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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-08-11

|g NY. i hereby given that on the 18TH
N0 " rny A. d. 1911, attachment was is
, !, n The the above-entitled action against the
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[psm for the sum of Seven Hundred and
u'S og"nsbundredths dollars ($7oo.oo), with
... s4' thereon at the rate of ? per cent
s sDrum from the 10Th day of July, 1911,
I., Sr-, with the costs Of this action.
ESh1. nv hand and the seal of said
' Sltt' Court, affixed this aoth day of July,
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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-08-11

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carried into the surrounding air, but cer tainly adhere to the hands that touch 1t These fumes and particles attack the ries and produce results such as Mary Wilson's case illustrates.
 But someone says, That's doctors bus mess! Why thrust these terrible details on us?'
 I answer, it Is our business, and very particularly this year it is the business ci every American For bill is seeking adoption by the United States Congress now assembled, putting prohibitive tax on matches manufactured by the white phosphorus method. That bill Is known as the Esch bill. It will have to be en- tee of the House of Representatives. The representative of Birmingham district Is an important member of that committee What he does he does in our name. If ee should give his enthusiastic influence for the bill. I suppose he would please But how is he to know their will? In such a matter the malls are open, the news papers are available, and the responsi bility for aboishing such suffering as Mary Wilson's is thus thrown upon all of us. Moreover, all the people of this state. and wheresoever The Age-Herald comes with its large influence, have representa- lives in the House and in the Senate. Those men in Washington ought not to be in doubt one moment concerning the
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more. five triumphed in the electoral col- iege, record surpassed by Chicago only, that scores seven winning tickets and three losing. counting the two leading parties only.
 It is a fine old town, Is Baltimore. Not as sedate as Philadelphia, but equally provident and prosperous. Nobody has d mortgage on her industries, but her surplus capital is shrewdly and thrifty invested in the west and far west. Read the bank and trust company statements of Baltimore, and you will be surprised at her enormous acccumulations. It is true Cleveland crowded her out of sixth place in the matter of population, but the superiority of the Ohio city is seem ing rather than actual. Cleveland is spread over more than twice the area Baltimore occupies, and if the suburbs of the Maryland town were annexed Bal timore would have much greater popu- lation.
 There Is another. consideration that challenges the attention of visitors and that Is the luxuries to tempt the palate and appease the appetite of him who
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as convention eloquence was first heard, and Joseph Holt's speech, in de- fense and advocacy of Richard M. John son of Kentucky, who was nominated fol yice-president, has been rarely equaled and never surpassed in a political as sembly in our country That was in Baltimore.
 The democrats nominated Polk and Dallas for president and vice-president in Baltimore in 1S44 and the same year the Wings met in national convention m that same city and nominated Clay and
 ~elighusen. Four years later the dem- ocrats again held their national conven- tion in Baltimore and nominated Lewis Cass of Michigan, for president and William o. Butler of Kentucky, for vice. president. In 1852 the democrats were again in Baltimore, and named Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire, for president, and William R. King of Alabama, for vice-president. In 1861 the republicans held their national convention in bal timore, and nominated Abraham Lin ticket, and perhaps it Is worthy of note
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ployment of children in mines and fac- tories. And the conscience of Europe has been, In this phosphorus horror. more kuick to compel action than our Ameri- can conscience. A way has been found making it unnecessary to kill people or 10 give them ghastly diseases in order to get match for a smoke or a fire. It has also been found that there are means of compelling match manufacturers to pre- tect their work-people. But where "in- terests are at stake. where money con alterations are involved, American legis. lation somehow gets impeded.
 So long ago as 1908 the workmens com pensation act In England included in the scope of compensation six industrial or
 occupationaf' diseases, of which this malady was one. It must also be ob- served that under the English system the deaths from industrial dieases are com pulsorily and exactly reported Many a death from ''phossy jaw in this land is credited to general debility" says Dr Andrews.
 Now 1t happens that in France the match industry Is a government monop- oiy. The French have also a law of con- pensation for injuries. and claims against the government for phosphorus poison ing became serious menace to the financial success of the monopoly. This spurred scientific investigation, so that presently a harmless substitute for white phosphorus was found, the sesqui-sulph- iGe of phosphorus Unfortunately, how ever the cost of this substance is slight 1y greater than that of the old material Hence If one country made matches herewith in competition with other coun. tries still using white phosphorus, evi-
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izens otherwise humane can permit their work-people to run the risk of this peril by unnecessarily continuing the use of poisonous phosphorus"
 The above quotation is from a report by Dr. j. B. Andrews of New York, con- corning the "occupational diseases of his country. He had personally investi gated the facts and tells what he knows.
 Most sorrowfully, but unfinchngly, this blessed Sunday morning, before the readers of The Age-Herald. But why? Have we not troubles enough, pains and aches of our own, that we should be ex. cused from worrying about Mary Wilson and her family?
 Well, there's a reason still. The truth Is that WE poisoned Mary Wilson! The match that lit the gas, or coal-stove this IT orning wherewith your breakfast was cooked, had to be handled by human fingers, had to be packed by some Mary Wilson and supplied its part of the poison that produces that dead, decaying bone in the mother and that ''trouble'' in the blood of her babe. For poisonous phosphorus is used in all American match factories It is known as white phos- phorus." Everyone knows that pho5- phosphorus is a chemical substance which ignites at low temperature, and is therefore constantly sending of fumes, that is forming chemical union with part of the air-contents adjoining. Particles of the pure phosphorus also are perhaps
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sentiment of the people towards phospho- ius poisoning.
 For more than 70 years the facts have heen known. In this country it has been known since 1854 that the disease exists in a serious form, and that in spite of precautions the workers still suffer and 6ie from "phossy jaw known to the doctors as phosphorus necrosis" which means the dying of tissues because Of phosphorus poisoning. Not only so, but the lowered vitality due to the handling of phosphorus gives opportunity to other diseases. In the year 1909, says Dr. An crews, detailed reports were secured from 32S3 employees in 15 different match fac tories in the United States, and it was found that 65 per cent were working un. der conditions exposing them to the dangers of phosphorus poisoning. The women and children were much more ex- posed than the men. Ninety-f1ve per cent Of the women and s3 per cent of the chill dren under 16 years of age were exposed; :; Of 3591 persons employed 2024 were men, 1253 were women and girls over 16 years cid, and 314 were children under l6 of whom almost two-thirds were little girls.
 Many remember the poem of Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
 "Do you hear the children weeping, 0
 my brothers,
 Ere the sorrow comes with years?
 That poem did something to quicken legislation in England against the em-
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dently the match industry of that land would suffer A lead was made there before the Swiss government, and final ly. in 1906, France, Italy, Denmark. Lux emburg, Switzerland the Netherlands. and the German empire signed conven- ton, agreeing ito prohibit the manufac- lure, sale, importation or exportation of poisonous phosphorus matches" In 1908 England signed and in 1909 Austria.
 American manufacturers tell us that 1t would add only per cent to the cost of matches If the sesqui-sulphde were used instead of the ordinary phosphorus. But they say that one or two factories can- rot compete with the others until tho reform las been made obligatory on all.
 I am informed by the association for labor legislation, in a recent bulletin, that the Diamond Match company has voluntarily surrendered its rights in the process, as guarantee of the equality of new manufacturers of matches. President Taft, too. has earnestly commended the Esch bill, in the name of common hu- manity no less than of American self respect It is. therefore. inconceivable that we shall see the present session Of Congress end without sufficient tax On the poiscn to prevent it's competition with the harmless substance. We do not want to light our fires with the rot ting bones of poor working girls, or to touch the tip of our Havanas with a flame that is the metamorphosis of 6 cruel and preventible disease. Here sure ly is one way In which. through over intelligent and prompt action in Congress, God shall wipe away, if not "all tears from off all faces" at least some acces- sible tears.
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VICTIMS OF CIVILIZATION-By George Eaves D. D.

come out and several inchaes of the jaw bone are bare, with pus oozing from the sockets.
 "The physicians, in an effort to pre- serve the contour of her face, and to avoid leaving an unsightly scar, attempt ed to operate on the inside. In this case the dead bone does not form a seques- II um, or separated portion, which might easily be removed from the living bone to dispose of itself in the most nauseat
 ing and dangerous manner. As the pus flows from the dead and decaying bone, i naturally mixes with the saliva and
 with food thus poisoning the entire sys- tenn.
 'The poison first manifested itself eight years ago, shortly after her marriage She has boy years old, little girl of 1, and a baby but years old She told me that the two older children were well and strong, but that 'the baby seems to
 have trouble in its blood.'
 "'The odor is awful, but I can't help it, she mumbled. The doctors say per haps they could cure me by cutting out my jaw. but I am young yet, and how would it look? I would rather be dead, I tl.ink!
 "The odor from the suppurating bone is more awful than anything that can be imagined. One who has experienced
 he nauseating stench can readily under stand why dentists and physicians alike shun patients who are afflicted with 'phossy jaw And one wonders how cit
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sss... ss'% 's%'' ,s cannot: }: :. a, s.,s ! beautiful. And as the Apostle Of Wellville observes. there's reason" The fact of ''phossy jaw is most hid- eous and unbeautiful fact. quote an in- stance giving fictitious names but all too real details:
 Flight years ago. at 21 years of age Mary Wilson, tall strong and full of the joy of fife, married Henry Welsh. She fads worked for several years as a "packer' in the match factory, and con- tinued to work there after marriage Bu. two months later she commenced to have trouble with her teeth. Dr. A. first treat cd her, beginning with the first operation November 15, 1901. He performed sec end operation August II, 1903, removing several large splinters of bone from her jaw. She grew no better and through Dentist B. she secured daily treatments at her home. Finally, as the trouble con- tinued, she went to Drs. c. and H. for fur ther medical aid, and is receiving medical treatment from them at the present time May 191W.
 Three years ago an abscess opened through her right jaw, and one year ago, another opened on the left. Both re- auire constant bandaging When I saw her in December, 1909, she was scarcely able to open her lips enough to speak and could not separate her upper from her six remaining lower teeth. All of her lower teeth, except the middle six, have
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Marc Antony cry out, Havoc, and let slip the dog of war;
 But other employments have engaged some countries they have long been used as beasts of burden. I have seen them hitched up to wagons, or small carts, hauling heavy loads with the quiet per- sistance of an OK. I have also seen dogs and women harnessed to carts and both pulling side by side, with all their strength, through the public thorough fares. I have. however never seen a draught dog that had any fight in him or showed any sign of frolicsome- ness. They are all of serious weary-looking set. There is a law In England prohibiting the use of the dog for draught purposes. England, evil dently, does not think the dog should take the place of the horse or mule.
 The intelligence, the affectionate nature, and the faithfulness of the dog have all ways commended him as a friend and companion of men. Nearly every emotion and passion of which man is capable, Is, also, possible to his dog Therefore, while men have held in affectionate friendship these humble creatures, dogs have illustrated the profoundest devo- tion to their masters. Recall a few in- stances of this mutual friendship: Upon the return of Ulysses from his long years of absence he was met by his dog, Argos, who died of joy at seeing his master again; King Arthur has come down the ages of history. romance and song, with his dog, Cavall, by his side; we asso- ciot rTbaron with RodericlS inc Goth . Mathe. the greyhound, with King Richard II; and in the histories of Elizabeth Of Bohemia, Catherine de Medici, and Prince Rupert killed at the battle of Marston Moor, we learn to think affectionately of their faithful dogs, respectively, Apollon,
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You know the type. They are the sort who dodge responsi-
 biity. slide from under an obligation and saurm out of a promise. Many politicians are of the wabble pat tern.
 Many men fail to succeed in business because of the oscillating disposition. All commerce is founded on conference.-the confidence reposed by one person in the promise of another, whether the promise be implied or by word of mouth or writ ten. He who betrays this confidence dis qualities himself It is not too harsh to say of such per- sons-men or women--that they are "ft for treason. strategem and spells" It is the wabbly people mostly who keer the divorce courts busy. The marriage compact. by which the family is main tained and civilization is builded. fails to hold them. Wabble folks lack moral fiber. The species needs to be caught while young and tanned by discipline. Teach the promise, but that having made one, il
 must be kept inviolate, even though the heavens fall. Teach the child that it is no excuse to say of a broken pledge, 'I meant it when said it. Teach the child that to
 fail of a promise is the worst sort of lying.
 Who is more admirable than the man who stands four square to all the winds that blow?
 The dependable man will keep his obi-
 gation though to do so may require de- privation or hardship.
 Martin Luther was of that sort
 When his friends besought him to fore
 go his trip to the diet of Worms because
 of the enemies who threatened his life
 he said T will go to Worms thougl,
 there be as many devils as the tiles on
 the housetops'
 He kept his word.
 And when he had spoken what was in
 him, knowing we'll the consequences of
 his frankness. he solemnly said; Here
 I stand l can do no other. God help me-"
 You do not need to be of Luther's kind
 of religion to admire his sturdy loyalty.
 There is something approaching to hero-
 ism in the man who will suffer rather
 than break pledge.
 upon to die for the sake of honor, but
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of creation possess the element of ina- mortality? The Pythagorean philosophy, and the Platonian, also, taught the af- firmative of the subject. Juvenal, how ever, in his Satire number XIV, stood for another school. He attributes to animals the 'anima," but not the ''animus," of the human being; that is, they have an inferior soul which may lack the prin- ciple of immortality.
 Principle indulsit communis condftor
 illis
 Tantum animas. nobs animum quoque"
 The distinction in the Latin between anima. animus and spiritus is like that of the Greek bios, psyche and pneuma i: and much like the Hebrew nephesh. ruach. neshamah. dog or horse, 1t is held by modern philosophers. has nephesh, but not neshamah bios, and possible psyche, but not pneuma: anima but not animus or spiritus. Therefore, they say, the animal lacks immortality.
 But this view has not quieted specu- lation. MT Wesley held that animals would likely share in the benefits of the ultimate redemption of the race, and probably be fairer than when they first came into being. The learned Dr. Adam Clarke argued for the immortality of the brute creation upon the score of simple justice. One might take the arguments for the immortality of mans soul, as urged in Buffers Analogy (that bete nor of theological students) and prove thereby the immortality of the dog. At best, however. it Is a matter of specula- ton. We should, though, treat our humble friends as if it were known to us that they might appear against us In the final solemn assize.
 q have not kept faith with the title of this contribution My interest in this subject Is so great that I have written too much for my space In the Age-Her- aid. I have, therefore, cut my paper in half. This half has but little to say of Dogs that I've Known" the second half will be true to the title. W.E.E.)
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was named in his stead. The last nation al convention held in Baltimore to name a national ticket was when the demo- crats assembled there in 1872 and indors- ed the liberal republican ticket of Greeley and Brown, that had been nom-
 mated in Cincinnati, in May previous delegate from Missouri announced that his state would give the ticket S0,000 majority, whereupon John T. Hoffman, governor of New York, took the platform and enthused his hearers with the pre- diiction that New York would give Gree dey and Brown a bigger majority than there were votes in Missouri. And disas- astrously as the ticket was beaten in November there is much reason to say that had public sentiment in November been what it was in July and early Au- gust, Greeley would have beaten Grant as signally as Cleveland beat Harficon twenty years later.
 Thus 1t appears that the leading parties have held nine conventions in Baltimore. not counting the adjourned democratic convention of 1860, and 1t further appears ]! that of the tickets nominated in Balti-
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that the temporary chairman of the con- vention was Rev. Robert J. Breckenridge of Kentucky, who at that time had two sons fighting in the Confederate army.
 Early in life this extraordinary man abandoned the bar for the pulpit, but he always took a keen interest in political affairs, and had he not abandoned the
 law for theology, it is reasonably safe to say that he would have attained to
 even greater eminence as a statesman
 than his father. or his brother, or his
 son, or his nephew.
 l. Mention should be made of the fact
 that in 1860 the democratis national con-
 vention assembled in Charleston, South
 Carolina, but unable to agree on either platform or ticket. the convention ad- journed to meet in Baltimore, where there was split-one faction nominating John c. Breckenridge of Kentucky, for
 president, and Joseph Lane of Oregon, for vice-president; the other faction nomin- ating stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, for president, and Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama, for vice-president, who decliu- l ed and Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia
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of being sacred as religious observance. | but holy in the old Anglo-Saxon sense of | boly-wholesome. Give your soul a chance. Let it rise one day in seven on tho
 wings of faith and trust to the spiritual
 hills whence all its strength must come. Do not spoil your Sunday.
 You cannot change the world to suit your convenience. You can only change yourself to suit the convenience of the world. You cannot change the laws of naturos
 and in any contest between you and na- ture you must give way. You cannot change the ways of men, the settled policy of things social. So-
 ciety will not change its laws to suit
 you. You must change yourself to suit society or--live alone You cannot reform the world, but you
 can reform yourself. Here is half the secret of living-know-
 ing how to adjust oneself to one's sur roundings. If the mountain will not come to Mo-
 hammed. then Mohammed must go to the
 mountain. Oh, but you say Masterful men use their will power to bend the worlds ways to their ways. No! Masterful men are too sensible to try that. Instead, they take advantage of the worlds way to get part of their
 own way. Napoleon had his own way part of the time, but he did not get 1t by smashing into the center of things as they are. He knew how to retreat and how to exe- cute flank movement. And so of all good generals. They Coll he 1tna nf Aocfr ito n strike at the weak point in the line of the enemy They retreat only to win. If you do not get along in the world 1t is your fault. If you go up against fortress with flail you must not ex- pect a victory. You cannot get all you want in this life; therefore you should want what you
 can get. I do not mean you should be coward or a shlrker. There is time to fight,
 and there is a time to retreat or go into camp. When I printed my first little news paper years ago I started out to reform the universe. Result? I faced a frowning world and waning subscription list. Afterward I learned better I began to see that if I should be able to do any good in the world 1 must not insist on
 doing it my way or not at all. We cannot alter Gods universe and human nature. We can only conform to
 them.