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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-04

The Old Elm course in Chicago has
undergone a complete change and
would be scarcely recognizable to any
one who has visited it in the past
Many changes for the better have
been made. =.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-04

Indianapolis has concrete automo-
bile race track, Detroit is building one
and Los Angeles is waiting to see
which is best, wood or concrete Chi
cago has a wooden bowl. Philadel-
phia, Sheepshead Bay, Long Island
and other cities will also soon have
big racing tracks for speed kings.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-19

these things ont They would be re-
quired TO go to their county seats and
examine the records for themselves II
these publications are discontinued
and few men are qualified to get an
intelligent understanding from such
an examination even II they had the
time to make them. which they would
not have.
But that Is not exactly to the point.
The Mall seems to aim Its criticism!
Of Editor Presley Morris because he
is one Of the promoters OF the Pub.
fishers Association.
The Mail may not know Il but Mr..
Morris In addition to being an editor
Is a lawyer, and a good one too, and
10 eh sees at to appear as attorney
In q contest case We see no reason
for criticism. We would like 70 see
the Mail and all the other daily news;
papers Of the state Join In with the
weekly papers and make Of the asso.
citation the organization It should be.
The writer was instrumental IN help
ing to organize such an association a
few years ago and the work the or.
ganizatlon did during one session OF
the Legislature has been worth many
thousands OF dollars to the news:
papers of the state, but the organiza.
ton was only shortlived and passed
away, but the opposition to the pub.
fishers goes on without interruption.
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Current Comment.
Morse THAN Adams county

= "H
The corruption Of the ballot dis.
closed in Western Indiana and East.
ern Illinois in regions tributary to
Terre Haute and Danville surpasses
in extent that revealed a few years
ago in Adams county, Ohio. In the
Ohio case more than one Thousand
farmers admitted that they regularly
sold their votes. In the Terre Haute
and Danvflle districts It Is alleged
that many thousands Of votes were
fraudulently cast, repeaters going
from one State to the other. swelling
the Democratic poll in Indiana and
the Republican In Illinois.
Terre Haute and Danville are small
but highly prosperous cities in the
center of what has been pronounced
the richest strictly agricultural dis.
ltrict In America. As was true OF
Adams county, the buying and sell
ing Of votes cannot have been due
to the degradation and poverty OF the
slums. It must be attributed wholly
to political depravity in neghbor.
hood supremely blessed by nature
and relieved o fmany OF the prob
t1ems that confront populous com.
Communities.
The reciprocal nature OF the frauds
iperpetrated to the advantage OF both
parties and the fact that a. State line.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-19
FIRST THINGS.
jchoteau Family.

1lH-aaar4 NtA SlolGNd EdtnNys
The first settlement IN the vicinity
of Kansas City was established by
Pierre Chontean, who was born in
st. Louis 126 years ago today. ,Jalti.
iary 10, 1889. His father and uncle,
Pierre and Auguste Choutean, were
the! founders Of st. Louis. Pierre, Jr,,
worked for his father and early In
life began trading In fur, establish.
ing5posts! at many places IN the West.
including that near the future Kan.
sas City. He died in ST. Louis halt q
century ago. From o trading posi-
the budding metropolis. then known
as Westport Landing, developed into
an important shipping point for the
then extensive steamboat trade. and
was the outttting and starting point
for the California overland parties
who followed the snnta Re train.
st. Joseph, Atchlson. Leayenworth
and other Missouri river towns we're
at a later period Kansas City's rivals
for supremacy as q railway center
and distributing point for the South.
west. When Pierre choteau died
Kansas City was still q village. but
by 1880 1t had begun to put on city
airs, and hada population o 49,, 200.
This increased TO Sb5.27s In 1880. to.
1916 in 1890 and to 16s,752 In 1900.
The present population, Including
that part Of the city IN Kansas, IS
about 100000:
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LITTLE BOBBIE,S PA
ey William H. XIII.

Husband dear. sed Ma to Pa last
mite. q old maid frend Of mine Is
comning to the house tenite Z she Is
very font Of English Literatur. i
toald her that her talk on that sub,
steek wuds be vary interesting to yoa
q that you wud be at hoan!
am sorry. sed Pa. 1 had two tick.
cts at the rtngside 70 see Battling
iBuffhousky go ten rounds with Yung
Goliath. q ! asked my friend Billy
Keener to go along with me, & i hate
to hisappoint him.
Thare isent anything elevating In
"a nte, and Ma. q you cant improve
yurei mind watching two brutes ham.
mering each other around q ring. You
must stay here & visit this even.
ing with Miss Neersilk.
g lest then befor Pa cud say any
moar Mas friend cain. She was kind
of thin q her noas was kind OF blue.
it looked funny along side OF PAS
noas, his noas Is red. Pa looked at
her kind Of like he looks at the gas
%colleek.tor but he sed nice enuff,
Won't you sit down, my wife tells me
that you are vary fond Of English
!Literatur.
It is my vary life. my whtS, exis.
tens. sed Mas friend. Without com.
muning with the old English masters
I cut not be happy one moment, she
sed. Dou know the Deserted Village?
she asked Pa.
I know one. sed Pa. It is WHARF 4
reel estate man sold me two lots one
mite wen ] was slipping too much Tom
& Jerry. You ought to g the burg
WHARF them lots is. sed Pa. y
oh. but l mean the butiful poem
witch was rote by Oliver Goldsmith,
she sed, It was in that poem that he
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-19

no won his promotions by sheer
ability, and not by influence. AT the
outbreak OF the war the Archduko
Frederick. the commander In CHIEF
OF Austria's armed forces. gave to
Gen Dankl the most important task
Of repeliing the Russian advance.
The army under bis command has
had TO bear the hrunt Of the Russian
attack. aud. although often defeated
and swept back, Gen. DanA con-
Etrfyed to escape the many plans for
his complete ruin. On several coca:
sicns Il has been limited that Gen.
4Dankl has disagreed with the plans
OF his Prussian allies. and that there
has been much friction between
them but these reports lack con:
lrmation. In appearance Gen. Dank
Is distinctly OF the Teuton1c type
and decidedly soldierly. He carries
his three.score years easily. and
might easily pass for a man Of forty.
Eve. At least, that was true before
the war. but IT Is not improbable that
the cares and responsibilities Q, the
last few months have weighed
heavily uponhim. OF all the Aus.
TRAN commanders. Gen. Dankl has
had to face the most difficult and
critical situations. Time and again,
during the early period Of the Rus.
sian advance, his forces were threat.
ened with humiliation and disruption
but Gen. Dankl always succeeded in
e%xtricating them. IS
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-19
BestStories

Congressman Dan Riordan, OF New
York, had occasion to go to the vii.
kins building, which is on II street,
near Fifteenth. He understood that
the building was on the corner of
Fifteenth and II streets Arriving
there he looked in vain for the build
ing. Seeing a negro loading flower
pots on one OF the four corners, he
said:
"Can you tell me where the wilkins
building isl"
"Yas, sir. OATS around here.
Lemme De whar dat is.s He looked
up and down Fifteenth street. and,
failing to recognize the wilkins build:
ing. said In q perplexed way:
II suttingly did see dat buiidin'
round here Yesterday
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-19
TooAYs BIRTHDAY PARTY.
BY o. Terence.
DIR. JORDAN, 81 ToDAY-UReEs
DISARMAMENT FOR UNCLE

rND-HAHNN lnrNT NAFeNA a5fmH'
While the European was has givei
a great impetus TO the movement for
a larger army and navy for the
United States, one distinguished
citizen of the republic, DR.. David
Starr Jordan, urges disarmament on
the part Of the United States. DR..
Jordan was born sixty.four years ago
today at Gainesville. N. Y. In his
young manhood he became noted as
an authority on natural history. He
specialized in the study OF fishes and
other denizens Of the deep. Thirty
years ago he became president OF
Indiana University. and in 1891 he
became the head Of Leland Stamford
University in California. OF late
years DR.. Jordan's principal interests
have been world peace and eugenics.
In 1918 he resigned the presidency
Of Stanford, and was made chancellor
in order that he might devote more
time to, the peace cause. He was en-
gagged in "a lecture tour of Europe
when the war broke out and disrup.
ted his plans. While he fayors dis
armament as the final goal, DR.. Jor.
dan has urged that the first step the
United States should take is to 4es'
tablish government factories for the
manufacture OF arms and other neces.
stiles Of warfare, SO that the element
Of private profit would be eliminated.
To the Krupps and others in the
same business he attributes the
manufacture OF the popular senti.
ment which brought about the Europ'
can conflagration. As an advocate Of
eugenics, DR.. Jordan %foresees great
evils as aresult Of this war. a large
proportion of the millions of picked
men now engaged in fighting Europe's
battles will be killed. he declares
and the remainder will suffer injur.
les and privations which will greatly
reduce their stamina. Those who
have been rejected as unfit for the
army will become the parents Of the
next generation. In short, the effect
Of war. according to Dr.. Jordan, is to
"spoil the human creed" The fam
GUS educator has no hopes Of an
early peace. "The end OF the war
will come when the money gives out
he recently asserted, sfor the money
will be exhausted long before the
human MATERIAL ct in this terrible
situation Dr.. Jordan can see q ray
OF light, for he believes that as one
result Of the war there will be an
extension Of democracy In Europe.
t.'The worst democratic government,
he declared, ""is better than any hand
ed down from above, and q gain in
seems ineyitable.s OF all
the issues Of the war, says Dr.. Jor.
dan, .none is more important than,
this, that the German people should
take possession OF Germany.
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was crossed by droyes OF hired re-
peaters reveal q conspiracy SO far
reaching as TO call for a very
thorough inquiry by the new Con-
gress- Federal and State courts at
the scene OF the crime may punish
some or many OF the criminals. but
Congress alone can say whether any
Of IT'S members elected by such meth
DDS shall be permitted TO take their
seats,
Ny Greed.
The following quotation from an
old book by an unknown author al.
ways appealed to me as being hu.
manly true and q splendid creed to
adopt:
DO not keep the alabaster boxes
OF your love and tenderness sealed
up until your friends are dead. Fill
their lives wtthsweetness. Speak ap-
proving, cheering words while their
ears can hear them and while their
hearts can be thrilled and made
happier by them; the kind things you
mean to say when they are gone,
say before they go. The flowers you
mean to send for their cottins. send
to brighten and sweeten their homes
before they leave them.
IF my friends have alabaster boxes
laid away, full Of fragrant perfumes
of sympathy and affection, which
they Intended to break over my dead
body. / would rather they would bring
them out in my weary and troubled
hours, and open them, that ] may be
refreshed and fcheered by them while
j need them. / would rather have a
plain coffin without a flower a fun.
eral without an eulogy, than a life
without the sweetness Of love and
sympathy.
LET US learn to anoint our friends
beforehand for their burial. Post
mortem kindness does not cheer the
troubled spirit. Flowers on the coffin
cast no fragrance backward over
LIES weary way.""-saturday Blade.
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StateEditors.
Ihe %smlth:pavla Coal.

II viii be remembered that there
is pending before the Legislature
the contest Of John A. Davis AGAINST
James L. Smith for the seat in the
House Of Delegates now occupied by
Mr.. Smith. II Is in regard to this
contest that Jimmy w. fires off the
ammunition that may explode with
dangerous effect under his own
chair. He SAYS that the Republicans
unseat Smith without examining the
case and virtually charges the com.
mittee on Privileges and Elections
with having illegally and fradu.
lently. and without examining the
case. with making a biased report
for political purposes against Smith,
the contestee. He a v that the re.
port of the committee is considered
one of the most high handed pro.
ceedings aver ATTEMPTED In order to
have n twothirds majority in tho
Horse Of Delegates.
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case, "h'en siomsu mas ~
aau shsn NY .as. us = ~
Mr. e,h,en mas sMsp. eve" 90 ,as
propetly a1n. n s.am, ~ .aa ,nar,,s
upoh Whieh " s.anu ~, I 10. 80
" ens oas.' 1890 aS.a.aa =. 40.
ateuu anu paop ananas,r ta,ss
posle,ons uuNs anu Ups thst s%i.h
tuat ~ "a
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-19
Crossed 5Koiyo. and Eor,ss.

Crossed Knives and Eories.
The old custom Of crossing the knife
and fork after dining had liz origin, u
we may trust Mi. B. w. Burgess ex-
PLANTATION In his book, .tcfnts on
Household Curioa. In o spirit Of deso-
ton. He quotes Browning:
Knife and fork no never lays
crosswise. TO MY recoiiection. +,
AZ I Cdoi In Jesu.s Spralso.
TN Russia says Mr.. Burgess. @this
custom. OF the pensantry was deep root
ed. and there they were careful to
take up the knife and fork and lny
them down on the plate CROSSED before
commencing their meaEer meal.
Strange to say that, although knives
and forks have been crossed in rover
ence. to cross knives has been deemed
unlucky.n
.LellR ~ ~
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-19
Proof is Shown Where Cen.
sors Have Opened Many
Letters.
DUTCH OFFICIALS
MAIL FOR DENMARK HAS ALI
BEEN TAMPEREp WITH
SINCE WAR BEGAN.
.(correspondenee Of me Associate.

Correspondence Of The Associated
Press.) egf
THE HAGUE, Jan. Is. The
Nieuwe Courant Of this city has been
given a rather surprising and wholly
unexpected reply to a challenge 1t
made about two weeks ago to the
Frankfurter zeitung to produce proof
of its assertion that Dutch mails were
being inspected by English agents.
1t was thought at the time that the
Frankfurter szeitung would not be
able to produce anything resembling
proof Of this serious charge, but In
the illustrated section of its edition,
OF December 18th, which has Just ar:
rived here, the German paper shows
what It asserts is the reproduction Of
a letter, which, carrying the follow.
Ing, address: Frau Helene 5Colsman,
Zeppelin Werke, Friederichshafen,
Bodensee,. had beenopened by the
British censors, and had after that
found its way to the addressee. That
the letter was mailed In Holland Is
shown by the cancellation stamp. In
addition the back OF the envelope
carries in English legend: "Unde-
liyerable-L.P. 81 tLetter post ser.
vice. and across the edge cut open,
by the censor, the customary strip OF
paper with the Inscription: Opened
by Censor had been pasted.
Commenting upon the matter the
Nieuwe Courant says: &
I'VE understand perfectly why this
remarkable accident should have
aroused the suspicious Of the Ger:
man newspaper, all the more when
we; consider that the words Zeppelin
works, accur In the address. The
German version o fthe affair-as we.
gather! from e Communication we
have receiyed-is that through the
agency OF Bribed Dutch postal Off
Icials Suspicious letters reach Eng
fish hands. But In that case II Is
impossible To understand how the
letter, after atmonth. reached the ad.
dressee at Friedrichshafen. II Is not
likely that the English would be fool
Isl senough TO again forward q letter
so treated no matter how harmless
Its contents.
But our Correspondent meets this
argument by saying that finally the
inttar had raacbad fife ydeaftuafinul
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and have requested him to invest.
gate the matter thoroughly.r
A newspaper correspondent here
also reports the experience OF having
received from his wife In New York
a letter which had been opened by
English censors, although addressed
to The Hague. Inquiry OF the local
postoffice brought the reply TINT
only registered mail was compare.
lively safe nowadays.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-19
Tho Food Feud.

John Phillips called at the Thomp'
son store and asked for credit on q
purchase. This was refused by MIR,
Thompson, whereupon Phillips drew
a revolver and instructed his small
son, who accompanied him, to take a
bucket OF lard and run on. He then
covered Thompson till he left the
store. going south. Mr.. Thompson
reached for a loaded shotgun and
stepping outside the door, fred the
yolley into Mr.. Phillips, most Of It
entering his lower limbs. AS he fell
he returned the fire. shooting twice at
Mr.. Thompson. but neither shot
reaching its mark-ClarksvilleE (Ark:l
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uttered the dethloss inference wich
says:
m fares the land 10 h~asten.ins ills q
ware sslth aseanalasss . men
deekey.
Oh, yes, sed Pa, I was always vary
fond OF that poem. i used to reed Il
inskool. He rote another grand
thing, sed Pa. the Face ON the Bar
room floor.
I DO not recall Il. sed Mas frisnd.
are you sure It was rote BY Oliver
Goldsmith.
Pritty sure, sedsPa. but j wuddent
bet you o box OF candy aggenst q
kiss or anything like gambling. Sum
Of the lines cum back 90 me. though.
like this:
You lie, ! seen you steel that acti
A crashing blow rite IN the face,
"a pistols shot g Deth's disagree
Was in that pack Of cards.
Then Mas friend beegan TO look At
Pa kind of hard. 1sfeer YOU are try.
ing to jest with me. she sed. i am
~seerius In my conversahsun, but j
feer you are trying 70 be coInickal.
No, my dear. sed Ma 4 oher friend,
my husband insent comickal. he Is
hopeless. His idees OF humor are,
about as funnysas a foreclosure of q
moagage. Why donnt you talk zen
sibel to my trend about lsngiish
Literature? she sed TO Pa.
Beckaus ! want to 60 to that fte,
sed Pa, 6 Pa went, too
Wen I grow up I am going 10 go
to fites beekauss I doantl like old maids
g English Literatur any more than
Pa.
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New Use for a Hyphen.

New Use for a Hyphen.
Mrs. Dearborn-You say that is
Mrs. Burke-Martin? (
Mrs. Wabash-Yes; Burke was her
name and Martin was her husbands
name.
Mrs. Dearborn-but why does she
use the hyphen between the names?
Mrs. Wabash-To show that she
is separated from her husband.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-19
THE GOLDEN YEAR.

And slow and sure comes up the
golden year,
When wealth no more shall rest in
mounted heaps.
But smit with freer light shall slowly
melt
In many streams to fatsen lower
lands.
And light shall spread, and man be
iiker man
Thro' an the seasons Of the golden
year:
All. when shall all mems good
Be each mans rule. and universal
Lie like a shaft Of light across the
land,
And like q lane Of beams athwar,
the sea,
sThro' all the circle Of the golden
year?
Old writer's pushed the happy seasor
back
The more fools they've forward;
dreamers both:
But well ] know
That unto him who works, and feels
he works,
This same grand year Is ever at the
door. -Tennyson.
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Shifting the Pain.

Shifting the Pain.
"a bare:footed darkey, while hoeing
cotton one day, saw his big toe under
"a clod, and thinking It was a mole's
head, hit Il and hurt himself. After
working with it for a while he got
tired, set his foot on a stump and
said:
We'll, jes' pain away now; I
doesn't care; you hurts yerself wuss
IAN We does me-.
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William Shelborn told us today that
there was not a word of truth in
what we said about his sick hogs.
He said he had not had a sick hog
this year. All right. Will. we are
glad you had no sick hogs.-Wood.
hurry CORRESPONDENT. Sunfeld Sun.
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THE PusLlsHERsi AssocIATloN

THE PuBLlSHERStS ASSoclAT1oN
The Davis contest appears to have
been managed BY the West Virginia
Publishers Association, which was
under the belief that Mr.. Smith Yves
hostile to the Organizations Ideals
and the appearance OF Mr.. Pres.
Morris, for the association in the role
of attorney for MI: Davis indicates
tt that association has some enemies
to ffanish as well as possibly some
friends to reward-Charleston Mail.
The publishers Association, as we
understand IL has for one OF its OBJ.
jects the protection % the newspaper
business and had the association
taken a part Iii the contest against
Delegate Smith, which It did not, as
we understand II, IL would have been
perfectly justifiable in doing SO, since
Smith was outspoken against the pub
llcation Of financial statements as pro.
vided by law. q projections to the tax.
payers and insurance against graft.
that the public Is entitled to. The
legislator who Is SO foolish as to be-
lieve that the dlscontinuance of such
publications is In the interest Of econ
omy has no place In the Legislative
halls of the state. The few dollars
that might apparently be saved in this
manner would be swallowed up in
reckless expenditures and graft which
would never come to public view II
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Add to What Sherman Said.
=, r utty.. &c.,

Add to What Sherman Said.
Sir John Sinclair: war is damn:
able"
Wellington: War is detestable."
Carnegie: war Is savage"
Eurinides: "War is work"
The Zendavesta: "War is sim"
Plutarch: war is wickedness."
Isidore OF Potassium: war Is an
illustrated crime"
Luther: war is devilish."
Bentham: War is misery"
Gibbon: War is robbery"
John Hay: War is futile"
Irwin s. Cobb: war is smell"
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AZ Its Face Value

At Its Face Value.
AT the risk Of giving a free ad We
will observe that there is something
~singplarly appropriate in the fact
that Secretary Bryan's new volume
of lectures is published at 80 cents.
Boston Transcript.
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The Congressman walked along H
street and there located the building
which, needless to say, has been con.
stantly onthe same site since its cree:
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Drew the Color Line.
well. 'Rastus.n said the colonel,
II understand your club has declined
to admit Julius to membership"
Oats a fact" kuhnel,. replied the
old darkey. "Ah dunno what de OBJ.
lection to Julius was, but when dey
come to vote dey done whiteballed
him."-Judge.