Domestic

About 400 members attended the dinner of the Sons of the Revolution at Delmonico's. New York, on Washington's Birthday. The president, Robert Olyphant, was toastmaster. Dr. Henry van Dyke, Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg, speaking for the Administration, compared Washington's attitude toward peace and preparedness with President Wilson's, and said that he, like the President, was assailed in his own time by such epithets as "weakling and mollycoddle."

James M. Beck declared that Washington was not a "peace-at-any-price” man. After he left office and went to his retreat, when John Marshall returned to this country and the cry went up: "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute," he again offered, although he was an old man, his sword for the service of his country. He asserted that while there should be a great deal of toleration for the part played by this country in the European war, if we had not become too introspective and had no lacked a proper idea of our duty to civilization, we would have taken a hand when Belgium was invaded. That great opportunity gone forever, our moral prestige suffered irrepar able damage.

"The action of Judge Tompkins proves what I have all along contended--that it was a persecution, not a prosecution. The Judge also strongly confirms the view I have held that an essential part of the foundation of a successful prison administration is the respect of the inmates for their Warden. No man could, for a moment, retain the respect of the men of Sing Sing were he, as Warden, to violate confidences which they had placed in him.

"The fact that those who have been plotting against the honest administration of our State prisons were not content with having me removed by the Superintendent, but insisted as well upon trying to ruin my reputation ought to make the public realize that there is something under the surface which must be of very great importance. Such a fierce and venomous fight to get rid of one minor State official would never have been made unless there was something far more serious than the one public office concerned. What that something is we shall know before this thing is ended."

The New York State Assembly passed the Whitney-Brereton resolution, March 14, pro

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viding for the submission of the Nyoman suffrage questionRagain in 91917, by a vote of 109 to 30.

Following the plan of several European financial institutions, the National City Bank, New York, will undertake the education of American college students as representatives of the bank in foreign countries. The course will include the vacation periods following the sophomore and junior year and one year in the bank following graduation. They will begin with about 100 undergraduates.

The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Young Women's Christian Association was celebrated at Carnegie Hall, New York. March 3. The speakers were Rev. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, Bishop David H. Greer, Rev. Dr. William Pierson Merrill. Robert E. Speer, Rev. Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, Mrs. Robert E. Speer, and others. The singing was led by a chorus of 300 young

women.

A mass meeting under the auspices of the American Rights Committee was held in Carnegie Hall, New York, March 13. The President, Major George Haven Putnam, presided. and the principal addresses were by Hon. James M. Beck, Bainbridge Colby and other speakers of National reputation; the subject being "America's Rights and Duties in the Great War." The organization is of thorough-going Americans who are not in sympathy with the present policy Resolutions of neutrality. were adopted upholding the policy of President Wilson in the armed merchantship controversy, condemning "the aims of the Teutonic Powers" and denouncing "as barbarous their methods of warfare," and calling for aid to the "Nations upholding the freedom of the world." An organized effort was made by two Irishmen and several Germans to break up the meeting, but the disturbers were promptly ejected by the police.

Colonel Daniel Appleton, Seventh Regiment, N. Y. N. G., retired February 23 with the rank of Major-General, after forty-five He was presented by his years' service.

men with a loving cup at his "last review," February 28th, in the presence of many notables. A brilliant dinner was tendered him at the Waldorf, February 23, attended by the Mayor, Governor and prominent citizens. George T. Wilson was toastmaster, and telegrams were read from President Wilson and others. Colonel Appleton is succeeded in command of the Seventh by Willard C. Fiske.

The American Government has at last been goaded into action against lawlessness in Mexico by the highhanded conduct of the outlaw Villa, who, at the head of one of his bands of desperadoes, crossed the American border at daybreak, March 9, and made a raid upon the town of Columbus, shooting down over a score of peaceful citizens and some soldiers. By an agreement with General Carranza, the United States Government has dispatched two expeditions under Generals Pershing and Dodd, across the border in pursuit of Villa and his band. It is supposed the bandits will take refuge in the mountains where it will be difficult to follow them. In return for the consent of Carranza for the United States forces to cross into his territory on a punitive expedition. he has been granted the privilege of following into American territory any outlaws who may escape across the line. There is a strong presumption that the Villa raid was prompted by German plotters. It is believed that the bandit leader has received financial and other encouragement from the German-American element in the United States which enabled him to keep the field and hold his band of thieves and murderers together.

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A feature of the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York city, which marred by a bitter factional fight, was to have been a contingent of Scottish pipers leading one of the divisions. It is only fitting that the Scottish people should join in the celebration of Ireland's patron saint. St. Patrick was born in Dumbarton, and was a missionary for forty-five years in Ireland, representing Christ and the teaching of Paul, not the Pope of Rome. In fact, we have always advocated that the Scots should be foremost in preserving the memory of St. Patrick. Scotland gave Patrick to Ireland, and Ireland gave Columba to Scotland -two of the greatest missionaries of the Christian era.

Apropos of the so called "Irish Convention," a pro-German demonstration held in New York, March 4-5, at which Justice John W. Goff and other "Irish patriots" aired their ancient grudge against England, the Executive Committee of the American Irish Societies, which include the New York Municipal Council of the United Irish League of America, with thirty-eight branches in the metropolitan district; the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Board of Erin, which is in direct affiliation with the Hibernians in Ireland, and many other Irish benevolent societies from out of town held a meeting at the Waldorf earlier in the week, condemning the meeting, at which they asserted their loyalty to the United States, and passed resolutions calling attention to the fact that the Irish in Ireland are better judges of their rights, policies and duties than "any number of professional Irishmen in America whose sole idea of the Irish question is the legacy of hate inherited from the days of oppression, and who are ignorant of, or shut

their minds to, the happy change that has come over the green island, since the rule of democracy has been substituted for that of feudalism."

If there is any doubt as to the loyalty of a great part of the Irish, it should be dispelled by the recent address of Lord Wimborne before Parliament, in which he showed that out of 150.000 available men in Ireland (excepting those necessary for agricultural and munition labor), 86,000 had enlisted. In addition, 51,000 were serving with the colors at the beginning of the war. He further stated that all parts of Ireland, even "Rebel Cork," were "doing extremely well."

The Irish Nationalists of Liverpool, celebrating St. Patrick's Day, under the chair: manship of T. P. O'Connor, passed resolutions "reaffirming their inflexible determination to give full support to the Allies in defense of the cause of freedom."

King George, in his speech to the Irish Guards, on St. Patrick's Day, paid high tribute to this regiment, which was created by Queen Victoria to commemorate the heroism of Irish regiments in the South African war. "By splendid achievements in your first campaign," said the King, "you have proved yourselves worthy of this proud tribute, and have maintained the high traditions of my brigade of guards." The King referred to his presentation of the Victoria Cross to Lance Corporal (now Lieutenant) Michael O'Leary, the first Irishman to win that distinction in the present war.

Canadian

Sir Robert Borden, Premier of Canada, has accepted an offer of life membership in There are the New York Lawyers' Club. now but two life members, former President Taft and Hon. Elihu Root.

Captain the Hon. W. J. Shaughnessy, eldest son of Lord Shaughnessy, enlisted March 15 for overseas service with the 199th Battalion. He will go as Adjutant, an office he filled for more than a year in the Fifty-fifth Irish-Canadian Rangers. Lord Shaughnessy's second son, Captain the Hon. Frederick Shaughnessy, and his son-in-law, Captain Rene Redmond, are in France with the Sixtieth Canadian Battalion.

The Bonaventure station of the Grand Trunk Railway at Montreal, erected twentyfive years ago, was destroyed by fire March 1. Defective wiring was the cause, which, at first, was thought to have been incendiary.

A woman suffrage resolution was defeated in the House of Commons. February 28. The measure was introduced by William Pugsley and was opposed by the Government, the Prime Minister taking the ground that it would open the question of a new system of Federal franchise.

Under the patronage of H. R. H., the Duke of Connaught, the Lieutenant-Governor and Lady Hendrie and other distinguished Canadians, Mrs. Pankhurst addressed several meetings and luncheons given in her honor, March 10-15, in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal. The patriotic suffragist had to refuse numerous invitations to speak in other places in Canada.

J. W. Leedy, Governor of Kansas from 1896 to 1899, now residing at Whitecourt, on the McLeod River, north of Edmondton, will be a Liberal candidate for the Legislature of Alberta at the next election. As a boy of fourteen he served in the Civil War. He is ambitious to introduce a better banking system, which he asserts can be obtained by following the methods of Kansas.

The credit of the Imperial Treasury of Canada is now $125,000,000. Sir Thomas White, Minister of Finance. announced March 15 that in addition to the $50.000,000 credit established by the Dominion Government, the Canadian chartered banks had offered to establish a $75,000,000 credit for further munition orders to be placed in Canada during the next two months.

Douglas Waugh, son of Mayor R. D. Waugh, for nearly a year in a military hospital in Liverpool from dnagerous wounds received in the battle of Langemarck, has been transferred to the convalescent hospital at Uxbridge and will soon be permitted to return home. The surgeons declare his recovery the most remarkable in their experience.

One of the worst blizzards experienced for many years in Eastern Canada swept over the Maritime provinces March 4. The wind attained a velocity of fifty-three miles and considerable damage was done to wires and shipping.

Winnipeg wheat receipts exceeded the combined wheat receipts of Minneapolis and Chicago for the year 1915 by over 2,000.000 bushels. The figures are as follows: Minneapolis. 142,669,370; Chicago. 75,386,000: total. 218.055,370: Western grain inspection division. 226,637,920; Winnipeg alone, 220.480.120. Proposals for the free admission of wheat from the United States into Canada were killed for another year in Parliament, February 23.

The New York Canadian Club has secured funds and is presenting a motor ambulance to the Canadian Red Cross Society, following a recent address by Surgeon-General G. Sterling Ryerson before the members at the Hotel Biltmore. The committee in charge of the fund was: Robert N. Graves, chairman, formerly of London. Ont.; William M. Dignam, formerly of London, Ont.; Thomas D. Neelands, formerly of Southampton; Lloyd Roberts, formerly of Stratford, Ont.; Calvin V. Campbell, formerly of Ottawa, Ont.; Alfred Nicholson, formerly of Charlottetown, P. E. I.; F. M. Anderson.

Details of Canada's war expenditure for the first eight months of the war, aggregating $60,000,000, were given to Parliament in a fourth volume of the Auditor General's report for the last fiscal year. Some of the expenditures are interesting. During the eight months the government spent $57,174 for special police for the Ottawa government buildings and public buildings generally. Looking after spies and suspicious characters cost near $28,000. Internment operations cost nearly a quarter of a million. Special trains for ministers on war service cost $10,000. The cost of Valcartier Camp, including pay and maintenance of 35,000 soldiers during September and October, was $2,179,000.

It is reported that Sir Hibbert Tupper, son of the late Sir Charles Tupper, has changed his political allegiance and identified himself with the Liberal party in British Columbia.

The number of men enlisted in Canada for overseas service to the end of January was 240,000, almost twice as many as Britain engaged to contribute to the struggle on the Continent, by the entente arrangement with France. The enlistments in the Dominion in February were at the rate of 1.000 per day. On March 1, more than 15,000 troops marched through the streets of Toronto and were reviewed by Major-General Sir Sam Hughes. The pageant was five miles long.

By nearly 15,000 majority, March 13, Manitoba voted prohibition. Every district in the City of Winnipeg was carried by the temperance forces.

The American Club building. Wellington street, Toronto, was recently gutted by fire, with a loss of $50,000. One of the officers of the American League says conclusively that it was the work of an incendiary, as several warnings had been received because of the club's activity in assisting to raise an American Battalion.

The name "Berlin" is to be dropped from all Canadian towns. An opportunity will be given of offering suggestions for new names. A public subscription is being raised, and liberal prizes will be offered for first, second and third choices. Suggestions will have to be accompanied by reasons why the name should be chosen.

Smoking has been prohibited in all government departmental buildings in Ottawa, since the recent fire. It is not at all certain that the destruction of the Parliament building, with loss of human life, was not due to a careless smoker. The architects who have examined the buildings report that it will cost about $1,500,000 to repair them, and the work will take perhaps two years.

The Canadian Government has decided to perpetuate the fame of Edith Cavell by naming one of the most rugged and picturesque peaks in the Rockies "Mount Cavell."

The Ontario Government is arranging for 15,000 high school boys to do farm work, so that laborers may be released for active service

British and Foreign

The London Standard suspended publication March 17. It was founded in 1827, and first appeared as a morning paper in 1857. Among its notable leader writers was Lord Robert Cecil, afterward Lord Salisbury.

The Prince of Wales, following the custom of the Royal family for nearly a century and a half, has recently been initiated as a Mason.

February 21, Mr. Asquith moved a new vote of credit for carrying on the war of £420,000,000. As the eight previous votes of credit aggregated £1,662,000,000, the total now sanctioned, including a part for 1917, is £2,082,000,000, or nearly ten billions of dollars.

According to the "Schoolmaster." 11,400 men teachers are serving with the forces, and about 9,000 have attested under the Derby scheme. In addition there are 147 serving with naval forces, and 236 women acting as nurses. Teachers have already gained five Victoria Crosses. while 232 have been killed, 118 wounded, and nine are missing.

A total of 3,052 establishments in Great Britain are now controlled under the Munitions Act, 218 additional establishments being declared by the Minister of Munitions, March 3, 1916.

Private Rastrick, a Cameronian soldier, at Randalstown, Antrim, himself seriously if not permanently wounded, has lost eight brothers in the war. One of ten sons, his parents are dead, and his eldest brother was blinded in the Boer campaign.

About four and a half tons of German coinage has been taken from Samoa to Auckland, New Zealand, and has been replaced by British coinage.

The Glasgow "Edith Cavell" Memorial Fund appeals for money for the purchase of X-ray motor ambulances for use in France, a singularly appropriate memorial.

Mr. Dugald Semple, known as the "Scottish Thoreau." who has lived in a caravan near Bridge of Weir for the past nine years or more. has returned to London as secretary of the London Vegetarian Society, and will temporarily give up his abode on wheels. Mr. Semple, who is only thirty years of age, was formerly a draughtsman in a Scottish engineering shop, but getting tired, as a result of reading Thoreau's "Walden," he became dissatisfied with cooped-up existence in a town, and took to the open air and the simple life of the country.

In a recent telegram to Sir Douglas Haig, relative to the great battle raging about Verdun. General Joffre, says:

"In the fierce struggle it is carrying on the French Army knows that it will obtain results advantageous to all the Allies, and knows also that when recently it made an appeal to the comradeship of the British Army, the latter responded by offering its most complete and speediest aid."

The Rev. Reginald J. Campbell, formerly pastor of the City Temple of London, was recently ordained a minister of the Anglican Church. The Rev. Mr. Campbell is to be attached to the Birmingham Cathedral, having returned to the Church of England after an interval of twenty years as a nonconform ist.

Lord Hardinge, in laying the foundation stone of the new Hindu University building at Benares, to cost $10,000,000, said that the policy of the Government of India was to do all within its power to multiply the number of universities throughout India, realizing that the greatest boon the Government could give India was a diffusion of higher educa tion.

The war loans to date of the Allied Pow ers are: Great Britain, $7,760,000,000; France, $6,659,000,000; Russia, $4,117,000,000; and Italy, $1,465,000,000. Of Great Britain's total war loans of almost $8,000,000,000, approximately $2,500,000,000 has been re-loaned to her allies.