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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-03-25
Will Jim Jeffries Fight?

Considerations That Affect the Possibility Of the Retired
and Indicated Heavyweight Champion Of the World
Meeting the Ethiopian Champion Jack Johnson,
In the Roped AreAa-Side Lights on Big
Jeff, Who Has Turned Down
Vast Fortunes.
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that it is a much better book than had any reason to expect 1t to be. consider ing how I came by it. It is beautifully written and contains a great deal Of miscellaneous information about quite a variety of languages, all more or less interesting to the student. Indeed the book is so good that I have not yet got over my dissa atisfaction with the pro- lessor for treating 1t as he did. Still, 1t recalls Bentley's criticism on Pope's translation of Homer. a copy of which the poet presented to the great scholar Ut is a very pretty poem, MT. Pope; but you must not call it Homer"
 But what is Sanskrit? It is the an- cient language of the Hindus, and was originally spoken by the Indo-European colony that went into India. It is the eldest sister in the family of which Latin, Greek, German, English, Danish, Icelandic, Russian, Polish, Irish, Scotch, Welsh and all the Romance" languages are members. These simple statements are enough to show the thoughtful stu dent of language that Sir William Jones, Colebrook and Carey did great service to science when they introduced Sanskrit to the scholars of Europe In the later years of the 18th century. Sanskrit can hardly be called dead
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N one of the ablest of our American
 Quarterly Reviews I read sometime A ago an interesting and learned arti- cle from the pen of Prof. c. H. Toy, now of Harvard. This eminent scholar points out the importance of an acquaintance with Sanskrit as the basis of any satis- factory science of language.
 The absolute necessity of knowledge of Sanskrit in order to any scientific treatment of the subject of comparative philology will of course be admitted by any student who is tolerably acquainted with the progress of linguistic science within the last 50 years; but as Pro- lessor Toys object was to secure the in- troduction of Sanslzrit as study in our colleges and universities. and as only limited number of our people ever read the great Quarterly Review (the more the pity) it may be worth while for us to examine some of Professor Toys posi- tions-in short, to review his article.
 When Dr. Toys article was written there was but one chair of Sanskrit in America-that at Yale-very ably filled by that accomplished linquist, Professor Whitney.
 Few students are apt to spend time, la Dor and money in acquiring what Is not
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language even now; for Max Muller tells us that an educated Brahman or our day will write in it more fluently than in Bengali.
 The laws of the growth of words were subjected to scientific inquiry only after the discovery of Sanskrit. The form of a Sanskrit word being given, the trained philologist can tell at once, within certain limits, what form the word must take in Latin, Greek, Ger man or English. Now, any renecting scholar can see at once that this Is splendid scientific triumph, almost equal to the discovery of a new world. In fact, it is the discovery of the world of comparative philology.
 Let me close with an account of some of the results:
 We can point to practical advantages which we have already gained by the use of this discovery. It has refuted Votaire's shallow sneers at etymology; it has reduced Platos wild guesses, and Horne Tooke's elaborate wanderings to something like order and symmetry; 1t has totally reformed Webster's Una bridged Dictionary, which, in 1852, was etymologically considered a heterogen- eous mass of undgested matter, and is now thesaurus of scientific and trust worthy etymology. If these results are
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ties have been especially deficient in op- portunities for the study of comparative philology. Even the Department of Comparative Philology," in connection with the school of Modern Languages in the University of Virginia, to which de- partment Professor Toy alludes, have the best reasons for knowing exists only in name, unless it has taken form and substance since I left the university in 1s60 l was a member of the class in this 'school,'' but I mover heard a lec- ture nor recited lesson in comparative philology during the course, and I never heard of anybody that ever did. True, we were instructed to provide ourselves with the professors little book on comparative philology," as he called 1t, and to read a lesson of some 20 pages. I bought the little book" and read the designated lesson, but I never heard a word on the subject afterwards. I never heard any questions asked on the lesson and, in fact, the whole matter was incontinently dropped. But l had bought the professors book and
 I've got it yet, and can produce iC!.'
 I even went so far as to read it through twice, in spite of the rather cool treatment which the professor gave 1t, and I have no hesitation in saying
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practical" Latin and Greek were orig finally studied, because they contained about all the literature that the world then possessed, and we continue to study them because of their value in training the mind and in cultivating the taste. Dr. Toy seems to think that Sanskrit can hardly claim a place in our scheme of studies from purely practical consi- erations-from which opinion I am con- strained to differ.
 He might have made his case stronger by insisting upon the practical value or the study whose claims he advocates. In the true sense of that much abused word practical" it may surely be ap- piled to the study of a language of which we may justly say that 1t is the oldest sister in the great Indo-European, or Aryan family-a family which includes, with the exception of the Semitic, "all the languages which have played an import ant part in the civilization of the world" a. family which, extending from India eastward, includes nearly the whole of Europe Surely this great family of tongues must be worth examining on purely scientific basis, and such an ex- Animation is impossible without a knowledge of Sanskrit.
 Professor Toy argues that we ought to encourage the study of Sanskrit for
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the very reason that 1t Is not supported by the practical spirit of the day, and that it finds no aid in our traditional ideas of education, which ideas keep up the study of Latin and Creek that we ought heroically to extend our support to this new candidate for our favor, be- cause 1t has not strength enough to stand upon its own legs.
 Now, I am so intensely practical as to admire the lines of the poet @ who said, Or sung, while gazing upon the greatest of waterfalls:
 | 70 great Niagara! throwing high Thy mist and clouds up to the sky; It makes my soul within me burn To think-how many mills you'd turn.''
  But, while Dr. Toys appeal might go to the heart, or even to the pocket, of some earnest devotee of science-some born student, like Professor Toy him self, who knows what it is to love study for its own dear sake-still, I fear that we have few such students in this coin- try, and the few that we have are very sure not to have the money to endow a new chair in a university. Men who arc born students are seldom born rich, and they never get rich.
 Our southern colleges and universi-
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not practical, then l do not know what practical means.
 But Christians should be especially in terested in any study whose progress will facilitate the spread of the Gospel Now the time and labor necessary to the acquisition of a foreign language, and frequently of a whole group of such languages, are serious obstacles to our missionaries. But the difficulty of ac- quiring any language is considerably di- unfinished if the students be already fa- miliar with the laws of language In gen. eral-i. e., with the laws of general gram mar or comparative phllology. I know of no better illustration of this truth than Professor Toy Furnishes in his own person. He can now acquire any par ticular language with a facility that would be surprising to most students: and this not simply because of the su- periority of his intellect, but especially because of his profound and intimate knowledge of the laws of general gram mar. We should feel a real interest, then, in the establishment of any de- partment of study which tends so di- rectly to the shortening of the term of apprenticeship of our missionaries, and which will thus save time, labor, money and souls: and this may be insisted upon as an intensely practical point, and as worthy of our careful reflection.
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Chase. a judge of the general court of Maryland. The old jurist would not al- low the students In his office to hold a moot court" and in later years the great chief justice said this in support of his venerated preceptor.
 'No one improves his own knowledge or capacity for argument by habitually speaking on subjects which he does not fully understand, or by listening to those who speak under like circum- stances"
 Somebody ought to read that in each house of the American Congress every day it is in session as soon as the chap lain leaves the clerks desk.
 Instead of practicing in the moot court, Fancy attended the sesisons of the su- preme court daily and heard such giants as Luther Martin. P. B. Key, John Thompson Mason and other leading law years of the state plead. It Is doubtful if this country ever produced a lawyer the superior of Luther Martin. unless his rival, William Pinckney was he. Fancy left his estimates of those two giants iu his papers; but it would be unsatisfac- tory to take fragments from them and they are too long to print entire In such a paper as this.
 Strange 1t sounds, but Fancy was federalist as long as that party existed, and stranger yet, the author of the Dred Scott decision was an emancipationist. manumitted the slaves that came to him by inheritance, and contributed to their support out of his own means after they were free. Again his colored body serv ant was drafted as a soldier by the fed eral authorities, and though Fancy now had nothing but his salary, per cent of which was withheld by the income tax in flat violation of section 1, article III, of the constitution of the United States he
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of President Buchanan, the chief justice in whispered conversation had revealed what was to be the decision of the bench in the Dred Scott case. He had no proof except the perverse interpretation he chose to put upon the inaugural ad- dress. But he was not allowed to go unrebuked. Reverdy Johnson, leader of the American bar, took him to task in a public address that must have pierced even the rhinocerocian cutitcle of the New York senator, while two of the supreme bench resented the islander in papers they left behind. As for Fancy, he treated the thing with the serene contempt it merited.
 Benjamin R. Curtis could not have de- livered the eulogy he did on a man such as Seward held Fancy to be.
 Roger B. Fancy was to civil life what Robert D. Lee was to military, absolutely pure so far as 1t Is given finite man to be perfect. He was born March IT, 1777, in Calvert county, Mary land, of Catholic parents, and he was devout member of that oh urch all his life. His father was a man of sub stance and proprietor of an extensive landed estate, a country gentleman of the old English school. The family be- cause of It's religion had left the op presson of the penal laws of William and Mary that deprived them of many of the liberties of Englishmen, but they never surrendered a jot or little of their faith.
 Young Fancy was educated by private tutors until he was sent to Dickinson college wh ence he was graduated in 1795. He returned to the paternal roof and spent a year riding to hounds and in similar pastimes of the country gen. try of that day. Then he studied law in the office of Jeremiah Townley
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courage as "Old Hickory" and he prac- ticed what he preached Clay, Calhoun and Webster all assailed him, but he was as firm as his chief and the bank failed. His nomination to the Treasury was re- iected by the Senate, but he had done his work and the bank was dead. Later hls nopination for Associate Justice was re- jected, but when Marshall died the Sen- ate was democratic and Fancy was con- firmed as his successor.
 Here is a little piece of history. Jan uary 81, 1851, William H. Seward had the unspeakable effrontery to write the Chief Justice of the United States for permis- sion to 'inscribe' his speech in favor of that hoary steal, the French Spoliation Claims, to the head of the Supreme Ju- dietary. It was an invitation to Roger B. Fancy to lend himself to that shameless lobby. The answer of the Chief Justice was courteous but firm refusal.
 And speaking of the French Spoliation Claims saw that grandest of all Geor- gans, Henry G. Turner, kill the thing two or three times but after he retired the thing went through and long ago the American people footed the bill of this steal, as they had many a one before and as they will again.
 Fancy was the kindest-hearted of men, Many was the time that he would take up little insignificant case that required nothing but drudgery to decide, leaving to his brothers on the bench important cases that they were ambitious to shine in. It takes a man to do that. And he was a man, every inch-as great a turist as ever wore ermine, and tho purest man who ever sat in judgment on any bench. I regret that it Is too much for me to un- dertake to try to review his career on the bench, though I do wish I had space to say a word or two about the treason of Wisconsin in 1S60-61.
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Y N the notable events that the historian
 is now to record of the wohoer-
 s,,, +ransformation in the Ottoman eii- nire the Jew will figure promiieh's : 1-rom the facts now revealed IL IS cieaiis -,t,orv, that the Jews in Turkey not only d,d their mart in aiding the constltutioh- lists to bring about the desired end, but that they were actually the leading spirit in the entire movement for liberty anu progress.
 Throughout the 40 years of the Young Turks peaceful struggle for free govern rnentst the Jews proved to be their warHest s,,pporters and friendliest allies; but the noblest example of patriotic devotion was axbihited by the Jews during the critical days of the reactionary upheaval or Aprh last. T.. IL.
 Great was the consternation In the Turkish capital when the first news was circulated of the dastardly attempt py the reactionaries to overthrow the constl- tuition, when a sudden uprising tooh' place by the soldiers in the Y1ldiz k1osh who murdered their officers and placed themselves under command of 1anaticai and cruel reactionary chiefs
 From secret hiding there came 1orth like the fiends of Sheol, enemies or ight to destroy the newly established order and to reinstate the rule of old despot1sm in It's stead The constitution was de- cIared void and nil; all the plans for mod ern improvement were barred, ana cast down were the liberty-loving citizens who had labored and struggled for tneir political freedom and civic righteousness as was guaranteed by the constitution twice granted and withdrawn. The coun- ter revolution that came so unexpectedly had, with one blow, swept down all hopeful anticipations for peace and prog ress.
 A brutal soldiery paraded the streets
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provinces, evidently because of the fact that the capital city offered no opportuni- ty for any practical work in this direc- ton. The struggle for liberty had to be organized at some distance from the cap ital. Salonica was thus chosen as head quarters for the Turkish revolutionists. There the committee of Young Turks held their frequent conferences, and there they met with the best sympathy and support of the citizens.
 Salonica is a city with about a hundred and thirty thousand inhabitants, of whom over one-half are Spanish Portugese Jews (Sephardim), descendants of those who were banished from Spain in the year 1492. The rest of the city's population is composed of Bulgarians. Greeks and Jews of modern caste, also those known as "Denmes," renegade Jews, who In the latter half of the seventeenth century, under the rule of Mohammed ", had em- braced >the Mussulman faith. by reason of the penalty imposed upon them for the turbulent conditions that were then caused in Turkey through the agitation of Sabbathai-Zebi, the false Messiah. And some of these are survived to the present day as a special caste. It Is said that many of them fill high and re-. sponsible positions in the Turkish gov ernment. Djevid Bey, the recently elect ed minister of finance in Turkey, Is like wise one of that class. Now this situa- ton will explain the reason that the Younk Turk leaders had succeeded in or ganizing and carrying on the revolution from Salonica without intolerance or stay. Though the Jews In the Turkish capital had no opportunity to personally enlist in the patriotic ranks, yet even here they were first to appear on the scene, in order to befriend and to welcome the incoming soldiers from Salonica on their entering the city The Jewish organization known as "Maccabeans' had raised funds and purchased biscuits, tea and various other refreshments with which they treated
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the threatened constitution. Jews were first to respond to this call, and they came by the thousands from Salonica, Adrianople, Monastir and other places all supplied with arms, offering their serv- ices, their lives and their material sup- stances in the cause of liberty. With un- surpassable energy and zeal Jews have thrown themselves into this fight which was to determine their lot and their flu ture destiny.
 A special Jewish battalion, headed by an able Jewish captain, was added to the Constitutionalist forces, beside the many of the Hebrew race who were strwn here and there in the ranks of the Bulgars, Greeks and Turks, all of whom had sub sequently gathered under the banner of liberty. Other leaders of the Young Turks followed MT. Carasso to Salonica, and with him as chief speaker and adviser they held their important deliberations, as a result of whoch MT. Carasso went. to negotiate with the commanding officers and generals of the regular army. He himself started off first with a regiment of soldiers, and was followed by the long lines of officers and men consisting of 25,0O0 strong. The triumph achieved by these military forces was reported through the various newspaper dis patches. Under the leadership of this MT. Carasso the Jewish-Turkish patriot, took place the belligerance of Constantinople, while he, in his own person, had con- ducted the negotiations that went on daily between the citizens and the army officers before the latter proceeded to Lombard the barracks at the Turkish capital MT. Carasso also was ono of the members of the commission that elected the new sultan and went to in form Abdul Hamid that he was no longer the ruler of the Turkish empire.
 The Jews of Constantnople did not take such active part In the revolutionary r1nouaraant as g did their hrath hren fron, fha
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his trip in fit condition, being apparently as strong as when he started.
 While the feat was for a wager, and more or less spectacular, 1t was moro than that
 It was an object.lesson in pedestrianisnt which ought to cause a revival in the fine old custom of walking.
 It would seem that by every modern device of automobiles and flying ma- chimes, to say nothing of vehicles. street cars and interurbans. man is trying to rid himself of the necessity for using his legs.
 In the cities especially few persons make any systematic effort at walking. One may see men and women walt on a street corner for 10 minutes in order to ride half dozen blocks on street car.
 Seemingly man has almost lost tho habit and forgotten the art of walking as exercise. Even the farmer must have his riding blow.
 But man was built to go as walking machine, and when he walks he best performs his natural functions
 That exercise puts oxygen in his lungs and blood and compels circulation. It opens the pores of the skin and disposes of the waste.
 Walking gives the vital organs their natural and needful message. The dia- phragrn is the willing masseur, and ft only needs to be set to work kneading the organs The man who walks regu- larly need never be troubled by slug gish liver.
 Besides, the exercise is taken out of doors and requires time for its perform ance And therefore all the healthful and exhilarating influences of air and sum- shine come to the walker
 It is not necessary that the average man should try to duplicate Weston's performance. Weston Is a professional and sets pace that even a much young CT man would fail to meet. But
 All of US would be healthier. stronger and happier were we to walk every day persistenly from four to eight miles.
 If you should feel bad, tone yourself up by good walk. Should you have fit of the 'blues, take a walk. Ths exercise will cure both physical and mental ills.
 Envy no man his fine carriage or auto- mobile. Many a closed carriage D but little more than hearse. Many an au- tomobile Is hurrying its owner Co the cemetery.
 Be you wise-and walk
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By

robin and the Bob White is more or less true of the other birds. Almost the en- tire food of their young comes from in sects and worms.
 These facts are slowly coming to be generally understood There Is a better future ahead of the bird tribe. And there will be less vicious work of the small boy.
 Teach your children the value of the birds.
 During the early years tune his ears to an appreciation of their song. Call attention to their industry. their beauty and grace Put some of the poetry of the springtime and bird song into his soul Instead of the brutal propensity to kill he will be a lifetime lover of the feathered family.
 Spare the birds.
 They are kin to man. and they are his earnest, faithful helpers.
 Money is thing of tremendous power.
 But when it clashes with the impulses of nature 1t is a futile force.
 Young Oscar de Rothschild. son of Baron Rothschild of Vienna, committed suicide the other day by blowing out his brains.
 The story, which reveals a romance that reads like chapter from modern nOVel, III tnlS.
 While in this country on travel tour the young nobleman fell in love with a Chicago girl, Miss Olga Mem, daughter of a surgeon attached to one of the hos- pitals.
 The companion of Oscar fell i'll, and Dr. Mem attended him. In this way the young man made the acquaintance of Dr. Menn and was invited to his home, where he met the daughter.
 It was & case of love at first sight on both sides So rapidly did the romance progress that inside of week young aotaschild proposed and was accepted.
 lJe then cabIed the news to his father. ihe baron, at Vienna. He received a message in reply asking him to wait awhile before marrying. Rothschild hur- ried to Europe 10 plead for his father s consent, arranging for Olga Mem and her mother to follow.
 Arriving in vienna, the young man req ceived a stern rebuke It was a viola ton of all the family traditions The policy of the Rothschild family since the time of it's founders has been to concen- trate the family wealth. Marriage ia one of the means by which this policy is accomplished