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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03
weeks go when transients
started a meeting at Old Harmony

weeks ago when transient:
started a meeting at Old Harmony
church, a church building il
lone Hill neighborhood, whicl
was deserted years ago. The
crowds grew and the popularity
of the creed increased, and while
the exponents of the doctrines
have been gone for some time
the ideas are still cherished by
a majority of the residents in
a vast settlement.
The strange tongue, t b e
claimed operation of the power
of the Lord On the believers, and
the demonstrations, which in
appearance are very much like a
spasm, as the person falls on the
floor and kicks and jerks beyono
all understanding. Where the
situation will drift to is very
uncertain.
While there will probably be no
effort by any one to interfere
with the method of worship there
will be action taken to force dis
cipline in the school. Poplar
Bluff Citizen.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03


The Democratic majority in the
lower House of Congress has ex
pended more money in a few
months trying to discover ex
travagance in the several depart
ments of the national govern
ment than has been doubtfully
expended by all of such depart
ments in seven years. That's
what the Democrats call on eco
nomic expenditure of public
money, paying the enormous ex
senses of useless, preiudiced ano
partisan smelling committees.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03

A well-known ST. Louis lawyer
speaking before St. Louis
bar meeting the other day.
said that the legislators have at
tempted to usurp the powers of
the court in their effort to lay
down the law as to judicial pro-
ceedings, that in doing so they
we're taking away the final pow
er of the judiciary. We are not
well versed as to the exact con-
stitutional limit of the authority
of the people or the constitution
al powers of the judiciary, but it
has always impressed itself upon
US that in Republic such As the
United States assumes anG pla-
to be, the final authority must
always rest with the people. If
court procedure and the restric-
tions of the people under the laws
regulating such procedure are
not satisfactory to a majority of
the people, as free people they
have the right and authority to
amend those laws. Otherwise
republican liberty takes it's flight
and we rest undera government
of the judiciary. 1t seems to US
that the legal fraternity over es-
Inmates it's position in the COM
mon elements that compose our
social structure. Because it's
function is to interpret the laws
does not confer upon it the right
of ultimate decision. To check
this growing arrogance of the
courts the people have been com
PEELED to resort to the initiation
and referendum, and are even
now much disposed to add the
recall of the judiciary.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03
The Rothschild family,

The Rothschild family,
Europe's great financiers, con-
troll wealth amounting to four
billion dollars. according to a late
report. This family groupis not
so very large either. Under the
present condition of things there
is no hindrence to one person
owning the entire earth, and when
we look at the wealth of the
Rothschilds, the Rockefellers,
Morgans and their ilk, it looks
like this concentrated ownership
is in fair stage of development.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03
MAY WE'D W.T. O. T l! EN-; F

a4r, stnsi.tu..-t pats .: &. #-'idi:..
hin Missouri accoldi, 6 to !, coIHiur.
law marriage contract filed in the
county recorders office at richmond.
Mo-, me day last week. The docu-
meut vas signed and seal by Dad
Williams and Miss AIarg.,; t Bales ,
the bridegroom and bride, aged res
pcteively "a and l6 years. Thecon-
tract appears, so the attorneys say,
to be sustained by a long line of En-
g.ish and American decisions
Becat Sc of his daughters youth, Ri
ley Bales father of the yo.!ug woma1
refused to consent to a marriage Ii
censeb eng issued. Williams appeale
to law firm which. after an extend
extende examination of the statutes
informed him that the Missouri law.
while calling or a license. does not
license to be void.
rhe attorneys did not ad.is0 viii
liams crd Miss Bales to E,.rr. bul
din cyl 1ain to them that IA legal
civil contract could be drawn wheral..,
the Y co Id marry them selves W.thoUf
a justice. minister or pri if th".
would record the contract.
They pointed to a footnote in th,
revised statutes of 1909 cG''lmentinL
upon the weakness of the Missc.i-
ri marriage laws as regards the alb
>cnce Of the voidins~ clause.
Numerous attempts in the State
Les st.tu'. to pass bill co taini'
voidiDg cause to be added to the Ii
cenSe laws have failed.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03

Notwithstanding the fact that
the big city dailies have contend
ed all along that the ticker read
ings indicated that the year just
closed was generally prosper.
GUS one, all who did not have a
ticker connection with prosperity
are frank in their admission that
the business conditions of 1911
were the worst of many years.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03
Able bodied men, serving pen

Able bodied men, serving peni-
tentiary and Jail sentences and
fed at the cost of the State, may
be much better cared for and as
well punished while building
good roads; and thus their keep
may prove a good investment of
public money. On the roads
their work will not interfere with
honest labor and their presence
will have wholesome effect on
people criminally inclined.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03
The Suffrage F,ao,

Mrs. James Lee Laidlaw has pre-
sented suffrage banner that was
used in the May parade in New York
to be taken to London very shortly.
1t will float ever the American de
tachment in the fTe-mile parade which
Mrs. Pankhurst is planning. There
will be 10000 in the parade. as she
has plannod It,
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03


tria, Frame. Germany, a4d nor -
Gently in England turning cut many
thousands of pounds o. yarn every
day.
And at the present tine an enor-
nous plant is just beinG started to
manufacture this silk in this country
near Chester, Pa, making the same
product In certain textile lines, nc
tably the i,raids and ':imminfs for
women's dl esses and hats and in
knitted ncckties, the artificial silk
or wood ;iil as it is sometimes call eG
has prac ?al!y replaced the real ar
ticle. Prob41 bly, ninety or cent Of
the brai j. and passemertarie now
manufactu. cd are wood silk, th0us h
the retail consumer seldom realizes
,-his fact The yarn is a,so largely
used in tapestries and .rtains and
dress goot's. while ribbons and variou
other tah''cs supply an almost un-
limited field which is Wing invaded
by this latest triumph of mans in
genuity. True synthetic silk has been
made by chemists, it is "'s lined the
product Of the cocoon beirg absolute
ly duplicated in every resi- pct, chem
zeal and physical but this achievm n,
successful as it was, as a scientific
labratory experiment, h ID no COM
merci21 ,aiLe on acc ,iIGt of the
enormous cost OF production.
In another generation the MANI
ture of artificial silk will be STAN
ardiZed. and as we'll understood as
the wool or cotton industry of today.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03

All the grating millionaires,
when they are hauled into court
for their misdoings, plead that
they amt never done nothing to
deserve such treatment, that
their business policy is one of
greatest philanthropy towards
the public. But just the same
their stacked up millions is un,
shakable evidence to the con-
trarV.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03

81 had been troubled with constipa-
ton and tried all the best physicians
in Bristol, Tenn, and they could do
nothing for me-" writes Thos. E.
Williams, Middlebo ., Ken. "Two
packages of Chamberlain Stomach
and Liver Tablets cured me- For
sale by all dealers.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03

If one of the delegates in the
Republican national convention
gets upon his hind legs and yells,
Roosevelt" why Teddy will
have to take it, that's all. No
man ever refused the presiden-
tial nomination.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03

We endorse President Taft's
world peace policy. May it shake
the powers of the world loose from
their reckless and ruinous mill
tarism. The great civilized ma
tions should only keep up suffici-
ent armament that by combined
action they can hold the barbarian
races in check.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03

Joe Folk is the political foot
ball of Missouri's 3 Bourbon Dem
ocracy and the way Bill Stone,
CHAMP Clark, Dave Francis and
the rest of the boys do have fun
kicking it around.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03
Sl.OO Per Annum.
Election year. Be good sport
by being a good Republican.

American management of Per
sia's finances has had calam-
itous effect upon that country.
1t woke up the Russian bear,
and with a strong appetite for
Persian territory.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03
ARTIFICIAL SILK.

Many A woman who buvs a piece
Of silk nowadays doubtless wonders
Why it does not wear" like the old
time product. when a silk dress
vas passed. down from mother to
,aughter. The reason is, that NEST
silk goods Oh the market today are
IN artificial product, lacking the
strength Of the real article especially
when it becomes wet. A writer oD
this suojeeI to the Scientific Ameri-
can says:
You can not make silk purse
out of sows ear" is q familiar quo
taticn Its use. however, will prota
bly, be discontinued by the next
generation as silh is now made ar
officially nv mechanical means out of
material Hlich, # not 4 product of
the pork packes's slaughter house, is
about as low down in the aesthetic
scale. Wood pulp-made from spruce
trees, or III fact from any variety
OF woods dissolved in various chem
icals and the solution Is srun into
beautiful and lustrOus yarn, tn
iheen ard gloss of which ou'rir&'s
p +, n.c.ct sfl-t'V ,.Gr;:cr = An t1}-
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03

When you have cold get a bottle
OF Chamberlain Cough Remedy. 1t
will soon fix you up all r;gh: and will
ward Off any tendency toward pneu-
monia. This .en,edy contains no
opium OF other narcotic and NAV be
given as confidently TO a baby as to
an adult. Sold By ell dealersr
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03

md your body chilled through from
exposure. take big dose of Chamber
'ain's Cough Remedy, hathe your
faet in hot water before going to bed
md YOU are almost certain to ward off
\ severe cold. For sale by all dealers.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03
TABLE MANNERS.

Sta, d back of your chair until
the ad1es are seated. Then sit
icwn squaI.iy ith your feet on the
floor not twisted in the lOWr chair
braces, as one often does-a Gus
.om not limited - boys.
Take up your napkin leisure'v and
lay it across your knee. If you are
helped to a plate when visiting. ask
your host if YOU shall pass it on. At
home lou WI know what is expect
ed Of YOU.
Keep your hands when dnemp'oy-
ed out OF sight. beneath The cloth.
Use YOUR krife in the right hand
and for cutting only. L is permissa
BILE 10 co1vvy meat to your mouf n
with our fork in your lei: hand, but
it must be transferred toy our right,
tines dowl, when eating veg0t'b'es,
except when vegetables. such as
mashed potatoes. require the fork to
be turned spoon fashion.
There is nicely or the lack OF 1t
the way you hold knife and forf.
>-c+icr %crrerr.C rho is esI cCtatt. d91,
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-01-03

lcannot attendance be legally
counted on Thursday and Friday:
No. it cannot.
1. liza regular Teachers Associ
alton is held on Friday and Sat.
urday of Thanksgiving week,
and the teachers of a school are
in attendance at this teachers
association, can attendance then
be counted on Thursday and
Friday? Yes. all pupils present
on Wednesday should then be
counted present on both Thurs
day and Friday.
5. Can attendance be legally
counted on Monday, Christmas
day, when no school is taught
that week? No, it cannot; but
attendance should be counted,
if school is taught on the other
four school days of the week.
6. If no schools taught during
Christmas week, but school
opens Tuesday, January End.
and four days ofschool are taught
in New Years week, can atten-
dance legally be counted on New
Years day? Yes, all pupils
should be counted present on
New Years day that We're present
o. Friday before Christmas.
:. ,an attendance be legally
counted on Washlngt ton Birth
day? Yes, if the other four
days of the week are taught.
s. Please tell me on what days
school may be dismissed and
attendance legally counted.
1. On Thanksgiving Day,
Christmas Day, New Years Day,
Washington's Birthday, and the
Fourth of July, when these days
come on regular school days and
school is taught on the other four
school days of the week.
2. On days when school is dis
missed by order of the board in
order that the teachers may at
tend a Teachers Association.
Note. Since all schools follow
the same plan of counting atten-
dance, all will gain and lose alike
hence the method is perfectly
air.
VIM. EVANS,
State Superintendent ofSchools.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-11-26

Let rs lnger for remark that II ever house
hold affections and graceful things they are graceful
in the poor
The ties that bind the wealthy and proud TO home may
forged earth but those which link the poor man 70
humble hearth OF the metal and bear the stamp
OF heaveni .
The man Of high descent may love the halls and lands
oil his inheritance part OF himself. trophies OF ms
birth and power associations with them associations
OF pride and wealth and triumph The poor mans attach
ent 10 the tenement which he holds which strangers have
held before occupy again has wurhier
root struck deep purer soil His houschodgods are
flesh and blood with alloy of silver. gold precious
He has property but in the affections OF his own
when they endear bare floors and walls despite
and toll and meals that has his love oil home
from God. and his rude hut becomes solemn place
Oh ii those who rule the destiny OF nations would but
remember his-f they would but think how hard Tor
the engcndcrcd in their hearts that love
home from which all domestic virtues spring when they
live and squad where social decency lost
rather found they would but turn aside from tho
wide horougaes and houses and strive To improve
wretched dwellings, byways where only poverty may
walmany low roofs would point truly 10 the SKY
than the oest church stecpe that proudly up
from the midst OF guilt and crime aud horrible disease 10
mock them by its contrast
In hollow voices from workhousc. hospital and JAIL this
preached day day. and has been proclaimed
for years Ii light matterno cutlery from the working
vulgar-no question OF the peoples health and COM
forts that may be whistied down.
In love OF home the love OF country has its risc and
who the patriots the best IN time OF ncedtosc
the land owning its wood and stream. and
earth and all they produce, those who love their
country Boosting foot OF ground in all its wide domain
Charles Dickens in old Curiosity shop.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-11-26

The editor OF the Christian Science Monitor appears to
be almighty blue. for Scientist the proposition Tor
reform mans dress that is raging in Germany aud
that make awful dear country
And. by heck. Uncle kichci Pixey Ralph Emerson
would excam anything that's got Scientist editor to
ing has got scared the Of hair. II any
The German idea that get along without vest.
shirt. trousers. hat and collar.
Keep your madras guratiycy speaking. until get
chance that these German refomefs suggest
substitutes for the above mentioned articles
For shirt thou shalt blouse: TOR trouser. knee
brooches OF evening. Roman oga when the daylight
thine hair which that the bald train
their whskers upward with thach roof effect.
Looking American studiously we garner
fears that can't always tell what the American viii
DO in the OF dress Then there is somewhat OF
charm the idea of sailing down work wrapped in
Roman sheet with cnch buckle the only thing fasen
hunt for under the bedchamber bureau There certain
OF cut-throat collars which believe could burn
with JOY There times in the year when could hang
best shirt high Woodrow Wilson's electoral
and take the blouse We have cussed the willing
pants evening until knee brecches have
But all Germany including Alsacc- Lorraine can't
make promote the breeding OF wskers the exposure
Of the top Of the male head Augusts sunny rays Feb
ruarys frigidfy.
STILL well keep AN eye ON that German innovation in
Parisians against they'd hold while passing
the street. and there's telling what part Of their pro-
gram those progressive and persistent Germans may be able
to work the American male system.
We have for brother editor OF the Christian Science
Monitor this blessed admononet hope for the bestT
We always fall back it when sumped IL cheers but
docs inebrate.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-11-26
Everett-Seattle
Interurban Railway

SEATTLE TO EVERETT Limited
trains 1880 a. m. and s.25 y. m.
Local Trains 40. 1.ao, sac $50
10 30 u. 1850 a m. i3.3p. f.30 n.
$50. 9.ls. 1t:fs q. m daily Extra
train Saturday and Sunday at
1916 y. m.
Ticket offices Seattle, eth av.
near Wcatiake. Greenwood. Ajax
Drug Store. kath aud Jrpenw God.
EVERETT TO aEATTLE--L Limited
trains 500 q. NJ. and 400 .. m.
Local trainn--6;io. 600. 700. $50
o:oi ~, 1000. 100 a. m: 1890
500. GOO. 1900. zoo, 1918 .. ~
daily. Extra train Saturday aud
Sunday at 300 p. IN.
n indicates baggage trains.
Freight train leaves freight shed ct
MpAsachusetts 81 at y. m.
PACIFIC NDRTIfW EST TRACTION
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-11-26

MISS OREiLLY like scores OF can
merry towns the country over. has
Tor years ignored the factory can.
Torment on It's outskirts
Even Air They Breathe 10 Polluted
found the big cannery standing
beside the railroad on the edge OF
The town. Between the factory and
track an open drain polluted the
air, fffty feet away stood a CO.
ment shed with an oycrpowering
pigaty odor. Hearing voices wish.
In. ! called. and from the shed
emerged six children. wan. timid.
wellmannered little ones whose
mothers we're az work.
'wha, IL this place." asked.
why. this is HOME," answered
3.yearold Sophia stelletzka. an her
unchild.like eyes studied mine.
Won't you come inY~
The r~eking place. divided by
rough boards. waS the home" Of
three families. There was one
rusty stove. three rude tables and
some foul mattresses laid upon
trestieA. Bed clothing. there was
none. nor any seats The place was
strang'irg an a sewer. and swarm
Ing with flies.
70 Families Crowded In One Shack
Little Frances Steiletxka's face
was covered wEth sores.
Ny mother no make IL vel. .
said Sophia. Every lady say how
sores no &c; well here"
Thsre was no water provided.
nor any sanitary arrangements. II
was free housing such ns a dairy.
man would refuse for his COWS
Across the unapeAkahie ditch. be-
yond the track. we're ranges OF rude
huis and a long. low shack. A
stencil OF erowd-poison drifted from
them. In the shack were housed
about 20 Polish families. each oc
cupylng a single small room. poorly
lighted and ventilated. almost Dc.
void OF furniture A little distance
away rs Italian families were
housed Ia quarters similarly crowd.
cd aud inaAnltary
Twenty-Five feet from the shaeks
woman kept pigs. chickens and
Rtittt 4AtHtMA8 ARSAtA " tAt NAf u
~ a viicameiilng shed
Tho quarters we're without Gus
todlan.
AZ this factory. an Mt many 9th
era. ! have visited In New York
state. the employers and their OF.
flee force aay they never 90 near
the ahacks. do not know anything
about their ventilation or santa.
tion. their comfort or overcrowding.
And when hapless people are cor.
rallied there often virtual prisoners
by the shresd method OF retaining
part OF the wages due until they are
discharged. anaemic children. too
young for labor. are left all day long
10 their own devices in country
air" heavy with germs OF filth dis
case.
Tenyearoia Grace Iacusa. oldest
guardian OF a fllmsy shanty In one
Of the most dlsgfarof ul cannery
camps. was the day nurse OF five
otherwise unprotected babies. all un.
conscious that the two who would
not drink their icondensed1 milk
were practically dying.
These are typical instances OF
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-11-26

what do frw mistakes weigh com
pared with the terrible state Of AZ
fairs existent under the old ruler
Mhirh had you rsther have. Ban.
alex or Wappeus,ein ruicg Your
answer stamps which side you ara
on. whether for deccncy and pro.
lection for daughters and sisters or
for vice unspcakabie. whether for a
city prosperous and built on the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-11-26

-AeoE COMMISSIONER

DtoSLO8UAee 4
. After Miss o'Rslliy b,d'..s
= tied the esnnery labor esra.
= mentioned In this sr,leI. ~
= laid the facts before ths NJ .
= York state Commissioner -
= Dor, John Williams. Tbs ~,
= missioner thereupon 49, .
y Frank c. Prsste, special lnv.s .
> ti5stor Of the department a. =, .
= dvsiry and immigration. ., . !
= tour Of the camps. .
y Mr.. Praete. uhoss STUDY - !.
= hovsing conditions affects. !
= the great army Of inmlorsr. .
y workers has rendered IN. .
= Unable service 70 the lsslIsr. !
= Of New York state, covered - !
= same territory and substsntIss. !
. ed Miss o'Reiiiy's Statements :
y IN official reports which 80 !
= now on file In the labor dsosrt. !
= nent
stttsttttttttt<<x.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-11-26
Observations
WE HAvI

WE HAVE profound sym
pathy for Poet Donald r. Sill
verman OF near-I.os Angeles.
Donald was out in a sylvan
glade reciting one OF his best
efforts when a brutal hunter,
thinking he heard the noise 81
a rabbit, or a mountain lion. or
something like that, filled Dom
aid with No. 3. propelled by
smokeless powder, II gauge.
choke bore, hammcrless and
automatic. But. thanks be !
the automatic stuck after the
sixth fire, else we should now
have no real ncar-Los Angeles
poet.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-11-26

" tNk F'fffA t@ttf
lies from the large
cities 20 work dur
ing the summer
season. They lure
hem not only by
hs promise Of
good wages. but
II free housing
md country air. i"
How good the
wages are ] have
already told As
Tor the free hous
Ing" and presnm
ably wholesome
country air" let
mo tell you Of
as.stn ~ tina
places where I
lived and worked
as Mamie Riley
particularly one
little town near
Rochester, which
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-11-26
an ord Man. am RInh,.

or the so-eafi~d white Eskimoa Of
Coronation gulf. stcfanson said
u visited ~ groups Of thesc peo-
pie. Ten o. these groups never had
come into contact with whites Two
tribes had traditions OF the sir John
Franklin expedition An old man
in one tribe bad seen Richardson IN
1875 and an old man In another
tribe had ssea Coiisnson In 1855. -
Cleveland Piatn Dealer.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-11-26

For some time | have been called
shine" and Tine" and the fact
that my name Is neither shine
nor Time" would respectfully
request that the nickname be drop.
ped and that be- called by my right
name. Charley. | always sign my
name &C. II. Moore" which Is right,
and | hope that you Will take due
notice OF this and cease calling me
shine" or "rine."--c. II. Moore
Ossian (ia.l Zee.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-11-26

Germany haa no antitrust laws.
The reason NO doubt is because IL
has 10 truAta Tho Germans are
alarmed over a threatened Invasion
OF their country by American TO.
bacco interests. fearing that BY the
time laws can be passed the Ger.
man companles viii be put out OF
buAlncNa