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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-05
DAVIDSON HEADS BOARD
Wisconsin Senate Approves Former
Governor for Control Body.

Madison, Wis, Feb. 5.--The senate
has confirmed, by vote OF "a to 6, the
appointment of former Governor
James o. Davidson as president OF the
state board of control
A joint resolution by Senator Ack-
ley calling for reports from state Of
ficers of institutions and departments
as to their finances was defeated, 16
to 13. The state board of public af-
fairs has announced 1T would issue q
statement next week covering the
ground OF Ackley's resolution.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-05

Someone has said that people with
chronic liver complaint should be shut
up away from humanity. for they are
pessimists and see through a glass
darkly." Why? Because mental states
depend upon physical states. Bilious
ness, headaches. dizziness and constipa-
tion disappear after using DR.. Kings
New Life Pills. CSC at your druggist.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-05
Report Occupation of Posi-
tiOns Near MasSiges.
ALSO ACTIVE AT WARSAW
Continue on Offensive in Russian Po-
land, but Cars Forces Are Exert
ing Greatest Pressure on Remainder
Of Battle Line in East.

Berlin, Feb. Sherman forces have
occupied two kilometers tone and one
fifth miles, of principal French posi-
tions north and northwest of Mas
siges and to the northwest Of st.
Menehould, according to the an
nouncement given out by the head.
quarters staff of the German army.
"All the French counter attacks,
which were continued during the night
we're repulsed," the statement says
we took prisoners seven officers
and COL soldiers and we captured nine
machine guns, nine other guns OF
smaller caliber and much war mate
rial
Further French attacks near Par
thes were repulsed with losses to the
enemy.
In the Middle Vosges there occur
red the first encounter of German
troops mounted on skis with French
chasseurs. The outcome was success.
full for us.
Russian Attacks RepuIsed.
In East Prussia Russian attacks
against the German position south OF
the Memel river were driven back.
In Poland, north of the Vistula,
there have been skirmishes between
small detachments Of German and
Russian cayalrymen. At point
south OF SochacZew the Russians de-
livered repeated night attacks upon
our positions. They were forced to re
tire with heavy losses.
The German advance in the vi
cinity of Bolimow is progressing and
this in spite of the violent Russian
counter attacks. The number of pris-
oners we are taking is increasing.
In the Carpathian mountains Ger
man and Austrian and hungarian sol
diers have been fighting shoulder to
shoulder for some days past. We and
our allies several times have been
successful in this difficult, snow-cov.
cred mountainous country"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-05

Hundreds of health articles appear In
newspapers and magazines, ard In prac-
ically every one of them the Importance
OF keeping the bowels regular is en-
phasized. A constipated condition in
vites disease. A dependable physic that
acts without inconvenience or gripping is
found i'm Foley Cathartic Tablets. For
sale by all druggists.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-05
BERLIN BAKERS WARNED
NOT TO BOOST PRICES.

Berlin, Feb. 5.-The magis-
trates of Berlin have issued a
warning against exorbitant
prices for bread They de-
clare that they will adopt
preventive measures IL they
become necessary to keep bread
rates within reasonable bounds.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-05

the Innings of the throat and lungs and
fights the germs OF the disease. giving
quick relief and natural healing. Our
whole family depend on Pine-Tar- Honey
for coughs and colds" writes Mr.. T..
Williams. Hamilton. o. 1t always helps.
zoe at your druggist.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-05
STOP THAT CoUaH-Now.

When you catch cold or begin to
cough, the first thing TO do is TO take
Dr. Bells Pine-Tar- Honey. II penetrates
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25

Solace for Strap hangers and Other
Stavat-Homes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24

a generous scale, and now that a straitened condition exists a campaign of the most rigid economy will be in order, not only in the United King dom, but among some of the allies; not France, however. The French are proverbially careful in keeping down expenditures when occasion requires it. The peasants and the wage work ing classes are always frugal, and high and low alike have a dread of anything like wastefulness. It may be that while members of the British cabinet and members of the French cabinet are holding war conferences the latter is giving England few lessons in how to reduce expenses in these troublous times.
 Germany's preparedness for the war did not simply apply to her fight ing forces and her accumulation of munitions, but to government and do- mestic economies. England has great resources and if her anti-extravagance campaign is pushed earnestly she will soon find a healthy recovery from panicky situation. But there is no time to lose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24
Crops and Homeseekers

There is no lack of interest in crop diversification in Alabama. The splendid record in the production of foodstuffs promises to be exceeded even in 1916.
 The farmers will keep down their cotton acreage So long as the boil weevil is a menace, and as every part of the state is now infested the pest will be more widely destructive next year than ever. For this reason, if no other, more corn and more oats will be cultivated and mure live stock raised. But for the low price of cot ton year ago there would probably have been no extensive diversification campaign, and but for the ravages of the weevil as this years staple began to mature an increased acreage might have been expected. But as the situa- tion is today the farmers are more enthusiastic than ever over food pro- duction.
 Homeseekers In the north are learn- ing more and more of Alabama's va ried agricultural resources and as a result of the attention which the state is attracting inquiries for farms are rapidly increasing. The railroads are doing a good work in exploiting the south. They maintain well equipped agricultural bureaus and succeed year by year in bringing desirable settlers to Alabama and other southern states. In view of this years diversification record it should be all the easier to increase the number of homeseekers settling hereabouts.
 In few years, maybe in two years from now, the boil weevil will have moved on." When that comes to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24
THE HIGH COST OF COURTsHIP

From the New York World.
 From among the varied issues raised in a current magazine discussion as to why so many young men of today do not marry comes a wall over the modern high cost of courtship.
 On its face this plaint is conspicuously metropolitan. Back of 1t rises to mind, therefore, the whole array of city handi- caps to courtship-the lack of facilities in the small flat, with the family at home, the jarring publicity of travel by trolley or subway, the overthronging of the parks, and all that train. It is in these particulars that the rustic swain has all the advantage, although he can be so blinded with white lights and glaring visions of metropolitan life as not to see it.
 Times have changed measurably, of course. even in the country. The old fashioned spelling school and singing school have largely passed away There are fewer of Aunt Dinahs quilting par ties from which to see Nellie home. But there remains still either the best parlor or cozier substitute, and there are choir rehearsals, church sociables and the time defying surprise party. and in neighbor- hoods really rural the husking bee sur- wives. Picnics in summer. coasting par ties in winter, and the freemodm of fathers old horse, not yet wholly dis placed by the moderate-priced auto, offer other resources to the lover not of the big town.
 Do the complaint and the circumstances suggest that courtship is to be added to the essentials for which we must go back to the land?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24
England's Need of Economy

Although Great Britain has been graphing nearly 16 months with the most tremendous war in history, her statesmen have not yet succeeded in cutting down, to any appreciable ex- tent, the expense of operating the government.
 According to speeches in Parlia- ment made by those who criticize the conduct of affairs, there has been an enormous waste in the war contract office. Retrenchment is promised, but the cabinet leaders, many of them masters in the theory of fiscal eco- monies and in handling large financial problems, seem to be singularly back ward when it comes to practical re- form in conserving government rev. cnues. The war is now costing Great Britain at the rate of $25, 100000 a day. M
 One reason for England's careless system may be in the nations high credit and the easy manner in which huge bond issues have been floated. But Premier Asquith now talks plainly about the financial crisis that stares his country in the face, and he is telling the people of Great Britain that their individual extravagance is contributing largely to the national embarrassment.
 Great Britain has had to raise money for the allies. She has if nanced Russia, France and Italy on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24
Buffalo Eats Horse Sausage

According to National Pure Food News. the alarming discovery has been made by the health commits sioner of Buffalo that the meat ot horses slaughtered near that city was sold in Buffalo and used to make saul sage. It appears that there is no law against the manufacture of sausage from horse meat if the animals were healthy when killed. However, an ln- vestigation was started to determine the condition of the animals and prosecutions may follow. One butcher admitted having bought five hundred pounds of the meat.
 The business was profitable while At lasted. A horse that could be bought for $3 brought a return of $86.5O as sausage meat and it is no wonder that the enterprising butchers of Buff falo availed themselves of scheme that promised to make them rich in a short time. As to the feelings of per- sons who consumed the sa sage, they can easily be imagined. Americans are not disposed to look with favor Of horse meat as staple article of diet.
 However, there is nothing to cavil at in a juicy horse steak, no matter what squeamish persons may affirm, provided the horse is healthy when killed. The prospect of consuming a broken-down hack, afflicted with some disease, is to be sure not at all ap- petizing, but neither is diseased beef any more desirable. In Europe the horse has been used as an article of food without any evil effects-except for the horse. Commands say that when properly prepared the dish is rather pleasing than otherwise. Paris has put the seal of approval on it, but in this country where meat is abundant, our tastes have not yet been educated up-or down-to horse steaks or sausage.
 No doubt marketing in Buffalo will be done more carefully until the horse sausage scare subsidies. Nobody feels any sympthy for the greedy butchers. In fact, butchers seldom, if ever, re- ceive any sympathy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24
THE RETURN

By Ethel H. Wolff He has come home again. to pace once
 more The yew-hedged walks behind his gar-
 den walls To watch in peace the twilight shades
 draw on Amid the silence of drowsy
 world. But yester-eve I passed him in the
 lane An, pitiful! a crushed and creeping
 thing That children shriek and fly from when
 they meet, As from some frightful spectre of a
 dream! Thank God. twas dark. twas very
 dark, And thus I needed not once more to rend my soul In looking straightly at the shrapners work, Striving to keep the horror from my His share Is done-full measure, brim- ming OCT; Naught left but to sit patient in the sun And wait the kindest hand of all to lead him hence. Bravest of many brave was he, hon ored and acclaimed Alas his mother hears him weeping in the night!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24
SONGSTERS A-FLUTTER

she said, "but I was almost drowned the Dayton uood and haven't been ab| to write since"
 A hit of the trial seems to have bed made by Annie McIIenry of Lum, Mic| Mrs. McHenry had portfolio labeld My Inspirations" One of these sl| gave to the jury in Swat the Fly Swat the Fly" opens up thus: Baby Bye, swat the fly, you and I! How he crawls o'er our walls. comiy}
 from the horses stalls And into our victuals crawls! Kill him dead! Strike his head. Doct(
 said If to swat him we neglect, Who will then our health protect?"
 Mrs. McHenry's other exhibit wi entitled, Honest Dan." This song pol trays the trial of Honest Dan for steal ing horse robe, and works up to tn climax:
 Now since black is white And since wrong is right
 No sentence could even be supporte| He endangered his life. For his neighbours wife,
 By her husband she had been dI
 serted"
 The day following this appearance special dispatch from Lum, Mich, al peared in the New York World:
 s'Glory has come to Lum, since poetess, Mrs Annie McHenry, recit her Swat the Fly! in New York cou{
 'For years this town has perform for the public gaze only one function that of keeping Lulu anad Luther apa Now, famed as a new Parnass through Mrs. McHenry's worthy forts. leading citizens today prophesi boom.
 For the benefit of benighted Gotha which only rarely is privileged to pa take of such poetry as is Lunls surfe these facts are submitted about Lum Population. $50; telephone servi{ express office, silver military corn band in Arcadia township. Laper cou ty; Free Methodist church, Method Protestant ditto. bank-but why ca tinue?
 'Lums citizenry indignantly deni that Mrs. McHenry is poetess of pe sion. She sings of the farm. She glo fies the cows, the pigs. the sheep.
 Though usually serene. at times is reused to an epic pitch of poe frenzy. as when she smote her Tyre produced Swat the Fly! Mrs. McHen is the wife of farmer, living aba tree miles southwest of Lum."
 Evidently Lum. Mich, has no ha feelings against John T. Hall and cot zee no reason why he should be pu ished in court. If it had not been Jthn T. the world might never ha heard of Lum and it's poetess.
 And just what is Halls offense, an " ty? Certainly the songs that ha peen exhibited in court as the prod, 9f his procesBes are every bit as me
 -ious as the average of the popul
 sslgs of the day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24
times.

The action of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in awarding to William Dean Howells gold medal for his work in the field of fiction will doubtless meet with general approval. This recognition Is the highest honor paid by the insti- ute for attainment i'll any of the arts. The newly elected members of the Acad- emy of Arts and Letters are Robert Grant, Boston. novelist; William Gillette. New York, playwright; Paul E. Moore. New Jersey essayist; George l.. Rives, New York, historian; J. Alden Weir, New York. painter; Frederick MacMonnies, New York, sculptor. The new members of the National Institute of Arts and Letters are Gamaliel Bradford. historian, Boston; Charles R. Miller, writer and journalist, New York; Elihu Root, New York, Ellery Sedgwick, editor of the At- lantic Monthly, Boston; Henry Osborn Taylor, New York, author; Robert I. Ait ken, New York. sculptor; Ralph Adams Cram, Boston, architect: James Earl Fraser, New York, sculptor; Bertram G. Goodhue, New York, architect: Breck Trowbridge, New York, architect; Ernest R. Kroeger. St. Louis. composer: Arne Oldberg, Evanston, Ill.,, composer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24
HUMANITY OF PAROLE SYSTEM From Case and Comment


 The story Is told of a criminal who had served 60 of his 70 odd years behind prison bars. having been present in western court when a sturdy young highwayman of Il summers was placed on parole by the humane judge. Tears welled into his eyes as he awaited trial in the same court. His crime was a serious one. Reforma- tion was not considered for him. But his life story was told, and revealed his first offense. the stealing of few lead pencils and some stationery when but lad of 10. For such serious crime, penitentiary sentence of five years had been given him. Thus started career of uninterrupted crime. Broken in spirit, with health and courage gone, he praised the new system he saw interpreted by courageous, sym pathetic. and discerning judge who had just given a ward of the state another chance. He said: Had I been given a similar chance would have been savedr' But this judge gave him a chance, and he died soon after. outside prison walls
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24
The True Thanksgiving Spirit

The holiday season is here and with it comes a message of cheer and a auickening of the benevolent im- pulses of the heart.
 Thanksgiving Day-a festival for giving thanks for the mercies of the closing year-is one of the oldest irl- stitutions in America. The Pilgrim Fathers held havest thanksgiving festival in 1921 and this was repeated frequently during that century and the next.
 The Continental Congress recom- mended days of thanksgiving an- nually during the Revolution, and in 1784 for the return of peace. And Washington appointed Thanksgiv- ing festival in 1789 after the adoption of the constitution Since 1877 har- vest festival has been observed an- nually in New York, and since 1863 the Presidents have issued proclama- tions appointing the last Thursday in November as day of national thanks giving.
 In former years this harvest holiday was observed more religiously and with more zest in New England than in any other part of the country. During the colonial period it had the same rank in Massachusetts that Christmas had in old England-a day for social festivity as well as day of religious significance, but since the civil war its observance has been characterized by more or less fervor in every section of this wide land.
 In recent years there has been a broadening conception of the spirit of Thanksgiving Day. Besides acknowl- edging Gods manifold blessings &C., cording to religious formulas, the true spirit of tomorrow's festival will man. ifest itself in deeds of benevolence. The poor will be remembered and the needs of humane institutions will be supplied.
 Here in Birmingham Thanksgiving is the one day of the year on which St. Vincent's hospital and the Mercy Home appeal publicly for donations, and the response, always generous, should be particularly so in this time of prosperity. But humanity's call is general and the benefactions of the well-to-do should embrace the Anti Tuberculosis association and all other organized movements for the amelio- ration of the afflicted and those de- pendent upon sweet charity. Deeds of generous giving are thank offerings that never fail in their spiritual re- flex action upon the giver.
 Yes, the season of gladness for the many has come and the spirit of help fitness will prevail until after the Christmastide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24

pass Alabama will produce large cot ton crops again, but since intensive farming is beyond it's experimental stage no farmer with any ambition will be satisfied unless he raises a half-bale to the acre-under normal conditions.
 In the meantime, let the Alabama slogan continue to be Feed Yourself" !" This years corn crop in Alabama is about 7O,0O0,OOO bushels. Let's have a 100000. .000-bushel crop in 1916.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24
The Dairy Industry

T am told that very large dairy industry has been developed in Mis- sissippi within the past few years and that no more choice butter is produced in the United States than that shipped from points along the line of the Illinois Central in the state referred to- said Charles Tichnor of Cincin- natl.
 Tn the north great attention has long been given to butter and cheese making, and I have often wondered why there was not more dairy busi ness in the south than there is. The climate and the grasses in the south are admirably adapted to the industry. There are few large butter dairies In Alabama am told. but they should be counted by the hundreds.
 T have an interest in an Ohio dairy and the investment is very profit able"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24
Washington Moral City

T was very much interested this after noon," said Harry Stradford. 'in the ar guments presented to the city commission by those who object to Sunday moving picture shows.
 Tt was said in the first plac. rnat Bir- mingham was the most moral town V the world. This may be true. We all hope so. But it was then said or intimated that If Sunday movies are permitted Bir- mingham will become the most immoral town in the world.
 "Quaint ideas prevail here. Now there is Washington. The capital is generally regarded as moral city. one of the most moral of the country. And yet Washing ton permits moving picture shows on Sunday.
 T am glad that the commissioners stood firm before the opposition and by their convictions. President Ward was espe- ciaiiy pleasing to his freinds when he stated very plainly that the action in per hitting Sunday movies was not one of haste, but was one after careful study and in the belief that the moving picture shows on Sunday will do more good than harm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24
Bond Issue Needed

Frank Marquis associate member of the state board of equalization, passed through Birmingham yesterday en route to Huntsville.
 "The board has got to work under full steam" said MT. Marquis, "and the arduous job of equa1izing the taxes Of the state will be completed within a reasonable time. It Is the hope of the state that when all taxes are capitalized the treasury will have enough money with which to operate.
 "In the meantime, however. 1t be- gins to be apparent that the people must vote for the proposed state bond issue As Governor Henderson stated in The Age-Herald Sunday, no new debts will be made. With the s1,500,00 to be obtained as a result of the issue, old debts will be liquidated, the state put on a firmer financial basis and the people in the service of the state mad, happier"
 Mr. Marquis is a resident of Walker county, the biggest political factor ot the newly created Tenth district He expressed the opinion yesterday that " B. Bankhead would be chosen to represent the district in Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-24
When Will the War Endf

Reference is still being made in official circles in London to long war, but I doubt if the member of Parliament who spoke of a fresh army being trained and to be ready to go to the front next August, believed that hostilities would continue so long,, said E. s. Blaisdell of New York.
 Tt ts only a matter of guess, of course. as to just when the war will end. but the feeling is growing strong i'll the financial district that the smok e of battle will be cleared away before spring Both sides will soon reach the point of exhaustion, financial if not physical. The war will probably end in compromises"