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The State Journa
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TOM B
j; CLKAIJ.
WOOSLEY, Edlter.
OKUHOUi
ISA BELLA'S-GESCENDANTS
Ttfc discovery Is attributed to Presl
d. ;.t David Starr Jordan of Stanford
university that almost sr.t American
of distinction can trace bi* descent to
• common ancestor. one Isabella de
VermandoU. ducbess of Warren, who
Uv<-d In the twelfth century So far aa
that Is concerned, none of ui baa any
dir. culty In proving by unimpeachable I
mathematics and Irrefutable logic thai
b* la warmed by the transmitted blood
of nobility, royalty and genius A
child of today baa two parent*, four v
grandparents and ao one Counting ,
for convenience three generation* to
the hundred years, bis theoretical an
cettors In Isabella a century are num
bered by millions: a few centuries fur
fner back by billion* The actual num-
ber Is far smaller, (luce lines of descent
criss-cross from common ancestors;
but It 4s a fair logical Inference that
among so many millions and centuries
every one may count on possessing
reasonable number of royal
tlngulshed forbear*. But what does
that prove? How much Influence on
the life of an American of today could
be claimed for one-seven-mllllonth
part of Isabella blood, or for any
probable number of multiples of that
share? Here la tha crucial teat of the
heredity fallacy, the scientific basis of
democracy, says the New York World
Eugenic* 1* a fact; but better far a
deacent from a reasonable proportion
of good stock In the three or four most
recent generation* than the ability to
claim onetwo-bundredth part of a sin-
gle drop of blood as coming from some
prized ancestor of the twelfth century
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> Happenings in All
Week's
Nations
A Chicago woman has a Just griev-
ance She had Just hired a taxlcab
when the police Jumped In and made
the driver pursue a party of automo-
bile bandits who had Just robbed a
Jewelry store After participating in
a hot engagement without power to
extricate herself, when the robber*
got away she was confronted with a
bill of J9 for the use of the taxlcab,
and on refusing to pay It was sent to
Jail. It looks as if she should be
grateful that the robbers did not
capture the vehicle and make off with
It, In which case evidently the slant-
eyed Justice of Chicago would have
made her pay for the loss of the taxi-
cab.
FOREIGN
Under a new law street car con-
dors throughout Sweden are pro
with rubber tips by the govern
tat which they shai! furnish lb
women passengers not complying
with the new la* against unprotected
batpin*.
TLe irajured cruiser South Dakota
has started for the Mexican coas'. She
will proceed first to La I'az. on the
gulf of California As the region
around I -a Paz is a vast desert, the
crusier took on board a large supply
af water.
Robert F. Scott and four men of his
party were overwhelmed by a biizzard
j^ ! jn their return Journey from the south
pole. The entire party perished after
reaching the south pole on January 18.
ti* 12. The news of the disaster was
brought by the Terra Nova, the vessel
which had carried the explorer and
ni* expedition to the Antarctic and
which late last year went once again
to the south, to bring him and hi* com-
panion* back.
Violent political riots broke out in
the city of Osaka. Offices of the
newspapers which support Prince Ka-
sure, the premier, were attacked by
great mobs. Several deaths are re-
ported. The situation in Tokio is
quieter. The rioting in which seventy
person* were killed or seriously in-
jured, ceased when the severe cold
compelled the mobs to seek shelter.
There were no further disturbances
and the authorities withdraw the pa-
trols of soldiers from the streets. The
rioting appears to have convinced the
government of the futility of endeav-
oring to continue the Katsura re-
gime.
The Rulair line of fortifications was
captured by the allies. The Turkish
fleet, operating from the Dardanelles
was atemptlng to repel the Bulgarian
Ittack. The Bulgarians made a sud-
den retreat and the Turks followed.
I'he Turkish warships, not realizing
the situation, continued the bombard-
ment and Inflicted heavy losses on
their own men. The Greek fleet in
;he (iulf of Saros supported the Bul-
garians, who drove home their at-
tack und captured the forts. Ten
thousand Greeks landed on the Aegean
coast at Ivajoth. The Turkish posi-
tion Is considered precarious all along
the line.
After a week's fighting in which
Mrs Philip Gibson was shot and
killed at EI Paso by George P. Caver,
who then shot himself, dying later in
a hospital
The state-wide prcsibiion bill
passed the Arkansas house of repre-
sentatives by a vote of 73 to !1. and
p&sst-d the^enate last week. I! to 10
Jam s A. Patton the cotton and grain
speculator, pleaded guilty in the fed-
eral court at New York to the sixth
count in an indictment charging him
with restraint of trade
The board of education of Poteau.
Okla.. has et February 18 as the date
for an election to take a vote on $40,-
bonds to be used in erecting a
highschooi in that city. The bonds
are to run twenty-five years and will
draw 5 percent interest.
A dozen men lined up In the street
at Kansas City at the point of his re-
volver proved more than a highway-
man could control, and when they be-
gan to break away at the ends of the
line, the bandit commenced shooting.
He killed a boy and barely missed sev-
eral men before being put in jail.
The International Harvester com-
pany filed with the secretary of state
at Trenton, N. J., a certificate reduc-
ing the capital of the company from
$140,000,000 to $70,0u0,000, and chang-
ing the name of the corporation to
that of the International Harvester
Corporation of New Jersey.
Receivers were appointed in the fed-
eral district court at New York for
the United Copper company, on tha
petition of Maurice de Iches, receiver
of the Aetna Indemnity company, Au-
gustus Heinze is president of the com-
pany, which has been Involved in lit- |
igation since the panic of 1907. when
its stock collapsed on the curb It is
capitalized at $80,000,000, of which
$50,000,000 is outstanding.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The perfect cat has also been found.
The Ideal cat won the first prize at
the show of the National Cat club at
the Crystal palace, London. It is an
. « . three thousand men were engaged on
orange colored tabby named Torring ^ 8lde 1>egjd(;nt ^ ^
ton. with a red frill. It Is valued by barr|ca(le(J the national palace and
its owner, Mrs. Horace Cook of Hide j (Jen Fe||r wag entrent.hed ln ,he
ford, Devonshire, at $5,000. The color j arsenal. Several hundred people have
Is not marred by a suspicion of white been killed, millions of dollars damage
eyes, which consist of alternate clr | done to properly and the city Is in a
cies of light and dark red. The coat j state of anarchy. The senate has called
Is also of alternate streaks In two | on Madero to resign, but he has re-
Bhades. Louis Wain, the Judge, said
he had never before, at any show,
seen such perfection of shading.
fused. Both sides are supplied with
ammunition and all sorts of arms from
machine guns to the heaviest siege
mortars, are in use. Several divisions
| of American troops are in marching or-
The boy who was found adrift on der, ready to go to Mexico City, if
the Caribbean sea, clinging to a cocoa- j President Taft decides on interfering
nut palm tree from which he had pick- | to stop the war.
ed a nut and secured nourishment that
sustained his vitality until rescued by
a passing steamer, was blown off the 1 Robprt Webb. highwayman and lead
island of Jamaica by a hurricane. The
DOMESTIC
er of the automobile bandits, confessed
. ; at Chicago that he shot and killed Po-
hurricane also blew down and car- j jjf,(i
rled Into the water the palm tree on
which he managed to keep hlmBell
afloat. It proved a better life pre
server than usually Is available to pas-
sengers of wrecked steamers.
man Peter Hart several weeks ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt
made known the engagement of their
second daughter, Ethel Carew Roose-
velt, to Dr. Richard Derby, son of
the late Richard H. Derby, of New
York.
A Yale professor declares that col j char,eB w Morgp (be formpr ^
leg men, as a rule, drink too much
He holds the view that a university
should rise superior to the vices of
the community about It, and set a bet
fer example This Is theoretically sup
posed to be one of the objects of the
higher education, but practically
young college men are not doing their
utmost to carry out this high Ideal
The American university and college
should stand for a high standard Id
every respect, and the professor In
question I* doing good and loyal serv
ice in calling attention to the fact.
Vienna furnishes a suicide pact that
outranks all others at present. Three
youths In love with a young girl
threatened to commit suicide on her
account They were drinking tea ln
a secluded corner of a cafe when all
suddenly fell from their chairs, dying
They evidently had placed poison In
their beverage. A photograph of the
trio was found in their possession ad
dressed to the girl, who told of their
threat.
It Is sufficient comment on that
■cientifio discovery that a large num
ber of the leading men of this country
are descended from the Countess Isa
bella de Vermandas of the eleventh
century, that not counting Intermar-
riages they had about a billion other
ancestors, which is presumably more
people than there were In the world
then. Whence we may draw the gen
era) mathematical conclusion thai
•Terybody ln the 1100 * wa* the anoes
Itor of everybody In the 1900'a
! er whose sentence for violation of the
banking laws was commuted by Presi-
dent Taft will be back in New York
again about the middle of March. He
left Florence, Italy, for Geona, feeling !
"very fit" and from (ienoa he will go
to Paris for a short stay. It Is report-
ed that he is seeking foreign capital
for some of his American enterprises.
Unable to walk or stand, because of
s bullet that had paralyzed his spinal
cord, Seymour Arnold, negro, was car-
ried on a stretcher to the gallows at
Collins, Miss., and hanged. A large
crowd witnessed the hanging. Arnold
was executed for the murder of Wil-
liam Towrey, a prominent merchant at
Ora, Miss., last fall.
Joe Tinker, manager of the Cincin-
nati National league baseball team j
narrowly escaped serloim Injury at Chi-
cago. in an accident In which his auto-
mobile waB wrecked.
President Taft had granted a par-
don to Charlos !5. Bllllngsly, now serv-
ing a seven year sentence in the fed-
eral penitentiary ln connection with
the failure of the Capital National
bank at Guthrie
The "bath tub trust" was found
guilty of criminal conspiracy in re
struint of trade by a Jury In United
StateB district court at Detroit. The
act as charged Is a misdemeanor and
the penalty provides Imprisonment not
excedetng one year and fine of
$5,000, or both,
Klre of undetermined origin caused
a loss of approximately $.',0,000 to
the plant of the Birmingham Daily
News The greatest damage was
caused by water and smoke. Ths loss
is covtrsU by Insurance
WASHINGTON
President-elect Wilson will make no
announcement of intended diplomatic
appointments until after be takes of-
fice.
The pure food board has taken up
the question of the composition and
labeling of evaporated milk.
A Bpasm of the throat that left Wil-
liam Rockefeller a straggling, tremb-
ling old man, on the verge of a ner-
vous collapse, abruptly terminated his
examination by Chairman Jujo and
Counsel Samuel Untermyer of the
house money trust committee, at his
home in Jekyl Island, Ga.
A hot attack on democrats of the
house for their "extravagant appro-
priations," was declared on the floor
by Representative Roddenberry of
Georgia, who declared that the appro-
priation bills should die at this ses-
sion and go over to the next congress
when "they could be properly pruned
by a democratic house and senate."
President Taft vetoed the Dilllng-
ham-Burnett immigration bill which
would revolutionize the immigration
policy of the United States by Impos-
ing a literacy test upon all foreigners
seeking a home in America. In a short
message to the senate in his own hand-
writing the president announced his
disapproval of the measure because
of the provision which would lock tha
doors of the United States against
the alien who could not read some
language or dialect.
Sir Edward Grey's rejoinder to Sec-
retary Knox's last note regarding tha
Panama canal tolls question practical-
ly has been completed and its sub-
stance at least is expected to reach
Washington this week. The opinion
prevails in the state department that
the treaty of 1908 will be extended
next June for another five years. This
was done last week in the case of the
Franco-American limited arbitration
treaty which would otherwise have ex-
pired by limitation February 27.
With the shadow of possible Mexi-
can Intervention hovering over con-
gress, general legislative activity in
both houses has come to a standstill.
It has been determined that there will
be no more general legislation of an
important nature before adjournment.
President Taft, cabinet officials,
Chief Justice White, members of ooth
houses, past, present and prospective,
and a host of other political friends of
represnetative Joseph G. Cannon of
j>' ,. tzm
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MOODY LADY
NOTMOODY
For Five Years Miss Davis of Moody
Was in Terrible Plight, But She
Is Now in Fine Spirits.
Moody, Tex —in an interesting let-
ter from this place, Miss Cora Davis,
of R. F. D. No. 6, Box 20, writes as
follows:
"I had been taking different medi-
cines for the past five years without
any relief, and last spring my system
v;as so completely run down, and I
Celt so tired and nervous all the time,
hardly felt like staying out of bed.
Friends advised me try Cardui, the
woman's tonic, and after taking six
bottles, I felt like an entirely different
person.
I was relieved of my nervousness,
and bad headaches and could sleep
soundly all night,—something I hadn't
done for years
I also gained 18 pounds in weight
after taking Cardui and am in better
spirits, and feel better, than I have
felt for five years.
1 cannot say enough ln behalf of
Cardui It Is the grandest medicine
ever discovered, and a God send to all
suffering women and girls."
We do not ask you to accept our
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the woman's tonic.
We receive thousands of letters,
similar to the above, from grateful
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HOT RETORT.
An Unfamiliar but Authentic Portrait of Washington.
Thank God' the people's choice was Just,
The one man equal to his trust.
Wise beyond lore, and without weakness
good,
C?alm In the strength of flawless recti-
tude!
Washington the
Truly Great Man
You must excuse me from uniting
with you to honor the memory of your
illustrious countryman, since I could
not do so with sincerity, for Washing-
ton scorned a crown, and did more to
bring royalty Into contempt than all
men who have ever lived.—Emperor
Francis I. of Austria.
| Until time shall be no more will a
I test of the progress which our race
i has made In wisdom and virtue be de-
rived from the veneration paid to the
Immortal name of Washington.—Lord
! Brougham.
Again Is here the anniversary of the
j birth of George Washington—a legal
I holiday from Porto Rico to the Philip-
' pines, and a notable day to the 160,-
| 000,000 who are carrying the English
; language around the globe, as well as
: to all civilized peoples.
Washington's place In history has
long been fixed. If he Is not the
| greatest man of all time it is not pos-
: sible to name a greater. This is the
Judgment of civilization and has stood
unchanged during the years since his
death.
Nevertheless, history has done
Washington a great wrong. Unable
to find in him the Imperfections of lru-
manlty, It cast aside his humanity
and re-created him aB an Impersonal
superman, as far removed from flesh
and blood as are his marble statues.
This deification of Washington is a
thing that we American must undo.
Weighed in the balance as flesh and
blood, he loses not one jot or tittle,
but rather gains ln greatness, while
we gain a human Father of this Coun-
try. For George Washington, in spite
of history, was as human as any son
of Adam.
The proof that Washington was very
human—a man of full blood and hot
Ilia rule of order, Justice, peace.
Made possible the world's release:
Taught prince and serf that power is bui
a trust,
And rule alone which serves the ruled la
Just.
—Whlttler.
Illinois, former speaker of the house, i temper, sensitive, modest an'l doubt-
featured the program and guest list of
the farewell dinner to him.
The Johnson bill to prohibit Wash-
ington hotels, boarding houses and
restaurants from raising their prices
tor the Inauguration, and extending
the same restrictions to cabs and tax-
lcabs, with penalty of a fine of 9100
for each violation, was favorably re-
ported to the house.
Cotton consumed in the United
States during January amounted to
533,251 running bales compared with
445.287 bales In December, the census
bureau announced. Cotton on hand
January 31, ln manufacturing estab-
lishments was 1,911,157 bales com-
pared with 1,704,420 bales December
31, and in independent warehouses
2,669,079 bales compared with 3,200,-
615 hales December 31. Imports weru
52.252 bales of 500 pounds compared
with 25,075 In December and exports
900,844 running bales compared with
1,391,385 bales in December.
With the examination of Postmas-
ter Thomas J. Camp of Beebee, Ark ,
the senate campaign funds committee
launched Into an Inquiry of i9 cam-
paign of 1912. Details of an assess-
ment upon office holders in Arkansas
by the Republican state committee
were described by Camp, who said he
recently had been compelled to resign
under protest as postmaster at Bnn-
bee, Ark. Camp produced letters
signed by Gordon H. Campbell, treas-
urer of the Republican slate commit-
tee, demanding a contribution of 13).
ful of his capacity, fond of the good
things of life as he saw them and re-
luctant to give them up even at the
call of duty—is ready for the asking
It is in the writings of Washington
himself—not so much in those state
documents ln which he was more or
less on parade—as In the thousands
of Intimate pages of diaries and let-
ters. Let the student once forget
Washington the demigod, and Wash-
ington the man springs to life from
these writings. And there is abun-
dant corroboration—If it were needed
■—ln the writings of his contempora-
ries.
Delving into Washington's papers In
search of the real man, we come upon
all sorts of little things that Bhow
him to have been very much like the
rest of us ln many ways. We have
space for but these:
The superciliousness of the British
efficer rasped the Colonial Washing
ton to the quick. After the Great
Meadows campaign he declined a non-
descript command ln these words: "If
you think me capable of holding a
commission that has neither rank nor
emolument annexed to It you must
entertain a very contemptible opinion
of my weakness, and believe me to be
more empty than the commission It-
self "
Washington liked good wine and his
Madeira was famous We find him
aghast over the fact that fifty-six bot-
tles of It had been served to casual
visitors at Mount Vernon during his
absence and writing to have It stopped
at usee He says claret Is good enough
for people "who may Incline to make
a convenience of the house in travel-
ing, or who may be induced to visit it
from motives of curiosity."
Washington's dislike for slavery and
his humanity to his slaves are beyond
question. Nevertheless we find him
writing: "And what sort of sickness
is Betty Davis'? A more lazy, deceit-
ful, and impudent hussy is not to be
found in the United States."
When Washington was elected pres-
ident he wrote to Knox: "In confi-
dence, I tell you * • • that my
movement to the chair of government
will be accompanied by feelings not
unlike those of a culprit who is going
to the place of his execution."
Washington kept his hot temper un-
der iron control. He abhorred pro-
fanity. And here are two touches of
nature that make us all akin: At Mon-
mouth, finding the traitor Lee in re-
treat, he galloped up to him at full
speed and swore at him "until the
leaves shook on the trees • • •
like an angel from heaven " In a cab-
inet meeting some one handed him a
cartoon representing him as being
publicly executed by the guillotine.
Jefferson thus writes of the scene:
"The president was much inflamed,
got Into one of those passions w hen he
cannot command himself, ran on to
the personal abuse which had been
bestowed on him, defied any man on
earth to produce one single act of his
6ince he had been in the government
which was not done on the purest mo-
tives; that he had never repented but
once having slipped the moment ol
resigning his office, and that was
every moment since; that by God he
would rather be ln his grave than in
his present situation."
Washington whs no freak of genius,
springing to life full-armed for the
work to which he was called. He was
a consistent continuance of the fam-
ily pattern. He "increased in wisdom
and stature, and In favor with God
and man." He grew, just as we all
grow.
The Washington who was so embar-
rassed by the thanks of the Virginia
house of Burgesses that he-could not
speak, and thus called forth Speaker
Robinson's Immortal "Sit down, Mr.
Washington; your modesty is equal to
your valor, and that surpasses the
power of any language that I possess,"
was a very different Washington from
tlie Washington who awed the great
of all the world.
Had Washington died before he be-
came commander-in-chief he would be
remembered merely aB a gallant Colo-
nial soldier and rich planter; if just
after the surrender of Yorktown, as
one of the great generals of the
world; if after the Federal convention,
as a political leader and great gen-
eral. It requires hlB presidency to es-
tablish hlB statesmanship. And final-
ly it took his retirement to private
life to give the last touch to his
patriotism and proclaim him
"First In war, first In peace, and
first in the-hearts of hiB countrymen."
HOTti,
The Pompous Man—Why, sir, I'm t*
•r-er-self-made man.
The Lean Chap—When are you go-
ing to call the strike off and com-
plete the Job.
Why He Is Known.
The class in ancient history was re-
citing. "Now, Harry, can you tell me
who Nebuchadnezzar was?'' asked the
teacher. "Nebuchadnezzar," answered
the boy, right off the bat, "was the
greatest of the Babylonian kings, and
for his connection with the Hebrewa
he got a write-up in the Bible."
JO CURE SORE TI1ROAT IN ONE DAT
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whether it Is done by the Bandbag, or
a trick ln trade
HOW MRS. BROWN
SUFFERED
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Her a Well Woman.
Washington's "Charmed Life."
The Indians said Washington bore
a charmed life after he got four bul-
lets through his coat and had two
horses shot under him In a movement
led by General Braddock against Fort
Duquesne.
Showed Hit Wisdom Early.
George Washington was Just twen-
ty-one yearB old when Governor Din-
widdle sent slm on a perilous Jour-
ney to Ohio to find ou« the strength
of the French, which he accomplished
handily.
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