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NOTES AND COMMENTS-By J. C. Eiden D. D.

1t are as far as possible from the wild radlcalism of Plato's Republic" Though Aristotle was a pupil of Plato, 1t would have been no vain boast If he had said: q have more understanding than all my teachers"
 We are told by high authority that the great Homer himself could nod; and the following paragraph conclusively shows that Thackeray was not always wide-awake on his English;
 Of all the great British novelists since Fielding. Thackeray has. and perhaps desirves, the highest reputation for his English; and here we have two consecu- tive sentences from one of Thackeray's letters: 'gThis kind of happiness is like fine picture You only see a little bit of 1t when you are close to the canvas; go little distance and then you see how beau- tiful it is. I don't know that 1 shall have done much by coming away, except by being so awfully glad to get back again." In the first of these sentences he has misplaced his "only'', as nearly everybody
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1e1o. For several years, therefore, Shake speare had access to Florio's Montaigne. Indeed, there Is still preserved Shake speare's copy of Montaigne. well thumbed, and with his signature upon the fly-leaf. The deadly parallel column discloses that complete saturation:
 Montaigne, in his 93d essay, book first, says, Tt is nation that hath no kinds of traffic, no knowledge of letters. no in telligence of numbers, no name of mag istrate nor of political superiority; no use of service. of riches, or of poverty; no contracts, no successions, no dividences, no occupation, but idle; no respect of kin dred, but common; no apparel, but nat ural; no maturing of lands. no use of corn, wine or metal" Now, if the reader will turn to the first scene, act second, of ''The Tempest" he will find that Shake speare wrote, putting the language upon the lips of Gonzalo, thus: Tn the com
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monwealth I would by contraries exc cute all things, for no kind of traffic would I admit; no name of magistrateI letters should not be known; riches, spov- erty and use of service. none; contract, succession, bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; no use of metal, corn or wine, or oil; no occupation, all men idle, all; all things in common; nature should produce with sweat or endeavor."
 In the comedy. Measure for Measure,' which, by the way. Shakespeare cribbed from Whetstone's play, "Promose and Cassandra," after Whetstone had stolen 1t from Cinthio, we read, "The hand that made you fair hath made you good" But the suggestion seems to have came from Spenser, who had said, For all that fair Is, Is by nature good"
 Numerous are the lines that Shake- speare appropriated from Chaucer, Hey
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The Autom mobile,
Fro mthe Boston Globe.


 No one man can be said to have in- vented the automobile. The machine, as it is today, Is the product of many minds in many countries. Horseless vehicles date back almost to the time when steam became a motive power, and as long ago as 1902 Richard Trevithicls. an English man, constructed a machine which made a trip 90 miles over country roads.
 In 1883 mare-Deboutteville and Ma landin of Paris invented tricycle. pro- pelled by compressed air, and year later used petroleum for generating power
 Panhard and Levassar were the first to invent really practical petroleum motor. This was in 1890, since which time the development of the various types of road motors has been rapid. =
 Electricity as a motive power for road machines was first used in the early eighties. but 1t was not until about 1893 that it began to be looked upon as q rival of petroleum. Of late years gasoline and steam motors have been sxtenstvely used.
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wood, Marlowe and many others, without so much as altering them.
 MILTON.
 But even Milton did not disdain the Nt- erary property of other men. Freely he borrowed from the ancient classics with out so much as saying, JAS the ancient So and So said"
 In Paradise Lost we find the lines Though his tongue dropped mama, and could make the worst appear the better reason" And yet, Diogenes Laertius long, long before, had written, "Aristo- planes turns Socrates into ridicule, as making the worse appear the better reason"
 Virgil, in his "Eclogues." had written, Compare great things with small Mil ton took the identical language and used 1t as his own. The only change he made was to use the sign of the infinitive. There are distinct traces of Tacitus, Mar
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OBODY has made any great at A tainments in human knowledge

oBODY has made any great at
 M tainments in human knowledge without taking some adequate measure of the depths of human ignor- ance. Let us illustrate:
 In whatever direction your investiga- tions may go, if they only go far enough, the end of those Investigations will be not knowledge, but ignorance. If you are a mathematician you have learned that all your geometry rests upon axioms for which Sir Isaac Newton himself could give no reasons. If you are a philosopher, you have discovered that all your science rests upon "the primary and necessary in tuitions,' whose truth Is assumed, but which nobody can prove. Axioms and in- tuitive truths are as pure assumptions as anything can be- but they are assump. tions, which everybody who reasons IS absolutely forced to make. If you doubt this read Prof. Noah K. Davis treatise on "lnductive Logc," and if you will fol- low the agreement you will surely be
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
LATEST FINANCIAL NEWS

easily. Floor traders were active In
Isle Royale and Atlanta, and both
were strong and showed good ad-
vances.
., & GRAIN NEWS.
CHICAGO, Dec. 20.--Wheat-It
was.a checkered day in the wheat
trade. with conflicting news and
dectd6d nervousness both early
and late. When the Liverpool ca
Bile came weak and lower it was
takentaken as the denial of the SEN
satipnal advance reported In Ar
gentina market Saturday.
December price had a break to
Sells IL under some local selling
pressure and poor support. The
May price at $114 Saturday weak
eI1ed to SLIP 5-8, rallied to $1.13 3-8
during the morning, went back
close to the low figure second
time. had strong tfpturn close to
$1.13 rs at high point last hour,
and reacted to $1.13 Is on closing
trades.
December closed rather heavy at
about low point of the day. North
WCoN lSCCiptS dIc IdI UtlOW ldSt
year. Minneapolis decreased
stocks 10000, where there was an
increase of 10000 a year ago.
Russian shipments were 100000
bushels smaller than the week be-
fore. The worlds shipments are
decreasing; the visible supply was
$4,000, 900 below last year. There is
some fear that the strike situation
In the northwest will be worse
again by tomorrow If it is not set
tied up entirely.
Cprn-What ever hopes the
bears had of forcing break in
corn disappeared thirty minutes
after the market opened, when the
May, price was forced to 65 lac by
heaSy sales on the part of a group
of LEGAL leaders.
Oatc-Certain practical obserX-
ers who have been out over much
of the corn and oat territory for 30
days report that the country con-
siders the Washington figures ON
both crops too high.
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HALL RA|DEO As A
'D|sORDERLY HOUSE,
Strange Appearing "Truce"--Action
by Both Sales.--future Arrests
Are Made.

In spite Of the alleged temporary
truce decided upon by a committee
from the Industrial Workers Of the
World, the |. W. headquarters were
raided and closed by squad Of Of
ficers lead by Captain Burns, just
before noon today. The building
was closed as a "disorderly place."
according to information secured
from Captain Burns.
In addition to this, four members
of the i. w. w. were confined In
jail, to await trial in the police
court, for selling the Industrial
Worker. the official organ of the
local union of the l. w. W., which
was muzzled in Spokane nearly
two weeks ago. The paper
was published la Seattle,
since the police quashed it's pub
location at the Inland Printing
company's plant and confiscated
every copy printed, a week ago Fri
day.
Hold Meeting Outside Limits.
Immediately after the closing of
teh hall. fronting ON the river.
about half way between Stevens
and Washington streets, about 60
of the members held session just
outside the fire limits and imme-
diately across the street from the
rock pile. where more than a score
of the convicted members are
working out fines. There a sort
OF indignation meeting was held.
with the result that about 10 or IL
decided to go back to town, re-
CARELESS of the decision reached
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DID COOK FAKE.
THAT FLAG
/, PICTURE?
Astronomer Claims He Did
Still More Trouble
for Explorer.
(By United Press)

PITTSBURG, Pa, Dec. 20.-That
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, Brooklyn ex-
plorer, faxed the picture of the
flag he claimed to have planted at
the north pole was the charge
made today by DR.. John A. Brash-
err, astronomer connected with the
University of Pittsburg.
Had the flag been planted at the
pole, Brasher declared, it would
have cast a long shadow, as the
sun at that time was at an eleva-
ton of eight degrees. Cooks pic
ture, he charged, showed no shad-
ow. The explorer explained this
by stating that the picture taken
was a small one and that many de-
tails had been lost when it was
enlarged for use in the picture
slide.
Speaking of the claims of the
Brooklyn explorer, DR.. Brasher
said: when Cook lectured in this
city he was asked what sextant he
used in making his observations.
He replied, L cannot remember.
This was a peculiar form of forget
fulness.'
Dr. Prasher does not believe eitli-
err Cook or Peary will be able to-
prove they reached the 2"le.
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Furnished by w. J. Nichols 4 Co..
STOCK MARKET. "a,

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-The New
York fractions and Cons. Gas were
about the only exceptions in dull
and featureless market. During the
greater part of the session traders
attempted to create an outside de-
mand by trading in desultory
manner in various specialties, but
being unable to attract much new
interest Reading was attacked in
the last hour, which caused mod
crate recessions throughout the list.
Sentiment appeared rather cheer
full, but the general tendency SEEM
ed to be regrain from making
extensive commitments.
The action Of various high priced
issues is still indicative of liquida-
ton on advances, but the selling Is
not aggressive.
Third avenue hearing today. SUI
preme court meets today and ad-
journs for fortnight. Congress
adjourns tomorrow for Christmas.
Work to be rushed on Pennsylvania
for fifty double electric locomo-
tives for New York terminal placed
with Westinghouse Electric COM
pany, London settlement begins on
Friday and concludes Dec. 20. Mar
ket fairly active and steady for fin
ished steel with raw material easy.
General market quiet and active.
Copper stocks show firmness.
London early market: Practical.
ly unchanged, but firmness shown
in the American department, with
Union Pacific up is. Southern Pa
cific Is, Pennsylvania IL, M. X. &
T. Is. Reading down II. others
unchanged. Steel is in shape to go
higher. Cons. Gas should do bet
ter, according to well informed
houses. l.. & N. shows a strong
upward tendency yet. Southern
Railway should sympathize with its
activity. Amalgamated is being
bulled again by Boston interests.
London is large buyer of Rock
Island.
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PARIS, Dec. 20.-"Paris Is the
initiater of kings!" That's the say
ing and it's a cinch it's true. Every
male ruler in Europe. when he was
a boy. came here for a big time
and had It, And King Manuel OF
Portugal wasn't an exception.
Mile. Chenal, singer of grand
opera, with voice like a nightin'
gale and pretty face and figure,
was the boy kings favorite among
the ladies he met. He was intro
duced to her-or rather, she to him
at the Elysee, the palace of Pres
ident Fallieres. She had just fin
fshed singing and her beauty had
helped the song to go right to his
youthful majesty's head.
Now, King Manuel is just kid
he's 20, six feet and husky. And
they do say he flirted scandalously
with the beautiful girl. The incl
dent has been much talked of in
Paris since the lad left off being
lad and went home to Portugal
to be a king.
Mile. Chenal's friends are laugh
ingly styling her the new queen of
Portugal"
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THREE CHILDREN BURN TO DEATH
(By United Press.)

CHICAGO Dee. 2O--Mary, aged g. Charles, aged 4,
and James, aged =, children of John Paroma, were
Paromia and his wife early this morning and went
to she'd their home to butcher Fifteen hin
utes later the smoke pouring from the kitchen
and rushed to the house.
Stretched feess the floor their little bodies sard
and shrveed, lay their two younger children Mary lay
their side AS her mother entered the she raised
herself and gasped: 81 getting breakfast for
ma" She died in few minutes
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Saturday. and speak.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. woman
agitator of the |. w. W., will speak
this evening in the Turner hall, ON
Third avenue, between Browne and
Division streets.
!. w. w. Committee Statement.
Spokane, Wash. Dec. 20, 1909.
To Whom 1t May Concern:
The article appearing In the
Spokesman-Revfew of Sunday
morning. December 18th, stating
that the I, w. w. had SURRENDERED
In the fight for free speech il
without foundation.
No member of the executive
committee has been to see Burns
or any other detective or official
of the Spokane police force.
No member of the committee or
the |. w. w. told Burns or any one
else that the |. w. w. had called
the fight off.
For the information Of all who
are interested we win state that 50
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FATAL BATTLE
OVER A HOG
(By United Press.)

GRAND CANE, La, Dec. 20-Three dead and
six seriously wounded the result of desperate battle
ebtween parties of white and negroes early today
The trouble started when John Allen white farmer
accused Belle Bower negro, OF stealing his hogs Bower
and his brother-in-aw resented the accusation and
opened fire the white Bower and his kinsman
instantly killed when Allen and party of friends
returned the fire. Allen fatally injured and died an
hour later. Other negroes and whites who drawn
into the fight continued the battle for hour. The six
wounded were negroes.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
e SAM MISTAKEN SPOKANE NOT LEADER IN DIVORCES

statistics would have us believe,
that seven out of every IL mar
riages in this county end In the
divorce court.
Take the government figures:
Statistics show that Washington
has 513 divorced people for each
100000 population. The figures for
the country show that 78 out OF
every 100000 people seek relief
from their matrimonial bonds in
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
FINED FOR KEEPING AN
UNSANITARY MEAT
MARKET

William Kellinger, the Division
street butcher. was fined 500 and
costs by Judge KEENAN, this morn
ing for violating the city health
laws in keeping a dirty and unsan-
itary butcher shop.
Kellinger made a strong fight for
what he considered his rights, TAX
ing the case to the superior court
on appeal following the fine of 500
imposed upon him by Police Judge
Mann ON June %, 1909. A jury in
Judge Huneke's court disagreed,
but 1t took only few minutes to
secure conviction before a jury in
Judge Remnants department.
Kellinger was arrested on com
plant made by #. w. Close. the
sanitary inspector. for violating
city ordinance No. A1l20.
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WOMEN OF WooDcRAET
DANCE

The third of a series of social
dances will be given by Spokane
circle. Women OF Woodcraft, to-
night in the lower Pacific halls.
The first and second dance given
by the organization were well at
tended and successful. and II
Christmas shopping does not pre-
vail against the one tonight. a very
enjoyable time is expected.
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NIGHT BULLETINS

SEATTLE, Dec 2O-Mrs. Daniel Thurman wife Of well
known tailor this
jured today by who
after throwing
handbag, which contained Hardy
L. B. Keane When stop
he fired shots revolver Neither
shot took effect Keane gapped with the obber
him until the vicinity rushed overpowered
him. Hardy taken
NEW YORK, Dec 20.-Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont and
Anna Pierpont
active control of the
announced they
strikers pckets who
case upon the first opportunity If this
first instance
strike pickes beent tested
JefriesJonson fight will be held Salt
Eddie Graney arrived here today
what went after said the Honest Blacksmith but
kick coming what a
big fight but the fellows
all there
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TWO STORESARE
BURGLARLZED

For ridiculously small rewards,
burglars broke into the Gallagher
Machinery Co.'S establishment at
jefferson street and Railroad av-
enue, opened the big safe and COM
pletely ransacked II, at the risk OF
their lives, last night. Officer
Bradley, Of the police department,
came close upon their heels in
making his rounds, but the burglars
were gone, leaving the contents OF
the office safe scattered hither and
thither about the floor.
Members OF the machinery com.
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MEN ROBBED
WHILE ASLEEP

"a tief TAX me 'Elyen' (Elgin)
watch - a-bout-a sax doolar. Ay
tank II purity bad when man lose
all has money so close to winter"
1t was much after this fashion that
Olaf Johnson, of Swedish nativity,
told his troubles to the desk officer
at the police station yesterday
evening. In short. Olaf. roomer
at the Ondawa Inn, Stevens street
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and Front avenue, was one of the
victims of room burglar who
worked there Saturday night. get
ting the watch and $62.
To the amount of cash loot Sc
cured by the culprit, Olaf donated
Sc, Gus Peterson $44.35 and Tony
Bertino $12. These donations were
involuntary, however, for each of
the donors lay asleep while their
pockets were picked.
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are people who come west to avoid
scandal at home, or who decide to
try new country In the hopes OF
healing the matrimonial wounds.
only to find the Washington eli
mate to be no better pacificator
than that of their former homes.
Out of AZ divorce cases filed not
long ago, only three of them show
ed that the couples had been mar
ried in this state.
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BAT NELSON
MAKES TERMS
(By United Press.l

CHICAGO, Dee 20.-Evidently realizing that to en-
gage in twenty round fight with Freddie Welsh, Brit
'sh lightweight Champion would place the title in jeo-
pardy, Battling Nelson declared today that if Welsh
wants to fight it must be for IS rounds and to finish
If Welsh refuses to accept these conditions the Dane
says he. will give AID Wogast the fight Packey McFar-
land is out entirely far Nelson is concerned Sew
eral days ago John Robinson Nelson's manager
nounced he had accepted terms for 20 round fight be-
tween The Battler and Welsh, to take place in London
next FehruarY
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TO ICNOR THE ATTACK
BY HITCHCOCK

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 90
1t is believed here today that re-
publicans in congress will ignore
the attack against Secretary Bal
linger by Representative Hitchcock
of Nebraska late last week on the
floor of the house. The republicans
declare the speech was merely
democratic campaign material and
they win not give the democrats
the satisfaction OF q congressional
investigation Of Hitchc0ck's accuse
tions.
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DEAD
AND DYING
(By United Press.)

LONDON, Dec 20.-Fve persons are dead and so in
the hospitals suffering from INJURIES and many miss
ing as the result of fire that destroyed the gerat Ard
ing Hobbs store in Claphams suburbs at noon today
Three hundred persons in the store when the fire
started of confusion bordering upon panic
sued when of shoppers and clerks rushed for the
lifts and stairs.
Several clerks and patrons leaped from the third and
fourth story windows to the pavement. Others jumped
from the interior of the balcony to the main floor which
already burning fiercely.
Within hour after the fire was discovered the great
dome collapsed, covering adjoining stores with mass
of burnng debris
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ROYAL ARCH MEETING
TOMORROW

Wholesale and retail liquor deal
ers and all others interested
through business connections, will
hold an open meeting of the Royal
Arch in Eagles hall Tuesday. State
Representative James A. Weir OF
Seattle, Charles Manning of Ev-
erett and p. e. Sullivan of Seattle
will be present and will bring in
teresting messages from the west
side.
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VIGOROUS BATTLE POSSIBLE

Wednesday night the charter re-
vision committee will meet again
and at that time will probably com.
plete the preliminary draft of tho
proposed charter. However, in the
final consideration OF the charter
as previously outlined some yigor-
GUS battles are expected on ques-l
tons that have previously been
considered by the committee.
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HOW old
MAN TROUBLE"
VISITED HOME
OF ELlEFSEN
FAMILY.

Somebody, away back In the
dim, dark ages, remarked that
troubles never come singly.
A lot Of Us have found this
out In one way and another,
but here Is the. story. of whole
family who have learned the
full, painful truth of the old
axiom.
Up to a year and five months ago
Fred Eiiefsen OF E1220 Pacific av-
enue was competent carpenter,
working steadily and hard to pur-
chase home for himself, his wife
and his six little children.
Oh, by the way, abandon the
idea right away that this is a hui
man interest story. 1t isn't. 1t is
the plain, simple little
story of what happened.
AS has been remarked, Ellef-
sen was working hard and he
made fairly good wages. AS his
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pany were summoned to the place.
but after making a thorough inves'
tigation concluded that, though the
job was evidently perpetrated by
an expert with a lock pick, moth
ing of any considerable value had
been taken.
3 The officers made similar dis.
'covcry at the Northwest Auto Sup
Fly Co.5s place. n little while later.
There he found the side door open.
He is positive that the door was
securely locked an hour before. II
is believed that nothing was stolen
here either.
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IL known to many as the SEPARATOR
and Iot down a few items ON the
divorce cases.
You will find that in almost every
instance the couple seeking a sew
$ranee from their marital bonds
were married in the east-New
York, Pennsylvania Indiana, llli-
nois, Ohio. etc.
rfey don't represent marriages
n tie state OF Washington. They
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Then is it right to accept the
bald figures as fact and burden
yourselves with the thought that
you are living in the worst divorce
state In the union? Certainly not.
THE CAUSE OF IT ALL.
What is the cause of 1t all?
The churchman says II is because
of the absence OF religion. the dis
regard for the biblical injunction.
I"Whom God hath Joined together
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let no man put asunder": the pro-
hibitionlst Identifies John Barley
corn with most divorces; the labor
unionist lays the blame to poverty
and industrial conditions generally.
while the lawyer lays 1t to the laws
which permit divorce.
Which Is the right answer? Isn't
II really to be summed up under
this CONGRATULATIONS Because some
men and some women are unsuited