Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 January 1887 — Page 1

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Vol. 17.—No. 32.

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

The contest in the Legislature will re-

quire the introduction of a

to restore its fading interest.

The

fill the place of Frank Hiscock in Con gress. Send an editor by all means, will give him a needed rest.

The

pictures

Every year as we note the

the

legislatures

ators

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of some of the charity

balls Huggest that they were probably held for the purpose of buying clothes for the women who attend them.

Jay Gould says the Inter-State Com merce bill is contrary to every principle of the railroad business. He probably meant the railroad business as carried on by him.

Senator Far well has been criticized be cause his maiden vote in the Senate was in favor of woman suffrage. Bat why shouldn't a maiden vote be cast in favor of the maidens?

Sam Small denies that he is going back to journalism. A denial was unnecessary. Journalism doesn supply its victims with diamonds and jewelry as sensational evangelism does.

A glass-eating, dime museum man in Chicago died from drinking some of the whisky of that city. His stomach, which

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invulnerable to glass, quickly

succumbed to Chicago fire-water.

It is complained of Senator Hearst, the California mogul, that he can neither write nor make a speech. But his ability to put his autograph to largo-sized checks covers a multitude of sins.

An irreverent Texas odltor remarks that a sermon on the Intense heat of hell has no effect on a congregation shivering in a cold church. It may be so, but we should like to know how a Texas editor knows anything about It. a

squabble

neglect

ness^becomes

In

over the olectlon of Sen­

to the

of legitimate busi­

plainer

that the proper

way is for the poople to voto directly for Sonators the same as for

Representatives

In Congress. For a girl who is said to abhor notoriety Nina Van Zandt, of Chicago, Ims hud a peculiarly sad experience. Her name has boen In everyone's mouth from one end of the country to the other and it all came from wanting to marry an anarchist under sentence of death.

Cincinnati is to havo a Saturday HalfHoliday

League

similar to those which

have popularized the movement in Eastern cities. Those who havo triod the experiment have only good words to say for it and It will prevail more generally the coining soason than ever before, as it deserves to do.

From the astonishing number of men who are being pushed to the front as being "eminently qualified by age and experience" for positions on tho commission created by the Inter-State Commerce bill, it Is

surprising

that such a bill was

not enacted long ago in order to provIde easy berths for theui.

Among the many preemptions for rheumatism recently sent to the President was this from an ex-mayor of Reading, l'a. Two onions well bruised and put into a quart of alcohol and hung in tho sunshine inside a window three days, for distllatlon. Bathe the limbs and the relief, it Is said, bo unsurpassed.

An eight-year-old boy was arrested in Chicago tho other day, with a small rifle,

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eight imbued with such ideas!

Will

Chicago tho otner aaj, mi a ba*of cartridges, a violin, twelve meal rongs, outrage® and oppressions, should qr a in A be waged with a spirit and determina­. tion that will mitigate if it does not wholly abolish these disgraceful evils.

tickets and $14 in money. His story was that he had run away from his home in Iowa and intended going West to kill Indians It was evidently a bad case of It l« a fight which every person of hon-

improve on acquaintance

A quarrel between two Illinois farmers over the ownership of a two-dollar hog has ran up the court costs to over four hundred dollars, and the end it not yet.., When the average man starts out to "law" he is determined to sell the coat off his back to pay the costs. And the lawyers are shrewd enough to strengthen this feeling, more's the pity. If the

couutry liad a

new

st* fnriincr interest- •.*, would be more prosperous.

season'scometcropstartsout

with

brilliant prospects, five having been turned out by the observatories in three days.

iesger number of lawyers

element one-fourth the present legislation it

Those Republican legislators who hadn the nerve i*nd courage to stand up for the right, and were scared into the now famous "compromise," are be-

There is talk of sending an editor to ginning to hear from the press and peopie in a way that cannot be very pleasant. They evidently had never heard that "it is better to be right than to be

President,' and so gave up thair privileges for simple fear of being deprived of their seats. They are all "explaining" now, but singularly enough their explanations are not received by their constit

i- uents with any extra degree of enthusi-

asm.

One of the penalties that men who attain prominence are compelled to pay is that of being butchered by the public press—that is pictorially butchered. Capt. Jason H. Allen, the labor candidate for Senator, has passed through the ordeal with more success than usually attends such efforts, the picture of him printed by the Chicago Tribune this week, being above the average of newspaper portraits. The possibilities of another Terre Haute man being chosen Senator still continues to create a great deal of talk here, and now that another week has demonstrated forcibly the fact that Senator Harrison's chances are gone, there would be quite a number of Terre Haute Republicans pleased to see Capt. Allen elected Senator. That is the talk on the street, and comes from men who know Capt. Allen personally and have confidence in him.

The epidemic of crime against women and girls will be subdued, in this State at leastx should a bill introduced in the Legislature this week become a law. Jt provides the death penalty or one that is more terrible for a person who criminally assaults a girl under twelve years of ago. There have been previous efforts both in State Legislatures and in Congress to enact such a law, but they have hitherto proved unavailing. There have been an unusual number of crimes of this nature within the past few .years,, and it would "not be surprising if the effect would be to cause the passage of the bill in question. Something must be done to decrease the number of such crimes. If it can not be done by a more rigid enforcement of our present laws then we must have now ones. The bill in tho Indiana Legislature may bo a move in the right direction, but it should receive the most caroful consideration bofore action is taken on it. It is a serious matter, but not so serious as the shame and disgrace which are brought to many homes bjr the crimes which it seeks to punish. _______ "The Question" is the name of a small weekly paper which has just been started in New York in the aid of the working women. Its motto is: "Why not pay a woman the same as a man for the same work?" A good deal has been said and written on this subject, some of it wise and a good deal of It foolish. The fact is that some women are paid much more than men. This must be because their work has a greater intrinsic value. Others receive only starvation wages, because they are in fields which are utterly overcrowded and the struggle to live forces wages down to the bare means of existence. Sometimes, very often, indeed, women try to fill the places of men but they do not do the work satisfactorily hcuce the smaller pay. But for all this there is plenty of work for a woman's paper to do. The fight against starvation wages, overwork without extra pay, indecently familiar treatment of working women, and many other

But think of a boy of est motives and humane sentiments will

gladly take a hand in.

Gilbert and Sullivan are out with a vit'Dvrv l%iiv» new comic opera, the title of which is to a piece of so-called "detective work 'Ruddy Gore, or the Witches' Curse." Its first performance in a London theatre is reported to have been disappoint- too much credit for the wotk they do imr to the audience, who considered it This week a couple of boys were released areatlv inferior to "The Mikado." It from the Wisconsin State prison, (where was hardly to have been expected, how- they had been sent fbr robbery and at ever, that another opera would be pro- tempted murder) upon the testimony of duced which would attain equal popular- Catholic priest, to whom confession itv with that. But perhaps "Ruddv had been made by tho real perpetrator Gore"

Now and then one's attention is called

that arouses the most thorough contempt for a class of men who are given

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There havo been several million lies with consumption while the other is told in this land with fish as the central figure, and we have before us now the possibility of a war with England on «c- claimed the boys had confessed the count of fish. That is, it looks warlike crime to them. Hie prisoners swore the from the amount of breath wasted by confession was forced from them by the some of the bellicose Senators, but if detectives they were beaten and matters come to the worst, we'll turn some of our Hooster fish diplomats loose to escape starvation. And this was no on the question and they'll lie out of the doubt considered piece of exam fine difficulty. Such a thing as an inter* work by the gentlemen in charge, national diplomatic question is but a When the average detective undertakes trifle for the average fish liar. a if'*

the crime. As a result of their confinementone of the boys is half-dead

ruined tor life. They were convicted upon the testimony of detectives who

starred, and finally admitted the crime

piece of business he makes up his

mind that some one must be convicted —not necessarily the one guilty of a crime, but some one. With this idea before him he come? pretty near Ming

as

devoid of scruples as the most hardened criminal and there is very little at which he will stop in his efforts to fasten a crime upon a man. And some juries will put as much faith in the evidence of such men as can be placed in one man by another—more's the pity. Perhaps there is a place for the detective in the detection of crimfe and criminals, but not the exalted position he is generally given.

A very wise law has passed one House in the Michigan Legislature, and if it passes the other, it will have the effect of decreasing the destruction of lives and property which follow some labor strikes. It provides that no person shall act as a regular or a special deputy sheriff unless he be a citizen of the State and a qualified voter in the county in which he is appointed. It shuts out the "Piukerton men," whose recklessness and disre gard for human life have precipitated more labor troubles than any other cau^s. Once let men be sworn in as special officers who have an interest in the community and the preservation of peace and prosperity, whose presence will not be an armed menace—and who at the same time are of the proper character and of firmness—and the damage fro/n strikes will be reduced to the minimum. All men are alike, and when a strikerno matter how peaceful his intentions— is menaced by a man whom he knows is only awaiting an apportunity to shoot, he is likely to go to an extreme that he would not otherwise think of approach-

rtci' NATURAL GAS. The successful borings at other points in the State naturally excito interest in the work to be commenced here in a few days. Tho latest strike at Noblesvillo, is said to have developed the bast gas well in the State. Gas of the finest quality was found at the depth of 847 feet, and In quantities sufficient to light eight towns of the size of Noblesville. The pressure at the well is at least 200 pounds to the square inch, aud the supply is thought to be inexhaustible. The whole populace are wild with, enthusiasm, and declare that Noblesville will now enjoy a greater boom than Kokomo. Experts say the well compares favorably with the fapious welte at Findlay, O. The copnj&^'wiElf^rfect arrangements for lighting the well at the earliest possible moment, and will at once arrange to supply factories with fuel and light. The stock of the company cannot be bought to-day for ten times its cost. There aro also very strong Indications of an excellent quality of oil, and it is believed that oil abounds in the immediate vicinity of the well. The Trenton rock was found at 840 feet and gas escaped before going into the lock. Drilling was continued seven feet Into the Trenton rock, and the company then decided to cease drilling for fear of disastrous results if drilling was continued deeper. .,.,,v

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The St. Louis Spectator tells of a good lady of philanthropic impulses who is doing a world of good by training young women in the fundamental principles of living by practicing instead of preaching. She gathered a class of girls and set out to teach them how to cook, how to sew, how to do*all the work of an ordinary household, in order that, if they married, and had homes of their own, they might be able to manage them efficiently and economically. The other day, finding that they did not appear to comprehend her motive or object, she said to them, "Girls, what do you suppose is my reason for trying to teach you?"' Without a moment's hesitation one of them replied, "To make ladies of us." "And what is your idea of a lady?" asked the teacher. "A lady," was the prompt answer, "is a woman who has good clothes and nothing to do." The coming American novelist has his cue right here for the coming novel—the ideal that is present to girls of the laboring classes to solve the labor problem. This girl spoke for many of her class who hug the pernicious idea of "good clothes and nothing to do."

A lfaedical journal states that "the two elements of highest cost of human life, as it is lived in the aggregate, are spirits and tobacco, one a stimulant narcotic, the other a depressant narcotic, and that more than one-third of the human race prove by living without them that they are in no degree necessary or healthful, but on the contrary tend to depravity and destruction."

The Philadelphia Ledger thinks there is an epidemic of rheumatism this winter, and says that "rest for the brain the body and the digestion, and a diet of hot water and cheerfulness, is the treatment best warranted to bring the sufferers right."

To evangelise 1,028,000,000 heathen and Mohammedans, who are increasing by natural birth at 1,000,000 a year, there are only about 6,000 missionaries.

Starch powder rubbed on the hands just after washing is the best core for chapped hands*

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29,1887. Seventeenth Year

THE SONGS OF OUR TIME.

MOST OF THEM THE WORK OF PLAGIARISTS,.

NKARI.Y ALL THE MORK POPULAR BAL­

LADS CRIBBED FROM OLD MHLODIES— HOW EMMET, SC'AXLAN AND FRANK

HOWARD SECURED THKIR DITTIES.

"Everybod}' loves a lover," and nearly everybody loves a good song. A few great men have been exceptions, as was Gen. Grant. Did you ever think good reader, that out of seven notes are built all the songs that have ever been sung? New songs by the score are written every day in the year, but the seven little notes, warped, twisted, and tantalized, repeated and worked in combination, over and over, must furnish all the alleged melodies. "Is there any such element as originality in a song to-day?" asked a Chicago Mail man of a professor of music. "Certainly. The old masters have gleaned the field with great thoroughness, but there are men toiling to-day and doing splendid work with the seven notes." "Is there' rVbt "nibre plagiarism than originality in the common run of popular songs?" "Yes, I think there is. You have heard Joe Emmet sing 'Love of the Shamrock' it is a musty aud venerable church hymn revived and revamped. By ron's words: ,.w„„

Maid of Athens, ere we p^rt, ilve, O, give me back my heart.*? were set to a tune which will outlive the centuries. You hear Ihe melody now in 'When the Robins Nest Again.' Krohn, a famous German song writer, produced 'The Cavalier's Whisper,' and copyrighted it. The copyright having expired, along comes the actor, W. J. Scanlan, and incorporates it in:

Peek-a-boo, I'm onto you, I sec you hiding there.

Three years qgo that old ehestnutty air took the country by storm. Scaulan, of course, sings it in faster time by making eighth notes out of quarters. "Twenty years ago an English song writer produced: There was a young man on the flying trapeze His movements were graceful, the girls he did please. "In 'Adonis' Dixey revives 'The Flying Trapeze' in 'It's English, You Know.' But here is an htstauce of positive profanation: Mendelssohn's magnificent oratotfo Qt St. Pa«l iiaa a efr&*u»«irtified 'How Lovely sre the Messengers.' The man who wrote 'Billee Taylor' revives the music of that chorus in 'All on Account of Eliza.'" "What proportion of the ballads of the day aro thefts?" "Over half of them. A superb funeral m&rjh by Chopin is now heard in 'Somebody's Coming When the Dewdrops Fall.' To tho 'Blue Bells of Scotland' music you are requested to 'Wait Till the Clouds Roll By.' The chorus of 'America's Emblem' is stolen from Ira D. Sankey's 'Pull for the Shore.' Claribel's 'You and I' is now doing duty as 'Twinkle, Little Stars.'" "In 18641 was in New York, and, going one night into the Tammany theater, I heard Dan Bryant sing 'Shoo Fly.' The refrain was:

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Shoo fly, don't boddcr mo, For I belong to company G.

"In two weeks every street arab vsras singing or whistling 'Shoo Fly': I feel, I feel, I feel, $ if*

That'k what my mother said The angels pouring 'lasses downj^ Upon dls darkey's head. "Two months later the country was delirious over this flimsy ballad. Six month later it was dead. From 1861 to 1865, 'When this Cruel War is Over' was sung in every home north and south. It crossod the ocean and became popular in England:

Dearest love, do you remember, When we last did meet How yon told me that you loved me, Kneeling at my feet?

"The melody into which those words were welded was written years before the war. A young music teacher in Brooklyn visited Greenwood Cemetery one day, and upon his return jotted down the notes of a little song which he entitled: 'Darling, Meet Me in the Greenwood.' The modest fellow after writing the music and chorus, placed the manuscript in bis desk, where it remained for seven years. In 1861, while lookover some old papers, he found the Greenwood song, ond soon had it on the market as 'Dearest Love, Do You Remember 'or, 'When This Cruel War is Over.' Talk aboutsuccess! It sold faster than 'Shoo Fly,' and remained a favorite for five years." "What did the composer realize outof it?" I "Very little, I am sorry to toy. He died In Brooklin, poor, about ten years ago. His name was Henry Tucker. He also wrote "Genevieve" and several other sweet ballads. He was all music, poor fellow, and up to a week or so before his death would jsit at a piano and try to sing with his cracked and plaintive falsetto tones." "What song has been financially most successful?" ,. 'Grandfather's Clock it netted 180,000." "What is the average life of a song?" '•Two years. A song like *8weet By-and-By' is, of course an exception.

Probably you never heard of Jim Stewart, of Cincinnati he died in the workhouse. His song 'Only to See Her Face Again' will live while ballads do. Drink killed Stewart." "Have you heard 'Call Mc Back Again?'" .. "Yes, but pleaise don't. That is a clean transportation of an Irish melody 100 years old, at least." "Has not Frank Howard, the burntcork comedian, made money out of ballads?" "It is claimed, and truthfully, that Frank Howard has made a fortune out of three songs: Only a Pansy Blossom', 'When the Robins Nest Again,' and 'I'll Await My Lovo.' It is claimed that Howard did not write one of them, but purchased them from a New York boy named Spencer." "Then, when you hear a piece which reminds you of one you have heard before "You can be sure it's a steal."

WOMEN'S WA VS.

The Household says: "The coming girl will walk live miles a day." Susan B. Anthony is quoted as saying that Abraham Lincoln was the only man she could have loved.

Miss Tabltha Lake, of Grafton, W. Ya. danced all night at her own wedding and died the next morning.

A Georgia woman looked through twenty-six different novels to find a name for her girl baby, and finally settlod on Marier. "J,

The Boston Herald remarks that the nudity craze is spreading. Shoulder straps and a bolt is now said to bo the regulation corsage for evening dress.

While Patti was dining one day, some complimented her because of her beautiful mouth. "It is a very good mouth," said she, laughing, "and as large as you please"—proving her assertion by closing her pearly teeth over a large boiled egg in the shell, removing it a second afterward unbroken.

Tho fashion in the East this winter is to be intensely literary. They manage it by copying an article from some old scrap-book and sending it to some local paper, or reading it before some society, as original. They also blacken their eyebrows to give themselves the physiognomy of a deep thinker.

KatQ, Field Ijfcs gonitrtirtg&Wffodress reform, and all other reforms contingent upon the financial patronage of women. She has sunk seven years of her time and $15,000 of her cash in her effort to be a philanthropist, and now she is going to speculate and be a Shylock and make some money for her old age.

The ladies of the Washington Cabinet are, without exception, fine looking, and all accomplished entertainers. Few ladies of her age and experience could have assumed, tho responsible duties that Mrs. Cleveland did without criticism from any source, but with tho open commendation of all the best people. These are facts upon which Americans can dwell with pride.

A solid citizen from northern New York went to see "Merlin" at the Metropolitan Opera-liouso last Monday, and was horrified. "I looked around me in the boxes," said the old gentleman, "and I saw a number of fashionable women and young girls naked almost down to the waist. I looked on the stage and there I saw hundreds of young women naked almost up to tho waist. What aro we coming to? Sodom and Gomorrah!"

The Star (N. Y.) narrates that two ladies, one of whom carried a baby, entered a Boston carpet store and signified their desire to look at some carpets. It was a very warm day, but the salesman cheerfully showed roll after roll, until perspiration literally streamed from every pore of his body. Finally one of the ladies asked the other if she did not think it was time to go. "Not quite," was the answer of her companion, and then, in an under-tone, she added, "Baby likes to see him roll them out, and it Is not time to take the train yet."

An inquiry from a subscriber for the age of several distinguished men, suggests the publication of the ages of a number of notables. The following is authentic:

General William Tecumseh Sherman is 67 years old, and bis brother. Senator John Sherman, 64 President Cleveland, 50 Allan G. Thurman, 73 James G. Blaine, 57 General P. H. Sheridan, 56 Ex-Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, 76 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, 73 Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, 54 Ex-Senator Roscoe Conkling, 57 "Mark Twain" (Samuel Langhorn Clemens), 51 Jefferson Davis, (Ex-President of the Southern Confederacy), 79 Ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald, 73 Ex-Senator Simon Cameron, 88 Gov. David B. Hill, of New York, 48 Edwin Booth, the actor, 54 Ex-Senator Carl Schurtz, 58 Bret Harte, poet and novelist, 48, and Jay Gould, the millionaire, 54.

On the other side of the Atlantic is Queen Victoria, 68 yean* old Emperor William, Mr. Gladstone, Europe's greatest statesman, 78 Prince Bismark, 72 Alfred Tennyson the poet, 78 Wilkle Collins, the novelist, 08 and Adelina Pstti, the song bird, 44 years of age.

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PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Mr. Lie is a member of the Kentucky Legislature. Washington rumor savs Secretary Bayard has caught the prevailing matrimonial fever, and will soon be married. His wife has been dead only ten months.

Jehu Baker, Congressman Morrison's: elected successor, says: "All I want is forty acres of good land, with the privilege of working on it when I please, dovoting the residue^ 1j my Jime to books and study.' j'

Congressman Henley, of California, says that betwoen August and December ho made $15,000 practicing law, and he will be glad when the 4th of March comes to relieve him of his duties. He thinks that congress does not pay.

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There is a church in Olney, 111., without a liypocrito in it. The other Sunday the clergyman invited the hypocrites to stand up and show themselves, and not a single person arose. Tho pastor must have been greatly pleased.

Gen. Sheridan says that a battle between two armies dues not depend upon the generals as much as It does upon a single hill, orchard, valley, or tho action of a brigade at a critical moment. Tho The general who wins is simply in luck.

Peoplo living on Johnson's Island,. Sandusky Bay, claim to hear the rattle of skeletons and the tramp of soldiers these winter nights, and the mattor has gone so far that one family has left for the main land. Soldiers who havo been dead and buried for a score of yoars ought to remain in their graves.

It is evident that Sam Jones, Sam Small, and the rough diamond evangelists of that sort have had their day for the present. They were religious novelties for a time, and people rather enjoyed being guyed and ridiculed and abused from the pulpit. If they havo accomplished any real good thoy deserve praise for it.

In some hundred published mcssagos and letters of condolence to Mrs. Logan only two, it is said, made any mention of the Supreme Being or of the consolations of religion. Those two aro by Stephen A. Douglas and Col. John Hay, both of whom said: "May God comfort and 8UPt.iin you." Fifty years ago, says the Washington Post, it would have beon impossible for such omissions to have occurred, and a century ago a mesaage of uondoj&aoe that lacked the religious element would have been a mockery.

There aro said to be 30,000 bacholors in Montana, the bulk of them too busy In amassing fortunes to take time to go a-eourtlng if their wore girls enough to go around. By the time the}' get their fortunes they will be too old to be desirable partners. A writer from that section speaks of the desirableness of female emigration to Montana, that tho right kind of women would be a boon to the entire population of the Territory. Some of the overstocked districts East would do well to note the facte.

I LITTLE SERMONS.

He whose first emotion is to undervalue the excellent productions of others, will never havo any of his own to show.

Money can buy many things, good and evil, but all the wealth of earth cannot buy a friend, no/ pay tor the loss of one. Wanting a true friend we want everything.

There are moments when the two worlds, the earthly and the spiritual, sweep by near to each other, and when earthly day and heavenly night touch each other in twilight.

If 'ou are so unfortunate as to have an enemy, make him your friend. It will be the proudest triumph of your life—a victory that will cost neither pain nor anguish, and yet more replete in. glory and honor than tho conquering of nations.

A contemporary remarks that "Our ancestors' "night cap" was infinitely less injurious than the toxic sleep-bring-ing drugs of their teetotal descendants. Sometimes tonics which fill the brain* with blood in the day are followed by anemia at night, and thus act as nnrcotics." Whereupon the Philadelphia Medical World sagely replies, "We set all the laws of health at defiance, over" work our brains as if we could buy new ones when these wear out, and then smother nature's protest, insomnia, by taking narcotics! Better go out and chop wood for an hour before going to bed! A hot foot-bath and a bowl of hot beef tea at bed time will often secure sleep when insomnia is due to cerebral anemia."

Butchers are supposed to be a cruel, hard-hearted set of men, and yet statistics show that fewer of them are arrested for crimes and offences than any other craft. They are more tender than their beef.

THE eAM^ElSTRUEHERE. Madl»on Courier. Every church in Madison has dozens? of unoccupied pews. They stand there empty, waiting to be filled. Every one who chooses to go will be welcomed.

THOSE DAKOTA GIRLS. Omaha World. When a Dakota county girl goes coasting and lands in a barb wire fence, she counts it apart of the fun, and trudgen.' up hill for another ride^

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