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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-09-01

THIS town.
Where are you going now?"
asked
Were going round to the station.
lPiggott says he's got a sensation up
his sleeve for us-it's got something to
do with that cabinet"
with the cabinet?'
Eyes; that shiny thing Godfrey got
me to lock up in a CELL
"SimmOnds," I said seriously, "dOes
Godfrey know about this?"
NO" said SimmOnds. looking a little
uncomfortable. 81 told Grady we
ought to phone him to come up, but
the chief got mad and told me to mind
my own business. Godfrey's been after
him, you know. for long time"
Suppose phone him." l suggested.
"Thered be no objection to that.
would there?''
81 won't object" said SimmOnds.
"and l don't know who else will, since
nobody else will know about it. Good
night" and he followed his compan-
ions into the station.
CHAPTER XIV.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

camera as evidence that he and his relatives appreciate the fact that he is
a real White House baby and that all the people of the United States are
interested in him.
the presidential family. When the photographers got their opportunity they
took many snaps at the defenseless infant.
That's a pretty good record for one week for any baby that hasn't yet
to make a speech, that isn't yet Injured to the customary White
House habit of being interviewed regularly, but he's growing That much
may be admitted on 10 less authority than that OF the resident himself
OF course the youngster started with a handicap. Eehyone thought natur-
ally that he would be named after, his distinguished Ii grandfather, but
fellow a square DEAL" and start even with te world, 50 he was finally
named Francis Sayre.
Though there have been eleven White House babies, all of whom have
prospered, there a but ne child Of a president born within the executive
mansion That was Miss Esther Cleveland.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06


Friar's Heel is the name given to a
large stone at ~Stonehenge, England,
An interesting tale surrounds the
iplacing Of this stone in its present
upright position. II is related that
Godfrey on Monmouth said that the
devil bought some stones of an old
woman in Ireland, wrapped them up
in withies and brought them to Sails
bury plain. Just before he got to
Mt. ANDRE the withies broke and one
of The stones fell into the Avon; the
rest we're carried to the plain After
the fen had fixed them in the ground
he cried out. mo man will ever find
out how these stones came here" A
friar replied, That's more than thee
can tell" %whereupon the fend threw
one OF the stones at him and struck
him on the heel. The stone stuck in
the ground and is said to remain there
TO the present hour.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

Wife, wish you would realize,
John, that there is something in the
world besides money.
Husband-I do; the trouble is that
when l want anything done can't
get the other fellow to realize it.
French Gun to Have a Day.
The Touring club of France has re-
ceived authorization from the gov
eminent to organize a patriotic day
to be called 1.-THE day OF the rs" On
that day. February Z. miniature repre-
sentatiyes Of the famous French three
inch gun will be sold throughout
France. and the proceeds will be de-
voted 10 the comfort Of the soldiers at
the front
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

Speaking at New York in behalf Of
Hampton institute. Booker t. Wash
ington praised the Carnegie and Rock
efeller Foundations.
1.-THE work of these boards should
be followed into sur southern states,
where the money that they have
given is helping to make a new
South and a new civilization" he said.
Il wish that those in charge of these
Investigations could get into the South
and trace the influence of the Rookie
felier and Carnegie money in bring
ing about better supervision of the
schools"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

"llhln the institution recently under
the guidance of his famous GRANDPA
ther. Then he was furnished with a
neat little pair of boxing gloves, that,
as his granddad the president said,
he might learn to Strike out for him
self" in due season. Next came to
the White House a ~serviceable pair
Of blue jean overalls that he might
ever be reminded that he is to be
one of the great mass of working
people on whom the welfare of the
republic depends. He posed for the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06
salvation In Work.

Work" said Doctor Meyer before
the Congregation Emanuel, lis the sal
walton for idle wives" The good rabbi
might have added that work is the
salvation of everybody-the very salt
of human life. The man Oh woman
who does not work is a parasite, a
corrupting influence. and a d~ecaying
quantity. Any scheme Of life which
looks to avoidance OF work cuts
athwart every sound principle of liv-
ing. Most di~sastrously of all 1t af-
fects him-or hey-who escapes work.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

ranks OF the navy under the newly enacted law of 1914. which permits is
enlisted lei to enter the academy from the service every year
The enlisted len who may be admitted to the academy under this law
must be citizens of the United States, nt owe twenty years of age,
they must have served at least ne year in the navy, and they are
subject to the same physical and mental examinations al arc required for
all other nominees, presidential and congressional They art Obliged to
conform to the standards in every respect, and are subject after their ad
mission to the sam rules and regulations as apply to all other midshipmen
The naval appropriation bill was not passed by the senate until June 2,
1914. The examinations TO. enlisted men were held on August g. 1914 Just
two months later. In view of the limited time that candidates had to pre-
pare for the examinations, it is regarded as gratifying that as many IS five
candidates succeeded in meeting all the requirements. By the time the
next examination is held, April 5, 1915, candidates will have had additional
time in which to prepare, and it is expected that the number Of candidates
will be greatly increased.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06
Family Currency.

A young wife. being twopence short
in paying a bill, called downstairs TO
the cook-"Maggie, have you got a
couple Of coppers downstairs"
Yes. ma'am," replied Maggie.
They are cousins Of mine."--Loudon
Tit. Bits.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

If the buildings of the school at
Manassas need painting or repairing,
the boys take care of it; all the chill
dren's shoes are kept in order, from
a small patch to half soles and heels,
by the young cobblers; the mattresses
used in the dormitories are all made
at the school; the washing for the en-
tire school, as well as for the teach
ers, is done by the girls, as well as all
the housework and cooking. In fact,
there are few occasions when there
is need to call in outside labor for a
job of any sort.
These boys and girls go back to
their home towns or rural communi-
ties carrying with them the inspira-
ton of skilled usefulness and ideals
of better living, and the surrounding
community is showing decided signs
of this influence in most gratifying
ways. The school comes also In touch
with the people of the country round
about through the Negro Agricultural,
Educational and Industrial alliance,
which meets three times a year at
Manassas. This brings together the
farmers, ministers, teachers and lead
ers of INDUSTRIAL work among the col
ored people to discuss their special
problems, as well as the best cultiva-
ton of the soil, crops and stock,
home building, school work. ~co-opera-
ton of home, school and church, and
any other subject which presents it.
self as timely.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

an emigrant ship many years ago,
some of the survivors reached those
islands. When the news reached
home, the minister Of a Scottish
church to which some Of the emf
grants had belonged, prayed thus:
"Oh. Lord, We pray thee 70 tie with
our brethren, stranded in the Falk'
land Islands, which, as Thou knowest,
are situated in the South Atlantic
ocean,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06
o

Shell was SO glad to meet Mrs.
Blank at the bargain sale this morn
ing.
He-But l thought you detested her.
She-I do; that's why was glad.
During the crush found a chance to
give her a few real good pokes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

SeHted a Qulntette OF mlddIes at the
academy. The secretary admitted
that they were middies, f%ull.ledged,
and possessed Of all the other quail
fications and prerogatives of any
other midshipmen, and yet they were
different, in the sense that these five
middies had Won their way into the
academy by competitive examination
from the ranks of the enlisted per-
sonnet of the naval service. They
were the first FIVE enlisted men to
enter the naval academy from the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

The rules of the house prohibit smoking inside this hall Complaint has
been made more than once about the violation of this rule. Now there is
plenty of space outside for gentlemen to smoke.
And while the chair is about it, he will suggest it is a good thing fol-
members to keep their feet down from the tops of seats"
Thus he rbs members of one of the pleasures of legislative life. The
seats arec comfortable and the back Of the chair in front is just the place tc
rest a pair of No. IFS.
Members from the West seem to have taken to the practice of placing
feet on the backs of chairs just as readily as they would hang them o. the
railing of the country hotel back home.
People from all over the world have seen congressional feet on the tops
u chair seats and have gone away, noting in their travelogue diaries that
is one o the sights of the American legislature.
Hereafter it will be a bold congressman Cor a new oe) who will dare
to rest his brogans IN the chair of the fellow in front of him.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

Booker T. Washington was the prin-
cipal speaker at the annual New
York meeting in the interests of
Hampton institute, Virginia, at Car
negie hall. Mr.. Washington said:
1.-THE Hampton institute in Virginia,
whose interests bring us here tonight,
more than any single institution in
the South has led the way for a high
er and better civilization for both
whites and blacks in the South, and
the credit for this leadership Is very
largely due to the far-sighted, mod
est, unselfish, brave man, DR.. Hollis
B. Frissell, the principal of Hamp-
ton institute.
Aside from the millions of white
people in the South, there are nine
millions of black people. Taking the
country as a whole, there are more
black people in the United States
than there are people in the Dominion
of Canada, nearly as many as consti-
tute the population of the whole of
Mexico. We have enough Negroes in
the United States to populate five of
the smaller European countries, and
then have two million remaining.
I'VE can all congratulate ourselves
that the United States congress re-
fused a few days ago to enact that
unjust law preventing more Negroes
from coming into the United States.
Such a law would have been unjust
and needless"
While here and there we often have
evidences of needless racial friction
in the South, yet, when we consider
what is going on in Europe, where
the races are white, we may congratu-
late ourselves that in the South,
where We have two races, different in
color, that conditions are so peace
full and hopeful as they are, not
withstanding the wrongs that so fire.
quently come to the surface.
THE South just now is the most
interesting place in which to live
because there are so many changes
taking place and so much work to be
done.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06
Whales.

The whale is not a fish. In every
thing which characterizes a true fish
and separates it from other classes, as
reptiles, birds and animals, the whale
resembles the last named (the man.
mals) and differs radically and funda-
mentally from the nsh.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

treasury, 20 ride IN his car. The eIe-
vator runs in a shaft on the outside
of which. on every floor, is a sign
reading: Exclusively for members
of congress and the press"
Mrs. McAdoo, accompanied by
several friends, approached the ele-
vator on the gallery floor and rang
the bell. Kenner, the elevator man,
pulled the car up from the main floor,
but he saw in the group of waiting
visitors neither a member of con
gress nor a newspaper man. You
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

cannot ride in this car" he said. refusing to open the gate.
Why not?" asked one of the lei in the party. r
Kenner pointed to the sign.
But you don't understand" said the spokesman. This is the party of
Mrs. McAdoo, daughter OF the president and wife OF the secretary Of tho
treasury"
Yes. / do understand; l know Mrs. McAdoo every time / see her; but
my orders from the speaker of this house are to obey that sign"
With that he jerked the controller back and the ar sank to its resting
place the main floor Mrs. McAdoos party then descended In a neghbor
ing public elevator.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

Six women, leaders in local soci-
ETY., members of the Womun's Char
table association, acted as pallbearers
at the funeral at Punxutawney, Pa, of
Mrs. Martha Thomas, an aged colored
washwoman. The p~allbearers were
Mrs. James S. Lockard, Mrs. w. e.
Porter, Mrs. T. C. Redding, Mrs. w. s.
Suffer, Mrs. G. L. Shicker and Mrs.
T. G. Alabran. The women agreed to
bury the Negress when it was found
that the body would be turned over
to an mathematical society, and had an
undertaken prepare the body for burial.
When the body was about to be re-
moved to \the cemetery. the wom-
en- found they had no %pallbearers.
They volunteered to act and the fu-
neral proceeded.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

Charles H. Summer of Goffstown, N.
H., has an old clock, which is in a
soapstone case, with dots for the hours
and no numerals. The case stands
about fourteen inches high. The works
are peculiar, having double escape
ment with a straight verge and will
run in any position. 1t is more than a
century old.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06
Secretary Daniels Is Proud of These Five Middies

G ECRErARY DANIELS has received from the naval academy at Annapolis
~ a photograph of which he is extremely proud. Those to whom he dis
played it att the navy department we're willing to bet that the picture repre
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

Readers who had some difficulty in
remembering where the Falkland is
lands were. may have been helped by
the recollection Of one OF Ian Mac
larep's stories. After o disaster to
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

A man or woman in mental and phys.
ical health without work, and the will
to do it. is the most pitiable spectacle
on this sorrowful earth.-San Fran.
cisco Argonaut.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

A striking illustration of the desire
for education in Formosa is furnished
by the fact that the English Presby-
terian mission is founding a high
school in Tainan which will cost $780,.
600. Toward this sum 100000 has been
contributed by none christian Chinese.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

IIu5tVI OHIUE6 UIIdII NIITIuI UT pV""V
of the house members we're violating
house rules by smoking in the cham
Der, despite the rigorous censorship
on smoking upheld by the doorkeeper
and his mlnions. Speaker Clark,
himself a strict observer of the house
rules in every sense of the word, rose
upon the rostrum, gavel in hand, at
the close of a vote on one of the bills,
and said:
Before taking up the next bill
the chair desires to make a statement.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06
Would Not Break Rule for Presidents Daughter

e VERY employee and a large number of the members of the house are
L talking today about the nerve displayed by a capitol elevator mn named
Kenner in refusing to allow Mrs. McAdoo. wife of the secretary of the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

High-grade cattle fodder is a new
French product from tomato seeds.
The seeds are dried in a furnace,
sifted to remove woody fiber, crushed
by heated millstones, freed from oil
in a hydraulic press and compressed
into f%our-pound loaves.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

While digging potatoes in Hope, Me-,
Arthur Hobart found one IL by 10
inches in circumference, in which was
a mouse nest, containing one old one
and four little ones. The skin was left
on the top like a trap door.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

A Chilean province has established
two floating schools to enable the resi-
dents Of its many islands to obtain an
education.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06
Little White House Baby Poses for His Picture

IN the day when Francis sayre the eleventh baby born in the White
" House, ws a week old he IA presented with al efgy Of a Princeton
tiger, that he might be influenced in his youth toward seeking a education
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

After hearing Frederick Douglas
and Anna Dickinson speak at the first
Southern Loyalist convention at Phil
adelphia, John Minor Bolts, the IA
nous Virginian political leader, said:
To-day / ha ;e heard the greatest
white woman and the greatest colored
orator in America. l tell you, sir,
if Douglas had been a white man he
would have been regarded as one of
the greatest men in America"
We'll, sir" was the reply of his
northern listener, I'VE regard him as
n of the greatest men in our coun.
try, even though he is a colored man
After accepting office, Douglas vir-
tually retired from the lecture field,
and whenever he appeared in public
made Republican speeches.
Mr.. Douglas died in Washington, De-
cember 10, 1895.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

Maj. Robert Russo Motion, command
ant of cadets at the Hampton insti.
tute, in making his appeal for the
school, said:
AS a result of Hampton's extern
sion work, the Negro Organization So
ciety, a movement which grew out of
Hampton institute, has succeeded in
getting nearly two hundred thousand
colored people in the state of Virginia
during cleanup week" last April, to
clean up their premises, destroy breed
ing places for mosquitoes, flies, etc,
thereby making possible better sani-
tary conditions for blacks and whites.
THE workers at Hampton, led by it's
self-effacing principal, Doctor Fr~issell,
are helping in a concrete fashion to
bring peace on earth and good will
toward men-black men, white men,
northern men, and southern men-and
helping toward a peace and good will
which a very large part of the CIV
ilized world, at the present time at
least, seems to have quite forgotten.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06
Speaker Clark Robs congressman Of Pleasures

M ASH1NGTON-"And while the chair is about it, be win suggest that II
w is a good thing for members to keep their feet down from the tops OF
the seats" Thus spake Speaker Clark, scoldng his colleagues $ a school
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

This year Hongkong has exported
100000 worth of peanuts to the
United States.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06

Dewey Green, a fourteen-year-old
colored boy of Tulsa county, is Okla
homa's champion cotton raiser. His
exhibit was awarded first prize at the
Oklahoma state fair, eastern Oklaho-
ma fair at Muskogee and the Tulsa
county fair. What this ambitious lit
tie colored boy accomplished has
brought him into favorable notice of
the state board of agriculture.
Dewey Green resides with his father
IN a farm near jerks, in the lowlands
of the Arkansas river, which cannot
be excelled in Oklahoma for cotton.
He was enrolled in the Tulsa County
Boys Cotton club early last year.
When 1t was announced that Dewey
had decided to join the club the white
boys in the club were inclined to view
the advent of a Negro boy with dis
dain. you won't get anywhere in a
contest with the white boys" was the
fling n boy took at Deewy.
You all jes' wait till pickin' time
and I'll show you who can grow cot
ton" was the rejoinder of the lad.
On his one acre of cotton he made
more money than did his father on
forty acres of the same land adjoining.
Not only was the yield unusually
heavy, but in point of lint, number of
bolls to the stalk and seed it out
graded anything shown in the three
fairs.
Dewey says he accomplished what
he did by following out the instruc.
tons of the department of agriculture
to the letter and by refusing to seek
the shade when the torrid sun of July
and August took all of the play" out
of experimental farming.
Dewey has enrolled in the Boys
Corn club of Tulsa county and will go
in for corn this year, as the disastrous
luck attending the marketing of cot
ton owing to the war will have a ten.
dency to eliminate cotton from the
1915 crops in Tulsa county.
If anything, the Negro farmers of
Tulsa county take more interest in the
efforts of the government to promote
scientific farming than the whites
They attend agricultural meetings and
listen with rapt attention to all that is
said. Many Negro farmers are going
in for wheat, oats and alfalfa who
until two years ago had never raised
anything but cotton and corn. AL
who tried wheat and oats in 1914
made money. Where they have plant
ed alfalfa they have for the first time
in their lives gone in for hog raising
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-06
INTERNATIONAL
NNDNYSQIOOL
LESSON
(By q. o. SELLERS, Acting Director Of
Sunday School Course. Moody Bible In
stitute, ChicagoO
LESSON FOR MARCH 7
SAUL KING.

LESSON TEXT Samuel s:17-10:L.
GOLDEN TExT-Fear God, honor the
king.-I Peter 2:17.
Evening journal., 1915-08-13
IF THIS is YOUR BIRTHDAY
AUGUST "a.


II this is your birthday, do not give
way TO encouragement. Do not give
up because someone criticises you,
but look at your efforts honestly and
determine to proft by advice. A just
criticism has helped many men to the
right way to success.
This is a fortunate birthdate nav
ing Leo for its birthsign and the sun
for its planet.
Both of the influences are favor
able to love and money undertak-
ings.
The nature of one having this birth
date is forceful. attractive and the
mind keenly intuitive. The physical
health is usually robust.
The most congenial mate will be
found between November p and De-
cember 22. This marriage augers
happiness.
Watch the Wants Ads for lost
articles and advertise for apartments
and homes 10 rent