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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-04-21

Hull is coming strong in the Sec
ond district, and some of the other
fellows now wish they had 'sacrific-
ed themselves the same way" says
the Marshalltown Times-Republican.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-04-21

F. A. Boysen. Dentist, Second st.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-04-21

Fine Job Work at this once.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-04-21

eff the Herald had its way, it
would wipe every vestige of relig-
ious prejudice from the face of the
EARTH" declares the Clinton Herald.
cit would take every vote that
might be cast against any candidate,
on account of religious prejudice,
and make it count double for him.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-04-21

The execution of the four gunner
appears to the Burlington Gazette
as being "the most crushing blow
that has been administered to Or
ganized thugdom in New York in
years." and it commends District
Attorney whitman, Justice Golf and
Gov. Glynn for their firmness.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-04-21

The Iowa City Citizen points out
that whatever may be said for or
against John w. Rowley, he cannot
be accused of being tied up to pol
icy of increasing the appropriations
for any of the state schools
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-04-21

FOR RENT-Two inside Office rooms
over Metcalf's store. w. F. Hunt
er. dtf
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-04-21

"In his Chicago speech Senator
Cummins demonstrated his recently
acquired ability to get on the wrong
side of great public questions" says
the Grinnell Register.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05

q aFg
Pa brought "a funny man shoam with
him last mite. He was kind OF full,
but Pa sed to Ma that; he found him
in publick library.
wife, sed Pa, I want you to meet
Professor Dumfericht. haven't saw
him for a good many years. Him &
me used to go to school together, Pa
sed. I always remember how brlte
he was in his studies.
i am pleased to meet you, Professor
sed Ma. BY the way, husband, sed
Ma, how did it happen that You got
into a publick library?
oh, sed Pa. l jest drifted in, as I
often do after I have got thru with
my work at the offs. had argu-
ment with fellow In the offs & I
wanted to look up in a book & prove
to him that Asia Minor was mining
country, & by strange working OF
fate, sed Pa, 1 happened to meet my
old friend Dumfericht. 1t is only
onst In a while, sed Pa, that you have
chanst to meet man OF his
thoughtfu1ness. Ask him something
about the war, sed Pa, & see how
quick he ansers you.
do not care to talk about the war,
sed Ma. 1t always maiks me sad But
I will ask him one thing, sed Ma. q
then she asked the Professor ono
question: Wen do you think the war
ID going to end?
doant know, sed Pas friend, I
doant know. with this war my hart
is breaking, he sed.
Do you think Germany is going to
git the worst of it, sed to Professor
Dumfericht. @.H
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
rHE losT MOTHER.

Renewed. YOU ~. in eyery breath,
She Ityes where happtest dreaina
come true; :,
But were II not the sting % death
II death indeed mad an things SneWi7
Happy she eaYes, with starry strands
Some web Bof heaven; but Q, TO look
again upon the wrfnkled hands
That laid the knitting by the Book!
No need Of glasses now, to see
The farthest star which burns
above;
But could the old eyes beam on me,
Dim eyes whose only light was love.
AS then she was seek her now
No halo round the silver hair,
No crown upon the patient brow;
Only the cap she used to wear.
Talk not Of her immortal youth;
Dearer her placid age than all.
What shining wings could wear, in
sooth,
The beauty of her faded shawl:
Nays by her portrait kneeling down.
One prayer, but one, will ! record;
No white wings, but the old gray gown,
No angel. but mother. Lord!
Diana Royds, in the Bookman.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
.I,ITTI ID Boobies PA
.BYEvgiIIiaiIIsF KEkI

II n nj for lite boys to talk: she
sed. II you could be- grown up man,
then Won could tax to q professor.
h yo,i see, wife: sed Pa. this man IS
as antck a. chain litening in his an
sers
It is a great study have made of
.tbe whole thing. sed the professor
10 Ma know that what must be
right must be right and know that
the Kiser Is going to surprise sum OF
his enemies.
He hasent got chanSt, sed to
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
Girls In Politics.

AS sung by Albert Stroud, Of Cher.
ryvale:
81 took my sweetheart to the polls
to teach her how to vote. and whentI
think how she behaved It almost gets Y
my gout The judges asked her tot !;
her name. and then her wrath was;
loosed; she staged a fuss with me
because she wasn't introduced. She
kicked because the ballot that they
handed her was white, and said she
had notion that she wasn't treated
right. It didn't match the samples,
for all that she had seen were Just
the loveliest of shades In yellow, red
or green. She wouldn't vote for
Broadax for justice Of the peace, bo.
cause she said, his wife could CAB
to boat a flock of geese; and she
scratched Augustus Virgins. anotb.
er friend of mine, because his hiatt
was sorrel and just a shade too fine.
1 tried to reason with her, as home
again we sped, but couldn't talk al
bit OF sense into her curly head. She
handed me schooner full Of worm:
wood and of gall, and Sunday night
another's hat hung in the parlor hall
Henceforth there is a formula I'll Z
never try to mix: it's one composed Of
equal parts of girl and politics.
Kansas City Journal.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
THE HOME MERCHANT AND THE
CONSUMER.

Now is the time, wnen the business
of the country seems to be almost at
standstill and the; scarcity OF money
: -.ident on all hands. that the people OF
tho town aaa county should ali sLa.'t
together in long and strong pull LOT
better business conditions at home.
The merchants of Point Pleasant
shonld be careful to carry complete
stock in their Respective lihSS' at
nrices which outside competitors co1ilu
not undersel and this should pc
brought home TO the consumers ny sNs-
temutic Advertising. They shHnla en-
dcayor to taRn all the products OF Tue
farm and to encourage the farmers 10
bring his products here. THIS, some
times. would seem almost Impossible
hut with all our shipping facilities, the
merchant could readily dispose OF MS
surplus in other markets even thousn
he had to do so at small profit.
ON the other hand the people should
have n pride in the building Of their
county seat. They should lec4 that
what is to the interest OF the town
neople is also to their interest. They
should appreciate the fact that II the"
send all their money to foreign towns
their home town as Il matter OF neces-
sity must DO Impoverished to Just SUCH
an extent as the money sent oat VIII de-
tract from tho people thereof. thsy
SncuIc realiz thai If the mc:Ihlnts nave
ut the money who".,wllh to buy their
rre.ducts will rsIa::!1 val eless TO a
a. re extent. Tney sa"'NlI rcr S:':h9r
tn4re is a comm =: = OF intcrc:t be'
twuY tn town All rura! fc!k'
1t them taka tho time, for instance,
to trace their money spent in tneic
home town.
The farmer comus Ia town and pays
his money to the hardware mar Tor
plows and etc; the hardware man pays
the grocerymaE; the Grocerynan pays
the clothicr; the ciotalcr pays tho coal
man: tho coal mar pays the doctor; the
doctor pays tho shoe man; the shoe
man pays the outchsr and the butcher
pays the farmer for his hoes, cattle.
chickens and etc, It goes the rounds,
pays numerous bills, relieves many
stringencies, gives many comforts and
at last comes home to the farmer just
as good as when he parted With It.
If the farmer had sent his money to
foreign town. he would get the goods,
but his money wouId never return again
to find shelter in ms pockets.
Now when business Is slack, when
times seem hard, let US all put our
shoulders to the wheel, and with the
slogan of better town and better
county, unite In good strong boost for
our home town. county ana pvople-Ptt.
Pleasant Gazette.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05

she saw her beau coming was worth
catching.
Recent disclosures as to lack OF
ships and men are enough to keep
the navy blue.
New York offers plain and fancy
murders at IS up, but those aren't the
cute rates.
Won Moltke says Germans and Aus
trians stand or fall together. Shar'
ing each others ups and downs.
Friends seek whereabouts of Egg
Harbor contractor who disappeared
in auto. Probably he would like to
know where he is himself.
Theater lad" says Things That
Count" will be followed by "a Pair
of Skies" For things that count
two pairs Of skies would do better.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05

less statewide basis. West Virginia is
not only destitute of any such state
agency. but the people of the state as
whole are almost without access to
adequate collections of books. The ap-
session OF the legislature
should enact an up.to-date library law
permitting county and municipal au-
thorlt1es to establish and maintain free
libraries and creating a library commits
sion to organize and coordinate the
work of those local libraries With that
of travelling library service Nor
gantown Post-Chronicle.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
LUKE McLU'..Il j:
(From Cincinnati, Enqulrer:l

Some OF these days we are going
to take month of and try ana Slo;s
cate the easy mark who makes ALL
the 10000 wages that man cant
walk around the world in two yeaFstl
The reason a woman doesn't mind
being an old maid is because she WAS
born that way. II 3s5
The man who can tell q good egg
and good canteloupe bys looking!
at them often selects a bad wife.
A single man won't believe 80, but
a married man who has been out ail
night killing a Chinaman would ratts
or say Good morning, Judge, than
Good Morning, Wife, 4
And It isn't often ,that q man haaS
sense enough to select an aftinity Who
has the same colored hair as his wife.
We don't blame the women foEs
wanting to vote. Some OF them hnye
finer mustaches than the fool men.
The groom is such an 1nsig tflcank
animal at a wedding nowadays That dt
is wonder they don't make him
wear a bridal veil.
Every married man knows a mar
ried woman who Is an IDEAL wife. But
she is usually married TO some other
man.
Heaven will be a might cheerlesa
place for q reformers There NsiI bes
no saloons to close and no fun % hut
into. " * III
And now they propo To- utilize Eus
,genics to breed Thorough Inbred hunnns.
It won't be long until Is marriage no
3tice will read s John hoe. bill H.. 22t
by Doe smttIl to Nary Roe, q 4. ~.
by Roe Brown Won't That be finei
Maybe the Eeaspn why they veal
heavy slsirts Ia eoid Reather is be,
cause they Know the sun is mighty
weak thSwinter and wouldn't be much
account Tor siIhouettius anyway,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
THE MYSTERY OF THE SOUL.


according TO three reputable sur
geonsS Soft Los Angeles a miracle was per-
formed by them in restoring life TO q
woman after she was dead. One OF the
doctorssays. 1.-THE raising was not from
theoretical death or state OF coma.
Mrs. Atkins was actually dead. Her
heart had ceased its functions and
there was no pulse and her eyes were
fixed In the stare that to every medical
man spells the eternal sleep Usual
tests all failed. She was dead"
II this was the testimony of one wit
ness ttmight be subject to grave doubt
and attributed to desire upon the part
aof3it the doctor in charge to gain some no
teriety4 or advertising, but since three
witnesses testify to this occurrence it
must be accepted as true.
If this story is true it raises some in
interesting questions. The action of
the heart was started by artificial COM
\ ,pression on the organ by the doctors
fingers which he inserted into the Incl
sion made for the operation that was
being performed upon the woman.
The theory is advanced, and general
1 1y3accepted that the soul, or spirit,
leaves the body simultaneously with
i life. Some have gone further and stat
ed that the soul has been actually pho
tographed as 1t was leaving the body,
but little, II any, credence has been
placed in such reports, although photo
graphs OF: a dim and shadowy nature
have been shown, purporting to be that
ofthe departing spirit.
If the spirit does leave the body ST..
Smultaneously with life. what had be.
come OF this woman's soul during the
period of time Intervening between her
death and her restoration to life? Had
Il gone to its reward and did It return
assmysteriously as it disappeared from
the body after her restoration to life?
There is much speculation about such
matters, and II this woman lives, upon
her recovery, she may be able to throw
Some impo rtant light upon a subject
Extraordinarily and about which sci
enttstss have always been puzzled. Or
will the mystery Of the soul still remain
unfathomed on the theory that the
mind is unconscious at the time of dis
solution and cannot understand the
Transformation?
Persons who have been drowned
have frequently been revived, and the
same question might be raised In such
instances.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
NOT EXACTLY SATISFIED.


A party Of women from local
church gathered for thimble party
one day recently at the home of one
Of the members. The ladies were in
innate friends and the heat Of the
day, the excitement of the war or
some other circumstance, perhaps
just feminine nature. caused them TO
indulge rather freely in neighborhood
talk, commonly called gossip"
The little daughter of the hostess
slipped in unnoticed and sat listening.
Absent friends were mentioned in
critical remarks and even some OF
the guests who took their departure
were discussed.
AS the talk vent on little Elizabeth
edged up to her mother and said In a
stage whisper:
ooh, dear! Nobody seems just ez'
actly satisfied with anybody does
they, mammal -Brockton Enter
prise.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
CURIOUS FACTS.
has 88,288, $50 sheep.

AubtFaIIa mas o3tabo,bob sHetp.
oriente Province. Cuba, will this
year expend 100000 in public works.
Workmen engaged on the bridge of
the Oregon trunk line over the Crook
ed River climb so0-foot rope ladder
every day in reaching their work
Bubbling fountains for horses are
used in Tampa, Fla, BY stepping on
the stone platforms underneath the
fountains the horse starts a stream of
water bubb1ing up 5its the little basins
and he may drink without fear of cons
tamlnat ton or Injection.
An exp rimental sscho oI OF catlons
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
GOT THREE BACK.

Attorney Thomas c. BrInsmade
doesn't object to a good story even
II it's on him. He tells this one:
1.-THE other day an old colored man
came sauntering up to me in my yard
where there was big pile Of rub
bish.
informing, John, said.
"'Marse Tom, don't you want that
rubbish hauled away?'
"'what'l you take? asked
"'DoIlah load, n think It'll take
les about two loads
"'1ll give you IS cents load I
told him.
Tom?'
"sWell, you remember when was
up for shootin craps, and you plead
ed me guilty in police court!
"'Sure,' I said.
San you charged me $40, an l
never said dog-gone word!
John hauled the rubbish at 81 a
load, and he made three loads Of It"
Cleveland News. /.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
State Editors

The big steel and wire mills OF Pltts-
bureh are starting up. 1t won't be long
until the hum of industry Will deaoeh
the sound Of the calamity howler'-
Last weeks Argus.
The Argus said before the election
+bat the closing down OF these mtlia
was purely psychological. II 1t was q
ARCHAEOLOGICAL state then it would De
in,nossible to start up only In psy-
Geological sense.-Preston County
Journal.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
The nuLL MOOSE INQUEST.

The National Progressive Commit
tee met at Chicago yesterday to hold
an inquest over the remains of the
Bull Moose party. The verdict, while
not made public, no doubt. is that 1t
came to it's death from infantile par
alysis of the pockctboolt. complicat
ed with a "diarrhoea of words and
constipation Of ideas"
The chief mourner was not at the
obseQuies.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
an1uent.

affluent,
The sick and infirm among these,
Fleeing for life, death following close
Homeless, weary and sad refugees.
No coverlet warm, or roof for shell.
ter,
No pillow for tired. aching head.
No ease for the sick, the wounded or
dying.
Want and misery around them out
spread.
Seeking tidings of son. of husband or
brother,
Who out on the battleftelds lie,
In cold, dismal trenches. death hover
ing DER them,
To fight till they conquer or die.
Oh Thou who dost note the fall of a
sparrow,
In thy mercy, oh turn not away.
Help of the helpless, abide with them
ever.
Sustain them, oh Lord, we do pray.
Grace Percy Wicks.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
For Heavens Sake, EIeanorl

For Heavens Sake, Eleanor!
When she gets some petticoats-
sure, they wear them, but she is very
particular this season to get the kind
"you can't see through" spoil.
ing one of the summer amusements.
Do you remember last summer somo'
times about sunset when a chorus
of voices would rise. For heavens
cake, Eleanor, get back into the
shade!"-James Montgomery FlagE
in Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Help!
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
TIMES HAVE CHANGED.

The small boy who used to get
astraddle Of dads foot and bob up and
down when he wanted to take ride
now has son Of his own who insists on
having a $500 rocking horse, a $l5'OO
self.propelled auto wagon and $5O.Vo
bicycle for Christmas.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
Apropos.

Apropos.
(Apropos Of the present scanty ap
parel Of the weaker sex, so called
with apologies to Rudyard Kipling,
and most sincere apologies to the
shade Of Gungha Din)
The party frock she wore ID.
Was nothing much before
And little less than half OF that be-
hind;
For bit of filmy lace
And some powder for her face
Was all the dance equipment she
could find.
~ From Judge.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
WAS SOCIAL JUSTICE.

WHERE WAS SOCIAL JUSTICE.
What became OF Social Justice at the
Chicago conference Of the Progress
sive party? We can find no reference
to It in the reports Of the proceedings,
and the canned statement issued In be-
half of the committee was devoted in
large part to explaining the need of
"a permanent non.partisan tariff COM
mission"
That particular article Of faith could
just as well have been framed under
the inspiration of Uncle Joe Cannon,
Boies Penrose and William Barnes. Let
them appoint the tariff commission and
they do not care how permanent or
non.partisan it is.
But this is all as far from Arranged
don as the Kaiser Is from Tipperary.
The Army of the Lord used to battle
for Social Justice, and If 1t has nothing
better than permanent non-parttsan
tariff commission 10 fight for, we fear
that recruiting will be SLOW, and deser-
lions heavier than ever.
Social Justice ought to have gone to
Chicago. Was 1t obliged to stay home
because the Colonel stayed at home
New York World.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
wIsHINe FOR RAIN.

We do not know that anybody has
actually prayed for rain lately. but they
have wished for it almost as strongly
as If they had. We have been having
plenty of it during the past week, and
wishing seems to pay. Now let's wish
that may stop for awhile that we may
have a little snow and some real Christ
mas weather. ..... .a
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
STARS AND STRIPES

All Mexico seems divided into two
classes-shooters and hooters.
Girl who went after goat with q
hatpin knew how to get one.
Ex.tanks who buried John Barley:
corn may be digging him up again
soon.
Going to forbid football in Europe
on the ground that this Is q humane
war. a,S
Girl who fell out Of wind low whea
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
The peaceful rest and thoughts are
or life and love and hope Of time.
-Rebecca L. Jenkins
hIa onLY chanee.

"Why do you carry that umbrella,
little boy?" asked the passerby cur.
iously cts not raining and the sun
is not shining"
IT know" said the youth, "but, when
1t rains pa wants 1t and when the sun
shines ma wants It. and this is the
only kinda weather can git terguse
1t at ALL"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05

What has become of the old.fash.
toned bridge, when consolation prizes
were gtven?-Huntington Herald'DIs'
patch.
Gone out for long walk to give
the real sportesses chance to be
game.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
Current Comment
TAEN MEXICO,

For good or III, the true Mexican rev.
olution trlumphed yesterday when Gen.
Villa, at the head Of an army OF $4,000
men, escorted Provisional President
Gutierrez to the National Palace.
In the presence OF this GROWING ex.-
hibition of good faith on tho part off
the victorious soldier, the report that
"hc was greeted by the most enthusi-
asttc demonstration in the history OF
the capital" may readily be accepted.
For week or more the city had been
under the rule Of Zapata, popularity
supposed to be an outlaw. and no ex-
ceSses are credibly reported to have
taken place. With the arrival Of Gen.
Villa, long proclaimed q bandit and
widely fefared, there came assurances
that life and property would be pro-
tected, and, moreover, visible and bust
nesslike evidence that constitutional
government was to be roStabnshd
in ordrly fashion.
Strange as THESE events must appear
to many Mexicans, they follow logical
Iy upon every utterance off Villa and
Zapata for months past. Almost alone
among the revolutionary commanders
they have had a clear purpose based
upon an idea. which was not only to
free Mexico of despotic government but
to give to the people access to the land.
Unlike Carranza and many Others, they
have been friendly to the United States
and appreciative OF fits disinterested-
ness They have avowed personal am
bitlon. They have always said that
they need be feared by no ono but the
enemies of Mexican Thirty and progress.
Thus far, at least, they have kept their
word
In most cases nations and races have
been freed under the dictatorship off men
representing favored classed. If 1t
shall appar that Mexico Is to be deliv--
cred by captains recruited from the
ranks OF the dispossessed and that,
guided by the examples Of patriotism
and greatness elsewhere, they are to
exhibit the same sclfseffacemnt. tn
world must soon rvise It's estimate OF
Mexico and the Mexicaus.-New York
World.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-12-05
rhe Joya Of Life.

Tho Joys OF LHe'
While the skies are blue and spring
time new,
And the beautiful sunlight streaming
through
The barren limbs of the Spreading
trees
That bend and sway in the passing
breeze,
Sweet thoughts come OF other things,
or beautiful ones and Of angels wings,
OF loved ones 50 dear, the mothers
heart U;
Cannot bear to speak for the ptercctl1n1ta 9.
The pleasant! home and little things
Cheerful thoughts sweet comfort
hringss
Frhe taslss welIs done. tlie Joy md fun
init came ana went tili setsot sun,