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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-09

Honus Wagner, OF the Pittsburgh
baseball club. has been playing pro-
fessional baseball seventeen years.
He Is now what might be called mid
dle-aged, and yet he is still playing.
A little less "gingery' perhaps, but
alert, steady, sure and reliable as
ever. Old enough to be a grand
father, he remains the mainstay of
his club. Through from four to six
hard contests a week, he fields and
bats and run his way, the marvel of
the youngsters, the boast of the old
timers.
An item in yesterdays Tribune tells
Jus that, a few days ago., Wagner
made the 3.000th hit Of his major
league career. That doesn't sound
like much when you say it quickly
5000 hits. But the remarkable part
OF the record is that Wagner has
made a batting percentage Of more
than 300 for each and every. one OF
the II years of his professional ca,
reer. In no one season has he fallen
below that mark. 1t is a record that
stands alone and unique in baseball
history-and that, perhaps, will con.
tinue to stand unmatched unless rules
are changed to greatly favor the bats.
men.
Think Of a man who for seventeen
years, growing older each year, keep,
ing up such a clip with the bat
and at the same time playing a well
nigh perfect fielding game! 1t is a
defiance to years and the infirmities
and weaknesses that come with them.
1t is nothing short of marvellous,
What is the explanation? How has
this "old man" succeeded in leading
his entire organization year after
year, while men twenty years younger
have starred for a season or two and
then dropped into the hopeless dis,
card? The answer is: Clean Living
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-09
CLEAN LIVING ESSENTIAL
tTampa Tribune)

Wagner's personal conduct Is sald
to be exemplary. He has no pad nap
its, he never d%issipates, a certain
hour every night, unless conditions
make il impossible, finds him in bed.
His life-work has been baseball and
he early recognized the fact that the
essential to success as a baseball
player is behaving oneself taking
care of oneself.
The baseball players who have ap-
| preached Wagners record have been
of the same type Of man-sober e&-
ular. in habits. non-drinkers. Plank
| and MQtheWsou, great pitchers for
| nearly twenty years though with
| nothing like the steady record OF
| Wagner, are conspicuous examples OF
the results Of clean living. Old Den
ton Young, who held his place as one
| of the successful pitchers of the coun'
try until far past forty, is another eX'
ample.
When We look at the other side
Of the picture and see the players
who started out With every prospect
Of shining brilliantly in the baseball
armament, only TO lose out IN one sea
son or two seasons, we look in vain
f1r The ClCan living essential Sue
cess turned their heads and they tho
! they could go the limit of dissipation
and still play ball. Some of them are
] still playing, but not in the big cir
cults. Most Of them are eking GU
~existences i'll other lines and thinking
of the days when their names were
featured in the headlines of the sport
ing pages.
Fast company" off the diamond
units a mar for fast company Of
the diamond. And old Honus Was
her, with his seventeen years of 80
per cent hitting and several years Q
usefulness yet to come, is a living el
ample of what good habits will d
for the athlete.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-09
PITHY NEWSPAPER PARA
GRAPHS.

Carranza has all the mediation he
can attend to at home.-New York
| World.
Here's that Wretched Japan trying
to break up our Chautauqua season
Columbia State.
As we understand the president,
Big Business should be seen and not
heard.-Columbia State.
When T. r. said the party was
ready for battle, Amos and George
must have taken him seriously.-col-
umbia State
It seems that Villa gives %unquestion-
ed obedience to Carranza's orders ex-
cept when he doesn't want to.--Lit-
tie Rock (Arkansas) Gazette.
The chances are that some of the
gold that is being shipped abroad now
will come back when the world gets
to buying wheats-Boston Globe.
Lorimer now has q chance to re-
peat that s'human-interest' story Of
his life to the depositors III those
three busted Misunderstanding South
ern Lurnberman.
Mexico needs q president and not
merely q successor to HuertasIndi-
a1iapalis Star,
The English nilitants think fasting
Is more affeetnal than prayer.
Louis Globe Democrat,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-09

The small boy who has all Of his
fingers present or accounted for may
be set down as having celebrated the
Fourth NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Whether the Niagara peace dove
will hatch a SQUAD or a squabble is
very Observation-Disclosures Tele.
gram,
An exchange calls Huerta .two-fac.
ed The suggestion that there Is an.
other face like that is appalling
Columbia State.
AS a steam roller pilot Villa must
make the 1912 republican national
committee turn green with envylLit-
tie Rock (ArkansasJ Gazette.
It is an ungratefn1 progressive who
feels no thrill Of sentiment at sight
Of George w. Perkins's b-attle-scarred
Observation-Disclosures Star.
Every time the suffragists appear
in the offing the president hurriedly
resumes his seat on the democratic
platform.-New York American.
IN Justice to the administration
(which imposed the income tax, II
should be said that it is doing every
thing II It's power to put individual
incomes IN the exempt class.-New
York American.
The trouble between carranza and
villa has been patched up. but the
constitutionalists may Be made i
tribe ~ at ease by the way the world
insists On looking Il the patch-Lt'
NE Rock Arkansas Gazette.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-09
AT THE DOOR OF THE SCHOOL.

a prominent speaker at the recent meeting of the National Edit
eational association, declared that the ills Of the nation may be laid
at the door OF the school, The American people are lawless and gul
Iibe because of careless teaching, said this noted educator, DR.. K. j.
Aley. #s
Perhaps the good Doctor of Philosophy is right, but we fear that
nc is too drastic IN his criticisms Of the school. The schools may be
deserving of a share Of the criticism, but if we look about us we will
find that the same carelessness characterizes our dealings in many
other respects.
We have grown out of it, we are glad to say, to some extent, at
least, but for q decade or 50 it was considered tn proper thing to leg
islate locally against evil tendencies while privately our city fathers
and our leading citizens were conniying to permit the evasion Of the
ordinances which they had been instrumental in adopting.
This is no arraignment of any particular locality, for it was the
generai tendency OF the times. 1t was especially noticeable in the
cities of medium size, speaking of western cities generally.
We cannot expect the rising generation. to entertain a very great
respect for law and law enforcement when evasions are so obviously
so be desired on the part Of the trainers Of the local laws.
And it is not the local ordinances that are alone disregarded. In
nigh places IA state affairs in times past there has been an apparent
Inclination to- permit our laws to be stkingly evaded or avoided.
sThe people are lawless,' said DR.. Alley, answering d question,
because they have been taught the principles Of democracy too care
1assy. Ihey are gunhble, and believe practically everything they
haar therefore, they are imposed on. The secondary schools are
negeetIng thes opportunities to correct these evils.,,
We think that the good doctor need not have confined his crit
selsm 70 the secondary schools. Our schools are exactly what we
saake Them II has been worth any manas position, ia either the
1sranclpal or secondary schools, to undertake to preach against the
evils winch the public has been prone to tolerate. whatever thew
Snay he, whether applied to morals or finances or politics.
Whie we may work some sort of reformation by seeking to con.
Ssaenee 50 the top,our most satisfactory reforms are wrought by be-
mining at the bottom and working up.
lns morals, IN politics, in business, we shall find. in the end.
precisely what the public demands and insists upon. We arc Great
arss af our environment, within limitations. Our schools are 4 3 AZ
@eeption to- the general rule.
MV4 NN&M# 3
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-09
SOWING THE WIND.

ING English conservatives, misnamed unionists, who are show.
sng their teeth An connection with the Irish home rule bill. may nos.
satiy pc sowing the wind with its resultant effect, the reaping oil the
Whirlwind.
ass theS English and Irish tories can be justified III resorting to
sarMss or even threatening to- resort thereto, there can BE no criticism
sot aapor organization. or any other sort Of organization. if they, too,
sarn themselves tor the ostensibe purpose of enforcing their az.
Nandss
xlseln open rebellion may be q patriot, but very likely NJ would
ana those who ares ccuntenancing his movement standing aghast III
AJs isnasaf he labor aeader In parliament, should proceed 70 organize
and arm aasR working associates fr the purpose OF enforcing their
$aaAmaS forHreco9nition with respect 20 wages, working hours. and
khsrA mod5hcation regarding conditions surrounding English iabors
WAAt Sasass srs nNss gasss Il sauce fsr|ths sshasr. q 81 MID.
nm An1srisan laahaHgrs8va aMrs garsonSg course saodld rA
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-09

ed that boys under fifteen years old
can raise between $50 and 200 bush.
els an acre, when they cultivate it
properly and make an intelligent Sc
lection of seed in advance. The av-
erage yield of potatoes is only 113
bushels to the acre. The PennsyI
109 bushels, and the New Jersey farm
iers only 100. But the farmers of
.Aroostook county, Me, raise from 200
to 400 bushels on the same area, and
the German farmers raise 700 bushels.
The agricultural departments OF
'Hbe western universities have sue.
ceeded in diffusing enough informa-
ton among the farmers to enable
them to increase the size of some of
their crops, and in one or two states
the annual increase in the yield Of
corn has been more than enough to
pay for all that it cost to maintain
the university. Mr.. Hill is pleading
that the young men stay on the farm
and develop its resources. Those
who listen to his plea and devote the
same amount of intelligence and en-
ergy to agriculture that they would
give to business in the city to keep
a job will find themselves richer and
happier at the age of so than If they
turn their backs on the broad fields
waiting for them at home.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-09

frain from criticism of the Colorado strikers who not long age armed
themselves to compel a recognition of their demands.
1t appears, judging from newspaper comment, that the English
people are beginning to realize the situation Mr.. Carson is placing
them in.
Nobody wants to shoot Sir James-he's a fine, fluffy, fussy, err
ratio chap-but if Sir James can defy the British nation with a hand
FIJI Of Obstetrics (and in saying this one need not necessarily commit
himself either for or against Irish home rule), so could Mr.. Burns
with a handful of laborites.
And England is not yet beyond the stage of a possible uprising
Of laboring men! -
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-09
TIMBER IN THE L

The only forest timber worth mentioning as such, anywhere be-
tween WATERFOWL and the eastern line Of Utah, is to be found in the
Black Hills.
1t Is true that in certain sections Of the Rocky Mountain district
forest timber Of fair proportions is still standing, but nowhere along
tho. Denver q Rio Grande railroad, nor along the Union Pacific be-
tween Denver and Salt Lake City, nor yet along the automobile
highway practically paraneling either railroad, is there timber
worth the name of forest, in comparison with the timber seen in the
Black Hills forest reserve.
Between Deadwood and Hot Springs there is a belt Of timber
that commands admiration, considering the devastation Of our for
ets in recent years that has taken place in yarions sections Of the
country.
The Black Hills has been described as the richest area OF similar
dimensions to be found on the American continent. While it is rich
in mineral ores, as evidenced by the output Of that wonderful mine,
known as the Homestake, its wealth is not confined to mines and
minerals. IT has other sources of wealth, among them eventually,
its forests of spruce and pine.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-09
CHURCH OF CHRIST
A LIVING TEMPLE
So|omon's Temple a Type Of.
the Temple Of God.
The Quarry Underneath the Site.
Every Stone Fitted to It's Piace-Put
Together Without Sound Of Hammer
or chiseI-Foundation Of the Temple.
Dedication = GIorification - Future
Use of the Temple The Royal
Priesthood-The Great High Priest.

Clinton, Ia, July
1.-The P h t
Drama of Creation
depicts Solomon's
Temple in various
stages Of prepara-
ton, showing the
quarries under Je-
rusalem. the for
ests Of Lebanon,
etc. This edihce
is the basis of sew
eral New Tesla
ment descriptions
OF the Church.
The Denver star., 1914-02-28
FOUNDERS DAY OBSERVED
AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE
Rabbi Stephen s. Wise lauds Work Of
General S. c. Armstrong.

Hampton, Na.-Dr. Stephen S. Wise,
the distinguished rabbi Of the Free
synagogue, New York city, and cham
pion Of public righteousness, delivered
at Hampton institute on Sunday, Feb.
l, most eloquent address in com
memoration of General Samuel Chap
man Armstrong. who founded the
Hampton school in 1868. DR.. Wise
showed clearly that General Armstrong
was a "statesman-educator OF de-
mOcracy." -philanthropist,"
.'statesman-visionary and idealist'-a
man OF radiant personality and n man
who walked with God.
Il have often thought" said DR..
Wise. that no man in modern times
could be more fifty likened to the great
leader Of my people than Samuel Chap
man Armstrong. Moses was first lib
orator and cmancipator, and he rested
his eternal faith upon the word Of
God" General Armstrong fought In
the war and helped to emancipate the
Negroes. General Armstrong was not
content, however, merely to lead forth
another race from bondage. He set
out upon the great life task of helping
them to self mastery, self conquest and
self relemption.
Dr. Wise showed that the greatest
spring of character and achievement
In the life of Mr.. Armstrong was In
the home in which he was bOrn-the
home of high enterprise and mission
ary cndcavor. DIR. Wise made strong
plea for the colored people to go out
from Hampton and magnify their own
homes.
He declared cmphatically that houses.
land, farm implements, money and po-
sition are as nothing beside the home.
General Armstrong was not only pre-
pared to face difficulties, but he had
the statesmnn's vision which moved
him to seek ont and search out the
hard and difficult places as well as nc
cept them. not as obstacles and him
ORANGES, but as spurs, as stimuli.
The Denver star., 1914-02-28
LIMIT OF RACE PREJUDICE.
Pastor Of Chicago Church Condemn.
Attitude Of Cemetery Officials.

|
Attitude Of Cemetery Officials.
Chicago. = How deep underground
does the color line reach?" That is
the question which Jenkin Lloyd Jones,
pastor of All Souls church and head
resident Of Abraham Lincoln Center.
in this city, has propounded t. the Of
ficials of Oakwoods cemetery in IL re-
cent letter.
The query was the result of Mr..
Jones perusal of folder mailed to
him from the offices of the cemetery
and containing recital of its advan-
tages as place of last rest for Chi
cagoans. Near the end was para
! graph which set forth that the asso-
citation did not desire among its Da-
irons those whose skins are other than
white, and its effect on the man who
heads an institution named for the
president who freed the slaves was
immediate. He at once dispatched this
letter:
Mr.. Fred NJ. Farwell, President Oak
woods Cemetery Association:
Dear Sir-Your very attractive an
nouncement of the cemetery. with pretty
pictures duly received, for which accept
my thanks. 1t Is a beautiful place and
the sadness Of many visits has often been
ameliorated by its beauty. but l was as
founded and panied beyond telling by
reading this sentence in your announce
ment:
Chapel. vaults and crematory are for
the exclusive use of people of the Cau-
casian race Heaven save the mark!
Can class prejudice and racial conceit go
further? Pray. how deep underground
does the color line reach? Is it to be pre-
sumed that st. Peter has also provided
for the convenience of the "Caucasians"
rear gate entrance into kingdom come
for the benefit of the colored people?
Seriously. l am panied at the manifes-
tation of what seems to. me an Insult to
the Christianity we profess and the trust
in God and belief in brotherhood that is
Inscribed or implied in a thousand monu-
ments within your inclosure. Am l to
understand that Frederick Douglass.
Booker T. Washington. the Hindu poet
who has just received the Nobel prize
for pre-eminent achievement in letters,
were they to be presented at your gates,
would be denied the final courtesies which
belong to the humblest and most despised
and wickedest of the race?
1t Is not for me to decide where my
bones may crumble. but II 1t were for me
to choose ] would not care to have them
under the ground from which are exclud-
ed many brave and dear friends OF mine
Your ground is sacred as the resting
place OF hundreds of men and women
who bravely and willingly died for the
establishment of the brotherhood that
crossed lines and the sanctities of the
human soul. whether incased In skins
black white, yellow or half tints. Very
respectfully yours,
JENKIN LLOYD JONES
The Denver star., 1914-02-28

shame. There are many good worthy
people who are sorry now that the
Government land is all gone adjoining
Deerfield, and that they listened to
the knockers. There has been enough
done by those who have been there for
three years to. prove the possibilities
of the soil if the settlers do their duty
toward it. Every man and woman in
Deerfield is on his and her own res
possibility, and the degree of success
attained depends wholly on the effort
put forth. Whatever the other fellow
does, will not have any bearing what
ever on the success you have, but you
must plan for yourself and keep with
in your means; study your soil and
crops and cultivate your land. We now
have prospects for very successful
season SO let's get busy.
Deerfield is the coming community
for colored people in Colorado. After
ten years of hard struggle we have got
ten the colony on a firm footing, and
many who had an opportunity to settle
on land some time ago are now sorry
that they did not take advantage of
the opportunity.
There are only 1884 lots plated in
half enough to go around. Buy a 5
acre tract adjoining the town and open
an addition to the town in your own
name. There are 4S lots in acre
block, all laid out to conform with the
town. The price of these acre tracts
will never be any cheaper.
Every lot and block of ground in
Dearfield is for sale; the only reser-
vations will be for the Post Office,
the Bank, the School House and the
Church and Sanitarium, Fair Grounds
and City Hall.
This will be a great season in Dear
field. There is plenty of moisture and
water Now is the time to buy a block
of state land.
Dearfield Agency. 2516 Washington
street, Denver, Colo.
Dearfield settlement can have a san
.itarium if the federated club women
of the state would organize an associa-
ton for that purpose. The State Land
Board will donate ten acres of ground
the officials of the federated clubs will
talk with o. T. Jackson. agent for
Dearfield lands, the full particulars
can be had. 2561 Washington street.
Speculation has begun already on
the prospective mayor of Dearfield
City. There will be no boss rule. He
will have to be elected by referendum
vote All can enter the race and the
best man wins.
Buy a lot and vote in Dearfield.
The Denver star., 1914-02-28
NAMELEss SOCIAL SUCCESS Al
SCOTT.

Never was a more artistic, varied
and profitable program presented any
where for 25c, than was given at
Scott M. e. church, Friday night, un-
der the successful leadership of Mes
danes Clinckscales, Perry, McRey-
nolds. Bell, Carter, and Albert
Dorsey, for five cents. The house
was jammed and packed, and each
number was enthusiastically applauded
and responded to with an encore. AS
is always the custom, the musical
selections Of the peerless trio, and
Miss Beatrice Thrashley, simply
The Denver star., 1914-02-28
FIREMAN PARALYZEO.

John Oglesfy of Engine No. 5, at
Five Points, and one of the most pop
ular Spanish War Veterans, received
a paralytic stroke on the left side of
his body at a. m. last Friday morn
ing, and just as we go to press, infor-
nation has reached us that the stroke
has affected his mind. He has two
beautiful children and an estimabe
wife. The Star joins the community
in expressing its sympathy for the
sorrow stricken and unfortunate FAM
lily.
The Denver star., 1914-02-28
LEST WE FORGET, REMEMBER
THIS FALL.

A great deal has been said about
the Jones amendment to the Agricul
tural bill, which was under discussion
in the Senate. AS we gather the facts
bill appropriating money for the
agricultural schools was under discus
sion in the Senate. Hoke Smith OF
Georgia was backing the measure and
urging that white schools alone should
be the beneficiaries of the money
when Senator Jones came forward
with an amendment which provided
that just proportion of the money
should be given to colored schools
The amendment was lost, but it forced
the Senate to modify the Hoke Smith
measure so that it remained clear that
the fund would be properly admins
tered.
Senator Jones did nobly and defend
ed the Negro admirably-well, when
not a single word of the "fattering
praise for the Negro" that both Sena-
tors Thomas and Shafroth were wont
to give the Negroes at election time,
could be heard in defense of the Ne
gro, who was simply trying to share
in what rightfully belongs to him. Did
Senators Shafroth and Thomas repre-
sent or misrepresent the Negro by
their silence? Have our votes lost
their significance and power? Was it
because Hoke Smith and our Senators
were Democratic that they permitted
such a fragrant injustice to the Negro
to be done? What will our represent
atives do?
Then shall He say also unto them
on the left hand, Depart from me, ye
cursed, into everlasting fire. prepared
for the devil and his angels; for l was
hungered and We gave me no meat;
was thirsty and ye gave me no drink;
l was a stranger and ye took me not
in: naked, and ye clothed me not;
sick and in prison and ye visited me
not" Shall we continue men in Office
who fail, refuse or neglect to speak
where and when we cannot? This
question can be answered this fall.
But in preventing the adoption OF
the Jones amendment and in all other
matters affecting the Negro, Elder
Smith has peculiar function to per-
form, He was elected governor OF
Georgia after a campaign upon plat
form demanding the political efface-
ment of the Negro. He is the recog,
nized champion in Georgia OF those
who, in their zeal for the accomplish
ment of this result, regard neither the
laws OF God nor man. tlueT omiln
politics therefore require him to be
consistent. The pro-slavery church In
which he is an elder forces him to be
consistent The elder, with his fellow
politicians and his church brethren
who had united to rob the black man
of his ballot, and of his just share in
the general taxation as applied to
schools, public parks and public libra
ries, now unite to rob him of his right
full participation in the benefits OF this
federal appropriation, and would even
dishonor a draft upon that bank bal
ance accumulated for Elder Smith and
his people from $50 years of unrequit-
ed toll balance which in all justice
and equity should be used for the edu-
cation of the black children OF the
South, and which if SO used would as
sure them first class schools for hun
dred years to come
The Denver star., 1914-02-28

brought me house" down. The ladies'
raised $500, and no little mention
is due them, especially Mesdames
Clinckscale and McReynolds, under
whose immediate management the
event came. Mesdames Dorsey, Per-
ry and Carter looked after the tick
cts, while Madam Fell managed the
refreshment end. The ladies' are a
unit in thanking the sister churches
in their loyal support shown them.
p. A.