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The Yale expositor., 1918-12-26
ECHOES FROM PORT HURON
Port Huron Happenings Always
Interest Our Readers

After reading of so many people in
our town who have been cured by
Doan's Kidney Pills, the question nat
urally arises: "Is this medicine equally
successful iD our neighboring towns ?"
The generous statement of this Port
Huron resident leaves no room for
doubt on this point.
Mrs. Melvin Hillock, 1884 GIllitte ST.,
Port Huron, Mich, says:-"Three years
ago had slight Attack of lumbago
When / tried to bend over or straighten
up, sharp pains caught me in the small
of my back. During this misery with
my back, my kidneys weren't acting as
they should, and was all run down,
l had no ambition and was SO nervous
i could fly. Reading about the good
Doan's Kidney Pills were doing Others
| used box. L received so much re-
lief that L stuck to them until L had
taken about three boxes, which prac-
tically cured me-"
Price Coo, at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Hillock recommends. Foster Mil
burn Co., Props, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Yale expositor., 1918-12-26
Methodist Episcopal Church
G. M. MERRILL, Pastor.

Emerson Cooper, Supt. of s. 5.
Mrs. Drouyor, Pres. of Ladies' Aid
The pastor extends to all his congre.
CATION the sincere wish of a Merry
Christmas and Happy New \ ear. If
you will follow his message you will
learn the secret, not alone for the Hol-
idays but for all the year.
Mr.. Graham, of Lansing. is expected
to speak in the morning service for a
few moments. In the evening the
Christmas program-song, picture and
story. The gift is to be a White Gift
for the King-of self and service and
money. A person representing Love
will receive the gift of money. 1t will
be used to care for orphaned children
of the East and West.
On Monday evening DR.. A. b. Leon
ard, of Saginaw, will preach and con.
duct the business meeting. All are
cordially invited.
You are invited to the hour of Bible
study and prayer Wednesday evening
at 1880. It's only an hour and will help
to fit you for service.
The Yale expositor., 1918-12-26
EAST KENOCKEE
delayed Correspondence

(DeldY6u COrI6spOuueuce)
Wagner Earl Grant, of Camp Gus
ter, spent Sunday at his home here.
Mrs. Joseph Morgan and two chill
dren, Elburn and Olive, Alvin Morgan
and wife and Mrs. Thomas Perrin we're
in Port Huron Tuesday doing their
Christmas shopping.
f. Johnson and family, of Fargo
spent Sunday with Bye Munro and
family.
George Menzie and family received
the sad news of the death of their
cousin, Lucy Menzie at her home near
Vanderbilt She was a victim of in
fluenZa.
Joseph Morgan and son Albert, who
are working at the Grand Trunk shops
in Port Huron, spent Sunday at their
home here
Leo King, Of Port Huron, visited at
Stony Ridge farm recently.
Charlie Campfeld, of Saskatchewan,
N. w. T., is visiting old friends here.
1t has been seven years since his last
visit here.
Alvin Morgan and wife are spending
a few days with Mrs John Barham
and family in Port Huron.
The Yale expositor., 1918-12-26
CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to thank the many friends
for their assistance and sympathy dur
ing the illness and after the death Of
husband and father; also the Nj. p
church society for beautiful floral Of
ferings. Mrs. Chas. Weymouth
Jaw b. Weymouth
The Yale expositor., 1918-12-26

FARM FOR SALE cheap-SO acres
good buildings, clay loan soil, plow-
ing all done. Cash OF terms. For
further particulars address OWNER,
II ID No. 1, Box so, Melvin. 1874
The Yale expositor., 1918-12-26

RUBBER STAMPS-Pads, Inks,
Numbering Machines, Dating
Machines, Price and Sign Markers,
etc. Leave order at The Yale Ex-
position, Yale, Mich
The Yale expositor., 1918-12-26

You should make resolution to buy your Furniture
from u.s. We carry of the most complete lines in this
section of the state and prices very reasonable
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
Thursday, April Is, 1918
A HINT TO PHILANTHROPISTS

Kindly people who think to help the
congenial and chronic ne'er-do-wells
of the cities by setting them up as farm
ers do neither the ne'erdo-wells nor
the farming districts a service.
The incompetents of the city can
not be miraculously cured of the in
disposition to work by transference
to farms, where more than anywhere
else industry and frugality and in
teIIigence are needed.
Indeed, the person who is constitu-
tionally opposed to physical and men
tai effort fares much better In the
city than in the country. The country
has no, aid societies, no free lunches
and no demand for industrial slack
ers.-DaiIy News.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
SHOULD RESIGN

Former Secretary of State Walter
L. Houser has struck the bulls eye
when he voiced the sentiment that
those who are holding public office
and who are not in accord with this
government should resign. This
should include every member of a IL
brary board, board of education, water
commission, town or village board,
city council, board Of supervisors,
county or state office. If there is a
man in any office who voted for Ber-
ger, who, as Mr.. Houser says, is prac-
tically in favor of surrendering this
country to Germany, he should get
out Of Office and get out quickly When
hte liberty loan drive sweeps the
country it is to be hoped it will smoke
out these fellows and exhibit them to
the world. 1t is no time for man to
remain in office who supports Berger
or the kaiser.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
THE HAPPY MEAN

Why should the world be forced to
archy? The democratic nations be-
lieve that there is a happy mean be-
tween Prussianism on one hand, and
Bolshevikism on the other. Certainly
Prussianism means only slavery and
misery for the people. And Bolshe-
v1kism means about the same thing.
We are supporting democracy as
against either autocracy or anarchy.
And who that has read the history of
the world for 500 years can doubt that
in such a fight democracy eventually
will Cincinnati Times-Star.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW

The Chicago Tribune contains an
article on the study of the German
language in the public schools, and
sums up the situation as follows:
For the present we are convinced
that the teaching of German in the
schools needs most careful handling
and control A proper scrutiny of in
f1uences at work on the American fu-
ture demands it. Argument present
ing the cultural value of the German
language does not reach the essen
tial point. We want to be certain of
the effect on American nationality.
That is our present concern.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18

his coat. His work is cut out for him.
If he gets to thinking about something
else his antagonist has the chance to
put him down and out. Russia is the
shining example 1t stopped fighting
to reorganize society. Except by the
sacrifices of the western allies there
will be no free society left to reorgan-
ize. In this crisis America cannot frit-
ter away it's energies chasing rain
bows. 1t must put all its resources,
all it's tnergies into w2r Unless that
ms won, nothing else matters-Kan-
sas City Star.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18

The blowing season is full upon us.
The brown belly of the new plowed
ground is everywhere; the song of
the pillow is heard in the land. There
isn't any music in the world so sweet
as the singing Of the plow-the burst
ing sod, the twang of the breaking
vines, the gentle ripple of the parting
earth-that is music such as no or
chestra can initiate. Then, the odor
of the fresh earth as it is turned over
the perfume of the gods. You breathe
deeply when you smell it, as if to
get it's very blessing. The chest ex-
pands; the lungs are gladdened with
the freshness. The OdOr Of new
plowed ground cannot be initiated in
the laboratories of man. And the
point of the pillow runs through a new
universe, deeply populated. You will
want to stop frequently and study the
underworld exposed to the sun when
the furrow is turned. Tunnels and
trails and subterranean cavities, mag
nificent homes of little people-the
bugs and worms and ants Don't get
it into your head that the earth is
solid; it is porous, with life in every
pore AS for color. it is there. The
background is dark brown, and from
a distance it may appear to you as a
solid color. But it isn't; it varies as
greatly as the forest. But you must
follow the farmer and look closely and
listen to get the full benefit of the
enchantment that comes to his who
looks and listens in tie country.
lumbus CO., Dispatch.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
FROM MAX EHERMANN

During the days the writer was in
De Paw university at Greencastle,
Ind, the companionship of a young
man with German parents was greatly
enjoyed. He was student and had
a keen insight into the ways Of men.
This young man was Max Ehermann,
the author of volumes of prose, plays
and poetry, all of which have had a
wide reading. We are delighted to
know that our old friend is on the
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
GERMAN CLASSES DWINDLING

Empty benches are confronting the
teachers of German all over the Unit
ed States, despite the insistence Of
school boards and school superintend-
ents that the scholars ought to learn
the beauties of Teutonic literature,
war or no war. The pupils simply
won't do it, it seems. A thousand re-
plies from every part Of the United
States in response to an inquiry
show that the German classes are
dwindling in various parts of the coun-
try-10 per cent here, so per cent
there, 100 per cent in many places.
The lofty and perfectly logical view is
taken by many school authorities that
we are not at war with German liter
ature, and the instruction is contin-
ued; but the students fail to appear
While France and England feel
impelled all the stronger to continue
their study of German, in order to miss
no point in the enemy psychology, or
no fact in the enemy procedure, our
own necessities are different.-The
Literary Digest.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
ANOTHER BARBAROUS TOOL

1t is characteristic of the Germans,
is it not, that the supreme new horror
which their inventiveness has devel-
oped is directed against civilians.
The guns that can lombard Paris at
seventy-six miles are designed to
break the civilian morale, as were the
Zeppelin and aeroplane raids. How
distressing their fire must be we can
judge by trying to realize what it
would mean to have a 9-inch shell
arriving in Chicago from nowhere"
every twenty minutes for two days.
But whatever may be true of the me-
chanical wonder of this long-rarge fir
ing, it is nevertheless true, as that
Socialist deputy said in the reichstag,
that it's moral effect will be to drive
more permanently into the scorn of all
civilization the power across whose
barbarous record is already written
atrocities" "deportations," Sunk
without-trace" and poison gas Chi
cago Post.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
THINK OF 1T, GERMAN FRIENDS!

Those citizens Of German birth or
descent who voted for Berger for the
position of United States senator
ought to try to realize what it will
mean to this country to be at the
mercy of the war-crazed German kai-
ser, who said to his armies Of the east
in 1914:
81 am the instrument of the AL
mighty. I am his sword, his agent.
Woe and death to those who are op-
posed to my will. Woe and death to
those who do not believe in my mis-
sion! Woe and death to all towards.
Let them perish, all the enemies Of
the German peoplel God demands
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
GROWTH OF THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE

At one time there was no English
language; now it is one of the great
est on the earth. When Shakespeare
was the star in the old Globe theatre
in London there were not as many
people in the whole world who could
speak the language as there are now
in the state of Massachusetts or Mis-
souri,. AS to those who could read
Shakespeare's plays, there were prob
ably not as many persons as now live
in Seattle or Los Angeles. England
then was not great power, and did
not become so until long after. When
Queen Elizabeth sat on the throne,
when Mary of the Scots was a world
character, when Bacon wrote and
when Sir Walter Raleigh weighed the
smoke from a pipe of tobacco, there
were not as many people in all Eng
land as there are now in Chicago.
Here are few figures from the
Century Dictionary to show how the
language has grown and grown since
1900:
Italian, 100000; now 3S,OOO,0OO.
Spanish, 27,OOO,OOO; now 100000.
French, 100000; now 100000.
German, 100000; now 95,OOO,OOO.
Russian, 100000; now 100000.
English, 21,0O0,OOO; now 17O,OOO,OOO.
There has been SO much said about
the German language in the schools
it is refreshing to know how the above
languages are growing. The expansion
of the Anglo-Saxon speech is evidently
keeping pace with the world advance
ment.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
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MADlSON'S ELEPHANT

The gift Of an elephant to the Madi-
son ZOO by Mr.. Alfred T. Ringing
must give added popularity here to
the great Ringing circus. 1t is a well
come donation indeed-just what
Villas Park most needs.
When the Ringing brothers pre-
scented a beautiful, hundred thousand
dollar playhouse to Baraboo, certain
(guess what The Democrat said) Of
that usually intelligent burg proceed
ed to exact a popular referendum up
on the proposition, whereat, very prop
erly, the generous offer was respect
fully withdrawn. No such ungrateful
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
SHOOT THESE ENDANGERING
REAR

"The spirit of the German people is
to conquer, destroy, ravish and kill
everything that is not German" de-
clared Dr. Samuel Harden Church in
an address before the Republican club
Of New York. 81 am not preaching
a gospel Of hate, but l am preaching
gospel Of punishment and expiation
If an American soldier is to be shot for
endangering the front, every German
spy and propaganda should be shot
for endangering the rear"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
THE SPIRIT lover THERE"

Telling of his contact with the boys
cover there" from Vimy Ridge to Pc
rome, Harry Lauder, noted Scotch
comedian, in an address in Des Moines,
Ia, said:
"My first question to them at all
times was, How are you getting on,
boys? Yes, sir: How are you get
ting on?' We are getting on all right.
How are the folks at home getting on?'
I said, They are getting on all right,
but anxious about you, you know, out
here They said, oh, that's all
right. You tell the folks at home not
to be anxious about us. This is our
place out here. This is where the
best men in the world are, and tell
them that we are going to stay here;
if it is twenty years, we are going to
stay here, BECAUSE they said, look at
the wrongs on the right and left and
in front of you Whether from Old
England, or Scotland, or any other
country, men like these are not going
to quit-no, never. we are here; we
are going to stay here; not simply to
break he\Hun and Prussian military,
because if we only break and scatter
it it will certainly reassemble again
We are going to stay here unit! we
destroy it,"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18

their destruction; God, who by my
mouth bids you do his will"
Everything that Emperor William
said since that utterance is in entire
keeping with this statement. How
would the citizens of this country of
German birth or descent enjoy being
placed under the command or rule Of
anyone who in this time and age en-
tertains such blasphemous ideas as
here expressed ?-Madison Democrat.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
AMERICAS SUPREME TASK

America has just one job ahead
the job to fight the war through to vic
tory. People may have all sorts of pet
theories for social reorganization. The
country has no time now to consider
them. When a man is in a fight he
can stop to argue about the style of
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
BEG PARDON!

Certainly Senator Lenroot belongs
on a film, for did he not make La Fol
lette reel?-MadisOn Democrat.
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A NATURE STUDY
What is that noise?" asked little
James,
Out walking in the park;
THAT noise you hear" his father said,
SIS but the dogwood's bark"
"And tell me why the dogwoods bark -
He urged, with such to-do!"
II think" his father said, "they hear
The pussy-willows new"
Cleveland Leader.
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J. F. Kartack sends this office the
following clipped from a magazine:
He was just a long, lean country gink
From away out West where the hop
tOads wink;
He was six foot two in his stockin'
feet,
But he KEEP gittin thinner the more
he'd eat.
Yet he was as brave as he was thin;
When the war broke out he got right
in,
Unhitched his plow, put the mule
away,
An then the old folks heard him say:
REFRAIN:
Goodbye, NAV! Goodbye, paw!
Goodbye, mule, with yer old hee-haw,
I don't know what the wars about,
But you bet, by gosh, I'll soon find out!
Goodbye, sweetheart, don't you fear,
I'll bring you king for souvenir,
III git you Turk an a kaiser, too,
An that's about all one Teller kin do.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18

right side in this terrible war; for he
can see what calamity would be-
fall the world if the German war lords
were to rule the earth. AS to the
kaiser, here is what he says, as re-
ceived on a neat card in the mail:
THE KAISER
Starving children in many cOuntriesi
Widowed young women, and old wom-
en- who never again will see their
sOnsi Millions of soldiers in the last
bitter hours of mortal agony! Gnawed
skulls in the Shiny bottoms of many
seasi The kaiser spares his own sons,
yet upon his head is the blood of ten
million men. In Dante's picture of
hell he has no equal. He is the brutal
soul of savage beasts put into human
shape, the maddened dog that learned
our common speech, the viper stand
ingupright clothed as man. For van
ity he set the world aflame. Too long
the crown has crazed his festive
brain. Why should we not hate? 1t
is time for hate, and sacrifice born of
brooding hate! Why wait till the
wounded come back? Why wait till
the lists of the dead come in? Some
times, sitting at my table in the night,
suddenly | think / can hear the news
boys breaking the silence with their
far-away cries of Extra! Extra!"
Something tells me, They've got
him!" I listen again. The night is
silent. The thing was born of the
hope in my brain. But some time it
will be true! Then through all the
world will go up a prayer of thanks!
And through all eternity, the anguish
that he wrought will terrify his out
cast soul, as to and fro it wanders
trembling through the pits of hell! l.
the son of a German, who loved his
native land, but despised it's govern
ment, write this.
MAX EHRMANN,
In the New York Sun.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18

A friend at Hudson, we surmise it
might be Oscar Quale, formerly of Bar
aboo, has sent this office a newspa-
per clipping entitled "Once German,
Now All American" The article is
too long to appear in this paper, but
the writer shows in most appreciat-
i've words what America has done for
him. The writer concludes with these
words:
Whoever says that the German gov
eminent is better than we have here
speaks a SANDER against the United
States. He shouldn't, according to my
notion, remain unpublished. With
such people the German kaiser in the
German courts, would make short
shrift. This land, which deserves first
place in the sum- and with right, does
not have to take the taunts or dis
regard of other nations, neither from
Germany.
And, according to my human under
standing, it is the greatest injustice
that the American rights on the high
seas have not been better respected
by Germany, that our grain and food
stuffs which would have fed so many
hungry souls, have been sent to the
bottom of the sea. That hunger hurts
l, too, have experienced in my younger
years. We have had here so far,
thank God, nothing to complain of or
to kick about. We have felt very little
war in the country. We have plenty to
eat and to drink every day.
And now in this hour when the Stars
and Stripes knock at our door ana
want our help, now in this hour it is
our duty to prove without delay and
without murmur to step forward to
offer our hearts and our hands and
everything in our power in it's de-
Tense
Take good look at the American
dollar which we receive and dispense
SO uncOncernedly. 1t doesn't carry
the mark made in Germany" 1t is
American silver and it is American
gold wherewith we dress and buy the
luxuries We must not neglect the Red
Cross as though it were not Of our
business, because our men, our sons
need the help and care of the Red
Cross on the battlefields.
The Stars and Stripes did not hide
herself from us when we came for
help to these shores. She did not
make fun of us or bait at us when we
were unable to speak the language,
but, rather, gave us friendly and low
ing reception, and our motto, the
motto for me and my children, is and
always will be America for me-"
ONCE A GERMAN, NOW
ALL AMERICAN.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18

Wisconsin cannot secede from Mil
waukee, but it can give moral assist
ance to the many loyal Americans in
that lively city.-Chicago Daily News.
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The agents of the German govern
ment are busy spreading all sort of
lies about our sugar beet industry,
says a Wisconsin exchange. The pur-
pose is to discourage the sugar beet
farmer and reduce acreage by predict
ing low prices for sugar next fall.
This country has always relied on
Germany for sugar beet seed but now
we are producing our own seed of a
much superior quality.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18

attitude prevails toward this promised
elephant. Without indecorous haste,
yet without undue delay, DR.. c. G.
Dwight creator and guardian anger
of the ZOO, formally voiced acceptance
and appreciation.
No inane hesitation here! No action
to entail future regret.
We pocket the elephant. Baraboo
pockets it's loss-and its humiliation.
Madison Democrat.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18

Z IMPURE BLOOD, bol4s. eruptlona
Z rheumatism, that tired 3aeing, loss
Of appetite ana other Ills 4ae relieved
:, HOODS SARSAg %.-l.l -
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18

Wisconsin cleaned up-and Milwau-
KEGS case has merely been postponed.
News.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18

Lorenz N. Schrofer, Chicago, deputy
great commander Of the Maccabees
and a former resident Of Baraboo, is
exerting all his energies toward the
third liberty loan. In connection with
his order there will be patriotic meet
ings with suitable programs. Mr.
Schrofer was one Of a committee Of
three which drew up resolution, "a
Call to the Leaders," impressing all
fraternal associations doing business
in Illinois to aid as much as possible
The Maccabees have purchased bonds
to the value of 100000, and may take
more. Recently, Mr.. Schrofer made
substantial gift to the Baraboo Red
Cross, and is evidently doing all that
he can to win the war.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18
O0lm0gundi

Juding by the election returns the
crop of whiskey blossoms in Portage
will be large.
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State Senator Roy P. Wilcox, Eau
Claire, has sent us a copy Of The Mu-
nicipality containing an article en-
titled, "Who Shall Pay the Cost Of
Grade Separation" There was bill
in the last legislature on the subject
and another will probably be intro
duced when the members meet next
January. Mr.. Wilcox believes that
when the highway was there before
the railroad that the railroad should
pay for changing the crossing. The
final decision whether or not the Gloss
ing is to be separated is left with the
industrial commission, as at the pres
ent time.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-04-18

Perhaps Milwaukee would like for
someone to pass the carbolic acid.