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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

ethics of humanity and the spirit of
enlightenment that Christendom was
astonished, not only that teh request
was not promptly complied with but
was astounded that it was necessary
to make it in the first place.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw said something
when she dubbed Harry K. americas
pet murderer"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

The Imperial Government of Ger
many is willing to sacrifice every
thing it don't want, to keep on good
terms with the United States.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

It is poor way to judge the size of
a pig by the size of his squeal; but it
is more reliable than to judge a man
by the size of his talk.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

When woman banks in her stock
ing and the cashier runs away with
the funds she always knows where to
find the cashier.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

A copy of new testament has new
er been found in highwayman's
pocket, but deck of cards has otter
been discovered there.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

You must have a gun before you
can have a imam behind the gun"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

Sometimes a man thinks he is ;
friend when he is only nuisance.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

Three men or three women can en-
joy themselves to gether but two wo-
men and one man or one man and two
women never have good time.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

When you see a man taking home
a box of candy to his wife it is hard
to determine whether his motive is
love or fear.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

There is one merit in a man cussing
the weather, he isn't cussing anything
else while he is doing it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

An optomist is one who thinks
things will turn out better than he
expects; a pessimist is one who ex-
poets them to turn out worse than he
thinks.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

No one denies that our boys play
a nice, lady-like game Of ball.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

In some cases women make fools
of men but in most cases the Lord
got in his work first.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

The Secretary of the Treasury rec
ommends the coinage of half-cent
piece. The preachers of the country
are unanimously opposed to the prop
osition.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

It is not sure sign that a woma
is pleased just because she smiles.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

There is nothing girl likes to do
as well as the things she shouldn't do.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

If you want columns of newspaper
space,
Just follow the Harry Thaw plan;
Don't try to be good, be useful OF
) great;
Grab a gun and go shoot man.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05

Weeping is not always a sign of
deep emotion. The average woman
sheds more tears when she is peeling
onions than she does when she loses
her husband.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-05
THE PRIMARY LAW

The avowed object of the primary
law was to give the people more pow
er in the selection of their party NOM
inees and to shear the bosses" of
some of their self-assumed preroga-
tives in naming the ticket.
No one for moment claims that it
changes many way the power or n
fluence of the everyday voter in the
general election; that remains exactly
the same as before the primary law
was passed.
The primary law has not only fail
ed in achieving the object for which
it was passed but it has completely
shorn the everyday voter of what lit
tie voice he had of selecting the party
nominee for whom he wishes to vote
in the general election that he pos
sessed under the old system. Under
that system he could discuss with his
fellow voters his choice and instruct
his delegates to voice that selection
in the convention; not much of a pow
er, it is true, but it was something.
Now primary candidates select
themselves. There is absolutely no
way of manifesting popular selec-
ton. Such thing as the "office seek
ing the man." is an utter impossible
ity. Under the primary law man
must not only select himself but he
must buy and pay for his nomination
either with cash or patronage.
un,x, for x,yo,,1J wv a "a hox,o
got in his primary campaign if he
had not been able to maintain head
quarters and finance his campaign.
Would Governor Eberhart have re-
ceived over $4,000 votes in that con-
test if an army of state employees
had not transformed themselves into
campaign army and used their end
less damifcations of person-influence
in his behalf?
A man without a barrel stands no
show of securing a nomination from
the dominant party, against an in
cumbent, and he is foolish to make
the attempt, unless he is able to fl
nance campaign of publicity. 1t is
not matter of ability, merit or par
ty service, it is purely bargain coun-
ter affair.
A man may be nominated that a
majority of the party do not think
is entitled to position but the only
recourse they have to vote against
them at election.
The nation as a whole is over
whelmingly Republican and so is the
state of Minnesota, yet Democrat
sits in the White House and another
Democrat presides over the destines
of the state and this condition will
continue indefinitely unless we can
have party nominees instead of self
nominated candidates.
Unless some method can be devised
that will give the everyday voter a
voice in the selection of candidates,
primary nominations will degenerate
into farce. They have nearly reach
ed that condition now.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-21

a Miss Elfrida Burrows, dainty, pref
ty, for five years trusted employe
of the bank
Simpson, detective, had Swallowed
the young man for week. His hab-
its were beyond criticism. AS to Miss
Burrows, she lived plainly, dressed
modestly, and about all that Simpson
learned concerning her was that she
was engaged to the credit manager
of the bank, Roy Desbrough. \
Now a new and brilliant idea had
come to Simpson, which he had just
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-21
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''The very thing, sir! Ideal, in fact.
1 fancy few novices would think of
using this safe covert as do profess
sionally."
Thus Pettigrew Simpson, Detec-
tive-with large D. He swelled up
and was blusterous and fancied he
was making a solid impression upon
his auditor. It was moment of SUI
preme distinction, for the person he
spoke to was no less an individual
than a live, up-to-date bank presi-
dent.
very WELL" said the financier,
you now your business, assume. l
won't say your idea is not good
one. l deplore the necessity, how
ever, that shuts you up in a dark,
drafty cockloft for an indefinite pc
riod of time" .
can exigency. of the profession,
SIR" replied Simpson, airily. Many
a time have stayed all night on the
slanting roof of house, in the wet
and rain, watching my quarry. In
fact"
But the voluble sleuth was shut off
abruptly by the arrival of a business
client for his auditor.
Take your own way" were the
final words of the bank president
"only so that you recover the money
and catch the culprit."
Pettigrew Simpson had "a case"
1t appeared that twice within a
month the Planters National bank
had lost package of bank notes. In
both instances they were small par
cells. Each had contained ten one
thousand dollar bills
The packages had mysteriously
disappeared from the currency pen.
There were only two persons behind
its secure grating. One was the son
of the president of the institution,
IaHrning banking" and, as he was
Il.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-21

imported to the bank president. En-
tirely surrounding the lofty sides of
bank room was an ornamental grill
to shut off the barren unfinished
space just under the. roof. The plan
of the sleuth was to locate himself
there with a pair of opera glasses and
select anyone of hundred interstices
in the grill work to secure COM
plete unsupported view of everybody
in the bank. ..-... -.-
Clever idea; no pilferer can pos
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-16

Monroe, March 12.-Ervin Tomber-
Tin, colored boy who used to be de-
livery boy at the English Drug Com
pany, has returned to the scenes of
his youth, we'll satisfied that the way
Of the darkey that Wanders from home
is not always the best A year and a
half ago, Erwin vert to Norfolk on an
excursion and lost the return part OF
his ticket and, money not being so
plentiful, he had to stay there. When
the war broke out in Europe, Erwin
got chance to go to Europe on a
ship loaded with horses. His account
of the affair is as follows:
I'VE left Norfolk on the seventeenth
day OF August. I had forty horses to
feed and water. I got sick, and I
never was SO sick in all my life. The
| man l was working with died, and
| they took him, sewed him in a large
sack and dumped him into the ocean.
tell you got we'll right then. I told
the boss there was not a thing the
matter with me. I was good and
we'll. No, I did not like the idea of
| dying on that boat We went on
until at last we came to a town called
Bordeau. We tied up at the wharf
and there was string of soldiers as
long as several city blocks waiting on
those horses. And just as soon as thev
| were unloaded they marched every
one OF US crew to Jail and kent nc
, tnere, except the captain, and he was
kept there too. Then they opened the
door and marched us right ont
s'ralgnt down to the boat, put us or
ana we started straight for home. We
were n1teen days going, fifteen davs
coming ana six days in Jail. While
we were in Jail they did not eiva -,
awning TO eat but hardtack anf
water. S'i''
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-16
SHEPPARD WEST IN JAIL.
Noroners Jury Investigating paGt
| land Fight.
(By the Associated Press

Pageland S. c., Mar. 13.-After
investigation by a coroner's jury int
the street fghtt here yesterday, .-
which J. Wesley .Arant was killed and
five other mens wounded. Sheppard
West. who also was wounded. TO-DAY
was charged with being responsible
Tor the death Of Arant. He was at
rested and committed to the Chester
1leld Jail The inquiry will be con
unued by the coroner's ury Wed1es
day. Warrants have been issued Ioi
the arrest Of eight persons, alleged 2
nave participated in the fight char2
ing them with rioting. Arthur Nest
another of those said to have hef'
wounded in the fight is reported il q
serious condition.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-16
R0CKEFELLERS
IN TRAIN WRECK
Neither Father Nor Son Hurt;
Reach House Of Mourning in
Safety

Tarrytown. n. Y, March Ia
Wearied by long journey here from
Ormond, Fla, John D. Rockefeller
returned tonight to house OF mourn
ine-his Pocanitico Hills mansion,
where his Wifel les dead. With him
were his son, John D. Rockefeller.
Jr., and the latters wife. They had
been speeding north in a special tram
since yesterday when news or MRS.
Rockefellers death reached them.
The hour of their arrival was SO
late that it was said shortly a1terWaro
it was improbable that plans Tor Mrs
Rockefeller's funeral would be decided
upon and made public tonight.
The Rockefeller party reached new
York shortly after O'Clock and I'M
mediately entered AUTOMOBILES Wn1cn
conveyed them to the family estate
here. They had been expectd arher.
| but it was said their train was de-
| layed by an accident on the line In
| Virginia.
Announcement was made late to-
night that the funeral Of Mrs. Rookie
| feller would be held at the Pecan
| tico Hills mansion tomorrow after
noon at $3.50 O'Clock. The service Will
| be a simple one, attended by only i'm
| mediately relatives and a few intimate
| friends Of the family.
! Rev. DR.. Cornelius Woelfkin, Of the
| Fifth Avenue Baptist church, New
York, will of1iciate at the services.
| Although no definite announcement
was made, it was expected that the
body Of Mrs. Rockefeller would be
placed in the vault Of John D. Arch
bold, in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery fol
a time, to be taken ultimately to Lake
| View Cemetery, in Cleveland, fol
burial.
Richmond, Va, March 15.--Johl
D. Rockefeller and his sen, John D
Jr., were passengers on a Richmond
Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad
. train which ran into an open sWitc]
!, at Milford, Va, forty miles north 0
Richmond, early today. They wer
severely shaken, but received no in
juries. Their train had orders to pas
a freight train at Milford and tn
;. switch had been left open, it was sai6
the passenger crashing head-on int
: the freight, damaging the engine an
! several cars. Another train was mad
n up at Milford and the Rockefeller
:, proceeded without having left thei
= car.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-16
COMING DOWN SOME DAY
Soon AS The War Is Over He
VIII Be invited To Speak
Tells Senator Simmons That
The Way Senator Lodge En-
joyed Raleigh Makes Hin
Very Interested
W. f.. YELVERTON.I J

Washington, ID. c., March Ia. 2
Latham, of Greensboro. member or
a large cotton exporting firm, recejv-
ed a favorable hearing today befar,
Sir Cecil Spring Rice, the British
Ambassador, and officials of the
State Department, with whom h.
conferred regarding a shipment of
cotton to Genoa, Italy. Under lne
order of the British government -
March the cargo Of the J. f.
Latham Company, which consisted of
1900 bales dispatched on the British
ship Frank More, would have been
subject to seizure had not Nj
Latham explained the nature of the
shipment.
The British order insured la-
| munity to cotton sold and shipped be-
fore March 2, but the order was IS
sued March 8. Mr.. Latham's Carsu
unsold at the time Of shipment, in &C
cordance with custom and particular
tIy because of interruption in cables
service. Mr.. Latham believes the
cargo will not be molested III view
of his explanation Of the circum-
stances. He left for home tonight
Sir Cecil Coming ''Down Home"
Senator Simmons accompanied Mr.
Latham on his trip to the British
Ar bassador and talked to Sir Cecil
abous North Carolina The British
Ambassador declared he was much
interested in the State, especially
since Senator Lodge Of Massachusetts,
had told him of the splendid reception
rendered him in Raleigh.
: Senator Simmons intends TO invite
the Ambassador to North Carolina to
make speech somewhere in The
State as soon as the war is over. HIS
: acceptance is assured.
President Wilson today appointed
7 Rev. Jas. j. Gray as postmaster 81
2 Sylvia. Mr.. Gray was recommends 81
l by Senator Overman.
.. Rogers Ready To Begin
Director of the Census Samuel /,
; Rogers reached Washington today
preparatory to beginning his work Ht
will probably be sworn in Tuesdal
: and will take charge Of the office a
that time w. J. Harris, retiring ii
rector, will introduce Mr.. Rogers Z
4 the employees Of the office Monday aft
= ernoOn.
Representative Small secured tn
. promise Of Treasury Department Off
= clals today that representative Q
I1c department Will De IN GFeeilE ia
!; March "a at the opening of the ne7
- Federal building at that place. Nj
. Small left for North Carolina tOnight
y Party To See Hawaii.
;, Senator Overman will leave 10
- - nome Monday night for a short sta
% before going to Hawaii as the guer
9 OF the Hawaiian government. He VI
- pc accompanied on the trip by Mr
- OVerman and their two daughter
,, y Miss Julia Borden, Of GoldsborO, Wfi
y is visiting the Misses Overman her
- - Will go with them to Hawaii Reprt
~ sentative and Mrs. E. w Pou an
- their daughter, Miss Annie 1hrie Pol
- Will be the other North Carolina
- on the trip.
NJ. l.. Ramsey, of Asheyille. is her
i, Senator Thornton, Of Louisiana, le
,s tonight for home, by way Of Stat
"a "a vile, where he will visit his siste
- Mrs. Phillip Barton Key
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-16
Murder and Rigamy Cases.
Especial to The News and Observer

Gilzapeth City, March 13.-There
are two murder cases ana $500
case for next weeks term of pasrs,,a
TANK county Superior court, The do
PENDANTS IN the murder cases are hotb
negroes. The defendant in the hi nv,
case Is white man named Thomas
Waiston. a member Of one of the ,,,net
prominent families in the county.
White will be tried upon the che
1n,t u, huloerlng another negro, one night
while they We're going honoo So oeioil' >
negro festival. Gibbs will he ~
upon the charge of uurdarir,e, L;l
VIE eight years ago. his
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-16

ooutn carolina last year produced
minerals valued at s1,4s4. 15N y
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-06-19
THE MONEY WENT TO
CANADA

If you are looking for the rea-
son why SO many thousands Of
American steel workers are idle
and why big steel concerns are
unable to pay dividends, recent
transaction, showing the practical
results of free tradetariff, will
throw some light on the subject.
Steel rails are now on the free
list. Under the protective tariff
of 1909 they bore duty of 1892
per ton. Not long ago the Him
DIS Central Railroad Company
purchased from a Canadian mill
$4,000 tons of 9O-pound open
hearth rails. The price paid was
a little more than dollar per ton
less than the same grade of rails
could be bought in the United
States. Under protective tariff
the Canadians would have had to
shade their price at least 81 per
ton to make the sale. AS the case
stands, they had to cut the price
only a little more than a dollar.
So the money for $1,000 tons,
amounting to about 100000,
goes to Canada, instead of staying
in our own country, and Ameri-
can workers are robbed of a cor
responding, amount of work and
wages. That is free trade
American Economist.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-06-19
THE LOSS WILL LAST A
FEW YEARS

1t is no use to cry over spilled
milk" The only remedy is to
handle the pail more carefully the
next time. 1t is not necessary
to admonish those who commit
ted the free trade blunder in No
vember, 1912, to be more care
full in November, 1916. They
won't make any mistake next
time. They have had their lesson
and presumably it will last few
years-at least until a new crop
of foolish first voters and bunch
of forgetful ones and others, who
live but never learn, get to re
forming" things, particularly the
tariff, through the Democratic
party. The Democratic Congress
just adjourned might have accom-
plished vastly more of good for
the country than it did and still
have fallen far short of offSetting
or repairing the damage it has
wrouhgt through its efforts to
demonstrate the practicability OF
free trade and the ''iniquity" of a
protective tariff. Even the tariff
for revenue only, the income tax
and the war tax" have failed to
produce sufficient revenue for
government needs, and the Euro
pean war has been made the
scapegoat for the tariff plumbers
of the party in power. The lat
ter measures should have been
combined and placed under one
head-the urgent deficiency
bill-"a bill entitled to provide
revenue to make up for what the
Underwood Simmons tariff for
revenue only does not produce
and which is necessary to meet
government expenses; also a bill
to prove that free trade is sue
cess in America at last" The
Democracy should sound new
tariff slogan, something like this !:
millions for revenue, but not one
cent for protection" and they
should hustle for the necessary
millions.-Tifin CO., Tribune.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-06-19
HOW NOT TO RAISE
REVENUE

American hosiery manufactur-
ers have not had an untroubled
career. From the moment it be
came evident that .llere was to
be change in the ia if ,hey ~e' e
kept in paralyzing state OF un-
certainty as to how ti,ti' particu-
lar industry would be affected.
The new tariff when finally
adopted contained a cut in the
duty on stockings of some SO
cents on a dozen pairs.
Then strange thing happened.
| The German manufacturers rails
ed their prices to America by eX-
actly the same amount. In other
words, they were sagacious
enough to seize the opportunity
of getting better prices for them
selves at the expense of the Uni
ted States. The result is that, as
the American manufacturer has
not had to lower his prices to
compete with the German invad
err, the American consumer goes
on paying precisely the same
amount for a pair of stockings
that he paid before the duty was
lowered. Meantime the German
manufacturer contentedly puts
into his own pocket the 80 cents a
dozen pairs which formerly went
into the United States treasury.
1t is assumed that about two mil
lion dozen pairs of imported cot
ton stockings all came from Ger
many "a pretty safe assumption) ;
this sum, thirty cents dozen
pairs would amount in a year to
nearly half million dollars.
And that's Wilson's idea of how
not to raise revenue, but to put
a stamp act in force, and an in
come tax and. other tax-eating
schemes, so that the American
people must pay nearly all the
taxes to run the government. The
tariff is the only way to raise rev.
enue, and this is now firmly i'm
pressed upon the minds of the
people that in 1916 a President
will be elected who will stand for
protective tariff and the welfare
of the American people.-Pueblo
(Colo.) Opinion.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-06-19
TWO KINDS OF TARIFFS

Present conditions we'll illus
trate the workings of a protective
and a competitive tariff. Under
a protective tariff domestic manu-
featuring is encouraged and ma
terials for use in manufacturing
are more extensively imported
Under a competitive tariff, the
finished goods are imported, our
mills and factories work from
hand to mouth, and the demand
for materials for use in manufac-
turing declines.-Mt. Vernon
(Ind.) Republican.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-06-19
THE UNEMPLOYED

j The Department OF Labor con-
cludes that in the first halt OF
February 100000 wage earners
in the city of New York, or 10 per
cent of all wage earners, were
out of work; that more than hail
of them had been out OF work over
two months and more than three
fourths had been unemployed
over one month.
This is the most authoritative
statement of unemployment yet
made. The investigation by the
Bureau of Labor statistics includ-
ed complete census of lO4 rep
resentative city blocks. Probably
the situation in New York was
not greatly different from that in
other large cities, or from the
country at large.
This, however, as the bureau
points out, is by no means tull
measure of the hardship that bust
ness reaction devolves on labor
for, besides total unemployment,
there is much part time and If
regular employment.
lust how much of this unem-
ployment was due to temporary
business conditions and how
much is fairly chronic cannot be
said definitely, because no such
thorough investigation-giving
an accurate basis of comparison
had been made before, but that
there were at least twice as many
unemployed last winter as in the
preceding one seems probable
from municipal report on the
subject.
The number of unemployed
was about w per cent OF the
city's' total poulation. Applied to
the urban population OF the coun-
try, that would give us quantity
of non-productive labor power
about up to the present European
standard.
Nearly half of the marble and
stone cutters and painters and pa
per hangers were out of work, and
quite quarter of the carpenters
"a poor experience for them and
for the community. Reviving
business will simplify the prob
lem. We wonder whether it will
accordingly be practically pushed
out of mind until the next reac-
ton. Saturday Evening Post.