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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-06-24

here a short time ago from her home
at Maryville. Kans., to visit her
daughter, Mrs. Arthur Collins.
Mrs. Hilda Owens, who was hurled
$50 feet when her home was demol-
ished, is also beyond recovery.
Trask Will Recover.
l.. II. Trask, who was struck on
the back of the head with a falling
timber will
Mrs. Clinton Garrett of Huron and
her daughter, Mrs. Tresham of this
place, who received minor injuries.
are doing nicely.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-06-24
BEAUMONT GIVEN PLACE.

Pierre, S. Dat their meeting
last evening the state live stock sani-
tafy commission selected A. e. Beau
mont of Madison, to the position of
assistant secretary of the comission
which carries a salary of fifteen hun
dred dollars per year. Mr.. Beaumont
Will take up the work about the first
OF July.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-06-24
BOOKS ON
CHILD
POSSIBLE TO STUDY SUBJECT
OF PUBLIC INTEREST IN NIT
CHELL'S CITY LIBRARY,

The holding in Mitchell of the
state meeting of the child welfare as
ISOLATION will direct attention to books
dealing with that and allied themes.
Ihe library has a few very good
books on such subjects and thosel
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-06-24
COURT
FINDS FOR ITSELF
GRANT WRIT OF MANDAMuS Ty
COMPEL PAYMENT OF EN-
pENSE FUND TO THE
JUDGES.

Pierre, S. D.-The state supreme
court today granted the writ of
mandamus asked for by Justice Nc
Coy of that court to compel State
Auditor j. 10. Handlin to issue the
monthly expense voucher OF $50
granted to the judges of the supreme
court by law.
Auditor Handlin refused payment
in order to test the constitutiona,ity
of the appropriation.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-06-24

Sixty-fve hundredths of AN inch
OF rain fell last night and water was
standing on the streets and in low
places about the city this morning.
w. E. Upton was in wolsey yes
terday On legal business.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-06-24

Roy Hitchcock, who has been at
the home of his parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
W.. A. Hitchcock, for the past week,
returned last evening to his home at
Cody, Neb..
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-06-24

We never advise glasses except
Ehep necessary. Fritz.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07
NOW Is THE TINE TO BUILD.
Men Looking for Work and Manu-
facturers Seeking Customers.

In the business world nothing is more
certain than that periods of depression
will be followed by periods of activity
and advancing prices.
We have for some time been passing
through a period of depression. in which
prices for nearly all manufactured prod
ucts have been extremely low. Building
work can be done to greater advantage
at the present time and at much less cost
that will be possible when the next burst
of activity comes. At present men are
seeking work. Manufacturers OF lumber,
bricks. cement, iron and steel, and other
building materials are hunting for GUS
toners, and hunting hard TO find them.
But the time will come when work will
be hunting for the workers and when
buyers of building materials will be hunt
ing the manufacturers, and often paying
bonus or premium to get what they
wish.
Construction work done in these periods
of activity at high prices is costly, ana
often done in such a rush way as not to
produce the best results. Construction
work could now be done to great advan-
tage and at low cost. There are thou
sands OF people throughout the country
who intend to build dwellings or business
houses and who are abundantly able to
finance construction work without en-
barrassment, but they are holding off
merely on some psychological reason
that they will wait for better times. The
waiting may cost them money and many
Inconvenience. Far better would II Do
for men who intend to build, and who can
do so, to do so now. and thus during this
period of depression get the benefit Of
low prices of lumber and materials, ana
at the same time help to improve the
whole business situation by employing la
Dor and buving materials
Every contract let helps to brighten
the business situation. Every contract
withheld out OF fear or lack of decision
helps to becloVd the business outlook and
retard the coming of the sunshine. Build,
and build now, should be the rule adopted
by everybody who expects to build in the
future and who can build now.-Manu-
facturerersI Record.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07
A Golden Opportunity.

For some years-snce the time of the civil war
at least-there has been a strong popular impress
sion that American diplomacy is a bit archaic
Every and again something occurs to
strengthen that belief. The recent delay and cir
cumlocuton in making public the full text of the
American note to the British government on the
subject OF unnecessary meddling with cargoes ship
ped from ports revived the suspicion that the
traditions of State Department arc hardly
abreast of modern business methods.
Nothing could have been more courteous and
temperate in its language than the note in question
No fair-minded person would find it easy to pick
a real flaw in it. The only harm which could have
come from it made possible by the disquieting
effort OF the State Department to enveop the bust
ness in official secrecy. 1t gave the cver-ready
chauvinists an opportunity to exploit the bird of
freedom, and that unwise it was un-
necessary. In short, what might have resulted in
a serious misunderstanding was risked because our
antediuvian diplomatic methods were followed
blindly.
1t is not enough to urge that diplomacy in other
nations has not assumed a straightforward
and businesslike form. At this very moment, in
common with most of the civilized nations of the
world, this country is victim of the old school Of
diplomacy with all its mystery and nsincerty The
time is at hand when we are expected to take the
initiative Why not begin by putting an end to this
and destructive thing-diplomacy in
the dark?
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07
Bismarck on Russian.

Although Bismarck knew Russian well,
he declined TO take any notice of dis
patches addressed to the German foreign
office in that language. My predeces-
sor," he once related. wrote to all the
diplomatists in German, and they replied
each in his own language-Russian, Span
ish, Swedish and what not. 1 decided
that all communications received in Ian
Guages other than German, French, Eng
llsh and Italian should be left unnoticed.
Budberg, the Russian Ambassador in
Berlin. wrote me screed after screed al
ways in Russian. No answer was re-
turned, and at last he came to ask the
reason for my silence. There is a great
pile of documents in Russian downstairs >
I told him; yours are probably among
them. We have no one who understands
Russian, and 1 have given instructions
for all documents written in a language
we do not understand to be put away in
the archives 1t was then arranged that
Budberg should write to US in French.
London Chronicle.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07
Word Of Cheer from J. Hampton Moore.

| Representative ]. Hampton Moore, of Pennsyl-
vania, in address the other night apty described
Washington as the political experiment station
of the nation" and the breeding spot for legis-
latve nostrums created in the brains of gentlemen
whose ideas do not always conform to the Consti-
tuition" Ampfyng his description Mr.. Moore
said: 81 am one who for the last three years has
sat in Congress in utter amazement. A gentle
man comes in from Iowa, after large experience
on the farm and assumes that everything is wrong
in the District of Columbia. A gentleman comes
in from Oklahoma and says. I'll say things about
'em that will make the folks down home think
am some pumpkins" }"
| The people of this city have long realized their
position in this respect. They know how proudly
the manufacturers of Legislative noStrums return to
their home districts and relate how they have had
bills passed that have saved averted or exter-
minated something other in the Nations Capt.
tai, through these boastful statesmen would never
dare attempt saving exterminating anything at
home by a similar process. But the people of
Washington can't help themselves; they can only
heed Representative Moore's advice to be patient
until an aroused public sentiment sends the ex-
perimenters into retirement. That, however, is a
task in which the people who live here per-
mitted part, and their patience has been tried
to the limit in the past three years Meantime they
are duly grateful when like J. Hampton
Moore occasionally speaks up for them.
The Representative from Pennsylvania made
one suggestion, however that is worthy of con-
sderation at the District Building. He declared
that Congress devotes too much time to minor
District affairs which could be better handled by
the Commissioners. He might have gone further
and suggested that those officials larger
part in the lawmaking 1t is true that the duties
of the Commissioners are circumscribed by law and
it is also undoubtedly true that in recent years
their advice and opinion legislation affecting
the District have carried little weight in the House
District Committee, where most of the laws shap-
ing the destinies of the Capital originate Prob
ably too the Commissioners in the last three years
have been consulted less frequently than in any
mcnt established.
Yet in spite OF all this it would seem possible
for our Commissioners, with full regard for the
law and with all the Difference due the lawmakers
to take more aggressive part in the shaping of
District legislation. Surely there could be no I'M
propriety in their making vigorous protest when
legislation threatens the District or in
as vigorously urging laws necessary to its welfare
The District might thus be spared some of the |
fOrCIble feeding of nostrums. At least the Com
missioners would have earned the credit and the !
satisfaction of having done their full duty toward
the people whose sole representatives they are
The taxpayers, too, would be enabled to await
tive Moore promises them is coming.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07
Water. Water. Everywhere. :

California representative spent the
chill hours of day-after Christmas try
ing to find out whether the War, Navy
or State Department will manage tho
ships that convey the Congressional party
to the San francisco Exposition. II the
Navy Department does Il. Secretary Dan
ieIs' dry order Wilt make it "a funeral
trip" and II am quite certain that most
members will prefer to go overland.
Sad thoughts are to be awakened
whichever way the statesmen go. II
they leave an almost dry Washington by
Uncle Josephus' virtuous vessels, they
must gaze gloomily down the Atlantic
upon water, water everywhere, and not
p drop OF anything else to drink. At
Panama is no rest for the thirsty: Col
Goethals. prohibited by Congress from
opening canteens is in Washington COM
planning that his men go to Panama or
much" At the end Of the equally arid
Pacific leagues they will come to state
still well irrigated but shaken by sad
dening conflict between wine-prOducers
and prohibitionists-
As for the overland route. some OF the
Golden Gate mans Middle Western COL
leagues can whisper. with parched lips,
Of whole states passed through where
local law compels the dusky "pohtah' TO
lock the buffet as tight as the tightest
drum. And these States are longest
East and West, Fewer miles may In
cline Congress to the land route; but II
is literally Hobsons choice. From dry,
dry way to San Francisco there Is no
escape.-New York World.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07
Matrimony and Teaching.

Editor of The Washington Herald:
Upon the subject OF married women
being dropped as teachers. the presi-
dent of the board of education is re-
ported to have said that the point at
issue. in Washington, is not whether a
married woman should be allowed to
teach. but it is whether a woman under
marital cares and responsibilities can
give proper attention to her school.
Inevitably the subject is generic in
scope. not individual for if the board
of education admits the contention that
a woman may continue to teach after
marriage as a matter of right. the rul-
ing becomes a precedent. so that it is
of practical moment to consider what
would be the result of abrogating the
rule that controls the present policy
In spite OF the obligations or cares
that the incident, ordinarily, to the mar
ried state. now an dthen 1t may be that
a matron is untrammeled to an extent
to allow her to be upon a plane of
efficiency as a teacher with unmarried
women, but If the rule that controls the
existing policy is to be abrogated, not
only will the exceptional matrons thus
circumstanced be entitled to urge their
competency to teach: all will be en-
titled to urge their competency to teach
regardless of home ties.
Ihe proportion OF teachers who will
wish to hold on to salaries after mar
riage would likely prove a source of
embarrassment to the school authori-
ties. The innovation would be Calcu-
lated to promote an undue tendency to
superannuation in the corps of teach
ers. which under the present policy is
at the minimum because of the annual
influx of normal school graduates.
At present, normal school graduates
are appointed to the lower grades and
these young ladies are probably more
capable in the way of imparting infor-
nation to very young children than the
more mature teacher.
Would not this replenishing OF the
corps of teachers through the appoint
ment of young ladies especially trained
to teach the lower grades surely fail if
there should be a dearth of appoint
ments from the graduating classes of
the normal school. and shall this
crowning product of the schools be
crippled through inConsiderate change
in school policy?
Is it not of more Importance to have
a number of competent young women
appointed annually from the normal
school graduates and thus keep up the
vitality of the schools and encourage
normal school training, than it is to
have teachers retained after marriage
for personal or selfish ends?
This is question of eXpediency; not
OF sentiment. CONSERVATIVE.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07
The Subway's New Lesson.

The great city of New York was stabbed in its
vitals yesterday. Today it will be convalescent
and tomorrow, the next day at latest, the blow
which Prostrated it will be an incident forgotten
by all but few; but among these few will be
the gcniuses responsible for the safety and eff
cheney of that marvellous artery OF transportation,
the subway. powerful electric current, suddenly
short circuted stopped trains filled the long tun-
nels with dense fumes from burning insulation,
caused panic among several hundred passengers,
resulting in the death of one woman. The actual
damage to the system was small; the loss from
interrupted traffic will be large. But that short
circuit made stocks decline and halted business
in what today is the worlds greatest metropolis
and in the great city of Brooklyn, across the river
In small ways much of the surrounding country
felt the shock caused by the short circuit.
In itself the accident was trivial; in effect it
was terrific scarcely equalled by the havoc wrought
by the great billiards. recorded in history in large
type. One thing it does is to revive public realiza-
ton of what a wonderful thing the New York sub
way is. Year in, year out days without number,
hundreds of trains carrying hundreds of thousands
of hurrying human beings, rush through those
miles of tube beneath the earth's surface with the
precision of watch works, scarcely ever hitch,
almost never an accident and never one so serious
yesterdays What marvellous triumph
it has been for mans genius, though not yet per-
feet. What happened yesterday will serve to bring
II nearer perfection. -...
There is no known way of preventing such an
occurrence" announced an engineer of the system
after investigation. No. but a way will be found
If not next week, next month, or next year. Yes
terday's short circuit taught genius new lesson
set it new task
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07
HISTORY BUILDERS.
How the Civil War Might Have Been
Prevented.
Il u

In the summer of 1877, spent an hour
or two with Cyrus W. Field in the library
Of his home, in Grammercy Park, New
York City. Mr.. Field had just returned
from a trip to Europe which, he said.
was of great consequence to certain busi-
ness interests. He told me smilingly
that not since his visits to England for
the purpose of restoring the Atlantic
cable had he had business OF such con-
sequence as that which he had just
transacted in London, although it had
nothing to do with the cable.
asked Mr.. Field il there was in the
United States as general and great a
demonstration when he was able to an
nounce that he had relaid the Atlantic
cable in 1866, as was the case when the
first cable, seven years earlier, was laid.
No, l think not was Mr.. Field s
reply. "When Queen Victoria sent her
historic message to President Buchanan,
Immediately after the cable was laid,
of course, the country was tremendously
excited, for this was a new thing. called
by many the ninth wonder of the world. :
You know that the cable stopped
working after a few messages had pass
ed through 1t, and a good many persons,
some OF them men of science. said that
this was exactly what they had pre-
dicted. l and my associates, Peter Coop
err Marshall o. Roberts and two or three
others. did not lose faith in the cable.
Something had gone wrong and we found
out afterward what that something was
But the outbreak Of the civil war COM
PEELED US to suspend the plans which
we had worked out for relaying the cable
after 1t had been repaired.
THE first thing we did after the war
In1 HnFaC 10 nit nrrP n -
rangements for putting the Atlantic
cable in working order. You know. we
consulted with Sir William Thompson.
who was afterwards known as Lord
Kelvin. He assured us that there was
nothing the matter with the cable, but
that the trouble was an insufficient means
of communicating through it. We en-
ployed him to devise a new method. He
did II. and then the Atlantic cable work
ed perfectly. OF course. the excitement
of the war was the chief topic of pub
lie interest at that time. Therefore the
public did not pay much attention to
our triumph, but / sometimes think that
the most ratifying OF all acknowledg-
ments ] received was one which came
from William II. Seward. who was then
Secretary of State. Mr.. Seward con-
graduated me heartily upon the tri-
umphant achievement of Sir William
Thompson and of myself and my asso-
ciates Then he told me this eNtraordi-
nary thing: He said that If the Atlantic
cable had been in working order at the
beginning of the civil war England ana
france would not have misunderstood
the situation and would not have given
their moral support to the Confederate
The Atlantic cable, 1t was
said. would very likely have prevented
war. and certainly 1t would have brought
the war to an early conclusion
Tomorrow DR.. Edwards will tell Ho"
Daniel Webster Changed His style.
Copyright, 1915. by =. J. Edwards. All nights re-
served.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07
The Prisoners of War.

According to the claims of the various belliger-
ents the military prisoners held by them exceed in
number 100000. The Germans alone claim to
hold more than 100000 captured Russians. There
is doubtless much exaggeration in the figures
given; but in placing the number at 100000 large
allowances have been made from the more highly
eolored returns-so That this total may be regard
ed as an underestimate rather than the reverse.
The total number of men who took the field in the
Franco-Prussian conflict was I,7oo,ooo-and that
was some war. The prisoners taken in this war
give some idea of its unprecedented immensity.
The number of prisoners usually constitutes about
Is per cent of the total Observation-Disclosures
Record.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07

There is something rather heroic in the present
attitude of Lord Haldane, British lord high chan
cellor, toward the tremendous international rum
pus attributed in England and elsewhere to his
old-time friend the German Kaiser. For several
years Lord Haldane has been the most popular
Englishman among the Kaiser's intimates. There
has existed strong personal attachment between
the two, and Haldane has not yet been able to ex.
change his former admiration for the German war
lord for the unqualified hatred demanded by the
British public. As result, the lord high chan
cellor has become the most unpopular man in the
British empire He is being attacked savageIy on
all sides and is accused openly of deception What
ever the outcome may be, there is certain to be a
good deal of sympathy for man who is probably
trying 10 be loyal to his country without betraying
his friend.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07
A Woman Prison Official
~ JOHN ID. BARRY.

A LREADY l had been told
IA that Prison Commits
sioner Davis, disturbed by the
report that being a woman, she
was likely to be too lenient in
her treatment of prisoners, had
gone to the other extreme.
But, as l heard her talk, l de-
cided that the report must be
unreliable. She was too we'll
balanced, too level-headed, to
be extreme in anything. She
knew just what she wanted to
do and she had her own
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07

And now we are informed seriously by the Paris
Temps that the Kaiser tried his very best TO pre-
cipitate hostilities in 1913. The scheme as it is
now disclosed, was awkward affair and it de-
served the absurd collapse that followed As the
tale runs big Zeppelin landed at Lunevillc.
France, April 3, 1913, and was Immediately seized
by the French authorities all the officers Of the
airship were in state of beasly intoxication and
the cabin was full of empty bottles. Inebriety was
SO dominant that there small chance for any
thing serious. All that could be done was
to ship the airmen back to Germany by rail and
forget the incident as quickly as possible Taken
at its best-cr worst, as the case may be-this be-
lated news has favor decidedly Gallo
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07

Another Progressive, in his rushing progress
around the circle has overaken the rear end OF the
Republican procession in which he was once a
marchcr. He found host Of other prodigals COM
posing the rear guard. q glad to get back
to the party of my fathers" Mcdil Mccormick told
the Republican caucus OF the Illinois legislature
Whercupon the Republicans cheered. realizing that
the last OF the enemys commissary wagons had
been captured.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07
Not So scarce.

See here. Charley. don't like that
young fellow who comes here so much"
whats wrong with him, daddy?''
I'm told he doesn't pay his debts"
That's a very coarse way Of putting II,
daddy. Reginald has merely declared q
moratorium. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07

Senator Owen complains that a nationwide
campaign is being waged against the initiative,
referendum and recall, and resents the fact that
fifteen persons, including former President Taft,
have made speeches against these principles, many
OF the speeches having been printed in the Con-
gressional Record. The facts cited by the Senator
will cause some other believers in the heaven born
trio to pause and consider whether they are really
such blessings after all.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07

President Hibben, OF Princeton, has no tolcra-
ton for militarism as it is made in Germany" but
he has evolved substitute which ought to be ac-
cePtable even t" such thorOughgoing pacihst as
Mr.. Carnegie. Military training for college men
is the Princeton idea of preparedness. Substitute
military training ior calculus in your curriculum
doctor, and the undergraduate body will rise in its
majesty and call you "aI right" Anything to pro-
mote national security even the conversion OF our
educational institutions into modified West Points
The Washington herald., 1915-01-07
Advantages.

'I tell you, sir, the great benefit of
a college education lies In the friends you
make"
That's 50. No matter how old you
are, IL you have been through college you
can always find some one to play poker
or bet on the races or go on a spree
with Life.