TAPS
The muffled drum’s sad roll has beat On Fame’s eternal camping-ground
The soldier’s last tattoo; Their silent tents are spread.
No more on Life’s parade shall meet And Glory guards, with solemn round.
The brave and fallen few. The bivouac of the dead.
— Theodore O'Hara.
Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address
FOURSCORE and seven years
ago our fathers brought forth
on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and dedicated
to the proposition that all men are
created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great
civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived
and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield
of that war. We have come to
dedicate a portion of that field as
a final resting place for those who
here gave their lives that that
nation might live. It is altogether
fitting and proper that we should
do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can
not dedicate, we cannot conse
crate, we cannot hallow this
ground. The brave men, living
and dead, who struggled here have
consecrated it far above our poor
power to add or detract. The
world will little note, nor long
remember, what we say here, but
it can never forget what they did
here. It is for us, the living,
rather, to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus rar so nobly
advanced. It is rather for us to
be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us; that from
these honored dead we take in
creased devotion to the cause for
which they gave the last full
measure of devotion; that we here
highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain; that
this nation, under God, shall have
new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.
■A A*
LKE many another mod
ern institution. Memo
rial day really is of very
ancient origin. And like
these other celebratiqns,
too, it has received,
through the process of
time, a new signification.
Every reader knows
that Memorial day which
for more than 40 years
has been religiously cel
ebrated each year in the
United States is the ex
pression of a new idea.
Yet, a closer view of the
celebration and of its
ceremonies will snow mai n merely
is an adaptation of a custom that is
so old that its origin is lost in the
misty past. The custom as we now
have it, as is very readily understood
and recognized, is new; it did not ex
ist before the Civil war period. And
yet, after all, this modern holiday is
but the general acceptance of an old
idea.
How long ago it has been customary
to strew flowers over the graves of the
dead may not be asserted with any
degree of certainty. From the earliest
times of civilization it has been cus
tomary to pay tribute to the dead,
whether fallen in battle or died in
peace. There ts something about the
custom that is inseparable from the
practices of civilization.
Our decoration day, or Memorial
day, as it is customary now to call it,
was only the result of the spontaneous
desire to pay tribute to the thousands
of brave men who fell in the great
Civil war. There was something ex
traordinary which called forth this
spirit—a something that the present
generation may find difficult to thor
oughly comprehend and appreciate at
its true value.
A four-years’ war had kept the na
tion, both north and south, in a state
of commotion and excitement The
whole country, both north and south,
had contributed its young men, Us
youths, and even many of its men of
» maturer years to the terrible struggle.
It is not difficult to understand just
what that means. Here was a de
termined war that had sent to their
graves brave men from every part of
the country. That meant that in every
large town and In many a village there
were men who went to the front who
never returned; many who did return,
only to soon be borne to their graves
at home.
NRTION’SJRIBUTE
Decoration Day in the United
States Sprang From Spon
taneous Desire to Do
Honor to the Heroes
Who Had Fallen
The country' was affected by the
sight, so many men were caught in
the enormous bloody strife, in this
Moloch's maw, that nearly all who re
mained could point to the grave of one
that had fallen, who was either a rela
tive or a dear friend.
The cost of that struggle to keep
the Union has, indeed, been put in dol
lars, but the real cost, the lives lost
on both sides, places the sacrifice in
another light, and cannot be estimated,
for the sufferers were not only the
fallen ones, but those who remained at
home and suffered, tco. ,
The south, naturally, was most se
verely shaken, and suffered the great
est loss, for the scene of the carnage
and of the greater part of the destruc
tion of both lives and property lay
south of Mason and Di?:on's line.
Therefore it seems to have been poetic
justice that there, in the south,
the first steps should be taken to an
nually pay tributi to her fallen sons,
who, it must be remembered, also were
brave men, and where there were, too.
homes rendered desolate by the loss of
sons, fathers, husbands and brothers.
Within a year or two the Union
troops had gained possession of the
gulf sections of the south, and it may
be said that it was in this section that
the southern women first turned their
attention to decking the graves of their
soldiers. The idea may be said to
have been spontaneous, and like many
another custom, may be said to have
been instituted by public opinion in
several places at the same time. Cer
tainly it would be a work of much dif
ficulty to decide just where the custom
really originated in the south.
Spring visits the south a full month
before its first harbingers appear in
the north, and as a consequence it be
came customary to strew flowers over
the graves of the fallen soldiers in
April, when flowers were fresh and in
bloom. For the first few years, and
until after the war, the custom was
only a custom, and bad not been or
ganized into an institution. It had
nothing like authority back of it; but
it was persisted in with that tender
feeling for the departed that by sheer
public opinion it became one of the
strongest kind of laws, that born of
custom.
It requires the authority of the rep
resentatives of the people to enact a
law making a certain day a legal holi
day, but it does not require anything
more than custom to get the people to
turn out and pay public homage; and
they did turn out, carrying their arms
filled with flowers to lay on the little
mounds in the graveyards and little
cemeteries.
But while this was going on in the
south there w:is in the north, which
was quite natural, a similar feeling.
It. too, grew spontaneously. It did not
require much to arouse the enthusiasm
of the people to a duty of this kind, and
Cost of the Civil
War
TC THE UNION
War expenses - $1,500,000,000
Pensions - - - 3,000,000,000
Losses of men
killed in battle
or died subse
quently - - - 359,528
TO THE S(5UTH
War expenses (esti
mated) - - $1,000,000,000
Property and other
losses (estimated) 500.000,000
Losses of men
killed in battle
or died subse
quently - - - 250,000
Heritage of Glory
MEMORIAL DAY is an an
nual baptism of patriotism
that makes the heart throb
with pity for the tragic sacrifice
of precious lives in the awful strife
of 50 years ago. It was a titanic
struggle, a harvest of death on
blood-soaked battlefields in which
grim, determined men in blue and
in gray contended for mastery
with equal bravery and stubborn
courage. ^North and South, they
have left us a heritage of deathless
glory, the example of men who
knew how to die for the cause
they believed to be right. It tested
the mettle of a world-conquering
race. Out of this gigantic conflict
the nation staggered, gasping, ex
hausted, bleeding, but still one
people and under one flag. It gave
us Lincoln and Davis, Grant and
Lee. Sheridan ar.d Forest to add
to the nation's scroll of fame, and
it showed a doubting world that
the young American republic had
bred a race of men inspired by
ideals. They sleep well and nobly,
the men who did this work.
the first marked instance of a large
movement to honor the dead who had
fallen in battle may be said to have
been sounded at Gettysburg, when, on
November 19, 1863, the national ceme
tery there, on the field where thou
sands had fallen on both sides, was
formally dedicated.
That occasion was one of those sim
ple events which few of those present
looked upon as anything mote than a
mere formality, but which have in them
the seeds of a great popular movement.
There, too, was delivered that address
by President Lincoln which, for its con
cise summing up of an entire epic,
which the times of strife were still pro
viding with incidents, remains un
equaled in its quiet majesty, its simple
language, in the whole range of Eng
lish literature.
l ne snouts or joy at the surrender
of Lee had scracely been lost on the
winds until the news of the assassina
tion of Lincoln spread dismay through
out the nation, south as well as north.
The funeral services over the martyred
president, and the procescions and the
lyings-in-state in the cities through
which the funeral train was taken,
aroused in a new sense the idea of
tribute to the fallen. In a certain
sense the death of Lincoln at that
time may have hastened the sentiment
which finally took shape in Decoration
day. There immediately were projects
for monuments to the great emanci
pator, and the general tendency was
towards the debt owed to the fallen
soldier and his best friend.
Splendid Work of Grand Army.
To its members the Grand Army of
the Republic is a matter second only
to family and friends. They accord
it the same loyalty and devotion that
they did to tt(e regiments in which
they once fought. It stands for their
record, for their past, and in that is
its strength.
It wis organized in Decatur, 111., in
the interests of the surviving repre
sentatives of the federal military and
naval forces of the Civil war, the fam
ilies of those dead and such objects as
they should deem important to their
association. The membership com
prises soldiers and sailors of the war,
honorably discharged or continuing,
and state militia on active duty sub
ject to call during the war. Its pur
poses are fraternity, the commemor
ation of events and the assistance of
old soldiers and their families. It has
been active in establishing homes and
memorials and in educating and sup
porting the orphans of soldiers.
Their Memory Cannot Fade.
The time is not far off when their
last reunion will be held and the
Grand Army of the Republic will be
no more. Tl\e mere thought of It
brings sadness to the heart. But It
should awaken other emotions. It
should bring more of sympathy, of
! tenderness and of consideration for
these vanishing heroes who offered
the supreme sacrifice that the nation,
now so strong and prosperous, this
nation that exists for all of us, should
not die. _ . _
FOR BETTER ROADS IN IOWA
Joint Sub-Committee of Legislature
Makes Recommendation Concern
ing Highway Improvement.
As the result of daily deliberations
for some weeks by the committees of
the Iowa senate and house, the joint
sub-committee made the following rec
ommendations concerning road legis
lation:
Establishment state highway com
mission, with ample authority. Com
mission to consist of three members
appointed by governor. Three mem
bers to select competent state high
way engineer.
County engineers for all counties to
be employed by supervisors with ap
proval of highway commission.
Classification of all highways into
county and township roads.
From 10 to 15 per cent, of roads in
county to be designated as county
roads, to be under supervisors and
county engineer.
All moneys expended on these roads
to be in line of permanent work. No
money to be paid except on approval
of engineer.
All bridges and culverts, county and
township, to be built in accordance
with general plans of state highway
commission, under direction of coun
ty engineer.
All township work to be put by
trustees in hands of one man, to be
known as superintendent of township
roads, who shall make all contracts
for dragging and temporary repairs.
Two-mill levy to be placed in com
pulsory drag fund, to be paid out by
superintendent for that purpose only.
In case superintendent does work
of grading on township roads, the
county engineer must go over roads
A “Chats” Road in Jasper County, Mo.
“Chats” Is a Term for Mill Tail
ings from the Mining District.
giving profile, so that grading can be
done systematically, and township
roads may be put in same condition
as roads designated as county roads.
If the legislature will put these rec
ommendations into a properly drawn
bill and pass it, Iowa will have made
a long step forward in handling the
road question. Certainly the money
spent on the roads will be better spent
under competent supervision, says
Wallace's Farmer.
These recommendations, however,
do not directly encourage a beginning
in the way of hard roads. It would
seem that this legislature should do
something in the way of stimulating
permanent road construction in those
sections where public sentiment is
ripe for it No good will come from
trying to force good roads in com
munities where the people are satis
fied with dirt roads. But the state
can well afford to levy a one-mill tax
and spend the money to defray a por
tion of the cost of permanent roads
in communities in which the county
or municipality and the abutting land
owners will bear the greater propor
tion. Not a great deal of permanent
road could be constructed in this way,
but enough to serve as an object les
son, and this will be all that is neces
sary. A one-mill tax would amount
to only $2 on each quarter-section
farm. Surely the owner of 160 acres
of Iowa land ought to be willing to
contribute that much toward experi
mental hard roads. It seems so much
worth while that we wonder that such
strenuous objection is made to it.
Work at Louisville.
The city of Louisville, Ky., is ask
ing for bids on street work as follows:
6.740 square yards of concrete; 18,000
square yards of wood block paving;
47.000 square yards of asphalt, and
46.000 square yards of vitrified block
sidewalks. The whole will cost about
$263,000.
Buy Many Automobiles.
Records show that there are now'
more than 700 automobiles in William
son county, Texas, or about one car
to every sixty people. Farmers are
the principal buyers, on account of the
great improvements in the roads.
Transportation Problem.
The fanners' transportation problem
begins with the road that leads from
his door to his school, his church, his
mill, his gin, his postoffice and bis
market.
Should Be Isolated.
If roads around a town are ■ bad, it
might as well be on an island.
Kill the Borers.
An hour’s work with a sharp wire
at the foot of your peach trees killing
borers may mean an extra bushel of
fine peaches.
Keep Cows Comfortable.
Keep the cows clean by a dally
brushing. The cow with a clean skin
is. of course, the most comfortable,
and comfort insures a better digestion.
Good Roads.
Good roads benefit every class and
every section.
COOKED AND UNCOOKED FEED FOR PIOS
Pigs in Alfa Ifa Pasture.
(By PROF. C S. PLUMB. Ohio State
University.)
Years ago among some of the ear
liest feeding experiments conducted
with pigs was a comparison of the
relative merits of cooked ..and un
cooked food. Various agricultural col
leges and experiment stations made
studies in this field, and the results
were that very generally it was clear
ly shown that hogs gained faster and
more economically on the uncooked
food than on the cooked. Not only
was this demonstrated as a practical
proposition, but from a scientific point
of view it was shown that the digesti
bility of the food was lowered by
cooking, the proteids especially being
affected. There is no doubt but that
the work of the American investi
gators in this field very generally put
an end to cooking feed in thiB coun
try. The writer well remembers vis
iting a very large hog-feeding plant
in Indiana some fifteen years ago.
?. ith the request to suggest any im
provements in methods, and found an
extensive plant for cooking feed in
full operation, involving more labor
than one might suppose. The result
of my visit was the abolishment of
that method of feeding hogs, and a
considerable saving of expense. Only
very rarely does one now find food
being cooked. In winter a warm slop
is desirable, but that is quite a differ
ent proposition from cooking the feed
in big kettles or tanks.
uur tintisn cousins are great stock-,
men. and one must give them due
respect for the high plane to which
they have elevated the livestock in
dustry. However, they are very con
servative, and change very reluctant
ly from the old to the new. Probably
this conservatism is responsible for
the magnificent breeding so generally
practiced in the British Isles. Yet
they are still feeding cooked food,
and are slow to believe that the un
cooked can have even the virtue of
the cooked. In order to secure some
British light on this now old subject,
a series of feeding experiments was
conducted at the Agricultural Experi
ment station at Clonakilty, Ireland,
"to ascertain if pigs could be success
’ully fattened with meal fed raw." In
view of the fact that most of the pigs
fattened in Ireland are given cooked
feed, this experiment was to furnish
information as to whether the policy
was sound or not. Four experiments
were conducted. Both lots of pigs re
ceived an equal quantity of the same
foods, and were treated in the same
manner, except that the meal was
given raw to one, and cooked into
I porridge with steam for the other;
: the portion of meal being weighed be
! fore cooking. The meal fed raw was
merely dampened with cold water and
mixed with the separated miik at the
| time of feeding. The meal consisted
of Indian corn and barley, principally
tfce former, both being coarsely
ground. The pigs at the start w’ere
from eleven to fourteen weeks old.
Before starting each experiment, the
pigs were fed alternately with raw
and cooked meal in order to start
each lot on an equal basis. Green al
falfa was fed the pigs in experiment
No. 1. and boiled potatoes or boiled
1 carrots in experiment No. 4. All the
pigs were also fed some skimmed
milk.
The following figures give the more
interesting facts regarding these ex
periments;
Experiment Kind Av. daily Dry matter
of gain. to produce
food. 1 lb live wt.
1 Cooked 1.38 lbs. 2.23 lbs.
1 Raw 1.41 lbs. 2.94 lbs.
2 Cooked 1.00 lbs. 3.56 lbs.
2 Raw 1.13 lbs. 3.0S lbs.
S Cooked 1.12 lbs. 3.82 lbs.
3 Raw 1.31 lbs. 3.27 lbs.
4 Cooked 1.44 lbs. 2.S4 lbs.
4 Raw 1.52 lbs. 2.63 lbs.
Average Cooked 1.20 lbs. 3.23 lbs.
Average Raw 1.32 lbs. 2.96 lbs.
There were seventeen pigs ted;
, cooked food, and seventeen uncooked.
| and the results are absolutely in keep- j
j ing with those generally secured by
American investigators. However, it
! is worth quoting the summary of the
j results, as given by Mr. James Adams,
who conducted the experiment: •
1. Pigs can be fattened successful
ly with raw meal.
2. The average daily gain in live
' weight was greater when meal was
raw than when cooked into porridge.
3. When meal was fed raw, less
food was required to put on one
pound increase in live weight.
4. The proportion of dead to live
weight was higher in the case of the
pigs fed with raw meal, that is to
say, they killed better.
5. Raw' meal can be fed to pigs
after weaning, say at eleven to twelve
weeks old.
j 6. On raw meal pigs clean up their 1
food well, look clean and healthy, and j
handle firm.
7. Pigs fed on raw meal require less
litter and cleaning than those fed
with cooked meal.
This Irish series of experiments, if
properly regarded by the people of
Ireland, will turn many feeders into
the right path, and enable them to
feed with far more profit than by the
j old method.
SILO IS AID OF
MODERN DAIRYMAN
Improved Machinery and Huge
Food Tanks Do Away With*
Much Manual Labor.
(By N. S. FRENCH, California.)
Not bo very long ago it seemed ra
ther important that “the man behind
the cow” should be an athlete, at least
able to do not only one hard day's
work, but many of them. Sixty or
seventy years ago, when our cities and
railroads were young, as was also the
dairy business, the principal surplus
age of dairy products came from the
northern and New England states, and
eastern provinces of Canada where
the greater part of the summer bad to
be spent in raising, harvesting and
storing up feed for the long, cold win
ter; and the man who could swing a
scythe from 4 to 11 a. m. and wield a
fork from 1 to 9 p. m., or till the last
load was safe in the barn, was gen
erally considered to be about the
right sort of a man to make a success
of a dairy farm.
Feed must still be stored up for the
winter and times of short pasture, but
the many machines now to be had to
facilitate this work, have reduced the
actual labor part of this work almost
beyond computation. Young men may
hardly realize it, but there are a few
yet alive who can remember what it
was to lead a gang of mowers in
heavy clover and herd-grass; it was
not called timothy then. It may not
require any higher degree of brain
power to run these new machines than
it did to rightly sharpen and hang
a scythe, for this could not be well
done by anyone who was either men
tally or physically weak. Now the
mowing machine, tedder and rake are
all equipped with easy spring seats,
while the power loader and horse-fork
4o the rest; and weather permitting,
the hay crop is easily secured on time
and in good order. Then, if the dairy
man has a silo, he can command suc
culent cow feed as good or better than
green grass for every day of the year,
and he needs K.
Good Preventive.
Those who are "soiling" cattle or
sheep and giving large quantities of
green corn fodder, oats, clover, rape,
etc., should give a small foddering of
good dry hay once a day. This will
prevent too much looseness of the
bowels.
Fine Morning Feed.
Corn meal, wheat bran and ground
oats, equal parts, and a few handfuls
of beef scrap, moistened with skim
milk, make a fine morning feed for
laying hens
DIPPING SHEEP TO
ERADICATE PESTS
Promotes Health of Skin and Al
so Furthers Growth of
Wool of Animal.
(By FRANK KLEIXHEINZ. Wisconsin
College of Agriculture.)
In order to kill ticks and lice and
! thus promote the health of the skin.
and also further the growth of wool!
; di psheep every spring. Dipping is
| too often neglected by flock owners,
with the result that the sheep are an
noyed day and night and are kept
busy rubbing against every post and
corner, with consequent loss of flesh.
A warm, sunshiny day, at least ten
j days after the sheep have been
sheared, should be selected for this
work. It should preferably be done
in the morning, so as to give the
j sheep a chance to dry out before
; night. Any one of the many coal tar
dips may be used if the directions
accompanying them are carefully fol
lowed.
There are several forms of vats but
; the majority of flock masters use one
I made of galvanized iron. The size of
: the vat necessarily depends upon the
| size of th e flock. A draining pen
should be so arranged that all the
dip which runs off the sheep while
! they are dripping is returned into the
vat.
It is not necessary for the head to
get into the dip, since the sheep can
keep it free of ticks or lice by rub
bing or scratching. Furthermore, it
is best if no dip gets into the mouth.
I eyes or ears. However, all other
parts of the body up \to the head
should be kept in the dip not less
than one minute. The dip will be
most effective if the solution is luke
warm. and the sheep will then not be
chilled while in it
•
Daffodils Valuable.
An acre of wheat or potatoes In
: England is worth from $70 to $100.
but an acre of choice daffodils or nar
cissus may be worth anywhere from
; $250 to $2,000.
--—
Short-Sighted Farmer.
The farmer who pay3 $1.50 a hun
dred for protein feeds and passes np
the clover and altalfn proposition is
mighty short-sighted.
Productive Cattle.
The cattle that produce the most
meat and not fat and bone are the
ones that will bring the big price in
market
Stockman’s Partners.
Corn and clover or corn and alfalfa
are the stockman’s silent partners.
CEMETERY OF SACRED IBISES
Birds Embalmed in Jars Found in An
cient Egyptian Ruins by Ex
plorers.
Cairo --During the season's work of
the Egypt exploration fund at Abydos
the explorers discovered a cemetery of
sacred ibises a quarter of a mile from
the edge of cultivation and adjoining a
human cemetery, both dating from the
Roman occupation of Egvpt, about 200
A. D.
The cemetery contained about a
hundred large earthenware jars, made
in most cases of unbaked mud, the
mouths of which were closed with
large bricks of the same material.
The jars themselves were either cylin
drical • or barrel shaped, the larger
ones being built in two or three sec
tions. Each jar contained on an aver
age twenty-five birds. Host of them
had been preserved with some bitu
minous material and then wrapped in
several layers of linen bandages, the
outer covering being in many cases
quite a work of art, accomplished by
the skilful use of narrow strips of
Cemetery of Sacred Ibises.
black and brown linen arranged in a
wonierful and varied series of pat
terns, chiefly geometrical in design.
Many of the most carefully bound
examples were found to contain not a
completed bird, but only a bunch of
feathers; others again consisted of a
few bones and feathers mixed, and in
one case a single egg. The careful
preservation of not only complete
birds, but of eggs, bones, and even
odd feathers is good evidence for
supposing that the worship of Thoth
and the veneration for the bird, which
was sacred to him; still had a strong
hold upon the minds and imagination
of the people of Egypt, even as late
as the Roman period.
POLICEMAN DRESSED AS GIRL
Has Trouble in Adjusting Finery, but
Disguise Deceived Flirting
Adorer.
London.—Dressed as a woman, a
fresh-complexioned young Wokingham
(Berkshire) policeman named Albert
Sellwood so completely deceived John
Butler, a local painter, that he did not
know until after his aiyest that he
had attempted to flirt with an officer
At Wokingham police court recently
Butler was sentenced to two months'
hard labor for sending objectionable
letters to Miss Bartholomew of Wok
Ingham.
These letters, It was stated in court,
asked Miss Bartholomew to meet him
outside her home. She did not read
the letters, her mother opening them
and her father informing the police.
To identify the writer and arrest him
Superintendent Goddard conceived the
Idea of dressing Sellwood in clothes
belonging to Miss Bartholomew. So
disguised. Sellers kept the appoint
ment made for Miss Bartholomew.
Sellwood told in an interview how
he played his part. "I dressed at Miss
Bartholomew’s house. 1 wore a tight
fltting light brown serge skirt, a white
blouse, a dolly varden hat, motor veil,
feather boa and a long gray ulster.
Dressing was not an easy matter. The
skirt was rather tight round the waist
and the movements of my legs were
much restricted. The hat went on
easy enough, but I had a little trouble
with the blouse.
"Walking down the drive, I found
myself tripping through trying to do
the regulation 36-inch stride. I soon
came down to eighteen inches. I saw
Butler standing near the gate and I
walked up to him. Then I thought of
my voice, which is rather deep. I
pitched it as near to the falsetto as
I could and said, 'Good evening.’ He
was delighted to see me, called me
‘dearest’ and suggested a walk, which
we took. He never doubted my iden
tity until he was arrested later."
SAYS AMERICA IS BARBARIC
Napierkowska, the Vaudeville Dancer
Peeved Because New York Ob
jected to Her Dancing.
Paris — Napierkowska, the Paris
dancer, who has just returned from
America, has made some plain remarks
on the subject of Americans.
"Really, I have not brought away a
single pleasant memory from the Unit
ed States,” she Bays. “What a narrow
minded people they are—how utterly
impervious to any beautiful impression
1 cannot understand how any one can
sincerely admire them or their cus
toms, or their towns without any
monuments or trees and hardly any
museums.
“They are hardly civilized. They
jostle you in the street with apol
ogizing. Any charming or stylish ob
ject one sees over there invariably
comes from Europe. They have not
the slightest feeling of elegance of any
sort. In fact, I am completely disil
lusioned about them.”
La Napierkowsaa complains bitterly
of her prosecution on a charge of in
decency, saying that the dance for
which she was marched oft to the
courts like any ordinary criminal in
New York had previously been given
by her in several smaller cities with
out the slightest objection.
The judge who had the intelligence
to have her released is, she says, the
only exception which proven the rule
of general barbarism in the United
States.
Three Die in Prairie Fire.
Soiling, Okla.—Rev. John Leslie, his
wife and their son were burned to
death, when they were overtaken by
a prairie fire which swept a large
section of Major county. Their bodies
were found.