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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1916-01-07

-2aut Defret oes Stabtratbs
ueroen allie riidit6noisen, itabti.
Iden Steuern. na9 Dem 1. Sanuar,
1915, nit / Bro3ent pro Ronai, er.
ira, belaitet.
-Sermann 2ettinonn uno beiien
Gobn sobn, trafer am borigen Srci.
tag bon &oiebub bier elm, UNI ibre
gerpanoten, 60. &urrelmeper nno
@attin, gu beiuden.
SRI. Srma &linger nnb Die
fleine Billa Sole, bon Rariball,
Mo., lpeIte bel 2onis 8esemann uno
camille oiif 8cin6 gepeien maren,
iino am Iesten Sonntag uieoer nad-
bauie gereiit.
-ssobn 8obs, bon 81. 2, ipilrbe
am lesten Montag bon ieiner @attin
NIT einem Is Bfunb idweren, flei-
men Stammbalter bei6enft. aus
Dem fann nod ettpnS neroen; emit
meilen ~gratilieren mir beitens.
Otto 8ittbali8, bon Sanop Soof,
1T Der @ait ieiner 8ernonoten, Gbriii
Mionn nnb @attin. Serr 8ittbails
betrieb friiber in Der 96be bon Ser.
ger cine Sarm; felt ben lesten bier
Sabren beiibt ct jebod cine Sarm in
Sanop Soof.
-Senrp &emnert, bon Bon, tpnr
am lesten Montag Elm millfommer
9cIu6er in Der 9ruderei. 9erielbt
e~rneuerte bas announcement fir @m
$. 2ieiemeper iirlb beitellte ferner bit
3eitung fir Geo. Gemtnert, bon On
enspille, Houte 2.
Sid Sluetid, bon Sfpiss. begIei
tete am lesten Montng ieinen gtef
fen, elmer &olfbrenner, bierber, mad
Sermnnn. elmer &alfbremner
melder feline Serien bel Snfel Uni
Sante, Sid SIuetih un6 @ottin, Der
lebt batte. reiite bann bon bier aus
nod leinem Seim, in ct. 2onis.
Sn Der r~egelmdBieen 8eriomm
hing Der 6. 8. of 81. tpttroen Die fol
senoen 8eamten fur oos Sabr 1916
erpdblt:
Louis Haberstock, president; Fell,
Mundwiller, vice-president; Franl
Miller, rec. sec'y; Fred Birk, treas.
Louis Rauch, fin. sec'y.; William
Schwartz, sergeant-at-arms; Marti
Schuster, sentinel.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1916-01-07
]5nllG
non gsrmaun, 9aao.
erIndt Gnd nm einen libe.
ralen Shell Cures 8anfse.
idGftes.
Rsine Banf itd)erer
SappD SpGpu.

Ser tiefe Sdnee ben mir neilih
botten lit iest gGn5lib beridnunoen;
.es mGre jebenfolls fir ben @ei5en
bon Bortbeil eetpeien, ipenn oieie
S9neeoede fir ben &eIt bes 8inters
aeblieben ipdre.
Sn Der pergangenen ISOLDE erlegte
@ottIieb Saerer, in Der 9abe elmer
Soble, ouf Srit SeImer's Sarm. ei-
men eroben Studs; berielbe idleppte
on einem 9ein cine Sale nit UNI
Der.
@altber 8erle uno @ottin, bon
ct. 2ouis, befanben iid iiber bic
Seiertaee bier, auf 9eiud bel Ser
iuanoten ilno SreunOen; ts1brenb ii.
res bieiigen gufentbalts maren iic
Die @GIte bon Sfnlf Shannlltb nnb
@attin. Die Camille 8erle NOR
friiber in unierer Hafbarihaft
mpbnbaft.
Senrp 8ronbt nrb Satin, aus Der
Nabe Der Coles Greet, naren am les.
ten Sonntas aif 8ei,,d BEL Senrp
@einlano.
2eonbarb Sderer unb @attin emp.
fingen am perganeenen Sonntag ben
8efad folgenber Sreunoe: Ebeo.
SdpltenL nebIt @attin ltnb Eodter,
SRI. Siloo; ferner Brait S. Sdmibt,
o 8. Sender ,tno @attin, Oscar
.S6miot nnb grnit Mortihensfb.
@6brenb &ubp Sabn fiiralid in
Der GGbe bon Spiss auf 8eiuh mar.
erlegte er ebenfallS audi einen gro.
zen, milben Srlltbabn.
Mit benz anbrud bes neilen Sab
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1916-01-07
Gin Brief BON gaitur @roha. Sc

Gin Brief BON gaItur @rofa. sd
modte Sbnen Die 3ufrieoenbeit aus
fpreden." ifreibt $err 8altor 9.
@roba bon Obefia, 81. 9af., ntpel9c
i1 in Dem alpenfrdItter gefun6en ba,
be. Nls id nod in Someiteao, go,
mar. batte id offers @%eleeenbeit, Die
@emein6e in Monongab, 8. 8a.. gu
beinten. Inter ben oortigen Sc
meinbegIieoern NOR Elm iunger
0ann, Der idfper fronf mar. Ger
9lr5t beiubte i'm ameimnI t1alih,
aud gebraudte er perihieoene grten
Meoi5in, aber nidts ibien ibm 5a
beIfen. SD beildte i'm zines Cages
uno gob ibm cine Sloi1e Ilpenfr1u.
ter. Glide Gage oara,f madte i'd
in einem Nadbarbauie einer 8efld,
oils gu nteiner sroBten ueberraidune
Der jiinge Mann bereinfam nn6 mid
bot, inn bod nod ntebr BON Dem Il-
penfr1rter 5u beiorgen. SD tot es,
iir6 nod MIR tpenigen Sagen mar ct
boIlitdnbig eeiunb itnb imitnnoe, iei-
ter Irbeit alS &obleneraber, mos
Sic miiien. cine anitrengenoe 8e.
ifdftigrng lit. pieber nad5ugeber.
Sd babe piele dbnlibe %@rfabruneen
nit benz Mlpenfrdnter gemodt nnb
fam oarum Sbre Mebi5in auf's
parmite empfeblen."
Sorni's Mlpellfrauter bot feline
@or5iise aIs cine electromagnetic
Mebiain 70 b~ollitdnbig beipiefcn, oaB
es Die offentlide 4nerfennung Der
! @eiItlidfeit unb Der 8reiie erbalten
bot. @s lit feline gpotbefermebiain.
Spe5ialogenten licfern es ben 2eli-
ten brett bonn 2aboratorium Der
Seriteller: 9r. Beter Sabrnep &
Sons 60, 1875 go Sopne @ne.,
lgbicago. Sn.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1916-01-07

-Gm nGdIten Montag. ben ~.
ssonilar tritt bas &reisgeridt bier IN
Situng.
-@m. gpple, bon @orriion, mar
am bergangenen Samstag bier. IN
@eiddften.
hilbert 8ittid, bon Slorriiarit,
Mo., mar poriae 8ode auf Beilih
BEL bieiigen Sreunoen.
Srail 81. &asmam reiite arn
lebten Oienstog, auf Elm BOAR Gage
gum 8eild, nad ct. 2onis.
Die. Sagb lit iett seidlofien out
allies 8ilS, mt Insnabme bon so.
fen, Raccoors uno Spoiflms.
-alfreo unb S. 6. gbfer, bon
9rofe, uaren an Wtittiuod oieier
8odc. seidditsbalber, bier in Der
Gtabt.
-Sduliuperintenoem u. 3.
@ann perreiite bieie 8ode, um Die
Whi0 Greet un6 bic @idernlaillt
SduIen al befuden.
-Srau ssoccb Siebel. aus Der
0dbe bon Sefferion gitp, berlebte Die
5eiertaesipcde bier. bel ibrer gtrt'
ter, Srau gbriIt. Soil.
-Senrp @nbns ipiiroe an Conn
tag. ben 2. Sonuar, bon ieiner Sat
ten nit elmer fleinen Sodter be-
fdenft. 8ir gratulieren beitens.
-Sobn 8. Mouiiett nnb better
Gpbn elmer, bon Rem Sapen, R. /
befanben ii1 am borigen MittDod
bier, In eeidaftliden 8erridtungen.
-S{aoore uno SRI. Malbine Ser
end, bon Bilot Boint, Ger, iino ae
gcnip6rtig Die @aite bon Snfel uni
aante, $ermann &opp Or, uno @ot
tin.
--@roner 8raenble nnb @attin
bon Columbia, befan6en iid gu On
be Der ISOLDE alif 8eiuh BEL Serrl
8rnenble'g Mutter, Srau 2io5i
8ogel.
Der Commercial Glib bon Ser
n,orln miro om Samstag (morgen)
ben s. Sanuar, feline regelmabis
8~eriammlilng abbalten. Sn bieic
8eriammlung merben Die 8eamtet
fir bas r6dite Sobr criDdblt.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1916-01-07
-Grol armin gberlin befin6ei
iid aitf 8eiuh. in ct. 2onis.

-Grou Mrmin gberlin befin6ei
iid aiif 9eiud, in 81. 2ouis.
SRI, 2auro arblmanuL bon ct.
2ouis, tpeilt ouf 8eiuh bel ibren I'll.
tern. Sermnntt &ublmnnn rno Got.
Tin, an 81. 1.
-@m Mbring traf geitern aui
Dem @aioline . Boot BeSlep Cor.
bon 8otsoam, bier elm uno brahte eli.
ne grobe 2aotrng @ei5en nod Ser.
mann. Serr @bring erntete i'm Der.
gansenen Sobr iiber 1000 8uidel
8ei5en.
-5ris gbfer nno oeIien Sobn
gilbert, iopie Sermnnn anitermanrl
idmmtlib bon 9rafe. begIeiteten am
leBten Montng Serrn @bfer'S God.
fer, SRI. Della gbfer, bierber, bon
no oieIelbe oann nad ct. 2ouis,
reiite, INN pdbreno oes 8inters bort
5l perbleiben. SRI. gbfer mar Dor
elmer ISOLDE gum 8efld bel ibren gI.
tern bier eingetroffen; iie batte gleid.
falls aud Der 8eeroigiirg ibrer Der.
itorbenen Sante, Srau @iiitina &in.
ne, in Charlotte, beigepobnt.
-2ouis Saberltof, Der Gnitrei6er
unb Seforateur bot in Ser 91be
ieiner 8obnling, ON Der iiibIiden
Mearft StraBe, cine rleiie Inltreider.
8erfltatt erriften laiien. Serr So.
berltof lit iest in Der Gage 8ogen,
automobile un6 Subriperfe aller
art, in fur5er 3eit, nit einem fleilen
anltrib al berieben. Den 8eiibern
bon autos un6 8,iggps miro Oiele
4n5eise obne Smeifel millfommen
iein, inbem iid iest Die @elegenbeit
bietet lire reipeftiben Siibrfperfe
pdbreno Der 8intermonate BERLIN.
gen 81 laiien.
Vim pergongenen Nontag Menb
fanb in Glapton, ct. 2ouis gountp.
gu gbren bon &idter s. IS. Mc@l.
binnep, elm groBes 8anfett ltatt; Ole
Seronlaiiung ba5u mar Der 15te Sab.
restag &idter Mcglbinnep's als
&reisridter. Mopofnten aus allen
Sbeilen oes Staates batten iid al
Dem 8anfett eingefunoen. Serr Sec.
Glbinnep mar gu elmer 3eit Der @if.
ter nnieres &reiies, al mel6er Stel.
lie er na6 Dem Sobe oes &idters
&l1bolf Sir5el erp1blt mur6e. Sab.
reno ieiner 9ienite in ilnierem 81.
itrift erfuarb ii6 &idter Mc@lbinner
5ablreife Sreunoe. iopie allgemeine
Sodaftung. Sn Rnmen bon Gas.
conaoe County briiden mir 6aber ber
8nni6 aus, bob &i1ter Mcglbinnef
nod mand)es Sabr i'm 9ienite oel
@eredtigfeit tbdtig bleiben rt0ge.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1916-01-07

res, 1916, fpeldes elm Sdaltiabr lit.
baben uniere Slnggeiellen (bode.
lors) nieoer friihen Mtutb eefabt;
mebrere oerfelben treffen ihon iest
lire 8orbereitingen.
8m. Sable unb gbmin Sdmiot
tueroen nit benz SolSidgen, in Der
@egeno bon Drafe, balb fertig iein
nno per6en oanr nit Dem Sdgen bel
Rartin Sdaumberg anfangen.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1916-01-07
Grfaltnns bnrd sanuen sebeilt.

Sei6 SIR idon ie ourd einen Gam
lierrpalo gegange,i, fuefn Sbr nit Ell.
ner grf1Iturtg bebaftet tparet2 8ie
frdftigerro pirfte ticier Ghft unb oieie
aebeimniBpoIlen 8einnoibeile mirtten
beaalIberno aif Die 2ungen. Or.
9ea's 8ine.Sar-Sonep beiist oieieI-
BEN @igenidaften uno beiIt Suiten.
Ser sails miro eefraftiet, Inn Den
grfaltlngsfeimen mioeriteben 5u
fonaten. Seoe SamiIie bat cine Slo.
FIFE fir fofortisen @ebra,d, notbi9.
25c. (1Mob.)
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1916-01-07

Sure we do. Any man. hon
est, square and worthy is en-
titled to credit. And he expects
to pay for the credit. True, un-
der old methods he didn't know
how much he paid because the
charge was covered up in the
price of the merchandise-but he
knew that he paid someWhere
and thought he paid much more
than he really didpay,
IF a man is entitled to credit.
he is entitled to know what he
pays for that credit. He should
see in black and white just what
he is being charged for the credit.
A bill Of lumber figures 500.
If cash is paid within 80
days $500 or 2 per cent is de-
Quoted making $500. If.
credit is bought the lumber is
charged at 500 for 80 days.
This $500 is charged for the Gre
dit. It is $2.OO-no moreno
less. You know exactly what
you arepaying for your credit by
this plan. If at the end Of so
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1916-01-07
We Sell Credit
AS Well AS Lumber.

days you want or take more
time you are charged 6 per cent
per annum for that time.
In other words we sell credit
6 per cent per annum. $4,000
at 6 per cent for 80 days is ST. so
the amount we charge you for
the credit.
You benefit because you get
the cash price plus the charge for
the credit. You don't guess at
how much you are paying for
credit you know.
And we know just what we are
going to get for our lumber. We
figure accordingly and the ad-
vantages Of our credit policy on
a cash basis enables us to give
you the full benefit of the sys-
TEN.
When You want good lumber
at the right price you can come
to us and get it for cash or for
credit. The choice is yours.
The new terms Of sale are on.
Try our plan.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1916-01-07
Monday, Jan. 1O.--15.

During the holiday rush we accumulated a lot
Of odds aud ends which we want to close out re-
CARELESS of cost.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-02
THE cow, IN BOsTONESE.

This is how Johnny wrote his COM
position in the public school class:
"The COW is good animal. She has
two horns and two eyes and gives
milk, which is good to drink She has
four legs and eats grass and hay. Some
Of them are red, and they have long
tails"
And this is how the teacher says
he ought to have written it:
1.-The female of the bovine genus is
a benefcient mammal This ruminant
quadruped is possessed Of corneus
protuberances, projecting from the oc-
ciput. Her vision is binOcular and
she yields an edible and nutritious
lactael emulation. She is qUadrupedal
and herbivorOus, assimiliating food in
both the succulent and eXiccatted
states. Some Of them automatically
correspond to the seventh color Of the
spectrum, and they are endowed with
caudal appendages of exaggerated
lOngitudinality.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-02

que that we should have no army or
navy at all-why then should we not
have a military organization that will
to a reasonable degree, protect US. 1t
is not the matter of spending addition
al millions and billions as some folks
claim, but rather a matter Of wisely
and properly utilizing the present
sums appropriated for military pur-
poses. What we want in Washington
is not war party, but brains party
and party that will see that we get
| full value for each dollar we spend for
military purposes. Isn't that all? And
isn't the fundamental good sense and
patriotism Of the American people go
ing to protect us from becoming mill
tarists? Isn't it?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-02
FUNNY ADVERTISEMENTS.

The following amusing examples OF
how not to write English are supposed
to have been CLEANED from advertise
ments in the public prints and else
where:
''For sale, $500 suits; they won't last
long"
Bathing suits reduced to almost
nothing"
Don't go elsewhere to be cheated;
come in here"
Bulldog for sale; will eat any
thing; very fond of children"
For rent, room; suitable for a
gentleman II by 10 feet"
Wanted, a boy to deliver oysters
that can ride a bicycle"
SHIRTS Numbered in the rear"
Wanted 10 girls to sew buttons on
sixth floor"
Every article in this window re
duced 12O per cent"
"Shoes half-soled on the inside
while you wait for 80 cents"
your baby, if you have one, can be
enlarged, tinted and framed for $8.79
per Dozen"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-02
WHAT HAPPENED UNDER TEDDY.
New York Evening Post.l

New York Evening POst.)
"The browning outrage has been
committed by the Turks on the Armen-
ians. 1t is dreadful to think that this
nation remains neutral not only in
deed, but in thought, between right
and the most hideous wrong" TheO-
dore Roosevelt.
In 1902 the Beers lost their indie
pendence.
In 1903 was the massacre at Kishi-
nef Many years after 1903 Macedonia
ran red with blood.
In 1905 the horrors Of the Congo
were officially published.
In 1905 Morocco was parceled out
by the powers.
In 1905 the Russian government
shot, hanged and massacred thousands
Of her people.
In 1909 $4,000 Armenians were
slaughtered at Adana.
Between 1901 and 1909 Theodore
Roosevelt was president and the ma
ton remained at peace.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-02
EXPECTING TOO MUCH.
(E. w. Howe's Monthly.

&c. w. HOwes Monthly.
Most people expect too much OF
friends.
No one has ever done a great deal
for me- l may have expected a great
deal of friends long ago, but I do not
now. | have not only learned that if
expect a great deal of them, I will
be disappointed. l have learned that I
have no right to expect it.
And l have my share of good friends,
and appreciate them as sincerely as
ever man did. You should be asham-
ed to impose on anyone so generous
as to be fond Of you; expect no more
of friends than you give. Impose on
friends, and you will lose them; that
is human nature, and we will never
be able to rise above human nature.
If I ever impose on friends they may
be sure I experience great shame and
humility, as l deserve.
If you have anything undesirable
to sell and apply first to friends, that
is meanness, and they will notice it.
If you criticise friends severely, it US
ually means you have been expecting
too much of them.
Friends are like a pleasant park
where you wish to go; while you may
enjoy the flowers, you must not cut
them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-02
THE BAD TASTE OF GOOD TASTE,

The attitude of the Philistine is SUI
perfcially cOntemptuOus but really on
| ly defensive. To Brahamic offensive
ness he responds with greater often
siveness. He views what he regards
and usually quite properly, supercil-
| liousness in what he calls highbrOw
and he glorifies himself as a lowbrOw.
! PretensiOns to good taste have made
themselves so arrogant that they
merely stir the multitudes to rage and
to cry, eff this be culture give us over
alls." Qualification Of bad taste is
the consequence of what the Philistine
sees and regards as highbrow stuff.
It insults him. 1t dismisses him as
pariah 1t ridicules his judgment. It
sneers at his likings. 1t closes the
door in his face. What he regards
somewhat tenderly he is told to take
away. If he confesses a fondness for
anything in music or books or paint
ing there is a request for the smell
ing salts.
1t is not in the freeborn American
to accept himself as a mean person
whose ideas must be taken to the
cleaners. He likes himself too much.
When he finds that he is regarded as
rustic too freshly come from the
barnyard to be tolerated where people
have fine perceptions he rebels.
There is a habit of making virtue
odious in this fashion. It is a habit al
so with what is accepted as good taste.
The worst enemies Of culture are the
professors of it. They make it so ma
lignant that the people who might tim
idly or earnestly try to correct their
judgment are driven into a defiance
which entrenches them where they
stand
There are souls whose sense Of beau
ty is so true that it is almost effaced
from demonstration. Observation of
their enjoyment is spur to the OBJ
server. It is human nature not to like
limitations. 1t is human nature to de-
sire a wide scope of emotion. Persons
not goaded by feeling that their re-
strictiOns have in them some element
Of hopeless mediOcrity will naturally
seek to acquire what they discover
they lack.
To defeat this impulse is the seem
| ing disposition Of persons protesting
culture. Their vanity feeds upon the
distinction which they can establish
between themselves and the majority.
The moment the caste system is es-
tablished in good taste, the pariah
glorifies his caste.-Chicago Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-02
IGNORANT AND INACTIVE.

Springfield, Mass, Republican,
Mr.. Ford's little inconsistencies are
easily detected, and the temptation to
dilate upon them. 1t is astonishing for
instance, to read his statement that in
thirty-one years he voted only six
times, "and then because my wife
made me-" If a man can be so little
concerned as that in the government
of his own country his horror over ma
tons going to war seems strained. On
what ground can man fairly COM
plain Of the way governments are run,
especially when they choose to run
amuck, if he himself has not been in
terested in their proper administra-
ton? Mr. Ford tends to disarm criti-
cism by his charming frankness, but
it might be said that the war will have
done him much good if it makes him
vote regularly and study history
which he said, before sailing, he never
read.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-02
DOING GOOD CHEAPLY.
Walt Mason.)

Walt MasOn)
We are all bent on doing good when
it's not too expensive; when coin is
asked it's understood we're all on the
defensive. With helpful word and
kindly smile [ trot around the vii
lage, but if you'd touch my little pile
I'd talk of graft and pillage. l weep
for those afflicted Serbs, who wade
through blood and slaughter; not all
your consolation curbs the flow of
briny water. But when I'm asked to
loosen up to help to buy some fritters
so all those hungry Serbs can sup,
you'll find me with the cutters. I
mourn for those heroic Poles whom
Fate is always beating, who tighten
up their belts three holes whene'er
they think of eating. For tears are
cheap as blazes, and any sympathetic
gent can hand out feeling phrase.
But when I'm asked to spill bean 20
buy the Poles dinner, l say, 81 need
for gasoline my coin, as I'm sinner!"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-02

That bugaboo, thinking about dis
couraging 1915, is now thing of the
past. If there is a good thing about
New Years day it is that it marks the
turning point of reflection on the year
past, and hopes for the year coming.
We have ceased to worry about our
short corn crop and low prices for
hogs. We have begun to look forward
to the better things in store for us be-
cause we know the last year will hard
" repeat itself. We feel the boom
and confidence of an entirely new deal
from old Mother Nature, who we may
hope. has repented of her meanness,
and we look, all of us, farmers, mer-
chants, editors, and every class, for
better things.
Come on boys. Let's make this year
a winner!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-02
PEACE AND WAR.
(From Henley's Hawthorne and Law
pDdnT ~

(From Henley's Hawthorne and Law
ender")
Into a land
Storm-wrOught, a place Of quakes, all
thunder Scared
Helpless, degraded, desolate,
Peace, the White Angel comes.
Her eyes are as a mothers. Her good
hands
Are comforting, and helping; and her
voice
Falls on the heart, as, after winter
spring
Falls on the world, and there is no
more pain.
And, in her influence, hope returns,
and life,
And the passion Of endeayor; SO that,
soon,
The idle ports are insolent with keels :;
The smithies roar, and the mills thrum
With energy and achievement; weald
and void
EXult; the Ottage-garden teens
With innocent hues and odOurs; boy
and girl
Mate prosp'rously; there are sweet
women to kiss;
There are good women to mother. In
golden fog,
A large, full-stomached faith in kind
liness
All over the world, the nation, in a
dream
OF money and love and sport, hangs
at the paps
OF well-being, and so
Goes fattening, mellowing, doing, rot
ting down
Into rich deliquium of decay.
Then, if the Gods be good,
Then, is the Gods be other than mis-
chievous,
Down from their footstools, down
With a million-throated shouting
swoops and storms
War, the Red Angel, the Awakener,
The Shaker Of Souls and Thrones; and
at her heel
Trail grief, ruin, and shame!
The woman weeps her man, the mother
her son,
The tenderling its father In wild
hours,
A people, haggard with defeat,
Asks if there be a God; yet sets its
teeth,
Faces calamity, and goes into the fire
Another than it was And in wild
hours
A people roaring ripe
With victory, rises, menaces, stands
renewed,
Sheds its old peddling aims,
Approves its virtue, puts behind itself
The comfortable dream and goes,
Armoured and militant,
New-pithed, new-souled, new-visioned
( up the sleeps
To those great attitudes, whereat the
weak
Live not But only the strong
Have leave to strive, and suffer, and
achieve.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-02

Magazine clubs are all right, sub
scriptiOn campaigns are all right, au-
tOmobile contests are all right, and
many other things are all right for get
ting subscribers. building up a circu-
lation and holding the affection and
respect of all old patrons. But TAX
ing it all in all and by and large, there
is nothing that beats just getting out
a good, readable paper every week.
That lis a lesson all publishers must
learn some time or another. People
take 4 county paper because they want
to get the news and not because they
can get a lot Of cheap magazines and
so on thrown in for bargain. If a
paper is worth $1.5O. the public will
pay it and pass by the dollar shop.
Value rules in publications just as it
does in merchandise and the public
goes to the big store
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-02

Henry Roethe of the Fennimore
Times takes the time and space to de
liver a few kind words in his last is
sue on Lancaster and the Lancaster
papers. They make US blush, but we
like most people when we are praised
will have to give the other fellow cred
it for long head. While we are at it.
Henry is no SLOUGH OF an editor him
self. for he has built something that
we believe is unique-a great paper
i'm town the size Of FennimOre. No
discredit on FennimOre, for it is a
dandy little town, only editors with
Henry's ability usually seek larger
fields. Henry has proved though the
truth Of the poem, ct isn't your town ;
it's YOU" and has gone ahead build
ing up a fine paper in every way-in-
GLIDING the chronicling of wild ami
NAL stories such as the Giant Cata-
wOmpus."