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The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30
Democracy. Bad Record.

When the veterans of the Civil War
were with Gen. Grant before Richmond
or with Sherman marching to the sea, n
Democratic national convention declared
the war a failure and demanded a dis
honorable peace. When the business
men, the wage-earners and honest men
OF all classes were battling for sound
money and the gold standard the Demo-
cratic party, as an organization, was
clnmoring for free silver at 16 to /.
When the Republican party was contend
ing for protection to American manufac-
turers and workmen, its opponents were
advocating a policy destructive to both.
What good thing has the Democratic
party ever done, anyhow?
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30
STRIPES WORN BY coNvlcrs.
Their Use Based on the Authority Of
the Scriptures.

the Scriptures.
"Did you ever stop to think about
the origin Of stripes we use In our
prisons?" said a man with an eye for
the curious. 'If you have not, 1t will
not take you long to figure the thing
out II you happen to know anything
about the Bible. The fact is that we
get the ideas from the old dispense
ton. When say 'we.' I mean the
people of our civilization, OF our own
day and time, and who live under and
are guided by our systems and notions.
For instance, in the laws and ordi-
nances of Deuteronomy We find the
following, which will give us clew
to the origin of stripes as badge OF
infamy: If there be controversy
between men, and they come unto
Judgment, that the judges may Judge
them, then they shall justify the right
eous and condemn the wicked. And 1t
shall be, II the wicked man be worthy
to be beaten, that the Judge shall
cause him to lie down and be beaten
before his face, according to his fault.
by a certain number. Forty stripes he
may give him, and not exceed. lest II
he should exceed and beat him above
these with many stripes. then thy
brother should seem vile unto thee
Now, instead of inflicting these physi-
cal stripes, we put striped clothes on
tho men who offend the law. or who
may come unto judgment. that the
judges may judge them.' as 1t Is put
In the text. OF course you should go
much further back in history II you
cared to trace the origin OF marks OF
infamy, but you would find that physi.
cal mutilation of some sort in a ma
jority of instances afforded the
means"
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30
To the Point.

The Rev. Leighton Parks, who has
become rector of st. Bartholomew S
church in New York, coming from
Emmanuel church, Boston. was wide
ly known in the latter place for tho
love he had for children and for his
faculty of interesting them.
Since he has been In New York he
has kept in communication with sew.
eral OF his little friends in Boston.
Recently he wrote to one of his boys
telling him how homesick he was. and
ended his letter by asking: do you
know Of any cure for inconsistencies"
Only day or two passed before he
received an answer. 1t read:
"Yes. Come home" = Harper 5
Weekly.
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sharp predicts rain or shine, storm or
calm, he Is safe to find In the daily pa
per abundant justification and apparent
realization of his guesses.
OF no more merit than the primitive
moon-weather man is the pseudo-sci-
enlist who judges the weather by the
relative positions of the planets. the in
crease or the decrease of sun spots. or
apparent variations in the intensity of
the sunshine. These things may or
may not affect the weather. but it is
safe to say no physical law or metero-
logical principle governing them has
been discovered by any scientist, and
none such has been revealed to any OF
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30

great promoter of trade known as swift
and regular transportation.
The complement of this transportation
is a steady and reliable flow of freight.
Here irrigation comes into play. lrri-
CATION insures regular crops and there
fore n fixed volume of freight; even us
reliable transportation insures regular
trade. These phases of national life are
part and parcel of the evolutionary pro-
cess that has made the United States the
trade leader of the world. The activi-
ties of the country are rising to the new
economic standard. He who fails to see
this should seek Il new perspective.
To the ordinary man the term Asiatic
trade lacks special significance. He
knows it relates to trade with Asia,
and that we are constantly exporting to
and importing from Asia. He does not
realize that all the leading countries of
the earth are competing for the trade Of
several hundred million Asiatics, and that
this trade is really the greatest CONNER
cial prize of the day. He does not realize
that this trade may be the making of his
own trade, calling or business.
Your Personal Interest.
Farmers, ranchers, miners. lumbermen,
merchants, laborers of the West, do not
vote against your own interests, that Of
your family; and yours and their future
Vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. They
have brought you glad tidings in the ma
tional irrigation act. Its workings have
already begun. Under its operation there
will be tendency to balance interests
and thus help i'll powerful way to keep
the government steady. 1t will settle the
beef question, every acre irrigated would
produce more than thirty times as much
as is now produced on any of our wild
arid lands. 1t will produce new towns
of moderate size, where all the vocations
of trade. of learning. literature and re-
ligion will flourish. 1t will change the
face of the earth. 1t will change the
face of the sky. 1t will modify the at
mosphere. 1t will change the climate.
1t will give life, health. joy and pros
perity to the people.
Work for Republican Party.
When we come to contemplate the
whole field of natural western re-
sources, available for food. for industry
and for commerce, when we attempt to
grasp in one act of thought the length
and breadth and depth of the riches with
which Providence has loaded this sec
ton; when we try to realize how every
possible want, every material aspiration
of man can be bountifully provided for;
when we consider how meaSureless are
the values which will spring into being
ut the touch of modern industry. and
how these values, when once created,
are solid and real and become incorpo-
rated into the enduring structure of hui
man society, we may begin to es-
innate properly the measure of re-
sponsiblity which rests upon this ma
,on and its chosen rulers. This is not
merely to preserve unharmed the price
less boom of civil liberty which leaves
the individual citizen free to do his share
in work of development. but to adopt
such measures as will prevent the waste
of natural resources, clear the way of
progress and promote the triumph of civ
ilization. The record of the Republican
party shows it to be a party of progress.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30

States that the Weather Bureau has re-
Gently issued circular warning the
public against these pretenders and de-
claring the falsity of their claims.
Much of the notoriety of these false
prophets is due to the publication of
their guesses in the newspapers, and
the pay for this class 'of stuff has
doubtless served to recruit the ranks
of the weather imposters. The space
thus occupied would be better devoted
to printing the regular record of scien-
tific weather observations, and in edu-
eating the public to distinguish between
the scientists and the fakirs-Pueblo
Chieftain.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30

of weather prophecy have attracted de-
served ridicule, and the methods by
which their prophecies are verified
bear close resemblance to those used
to connect the weather changes with
the changes of the moon. In fact, as
the moon changes every hour. and no
hour more than any other, it would be
impossible to have weather change
without moon change. and even the
quarters" coming only few days
apart. make close connection with any
severe storm that can happen.
The broad area of the United States
offers daily stores of meteorological
phenomena and whether the weather
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30
A Sign of Prosperity.

There is no better criterion of general
prosperity than the postal business.
When times are good the postal revenue
increases, and vice versa. The report of
the Postmaster General shows that for
the year ending July l, 1895, the receipts
from postal revenue were SIG. 900.
For the year ending July !. 1902. they
were S1l9.93S,229, an increase of 81 per
cent during seven years of continuous
Republican rule. During the year ending
July 1. 1895. the receipts from the money
order business were $S12.O3S; for the
year ending July l. 1902. they We're ST.
SS9.S17, an increase of 1873 per cent dur.
ing seven years of Republican prosperity.
The Postmaster General in his annual
report for 1902 said: THE increase in
the postal revenues attests the wonder
full prosperity of the people and the ac-
t.ity of business interests throughout
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30

the long-range weather prophets whose
guesses are SO widely heralded.
AS an amusement, weather prophecy
has its charms. but as serious business
it causes manifold harm. Agriculture
commerce and industry are as much
damaged by belief in such unreliable
and misleading fancies as they are ad-
vantaged by genuine weather predic-
tions. and the Legitimate science of me
teorology is disgraced and its investiga-
tions and progress hindered by dishon-
est or ignorant fakirs or notoriety
seekers.
To such an extent does the evil OF
weather guessing prevail in the United
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30

lated and compiled. enable the scientists
in this service to forecast with ac-
curacy the probable movement of
storms and cold waves" and they are
doing a great service to agricultural
and commercial interests by their daily
predictions.
OF an entirely different class are the
self-styled weather prophets who
profess to have discovered some occult
method by which they are able to tell
weeks or even months in advance what
the weather is going to be. These
fakirs-for they deserve no better name
are the lineal descendants of the old
almanac makers whose manifest follies
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30
Not the Only Important Question.

AuWIttIHE that the gold standard IS "ir.
revocably fixed" as Judge Parker says,
though he did not help fix it, that is only
one of many important financial Ques-
tons that may come up in relation to
financial matters. The question of the
preservation and extension of our sys-
TEN of banking and currency; the refund.
ing of our national debt as it may, from
time to time, become due, and many 9TH
er questions Of like Importance may
arise. To place the settlement of these
questions in unfriendly hands might re-
suit in such disturbance of business as
would shock the whole country.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30
Parker would He un..fe-

Without questioning the sincerity Of
Judge Parker's expressions on the
money question he was. by his own state
nents, more devoted to his party, in
1896, than he was to his sincere con-
victions of right. That being the case.
we have right to assume that he might.
at an extreme moment again surrender
his principles for the sake of his party.
Such man cannot be held up as safe
candidate for the highest position in the
government
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30
Part. with English Estates.

The duke of Fife is one of the fey
fand owners in Great Britain who d
not believe in the accumulation o
vast estates. For some years n ha
steadily parted with his land " OF
portunity afforded. holding that on
man cannot control large tracts o
territory to the best advantage OF tn
community. He Is probably the onl
total abstainer among the dukes II
the house of lords.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30
Superstition Of Author.

Winston Churchill, novelist, has
superstition regarding the letter
TIE titles Of all his stories have p'
gun with that tletter-Celebrity, Crish
Caravel. Crossing-and all have bee
successes. He believes that II u
should write a novel with title "
ginning with D or X or W u"
beck would be fiat failure.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30
PATTY Recordl

In every national campaign for forty
years past the Republican party has
stood upon its record of things done, of
laws enacted, of policies esta bished un-
der which the country has progressed
and prospered. The record of the Dem
ocratic party made in two administra.
tions was so full of disaster, of CONNER
cial shipwreck. of industrial paralysis
and business failures that its chief bust
ness in recent years has been to get as
far away from its record as possible.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30
Four o'clock.


what time Is 1t. pleaseF"
One day l said
To the little flowers
In the garden bed.
And all were ms still
AS the big gray rock.
Till one blossom answered.
Its four o'clock"
"How do you know"
l asked the flower:
You have no watch
To tell you the hour.
Do you hear a bell
Or n tick. took. took.
That you close your eyes
When it's four o'clock?
But the pretty blossom
Would not say
How 1t always knew
The time OF day.
1t nodded its head
To the big gray rock.
And sleepily murmured,
"It's-four-o'clock."
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30
Per.onaI Abuse Will No. Win,

The Democratic party has been so
long in the opposition and its every day
work has so long been criticism, that it
forgets that no battle was ever won
by swearing at the enemy. Abuse of
Mr.. Roosevelt will make votes for him
He is very popular man. Personal
criticism will not draw away from him
any man who admires him. but it will
stir his admirers to the more earnest sup
mort of him
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30

According to the Bankers Monthly for
August there nre 7,305,22 individual
depositors in the savings banks of the
United States, and it is safe to say that
100000 will vote for the Republican
ticket, at least all who are legal voters
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30

ISM There is no imperialism" We
are but brothers who are going to as
sist in feeding the rest of our brothers
OF the world: to give them the benefits of
it all and to reap ourselves the benefits
of it all. To submit to anything else
would he silly. 1t is but problem OF
common sense
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30

the country" 1t would not have been
proper for the Postmaster General in an
official report to attribute this wonder
full prosperity in 1902 to the operation Of
the Dingley tariff law and other Repub-
lican measures, but such was the fact.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30

"No more i'm port mt question can en-
gage our attention, and none should
receive more earnest and thou RI tfui
consideration, than one which seeks to
guard and preserve the hi Ugh 3 ia nd r d
of our population and eitizcnship.n-
Senator Fairbanks in the Senate January l. 1899
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30

Under the Wilson low tariff exports in
creased $94,OOOOOO; in three years un-
der the Dingley tariff they increased
S155. 100000
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30

The passage of the National Irrigation
Act marked a new era for the West.
is effect upon actual settlement may not
unfairly be compared to that of the
Homestead law. signed by President
Lincoln in 1862.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30
FALSE PROPHETS
MAKE WEATHER PREDICTIONS
But United States Weather Bureau
Bases Its Forecasts on Facts
Weather Guesses by Fakirs Do
Much Damaqe,

Every prediction of the United States
Weather Bureau rests upon a solid
basis of meteorological fact. The Sc
ries of observations, now maintained
foT many decades and carefully tabu-
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30

The transportation issue is settling
itself. The trans-contincntal railway
companies face globe crcling competi-
cheney of their systems, west of Chi
cago. The steam lines of the Pacific
ocean are meeting the transportation de-
mands. thus the American commerce
with the Asiatic East is insured bv that
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-29
interesting Japansse students.

Among the japanese students IN the
University Of Pennsylvania. the most
interesting are two that have just
entered the freshman class OF the col.
lege- Shurzo Takah and Kiheiii
lwaya. Both are prominent In their
country and came from Toxic esp~ci-
ally 20 take the course In finance and
commerce Takah Is the champion
tennis player Of Toxic. lie Is tho son
of Surgeon General Kuiwah Takald Of
tho Japanese army. who IS retired
and holds n seat In the Japanese
house Of peers The other man. Iwaya.
In the son OF Ruchl Iwaya the high
daishiin or supreme Judge OF Toxic.
Both OF the men are small. but very
muscular and familiar With Tho iiu-
iltsu. which they made good use OF
In the class rushes.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-29

Through the generosity ot tho
bridgeport lodge OF Elks. Petcr Mar
koon Of Walllngford. Conn. viii pront
hy tho unfortunate accident which he
met with whilo witnessing the Llks
banner raising. 4 runaway horse ran
him down and dislocated his collar
bone
The bone was not fractured as At
nrst reported Markoon was here
looking for work. and when the Elks
beard that he had wife and family
dependent uron him FOR support they
cent committee out TO investigate.
Marhoon. as result, was sent back
10 Wnllnrford to-day, after the Bridge
port lodee or EIks had paid hts medical
expenses. secured his ticket. given MIN
money for Incidental expenses. and
told him 10 calculate upon s. per week
for The next four weeks
Tho EllA went further they noti.
fed the wallnEford lodge 20 take care
81 Markoon and help him TO get en-
ploymcut. Markoun rs not a member
20 the order. never was. and the Elhs
we're not IN any way liable for the &C.
Boston Globe.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-29

The late Mayor Jones OF Toledo. ac-
cording to statements made by the
executors Of his estate, gave away
many thousands OF dollars 10 save do
fauitcrs from arrest and disgrace. Pri-
yate memoranda. the existence OF
which was unknown 20 bis nearest
relatives and friends. have been found
In Mr. Jones safe. showing that he In.
dorsed notes for about 200 men In
Toledo These borrowers include
bank tellers. bookkeepcrB and con.
fldcntial men OF large corporations
who had taken money from their en-
ploycrs II Is believed that II he had
not been taken III suddenly the late
mayor would have destroyed all these
evidences Of indebtedness Some OF
tho borrowers are men occupying con.
spiouous places In business and social
life.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-29
BLOOD WILL TELL
ATHEoRY SUPPORTED a. FRESH.
CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE.
a Recent instance Proves That a
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when the blood Is dlsordered every
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II Was In May when | FIRST began
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In all cases of delayed development
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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-29

Every housekeeper mould know
that n they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
viii save not only time. because II
never sticks 10 the iron. but because
each package contains rs oz.--one full
pound-while all other Cold Water
starehes are put up in %pound pack.
ages. and the price Is tho same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals. n your grocer tries 20 sell you a
l2-oz. package II is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes TO
dispose OF before he puts In Defiance.
lie knows thrt Defiance Starch has
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Defiance and save much time and
money and the annoyance OF the iron
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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-29

Anne Warner. the creator OF the In
imitable Susan Clegg." IS In private
NE Mrs. Charles Ellis French. 81 81
Paul. THE Marrying Of Susan Ciegg
which appeared IN the Century last
November. was her first short story
20 attract attention. or her latest
work, susan Clegg and Her Friend
Mrs. Lathrop." recently published by
Brown, Little & Co. jeanette Glider
says: Miss Clegg" is as notable q
creation as Mrs. Wigs. but as unlike
the Lady Bountful OF the Cabbage
Patch IA she is unlike any OF Miss
wilkins New England types"
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clernnman sindent Of Hlstory.

Or. Randolph II. McKim. d. D. Of
Washington. elected 10 the post OF
chairman Of the house OF deputies OF
the Protestant Episcopal church, for
almost forty years has been one OF
tho most prominent clcrgymen OF his
denomination. lie ~ close student
Of history, and has been called upon
10 give many addresses OF a historical
character before patriotic and other
societies.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-29

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Book is a handy volume. containing
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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-29

Ho-Will you-O. will you be mlno
forever
She-M Mercy. mo- just accepted
Cholly saphedde last night.
He-Whati Has All your encour.
arcmcnt TO inc meant nothing OF az
fectlong
she-oh. assure you Il has meant
4 good deal In fact, ! don't know
how rd have managed without You.
You see. until you came along and
began 20 be 90 nico 60 you. Cholly
didn't seem 20 have any serious In.
tcntions at all Baltimore American.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-29

Note-The following article has
been widely published aud "a one Of
the most remarkable Illustrations OF
the value q careful marshalling and
analysis OF facts In presenting sub
ject 10 tie public.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-29

Pointed shoes are coming back into
style This will enable the corn doc
tors TO quit viewing with alarm and
again point with pride.
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ARE you GOING TO ST. LoUlsl

The Hamilton Hotel is located but
n few blocks from Worlds Fair. IL Is
nreproor and moderate In charges.
Good rooms with bath $500 per day
and up. European plan. Breakfast
soc. Write for Booklet. Address y.
Williamson. manager.