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The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-02
TAFT HOUSEkEEPER RETAINED

Washington. Feb. Mrs Woodrow
Wilson will retain Mrs, Taft's house
Keeper when she takes possession of
the White House on March l. Mrs
La Jaffray, who has served the Tafts,
was asked recently by Mrs. Wilson to
remain and has accepted.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-02
MAGNATE DIES.

New York, Feb. Juan M. Cebal-
los vice president of the Develop
ment company of Cuba and an officer
and director in eight other corpora
tions, died suddenly of heart failure
in his office here today. He was "a
years old.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-02
WHEELER ACCEPTS.

Washington, Feb. Harry A.
Wheeler of Chicago has accepted the
presidency of the chamber of COM
merce of the United States for 1913.
When elected a few weeks ago he
withheld his acceptance.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-02
FEAR CAUSES KILLING.

Tacoma, Wash, Feb. 1.-Laboring
under the delusion that he was about
to be beaten by fellow epileptic,
Oscar Erickson, aged so, killed his
roommate, James Pattison, aged so. at
the Steilaccom asylum last night with
a blow ON the chest. The killing vas
not discovered until today
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-02
PRESENTS CREDENTIALS.

Toxic, Feb 1.-The new United
States ambassador to Japan, Lars An
derson, presented his credentials today
and was afterward, with Mrs. Ander-
son, the guest of the emperor and
empress at luncheon.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-02
DOUBLE MURDER.

Sparta, Wis, Feb. 1.-The bodies
of August Harmon, aged So wealthy
farmer, and wife were found at their
farm home today by neighbors. Each
had been shot to death. Robbery
was the probable motive of the dou-
BILE murder. Harmon was reputed to
have a large sum of money in the
house.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-02
CONGRATULATED.

ST. Petersburg, Feb. Grown
Prince Alexis received at the palace
today q deputation of Ural cossachs
who presented an address congratulat-
ing him on his recovery from his re-
cent illness
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-02
FAMILY BURNS TO DEATH.

Richland, Iowa, Jan. 31.-Major Har-
ris his wife and two children and his
mother, We're burned to death today
when their home was destroyed by
fire.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-02
NOTED EDUCATOR CALLED.

Salina, Kan, Feb. DIR, Aaron
Schuyler, professor Of mathematics
and mental philosophy in Kansas
Wesleyan university here and widely
known throughout the country as a
philosopher, sociologist and educator,
died here today. He was S5 years
Of
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-02
INcoM E TAX.

Santa Fe, N. NJ, Feb 1.-The New
Mexico senate this afternoon passed
the income tax amendment resolution
by q vote of 19 to /.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-02

A storage battery working away
though frozen inside cake of ice was
q novelty at a recent st. Louis auto
mobile show.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-02
TRADES UNION BILL PASSES.

London, Jan. 31.-The trades union
bill, which empowers unions to en-
ploy their funds for certain political
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-02

purposes, passed its third reading in
the house of commons this evening.
No division was taken.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-21

Beyond the Big cities.-According to
the government reckoning, the United
States Is divided into three distinct
parts, a writer in Richardson's Annual
says.
First (because they are most fire.
quently forced on our attention) come
the big cities. There are only fifty one
Of them, with a population Of more
than 25 900.
Next come the small town people
those who live in towns of $4,000 down
to $500. Uncle Sam differentiates these
from the $4,000 and more, because they
live nearer the SOIL" Many of their
people are retired farmers or mer-
chants, depending on farm trade, and
all are more or less close influenced by
agricultural conditions.
Last, we have the ruralists-the
farmers or those directly in touch with
agriculture. The last census shows
that this class outnumbers the other
two combined, totaling nearly fifty-four
per cent of the people.
But we will find, IL we turn to statis-
tics, that these bulk figures are mis-
leading. New York state, for example,
with its number of cities has a rural
population Of only twenty one per cent,
whereas in the central, western or
southern states-the big farming sec
tion-the per cent of rural population
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-21
KILLED WHALE IN RIVER.
Monster Stranded on Bar Is Attacked
by Japanese.

An extraordinary event is reported
from Sin Anju, a railway town in
north Pyong-an province, in the Seoul
Press. About noon when the tide was
high, villagers at WangDong Ii, Tong
Kyon, in the Kasan district (of the
same province) were amazed to see a
big black object swimming in the Riv-
er Tailyong, running near by.
They did not know what the monster
was and watched its movements with
great excitement and interest. Soon
after, the monster sent up column OF
water and disappeared.
o'clock Tomizo Tashiro, a Japanese
railway linesman in service at Sin An
ju station, while patrolling the line
was astonished to see whale strug-
Cling to go down stream at point
about five cho above the railway bridge
on the Tailyong river. 1t was low tide
and the water having considerably re-
ceded the river was only about five
feet deep. The whale had evidently
stranded on a shallow place and was
unable to move.
Tashiro was overjoyed to find the
unexpected spoil and tried to kill it by
firing at it with fowling piece he was
carrying. He fired at it eighteen times
but the whale seemed to be none the
worse in consequence. Tashiro con-
cluded that it would not do to try tc
kill it in that way and running to the
nearest village collected several Kore-
ans told them of his find, and each
armed with an axe, they returned tc
the spot.
The whale was still there. the water
having further receded. They rushed
into the stream and by striking the
monster on the head with the axes
they at last succeeded in killing it
The whale was about 35 feet in length
and was valued at about 1000 yen.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-21
PRISONERS FIRST FRIEND.
Many Men Out of Jail Aided by Chi
caqo Man.

cago Man.
Superintendent F. Emory Lyon, OF
the Central Howard association, Chi
cago, is big brother, or first friend"
to probably as many if not more,
paroled prisoners than any other man
in the country. Yet the association
which he heads is comparatively OBJ
scure. This is partly because the
work it does, can be better done in a
quiet, unostentatious manner, says the
Christian Herald. Under the parole
laws Of the states in the middle west,
certain prisoners may be released on
condition that some individual quail
flied as first friend" guarantees en-
ployment and general oversight Of the
one thus given his liberty. Hundreds
Of prisoners appeal to this association
for such help. Mr.. Lyon either signs
the papers of approved applicants as
first friend or secures them en-
ployment.
The work of the organization is not
confined, however to merely releas-
ed prisoners and standing by them
until they get upon their feet 1t
champions the cause Of the friendless
transgressor in other ways. Those
brought before the courts without
friends or funds to aid them in their
effort to secure justice have found
help and practical encouragement
from Mr.. Lyon and the Central How
ard association. Destitute families
of prisoners are frequently provided
for. and better laws for the handling
and care of prisoners have been
placed on the statute books because
of this earnest work.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-21
PLANTS THAT GIVE LIGHT
Some Animals Also Shed Strange
Glow in the Dark.

To the city dweller the phenomenon
of animal phosphorescence Is rarely If
ever presented.
Still, in spite Of its apparent rarity,
animal phorphorescence is a common
occurrence in likely localities, says the
Boston Herald. 1t is Of wide distribu-
ton, being seen in the high Alpine
SHOWS, in the deepest ocean valleys,
while the property Of emitting light is
possessed by bird, beast and fish.
Very few Of the higher animals are
phosphorescent, but notable exceptions
are the night heron and blue crane.
These birds have been observed re-
peatedly, and there is little doubt that
the greasy patches Of down on the
breast and thighs are visibly luminous
up to distance of fifty yards. A hun
ter states that in heron he shot, the
light was as bright as a hand lantern,
and that his gun sights were plainly
visible against it. The light quickly
disappeared after death and does not
recur.
The eyes Of certain monkeys are suf-
f1ciently bright in complete darkness
to illuminate objects within a radius
of foot This Is a different phenom-
enon from the brilliant eyes Of a cat,
which shine only by absorbing and
rejecting light near at hand.
Many flowers and plants have
been observed to be luminous for
short periods after sunset. The flowers
Of the nasturtium possess lightning
like phosphorescence. Common mari
Colds sometimes have an aura Of pale
golden yellow that play from petal to
petal, and smoky finishes of green
fame have been seen on the scarlet
long haired poppy. Several of the lily
family are luminous in very dry wealth
er.
Many bushes also give out light.
Decayed and fungold wood Is also
fox fire." On one occasion some of
this was used for a camp fire, and
many Of the broken fragments were
scattered over the ground where the
men were sleeping. The fire died out
during the night and one Of the party
awoke, and in his fright awoke the
rest, who were equally terrified, believ-
ping that they were lying among live
Goals.
Many reasons have been assigned as
the cause Of animal and vegetable lu-
minosity, but until recently none had
been put forward that were worthy of
consideration. The recent researches
on radio-activity have shown that
within the atom lies a mighty force
that man has not succeeded in utiliz-
ing. So tremendous Is the latent energy
that were it possible to loose only a
part Of it, a boy, by turning a crank
could manufacture sufficient electrical
energy to drive the engines Of Lon
don's countless workshops and fac
tories.
Radium owes its wonderful proper
ties to the fact that its atom are in a
state Of decay, and the disintegration
produces a certain amount Of energy
1t has been thought that to some crea-
lures the secret Of using this intera-
tonic energy has been revealed, with
the result that they can transform the
light.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-21
BURIAL 1912 YEARS AGO.
Skeleton Of Woman Who Lived Gen.
turies Ago is Found.


The mummy known as Ra-Nefer
which Is in the museum of the Royal
college of Surgeons in London, has been
described as the oldest mummy known,
says the New York Sun. The date as
signed to it by Prof. Eliot Smith was
the age Of Senefru, the beginning OF
Egypt's fourth dynasty, about 300
years B. C.
Some human remains, however, have
now been discovered at Sakkara, about
fifteen miles from Cairo, belonging II
the period of the end of the second and
the beginning Of the third dynasties
about 1000 years B. c.
Among them Is the skeleton or a
woman about thirty-five years OF age
which was found completely invested In
a large series of bandages, and next to
the body was a corroded woven cloth.
The corrosion, says Professor Smith,
was presumptive evidence that some
material, probably crude natron, was
applied to the surface Of the body, with
a view to it's preservation, and he has
thus been able to trace to higher
antiquity than had previously been
done. the use Of this method for pre-
serving the body of the dead.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-21
WOMEN SHOULDN'T PAINT
That Is Not on Canvas, an English
Artist Saws,

Although a successful woman artist
Miss Nellie Harvey does not believe
that women should indulge in paint
ing-at least, not on canvas; the SUD-
ject Of facial frescoing was not dis
cussed, says the New York tribune
Miss Harvey is an Englishwoman; but
she lives in Munich, has another studio
in Madrid and paints wherever the
spirit moves her.
Strange as 1t may SEEM although
love my art and would sooner die
than not paint, don't approve OF wo-
men as artists" she said. It's too Sc
rious a science-for 1 consider 1t sci
ence-too complicated, too many sid
ed for a woman. Most women lack the
necessary power Of concentration to
grasp it.
"Of the thousands Of young women
who take up painting, few succeed.
know of women who have started with
brilliant prospects and who never ge,
anywhere. Few ever make marked
success. They suddenly seem to come
to an end. I put it down to physica
causes. They are not strong enough
to keep up the struggle. In England
and Germany competition Is very hare
with the men artists. There are shoals
of women, mere amateurs, who do @
little fancy painting and so spoil Things
for the professional woman painter
who takes her art seriously. If an
American girl aspires to an art ca
reer 1t is absolutely necessary for mel
to study abroad.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-21
STAMPS ARTISTS UNDolNG
Careless Work Greatly Offended Some
of King Georges Subjects.

of King Georges Subjects.
A piece of careless engraving Is re-
ported to have led to the withdrawal
from circulation, on political grounds,
of two Of the recently issued Indian
postage stamps bearing the likeness Of
King George in robes Of state, says
Tid-Bits Among the insignia worn
by his majesty in Mr. McKennefs por-
trait, is the Order Of the Indian EN-
pire in the representation Of which a
diminutive figure Of an elephant Is
shown. Now, on the majority Of the
stamps there Is not the slightest room
for doubt as to the animal that 1t is
intended to represent but on the two
annas and three annas values the ele-
phant is poorly executed and bears a
remarkable resemblance not to the
stately lord of the jungle but to the
humble domestic pig! This fact did
not pass unrecognized by the Moham-
medan population Of our eastern de-
tendency, by whom the lowly porker
Is regarded as an unclean animal,
strictly forbidden by their caste and
abhorred of all true Moslems. The
grave affroct to their religious preju-
dices arising from the necessity OF ap-
plying their tongues to this profane
image, caused an immediate outcry
among the native followers Of Moham-
| med, who declined to have anything to
do with the despised stamps, and as
concession to their scruples 1t was de-
cided that the offending values should
be called in and a fresh printing made
| with the unfortunate elephant correct
ly delineated.
This is by no mea IS the first occa-
sion on which the postage stamp has
been the subject of internal and even
diplomatic contention, particularly In
respect of religion and party politics.
A case in point is provided by the
first issue of Soudanese postage stamps
under the Anglo Egyptian Condomini-
um. with it's familiar figure OF a native
camel postman. The paper upon which
these stamps were first printed was
| watermarked with curious ueVlce
known to architects as quatrefoil-a
cruciform flower, characteristic or the
Gothic style, but it's near relationship
to the Maltese cross apparently passed
| unobserved by those responsible for
the issue, or they failed to appreciate
it's dangerous significance in Moham-
medan country.
No sooner had the stamps been plac-
ed in use, however, than urgent repre-
sentations were made to the Sirdar,
Lord Kitchener, by the local sheikhs'
protesting against the presence OF an
emblem of the Christian faith on the
stamps of the Soudan. and it is said
that a native rising was narrowly
averted by the immediate issue of an
order for the watermark to be changed
to the more appropriate Star and Cres-
cent of Islam.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-21

After the meeting was over, the
correspondent asked Senator Dolliver
where he got his story. Dolliver told
him he got it from Senator Stone, of
Missouri and that Stone got it from
Jim Sherman and that Sherman stole
it from Mark Twain. You see," said
the sly Iowa orator, "the story has
quite a pedigree"
And the poor correspondent hadn't
the sand" to claim his own progeny.
Job Hedges, wit of the New York
bar, used it on the road and he got the
credit for it for quite a while in the
boiler plate matter sent out by the
American Press association. Finally
it got on the expurgatorious list and
then it was captured or rescued by
credited to various well-known men.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-21

Whom Labor" Really Means
From the census of 1900 we can rough
ly estimate that of the 25,000,O00 per-
sons engaged in industry 100000 are
farmers and 100000 are farm labor
ers; 100000 are wage earners and
salaried employees; 100000 are pro-
fessional persons, and about 100000
are employers.
Moreover, of the 100000 work.
men 5000, 900 at the most may be set
aside as salaried employees and as per-
sons working in the smaller establish
merts, says Worlds Work. This leaves
us an army of 100000 wage earners
who may be said to be working for
300, 900 employers, and the majority of
these employers are not human beings,
but corporations.
That is to say, Of our whole popu-
lation in 1900, about one-third, or 29,-
600, 900 were engaged in gainful occu-
pations," and of this number the
militants may be said to be 100000
wage earners on one side and 100000
wage distributors on the other. This
compilation eliminates the farmer and
his help, because there is practically
no wage war on the land. The domes-
tic servant, the employee of the little
establishments and the salaried en-
ployee Is likewise eliminated from the
controversy. A salary somehow is an
industrial sedative. The "black-coated
proletariat," clerks, bookkeeprs, etc.
often earn less than mechanics and
bricklayers. But they wear boiled
shirts and are meekly content with
their neat jobs.
We have, then, narrowed down the
forces that make the labor problem,
and they are only minor portion OF
the population.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-21
ODD CURES FOR INSOMNIA
Methods of Getting to Sleep That
Have Been Found Effective.

Methods of Getting to Sleep That
Have Been Found Effective.
A sufferer from insomnia, says LIE
Temps, retails number of counsels he
has received of which the first comes
from the poet NJ. Leconte, who says:
open your window wide. Lie with
your head as low as possible and you
will sleep like post"
Another very well-known man
writes:
"Accustom yourself to take an hour
or two's rest in deck chair after ev-
cry meal. Take down from your shelves
some old fashioned novel Of which you
have an Objectionable remembrance as
one of the joys Of your youth, and read
it while you are in your deck chair.
The more you are wearied by 1t the
better you will sleep, The secret Of
good night is not to tire yourself out in
the evening, but to idle away the time,
to get comfortably bored until the time
comes for going to bed. The more your
brain is dulled the better night you will
have.
IAN important point, though diff
cult one, is to avoid any dread Of in
somnia. Personally l derive benefit,
though it may have just the opposite
effect on another person, from calcu-
lating the multiples Of IL or as far as
I can go, thus 2-4-S-16-32, etc. Or
else count elephants; one elephant
and one elephant make two elephants,
two elephants and one elephant make
three elephants; three elephants and
one elephant, etc.
Finally, knock off your black coffee.
even your morning cup on rising, and
take no meat in the evening. For lunch
eat nothing but fruit. stewed for pref
erence, and for dinner a vegetable
soup. vermicelli, mashed potatoes, and
one or two biscuits.
IF this does not do the trick, as a
last heroic remedy put a damp napkin
round your head at night covered with
a piece of oilskin and tied on with a
bandagc. Sleep should come in ten
minutes. But / look upon this device
as calculated in the long run to impede
the natural action of the organs of the
body"
Another of my fellow sufferers re-
commend's' magnetism, which he says
has cured him after ten applications.
Another writes: mo drugs should be
used except in the case Of very obsti-
nate insomnia, when it is necessary, at
all costs, to get three good nights. No
other person should be in the room.
The sound of their sleeping is irritat-
ing. Smoke very little in the evening
and abstain from all stimulants, tea,
coffee, grog, etc. Don't read in bed.
If sleep refuses to come get up for a
few minutes and occupy yourself with
some trifling duties, such as arranging
papers, folding up your clothes, wash
ing your hands. Don't let business come
into your head. Don't mind a slight
feeling of chill, and get into bed again
at the end of ten or twelve minutes.
If in spite of all this sleep re:uses to
come try reading. But don't read any
thing lively or interesting. In my own
case it is very rare that insomnia does
not succumb to two, or three pages of
Plato's 'Phaedo.'"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-21

shown, this deposit currency Is oul
principal medium of exchange-whicf
Is an admitted function of money ir
all lands. One point then, we must al
admit: The evolution of modern bus.
mess has created media Of exchange sc
connected with private transactions
that they cannot, in common sense, be
performed by the government. Thi.
does not mean that the service should
not be supervised by the state; II
means that the state cannot in any
practical sense, directly perform the
service itself.
IF the government should not under.
take the work of private banking
functions, it cannot create the deposit
currence, our chief medium Of ex.
change. This conclusion is too obvious
to need further discussion, but it leads
to something more.
Bank Notes and Checks.
1.-The particular service rendered by
bank note is very much the same az
that rendered by the deposit currency
When a bank makes loan. its profit Is
the same whether it grants to the Dor.
rover it's demand obligation in the
form of a note or Of deposit account
The two differ, however, in some mat
ters of duration and distance of circu-
lation, which are well-known and obvi-
Gus. But the borrower should have
choice, without difference in expense
between the deposit currency and the
bank note. Because he lives in a rura'
community, away from a city, and
wishes to use notes, there is no reason
why his medium Of exchange should
cost him more than the deposit cur
rency does the city man Gas Is now tho
case).
Government Control Of Money.
THE sovereign control over money
remains. Our gold standard and Its
direction lies above all private modifi-
cation. 1t is patent that the proposed
reform makes no change in the issue OF
greenbacks by the treasury. Whether
wise or unwise, that question Is not
now raised Likewise. the issue oi
bank notes has long been permitted tc
the national banks, although the su-
pervisory action Of the state is exercis-
ed in many ways under the nationa
banking law, by regulations, examina-
tions and the like.
"The proposal to reconstruct the sys-
tenn of bank note issues, raises no new
nor fundamental question. 1t Is not
choice between government issues and
bank issues. 1t is merely matter oi
Encouragement by which the nationa
banks may retain their present issues
if they prefer-or have them trans
ferred to a common agency represent
ing all the banks, yet supervised by
government officials; and so that thi:
cooperative agency may issue in th'
common interest such emergency cir
culation as may be needed in any time
of stress"