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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08

less, they own land in large tracts,
though they sleep in tents. more than
one Atlanta building Is leased from
the captain CT the clan. Their two
decades OF horse trading have been
profitable ones.
The services at the old Church OF
the Immaculate Conception were as
impressive as half a score of priests
and acolytes could make them, a sol
emn requiem for the dead and a
prayer for the living. The old church
founded by irish Catholics and still
their favorite house of worship here
has always been the scene OF the
O'Hara funerals.
The names of the IL who have died
In the past year were reoited and
masses said for the souls OF each
They we're Baby Michael. who died al
Madlsonville, KY, on May 16; Bird
get Sherlock. whose end came In At
lanta last May; Patrick Mcnamara,
who passed at Montgomery. Ala. in
September; Thomas Carroll, who
breathed his last on the road while
the camp was pitched In South
Georgia; James O'Hara, killed under
train near Savannah two days be.
fore Christmas, and six others. all
young or old members Of the clan and
all equally honored at the end.
From the old church the funeral
procession passed on to the cemetery,
where succeeding years have crowd
ed the graves OF anti-bellum Georg-
ians until there Is scarce stepping
room between them. But toward a
corner Of the land, on a sunlit hill
side, the plot OF the Clan O'Hara
stretches down toward the valley.
and there is room for many a wan
derer yet to lie down In his last sleep.
The IL bodies were taken from the
O'Hara vault and each inferred sep
arately In It's grave. The vault stands
always ready TO receive a member of
the clan, but its cold stone walls and
mouldy crypts are not for those who
wander beneath the stars and sleep
where the rivers sing.
II has always been the warm brown
earth for the O'Hares: out under the
open sky, with the spring grass for a
coverlet; the mating birds for choir
listers. There they sleep--a long
line Of several generations now, and
there will their brothers and their
sons finally come to join them.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08

The farm had done something bet
ter than raise money, however. II
had awakened the neighborhood
pride In Holly Springs. The actual
work on those Saturday afternoons,
with so many hands To do II. had
usually taken only. about an hour.
The rest OF the afternoon was spent
eating a picnic dinner, visiting and
listening TO speeches. Holly Springs
liked IL.
When the question OF a special
school tax was again brought up by
the women, ii passed almost unani-
mously. Each year since, the farm
has produced its crop. Last year
there were 20 school farms In Wake
CO
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08

really debating political parties! We
are debating nothing less than the
fundamentals Of government; We are
debating nothing less than the ques-
ton: Have we a democratic govern
ment--a representative government!
Have we q government whose con-
nections are with the general body
OF the people and which responds TO
the impulses Of the people and to the
judgments that lie In their heartsf
Il Il party question whether We
shall control, I'm some fair and ade-
Quate fashion. those great corpora
5 lions which serve the hourly necessi-
ties OF our life? Is there any party
politics In the question whether men
shall spend money for illegftimate
purposes at election?
That II merely question OF -ae
purity of functions of government,
whether the men who are put into au-
thority shall get there by fair means
or foul; It 10 q question OF the In
teerity Of government.
The main question Is: Shall The
people have access to their govern
E mentf
n we take part In the elections,
&xhat choice do we make except the
hoice between the nominees OF one
11ltioal machine and the nominees OF
bthsr political machine7 We would
have settle II by the toss Of q coin.
lause, after one set OF men IL elect
ri 10 once, they take their orders from
|h6 machine. We don't like the ma
chine and can't put II out of business
~ - Ua oot annnaQ
% our own government.
And why does the machine try to
conduct its Affairs with such separate
ness from what would seem to be the
very source OF It's power? Because
Al has come about that we, the people.
are not the source Of their power;
the source Of their power Is, In the
main. derived from the men who are
conducting great enterprises OF busi-
uess. There are men In every board
Of trade, for instance, who are part
ners -intimate and constant partners
with political machines which the
parties they are connected with are
pretending to fight
The business of politics at this mo-
4. ment Is to reconstruct our govern
mont BY putting II upon Its right
basis again. which is the basis OF
popular will and not the basis Of pr.
vafe arrangement. The partnership
A about to be dissolved by public
process; the partnership N about To
be made impossible by pitiless pub
licity. &
Il have found audiences made uI
Of the common people OF this couhtrs
oliicker 20 take point quicker t.
understand an argument, quicker u
. comprehend principle than many {
college class that I have he'd; not be
cause the college class lacked intelli
xencc, but because class OF colleg'
mon IL not I'm contact with actua
1ife. day BY day. and a body OF tbs
common citizenship OF the Unitet
states IL in contact with actual life
day BY day. You do not have to ex
plain 20 them what touches them t.
the quick.
II You win go out and explain Il
the people what Il 10 that ought Il
b done for their government. theJ
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08

will waive all minor objections and
they will see to 1t that you are sus-
tanned In doing 1t.
The only thing you have to do Is
TO prove to them that you really mean
to serve them, and that you are not
IN the least afraid Of the man that Is
crooked The only thing you have
to do with the man who is trying TO
do the wrong thing is TO make him
stand up in public and explain II. IL
you find men button-holing you and
button-holing representatives and
criticizing various measures which
have to do with the public welfare.
hire a hall for them and get them to
get UP on the stage and tell you why
they are Directing.
There is nothing that so chills ar
dor for wrong-doing as exposure to
the open air. have been told that
II requires courage to advocate a pop
ular cause. Unless / have misread
history, the only thing that requires
courage Is to oppose It, because the
thing that a man ought to fear Is not
the interruption OF his personal pros
perity, but the permanent disrepute
Of his name.
In the years gone by when I was a
very literary fellow, used to enjoy
a certain grim satisfaction In hearing
certain public men make public ex-
cuses for their careers, for I used to
know that IL was quiet men. like my
self, sitting at study tables, reading
the records in which we are told how
posterity ought to think Of those men,
who knew that their voices would die
with the hour and that the record OF
history would rise mp against them,
generation after generation, and those
who descended from them would wish
they had never been born.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
MAKE CAMPUS BEAUTIFUL.
v. Of M. Professor and Students Plan
Shrubs and Flowers.

". OF W. PROFESSOR anu SheucUts T'aUt
Shrubs and Flowers.
ANN ARBoR, Mich, May s.-A de-
sire for a campus beautiful was re-
sponsible for the appearance on the
campus of a staid professor and a
dozen students on Saturday. CARRIED
In the garments of the day laborer
and equipped with shoyels and
spades.
Prof. Aubrey Tealdi. instructor in
landscape design, had charge. OF the
student laborers. who are members
OF his class, and they spent the day
planting shrubs and flowers near the
university museum. For a long time
there has been bald spot near the
museum where grass refuses to grow,
and Il Is now planted in shrubbery
and flowers. The grounds around the
new Memorial building have also been
graded and sown to grass, and that
part OF the campus has undergone a
remarkable change within the past
two months
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
MARRYING PARsoN RESIGNS.

BATTLE CREEK, May S.-After
serving as pastor Of the First Presby-
terrain church for nearly 20 years. the
Rev. William 8. Potter, known az the
marrying parson," has resigned. He
has officiated at 1000 weddings and
1900 funerals and has averaged 1900
calls annually Mr.. Potter came here
In 1888 from Ionia. He says he will
take long rest He will retain his
place as representative of the Lansing
Presbytery at the assembly In Allan
tic City this year, his resignation not
taking effect till August /.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
THEN 1T HAPPENED"

Clate Fridemush was going to build
his own barn. by heck, and with con-
crete at that. Clate had not toyed
with concrete before, but he was go
ing TO take a chance.
He had the stun poured In frames
clear up to the caves and then walt
ed and waited for II to harden. He
thought three days ought TO be about
enough, so he took the molds Off He
did think it looked green and soft
even while he was standing there,
and
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
SUNDAY LILO CRACKED.

MT. CLEMENS, Mich. May g.
There was big crack In the Sunday
lid here yesterday. Heaps OF suds
were handed out over the bars to
those who came via the back-door
route Mayor Bowers places the re-
sponsibility with the police commis-
sion. The Sunday lid bad been In
effect since last June, and had been
enforced until the new administration
came into power.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
Declares President Gomez 10 Tyrant.

NEW YORK, May S.--Because of
dissatisfaction with the administra.
ton OF Juan Vicente Gomez, as presi.
dent OF Venezuela an expedition &c
depcse him and seize the government
of that country is 10 be financed In
this city. DR.. Alexandra Riyas Vas.
quez. former governor OF Zulia and
later minister of public works. under
President Castro. is arranging the
details, He denied emphatically TO
day that the deposed president had
any part in the proposed revolution
saying that Castro decided to remain
at Teneriffe. w." 'ttt'
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
KILLED BY FLYER.

BANCROFT. Mich, May ST. d.
Frazer, OF this town, aged about 30,
was struck and instantly killed. yes
terday afternoon, by the east-bound
Grand Trunk passenger train. Frazer
was walking on the track In the local
yards when he stepped of one track
to avoid west-bound freight train
and was caught by the passenger
train on the other track. He was
hurled nearly SO feet, his head being
crushed and nearly every bone In his
body broken. Frazer was a carpen-
ter and came here about a year ago
from the northern part OF the state.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
Women AvIators To Contest.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 8.-Three
women have entered an aeroplane
race for women only, which will be
conducted In August at the aviation
meet of the Harvard Aeronautical so.
ciety. Nine. Helene Dutrieux will
represent France, Mrs. James v. Mar.
tin il entered for England. and Miss
Emil, willard for America. All three
women have had experience in sky
plotting.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
(THE ENID
She Won't Practice KISSING.

NEW YORK, May S.--Helen Schol.
der Is. refused to be kissed at re-
hearsals. Producer Hammerstein fred
her. She's suing for breach OF con
tract on her $100-a-week job. Willing
to osculate at performances, II neces.
sary, but denies need OF practice.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
POPULAR DEMANDS
SWEEPING ASIDE
PARTY Ties
Gov, Woodrow Wilson, in First
Article Written for Newspaper,
Gives Times Readers His Views
On Present Conditions.
Says Leading Question Is, Shall
People Have Access To Their
Government"

woodrow Wilson has suddenly loom
ed large In the attention OF the nauoh.
What does he stand for? What does he
believe? The following article written
BY him especially for this newspaper u
the FIRST OF any sort that he has writ
ten since he went into office as COVER
nor OF New Jersey.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
AviNtor sustaIns peath Injuries.

PARIS, May 8.-While trying cut
a new Canard Voisin biplane. at Issy,
today, Richard Say, fell 155 feet and
sustained fatal injuries. Says jaw
wac broken and his chest crushed.
He was hurried 10 the Boucicauit
hospital. where physicians said he
could not possibly outlive the day.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08

NEW YORK, May s.-Given up TO
the authorities by his mother, John
Lubey, IL years old, assistant bank
teller, charged with stealing 500,
was brought back from his hiding
place, shackled TO a detective.
1T was my duty to tell the bank
where my boy was hiding" said the
mother 1T nearly killed me, but !
did my duty"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
p. r. Barnum,s Associate Dead.

CHICAGO, May s.-Lewis NJ.
Hedges, one OF the most widely
known "old-time" showmen, and for
years manager for the late p. T. Bar
mum, is dead, at his home here.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
The poet's SnlIr

This Is a great poem. You must
have been thinking OF something in.
spring when you wrote It,"
Il was. was thinking OF the In
stalment manipulating Post.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08

Then Judd sprung his school farm
idea-to raise money by cooperative.
free community labor. The women
enthused. Men and boys got interest
ed. They plowed four acres Of the
school farm. 6ne donated cotton seed.
A phosphate company gave a ton OF
fertilizer. A woman bossed the plant
ing. When more work was needed
men and women in sunbonnets work
ed together.
Almost every Saturday afternoon
the neighbors gathered to cultivate
the school farm. The crop thrived.
In the fall almost everybody helped
pick 1t. Two girls drove the mules
which hauled II to the gin. The
profits were nearly $500.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
swITcHMAN FALLS TO DEATH.

SAGINAW, Mich, May S.-John
Megland, so years old, Pere Mar.
quette switchman for the last Is
years, fell from a box car, last mid
night, and was instantly killed. Four
cars passed over his body. He was
not missed until some time after,
when the train returned to do some
more switching.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
L. n. RICHARDSON DEAD.

CALUMET, Mich. May S.-Lon II.
Richardson, aged So, clerk Of Hough-
ton county the last IL years, died
suddenly OF apoplexy yesterday morn
ing. He was one Of the leading Re
publicans OF northern Michigan.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-08
BY ROBERT WILSON.

BY ROBERT WILSON.
RALEIGH, N. c., May s.-Trim
new school houses fully equipped and
set in shaded gardens, are fast re-
placing the old "box-car" schools or
North Carolina, as the result OF
school FARMS" an idea of Zebulon ".
Judd, young Wake-ee. saperinten-
dent.
Four years ago some women in the
Holly Springs district awoke TO the
need of good school. They organiz-
ed, campaigned, raised money and
bought a l0-acre site. But the men
folks voted against special tax for
the building.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-07-02
: '---- -.

An expedition of French natnrnlists
has discovered n new species of etc
plant IN Africa. smaller than the
known types and with shorter trunks.
longer pecks and no tusks
Sixty seven sackfus of sticks were
taken from the top OF the tower OF st.
Michaers church. Exeter. England. re-
Gently. They had been carried there
by iackdaws for nest building
For the first time In history Joint
stamp. bearing the legends both of
France and Britain. has been Issued In
the New Hebrides Islands. which are
jointly administered by the two coun-
tries.
A man who was charged at Berlin
with stealing parrot stated that The
bird had belonged TO him for len
years. The parrot convicted him by,
announcing the name Of the man from
whom il had been stolen.
Viscount Dangan. eldest son and heir
OF Earl Cowley. is working twelve
hours day at weekly wage of $40
In a scenic artists studio just outside
London. The young viseount has
dropped his title aud works as Arthur
Wellesley.
Patrick Powers. for forty-sfx years
guard at Calvary cemetery. died re-
Gently at his home. Rissvile. Queens.
In New York. He was known to every
funeral director In Manhattan and
Brooklyn. and 1t Is said that he piloted
more thar 100000 funerals from the
gate of the cemetery to the graves.
A school for piano makers has been
proposed In Stuttgart. Germany. The
course was to cover one year. ten
hours day. with one months vaca
ton. with two classes--one for begin
ners and one to ct competent workmen
for foremen. So few pupils applied
that the project has been abandoned.
An English writer calls attention 10
one objection to the use OF purely au-
tomato danger signals which he thinks
no invention can get round. and that Is
the fear that the sole use of such sig
nails would reuder engine drivers care
less The greater the apparent security
afforded by the signals, the greater the
reliance upon them
Corrosion in metals is said to be pre-,
vented by the passage through the
metals Of weak current of electricity
This is like cure ike treatment,
for the pitting of metals is said to be
due to the local electrical action that
Is. feeble current developed by the
acidnIar water on dissimilar metals.
often impurities In the metal itself, at
the point Of corrosion.
For the monster steamship Olympic
the 100 ton stern frame was cast In a
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-07-02

tnat II ne would 20 to the sepnicher
and appear TO Abdallah as Il ghost
and scare him away she would accept
Hamid for her husband. Hwmid was
quite pleased at what he considered
an easy way TO get rich -Ssite aud
agreed to abide by the result Of his
effort.
The third sutton. Bismillah. was an
independent fellow. and Fatima prefer
red him to either OF the others. She
told MIN OF the arrangement she had
made with them and said that she
would also give him a chance for her
hand Whoever OF the three was found
in he scpucher in the morning she
wonId marry.
"Nonsense"' replied Bismillah. I'm
not going to make guy of myself by
sleeping in tomb"
"Uh. thought you loved me-" re.
piled Fatima
my life by remaining all night in a
cold sepulcher What good would 1t do
me 10 win wife and dieY
1T is very plain. said Fatima. that
you do not love me-
Il don't call love giving way to
whim."
1T is not within; II is test"
Very well. test these other men.
have no mind to enter such an absurd
competition
he turned on his heel and left her
She was very much disappointed She
had given her word to the other two
to marry the one who should fulfill the
conditions. relying on Bismillah, whom
she knew to be brave and free from
superstitions. to occupy the sepulcher
and thus win her His refusal upset
all her plans and would give her
husband she did not wish to marry.
She lay awake all night bemoaning
the miscarriage Of her plan and think
ing how foolish she md been to IN.
dertake It, She knew Bismiliah would
not fear to remain all night in any
uhcanhy pace. ana sne respected nim
for not being willing to win ner In
such fashion. Besides. his Indifference
only made her more anxious 10 have
him for ner husband.
She fretied over the matter ill just
before dawn, when she determined 10
go herself and Try TO frignten away
the snitors She did not wish to marry
Dressing herself, she wound a sheet
about her ana hurried to the GENE
terry Approaching the sepnIcher OF
her ancestors, she heard n sound and
stopped 70 listen. Could 1t be snore:
Surely 1t was a snore One OF the
men she had sent there had got rid
OF the other, gone into the sepulcher
and fallen asleep.
.s Fl. Z - -. -. NJ ---
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-07-02
TIMELY TOPICS.

Most of the type used by printers in
China Is made in Japan.
The value Of the Rand gold industry
to South Africa is estimated at half
a million dollars day.
Weighing sixteen tons, the anchor
for the new White Star liner Titanic
is the largest In the world
An extremely hard artificial wood is
being made in Germany from saw
dust and chloride of magnesium.
Orientals are displncing native sea-
men on British ships to an extent
which Is alarming the government.
When arrested In Berlin recently d
which he admitted had been gained By
begging.
In Australia there are 3G1 private
holders OF land OF from 10000 to $4,000
acres each and a total area of lO.e33,.
449 acres.
Germany does not produce any table
&iuPS1s LIE supply III that uipoSS
coming from the Tyroi. Italy, France
and Spain.
italy produces 100000 gross Of
buttons Of vegetable ivory each year.
In Its fourteen factories are employees
numbering 5000.
A new regulation cog introduced In
Swiss watches works so accurately
that the ttmepieces do not vary ten
seconds In month.
According to the calculation of d
French statisticlan, the number of
books published throughout the world
is l2s,530 each year.
More beer is produced in the United
States than In Germany or Great Brit
ain. Much American beer is sent to
Canada. Cuba and Panama.
Water soaked goods rescued from
fires are dried by electricity in large
warehouse provided for the purpose
: by the New York underwriters,
Chicago is now the largest piano
producing center In the world turning
out annually more than 100000 instru-
ments. which are shipped all over the
world.
Greece is solicitous for trade with
the United States. During the decade
closed with 1910 1t is estimated that
10000 Greeks emigrated to the Unit
ed States.
A floating senitarlum for consump-
tives Ia planned In England. the idea
being to divert the patients minds by
change OF scene as II Is moved from
$500 s-A~&~ 60 = e<sA4~A-
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-07-02

All now apnPnuea on ratIIna y TI7gnT-
ening away he man in the sepnlcher.
The moon had risen, and there was
light enough from this ana the coming
Of dawn for her TO be distinctly seen
though 1t WAS too dark tor nei 10 see
the man IN the sepuicher. Standing
before the door, which was open. she
gave Shrek. There was a sound as
of some one turning, the creaking or
some sort of bed, and voice came:
go away from here and cease to
disturb my slumber"
Leave this abode OF the dead. said
Fatima In sepulchrai voice. 'or /
will drag you with me to Turtarus"
"That would please me greatly re.
piled the voice inside by coming
here have put myself III AN unpIeas-
ant position A girl told me that II
would occupy this place till morning
she would marry me. | refused; then.
lest she should think me cowardly,
came. ! brought my bed with me and
drove away two fools | found mere
Now | suppose shah have TO marry
this girl. | would prefer going with
you to Tartarus."
There was silence for few mo-
ments. then Fatima gave sob. then
laugh. and Bismilah. who knew
from The first 1t was she. sprang from
the cot he occupied, took her In his
arms and checked her sobs and ner
laughter with kisses.
Then, taking up his bed. he carried
it, walking home beside her,
There wasn't any trouble about her
choosing lover after that. The two
other suitors took back seat. and
Bismillah occupied the only front one.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-07-02

foundry ~ EngHnd mere was rot Il
freight car in the kingdom Thar would
hold II properly II proiruded over
every side Al four miles an hour It
was hnued 10 the coast. while the traf-
fir on both tracks Of The railroad was
stopped Even that did not give suffi
Client leeway. and stations Ind to be
altered to let II pass.
Aaska's first dining car. only recent
~ placed in service on the Copper
River and Northwestern railway, was
built from IN old t'unch at the Cordova
shops OF the company and Is managed
by man and bis wife. with two as
sistants A In carte meals are served
at all hours during the day, the car
being attached 10 the regular trains
operating over the rairond between
CordoVa and the interior OF Alaska.