Show THE MEXICAN QUESTION the mexican situ tation is still one of the great questions of the day and the more it is discussed the less satisfaction we get out of it the cause of this is very plain from the fact that the whole matter is left with the mexicans cani themselves to settle and the great majority of that people are a bloodthirsty cruel ignorant class of peons geons who have been forced from their childhood to follow and obey their selfish cruel and unjust misters masters who have no other thought but to work these down troden peons geons for the labor and gain that can be squeezed zed out of them the united states and the other republics of america should take the matter up and settle the mexican problem just as some of the nat nations foris of europe settled the long unsettled condition of bulgaria garia the so called bulgarian atrocities in 1876 in which many thousands of christians were killed by their turkish neighbors aroused the interest of europe in bulgaria and the next year russia as the assumed guardian of the slavic races made war against turkey by the treaty of berlin Bul bulgaria garli was made a self governing state but her choice of a ruler must be confirmed by turkey and the powers of europe prince alexander of Batten ballenberg Bal tenberg berk by the choice of the people became alexander I 1 of bulgaria in 1879 and the next year eastern roumelia nelia united with bulgaria aawar A war with servia followed in which bulgaria was completely successful cess ces ful through the brave bravery and generalship v of her prince prince who be became cam e the idol of the people russia however grew hostile to him and her friends friend sin in bulgaria bulgar ia kidnapped him at one time and finally interest of bulgaria 1887 v Fringe 11 Ferdinand and ot of saxe axe do coburg burg oc 04 pied the vacant cant th throne rone the original nal manuscripts of stories by bret harte that first appeared in the new york sun were the principal objects of interest at a recent literary sale in new york the highest price of auction was paid by G D smith for the manu manuscript i of thankful blossom which was printed in the sun dec 3 1876 mr smith bought all of the bret bre harte manuscripts div ing in for man who had been shot for my friend the tramp for A sleeping car experience and fak at five in the cortili morning ng these prices were far r more than the author originally received for his w work ork A pair of pistols said to have been used by gorge george washington during the revolutionary y war brought at an auction sale of america and foreign antique weapons in new york the inscription gen geo washington li is engraved on each pistol and there was documentary evidence apparently parent ly furnishing authenticity of the claims made for or them each weapon is 15 inches in length medicine chest still containing one or two remedies brought the U S reclamation service is blocking the boise river river canyon at Arro idaho with a dam feet high this will be the highest dam in the world it will have a length of of 1075 feet at the top and tain cubic yards of material during the construct construction iod the waters are being diverted through a tunnel running around the darn dam the tunnel Is i feet long and is 25 by 30 feet in cross section this erlis large enough to carry carryall all the water of the boise river conference L D S church salt Lake April ath esth and ath one are rates tickets on sale april I 1 bl inc long limit ask acs tickets via ia salt lake iiii atal when col bryan visited buenos aires several years ago he expressed a desire for a llama for or his bis nebraska farm the mayor of the argentine capital has procured one which is being sent to the colonel iu charge of a special attendant mayor schreiber of east liverpool 0 has announced that all social functions where card games are played for prizes must cease in his section contending that bridge euchre and other games played for prizes come under the law as much as poker and other gambling games on the tha ath af of july 27 years ago a man broke a gas lamp on governor street in paterson N J mayor fordyce has recently received a letter from the conscience stricken roan man explaining the incident and inclosing 92 2 which he thought would be sufficient to cover the damage and pay the interest on the amount all beverages in in new york state containing more than two per cent ol of alc hohol will be labeled with skull and crossbones cross bones and other poison warnings if a bill before legislature at albany becomes a law this bill was brought before the legislature by the anti saloon league the penalty for violation 0 of the act is a fine of 95 85 to tn 50 or from 5 to t 0 50 days in jail or both all red flags black blacki flags and banners and signs bearin bearing g inscriptions offensive to organized government or good morals or of a nature will be forbidden in parades in new york yo rk i st state ati if a bill just introduced in the legislature becomes a la law w bills of almed at the io socialists an ar archis chista ts paid nd p others y v are arc pending bending an in several states you might as well give up trying to turn moving picture plot of yours into cash no doubt it t is A a fine plot but the law lavi recognizes no property right in a mere idea A los angeles ang eles court has just so decided in a case where a moving picture man was being sued lot for stealing an idea that was submitted to him as the basis for a photoplay photo play the copyright law covers merely the literary or artistic form of an idea and not the idea itself hence persons who hand such ideal over to others to be worked up can claim no legal right to compensation ion stopping for a few hours in new york recently mr fei jenison fedison ison an employee of the U shouse S house of cepres n la ta tives tb thought ought he would send his suitcase suit case cise t to 0 washington WA s by parcel post the clerk informed him that the amount would be 38 cents on hu his arrival arriva lat at washington he was surprised to find that his bill for excess postage was because the suitcase suit case was locked and by strict postal rules the full letter rate must be charged bo be sure always to unlock your suitcase when sending it by y parcel post marih march I 1 was the date set jet by the new tariff law for the reduction in the rates of duty on sugar to go into effect sugar will not come in duty free until may 1 1916 even before the tariff law was passed the retail prices of sugar were greatly reduced owing to the war among the re finers it ja still uncertain what the ultimate effect of taking the tariff off kofl sugar will be but for the present and same time to come the consumers will get the benefit of low prices mayor joe catick of san bernardino calif states that he is for equal suffrage and says that all those who doubt his word can come to his home every monday and watch mm him do the fam family Y 7 arah A new device has been tested in buc france by air experts in the forro form of an inflammable dart far use on aero planes the dart is a small reser reservoir voit containing gasoline which explodes on contact the purpose of this dart is to set fire to dirigible balloons or buildings three of the darts dropped from an aeroplane at an altitude of feet found their mark scientists of denver deaver are a study of the three year old son of an italian washerwoman and a spanish laborer the boy is regarded as an infant prodigy he not only knows his alphabet and can write it but speaks english italian and spanish he sings remarkably well dances and plays on four stringed instruments the physicians declare that the child is normal but possesses the most wonder fill fal intelligence they have ever encountered in ons one so young 0 experiments in the ancon hospital in in the canal zone have revealed the fact that ants may transmit infectious diseases so far as the observers could determine ants are not themselves subject to such diseases the formic acid in which their organs abound is not favorable to bacteria but they carry the disease by tracking trac kingl the earma with their feet any moving thing from a freight train to an insect may cairy germs it if there is any disease about v marconi has succeeded in the wonderful vond erful f feat eit of lighting an electric lamp by electricity through the agency of wireless at a distance of six miles lylle sj the bulb was litt attached ached to a receiver connected with an aerial receiving ceivia g wire the transmitter was 10 linked up with ia a loo 0 40 horsepower re 61 94 e r A ap p aills and as soon as the p power orbr was is applied the labac lighted and remained lighted a as long as the power was kept on chis his experiment brings us a long step nearer the prediction of nikola tesla of long ing ago that houses would eventually be illuminated by electricity caught from theair by masts on the roofs and marconi hopes atiat it will wi 11 be the forerunner not only of lighting but of heating houses by means of ethereal wavis waves girl college students have a 1 way of wearing the scholastic cap and gown gow ll 11 and nd sometimes they are rather offensive e in in intruding this getup get g et up dp on the hc long suffering outride world miss maude kelley of 0 birmingham ala was wai admitted to practice in the U S supreme court the other day on motion of secretary of state brya and she had set her heart on appearing in her cap and gown she was crestfallen when she was informed that all lawyers must remove their ha hals ts in the court and that this rule applied alike to women and men it is a strange thing that some of our new women in the very act of asking to be considered on oa the same basis as men seek to exercise privileges which are arc not allowed to men it is 13 things of this thi sort which hamper the true progress of the woman movement it has been stated by C H mitchell attorney for the board of election commissioners in an address before the members of the won eins party ol of ccok county ill that women voters do tot rot have to tell their exact nees ages to election officials all they the need do is to approximate the truth and select a probable age as the age is only given to prevent fraud and stop others I 1 from Imper voters at the polls |