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Evening star., 1914-12-06

wad,@ says I. Twenty thousand. No piker was he?
Ask Your who's the case?@
"Rusitelli & Donahue, says Witty. Mikes friend
of mine too; but he talks much"
Lets have try, anyway, says l.
So runs this particlar detective sergeant down,
drags him away from a penuchle game, and Witty
begins by suggestin that hear how he's done some
clever work the Allston case.
Il got him right that's all, says Mike. "And he'd
faxed up nice little stall too
Anything on him when you rounded him up?" asks
Witty.
Donahue shakes his head disguised. @Stowed it,
says he
"Some cute, eh?7 says Witty.
BAH says Mike "Who it sprung that tale
about his being big English crook? The Yard never
heard of him. doped him from the first though.
Plain nut! The Chief wouldn't believe it until l showed
him.
Showed him what?7 says Witty innocent like.
@This, says the seuth, hauln out of his pocket
bulgy envelope Il found that in his room. Take a
look and he lifts the flap at the end.
"What the deuce." says Witty.
"Sawdust, says Mike, lust paln everyday saw
dust had it anayzed,- no dope nothing Now
tell me- would anyone but nut do a thing like
that?"
We both agreed nobody but nut would also
remarks in chorus that Mr.. Donahue is some classy
seuth, which he don't object at ALL In fact after
I've explained how relation of Aston's had asked
Tombs. Followin which blows Witty to one of Far
roni's seventy-vecent spaghetti banquets and then
goes home to think few chunks of thought
As the stood it looked bad for Daddums. \
party like Mrs. Connie Murtha with all the police
drag she must have, want goin to be separated from
her roll without maxim somebody squirm good
and plenty He might have known that, if it was him
turned the trick. Or he nutty, like Donalue had
said? Before l went any further had to settle that
point and while amt strong for payin visits through
the iron bars 1 up early next mornin' and down
presentn' my pass.
"You cub lawyers give shootin' pains in the neck"
grumbes the turnkey that tows me in.
How'd you guess l want the District Attor-
ney?~ says l. "Here have perfecto for that pain
And that soothes him much he loas against the
rail while l knocks on the door of Cell 50.
Il beg pardon? says deep, smooth voice, and up
the bars steps tall round-shoudered gent with hair
little thin top and pair of reddish gray butler side
boards in front of his Not bad face either only
the pointed chin is little weak.
"Im from Hena' says l.
That jolts him at the start. His hands go trembly
and twice he makes stab speakn before he get
the words out. "Is-isnt she all right?" says he Il
left her in lodgings, you know. II trust She"
"She quit, says l. "They was gon' to put her in a
home. Picked up the street, you might say. But
she's safe enough now
"Safe?' says he, dartin' suspicious look.
"Where?7
take my word for it, says I. Maybe we can swap
Continued on page IS
Evening star., 1914-12-06

like it had come from the Christmas
tree quite some seasons back.
This is my dear Arabella,' says Hell
ma in her old-maid way. 81 suppose
I'm too old to play with dolls now; but
II can't give her up. Only the night
before Daddums went off l missed her
for awhile and thought she was lost.
l cried myself to sleep. But what do
you think? In the morning found her
again, right beside me on the pillow.
haven't gone a step without her since"
"You dear little goose! says Wee, reach
in out impetuous and givin' her hug.
"And where do you think you're going,
you and your Arabella?"
II don't know" says Helrna "Only
I mustn't let them put me in a home:
for then I couldn't go with Dadduns
when he came out-you see?'
Sure, we saw-that and lot more.
could tell that Wee was puzzlin' over the
situation by the way she was starin' at
the youngster and grippin' her muff.
Course you might say we want any
Rescue Mission, or anything like that;
but somehow this was Trent. Here
was Helma, right in front of us! And I'm
free to admit the proposition was too
much for me.
"Gee!' says l. Handed out rough
sometimes, amt it? What's the answer,
Vee?"
"There's only one" says she. "I'm
going to take Helma home with me-"
GLNbot oIp,,+ A,,nt,-o-
At which Wees lips come together and
her shoulders straighten. al KNOW says
she, @therell be row. Aunty's always
saying that such affairs should be handled
by institutions But this time-well,
we'll see. Come, Helma'
"Oh, is it true?7 gasps the youngster.
"Nlay l go with you? May I?'
And as l tucked 'em into taxi, Ara
bella and all, Wee whispers, "Torchy, if
you're any good at all, you'll go straight
and find out all about Daddums and
just make them let him out!-
l. Make 'em-say, amt that some life
says she. "But YOU needn't come to see
e found him. Goodbyl7
lat got it! And, say, there want any
to kid myself into thinkin' maybe she
I'd seen how strong this story of little
got to her; and, believe me, when Wee
ed up over anything she's some earnest
r-hushin' about her! And it don't seem
difference who blocks the path. Look at
1 off TO go up against stiff-necked, cold
'ho's believer in checkbook charity, and
# that! And just 50 I won't feel out of it
a job that would keep detective bureau
pardons busy for a month.
avs l, gawpin' up the avenue after the
pulled this down just by hein' halfway
very well, very we'll! Here's where I
ing!7
hadn't knocked around a newspaper office
wouldn't have known where to begin any
ell, than the average pri-
d. But them two years |
the Sunday editors door
lsted. For instance, that's
o know Witty Weeks And -
move is to pike down to old
ow and locate him. Inside
r we'd done lot too. We'd
ir headquarters man on the
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-08
MURDOCH, GAS DIsCOVERER,
EARNED ONLY S. A WEEK
Until a YEARS OF AGE

The discovery of gas as a lighting
power is only one OF the many TO,
mances of modern industrial devel-
opment William Murdoch, son OF a
millwright, OF Old Cumnock, Ayr
shire, is the acknowledged inventor
of coalgas lighting. He was born on
August q, 1854, in low-roofet.
matched cottage-a replica almost OF
the little "biggin" in which Robert
Burns was born-and his portraits
show a face of striking manly beauty
and strong character.
In celebration of the centenary Of
what may be called the commerciali-
cation" of gas as an illuminant, there
is to be a National Gas Congress and
. Exhibition at the White City, Shep-
herds Bush, London. A long list OF
/ popular lectures has been prepared,
and the exhibits will cover the whole
ground of the invention and develop
ment of gas-Iighting.
William Murdoch's share in the de-
velopment of this enterprise will be
fully acknowledged. Murdoch was a
quaint genius. His father and grand
father, although they followed other
, occupations, had been gunners in the
! Royal Artillery, and pay-sheets bear
ing their signatures are still pre-
served in the records of WOolwich
Arsenal.
Brought up with his father as a
millwright and miller until he was 90,
Murdoch came south and entered the
service of Messrs. Boulton and Watt
watt being the famous inventor of
the steam engine) of Soho Works,
Birmingham. He changed the SPELL
ing of his name from Murdoch to
Murdoch out Of consideration for the
Englishman's natural inability to pro-
nounce the cultural.
Among the unusual things which
Murdoch was always doing was the
wearing of a wooden hat. According
to the accepted story, Murdoch was
so nervous at his first interview with
Mr. Boulton Of the Soho works, that
he let his hat fall on the floor. Boul-
ton had previously been struck by the
strange appearance of Murdoch s
headgear, and the noise it made in
falling prompted him to ask some
questions. In answer to those Muir.
dock confessed that the hat was made
of wood, and that he had turned it on
a lathe of his own construction.
There we're makers of gas of sort
before Murdoch lit his house at Red
ruth, in Cornwall, with the new illu-
minant. In 1855, at Culrcss, in Ayr.
shire, although Murdoch did not
know of this until long afterwards,
in the ovens OF Lord ,Dundonald,, a
member of the ingenious Cochrane
family, gas had been produced and re-
jected as a waste product. Others
seemed to have been on the point OF
making the great discovery, but, as
las been said of Murdoch, the merit
of the first idea of applying and the
first actual application of carburetted
hydrogen gas to economic purposes
as q substitute for oils and tallow"
first belongs to him.
Murdoch inherited his Inventive ge-
MUS. His father vas the inventor of
toothed circular iron gearing and OH
er clever contrivances. Even as a
boy, William Murdoch showed skill
and ingenuity in mechanics and a
wooden horse of his own contrivance.
on which he and his brothers rode to
school at Cumnock, is claimed IS the
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-08

There is no guessing about it. Mil
lions of headaches are cured every
year by Stearns' Headache Cure; it
really relieves the pain and gives suf-
ferers the relief they expect from it..
Easier to take than pills or tablets,
and far better. Insist on "Stearns'."
advertisement
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-08
AND .... ..
REFORMATION
OF SUGAR CANE

The leaves of the cane plant are the
real sugar factory. All the sugar is
manufactured in them. The green
coloring of the leaves is due to the
presence of little grains of green
substance called chlorophyll These
grains are the machinery, the leaves
are the factory, ar.l the sunlight is
the power When the sun shines on
the leaves the chlorophyll is busy
manufacturing starch and sugar from
the gas (Carbonic acid gas) which has
been taken in through the leaves and
the water which has been taken up
through the roots and stem. After
the sugar has been manufactured it
is sent down to the stem to be stored
Until the plant needs it,
Chlorophyll forms only in the sun.
light, so if a portion of the leaf gets
no sunlight, the chlorophyll stops
working and will disappear, and the
leaf turns yellow and appears sick
The amount of sugar manufactured
depeI.'s upon the amount and posi-
ton of the leaves and the amount of
sunshine which they get The leaves
he so that the light will strike them
as nearly at right angles as possible
Upright leaves will not produce a
much sugar as those lying flat
The more continuously the sky is
cloudy and the lower the tempera-
ture the less is the increase of su-
gar. Hawaii is we'll adapted to pro-
duction of sugar because there IS
little cloudy weather during the per-
led of sugar formation. and the
amount of water applied to the crop
can be regulated m,'er irrigation and
is varied under natural conditions
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-08
CHAMBER GIVES
ADVICE TO MEN
SEEKING JOBS

The Chamber of Commerce has pass
ed resolutions urging all eleemosynary
| institutions on the Pacific coast to dis
courage persons without means from
coming TO the Hawaiian islands with
| a view toward securing employment
The action was prabably taken from
the fact that the Associated Charities
is constantly in receipt of calls from
men who have come here to get work,
, have been unable to find it, and con.
/ sequently been bereft of their funds.
! 1t was reported by the charities this
morning that the plantations can use
no more men, and that movement is
on foot to urge the planters to take
,, on men for temporary work until they
may receive permanent employment.
The labor condition Is becoming Sc
rious in Honolulu. it is said.
| Following is the resolution passed
by the chamber:
WHEREAS, the contraction of the
sugar industry, due in part to the pro-
posed removal Of protection, presents
an industrial problem Of such magni-
tude that it is bound to severely tax
our local capacity for philanthropy:
and
WHEREAS, this condition is GER
tain to cause a large increase in the
number Of unemployed throughout the
territory of Hawaii, and
/ WHEREAS, in a semi-tropical
country there are few If any opportu-
mites for quick agricultural returns,
as the principal crops are not such as
can be raised in a single season, and
as there are practically no factories
in continuous operation where labor
ers can secure immediate employ
ment; and whereas due to an isola-
ton it Is impossible to move on to any
neighboring community at small cost;
and whereas from the same cause the
cost Of living is relatively high; and
the discomforts Of poverty are in.
! creased by unaccustomed food and
WHEREAS, a number of destitute
men from the great cities of the Pa.
cific coast have already arrived here.
and these unfortunates have after
much suffering appealed for charity
asking to be returned to the main
land;
NOW. THEREFORE, BE IT RE-
SOLVED, That in the interests of hui
mainly we request all labor unions,
and all eleemosynary institutions OF
| the Pacific coast to warn those seek
ing transportation to Hawaii of the
conditions that exist here; and to dis.
courage all those without means from
coming to these islands; and to in
form them that the burden of our own
unemployed must in justice demand
our first, consideration.
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forerunner OF the modern tricycle., and
even Of the locomotive.
From his boyhood days, Murdoch
impressed his friends with his an
usual ability Boulton was so stuck
with him that he engaged him at their
first interview, and wrote to his part
ner. Watt, from Cornwall. where the
big Scotsman had been sent as the
agent of his principals: Murdoch
hath been interchangeable since he be-
gan He has scarcely been in bed or
taken the necessary food" or his
stay at Redruth-where he remained
for nineteen years-an amusing story
is told. 1t is related OF him that,
with a gas-fi!led bladder under his
arm, and squeezing the gas out with
his elbow, Just as if he were playing
the bagpipes OF his native land" the
gas burning at the end OF pipe at
tached to the bladder, he used to
light, his way about in the early and
late dark hours of the winter days.
Murdoch did other things to scare
the wits of the people of Redruth.
One of his contrivances was an en-
CINE that ran on wheels-a forerun-
sions on this used to alarm the ma
tives, much as the first flying ma
chine seen by the inhabitants of a
remote village would brighten them
almost ort Of reason.
In 1892, whilst living at Redruth,
Murdoch carried out the experiments
in the distillation of different classes
of coal that resulted in the discovery
of a gas with which he lighted his
houses and offices. In 1897 he return
ed TO Scotland, and there, also, he
lighted his house at Old Cumnock
with gas. In 1893 he was back in
Birmingham, and there constructed
apparatus upon, a larger scale, with
which he lighted the principal build
ing at the Soho Steam Engine Works
of Boulton and Watt. He was slow
ly but surely coming into his own.
Up till his 44th year this benefactor
Of mankind was never paid more than
Ell a week, but his departure for
Scotland seems to have awakened
Messrs. Bculton and Watt to his va
lue. To a man of his temperament.
however, money mattered little, but,
on his return to Birmingham, he was
not averse to accepting salary of
e $1,000 year. ~ @.>~:
Murdoch died at >Handsworth, Bir-
mingham, on November Is, 1889, in
the S5th year of his age; a neglected,
but not a disappointed, genius.
"....&
~
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-08

Most of your friends will stand by
you as long as you have a dollar.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-08
SUPERVISOR KAUHANE
WILL NOT RECONSIDER
VOTE ON APPROPRIATION

Supervisor Kauhane of Kau opposed
in no uncertain terms yesterday the
resolution to appropriate $4,000 as an
addition fund for the Hawaii probe
commission at a meeting of the Ha-
waii board of supervisors. He made
sensational charges against the COM
mission, and ended by refusing to re-
consider his vote. G. H. Wears
and Harry B. Mariner speaking for
the Hilc Board of Trade urged that
the supervisors make the audit com
plete. as did John A. Scott
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-08

s'a- -"::ttin gives yon ALL the news.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1914-07-16
TESTIMONY OF A TRAVELLER.

One of the greatest explorers OF the
day is Mr. A. Henry Savage Landor, a
grandson of Walter Savage Lander.
He has travelled in the Antarctic, in
Thibet, the Himalayas, Korea, Mongo-
liza, through the Dark Continent, and
has crossed South America at its wild
est part, accomplishing one OF the
most difficult expeditions ever made.
penetrating in a 13,750-mile journey
parts OF Brazil that we're regarded as
impossible. This latter feat through
semi-tropieal zone occupied one year
and a half, and was constantly attend
ed by hardehips and sufferings, in the
course OF which for sixty dars, while
shooting the rapids of the Arinos. the
party endured terrible privations, and
afterwards when food failed, starved
for sixteen days
When asked how he has preserved
immunity from sickness, exposed to
such varied climatic conditions, he re-
plies, THE wonderful health l enjoy
is largely due to my temperate habits.
In all these iourneyings neither he nor
his attendants took with them any
alcoholic spirits.
Mr.. Landor's testimony on this point
is unequivocal at is not travelling"
he says, which kills an explorer, it is
the drinking and smoking and living
in foul air in civilized countries.
don't drink and l don't smoke"
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1914-07-16
THE UNCOVERED WELL.

II (the way to alcoholism was like
an uncovered we'll in yard where
children play II is small Use to tell
the brave little boys toddling their
way along into knowledge Of life that
they mustn't play near the uncovered
we'll They viii play near it. Any
parent knows that. And we know that
certain percentage Of them. the
Invest and most daring, will fall into
the well. The thing to dove all know
it's to cover up the we'll The case
is the same with John Barleycorn. All
the no-saying and no-preaching in the
world will fail to keep men. and
youths growing into manhood away
from John Barleycorn when John Bar
leycorn is everywhere accessible. The
only rational thing for the twentieth
century folk to do is to cover up the
well.-Jack London, in John Barley
corn"
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1914-07-16
DOCTORS AGAINST ALCOHOL.

When that great conelave Of doc
tors took place at Brighton, England,
under the auspices of the British Med
ical association, advantage was taken
of the presence of so many medical
men in attendance to get nearly forty
anti-aleohol addresses delivered on
the Sunday In Brighton and adjoining
towns. The subject was Evils Of Al
cohol Upon the Human Body" and
the particularly interesting thing was
to see so many physicians in pulpits
and on the platforms evidently will
ing to play the part of crusaders
against what one of their profession
had aptly described SIS the greatest
enemy of the race" The aggregate
result of these addresses constituted
an all-round Indictment of alcohol OF
a remarkably striking and education
al nature. AS indicating the up-to-
date character OF the addresses, sew
eral OF the doctors used charts and d.
agrams which we're projected upon
a screen by lantern, thus transfer
ring the practice OF the medical lee
ture room to the church, chapel and
schoolroom.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1914-07-16
Local NeUs

The elementary teachers confer
ence at the Baptist church conducted
by Mrs. j. C. Chaplin of Payette
was quite interesting and the graded
Sunday School lessons discussed ane
some light thrown on their use and
abuse. Several were down from New
Plymouth and all the churches oi
Fruitland were represented.
About 80 or so were present fol-
Grange Friday night and a pleasant
social evening enjoyed. A short pr
gram of songs, instrumental mus C.
and readings was given and ice
cream and cake served. During the
summer the meetings viii be held at
homes and the meeting of Aug IA
will be held at the E. Blomstrom
home.
The task of apple thinning has
proven much greater than was at
first anticiated and many orchards
will have full crop, especially those
lying along the Snake river. These
extremely hot days are splendid for
the growing crops and while corn is
tasseling out with short stalk, the
prospects are fair for the crop.
During the absence of our telephone
manager and lineman A. Kaessner
Joe Davis has charge of the work ant
orly IL lines were out of commission
after Saturday evenings wind storm,
which was some work to man just
learning the ropes.
Boys Corn Club met for a business
and social meeting with their mana.
ger H. T. Lewis Tuesday evening OF
last week. Despite the set back Civ.
en- the corn In the spring freeze a
fine number of the contestants are
still in the race. They elected Earl
Flack to fill the vacancy for president
and talked over the business in a
general way. Socially the evening
was equally successful the eleven
boys having fine sport with Charles
new tennis outfit and partaking OF
the delicious sherbet and cake pro-
vided by the hostess.
| Thursday bali game between Pay
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1914-07-16
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ALCOHOL A pEcElvsR.

ALCOHOL A DEcEIVER.
DR.. David Starr Jordan tells the fol-
lowing story:
There was once a man who came
into his Office smacking his lips, and
said to his clerk: The world looks
very different to the man who has
had good glass of brandy and soda
in the morning" YES" said the
clerk, "and the man looks differently to
the world" And this is natural and
inevitable, DR.. Jordan points out, for
the pleasure which exists only in the
imagination leads to action which has
likewise nothing TO do with the de-
mand of life. The mind is confused,
and may be delighted with the confu-
sion, but the confused muscles trem-
pie and halt. The tongue is loosened
and utters unfinished sentences; the
hand is loosened and the handwriting
is shaky; the muscles of the eye are
Embarrassed, and the two eyes move
Independently and see double; the legs
are loosened, and the confusion of the
brain shows itself in the confused walk
And If this confusion is long contin-
ued, the mental deterioration shows IT.
self in external things-the shabby
hat and seedy clothing. and the grad
ual drop of the man from stratum to
stratum of society. till he brings up
some night in ditch. AS the world
looks more and more different to him.
SO does he look more and more differ
ent to the world"
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1914-07-16
Announcements

Regular services at the NJ E.
church Sunday morning and in the
evening there viii be a sacred con-
cert on the life of Christ. Everybody
come out and help sing the sorgs of
praise.
Elder Andrew Hutchinson of Lords
burg Cal. will begin series Of meet
ings at the Brethren church July 10,
next Sabbath which promises to be
very interesting as he is q man of
wide experiences and while an aged
man in years is alert and wide a.
wake to all present day events. He
has almost a remarkable knowledge
Of the Bible, knowing the book from
cover to cover. You VIII want to hear
hiuznand a cordial welcome is extend
ed to all to come.
Regular services at the Baptist
zhurch Sunday. We are unable to
announce the subjects for the day
but suffice to say the pastor will
have some pleasant things TO tell US
OF his trip to Boise.
Prctheon Class Of the Baptist
Sunday school and their teacher Mrs.
J. J. Tickner will give an ice cream
social on the oath on the church
lawn east of the Baptist church Come
out and by your presence help the
girls pay their pledge on the church
building and they assure you CT your
moneys worth of good ice cream and
cake. Remember the date July "a to
begin at $50 and will continue un-
I'll al are served.