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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-17
CHAPTER I.
Five Years Before.

The Woman looked up from her task
81 fitting tbs trunk tray into exact po-
sition. Standish noted vaguely that
the effort Of packing had not made her
red or frowsy. Even as she sat there
on the floor beside the nearly-full
trunk, with litter of garments about
her, her pose was not ungraceful. Yet
her face was oddly tense, and her
clenched hands spoke of self-control
hard to maintain.
No" she said patiently, as though
crying to teach lesson to some rather
stuDfd child, that isn't what mean,
at all. l mean, it's-over. Can't you
understand"
Why, yes" answered Standish, "of
course I understand. Why shouldn't
I? It's over. You will be safe at your
aunt's house by six o'clock this eve
ning, and you will start for Europe to-
morrow. just as you arranged. And
our wonder-week is ended. And for
the next three months I'll be counting
every"
OH" Interrupted the Woman, her
.hard-worn patience going to pieces
Wont you understand? l said it was
over. Over! Not for three months
or for any other time. But for always
Why do you make me put it this
way? l triad to say it more"
You don't mean"-hR began thick
1y, his throat sanded and sore.
The Woman nodded.
But" he protested lamely, TIT
- rrirI
81 thought | did. Oh, was so sure
Z did! But little by little, for days,
I've begun to understand. Don't look
at me like that! Do you suppose
enjoy talking so? 1t has to be said.
And you're not making it bit easy
Cor me-"
Forgive me-" he answered, a bitter
note creeping into his heavy voice.
"You are wrecking me. You are
smashing all l hold dear. You are
making my future as barren as a
rainy sea- Forgive me for not making
the process bit easy for you
You have no right to say such
things" she 1ared. 1T is cowardlF.
It is ungenerous.'
Why? Because you are a woIaar.?
A woman may fay man. She MAY
break his life to pieces tor her own
amusement If he dares to protest, hs
IS cowardly and ungenerous. Because
she is a woman. A MANS hands are
tied behind him by that asinine old
tradition. How about the woman VINO
oommels a man when she knows his
hands are so tied? Isn't she as COW
&rdly and 'urEenerous as would
oe if | thrashed a cripple? And yet
svomeL clamor for their rights
Rights, With one-tenth of the rights
that silly chivalry showers upon wom-
en-, could conquer the whole woTldt"
But you could not conquer one
Eoman. II I begged you to avoid a
scene 1t was as much for your own
sake as fer mine. Since you will have
one. let's get it over with as quickly
AS we can. Here is the situation in
handful of words: l met you. You
weren't like any other man Id ever
Known gOu Sidn't tall down and wosr
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-17
CHAPTER II.
The Girl and the Boy.

ne 0IFl anu IHS boy
The Hotel Keswick telephone girl
was a character. Even the politicians
who made the big Washington cara.
vansary their headquarters recognized
that. Some of them had sought to I'M
bend from their labors at law-building
and law-sapping long enough to try to
improve their casual acquaintance with
her. But they had one and all aban-
doned the effort.
Not that Miss Wanda Kelly was in
the very least shy No, she had re-
sponsive word for everybody. Only,
sometimes that word had a queer way
Of soaring instead of dattering.
IF Joan of Arc had been brought
up in the alleys" once observed the
Honorable Tim Neligan, land if she's
been nursed on iron tonic and learned
her alphabet from George AIDES fables,
she'd have been dead ringer for Wan.
da Kelly"
70 which the more or less Honor
able Jim Blake had made reply:
Maybe that hello girl was all Wan
da when she started out But a Kes-
wick switchboard course has made
her all Kelly l don't know why no
one reports her for being fresh. Elk
cept, maybe, that he'd have to tell
what he said to her to bring out the
fresh comeback"
In any case, no one did report Wan
da Kelly There, in an alcove under
the great garish stairway, she sat day
after day manipulating her racks Of
switches. To her left were the tele-
phone booths; to her right the corri-
dor where all the political world pass
ed her in review. Behind her-and,
when voices CHANGED to be raised in
eagerness or dispute, in easy ear-shot
was a spot where far more history
was made than in the Capitol itself.
This historic place was deep niche
known to local fame as "the amen
corner" 1t was off the beaten track
Of the corridor, yet a vantage-point
whence everything was visible. Here
Jim Blake-long, lean, saturnine mas
ter of the machine-had way of sit
ting, his eternal cigar in one corner
of his mouth, his SLOUGH hat aslant on
his head or under his chair. And here,
like filings to the magnet, the men who
cleaned in Jim's wake, and whose po-
litical life hung on his curt nod, would
cluster.
One evening as the dinner crowd
was drifting along the corridor toward
the huge dining-rooms, Wanda noted
that the amen corner held but two
men. Both of them she knew, and
both were very evidently awaiting Jim
Blake's return from the Capitol. More
than one passer-by along the corridor
nudged his companions and pointed
out the elder of the corners two occu-
pants
The object of these surreptitious
glances was a fine-looking, rather
portly man of early middle age-tbe
Honorable Mark Robertson, former
governor of New York, present repre-
sentative in congress from the SAM
state and-equally importaht-Jim
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-17

Verhcyansek. in northeastern ST.
IBERIA, is the coolest inhabited town in
the world. The winter minimum is s.
degrees below zero.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-17

Mrs vinslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inhamma'
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie, Csc bottleL
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-17

Illinois has dairy herds valued at
$29,183,044 4
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-17
As 1t Appeared 70 Him.

Mrs. T.-How does my new spring
hat look, Tom?
Thomas-Um! 1t looks to me like
two weeks salary. Stories.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-02
SHOULD KNOW HER
PLACE
IL. D. Miller in The Public.

~ ~ AllllCl III liz 4 hDllNs
Once upon a time there was a mighty
city where graft and corruption reigned
and vice and dissipation ran riot, and
the shame of this city was the shame OF
the nation. Many were the plans pro-
posed to reform it, but none proved
effective. At last great orator arose
among them and to him they listened:
Let the women vote and help rule
this city,, was his advice.
Nay, not so, " replied the men, they
would only make matters worse"
VERY we'll, " said the orator, then do
this: one month only let all the men
of the city be completely ruled by their
female relatives, the nearest of kin--wife,
mother, sister, as the case may be. Let
their risings up and 1yings down, their
going and coming, their business and
their pleasure, be completely dictated by
these women.
Such was the sway of his eloquence
that all men agreed; they bound them.
selves by terrible oath, and for one full
month they kept the vow.
At the end of the month all the saloons
were bankrupt, all the gambling hells
were closed, the poolrooms and bucket
shops silent and empty; the houses of
ill-repute stood tenantless. The police
courts we're closed, the criminal court
had cobwebs across the door. All the
grating officials had resigned because
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-02
BILL SHUT OUT
THE JAPANESE
Wording of New Measure PIeases
California Officials BE
Passsd by Assembly.

omlts Specific Mention Of "lhellslbIe
to Citizenship" and Places ExclU.
sion From Ownership On Broad
Ground Of Reciprocal Treaty Pro-
Vislons-eovernor Announces Ter
mlnatlon Of Conferences.
Sacramento, Cal, May 1.-The new
lnti-alien land bill drafted by Attor'
ney General Webb was introduced in
the state senate as an amendment to
the pending Birdsa1l bill. The bill
was then sent to the printer, and it
is understood it will be passed imme.
diately by both houses and will be
signed by the governor. This new
bill omits specific mention Of 'ineligi-
BILE to citizenship" and places Aclu.
sion from ownership on the broad
ground Of reciprocal treaty provisions.
AS Japan does not permit any alien
to own land or to carry on business
there, the Japanese will hence be
barred from land ownership or from
any majority ownership in corpora
tions doing business in California.
The governor and his followers are
congratulating themselves on the
wording of this new bill, but DR.. Da-
vid Starr Jordan says it is discrimi-
natory and will be Objectionable to
Japan. His position is that an alien
is the ward of the nation and that no
state has the power to pass laws that
deprive him of rights which he enjoys
under a general treaty with the ma
tion.
Secretary Bryan returned to Sacra.
mento after the banquet in San Fran
cisco, but he will probably not stay
beyond Friday.
Governor Johnson gave notice that
the conferences between Secretary
Bryan and the legislature were ended.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-02

1000 and 5000 men and boys idle, was
declared Off The strikers we're salts.
fled with the results.
Several persons were severely in.
jured when passenger train tele-
scoped the rear of work train on the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad near Quincy, Mass.
Robert Fowler, the American avia.
tor, made a successful flight in a
hydro-aeroplane across the isthmus Of
Panama from the Pacific to the Allan.
tic. He made the fight in one hour.
Miss Callie Rollins, 1S, daughter Of
Rev. Philip Rollins of Wickliffe, KY.
shot and instantly killed Clarence
Dodson, a caller at her home, when
fooling with supposedly empty re-
volver.
DR.. Andrew Sloan Draper, New
York commissioner of education and
one of the foremost educators of the
country, died at his home in Albany.
The Montana WOOL crop is reported
much smaller than last years crop
According to the Indiana state
board of health there were 55 deaths
in the Hoosier state during March
from tornadoes and floods.
Rev. Draper Reed, who slapped his
wife while they were walking on the
streets of Evansville, Ind, was fined
SIS. He said the Devil prompted the
deed.
Louis Evans, Is, was killed by \
traction car at Greensburg, Ind.
The contract has been awarded for
the erection of Cleveland's million dol.
lar art museum.
Ben Jenkins, negro murderer, was
electrocuted in the Kentucky peniten
tiary at Eddyville. Seven other can.
didates for the chair are waiting their
turn.
Otto Turner, 26, shot through the
side in a mysterious manner, died
without revealing the identity of his
assailant.
Thomas F. Robinson, convicted Of
grating while member of the New
York city police force, was sentenced
to from to 10 years in Sing Sing.
At Steubenville, o., the blooming
mill of the Labelle iron works plant
blew up and injured a number of en-
ployes, five fatally.
Firemen John Legge, George House
and Edgar Swern were injured when
fire did $4,000 damage to the Kuster
C Company restaurant building at
Newark, o.
Archduchess Isabella of Austria and
Prince George Of Bavaria, "Europe's
most unhappily married pair" we're
divorced by decree handed down in
papal court.
Mrs. Anna Knettles, 40, committed
suicide by drowning herself in a els.
tern at Ottawa, o. Ill health was the
cause.
Four persons we're killed in an acci.
dent in the aristocratic neighborhood
Of the Madeleine in Paris, when
four-story building fell like pack Of
cards.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-02
FINE ITALIAN HAND
Of EX-SENATOR
JOHNSON seen
In Appropriations Made by LeglS-
lature for Reservoir linz
prOVements.
Pet Idea Of Water Power Plant to
DeveIOpe Great Electrical
Energy a Possibility.

With the adjournment of the Ohio
General Assembly last Tuesday night
came the glad tidings to the people of
celina that the appropriation of $40, 900
for completing the cement revetment
wall on the north end of the reservoir
had passed with the general appropria-
ton bill, as had a bill appropriating
S., 500 for completing the revetment
wall at the south end. The latter, how
ever, is in the 1914 appropriation and
will, therefore, not be available until
next year.
The appropriation of SO 900 for con-
structing the revetment wall from its
present northern terminus at the foot of
Main street, east past the Mercelina
Park, was secured through the quiet but
effective work of ex-senator J. d. John
son. At the solitation of the Mercelina
Park owners who have been seeing their
property washed out into the pond by
action of the waves, and business men
of this city, Mr.. Johnson at the early
sessions of the legislature succeeded i'll
getting favorable action for an appropri-
tion carried by the general appropria-
tion bill, calling for this improvement.
1t was not until few weeks ago that the
Senator made known the fact that he
had succeeded in getting this desired
consideration.
With the enervating news of these ap-
preparations to complete these revet-
ment walls both north and south, comes
also the assurance, given Civil Engineer
l, f. Raudabaugh by the Superintendent
of Public Works, that money would be
forthcoming from the general apbropri-
alton for the changing of the waste weir
to its natural location, directly at east
end of Beaver Greek, instead of the
tortuous route of mile or more to get
to that headwater.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-02

This change carries with il possibili-
ties that mean much to the people of the
community. In installing the waste
weir at this pointa gigantic power plant
for generating electricity could be easily
erected that would supply cheaply the
needs of a many times greater Celina
and the entire county-and with water
that at times is regarded as a menace to
people down sluggish Beaver and those
on the south shore.
It would make it possible to get indus
tries headed toward celina that are
seeking cheaper power to operate manu-
featuring plants.
AT may also mean the possible elimin-
alton of the $780, 900 disposal plant for
the contemplated sanitary sewer system
for this city.
1t would mean the biggest boost Cell
ma has ever had.
It's past the dream stage, too.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-02
AIIeoed Foraer In the Tolls.

Columbus, o., May Thomas Lon
go, 2S, was arrested by w. B. Robin
son. a postofIice inspector. A federal
warrant will be issued upon the rec
omlnendation of Assistant District At
torney Burns, alleging fraudulent use
of the mails. Postoffice officials be-
lieve the arrest will unravel numerous
instances of forgery and passing of
worthless checks which have annoyed
the Columbus police during the past
year. Comparison of checks issued
by Longo and those being held by
local police show great similarity Of
handwriting. The prisoner claims to
be the son Of A. Longo, president of
the Lon-Kolo bottling works of Wan
Vile. Ky.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-02
ANOTHER SIDE-SWIPE
FOR "PERSONAL
LIBERTY"

The Ohio Turnbezirk, an organization
of German turner societies of Southern
Ohio and Kentucky, at its thirty-fifth
annual meeting yesterday voted to con-
tribute its share to the rehabilitation OF
the turner's of Dayton, Ohio, whose
clubrooms we're almost completely
wrecked by the food, by donating to
them 500. and releasing them from pay
ing their annual dues of S62.
The Turnbezirk went on record as
opposing the time -honored custom Of
having a saloon in connection with
the turner halls and resolved to take
vigorous steps towards the abolition
of this custom on the grounds
that II interfered with the fun
dementaI principles of ath-
eletIc training and discipline.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-02
CONGRESSMAN GOEKE
OFFERS FREE TRIP

Hon, J.. Henry Cooke of the Fourth
Congressional District offers a free trip
in the corn contest to the boy in his dis
trict raising the most corn on one acre of
ground, Rules of the Ohio State Board
of Agriculture to govern. His district Is
composed of the following counties;
Allen, Mercer, Auglaize, Shelby and
Darke. All boys entered in any Of the
contests will be considered as entered
for this prize trip also. Every farm boy
should make an effort TO win not only
this free trip, but the honor that goes
with it Congress will be in session,
when the trip is made, next December.
Parents should encourage the boys to
enter, Mothers often take more interest
in the son than the father does. Write
to Columbus for entry blanks and rules.
Entries to close June /. Mail all entries
TO the Secretary.
A. p. SANDLEs, Columbus.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-02
FavOrs Woman suffrade.

Washington, May l. - A favorable
report will be made in the senate at
this session on a resolution submit
ting an amendment to the federal
constitution granting suffrage to
women. 1t will be the first time such
legislation has been before congress
in many years which will have had a
favorable report by committee Fa'
vorable action by the senate commit
tee was foreshadowed clearly at the
time the personnel of the new commit
tees was announced, when the senate
was reorganized. Afr a long strug-
gle the committee was made up OF
senators favorable to equal suffrage.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-02
.SOLONS CLEAN
UP AND VACATE
Put Finishing Touches ON Num-
ber of Important BlIIs-UtIl-
tiles Measure Passed.

Measure Revamped Several Times
and as Finally Put Through Applies
Only to City Of Cincinnati - Wom-
ans Hour Bill and Measure For
Pensions For Blind Passed-Wind'
up Of the General Assembly.
Columbus, 90, April 3O.-Important
bills were disposed Of by the Ohio
legislature before 1t adjourned. The
solons put the final touches on the
auto license bill, the measure limiting
the hours for employed women, the
bill restricting work on public con-
tracts after 1915 to eight hours a day,
the bill providing three optional mod
el charters for cities, the judicial bill,
inaugurating changes covered in a
constitutional amendment, the meas
ure providing for indeterminate char
ters for public utilities and the blind
pension measure. The bill Of Senator
Lloyd, limiting jurisdiction Of justices
of the peace to their own townships,
was tabled in the house.
AS passed, there may be some doubt
of the constitutionality Of the utilities
bill. 1t may be held by the court to
be special legislation in that it affects
only one city, Cincinnati.
Pensions for the needy blind are
limited to $24O a year.
The women's bill simply extends
the present law, which covers fac
tories, to mercantile establishments.
The present limitation on hours, 10 in
one day and 81 in one week, remains
unchanged.
Sixty-three votes, one more than
necessary, were obtained for concur
renee by the house in the senate
amendments to the Tetlow bill for an
eight-hour day on public contracts.
BY these amendments the operation
of the bill was postponed until 1915.
Political leaders who insisted that
partisan primaries be not interfered
with won a victory in the passage Of
the model charters bill. If cities want
to knock partisanship out of their
elections entirely, they must draw up
charters of their own design.
An obstacle to the passage of the
judicial bill was removed in the pro-
vision inserted that the printing of SUI.
preme court reports is to be done by
contract.
Speaker Swain appointed Guy De-
trick of Logan, Culbertson j. Smith of
Butler and |. R. Clark of Hamilton to
be house members of the joint COM
mittee to investigate and report re-
garding the disposition to be made of
the canals.
Members of the senate presented
their presiding officer, Lieutenant
Governor Hugh L. Nichols, a silver
serving set. AS spokesman for the
house, Charles A. Reid, Republican
leader, presented Speaker Swain with
a gold watch and chain and praised
his endeavor to be fair and his ef-
fciency as presiding officer
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-02

Milton Hays, J. NJ. Sueete ct al. petit
toned the board to make application for
State aid for the construction and main
tenance of inter-county highway No. 173.
This was added to by petition from the
Trustees Of Dublin township agreeing to
pay IS per cent of the cost.
The board thereupon passed a resolu-
ton making application for state aid,
and agreeing to pay so per cent of the
cost.
The road begins at the intersection of
the inter county highway (the st Marys-
IT. Wayne State highway, and on the
township line between Union and Dub
lin townships; thence in a northwesterly
direction to the east corporation line of
the village of Rockford; thence com
mencing at the intersection of the west
corporation line of said village with said
highway and continuing in northwest
erly direction to the east line of Black
creek township and there terminate.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-02
WANT BULL MOOSERS
BACK IN The PARTY
Republican Members OfASSGmbIy
Discuss Plans.

Columbus, o., May 1.-Republican
senators and representatives held a
secret conference here, following ad.
journment of the legislature.
Over half of the Republican men,
bers of TIE assembly attended. Sen
ator M. A. Broadstone of Greene pre-.
sided
There was general discussion Of
how to rehabilitate the Republican
party. There was no dissent from
the view that, to bring this about, =
was essential to persuade to come
back into the party the Progressives
who left it last summer.
A motion was made by Representa-
tive Oscar f. Diser of Mahoning, and
was declared carried, that Chairmen
Harry Daugherty and William Par
menter and the members of the state
executive and central committees Of
the party be asked to step aside and
permit a reorganization of the party
along lines which would appeal to
those Republicans who had Joined the
Bull Moose party. Others wanted to
demand also the resignation of Chair.
man Walter F. Brown Of the Progress.
sive state executive and central com.
mittees. 1t was pointed out that such
a demand could not we'll be made by
a gathering of Republicans.
The outcome Of the conference was
the authorization of the appointment
of a committee to induce, if possible,
the retirement of the present men,
bers Of the state organization Of the
Republican party and to propose a
plan of reorganization, and to invite
the cooperation Of the Progressives
in this reorganization.