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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

CONGRESSMAN Victor Murdoch OF
Kansas is going to get copies of all the
lodge oaths he has taken and the
vows and pledges that he has made
and read them over carefully and find
cut exactly what he is up against.
He belongs to II secret orders. he
las discovered that his obligation to
one of them includes furnishing bond
for erring brothers and getting them
out of Jail. If he has bound himself
to do that for all of his IL different
kinds OF brothers, he wants to know
the worst at once. He does not know
but that he has also promised not only
10 get all of them out of Jail, but also
into jobs which viii give them oppor'
tunities for getting back into jail
again. '-.. r. -. III
When Murdoch was running fol
Congress he gave fine exhibition OF
self-restraint by refusing to join a
single lodge, because he did not want
anybody to go around and say that
he was trying to get the brothers
votes. So far as is known, he is the
only candidate. who ever refrainee
from joining lodges for the sake o.
the brothers votes. But Murdoch ad
u:its that he just wouldn't do it. Iii.
| But after he was elected he didnt
mind joining. All the larges are giaf
to get Congressman into their midst,
and before Murdoch stopped joining
he had II grips and passwords to re
member. He was also supposed to re
member his vows, but he did not. HI
supposed all the "Lpromise" business
was like joining the church, and wa:
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

custom house in the last IL months.
This beats al previous records.
Maiden Lane experts estimate the
years Importation of gems az more
than $50.000.Ouv.
Some brokers say the thrush Is due
to an attempt to beat" the new tariff.
it being feared that the rate on cut
diamonds will be raised considerably.
by bringing in s19.e0O,0Oo of cnt dia-
monds ahead of the new tariff, the
importers will make net profit OF
81 100000 in duties alone.
Other diamond brokers say that the
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17
In The Public Eye

not to be thrown up to a man after.
wards.
But he soon found out that the
lodge brothers were disposed to hold
him to his obligation, especially that
part where it says that the thing to
do when a lodge brother is in jail is
to get him out. When he went to
Washington to take the office a tele-
gram was there from the secretary of
one of his lodges. It informed him
that a brother was locked up at Alex
andria, near Washington, and directed
him to. furnish $4,000 bond for the err.
ing one and get him out at once.
B. G. Gelson of Baton Rouge, La,
thinks that some day the Mississippi
Valley is going to have worse flood
than the Ohio Valley had this spring.
"The denudation of forests in the
northern central states" he said, "per
mits immediate DRAINAGE following
spring thaws or rains. In former
times forests, with their heavy under
growth,retained the moisture like q
sponge. allowing it to escape slowly
Thousands upon thousands of swami
lands along the Mississippi, which
have acted as overflow basins, are be
ing reclaimed. and the effort is being
made to confine the river within it:
bikes. Nh. ..- "~r
Zone of these days, the floods vii
come down from the uplands in great
er volume than ever before and the
confined Mississippi will burst it!
bonds and spread unprecedented dev
astation over the valley"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

The legislatures appropriation Of
$500 for improvements in the public
archives building has been found EN-
tirely inadequate for the alterations
desired and it was decided THIS morn.
ing that the appropriation will not be
spent, for time at least. J. A. III
johnson, who submitted tender sew
eral days ago for supplying filing
cases for that structure, was notified
today that the bids are declared off
the fund available being too small te
make the intended purchases.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17
CIVIL SERVICE PROGRESS

Senator Writ and his colleagues of the nlu-
nicipal civil service commission are going at
their work in highly commendable manner.
They are feeling their way, of course, but in do
ing so they are asking and receiving advice from
all sides and are calling the heads of depart
ments into consultations at ayerF step.
AS might be expected, the initial steps are ia
ken somewhat uncertainty. There is no local
experienced to be used as a guide and compare
lively few people here are familiar with civil ser
vice detail The exact balance between physical
and mental requisites, the tests, promotions
are all questions that only experimental fully
answer.
az cansi,ierahIs local sinteresf. therefore i
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

SIC 100000 Increase in imports IS
largely the answer Of the rich don't
cares to the cry against the high cost
Of living.
The Diamond Trust in South Africa
has restricted the output. Oriental
sapphires have risen to $500 carat.
The fad for pink pearls has driven
them up 125 per cent An Indian pearl
trust has been formed. About half
Of the fine pearls in the world are
owned In New York City, the pur-
chases here averaging $10.000,o00. Z
wear.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

Jersey City IN. j. Journal: "The price OF
sugar has been falling for years, mainly on ac
count of the rapid growth of the domestic beet
industry 1t is so low now that it is not easy to
imagine how it could possibly go lower. The
chief advocates of free sugar are the representa-
tives of the Sugar Trust They fear the Ameri
can beet-growers whom free sugar would. de
stroy''
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

A meeting of the Hawaii fair com
mission, composed of f. p Wood.
chairman; j. N. IS. Williams, John
Hughes, John Wise and a S. Wright,
has been called for 10 O'Clock Tuesday
morning, July %, in the rooms of the
promotion committee, for the purpose
of receiving the report Of Chairman
Wood. Chairman Wood s. report has
been compiled from data collected
during his recent trip to San Francis
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

1.-THE Star-BuIletin invites free and
frank discussion in this column on all
legitimate subjects of current interest.
Communications are constantly reeeiv-
ed to which no signature is attached.
This paper will treat as confidential
signatures to letters if the writer's so
desire, but cannot give space to
anonymous communications
Editor Honolulu StaF-Bulletin,
Sir:-Haying just returned from the
volcano as one of party of ten. feel
impelled to register some objections to
the management of the Volcano House,
Those in charge make no effort to di:
reet visitors to the sights other than
the crater, which if seen would go far
toward making up for the absence OF
fire, in tae pit. III
Whtn spoken to about this omission.
the manager tod me that the hotel had
nothing 10 do with such things. There
is not scrap of promotion literature
in sight at the hotel, much less any
printed information about the volcano
itself. During the time / was there
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17
IMPORT OF GEMS FOR A
YEAR ABOUT $50, 900, 600
nv Latest MALL

NEW YORK = Diamonds, pearls,
rubies, sapphires, emeralds and other
gems valued at s4S,6S6,O00, have come
from abroad through thes New York
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

Col. Roesevelts latest Armageddon was fea
tured by Grand Canyon lightning. However, the
colonel didntseem TO mind the spotlight bit
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

Kaiser Wilhelm's course in the Mexican en-
broglio proves that because man has head for
figures he ispot necessarily a figurehead
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

We presume that the Democrats will insist on
removing protection from Mexico also.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

Secretary Bryan ought to transfer his lecture
tour to the Chihuahua circuit.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

Possibly President Wilson would recognize
the latest Mexican government if ne could catch
up with it. s.s ..r.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

President Wilson is having a nice,quiet sum
mer- not. r.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

Plans are on foot for a merger between the
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-13

a painter of merchant. But is is a
suggestion that there will be much
improvement made in some OF the
business fronts in this city by the
use of a little paint.
The outlay would be slight. One
coat would likely suffice and day
would be enough to do the work.
Along some of the principal streets
there are several buildings needing
treatment of this sort-some OF
them fine, substantial structures, Sc
it is a pity to detract from their
natural beauty when such small
outlay would make them attractive
Besides, it is economy for the own
ers.
And then nothing adds more tC
the general aspect of the store ol
office than nice clean bright front
The stranger notes this sooner than
anything else. 1t impresses him and
he goes away to tell that our city is
one of the pretty Places of southern
Oregon-if he sees the paint.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-13
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen

Lent.
The observance of Lent is not TAX
en- very seriously today by any great
number of people. This is not an
age of self-denial. The entire phi
losophy of mortifying the flesh is
looked upon as monkish and medic
val.
With modern men, business gives
little time for meditation. If they
did sit down to think about their
sins, their minds would soon wan
der off into the price of goods or
the position of the stock market.
The thoughtful observance of Lent
seems to be largely confined to the
women, though those that need it
most are the least apt to slacken the
pace and try to find toward what
quarter of the spiritual horizon they
are drifting
The old-time Lent was no doubt
too introspective. 1t is much less
valuable to sit down and think about
your sins than to get out and try to
bring little sunshine into other peo-
pies lives.
The fact that comparatively few
people give much attention to the
Lenten custom is one of the signs of
the over-speeding of the age. Life
was meant to have its room for
thought as we'll as for action. De-
nying yourself this or that article of
food or drink may or may not be
useful according to your bringing up
and temperament
The quiet hour when a man drops
the dust and scramble of the race to
open his heart to the voice of the
spirit is never without cleansing and
sanative effect. How different the
world looks in the calm of the silent
hour, where life's competitions seem
distant, than it does when you get
out with your ledgers and your sales
accounts and your machinery and fill
the mind with the lust of getting and
having. AS the poet said:
The world is too much with us,
late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste
our powers"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-13
BOOST 1T.

OF those who are finding flaws in
the parcel post system, it might be
asked if they know of any institu-
ton, of any enterprise, of any under
taking great or small, which started
off with every cog and cam and
wheel and piston working smoothly?
If so, they are in possession of
knowledge they Should lose no time
in disseminating. There are too few
perfect things in this world of men
and it is important that they be
made known to the end that their
example stimulate the striving for
the ideal.
There have been few instances in
which persons in the public service
have tried so hard TO put an institu-
tion upon its feet as the postal em-
ployes have tried with the parcel
! post. They might have left the
whole thing for time and chance to
work out, as we have seen the mill
tary authorities deal with our last
two wars. But they didn't. They
studied the parcel post laws thor
oughly. They framed their system
in keeping with the law. They or
ganized the postal service to care
for it, to prepare for it, to look for
ward eagerly to the making as sue.
cessful business of it as they knew
how. Instead of fault-finding, they
should receive praise. Instead o.
the picking of flaws, the pointing
out of trivial shortcomings, sneerine
and condemning, there should bt
hearty congratulations.
Unthinkingly you may have lei
yourself be classed in this parce
post affair with those who habitual
ly find fault with everything. Dom
do it. The case calls for boosting
not for nagging.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-13
THE DRUMMER AND HIS TIPS

G. A. Lorenson a Chicago sales
man, retiring from business the past
week, made public his expense ac-
counts, showing $4,000 paid in tips
in 20 years. His average was $75
per month. If you don't pay tips,
said Mr.. Lorenson, you are black
listed.
AS salesmen's expenses are paid
by the house directly or indirectly
the cost of all the unwilling service
one meets on the road is added to
the price of the goods.
The drummer IL a natural prey.
The tourist may give up more liber-
ally, but he is occasional and inter-
mittent. Moreover, having a certain
amount of free time to himself, he is
often inclined to give battle against
the Hessians, and either tip or not at
all or at a low rate.
The drummer, on the other hand,
carries impedimenta. AS the soul of
an army lies in its commissary wag-
ons, so the soul of the drummer is
in his trunks. Many time he would
like to seize a baggage truck and
trundle the plaguey things himself.
But he cant, as there is another
day coming, and the same battle
must be fought over again on the
tipster's own dunghill. You can't
war against all the transportation
underworld, if you must travel over
and over again the same road.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons
why only certain type of man
makes success as q drummer. Just
as he must be able to sleep doubled
up on a wooden bench at a junction
station, he must be able to be con-
tinuously MIXED and keep on smil-
ing. And the man with too keen a
sense of justice couldn't do it. The
energy needed for battling with the
doubts of his customers would be
frittered away and diverted.
From the viewpoint of the EN-
ploye, he can do no differently. He
is crowded between the low wage or
the one hand and the open palm or
the other. And still the public keeps
on tipping.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-13
UNCLE SAM, GAMEKEEPER

Without one dissenting vote the
United States senate has passed a
bill providing for the protection of
migratory game and insect-eating
birds. The bill places all wild geese,
wild swans, brant, wild duck, snipe,
plover, woodcock, rail, doves and
other birds which, in their northern
and southern migrations, pass be-
yond the. borders of any one state
under government charge.
State laws have practically failed
to prevent the slaughter of harmless
birds. No one state in the union has
been able to enforce its game laws
rigidly Each year the butchery
keeps up and each year millions OF
dollars are lost to agriculture
through the devastations of insects
which the birds, had they but been
protected would have destroyed
This lamentable failure calls for fed
eral intervention. The senate real
lied it thoroughly.
The sooner the government makes
a case against few pot-hunters ant
against those creatures who shoe
birds out OF the mere vicious love o.
killing things, the sooner that awfu
waste OF growing grain will b,
stopped
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-13
Name the Farms.

The movement agitated for some
time by the leading farm journals
of the country and more recently
taken up by some of the women OF
Oregon for the naming of farm
homes is a furthe" step in agricul-
tural progress. Instead of being de-
scribed as tract of land in section
No. blank, township No. blank, a
farm ought to have a definite title.
some significant and appropriate
name that would fix it's identity in
the mind of friends and strangers.
If John Smith, instead of having
people refer to his farm as John
Smiths place." had an entrance gate,
above which, clearly legible, was
painted the farm name, say, for in
stance,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-13
THE SILENCE OF WOODROW.

Beyond any doubling or question
ing, the president-elect is bimet-
allist. For is it not written that
Silence is golden, speech is silver
And has it not been made perfectly
clear that, in the very selfsame mo-
ment that Mr.. Wilson makes speech
upon topics divers and sundry, he
maintains silence deep as death upon
such topics as the appointments of
cabinet officers?
And beyond any doubling or ques-
tioning, bimetallism of this particu-
lar form isn't the least bit popular
with the democratic captains,
colonels and generals. They frankly
prefer, at least for the moment sill
yer speech to golden silence. They
want to know the length, breadth,
thickness, substance, weight, aspect,
character, views and previous condi-
tion of freedom or servitude of the
Wilson cabinet-to-be They want to
know whether it is to be progressive
or reactionary, or 1 subtle balancing
of the two. They want to know II
there is anything in the rumors, or
the suspicious, that black-hearted
republican has been invited to sit i'll
the executive counsel. They want
to know whether the selections are
being made according to merits or
in keeping with the time-honored
policy of paying rewards. In short,
the officers of the party want to
know the complexion of the Wilson
cabinet and they want to know in
hurry.
The things that float upon the
wings of silence" are disturbing to
the spirit of partisan patriotism.
Some of them are enough to sicken
the soul. Unless the president-elect
speaks within few hours we fear
that he'll have the death of many an
impatient and eXasperated comrade
upon his conscience.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-13
CONIION-SENSE AMERICAN
WOMEN.

Fortunately none of our home suf-
fragettes feel that they can demon
strate their fitness to vote by going
down to the public buildings or bus
mess district and heaving a rock
through some costly square of plate
glass.
If Mrs. John Bull had any sense
of humor she would perceive that
side of it. One of the most essential
qualifications for the voting act is
a respect for law and a Willingness
to abide by it. When a suffragette
breaks a window she says in es-
sence, Il am not fit for the thing
want"
In spite of the close ties of blood
kindred and education between Eng.
land and the United States, no hint
of that spirit has been found on this
side of the water
From Josh Billings, and from long
before him, down to George Ade, q
stream of genial satire has rur
through the life of the American
people. Who can tell how much
hysteria has been removed from oul
society and politics by the national
sense of humor?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-13
SOME QUEER LAW.

A Kansas City Judge has cited the
owner of the Kansas City Star for
contempt because the paper saw fit
to criticise a decision in a divorce
case. According 20 the news story,
the judge refused TO dismiss an ac-
tion brought by a wife for divorce
until the husband had paid her three
attorneys $50 each although it was
admitted that the woman had no
grounds for divorce. In another
case that same judge decided that
the husband must pay his wife's at
torney fees before she could collect
any alimony. The decision of the
court may be good law, but it is
poor logic. To one outside the pale
of this court it looks as if the judge
might be engaged in better busi-
ness than keeping married people
apart when they want to patch VI
their differences and live together
again. 1t looks hardly fair to force
a husband to pay his wife's attor'
Heys for bringing suit for divorce
against him when he was in no man
ner to blame for the separation. TC
say that a lawyer is entitled to a fee
before a wife and mother secures
alimony for the support of herself
and family is not in accordance with
the theory of Blackstone.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-13
WAR.

How long, oh Lord, how long
must be regaled with stories of
butchery and blood?
When, perchance, there is no real
war, the sensational press flaunts in
our faces the yellow peril" or the
danger of England's position in the
Panama canal controversy. That
gaunt, red-haired Sherman before
Vicksburg wrote War is hell" He
knew. Any man who has ever car
ried a musket or heard the thunder
of the guns feels the thrill of the
soldier, but he knows, too. it is the
primeval mans lust to destroy. The
bugle call and the long roll are only
the songs of the sirene, the cam
pire's charm. War takes the best we
have. The weakling cannot go, the
selfish and cowardly will not.
Just now a few miserable sand
dunes of the Sahara are the prize
for which Italy and Turkey are
striving to determine which is the
most adept in the pastime of MUIR
der.
The blue-eyed Saxon claims the
most advanced civilization and, al
the same time, the greatest prowess
in shedding the blood of his fellow
man. A wave of the hand OF these
so-called civilized nations would stol
the useless carnage.
L'Envoi
How long, oh Lord, how long?"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-13
CLOVERNOOK FARM
John Smith. Owner

@ o o 8 @ {. 9 o (. @ {. g o o @
the name would be valuable asset
to John Smith and to future owners
of the place as we'll as an incentive
to the pride of the owner in his
place and it's products.
If, in addition, John Smith had a
stencil with the name of his farm
to stamp every box, every bag, every
bushel of farm products, every doz-
en- of eggs that went from the farm
to the wholesale or retail purchaser;
if every pound of golden butter was
stamped with a mould printed with
the name, customers would soon
identify John Smith and his farm
with "Clovernook" products and,
providing the standard of quality
was maintained, John Smith would
have little trouble IN finding a mar
ket.
More than that, if John Smith ever
wanted to sell "Clovernook" and had
made the name mean what a farm
name should mean, it would add
value to the place that would mean
an extra price in the sale. John
Smith would have a farm name that
stood as a synonym for quality and
the name would have marketable
value which John Smith could turn
into cash just as one can sell the
goodwill of a reputable firm for eX
ira cash value.
Every ranch in Oregon should
have a name, ana provision shoult
be made by which it would be re
uuired that the name be registered
with the recorder of deeds and made
a permanent and tangible asset.
would increase the owners pride il
his place. 1t would help make tht
identity of the farm clear in tn,
public mind, and IL would bring the
farmer and the buyer of farm prod
ucts into closer touch. We nam
everything else; why not dignity thu
ranch by according it a name all it
own, instead of numbered designa
ton in such section, on such ant
such a rural route?
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