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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12

sons murdered in the United States than there we're
Union soldiers killed in the nine greatest battles of
the Civil War The record of homicides in those
two years was 1922, and the number annually to
the 10000 of population has risen in decade from
about two to nearly The reason for this ap-
paing state of AFFAIRS is that crime is not punished
In year in Chicago, which saw 202 homicides, just
one person was sentenced to death for murder. And
New York as another object lesson has Harry Thaw.
The increase of murder is the butchers bill this
country pays for its administration of criminal law
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
aurora CeiSb's Garden

The folds
Hung green about the window, which let in
The outdoor world with all its greenery
You could not push your head out and escape
A dash of dawn-dew from the honeysuckle,
But so you baptized into the grace
And privilege of seeing
First, the lime,
past the lime, the lawn,
Which after sweeping broadly round the house,
Went trickling through the strawberries in stream
OF tender turf and and lost itself
Among the acacias, over which, you
The irregular line of elms by the deep lane
Which stopped the grounds and damned the overflow
Of arbutus and laurel. Out of sight
The lane was sunk deep, no foreign tramp
Nor drover of wild ponies out of Wales
Could guess if lady's hall or tenants lodge
Dispensed such odors-though his stick well-crookd
Might reach the lowest trail of poisoning briar
Which dipped upon the wall.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
Time for Business Optimism.
-. IL. IN III. Grl.1


From the New York Sun:
In the opinion of the sun the coun-
try has been gloomy long enough
about American business and values.
Conceding the force of the influences
operating abroad and at home in the
last two years to bring about a state
of depression, we desire to express
our conviction that these forces have
largely spent themselves and have
practically exhausted their influence
for the further impairment Of trade
and industry. Moreover, there are
new factors in the field which give
every promise of working in behalf of
a recovered prosperity.
We wish especially to direct the at
tention of our readers to the gov
eminent crop report, which will be
published this afternoon. As every
| one knows, or ought to know, who has
his being and business in the greatest
| crop country i'm the world. crops are
| the basis of American prosperity and
| good crops are its assurance. Never
| have the agricultural auguries of any
| year been so favorable to the United
| Stats as they are today
Men in the grain trade whose ven
lures are determined by their knowl-
| edge of conditions and their Informed
calculations Of probabilities are talk
| ing of the reasonable likelihood of q
! total American wheat yield in 1914
aggregating at least 1000, 600 bushels
or about 150,000,000 bushels in excess
of any previous harvest. There is
no guarantee here, of course, that
such a possibility will be realized. bat
/ there is ample warrant i'm the pres
eut position Of winter wheat and its
tokens of farm conditions generally
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
Nightmare Stories.

1t is always a question whether a
literary man should seek to evade in
digestion. Did not Mrs. Radcliffe
confess that some of the most thrill
ing episodes in the Mysteries of
UdoIpho" came to her in nightmare
consequent upon eating pork chops?
May not the brownies" also, who
gave Stevenson the dream inspiration
of "Jekyll and Hyde" have been
traceable to some similarly injudi-
cious but lucky meal? Personally, I
have had after-supper dreams long
and circumstantially worked out,
which, could / remember them more
distinctly in waking moments. might
make my fortune as writer of
"thrillers. London Taller.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
In the World Of Labor

During 1913, 1,73O,S72 British workers
received a net wage increase of $780,
$50 per week
The next International Textile
Workers congress will take place at
Blackpool, England, on Juno s.
A five-day week of eight hours each
has been approved by the Australian
labor congress.
A new Tennessee law makes proVl-
sion for fire escapes on workshops
and factories two stories or over in
height.
Sixty-two per cent. of all strikers
in Massachusetts in 1911 were em-
ployed in the textile trades.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
Pigs on Shipboard.

The killing of a pig at sea is always
an occasion of much Importance, not
only for the reason that fresh meat is
to be enjoyed-a great luxury on a
sailing ship after perhaps months of
salt provisions--but because what is
termed a pig breeze" or favorable
wind, may be looked upon as a GER
tainty. Pigs when kept on sailing
ships are often let ont of their pens,
and their movements, which are be-
lieved to foretell the state of the wind
to be expected are watched with keen
ipterast
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12

for assistance in aiding the wounded
men in the Crimea. The war Office
expected only to receive her advice.
but she willingly offered to go out
to the scene of war herself and in
stitute the needed reforms in the hos
pital system. In October, 1858, when
Florence Nightingale was thirty -four
years old, she sailed for Scutari with
a corps of ninety-two nurses, and
this event marks an important epoch
In the history of nursing.
Three weeks after these devoted
English women landed they had over
three thousand wounded soldiers un-
der their care and amidst conditions
that would try the patience and in
genuity of many a hospital nurse to-
day, Miss Nightingale put the hos
pitfalls in almost perfect running or
der.
Florence Nightingale's career as a
war nurse lasted less than two years,
and she never returned to active nurs-
ing, but in that two years she dis
played the traits of characteristic de-
votion, the nerve and the marvellous
executive ability-that have won for
her a place among the most highly
revered women of all ages.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12

worlmen in China's egg cannerles
receive 10 cents day.
OF $500 union leather workers IN
Germany. 2,O85 are females.
Sioux Falls, Iowa, unions contem-
plate the erection of a labor temple.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court
has ruled against the use of the "un-
fair list by labor unions.
In Portland, Ore, big department
store has recently organized a welfare
scheme.
Stationary firemen employed in To-
ronto breweries have secured wage
increases of 50 a week.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
4 GROSS MISREPRESENTATION.

According to the Washington correspondent of the
News whose dispatches are in entire accord with his
newspaper all letters and kilograms in opposition to
u prohibition amendment received by New Jersey
congressman written by brewers and handed out
to their sympathzers to pass along the plan of
an endless chain.
This preposterous statement, which assumes that
public sentiment in New Jersey outside of the brewers
and their sympathizers is for national prohibition
may be read in the light of the Prohibition party vote
the quarter of century and the vote of S427
In the last gubernatoral election in New Jersey
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
Saw Wasted Time Ahead.

My little boy was one day told to
wash his face as it was very dirty.
He said: Where is it dirty" l said,
Wash it all over and you'll be sure
to get the dirty places" He said
with d vail, Yes, and I'll he sure to
get some of the clean places, too."-
Exchange.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
Gardens on Lamp Posts.

From the Christian Herald.
A unique work is being carried on
successfully in Minneapolis, for eS-
ample, where window boxes and
hanging gardens have been introduced
into the business thoroughfares. Last
year more than 5000 feet of hang
ing gardens were maintained in the
busiest streets. The business houses
are regularly eanvassed for the pur-
pose and agreements are made for in
stalIing boxes of flowers or shrub
berry A private subscription was
started furthermore to install hang
ing gardens upon the ornamental
lanp-posts of the city. More than
500 Of these attractive miniature gar
dens have been installed by an asso-
citation which regularly waters the
plants and replaces the flowers when
they wither. As the result of this
public-spirited work and at very
trifing expense Minneapolis has won
the enyjable title OF the City of
Flowers and Hanging Gardens
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
Await Arrival of Wildcats" Is Harm
I.... Inrninn Aftnr

Await Arrival of Wildcats" Is Harm
less Warning After All.
WASHINGTON, May 12-The i'm
agination of a navy department tele-
graph operator leaped all bounds to-
day when he received this telegram
to transmit for Rear-Admiral Blue,
acting secretary of the navy:
Commanding officer,
"Cassin
Key West.
Await arrival of Wildcats"
The wildcats" alluded to are moth
| ing more ferocious than capstans for
use in winding cables.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
Why Mexicans DON'T Like Us.

Correspondence of the outlook.
While in chihuahua | visited the
snelter Of the American Smelling and
Refining Company, on the outskirts
of the city. Scores of poems are en-
nloved here. and high salaried
white employe of the company told
me that their average wage was a
peso and a quarter day-about oo
cents gold in normal times, and from
10 to 30 cents gold at present as the
villa gold nuctuates. This man SAID
that the company dreaded the sue
cessful termination of the revolution.
as IL would mean the formation OF
labor unions and the consequent rise
OF wages Several American whole
sale employers of peon labor in Mex
leo frankly admit that they prefer ten
wears of anarchy, followed by the
GOOD old days of peon labor" to in
Prevention of any kind which would
mean the restoration of peace and
higher wage scale
Il is such men who frequently pay
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12

as low wages as 70 cents Mex. per
diem, and it was they who film
TANNED their employees with all sorts
of hospital taxes" and other devices
for reducing actual net wages until
the revolution frightened most of
them from tire country. 1t is they
and their like. too, who have justi-
fed a good deal of the universal
hatred for Americans in Mexico.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12

for the adoption of more optimistic
attitudes toward the business future
than have lately prevailed.
Not all business factors are to
everybody's liking and they are not
going to be. for the terms on which
business has got to be done, whether
tariff terms or otherwise, are infinite
~ clearer than they have been for
years. Prices have been reduced to
levels comparatively devoid of infla-
ton, and financial and business con
ditions have been liquidated to a
state of healthy soundness. The
country is impatient to go ahead AND
the crop promise should provide i'm.
pulses to a business recovery.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12

Woman, Bern a Munday, Christened,
Married and Dies on Monday.
LONDON, May 12.-Born, chris
tened and married on Monday, Mrs.
Winchester, whose maiden name was
Munday, died on Monday at Worth
ing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
THE NATIONAL BUTCHERS BILL.

We boast of American civilization And yet IN
the two years 1911 and 1912 there more per-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
ODDITIES IN
TODAY'S NEWS
Parrots, Who Speak French, Awake Wal
,orf Hotel CHESTS

Parrots Who Speak French, Awake Wal
dorf Hotel Guests.
NEW YORK, May Fin very po-
lite French two b g green parrots
have been awakening Waldorf-Astoria
guests too early. One of the alarm
clocks has been captured, but the
other is still at large in the hotel.
Ellis Island Authorities Have Dromio
Problem.
NEW YORK, May 1.-Two former
Calabrians who have been living for
the last several years in Rio Janeiro
arrived on Saturday by the steam
ship Vandyck. Each said he was
Francisco Genaro, and each de-
clared that he had paid for the
steerage ticket that one of them sur
rendered on the arrival of the ship.
One of them was a stowaway and
each said the other fellow was the
one that had come UP free from Rio.
The pair were taken yesterday to
Ellis Island and Il special board of
inquiry will make an effort to I'M
twist the Dromio tangle today.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
IT Is WAR.

TUESDAY EVENING. MAY II. 1914
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-10-20

to intercede in his behalf. They told
the grand jury that the young man
was not of sound mind, which ap-
peared evident, and suggested that
they would take him to Nevada and
have him examined by the insane
commissioners. If the commissioners
found that he was of sound mind
the authorities would bring him
back to Webster City and let the law
take it's course here. This looked all
right to the jury and they suspend
ed investigation of his crime until
his sanity could be authoritatively
established. He was taken to Ne
vada and the board of insanity
found him insane and he is now in
the hospital at Clarinda. The young
mans parents are respectable and
have the sympathy of the people
who know them in Story county.
This son has given them lots of
trouble and those conversant with
the situation at his home, feel that
the best course has been pursued in
his case.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-10-20
MILITIA TO STOP
Miners UPRISING
Killing Of Italian by Mob at Willis
vile, Ill.,, Threatens to Start
Race War.

Springfield, ILL.,, Oct. ia min
ers' feud which resulted in the Kill
ling of an Italian by a mob Monday
night and yesterday threatened to
end in a race war caused the Italian
consul at Chicago to telegraph to
Governor Dunno last night asking
that the militia be sent to Willis
vile, ILL.,, to prevent further vio-
lence.
The governor Immediately sent
Adjt Gen. Frank Dickson to the
scene of the outbreak and telegraph
ed the captain of the nearest COM
pany of the national guard at Car
bondale to have his company held
under arms for further orders.
The trouble between the Italian
and American miners eliminated
night in a shooting in which
one man was killed and two serious
ly injured. The brother of the dead
man was arrested but was taken
from the sheriff by masked men and
shot and killed.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-10-20
GARDEN DENIES
HARSH WORDS
British Diplomat Repudiates Inter-
view Concerning Wilson. ,

Washington, D. c., Oct. 16.-Sir
Lionel Garden has repudiated the
interview ascribed to him upon his
sailing from New York recently, in
which he was said to have reflected
severely on President Wilson's pol
icy in regard to Mexico.
The reputation came to the state
through Ambassador
Page in London who had inquired
of the British foreign Office as to the
authenticity of the interview.
Sir Edward Grey, the British for
eign minister, Informed Mr.. Page
that while Sir Lionel had submitted
to an interview regarding conditions
in Mexico as he left the United
States, he had not reflected in any
way on the policy of President Will
son.
1t was intimated at the state de-
partment that this closed the Incl.
dent.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-10-20
Trying to Get One of Senators.

C. H. Swiney, secretary of the re-
publican county central committee,
is trying to get a date in Webster
City for either Senator Cummins or
Senator Kenyon and is in receipt Of
letter from Chairman Rawson say.
ing that possibly one Of the senators
could come here before the close Of
the campaign. However, the bad
roads of the past week or two have
interfered materially with the plans
of the state committee, as it was i'm.
possible to fill dates where the au !.
tomobile was relied upon to convey
speakers.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-10-20
COUPLE WAVES
AN EXAMINATION
~
Man and Girl Charged With Murder
Held to Grand Jury.

OttumWa, Ia, Oct. 16.-Clarence
Mccormick of Lancaster, Mo-, and
Mrs. Ruth Mccullough, snake
charmer, both formerly with a tray
cling show owned by I. w. Mellott,
with whose murder they are charg-
ed, were arraigned before Justice W.
J. Berry here yesterday afternoon.
Both waived examination and were
held to the grand jury.
Neither prisoner would talk of the
crime, the woman being sullen and
morose. She has refused to eat
since leaving Chicago Mccormick
was in good humor until shown a
paper telling of the murder and the
confessions of both, when he too be-
came silent and hung a blanket
across the bars of his cell in the Jail
to shut off the gaze of persons cur
ious to see him.
In talking with his father this
Mccormick claimed he
killed Mellott in self-defense, alleg-
ing the latter quarreled with him
over Miss Spangler's failure to meet
Mellott at Packwood. Mccormick
,old his father that they had plan
ned the murder and that he wanted
% back out, Mrs. Mccullough insist
ed that it be done Immediately.
When nearing Hedrick, he said, Mel
oft ordered him out of the car and
n fight following he killed Mel
or
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-10-20
The Case of John Cerka,

There seems to be some misappre-
hension in the public mind regard
ing the disposition of the John Ger
ka case by the grand jury. Cerka
was accused of stealing large
amount of goods from the Cash &
Lehnhard store and there was little
or no doubt of his guilt and he was
confined in the county Jail here a
number of weeks. The authorities
of Story county, where Cerka and
his parents live, understanding the
circumstances of the family and the
condition of the accused, came here
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-10-20
A New Club.

Now that the long winter even
ings will soon be here some of the
young people have formed a new
club Ten young ladies-the Misses
Geneva and Lila Neel, Lillian Mel
win, Helen Alexander, Mary Bailey,
Louise Holiday, Audry tombstone,
Olive Bateman, Louise Swanson, and
Charlotte Kitley, the latter of Wool
stock, have formed society which
will be known as the S. N. club.
They will meet for a social time ev-
cry other Friday night. The club
met last evening with Miss Alex
ander and all enjoyed delightful
time,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-10-20
PERSONAL BRIEFS.
From Saturdays Daily.)

Mrs. T. E. Bryant and daugh-
ter, Miss Fac, were here from Will
liams yesterday. They were accom-
panied home by Mrs. Marion Haines,
who will remain in Williams over
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Blake,
who have been here visiting the for
mer's brothers, J. NJ. Blake and fam
lily of this city and Peter Blake and
family near Highview, left yesterday
afternoon for their home in Marble
Rock. Mr.. and Mrs. Blake were
married last Monday in Charles City
and came here on their wedding
trip.
Mrs. J. R. Faus left yesterday
afternoon for visit with her son,
c. F. Faus in Onawa. From there
Mrs. Faus will go to Huron, South
Dakota, to spend the winter with
her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Searls.
Mrs. J. H. Graham and little
son of Burt are making an over
Sunday visit with the formers par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Wickwire,
and other relatives.
Harold Burton, son Of Mrs. c.
c. Burton, went to Farmer City, IL
linois, yesterday where he will
spend the winter with the family
of an uncle.
Miss Charlotte Kitley of Wool
stock spent last evening in this city
attending a meeting of the S. N.
club, of which she is member.
Baby James Clifton Howard of
Iowa Falls is spending the day with
his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
H. Stahl. His parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Howard, will arrive here this
evening for an over Sunday visit.
j. M. Wane went to Cedar Rap
ids yesterday on brief business
trip.
Willard Green of Hawarden, S.
D., is in the city for an over Sun
day visit with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. R. Daniels
went to Fort Dodge today for an ov-
err Sunday visit with friends.
Mrs. A. F. Schrader and baby
and Miss Mile Johnson went to
Duncombe today for an over Sunday
visit.
Mrs. N. A. Ross returned to her
home in Council Bluffs today after a
short visit with her son, o. N. Ross
and family in this city, and also
with relatives in Williams.
Fort Dodge callers today in
clude Mrs. r. w. Pote, Mrs. George
w. Lee and daughter, Miss Edith,
Miss Cora Mccullough, Mrs. w. J.
Zitterell, Miss Ruth Donaldson, Mrs.
S. D. Derr and daughters, Mrs. R. G.
Austin and baby, Miss Helen Derr,
Mrs. G. C. Mills and little daughter,
Mrs. w. F. Hunter and little daugh
ter and Mrs. d. l.. Hunter.
MIR. and Mrs. Furman futile
and son of st. Paul, also Miss Marian
Greenwood who has been attending
school in st. Paul, are in the city,
having been called here to attend
the funeral of |. NJ. Greenwood.
DR.. d. G. Mahood and two little
daughters of Orchard, Neb., are in
the city for visit at the Mrs. S. E.
Reed home.
Prof. Fred Wahlers of Green's
boro, North Carolina, arrived here
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-10-20
Notice of Appointment of Admins
traitor.

In the district court of the State
of Iowa, in and for Hamilton coun-
ty, in probate.
In the matter of the estate Of Jo-
seph Adams, deceased.
To whom it may concern: Notice
is hereby given, that the undersign-
ed has been appointed and has quail
flied as administrator of the estate
OF Joseph Adams, late of Hamilton
County, Iowa, deceased. All per-
sons in any manner indebted to said
deceased or his estate will make pay
ment to the undersigned; and those
having claims against said deceased
or his estate will present them in
manner and form as by law requir-
ed, for allowance and payment.
Dated this 9th day of October A..
D., 1914.
w. d. Adams,
Administrator of said estate.
25f3 Wesley Martin, Atty.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-10-20
ANSWER THE CALL.
Webster City People Have Found
That This is Necessary.

A cold, strain, a sudden wrench.
A little cause may hurt the kidneys.
Spells of backache often follow, or
some irregularity of the urine. A
splendid remedy for such attacks, a
medicine that has satisfied thous-
ands is Doan's Kidney Pills, spec
ial kidney remedy. Many Webster
City people rely on it. Here is Web
ster City proof:
Elmer Woodruff, 1923 Superior
street, Webster City, says: "a cold
which settled on my kidneys, caus-
ed my back to ache and l had to
lay off from work for eight or ten
days. l had to walk about ali Grip
pied up and couldn't stoop. l
couldn't rest well. One of my
neigh bors brought me in a box of
Doan's Kidney Pills and insisted on
my taking them. In about four days
| was greatly relieved and again
went to work. / have never been
troubled much since. ! know Of other
people in this town who have taken
Doan's Kidney Pills with good re-
suits
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same
that Mr.. Woodruff had. Foster-Mil-
burn Co., Props, Buffalo. N. Y
Adv. diff
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-10-20
CARNIVAL DANCE.

Tie Carnival Dance given Friday
night at the Outing club house was
a huge success. A large crowd was
present and the weather of the ev-
ening was ideal for the occasion.
The club house was marvelously dec
GRATED in posters of ancient date and
with streamers and ribbons Of every
hue. The committee had spared no