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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-09-11


others and to myself a blessing"
see boys and girls, ten hundred
thousand Of them. all different, all as
piring. all good.
II IS they that make Michigan great.
The Public School is their oppor-
tunity and how eagerly do they grasp
IL
One bitter cold morning last winter
| was In town In northern Michi-
gan. The roads were hemmed in by
snow banks so high you could not see
over them. On my way TO the station
met three girls trudging on through
the deep drifted snow. Under their
arms they had books and lunches,
while their hands shielded their fares
from the biting wind. Iknew they were
schoolgirls come far from the country
to the high school in the village. AS
stood at the station saw boys and
girls dotting the distant hills In all di-
rections-some walking, some run
ming, others pulling sleds with broth
ers and sisters in them--.all bound for
school that day.
Inspiring!
almost cheered. And what saw
there was happening that moment in
every district and village and city In
Michigan--indeed, in all Americai
Why Is IL, when all the world is
warning, Uncle Sam is so calm and
patient and unafraid? You know. II is
because from Ocean on Ocean, from
Lakes to Gulf, he hears the tramp.
tramp, tramp. OF twenty million boys
and girls who every morning. rain or
shine, set out for the American Public
School to conquer the knowledge OF the
World. That is the largest, the most
invineible host that ever marched In
any country in all history. The whole
globe sways under its footstep.
In the front rank of that process
sion is Michigan. My Michiganl
What shall come of our triumphant
band-these boys and girls OF Michi-
gan?
Only themselves can answer and
with one voice they answer in deeds OF
today:
This country is My Country. l
honor the brave men and women
who gave 1t. I am glad that now
my country needs me.
This state is My State. Every
day 1t heaps riches upon me.
These shall some day repay. II
l cannot sit high I'm its councils.
! shall see that only worthy men
do. My voice shall ever be honest
ly spoken.
This school is My School. the
best school OF ALL Here / am free
to laugh and TO play and to work
To every lesson give my honest
effort; and my teacher helps me
most when she helps me to help
myself
This home is My Home, the
best home in all the world. My
father and my mother give me
tenderest care. They rejoice when
! am strong; OF all friends and
playmates they are the best. When
danger is near they think only OF
me; tears and unrest pale my
mothers cheek, my father is sad
and says nothing. Oh, Father and
Mother, treasure the Name you
have given met I will forever keep
II honor bright I will be noble
and kind and true"
We accept the enswer
We take off our hats to you. Boys
and Girls of Michigan!
You are, indeed. the JOY of Today;
the Hope, the Promise. the Assur-
ance OF Greater Tomorrow.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-09-11

handed the brush to the devil and told
him 70 scrub the cat out OF the type
while we went out and filled an inn
portant engagement. the devil said ne
had taken job on farm that morn
Ing and that he would have 70 report
al once. And he did.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-02-25
OUR EXPORT TRADE.

The statistic of exports from the United States and other
countries at neutras present interesting situation
Although it would that the United would gain in
exports with extensive world market open the
trary true Exports in August 1914 fell off 40 per while
those of Great Britain fell off only As per Austrian
ports fell from $43500000 in August 1913 Sc 100000 in
August 1914 Argennan Brazilian and CHILEAN export trade
fell off so per cent
The for the fall in British export trade readily APP
pears The same apply to other of the warning
nations and to European countries maintaining
tray Argentine and other South American countries also
present good for deficiencies export by
of loss OF European markets. which formerly the bulk
their goods.
AT the same time the import trade of the South American
countries fell Off The United States should naturally
her merchant instead of Europe That would seem that
way But although have the goods and have always
willing to sell them, yet there difficulties
fciencies which prevented supplying neghbors the
south
First have been deprived of transportation facilities
We have been shipping most of goods foreign
There adequate American marchant
the greatest obstacles the of proper banking fac
And addition to all this here at home the political calamity
hower has been extraordinarily busy knocking and dscourag
ing instead of trying to stimulate mercantile interests
Steps have been taken to remedy these defects and
and calamity bowling has almost ceased But although the
efforts being forth heroic the great export
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-02-25
MONEY FOR PLEASURE.

Business today the United States reflects dsconcer
variety of conditions Dividends industries have
been passed Certain corporations regarded in the past
strong have defauted and recevershps have thus been
brought And with all this depression there to be
found evidences of unprecedented prosperity Only the other
day dividend declared by talking machine company
which has spent it declared at least ST 100000 in adver
Using Of late it has been subjected to competition
and the entrance of several corporations into the field
promises keener competition for the future In 1912 this
declared regular dividend of 10 per cent and extra
dividend of 10 cent In 1913 the regular rate
ed and also extraordinary dividend of IL IL per cent
Last the regular rate maintained but the extra dv
dend raised to Is cent At the end of 1912 this
panys stock worth $3.50 In 1913 worth $780, and
last had jumped $40 In 1911 the stock went
low $780, within the last few days sales taken place
$525
No matter how hard' times may appear to be in
nes there others that prosperous 1t often safe
conclusion to pick the businesses those that cater
for the public amusement People have money for pleasure
when they do not have it for anything else The unempoy
ment situation be serious taxes be increasing rail
roads be complaining and yet the theaer the bes sell
ers and others OF the like attract money from apparently
mpecunious public Man likes his pleasure first His
sites he buys under compuon He complains of srngency
and some business uses his complaint but there others
that keep on making money-Boise Capital News.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-02-25

which Germany and England took years to develop with South
America cannot be easily taken short length of time
We the however land next year will wonderful
developments The main point is to establish trade
that never be dislodged.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-02-25

Governor Alexanders veto of the $4,000 appropriation
bill for the Northwestern Livestock Show held at Lewiston
hailed with great glee by the political jim of the
publican faith and has been about the only that
broke into of the republican newspapers this
OF the state concerning the dongs of the republican
islature
The readily appears newspapers of that faith
all over the state have been CAREFUL kept
ing the spending mania of the legislature and its open
disregard of Governor Aexanders suggestions economy
Every act at Boise in the Legislature has been contrary and
against tax reform
Now the did not this bill of pol
tca reasons He stated his and they good
He did not feel that precedent should established for
preparations for county and sectional shows
bill down. And when all matters in connection with his
are considered the majority of the farmers taxpayers
this section will be of the opinion their executive
Everybody recognizes the worth and benefits from
the stock show and the sentiment for the appropriation
confined to residents of Lewiston But note after the bill
was introduced south Idaho county asking like appro-
pration for county fair 1t passed both would
passed.
ask for like appropriations There than 80
in the state $4,000 for each would total of better
than $3OOOOO How would this appeal to the taxpayer?
gift OF $4,000 appropriation of that amount for
the Lewiston exhibition would be appreciated by citizens
this section But the idea of the state legislature making APP
preparations for shows fairs and exhibitions each county
and every section of the state how would that appeal
taxpayer?
It has been found difficult enough to obtain appropra
lons for BRIDGES roads and trails And here the object
laudabe Idaho county wants such appropriation for
bridge the Salmon White Bird Kooska and Kamiah
also seek like appropriations Efforts the past TO obtain
such appropriations have been heved the legislators down
at Boise.
Appropriations for purpose other than governmental and
for the general public welfare made from time to
time And have been passed while appropriation bills for
bridges and the like have been turned down Special ap
preparation bills for purposes other than above noted shoud
be frowned upon One very well passed and the
others rejected The best way be reject ALL That is
why Governor Alexander vetoed the livestock appropriation
bill And we believe that the majority of the taxpayers are
behind him.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-02-25

sound customers increase their requirements Saturdays
weekly bank statement disclosed idle surplus of OOO
900 sufficient credit expansion half
a billion dollars.
We could demand gold from Europe if wanted it. We
do not Instead the credits granted European
enable them to purchase merchandise here will probably
increased substantially Canada and Latin American
tries will also be allowed to draw succor from
All this will help to make trade and help to make friends
for the United States
No trouble being experienced in absorbing the
securities Europeans dispose of current reduced
prices.
We have ceased riding deeper and deeper into debt and
the firm highway that will lead the point
ditor nation
any nation earth has be cheerful
in matters of business that nation the United States
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-02-25

The fish and game law should be amended to allow an
open for state and senator's The only
amuuon winch should be permitted to be used should be
paper wads prepared from of the bills introduced in this
session.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02
THOROUGH WORK
How a Madison Citizens Found Free
dom from Kidney Troubles.

II you suffer from backache-
From urinary disorders
Any durable disease of the kidneys,
Use a tested kidney remedy.
Doan's Kidney Pills have been test
ed by thousands.
Madison people testify.
Can you ask more convincing proof
of merit?
Mrs. l.. d. Grow, 1905 f. Seventh
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ment in praise OF DOan's Kidney Pills
procured at f. c. Smiths drug store,
some years ago for the reason that
had known them TO be a good medi-
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never had a sign of kidney trouble
during all the years since the cure
was made. / am pleased to have the
opportunity OF giving Doan's Kidney
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Price so cents at all dealers. Don't
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02
$4,000 WILL ATTEND
DRY" CONVENTION

Atlantic City. n. J.. July EVERY
state in the Union will be represent
ed here next week at the sixteenth
national convention of the Anti-Sa-
loon League of America and continue
until Friday. Arrangements have
been made to care for nearly $4,000
delegates and the managers of the
convention expect il to be one OF the
greatest ever held bY the league.
Under the banner of "A Stainless
Flag and a Saloonless Nation, the
league hopes to adopt plans to further
its campaign against the liquor traf.
fic.
Bishop Luther b. Wilson, ID. ID. Ii.
D., New York. is president of the
league.
Each local church organization In
the United States affiliated with the
Anti-Saloon league each Sunday
school. each young peoples society
as we'll as local. village, township
county. city. state or national TEN
perance society or uplift organization
is entitled to appoint a delegate and
an alternate.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02
ALLIES PLAN TO
TAKE OFFENSIVE
New Move Against Germans
Likely in the West.
STRONG ATTACK ON TURKS

Expeditionary Force on GaIIipoIi Pen.
insula to Make Supreme Effort to
Capture Achi Baba-Teutons Coz
tinue Drive on Eastern Front. e
London, July 2.-While the Austro
German armies continue to push the
Russians back over the Galician bor-
der in their own territory, rumors are
rife in London of contemplated Of
fensive by the entente allies.
The French are credited with the
intention of making a formidable at
tack on account of the enormous ex-
penditure of artillery ammunition to
the north of Arras, where a persist
ent bombardment has been kept up
for the last fortnight; while the An
peninsula are said to be on the point
of making a supreme effort to capture
the massive hill of Achi Baba, which
dominates all the country south of
lAlC hdAAOA0 VI bAV ASaA hAANAANos
On the eastern front every change
leaves Warsaw, the capital of Russian
Poland, more open to the drive which
the Germans and Austro-Hungarians
evidently are making toward that city.
Along the northern line the Austro-
Germans appear to be experiencing
the greatest success, for the Russians
seem to be making a stubborn fight
along the Gnila Lipa, while retreat
ing generally between the Vistula and
Bug rivers toward Lublin
In the west both sides have attack
ed in the Argonne forest and beyond
the Meuse hills without decisive re
suit. The fighting of the past fort
night has been without permanent re
suit, except in the Vosges, where the
French have consolidated substantial
gains.
From Vienna the Italians are re
/ ported to be showing renewed energy
along the Isonzo river, they having
brought up more men and guns, bu
no decisive action is reported.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02
catarrn Cannot BE Cured.

with Local Applications, as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh
is a blood or constitutional disease, and
in order to cure it you must take in
ternal remedies. Halls Catarrh Cure Is
taken internally. and acts directly upon
the blood and mucuous surface. Halls
Catarrh Cure ls not a quack medicine.
II was prescribed by one of the best
physicians in this country for years and
ed of the best tonics known, combined
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price, 75c. Take Halls Family pills for
constipation.-Adv.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02

Russians Tell of Assault by Sea on
Windau.

Petrograd, July Am attempt by
German warships to lombard the
port of Windau, Courland. and land
troops, was repulsed by the Russians,
according to an official statement of
the general staff. The communication
follows:
Squadron of German ships con-
sisting of one patrolling cruiser, four
light cruisers and many torpedo boats
bombarded Windau and attempted to
make a landing on the coast, but was
repulsed. One Of the hostile torpedo
boats was blown up by a mine.
There has been lull in Shawl re-
gion, on the Niemen and Narew forts
and on the left bank of the Vistula.
The enemy offensive between the
Vieprz and the Bug, on the Zamostie-
Sokolka front, continues"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02
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Washington, July 2.-Secretary
Lansing announced that until more
complete reports have been received
from Ambassador Page at London on
the torpedoing of the British liner
Armenian, in which twenty-one Amer
leans lost their lives. the United
States will take no action.
Latest news dispatches from Avon
mouth, Eng, detailing how the Ar
menian made efforts to escape after
being ordered to stop, caused officials
to believe the sinking of the vessel
was accomplished in accordance with
international law and that the United
States may have no reason to take up
the subject with Germany, except to
verify through the admiralty at Ber-
lin the details of the Armenians re
ported resistance
Under the rules of international
law it is pointed out that the Ar
menian, which flew the British flag
as we'll as any neutral Vessei, could
be sunk for refusing to obey warn
ing to halt and submit to visit and
search or capture.
Americans aboard such a ship lose
protection of their government when
the vessel offers resistance.
Ambassador Page reported that the
Armenian was engaged lin admiralty
business" but the question of how
far the vessel was under the contro
OF the British government by charter
or otherwise, seemed TO be overshad
owed, in the minds of officials here
by the reported resistance to capture
There was a relaxation of tension
I'm official quarters by the news tha
the Armenian apparently was resist
ing capture, for what seemed to loon
up as a possible complication in thu
pending negotiations over submarine
warfare with Germany appeared t
be removed.
Consul Armstrong at Bristol report
twenty-one Americans lost.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02
HANGING BODIES MAKE
THE LANDSCAPE LURID

Japala, Mex, July 2.-Bodies of men
hanging from trees and telegraph
poles, not in great numbers but suf-
ficiently conspicuous to make the
landscape lurid; thousands of hun
CRY women aud children crowded into
freight cars or huddled beside rail-
way stations; destroyed bridges,
wrecked trains and entire villages de-
serted or ruined. were observed on a
journey to Japala from Vera Cruz,
sixty miles from General Carranza S
headquarters.
The trip was through what once
was one of the richest parts of Mex
leo. Everywhere it now presents
scenes of idleness, ruin and human
misery. Bodies dangling from trees
or telegraph poles, hanged by differ
ent factions as a warning to the ene-
my that no quarter was to be expect
ed, were reported by Americans ar
irving from Oaxaca and interior
points.
An incident typical of others OF al
most daily occurrence was the find
ing on the Palapa railway station
platform of the bodies of a dozen men
and women recently killed. A train
load of Carranza soldiers, with WON
en- camp followers. had run onto a
bridge from which the rails had been
removed by Zapata forces. Several
cars listed and soldiers and women
on top of the train fell into the river
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02
BIG SWEET POTATO CROP
Texas Plans to Raise About 100000
Bushels This Year.

Dallas. Tex, July 2.-Sweet are the
uses of diversification, in fact, so
sweet. as applied to Texas crops, that
this year Texas will raise a 100 per
cent larger sweet potato crop than
ever before-a bumper harvest of 10,-
100000 bushels.
IL. c. Thompson of the United
States department of agriculture is
due here this month to give Texas
farmers lessons in housing this gigan-
tic crop, so that they won't be caught
as last year with 80 cents bushel
prices when by merely holding for a
time they could get 81 or So bushel.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02
GETS VERDICT OF S1,5OO, ,O0O
Interstate Railway Wins Suit Against
Kansas City Trolley Line.

Kansas City, July "A verdict of
$1,000, 900 has been awarded me In
terstate Railway company against the
Kansas City, Clay County and st. Jo-
seph trolley line and the estate of
George Townsend by jury in the
district court.
The defendant company had built
it's electric line between Kansas City
and st. Joseph on part of the Inter-
state company's right OF way, the In
terstate company alleges.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02
IN BATTLE AROUND vERDUk
French Report Rout of German
Crown Princes Army.

Paris, July 2.-The German crown
princes army has been beaten and
thrown back in attacks upon the
French positions around Verdun, dis
patches received here say
Heavy shelling by French artillery
is said to have forced the Germans to
return to their trenches.
East of the Binarville road and on
the ridge east of Metzeral the Ger
mans have attempted to rush the
French positions. They were thrown
back with no gains, an official state
ment says.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02
To Preserve Your Health.

The Kidneys are the great health pre-
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02
MOST CHILDREN HAVE WORMS.

And neither parents or child Know It,
vet it explains why your child is ner-
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children have thousands of worms.
Think of how dangerous this is TO your
child. Don't take any risk. Get an
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the worms Relieves constipation, reg
ulates stomach and bowels. Your child
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02

Rome, July -Montenegrin troops
have invaded the Austrian province of
Bosnia, occupying the mountain vii
lage of Voutchero. The Montenegrins
are continuing their offensive, driving
toward Southeastern Bosnia. accord
ing to dispatches to the Montenegro
legation here
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02

When we got clear she shot two
torpedoes against the Armenian's side
and fired several shots from her guns.
There was a big explosion and the
steamer went down stern first"
Four of the wounded in Benton s
boat died before they were picked up,
he said. He was not certain whether
all those wounded by shell fire were
gotten into the boats before the Ar
menian went down.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-02

Women suffer as much as men do
from indigestion and constipation and
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keep the stomach sweet, the liver active
and the bowels regular. Foley Cathar-
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people say this is the one cathartic that
takes away that over-full and clogged-
up feeling.