protection for the intorests for a halt & century, tries to hoodwink the people. fr fe mommies 'The Red Cross Soctoty has asked the Minister of War to give his sup- port to i commission formed for the purpose of Investigating a very point- ed bullet just adopted by German and Austrian armies. It is claimed that owlng to Its lack of balance it turns gldowiso and inflicts frightful wounds. | ment banks Let's: Tanited States,\ declared a bulletin of the Postal Savings Bank League in (Chicago, in commenting upon Post- master General flitchcock's report in which he stated that preparations were being made to increase the num- ber of postal depositories from the 1,500 \presidential\ offices to all of the 45,000 money order offices. \The banking interests which opposed for years the establishment of the system now are won over, partly we presume, because eleven millions of deposits are available at 21% per cent. interest. The habit of thrift has been given a fair start by the readily available deposi- tories for small sums.\ The limita- tion to $500 of the amount which can be deposited with Uncle Sum already has restricted the usefulness of the system and in Canada the restriction to $1,500 has caused deposits in 1911 to drop to $43,330,000, whereas in 1908 they were $47,504,000. This largely was due to greater activity among the chartered banks in attract- ing deposits. 'The savings banks in the United States have not lost desir- able patrons, but the class most easily wlarmed by any general financial dis- turbance have gone to the govern- in preference, thus re- leving the other institutions of a po- tential weakness. In Canada there is competition for the government rate in three instead of two per cent. as in this country,. In the year following the panic the record in deposits was reached in the Dominion when $13,- 298,544 was received, there being then 165,601 accounts open. Last year the deposits received amounted to $9,- 957.016, the number of accounts open being 147,478. It is belioved the cause for decline was removed when the limit was increased to $1,500 for deposits. Do YoU KNOW TB!S ? Yesterday winter began officially at about six p. m., eastern time, accord- ing to the statement of the chief hydrographer of the navy. Today is a few sec- ands shorter than yesterday, but the hours of sunlight are given as the same in the figures officially given for today and tomorrow. In years not leap years, Dec. 22 is ordinarilly the shortest day, with rare exceptions due to the fact that the Insertion of a day called Feb. 29 ev- ory four years, more than compen- sates for the actual amount of time in a year every 365 days of 24 hours duration each, This remnant period is something less than six hours. 'The result is that when 24 lear years have teen added or once a century, a leap year is skipped, and this keeps the official timers approximately straight in their bookkeeping. Last year win- ter began at noon, Dec. 22, eastern time; in 1909 at 6:00 a. m., and in 1908 it was at midnight, Dec. 21, mak- ing Dec. 21, that year, the shortest day of the year. Next year winter would normally begin at midnight on Dec. 22. But next year Feb. 29 is added so that winter still begins at miidnight, Dec. 21, eastern time. 'The official figures computed by the chief hydrographer | this - afternoon show that today is just six seconds shorter than yesterday. 'The sunlight today is nine hours forty-two min- utes and thirty seconds. Although today is about six seconds shorter than any other day of the year, government science sharps con- fess this is not the exact figure. They say Old Mother Earth wiggles too much; sixteen different movements of ber sun. They can't keep her still long enough to get their figures on straight for \every little movement has a meaning all its own.\ The wobbling, twitching, careening and pitching motions, the wise boys declare, prevent them from getting a focus with their instruments. Variant slrength of thoe sun's action on the earth causes most of the wobbles, they say, - Here is why today is about six seconds shorter; A year is not ex- actly 365 days, but plus one-fourth of a day and a fraction. The fraction causes the confusion. =--~-4#+@.-.._... The fox-hunting season in Eng- land, which has just opened, is made notable by the re-appearance with the Atherstone and Meynell packs of the Hon. Mrs. Colvile, aged 84, the oldest person in Great Britain-man or woman-to follow the hounds. Mrs, Colville, who is the mother of the late General Sir Henry Colvile, has been hunting 62 years. It 'was thought that last season must be her lost. However, when the hunters gethered for the first run of the pres- ent season, the veteran huntswoman was present on her favorite mare and was \in at the death.\ She \took\ every fence and ditch, and finished strong. The weather was wet, cold and stormy, and Mrs. Colvile was the only woman of the dozen or more who usually follow these packs, who dared brave the elements. join with all in gladsome celebration ard to extend to its friends and their friends all the happiness that the season and coming year may bring. We are all grateful and in our grate- fulness we praise God on this happy holiday eve. But with all the joy and with all the evidences of plenty to many of us. there are those who witness it not. Poverty and want make the ma- terial Christmas a dismal day for many. Perhaps few realize how many there are who, through bad fortune, sickness or labor stringency, are un- able to get that specie which they must have to barter for X'mas gifts to their own children. - It is fitting and proper at this time ts enjoy the full spirit of Christmas that those who have should give. Let cach and every one of us this day seek out some family in limited cir- cumstances and be to ther a Santa Claus. We are sure that if each remembers the poor as well as his own that Mon- day will be the happiest day for all. A COMMON CRIME. Henry T. Finck's \The Future of Ccoking and Eating\ in the January Century contains a cold fact whi: strikes with force before the Ameri- can people, especially the guardians of the growing generation. The glut- tony of Americans is well known. Fast eating among them has become a common thing, the natural out- growth of the rush and hurry which attends American business and social life. The mad scramble for success ir all avenues of our institutions has been the creator of an evi\ which cer- tainly ruins longevity and will surely overthrow the health of the people. This evil is that of fast-eating Mr. Finck analyzes it and says something must be done. He points how it should be done and urges the care -f the stomach as the greatest means to contentment among men. He says: \Nor is it enough that school girls and boys should be taught to cook: they should also learn how to eat. Few learn this at home. They are usually taught to eat silintly, and not to take soup off the end uf a spoon or to put the kn:iz info the mouth; but the more important art of mastication is ignored. It a branch of physiology, and shoull be taught by experts in the schoous. \If it were, the next generation of mothers and fathers would know that it is a crime to let their childron swallow food, particularly milk snd cereals and vegetables, before it nas been kept for a while in the mouth to be mixed with saliva and made digestible. If it were indelibly impressed - on school-children that gluttony is a vice which defeats its own end, that by eating slowly much more pleasure can be got from one mouthful 'non by bolting a whole plateful, that this pleasure can be vastly increased by consciously exhaling through the nose while eating, and that those who eat in this way will escape the pangs of indigestion-if these truths w ereT impressed on every child mind, two-thirds of the\ minor ills of man- kind would disappear in two genera- tions, and most of the major mala- dics also; for the stomach is the source of most diseases. As Thomas Walker wrote nearly a century ago, 'Content the stomach, and the stom- ach will content you.'\ THE SOUTH LOSES A GREAT EDT TOR. Joseph P. Caldwell is dead. He died after some two years of or from his life-work, enforced by a ter- rible ailment. The North has hardly ever heard even his name, and knows little or nothing of his life-work.Even the South, outside of his own state, is but imperfectly acquainted with it. Yet he rendered the South an in- valuable service, and there was once = perfectly serious project to buy for him a great newspaper here in New York-if we said which newspaper we should hardly be believed. For his was editing a newspaper the Charlotte, North Carolina, Observer, and he was a truly great editor. His own State made, when he died, an extraordinary demonstration of uni- versal sorrow and sense of loss, He was another disproof of the alleged disappearance of personality \rom journalism; for his was superbly and patently effective. He made it count in his noblest achievement ;and that achievement was simply an extraorii- nary independence and fairness, He *s «proved that an editor could have beth these qualities and yet be loyal to the South's reservations, live unmolested by the South's fieree resentment of interference with its social order and ideals-nay, honored and loved for his high manliness He could - do that only because he had a Lincoln- like gift of sympathy and insight and a Lincoln-like honesty and charm. His writing style was also like Lin- coln's-direct, homely, humorous, sin- cere. So was his service to his peo- ple; for by his example and teaching of freedom he in truth made them free. Peace to the ashes of this our high-souled brother of the South! Harper's Weekly,. from time to time. The matter, however, prompts a contemplation of the great increase in the tea and coffee habit in the Tnited States. This coffee drinking nation also manages to gulp down 100 million pounds of tea in a year, an item of $10,000,000 at present prices. The imports of tea are steadily in- creasing and Uncle Sam, through the Department of Agriculture, is eu- ccuraging tea growing in the United States. A bulletin says the imports of tea for every fifth year from 1853 to inclusive, show a gencral in- crease in the quantitly of tea import- ed and it is possible by establishing a tea industry at home to greatly in- crease the consunmiption as nas been done in Great Britain, since tea be- came a staple of her colonies in the East Indies, \American tea is by no mieans an impossible product of the future,\ says Secretary Wilson, he be- ing of the opinion that the obstacies in the way of this achievement may firally be overcome by persistent ef- fort. \The work in tea culture cir- ried on at Summerville, S. C.. has continued to give favorable results, some small samples of machine-pick- ed tea have been obtained. When these two operations are successfully dene by machines, the labor problem in the tea raising industry will have been solved.\ A summary of legislation on occu- pational diseases, by Mr. John B. Andrews, secretary of the American Association for Labor Legislation, ap- pears in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. While it may not be gratifying to our pride as a nation to know that the oldest law we have on this subject is less than one year old, it is encourag- ing to know that during 1911 six states (California, Connecticut, Illi- nois, Michigan, New York and Wis- consin) passed laws requiring reports on discases resulting from occupa- tions. The diseases that must be re- ported are anthrax, compressed-air sickness, and poisoning from lead, phosporus, arsenic _ and mercury. This is only a beginning, but through the co-operation of sanitarians, econ- omists, physicians and labor unions, such a law should he enacted in every state. Publicity, the remedy which has been so effective in curing other social ills, will make short work of oc- ctpational diseases, once the extent of their ravages is known. The era of corn harvest in the Uni- ted States; increased from 94,918,673 acres in 1899 to 98,883,038 acres in 1909, an gain of 2,469,860 acres, or 3.1 per cent. Nothwithstanding this expansion in acreage, there was a de- crease in production, which fell from 2,666,524,000 bushels in 1899 to 2,- 552,100,000 bushels in 1909, a de- crease of over 100,000,000 bushels, or 4.5 per cent. The average production per acre, doubtless by reason of tem- porary weather conditions, fell from 28.1 bushels to 25.9 bushels. On the cther hand, the value of the corn crop - increased - enormousiy, - from $828,192,000 to, $1,48§,554,000, a gain or over $600,000,000, or 73.7 per cant. The average value of corn per bushel thus advanced from 31 cents to over £6 cents, or about $0 per cent. The increase in the acreage of corn from 1§99 to 1909 was very than in either of the two Gecades. The area in corn rose from 62,368,504 acres in 1879 to T2,087.\52 acres in 1889, to 94, 918,673 acres in Shot | much less preceding Declare Its tinsg!f m, Brean NEW YORK, Dec. 2%.-Although his engagement was announced only a few days ago, Felix Stumpp, 21, was found dead in his bed shot through the head. His family declares he shot himself in a dream but don't tell how they knew. Careless About Some Trifles [United Press Association.] BALTIMORE, | Dec. 2%3.-R. S. Schmidt, 20 years old, wrote a pro- posal to Miss Augusta Jacobs. he other day he found it in his trunk though he thought he had mailed it. Then he looked up Miss Jacobs and married her. WHITE AFTER WINNER, [United Press Association.] CHICAGO, Dec. 28.-Jack White, the local feather, has signed up to meet the winner of Joe Rivers- Frankie Conley match to befought on New Years day. White's bout will be T is Christmas time again. Christmas-the day of all days childish anticipation and to him who loves childhood-the dear to day when real happiness, genuine and unspoiled, brightens a world made sombre by or days? We and had Christmas! thin unceasing thought of self. was here just a few weeks ago-was it weeks or The last Christmas had a great time with our own children, in our own homes, about our own Christ- mas trees. We spent a great deal of money, for us, incurred a great many bills, but our children everything they could think of or ask for. If so be that one is not with us now, we know that no © withholding on our part dimmed the supshine tf her last Christmas. And yet-the cruelty of The children of the wretched shiver in garments of destitution as Plenty and Abund- ance scurry by times unappreciated shower of gifts and toys and books, but serve to shadow the heart of forgotten and neglected childhood and make for it a mockery of the Christmas-tide. The prodigality of wealth, the oft- The wistful eyes of unre- membered children at the tree, the fortitude of - their uncomplaint, the unselfishness of their joy in the happiness of play- mates laden with gifts-these deepen the sting of thoughtless cruelty and neglect. been forgotten. There is no music in the Christmas chimes for the child who has A. tithe of the money wasted in the homes of plenty would make radiant a million childish hearis It is to be possible again this year, as it was perchance last year and many a year before, that a single stock- ing, hung by the hands of a child shall be empty on the Christmas morn? HIGH SCROOL BOYS TO HOLD A series of indoor inter-class meets for the students of Lockport High school will be held at the Y. M. C. A. the first part of January. The first meet will be between the first and second year classes and will be held on the afternoon of January 11. Oxe week later the third and fourth year classes will meet and on the afternoon cf January 25 the winners of these two meets will clash for the class championship of L. H. S. Each of these meets will consist of a fifteen yard dash, running high and broad jumps, standing broad jump and a shot put. These meets will give Coach Woods some idea of the material he has, and it will also give him a line on the naw candidates that have entered. Capt. Carroll is one of the busiest men at OF INDOOR MEETS the school at the present time. He kas his relay team in a race and pre- dicts a victory for the gold and blue flyers. He is busy rounding the team into shape for a dual meet that is to be held after the January examina- tion. Manager Floyd Seekins has appoint- ed Roger Kinzley assistant track man- ager. Kinzley is a hard worker and has done excellent work for the track team the past year. Probably his greatest performance was the winning of the half-mile run for Lockport in the Medina meet last spring. He took in two, of the three cross-country runs in which the school participated this fall, and on each occasion ke gave a good account of himself. He will have full charge of theuindoor inter-class meets. First Elect of olamara's Sction [United Press Association.] NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-The signifi- cence of the single question asked the McNamara brothers by Judge Bord- well of Los Angeles when the dyna- miters stood up to receive sentence, was made apparent today when the new regulations for 1912 for the ship- ment of explosives were made public by the Interstate Commerce Commis- 'sion, The question Judge Bordwell asked was: \Are you sure the dynamite used on the Times building was not more than 80 per cent. dynaniite?\ and the re- ply was: \No it was $0 per cent.\ Attention was called today to sec- tion number one of regulations for- bidding entirely the transportation in interstate commerce of any dynamite of greater than 60 per cent. strength -that is, containing more than 60 per cent. nitro glycerine. Judge Bordwell's question is now said to have been asked for the ex- press purpose of getting this state- ment in the record for future use. The *McNamaras refused to testify before the fedesal grand jury investigation, yet caught off their guard they ac- tually did give what the government expects to be important evidence. Goo Headed Bot Saves the Children [United Press Association.] NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Seven hun- dred children were marched or cra- ried from public school No. 107 today witfhout the slightest panic when flames filled the building. The pupils were gathered in the Assembly hall to attend a Christmas celebration, Lit tle Willie McClellan, aged ten, discov- ered the fire in one of the lower rooms. Instead of screaming in fright he tipped-toes to one of the teachers and whispered in her ear. The fire alarm - drill signal was sounded and the pupils told they were expected to give a quick exhibition of their drill, They obeyed implicitly and everyone was out. of the building fore the firemen arrived. Society Good to Hundreds of Families [United Press Association.] NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-To hundreds of families in New York who are in poverty but too proud to ask alms. scciety is sending 20 gold pieces anon- ymously by express. ‘ weno Juggling has been recommended »s a desirable form of mental and physi- cal exercise for persons of sedentary habits and those affiicted with nervous troubles staged at Los Angeles about Fer *,} to Nore Bellving in Horder Ameals ALBANY, Dec. %8.-The Court of Appeals today took steps - to bring about the early argument of murder appeals. The district attorney - of Columbia county asked the court to dismiss the appeal of Salvatore Caru- so, who was convicted of murder in the first degree last May on the ground that his rttorney has failed to file the proper paps.; This method has been used to delay the hearing of murder cases and in some instances argument is not made until several years after the conviction. The court while refusing t- dismiss the case, sits it down for argument on Jan. 22, with the statement that if counsel is 10t ready to proceed it will substitute counsel. Riots in Fortugal Result in Arrests [United Press Association.] MADRID, Dec. - 22.-Thirty-seven soldiers have been arrested at Braga, Portugal, as the result of a riot in the barracks. The outbrcak was inspired by royalists. A colonel and a captain were seriously wounded. 'The prison- ers are being tried before m court martial today. Néw York Cops Work in Dress-Suits [United Press Association.] NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-In order to round up beggars in the theatre dis- trict Police Commissioner Walo used his strong arm squad in dress suits. A dozen arrests quickly followed. 5 4 Took Messenger Boy to Tell This [United Press Association.] PARIS, Dec. 28.-A. messenger boy ias reported to the police the loss a§ a tube containing eight thousand dol- lars worth of radium which he says burned a hole in his pocket and fell to the sidewalk. BISHOP TALBOT BETTER. [United Press Association.] NEW YORK, Dec. 2%.-The condi- tion of Bishop Ethelbert Talbot of the Bethlehem, Pa., diocese of the Pro- testant Episcopal Church who was operated on here recently contizrued to show improvement today, but his physicians do not know when he will be able to leave the hospital. DR. MAYO BETTER. NEW YORK, Dec. 2%.-Dr, Chas, Mayo, the famous surgeon recently cperated on for appendicitis, contin- I ment. ued today to show steady improve- camazzes.
