KAISEIl TO ABDICATE?
German Author Fomaj?t> I'pheaval
in Empire.
Paris, March 24.?The abdication
of the German emperor is forecast by
the former German magistrate who
wrote the celebrated book, "J'Accuse."
In an interview published in
Oeuvre, he says:
"The kaiser is obsessed by the
thought that he is responsible for the
war, a thought which poisons his
whole existence. He feels that he is
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without counting those abroad: First,
is the crown prince, the real author
of the war; second, is the Junker
Pan-Germanist?you cannot imagine
the smouldering hatred of the emperor
for those he believes to be
menaces who are driving him into
an .abyss; third, are the people, not
Socialist party, but the people who
are starving and who he feels are
growing in number and rising little
by little against those who organized
the war.
Bitter Struggle.
"The other day at the meeting of
the parliamentary presidents and the
ministers of the federal sovereigns,
at which the submarine war was decided
upon, the struggle between the
kaiser's party and that of Von Tirpitz
was most bitter. The majority
against the emperor was so great,
however, that he was obliged to submit
and pretend that he was convinced.
In particular he was personally
opposed to a break with
President Wilson, but he was forced
to consent. Documents will be published
one day which will prove that
secretly he did everything not to
bring America down upon him and
that he considers that the rupture
was an irreparable mistake. The
failure of the submarine war will
/ soon show that he was right, but it
will be too late.
Those He Fears Most.
"The people he fears most are the
anti-militarists, anti-Prussian, Liberal
Republicans who want the Reichstag
to be based on universal suffrage.
That is why Wilhelm is so
anxious to convince the nation that
he did not want war. All his protestations
are made to appease the Liberals
and his famished and ruined
subjects whose murmurings are
growing stronger. He wants to continue
popular at any price and that
is why he spoke the first word of
peace. The people are grateful for
it, but the submarine war came and
spoiled everything.
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peror who enjoyed a popularity unexampled
in our epoch suffers in his
priae. He alone perhaps in Germany
knows the whole truth since he alone
has in his possession the elements for
forming a judgment on the situation
as a whole. How can he resist morally
and physically under such a strain ?
Certainly he hopes sometimes, but
less and less, for the success of the
unrestricted submarine war which he
I opposed. He sees the isolation of
Germany become more and more
complete.
"Once he tried to initiate peace negotiations
and failed. To try again
would be to admit and proclaim to
the whole world, but above all to the
German people, which he fears most,
Germany's real situation. If the allies
solemnly declared, as they did
with Napoleon in 1815, that they
would refuse to treat for peace with
the Hohenzollerns, it would be a
knockout blow. Our German people,
who still believe in him, would abandon
him, for peace at any price will
soon be the unanimous and hidden
thought of tortured Germany. What
resource is left to him but a dramatic
abdication in order to retain the sym nathipc
nf thp Oei-man DeoDle and
save the political future of Prussia.
He will say: 'I sacrifice myself to
make peace. Without me those only
are responsible who desired a savage
war and the complete isolation of
Germany, those who took at the beginning
my son as their party leader
forced me to mobilize, a measure I
hesitated to take.' "
Loses Suit Against Road.
Orangeburg, March 25.?Mr. A. T.
Carter, former night operator for the
Atlantic Coast Line here, has lost his
guit against the railroad company as
a result of injuries received when he
was attacked by a negro while on
duty at the station. At the direction
of Judge Sease, a verdict for the de- j
fendant was rendered. At a former
trial of this case a small amount was I
'flwflrdpd the nlaintiff.
The injuries received by Mr. Carter
were of a very serious nature, he
having been struck on the head with
a heavy weapon when he was called
outside of the station to look after a
car that was reported as being open.
Depend on Jack Dunn, of Baltimore,
to land the college stars. He
has signed Bernie Lee, a third baseman
who shone with the Tufts college
team. Dunn believes a year in
the International will make the
youngster ripe for the big show and
it is said Connie Mack already had
a string on him.
HEALS WOUND WITH SUGAIt.
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Surgeon Uses Ordinary Granulated
Article on His Patients.
The astonishing number of recoveries,
running up to 80 and even 90
per cent, of the wounded, is due to
improvement in the methods of treatment
which have been developed in
handling these all too abundant
cases. There will not be so large a
proportion of one armed and one
legged men as there were among our
I civil war veterans.
Dr. Alexis Carrel, of France, has
shown how to prepare a cheap and
very efficient antiseptic from sodium
hypochlorite and boric acid. From
the other side comes the report of an
even simpler treatment. Dr. Erich
Meyer, in the military supplement of
the Munchener Medizinische Wochenschrift,
reports that he has got good
results by dressing the wounds with
ordinary granuiated sugar after
washing them out. The wounds are
simply covered with a compress and
the sugar renewed every second or
third day. Whatever may prove to
be the value of this treatment, it is
at least worth knowing in case no
surgeon is within call.?New York
Independent.
New Paper Processes,
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Two of the mere recent developments
in the crusade to bring down
the high cost of paper have been the
tests for making news print from old
papers and further consideration of
the subject of producing fibrous pulp
from cotton stalks.
A process for de-inking old news
print has been evolved by Dr. Thomas
Jesperson, of Neenah, Wis. Dr. Jesperson
has invented a solution which
successfully removes the ink from old
paper and bleaches it a pure white.
The ink used in printing newspapers
is largely constituted of lamp black
and various oils.
Although it has been generally
known for years that chlorine would
accomplish this de-inking process, no
attempts, prior to Dr. Jesperson's experiment,
are known to have been
made to introduce this system as a
commercial factor. About 5,000 tons
of news print are consumed daily in
the United States in the printing of
newspapers. The old papers are generally
sold to paper manufacturers as
old stock. Every paper mill has a
number of girls in its employ who assort
the old papers received, and
about three tons daily are thrown
aside. This castoff material is now
used in the manufacture of cheaper
grades of paper, boxboard, etc.
A mill at Neenah has made paper
by reducing such castoff paper to a
pulp after it had been bleached. Paper
made by this method, using the
de-inking substance, has been used
by some small country newspapers
who report that it is appparently no
different from the brand new material.
The subject of manufacturing
pulp for paper from cotton stalks has
come up repeatedly in the past and
has been under consideration by
chemists in Germany as well as the
United States department of agriculture.
A meeting was held recently in the
office of the State commissioner of
agriculture to consider the advisability
of using stalks from Texas cotton
fields for this purpose. Negotiations
are now under way with men who .
have taken out patents on the process
for making paper in this manner,
with a view to organizing companies
in Texas. Texas annually has
about 12,000,000 acres sown to cotton,
and stalks in this area have an
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which would be available for paper
manufacturing.?Wall Street Journal.
An Old New Yorker.
With the death of Edward X. Tailer,
in his 87th year, a unique social
figure passes from the life of the city.
Here was a man who had come
down not merely from the last generation,
but from a remote and a
different generation of New York society
whose traditions he personified
to the end. He had danced at the
historic ball given for the Prince of
Wales in the old Academy of Music,
had attended every charity ball
since 1857, and his active life spanned
more years than the ordinary life
time. . Certainly an interesting and
an amiable verteran, a figure out of
Philip Hone's diary for latter-day
New York to contemplate.
T-Tio nwn Hiarv rolip-irmclv L-ont fr?r
sixty-six years, must be a rare chronicle
of the social history which he
saw in the making and of which he
was a large part. But it is the man
after all, and not the written record,
which must appeal to us. Was Edward
X. Tailer the last of his type
and of his generation? The examples
must be few, if there are any, of
New Yorkers who have followed social
pleasure as a serious pursuit
since Buchanan was president and
who as octogenarians maintain to the
last the same lively interest and unflagging
alertness in social life.?New
York World.
PLAC ED UPON WAK FOOTING.
Military Orders Issued by President.
More Men for Navy.
Washington, March 25.?President
Wilson took steps today to place the
nation on a war footing.
By executive order he directed that
the navy be recruited without delay
to the full authorized war strength
87,000 enlisted men. Taken in connection
with emergency naval construction
already ordered, this means
that the president has exercised the
full limit of his legal powers as com
mander-in-chief to prepare the navy
for war.
For the army the president directed
that two military departments be
created in the Atlantic coast region.
The order means that the task of
organizing whatever army congress
may authorize will be divided among
six departmental commanders instead
of four in the interests of speed and
efficiency in mobilization.
Guardsmen Called Out.
The third step was to assume as
a national duty the task of protecting
American industries from domestic
disorders in the event of hostilities.
For this purpose eleven full infantry
regiments, two separate battalions
and (ne separate company of
the National Guard were called br.'ck
into the federal service to act as
national police in important districts.
Supplementing these troops a regiment
of Pennsylvania guard and two
companies of Georgia infantry, en
route home from the border for muster
out, were ordered retained in the
federal service.
The president's orders were made
known in terse official statements is-,
sued by both departments. No explanation
accompanied them except
the statement that reorganization of
the military department, effective
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centralization of command.
Congress Must Determine.
Congress must determine the system
under which an army is to be
raised. Today's action provides more
elastic machinery, found necessary
as a result of the recent border mobilization
for the enrolling and training
of a great army, whether raised
as volunteers, by conscription or
through a universal service bill.
The objection of the creation of
the new departments of the Northeast
and Southeast was to distribute
among three central commanders the
work of mobilization in the States
most thickly populated and from
which the greatest number of soldiers
must come. The present Eastern
department directed the mobilization
of approximately 80 per cent, of
the 150.000 guardsmen sent to the
border.
With 400,000 men, the maximum
authorized strength of the National
Guard, in addition to whatever volunteers
might be summoned, the task
would be too great for a single departmental
organization because of
the vastness of the supply problems
involved.
Has Learned Its Lesson.
Instructions to National Guard officers,
issued more than a month ago
to cover any future mobilization,
showed plainly that the war department
had learned its lesson and proposed
to decentralize its mobilization
problems as far as possible.- Departmental
commanders completely will
supervise the assembling of State
troops in their districts hdreafter, and
will take over the task of recruiting.
The transfer of Gen. Wood from
the Eastern to the Southeastern department
caused considerable speculation
among army officers. No explanation
was given and Secretary
Baker declined to comment. The
Eastern department, even as it will
be after the new organization goes
into effect, is regarded as the most
important of the six oecause 01 us
great economic development. As a
general rule, that department falls to
the command of the senior major
general of the army available for
such duty.
Russia in Alaska.
On the maps the international
boundary between the United States
and Russia is drawn by running
through the middle of Bering strait,
and thence straight to the pole. It
was established when Alaska became
American territory to separate the
known lands of the east from the
known lands of the west. There has
never been any dispute concerning
its location.
A number of years ago a party of
American explorers discovered four
small islands in the Arctic ocean off
the Siberian coast and hoisted the
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It is conceivable that the islands
are rich in mineral wealth, and
it is certain that profitable fisheries
might be established on them were
they not so remote from civilization.
But no one took any notice of the
discovery, and it was not generally
known that the empire of the United
States had been enlarged.
Now attention is called to the
frozen islands by news that the Russian
government has formally taken
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