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Show PROSECUTED THE IVi'NAMARAS i 4 , A the Norwegian Storthing. In the quest of the "men higher up," said to be involved iu the Los Angeles dynamiting plot that resulted in the confession of the McNamara brothers, John D. Fredericks, district attorney, is pretty certain to be a looming figure. All through the trial of the brothers broth-ers Mr. Fredericks showed an unmistakable unmis-takable brand of judgment and energy. He and his associates were opposed by the cleverest counsel that could be obtained, but the trial was a regular regu-lar progress of victories for the prosecution, prose-cution, even before the later stages, when outside events began to undermine under-mine the case of tne defense. Added to Mr. Fredericks' legal acumen is a large fund of personal popularity in California. In addition to being a stern and rather uncompromising individual, Mr. Fredericks is a man of imagination imagina-tion and distinctive sentiment. A little lit-tle more than a year ago, when he attended a meeting of the Los Angeles "Votes for Women" club. Mr. Fredericks Fred-ericks was invited to attend and speak on "Woman's Sphere on Politics," which he did, but first he got into the program in a very unexpected manner man-ner when the members were asked to sing a sort of parody on "America," Mrs. Bertha Wllkins Starkweather declining to sing the recognized version on the ground that America was not the "land of liberty." She proposed a substitute which called for women's votes and other things before admitting the land of liberty clause. "You are making history here tonight," Mr. Fredericks protested, "In refusing re-fusing to sing the national anthem. You are asking the right to vote, but you'll never get it by that sort of tactics. I am in favor of giving you suffrage, but you'll never get my vote by that attitude. There is a feeling in your attitude atti-tude that the whole world will resent." That was a poser to most of the women, who speedily "reconsidered," and the real anthem was read aloud and then sung with enthusiasm although there was a pretty strong "No" vote on the motion. TELLS OF CHINESE HORRORS Gradually the horror of the present pres-ent outbreak in unhappy China is being be-ing brought home to us as the news sifts through the press censor's fingers fin-gers by way of private letters from officials and missionaries who are in the midst of the turmoil and bloodshed. blood-shed. To the friends here who receive re-ceive such letters details of the tragedy of war are brought home with Btunning force. Dr. Joseph Beech, whose portrait is here shown, is one of those who, through no act of their own, are on the firing line, so to say, in the rebellious rebel-lious provinces of China. Ia a letter to a friend here in America Dr. Beech describes his experiences ex-periences after the outbreak against the Manchu dynasty and declares that the suffering there is beyond description. de-scription. He states that over 6,000 persons were ruthlessly slaughtered, while many women and girls committed commit-ted suicide at Chentu, West China, WWW where he is connected with the Chentu Methodist Episcopal College. He was still penned up there with the refugees in Chentu when the letter let-ter was written, hut this letter was smuggled through the disturbed area in some manner and found its way to the friend here, who has made known its contents. WINNER OF A NOBLE PRIZE Prof. Wilhelm Wein, whose picture pic-ture appears herewith, was recently awarded the Noble prize for Physics. Professor Wein is only 47 years old. He studied at the University of Got-tingen, Got-tingen, Heidelburg and Berlin, and is the author of a number of books on Roentgen rays, hydrodynamics and electricity. The awarding of the Nobel prizes is an annual occasion of great interest inter-est throughout the 'K'orld. It takes place on the anniversary of the death of the founder of the fund, Alfred Bernhard Nobel. The fund amounts to over $8,000,000 and the five prizes closely approximate $40,000 each. Those for physics and chemistry are awarded by the Academy of Sciences of Sweden, that for medicine by the Caralus Institute of Stockholm, and the literary prize by the Swedish Academy. The peace prize is awarded award-ed annually at Christiania, Norway, by a committee of five chosen from Others receiving awards were: For chemistry, Mme. Marie Sklodowska Curie, famous for being with her husband the co-discoverer of radium. For medicine, Prof. Allvar Gullstrand, of Upsala University in Sweden. For literature, liter-ature, Maurice Maeterlinck. For peace, Prof. T. M. C. Asser, of the Nether-land's, Nether-land's, and Alfred Fried, an Austrian editor, who divide the prize between them. PUTS CONVICTS ON HONOR An interesting experiment in the humane treatment of convicts has met with the success that it deserves and its author. Governor West, of Oregon, at first regarded as a sentimental senti-mental enthusiast on prison reform, is now receiving the plaudits of those who would be doing something for the "under dog." Salem is the center for a number num-ber of the state institutions, all of "which have considerable tillable ground surrounding them hundreds of acres of rich arable valley land ready to return to Its cultivators abundant abun-dant harvests of golden wheat. It was Governor West's self-imposed task to bring to this work the hundreds hun-dreds of strong, naturally active men shut up in the penitentiary, and at the same time to establish a system which would be ot mutual benefit to the state and to the convict. The governor declares that sentiment had nothing whatever to do with tho4 honor system. The system has worked admirably whether the men have been employed at farming, roadmaking, brickmaking or in the shops. The men are ir---r Ung earlier lessons In la.w-breaking and learning fresh ones in r' |