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PROTECTING THE cANAl

"The senate is getting ready to serve
notice on all the countries of the world
that there are no naval stations for
sale in the western hemisphere and
that any attempt to purchase sites for
naval stations will be looked upon
with disapprova1 by this country" says
the Davenport Times This action,
although it is in effect the re-state-
ment of the Monroe doctrine, is the
corollary of the proposition that this
country proposes to control the
Panama canal.
1T would be absurd for the United
States to spend millions of dollars to
construct the canal so that the Allan.
tic squadron of the American fleet
may be more advantageously used
along the Pacific coast and then to
allow some other country-Japan for
instance-to purchase q naval station
at Magdalena bay where, in time of
war, Japanese ships could rendezvous
and practically dominate the Pacific
end of the canal, even though Magda.
lena bay is a long way from the exit
OF the canal. The bay is located in a
strategic position on the way from
the canal to the Pacific coast of the
United States. and any foreign coun-
try that had the use Of the bay for It's
ships could make much trouble for
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GIRLS NAMES
Name-The Name In History, Literature Etc
tcopyright W. Fischsrl
AMY.

herdess," annie" and a very gentle
and loveable creature she Is, credited
with number of fine sayings.
Amina, is the mysterious heroine
Of BellinYs still popular opera, The
Somnambulist" They miss Amtna,
the miller's daughter, on the night
before her wedding and her betrothed
and stepfather searching for her, see
her coming from q window In the
upper story of the mill She walks In
her sleep along the edge of the roof
under which the great wheel is re-
volving, crosses a bldge and walks
out among the spectators. Such at
least, is the original version. The
walking among the spectators 10 now
usually omitted.
Amy In History.
Amy Robsart, was rival Of Queen
Elizabeth for the love Of the hand.
some and accomplished Earl OF Leices-
ter. On her side she had nine points
OF the law. for she was Leicester's
wife, even as Lord Darnley was the
husband OF Mary Stuart when the Earl
Of Boutwell, was Intriguing to take
his place.
Amy Robsart Jared no better than
Darnley, both were murdered with
the connivance Of their lawful con-
sort.
Preparatory to obtaining the con-
sent OF the great mobiles to his mar
riage with Elizabeth, Leicester hired
Richard Varney to kin his wife, which
story forms the plot Of Walter SCOTS
Wentworth"
Lady Amy's murder was unavenged,
less, indeed, we reckon as retribution.
|Letcester's early death. presumably by
poison.
Madam Aimee. French diva gave
Americans the first taste OF lively
'operetta in the early ninetfee.
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Amy means practically the same as
Mabel, both being derived from the
Latin, II Love-" But Amy has the
advantage by having achieved calen
dar honors. st. Amy or Amata was a
noble Italian woman living in the city
| of Bari
Amata Is still used In the Latin
countries and In Germany. The French
form is Aimee with the eccent on the
last syllable pronounced "a"
Chaucer and other writer's frequently
use Amy as substantive verb OF
noun, indicating a friendly spirit Of
character, but the term is now
obsolete.
We have no abbreviation for Amy
which, indeed, is short enough. In
deed it's one of the few that gather
length in It's alternative. viz. Amina.
From this Germans formed the name
Nina, not to be confounded with
Minna, which latter signifies Love
while Nina stands for friendship"
Amy's Emblem.
Ivy is the emblem sacred to Amy
la poetical smile. As ivy clings tc
wood or stone, hiding the ruin That Il
feeds upon" SO the true friend should
hide his brothers. faults,-but not
profit my them" The sentiment ascrib
ed to Amy is in consonance with its
meaning: ~ have found true heart"
Amy In Literature.
Amy-Amina occurs more often In
oriental literature than in our own
| In "a Thousand and One Nights" or
the arabian Nights Entertainments,
a number of the more important fig
ures are called Amina, notably the
wife OF Sidney Nouman, who eats
very sparingly at table to feast at
might. and Zobeide's sister. who mar
ries the son Of Harln-al-Rashid In
the Three Ladies' of Bagdad."
Ben Johnson calls his Sad Shop.
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knows Of good boarding place where
they'll let her help with the linen
room. and can board, and then
we'll be together"
The captain let them go. He had
| to. He wanted to keep Sarah, but
he couldn't throw Violet out on the
world like that.
He took care Of sarah's cat and
her flowers, and wrote to her ABOUT
them once a week. Violet usually
answered the letters. Sarah says
she's busy Sightseeing was tho ex-
cuse she gave.
One morning there came letter
in Sarah's writing eve got to tell
you something that I'm afraid won't
please you," she said. 1T turns out
that violet's husband 10 alive.
Thought he was dead, but they were
separated, and their pride wouldn't
flet them come together. But they
have made up and now she Is the
happiest woman you ever saw. But
she ought to have told us 1t wasn't
fair to you not to.
The captain puzzled over that sem
tenoe. Then he took the next train
for the city.
What made you think Ia care 30
much?" he demanded.
Sarah blushed. Anybody could see
you were in love with her." she said,
"the way you kept coming to see
her"
The captain groaned. TITS you rye
beer. in love with. ever since you took
Violet in, and made me feel what q
brute was"
"But you never used to come, .
Sarah faltered, "and I think Violet
thought you cared for her that's
why she begged me to come to the
city" j.
"violet's nice little woman" said
the captain, ''and I'm sorry for
her But you're my kind and she
amt Now she couldn't stand up
against my temper for a minute,
Sarah. But you wouldn't let any man
boss you, and that's the kind of a
woman for me. I've had my own way
for so many years, that I'd be ter.
ror to a meek woman"
Sarah smiled. "You don't know
how meek I'd be II was In love-
she said.
"Are you in lover" the captain
asked anxiously. ''Dou you think you
could love me, SARAH"
| And Sarah, her good face all rosy
with bushes, laughed little and re
piled, HAS 1t taken you all these
years to find 1t out, Captain?"
|
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TAFT ADMINISTRATOR AIDS FARMER.

TAFT ADMINISTRATION AIDS FARMER
President Taft in his speech accepting the repub-
lican nomination for president said:
Many millions are spent annually by the agricul
tura department to investigate the best methods Of
treating the soil and carrying agriculture and of
publishing the result We looking into theques-
ton Of the best system for securing such credit for
the farmer at reasonable rates will enable him bet
ter to equip his farm and to follow the rules Of good
farming, which we must encourage. Our platform am
glad to say specifies this as reform to which the par
ty is pledged The necessity for stimulating greater
production of foodstufs per becomes imperative
as the vacant lands available for the extension Of
age filling up and the supply Of foodstus COM
pared with the demand is growing less each year.
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BRYAN ON THE COLONEL.

Mr.. Bryan is inclined to look with
amusement on Col. Roosevelt's attempt
to secure democratic support by pick
ing q southern democrat to be perma
nent chairman of his convention, and
By firting with proposition to name
4 democrat for vice president on his
ticket.
Roosevelt was moved to this course,
no doubt, by finding that the great
bulk Of the progressive republican
senators and congressman are refusing
10 1oin his bolt. LaFollette in his maya.
zine has drawn series of strong In.
dictments against Roosevelt. Bryan
in his Commoner now comes forth
with q statement that Roosevelt can.
not hope for any democratic support.
This Is what Mr. Bryan says:
''Mr. Roosevelt's errors are not to
be wondered at. His whole bias is
wrong. He is more Hamilitonian than
Hamilton himself. No public man
since the government was formed has
treated constitutional limitations SO
contemptuously. Away with the con.
etitution and let US decide what the
people need and then do it for them
That IL the Roosevelt program
''He has passion for power, such
I passion as no other president ever
had. No other president ever felt so
rebel1ious against the restrictions
which our forefathers thought 1t wise
to throw about the executive Office.
] ''Can he lead the progressive repub.
licans to the extreme that he repre-.
sents? Did he not show by his con.
duct at Chicago that he Is more inter.
ested in obtaining the office for him
self than in advancing reforms?
III he could have nominated any one
OF q number Of progressives why did
he refuse to stand aside? Is there nc
other person big enough for such
swollen presidency as ne would
createf
IT so, does not this show the dan
xer of enlarging the powers OF the
executive as he desires to enlarge
them?
aOn questions now before the ma
tional government, such as tarin
trusts. national Incorporation, imper
ialism and the third term, Mr.. Roose
welt is wrong. On these subjects he II
reactionary and can not secure a fol
lowing among democrats. He car
hardly hope to hold progressive re
publicans.
ION the trust question his position
n radically wrong and probably &C
counts for - support which he II
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receiving from some Of the trusts"

receiving from some Of the trusts
Colonel Roosevelt Is finding 1t ex-
tremely hard to attract supporters to
his party. The republicans and demo
Gratis have tickets of their own in the
fields. The prohibitionists declare
that he is the last man in the field
that should be elected The socialists
have no love for him. although he
adopted most of the socialist platform
as his own. The populists are said
to be considering the question OF plac-
ing ticket in the field. If the colonel
can get the populists to indorse him
it will give him one party anyway from
which he can hope to attract sup
mort
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THE BoasLEss CONVENTION:

THE BoasLEss CONVENTION:
II r. Roosevelt can maintain tnat
slogan. Down with the BOSSES" as the
rallying cry for his personally organ
lied ana personally conducted pont'
zeal organization after his personally
bossed convention next week, 1t Will
only bo because the American people
fail to sec the humor in tho situation
and we do not believe they will fall
TO see It.
The colonel bossed his followers into
boiling from the Chicago convention
bossed them into holding that Orches-
ira hall meeting after Taft was noml-
mated. bosses them into naming MIN
a the provisional candidate OF the
provisional party, bossed them IN the
ORGANIZATION OF a provisional state
COMMITTEES named for the purpose OF
arranging state boiling conventions.
He bossed these state conventions
when called. He bossed some state
conventions into placing entire new
tickets in the field and bossed otners
into refraindng from doing this very
thing when be thought 1t would SUIT
his purpose better. He wrote the
state platforms and bossed the con
ventions into passing them. ne
served notice on candidates, notably
Denesn. to Join his party or face de-
feat. The people had named Deneen
and the Illinois state ticket. but the
neople did not please the boss. Con-
aaouantly he set aside the Illinois prl-
mary law by preparing slate for an
entira new state to be nominated to-
day.
He bossed the selection Of Beverage
a. Temporary chairman and Parker
Il permanent chairman OF next weeks
holting convention. The delegates
VIII have nothing to do but vote Tor
The men he selected. He dictated the
platform. arranged every part OF the
program. including the speech ne Will
make himself, and gave his orders as
hoss 10 the contest committee to seat
the white delegate contestants from
the south and deny seats to the south
arm colored delegates. He has bossed
the preliminary Jobs leading up to his
nomination. and woe bettde the mis-
guided delegate who refuses to cast
his ballot in the convention for Roose'
welt as the big boss has directed. he
will boss the selection OF a vice presl'
Dental candidate and boss the con-
.yention into nominating hta candidate.
II there IL anything in ancient or
contemporary history that can hold q
candle to the Job Of political bossing
Roosevelt has undertaken 1t has
escaped our attention.
And yet Roosevelt expects US to
keen Z straight face and swallow the
inconsistency, not to say the down
ripht hypocrisy OF the situation, while
he shouts. Down with the bosses
and LET the people rule"
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An ordinance has been prepared for
introduction before the Des Moines
city council prohibiting the use Of the
public drinking cups in any place
where two or more persons are
obliged to use them, and compelling
owners or managers of places where
drinking water is furnished to supply
individual drinking cups or install
sanitary fountains. The ordinance also
would displace the roller towel with
individual towels.
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THE MILK IN THE cocoANUT.

Alex Miller in Washington Demo
Graf: There Is scarcely big news
paper that Is boosting for Roosevelt
that hasn't some Interior motive and
so 1t behooves the democrats not to
become too cock sure that we will
win everything hands down. with.
out some effort and strenuous effort
at that.
Soft words butter no parsnips
and you cannot make silk purse
out OF a sow's ear. So neither can
you win elections by standing
around the street corners and talk
ing about what fools the other fel-
lows are.
Indeed, It takes work and a lot
of work to win an election and this
year is no exception.
The milk In the cocoanut, indeed,
the gist of the whole matter is that
the big newspapers have stirred up
most Of this hullabaloo against Taft
for spite. It Is spite work as much
as the spite lanes you have read Of.
The big newspapers are very human
and much the same things that rule
our motives rule the motives Of the
big wigs in the newspaper world. So
the big papers are sore at Taft be-
cause he threatened to make them
pay more postage. The magazines
like the Curtis publications, the
American magazine, .McClure's and
Munsey's are sore for he made them
come across and pay their share of
the cost Of peddling out their
wares. And in this he did right.
Frank. Munsey, who is such a hater
of trusts that he can taste It, became
a millionaire in Tennessee coal and
iron land that Roosevelt allowed him
TO steal. That is the secret Of his
fight. He is "for" Roosevelt be-
cause Roosevelt made him or gave
him a chance to make his millions
and being an old bachelor, he must
have something to do, so he is work
ing for the new party. Munsey Is
no more patriotic than some Of the
rest of us. but he Is a reformer be-
cause he has more money than the
rest Of u.s. He got 1t in Tennessee
coal and iron. Ask anyone who knows.
This is the truth. Clifford Pinchot,
the name shows him to be fraud,
Clifford got his money by inherit
ance. He never made a penny Of
1t. It Is tainted money at that, but
he also got rich and then good and
turned reformer. A lot Of them do
that. First they get rich and then they
become virtuous.
This is such a funny world!
But the whole secret Of the pro-
gressive movement, is that the big
newspapers got mad at Taft for one
thing and another and they turned
their guns on him and are for
Roosevelt, not because they want
him. They hate him, but they hate
Taft worse.
So 1t will be just as we'll II the
democrats do not sleep at the switch
but keep an eye open and an ear to
the ground and get ready to make
such an organization in county, state
and nation as we have never had
before. We cannot win by relying
on the dissension in the republican
party. We must get our forces to-
gether and we must teach them to
pull together. Otherwise, even with
everything to our hand. we cannot
hope to win this great fight for
popular and decent government.
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Wide tires haul heavier loads than
narrow tires over the country roads
and city paving alike. 1t would be
real economy to owners Of wagons in
city and country If they would equip
their wagons with wide tires. And
the improvement to the roads would
be public benefit,
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his heart Buttons unheard Of until somebody with
criminal instincts along and draped man IN MS
first pair of History relates that the buttoness
age was the happiest epoch harassed man has ever
known. From that time to this he has had to gear up
his trousers with safety pins wire nails, lag
and patent rvets, while his wife attends the Shakes
speare club and holds forth mural art. Then David
Livingston went to darkest Africa with diary and
collection Of buttons and spoiled the peace and happ
ness of the male members of the community by intro
ducng them to the American pants button At first the
natives these buttons in their and noses CIV
giving them the weird effect of walking clam bake but
you travel from end Of Africa to the other
and see nothing but peg-top pants strung in a half
hearted with the round open-faced buttons Of
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-roTTUMWA COURIER TUESDAY AUGUST s, 1912.

lieves that bird in the hand is worth
two In the bush. He can make the
people Of New Jersey finance his
presidential boom. even If he couldn't
induce Andrew Carnegie to give him
one OF the pensions laid aside for aged
toQcherR Gs5a aE
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Leslie's Weekly: The real progress
sive" in the country is not the man
who talks, but the one who works:
not the ope who destroys, but the one
who creates; not the one who clamors
for more rights, but the one who ap-
preciates the value Of the rights he
possesses and who makes the most of
them.
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this country in time Of war.
s'But there will be no such naval sta
ton there or at any other point on
the western hemisphere, if this coun-
try makes good the Monroe doctrine;
and no European country has ever
openly attempted to put the doctrine
to the test"
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Representative Rodenberg Of I'LL
nois resented a question asked by
Medill Mccormick as to his repub-
licanism as an impertinence. Mr.,
Rodenberg believes, and with Justtfca.
ton, that man who has left the re-
publican party, has no right to con-
duct an inquisition with those who
have remained In the party.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-06

Geo. w. Perkins, one of ]. Pierpont
Morgan's men Friday. and one of Wall
streets professional lobbyists, is
Roosevelt's main hacker, and still
Roosevelt has the unadulterated gall
to say that the big interests are afraid
" him. Roosevelt is the only man In
the United States who would try to put
that over on the people.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-06

A government. bureau has started
out to Investigate what makes the
holes in Swiss cheese. Why shouldn't
this matter be referred to the demo-
cratic majority in the house? They
have spent months Of time and barrels
of money investigating other subjects
about as weighty
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CLARKE one of speakers.

Madrid. Aug. 3.-The Boone county
veterans association will meet here in
"a big reunion August IA and is. Lieu
tenant Governor George w. Clark Of
Abel will be among the speakers.
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There is general scramble to claim
the credit for ousting Lorimer; now
who will be the first to push his claim
to dynamiting Abraham's saloon?
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Colonel Roosevelt's campaign fund
is ample, according to George w. Per-
kins, and Mr.. Perkins is In position
to give expert testimony.
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One man contributed 80 cents to
Wilson's campaign fund. The giver Is
probably more enthusiastic about his
donation than Wilson Is.
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It is unreasonable to expect Wood
row to resign the governorship, after
being refused q Carnegie pension.
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There may be some things Woodrow
has not received, but there is nothing
he has not asked for.
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obliged
a
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Sidewalk Sketches
BY Howard L. Ram
BUTTONS.


button,
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Governor Wilson, thrifty man, be
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why. yes, nc sdlu' 90 oAo "nO iie-o
suddenly walked Il guess she's real
pretty"
"She's asked me to stay here with
her" said the invalid, "and help-till
Il can get something else to do"
It came to be common thing after
that for Capt Cobb to call on Sarah,
and Violet Dean-for that was the In
valid's name. For years he had lived
next door to Sarah, and while he had
talked to her over the fence, he had
never called. An early love affair
had left him a woman-hater, but now
he felt that there was safety in mum.
hers. Surely Sarah couldn't take his
calls to herself.
Violet grew prettier as she grew
stronger, and the captains eyes rest.
ed often upon her. She had an ap-
pealing feminine manner, which drew
him to her. Sarah was not appealing,
but she was fine woman.
The loneliness of his house began
to be appalling to the captain. For
the first time In his life he wondered
why he had not married. He won
dered, too, why he had not sooner
recognized Sarah's competency and
beauty. He had feeling that Sarah
could do without him, but that Violet
could not. If he asked Sarah to
marry him, Violet would be left alone
and he was sorry for Violet.
Divided thus between pity and love,
he delayed his wooing. Then came a
day when the heavens fell.
Violet and / have decided" Sarah
told him one September day, "to
spend ttS winter in the city. She
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-05
FEDERAL JUDGE ACTS
AS UMPIRE, SETTLING
RAILWAY WAGE FIGHT

ASHEVILLE, N. c., July 5.-Federal
Judge Jeter C. Pritchard, as arbitrator.
has granted increases in wages to GER
tain classes Of Southern railway en-
ployees, in one instance granting the
raise asked by the men and in another
ordering the increase offered by the
company. This Is the second decision
of this kind on record where a Federal
judge, as arbitrator, has settled wage
controversies. BY Judge Pritchard' 8
ruling. foremen Of section, yard, extra,
bridge. carpenter concrete and painting
crews get SO more per month, where
they asked for 81. Assistant foremen.
bridge and tunnel laborers, shaft
workmen, carpenters, masons, painters
and pile driving engineers get $3.50 per
month raise, where the company offered
IS. J. s. B. Thompson, of Atlanta, for
the railway company, and T. H Terry,
of Walnut Grove, N. c., for the en-
ployees. were unable to agree and Sc
lected Judge Pritchard as umpire, he
deciding the contentious. The new
wage scales apply from May l, 1912, to
June 80, 1913.