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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-07-23
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-07-23

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Vt I,NnEn'N BANKRUPT SALE,
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Evening star., 1915-01-31
~EIard Man, Wlao?"-=A Came Played i'm North Woods

from the floor, he guessed the wrong
man. At length, after eight man-kiil-
Ing blows had stretched him in the dirt:
he guessed the name of Orndorf-ano
Orndorf donned the blindfold.
For nearly an hour / stood and
watched those fellows hammer each
other in a way that, in any other com.
pany. would have meant long list OF
Of playful sport! Three times the un-
lucky Carlson went to the sacrihcial
stool. Yet, when 1t was over, he chal-
lenged Hansen to wrestling match.
and flung him to the earth with Jolt
that would have knocked the wind from
a hippopotamus: after which he smoked
a placid pipe and played game OF
cards, yawned, stretched. said he was
sleepy, and went to bed. I'd have gone
to the hospital or the cemetery!
'I went back to the superintendents
quarters with a new angle upon the
endurance of the human body. Here
those fellows. after working for ten
hours in zero weather and four feet OF
snow. at the hardest form OF manual tha
labor. had sought recreation In the
most intense physical effort. coupled
with what must have been intense
pain. Yet 1 think that I. who had
spent the day reading legal papers.
was, at the end. the most physically
exhausted Of that party; certainly none
of them was exhausted at all.
yes" concluded the lawyer. you
may boast of your rough-and-tumble
foot ball players and your long-winded
marathon runners. but they are all
pulling infants beside those rough. raw
boned Scandinavians of the northern
woods: they'd yawn with ennui in a
foot ball scrimmage. II you want to
see a real game that takes you back
to the days of the hairy elephant and
the cave man. just go up to lumber
camp near the Canadian line and see
those giants In their pleasant little
pastime Of hard man. who?!"
Evening star., 1915-01-31
Fl DIVERS ADOPTED BY STATES

adopted by general popular vote, but
in most of the states where particu.
lar flower has been formally adopten
this has been done by the vote or 'he
public school children. In the Dlstrit,
of Columbia there has been no formal
declaration of a District flower, thouS
the nasturtium has been seneraH@
adopted or accepted.
The daisy has not been adopteo oN
popular vote or school vote in any
state though the legislature of Penn
sylvania adopted it and the violet as
state flowers. In the choice or now
by vote the rural vote is usually heaVlly
against the daisy, for in the regions
of fields and farms the daisy is gen
orally thought of not as a flower. but
as a weed, and as d weed 1t Is consiaei
ed 4 pest. Farmers have no beliel III
the modesty of the daisy.
The golden rod has been adopted as
the state flower of Alabama, Kentucky.
Nebraska and Tennessee. Maryland has
adopted the black-eyed Susan. me
rhododendron is the flower of WASH
ington and West Virginia. and the
mountain laurel of Connecticut. Ar
kansas and Michigan wear the apple
blossm, Delaware the peach blossom,
California the golden poppy, Florida
the orange blossom. Kansas the sun
flower, New Mexico the cactus, Utah
the Sego lily, Vermont the red clover.
Hawaii the lehua, Montana the bitter
root, Colorado the columbine, Missis-
sippi and Louisiana the magnolia, Maine
the pine cone and tassel and Minne-
sofa the moccasin.
The violet has been adopted by Rhode
Island, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Illinois: the rose by New
York, the Cherokee rose by Georgia and
the wild rose by Iowa and North Da-
kota. Indiana pins the carnation to its
breast, Oklahoma hangs up the mistle-
toe, Ohio decks itself with the scarlet
carnation, Oregon chooses the Oregon
grape. South Dakota the anemone.
Wyoming the blue-fringed gentian.
Texas the blue bonnet and Idaho the
syringa. In Arizona the ocotille, though
not adopted. is generally accepted as the
state flower.
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like nature. and destination. Articles which,
like and ammunition. are by their nature
If destined to enemy territory; but articles
which, like coal cotton. provisions though OF
ordinarily innocent. are capable OF warllke use
are not subject 10 capture ana crnhscatlon u'i,Ns
shown by evidence to be actually destined Tor
the military naval forces of helltgerent
This substantive principle of the law or ua-
tIons cannot be overridden by technical rule 90
the prize court that the owners OF the captured
cargo must prove that part OF it may even
tually come to the hands OF the enemy forces
The proof is of an impossible nature and IL
cannot be admitted that the absence Of proof In
its nature impossible TO make can justify The
seizure and condemnation. II IT were otherwise
all neutral commerce with the people OF '"' i
ligerent state would he impossible; the innocent
would suffer inevitable condemnation with the
guilty. The established principle OF diS''rimin',
tion between contraband and non-rontrabanJ
goods admits Of relaxation or Refinement II
must be either infexibly adhered TO or nban-
dIh%H oy an hatIYs T crterinn Of warlike useful,
ness and destination has been adopted by the
common consent OF civilized nations aflef zen
turtles of struggle In which each beilisrrent maze
tndiscriminate warfare upon all commerce OF an
neutral states with the people OF the other ne,
Iigerent and which led to reprlsals as the uliu-
est available remedy.
Secretary Hay further set forth that
If the decision of the VlaG ivostok prize
court was carried into tull execution
1t meant the complete destruction or
all neutral commerce with the non,
combatant population of Japan, and
was in effect a declaration of war
against commerce of every description
between the people of neutral and
those of belliGerent state.
The Russian government needed Sec
retary Hays vigorous protest. 1t sent
instructions to the prize court and naval
commanders supplementing the regu-
lations respecting contraband of war.
At the time it was said that the ac-
tion of the Russian government, as
the result of Secretary Hays note,
would be firmly to establish as a prin-
ciple of international law the exemption
from seizure of oodStuff conveyed under
the conditio ms described, matter which
previously had not been one of universal
practice.
Evening star., 1915-01-31

oISSOURI has not yet chosen n
lMl state flower. and the discussion
GVS of this momentous question dis-
turbs that state. as 1t has rent other
states, with discord and dissension.
In Missouri the daisy has many friends
The leader of the daisy cohorts extols
1t as emblematic of springtime, and
sets forth that IL is pretty and cheerful
looking and that 1t has the quality oil
simplicity, a quality which should IN
to it's support.
There are also active il not belligerent
advocates of the wild honeysuckle,
whatever flower is meant by that
name, as the representative flower OF
the state. The leader of the supporters
of the claims of that flower has said:
For beauty and fragrance it has no
superior and but few. if any, equals.
And, as it's name implies, it is wild; 1t
cannot be removed or transplanted
with success and grows only in the
f1inty hills of the Ozarks. 1t is in full
bloom the last week of April or the
first in May
In the regions around Washington
the honeysuckle, or Lonicera Japon ca
but the flower which, in these parts
is called by most persons wild honey
suckle" is not honeysuckle. but the
pInxter flower OF the wild azalea, which
belongs to the heath .amly.
e In Missouri, confused with the ques-
tion of the selection OF a state flower,
is the question of the selection OF Mis-
souri, flowers to decorate the special
train for the Panama Pacific exposition,
and one of the st. Louis newspapers
pleads that in this connection dosM ood
and wild phlox be not overlooked. 1t
says:
THE train is to start in April. One
of the most pleasing Missouri country
sights in that month is the white-iiow-
ering dogwood tree. Before the rest of
the trees put forth their leaves dog
wood makes great splashes OF pure
white all along the hillsides. Every
dogwood tree is a mass of snowy
blooms Neither late frosts nor biting
WINDS trouble these flowers. They are
hardy natives. And while dogwood
thrives overhead the spring woods of
Missouri are gay with purple. blue and
pink phloxes. They are as hardy and
as punctual as the dogwood blooms,
but delicate, and could only be trans
ported to the Pacific coast with care.
But with the wild honeysuckle and
some Of the early wild roses, there
would be no need to rely on artificial
flowers for decoration"
State flowers have in some states been
Evening star., 1915-01-31

empt from seizure by public armed
vessels of the other belligerents, ex-
cept it be contraband.
In discussing the general subject IN a
reply to a note from the French min
lister, Secretary Marcy laid down the
doctrine that many will find pertinent
to the present situation. He said:
predominant power on the ocean is still more more
menacing 10 the well being Of other nations tnan
all nations are equally interested in rejecting a
measure tending TO favor the permanent ssS Hsian y
domination should belong to one power or several
Several of the European powers an
nounced their Willingness to accept
the Marcy amendment. but it was not
embodied in any treaty. A change OF
national administration occurred. ana
when Buchanan became President the
subject was allowed to lapse, although
there was no abandonment of the posi-.
ton which Marcy had taken III behait
of neutral commerce Inc Chiteo
States hardly could be said to sleep on
the right which It had asserted, be-
cause there was no interference with
its merchant marine Immediately foi-
lowing the declaration of Paris
Five years after that declaration the
civil war raised new questions. me
commerce destroyers of the Confeder-
acy ravaged the seas, and until the
Kearsarge sank the Alabama of the
coast of France there could haroiy pe
said to be a commerce at all Ihe type
of sail and steam warshlps, such as
the pensacola and the Hartford and
their sister ships. which were put in
commission shortly before the civil
war began were useful, but not con-! ~: :,
nIetely effective Their usefulness did
not end until dozen years ago.
Il
The right of search as asserted by
the United States in the seizure OF
Mason and Slidell. the Confederate com
missioners on the Trent. their subse-
uuent release and the apology to Great
Britain, do not need to be reviewed
to arise.
The diplomatic correspondence over
the Trent affair Is a chapter In 1tsei1.
An eminent editor who was the CO
Temporary of Secretary Seward. and
who was close to President Lincoln
when Lincoln declared that one war at
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invulnerable Scandinavian leaped, un-
hurt, to his feet and bawled out:
Its Ole Hansen
"Howls of gusty laughter greeted this
remark. when ! gath. gathered ass Una. the the
name of the striker. Again the hap
less blindfold bent stolidly over the
stool, palms down: again the ouriy e1
ecutioner who wasn't Ole Hansen
srasped his murderous weapon and.
now warmed up to the work. dealt
blow that would have felled Texas
steer. and again the stricken one. PICK
ing himself up from the dirt noor'
a:Ha, it's Lars orndorf" he e1-
But, alas for him, Shouts Of bolster.
GUS glee, rising above the noise OF
numerous other games IN progress prog s
had guessed wrong again. With the
phiIosophic calm of Sidney Carton the
unfortunate subject took his place
third time and once again faceo oea.h
some what disheveled condition. ne
cried out:
THAT bane Lief carlsenr
Then there was roar from all the
players except the man with the mur-
derous tool, for he had guessed right
whipped OF his blindfold and took MS
place with the others. while the un-
happy Lief placed the bandage about
his eyes. his late victim seeing to II
that no loophole for sight was LETT
Lots were again drawn for the office OF
executioner and it fell to the man late
ly blindfolded. He declined the honor.
however, as. under the rules. he had a
right, fearing lest the temptation to
guess his name would be too strong
in Liefs breast.
"And in this he showed his foresight.
for, as Lief picked himself from the
floor whittier he had been driven by a
sledge-hammer blow at the hands Of
Orndorf, he bawled out:
Its Olesen, it's Olesen. the name Of
the late victim.
"And I chimed in with Olesen when
he led the cheering over Liefs failure:
he'd certainly earned a right to gloat
over that Lief.
Somehow this first failure must have
hoodooed Lief. Time after time Orndorf
swung that mighty club above his head
and brought it down with all his giant
strength upon the luckless Lief: and
time after time. as Lief. now in some
what dazed condition, picked himself
Evening star., 1915-01-31

tions and in accepting the decision OF
the tribunal as to others. neutral COM
merce actually got very little compen-
sation for the damage it had suffered.
Consequential damages were not al
lowed, and before the Alabama contro-
versy was submitted to arbitration
England was satisfied that the United
States would not sustain the position
taken by Senator Sumner and others
that she should be held responsible
for the national debt created during
the last two years of the war.
Senator Summers position in sub
stance was that England, by her &C
ton, enabled the Confederacy to pro-
long the war. and therefore should
have to pay the bill for the prolonged
period. This would have meant two
or three billion dollars
There was still a commerce III Amer
lean bottoms after the war, and there
were some notable sailing ships atoat,
but the destruction had been too COM
plete to leave a large number OF
American sea carriers. The contro-
versies which have arisen since then
consequently have related as much to
neutral commerce in general as to
neutral commerce in American ships.
The short duration of the Franco
Prussian war did not cause any vital
with practically no navy to cause COM
plications. laid down some very liberal
conditions to commerce.
From Marcy to John Hay was half
century.
1t fell to Secretary Hay to reassert
some Of the principles laid down by
Marcy. This was during the Russo
Japanese war.
1t was almost exactly ten years be-
fore the outbreak of the present hos
tilities that Secretary Hay was called
upon to assert vigorously the rights
of neutrals as they affected the United
States. This precedent seems to have
been overlooked in the present ex-
change of diplomatic notes.
The case. which called forth a vigor-
Gus assertion of American rights by
Secretary Hay was in reference to the
steamship Arabia. This steamship,
containing American cargo, was
seized by the Russian naval forces and
sent to Vladivostok fer adjudication
by prize court. The cargo was COM
Evening star., 1915-01-31
Oh, My!
DRoF. K. c. LOOMS said at a tea In

DROF. K. C. LOOMS said at tea In
Chicago:
''The superintendent of the Albany
public schools regards the dress of our
school girls as "a moral menace So
far. so good"
Prof. Loomis shook his head.
But this superintendent" he went
on. demands censor Of girls fash
ions. A censor's task, however. is
never to add-it's always to subtract,
to cut out.
''If, then, our schoolgirls dress is a
moral menace now. and we put a Gen.
sor at 1t with his shears-oh, my. oh,
me-"
Evening star., 1915-01-31

affected by the war the bulk Of this
commerce has been carried in foreign
bottoms. The number of ships bought
under the law of last year, which per-
mitted American registry, has not been
large enough as yet to change this
fact. 1t enhances the interest which
other neutral nations feel in the stand
taken by the United States In protect
ing it's commerce.
In previous international contro-
versies and wars the bulk of the COM
merce affected was in American bot
toms. That was so in the war of 1912.
The most pronounced assertion OF
neutral rights was made during the
period when the American navy was
small even to insignifcance as COM
pared with the great sea power OF
Europe. This was in the middle OF the
last century. At the same time there
was a splendid commercial fleet, which
carried American goods and brought
back foreign goods.
The romantic era of the clipper ships
reached it's climax in the early ffties.
1t was at this time that SO many nota-
BILE voyages were made from Boston
and New York around Cape Horn to
China in the fast sailing ships. There
was then an American merchant ma
rine which was the carrier for Amerf.
can products.
William l.. Marcy was the statesman
to whom was given in large degree the
responsibility for vindicating the rights
Secretary of State in the cabinet OF
President Pierce, his term covered the
beginning and the end of the Crfmean
war; with all the questions relating to
neutral commerce which were involved
in it and which grew out of it.
Marcy's official dispatches are very
good reading today. His experience
as newspaper editor was evident In
the crisp editorial style he employed.
He never failed to make clear his
meaning.
Marcy reflected very accurately the
feeling of the American people over the
abuse of the right of search. In a let
ter in April, 1854. to James Buchanan,
then minister to England, Secretary
Marcy said:
The right of search has heretofore been so free
" used and so much abused to the injury Of our
commerce that 1t is regarded as an odious doc
trDe in this country, and IL exercised against US
harshly in the approaching war 1.-THE Crimean
war; will excite deep and widespread Indignation
These sentiments might be assumed
to have some application to present
conditions.
At the conclusion of the Crimean war,
after the declaration of Paris had been
adopted by the European powers, Sec
retary Marcy had occasion to give fur
ther vigorous assertion to the Ameri-
can attitude in regard to neutral rights
and private property at sea.
The Paris declaration laid down some
specific rules that seemed to look to
the protection of neutral commerce.
These were the abolishing of priva-
teering; that the neutral flag covers
enemies goods with the exception OF
contraband of war; that neutral goods,
except contraband OF war. are not
liable to capture under an enemy's
Evening star., 1915-01-31
The Voice of Experience.

NJ c. GOODWIN. the famous actor,
~ was lunchning. on balmy Decem-
Der afternoon, in a garden under
trellis of pink roses in Los Angeles.
II am to be married next week" said
g. young moving picture actor. with an
uneasy laugh. shes a dear girl. but
I've been told that December is an
unlucky month to marry in"
MY boy" said Mr.. Goodwin, "I have
tried nearly all the months, and De-
cember 10 NO worse than any of the
others"
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F

belligerent power which, through d.
pomacv or otherwise, Is able to make
good it's claim
1t may be a question in the minds
of publiciSts whether the primitive
international law" laid down by Cath
crime of Russia in the last quarter of
the eighteenth century. which carried
with it armed neutrality in it's protec-
tion of peaceful commerce, is not more
advanced civilization than the practice
which it is sought to make effective in
the first quarter of the twentieth CEN
tury.
The record of the United States in
regard to neutral commerce has been
fairly consistent. That is not, how
ever, why the small neutral nations
are all now looking to this country to
champion their rights on the ocean.
The real reason is that the United
States is world power with strong
navy.
The present situation differs in one
important respect from that in most
previous wars when the United States
was championing the principle that
free ships make free goods. That
principle, it may be remarked, incl
dentally, was embodied in the CONNER
cial treaty with France in 1878, so
that it has historic background in
the very beginning of the American
Union.
While the United States has an
enormous volume of foreign commerce
Evening star., 1915-01-31
The LoW-Cut Gown.
BERRY WALL, "the best dr.

z BERRY WALL, 'the best dressed
- American" dislikes the extreme
decolletage that. year after year. char
acterizes evening gowns.
At an after-opera supper at New
York restaurant Mr.. Wall, nodding to-
ward a dazzlingly beautiful young
woman, said:
There's young Mrs. Tohr. She puts
every cent her husband makes on her
back"
He paused. then added quietly:
"Tohr doesn't seem to be maxim e
much, either"
Evening star., 1915-01-31
Continued from Third Page.)

plans and specifications cover every
conceivable thing about the ship, the
general design of hull. the design and
quality of keel, frames, beams. pro-
tective bottoms, magazines. loading
rooms, staterooms, washrooms, compart-
ments, ventilating. lighting and plumb
ing systems. cabins for the admiral. !.
the captain. the wardroom officers and
the warrant officers; reception rooms
for the enlisted men. storerooms. gal
leys, chartrooms, radio rooms and
everything else down to the last bolt:
When complete the plans cover at least
thirty large sheets of fine and elabo-
rate drawings. and the specifications
are bound in a volume Of 800 pages.
With all this detail work to be done
and checked until 1t is accurate beyond
question it is small wonder that even
with the great facilities of the govern
ment three or four months elapse before
the last sheet of the plans and the final
page of the specifications have received
the signature of approval that makes
them final.
When ready. the Secretary directs that
they be sent out to the various con-
structing yards and to private ship
building firms in good standing for bids.
mates in the same manner that private
concern would. Whether the ships are
built in a navy yard or by private firms
depends upon the provision in the act
of Congress authorizing their construc-
tion.
1t Is usual. when a private concern
bids, that it puts in one or more offers;
one on the exact plans of the depart
ment and one or more on those plans
with notifications suggested by the
bidder. Seldom. if ever. do these modi-
f1cations affect any of the principal
parts of the construction. but minor
matters which the bidder is able
through its equipment to furnish at
less expense.
The bidders obtain estimates from
the subcontractors and material men,
chiefly the great steel makers. and
make the necessary calculations, In
which labor and financial conditions
are no small factors. and thus make up
their bids. Not less than three months
is required to enable them to do this
properly: and thus, from the time of
the authorization to the Secretary to
construct this ship, eight months will
necessarily have elapsed before the
contracts can be awarded and the ini-
tial steps in actual construction be even
ordered. OF course, in an emergency,
by following existing plans closely.
most Of this delay could be eliminated.
Some time usually elapses after the
opening of the bids before the con-
tract is awarded, for it is not easy, if