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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-10
a Siqnificent Warming.

Just two years ago the Atlantic
Monthly published an article entitled
1.-The Man on the Bridge" 1t was
written by Charles Terry Delaney, an
officer on one of the great ocean liners,
and it excited considerable controversy
throughout the country. Indeed, so
many indignant protests and denials
were Immediately put forth by the
press and by agents and officers of
various steamship lines that the At
lantic, printed a response to this on
slaught in it's August number, in which
Mr.. Delaney backed up his statement
by a few more telling facts.
In view of the late terrible disaster it
is of interest to turn back to the article
in question, which points out many
things that are being vitality considered
at the present moment. He dwells
upon the dangers of running at great
speed, both in the fog and in the vicinity
of ice and cites the hair-breadth escapes
which he has experienced. He states
that the captains and officers of the
liners are underpaid and overworked,
and dwells upon many other points well
worth considering.
After setting forth the dangers OF
the ''ice track" he describes his own
experience of a few years before
1.-The night being hazy and the ship in
the ice track, | kept hanging on, unit
finally, after giving up hope of the
weather clearing, | did decide to cal
the master and start the whistle. The
responsibility was his, not mine. But
before this could be done, almost along
side the ship was an iceberg towering
up about three hundred feet. The shiI
passed within twenty feet of it, going
at the rate of twenty-one knots; hac
there been a submerged trailer attached
to the berg the ships bottom woulo
have been ripped open. Cold as | was
at the time, | went colder still, anC
vowed that l would never again take
such risks. Had the whistle beer
sounded it is possible that the warning
of the berg's approach would have
been given me by the echo"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-10
AUTO AND ENGINE CRASH.
Car Runs Into Three-Horse Hitch
Turninu Corner,

An automobile struck a speeding fire
engine in Chelsea Sunday, and two of
its three occupants were hurt. The car
was smashed.
Fred M. Keith, a refrigerator manu-
f%acturer, suffered a compound fracture
of the left elbow and got his head cut
and bruised. His son, Ralph E., was
cut in the face. Another son, Fred W,
escaped hurt by jumping.
The accident happened at Sixth and
Spruce streets. The Keith car had just
left their home at 65 Sixth street and
was turning the corner. A three-horse
hitch driven by Elijah E. Smith was
pulling the fire engine at high speed.
AS he was about to take the corner
Smith saw the automobile, and he tried
with all his strength to swing the
horses. They were going so fast, how
ever, that they could not get out of the
way. Nor could Mr.. Keith swerve the
automobile far enough. One of the out
side horses, hit by the car, smashed
against the engine and upset. The
horse on the farther side was knocked
down and slid about % feet.
The elder Keith was thrown out of
the automobile and knocked uncon-
scious. Ralph was pinioned under the
wreck. Fred jumped and landed safely
On his feet.
Smith managed to keep his seat on the
fire engine and brought the horses to a
stop. The horse that slid was slightly
cut and the one the automobile hit lost
two shoes. Last night all three ami
mails were ready for another run. The
engine was not damaged. Boston
Herald,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-10
ROOSEVELT SWEEPS TEXAS.
Wilson Wins More Than All Three
of His Opponents.

Austin, Tex, May cit is now def
nitely known that Roosevelt practically
swept the state in the precinct primary
convention held Saturday, although the
early reports indicated that Taft was
in the lead.
Colonel Cecil Lyon, the Roosevelt
manager, claims a solid Roosevelt dele
cation of forty votes will be sent to the
national convention.
Quite a number of primary conven-
tons did not instruct, but their dele
cations are said to be favorable to
Roosevelt.
Taft carried the Tenth congressional
district due chiefly to the efforts of
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-10
Reasonable Auto Speed.

If every one concerned were to con-
slider the matter of regulating automo-
bile traffic in this city with strict adj
herence to common sense, a satisfactory
solution of a vexed problem would be
found without trouble. Police Commits
sioner Waldo gave a good illustration of
this method in his talk with the alder
manic committee.
He began with the incontrovertible
statement that at is better to have a
liberal law with strict enforcement than
a strict law with liberal enforcement"
Half the trouble now is caused by doubt
full law, which leads to doubtful judg-
ments. Trifing offences are often pun
ished with absurd severity, while gross
and criminal carelessness or reckless
ness goes comparatively scot free.
The gist of the commissioners sug-
gestion is that the law or ordinance
should be so framed as to compel We
hicles to adapt their pace to their i'm
mediate environment. AS he put it,
ION Palham parkway a man might drive
twenty-five miles an hour with safety,
while on the lower east side, ten miles
an hour would be reckless" In other
words, responsibility for accident be-
longs to the person that causes the &C
cident, and it should rest upon him till
he clears himself of blame. This he
can do only by showing that in the
circumstances he was proceeding with
prudent regard to other persons. Ahard
and fast limit of speed, however low, is
fair neither to the driver nor to the
victim of his carelessness. 1t provides
safety for neither. Witness the fact
that of 2, 500 accidents last year, no less
than l 900 were near crossings.
1t should not be difficult to draw an
ordinance which would set out with
reasonable definiteness the principle that
drivers shall not needlessly imperil life
or limb or property, and shall take the
consequences if they do so with harmful
results. Such an ordinance, properly en-
forced in the courts, would render i'm.
possible a record like that of 1911-20C
deaths from automobiles in the streets
of New York. New York Globe.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-10
BRIpPoRT.

Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Palmer. Mr.. and
Mrs. G. E. st. John, Mrs. E. E. Wolcott.
Mrs. D. E. Rice and son, attended the
funeral of Mrs. Jane Birchard at Shore
han May 9Th.
Mrs. John Petty, who has been i'll at
Brattleboro, is with her parents here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Riley made a
flying trip this week to Worcester, Mass.
Cards are out for the marriage Of C..
j. Barbour and Miss Frances Cook at
Wallingford, May IA.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orison Sherbino are the
parents of a little girl, born May g..
Childrens day services will be held at
the Congregational church the second
Sunday In June. A meeting to make
arrangements will be held at the vestry
Saturday afternoon of this week. All
willing to take part are urged to be
present.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-10
Ready to Support Roosevelt.

To the Editor of The Herald:
Permit an ~up-country subscriber who
voted for Taft in the New Hampshire
primaries to say that it seems passing
strange to many of US here that Massa-
neutrality-suspicious. are not willing to
abide by the marks which they have
made in their primaries, and at the
same time are many of them so un-
gracious to a generous concession from
the opposing forces under Roosevelt.
Many of us who supported Taft in the
primaries now think that Roosevelt will
be nomir ated, and it is not pleasant to
us to have him unnecessarily kicked.
He is the most popular man in the coun-
try and because of the noble qualities
which he possesses. Who more has the
nations welfare at heart and strikes
out to promote that welfare? Who can
approach him in an influence for civic
righteousness or as al example and in
spiration to the young men of our ma
ton, ETC.? Remember that you will
still!.have to go on writing matter after
T. X. has been nominated.
j. NEWTON PERRIN, Jr.
Sa%nbornton, N. H., May 3.-Boston
Herald,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-10
Mrs. Eddy's Church Request is
Valid.

Concord, N. H., May THE res
iduary clause of the will of Mrs. Mary
Baker G.. Eddy, founder of Christian
Science bequeathing the residue of her
estate valued at about 50, 900, 900 to the
First Church of Christ, Scientists, of
Boston, creates "a valid trust" in the
opinion of the supreme court of New
Hampshire. This was announced to-
day.
The court holds that the "~residuary
clause is not a gift to the church but a
gift for religious purposes sustainable
as a charitable trust"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-10
Boy Hurt BY Auto.

Michael McCallister, 8 years old, of
$50 Manhattan avenue, is in a serious
condition, suffering from COMMISSIONS on
the back of the head and a possible
fractured skull at st. GATHERINGS Hos
pital today, as the result of being
struck by an automobile Friday in Man
haitian avenu near Huron street. The
car, owned by>a Manhattan firm, was
driven by Joseph Main of 176 Suydam
street, Brooklyn. Brooklyn Eagle.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-11
(Philadelphia North Americal

One of the greatest civil commits
'sions of antiquity which attracts our
attention, incites most u curiosity,
and with which we are SO little ac-
quainted is the mail system of. the Ro-
mans. ~ .
When the Roman mails were first
established they We're very. poorly con-
Quoted but we know that they existed
in the time Of the republic ana grew
rapidly with the great political or
CARNATIONS and with the %construc-
ton of the military-commercial roads;
as. for instance, the Appian way,
which led southwark from Rome to
Brindisi (begun by Appius Claudius in
inian way, which led northward from
Rome by the way of Rimini to
Aquillea and which was constructed
by Flaminius Nepos in the year 221
1t is certain that the Romans got
their idea of the mails from the
Greeks. so much Sc that they adapted
the word hangariae from the Greek
formed by learned men that the
Greeks in their turn got their ideas
on this subject from the Persians.
The Roman mails, or cursus publi-
Gus as 1t was called. vas for a long
time used as the exclusive instrument
OF the government n private per-
sons were obliged to use their slaves as
letter carriers. Such persons for in
stance, We're used by Cicero tt carry
his epistles to his friend Atticus, then
residing in Athens; and it seems that
in those times, as in the later times
of Richelieu, Napoleon and Meter
mich, it was the custom. of the gov
eminent officials to delay and even
open the letters Of private persons, if
we may believe that same Cicero HIM
self, who protested firmly, accusing
Antony his eternal enemy, of having
violated the public faith.
Julius Caesar, who desired to COM
municate more rapidly and with
greater regularity with the pro-
%vinces, especially Gaul. divided the
mails into two divisions-fast and
slow. The fast mail was carried by
messengers drawn by the fieetest of
horses which were changed at sta
tons (stationes) places at convenient
points along the military roads.
These last named stations were sit
uated about twenty miles apart and
had in constant readiness about twen-
ty horses for the use of the couriers.
They We're equipped with veterinaries
and with carpenters.
On the roads about 100 miles apart
were placed the houses of the mes
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-11
MURDER WILL OUT.

The confession of Clarence V. r..
Richeson that he deliberately planned
and executed the murder of the
young woman whom he had ruined
and who believed that she would he
able to hide her shame in her mar
rage with him, furnishes food for a
good many deductions. 1t is easy to
sermonize on crime after it is known
and to point put the safety of avoid
ing its repetition by others. But in
the Richeson case the student Of
criminology will turn to the guilty
man himself as II subject of investi-
CATION.
1t is not necessary to reflect upon
the religion in which he posed as 8
leader and teacher. for it was the
professor and not what he professed
that was wrong. That he was a rep
knowledged. That he called men to
follow Him who knew not the sense
of a harsh. deed, who taught mercy
and not cruelty, while his own hands
carried the stain of the poison that
had 80 swiftly sent a soul into the
of its God, indicates a de-
pravity of mind and a soaring of
conscience that were not developed
by the immediate occasion. That he
could stand in the presence of his
congregation and lift his bloody hands
t. heaven in an invocation Of its
blessing shows that he was a depraved
criminal not made in a day. 1t is
true his sanctity was a cloak Of hypo-
crisy; his prayers a proclamation; his
sermons a sacrilege. But none knew
except the All Seeing and Richeson
himself. That man can develop
such u criminal nature in a calling
which demands the highest grade OF
every thing. opposed. to II, ami hide
that nature SO u~nblushingly. behind
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Fred stones Daily Work.

Ihat the mastery OF any difficult
task will remain after contamination
without daily cndeavor, is as foolish
as that d retired baseball PLAYER
could rr-cnter the game and give a
good account of himself after being
away from the diamond two short
months. In the case of Fred Stone,
however. of The Old Town COM
pany. there is nct a day but what YOU
can set Your watch with stones ar.
rival at the theatcr where he is fill
ing ANYTHING but one night stands.
HIS punrtuality is as perfect as the
clock.
After rising in the morning it's a
cold plunge. q two mile walk before
breakfast. then to the theater, usual
lN accompanied by a couple of enthu-
slasts. and then the medicine ball for
AN hour or so. Then the high wire
is stretched across the stage and
stone Will go through all the "stuns''
that he is seer in in the performance
az nght. Then ONE a dancing prac-
tee which is followed Ivy a round of
i1ip-flaps, with some forward and
backward somesaults, with a few
twlsters thrown in. Then he will bit
the leaping board just the same as
they do in the circus when they lean
oNer the horses and elephants. Then
an hour or so with the lariat
which nc fairly makes talk, with its
wnizzillg and snarling noises as it cuts
through the air. his unerring eye con
trolling its every movement and the
moose opening or receding at it's mas
tcr's will. BY this time its about
noon. and If there isn't an opportuni-
tN or playing The Old Town" Base
ball club OF which he is captain
against some local nine, or if there is
not some local trap shoe of distinction
who wishes to match his skill in a
friendly shot. he will windup the day
by taking his prize mustang and saun-
ter into the surrounding country, or
take his ear and explore all the sights
worth seeing. With all this YOU will
find him at the theater promptly at
o'cloc getting ready for the evening
performance. Mr.. Stone. though not
Il teetotaler. rarely drinks ANYTHING
stronger than ginger ale. and tobacco
he taboos.
Stone retires shortly after the per-
f"rmance. and is an early riser. Sci.
dom does this itinerary of stones
daily life vary; his whole existence
and Very soul. as to speak, is tied ur
in outdoor life. :
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-11
PIONEER RESIDENT DIES.
Walsh County Pioneer Passed Away a
California Home.

O&IlIOEul6 0O11Ss
Walsh County. Record: Mr.. Samuel.
Severson,. q veteran Of the Civil war
and one of Walsh county's most prom
inent pioneers, died at Los Angeles,
CAL, Thursday. Dec. %. He was 81
years old and had been in poor health
for some time. He went to California
only q few>weeks ago thinking that
the change Of climate would be bene-
fetal. :.
Deceased was born in Norway and
came to America in 1861 locating near
Madison, Wis. Two years later he
moved to Minnesota and engaged in
farming. In 1865 he volunteered and
served in the Civil war till its close,
when he was married to Miss Carrie
Benson of st. Ansgar. Iowa. To this
union IL children were born. In 1882
Mr.. Severson and family moved from
their Minnesota farm to Latona town
ship. and located on a homestead.
Some time later he bought the farm
which is the present home Of the fam
tly in Norton township.
The funeral services were held at
the home Saturday and ct the Qualey
Lutheran church Sunday, Rev. Silseth.
officiating.
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the cloak of sham. makes him the star

the cloak of sham, makes him the star
criminal character of the age.
Why did he confess? The answer 10
this question at first blush would seem
to be Numerically opposed to the
conclusion drawn above. But it is
not. A certain class of modern
thought is based on the fact that one
mind can operate on another mind ia
produce truth in the one SO infiu-
enced. Millions Of people have be-
lfeved from the commission of the
crime that Richeson was guilty. If
one mind car influence another, would
not the power Of several million
minds upon one be SUFFICIENT not only
to influence it for truth but to make
IT. express the truth in confession?
But this is a field which we do not
ARE to explore, being content to view
the matter entirely from Il material
list standpoint.
Daniel Webster in addressing a jury
for the prosecution in n great muir
der trial expressed concisely the great
law of criminal conscience himself in
alton upon the criminal himself in
the term murder will out" Follow
ing tho analysis further, and after
pointing out how every circumstance
points TO the guilty ono he said:
Meantime the guilty soul can not
keep its own secret. II is false to It,
self: or rather At feels an Irresistible
impulse of conscience to be true to it
self. 1t labors under it's guilty pos
session and knows not what to do with
it. The human heart was not made
for the residence of such an inhabi-
tant. 1T finds itself preyed on by a
me which IL dares not acknowl-
edge to God or man. A vulture is
dcvouring it and it can ask no SYM
pathy or assistance from either heav.
on or earth.
THE scrcrct which the murderer
possesses soon comes to possess him:
and like an evil spirit. it ovcrcomes
him, leading him whithersoever it
will. He feels it beating at his heart,
rising To his throat and demanding
disclosure. He thinks the whole
world sees it in his face. reads it in
his owes and almost hears it's work.
inss i'm tho Very silence Of his
thoughts. 1t has become his master.
IT hctrays his discretion; it breaks
down his courage; it conquers his pro-
duce. When suspicious from with
out begin to clnbarrass him. and the
net of circumstance to %entangle him,
the fatal secret struggles with still
greater violence to burst forth. II
must bn confessed; it will he confess
cd; there is no refuge from confess
sion but suicide, and suicide is con-
fession."
Those words though three-quarters
OF :; century old. describe the circum-
stances which led up to the confession
of RirhcS"n as wildly as though they
were uttered now for the first time.
The guilty secret was greater than the
crlngins hypocrite who had lied his
Way into tho ministry and tried to lie
his way out of the crime. The soul
is greater than the self; the power
of the mind greater than the will of
the body. He confessed not because
he wanted to hut because he could
not help it. The Ease will furnish,
food for thought to those who seek
to solve the mysteries and peculiari-
ties of criminals and crime.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-11
mA0L SYSTEM OF the ROMANS
IMPORTANT LETTERS IN CAESARS DAY WE'RE DELIVERED BY
MESSENGERS DRIVING THE FLEETEsT HORSES

sengers (mansiones). that is to say.
about n days journey and were full
ly provided with provisions and arms
for foraging and were in charge Of
a supervisor, called a prepositus or
manceps. The service was organic
ed in such a way that the journey
from Rome to Gaul took from seven
to eight days. -t a.
No people understood better than
the Roman h advantages of a per-
feet mail system, especially as a mil
itary factor: The service was per-
on a coin struck in honor of Vespasian
we read the inscription "Vehiculatione
ltaliae Remisse;" SO also of Ancoius
Plus of whom it was written. "Vehicu-
lauin %diligentia s~ublevavit."
We learn from the code of Theodo-
sius (section W the dimensions of the
vehicles. which We're: The rheda.
pacity of a thousand pounds, drawn
by eight mules in summer and by
twelve in winter; the olstum. a two
wheeled wagon; the carpentum, a o v
cred wagon on two wheels drawn by
two mules and a cabula, a military
transport drawn almost entirely. by
oxen
The regulations Of the cursus pub
licus We're of the severest order and
great were the dangers of the mes
sengers. SO much so that. as a pun
ishment for their beliefs, the early
Christians were compelled to act as
couriers. and 1t was Pope Marcellus I.
that was condemned as a caretaker of
the horses in the staotions Of. the
the horses in the stations Of the
horses was prohibited and all per-
sons were compelled by law to lend
aid in time of need to the messen.
gers.
The Romans also had a maritime
mail service, the chief seat of which
is not known, but it is generally sup
posed that it was situated at ;Ostia,
at the mouth of the River Tiber.
The Roman mail service was DOOM
ed win the barbarian invasions but
such was Its stability that, notwith-
standing the ravages of the barbar-
ians, 1t was still used to a certain ex-
tent by the Goths and Ostrogoths in
late centuries.
During the sixth and eighth rem
turtles Many of the laws and customs Of
the Romans were adapted by the
Lombards. but the n person who
alone attempted the reestablishment
of the mails was Charlemagne, but in
vain. The destruction of the roads
and bridges was not reparable and the
constant quarrels of the feudal lords
kept the country in a state Of endless
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clerks who are intent on padding
the returns, and the situation was too
funny for the man with q humorous
turn Of mind. The ward man. be-
hind the chief clerk, with significantly
outstretched arm and hand, palm up
permost, may be considered emblema-
teal or prophetic Of modern political
conditions. What appear to be three
ballot boxes are also quite clearly to
be seen.
Their mode of registering names for
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-11
MORGAN IS IMPROVING.
Former Chief Justice Gaining Sine
Removal to. Coast. -

Word was received in the city from
Los Angeles, CAL, containing the
new Of the great improvement Of
former Chief Justice Morgan's health.
This will indeed be gratifying to all
Fargoans as we'll as to all the citizens
of the state. by whom the former chief
justice is so much loved. :.
Judge Morgan recently resigned
from the supreme bench of the state
on account Of his Door health and
vent to California to, recuperate. He
has been poorly for a year or more
and all Will be glad, to learn Of his
improved condition. -
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-11

turmoil, so that the highways were
safe to no one. Not until the rise of
the great Italian republics in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries and
the flourishing of industry and COM
merce were the mails established with
q regularity to which we can directly
trace the great postal systems Of to-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-11

Nearly every woman feels that the
family could save some money If her
husband wasn't so extrayaeant.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-11

A poor man is also saved from wor-
rying for fear the black hand may
get his hollow-horned ruminant.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-11

No doubt every man whose chill
dren are afraid OF him. feels that he
ID a great disciplinarian.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-11

A man isn't necessarily stinsy be-.
cause he won't loan his private drink.
ing cup Or his toothbrush.