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The Delta independent., 1916-09-15
EMPTY PHRASES INSTEAD
OF CONCRETE ACTION.

Net once has President Wilson
squarely placed before the Am
erican people the question which
Abraham Lincoln put before the
American people in 1860; what
is our duty7 Not once has he
appealed to moral ideaiism, to
the stern enthusiasm Of strong
men for the right. On the con-
trary. he has employed every
eioeutionary device to Iuil to
sleep our sense Of duty, to make
US content with words instead
Of deeds, to make our moral
idealism and enthusiasm evap-
crate In empty phrases instead
Of being reduced to concrete
aetion.-From the speech Of Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at
Lewiston, Maine, in behalf Of
Charles e. Hughes.
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substantial stvff. bvt people who are
fashioned ovt of vnpretentiovs dvst
view all svch affectation with an vn-
assvmed Disgust. Svch exhibitions al
ways makes vs. glvm and blve. Now.
honest Injvn, don't they have the same
effect on yvu?-Printer's Ink.
The Delta independent., 1916-09-15
REPUBLICAN THRIFT IS
sQUANDERED BY WILSON
Built Panama Canal Out Of Cur
rent Revenues, Periodically
Hoarding Bonds in Treasury
Which Democrats Fitch
to Hide a Deficit.
CARNIVAL OF DEBAuCHERY
IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE

Senator Penrose Believes the Looted
Condition Of the Treasury Will
Necessitate the Withholding Of
Contracts for 6attleships and De-
lay the Whole Scheme Of Prepared
ness = Nations Money Frittered
Away to Finance Hare-Brained and
III Advised Projects.
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Telling Tariff Points

and protection in the speech by
Charles Evans Hughes. the Republi-
can candidate for President, delivered
in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. be fixed
permanently In your mind aud
memory during the remainder of the
campaign:
We are desirous of having strong
and sure the foundations of our ma
tional greatness in this pursuit of
competition among the nations which
is sure to follow the cessation Of
the present struggle.
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SACRIFICED coUNTRYs
HONOR AND INTEREST

Mr.. Wilson's defenders say he
has kept US out Of war;" A.
= matter Of fact his policy In
Mexico has combined all the
evils Of feeble peace with aII the
evils Of feeble war. He has se.
sured none Of the benefits Of
war; but he has not avoided
war. He has sacrificed the hon.
Or and the intsrests Of the coun.
try; but he has not received the
thirty pieces Of siIver.-From
the speech Of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, delivered At Lewiston,
Maine, In behalf Of Charles E.
Hughes.
The Delta independent., 1916-09-15

propose that we shall study this
out, applying a principle that we be
lieve In, and secure intelligen1y and
honestly adequate protection to Am
erican Industries in every part of this
land.
The Delta independent., 1916-09-15

When ~" 10 "v."
Why do modern architects assvme
that u is v and carve in stone that
The Delta independent., 1916-09-15

presume that the Republican party
as the national party. according to
the constitution of the United States.
within the national sphere. shall pro
coed wherever IL is practicable. to
build up and foster and encourage
American enterprise, and open the
doors wide for honest American
achievement
The Delta independent., 1916-09-15

Then came the Underwood tRrif
bill Itself. What was the resultf En-
terprise halted and there was con
traction OF trade throughout the land.
and America. instead Of going ahead.
stopped. That is what happened.
Three hundred thousand were unem-
ployed In the City of New York.
There was not a city In this land
where the jobless man anxious and
able to work did not walk the street.
They were fed by our charitable or
ganizations. which were taxed to the
utmost limit to provide for those for
whom American enterprise could no
longer make provision. II was sad
spectacle. Americans have not for
gotten II. II is not forgotten here
or anywhere. II cannot be forgotten
II is too recent
The Delta independent., 1916-09-15

No. the Democratic pnrty will not
be saved by the European wnr. II
you would know what our condition
will be when the wnr ends. think OF
what our condition was before that
war began. II you think these nations
are so impoverished that they cannot
again turn to work. Those millions
OF men now fighting are better able
to work than ever before In their
lives. Their factories are
there; their plants are there; they
know themselves better than ever be-
fore. They are better disciplined.
more alert, keener. stronger. better
physically than ever before. In the
main, and they are ready to turn
great national energies into the pur-
suits OF peace to pay their war bills.
to produce up to the limit, to send
their goods throughout the world.
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CHAPTER TX.
| Do Not Return Alone

Peter was waiting with the
buggy. We set him between us
and drove home.
Stella was bouncing up and
down on the seat with. excitement
as the buggy ratified over the
bridge. Lamplight was streaming
from Twin Fires. On the kitchen
porch stood Mrs. Pillig, dressed In
her best. and Mrs. Bert and Bert.
As We climbed from the buggy.
Bert raised his hand, and shower
OF rice descended upon us. Stella
ran up the path. and Mrs. Bert's
ample arms closed about her. Both
women we're half laughing, half cry.
ing. when got there with the grips.
"Aint that jest like the sexT" said
Bert. with a jerk of his thumb
$50 durn glad they gotter cry about
nj"
You shet up" said Mrs. Bert.
For all you know, I'm pityin' the
poor child!"
Mrs. Pillig had an ample dinner
ready for US, with vegetables and
salad fresh from the garden, and.
rs browning glory. magnificent
lemon pie.
We sat q long while looking at
each other across the small table,
and then we wandered out into the
dewy evening and our feet took us
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Judge Of State Supreme Court.
Four-Year Term
Zone to Be Elected)
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Two judges one New York. the other i'm Cleveland o. have
for birth control the parallel which
mothers they stole their children their
husbands earning enough.
Mrs Rebecca Schnur released Wadhams New
York when she pleaded she bread her
children ranging from 10 months She said her
husband a victim of tuberculosis
The father of the family producing Children said
Judge Wadhams freeing the have birth
lions In such
IF information is given with respect birth regula-
people arrested it."
fore Judge Phillips charged with stealing potatoes.
In freeing the woman, Judge Phillips said:
There should knowledge birth control
They children the world and not able to
port them honestly"
Mrs. Jensk testified herh husband making $3.50 a
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into the pines. where In the dark
ness we stopped by q now sacred
spot and held each other close In
silence. Then We went back into
the south room.
ooh, IL the curtain stuff would
only hurry UP and come!" cried my
wife.
"You must learn patience-Mrs.
Upton" said I. while we both
laughed Silly over the title, as
others have done before us. no
doubt.
She was beside me on the settle.
The house was still. Outside the
choral song Of night insects sound
ed drowsily. Buster came softly in
and plopped down on the rug. We
were alone in Twin Fires, together,
and she would not rise to go up the
road to Bert's. She would never
go! So we sat a long, long while
and the rest shall be silence.
1t was the strangest. sweetest
sensation had ever known to wake
in the morning and hear soft sing
ing In the room where a fresh
breeze was wandering. saw Stella
standing at the window, her hair
about her shoulders. looking out.
She turned when stirred, came
over to kiss me, while her hair fell
about my face. and then cried
Hurry! Hurry! ! must get out
into the garden!"
That evening l tried to work, but
found II difficult, for watching my
wife sew.
you've no technique" I laughed.
She made a little moue at me.
and went on hemming the curtains,
getting up now and then to meas
ure them.
"Why should have7" she said,
presently. you knew I was Phi.
d. when you married me. These
curtains be on your own head! I'm
doing the best can"
There was suddenly the suspicion
of moisture In her eyes, and ran
to comfort her.
IL so want to make Twin Fires
lovely" she added. pricking her
finger. "Oh, tell me I can II l am
only a highbrow!"
or course the finger had to be
kissed, and she had to be kissed,
and the hem had to be inspected
and praised, and now. long, long
afterward, I smile to think how
alike we all Of us are on honey
moon.
Those who know the country only
in summer, know It scarcely at all.
From the first November snow
storm to the last drift melting be-
fore the winds of March on the
northern side of q pasture wall, the
winter season is q perpetual revela-
ton of subtle color harmonies, of
exquisite compositions. of dramas
on the trodden snow. Of sweet, close
companied hours before wood fires
that crackle. shut into "a tumult-
uous privacy OF storm"
Our first winter began one bleak
November day when the shrapnel
of the snow descended upon us.
Wrapped against 1t, we ran about
the farm, marveling at the transfig-
urations 1t wrought.
That snow melted. but others fol-
lowed 1t, and by Christmas We
were, as Mike put 1t, showed in for
the winter. In the barn was the
warm smell of cattle. The motors
had disappeared from our roads.
and we went to the village in a
pung, meeting other pungs on the
way.
II was as IL we had slipped back
whole generation In time. Curious
ly enough, too, life became more
| leisurely, more familiar. We who
in summer had known but few Of
our townsfolk. now became ac-
quainted with them all. We, too,
left our pung in the horse sheds
every Sabbath morning and Joined
in the social quarter-hour which fol.
lowed the service.
II was an altogether different
world we lived In from the summer
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ecentInusd From Our Last Issue)
r CLIMBED the broad steps to the
lobby Of the hotel, and scarcely
had my feet reached the top
than saw familiar figure rise
from a chair. I ran toward her,
waving off the boy who rushed to
grab my bag. A second later her
hand was in mine, her eyes upon
my eyes.
Tit was nice Of Buster to
send YOU" she said.
"You look 80 white. so tired" !
answered. Where IL all your
tanf'
.sMelted," she laughed. Have
you business In town. It's awfully
hot here, you poor man."
"Yes." said ], Il have business
here, very important business. But
flrut some supper and a spree. I've
cot most two bushels OF peas to
spend!"
We had a gay supper, and then
took cab, left my grip at my col
Iege club, where ! had long main
tanned a nonresident membership,
and drove thence to Broadway.
Where shall we got"
There's a revival Of Patience
q the Casino" she suggested.
We found our places in the Ca
sino Just as the curtain was goins
up. and saw Patience" for the
first time. l was glad 1t was for
the first time. because she was
with me. to share my delight.
After the performance she would
not let me get q cab.
You've not that many peas on
the place." she said So we walked
downtown to her lodgings, thru
the hot, dusty. half-deserted
streets, into the older section OF
the city below 14th st.
At the steps Of an ancient house
near Washington square, she
paused.
Here Is where I i've" she said.
81 had a lovely evening. Shall
see you again before you 60 back?'
took the latchkey from her
hand, opened the door. and step
ped behind her. to her evident
surprise. into the large, silent,
musty -smelling hall.
II am not going back-alone,
whispered. you are going with
me. Stella. l cannot live without
you. Twin Fires Ia crying for its
mistress"
| heard IN the stiffness a strange
sob, and suddenly her head was
on my breast and her tears were
flowing. My arms closed about her.
Presently she lifted her face,
end our lips met.
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CHAPTER X.
Sprinu In the Garden


The excitement of our first spring
at Twin Fires will probably never
be equaled In our lives, tho no
spring can rscur In a garden with.
out its excitements.
II was Stella's initiation into
rural April, and the feet of the
south wind walking up the land
brought hourly miracles to her
sight.
ooh. I don't know which ia the
real sign of spring." said Stella.
one evening, as we wandered on
the terrace. Sometimes l think
it's the frogs on the first warm
evening; sometimes think it's
the soft coot-coot Of our new hens
in the sun. Sometimes II seems
to be the figure Of Mike driving old
Dobbin and the plough, against the
sky and the lone pine, like a Millet
painting"
Lump them." suggested. ITS
all of them combined. In New
York 1t is when the soda fountains
have to be extended over the tooth
brush counter"
New York;" shifted Stella.
There is no such place."
But this story is. after all, an
idyl, and the idyl is drawing to a
close. My little tale can only end
with land they lived happy ever
after" Into the sweet monotony
of such happy years what reader
wants to follow?
That second summer at Twin
Fires, Of course, showed us many
things yet to be done.
The preceding summer I had
made about 5000 out OF my prod
uce, which In my first naive en-
thusiasm pleased me greatly. But
1t was surely a poor return on my
investment. reckoned merely in
dollars and cents, and the second
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world, ana we liked II even better.
What walks we hadi Either with
stout boots along the roads or with
overshoes into ths deep woods, we
took our exercise almost daily by
tramping, and TO u the countryside
was . perpetual revelation.
Almost the first thing which i'm.
pressed US was the colorful quality
Of the winter landscape At sun
set of still. peaceful day we could
look forth from our south windows
across the white lawn to the dark
green pines and beyond them the
exquisite iron-rust tamaracks. soft
and feathery.
Then. as the sun sank lower. a
veil Of amethyst would steal mys-
teriously over the gray hills, all the
upper air would blush to rose, and
for a brief ecstatic ten minutes
nature would sound q color chord
like a Mozartian andante.
And then the long winter even
ings by the twin fires, when we
were supposed by our friends In
town to be pining for the opera or
the theatre. and were In reality
blissfully unaware of eitherl
We had the best books In the
world the best music in the world,
to choose from. We had letters to
write. also. a task always left till
evening.
Any writing of my own I brought
forth in tho evening for Stella ~
read, and to criticise as mercilessly
as she chose-and We thrashed II
over together. Sometimes, even I
agreed with herl
"Oh. John, I never want to 60
back to the city" Stella answered
me one night when | asked her II
she still liked the country. Il want
to live here forever. I want to know
what I've never known-the sense
of being rooted to the land, of hav-
ing a home. Our grandfathers used
to know that. but in our modern
cities we have forgotten. want to
die In the house I've always lived
in"
TITS little soon to plan for
that" said I. but I knew what she
meant.
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f......To BE Elected)
Judges Of the Superior Court for the Judi I
cial District composed OF. ................
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and for Pierce County. wash
nE named persons have been
'nrties as candidates for the
and the party utilization tex
different party filings are as
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21
SLEEPS WHILE BRIDE WAITS
Indiana Merchant Secured a License
Then Goes to Sleep and Is
Locked in Office.

Lawrenceburg, Ind. = Edward L..
Kuhn, aged forty-fve owner of a gen
eral merchandise store in Clay town.
ship, and Mrs. Anna Moore Davis,
aged forty-five, a dressmaker of the
same neighborhood, were married at
the parsonage of the First Baptist
church by the Rev. Omer w. Bow
man, the pastor, but not at the time
they planned. Mr. Kuhn came to this
city in an automobile, and the bride
tO-be came on a late train. While
waiting for Mrs. Davis, Mr.. kohn OBJ
tanned a marriage license, then he sat
down in the private office of the cir
cult court clerk and went to sleeT.
When the days work was done James
G. Mckinney, the clerk, and his depu-
ties, not noticing MIR. Kuhn, locked
the office and went home. Mr. Kuhn
awakened several hours later and
found he was in the dark, locked in
the office. He shouted for help several
times, and finally attracted the atten-
ton of Daniel E. Mckenzie, the sher-
if, who released him. Mr.. Kuhn found
Mrs. Davis, who was searching the
city for him, and they were married.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21
BRITISH STILL MOURN NELSON
Blue Jackets Uniforms Show Tribute
to Great AdmiraI-Worn Ever
Since His Death.

London.-The black band on the arm
which all officers are wearing in mem
ory of Lord Kitchener is a reminder
that the navy has not yet gone out of
mourning for Nelson.
Everyone is familiar with the three
rows of white tape around the edging
of the blue collar and the black silk
scarf knotted in front which form part
of the bluejacket's dress uniform. The
former commemorate Nelson's three
most famous victories, Copenhagen,
the Nile and Trafalgar, while the scarf
was first adopted by Nelson's seamen
as a mark of mourning for their dead
hero and has been retained ever since.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21

case of war with any nation. They say
that American ships of deep draft can
not lay very close to Vera Cruz or
other Mexican ports during storm.
The Mexican coast, they say, is cursed
with what marine men term "nOrthers"
"a storm with a wind velocity often
reaching 100 miles an hour. When
these storms break warships are forced
to go out to sea to escape danger OF
being driven ashore. At Vera Cruz,
when one of these "nOrthers'' hits the
coast, all warships go out to sea for
10 miles. Sometimes they are required
to remain there for three or four days.
Her Long-Range Guns.
The Pennsylvania, with her big guns,
would be able to lombard Vera Cruz,
if it became necessary, from IS miles
at sea. She could remain that far out
and drop shells from her 14-inch guns
right in the heart of Vera Cruz as cas-
lily as she could at 1,000-yard range.
The battleship Nevada, of the same
type as the Pennsylvania, has been
trying out her big guns off Tangiers
sound, in Chesapeake bay, exploding
big shells against the Sunken hulk of
the old battleship San Marcos, former
ly the Texas, and the ram Katahdin,
both of which were sunk by shell fire
from ships of the Atlantic fleet.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21
MUD HOUSES FOR ENGLISH
Experiments Now Being Made on
Building Material by Lon
don College.

L0ndOn.-The possibility of using
mud as a building material, and so
solving the urgent problem of provid-
ing cheap country cottages in the rural
districts and housing accommodation
in the areas where there has been a
sudden influx of war workers is being
made the subject of an interesting eX-
pertinent by the new household and
social science department of Kings
College for Women, University of Lon
don.
Six MISUNDERSTANDING walls have
just been erected in the grounds at
Camden Hill, each wall being COM
posed of a different mixture of mud,
with a view to testing which proves
most suitable to the English climate.
In each case the earth has been sub
jected to a different process of prepa-
ration. In one case waterglass has
been added, in another soft soap, and
to the earth and soft soap in another
case lime has been added. A"grOut-
ing" of cement has been poured over
the mud wall in vet another case, and
there is one wall made of earth alone.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21
CROW BOOSTS In A STORE
"Jim" Dropped Into Basement of
Candy Establishment, and Has
Decided to Stay.

Utica, n. JOHN Laneve, mana
ger of a confectionery store, has I'M
dertaken the task of bringing up a
baby crow. "Jim," as the bird is
called, was discovered by Mr.. Laneve
in his cellar. No one knows how
the bird found his way to this cover,
but evidently he had made up his
mind to remain even before Mr.. Laneve
picked him up and prepared to make
n home for the bird.
On the first day after his capture,
Jim" was taken from the store and
placed in tree. He remained on the
perch until he became hungry. Then
he vacated and flew into the store,
where he rested on perch that had
been erected for his convenience.
There Jim" sits for hours at a time
and eyes the customers as they come
and go. He tries to say Hello" when
visitors speak to him, but the attempt
is a weak one, as it is only "Caw,"
said crow fashion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21
Erie Indians.

The Iroauois, or Six Nations, Indi-
ans, were originally composed of five
tribes or nations, but later the league
became composed of the following !:
Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, SEN
eeas, Cayugas and Tuscaroras. Be
sides the nations mentioned, the Neu-
trail nation, Erie. Conestoga. Nottoway,
Meherrin and Cherokee were the most
important tribes of the stock. When
what is now Ohio was discovered by
Europeans, late in the first half OF the
seventeenth century, the territory in
cluded within that district was mainly
a battle-ground of numerous Indian
tribes, and the fixed abode of none ex-
cept the Fries. who occupied a strip
along the border of Lake Erie.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21
MAY FORCE CHLOROFORM USE
thetie Compulsory in Army
Surgery.

Paris.-The French Academy Of
Medicine is considering the advisable
ity of recommending the government
TO make the use of chloroform compul-
sorry in the army. not only in serious
operations but also in all cases where
the treatment is painful.
At present French soldiers are
obliged to submit to vaccination
against smallpox and typhoid fever,
but they cannot be compelled to accept
chloroform against their will.
A committee has been formed to
study the question as well as that of
rendering compulsory the injection of
serums in all cases where the latter
are declared to be necessary by the
doctor.