Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-18

eliminated by the recent general con-
ference at Baltimore. District
Superintendent" is the new desig-
nation. The new title sounds little
more business-like and more clearly
defines the position. But the age of
the old title should have given it
stronger hold on the general con-
ference. How would it look to
change the title of bishop, cardinal
or popeS
In the face of widely varying
opinions on the subject OF finance
the republican majority has once
more demonstrated it's remarkable
ability to subordinate personal views
and preferences to the opinion OF
the majority, and the most impor-
tant law of the session, the compro-
mise financial bill, is the result.
Whatever view may be entertained
of the respective merits of the vari-
Gus financial theories which found
abundant expression in the course
of the session, few impartial judges
withhold admiration for the party
discipline which brought harmony
out Of practically irreconcilable
differences and enacted law which,
though it may never be called into
action, constitutes an insurance
against recurring monetary strln-
gencies and their consequent panics.
Parents keep your boys off the
street, especially after dark. You
know not what annoyance these little
fellows are, besides they learn all
kinds Of meanness, picking up all
the slang phrases uttered by older
boys who have forgotten the prayers
taught them at their mothers knee
when they, too, were innocent little
tots like your own boys now. Ii
you have nice beautiful yards, allow
your boys to play liz them, never
scolding them for their merry
laughter, for It's better far to be
annoyed at home than to have them
mixed up in an ugly affair on the
street of which you know nothing
until it has grown cold on every
ones tongue. If you value their
education as you should, you will
keep your boys off the street, where
no evil association will corrupt their
morals.
The officials OF Alton, Illinois,
claim that they photographed the
eye OF woman whose body was
taken from the Mississippi the other
day under conditions which INDICATED
that she had been murdered, and
that the process showed that there
was fixed upon the retina negative
OF the face of man. The features
are SO plain that from it the police
expect to identify the murderer.
This theory has long been exploited,
that the last object seen by person
meeting a sudden and violent death
will be photographed upon the
retina but this is the first actual
demonstration of it and If it proves
to be true in general it will be
great aid in detecting crime as well
as powerful preventative of vio-
lence.
Those yersed in the science of
climatology agree that the climate of
country never changes, but it will
be hard work for the old time South
Dakotan to believe this statement of
the scientist. From the earliest
days of the settlement of this state
and from the counties further east
and further west will be found
old settlers who will tell you Of the
years when there was no grass on
the prairies and when it was dry and
hot from early May until late Srp-
TENDER. Now it is all changed and
for the past cen years portions of the
state have suffered from an excess
of rainfall and the dry belt has had
abundant rain, great crops have
been raised and the prairies have
been mass Of grass. This year
the rainfall of May and June has
been excessive and almost coutin-
uous and the weather has been more
like that of the eastern states. In
view of these facts it is hard to
believe the statements of the scien-
lists.