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The Washington herald., 1912-08-18
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
A NEW PERIL.

Be careful when you're making love.
Talk airy chaff.
But don't forget the dangers OF
The dictagraph.
Be wary when, to plan crime,
You meet your stan.
You may encounter IN due time
The dictagraph.
A man engaged in crooked biz
Soon gets the gaff.
The latest complication is
The dictagraph.
Uncle Pennywise Inquiries,
Where kin get look at this turkey
trot? They say it's very disgusting.
Would BE Useful.
Some new china"
Yes: George just gave me a handsome
a watermelon set, Ell? That is new
one on me. Does it include a bathtub?''
Fine Qualifications.
How long have you known this man."
Your honor. ten years
rs he a good citizen"
He is: he's honest. genial, loyal
fan"
Il guess that will do. The defendant
is discharged
To-day in History.
15ss-Henry VIII indorses the suffra-
gettes.
I7S-Boswell indorses DR.. Johnson's note
for IL pounds. The latter's failure to
make good caused breach between the
two friends.
II Won't Do.
Some statesmen take
The peoples will
And try to add
A codicil.
Seeing Europe.
Tell me about Venice"
Good post cards there"
"Constantinople?
NO post cards there"
And Paris?'
Elegant post cards there"
Dinner Handicap.
why are some OF your guests going
out to dinner first?''
They are Fletcherites. We give them
a thirty-minute start
Wasted Kisses.
There's a great deal of needless waste
in the world
How now?"
why do candidates go around kissing
babies? None of the babies like it. Some
of the big girls might"
The Washington herald., 1912-08-18
No Climber.

Knicker-Is Jones lazy? - ~
Bockef-Yes; he wants an elevator to
get on . bandwagon.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-18

II there is one thing more apparent
than another in this campaign, it is
that each candidate is genuinely afraid
of the other. Not one of the three
parties is wholly free from internal
troubles which cause anxiety.
Gov. Wilson's Organization is al
ready on the defensive because of his
utterances antagonistic to labor unions,
his eulogy of the Chinese, his attack
upon immigrants from Southern Eu-
rope, his former Characterization of
Bryan, and his hostility to pensions for
old soldiers. 1t has been found nee
essary, in fact, to organize bureau
for the express purpose of neutralizing
the adverse sentiment which his writ
ings, now given wide publicity, have
created. President Taft was put upon
the defensive by the charges against
the manner in which his nomination
was secured, while the old scandals of
the Roosevelt administration, includ-
ing the Hartman campaign fund, are
returning to plague the would-be third
term President. A conference at
Oyster Bay was recently necessary in
order to smooth ON the many rough
places which have already appeared in
the Roosevelt path.
Everything yet is political chaos.
One prediction is just as valuable as
another We will have no end of them
during the campaign, but most of
them will fade away into nothingness
when touched by the cold steel of
common sense.
One of the most interesting features
of the campaign is the prominence
which is being given to the partici:
patton of women in its affairs.
The growth of the woman suffrage
movement has unquestionably had much
to do with this novel phase in poll
tics. In California, Wyoming, Colo
Iado, and other States the women have
The Washington herald., 1912-08-18
A Chord of Wood.

From Judge.
Smith-Sappington has a voice OF won
Ierful timber.
Jones-It's not surprising-he's such a
blockhead!
The Washington herald., 1912-08-18

Fare thee well. my hearts best treasure
Farewell, all my soul esteems,
Without thee. adieu to pleasure:
With thee every gladness beams.
Bitter are the pangs that sever:
Probing deep the bosom's core.
Love, when / forget thee ever,
May this warm heart beat no more.
Love. when 1 forget thee ever,
May this warm heart beat no more.
Farewell, dear one; long I've known thee;
Long I've shared thy thought and care
And have never since ! won thee.
Sought a JOY thou could'st not share.
OF life's bliss be thou the giyer.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-18

a legal right TO the ballot, and their
votes are an important factor in de
terrnining a political result The
prominence given4tc women in the
Progressive party was noticeable. No,
only ,was. their participation as dele
gates in the Chicago convention
earnestly sought, but Miss Jane Ad-
dams, Miss Kellor, and other social re-
formers have been taken into the coun-
cils of the party. There is woman's
Progressive headquarters in New York
which is conducting an active Roose-
welt propaganda, and in States where
women vote number of clubs have
already been organized.
Democratic women are also working
enthusiastically. The so-called "har-
mony breakfast" in this city gave an
impetus to feminine endeavor for the
Wilson cause, and leagues of women to
help the Democratic candidate are be-
ing formed everywhere The Repub-
lican organization is making an effort
along the same line, although there
was something akin to blunder in
announcing that Miss Mabel Board
man would have charge of the work
among women when her consent had
evidently not been asked. Her selec-
ton was an admirable one, inasmuch
as she is woman of remarkable ex-
ecutive ability and has both time and
money at her command; but she has
acted wisely in declining to engage in
political work while at the head Of a
nonpartisan organization like the Red
Cross. Some one will, of course, be
found to take her place, because the
Republican Campaign Committee must
have its feminine adjunct if it is to
keep abreast of the times.
1t looks now as if the time is not
far distant when woman suffrage will
be accepted throughout the United
States. In the meantime, the women
cannot complain that they are being
ignored in the present great struggle
for the Presidency.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-18

1t is this fact which makes the pres
ent campaign peculiarly one of educa-
ton. Millions of men are to-day in
an uncertain state of mind as to the
candidate who will receive their votes
and they must be convinced by fact
and argument. In order to reach
them there must be much speechmak-
ing and an enormous amount of litera-
ture must be circulated.
This latter feature of the campaign
is interesting. A perusal of the Con-
gressional Record indicates that the
mails are to be flooded with political
effusions Under a generous provision
of the rules nearly everything under
the sun can be inserted in the Record
under the guise of speech. Already
there have been printed Chairman
Hilles'- lengthy pamphlet, giving de-
tailed history of the contests before
the Republican National Convention
Mr.. James address as permanent
chairman at Baltimore, the speeches OF
acceptance delivered by President Taft
and Gov Wilson, Attorney General
understands address at Chautauqua,
Gov. Wilson'S remarks to Pennsyl-
vania Democrats, and a score of other
deliverances bearing upon the pending
contest.
As public documents, all this litera-
ture can be circulated postage free un-
der the franking privilege 1t would
be interesting to know, when the CAM
paign has ended, how many tons of
printed matter were sent through the
mails without costing the campaign
committees a single penny for postage.
In some quarters this free circulation
of political literature may be regarded
as an imposition upon the government.
There is, however, another side to the
question. If government is to be a
paternal affair, aiding farmers and
workingmen in general and individual
citizens in particular, there is no reason
why it should not aid in educating the
people along political lines.
1t is all the more important, m fact,
that this should be done if we are to
have in the future-as now seems to
be inevitable rule of the people. The
present tendency is toward giving the
people more direct control of gov
ernmental affairs and toward a pure
democracy. 1t is, therefore, essential
that there shall be the widest knowl-
edge of public questions. If laws are
to be made and unniade through the
operation of the initiative and refer
endum without regard to the Legisla-
lures, and if the people are to decide
by majority vote whether q judicial
The Washington herald., 1912-08-18

The present political situation recalls
the story told of a well-known West
ern politician who was very much of
boss in his home town. On the
morning of election day, after making
a round of the polling places, he re-
turned to headquarters looking very
glum.
'The people," he explained, using an
adjective not altogether complimentary,
"are voting as they please"
There is no doubt that this is the
condition which perplexes the poll
ticians to-day. There is an independ-
ence among the voters which inJects
a large element of doubt into all CAL
culations There never was a time in
the history of the country when the
party yoke bore so lightly upon indi-
vidual shoulders as at present. A man
does not have to be Republican now
because he has hitherto been a Repub-
lican; he does not feel it necessary to
utter undying fealty TO Democracy be-
cause he has always been Democrat; /;
nor, indeed, is il compulsory upon him,
although he may always have been a
Roosevelt admirer, to follow the
colonel into the last ditch Political
polls made four years ago are this year
as useless as last summers straw hat.
There are new alignments everywhere
Mo-, are th;nl.;rn Cor themselves
The Washington herald., 1912-08-18
Wasted Kisses.

There's a great deal of needless waste
in the world
How now?"
why do candidates go around kissing
babies? None of the babies like it. Some
Of the big girls might
The Washington herald., 1912-08-18
A Dinner Handicap.

why are some OF your guests going
out to dinner firstT
They are Fletcherites. We give them
a thirty-minute start"
The Washington herald., 1912-08-18
Uncle Pcnnywise Inquiries;

Where kin get look at this turkey
trot? They say it's very disgusting.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-18

1t Is not known generally among US
that Lady Marjorie, the daughter Of a
British duke, is an American. And yet
this is so. She was born in New Mexico
at Las Vegas, in 1852. Her father, now
the Duke of Rutland. was plain Capt
Manners then, and pretty much all he
had was a captains income. He was in
poor health, and he and his wife, who
was Lady CRANKY, came to New Mexico
to be benefited by the dry climate. They
had no servants. In fact. they lived
alone in a tent out on the plains.
With his own hands Capt. Manners put
up his canvas home. There were two
cots some cooking utensils, a camp stove.
and a dry goods box for a table. There
they lived for months and there their
first baby girl was born-Lady Marjorie
Manners
Two years later Charles Paget first saw
the light. He lived the life of any Brit
ish schoolboy, with little thought of ever
having money or title. His cousin. the
fifth marquis. was well and strong and
eventually married. The birth of a son
would have ended all young Paget's
hopes In reality, he never expected to
be anything more than Paget. an officer
in the Kings army. He went to Sand
hurst. England's West Point, and began
his studies for a military career. He
was well along toward his commission
at the age Of nineteen. and his family
looked to his success in the profession
Of arms and hoped he would marry
well.
But everything was doomed to sudden
change. The marquis. who could spend
a fortune for one costume for amateur
theatricals: who changed Q chapel in one
of his historic halls into bijou theater:
who danced In a dress Earlanded with
The Washington herald., 1912-08-18

Would BE CsefuI.
Some new china"
Yes: George just gave me a handsome
watermelon set"
a watermelon set, eh? That is new
one on me. Does il include a bathtub?''
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-05-16
The Grigsby Meeting

Melvin X. Grigsby, formerly attor'
ney general of the state. Colonel of
Grigsby's Rough Riders during the the
Spanish-American war, United States
district attorney to Alaska under
Roosevelts' administration, now a a n
didate for the nomination or the repub-
lican ticket as a candidate for the
United States senate and who claims
to be the Original Third Term Roose-
Welt Man in South Dakota, was in
Webster on Monday night and delivered
a speech at the opera house in support
of his aus The general did not have
his speech very well advertised in fact
very few people knew anything about
his going to be here until he had gone
and consequently the attendance was
very meagre. Those who were present
say he acquitted himself in good shape
and was very interesting. During his
stay in Webster he was a guest at the
home of his niece, Mrs. P. d. Peabody.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-05-16
WAS wET-NOw DRY
Court on Recount Decides That
Andover Went Against the
Sale Eight Votes at the
Recent Election

At the annual spring election held at
at Andover this year the majority for
license fell down to two. This was said
TO be due to dessention among the high
license people. After the city fathers
had ~canvassed the vote and decided in
favor of license by the aforesaid major
ity then came the no license people
and instituted a contest and demanded
a recount of the ballots by the court.
Frank Anderson, OF Anderson & Wad-
del of this city, appearing for the dry's
and Williamson, of Taubman & William
son of Aberdeen, for the vets. The case
set for Monday by Judge McNulty, who
in company with Stenographer Granger
came down and opened court. The case
was stubbornly fought from beginning
to end. The Judge opened the ballot
box and counted the ballots himself and
found there had been Al wet votes cast
and So dry ones had been put in the
box and therefore issued his judgment
and order that license was defeated in
Andover for 1912 and the saloons will
therefore have to close July first. The
thirsty ones will have to patronize their
wet neighbcrs for a year.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-05-16
Proves a Bad One

The man Simcox, placed in the Day
county Jail about two weeks ago to
serve thirty days, having been caught
by Chief of Police Garrick, in the act
of stealing hides, now seems to be
wanted in several places, according to
the Watertown police, who desire to
pay his fine and get him at nce The
WATERFOWL officers claim they have a
charge against him and sufficient evil
denct to land him in Sioux Falls and
told our officers to watch him carefully
as he was a slippery bad actor who had
broken Jail in several places.
Our officers could not let the Water
town people have Simcox as he is in on
a straight Jail sentence with no alter
native of of fine.
They therefore telephoned that they
would be at the Jail door waiting for
him the day that his sentance has
expired and would send him over the
road at the first term of the Codington
county court for a long, long time. The
way of the transgressor will seem hard
to him.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-05-16
OUR CONGRESSMAN ILL
CHI As. II. BURKE ILL-IN A
CHICAGO HOSPITAL
MUST KEEP OUT OF CAMPAIGN
His Illness Due From Overwork
Physician Forbids Speech.
making and all Campaign
WOrk-Sent to Health
Resort for Rest

Congressman C. H. Burke, is in st.
Luke's hospital in Chicago, where he
has been for a week, having gone there
to consult a physician who is familiar
with his case. His physician informed
T. B. Roberts, who is at the bedside OF
Mr.. Burke, that the congressman while.
not cricitally i'll, is suffering from
accute liver trouble brought on by over
work and close CONTINENT while attend
ing to his official duties in Washington,
and has and has absolutely refused to
allow Mr.. Burke to ever thinkof going
to South Dakota to assist in his cam
paign.
The doccor will take Mr.. Burke to
French Lick Springs in Indiana in a
few days and hopes that a short treat
ment will soon restore him to health. -
Special to Aberdeen News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-05-16
Back on Old Job

Henry Thorne made his first run
Thursday as conductor or the Harlem
line since his dismissal from the SER
vice the early part of January. He
vas transferred from that branch to
the main line last fall and was in
charge of the passenger train which
broke over five hundred rails on
account of a fat wheel. The officials
held Mr.. Thorne responsible for run
ming his train SO great a distance with
a fiat wheel and dismissed him from
the service. But all will rejoice to
learn that Hank" has finally been
reinstated and given the Andover-
Harlem run again which he had so
many years. -Langford Bugle.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-05-16
JAIL DELIVERY AvERTED
SHERIFF CHAS. LINDQUIST
Dissolve RS BARS SAWED
JOHN SIMCOx, THE HIDE THIEF
An Adept at Jail Breaking-Has
Two Bars Nearly Cut Off
Cutting Was Done With
a Common Case Knife
Made Into a Saw

Yesterday afternoon Sheriff Lind
quist went looking around the Jail anc
discovered that two of the iron bars
which covered the windows were nearly
sawed off and then he commenced to
look around for the saw hut could not
find it. In the evening about -four
o'clock Sheriff Lindquist and Chief of
Police Garrick went into the Jail and
made another search, but did not FIND
the saw Chief Garrick was so positive
that John Simcox, who recently drew
thirty days for stealing hides, was the
man who performed the labor that he
suggested that if the fellow were put
on a very short diet of bread and water
for a few days and in close confinement
he might divulge where the tool, what
ever it might be, was located. The
threat worked like a charm and Simcox
produced at once. The tool proved to
be a case knife of which a saw had
been made by taking two of them and
striking them together and making
teeth in them. The one he had was a
good one and Chief Garrick tried it
upon the bar and found it would work
in very good shape. After the knife
was found Simcox was placed in. soil
tary confinement and will be kept there
until his thirty days have expired.
Our officials have learned that SIM
cox real name is Fred Edwards and
that he is wanted in several places on
serious charges as will be seen by q
notice in another column the Water
town authorities will be here to get
him when Lindquist discharges him.
After Simcox had been placed in
solitary confinement, Alexander w.
Ray, another prisoner confined in the
jail, said that Simcox had been work
ing on the bars and he said to him eve
will be out of here in a couple OF
days." Ray replied, when / can get
out of here ! will go out of the front
door," At that Simcox grabbed him
by the throat and said: eff you peach
on me to the sheriff I'll choke you to
death. / am going to get out of here
if / have to choke somebody or hit the
sheriff over the head" Ray was too
much afraid of Simcox to tell the
sheriff.
Sheriff Lindquist is to be congratu'
lated that he discovered the attempt
when it had gone no farther. The
county is to be congratulated that il
has such a thoroughly careful anc
painstaking officer as Mr.. Lindquist.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-05-16

Last Monday about seventy-two
Dagoes working east Of town for the
Milwaukee company. Jumped the
yob." 1t seems that two of the men
who proved themselves to be a disturb
ing element, had been discharged, in
spite of the p~rotestations of their COM
panions. This so ired the natives of
Sunny Italy" that they quit in a body
and strange to relate the Milwaukee
company is still doing business not
only at the old stand but at the num-
erous new stands throughout the
country. The Dagos left for Aber-
deem the same day remarking that
they could work for the Great North
ern. Here we leave them. -Andover
Gazette.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-05-16
IS A RECORD BREAKER
CLASS OF 1912-CLASS PLAY
THURSDAY, MAY ~
"SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
Rendered to Largest Audience
to Greet a Raised Curtain for
This SeasOn-Each Mem.
of Cast Proves a Star
Good at Andover

The Senior class play of last Thurs.
day evening was in every respect ar
admirable production. Goldsmith's
"She Stops to Conquer" was the play
chosen and great credit is due the class
for the literary appreciation shown
both in the choice of a play and in the
excellence of the acting.
Magnificent costumes from a promi-
nent Minneapolis costumers added
greatly to the imp~ressiveness of the
play. The scene of the play is laid in
the England of the seventeenth century.
The plot is briefly as follows: Mr..
and Mrs. H~ardcastle are wealthy
English people, whose daughter, Kate,
is a charming young woman of viva.
cious manners and striking beauty, and
whose SON, Tony, is a spendthrift, who
finds his chief pleasure in the country
ale-house, Young NARROW and his
friend Hastings come to visit the Hard
castles but mistake the country man.
sion for an inn. Young NARROW has
had every advantage of education and
travel but is extremely diffident and
shy and, when introduced to Miss
Kate, hardly ventures a glance at her
winsome face. Kate c~onceives the
idea of pretending to be the barmaid
and in this character NARROW falls
deeply in love with her.
Hastings in the mean time has dis.
covered in Kate's cousin, Miss
Neville, a former friend and she
promises to elope with him as soon as
she can get her jewels from her aunt,
Mrs. Hardcastle. The mischievous
Tony assists her in procuring the jew
els but Mrs. H~ardcastle discovers their
plan and insists on Tony's driving them
to an %aunt's, where Miss Neville will
be prevented from seeing Hastings.
Tony drives them around and around
the garden and after various accidents,
tells his mother that they are forty
miles from home. Mrs. Hardcastle
mistakes Mr.. Hardcastle, taking ar
evening stroll, for a highwayman.
Explanations ensue.
In the meantime Kate has ~undeceived
MARROW as to the ownership of the
supposed inn. He meets her again in
her true character as Miss Hardcastle
and their fathers help to haster
their b%ethrothal.
The two leading roles were taker
with marked dramatic skill by Orlando
Chilson and Bess Efnor. The humor
Gus part of Tony Lumpkin, taken by
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-05-16
County Auditor Grue III

For some time County Auditor Chris
lGrue has complained of not feeling
very we'll. He attributed it to the bad
,odor which was in the court house due
to the gopher tails upon which bounty
had been paid and were stored in the
building. Chris had no appetite and
was constantly losing strength. Last
week he was compelled to give up and
take to his bed. Doctor Kjerland was
called and discovered that Mr.. Grue
was suffering from a bad case of gall
stones for which he at once commenced
treating him. The disease seemed to
be yielding very well to the treatment
until Tuesday when the patient had a
severe turn for the worse. Upon con-
sultation with Mrs. Grue and Oscar
Grue, Chris brother, Doctor Kjerland
called Doctor Sheldrup, of Minneapolis,
in consultation. Upon examination
Wednesday afternoon an operation was
decided as necessary and he was taken
UP to the city hospital last evening.
This morning Doctor Sheldrup and
Doctor Kjerland performed the opera
ton, removing several gall stones.
When they got inside of Mr.. Grue they
found that the appendix was very much
diseased and this was also removed.
The patient rallied very nicely from
the operation and is now getting along
as well as could be expected. His
many friends throughout Day county
will hope he will meet with no set
backs and for his speedy recovery.