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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-10-30
BEETOKN.
frosts

special Correspondence TO the Herald
j. A. Jamison has a new floor in
his store.
Mrs. Pffeffer of Montfort, visited
relatives here last week.
A large crowd at the dance Tuesday
night. All report a good time.
DR.. Kraut n wife came home
from Chicago Tuesday. The boys gave
them a charivari Wednesday night
The Royal Neighbors initiated
several new members Saturday even
ing. into the mysteries of their camp,
after which refreshments were served.
Miss Dorothy Lisherness spent
Sunday at Bloomington.
Quite a crowd attended the Ladies
Aid Thursday. All report a good
time and a fine dinner.
Dan Polly and wife left Tuesday
for their home in Dakota.
Miss Johnson, Of Lancaster has
been visiting at the Joe Duncan
home.
Willie Rogers and Viola Blackborn
called Sunday.
Matt Auel and son have completed
a cement porch and walk in front of
the town hall. They are now build
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-10-30

trip, and have gone 90 housekeeping
in the John Thornton house, recently
bought by Mr.. S~andleback.
Miss Matte Burns Of Beetown
visited at the DR.. Sala home last
week.
ThOs. Williams and wife were up
from Cassville Saturday.
E G Rundls visited at Lancaster
Sunday.
The Baptist ladies aid society ex
poet to pass Wednesday at the Henry
Roberts home in the country.
Miss Birdie Riese. attending school
at Platteville. was showered with
postcards on her birthday, last Fri
day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-10-30
CASSVILLE.

Special Correspondence To the Herald.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vern Brookens and
family. of Bloomington, were Sunday
visitors at Harry Okeys'.
Lester Pritchett and Jas. Hampton,
Of Bloomington were in town Satur-
day.
Miss Mary Thomas was IN Dubuque
last week.
Miss Edna Garner entertained the
B. G.. g. in honor of Miss Pearl
Roschi. The bride of the month was
presented with set of silver teaspoons
engraved with the three letters.
Music, singing and games were the
amusements. An iced course was
served.
Miss LEILA ODershaw was in Prairie
du CHEN Sunday.
Mrs. john Gasner and baby of Min
neapolis came last week for a visit at
the Sam Jordan home.
Mrs. Walter Jeffries and daughter
Helen and Mr.. and Mrs. Geo Foeh-
ringer, of Lacrosse. were guests of
relatives In town the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs Earl Kuenster and
son Vernon of Chicago. we're at the
q. q. K .nster home Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Turtscher, of
Prairie du Chen were visitors in
town Sunday.
Harry Penhollow, Of Waterloo, was
in town a few days last week.
Mrs. B. Caspers and daughter Anna
were visitors at the home of Gerald
Grafton Sunday.
Mrs. Maggie Burdick, of Milwau.
kee, visited the Ortscheid's last
week.
Henry Casper, of Lancaster, spent a
few days in town last week.
VIM. dasson. of Annamoss, was in
town Sunday.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20
S@S$O$S$$
MIR. CLARK's CRITICISMS.

Louis f. Post in The Public: one
of the Hearst papers attributes this
language to Speaker Clark;
Il lost the nomination, solely
through the vile and malicious sland-
ers of Colonel William Jennings
Bryan of Nebraska. True, these
ISLANDERS We're by innuendo and in
siuation. but they were no less dead
| ~ for that reason"
1t may not be true that Mr.. Clark
has used this language We hope he
has not and trust that no one will
accuse him of it without better
| authority. But the idea thus often
sively expressed, that Bryan accused
Clark of making a treacherous bar
gain, must have lodged in the latter's
mind or he could not have expressed
| himself as he did in his convention
letter to Senator Stone. The fact is.
however, that Mr.. Bryan made no ac-
cusation of bad faith against Mr..
| Clark-neither directly nor by innu-
endo or insinuation. The utmost that
can be inferred from what he said as
in any way reflecting upon Mr..
! Clark, was that Mr.. Clark was the
unconscious factor in a plan ito sell
the democratic party into bondage
to the predatory interests of this
country" not that he had been false,
but that he had been. duped. And
this was true. Mr.. Clark's manifest
innocence of the bargain relieves him
of all possible imputations of bad
faith; but it added nothing to the
/ qualifications for the presidency in
times like these. Mr.. Bryan would
have been basely disloyal to all that
he represents in public life if he had
allowed a personal friendship or
obligation to blind him or silence
him. 1t is better by far to be called
migrate" by self-seeking friends than
to be traitor to a peoples cause.
Speaker Clark and his friends
| don't seem to realize that the very
nature of their assaults upon Bryan
goes to prove that Bryan performed
a public duty in securing Wilson's
nomination. They put all their en-
phasis in Clark's behalf upon his hav-
ing learned public preferment by long
and unbroken service to the demo-
/ SidllC OISdHlLdllOn, IlSnI or wrong,
they put all their emphasis in criti-
cising Bryan. upon Clark's past SER
vice to him as the presidential can
didate of his party. The whole Clark
campaign, so far as his managers
have made it public, was campaign
for personal reward. To that end
their demands upon Bryan were to
redeem personal obligations which
they wrongly assumed that he in
Cured through the support Clark had
given to him in three presidential
campaigns, and which Bryan rightly
insisted were not in the nature of
personal obligations at al. This ami
mus which permeated the Clark
campaign and broke out at the end
in spasms of ridiculous Indignation,
points to the inherent weakness of
Mr.. Clark's canadidacy-the weakness
upon which Mr.. Taft's managers had
shrewdly counted in their solicitude
for Mr. Clark's nomination.-The
Commoner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20

good authorities long advocated an
eastern oregon insane hospital and
that was the chief motive of DR.. c,
j Smith of this city when he intro
duced in the state senate the reso-
luton which paved the way for es-
tablishment OF the branch hospital.
There is nothing ON earth the mat
ter with the Eastern Oregon State
Hospital. 1t was well located; 1t is
being constructed along model lines
and no doubt a competent man viii
b" secured to manage the institution
If one has not been obtained already.
Ss$~sSSs%
The Portland Oregonian seems to
see blood on the moon and walls be-
cause congress re-
1t Is Time fuses to spend more
To Go Slow than $15,O00,000 a
On BattleShips. year on new battle.
ships. 1t conjurs up
all sorts of bogeys that are going to
get your Uncle Samuel.
But if the country will elect Wood
row Wilson with his idea of what
should be done with the Philippines
there wont be so much need of new
battleships. The chief need for a
monster navy for the United States ar
ises from possession of the Philip
pines. We paid Spain $40, 900, 900 to
get out of the islands and since then
we have been spending over that sum
each year building new battleships to
protect our oriental possessions. We
also have to spend about a million
dollars in the maintenance and up
keep of each dreadnaught.
1t is entirely too much for the
good we get out of the islands Be-
sides the domination of the islands
by the United States is in direct con-
travention of the American idea of
government. We hold that the peo-
pie should rule. Yet we refuse to
let the Fillipinos govern themselves
and send people of another race and
color there to administer affairs for
them.
The people as whole will heart
lily commend congress for going slow
in the construction of new battleships
especially while the price of steel
is high and the steel trust sells its
products cheaper abroad than at
home.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20

There is not the slightest reason
why there should be any revival of
the old contro-
Nothing Wrong versy over the site
With The for the Eastern
Branch Hospital. Oregon asylum or
why there should
be any difficulty in obtaining proper
funds for the maintenance of the in
stitution from the legislature this
winter.
Entirely too much attention has
been paid to DR.. Hall and his rambl-
ing criticisms. Dr. Hall did not de-
cline to be superintendent of the asy-
lum because there is anything wrong
with the institution or with Pendle-
ton. His letter shows he regarded
himself incompetent for the place
and furthermore disliked to raise his
children in the atmosphere of an in
stitution of that sort. DR.. Halls
needless and unjust reflections on the
Institution and on Pendleton were re-
ally aside from the case and probably
had origin in the fact DR.. Hall is a
resident of La Grande and not of
Pendleton.
Quite naturally it is going to cost
something to get the new institution
established and in running order
For the first few years the percapita
maintenance cost may we'll be higher
than at Salem. But after the insti-
tuition is once in good working order
it should be possible for the state to
operate the institution very economi-
cally. There is plenty Of agricultural
land available so that all necessary
produce may be raised by the state
Salaries will be virtually the same as
those paid at Salem. The supplies
can be purchased just as cheaply as
at present. There will be a slight in
increase should be fully offset by the
saving on the transportation of in
mates. 1t will be much cheaper for
the state to bring patients to Pen
dleton than to take them to Salem
from eastern oregon points. If after
the eastern Oregon branch hospital
has become fully established it is not
operated as cheaply per capita as is
the Salem institution it will be due to
poor management on the part of the
state or to the fact Of the larger num-
ber of inmates at the Salem institu-
tion.
Yet II II should cost a few dollars
more per year to maintain patients
al the Eastern Oregon hospital the
fact would not reflect at all upon the
wisdom Of the establishment OF the
local institution. The branch hospital
was not established so much in hopes
Of saving money as in desire to bet
ter the health of some of the patients
For a large number of inmates the
clear, brisk climate of eastern Ore
gon with its abundance of sunshine
will be better than the wet, murky
climate of western oregon. People
who suffer from no malady, mental
or physical, also find this climate
very invigoratng 1t puts energy in
10 the body. color In the cheek and
a sparkle in the eye. That is why
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20
otncla, City and count, PaOer
. ~<~~~<><~>~~<<
THE PROPER SPIRIT.

. He tackled his work with I
. spirit to win,
. In doubling he doesn't go to 4
. ii:
. A difficult task he will always 4
= begin
. Serene in the thought that 4
a he'll do it.
e With faith in himself he goes 4
. plodding along,
= With the grim thoughts of
& failure behind him,
Z He pays little heed to the wall
. of the throng,
. The fetters OF fear do not 4
. bind him.
e The thought that he can't
. doesn't enter his head,
. To hinder his efforts while 4
. trying;
. He doesn't permit any picture 4
. of dread
. To start him to fretting or
. signing.
. He pluages right into the task 4
. of the day
. Believing he's able to do it; 4
. He pays little heed to the croak- 4
. ers who say
. He can't come successfully 4
. through it.
. -Edgar A. Guest. 4
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.

Good. active men with part or all
of their time, can establish a business
of their own without one cent invest
ed. We will teach you how to earn
So and SO each day you hustle with
cur made-to-measure Tailoring Out
fit. Largest, oldest and best house in
the world. Write us today and our
free outfit will be sent at once. The
Progress Tailoring Co, Dept. 642,
Chicago.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20
HIS COUNSEL FEE.

Georgia Lawyer (to colored pris-
oner)-Well Ras, so you want me to
defend you. Have you any money?
Rastus- No; but Use got a mule
and a few chickens and a hog or
two.
Lawyer-Those will do very nicely
Now, let's see; what do they accuse
you of stealing
Ractus-Oh, a mule and few
chickens.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20
Babv's @
UniCHGE1

Every woman's heart responds to
the charm and sweetness Of baby's
voice, because nature intended her for
motherhood. But even the loving
nature Of a mother shrinks from the
ordeal because such time Is usually
period OF suffering and danger.
Women who use Mothers lend are
saved much discomfort and suffering,
and their systems, being thoroughly
prepared by this great remedy, are
In a healthy condition to meet the
time with the least possible suffering
and danger. Mothers Friend Is
recommended only fer the relief and
comfort of expectant mothers; 1t is in
no sense O remedy for various Ills.
but It's many years Of success, and
the thousands Of endorsements re-
ceived from women who have used 1t
are a guarantee Of the benefit to be
derived from its use. This remedy
does not accomplish wonders but sim.
ply assists nature to perfect its work.
Mothers Friend allays nausea, pre-
vents caking Of AAA -
the breasts, and VvmNnHHES
In every way S~
contributes to n. ElnsnH11M
strong, healthy
motherhood. Mothers Friend is sold
at drug stores. Write for our free
book for expectant mothers.
BRADFlELD REGULATOR CO.. Atlanta. Go.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20
$S%O~O"


State Forester Elliot is working on
the right line in striving to educate
the people to the ne
Wise Policy cessity of preventing
OF The State forest fires and to CO.
Forester. operating with the au-
thorities in keeping the
fire loss down to the minimum. The
best way to prevent fires is to get
everybody impressed with enormous
loss that results from fires and to the
fact it is a serious crime to cause a
forest fire. whether the act be COM
mitted intentionally or through
thoughtlessness. No one knows wha.
a forest fire will do. 1t is no respec-
tor of persons. 1t burns the timber
Of the milling companies, big and lit
tie. 1t also works havoc with set
tiers and in places whole towns are
destroyed. A person should no more
think of causing a forest fire than
of burning a dwelling house. 1t is
likely to prove more disasterous by
far. The fact that the state has been
almost totally free from fires this
year speaks well for the state for
ester and his methods of work.
N%S%oA-S%
President Taft replaces Judge Han
ford with a corporation lawyer of
Bellingham who was a character wit
ness for Hanford during the latter's
investigation. If there was ever a
president who showed abominable
judgment as to appointments Presi-
dent Taft is the man.
Se0SNS
If thousands have been killed" in
a bloody battle in Nicaragua it will
he a new thing in Central American
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20

warfare. Usually the army merely
gets hit on the heel While he is run
ming.
SNS$O$SS@
Did those 200 natives who rode in
the Elks parade in Portland look like
they had been fed on bad water
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20

If thousands have been killed" in
a bloody battle in Nicaragua it will
he a new thing in Central American
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-09
the measure that he was expected to

the measure that he was expected to
sponsor.
1t provided for commission Of three
men to be appointed by the governor
and to remain under his direct control,
bipartisan board. These men were
to appoint special deputies to any num-
Der desired. To any county, city or
town these deputies were to be dis
patched when it became apparent that
police or sheriffs were lax or dishon-
est in enforcing the prohibitory law.
No limits were placed on the number
Of these men empowered to kill sa-
looms and put liquor peddlers out OF
business. No special amount Of money
was to be asked Of the legislature.
The bill provided that the state treas
ury should stand behind the move
ment.
The young man was quick to under
stand the tremendous power granted
to the governor by that bill. Under
! it no party management, no group Of
| politicians, could club or coax the
liquor interests into line at the polls
|
sheriff could enrich himself by selling
privileges. No city could govern itself
in that respect, declaring that public
opinion favored the saloons and max
ing local law superior to the constitu-
tional law Of the state. This bill pro-
vided that a judge must impose both
fines and Imprisonment when convic-
/
judge could carry on any longer a
practical system of low license by i'm
posing fines alone.
1t was the principle of enforced pro-
hibition put on trial.
Harlan was sufficiently familiar with
system would upset the entire politi-
cal machine of his state. That folio
of document was a bombshe!l.
lie was holding it outspread in his
hands whec the door opened so sud
denly that 1t startled him. Thelismer
/ Thornton came in, shaking his shout
ders disgustedly.
Feathers and cacklev' he muttered.
"This statehouse turned into a poultry
yard. And half of EN- braced back
trying to crow! When a hen crows
and a woman votes-well, it's all the
same thingw
He relighted the cigar that he had
brought through the press hidden In
his big palm. He eyed his grandson
keenly and with some disfavor as he
pulled the cigar alight.
"Look here, bub," he burst out.
"there are enough women around here
today to remind me that I want to
have a word with you on the woman
question. You intend to marry Made
leine Presson, don't your
Intend to marry herw blaKed his
grandson. you talk as though It was
the fashion to grab girl and carry
her off as they did in the stone age"
you know what mean very well,
sir take 1t you are still decent, and
If you're decent you'll marry the girl
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-09
PROLOGUE OF THE STORY.

Thelismer Thornton, locally known
as Duke of Canibas," for fifty years
boss Of his district. plans to retire and
send his grandson, Harlan, to the leg
islature as his successor. The reform
ers in his district, who are called
"Ramrodders," endeavor to defeat
Harlan for the nomination. They are
led by Ivus Niles, Evangelist Dudley
and others. Harlan is unwilling to be
a candidate. but his grandfather in
sists. Harlan and Miss Glare Kava-
nagh are very much interested In each
other, and Thornton and Clares ia
Their try to break up this intimacy.
The reformers are in control Of the
caucus, but Thornton's followers STAN
pede them by starting forest fire and
during their absence nominate Harlan
for the legislature. Harlan helps sub
due the fire, learns of his nomination
and tells his grandfather that he will
decline 1t because it was dishonesty
procured.
However, the duke gets him to run
for the office, settles with farmers who
lost by the forest fire and practically
assumes management OF the whole
state campaign. Harlan meets Glare,
who, gowned and gloved, looks more
mature. Thornton and Harlan pay a
secret visit to Ex-Governor Weymouth
and get him to accept the nomination
for governor in order to beat Arba
Spinney. Harlan meets pretty Made
leine Presson. Weymouth startles
Thornton and other leaders by insist
ing upon writing his own platform
and upon rigid enforcement Of the
prohibitory law. They refuse to NOM
mate him. Harlan deserts his grand
father and supports Weymouth. who
learns that Spinney has been bribed
to retire by Thornton, Presson and
others. Weymouth compels them to
nominate him, and Harlan shares in
his victory. Weymouth declares he
will enforce the prohibitory law, but
he rebuffs the "Ramrodders." He makes
Harlan his chief of staff for the cam
paign. Clare reveals her love for Har-
Ian, then goes away to be educated.
Weymouth compels his party leaders
to more actively support him. and
Madeleine Presson tells Harlan he's
foolish to have such high political
ideals. Weymouth is elected. Harlan
proposes marriage to Madeleine, but
gets no reply. Governor Weymouth
makes Harlan sponsor for a drastic
prohibition law. Linton, one Of Made
leine's suitors, insists that Harlan cease
being her escort because Spinney has
circulated scandalous story about
Harlan and Clare.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-09
door. He went out and slammed +

door. He went out and slammed 1t
behind him.
A project had come to him, prompt
ed by his furious rage which Knocked
common sense. A man more accus-
toned to the conventions would not
have attempted It. But all his north
country passion rioted In him at that
moment.
The night before he had wept be-
cause the peace and good name Of
Clare Kavanagh were threatened and
he could only. beat the ugly phantom
of scandal helplessly.
Now suddenly he found work for
his hands, and his hands had always
been his means Of expressing his soul
in toll, achievement, and In passion.
He hurried down the stairs into the
statehouse rotunda. where the throngs
were. There were women. women.
There were so many faces to scan!
Chance led him to her. He caught her
arm, and her startled face was turned
up to his
Gomez he whispered hoarsely.
Come! DO not ask me why. Only
come. Hurry
| With the trustfulness she had al
ways shown in him she did not hest
tate. She did not even offer excuses
to the tall woman who stepped for
ward to inquire the intentions of this
abrupt young man. She went as she
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-09

went in the north country when he
called to her. Clinging to his arm she
hurried up the broad marble stairway.
She did not ask why. Her faith
was complete. But his demeanor
frightened her.
II was sorry after l got here" she
gasped as they hurried on. But the
others came from the school, and !
thought it would be such great place
here that no one would notice me. l
thought you would not see me, Har-
Ian. But / wanted to learn about
about what you did-what the law
makers did. so that-so that
Hurry he urged her He feared
that they would be gone.
This brusqueness, his haste, his
sternness, troubled her more and more
They were alone in the corridor that
led to the committee room. She stop'
ped, holding him back with her strong
young arms. He had hardly looked at
her till then. She had changed in the
months since he had seen her. Wo-
manly dignity was mingled with the
high spirit that had inspired the child.
Her garb, her new mien, made her
beauty brilliant.
II never lied to you yet, big boy"
| she cried. II came here because l
was hungry for sight Of you. Then
I would go back to my work comfort
ed. Now my conscience isclear. Take
me where you will"
In that moment his heart was re-
vealed to him. In the stress Of new
emotions he understood himself at
last. He understood that the love
which mates, which sweeps away all
calculation, which Yields, trusts and
never pauses to analyze or compute, is
love that disdains mere admiration Of
intellect or lure of beauty.
His Met nature had depths. They
had never been stirred till then. The
child love had been budding there
ready for blossom. 1t had been fed by
faith and ripened by association. Pas
sion now brought 1t to fruition. Made
leine Presson had appealed only to one
side of him. This girl rounded out the
whole philosophy of love. She was not
divinity. His nature did not crave
divinity. In his strength, sincerity, In
genuousness, his mans soul, primitive
as the free woods. required the mate,
one to be cherished and protected
| And so now, when all his soul was
stirred, this girl, so bitterly in need Of
protection, the girl whom the years
| had endeared to him, came into his
heart to reign there.
Words, emotion, choked him. But he
| could not wait then. She saw some
| thing in his eyes she had never seen
there till that moment. But before she
could understand he carried her along
with him.
"Come! I can't waitr' he cried.
When he flung open the door of the
committee room the men In II were
standing In silence. Presson had
picked up the Thornton bill" and was
reading 1t, scowling. Whatever Linton
had said. It was plain that the father
Of Madeleine Presson had Just found
something which diverted his atten.
ton from family matters.
Harlan shut the door behind. Tie
locked It. He stepped away from the
girl, leaving her standing there. She
was picture to confute Islander.
The chairman gazed at her in aston
ishment He had not expected such
prompt incarnation of the topic.
Il know what foul lies have Just
Y