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The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1914-06-13

i'iS oiIRln, VINO sometimes
perpetrates striking bulls" The
other day he was discussing the
Mexican situation and earnestly
championing the policy of watch
full waiting He concluded his
remarks with the following:
IF we get out of this war with.
out having war it will be the
most successful war in the history
OF this country
He Joined in the laughter which
followed, but he insisted that the
bull very accurately described
the situation.
Lets analyze that proposition, +"
he said. I'VE have declared war
on General Huerta and announced
our purpose to assist in establish
ing a stable government in Mexico.
"Of course we might bring that
about by sending an army to the
City of Mexico from Vera Cruz.
la the course of year or two,
after sacrificing 10000 or 10000
men and hundreds of millions of
treasure, we might be able to cele-
brate sweeping victory.
And then what? We would
drive Huerta from power and es-
tablish a stable government and
then we would pack our gripsacks
and get out. That's what we did
in Cuba and what we are about to
do in the Philippines.
Instead of sending an army to
the City of Mexico, President Will
son has sent few diplomats to
Niagara Falls. l presume they
drink grape juice and have been
guilty of little 'watchful waiting.
That is really not material The
important thing is that those dip
lomats, under the guidance of our
president, are bringing about the
result which our army would have
worked out, at staggering sacri-
flee of men and money, if some
other presidents | have met were
in the White House.
81 prefer grape juice to blood
shed especially when grape juice
delivers the goods"
sPURNS THE OLIVE BRANCH.
"Vic" Murdoch. the auburn
haired leader of the Progressives
in the House, is never 30 happy as
when he is firing broadside into
the old standpat hulk. During the
discussion of the antitrust bill the
other day he thus repudiated the
Republican overtures looking to a
fusion:
"There is talk in New York and
in Washington, with the aid Of the
press, in San Francisco and ST.
Louis, of amalgamation between
the Republican party and the Pro-
gressive party, Do you think there
is any chance of amalgamation be-
tween a set of men who want to go
forward and set of men, typitied
by the gentleman from Pennsylva.
MIA (J. Hampton Moore), who
evade, dodge and sidestep on every
thingY
The fact is that the Democrats
and Progressives have much more
in common than have the Progress
ives and Republicans and the gen.
uine Progressives readily aoknowl.
edge the truth of that statement.
UNTERMYER's SPEECH.
Samuel Untermyer is recognized
as one of the great lawyers Of
America. He has amassed a for.
tune through his work at the bar
but. like Louis Brandeis, he 10 will.
! Ia, IN seyve his country without
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1914-06-13
Hot Springs Hotel. Wagon Wheel Gap

will open for the season Sunday, June
TIN. The management solicits the pat
ronage OF Monte Vista citizens. Week
end rates. Rates 80 per day and up.
One large furnished room for light
housekeeping, Sl5 per month.
One five.room furnished cottage for
light housekee ping, S25 per month.
j. BUSSERT, Manager.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1914-06-13

WANTED-By responsible person, to
rent furnished house for the summer;
five rooms or more with bath. Address
s., this Office.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1914-06-13
RIVER ICE

We handle the most sanitary ice-in the
city for ice boxes and household use.
Give us trial. Phone 523F4.
Mcdonald Bros.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1914-06-13
Mcdonald Bros.

FOR RENT-Two modern new houses.
r. l.. STROUP, phone 1921.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1914-06-13

Now is the time to brighten up your
house and outbuildings with McMur-
try's paint Sold by Monte Vista Lum-
her 10
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04
REAL COMIC OPERA
COMING TO THE GRAND
"The Girl of My Dreams" With
Over 40 i'm the Company Coming
Thursday Evening, Feb. 10.
MELODY AND MERRIMENT
CROPS OUT CONTINUALLY.
Managers Weiser and Bear Are De.
lighted to Announce the Coming
of This Guaranteed
Attraction.

THE Girl of My Dreams" the big
musical production which comes to
the Grand Thursday evening, Feb.
18th, is one of the greatest musical
shows on the road The managers
of the Grand were fortunate in get
ting the opportunity to book this
great show. 1t is full of life and
sparkles with catchy music, songs
and dances. The song hits will lin
ger long in your memory, and they
are all new. The chorus is a hand
some one and all high class singers.
The following from the Kansas City
Star gives the reader some idea of
the prominence of the play and
company:
There is a real treat in musical
comedy, "The Girl of My Dreams
at the Grand this week. The play is
tuneful and amusing from first to
last. Melody and merriment crops
out continually. There is little plot.
What there is opens early and doesn't
leave the least bad taste. While go-
ing to the station to meet his sister,
who has been attending boarding
school, Harry Swifton's motor car
crashes into Count Won Schniggle-
fits car and spoils the hat of the fair
occupant. The young woman hap
pens to be the wife of a German
general who is very jealous of his
American wife. Afraid to go home,
Mrs. Generalissimo, wife of the gen.
eral stops at Swifton's house where
house party is in progress. The
general drops in too, and the wife
hides in Swifton's room. Then comes
Miss Meadows, SswfSon sweeth cart,
afti ircf Ga acf her srs-'si .e-rss
lively before the count rescues the
wife from second story window,
and Swifton convinces Lucy Meadows
that his silence was because the hon
or of woman was at stake. Then
there was the little Miss Won Luke,
as Daphne Darlington, milliner,
who has at some time or other had
an affair with all of the principals.
She scored in The Letters You
Shouldn't Have Sent and What's
Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the
Gander.'' The Countess Olga Won
Hatfield, as Lucy Meadows, more
than pleased the audience with Doc
tor Tinkle Tinker Girl of My
Dreams" Dear Little Games OF
Guessing" and I'm Ready to Quit
and Be Good" She was assisted by
Roy Purviance as Harry Swifton-ss
nell Burns took the house with "Ev-,
cry Grille Loves Me But the Girl !
Love" The company has more than
40 persons. The choruses are super
ior to the average. The Lumber
mems association has engaged the
entire house for Friday night"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04
Many Ford Employees Marry.

Since the Ford profit sharing plan
went into effect week ago seventy
five or more workers in the plant
have married. 1T looks to me, y
said Alexander Fl. Stewart, marriage
license clerk, of Detroit, ''as though
Henry Ford has. answered the ques.
logists and economists so often In
the last few years: why Is 1t that
so many thousands of young men
nowadays refuse to marry"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04

The best money maker on the farm
is the hen She turns grass and
seed into green backs, grain into gold
and from sand and gravel she coins
silver There is nothing else on the
farm to compare with her. The hor-'
ses and cattle are heavy consumers
and to get their value one must part
with them, but not so with her. In
her small way she is a gold mine on
the face of the earth. is mill that
grinds which others overlook and
refuse.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04
CHAPTER 1.


II was toward the close of the first
half of the last century that ANA
ziah Badleigh and his wife, Miranda,
had migrated from the ranges Of the
Blue Ridge mountains of North
Carolina to the adjoining state OF
Tennessee where, in so far as their
limited means would permit, they
had settled. themselves in accordance
with the customs OF the times and
the ways of the neighborhood. Their
new home was pleasantly situated
on the left bank of small stream,
called Plum Creek, which lost itself
in the Cumberland river, not more
than a quarter of mile from where
they lived. Without doing them any
injustice it may be said that they
were just ordinary representatives
of the poor white class of the South
whose ambition and energies were
limited to corn pone, hog and hom-
my, linsey-woolsey and 2 shack on q
hillside. Here they made their
home for the next four years. eking
out a precarious living from the few
acres of stony ground on which their
cabin stood. They raised, or at
tempted to raise, each year, few
chickens of no particular breed.
Three or four long-legged, long
shouted, long-haired, slab-sided pigs,
which. farther west, would have been
called, prairie-rooters. They-the
chiefly on beech-nuts
and acorns, which, in that part OF
Tennessee, were to be found in abun-
dance. Also, the Badleighs were the
owners of dun cow, long-horDed,
wide in front and narrow behind
venerable looking mule which
bore the name Of Judas; two hounds
and shot gun.
Mr.. Badleigh was blessed with a
good physique. In childhood he had
escaped most of the ailments incident
to that period Of life: also throegh
youth as well as in his ripper years
he had enjoyed unusual freedom
, from the maladies of the age and
cline. At the time of his introduction
to the reader, ne is therefore, we'll
preserved specimen of physical man
hood. DeplOrably deficient, however,
in those higher qualities of mind
and heart without which it is impos-
sible. to win the respect of your fell
lows or to achieve any success wor-
lthy of the name, and being obsessed
Of long-standing inclination to
take things easy, he merely existed
from day to day, an enigma to all
who did not know him well enough
to correctly analyze his character and
estimate him at his true worth. For
many years it had been Amaziah
Badleigh's firm conviction that what.
ever might be the case with others
the world, more particularly those
parts OF North Carolina and Tennes.
see he had honored by his residence
him a livin'." He even
went SO far as to insist that it would
be ''prescrumpshus, insultin OF
natur' t int'feer toh much with hel
doin's, she didn't need no great
Ee'p, she didn't"
So strong was Mr.. Badleigh's faith
in this comfortable persuasion thai
he seldom did any work on the
place that could by any means be
avoided.
II perchance, mother nature had in
'any season shown herself unusually
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04
Special Representative Will Keep
Public Opinion Readers Posted.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVFN
TO NEWS OF IOWA PEOPLE.
Interesting Developments Of Ma
tons Affairs Tersely Described
by Former IOwan for Iowa
Headers.
Public Opinion
Washington, ID. c. Feb. 2
Alaska RediscOvered.

The most important thing even
done in reference to Alaska since the
United States purchased 1T for a
song, was the passage by the Senate
of the bill providing for railroad
in that country. The House of Rep
resentatives will undoubtedly concur
in the Senate measure, which will
give to that great region railroad
one thousand miles long. The road
in itself is important, but the fact
that the United States has declared
that it proposes to back the Alaskan
proposition to the extent of 100000
900 means more than simply streak
of rust, screeching locomotives. and
freight cars, travelling through bar
rem waste. In short the isolating of
Alaska is to be brought to an end
and an aggressive policy to develop
the great resources is to be carried
on-our greatest storehouses of
wealth are to be opened. The gem
eral impression is that Alaska is a
frigid region, whereas the mean an
nual temperature of Sitka is about
the same as that of Washington, d.
c. Likewise it is learned that Alas
ka has numerous deep land-locked,
ice-free harbors; and the coast line is
$4,000 miles long, while there are
six thousand miles of navigable riv.
ers in the country. OF course, por-
tions of Alaska are extremely cold,
but it is region Of great variety.
The sixty-five thousand people OF
that country have certainly showed
their patience, and now that the gov.
ernment has joined the boosters club
there will doubtless be great move
, ment toward that rich region.
In the Hands of the Lawyers.
Some of the best lawyers of the
country are engaged in setting uI
the pins of the new antitrust legis
lation. There have been numerous
conference of the leaders for the
purpose of agreeing upon program
that will have the solid support Oi
the Democratic party. OF the TWEEN
ty-three members of the two commit
tees in the House and Senate tha
will direct this legislation all bu
Senator Smith Of South Carolina arr
lawyers.
Putting on the Dog"
The social season is on in Wash
ington at the White House, and tht
new Democrats who have come to thu
Capital in consequence of the victor!
of their party have been splendid
customers of the merchant tailor'
and hatters, who have rigged then
up in spike tails, top coats, and ele
waited hats. A good many of tn
newcomers betray their self-con
seriousness, and they are making
fine struggle to play the same accord
ing TO the rules, and in a manne
that may lead onlookers to believ'
that they might always be accustOm
ed TO this sort of thing.
Continued on page -
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04
"Joe" Byrnes For Auditor.


In the years that come and go the
newspaper man is moresor less mixed
up in politics. More, too, often than
is desired. The duties to the party
are many and some of them anything
but real pleasure. Again, there is
the exception, a real desire to say
kind words and boost to the extent
of ability a candidacy that deserves
all the good that can be said Of it.
The pleasure is real because honest
and hearts belief. Not loyalty to
party nor party duty, just sincere
and frank expression of the real feel
ing that is warmly felt in the breast
of man.
Such privilege comes to the
Waterloo Reporter in the espousal of
the candidacy of j. H. Byrnes for
he office of state auditor, whose an
3. ncement is published elsewhere.
q. ,eauty of it all is that Mr..
By q IS a Blackhawk county pro-
duct%e goes cut into the state,
makes d e and place for himself
and his a ), sements reflect credit
and honor on the county he delights
in styling as his home, his voting
place, and to which he has been so
loyal and true.
Joe Byrnes laid down the travelling
mans grips, embarked into politics,
and from a minor position has grown
into one of the strong men of Iowa.
He is thorough, competent, obliging,
and knows the auditors business
from the ground up; has had the
real practical experience, has grown
with the Office and promotion to the
chief place is his due. There is there
fore no better equipped man in the
whole state for the discharge of the
duties of the office, which many re-
gard as the most important within
the gift of the state.
Joe" has been stalwart repub-
lican but fair and honest one. He
has made friends with all factions be-
cause honest and above board, free
from abuse, but full of convincing ar
gument for the position taken. He
has credited men differing with him
with sincere convictions and claimed
the same privilege for self in his be-
lief. All have admired his square
ness, ability and hustling procliyi-
ties. He is on the job all the time,
no matter the calling.
Here's to Joe Byrnes. If ever a
man deserved to win and is fitted and
endowed with all the capabilities the
Office demands, it is this same Joe
Byrnes. The Reporter is for him
first. last and all the time, not simply
because he is a Blackhawk county
man, but because merit and ability
deserve the recognition. We wish
him success because merit should
prevail and honor come to a man de-
serving it and who in turn by clean
and competent administration of the
affairs of the office sought, will re-
fleet this honor in like proportion
to the donors, the people of the state
of Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04

The Iowa City Republican says
there hasn't been any gambling to
amount to anything in that town.
However there was story floating
about town as to two local sports
who took away from the university
town $500 in cash and an automo-
bile at one session. 1t was rumor
only and did not go into details as to
whether the auto or the coin came
from the student body. But 1t GER
tainly looks like something had been
doing ION the green
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04

Mrs Rockefeller gave I'll children
a penny apiece the other day. Per-
haps one budding magnate put 1t in
the cast iron bank, but most of them
headed hard for the places where
the biggest piece of candy is sold for
a penny. That's the reason there
are so few Rockefellers and so many
candy stores.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04
The RECOGNITION
OF JESSE BADLEIGn
BY II. H. GREEN
BY II. II. GREEN

pouHtlIul, AuldZlan would accept her
favors as one of his natural and in
alienable rights. 1t was ever his GUS
tom to manifest sublime depen-
dence on ''the OF guhl'' as he called
her, trusting implicitly to her NUM-
| ticence, much the same as his pigs
were habitually doing.
One day traveller stopping to en-
Guire the way to the nearest town
encountered Mr.. Badleigh lazily re-
Ginning upon a wooden bench in
front of his house, smoking a cob
pipe and apparently contemplating
with great satisfaction, a few acres
of corn short distance away.
Good afternoon" said the travel
ler.
'Evenin' subj" replied Mr.. Bad
leigh.
That your corn yonder?"
"Yaas I reckon it is, stranger,
these yere hands done planted it
thar"
You have a fine crop 1 should
Judge"
Wall, I reckon thar mout be
mighty nigh as much agin as l ginly
git often that piece o. ground"
Indeed" remarked the traveller
then l would think that with
such announcement you will be like
ly to increase the acreage next year
plant double the usual amount per-
haps.'
No sub! No sub, 1 don't reckon
to plant any at all mex yeah"
You don't, why how is that?'
wall sub, wont need it, l done
got 'nough to do me foh mex yeah
'thout plantin' 10 noah, l aint no
haug."
The traveller turned his horse in
the direction he wished to take and
slowly moved away, evidently medi-
i tating upon the the revelation just
made to him and wondering if the
residents of that part of Tense $50
iwere hoe genus omne-all of this
sOrt--Or If the man he had been
talking to was in class by him
SELF
| 1t was sometime after they had
left North Carolina that ugly rumors
touching Mr.. Badleigh's manner of
life in his former home began to be
circulated among his new neighbors.
1t was said that in connection with
others he had for years, been guilty
of operating a still in violation of
the law much to the scandal of the
better element which was pronounc-
ed in it's condemnation of those un-
lawful proceedings. Nevertheless,
had the illicit distilling of whiskey
been the only charge against Bad
leigh and his associates it is quite
possible they might have remained
where they were in undisturbed
j prosecution of their unlicensed pro.
Iceedings as far as the community it.
self was concerned, for it was no un.
common thing among the mountains
of the Blue Ridge to operate illega
stills and these offences-except
among the planters Of the table-lands
and adjacent valleys, who with 9th
lers of like mind were unsparing in
their censure-if not always regard
! ed with favor were at least condoneG
and little mention was made of them
The troubles of Badleigh and hi.
friends were much more seriou.
than the charge of defrauding the
= Continued on last page)
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04
TRADING SOIL ROBBERS.
A Few Weeks Hence Will BE Nov.
ing Time in Iowa.

Five weeks hence is moving time
in Iowa. The last days of February
and the first days of March will see
again that motley procession that
strings itself along every road NOV
ing to and fro. One renter moving
Off, another moving on. One moving
because the farm is worn out and he
knows it, to another farm no better
than the one he left, but which he
does not know. Another moving be-
cause Of higher rent, because the
landlord is hard to get along with,
some good farmers moving because
the landlord doesn't understand his
own interests, others because one
term of such farming as they do is
enough and too much for any land
lord, says the Marshalltown Times
Republican. Shifting, nomadic as
Arabs shutting back and forth the
renting farmers fill the roads with
their caravans in the spring, drag
ging thru the mud to bivouac until
another spring in a different place.
There's nothing in this system but
loss to landlord and tenant. 1t is
disaster to the farms. Farmland in
Iowa has become too valuable to play
ducks and brakes with in this man
ner. 1t isn't good judgment on the
part of the tenant who is worth while
and the land owner who should un-
derstand that farm land is simply
deposit of fertility, which overdrawn
means less and debt instead of
credit.
The tenant farmer who knows his
business and is out to succeed seeks
a good farm for, long term. The
wise landlord selects his tenant and
grapples him to the farm with the
hooks of long lease. They make
a partnership of it. And both win as
good parners generally do.
The owner of a 24O acre farm who
leases it at the highest squeeze cash
rent finds that his income is not a
large one when he comes to live in
town. He would be better off in
partnership with good young farm
er with whom he would be making
plans ten years ahead. with whom
he would be planning :,sn~.f,,.. [s-
;fnd Installing. ttf.n, y Sidias yaen (
good herd of cattle, getting shrto
dairying, one furnishing the capital
and the other the active part of the
business. They would have an up
to-date plant. handle their producing
factory efficiently and at the end of
ten years have better farm and all
this should be given consideration
by the owner when he makes the
partnership lease and the tenant
given that which should be his.
A man can not always pick his
son-in-laws but if he has good farm
well equipped ne can always pick his
tenant and when he picks good
man, gives him fair deal, nails him
to himself and the farm by self in
terest and responsibility he and his
tenant both profit.
The short lease and the short ten
ancy are both losing propositions.
The longer lease would eliminate the
miserable farmer and the long tenan-
cy insure the improvements and con-
veniences which every tenant needs
ancy.
Why not try it? The worst, most
foolish and unnecessary waste in
Iowa is the annual shift of soil rob-
bers from one farm to another.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04
stick to Corn and Hogs.

Several weeks ago it was solemn
ly announced that oil had been dis
covered near Sioux City. The find
proved myth and now the enter
prising press agents have discovered
that the fertile Iowa soil near the
western metropolis contains asphalt.
However, corn and hogs will con-
tribute a large share of the wealth
OF the section. as before.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04

The automobile no longer Is mon
opolized by the city man In Minneso-
ia. for the latest official figures give
credit to the farmer for owning more
than half of the number of machines
licensed in the state. There are 2l.-
$50 farmer owned machines In Mime
sofa out OF . total OF 42.664.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04

Geo. ID. Perkins, aged "A, for for
ty-tive years editor and publisher of
the Sioux City Journal, died at 6
O'Clock Tuesday morning in a hos
pital at Sioux City, after several
weeks illness, of a complication Of
diseases.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-04

When young man is convinced
middle aged man that he is too old,
a woman that she ought to be So
cial leader and a man that he ought
to be in politics there's little to be
said or done until after the eXplo-
sion.