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The CALEDONIAN, in November, 1915, began the publication of the HISTORY OF THE SCOTTISH CLANS, and each succeeding number will contain the complete history of one of the Clans, with illustrations, portrait of its present Chief and copious notes. Each issue is alone worth a yearly subscription. Clans Macdougall, Scott, Murray, Fraser, MacDonald, MacLeod, Campbell, Graham, Grant, Buchanan (and MacMaster), Kennedy, and MacKenzie have appeared.

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Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. who has been ill at his sucmer home, "Beinn Bhreagh" Paddock, Bras d'Or lakes, Nova Scotia, is reported very much improved.

The Presbytery of Long Island celebrated its two hundredth anniversary Tuesday and Wednesday, September 12 and 13, in the First Presbyterian Church of Southampton, L. I. The Presbytery, the first in this State, was formed when the pastors and elders of Presbyterian churches in Jamaica, Newtown, Setauket and Southampton petitioned the Presbytery of Philadelphia for permission to organize the churches on Long Island into a Presbytery. From the Presbytery of Long Island developed the Synod of New York, with about 100 churches.

The $2,500 presented by President Wilson, when rental for "Shadow Lawn," Long Branch, N. J., was refused by the owner, has been divided among several local charities. "Shadow Lawn" was offered by its owner, J. B. Greenhut, of New York, to the committee seeking summer quarters at the shore for the President. President Wilson accepted the offer, with the provision that he could pay $2,500 for the use of the house. The money was refused by Mr. Greenhut, and a check was then sent by President Wilson to the committee to be distributed among charities.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie have sent $1,000 toward the fund for the purchase of braces for children crippled by the recent scourge of infantile paralysis. Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie recently were on a pleasant cruise on the yacht, Surf. to Bar Harbor and along the coast of Nova Scotia.

Mrs. Russell Sage, who celebrated her eighty-eighth birthday, September 8, made gifts to Syracuse, N. Y., of $40,000. Mrs. Sage was born in that city, and it has been her custom for several years to remember Syracuse institutions on her birthday. Syracuse University receives $15,000, and gifts of $5,000 each are made to five other institutions.

The Federal Government of Australia has decided to send a mixed commission to the United States to investigate and report upon the methods of manufacture and production and upon the employment conditions in America. The commission will consist of representatives of chambers of commerce, labor, the newspapers, etc. The following industries will be investigated: Iron and steel and mechanical engineering generally, lumber and building materials, leather, textile and paper trades, and trades connected with the preparation of foodstuffs.

William Watson Lawrence, president of the National Lead Company, who died August 29, left an estate of at least $1,000,000, the bulk of which will go eventually to Princeton University, by his will, filed September 12. Mr. Lawrence was graduated from Princeton in 1878, and made his home in Pittsburg, Pa.

The Department of Commerce announces that American shipping in foreign trade has increased from 2,405 vessels of 1.076.152 gross tons on June 30, 1914, to 3,135 vessels of 2,194,470 gross tons on June 30, 1916. Nearly half of this tonnage, 320 vessels of 1,074,679 gross tons, is from New York city.

Dr. Ernest Marton Hopkins will be inaugurated eleventh President of Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., Friday, October 6.

The first assistant engineer of the S. S. Admiral Clark, which was lost with twenty of her crew in a tropical hurricane, August 16, was the late Charles Norman MacLeod, of Seattle, Washington, eldest son of the late Rev. John D. MacLeod, missionary at Port of Spain, Trinidad.

The United States exported to Great Britain in 1911, 4,031 automobiles, valued at $3.380,266; in 1912, 5,716 cars, valued at $4,454,448; in 1913, 6,970 cars, valued at $5,853,127, this being for the fiscal year ending June 30, and before the outbreak of the war. In 1915, 13,934 cars were shipped, valued at $21,149,522. Great Britain's total production of automobiles before the European war was approximately 40,000 cars per annum. British manufacturers are beginning to view the "American invasion" of the automobile field with alarm.

An athletic field and a formal memorial are the gift of the Princeton alumni in remembrance of Johnny Poe, football star and good fellow, who was killed fighting with the "Black Watch" in France, last September.

Robert Fay, the former lieutenant in the German Army, who was serving an eightyear term as a bomb plotter, in the Federal Prison at Atlanta, Ga., with another prisoner, William Knobloch, escaped on August 29 and have not been recaptured.

President Wilson, in an eloquent address, on behalf of the American people, accepted the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln as a gift from the Lincoln Farm Association, September 4. The rude log cabin where the great emancipator was born, two miles from the little town of Hodgenville, Ky., is now housed in an imposing granite memorial building, and upward of 25,000 persons assembled to hear the Presidential tribute, and to witness formal acceptance of the memorial.

Donald B. MacMillan, leader of the expedition, Dr. E. O. Hovey and other scientists, who went into the Arctic in July, 1915, will remain in northern Greenland for some time. They have been joined by Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer, and all were reported, when left by their relief ship, to be in excellent health.

In the Maine elections, September 11, the Republicans made a clean sweep, electing the Governor, two United States Senators, four Congressmen and the Legislature. Carl E. Mulliken was elected Governor over Oakley C. Curtis by a majority of 13,800.

The newspapers report that Dr. C. F. Aked who gave up his important pastorate in San Francisco, to take the part assigned to him in the Ford adventure which was to "take the boys out of the trenches" and bring peace to the world, has been refused reinstatement by a vote of his former congregation.

Exercises commemorating the 159th anni versary of the birth of Marquis de Lafayette were held in many American cities, Sep. tember 6. This is the second year in which the event has been generally celebrated, and at this time held special significance from the heroic part that France is playing in the war. In New York, exercises were held in the City Hall, where M. Jules Jusserand, the French Ambassador; Hon. William G. Sharpe, U. S. Ambassador to France; Dr. John A. Finley and others made notable addresses. In the evening, the 300 members of the France-America Society tendered a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, "to celebrate the birthday of Lafayette, to express sympathy, friendship and profound affection for France, and to pay honor to Ambassador Jusserand."

The American-Mexican Joint Commission appointed to arrange an adjustment of border troubles and other questions between the two nations, began its deliberations at the Hotel Griswold, New London, Conn., September 6.

After a lingering illness, Mrs. Annie W. Howe, only sister of President Wilson, died at New London, Conn., September 16. She was in her sixty-first year, and is survived by three children. The funeral was held September 18, in Columbia, S. C., where she and the President spent the greater part of their childhood.

The United British Society of Denver, Colo., has instituted "The United States Dollar Fund for the Relief of Permanently Disabled Soldiers and Sailors of the British Empire." The subscription blanks have been framed to suit the purses of all classes. One dollar per annum, with a similar amount each year for a period of five years should leave no excuse for the most humble to participate, although larger denominations are appreciated. Hon. John B. Stephen, Past Chief of Caledonian Club, is president of the society, and Gilbert J. Budden, of the Overseas Club, is secretary.

The Rev. Dr. John MacNeill, pastor of the Denver (Colo.) Presbyterian Church, the noted Scottish evangelist, has been supplying the Central Presbyterian Church and the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church during the summer, and has preached to large and appreciative congregations. His church has recently given him a six months' leave of absence, which he will spend in service on the battle front in France.

President Wilson signed the "Eight Hour" bill, passed to avert a general strike of the railway workers of the country, on September 3 and again on September 5, in order to avoid any question as to its validity, from being signed on a Sunday. The bill was rushed through Congress under threats of the labor leaders, who would not consent to its laying over the double holiday for signature.

The Senate, after a debate lasting more than two hours, on September 7, ratified the treaty between the United States and Denmark for the purchase of the Danish West Indian islands for $25,000,000. The islands have voted separately favoring cession, and late reports from Denmark indicate a more favorable attitude on the part of the Danish Parliament.

Congress adjourned September 8, after being in session from December 6, 1915. The General Revenue bill, intended to raise $205,000,000, was passed by both houses. The most important achievements of the Congress now ended are: Enlargement of the navy; reorganization and increase of the army; defense appropriations of $655,000,000; a child labor law; a rural credits law; a Government shipping law; a workmen's compensation law; a good roads law; creation of a Tariff Commission; more autonomy for the Philippines; a cotton futures law; a railroad eight-hour law.

The United States armored cruised Memphis was driven ashore on the rocks of the outer harbor of Santo Domingo, August 29, by a great, sudden ground swell, supposed to be of subterranean volcanic origin. More than thirty of the crew lost their lives, chiefly from the bursting of steampipes. The vessel is a total wreck. The Memphis. for merly the Tennessee, was one of the best known vessels of the navy. At the outbreak of the European war, she acted as relief ship for American refugees abroad, and carried $5,867,000 to Europe for their assistance. Following this, she acted as a ferry between Havre, France, and English ports, and brought to safety many thousands of stranded Americans.

In the New York Primaries, September 19. William M. Calder defeated Robert Bacon as Republican nominee for the United States Senate by a majority of 9.007; in the Progressive party, Governor Whitman, Republican, defeated Seabury by 5,463 votes, nearly two to one; in the Republican party, Governor Whitman was the victor over William M. Bennett by nearly 250,000 votes. In the Democratic party, former Judge Samuel W. Seabury was unopposed as candidate for Governor.