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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-22

COMEOkT.
There was a rustic as the men in the
crowd changed their attitudes stiflly
Then some one laughed unpleasantly.
Don't" another rebuked him com
plainingly-'dOn't laugh. | feel like
I'd just seen Il man hung
Haggin and the young man leaned
forward anXiously, ready TO catch Bob
if the jolting of the carriage should
throw him off balance. When they
were halfway home Haggin ordered
the driver to stop.
Cit out he commanded the young
man, AN phone fer a doctor to be at
his house. Quick, SeeY'
When the carriage resumed its jour
ney the old saloon keeper took a seat
beside Bob and awkwardly put a
steadying arm around his liege's sh>ul
ders. He noticed that Bob's lips were
moving.
what is it" Haggin inquired, bend
ing owe II can't hear ye, Bob.
Can't We speak louder?
Bob's eyes opened slowly. He stared
at his companion unrecogniZingly. He
began to mutter. Haggin could catch
only snatches Of 1t. Delirium had
gripped Bob.
ITS the face OF the little newsie. |
can't get it out Of my sight. They'll
beat me in the end. The miracle won't
come. Kathleen. Beaten by a woman
III get out of your way. | tell YOU
l have nothing to say. You've said il
all, Paul. This is the end"
Haggin ~blasphemed tearfully to the
driver. Cant you drive fasterT"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-22
LOW COLONIST FARES
Via Chicago and North Western Ry.
To The Pacific Coast

From March 1st to April 18th, 1912,
inc, Colonist II way second class
tickets will be sold to principal points
in California, Oregon, Washington and
British Columbia. Tickets available
on daily and personally conducted
tours in through Pullman Tourist
Sleeping Cars. For full information
apply ticket agents. Chicago and
North Western Ry.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-22

The Register Popular Want Ads
Are Result Getters. Try Them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08

going on for several years, and 1t is charged that Secretary Wilson and Solicitor McCabe, instead of doing their utmost to expose such frauds, did their best to promote them.
 The whole matter is to be investi- gated by the committee on expendi- lures of the agricultural department and it cannot be carried too far or too deeply. It is charged that Secre- tary Wilson said to at least three peo- pie, q am not running this office for the protection of fools who do not know any better than to buy some thing that they never saw and do not know anything about" He ran it in the interest of the land sharks of Alaska and of the food adulterators, and now it appears he ran it for the benefit of the fraudulent land promo ters in Florida. Both he and his en- tire office do indeed need thorough investigation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08

From the New York Sun.
 Mir. Ned Cheeryble, a study in legs, gaiters and chins; MT. Charles Cheery- ble, ditto. MT. and Mrs. [l<ate Nicklebyl Frank Cheeryble will keep open house all this week. And what house smaller than the English speaking world made Cheery- ble can hold Charles Dickens and, as au- thentic breathing flesh and blood. as he ever was the friends whom he sent into that world to turn it Cheerybe? In that great company how many faces we should love to dwell on, but everybody must have an equal chance this week. Otherwise too many of us would insist on sitting at the cribbage board with Mir. Richard Swiveller and the marchioness, or, looking for MT. Tony Weller and Sam at the Marlis of Granby, might call for too inlprudent tumblers of pineapple rum.
 Personally, we should like to see glimpse" is perhaps the word, those au- gust legs of the Hon. Simon Tappertit, the original LaFollette, and go to the United Bulldogs tonight, and to the the atre of Mir. Vincent Crummles tomorrow night; this afternoon progressive and a populist platform is to be tried on Mark laPley. Ana what does MT. BafhlS tnlnk of express companies? Let our betters get within a mile of MT. Pickwiel< if they can this wake, the fat boy for us; much as he increases the cost of living he has the lost art of shutting up. We shall ever praise, not damn that boy.'
 The coaches we shall ride in, the streets an' inn galleries we shall walk through! | But let lis he off to Cheerybes. There
 are so many Cheeryblites so little known;
 worthy, we are sure, to be known bet
 ter Whats the price of board al the Com
 mercial boarding house? Probably Bailey
 is at Paul Sweedlcpipe's for shave. HOW
 are Mr. John SmallIer, Mir. and Mrs. Par digge, Trabb's boy Obut perhaps he is
 too famous now)? Has Mrs Budger mar ried again or lost her property? Speak, 1 inS of widows, how about Flora Finch { ing? Shall we run across smaiicheck this 1 week, and what's become of Rob Glib | bery? Whom did Miss Morleena Ken | wigs marry
 ] Thousands of people at the Cheerybles. l May we suggest to the Hon. Robert Lee l Henry of Texas that there never will 1 be a better time for Investigating the 1 Camp Prig- Harris Midwife and Nurse | trust? In particular, turn the light on Mrs. Harris,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
Window Envelopes

Postmaster Aldrich objects to twin dow" envelopes, because the address cannot be readily read by the clerks in the postoffice. Time is thus con- sumed and congestion and delay fol- low.
 The envelope with hole in it through which the address underneath is to be read is inexcusable. It saves no labor and serves no useful purpose. An address written on the back of a sheet consumes as much time as one written on an envelope, and there is no known reason why the window en- velope should be used.
 Postmaster Aldrich speaks from knowledge and experience when he says that such envelopes are source of trouble in postoffices, and that is where an envelope is expected to dc it's chief service There is such z thing as too many innovations. Int one in envelopes is uncalled for, ane it is proving an obstacle to quick de livery in the postoffice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
DIT. l<auI's Public spirit

Following Up the idea of the by- products of the work of the Chamber of Commerce." said D. E. Grace. "an in stance has occurred to me well worth mentioning.
 When Mir. John l.. Raul was elected president he was appreciated by select circle of friends but not known by the community at large I remember that Mr. Rhodes in heartily seconding the nomination, went on to give short sketch of Mir. Kaul as an introduction to the members generally. During his term of office MT. Kaul was first and foremost in all enterprises for the advancement of the city, and having felt the glow of satisfaction that comes from public duty well done he has since been an active and intelligent leader in every movement for the advancement of the communitys well fare And he is an ally that would give strength to any cause, for he possesses the rare combination of brains. energy and wealth.
 .'Disclaiming to lead u life of ingiorious ease. into which so many men of wealth fall, he devotes all the splendid energies of mature manhood, all the business acumen and masters of men and methods of which he is possessed ill so eminent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
Underwood Wins Another Great Victory

 leader Representatives his mele knew his It Alabama skfuly o the Amercan Other congressional leadership
 
  equipped MT Underwood just his vanished.
 
 
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  special is haling the
  ability s of of  be to man. will the end aim to W. Underwood!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
FIN FOR "BIG BROTHERsy

From the New York Evening Post.
 ''One of the side lines of our Big Brother movement" said Ernest K. Coul- ter recently, after he had resigned the cierlkship of the children's court, .'is talk ing the boys to such summer camps as ere offered for our use odd weeks. You may be sure that we have some odd ex- periences with those youngsters, who have no speaking acquaintance with the woods and green fields. I recall one party of eight boys we took to camp last summer. Not one of them had ever been knowledge of their new environment was extremely limited In the same camr was boy who had been sent to the coun- try by some fresh air fund the year be- fore and, getting acquainted with the newcomers when they arrived at night, he offerd to meet them in the morning and show them about.
 Well, the nine got together as soon as it was light and started off for a walk before breakfast. Soon they came to 6 huge field, that was to the eye mass of Gaisies.
 "'Them's flowers proudly announced the young guide.
 "Ah, wot yer givln' us?' retorted the eights spokesman
 "Yes, them's flowers, and I knows their name, insisted the sophisticated one. 'Them's Cock-eyed Suses.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
X Hope for Better Conditions

''I have hopes that the Men and Re- ligion Forward Movement will do much toward relieving the general condition of crimination and counter charges as to the real cause of criminal conditions here in Jefferson county" said a man who takes much interest in the public welfare.
 What our people really need is right eousness. both civic and religious. No one cause will explain our present de- plorable condition. It is not the fee sys- tenn any more than 1t is the lodging of jury duty by many men who could rem der courageous and valuable service in the jury box, even at a sacrifice.
 T make bold to say that the public con science has been dulled if not actually 'doped' by seevral different causes operat- ing in reflex manner. Have not some of the legal fraternity overstepped the old and ancient boundaries and trans oended the very laws themselves in seek ing to defend guilty clients?
 We will not be suddenly ceansed and made better by any one remedy, but we can improve progressively by calm and philosophical introspection, and by re- solving, each citizen, to lend his time, his talents and his heart to trying to bring into Jefferson county more respect for law by too many citizzens who take a chance when breaking the law of going 'unwhipped' through any one of the vari- ous loopholes known to be in opr present judicial and official procedures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08

degree to the upbuldlng and uplift or his community. He is at the head Of great lumber company, and is building railroad and developing new town south of Birmingham, and yet he finds time for those civic interests to which so many men claim they have no time to give.
 MT. Kaul could well rest on the laurels he won in giving to Birmingham ihe handsome Chamber of Commerce building. but he does not weary in well doing l recall that he stated at meeting of the members soon after he was elected pres ident, that the need for building was imperative and that it must be erected. At the next meeting he stated that the site had been secured, the plans drawn and the building would be erected, and he hoped the members would subscribe to the stock, but in any event the building was going to be built, which was characteristic of the man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
CAREFULLY WEIGHED

From the Saturday Evening Post.
 In the Dana days on the New York Sun a young Cornell graduate was pat at work reviewing books One of tha first books handed him was a massive Life of Napoleon" by college profes- sor.
 The Cornell man had specialized on Ma Ioleon at his university under a great authority, and thought rather poorly oi this new tiographer of Napoleon-whc was a professor in another university, by the way He glanced casually ovei the illustrations and wrote his review as follows
 Life ss- Napoleon. by Professor So- and-So. This work weighs nine pounds.
 Mr. Dana read the review and sent foi the youn gman.
 Did you write this review" hs srowled.
 Yes, sig
 Did yoa read the book?' growled MT Dana again, fiercer than before. No, sir, l weighed it.'
 "Thatll do,' growled Mir. Dana again Then he sent word down to the cashier to raise the reviewers salary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Underwood in Massachusetts

Charles E. Coon of the Textile Manu- featuring company of Westfield, Mass, is in Birmingham. He is a great admirer of Mr. Underwood He said yesterday;
 "The average man of Alabama would be surprised to know how strong Underwood is in the east. He will get a number of the votes of the Massachusetts delega- tion. l believe. In New York and es- peeially the city of New York, MT. un- derwood is especially strong. The east will never support Wilson.
 There is every reason to believe that Taft will be the nominee of the republican party. Roosevelt is politically dead Tn New York. He got mixed up in local poll tics, especially Ninth ward politics, and he lost his rabbits foot The third term bugaboo would put him out of com mission even if he was able to weather the other handicaps expressing him at the present time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
Non-Partisan Athlete

"I am a non-partisan in the present az itation among the athletes of Alabama colleges stated Wilbur Warren last evening, "but l can see no sensible reason why Auburn and Alabama should not play football. I am a graduate of Sewanee, and am therefore in a position to speak without bias.
 "As I understand. the situation, after several years of pickering, Alabama of fered to bury the hatchet and meet Au- burn in football at any time and in any place. Auburn, thereupon, without giving rhyme or reason for it's action, declined to let bygones be bygones.
 "As l understand the situation, there is no sane reason why the teams should not meet. pr. C. c. Thach, president of Au- burn, l feel certain, Is in favor of a re- sumption of athletic relationships. I would be glad to see a statement from pr. Thach''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
Oscar Underwood in Tennessee

Mayor Howze of Nashville and oth- CT prominent men in Tennessee have issued a call fer an Underwood rally next Monday night in Nashville when steps will be taken to conduct state wide campaign and to send an in- structed delegation to Baltimore.
 The leader of the House is today gaining strength in every other south ern state, and every man in Alabama who desires to see an Alabamian made President should turn all his strength toward inducing men in other states of the south to support Alabama' s favorite son. Oscar Underwood should in this way become the choice of the entire south.
 His popularity in the north is in creasing daily. Every weakness in other candidates brings him new sup port, and it is not too much to say that the reSourceful and maStefIul leader in the House is every demo- crat's second choice up north, to say the least. By next June, five months away, he may become their first choice.
 But the duty in the south consists in an extension of the Alabama cam paign to all adjoining states-to all states in the south. There are few men who cannot do something in this southern effort. Every business let ter can carry a word for Oscar Under wood. He will be nominated if every man does his level best, and Alabama in this crisis expects every man to do his duty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
NEWS FROM CEDAR POINT

Cedar Point Correspondence in the Floor
 ence (Kas.) Bulletin.
 Our landlady is building us wals around the house, principally so Ton won't hare to walk in the mud.
 Dad Upie and we went to Newton to see Upie. He was getting along fine.
 Our editor made mistake last week when he sielled Kicker Kicker.
 Tom was terribly disappointed the other night when he got slipped away from Tom says they don't Aeed to slip away any more; they can just go.
 Heard from Jake the other day, and he says he is coming back to help pa in the spring.
 key is stll hanging out at Clements Says there all he dares to.
 Steele likes to shoot it into Grmmie and Roscoe about their ladies, but he doesn't know that we are wise to his trying to get next to the girl at the noarding house. Chester can't wait until he can hear from his litIle Kicker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
Florida Land Frauds to Be Probed

Secretary Wilson's term of office is just one investigation after another, and in none of them is the aged sec retary vindcated. He may escape dis missal, but he is never vindicated. In the conservation struggle over Alas kan lands Mir. Pinchot and Mr. Glavis were indeed dismissed whereas the people generally thought that Secre- tary Wilson himself should have been asked to hand in his resignation. Sec retary Ballinger was, however, the goat.
 In the fight for pure foods and drugs the entire machine of Tama Jim Wilson stands condemned from Me Cabe down, or up. The Secretary, who tied Dr. Wiley's hands because he did not dare to dismiss him stands condemned by public opinion.
 And now he and Solicitor McCabe are accused of pr ting the bare faced land frauds in Florida, by which worthless small tracts are alleged to have been sold to men who did not know what they were buying. The ex- ploitation of Florida. lands has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
Corn Prizes for Boys Clubs

Hurrah for the Central Railroad of Georgial It is the Central Railroad of Alabama in Covington, Crenshaw, Bullock, Henry, Tallapoosa, Cham bers, Barbour, Clay, Montgomery, St. Clair, Geneva, Coosa, Jefferson, Ran dolph, Russell, Talladega, Houston, Shelby, Dale and Lee counties-20 counties all told In each of these counties Boys Corn club has been organized, and the Central offers a county prize of pure bred male Berkshire pig, worth $25, to the boy who grows the most corn on an acre in his county this year, and to the boy who grows the most corn on an acre in the 30 counties named it offers a pure bred Percheron mare worth $500. These are in addition to other prizes offered in this state.
 The boys in the 20 counties should be pitching their respective acres this minute, and so should the boys in the other 47 counties of the state, for there are county and state prizes to be won in all the counties of this state.
 The hope of this state lies in the Boys Corn clubs and their large mem bership. There certainly should be 6700 farmer boys enrolled, or an aver age of hundred per county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
THE "wELL KNOWN cLUBMAN.

From the New York World.
 In granting a decree of divorce to a woman from this state suing in his court with the recommendation that she do not marry another New York club man." Judge Moran of Reno brings under review a subject that has long needed adjudicatior What is "clubman?"
 The term has become of such common use that i. is applied almost indiscrimi- nately to every individual that cannot be readily classified in any definite way. II a man have no distinction of birth, wealth, talent, service, office, fortune, misfortune or crime he is almost certain to be spoken of in reports of social func- tions or police courts as "a well known clubman" Because of this usage it is hard to decide whether the tenn is one of opprobrium or O. adulation. Gener- ely speaking, the clubman is supposed something of admiration, but never with approval. Hence the counsel of the judge to the divorcee not to marry another one But there las been no authoritative de- oision that such understanding of the term is the correct enc.
 For some time past there has been demand in certain quarters that married men be made to wear rings like married women to mark their estate IS distinct from bachelors. This for the protection Of women from the married male firt By parity of reasoning why should there not be a mark or brand for the well Al. ..., nondescripr menace to maidens and di- vCrcees wanders at will unrecognized through the social jungle. and even when a woman meets him she doesn't know him from an abracadabra.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
NICKNAMEs OF PRESIDENTS

From the New York Evening World
 There are Americans who refer to Mir. Taft caressipgly as 'Bill,'' but nicknames really went out of the White House for a time with Freddy in 1909. They came into the presidential order carry and have been persistent.
 Washington is well known to history as Father of His Country" although his sneerng critics made it "Stepfather." In Byron's verse he is the "Cincnnatus of the West" and to the Seneca chief, Red Jacket, he was pFlower of the Forest" From a sentiment of his own declaration came the sobriquet independence For ever." applied to John Adams. Jefferson was the Sage of Monticello anl also the "Father of Expansion" But only his adversaries took the liberty of referring to this tall, slender President as "Long Tom.'
 John Quincy Adams was 'Old Man Elo- quent," but also the popular tongue termed him Tribune of the Poeple' and
 Publicola.
 Andrew Jackson's soldiers dubbed him "Old Hickory and the name still clings to his memory While he was in power
 his enemies called him "king Andrew.
 Van Buren, willy politician. was called the Little Magician and 'Wizard of Kinderhook' Sometimes Marty" or Little Van"
 William Henry Harrison became 'Tippe- canoe" from his most famous battle. Hence, .'Tippecanie and Tyler too was the campaign cry of lS4V.
 The term Young Hickory" was applied somewhat obscurely to both Tyler and Polk-to the latter, perhaps, because like Jackson, he was born in North Carolina and went to Tennessee. Tavlor was usually "Old Zsch," but he was known also from his soldieriy quail itr as ..Rough and Ready" and from his battle record as "Old Buena Vista Buchanan was Buck and Bachelor Pr esident." But in message he re- 1 fcrred to himself as 'Old Public Func- ! tiorary."
 Lincoln had more nicknames than any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-08
Herbert Kaufman in woman's wosld

Herbert Kaufman in Woman's Wokld for February.
 h E was tall and gangly and stoop
 shouldered and he wore the badge
 | ! of Israel on his face.
 His was the brow of the man of dreams, but his nostrils were proud and martial
 and he had the long, punishing jaw of the wolf.
 He was the most insistent soldier of for tune that ever hammered upon our gates.
 Of all the f1otsam that noated to the
 shores of tho new world he was of the
 strangest and most astounding timber.
 Roustabout on the Mssissippi-hostler at
 an army post-coachman for parvenu-
 waiter in a beer saloon-what man ever
 before took destiny so courageousy upon her own terms and then choked the jade into submission?
 The wings of his early hopes broken time and time again, by the very ego of him he forced his ambitions back into flight and lived to beat his pinions against the stars.
 Aristocrat by breed and creed, thrust into prvation and indurated, with the memory of his black bread years-he krouted and fouted sham and hypocrisy, piloried the official sneakthief and hatred executive pulp with all the venom that ink can carry. He asked no quarter and he gave none. He chose his own weapons. His nearest goal was the end and he
 made no compromise at the intermediate stage. He acknowl ledged the existence of no inn possibility. Precedent he booted out of his path as a dead thing hindering his