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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-03-20

All the seats were tlken and
the aisles had to be filled up
with extra chairs to accommo'
date the large crowd which
gathered at the New Grand last
Sunday evening to hear the il
lustrated lecture given by Ed
ward w. Peck, state secretary
of the Y. NJ. G.. A. of Minnesota,
on his trip around the world.
Mr.. Peck was one of the four
men making up the National
Quartet which toured the globe
in the interest of the Men and
Religious Forward Movement,
which followed closely the Lay
mems Missionary Movement
started a short time ago, and of
which it was the outgrowth.
This Men and Religious Forward
Movement had a six fold pur-
pose, namely community ex
tension, boys work, social SER
vice, bible study and missions,
home and foreign, and evangel-
ism. The men interested in
this movement are wealthy and
prominent men from all parts OF
America, and the description of
what this movement means and
is accomplishing was full OF in
terest, enthusiasm, encourage
ment to all who wish to see
christianity with all it's blessings
advanced in this world.
Before beginning the lecture
proper Mr.. Peck said he wished
to express his hearty apprecia-
tion of the Mems Christian and
Civic Association and what it is
doing in Sisseton. While the
work this Association is doing
is in line with so many of the
other splendid mems movements
all over America, yet the men
started this movement on their
own initiative and therefore de-
serves all the more credit. The
handicap to all such movements.
said the speaker, is that they
are composed of men of different
churches and beliefs, but as all
are or ought to be interested in
Jesus Christ and his work, there
is no reason why all cannot work
in harmony and accomplish great
good in the community if they
will Law aside their narrow views
The men who made this world
tour visited four continents
forty-three cities and held 4S7
meetings. The first slide show
ed the ship on which they sailed
setting out from San Francisco
The only incident worthy of note
before the first stop was made
at Honolulu was a burial at sef
shown in the second picture
Honolulu is one of the most beau
tiful places in the world and the
next slide showed the crowded
docks which the ship was APP
preaching and the numerou:
boys swimming around in th'
water and diving for the coin
thrown to them by the passen
gers on the boat. They are ex
perts at this sort of work ant
never lose a coin, and it is almos
needless to mention that tn
bows of Honolulu hold the world
swimming records. Other view
of Honolulu showed the wonder
full tropical beauty of the foliage
a cane field in which stood suga
cane six feet two inches in height
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-03-20
Around the World
Interesting Trip Pictured and Story Told
by E. w. Peck Of Minneapolis.

the soil of which fields are plow
ed by steam plows which make
burrows % inches in depth, one
of the largest sugar mills in the
world, and pupils and teachers
in the large mission school
which was founded about a hun
dred years ago. The men spent
fourteen days at Honolulu and
then set sail for Japan, the first
stop being made at Yokohama.
The views and the part of the
lecture pertaining to Japan were
very interesting and Mr.. Peck
told of the wonderful work ac.
complished by the missionaries
in that country and the eager
ness with which teachers and
missionaries are received by
these people. The views showed
Japanese temples, the great
statute of Buddah, the rikshaw
boys, the first Japanese Y. M.
@. A. and some of the students
there, one of the fields where in
tensive scientific farming is car
ried on, a mission school, the
great riot in Toxic, an old Jap
anese lady who was a missionary,
the mayor of Toxic and his Of
fcials, etc. The next country
visited was China, and the views
furnished the audience glimpses
of the Chinese houseboats, the
brick carriers of Hongkong
whose hard labor wears them
out in from three to five years
and whose maximum wage is
thirty seven and a half cents 9
day, and the best known mission
school in Shanghai. Mr.. Peck
then transported his hearers to
the Philippine Islands where he
showed beautiful hotel in Ma
nila, the home of the ordinary
Filipinos built up in the trees
a threshing floor, the famous
Benquet road cut by the U. s.
government, the John Hay Camp
a wonderful natural outdoor
ampitheatre which seats two
Thousand four hundred people
the Igorotes OF dog caters o.
the Philippines and the soldiers
camp at Manda. After leaving
the Philippines, the men went tt
Australia. Here many meeting.
were held among men of the
shops at Melbourne and Sidney
some of which were attended b,
four thousand men. The mex
views showed interesting scene
in South Africa where the prin
cipal cities visited We're Pretoria
I johannesburg, Cape Town ant
Kimberley Mr.. Peck told o
the great work done by the mis-
sionaries among the Zulus, tin,
work of Cecil Rhodes, and CAV
a brief description of the hom
! and burial place of Mr.. Rhodes
| The closing views showed a fey
scenes in the MADEIRA Islands
Holland, Belgium. the monumen
on the battle tield of Waterloo
the tomb of Napoleon and th
homes of Rembrandtand Shakes
peare.
The lecture lasted over tw
hours and the audience felt we
repaid for going to hear Nh
Peck.
, AS Rev. Jas. S. Hardness c
; Aberdeen is to speak at the M
3. church next Sunday evenin
on National prohibition, and o
account # the special service
> at the Lutheran church, th
Z Mems meeting at the New Gran
j, will be omitted for this once.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-03-20
Remember Your Tax Receipt and Vote
the Republican Minority Ticket

st lJstlOCI cjUlUlCU MCll uIlO MIS-
sions" given by Ben Duam of
Aberdeen. 1t was discussed by
several of the delegates and
ministers. One point brought
out was to send some one else to
be missionaries if we ourselves
could OF go. After the evening
session the local league gave
reception in our honor thus help.
ing the delegates to get acquaint-
ed with each other. The evening
was spent in playing a few games
which was followed by an in
teresting program c-nsisting of
several orchestra numbers, reci-
tations and solos, after which
refreshments were served.
The session Sunday morning
consisted of the convention ser.
mon by Rev. Bunge, president
of the German Theological
School of Eureka. His text was
Heb. 13 9 BE not carried about
with divers and strange doc
trines. For it is a good thing
that the heart be established
with grace; not with meats which
have not profited them that
have been occupied therein"
The first paper of the after
noon was women and Missions" "
written by Miss Hillibo of Aber-
deem. The points were, brought
out as to the different opportuni.
ties il mission work that women
can do which was that of the
Deaconess and the many oppor-
TURTLES offered her in her work
in the hospitals, kindergarten
and different other places to
lend helping hand in a mis-
sionary way. After the discus
sion of this paper was finished
another was given entitled
Recruits for Mission Work.
by Mr.. Ditmanson of Webster
This paper was turned entirely
to the Foreign Missions, telling
of the many hardships of foreign
missionaries and what had been
accomplished so far and also OF
the vast multitudes of people
who have not as yet heard the
story of Christ,
The closing session was 9
rally service which was opened
by Rev. Kraushaar of Aberdeen
He gave short talk on "Wha
to do to be a servant of God.
He brought out the idea that W.
must not only call ourselves
followers and disciples of Christ
but must consecrate ourselves
to Him. This was followed by
another short talk by Attorney
j o. Berdahl of Lake Preston
the president of the state league
He brought out the thought thai
if one would stop and listen tc
his conscience and then act ac
Icordingly he would always dc
the right thing and thereby up
lift the world. The meeting:
closed with short talk by Rev
Bunge, advocating parochia
schools which was followed by ;
Luther League rally song.
The convention as a whole wa
educational as we'll as spiritual,
uplifting. HILDA STAVIG.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-03-20
|. l. Convention

VI .iiS y uiuSo LGiNCl tIISS hlS
trict Luther Leagne was held at
Bristol, S. d., Saturday and
Sunday, March 14th and 18th.
Because of the absence of the
district President Mr.. Haake of
Aberdeen, G. d. Hustad, vice
president, took charge of the
The convention was opened by
Rev. Glesne of Aberdeen which
was followed by the Address
of Welcome" by Rev. Hafstad OF
Webster, the local pastor. The
response was given by Mr..
Hunstad. The business part
was then taken up, the various
committees being appointed and
the minutes of the last conven-
tion read.
The afternoon session opened
by a report of the credential COM
mittee. The following Leagues
were reported present: Webster,
Hecla, German Lutheran of
Aberdeen, Norwegian Lutheran
Of Aberdeen, Bath, Leola, Bris-
tol, and Sisseton. The Sisseton
Luther League was represented
by Josie London, Miss Bengston,
Clara Thorson, Gyda Anderson,
Laura Stavig, Agnes Sateren,
Lydia Marvick, Hilda Stavig and
Axel Holgerson. The first four
acting as delegates.
New officers were elected for
the following year which were:
President, G. b. Hunstad of
Aberdeen; vice president, Miss
Bengston of Hecla; secretary,
Miss Rehfeld of Aberdeen; treas
urer, Mr.. Wist of Webster. In
vitations were then given by the
Leagues of Bath, Webster and
Sisseton for the convention of
1915. 1t was decided to have the
next convention at Bath.
Miss Bengston of Sisseton
presented a paper entitled The
Real Aim of the Luther League,
after which an extensive discus
sion was carried on by the
ministers and delegates.
The financial, social, education
al and missionary aims of the
league are but truths of higher
a broader, a deeper aim. The
supreme aim is spirituality, the
foundation. of the kingdom Of
Jesus Chr st, spiritually the key
/, to the gate of salvation. The
spiritual aim can only be OBJ
tanned by an individual conse
Grafton of life to Jesus Christ
The spiritual aim will be mani
tested Wien the happiness o
soul peace" and "complacancy
of conscience" which has ne
other source than righteousness
of life and benevolent feeling to
wards God and men. In order
to maintain the spiritual aim
we must arm ourselves lndlvld
ually, not with carnal weapons
but by the three spiritual weap
ons, bible study, work in thu
vineyard and prayer. Prayer
the greatest of these weapons
the most important means o
grace.
Interesting reports were thel
given by the delegates concern
ing the active work which wa
being carried on in their loca
leagues to fulfill the real aim Q
the paper. Some very helpfu
ideas we're suggested. Musi
was rendered by the local choil
the Aberdeen choir and tn
Webster choir during the ses
sions.
} A short session was hel
Saturday evening which include
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22
RESTORED TO THE ARMY.
Three Deserters Benefit by Secretary
Garrison's Action,

Three dishonorably discharged soldiers
of the army, deserters who have served
time for the offense in the military prison
at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., have been
removed from the status of convicts and
military dishonor, and restored to the
status of soldiers in the army.
These are the first dishonored soldiers
who have ever been reinstated in the
American army. The remission Of their
penalties, past-so far as could be eff
fected-present and future, and their
restoration to honorable duty was eff
fected under authority granted to the Sec
rotary of War by a law passed in 1873
and never exercised by any of the prede-
cessors of Secretary Garrison. Opinion
of Gen. Crowder, judge advocate general
of the army, that the words of the law
should be interpreted as authorizing the
Secretary of War to restore to the status
Of soldiers on their own application men
who had been dishonorably discharged
and had shown subsequent good char
acter under prison discipline was concur
red in by Secretary Garrison.
The men restored to duty are Arthur
D. sullivan, Christopher II. Stiles and
Peter Mclaughlin. They are assigned to
the branches of the service to which they
formerly were attached, but unassigned
to any command pending three months
probation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22
OBSERVE HARB0R CONDITIONS
Army Engineers Tour Waterways in
Steamer Castle,

Bound on a trip OF inspection over
the Potomac river and the portion of
the western shore Of Chesapeake bay
under the control of the United States
engineers at this city, the United
States Army steamer Castle left here
yesterday with engineer service Off
Gals aboard.
The vessel will be on the trip for a
week or ten days and will spend some
little time in the York river at West
Point, Va. On her way down the bay
the Castle will again look over the
location of the fishing nets and if any
of them are found outside the pre-
scribed limits, 1t is stated, their own
ers will be made to remove them. The
Castle will also visit the Rappahannock
river and other points in the district
where public improvements are to be
made. and the work will be started,
or arrangements made to have it
started. at the earliest moment. Ac-
cording to reports, the United States
Army dredge Dalecarlia and the snag-
pulling boat York, which wintered at
West Point and which were overhauled
there, are working in the York river
and its tributaries deepening the chan
nels and removing distractions SO that
vessels can go in and out of them
without difficulty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22

about four mouthfuls less in the wrapped
loaf So people continue to buy the un-
wrapped bread. II they had watched US
coming from human excreta and stable
filth perhaps they would not be so willing
to have US make doormat of their food
But they never notice, so we swarm over
the food in the markets and groceries
and have access to many highly re-
spectacle kitchen.
came near losing my life this morning
bathing in somebody's milk pitcher. 1
was afraid 1 was going to drown. but a
kind-hearted lady lifted me out and pour
ed the cream. with all those hundreds OF
bacteria 1 had left there, on her little
girls oatmeal. II she has typhoid fever
l suppose her mother will wonder where
she could have gotten it!
saw the typhoid map at the health
office. You would be surprised to see all
those little black pins in 1t. Every one
stands for a case of typhoid fever We
have carried lots of typhoid fever, but
then, people would rather look at their
bread and cake and handle it over with
their soiled gloves than to have the cake
in glass cases and paper over the bread
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22

If you want to get rid of us the only
way is to prevent us from having any
breeding places, by keeping all stable
refuse screened. or treating it thoroughly
every little while with lime, to kill our
eggs.
Some day the people of Washington will
become enlightened enough SO they will
clean everything up thoroughly early in
the spring. brushing Off every one of us
that is clinging to the electric light cords
and scale cords in the market and gro
ceries and from the walls. They will
use traps poison and sticky fly paper to
destroy u.s.. and will swat us without
mercy until We disappear.
I suppose people would not like to have
US leave flyspecks on their candy. cake
and bread. II they knew the specks were
our excreta, and also that they might
seem to know it. They say, "Oh, it is
just a fly speckr' They do not seem to
care il their bread and cake is fly
specked. They buy it in the market Just
the same when they see US crawling
over it.
They think wrapped bread looks a little
smaller. but by actual weight one bakers
loaves were just the same. anothers had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22
USE FOR WARSHIPS.
Old Vessels to Be Made Into Naval
Recruiting Stations,

new use for old warships has been
instituted by the Navy Department.
Instead of going to the junk pile. de-
cayed vessels are to be mended as
much as possible at small cost at the
Philadelphia navy yard. and then sent
along navigahle inland rivers as re-
cruiting stations and to present an OBJ
ject lesson to induce recruitments.
One of the first warships to be SO
treated is the armored cruiser Brook
lyn. which has been treated to an en-
tirely modern armament. The Column
bus and Minneapolis have also under
gone thorough overhauling. and will
soon be ready to be used as TRANSPORTS
The Minneapolis may be utilized as
a training ship in Albemarle sound,
n. C.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22

(By Georgia Robertson, chairman committee OF
civics and sanitation. Housekeepers' Arliance.)
Once I was only a tiny, white, oval
egg. My mother laid me with a hundred
others in stable dirt After q few days
Matched out, little white worm.
fed for week or two on the filth where
was. then changed into brown pupa.
Several days later I burst forth a full
grown iy, with two gauzy wings.
Since then have travelled about a good
deal. My feet have a fine little fuzz on
them; you cannot see 1t without a mag
nifying glass, but it is just splendid for
catching germs Of all kinds. They also
cling to my wings.
You would not think so Il am so smalD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22
THE BIOGRAPHY OF A FLY

but I really can carry 5000. 900 bacteria
on my body at once!
What kinds of bacteria? Oh, typhoid
fever and summer complaint which kills
so many young children. You do not
hear Of summer complaint in winter; I
am not flying around then, leaving the
germs on the baby's bottle. or lighting on
its lips. or falling into the milk, or feast
ing in the sugar bowl, or crawling over
the dish towels hanging in the kitchen,
or on the food there and in the pantry.
also carry tuberculosis germs; in
fact. I pick up good many kinds OF
germs, for love to fit about, lighting on
filth of any kind I can find OF course.
having Matched out In 1t and lived on 1t
the first part of my life, you could not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22

expect me to do otherwise. But I also
love to feast on candy. cake, sweets,
meat, cheese and every kind of food.
am really quite ancient, being one of
the very few flies that lived over last
winter. 1 hid myself in somebody's
kitchen.
cannot tell you anything about MY
descendants. but very learned scientist
said I might have 1875, ST. 500. 600 600. coo
in one summer So there is no danger of
the fly crop falling, even though only
very few Of us live through the winter.
If people cleaned us out of their houses.
stores. markets and stables, while 1t is
still cold. SO we are stiff and inactive,
and burned US up and then kept every
thing clean, 80 there was no filth, stable
litter or decaying garbage for US to lay
our eggs In, we would be starved out and
disappear.
II stable refuse and street sweepings
that we have laid our eggs in Is carted
away and put on the fields every few
days we will hatch out there, and tor
ment the farmers cattle, so the cows
will give less milk. and the horses will
lose some of their vitality. having to
fight US off all the time. We make it
lot harder for the horses every summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22

the bank to retire from the service when
superannuaIed
Il would recommend the securing OF
data on the whole situation by a COM
mittee of Congress to be appointed for
the purpose of making survey before
any action is taken toward subtracting
from salaries for retirement purposes.
This committee would also be able to
report as to the necessary increases IN
salaries and schemes for promotion on
the merit order. The retirement of the
older men would result in the immediate
promotion of the younger clerks who are
at present hardly in position TO FOUND
a home and are supposed to save from
their present allowance for the furniture
and things not included, by the way, in
our estimates"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22
Department of Commerce Changes

The Department of Commerce has an
nounced the following changes in its per-
sonnet:
Frank W. Sebring has been transferred
from the War Department to clerk at
$1,000 in the bureau of the census.
Miss Violet b. Foster has been trans
ferred from the civil service commission
to clerk in the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce.
The temp orary appointment of John A.
Scoble as junior laboratory helper in the
bureau Of standards at Northampton, Pa.
has been extended.
In the bureau OF navigation, Tod o.
Trouland and Paul Rollins, clerks. have
been promoted to $1,000 and $1,000, re-
spectively.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22
Government Clerk Urges That
Congress Should Learn
Real Conditions.
HIS SALARY OF $1,000
LEAVES LITTLE MARGIN
Presents Schedule of Expenses
Which Runs to Monthly
: Total of $98.40.

The appointment of a committee of
Congress to investigate the incomes and
expenditures of cove. nment clerks to dis
cover whether they can afford to con-
tribute to pension system is the sug-
gestion of government clerk who has
written to The Star about schedules of
expenses given previously by other
clerks.
This man. who says he gets 81 200 a
year, gives what he considers fair
schedule of expenses for month, as fol-
lows: Rent. So; meals and ice, S2I;
laundry. gas and electricity, Sc; carfare,
81; newspapers, etc, 81; toilet necessi-
ties, 81; medical attendance, etc, 81; pos
tage and stationery. 81; insurance. 50:
church, etc, $50; clothing and tailor,
SIC; barber, 40 cents; fruits, etc. 81;
amusements, 81: cigars and phone. $50;
household incidentals, So. Total, s9s.40.
Variety in Standards.
This mans letter is as follows:
so long as there are so many different
standards of living it is very unlikely that
one would find uniformity in the esti-
mated o. actual living expenses of gov
eminent clerks and their families in
Washington. / submit what l consider
respectable. comfortable living standard,
and do not care continually TO be using
my pruning knife and cutting off all the
little expenditures for the niceties and
little comforts and benefits of life to
prove that clerk can or cannot contrib
ute to a pension retirement system-you
may draw your own conclusions, but a
married man certainly cannot round out
his life and that of his wife in Washing
ton on less than 81 100 or $1,000 year. to
say nothing of accommodating any reserve.
\ pension would never properly support
man in his old age anyhow, ard if he
is expected to fall back upon his children
il must be remembered that he has had
to raise and support these children, which
the previous published estimates fail to
take into account. l am taking ii for
granted that Mr. Government Clerk has
no relatives of his own dependent upon
him
IMAM quarter of ones income for rent,
but. as matter of fact. many go beyond
mat l would not encourage any one
however, to rent furnished rooms 1t Is
more expensive in the long run, not SO
pleasing by any means. A family should
certainly acquire their own furnishings,
and this means considerable expendi-
ture. l wouldn't care to take my wife
into a furnished Observation-Disclosures
month apartment. and the estimate given
IN last nights Star evidently included
gas. electricity and some other items
Speaking of toilet necessities. l should
not care to debate the question with a
man who is unable to understand how
they are necessary and considers them
an extravaganza. Enough said.
'As to expenditure for food. I think
low an occasional meal out, which any
woman appreciates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22
Schooner Rohde Bringing Lumber.

Repairs to the broken rudder of the
schooner Charles L. Rohde. belonging to
w. A. WiInsatt of this city. have been
completed at Newbern, n. c., and the
vessel has left that port with a cargo
Of lumber for this city. The Rohde lost
her rudder in winter gaze on Pamlico
sound and was taken into Newborn by
the revenue cutter Pamlico.