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Mohave County miner., 1912-10-12
The Power to Go Alone.

Selected by Edwin Markham.
 Some of the wisest little gospels and parables now preached in the press are those given the multitude by Frank Crane. From his latest collec- tion, Lame and Lovely" Ian echo from Charles Lamb) note this inter- esting little essay:
 All real moral advancement and true success are solitary and along the lone trail.'
 "Men go the devil in crowds. One goes because the rest are going. The boy gets drunk because he does not like to refuse the fellows The poli- tician steals because he hears they all do It. In fact, the devils other name is They all-do.iG.' A girl becomes bad usually trying to keep step. AL most all vice is social; almost all right eousness that is of any account is pure- ly personal.
 When the devil was cast out of the Gadarene swine he confessed his name was Legion. God is one; the devil is the many.
 'The truth of this appears in ordi- nary business. The kind of clerk that is hardest to find is the one who simp. ly does what he ought to do: Says Kipling:
 "Creation's cry goes up
 From age to cheated age,
 Give us the men who do the work
 For which they get the wage"
 Ut is pity, but true as gospel, that the average servant is inefficiant, the average mother incompetent, the average actor poor one, and the average preacher bore.
 ''In fact, the average of any class of men is below the average, so to speak. The worlds work is carried on by make shifts. If any man will train himself properly and will correctly perform the duties of his calling, whatever it is, he will find that people call him remarkable person, unusual!
 "You have heard possibly many a sermon on What shall I do to be saved?' Here is one on What shall I do to be ruined? And it is a short one: Do nothing! Follow the crowd. Aim for the average.
 "For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that walk therein"
Mohave County miner., 1912-10-12

If you have young children you have perhaps noticed that disorders of the stomach are their most common ail- ment. To correct this you will find Chamb mberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets excellent. They are easy and pleasant to take and mild and gentle in effect. For sale by all dealers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-23
c. A. R. MAKES APPEAL
Funds Needed to Decorate
Graves of Soldiers and
Sailors.

For the first time since its organization,
the Department Of the Potomac, Grand
Army of the Republic. has issued an ap-
peal to the public and to patriotic citizens
Of Washington for funds to help defray
the expense of decorating the $1,000 or
more graves Of soldiers and sailors of the
civil war and the Spanish-American war
in the District of Columbia.
Heretofore the expense attendant upon
the annual decoration Of graves has been
met from the contributions of members
or the G. A. r., members of other
patriotic organizations, officials Of the
federal government and the District gov
eminent. For several years past, it is
stated. receipts from these sources have
fallen on, until an appeal to the public
Is necessary.
Contributions may be sent to the as
sistant adjutant general. @. A. r. head
quarters; Alfred Wood. Washington Loan
and Trust Company: Park Savings Bank,
14th street and Columbia road DIR. II. A.
Johnson. room 40. War Department:
Francis l.. Mckenna, treasurer, G. A. r.
headquarters. or DR.. j. X. Gleason chair
man of the finance committee, 1451 Har-
ward street northwest. Any -unexpended
balance remaining after the expense Of
decorating the graves has been met II
is explained, will be used in affording re-
lief TO destitute soldiers and sailors and
widows and orphans who apply to the
relief committee of the department for
aid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-23
The Diesel Engine.

From the New York Evening Post.
DIR. Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the
internal combustion motor that bears his
name, was last week made an honorary
member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers This was in ac-
knowledgment of his services in devils
ing a successful heat-motor in which
controlled combustion replaces explosions.
and which far exceeds in thermal eff
ficiency any previous engine. This official
recognition will bring the Diesel type
of oil engine more prominently to public
attention and Is sure to result in largely
increased interest in the subject of
economical power production throughout
the engineering profession. The Diesel
engine has passed through the period of
probation. which every radical innovation
must undergo, and today is an unques-
toned success. It's development has been
80 unusually RAPID that the world is just
beginning to realize its merits and it's
possibilities. Until recently engineers
themselves knew surprisingly little Of the
progress it was making, and are con-
tinually astonished at the reports of its
achievements that come to t. cir notice.
The credit for the pioneer work in the
internal combustion engine lies entirely
with a few large European firms. but
many others have taken up its manu-
facture. and American concerns are now
following in their lead. The compare
lively slow adoption Of the Diesel engine
on this side Of the Atlantic Is only an
other instance of the hesitation with
which most of the important mechanical
and electrical improvements making for
increased efficiency have been received.
The multiple-expansion steam engine was
developed abroad, and later was taken Up
by American engine builders. The same
was true OF the steam turbine. the gaso-
line moter. high efficiency electric lights,
such as the Nernst and tungsten, high
tension alternating current transmission
OF power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-23
The Chocolate Plant.

From Harper's Weekly.
The chocolate plant is native of Amer
lea When first introduced into Europe
chocolate was used only as a luxury, but
1t speedily advanced in popular esteem. 1t
is now cultivated in countries far from
its original home The chocolate plant,
tivated from time immemorial. Chocolate
as a beverage rapidly made its way in
Europe, beginning in Spain, whittier it
was first brought.
The seeds of the chocolate plant are In
pods. In preparing the seeds for market
there has been but little change since
early times. First the seeds are allowed
to ferment, and thus they lose the slight
bitterness that they possess when fresh.
Then they are carefully dried and in this
condition they stand transportation. In
manufacturing the seeds or beans are
roasted, by which process the shell of
the seed becomes detachable from the
kernel, which is the part used. Next the
roasted kernels are ground.
In early times the Mexfcans used the
fiat stones on which their maize was
ground for the grinding of the roasted
seeds Of chocolate. Chocolate consists of
the roasted shelled and ground seeds.
Sweet chocolate is the same with the ad-
dition of sugar and favoring extracts.
Cocoa consists Of the roasted and ground
seeds from which the oil has been re-
moved. Experiments have shown that ii
the seeds are rightly treated from the
first to the last stage OF manufacture no
objection can be urged against the bev-
erages produced from them. 1t is of great
grown and selected with the greatest
care, and should, after reaching the fac
tory. receive the most careful and skill
ful treatment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-23
READY FOR BOAT RACES
Crews From Princeton, Cornell
and Harvard Compete
Late This Afternoon.

BOSTON, May 23.-The varsity eight
Dared crews Of Princeton. Cornell and
Harvard and the freshmen Fights Of the
two latter universities put on the finish
ing touches this forenoon to the races
scheduled for PIMA triangular contest
between the varsity crews and a dual race
between the Harvard and Cornell fresh
men.
They found the going rough, the water
of the Charles river basin. where the race
will be rowed, being disturbed by a south
east breeze.
Should the wind continue in this
quarter in the afternoon it probably
will necessitate the rowing OF the races
upstream. the mile and seven-eighths
course being reversed, with the start
at the Union Boat Club and finish just
before the Cottage Farms bridge is
reached. Princeton, with a shell de-
signed for smooth waters, was ad-
versely affected by the wind this morn
ing.
The Cornell crew. weighing slightly
less than that of the Crimson, is
largely veteran. and keyed up with the
confidence born OF repeated success.
Harvards eight has been made over in
two weeks. and is believed by its
coaches to be adaptable to any condi-
ions Princeton has been trained as
speed crew, light and wiry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-23
Syndicalism in England.
From the London Times.

newspaper remarked the other day
that before last summer not one man
in million in this country had heard of
syndicalism. Everybody has heard OF
it now; but the daily references to it in
parliament and the press show that few
have either a clear or a correct concep-
ton of its meaning. Now the essential
character and strength Of "syndicalism
lie in its independence of intellectuals
and of outside guidance. 1t is a working
class movement which has sprung up
within the ranks of organized labor. and
that Is why il is spreading so rapidly
Dlnerent means are proposed for
accomplishing the economic revolution
thus contemplated. The question is,
How to get rid of the present owners
The method hitherto favored In France
Is the general strike. The general strike
OF syndicalism is not means Of securing
higher wages like the coal strike or last
years, railway strike. 1t is a revo-
lutionary act having no relation to wages
at all. It aims at the complete over
tion OF all activity. The manual workers
stop at home. society comes to a stand
still, food Is soon exhausted. there Is no
public lighting or conveyance, plundering
called out but refuse to turn against the
rioters. and 10! the revolution Is accom-
plished. Then the trade unions step in.
take over the economic assets OF the
nation, reorganize them. and there you
are! Everything, 1t 10 to be noted.
turns on the behavior of the soldiers:
aud hence the campaign for. seducing
he army. That IL one way OF securing
possession on a Wholesale scale
The plan recently unfoided among
Welsh miners is quite different and much
less bold. 1t Is to render the mines un-
profitable and therefore worthless as
property by bad work, lessening output,
higher wages. and incessant friction.
When these proceedings have done
their work. and the mines have been
rendered worthless, the unions will step
in and take them over. But how this is
to be done or what good II will be when
the trade has been destroyed or how the
miners, after being debauched by pro-
longed and systematic shamming, can
be got to work again-these and the like
problems are left to solve themselves.
Syndicalism has other methods, some
miIder. some more violent than those
described: but enough has been said to
make the aim clear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-23
MAYOR SHEPHERD TAXES OATH
New Common Councilmen Of Hyatts-
vile Also Sworn In.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.


HYATTSVILLE, Nd, May %. 1912.
The retiring mayor and town council
met with the new mayor and common
council last night. Mayor Roger Bells
presided at the final meeting of the old
council, whose last action was to pass an
ordinance granting permission to prop
erty owners to inclose certain land in
Wine avenue. The treasurer's report
from time of making annual statement
to May Is showed receipts to be 81, 159. 70
and expenditures 81 ,12S.S7. The oath was
administered to Harry w. Shepherd as
mayor and to Fred ID. Tillman, Albert
H. Clark and John G. Holden. council
men from the first, second and third
wards, respectively, by Justice OF the
Peace L. 0. Wissman. G. Hodges Carr
was elected town clerk; Vincent H.
Sheehy, corporation counsel; w. w.
Rushe, engineer at the pumping station:
Charles w. Barr, town ibailiff. and w. w.
Rushe. underbaiIiff Councilman Stephen
j. Kelly, the oldest member in point Of
service. was elected president Of the coun-
Gil.
Mayor Shepherd announced the appoint
ment of the following standing commit
and Greager Road committee, Clark,
chairman: Kelly and Holden. Water and
sewer committee, Kelly, chairman; Clark
and Greager. Lighting, Greager. chair
man; Dorr and Clark. Improvement.
Dorr, chairman: Tillman and Kelly.
Health, Tillman, chairman: Dorr and
Kelly. Municipal building and fire de-
partment, Holden, chairman; Clark,
Greager, Kelly and Dorr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-23
HOUSE OPPOSES TOLLS
FOR AMERICAN VESSELS
Votes for Free Passage of
Canal by Coast Trade
Ships.

BY vote of 14I to 126 the House today
reaffirmed its decision that no toll should
be charged American vessels engaged in
eoastwise trade for passage through the
Panama canal. The provision was Bit
terly fought and the result was received
with cheers.
A plea for free passage of ships in the
Panama canal was made to the Senate
committee on interoceanic canals today
by Capt. Robert Dollar of San Francisco.
head of the Dollar Steamship Company.
He said that Congress should take this
step with a view to rehabilitating the
American mercantile marine. Capt. Dol
lar declared that the shipping people gen.
orally believed the Pacific Mail and tn,
steamship companies
would get together. reduce their rates
and stifie competition in order to put ou
of existence small steamship lines. II,
said that after they had obtained such q
monopoly their rates would be increased
He favored the interstate commerce com
mission having regulatory powers ovel
the canal traffic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-23
SENT TO OLD HOME.
Body Of Clarence v. T. Richeson
Shipped to Virginia.

BOSTON. May BIN a plain black
coffin that was inclosed in an oak outer
box ornamented only by copper handles.
the body of Clarence v. T. Richeson was
secretly sent from Boston on the Federal
express last night on its journey to his
old home in Amherst, Va.
Douglas Richeson, a brother, sat be-
side the coffin in the baggage car from
the time it was put aboard the train.
about 7:25 O'Clock, until the express
pulled out a half hour later. With his
sister. Miss d. v. Richeson. he will ac-
company the body to- Virginia. Miss
Richeson left this city yesterday after
noon, but arranged to board the Federal
express elsewhere. probably at New York.
The aged father of Richeson will not
refuse to allow the body to the taken to
the family home. according to the Rev
Herbert 8. johnson.
Prayers were said over the body at
the vestry OF the Warren Avenue Bap-
fist Church yesterday afternoon by the
Rev. johnson. pastor of the church. and
the Rev. ]. Campbell Of the First Baptist
Church OF Cambridge.
A plate on the CONN bore the inscrfp-
ton: Safe in the arms Of Jesus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-23
VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS
MEETING in NORFOLK
Fight viii Be Made on the
Question of Instructing
Delegates to Baltimore.

NORFOLK, Va. May 23.-The Virginia
democratic state convention for the cleo
ton of twenty-four delegates to the
democratic national convention at Balti-
more in June met here today with the
prospect of an uninstructed delegation
working under the unit rule. The Will
son. Clark Underwood and Harmon
forces are all at work, the Wilson fol-
lowers seeking to secure the passage of
preferential resolutions if absolute In
structions fall and the Clark. Underwood
and Harmon supporters seeking to pre-
vent either instructions or preferential
action.
state appears to be in control of large
majority of the SO delegates in the con-
vention, and while some of the ten dls-
trict conventions nominated to the state
convention delegates known to favor
Woodrow Wilson'S candidacy. the action
of the convention itself will determine on
n question of unit rule whether the
Virginia delegation will go to Bait more
free-handed or pledged by preferential
action.
The ten district conventions which met
prior to the assembling of the state con-
vention nominated to the parent pody
twenty district delegates to the natlonai
convention. These nominations Will De
10 instructions or uninstructlons given
the states four delegates at large. VINO
are now expected to be United states Sen
ators Thomas S. Martin and Claude
A. Swanson, Gov. William Hodges Mann
and Representative Hal d. Flood OF the
tenth congressional district.
Owing to the extreme illness OF his wife.
at whose bedside he now is in Charlottes-
vile, Senator Martin is not in attendance
upon today's convention
In the ten district conventions held to-
day prior to the state convention there
was much interest. Two districts, the
second and tenth, elected four delegates
each to Baltimore, with half vote each
Thomas +. Ryan of New York, who holds
his voting residence in Nelson county,
Va, was elected as an anti-Wiison dele
gate in the tenth district, with half vote
at Baltimore. Col G. F>enton Day OF Isle
of Wight county, fathef-in-law of Senator
Martin. was defeated for reelection to
the democratic state committee in the
second district Sheriff A. c. Cromwell
of Norfolk county. now iii in Arizona. on
whom a fight was made because of hi!
fusion" associations in Norfolk county,
was reelected to the state committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-23
ELECTRIC PARK ENTRIES.

First race. selling. three-year olds
and up; about five furlongs-sBonnie
Bee. los; District Attorney. lis; ELAN
nah Louise. los; Susan, 109: Merry
Chiffon, 100; Tallahassee, l09; T. b.,
Spears. 112: Lone Ben. Ill.
Second race, selling. three-year- Odds.
illies; about FIVE furlongs-wildweed .
107; Fond. 107; Exicutante, 107: sYar~
leo, 1O2; Henotic. 107; Margaret Alice.
l07: Elsie Herndon. 107.
Third race. purse. two-year-olds:
about five Enthusiastically. 100: Ethel-
burg ii. lis; Loan Shark, lib; Dog
wood. ITO; Fred Levy. lis; Good Night
103.
Fourth race, selling: three-year-olds
and up: seven furlongs-'Aviator los:
Agnier. 100; Teddy Bear, 106: Louise
Welles. ia: Catula. 103; Joe Rose, ia:
Merise, ia; Demoness, 113; River Grass.
1OS.
Fifth race. selling: three-year-olds ana
up: one mile-sDissenter. 104; Otilo. 10:
sRey. 1Ol; sMonsieur. 81: Golden Castle.
112: FL Orc. III: Fond Heart, ll6
Sixth race. selling; three-year-olds ana
up: about five furlongs-'Fort Worth. III:
Gold Cap. al; Chiffon Queen. 10: Leia-
loha. los; 'Hudas Sister. los; Loyal Maid.
l1o: Shreve. ilO.
Apprentice allowance claimed.
Weather cloudy; track fast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-23
OFF FOR STATE CONVENTION.
Leesburg, Va, Delegation to Nor
folk Composed Chiefly Of Alternates.
al Correspondence of The star.


LEESBURG. Va. May %. 1912.
Delegates to the democratic conven-
ton in Norfolk. Va. left here last
evening. +. B. White going as the alter
nate of w. H Martin. Capt. James Will
liam Foster as the alternate of Will
liam III. Clemens and Z. 1. Peasants
as alternate for J. r. III. Alexander
The fourth delegate was John l.. Gill
All sent to the convention uninstructed.
Henry Fairfax and W. r. Keller were
delegates from Mercer district; j. r..
Cochran. r. II. Gray and @. Ernest
l.eith from Mount Gilead district; E.
W. Presgraves. ". b. Harding and
Henry Shryock from Broad Run dis
trict; DIR. Z. II. Heaton. j. A.. Lynch
and W. u. Thompson from Jefferson
district and j. NJ. Dinges from Lovetts-
Vile district.
\ base ball team has been organized
in Leesburg with the following officers:
Z. Il. Carter. captain: DIR. w. c. Orr,
manager: Horace c. Littlejohn, assist
ant manager; Keith B. Wise, secretary.
and III. I. Plaster, treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-23
Old-Time Executions.
From Case and Comment.

FROM Case and Comment.
Executions, when criminals were hanged
in the Old Bailey, had certain customary
sequels. The governor of Newgate, for
instance, always gave a breakfast to
those friends he had invited to see the
hanging, and by established custom dew
lied kidneys always formed the principal
dish, although. as John Hollingshead had
related. nearly every one was obliged to
swallow a glass of brandy first
Another function described In that en-
PERTAINING book. London in the Sixties,
was the reception held afterward by the
hangman at the Green Dragon. in Fleet
street. where he took refreshment with
his admirers and sold the fatal rope at
the rate of sixpence per inch.
In the good old times nearly every
criminal who was executed was credited
with confession and last dying
words" whether he uttered them or not
which were printed in thousands by Mr..
Catnach Of Seven Dials. And some
times an offender was reprieved on his
way to Tyburn and had the pleasure
like Lord Brougham, of reading his own
obituary notice. Many of these broad
Sides printed on a peculiar whitey-brown
paper, can still be obtained in the neigh
borhood of The Dials, at certain quaint
little shops that seem to have defied
alike time and the improvement acts"
You can see them In the window along
side Of old ballads, forgotten comic songs.
cnlldrenS toys and bottles or sticky
looking sweets.
An Interesting execution which never
came off was that of Edward Dennis,
the public hangman. who In 1880 was
sentenced to death for completely In the
Gordon riots. He was, however. re-
spited, and resumed his occupation. So
did Dennis regain favor that
in 1TS5 the sheriffs of London presented
him with a most gorgeous ofhcial robe,
.as a testimony to his excellent mode OF
business" Dennis found this
robe not only inconvenient when at work,
but rather conspicuous at other times. so
he sold 1t to Old Cain, a well known
charlatan of the day. Decked in the
robe and a pasteboard crown,
the fortune teller cut a most imposing
figure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-23
SLAYER, SEATED IN CHAIR,
EXECUTED BY R|FLEMEN
Smoot Defends Utah Law Civ
ing Murderer Choice
of Death.

SALT LAKE CITY, May 23-Aiming
from loophoies in a curtain, five unseen
marksmen poured a rife volley into
the breast OF a blindfolded man seated
in a chair in the death house of the
state prison here. Steel-nosed bullets
ruptured the heart OF the prisoner,
Julius Sirmay.
When the silent signal was given and
the five rifles spoke as one his bound
feet plunged forward, the chair was
pushed back. with an upward perk the
neck twitched, and the jaw of dead
man dropped limp on his open shirt
front.
Sirmay. convicted of the murder Of
Thomas Karrick, fourteen years. old,
asked for death by shooting, and his
request was granted. Sirmay rehe-
mently protested his innocence. win
including lawyers and the county at
torney who had prosecuted him.
Confesses at Last.
Sirmay, realizing that he had no hope
Of escape. at last confessed that he did
kill Karrick while committing a day
light burglary at the Karrick home, in
this county.
There is a wide divergence of opinion
in this state as to the merits of execut-
ing capital punishment through the bull
let. Most people in Utah seem to think
1t is a barbarous practice and ought to
be stopped. Pressure will be brought on
the legislature to amend the statutes 30
as to prohibit it.
Army men, sportsmen and surgeons
familiar with gunshot wounds say the
prejudice is absurd. They insist that
death by the rifle aimed at heart or
brain Is far less barbarous and less
painful than hanging or death by
electricity.