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A California Lourdes

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son he became very angry, declaring
that Bernadette was insane and ordered
her sent TO Jhe madhouse
The good cure OF Lourdes peard the
story and when he learned Of the pre-
fect's action concerning Bernadette he
protested vigorously. but without avail
Tie cure was in despair. for Bernadette,
unless she were liberated soon. was
likely TO become really insane, so he
cppeoiod 10 Napoleon III. who ct the
uiac was in 3iarritz, and he ordered
the authorities in The name of the en-
Dcror to release the child.
So Dernadette was given her free
dom aud the learned archbishop came
from Tarbes ard fixed a commission
10 dciiberate and they decided the
vision 20 be Our Blessed Lady. The
archbishop ordered a beautiful church
buslt OYER the grotto. the holy fathers
blessed the work and an exact mimi
turc Of the srotto was sent to Rome.
ara there the pope p.o-ounced a bless
ing upon It,
Thus was the beginning Of the fame
OF Loardes in The year $3.50 long
a2O tnat the world at large has all
most forgotten the neIne Of Berna aeor,e
Soulvrous.
Today conservative estimate of the
number OF pilgrims who annually visit
Lourdes is placed at not less than $780,
00O. and the majority of those who 20
there are afflicted with some physical
ailment- On every side are heard the
constant cries sour Lady of Lourdes.
cure us" Our Lady of Lourdes. shrive
US clean." from the assembled multi
tudes. and the answer. -Hosanna to
the Son OF David." from the priests.
Countless discarded crutcses. surgical
bandages and like Appliances hanging
upon the walls of the grotto proclaim
the miraculous healing powers of its
waters and the voices are those of
many pilgrims and peoples of all lands
who have come to battle in and drink
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I resisted them with ali my strength,
but the two proved too much for me.
They murdered me. getting nothing but
my pack and the clothing on my body.
The latter they buried under a tree
over on the hill, near where your
schoolhouse now stands.
After your father bought this place
he built the schoolhouse and imported
from Virginia tutors for your brothers.
This you knew. bat not until now that
ny bones lie under th.s tree that almost
sweeps the roos of the schoolhouse.
want You to repeat what l have told
you and TO find my bones and also the
money at the corner of the house next
to your fathers library and office. Use
the money for some good purpose.
You and your sister must not go TO
the seminary In kentucky, as you now
expect to do. If you DO you will meet
with disaster. Should you not do what
I have here told you l will come to you
every autumn" With this the man dis
appeared
On relating this dream to her grand
mother the next morning and describ-
ing the dress of the man. which she
said was very strange and different
from anything she had ever seen, her
grandmother exclaimed in astonish-
ment:
Why. that was the costume of men
when l was a girl. OF course. you never
saw 1t. And the place at the corner of
the house, where the library and Office
adjoin it. was a favorite place under
which you would creep when you were
less than two years old, before you
were too large to get under there. Once
coin was taken from your mouth after
you were pulled from under the place"
As to the departure OF the girls for
school. the sickness of one of them pre-
vented their going that autumn.
The boiler Of the boat upon which
they intended going blew up. and Che
disaster predicted by the ghost would
surely have overtaken them.
For the rest, some OF the Inhabitants
OF the village were eager to have a
search made for the bones and the
money. but my uncle would not for
moment countenance such a proceeding
A portion OF the Notwithstanding ana
brick pavement would have to be re-
moved in order to reach the place indi-
Gated. regarded by my uncle as piece
Of folly not BETTING his position. So,
under his stern prohibition, the treasure
beneath the house and bones beneath
the tree remained unmolestcd.
Every autumn for years after this
dream or vision it was regularly re-
peated as threatened. Finally. through
death and marriage, the old homestead
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wi tie village near which the eNper-
ience occurred it was 4 live sub
5ect FOR wears and made, am ted. upon
the best people thercabouts an inef-
faceable impression. The scene was the
home Of my uncle chief Justice W
OF Illinois whose habit OF thought was
intolerant of anything bordering on su-
pernaturalism.
About two miles from the village Of
Carmi. in southern Illinois. stood in
the midst OF an immense acreage his
handsome country seat. When Judge
W. a young lawyer just from Vir
ginia. purchased the place it contained
a log cabin. which, being unusually
large (double) and well built. he de-
cided to let remain. subsequently en-
larging IL, weatherboarding *, add
ing wings to three sides and porches
front and back, making altogether
when finished a commodious and i'm
posing residence. In due time a large
family came. among whom were two
beautiful daughters, Mary and Ellen,
as near the same age as possible not to
be twins. although as devoted to each
other as twins can be.
One night Ellen awolxe in great
fright and upon her sister inquiring
the cause she replied that she had just
come out OF what must have been a
dream. yet did not seem dream. She
said a small man suddenly appeared
10 her. and when she started to run he
said:
DO not run away. 1 would not
hurt you il I could. You must hear me.
Many years ago. before your birth. a
part OF this house was large double
log structure. and I. as a peddler was
travelling in this region. Peddiers then
had often to make long trsmps on foot
before coming to houses as the coun-
try was sparseiy settled. and they re-
NAMED over night at any house they
chanced upon that would shelter them.
1 reached this place after darl. and was
promised a nights lodging The only
occupants Of the place were man and
woman. They gave me supper, and
while eating ] noticed peculiar look
and gesture pass between them. My
suspicious being aroused, I did not re-
move my clothes when l went to bed
and before lying down / left the house
which was built well upon piles. and
hastily buried at no great depth under
the corner Of it what money had and
returned 10 my room. ! was awakened
by feeling some one cautiously trying
my pockets. BY dim tallow candle /
recognized the faces of the man and
woman Of the house Springing up,
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The Spirit of the Portrait

- HE other incident to which | have
l referred is, IL not more wonderful
more subtle. and relates to some
what higher and wider range of expert
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presence" He went to the wardrobe.
eally and made sure 1t was properly
hooked and locked. We then took our
stand in another part of the room.
where we had not long to wait for de-
yelopments. The wardrobe opened ex-
actly as before in every particular. To
reassure himself my father repeated
the fastening with additional care, and
the wardrobe repeated it's opening
without any change. Stepping to the
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vas abandoned. leaving it party or
wholly in possession of its ghostly ten
ant
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The San Francisco Sunday Call.
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-02-01
ABSTAINERS LIVE LONGER.

The commercial as we'll as moral
value of abstinence is scientific fact.
Our readers will be interested in the
annual report Of the Total Abstinence
department of the Security Mutual
Life Insurance Company which ap-
pears in our advertising columns this
month. Total abstainers are recelv-
ing larger dividends than others.
Our friend Levi Hoag, superinten-
dent of the Total Abstinence depart
ment, and who by the way Is one OF
the leaders of the Prohibition party in
New York state, is smiling very broad
ly over the fact that nearly One-third
of the new business done by the Secur-
ity in 1907 was in the Total Abstin-
ence department and nearly one-tenth
of the entire business of the Company
in force today stands to the credit OF
that department. The total death
claims in the Total Abstinence de-
partment to date represent but a
small percentage of the amount which
would be expected according to the
usual tables of mortality.
Why then should abstainers pay the
higher rate paid by those who shorten
their lives by drink when they can
secure reliable insurance which also
gives them the pecuniary advantage
of their temperate habits
We wish our readers who are 1nsur-
able would accept the Security's In
vitation to investigate. A postal will
bring you some facts worth thinking
about.
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-02-01

have elected some of the best men
in the Northern States, but as water
can not rise higher than its level, so
a good man can not rise higher than
the party that elected him. Where
could you find better man than Gov.
.Ianly? Yet in face of the opposition
of every state Temperance organiza-
ton, he declared he would sign thou
sand-dollar license bill which would
fasten saloons upon Indiana for twenty
years to come. A majority of thirty
thousand men voted for prohibition In
Iowa, and then made a fatal blunder
in electing the Republican party to
power with Gov. Drake at its head
and a better man in bad party could
not have been found in the United
States. The pressure Of his party
forced him to at last yield, and he
sold out to the saloon, and their non
partisan prohibition law was killed,
and it ended in a bloody tragedy In
the murder of brave, sainted Geo. Had
dock by the saloon thugs, crazed by
drink sold in saloons winked at by
state officials.
South Dakota met defeat in the
same way. The saloons Of Ohio are
running today in face Of a majority
of eighty thousand votes for prohibi-
ton. The Dow Tax law was never
ratified by the people. Ohio has con-
stitutional prohibition, yet the saloons
run wide open. This forces us to the
conclusion that so great and import
ant a law as one calculated to over
throw so mighty an evil as the liquor
traffic must be entrusted to political
party committed to that principle, or.
aanized around that idea as central
one, and giving the peoples will the
force and effect of law"
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-02-01
A legislative Candidate in Every District

tions that have continuously existed
between the two organizations in this
state.
1--WE believe that the liquor question
will never be settled, that democracy
will never again be enthroned, that the
government will never again be re-
stored to the hands of the people-all
the people-until political party, or
ganized for the purpose or accomplish
ing these results, is elevated to power.
I'VE can never in the wide world
make organic union with an omni-par-
tisan organization which finds ready
fellowship with those political parties
that were in power (and therefore able
to prevent) when the interests filched
from the people (who, I grant, were
too busy making their board to pay
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-02-01

the necessary force, and we expect
that to be in sixty-three districts. Our
nominations in a number of districts
have already been made.
zone of the strongest tenets Of the
Prohibition party has been and still
is, No trade, no fusion, no combina-
ton with any organization that admits
less than we demand
"The Anti-Saloon League and the
Prohibition party compete for the ear
Of the people, and their moral and
financial support. That has brought
up some cases Of friction. Our meet
ing the other day was to avoid, to the
very greatest possible extent, any Of
this friction. Let me state emphatic
ally that it has not brought about any
rupture or break of the friendly rela-
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-02-01

A portion of the state press failed
to get clear idea of the object of the
recent conference between represent
atives of the Prohibition party and OF
the Anti-Saloon League. The st. Paul
Dispatch announced that the former
organization had merged it's life into
the latter body. Whereupon Secretary
Calderwood wrote the editor In cor
rection of the error. He said In part:
"The Prohibition party Is doing bus1-
ness at the old stand, with a larger
force of office and field employees than
we have ever had before In the history
of the party.
1--WE propose to nominate Prohibi-
ZIONIST on the Prohibition ticket IN
every legislative district In the state
of Minnesota where we can marshal
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-02-01
ESTIGATE

much attention to civics) the govern
ment which their forefathers died to
place in their hands. This Is especi-
ally true in this state at this time,
when the brainiest man with the
biggest microscope could not find an
infinitesimal shadow of difference be-
tween the political tenets Of the demo
cratic and the republican parties as
touching state business.
II am not writing for publication,
but hope you may see your way clear
in your own way, and in your own
language, to say to the public that the
Prohibition party was never more firm
ly convinced of the absolute righteous
ness of it's purpose, nor of the neces-
sity and wisdom Of its political life;
and (if it is of any interest) that It
never had as large a campaign fund.
1--WE will have in the field in 1908,
for five months campaign, LOG paid
organizers, volunteer organization
covering every county and every pre-
cinct and all of this in addition to a
battery of speakers and trained special
lists in the field of Prohibition politics,
and every dollar of the campaign
funds representing the free gift of the
great common people,"
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-02-01
Minnesota Will Follow Georgia

Georgia which blew in
in shoohoue in the state Ready! sing
Minnesota hears call; coming with shout
traffics devlish; she'll legislate it OUT
Prohibition Is goal; she'll reach it, doubt!
they did down in Georgia
the jubilee!
Well free!
the
Georgia!
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-02-01
A Party Back of the PrinCipl

slavery, and then they had elected jeff
Davis president and sent to Washing
ton Southern men, or Northern men
with Southern principles, what would
have been the result?
with this thought clearly in our
minds, how can we expect the honest
enforcement of prohibition law at
the hands of a political party whose
ng-establisned policy is regulation,
and with record committed to IL
cense and not prohibition?
1--WE hear on every hand, elect good
men in the old parties We have
been trying that plan for years, and
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-02-01

State Chairman, F. w. Tough, in his
speech accepting the leadership OF the
Indiana Prohibition forces, referred to
the remark sometimes made by enc
mics of the saloon to the effect that
81 don't care how we get prohlDltory
law. lust so we get it," He said, as
reported in the Patriot Phalanx:
"This is the weakest place In this
great movement. The enemy has dis
covered it and will take advantage OF
it. and it is up to the Prohibition
party to show the people that it does
make a great difference how we get
a Prohibition law.
"And here is where we party Prohi-
bitionists part company with our good,
honest, earnest non-partisan pronlpl-
ton friends. We insist that when old
mother Indiana presses to her bosom
a prohibition law, that child should be
able to look to some one to whom II
can say, father"
"And this is my supreme objection
to non-partisan prohibition. A good
Republican jumps out OF his party,
votes for prohibition, then jumps back
into his party. A good Democrat
jumps out of his party, votes for pro-
hibition, then falls back into line with
his Democratic comrades. A majority
have voted for prohibition; they get
the law. Then, like child without
parents, it must either starve to
death or be taken into family as an
unwelcome member and be subjected
to abuse, kicked, cuffed, and at last
murdered to get it out of the way.
"In 1883, Ohio gave birth to pro-
hibition law by non-partisan vote
of $4,000 majority. The head of the
house (the Republican partly refused
to own the child, or even to contribute
to it's support, and permitted 1t to
die of starvation within few months
And this has been true in twenty-one
states. And when we listen to the
sad story of Maine, Kansas, and North
Dakota, where every attempt was
made that POSSIBLY could be made to
kill the law outside Of actual cold
blooded murder, we wonder how the
law survived. And to get at the source
of trouble we must get back to the
people, the source of power, and &c
politics, the science of government
Suppose the money question had
been voted in in a nOn-partlsan way
and a majority had said by their votes
we favor silver as the standard OF our
monetary system, and then had elect
ed the Republican party to power tc
back up the will of the people when
the party was committed to a colo
standard policy, what would have
been the result? Or suppose in 1856
to 1850 the people had said, there Il
no need Of dragging slavery into pol
itics; we can settle it outside in non
partisan way" And the people had
voted and expressed their will thai
they were opposed to the extension o.
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-02-01

Owing to the favorable mortality the
1908 dividend aportionment under the To-
dend class will, as in the past, show a
substantial increase over the apportion-
ment to those insured in the General
Class of the Company.
If an abstainer from alcoholic bever-
age, place your insurance in a class made
up of those who totally abstain and Sc
cure the benefits acruing through in
creased longevity.
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-02-01

1.-THE Public Veal seems to be awaken,
ing an interest here in Prohibition and
such an interest is surely needed al! along
Loman.
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-02-01

The Prohibition State Convention
will take place at Minneapolis June
16 and II.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-08-27

viii Gilman went to Gayville this
morning on anthrax business. AS an
illustration Of tn extent to which
this department Of the drug business
has grown it might be stated that Mr..
Gilman II day this week sold five
thousand an%dthraxoids over the long
distance phone, SO great has the de-
mand grown. AS vaccination is a pre-.
tentative only and not a cure the
deaths are still occurring and vacin-
alton is only good in uninfected cat
tie. Horses too r dying and one
case has already been reported where
a farmer is i'll with the disease
through having skinned an animal that
had died from anthrax. The only safe
way the veterinarians say is to burn
the carcass and all pertaining to- it as
only this way can the germs be killed.
-Yankton Press and Dakotan.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-08-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Anderson were
over from Volga visiting his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Anderson over Sun
day, returning home Monday evening.
Mrs. Isabelle House went to- Blunt
Monday evening for a visit with her
son, Frank House. She was accom-.
panied by her little grandson, Howard
Gullick.
DR.. II. M. Derr, who is engaged as
engineer with the state railroad COM
mission, was here over Sunday. He
was accompanied by Mr.. Witt, the
other engineer of the commission.
Mrs. Thompson of Muscodi, Wis,
and Mrs. Robertson of Arcadia, Wis,
who have been here the past month
visiting their sister, Mrs. Chas. Keith,
left Monday morning for their homes.
Mrs. La Grave of Fairbault, Mimi,
has been here the past week visiting
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
w. Z. Purdy, having accompanied Mr..
and Mrs. Purdy on their camping trip
to- Lake Kampeska. Her daughter,
Mrs. Hamilton Of San Antonio, Texas,
was also here a few days, leaving for
home last week.
II. l.. Walker returned home Friday
evening from Minneapolis, where to-
gether with G. p. Walker of Winnipeg
and Maurice Jencks Of Sioux Falls. he
organized the big theatrical trust Of
which we made extended mention last
week. Mr.. Walker also visited a nun
Der of points in Minnesota on business
for his circuit.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-08-27

]. o. Peterson of Brookings, was up
Thursday and enjoyed a days outing
at Lake Kampeska. ***Mrs. J. l.. Blote
and the children went to- Brookings
Monday evening for a visit at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c..
e. Palmer ***Attorney NJ. s.. Lieben-
stein has been at Brookings the fore
part of the week, where he went on
matters pertaining to- some cases he
had in court. ***Prof. r. B. F'orsee of
Bookings, in company with A. O..
Downey, representing the Central Life
Insurance company, CO Des Moines,
Iowa, have been in Estelline the most
of the week in quest of business.
***Mr. and Mrs. E. b. Dalton who have
been camping at Lake PoiHset during
the past two weeks returned to- their
home in Bookings Saturday evening.
They enjoyed themselves immensely
and feel very much refreshed after
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-08-27

Bella Stotz, the 10-year old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Stotz, who
reside about nine miles northeast of
Geddes, met sudden death at her own
hands the last of the week. She had
been playing with an empty shotgun
and it had been taken from her twice
by her parents, but later she was
playing with her younger sister and
the baby in the bed room, when the
again got hold of the gun, inserting
a shell, and, leaning over the muzzle,
pushed the trigger with a stick. The
discharge entered her left side, horri-
bly, managing her body, After the
discharge she rushed from the house,
running but a short distance until
she fell dead.
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SCHOLARSHIP FOR SALE.

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