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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
PRINTING IN CHINA.
Often No Presses Are Used, a Pair OF
Brushes Doing the Work.

The Chinese assert that the art Of
printin. WAS discovered in China about
fifty years before the Christian era.
permaking. A. ID. 50, they printed on
silk or cloth cut in the form of leaves.
The method employed to this day by
many native Chinese printers Is as
iJituws:
No printing press Is used. The dell.
cate nature Of the Chinese paper would
not admit OF II. When the blocks are
engraved. the paper cut and the ink
ready one man with his brush will
print a large number of sheets In a
day.
The block to be printed must be plac-
ed perfectly level and secured firmly.
The printer has two brushes, one of
can hold in his hand and use at either
end.
He dips ii into the ink and rubs the
block with II, taking care not to mois-
ten 1t too much or leave 1t too dry. II
1t were wetted too much the characters
would be blurred; If too little, they
would not print. When once the block
is got into the proper condition he can
print three or four impressions with
out dipping his brush into the ink
again.
The second brush is used to rub over
the paper with a small degree Of pres
sure, that it may take the impression.
This it does easily, for, not being sized
with alum. it receives the ink the in
slant it in contact with it. 1t
is only necessary that the brush should
be passed over every part of the sheet
with a greater or smaller degree of
pressure and repeated in proportion
as the printer finds there is more or
less ink upon the block.-Harper's
Weekly.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15

While in Sioux Falls and being shown
the news item containing Governor
Vessey's latest Chicago interview,
dated February s, in which he claims
that South Dakota would likely switch
to Roosevelt and drop Mr.. La Toilette
because Of the Eaters illness, 0. r.
Richards the South Dakota progress
i've leader, said:
Senator La Follette's illness from
o.erwork is an evidence of his genu-
ineness as a reformer, sealing his. work
with sacrifice of self. | do not approve
Of Gov. Vessey's attitude, as a candi-
date for election as a La Toilette dele
gate to in trying to put him LA Fol
lette) out of the running all the tim
Why not let Senator La Toilette deter
mine that himself?
No good soldier will be t~reacherous
to his general. | am of the opinion
that senator La Toilette will come
back in a few days like a rubber ball.
| am for La Toilette first, last and all
the time-particularly now that he
needs support.
Senator La Follette's possesses crea-
tive ability, is safe and true. We need
him. He will win and become the next
republican president"
Asked what he thought of Medill Nc
Cormick and Clifford Pinchot as to their
polite public desertion of La Toilette,
Mr.. Richards said:
Il have met these individuals. They
are dissipated, cigarette-stained idlers
and do not belong to the l. Folltete
ranks. Progressives ought to be more
than delighted to have them leave. If
fate DEGREES that La Toilette does not
remain in the race, party history is apt
to be made very rapidly.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Want the Land Office Moved

<. B. Townsend and NJ. P. Kerlin, of
Murdo, and c. P. Jordan and W. S.
Hollenbeck, who live on the Rosebud
reservation are in Washington, d. c.,
in an effort to induce the government
to move the Gregory land office farther
westward. They say that the present
location will be inc~onvenient for the
homesteaders who will settle on the
newly opened Rosebud lands. Messrs.
Jorden and Hollenbeck want the office
located at White River. Messrs. Ker-
lin and Townsend have asked that it
be transferred to Murdo. The two
delegations have taken the matter up
the South Dakota delegation.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
The Old and the Young

At the Grand Pacific hotel in Pierre
Thursday occurred the marriage OF
Napoleon Welcome, of Fort Pierer, ~
years old, and Laura Brooks, of Morris
town, Mimi, aged Is. Welcome is one
of the oldest settlers at Fort Pierre,
and has been married several times.
He and his children by former mar
riages do not agree, and he had lived
alone. Some time ago Welcome went
to Morristown with a shipment of
horses, and while at that place was
badly injured by n of the horses.
Miss Brooks assisted in caring for him
while he was laid up by his injuries.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Soldier Tells His Stnrx

Robert Balm, the juror whom Clar-
ence barrow, the chief counsel for the
McNarama brothers, confessed dyna-
miters, is accused of having bribed,
served in an Iowa regiment through
through the civil war. Col. Thamas
q. Orr, superintendent of the South
Dakota soldiers home at Hot Springs,
has received Bain's own story of the
affair. Balm and Orr enlisted in the
fifth Iowa infantry in June 1861. Balm
was drum major, and Orr, who was 13,
was his drummer boy. Col. Orr was
the youngest man who went entirely
through the war. The two slept and
fought together for three years. After
Bans bribery had been made public
he could not rest until he confessed and
squared himself with his old comrade.
IF had taken a litrle time, il would
have never happened" writes Balm,
sorrowfully, but it is all over now,
and / will make the best of it." He
then tells the details which led to his
accepting the bride.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Martin on Army Posts

The defence of the army posts of the
northwest, with particular reference to
those at which cavalry ~detachments are
stationed, was uttered on the floor of
the house of representatives at Wash
ington Monday by Representative
Martin, of South Dakota, when the
Hay amendment to the army appro-
priation bill, proposing to prohibit a
further expenditure Of money at those
posts which have been recommended
for abandonment by the war depart
ment, was under consideration.
Mr.. Martin admitted that most Of
the northwest posts were unnecessary
now, so far as the original purpose of
their creation in connection with the
suppression of Indian uprisings was
concerned. But he contended that
there were many good reasons why
these posts should be maintained, chief
among them being their absolute
necessity to the health of the army.
aside from the fact said Mr..
Martin, ''that the plan eminating from
the war department and apparently
having the approval of the democratic
side of the house, which proposes the
abandonment of these posts, would not
in view Of the immense amount Of
property that must of necessity be
abandoned, operate in any sense as an
economy, | want to call attention to
the fact that great numbers of soldiers
are constantly returning from service
in the tropical climate Of our insular
possessions. OF thsse returning SOL
diers a large proportion, if not actually
ill and in need of medical attention, are
nevertheless, in exceedingly debili-
tated state, requiring extended s%ojourn
in some invigorating climate such as is
found in the plains and intermountain
country. The war department has had
splendid success in restoring the vigor
and usefulness of these deviataiized
I oops from the tropics by sending
them on detail to the any posts of
the northwest. This in itself is a
serious consideration, and too little
attention has been given to it in con-
nection with the army mobilization
plans which contemplate the abandon
ment of these posts"
Mr.. Martin also made a careful
analysis of the economy claims of the
war department and the democrats to
prove his contention that no consider
able saving would result to the govern
ment through the abandonment Of the
posts in question.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Looking After settlers Agai,

Looking After Settlers Again
Yielding to the protests from con-
gressmen from North and South ID akota
and other public land states against
delays in reporting on field examin-
atoms of protested homestead claims,
Secretary Fisher has issued an order
to the chief of the field division of the
general land Office directing him to
submit reports within one year of the
date Of protest
Secretary Fisher has also directed
that reports be made Immediately on
all protest cases that have been pend
ing a year or more.
Settlers in the public land states
have submitted evidence to their rep
resentatives that their homestead fl.
ings have been held up as long az
three years because Of delay in making
field examinations.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Mrs. Hartman Contributes

A check of S.. 900 has been received
from Mrs. E. H. Hartman as her
pledged subscription TO the fund to
build the auditorium in Deadwood.
Work on the building will probably be
commenced some time next month, the
tentative plans having been adopted
and the committees now waiting on
permanent plans and it is hoped so
have the building ready for occupancy
before fall, when an effort will be
made to secure a number of owen
tons for Deadwood.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Our climats an Asset.

On no other continent. under no 9th.
er sun. in no other zone. in all the
world, can be found the same extent
Of fertile, available agricultural land
as in these United States. And in no
other equally large tract as that
stretching from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and between the great lakes
and the gulf can be duplicated the
same amount of normally good wealth
er as nature has bestowed on this IA
vored land. Our rain and sunshine
are so proportional the one to the
other as to produce the best yearly
conditions on earth. - Detroit Free
Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15

The house committee on Indian
affairs Friday ordered rerorted the bill
extending the time of payment to GER
tain homesteaders on the Cheyenne
river reservation in South Dakota and
the Standing Rock reservation in
North and South Dakota. This meas
ure, which was passed by the senate on
motion of Senator Gamble, provides
any person who has heretofore made a
homestead entry for land on the reser-
vations ramed under act of 1908 may
apply for an extention of time in which
to make payment of any amount about
to become due upon payment of inter-
est n year in advance.
At the instance of Representative
Burke the following amendment was
incorporated in senate bill.
Provided that any entryman who
has resided upon and cultivated the
land embraced in his entry for a period
OF time required by law, in order to
make Communication proof. may make
proof and If the same is approved, fur
Their residence and cultivation win not
be required but patent shall be with
held until full and final payment Of the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Deep Flowing in the Dakotas

oSep IlOWluS IN the
The 500 road will take about in North
Dakota in the spring, a mammoth deep
blowing machine for free use of farm
ers. Nothing | hvue ever known in
the northwest is comparable to the
awakening to the necessity of good
farming that is evidenced this year"
Says Vice President Martin. eve gave
So, 900 for three years to the North
Dakota Better Farming association
that is going to establish ten-acre
experimental farms, and other Mime
apolis and St. Paul companies contrib
uted to agricultural extension work.
Last year and old Scotch farmer near
Darlington, N. D., plowed his land
seven inches deep and put in flax. He
got 50 a bushel and had Is bushels to
the acre, remarkable yield for for FAX.
Farmers a short distance away got
nothing. They plowed three or fours
inches deep as of old"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
This is Number One

Peter Zeeb, coming from Bonhomme
county, is the first wife beater ever
lodged in the Sioux Falls p~enitentiary.
He has just been turned over to the
warden, and will be required to serve
one year at hard labor for the ~offense.
Zeeb had been lodged in Jail for beat
ing his wife at their home in Scotland,
when he decided to enter a plea of
guilty to the charge of assault with a
dangerous weapon.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Fell Into Boiling Water

Falling into a tub of scalding water
in which she was burned from head to
foot, Ruby, the 2-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. B. V. Jackson, of Lead,
died a few hours later from her
injuries. The child was playing about
its mother while the latter was doing
the homework and caught her dress on
the rim of the tub which caused her to
lose her balance.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
An All Around Sermon.

A sermon had been preached in a
cathedral, and some Of the clergy who
had been present were discussing It at
the bishops luncheon table. One said,
"Was not that sermon a little high?'"
Hight" exclaimed another. ut struck
me as being decidedly low" ''WeIl,
now" put in an orthodox cleric Of the
old school, II should have described IL
as rather broad. What do you say,
bishop?' 81" replied the prelate,
Thought it was rather long"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Most Furs Wear Lone WIZ Car,

Most furs are durable. experts say,
and will last for a long time If guard
ed from moths. high temperatures and
spring sunshine. A less durable fur is
broadtail, as it is taken from young
animals. Chinchilla and ermine are
also delicate. both in color and texture,
and should be carefully treated. Places
that make a speciality Of storing furs
keep them at a uniform winter tenn.
perature.-New York Sun.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Poor Health Caused Suicide

Owing to poor health, VIM. Gilbert,
aged "a, shot and killed himself at the
home of his adopted son.. Elmer Gilbert
a well known resident of Sioux Falls.
Without exciting the suspicious of
members of the family, he quietly
secured possession of an old rusty
revolver, and going to a woodshed in
the ear of the house, fired a bullet into
his brain killing himself instantly.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
A Valuable Wagon Load

Requiring a little money with which
to buy some coal, Philip Kogal, a San
born county farmer, loaded a wagon
with grain, turkeys, poultry and cream
and drove to his market point Woon-
socket. When an inventory was made
his grain consisting Of ffty-fve bushels
of wheat, brought him $50, twelve
turkeys, $25. 60. and other poultry $23,
can Of cream $40, a total Of slI3,
which he received for the one wagon
load.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS
Items OF interest From All Parts of the State.

purchase price due is made in accord
ance with the provisions hereof"
Representatives Burke and Martin
appeared before the house committee
to urge favorable action on the meas
ure, which concerns Thousands of set
tiers.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Violated White slave Law

Abel Perry, alias Geo. Martin, of
Omaha, is under arrest and is accused
of having violated the federal white
slave" law. Perry was arrested on a
farm about eight miles from Armour.
and was turned over to federal author
tiles and taken to Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
where he will be tried.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15

The Independence and fearlessness Of
Of the Judiciary and the need Of remedy
ing defects in judicial proceedings,
civil and criminal, were urged In q
speech delivered by United States Sen
ator Crawford. Of South Dakota Mon
day night before the Abraham Lincoln
association Of Jersey City. N. J.,
which has celebrate d Lncoln's birth
day since his assination IN 1855. Mr..
Crawford's theme was 'sThs FEDERAL
Union and the States"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Baby Burns to Death

Midland papers tell of the burning to
death at thai place Friday of the infant
daughter of MI. and Mrs. l. A. Rein
hart. The fire started in the absence
of the mother, when two small children
were in the house. A little boy was
rescued.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
a 1eacar,s L-uoaaue.

A woman who described herself as
"a poor lone Irish widow woman"
arrested for begging at Wells, Eng
land, had the following articles dis
tributed about her person: Tea. sugar.
fresh cut b~eefsteak, piece Of bacon,
two bloaters, bread and cheese, four
buns, bag of biscuits, cooked fagot,
two apples. onions, two clay pipes, to-
bacco, cigarettes and snuff.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15

The supreme court decision against
the Miller saloon men has not closed
the saloons there. The saloon men
claim thirty days in which to ask a
rehearing. Lawyers differ and the
matter is creating wide interest. The
officers have arrested one saloon man
for illegal liquor selling, and the other
two may be arrested any day.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Double h Fee

The supreme court has ruled that
hereafter the fee to be paid the clerk
of the supreme court on appeals shall
be $50, as provided by the appeal law
Of last session. Since the first of July
the clerk has been accepting $40, but
from now on the fee is $40
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15
Died Prom His Injuries

C. C. Hilgenboeker. one of the pio-
residents on Hughes county, died
at the hospital in Pierre Saturday,
after lying unconscious since his injury
from falling from a load of hay the
first of the week.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15

State Engineer Lea is sending out
notices for bids for the improvements
which will be made on the capital
grounds for the coming year. the bids
to be opened March 4.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-15

Postal savings banks will be estab-
lished March z, in South Dakota as fol-
lows: Blunt, Condo, EsteIine, Ipswich,
Lake Preston, Murdo, Phillips Sisse-
ton and Winner.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-31

have lasted long in the Empire of those
pagan Emperors of old Rome.
In Lecky's "History Of European Morals"
Vol |, p. 254) we are told that the charity
of Marcus Aurelius embraced the whole of
mankind.
'As an Antonine," said he, ''my country is
Rome: as man, the world"
On page 80, of Vol. H., Lecl1y asserts that,
"Antoninus was accustomed to lend money
to the poor at per cent and both he and
Aurelius dedicated to the memory of their
wives institutions for the support Of girls"
On page 308 of Vol l., Lecky states that
Marcus Aurelius decreed that no rope-dancer
should perform without net, or mattress,
stretched underneath, to prevent injury to
the dancer in case Of fall. Lecky remarks
that it is curious fact that no ChgSstioqs
nation has adopted this humane regulation.
Have | acquitted Marcus Aurelius, from
the accusation brought against him by my
Windle?
Now let us consider the case of Seneca
who, according to Mr. Windle held that
"Mercy is vice of the heart" The word
that should be used is 'pity,"
The. Roman philosopher declared that
czemoemcy is one of the highest virtues, while
mere pity is weakness and vice. Glenn
ency, he declared to be a hG6iteaE te7ade1cg to
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-31
watson's Reply TO wfndle

Heavens aliye did not Marcus Aurelius
give enormous sums out of his private for
tune to succor the poor of both sexes-unfor-
tunate boys and girls who otherwise could
not have gone to school and got a start in
life2
Renan says he did; and Renan made
profound study of the subject (See Remains
"Marcus Aurelius," page 14.)
On page Is, Renan says, "Marcus Aurelius
constituted himself in fashion the tutor of
all those who had none. The Wants of the
poor child and the sick child were assured"
By whom9 By this pagan Emperor who,
according to Windle held that it was wrong
to pity the unfortunate!
Marcus Aurelius legislated in behalf of the
slave, ameiorating his condition to a won
derful degree; he also created fund for the
decent burial Of the poor.
Our Roman Catholic Coffin Trust wouldn't
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-31

The Thomson meeting was the most salts
factory that we have held since the Nineties.
Mr. Watson spoke an hour and three quar-
tiers, and a stenographer took down the
address.
1t covers the whole field, State and
National, touching on all the great issues.
The speech is too long for this paper.
We are publishing it in booklet form
Per copy. .......... cents.
10 copies ........ 40 cents
100 copies. - $500.
This address, furnishes literature ON the
Initiative, Referendum and Recall, the Tariff,
National banks, immigration, Constitutional
law, the purposes of Government, the
supremacy of Civil law, Federal extrava-
gance, the Roman Catholic peril, and other
permanently important subjects.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-31

ge1atte1eSS an the application of puR8Sbanemts
On the other hand, he held that emotional
and occasional pity is the weakness of a
feeble mind.
''The sage will console those who weep, but
without weeping with them; he will succor
the shlp-Wrecked, give hospitality to the pro-
scr1bed, and aims to the poor, restore the son
to the mothers tears, and save the captive
from the arena. He aoiN do good, for
he as born to assist has fezloacs, to labor for
the soeTare Of maaaacind and to offer to each
one his part. He will help those who
are worthy, and, like the gods, his Zeananq
aoiW be toa0ard the eoretehed"
SO wrote Seneca, the pagan philosopher
whom Mr.. Wlndle SO outrageously misrepre-
sents.
Here we have typical philosopher of the
ancient world teaching the huInanities-
all the others dld-at a time when Mr..
Wndle says that mercy, Love, Justice,
Honor and Truth had been crucifed and
entombed"
Doesn't Mr.. Windle know that the Stoics
ages before the Christian era, held that ali
CRIME oo0s ignorance, and treated it as an
a7eOotu1at0qy daSe0Se-thus anticipating, by
thousands of years, the accepted theory of
recent years?
Doesn't he know that the Platonists and
Stoics held that the only legitimate purpose
Of punishment Is prevention?
This humane view never found Judgment
IN Roman Catholic ethics 1t was not until
the philosophic pagans gained control Of
the ancient world that the naot50e which
prompted the criminal was taken into con-
sideration.
No such benevolent, humane and righteous
principle is to be found in the Mosaic CODE
Juvenal wrote
S'Oh, give me Unborn worth
Dare to be just, firm to your word and
faithful to your trust"
"In the eye of heaven, a wicked deed,
intended, is done"
This was the identical thought of Christ
when He spoke of the man who, IN has
thought and desire, had committed adultery.
Again, Juyenal wrote
"Virtue alone is true nobility"
"The path to peace is virtue
JuVenal also speaks eloquently of the
whip-cords of outraged conscience: and, like
Epictetus, he nobly pleads for {ndulgent
treatment of the slave
Cicero said, "There never was great man
without an inspiration from on high"
Elsewhere he says "A sacred spirit daoezZs
qOitban as, the observer and guardian of our
good and evil deeds. No man Is good qoath-
out God"
With similar sublime passages, I could
easily fill this entire paper-passages from
Greek pagans, Roman pagans, Hindoo
pagans Assyrian pagans, attesting the well
known fact that good men hare eDisted
under every different kind Of religion.
my authorities for the foregoing state
ments are the English translations of Juve-
nal, Seneca, Cicero, Persius, Marcus Azure
Illus, and Lecky's European Morals. They
are obtainable through any book-dealer.) !