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The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-05-31
Her Children Carefully Reared.

While indisputahly an advanced wo-
family responsibilities Her SON and
daughters were carefully rea Ted, and
three of the daughters have won dis
tinction as writers. They ere Mrs.
Florence Howe Hall, Mrs Laura E.
Richards and Mrs. Maud Howe Eli
oft. The SON, Professor Henry NJ.
Howe, is distinguished metallurgist.
Mrs. Howe has we'll developed hui
morous vein. Once when driving past:
tn Boston her eye caught the name Of
the institution as painted On the build
ing. She remarked very Iryly:
Il don't see the good of that place.
"Why?"' inquired her companions in
establishment, knowing Mrs. Howe's
generous nature.
"Well, | didn't know there was
charitabls eye or ear in Boston," re-
piled the venerable lady.
At another time Mrs Howe was Wis
iting. a Newport woman. The hostess
took her out on the beautiful veranda
in the moonlight in the hope of getting
fine sentiment out of her Finally
the woman demanded:
s<NIrs. Howe, do say something lovely
about my piazza"
In her highly cultivated voice Mrs.
Howe replied:
II think it is bully piaz.'
Somebody accused Mrs. Howe Of be
inc "ohstinately optimistic' all her
life. Looking back across the gulf Of
seventy years to her girlhood in New
York. she said
My hearts young desire was to as
sist the efforts of those who sought for
n helpful philosophy Of life.'
Her own helpful philosophy no doubt
has upheld her obstinate optimism, SO
that today she is by no means a person,
If an age that is past. but is decidedly
4 figure of the present, for she IS as
deeply interested in the admission OF
Oklahoma as she was in a like event
fifty years ago.
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Clemens was embarrassing by diplo-
macy that famous fence in Hannibal,
Mo, here she is, really younger than
any Of these old boys, and celebrating
her eighteenth birthday after passing
the limit-a young lady just come Of
age for the second time.
Why, her BATTLE Hymn OF the Re-
public" a national treasure of inter
national renovn, is nearly forty-siN
years old, for it was written i'll 1861.
Mrs. Howe was a mature woman OF
forty-tWo when she gave to the nation
and the world that splendid lyric, one
Of the flowers Of poesy which cannot
fade. Those twenty lines of inspira-
ton furnish Julia Ward Hove's chief
claim to Immortality on earth, but the
grand old woman has done many other
things which have contributed to her
renOvn. Her gospel Of optimism and
her creed Of activity have kept her
Young. Two years ago she said on her
birthday:
Zone should never be too Old to love
the pure and the true things Of life. l
still find great pleasure in writing and
in speaking. | am Interested in the
affairs Of today. You know one never
grows old in spirit if the true love of
life remains within one
Why She viii Be Remembered.
And perhaps the true love of life is
the secret Of her longevity. \ few
| years ago when asked to define her
ideal of life she said. ITO leara, tc
! teach. to serve and to enjoy" There
are many women who pass their lives
in trying to enj0y-in society. Mrs
! Howe, as Miss Julia Ward had much
| opportunity Of that sort.s but she de
veloped higher ideal Of enjoyment
That is why she will be remembered
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-05-31
Wrote Verses In the DARK.

Living in this atmosphere for twenty
years, it YVES not surprising that when
Mrs. Howe visited Washington in 1861
and saw the soldiers in a hundred cir
cling canps' her thoughts flowed
along the lines Of the BATTLE Hymn Of
the Republic,7 With her husband and
others she hal ridden out few miles
to witness a review Of the troops The
review was Interrupted by a sudden
attack Of the enemy, and Mrs. Howe
saw the rapid marching of REINFORCE
f;lents and heard the firing. Riding
back to the capital, she began singing
the John Brown song, in which thou
sands Of the soldiers Joined. That
night Mrs. Howe conceived the idea of
a digni6ed poem to fit the famous tune.
She arose from her bed, found pen and
paper and wrote, the lines in the dark
She had written verses frequently in
this manner while occupying a room
with one of her children, refraining
from making a light in her care not to-
disturb the child
But | always found" said Mrs
Howe, that if did not transcribe my
verses within twenty-four hours L..
couldn't read what had written
Naturally there was adverse criti- /
cism Of this poem in the south during
the war. but now the opposition has
died away. When Mrs. Howe was in i
charge of the women's work at the
New Orleans exposition she visited i
Baton Rouge, La, and was astonished
but pleased to- hear her poem sung at
an entertainment.
Mrs. HOWe'S first volume of poems
was called "Passion Flowers" though
of course it contained nothing what
ever even family suggesting ellawheeE
erisn. That was in 1854. TWO or
three years later Mrs. Howe published
a book of poems entitled ''Words For
the Hour chiefly of sociological in
terest, revealing her serious trend. SHE
became leader in Boston club life
founding the New England Woman's
| club, of which she was president for
| a quarter of a century. Mrs. Howe
| also took an active part in organizing
| the Association For the Advancement
| of Women, of Which she served as
| president for many years. Her work
for the cause of woman suffrage, which
she espoused about forty years ago,
is we'll known. She is also strong
peace advocate.
Mrs. Howe used to spend her sum-
mcrs ut Newport That was when
there was IAN intellectual set'' at the
Rhode Island resort. Mrs. Howe's
home was the headquarters Of this set.
When the millionaire class overran the
town the Howes retreated to a beach
some miles away.
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a noble steed." It was her future hus-
band. Dr.. Howe and Julia Ward were
married I'm 1843. He was about TWEEN
ty years her senior. AS young man
he had gone to Greece and aided in
the war for Independence, as Lord
Byron also did He was the first per-
son in America to devote himself to
improving the condition Of the blind.
Throughout his long life he was a phi
lanthropist. friend of the poor, the
unfortunate, the outcast. ssIn the
world as he would have had it, said
Mrs. Howe after her husbands death
i'll 1876, 'sthere should have been ne-
Their paupers nor outcasts."
That both DR.. Howe and Julia Ward
were fortunate in their marriage is not
to be disputed. DR.. Howe found a wife
Of unusual culture, capable Of sympa-
thizing with his splendid work in be-
half of unfortunate humanity. Miss
Ward found a husband capable of
turning her young mind into the chan
nels of noble ideals. DR.. Howe was a
hater of slavery in every form. Mrs.
Howe came to share his views. In
those days abolitionism was the reli-
gion Of intellectual Boston, and the
HoWes espoused the creed. They knew
intimately William Lloyd Garrison,
Wendell Phillips, Whittier, Lowell and
the other anti-slavery leaders. Even
John Brown Of Ossawatomie called to
see Mrs. Howe. She opened the door
with her own hand, she says, and
found him in appearance "a Puritan Of
the pnrfanS !"
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-05-31

in circIiny camps5
buded him the and damps
the righteous the dim Harina
Az is chinco
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BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC.

shaves the of of The
lie lightning his terrible swift
His truth S marching
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-11-08
MILLION DIVORCES
GRANTED SINCE l887

Washington, Nov. Approximately
!, 200, 600 divorces were granted in the
United States between 1887 and 1906,
and something like a half million more
pairs have got a far as the divorce
court with their marital unhappiness,
according to the tentative calculations
of the census bureau, which is prepar-
ing an elaborate report OF divorces.
The report will not be published till
some time next spring. and the census
bureau is not yet ready To make any
official annoyncement of its results. but
the total number can be appropriated
from the present status of the work,
Two thousand nine hundred clerks
and special agents have been at work
on this report for some months gather
ing Information on the subject of do
nestle iufelicity, and arranging ii for
the benefit of those interested in things
matrimonial. The investigation Is near
ing completion and all the special
agents have finished their work save
40. VINO are investigating the remain.
ing 5000 cases.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-11-08
NO LAURELS AWAIT
MISS VANDERBILT

Vienna, Nov. Miss Na~nderbilt's
marriage with Count Szechenyi. from
the Austrian point Of view. is the same
as when a nobleman of high degree
marries the daughter of a professor, a
manufactures OF a tradesman.
The blood of the future scions Is
spoiled by the addition of a "burgerlich"
mother, and the children from this pair
can never assume the full rights which
were due to the father and his an
cestors. On coming Of age every Aus
trian nobleman who can prove sixteen
ancestors of the right sort on both sides,
of his family becomes a "kammerherr,"
or chamberlain, with the right of wear
ing a golden key (replaced by a gold
en- tassel) at the back of his court uni
form coat. A "kammerherr'' has the
right TO appear at all court functions
and can be named for any post in the
hierarchy. A mother of "burgerlich"
descent spoils this privilege for sixteen
generations.
AS to the future Countess Gladys
Szechenyi herself, she does not become
"hoffahig," or admissible at court" by
her marriage only-the emperor would
have to make her so. All the cabinet
ministers are, of course, entitled to APP
pear at every court function. by right
of their office. but their wives must be
born countesses IL they are to accom-
pany them.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-11-08
CONGRESSMAN STILL
RIDING ON PASSES

Washington. Nov. lit has come TO
the ears Of members Of the Interstate
Commerce commission that certain
congressman are travelling on railroad
passes. The offenders are a i to be
many. The names of some of them are
known, and in the case of one south
ern member. at least, the number of
the pass has been ecure
But may not a congressman who is
employed by a railroad company ride
on passes just as any other employee
does? This is the problem with which
the commission is confronted. The
public has been under the impression
that he is expressly forbidden 10 do
SO. In fact, when the Hepburn act was
being considered this very phase was
thoroughly threshed out, and the coun-
try at large was led to believe the "old
reliable" annual a seen it's day as
an influencer Of legislators and a
moulder Of legislation.
On the strength of this impression
many a rural voter was reconciled to
the $500 a year increase in congress
sional salaries granted at the last ses-
sion. Representatives and senator's
alike gave the cutting off of passes rs
the principal reason for voting them
selves more pay. +.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-11-08
HOMESEEKERS' RATES
NOT TO BE ABANDONED

Chicago, Nov. 1--At d meeting In
Chicago yesterday, representatives OF
the larger railroad systems agreed not
to abandon the homeseekers' eXCur-
sions to the west. Since the passage
of the 2-cent fare laws in many west
ern states there has been talk of dis
continuing low rates.
For three days the general passenger
agents of the larger systems have been
in conference here considering the ques-
ton. There was a minority vote that
these rates should be dropped out and
the regular tariff charged to all. Rep
resentatives of the Union Pacific, Bur
lington, Milwaukee and ST. Paul,
Northwestern and Rock Island, aid
that under no circumstances would
they agree TO abandon these rates, as
they resulted in building up the west.
II was agreed, however, that the
homeseekers' rates would be slightly
advanced after January /. The maxi
mum advance will be So on each round
tip ticket. To illustrate: The round
trip homeseekers' fare from Chicago to
Texas and other southwestern states
will be raised $25 to $50; to Wichita,
kas.. $20.65 to $22.25, and to Denver,
.S25 to S321J.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-11-08
MOUNTAIN SLIDE
DESTROYS VILLAGE

~Tashkend, Russian Turkestan. Nov.
1.-The little own Of Karatagh. in
the Hussar district of Bokhara, in
been overwhelmed and completely de-
stroyed by q landslide that followed
the earthquake Of October 81. Accord
ing to the last reports of the disaster a
majority of the inhabitants of Kara
tagh lost their lives.
The first reports of the casualties.
We're exaggerated, the death list being
placed as high as IL, 600. Karatagh has
about $500 dwellers. and there is rea-
son to believe hat about 1900 We're
buried alive. Among those who sur
vived the disaster are the governor of
Karatagh and his mother.
karatagh is remotely situated. and
il takes a full week for news to get
out from there, but according to n
courier who has come through an enor-
mous section Of the Karatagh noun
tains, which practically hung over the
town. broke loose and Numbered down
upon the village, which is almost COM
pletely buried.
Up to midnight nc further news of
the disaster had been received here.
,karatagh is noted for its manufacture
of sabers, cutlery and fine silks, and
is used as a summer resort by the peo-
pie OF HusSar. karatagh is located in
II mountainous country st an elevation
of $500 feet above the sea.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-11-08
PITTSBuRG BR!BE1
HIDING I'M CANADA

P%ittsburg. Nov. 2.-That C>--e-- S.
Cameron, convicted of bribery i'm the
Pittsburg ARC Tube City railroad cases.
and who forfeited his $4,000 bail bond
in not appearing for sentence, is hiding
in Canada, is 10Y believed.
Drumming over With sarcasm. Attor-
e John Marion, municipal prosecutor.
addressed the our
There is no use of my sending Grim
mails up to the court house If they are
going to get lost there.
II have credible information that
Cameron is in Canada That is the only
place that | know of where he has been
assured immunity from ~extradition.
From the evidence Il now have I
know 1t was Cameron who held up
former Common CouncilmS~ William
A. Martin, and not Martin who held up
Cameron, as the latter declared i'm his
confession"
The present aspect of the notorious
,councilmanic bribery affair seems to in
dictate that there will be no further ac-
ton taken in the immediate future to
convict those alleged to have been inn
plicated in the efforts to have the or
dinance of the Pittsburg and Tube City
railroad passed by the judicious use OF
the famous $4,000 hat was never paid.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-11-08
WOMEN CROWD
KISS CARUSO

Berlin, Oct. 31.-The kaiser, the EN-
press and members OF the family, In
Guiding the Crown Prince Frederick
Wilhelm, Prime Eitel and their wives,
attended Caruso's first appearance I'm
"Rigoletto.''
The empress attracted attention by
standing up in her box to applaud.
The application for seats at this per-
Torrance reached a total OF 80, 900. while
the house only holds 5000. The or
binary prices of admission had been al
most trebled. The American singer.
Hoffmon, did we'll in the principal role.
Caruso had a much warmer recep-
ton at Hamburg. where the women
exposed themselves to derision by
crowding around the tenor when he
was leaving the theater. They would
have embarrassed the horses from his
carriage and pulled 1t themselves, but
for the police. When he left for Berlin
a crowd of hysterical women crowded
the railway platform and besiegsd the
car window. with the object of kissing
or at least touching his hand.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-11-08
OPEN SANCTION OF
RELATING is SHOWN

Madison, Wis, Nov. THAT rebates
were apparently once openly sanctioned
by What has come to be known as the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road
was discovered when the rate commis-
sion ran upon a Guide TO Agents" is
ued July II, 1857, by the Western
Union railroad, which afterward
marged into the Milwaukee line.
The moth-eaten list of Instructions
containing the classification of freight
covers n sheet Of paper about a yard
squar 1t was found TO be such a cu-
riOuS document because of it's provi-
sions that the commission has had IL
framed.
Rule % provides: Agents using UNI
authorized special rates in way-bil-
ing freight will be held responsible for
any u~ndercharge occasioned thereby.
and the amoun of such deficiency will
be charged to them as prepaid freight.S
This, in effect. shows that either the
agents had been rebating to shippers,
or else that the officers of the com
pany reserved to themselves to make
any rebates. In this present age, with
so many statutes making it a crime
punishable with a heavy fine TO de-
viate at all from the posted schedule
of rates, such q provision in the in
structions OF the railroad company is
q real curiosity.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-11-08
BELIEVE cANMlBALS
HAVE EATEN FORTY

New York, Noy. i.-.I.atrn by cam
nibals was probably tho fate Of the
crew of forty sailors who TOOK the big
sailing ship Arthur Seweil nut Of Phil
adelphia April 5 on Which % carry coal
Ia the Philippines.
Word has just been received nj 4
maritime exchange that the vessel was
wrecked near Terra Del Furgo and all
signs point 10 the survivors having
been captured Ivy the cannibals who m
fest the islands.
News of the wreck and the almost
certain fate of the crew came from the
steamer Fridthjoff. Since the Arthur
Seweli sailed not a word has been re-
ceived regarding h%erfuntil a letter came
today from a Norwegian sailor, The
Sewel's first stopping point WAS 10 have
been Seattle. The Fridthjof reports
that August %, while cruising e
Noir island. half way between Cape
Pillar and Cape Horn. the lookout re-
ported Il derelict ahead. II proved to
be the Sewell.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-11-08
FREE FIGHTS TAKE
PLACE OF HAZING

Raleigh, y. c.. Nov. "A case of
hazing IN the state agricultural and
mechanical college has caused Presi-
dent winston to reprove the students
ana in his remarks he advised a man
10 man fight in the open.
As a result the freshman class sent
a challeneg to the s~ophomores to meet
Tor a test of prowess on the athletic,
ileld. Accordingly there was a mass
IlSht with seVenty-tive on each side.
Lieutenant Young, u. :. A, the com
iEandant and members of the Junior
INC senior classes were present. The
'crapping match passed without serious
INJURY 10 any of the participants.
Fight Second Time.
Yesterday the spohomores invited the
freshmen to battle, when a fiercer.
ftrugGlc cnsUed Il there were many,
injured OF both sides. There were
siXty-tive on a side and the noses of.
four cadets were broken, a number of
eyes were ~blackened and many faces
were scratched.
The opposing sides lined up, rushed
at each other and fought. but rough
and tumble tactics were barred. Presi-
dent Winston and Lieutenant Youny
believe this will do away with haZing,
but many friends of the college con-
denim 1t.
The senior class OF the college met
last night and protested against A CON
tinuance of tie fights, characterizing
them as brutal and saying that in them
some students take unfair advantages.
striking down exhausted men or strik-
ing from behind.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-11-08
HER AFFINITY IN
LETTERS A G

Valdosta, Ga, Oct. Blown at Park
lake they had a romance his week
that proved very embarrassing for a
Vermont girl, who went there to wed
Rev. j. J Roberts.
When the young woman arrived.
she looked about the station for some
time before making inquiries, then
she aske the station master to direct
her to the residence of Rev. j. J.
Roberts. No n could recall such a
person in the town, greatly to the
girls dismay, until some on thought
of Burn Eyed Jack" and hen tho
dismay of the prospective bride, for
she had so admitted herself, grew
greater. She was informed that there
was a negro preacher near there
known as Burnt Eyed Jack" whose
initials were j. j. and whose
was Roberts.
Going further into Rev. Roberts
history n characteristics, she was
told that his chief accomplishments
were CROWN like a rooster, cackling
like a hen and hooting like an owl.
and that he was what might be re-
garded as a very trifiing, no-account.
but accommodating and good natured
negro.
The visitor then made a full con-
f~ession, giving her name as Miss Myd-
dleton and said that she became ac-
quainted with Roberts through a
matrimonial bureau and that he had
sent her money for her trip. The res
idents are assisting her to get
home.
TIL wonder Is where Jack got the
to send her.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-11-08
BUYING RATS
AT 5 CENTS EACH

San Francisco, Nov. l---San Francis
co Is one OF the most wonderful pro-
auctions of civilization. and it's people
are worthy of ii. In less than a year
II a half IL has been scourged by
earthquakes, by fire. by riot. by strikes,
by gTafters, by vice, by politicians, and,
as il its cup were not full enough, the
bubonic plague has entered the gates.
IT would seem to a stranger hat his
latest scourge must be the last straw:
that the people could stand no more.
But hat is not so. Go where one Will
in the city there is no excitement: no
apprehension. The wheels of business
go on serenely, and everybody doet
earnestly the work that falls TO hi
lot. '
But this is not because the people
are i'm ignorance of the fact tina
bubonic plague is among them. Every
body knows it. Yellow posters are
everywhere.
The stranger soon earns that the
board of health, in it's campaign of
sanitation, is waging a bitter war on
rats, becau use they are the carriers and
breeders of disease. Before he knows Ii
he has a liberal education On sanitation
and health and rodents.
He learns, for instance, thai rats are
worth 8 cents apiece, and hat the city
will pay him hat much for every rat.
dead or alive, hat he can turn into any
OF the stations which have beer estab-
hshed throughout the city for the pur-
pose.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-11-08
WIFE STANDS BY
SLAYER OF WOMAN

M~arysville, o., Nov. Mrs. Charles
McElvain declared today hat she had
implicit belief in the innocence Of her
husband, who is held without bond here
under a charge of killing Mrs. Mamie
Molzahn in a duel with her husband.
DR.. Edward T. Molzahn. after the ply
stefan had accused him of improper at
tentions to Mrs. Molzahn.
Il was dumbfounded at the charge
against my husband" Mrs. McElvain
said, and | do not believe there is any
truth in it. My husbands and
actions toward me never indicated any
disloyalty, and we never had a serious
quarrel. | am confident tina his trial
will not only prove him innocent of Dr..
Molzahn's charge, bat also that ne fired
in self-defense.
DR.. Molzahn is recovering from the
wounds in the neck and shoulder in
ficted by McElvain's bullets, and was
allowed TO leave st. Francis hospital
and call at the home here of Mrs. Sarah
Kelley, mother of Mrs. Molzahn, where
the body of the slain woman lies in
preparation for the funeral tomorrow
morning.
DR.. Molzahn wept as he looked at
his dead wife's face, and he told Mrs.
Kelley he cherished no bitterness
toward her.
McElvain waived preliminary trial
for killing Mrs. Molzahn. He accepts
the finding of the coroner's jury that
the bullet which penetrated her heart
during the duel in a room at the ply
sician's home must have been from his
own revolver, but he will plead that he
emptied his revolver in self-defense.
The wound In his face from DR.. Mol
Zahn's bullet is healing.