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LOOMS NEWS

LOOMS, s. D.-Mr. Elva Halling,
of LOOMS. and Miss Jennie Keen Of
Mitchell were married last Saturday
evening. Mr.. Halling is a farmer in
this locality and Miss Keen has
taught school in this locality. They
are both highly respected young peo-
pie. Mr.. and Mrs. Lew Halling. the
parents of the groom gave a recep-
ton at their home Wednesday.
Quite a number from here have
gone to Mitchell to attend high
school.
]. E. Watkins, Joe Smith and E.
d. Watkins all wen to the Fair at
Minneapolis Monday.
Will Clark has bought a new Oak
land auto.
Threshing is nearly done in this
| vicinity and neighborhood.
Married, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. d. Allen, Sept. 1, at eight
o'clock, Miss Paulina Witzorek to Mr..
Earnest Stevens. Rev. A. E. Smith
officiating. The brides home is at
Parkston, where she has fought
school for some time. The groom
is a cook at the Widman hotel in Nit
f, chell. After a short wedding trip
they will be at home after Sept. 10.
Mrs. H. Clark and daughter re-
turned home from Hot Springs Tues.
day evening.
Mrs. E. S. Wogdcach, of Seattle,
Wash. has been visiting in this To-
cality.
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about a week ago from Bloomington,
ILL.,, to visit his brotherin-law, MI.
Liversay, eleven miles out Of town,
took their departure for home on
Thursday morning.
A card received from Mrs. Steb-
bins from Elliot, N. D., stated that
her sisters baby was very sick,
could not possibly live the day
through (Aug 3Oth) and they would
have to remain a few days. Mrs.
Stebbins's youngest sister married
Mr.. S%tebbins's youngest brother.
Fred Johnson is very sick and DR..
Bobb. of Mitchell. is attending him.
Charlie Johnson has sold his farm
to a mar from Iowa for SIS and acre,
bringing a total of over $12 10000.
Willie McKeel celebrated the sixth
anniversary of his birth by having
about twenty small boys at his BIRTH
day party IN Monday afternoon.
Grace and Violet Tobin went to
Mitchell on Friday afternoon.
w. w. Jones' family have got NOV
ed v from Corsica and can be found
in their own residence in the west
part Of town.
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1T SAVED his LEG.

"All thought I'd lose my leg"
writes J. A. Swensen, Of Watertown.
Wis. Then years Of ecsema. that
is doctors could not cure. had at
last laid me up. Then Bucklen's Ar
MICA salve cured It. sound and we'll
Infallible for Skin Eruptions, 20.
xema, Salt Rheum, Boils, Fever Sores,
Burns, soalds. Cuts and Piles. &c .,
Diehl and Brown.
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MT. VERNON ITEMS

Mt. Vernon, S. D.-Mrs. G. E.
Fitch left last Saturday for Mime
apolis where she will visit her moth
er for two weeks:
Miss Stella Shane went to Ethan
Friday. Miss Shane will teach in the
Ethan schools for the coming year.
Miss Bertha Laurson came from
Mitchell last Wednesday and is Wis
iting her parents here.
Hobble skirts are all the rage, ev-
en- in Mt. Vernon.
Mrs. H. G. Smith, from Kimball
visited the News" family a few days
last week.
Mr.. Huere man is the proudest
man in town since the arrival Of that
bouncing boy at his home last Fri
day.
School began Monday. With the
exception Of Miss Porter, primary
teachers, the entire faculty are
strangers to Mt. Vernon.
Rose Jacobs came down from KIM
ball last Friday to visit his best girl;
he returned HON Sunday. d
The young folks had a last dance
before the beginning of school at the
hall last Friday night. Kettleson's
orchestra furnished music.
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NEWS FROM LISBON

Lisbon, S. D.-Threshing is about
accomplished in these parts.
Fred Cropsey left fro st. Paul Sat-
urday.
The dance at John Miller's was
o. X. All report a fine time.
Miss Nina Wright of Mitchell was
visiting her aunt and family from
Friday till Sunday.
School started Monday with 10
scholars enrolled.
G. c. Wheeler and family visited
at c. B. Bates Saturday and Sunday
in Sanborn county.
Mrs. Geo. Jenke and Mrs. Floyd
jerks were shopper in Mitchell Sat-
urday.
Miss H. v. Miller and friend call
ed at Geo. Miller's one evening last
week.
Mrs. G. G. Lesion visited Mrs.
G. c. Wheeler one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P. Miller were
Sunday visitors at Geo. Miller's.
Bert jerks and brother, Pete,
marketed cattle in Mitchell on day
last week.
Miss Annie Miller visited at her
Uncle Kill Green's Sunday and Mon
day
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quite sure" he answered laconica11y,
and in another second had turned the
corner. lie did not run from the temp
tation In order to be honest. He neither
accelerated nor slackened his steps. He
was merely following his own way.
whatever of hope or hopelessness 1t
held out to him.
This phase of the situation I had not
expected to meet. Piling the faggots
still higher in an attempt to wiring a
more satisfying statement from his
lips, I followed him up to ask. Would
you mind talking to me moment?p
About what?"
Why did you refuse to take this
wallet? You had just come out Of a
pawnshop and you must need money
Here is a chance that comes your way.
and it doesn't even interest you. To
claim the purse would have been an
easy matter. Suppose it doesn't be-
long to you, what difference does it
make? Why didn't you keep it9'
Why should I?'
There was no self-consciousness of
tone or manner. No appreciation of the
situation. "It belongs to some one who
has lost it. 1 have no claim on it."
That, of course. is true" I agreed,
do. You must admit that ninety mine
people cut of hundred, urged on by
your need, would have grasped at the
chance
Maybe So" The man was becoming
impatient of my insistence, and again
moved on.
You are probably descended from a
long line of sturdy Scotch covenanters,"
| ventured, noting his heavy Jaw and
deep set eyes, with honesty inbred In
you"
am an American" he replied, and
don't know anything about my an
cestors. My father was ships car
penter, and my mother was the daugh-
ter of a Pennsylvania farmer. She was
Quaker and there were eight chill
dren beside myself. We were always
poor and we all went to work as soon
as we were old enough, but because
man is poor he does not necessarily
nave to steal If a thing doesn't be-
long to you, stealing it won't make 1T
yours, will it?" The fnality OF his tone
brought the interview to close. He
lurched around the corner and was
gone
Was this honesty that knew no
temptation so great a virtue after all?
IL was great honesty, but Was 1t q
great virtue? This man was honest
from instinct-honest as the mole is
plind. 1t cost him no struggle to re-
1use my proffer; he was honest for the
same reason that you are tail or am
short.
The street that has not lost all It's
iell respect, still retaining the shabby
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caught the sound and a network Of
hands clutched at the wallet.
rs that yours?" I managed to ask
the dishevelled victor
Yep" On the strength of possession
being nine points of the law, the man
was within his rights, and felt that
my first test was not fair one My
heart went out to the fellow, too, as
I thought of what his disappointment
would be upon finding only coppers in
the purse
Ny next attempt to test the passing
honesty was better planned. 1t was
the noon hour. on Market street, where
the hungry world converged from three
directions A we'll filled wallet lay up
on the sidewalk Several people passed
it by, unseeing. High headed. absent
minded men and women seorched along
conscious of nothing but the allotted 80
minutes and the nearest restaurant.
The man who first noticed 1t half
halted. cast furtive glance at his fell
low pedestrians and started toward IT.
But be had lived in this world a bit too
long. On the instant the disillusion-
ments, disappointments, rebuffs OF a
threadbare lifetime surged across his
soul. their sordid passage shadowing
his face. Another sidelong, suspicious
glance arrested his first impulse; he
jerked his shoulders forward and shuf-
fed past the decoy, too wise to be
fooled again Tho etoru 20 . l;eo +o15
IN three shufiing steps! Has all your
gold been dross. my friend? iHas the
end of every rainbow been barren of
treasure? Is every apple ashes at the
core? Was It honesty or cynicism that
shufled you past the wallet? The an
swer is the question.
Two keen eyes were upon the wallet
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genteel tries Of better days. was my
next venture. Signs in the windows
barking Rooms to Let" proclaimed a
struggle to make both ends meet on
the inside as well as from without, and
the sooty vines clambering up the
dingy walls where the paint was most
worn, made a brave effort to put the
best leaf forward The woman who
emerged from the corner house bore
the stamp of her street from top to toe.
Il beg your pardon, madam, you
dropped something l said. The little
wallet was temptingly fat
"Oh"
Seeing an instructive movement to-
ward it. I picked the purse up and of
fered it to her.
'Ohl" Twice her hand was out
stretched to take it and twice with
drawn
'Tt must have slipped from your bag"
the tempter added
Again the woman calculated "Ohr'
and the thin hand in the rusty glove
clutched the wallet
did not blame her. The thread
worn tragedy of a lifetime lurked in
that moments struggle against tempt
alton the final surrender. Not for her
=
had she yielded. The Midas touch of
that wallet as it appeared to her fancy
would replenish the larder, supply fuel
ease for the nonce the pinch here and
privation there. little extra sum
fifteen or twenty dollars, represented
wealth to the tired soul whose shoul-
ders dropped under the burden of mere
existence.
Take 1t and welcome, my friendr' I
said inwardly, hoping thereby to re-
losing fight, her honesty no doubt
want, but that of her family, made her
sin one Of supreme unselfishness.
Here the possibilities unrolling them
selves before me were suddenly inter
rupted. No. it's not mine.' said a
voice at my elbow. "Here!''
My shabby, genteel friend was cross
black veil fluttering out behind. a chal-
lenge to the tempter Poverty, hard
ship. mother love, weakness, during
the five minutes she had haggled over
the price of carrots and stew meat
time the brown paper bags were safe
had rung up her 13 cents, she had van
quished the enemy. Her NO it's not
mine, with the defiant wave Of her
black veil was a planting of her colors
on higher ground, and glorious VIC
tory over "the world the flesh and the
devil" Could you have made so good
a fight and won?
There We're many incidents during
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the days experience not so pleasant to
contemplate. People caught at the
copper filled wallet with Judas
clutch, men and women alike But we
were not collecting data of this sort,
SO let 1t go with the jetsam of the hu-
man tide. Many Of those who claimed
the purse. did so, doubtless from i'm
pulse, only to regret it later.
Would you like to know where the
meanest dishonesty was found? Among
those who had the least excuse for it.
The greediest grasping for the little
wallet was in that locality where the
display of wealth is most aggressive.
Here the golden calf seems to be set
on higher pedestal.
In front of a massive pile whose
marble steps she had just descended.
woman approached me. Middle
aged. richly dressed, she carried her
self with the air Of assured position
and class.
YES" without an instant's hesita-
tion, she answered, as called her at
tention to the little wallet, and the
white gloves hid the purse in the
bright new pennies, the words, Thief,
Criminal. Traitor, should have been
slipped, but the handful or coppers
stolen to Offset carking bridge debts
may have brought renlorse and a retri-
button OF its own kind. The little
shabby genteel woman who had fought
her good fight against PRIDE mother
love. creature comforts. knew nothing
of the oppression of gambling debts.
Would she have been proof against
losing scores?
My Study in Scarlet" who came
next. is a theme for Pinero or Suder-
mann to put before the world In all
her guilt and glory. In her kind the
whole ganiut of living Is run, and de-
spite society's frown and the bitter
ness of the fruit of life, the core is
still wholesome More money, more
paint, then more paint and more
money" 1 was thinking as 1 said to
her, Did you lose this?"
No she answered. promptly. 81
did not"
you are honest" I said. I knew
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now, and in an instant a messenger
boy had clutched it tight. rs that
yours?p I asked.
Without an instant's hesitation,
Nope" he answered, 'is 1t yours?"
"Then why did you pick it up?" /
asked. evading his question.
"Cause 1 happened to see It first
he offered with grin.
What are you going to do with it?'
I persisted.
Keep it." frankly.
'If you find an address inside, will
you return ftp I questioned, cycling
him closely the while. His Say, what
kind of a mutt do you take me for?'
left no room for doubt of the chaps
raightforwardness
There was no address in the pocket
book, as I knew well, but the lads tri
umphant face proclaimed the fact to
others less wise.
but it isn't yours" I insisted.
"well, it isn't yours either, what's
the matter with you? Go long"
to his finders keepers creed. The wal
let was his by the right of discovery.
It was cruel temptation to put in a
mans way. but the opportunity was
irresistible. Out of a nearby pawnshop
had come a man., his shoulders bent,
his head thrust forward. his eyes on
the ground. Here was my quarry! "Oh,
it's yours, is itg' I said, pointing to
the fat little wallet on the sidewalk.
mo" the man answered in fiat, in
different tones. "it is not" and was
passing me by.
But" hating him again I picked up
the purse, 1T was lying just where
you have been standing. Are you sure
you didn't drop it?''
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It was not yours, but I did it TO test
YOU Why didn't you claim it? You
had the chance
Not on your life" she answered
lou can tell by the looks Of the thing
1t belongs to some. poor person who
needs it more than do"
The little coppers looked pitffp1
enough as the girl opened the nurse
TO her II represented the hOardings Of
some child or old person, who had
saved carfares and beers Here. Won
put something into it, too" she said
1mpulsively. as she opened her own
pocket book and extracted some nick
els and dimes Whoever lost It will
be coming back to look for it done.
you worry"
i had found not only honesty but
the milk OF human Kindness. Here
was quality Of honesty that was not
tempted to steal that which belongs
to another-in the matter OF money!
Oh, we all have our own little yard
sticks! You are better than some one
else by your measurement. and some
one is better than you by his stand
ard What IS good and what IS bad2
That which makes the world kinder
and sweeter is what is good. The
ready sympathy that runs out 20 NEE
anOther's need IS what helps the world
along. Which OF these two women IS
sheltered life; the pampered wife who
snatches the cheap. little wallet and
hides it in her mgn? Ashamed, nvs
of the theft. but OF the cheapness OF
the wallet. Or my Study in Scarlet.
OF whose life It were better to know
nothing. but who in her generosity
and honesty meets a strangers need.
Is breaking the Sixth commandment
any worse than breaking the Seventh2
The woman in the sables must have
met and passed my Scarlet Sin on the
block below. In scorn she turned
aside until the polluted air was puri-,
hed-the scorn OF the good woman In
the bad On the larger circle. wlsK
they meet and pass again. which Win
be the good and which the bad?
whatsoever is guilty OF one OF these
commandments is guilty OF the whole
law
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~ o you consider yourself honest?
A fig for youl honesty. Have
IL you ever been put to the test?
Have you ever felt the gripe Of
hunger and resisted an unclaimed
purse on the pavement? Have you,
VIZ. wife and children suffering
from cold end insufficient nourishment,
uDon pickiae up a wallet. sought to
rizo sts owner2 Have you ever been
t1rned out OF your shelter into the
street because your rent was overdue
and stiu respected the difference be-
tween mine and thine?
Then how do you know whether you
are honest or not2 Why. do you scorn the
thief from your Pharisaical heights Of
virtue? You may be the thief, the mur-
derer, the sot-whether you steal, kill.
drink or not-unless by a practical test
you have proven yourself
How many men and women in this
town would you expect to find honest
under test7 Would there be any? Yes,
thank God. there would be and aro
Amidst riotous graft and corruption.
t-ere are men and women or unswerv-
ing integrity who can stand the white
hear OF temptation without flinching.
a courage that outshines the lustre
Of any saints halo is that which with
stands the need TO steal under heart
breaking provocadon- And right here
in our midst we find it. In the dingy
back streets south Of Market where the
struggle for existence is bitter and
grinding, this quality Of honesty
thrives. DO you doubt it, NJ cynicus?
Then you have never tried to discover
It.
It fell to the pavement with clink.
On the instant 20 pairs Of ears, strain
ing for the jingle OF the guinea" :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-18
OHI0IANS TO ORGANIZE.
Prominent Men Of Buckeye State
Favor an Association Here

Steps are being taken by Ohioans in
this city to organize an Ohio society.
President Taft is said to be heartily In
favor Of the formation of the society.
Senator Burton, Senator Dick. Repre-
sentative Longworth and several others
are interested in the movement. There
are In this city more than dozen state
societies. all of them composed of bona
fide residents Of the various states and
are employed either in the government
departments or Offices and >others in
Washington. They meet once a month
Tor the transaction of business and social
enjoyment: Ohio as yet has no such So
clety, although the many men and
women from that state employed in the
capital have at various times met in
smaii groups to participate in entertain
ments In private residences The matter
or forming the society has. frequently
oeen the subject of discussion among the
men and women, and it is believed that
IN the near future the movement will ma
ter1alize In the organizing of one of the
largest and most distinguished state as
sociations in the city
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-18
VALUE Of THE STANDARD
NECESSITY SHOWN IN LEG
TURE BY ALLEN r. FOOTE.
Business Accounting Declared to Be
Rapidly Developing Into an
Exact Science.

Uniform Standards and Methods of
Accounting a Fundamental Necessity
was the subject of an address last night
by Allen Ripley Foote. president of the
Ohio State Board of Commerce and
president of the International Tax Asso-
citation, before the Association of Ameri-
can Government Accountants at the Pub
lie Library.
DR. l.. G. Powers, president of the asso-
Foote.
StandardS are clearly defined and uni
vcrsally accepted measures by which the
Brightness of moral. economic and political
thoughts and actions may be determined, -
Mr.. Foote said. "A standard meaning for
words is necessary to render language in
telligibie. Standard weights and measures
are necessary to render the production
and exchange of commodities possible A
standard unit of value is an indispensable
basis for the development of denomna-
tional currency and system of account
ing expressed in terms of money.
In private business the purpose of ac-
counting has advanced from mere rec
ord of exchanges between buyers and
sellers to an analysis of infinite detail to
show the true effect upon general results
of every economic factor involved. and also
the effect of every phase of the adopted
business policy.~t'nit of efficiency are
standardized TO render efficiency COM
PARSONS possible. Success in the manage
promoted through the aid of accurate and
scientific accounting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-18
ON PATRIOTIC THEMES.
Addresses Before District D. A. T..
Society Last Night.

The annual patriotic mass meeting OF
the District Daughters of the American
Revolution was held last night at the
Arlington. Addresses were made by Mrs
NJ. T. Scott. president general of the or
ganization; Mrs. Charles w. Brown, Mrs
Clara Baker Smith, Mrs. Daniel Lothrop
founder of the Children of the American
Revolution; Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey
DR.. A. j. Mckelway. secretary of the
southern states child labor committee
Mrs. Martha 0ielow of the Southern Edu-
cational Association, Mrs. Morgan D.
Lewis and Miss Cora Bacon Foster.
In her address Mrs. Mussey, who is
chairman of the child labor committee of
the d. A r.. took up that question and
discussed it at length.
Mrs. Ida II. Mattngly. state vice regent
presided in place of Mrs. Della G. Small
wood, who suffered a recent bereavement
Resolutions of coincidence were later pre-
sented by Mrs. Flora A. Lewis and were
ordered sent to Mrs. SmallwoOd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-18
GEORGE F. GULICK DEAD.
Former District Alderman and Mem.
Der of Territorial Counc;l

George F. Gulick. one of the oldest resi-
dents Of Capitol Hill, died at Providence
Hospital today of general dibility. after
a long illness. Mr.. Gulick embarked in
the grocery business during the fifties and
retired two years ago. He was active in
politics From the old fifth ward he was
elected alderman to the Goth, 61st cd.
SD. 64th. Goth and 6Sth councils under
the mayoralty form of government from
1862 to 1860 and 1870 to 1871. President
Grant appointed him in 1871 a member
OF the council of the new territorial gov
eminent Mr.. Gulick serving for the three
years of its existence on important COM
mittees until it was abolished in the year
1874, when the temporary District Com
missioners were appointed, followed in
1873 by the present system of govern
ment.
Although Mr.. Gulick was active in his
business and busily engaged In his public
duties, he still found time to devote to
church, and religious duties. The Second
Baptist Church counted him one Of its
oldest members, for he had been on it
roll for more than forty years For man,
years he was superintendent of the Sun
day school.
In 1856 he was married to Adelaide
Drury. Eight children were born to them
all OF whom have passed away except
one son, John Henry Gulick, who Is ir
business in Chicago.