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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1910-08-12
EGAN WAS THE WOODPECKER,

commercial traveller driving from town to town thru the pine
Florida drove of hogs wildly
He halted at the pangs Of cracker home and
asked sunbonuet what the matter with
well, you see," the explained, my old deaf
dumb and when he wanted to call the hogs their sw he
learned them when tapped the 1t worked
all right when they first learned but them woodpeeke
maxim the poor crazy things their legs off," .
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-03-18

enlarge it and to have a school, or
a. college, or a seminary located IN
Japan in which the natives might be
educated and trained for missionary
work. To do this, funds were need
ed. 1t was absolutely necessary that
we have a we'll equipped school In
Japan. This was a great movement
that was taking hold Of all the peo-
pie and it meant the extension OF the
work and the saving Of the heathen.
He believed that in it all could be
seen plainly the hand of God. work.
ing to that end, and he felt sure that
this congregation could easily raise
the amount fixed.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-03-18
GlymphVille Dots.

Farmers are getting a move on
them.
The scent Of guano is everywhere
but the bears need not calculate the
cotton crop thereby. Corn, corn, corn
down this side.
Sone farmers are top dressing
their grain with guano.
The supervisors Of Fairfield and
Newberry should have seen Mr.. Su-
Der putting across the river, on a
small boat, 100 sacks Of guano and
Is sacks Of corn; perhaps they would
think then that the ferry was need
ed at Ashford's.
Mr.. j. S. J. Suber, Jr., who lives
on the Newberry side and carries
the rural mail in Fairfield sustained
quite a loss in having to kill his
horse because its leg was broken
Two other horse have been injured
here on account Of no ferry here,
so that he might keep his horses at
home at night.
Jack Frost has put In his appear
ance again.
We thought for while that the
estate Of the late Frank Morezee
would be idle, but learn that Mr..
Brown has leased it for a number
of years. He is thinking Of seeding
it down to Alfalfa and grass. Good
idea.
Mrs. A. E. Crooks, who has not
walked for some time, caused by a
fall, and who has been tenderly
cared for at the home Of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Glymph, is now with her
son, Mr.. Joe S. Crooks. She is still
in her rolling chair. How hard it
seems, after long years spent in
hard work-as she was always IN
this good and kind woman.
Glymphville Boy.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-03-18
FANNIE CARSON FREE AT LAST
After Serving Is Years.-Hardly Re-
alizing What Freedom Means, Bids
Goodbye to Prison Walls.

Columbia, March 16.-Fannie Car
son has been pardoned by Governor
Ansel. The woman, who, with two
men, planned the death of her own
husband, will leave the State prison
where fifteen years Of her life have
been spent. She may 60 back to
that home now, where still fingers
the memory of a dark night, many
years ago, when ]. o. Carson lay
asleep in his bed and was murdered
by Ed. Green and John Page, while
the wife stealthily left the home.
"Desiring rather to err on the side
of mercy, if I err at all, I do hereby
grant unto said Fannie Carson,a full
pardon of the offence she has hereto
fore been convicted of, and the ser
tence for which she is now serving,'
are the words, and a few strokes of
the pen making the governors sig
nature, that give Fannie Carson her
freedom.
Tonight Fannie Carson is happy.
Alternately laughing with JOY and
sobbing from the fullness of her
heart, she awaits the morrow in her
cell at the penitentiary. She was
Coon 1ata TODAY and told nf the fart
that she had been pardoned. Nat
urally, she was overjoyed to hear the
news. Once before, when seen at
the prison while her pardon was be-
ing considered, she pleaded for mer-
cy, and now that it has come to her
she hardly realizes what freedom will
mean to her.
Has Repented.
A humble woman now is Fannie
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-03-18

Carson. Out at the penitentiary they
say that she has repented Of her
sins. Conducting a Bible class among
her fellow prisoners, it il probable
that she has seen the error Of her
way and is truly sorry for what she
has done. Pity and the opinion that
she has suffered much are the NOV
ing powers In the securing Of a par
don for this woman. Frail of body,
a physical wreck, according to the
written statement of physicians, Fan
ME Carson is not a fit person, in the
opinion of those who considered her
case, to serve out her days in the
State prison.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-03-18
Has Repented.

A humble woman now is Fannie
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-02-09
Mrs. George Draper was in the
.ity TODAY from Tenstrike.

Mrs. George Draper was in the
city today from Tenstrike.
On account of the illness of
Mrs, McLachlin the meeting of
the Presbyterian Aid Society is
postponed until next week.
L. D. French of Chisholm, an
employee of the Nichols Chisholm
Lumber company of that place,
transacted business in Bemidji to-
day.
Wanted - Money taken from
Masonic Hall Monday evening,
February 7, returned at once to this
Office. No questions asked if re-
turned.
John c. Parker came to the city
this morning and circulated among
his friends during the day. Fine
weather for logging" quoth John,
when asked "how are they coming?"
w. F. Noble, the pioneer home
steader of the Third River country,
east of Blackjack, cane to Bemidj il
last night from the Duck" and
spent the night here, returning
northward this morning.
George Lydick, who has the
contract for grading the 500 right
of-way for some distance east of
Cass Lake and also from Cass
Lake to Bemidji, was a visitor in
the city yesterday. Mr.. Lydick is
getting along nicely with the work
of grading the right-of-way, and
he is nearing the completion of his
contract. ..s
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-02-09
SHIP SUBSIDY
BILL DOOMED
Not Believed Measure Will
Pass the House.
DEFEATED LAST CONGRESS

Failed Of Approval by Three Votes at
That Time and Its Opponents De-
clare That 1t Will Meet Like Fate
THIS Year but by Larger Major
! ity-Present Measure Not at All
Sugar Coated.
Washington, Feb. 8--With Repub-
lican majority of fifty-five in the house
last March the postal mail subvention
bill was defeated by three votes. This
year, in the opinion of many unpreju-
diced representatives, the Humphreys
ship subsidy measure will suffer the
same fate, but by greater margin.
No legislation was more strongly de-
sired than the subvention bill and no
measure of the Sixtieth congress had
greater pressure behind it. It's active
supporters included President Roose-
welt, Frank H.. Hitchcock and the
leaders in the senate and house.
The bill last year was more or less
sugar coated under the name mail sub
vention. This alone gained it several
votes. This years measure is an out
and out subsidy, reported by the COM
mittee on merchant marine with abso-
lutte candor. '.
But the method by which it was re.
ported has already lost it one vote,
that of Representative Swasey of
Maine, who voted for last years bill.
He has announced that he will not
support the Humphreys measure. He
joins in the chorus of criticism which
fell to the majority on the committee
because it insisted upon vote last
Thursday when the minority asked
lOn~cr time for r noriooS
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-02-09
Premier Robin Not IMPROVING.

Winnipeg, Man., Feb. 8.-Latest ad-
vices say Premier Robin is, not i'm
proving in health at Mount Clemens
and it is considered doubtful. if he will
open the legislature on Tuesday next.
If he is unable to do so Robert Rogers,
minister of public works, will officiate
and assume command of the local gov
eminent.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-02-09

PILES CURED IN TO II DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure
any case Of Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Pro
truding Piles in tos14 days or money re-
funded. Soc.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22

WILLIS L. MOORE, chief of the
w weather bureau, is the victim of q
professional Crouch" He has become
incensed at the ground hog as bust
ness rival. He believes his competitor
should be let in for share of criti-
cism and not all of it thrown at his
head.
You never pick up a paper" said
Prof. Moore, that you don't see
harsh criticism of the weather bureau
We get roasted If the weather is hot
We get roasted if the weather is cold
And when it rains the abuse heaped
upon us Is terrific.
mo matter what we do 1t is wrong
If we miss the time of the coming
of rain by half an hour we are de.
clared grossly incompetent. People
make speeches and say the weather
bureau is spending too much money
Then somebody writes long maya
zine article about us. They say we
never have been right for two days
on a stretch since the bureau was
established.
NATURALLY, being director of the bu
reau, I have to bear the brunt Of this
criticism. That is as it should be-
Moreovef. l am used to 1t.
But while the abuse Is going around
why not be impartial with it? What
about that great weather prophet-the
ground hog? .+s..5 !, :. Z. ..s..3.@
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22

NAMES can't be mentioned in this
~ story. 1t must stand upon it's own
feet. A former Clevelander, now res
ident in Washington, got word that
a Cleveland friend was in town. He
found out the friends address. One
evening he told his wife he would
make a call. He took car and got
off at certain circle Two streets
lead from this running in the same
direction. He thought he took the
right one. In point Of fact he took
the wrong. One is a first-class resi-
dence district; the other is made up
Of mean buildings. He paused before
the number that had given him as
the address of his friend. He gazed
up at the dusty, dirty outside in dis
may. Then he went home.
II hadn't the heart to go any fur
ther," he told his wife. John must
be playing in awfully hard luck"
why didn't you go to see?" his
wife demanded. HE may be i'll and
alone"
Hes too proud" said the husband.
Il remember that pride of his. It's
almost an affection"
What are you going to do?"
Il thought I'd send him a check"
DO you suppose" the wife scorn-
fully asked, that he would have a
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22
EXCELLENT TRADE
WESTERN CANADA
SPLENDID CROPS, BIG PRICES,
AND PROSPEROUS OUTLOOK
FOR THE FUTURE.

Throughout all Of Canada, and espe.
clally In the Western Provinces Of
Canadas there is buoyancy in every
me OF business that is fully war
ranted by every condition. The crops
OF the past year were what was e.
pected, and the prices for grain of all
kinds, put the farmers in a class by
themselves. Many of them are indie
pendent, and many others have got
well started on the road. The latest
reports are that seeding is well under
way In almost every district, and the
prospects are that a vastly larger area
than that under crop last year will
be seeded early this spring. In the
Lethbridge district, in Southern Al.
berta. steam and gasoline outfits, hun.
dreds OF them, are breaking up the
prairie at tremendous pace, but
they work night and day. AS soon as
1t becomes dark, gangs are changed,
a head light attached, and on, on
through the night until the first
streak OF dawn, these giant monsters
with their seven or eight gangs OF
breaking plows, keep up the work.
Then the more modest farmer is put
ting In the longest hours possible with
his teams Of horses or oxen. And
what will the Country be like in Au.
gust. when these fields have become
yellowed with the literally golden
grain. There will be one vast ex-
panse Of wheat field. And there VIII
be a market for it, because it is the
best grain grown, and the demand
will be everywhere. AS previously in.
timated business throughout Western
Canada is sound and good. The grain
production of 1909 has been the great
factor in establishing the reputation
of Western Canada, and it is worth
talking about. It surpassed all previ-
GUS records, both in regard to quality
and quantity, and such an achieve
ment was by no means easy. The
limit has not been reached, and a
large average increase may be ex-
pected during the next ten years.
There will be odd seasons when a
~falling-otf will occur, and it is the fall
ing-off that causes alarms and panics
In the commercial world. The plains
have done their duty so far in the
output of grain and it would be rea-
sonable to make occasional allowances
for slowing-up. The faster the rate OF
increase is now, the sharper will be
the check when the production dimin-
ishes. But there are some unreason-
able people who wonder why the
growth of one year is not continued
during the next, and at an even faster
rate. These same unreasonable PEG.
pie are the ones who see flaws in the
situation as soon as an indication is
given that the startling advances have
not been maintained.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22
Honor for Owney the Postoffice Dog

the mail was being loaded. He was
unobserved till after the train had
started. Then the clerks sent him
back to Albany. After that he made
frequent trips. The employees of the
office tagged him "Owney, Albany
Postofice, Albany, N Y" They re-
quested other mail clerks to affix tags
to him on his trips showing where he
had been. He soon became so extern
sive a traveller, however, that he
couldn't carry his tags. While he was
once passing through Washington the
postmaster general gave him set of
harness. From this the tags were
then suspended. He travelled from
place to place, always following the
mail. In addition to covering the
United States and Canada, he visited
Europe and Asia. The mikado of
Japan presented him with a silver
medal upon which was engraved the
national coat of arms.
"Owney" met death not in keep
ing with his honored life. At Toledo.
on one of his journeys, he was chained
In the basement Of the postoffce. A
photographer attempted to take his
picture. "Owney" barked his objec-
lions. A clerk sought to sooth him
and was bitten. The clerk spread the
report that the dog was mad, and a
policeman shot him.
Now he goes back to Ohio, honored,
but still very dead dog.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22

EI0WNEY" is about to come into his
~ own. "Owney" was a dog. He
still is, but he is dead dog. His
mounted remains will be on exhibit at
the Ohio Valley exposition, to be held
at Cincinnati next autumn.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
also arranged to send a postal exhibit
ton to the show. The chief clerk of
the department has notified the expo
sition management that he has Sc
lected the leading features of the
museum, which will be forwarded in
ample time for the opening.
But "Owney" will get the place of
prominence. The dogs story makes
for pity. Almost "a years ago the little
Scotch terrier was found curled up
asleep on top of some mail bags in
the postofice at Albany. He had
taken refuge from the cold. The mail
clerks adopted him. They at length
named him "Owney" because of the
frequent question: who is your
owner?"
One day he followed the mail wagon
to the station and boarded a car while
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22
Ground Hog Rank Faker, Saws Moore

What about ground hogs! ask
you, is he not the greatest faker, the
greatest fourflusher, the greatest bun
combe artist that ever pretended to
look at cloud and tell you what was
in it?
What did he do this year? Did he
make good? Not bit of it. He was
as far off as we were about the prob
able weather conditions for March 4.
1910.
He crawled out of his hole on Feb
ruary q, saw his shadow, got his pic
ture in every paper in the country, and
then beat it back to his lair, leaving
behind him the idea that the remain
der of February and all of March would
be marked by bad weather.
WAS it reliable forecast? should
say not. We have had the mildest and
most beautiful March in years. Yet
the ground hog gets off without a
single roast. And next year people
will be just as eager to believe in his
judgment"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22
"Uncle Joe" AS an Agent of Dan Cupid

The Uncle Joe Matrimonial Blu
real" had most modest beginning.
Out in Stewardson, ILL.,, there lives a
young farmer who has been reading all
sorts Of newspaper stories and maya
zine articles about the higher cost OF
living. He read that lots of young peo-
pie did not get married because the
cost of living was such that penury
and sorrow stared them in the face.
He was q bachelor and prosperous,
and it occurred to him that somewhere
in the land there must be the mate
that would make his home happier and
brighter, that might be Just yearning
to get married, yet scared by all this
talk OF poverty and trouble. The
young man wrote to Speaker Cannon.
He wrote modest postal card to say
that he had a farm of 120 acres. and
that, like the hotel business, there was
always room for one more" He put
it up to the speaker to furnish the one
more
Then Uncle Joe in the goodness OF
his heart told newspaper man about
the young farmer, and the newspaper
man put piece in the paper and the
food of letters started.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22

VUAsH1NGToN.-on L. White Bus
w bey's desk in the speakers
ante-room Of the national house
Of representatives reposes a packet
OF letters Endorsed Cupid" It
is the fling cabinet of the Uncle Joe
Matrimonial Bureau" established by
accident and not incorporated. Every
day brings additions to the speakers
mail, from men and women, young and
old, from every quarter of the land
seeking surcease from the pangs of
loneliness. Some of them are rich,
they say, and others want to make
themselves happy. Some of the writer's
are quite "choosey," as to the sort of
helpmeet they want and others will
take almost any old thing that is
willing to trot or even amble in double
harness.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22
Use Hiss as Protection.

At least two observers, Messrs. F..
B. LOOMS and J. A. Harris, have, with
in the last two years, noted the curious
fact that the prairie dog and burrow-
ing owl sometimes initiate, in a most
realistic way. the rattle of the rattle
snake, among whose dens they are
often found. When the owls are dis.
turbed they utter this warning sound
In such manner that even expert
enced horses are startled and deceived
by it. Mr.. Harris suggests that this
trick is intended as a measure of self
protection. Even young birds, he, says,
make the same sound, when taken
from the nests.-Nature
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22
Thought Friend Poor, Found Him Rich

check cashed, if he is as proud as you
say?"
We'll, I'll send him the money
then"
Next day he went to his bank and
drew out hundred dollars in one bill.
This he put into an envelope and sent
to the address of his friend, writing
street and number correctly. He told
the messenger not to say where the
letter had come from. This answer
came in the mornings mail:
Dear Bill-Well, you've decided to
pay that old poker debt after all these
years, have you? Much obliged. I'm
going to have that bill framed ana
hang it on the wall when get home"
hang it on the'wall when 1 get home.
You thought to slip it to me without
my knowing where it came from, did
you? Don't you think I know that
old handwriting? 1 guess I've cashed
enough I. o. us in the time of our
crazy youth. I hope you haven't
avoided he because of that debt. I've
thought of kidding you about it, If !
could find out where you were; but l
hesftated because knew how proud
you were. I'll drop in on you before
I go, unless l get hurry call from
my board of directors. We have some
big deals on
The recipient of the letter slowly
tore 1t to bits. His mind went back
to the days of that crazy youth that
his friend referred to- He remem.
bered the hundred now; he was as
tonished that it wasn't more.
II suppose Mary will ask me If I've
heard" he unused. Il guess I'll say he
was too proud to answer, but he need.
| ed the money so badly he kept it,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22

The punishment for cruelty in ship
ment ought to be made heavy, other
wise it will not be deterrent. The
convenience of the shippers and car
r1ers will lead them to prefer paying
small fines to obeying the law to the
letter. AS to the moral aspect of the
case. 1t is shocking to humane sentt
ment that unfortunate animals should
be subjected to intense heat in sum
mer, aggravated by the deprivation Of
food and water for long and unnatural
periods. AS a sanitary matter, ami
mails with blood fevered and systems
injured by such suffering are not al
for human food.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22
In New HAMPSHIRE.

That irresponsible Manchester Union
man gave himself a surprise party by
going to church last Sunday and this
was the result: ION this first
Sunday of Lent, while George Bailey
of the Houston Post is sacrilegiously
fishing for cells in Texas bayou, and
the (married) paragrapher of the
Kennebeck Journal is tapping his
boots, and the Ging-Ging Goophus of
the Springfield Union is playing seven
up, we, in common with other good
New Hampshire people, shall dutifully
attend church" Union.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22

Criticism is made not OF DESTROYING
the cherry trees sent by Japan as a
gift to the United States. but of let
ting the fact out that they were de-
stroyed because they were infested
with bugs Of strange and threatening
nature. The diplomatic courtesies
with so punctilious a nation as japan
should have taken the form of cour-
teous note declaring that the govern.
ment exceedingly regrets having to
destroy the honorable cherry trees,
but the honorable insects were honor
ably superfluOus.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22

An expert says now to let a child
eat wholesome food whenever he
wants it, as hunger is good guide,
Human experience is beginning to al.
low Dame Nature to have say in II.
conclusions now, which is very sen.
sible, as the old lady has been Iona
enough at the business to know what
she is talking about
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22


tua will fight
they think
Mclean
Of
Some time Scott letter Martha Wilcox
recording
Gerald rdinate.
discharged
cutting of Of
will be session its building
Gerald matter
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22
WILLING TO TAKE CHANCES
Burden Of Responsibility That Comes
with Great Wealth Seemingly
Had Few Terrors.

Here the lecturer threw upon the
screen the portrait of a man well
known in the financial world. This"
he said, lis one of the great captains
Of finance. I do not need to mention
his name. His face IL familiar to all Of
you. Look at his corrugated brow; the
burrows in his cheeks. the pouches un-
dor kisseyes. the deep lines about his.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22

A Milwaukee woman has raised a
novel point by suing for damages for
attempts to drive her out Of society.
The next thing courts will be asked
for injunctions preventing exclusive
hostesses from shutting out aspiranta
to society from their luncheons and
teas.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-22

It might be of some use for the
inventors of universal languages to
get together and arbitrate which uni
versal language shall be universally
used, if it were not for one certain
result. That is that as soon as the
real universal language should be de.
cided on another inventor would Dor
up with a new universal language r.
contest the field.