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honor for distinguished service on land.
the chevrons on the uniforms of the
marines were turned point up. 1t was
stipulated that II ever that arm OF the
service discredited itself the chevrons
would be reversed
The chevrons still point up.
Not only have the marines fought
bravely and effectually in every one OF
our wars, but they have done all the
fighting in several incipient wars
abroad And no foreign nation ever
yet whipped the United States.
Marines First at Pekin.
If by reason of any curious kink in
the cerebral nerves anybody imagines
that the United States marine is a play
boy, let him recall the work of this
arm Of the military service during the
Boxer uprising in China. II was the
United States marines that were first
over the walls at Pekin, in the van Of
the forces Of all the other nations en-
gagged in that fierce assault.
Go tell that about the marines.
Go tell also that for a month before
the final assault the United States ma
rines bore the brunt Of the fighting,
when the combined forces Of several
nations held off the Chinese fanatics
and saved from humiliation the for
eign ministers and residents. Many
foreign officials rendered special thanks
and praise TO the United States ma
rines for their services in China.
You might also tell it about the ma
rines that on the day of the famous
battle in Hampton Roads between the
Monitor and the Merrimae the very
first shot fired from the Confederate
ironclad killed nine marines aboard the
Cumberland and the very last shot fired
from the Monitor at the Merrimac was
from the marines.
All through the civil war the marines
did splendid service. In the primary
Importance of vaster fighting affairs
| their work was slurred over in passing,
but history has embalmed il TO posteri-
| ty. Admiral Farragut used them in
opening up the Mississippi river. the
marines frequently going ashore and
/ fighting along with the soldiers. In
| Farragut's successful fight in Mobile
bay the marines did such heroic work
/ that the admiral made special mention
/ of them in his report.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-02
Judge Horace H. Lurton, Democrat. Morgan
Raider War Prisoner, Was Presidents
Associate on Federal Bench

IN Cincinnati nearly seventeen years
ago large young man introduced
a smaller but considerably older
n man TO each guest at a morning
reception in honor Of the l'-te Then
the introducer and the guest honor
proceeded arm in arm - the United
States circuit court. where the heavier
man administers TO the lighter man
the oath OF Office as one Of his brother
judges OF that bench.
The big man was William Howard
Taft OF Cincinnati. The other was
Horace Harmon Lurton Of GAINESVILLE.
Tenn. The other day Mr.. Taft as
president Of the United States. ap-
pointed Judge Lurton an associate JUS
tice Of the supreme court Of the United
States to succeed the late Rufus W.
Peckham Of New York.
Justice Lurton is Democrat. an ex-
Confederate. and is the only man ever
appointed to the supreme bench who
has served time in a penitentiary.
Don't draw quick conclusions. Justice
Lurton was a prisoner Of war, but his
place of imprisonment was the Ohio
state penitentiary at Columbus. where
he remained from the summer OF 1853
until the close OF the civil war.
Lurron, who was born in Kentucky,
was seventeen years old when the war
began For two years he had been
studying at & university in Chicago.
He went straight home and Joined the
Confederate army. but was discharged
from service the next year because OF
81 health When he got well he re-en-
listed and was taken prisoner at Fort
Donelson He escaped A few weeks
later he made his third enlistment,
Joining General John H. Morgan cele-
brated cavalry brigade.
In midsummer O. 1868 young Lurton
accompanied Morgan on theanoted raid
into Ohio. circling around Taft's home
town. William H then being but
small boy. and with Morgan and many
others Lurton was captured and sent
70 the state prison by the federal au-
thorities The war department had
discovered that John Morgan was a
mighty good man to keep inside a high
stone wall until hostilities ceased, but
the Kentucky raider escaped and went
back into the service. only TO be be-
traySd by a supposed friend In Ten
nessss and shot to death. Lurton fall
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destroyed Montijo's Spanish fleet After
the battle he headed the force Of ma
rines that landed at Cavite, and for
two months his men garrisoned the
port.
Colonel Mahoney is one Of the ma
rine officers who helped TO save the day
at Guantanamo when the sea soldiers
went ashore TO cover the landing Of the
troops. He received for his service
that day the brevet Of captain. For
eleven years he has commanded the
marine barracks at Washington.
Major Smedley D. Butler is another
distinguished marine who is in the Nj
caraguan detail At Tientsin he was
shot while trying TO carry a wounded
soldier to safety under the fire Of the
enemy.
Whatever message President Taft
and Secretary Knox desire to be taken
10 Nicaragua, there seems no doubt
that the marines viii tell it to Zelaya.
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Moody Of Massachusetts Tat tried to
induce President Roosevelt to give
Lurton the vacancy. But Roosevelt.
Ike Taft had his own favorite Taft
sat down and awaited ne course OF
human events Now his opportunity
has come, and he has improved II.
There was opposition to Justice Lur-
ton on account of his age which is
sixty-ffve. 1t was expected the OPP
position that the judiciary committee
Of the senate would make objection to
his confirmation on this score. but the
president found upon inquiry that the
members of the committee were OF
mind with himself a5 to the opinion
that Justice Lurton is In the prime Of
his powers
The new Justice has had judicial ex-
Dertence enough to equip several ordi-
nary men for judgeships. When he
got out Of the penitentiary and the
war he was twenty-one wears old. but
he started to school again In 1867
he was graduated from the la depart
ment OF Cumberland university. at
lebanon. Tenn. and began the practice
OF the profession at GAINESVILLE. in the
same state The governor appointed
him to I'LL vacancy as chancellor in
1867. and the people elected him to a
fun term. He resigned after three
years on the chancellUr's bench and
practiced law for eight years During
this period. for a time. he acquired
financial experience as president of q
national bank.
In 1885 Judge Lurton was elected to
the supreme court of Tennessee and
became chief Justice From that posi-
ton he was promoted by President
Cleveland to he federal bench
The new justice Is accounted high
authority on constitutional law.
THOMAS B. HART
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New Supreme Justice an Ex-Confederate

tice Peckham's death-six Republicans
and three Democrats Much pressure
was brought to bear upon President
Taft to induce him to name a Repub-
Hcan The president WIS determined
from the first to elevate Judge Lurton,
with whom he served for years on the
federal circuit bench Lurton was ap-
pointed to that bench by President
Cleveland in 1893 and has been Judge
OF the Sixth judicial circuit ever since,
with principal headquarters at Nash
vile. Tenn Mr.. Taft discovered that
Judge Lurton was a lawyer of excep-
tional ability and determined. If oppor-
tunity presented. to place him on the
supreme bench.
Prior to the appointment Of Justice
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In the Revolutionary war the ma
rines fought side by side with the sail
ors. When John Paul Jones Of the Bon
homme Richard took the Scraps forty
nine American marines out of a force
Of 137 were killed or wounded.
IL was a marine who saved the life OF
Stephen Decatur when that gallant Of
ficer fought the Tripolitan gunboats A
huge Tripolitan sailor raised his cut
lass 10 crash IL through the skull OF the
American commander when the ships
grappled and the fighting was hand to
hand. A marine interpOsed his arm
II was cut off by the heavy weapon in
its swift descent, but Decatur escaped
unhurt.
In the war OF 1912 the marines dis
tinguished themselves in the battles on
the great lakes and on land. In Cuba,
Porto Rico, Guam, Hawaii, the Philip
pines, Panama and Samoa the marines
have been first on land v 1erever there
was fighting or police work to do.
The marine is a sort of policeman as
well as a soldier. The corps was Gre
ated originally with view principally
10 policing war vessels. That was in
the days when in order TO obtain a
quota Of sailors it was necessary now
and then to fill man with bad liquor
and drag him aboard, then impress him
into the service. Happily that day has
passed, so that il is not necessary now
to keep a police force aboard vessels Of
war merely to quell protesting sailors.
A sample OF the police work done by
the marines was their quelling Of the
mutiny in the Massachusetts, state
prison in 1924. Hundreds Of prisoners
rebelled and were about to break cut
and turn themselves loose 10 prey upon
the public when a detachment of thirty
marines under Major Wainwright
marched in and broke up the mutiny
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-02
Hazel Twins Find Water.

Hazel twigs long have been used as
instruments with which to discover
water underground. The twig has at
various times been credited with many
marvellous powers. Not only could 1t
discover water. but concealed lodes of
metal. especially silver. were betrayed
by the hazel, which, according to ira
dition. was guided by the pixies who
guarded the treasures Of the earth.
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in brief time. Some school text books
still tell the story Of that affair
First to Land In Cuba.
But it is as a fighter against men
equally well armed that the marine
prefers to distinguish himself. Since
the war with Spain, when the marines
were first to make a landing upon Gu
ban soil, when they covered the landing
Of troops al Guantanamo under
heavy fire from a superior force, public
respect for this branch of the fighting
service, always high, has risen TO the
hurrah altitude.
Whenever and wherever there is
any trouble or likelihood OF trouble in
which the laws Of nations and the gen.
eral tenets Of civilization seem TO re-
quire that Uncle Sam shall take hand
the United States marines are ordered
to get ready. No; they are always
ready. They are ordered to go TO the
breaking out point for active service.
They always go cheerfully. Like land
soldiers. sometimes inactivity pals
upon them, and they long for some
thing really exciting.
The personnel Of the marine corps is
said 10 be somewhat higher in quality
than that Of the army. This is said
with no intention 10 disparage the reg
ulaT soldier.
The requirements Of the marine serv-
ice are such that recruiting officers are
compelled TO insist upon an applicant
for enlistment showing general qualif-
cations little higher than the aver
age soldier recruit. The marines are a
small but select body OF men. The
percentage Of riffraff material accepted
is very low AS a consequence deser-
tons are less frequent In proportion to
numbers than is the case in the army.
This fact may be due in part, how
ever, TO the difference In the kind of
service pyDpri@ncpd The marines GET
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ed to escape. but he lives to become a
member OF the supreme bench Of the
nation against which he fought. and.
curiously enough. he is appointed by
member of the party Of Abraham Lin
coin and a native OF the state which he
helped to terrify In 1853.
Justice Lurton's appointment keeps
the makeup OF the supreme court the
same politically that 1t was before JUS
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Death. Is Married to a Graduate Doctor
and Scientific Writer

way Of expressing It may sound face
tious. the reader is assured that the
writer is using a figure Of speech with
serious purpose.
Belgium is re-eminently an indus
trial nation. Her greatest industry is
the manufacture OF machinery King
Albert from lis boyhood has main
tanned a workshop in which he expert
ments in mechanical invention. He
could work skillfully in almost any Of
the machine shops at Liege or Seraing,
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The blue marines a dandy man,
A gritty and a sandy man.
Wherever he's demanded.
Oh, he's the nations handy man!
Where there is need TO land a man
The handy man is landed.
- II OW that several companies of
United States marines have
gone to Nicaragua TO aid in
restoring peace there is re-
newal of public interest in what the
British term the handy man." Rud-
yard KipIing's definition of the marine
is incorrect. les a sort of a bloomin'
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and sailor, too, 3"
says Kipling, but the marine is not a
sailor. He is a soldier undoubtedly,
both a sea soldier and a land soldier.
The marine need possess no qualifi-
cations for seamanship. He has moth
ing to do with running the vessel on
which he may sail Sometimes the
marines are called upon TO man the
secondary battery in a sea fight, but
their principal business is to rest up
while on board. keep their land legs in
CtIllillsSluil anu 50 dot4cAC hAiNA AA1~N@
sary, where they fight just like land
soldiers.
Marines See the World.
At present the marine force numbers
about 5000 men. A thousand Of these
have been sent to Nicaragua. Several
thousand Of them went around the
world with the Atlantic battleship feet
on its memorable cruise during the
Roosevelt administration. But to go
around the world is not much Of an
experience for United States marines,
historically speaking. These fighters
have touched at nearly every port since
the marine corps was organized 1S5
years ago. They have landed at many
ports and done valiant fighting service
against foreign foes.
England used to hold her marines in
contempt. The expression Tell II to
the marines" from which the recent
Tell It to the Danes" is derived, was
an outgrowth Of that contempt. What
ever the British may think or may
have thought of their dnes. those In
the United States *. ice never yet
have merited any mans contempt
During the Mexican war, as a mark OF
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cure industrially and physiologically
when Albert and Elizabeth of Flanders
get into good working shape as sue
cessors to the royal prerogatives and
household Of the late King Leopold II
The new king can oil the wheels Of in
dustry. while the new queen can parcel
out pills to pale people. While this
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-02
Sore Eyes From Moonlight.

Moonlight, most intense. sometimes
causes sore eyes in Cuba. and the ma
tives navigate and perambulate with
umbrella and paraluna-
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How Islands Were PeopIsd.

Sixteen natives of the Pelew islands
in the north Pacific, not long ago made
an involuntary visit to Formosa which
anthropologists find interesting AS
reported 10 a scientific body, the voy-
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Ganton,s Popularity.

Canton, China, is the coolest place on
the globe for its latitude. the one place
in the tropics where snow occasionally
falls,
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-02

" u 9TH a qualified machinist
p q 4 for king and a graduate
" ~ doctor for queen little
RelgfuU1 should FaaI ca
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BY RoRERTUs LOVE.

The blue marines a dandy man,
A gritty and a sandy man.
Wherever he's demanded.
Oh, he's the nations handy man!
Where there is need TO land a man
The handy man is landed.
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The Candidates
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For Alderman--Fourth Ward

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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-02-18
CANADA CROP VALUE JUMPS.

One-Eleventh More Acres Cultivated
In 1909 than In 1908.
An increase of $10O,OOO,0O0 in the
value of Canadian crops is shown in
the final estimates of the 1909 produc-
ton just issued by the Dominion CEN
sus department An area of 3O,O65,-
$50 acres of field crops has yielded a
harvest which. computed at local mar
ket prices, has value of $500. 992. 100.
as compared with $432.534, 900 from
27,505,663 acres in 1908.
Canada's principal grain crops are
wheat, oats and barley. For 1909
they aggregate in area 1857 900 acres
and in value 263,710,0OO, against 49,
297. 100 acres and sos, 070, 900 in 1908.
Hay and clover from $4,000 acres
have value Of $132.287. 700, against
100000 acres and $121.8 $4,000 in
1908.
Rye, peas, buckwheat, mixed grains
and fax, grown on 1.487,311 acres
have a value Of $26,707 900, as com.
pared with 1.525.700 acres and $685..
$4,000 in 1908.
The total value Of wheat harvested
in the northwest provinces is $121.-
100000 and in the rest Of the Domin-
ion $19,760,000, as compared with
s72.424.0OO and $1s.sO4.o0O in 1908.
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just . Fit.

In the Ex-Libris Journal an amu. ,
ing anecdote is given of man anAi0a =.
for a coat of arms, and fortunate ~.
finding one. A secondhand booksens y.
bought at q country sale some 'u ~
hundred volumes Of handsome Ou, ~
salable old sermons. books on 'n'''''
and the like. .,ts;de
He placed number OF tnes' vell.
his shop. Soon afterward We. =.
dressed man entered and said, na ~,
you any more of this kind Oh , D
with this shield on them?" poln sDrs
to the book plate attached, which MI aid
the arms and name OF s0O'
county family. ,,. from
.That box, sir, is full OF books hook.
the same house." answered 'n'
seller. .,T IN.
ouired the man. "1'm going back aan -
Chicago, and / want to 'aAo name
books, and these will just nj m''
and all. .,ve that
Gust you sort out all tna' -, send
shield and name, but don't hats
any without that name-pla
my name, too. nth the
II reckon this old fellow 70 been
dappers and ROSTERS might nav
-elated to me some way.
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A1zERIGO EEGcZIGCE
S~SSSS

A map such as the world never
dreamed of is to be made in London
as a result of conference recently
called by the British government. Its
scale is to be roughly one to one mil
lion, or, in exact measurements, one
inch for every sixteen miles of the
earth's surface. 1t is planned that
this map will show every detail of the
land and waters of the world with
such minuteness as has never before
been possible with maps as they are
at present understood.
1t was Sir Charles Hardinge, perma-
nent under secretary of the foreign Of
ice, who had the honor of welcoming
the delegates who represented France,
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Spain,
Italy, the United States, Canada, Aus
tralia and Russia.
He pointed out the salient truth that
the more widely geographical knowl-
edge is spread, the better would the
peoples of various nations come to
know each other and the more certain
would come the dawn of an interna-
tional peace. He also explained the
commercial advantages of a better geo.
graphical knowledge.
In giving statistics of the proposed
map Sir Charles reminded his hearers
that the diameter of the earth is about
5000 miles, its circumference at the
equator being between $4,000 and 25,-
600 miles He explained that to con.
struct a map which should show the
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meant family; group of families
meant a village; many villages meant
nation. The existence of a nation
presupposed the honorable families Of
free men. Upon this indestructible
unit the white man built his civiliza-
ton, every law and all progress MAX
ing for the betterment of his home
nest, says Harris Dickson in Success
Magazine.
The negroes hazy idea of marriage is
the greatest barrier in the path Of his
success. No race can become perma-
nently good or great if they are not
home makers. In Africa he had scant
perception of the institution as Anglo
Saxons understand It, Therefore he
felt no need for laws and customs
which made the family sacred Trans
planted to America, he regarded the
rule of husband-to-one-wifea as part
of the discipline of Slavery restric-
ton forced upon him by his master.
Incidentally, he throve and multiplied
under it.
After the war. many, if not all the
Southern States, decreed that couples
then living together as husband and
wife should be legally SO. After that
the negro was free to carry out his
own ideas. I cannot tell you what
these ideas are-no white man can.
1t Is hard for the white man to get
at the negro's idea about anything.
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The Compromise.

The young man had entered that
mysterious realm called matrimony,
and as 1t was his first offense his ia
Their was handing him some paternal
advice as to how he should treat the
young wife.
When you have any little differ
ences of opinion, my son. he said to
the boy, IF you can't persuade Mar
garet that you are right-and you
probably can't, for they are all about
alike-you must compromise. Be firm,
yet be considerate and compromise"
yes, father" replied the son.
L we'll remember a little expert
ence, and a reminiscent expression
came over the old mans face ION the
very threshold Of the married life of
your mother and myself, and it was
the basis of all future disputes. It
was this way: l wanted to spend the
summer, our first vacation together. in
Maine, and your mother wanted to po
to Saratoga. That was thirty wears
ago. But I shall never forget how
hrm and yet how considerable / was
with your mother and how we COM
promised, avoiding all dispute. We
stayed from Saturday noon to Tuesday
morning at Bar Harbor, and then we
spent the rest Of the summer at Sara.
toga. Yes, indeed" the old man added
with sigh. that's the only way to
deal with a woman. You must he
nrm. but be willing to compromise a
little once in awhile, as I have done
with your mother."-New York Trib
une