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Show 1 DUELS ADVOCATES IF GENERAL. AGREEMENT OF COUNTRIES ON DISARMAMENT CAN END BUILDING. ONLY Mutt B 'Preoared to Contribute Equally to Any Other Nation In the World, for Po.ice Work, Decurei Secretary. People Are'Tassive Ei Unless a league of naWashington. tions or other tribunal that will make certain the limitation of International armament is established, the United States must build the greatest navy In the world, Secretary ItunieN told the houae'VavaLj-ommlltet"It Is my firm conviction declared the secretary, "that If the conference at Versailles does not result in a general agreement to put an end to mwul building on the part of all the nations, then the United States must bend her will and bond her energies," must give htr men. and give her money to the task of the creation of Ineompurably the t ext navy In the world." With, thejcompletlon 0f the projH)ssI new, three-yea- r building program, adding ten dreadnoughts, six buttle cruisers, ten wout chiisers and 130 smaller craft to the fleet, America still will rank second In nayil strength td Great Britain, said who appeared before the committee tv make his final recommendations for the 1020 naval bill which the commit. tee Is considering. The nnvul secretary said that If a league of nations Is established, America must provide ft large part of a eWorld police force necessary to enforce the leagues decrees. He added, however, that with such a league fornusl It would not be ne"essry to carry out the full construction program, and asked the committee to Include In the bill legislation empovVerlng the phd- dent to stop construction at his discretion If rut luternuthutal agreement should muktl limitation 'of armament I and Unfathomable Yet 1 g.-ra- a l certainty, KING BANQUETS PRESIDENT. -- Dinner Given 'at Bucking- - ham Palace. The farewell dinner given , Ip the state dining room at Bucking-ham palace Monday night by King George and Quecu Mary in honor of President and Mrs, Wilson was a private function. There was no proces slon Into the, dining room,, which was .decorated wt,h yellow, and thqre were 5o speeches or toasts. The Grenadier Guards butyd played during the dinner, but no national anthems were ren' ' dered. President Wilson will fco direct to Italy from rarls. He' will leave Paris for Rome Wednesday night, arriving In the Italian capital Friday. Rome Is to ' be the only city In Italy the president will visit. He expects to he uwuy from Paris a week, returning there a week from next Tuesday. Ry the time the president returns to Tarl from Italy the British delegates to the peace conference will huve arrived, It is expected. The preliminary conferences tuny then be la sight und the prclindnury 'orgiiVdzallbiF norlTer the American peace mission will have been .completed. , , - 1 Utah Boys Coming Homo. Suit Lake City. Utah's own regiment, the 14.1th field artillery, will arrive In New York, January d, and will proceed to Utah had California, to be - mustered out of federal - sen Ice according to dispatches received hen. The steamer Santa Teresa will carry the Utah boys across ' the sea, and with them on board will be many wouuded soldiers from other organiza-- -- - tion. From Naturalization. More Than 110 enemy Washington. 13 aliens, or about jer cent of the thousand applicants for naturalization who filed their first papers before BHKJ and subsequently neglected t the procedure, have been barred beby the deimrtment of Justice from " naturalized. coming Bar Alien com-plet- e u Senator Talk on Cable Issue. Criticism of Posf- Washington. master General Burleson for taking over the marine rubles after the signMoning of the armistice was renewed Hitchcock day in the senate. Senator f Nebraska, chairman of the foreign relations committee, precipitated the discussion. Choose Delegates. Washlngtoiu8'slaV8 1 th or ganizatloa of a government, have proceeded to thf polut of selecting delegates to the peace conference, and of creating a coalition cubinet for the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Jugo-Slav-s Womans Name In Casualty List. New York. Miss Tula Lake liar-kementioned in Mondays casualty list as having died of dfsease In England, was ft state health deportment enbacteriologist at Albany when she 'of 44 age. was She years listed, Dempsey Defeats Gunboat Smith. Y. Jack Dempsey of . Buffalo, N. y, Jt ofa Utah Knocked out Gunboat-Smit- h New York In the aeeoml round bout here Monday scheduled tdght. Dempsey weighed 190 jamiids, Smith 178. ten-roun- d r- IMr Ho. Um4 Cm RandaU-Dod- d CARS . W,s Uai!tai4 fim ,,, rm ckt. Ol -B - naaist cualtlea-ritkowtln. Writ tot i a SmlW D.,Auto ,,tJ Lai ,aJ Co, uit L,ke , 9 . Briflht Future PEST SPREAD BY N 1810 Ktnperor of 41exnnder Russia wrote to Stelnhelt, then governor general of Finland, in the- - following term: "A re- Kurds the condition of Finland, my Intention has been to give this people a political existence, . Ai K th . they may not feel them-- . s' , selves conquerel by Russia, but ft. HmHaI Am 1...M 4t..la nttm ( advantage; therefore not only their civil buf their political laws must he ainlntalned." . Today, a century after those words were written, there seems at last good hope that Alexander Ps Intention may he permanently fulfilled, writes Rosalind Travers Ilyndman In New York Sun. A race of Mongolian origin and language, the Suomlinlset" or people ot thfe fens were Christianized very early In the thirteenth century by the- Swedes, who treated them on the whole with equality and Justice, and Intermarried with them freely, not, however, allowing the Fin- nlsh language to be written or spoken to any 'extent. The result was that In 1808 Russia conquered a people who s;oke Swedish and regarded themselves as Independent Swedes; and although the Finns have passed through enormous national chnngea In the course of the century, Russian of th ruling classes could never get It our of their iTeailT that Finland desired to belong to Sweden agnln. The governor of Russia, having much vaster affairs in hand, did not realize that the remarkable development of Finnish nationalism was directed, first and List, against the Swedish landomination. The Finnish guage and was inngunge spoken only by the f emote peasantry and Finnish names even were not .legally recognized. Yet, men nil UU, grffit movement d was steadily 'growing up for (lie Vevlvfil of own singularly rich and beautiful tongue. The Finnish people began to think of their country ns Suomi," something utterly distinct from Sweden or Russia, having a language and literature of Its own. From- 1849 onward, when Lonnyot published the second edition of the Finland's national epic, educated Finns were beginning to give up Swedish as a mean of communication and learning to use the trange, dlffl; cult, Rouorous language which was their birth1 - nt ff, One of the most peculiar of all diseases Is filarlasis, common in the trop- 1 I ics. - The election of the Russian dmna and the temthe friendly demeanor of the dowager empress. Yet . Naturally this policy has had very porary restoration of FlnJund8 constitution, had results. .At the beginning of the war many restored" Is hardly, the word, for that restricted, cautious and eminently bourgeois constitution of Finns were in favor of the allies, chiefly by reason 1803 was resurrected into something deni or ratio of their 'English trade connections and English and terrible a popular government, based upon But when Russia's, mo&3 powerful sympathies. full adult suffrage and proportional representation ind necessary ally forbode to say one word In with an elected house, containing at Its first asfavor of a reasonable treatment of Finland, and when In the English press by Its undlscrimlnating out semblage April, 1907, 80 sociul democrats of a total of 200. And these were genuine, uncompraise of all things Russian actually gavWmore promising Marxist social democrats, the outcome strength to the powers of reaction, then the Finns of a party which was first formed In 1899. Since cannot be blamed for looking elsewhere. then the social democratic representation of FinTheir exiles flowed to Germany in great numland has steadily Increased at every election. bers, and It is raid that more than 8,000 Finn From the spring of 1907 to that of 1909 Finland took up GrelrvCsldence there.' The Germans nr further ctYdltecf with making active propaganda experienced two crowded years of glorious life" In which the country simply hummed with Internal for their cause among the professors and student of Finland, but It seems doubtful whether they progress and political development. The old feuds of Sekomnn and Fennoman were taken up with would really have found It worth while, when the renewed vigor, although the Swedish speaking allies themselves were unconsciously doing so Finns were now only much to spread of the population sympathies there. If and stilt decreasing. but no one can ay more than If Finland was We all remember how, in Mnj 1910, 120 memoccasionally used as a channel- for communbers of the British pnrUament ygned a iuemorIal ication between Germany and the traitorous party In Russia the allies have only themselves to blame. with tQ the dnma expressing the apprehension which they regarded the proposal to deprive Fin However this may be, It seems pretty clear that her constitutional while a large there were several German agencies In more than rights, land,f nuifiber of German, French, Italian, Belgian part of Finland trying to stir the people up ampone W-a- n armed revolt Dutch deputies formed and addressed similar memorials. But all this was In vain, and by July, Since our reactionary press at one time took discredited , 1910, the bill for the Russification of Finland beupon Itself to repeat the venerable and came law. for desire Independence . about Finlands cliches " It was hot Immediately and violently put Into or for union with Sweden, It Is well to say once more that Finlands great nationalist movement practice. The landtdag was still assembled at Inwas all directed against Swedish influence, and tervals, though RJawrather less power than a A official nufnber council. of dimissals that there are not five wiseacres In the whole municipal took place, Russians were given full Finnish country who would dream of the possibility of of rights In Finland and the usual series of arrests.' such a union. Nor has the fiercest advocate inabsolute ever freedom contemplated Finnish Imprisonments and exillngs followed, but until The position of the country and Its 1912 the Finnish press was only Intermittently dependence. censored. However, this second series of bad ' very small population wholly forbid It. I Surely this tiny nation ha a magnificent future years" wa much harder for the Finns than the trained for be even them, of highly possible It may period ' Soon after the war began Finland was and politically qualified as they are, to hurry through the Intervening stages of their economic ly cut off from the civilized world. Russification set In with full force and the most stringent cendevelopment and show to Europe the working of of the model of a press, operative commonwealth. They are sorship correspondence and of all In the main Mongolians, patient, passive, secret written matter whatever was established. Even and Unfathomable, and - thelv, kinsmen In Ji pan the Internal business of the country suffered greatwere and China have done equally marvelous tMnr put "under hatches," ly, and the whole people Yet alien from us as they are racially, their deIt were, and assuredly onery short rations for un unlimited time. velopment Is so western that no Englishman who One piece of news only came through In the has spent much time in Finland has any sense of dowto effect a race barrier. On the contrary, they seem, once the wnr, that the early days of the , Pen-Russia had from of returned known, curiously appealing and sympathetic, this ager empress of Finland and had shown much mark by brave, ngly little people, with their high cheekbones, great foreheads and deep-se- t eyes. courtesy and common sense on her passage. It Tlielr literature, like their landscape, is exwas said that she had caused her personal guard to he greatly relaved, that she had talked with traordinarily varied and beautiful and there runs through It a sense of the timeless forests and the Finns everywhere and had taken pains to create unbounded North. It hannts' you ; no one who ha return after her But a good impression. shortly felt the charm of Finland is really content till he not warned were and officially Finns specially the sees the Land of Thousand Lakes again. to build any false hopes' of restored liberty upon - Kale-rala- ," right Naturally this development soon cleft the country In two. Many Finns urged, not unreasonably, that It was hardly practicable for so small a people to cut themselves off from Scandinavia, from Russia, from the rest of Europe In fact, by cUmhlngfm to a language Island" In this way. But In 18G3 the "nice little nationalism triumphed. constitution" granted by Alexander II left the Finns free to govern themselves In ail Internal matters in a fairly representative manner, and from this time the study of Finnish became an Integral part of the general education. The use of the revived language of Finland Finns began grew so fast that Swedish-speakinto find themselves in a minority, and irrTS94 after a very hot debate the Finnish language was placed on an equality wtlh Swedish In the Finland sen(Swede-Finn- (Flmilh-Ftnn- ) BELIEF ODD v ABOUT J GEESE Long Ago It Was Universally Thought That They Originated From the Barnacle. The popular sixteenth century belief that geese originated from the barnacle was net confined to the but was shared even by natl uralists. John Gerard, In his Plantes" General of Historic (or (printed In London In 1197), In giving a description of this marvel, says he only teUs what our eles have seen 1899-190- g Her-bal- and. hands hav On th touched." Pile of Foulders, he goes oa to say, are founde certalne shels. wherel is conteined a thing in forme like lac flaely woven; one end whereof fastned unto th tncide of the shell: the other end Is made fast unto a rude mass, which In time corameth to the shape of a bird. In short space after It cbmmeth to maturitle. and falleth Info the sen. where It gafhereth feathers and growetb to a foule which the people of Lancashire call by no other name then a tree goose. He goes on to testify to their abundance by saying that th best of them and could be bought for three-pencto repair Incredulous the challenges unto me and I shall satlsfie them by the testlmonle of good witnesses." The Pile of Foulders Is the small Island now known as Plel Island, near 1 y e, FAMINE IN OLD TIMES. PAPER -- ICE AS A SWEETMEAT There was a rnper famine In Europe In the seventh century In A. D. G40 the Saracens conof quered Egypt, and at the same time, by order at renowned the library Omar, their caliph, consisting of 400,000 volumes, wa burned. The paper supply of the then world was derived from the papyrus bark, a reed which grew only Consequently when the Saracens In Egypt. gained possession of the country the paper supply was cut off. This led to the adoption of a curious expedient. The wilting on used papyrus paper wa erased and the paper, which was thus made available, again brought into use. An old author has suggested that probably owing to this many valuable contributlonvfrom classic writers. Tacitus, Livy and others, were lost to the world. Alexandria, b4f Pan-Sla- v g FAMOUS BRITISH REGIMENT. . The Coldstream guards ?s a regiment of in the British army forming part of the royal household brigade. It Is one of the oldest regiments of the British service, dating from JG19. In that year General Monk, who, after the death of Cromwell, took sides with the pnrliaat the organized army, the regiment and ment Co d a ream, a border town of Berwickshire. Scotland. whence the name of the regiment, and marched w ith It Into England. It has seen service In every British campaign of any magnitude, and colors the h,s emblazoned ofon itsmostregimental brilliant of victories the of names many We Americans eat more Ice cream and similar frozen desserts than the people of any other nation. but the Japanese have ns beaten as eaters of ice. According to tne Tokyo Advertiser, one of their favorite dishes small cakes of ice broken Into tiny pebbly pieces and. eaten with sugar and lemon, or any other mixture that they rosy fancy. The commonest way of eating Ice In Japan, however, ts to shave if into snowy flake and to swallow It with sweetened water Into whtth various appetizers, such as fruit Juice' or sweetmeats, have been thrown. Ice cream, milk and eggs shaken with "lee and other kinds of cooling beverages are sold in an quantity, bnt the old style of eating raw lee. in what the Japanese call the korimlzu fashion. Is still in the greatest vogue Youths Companion. British arms. SLOW PROCRESS, "You have been trjing to deceive me for years Henry. --Oft. come' now. my dear. It is said practice makes perfect. ; What has that to do with meT that you don't succeed ) wns Jnt thinking - vtter now- than you did when we were first inrriod." Birmingham r. - l, 'Age-Tleral- .J ( Barrow-in-Furnes- 1 ever-increasin- g TATTOOING ANCIENT. CUSTOM. foot-guar- "Mittel-Luropa.- liKkl-lPOf- n - fin-lan- suffer- -- - 1 "Svekoninn" ) andNj4!nnotnnn became .cries of warfare, and the language conflict fell roughly Into line pith the divisions of class. The progressive and proletarian elements In the country were Fennoman. w bile, the. middle cla?L conservative and aristocratic forces wero for a long while by speech und traditions Swede. All this time the Finn as a people and as a nation kept strictly to that policy of detachment and Independence which bus always marked them. They took no pnrt at all In Russian affairs and showed little Interest In those of Scandinavia; Europe generally ns they appeared-to J as a" Chinese colony In the West, might te, Finland meant to work out her sahatton alone. In literature and art Indeed the country was open to European Influences, for the Finns have always been great travelers, wondering about the continent With cold, appraising eyes, selecting and taking bnck with them such Ideas as they considered use- - They took political Ideas also tlkely to from Scandinavia and from Germany, but they had no desire to make propaganda for their own ideas or their own race,- Yet Inevitably they were bound to be a growing trouble to the Russian government aod a stumpolicy. Obviously a demobling block to cratic and almost province was Out .f place among the folds of the vast autocratic rule which coeml all the Ruvdns then. But a far metre important objection was this: The duchy of Ffcland. alien in language, character and administration, was a complete break In that, scheme of one vast homogeneous Russia, stretch-n- g from the Norwegian coast to the Pacific, one language, laws, religion and goemmeut thnt Iream of giant unity and monotony which seems to have filled the minds of the dim tors of Russia for 30 year sad more. There seemsjittle doubt that I lie deposed - dynasty cherished this design " as the Ilohenfolierns did that. of It was a slirdhr bilge, dult, magnificent, mischlev ana Idea, traihpllng even fuore widely over the rights of othir nations and Intended to produce in even more dismal uplformity of rule. So, dispassionately viewed and the Finn, even when consldlng his own misfortunes. Is eminently dl.qa5rihnato Russias flrat attack upon he liberties ;f Finland In 1899 was Inevitable. 4 to Htastrophe of nature. There ts little-ree- d recall the bad years fjom 1S93 to lik'd, when the Finnleh oonstftutlon wns tupcnded and the country was placed under the rule ofamiLitsry (Lcta-oG. 'limit r.i4n koff. 'They form a monotonous ocord of prey's censor-hip,- , TSsnil'.als of native ifhclnlR, illegal nrre't1TrnTt exile. The great strike of however .unue-.es-fu- l In Its muio objects, achieved two things:' ' pro-Germa- blood of persons begin to diminish. By eight or niu oclock In the morning they have all disappeared, and a search of the blood under the microscope after this falls to repeal any. They are now collected In certain large blood vessels deep la the body, especially In the lungs, where they remain hidden until they go out on their next nocturnal excursion. The parasite Is conveyed to hums beings by the hlte of certain kinds of mosquitoes. The mosquito bites and take from a man, or from some animal, aa the case may be. blood which contains these small worms. In the atomaeh of the mosquito (the Intermediate host) the parasite goes through certain definite changes or metamorphoses, which are 'Just as necessary to its complete life as are the different phases In ' the lives of butterflies, moths and a great many Insects. First it escapes from a skin or shell la which it has existed. Then It bores it way through th wall of the mosquitos stomach and travels forward through the body until it arrives at .the base of the bill or proboscis. . -- one-nint- h -- In th ing from It there are found innumerable little worms that can be seen only bythe aid of a microscope. Thes are present only at night in the blood that I circulating. At about flv oclock In the afternoon they begin to appear in the blood, having been hidden away in the body until this time, and then they remain in the circulation until about midnight, when they A4S ate. MOSQUITO Scientists Have Traced Cause of Di. That Ha Long Been Prev-leIn the Tropics. FInno-Swedls- h Farewell m4 N wUWM Their tovd of Independence Promises v it BARGAINS IN USED The antiquity of tattooing is evidenced by its almost universal employment among primitive Guinea the young women are peoples. In tattooed all er their bodies, their faces being V similarly, treated after marriage. In the Solomon islands a girl is not eligible for marriage unless she has been tattooed. The girl of Borneo are thus adorned from waist to knee in roost elaborate fashion; likewise their hands feet and ankles. In Burmah, under the Instating, every male wa,s required by royal edict to be tattoo from to waist knees; and Itwns customary for the iris to have their tongues tattooed charms to attract the men. ' SUCH AN INQUISITIVE - r WOMAN. ft Wholx that letter from ' d TU ant t0 4 now 'fori . II u!) There you go! "What forr I declare if you aren't do L T, rn knw qUl81ttTe woman I ever Transcript Hub roet.-Mtct- oa 0 r Keep Moving Up. To he worth moving up yon must-keeup. There are thousands of thing In which you1 must kgp up. It enough to think weiy firterms of nes. The averageouslness man must watch his habits, dress. speech, sod ,Sn They 7fre D ms companionship. The boards of bis standing. above the average take care of busithing that advertises him and his ex ness. ' He ran afford to let other H plolt th freakish and tbe startling. or does he takes care that whatever wear tells of the man of judgmen and good, taste. Call It waste time If you waat to. A few year of will show the wisdom bis position.', So tbe thing Is to me tu tally and . efficiently move up. come visibly transfer will blggar pay as soon as you are prep ts bandit th Job. GrlL - - Whence th 'Red I" FiaO Tbe actual defender of tbe red do not knew er have forgotten t red was formerly 'the Color of u church mflitanL and also of royalty til the epoch wfcU Henry M. England, took the title of France. Then Test came to b corn'll ered ha an Inimical color w and was replaced by white, wIlic 8 h Its turn was given up by the Fr.g 1 The red flag- - was displayed by CathoMc troops of "Charles IX Her y m. while the flags of the nn' esihuis were white. 1 p |
