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THE GOVERNOR SHOULD ACT.

The argument that Governor Eber-
hart should continue to delay action
on the charges of Chairman Peterson
filed, 10! these many moons ago, ac-
cusing Sheriff Hazen with doing Just
about everything that he shouldn't
do, is too weak to be taken seriously
Persons with an over abundance of
charity might be inclined to give the
governor benefit of the doubt up to
the present time on the ground that
he feared that to "stir things up"
here would be to jeopardize the work
of relieving Cass Lake of her mayor,
but for him to continue at the capt.
toll deaf as Sphinx in Egypt to the
entreaties that the serious charges
against Sheriff Hazen be Investigate
ed, is too much. Beltrami has no
greater yearning for crooked sheriff
than Cass Lake has for crook
ed mayor. DR.. Dumas is charged with
taking money that did not belong to
him; so is Sheriff Hazen. The mayor
is willing to try to establish his in
.nocense; the sheriff should be made
to. il he can. sa@.--
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* &
Daddy 5 Bedtime
q. Wille's Bright
I0TV Idea Saved His
Employer $40

GU have been showing remarkable
DEALS jack said daddy
with old Dnah about the cookies that shall
little office boy whose in
received
"That
won't
"W had just
May speak few
Thats the boy said Mr. Smith, Come right
IL notice that 28 OF these letters
that $36
there and back a of cents'
"How quickly.
a breath.
~Good said daddy "Thees nothing
teacher keeps
of
not Gnsd but other
of nearly $40
so on Saturday Will whole off,
a o
IL wonder if he took his
I'm he did, Of
"Well didn't Will
really don't know been
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NEWS FORECAST FOR THE COMING WEEK

The Georgia Legislature will take
it's first vote Tuesday for the cleo
ton of United States senator to sue
coed the late Senator Clay. The re-
suit of the contest is awaited with
considerable interest, chiefly because
of the prominence of the several
aspirants for the toga. Among those
who are regarded as candidates for
the senatOrship are Governor Hoka
Smith, Senator Terrell, "Tom" Wat
son and Col. Pleasant A. Stovall of
Savannah.
| Republicans of Kentucky will
nominate State ticket at a convex
tion to be held in Louisville Tuesday
Judge E. C. O'Rear of the Court Of
Appeals is their probable choice for
governor. No instructions are pro-
posed for United States senator, and
probably none will be given.
The progress of King George ana
Queen Mary in their tour of the
United Kingdom promises to furnish,
the most of the weeks news from the
other side. Concluding the four
days visit in Ireland their Maiesties
will leave Dublin Wednesday for
Wales. At Carnarvon Castle the
next day will take place the investi-
ture of the Prince of Wales by the
King. On Friday his Majesty will
open the new University College at
Bangor and on Saturday he will lay
the foundation stone of the Welsh
National Library at Aberystwith.
The notable conventions of the
week will include the national re-
union of Elks at Atlantic City, the
annual convention of the National
Education Association at San Fran
cisco, the meeting of the Imperial
Council Of the Mystic Shrine at
Rochester, the annual meeting of the
National Editorial Association at De-
troit, the national convention of
Building Owners and Managers at
Cleveland, and the annual convention
of the Young Peoples Christian
Union of the Universalist Church in
the United States and Canada at PORT
land, Maine.
Other events that will figure more
or less prominently in the news of
the week will include the opening
of the Canadian Industrial Exhibit
ton at Winnipeg, the international
athletic games in England between
the teams of Harvard and Yale and
Cambridge and Oxford, the opening
of the Grand Circuit races at Indian
apolis, and the national balloon race,
which is scheduled to start on Mon
day from Kansas City.
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state, is seriously i'll in his home at

state, is seriously i'll in his home at
Auburndale.
NEWBURGH, N. Y.-Amelia E.
Barr, the authoress, met with an ae-
cident at her home, Cherrycroft, in
Cornwall. She was passing from one
room to another when her foot caught
IN rug, throwing her to the floor.
Her face was badly cut.
PITTSBURG-Phi Gamma Delta.
one of the largest and oldest Greek
letter societies of the American COL
leges, opened it's sixty-third annual
ecclesla here. Five hundred dele
gates from all parts of the country
are expected to attend the sessions.
DANVILLE, VA.-George Clark
gave up his life in a vain effort to
save his dog from death beneath the
wheels of Southern railway train.
Clark, who was clear of the track,
discovered the animals danger, rush.
ed back, only to be struck by the en-
CINE.
HOLLIDAYSBURG PA.-The in
tense heat, it is believed, produced an
explosion at the Standard Powder
works at Horrell Station on the
Petersburg branch of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, resulting in the death
Of four employees and the complete
destruction Of the works.
.PITTSBURG-The mines through
out the Irwin Greensburg coal fields,
in Westmoreland county, held meet
ings to take vote on ending the
strike that has been on for sixteen
months. In every instance the min
ers voted to give up the struggle, as
the international executive board of
the United Mine Workers in session
at indianapolis voted to discontinue
paying strike benefits.
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Being man of only average fight
ing ability, his Majesty, King George
V carefully avoided any disparaging
remarks relative to the Pope during
his visit to Dublin today.
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There is a report to the effect that
Mike Davis was in: Duluth Thursday
night and now the Zenith City police
men are afraid to go home in the
dark.
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REST AND HEALTH TO MOTHER AND Child.

MRS. W1NsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP has been
used for over SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS OF
MOTHERS MOTHERS for their CH1LDREN WH1LE
SOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the G UMS
ALLAYS all PAIN; CURES WIND COLO, anG
solutely harmless. Be sure and ask for MRS
Winslow's Soothing Syrup" and take no other
kind Twenty-Five cents bottle.
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These are. the glorious days when
ambitious persons are up and away
at sunrise to get four yards Of SUM-
burn, dead tired and pint of blue
berries.
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The latest move on the part of the |
Canadian Pacific railway manage
ment is the displacement of colored
employees and the introduction of |
Japanese
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O OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED 9
8 @ o o @ 9 o o 9 O O o o o o o o
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS-The dis
solving of the Fort Sam Houston
maneuvers camp began when the
Thirteenth United States Infantry
entrained for Fort Leaverworth.
CHICAGO-Complete "sane and
SAFE Fourth figures show totals of
thirty-nine killed and 1858 injured.
This is much less than half the num-
Der of deaths and accidents of 1910.
BOSTON-Bishop Willard F. NAL
lalieu, "a years old, one of the oldest
and most prominent officers of the
Methodist Episcopal church in this
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
July 8,

July b.
o 17O9-Peter the Great of Russia {
o defeated Charles XII. of (
9 Sweden in the battle of (
9 PultoWa. &
9 1721-Elihu Yale, patron of Yale {
9 College, died in England. {
9 Born in 1648. 6
9 l758-The French under Aber- {
@ crombie made an unsuc- {
@ cessful attack on Fort {
@ Ticonderoga. &
@ lS39-John D. Rockefeller born {
@ in Richford, N. Y. 6
O lS62-TWelve hundred houses {
8 in Montreal destroyed by {
8 fire. G
9 l863-Surrender of Port Hud- G
@ son. a Confederate for {
O tress on the Mississippi. {
o 1896-Sir Charles Upper re- {
9 signed the Premiership G
@ of Canada, G
9 1898-Admiral Dewey's vessels {
9 took possession of Isla G
9 Grande in Subig Bay, {
@ near Manila. {
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july 9.

~
@ 1755-French and Indians de-
@ feated Braddock's expe-
@ dition on it's march to
9 Fort Duquesne.
O. 177S-Articles of Confederation
@ signed by the delegates
@ from eight states.
9 l797-Edmund Burke, famous
@ orator, died in England.
9 Born in Dublin. January
O. 1, 1890.
9 181O-The kingdom of Holland
9 annexed to France.
9 1811-Mrs. Sara P. Willis PART
o on Granny Fern") born
@ in. Portland, Me. Died
@ IN Brooklyn, October 10,
@ 1872. i.
@ 1Sl5-Oran M. Roberts, six
9 teenth governor of Tex,
o born in South Carolina.
@ Died in Marble Falls,
@ Texas, May 10, 1898.
@ lS19-Elias. Howe, inventor of
9 the sewing machine,
o born in Spencer, Mass.
O. Died in Brooklyn, Octob-
@ er 3, 1867.
O. l843-Washington Allston, ia
q NOUS painter, died in
9 Cambridgeport, Mass.
@ Born in Waccamaw, S. {
o c., November 5, 1879.
9 l892-St. Johns, Newfound-
9 land, nearly destroyed by
@ fire.
9 o @ q o @ o @ @ @ 9 o o o o
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1t was a great tournament but
Ada is still inclined to jump when
the clock strikes.
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but we would willingly have resigned
them after carrying them Tor a Few
hours. The musket. after an hours drill,
seemed heavier and less ornamental than
1t had looked to be.
The first day l went out to drill, get
ting tired of doing the same things over
and over, 1 said to the drill sergeant:
Lets stop this fooling and go over to
the grocery" His only reply was ad-
dressed to corporal: Corporal. take
this man out and drill him." And the
corporal did!
l found that suggestions were not so
we'll appreciated in the army as In pri-
vate life, and that no wisdom was equal
to a drilImaster's Right face, left
wheel" and right, oblique. march. 1t
takes raw recruit some time to learn
gest, but obey. Some never do learn.
1 acquired it at last, in humility
and mud, but it was tough. Yet l
doubt IL my patriotism. during my nrst
three weeks drill, was quite knee-hlgn.
Drilling looks easy to spectator but
it isn't Old soldiers who read this will
remember their green recru1thood ana
smile assent.
After q time I had cut down my uni
form SO that l could see out OF IT, ana
had conquered the drill sufficiently to
see through it, Then the word came:
On to Washington!
Our company was quartered at a large
hotel near the railway station in the
town in which it had been recruited.
Bunks had been fitted up within part
of the hotel but little used. We took
our meals at the public table and found
fault with the style. Six months later
we would have considered ourselves
aristocratic to have slept in the hotel
stables with the meal bin for dining
table. One morning there was great
excitement at the report that We were
going to be sent to the front. Most
of us obtained limited pass and went
TO see our friends for the last time. re-
turning the same night. Many of our
schoolmateS came In tears to say good
bye. We took leave of them all with
heavy hearts. for. lightly as l may here
seem to treat the subject, ii was no
light thing for a boy of twenty to start
out for three years into the unknown
dangers Of a civil war.
Our mothers-God bless themi-had
brought us something good to eat--pies,
cakes, doughnuts and jellies. 1t was one
way in which mothers heart found ut
terance. The young ladies sisters, of
course) brought an invention, usually
made of leather or cloth, containing nee
dies, pins, thread, buttons and scissors,
so that nearly every recruit had an en-
bryo tailor's shop, with the goose out
side. One old lady, In the innocence OF
her heart. brought her son an umbrella.
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in considering war SO serious after all.
Chances for travel"' l must confess
now, after four years of soldering, that
the chances for travel were no myth;
but promotion was a little uncertain
and slow.
1 was in no hurry to open the door
Though determined to enlist, l was half
inclined to put 1t off awhile; / had a
f1uctuation of desires. 1 was faint-hearted
and brave; I wanted to enlist, and yet
Here / turned the knob and was re-
lieved. / had been more prompt. with all
my hesitation, than the officer in his
duty; he wasn't in. Finally he came and
said: What do you want. my boyE 1
want to enlist" 1 responded. blushing
deeply with upwelling patriotism and
bashfulness. Then the surgeon came to
strip and examine me. In justice to N.Y.
self. it must be stated that signed the
rolls without a tremor. 1t is common TO
the most of humanity, / believe, That
when confronted with actual danger, men
have less fear than in its contemplation.
l will, however, make one exception IN
favor of the first shell 1 heard uttering its
blood-curdling misses, as though a steam
locomotive were travelling the air. win
this exception I have found the actual
dangers of war always less terrible face
to face than on the night before the bat
tie.
NV first uniform was a bad fit; my
trousers were too long by three Or four
inches; the flannel shirt was coarse and
unpleasant, too large at the neck and
too short elsewhere. The forage cap was
an ungainly bag with pasteboard top
and leather visor; the blouse was the
only part which seemed decent; while
the overcoat made me feel like little
nubbin of corn in a large preponderanc,ee
of husk Nothing except Virginia mud
ever took down my ideas OF military
pomp quite so low.
After enlisting I did not seem of so
much consequence as 1 had expected.
There was not so much excitement on &C
count of my military appearance as L
deemed justly my due l was taught my
facings. and at the time l thought the
drill master needlessly fussy about Shout
dering, ordering and presenting arms. At
this time men were often drilled in COM
pany and regimental evolutons long be-
cause of the difficulty of obtaining mus
kets. These we obtained at an early day,
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We did not see anything particularly
laughable about 1t at the time, but our
old drill sergeant did. Finally we We're
ready to move: our tears were wiped
away, our buttons were polished and our
muskets were as bright emery paper
could make them.
"Wad" Rider, a member of our COM
pany, had come from a neighboring state
to enlist with us. He was about eighteen
years Of age, red-headed, freckled-faced,
good-natured and rough, with wonder
full aptitude for crying or laughing from
sympathy. Another comrade. whom / Will
call Jack, was honored with a call from
his mother, little woman, hardly reach
ing up to his shoulder, with sweet,
motherly, careworn face. At the last
moment, though she had tried hard to
preserve her composure, she threw her
arms around her boys neck, and with
an outburst of sobbing and crying. said,
MY dear boy, my dear boy, what Will
your poor old mother do without you?
You are going to fight for your country:
Don't forget your mother, Jack; God
bless you. God bless your
We felt as if the mothers tears and
blessing were a benediction over us all.
There was a touch of nature in her
fomely sorrow and solicitude over her big
hoy, which drew tears of sympathy
from my eyes as I thought Of my own
sorrowing mother at home. The SYM
pathetic 'Wad' Rider burst into tears
and sobs. His eyes refused, as he ex-
pressed it, to dry up" until as we We're
moving off, Jacks mother, rushing to-
ward him with a bundle tied like
wheat-sheaf. called out in a most pathetic
voice: Jack, Jack! you've forgotten to
take your pennyroyal." We all laughed,
and so did Jack, and I think the laugh
helped him more than the cry did. Every
body had said his last word, and the cars
were off. Handkerchiefs were waved at
us from all the houses we passed; we
cheered till we were hoarse. and then
settled back and swung our handker-
chiefs.
lust here let me name over the con-
tents of my knapsack, as a fair sample
Of what ali the volunteers started with.
There were in it pair Of trousers. two
pairs of drawers, a pair of thick boots.
-four pairs of stockings, four flannel
shirts, a blouse, looking glass, a can
of peaches, bottle of cough mixture, a
button stick, chalk, razor and strop, the
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The colonel interrupted me angrily, and,
with fire in his eye, exclaimed: Mister?
There are no misters in the army"
II thought, sir" 1 began, apologet-
ically.
Think? Think he cried. what right
have you to think? l do the thinking
for this regiment! Go to your quarters."
! did not tarry. There seemed to be no
common ground on which he and / could
argue questions of personal etiquette.
But 1 should do injustice to his character
as commander If I failed to illustrate
another manner Of reproof which he
sometimes applied.
One day, noticing corporal in soiled
gloves. he said: Corporal. you set bad
example to the men with your soiled
gloves Why do your
I've had no pay, sir, since entering the
service, and can't afford to hire wash
ing"
The colonel drew from his pocket
pair of gloves spotlessly white. and,
handing them TO the corporal, said: Put
on those: washed them myself"
This was an unforgotten lesson to the
whole regiment that 1t was q soldiers
duty to attend himself to his personal
neatness.
In a camp Of soldiers, ruInor, with her
thousand tongues, Is always speaking.
How We received the report or whence
ii came I know not. but 1t was rumored
one morning early in 1862 that We were
about to move. The order in reality
came at last, to the distress and dismay
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tones, talked with their comrades as t
their destination. Not much was said
about fighting, but I, for one, did great
deal of thinking on that tender subject
After we passed the fort which COM
manded the bridge on the Virginia side
We encountered one of the most powerful
allies of the enemy, particularly during
the winter and spring campaigns in Vir-
ginia-mud. No country equals a Vir-
ginia road for mud. We struck ii thick
and sometimes knee-deep. 1t was verify
"heavy marching The foot sank insid-
iously into the mud. and came out again
reluctantly; it had to be coaxed. and
while you were persuading your left the
willing right was sinking as deep. The
noise of walking was like that of a sue
ton pump when the water is exhausted.
The order was given. Route step: we
climbed the banks Of the road in search
of firm earth, but it couldn't be found
SO we went on pumping away, making
about one foot in depth to two in adj
vance. Our feet seemingly weighed
twenty pounds each. We carried a num-
but it came out a number twelve, elon-
gated, yellow and nasty. Occasionally a
boot or shoe would be left in the mud,
and 1t would take an exploring expedi-
ton to find 1t. Wad Rider declared that
though Virginia was once in the Union,
she was now in the mud. The boys
called their shoes ''pontoons." mud
hooks 'soil-excavators" and other names
not quite so polite.
That first night out we went into camp
near a small brook, where we washed OFF
enough of the mud to recognize our feet.
We had hard-tack and coffee for supper
And didn't 1t "go good!"% What sauce
ever equaled that Of hunger? Truly the
feast is in the palate. How We slept!
Feet wet, boots for pillow, the mud
oozing up around our rubber blankets.
but making a soft bed withal, and we
sleeping the dreamless sleep of tired men.
would be willing, occasionally, to make
another such march, through the same
mud, for such a sleep.
At early daylight We fell In for rations
Of hot coffee and bareback. Immediately
after. we took UP our line Of march. or.
as Wad Rider expressed 1t, began to pull
NJ ud. With intervals OF rest, we pulled
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out of a soldier as to wet the seat Of his
trousers.
On we went pumping and churning up
and down in the mud, till about 10
o clock, when We pitched camp near the
roadside, as wet and bedraggled a set
of men as ever painted for military glory
or pursued the bubble reputation at the
wooden lannon's mouth. We arrived at
our old camp near Washington the fol-
lowing evening.
In the early spring, when the Army OF
the Potomac was getting ready to move
from Washington, the constant drill and
discipline, the Frightening of arms and
polishing Of buttons and the exasperat-
ing fussiness on the part of company
and regimental officers during inspec-
tions, conveyed to US a hint, as one OF
our comrades expressed it, that "some
one higher in command was punching
them to punch us.
There was unusual activity upon the
Potomac I'm front of our camp. Numer-
Gus steam tugs were pulling huge sailing
vessels here and there, and large trans
ports loaded with soldiers horses bales
of hay and munitions for an army, swept
majestically down the broad river.
Every description of water conveyance,
from canal boat to huge three-decked
steamboat, seemed to have been pressed
into service.
At last, when drills and inspections had
made us almost frantic with neatness and
our marching orders came
We formed in two ranks and boarded a
little steamer lying at the wharf near by.
All heavy baggage was left behind. I
had chung to the contents OF my KNAPP
sack with logged tenacity; but, notwith-
standing my most earnest protest, / was
required to leave about one-half OF them,
a pair of heavy boots. To my
mind l was now entirely destitute or
comforts.
The general opinion among us was that
at last We were on our way to make an
end of the Confederacy. We gathered In
little knots on the deck, here and there q
party were playing penny ante; others
slept or dozed, but the majority smoked
and discussed the proba bilities of our
about which we really knew
except that We were sailing down
the Potomac.
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quiet seemed inconsistent with the war
preparations going on around us. In the
see the steepleS and towers of the city
of Alexandria. while UP stream. on the
right, was the Long bridge. Here and
there was to be seen the moving piano.
rama Of armed men, as a regiment
crossed the bridge: a. flash of sunlight on
the polished muskets revealed them to
the eye; while the white-topped army
baggage wagons filed over in constant
procession, looking like sections of white
washed fence in motion.
During the months We were in camp in
Washington, we were drilled to an extent
which to the raw thinking soldier
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OF the suffers and the little German
woman who kept the grocery round the
corner. We left her disconsolate over
the cakes, pies and goodies which had
been literally purchased, but which were
vet unpaid for when We fell into two
ranks. were counted off, and marched to
conquer the prejudices of other suffers
of those quiet mornings
when every sound is heard with distinct
ness. The waters of the Potomac were
like sheet of glass as we took up our
line Of march across the Long bridge
making the old structure shake with our
cadence step. Our moods varied: some
laughed and joked; some. in suppressed
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delphia the waving Of handkerchiefs was
less and less noticeable along the route.
We arrived in Baltimore late at night:
Union troops now controlled the city. and
we marched through its deserted streets
unmolested. On our arrival at Washing
ton the next morning we were marched
to barracks, dignified by the name of
Soldiers retreat" where each man re-
ceived g. half loaf of Setback as we
had already begun to call wheat bread
with a. piece of salt junk" about as
big and tough as the heel of my gov
which constituted our breakfast.
Our first day in Washington was spent
in shaving, washing. polishing our brass