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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-01-25

Jimmy Damn has quite = string Of
fighters on his list They are:
Johnny Kilbane. feather: Tommy
Kilhsne. lightweight: Paul Kohler,
weiter. and Tommy Gavigan. mid.
die. He has invaded Los Angeles
with the bunch Johnny In 10 meet
Abs Attell for the title neat month.
and the others have matches ten.
tativeiy arranged Jimmys boys
are not particularly well known,
except Kiibane. the feather. who II
one grand little fighter. and n the
others are anywhere near the
standard. Jimmy Dunn ought TO get
plenty Of action with his string.
Abe Attell has been yariously 90.
timated ~ the greatest exponent OF
the art OF boxing, but lem Driscoll,
tho Britisher. Is considered a little
superior In ring craftiness. The
latest dope il that Jem II going 10
cross the pond ard force Attell into
match.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-01-25

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Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
The College Made Farmer.
tBfookIyn Standard Tnion

tBfo0klyn standard Union
The rule of thumb method of farm
ing in the United States is passing.
Agriculture is becoming an art, per-
maps not as fast as it should. but un-
mistakably the day when scientific
methods viii supplant those which
have been followed from Pharaoh,s
time is not far distant. The change
is being hastened by agricultural
schools which. the United States De-
partment of Agriculture states. are
not as numerous as they should be-
Moreover, the number Of students
who are taking the four-rear course
is entirely too small.
1t takes as long now to convert 4
green country boy into a scientific
farmer as il does to make a lawyer
or doctor. -Four years seem long
period for young man To spend
studying agriculture. yet the Depart
ment of Agriculture does not think
it excessive. one who has taken the
full course is as much ahead of the
average young farmer of his own age
as is the medical student who has sup
plemented his college training with
eighteen months or two years service
in a hospital ahead of his classmate
who has not taken this post graduate
course.
The fact that in the nine schools
Of the United states where the art
Of agriculture is taught only 140
students are taking the fouryear
course is mentioned with regret by
the department 1t would like to see
a much larger percentage sticking
through the full term. But two years
at a college of this kind gives a young
man a knowledge that ONten enables
him TO turn farms supposed to be of
not much value into acres that re-
turn handsome profits.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
Misquoting Mr.. Taft.

tBnstcn Commercially
1t is particularly characteristic of
the tactics Of those who have tried so
persisteptN to misreprcscnt President
Taft Gas their only hope of prevent
ing his re-eleetiom that "A Boston con
temporary yesterday headed up his
speech against hysteria in American
politics hv declaring that the Presi-
dent denounced as ncurotics etc, the
advocates II direct primaries"
OF course President Tart never said
one word that could b, construed into
anything of the sort ami the steno-
graphic report Of his speech shows no
Indication of anything of Tie kind.
What he did denounce was the effort
Ia make the selection of candidates,
the enactment of legislation and the
decision of courts TO depend on the
momentary passions Of the people
necessarily inditfercntly informed as
10 the issues presented, and without
the opportunity te thtm for time and
study and that deliberation that gives
security and common sense to the
government of the people
In otner words. the President de-
nounced those who believe that prac-
tically all functions of government
shall hereafter be carried on, under in
fuences of merely temporary passion
or hysteria, te the abolition of delib-
crate choice o. representative govern
ment. TO say that any man believing
in direct primaries must believe in no
fixed dates for elections, or in govern
ment wholly hS initiative and fetefen-
dun lin short, in the abolition of rep
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
The Folly That Leads to Death.

| (Brooklyn Standard Union.)
II is well that the suicide of young
Noble ana the former Mrs. Suydam
should be narrated Tor the information
iof all people, with sufficient eXplana-
tion Of the circumstances that led up
to it, For the matter of marriage of
man and woman concerns the tounda-
tion Of the home, the Unit of all work
able civilization and the laws which
govern il are best learned by example
With two men and one woman di-
rectly concerned, general opinion is
likely to settle down to blaming the
woman. But at least there should bc
10 asperity about it, and there might
well be a touch of kindness that will
not in the least diminish the value
the warning. The warning is all the
more impressive because of the facl
that it was not wantpnness that led
her into her frightful error. BY dis
regarding her marriage vow she sought
relief from unhappiness. ana found i
not. At FIRST she justified herself bv
repeating The gahble Of Vagrant minds
that hold human law merely con-
vention later. with the step ire
trievaB1y taken. she attempted
formal compliance with that law But
she found there is higher law. and
her last estate WAS WORSE than her
first
So, surrounded hy every luxury that
money could buy. she passes out of
the world with the final confession If
failure. The same wreck comes To
the weak youth who walked with her
the easy path that leads away from
manhood and honor What they
srasped at was worth nothing; what
they paid for it was everything. Their
experience was full of warning too
plain to be overlooked: they them
selves are beyond human Judgment
aud should he regarded with the near
est approach the human heart can
make toward infinite pity
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
About Good Newspapers
(Boston GoheA


The power of the press may be easily
measured by the utterances and nrint-
ings of the best speakers and writer's.
As speaker told the Boston Woran,s $
Publicity Club, The power of a good
newspaper cannot be overestimated i"
No event worthy of a place in the
minds OF men passes unheeded by the
cosmopolitan press of today. This is
true Of the utteranees of the leaders of
men. Neither time nor distance nor
expense prevents the press from giving
a faithful record of the sayings and
doings Of the world. II is fast uritinp
Nations in the interest of peace.
Commerce finds the press a faithful
forerunnef and supporter, and religion
uses it as powerful aid in all good
works. BY educating the whole Ma
ton ii lessons the horrors of war bv
preventing it and thereby creates
goodwill among Nations. All right
minded people should aid and encour-
age The newspaper for the general
good Of mankind.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
A WoMANLEss REPUBLIC.

There is a WOmanless republic on a
peninsula south OF Macedonia in
Greece where ten thousand men live.
studying and praying constantly, and
where policemen guard the coast to
keep out women pilgrims and other
persons who would make undesirable
guests prof Caspar Rene Gregory,
theslogian of the University of Leip-
zig. student of Biblical manuscripts,
who is here to lecture tonight at the
Fine Arts Institute told this the other
dav of this most unique of all coun-
tricsi
.'1'he place is Mount Athos, classic
peninsula of Akte, the easternmost OF
three little peninsulas below Macedo-
MIA" Professor Gregory explained. 1t
is called the Mount of the Twenty
Monasteries, and was used in ancient
times as a signalling station to Asia
Minor. 1t is a real republic. There are
ten thousand monks there, who govern
themselves without interference from
Turkey or any other country. There
are. however, no government build
ings, no president, or other once
holders.
THE only police force is composed
of men who patrol the coast to keep
out women and men who have no per-
nit 10 enter this most exclusive of
countries Only those who have Il let
tor of nelmissiOn from the Greek pa
triarch in Constantinople are allowed
to enter the holy place. The holder OF
the letter must present It to karges,
the village capital of the peninsula.
Some reports have it, Professor Gre
cory said, that this republic was form
ed in the ninth century. IT is said
that the foot Of woman has not
touched the soil of the place for GEN.
turies All the monks represent the
Greek Catholic Church. They work
the soil, but live chiefly upon con-
tributions from pilgrims. Probably the
greatest collection of Biblical manu-
scripts is in the monasteries of this
republic.
1T is the most interesting place in
the world for the student of the BIZ
BILE" the doctor said. Il have been
, there three times already. and l never
will tire of going There are in the
monasteries there thousands of Greek
manuscripts, and hundreds of them
are connected with the New Testa-
ment. Hundreds of students have
studied these manuscripts very care
fully, but there are other manuscripts
that have not yet been read carefully.
1T may be that great discoveries val
liable to the Bible scientists, will
emanate vet from this great store
house of manuScripts.-Kan City
Star.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
The Duty Before the Voters.

Let US have a few moments quiet
conversation on the new primary law.
Let us consider n few of the vital
points that MUST BE considered if
the best results are achieved. The law
is not so bad as it is painted by its
enemies, or so good. mayhap, as its
raest enthusiastic supporters have
dreamed. But, now that we have il.
let us make the most and the best
Of it.
IN the first place let us have in mind
that in order to obtain the best results
the most intelligent men. who have
the public interests at heart, must take
active part in political affairs II
churehmen and business men who
hate political trickery and chicanery
do not come forward and see to it that
the names of good men are before
The primaries, then the law is worse
than a failure--it will prove trayesty
on the plan which il was designed to
correct.
The new primary law is no auto
matte device regulating political at
fairs and absolving voters from all
responsibility. On the contrary. it is
plan TO put upon the people themselves
just what they have been clamoring
for, direct public control, and Tespon-
sihility for candidates.
II is up 10" the average voter to
.'get busy" No honest voter is barred
from candidacy. Political leaders nc
longer make the choice. You must &c
10 the primaries to select
II The voters do not get the State
and county officers they prefer, they
can no longer blame ring rule" II
candidates do not come forward an6
The voters do not have interest sutfi-
cient to put the candidates they IRE.
fer in the field. then the voters them.
selves are to blame.
IL is the lifting Of the burden Of re
sponsibilty from the shoulders of th'
political leader and boss 10 the shoul
ders of the people. II the latter ar,
100 apathetic and careless to attend t
the matter, whom shall they blame i
undesirable men reach office?
Political party organizations can n
longer be held responsible for the can
didates. If q crooked stick slips il
the party to which he claims aliegi
ance should not be kicked for his pres
cnee. When parties were held strictl
accountable for candidates, blael
sheep were more or less of a part
disgrace, now the party committee
can grin and say: He was not on
selection"
If many candidates come forwar
for an office, the voters must go TO ii
primaries and select the best, or son
man or clique with a purpose viii 81
lect the worst.
It is now fair field with the poop
against the selfish politician and Il
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
WATER POWER IN HUNGARY.

THE falls of the River Gaeka, near
Otocao. with 100000 horsepower avail
able II is reported, are now TO be utll-
ized and an electric power pant eS-
tablished at Zengg, Croatia. Win inns
of power it is beiieVed
that the needs of the whole OF the
Croatiau littoral and lstria can be sup
plied and sufficient power generated to
onerate the F,iume Komorske- Mora
vice railways, also supplying the needs
Of factories to be built at IenGg, in
the upper littoral and vicinity.
The history OF the present move
ment is to the effect that several
French, Belgian, Hungarian, and other
CAPITALISTS interested themselves in de-
veIoping the water power ana formed
a limited liability company, registered
at Fiume as the Adriatique Electri-
cite Aetienx Gesellschaft, with an Office
st Piazza E,lisabetta l, Ii.
Hydroelectric construction work
along the River Gacka from Otocao TO
Zangg has been definitely planned by
the company, which has been practi-
eally reorganized in Fiume and Susak.
DR.. Enrico Sachs. a well-known at
torney, Piazza Urmeny tiume, states
that he represented the original conf
pany in it's application made to the
Territorial government and also in it's
amended application for the conces-
sion, which last. after lengthy argu-
sular Reports.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
Thursday, February IS, 1912.
Twas a MARES Nest" "

1t is apparent from its comment that
even our up-rixer neiehbor IS not
overburdened with enthusiasm because
THE Probe" has at last raised some
thing at the state House for cam
paign material. 1t certainly does not
look to be worth more than a million
votes TO the explorers. The sentinel
speaks of it as the Irregularities in
the state Treasurer's office.
The incident has been described in
The news reports, how State Treasurer
Gilmore borrowed money from the
State on his personal check. and how
a clerk borrowed s140o and forgot to
leave his check. Neither course is to
be commended or defended by good
business men, because even State
Treasurer GiImore's course was un-
businesslille.
But The Probe" at the same time
il was bringing out these irregulari-
ties. could but bring out the fact, also,
that these things were discovered.
promptly, by the Republican admins
tration ana just as promptly corrected.
There was no hesitancy about it. IT
was Strengthened out. then and there.
So far as the inference in Democrat
ic papers that the State was in dan
ger of loss, il is only necessary to call
attention TO the fact that the State
easurers bond is $50, 600. And so far
as going back to shiver over hole
in the ice that we might have fallen
into" it is a waste of time and the
States money.
The Democratic investigating COM
mittee has placed the leaders in the
laughabIe position of straining at a
campaign material gnat while swal-
lowing a State expense camel.
IL is one more specimen of Demo-
cratic political by-play while shouting
economy" TO draw attention from
what they are not doing.
Our up-river contemporary says;
The facts speak for themselves" And
So they DO. The administration dis
covered unhusinesslike methods in
vogue in the treasury department and
ended it months before anybody ever
heard of Lamont \. stevens and his
philanthropy.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
QUALITY OF A NAME.

Persons have almost always specific
characteristics connected With the
name Kate or Elizabeth or Annette
or Jane. to saA nothing Of Reginald
Oscar and Charles. Most often ;hese
characteristics are related, however
to the persons with whom the name
was first associated in ones expert
eEce and there is very often nothing
in the name that really connotes a
person of the particular temperament
one connects with il.
However. Elizabeth is held to be a
more dignitied name than Marguerite,
and Sarah more sensible than Doro-
thy. and the Bookrnan critic goes on
to cite how great writer's have found
lust the name which belongs TO the
heroine they are describing, often af-
ter long search He reminds us that
though the common run of names is
used over and over by different au-
thors without conjunction. there are
A few which belong TO characters so
stamped with individuality sthat no
writer afterward has dared use that
|namc. The writer cites Ophelia ana
Desdemana, Clarissa and Pamela of
Richardson and Rowena of scott;
and while remembering that Beatrice
has been used by many writer's he
saws that none has ventured 10 use
the variant BeatriN since il was iden-
|tified once for all with the heroine OF
"aenrv Esmond." There are many
Eebeccas, but only one Becky Snarp,
only one Sheila. only one Nora. only
one RGmOla.
These names are nearly all OF the
uncommon order. however, and this
alone gives some special quality to
them. Rosalind is just as distinctive
as any OF Shakespeare's women
md could she have been named any
thing else hut the name is not left
alone by writer's perhaps because a
tragic fate is What chiefly sets l2es-
demona and 0phelia apart.
This distinctive character OF a name
is felt in historical persons WASH
mouthfliing ana
splendid vocable! Is it? or rs the
4 association with the great patriot anu
later with the capital OF these hiteu
states that gives il fulness? Napole-
|on-how overloaded man seems
whose friends have chosen this name
fer him unless there IS somethiils
strong and achieving in him. leon
arlO is not so ullttluiiioH IL i''-+A
but who ever sees the name without
Tho surname and doubts who is
meant? Raphael stands quite alone
too. When one stops to count them
the names which historically great
persons have rendered unique are
fewer than those of fiction, Fhere II
but one Caesar, though the name De
longed to many, and Augustus was
so great that as Augustus he STANDS
alone. like the preceding Caesar. Al
eyander. however, has not suceeeaeu
in preemptine the name, though II
means Just himself until otherwise m
idicated. The Henrys and Louises ana
Charleses of history file past IN dls-
ltinguished array. Alfred and Arthur
are alone. Ferdinand, for all royai
predecessors. is always hlmsen' p"'
this no doubt is largely due to the
= association of his name with Isabella
and perhaps Columbus is to thai'k ior
her fane-The Bookman.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
Editorial Comment
The Army Canteen.
lRrldgton News.1

tlirldgton NeWS,D
The esteemed Argus starts in one
OF its familiar editorial paragraphs.
the great preponderance of sentiment
among the officers of the army in
favor of the restoration of the centeen
- Yes, yes. mores the pity. And
they themselves want their wines.
champagne. if not raw whiskey, quite
as ardently. From the personal ex-
perience, We recall, the generals in the
civil war excessive partakers of the
ardent We're always favorable to the
''whiskey ration" upon all occasions
where was the slightest excuse. But
the curse of the army, from time i'm
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15

its membership bids fair 70 equal at
q very early day the total membership
Of the parent body. There are many
strong friends of the movement i'll
Maine and New Hampshire; aud the
enthusiasm with which these are now
organizing is most promising. At this
same time n new interest in the
movement in Vermont ana Rhode Is
land appears, distinctly deepened by
the agitation in behalf of the treaties;
and with societies wcu started in
those two states, as is expected, the
New England group viii be complete.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15

memorial, is and has been, the intox-
icatins bowl.
So far as we can see. Judge Brann of
Lewiston is the only Democrat who is
living up Ia the pre- e-election promises
of the Democracy to reduce the cost
of living. He has cut the cost of
drunk fine from 81 10 $3.-LeWiston
J0urDal
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
Two New Peace Societies Coming.
(Boston Herald.)

tBoStcn Eeraid.l
A special interest attaches to the
organization at Manchester today of
the New Hampshire Peace Society.
The two most influential workers for
the peace cause in New England in
its early DAYS We're both sons of New
Hampshire. Noah Worcester, who
founded tie Massachusetts Peace So
ciety in 1Slj, was born in Hollis. n.
H., in 1858; and William Ladd, the
founder of the American Peace So
ciety. was born in Exeter in IT'S.
New Hampshire is rearing the most
fitting monument possible to these IL
lustrious sons of hers by founding to-
day y peace society to perpetuate their
high ideals and efforts.
This organization meeting will be
followed in the evening by a public
mass meeting. addressed by leading
workers for the cause, in the interest
of the peace movement in general and
the arbitration treaties now before
the Senate in particular. This New
Hampshire action will be followed a
fortnight later by similar meetings in
Portland. Maine, incident to the found
ing of a Maine peace society.
For many years the American Peace
! Society with its activities especially
strong in Massachusetts, was the only
peace organization in New England
| Half dozen years ago the Connect
cut Peace Society was founded; ant
/ the notable New England Peace Con
sress arranged chiefly through its ex.
ertons at Hartford in 1910 was a wit
ness to its vitality. On the remova
of the headquarters of the nationa
society from Boston to Washington
last year, the Massachusetts Peac,
Society was Immediately established
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
Nervousness and Nerve.

The more nervous a man Is, the less
nerve he has. That sounds paradox
eal--bur it isn't; for nerve is stamina
Hoods Sarsaparilla gives nerve. III
tones the whole system, perfects dlses-
ton and assimilation. and is there
fore the best medicine a nervous per-
son can take.
If you get tired easily, mentally or
physically, take Hood's--it will do you
good.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
We Can't Help Saying 1t.
Gee Whiz! We're Discovered!

THE Probe has snapped It's coat-tdii9
\ flying round about-,
Au, quit your eiggling, fellows
Don't you know you've been ioahd out
Thomas \. Edison. at the age of 65,
is quoted as saving that he feels % and
is sure that ne is entering upon an era
of activity that will last l5o years.
Mr.. Edison will not live to be 150 but
he can have the satisfaction of know
ing that his genius has conferred bene-
fits upon mankind that will make his
fame live foreyer-Bangor CONNER
cial.
Looks like an issue of veracitS be-
tween Mr.. Edison and the Hon. J. p.
Pass. Place your bets. boys,
mistake was made in an article in
this paper last week reporting the ac-
ton of the county commissioners in
|allowing a pension of $15 per month
to Mrs. Kauffman's blind daughter.
The statement was made that the
small child in the family was the
daughter of the blind woman. This
was mistake. Mrs. Kaufman says,
the little girl being Mrs. Kaufman
daughter and sister of the blind girl.
'-Larned (Kan9 Tiller and Toiler.
All, we knew you could make it
plain, Thanks.
Republican politicians are very BUSY
these days, telling what they think
will happen at the special session OF
the legislature. It's an entirely harm
less diversion-W -Waterville sentinel
Except Tor that $4,000 expense in
CURED we think the Sentiners declara-
ton may be justified,
Lewiston goods for good Lewiston
ians-Lewiston Journal.
The Plaisted varieties?
Mayor E'itzgeralds declaration that
Roston's school system is one of the
city's great crimes will be quoted with
elee all over the country by people VINO
don't know anything about it, and VINO
are also ignorant of the Mayors politl-
cal relations to the schools.-Boston
Globe
Boston education is a national crime
With regard to the proposed revision
of it's constitution, the Automobile Clup
| of America appears to nave turned
lturtle-Manehester Union
Not quite that bad. Just a little
case of overworked differential.
A lot of ladies think ii is very iar
| from being a joke. the high car step
| that has been the subject OF 1ormai
complaint. Ladies who are not Silt-
ed with height and others VINO are
burdened with the weight OF years
| find the long climb or long step on
ESPECIALLY difficult TO negotiate
Brockton Times.
! And. oh. YOU hobble skirt queens.
But we so too far. BeiieNe iiia'
Brockton laws prevent even one VINO
has reached the staid sedateness Oh
editorship to indulge frivoiity TO me
,extent of "Oh, you!"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15

opportunist Men of character must
go to the polls or bad mer viii prosper
amazingly
Don't fail TO do your part to nomi-
nate good mon and to vote for them.
That is the only way to tarn down
professional politicians and grafteIs.