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Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01

President Wilson should realize, if he has not already, that the young men of the country are doing some thinking for themselves.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01

The welfare of the nation lies in Che election of Charles D. Hughes, and with him a republican senate and house of representatives.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01

Those women who are going to SUD- port Wilson at the polls because he kept us out of war might reflect that he also kept their sisters out of a vote.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01

During the next week the political campaign will liven up considerably but all indications at present point to an enthusiasm on both sides that lacks a number of degrees of reaching fever heat. We are taking cur presi- dential politics this year more calmly than in any campaign in the memory of the voters. It is not from lack of interest but because we have reached the stage, when we do not have to demonstrate our interest through the medium of a brass band. The silent vote will tell what it has decided on election day and not before.-Ansonia Sentinel.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01

The man on the corner says: Many an old timer. would like once more to smell a political torchiight procession.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The democrats are doing much wor- rying as to where the progressives are They will find out on November [.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01
Chicaqo's Voters,

Attempting to colonize voters in Chicago, in the light of the city's overlapping registration list, would be an effort to carry coals to New News.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01
There's Taicum,

With flour touching $1O a barrel in Chicago, We don't see what Mich igan boulevard Is going to do for its co1nplexions-Grand Rapids Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01

Business men lament the scarcity of office boys. It's a new phenomenon, said to be caused by the prosperity wave which enables parents to kSAp their boys in school instead of send ing them out to hustle for living. If this is the true explanation, and it probably is the public con view the sirable to have an adequate supply of office boys, but it's still more desirable to have supply of boys equipped with enough book learning to give them a good start in nlife.-Waterbury Repub- lican
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01

A woman is ready to give a man ad- vice on any subject-e0cept it be shaving.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Bridgeport usually has about 1000 new voters made just previous to each election, so that of the 4,000 or so new ones made this year. only about half of them represent newcomers to the city. Placing Bridgeport's increase in population during the last year, the big majority of whom were men, there are thousands who have not availed themselves of the opportunity that was theirs.-Bridgeport Telegram.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01

Sudan grass yields from one to eight tons of cured hay to an acre.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01

Dear Poll: What do you think I
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
EXTENSIVE PREMIUM LIST is
PLANNED FOR AGRICULTURAL
-. EXHIBITS.
WILL CENTRALIzE CLUBS
Plans Developed Whereby Juveniles
May Be Chartered on Grounds
All Week-Havc Member
ship of Over 10000.

Madison.-An accounts resulting
from the 1915 state fair have been
paid, and officials in charge of the fair
are well into work of preparing for the
1916 exposition, which will be of great
er value from an educational. point of
view than any of the past fairs.
One of the big departments this year
will be that of the boys and girls ag-
ricultural exhibits and contests. An
advance premium list for this depart
ment has been sent to all schools, and
already several entries for this depart
ment have been received.
Cooperating with fair officials in
conducting this department are the
United States department of agricul.
ture, University of Wisconsin, through
its agricultural department, and the
department of public instruction.
Boys and girls agricultural clubs
in Wisconsin have a total membership
exceeding 10000. While the various
agencies have been encouraging this
work, there has been little accom-
plished toward centralizing it, and this
mission it is expected the state fair
will fill.
Plans are now being developed
whereby boys and girls will be quar-
tered on the fair grounds all week, if
they SO desire, at cost. Assisting in
the encampment feature will be the
Y. M. G. A. and the Y. w. c. A.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
For he. to whom we had applied
Our shcpman's test of age and worth
Was elemental when he died.
As he was ancient at his birth;

delicate and insidious, and it is we'll
for US to examine it coolly. The New
Republic puts it sharply away. I'm
point Of fact Mr.. Lincoln was super
ficially man of the people, and funda-
mentally unique, distinguished and
wholly exceptional Individual. In GER
tain salient respects he was the least
typical of Americans. Americans, par
ticularly those Of Lincoln's own gener-
alton and neighborhood, were essen
TALLY active, aggressive and objective
men, whose lives were given over to
PRACTICAL external affairs, who sub
ordinated everything else to the de-
mands Of practical achievement, and
whose individuality consisted in living
ordinary lives in an extraordinarily
energetic manner. They were super
fetal, discursive, easy-going, quarrel
some, and wholly Incapable Of prepar-
ing in advance for any task or respon-
sibility. In all these respects Lincoln
differed from his fellow countrymen,
and upon these differences his emil
nence depends. He was not particu
larly ambitious, aggressive Or practi-
cal. In spite OF his lively social feel
ings, he lived contemplative life, in
which the Intellectual interest OBJ
tanned full expression and which at
tanned a high degree of internal con-
centration. He fought hard and we'll,
but he never quarreled. During his
formative years he quietly but unos-
tentatiously prepared himself for great
enterprises. He trained his mind be-
cause he enjoyed hard intellectual ex-
ertion. His style shaped itself under
the influence of the Bible and Shake
speare. Thus at period and in a
country favorable to the cheap per-
Torrance and the easy victory, Mr..
Lincoln tempered his reason and his
spirit for great performance and
costly victory. Was there anything
typically American about that?"
Ideas Worth Consideration.
This is refreshing variation from
the canned eloquence" Of the Lincoln
day utterance, and it will repay con-
sideration and emphasis, since we are
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
FRUIT LAXATIVE
FOR SICK CHILD
california Syrup of Figs" can't
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels.

Every mother realizes, after giving
her children California Syrup OK
Figs" that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love its pleasant taste
and it thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach, liver and bowels with
out gripping.
When cross, irritable, feverish, or
breath is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother! II coated, give q
teaspoonful of this harmless fruit
laxative" and in few hours all tho
foul, constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the bow
els. and you have well playful child
again. When its little system is fuA
of cold, throat sore, has stomach-aehe,
diarrhoea, indigestion, colic-remem-
Der, a good inside cleaning should
always be the first treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep California
Syrup Of Figs" handy; they know
teaspoonful today saves sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for a So
cent bottle of California Syrup OF
Figs" which has directions for babies,
children of all ages and grown-upS
printed on the bottle. Adv.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
'CASCARETS' ACT
ON LIVER; BOWELS
No sick headache, biliousness,
bad taste or constipation
by morning.
Get q 10-cent box.

Are you keeping your bowels, hyers
and stomach clean, pure and fresh
with Cascarets, or merely forcing q
passageway every few days With
Salts, Cathartic Pills, Castor Oh or
Purgative Waters?
Stop having a bowel wash-day. Let
Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and reg.
ulate the stomach, remove the snu.
and fermenting food and foul gases,
take the excess bile from the hyer
and carry out of the system all the
constipated waste matter and poisdns
in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will make YOU
feel great by morning. They w0Ek
while you sleep-never grippe, sieken
or cause any Inconvenience, and cost
only 10 cents a box from your store.
Millions Of men and women tahe a
Cascaret now and then and meyer
have Headache, Biliousness, Coated
Tongue, Indigestion, Sour Stomach or
Constipation. Adv
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
e. a. Robinson

very like our forbears as to just tie
defects the New Republic here pun
gently outlines. If we thought more
of Lincoln's extraordinary disinterest-
ednsss, of his heroic patience, of his
deeply brooding spirit, and less of
those qualities with which we estab-
lish all too readily a rough resem-
blance to our daily selves, we might
get a wholesome and much-needed re-
action from our rafting, self-satisfied
and shallow life without losing our
sense of his reality as human being
having human weaknesses. Especially
keen is the thrust delivered at our
tendency to "the cheap performance
and the easy victory" and it's contrast
with Lincoln's tempting reason and
spirit "for great performance and
a costly victory"
chased cheaply. 1t has always been
paid for in long and costly, though
often unconscious preparation. Our
national optimism, our Impotence and
superficiality obscure that truth.
AS Typical American.
But, after all, in the legend we are
making of Lincoln as typical Ameri-
can there is an instinct and truth
that are not superficial. All legend
making is profound process Of ma
tional Standardization, an intuitive in
carnation of national ideals, and in the
case of Lincoln it is based upon the
sincere, the religious democracy of
this great man. The high distinction
of mind, as shown, for example, in the
prose of the Gettysburg Grafton, the
moral nobility, the retrospective aloof.
ness which were an essential part Of
him, only accentuate for us the warm
nearness of his nature to the common
man and the common life. Lincoln
himself held to the mystical concep-
ton of democracy which Whitman ex-
pressed in his poetry and which is the
dream in the heart of Americanism.
The essential brotherhood of man
was all intimate and glowing reality to
Lincoln, not lofty abstraction, and
though we betray it and misread it we
must cling to it if we are to save the
national soul.
Idealizing ourselves through Lincoln
is more than self-fattery. It is crude
but not ignoble effort to express the
deepest and most pervasive element Of
American idealism.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
VALUE OF LAND is HIGHER
as Shown by Tax Report Is
$55.25 an Acre.

Madison.-An increase of 27 per cent
and fraction in the average value per
acre of land in Wisconsin, according to
figures compiled by the state tax COM
mission has been made in the last
five years. The increase for the previ-
Gus five years was 81 per cent Prices
in 1915 were 63 per cent higher than
those in 1905.
The average value of land in 1905
was $3375; in 1910, $43.25, and in
1915, $5525.
Though Milwaukee showed the
greatest rate and greatest actual in
crease, it is the only county with a
large city to show large gain, unless
there were other causes for land value
than the presence of the city. The
counties in which dairying rs the
greatest industry show the heaviest
gains, both in rates and in dollars and
cents.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
QUEER GIFTS TO ROYALTY
Odd Ways in Which People Have
Shown Their Devotion to the Race
That Ruled Them.

New Year in the fifteenth century
coined without some regrets, for many
were taxed to meet the requirements
of royalty on that day. Each titled
gentleman had the form and value OF
his gift to the king prescribed. Regu-
lations provided that an earl should
at eight o'clock New Year morning
to deliver five-shilling purse contain
ing 20-shilling coins to the lord cham
berlain for the king.
Next the earl visited the jewel-house,
where he received ticket which en-
titled him to a gift of Is shillings g
pence the pence of which he was re-
quired to give for box for the ticket
The same morning he went to another
office to select a piece OF silver plate
weighing about 80 ounces, but left 1t
untif afternoon, when he returned for
it. At that time he gave the man who
handed it to him 40 shillings in gold.
2 shillings for the box and pence to
the porter.
A young prince ten years old is said
to have given great pleasure to his
father in 1904 by presenting him with
a volume of short Latin poems. There
is record that in 1910 dainty little
eight-year-old princess, having a spe-
cial liking for sweets, received New
Year present of pair of fat oxen
from the Corporation of Coventry
Exchange.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
BEGIN HOT WATER
DRINKING IF YOU
DON'T FEEL RIGHT
Says glass OF hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
washes out poisonG.

e YOU wake UP with bad taste, bad
breath and tongue is coated; if your
head is dull or aching; If what you eat
sours and forms gas and acid in stom.
ach, or you are bilious, constlpated,
nervous, sallow and can't get feeling
Just right, begin drinking phosphated
hot water. Drink. before breakfast,
glass of real hot water with tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in it.
This will flush the po;sons and toxins
from stomach, liver, kidneys and bow
els and cleanse, sweeten and purify
the entire alimentary tract. Do your
inside bathing Immediately upon aris'
ing in the morning to wash out of the
system all the previous days poison
GUS waste, gases and sour bile before
putting more food into the stomach.
To feel like young folks feel; like
you felt before your blood, nerves and
muscles became loaded with body i'm
purities, get from your druggist or
storekeeper a quarter pound of lime
stone phosphate which is inexpensive
and almost tasteless, except for
sourish tinge which is not unpleasant.
Just as soap and hot water act on
the skin, cleansing, sweetening and
freshening, so hot water and lime
stone phosphate act on the stomach,
liver, kidneys and bowels. Men and
women who are usually constipated,
bilious, headachy or have any stomach
disorder should begin this inside bath
ing before breakfast. They are as
sured they will become real cranks on
the subject shortly.-Adv.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
QUIT MEAT If KIDNEYS
BOTHER AND USE SALTS
Take a Glass Of Salts Before 9reaks
fast If Your Back Is Hurting or
Bladder Is lrritated.

If you must have your meat every
day. eat it, but flush your kidneys with
salts occasionally, says noted author
ity who tells us that meat forms uric
acid which almost para1yzes the Rid
neys in their efforts to expel 1t from
the blood. They become sluggish and
weaken, then you suffer with duh
misery in the kidney region, sharp
pains in the back or sick headache,
dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue
is coated and when the weather Ia bad
you have rheumatic twinges. The
urine gets cloudy, full Of sediment, the
channels often get sore and irritated.
obliging you to seek relief two or
three times during the night.
To neutralize these irritating acids,
to cleanse the kidneys and flush OH
the body's urinous waste get four
ounces Of Jad Salts from any plsar.
macy here; take tablespoonful m
glass of water before breakfast for
few days and your kidneys win them
act fine. This famous salts is made
IL ILL InO cSAuo ~ 6AoPSo anu s'AA4SAs
juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to flush and
stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to
neutralize the acids in urine, so 1t no
longer irritates, thus ending bladder
weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
jure, and makes%a delightful efferves'
cent Whitewater drink.-Adv.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
LINCOLN, MAN
Of THE PEOPLE
Many Reasons Why Me Has Just
" Been Given the Title of
Typical American.
Firm Believer Always in the Concep-
ton of Democracy Which Is the
Foundation of Our Nation--His
Many High Qualities Worthy
of Emulation.

"O save Abraham Lincoln from
deathly apotheosis of the steel
engraving has been a laudable
effort of recent years. OF course
1t will not prevent the process OF leg
end making which works upon the
earthly reality Of every great man, and
in due time leaves MIN a desiccated
abstraction existing for the heavy
boredom of childhood. Even Lincoln,
with his vital, homely outlines, his
intimate, endearing faults, and strong
flavor Of his day, must come to this
turn. But the process may be retard-
ed and ought to be as long as we can
contrive.
One hundred and seven years ago
Lincoln was born. Fifty-one years ago
he was shot by John Wilkes Booth,
and on the next day he died, the first
"martyred president" A great wave
of passionate sorrow, gratitude and af-
lection swept the North. The process
of apotheosis began. Today it may be
observed in the sanctified generalities
of Lincoln orations, editorials, poems
and articles.
Moved by Fiattery.
The central idea Of the overwhelm-
ing majority Of these tributes is Lin
coin, the man of the people, the typi-
cal American. Year after year on
February IL and frequently through
out the year we hear this confident
summary and without examining it. Is
this mental inertia or are we uncon-
sciously moved by the flattery implicit
In this idea? An editorial in the New
Republic suggests the latter. The real
purpose Of Lincoln-day speakers is not
so much to eulogize Lincoln, this jour-
nal declares, as to flatter the audience.
eff Mr.. Lincoln was so entirely a man
of the people, the people must be very
like to Lincoln"
New View Of Great President.
The reproach has more of justice
than we like to think. The orator is
the courtier of democracy flattering
the sovereign citizen as grossly as
ever an emperor was fiattered. The
Battery o8 tnai1ack praise II unusually
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
FOOD FACTS
What an M. .. Learned.

A prominent physician down In
Georgia went through food expert.
ence which he makes public:
1t was my own experience that first
led me to advocate Grape-Nuts food;
and / also know from having pre-
scribed it to convalescents and other
weak patients that this food is a won
derful rebuilder and restorer of nerve
and brain tissue, as well as muscle. 1t
improves the digestion and patients
gain, just as / did in strength and
weight very rapidly
/ was in such a low state that
had to give up my work entirely and
go to the mountains, but two months
there did not improve me; in fact
was not quite as well as when I left
home. My food did not sustain me
and it became plain that l must
change.
Il began to use Grape-Nuts and in
two weeks | could walk mile, and in
fve weeks returned to my home and
practice, taking UP hard work again.
Since that time have felt as well and
strong as l ever did i'm my life.
las physician who seeks to help
all sufferers / consider it q duty to
make these facts public"
Trial 10 days on Grape-Nuts when
the regular food does not seem to sus-
tain the body will work wonders.
There's Reason" Name given by
Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
Ever read the above Ietfcrs A nev
one arpears from time TO time. 'rhcy
interest.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
LincoIn,s Place in History

Abraham Lincoln was one of the SUI
premely great men of his day. He
grows bigger and bigger all the time,
and a thousand years from now his
fame will be immensely vaster than
it is at the preesnt time. No man in
all tie tide of time ever filled a more
difficult or trying place than he held
for four years, and the verdict of his
tory is that he measured squarely up
to his tremendous responsibilities. 1t
is doubtful if any other man in the
country could have sayed the day.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
LINCOLN

Out Of the shadows we see him rise
Face that is haunting and sorrowful eyes.
Scared by his burden and bowed meath
its weight;
Slave to a mission and shackled by fate.
Poor was the soil where his schooling be-
gan;
man.
Prone with his book by the Pickering
blaze,
What saw he there in the hearth's rudy
blaze?
Slowly he rose while the Fates gave. no
sign,
Fitting himself for that labor divine
Deep in the shadows we see him again
Savior and martyr and brother ofsmen!
w. r. Rose in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
FIVE CANDIDATES QUIZzED
Board of Regents Holds Meeting at
Madison to Name New
Presidents.

Madison.-The board of normal re-
gents considered candidates for presi-
dents OF the Eau Claire and Platteville
Normal schools. The following men
appeared before special committee
lions for the positions: W. H. Glot-
felter, Oshkosh; D. o. Kinsman, White
water; d. V. Landgraff, Marinette; j.
L. Ames, River Falls, and w. E. Mad
dock of Superior. The board is only
considering Wisconsin men for the
position.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
VIII Grind Limestone.

Trempealeau.-For the purpose of
utilizing the abundant supply of lime
stone in the quarries at Trempealeau
farmers and business men at that
place will erect grinding plant.
Samples of the stone sent to Madison
show that it tests 955. Only one 9th
er sample in the state tests higher.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
For Protection of Hen.

The school commissioner of Cald-
we'll, N. j., caused so much comment
by leaving an open umbrella on his
front lawn for many days that he
finally had to explain that it was
protection for his strong minded hen,
who was sitting out there, and not at
all amenable to suggestions that she
move.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
Pioneer Ccuple l-;onored.

Cambria.-Mr. and Mrs. Christian
Umbreit celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary with all their chill
dren and grandchildren and other rel
atives present. The Rev. S. J. UNI
brett of Japan, F. w. Umbreit, a
brother from Iowa, and A. c. Umbreit
of Milwaukee, a nephew, were present.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
Civil War Veteran Dies.

Kenosha-Phillip Wade, prominent
in Grand Army circles in Wisconsin,
died at his home at the age of rs years.
He had been i'll for many months. He
had been one of the most prominent
men of Kenosha for more than fifty
years.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
Undeserved Punishment.

"Gadsworth is suffering from psy-
Geological Jag said the first citizen
of a dry town.
What do you mean by that?" asked
the second citizen.
He spent three hours last night in
vain attempt to locate quart or
liquor
"Well?"
And this morning he woke up with
a headache"
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
The Idea.

Miss Flip-Why are they obJeeting
to this munitions business?
Miss Elite (vaguely)-I guess 1t is
because it is some sort of she'll
game.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
Victim FoiIs Footballs.

Superior-While he held s125 in pa
per money in his hands, thugs who
bounced upon him searched the peck
cts of Gust A. Erickson, a woodsman,
and took an empty pocketbook, hos
pita1 ticket and a knife.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
Grand Rapids Rector Resigns

Grand Rapids.-The Rev. j. II. Flied
ner, who has been rector of the Epis-
copal church of this city for the past
five years, has resigned to accept
call at Danyille, Pa.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11

er-the human windmill isn't. That's
the real difference.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-02-11
Zeal kais Luck.

"Whar are you crying for, Wiilie?"
i've got toothacEe ar there amt
no school to stay home from