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America as Helpless as Belgium
ROOSEVELT POINTS OUT FOLLY OF UNPREPAREDNESS.
HISTORY SHOWS THAT MILITARY EFFICIENCY
IS NECESSARY TO THE PROSPERITY
OF NATIONS.
ing except mischief until they are
willing to- look fucks squarely in the
fate. One of these facte is that uni- I
vernal military service, wherever Aew
tried, has on the whole been a benefit I
and not a harm to the people of the '
DETAILED STATK >1 K YI OF EX.
PEJiSE.
Everybody's would probably have been able
Theodore Roosevelt in
Magazine. avert the war, and If this could not sal .prestation for military service
Military preparedness meets two have been done, would at any rate The same thing is true of Australia'
needs. In the first place, it Is a par- been able to save both France and' Chile and Argentina It would Le'
tial insurance against war. In the Belgium from Invasion. j well for the United States from every
next place, it is a partial guarantee Switzerland, at the time of Na- standpoint Immediately to provide
that if war comes the country cer- poleon was not prepared for war. such universal military training
talnly escapes dlshoner end will prob-j In spite of its mountains, its Two Extremes
ably escape .material loss. i neighbors overran It at will. | We mus also remember, however
e Question of preparedness can! Great battles were fought on its that the mischievous folly of the men
not be considered at all until we get soil, including one great .battle be- whose counsels tend to Inefficiency
certain things in our minds. Right tween the French and the Russians; Impotence is not worse than the base-
thinking, wholesome thinking, is en-1 but the Swiss took no part In these ness of the men wh„ in „ „.l
DiXTStllLA.ND IIIE It VI.I.ES.
From tile Chicago Tribune.
This beautiful song is the favorite of
the Germans who are fighting on the
firing line and the Germans who are
"" ~ 2r" XSSS, r— "
Administration to Hate Jiifornia*
lion on All Depart incuts
Pie have beyond all question benefited able as a result of the activities of the
to by their system of limited but unlver-
sential as a preliminary to sound nut-j battles, their territory was practlc- mean and cringing admiration of' ' accruing within that fis-
lonal action. Until our people under-( ally annexed to the French republic, brute force gloss over or Justify of
stand the folly of certain of the tfrg- and they were domineered over first even deify, the exhibition of unseru-
uments advanced against the action by the Emperor Napoleon and then by pulous strength
this Nation needs, it is of course lm- bis enemies. It was a bitter lesson,. Writings like' those of Homer Lea
possible to expect them to take such but the Swiss learned it. Since then or Nietzsche, or even Professor Tre-
r°" W. K. , , Ithey have gradually preI"lred for WHr itschke—not to speak of much of Car-
The , , , , , , I" "0 0ther 8ma" 'taU' °f Eur0"e haS yle-are a8 objectionable as those of
The first thing to understand is the done, and It is in consequence of its Bloch and Angell Our peeonle need
fact that preparedness for war does preparedness that none of the com- to pay homage to the great effciency
not always insure peace, but it very batants has violated Swiss territory and the Intense patriotism of Ger
in the present struggle. many. But they need no less fully to
Argentina and Chile. irealize that this
Harvard.
stale p„„i„„ i , . The poem wa" written ^ Hoffman von
State Examiner and Inspector's office Fallersleben. and the music by Jos
a most complete resume of the cost of Haydn:
the several branches of State Govern- German land, above all others
ment, including each of the executive Dear above all other lands
departments and each of the State in- That, a faithful host of brothers
stltutlons. This data Is being gather- Evermore united stands
ed by Charles Alexander of the Ex- That, from Maai to farthest Memel
aminer and Inspector's office. It is And from Etch to Belt expands:
coming to hand now on (blanks pre- j German land above all others
pered for the purpose. Dear above all other lands! '
The banks call for statement of cost I
of maintenance for the last
greatly increases the chances of sec-
uring peace. Foolish people point out
nations which in spite of preparation
for war have seen war forced upon
^ German wine and German song
cal year that were paid from funds ap- . In the world shall keep the beauties
.propriated for the following fiscal That of old to them belong,
year; all deficiency claims accruing Still to noble deeds inspiring
within said year that are outstand-1 They shall always make us strong 
ing and unpaid, together with a com- German faith and German women,
plete list of the names of all officers I German wine and German song!
and employes on Nov., 30, 1914. The I
expenditures statement is to be div- Union, right and freedom ever
ided between accounts for salaries, for | *'or 'he German fatherland!
support and maintenance, office sup-. with brotherly endeavor,
plies, etc., and for permanent improve- i Let us strive with heart and hand!
ments and .reppairs and real estate. jEor a bliss that wavers never
Detailed statements of the claims' Un>on, right and freedom stand-
not paid which accrued during the this glory bloom forever,
Bach executive department is asked I
patriotism has at
Striking examples of these facts are times .been accompanied by callous in-
t hem, and then excla.,0 i that prepared- i LTlm^/n t"°, ht1,t0r' °f S"a"' * the <" weaker'last "fiscal year"a^Hed" to™' TIe| H1 m, my German fatherland!
ness against war is of nouL suh '!? , r ne"rly ' a"d that eH1<;lency llaH 8ame is asked for ""'"is outstanding! — 
an argument is precisely like saying tbree"quarter8 of a C8ntUry aft'-r these at times been exercised In a way that! which were Incurred during the last OEKMANV WINS IT'S
. pre"8®1Jr 11Kt sayin*> states won their Independence their represents a genuine setback to im-, fiscal year '
that the existence of destructive fires hi8lory wa8 llttle elge than a 8u(.cee. manity and clvlUzatlon W lm 1 y6ar'
lTha*ng fire ^departments6 Tamo, « ^ and wars Germany's conduct toward Belgium I to make a showing of employes whose |
Fifty yeears aeo China Korpa anrt lheln8elves aB wlUl outsiders, can be justified only in accordance positions are specifically fixed by
Japan were in substantially the 'same' was little"^8 rthl ""Ti ''TT, tht're v'"' i" Wh'Ch Wi" al8° ^lfy | statute,together with the names of all!
stage of culture and civilian Inn 1 nothing dolnK In the way Napoleons conduct toward Spain and officers and employes
n , . civilization, of effective military preparedness by his treatment of Prussia and of all
1 . ose statesmen had vision, 0ne of them. During the last twenty Germany during the six years sue
and whose people had the fighting or thirty years, however, certain of ceedlng Jena 1
edge, began a course of military pre- them, notably Argentina
llTT.l' ""f the °th,er tW° natlon8|have prospered and become stable, and Cchornhorst; with Andreas Hofer
tone of them 111 natural resources lm-: Their stability has ibeen partly .with Koerner and the Tugenbund'
measura j superior to Japan) re- caused by and partly accomplished and if he does so sympathize, he must
i 8 116 unprepar* • ln coniequence, t>y a great increase in military pre- extend the same smypathy and admir-
apan as mmensely increased its paredness. During this period Ar- ation to King Albert and the Belgians
power and standing and is wholly free ■ gentina and Chlie have known peace I Moreover, It is we" for^ Amerllans
OL'lt TUIiN NEXT.
world will be prussianized,"
says great sociologist, and
u. s. will be great mili-
tary nation.
do not see how any
and Chile, man can fall to sympathize with iSteln
from all danger of military Invasion.
as they never knew before, and as to remember that what has been done
Korea, on the contrary, having first the other Spanish-American countries to Belgium would of
been dominated by Russia, has
course be done to
now have not known it either before or u8 Just as unhesitatingly If the con-
been conquered toy Japan. China has since; and at the same time their mil-! dltlons require it
been partially dismembered; one-half ltary efficiency has enormously In-
of its territories are now subject to creased.
thie, idOmitll0n of fo,elK" "atlons.l Proiiortlonately, Argentina and Chile
which have time and again waged are in military strength .beyond all
war between themselves on these ter- comparison more efficient than
JOHN MUIK, EXPLORER AND
NATURALIST, DIES.
ritories, and Its remaining territory is | UniVed'statesT'"and our'navy'Ts per- j Des®riptiOns °f Yosemite Valley
kept by it .purely because these for- niitted to deteriorate nj It has been de- FlrSt Brou£ht ll into Fame,
elgn nations are Jealous of one an- teriorating for nearly two years, the
6^; I same statement can soon be made, al-! 1jOS Angele8> Cal., Dec. 24.—John
The Example Of Belgium. I though with more qualification, of Ulr' the "atula st, died in a hospital
In 18,0 France was overthrown and tlhelr naval strength. Preparedness t0day ofPneun>onia. He was 76
suffered by rar the most damaging for war has made them far less liable/'""'8 °f Uge'
and disastrous defeat it had suffered to have war. It has made them less, I Mr Mu,r waB visiting his daughter
u
ALCOHOL 3 PfcR CENT
AVtgelable Prcpcrationlor.ls
similaiiiig iht Food anilRi'guia
t ing II ip S lomaclis ondlitwcls of
Promolt's Dig,  slion .Che erful-
nessand ResiJTontains ncittta
Opium.MorphiiM: nor Mum al.
Not Narcotic.
Ridpc.ifoiiiJri'M.nmnim
deed
Jlx.Srnna
JfoM/i&.'s
AiisrStnl
UtCarfc
harm Wd-
Cfgrined Stirrr
i-1a
Aperient Remedy forCnnshjia-
lion, Soui- StoraachXIai rhoca
Worms ,fonvulsions.Fewrish
ntss ami Loss OF 5u:ep.
FacSiniik* Signature or
new' york.
Guaranteed imH r t'-.e Food a
Exact Copy of Wrapper.
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
Bears the
Signature
of
holding such
positions Nov. 30, 1914, for the legal
residence of suclh employes at date of' New York. Dec.,25.—Prof. Franklin
appointment or election. The same H' G|dd'ngs, who fills the chair of
showing is required on account of per- sociology and Is Carpentler professor
sons employed otherwise than In pos- °f the histor>' of civilization at Colum-
itions specially created and fixed by bla university, believes that if Ger-
statute. !many wins in the present war the ger^ans became
The data thus secured will ibe used ' States must of necessity be-
in the framing of laws and appropria- come foremost militaristic nation
tion bills looking to efficency and e- °" earttl- ln a recent interview he
conomy In the .business of the state. . d<*;lared:
"Quite apart from all questions of
In
Use
For Over
Thirty Years
CASTORIA
ENEMIES IN SAME TRENCH.
good friends between bat-
tles and lived togeth-
er for greater com-
fort.
Keifer School Entertainment.
 — , Boulogne, Dec. 15.—(Correspondence
|the violation of neutrality,fl from all of the Associated Press).—A British
I discussion of the causes of the war, soldier relates a remarkable story of
2-ird « °r °f Wh° WaS right and who was how the fellah and Germans hob-
' wroner—swmiinp nil that _ nnhh^ *1.   ,
since the day8 of Joahn of Arc—be
cause it was not prepared. In the
present war it has suffered terribly,
•but It beyond all comparison better' a « ,, .
nff fhon w « , onn ! i Amorica are paralled elsewhere,
off than it was in 1870, because it has
been prepared. Poor Belgium, in spite « ♦« 1
of ka( rr . j . 1 nation le«s prepared for war than we
of being prepared, waa almost destroy-
Mrs. Helen Muir Funk, at Daggitt, a
I town in the desert of San Bernardino
Snanish !county' He was stricken with pneu-
lere li m0nial l8St W6ek' Tucsdii>'   was de-
1898 there was hardly an Important t0 bnng llim t0 this city.
and not more, aggressive.
1 I nprcparcd lu 18 8.
The lessons taught by
ed, because great neutral nations—
the United States .being the chief of-
fender—have not yet reached the
standard of international morality
and willing to tight for righteousness
which must be attained before they
can guarantee small, well behaved,
civilized nations against cruel disas-
ter. England, .because It was prepared
as far as its navy is concerned, has
been able to avoid Belgium's fate; and
on the other hand. If It had been pre-
pared with its army as France, it
When he arrived last night, Mr. Muir
... , waB ln a critical condition. His dauzh
were, with the exception of Spain. But ,er WU8 wlth him when daugh
this unpreparedness had not the I
effect in .preventing war between
Wednesday evening, Dec. „   
large and appreciative audience com wr0DB~'BweePlne all that aside— the j nobbed in the same trench a few miles
posed of the patrons and friends of sTaZT ^ UD'ted S°U"1 °f Y"reS
District 61 (Keifer School), met at !ff' , j!' I™ are, ,We golng t0 be
their annual entertainment and splen-1 ' y resnlt.
did treat.  
It was one of the most delightful se"lement of 80me sort. a pretty poor and in these for more than „
occasions ever known, which means ®eUIement l",rhaPS, but a settlement the men of both sides had been bored
much to a school noted for its social J. negotlatlon in which the United and inactive. They amused themselv-
and literary programs. i btatea as a sreat neutral and disinter-; ps as beat trey could exchanging mes-
seemed perfectly at 68tetl °atlon witl be sure to play an sages, swapping newspapers and to-
^ y . important part
There were a handful of Germans
, and a smaller handful of allied forces.
If the allies win, there will be a|Trenches were but a few yards apart,
week
The children
followed and the unique compact came
to an end.
REPUBLICAN MEMBERS TO
CONFER.
Hill Outline (ienerul Policy of Minor-
it)' in House.
Oklahoma City, Dec. 25.—A confer-
ence of republican members of the
Lower House of the Fifth Legislature
has been called for Jan. 4 in this city.
The call was issued by Tom Tester-
man of Morrison. The general policy
of the minority ln the House will be
outlined and a leader selected at this
meeting. It is expected that other re-
publican leaders than the members of
the Legislature will participate.
Republican members of the House
are as follows: J. C.- Smith, Chero-
home while they rendered an excel-| Pp,^.n'ParL ibaceo' hurlln« back a"d forth greet- Ikee; L. A. Everhardt,' Bickford- Wil-
lent program, made up of songs, read- L " Germany wins, if the dreams , ings and epithets. fHam J. Ladd. Bristow; C. H. Holmes
inir ritninaiinu  i._j- ... 1 military party comp trim if i More davs nnanoH onH oiin ^n— rio<r., i t — _ . '
,h a ™1Iitary party come 'rue, if | More days passed and still neither [Gage; J. A. Marsh, Kingfisher- Tom
the doctrines of Treltschke and Bern- side received orders either to attack Testerman, Morrison Eldon E Sams
hard! prevail, then there will be no,or to withdraw. Some sort of co-1 Delaware; W. H. Olmstead Wynoka-
engotiation^ There will be only sub- operation seemed necessary. Accor-1E. O. McCance, Mutual; Howard M
msslon. Germany will say to the Singly the Germans hoisted a white 1 Drake, Dombey; Marvin M Mcr.irrt
worl'I pawers: 'Your're licked. Take tla8 and, advancing under this, enter- " - '
Paul" uy° ,rmedlcine' and we Will take the j'd the allied trench for a conference.
Butler) distributed a gift to each | rt'8t:' I1"116 result was
ing, dialogues, etc., concluding with
the literary society paper, which men-
tioned each pupil in the school in
some pleasing manner.
At the close of the entertainment
"Father Christmas" and "Old Saint
Nick," (Willis Purviance and
agreement was
I vu ■* 014 1, UJ V <1V. 11 j || m. - _ | ™ It I
John Muir, like John Burroughs, jchild 111 the school, while the teacher 1P " wl" be Prnssianized. reached that it would be more com
Spain and ourselves When Greece W"h Wh°m hiS name often has been |Mra- Chas. Pickering, was the recip- ''very"'ht're except in American the fortable for all to live in one trench
was entirely unprepared for war it ll!,k(,d' wa8 a natura «t whose work is | lent of many useful and beautiful I?umpb°f "^'"tism fill be complete, "ntll one side or the other received
was entirely unprepared for war, it so fuged with th(J wrlter,a Bersonalitv 'B' s. lThe s"irit of democracy and all lib-'orders.
nevertheless went to war with Turkey, onri    ... ,   At O.clock every Qne wen{ horae'"al thought will be utterly crushed.! Th<> Germans moved over bag and
u ... . Turkey, and so penetrated by individual feel-
exactly as it did when it waa pre- jnir that thoir
.. , .... "'o mat tneir output was as much llt-
pared, the only difference was that erature as science.
in the one case it suffered disaster! .
and the other it did not. The war ' "'°"phter a°d artlst 38 we" as ob"
between Italy and Turkey was due lTo'rk w^ " CrCa"Ve, d"light
wholly to the fact that Turkey
not prepared-that It had no navy. I Born In Dunbar, Scotland in 1838
e fact that in.1848 Prussia was en-j Muir came to this country at the age
tlrely unprepared and moreover had of II, a ndafter graduating from the
just been engaged in a revolution .University of Wisconsin with the clasl
I heartily approved by all the ultra-pac- j of 1864, plunged immediately into his
| flciBts and professional humanitarians, | life work of geologist, explorer and
did not prevent it from entering on a • naturalist.
war with Denmark. It merely pre-1 His descriptions of the Yosemite
vented the war from .being succelisful. Valley first brought it into national
Utter and complete lack of .prepa- J fame and his visit there left him with
tion on our part did not prevent our a love of the West that led him to
entering into war with Great Britain "lake his home at Martinez, Cal., in his
in 1812 and with Mexico ln 1848. It later years.
merely exposed us to humiliation and 1 To the great glacier Muir discover-
   I disaster ln the former war; in the ed in Alaska in 1881 his name was
Maybo the serpent latter' Muxlco wa  even worse off glvpn- As a member of the De Long
-ofsickness is crush- thHn we were. As for civil war, of r,,"nf expedition he made further val
In# you to death; course, nil'itary unpraparedness has uable polar reports.
eyes dull, a neverenS not only prevented it but, on the con-j As a traveler, partly in company
inK wearinessholdsyouj i trary, seems lusually to have been th John Burroughs, he visited Haw-
U Too many women well one of the causes. |a"' Russ'a. Siberia. Manchuria, India
meaning ol The Militaristic Spirit. . nd A"stralaela, but his life work was
and endless n^hto.a^'11 Preparedness for war occasionally tbe mountains of Western Amer-
Functional and or- bas a slight effect in creating or in- " " ere 110 made an elaborate clas-
^l?gemen,t8F?W creasing an aggressive and mllltaris- 8ifl(-a,|on of "launal and floral life,
tte^omnendlidi^ta 8 "" "'ore often It distinctly by much descriptive
time. Don't suffer lonc-er. diminishes It. In Switzerland, for in-1 r>.
Stella. Vitammll relieve stance, which we can well afford to . recent ypars hI« signature was
Th^ronderful remedy take 88   n,odf'1 for tive'unuThls LT
thm guarantied mo- tlvenesj in preparation, and the re- mon|a
DOES DANGER
THREATEN YOU?
Are You in the Coils
of Disease?
World-power such as has never been baggage, and for a number of days all
known ln history will be wielded by a went well. Many of the Germans
nation that has developed along ma- spoke English and French. Under the
terlalistlc lines, that Is steeped ln the strange circumstances friendships
4 au teachings of Nietzsche, that believes sprung up. Both factoi
From Popular Mechanics Magazine. 'wpaknpss thp essential evil, might the arrival of a messenger.
A floating caisson gate that is be- c88entlal righteousness, and compas-1 One day a messenger came,
happy and cheerful, wishing one an-
other many more such delightful oc-
casions.—"Joshua Craddock."
Floated a Gate to Panama.
Enid; Henry W. Headley, Ponca City;
Jake Zabloudll, Prague; Ed C. Kee-
gan, Chandler; Amos A. Ewing, Guth-
rie; O. B. Acton, Lovell; J, T. Dicker-
son, Edmond; Jesse B. Norton, Okla-
homa City.
ChM'Jii'ir'i!"if?".' tetjjefln- tentlon and development of all per- .
Kuish^ nhyiiar, who^vo ?he b^ 80nal «ua,U,<'  wh"'h ^ the indl-11 tl ^ MU'r, W" Klven t0 ">"n-
years of me study to its perfection. | vidual man the fighting edge, have mong s earliest achieve-
a 'ifeFivin? tonic puar- in no shape or way Increased the mil- "* rfcount«l by himself was an
ftnteed by every dealer wno sel& it. « * « . . alarm clock device which threw him
Whenever a bottle fails to benffit you, itarl,,t °r *K*r™8i"' 8"lrit <>" the out of bed in the morning
tho dealer cheerfully refunds every contrary, they have douibtless been hinl Ih„ ... .. ' saved
penny it cost you. It Is perfectly barm- among the factors that have made the *!l° troul,,° niaking up his
,ess—healing and health in everv dron uumDO _ . . .. Mind to get up in a cold rooi
Thousands of weU women all over 2o * ,, ." . ^ . law-abiding and he Improved upon it by another
SOCIALISTS TO MAKE PLANS
John Kenneth Turner will Attend
State Convention Dec. 29-81.
t, .v . . , i Oklahoma Cit, Dec. 25.—Among the
Both factoins dreaded the persons expected to be in attendance
| at the State Socialist Convention to
ileved to be the largest of its kind ev- S'°n 'he °n'y 8in~a nation that de-!Plans for the renewal of hostilities : Kenneth'Turner" I ntTrarv '' 18 J°^n
er built has been completed at San the rl8ht of 80verelgn peoples to' were hastily made. But the messen-1 has written a great leaTZ Th""'
both create and enjoy constitutional Ker proved to be only a bearer of mail lar magazines. Mr. Turner is in OWa"
y' land nPWS,,an"ra rnr ,h° *" homa Studying the problems of the
tenant farmer and learning about the
Canal, where it is to be used, when; - —    ....
required, as a dam across the entrance "Now' discarding all the bosh about gathered around while a German be-
to any of the locks when the gates what slloul<i be and facing the things san to translate the latest dispatch
are to be repaired or painted, or when aS they are' th'8 one Breat fact stands; from Berlin. Unhappily for the har-
a lock is to be unwatered for any 0ut: Thou8htful men are saying, "if mony of the gathering it referred to
reason. j Germany wins it will be our turn next. Ostend by its German knick-name,
The voyable consumed forty-three N°W whether they are right or wrong 
days. Rough weather in connection "8 to tllat' there can be no question as
with the unusual height of the caisson ,to what 11 means.
piade its towing difficult. The sea-' 11 means that if Germany wins we
men aboard the caisson deserted at become a militaristic nation. We have
the first port and the voyable was no choice Democracy must arm to
completed without a crew. defend itself against autocracy; must
    |arm to preserve liberty and all the
LI.\COI,\ COUNTY IMMAHH CASE things this country stands for. We
DECIDED. [have a population of 100,000,000 which
is growing faster by Immigration than
cotton farming proposition.
Delegates from all counties of Okla-
homa are to be here for the conven-
'Kales;" spoke of bomb dropptagTon j^ake^lns'foTmo^eTffMUvl proM^
r^drrreaBrZn0'C°ntemP,ated ^ ^
The British frowned, growled; the
reversed It In an opinion by Justice
cold room, but
Southteatify'to Ita" wonde'rfurpro^r- leS8 ho">"'"<al than we are. clock" which'started'the "tchT flieTt
Be1i„Sday.°GeJeMe of thP ,0"K and gave young Mutr.
yitae, the guaranteed-to-benefit rem- " m°* uncom arta le truth is m0re time in bed. Both device® and i RMdie, ln which it was held that the
r/' hVoUM^a'?r bottles. a Ba/er traveling companion than the many others which he contrived on commissioners have authority only to
Thacher Medicin. Ca. Chattanooga. «nost agreeable falsehood. The advo- the farm were frowned upon by hlsUect such bridges a. the public gj
. cates of peace will accomplish noth- father on religious grounds. ' ] may require.
Oklahoma City, Ok., Dec. 22.—An ln- that of any other country, and will
tresetlng case that was decided by the Krow sltll faster after the war. We
Supreme Court this week was that of ,have a stupendous amount of natural
the Lincoln County drainage ditch wealth. For every dollar that eGr-
with reference to the power of the many puts up as an ante in the great
drainage commissioners in assessing same of armament, the United States
the county for its part of the cost of wi" have to put up two.
the ditdh as a drainage utility for the ot couse, this will give pain to
roads of the county. In this case the mansr good People, and great numbers
viewers and appraisers of the work of 118 wl" Bad and not approve of
assessed the benefits to Lincoln 11' but that i9 not the Issue. It is
County growing out of the drainage not what we want do, but what we
enterprise at $134,500. 8ha" ha?e to do The fact we have
Damages were allowed In favor of to face is that " Germany wins, right-
the county of the sum of $81,930, being lyor wronKly. and whether we like it
the cost of forty-eight steel bridges 0r not' the United States will become
over the ditch on public highways. °De f *he greate8t """arlstlc nation.
TThecase was appealed by the County °D of-tbe earth' Not because
commissioners and the Supreme Court T5, 006 WantS but becau8e 11 would
French grew excited. Both sides had
by agreement laid aside their rifles,
but both sides still had their fists.
Both used them. A free-for-all fight' polls.
ialists are well plea -d with the^-
sults they achieved in the recent state
election, the figures showing that
considerable gains have been made
and some victories secured at the
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the:
be our only salvation.'
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTO R I A
i fmsi National Bank
Special Attention Given to Small Ac-
counts, and those not in the habit of
Keeping a Bank Account.
Total resources over one and
million dollars.
a quarter
^ We invite aoplications for loans both larp-e and J
"K small. i