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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04
"%CASCARETS" BEST
FOR THE BOWELS
No Headache, Bad Taste, Sour Stom.
ach or Coated Tongue by Morning.

1t is more necessary that you keep
your bowels, liver and stomach clean,
pure and fresh han it is to keep the
sewers and drainage of a large city
free from obstruction.
Are you keeping clean inside with
Cascarets-or merely forcing a pas
sageway every few days with salts,
cathartic pills or castor oil? This is
important.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse and
regulate the stomach, remove the
undigested and fermenting food
and foul gases: take the excess bile.
from the liver and carry out Of the
system the constipated waste matter
and pioson in the intestines and bow
els.
No odds how badly and upset you
feel. a Cascaret tonight will straighten
you out by morning. They work
While you sleep. A 25-cent box from
our druggist will keep your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Don't
forget the children-their little in
sides need a good, gentle cleansing.
toO.-Adv.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04
EQUALITY

The Wisconsin Legislature has I'M
der consideration a measure which, If
il becomes law, will prevent two hearts
from beating as one in the La Toilette
state. This proposed law would allow
a wife to testify against her husband
or a husband against his wife in any
civil OF criminal action. This is a step
toward equality with a vengeance.
The women of Wisconsin are said to
be working in support of the measure.
The fact thai one or the other re-
fuses to give testimony in a trial shall
not be made known to the jury in any
action and no reference shall be made
to the fact in the argument. The bill
has been referred to the judiciary com
mittee.
1t is said that the women's clubs
will indorse the measure on the
ground that it is an advance step to-
ward woman's rights
When the first constitution was
submitted to the people for ratification
in 1916 it was voted down because it
would give women the right to hold
III operty. This right vas later granted
them by statute.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04
The Republic of China
XIX.-The Problem of Population.
BY Frederic J.. Haskin

Ancestor worship inc over popula-
ton are the twin curses of China The
former is responsible for the latter and
the two together breed such evil Off
springs as debased women, murdered
girl babies, high death rate, poverty
and famine. AFFECT reverence of dead
forebears and chain-lightning breed
ing Of descendants are responsible for
China's ills. Whatever good there may
be in the care the Chinese devote to
old people and the way they defy the
dead is made ~valueless by the evil
results in the train of their customs.
China is a great and and the Chinese
are a great people, but until ancestor
worship becomes sane and the bearing
of children becomes humane, China
will not tax it's place in the worlds
affairs to. which it's inherent worth
entities it. Less worship of the dead
and more attention % the living
should be China's slogan. Until this
is done the country's adoption of a
republican form of government and
other western customs will be only
Of relative value.
In the first place ancestor worship
in China is due to misguided self-in-
terest rather than to piety. A China
man bows humbly before the tablets
of his forefathers and offers up tokens
before them on certain days in order
that the gods may reward his good
ness. He z%ealously brings children
into the world not so much out of
love for them but because they will be
duty bound to support him in his old
age. Going a step further in his pure
ma~terialism. he will murder his own
girl babies because they marry early,
and in thus transferring their filial
piety to another family, are of no use
to him. A Chinaman's sons in his old
age taxi the place of an endowment
policy and a small block of govern
ment bonds. This plan of providing
a haven against old age is also more
certain than the weS.ern way. A
westerner may never own a few bonds
and might fail to keep up his annual
insurance payments. But a Chinese
will always have sons. If his own wife
cannot bear at least n son., he is
expected to take a secondary wife"
in order to bring about the desired re-
suit. The numbe of "secondaries" is
limited only by the mans purse, and
the babies so begot are considered le-
ultimate. Should ever these auXil-
larry spouses fail to bring forth the
yearned for male support in his old
age the man adopts some orphan, a
boy, perhaps, whose entire family had
been wiped out by disease or famine.
In the meantime, the wife and con-
cubines may be bearing girl babies
with reckless rapidity. What becomes
of them? The baby towers which are
seen in every part of China or the
muddy streams can tell you The baby
tower is a hole in the ground from
which rises a round tower of mud
brick about five feet high. 1t is open
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04
A NEW ~BERTILLiON.

Feminine militancy and the parcel
pest have combined to suggest a new
means Of identification OF offenders.
When mere man run up against femi-
nine militancy he gets Asquith
and Lloyu-George are getting; it may
be best described by paraphrasing
Sherman's epigram regarding wal.
And there is one offender in the post
al department, back in New York,
who has encountered this irresistible
force.
This woman called on the Flushing
postmaster "all het up over the action
of some postoffiCe employe, presumably
i'll the department of the parcel post.
Her mother, who lives a short distance
from Flushing, is a famous cook, and
her sponge cakes are dreams, while
they are being eaten, and have no aft
ermath of dreams, at least Of the
nightmare kind. one might dream a
happy dream of eating them right
along till the crack O doom.
The mother knowing her daughters
fondness for her sponge cakes, baked
a large and especially attractive one,
and then sent it by parcel post. That
was her undoing, or the undoing of the
cake, rather. When 1t reached the
daughter it was just half size. Then,
with blood in her y and acid in her
tones the daughter called upon the
postmaster and demanded That ne loon
into the matter and punish the man or
men whose taste for sweets led them
into rifling the mail.
1t is not for US, at this long range,
70 lay down the Law to the Flushing
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

at the top, with a board across. The
unwelcome female infant is left on
the board. Here it may die of starva-
ton or exposure. Usually, however,
another parent intent on doing away
with his daughter comes along with
his awful burden, and pushing the
first baby off the board, puts his own
in its place and leaves it to receive
like treatment from the next murder
er. By this procedure the Chinese
coddle themselves into believing that
they do not really kill their own chill
dren. Many of these helpless girl
babies are rescued by foreign and
native mission workers who skulk
near the death towers.
little girls so rescued are reared
homes and schools. 1t is an encourag-
Ing fact that more and more fathers
are disposing of their superfluous girls
in this a and some even promise to
take them back later if they are ever
able to 10 so. An increasing number
are impelled nowadays to keep them
anyway, ever though they may have
to sell them in times Of famine. Dur
ing such periods of stress, hich are
lar too common, little girls are sole
to strangers for as low as so cents
apiece. The purchasers nave never
been accused of philanthropic mo-
tives. The girls who manage to stay
in the family until marriageable,
which is at the age of Is or Is, are
hen turned over to their husbands
for a sum of money which varies ac-
cording to the wealth of the groom's
parents. They then become the child
bearers of their unsought mates and
the household drudges Of their moth
er-in-law. Delightful prospect, isn't
it?
1t must be said that economic pres
sure is partly responsible, for this hor-
rible infanticide. The girl babies
would tax the rice out of the mouths
of the boys, and, of course. the boys
u be saved up against the day
when the father and mother are old
and can no longer work. They then
will be treated with great respect by
the children and grandchildren and
the daughters-in-law- will also work
for them. When they die the sons
and their families will then honor
their memory. In other words. what
ever is. is right. 1t is the custom de-
creed by their revered ancestors and
therefore must be absolutely just n
proper. The average Chinese Is too
poor to support even a fair sized fam
lily by his own low standards of living,
to say nothing of ours: consequently.
the girls must go. The boy made SO
fortunate by the mere accident of
birth to be allowed the simple privi-
lege of living. will do we'll ii he him.
self resists the effects of poor nourish-
ment, filth and disease long enough to
grow to manhood.
1t is a bitter struggle merely to eX-
list in China, and the critic who re-
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

postmaster, but it seems that a modifi-
cation of the thumb print method of
modern sleuths would prove highly eff
ficacious. If plaster casts of the teeth
marks in the remaining half of the
cake were taken and then the men who
handled the cake in transmission were
compelled to show their teeth, the real
culprit would be discovered.
There could be another and more
agreeable plan. The cake-baking
mother could be called upon for sev-
eral sample cakes, and then in the
presence of the postmaster, to provide
against fraud, each clerk might be
obliged to bite into his cake. M new
marks Of his teeth could then be made
into fresh molds to be compared with
the discriminating ones On the original
cake.
If justice were meted out in this way
there might be hope that the railway
and express companies, in whose
charge p~erishable and edible things
often reach the man to whom they are
sent largely short of their original
measure, might tax steps to catch the
criminals.
At all events, man can pat the
Flushing woman on the back for her
intention to get her rights. And they
share.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04
LECTURE COURSE
Edition Missoulian:

Edition M%issoulian:
Kindly permit me space in the COL
umns of your valuable paper to say a
few words to the people of Missoula
about the University lecture course.
This makes the sixth season we
have been conducting this course Of
high grade attractions, consisting OF
lectures, musical numbers and the
like. These have ben given at cost,
$500 for W. numbers, 43 cents for
each entertainment. AS it has prov
en-, the. price a been below cost.
The first year when the course was
new, we paid expenses. Then we
fell behind. and were pulled out by DR..
Cook, who gave US a lecture without
cost, and which we in urn gave all
ticket holders without cost. We felt
W. could make it again, though we
should have quit at that time. But
the past two have been bad
for us and we have not met expenses.
Some people think we nave big
houses, and should easily pay expen-
Ses. AS a matter of fact we have
235 seats unsold down stairs and in
the firt balcony. The theater charge
makes about 10 cents for ach seat IN
the first floor n in the front bal
cony, whether the seats are occupied
or moi. This leaves us 80 cents per
ticket per night on season tickets.
with which to pay for the attraction
and the other expenses of the course.
Since many Of the seats are unoccu-
pied. and sinc student tickets are
sold at $500 for the. set. this amount
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04
Sage Mixed With Sulphur
Restores Natural Color
and Lustre to Hair.

Why suffer the handicap of looking
old. Gray hair, however handsome,
denotes advancing g We all know
the advantages of a youthful appear
ance.
Your hair Is your charm. 1t makes
or mars the face. When 1t fades,
turns gray and looks dry. wispy and
scraggly just a few applications Of
Sage Tea and Sulphur enhances its
appearance a hundred fold.
Either prepare the tonic at home or
get from any drug store a SO cent
bottle of "Wyetk's Sage and Sulphur
Hair Remedy" ready to use; but
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04
SHA! LADIES'! SECRET TO DARKEN
FADED GRAY HAIR USE SAGE TEA

slisten. avoid preparations put up by
druggists as they usually use too
much sulphur, which makes the hair
sticky. Get "Wyeth's" which can al
ways be depended upon to darken.
beautifully and Is the best thing
known to remove dandruff, stop itck-
ing n falling hair. &
BY using Wyeth's Sage and ,Sul.
phur no one can possibly tell that you
darkened your hair. It does It 20
naturally and evenly-you moIsten q
sponge or soft brush. drawing this
through the hair. taking one small
strand at a time which requires but
a few moments. 20 this at night.
and by morning the gray hair disap>
pears: after another application on
W. its natural color Is restored and
1t becomes glossy inc lustrous ana
you appear years younger. Missoula
Drug Co.. special agents.-Adv.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04
WILL BECOME A NUN.

Washington. Feb. 3.-Although i'm
plored by her father to remain with
him, Miss Frances Potts, the youngest
daughter OF Rear Admiral Robert
Potts, U. S. NJ. is said to have turned
a deaf ear to the entreaties and will
enter a Carmelite owen as a nun.
Her two sisters are members of the
order. Miss Potts entered on her
novitate November. 1911, and three
months later too the white veil. which
was followed by a years probation
She will be formally taken into the
order in Baltimore February II.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04
Old AGE.

Old age as it comes In the orderly
process of nature is a beautiful and
majestic thing. 1t stands for expert
ence. knowledge, wisdom, counsel. That
is old age as it should be, but old age
as it often is means poor Digestion.
torpid bowels, a sluggish liver and q
general feeling Of i'll health, despond-
ency and misery. This in almost ev-
cry instance Is wholly unnecessary.
One Of Chamberlain's tablets taken Inn.
mediately after supper will improve
the digestion. tone up the liver and
regulate the bowels. That feeling OF
dependency will give way to one Of
hope and good cheer. For sale by all
Enthusiastically.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04
NO r

st. Paul, Mimi, Feb. 3.-A bill which
would make void all contracts for
margin or option trading unless in
writing and unless the seller actually
possesses the grain or stock which Is
the subject Of contract, was introduced
in the Minnesota house today.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04
Hamilton Office
POI Main Street, Hamilton, Mont

The Missoulian may be found on
sale at the following newstands out
side of Montana;
Chicago-Chicago Newspaper Agen-
CIV, n. Il. corner Clark and Madison
streets. 49,.
Minneapolis-World News Co, 21e
North Fourth street.
Salt Lake City-MacGillis & Lud-
wig.
San Francisco-United News Agents.
Observation-Disclosures News Co,
Seventh and Washington.
Seattle - ECkart's News Agency
First avenue and Washington; w. O.
Whitney.
Standardization News. Co.
Tacoma-Trego News Co, Ninth
and Pacific.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

The farmer, the packer n the
dealer. having proved individually that
he is not responsible for the high price
of meat, the consumer Is left to con-
clude that he has merely imagined that
the price Is high.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

Two Philadelphia physicians are
meeting with much success in their
attempts to cure epilepsy by the in
lection of rattlesnake venom.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

The suffrage parade in Washington
will be good practice. The women,
one Of these days, will be escorting a
presidentess up Pennsylvania avenue.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

The public will be satisfied If the
educational oprhans are given a home.
The cause of the present conflict is
net important.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

The atmospheric disturbance is
blamed to the revival services. This Is
not right, though the services are likely
to provoke some disturbances of con-
science.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

The democratic plan Of busting the
trusts Will fail. The progressive plan
of regulation has already been proved
successful.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

The British s~uffragettes are making
it clear the female of the species
is more deadly than the male"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

1t is suggested by the Chicago News
that the militant s~uffragists should
study %chiropody as well as political
economy.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

The answer to those who claim that
regulation has %strangled business Is to
to be found in a glance at business. 1t
Is a lively corpse
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

The Legislature, however, has yet
time in which to do something useful.
1t has shown indications that it can.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

We are willing to admit that former
Governor Norris would make a fine
secretary Of the exterior.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

Uncle Joe Cannon says he Is willing
to admit hat he is going to the scrap
heap, if scrap" is used in It's sporting
sense.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04
OWEN BILL DIES.

Washington, Feb. BY a tho vote
the senate refused today to consider
the Owen bill for a federal depart
ment of public health.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

And the federal constitution didn't
follow Bailey into retirement. That's
remarkable considering Railey's decla-
rations.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

The grounding is pulling off the rest
of winter SO as to clear the deck fol
spring.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

palm as a peace center. CLOndon
papers please copy.)
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

The nation applauds while Governor
SulZer whaCks Wall street on the bean.
And what a resonant Dean it is!
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

1t wastes a good deal of time when
a state is compelled to view it's legis-
lature with alarm.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

The anti-discrimination bill does not
worry the honest miller or the honest
creamery man.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

If a combination Is honest in pur
pose, it will not object to regulation.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

One good thing about getting winter
all in a bunch is that it Is soon over
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

The boy who cries fire" in a crowd
is worse than the man who rocks the
boat.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-04

In yesterdays breeze. one could al
most imagine that he was in Helena.
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PAPERS,.

The Missoulian is anxious to give
the hest carrier service; therefore, sub
scribers are requested to report faulty
delivery at once. In ordering paper
change to new address, please give
old address also. Money orders and
checks should be made payable to
The Muscular Publishing Company.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
EASTERISLAND
IS MYSTERY Of
PACIFIC OCEAN
Believed To Be Remnant Of Sub
merged Continent-PeopIe
Developed Writing,

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20
Easter Island, the riddle of the Pa
cifc, Situated 1000 miles from the
nearest continent. rock bound and
stormswept, this small desolate island
the farthest outpost Of the Polynesian
group. has earned the title of The
Mystery Of the Pacific"
This sphinx of the oceans and
its nearly extinct inhabitants have
proven a battling problem to scientists
AMI explorers of modern times. 1t is
said by some to be the remains of
submerged continent and declared
by others only to have been inhah-
tied by an advanced race of natives.
The Easter Islanders were the only
natives of the Pacific islands who had
developed the art of writing. Their
inscriptions are on wooden tablets
and bear remarkable resemblance to
ancient Babylonian. These hero
glyphiCs have never been deCipher-
ed.
This mysterious people was a race
of idol wOrshipers and had mastered
to some degree the art of sculpture
and masonry.
on the island. which is about 80
square miles in extent, are immense
platforms facing the sea, formed of
large stones fitted together, some of
which weigh five tons, and in places
the sea side of the walls are 80 feet
high and over 200 feet long on these
platforms stand colossal figures cary
ed out of lava from an extinct crater
eight miles away.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
OFFERS NICKEL
TORESCUERFOR
SAVING HIS LIFE
Los Angeles Hero Is Told to Go
and Buy Himself a Five-Cent
Smoke by Grateful Man.

Los ANGELES, Sept 2o-F'iye
cents, cash, was yesterday proffcred
Roy HasIet, OF Los Angeles, by a
young man Of Compton for saving
the latter's life. Mr. Haslet refused
the mouey-he said he didn't care for
expenses.
The Compton man is an expe-
renced swimmer and was caught in
a dangerous rip tide off Long Beach.
Haslet. seeing the bathcrs predica-
ment, plunged into the surf.
The young man was rapidly be
coming exhausted, and Haslet reach
ed him as ne was sinking. Selling
him by the hair, he swan vigorously
to shore, and he, too. was exhausted
as he reached land
First aid reatment was given both
young men, and soon neither was the
worse for the adventure.
Later the Compton citizen sought
Haslet
You saved my life" ne said Il
appreciate what YOU have done a
great deal. Here is a nickel; go buy
yourself a good smoke"
Mr.. Haslet doesn't smoke-that
kind.