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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-04-15

TT HE tidal wave which swept down
4 the Republicans in the congress
sional elections of 1874 still was run
ming so strongly in the campaign Of
1876 that Rutherford B. Hayes himself
never was confident of his success.
Nor was the country surprised to read
in the headlines the morning after cleo
ton that Tilden, the Democratic candi-
date, had won the race.
The Republican national headquar-
tiers in New York city shut up shop
early election night, and the Repub-
lican campaign managers went to bed
resigned to defeat.
Tilden was elected on the face OF
the returns, with N203 electoral votes
TO JOG for Hayes, and had also a
plurality of 100000 in the popular vote.
His election indeed rested on the same
basis as Cleveland's in 1884 and Will
sons in 1916. But in 1876 the Repub-
licians had not yet acqmesced in the
suppression of the negro vote in the
South. And if the negroes had not
been persuaded" by various means
from going to the polls, Tilden could
not have been elected.
Both the Republicans and the Dem
ocrats claimed TO have carried Louisi-
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-04-15

the removal of the civil service from
politics AMI spoils-mongering had not
both parties combined in congress to
thwart his every effort in that direc-
ton.
Hayes boldest challenge to lie
Republican politicians was his aban-
donment Of their 12-year struggle to
reconstruct the Southern states from
Washington. Ever since congress
had seized from Lincoln's lifeless
hand the control of reconstruction,
The entire proceeding had been
tragic failure.
Hayes came to the presidency in
the depths Of an Industrial prOstra-
ton when wandering bands of
tramps thronged the highways of the
land, and soon the first great railway
strike paralyzed transportation be-
tween the Atlantic and the Missis-
sippi. In response to the popular cry
for more money" both parties in
congress were for repeating or modi-
flying the resumption act and for in
fating the currency with greenbacks
on silver coinage. The president
firmly resisted such a surrender. Had
not his veto of the silver bill been
overridden he would have saved the
country from taking the first step on
the road that led ii TO the brink of
free silver in 1896.
All this independence cost Hayes
the support of the political time serv-
ers and the applause of the partisan
press. These united in denouncing
and ridiculing him as renegade in
politics and as a sniveling hypocrite
in private life.
The White House went dry" for
the first time under the Hayes, and
the president was held up to con-
tempt as a man too stipgy to stand
treat and too weak TO resist domi-
neering wife.
Hayes found the North and South
divided and he left them more nearly
reunited than they had been in
generation. He found the national
currency paper and he left it gold
and silver. lie found the prosperity
of the country at dead low tide and
he left it at high tide.
It fell to Hayes 20 ring down the
curtain on the epoch of the Civil
war and to. usher in another epoch.
The voices of the past cried out
against him, but in his complete re-
tirement from politics he lived to hear
the voices of the new time give
more favorable and a more just YER
diet on his administration.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-04-15

ana, South Carolina and Florida, and
from those states two sets of returns
were sent to Washington. Who should
decide between them? The Constitu-
ton provides merely that the president
# the senate shall. in the presence of
he senate and house, open the certi-
icates, "and the votes shall then be
counted"
But when there are two sets o.
votes, who shall say which shall be
counted? 1.-THE president of the sen.
,te," answered the Republicans be-
,ause the president of the senate was
Republican. "The two houses" said
The Democrats, because one of the
houses was Democratic.
Compromise was necessary to save
he government from chaos and the
,ountry from another Civil war. The
bitter dispute was left to Is men, one
bird of whom were senators and an
other third were representatives,
equally divided between the parties.
70 guarantee calm, judicial decision
The remaining third were justices of
the Supreme court.
Nevertheless, the commission pro-
ceeded to decide every essential ques-
tion in favor of Hayes by strict party
vote of to Z. Alas, the partisan
zeal of that feverish hour burned just
as fiercely beneath the gowns of the
justices as under the frock coats of
the legislators.
The judgment of the commission
was without force in law until adopted
by the two opposing houses, and some
disappointed Democrats in the house
baked at ratifying the decision against
Tilden. But representatives of Hayes
whispered to certain southern Demo
Gratis in a secret conference at Worm
ley's hotel that if they would let the
Republicans have the presidency, the
Republican president would let them
have their own state governments. The
bargain having been struck. it was
kept. After a turbulent night session
of the house the result of the election
was declared at four o'clock in the
morning of March 2, 1877, just Sc hours
before the Inauguration.
For three months Hayes himself had
been alternating from dag to day be-
tween expectation of success and de-
feat. Even when he started for Wash
ington on March / he was still so I'M
certain that he frankly told the peo-
pie of Columbus in his parting speech
hat he might he back with them and
. The governors cnair again In less
N a week.
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where he was held as a slave for ave
years.
After his ransom be wrote many
plays. They brought him more fame
than fortune, and he added to his re-
sponsibilities by wedding, at the age
of thirty-seyen, girl of nineteen. II
was evidently marriage of love. AZ
her dowry consisted only of ave vines
an orchard. some household furniture.
four beehivcs, 10 hens and chickens
one cock and a crucibIe." As he could
not live by his pen Cervnntes secured
minor government position; but he
was in constant difficulties because of
pressing debts and HIS unbusinessIiS<e
habits. He was thrown Into prison for
debt; released, he sank into abject pow
erty.
Part of "Don Quixote" was probably
written I'm Jail. This novel, magic
mirror that reflects mobiles aud kitchen
wenches, BARRIERS and ladies of high
degree, all the varied life of brill
liant period, is considered by many 10 he
the worlds greateat humorous MASTER
piece. The wonder of IL Is that IL was
written by man nearing his sixtiefb
year. who had all his life been poor, who
had known little except misfortune.
@Chfld-en turn it's pages. young people
read IL. grown men understand IL, old
folk praise IT."
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-04-15

Is u serves his party best Wnf
4 Il serves his country best
With those watchwords Hayes had
sacrificed himself and his administers
ton TO reunite North and South, to
cleanse the civil service and to regen-
crate the Republican party. SO qui-
city, so coldly, so automatically did
he go about all those great objects
that he remained to the end of his
term one of the most misunderstood
most underestimate presidents, the
Republican leaders hating him as an
ap0state and the Democrats despis-
ing him as a fraud.
He selected one of the most dis
tinguished cabinets in history. But
he did il without consulting party
leaders or considering the claims of
factions, and the offended senate
threatened and muttered for nearly
a week before it confirmed the nomi-
nations. To the disgust of practical
politicians" he threw away" a high
class foreign mission on a man like
James Russell Lowell, "a dashed lit
erary Teller" as Senator Cameron
said, and he enraged Roscoe Conk
ling by fiinglng the political machine
of the imperious senator out of the
federal offices In New York city. He
would also have made a start toward
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-04-15

Miguel de Ger
vantes Snavedrn.
d r n nm n list and
novelist, was born
I'm I545. the son of
a Spanish q ~uggist
and surgeon. He
died In Madrid in
l616, 10 days he
fore shnkespeare's
death.
As a youth Ger
vantcs went TO
Italy, w IA ere he
served as q pri-
waite I'm the army.
In "a naval battle
on Greece he war
thrice wounded,
his right hand be-
Ing permanently
MANNED. While
returning TO Spain
he was captured
by pirates and
alan a. AI-I
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-04-15

IT THE sixteenth century romances
b of chivalry, written in absurd, ex-
IL aggerated style, were extremely
popular in Spain.
A dignifed gentleman by the name
of Quxada, who lived between Aragon
and CASTLE, went crazy over these
foolish books, which he spent all his
substance in buying. His brain was
stuffed with entertainments, quarrels
battles, challenges, wounds. magic
salves, complaints, amours, tornents,
giants, castles, captured maidens, gal
liant rescues, and all sorts of impossi-
BILE deeds of daring, which seemed to
him as true as the most authentic his
! tory. Every inn-keeper was a mag
nate; every mule-driver a cavalier.
He decided that for his own honor
and for the service of the world, he
must turn knight-errant and jaunt
through the world, redressing wrongs.
rescuing captured princesses, and at
last winning the imperial sceptre of
Trapizonda.
He changed his name to Don
Quixote de la Mancha, got himself
dubbed knight by a rascally publican,
whose inn he thought was castle
with four turrets crowned with pin
nacles of glistening silver. In order
to carry a full purse he sold one of
his houses, mortgaged another and
borrowed a goodly sum from friend.
When. his practical housekeeper and
his pretty niece, together with his
neighbors, the barber and the curate.
thought to cure him by burning his
books he was persuaded that his
library had been carried away by
necromancer, and became crazier than
ever. He secured up a rusty suit Of
mail which had belonged to one of his
ancestors, mended the broken helmet
with a pasteboard vizor, patched with
thin iron plates, and thus accoutered
set forth on his old hack Rocinante.
whose ribs stuck out like the skeleton
of a ship, accompanied by a rustic
named Sancho Panza, persuaded into
serving as his squire.
Their departure was a brave spec
tacle: the tall, cadaverous, lantern
jawed knight, mounted on his bonX
nag, welding his long lance and car
rying lis sword, his eyes cleaning
with enthusiasm and dreaming of his
beautiful mistress, whom he called
Dulcinea del Toboso; the short, squat
paunch-bellied, long-haunched servant
with canvas wallet and leathern
bottle, mounted on the diminutive ass.
Dapple.
On the plains of Montiel stood a |
score of big wind-mills. Don Quixote |
took them for outrageous giants and |
prepared to do battle against them. |
and despite Sancho's protests that |
their huge arms were only vanes, he |
plunged the rowels into Rocinante's /
thin. TANKS and with couched lance, |
dashed off to the encounter. The vino |
blew violently and the knight and his |
steed were whirled away into the field,
where they lay motionless and as If |
dead: his lance was smashed to fin
ders. Sancho FASTENED to the aid of |
his master and found him unable to |
stir: but he was soon ready to go on
again.
Their next adventure was with two
monks. riding on mules as big as
in company with a coach
in which sat a lady escorted by men
on horseback. Don Quixote imagined
that adventurers had captured
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-04-15

The Story of
Our States
BY JONATHAN BRACE
I.-DELAWARE
g H ~ , ISS ,l Z Z i s ! ! : !
Nh Z sTssyA, nv of being the
HI ~ - r aaI S first of the
NM ~ lssESN original thir-
Nss,esszss<ssN teen states.
~ le.. - December Z.
1857, it officially adopted the Con
stitution and thus was made a
beginning of our present Federal
government. According TO the
seventh article of the Constltu.
ton, however, il was necessary
for nine states TO ratify il before
it actually came into force. SO
it was not until the following
June, by which time eight other
states had accepted the Consti-
tuition, that the United States of
America actually came into be-
ing.
The early history of Delaware
was a varied one. 1t started in
1888 when a small party of
Swedes settled at the mouth of
the Delaware river and called it
New Sweden. In 1866, Peter
Stuyvesant, the governor of the
Dutch colony Of New Neither
lands, annexed this territory. But
it did not long remain Dutch,
for in 1864 the English took
possession. When Pennsylvania
was decided to William Penn he
desired access to the seacoast
and at his urgent request Della
ware was transferred to PENIS
prOprietorship. From the be-
ginning of the eighteenth cen
Jury, however, Delaware had its
separate legislature, and at the
lime of the Revolution it be-
came an independent state.
Delaware is next TO the small
est of our states. having an area
Of only 2,370 square miles. It's
participation in presidential cleo
tons is limited to three electors.
This is arranged according TO
population. Each state is entitled
to the same number of presiden-
tial electors as it has members
Of congress, so the influence of {,
the different states in voting for I
the President varies from Della !
wares three electors to New !
Yorlx's 45. [,
AS to the derivation of the
name Delaware, this was aDpro-
nriately given to the state from
the river, which in turn was
named after the bay and the bay
was called Delaware in honor of I
Lord Delaware, who was COVER
nor of the Virginia colony in
1910.
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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-04-15

it," said the hotel
k e e per. 81 O W
down jokes are
being played on
the best of us, al
most every day,
and / often won
der what sort of
an evil genius is
behind it all.
81 used to know
a man who was a
wonderful horse
breaker. He used
to give public eN
hibitions, tanning
man-killing brutes,
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-04-15
IRONIES OF LIFE

GTOMUELSON made a talk to the
u Commercial club, on Business
Efficiency" observed the retired mer-
chant, "and the next day his store was
closed by the sheriff."
Life is full of such ironies. doggone
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-04-15
Miss Fortune Had Been There.

Editor Ito unsuccessful artist)--
None of these drawings suit me-but
cheer upi Dame Fortune will cone
to your door one of these fine days.
Artist-She1l jolly well have to
knock, then. Her daughter, Miss For
tune, has wrecked tbs bell
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-04-15

The Story Of
Our States
By JONATHAN BRACE
H.-PENNSYLVANIA
U r. HE second
Mcasssa, % 1 state to
NJ sxrXArAA. w adopt the Con-
kS T ga Is VA stitutiOn was
w wax lE ISL Z ennsylvania.
Ws\$,sNSfE3EAN Its area OF
NSSsseET/ 1925 square
ses miles is lorger
than the combined New Eng
land states, except Maine, with
New Jersey thrown in for good
measure. Its name N ca II S
"Penn's Woodland" and was so
named by King Charles ii, who
granted this territory to the
Quaker, William Penn, and
named il in commemoratlon OF
PENIS father, who had been a
distinguished admiral and on
terms of peculiar friendship and
intimacy with the royal family.
This grant was made in lieu of
f16,000, which the king owed Ad-
miral Penn. On this basis ii
originally cost about 81 square
mile.
Pennsylvania has assumed
such an important place among
the states that it is often called
the keystone state. This term
was probably derived originally
because her name was carved
ON the keystone of the bridge
over Rock creek, between Wash
ington and Georgetown. Later on
il was applied on account of the
great Importance of the state in
national elections. Its delega-
ton to congress totals 80, sec
Ond only in size to that from
New York, and Pennsylvania
accordingly has SO presidential
electors.
William Penn first came over
TO America in 1852. The follow
ing year he laid out the city of
Philadelphia, or "BrOtherly
Love-" which was named after
a biblical city in Asia Minor. AS
Pennsylvania was the only col
ony without a seacOast, Penn
Obtained from the duke of York
the control of Delaware, and I'M
til the Revolution these two
provinces were under the same
proprietary government. Quar-
rels with Maryland over bound
aries caused a formal survey
TO be made by two surveyors,
Mason and Dixon, and it was
this which became famous dur
ing the Civil war as the Mason
and Dixon line, the dividing
mark between the slave and the !
free states. !
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-12-23
School Notes

The Jasper High School will
have one weeks vacation from
December %. to January 2.
There is no basket ball game
scheduled this week.
The Jasper High School had
a Christmas Present Exchange
tod ay.
The Grades of Public School
have their rooms beau iifully de
corated and also had a Christmas
program giving out a number OF
gifts
Jasper High School was busy
at their examination this week.
Ralph Jacknan fell off of a
tree Sunday hurting his leg and
bruising his head. He returned
Wedne sday to school after two
days ebsence.
Adeline Melchoir returned to
school Monday after few wet ks
absence
The Huntingburg High School
Basket Ball Team will 90 to
French Lick tonight for a game
The Christmas number of the
Optimist, the Huntingbug High
School paper. was put out Tues
lay morning.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-12-23
A New One

Tara Boom de aye! The Birds
eve Signal is the new paper from
the CaIitol of: Jefferson tp. AS
Dubois County was sadly In need
of new paper, brother John l..
Schneider, one time Crawford
county lawyer ::and later Birdseye
On Stock promoter, is the Official
sponsor. and with the assistance
of Mamie We are told he's issued
very creditible paper on De
cember Is Typographical it
is fine and has the ear marks of
having been executed at the Sig
nal office in Huntingburg, it's
namesake. dow long it will last
no one can tell Birdsey e is a
newspaper grave yard since the
days when fom Wilson Thoughts
he had a fortune in sight with
the News. Then the Home Wis
itor" by some i.inerant preacher
peacefully closed its eyes in
dreamless sleep some seven years
ago since then Birdseye has been
wit bout paper. 1t needs enc
badly, like H. The people OF
Dubois county never have sup
ported two papers decently let
alone nine as at present.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-12-23
New Court Cases

The following is the new cases
created by the the last grand jury
who are under arrest.
Charles Miller Of Portersville
having Intoxicating liquor in his
possession
Charles Miller, public intoxica-
ton.
Charles Schnnarr, public into
xicat:on.
Jacob Schnarr, public intoxica
ton.
En- Robinson, Drawing danger
Gus firearms.
Will Miller drug clerk Hunting
burg selling 2 ounces Of ntoxi.
eating liquor for 75c.
Henry Keller driving auto.
mobile while intoxicated.
C, ID Otto. of Huntingburg,
passing a fraudulent check on
Jasper Bakery for 81 so.
There are some more warrants
out hlch nave not yet Deen
served.
There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and for years it was sup
posed to be incurable. Doctors pre-
scribed local remedies, and by constant
lly failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable. Ca,
tarrh is a local disease, greatly influ
Ienced by constitutional conditions anC
therefore requires constitutional treat
lment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufac
tured by +. j. Cheney < Co., Toledo
Ohio, is a constitutional remedy, i:
taken internally and acts thru tn,
Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of tn,
System. One Hundred Dollars reward
E is offered for any case that Hall:
Catarrh Cure fails to cure. Send TO
lcirculars and testimonials.
+. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation
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Moody Katter one of the per.
petual office seekers of II burg
has been named % the post
master of the burg. Well Moody
ought to make a good one. He
has had 4 years experince as de.
putty postmaster, been town clerk
for several years. was defeated
last election, and being a Lame
duck" Cong. Dunbar had to
see that he was taken care OF
tho we have documentary evi-
dence thst some of the repubs OF
the Burg are not happy
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American fan mers have invest

American farmers have invest
ed $4,000, 100000 in gas propell
ed vehicles Nearly % OOU trait
ors are being used on the farms
Pennsylvania farmers led thos >
of all other stat es in adopting the
motor in use on Pennsy varia
farms. No other sta te has an E.
uual number. New York stands
second with 1886 and Ohio third
with $3.50 Pennsylvania farm.
ers own nearly 100000 automu-
biles and 5000 tractors. There
are 202, ZOO farms in Pnnslvania
The one place where you are
sure to find sympathy is in the
dictionary.
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Cut This Quilt Worth Money

Cut out this slip, enclose with 81
and mail il TO Foley & Co, 1885 Shelf
field Ave, Chicago, ILL.,, writing your
name and address clearly. You viii
receive in return a trial package con
tanning Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound for coughs, colds and Group
Foley Kidney Pills for pains in side:
and back; rheumatism. backache
kidney and bladder ailments: anC
Foley Cathartic Tablets. a wholesome
and thoroughly cleansing catharti'
for constipation. biliousness, head
aches. and sluggish bowels.
Sold by Rose Mehringer
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-12-23

Augustine Dwyer spoke last
thursday at the St Joseph hall
about Rome the Eternal City
Tn Y showed many beautiful
S ides, about the impor tant
churches and cathedrais there.
Dwyer has travelled in Rome
and studied the Vatican. This
was given under the auspices of
K. os G.. of Jasper. There was a
large crowd attending this pro.
gram.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-12-23

Rural route carrier Cora Do ane
and her neice, school marin Della
r. Doane went to Louisville last
Friday night 20 see the sigh
They got a good ducking in the
heavy rair storm Saturday. told
taxi cab driver they could say
money by walking. got their
clothes dried at Mrs. Whitten's
and came home Sunday. Sure
had a heluvOfa time
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-12-23
Taking Desperate Chances.

1t is true that many contract severe
colds and recover from them without
taking any precaution or treatment,
and a knowledge of this fact leads
others to take their chances instead
of giving their colds the needed at
tention. 1t should be borne in mind
that every cold weakens the lungs,
lowers the vitality, makes the system
less able to withstand each succeed
ing attack and paves the way for the
more serious diseases. Can you af-
ford to take such desperate chances
when Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
famous for its cures of bad colds may
be had for a trifle?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-12-23
Jasper TrOun ;es Midtown

Last Friday Midtown came to
Jasper declaring that they would
defeat Jasper. But Alas they
were stung. Jasper High School
defeated Midtown basket ball
team by a score of SO to 4. At
the close of of first half the
score was % to 2 Jaspers favor,
At the conclusion of the game
the score was SO to a. Jasper
put in subs the beginning of End
half and were taken out later
and first team players put in.
The players of both teams
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-12-23
Child Almost Strangled .

Mrs. G. Grab, BIG Washington
Ave-, New Orleans, La, writes: my
child had a cough so bad she would
almost strangle coughing. Foley's
Hony and Tar relieved her cough, and
| recommend it to any mother" Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar gets right at the
seat of trouble, clears nose and throat
of mucus, heals raw and inflamed sur
face, loosens tightness of the chest
and checks Group, whooping cough,
bronchial and "flu" coughs. Sold by
Rose Mehringer.