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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-15
All thosc day. when Nou Ia miserahlc.


All those day when YOU feel miserable.
'headachy. bilious and dull are due to tor
pid liver and sluggish bowels The days
when your stomach i, sour and full Of
gas, when You have indigestion thc night
when your nerves witch aud You arc
restless and can't ,lccp, could be avoided
with tcaspoouful Of delicious syrup al
Figs. Isn't it foolish to be distressed
when there IS such pleasant way to over
come iti
Give your inactive liver and ten wards
of waste-cloepcd bowol- thorough
cleansing this time Put an end TO CON
|stipation
Take . tcaspooniul OF syrup Of ZIG,
tonight sure and Just sec for Yourself
by morning how gently but thoroughly
ell the sour bile, unliGcstod icgmenting
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-01

been permitted. Many of the large
mail order houses will doubtless
make much use of this privilege.
Owing to the fact that greater
chal eS will be made for packages
which are carried greater distances,
post office clerks and officials will
have to become familiar with the
different zones in which the charges
are the same. There are three Of
these great zones in the United
States dividing the country into
three fairly equal parts. For the
purpose of familiarizing post Office
workers with those zone boundaries
80, 600 maps are being printed to
he distributed to the post offic Of
the country. Aberdeen American
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-01

tam the general state departments;
and that all unexpended balances
IN miscellaneous and contingent
funds be transferred to the general
fund, and that all fees of any kind
by or through any office or depart
ment be placed in the general
fund That unused balances in
the genera! appropriation funus
for the different state institutions.
be credited to fund for improve
ments and repairs at the institu-
tons, the purpose being economy,
as unde" the present system, every
effort is made to use all the funds
to prevent any reversions. as the
institution does not get the benefit
IT 1t is not used within the fiscal
Year.
Recommends that the state oil
inspection law be repealed and a
new law with one chief inspector
and not to exceed two deputies, be
passed to replace the present law
for three inspectors. Recommends
that the funds fer the horticultural
society, poultry exhibit, and corn
and grain shows be stricken from
the general appropriation bill and
provided for by special funds, on
account of tn doubtful validity of
such appropriations in the general
fund. Recommends that all re-
ceipts of the state board of agricul-
ture be paid into the general fund,
and that the expenses of the state
fair be met by annual approp:ia-
tions. Recommends legislation
regulating the travelling expenses
Of state officers, boards, and heads
of Institutions, particularly with
refer nee to travel outside of the
state, as there is entirely too much
money expended for that purpose.
Besides this a number of recon-
mendatiOns Of the attorney general
in his report are concurred in.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-01
STATE PRINTING
GRAFT CHARGE

Pierre. 5. D., Oct. 20. William
j Mundt. publisher Of the South
Dakota Messenger at Pierre, de-
votes several columns today to u
recitation of events he has gather
ed in support of his charge that q
larger share of the contracts for
state printing were not the result
of bona fide competitive bidding
In line with his contention
Mundt quo,es from the records
showinr c. j. Mcleod, John Long
staff, John Nipple and Mark Scott
as securities on the several bonds
covering the contracts. Those
mentioned are the heads Of supos.
pdly rival printing establishments.
/ Mcleod operating the Aberdeen
News, while Longstaff is president
Of the State Publishing company
and Nipple president Of the Nipple
Publishing company.
Desiring information as to the
cost of certain Legislative printing
items, Mundt looked up the vouch'
ers and found three in favor Of the
State Publishing company, no,
fully itemized according to custom
They totaled $40. .073. 10.
/ In an interview today Mund
stated he is gathering material tol
some startling revelations in con.
nection with the methods used tC
mulct the state on printing con
tracts and still keep within tht
law.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-01
FOR
PARCELS POST
The Pos lOffiCe Department is Con.
frOnted by Large Pro.
position.

With but two months remaining
in which to prepare the post Office
department for the inception Of the
parcels post system, as prescribed
by law, nothing definite toward
preparation has been done by the
the local office; no definite orders
have been received. But some
things have been decided upon by
the department at Washington,
which will be OF Interest to local
people.
In place Of the small sacks in
which all packages have been ship
ped heretofore, hampers similar to
those used by the post Office de-
partments OF England and France,
and by the express companies in
the United States, are being manu-
factured to carry the parcels from
town to town. The law provides
that any package up to eleven
pounds in weight an / six feet in
circumference must be accepted
for transportation.
AS the rates given make trans
portation by post much cheaper
than by express, nearly all pack
ages under eleven pounds in weight
will probably be carried by the
government. This great addition
to the preseLt amount Of package
mail matter will necessitate the
purchase Of a delivery wagon and
other equipment in towns the size
OF Aberdeen. This will all have tC
be ready by January 1st.
The law requneS stamps to b,
used on the parcels post packages
Just as on all other mail matter
For this purpose twelve stamps
have been specially designed anC
are now being printed, ranging il
denomination from one cent to on,
dollar. These will be placed OF
sale in all post Offices OF the coun
try some time during December.
AS packages may be sent through
the mails G. O. D., provisions vii
have to be made for collection OF
delivery, which has not hitherto
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-01
ENGINE EXPL0DES
NEAR LENNON
Two Men Killed Tuesday When Lo.
COmOtive of Extra Freight
Blows Up.

Lennon, Get. 29. Engine 56l6
on a westbound extra freight train
blew up two miles east of Lennon
Tuesday, killing Engineer +. +.
Secley and Brakeman William
Bretting, both OF Marmarth, y.
d., and injuring Fireman Grooms
OF Mcintosh.
The explosion was terrific, the
cab landing outside the right of
way, and the smokeStack 600 feet
from the wreck. The boiler left
the wheels, turning end over end
twice, and landing on the track 3OO
feet from the point OF the explosion
the head Of the boiler pointing in
an opposite direction from the way
the train was going.
Both engineer and brakeman
who were, killed and the fireman
who was injured are we'll known il
Mobridge amoag the railroad mer
and quite en- an mt of excite
ment was caused by the news ot
the wreck.
The accident tied up traffic OF
the Milwaukee for several hours
the Olympian on which Gov. Mar
shall was travelling, being held a
Lennon until late in the after
noon.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-01
ASK FARMERS
TO COOPERATE
Better Farming Association Send
ing Out Letters TO Numer-
Gus Farmers.

The Better Farming Association
the past few days has been sending
out invitations to number Of
farmers of the country TO join the
association and promise to cooper
ate with it in its efforts to produce
greater results in agricultural
lines.
The letter sent out contains a
blank which the farmer is request
ed to fill out and send back t. the
Office and which states how many
acres he will promise to use in CO.
operation with the ass Ociation next
year. 1t also gives his exact loca-
ton and the kind Of farming he is
pursuing In addition to this is
given a report Of his crops the past
year and this will help the farmer
in ascertaining how much good the
association is going to do in the
year to come.
The association is anxious to
have the reports turned in as soon
as possible and to get the cooper
alton under way before the freez-
ing time comes SO that some work
along the line may be done this
fall.
Each of the men who res ond to
the letters sent out will be visited
by one of the Better Farming ex-
perts very soon and plans for the
coming season talked over.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-01
OPERA HOUSE
FOR ABERDEEN

Aberdeen is to have a new opera
house after being without one for
the past few years. The building
will cost approximately $50, 900
s1d will be Y credit to the city in
every respect. 1t will be erected
some time in the near future and
Aberdeen will again have the
chance to see the production OF
hiRh-elass plays.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-01
AUDITOR MAKES
ANNUAL REPORT
The State Auditor Makes Recon-.
mendations in His Annual
MESSAGE.

Pierre, Oct. 20. The letter of
transmittal of the annual report
State Auditor Anderson will recon-
mend among other things, that the
next legislature abolish all miscel'
laneous and contingent funds, and
that sufficient amount be in nclud-
ed in the general appropriation
bill to properly support and main.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-01
WILL VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE

Milwaukee, Wis, Oct. 9.-One
week from today the voters Of
Wisconsin will declare themselves
for or against the state proposed
amendment TO the constitution
granting the right of suffrage to
women The campaign is con-
Quoted with great vigor and the
result is awaited with keen inter-
est.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-01
V|CE.PRESIDENT
SHERMAN DIES
Passes Away at His Home in Utica,
N. T., Wednes lay Evening
at 9:f2.

Utica. y. Y. Oct. 29.-After q
long illness Wee President James
Srhoolcraft Sherman died at his
ho,ne here tonight of uremic poison
caused by Bright's disease. He
had been sinking since the early
morning and it was realized that
death was a question OF only a
few hours. There was a slight
relief shortly after sever caused by
an apparent Improvement of the
condition Of the kidneys, but gave
only temporary hope.
At nine O'Clock the patients
Temperature rose to loo. From
then his condition grew worse un-
iii the end at 9:45. Mr.. Sherman
had been uncons ciOuS for many
hours and was in that condition
VIXEN he died.
Soon after his death, Dr.. Fayette
Peck issued Il statement saying
that the Vice President was per-
fectly quit when lie died. The
Vice President had a period OF
partial consciousness about seven
O'Clock lasting about fifteen min
utes.
Mrs. James S. Sherman bore up
bravely under the shock as also did
the other members of the family.
Although the death was expected
the blow to the family was a crush
ing one. The news of Sherman S
death spread quickly and the big
bell in the city halr'apd the church
bells tolled out the doleful news.
All political meetings scheduled
here and addresses OF candidates
have been postponed until after
the funeral.
Washington, Oct. 3O.-News OF
Vice President Sheman's death
was received tonight in official
Washington with profound sorrow.
Sherman was the fifth vice pres
ident whose death in office shocked
the nation.
He was the twenty y-seventh vice
president and the only one renom-
mated. Sherman is known for his
sunny disposition and commonly
called Sunny Jim"
He was born in Utica, Oct. "A
1855. He married is 1881 tC
Carry Babcock at East Orange,
n. }.
New York, Oct. 80. Senator
Bacon, president protein OF the
Senate, announced that the Senate
as whole will be appointed as
committee so attend the funeral
Immediately upon hearing OF The
death, Senator Bacon telngrdphe(
to the Sergeant-at arms OF TIT
Senate to take charge and direc
the funeral arrangements, the dat'
of which is not yet known, subjec
to the wishes of the family. Fh'
funeral expenses will be borne b,
the senate.
Chairman uilles of the Republic
an national committee announced
that he has called a meeting of tn
national committee for NOvembe
18th in Chicago to select q success
sor to the late JamesS Sherman q
the Republican candidate for vic
president
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-01

OF the work done by the ,ngineer
ing department of the state during
l9l and 1872. 1t also contains
recommendations and suggestions
for future work Of the department.
The principal subj scts discussed
in the report are irrigation, drain
age and good roads. 1t is shown
that much progress has been made
in irrigation work in the state dur
ing the last two years, while drain
age operations have been practical
ly at standstill.
The statistics relating to lrriga-
ton show that there is one United
States reclamation project at Belle
Fourche; this comprises total
irrigated area Of 10000 acres.
The total acreage entered is 20 600
and area open to entry comprises
10000 acres. This project Is
abont "a per cent completed anu
much of the land is under cultlva-
ton. A good supply Of water IS
in the big reservoir and water
users are receiving sufficient for
their need.
OF private irrigated lands there
iss total area of lO1 ,G85 acres
The number Of farms irrigated will
aggregate 500. There have been
3l4 small reservoirs reported and
it is probable that the total will ex'
ceed 500.
The number of small pumping
plants for irrigation now in opera
ton and for which application
has been made is g.. There are
also 6 pumping plants taking
water from the Missouri river,
making a total of S5 plants in the
state Of which there is record
The irrigable area watered by these
pumping plants aggregate 7,oo6
acres. 1t is probable that this
area will be largely increased fer
applications are being received
daily at the engineers office.
With regard to country roads,
there are about s. 900 miles Of
section line roads in the state.
Since the recent good roads move
ment began, public sentiment has
crystalized in favor of trunk high
WAYS across the state. The engin-
eer has been active in promoting
these roads of which there are g
principal lines, aggregatlng ov'
1000 miles in length.
The report contains recommends
tions in favor of moro explicit reg
J ulations for dams and reservoirs,
slight amendments to the drain
age laws and adequate Legislative
provision for the work of the en-
gineering department. The sug
gestion is made that the duties OF
the department be defined by &
code embodying in one act a.
necessary requirements and limita
tions.
! 1t is strongly recommended tha,
: sufficient allowance be made by
: the legislature for resuming hydro
graphic survey work which was
dropped for lack Of funds by The
I legislature OF 1911. Several large
irrigation projects in the western
I part of the state are hanging fir
because Of lack of knowledge con
cerning photographic conditions OF
streams from which it is proposed
to obtain the water supply.
= A recommendation is made 70
CO. operation between the state ant
the U. S. geological survey in com
pleting the topographic mapping O
. the state. This work is done b.
the federal government which de
trays half the expense, the stat
paying the other half.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-01
STATE ENGINEER
SUBMITS REPORT
Review of Years Work Submitted
By State Engineer Lea
10 Governor.

Pierre, S. D., Oct. 29.-Ths
fourth biennial report of the state
engineer has been submittee to the
governor.
The report comprises synopsis
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-01

The News for Job Printing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19
BILL VINES CONGRATULATES GEORGIA

Alabama who was born on the farm, and is plum proud of it, and who newer saw top buggy till he was Is, and had to be lassoed when his first collar was put on, and it took yeer's good grinding after he cum to Ala bama to get the Cuekle Burrs, and Army Worms out of his whiskers, who cum ovver here in a covered waggin and newer saw bigger town than Ringold, till he landed at Albertville, and who run away with wheel bar row the first time he evver saw Puff waggin, and if you say enny thing about Birmingham, he'll bark at you in a hoarse voise, and ask If you was evver in Atlanta ?"
 That is the Georgia spirit and that same spirit built Atlanta and be- leeve me it is sum town and Georgia has evvery rite to be proud of it. It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19

there is nuthing in name. Dispute it, there is. A name is hyly impor- tint and 1t takes a name to lend the proper inspirasion. For instints if it had so happened that during the late unpleasintness between the north ern sectsion and the southern sect sion of this grate country-if it had so happened that yankee bullet had punctured the highly classical frame degrees and all, of one Augustus De- tavius Bacun it certainly would have been calammity, not only to sed Au- gustus, but to the state of Georgia and the world at large, and perhaps to our Oscar. For Augustus, while not so verry enthusiastick, was for Oscar. That bullet would have laid low a null tiplieity of honors and degrees and things all rapped up in one package to say nuthing of future United States Senator frum Georgia, who when it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19
ETHICS OF THE BIBLE-By George Eaves D. D.

raded; on the contrary, in no people of ancient or even modern times has the honor of women, the purity of the home the godly teaching and training of chil- dren been more successfully sustained By none has inward sin been combatted so fiercely. so generously By none was the intimate relation between godiness and goodness achieved at all, In compar- ison with the Israel of the psalms and prophets. until Christ came and made the whole world heirs of Israe's morality ana more.
 It has recently been asserted and can no. be denied that modern free democ- racy has it's origin not in northern Eu- rope, but in Western Asia. Israel, not Germany, not England, has done most to noursh the liberties of man. Without the free use of the Bible democracy has uniformly been defeated. But this prec- icus thing, freedom, is the very ground work of mortality. It is the Individuals debt, willingly paid to the community that makes ethics anywhere. And this we cannot get till the free choice of personal disloyalty and disobedience is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19

is just People who have never thought carefully on these fundamental things are in the habit of assuming that "of ccursen we know that God is righteous, holy, just. But we must ask: How do we know? The Greeks did not know 1t. The Romans did not know it. Those peo- pies attained high levels of culture, art, civilization. But their gods lacked con sistency, to say the least. Whatever we may think of Ovid and his tales, they are teles told of beings whom the ancient world was habitaully seeking by oracle and sacrifice. If my correspondent of last week really wants to level his gun at sham worship, let him consider the theology of Greeks and Romans, and ask himself whether it is conceivable that men actually reyerenced these nature deities. impassioned with nature-lusts and wilfuness
 Or, go further back and seek divine jus tice in ancient Egypt, or along the Tigris and Euphrates, where prehistoric em- pires sprang and where we can still cull almost prehistoric theology. Those gods wero strongest as the capricious friends
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19

made possible. In Israel the prophets were the final guardians of the law, but tkeir appeal was always to the individual conscience, never to the club of the po- lloeman or the hangman's moose. Even that early prophet, Elijah. found that bloodshed and terror defeat themselves, though used on a large scale of national purging. Gods reliance is still on the 7o0o individuals who have not yielded to voluptuous age.
 But argument is naughtl In the place os argument l need only quote the ten commandments, and ask, What is there to be put in competition with the ethics O. the Old Testament? Add to these the provisions for decency and health and justice, the provisions against oppression and enslavement and indolence, and you have an ethical system pased on the will of an ethical God quite safe from critl- cism.
 l need not quote the New Testament, where the Old comes to it's own, the law and the formula being merged in the spirit and the grace of goodness. Man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19

when he did so, for at that time Au- gustus Octavius and all his degrees was up in Virginia shooting squirrils for breakfast, and Yankees for din- ner, and there was no one at home to offer enny objectsions.
 Georgia is the finest phase in the world to cum frum. We have thous- ands of folks in our state that cum frum Georgia, and you newer saw one of them yet but what is proud of it, they all say if they was back ovver there they'd cum agin. All Georgians think there is nuthing in the world to compair with Atlanta, if you would listen to Atlanta boosters for few minnits and swallow all there dope you would be firmly convinsed that the New Jerrusalem didn't have a thing on that town. You may take the average Georgian who has cum to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19

suffered more from its defenders than from all the attacking hosts of unbelief, rationalsm, material science and what not. They have chiefly succeeded in con- fusing the issue. Impossible positions and theories have been espoused by the elo- quent and long -winded sons of orthodoxy; the real meaning and value of literature have been ignored; mechanical inspiration has been imputed instead of life, and the end has been tumble of unrealties which tend. to discredt faith itself. It is not defense or apology that the truth needs, but sane and historical exposi- ton.
 Such an exposition of the Hebrew and Greek Bible would be far more compre- hepsive and constructive on the ethical side than I attempted to indicate last week. The subject deserves closer and fuller attention.
 Matthew Arnold long ago struck pro- found and necessary note in Literature and Dogma" when he drew attention to the contribution made to the. world s knowledge by Old Testament writers, when they insisted that the Eternal God
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19

do something better than the average
 man can do it.
 The world is asking of you today not so much What do you know? ton
 What can you do? In the potter's field of the Coffeyville, (Kan) cemetery lies the dust of the man who wrote the popular song There's a
 Light in the Window For Thee" His name was Edmund Dunbar.
 When Dunbar was lad working in a factory late at night his mother always kept light in the window for him. When he went on a long cruise as a sailor she kept the light burning. and when she died her last words were:
 Tell my boy I will keep a light burn ing in heaven for him.
 Therefore the song. l should like to finish the story in &C., cordance with the sentiment but cannot. Dunbar had an cratic career. He spent three years in the Minnesota pen itentary for bigamy and became a wan derer on the face of the earth, a vaga- bond.
 When he appeared at Coffeyvile he applied at the city jail for food and co-
 thing He died the same night, and let ters found on his person identified him. He was buried in the paupers' graveyard and recently what was left of his body
 was taken to the home of his childhood. Crescendo diminuendo. i Such was the end of Edmund Dunbar $
 life strain but as factory boy, sailor. l student minister convict and tramp it was mostly made up of minor chords. | On the stormy night of his death in a common ''calaboose" did his spirit as it
 beat it's wings on the battered edge of a
 worr and weary body look for and see
 the light in the window? | Let us hope so. 1 Dunbar was at one time brilliant min l ister. an evangelist of unusual power.
 who stirred whole communities and al-
 ways struck the sure note of human in- ] terest.
 But there was bad streak somewhere
 in his makeup.