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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-03-26
Home Talent Play Benefit Soldiers
Monument Circle = Proceeds Will
Go for the Purchase of MOnu-
ment tor Unknown Dead.
tor unknown dc

On Monday evening, March %, at
the opera house there will be present
ed the great 4-act New York Madison
Square success '.Hazel Kirke" or Cast
Adrift far the benefit of the Soldiers
Monument Circle-and under the direc-
ton of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Choate of
Chicago, who so successfully directed
the play forgiven" year ago.
A splendid cast has be selected from
among our best local talent and with
out doubt this will be the best home
talent play ever produced in Edgerton.
The ladies of the Monument Circle
are working hard to raise money to
erect monument to our dead soldiers
and every one in Edgerton should show
their personal interest in this noble
work by attending this most worthy
entertainment.
"Hazel Kirke" is play which en-
joyed the longest run of any play ever
produced in America and on Monday
evening it will be given in its entirety
with beautiful scenic effects. The
cast of characters is as follows:
Hazel Kirke, the millers daughter. ........
................... MARY A CnOdCe
Dolly DuttOn, honest and true. Lizzie Williams
Mercy Krke, with mothers heart.
Observation-Disclosures. Gertrude Mccarthy
Lady Travers, the naughty mother.
Clara, HazelS true friend Ruth LaCkner
Dunstan Kirke the miller. Harry ChOate
Arthur Carringford, young lord. ....,
Observation-Disclosures. .CIdyGOu duDDelI
Squire Rodney the noble friend. ....:..
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES: tIrAeSU naOiIIah
Pittacus Green, eccentric but true. 1880.
...........................G Gerald Wh1tfOrd
Barney O'FIynn, Irish valet. Clayton Williams
Methuselah MuggiEs, called Met
........................... Edward Mcdonald
In addition to the play there will be
some excellent specialties and music
between the acts.
The ladies hope that large number
will attend the play and by so doing
they will assist in making the enter
tainment great financial success. Sc
cure your seats in advance which will
be on sale at Ash's book store, Thurs
day, March 25. Remember the date,
Moneay, March 20.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-03-26
Local Actors to Appear-Play to Be
Given by Knights of Pythias.

Given by Knights of Pythias.
"Savageland, an unusually good
musical comedy, will be presented at
Majestic theater on Friday, April 9th,
by clever local cast. Great care has
been exercised by the committee in the
selection of the parts, and each char
acter seems adapted to his or her part.
''Savageland' was first produced by
the Savage club at Cornell college, It'll
AGA, N. Y, and scored a wonderful
success. The play is big laugh from
beginning to end, and will help you re-
member, with the actors, that 'Life is
a merry jest in SavageIand. "
Edgerton is unusually well provided
with amateur talent and the parts in
this ''comical comedy" are especially
adapted to amateurs If you like
clever acting, pretty stage settings,
classy costumes and acres Of nifty
singing and dancing numbers by big
chorus of girls and boys, you will be at
this entertainment on April 9th.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19

poems should be content in
their slavery.
Some people in this country
sympathize with the peon in
his struggle for freedom. Others
favor the other side and are
ready to excuse barbarism and
injustice when used in defense
of an upper class.
If we should go to Mexico to
settle the troubles in that coun-
try would our own people
agree as to which side we
should favor? If we ourselves
cannot agree as to what should
be done there how can anyone
advise this country to inter-
vene and how can we censure
the Mexicans if they disagree
and are forced to settle the is
sue by the sword?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19
MINNESOTA VS.. OREGON

M INNESOTA has an eff
JT ficiency and economy
commission and it has
just made public its report.
Strange to say this commission
does not share the views of
those who enacted the Moser
spoilsmen's law in Oregon.
Instead of recommending
that all state employees big and
little be subject to instant re-
moval when they displease pol
iticians in office or gangsters
out of office the Minnesota
commission advises that with
the exception of the heads of
institutions all other officials
and employees be permanently
engaged and that their selec-
ton be by means of merit rules.
Evidently the Minnesota
commission has been really
trying to bring about efficiency
in the state service and is not
giving thought to building up
a political machine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19
WHY THE BABIES DIE.
(The Fort Worth Record J

(The Fort Worth Record.)
Environment has much to do with
infant mortality. is the conclusion to
be drawn from the report OF the fed
eral children's bureau. The bureau
made investigations at Johnstown.
Pa. and while 1t submits no views OF
its own. the report shows that in the
poorest sections Of the city the death
rate was 271 per 1000 or more than
five times that in the best resident
lal sections.
Babies whose fathers earned $40 a
week or less. the report says, died at
the rate of 256 per 1000, while those
whose fathers earned s25 or more
week died at the rate of S4 per
1000. Artificially fed babies died at
a much more rapid rate than breast
fed babies. Only 466 babies per L.
600 died under one year of age when
breast fed for at least three months
as against 1858 per 1000 who died
fed with artificial foods.
When the mothers were employed
a large part Of the time in heavy
work babies died at a rapid rate. In
one group of 19 mothers whose ba-
bies all died. Is had been keeping
lodgers. In houses where water had
to be obtained from the outside the
death rate was found to be 1913 per
1000 as against 11S per 1000 In
houses where water was supplied by
pipes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19

will go to Portland, some to
Astoria. Naturally the best
results can be obtained by
keeping in reach of both mar
kets.
But the farmer is not the
only man interested in this
road project. The merchants
of Pendleton and of the other
towns have a vital interest at
stake also. Walla Walla is 60
ing to have the advantage of
a river road. Umatilla county
towns must do likewise or pay
the penalty
The Cold Springs road pro-
ject is one in which farmers
and businessmen should unite
and must unite to make it win.
1t is big undertaking but the
goal is worthy of the effort.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19
THE MEXICAN STRUGGLE

q ONE of our tory newspa-
30 pers try to imagine the
Z United States is obligat-
ed by the Monroe doctrine to
invade Mexico and take the
burdens Of that country upon
our shoulders.
When did the Monroe doc
trine take on any such mean
ing? The Monroe doctrine re-
lates to possible acquisition of
American territory by Eupo-
pean nations. 1t does not for a
moment require this country to
take charge of the various
revolutions occurring from
time to time in the republics of
Central and South America.
The Mexican revolution is a
local struggle. 1t is primarily
a contest between peon and
aristocrat. The poems feel they
are entitled to some rights and
TO some share of happiness.
The aristocrats who have ac-
quired control of resources
through fraud, deception and
often by legalized murder un-
der Diaz feel they should stay
in the saddle and that the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19

self, which each nation proposed 20
cross in order to get to grips with the
! other. Schneckenburger's poem. pro-
duced under these circumstances. was
included in a collection Of verses
written by him, and published under
the name German Songs" The
poem in question had no great sue.
cess. and would have retired into OBJ.
livion If 1t had not had the fortune
some years later to fall into the hands
OF an obscure lidertafel leader named
Carl Wilhelm who set II to music and
managed to have IL performed at the
silver wedding of the Crown Prince
Of Prussia. who. after his victorious
campaign against France. became the
German emperor.
Truth to tell. even this did not suf-
flee to bring the song into popularity
and IL was only in 1865. when the
'Wacht am Rhine" was sung In Dres-
den by the League of German singers,
that il was received with enthusiasm.
becoming. after the declaration OF
war in 1870 the national hymn. The
German government wanted to pre-
sent the composer. wilhelm. with a
yearly pension Of 5000 marks, after
peace was signed, but he died in 1873.
Poor Schneckenburger. too. had died
in 1s49. without the faintest idea OF
the pOsthumous fame OF his name was
to enjoy as having written the ma
tional hymn OF his country.
The manuscript of Die Watcht am
Rhein" passed into the hands OF an
heir OF the drug clerks best friend,
and later was left by him to the mu
scum in Bern. where il now hangs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19
BETTER THAN A RAILROAD

TF Cold Springs farmers
could afford to offer the
Northern Pacific a bonus
of $4,000 to get them to build
a spur line from Myrick to
Holdman, they can afford to
give twice the sum for a public
owned hard surface road to
Cold Springs landing.
Railroads render a great SER
vice but not at the low costs at
tendant upon water transporta-
ton. This is perfectly natural
and the reasons will be obvi-
Gus to any intelligent man, wo-
man or child.
AS Mr.. Harrah says, what
this county needs is a publicly
owned, hard surface road to
the river with a public dock at
the other end. Such an ar
rangement will assure the full
lest competition and that is
what is desired.
A private dock might be-
come monopolized by a partic-
ular steamer line. We should
be open for business from any
boats operating on the river.
Some Umatilla county wheat
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19
UNCLE SAM WON'T SELL
OUT.
RNAHAT water transportati.
w on means is shown by
the case of the Morris

N1AHAT water transportati-
w on means is shown by
the case of the Morris
and Essex canal in Pennsylva-
mia. The canal was built by
the state to permit of coal ship
ments by water.
But for some reason the Le-
high Valley Railroad Co. Sc
cured. control of the canal and
has paid $367,000 a year to
keep that waterway out of use.
All told the railroad company
has paid $14,000,000 to pre-
vent the reduction in rates that
would have occurred had the
canal been kept in use.
No railroad company will
ever close up the Cascade
Locks canal or the Cello ca
nal because those canals were
built by the federal govern
ment, not by any boss ridden
state.
The people of the inland
empire stand to get the bene-
fits of the open Columbia river
and the case of the Morris and
Essex canal will give an inkling
as to what those advantages
will be. No railroad would
spend $14,000,000 to keep a
canal closed unless it had some
reason for its action.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19
THIS MAY ENTERTAIN
A FIRST TRIP TO THE MOVIES

The other day n country kinsman
OF Alexander ]. B. Garesche. veteran
attorney, paid the latter a visit. II
was his initial trip to the city. De-
spite the rapidity with which the
motion picture has thrust its presence
into remotest sections he was among
those who had never seen movie. d"
He had been too busy harvesting
crops and experimenting the farm
to devote any time to this amuse-
ment and had formed no definite idea
OF what It was.
one night Garesche suggested they
take in a picture show. A drama
was being cast upon the screen. II
so happened that Garesche had seen
the film before and began carefully
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19
An INsIsTENT LAY.

When winter Is done. and gay sum
beams betray
The rack OF days grim and un-
tender,
'Tis then nature hastens 10 change
her array
And dazzle the world with her
splendor.
And this is the lay spring is piping
TO you: =.
Now off with the old clothes.
And on with the newt"
You may smile in defiance or frown
in dismay;
Hide your purse or exultingly show
Il;
For this is the lay spring is piping
to you:
Now off with the old clothes
And on with the newt"
Browning.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19

to explain the various episodes to his
uninitiated guest. whose attention was
r.veted ahead. As Garesche talked,
the man from the country tipped his
head to one side, then to the other.
straining eyes and ears. Finally he
turned TO Garesche with puzzled
expression.
What gifts me-" he said. "is how
YOU catches what they're sayin.' Dad
gummed II kin hear emf"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19
WORLDS SMALLEST ARMIES.
(From Tit-Bits.)

(fTom Tlt7BltS.)
II ever the disarmament OF the
world occurs there will be several
countries that will not have much to
do in that line, such as, for instance,
Monaco, the army of which compris-
eg rs guards, rs carbineers and 20
fiHemen.
Another diminutive army is that
Of the Grand Duchy OF Luxembourg,
which numbers 1876 gendarmes, ITO
volunteers and 20 musicians. The
republic Of San Marlno can put in
the field a total OF nine companies
consisting OF $50 men and 3S Off
GERS. commanded by marshal. The
army on a peace footing consists OF
one company Of 90 men.
The fighting force of the "Black
Liberia) is composed OF
700 men and almost as many off.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19
CURRENT THINKING
STORY OF ode WACHT AM
RHEIN."

&C. y. r. in The New York Times)
Die Wacht am Rhein," which Is
the German national hymn and is be-
ing sung now by all ,reutons. whether
at home or on the battlefields, was
written by a certain Max Schnecken-
burger, who was born in the little
town of Thalheim in Wurttemberg.
Schneckenburger was a druggists as
sistant in Bern when he composed the
poem In 1870.
At that time. says The Neue Freie
Presses, France was vociferiously de-
manding a march on the Rhine-that
is TO say, war with Germany-and
German patriotic songs began to be
heard from one end Of the stream to
the other. The subject Of the songs
was almost exclusively the Rhine IT.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19

GERS. Liberia, however. evidently
considers its army a formidable one,
since upon the occasion OF HOSTILE
ties between any OF the powers. It al
ways ISSUES a proclamation OF neu
trality.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19

we can order them for YOU" re-
piled the, merchant Might inquire
what you want with them?"
ITO wake my husband. lie has
given no attention to an alarm
clock. The only thing that will
arouse him is noise like a bursting
automobile tire. e."--Washington Star.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
I'm ADVANCED
FISHING TIME.

. Il am wishing. oh, I'm wish
. ing
. For the time to go a-fishing
= Down beside the dancing waters
9 in a quiet shady nook.
. Just TO spend the time a 4
. dreaming
= While the mist Of morning.
. streaming.
. Breathes the honeysuckle's
. sweetness from the bosom
. Of the brook.
= "Out among the woods and
. bushes
. Where the merry brooklet
= rushes
. And the mockingbirds and
= thrushes sing my sorrows
. all away,
. There beside the restful river
. Let me lose myself forever
= Oh. I'm wishing for the fishing 4
Of sweet eternal May"
q Atlanta Constitution. 4
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19

The Motor Enthusiast.
Would you tell me where could
get some giant flrecrackers?" said
the determined looking woman.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-19
IN WINNIPEG.

During a business trip to Winni-
peg" said a business man, according
to the New York Evening Post, II
ran into cold weather. One day,
particularly, a biting wind whipped
the snow, and all teamsters and drIv-
ers suffered terribly.
when | got in my taxi to leave
the hotel | observed to my chauffeur:
We'll, this is sure enough winter
weather. isn't it,"
THE chauffeur nodded and replied
grimly:
Believe me, sir. amt seen a but
terfly all day."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-08-05
DuffieldS Notes.

Our section has been visited with fine
rains this week and farmers are now busy
blowing and anticipating big corn crop.
Our board OF education has just COM
pIeted a handsome porch to our school,
house as well as coat of paint added to
the interior OF the room.
Mrs. ]. X. KILLER and daughter are Wis
iting relatives and friends in Luray this
week.
Mrs. Walter Harmon is putting up a
new kitchen, A. S. Link. contractor. So
we can rest assured il means good job.
Thornton Manuel has been complain
ing for several weeks, but at this writing
is something better.
R. B. Kibler, ieweler, of Baltimore,
was visiting his brother-in-law, ]. r. Kib-
Ter, on Tuesday.
w. T. Siler is spending the week at his
former home at Shanghai, Berkeley county.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday even
ing at s p. m. IN the Presbyterian Church.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-08-05

AN interesting story comes from Wash
ington to the effect that President Wilson
would like to see Solicitor General John
w. Davis make the race for Senator from
West Virginia next year, and it must be
conceded that the suggestion is very
favorably considered in this State. While
Senator Chiffon has supported President
Wilson's measures in Congress with
commendable regularity, it requires far
stretch of the Imagination to regard him
as a Wilson man, and il takes no seer to
distinguish the difference between ex-
pediency and genuine sympathy-hence
we can readily understand that the Pres
ident might desire Senator nearer his
own ideals. AT home, while Senator
Chiffon has many warm friends and po-
litical supporters of the abest sort, he
will find rough shedding if he shall again
be a candidate. There is well-defined
sentiment that he has been Senator for
the Chiffon wing OF the party, instead o
his whole Democratic constituency, and
he will be kept busy explaining away
this charge.
There will be no lack of interest in the
primary election next year, on either side.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-08-05

The live members OF the 1913 West
Virginia Legislature convicted in August,
1913, of having accepted brides TO vote
for William Seymour Edwards for United
States Senator, and sentenced to terms
ranging from five 10 six years, were last
week granted conditional pardons by
Governor Hatfield. They are: Senator
B. A. Smith, a physician, of Roane coun-
ty, sentenced to live and a-half years
Delegate S. U. q. Rhodes, of Mingo
county, lawyer and former prosecuting
attorney of that county, sentenced to six
years; Delegate Rath Duff, school teacher
in Jackson county, sentenced TO six years.
Delegate David Hill, farmer, OF Mason
county, sentenced to five years; Dele
gate H. F. Asbury, physician in Putnam
county, sentenced 10 six years. PardonS
for the men were recommended by viz
tually all of the officials who had anything
to do with the prosecution. In recon-
mending conditional pardons, which pro-
vide that the men may be returned to the
penitentiary at any time to complete their
original sentence, E. q. Pierson, pardon
attorney, said the blame was not altogether
with the defendants that they had been
the victims OF pernicious system OF cleo
ton grating that had grown up in West
Virginia for years.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-08-05
500 Reward, 500.

The readers ofthis paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able TO cure
in all its stages, and that is Catarrhl
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure now known to the medical fraternity
Catarh being constitutional disease,
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers thatthey offer
One Hundred Dollars for any case that il
fails to cure. Send for list OF testimo-
mails. Address
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-08-05
DOR MITORY.
SHEPHERD COLLEGE,
ShepherdstoWn, w. Va.
Notice to Contractors.

Notice is hereby given that the under
signed State Board OF Control will, until
noon of Monday, August %, 1915, receive
at its office in Charleston, w. Va, sealed
bids for doing all the work and furnish
ing all the materials necessary TO COM
pIete the following building, according
10 the plans and specifications prepared
by n. Rus Warne, architect, Charleston,
w. Va.
One Brick Building, size 95 #. a in. by
81 It. 6 in, selected common brick. Two
stories, basement and attic. Interior
wood partition. Slate roof. Basement
cement floor. Tile bath rooms.
Contractors can secure plans and spec
iiications for above building by address,
ing the office of the State Board OF Con-
troll, Charleston, w. Va, accompanying
their request with two checks OF live
dollars each, one of which will be re-
turned to contractor when plans and
specifications are returned to the under
signed.
All bids must be accompanied by certi-
fled check five hundred dollars $500. OO).
Public opening of bids will be held at
the Office OF the State Board OF Control
at two O'Clock p. NJ, Monday, August
q, 1915.
Immediately after contract is awarded
successful bidder will be required to ex-
ecute proper contract with guaranty bond
in penalty equal to one-half the amount
of contract price. II successful bidder
fails to execute contract and bond, his
check will be retained to cover expense
OF re-advertising.
Above building must be completed on
or before February /, 1916.
All bids must be made on forms fur-
nished with the specifications. The State
Board of Control reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids.
]. S. LAKIN, President,
State Board OF Control,
Charleston, w. Va.
Auuuet 1Q1S-2w
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-08-05

A NOTABLE victory was gained by the
temperance people OF Maryland on Tues
day when at special election ST. Mary's
county voted "dry' by majority OF $50.
This victory by the dry element was a
solar plexus blow to the liquor people,
who had every expectation OF saving the
saloons. ST. Mary's county is the oldest
county in the State, and it has been one
OF the very wettest. For couple hum
dred years it has been amply supplied
with saloons, and many oil the stores
have also sold liquor. OF recent years
the ruinous effects of the whiskey traffic
have been more and more pronounced,
and the people have finally voted to abol-
ish the disgraceful business. Fifty-two
saloons will be closed when thelaw takes
effects the first OF next May. Church
bells all over the county were rung in
celebration OF the great victory.
The Hon. Thos. M. Hare. who was
such a successful Anti Saloon League
manager in West Virginia. seems TO be
doing equally good work in Maryland.