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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-09-27

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grasses and second on corn-wbich is
not so bad for a new county.
Over on the west side Of the build
ing is the display Of the South Da
kota agricultural college, Of Brook
ings, which is arranged in a very
attractive manner. The SAMPLES of
grain in the bundle show a high
state Of cultivation on the expert
ment farm Of the college at High
more, where the grains are given
the attention Of experts, while In
dishes the grain is also shown. The
exhibit is thoroughly a good one and
should be seen by everybody.
Jerauld county holds forth with a
splendid display Of the products OF
the farm, showing a good produc-
tiveness of the soil and everything
we'll developed. The corn samples
show that corn is raised up that way
successfully and that it is going tt
be better as the years advance. The
exhibit is an interesting Que.
Douglas county shows an attractive
exhibit and one Of the features i.
the figure of a South Dakota farmer
dressed In a suit Of clothes mad;
from small bundles Of wheat, oats
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-06-22

can" In fact, so overwhelmingly was
our party in the majority. and so loyal
We're its rank and file. that it was not
only by the most careful arrangement
of weak candidates and of insufficient
campaign funds that | was able to
throw the Legislature to the opposition.
Our candidate for governor, Walbrook
Burbank was ineligible to a second
successive term-was elected by a
comfortable plurality And. by the
way. saw to it that the party organs
gave Woodpuff enthusiastic praise for
rescuing so much from what had
looked like utter ruin.
My clients had been uneasy ever
since the furious popular outburst
which had followed their breaking
away from my direction and restraint.
When they saw an opposition legisla-
ture, they readily believed what they
read in the newspapers about the i'm
pending reign of radicaIism." Sill
man, the opposition leader, had ac-
copied John Markhams offer of $780,
900 for Croffut's seat in the senate;
but | directed him to send Veehoft,
one of the widest and cleverest of
the opposition radicals He dared not
disobey me. Veehoft went. and
Markham never saw again the $4,000
he had paid Silliman as a retainer"
Yeerhoft in the United States SEN
ate gave my clients the chills; but I
was preparing the fever for them also.
l had Silliman introduce bills in both
houses CT the legislature that reached
for the privileges of the big corpora
lions and initiated proceedings to ex-
pose their corruption / had Weed
ruff suggest TO Governor Walbrook
that, in view of the popular clamor,
he ought to recommend measures for
equalizing taxation and readjusting
the prices for franchises. AS my
clients were bonded and capitalized on
the basis Of no expense either for
taxes or for franchises. the governors
suggestion. eagerly adopted by Sill
mans horde foreshadowed ruin. If
the measures should be passed, all the
dividends and interest they were pay
ing on water" would go into the pub
lie treasury.
My clients came to me, singly and
in pairs. 10 groyel and to implore. An
interesting study these arrogant gem
tlemen made as they cringed, utterly
Indifferent to the appearance of self
respect, in their agony for their i'm
periled millions. A mother would
shrink from abasing herself to save
the life of her child as these men
abased themselves in the hope Of saw
ing their dollars. How they fawned
and fattered! They begged my par
don for having disregarded my adj
vice; they assured me that, If
would only exert that same genius OF
mine which had conceived the COM
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-06-22

In national cus ia The dele
gates are, roughly speaking. about
evenly divided anne the three sec
lions OF the courtrNa fAird from
east 81 the Allegha es hsfa 'sen
the west; third from the south 1t
was hopeless for us Sc gun for dele
gates III the east. lNa' was the espe-
.clal bailwick Of esor Goodrich.
The most we could DE- "a would he
q keep him oecuIiaa AZ onsetlv en-.
couraging any afa sai wsa nti-
ment and Il exis d aFienty In
real efforts we're to be III the west
ana south
OF about 80 travelling agents Each
man knew only his eva duties. Enew
nothing Of the general plan. nor even
that there was erat PLAN Each
was a trained political worker. a per.
sonal retainer OF c.irs gave them
their instructions Woodruff equipped
them with the necessary cash Dur
ing the next five moHihs they were In
cessantly on the go dealing with our
party's western machines where they
could; setting up rival machines In
promising localities where Goodrichs
controlled the regular machines MS.
lng money here, diplomacy there, both
cousin o. :. -. a newspaper
man. He attended to the news
agencies lie and three assistants
wrote each week many columns OF
boom matter. all of which was
carefully revised by Burbank himself
before it went out as syndicate let
tiers" II Goodrich hadn't been igno-
rant of conditions west OF the Allie
ghanies and confident that his will
was law. he would have scented out
this department Of publicity Of mine.
and so would have seen into my "iiota-
ton" But he knew nothing beyond
his routine. | once asked him how
many country newspapers there were
in the United States and he said:
"Oh. don't know Perhaps 5000 or
1000" Even had | enlightened him
to the extent of telling him that there
were about five times that number,
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"And SO I can" said he. II haven't
any reputation TO lose. I'm no worse
off than was before Let EN- do
their damnedest
Your first campaign will probably
be failure ! went on. "and. the day
after election, there'l be a shout for
your head
He shrugged his shoulders. I'm
enlisted for the war. said he. You're
my general go where you order"
/ hope the feelings that surged up
in me showed in my face, as /
stretched out my hand. Thank you,
Doc, said l. "And-there's another
side to it. II isn't al black.
1T isn't black at all, he replied
stoutly.
| explained: I've wanted you to
have the place from the outset. But
shouldn't dare give 1t to yau except
at time like this. when our party has
done so many unpopular things that
one more won't count; and there's so
much to be said against us, SO much
worse things than they can possibly
make out your election to be. that it'll
soon be almost neglected"
They're beginning TO drop me al
ready and go back to marrying those
poor devils of ours In the legislature,
said Woodruff.
"A few weeks more" ! went on,
"and you'll be safe and you are to
stay chairman, no matter what hap
pens. When they have leisure to at.
tack you, therell be nothing to at
tack. The people will have dismissed
the matter from their minds. They
don't care to watch the threshing OF
old straw"
saw that I had lifted weight
from him, though he said nothing.
So much for my first move toward
the Christening of my clients. Further
and even more effective in the same
direction I cut down our campaign
fund for the legislative ticket to one
fifth what it usually was; and, with,
out even Woodruff's knowing it,
heavily subsidized the opposition ma
chine. Wherever 1t could be done
with safety ! arranged for the trading
off OF our legislative ticket for our
candidate for governor. 1.-THE legis
lature~is hopelessly lost told Wood
ruff I'VE must concentrate on the
goxernorship. We must save what we
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-06-22

he would have rrofited nothing Had
he been able to see the Importance OF
such fact to capable political man
agement. he weuld have learned IT.
long before through years OF constant.
use OF the easiest avenue into the
heart of the people
SIie did not wake up 10 adequate ac-
ton until the fourth OF that group OF
states whose aal cations TO our ma
tionaf conventi were habitually
bought and sold broke It's agreement
with him and aatrActed its dele
CATION TO vote for Bugbaak By the
time he had coitf nj agents In
those states. Doe Woodruff had ..ac-
CURED" more than hundred dele
gates Goodrich Sas working ally
through the reaaiar machinery of The
party and was Aslltias against
widespread feeling that Cromwell
shouldn't, and probably couldn't, be-
elected; we. on the other hand, were
manufacturing presidential sentiment
for candidate WHO was already pop
ular. Nor had Goodrich much advan-
tage over us with the regular ma
chimes anywhere except In the east.
Just as ! was congratulating MYSELF
that nothing could happen 10 prevent
our triumph at the convention. Roe
buck telegraphed me to come to Chi
cago. found with him in the sit
ting-room OF his suite in the Audi
torium Annex Psst.idge and CRANKY.
next to him the most important mem
bers Of my 60 tine. since they were
the only ones who had interests that
extended into pany states. II was
AFTER an uneasF silence that Cranky,
the hncouth s@ ~ three. SAID:
Senator, We bsaught you here to
tell you this haS
gone far encu
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-06-22
CHAPTER Kill.

Roebuck G Co., Pass Under the Yoke.
And now the stage had been reached
at which my ten mutinous clients
could be, and must be, disciplined.
AS a first step, I resigned the chair
manship of the state committee and
ordered the election of Woodruff to
the vacancy. l should soon have sub
stituted Woodruff for myself. in any
event. | had never wanted the place,
and had taken 1t only because to re-
fuse 1t would have been TO throw away
the golden opportunity Dunkirk so I'M
expectedly thrust at me. Holding that
position, or any other officially con-
meeting me with my party's machine,
made me target; and wished to be
completely hidden, for l wished the
people of my state to think me merely
one of the party servants, in sympathy
with the rank and file rather than with
the machine. Yet, in the chairman
ship, in the targetship, | must have a
man whom | could trust through and
through; and. save Woodruff. who was
there for the place?
When my resignation was an
nounced, the independent and the OBJ
position press congratulated me on nv
high principle in refusing to have any
Official connection with the machine
responsible for such infamies. When
Woodruff's election was announced it
came as complete surprise. Such
OF the newspapers as dared, and they
were few, denounced it as infamy's
crown of infamy,-as ] had known IL
would be. He made not a murmur.
but | knew what must be In his mind.
] said nothing until six weeks or two
months had passed; then I went
straight at him.
You are feeling bitter against me-"
said !. You think dropped out when
there was danger Of heavy firing. and
put you up to take it,"
mo. indeed, Senator" he protested
nothing like that. Honestly, have
not had bitter thought against Won.
I'm depressed simply because, Just as
| had chance to get on my feet
again, they won't let me-"
but, | reioined, 81 did resign and
put you in my place because didn't
want to take the fire and thought YOU
could"
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bine. could devise some way ct saw.
Ing them from this tidal wave of pop
ular clamor-for they hadn't 4 saspi-
cion Of my part In masking that tidal
wave
Reluctantly consented to see
what ! can do"
The instant change in the atlnos.
phere Of the capital. the instant ont
cry from the organs on both parties
that the people had voted for reform,
not for confiscatory revolution" com
pleted my demonstration My clients
realized who was master OF the ma.
chimes. The threatening storm rapid.
liz scattered; the people. believing that
the Silliman programme OF upheaval
was not TO be carried out. were glad
enough to see the old CONSERVATIVES
order restored-our people always rea.
son that Il is better to rot slowly by
corruption than to be frightened to
death by revolution.
Hereafter. we must trust to your
Judgment in these political matters.
Harvey" said Roebuck. THE mana
ger must be permitted TO manage
! smiled at the righteousness OF
this speech. Ii did not rufie me- Roe
buck was one of those men who say
their prayers In a patronizing tone
Yes, ! was master But II is only
now, in the retrospect of years, that
have any sense of triumph; for had
won the supremacy with small effort.
comparatively-wit the small effort
required of him who sees the condi-
tons of a situation clearly, and, In
stead Of trying to combat or to change
them, intelligently uses them to his
ends Nor do now regard my achieve
ment as marvellous. Everything was
In my favor; against me, there was
nothing-no organization, no plan, no
knowledge of my aim. ] wonder how
much of their supernal glory would be
left to the worlds men of action,
from its Alexanders and Napoleons
down to its successful bandits and
ward bosses, If mankind were in the
habit of looking at what the winner
had opposed to him-Alexander faced
only by flocks of sheep-like Asiatic
slaves: Napoleon routing the badly
trained, wretchedly differed soldiers
of decadent monarchies; and the ban
dit or ward-boss overcoming peaceful
| and unprepared and unorganized citi-
| zens. Who would erect statues or
write eulogies to man for moving a
field Of corn-stalks with seythe
Mankind is never more amusing than
| In it's hero worship.
No. | should simply have been stu
pid had | failed
But-even had l been disposed tu
| rein in and congratulate myself at the
quarter-stretch, could not have done
1t. A man has, perhaps, some choice
as to his mount before he enters the
| race for success. But once in the sad
die and off, he must let the reins go;
his control is confined to whip and
| spur.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-06-22
CHAPTER XIV.
A "Boom.F actory.D

Tn the early autumn of that last
year Of his as governor, Burba lk's
wife died-a grim and unexpected full
filiment of their pretended anxieties
of six months before.
1t was, in some respects, as great
a loss to me as to him-how great TO
us both 1 did not-indeed. could not
She was what | regard as typical
American wife-devoted to her hus-
band, jealously guarding his interests.
yet as keen to see his shortcomings
as she was to see her own. And how
much more persistent and intelligent
in correcting her faults than he in cor
recting his! Like most men, he was
vain-that is, while he would probably
have admitted in large, vague way
that he wasn't perfect, when it came
IL details he would defend his worst
fault against any and all criticism.
Like most women, she, too, was vaiu-
but an intelligent woman's vanity, in
stead of making her self-complacent
somehow spurs her on to hide her
weak points and to show her best
points in the best light For ex-
ample, Mrs. Burbank a pretty wom-
an and proud of it, was yet conscious
of her deficiencies in dress and in
manners through her plain and rural
early surroundings II was interest
ing and instructive, too, to watch her
studying and cleverly copying, or rath
er. adapting Carlotta; for she took
from Carlotta only that which could
" fitted without visible joint into her
own pattern
Latterly, whenever | was urging
upon Burbank line OF action requir-
ing courage or a sacrifice of some one
Of his many insidious forms of per
scnal vanity, ! always arranged for
her to be present at orr conferences
And she would sit there, apparently
absorbed in her sewing; but in reality
she was seeing net only the surface
underlying and more powerful reasons
which we do not utter, sometimes be.
cause we like TO play the hypocrite
TO ourselves, again because we must
give the other person a chance to
play the hypocrite himself-and us.
And often left him reluctant and try.
ing to muster courage to refuse or
finesse to evade, only TO find him the
next day consenting, perhaps enthus
iastic. Many's the time she spared
me the disagreeable necessity of being
peremptory-doubly dssagreeable be-
cause show of authority has ever been
distasteful 10 me and because an or
der can never be SO heartily executed
as is an assimilated suggestion.
When | went 10 him month after
her death, expected he would still
be crushed as he was at the funeral
! listened with feeling OF revulsion
TO his stilted and. as IL seemed to me-
perfunctory platitudes on his "irre-
reparable loss"--stale rhetoric about
her. and to her most intimate friend
and his ] had thought he would be
imagining himself done with ambition
forever; i had feared mis- strongly re-
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It was al eeit To n1g Is show
my astonfsh Hai ASA sadden inly Il
don't understood said J. in tone
which | sonal ow managed to keep
down to ira fry
But ] did nadafstand II Instantly
came to me fsa. tie Gree haS been
brought into line for Cromwell by
their powerful business associates in
Wall street pro5ably by the great
bankers who loaned them money.
Swift upon the surge Of anger had
suppressed before It fSMed at Tia sur
face came safgs Of triumph which
also suppressed | had often wish
ed. perhaps - matter Of PERSONAL
pride, just this opportunity; ana here
Ii wasi
Cromwell must be nominated
said CRANKY IN his insolent tone He
had but two tunes--the insoleut and
the cringing HISS afe and sound.
Burbank isn't tresird in the east.
And we didn'i IKE his condnet last
year. He ea'ars 70 the danlaco~ues.
tTo be continued Lext week.
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II you would have all the news. get
The World
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-06
QUEER PLACES FOR TUBS.
English Methods of Providing Facilities
for Bathing.

The notorious disregard Of The ne
cessity for bathing facilities in t4@ Eng
lish household, built in the past as we'll
as those Of the present day. which has
created 50 much adverse criticism on the
part of visiting Americans is gradually
being overcome. However To an Ameri-
can the subtcrfugcs for bathrooms nre
extremely amusing. In one case, and
this is very. recent, it was proposed in a
model" house to sink a bathuh in the
floor Of the kitchen aud to cover it with
Il trapduor when not in use, the supnlv
Of water being obtained from the nearby
sink by means Of a flexible hose counec-
ton.
4 still more recent so-caIIcd bath in
stallatiou for small houses and cottages"
which is advertised in the leading
plumbers trade journal of Great Britain
consists II u. galvanized iron bathtub ar
ranged upon Il platform which il is pro-
posed To elevate bodily to the ceiling
when not in use. II is explained that
this makes an admirable installation for
the "scullery or kitchen Of the small
house property
The bath is fixed upon II platform with
feet. and by means of pulleys and steel
ropes it is raised much as an elevator
would be, upon uprights placed against
an adjacent wall. Short lengths of hose
are used to connect the bath with the hot
and cold water pipes Of the sink.
When il is desired to empty the bath
it is raised above the level of the sink.
n rubber hose allowing it 10 he emptied
into the Philadelphia Record.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-06
Married Woman and Spinster.

Anne O'Hagan has been writing for
HaFper's Bazaar some deeply interesting
papers ON the spinster In the July num-
Der she compares the spinster and the
married woman H. words which should
make the latter writhe! She says:
so we were launched upon one of our
never wholly yielded conflicts. With the
supreme, sublime arrogance IF the mar
rigid woman--the average, the normal or
N Dical married woman, the woman who
us Il domestic being even more than she is
a human being-Maida denies a real
place to all those experiences for which
the marriage certificate is not woman's
Traditional charter of rights. With mag
niticent, unconscious impertlnence she be-
slows pity upon all who do not possess
this. Not only Estella Nichols. burn
ing with zeal, possessed by n sacred pas
sion utterly outside the experience of
most of us, Estella who has been down
10 the gates of hell i'll one of the historic
terr0rs of all time. Estella who has dwelt
Familiarity in that wonderful crystalliza-
ton Of society which we call the oldest
civilization in the world and which most
OF us know no more than we know fairy
iand-not only her does Mazda hold to have
missed the rich experience of life Re
respectively, my sister would not lesi-
tate to bestow the patronage of a wife
upon the Virgin Queen of England
Elizabeth, you see, merely had Henry
\ LII. for sire, Roger Ascham fer tutor
Bureigh for adviser, Leicester for wooer
Howard for admiral. Shakespeare for
playwright What can an unmarried
woman really know of men. asks Mazda.
telling how many Jumps of sugar Fred
erick takes in his coffee. Elizabeth mere
~ confirmed the secession from the Ro-
man Catholic church which her father
had instituted, merely drove Spain from
the high seas put to death rival
poor; unmarried, inexperienced Eliza
abethr' ~
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-06
If Common Sense
Were But More Common.

\ show girl and the son of a lord rar
away and were married the other dav
and then they went and woke the brand
new papl-in-law up out of ound sIeer
at o'clock in the morning and told him
what they had done lie turned them
out of the house and ordered his son
never to speak to him again.
Neither the son nor his wife will gel
very far in this world il they have ID
depend on their own tact and common
sense to do it,
4 woman who will let her brand-new
husband wake his father up at o'clock
in the morning to tell him Il piece of bad
news has just about as much tact as a
June bug.
know Il man who lost a sweet WON
an for wife by his want of tact. The
man was in love with the woman and
she was going away and he was trying
hls best to get Il chance to ask her
whether there was any hope for him.
lie met her downtown one rainy, sion
Ply, muddy, shivery day, and just as size
came to corner where the water was
ankle deep she lost her glove in the
puddle He stopped and picked il up
for her and asked her then and there
II she would marry him. The woman
was cold, and hungry, and cross. and
veXed about her glove, and she stamped
her foot and said:
No, you stupid. | wouldn't marry you
if you were the last man in the world"
Now, if that man had asked that same
woman that same question some summer,
evening, when the moon was making a
track of silver across the sparkle of the
June waters, | believe that that woman
would have said yes"
| saw little lost child in a street car
the other day crying herself into hyster-
les. and all the passengers crowded
around the child and stared at her and
said over and over again in every kind of
voice from shrill falsetto to deepest
is going to hurt you" and every time the
child heard that word afraid she stiff
fened out and went into a perfect par
0Xysm of tears.
A sensible woman leaned across the
aisle, gra bling the child. held her up to
the window and said: Dear me, that ;
the funniest dog | ever saw; are those
two tails he hasF"
"Wh-wh-where? said the baby. drying
her tears in the shadow of an instant.
Every time | hear a woman speaking
of a mans faults to other people think,
Il don't blame him for being cross or
Indifferent or disorderly or whatever il
is she's complaining about when he has
wife who has no more sense than "a
egg him on to do his very worst lust ia
spite her"
Common sense! Dear me- if common,
sense were just trife more common
what nice. agreeable world we would
live in to be sure
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-06
THE COLLECTORS.

| wasn't but n little boy
When collected butterflies:
And next took tu postage stamps
And then cigar ban IS were the prize
| had lot of birds eggs too
And hOrSeShueS~-SOme were red with ruSt
My hornets nests were thrown away
The maid said they collected dust
But mother whispered not To mind,
tor she had n collection, too
Aud showed me just the queereSt lot
baby ; cap, small pink shoe,
rubber cow, yellow curl,
ragged book Of 4 h c.
letter. thick with biots | wrote
When she was once away from me
Wuuldu't give quarter for
The stun, but mother thinks It's line
And only laughed when l remarked
II wasn't valuable, Ike mine.
But when it comes 60 keeping things
She gives me pointers, you can bet,
sold or snapped mine long ago,
Bur mother has her rubbish vet
-Eunice Ward in Harper's Magazine