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4 Sfxteen-hOur Day.
rom the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
People who do not find a day of twenty
four hours long enough would have had
far more reason to complain had they
lived about 1900 O00 years ago. Then the
day, as Prof. III. II. Turner pointed out,
in his lecture at the Royal Institution on
The Movements of the Stars" was only
sixteen hours, though there were twenty
nine days in the month.
Some 100000 years before that the
day was ten hours in length, and going
back still further in the recesses of time
1t was reduced to one hour. That was
when the earth and the moon were very
close together-when they had only re-
Gently parted company, in fact, and had
started on their career as separate
bodies
The principle applied to a very Iayge
class of bodies in the sidereal system
the double stars. They knew two stars
In the sky so close together that it had
never been possible to separate one from
another. even through the best telescopes
though 1t was known that one of them
was very considerably brighter than the
other. and II was supposed that one was
describing an orbit round the other.
At the ether end of the scale there
were some stars that had not completed
their orbit IN the century since they
were described by Herschell. Some of
them might occupy 200 or 800 years. and
there We're even instances in which the
orbit would occupy thousands of years.
The cause of the changes i'm the length
of our day. said Prof. Turner. was the
effect of the tides on the earth's rota-
ton. The moon raised two tides-one
side because she pulled away the water
from the earth. on the other because she
pulled away the earth from the water.
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BY JAMES b. MORROW.

The inquiry was designed to De a SOCK
dologer. What would you say" Editor
Josephus Daniels was asked years ago,
~ the Legislature of North Carolina
should fix the price at which you must
sell your newspaper
I'D write an article Of thanks he
answered, provided ] were given the
right of eminent domain and if all COLL
peting or prospective editors and pub
fishers were prohibited from doing bust
ness on my tracks"
X was long fight between Daniels
and the railroads, but freghts came
down, and SO did fares, and a commission
was created to regulate both. II wanted
TO learn" Mr.. Daniels said TO me (he is
now Secretary of the Navy, whether
the railroads owned North Carolina or
whether North Carolina could control the
railroads. i found out The railroads
owned US. But II is not 30 at present"
1t would have taken a harder question
than the one asked to stump Josephus
Daniels. He is a ready person on his
feet or at his desk, anc a real gladiator
of the South. He has fought his way
into President Wilson's Cabinet, and he
viii hold his ground hereafter, though
the odds be heavy and the circumstances
harsh. Moreover. he will get firm grip
on his job.
The admirals and the captains were
shocked when he called for a pint OF
milk and a ham sandwich the first day
he went to work. Luncheon in high off,
cialdom at Washington is a function and
not q stint, and here was a man. not far
removed from the Presidency itself. eat
ing like a clerk living in a mortgaged
house.
His Eyes and Gold Buttons.
meets Mr.. Daniels for the first time-his
friendly gray-brcwn eyes and the gold
buttons in his white and unstsrched
pleated shirt. All of his clothing is black,
and clothing here includes his necktie,
his shoes, and his hose. He is a two
color man. and, therefore, an artist in
his dress. Courtesy, even kindness,
marks his manner and his words-not
the courtesy which is grown like grain
and vegetables, and for the same reason,
but which blossoms naturally like wild
flowers in the woods. Mr.. Daniels is glad
to see you and says so, and there is
neither visible reason nor sensible sus-
picion to believe that he is only speech
fui in the delight or strategy of being
heard.
But the Daniels face is what will in
terest a visitor the most. IL is a great
face in its change of expression and in
the elements of its very looks. Yet it
is always an honest face--the face of a
toiler, a thinker, and a man of deeds
And Mr.. Daniels. seemingly thirty years
old. again one and fifty. which is his &C
tual age, is transformed without any
play OF his features or his eyes. He is
no actor: no Authoritarian.
You see a youth. You hear his voice.
You look away for an instant, and, re-
turning your gaze, behold a man with
broken burrows in his brow and fine lines,
fan-shaped. spreading outward from his
temples to his hair. 1t is the same face,
but roughened, as the sea is blown into
wrinkles by the wind-the face of an ed
itcr in travail over the unanswerablc
logic of the opposition. or in the drudgerv
of correcting and rewriting the crude
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No Monopoly of Social Justice.

No Monopoly of Social Justice.
From the Philadelphia Record.
1t is a severe strain on the patience
Of the rest of the community that the
Progressive party should claim a mo-
nopoly Of interest in social justice and
that Mr.. Roosevelt should represent
himself to he the modern Moses smft-
ting the fiinty rock Of the public heart
and conscience and drawing from that
unpromising source a flood Of SYM
pathy and ref-eshment for the multi
tudes travelling a wilderness of hard
ship from Egyptian bondage to prom
ised land in the remote future.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth than all this. Not all has been
done that ought to be done for the pro-
lection of workers, and especially for
women and children workers. but a
great deal has been done in reducing
the hours Of LABOR, for the sanitation
of factories and tenement, to enforce
safety appIia and to provide FOR
the sick and the injured. Both the ex-
listing parties in Congress and the Leg
islatures have responded over and over
again through many years to demands
for social justice, and IL neither has
yet done all that ought to be done the
need of third party to secure social
justice did not become apparent to Mr..
Roosevelt and his followers until he
had failed to secure the Presidential
nomination from the Republican party
last summer.
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What Scot ever called the pipes a mu-
steal instrument? asks Harper's Weekly.
In the old wicked days bands Of predatory
English marched over the border. They
were as bold and sturdy as the Scots
and far greater in number. Cluny Mac
Whauppert. the laird of Glengarramoyle,
I'm desperate need of a sure defense in
vented the pipes in secret and never let
a sSirl out of them till he faced the in.
vadinR Sassenach on the bloody field.
Then Cluny blew a melody SO fierce, so
eldrich, 20 grinding and blistering to the
soul. that every clansman ripped and
slashed his way through the English
hordes, intent on only one thing-to es-
cape the fiendish screeching of the pipes.
And that Is why every grateful Scot
to this day cherishese the bagpipe; the
oI escrver OF Scottish independence. He
has beaten his sword into q piowshare,
but he will always uphold the pipes to
beat the band.
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covered everything, but I could see the
war bonnets all around the hillside. They
grew thicker and thicker and nearer the
top of the hill. Then there was nothing
but smoke. dust. war bonnets, more war
bonnets and the fight was finished.
Il do not know what time this was.
but it was some time between I and
2 in the afternoon. Then 1 kept on
back. I fought part of the way. 1 found
Maj. Reno with the horses and mules and
they were fighting, too I joined them and
said to an officer-I don't know his
name:
Let us get off into the valley where
We can have something to fight behind.
This we tried to do, and finally did.
There we fought until nearly sundrown.
Then 1 said to Maj. Reno:
81 am thirsty. I must have water
HE tcld me I might go and get it. but
the Sioux would kill me il I went to-
ward the river. Then told him l would
go toward the mountains. where I knew
l could find springs 1 was naked.
had my rife. 1 met Sioux who had
a fine horse. He tried to stop me. We
fought. l killed him and 1 got the horse.
1t was all that l got in the fight
Saw the End of Custer.
THAT night it rained and stood under
tree. l Vas cold and heartsick,
had seen the end of the great Custer.
I'm the morning l started on. i had
not gone far when / met the soldiers,
hundreds of Them going toward the place
of the fight. They stopped me. l tried
to make them understand. The leader
was Gen. Terry: but l did not know it.
l said there had been fighting and Gus
ter was gone.
They would not believe it. I tried
harder and harder to make them under
stand Finally they did. Gen. Terry
asked me where I was going. 1 said:
Back to my people to get fresh
horse and come again to fight the Sioux
60 he said. and remember you are
in the United States service till you are
ready to come back. Your pay will go
on
Then 1 went back to the agency
White Man Runs Him has one unsatis-
fed ambition. He wants to have Con-
gress grant him the right to be buried
among the soldiers and the Indian scouts
of the Great Yellow Haired Chief" who
fell in the massacre thirty-seven years
ago. He expects to remain in Washing
ton until after the assembling of Con-
gress and then he hopes that bill will
be introduced granting his request. The
old chief carries with him packet OF
letters of Endorsement of himself as a
Indian with high ambition
for the betterment of his tribe and also
the fact that White Man Runs
Him has always been friend of the
white men and always enlisted on the
side of law and order in the Crow nation.
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Sole Surviving Indian Scout Tells
Vivid Story of Death of Custer
White Man Runs Him Describes Attack the Sioux and Hon
He SAN End of "Great YELLOW Haired Chef'-General
Picked Him to Lead Party to Indian Camp.

and we watched them. 1t was then only
about II o'clock. Gen. Custer said:
Now / am going into this fight. You
take me to that camp from another direc
ton
with Gen. Custer and his men We
made a half circle, long one, then We
doubled back and 1 put him on the edge
of the Sioux camp. right near the river
The river banks were full and the troops
and the Indians were facing each Other
within easy range. The firing was hot
1t was so hot that Gen. Custer wanted
me to lead him to a ford. We could not
have forded. though, and the firing grew
hotter.
The Last Stand.
I'VE retreated little toward a hog
dered his men to drop from their horses
Every fourth man took four horses and
this weakened the force. 1t was now
nearly noon. The horses were taken tC
the side of the hill and the soldiers kept
up a hot fire from the sides of the hog
back.
Gen. Custer was at the top Of the lit
tie ridge. Here was the great trouble
If we had crossed the river before the
enemy had come together directly oppo-
site us and before the firing was so bad
We might have split them. We had not
begun to fire at al until this order came
to dismount L and the other Crows had
been shooting, but the troops had not.
In the battle now all of the men lay
down to fire. all except Gen. Custer. He
knelt throughout the fighting. / lay on
my belly beside him, loading and firing
as fast as 1 could. We could see the
Sioux coming on, coming on, coming on,
the war bonnets increasing every minute.
At times the clouds Of dust and smoke
were so thick We could not tell a war
bonnet from a bunch of sage brush. The
noise was great, the shooting and the
yelling.
II asked Gen. Custer to lie down and
fire as his men were doing. He said
No When / spoke to him he recalled
that was a scout, not soldier, and he
said to me:
"'Get ont of this and go back as fast
as you can. Go back to Maj. Reno and
tell him to hurry and bring all the am
munition he can
Could See Only Smoke.
Gen. Custer was my chief. 1 had to
obey him, but did not want to go.
was fighting against my enemies. He
was fighting them. too. 1 wanted to
stay. 1 have wished that l had stayed
and gone down with the others. / would
have been buried on the hogback with
the soldiers and my friends.
But / started back toward Mai. Reno.
1 had not gone far when / met Capt
Benteen. His men were with him and
the mules with the powder and bullets
Then looked toward the hogback and /
saw. gray horses running loose 1 then
knew that the men who led the horses
had been called in, for none q the Sioux
had gray horses.
"All I could see on the hill was a cloud
of smoke, with flashes of fire. The In
dams were gathering closer and closer
up the sides of the hogback. The dust
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|, until nearly sunup before We got into
| the country of the Sioux.
I'VE started but went slowly. When
the sun again showed its face We had
gone twenty miles and had hidden our
selves i'm a valley. l went to hill and
looked for a long while.
I'VE travelled another night and rested
in the daytime, and another. and another.
and on the sixth day we came to the
Little Big Horn. and from a high point
We saw the camp of the Sioux. We saw
the smoke of their fires first, but we
could see the tepees and the ponies, too.
81 reported this to Gen. Custer. He
went with me, and l showed him the
camp. This was early in the morning.
The troops had breakfast very quickly.
Just coffee, but we scouts had nothing.
Then Custer said to me:
Hurry, Hurry! Take me to the edge
of the camp
I'm half an hour we were there. Gen.
Custer divided his men. Mai. Reno went
up the. creek which now you call Reno
Creek. Capt. Benteen was to come back
of the Sioux. six miles above. Gen. Gus
ter was to go South and I went with
him.
| Lead me to a place where 7 can
cross to the north Custer said.
II did SO. and from a rock 1 again
Gen. Custer:
We've got too big a mouthful,' mean
ing we have bitten off more than we
can chew, but Gen. Custer said No and
Mai Reno crossed the river and began
fighting the Sioux.
Custer Delayed.
Sioux were my enemies apd 1 was
glad. / begged Custer to let me go with
Reno, but he said, No Reno did not
so far. maybe half a mile. and then. he
turned back. When 1 saw them running
toward the river, 1 asked Gen. Custer
again to let me go. but he said No /
then asked the great general to cross
the creek right away and make the at
tack, but again he said. No, the day
is long. Well watch Reno fight his
fight out, and then I'll fight
Three times i said we should fight,
but each time the white chief shook his
head, and then said to me: White Man
Runs Him, you're not here to fight.
You're scout. I'll plan the fight
81 could do nothing except what my
great chief told me. I sat beside him
on my pony. and watched Maj Reno
and his men. AS / see it now, most of
the fight was a retreat. 4 could see the
men in blue coats falling from their
horses by Sioux bullets as they came
back toward us. Then 1 left Gen. Gus
ter, and went to the banks of the river.
/ picked six men from the water as they
came to our side.
IT also saved the life of an officer. He
was without arms His sword, his re-
volver, his rifle all were gone. put
him behind me on my pony and took him
to camp. Then cavalry horse came
down the stream with his saddle under
his belly, and / got him. In all I saved
seven men and one horse.
when Maj. Reno got back on our
side the Sioux gathered on q little knoll
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Army LEAGUE
IS ORGANIZED
Continued from Page Three.

end that information regarding the propa-
ganda may be furnished, and that this
information, when secured, be supplied
to all members of the several organiza-
tons included in this association, to the
end that every possible influence con-
sistent with the rules of our several men,
bers may be devoted to aiding the work
undertaken BY the Army League; and
be it further
Resolved, That the members Of the
United States Senate and members Of
Congress from the Pacific Coast States
be furnished copies of this resolution, to
the end that they may be advised OF the
interest. now existing on the Pacific
Coast, in the army and in army AFFAIRS;
and further that our Senators and Con-
gressmen be urged to emphasize, in every
possible way, the need of the Pacific
Coast for the strengthening and better
ment of military and naval establish
ments along the entire coast line.
Attest. The foregoing covers an action
taken by the Associated Chamber of Com
merce of the Pacific Coast. in annual
meeting. January Is, 1913
M H. ROBBINS, President.
&C. w. Burks, Secretary
Mr.. Huidekoper stated that the MEM
bership is rapidly increasing. that in
quiries and requests to join the league
have come from all parts of the country,
and that the officers of the league EARN
estly hope to be able to arouse such pub
lie interest that the, penny wise, pound
foolish" policy which has been pursued
for over 10 years with respect to our
military forces will soon become a matter
cf the past. and that the land forces may
become the subject of as much pride to
Americans as the navy now is
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WaShburn Family Relics
Non in National Museum
National Life in United States, Given to In
stitution by Mrs. Albert Warren Kelsey

A new case of exhibits, comprising
relics of the Washburn family. has just
been installed in the National Museum.
constituting a record of the prominent
members of this family
The several objects now on view in
the Hall of History were presented to
rem Kelsey, of Chestnut Hill, Philadel-
phia. daughter of Maj. Gen. Cadwalla-
der Golden Washburn. U. s. W
Maj. Gen. Washburn, LII. D.. was
born in Livermore. Me-, in 1918. and
died In Eureka Springs, Ark, in 1882.
He was elected to the Thirty-fourth,
Thirty-fifth. Thirty-sixth, Fourtieth,
and Forty-first Congresses from Wis
consin. served in the civil war success
sively as colonel. brigadier general,
and major general in the Union Army,
and held ONCE as Governor of Wiscon-
sin from 1872 to 1874.
Illustrative of the military service of
Gen. Washburn, there are in the col
lection a sword and scabbard, engraved
with the name of the owner, and blue
uniform coat of the frock pattern OF
the civil war period, with velvet col
lar and cuffs, together with the straps
and buttons, quite intact. There also
are a silver goblet. decorated with
floral design, which was part of
service presented to the general by
his staff; photograph of an engraving
Of him when major general. by Richie.
and one Of him and his stan taken at
Camp Washburn. near Milwaukee. Wis.
in 1862, when he was a colonel The
photographs themselves are pictorially
Of interest, the latter being a good eX-
ample of Brady's work in civil war
times. Among the other mementos and
relics there are pair of Chinese vases.
decorated in a green and gold design.
which were owned by Gen. Washburn
when Governor of Wisconsin; photo
graph of his residence, "Edgewood.'
at Madison, Wis, where he lived dur
ing his gubernatorial term: wedding
vest of white brocade silk. worn by
him on the occasion of his marriage to
Miss Jeanette Carr in 1913, and a
photograph of him when member Of
Congress, taken in Washington about
1858.
Articles I'm Exhibit.
The. exhibit includes two old-fashioned
articles of household use-a custard cup,
decorated i'm green. blue, and red, and a
cider pitcher The latter Is beautiful
specimen of the luster ware so popular
during the early part of the nineteenth
century; the body is a clear pigeon-egg
blue, while the top and bottom are of
copper luster ware, and appear to- be
made of brightly polished copper. These
were both originally owned by Mrs. Mar
tina B. Washburn, mother of the general.
Attention is attracted to a Bible in
two large volumes, bound in handsome
red morocco, decorated and marked &C.
c. W." in gold. and illustrated with full
page pictures by Gustave Dore.
historical New England church pew
chair of early date is also to be seen.
II is an old-fashioned. stin and straight
backed affair. built of very dark wood.
with high back and a low seat Of Gu
riously twisted cane resembling rope. On
tho top of the back are carved two ini-
tials, IL. W." signifying the owner,
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IF l don't marry her she threatens
to make me pay $4,000 for breach Of
promise.
"Weu?"
And Il do marry her she swears she
will get divorce with s5o-a-week all
mony."
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Minnesota inventor has brought out
box for transporting eggs safely by
parcel post
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White Man Runs Him. one of the In
dian chiefs who visited Washington for
the Inauguration of President Wilson,
tells a graphic account of the memoir
able Custer massacre This chief was
one of the three Crow scouts who were
with Gen. Custer at the beginning of the
fatal engagement 10y the banks of the
Little Big Horn. Both of the other sur
vivcrs of the opening engagement are
dead. and every man who remained on
:he littlr hillside until the fight was in
fun swing persisted with Custer.
White Man Runs Him is now nearly
fifty-nine years old. He is tall, as
straight as an arrow, and bears himself
with dignity and the sure footed grace
of the plainsman. He speaks not a word
of English, but i'm his native tongue, the
Crow. he is eloquent Affixed to his waist
coat is a little shield of metal. This
is the badge issued to him by the United
States government. 1t marks him as one
of Uncle Sans veteran scouts. OF this
token White Man Runs Him is very
proud.
The most sanguinary battle in the his
tory of Indian warfare was told through
Frank Shively, a fellow tribesman and
a graduate of the Carlisle Indian school
and of the University of Nebraska.
Crow language, and it was through him
that the chief related the stirring story
of Clusters last fight and the six days
march through the hostile country that
preceded the battle.
The Crows" said White Man Runs
Him, "were the friends of the govern
ment. The Sioux and the Northern
Cheyennes were its enemies. The Crows
were to furnish scouts for the soldiers,
% be ~hi ap xr-it1, in
structions for them to join Gen. Crook,
near the mountains, Curly, White Swan,
Medicine Crow and myself all Joined Gen.
Crook. So also did Plenty Coups, who is
now chief of the Crows. 1t was this
force that met and was nearly defeated
by the Sioux under the leadership of
Crazy Horse, who came up Rosebud
Creek and attacked Crook.
After this / was sent as a scout to
Join the Custer forces. There were
thirty others This was on June 20. 1876.
We Joined Custer on the banks of the
Big Horn. Gen. Custer wanted all the
scouts lined up, for he said he did not
need them all and would take his pick /
was very glad when he said to me,
White Man Runs Him, get your pony
Led Custer TO Fate.
THE great Custer picked five others
beside myself. We crossed the river and
Joined the body of Clusters men. Then
Custer said to me: You are my scout
You are to lead as straight to the Sioux
camp. Whatever you think best I will
do. but you are to take the shortest
straightest route
II told Gen. Custer we should travel
by night. 1 said we would see many
scouts of the Sioux and afso We would
see many other Indians so far away we
would not know whether they were en-
emies or not, but they would know u.s.
All this was about O'Clock in the after
noon. ! said We would have . march