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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-09-23

at once. All. Kline, have you among
your trophies OF war a Federal lieu
tenants uniform which will probably
fit this man."
Il believe SO. SIR" and the officer
addressed ran his eye appraisingly
over my figure. ANY particular regi.
meats"
Third United States cavalry. Have
it pressed and sent here at once Sc
curely wrapped, together with saber
and revolvers- Sergeant. do you de.
sire . better mount?"
No. sir. my horse is fresh and a
good traveller"
Then that will be all. Kline; ex-
cept, Of course, complete Federal cav
airy equipment for the horse"
The officer salut.d and disappeared
the door instantly closing behind
him. cutting of the hum of voices
without There vas q moment OF ST.
lence
You had better retain your present
dress until after you leave the valley"
coanseied Jackson, elowly. Swan
will furnish you with pass. which
should be carefully destroyed after
passing cur pickets at Covington. II
will be OF no service 20 you beyond
that point. Ny best wishes for your
success. Sergeant Wyatt" -..
He stood UP. and I felt the firm
grasp 81 his hand Then Ashhy grip
red my shoulder.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-09-23

wyatt. NJ sail kis1iy. n -
ever desire to change your arm II
the service, you are the kind Of man |
want to ride with me"
! smiled in appreciation. but before
! could answer. the man who had been
sitting silently in the corner arose.
and stood erect in the light, The
CLEAN of the lamp instantly revealed
his face. still Swallowed by the wide
hat brim. the firm, bearded chin, the
gravcly smiling eyes.
General Ashhy." he said with quiet
dignity. Sergeant Wyatt. am sure,
performs this important duty without
thought OF reward II Is the South
that has need Of such men In every
branch OF her service" He came for
ward, and extended his hand cordially
Il am General Lee. and am very
glad to greet. and wish God speed Il
the son of Judge Wyatt. III you return
In safety. you will report to me II
person at Richmond, General Jack
son will so arrange with your batter,
commander"
They were all upon their feet
standing in respectful attention,
murmured something. scarcely knew
what, bowling as backed toward tn,
door. And this was Lee-Robert e
Lee this man with the kind. thought
full face, the gentle voice. the gravel.
considerable manner, And he hat
greeted me in words OF persona
friendship. had spoken to me OF m.
father, know Strengthened to sol
dierly erectness, every pulse thrilling
with a new resolve. A moment | stoo,
there, my eyes on the one face say
before me, and then went out int
the darkness. The orderly closed tn
door.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-09-23

engaged In preparing breakfast at the
open fireplace, scarcely favored ma
with glance OF recognition. but be-
gan to arrange the scant supply OF
food on an overturned box.
Just pitch In. an help yourself
Cowan." he said affecting o cordially
of manner not altogether natural
Thar amt much OF II. but we'll eat
whut we've got, an then rest awhile.
II yer a-goin' ter travel along with me
1t will be done mostly at night till we
git dowa Covington way"
seated myself without ceremony.
"You are In hiding. them" asked
carelessly, not even glancinG up at the
expressionless face opposite.
wal. not exactly. We've grown
pretty skeery back In the hills--no
body thar knows their friends frun
their enemies these days. Yer ainf
been thar lately. reckon?"
No: not for over year"
tTo BE CoNTiNUED)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-09-23

Those defensive works cannot even
be seen from the ocean. and II would
be almost impossible for any hostile
fleet to destroy or capture them, be.
cause there Ia really nothing above
ground to hit.
The iandward defenses, now nearly
finished, consist OF series OF formid-
able earthworks, and extend In the
form Of crescent from Pearl Har-
Dor on the west, where the naval base
IL located, to Honolulu. From Homo
lulu to Diamond Head on the east
runs = mountain wall, affording q
natural fertilization that can hardly
be surmounted by an enemy, in the
face OF the batteries Of guns which
have been established on its highest
SUBMITS. The mortar battery In the
volcanic crater thus terminates the
line Of landward defense - well %
the line TO the seaward.
Tho four mortars mounted In the
volcano are stated to have IN extreme
range Of nearly nine miles. and can
carry accurately for six miles. They
fire 12-inch shells weighing TOO
pounds. and carrying loads OF high
explosives. Within tho last few
months they have been established In
the crater. and they are now ready for
business.
All the seecoast defenses are COM
pieted, and the guns mounted. except
one 14-inch rifle. which will be
shipped to Honolulu during the month
OF July. The carriage for It ID ready
and In place One million dollars
worth OF ammunition Ii stored In mag
azines on the island, and the forts are
supplemented BY q complete system Of
submarine mines controlled ~ cleo
tricity.
Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor itself Ii . landlocked
sheet Of water covering II square
miles. and with . depth Of something
In sixty fee. sver nearly oil Of this
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-09-23

RN THM past few years the United
States government has spent over
$4,000. 800 IN making Pearl HAr@
Dor able 20 offer adequate re-
sistance 10 attack from land and
sea. The work u nearly finished
now: and when Il ID done tho United
States will possess a. formidable and
40 important fortress % any In the
world.
Before the steamer approaching
Honolulu from the southwest II 4 mag
nifcent concave sweep OF land rising
above tho clear blue Of the Pacific, and
covered with gigantic troes. Backing
up tho whole h : long ridge of rugged
and tumbled rock. In the center Of
this Titanic sweep nests Honolulu.
TO the east, the sweep II terminated
by = tumblod nnsa OF rock--an ex-
tinct volcano. known 40 Diamond
Head. TO tho west the view ends
with q frowning mountainslde that
hides beautiful little lake which
nestles behind II. reached from tho
seA through narrow passage. like the
neck Of hottle--tho laks named
Pearl Harbor. Nowhere In tho world
d scene more beautiful and impres-
sive.
Dsath n the Midst 81 Beauty.
Uncle Sans task has been 70 con-
ceal. In this wonderful is miles 81
beauty. death--4he fying, screaming,
hellish death OF flame and steal and
explosive. He has packed the hollow
cup Of tho peaceful. somnolsnt old
Diamond Head crater full Of coast-de.
fense mOrtars, and tho volcano may
renew its activity with the eruptionl
Of flame and steel that helch forth
from the molten interiors Of these
squat. grim engines Of destruction.
Hidden among the green Of the treea
ara cement pits, from the depths d
which long. trim. coast-defense rifles
rise and peer about. seeking marks FOL
the tons OF steel and guncotton they
are hiding. Beneath. keeping com
pany with the fishes. are hundreds 81
steel cans the size OF barrels, and con
tanning high explosives. ready to do
strcy any vessel riding above them
when the man on shore chooses X
launch their power.
lmprsanabls Dsfsnsss.
The Notifications extend along Thu
| coast for . distance OF Is miles. from
the volcano on the east of Honolul,
to Pearl Harbor, nine miles west d
the city. and consist mainly OF = %
| ries Of powerful batteries occuying %
ment-lined emplacements beneath th.
level Of the ground. AT the base d
the volcano 10 . group OF such en-
| placements called Fort Rugger: 1t ID,
other end, guarding the entrance Il
| Pearl Harbor, ID Fort Komehameha
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-09-23
Made Him Ache Al over.

The little cottage is Of that capacity
where there liz always room for oas
more. One night small Tommy had To
be awakened and his bed made ready
For a late and unexpected guest. While
they were trying to decide whether to
fix his bed in the morris chair or on
the floor he fretfully wished they
would hurry up. Why. Tommy" said
his mother. you don't want to be .
selfish little boy, do you" Stretching
out and starting for the morris chair.
he said: Mother, I'm 70 unsel6aA
now | ache all o rer."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-09-23
Queer consradIetion

Il can't understand why my husband
don't like cats"
Nothing queer about dislike u
that sort"
But he's SO fond OF q little kitty
thsy have at bis club"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-09-23
Divorce problsm Ii TENNESSEE.

Divorce Problem In Tennessee.
The ONCE Of the circuit court clerk,
where divorce suits are 6led, waa On
the fourth door Of the court house,
and the elevator was not running.
Among the early stair-climbers Has =
big black nanny Of nearly ~
pounds weight. and pulled along ~
the trousers = shriveled, shrinking I'D
black man.
At the top or the first flight of
steps, which vas unusually long. she
stopped and exclaimed. betwsen pults
and blows: Look a-her0. nigger.
Amt a-gwins one step fu'thsrl -
drug you TIM forty-fo' years n ma4r
rimony. an I'ss drug ron 70 ~ 49,
here stairs. ne ut elevaahun -
arrunnin', I'd ct dat divo'ce a. Mintt::
but amt gwins drag ~ runt a A
Niger up 70 a. fo'ts d. q dis heee
cots houss, - fnr ds '0ciai 1isrnpSios
o. ds ties =, matrim0ny. blAsa GoN1
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-09-23

man In Great Britain, and It nsver has
been m acceptable definition Of the
gentleman In the United States. 10 N
American there \ . pitiful snobbish-
ness In Ruskin's remark that the prin-
ciples OF education propounded ~
Plato apply only to "the persons ~
call gentlemen-that II To sny, land
holders living on slave labor Yet
Ruskin ID only putting forth ! little
more Extensively than others m opin-
ion often held In England. This opin-
Ion In most concretely Expressed IN
the tabled dialogue between u. ling
lish lord and the American girl, which
begins with his tactful assertion that
there are 80 few gentlemen N Amer.
lea. to which she responded with the
question: "But who DO you call gentle
menf" And when he explains that
gentlemen are men who 10 not
work." she rstorts swiftly: hut ~
have lots Of those In America only ~
sail them trampsl"
Evening star., 1915-04-04
USE AND THE PARODISTS
BY FREDERICK HALL

But timelness is not his only virtue. He
has the true poets insight into the human
heart and its frailties:
Taffy was plumber,
Taffy's price was steep,
1affy came to our house
And he went fast asleep;
l went to Taffy's house
And paid him thirty bones.
For soldering a pipe joint
In house my landlord owns.
Or take this pathetic lyric:
If all the States were going dry.
And all the teas were pink,
And all the sprees were sewing bees,
'Twould drive man to drink.
Or consider this war ballad:
Fe, Fl, fo!-Joy
| smell the blood of Rah-Rah Boy.
Be he alive or be he dead
Doesn't matter-Yale's ahead!!!
1t is perhaps MIR. Foley to whom we owe
this gem, entitled "The First Magnitude
Twinkle twinkle little starl
How l wonder if you are,
Up above the footights' sheen.
Forty-nine or seventeen!
But then it may not have been he. The
tag is bound to wear off when such verse be-
gins to run loose in the newspapers. Our
gratitude to the parodists we must pay
chiefly in bulk to class; but they owe a
large debt of individual gratitude to the
memory Of Mother Goose.
Evening star., 1915-04-04

NlOlIleI 1OOSe, WllOSC pcISOlldllCy Ids III
deed evaporated under the fierce light turned
upon it by the higher critics, but whose
jingles live on
Enduring as a mothers love,
Fresh as baby's laughter.
Mary and her little lamb are, properly,
not of her family,-they are too modern and
their pedigree too well KNOWN but in the
minds of children they belong to Mother
Goose, and children's hands have so Sc
curey pedestaled them among the i'm
mortals that few readers of English could
fail to recognize the inspiration of such
verse as:
Mary had little lamb,
He was her steady beau,
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb put up the dough.
Or:
Mary had a little waist
Where waists were meant to grow,
And everywhere the fashions went
Her waist sure to go.
More liberties with the original are taken
in the following examples from recent
parody contest:
Mary had little lamb,
She put it on the shelf,
And every time it wagged its tail
1t spanked its little self.
And:
I've always heard that feas were black.
But don think it's so;
For Mary had little lamb
Whose "feas" were white as snow.
The next item is both the best and the
worst of the bucolc series; for, while it con-
tains not too obtrusive moral, its humor is
largely in the sudden jolt, which gives one
quite the sensation of sitting down in an
absent chair:
Mary had little lamb
Its fleece white as snow,
1t followed her to Pittsburgh
And now just look at 1T!
Speaking of morals, the parodists have
fetching way Of so enshrining them as to
make them unforgetable, as IN this quatraln
on "Church Air:
Some like it hot.
Some like it cold
Some like it in the church.
Seven days old!
Or, by way of companion piece:
Storage eggs hot,
Storage eggs cold,
Storage eggs in the pot.
Two years old!
The Mother Goose parodies have served
as missiles for muckrakers, as witness the
cynical observation that
Little silver dollars.
Little bills of green.
Keep the politician
From the soup tureen.
OF quite different character and certainly
of less democratic appeal is the parody cred
tied to the Popular Science Monthly:
Infinitesmal particles of saline humective
t1udity.
Minute corpuscles of non-adhering inorganic
matter
Conformity cause to exist the immeasurable
expanse of aqueous sections.
And the resplendent superficial area OF dry
solidity
Most writer's of parody, and especially of
Mother Goose parody, must be content,
however quotable their verses, to be them
selves forgotten. Yet one of them, ]. w.
Foley, has written parody sufficient in quail
ty and volume to have attached his name
securely to some of it.
One of his most charming characteristics
is timeness. His verses are up-to-the-
minute, sometimes even ahead-of-the
ute, as:
Jack be nimble
Jack be quick.
Jack flew over
The Attain tic.
Evening star., 1915-04-04
DOING USELESS THINGS

7 RECALL the reproduction of what is
called a picture, said to have been made
from the bodies of over four thousand beetles,
by a barber in a little town in Pennsylvania.
Think of the sheer waste of ii lie in per-
forming the foolish task, the months spent
in collecting the insects, the days given to
preparing the bodies, the weeks in mounting
and arranging them into the pattern!
A carpenter of Los Angeles boasts of
chair made entirely of toothpicks. The lit
tie bits of wood are intertwined and glued
together, and the effect, it must be admitted,
is by no means displcasing; but the labor
thus expended could have been put to far
more valuable use. Instead of occupying
itself patching together splinters to form
scat, this ingenious mind might have devised
some new form of the chair. Compare the
results of William Norris the English poet,
who produced the Morris chair, with this
California squanderer of talent!
Then we have those persons who utilize
odds and ends for the making of some
mechanism, where the desired result might
far better be attained by the purchase, in the
beginning, of the essential materials We
read, for instance, of a resident of Halifax,
Nova Scotia, who has built a complete loco
motive out of nothing but cooking utensils
and similar pieces to the number of two hum
dred and thirty-one. In the list of materials
employed we find such interesting articles as
egg toasters, stove filters, fruit presses, table
mats, and what not.
Over in Bohemia one John Bayer, after
six years of labor, completed a clock which,
with the exception Of the springs consisted
entirely of crystal.
The champion whittier is another type
of the doer of useless things: not the man
at the corner grocery who litters the floor
With shavings as he idly peels down bit of
pine and discusses the shortcomings of the
administration, but the man who processes
to make articles by his skill and industry.
In an eastern city is an old ships carpenter
who claims the title of champion whittier.
Chains are his speciality, and he labors long
and diligently, and it may be added pa
thetically, in the creation OF trinkets and
baubes carved from wood.
But it is not in the industrial world alone
that we find folly of this kind There is on
record the English schoolboy who knew by
heart the timetables of all the postroads in
England. We find ever and anon the man
who can say the alphabet and the Lords
PRAYER backward-the latter accomplish
ment, by the way, being formerly believed
to be black magic
There is the scholar who translated the
New Testament back into Greek, although
the version in use today throughout the
world was translated from that language.
The mathematical calculator is another
wastcr of time,-the man who can tell how
many times all the dollar bills in existence,
if placed end to end, would pass round the
earth, the man who can tell how many
beans there are in bottle of a certain ca
pacity, and so on. -WiAidm T. Walsh
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-17

MULES CHASE MOTORCYCLE
Animals Become Excited When Ma
chine Throws Dust.

HARTFORD CITY. Ind, June Il.
As "A rule mules are not speed mer-
chants" They usually go about as
slow as they are permitted 10 90. But
Grover Crockett a farmer, living near
here, has Il team of mules that comes
about as close as possible 10 being like
Maud the mule celebrated in carrie
atu-e.
When Crockett was driving the
team home, accompanied by John
Brose, another farmer a motorcycle
passed by with a derisive shout by the
rider and cloud of dust The mules
became angry right away and started
after the mOtOrcyclist, or at least II
appeared that was what they were
doing, for they ran down the road al
ter the rider as fast as they could so.
The chase continued for almost mile
with the rider putting on more power
TO get away from his pursuers and
with Crockett holding the lines. Brose
jumped from the wagon at the start
Of the chase
Finally, crossroads was reached
and the mOtOrcvcIst branched off,
Crockett succeeding in keeping the
mules straight ahead. When they no
longer saw a cloud of dust ahead Of
them the mules stopped meekly
Crockett went back and found Brose
was painfully bruised
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-17
DYNAMITES FIELD PESTS
Farmer at Petersburg Blows Up
Ground Hog Colony.

PETERSBURG. Ind. June IL
Charles Jones. d farmer. living one
mile west of this city. has been annoy
cd by ground hogs destroying and
carrying off everything in sight. Final
~, he became angry and drove TO this
city and invested in a gallon of pow
der and several sticks of dynamite.
Jones then went into the field where
the ground hogs had their holes and
stopped up ever hole except one, and
into this one hole he poured the pow
der and planted the stick of dynamite.
lie attached a fuse to the dynamite
and when everything was ready he
touched it off Pieces of eight ground
hogs were blown 20 feet in the air,
and for the next few seconds after
the explosion the ground hogs We're
running over each other getting out
of the hole. At one time about 40
we're racing around in a 10-acre tract.
Most of the hogs were killed.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-17
SONG BROUGHT ONLY So
Composer of Tell Mother III BE
There" Loses 100000 Royalties.

COLUMBUS. Ind. June Nv lille
here to deliver an address before the
Tabernacle society of Men, of the Tab
ernacle Christian church, the Rev.
Charles NJ. Fillmore. pastor of the Hill
side Christian church of Indianapolis,
told how he came to write his famous
song, Tell Mother I'll Be There lie
said he was trying to organize little
church in Peru, Ind, and was writing
hymns, which he sold for an average
of SO each.
one morning while he was waiting
for his wife to get breakfast, he read
in a newspaper a dispatch telling that
the mother Of Pres't Mckinley was
dying. He noticed that the president
had telegraphed. Tell mother Ill be
there"
Couldn't YOU write song about
that?" his wife asked. Before 10 min
utes had passed, the minister says, he
had written the chorus and before
breakfast was ready he had the en-
tire song completed. He sold it for IS.
Ten million copies of this song have
been sold. and at the customary roy
atty of one cent a copy, the minister
should have received 100000. But 81
is all he ever got for it.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-17
PLAN TO KEEP ALIVE
COLLEGE CONTROVERSY
Followers of Prof. Russell az Earl
ham Hope to Elect Trustees
Who VIII Favor Him.

RICHMOND. Ind, June 1.-THE
controversy between the Earlham col
lege factions. representing pres't
Kelly on the one hand and Ebert
Russell, who leaves the college To be-
come a lecturer at Johns Hopkins uni
Versity, has not subsidized. even though
the election of alumni members TO
the board OF trustees has taken place.
y yesterday il was asserted by the Rus
sell supporters that the election was
in reality a victory for Russell. for at
least two OF three members named
are favorable 10 him
1t also was said that Warren Bar
rett of New York, one of the alumni
members elected 10 the board OF trus-
tees. and who was declared TO be a
supporter of Pres't Kelly, was now
regarded as being favorable 10 Russell.
The fact also became known that the
fight TO depOse Pres't Kelly is not TO
he dropped. but Will be carried 10 the
annual meetings Of Indiana and " est
ern yearly meetings, which control
Earlham college.
Each OF these bodies next fall Will
elect two trustees Of Earlham. and
the Russell followers hope to see a
board chosen that Will bring about a
change Of administration at the
Quaker college. The friends of Pres't
Kelly, on the other hand, believe that
his tenure is secure, and they do not
believe that either Western or Indiana
yearly meetings will in any way seek
TO bring about condition of affairs
which, they say. would not make for
the bc nnft of the college.
From an impartial point of view,
without regard TO the merits of the
controversy of either side, il was APP
parent yesterday that there is still
much feeling among the leading
Friends as a result of the college
trouble. and apparently there is no
disposition TO let the affair drop.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-17
BANDIT is CORNERED IN
SWAMP; ROBBED AUT0ISTS
Posse Locates Man Who Took Driv-
cr's Money and Escaped in
Machine.

LANSING. Mich, June 17.-Posses
from Ingham and Clinton counties are
closing in upon the bandit who held
up Frank HOrsley, Lansing taxi driver.
on a lonely road near Park lake, nine
miles north of Lansing. and after
rObbing him of all the money he had.
$3.50 threw him out of his own ma
chine and drove off.
Horsiey who is employed by the
Blue Streak Taxi Co. of this city. was
engaged by "a stranger. wearing a blue
hat and q blue suit to drive him to
Park lake during the afternoon
About mile from Park lake the man
suddenly showed a pistol against
HOrsley's head and ordered him to
turn over his spare change. Then he
put Horsley out and drove away.
HOrsley managed To reach telephone
and communicate with the Ingham
sheriff who set out in pursuit
The bandit was reported cornered
in a swamp near De Witt, about three
miles beyond Pine lake.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-17
LIQUOR STORE REMAINS

FORT WAYNE. Ind. juno IT,
Until MS present years leasehold eX-
pires. August q. TenniSroth viii re-
tain possession of his present quar-
tiers in She Rescue Mission building
I'm T.. Columbia ST.. and the mission
viii be compelled 10 endure the trials
OF harboring a liquor store beneath its
ROOF Notwithstanding its constant ef-
toFr 10 dislodse its tenant. The court
passed ON the case yesterday. Pen
ningroth was in the building when IL
was bought by the Rescue Mission "a
few months ago. and an efforts 10 dis
lodge him have failed. The mission
moved into another part of the build
ing and is Coudueting It's work next
door TO the liquor shop.