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lege There are a million and a quarter
pupils in the seventh and eighth grades
and the same number in TIE high schools.
Next years mailing list will contain con-
sidera bly, over three million names. In
addition Representative Hobson will in
close a personal letter with every PAM
phlet.
1t is the purpose of Capt. Hobson to
keep up this mailing for twenty years.
His speech will continually be kept re-
viSed SO as to be the latest word on the
subject of total abstinence. After next
year the mailing list will be revised so
that the speech will go to every Amer
lean child once in the seventh grade.
once in the eighth. twice during the high
school course and twice in college.
Should the fortunes Of politics go
against Capt. Hohson al any time and re-
move him from Congress-. thus depriving
him of the USE of the mailing frank, it
will make no change in his program. He
is prepared to carry on his campaign or
education to the end.
MY study of the causes. of drinking
brought me to the conclusion that alco-
holism is an organic disease and must be
given organic treatment he said. ITO
accomplish anything with this great evil
it is necessary to go to the masses Of the
people themselves and educate them as
to the great facts of the case. 1t Is diff
cult to educate adults. and il becomes
a question of reaching the youth of the
nation and helping them to mold their
characters.
Investigation of intemperance indi-
cate that is per cent of all drunkards
contract the liquor habit before the age
Of twenty-one. 20 per cent before the age
of sixteen and 4 per cent before the age
of twelve. IF young man reaches the
age Of twenty-one without becoming a
drinker the chances are only per cent.
or one in fifty, that he will drink after
that.
$50 it is clearly a question of youth.
I am undertaking to reach the youth
of the country year by year with the
cardinal facts on the subject. In that
way a new generation of on-drinkers
will be raised and il will become the
great effective army of prohibition twsn-
ty years hence.
The campaign of one man 10 suppress
an industry which does business of
So OOo. GOO. 900 annually sounds bit like
Don QuiXote charging "A stone windmill
with a wooden lance But one needs only
to talk with Capt. Hobson a short while
to gain good deal of respect for his
war He is not at all the usual type or
temperance reformer
Religion cuts no figure in his campaign.
There is no Father, come home with me
now" Sc timentality in his literature.
Capt Hobson has become an advocate
of total abstinence purely from the stand
point of scientist. There are no scrip
tural quotations as part Of his argument
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a SIX the average man. and he Will
~ tell YOU that the prospector.
"a carrying his lean kit, and ever
y eXpectant that tomorrow will
bring forth a golden Golconda.
is "A thing of the past-that the romance
of the search for gold, barring the brief
interim which followed the discovery of
the precious metal in the klondike, died
with the Forty Miners
But he is mistaken. There are as earn
est prospectOrs today as there We're back
in '49-men who with slender kits are VEN
turing forth into every unexplored por-
ton of Uncle Sans vast territory. I'm
like the prospectors of old, though. they
do not hunt in a harum- skarum fashion,
digging here or there on what "a gambler
would call bunch and pinning their
faith solely on luck. Instead. these pros
pectors are all scientists.
Their sedTcE! is guided solely by knowl-
edge. and-strangest OF although they
arc continually discovering lands with
mineral wealth worth millions tl.ey never
dig at all. never stake off "a claim, nor
ever make the slightest effort To gain pos
session of their finds. For these modern
prospectors hunt wealth at a regular sal
AIRY from Uncle Sam. They locate mining
property only that Others may take and
work it. In q word, they look for wealth
for somebody else.
Exploring biologists under the direc-
ton of the United States Department of
the Interior is the high-sounding title
which the government gives them. Some
idea of the magnitude of their work may
be CLEANED from the fact that since they
first began prospecting they have discov-
cred more than 100000 acres of mn
eral-bearing land
The monetary value of this land is i'm
possible to compute. Some of il has never
been claimed or even worked. though the
Interior Deartment will tell any one of its
location and sell 1t for a song. Other lands
found by them have been bought UP and
worked. have yielded millions in profit
and are still yielding.
At the land office, that bureau of the
Interior Department which sells or lends
the tracts after they have been 'discov-
cred Il was declared that the most con-
servative estimate of the profit to pri-
waite citizens who have been told in mi
mute. detail where TO dig mines by Uncle
Sans prospectors would mount into the
billions.
These government prOspectOrS never
start ont looking for gold OF. indeed, for
any other one mineral. They search for
anything and everything. They start with
the definite information that there is
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A Modern Demosthenes.

There is an al
most unknown cir
CumStdHce in the
lif e history of
: p = a X e T Champ
Clark that deserves
10 rank with the
ever green story of
Demosthenes, who
cultivated ! @ a r
speech it'll a
mouthful of peb-
bles. Speaker Clark
bears the reputa-
ton OF having the
dearest enuncia-
ton in the House
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And They Did.

Former Speaker
Cannon does not
believe in I h e
higher education"
for people who
have To earn their
living b the sweat
of their brow" He
applied his reason
ing 10 the Indian
appropriation bill
"A while u go. when
the House was de-
batting certain eX-
penditures for In
dian education.
I'm d ugl a S
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copies of the speech this year; with
these and a mailing list of members OF
the Y. NJ. c. A. the total number of
copies which will be franked out by the
Alabama representative to the yo- tn of
the land this ear is expected to be over
two million.
The propaganda, however will not fall
into its full stride until next year. Then
Capt. Hobson purposes to send a copy of
his speech to every child in the United
States in the seventh and eighth grades.
every youth in the American high schools
and every young man and woman In col.
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gotten even fair prices for its coal lands.
Previous to that time SO an acre was the
high limit-that price being the result of
the construction placed on the wording of
the law authorizing the sale of lands 1t
was the investigation of the famous Cum
ningham claims-where $40 an acre was
accepted for lands that were estimated to
contain coal worth 100000, OJ-that
caused the construction on this law to be
changed. Now the government charges
according to the value of the deposits.
Government estimates of value are IN
variably so conservative. however, that
while nothing is guaranteed, the pur-
chaser can, usually feel certain he is
playing sure thing %
The prospector of lt4ne days of 40 would
probably sscorn the methods pursued
by the fortune hunters who work
for Uncle Sam. Yet. in a way. the latter
are more thorough. Certainly the salaried
prospector covers far more ground than
his predecessor. But there is one vast
upon a possible strike" he. promptly
staked it off and made sure by digging
S'ngle-handed. he would work his claim
until he had pretty definite knowledge
OF the width and depth of his vein, and
a roughly estimated knowledge of its
total value.
Uncle Sans prospectors do none Of
fhese things. They use no picks or SHOW
els in their work. Instead their tools are
their hands, their eyes and their pockets.
They walk over the land. noting every
rock on its surface. and as they walk
they pick up stone or piece of quartz
and tuck it away in their pockets. They
scoop up handful of the soil from the
spot on which the rock lay, wrap it up
carefully and tuck that away, too.
Later that rock or quartz will be sci
entitcally tested. SO also will the soil.
and. from the results of these tests
conclusion will be drawn as to the lands
properties Naturally note will also be
taken of the amount of quartz or min
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Did He Mean It?
Senator Thomas

Senator Thomas
=. Gore, the blind
senator from Okla
hOna, WAS present.
ed to u big ban
Quet in Washing
ton one night as
the POSTMASTER of
the occasion. After
a few opening re-
marks, 5 e n a { o r
Gore said blandly:
Now, friends, |
do not intend to
bore you with a
speech, but L will
introduce a man
.r lin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02
Obvious.
When Sir Wilfri!

When Sir Wilfrid
l.aurier was pre-
nlier of Canada. Il
couple of years
ago. and K. J.. Bor-
den. the present
premier. was lead
er of the always
active Opposition"
in the house of
commons. the two
famous men sat on
either side of the
POSTMASTER at a
press gallery ban
quet in Ottawa.
The toa Stmaster
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was plainly 'fussed'' when he got up TO
start the speechmaking
Il am between the leader of the GOV
ernment and the leader of the opposi-
tion, he said with d smile, land | con-
fess | don't know which is the deep sea"
II can easily inform the POSTMASTER
which is the devil" interrupted the
nremipr
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Which /
premier.

Whereupon he introduced Representa-
tive Henry d. Clayton of Alabama, but
the banqueterS treated him kindly.
Representative Frank Buchanan of Chi
cagO, H., used to he an ironworker and
was president of the Ironworkers Union
for long time.
Representative John Joseph Kindred of
New York is an expert alienist.
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MEASURINGAND L STING
NEWLY DISCOVERED COAL VEIN

haps ten tons. Even from a distance the
bowlder looked like mineral rock to him.
and when he got closer he found he had
not been mistaken. 1t was of the purest
or iron ore. Walking still farther up the
valley he found three other smaller bowl
ders, also of iron ore.
1t looked like rich find for some one
With so much ore cropping out above the
surface there was every reason to De-
lieve that digging would disclose vein
worth untold millions. This expectation
grew stronger when the most exhaustive
test of a piece Clipped from the largest
bowlder disclosed the iron it contained
to be of a singularly pure quality.
The land did not remain government,
property very long News OF the nho
got abroad with astonishing rap1olty
slow in purchasing. knowing that gov
eminent reports are based purely on SCI
entific Indications they want bit more
practical information before investing
their money.
But this case seemed a sure thing. So
the land was literally gobbled up. That
particular tract on Which the powders
We're outcropping was the most sought
after But the buying did not stop there.
Thousands of acres all around 1t were
sold.
There is no sliding scale of prices for
land containing iron. Irrespective OF
quantity or quality,'it sells for $50 per
acre. 1t therefore required only the
comparatively small sum of Silo to buy
the legal limit of 100 acres, and the pur-
chasers were congratulating themselves
on being made millionaires almost for
the asking.
The man who bought the tract con-
tanning the powders was the first to start
work Accommodating as much capital as
he could, he made arrangements TO buy
machinery and departed for North caro-
lima to work his claim. This suited the
owners of the other tracts exactly. After
he had uncovered his vein il would be a
simple matter for them to raise album
dant capital to work their own proper
ties or to sell them out at an enormous
profit. So they waited.
1t was we'll for them that they did. The
energetic owner worked his claim. first
confidently. then anXiously, then doubt
fully and finally hopelessly. Even then
he kept on for more than two years. put
ting in more and more money in the
hope of finding the vein that the bowl
ders convinced him must be there. But
he never found it. Nor, besides those
four powders, has any iron ore ever
been found in all that valley.
The powders, it has since been decided
bv geologists. were merely stray relics
of some far-gone glacial epoch. great
mountain of ice passing over the earth
picked UP the powders in some unknown
place carried them perhaps thousands
of miles and then dropped them in the
North Carolina valley.
The powders are still there. but the
men who bought the land have sold it
long since. Strangely enough. too, for
all that there Was no iron ore, the pur-
chasers made money, for it later devel-
oped that the land was rich for agrl-
cultural purposes and when the valley
became more thickly settled it was an
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defense OF Italian immigration In the
midst of his speech, Representative Ca
leb Powers of Kentucky tried TO inter-
rupt him for a question.
''Will the gentleman yield?" asked Mr..
Powers.
If L felt that it would add to the sum
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eral-bearing rock which appears on the
surface. Conclusions will also be drawn
as to the probable amount of minerals
beneath the surface.
This last deduction. however. is al
ways based solely on geological condi-
lions; never on actual digging. And no
report on the probable quantity of min
erals is made at all. The prospector
merely turns in report saying that such
and such land gives evidence of contain
ing such and such d mineral.
If the mineral he precious-gold or sill
ver-that report marks the end of the
matter so far as the government is con-
cerned. 1t remains for some individual
to find out for himself by practical in
Vestigation whether or not the phlan-
thropic prospectors scientific deductions
are correct. If the mineral be coal,
however-ever since the Cunning CHAM af
fair the Interior Department has rather
specialized, on coal-the man in search OF
a mine has his work and his personal
risk considerably lessened.
Frequently it so happends that the
prospectors find huge veins of coal
which, for all their quantity. are of such
poor quality that they are scarcely
worth the mining. Several far western
states. for instance, have huge beds of
coal lying not many feet below the sur
face and extending almost from one Dor
der line to the other.
Dig down almost anywhere in either
Washington or Oregon, according to the
Interior Department., and you will find d
bed containing enough coal to run every
railroad in the country for twenty-four
hours. But this coal is of wretched
quality, burns quickly and is deficient
both as a heat and a steam producer
PUBIC lands containing countless tons of
this kind Of coal are going begging for
$40 an acre. Nobody wants them.
At other times, however, it happens
that Uncle Sans proSpectOrS come
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county, H., way back fifty-four years
ago, there was one man whom l will call
Jones. who could not read or write said
Uncle Joe" He was ii great cattIeman
who had three sections of land. lie knew
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Of human knowledge I would gladly do
So retorted Mr.. Curley, but l regret
that | do not think 1t would"
Mr. Curley finished his speech without
trouhle-
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it. If man will settle on land and sink
a mine. or. even dig a little each day
with pick and shovel, he may take from
it every particle of mineral it possesses,
without paying the government one cent.
Better still. that same government at its
own expense will safeguard him and
prevent any one else from usurping his
rights.
There are thousands of people who
have worked our lands and grown rich
from them without ever buying a single
foot" said Commissioner of the Land
Office Fred bennett. "Still, we manage
to sell a good many million acres at tha..
Whenever the tract is particularly rich
there is nearly always a sale. This is due
TO the fact that the person claiming the
land usually wishes to start mining on a
gigantic scale. All that takes big capital
however. more money usually than the
claimant can command from his own
personal resources. So it Is necessary for
him to organize a company, and, natur-
ally, people are not going to invest with
the proprietors of mine unless they
own that mine. The other way, you see.
there might be a strike. or something
which would cause the work 10 stop for
say. thirty days. Thus somebody else
might jump the claim on the ground that
it was not being worked. and there would
be a pretty question 10 be settled at law.
We manage 10 make quite q few sales
last Year. for. instance. they tptaled
more than S6OOO.QOO Even at that,
though. counting the expenditures of the
land office and those of the geological
survey, the government probably lost
money"
1t is not much from the lands rich
in gold and silver that Uncle Sam gets
his recompense, however. it is from
the lands containing that most humble
Yet most necessary of all mineral depos-
its, coal. Strangely enough, too. the price
Of coal land is many times higher than
that of any other. Land which may con-
tain gold in untold quantities may be
bought at cheaper price for an entire
plot of 16O acres than the price demanded
by Uncle Sam for just one acre of some
of his coal lands.
For instance. whereas land which In
Gle Sam will all but positively guarantee
to contain gold may be had for s. per
acre. even the most Indifferent sort of
coal land will probably bring az least
$40 an acre. And within the past three
years Uncle Sam has sold coal land in
Wyoming for 500 per acre. Now, how
ever, this same land could not be repur-
chased from the men who bought it from
Uncle Sam for even 50 COO per acre
IT is only within the past two or three
years, however, that the government has
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SIX the average man. and he will
tell YOU that the prospector,
carrying his lean kit, and ever
\ eXpcctant that tomorrow will
bring forth a golden Golconda.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-09-03
greenfield AND
CASTLEPAIRED

On account of the rain, only one
match was played off in the doubles
tennis championship tournament yes
terday. On the Pacific courts, Castle
and his new partner, F. E. Greenfield,
of Eva, defeated Guard and Littlejohn
in an interesting four-set match, GA,
1-6, ga, 6-3.
This match caused all sorts of COM
plications before it was finally settled.
Originally Castle was to have paired
with Lowrey, but the latter was in
jured Sunday, and unable to play.
Then Castle phoned to Eva to see If
he could get substitute partner, and
Eklund came up. He and Castle beat
Guard and Littlejohn, but Eklund had
already figured in the tournament and
been defeated, and it was manifestly
absurd for him to play a second time.
The committee threw out the match,
hut with the consent of tie opposition,
allowed Castle to pair with Greenfield,
and the match was re-played with the
result above noted. OF course the
whole proceeding was highly irregu-
lar, and Guard and Littlejohn would
have been well within their rights to
claim the match by default, when the
team drawn against them was unable
to take the courts.
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the field. piping It for water, and plant.
ing grass The water that was ex-
pected was not forthcoming, and the
field has never been finished. There
is talk now of the supervisors sink
ing a well, and providing an adequate
water supply for the polo field, which
would be one of the greatest attrac-
tons Of the park.
Field Damaged.
The field has been given some
rough usage, but It is not seriously
damaged. and with Rolling and plenty
Of water ehould round out in good
shape. The military tournaments
that have been held from time to time
have played havoc with the turf and
water connections The artillery ex-
hibition drills resulted in breaking
the covers of some, of the sunken hy-
drant covers, and smashing pipe con-
nections, damage amounting to sew
eral hundred dollars being done. One
end of the field is now being used for
baseball, but of course, If water is
supplied, and the field turned over to
the polo club as originally promised,
none OF these abuses will be per-
mitted, and groundkeeper will be
on hand al all times to see that the
field is used for polo only
In the meantime, the local players
are waiting more definite news of the
proposed invasion. Walter Dillingham;
is in communication with Frank Bald
win of Maui, and If direct word comes
from Stevenson, the locals will be in
a position to give their answer.
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GOLF Event

Country Club golfers are working
hard in preparation for the tourna.
ment next Saturday that will mark
tie opening of the new Is hole course.
The understanding Is that no one is
to play the course until tournament
day, so that everyone gets an even
break at the new holes.
1t is believed that record golf
ing crowd will turn out to take part
in the tournament, which will be med
al play handicap, and several sets of
drawings will be made, to accommo-
date players who arrive at different
times, and to avoid CONGESTION of the
links. The first pairings will be made
at noon, and at half hour intervals
until o'clock drawings will be made.
No entrance fee will be charged, and
the tournament is open to all club
members.
The club has put up a handsome
suit case and kit bag for the best
and second net scores, and Wall and
Lougherty have put up cup for the
best gross score.
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Jew YORK.-Frank Chances recent
purchases in his further attempts to
build up his dilapidated and down
trodden Yankees aroused the hope of
Loyal 1ans here that the team might
be on better basis next season, In
stead of tail enders, as they are at
present. 1t was predicted that the
Highlanders would make stronger
showing on their present last swing
around the western circuit. The pur-
chase of Fritz Maisel for $4,000
and two players from the Baltimore
team of the International League,
and the acquisition Of Williams and
Cook materially strengthen the eel
lar dwe1lers. The sale of Maisel
was the talk Of the baseball world.
Picked up in the sand lots of Balti-
more in 1910, he became one of the
best infielders in the minor league.
His rise to major league caliber was
meteoric. This little player is vert
fast on the bases, and his fielding
is sensational. Both Cook and VIII
Hams are fast men, and handy with
the bat. They are making good for
Chance.