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The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05

Don't mind me, Tutts,'' said Eliza.
beth, 'I'm just teasing you. Listen,
tomorrow is st. Valentines day. /
believe I'll send Mr.. Miller a valen-
tine, poor dear, just because he's
sick"
She scrubbed busily away for a few
minutes and then handed over the
following screed adorned with cir
Gle in inky-red hearts.
Love is such a funny thing,
It's something like a lizard;
1t winds itself around your heart,
And nibbles at your gizzard.
"Well!" said Miss Ellsworth in dis
gust, eff you are going to send val
entine, send one; don't send a thing
like that. 1t isn't even decent
Elizabeth sat nibbling her pen han
die pensively as the verse was passed
around among the girls. 1t vas at
this psychological moment that one OF
the errand boys came around the table
and placed in front of Pamela a small,
square box neatly wrapped in white
paper and tied with a gilt cord. Eliz'
abeth's eyes widened with excite
ment:
"a valentine! Oh, kiddo," she said
enthusiastically, some one has sent
you valentine"
'Oh, no." said Pamela, quite posi-
lively.
"Oh, yes" said Elizabeth. open it
Let's see!"
Sure enough when the bcx was
opened it disclosed very pretty val
entine, all pink roses, flying doves and
gilt arrows. The heart in the center
bore in fancy script the following sen
| timent:
Without thee, dear, tits summer without
sun,
| Or springtime with no fair and fra
grant flowers,
| But with thy love, dear heart. my life
doth run
In golden streams and through bright
fairy bowers.
The expression of surprise on Pam
| elias face deepened into amazemen'
as she read the neatly typewriter
note which accompanied the valen
| inc:
| Kiss Pamela Anderson,
| Care OF the Hutchinson Company.
| ,ear Miss Anderson:
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05

ella. Her imagination had been touched
and her family would have been sur
prised had they known how large a
part of her thoughts was occupied by
the unknown sender of her valentine.
In these girlish dreams to which all
maidens are prone a handsome young
gentleman now figured. He had dark
soulful eyes, graceful, manly form
and patrician features. His name was
Arthur Eustace Henderson.
The Hutchinson company did little
night work; the girls were seldom re-
quired to work overtime. Occasion
ally few girls were asked to remain
and help rush through an accumula-
ton of business matters. On one of
these occasions some of the workers
of Mr.. Miller's division were asked to
stay, and Pamela was among them. It
was few minutes past nine when
she passed through the storm doors to
join her brother, who she knew was
outside waiting for her. There was
no real reason for Don to come down
to walk home with her when she
worked late, for several of the girls
went her way, and Billiken, the Office
boy, always went in that direction.
"Billiken," she said pleasantly, as
the boy would have fallen to the rear
at sight of her handsome escort, "this
is my brother Don, who knows you
quite we'll already, for I have often
told him how kind you are to me-"
young man. said Don, with cor
dial grip of his hand, 81 am glad to
make your acquaintance, and to thank
you for your courtesies to my sister"
Billiken's face opened into a tre-
mendous grin.
"Ah,' he said, twisting with embar-
rassment, "that amt nothin'. Any
body would be nice to her.
eyes," said Don, with smile, II
think anybody with good judgment
would"
They walked down the street to-
gether, Donald holding fast to his sis
ters arm to prevent her slipping on
the icy pavement. Your young
friends cognomen," said Don, present
ly, "is highly descriptive but rather
confusing. What is your patronymic,
young fellow?" he said, turning to Bill
liken
"Sir?" said Billiken confusedly.
"Your name," said Don pleasantly,
"your real name"
"Oh," said Billiken, his face bright
ening, my name? Arthur Eustace
Henderson. That's my name"
For a second Don stopped stock still
in amazement, but he recovered him.
self Immediately.
"a very nice name," he said agree
bly,.
"Yessir," said Billiken.
Donald stole look at his sisters
face. She was crimson with confu-
sion. Her lids were downcast and he
could see nothing of the expression
of her eyes.
They walked few blocks farther
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05

him up warm;
then he would
soon get WE'LL"
A general smile
greeted this naive
suggestion.
" M a y b e b e
hasn't got a moth
er, kiddo; why
don't you suggest
it to him your
self" said Eliza
II couldn't, +"
S a i d Pamela,
blushing to the
roots of her hair.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05

soeMarrage Lincoln Nancy Hanks H. Washington
county, Kentucky
Hardin La Rue) county, Ken
1816-FamiIy moved to Spencer county, Indiana.
of Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
Sally Johnson Elizabeth
family Illinois, settling Macon
- Black Hawk
1833-Appointed New Salem.
1894 surveyor. First election the legislature.
1835-Love with Anne Rutledge
1836-Second election the legislature.
1837Lcensd practice residence at Springfield
legislature.
1842-Married November a to Mary Todd
O Lincoln, August I.
Lincoln March TO-
o Philadelphia national convention
O William Wallace Lincoln, December e
o Thomas Lincoln, April a.
lin formaio o Republican
Defeated United
elected the Presidency.
1861-lnaugurated President, March 4.
1863-Issued emancipation proclamaton
o the Presidency
Booth April H. Died April 49, Remains
Springfield Ill., May a.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05

IDENTIFY preferred
to remain a mys-
terry, for as the
days passed by he
made no sign,
which in itself
W a s surprising.
For a short while
Don kept up his
teasing remarks
a b out Pamela'S
unknown admirer,
then he dropped
the subject. The
incident was soon
forgotten-that is
hv all eXcent Pam
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05

in silence. The
Anderson rooftree
was reached at
last. Then Bill.
ken passed up
the street, whis-
Ting as he went.
Donald managed
to keep silence
until the door was
closed on the
youthful cavalier.
Then he broke in
to a hearty unre-
strained la u 6 b
thst was good to
hear, There WAS
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05

I think you are the most beautiful
girl in the world, and love you with
all my heart
Your faithful friend,
Arthur Eustace Henderson.
"Oh, Pamela" whispered Elizabeth
gleefully, sit is from your sweet
neart!"
But Pamela shook her head very
positively.
She was entirely in the dark as to
the identity of Arthur Eustace Hen
derson. She had not single young
man acquaintance in the city, and was
quite free from the usual entangle-
ments of youth. Hardly more than a
child, her life had been hedged about
with peculiar carefulness, and until
this moment she had not met with the
,tiniest whisper of romance.
It seemed like an age before she was
free to hasten to the shabby little
apartment, so poor in it's appoint
ments, so rich in it's unpurchasable
atmosphere of love.
Who Arthur Eustace Henderson was
indeed was mystery. The Aldersons
were acquainted with few people in
the city. He did not belong to the
church they attended; there was no
young man of that name employed in
Mr. Miller's division. His name was
not even in the city directory. Who
was he? Whoever he was, he evil
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05
THE COLONEL'S GOLD MINE

Out in Gregory County, South Dakota,
lives Colonel johnson, the famed Alfalfa
King Of that great section.
About thirty years ago he left Wisconsin
for that domain. All he had was willing
hands, clear brain and bright visionl
Today he is the owner of thousands OF
acres, president of several banks.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05
His Mistake.

"John," she said to her husband
who was grumbling over his breakfast,
s'your love has grown cold"
"No, it hasn't" he snapped; "but my
breakfast has,"
That's just it! If your love hadn't
grown cold you wouldn't have noticed
that your breakfast had."-Stray Sto'
ries.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05
Just Punishment.

Mrs. Jlemmandhaw This paper
says woman burglar was identified
by two missing teeth.
Mr.. Hemmanhaw-Serv her right
for not keeping her mouth shut.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05


VALENTINO
9he45lz 3
~ HE sales division of the
Hutchinson company occu-
f&R pied the entire length of
MoH the building. It was well
M I'M lighted and we'll ventilated,
GSrY3 but every inch of space had
G3 been so utilized that the
desks and tables were almost uncom-
fortably crowded. Hundreds of girls
sat busily working with every appear
ance of Industrious application, and
above the whir and click of the type
writer's came the noise of their cease
less conversation.
The man who had immediate charge
of this assortment of femininity was
tall and thin, with keen dark eyes, a
pleasant voice and an air of alert pa
tience not easily described. His quick,
restless movements and the manner
in which he continually walked UP and
down the long aisles proved the pos
session of an intensely nervous tenn
permanent, but his unvarying patience
and the even character of his quiet
voice spoke of self-control. He looked
not unlike an amiable but absent
minded brownie, as with his hair all
rumpled up he walked between the
rows of smiling girls, peering through
his glasses in a nearsighted way.
1t is no easy matter for any mere
man to gain and hold the good will of
several hundred girls of varying tenn
pers and dispositions, but Mr.. Miller
had accomplished this. He was sim
cerely liked and respected by all the
girls, who were accustomed to refer to
him as 'that darling old angel" while
with equal candor, but much less en-.
thusiasm, they described Mr.. Morris,
his assistant, as "an old stiff, as hand
some as prince, but as cold as lem
on sherbet."
"Mr. Miller has an awful cold,' said
Elizabeth, as the tall manager passed
up the aisle snuffling and sneezing
with an incipient attack of influenza.
Eyes; he's had it for several days.
replied Margaret. 81 saw him taking
tablets yesterday"
He's taking them again." returned
Elizabeth. "See there, he's taking
them again"
All eyes were turned in the direction
of the unconscious manager.
Hell be down with the grip pres.
entity" said Alice.
"He has it already said Elizabeth.
why" said Pamela, innocently,
"why doesn't his mother give him a
hot mustard foot bath and not lem
onade and nut him to bed and cover
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05
It Isn't BEING Done Now.

1t Isn't Being Done Now.
"Jone is so very romantic. She says
she's going right down on her knees
to beg her father to let her marry
Bobby"
whats she waiting for?"
For the styles to change"
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05
DANCING Men in Demand.

DdHCIHy WSH III OcHIdHu.
1--WE never knew what to do with
grandpa before"
"And now?"
Hell be big help to us socially.
We're having him taught all the new
steps,"
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05
WiIlina 10 ohIIae.

IT just dropped in to see If you could
let me have fie."
make it minutes, and they are
yours"
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05

A woman simply has to love some
thing, even If it is nothing but man.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05
When Your Ewes Need Care

Use Murine Eye Medicine. No Smarting-Feels
Fine-Acts Quickly. Try 1t for Red, Weak,
compounded by our Oculists-not patent
Medicine"-but used in successful Physicians
Practice for many years. Now dedicated to
the Public and sold by Druggists at Soc per
Bottle. Murine Eye Salve in Aseptic Tubes,
csc and Soc. Write for Book of the Eye Free.
Murine Eye Remedy Company, Chicago. Adv
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05

Some family trees need frequent
spraying.-Toledo Blade.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05

Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05

It's as easy to begin loafing as it is
hard to stop.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05

Love is such a funny thing.
It's something like a lizard;
1t winds itself around your heart,
And nibbles at your gizzard.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-01
BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL
RAPS LABOR FOES

RAPS LABOR FOES
The General Electric Co. and the
Westinghouse Electric, allotted by
some smaller fry of electrical trust
concerns, tried to throw a stink bomb
into the Chicago building construc-
ton world with the intent of putting
over something and making away
while the public was blowing the
smell out of its nose.
1t was fancy stuff, especially since
the G. E. and the Westinghouse
didn't have to SINCE their fingers in
pulling the chestnuts from the fire,
but got Uncle Sam to carry shield
for them. But they couldn't get by
with it. The Day Book exposed their
little game and the Building Trades
Council clinched the argument
against the action of the electrical
factory trust in a resolution adopt
ed last night.
The resolution passed by the B. T.
G. charges that the men most direct
ly interested in the indictment of 80
contractors and Is labor officials are
manufacturers and anti-boycott as
sociations working in the interest of
cheap labor products.
While individuals are indicted, "the
real defendants are the trades unions
of the country" said the resolution.
1t also said the labor world would not
sit idly by and permit this attack on
the lawful rights of labor 1.-THE right
to strike) to go undefended.
The General Electric and West
inghouse are open opponents of
union labor. The action of the B. T.
G. is simply additional conclusive
proof that the big electrical COM
panies with their 10000 scab labor
factory employees are trying to get a
foothold in Chicago that they may
drive the union shops and the con-
tractors and manufacturers opposed |
to them to the wall.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-01

trying to smash their way into abso-
lutte control.
Structural iron workers today cast
their lot with other striking building
trades unions. They laid down their
tools at midnight, the hour of the ex-
piration of the old agreement.
The ironworkers have been getting
sc cents an hour. They ask 70 cents
an hour tbs year. 1914 cents next
year, and rs cents the next year. They
also want jurisdiction over the plac-
ing of steel reinforcements in con-
crete, now done by laborers getting
40 cents an hour.
There are 1000 structural IRON
workers Their striking will tie up
work on four city bridges, the recrea-
ton pier, Wilson av crib and a new
pumping station.
Numerically, the building trades
situation is: On strike, $4,000;
locked out, 1000; at peace, $4,000.
The carpenters, painters and struc-
tural ironworkers are on strike; the
fathers and sheet metal workers are
locked out.
-o-o--
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-01

Jean H. E. St. cyr,- the New York
youngster, who recently married the
wealthy widow, Mrs. James Henry
Smith. His stepdaughter, the OUCH
ess of Vizeu, is older than himself.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-10
A PLACE FOR INVESTIGATION.

A recent cartoon shows a well into
which some one has fallen. At the
edge of the we'll stands a benevolent
looking gentleman who is saying,
"Have patience, my good fellow. Your
case will be Investigated, and if found
worthy, you will receive Immediate
aid"
This sarcasm is quite unwarranted.
Many persons say when asked to con-
tribute to organized charity, "No, do
not believe in organized charity. II
a person really needs help there is no
time for investigation
Quite true, but how is one to know
if the persons are really deserving Of
charity? Many cases are handled
each day by the secretary of the
Charity Organization, whicn upon in
vestigation prove to be unworthy. So
many persons are in sucn need of
help that the Charity Organization
cannot afford to give from its small
fund without thorough investigation.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-10
HALF A YEAR OF WAR.

The first half-year of war in Europe
has ended. What has been accom-
plished?
So little and yet so much. The ar
mics have made little progress
against each other. During the last
month practically no advances were
made on the western battle line, and
there were few material changes in
the eastern lines January was al
most a deadlock, and the solution OF
the big question SENS as far away as
ever.
Much has been done in this first
half-year, however. France has lost
100000 men by death, capture, dis
ease and wounds. The losses of Ger
many have been estimated at 1,SOO,-
900. Austria has lost more than l.,
100000. Russia has also contributed
great numbers to the cause, while
England, Servia and Belgium have
added other great tolls. At least the
war is four million men nearer the
end. Nor is that all. Besides these
men, some ten million more have
been removed from the field of pro-
duction and are awaiting their turn
under the colors of Germany and
Austria and those of the Allies. To
speak adequately of what has been
done in the field of industry, the loss
of property and, above all, what the
loss of life has meant to the homes
from which it came, is not possible,
for the mind does not comprehend all
they mean.
So, after all, this hasn't been such
a bad half-year of war. Much has
been accomplished.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-10
THE ATTACK on THE UNIVERSITY

1t will be a keen disappointment tc
the people of Missouri who are inter.
ested in the best education for the
young men and women of the state II
the legislature accepts the budget for
the university as cut by the house
committee on appropriations.
The attacks made on the university
by disgruntled politicians proved to
be baseless. The hearing showed a
mass of Misrepresentation which
were so thoroughly cleared up thar
the way was cleared for lioeral treat
ment of the school.
In the first place, there never was
any hundred thousand-odd dollars
that was spent and couldn't be ac-
counted for That has been the
choice morsel the enemies of the uni
versity have banded about every
time the needs of the university were
mentioned. At no one time did any
one have the effrontery 70 charge
that it was misspent-oniy that 1t
wasn't accounted for. DR.. A. Ross
Hill, president of the university, ST.
fenced that story forever, when, at
the hearing before the appropriations
committee last week, he produced the
auditors own figures. And no one
cared to challenge the figures.
Again, funds haven't been swift he'd
from one fund to the other, as these
same selfish. politicians who don't like
the university repeatedly charged.
Here is what that story turned out TO
be: When a bill came in and was
paid out of a certain fund by mistake.
when it should have been charged to
another fund, the bookkeeper simply
fave credit to the right fund by a
transfer on the books.
"Of course" Doctor Hill observed,
I'VE could take jack-knffe and erase
the original entry and enter it up
right. But the bOokkeeper chose the
other method of transferring it on the
books so there would be a record of
it."
Again the cafeteria, (which the
state was running at a loss," wasn't
being run at loss at all-and pri-
vate individual, not the state, was
responsible for the loss If there had
been one
That was the way every one of the
malicious stories that had been told
about the university exploded when
the facts, instead ,of mere gossip,
came out The facts are exactly what
Missouri expected them to be, but the
hearing blew away all the poisoned
atmosphere the politicians attempted
to create around the university man
agement.
The school as it is now conducted
is a credit to the state. Money spent
on it is an investment.-From The
Kansas City Times.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-10

everyone knows that the main cause
to prevent it is the censorship.
Ii cannot be denied that there are
sensational papers yet being pub
lished, and that all can make i'm
provements. However, Mr.. Sherover
fails to mention that many newspa-
per men are working all the time for
truth and cleanliness in their papers,
trying to overcome the dfstrust in
journalism. He fails to recognize the
great advances that have been made.
The real inspiration of his attack
is seen in the oft repeated assertions
that practically the entire press is
:apitalistic and presents its news with
the sole purpose of destroying Social
ism. And he appends list of clean,
free and unmuzzled" papers, every
one of which is Socialist organ.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-10
ARE WE ALL FAKERS!

American journalism holds the
record for taking. In its masterfui
manner of misleading the public it
has yet to be surpassed" is the state
ment with which Max Sherover be-
gins a pamphlet on Fakes I'm Amer
lean Journalism" Then ne goes on
to decry the press, asserting its un-
trutnfulness in nearly all things, and
attacking its ideals. He says his
purpose is to "agitate for the build
ing ul of a free press-a press that
will serve the people"
The American press has only it
self to thank that such opinions of
it ever sprang into existence, but
when Mr.. Sherover applies them as
universally as he does to present con-
ditions he is unjust. In quoting
fakes he often goes back to famous
ones of fifteen and twenty years ago,
a time when American journalism
was at its worst He does make
some legitimate charges, but again.
as in the handling of the present war
news, he brands as fake every story
that papers differ on or that is found
to be wrong, and he says such stories
are manufactured in the ofilce. AS a
matter of fact, the papers are doing
their best to get correct news, and
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-10
FOR SCHOOLHOUSE USEFUL

One way of solving the rural
problem" is by holding public meet
ings and entertainments in the coun-
try schoolhouses. The loneliness OF
life on the farm vanishes in pleasant
gatherings at the district school.
Farmers, their wives and children
meet for acquaintance, intellectual
improvement and mutual entertain
ment.
A bill providing that schoolhouses
shall be open to use for public meet
ings and discussions has been intro
duced in the legislature. The meas
ure might we'll be amended to en-
power the county superinrendents of
schools to schedule programs for
such public meetings at regular in
tervals throughout the year. The
power to hold such meetings should
be increased to the power TO cause
such meetings to be hello.
Someone must assume the initiative
in holding such gatherings. Inter-
est will thus be aroused and these
community meetings will more readily
become the means of mutual improve
ment.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-10
One Good Story
Veracity.

A farmer in the country last au-
tumn gave job to seedy-looking
individual who had applied to him,
and who assured him that he never
got tired. When the employer went
to the field where he mad put the
tramp to work he found the latter
lolling on his back under a tree.
What does this mean?- asked the
employer. Il thought you were a
man who never got tired
Il don't, calmly replied the tramp.
This doesn't tire me."-Sacred
Heart Review.