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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-04-25

to save her. What then? No Marconi
No wireless telegraphy with its price
less blessings to mankind.
This world has ever depended for its
progress On the so-called peasant
woman. The aristocracy flowers and
dies, and the world falls back on the
coarser strains of blood with their pos
sibilities of power and rein ement. An
uneducated woman nurtured Abraham
Lincoln. A clever Corsican with just
the right temperament gave the world
Napoleon. Down the line of history
the men who have stepped put of the
ranks and saluted Genius as their only
master have been marked by their
mothers, and these mothers were as a
rule of the peasant class, which means
simply the class close to nature.
To reject the peasant woman in the
hold of the Titanic is to reject the
cornerstone of the race. 1t is to prefer
the flower before the seed and that is
bad husbandry.
The men who sacrificed themselves
on the Titanic obeyed something more
than an impulse of ~gallantry. Granted
that they were proud to say ''noblesse
oblige," still they consciously or uncon-
sciously obeyed a higher law than that
of ultruism. They obeyed the law of
the growth of the race, the cornerstone
of which is motherhood.
This is abstract, but true. What is
concrete and also true is that by their
act they put in motion a wave of inspir-
alton which will not die till the race
dies. Though they are dead in the
highest sense, they live again. Vive
the dead of the Titanic!-Minneapolis
Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-04-25
ROOSEVELT PRAISED TAFT.
Former President Lauded Successor
Before Now York Republicans.

SStSsS w."
One of the most comprehensive in
d~orsements that the Taft administra-
ton has ever received was contained
In the speech of Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt as temporary chairman Of
the New York Republican state con
vention at Saratoga, n. Y. Sept. 81.
1910. The first two paragraphs Of the
speech were as follows:
1--WE come here feeling that we have
the right to appeal to the people from
the standpoint alike Of national and
state achievement. During the last
eighteen months a long LIST Of laws
emb0dying legislation most heartily to
be commended as combining wisdom
with progress have been enacted by
congress and approved by President
Taft.
1.-The amendments to the interstate
commerce law. beginning Of a national
legislative program for the exercise of
the taxing power in connection with
big corporations doing an interstate
business. the appointment of a commits
sion to frame measures that do away
with the evils of overcapitalization and
Of improper and excessive issues of
stocks and bonds. the law providing
for publicity Of campaign expenses.
the establishment of the maximum and
minimum tariff provisions and the ex-
ceedingly able negotiation Of the Cana
dian and other treaties in accordance
Herewith. the Inauguration of the poll
cy Of providing for a disinterested re-
vision Of tariff schedules through a
high class commission Of experts which
will treat each schedule purely on Its
own merits with a view to protecting
the consumer from excessive prices
and to securing the American producer
and especially the American wage
worker what will represent the differ
ence of cost in production here as com-
pared with the cost of production in
countries where labor is less literally
rewarded. the extension Of the laws
regulating safety appliances for the
protection of labor and the creation Of
a bureau of mines. These and similar
laws, backed up by executive action.
reflect high credit upon all who sue
ceeded in putting them In their present
shape upon the statute books. They
represent an earnest Of the achieve
ment which is yet to come. and the be-
neficence and %farreaching Importance
Of this work done for the whole people
measure the credit which Is rightly due
to the congress and to u able. up
right and distinguished president. Will
liam Howard Taft"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-04-25
n. r. DENTON, Editor.
THURSDAY. APRIL rs. 1912.
The Law of the Sea

The Law OF the sea
When first a stormborn wind was hurled
Against a ~sheepskln sail.
Twas heard from primal, when curlet
The ave- in shrilling gale,
And it has echoed down the years
When fate has lone its worst:
Ii rises when the first boat clears:
Women and children first"
Vain is the gold in shaking hands
Vain are the pleas of pride;
One law there is, whose iron bands
Must cling, though Death abide;
nvain the fear that knows no bounds
In vain have towards cursed;
Clear as a law of old il sounds:
Women and children first"
All honor, then, to those who keep
That knightly phrase alive
Who gaze untroubled on the deep
And calm the souls that strive;
All honor, then, to those who cried,
Before salt seas immersed:
None other is there here to ride
Women and children irst!''
Arthur Chapman in the Denver
Republican.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-04-25

There seems to be a growing senti-
ment that Frank M. Byrne is just the
man for the republican nomination for
governo,. He is now making lis
speaking campaign of the state and
every day brings him new recruits.
He is not bombastic. He appea's to
the reaso of the voters and is not
making any Egan promises which no
governor could carry out.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-04-25
REAp|NC BENEFIT
From the Experience of Web
ster People

ster People
We are fortunate indeed to be able
to profit by the experience of our
neighbors. The public utterances of
Webster residents on the following
subject will interest and benefit thou
sands of U readers. Read this state
ment No better proof can be had.
Mrs. VIM. Magnus. Webster, S. D.,
says: "Doan's Kidney Pills have my
most hearty endorsement for they are
the best kidney medicine know of.
They have given positive proof Of their
worth in u household. two members
having received wonderful relief from
their USE. We have procured Doan's
Kidney Pills from the Irwin Pharmacy
and we consider them in q class BY
themselves for the cure Of backache
and other kidney disorders. advise
all persons afflicted with kidney com
plant to give Doan's Kidney Pills .
trial."
For sale by all dealers price 50
cents. Foster- Milburn Co, Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan;a- and
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-04-25
A DREAM ABOUT ROOSEVELT

Scrag McQuorig, n of the leading
republicans Of Schoharie, drifted into
republican state headquarters with the
following Roosevelt story:
II had q dream about Roosevelt the
other night, " he said. IT dreamed he
died and went to heaven. After st.
Peter had shown him about and asked
him what he thought Of everything
Mr.. Roosevelt said:
l like everything but your choir.
Ought to improve that.
well what woalcS you suggest?
asked st. Peter.
"Well. first off, send for ten thou
sand sopranos.
''That'n be pretty hard said st.
Peter, but il you say 50 I'll do it.
Then get five thousand altos
Eyes,.
Then ten thousand baritones.
Yea,
ssThen you'll have q real choir.
-sBut how about The bassos?'
ss0h. IN sing bass.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-04-25
Salt Sold hy Postmasters.

At Bevieux (Old Bex). among the
Alps. the railroad passes the rock salt
mines from which the Swiss govern.
ment procures most of the salt whose
sale Is a government monopoly and
often sold only by the local postmaster
who deals not only In stamps, but In
salt. At this point a toothed rail is
brought into play. and the gradient
rapidly increases. as the cars pass
through woods OF walnuts and chest
nuts. here an important item Of the
diet and income Of their owners
National Magazine.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-04-25

This seems to be a great We r for
political troubles and they are not
confined to any party. 1t hardly
sounds possible that there is a contest
among the democrats in South Dakota
for nearly every Office upon the state
ticket but such is the case.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-04-25

Do not forget that the spring of the
year is the time to clean up. OF course
you can wait until the authorities COM
pei you; but the much nicer way is to
have it all finished before the officer
comes on their tour of inspection.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-04-25

You still have time to test your
seed corn. Others have found theirs
infrm, you better look yours over.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-04-25
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-04-25

The greas ship disaster proves that
every age has its heroes
The Bossier banner., 1912-11-21

The New York Star Company has done
the country good service in furnishing for
the press an excellent article on the bru-
tality of prize fighting, from which we take
the following paragraph:
''The prize fighter lives as criminal, a
life Of desperation, vice and violence. And
those that live upon him, and those that
support him share his viciousness and his
crimes. An ignorant, brutal negro, such
as this Johnson, is not so much to be
blamed as the white men that have given
their thousands to watch him at his brutal
game.''
The so-called white men who have
watched Johnson's display of brutality and
lauded him for it-thus aiding and abet-
ing him in degrading the public mind-are
a disgrace to their race.
The Bossier banner., 1912-11-21
How the State Voted.

The New Orleans Times Democrat gives
the total vote of the State at 72,269. With
two parishes missing the returns are !:
Wilson 59,241, Roosevelt 9,2O2, Debs 5,O59
and Taft 2,771. The country vote, less two
parishes, was 45,297, or $50 per cent of
the total; the city vote 1872, or Ala per
cent. The following nine amendments
were carried:
No. 3-Exempting from taxation corpo-
rations leanding money on farms.
8-Exempting from taxation the legal
reserve of Louisiana life insurance COM
panies.
9-Raising tax for Confederate vet
erans. This amendment was carried by a
larger majority than any other amend
ment.
No. 11-Extending the grandfather
clause.
No. Creating an additional Judge in
Calcasieu Parish.
No. 14-Allowing the parishes to tax
themselves for roads.
No. Allowing municipalities to issue
refunding bonds.
No. 16-Extending the exemption of the
proposed steamship line.
No. 17-Filling judicial vacancies in Or
leans by election instead of appointment
In only one case did the parishes reverse
the vote of the City of New Orleans, de-
feating Amendment No. Z.
The Bossier banner., 1912-11-21

There are certain of our Louisiana ex-
changes that incite US to reach for oul
shears when they come to our desk, such
as the Lake Charles American Press
whose editor frequently expresses our sen
timents in his well-written editorials. We
heartily indorse the following protest
against Constitutional Convention:
eff the report from Baton Rouge that
Gov. Hall will not call Constitutions
Convention at this time is correct, most
people will approve the Governors con-
cluson. What Louisiana needs most oil
all just now is chance to settle down and
talk of something else for while''
The Bossier banner., 1912-11-21
THE QUIET LIFE.

Nature grows noiselessly. From bud to
leaf to flower to fruit, she speeds silently.
There is no commotion in the forest, save
when the winds of God sweep through the
trees, and even then the commotion is
music. The stars swing in silence around
this fretting globe. And man, wise man,
seems ever intent upon counteracting all
this peaceful order with racket and rest
lessnessness; with clamoring, clamoting.
Is it any wonder, then, that his spirit
should reap vexation, having sowed such
seed? Is it any wonder we should always
be talking about the rough sea of life?
How could any sea stay smooth when
churned by submarine upheavals of the
senses and whipped into wrath by the tenn
pests of caprice and greed which rise in
the human breast?
Yet it might be different, did we care to
loosen our grip on the lesser things and
reach out after the greater.
For among these greater are peace of
mind and tranquility of body; calmness,
gentleness and lack of confusion. And if
we delve even little into this matter, we
find that such virtues are part and parcel
of the very best we call religion.
Whether or not order is heavens first
law, as the poet says, we know it is the
prime statute of nature. And on the gen.
eral proposition that man should learn of
nature, we are justified in believing that
the Creator intended man should be an or
derly being.
1t is possible, as we we'll know, to ac-
camplish even more in quietness than can
ever be accomplished through confusion.
And the quiet life is physical need of the
first Importance in these days of rush and
riot. 1t is high need, because the body
which is exhausted cannot properly nourish
mind. 1t is quiet and rest and peace
that soothes and strengthens.
This atmosphere can be maintained in
any home, and it should be part of every
home. 1t should pervade every life. So
firm and constant should be our faith in
the ultimate ght-side-upness of things
that we should cease wriggling and jost-
ling and overturning.
There is no necessity for making life a
prolonged noise, continuous clamor. In
our spirits there should exist the calm OF
confidence, and in our outward lives the
same should always be evidenced.
The Bossier banner., 1912-11-21
Political Points.

Wilson carried thirty-eight out of forty
eight States.
Taft received a larger vote both in Ten
nessee and Kentucky than Roosevelt.
For the first time in ninety-two years
Maine gave her vote to the Democratic
candidate for President.
With just two members the Socialists
hold the balance of power in the Illinois
Legislature, for there are ninety-six Re-
publicans and ninety seven Democrats.
California complete after see-sawing
for week-gives Roosevelt a plurality
over Wilson of sixty six votes out of a
half million. Democrats in Los Angeles
County have filed a petition seeking to
compel an honest count, and charging
gross irregularities.
The Bossier banner., 1912-11-21
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

New Orleans Times Democrat: War al
ways strengthens the privileged classes.
Baltimore Sun: The difference between
a joy ride and funeral procession is only
one of time.
Baltimore Sun: 1t is refreshing to hear
that Nebraska farmer lost $50, 900 trying
to run saloon.
Houston Post: The religious life is the
natural life of man, because in God we
live and move and have our being.
Memphis Commercial Appeal: The
Omaha Bee says "Bryan refuses to talk. -
When, and likewise where?
Memphis Commercial Appeal: Thomas
Fortune Ryan says he gave that $3.50, 900
in 1904 to preserve the Democratic party.
Looks to US like good brand of preserva-
tive.
Louisiana Democrat: Too much leeis-
lation is ihe bane of this State and too
many political philosophers and self-con-
stituted economists keep the wheels of
governmental machinery 'bogged'' in
the quagmire of financial decay and pre-
vent them from being pulled out of ancient
ruts, where they have been so long stalled
and turned into the macadimized road of
progressive prosperity.
Lake Charles American Press: The
president of the Mississippi Agricultural
College recently formulated an order for
bidding young women students from re-
ceiving young men students in their class
rooms after study hours. Result: Eight
hundred of the one thousand students,
whose parents are toiling on their farms
and otherwise, to give them the benefit of
an education, have gone on strike,'' and
after holding mass meetings, burning the
faculty in efigy and wiring to father for
money, have gone home. To paraphrase
the lady who would have been q leading
French suffragette if she had lived CEN
tury or so later: s'Oh, education! What
heap of hard earned money is wasted in
thy name!"
The Bossier banner., 1912-11-21
leQend Of the Mouth of Tr;,th."

In front Of the old basilca 1T Santa
Maria in Cosmedin at Rome there IS
an enormous block of marble. resem.
bling huge face with widely gaping
mouth. 1t Is called the Bocca della
Verita. or mouth of truth" and in
the days of ancient Rome the legend
ran that If any one who had told d lie
placed his or her hand within that
yawning cavity the Jaw would descend
and cut it of. The Bocca della verita
is large round stone of white marble
about FIVE yards In circumference. 1t
Is pierced with two holes representing
eyes, an opening for mouth. a slight
ly raised nose, and two locks of hair
are carved on each side Of the fore
head. The stone is of great antiquity,
and. according to some. 1t was laid on
the altar of Jove. and these suspected
of perjury were led to it and obliged
to confess by much the same threats
as are used to children now II Is most
likely. however. that the stone served
as sluice to some ancient sewer. for
others like 1t. used for this purpose by
the Romans, have been found. Wide
World Magazine.
The Bossier banner., 1912-11-21
From Over Our Great State

| Ducks are plentiful in st. Bernard Par
| ish. :.
Louisiana spent over So, ,OOO, 900 for good
roads this year.
A robber held up New Orleans grocer
and robbed the cash drawer.
The next annual Baptist State Conven-
ton will be held in Amite City.
There is movement on foot at Boyce to
erect traffic bridge across Red River at
that place.
The Normal School at Natchitoches has
been closed on account of the prevalence
of slow fever.
Joseph Profumo, twenty two months old,
was killed under the wheels of an ice wagon
in New Orleans.
The postoffice at Stay, st. Landry Par
ish, has been discontinued. Perhaps it did
not come to stay.
The Frisco Railroad agrees to advance
the New Orleans Dock Board $500, 900 for
the construction of 15OOfoot wharf.
The fur season has opened at Morgan
City and large lots of raccoons, rats and
other valuable furs are being sold daily.
The grand jury of Rapides Parish made
its final report Friday, reporting eighty
five true bills and forty six not true bills.
Gov. Hall has issued his annual Thanks
giving proclamation, setting November
28th aside as the day of thanks in Louisi-
ana.
Fire in New Orleans last Thursday de-
stroyed the plant of the Globe Box Manu-
featuring Company, causing a loss of
S60, 900.
The Supreme Court holds that candi-
date defeated in primary and elected at
the following general election, cannot take
the office.
Gov. Hall has appointed Thomas F. Bell,
son of the late Judge T. F. Bell, Judge of
the First Judicial District, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of his father.
A sum reported to be S21, 400 was stolen
from treasure box for the Wells Fargo
Express Company while it was in the sta
ton at Lake Charles Wednesday night of
last week.
The Louisiana Railroad Commission, in
its report on the MONTE wreck, holds Flag
man Mark Cunningham responsible, con
demns the Yazoo Valley Line for sending
out inferior equipment, and ordered block
signals installed.
The Shreveport Journal says Shreve
ports population will be $4,000 in the next
fifteen years, according to an estimate OF
the Cumberland Telephone Company s
officials, who figure that the population is
growing at the rate of little over twenty
one per cent year. When the Govern
ment Census was taken during June, 1910
there were 2S,015 people residing within
the city limits of Shreveport. In August,
}, 1912, there we're 33,805 people within the
same limits, according to the telephone
company's estimate, figuring 4.8 persons
} to each residence.
The Bossier banner., 1912-11-21
Bible Brilliants.
For they have wholly followed the Lord
Numbers Xxxii. 12,

For they have wholly followed the Lord.
xxxii, IL.
That ye may remember, and do all my
commandments v, 40.
So thou shalt put the evil away from
among u.-Deuteronomy xvii, Z.
That thou mayst learn to fear the Lord
thy God always. ys.-Deuteronomy xiv, %.
And in very deed for this cause have |
raised thee up, for to shew in thee my
power; and that my name may be declared
throughout all the earth.-Exodus tx, Is.
At the end of every seven years thou
shalt make release. And this is the
manner of the release: Every creditor
that lendeth ought unto his neighbor shall
release it; he shall not exact it of his
neighbor; because it is called the Lord 8
release.
The Bossier banner., 1912-11-21
Waste of Words.

Memphis Commercial Appeal
M. Ossip-Lourie, Russian Jewish
writer, declares in recent essay published
in Paris, that civilization is now suffering
from verbomania and that words have be-
come an actual menace to society.
Several weeks we had occasion to make
a similar comment. There is growing
impression over the country that we waste
words. The fact can not we'll be denied.
We do.
A registering machine would assist peo-
pie that now think themselves moderate
takers to learn what amazing rivers of
language flow from them during their wax
ing hours. If such machine could be
invented, by which the oral expenditure OF
individuals might be accurately gauged,
and then law passed making it misde-
meanor to exceed fixed amount, the
moral and physical forces of the world
would undoubtedly be strengthened and
society would resolve into a happier and a
sweeter aglomeration than it is to-day.
M. Lourie refers to the last session OF
Congress as the $4,000, 900 word session of
the American people. He probably bases
his idea on the reports of the stenographers
of the House and Senate, but this is a poor
idea of calculation for the side remarks,
the parts of debates imprinted and not in
cluded in the notes of these worthless should
also be added. How many words have
been used in the present political campaign,
and how many others have been wasted in
the cause over bar room counters, club
rooms, floors of exchanges and public
never be collected, but the general senti-
So + hat hor or
of words.
But the foreign psychologist does not
regard this passing manifestation or erup-
ton of words as being disease; he merely
finds it symptom characteristic of civili-
zation at the present time. Speech has
become easy. Words are familiar. The
supply has become so voluminons that they
are cheap. They no longer require thought
Ideas do not have to be generated and then
changed into words. Talk has become a
sort Of mechanical performance, for which
words are but appliances supplied by a
multiplicity of others. M. Lourie says
that men and women are becoming mere
talking machines and that verbomania is
we'll nigh universal. Superficial and pro-
fessional takers, commercial travellers
orators at public banquets, leaders of po-
litical parties, sects and commanding indi.
viduals are on the list of notables enumer.
ated by the eminent psychologist. He also
points out that in everyday intercourse
in the gossip of society, which has beer
substituted for the lost art of conversation
in the centuries of culture, as well as ir
other circles of life, words are entirely ou
of proportion to ideas.
With this we agree with the scientist
there is plethora of words and deartt
of ideas.
The Bossier banner., 1912-11-21
For " Clean Speech"

Chicago Record-Herald.l
A league, it is announced, has been
formed against "the current use of BIAS
phemous, profane and obscene language
in public places" It's object is to obtain
enforcement of the law against users of
such language and to do anything else that
may be necessary to check an evil in our
public conduct.
Too many Americans are addicted to
foul and vulgar speech. Returning travel
ers and visitors from foreign shores notice
an offensive profusion of such language
as soon as the home port is reached. 1t
has no parallel in Europe and no proper
place here. Perhaps it exits because of
the greater nervous strain that is on Amer
leans; perhaps it is result of freedom
from some of the restraints on the individ-
ual that exist in an older country. What
ever its cause, its results are bad.