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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-07
IN
CHICAGO'S FIRST
sBATHHOUSE JOHN. COUGHLAN
MAY MEET HIS WATERLOO IN
TODAY'S ELECTION.
Chances Are Slim, However, That His
Woman Opponent for City Council
Can Win.

First Ward-Miss Marion II.
Drake (Pr0gressiye.)
Sixth Ward-Mrs. Josephine
KenekO (S0cialist.)
Seventh Ward-Mrs. Ida 4.
McDermut (SOcialist)
Twelfth Ward-Mrs. Bernice
Napieralski (PrOgressive.)
Seventeenth Ward-Miss Harriet
Z. Vittum (NOn-Part.)
Twentieth Ward-Mrs. Gertrude
r. Durbin (SOcialist.)
Thirty First Ward-Mrs. Julia
Agnew (PrOgressive.)
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-07

Mr.. and Mrs. T. W. BARLEY have re-
turned from nine weeks visit in Cali
fornia. They spent most of the time
at San Diego and visited for a brief
period in Oregon. They returned last
night much refreshed.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-07
Battles was Nominated.

WASHINGTON, Apr President
Wilson sent to the senate today the
nomination of Clifton A. Battles to be
postmaster of Wenatchee, Wn.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-07
Fight is Bitter.

KANSAS CITY, Apr THE adop-
tion of the commission form of govern
ment is the main issue in ice city cleo
tion which is in progress today. The
fight is bitter and the vote heavy
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-07
WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR DEAD.

CHICAGO, Apr. 7.-Cy Warman, the
"Poet of the Rockies" and author of
Sweet Marie" died here today. He
had been i'll three weeks.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-07
Texas Elections.

WACO, Tex, Apr. 7.-Flatonia Bren-
ham, Temple, Lockhart, and this city
are holding elections today. Flatonia
citizens are choosing mayor, Bren-
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-07
Hard to Make a Guess.

Politicians today cast overheard
all their ancient devices for forcing
the results of today's election. What
the women will do, they admitted, had
them completely stumped No one
pretended to believe that the women
voters would flock to the aid of any
one political party and the uncertain
ity as to how they would ballot was
the one big factor that clouded all
efforts at accurate guesses.
In the Twenty fifth ward along the
north shore, for instance, more than
$4,000 women are registered, out OF a
total registration for the ward OF only
SO 900. Five candidates are running,
a democrat, republic, progressive, So
cialist and independent. Any one OF
them could be put over if he could
gather the women vote today.
Miss Drake is less fortunate in her
fight in the first. Only 4140 women
are registered and many of these
come ITOu Lie NSly FiSC uioIiiSe SAfS
has so bitterly assailed in her cam
oaign against "The Bath" The quail
fled male voters in the first number
nearly $4,000 and it will be necessary
'or her to capture practically all the
votes as well as large slice
If the former adherents of Coughlin
o make even a good showing.
The other women candidates are
,etter situated, but their campaigns
lave been less spectacular than that
# Miss Drake.
Women Judges and Clerks.
Women election judges and clerks
resided today for the first time in
he city's history. Most of them school
d in their duties by acting as clerks
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-07

/ CHICAGO, Apr. Eyes of the
world were trained on Chicago today
when women began casting ballots i'll
the first real test of suffrage strength
in the largest equal suffrage city in
the world. There are in round num-
bers 21S,000 women whose names are
on the registration books qualified
to vote in the aldermanic contests to-
day-nearly half as many as there
are qualified male voters. With the
exception of one or two wards whose
political complexion is too well known,
the women absolutely hold the balance
of power. By massing their votes on
any particular candidate they can
force his election to the city coun-
Gil. Seven women candidates for
seats on the board of aldermen have
injected the most novel feature of to-
days election, one of the most hotly
contested the city has ever known. At
least two of these, Miss Marion H.
Drake, combating the notorious
"Bathhouse john Coughlin in the
First ward and Miss Harriet E. Wit |
tum, running on a non-partisan ticket |
in the Seventeenth ward, are believed |
to have a fighting chance to win. They |
have the support of non-partisan and
organizations and of prac
tically every womans club in the city.
Woman Working Hard.
Hundreds of automobiles enlisted by
suffrage organizations, scurried about
he city early today, engaged in get
ing out the women voters" In the
First ward, where the hottest fight Of
lis career is being waged against
'Bathhouse John" by Miss brakes ad-
lerents, a determined effort was made ,
O send every registered woman to the ]
,olls. Troops of women in the stock !
ards district on the west side voted, 1
rged by their church heads not to I
eglect their duties at the polls. Along c
he fashionable north side boulevards, t
mousines and electrics whirled early C
l the day, carrying society women to S
le polls, in some instances maids ac-
their employers to the
olling places Heads of several fac
)ries and mercantile establishments
nploying women and in sympathy I
ith the suffrage movement added en-
Everywhere the cry
,emed to be: Get out the women
,te"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-07
Women Judges and Clerks.

Women election judges and clerks
presided today for the first time in
the city's history Most of them school
ed in their duties by acting as clerks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-20
EARTH,s OLDEST MAN

That highly developed human race in- habited Africa many hundred thousands of years ago is shown, according to Dr. Hans Beck, professor of paleontology of Berlin, by the discovery of a perfectly preserved fossil human skeleton in the desert of German East Africa.
 The skeleton was extracted from dilu- vial strata in dry and desert canyon, once apparently a fertile equatorial swamp. The fossil is one of the most remarkable in existence, being quite per- feet in teeth, skull, ribs. breastbone ana extremities, despite it's incalculable age proved by fossils of extinct animals which surrounded it. The skeleton shows few signs of ''undeveloped" humanity.
 ''At this geological epoch very highly developed human race inhabited the African continent" declares the doctor. 'The fossil was found in tufa limestone and must have been deposited there when the existing desert was an equatorial swamp-that is, at the period when cen- tral Eurpoe was passing through the gla- cial epoch"
 The same tufa excavations revealed monstrous, elephants, hippopotam ri- aoceroses, gigantic apes and many other animals either extinct or degenerated. The skeleton is believed to be much nearer than anything yet discovered to the original foundation of the human race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-20
Adieu La Cantiniere

The fact that the utility of the can teen in the United States army has been vehemently discussed pro and con by military authorities renders the recent action of France in abolish ing the cantiniere, or la vivandiere, of considerable interest to American readers.
 Such an institution is dinstinctly a French characteristic and her duties were to take charge of the canteens of the soldiers, one woman serving in every battalion. Her reflex influence upon the army, however, was often more pronounced than her actual duties as purveyor, for in the time of battle it was her custom to enter the engagement with the troops, giv- ing encouragement to the men and soothing drinks to the wounded, weary and overcome.
 No one knew the value, or appre- ciated the courage, of such women more than Napoleon and their devo- tion was upon many occasions the sub ject of his praise and encomiums. The beloved of her nation, la vivan- diere has often been the heroine of romance and poetry. s
 Probably the most valiant, or at least most often sung, of these can tinieres was Marie Tete de Bois, who, after serving through eighteen glori- ous campaigns, met her death most gallantly at Waterloo. It is said that the Little Corporal's regret for her taking away was only surpassed by his grief for the loss of Dessaix at Marengo.
 The action of the French govern ment was not based upon any doubt as to the efficacy of the canteen but the war ministry claimed that the &C., tive service of the cantinieres was too great tax on the food supply of the army, and as the Parisian press has vigorously attacked the paltriness of the argument it may be expected that the soldiers will bitterly resent the parsimony of nation that gauges the value of military auxiliary by the requirements of the stomach.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-20

of the cave with the wild beasts of the mountain.
 Surely this is a reform with a ven geance and one may soon expect to hear the slogan, "douce the electric glim, do away with the printing press, discard the express train for the OK cart, sink the ocean liners, snap your telegraph and telephone wires, silence the voice of the radiogram and hike back to the civilization of the jungle and desert.p Early man possessed none of these, ergo he had no need for such. Progressiveness demands our sitting cross-legged or lying prone upon the floor for we stand in no need of that which early man failed to possess. Bradford says so and be- ing a Harvard man he should know
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-20
T. C. DeLeon Dead

Tn the death of Thomas Cooper DeLeon in Mobile yesterday the south loses one of its most brilliant men of letters. He was a native of South Carolina, but spent the greater part of his life in Alabama. He served four years in the Confederate army, and soon after the war was managing editor and later was sole editor of the Register.
 MT. DeLeon was prolific writer, and although he had been blind since 1903 he continued his literary work to the end His tastes were varied as shown in his civic and military activities as well as in his pen work. In 1873 he or panized Mobiles Mardi Gras carnival and managed it 25 years. He man. aged the first Baltimore "Oriole" in 1881. and afterwards other celebra- tions, including the Albany, New York, bicentennial in 1886.
 Among DeLeon's novels was a prize winner-"Out of the Sulphur" Several of his novels are of standard rank. He was the author of many short stories and beautiful poems. His fic- tion revealed insight into human na ture, fine imagination and keen wit; and his serious verse was full of pathos and tenderness.
 Ever jealous for the reputation and glory of the south he was quick to resent what seemed like calumny or aspersion on anything southern in the troublous days following the conflict of arms. Full of civic pride and en- thusiasm, he was an ardent worker for the upbuilding of his long adopted city. He was singularly generous hearted, and one of the last things he wrote-perhaps the last-was a letter to The Age-Herald published March 13 in which he urged the cree tion in Mobile of a monument to Price Williams, Jr.-soldier, judge and citizen. It was an ardent and graceful tribute to one of Alabama $ greatest citizens.
 MT. DeLeon was well advanced in years, but his friends and admirers were nevertheless startled by the sad intelligence of his taking off. His memory will be ever cherished by the people of the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-20
PERILs OF THE HATH

From the Chicago News.
 It was left to modern doctors to asso- ciate the decline of the Roman elupire withwith luxurious warm bathing. Roman writers are full of moralzing on the sub ject. Seneca, slancing back at the good old times, recalled that the old Romans, though they washed their arms and legs daily, bathed their whole body once week. Even when Scpio introduced s1 warm bath into his villa the bathroom was small and dark, after the manner of the ancients," with no pretensions to luxury; and the earlier public baths were so simple that the aedile merely tested the temperature with his hand Things moved on rapidly and such emperors as Com modus bathed seven or eight times a day and took their meals in the bath.
 Considerable pomp used to attend the entrance into the water of the Duchess de Berri who nearly loo years ago first When the duchess went bathing at Dieppe her arrival at the beach was hailed with a salvo of artillery. The holder of the then newly created post of inspector des mains" had to be there to receive her, attired in a resplendent uniform, cooked hat and white gloves.
 This functionary led her royal high ness into the sea until the water reached his knees, when he retired with three profound reverences. The duchess, who was an expert swimmer then proceeded to enjoy herself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-20

WHERE has been only one trial of a
 peer of England before the sover
 A eign in Parliament since 1776. This was Lord Cardigan, whose very name was Sdious to the people. and who, by what may be inferred from the words of Macaulay, could not go into theatre without being insulted, and could not go into a railway train unless hiss was raised against him.
 Lord Cardigan, at the time of his trial, was commanding officer of the Eleventh Huzzars, and many were the insults given to other officers of the same regiment, by the sending of insulting messages, the logging of a soldier Sunday between the services, where half an hour before the soldiers comrades had mustered for wor- ship, and finally Lord Cardigan went so far as to fight a duel with lieutenant who had left the corps, and shot him through the body.
 In September 1Sl0, a letter was in- serted in the Morning Chronicle denounc- ing Lord Cardigan with reference to his insults, and, in other words, writing a letter which, although true, was not ex- peCleu to Hldhe lHe pupnc any more friendly toward the despotic officer and lord. It was signed An Old Soldier" but was written by a Capt. Harvey Tuckett, whose name and address were with his consenD given to Lord Cardigan on his application to the Chronicle.
 A challenge was sent, and the two fought a duel on Wimbledon common near a windmill At the second exchange of shots Captain Tuckett was wounded and the parties were taken into custody by the miller at the windmill, who had, to pre- vent the recurrence of duels on the com mon, sometime before been made a con- stable.
 Under the Magma Charter a peer tried for felony must be tried by his peers, and on February 16 1S41, brilliant array of these dignitaries were assembled at the peers chamber. Cardigan was first taken to task by the bishop of London for his language, and Lord Eldon expressed his inability to understand how a man could fight duel without sonoe amount of de- lnquency, while the bishop of London stigmatized duelng as "a shame and a scandal, the remains of the system of chivalry, barbarous, wicked and unchris- tion."
 The miller, whose name was Thomas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-20
PROFIT OF MEDICAL SCIENCE

From the Minneapolis Journal
 Deaths and disease by infection could be reduced as much as death by small pox has been reduced by Jenners dis covery, if the public would learn how to take advantage of scientific knowledge, and act thoughtfully upon the learning.
 Typhoid has now been added to the dis eases under complete control. and in- cured only by ignorance or negligence. The army has abolished it, just as civil government could do, with the same authority and obedience. Crtimists belive that tuberculosis will soon be on the same happy way.
 Tho trouble is that the public will neither learn nor act. The wonder is that science continues so patient andres
 olute in research. The State board of health reports more than double the cases of diptheria and scarlet fever this Jan
 uary. as compared with last, mainly con- tracted in the public schools. The only crumb of comfort in this is that scarlet fever has increased more than POO and diptheria less than 100 ger cent Thus the disease that has been conquered by science gains, even under ignorance and neglect, less than that still unconquered.
 It Is only a layman's guess if diptheria could be completely shut out of an army of children as thoroughly drilled and commanded by science in all of the | habits of living, eating, sleeping, and work or play, as 1t has been out of the
 army of the United States. It is possi- ble only to assert that real drill, care discipline, and obedience under command of science should decrease it for more in a year than it has been increased in Minnesota by memorable year of neg feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-20
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER

You should have seen Miss Fashion Walking down the street, With her hobbies and her goggles, And her silken hosieried feet. You should have seen Miss Fashion Promenade the avenues, With her hustle and her russell And her patent leather shoes. You should have seen Miss Fashion Appareled as doil. With her crimples and her dimples And her lowered parasol. You should have seen Miss Fashion In her new Partisan gown, With her tresses and the guasses; She's the talk of the town.
 VERY SIMILAR. The autos like a lot of men, (This tale You can't refute) Because it always blows its horn When 1t goes on toot.
 Los Angeles Express. The autos like lot of men, And ei<e a lot os boys; The smallest and the worthless ones Oft make the louGest noise.
 Youngstown Telegram. Both wrong. Though for virtue human The auto is admired. It is like a patient woman- Unjarring when well tired.
 A FLORAL WIZARD. She wrose to Luther Burbank To send some of his seeds  That turn to orange blossoms Grafted on widows weeds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-20
Make Ii an Annual Event

Birmingham's Fashion Week has been successful in large degree 1t was an experiment, but since iJ has proved so popular and has given so much satisfaction to out-of-town vis- itors it should be made q pcrznanent institution.
 The Business Mems league, which promoted and is managing this gala event, is to be most heartily congratu- lated on it's brilliant achievement. Birmingham has long been recognized as an exceptionally attractive shop ping center, and every year adds to its attractiyeness. It it safe to say that in few cities Of the south do the merchants carry such large or such elegant stocks as are found here; and nowhere are the displays more gorgeous. When it is announced that there will be a Fashion Week here every spring the people of the whole state are sure to look forward to 1t with eager interest.
 The more festive features city presents the more its merchants pros per- March in this climate is a good month for Fashion Week, and every body will be cordially in favor of it's repetition next year and in all the years that follow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-20

fortress" would be higher than the Washington monument, if stood OH end, and is equipped with 10 14-inch guns, which places the New York in a class apart from all other fighting ships. The range of these guns is 12 miles and at five miles a shot will penetrate tempered armor plate 6 inches thick. The cost of each gun was S62,000 and the cost of the mount S50,GG0. Yet, with all her expensive equipment, the New York will oc sur passed by the new dreadnaught, Bat tleship 39, both in speed and arna- M.ent.
 It is appalling to consider the hugs sums of money spent by the United States and European countries for battleships, most of which may never fire single hostile shot. If universal peace were possible, state of affairs which will probably not come to pass until humanity is just this side of the millennium, what an economic differ ence there would bel If fhe money spent for battleships were used for world betterment in one year the changes wrought would be tremend- ous. No wonder altruists dream of the time when the vast sums at present expended in building battleships, des- tined in few years for the junk pile, will be converted to better uses
 The practical aspect of the case IS quite another matter. Human nature has not changed much if any since those primitive times when it was case of the survival of the fittest However much philanthropists and humanitarians may protest, these same big battleships that cost so much money and seem so unnecessary, are thought the best guarantee we have of peace. When the fighting instinct dies in mankind there will be no more dreadnaughts. That time, however, may be far In the meantime let the "war against war" go steadily on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-20
THE MILITANT RECORD

From the New York World.
 Militant suffragettes in England be- gan the active campaign of violence in 1912, though there had been spo- radio outbursts ever since 1908. Some of the deeds that earned for them the name of arsonettes previous to the slashing of the "Rokeby Venus' Of Velasquez yesterday are:
 Innumerable shop windows in the West End of London. costing thousands of pounds, smashed Aclds poured into mail boxes, destroy ing letters and packages. Bomb placed in the office of MT. Me Kenna, the nome minister. Orchids and other valuable plants de- stroyed In Kew botanical gardens. Lloyd Georges country house burned and practically destroyed. Attempt to fire the Theatre Royal in Dublin; hatchet thrown at Premier Asquith which hit John F. Redmond. King Georges horse stopped during the running of the derby by Q woman. who died from her injuries. Refreshment pavilion in the Regents park burned. Set fire to the house of Lewis Yer non Harcourt and attempted to dyna- mite it.
 Case in jewel room in the Tower broken. broken.
 Many railway stations and other houses burned, doing damage estimated at nearly s1.0OO,OoO.
 Bomb placed under the bishops | throne in St. Pauls cathedral and bombs found in other places. Famous pictures damaged at Man chester.
 | Tied the levers of railroad signals | in the hope of causing train wrecks. | Tried to burn the British museum. 1 Many attempts to fire churches, both
 old and new. | Wrecked office of the London Stan
 dard.
 l Sent red pepper and snuff to mem.
 bers of tue cabinet by the mails. | Premier Asquith attacked by women armed with dog whips.
 Lord Wcardale. an aged peer, whipped
 in mistake for the prime minister.
 Mines placed in Holloway prison in an attempt to blow up the jail. Timber and adjoining property to the
 value of S.00.000 burned at Davenport.
 Many attempt to force an entrance
 to Buckin gham palace or to stop the
 King whilo he was driving to London.
 Constant riot'ng at street meetings
 outside the houses of Parliament and
 residences of the ministers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-20
PrOspects for Music Festival

Prospects are now very bright for music festival in May-May , and G. said member of the Arion club.
 Birmingham has never had such a large or such we'll selected mixed chorus as that which is now rehears- ing Dubois splendid oratorio Para disc Lost. under the directorship of Mir Rienzi Thomas This united band of singers is made up of the Treble Clef club, the Arion club, the Music study club and the T. C. l. chorus. The orchestration for the oratorio is mod ern and full of gorgeous color No grand opera could be more stirring or brilliant than Paradise Lost
 "The St Louis Symphony orchestra is available. As this excellent body of instrumentalists will be on a southern tour in May Birmingham can secure it at very reasonable figures. Max Zach. the conductor is one of the most distinguished musicians in this country. The St. Louis orchestra had good stand ing under a former director several years ago, but now it's prestige is equal to any Of the famous symphony organ izations. The orchestra is made up of artists employed to play only under Zach's baton from the beginning to will certainly have a rare treat if we are able 10 finance a festival of two nights and matinee as we hope to do.'