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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-03-26
CAMPBELL Appointed Judge.

Richmond, Va, March 26.-Pres
ton w. Campbell, of Abingdon, was
named yesterday by Governor Stu
art to succeed Judge F. B. Hutton
as judge of the Twenty-third cir
cult, composed of Washington ant
Smyth counties, and which after
July / will embrace Scott county
Judge Hutton retnes to practice
law.
Judge Campbell is at present Com
monwealth's Attorney of Washing
Iton county, and he is expected to re-
sign that position and to enter: i'm
mediately upon his new duties. He
lis As years old. a native of Wash
ington county, and served as mem.
Der of the State Constitutional Con-
,yention.
Prince Adalbert, third son of En-
.peror William, was, stricken, yester-
day with an acute attack of stomach
The Parker post., 1914-08-01

IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS

Dean fLhs School Jou,naRm of the University Missouri

seeing the case was hopeless, she re-
moved the cooking pots, her tmple-
ments Of warfare, to the house of
another man where she-and her din
ners-proved irresistible.
Germany's Islands.
Germany's possessions in the Paci-
fc ocean are not large. They are
mere stepping stones along the ocean 8
highways, thrusting themselves above
the surface of the sea as the ancient
stepping stones in Columbia, Missouri,
or Pompeii, rise above the level of the
streets. Germany holds to them with
tenacity, however, and governs them
with the same autocratic police meth
DDS that great nation employs at
home. The German possessions con-
sist of German New Guinea (Kaiser
Wilhelm Land) Bismarck Archipelago,
Marshall Islands, a part of the Sa-
moan group, the Caroline Islands and
the Mariana Islands. The native pop
ulation is about 100000.
The contrast between the British
and German governmental administra.
ton of their South Sea Islands is
marked. The British interfere as lit
tie as possible with the native. The
governor of Papua, British New Gui-
nea, issued a proclamation recently
condemning the undue sale of Euro
pean clothing to the native. A shell
necklace and grass loin-cloth, the or
binary wearing apparel he evidently
thought were conducive to morality
and progress. The German insists up
on Berlin regularity and upon the ma
tive becoming Germanized as far as
possible and at once. The native po-
lice army of the Bismarck Archipela-
go all wear the German military cap,
though the climate forbids the coat
and trousers! elf-government?" re-
marked a German official at Raboul,
how can we give self-government
to cannibals?'
Natives EnsIaved in Copra Traffic.
Copra is king in the South Sea Is
lands. Copra is the dried flesh of the
The Parker post., 1914-08-01
Who LAUGHS [ asst

It was in old Pohick church down in
Fairfax county, Virginia, that Wash
1ngton used to worship, and the an.
cient town Of Alexandria stood much
as it stands now on the south bank
of the Potomac before the city OF
Washington had begun to be on the
north bank. Pohick also still exists
as the following story proves:
Washington folks laughs at the AL
exandry slow-pokes," unused the Pc
tomac river 1at-boatman, "and the AL
exandry teller laughs at the Fairfax
hay-seeds, and the Fairfax guys, they
laughs at the one-gallused yaps down
In Pohick."
"And Pohick?" queried a curious
stranger.
"Oh, none of 'em amt nuthin' on
them Pohick natives" returned the an
cient mariner confidently. Them hill.
billies laughs at the po' devils in
Washington what has ter wear their
sto' clo'es an clean shirt every sin
gle weekday an has ter come plum
down ter Pohick fer their coon-huntin'.
They laughs at EN-, but, mostly, they
pities 'em!"
The Parker post., 1914-08-01
Effect of X-Rays,

Both plant and animal tissues ar
injured by prolonged exposure to x
rays, but under proper regulation /
appears that highly beneficial effect
may be produced. In experiments II
Germany, Dr.. Schwartz found no an
preciable results from an exposure O
young plant sprouts for 80 seconds
while an exposure of five minutes ha,
a decided influence in retarding devel
opment. The best time for beneficial
action proved to be about $50 seconds
and by such exposure to the rays tn,
plants were so stimulated that in thre,
weeks their height reached twice tina
OF unexposed plants. The effects OF
the human body were subject to SINH
lar regulation. The vitality of the tbs
sues is diminished in the case O.
wounds, but a suitable application o.
X-rays, instead of causing skin burns
gave such stimulation that obstinat,
wounds healed up after a few repeti
tons Of the treatment.
The Parker post., 1914-08-01
MANY Deaths in the Alps

Fatal Alpine mountain accidents
during the year 1913 numbered 118,
as compared with 119 in 1912 and LAG
in 1911. The causes of the accidents
were reported as follows: Avalanche,
II; lightning, 6; storm, fog and snow,
6; gathering flowers, 6; unintentional
descent from snow field, 3; slipping
on the grass or sod, 3; struck by a
stone, 3; slipping on rock, 1; struck
by block of ice, 1; breaking down of
a snow wall, l.; breaking of rope, 1;
slipping on a loose stone, 1; suicide
because of loss Of way and despair, 1;
dizziness, l. falling over a precipice
while hunting, 1; insufficiently
equipped and insufficiently expert
enced in the mountains, 9; no special
definite cause given, SO; and disap-
peared, 1. Among the unfortunates 112
were men, including guides and 6
were women.
The Parker post., 1914-08-01
HAVE THE FINAL DECISION
Great Men Borrow Others Brains, but
In the End Always Decide
for Themselves.

The wise man seeks the wisdom OF
others, but, if also strong, decides for
himself and acts on his own judg-
ment. The unwise man relies first
and last on others, for even If he
seeks wisdom in a multitude of coun-
sellers, he is the plaything of the lat
est adviser and does what this man
says, no matter if it fatty contradicts
what was first advised.
There exists confusion Of thought
between taking counsel and relying or
oneself. 1t appears to be thought that
asking information about ones course
from those who have information tina;
he has not is leaving the decision to
them. But the two things are no.
the same. An intelligent or sensib..
man knows that his judgment may b
biased by looking at matters only from
his own point of view Or from havin
insufficient data for forming a judg
ment. But when he has consulte&
friends and increased his information
then, If strong and wise, he think,
tor himself and steers his own course
This is the method of such men 81
Socrates and Lincoln. Napoleon
Roosevelt and Wilson. Socrates d2
not believe he was the wisest Of the
Greeks, but he questioned his fellows
everlastingly until he became COZ.
vinced perforce that he was less un~
wise than they. Napoleon held a coun-
81 Of war with his field marshals be-
tore every battle and heard and
weighed their every argument, but the
anal decision was made by himself
Roosevelt took his cabinet freely into
his counsel and gave weight to their
Judgment, but it was he himself who
decided the course Of President Roose-
Velt. Mr.. Wilson, in his own pictur.
ssque phrase, "borrows all the brains
he can," but the man has yet to be
discovered who determines his judg.
ment as to what the president should
10.
The wise man knows his own limt.
tations and tries to enlarge himself
through the wisdom and counsel OF
others. Then, if also strong, he takes
the tiller himself and steers the. ship.
Spokane Spokesman Review.
The Parker post., 1914-08-01
FUNERAL SERVICE BY PHONE
Connection Made From Church to Bed
side of Guaranteed Daughter
Quick Connection Made.

A distressed husband and father
burying his wife, called on the tele.
phone company in Chicago recently
and asked its aid in effecting a tele.
phone connection from the church to
the bedside of his quarantined daugh-
ter. Request for service was made at
1890 a. m. and the funeral was to be
held at p. m. on the same day. Con
ceallng so-called ACQUISITION" or
loud-speaking transmitter in the flow
ers before the pulpit and connecting
it to the telephone line of the church,
direct means Of communication was
established between the church and
the central Office. Here the subscrib-
er's line and the church line were dis
connected from the switchboards and
tied in solid. The quarantined daugh-
ter was thus able to listen to her
mothers funeral service as it was
conducted in the church many blocks
from her home, says Electrical World.
One Of the features of this unusual
feat in telephony was the quick con-
nection secured.
The Parker post., 1914-08-01
SEES PROBLEM FOR ENGLAND
Cause Of Much Comment Through
out France.

The conflicting reports and rumors
with regard to the attitude of the Off
GERS of the British army toward the
crisis in Ulster created painful i'm
preston in France. French history
has more recent instances of similar
events than that of England. The mu.
TIMES in the south when the troops
refused to move against the rioting
wine growers led to a general disloca-
ton of the French army with view
to avoiding the use of local con-
scripts against their own friends and
relatives; but perhaps closer par
allel is to be found in the refusal of a
few officers to obey their orders dur
ing the taking of the church invento-
ries under the church and state sep
aration law. Those officers were at
once arrested and court-martialed.
To the general upon whose orders
the arrests were made General de Gal
lifet telegraphed: MY heart is with
you; you have done your duty. Dura
lex, sed lex"
That officers who belong to a nation
whose sense of discipline is the ad-
miration Of the French should have
rendered their designations rather
than obey orders is regarded as sign
of the extreme gravity of the problem
which the Petit Parisien fears may
lead to an Irish Vendee.
The Parker post., 1914-08-01

rage, five or ten years afterward, they
are kept imprisoned in bamboo cages
from which they are released for only
an hour once a day. Despite this
close imprisonment, they grow up ap-
parently strong and in good health.
Romance is absent from the betrothal
ceremony which is concerned altogeth-
er with pigs, canoes and tomahawks.
Husbands Won by Cookery.
: The second marriage differs in this
tribe from the first in that the widow
has her husband selected for her by
her relatives, but she must win him
by her skill as a cook. AS soon as
the man is selected, the widow, with
her cooking pots, is taken to his house.
She prepares and cooks his food and
when he returns in the evening offers
it to him with her own hands. Should
he accept, the marriage is established,
but II the lady be not attractive in his
eyes he clicks his tongue, a peculiar
Papuan note of disapproval, and she
must leave to try her culinary skill
on another man. The good cook near
ly always wins, whether or not she is
good looking. Not in America alone
is husband won or kept By feeding
the brute" The American girl who
wears cook apron gracefully will
get her best young man sure!
A story is told in New Guinea of a
Papuan widow who was an indiffer-
ent cook. She cooked dinner every
day for three weeks for the man Sc
lected to be her second husband, while
the willy prospective bridegroom,
knowing what was in store, took all
his meals with his father. Finally,
The Parker post., 1914-08-01
Publication in Old Rome.

Some publishers in ancient Rome
could turn out books rapidly and
cheaply. A publisher of the Angus
tan era produced 1000 copies of the
second book Of Martial in ten hours
and these sold at about twelve cents
apiece, gave him a profit Of 100 pei
cent. This was done by employing
slaves carefully trained to write swift
ly and legibly. Working in patches
Of 100, with an overseer debating the
book in hand, the task was completed
In a. very short time. AS soon as the
copies were written they were re
vised, corrected, rolled up and bound
Being slaves, the men required only
maintenance from their master, and
thus he could afford to sell the pro.
auctions at very low rate.
The Parker post., 1914-08-01
N0GPS PRECEPTS FOR BOYS
Code Of Famous Japanese General
Worth Observing by Youngsters
Of Any Country.

The late General Count Nogi, who
committed suicide at the moment
when the gun was fired which an
nounced the start of the funeral pro-
cesSion of the late Japanese emperor,
issued a note of disciplinary instruc-
tons for the pupils of the grammar
grade Of the Peers school, which has
just been reprinted. The gist of the
instructions is as follows:
First-Keep your mouth closed. He
who has always his mouth open shows
that his mind is blank.
Secondhand what you are looking
at. One whose eye is always wander.
ing tells that his mind is also wander
ing.
Third-When paying your respects
look at the person whom you are sa-
luting.
Fourth-Do not forget your coat-of.
arms, family standing, and ancestors.
Due respect to your ancestors is i'm
portant.
Fifth-A boy should act boy-like.
Avoid becoming effeminate.
SiXth-Never indulge in luxury.
There is nothing that makes a fool of
a man like luxury.
Seventh-Ride in a rikisha as little
as possible. Even if rikisha is sent
for you, try to walk home.
Eighth-How many of you wash
your faces with cold water in the win.
ter? You should not use warm water.
Ninth-When it is cold, think it is
hot; and when it is hot, think it is
cold.
Tenth-It is a shame to wear torn
clothes without mending them. But to
wear the torn part patched is nothing
to be ashamed Of
Eleventh-Know what is shame; he
who does not know what is shame is
inferior to dumb animals.
Twelfth-While in good health train
yourself so as to endure physical Ia
Dor. When you are ill, however, obey
your physicians instructions.
Thirteenth-Make your clothes and
shoes bigger. Never mind the style
or shape.
ourteenth-Become a man useful
to your country. Whoever cannot be
SO is better dead.
The Parker post., 1914-08-01

cocoanut and is used for soap, oil and
many commercial purposes. One Ger
man firm, with headquarters at Maron,
has 100000 cocoanut trees from which
copra is being obtained. The devel-
opment Of the copra industry has
brought some commercial prosperity
to the islands, but it has brought also
many of the demoralizing vices of
civilization. There are honorable
merchants engaged in the business,
but there are also many low-class trad
ers or "beach combers," who dis
grace the name Of white man. Slave
labor, through a system of enforced
servitude called euphemistically la
bor-recruiting system, has nearly ev-
eryWhere been introduced as neces-
sary for the copra industry. 1t is not
strange to find that the native fears
the white man. Wherever possible
the white man, trader or planter, in
the South Seas forces him to labor,
when he had never worked before, and
carries him, practical slave, for this
labor to cocoanut plantations on dis
tant islands.
Good Work Of Missionaries.
The German missionary has done
and continues to do much good among
the natives. For making conditions
better in these lonely but beautiful is
lands much credit is due to the Ger
man missionaries-as in other lands
credit is due missionaries of other
nations. The missionary seldom re-
ceives the need of praise he merits.
A new Acts of the Apostles could be
written from the stories Of the lives
of the missionaries, men and women.
The Parker post., 1914-08-01
Michael Knew 1t.

Senator Joseph L. Bristow of Kan
sas was reminded, when the converse
ton turned to actors and the stage, O
the candid admission Of Michae
Strogoff.
One night Michael Strogoff" wa,
committed in a western town, and tn,
man who played the title role had We
long distance to go on the road O
fame. AS the play progressed Michae
was captured, and the usual dialogu.
began.
Your name?" imperiously demand
ed the officer who had effected tn,
capture.
Michael Strogoff," impressively an
swered the hero.
Your occupation?" continued tn.
questioning party.
I am an officer in the imperial ar
my" was the prompt rejoinder.
Your rank?" haughtily pursued tn,
Questioner.
Il know it" said Michael, almos
sighfully.
The Parker post., 1914-08-01

hair, gashes temples, put on mourn
ing, then, in few days adopts half
mourning, and, shortly afterward,
seizes on a second husband.
Marriage customs vary in different
islands and among different tribes.
Usually the bride is bought from the
village by payment Of shell-money,
canoes, weapons or other articles Of
value. Sometimes she is stolen.
When the husband tires of her and
sends her away or she divorces him
by desertion, the articles of value or
their equivalent must be returned, a
primitive alimony.
BetrothaI In Babyhood.
In Kaiser Wilhelm land, the Bis
marck Archipelago and other scat
tered islands Of the German posses
sions in the Pacific, as indeed in
most lands in this great ocean, the
betrothal takes place when the pro-
spective bride and bridegroom are ba-
bies and they have nothing to say
about it. In one tribe the girls are
betrothed at the age of five years
and from that date until their mar
The Parker post., 1914-08-01
Cunning Thieves in Mexico

Americans in Mexico have doubtless
gained some experience of the lepero
reputed to be one of the smartest anG
most impudent thieves in the world
Brantz Meyer tells of an English trav
eler who, within an hour or two, il
the principal streets of Mexico, haG
first his hat hooked from his head
by a line from an upper window, and
was then accosted by three leperos
who Invested him of his coat. The
three babe him wait, and within few
minutes one returned and handed him
a pawn ticket.
we wanted $50, not the coat" he
explained. Here is the ticket with
which you can redeem it for that
sum-"
The Parker post., 1914-08-01

out IN these CuCA;~a-s CI German CIV
ilization. True, there is divided and
discordant Christianity, to the shame
of Christianity here and at home Com
petition still exists among Christian
seCts when cooperation has succeed
ed competition in the business world
True. there are unworthy mission
aries. But when all has been said
against them by traders with whose
cruel methods they interfere and by
tourists who travel only for pleasure
and by cynics who are deaf and blind
though not dumb, the worlds good is
being promoted, UNNECESSARILY pro-
noted. by these self-sacrificing men
and women who are engaged in splen-
did adventure for God and man in
the islands Of the sea.
Heroic Preachers Work.
Take one example out of many. On
the island Of New Pommeru the Rev
H. P. Wenzel, a German Methodist
missionary, is closing his eighth year
Of unremittfng service, without holi-
day or relief. He gave up a comfort
able pulpit in Berlin to come to this
distant land. His wife, who came
with him, died Of fever and lies buried
near the mission church he built. His
children were sent home to live with
relatives in Germany. He kept on
with his work, facing loneliness, pri-
walton, disease, death. Fourteen mis-
sionaries on the island were killed by
hostile natives. His life was threat
ened and for long time in imminent
danger. He never faltered. He went
about alone among the natives, preach
ing, teaching, healing with simple med
ic1nes the sick, leading into gentler
ways the natives, half savage and
half child" Cannibalism was stamped
out, slavery and polygamy disap-
peared
The Native Converts.
Six thousand converts are the fruits
OF eight years labor of this man and
his associates. Nor are these con-
verts merely rice Christians" as the
native Christians for revenue only are
contemptuously called in some coun-
tries, but men and women who lose
in present position, socially and ma
terially, by adoption of the new faith.
They are accepted as converts on pro-
baton for three years, during which
time they must lead upright lives, So
Der, industrious, before they can be
received into the church communion.
After baptism they are dropped from
the rolls or placed again on probation,
should they fall into their old and evil
practises. Even the most captious
critic in the islands has only words of
commentator for the work of Pastor
Wenzel and his colleagues. The re.
suits in the lives of the natives
brought under their influence are too
patent to be sneered away. And the
German Methodist missionaries in the
German islands of the South Seas are
types of the hundreds who labor for
humanity's betterment in the worlds
dark places. Of such stuff are gen.
uine heroes made.
Copyright, 1914, by Joseph B. Bowles)
The Parker post., 1914-08-01
Time for Bird Study.

In the last ten years the little COM
pany of students of bird life has grown
into an army. Everywhere the birds
are interesting, but not everywhere
can they be seen and studied to equal
advantage. This month marks the
height Of the tide Of the spring migra-
ton. The schoolroom has not walls
and the sky is its ceiling. Now Is
the time to study-Chicago Post.
The Parker post., 1914-08-01

Gap, Caroline
Islands. No old
maids are to be
f GU n d in t h 9
South Sea Is
lands. There are
no inappropriate
ed blessings" No
widow remains a
W i ow m an y
days. There are
no "odd" women.
The bachelor girl
is one product Of
civilization which
has not yet found
way to these
tropical islands,
though cigarettes
and liquor are
here in ample
m e a ure. The
widow faarc hpr
The Parker post., 1914-08-01
Peace Definition.

what is your idea of peace?"
Peace" said Mr.. Dustin Stax, "is a
state of affairs in which everything is
going my way so strong that there is
40 use of anybody's making a kick
about it."
The Parker post., 1914-08-01
Copyright b. A. S. Gray)
NEURASTHENIA-(B2AIN FAG)-
ITS CAUSE AND CORRECTION
PART TWO.
Copyright
b. A. S. Gray)

Observers Of ,iversaI phenomena
note the operation o. :, general law,
which is that everything contains
within itself the elements for it's own
destruction. Man himself, Of course,
as : part Of the universe, is subject
to all these avs, and therefore. as
might be expected, the elements for
our own self-destruction are to be
found in the very instincts and facuL
ties that raise us superior to the brute
The history O. the past 10000 years
as indelibly written in thc substance
Of the earth itsel~ proves civilization
to be an intermittent and recurrent
phenomena. Nationl rise, bloom and
decay because with the accumulation
Of material wealth the pressure Of ne
cessity decreases and the individual
citizen, ceasing to strive, relaxes and
becomes soft or prematurely senile-
even neurasthenic, if you please
When weary it is very easy and very
pleasant to relax and sink into that
delightfully."- dreamy state; out here
lies tho danger, -or it is in that state
one so readily become interpretive
and by imperceptible stages drifts
into se1f-sympathy and ;elf-pity and
quickly becomes self-conscious and
self-centered.
A self-centered mind IS like a root
bound plant: unless The roots are
shaken out anG freed 50 they may con-
tinuously reach out into new soil that
plant will surely sicken and die Smash
the pot and the roots will shoot out
into new soil and he plant will grow
and thrive. Just o the self-centered
mind must break Tut Of it, shell Of
self and forget itself in working, fight
ing, striving for something worth
while.