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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-12-31
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-12-31
HE HAS FOUND
IA COMET
By scrlpps News ASSN

WASHINGTON. Dec. 3i.-A cable
from KEEL. Germany, reports the
discovery OF comet by Borrelly, Of
Marscillcs.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-12-31

story e. being circulated without
my knowledge"
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
Ftscalitis Is Old.

Fiscalitis is a disease that fiourished
in England as far back as the four
teenth century, only the tax that was
then imposed upon foreign goods was a
broken head to the maker Of them.
When Wat Tyler's people entered
Southwark in 1871 their anger was so
great against the Flemish weavers and
other workers that they made the pro-
nunciatiOn of dread and cheese" a test
Of the honest home worker, and who
ever failed to pass 1t was deemed q
Fleming and put to death. A century
later Cade's Kentishmen had for one Of
their cries, THE foreigners fOrestall
the market. and so Englishmen want
and starve!"
About 1885 England was called the
Asylum Christi, so many were the for
eign weavers, brewers, silk workers
and jewelers. who settled there. and q
popular saying in Henry Wills reign.
THE French teach. us how to make
hats and how to take them off" shows
the Importance of foreign made goods
at that time.-London Standard.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
WISDOM OF NOVELISTS.

1t is mostly the women who are the
gamesters. the men only the, cards.
Thomas Hardy.
Cynicism is merely the art Of seeing
things as they are instead of as they
ought to be.-RObert Hichens
There is no man so much at the
mercy of his own vanity as he who en-
joys limited notoriety.-Seton Merri-
man.
A wise man reduces his affairs TO Il
minimum and his interests in the af-
fairs Of his neighbors to less.-Seton
Merriman.
1t is his sweetheart a man should be
particular about Once he settles down.
it does not much matter whom he
marries.-J. NJ. Barrie.
Good finance is knowing how to util-
ize the fullness of other peoples pock.
cts without revealing the emptiness of
ones own.-Richard Bagot.
A person who can't argue is like a
person who can't chew. He swallows
the facts of life unprepared for diges-
tion.-Sara Jeanette Duncan.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
The Old Time Pepper Mil.

A pepper mill is a piece of silver not
often seen on tables nowadays. Eng
lish housekeepers, however. still use
the pepper mill, and American silver
smiths sometimes keep it to meet the
demands of old fashioned families who
prefer to grind their own pepper rather
than risk the chance Of adulteration.
The pepper mill dates back to the time
when pepper was a scarce commodity
and was always ground at the table
from the peppercorns Pepper was so
valuable in those days that rents were
often paid in peppercorns and the high
prices they brought were among the
incentives that induced explorers to
brave the dangers of the unknown
deep. If a short passage could be dis
covered to the Indies, it was agreed by
all that a wealth of pepper could be
easily brought to Europe.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
The Vote Was a Failure.

The worthy Sunday school superin-
tendent was illustrating the text,
Whatsoever a man soweth that shall
he also reap"
Superintendent l want to raise a
crop of turnips what sort of seed must
l sow?
Children-Turnip seed.
Superintendent 1 want to raise a
crop of tomatoes what kind of seed
must | sow?
Children-TOmatO seed.
Superintendent-Very good. Now, if
you want to raise a crop of good man
hood what kind of seed must you SOW?
And an observer who kept tally re-
ported that the school on test vote was
tie between turnip seed and tomato
seed.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
The Visible and Invisible.

The wisest Indian philosophy has
never boggled, like ours, over that silly
word supernatural" The Upanishad
says, "What is in the visible exists also
in the invisible, and what is in Brahms
world is also here" The ultimate, al
belt unreachable, is as real to the Ash
attic mind as rice. and in the Bhagavad-
Gita Arjuna is actually permitted to
behold the embodied infinite. Indeed
it is rather this present existence which
India regards as the illusion, the maya.
To see the stars we must wait for
night, and to live we must die. Nor is
it uninteresting to note in Hindoo clas-
sizes how these large and happy sereni-
ties of oriental view have sOftened per
Bonifications Of death.-Sir Edwin Ar
mold.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
A Vicious Fish.

In South America there is a small
the sea and river, but is greatly dread
ed by the natives, who during certain
seasons have to ford the streams in
which the carbitos are found. Bathers
are often attacked by them. the sharp.
chisel shaped teeth taking a bit from
the flesh wherever they attack. They
are perfect scavengers, eating the ami
mails that float down the river-dead or
alive.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
A PLAGIARIST.
The Sort OF n Thief That Charles
Reade Pronounced Himself.

ReGde Pronounced Himself
81 The novelsts who aspire toward ab-
solute originality of plot might think
once in awhile of the sources from
which certain masters drew their in
spiratiOn and of the calmness with
which those great workers picked up
whatever would serve them at their
trade Charles Reade depended on the
newspapers as the living record of life
as it is. One day in the week he de-
voted to his scrapbooks. Passing events
seemed to him of vital Importance. and
the result of his collating appeared in
novels whose purpose" told.
In Never Too Late to Mend" he ex
zpOsed the cruelties practiced in the
prisons before the reform was success
2ful; in Hard Cash" he attacked the
abuses of private lunatic asylums; in
8"Put Yourself In His Place" he opened
on trade unions. He was modern cru
sader. One day he found in a newspa-
per certain structures on this manner
of work. His rage was instant and vio-
lent.
"Plagiarist!' he roared, crushing the
paper. "Of course l am a plagiarist.
Shakespeare was a plagiarist. Moliere
was a plagiarist. We all plagiarize-all
except those idiots who are too asinine
to profit by the works of their supe-
riors. Surely every blockhead out of a
lunatic asylum Except those idiots
must know that since Homer's time all
4 authors have parodied his incidents
f and paraphrased his sentiments, Mo
liere took his own where he found it.
The thief of all thieves was the War
wiclshire thief who stole right and
left from everybody. But, then, he
found things lead and left them gold
That's the sort of thief am."-Youth's
Companion.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
old and Good.

Many young men fail in life because
they don't know a chance when they
have it and only know what is lost
when it is too late. These youngsters
who want to be masters over the men
who are educating them, and to whom
they owe the inspiration Of their lives
all wind up by being slaves. One les
son for all leaders-learn to obey till
you are able to command. This is old
and od.-Schoolmaster.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
"PIeasant."

Nohead (as he prepares to take his
leave)-I can assure you, Miss Nicer,
the time has passed very pleasantly
this evening.
Miss Nicer (absently>-Yes; 1t Is
pleasure to know 1t has passed.
Scraps.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
The Celtic Affirmative.

In the speech of so highly developed
a people as the Celts there.is no equiva-
lent to Eyes" Thus it happens that
you shall never hear an Irish waiter
pronounce the shibboleth "yessir, OF
his English confrere, for he invariably
expresses an affirmative by some such
phrase as 81 shall, sir" ''It is, SIR
Blackwood's Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
All of Which
THE READER GETS FOR ONE CENT.

The Sun is the best type of a newspaper, NOR
ally and intellectually. 1t is an educator of the
highest character, constantly stimulating to no.
ble ideals In individual and national life.
The Sun is published on Sunday, as we'll as
every other day of the week
By mail the DAILY SUN 25 cents per month
SO a wear Including The SUNDAY SUN. "a. The
Sunday Sun salone. 81 90 year. The Weekly
Sun, S1.00 year.
Address
A. S. ABELL cOPANY,
Publishers and Proprietors,
Baltimore, Md.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
A nifHruIf MI

Horace says. NIingle a little folly
with your wisdom
eyes, that's easy enough. But it's an
other matter when it comes to min
Cling a little wisdom with your folly"
Chicago Record Herald.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
Jealous Man.

Mrs. Pretty-Isn't it strange? Mrs.
Beauti has not put on mourning for
her husband.
Mr.. Pretty understand that her
late husband particularly requested
that she should net.
Mrs. Pretty-The brute! l suppose
he knew how lovely she would look in
it.-PickMe-Up.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27

Everybody knows the phrase "All
the world loves a lover" but very
few people knF w that Emerson said 1t
and that he satd it in slightly differ
ent way-"All mankind love lover"
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
Not Always So.

Tess-So you've broken with him?
Jess-Yes. He was entirely too hard
TO please.
TesS-GraciOus. How he must have
changed since he proposed to you!-
Philadelphia Press
Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
The Sun at | Cent
is the Cheapest High Glass Paper in the United
States.

Is the Cheapest High-Class Paper IN The United
States.
The Suns special correspondents throughout
the United States as well as in Europe, China,
South Africa, the Philippines Porto Rico, Cuba.
make it the greatest newspaper that can be prin-
ted.
It's Washington and New york bureaus are
among the best in the United. States, and give
The Suns readers the earliest information upon
all important events in the legislative and finan-
cial centers of the country.
In selling hay, grain and and live stock, the
farmer who takes daily paper has the benefit of
knowing Immediately the quotations in the large
cities. To him The Sun is absolutely necessary.
The Suns market reports and commercial col
umns are complete and reliable and each day
put the farmer, the merchant and the broker, in
touch with the maBkets of Baltimore, Norfolk
Charleston, New York, Chicago Philadelphia
and all other important points in the United
States and other countries.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-19
Lesson of the Dietrich. Case.

Kansas City Star.
 The murder of President Garfield by a disappointed office seeker gave an inl- petuS to the cause of civil service re- foTm4 Perhaps the indictment of d few more high officials on the charge of trai- licking in Federal patronage may impress upon the pubHc the need of extending tte merit system.
 There is no good reason why the tenure or I+WO postmasterS should be made d .- pendent upon the result of a national mess agents resident abroad should De turned off by a political upheaval-and conSuls ale simply ill charge of business affairs. The same absurdity exists in the uncertain tenure of revenue and custolno officials and Ui the officers connected With the Department of Justice. Such tate of affairs is demoralizing to the service. 1t has a bad. effect on Congress. and 1t Is d heavy burden on the President. No, m not worrying about the war, Lincoln once replied to a visitor who had noticCd his anxiety ''It's the Chicago postoftlCe appointment that's bothering me
 These Federal positions were Kept rom inclusion in the classified service univ uS- cause they were useful to politicians ,n building personal machines. It Is only q step, of course from such use to then sale for cash That it is quite possiG.e to run for nolitics without the sacrifice of tine civil service has been shown by FnrIand's experience. The people are growing more and more tired of the whole snoijs system The Dietrich case has shown tts possibilities rather too frank" " for nIlblac- copsclencs. The inference from the Nehra aska affair is obVlouS. The merit system must be extended.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-19
ANTI-Roo oosTvELE.,
Ohio Man Has Many Adhersnts in
 New York.

NOw 4V40s
 New York Special to N. O. Picayune.
 The Herald says there is a pronounced drift in this city toward Senator Marcus A. Hanna as the Republican Presidential Ga ndidate.
 This is proved by a canvass made oy and professional men.
 Of 1.309 members of that party ques- toned. 729 favor the nomination of MT. Roosevelt. and 4so declare for Senator hanna. 2. The attitude of the legal profession IS especially significant. for of the 294 law. yers canyassed. 122 favor Mir. Hanna and 172 Mir. Roosevelt. In such a canvass as The Herald has conducted. necessarily Democrats were encountered and the prevailing sentiment among those who opposed Bryan in 1896 and 1900 is that a more conservative man than Mir. Roosevelt should be placed in nomination in order to attract Democratic votes.
 In the clubs, where men prominent in business and professional life meet, the sentiment which six months ago favored MT. Roosevelt is now for MT. Hanna or some equally conservative man." j.,
 One business man said yesterday that in the club which he frequents the tendency, until few months ago was to faNRr Mir. Roosevelt. Now. he declared, neaT1y every member regards MT. RooseveltSs selection as inadvisable, and, politically speaking a blunder.
 Among the district leaders of the Re- publican county organization in Manhat- tan there is preponderance of antl- Roosevelt feeling. Of the thirty-six lead CTS. twenty-eight have expressed them- selves as preferring another candidate than the President although most of these expect that he will be the choice of the convention. There is a pronounced clarcd that the President would have to depend upon the ''machine-made vote"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-19
WAR ON TRUSTS.
Democrats Agree That This Will Ri Main Plank in Platform.

Democrats Agree That This Will Re
 Main Plank in Platform.
 New York Times.
 Antagonism to the trusts and declara- tions in favor of tariff reform will con stitute the principal features of the Dem ocratic platform to be presented to the St. Louis Convention for adoption, &C., cording to the generally and openly ex- pressed views of several members of the National Committee who are in the city.
 The committeeman, who include Nor. man F. Mack of Buffalo, who represents this State; ex-Mayor Thomas Taggert of Indianapolis. who is the committeems n from Indiana; Daniel J. Campau of Mich igan, trey Woodson of Kentucky, and John G. Johnson Of Kansas, are agreed that there will be no mention in the plat form of the old silver fight, nor of impe- rialism except in a general way, and SC far as 1t may refer to the Isthmian canal affair. They also are practically a unit In declaring that the old platforms of lS96 and 1900 will not be referred to in any way. although in the 1900 convention 4 was deemed expedient to conciiiate the old and radical Bryan element to give a blanket indorsement of the Chicago plat form of 1SS6 without going into any oI the details.
 At this time, however the committee. men report that Democratic leaders from all sections can SC no more reason foI indorsing an old platform than in goins back twenty or even forty years ad Tn. dorsing some platform of that time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-19
To7F1GHr EVIL IN socrErx.5
Daughters of the Faith Composed Of
 Catholic Women.

Catholic Women.
 New York Special.
 Filiae Fidei Daughters of the Faith) is the name of the new society which has been organized to "discountenance usageS and customs that are the evident causes of the spread of moral evil in society" Women of the best families and most distinguished Catholics in New York city are among the charter members
 The president is Mrs Thomas Wren Ward Miss Eliza Lummis, Miss Jose phine Drexel and others arc on the roll The members of the society arc pledged not to accept or extend invitatinos to a divorced person who has married during the life of the person from whom he or she has been divorced; not to be present at any entertainment at which any form of gambling for money is carried on; not to drink in public any alcoholic beverages and to abstain from all such drinking un- less of wine in moderation at private din ners.
 At a recent meeting of the society Rev William O'Brien Pardow. s. J., review fal," and as result the members present of that opera.
 Cardinal GibbonuS in a letter to tho officers of the society wrote:
 Convinced as I am, both by my own observation and the test Of those quail fled to judge, that the morals, good and evil, in high society filter down to the lower social strata. I am greatly pleased to know that the Fjliae Fidei have been organized and are recruited from New York'S highest social circles. give 1t my special approval and benediction."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-19
TUESDAY, JANUARY 1e, 1904.
PICKING COTTON BY MACHIN-
 ERy

Many are the expressions of surprise that no really successful cotton-picking machine has been invented. For years the inventive genius of Americans has been taxed in the effort to invent and per feet a machine that will do the work of cotton picking, and many have been the alleged successes, but that was all. That no practical machine has been in- vented is shown by the fact that none IS in actual use. That is patent proof that all that have been invented and tried are failures in some essential particular.
 And vet it is hard to imagine machinery more badly needed. Suppose the immense fields of wheat in the great West had to be reaped with the reaping-hook of cen- tury ago. as men now living have seen many a field reaped-would 1t be possible to get together hands enough to save the crops within the limited time allowed? The invention of the reapers, binders and fhreshers enables the great fields to be reaped and the wheat garnered almost be- tween showers. as one might express 1t. And yet, reaping the wheat a handful at a time would be on d par with the present method of gathering our immense cotton crops.
 Did the reader ever think what 1t means to pick out one of our ten million-bales crops of cotton? Did you ever stop to think that at least fifteen billion pounds Of raw cotton must be picked from the bOlls by hand? That is an almost incalculable amount, yet that is what tho crop means, and what the manual labor is that gets it out, a lock at a time The limits of our cotton crop are to d great extent fixed by the ability to get it out and ready for market-not only to get it ready in time, but to get as much of it out as possible during good weather. before the cold and wet of winter injures the staple and in- terferes with the work of picking it out.
 But we arc persuaded that a successful machine would not provo an unmiXed blessing for this section. or for the farm CTS generally. As we have said, the size of the cotton crop is limited by the sbil- dty to gather it, and especially Is this true of many portions of the West. There are many sections of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi where 1t is found imposs:- 4,le to gather all the crop in time to begr preparing the ground for the next year crop If all tho cotton that could bt grown on those rich fields could be speed fly gathered the crop would be so i'm mensely increased that Its value would b very materially decreased and thos farmers in Alabama and elsewhere wh, must cultivate two or three acres of lant to get one bale of cotton would be tn losers. We think 1t perfectly fair to estl mate that the cotton crop of the Unite, States would be doubled in a few years the staple could be as rapidly gathere by machinery as the whea9 crop now i' Thus a successful cotton-picking machin might not prove an unmixed blessing Then, again. low prices for cotton in Ala bama might mean more food crops, an that would be an entry on the credit sid of the ledger. But the machine hasn' been invented yet
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-19
Gossip oI men
 and matterS
Education in Escambia.

Hon. l. W. Hill, State Superintendent of Education, has returned from a trip to Escambia County in the interest Of educational matters.
 In the opinion of Superintendent Hill. Escambia is one of the most advanced counties of the State taioHg3 educational lines. The school popnlatie Is nearly entirely white and the people of the coun- ty are thoroughly aroused to the i'm portance of educational advancement. The county levies a tax of 50 cents on the hundred dollars for county purposes. Out of this, 20 cents on the hundred is de- voted to school purposes. Escambia was the first county to carry into effect the new system of arranging school districts on a basis of population and natural bar riers instead of on the old arbitrary township lines. It Is also. the first coun' ty to esta blish a county high school, free to all scholars of Escambia County.
 This county high school is located at AtmOre.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-19
4 xrNe TO DE pyTTxp.

KinR Peter of &ervi& fs c e1I1utuG ex- suspIe ef the truth Of Solomcm's words, that "the way of tfaiisevessors fs hasd,' '' for his life seoms to De almost whol ' lsclsinx in all the elements Of pleasure and happiness. While 1t may not be said that he was tiIs assassin Of Queen DrAgx and her husband. he was an accessory be- fore the fact, and immediate hsnehcsary afterward. The assassination of the King and Queen w&s i'm, his interest and for his benefit Yet his 1ffe sines his secession has beon ( thoroughly miserable one. His tools who committed murder that he might reign have felt and showed their contempt for him from the beginning, and he dared not resent their tressment. His Government is little more than q name and not c creditabie name at that.
 A writer In one of the English papers says Peter ''fsels more and more con. vinced every day that he made mistake when he gave up the life of . private gentleman for that of monarch of such a State as Ssrvis,'' and we can well believe it. To say nothing of his manner of coming to the throne, there is nothing in his present position to Eratify an ambi- tious man or to satisfy q rational one. That 'dinivfty that doth hedge about . King" is myth to him. for he has little of it. He enjoys few of the dignities and privileges of a ruler. and doubtless the meanest sculiion in his household is far happier and more contented than is this royal parsonage.
 And. added to all his other causes of suffering and dissatisfaction, lies the fact that his life is in such constant jeopardy that the insurance companies, we are told. ask an absolutely prohibitive pre- nium for a policy on it." He is contin- uaIly receiving threatening missives, and predictions as to what his fate is to be, and one writer says of him that he deems 1t wisest to have fre-escape per. nanently attached to his bedroom win dow" That is lamentable state for & King to be in. and if he could get safely out of the country he would doubtless throw up the whole business. Probably there has rarely been a more noted ex '. ample of the truth that uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-19
The Indian and the Deer.

c. M. NickerEon in New York Times.
 You do not like the attitude of the South toward the Panama business. but there Is a good New England and Puritan precedent for 1t.
 Shortly after the famous landing or Plymouth Rock, as one may learn from Governor Bradfords memiors. friendly Indian brought in a deer for the Thanks. giving dinner of the fathers of the colony While the dinner was preparing it occur red to some one to ask the Indian, wher he killed the deer. He acknowledged that the deer was shot the Sabbath previous Whereupon the Pilgrim Fathers ot ganized themselves into court and condemned the Indian to be fogged. After the sen, tence had been carried out. they all sal down to dinner. the Venison provided by the unlucky Indians prowess being the principal dish One or two raised a fee. ble remonstrance, which WAS quickly overborne.
 Had not the logging of the Indian atoned for his sin in breaking the Sab bath? And why waste good venison any