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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-12-09
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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
ENDING FEUD FIGHTS.
Advancing Civilization Causes Decline in
Mountainous Strifes.

''The ancient feud of the Hatfields and
McCoys has about died out and the mem
bers of the opposing factions are behav-
ing in very orderly way these days"
said Frank Tyree, United States marshal
for the southern district Of West Virgin
ia "Only the other day | had chat
with Devil Anse Hatfield, who lives in
my district, and who is ordinarily quiet
enough citizen. Some marriages that
have taken place between young mem
bers of the feudist families went good
way toward placaating their mutual na "a
tired, but | should say that the chief
cause of the decline of the troubles was
the pressure of an advancing civilization.
The encroachments of railroads and the
increase of schoolhouses mean the death
of the feud idea, and in few years it's
practice will have entirely ceased
Il can remember as boy IN my Ken
lucky home the greatest of all feuds this
country ever knew, that between the
Tollivers and Martins in Rowan county.
That was brought to an end through the
grim determination of the governor OF
the state, John Young Brown. He gave
guns to party of men and sent them to
Moorehead, the county seat, with in
structions that could not be misunder-
stood. The Tollivers had been running
things for months in the county to suit
themselves, and if anybody was bold
enough to disapprove their acts he was
promptly slain.
'"The elimination of their outrages was
the atrocious murder of two young boys,
and it was that which led Gov. Brown
to take this apparently extreme course.
"Well, the posse found the Tollivers
and went to work ON them with Win
chester rifles. The leader of the assail-
ants was young man close OF kin to
the murdered boys. He told his men to
make a thorough job of the killing and
they did. When they finally stopped
shooting twenty-one of the Tolliyer gang
lay on the ground cold in death, their
bodies riddled with bullets. This whole
was the only remedy of an intolerable
situation. 1t put an end to the regime
of lawlessness in Rowan county, and
that particular feud was never resur-
rected aShingtOn Herald.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
CHILD SUICIDES III GERMANY.
Number So Great That Causes Are Being
Studied-Cities Not to Blame.

Suicide among school children has be-
come so frequent in Germany that the
authorities are devoting serious attention
to the causes of it. In Prussia alone
there were 1852 cases between 1882 and
1905, or something like three a month.
The yearly number has been even great
er in the last two years, it is said. A
general discussion of the subject took
place lately in Berlin at a meeting of
the Society of School Sanitation.
Of the number given above, S12 cases
were of children attending the lower
grade of schools and 342 the higher, but
in spite of this the tendency to suicide
appears to increase with age, as the
number of children over Is years who
kill themselves was about four times as
great as the number below that age.
The boys also were four times as num-
erous as the girls.
In a great majority of cases the sui
cidal act was committed at home or
near home and not at school or after
leaving school. The causes, too, even
when school matters were connected
with them, usually had their strongest
elements in the home.
In more than a third of the cases fear
of punishment, dread OF examinations or
shame at failure to pass examinations
was the prime cause. But in many OF
these cases, perhaps majority Oh IHeA,
it was the attitude Of the parents, actual
or expected, that led directly to the
deed.
The lack of correspondence between
the actual powers of many children and
the results exacted from them by rigid
school system often form the basis Of
trouble. But the thing that renders it
acute is the assumption of ineffective
parents that the child must be able to
do what the school exacts OF it-What
other children do.
"He can if he WILL" was described by
one of the speakers as a suicide provok-
ing dictum, as common as it is foolish,
since it ignores the fact that human be-
ings are so often deficient in the power
to win.
Ten per cent. of the children's sui
cides were caused by insanity or nervous
excitation in pathological degree. Some
of these cases were traceable to heredl-
tary conditions, including alcoholism IN
the parents.
The remaining cases were almost
without exception due to domestic causes,
ranging from poverty to shame at the
misconduct of relations, especially par
ents. The influence of morbid books
was distinctly traceable.
No grounds could be found for the
theory that the conditions of modern city
life led to suicide among children. The
proportion of cases was fully rs large
in places Of the smallest size as in
crowded centers of population.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
HANDWRITING OF AUTHORS.
Dickens Blue Ink and Paper-Byron's
Copy and Erasures.

An interesting study is the handwrit-
ing of authors, as it indicates to a greater
or less degree their personal tempera-
ments.
Longfellow wrote a bold, open back
hand, which was the delight of printers,
says the Scientific American. Joaquin
Miller writes such a bad hand that he
often becomes puzzled over his own
work and the printer sings the praises
of the inventor of the typewriter.
Charlotte Bronte's writing seemed to
have been traced with a cambria needle,
and Thackeray's writing, while marvel
Ously neat and precise, was so small that
the best of eyes were needed to read IT.
Likewise the writing of Capt. Marryat
was so microscopic that when he was
interrupted in his labors he was obliged
to mark the place where he left off by
sticking a pin in the paper.
NapOleon's was worse than llleg1bIe,
and it is said that his letters from Ger
many to the Empress Josephine were at
first thought to be rough maps OF the
seat of war.
Carlyle wrote a patient, Grabbed and
oddly emphasized hand. The penman-
ship of Bryant vas aggressive, well
formed and decidedly pleasing. to the
eye; while the chirography of Scott,
Hunt, Moore and Gray was smooth and
easy to read, but did not express dis
tinct individuality.
Byron's handwriting was nothing more
than a scrawl. His additions to his
proofs frequently exceeded in volume the
original copy, and in one of his poems,
which contained in the original only 400
lines, 1000 were added in the proofs.
The writing of Dickens was minute,
and he had habit Of writing with blue
ink on blue paper. Frequent erasures
and interIineations made his copy a bur-
den to his publishers.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
WOMEN IN SUPREME COURT.
Twenty-eight Have Been Admitted-Mrs.
Bclva Lockwood the Pioneer.

Miss Ida NJ, Meyers of this city, who
was admitted to practice before the Su-
preme court yesterday, is the twenty
eighth member of the tender sex TO at
tain that distinction.
The first woman to become mempef
of that bar was Belva A. Lockwood,
who was first denied the privilege on the
ground there was no authority Tor W0m-
en- to practice before the court. she
then secured the passage of special
law admitting women to the bar on an
equal footing with men, and as soon as
the bill was signed she appeared ana
took the customary oath on March 8,
1879.
It was not until six years later that
Mrs, Lockwood lost her monopoly or
rights, and since then applicants nave
appeared every years or so. Ihey are
scattered all the way from Massachu-
sets to California, each OF which Is the
residence of two women who. are mem
bers of the high bar. This city has the
greatest number-six, Illinois and WIS
consin have four each, Nebraska three,
Pennsylvania two and Arizona, Connectl-
cut, Missouri New Jersey and Montana
one each.
All four of the Wisconsin members
belong to one family-Mrs. Kate Fer
and her three daughters, who are actlve
practitioners in Milwaukee. The eldest
daughter, Miss Kate Fl. Pier, the first
of the family to be admitted, had as her
sponsor the then Senator William f.
Villas of Wisconsin. Later her next sis,
ter was admitted on her motion, and
afterward she introduced her mother
and youngest sister on the same day.
Comparatively few of the women ad-
mitted avail themselves of the PRIV
leges, the conspicuous exceptions beng
Mrs. Lockwood, who has appeared fire.
Quently and last term argued an Indian
case, and Mrs. Sarah Herring Soim of
Tucson City, ArN,, who was admitted
about year ago and is the attorney OF
record in a case on call next week.
Miss Meyers, the latest addition to the
ranks, is a good looking young woman,
apparently g or "a years of age, and
is the senior member of law firm here
which makes a speciality of practice be-
fore the court of Observation-Disclosures
Herald.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
NAMES MINING BOOM.
Hancock County Went Copper Crazy i
,71--Two Stock EXCHANGES.

( '77-Two Stock Exchanges.
The recent purchase OF two long aban-
doned copper mines III the town Of
Brooksyille by a Portland firm, which
intends pumping the shafts free of water
with the view of resumng operations on
the properties, calls up memories OF
Names bonanza days, thirty years ago,
when all Hancock county was thought
to be one great lump of copper ore,
streaked with gold, and every owner of
a rocky pasture lot hoped to become a
millionaire. The mining craze Of IT
sent mining spectators down to Maine
III droves
Bluehill. Sullivan, and indeed it was
but very short time the whole country
was dug full of holes and dotted with
shaft houses
In this city at the time of the excite
ment many absurd things were done and
said, and to the more sensible class OF
people the great furOre furnished a deal
of amusement. Farmers whose hay was
ready to be harvested and whose pota-
toes were left unhoed filled the air full
of smoke with the blasting of lodges on
their land and then FASTENED to this
city with a carpetbag full of any stone
which looked peculiar to them in order
to have it assayed.
In Bangor there were signs on near
ly every corner setting forth the names
of the great companies which were or
ganized to make man rich IN a day.
One read like this: Rising Sun Silver
and Gold Mining company, capital $l,--
000.00O." Another read: "Andes Gold
Mining and Milling company, capital
100000" while there were asSayerS OF
fees a~plenty and two mining exchanges.
There was a stock auction every after
noon, and to go on the floor of the big
room made the enthusiastic investors
think that they were in Wall street for
q few minutes Scores of people attend
ed these auctions and bought more on
less of the stock, which was printed IN
gorgeous style.
The prices varied for these pieces of
paper that made people wealthy. You
could buy shares for eight cents each
up to $3.50, and many purchased the
cheap stocks simply because it didn't
cost a great deal and they felt that some
morning they might wake and find that
their fortunes had been made.
But the collapse came early. There
were unexpected engineering problems,
whose solution was expensive, so that
stock assessments became numerous.
Many of the stockholders either could
not or would not stand the assessments,
and then followed delinquency sales and
no end Of a row. The head stock ma
nipulators quietly slipped out from I'M
der the crash, which fell on the innocent
investors One day there was run on
the bank" so to speak, the whole thing
was wound up, and today the buildings
which were used as mining exchanges
are occupied as a saloon and barber
shop respectively. New York Sun.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
Royalty's Bills.

The biggest account in King Edwards
household expenses, says p. Z. o., is for
salaries and sundry items. This amounts
to 100000 each quarter. The pay war
rants are indorsed by the treasury, and
then Sir Nigel Kingscote, who has been
paymaster to the household of the King
since 1901, sends out quarterly checks
to officials and others who are paid In
this fashion, and banks the remainder
TO pay the weekly wages bill and the
tradesmen's accounts. Parliament also
provides a quarterly sum of 10000 for
repairs to Buckingham palace and Wind
sor castle.
With regard to his majesty's personal
account the wherewithal is derived from
three chief sources The King has the
larger share of the annual sum of t110,-
600 voted for their majesties' privy
nurse. he receives about t63, 900 from the
Duchy of Lancaster, and there are, mis-
cellaneous revenues from invested funds
and other private sources. All these
mass through the hands of Sir Dlghton
Probyn. and it says much for the bust
ness capacity of this mutiny veteran that
no fraud upon the Kings banking ac-
count has ever been successfully engl-
neered.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
THE SISAL PLANT.
A Weed Four Years Ago; Now Worth
100000 Year to Nassau.

The cultivation of the sisal plant in the
Bahamas has increased so much in the
four years since it was introduced by
Gov. Shea that it is pushing the sponge
industry very hard.
A writer in the Rosary Magazine pre-
diets that the full development of the
fiber plant will make a wonderful posi-
ton for the little island in the CONNER
cial world.
The sisal plant has always grown wild
on the islands, and has been looked upon
as one of the greatest pests, as it was
almost impossible for the native farm
ers to eradicate it from the soil, its hardy
bayonets appearing in the midst of every
crop and refusing to be destroyed.
Gov Ambrose Shea discovered that
the fiber Of the leaves when stripped OF
the outer covering of green was the firm
est and whitest Of rope fbers, and sollc-
iting the aid of English capitalists, he
at once set to work to make the slsal
an important item for commerce, and
now the income is nearly $1,OOO,OOO a
wear to the island of Nassau.
An acre of land will produce annually
half a ton of fiber, and the plants last
from twelve to fifteen years. Only the
poorest and scantiest soil is necessary,
and no climatic effects influence the
growth of the plant in the least.
All the available land in the island has
been bought up by capitalists since the
sisal boom, and the government has al
ready received fund of $250,O00 from
bounties and grants, which will be used
in public works on the island. The slsaI
industry has spread to neighboring ISL
ands, and plenty of employment is given
the natives at from SO cents to 81 day.
They have also been allowed to buy
government land in ten acre lots at $40
each, paying for it out of the first years
crop. In this way many of them have
become independent, a ready market al
WAYS existing for their products.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
Coloring Flowers.

Fashion in flowers has taken a freak
turn in Germany Of late, says the New
York Sun, and there is great demand in
certain circles for blooms of hues not
found in nature. The flowers are cut
with extra long stalks a few hours be-
fore they reach full maturity. Then the
stalks are put in water in which anime
dyes have been dissolved. White carna-
tions, lilies and pansies are the easiest
to dye and give the most natural results.
As the stalk sucks UP the. water the
aniline pigment is carried through al
the fine vessels of the blossom and de-
posted in its~cells, so that after a few
hours it's color is completely established.
Sometimes strange and even beautiful 4St cae er-
ing process before it is complete. The
white petals will then be be d be;na Ely
colors most successfully used;
Since the discovery that the flowers
are simply dyed there is a great cutlery
among foriculturists, who pronounce the
process an outrageous fraud on nature,
both inartistic and vulgar; This does not
prevent the demand for the dyed flowers
from spreading.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08

mosphere as to combat by proper res
piration and abundant perspiration, the
germs of disease which would ordinary
kill humanity. Most Of the metal min
ers. who are among the best workers III
the United States, have come from Eng7
land, Ireland, Scandinavia and few
other countries which are important NM
ing centers. The health Of these men
on the whole is good, and as they are
accustomed to live on a simple diet III q
rugged country where pleasures and
temptations are few, the morality from
natural causes is comparatively small.
In coal mining, however, the deaths
attributed to diseases of the respiratory
organs, particularly bronchitis, are quite
numerous. This seems only natural, Tor
the coal miners include many Hunga-
rians Slavs, Poles and other foreigners
who are susceptible to consumption. No
doubt the inhalation of vast quantities
of coal dust and the uncleanliness In
herent in so many miners are the two
factors most responsible for the propaga-
ton Of the germ of ronchitis.-Mlnlng
WnrIH
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
AUTOMATIC RIFLE.
European Armies Experimenting With a
Self-Loading Rapid Fire Weapon.

Self-Loading Rapid Fire Weapon.
The self-loading or automatic musket
is now being seriously considered as the
infantry arm of the future. The equip
ment of the great armies of the world
with an improved rifle is hardly COM
pleted when the mechanics begin work
on new weapon: At the recent exam
nations of the German war academy
the automatic rifle was one of the
themes for discussion. The piece now
on trial has a magazine holding ten car
tridges; tho recoil is utilized to load and
cock. Consequently the soldier can re-
main quietly in position, never removing
his eye from the target, and fire his ten
shots.
The advantages are that the soldier
with the automatic gun can aim more
quietly and securely, as there is no re-
coil to the arm. He need not move his
arm or body, and his position is better
screened from the view of the enemy. At
the long ranges now used in battle the
movements of the muskets or of the
soldiers body often convey to the enemy
the only clue to range and direction.
Finally, the automatic gun insures a
rapid fire similar to that of machine
guns with an aim more accurate than
that of the present gun.
The only disadvantage is the danger
that the ammunition may be fired away
too soon, but this can be prevented by
proper training in so-called fire disci-
pline or fire control.
Even with the present arm the soldier
can fire away all his ammunition in a
few minutes. The first battle, however,
usually teaches him the great disad-
vantage of being without ammunition in
an action.
An army with a superior weapon (or
one regarded as SUPERIOR has a great ad-
vantage in confidence and will feel itself
stronger. For all these reasons the in
PRODUCTION of a self-loading musket is
only a question of time.
France is reported to have perfected
an automatic gun, and Germany has
been at work on one for years. In Italy
an automatic musket holding twenty-five
charges in the magazine has been pro-
posed. A regiment in defending a posi-
ton with the present gun of six car
tridges in the magazine can fire in two
minutes about $4,000 shots, whereas one
armed with the self-loading piece of
twenty-five cartridges in the magazine
could fire in the same time 1,125,O0o
shots,
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08

more foresight in this reluctance to pay
taan might have appeared at the time
to the western mind. Not long ago
foreigner was passing through city on
his bicycle when lad threw at his head
a brick, which was well aimed and hit
the mark. With the help of another for
elgner the eulprit was caught, but when
the police were called to deliver the boy
over to the magistrate the reply was that
they were at breakfast and could not
come. Even if the constables were the
most active Of men they would have
some difficulty in performing all the funcc-
tons which properly belong to the guard
ians of law and order, for the compost
ton of the force is quite Chinese. In
one county there are thirty policemen
six in the principal city and the. rest dis
tributed among the hundreds of villages
under the control of the city magistrate.
The adjoining county has no better rec
ord. Chun-fe, a town of 1900 inhabi-
tants, has three policemen, who lounge
at the teashops all day, and are too tired
to attend to their business at night
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
CHINESE SEVEN AGES.
Unknown Philosopher Pictures tn
Course of the Life of Man.

A French officer, Louis de Chantilly
tells in Paris Gil Bias of his discover;
in a Buddhist convent in the mountain
of Tonkin, of a dusty manuscript col
tanning the Chinese version Of the sever
ages of man.
"At 10 years DID, says the write
whose name has long been forgotten
''the boy has heart and brain as sol
as the tender shoots Of a young bamboo
At 20 he is like a green banana; he ~
just beginning to ripen in warm rays
common sense.
'Thirty years sees him developed int
a buffalo, He is strong and lusty, tull o
bodily and mental vigor. This is tbs
true age of love; the age for him
marry at.
'At 40 years, the prosperous man ha
grown to be a mandarin and wears
coral button. But it would be truly 10
discreet to confide to him at this earl.
age any functions calling for judicial In
teligence or calm.
"When he reaches so years, however
although he has grown stout and teshy'
he is fit to hold any municipal or STATE
office: he can administer a city or prov
ince or perform any official duty. =.
"But at 60 years he is old. Handl-
crafts and all active bodily activities are
beyond him. He gives his dependents
and clients advice. That is all he Is III
for.
''At 70 he is just as dry rice straw.
He has only one care to husband the
breath Of life that is left to him, TO
preserve it, even by artificial means. HlF
sons must assume the care of his estate
and the performance of his duties"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
To Revive Dueling in Oklahoma.

The Oklahoma constitution does not
forbid dueling. At a time so Tar re-
moved from the days of the code, the
omission of any reference to duellng
what surprising, however, to know that
one of the most conspicuous leaders in
the Democratic majority was prepared to
oppose on the floor of the convention any
ban on dueling had it been proposed.
This delegate, born~in southern state
where dueling was once the mode OF SET
ting disputes between gentlemen, is still
in favor of this abandoned practice.
He said: '.Men would not dare malign
each other in the press and in the streets
as they do now if they knew that they
would be compelled to stand up and be
shot at unsustained by the false Is cour c1d
give the physically weaker man an equal
Opportunity with his stronger adver-
sary''-Kansas City Star.