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ment in Great Britain. but through It
all there is no questioning of Lincolns 8
determination to avoid foreign war.
Lincoln's annual messages to Con-
gress do not go deeply into foreign af-
fairs, because the diplomatic corre-
spondence covering the representations
to England and France regarding the
recognition of the belligerency of the
Confederates and the remonstrances
ment, were submitted with the mes
sages. The situation, however, usually
is summarized by luminous express
sion of the Presidents views and
policy.
In the annual message of December.
1862, President Lincoln said:
We have left to every nation the exclusive CON
duct and management of It's own anairs. onr
struggle. of course. has becn contemplated by
foreign nations with reference less to its own
merits than its supposed. and often eIagger
ated effects and consequences resulting 10 those
na tions themselves.
year later President Lincoln in his
message to Congress made this dec
laration:
We remain in peace and friendship with foreign
powers Questions of great intricacy
and Importance have arisen out Of the blockade,
and other beligerent operations. between the GOV
ernmeut ard several of the maritime powers, but
they have been discussed and az Tar as was pos
sbie, accommodated in a spirit of frankness,
justice and mutual good will
icy might be summed up in those words
"a spirit of frankness, justice and
mutual good will
Lincoln did not consider it beyond
his position, or as meddling in the af-
fairs of foreign countries, to aid in
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bunkum in the Trent incident 1t is
claimed for him by some of his biog
raphers that it was he who persuaded
President Lincoln into conservative
channels and to resist popular clamor.
Point is made of Lincoln's saying that
Seward should go ahead and argue for
giving up the commissioners while he
himself would argue that they should
not be given up. But Lincoln's plan of
arguing out question and getting
both sides in review was habitual with
him.
Not to have given up the commits
SionerS was felt at the time to mean
war with England. and Lincolns policy
in the Trent affair, as in other affairs.
was to avoid more than one war at Il
time.
The Christmas day cabinet meeting
decided that Mason and Slidell should
be given up, which was done. and Sec
retary Seward was left to make the
argument. International lawyers have
since made mincemeat of his contention
that the commissioners We're contra
band of war, and that their seizure and
removal were justifiable, but that Capt.
Wilkes departed from international
law in his manner of arresting them.
Biographers and autobiographers
have also engaged in controversy about
the extent to which Lincoln pruned
Stewards dispatches in the representa-
tions made to the British government
against fitting out Confederate arma-
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said that Lincoln never shirked meet
ing this charge when it was MADE ps
Douglas In Lincoln's political career
there was nothing to snow that MS op
position to the Mexican war ever huI'
him although there were many Neter-
ans of that war in Illinois.
When he became President Lincoln
was more concerned with Napoleon
efforts to secure the recognition OF tne
,-onfederates as an independent natloh
han with the attitude OF the ~
pean countries toward MeNooo. ~
later when the French INVASION - 80
ual]y took place. and the attenIp.
mad. to set up throne LOT NJ, No -
ian. the situation added 10 INC
nle,ities OF his administrator s,,;,.
Secretary SewardS letters S
the position of the adminls.ia t;n cor
the whole chapter of dipioin 80 eyi-
respondence on the SUBJECT a,f~re
dence of Lincoln's power n,;cT % vas
str,int The announced poiicy
one of complete neutrahty a
tb.s French and the MeXlcans-
Henry ]. Raymond. the great ~
nalist who wrote biography OF LIN
colin in 1864. and who therefore may
he said to set forth the cotemporaheouS
view. in explaining the Mexican poi'eS
said it had in some respects cohlra
veped the traditional purposes anu
principles of the government and peo-
Pile OF TIE United states. put was
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AMERICAN TOURISTS LOST AUTOS THROUGH WAR REQJGSTTN

was told openly at the consular after
noons when Agent Fletcher granted
some $40 emergency passports Prof
Osgood of Harvard was present at the
conversation.
The typical case is that of the Misses
Lowry of San Francisco. touring up
from Marienbad in their own car, in
company with the de la Balze family
of New York Mrs. de Ia Balze, who is
past seventy years of age, had her
daughter and a girl friend in their new
auto.
we had arrived at Strasburg from
Stuttgart July 81" says Miss de la
Balze. AT the hotel. where we got our
mail and lunched, they let us go off.
about pm, without word. Toward
the French frontier. however, we met a
French couple returning in their auto
No use to continue they said. no au-
tomobile can get through. We are
going to try Switzerland
But Americans" we said.
NO matter they replied. you'll see
so we turned. Also continued the
New York society girl. I'VE got as
far as Colmar. where German soldiers
stopped us, with orders to return to
governor. They searched us at the
Rhine bridge and made US walk across.
with soldiers on each side. They let US
mount again to reach the gates of
Strasburg, where we found a lot of
other automobile parties-many Amer
leans"
Among them were the spreckels of
San Francisco and Paris and the
Lowry girls of San Francisco, already
mentioned.
We went. twelve cars in a process
sion, to the governors palace, says
Miss de la Balze. where We were told
simply: You cannot leave Strasburs
with your autos We asked permis-
sion to return to our hotel. There We
met French party. who said they
were going to the railway station to
try to get away. anyhow. We FOL
lowed them in our cars. but at the sta
ton there were thousands. and one
woman said she had been waiting
thirty-siX hours. 1t was no use SO
We started to hunt the American con-
sui, because our chauffeurs. who were
Frenchmen. gave notice that they
must get away that night, or else be
made prisoners of war. On inquiry
Evening star., 1915-02-07
Nicknames of States.

NEARLY every one of the states of
IN the Union has 4 nickname sugge.-
tive of its chief product. physical char
acter or historic asso, ION. and some
of the states have dual nickname "t
two Or more nicknames. which in most
cases appear to be equally popular aud
about evenly employed in current use.
California is called both Golden
State" and "El Dorado: Connecticut IS
the Nutmeg State. the "Freestone
State" and also the Land of STEADY
Habits: Delaware IS the Blue Hen
State" and also the Diamond state"
and Georgia is the Cracker State" aud
also the Empire State of the south"
The sons of Illinois speak of it both
as the Sucker state" and the Prairie
state: Kansas answers 10 the name
of ''Sunfiower state Central state
and ia yhawker State'. kcatGcky ls
known as the blue Grass STATE" and
the Dark and Bloody Ground While
Louisiana Is tn. Pelican State" and
the Creole state"
Minnesotans affectionately or famil-
iarly describe their state as the '''iopher
State the Bread and Butter state" and
the New England Of the .NeSt': Mich
igan is the "WolVcr!re state and the
Lake State; Nebrts Na is thc silver
State" and the sag" Hen stat" and
New York is the Empire STATE" aud
the Excelsior State.
If a man spea Ks Of the old North
State" or the "'Turpentine state" OF tie
''Tarheel State he means North Caro-
lima: oregon is the Beaver state" and
the Web Foot State: South Dakota IS
the Swing Cat State" and the Biz
zard State Washington is the CHI
nook state" and the Evergreen State"
and Virginia is repeatedly spoken of as
the 'Old Dominion" the Mother o:
States and the Mother of Presidents.
The general nickname of Maryland ii
the "OId Line State" and II Is some
times called the oyster State" and tue
'Terrapin State" Maine is either tho
pine Tree State" or the Lumber
State"
Using geographical features as nick
names are Florida, the Peninsula
State; Massa chusetts, the Bay state
Mississippi the Bayou state; Temes-
see, the Big Bend state: Vermont, The
Green Mountain State" and West Nir-
Sinia The Panhandle" Animals give
their names to Arka ts, the Bear
State: North Dakota, me "Flickertaii
State, and Wisconsin, the Badger
State"
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hindmost I was personally lnstru-
mental in getting a member of the
Dewey family of New York into the
with a brand-new 1914 twenty four
horsepower auto. where it was safe
Two days later that lonely Swiss road
had Swiss squad at the frontler. NO
figures have yet been given OUT, out
Fletcher Dexter, our consular agent, IN
charge at Vevey. who so ably succors
his fellow citizens of Lausanne, ouchy.
Morges, etc, since the departure oI
E P. Frazer. assures me that ne nas
secured already, the return OF every
such car requisitioned from Americans
in the district.
will not { and l think Dexter could
not) guarantee the condition in which
our owners found their machines, or
the satisfactoriness of the sums al
lowed by the Swiss military authori-
ties for rent repairs and sinking fund
A brand-new touring car that hauis
potatoes, oil stoves and muddy tent
poles over military mountain roads, IN
rain and slush. may soon get IKE the
girl in the song: "Oh, Flo. she's not
the same, you know.
got his machine back, tells me that the
maximum compensation is calculated at
So per day for u new $4,000 car.
In Germany, whore literally hundreos
of Americans automobiles are In
reauisitioned military use-or on the
scrap heap-compensatio Will be en-
tered into after the war. except where
German friends of influence may obtain
release or exceptional treatment.
At the memorable consular days OF
the Hotel Gibbon, in Lausanne, last Au,
gust, indignation was freely expressed
for members of the Dreer family OF
Philadelphia. Mrs. Dreer mere. with d
party of woman guests. in two auto
mobiles, was stopped somewhere before
the Swiss frontier on Lake Constance;
AS in the Scripture, one was taken ana
the other was left. I refer to the autos.
How they crowded into the remaining
one, you can imagine. but the Germans
had lightened it of it's cushions. rugs,
oil skins. tools, detached parts. Ian :
terms. hand luggage, portable CLOCK
smelling salts. etc, with an iron hand
not in a velvet glove. The Philade!.
phia woman protested. ] will not tell
you the reply that she received. This
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foreign entanglements in settling that
issue. Appreciation came after his
death.
One OF the most notable tributes was
that by Punch. which during four
years had WED with the Times and the
Morning Post. the organs of the Brit
ish aristocracy. in malignant misrep-
resentation of Lincoln.
IT is a peculiar circumstance that the
tribute was from the pen of Tom Tay-
lor, the dramatic author. whose Our
American Cousin" President Lincoln
was witnessing at Ford'S Theater when
he was assa ssnated. Here are some
of the verses from Punchs tribute:
Beside this corpse that hears for winding sheet
The Stars and Stripes he lived 10 anew.
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1HEsrA NowrN RoTuNDA TIL

not easy to see what other could have
been adopted without inviting hazards
which no responsible statesmen had
were the danger of foreign war while
Lincoln was engaged in a war for the
preservation of the Union.
Raymond further said that holding
aloof was the only policy compatible
with the preservation of the Union and
doctrine.
lincoln, Notwithstanding his peace
policy, thought some formal action
necessary to show that Congress was
cognizant of the situation.
In April, 1864. the House passed a
States was unwilling by it's silence
to leave the nations of the world under
the impression that 1t was Indifferent
to the deplorable events transpiring
in Mexico. 1t therefore declared that
1t would not be in accord with the SEN
timent of the people of the United
States to acknowledge a monarchical
government erected the ruins Of
any republican government in Ameri-
ca under the auspices of any European
power.
The passage of this resolution by the
House was sufficient at the time. and
it was not pressed in the Senate. 1t
undoubtedly reflected Lincoln's views
in regard to Mexico.
Foreign estimate of Lincoln during
his lifetime took little heed of his for
eign policy. 1t was based on the titanic
domestic issue and showed little COM
prehension of his wisdom in avoiding
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x X
In despair. they went to the auto
mobile garage.
"A man at the garage gave US re-
ceipts for the cars-just papers saying
that he had them. 1t was understood
that they were wanted for the army.
vet the date was July 81. before the
war. which is the thing that makes
me so mad
The next morning the hotel pro-
prietor told them that they We're sup
posed to be out of Germany by . p m
DO not try to go by Switzerland.
he said, lit Is to crowded FOR some
reason or other, they We're put into
train for Cologne. registering their
six de la Balze trunks with them on
arriving the trunks could not ne
found. IF war is not declared You
may get them in month: an EN-
war you may never get them
Arriving late in the evening at CO.
logne. they hurriedly took another
train for the frontier. near to whlch,
at / am. they had 10 get out ana
walk
I'VE arrived in Paris late the next
day" says the American girl. ana
have never heard word of our trunks
or automobiles since
Recently she interviewed a travel
company on the subject They nave
not been able to learn anything TWO
weeks ago she wrote the american
consuls at Cologne and Klein tfor
Strasburg), but has not yet received
an answer.
Quantities of Americans are in the
same case" she says. The Postleys
of New York were obliged to leave
nine trunks and two automobiles III
Berlin Another American. on the
train with us, had just bought new
auto and hated to lose it. He said
he was going to Frankfort, TO see the
American consul. but I do not believe
he got there"
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&
CONGRESS. HEo W MExICo-1s47.

its shadow before, vet the foreign re-
lations of the United States showed
only few specks on the horizon. Lat
or these grew much bigger than n
mans hand. but this was because of
the distracted state of the Union.
The Monroe doctrine was then, as
now. . national sentiment which re-
qured specific instances in order that
its meaning understood in the
United States should he defined and in
terpreted. That the doctrine should be
held in allegiance during the gigantic
civil struggle was eXpedient. and that
is what happened as related to Santo
Domingo and Mexico. which were the
specks the horizon when Lincoln
was inaugurated,
Lincoln's conservatism in foreign af-
fairs was exhibited within q few weeks
after his Inauguration 1t consisted in
turning down the recomme ndation of
William II. Seward. his defeated rival
for the presidential nomination, who
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Between the mourners his head and t,r-
Say >curril- Jester. is ;ierr room for Sou:
He went hnit his wSrk-snch work a frv
Ever had laid head and hnart AMI hand
As who knows where there task Ia de-.
Mans honest will must heavens good grace
command
Who the strength viii with the hurien
grow.
That God makes Instruments p" work His Will.
Ii hut that viii! arrive 10 know
Nor tamper with The weights ,'f so.d and az
50 ne grew up. a dos innd work ." do
And lived 'io it four long suffering years.
Ill fate. i'll feeling i'll r.I-,ri. lived through.
And then he heard the hisscs changed to '-eers-
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To Keep Ivory White.

ivory toilet sets are now so fashion,
able that it may be well to know
how to keep them clean and from turn
ing yellow They should be wiped with
alcohol instead of water to retain their
natural color. This also applies TO
piano keys. Water should not be used
on them. -
Evening star., 1915-02-07
BY CHARLES M. PEPPER.

q INCOLN for four years was . col
Iossal figure in foreign affairs,
as he was the commanding fig
g urc i'll domestic events.
He had foreign policy. 1t was for
peace with all the world one war at
a time was his Suiding motive. and the
var TO save the Union meant that there
could be no foreign war
That complications with other couu-
tries should grow out of the civil war
was inevita BILE. That relations with
foreign powers should reach the verge
OF actual hostilitieS was almost as in
evitable; but Lincoln from the begin
ming of his administration WAS deter
mined on peace. His peace policy was
a consistent one and was maintained
logically and uuswerViugIy.
" hen Lincoln entered on his first
term the civil war cloud was casting
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literally hundreds, starting Oh pleas
urc tours i'll such, or i'll new bought
European marks. stored with ga
RACES from previous years. were stop
ped short by the war. In France, it
depended on their direction. Those
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moving south were not even stopped,
and none was seized. France was rich
in automobiles, and, besides, there
seems to have been prejudice.
In SwitZe rland, for moment, the
army direction lost its head. They
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Linc0lns Foreign Policy and Its Logic


Was Observation-Disclosures Stewards PogrnMon
ancSetng the Trent Affair With Observation-Disclosures Justice Mutual Good
WLmcons
Punchs Expatoy to President
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requisitioncd the German dirigibles
and aeroplanes at the Berne ex-
position. The same happened to
the French and English aero
plane exhibits. AS to automobiles, 1t
was heiter-skelter, deYil-take-the-
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In Germany, where the abandoned
stun probably passed the million aud
q hall. flight Was precipitous, Condi-
tious rigorous. the Germans themselves
~ a whirl, and our Americans trusted
their impedImenta TO whom they could
hotels, boarding houses, volunteers.
etc. \ fraction has been recovered,
through the agency of Germau-Ameri-
cans. and the Berlin police are hunting
for the rest.
W hat escapes such doubtfulness. in
al tho countries. is the particular and
striking category Of Americans auto
mobiles, not abandoned. stored or in
trusted. but "rcquiSitioued' or held at
thc disposal Of the European armies
Quantities Of Americans-more than
ever beforehand brought their home
built cars 10 Europe for touring, and
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III .a-re.L.u4ra-e o. VI. -.
lausanne. Switzerland.

January =. 1915.
7HEN the war broke our, sudden
wv ". last August, thousands of
Wv American tourists and health
seekers fed from the belliserent coun-
tries. leaving behind them trunks and
luggage containing clothing. jeweIry,
etc. purchased objects in cases, and
other articles Of value running into
several millions of dollars.
In Franc, where our embassy has
forty men and tho express companies
sSeuts operate freely. practically
eVcrythIEg has been recovered The
same nay be said of Switzerland, and,
IL 4 less degree, Of Austria.
IN Lausanne, tho last truckload OF
trunks wen; Yesterday I saw il from
the be ginning During the weeks in
August. when thousands Of We1l-to-do
Americans. The majority women. be
sieced the express compauy's Office,
local shippers. vague traffic agents, and
even tobaccouists, pasted signs on their
windows Offering to store and ship on
later order or when conditions etc,
became favorable. Thanks 10 their in
davIdual honesty and the lack Of dis
order in the little peaceful land of
Switzerland. 1t has been done.
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FRAMED

we learned that there was no Amer
ican consul, nor ever was, il not being
permitted in Strasbourg"
Morris tribune., 1915-07-02
DONNELLY TOWNSHIP

Mrs. F. Sperr spent Monday after
noon at H. Sperr's.
Rob Bell and Charlie Beltz spent
Sunday at F.. Sperr's.
Peter ErdhaI visited at M. L.
Strands Sunday evening.
jamie Ziebarth of Herman, spent a
few days this week with Lena Sperr.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. sperr spent Wed
nesday evening of last week at P. o.
sons.
Hulda Strand has spent the past
two weeks at the home of L. O.
Strand.
jamie Ziebarth and Lena Sperr
spent Monday afternoon at A. c..
williams.
Mrs. W. H. Chapman and son
Lester visited at J. w. Bells Monday
afternoon.
Mabel Strand is spending a couple
OF week at the home of her aunt,
Mrs. L. @. Larson.
Charlie. Henry, and John Sperr.
Rob Bell. Charlie Beltz drove to Cot
tonwood Lake Sunday.
Mabel Petersen, who has spent
the past week at the home of M. l..
Strand, returned home Tuesday.
The Misses Helen Prichard, Helen
Daily, Lucille and Mabel Nedeau spent
Wednesday afternoon of last week al
Sperr's.
CALL AT STEVENS COUNTY
STATE BANK FOR THE BEST
TERMS ON FARM LOANS.-advtf.
Morris tribune., 1915-07-02
RENDsVILLE.

Art Uphoff called on Giese's Sun
day.
Mr.. Roone was in Donnelly Wednes-
day.
August Giese called on Reeds We'd
nesday.
Art Uphof called on Shauer's s
Thursday.
Mrs. Moltzan spent last Friday at
Van Horns.
Mr.. Roone has got the we'll diggers
the past week.
Mr.. Hanson was cutting his first
crop of alfalfa.
L. j. McCallor was seen in the vic
unity Wednesday.
Bill Kloos was in Donnelly Friday
also Mr.. Holmdahl.
Lester and Lille Burns autoed tc
Donnelly Wednesday.
Earl Reed made a short cal; OF
Moltzan's s last Thursday.
Ed. and Rhody Henricks and VIM
Morris tribune., 1915-07-02
Sherstad-Weltzin

The wedding of Miss Florence Welt.
gin, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frantz
Weltzin and Mr.. Adolph Sherstad took
place Wednesday, June % at 2 p. m.
at the home of the bride, Rev. A. o.
son officiating.
Mrs. Chas. Sather played the we'd
ding music as the bridal party entered
the parlor which was beautifully de-
corated with peonIes and pink roses.
Miss Adelia Winther of Minneapolis.
was maid of honor and Little Gladys
Ersted was flower girl. Mr.. Conrad
Sherstad, brother of the groom was
best man.
The bride wore a gown of white
crepe de chine and carried a shower
bouquet of brides roses and lilies Of
the valley. After the ceremony 6
bounteous wedding dinner was servet
to the eighty guests present.
The out of. town guests were Mrs
| Winther and Miss Winther and Mis-
Braaten, of Minneapolis, Miss Iversol
of Galesburg, N. D., Mrs. Aasumb o
Eau Claire, Wis, and Mrs. Conra'
Sherstad of TaImadge. Neb.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherstsd will mak
their home on Mr.. Sherstad's farm
near Donnelly.
Morris tribune., 1915-07-02
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications. as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness. and that ts
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an infamed condition of the mu-
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube When
this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing. and when it is
entirely closed, Deafness Is the result. and
unless the indamm alton can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal condi
ton, hearing Will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh
which is nothing but an infamed condition
of the mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
Send for circulars. free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Morris tribune., 1915-07-02
LIQUOR Restores Speech

Hancock Record: One James Mack
will have 80 days in which to reflect
Oil life as she is in the west. Mack
drifted into town last Saturday as a
deaf and dumb man. He was around
town for several hours soliciting aid
and was unable to hear or speak a
word. Later in the day he got outside
a glass or two of booze and it wrought
Ia miracle. He could hear and was
also a fluent speaker. In his wander
ings around town he had accumulated
couple of jack knives and pair of
scissors from the Erickson hardware
store Without the customary practice
of paying for them or even having the
clerks charge them to his account, and
on being arrested the judge gave him
thirty days to mediate upon this un-
usual way of doing business.
Stop that leaky roof. See the
Hogan Decorating Company. adv.