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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-02-04

Durham Daily Sun.

Durham Daily Sun.
The size and rapid growth OF
the United States has added i'm
measurably to thecomplications
that'the government has. faced
and must face. None ofthe advo-
Gates Of democracy from the time
o. Plato to the father Of the A.
merican republic contemplated
that the principles Of democracy
should be'applied to a nation OF
ninety millions of people, scat
tered over half a continent and
grouped in cities containg up to
four or five million inhabitants.
In. the past-that is previous
to the nineteenthc century-ir was
held that a democratic form OF
government could succeed sue:
eeed only in q small community:
Montequein, a noted philosopher
writing about the year 17l5,
said: ''[t is natural for a repub-
lie to have only a small terrific
ry, otherwise it.cannot long SUBJ.
sist. In an extensive republic
there are men Of large fortunes,
aQd,sonsequently, Of less mod
Grafton. The public good is sac
ri6ed to a thousand private
views; it is subordinate to excep-
ton and depends on accidents.
This could not have been better
written if it had been dona ! a g t
! weekinstead oftwo hundred years
ego. -:
In large demoeracies the indi-
vidual becomes lost in the mass.
Feeling that his duties are of no
consequence, he relinquishes them
altogether. Government, except
in q restricted sense, passes out
ofhis hands. II it becomes q fail
nre, more or less, be blames 9th.
ers for it.
The success Of good govern
ment in every community, large
':or small, in.its last analysis de-
pends upon individual effort. Ii
public duties are neglected by large
numbers, or passed over to 9th
ers, the State or the community
islikely to suffer. Wherever this
individual neglect has crept in
the result has been the same. Lis
ten to peIposthanes, Speaking t0
/. ~ kf6l - " DIN dutiee u
49, y I'D: ass s I. .',-'- q
! n you ef m "a oi you, n
3 spitit " 1a0h; n sach mae
. VIII snow kifnseIf ready to act
4 Whenever duty calls him and he
: can possibly render service to the
state; if you are willing to depend
upon no one but yourselves, and
win give up, each Of yon, hoping
that he may remain idle while
his neighbor does everything fol
him, then, | say, you will come
ITO your own; ii Goodwill, sou car
q. recover once again the position
which -four past indelence-has
, thrown away"
Thisvilnple counsel Of Demos
thenes,' tho given twenty three
hundred years ago, cannot sbl
improved today. 1t; applies, K
the American OF today no le 8
than to the Athenians Of the day
~-dt was spoken. Get rid Of the spir
1T Of evasion in public duties. Dt
not wait for ths other fellow tx
20 forward and take the step
necessary for the welfare. OF tn
community. I4sistyourself thh;
honesty and efficiency and decen
cy are as important in public q
/ in private life. II we would go for
ward intellectually, morally iii
4. terially--we must get rid OF tn
spirit ofevasien. Waiting for tn
other fellow to do it never bull
y q city or corrected an abuse.
That Cold Needs Attention
M nao tO fuaa q nj try RI wo6a
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-02-04

On the 26th the isthmus OF
Panama was shaken by an earth
quake. No damage was done.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29

aa Ireland Is with ahsentees, in the
opinion If the Dublin ear drivers.
Indeed, this corner Of New Hamp-
shire is full of antiquities and records
of the past such as have been eX-
ploring at Hampton Falls. where on
Sunday ! visited the Weare mansion,
built i'm 1877. and perused the church
records of Parson Cotton and Parson
Whipple, from 1913 10 l768 which
have never been printed in full, and
perhaps never will be They were
rescued from the burnt parsonage fif-
ty years ago, but have escaped much
notice since.
Singular condolences appear in
these Cramped pages on a single day
i'm 173S Colonel Meare, who became
the most powerful and trusted person
in New Hampshire during the revolu-
tionary period, and Ebenezer Web
ster. the grandfather of the famous
Daniel, were married by Parson
Whipplo-W eare Go Elizabeth shaw
and Webster to Susanna Bachilor,
from whom Daniel thought he derived
his dark complexion This Parson
Whipple married many couples from
other colonies and occasionally from
England as If his parish, on the Dor
der of Massachusetts,, was a sort of
Grctna Green In one case he men
tions that he performed the ceremony
at 1880 a. m The scale of fees was
variable. plain people paid 10 shill-
ngs. others FL; but rich Englshmen
or colonial magnates paid "a, t6 or rs.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29
NM OTIET NINE.

(CantOn, O. REPOSITORY
do not want to be a king
or potentate or anything
Like that I do not want to Fight
want to get my sleep at night
! would not trade my cot
For any castle they have got
who go forth girdled for the fray
To burn and loot. outrage and slay.
can go home and sit at ease
And hold my kid upon my knees
And look out at my garden plot
And be contented with my lot
} can take i'm picture show
And not he nervous when J go
0r fear some titled onenV
win drop a lyddite bomb on me.
get no diplomatic note
Which stirs me mp and gets my goat
No murder is upon my soul,
For world dOmiuion's not my goal
I'm happy as common lob
who's got home, also Job.
7 would not trade my state Of mind
With any one of royal kind.
No blood Of infants stains my hands
have invaded no ones lands
I would not trade INV old felt hat
For an the caps and helmets that
Are worn i'm any crazy realm
THAT seeks to slay and overwhelm.
sold braid and clankng sabers punk
To me are merely useless junk.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29
TEXANS RESCUED BY
WONDERFUL REMEDY
Find Swift Relief From Ailments Of
Years Standing With First
Dose of Treatment.

Many Texans needlessly suffer from
stomach ailments and disorders of the
digestive tract which appear TO be
particularly prevalent in the South
Many others have found a way to
health by the use Of Mayr's Wonder
full Remedy.
The first dose Of this remedy proves
what it will do
r. b. GOODPASTUBE, 500 Sabine
St, Houston, Texas, wrote Il took
your treatment last spring l don't
think l will have to take any more
it completely cured me"
r. l.. RANDE4L, Laredo Texas.
wrote: 81 have just finished my fifth
bottle of your treatment and passed
several gall stones. Your preparation
has worked simply wonderfully dur
ing my course Of treatment
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy gives
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and intestinal ailments. Eat as much
and whatever you like. No more dis
tress after eating, pressure of gas IN
the stomach and around the heart
Get one bottle Of your druggist now
and try it on an absolute guarantee
If not satisfactory money VIII be re-
turned.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29
TIM lNrrlM.cruN.s"

The word intellectual" is now be-
inp employed as % term of moro or
less opprobrium among literary erie
uos ln recent review of the writ
inrs ~ John Galsworthy on ENGLISH
critic speaks Of bin as having writ
ton plays or ID certain hopeless cN-
coliouee4 and then iu consideration
at what Doe calls Mn Oalworth> 8
'blcachcd and arid uneneas tickets
that worthy modern as au "iutellee-
mal"
A writer loo recent issue of the
Atlantic Monthly undertook 90 show
that shakespeare was am "lntellcc-
iual." founding his contention on the
rather contempmous mood n which
the mob" Is handled by the great
dfnmaust in "Jullus Caesar Oi
course. uhe sensc m which the word
InteHeetuar is applied there differs
from the meaning Of lhc English
critic regarding the work of John
Guiswofthy
Rnt wc can hardly conceive oi
ftukeapeare not dellgbtine In the
company Of men who compose the
"mob. Had t been otherwise he
could not have given 50 much time
20 tnkefa ana .a.io,a. soia.esa aHi
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29

lone rcd as enough for proper road
USES. six acres in each mile is pure
waste
thousands 81 miles of the best
highways In England. France ana
Germany are only one rod wide. but
hi that seems TOO stingy for your Tn
cle Samuel. call It two rods for JUS.
and we are still throwing away four
acres ON each mile. Multiply these
figures for the state of Iowa by lO4.-
.000 miles of public road, and We have
10000 acres Of the best farming land
In the world just wasted. In Kansas.
the government surveyors have been
able 10 divert $4,000 more acres from
proper uses 10 nothing az ALL This
unusual space serves only to grow
weeds The roadsides are often the
greatest weed museum IN good
farming country Bach year they pro-
duce enough seed 10 keep the neigh
boring farms perpetually supplied.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29

sII0fs. and never would be- have
produced such deughtful old
ro1sterer as FBistan bic must have
assee lated with the people who
made up the mob for their own
sake. and mot Tor the purpose Of se-
curing "iieny material He must
have enjoyed an life. for he was SUI
preme artist
oal true fatellectuals" using the
term ls % now .s employed BY the
critic are not the supreme artists.
because thcy have only their heads in
their work The heart IS lacking.
They are Inclined to work greatly in
the duH and the drab the sordid and
the sguaud as the sole material Of
att They have all 81 the machinery
OF the technique. whatever that term
may mean. and sort of ciePerness
ln manipulation But they DO not
arouse feelInR. when We read them
no emotion is evoked. good or bad
They are not the artists
a man need never bother much
about hls audience If he does the.
real work. But for the purely cine
there cam Doe no nstingI
audience.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29

3
clear far carrying voice. every word
dropped clean-cut from his lips He
Imade frequent pauses between sem
] licences. and when he paused he looked
sometimes 10 The right. sometimes TO
I the left, his eyes travelling slowly
along the ranks, and sometimes the let
gaze rest ON the blazing fortress that
I Napoleon founded los years ago.
Words of Emperor
IL have hurried here, he said, Ito
give you the thanks of the tatherland.
God has been with us, and today you
wear the undEing oak leaves of VIC
tory
God being stiil with us, you viii
so on to more victories The thanks
of my heart I give you and we all
give thanks TO the Lord of Hosts
My comrades. the fatherland
thanks YOU, and its prayers go up to
God for you.
Then there were several sentences
of the fact that the enormous works
of Nuvu Georsievsk had been in the
main taken by the landsturm That
made him very happy and with mis-
eyes fixed on the blazing citadel of
The fortress he paused TO dwell on the
fact
Then / caught the words care
well, my troops; farewell comrades"
In response long crashing roar
broke from the lines that shaped it,
self into the words, "Adieu, your ma
iesty.
Response of Troops.
The roar died away ana the far
carrying voice uf an officer came
,ro,4tsI ma, tarnqe ma Main In tho ppt,-
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29

crosses for perhaps fifteen
soldiers into the hands If n.y. +'e
burg, and Hndenhurg pinnas -t..'-a'
the soldiers breasts There gs- 4 nn
ofs Tor certain generals ta.
an that. ''ili %
After the bestowal the emma.
VISITED with animation with man.
t-eers, deVoting much Of his t-,. "'-
soAcitude 90 Hudenburg. MI. 'Dl
cred beside him. Many office. 'VN-
came 20 pay respects rs Hfnde,. ..sa
and IL seemed TO me that +b., Dis
lower over his hand than fbe.. a.
over the emperor's, partly rs-h ll
because the emperor has wa,
shaking hands IN thorouebi,.
standing manner that gently lrt o. ~
ly prevents an overobseouiong
tude. He is a man. ''a'
The emperor appeared "a ~
splendid condition. His ro.ee
strong and his bearing that af ,,.' "es
younger man than his er4ndf,,tu
The officer who followed him I...
a cry for three cheers h3d \, WV
like a bun. yet his words har5b ,, lug
as clearly 20 the ear as had HI. q.lr
perors. 'i'-
A Spaniard who stood nevt ia
said His majesty seems y4r, iorsut
but eXcellenz Hindenbure looks r...
serious" '''
Well, al that instant ms Sn,nta
colleague, Senior Dominique. MAS bar
ing better glimpse of the party i i1',
was. ana So 1 quote him.
When the emperor left the bou.u.
square the yellow imperial standar5
bearing am iron cross embroidere5 \.
black, and the words Scott min mn ~
was borne close behind him nv orai
der. s'l-
He crossed the field to the biob
way where an open automobile staa5
with swinging steps Beseler Vsn
ed beside him. The emperor sv,ng
himself into the auto, q military w..
want wrapped q rug around him I'M
he III a cigaret threw himself bace
in the car and smoked luxuriopsy
He then called sven Hedin to tbs
side of the ear, shook hands with ANN
and chatted with much gusto. laugh.
ing long and heartily.
FdlNenhayn soon joined the kaiser
in the auto ana the car swept down
the road amid the cheers Of NJ
troops that lined the way for more
than a mile.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29
HOW One of America Best
KnOWn Poems Is MutiLdted

There's a lutte unswept. and a harp
without strings.
There are broken vows-and pieces Of
rings
And the garments she used TO wear
There are hands that are waved when
that fairy shore
BY the mirage is lifted i'm air
And we sometimes hear through the
turbulent roar
Sweet voices we heard IA the days
gone before,
When the wind down the river is fair
oh! remembered for aye be that
blessed isle
An the days of life-till night
And when the evening comes with It's
beautiful smile
And our eyes are closing to slumber
awhile
May that Greenwood OF soul be in
sight
Benjamin f Taylor
Here rs the way the poem is now
appearing in mutilated form
THE RIVER OF TIME.
oh a wonderful stream is The river
Time
Az a plides fbroupb the realms of
voars
win , hrnaacninp sv,aep and a surge
sublime.
with "a fopttess rbvtbrn and q tnttsi-
col chime
How Tho winters are drifting like
flofos ~ snoU,.
Ana t,o gu,,roots Inc huds bcfveen.-
And Tho ,na,. I'm ne sbnaf-lso thov
como mn mo-, Oh
oo tho rise,,s Lreoet win itq ehb and
iis fIow
sheen
1,horo,s d ,,,ei.ol isic In tbe river of
rinn
v,,,or, tho .s,Ctos, ofai,s ore nlavinp
There's a rloldIcss sky and a tropi-
.,I ofi,,,o
And some ms sweet as vesper
Ava mo inno with the roses are stray
I'M
AM. ti,, ,,,,. of th,t iele is the r.onp
co
Ana ,.a hn,,, ann tro,srres thara--
~ 49,. hoa,,t,. ana ms
a,- - .,,,,'
1,her, o,o 'ho',ns 9f d,,st -l,ut we loved
u
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29
sCRINBINE is pEAp.

tNew York Evening PostD
NJ Briantchaninoy an intimate
friend of Scriabine, telegraphed the
news of the composers death to a
friend In England He stated that
Scriabine died of the disease Of the
lin from which he was suffering when
In England last year and that he had
lust finished the wonderful poetiral
text" of the prologue to his "Mys-
terry When Scriabine was suffering
terrible pain just before his death he
clenched his hands and his last words
were - must be selfpossessed like
Englishmen.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29
TIM LATIN AND TIN rEuroN.

civilization as we know il was born
on tho shores OF the Mediterranean,
ln those peninsulas and islands that
we're pcopled by the Hellenic and
Italian stocks Culture and science
had their birth In those regions and
were formed by those peoples. An
lands without them We're originally
anvaee and al other Europeans We're
hy comparison barbarians
Civilization spread from those
ccnters and covered Europe west of
the Rhine and south Of the Danube.
When the northern invaders over
whelmed Rome, although they set
tied. some Of them, inside the ring
~ tho empire. "a thousand years were
required before they were imbued
with what we now term Latin civil
zauou That civilization was carried
into the British Islands first by the
missionaries ana then by the Nor
mans OF William the Conqueror RUS
STA was connected with the Greek
civilization through Constantinople
ana the byzantine emperors
hut northern Europe, north of the
Danube was never subject 10 Rome.
The Latin tradition does not obtain
lin Germany The German tongue has
not been modified By the infusion of
Latin speech Nor has Latin art
really nourshed Ia Germany there
by pstructng the grotesque sense of
the northern Cloths with the mean
inas Of form Although Latin Chris
tamb held Germany la nominal al
lemancc for thousand years the
reformation had it's real birth there,
aud there assumed the proportions of
"a verituble 'reutonic reaction and RE-
Insertion what Germany asserted
during the reformation she asserted
In "a new manner with as much dis
tinctuess In her war against Napoleon
and hy her consolidation under Bis
marck
me Louh U'u'''oh o"''ins ''u"'
"'s' "l 'ne i'''"' una NoUlh ~ ~
APPS 1t Is the "'o'''on VI e'N''.1o
'i"n IT'D england ana l'''"no' ''
'''''''''' '''"''''" "o'o'''' - : ''.'''
pr'n''p'ily 'h'ouBh ln' "l'eN '"'''o'
/ Die church. Germany however, ls
'se'n''''y ieu'o'''' ''''"'t ''s"'
"' we n''''' WORD 70 use u'7' ''P
'lfei''
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29
SUNDAY .. AUGUST 2o ioi
ENGLISH N ru1 SCHOOLS.

win the beginning IF thc years
work ii me state educational insti-
buttons and the public schools, there
b. one matter namely the study Of the
rlrht use of thc EnEleh language %
which the journal wishes 20 can par
ucumr attention
Not long uro school teacher one
81 considerable prominence in Sew
Mexico. said referring TO his work
n ann little wenk ou grammar aud
spelling but % win come out all
urht with NY work ann fairly
strong on the rest
% is "a common mistake 20 under
estimate inc value % good English
both written ana spoken, os ana asset
in everyday affairs There ls no JUS
tificnuon tor the attitude of careless
ness. now an too common toward
the vehicle for expression Of our
thoushis
Tho first claim to reasonable Gull
mro Is ability 10 use with reasonable
accuracy The principal vehicle we
have for conveying our thoushta 90
others. Spelling accurately and
speaking grammoticully IL NOT lost
arts. at least are neglected arts. Yet
Ne uso Them nn Che days Of our lives
ana ARE judged by them
A few years ago Marshall Field a
Company offered one dollar for each
mistake found III the grammar Of the
company advertisements and ctrcu-
lars. and about the same time Alex
nudor Revoll had booklet specially
prepared for bis employees instructing
them as 10 what 20 say and what not
Go Say in thclr business relations with
the public
Among me simple and quite cont
mon errors pointed out were the exc
prcssious oIt is me-" that's her" 81
ant." uc don't ~ hadn't ought
Co." you was. Il seen. 81 done it'
fio also tried 20 clarity the difference
III che use of "shon' and "wn1" and
muny other ahuFes of me langunHe
The Rcyoll booklet also called ot
tcuuUn 90 me mcE of cluuN of cN
precision iu correspondence ana ih
unnecessary use ot mony words %
convey am idea.
a thme Is said best when the few
..e.1 tH.t ...nt4t aha
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29
spEcTRrM M TnE MNGNEr.

AA1bNlbAi J dlAoNA lHN+I
No influence OF any form of attrac-
ton ON light had ever been noticed
until about twenty years ago, when
Zeeman showed that a powerful mag
net visihy altered the position of Ger
tain lines i'm the spectrum Now it
appears likely that gravitation has a
similar. though not the same, effect.
Magnetism splits up the spectral lines,
eXerting broadening effect while
gravltation shifts them all alike in
one direction For instance, in the
solar spectrum whose rays at their
origin have passed through the pow
erful field OF gravity in the suns vi
entity an the lines appear shifted to-
ward the red as compared with sim
liar lines from terrestrial light
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29
WASTE or LAND IN ROADS.

In Kansas and the middle west a
public road is four rods or siXty-siX
feet wide. by decree Of the govern
mont survey The makers of macad-
am for state roads rarely pretend 90
Build roads more than eighteen feet
wide A farm wagon is four feet eight
inches wide from wheel 90 wheel Add
one foot for hubs and still three
such vehicles can be placed abreast in
the cighteen-foot road
In the four-rod government high
way. ten wagons could be set side By
side in single rank. II sounds eX-
traVagunt and IL is. Each mile OF
government roadway contains eight
acres of land Much of il is perfect
Is good land capable Of growing 500
bushels of corn 20 the mile Counting
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29
With Scissors and Paste
oNNr OLD TOWNS.
utter m sprIngfieId. Mass Rep

tLetter ina SRrinBtcid Mass. kepub-
Ncan1
Portsmouth is the quaintest Of old
fashioned towns. Now a city OF ] b.
000. and q very busy place il still has
the air of the eighteenth century in
its old houses ana ancient memories,
and oddB-named streets, such as
CORVALLIS, lslmgton. Wyhird, the La
fayette road and the Christian shore
No Wybird has been seen there Tor a
century and "a half and the English
men visiting there would ask, What
is Wybird o. as In Philadelphia he
inquired What Is "a Biddle ." II was
never bird. but the English name of
family like Cult Penhallow or
Barefoot. which settled there before
Zoo. and disappeared In the eight
zenith century with the royal govern
ors and the British flag Exeter.
which I visited saturday has a good
share Of old colonial houses, but
Portsmouth is swarming with them"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29

Booker Washington sass there
never win De- peace I'll haiti until the
people are taught 100 work The trou-
Die about 10 IS That nature has done
30 much for the people that they
don't have 10 work ana few people
work when u is not necessary
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29

A Kansas woman is running for the
United States senate, and her hus-
band refuses 90 support hor. proha=
bis There viii soon be new husband
in The family.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29

carwnzJ never win sheathe his
sword until the right of Mexico to
maintain disorder and anarchy rs
recognized boy the civilized nations of
the world
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29

There never was u time when the
political stock Of Theodore Roosevelt
was quoted so low 1888 now, ana that
famo statement may De mado ot the
quotations on the stock of William
Jennings Hpan They are nearly in
the tass with tho quotations on Gon-
cru Jacob CoNov
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29

a Russian prince who has arrived
in America TO buy supplies says the
war may last for eighteen years. lie
rs cheerful optmiat 10 have runs
ming around loose.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29

Whatever reprehonsible things are
done In Georgia there Is not "a state
In the union in "a position to cast a
Stone at her
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-29

Italy smiles az the AugtFIans and
the volcano but she must face i5,-
600 Missouri mules recently pur-
.l!asla.