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70 run on its own private Timetable.
Laura said she was going to live her
Life in her own Way and that no Wal.
lopus in striped Trousers could leave
her marooned In Flat, working under
Sealed Orders.
Edgar did not choose to carry Over
weight while working out his Career
and grew faint at the very Thought Of
shouldering lot OF Domestic Respon-
sibilities.
Marriage was an institution devised
for Strap-Hanssrs who wanted to get
their Names into the Paper. 1t was
childish Refuge for those who lacked
Courage to forsake the beaten Paths
and strike out for the High Spots.
1t will be seen that they were some
what Advanced. AS far back as 1890
they were living In the 21st Century.
Laura went in for Club Work and
Cold Baths and Card-Indexing.
She felt sorry for the Married Wom-
en-. They were always fused up
over getting a Laundress or telling
about new cases OF Scarlet Rash or
else 'phoning the Office to make sure
that the Bread.Winner was at the
Desk and behaving himself.
When she let down her Hair at
Night she did not have to do any
checking up or put the bottle Of
Squills on the Radiator.
She was Free and Happy. A little
lonesome on Rainy Days, but the fire.
est thing you ever saw and she had
her Books.
Edgar looked about him and saw the
Slaves Of Matrimony watching the
Clock and getting ready to duck at IL
p. m. and he rejoiced inwardly.
He could land in at his little Inde-
pendence Hall at 8 g. m. and turn on
all the Lights and drape his Wardrobe
over the Rugs and light Cigarettes and
there was not Voice to break the
celestial Silence.
He figured that Children must be an
awful Worry.
He brooded over the Kid Proposition
20 much that soon after he was 30
years OF Age he used to 80 around and
borrow his Nephews and Nieces and
take them to the Circus and buy ex.
pensive Presents for them and upset
the Household Rules.
Occasionally he would take a new
Book dealing with the Higher Things
OF Life up to his old friend Laura and
he would find her feeding the Birds.
with the Cat asleep in the Corner s(id
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WOMEN FLEE WITH BABIES.
Homeless Refugees Arrive in London
From War.Stricken aelaiun.

London.-Homcless Belgians are ar.
riving In London by the thousands
daily. Mothers with tear-stained faces,
tired children and elderly felix, are
found on each train arriving at Char.
Ing Cross from Folkestone and are
met by Red Cross nurses and volun-
tecr committees Of boy scouts and car.
ried in motor cars to institutions pro.
yided for the refugees.
Few of these refugees have even
hand baggage, almost all are penni-
less and they wonder whether they
Will ever see their homes again. The
saddest feature Is the frightened faces
OF the children, tired from the trips
on the crowded boats from Ostend and
Antwerp.
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WILSON URGES
COAL STRIKE END
PRESIDENT DRAFTS PERSONAL
PLEA TO MINERS AND oP-
ORATORS.
PLANS :-yEAR TRUCE
SUGGESTED AGREEMENT GIVES
BASIS FOR SOLVING DIS.
PuTES.

Western Newspaper rnion News Service
Washington. President Wilson
sought to end the Colorado coal strike
Monday by appealing to employers
ard employees to adopt a tentative
basis for the adjustment of the
strike drawn up by the commission
OF coneiliation appointed by Secretary
Wilson Of the Labor Department.
The appeal was sent to the president
OF the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company,
the chairman Of the vlctor-American
Fuel Company. the president OF the
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company and tic
the officers of the United Mine
workers of America. 1t was for
forwarded after the President had sew
eral conferences with Secretary vii
son.
The basis OF agreement offered BY
the President includes the establish.
ment Of a three-year truce, subject to
the enforcement Of the mining and
labor laws OF Colorado; the return to
work OF miners who have not been
convicted of law violations; the pro
hlbition Of intimidation of union or
nonunion men; the publication Of cur.
rent scale OF wages and rules, and the
appointment OF grievance committee
b, the employees.
The agreement provides that in
cases where the officers of the com.
pany or the grievance committees can.
not settle difficulties, commission OF
three men named by the President
shall step In and act as the final
referee OF all disputes.
Under the agreement the claim for
contractural relations would be
waived, no mine guards would be EN-.
ployed, the federal troops now on duty
In the strike district would be with.
drawn, picketing. parading. colonizine
or mass campaigning by the miners
would be stopped. and the suspension
Of work would be prohibited pending
a decision by the commission. The ex.
pense OF the commission would be di.
vided between the employers and en-
ployes.
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ders and had not been able to massage
away the more important Wrinkles.
They secuted the Suggestion that It
was a Love Match.
1t seemed that she needed q Night
Watchman and he was afraid to be
alone In the Dark with the Memories
of the Past.
MORAL: After you pass forty you
must take charge OF something Hu.
man. even II 1t is only Q chauffeur.
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81 ]
(IEl)jF1.
AIE,|
FABLE
IN.
LANG
cnensarI 0osce Ace

an imported Dog with many curls pre-
empting the principal Chair.
They would discuss Prison Reform
and Kipling and other Subjects in NO
way related to the awakening Of the
Maternal Instinct.
When he owned up to 40 and she
had stopped talking about it, the Read.
ing Habit was no longer a Novelty
with him, SO merely to kill Time. he
was acting. on the Visiting Board oi
an Orphan Asylum and was a Director
Of the Fresh Air Fund and was put
ting the ONCE Boy through a Bust
ness College.
About the same time Laura was
made the victim Of Conspiracy.
A designing Day Laborer and his
Wife deliberately up and died. leaving
. Chick Of Daughter. all helpless and
alone.
Laura simply had to 60 over and
grab the Young One and play Mother
to her. because It all happened hardly
q Mile from her own Doorstep.
She had been lodging these common.
place and old-fashioned Responsible.
ties all her Life and now cruel Circ&m.
stances compelled her to spend Hours
in servile Attentions to stray Speci-
men.
OF course. she had Expert Advice
Of her old friend. Edgar. who made out
the Adoption Papers and sent lot Of
Merchandise up to the House. out Of
the promptings Of broad and general
sentiment Of Pity for the Unfortunate.
Even when they stood up to be Mar
ried they were still stringing them
selves.
He was bald and grizzled and she
was little droopy around the Shoul-
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Tho New Fable OF the Two Unfsttered
Birds and How Far They

inc New Fable OF the Two unfettefed
Birds and How Far They
Flew.
Once there was a Girl with q gleam.
ing New Hampshire Forehead who
used to exchange helpful Books with
q studious young Man who had an
Intellect OF high Voltage.
It will not be necessary to name
these Books. as you never heard Of
them. N
Laura and Edgar were Comrades, In
, way. They met under the Student
Lamp and talked about Schopenhauer
and Walter Pater, but the Affair never
got beyond that Point. 1t was. not
even warm enough to be called Pla-
tonic. 1t carried about. a. much Ro-
mantle Suggestion as cold Hot Water
Bottle.
There grew up between them merely
. Fellowship of the Super.Mind, or
what Wimp wearing Tortoise-Shell
Spectacles would call Cosmahogany.
Having cleared away the Underbrush,
we will now proceed with the Nara.
tive.
Like every other Member of the
Tribe of Mansard Mentalities, they re-
garded with much Contempt the
School Of Popular Fiction. \
Do you think they would stand for
any Of that old-style Guf about Sir
Ralph getting the Hammer-Lock on
Dorothy just outside the Loggla? Not
on your Thought Waves!
They regarded the Article commonly
called Love as lingering Symptom Of
some primeval Longing for Parlor En-.
tertainment.
. 1t was agreed that each Soul was
tree and independent and had right
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How Do You ralkf

Are you In the habit Of making
many gestures when you talk. An
Italian Psychologist maintains that as
an orators gestures are involuntary,
they AFFORD test Of his sincerity. For
instance. II the speaker plays with his
watch chain, he is on his guard, and
MS utterances are not entirely frank.
Should he sway his body from side to
side. is sign of versatility and Of
an active mind; while constant repe.
tition Of the same gesture il held to
indicate that his heart ID In the sub
3ect and that he is sincere.
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New Battle 10 ope ned.

l'ondon.-The correspondent Of the
Times at Petrograd. under date Of
sunday, referring to a battle just be.
gun. declares that 1t will. II as success.
ful as the Russian operations against
Lemberg. overthrow the Austrian
forces and practically open the road
to Berlin.
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s4o,ooo,ooo Tax Levied on Lin.

London.-A dispatch to the Reuter-
Telegram Company from Ostend
quotes reseryists from Lille as saying
that a war levy of $40.O00.0O0 has been
Imposed on that district by the Ger.
mans.
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WiIson to "Ssay on the Job. y

Observation-Disclosures Wilson an.
nounced he would not make speak.
ing tour during the coming campaign.
He declared his intention of staying
on the job because of the unlocked
for International situation
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Antivari. Montenegro.-A lombard.
ment OF the Notifications In the bag
Of cattaro. Austria-Hungary. from the
sea was begun by large French flss.
which passed norshwaIe.
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Mine Merchant ships Sunk.

Washington. - Nine neutral mer.
chant ships have been destroyed by
German mines, according to British
foreign office adyices to the British
embassy here.
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rresIdsnt Spent Labor p,y ool,lno.

Washington. - President Wilson
spent Labor day golfing and automo-
billing. He left the White House be-
fore breakfast with DR.. Grayson, bis
aide. for game OF golf.
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known esttsr Nav.

Wifey-Do you recollect that once
when we had . quarrel said you were
Just ~ mean a. you could be-!
Hubby-Yes, my dear.
iWifey-oh, Tom, how little did I
know you then. I
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London. Sept. THE retreat of
the Austrian army, beaten by the Rus
sian invading forces in Galicia, has
become rout, The troops upon whom
Emperor Francis Joseph relied to stem
the Muscovite tide that threatened to
sweep to his capital have been flung
back upon the carpathian mountains,
and, with Lemberg. the capital OF
Galicia, In their hands, the czar's men
are masters OF one of the most fertile
and porulous provinces in Austria.
Vienna is in panic as news of a
series OF decisive defeats is announced
by war office officials, who, up to this
time, have been giving out bulletins
OF victories over the enemy. Famine
Is feared in the capital within fort.
night. Already 100000 men are out
OF work and their number is inereas-
Ing rapidly; all stores are closed, and
the people are despondent.
The Russian invasion of Prussia is
a constantly growing menace to Ber.
lin.
Five German army corps. numbering
100000 men. have arrived at the yis-
tula river under orders 10 check the
enemy at all costs. Most OF these
soldiers are from Belgium and the
north OF Franco.
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AuSTRiANS IN FLIGHT FROM
NORTH GALiclA BEFORE
ARMY OF CAR.
NANCY FORTS SHELLED
RHEIMS AND Ia FERE FALL AND
GERMAN ARMY GRIPS PARIS
IN ARC.
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

'tHfap'A inibu sNe%f service
London. Sept. IA special dispatch
TO Reuters Telegram Company. by
way OF Amsterdam. says that the Ger.
mans opened a terrific assault on the
forts at Nancy Sunday. The kaiser,
the crown prince and the general
starr are reported to be With tha in.
yading army.
Inc monster siege guns were nut in.
10 place during the early morning and
the bombardment was deadly after the
lirst shot was fired. Many OF the
buildings We're razed during the early
1rins. and great loss was sustained
IN works of art alone. Panic reigns
IN the city and hundreds OF families
nave fled to the outskirts of the CITY.
abandoning their possessions.
The guns in the forts are meeting
The attack the best they can, but al.
ready the great shells OF the Tautons
have played great havoc in the French
forts.
The assault OF Nancy is another
step In the sudden southeastern move
ment OF the German army. The Lux.
emburs division OF the Teutons, which
battered down the forts at Manbeuge
Friday and occopied Rheims and La
Fere Saturday. is believed to be the
division Of the kaiser's invaders which
Is now battling at Nancy. a
In the meantime. another wing NJ
Germans has been dispatched in a
southwesterly direction, and its ad.
vance is now reported southweat of
Paris. This would Indicate that the
'6erman emperor has formed a great
semiclrcle around the French capital.
Germany states that her army after
surrounding the allies in Paris viii at
tack Calais, build emplacements for
her l7.inch guns, dominate the chan
mel and fire across to Dover.
Information reached here by wav OF
Dover that train service between Paris
and Dieppe had been abandoned This
would Indicate that the French expect
an immediate assault on Paris.
England, France and Russia signed
an agreement that neither would
agree to peace unless all three ap.
proved such course. This was taken
as an indication that the war will be
fought out to bitter end.
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Sept 7.--Gfrlnan Imperial Guard
annihilaled by the British. at Preey.
ON The oisa river. g. miles from Paris.
according to Paris dispatches. whore
on bsttl.~line l2a miles long. from
the Meuse to the Disc rivers. 4s ihe
central part Of the action 4,o10, 900
men Al. Engaged In the first general
conflict. when may settle The desti-
fiies Of nations Kaiser directs attacks
against Nancy in desperate ADVANCED
vigorous attack by allies force Ger
mans tosfetife. Fetrograd reports See
Qua Austrian corps crushed By Rus
slsns. vino open up pathway to Berlin
lhnilssnas die of disease OIL retreat 10
Vienna
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'stern Newspaper rnion News Service.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-05-12
Supreme Tribunal Will Rule
whether Militia Can Be Sent
Out OF Country,
{ pom sunday Advertiser. }

The supreme Court Of the United
States now has before it the question
as to whether the organized militia can
he used beyond the limits of the United
States. The ease came before the Su-
preme Court on a reference from the
Uniteh States court Of the northern dis.
trict OF Ohio presided over by Judge
Day. To determine the authority Of the
federal government over the national
guard, the case was prepared by the
ohio Nat onal Guard, with the approval
OF the War department., and rushed into
court.
The ease was that Of Lieutenant Col
onel Daniel =. Stcarns against Brigadier
General George II. Wood, both OF the
Ohio National Guard. The district
epurt siinpiy fled memorandum opin-
ION sustaining the motion of the do
PENDANT to dismiss the bill and granted
exceptions to the relator without rem
dering any opinion on the merits Of the
case.
This carries the ease to the Supreme
Tribunal at Washington, which Is the
final step in determining the extent of
federal control over the state militia.
The case involves the interpretation of
the section of the Constitution giving
congress authority over the militia, de-
claring that the right Of the people to
keep and bear arms shall not be in,
fringed, reserying TO the States the
powers not conferred upon the United
States and giving congress the right 10
call out the militia In ease Of necessity.
The attorneys in the case were granted
an Immediate hearing in view OF the
fact that there is an Urgent present
need of the services Of the national
guard.
SO many intricate questions of law
are involved IN the case that the SUI
preme court has informed the secretary
,of war,that twill be some time before
the court viii be ready to render its
decision. Tho ease was argued before
the fab bench and the Associate JUS
ticc having the fewest important cases
for investigation and report will pre-
pare the decision. In the meantime the
war department. has perfected plans TO
call out state troops under the author.
ity given in the recently enacted vol.
untecr law. Under this Legislation the
militia will be called out first as volun-
tecers. All of the organizations will be
given an opportunity to volunteer. They
will be taken into the federal service
with their present officers if three,
fOurths Of their enlisted strength volun.
tcCrs. ......,...
Under the Judge Day decision the
organized militia could be taken into
Mexico without re-enlisting or without
any changes in its organization, The
question as TO Just what authority the
federal government has over the ma.
tional guard has been one upon which
there has been much difference of opin.
ion among the highest authorities on
military law. It has never been sub
'hitted in direct way TO tho supreme
court, and the decision upon this ease
viii be of vast interest to not only the
national guard but to the regular army.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-05-12
c. n BROWN Joins
GOVERNORS FAMILY
Appointed Member Of Board Of
Health Civil Service
Commission.

Governor P;nkham yesterday appoint
cd Charles II. Brown as a member OF
the board Of health civil service com.
mission, which was created last year
by the legislature. Mr.. Brown 81 co IDS
William c. MeGonagle, whose iesiena-
tion was accepted yesterday by the
Gsvernor. Commiss.o Ter Fro ms CON.
mission is for two years, dating from
yesterday.
The other meml ers Of the comniis-
sion, appointed last year by Governor
Fresr, arc George +. Denisol and DR..
Ferdinand F. Hedemann.
There are still number Of vacancies
to lie filled by the Governor ON terri
toriai boards. Appo ntmtnts Will fol,
low as soon as the Governor obtains
the consent OF the parties lie Las 10
view.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-05-12
H0nDLU[ANs WIN
POINT IN SUIT.
Massachusetts Court Rules There
Was No Contract Between su-
gar Company and Lowrie.
lE'rom sunday Advertiser.l

w. r. Castle yesterday confirmed the
receipt Of news in Honolulu that the
long pending suit Of William J. Lowrie
against Alexander Baldwin, }. b.
Castle and w. 4. Castle, aggregating
in the neightorhood Of $4oO,OoO, for
alleged breach Of contract, has reached
another step toward settlement before
the superior court Of Massachusetts at
Boston with the decision Of the auditor
appointed by the, court in the case TO
the effect that no legal contract exist
ed between Lowrie and his employers.
This is regarded as a big victory
for the defendants in this bitterly con;
tested action and is taken TO indicate
by those who stand to lose 10 the event
Of victory by Lowrie that the case
WIN soou reach trial on the question
Of Lowrie's, claim 70 the difference ia
value occurring in tN.tain stock he held
in the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar
Company, between the time u was a
fifteen thousand ton plantation and
when IL finally became ffty,thousapd,
ton property. The rise in price. II will
be Remembered, was phenomenal.
Mr.. Castle yesterday was not pre-.
pared to discuss this phase Of the suit
lneYond expressing confidence that the
decision Will Ultimately he won by the
defendants,
The action was fled in Boston July
1S, 1906, and has been before the
courts almost constantly since.
The suit. OF Lpwrie against the Ha-
waiian Commercial & Sugar Company
grew out Of an alleged breach of eon-
tract by the company, LoyHie at the
time being the manager Of the planta.
ton.
Z For several years he was manager
Of EVA, six years TO be exact, and then
went with Hawaiian company under n
contract to make a 5O,0O0-ton planta-
tion of IL. ,a.
At the time the plantation was pro-
ducing $4,000 tons of sugar, and Low.
rie made the plans and inaugurated the
work which has since resulted in the
plantation producing the larger amount
of sugar, He took hold of the planta-
tion IN 1901, was dismissed from his
position in 1902, and II. p. Baldwin
made manager. nas aset.s.
The suit was brought TO reimburse
Doyrie for the difference in the value
of therseyeral Thousand shares Of stock
he held. when the Hawaiian CONNER
cial 81 Sugar plantation produced 5O,-
900 tons Of sugar and the amount they
we're. worth when it was turning out
less than third Of that amount
After leaving Hawaii Mr.. Lowrie
was in Porto Rico and Cuba for sew.
eral years, where he held large inter
ests in, sugar plantations. He now re-
sides in Brooklyn,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-05-12
Nothing Particularly the Matter
I with Him, Except That ne
Got Tired Out.

BABYLON, Long Island, April 2s.-
Samuel Muntie, one OF the famous Nun
eie twins, OF Babylon, died here, aged
pinety-six, having gone through life
with his brother William, hearing no
evil, seeing no evil, speaking none.
lie neyer drank, chewed or smoked,
never went to theater or saw a show
Of any kind except church festivals,
and when he wanted amusement usually
painted the barn.
lie didn't die of anything in paTtieI-
lar. As one Of his neighbors expressed
it: s'Samuel seemed tired out lately,
and ! guess he just died Of old age. =
Some time ago the twins became known
through the country as the heartiest
and oldest twins on record. Born on
Christmas, 1878, they lived and worked
together on adjoining farms. TheA
never quarrelled and never played.
Once Samuel Muneie was asked il he
played checkers. "No, sir, never
waste my time he said
Although within almost walking dis
tanco, he never saw Manhattan. Once
be drove to Brooklyn, but found the
place too busting and noisy That was
in 1899, and he never felt another call
20 wander from Babylon. One of his
maxims was "Don I worry il makes
young men old and old men dead. =
His only pleasure in life was his two
children, both OF whom are living.
A fund was raised last Christmas TO
sepd the twins to Washington in a
private ear to congratulate Secretary
Bryan on his temperance stand, but
they decided they had no time to spend
" palliYantint around. p
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-05-12
United States District Attorney
Reads HTissivs Three Times
To Assimilate Contents.
[F'rom sunaay Advertiser. J

United States District ATTORNEY JEFF
Mel ara received q cable message from
Washington on Friday afternoon. Its
contents remain a profound secret to
everybody except tue local repre- sent ),
tive of the federal Judiciary depart
fpent and possibly his most intimate
friends a w 4s
Z Efforts to locate Mr.. MeCarn last
might 10 give him an opportunity TO
take the public into his confidence were
,of no avail There are several iumofs
as 10 the purpdrt Of the me sage, how
ever. gs6.ei
Some say that his resignation has
been. demanded; others claim tlat the
message hut assured him that the de-
partment was back of. him and he
should not worry; still others contend
that he has been informed that spe-
;cial prosecuting officer has been de-
tailed to come to Hawaii to take up
an investigation Of rec Mt LEGAL oc .ur.
renees, Many other versions are gwen
none Of which could be naile1 dJw,l
last night to a solution. H
The facts as known are that. while
Questioning q witness in the federal
ScuIt On rTluhy, III tIle CylNesVef. case
a sealed message was handed Mr.. Nc
earn. lie tore the envelope opsn and
read the message. A puzzled look APP,
peated on his face. Mr.. McCarn re.
sumed the thread OF his examination as
he thrust the envelope and message IN
his pocket NJ I
Alter time tho message was fslled
cut. ard second peru.al ersuod The
pszzled expression dsdpenod. Bac1i
went the message TO the pocket, snd.
again Mr.. MaCarn resumed the Dues
tiohing Of the witness A third time
the federal eff ial dug into Lis ctat,
and once again out came the mss e \.
Another perusal; ttll greater peiplex
ity evidenced. Back TO the pocket
went the wyst rious message, And the
questioning was Iespme br I there was
IN the manner OF the district astoae,
more or less distraction for the remain
der Of the court session. /,
An anx Gus public awaits Mr., Me,
earn taking il into his confidence, as
IL is believed that the message deals.
With n serious public affair.