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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-06-30
The MITCHELL CAPITAL.
THURSDAY. JUNE .. 1910.
PERHAPS FARMERS LIKE BAD
ROADS.

ROADS.
Much has been said and done Abou
the road proposition around Mitchell
In some places good results hav.
been obtained and In others the poo
conditions remain without solution
II may be as a man out in Washing
ton gaid. He satd that in his opinic1
that the reason the farmers do no,
make more of an effort to get good
roads Is that the most Of them are
s1tisded with bad roads.
In driving wei the country one Il
nearly inclined to agree with the
Washington man. There are stretch.
e Of road in many parts OF the coun-
Try which could be turned into real
y good roads With but very little
sHDense. Perhaps the farmer Yess-
oas out the idea that because he does
1ot use the roadway more than two
q three times . week that 1t would
nst pay him to take OF . couple OF
hours from his nsld work to make
Ais roadway better-which could be
doss with > King road drag very
easily. There are farmers who take
: pride n having their farms look
nsat and up-to-dats with good build
hss, even INDUCING In . lawn. and
going beyond the boundary Of tho
macs and making their roadway look
- harmony with their farm. Such
- Individual farmer Is really . good
Messing 70 the neighborbood. It Is
0lten tle cass that such IN action on
- part Of the farmer will extend
- influence In other directions and
ae4 . IN incentive for another farmer
. 10 likewise.
Hans Christian Andersen wrote
1siry tale ct one time about . king
Who put = purse Of gold under q stone
q = highway leading to q market
tOwn. The purse contained . note
which said that the gold should be
tls reward Of the man who rolled the
stone out Of the highway. The king
waited for weeks and weeks for
some farmer to roll the stone away
ut none moved II. Instead the farm
en- bumped their wagons against it
they had done for years. One
narket day the king called the farm
No together at the stone. had ie
rolled aside. disclosing the purse Of
cold and then told them why he
placed It there. This led the farm
ars to roll other stones away on the
highway, and though they failed to
Ind any purse Of gold, yet as a re-
1ult Of their work they had gooo
roads while they we're looking for
he geld.
This fairy tale Of Andersen's may
not apply here for there are few
Itumps or stones in the roadway, but
ne purse Of gold will be revealed In
HE long run just the same when the
farmer makes his hauling to marke.
He can easily demonstrate !.
md It is we'll worth the trial.
Today at Pierre the first gathering
4 men is being held in the interest
Il the conservation of the resources
II this state. Conservation in the
older states OF the east and OF the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13
The Real Roosevelt.

Roosevelt in an airship shows of to
remarkable advantage. 1t is a fine
thing that he took the fight. 1t made
possible a clear, clean, unobstructed
view Of the real Roosevelt, such as
the jungles Of Africa or the storm of
politics might obscure. People may
differ with the man all they will in
any of the various fields of discussion
he enters, but it is a peculiar Ameri-
can who cannot find in his fearless,
intrepid, dashing nature something to
provoke his most ardent admiration.
He has an utter indifference to
danger, a happy-go-lucky element
about him that crops out at such times
forcibly challenging admiration.
In this instance, however, It is
barely possible that the aviator who
was so anxious to have the colonel for
a fellow-passenge had wished before
he got back to earth that he had
chosen another. He might have known
that a man who pulled off his coat
at the mere suggestion of a flight
would not sit still in the boat or keep
his hands on any one thing. Ex-
perienced aviators make as little fuss
as possible when up several rods in
the air; they keep their hands and
feet and body as still as possible, but
Colonel Roosevelt has shown them
that is all useless, that if a man hap
pens to feel the impulse coming over
him to call down to his friends on
the earth and wave his hands and
arms at them, he can do so and the
skilled aviator can do the best he can
toward maintaining his own equi-
librium and that of his machine
But when did Theodore Roosevelt
follow prescribed rules, or bow to
mere precedent, either on land or
sea? And if not there, why in the
air? Mr.. Arch Hoxsey probably will
go slow in inviting Colonel Roosevelt
to make any more aeroplane voyages
with him, but in the meantime the
colonel has had another literally
bulIy time"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13
The self.saerifioe of "Jim.D

A letter signed by Jim" Dahlman
accompanying his remuneration of the
democratic nomination for land com
missioner in 1894 in favor of a one
armed union veteran of the civil war
who had been nominated for the same
office on the populist ticket, has been
dug up and reprinted to impress pop
ulists and old soldiers with the debt
of gratitude they owe this heroic self
sacrifice. The letter is interesting
and well composed, and we only won
der who wrote It for him.
The degree of self-sacrifice, how
ever, must be measured in the light Of
then existing conditions. No nominee
on the democratic ticket in a three
cornered contest could hope to get to
first base in 1894, so that what Mayor
Jim" gave UP was merely the privil-
eye of being at the bottom of the list
of "also rams"
Another tell-tale mark in the letter
is found in its date-scarce two weeks
before election. In other words,
Mayor Jim" did not pull out until
every effort had been made and every
influence exerted to force the poor
one-armed union veteran populist to
get OF the track In favor of the able
bodied democratic cowboy. And It
should be also here recorded that
Mayor Jim" soon claimed and got his
reward at the next turn of the wheel
by appointment to the lucrative job Of
secretary Of the State Board of Trans
portation, in which he proved so serv-
icable to the railroads.
Still another paragraph of this in
teresting letter is worthy of attention,
wherein II says in conclusion:
And now and hereafter l viii be found, as
In the past fighting for the cause OF
democracy, as a democrat. because / be-
lieve IN its principles-as a fighting demo-
orat never having shirksd the performance
OF any duty however unpleasant
This is the same Mayor Jim" now
running as the democratic nominee for
governor who is appealing for repub-
lican votes TO give him the victory and
help put him where he can fight still
more effectively for the cause of
democracy and against all republicans.
He wants republicans TO forget every
thing the republican party stands for
and TO overlook the indetensible rec
ord OF the democrats III rhe state
house and vote the democratic ticket
merely because he has made a com
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13
No Danger of Disturbance.

President Tafts recent utterance
that he sees no danger of a financial
disaster" whether the supreme court
decisions in the cases of the big cor
porations go for or against the latter.
is taken in business circles as reflect
ing not only his views, but those of
financial leaders, which have been
conveyed to him. Those speculative
interests that may be seeking to
arouse fear or impair confidence
ought to heed this advice. The presi-
dent said:
I do not share these fears . that de-
cisions adverse to the corporations would
greatly disturb financial centers, would
halt general business, and would bring on
financial disaster.
1t gives me the greatest satisfaction to
say that In spite of all the rumors OF
possible business stagnation our basic pros
perity is assured for the coming year.
The Financial World of New York
says of the presidents view:
We are convinced that he was voicing
the feelings Of great captains of industry
who had conveyed to him the information
that they were not looking for disaster,
but prosperity.
Dun's Review for the last week
says:
The industrial and mercantile outlook is
better than statistics OF actual transac-
tons indicate, Business sentiment is al
ways prone to outrun current trade and
there are certain evidences Of a more en-
couragng view OF the business position
The president is therefore con-
firmed in his view that our basic
prosperity is assured" and that the
mere passing by the supreme court
upon the system of business as rep
resented in the suits of the so-called
Tobacco trust and the Standard Oil
cannot initiate substantially against
the established condition of business
The country is on too solid a financial
and industrial footing to be over
turned by such an extraneous influ-
ence and it is but inviting a harmful
state of public mind to pretend other
wise
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13
THE UNMELANCHOLY DAYS.

w. d. Nesbit in Chicago Post.
The melancholy days have come"-'tis
well that he who penned
he poem which begins that way long
since came to his end.
The melancholy days, forsooth! The apples
in the bin,
The grapes that are so full Of juice IL
nearly bursts their skin.
The pawpaws growing greenish-brown and
tat as butter balls,
The blaCk-haw pumping till at last from
sheer delight 1t falls.
THE melancholy days? o, sniff the am
bient atmosphere
And get the scent the the jocund breeze
is waiting to us here
The pungent spiciness and tang that WOO
belated bees
And tell us that somewhere today beneath
A copper kettle bubbles full OF apples but
ter! Say!
What kind of man could say this is mel
anchoy day?
o, let us weep because the gorgeous pump
kin wakes fat!
There is a world Of sadness in the very
thought of that
Full soon we'll bring the pumpkin in and
cut il into dice
And put It on the stove and boil it maybe
once or twice,
Then later on Wen sit about the groanlng
board and sigh.
Because we lack capacity TO eat the WhoIs
big piel
1.-THE melancholy days have come'-O, SEQ
The Joyous hour for mincemeat pie with
every moment nears.
o. let the wintry blizzards dow ana tetCh
But bring the mincemeat season and the
world Is not yet lost -.
The melancholy days are near-buhS
brother, can't you guess
The nectar of the gods is dripping from
the cider press
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.


So far as known. the Chinese senate got
through It's first session without trimming
an insurgent queue.
The determination Of the Chinese TO dis
pense with their queues Is likely 20 relieve
the tension I'm fashions rat market
one Of the tinclad, handkerchief safes
Of firm OF New York promoters was
pried loose with a can opener The labor,
ers were rewarded with a find OF Il cents.
Mrs Harriet NJ Martin Of Newcastle n
H. who is 80 years old, is the oldest office
girl" in the world 1t is believed For
many years she has been in charge OF
doctors office in that town,
Magazine undertaking would seem to
have passed the safc and sane limit in
charging a former president OF a railroad
with having resigned his position because
freight rates on his road were too high.
The official figures OF the senatorial
primary election in Wisconsin show that
Senator La Toilette carried 224O election
districts, and only forty gave majoritos
against him. His majority over all was a
trtfle above 10000.
one Of the two wings Of the republican
party in Mason county, West Virginia, Is
marshaled by Mrs. IIvid Simpson Potfen-
berger wife OF Judge Poffenberger Of the
state supreme court. The opposing leader
is mere man, who is an object of public
sympathy.
Texas is developing it's resources and in
creasing in population at remarkable
rate, and the city Of Dallas il the munich
pal drum major OF the band at the head
Of the procession, This fact is emphasized
by the silver anniversary number Of the
Dallas News Three states Of the size Of
Nebraska could be carved out of the Lone
Star state and leave considerable margin
for decorative purposes, and this vast ter
ritorv of magnificent distances, its unique
history and unlimited resources, are
epltomlzed by the News with rare skin
and accuracy. 1t is a vivid moving pic
ture OF the development Of the great south,
west. Of which Dallas is the hub
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13
NATURE GOING TO SLEEP.
Tints of Earth and Sky in Autumn
Days.

Itnts OF Earth ana SKY IN autumn
Days.
Chicago Tribune.
on these September days it is good 10
consider the great, silent miracle that
earth is spreading before the eyes OF those
who will see. once more she turns the
magic ball Of the seasons and summers
blazing harmonies give place to the deeper
and richer painting of autumn. over the
sky is drawn a subtle veil, as II that magic
element which blesses Italy had spread
across the Atlantic to soften our garish
American light. In the meadows masses
Of boltonia wave in the wind The golden
rod is turning to a bronze more beautiful
cling 10 the gay yellow Of their prime.
The first birds of the migration have come.
There is no land under the sun where
autumn should be priced as 1t should be
with us. because there IS no land where
its serene and suggestive beauty is more
needed to refresh the spirit. The high
keyed life Of America, the hurry and striv-
But all the more % we need some mo-
ments OF that rich thoughtfulness which
earth in autumn inspires, II In the civil
ization we are making there must be, In
the main or for centuries to come, that
which belongs to the hard brightness OF
our atmosphere and the clear cut outlines
of our landscape, all the more do we need
to dwell sometimes on beauty that turns
the spirit inward, that beckons the soul.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

Senator Norris Brown has thor
oughly exposed the false and malicious
character of the attack on Senator
Burketts votes on free lumber. When
the tariff bill was in the making Sena-
tor Brown and Senator Burkett voted
together on every roll call on the lum-
Der schedule They voted for the
amendments for free lumber that were
proposed on the square and voted
against the fake amendments offered
by democratic senators for the sole
purpose of putting republicans in the
hole. In the meantime, when the
tariR bill came out of conference for
vote on its adoption. Congressman
Hitchcock, utterly neglectful of the in
terests of his constituents, had de-
camped for Europe, where he was dis
porting himself with other rich Amer
lean 9leasure-seekeTs who go abroad
to spend their money.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13
SUPREME COURT CHANGES.
Great Responsibility Imposed on
President Taft.
City Star.

Kansas City Star.
The greatest responsibility lying within
the appointing power of the president Of
the United States is in the selecting of
judges for the supreme bench When Mr..
Taft was a candidate for the presidency
one of the strong points urged in his favor
was that he would be especially fitted by
his familiarity with the requirements Of
high judicial position and his exalted at
titude toward the supreme bench, to make
the best possible appointments to fill the
probable vacancies that would occur in
the succeeding administration
The appointment of Governor Hughes
to be an associate justice and the an
nouncement that he is TO be advanced to
take the place Of the late Chief Justice
Fuller have met with national favor, for
the selection was obviously fine in every
way. The other appointment made by
President Taft, that OF Associate Justice
Lurton, was well received so far as the
qualifications of the Tennessee jurist were
known. And now, with the resignation of
Justice Moody and the prospective pro-
motion Of Justice Hughes, two more va
cancies will be made. II is probable, too,
that President Taft will have the ap-
pointing of at least one, and perhaps two,
more supreme judges. Even one more APP
pointment would make a majority Of the
court Taft-appolnted men. No other presi-
dent except Washington, who named the
original court has had the appointing Of
so many supreme court Justices. The re-
sponsibllity is especially heavy because
1t must be exercised at a time when great
questions affecting the relations of the
people and the predatory interests are
passing through the tribunals of justice
and at a time when the traditional and
very necessary confidence in the courts
has been disturbed by some OF the rulings
in the lower Jurisdictions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13
Our Birthday Book
October ls, 1910.

Arthur Crlttenden Smith, president OF
NJ r. Smith & Co, wholesale dry goods,
was born October 10, 1863 In Cincnnatus,
New York. lie is a graduate OF Harvard
and also holds the distinguished title OF
colonel by appointment on Governor Shell
don's staff
w. r. Hitchcock. of Webster, Inward &
Co. insurance, with offices in the Bee
buildlng is forty-nine today, He was
born in Homer, n Y, He was in abstracts
and law in WILDER, Neb., in 1885 and editor
Of the Alliance Times for six years until
he became a member Of his present firm In
Omaha in 1893.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.

Your face is a mass of scars. Did
YOU cut yourself while shaving
mo, but l managed to shave myself
while cutting. Cleveland Leader
"Hightower, the big center, doesn't play
tn varsity team this season
"Hurt?'
NO. He's got weak memory and cant
learn the les."-Cleyeland Plain Dealer.
81 was in hopes, when 1 married. that
1 could give my wife every thing she
wanted
"M ell?"
Il didn't think her yeRrning capacity
would be so much greater than my earn
ing capacity. '-WashingtOn Herald.
You don't mean TO tell me that you are
going to wear mixture Of red, brown and
yellow puffs?'
For one evening only" replied the
bride Il had these made from the various
locks of hair that my husband had on
hand when | married him. The original
donors will all be at the ball tonight
W ashingtOn star
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

TVIIN
1t is the west that is the optimistic part
of the country. We are so close out here
TO the production of things that pesslmism
can never remain with us long, Wall stree5
becomes blue, and the east takes its color
from Wall street and the west feels 1t in
time. But the west soon throws 1t off, for
there are too many fertile acres out here,
too many prosperous people and too much
enterprise for pessimism ever to be popu-
lar.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

Springfield Republican.

The number OF casualties reported from
Lisbon indicates that the royalists were
capable of desperate fighting, but the early
flight Of the royal family from the king
dom, Of course, disheartened the monarch's
supporters. A King who runs away in such
crisis is not worth fighting for; and
bloodshed in support of his cause becomes
crime. What would have happened had
the monarch been person of some force
and courage can only be surmised, but prob
ably there would today be civil war raging
throughout the country
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13
BASIS OF PROSPERITY,
Natures BOuntifuI Response TO Mans
Industry.


Cincinnati Enquirer.
Corn is still king Of all the great staple
crops raised in the United States. Ac-
cording to the exhaustive report pub
lished in the Enquirer. the yield Of corn
will exceed two and three quarter billion
Of bushels which at market prices ought
TO produce for the farmer almost bill
lion and a half in money The figures
are stupendous and almost Incompetent
sible. The total is almost equal to the
cotton and wheat production combined
When the magnitude of these great
staples is borne in mind it is difficult
to conceive where the calamity bowler
finds ground for the pursuit of his call
ing These great crops spell prosperity
and, Notwithstanding the prating and
croaking Of demogogues, they prove con-
clusiyely that the country IS fundamen-
tally sound and healthy. There is a real
basis form prosperity, and neither the
basis nor the condition that 1t portends
can be destroyed by the drooling Of
croakers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

From the Winnebago Indian reser-
walton TO the north OF US comes a re-
port of great surprise that so many
bids were received for heirship lands
put up at public sale, and offering
fairly good prices. II this is true.
there is good reason for surprise for
heretofore all the land-grabbers in the
vicinity Of the reservation have been
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

Colonel Roosevelt hit the bull's-eye
when he said that if put to a vote Of
all the people tariff that offered no
protection that is, for revenue only
or free trade, would be overwhelm-
ingly defeated in this country.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

The way the democrats are going
the limit in the county board and city
council to save those voting machines
at no matter what expense to the tax
payers is pretty good proof that they
believe the salvation of the demo-
cratic ticket in this county depends
on forcing voters to pull the straight
party lever II that is the case, they
must not blame republicans for pre-
ferring to avoid, under the circum-
stances, going up against this machine.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

Down in the Fourth congressional
district Matt Miller, the doughty dem
ocratic war horse, is giving it to Good,
the perpetual nonpartisan democratic
candidate for higher-salaried office,
good and plenty. We trust the amen
tiles Of campaign etiquette will be OBJ
served
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

Edgar Howard says it makes no diff
ference whether or not he opens a
poker game with prayer, but that the
real question is, How much money
stolen from the state treasury by Bart
ley was pocketed by Hitchcock?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13
A Garland for Modesty.

How many Of the thousands to whom
the name Of Hoke Smith has long been
familiar know the man to whom he owes
all his political success, the inspirer and
guardian of his career, the gifted but too
retiring Poke Boggs?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

One could not blame the kaiser If
he reiterated his denial of the report
that his daughter is engaged to
Manuel, now only a has-been king Of
Portugal.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

Prof. Crabtree doubtless by this
time has more correct appreciation
of the bouquets showered on him last
winter by democratic newspapers that
are now handing him cabbages and
stale hen fruit
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13
Polishing n "LOEiouI Point"

SAN FranCisCO ChrOnlCle,
Omaha is for a san Francisco fair. Just
give the rest CT the prairie cities time and
they will follow suit. The logical point"
for westerners is the Golden Gate.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

Portugal seems TO have gone dem
ocratic by a decisive majority" says
the Houston Post. Yes, typically
mocratic-fighting and tearing
down but republican, you notice, in
building up
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

A Yale professor is afraid the
United States is going to become a
monarchy. Afraid? Or just saying
so to out-radioal the Chicago univer-
sity professor?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

A pistol fight in the heart of New
York city suggests the advisability Of
the west sending a few refined cow
boys into the wild and woolly east
to restrain Il.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

At any rate, Edgar Howard has the
corroborative testimony of Mr.. Bryan
that Mr.. Hitchcock deliberately mis-
represents and deceives.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

/, A. Xix is running for congress
on the democratic ticket in a New
York district, which ought TO fix the
rhymsters who are trying TO mix
something with Dix
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

Things come to him who waits, but
if no would only watch as we'll as
wait he might be able TO dodge a few
before they reached him.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

The Wisconsin patriarch of 73 who
married girl Of 2S showed that he
is not superstitious Of the number.
anyway.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

Hope for the best, but count on
the worst and you will train for the
strain of life.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13

II he is not careful, someone about
next April Fools day will spring Jas
per L. McBrien for the presidential
nomination in 1919.