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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-22
WARNING SERVED
UPON BOATOWNERS
Government Will Fine All Who
Fail to Provide Motor Craft
With Safeguards.

Unless local motor boat owners OIL
serve more carefully the regulations
governing lights and safety appliances
laid down by the United States De
partment of Commerce aud Labor. they
VIII lay themselves liable to a line
of 500 FOR each violation Of the Motor
Boat Act to be assessed by the coll
leetor Of customs Tor the port OF Rich
mond. y number OF motor boat
owners narrowly escaped being fined
last week
Under Instructions from the Depart
m,nt OF Commerce and Labor special
uscnt y. =. Dryden. OF WASHINGTON. has
oteu conducting an Investigation OF
motor craft which ply upon the James
and nearby rivers. HIS Investigations
az the city wharves revealed q number
or boats deficient in the equipment
required by the Federal laws The
owners Of these boats escaped inn
mediate nnc from the fact that in
every case the Delinquent craft was
found tied UP at the dock and no, in
use. The Doats We're reported to the
department IN Washington.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-05-09

less powerful than the nearest sur
geon-is not Protestanism-it is the
cowardice that is the invariable symp-
tom and penalty of want of faith. :.
There is one force and one only
that Rome cannot face; and that
force is democracy. In democratic
America, Irish Roman Catholics
desert their church by tens Of thous-
ands. In oligarchic Castle-ruled Ire
land the bittefest enemies of the
priests would die rather than desert
in the face Of the enemy. In France
the Roman church cannot get even
common justice. In Italy the pope
is a prisoner in his own palace. In
Spain, priests and nuns depend on
police and military protection for
their personal safety. In Ireland
alone the priest is powerful, thanks
to the hatred, terror, faithlessness
and folly of the Professionals who
stand between him and his natural
enemy, democracy.
There is only one chance for
priestly tyranny under Home Rule,
and that is the chance Of the Protes-
tants insisting that the Irish Parlia-
ment shall be denied the power to set
the Roman house in order. The most
pressing need in Ireland today is the
establishment of the Roman Catholic
church. At present the priests levy
taxation without audit or responsible
1ty; and their charges for their official
serVlces-for marriages, funerals, etc.
would make an English farmer
gasp. This taxation should be levied
by the Irish Parliament, which should
pay the priests and regulate the
charges, besides controlling ecclesiae-
tical patronage. Factory acts should
be applied resolutely to convent work
shops and the like, and the inspector
OF education should exact as high 2
standard from convent schools as
from lay ones. Boston TRANSCRIPT
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-05-09

The Macon (Ga.) police "trailed a
load Of liquor six hours, and then lost
it, says newspaper; and report
doesn't say they were able to capture
single drink during the entire
trail"
All the political I-told-you-so's are
having the time of their lives since
the Georgia State primary gave
Woodrow Wilson a setback, and
supported the "sure-enough" South
ern man, Underwood.
Next to the first rose of summer
or the first swallow of the same
period, is, in point Of number, the
man who fired the first shot in the
Recent Unpleasantness and another
OF him has just died, in Georgia.
The finding Of women's bodies,
floating near the scene of the Titanic
wreck proves conclusively that that
man Ismay didn't spend too much
time to prove his assertion that call
women had been taken from the
Ship
While the Chinese in China may be
IN need of American dollars, there
are goodly number of Americans
in this good old U. S.~A. whose need
for the dollars, in the Mississippi
hooded sections, are greater-and
charity begins at home"
Mere Cabinet secrets have come
out since Taft and Roosevelt began
singing mud at each other, than an
eager world ever hoped to hear. AS
brilliant man said: Roosevelt does
not deny he did all Taft accuses him
OF doing, but sets back by saying:
And you were a member OF my Cab
met while I was doing the things you
now accuse me Of -
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-05-09
BERNARD SHAW ON CATHOLIC
ISM.

Mr.. Bernard Shaw has written
letter to the Christian Globe on the
religious aspect of Home Rule. He
says: What is wanted on both sides
Of the Channel is a little real Pro-
testantism. This craven terror of
poor Old Rome-of q pope who is less
free, personally than any atheist, and
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-05-09

II you want real enjoyment send
ten cents for copy of Humorigt.
Address Publisher Humorist. st.
Louis, Mo. In ordering your read
ing matter, don't fail to include the
HumOrist.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-05-09

The Roman Catholics have tried
very hard to suppress Maria Monk
story of her life in a convent. Read
1T and you will know why. Price
soc postpaid. The Jeffersonian Puh-
fishing Co., Thomson, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-05-09

10 the South that her percent
age of illiteracy is greater
than that Of any other por-
ton Of the country, and those who
look for the reason have no difficulty
in finding it, in the spring of the
year.
Thanks to the philanthropy Of
many excellent Northern people, the
negro Of the South has had a most
enormous opinion Of his worth in the
general scheme of things, cultivated.
He has had colleges, churches,
schools and homes built for him, and
the most elaborate curriculums
arranged therein, for his exclusive
use and benefit.
In many Of these schools white
teachers and professors" are engaged
in the work of uplifting the colored
Brother and Sister, but where the
college education has benefited the
negro individually or the South col
lectively, so far, the South has failed
to realize.
A drive through the country in
the spring of the year shows the
fields in need of work, and there are
none Of the colored workers which
the South has so long been able to
depend on; the fields need cultiya-
tion-but the farmer is helpless, for
lack Of labor.
One Of the departments Of The
Weekly JeffersOnian is ''The Post
Card Club" it is simply a depart
ment Of correspondence from the
younger readers Of The Weekly JEFF
fersOnian.
The letters average seventy-five
per cent from country children, and
no one could read them and not think
OF the depl0rable conditions which
exist in the South's farming sections.
Girls and boys of from ten to six
teen years make valiant efforts to
write, but some times the result is
too pitiable for comment; these
children will invariably refer to their
desire for an education, but the need
for feld-WOrk, cOttOn-ch0pping or
planting causes them to leave school.
In many of the rural districts, the
school term is three months. That
means white children, descendants
OF an unbroken line Of pure Ameri-
can stock, cannot receive the benefits
Of the education for which their
fathers and grand-fathers have paid
taxes for many years.
In Augusta, Georgia, there is
magnificent brick building several
stories high, set in the midst of
beautiful grove, with cl0seiy-cr0pped
grassy lawns slopin8 down to the
street, with many modern buildings
annexed, and it is filed with c0lored
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-05-09


be blind to the needs of the poor
white, while it gives lavishly and
continuously to the poor black?
The poor white of the South will
not accept charity, and this is not a
plea nor a suggestion for it-but the
need for schools, to which the child
rem Of the poor white farmer could
go, and receive the education they so
Dathetically ask for and are so often
denied, is one that should appeal to
the "self-made" man who is desir-
GUS of benefiting mankind.
There are a great many Southern
ers who are ignorant of Or indiffer-
ent to the conditions which exist in
the rural South, and to them also is
commended the suggestion that the
plea of the country children of the
South take precedence, for while,
at least, Of the negro youth.
The Aliens of Virginia evidently
belong to the first fighting families.
In Georgia, it's just one round of
politics after another, and the pot
never ceases us OHM
Just how many Of the survivors Of
the Titanic will go into vaudeville or
on the lecture platform, remains to
be seem
Once more has man invaded
Woman's realm: rich Pennsylvania
bachelor died and left all his money
to his cat.
A Methodist Convention seriously
asks; are church folks less religious?
and it doesn't take one long to give
an answer.
One Of the very best signs Of the
times is the efforts many judges are
making to urge reforms in our Judi
ciary system.
Sooner or later, women tire Of
bargains: one in New York is ask
ing for divorce from a husband she
paid $500 cash money" for.
Lillian Russell says q warm hand
clasp feels better than a kiss. P. S.
Lillian doesn't have to rouge her
hand as thickly as her face, maybe.
Every daily paper keeps standing
in bOX-car letters: Taft calls Roose-
Welt Roosevelt calls Taft''-and
the opitheta are the only daily
changes.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-05-09
A PLEA FOR SOUTHERN RURAL
WHITE CHILDREN.

T isn't matter of local pride
to the South that her percent
age of illiteracy is greater
than that of any other por-
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-08
Local and Personal

Prof. Kerr, county chairman, left
for Huron this morning to attend the
state Taft convention.
Mrs. Harris Oium and O and
daughter, of Meeting Creek, Alberta,
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur and
other old time friends here this week.
A. Mcmillan, the jeweler al Mitch
ellis, was called to GLADDEN., Mich,
Monday morning by the serious illness
of a brother.
Miss Schultz, the new teacher Of
German in the high school, arrived
from Madison, Wis, Monday to take
up her work.
Rev. j. NJ. Green, who spent a week
with Brookings friends, returned Fri
day to Mt. Horeb, Wis, where he is
now located.
Miss Rose Zimmerman was able to
leave the hospital Tuesday, after be-
ing there for treatment for some time.
She is very much improved in health.
Miss Ruth Soule, who is teaching
at Estelline, spent a few days the last
of the week at the home Of her par
ents.
Prof. G.. Larsen left Monday morn
ing for Garretson to deliver an ad-
dress before a creamerymen's meet
ing.
Considerable snow has fallen during
the past week, especially on Sunday,
so that the sleighing is fairly good
again.
Miss Frances West arrived from
Minneapolis the last Of the week to
visit her sister, Miss Florence, and
other relatives and friends.
Thos. Morrow returned to his home
at Spencer, Iowa, Friday morning af-
ter visiting a few days at the home
Of his sister, Mrs. Geo. H. Stoddart.
B. S. Long, the local agent for the
Baker Medicine company, was this
week informed that he had won sec
ond prize offered by the company for
selling the most medicine in South
Dakota. The prize was a fine fifteen
dollar oil painting.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-08

We notice by the dailies that the
Olson Brothers store at Grand Forks
was broken into by burglars n night
last week and a quantity of clothing
stolen.
Commercial club members should
remember the monthly meeting to
morrow night. There will be an IL
Illustrated lecture Of interest and other
talks, and a buffet luncheon will be
served. A full attendance OF the mem
bership is desired.
The citizens of Bushnell have pc
titioned the council Of that village
for the privilege OF voting upon the
license question at the coming spring
election, and it is rumored that the
people of White will take similar &C
ton. A delegation Of Bushnell citi-
zens, opposed to license, were over
Tuesday examining the county records
to ascertain whether or not the sign
ers OF the petition in that village were
voters and freeholders" as required
by law. They found that the signers,
or enough OF them, were freeholders,
so they went back home, determined
to make a vigorous fight against IL
cense. 1t looks as though Bushnell
was in for a warm time between now
and election day.
The benefit entertainment for the
hospital was given at the opera house
last evening and was a great success
in every way. The house was we'll
filed and the entertainment could
hardly have been better. The Brook
ings Symphony orchestra rendered
several selections, rejecting credit
and upon its director, Prof. Christen-
SEM. The professor also rendered a
violin solo in his usual pleasing a
ner and was obliged to respond to
two o The vocal numbers were
taken by Miss Frances West OF Min
%neapolis, a former Brookings girl, and
Miss Ethel May Cathcart OF the COL
lege faculty, and both were heartily
encored. Leon Fourier in an Irish
monologue was very good, and the
State college glee club pleased with
a couple of selections. The Viking
Mandskor, Of the Lutheran church, a
well trained male chorus of twenty
voices, made a decided hit and were
recalled twice. Verne Pratt Of the
college band, gave a very pleasant
trombone solo and responded to an
encore.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-08

Commercial club meeting tomorrow
night.
If You Want to Hire Help, Call at
the Office Of the Register.
Mrs. Peter Short visited friends at
Aurora between trains Friday.
Father Flynn, of Estelline, was in
the city Monday on his way to Elkton.
F. w. Cuckow visited Elkton on
legal business between trains yester.
day.
Miss Anna Burdick of the city, was
operated upon at the hospital Tuesday
morning.
Mrs. j. w. Linn was called to Viola,
ILL.,, Monday morning by the serious
illness of her mother.
S. H. Goodfellow left Tuesday for
the western part of the state in the
interests Of the A. o. U. w.
Mrs. Edwin Twedt Of Verdi, visited
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l. 7. Ell,
verud last week.
March Z and s have been named as
the dates for the Brookings county
farmers institute.
Miss Norwood of Balaton, visited
few days this week at the home O
Thos. Wornson.
l. T. Elverud returned Monday from
a few days visit in the western par
of the county.
Miss Eva Meyers came down from
Redfeld Monday morning for a brie.
visit with friends.
Mrs. McMasters, one of the old resi-
dents Of the county, living southeast
of the city, is very i'll this week.
Mrs. Errington went to the Twin
Cities Monday to select her new
spring stock OF millinery.
H. l.. Hopkins departed Monday
morning for Chicago. Indiana ant
other eastern places on business.
o. A. Hagen, the baker, left Monda!
morning for eastern points TO solicit
business for his excellent product.
The second semester OF the college
began Tuesday morning, the students
enjoying Monday as a brief holiday.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-08

LOST-Pair of fur-lined mittens on
Main street Tuesday evening. Finder
please return to DR.. A. w. Hyde.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-19
REFORM IN DIVORCE LAWS.

'Concident with the news from Nevada that the
great majority of the voters out there getting no
benefits from the divorce MILL but sharing the stigma
of it, have overrdden their prospecting fellowcitizens
who attended court or kept hotels or ran boarding
houses Ind have indicated their will to change the
Nevada law comes the news from London that the
Royal Commission of Divorce has reported, urging
reforms in the British law in this regard On oppo
site sides of the EARTH two agencies work for
similar results.
1t is interesting to note the conclusions of the
Royal Commission of Divorce which was appointed
and set to work three years ago. It's investigations
have been very deliberate and thorough 1t recon-
mends that the be placed equal terms before
the law that extension be made In the grounds
of application and that the present magisteral pow
ers respecting separation be restricted.
The recommendation regarding equality of the
will excite Lost interest everywhere but
other sectonO of the report urging methods whereby
the cost of litigation will be reduced to bring d
within reach of the poor is hardly less inter
estng. To this latter section the minority of the
commission disagreed. The majority, however took
the position that the present stringent regulations
and costliness of divorce productive of i'm
morality. The minority, disagreeing, contended that
"at time when in America to name but one
country, where divorce has been easier and wider
there is strong reaction in favor of greater resric
tions, England should not relax the marriage laws
The entire commission rejected "unconquerable
aversion" "incompatiblity of temper" and mutual
consent as grounds for divorce
The report recommends that the judge alone shall
hear divorce cases; that he be empowered to close
the court during hearings that the publication of
any of the details be prohibited; that report at
all divorce be allowed in the public prints
until they finished and that the publication of
the portraits of the parties to any divorce suit be
prohibited.
All of which is very interesting, as none would
deny.
But how much more would be accomplished if the
wise legislators would only make it harder to get
married.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-19
GEORGLA,S APPLE CROP.

In Atlanta, last week, there be seen an exhi
btion of Georgia apples the hills of Haber
sham and Rabun counties in the northeastern part of
the state. 1t was presented by private interests
yet their display could not lose its public merit
The apple display in Atlanta should have been
part of big exposition of Georgia apples from every
part of the state where apples are grown. This is
of Georgias resources which has been left to
develop almost of itself without public spirit be-
hind it.
In Spokane, Washington, the other day, the fifth
national apple show in that section was opened,
amid the blowing of steam whistles and the ringing
of bells, by Governor Hay with formal announce
ment that King Pip had assembled the throne Up
wards of 100000 apples in place in the expo
sftion.
Yet Georga's possibilities apple state are
said to be greater than those of either Washington
or Oregon
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-19
THE COMING OF PARCELS POST

With the approach of the date, January /,
when the nation will have it's first service by parcels
post it is interesting to note that express official
predicts that the government will prove danger
rival to the express companies because it will
not be, efficient enough
The Kansas City Star quotes express heads as de-
clarng that they taking steps to meet the
competition of parcels post Any further reduction
in express rates depends the interstate commerce
commission they quoted saying; and in no
degree upon parcels post The expressmen are quoted
as declaring that the government cannot give the
service and that shippers will still prefer the express
companies The postof1ce department hasn't the
equipment, say the express men, and can't get it
without tremendous initial expenditure Moreover,
they declare the will deliver the parcels
no promptly than it delivers frstclass mall
if promptly.
Another view of the question is that which it is
ported the speakers before the National Federation
of Retail Merchants are going to take. The fedora
ton opens it's first meeting November nineteen in
st. Louis with five thousand delegates. The speak
ers expected to attack parcels post the federation
fearing that eventually it will annihiliate the small
merchant land result in the greatest and most pow
erful trust the world has yet seen the distribution
trust"
These views in anticipation of the coming of par
postofice department will change somewhat radically
on March fourth, and there is reason to hope that
both views will prove unfoundeG.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-19

electricity streams of power 1t is foolish to cali
any of them bad The Creator made them.
Love, passion is the steam; self-control the cap
tain pilot of the soul
man. therefore. is like mariner steering his
boat between and shoals, keeping the safe mid
die channel There is no substitute wise pilot.
There is safe and method of al
tanning charocter Every minute we must weigh and
judge and decide.
There are a good many limitations of self-con-
troll the market. For instance, there is stupidity.
Many fat head has gained a reputation for being
safe" when, inter of fact, he neevr could
be anything else He is praised for selfcontrol when
he has nothir- to control DR.. Hale tells of a man
became famous for wisdom in the legislature
simply by. combining his public utterances to two
speeches. One was, There has been much said
and well said that I add nothing" The other
Il quite agree with the gentleman the other side
of the house"
There are many persons who spoken of for
their goodness who in reality nothing They have
no force no passion strong desires, no fire and
Their heads stored with choice mutton
1t is travesty virtue to call such as these
virtuous.
Let the storm tossed and driven take comfort.
You the real kings For you the fires of crea-
ton were kndled For you the wind blows and the
shine. Sail OF course you must stand at
the wheel day and night while the dereets float by
without lookout peaceful in their living death Be
meath strong waves and sea monsters, around
you storms and huge ocean craft like yourself
freghted with responsibility; above you is the light
ming. But it's life life life!
The WORLD too long praised mediocrity in char
acter and worshipped at the shrine of the moral
weaklng Goodness is erernally defined being
purely negative. A is rated high morally by
the things he does not do
You have always been taught to look up to the
Honorable Leading Citizen because he does not drink,
smoke go to theaters, attend horse races,
gamble, dance swear be it from
to intimate that these things not wholly
hensble. But why should the honorable gentleman
boast that he does not these? Neither does fence
post.
What is it that he does? Virtue is positive not
negative. Does :, feel for others, does he work,
suffer and live for others? Are the strong tides
of altruism running through him? Does his virile
hepfulness encourage the weak, his icy rectitude
give them despair? town stimulus town
bromide?
There has never been enough passion in the world
1t is a great passion that makes a great 1t is
of that that alone entities Him to
be called a good man. old earth is boosted
ward by the jeyfish, who feel nothing and avoid
everything. but by those in whose hearts aapas
sion for justice, a passion for truth, a passion for
humanity. Love is first and greatest of all Add
self-control and, it becomes joy forever.
rudy drop of manly blood
The surgng outweighs
The world uncertain comes and Goes.
The lover rooted stays