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FIVE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS.
In answer to the question, "What are
the Five Greatest Achievements of
1911," the New York Times publishes
the answers of a number of prominent
pie. The twenty rcpl.es selected for
publication follow: (1) The new treaty
with Japan; (2) The complete success
of prophylactic in typhoid fever; (3)
The negotiation of general arbitration
treaties with Great Britain and Fiance;
iij ine progress 01 me ranama L'anal;
(5) The final settlement of the construction
of the anti-trust law; (6) The
settling of the Moroccan question; (7)
The successful conduct of the McNamara
trial; (8) Progress of aviation;
(9) Advance in restorative surgery;
(10) Carnegie's endowments; (11) The
organization of the Men and Rellg'on
Movement; (12) The establishment of
the Postal Savings Bank; (13) The
abrogation of the Treaty of 1832 with
Russia; (14) Dr. Flexner's discovery of
the serum for the cure of spinal meningitis;
(15) The mass senee that worldwide
poverty is unnecessary; (16) Advance
of labor cause; (17) Insurgency
as a moral growth; (18) International
race congress; (19) The work of
Morgan Shuster; (20) The work of
Yamamoto, Japanese Minister of
Finance, in calling a halt on military
expansion.
NO MONEY FOR BATTLESHIPS.
There will be no appropriations for
battleships or public buildings at this
session of Congress. This was the decision
reached by the Democrats in the
House. Elimination of a battleship appropriation
was a surprise, the caucus
having been called to consider a $16,000,000
public buildings bill, recommended
by the committee on public
buildings and grounds. Representative
Burnett, of Alabama, offered an amendment
to a resolution to dispense with
the public buildings bill that no battleship
approprlat'on be reported to the
House. Representative Hobson, of Alabama,
beaded an attck on the amendment.
but It was passed by a vote of 98
to 68. The saving resulting from this
action by the caucus is estimated by
the Democratic leaders to aggregate
about $40,000,000.
INDIAN LOltE.
The bureau of American ethnology
is preparing a new work which will
form a handbook of aborig'nal remains
in the United States, and will have to
do with the ancient abodes, camps,
mounds, workshops and quarries of the
Indian tribes. In connection with this
work F. W. Hodge, ethnologist In
charge of the bureau, is sending letters
of Inquiry to all persons thought to
have any knowledge of the subject of
th's undertaking, as well as to all Institutions
and societies interested In
American archeology and ethnology.
The letter requests all information respecting
the location, character and
history of the remains left by the Indians.
and all that may indicate the
earlier h'story and character of the
various Indian tribes.
WOULD MAKE THE SACRIFICE.
That ex-President Roosevelt is willing
to again bear the ponderous burdens
of the presidency if the people of
the great American republic Insist upon
it, is indicated by an interview published
in the New York Evening Post in
which the .Colonel says In part:: "I
am not hnd shall not be a candidate, I
shajl dot seek the nomination, nor will
I accept If it comes to me as the result
of an intrigue. But I will not tie i
my hands by a statement which would
BUtka It difficult or impossible for me <
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THE PRESBYTERI
/ Gurren
to serve the public by undertaking a
great task, IT the people as a whole
seemed definitely to come to the conclusion
that I ought to do that task. If
at this particular crisis, with the particular
problems ahead of us at this
particular time, the people feel that I
am the one man in sight to do the job,
then 1 should regard myself as shirking
a plain duty if I refused to do it. In
short, I am-not concerned with the
welfare of any one man in this matter,
not with Mr. Taft's welfare, nor Mr.
La Follette's, and least of all with my
own; I am concerned onlv with the
welfare of the people of the United
States."
EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF JACKSON.
In a widely distributed circular the
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Corporation
Issues a general appeal to the people
of the South and to admirers of the
Southern general for funds for the erect'on
of an equestrian statue of Jackson
in Richmond. The organization was
formed last November to commemorate
the achievements of Jackson, the only
statute to whom In Richmond was donated
to the State of Virginia by Englishmen?the
only tribute of the kind
from foreigners to any Confederate
leader. The association proposes to enlist
the a'd of the Legislatures of Virginia
and of the other Southern States
in the accomplishment of its purposes,
and invites contributions from the public.
In order to Interest the young people
of the South In the proposed memorial,
the association has set apart
May 10, 1912. the forty-ninth anniversary
of th death of Jackson, as "Jackson
Memorial Day," in observance of
which it is earnestly asked that each
child In attendance on the schools of
the Southern States will contribute 10
cents toward the erection of a permanent
memorial.
STATESMEN ENJOY THEMSELVES.
That the custom of the State Department
of keeping secret the numerous
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ui'i'i lauuuo umuc uj Luugreaa iur
specific purposes on the ground that
they were of a diplomatic nature was
"loose," and that this practice, as applied
to the $20,000 appropriation for
the Lake Champlain celebration in 1909
was "improper" was adm'tted by Secretary
Knox to the House Committee on
Expenditures in the State Department.
The vouchers for the celebration were
read. They showed that President Taft,
Ambassador Bryce, Senator Root, Associate
Justice Charles E. Hughes, of
the Supreme Court, then Governor of
New York, and other public men were
guests at the entertainment. Some of
the vouchers show items for wine. cock,
tails, and caf6 meals for army officers;
SfiO fnr thp onfurtnlnTonf nf QfiA
guests at a Lake Champlain hotel; $3,748
for a banquet on July 6th; $214 for
a ladles' banquet; $75 for livery; $18
for telephones; $39.85 for Senator
Root's transportat'on from Washington
to Plattsburg, N. Y., and return. One
Item was for excess fares for five members
of the New York Legislature who
missed the train.
A GREAT ART COLLECTION.
The ultimate concentration of the
scattered art treasures which J. P.
Morgan has been collecting for mnnv
years at an estimated outlay of nearly
$100,000,000, js sa'd to be the real plan
behind arrangements the American
financier is now making for the transfer
of an invaluable collection of ivory
and gems from the South Kensington
Museum, in Ix>ndon, to New York. In
confirming the report of this transfer.
AN OF THE SOUTH
it Events
and denying that It was undertaken because
of any dissatisfaction over the
treatment of his art loans to the British
Museum, J. P. Morgan, Jr., intimated
that his father proposed to arrange also
for the transfer of his art loans now in
Paris and other European cities to
America. Mr. Morgan has been collecting
for so many years and buying so
widely that, it is said, he himself hardly
knows the extent of his holdings,
and has become determined to concentrate
and catalogue them. They wiil be
directed to the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, and will be stored there until the
problem of finding room for the display
can be solved.
MOSTLY WATER.
The Pacific ocean covers 68,000.000
sauare miles, the Atlantic 30,000,000 and
the Indian ocean, Arctic and Antarctic
oceans 42,000,000, according to the
Scientific Amer'can. To stow away the
contents of the Pacific it would be
necessary to fill a tank one mile long,
one mile wide and one mile deep every
day for 440 years. Put in figures, the
Pacific holds In weight 918,000,000,000,000,000,000
tens. The Atlaittic averages
a depth of not quite three miles. Its
waters welgt 325, 000,000.000,000,000,000
tons and a tank to contain them
would have each of its sides 43 miles
long. The figures of the other oceans
are In the same startling proportions.
It would take all the sea water in the
world 2,000,000 years to flow over
Niagara.
COLLAPSE OF CHINESE TnRONE.
Immediate abdication of the throne
of the Chinese Empire was decided upon
In a conference between the Empress
Dowager, Prince Chun, the ex-regent,
and Prince Ching, the ex-Premier, in
accordance with conditions la'd down
by the Republicans, namely, that, the imperial
f-tmily ani princes are to retain
thtir emp;.y titles, reside in Peking or
elsewhere at their pleasure and
annual pensions i peregat'ng 3hue")
taeis ($2,000,000), and that the transfer
of power will be effected with as
little loss of dignity to the throne as
possible. The Empress Dowager summoned
a Cabinet meeting to arrange details
of the abdication. Premier Yuan
Shi Kci, in a statement to the newspapers,
avers his readiness to accept
almost any solution which will ensure
peace. He has no fear for the country's
future, he says, if the settlement is the
fruit of reason, truth and justice.
WflERE EUROPE LEDS.
That European countries are ahead
of America in the use of electricity is
indicated by a report made by the
Ontar'o Hydro-Electric Commission appointed
by the Canadian government to
gather information that would lead to
the more extended use of Niagara water
power in supplying farms and manufacturing
plants with electric appliances.
A part of the report of the
Commission follows: "Some of the Interesting
features at the electrical exhlb'tlon
at Munich were a model farm
fully equipped with electricity, and a
practical exhibition of electric plowing,
where from 25 to 30 acres were helner
plowed with one plow per day. While
at the International exhlb'tlon of manufactures
at Turin we also had an opportunity
of Investigating heavier ele?trlc
apparatus, such as large motors
suitable for railways, street cars, etc.
We found that In practically all European
countries electricity Is largely apd
extensively used on farms from 25 to
1,000 acres for both light and powe~
purposes, such as threshing, cleaning
grain, chopping, root cutting, sawing
[February 7t 1912 ^
wood, pumping water, milking, cream
separating and butter making, Ironing,
lighting houses, stables and yards. The
city of Berlin has adopted electricity as
a motive power for Its fire department,
four stations being already fully equipped,
horses and gasoline motors being
dispensed with. Among the many advantages
of the systems was a saving
of more than half the co6t where horses
had been used, also a wonderful saving %
of time, It taking but 12 seconds from
the time an alarm was sounded until
the department was fully under way on
the street."
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"TENNESSEE POND OF LIQUOR AND
POOL OF BLOOD."
Ex-Sheriff C. D. Johns, of Nashville,
Tenn., will have his new book, "Tennessee's
Pond of Liquor and Pool of
Blood," ready to deliver to the anxious
public by the last of February. This
book will be all that its title Implies.
In keeping with the writer, Mr. C. D.
Johns, it wMl be a plain, straightforward
statement of facts, showing that
the once proud Old Volunteer State of
Tennessee is now famous for her corruption.
and that the once proud
'"Athens of the South," Nashville, her
capital city, has truly fallen.
Mr. Johns has recently served as
sheriff of Davidson county, of which
Nashville is the county seat, being elected
on the independent ticket, defeating
.for the first time in the history of the
state, a democratic nominee in a democratic
stronghold. His record as an
honest, intelligent, impartial and fearless
law-enforcing officer has never
been equalled in Tennessee, thl3 being
admitted by both political friend and
foe.
Everyone who is opposed to ring rule,
political machines, the domination of
corporate interests, the large cities controlling
the stete government through
heartless corporations, liquor dealers
nd the foreign criminal element, the
whiteslave traffic, etc.. etc., should read
th's bock. Every man who loves his
God, his family and his country, will
appreciate It.
The writer believes this is an sge of
'dodging facts, and yet the world Is crav
ing truths stripped of ell useless verbiage
and pretense. And while he loves
Tennessee, for that very reason he proposes
to give the world the whole truth
relative to the deplorable rond'tions in
his own loved state. This book gives
some new and astonishing facts on the
blackest page of Tennessee's history,
the foitf assassination of Senator Carmack,
her own loved and honored son,
Truly he was drowned In a pond of
liquor and pool of blood.
By sending $1.00. half-price, at once
for this book, you will be among the
frst to receive it. Address. The Johns
Headorarters, 617 Cole Bldg., Nashville,
Tenn.
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