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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
American interests (app.) | re-
present q party that has been a
SPONSOR of the nrntectiya nrin-


present a party that has been a
sponsor of the protective prin-
ciple. Our opponents have de-
rided that principle. They have
again and again voiced their
decision. Now, as they confront
the crisis which is sure to- be
upon us at the close Of the Eu-
ropean war they are not so very
sure. They are prepared to ad-
init that you cam not say that in
this country we can get along
without some measure of protec-
ton.
But, they are not the party
to give US any sound application
of the protective principle. They
do not believe in it. They are
opposed to it on every hand.
With regard to tariff they are
a party now without principle,
for you could not exactly call
them still what they were un-
til a ye"r or so ago, advocates
for tariff for revenue only;
and 1 am afraid they would not
be for protection now. Nobody
knows just what they are.
| We are for a. straig htforward,
scientific careful application of
the doctrine of protection in the
interest of all American enter
prise wherever it is needed, in
order that we may meet the
competition of the energized, dis
ciplined strong Europe prepar-
ed when this war is over to turn
it's new found energies into
productive enterprise.
Then, we are for the mainten-
! ance of American rights, not in
high sounding profession, not
in words, but in firm and con-
sistent dealings commanding che
respect of the world, and. MAX
ling the American name honor
ed among the nations Of the
earth.
We are for efficiency in gov
ernment; economy in administra,
tion, and competence in the con-
duct of the great business of
the American public.
I do not dare to talk longer in
! the open air in the morning in
view Of the many demands upon
me; but l have rapidly sketch
ed some Of the great matters
which should engage the atten-
ton of the American people in
this campaign. They are sum
med up in words: dominant
Americanism "-that i. to say,
America making it's institution
work as they were intended to
work for the benefit of the peo-
pie of this country, to the honor
: Of the American name Qapp.)
After his address here, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hughes came down from
the car platform and several hun
dred filed by and shook hands
with the noted speaker and his
wife and expressed their sincere
hope for his success at the polls
in November
Mr.. Hughes is a gentleman OF
refined and distinguished ap-
pearance and created most
Favorable impression ON his aud
ience. Mrs. Hughes, stood by
his side during his address and
manifested a most lively interest
in the manner in which Mr..
Hughes was greeted by the citiz-
ems.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18

Fred Porritt, who helped his
father put in the water works
system in Washburn several
years ago, was seriously injured
at WillistOn in am auto accident
on August 9th. 4.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
Commissioners
Proceedings
Mary Fazmera Help Prepare
Roatds for County Graders
and Receive Warrants
GRADERS DO GOOD WORK
Frazier is Name Of New Twp. in
Section 8-148-83 and Meet
ing Held Next Friday

Waehburn, NJ. D., August z, 1916.
Board Of County Commissioners
met pursuant to adjournment, men,
bers present Chairman Bergqutst,
Commissioners Martin and Wing.
On motion Board adjourned until
9 a. m., August Sth, 1916.
August 8th, 1916.
Board met at 9 a. NJ, pursuant to
adjournment. all members present.
On motion the following bills for
road work were allowed and order
The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1916-02-24
The News is the Official Paper of the Board of Public Instruct
ANTE-SALOON
LEAGUE MEETS
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of Next Week. William Jennings
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The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1916-02-24
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The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1916-02-24
CARD or THANKS.

We desire To cordially thank our
many friends who contributed ,u
much to our comfort I'm tho recent
loss Of our darling baby. j. w.
These evidences Of sympathy and
love greatly comfort our heart, IN
this our time Of sorrow and Gis-rC.s.
and are highly appreciated by
MIR. AND MRS. d. W. MIZELTT
AND FAMILY.
The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1916-02-24

CONTINUED on Last Pare.'
The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1916-02-24
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CRIME
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Augusta Chronicle, in Commenting
Upon the Death of Miss Rosa Lee
Eubanks, Who Met Her Death From
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reace River Chapter No. 30 will
meet Thursday afternoon ut . o'clocl;
Tue chapter room. The members,
"u especially the new officers To he
Installed are urged to he present.
LILA c. SMITH,
secretary Order Eastern Star.
The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1916-02-24

The Ladies' Aid Society Of the
Christian church will have a cake and
chicken sale on Saturday afternoon
at the Arcadia Mercantile Company.
store.
The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1916-02-24

new n. z. Norwood. minister Of
."e saptist church at Owens, was at
terday. "
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Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Mercer. Of
Fulton, Ky, are the guests Of their
friends, B. Vance and family.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-12-22

whisked them far into the country to
a great house among fir and cedar
trees burdened with snow. a place of
many servants and of great freplaces,
of warmth and luxury.
Jerry made himself clean. His gen.
erous host had fresh linen brought to
him to replace the rags he had worn, a
suit Of clothes from the wardrobe OF
the butler, and finally a glorious meal,
which he ate eagerly before a bright
coal fire.
Outside the snow beat against the
window panes and the wind swffled In
the of the building and soughed
In the frs and the bending cedars. The
well worn Bible which his friend had
b~equeathed him lay open on the table
at his right hand. He read the pas.
sages of hope and promise he had
learned to love during the early days
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-12-22

dead friend Of the mission had trans
mitted to him would serve the thief
well. He was very hungry and very
cold, but one lesson had been driven
into him along with the lesson of faith.
1t rang with hope, and his dead friend
had ever had 1t on his lips. From the
book of Isaiah it came:
"Fear thou not. for l am with thee;
be not dismayed, for l am thy God; I
will strengthen thee; yea, l will help
thee; yea, | will uphold thee with the
right hand of my righteousness"
Another temptation came to him, this
time from the sly, sandy mustached
person who had been eve at his heels
since his release from Sing Sing, the
headquarters detective whose business
it was to watch those who had sinned,
had paid for their sin and who might
be expected to sin again. The detec-
tive wanted him for a stool pigeon.
Gottlieb, alias Santa Claus, as he was
now known to the police, refused, was
arrested as a vagrant and sent to
Blackwell's island for thirty days.
when you change your mind" his
shadow informed him, "send me word"
There was no change of mind and
Gottlieb served his thirty days, a
month of somewhere to sleep and some
thing to eat. He came out on the eve
of Christmas and once again started
his hunt for a corner to lie in and a
chance to pay for ii. He managed to
earn a dime that morning by helping
an overloaded home going shopper get
aboard an elevated train with his bund-
les. He invested half of his capital In
shoestrings-ten pairs. The retail price
is 5 cents a pair.
The laughing holiday swarm from the
skyscrapers, all burdened with Christ
mas gifts, all gay with the spirit of the
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-12-22

the threshold of this genuine II dingy
place of worship in Oak street. His
beard grew until it reached his waist
in a cascade of silver. He lost the
prison pallor, and a flush of health
came to his cheeks. Until his friend,
the preacher, gave him the job as JAM
tor of the mission he slept on the
wharyes, crawling between bales Of
freight of all sorts. like the Son of
Man, uncertain of anywhere that he
might call his own for the casual SUM-
Der of the harried fox.
Remorseless mutation brought death
to Gottlieb's preacher friend. He asked
Jerry to take up his work.
"You see, SIR" the old convict ex-
planned, I'm a two termer. and the
bulls always keep after me. I'd get
the whole mission pinched If did any
thing else but clean up the place.
That's my job. sir. I'm the janitor."
1t was in the late fall when this hap
pened. Gottlieb felt the hands of his
friend grow cold. He left the body as
a nurse came and made a record for
her report of the transition of the
evangelist. He went to a window and
looked out into the f1eecy, tumbling
sky. He told himself that he would
meet his friend again some time, some
where, somehow. He had come to be-
lieve In the promises of God.
well, Santa Claus!' a voice sounded
in his ears. "Why not come down.
stairs with me and have a cup of tea?"
The nurse had come to offer, as best
she could, her sympathy.
A little, paunchy dominic, with round
cheeks and a diploma from a semina-
rial institution. endeavored to take up
the work.
One day the mission doors were
locked. and Jerry Gottlieb stood on the
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-12-22

happy season, swept by the old man
who held with strong stolidity to the
idea that God was his friend and that
his right hand would uphold him.
A finely dressed lady bought a pair
of shoestrings and gave him 30 cents,
bidding him keep the change. Here
was a bonanza. On Christmas day he
could lie in his lodging house bed and
rest his tired old bones. He could linger
about the stove in the reading room
and keep warm all day, and he figured
out he could have two meals surely
real meals. 10 cent meals-bean soup,
bread, coffee and hash!
A limousine came blowing through
the snow and stopped on Gottleb's
side of the corner. A fine looking man
of middle age in q fur lined ~broadcloth
coat opened the door and beckoned to
Gottlieb.
"Would you like to make $40 a day
during the %holidays?" he asked.
'Ten dollars a day." gasped Santa
Claus.
eyes, and easily" explained the rich
man. My little boy doesn't believe In
Santa Claus any more. and | know
that a mask doesn't fool him now. l
want him to believe in Santa Claus
lust as long as possible, and If rig
YOU up tonight Wen put one over on
that lad. by Jupiter we will! What dc
you say?"
"It's a godsend to me, sir" replied
Gottlieb.
Jump in"
THE big limousine forged ahead,
hurting great gouts OF snow TO rleht
and left. On the Jersey side OF the
river Santa Claus and the father OF the
little boy who didn't believe any longer
! took a parlor car. and the train
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-12-22

worn steps stroking his patriarchal
beard t~houghtfully. 1t was a sinister
day for him, for his job was gone, and
Beverly Wainwright. the successor of
the old evangelist, had received a call
to a very snug parsonage in the up
per west side.
There had been no salary attached
to the job of Jerry Gottlieb. janitor of
this closed house of God. But there
had peer a place to sleep and always
a bite to eat. for the Oak street mis-
sion had managed d handout of soup
or broth and bread along with its
handout Of salvation. Now the bread
and the broth and the corner to sleep
in were gone. A faith in God was his
only remaining asset. There was one
place for him to visit, Cock Eyes old
place.
Gottlieb tried for any kind of work
day after day, night after night and
got nothing. His flowing Santa Claus
beard was against him. The snow be-
gan to fly again, and when he was
driven from doorways by the cops he
would collect old newspapers, cover
himself with them and sleep on a
bench in one of the parks. The news
papers held in what warmth there was
in his body. and the now covered him
and sealed his poor mans blanket.
Again and again he vas compelled to
resort to Cock Eyes place for a hand
out and a few moments of warmth.
There he received many tempting Of
fers. One was from a famous pick
| pocket who wanted to use him as a
stall-that is, as the man who gets in
the way of a victim and gives the thief
a chance to escape. His digniied ap-
| pearance and almost benign expression
which had come with the faith his
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-12-22


he left prison for the
second time he was an old man, penni-
less and f~riendless. He was a large
man and with big blue eyes. Had he
been well fed and well groomed he
might have been termed a handsome
old man, for his physique was fine, n
there was grave dignity suggested In
his carriage. Gottlieb boarded a train
and went to New York.
1t was a fine June day and the old
convict enjoyed every moment of it.
The crash of the elevated trains over
head and the clang of trolley gongs
were music to his ears.
He wondered as he trudged onward
whether Cock Eye Garry McGarry
would be still alive. Cock Eye kept
a ten cent table d'hote in Chatham
square, and if a man just out of Jail
went to his place without a cent in his
pockets he might peel potatoes or
scrub the floor for a good meal and
perhaps the privilege of sleeping in the
coal bin under the sidewalk. In due
time he found that Cock Eye had been
gathered to his fathers, but that the
place was still running. The new pro-
prietor needed a man to help with the
scullion work for a day and Jerry Gott-
lieb worked at the appointed task,
filed his stomach and started forth at
sunset to carry the banner, which
phrase, in the jargon of the under
world. means to walk the streets dur
ing the night.
Jerry made his way farther south to
Park row and then east to Oak street.
Near the green lamps of Oak street po-
lice station was an old house with the
large sign with this legend:
"Ho. every one that thirsteth, come
re to the waters. and he that hath no
money. Conae g Rpy and eat. Yea,
buy wine and milk without
money and without price,"
Jerry was bordering the marvel of
wine and milk without price, when a
little clean shaven man, shabbily clad
and of his own age. started up the
steps, turned. came back to him and
then tool him by the arm, saying:
"Come along. brother. You belong here
as much as | do" The stranger carried
a battered Bible under his left arm.
tucked close to his body.
Gottlieb entered the long meeting
room with its slick benches and grimy
wall paper. its Biblical texts offering
the Lords help tackled here and there,
and its little stand at one end for the
preacher. There were hardly a bakers
dozen of men on the benches.
The old convict slipped into a seal.
tired of body, but feeling at home
among the tatterdemalions of society
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-12-22

that had gathered to hear the shabby
advocate of God among the miser-
ables say what he had to say in his
Masters behalf.
Out in the hall a little man with a
cropped sandy mustache who had fol-
lowed Jerry rolled a cigarette and sat
at the foot of the stairs, a sinister
thing in the yellow light of a Pickering
gas jet.
The mission worker began his preach
ing, and he talked directly to the old
gray outcast in the rear of the room.
A great peace descended upon the
soul of Gottlieb.
The old mission preacher talked the
language of Gottlieb's own tribe. He,
too, had done the wrong things in life
and had come to know the sad and
vet helpful lessons of regret. Some
thing in the preachers argument for
righteousness shone forth above all pos
sible forms Of creed and dogma.
For five years Gottlieb hung about
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-12-22

of his regeneration and then. following
the instructions of his host, stretched
himself out on the bed, rolled up in a
blanket and slept.
At 3 o'clock he was awakened by the
master of the house, who spoke very
softly and whose countenance shone.
"a merry Christmas! A merry Christ
mas" he whispered. ut is time
He had brought with him all of the
disguise of Santa Claus ave the false
beard and mask. Those were not need
ed. Gottlieb pulled on the shiny black
boots, baggy red trousers, red great
coat and cowl. all edged with new white
fur, and finally thrust his hands into
the gauntlets.
Down from the roof came the sound
Of sleigh bells violently shaken. 1--WE
got the butler up there announcing
your arrival" whispered the father of
the little lad who did not believe any
more. They tiptoed downstairs ever so
carefully. although not a creature was
stirring, and went to the living room,
which was really a great hall. high of
CellluS, WdluSCOIeu anu Will d UlS ure-
place.
In the living room a tall, dark haired
lady in white was lighting the last of
the candles on a great Christmas tree,
in the fragrant boughs of which frost
ed angels winged. and gold and silver
tinsel cleaned. At its base were piled
all the treasures of toyland that the
heart of a child could wish for. The
lady gave a little cry of astonishment
at the vision of Santa Claus, went to
him, put her jeweled hands on his
shoulders, looked into his blue eyes
and said: "Why, you are really Santa,
I'm so glad you've come to see my lit.
tie ones"
"Now. dear" said the master of the
house. lit is my turn. You get ready
to watch the children turn out. and
when the clock in the hall strikes 4
we will sing the carol. 1t is $3.50 now
By Jupiter, we're going to put some
thing over on Laddie this time!"
The mistress gone from the room
Santa and his host packed a great red
bag with toys and placed 1t beside the
wide hearth. The master then drew
from an inside pocket his gift to his
wife and laid it in the top of the bag
"That's for her." he whispered tt
Santa.
He asked Gottlieb to watch the cand
les on the trees carefully and to be
ready at the striking of the chimes II
the hall. You might take the arm
chair here and pretend to have faller
asleep" be suggested as he slipped
from the room.
Gottlieb felt curious to see the gift
which the master of the house haC
selectS1 for the mother Of the little
ones aud he opened the wide. fiat cast
of morocco lying at the top of his
Christmas pack. A blaze of white fire
struck his eyes. 1t was a diamond
necklace of priceless value. each stone
a gem Of wonderful radiance. Hi:
breath caught and some of the ruddi
ness left his face. If the necklace wa'
worth 100000 to the purchaser
would be worth $4,000 to the thief.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-12-22
AliaSSanta
Claus

Copyright by Johu A. Moroso.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-12-22

S second long term for
burglary put the crimp
in Jerry Gottlieb. His
first term had been ten
years, but his second
had been twenty. When
he left prison for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-09
HAMADAN FIGURES
 IN ANCIENT HISTORY
Turkish City Was Scene of Esther's Exploit in
 Biblical Times

London, January 29.-Hamadan, which the Russian army operating in Persia has occupied figures in Biblical as well as early Grecian history. It was the ancient Ecbatana, the treasure city cap tured and plundered by Alexander the Great, and it appears in the Book of Esther as Shushan, where Ahasuerus, who ''reigned from India even into Ethiopia gave way to the caprices of Vashti and was induced to relent by the attraction of Esther.
 At Hamadan pious Jews still point out the tombs of Mordecai and Esther, which stand in a wooden domed building in the center of the town. There is no doubt that the two wooden sarcophagi shown there are ancient, but considerable ques- ton of their being what tradition as- crfbes. They bear Hebrew inscriptions, one said to be of A. D. 557 and the other S41 A. D. Near the city large mound is pointed out as the site of the palace of Ahasuerus. A crudely carved lion, on the site, is the subject of much legend also.
 Five miles from Hamadan, in a noun tain gorge, is a famous stone with i'm scriptions in the Persian, Median and Babylonion languages, which seems to have been placed there by Xerzes. These inscriptions supplied the key that en- abled the cuneform inscriptions at Nine- veh to be deciphered. The natives be- lieve treasure lies buried under the stone.
 Hamadan was once famed for its white wines, but now it's chief business is leather, which is much in demand in Persia for harness and saddles. Resi- dents say the stench from the tanning pools prevents the clocks from keeping the correct time Its population num- bers 4O,0O0, including 1000 Jews. and it's position, 5000 feet above the sea, makes 1t @ healthy place to live in.