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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-01-23

had invariably met hostility with hos
tility, had so willingly courted the acid
test of guilt or innocence.
Days passed uneventfully after that.
The kinsmen dispersed to their scat
tered coves and cabins. Now and
again came rumor that Jesse Purvy
was dying, but always hard on its
the obdurate fighter had rallied.
though the doctors held out small en-
enlargement of recovery.
One day Lescott, whose bandaged
arm gave him much pain, but who was
able to get about, was strolling not far
from the house with Samson. They
were following a narrow trail along
the mountain side, and, at sound no
louder thai the falling of a walnut.
the boy halted and laid a silencing
hand on the painters shoulder. Then
followed an unspoken command in his
companions eyes. Lescott sank down
behind a rock, cloaked with glistening
rhododendron LEAKAGE, where Samson
had already crouched and become i'm
movable and noiseless. They had
been there only a short time when
they saw another figure slipping qui-
city from tree to tree below them.
For a time the mountain boy
watched the figure and the painter
saw his lips draw in straight line
and his eyes narrow with a CLINT of
tense hate. Yet, a moment later, with
a nod to follow, the boy Unexpectedly
rose into view and his features were
absolutely expressionless.
'Mornin. jim" he called.
The sinking stranger whirled with
a start and an instructive motion as
though to bring his rifle to his shout
der. But, seeing. Samson's peaceable
manner. he smiled and his own de-
meanor became friendly.
"Mornin, Samson"
"Kinder stranger in this country.
haint We. Jim?" drawled the boy who
lived there. and the question brought
a sullen flush to the others cheek
bones.
"Jest a-passin' through" he vouch-
safed.
81 reckon ye'd find the wagon road
more handy" suggested Samson.
Some folks might 'spicion We fer
stealth long through the timber"
The skulking traveller decided to lie
plausioly. He laughed mendaeiously,
THAT'S the reason. Samson. was
kinder skeered ter go through this
country IN the open"
Samson met his eye steadily and
said slowly:
81 reckon. Jim. hit mought be half
"a risky fer ye ter walk upstandin'
along Misery es ter so a-crouchin'
We thinks we've been a-shadderin' me.
I knows jest whar we've been all the
time. Ye lies when We talks bout
nassfn' threagh Yeve done been spy
in hvar. ever since Jesse Purvy got
shot an all tibet time we've done been
watched yerself. l reckon hitn be
healthier fer We ter do yore spyin' from
t'other side OF the ridge. 1 reckon ser
allowin' ter git me ef Purvy dies. but
we're watchin' We.
Jim Asberrcs fore darkened. but he
said nothing. There was nothing -
saw. He was discovered in the enc
ms's country and Eust accept the
eqemy's terma
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-01-23

ions. had talnting spells, Dloateu
and could hardly stand the pain in my
left side. My husband insisted that l
try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, and am so thankful I did.
for | am now a well woman. l SLEEP
better, do all my homework and take
long walks. I never fail to praise Lydia
T. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for
my good health. Mrs. J. M. REsCH,
1900 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky.
Since we guarantee that all testimo-
mails which we publish are genuine, is it
not fair to suppose that if Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has the
virtue to help these women it will help
any other woman who is suffering in o
ike manner?
If you are i'll do not drag along until
an operation is necessary, but at once
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetsbls
Compound.
Write to Lydia f. Pinkham
Medicine Co., (confidentfaDLy
Mass. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by a woman
and held in strict confidence.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-01-23

SYNOPSIS,

On Misery creek. at the foot OF a rock
from which he has fallen. Sally Miller
nnds George Lescott. a landscape paint
er, Unconscious, and after reviving him.
goes for assistance Samson South and
Sally. taking Lescott 10 Samsons home.
are met by Splcer South. head Of the
family. who tells them that Jesse Purvy
has been shot and that Samson is sus-
pected Of the crime Samson denies H.
The shooting Of Jesse Purvy breaks the
truce IN The Holman-South feud.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-01-23
Her Platform.

At the Marshall home there was
much discussion of woman suffrage
and other political questions, and lit
tie Vera had always been a very much
interested listener.
What will you do when you can
vote?" a visitor asked her.
Help to put candy on the free list, ,"
was the unexpected reply.-Youths
Companion.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-01-23

Pinkham's Vegets"
BILE Compound they
would enjoy better
health. / suffered
from q female trou-
Bile, and the doctors
I ha d q
humorous grow tn
and would have to
be operated upon,
but I refused as / do
not believe in opera
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-01-23

For many generations Perth, and not
Edinburgh, was the capital of Scot
land.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-01-23
WOMAN REFUSES
OPERATION
Tells How She Was Saved
by Taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.

Louisville, Ky" think if more suf-
fering women would take lydia d.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-11

with more consideration by the United States government than they As"rve. They have grossly abused the oonfi- dence of this government and have done much tO.arouse public feeling at a time when the governments of Ger many and the United States were do- ing their best to compose questions of profound importance. Thus, instead of advancing the cause of Germany, these uperserviceable subordinates have done her poor service, to say nothing of rendering themselves ob- nOxious to Americans.
 It is hinted that there are other at taches and consular officers in the United States whose conduct is under scrutiny. If it should appear that they have abused the confidence of this government and used their of ficial positions for unlawful ends, they cannot be too quickly expelled. No matter what their nationality may be, they are marplots whose presence here is a menace. The necessity of maintaining relations of strict neu- trality and friendship with all Euro pean nations makes it the duty of the United States to put a stop to any machinations, either by foreigners or Americans, which tend to embarass the government or stir up public feel ing against any foreign country. If Americans are guilty, they should be prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned. Foreigners who, under the protection of diplomatic immunity, conspire against the neutrality of the United States are doubly offensive, because they abuse the hospitality of the gov ernment Their immediate expulsion is the natural and necessary sequence of their mischievous actions.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-11
C1pilizati0n Win France
 Gone, Like q S0ulIess Wzn

Washington, D. c. Dec. 11.-"When l we reckon the debt that civilization l owes to France we very soon discover that civilization, witl1sthat remarkable country left out would be like a man without a soul,' begins bulletin is- sued today by the National Geogra- phlc society, in which is sketched the greatness of the worlds debt to t rance. "She has gravitated from one extreme to another" the statement continues, from intense religious conviction to free thinking and back, rom grave to gay and gay to grave, rom suffering and sorrow to rejoicing and happiness-until she has become the pendulum of human progress, all the while driving onward the wheels of civilization.
 whether We take her for her ideals of government, for her literature. for her science, or for her intensely hu- manistc and democratic qualities. France tells us of leadership, of dar- ing to venture like a general born to command, of the establishment of the empire of her ideas and her ideals throughout the world.
 Reviewing these phases of her life ana lne history dIlO SerVlCeS to hll- manity in their order, one naturally starts with those wonderful times men call The Revolution, for there the modern France was born. Of the fall of the eBastile, the great English statesman, Fox, declared: How much is this the greatest event that ever happened in the world and how much the best!'
 "All Europe hung with utmost anx- iety upon the course of events of the French revolution, for the people everywhere knew that the cause of the French republicans was their own. The republic was proclaimed on Sep tember 21, 1792, and all titles of mo- bility were abolished. Every trapping and every custom that savored of monarchy disappeared. Every one, rich and poor, high and low, distin- guished and unknown, was ad- dressed as citizen. The king became Citizen Capet' and the bootblack in the street became citizen bootblack.'
 'Napoleons career sounds more like a tale of romance out of the east than a true story out of the west. So transcendental was his gen. uine that a clever curate writing skit on skepticism, declared that the emperor was non- existent, since no
New Britain herald., 1915-12-11
Mir. Cannon's Patriotism.
(New York Times.)

The Hon. Joseph c. Cannon, some time speaker and "czar," and so long a salient figure of the House, to which he returns, has been painted blacker than chaos and old night. He was the irreconcilable standpatter repub- lican. He was the bunker of hunk CTS, outbourboning the Bourbons. From this uncompromising veteran republican comes this patriotic Amer icanism:
 I didn't vote for MT. Wilson in 1912 and I won't vote for him in 1916, but I will not criticize his atti- tude in the European matter. It is not a time for partisanship. It is a time for every one to support the president.
 The heart of sound American beats within that though old Dan vile hide. His words may be com mended for admonition and reproof to the misguided persons, pretenders, some of them to loftier aims and vir- tues than MT. Cannon's, who seem to regard Mexico and Europe only as sources of campaign material' against MT. Wilson.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-11

the Confederacy preserved for DOS terity. They will have the famous vel l recorded on phonograph records
 placed there by a group of Confed-
 crate veterans. Men and women in
 every part of the nation will reioice
 is a classic. It has been pronounced
 one of the greatest invigorators ever
 put on the market. The boys in
 blue and the boys in gray know. And
 down in Gettysburg in 1913 when tho
 remnant armies of the North and
 South met in reunion after fifty years
 The johnnie Rebs" went wild with
 the joy of it. Their blue-coated
 brothers from the North did likewise
 and between them they voted it the
 greatest yell that ever reverberated
 over the hills. Compared with the yells given at college athletic con- tests the rebel yell'' stands out mead and shoulders over them all. And there is no one on earth who can give the yell like the old Con- federate veteran. It will probably die out with the men who wore the gray. At the opening of Congress last Mon day when the cheering began the rebel yell was heard over and above all. But that was it's last faint flicker and 1t probably emitted from the whiskers of Texas Cyclone" Davis, or some other distinguished Southern states man. When the old fellows go the yell will probably go with them. So We say it is good thing to make an attempt to preserve it for the future generations of the nation Used in time of battle it is even better than he sustaining qualities of bread. It 1fts men from the morbid mundane sphere and turns them at once into beings from another world. They 1Sht better under it's influence and While it has all along been associated With the South it can now be infused nto the people of the North SO that hese two united sections. if tbev yer nave occasion, can some day eo orth to defend their country spurred i n by the snappy screeching sensa- lonal rebel yell"
New Britain herald., 1915-12-11
Odd Items of Interest.
(From an Exchange.)

With 5000 telephones, one New York office building holds the world S record.
 Philippine cigars are now regularly exported to forty countries. The total exports last year were 155,OOO,- 900 cigars.
 A three-inch cable made for use in Cuban mine withstood a pulling test of 751,6O0 pounds, which is said to be the record.
 For sorting fruit as it is picked from a tree there has been invented a tube that separates the small from the large as they slide down it.
 All but four states now have laws for the compulsory attendance of chil- dren at school. Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi are the excep- tions.
 The best authorities agree that the total of the crops raised from seed in the United States might be doubled by improved methods of farming. To do this would add $4,000, 0,000,000 to the nations wealth and the resources of its population.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-11

and advertise their crop. As re- suit, millions of bushels of Western grown apples are sold all over the thousands of bushels right here where apples grow.
 It isn't right-not right for the farmer, not right for the consumer. For Connecticut apples are twice as good as Western apples. What has Oregon ever produced that compares with a fine, rich, juicy Northern Spy? The mealy Western apples are all packing, color and advertising. Their interior works" are mealy pulpy and not to be compared to the crisp slightly acidulous and tantilizingly delicious Eastern product.
 But Eastern apple growers must wake up, none the less, if they would compete. It is not enough to nave the best product-the world munt know that they have it. They must pool their interests and advertise, as their Western brethren do. And they must learn how to take care of apple orchards-their own agricultural col leges will tell them how-and how to pack and market their products. Their colleges, or the United States Department of Agriculture will tell them that A little speed in the bus mess end, the packing. marketing, and advertising, and Connecticut ap- ples can wipe the Western product off the map, for quality, if not for quantity; for the price commanded. if not for the total value of .he product
New Britain herald., 1915-12-11

[ man in human history had been able to accomplish the things attributed to Napoleon. Some one IS beautifully said of him that he was an autocrat in the name of democracy; man of war in the interests of peace Among other things, he left to his people the Code Napoleon, which swept away the iniquities of absolutism, recognized the equality in the eyes of the law of noble and peasant, and sent out into the world the invading forces of the ideas of liberty, equality, and frater- nifty, for which France suffered so much and to which the world owes so much
 While it is impossible to overestf- mate the debt that the world owes to France for the suffering and sorrow she has borne in behalf of the cause of human liberty, her other contribu- tions to civilization have not been less notable. The world, indeed, owes much of it's liberty tenets and ten dencies of the twentieth century to France. The roll of French writers is a long one and their contributions to literature are very rich. Moreover, it was her Pasteur who establish ed the germ theory of disease and through WnOm the WOnuGrIul nllGdCIeS Ol Sd = ing human life that have character ized the past third of a century have been wrought.
 The normal death rate of civilized countries before the days of Pasteur was about thirty per thousand of the population Today it is about fifteen per thousand in the more progressive nations. Think what a saving of fif- teen lives a year for every thousand of population means when applied to half the earth: It means the averting of 12,000,000 untimely deaths annual ly. It means more than 25,0OO,000 cases of Hines avoided It means health and happiness in 20,00O,0O0 homes rather than disease and dis tress.
 And we must not forget that radi- um comes to the world through the French labratory. and with it the bud ding science of radio-activity Who can say what the worlds debt 10 France therefore is going to be? Those who know most about it tell us that we stand with referee to ex- actly where our forefather long ages ago stood when they saw the lightning flash set fire to the dead pine tree, but stood ignorant and helpless to repro duce the fire"
New Britain herald., 1915-12-11
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office.
Useless" Grammar. (Waterbury Democrat.)


 According to a speaker who ad- dressed the National Council of Teachers of English in Chicago re- gently, grammar is an almost useless study, and the time given to it. in the public schools is almost wholly wasted. Grammar not orly does not .teaca correct speech, but often is a hin drance to it. When a man is think ing of syntax and trying to talk at the same time, he's doing too much. There is collision that is fatal to either the syntax or the thought" It's matter of common observation that the pupil who parses and diagrams With the gre atest facility in the school room is as likely as not the one that uses the porest English on the playground It doesn't seem to occur to him that the grammatical rules nave any application to his ordinary speech. Or if it does, he refuses to make the effort to speeak correctly. People use language in the way that natural to them. The child whose parents speak good English speaks good English himself The child who is accustomed to bad English at home and among his playmates may arrive at a fairly correct manner of speech in the course of years, through a grad ual dropping of his errors But that reform Is chiefly a matter of uncon- sc1ouS or half-conscious imitation. It is our environment that forms our speech. Only the very exceptional child, who is precocious prig instead of an ordinary human being, reforms his speech by rule taken out of book. The personal example of teache CTS has far more to do with shap- ing the speech of their pupils than the book of grammar they teach. And the grammatical rebel who shocked the English teachers at Chicago was prob ably right in saying that reading aloud does infinitely more good than formal instru ction in grammar A certain amount of gramm atical in struction must be given, no doubt. But educators seem to overdo it, and ex- pect impossibilities of it.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-11
LOG OF THE OSCAR II.

Dec. 10, 1915.
 Another note to Austria. Evidently the president believes that write makes might.
 There's enough hot air being wasted on this ship to put the coal trust out of business if it could be utilized
 Something seems to tell me Franz Joseph isn't going to have a brass arrive.
 The well known peace dove must look like Thanksgiving turkey on the last Friday of November
 Paraphrasing Marse Watterson: The Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs, to The Hague with them.
 This from the cook: "Too bad Ford didn't wait while and bring Won Papen and Boy-Ed with him. That would ensure safe conduct, as no one would ever think of attacking a ship load of insane
 OHuefSIanu wilson SHOOK HdHuo with 1000 people at Columbus. Maybe Teddy will go to Canada after all to get his thoughts off his chest.
 In one respect the Kaiser and 1 are much alike. He wants "a place in the sun. I want place not only in the Sun, but also in the World, Times, Tribune, Herald, American and a few others
 If the Oscar is submarined there will be one cOnColation-Davy Jones will have as his guests some of our representative Journalists.
 And the little Fords go rambling, etc.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-11
THE REBEL VEIL.

Down in Austin, Texas, they have a
 Frtain reverence for the man from
 onnecticut, for it was old Moses Aus
 n. born over in Durham, in this state, Tho first bethought the idea of Amer. fan families settling in the section which now bears his name. It was lis son Stephen who carried out the project. That is the connection be- tween Connecticut and Texas, a sort If bond between the North and South Now it so happens that in this same Austin there met yesterday. in grand the Texas division of the Daughters of the Confederacy. And Desc women, among whom there were probably some of the descen- lants of the Connecticut pioneer, Iofed tQ have the old rebel yelr' of
New Britain herald., 1915-12-11
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

American business men will find much food for thought in the presi- oents speech delivered at Columbus last night before the Chamber of commerce. It is we'll worth reading
 re-reading, and then reading aoain. because it is studded with economical facts which every merchant prince should we'll consider, every business man know It breathes a spirit of optimism for the business of tbis country Tn years to come, when the war In Europe shall have ended, when the United States may be, and probably will be, called unon to lend the greatest assistance in tho x,,o,11 Of reconstruction that must go on in Europe. In this work, as President Wilson wisely forecasts, the on,,o,
 tunity of America is going to be un- paralleled. Our wonderful resources fore enjoyed. And when the time comes our American business men must be there to meet it. In order to do this the work of preparation must be started now. Now, above all times. That the President of the United States calls attention to this particular thought at this time areues well for the business situation in this country. It shows he is with the men who are handling the bartering of the nation, that he means to clear the track for them, that he will fight their battles and lend helping hand in the struggle. Knowing that, there should be boom in the future overshadow- ing all waves of prosperity that ever rolled over this land Optimism in business is the one grand thing that makes for success. With gloomy thoughts no man can be successful. and with the bit of cheery philosophy dealt out last night in Columbus there should come a change for the better We are on the right road now. Sales men from all over the states are op- timistic of the future. They are the They know. There is more buying of American goods today than ever be- fore in history and more American goods are finding an outlet in the over seas trade. As the President puts it, we are fast shaking off our provincial ism. We are coming out of the shell. so to speak, are ready to exploit our resources not only for the benefit of ourselves but for the entire world. And now is the chance, or soon will come the chance, to make America the one greatest nation on the globe. And the business men have this future in their hands It is up to them.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-11
Growing Apples.
Bridgeport Telegram.) )


 The West raises grain of various kinds, and beef cattles and sheep. Connecticut's farming district cannot hope to compete with the broa prairie acres in this kind of agricul- ture. It is useless to try Most Connecticut farmers raise some grain for their own use, but it is doubtful whether this is worth while save for the benefit of the soil.
 But when the West raises apples and tries to get corner on the whole apple market, it is entering into 9 field where Connecticut can compete. if it wants to.
 The soul and climate of certain Western states, nottbly Oregon and Washington, make for apple grow ing. The temperament of these Western farmers makes for good marketing. They pool their issues