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The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-05-20
GLOOMY CARLYLE.
His Pessimism and His Wonder at the
Optimism of Emerson.

Thomas Carlyle's friendship with
Ralph Waldo Emerson is matter of
history, but Charles Eliot Norton tells
in his published letters that Carlyle
marveled ut the optimism of the Amer
lean philosopher. Writing in 1873,
Norton says: las we were sitting to-
gether just after my coming In this
afternoon. Carlyle spoke Of Emerson.
There's great contrast between
Emerson and myself. He seems vera
content with life and takes much sat
isfaction in the world, especially in
your country. One would suppose to
hear him that We had no troubles there
and no share in the darkness that
hangs over these old lands It's a
vera strikin' and curious spectacle to
behold a man so confidently cheerful
as Emerson in these days.
81 agree with We in thinkin' that the
times that are comm will be warse
than ours. and that by and by men
may through long pain and distress
learn to obey the law eternal of order,
without which there can be neither
justice nor real happiness in this warld
or in any other. The last man in Eng
land who had real faith in it was
Oliver Cromwell.
well, it may be as you say. I'm
not such vera bloody minded old
villain after all there cordial laugh
not quite so horrid an ogre as some
good people imagine. But the warld
is vera black 70 me, and see nothin
to be content With in this brand new
patent society of ours. There's nothin
to hope for from it but confusion
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-05-20
lnfIammabIe CelIuIoid.

Celluloid, being first cousin of gun
cotton and closely related to nitro
glycerin. is highly inf1ammable and
should never be brought in close prox-
unity to a fame Celluloid is COM
pound of cellulose or vegetable tibrine,
reduced by acids to guncotton. Cellu-
lose is found in all vegetable life. par
ticularly in young plants. 1t is a
starchlike substance. Cotton fiber Is
principally cellulose. After the cotton
fiber is cleaned it is submerged in
acids. which quickly reduce it to cellu-
lose in the form of thick. pasty. semi
transparent mass Camphor is added
further to thicken it. and the required
coloring matter is thoroughly mixed
In, after which the celluloid is nodded
by heat and pressure into various use
full and ornamental objects. sIch as
combs. boxes. pins, paper cutters or
naments. etc.-New York World.
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Learr to Write Well.

First legibility. second sightliness.
should be the endeavor in handwriting
and let the character" and the "iEdi-
viduality'' take care of themselves. Ii
you wish to devise signature hard
to forge that is another thing, but
ones everyday handwriting should be
plain and as good looking as one can
make it. The art of writing neat
legible. well punctuated. correctly ex,
pressed and spelled letter should be
long to every high school graduate
much more to every college graduate
and the thanks of the community are
due to those who are testing and try
ing to improve our methods OF educa
ton; but they must remember that the
letter style is properly more loose and
conversational than any other and
therefore should not be criticised in just
the same way.-Kate Epson Clark in
Lesie's.
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VENUS AND MARS.
The Theory That Life Exists Upon
Both of Those Planets,

We are bound to hold life to be a
general phenomenon in nature. develop
ing wherever the stars are shining on
their attendant planets, and thus wher-
ever a star wrinkles in the depths of
the armament.
Now as for Mars and Venus, in our
own system, it need hardly be said
that they are surely inhabited by living
beings of some kind. Observations
show that Mars has rare atmosphere.
day thirty seven minutes longer than
our own. seasons of the same type but
longer duration; and snow caps at the
poles. and thus water vapor. though
the amount is small Mars is IA desert
planet. with a very rare air, about like
that in the higher regions of the Him
alaya mountains. But as life on the
earth extends to the highest plateaus
and mountains. except when perpet-
lally frozen, it may also exist on the
planet Mars. which has moderate
temperature. as shown by the forma-
ton of clouds in the twilight belt. after
the sun has set for the Martians.
The probability of Venus being in
habited is much greater than that of
Mars. for Venus rotates in % hours u
minutes and in all respects so closely
resembles the earth as to be called her
twin sister. Venus has an abundance
of air. clouds, water and also noun
tains and therefore seas. lakes and riv-
ers. The seasons are like ours except
they are shorter. the year being 30
days in length. Why should not such
a planet be inhabited? If man were
transported to Venus and landed there
without injury it seems certain that he
could live and flourish physically I'M
der the air and temperature of this
beautiful planet.-T. j. }. See in Les
lies
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if need be. to go to the utter
length of complete sacrifice. As
/ stand and look at you today
and think of those spirits that
have gone from us, know the
road is clearer for the future.
These boys have shown us the
way and it is easier to walk on
it because they have gone before
and shown us how.
May God grant to all of us
that vision of patriotic service
which herein solemnity and grief
and gpride, is borne in on our
hearts and consciences."
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-05-20
Esar of Old Military Service.

A prisoners appeal to the court Of
criminal appeal for a longer sentence,
although the first on record before
that tribunal. is not altogether unpar-
alleled at the assize. for offenders who
have had the advantage of inside
knowledge of the working OF the pris-
ons acts have been known to ask the
Judge to give them penal servitude in
stead Of short period of hard labor.
They shrink from the more Spartan
diet and severer restrictions that at
tach to the nominally lighter sentence
A century ago. when capital punish
ment was inflicted for many trivial
crimes, a prisoner yas sometimes CIV
en- choice-deatK or service in the
army or navy. And the services in
those days had such terror for some
criminals that many elected to be
hanged instead of serving their.coun-
try.-London Spectator.
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THE DOWNWARD TREND.

Come. Nora. Nance and Nellie.
Let us study Botticelli
When We feel the gnawing craving to be
smart,
II we want to be de rigueur
We must educate the figure
To show tie downward trend of PLASTIC
art
The outline should be slack,
Slippy- sloppy. front and back.
Till bodice. skirt and tunic-every stitch
Seem to call for the support
OF the handy mans resort
That naval gesture termed the double
hitch"
The shoulders must be dropping.
The knees trifle STOPPING.
And the widest waist. remember, takes the
prize.
When motoring or shopping
The coatee must be Topping
Through a belt that's sagging downward
to the thighs.
But the evening toilet scheme
Shows the opposite extreme,
And when for dance or dinner you're
equipped
A clinging ''mermaid's tall
The neither limbs must veil,
While the corsage is the only part that's
slipped
Punch.
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COSMOPOLITAN DAMASCUS.
The Oldest City on Earth, It Show
All the Worlds Peoples.

The Oldest City on Earth, It Show
All the Worlds Peoples.
AT last we are set down in the midst
of Damascus. a city that can claim
life without a break from it's founding
back in the dim dawn of the world
history. When Abram crossed the des-
ert from Haran 1000 years ago this
city was standing Genesis xiv. Is. and
XIV, p. She dates back to the time of
the Pharaohs in Egypt. In fact. she
was old when Greece and Rome were
striplings in years. Rome may be
termed the Eternal City. but Damas-
Gus is twice as old. and though her
streets have run red with blood of
battle and rapine many times. she
has not been overthrown.
Babylon is an heap in the desert,
and Tyre a ruin on the Shore" but
Damascus remains.
Was there ever such a place to see
the nations of the earth parading to-
gether? Here in the market place are
motley crowds of Persians. Moors. At
ghans. Indians. Egyptians. Sudanese.
Jews. Bedouins. Druses. Turks. Euro
peans. The Streets--so crooked. so mar
row. so dirty. so full of life. with that
strange spell of the desert upon them.
The residences as seen from the street
are ugly and disappointing enough.
yet like old barns and tumbledown
mills at home are fascinating and pic
turesque-Christian Herald.
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FRANKINe MAIL MATTER.
~ One Time Soldiers In This Country.
Enjoyed the Privilege.

GnJoyoo tne privilege.
The postoffice was first established
for the principal and in some countries
for the exclusive purpose of carrying
official correspondence by mail. Later
In France, Great Britain and the
United States because of the great ex-
pansion and commercialization of the
postal system the free carriage of mail
matter came to be regarded as a privi-
lege and this privilege was claimed by
persons in official position.
In England the house of commons
claimed the privilege as early as 1860.
1t was abolished in Great Britain.
however, by the passage of Rowland's
cheap postage measure in 1889. In the
United States the first appearance of
the franking privilege is traceable to
the action of the Continental congress
assuming control of the postoffice in
January. 1176s 1t is interesting to
learn that it was then granted to all
private soldiers actually in service for
all letters they might write or that
might be written, to them.
In the early years of the United
States government the privilege was
granted widely. but it soon became
necessary to restrict it. An act of
March 3. 1S45. limited the privilege to
the president. the vice president. mem
bers and delegates in congress. the
third assistant postmaster general and
all postmasters. Other Offices were di-
rected to keep quarterly accounts of
postage. -Argonaut.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-05-20
CATERING to All,

A Boston merchant tells of an old
grocer in Massa chusetts who was about
as slick" an article as one would care
to meet.
Zone day" says the Bostonian. ~
stopped before his shop and looked
curiously at long line of barrels Of
apples. some marked with an A some
marked with H..
"'What is the meaning of these
markings?' asked. The barrels seem
to contain the same kind of apples
They are the same kind. son. the
old gentleman replied. but some Gus
toners want barrel opened at the top
and some at the bottom New York
Times
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Within the Law,

A real negro nanny of the old type
came up the walk through the old fash
toned garden to the side porch. She
had basket of fresh aigs' on her
arm and was offering them for sale.
Are you sure they are perfectly
fresh, auntie?" asked the lady who
came out of the house.
"Yesam, they sho is all right. Miss
Bess. Amt nary disorderly aig amongst
em."-New York Post
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Her Clever Trap,

Polly-Father told me today that you
get $500 year, Paul.
Paul-Correct to penny!
Polly-Why, you'll have to pay an
income tax, won't you?
Paul grabbing her)-Daring. they
come is $4,000 year Save me from
being taxed, won't you. dearest?-
Puck.
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Her Supposition.

Little Grace. a most polite little child.
was one day dining with her aunt
when she found hair in her fish
Aunt Ella" she said sweetly, what
kind of fish is that?"
"Mackerel. dear"
oh" replied Grace. 81 thought per-
haps it was mermaid. Philadelphia
Press.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-05-20

"You want to win your case. don't
you?" asked the lawyer of his balky
client.
Certainly do" replied the client.
well, then, listen to me. There
must be some lying done"
We'll. I'll leave everything to you.
counselerp'- Yonkers Statesman.
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Iowa and PITY.

Mr.. Saphead during the honeymoon)
When did my little duckie darling
first discover that she loved me?
Bride (sweetly,-Whenl found my
self getting mad every time any one
called you fool.-New York Weekly.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-05-20
Exclusiveness.

The pinhead puts a barbed wire
fence around himself because he in
stinctively knows he's fourfusher
and is afraid you'll find it out if you
get too close. indianapolis Star.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-05-20
Fifty Per Cent Job.

Child want you to cut my hair,
and here is 10 cents.
Barber-But haircut costs 20 cents.
Child-My mother cut half of it al
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Batter.
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Correct.

Sunday School Benny, can
you tell me what prophet is?
Benny-Buying something for dime
and selling it for quarter.-Judge.
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The Main Point,

Crummer-l see that woman was
killed in the crush at bargain counter
Yesterday, Mrs. Crummer-Dear me;
what bargains were for sale?-Puck.
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NOTICE.

Parties selling, Geo. Susong,
colored, who is under age, any
thing on credit will have to look
to him for the pay.
This May 18, 1914
5-2O-4t. WILL SUSONG.
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Most Remarkahla.

"She's awfulfy happy. isn't she?"
"Well. why shouldn't she be? Every
time she's married for lowest. Lou
is Republic.
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PRESIDENT WILSON'S EULOCY
TO The NAVY'S HEROIC DEAD.

WSiS hlClluo otdliuillS Wy iCduy "
serve us.
"A war of aggression is not a
war in which it is a proud thing
to die but a war of service is a
thing in which if is proud thing
to die. Notice that these men
were of our blood, men of our
American blood which is not
drawn from any one country,
which is not drawn from any one
stock, which is not drawn from
any one language of the modern
world; but free men everywhere
have sent their sons and their
brothers and their daughters to
this country in order to make
that great compounded nation
which consists of all the sturdy
elements and all the best element
of the whole globe.
Listen again to this list with
profound interest at the mixture
of names for the names bear the
marks of the several national
stock from which these men
came. But they are not Irishmen
nor Germens, nor Frenchmen nor
Hebrews anymore. They were
not Wden they went to Vera Cruz;
they were Americans everyone of
them and were not different in
their Americanism because of the
stock from which they came.
Therefore they were in peculiar
sense of our blood and they
proved it by showing that they
were of our spirit, that no matter
what their derivation; no matter
where their people came from,
they thought and wished and did
the things that were American,
and the flag under which they
fought was flag in which all the
blood or mankind is united to
make a free nation.
War gentlemen, is only a sort
of dramatic representation, a sort
of dramatic symbol of a thousand
forms of duty. | never went into
battle, | never was under fire, but
| fancy there are some things just
as hard to do as to 90 under fire.
| fancy that it is just as hard to
do your duty when men are
sneering at you as when they are
shooting at you. When they shoot
at you they can only take your
natural life. When they sheer at
you they can wound your heart.
And men who are brave enough,
steadfast enough, steady in their
principles enough to 60 about
duty without regard to their .fel-
low men, no matter whether there
are Kisses or cheerS-men who
can do what Rudyard XIII ling in
one of his poems wrote:
Meet with triumph and disas-
ter, and treat these two imposters
just the same
These are men of which a ma
ton may be proud.
Morally speaking, disaster and
triumph are imposters. T h e
cheers of the moment are not
what a man ought to think about,
but the verdict of his conscience
and the conscience of mankind.
So when look at you | feel as if
also and we ali were enlisted
men, not enlisted in your particu-
lar branch of the service, but en-
listed to serve the country nc
matter what may come, what
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Drought DdCh HOlHC III puliu'
President Wilson made the fol-
lowing speech on May 10th be-
fore their bodies were laid in the
Union cemetery:
Mr.. Secretary: | know that
the feelings which characterize all
who stand about me and the
whole nation at this hour are not
feelings which can be expressed
suitably in terms of attempted or
atory or eloquence. They are
things too deep for ordinary
speech. For my own part | have
singular mixture ofssfeelings.
The feeling that is uppermost is
one of profound grief that these
lads should have had to 60 to
their death. And yet there is
mixed with that grief profound
pride that they should have gone
as they did and, if | may say it out
of my heart, a touch of envy of
those who were permitted so
quietly, so nobly to do their duty.
Have you thought of it, men,
here is the roster of the navy, the
list of the men, officers and en-
enlisted men and marines, and
suddenly there swim nineteen of
the stars out of the list, men who
have gone suddenly into the firm
ament of memory, where . we
shall always see their names
shine; not because they called
upon us to admire them, but be-
cause they served us without ask
ing any questions and in the per-
Torrance Of a duty which is laid
upon us as we'll as upon them.
DUTY is not an uncommon
thing, gentlemen. Men are per-
forming it in the ordinary walks of
life all around us, all the time, and
they are making great Esacrafices
to perform it. What gives men
like these peculiar distinction?
Not merely that they did their
duty, but that their duty had
nothing to do with them or with
their own personal and peceliar
interests. They did not give their
lives for themselves; they gave
their lives for us because we call
ed upon them as a nation TO per-
form an unexpected duty. That
is the way in which men grow
distinguished, and that is the only
way-by serving somebody else
than themselves. And W h t
greater thing could you serve
than nation such as this, we love
and are proud of?
Are you sorry for these lads!
Are you sorry for the way they
will be remembered? Does It not
quicken your pulses to think OF
the list of them? | hope to God
none Of you may join the list, but
if you do you will join an immor-
tai company.
$50 while you are profoundly
sorrowful and while there goes
out of our hearts a very deep and
affectionate sympathy to friends
and relatives of these-who for
the rest of their lives shall mourn
them, though with a touch o.
pride-we know why we do not
go away from this occasion cas-
down, but with our heads lifted
and our eyes on the future of thi:
country, with absolute confidence
of how it will be worked out; no
only the more vague future o
an Il 4 L A
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Adversely borrows its sharpest sting
rom our Impotence. Horne.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-19
The New Woman.

Mrs. Knicker-Are you going to
take a course in a business college, 8
Mrs. Bocker-Yes; want to fnd
out how to get more money out Of
Jack.
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Nicardgua1l
Affffa irs Will Be
Investigated
SENATE WILL THROW ON THE
LIGHT BEFORE TREATY
rs RATIFIED. \
SECRETARY BRYAN DISCUSSES
THE TREATY WITH SENATE
COMMITTEE.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. June 49,
a sweeping investigation OF the rela-
tions between the. Nicaraguan gov
crnment and American bunkers In
terested In that republic and the part
the American State Department may
have played in Nicaraguan affairs
probably will undertaken by the
senate foreign relations committee in
the near future. Before the commit
tee consents to ratify the proposed
treaty with Nicaragua it is practi-
cally, certain that It will use every
means in its power TO obtain all pos
sible information which will bear on
the treaty and what 1t means.
Secretary Bryan and Charles a.
Douglas, attorney for the Nicar,
aguan government were before the
committee for several hours today
discussing the treaty. which would
give the United States in,eroceanit
canal rights and naval bases In ex.
change for $4,000 900 and the prac.
teal establishment Of protectorat,
over the Central American country.
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have complete military control In
the campaign against General
fIuGrta. -. r,
Hope for the success of mediation,
however, was by no means abandon
ed. according TO persons in close
touch with the administration aud
this hope was said TO be argcly bas-
ed on the developments on the Con-
stitntionalist ranks. the view being
held here that internecine sa,lab-
'nles among Carranza's followers had
been nipped and that this enhanced
the chance OF an agreement being
reached upon provisional presi-
dent of Mexico and that internal
Mexican .llostiities might, be check
cd.
Hucrta's delegates at Niagara
Falls, having failed to induce the
United States to accept their so-call-
ed compromise candidate for the pro-
yli0nal presidency, II was reported.
might at the last minute yield to
ONE one suggested by the United
Statacs even If he bore the stamp
IF the Observation-Disclosures order to
hold mp the military campaign again
Mexico City. With Villa as COM
mander In chief Of the military ope.
'rations against Huerta. such u cul-
mination was declared to be posi-
bic.
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SERVED! FOR CRIME
OF ANOTHER MAN.
Innocent Sailor Was Doped. shang.
haied and Thrust Into
gpenitentiarv.

SAN FRANCISCO, ! June 10
Shanghaied on the water front of
Nagasaki, Japan. carried In irons
across the Pacific on thet United
States army transport Sheridan, and
thrust into San Quentin penitentiary
TO serve three years undera name he
could not pronounce for crime he
never heard Of, Albert Johanson, a
Scandinavian sailorman. was given
his liberty today by the United States
attorney and the warden OF San
Quentin.
The prisoners story was that he
was drinking one night last month In
water front saloon at Nagasaki.
Three strangers offered to stand
him treat. He accepted. The next
morning he found himself as sea, u
prisoner on the army transport Sher-
idan. Nobody understood him. and
lie was delivered at San Quentin as
James Rogers, alias Peter Grimes,
there to serve three years for a SEN
tence imposed by the Treaty Court at
Shanghai for a forgery. His cell
mate CHANGED to be a fellow country
man and through him he got u hear
ing.
Today Johansen was given the al
bum of prisoners portraits aud asked
if heicouldE find anybody in 1t lie re-
membered. AS soon as he came on
Rogers portrait. he said: That's one
II the men ] drank with in Nagas-
aki.' tl 4
Peter A. Grimes, reported to be
from Pittsburgh. Pa. for whom
Johansen was substituted while he
was being taken to San Quentin pen,
ltentiary, has been arrested. bnt it Is
doubtful II he will be brought here
United States District Attorney Pres.
Ton was Informed by cable today that
The Japanese government has caused
the arrest of Grimes In Nagasaki
where he will be prosecuted for erin.
inal, offenses.
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DOWNFALL DUE TO.
IMMODEST DRESS
Mingling. With Fast Set Is Blamed
For Going Astray Of. Girls j
e and Boys. ,.

CHICAGO. H.. June 10. - The
downfall Of girls was attributed to
the shameless exposures in the
dress Of womens of fashion rather
, than to innate. evil in girls. by Rev.
II. N. liammill, of Nashville. Tenn.
of the Board of Sunday Schools Of
the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, Is address yesterday at the
Moody church. >Dr. l1ammill also
attacked Prof. Il. Starbuck Hall, au-
thor of books OH adolescence. He
eatied them "faddists" and said that
after reading them. especially G..
Stanley Hall. lie always was oblig-
ed ito intellectually disinfect" him