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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-04-12

ing q grip on one of her arms until
the ship showed some signs of resum-
ing its way eastward instead of down.
ward.
81 am sure 1t must have hurt dread
fully" she cried. "Nothlng hurts
worse than a bump. II seemed as
though you must have splintered the
wall"
81 have a singularly hard head"
said he, and forthwith felt of the
back of it,"
"will you please stand ready to re-
ceive boarders? My maid is follow
ing me, poor thing, and can't afford
to have her smashed to pieces. Here
she Isl"
Quite q pretty maid. with wide,
Mortified eyes and a pale green COM
plexion came hustling around the
corner r. Schmidt. albeit q prince,
received her with open arms.
"Merci, Missouri" she squealed and
added something in muffled French
that strangely reminded him of what
Hobbs had said in English. Then she
deposited an armful of rugs and mag
azines at Robins feet and clutched
wildly at a post actually some ten
feet away, but which appeared to be
coming toward her with obliging
swiftness, 80 nicely was the deck ro-
tating for her. "Mon dieu! Mon
dieu!"
you may go back to bed, Marie"
cried her mistress in some haste.
But 20 rug. | feex It," groaned the
unhappy maid, and then once more,
"Merci, Missouri" She chung to the
arm he extended and tried bravely to
smile her thanks.
Here! Go in through this door"
he said, bracing the door open with
his elbow. you'll be all right in a
little while. Keep your nerve" He
closed the door after her and turned
to the amused Miss Guile. "Well, it's
an i'll wind that blows no good" he
said automatically, and she flushed I'M
der the steady smile in his eyes. cal.
low me to arrange your rug for you,
Miss Guile"
THANK you, no. I think | would
better go inside. 1t is really too
windy
1.-THE wind can't get at you back here
In this cubbyhole," he protested. 'Do
sit down. I'll have you as snug as a
| hug in a rug before you can say Jack
Robinson. See! Now stick 'em on
and I'll wrap it around them. There
You're as neatly done up as a mumm,
and a good deal better off, becaus
you are long way short of bein
/ 1000 years old"
"How is your head, Mr.. Schmidt?
she inquired, with grave concern
you seem to be quite crazy hope
Every one is little bit mad, don
! you think, especially in moments O
great excitement. | daresay my hea
has been turned quite appreciably, an
I'm glad that you've been kind enoug
to notice it. Where is Mrs. CASTOR
He was vastly eXhilarated.
She regarded him with eyes tina
sparkled and belied the unamiable ns
ture of her reply.
1.-THE poor lady is where she is nc
at all likely to be annoyed, Nj
Schmidt"
Then she took up a magazine an
coolly began to run through the page!
He waited for a moment, considerabl
dashed, and then said, "Oh," in yer
unfriendly manner. She found he
place in the magazine, assumed
more comfortable position and wit
noteworthy resolution set about reat
ing as If her life depended upon it.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-04-12

the promenade deck was as barren as
the desert of Sahara.
He found Count Quinnox stretched
out upon his bed. attended not only
by Hobbs, but also the terminated
Dank. The crumpled message lay on
the floor.
"Tm glad you waited awhile" said
the young lieutenant. getting up
from the trunk on which he had been
sitting. "If you had come any sooner
you would have heard words At only
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-04-12
Spring..

Spring is looked upon by many as the
most delightful season of the year, but
this cannot be said of the rheumatic.
The cold and damp weather brings on
rheumatic pains which are anything
but pleasant. They can be relieved,
however, by applying Chamberlain's
Liniment. Obtainabe everywhere.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-04-12

Deep blowing is necessary to the best
results for many reasons, but chiefly as
a conserver of moisture.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-04-12

To be Continued
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-17
why BINDER IMlNk WENT UP.

The farmers who use binder Irvine
and all who use the sisal product for
any purpose will read with interest the
explanation of Congressman Halvor
STEVENSON, Of Minnesota, as TO the rea
sons for the advance. Congressman
Stevenson says:
The latest product of democratic
legislation and policy, the binder Irvine
trdst-the Commission del Mercado de
HeneQuin Reguladora OF Yucatan-
controls absolutely the worlds sisal
supply out of which binder Irvine is
made. This trust was organized by
the military governor Of Yucatan and
was approved by Carranza. 1t was f.
nanced in the United States with ap-
prevail Of the state department. Nor
man Lind, whose father John Lind,
was sent as President Wilson's per
Sonal representative TO Mexico is its
American representative. This trust
has already doubled the price Of binder
Irvine. In the state of Minnesota alone
it has raised the price from 3% cents
TO cents and refuses TO quote prices
for next season lower than 10 cents
$4,000 pounds of Irvine annually, and
this means an extra tax Of at least 10
cents an acre or more than a million
dollars on the farmers Of this one
state. This money. wrung from Amer
lean farmers, will not go TO the poems
or 1ucatan IN increased wages but to
Carranza. 1t will help him buy more
arms and ammunition with which to
murder Americans.
Congressman Stevenson points out
that trust control has sent up the
prices Of gasolene, print paper. etc, to
the expense Of every user Of those ne
cessities and declares that when he
appealed TO the government TO prose-
cute those trusts for violation of the
anti trust law the department Of JUS
tice could not find sufficient evidence
altho the secretary Of the interior. the
bureau OF mines and the federal trade
commission investigated the subject
and reported there was no natural or
economic cause for the increase in
prices and that il must be due 10 mo-
nopolizat!on".
A democratic administration is a
tax. Il has always been a tax Ii is
that antithes!s Of a surplus. deficit.
1t IS a penalty. Continued more than
one term il is a calamity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-17
THE COOK BOOK.

The cook book is an inspired work
which, when taken according to direc-
tions. can produce more kinds of in.
growing digestion than the high-tem-
pered mince pie.
In spite OF the fact that an old cook
will never use one of these books ex-
cept as a resting place for new-mown
pie, the young bride is always pre-
scented with several copies and advised
TO study them carefully. This is a
reprehensible practice and will have
the condemnation of every man who
prizes his stomach al its true worth.
Man was not put upon this earth to act
as an experiment station for some
courageous female who was not al
lowed to 90 anything prior to her mar
riage except play Gottschalks Last
Hope" with stiff wrist. How much
happier we would ali be il our wives
would learn to cook from taste and
sad experience, instead of preparing
desserts in cold, mechanical fashion
and testing the fortitude of loved rela-
tives TO the last notch
The modern cook book furnishes
plans and specifications which require
more material than the kitchen of a
New York hotel. Every once In a
while some husband will complain OF
the monotony OF the daily fare and
clamor for change, but when his wife
shows him a few of the menus In 4
late cook book. which calls for the en-
tire stock of Wholesale grocery house,
ne decides that it would be better 10
stick TO the denatured cereal and but
tered toast. The woman who tried to
follow the layout in an OPTIC date
cook book without throwing her hus-
band into bankruptcy would soon have
10 sell off all Of the furniture in the
house and mortgage the sleeping porch.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-17
Mr.. BLEAKLY'S ACTIVITY
IDes Moines Rcsister.I

les NcJlbtS NJ aSkNA.t
The Register wonders how many OF
its readers noticed the paragraph thai
follows when they read the first letter
contributed 10 these columns by 3. W.
blanchard. who edits an insurance
paper in Des Moines.
The paragraph reads:
The new law was passed by the~les-
islaturc largely for the purpose of en-
ablng a certain former insurance COM
missioner to promote large Iowa fire
insurance company.
Just why Mr. Blanchard did not
name him, we do not know. but the
certain former insurance commission
err was former State Auditor Bleakiy,
the state auditor being insurance COM
missioner also, until the office was set
apart and Mr. English named insurance
commissioner
The Register WIN not stop to in
quire into Mr. Bianchards state
ment that the new insurance law
was enacted largely at the instance
OF the state auditorgto enable him
to icat mis- new company. bMr. Blanch-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-17
1nE olp NIL.

The Sheffield Press has . good story
OF the passing Of Beed's mill one OF
the early landmarks Of the region
about Hampton The mill has been
wrecked. and is being taken away
piece-meal or left to the mercaes OF
the weather.
Those old gristmills were important
in the days Of early Iowa development.
They were community centers. To
them came the grists from all direc-
tions and over many miles. When the
wheat harvest was over and the
threshing done the mill was the mecca
of loaded wagons delivering their
wheat. waiting while it was ground
and taking back 10 the outlying farm
the complement Of flour and middlings
and shorts and bran. The
bur stones ground INCREASINGLY
to supply wide territory.
Perhaps blacksmith shop sprang up
by the mill. Other trades and inter-
ests found the mill center chance to
do business. And in many cases a
town grew up about the mill. A grist-
mill was the seed of many a good and
growing Iowa town.
There to the mill came the wheat for
white bread, the corn for meal and
johnny cake and for crushing into
"samp". The old burs could tell OF
untold bushels of triangular buck
wheat grains turned into the material
for pancakes of frosty mornings and
blizzardy days. Stories of hardship
group themselves in the history Of the
old mill. of men who packed across the
drifts a bushel of wheat a days jour
ney afoot that the children might have
bread, Of crop failure perhaps when
and the seeding of next year lay on
the knees Of providence. But those
days are gone with the mill. Mucn
water has run over the tail gate OF
time since forty acres Of fax and
twenty acres Of wheat We're a farm in
northern Iowa,
They were pioneers and are going
with the pioneers. Their overshot
wheels have long ago ceased 10 turn
and the race. is filled up. Perhaps
corn is growing where the mill pond
stood Here and there a twisted old
mill shaft or bur serving as horse
block before gate tells the passer by
that a grist mill once stood near 10 do
it's part in the development Of Iowa
The grandchildren Of those who hauled
the gr!sts TO II pass by in automobiles
to buy flour ground 500 miles away
from wheat that grew in another state.
Things have changed since the old
mill was new.
But at that they have changed for
the better. Let's believe that. II we
have lost some of the sturdiness OF
the pioneer we have gained much that
he had not. If the grove is gone the
corn is growing where it stood. If the
pioneer has passed he has left good
men and good women behind him. 1t
is all right. Merely part of the eternal
change.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-17

ard Is in position to know about that
but he may be prejudiced against Mr.
Bleakly. In any event 1t Is not i'm
portant now just what all did enter into
the enactment of the law giving insur-
ance companies the right to have rat
ing bureaus anu scheduled rates.
The Important fact is that Mr.. Bleak
ly, president of Are insurance COM
pany that owes its existence to the new
insurance law, and that like all the hre
insurance companies that have profited
enormously by the new law, Is head
over heels for Harding. Is the one con-
spicuous Methodist layman who is be-
ing played up in the columns Of the
Harding newspapers as the real voice
Of the Methodist church.
Now how does it happen that the
Methodist layman who Is to over
turn the announced opinion Of the
bishop and the various conferences OF
the church is fire insurance presi-
dent? Why was not the president OF
bank, or the manager of a big store
or lawyer, or somebody else but
fire insurance man? How does 1t nap
pen that the loudest voice for Harding
at the seventh district conference was
that of this insurance company presi-
dent?
The Register is not attacking MT
Bleakly, nor his fire Insurance COM
pany, nor even the new fire insurance
law. But it is pointing out to its read
ers thus concretely just what the nre
insurance men of the state are doing III
state politics, and 1t is suggesting that
this sudden and unexplained move on
their part is not without reason.
The fire Insurance men are not
satisfied with the law as ii STANDS
much as the law has benefited them'
The fire Insurance men are not salts
fed with the ruling of the commissioner
that the Blanchard law against pooled
rates is still vital The fire insurance
men want the law enacted that hard
ing proposed. a law directly repeating
the Blanchard law and permitting IN
surance companies TO come together
and fix rates and risks in common, Be
yond that, and more important stu
they want an insurance commissioner
named by Harding.
Never before in the history OF the
state has one business interest been so
unanimous for one man as the fire in
surance interest is for Harding. We DO
not believe the railroads were ever so
thoroughly conferred in one candidacy
as the fire insurance men are centered
on Harding That is the reason why
Mr. BIeakly is so eloquent in his raid
on his brother Me,hodists. That is the
reason why he is so willing 10 take the
stump in the campaign and give time
and money to the canvass.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-17
Ripping Rhymes
Fool Drivers
~ WALT MASON

The man who drives motor car
where crowds OF human bsinss are.
should have his wits a. bright and keen
az Is the sparkling gasolene. A motor
Is deadly thing. that's sure to slay
and wound and wing, unless the drivers
safe and sane, possessed Of clear ana
active brain. How sinful, then. the
sodden skate, who says. Before pun
my freight. along the crowded streets
to ny. TIL drink four fingers OF old rye.
With tanglefoot beneath his belt, he
goes as fast as he can pelt: his eyes
distorted by old booze. the course OF
safety he won't choose. In haste to
get to other bars. he xnocks the wheels
from passing cars. and makes the dodg-
ing walker swear. and kills lawyer
here and there. He Is messenger OF
death: and any man whose dark blue
breath suggests long sessions at the
bar. should never run a motor car. II
Safety First" Is what you mean, you
can't mix gin and gasolene.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-17
TRACED BACK TO SOURCE.
Many Familiar Quotations Are From
Youno's "kicht ThoudA ts".

Philadelphia Pubic Ledger: Among
the older English poets sententtous
quotations from whom have passed m
to the very warp and woof Of our daily
speech. the first place. ot course, be-
longs to Shakespeare. The second be-
longs TO Pope ard the third. not 10
Milton or Dryden. but 10 Rev. Edward
Young. whose Night Thoughts lay on
the reading ables Of the pious ances-
tors of those of US who had them.
Young has been called Pope in wool
en- stockings. Perhaps he would De
more accura tely described as Pope in
cassock and bands. To him is due the
possession by almost every one OF the
knowledge that "procrastination IS the
thief OF time. that we take no note OF
time but from It's loss, that we should
.'be wise today-'t!s madness 20 defer I
that AT 80 man suspects himself
fool. knows It at 40 and reforms bis
plan, that none the less "a fool at 40
is a fool indeed. that ali men think
all men mortal but themselves, that
blessings brighten as they take their
fight, that man wants but little, nor
that little long" ECHOED by Goldsmith,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-17
Topics of the Times

Sundey's Chicago Tribune Lauds
Iowa's dirt roads when they are good
and urges Illinois to enact compul-
sorry dragging law. II would be good
thing for Illinois to do and Iowa's dirt
roads are better dirt roads than any
others but Iowa is in the rain be!r
which makes her dirt roads impossible
half of the days in the year, and yet
every state in the union has a larger
per cent of its roads surfaced except
ing four The average for all the
states is l13 per cent Of all roads sur
faced. Iowa mas only / per cent sur
faced We spend more money than
any of the states excepting two ana
let all states have more surfacing ex-
cepting four. A tourist in good weather
can find roads in Iowa 10 be fine but a
farmer who must use them every day
feels their inadequacy.
With potatoes al present prices the
advice Of the government to mix the
spud with -four for breadmaking is re-
mindful of Marie Antoinette's sugges-
ton that IL the people couldn't get
bread they ought TO eat cake. And
they cus that esteemed lady's beauti-
full head off for that remark later
along.
Speaking of valuable and useful pres
enrs for this Christmas what's the mat
ter with peck Of navy beans.
Efforts are being made TO enlist the
guardsmen in the regular army. Inc
effort will lack of success. The guards
men are willing and anxious to fight for
their country but when it comes to
gang plow on an Iowa farm. Inc
average Iowa guardsman is fighting
man and a soldier in wartime but pre-
fers his citizenship in times of peace.
However, II the nation is willing to pay
farmland wages for soldiers the rosters
would grow considerably.
The suggestion is that the Hard
ing laymen" should not fail to furnish
Der Dcmokrat at Davenport with
copy of their defense of the candi-
date.
Seems a shame TO send several
thousand voters out of Iowa to defend
the country and penaiize them by re-
fusing them the elementary rights Of
citizenship If any have earned a right
to vote the boys on the border appear
to have made good.
And now General Trevino is said to
be organizing a revolution of his own.
Well, that offers another field for John
Lind.
That sound like volIey firing Is only
the 100 bushels day corn husker earn
| ing his four dollars day and board.
The temp beer joint is still hoping
| that the temp stands for temporarily.
The British and their allies are not
| the only ones who depend on tanks"
| for victory this fall.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-17
WHERE HARDING GOT HIS LAYmEN.

The ministers and the churches
which have refused Mr.. Harding's can
didacy in conferences and associations
and by individual action and have been
plain with their reasons for doing so
are 10 be COMPOUNDED and crushed by
fend Mr.. Harding and his legislative
record. The church bolt against Mr..
Harding includes the prominent evan
gelical churches. practically all of the
ministers Of those churches, the vast
majority Of their laymen. This opposi-
ton 10 Harding constitutes a protest
ing body Of the highest character and
without personal aninus or individual
axes TO grind.
Now ten or eleven laymen have been
scared up by the Harding campaign
managers 10 defend Mr. Harding and
his legislative record. 1t is we'll enough
to examine as 10 who they are and the
motives that move them; for il is GER
tain that some powerful impelling mo-
tive must have brought them out TO
and the majority OF the COMMITMENTS
of the churches to which they belong
upon a moral question and one which
has become a principle Of the evangel-
!cal churches. These laymen are men,
bers Of Des Moines churches inclusive
Of the Church Of Christ. Methodist
and Presbyterian churches.
1t might be expected 10 find mer-
chants and bankers and other men en-
gagged in the business and professions
of the city Of Des Moines in the list.
But they are conspicuous by their alb
sence, The conspicuosity Of the list is
readily ascertained when the occupa
tons Of the list Of laymen are noted.
B. W Garrett, state supreme court
reporter.
FRANC D. Joseph deputy superin-
tendent Of public institutions.
O. G. Chesley. dealer in hail insur-
anUe.
L. E. Stamm, secretary to state in
spector Of mines.
John L. Bleakly, insurance promoter.
and former state auditor.
F. ]. Murphy, cashier. in state treas
urers office.
II. Z. Eaton, secretary 10 state phar-
macy commission.
F. H Paul, accountant in office OF
state executive council.
Oh .;i; ~
spector.
William Spry, chief engineer at the
state house.
]. ". Jamison. state binder.
There are two angles from which TO
get a line on the laymen and their mo-
| tives. One is that their high sense Of
Righteousness has been outraged by
| the action Of their ministers and con-
| ferences and other laymen. Another
| is that Of the ten given above nine
| hold state offices and hope 70 keep
| them under a change Of administra-
| ton and that the tenth is a promoter
Of insurance and an official in an in
| surance company and recalls the val
liable legislative assistance Of Mr.
| Harding in creating an insurance Law
which is all that insurance companies
\ could ask
The thought obtrudes itself that the
| shrewd managers OF Harding's cam
paign would have secured their term
outside OF those who hold jobs 2. tbs
mercy Of the administration. merely a,
good politics"-if they could have
found them.
| Altogether the list is rather more
| amusing than serious BIZ comparison
| with those it opposes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-17
IOWA'S ROBBER GANG.
CWator1oo Courier

The frequency with which postoffice
and business house safes are being
dynamited in this state suggests that
there is possibly gang OF expert
yeggs working in Iowa and that all
these robberies are the work OF this
band. II is becoming almost daily
occurrence here of late 10 hear OF a
postoffice or store robbery and while
the amount stolen is usually small. II
does not add to the communities feel
ing of security TO have these raids
constantly repeated without any sue
cessful effort on the part of the au-
thorities 10 run down the culprits.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-17

that by night an atheist half believes
a Cod, that death loves q shining
mark. that ''pygmies are pygmies still.
tho perched on Alps. that T" all may do
what has by man been done. that "the
man that bushes is not quite brute.
that too low they build who build be-
meath the stars, that ian undevout a.
tronomer is mad. that none think the
great unhappy but the great, and that
'.fondness for fame Is avarice Of air
''Insatiate archer. would not one suf-
fice?" is familiar query which hA
first propounded. The very INST line
OF the first night in which he achieved
his funeral thoughts
Tired natures sweet restorer, balmy
sleep!
has often been repeated as Shake
speare's-no doubt by confusion with
Macbeth's eulogy of the sleep he had
murdered
the innocent sleep.
Sleep that knits up the raverd sleave
of care.
The death of each days life, sore la
bors bath
Balm OF hurt minds, great natures
second course.
Chief nourisher in LIES feast.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-17

paper. but it will not tell nervous
bride when the macaroni is scorched
on the bottom. Many bride who re-
lied on an indexed cook book for re-
suits has had to gailop down to the
bakery at the last minute in order to
be able to put something on the table
besides the doilies and the iced-tea.
The cook book Ii all right for spe-
cial OCCASIONS. when people come pre-
pared for the worst. but 1t is a poor
excuse for an old-fashioned cook with
a keen, pulsating nose.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-17

4 A method has been found for ex-
trasting and drying the light producing
orgaAe OF the FREELY without impairing
tho power Of the substance to phospho-
rescence. according to tho Popular Sell
ence Monthly. When water containing
oxygen 10 added to the powder 1t gives
the golden glow Of the iirefy,s light.