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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-12-04
SOCIETY


ART CLUB GIVES RECEPTION.
The Mitchell Art Club on Monday
afternoon was hostess to the Round
Table club at the home of Mrs. II. IL.
Edwards in a reception given in hon
or of Mrs. Zella +. Wilson, teacher OF
English in the Aberdeen Normal
school. The two clubs are the only
ones in the city which belong to the
State Federation, and Mrs. Wilson
came in her official capacity as presid
ent of the South Dakota Federation
of Women's clubs to deliver them her
message in person. The reception was
a well-appointed affair and after "a
half-hour OF social intercourse Mrs.
Wilson proceeded TO give to the club
ladies her ideas or the ways and
means of making their WORK more
efficacious. She appealed to them ear
nestIy to do their part in the vast
civic, economic II domestic prob
lens that are confronting this
try and which must be solved. She
said In part: The foundation rocks
on which we should build our super
structure are love, courage. charity,
prudence, and truth. If we have these
fundamental virtues We'll inbedded in
our foundation, our building will not
crumble. The influence of women's
clubs is being felt in every walk of
life. Men'of large affairs of state and
nation are beginning to realize that
the women's clubs of the United Stat
es WELD a powerful influence for
good and that their backing and re-
commendation of any cause will help
to bring il to "A successful issue. A
large per cent of the moral, intelIec-
tual and civic advance in the com
munity is due to the influence of the
Woman's club. Women have learned
to think clearly, differ amicably, and
act wisely. For the most part. club
women are progressive. Our debt to
the National Endowment Fund is now
l%iuuidated and we are now starting
out with our State Endowment fund,
with a nucleus of seventy dollars. We
thought best TO make the outer rim OF
our wheel secure and then start 10
strengthen the inner workings. Every
organization must have Il financial
basis to be a permanent success. The
South Dakota Federation has not,
and we must begin to strengthen our
already strong organization by Civ
ing it a substantial financial basis.
Our national platform incladed in
terest and activity in such big issues
as: the construction OF good roads
from coast to coast, the building OF a
national park, the teaching of hyg-
iene in normal schools, vocational
training OF youths, appointment of
women as immigration inspectors at
all ports of entry, appointment of
women police, the care of the fam
lilies of conyicts, Bible study from a
literary standpoint in clubs, higher
Ideals for the stage, medical inspec-
ton of schools, enforcement OF pure
food and drug laws, and uniform mar
riage and divorce laws" Mrs. Wilson
is a woman OF broad intelligence and
Exceptional attainments, with wonder
full personal charm and presence. Her
address was delivered with magne-
tism and feeling. At the conclusion
of the talk, dainty refreshments We're
served. The color scheme was car
ried out with yellow chrysanthem-
ums, the state club flower.-Mrs.
Martin Wider, press correspondent.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-12-04
4 SOPHOMORE OCCASION.

Dean and Mrs. van Benthuysen
were at home last Tuesday evening to
the fifty members OF the sophomore
class of the university. The decora-
ions for the occasion were elaborate,
Quantities of red roses being used for
this purpose. Other decorations we're
in harmony with the spirit of Thanks
giving time. The entertainment pro-
vided afforded the maximum of en-
joyment for the guests. Not the least
enjoyable was the turkey hunt. The
favors given were unique and sugges-
tive of Thanksgiving features. The
singing of familiar songs assisted in
making the hours pass only too speed
lily. Refreshments of a dainty charac-
ter were served toward the close of
the evening.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-12-04

gang, is in the Edmunds county jail
at Ipswich. He declares he is inno-
cent, but was implicated in the bank
robbery by the confessions of the 9th
er men. He will be tried in state cir
cult court for Edmunds county in a
few DAYS.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-12-04
A pLEAsuRABLE EVENING.

Mrs. William NJ. Smith and Mrs.
Virginia Doyle entertained the Elks'
Ladies club at the home of Mrs.
Smith on Saturday evening of last
week. Auction bridge was played dur
ing the evening. The gathering was
very delightful, resulting i'll an even
ing of keen enjoyment. The head
prizes were awarded to Mrs. L.. ID.
Milne and Mrs. c. w. Downey. Re-
freshments were served by the host
esses at the close of play.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-12-04
Send a Bank Draft

The next time you have occasion to send
money by mail, call in and let us give you a
bank draft for the amount. Or you can de-
post the money and send ycus personal check.
Either way costs you nothing and is safe, sim
pie and quick. If a check or draft is lost, a
duplicate will be issued and you suffer no f.
nancial loss. You are privileged to call in the
bank at any time and make use of our excel
lent service in any or every department Of
banking.
Resources Over $500, 100000
Commercial & Savings Bank
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-12-04
UNIQUE PARTY BY R. R. MEN.

On Thanksgiving evening the mem-
bers of Mitchell lodge. No. 500. Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen and
~Enginemen gave their fourth annual
ball at the city hall, which proved
to be the biggest social dancing event
of the season.
The hall was beautifully decorated.
with the colors used in railway train
service, viz: red. white and green.
The stage was decorated with the
model of a head-end view of a full
sized standard locomotive from the
sides of which colored bunting was
extended to the sides of the stage
and to the height of the engine stack.
The engine carried a headlight,
green flags and green side lights
which signlfied that this was the
fourth section and that they were
to carry signals" for another to
follow. The number plate bore 800"
the number of their lodge. Hanging
from the balcony were lanterns at
short intervals, alternately. red, white
and green colors, together with clus-
tiers of flags of the same color. From
the center chandelier suspended a
cluster of red and green lanterns. The
ceiling was decorated with bunting
suspended from each chandelier
around the hall and draped from
each of them to the center one.
In the moonlight dances" the
electric lights were turned out. and
the light of the colored lanterns and
headlight gave a very beautiful effect
The music was furnished by De
Luka's orchestra of Yankton.
1t was the opinion of all that the
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
were royal entertainers and many
would look farword t o the next
Thanksgiving evening.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-12-04
SOCIETY NOTES.

The Twentieth Century club viii
meet with Mrs. Johnston, Monday in
stead of with Mrs. Lamme. Mrs. Tiff
any will be the leader and Mrs. Darl-
ing will be magazine leader.
Mrs. A. +. Hitchcock win act as
hostess to the Round Table club on
Monday. Mrs. Dawson will present a
paper on Opening of Dakota Terri
tory Mrs. Mccartney will discuss
THE Black Hills" and Mrs. Walrath
the subject of mitchell Pioneer
Days" Mrs. Hitchcock Will give Il
musical number.
The Mitchell Art club will convene
at the home of Mrs. Kimball. Mrs.
Kimball will have charge of the les
son which will deal with Music;
Modern American Composers Mrs.
Herman will read a paper upon
"Public School Music" The critic is
Mrs. Entsminger.
Mrs. Fritz will be hostess to the
Today club on Wednesday. Following
roll call, Mrs. Medley will conduct
the lesson review. Miss Leavitt will
have charge of the Magazine review.
She will also be critic.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-12-04
WILSON'S MESSAGE.

President Wilson continues his
spractiee "a writing messages in tab
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
BEHAVIOR AT WEDDINGS

From the Woman's Home Companion.
There has been a good deal of discus
sion lately about the msbehavor of young
people at weddings and the rude jokes
perpetrated on the bride and groom. Isn't
II just possible that the reported condi-
tions have been exaggerated or taken
overseriously? The editor of the Com
panion has been to weddings of various
kinds in both city and country, most of
them among folks in modest circum-
stances, few of them among people of
wealth, and on none of these occasions
has there been anything but wholesome
fun-a shower of rice, a few fluttering
ribbons, and an old shoe or slipper,
thrown after the departing pair for good
luck.
THE rowdy element, of course, indulge
in weddings, just as they indulge In other
pursuits less holy and sacred, in a rowdy
way. The point is this: People who are
rowdies are apt to be rowdies at we'd
dings Surely there is nothing inherent
in wedding which makes people row.
dies"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
pURITANIsM DOMINATES AMERICA

II. l.. Mencken in July Smart Set.
Since the very dawn Of his separate
history, the American has beeen ruled
by what may be called a moral con-
ception of life. He has thought of all
the greater number of them, perhaps,
as wrong. He has ever tended, ap-
parently irresistibly, to reduce all
questions of politics, of Industrial or
ganization, or art, of education, and
even of fashion and social etiquette, to
questions of ethics. Every one of his
great political movements has been a
moral movement; in almost every line
of his literature there is what Nietzsche
used to call moralic acid; he never
thinks of great men and common men,
of valuable men and useless men, but
only of good men and bad men. Ana
to this moral way of thinking he adds
a moral way of acting That is to say,
he feels that he Is bound to make an
active war upon whatever Is bad, that
his silence is equivalent to his con-
sent, that he will be held personally
responsible, by sharp-eyed, long
nosed God, for all the deviltry that
goes on around him. The result, on
the one hand, is a ceaseless buzzing
and slobbering over moral issues, many
of them wholly artificial and ridicu-
lous, an don the other hand, an in
cessant shouting into private conduct,
in the hope of bringing new issues to
light. In brief, the result is Puri-
taniSm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

Surgical research has proved that oper-
ations in the thoracic cavity can be per-
formed as easily as In the abdomen, ac-
cording to DR.. Alexis Carrel of the Rock
efeller Institute for Medical Research,
New York. In a lecture at the Beaujon
hospital in Paris, the Nobel prize win
ner declared that experiments on ami
mails have demonstrated that the heart is
an organ of very great assistance and
that it does not suffer harm if the circu-
lation Is interrupted for five or 10 minutes
1.-THE brain, however," said DR.. Carrel,
is more delicate and may not be inter-
rupted for more than three or four min
utes, which, nevertheless, gives time for
the accomplishment of much surgical
work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
SAUCES

From the Kansas City Star
Even the eye of mere man may be fas-
cinated with the newspaper headline an
nouncing the recipes for some of
Oscars sauces. The French cook s
sauce, as everybody knows, is no per-
functory thing. 1t is a work of art.
The discovery of a new one is an event.
There is discussion as to whether
French culinary supremacy is in the
realm of soups or of sauces. Dumas
took the side of the bouillon. Other ex-
perts have come out for the decorative
element in cookery. Mr.. Henry T.
Finck, in his recent volume of Foods
and F'lavors," quotes a Frenchman to
the effect that poultry is for cookery
what canvas is to the painter The
fowl is merely the background on which
the sauces paint the picture.
With sauce robert, is a French say
ing, man might be pardoned for eat
ing his own grandfather.
OF such pleasures of the palate it Is
delightful to read in a land where the
opportunities are so badly neglected
that sugar is often eaten on lettuce and
the art of mixing French dressing for
salad is still in its infancy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

The board of estimate in New York
city has voted $75O,0oo to build two addi-
tonal wings to the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in Central park The additional
space will be used to exhibit the loan COL
lection of the late j. p. Morgan. most of
which has been left in the museums store
rooms because of the lack of room. The
voting of this money dispels all doubt as
to whether the city of New York will
profit by the offer of the present head
of the house of Morgan to loan IL his
fathers valuable collection. Early in the
year it was reported that If the city did
not provide adequate facilities for show
ing the art treasures the collection might
go to Hartford.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

Canada that he has attempted. He is
getting to be an old man and this may
in very truth be his farewell tour in
this country.
Margaret Anglin also proposes TO
identify herself with the Shakespear-
ian drama. All in all there will be no
dearth of great Shakespearian play
ers, and the playgoers who can not
see one of them can see prehaps one
of the others. 1t is fine lot of play
ers, and every one Of them is player
of high rank who can faithfully in
terpret the works of the great dram
atist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
THE SUMMONS

Reginald Wright Kaufman in July Smart
Set.
oh, Summers in the land again, and
Summers on the sea;
Across the blue horizon rim the old gods
beckon me; sfA'yd et,f
The little ships ride restless at their an
chors in the bay;
The birds are trooping northward, dear.
and / must be away.
/ see tho Savoy mountains white; hear
the sheep bells ring
Below me in the valley where the little
children sing;
And high above the timber line, along
the glacier track,
The ice field and the summit SHOWS they
whisper me: Come back
It's we'll / know your tender heart and
kindliness and grace.
And well l know the gentle light that
sanctifies your face;
Unworthily, yet truly, I love you,
Heaven-sent,
And nowhere, dear, save in your arms
shall l secure content;
But sun and wind are cal ae pse
throughout the livelong day
From distant lands I used to knQ s.
all the Parkway:
OH Summers in the hills as ~ Iii
Summers on the sea,
And summers in my heart, an xi <, $
we'll you must sgt me freel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
THEY LIKED MIR. UNDERWOOD

from the Washington Post.
North Carolina democrats were for the
nomination of Oscar Underwood for Pres
ident, because they believed that lie rep
resented better than any other candidate
for the nomination the views OF their
party on the tariff but President Wilson
has made hit with us, because he has
followed in Mr.. Underwood's tracks"
said Mayor Il. J. Murphy of Greensboro,
N. c., at the Raleigh. Mr.. Underwood
would have made a great President, we
believe, but we are entirely satisfied with
the way Mr.. Wilson has done since he has
been the head of the nation. He has start
ed out right, and | believe he is going to
keep on the right path. This will mean
continued democratic supremacy. II the
democratic Congress and the President re-
deem the promises made in Baltimore
they will satisfy the people, and to sat
isfy the people will mean continuance in
power. That is the view we take of the
political situation down in North Car
Olina."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
Emperor William The Second

The German Kaiser has reigned 25
gears, and in all that time he has not
heard a hostile shot. Peace for Ger
many, says the Kaiser, means ma
tion in arms. Located in the heart of
Europe, surrounded by nations will
ing on occasion to be hostile, there
seems to be no other way to preserve
peace at home. "We should" said the
Kaiser, "be ever ready to keep up
our ornaments without gap, in view
of the fact that the neighboring pow
ers have made such mighty progress.
For it is solely on our ornaments
that our peace depends"
The Kaiser has in the 25 years of
his reign stood consistently and faith
fully by this policy. The expense has
been enormous, but war would have
been still more expensive. In the
navy alone he has carried the yearly
expenditure from $12,500,0OO to
something over $1O0,0O0,OOO.
Under this policy of protection
Germany has become an industrial
nation. 1t was once devoted to agri-
culture. She is also seeking colonies,
and social reform is everywhere care
fully attended to. William the Second
will be ranked in history as man of
peace and as great ruler. Germany
has been remarkably developed al
ready in his reign, and he may reign
% years longer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
CANNY-vERY

From Answers.
There was no doubt about the fact
that Jock MacFaddy was Scotchman.
Last year, when journeying to the
country on an important errand, he left
his purse, containg nearly f100. in gold
and silver, at the railway station from
which he started
lie telegraphed the fact on his ar
rival, and the purse was kept till his
return a month later
1t was young clerk who handed
Jockie MacF. his wee purse with the
"spondies' as he set foot out of the
train, and certain wild hopes We're
making that young mans heart beat u
trife unevenly.
But our canny Scot counted his money
unhceding, and when he'd finished he
looked up long and suspiciously al the
young man.
"I-isn't it right, sir?' stammered the
latter, in bewilderment.
"Richt-richt! It's RIGHT enough but
where's the interest, mon?" was Mae
Faddys stern retort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
Road Improvement in the States

New York, Massachusetts and New
Jersey are leading the states in road
improvement and road construction.
All three of these states now see that
the improvement of a road is soon
followed by improvements in the
value of real estate. Farming lands,
no matter how fertile will not COM
mand good price until good road
is built through it. This is the story
that is told in New York, New Jersey
and Massachusetts,. And the roads
must be free to the public in order to
boom the value of real estate.
The three states are fully committed
to road improvement, and not only
the states but the counties are ready
to cooperate. Massachusetts has ex-
pended on her roads $12,500,000, and
she is now putting a million a year
in her roads. New York began with a
bond issue of $5O,0OO,0O0 and New
Jersey is keeping up with the pro-
cession.
What is going on in the three states
is well started in many other states,
and it will not be many years before
this big country will have as good
roads as those of England.
No movement in this country is
more general or valuable, and surely
the legislature of January, 1915, will
take steps to start Alabama on the
way that many states are going. Geor-
gia has a good start among southern
states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
A BORN CRUSADER
From the Smart Set.

fTOfn tne Smart Set.
A hot yearning to rowel and punish
someone-preferably a sinner, but failing
that, anyone handy-is one of the dis
tinguisfing remarks Of the American, says
I'll. l.. Mencken in an essay In the July
Smart Set on the moral standards pre-
vailing in America. The energies which
the Germans put into bacchanalian and
military enterprise, and the English into
idle sport and vapid charity, are chiefly
devoted, in this fair land. to moral en-
deavor, and particularly to punitive moral
endeavor The nation is forever in the
throes of loud, barbaric campaigns gainst
this sin or that It is difficult to think of
a human act that has not been denounced
and combated at some time or other
Thousands of self consecrated archangels
go roaring from one end of the country
to the other. raising the posse comitatus
against the rum demon, or cocaine, or the
hobble skirt, or Mormonism, or the ci-
garette, or horse racing, or bucketshops,
or vivisection. or divorce. or the army
canteen, or profanity, or race suicide or
moving picture shows. or graft, or the
negro. or the trusts, or Sunday recrea-
tions. or dance halls. or child labor The
management of such crusades is a we'll
organized and highly remunerative busi-
ness; it enlists a great multitude Of snide
preachers and unsuccessful lawyers, and
converts them into public characters of
the first eminence. Candidates for public
office are forced to join In the believing;
objectors are crushed with accusations
of personal guilt; inquisitorial and uncon-
stitutional laws are put upon the statute
books; the courts, always 50 fiabby under
a democracy, are bullied into complais-
ance. In the large cities of course, there
is considerable opposition to these Puri-
tanical frenzies, if only ON the ground
that they hurt trade, but the laws of
most American cities, it must be remem-
bered are not made by their citizens.
but by peasant legislators from the coun-
try districts, and no protest can ever pre-
vail against the rural madness for chem
ical purity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
Both wind and tide stays for this
COMEDY of Errors.
Railroads and Rates

If public sentiment was Indifferent
10 the petition of the railroads in
1910 asking for the right to advance
rates 10 per cent there seems no
question about change having taken
place in favor of the railroads since
that time. The eastern carriers, in
cluding the southern lines, are now
asking for an advance of per cent
and evidences are increasing that
shippers and the public generally are
in favor of the petition.
Ten or twelve years ago when
political agitation was in vogue
against the railroads many of the
companies merited censure. They did
not treat the public as well as they
should have done and the result was
anti-railroad legislation in nearly all
the states. Whether or not legisla
ton was too drastic it is plain to see
that unless the railroads are allowed
to charge living rate business con-
ditions generally will be seriously
affected.
The railroads in every part of the
country will soon be overtaxed in
hauling the bumper crops. Only few
of the great transportation lines are
equipped for extraordinary traffic and
it is because of the fact that their
borrowing power has been seriously
diminished growing out of antagonis-
tic sentiment of few years ago and
antagonistic legislation resulting
therefrom.
If the petition now pending is
granted the situation will brighten
suddenly. Railroad officials and rail-
road stockholders will be heartened
and buying movement will set in
which will affect the iron and steel
trade in most wholesome way. The
entire business world would become
buoyant the very day that the COM
mission granted the 5 per cent ad-
vance petition.