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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-06-28

Ter, the factory agent for the Randen-
bausch Piano Co., of st. Paul.
Visitors at Mick Welsh's Sunday
were Thos. Longmire and wife, and
Lenice Longmire and Valentine Ert-
tie and finally and Matt Haberman
and sisters from Cassville.
Miss Carol Jett will give declama-
ton recital with special music at the
Ramsey church Friday, June 80 at
.S:15.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-06-28

Frank Eisele bought new Paige
5-passenger last week.
Sitter shipped a car load Of butter
and cheese last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Davis motored to
Evansville last week.
Read the Herald-get the best news
and while its hot.
Miss Elsie Brun of Beetown is visit
ing her cousin, Miss Edna Brun.
Charles Julious, Ted Whaler and
Fred Mier are running the big tractor
grader. Doing fine work.
Vivian Vannatta, former neighbOr,
now located in Little Grant, called
here last week.
Important business at the annual
school meeting next Monday, July 3.
Come.
Henry Mitchell owns new spas
senger Buick. Will his brother will
soon own one also.
Ray Hoffman of Lancaster, visited
with his sister, Mrs. VIM. Schuppen-
er, last week.
Clarence Smith and Percy Finnegan
spent Sunday with Mr.. Wier at Cas-
tie Rock.
Mr.. and Mrs. JOS. Stitch greeted a
fine baby boy last Thursday morning,
with all happiness. Joe says he will
have a baseball nine.
Roy C. Fache, Spanish war veter-
an, went to Davenport, Iowa, last
week He saw detachment of guards
entrain for the Mexican border.
Knute Knuteson and Richard Allen
of near Livingston, were here last
week. They purchased two hay load
ers in Sitter.
Sitter was glad to see the Lancas-
ter boosters last Friday evening. Stitz-
er will be in Lancaster with the bells
on when the Fourth comes.
Edna Rantke, living on RID 2, Slit
ger, fell from the hay loft of the barn
where she was playing, IA feS. to the
ground. She received bad cash in
the chin that required several stitches.
One hundred suppers were served
from the restaurant last Friday even
ing to merry dancers who came here
from Livingston, Fennimore and Ian
caster and other points. All had a
royal dance and a tasty feed.
Roy Grindell, the Platteville mOnu-
.ment man, extended the courtesy Of
his car on Wednesday last to Joseph
Burton and Daniel Shaw who were
on their way to BoscObel. Roy is a
nice chap and a good driver.
Ernest Buddac, who has charge of
the road work, is doing some classy
work on the nearby highways. From
town to Ed Lind's summer resort
and thence to VIM. Schuppener's, the
road looks like a race track. We re
Gently took Mr.. Buddac east Of town
few miles and showed him a piece of
road that he conceded was the worst
ever. A change will eliminate the bad
place and we can then keep the road
up with small expense.
Roy McClimans put new rings in
his Ford last week and found that he
could not crank it. He called his
helper Ernest Kitelinger, and the boys
with a horse and twenty feet of rope
started up and down hill pulling the
car. When the boys werely all tuck
cred" out the car started sudde nly
throwing Ernest down almost in front
of the car and causing the horse to
run away Some excitement while it
lasted.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-06-28
RAMSEY.

Special Correspondence to the Herald
Grant Wood delivered hogs to Cass-
vile last week.
James Hillary and family autOed to
Lancaster, Saturday
Harry Dolphin purchased a new
buggy of Fred Bennett in Cassville.
r. Dolphin and family and Charles
Bushnell and family went to Ellen
boro Sunday in the formers auto.
r. Dolphin purchased a beautiful
ease. Wesley piano Of ]. w. KEEL
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-06-28
SITTER.

Especial Correspondence to Herald.)
Jas. bort has left the Blackburn
garage for a position in FennimOre.
Four cars of stock were shipped by
Ed Lind last week.
John Plattner is the owner of s.
passenger Overland.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-06-28
REORGANIZED LATTER DAY
SAINTS HAVE TWO DAY MEET.

At Flora Fountain on Saturday and
Sunday, July l and 2 the Reorganized
Latter Day Saints will conduct two
day special meeting. Visitors from
abroad are Elder B. G. Flint, Of Evans
vile, Wis; Elder L. o. Wildersmith,
Plano, ILL.,; Elder Irwin ]. Lennox,
Soldiers Grove. These gentlemen will
have charge of the services. The pub
Lie is cordially invited.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-16
Texas As a Belligerent. (New York World.)

We must say that Texas is dis appointment. For many years that noble state has assured us that it was able to settle the Mexican ques- tion single-handed Nothing re- strained 1t but the refusal of the National government to say the word. We have trusted Texas in the belief that, no matter what disaster might overtake the Federal forces on the border, the averaging citizenry Of the Lone Star Commonwealth would prove equal to every emergency.
 Not many presidents have ventured to invoke the mighty military power of Texas, but MT. Wilson has taken the awful responsibility, and what does he find A powerful National Guard effuipped to the last button? A fierce and seasoned body of war riors thirsting for gore? Hardly. What he sees is an organization nom finally embracing 3,381 men, and en- toying the distinguished honor of standing at the bottom of the list of the states in efficiency at the latest inspection by the War Department.
 It appears, therefore, that in de- pending upon Texas we have leaned upon a reed or a lath. It has been face to face with danger; it has talked terribly; and yet when the tocsin sounds we discover that the fighting force of the greatest of states is only an awkward squad and that part of the equipment supplied to 1t of late by the National government has been corruptly sold to Mexicans across the boundary.
 Alas for Texas and alas for the Americans who have felt secure in the presence of it's sword and buckler! For our second line of defense on the Rio Grande we now nominate the organized militia of Iowa and Minn- esota, most of whose members never saw Mexican.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-16
Loving Ones Enemies.


 The hardest injunction laid down in the Sermon on the Mount is the command Love your enemiesw Ministers aren't very anxious to in terpret it. Nobody has been able to comply with it literally. To forgive an enemy is not unusual, difficult as som ettmes 1t is. But to love one that is beyond us! What is more practical for consideration here is the futility of sustained enmity. This latter doesn't get you anywhere nor save you anything or benefit anybody. True, there is the party of the second part as to an enemy as we'll as to a friend. So that the advice to make up with an enemy if he isn't willing to meet you half way is useless. It is possible however, for one on his own account to restrain his rancor, withhold his hand and control his spirit so that, at worst, the enmity is cne-sided. That in itself is a moral triumph of no mean spirit.
 Justice Lamar had the right idea When he wrote his will he knew of no enmlt1es, but, realizing the insta- bil1ty of human nature, he wasn't certain there would be none later on. Hence he stipulated that "if such un- happy hereafter arises, let them he fcrgotten,' That comes pretty near to approxmating the Sermon on inc M ount. It is forgiving and forget ting in advance-a soul preparedness admirable in it's conception of Chris tian duty and foresight If more people would act in tho same manner and charity there would be fewer heart-burnings in the world and a. great deal less strife
New Britain herald., 1916-05-16
WANTED, MORE HORSES.

1 During the last twelve months the world has suffered the loss of more than one million and a half horses, all butchered on the battle fields of Europe. Many Of these horses wore sent from the United States, thus ac-
 counting for the great scarcity of
 these animals prevalent in this coun-
 try today Senator Key Pittman, of
 Nevada, realizing the conditions which
 are rapidly engulfing the nation, has
 900 to be expended in developing horses for agricultural and military purposes. The Committee on Agri- culture and Forestry, to which the ably make favorable report and urge that something be done immediately to insure the future of the horse. Sen ator Pittman halls from a part of the country where they know the value of horses. He has made a statement setting forth the necessity of the United States having on hand a sup ply of horses to do just such work as our cavalrymen are carrying on in Mexico today in connection with the
 punitive expedition. Nor does the
 Senator speak from his own experi-
 ences. He quotes the Quartermaster
 General of the United States Army,
 General Aleshire, $ saying that there
 are at present only 0,00O availa ble
 cavalry horses in the entire country
 and that of this number but 30,OOO could be pressed into service in case of emergency. The others are not in condition to do the work. Nor are l horses needed for war alone. They are still required in times of peace what though the automobiles have taken their places to great extent. The fields of agriculture need the horse
 just as the fields of war need the horse. It would seem good business
 to start in now and replenish the diminishing supply.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-16
The Blue Asks the Gray.
(Meriden Record.)

Washington has sent delegation to the Confederate veterans, holding a session at Birmingham, Ala, this month to ask them to hold their an- nual reunion at the national capital next year. The suggestion was made by the last encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic.
 - Undoubtedly Washington will be glad to welcome the Confederate vet erans. The meeting of the Union and Confederate veterans at Gettysburg three years ago proved how harmon ious and really pleasurable such a com bination could be, so there is no reason to believe that anything would develop which could in any way be detrimental to the comfort of the visi- tors.
 Sufficient time has elapsed to make the majority forgive, even though they may not be able to forget, for it is much easier to do the former than the latter. The wounds are still there and though they may not smart they make themelves manifest in many ways The surest way to make the hurts non virulent is to acknowledge their presence and frankly consider the causes which occasioned them and the benefits which have come from the suffering endured.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-16

of mastering applause. The American flag was made and nailed to the mast by the men who formulated the dec laration of independence, by the men who gave their life blood in the revo- lutionary war, by the mothers and fathers who sacrificed their sons on the altar of the nation, that the na- ton might live. It is the great book flag. It tells the story of the glories of the greatest country on the face of the earth, but it does not reveal it's secrets to those who cannot read, to those who have never studied the his tory of the flag and all that it means, to those who are ignorant of the his tory back, of,the flag.
 It Is therefore befitting that each and every boy and girl who graduates from the schools of New Britain, pub lie and private, be given an American flag, the symbol of the great principles whereon this nation was founded. They should know the great deeds that have been done because of those principles, because of the love for that flag. And what they know they should transmit to others. In this way shall some of the slunbering be awakened. It was Elihu Root who recently be- fore a state chapter of the American Red Cross said: This Republic can- not continue to live unless it's people are willing to give service. Lib- erty does not come of itself, and un- less we are willing to make sacrifices for it, it will be taken away from us.' That is the entire case. The American flag tells what liberty means, what was done to secure liberty. All those who enjoy liberty under the American flag should carry with them through life the emblem of priceless gift, and stand ready to defend it.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-16
The Land 0f Chile Con
 C1yne and H0t TamaZes

dian his palm worms steWed Tn rat The water wheat fields are ponds in which the peon places bundles or reeds or ruSheS the insects deposit their eggs in incredible numbers. The bundles are then removed and the crop is shaken off. The eggs, re- sembling fine fish-roe, are made into small cakes and are sold in the mar kets, to be eaten either as we cat cheese or mixed with corn meal and fowl eggs. The insects themselves, which are about the size. of our housefiies, are also eaten, the method of preparation being to pound them into paste and boil with corn husks.
 "The fruits of Southern Mexico are numerous and some of them are delicious. One of the most unusual is the papaya or melon zapote, which grows on @ tree and often weighs as much as 20 pounds. It has char acteristics which link it to the can- taloupe, the pumpkin and the water melon, and in addition contains con- siderable pepsin, so that the diner may take his aid-to- o-digestion and his dessert at one and the same time. The parrot fruit is peculiar chiefly
  to the green parrakeets which are to be found in Mexico. These little birds frequently elude hawks by perching among the fruit, from which they are almost indistinguishable.
 'The traveller who plucks fruit from the arbol di dinamite and slows it away in his suitcase will be startled to hear a loud explosion in a short time, as the product of the aptly named dynamite tree detonates when ever it is placed in a warm spot.
 "The Tarahumare Indians, who are especially fond of fish, frequently organize community fishing parties which last several days. On these occasions they find it impractical to depend on their crude traps and thorn pointed spears, so they make a fish poison by crushing the leaves of two varieties of the maguey plant. These leaves are thrown into a stream which has been damned and the following morning the fish, some merely stupef1ed and others already dead, are easily gathered. The poi son, fortunately. is not of character to affect human beings. Tadpoles, larvae, and waterbeetles are other auuatic delicacies dear to the Tara humare palate.
 Lovers of chocolate bonbons and drinkers of cocoa are indebted to tho ancient Mexicans for the cacao bean. The Montezumas called the beverage made from this bean, which was at one time used as money, chocolate, from choco (cocoa) and latl (Water.) Another valuable bean from tropical Mexico is the vanilla, which grows on a clim ping orchid.'
New Britain herald., 1916-05-16
"TOn' Waller,
(New Haven Union.)

Connecticut has a warm place in her heart for ex-governor Thomas M. Waller of New London, who is now the grand old man. of the palmy days of Nutmeg State Democracy
 The Bridgeport Post has this fine editorial tribute to his record of achievement as a leader of his party and servant of the state whose work was of high order of merit The Post says:
 "Speaking of the Hon. Thomas M. Waller, one is reminded that he is CCnnecticut's leading relic of mili- tant democratic party in Connecticut He can place former before his rame for more important offices than almost any other dem mocrat He is the only living democrat in the state who ever secured a majority vote of it's citizens for governor, if memory is correct. That was back in 1882 This makes MT. Waller the oldest living former governor He is also the oldest living former secretary of state, having served in that office 46 years ago. Still again, he is the oldest living speaker, presiding over the house in 1876."
New Britain herald., 1916-05-16
''The Voice." By Norman Gale.

AS I went down the, hill I heard The laughter of the countryside: For, rain being past, the whole land
 stirred s>G.-.1 ..1f .. With new emotion like bride. I scarce had left the grassy lane When something made me catch my
 breath: A woman called and called again, Elizabeth! Elizabeth! It was my mothers name. A part Of wounded memory sprang to tears And the few .violets of my heart Shook in the wind of happier years Quicker than magic came the face That once was sun and moon for me; The garden shawl, the cap of lace The collie's head against her knee. Mother who finest out a way To pass the sentinels, and stand Denlnd my chair at close of day TO touch me-aImost-with thy
 hand
 Deep Tn my breast how sure, how
 clear,
 The lamp of love burns on till
 death!- How trembles if I chance to hear Elizabeth! Elizabeth!
New Britain herald., 1916-05-16
Imports of Gold.
CNew York Herald.)

Although the loans foated by American bankers for foreign gov- ernments, with the credits extended to them, probably aggregate at this time the billion dollars. efforts from this country are so far in excess of i'm ports the balance in our favor av- eraglng about two hundred millions a month-that the rest of the world
 is continually running in debt to the
 United States.
 This is suggested bv the receipt
 here yesterday of two and a quarter
 millions gold from Canada-nresun1 ably exchange in stablizing the ster- ling exchanges. It is an 11nprece- dented situation. American investors are steadily repurchasing securities from foreign holders. but it seems that the proceeds of these are not sufficient to pay for the enormous quantity of merchandise we are ex- porting and it is necessary to send gold.
 In addition to keeping the proceeds of our own mines-nearly a hundred l million dollars-last year we received nearly five times that amount from foreign customers. Never was land so favored with prosperity.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-16
The Aland Islands.
(MOntreal Star.l

Another neutral nation comes into the spotlight with the Swedish un- easiness over the Russian fortifica- ton of the Aland Islands. It would be sheer madness for Russia to for tify these islands during war with Germany. They entirely shut off the Gulf of Bothnia from any German naval operations and constitute a most valuable base for the defense of the Gulf of Finland and the ap- breaches to Petrograd. If Sweden takes open offence at this time, it be the general impression that she seeks a cause of offence-not that she finds this new condition intolerable
 The theory is, indeed, that what she fears is not the present fortifica- ton of these islands but the main- tenance of these Notifications after the war is over. Well, this is ob- viously a question to be settled-if Sweden will then, with her unirn- paired army, be in a splendid position to present her case; and Russia, with her new outlet through the Dardan- elles, will be readier than ever to assure Sweden that she has no de- sire for a foot of her coastline. True Swedish interest lies in a smashing Russian victory. That will turn Russian attention toward the sunny South.
 But then Sweden may be rising this point of the Aland Islands today merely by way of cutting comment on the dismissal of her officers who have been in command of the Persian gendarm erie. Although the Swedish government had no responsibility for these officers, it could hardly be ex- pected to relish their elimination. If this be the cause of the trouble, 1t will soon drift away like a summer c]O11d.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-16
THE DIRECT PRIMARY.
No Flu tile Performance; But Has Probably Effected the Course of
 the Republican Convention.


 Tn defense of a system for which
 good men fought so strenuously and
 upon which such high hopes were
 based, it may be said in the first
 place that the present reaction
 against the primary is only a char acteristic expression of our public temperament. It is in the order of things that any new device in our
 political or social machinery shall be
 hailed as the promise of new heaven and a new earth, and that immediate ly. It is equally in the order of things that the first hitch in the new machinery shall be received as a sign of permanent failure.
 Apparently, we lack the patience of a thorough test. We fail to recog- nize how every great political and social innovation is an experiment and a rough approximation when it goes on the statute books. and that 1t needs long process of adjustment in order to bring the original plan into conformity with the complex facts of life. Tn the parliaments of Europe few important pieces of leg islation go into effect before the pro- cess of amendment begins. A system like the German insurance laws or tke English land laws in Ireland is built up through the years. It is not so different with us, if we look into the facts With us there comes first the great enthusiasm. then the great disappointme and then silence and indifference. And while public attel- tion has turned to some new great hope, the original scheme goes through the inevitable tinkering and trimming and enters quietly into the routine of our political public life.
 But the defense of the direct pri- mary does not rest merely upon such general considerations. It needs no particularly close study of the situa- ton in the republican party today, and as it was before several of the great republican states had elected their delegates, to discern that, far from being a futile performance, the primary has profoundly affected the probable course of the convention at Chicago. A month ago there were qualified observers who professed to regard Col. Roosevelt's nomination as Then came Massachusetts, and these same observers now regard the ColoneIs nomination as impos- sible.
 Either view may be overstrained, but the difference in the public tenn per measures the effect of the Mass achusetts primary. And after Cali fornia has spoken out as Massachu- setts has spoken in the matter of it seems idle to insist that the primary is a failure in respect to shaping the action of the convention. in accordance with public sentiment. The swift ebb in the Roosevelt tide, the corresponding flood of Hughes sentiment, are the work of two states speaking out through their primaries. If the ideal of the primary is merely to place a candidate before the con- vention, then the primary is a failure If the purpose of the primary is to voice public opinion in a way that no amount of loud loyalty to favor ite son can express. and thereby to influence the counsels of the as- sem bled delegates. Massachusetts and have fully. justified the hopes based on the. sytem of direct nominations.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-16
You Never Can Tell.
Springfield Republican. )

An awkward toastmaster at Wash ington dinner, in introducing MT. Taft, then president, once alluded to the great respOnsib bilities that had fallen to him in making numerous nomina- tions to the supreme court. Yielding to one of those sudden inspirations fatal to the man who is only safe when keeping to the speech he re-
 hearsed to his wife or his mirror. the toastmaster added and he may make one more.'" The court was then en- toying good health, collectively and individually, and MT. Taft, unseen of the toastmaster, could not refrain from winking a large and solemn wink in enjoyment of the break. Regard less of what may become of MT. Bran deis, it grows increasingly probable that MT. Wilson "may make one more' very soon after the Chicago convention. If he should nominate MT. Taft to succeed Justice Hughes some saphead in the top gallery might suggest that it was done to take MT. Taft off the stump during the campaign, but with that exception the country would pretty generally ap plaud an opportunity well turned to account. It would be strange coin cidence if, instead of this result, it should later fall to MT. Hughes to nominate MT. Taft, by whom he was himself nominated. . ....