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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-01-01

and relief from payment of contr1Du-
tons. 1t is estimated that when the
scheme is fully at work a million
mothers in Great Britain will each
year receive this benefit at a cost
to the nation, on this account
alone, of $780, 900. Under the sana-
forum benefit the state provides for
free treatment and care, in sanatoriums
or at home, of persons who contract
tuberculosis. The insurance commits
sioners may schedule other diseases
also for institutional treatment. These
are the minimum benefits. Other ben
efits, possible with prudent manage
ment of the insurance funds, include
larger old age pensions and higher
sick, disablement and maternity pay
and convalescence allowances.
Administered Through FraternaI Socl-
etles.
The administration Of the act is
through the government, which util-
ICES the friendly societies, trades
unions and other approved organiza-
tions-and through the postal savings
bank for deposit contributors whom no
friendly society would insure. The
friendly societies correspond, to a de-
gree, to mutual insurance companies
in the United States. The insured thus
control the working of the scheme.
The act makes safe and solvent the
fraternal or friendly society and in
it's benefits, provided upon re-
peated examination the society or
lodge shows approvable management.
But how does the insurance act ben
eft the employer? What does he re-
ceive in return for his contribution OF
six cents a week?
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-01-01

Mixed bathing is giving the death
blow to marriage" said an English
doctor, ina written protest against
the extension of such facilities at
public baths,
Il don't believe" he said, that one
young man out of so wants to marry
the girl he has bathed with.
DO bare necks, bare arms and bare
legs, with ugly skull caps, furnish a
bewitching spectacle?- What effect
has the ungraceful Topping of the
female porpoise on the male intellect?
The desire to harpoon it rather than
embrace it is probably one result.
Il watched two exceedingly pretty
and graceful girls in walking cos
tunes who impressed me with their
elegance. l saw these two girls
waddle into the surf and try to ride a
wooden horse floating in the sea. 1
saw them return to their machines
and emerge in their elegant walking
costumes. But they were not the
same girls. I had seen them bathe."
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-01-01

became effective only In July, 1912.
Under the act, every employed person
from sixteen to seventy years OF age,
whose income does not exceed $500 a
year, is compulsorily insured against
sickness, in whatever manual or other
occupation engaged, with certain
rather unimportant exceptions. Those
earning more than $500 a year by
manual labor alone are also compul-
sorily insured. In a British population
of As, 900 900, the act includes, approx
mately, $4,000, 900 in its provisions.
The act also provides that other per-
sons, not included in the compulsorily
insured class, may join under certain
conditions.
"18 Cents Worth for 8 Cents"
The insurance fund is derived from
three sources, the worker, the employ
er, the national treasury. Here arises
one of the strongest criticisms OF the
act, both employer and workman
claiming his contribution to be too
large. The weekly subscription of the
workman earning more than 1919 a
week is IS cents, of which the work.
mar pays eight cents, the employer
six cents and the national treasury
four cents or its equivalent. In addi-
ton, the state pays the cost of central
administration and large grants to-
wards hospitals and medical benefits.
When a workman's wages are less,
than 1915 q week, he pays a less pro-
portion to the insurance fund and the
employer pays more. Insured women
pay one-fourth less than insured men.
The workman thus buys is cents
worth of insurance for eight cents.
Those whose wages are less than $1.75
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-01-01
Fighting Piano Moths.

1t wasn't the rent he was after, the
piano nan said; he just wanted to
fix the piano, that was all.
TUNE it, do you mean?" the woman
asked.
"Oh, no." said he. ito fight the
moths"
Then he opened the case and tied
little bags of camphor in the corners
I'VE do that two or three times a
year with all our rented pianos," he
said. IF some kind Of preventive
is not used there is danger of moths
getting into the felt back Of the key
board. We can't depend upon the
renters to attend to that little job for
US, SO we send one OF our own men
around"
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-01-01
Making 70morr0ws
-LU0rld=
BY WALTER EOILLIAMy, LID.
Dean @he School @JounaMm aAs Un@nav] Missouri
:W0rld
INSURiNG A NATION.
By WRLTER WILLIAMS, L..

a week are insured without cost tt
them. Contributions are not paid BY
the workman during sickness or unem
reaches the age of seventy years. The
act makes it Illegal for the employer
to deduct his own proper contribution
from the workers wage; he must de
duct only the workers share. A spe
cial provision modifes contributions in
cases where employers maintain their
wo%rkpeople in sickness. Men and
women of all ages up to ~sixty-ive
years are treated alike in respect to
contributions. Insurance cost is nc
more at forty years of age than at
sixteen. The age handicap, ~necessari-
ly imposed by private insurance com
.panies, is entirely absent from the
British scheme.
What are the benefits?
The member Of parliament from
Northampton, H. B. Lees Smith, and
the managing director Of a great
wholesale establishment Of London,
Wilkie Calvert (brother of DR.. Sidney
Calvert, professor Of chemistry at the
University of Misscuri), summarized
these benefits:
Sickness and Other Benefits.
The workman pays eight cents a
week or less. His benefits are the
same whatever he pays. These bene-
fits include free medical attendance
and free medicine, sickness benefit,
disablement or invalidity pension, ma
ternity benefit, sanitarium benefit.
Free medical attendance and free
medicine are provided to the worker
who becomes i'll. This provision has
been sharply attacked by the British
doctors. The sickness benefit varies
in amount. Ordinarily it is $3.50 a
week for men and SITE a week for
women for &c weeks. Sickness bene-
fits cease at seventy years Of age,
when the old age pension becomes
payable. If sickness continues long
er than 26 weeks, SLIPS a week is paid
during the remainder of the sickness,
however long it may be. Provision is
made for certain reduction in benefits
when members are in arrears with
their contributions, but nc n is sus-
pended from medical, sanitarium and
maternity benefits until than 26
weeks in arrears. Insured women,
married or unmarried, and the wives
of insured men, whether insured or
not, receive a maternity benefit of
$3.50 in addition to sickness benefit,
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-01-01

enacted it into law. 1t will ruin the
nation, assert in public the Conser-
natives, who opposed it's enactment
In private all parties appear commit
ted to acceptance of the general prin-
ciples Of the National Insurance Act,
as it is popularity called, though as to.
some of its practical workings there
is fierce contention. 1t does not ap-
pear probable that the act will be re-
pealed, though it will doubtless-to
quote Bonar Law, the Conservative
leader-be 'drastically amended" If
his party, turning out the Liberals.
is placed in power at the next general
election.
The insurance act became a law De
cember 16, 1911. 1t was a government
measure presented and supported Lyl
the Liberal government. Such a
scheme" said W~orthington Evans, M.
p, n of its most vigorous critics,
could never have been brought IN ex-
cept by n with the pluck OF Mr..
Lloyd-George, and with the help Of
those connected with insurance" In
many respects the original measure
was crudely drawn showing the marks
of haste in its preparation. Some of
the crudities have been corrected by
supplementary legislation.
Compulsory Insurance Against Sick
ness.
What is the purpose of the insur-'
ance act and what are its practical
workings since it has been British
law? While the act was passed in
December, 1911, the insurance features
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-01-01
Appearance Of a Room.

There is something very attractive
about a room that does not always
present the same appearance. Pic
lures should be changed when they
are not too valuable. Curtains are
also valuable in altering the appear
ance OF z room. New cushions, table
covers and other ornaments that are
inexpensive may also be employed to
bring about a change. A bouquet of
flowers or a plant, each in Its season,
gives a pleasing change to a room.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-01-01

London, Eng
land. AN Act
to provide for In
surance against
Loss of Health
and for the Pre-
vention and Cure
of Sickness, and
o Insurance
Against U n e M
ploy m e n t" -.
such is the COM
~prenenslve title
of the most am
bilious measure
for social reform.
yet attempted in,
Great Britain. 1t.
will make over
the United King
dom, declare the
b and
their allies. who
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-01-01

q a great empire LOT the urSt tlIu6
taking a direct interest in the condi-
ton of those aged, those infrm, those
sick, and those broken. The old the
DRY was that this was beneath the dig
nifty of an empire. The concern of an
empire was to see that the machinery
OF human slaughter was perfect. That
was the concern Of an empire. To tax
the food of the people, that is think
ing imperially; but to heal the sick,
to feed the hungry, these are thoughts
fit only for a parish beadle. There was
a great emperor once who added to
the luster, of his fame by visiting the
wounded after the battle. Now we
have got this great British empire for
the first time walking the hospitals,
visiting the sick, inquiring how the in
firm are getting on, helping them to
mend and curing and assisting them.
You ask me if this is not queer bust
ness for a great empire. Why, it Is
adding a new dignity and glory to the
British empire. 1t is the beginning Of
a new era in the history Of imperial
ism, the newest imperialism and the
best"
In a certain old Book it may be
read: For l was an hungred, and
We gave me meat; I was thirsty, and
We gave me drink; ] was a stranger,
and ye took me in; naked, and ye
clothed me; I was sick, and we visit
ed me; l was in prison, and We came
unto me-"
And OF the Great Exemplar Of this
high duty OF man to man 1t is record
ed that his empire shall have no end.
Copyright, 1e1s. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-01-22
BRITAIN FEARED NAPOLEON.

And Lamb, Who Thought Him Fine
Fellow, Famed the Flame.
It was on Aug. s, 1915, that Gen
eral" Bonaparte, as his English cap
tors insisted upon calling him, was
transferred from the Bellerophon to
the ship Northumberland, to begin the
journey to st. Helena. There was
much protest in England against the
transportation of the distinguished
prisoner, but the government remained
firm.
Official England could see nothing
butsdanger in keeping such a dynamic
force as Napoleon within its limits,
and, harsh as the actions Of the gov
eminent seemed, the position thus TAX
en- was not without logic. Napoleon
had been placed on his honor at Elba,
but honor did not weigh with him
when ambition was concerned.
Charles Lamb spoke for those who
favored Napoleon's detention in Eng
land when he wrote to Southey: aft
er all, Bonaparte is fine fellow, as
my barber says. and should not mind
standing bareheaded at his table to
do service to him in his fall They
should have given him Hampton court
Of Kensington, with tether extending
forty miles round London" Lamb
whimsically suggested that If Napo-
leon remained In England the people
might some day eject the Brunswick
in his favor, and the government took
the suggestion seriously.
Now that Napoleon Is safely dead
such fear seems absurd, but Napo-
leon was then alive. and. in view Of
that fact, no government was safe in
saying, 81 should worry!'-Cleveland
Plain Dealer
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-01-22
,rner Of the mortgage wanted bis

owner Of the mortgage wanted bis
money.
After some explanations and in-
vestigation it appeared that about .
year ago man, who had represented
himself to be Mr.. Strand, called at the
loan office of Lake and Lowry, pre-
scented an abstract to the Strand farm
and asked for. q 1855 loan. The
farm being a valuable one and every
thing else appearing to be all right
the loan was quickly made and the
stranger departed with the proceeds.
Nothing more was thought about the
matter until this. fall when the first
note became due and Mr.. Strand vas
n, titled to come in and pay il. The
swindle was clever one and the
party who got the money, having had
a years start, is doubtless safely be-
yond the clutches of the law. The
loan firm is out large sum of money
and the Strand title will be more or
less clouded until the mortgage is
satisfied.
The possibilities of this kind of a
swindle are unlimited unless the loan
men have an acquaintance large
enough to know practically all of the
land owners Of the county.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-01-22
DOUBLED THEIR TERMS
Hereafter County Officers Except
Judge of Probate Will Have
FOur-Year Terms.

Among the subjects considered at
the meeting Of st. Paul probate
judges was the constitutional amend
ment providing for the extension of
terms of judges of probate from two
to four years. Heretofore the only
four-year office. in the court house has
been that of the clerk of court The
legislature, at it's last session, passed
law extending the terms of all
county officers to four years except
the Judge of probate. This could not
be extended by act of the legisla-
ture, as the probate judgeship is a
constitutional office, and the state
constitution says that the judges
shall be elected for a term of two
Y ars. The legislature in order to
treat the judges as fairly as possible
passed a law providing for the sub
mission of a constitutional amend
ment extending the terms Of the pro-
bate judges to four years, so as to
place them on the same basis as
other county officers, and avoid the
necessity of frequent campaigns.
This amendment will be voted upon
at the next general election and will
doubtless be adopted.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-01-22
TRAIN KILLS FARMER
John Lawler Of Maine Prairie Meets
Instant Death Friday.-Team
Also Killed.

Kimball, Mimi, Jan. 17.-John w.
Lawler, a prominent farmer of Maine
Prairie, living four miles northeast Of
Watkins, was instantly killed at that
village late yesterday afternoon when
he was struck by train No: 107, the
coast train on the 500 road. His team
of horses also met death at the same
time.
1t is presumed that Lawler had
deafened himself by muffling his ears
and did not hear the train coming.
He had come to the village of Wat
kins with load Of grain during the
afternoon. Mrs. Lawler also came and
she had gotten down from the wagon
before he went to the elevator
Mrs. Lawler left the wagon at one
of the stores of the village and Law
Ter had driven but a block when he
started crossing the track. The Port
land limited, west bound, came along
about that time and although Lawler
had plenty of time to see it he did
not turn his head. He had pulled his
coat collar up over his ears and his
cap was pulled down to prevent the
cold. 1t is presumed that owing to
this he was unable to hear the ap-
reaching train.
Lawler and one of his horse were
thrown 200 feet by the force of the
blow. The other horse was carried on
the pilot of the engine distance of
block and thrown on the depot plat
form. When picked up it was found
that Lawler had received blow on
the head and his skull was crushed.
The body was not otherwise greatly
injured.
The body was taken to a Watkins
undertaking establishment and the
train held for Is minutes until an in
vestigation could be made. After this
the train was allowed to proceed.
Lawler was about so years of age
and had son and daughter, both at
maturity.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-01-22
IAN Ell EHS OF AFRICA.
The Lions and crocodiles Are In o
Glass by Themselves.

Tho Lions and crocodiles Are In o
Glass by Themselves.
Man eating lions have always been
fairly common In East Africa. The
most noted but far from exceptional
case was that Of the two man eaters
which for time stopped the building
Of the Uganda railroad by their raw
ages among the workmen until they
were finally shot by the engineer In
charge, Mr. tafterward ColoneD Pat
tersen- Another lion. after killing sew
eral men around a station on the rail-
road. carried of and ate the superin-
tendent Of the division. The latter
had come down In his private car,
which was run on siding, and he sat
up at window that night to watch
for the lion. But he fell asleep, and
the lion climbed on the platform. en-
tered the car by the door and carried
off his would be slayer through the
window
In the summer of 1909 couple OF
man eating lions took to infesting the
Nasal villages on the plain around the
headwaters of the Guaso Nyiro, west
Of Kenia, and by their ravages forced
the Nasal to abandon the district, and
the native travel routes across it were
also temporarily closed. A few weeks
later / was hunting in the district.
We kept the thorn bona around our
camp closed at night, with fire burn
ing and askaris on guard. and were
not molested.
Near Machakosboma a white travel
er was taken out of his tent by a man
eater one night good many years
ago. A grewsome feature of the Incl
dent was that on it's first attempt the
lion was driven off after having seized
and wounded it's victim. The wounds
Of the latter were dressed. and he was
again put to bed, but soon after he had
been left alone the lion again forced
his way into the tent and this time
carried the man off and ate him.
Every year in East Africa natives
are carried off from their villages or
from hunting camps by man eating
lions. Occasionally one hears Of man
eating leopards, which usually cOnfine
themselves to women and children,
and there are man eating hyenas, but
the true man eaters of Africa are lions
and codiles.-Theodore Roosevelt in
Scribner's Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-01-22
WILL BUILD new DAM
Little Falls Power Company Will
Make improvements Costing ;.
Over $4,000.

Little Falls contemplates the ex-
penditure of a large amount of
money for the construction of con-
crete dam next summer. Concerning
the project the Little Falls Herald
says:
Extensive improvements are con-
templated by the Water Power Com
pany of this city for the next two
years. The coming summer new
concrete dam will be erected at the
site of the East wing of the present
dam, if the rock can be secured and
sleighing will permit of its being
hauled to this city at a reasonable
price. When the new sluiceway was
built it was placed below the old one
and the new dam viii be below the
present one, in order to be in line
with the sluiceway. At it's east end
it will touch the old dam. The esti-
mated cost of building the new con-
crete dam is $65,O0O to $4,000.
About $4,000 will have to be expend-
ed for the purchase and hauling of
stone.
The east wing of the new dam will
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-01-22

be built with sluice gates and spill
ways, all of which will be adjust
able. This will greatly reduce the
amount of concrete but is is, expect
ed that the construction of the East
wing will require at least 1000 cords
of stone. If the east wing of the dam
is rebuilt next summer the west wing
will be built in. 1915. It is also plan
ned to erect a new power station in
1915. The object Of erecting the new
dam is to overcome the leakage
which is now experienced and to in
crease the water head.
John L. McCague Of Omaha, Neb.,
PRESIDENT of the company, and Frank
H. Parsons of New York City, wee
president, were in the city the first
of the. week to examine the grounds
and to make preparations for the
work. r. D. Thomas of Minneapolis,
an engineer who it is expected will
have charge of the work, was in the
city Sunday and looked over the pro-
position. j. G. Callahan of Minneap-
oils, a construction foreman, was also
here on Sunday to look over the ter
ritory surrounding the dam to ar
range for the securing of material.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-01-22
A CLEVER sWINDLE
Farmer in Otter Tail County Wakes
Up to Find Some One had
Mortgaged His Farm.

Fergus Falls, Jan. 12.-Are you
sure that someone has not slipped
around and put mortgage onto your
farm? The other day Carl Strand
living near Fergus Falls in Otter Tail
county, received a notice that 81 1856
mortgage against his land was past
due and that the holders of the mort
gage wanted him to come in and pay
up the interest. Mr.. Strand could not
remember of having borrowed money
or having placed mortgage upon his
farm so he hurried to town to inves-
tigate. At the register Of deeds office
he found that plaster covered his
fine quarter section ell right and at
the real estate Office he found that TIE
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-01-22

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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-01-22
Killed by Light.

Those who have studied the strange
inha bitants of the Mammoth cave In
Kentucky say that the celebrated
blind fish from that cavern when
placed in illuminated aquaria seek out
the darkest places. and 1t is believed
that light is directly fatal to them. for
they soon die if kept in brightly
lighted tank The avoidance OF light
seems to be a general characteristic OF
the sightless creatures dwelling in the
great cave.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-01-22

chosen with much care. They have
milk records running from 5000 to
10000 pounds year.
There Is certainly large room for
this class of cattle in all the north
western states. This does not mean
that there is no place for the dairy
breeds. There is a wide place also for
the dairy breeds, but viewed from the
standpoint of the present and pros
pective demand for beef there is a
much larger place for dual cattle.
This in future must come from the
arabic farm, and it must come main.
ly from dual cattle that will be
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