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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-17

the cattlemen and whose name had
been coupled with Bobby Ellis lately.
Helen looked hard at the fascinating
widow who was talking earnestly to
Mr.. Main. Mrs. Watkins was evident
ly vain OF the wealth Of red hair that
was generously streaked with white,
for she made no attempt to conceal
pink and white face, sweet and good.
humored, and her smile was good to
see
She looks sweet" said Helen in
spite OF the wave Of jealousy that
rushed over her.
"She is a sweet. good little woman.
and she's seen heap Of trouble" said
Bobby emphatically. THE best day
she ever had was the one on which
she planted old Watkins!"
"Was he old?" asked Helen family.
about Rawlins' age returned Bob
by mercilessly. "She married to help
her folks along. The fellow she loved
was poor then, but he married and Is
pretty well of now--as rich as your
pa-and as sour dispositioned!"
Perhaps they will marry now--is
he q widower?
Eyes. he's free enough-but wheth-
er they marry or not-hm!"
''Is that what you wanted to, tell
mew asked Helen coldly.
Something like that" returned Bob
by Ellis In her pink ear. I'm going
to be married tomorrow morning"
The girl in his arms stiffened lit
tie and her hands grew cold. All the
pretty color was drained from her
cheeks. She moved her lips to make
reply. but no sound came.
Il was going to ask your pa to drive
you over to the ceremony-the parson
at Red Spider will tie the knot"
Helen laughed. That's funny
was telling father the other day that
I had never been to Q wedding In my
life. It's good Of you TO ask us to your
wedding"
II hope you'll come--everything's
arranged. / even got the ring-right
here!" Mr.. Ellis thumped his vest
pocket SUCCESSFULLY.
isis Mrs. Watkins" Helen's
voice died away in an agonized whis-
per.
Bobby Ellis paid no attention to
that. THE wilder? Bless your heart.
yes-couldnt do the stunt without
her!" he said cheerfully.
Helen was game. I've will come"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-17
The FIy In History.

I'VE swat the fly today, but had II
not been for the fly the whole course
OF our history might have been
changed"
las TO how"
History states that the flies were
so pestiferous in Philadelphia in lT76
that the debaters hurriedly signed the
Declaration OF independence and adj
journed. Bat for the ny they might
have debated until cold weather"
Well. what would II matter If In
dependence day came In November
at world matter heap. We cast
re- ~ % losA any holiday Gus I.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-17
BUY MANY LUxuRIEs.

Americans expended 100000, 900
this year for foreign Injuries, accord
ing to a bulletin issued recently by
the bureau OF statistics. Art treas
ures worth 100000. diamonds cost
Ing Sal. 100000 and laces and fancy
feminine trimmings" worth $4,000
900 Is the record of American extrav-
agance for the fiscal year ending mex!
month.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-17
Never. Never. Never.

A woman is never as old as the
women who are jealous of her think
she looks.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-17
SURPRISED.

1T wish knew how to kill time!-
'Why, have beard you sing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10

quite so audacious and ehameless as MT. Roosevelt pictured it. only the thievish and tyrannical part of Big
 Business can be harmed by his scold- ings. For his very good help In awak- ening the American people to the im- portance of quitting the old ruts-even
 though the process of getting out ot those ruts involved the announcement of certain strange and near-incendiary ioc- trines-we have to thank the gentleman from Oyster Bay, in part. for our over whelming victory at the polls. It Is even fair that in the final summing he be awarded eighty odd votes in the elec-
 toral college. It is even fair that this batch of votes should be pinned on his moose scruff as sort of democratic blue ribbon for girdling the states with his sing-song of the square deal and the majesty of the under man. This sing-song got the democratic party lot of votes, indeed, that siIdiing of tine states was essentially democratic ser-
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CT hand, the sentiment of the majority is formed in the village schools and churches, which are. of course. dom mated by the clergy of the Catholic church.
 Hence there are millions of English observers who say that reform has gone far enough; and the fear of the Pro testants in Ireland Itself Is not un- naturally awake to the perils of their situation if political power should pass without restriction to the Catholic ma jority, whose financial responsibility Is comparatively small. This feeling Is most keen in those northern districts where the old Orange element, the Presbyterian, is fin the majority, with its vast commercial interests.
 The question for Protestants Is: How to save Ireland from domination by the ecclesiastics? TO put the peasantry in control by a generous home rule meas ure would seem to be the same thing as putting the clergy in control. since they do actually dictate opinion and conduct even in the most ordinary affairs, to their peasant parfshioners. Hence, the fervent activity of the unionists, under the leadership of such tory politicians as Sir Edward Carson and Mir. F. D. Smith, and even the late premier, Mr. Arthur Balfour and the liberal rene
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making a very real confusion, out of which the act of union. in 1901 was Pitts chosen path. This was the act of the Irish parliament, and was the result of Pitts corruption fund and patronage
 The act of union never united anything but the tuft hunter to his tuft. And the reason is plain. For the first quar- ter of the nineteenth century the ma jority of Irishmen, because they were Catholics. were forbidden to hold any office In 1929 they were at last per mitted to sit in parliament, and Daniel Ooonnell thus completed what Robert Emmett had begun in 1S03 And yet the union continued. All sorts of conspira- cies and protests were lodged against that iniquitous arrangement, whereby Ireland had lest even the rotten sem blance of self government.
 In 1892 came the great reform bill the charter of modern English democracy. It incidentally increased the number of Irish members at Westminster; but more important than that was it's conveyance of power from the old aristocratic class, possessing corrupt seats in the com mons, to the middle class, the growing industrial masses of England Conces- sions followed to the Irish conscience, but famine and discontent stalked arm
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crcwn and parliament in the seventeenth century; Cromwells soldiers were re- warded witfrrich lands in Ulster and other sections of north Ireland; and the att tempt under the dethroned king, James the Second, to establish himself in Ire land by the aid of the Catholics as against these English and Scotch men was closed by the treaty of Limerick in 1891. And, by the way, for a story of good, clean, brave fighting, without much con cession to benevolence, the latter half of the seventeenth century in Ireland may be commended If Derry was brave ly defended, so was Limerick. If property claims inspired the Orangemen, patriotic agonies wrung the hearts of the Celts.
 Having subdued the land, the English proceeded again to exploit it. harass it's trading and crush It's agriculture. To- wards the end of the eighteenth century quarrels between the Protestants of Dublin, the Episcopalians, and the Rrotestants of Ulster, the Presby- terians, developed amid the up- heavals produced by the French revolution and the war of American inde- pendence. Presbyterians and Catholics alike resented the oppressive conditions under which the country existed, reign of terror ensued. United hishmen, Wex- ford peasants, French allies and loyalists
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HOME RULE OR ROME RULE-By George Eaves D. D.

gade Joseph Chamberlain, and the Canadian nondescript, MT. Bonar Law. These mon deliberately endeavor to fan the flames of fanaticism in those Pres byterians, with the appeal to the fear have attempted to indicate.
 American Protestants sometimes ask, But is not this fear too well founded? What else can be the result of home rule, but the sacrifice of the Protestant minority to the spiritual and political tyranny of an ignorant, b1lndfolded, obedient majority? I do not write this for the annoyance or the delecta- ton of any partisan, but for tho sake of clearly enunciating the situation. Is 1t not amazing that so good a Baptist, for instance. as Mir. Lloyd-George, should eagerly promote precisely such a home rule measure2 By what logical process can he or the mass of non conforming Protestants in England. Scotland, Wales, defend such a step?
 The answer is in the one word, freedom These men believe that the panacea for political blunders In the past and for political confusion and stupidity in the present is more political responsibility The way to cure Ireland of too much church authority is to give Ireland more immediate political self-control. Freedom Is the great educator. Freedom, which is responsibility. will compel the peasant
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in arm with rebellion in Ireland, her pop ulation suffering immense losses. The second half of the nineteenth century tells the same story. with many refne- inents and steady progress. In 1869 Glad stone removed one of the gravest irrita. tions by disestablishing what was ab- surdly called the church of Ireland The young Ireland party was succeeded by the Fenian party and many agrarian out rages took place, culminating in 1882 in the assassination of two members of the Gladstonian administration of that year. This was In resentment against the CO., ercion act, which was designed to check agrarian outrages. For these outrages the parliamentary party then led by Charles Stewart Parnell, was generally blamed by English people.
 The real meaning of all this became clear to men like Gladstone and Bright who attempted to set right the iniquitous land laws. In very recent years the re- forms then inaugurated have been com pleted, and an Irish farmer is not only secure in his tenancy, but is assisted by government aid to purchase his acreage
 Meantime the Protestant element has grown by commerce and industry to very large wealth. The money of Ire- land is in Protestant hands, and most of the land Is theirs also. On the oth
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and uncultivated-and the grass beneath makes soft cushion for the dropping fruit.
 Look
 An azure sky, save where the wood smoke from the clearing hangs low on the horizon. The gold of the stubble field across the way contrasts with the green of the woods and the brown of fallen leaves beyond. A troop of yellow birds gorge their little crops on yon patch of weeds See the flash of that ground squir- rels tall along the rail fence.
 Listen
 It is the casual call of the quail, punc- tuated by the song of the meadow lark, and the ceaseless chatter of the black birds holding their convention. And in the distance the bay of the hound. And the apples! The small red Milan, already mellow and good to eat And the big Yellow Rsmbo, meaty and 1t for the gods. No such apples now. And the seeding Greetings, small, sound and good keep CTS. And the snug little Russets, sweet as sugar. Apples
 None of your polished corpulent fruit done up in tissue paper and bestowed in neat boxes. appealing to the eye, but breaking the promise c the appetite, but -apples Apples full of cider and with more exquisite flavor than the apples Of Hesperides. Yhe old orehardl Can't you see it-sometimes through the telescope of your tears-the old or chard in the olden. golden days when Eve were so happy and so pore?" Unkempt, uncomely. ragged. left to it.. itself, yet blossoming white in the springtime, and in october pouring out it's cornucopia of fruitage for the delectation of care free. roistering boys and bees and butterflies. Prim and trim are the scientific or chards of the northwest, but to the boy of 5O-seen through memorys moving pie tures-the struggling oId orchard seems the best. Today at the table I ate some saner kraut and the tang of it harked me back to the days of my boyhood when the making of the kraut was a high family festival
 Ever help make kraut? There is no myterious formula in rhe composition of the humble albeit nutri- tious edible. It is nothing more than cab- bages and salt. But
 The making of 1t!
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VT,HY should English Protestants Nk/ favor home rule for Ireland? Tnar W is a conundrum to which the Eng fish tories can find no answer, but which causes them greatly to froth at the mouth, like dogs with hydrophobia. h Unquestionably the intense passion which is stirred on the one side and the other in the Irish question, now so prom inent in the politics of Great Britain, has a religious origin. Tracing Irish history back through the centuries, the religious question everywhere confronts the ex- plorer, like granite boulders along the glens and canyons of mountain stream. It is not an accident which makes the greatest hero of Irish history a premedi- aeval saint.
 On the other hand, the curSv and bane of religion in history has usually been It's surrender to politics. The church has been sacrificed to governmental schemes, racial antiquities and the interests of dominant numbers. Instead of brother hood and a square deal partisan greed has too frequently seized the power and used religion and the church as pawns in its game of imperialism.
 After generations of complex dangling. Ireland was unfortunate enough to be caught between the rivalries of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
German Method Is Far Ahead of That
 Used in America

From the Pathfinder.
 Germans who read daily of the reyela- tions of wholesale graft and corruption in American municipal government are sur prised to find that nation who pride themselves on their superiority of insti- tutions and on their self government make such a failure when 1t comes to run ming the government that is nearest home to them. For example, here Is Governor Wilson of New Jersey writing a letter to the officials of Newark, in his state, call ing their attention to the fact that there is "scandalous disregard of lawt in that city and declaring that the lnefficiency which Is displayed by the authorities in enforcing law is 'demoralizing and dis graceful" Governor Wilson, 1t appears, is forced to call the attention of these officials to the law which requires them to investigate all complaints promptly and remedy lawless and vicious conditions There Is hardly a place in the United States where the laws are not more or less violated and where the officials them selves do not wink at conditions which every private citizen knnows should be corrected. And yet public opinion is not strong enough to force action. for the req son that in the United States local gov ernment Is made a question of politics and the officials in their defiance of the laws. know that they have the backing of the dominant party or political boss.
 Germany, in this respect, is far ahead of us. for municipal government there Is made a business, profession. or rather a
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pendent action in the tactics of war. he displayed rare qualities of skill a q commander. He met all exigencies without shrinking, and invariably bore his part with the heroism of the genu- inc soldier that he was. Nor was hs less inclined to assume the obligations imposed in later struggles for demo- cratic supremacy in Alabama. Not q few who rose to political distinction in the state were indebted to the means afforded by the diligent work of Gen eral Shelley. The service rendered by him Is part of the states history dur Ing the last half century. In certain instances where Junctures arose, 1t is doubtful that any other could have met them with equal efficiency. No strained eulogism Is needed to tell the story of his valiant service-the unvarnished facts are sufficient. Energy. diligence, resourcefulness, courage and a peren- nial optimism were the. qualities dis played by General Shelley in the long service rendered by him to the state of Alabama.
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and ports along the seaboard of the south were supposed. at that time, to afford the first theatre of the coming conflict. These volunteers eventually returned home, a more thorough organization was effected and in the company formed at Talla- dega Shelley became the captain. This scompany was one of the original Fifth Alabama regiment, of which the brilliant Rodes was the first colonel.
 For & period Captain Shelley served at Pensacola till the regiment was ordered to Virginia. As part of Ewell's bri- gade the regiment was in close proxim- ity to Manassas Junction, and had d sharp brush with the enemy at Farr's Cross Roads. but did not share in the first battle of Manassas.
 At the close of the first term of serv- ice of enlistment Captain Shelley resigned as captain, returned, to Alabama, and raised another regiment, of which he became the colonel. This was-the Thr- tieth regiment of Alabama volunteers. which regiment was assigned to duty in
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For socialism (which is the mother of all political progressiveism) is no more than democracy that has overstepped the line she set for herself Socialism is democ- raey gone in advance of itself-it is the spirit separated from the body, saying, All I have believed. dreamed, asserted, is true-the idea of the new man owning the earth; tho ending of wars; the ahan- dorment of the old selfish systems-these are the miracles that will bs certain subsequently," That Is progress siveism of a right certain and dangerous stripe which existing institutions may fear. It is the doctrine. together with Mir Roosevelt's preachments (which are but a sorry mimicry of socialism,. that play ed havoc with the republican party just new.
 p There are some large and useful lessons in this campaign ended last Tuesday which must not be slurred over Perhaps the most important of all Is that much is expected Of democracy with her new
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found strength. She must be keen and shrewd. yet withal honest enough to dis cover asd strike hard Ut unfairness What win 1t profit us if we gain all the suffrages of all the Rooseveits sad Debs- es and chaflns under the Sky f we can't make life more ce1erable for those who look to us for help?
 It is not so much time for cheering as it is time for prayer And while write that down. it is not my purpose to quenoh any torches that may be carried by gleeful processions. Yet may we not be prayerful. too. In our happiness2
 Four hundred votes in the electoral col leBe for Wilson means merely that the time for democratic service has arrived; and it means that the bulk of the service must fall to the democratic congress- These 400 votes represent in part tens of thousands of wavering votes-creedless men who believe that the last word of politics must be release from dogmas that irk and goad. Did you believe that
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to seek moro knowledge and obtain mora self-directing and self-reliant power with- in his own mind.
 Whether a de-volution of authority. making Ulster. with It's Protestant ma jority and it's wealth. a separate provines because 1t has distinct race and dis tinct religion. will ever commend itself to statesmanship is not now the prac- tical question. That question rather is, Can the same result be achieved in Ire- land as has been achieved in Canada. where two races with two religions get along fairly well, and are building a mighty and wealthy nation7
 And so a PrStestant and liberal min istry and majority in the English par llament are pledged to go on in a con genial task, with their faith In God show ing itself not in little theological and ecclesiastical bubbles and fears, but in reyerent belief that tho way of prog ress is the absolute enthroning of free dom, alike in the institutions and the hearts of every nation. Beyond this there Is a reasonable confidence in the magnificent soul of the Irish people, geneeous, truthful, reverent. pure, merry and noble. It may be added that tae supposed desire of a spiritual aristocracy to domineer over Ireland has not yet been proved.
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brigade, and given commission as a brigadier. He was with Hood in the return march into Tennessee, and in the ill-starred battle of Franklin his brigade was heavy sufferer. having lost 670 men out of a total of HOO whom he led into the fight. By an adroit movement at Franklin General Shelley saved from capture the entire corps of General Stew art. for which skill and gallantry he re- ceived special mention at the hands of General Hood. It Is a matter of record that but for the generalship shown by Shelley at Franklin that battle would have been far more disastrous in its re- suits. He came out of the fight with little more than 400 men in his brigade, half of which number was captured at Nashville.
 After these convulsions In Tennessee oontemporaneous with the onward march of Sherman to the sea, thence into North Carolina, where General Joseph was restored to his command, now a fragment of its former self, Gen.
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{ Father would buy strong barrel which mother carefully cleaned and scalded. We children cut the cabbages from the garden and piled the heads in the smoke house awaiting the proptious evening.
 After supper, the whole family being present, father first sprlnkled little salt in the bottom of the barrel. Then the kraut cutter was placed over the tub and the slieing began with motions like that a carpenter uses with his plane.
 The heads were sliced Into flne strings, the hearts being discarded, the first layer went into the barrel. little more salt. and then
 The stomperl
 The stomper was fashioned like a maui. In the beginning it was fine fun for boy to tamp the cut cabbage into hard pack. By and by the task became onerous and ono frequently changed hands.
 But
 Will you ever forget to your dying day
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eral Shelly was assigned to duty thero. All the twelve Alabama regiments be- longing to the army were thrown to- gether in one brigade in North Caro- Ina, and placed under the command of General Shelley. The surrender of Johnston's army resulted in the return of General Shelley to Selma as a paroled soldier.
 In the resistance against the en- croachments of a dominant force dur ing the direful days of reconstruction. no man in Alabama rendered more pa triotic service than Charles M. Shelley. At different times during the succeed Ing years. General Shelley was made the campaign manager of the demo- cratic party In the state, contending often against subtle odds, and to his resourcefulness of leadership was the party largely indebted in It's gradual cmergence from the throes with which it was afflicted for years. During the closing years of his life he became one of the most noted leaders of tho demo-
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cratic party in Alabama. During tho first administration of MT. Cleveland. General Shelley served by presidential appointment as the third auditor of the United States treasury. He was can didate for the governorship in tho cam paign which resulted In the election of Hon. William J. Sanford. General Shelley died in Birmingham on January 20. 1907.
 In brief review like this, scant jus tice to the worth of so eminent man as General Shelley was. both as sol dier and citizen, Is given. Much of his service is hastily passed over, and if at all alluded to, it Is in most gem eralized manner. The salient facts of his eventful life are barely more than touched, but even from so short a re- cital of his services, certain unques- toned facts fix his fame.
 General Shelley was an intrepid sol- dier whose pluck In the face of danger was unusual. So far as opportunity was afforded for the exercise of inde-