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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-20
MYSTERY OF SUICIDE
INSCRUTABLE THINGS DIS.
CLOSED BY THE STATS
TICS FOR 1918.

New York World: Statistics of
suicide in 100 cities of the United
States in 1915. compiled by the Spec
tator. an insurance publication. are
encouraging as showing that the
ratio of self murder has now reached
a virtually stationary condition. The
rate for the year was 20.3 per 100.-
900 of population, and compares with
a rate of 30 for the preceding five
year period and with a rate of 20.7
for 1914.
The tabulation of the figures by To-
calities and by months and seasons
accentuates the mystery of suicide,
as respects the discovery of any law
governing il. Why is June the ia
vorite month for suicides and Janu-
airy a month of fewest cases? Why
were there more suicides in the west,
Gods country" than in the east;
and why is the rate highest of all in
three cities of California-San Fran
cisco, Sacramento and San Diego?
The rate of 63.3 i'm the last named
city was not only three times as great
as the general rate, but contrasts
euriously with a rate of "a for Au-
burn, N. Y; a rate of 90 for Tren-
ton, N. j.: a rate of 4 for Augusta,
Ga, and a rate of 81 for Holyoke,
Mass. Why should the rate for tur-
bulent Bayonne be only SO and the
rate for the Boston suburb of Chel-
sea be 1926?
These are among the inscrutable
things The lower rate of suicide i'm
cities of less than 100000 population
perhaps has a bearing on the more
strenuous conditions of metropolitan
life. Yet why is the rate for Atlantic
City. a pleasure city. double that for
Manhattan? The male suicide rate
of 24.1 contrasts with the female
rate of only IL. Most men kill
themselves between the ages of As
and 54. most women between % and
"a. What is the relation? Why is
old age, with the best part of life
gone, less prone to suicide than mid
die age? What is there i'm conditions
of life to explain the fact that the
suicide rate is lowest and about equal
in the eastern and southern states,
where it is 1874 and 17.9, respective
ly, and highest in the Pacific coast
states, where it is 34.3?
1t is satisfying to learn that suicide
grows nj worse. But as respects any
light on its general causes and the
conditions conducting to it. the more
it is studied the more battling ii be-
comes.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-20

We have a suspicion that this young
lady in the picture knew right where
she'd find that mistletoe; perhaps she
put it there herself.
At any rate, the picture is brim full
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-20
MOTHERS TROUBLES
Attempted to Secure Custody of HeI
Child.

Elkton. Dec. 20.-Hiring an auto
mobile. Mrs. McKennan, a resident of
Elkton, proceeded to Brookings and
forcibly attempted to secure custody
of her child. which had been left in
charge Of members of the family of
NJ. Davis. When they refused to sur
render the child. it was necessary to
call a deputy sheriff tc the scene.
The woman was in a highly excited
condition and the officer took her in
to custody. Upon the advice of ply
sicians. Mrs. McKennan was placed
in a hospital as 1t was feared she was
about to lose her mind. The Nc
Kennans are young married people
and located in Brookings county last
summer, coming from Iroquois.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-20
Co~vt4..' II

Every man likes a fine scarf
An ideal Christmas gift
The practice of making Christmas gifts of neckwear increases
year by year; there's a reason ior this.
The scarf is the one bit of color that a man may wear and he.
likes to indulge his fancy he wants plenty of variety.
But IN giving neckwear, you must be sure it is in good taste
and of fine quality.
Our selection OF silks this season outdoes any of our past efforts.
You may purchase a scarf al. this mans store at moderate
prices, as well as the most expensive.
Gloves Que to $O Underwear, SOC to S. Sweaters So to $3.50
Hosiery, Ac to S25 Suspenders, SOC to SlO Travelling Bags SIS up
Shirts 81 to $3.50 Belts, SOC to 81 Leather Suit Cases. Sc up
Neckwear, SOC to $3.50 Cuff Links, SOC to So Hats $3.50 up
Handkerchief, 25c up Scarf Pins, SOC to So Caps, SOC up
Pajamas, 81 to SO Bath Robes, $3.50 tt $40 Smoking Jackets SIS p
Refers 81 to $3.50
Hart Schaffner s., Marx Clothes
Varsity Fifty Five Suits, $40 and up; Dress Clothes Tuxedos, Cutawavs.
Varsity Six Hundred Overcoats Fur lined Overcoats Fur Collar Overcoas
Hackett & Sutton
The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-20

There is one remedy hat for many
years has given relief from coughs.
colds. Group and whooping cough. Mrs.
Chas. Reitz. Allen Mills. Pa, writes:
Il have used Foley's Honey and Tar
for the past eleven years and | would
not be without it," 1t promptly relieves
h~oarseness. tickling throat and wheezy
breathing. Sold everywhere.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-20

Five hundred per cen or more Oh
an investment Is Z good thing. Little
want ads In The Daily Leader will
hiring there results.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-20
THE REXAII STORE-THE GIFT
CENTER.

We have a. exceptionally fine line
of French ivory. Prices and quality
that appeals to all.-Frank c. Smith.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-20

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-20

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-26
ELECTRIC FACT AND FANCY

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The radioactive mind of Charles p.
Stinemetz does not lead him into ro-
mantle excursions dealing in a Flam-
marion or a Tesla vein with the future
of electricity. He sees ahead of the pres
ent development of lighting systems and
power plants an evolution sufficiently
wonderful without startling Innovation.
Here, for instance, is lamp which will
give light by power made as it is held in
the hand, and here is a flashight which
will facilitate the autobiography of shy
forest denizens, Many are the devices
for destroying the monopoly that night
has held in the absence of the sun. The
moving picture is to gain from improved
ways of producing and projecting the
illumination. The motorcar and the rail-
way train have much to gain from inten-
sive experiment. In the constructive era
that must come after the devils car
nival of demolition" electricity will take
a leading role. This is no time for man
to plume himself that he has ''harnessed
the lightning" He has merely begun to
apprehend the potentiality of the TWEEN
tieth century magician.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-26

blood that turned out to be human be-
ings; an overweight doctor-in-chief
screamed contradictory orders at every
body and flared into crises of hysterical
rage.
Ambulance after ambulance came from
the lines full of clients; kindly hands
pulled out the stretchers and bore them
to the Mushroom. This was in the cellar
Of dovecote, in a kind of salt-shaker
turret. Snip. snap" went the scissors
of the brancardiers, who looked aftei
the bath-good souls, these two; the uni
forms were slit from mangled limbs.
The wounded lay naked in their stretch.
ers while the attendant daubed them
with hot, soapy sponge; the blood ran
from their wounds through the stretcher
to the floor, and seeped into the cracks
of the stones. A lean, bearded man
closed his eyes over the agony of his
opened entrails and died there 1 thought
of Henner's dead Christ.
Outside. mingling with the roaring of
the river, came the great, terrible drum
ming of the bombardment. An endless
ME OF troops was passing down the great
road Night came on. Our ambulances
were in little side street at right angles
to the great road; their lamp flares beat
fiercely on little section Of the high
way. Suddenly, plunging out of the
darkness into the intense radiance OF the
acetyiene beams, came a battery Of 75s
the heimeted men leaning over ON the
horses, the guns rafting and the harness
clanking, swift picture Of movement
that plunged again into darkness. And
with the darkness the whole horizon be.
came brilliant with cannon fire
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-26
SONGS CURE BASHFULNESS

Karleton Hackett in the Chicago Post.
ORHIs community singing is a new
thing, and the people do not quite
know how to take it, and, like all
timorous folk, they are deathly afraid
that there may be some nsidious moral
purpose back of 1t all, some sort of spir-
itual incubation which may be mysteri-
ously shot into them while they are not
watching. You cannot altogether blame
the people if they distrust the intentions
of those who seemingly are offering some
thing for nothing, since experience has
taught them that usually there is hidden
influence back of it, some propaganda
which will appear in good time and make
them mad way down to their toes to
think how they had been fooled. That
they are to be permitted to sing the
things they wish to sing just for the fun
of it seems quite too good to be true.
There are lots of people who love to
make joyful noise with their voices up
raised in choral mass but they violently
object to the idea of being used as some
sort of experiment clinic in which high
brow experts seek to demonstrate some
pet theory.
However, as they watched Mr.. Kelyl,
conductor of the Civic Music association
concerts, on Chicago's municipal pier,
they gradually came to the conclusion
that it was all open and above board.
He did not appear to have anything con-
cealed up his sleeve, but to be doing just
what he said he was doing, trying to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-26
Interest in Football

II am very much interested in the APP
preaching gridiron season. said Ted N.
Cottrell, manager of Withingtons phar-
macy. II read the schedules of the
various southern teams in The Age-Her-
aid recently, and l found that Birming-
ham fans will have an opportunity of
witnessing some excellent battles.
THE game in which 7 am most In
terested is the vanderbilt-Auburn con-
test. Naturally I want the Plainsmen
to win, but from the advance matter
from the training camps of the two
schools, it seems that Vandy will have
powerful machine. I was talking to a
Nashville visitor recently, and he in
formed me that over 100 candidates are
out for the Vandy team. He also told
me that the athletic authorities will keep
Curry, the star quarter and captain, out
of the two games preceding the Auburn
game so he will be in first-class shape
for the gridiron classic of the year.
Il have great faith In Mike Donahoe
as a coach at Auburn and firmly be-
leve that he will develop a team which
will compare favorably with Vandy al
though indications are at the present
that the Plainsmen will not have such
a successful season. Donahoe, according
to my opinion. is the best coach in the
south, and will go to some big northern
college when his present contract ex-
pires, four years hence"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-26
LUKE MLUKE SAYS
Copyright, 1916 by the Cincinnati E


quirer).
The burlesque shows are not as we'll at
tended as they used to be. There's a
reason. man doesn't have to go to a
theatre to see legs. He can stand on the
street
Married couples waste a lot of time.
They will sit down to talk over a matter
and after wrangling for an hour will al
ways do what she wanted to do before
they started the argument
II you want to know something that
some other man knows, never ask him
about it. Just let him talk while you do
the listening and he'll be sure to spill
what you want to find out.
The trouble with the man who rides
hobby is that he takes up the whore
road with it.
There are closed seasons for other
things. But the season for mooching
matches is always open.
We can always find time for pleasure
but a lot of our duties are neglected for
want of time.
Some OF our best people who would be
Mortified at the very idea of trial mar
rage will marry three different women
in three years and go around hunting Tor
fourth, and that is all right.
The reason why girl doesn't mind
getting married to a strange man is be-
cause she simply can't get used to living
in the same house with stepfather.
The census bureau claims that there
are only 10000 idiots in this country
The census bureau is crazy. Why, any
man can tell you that he meets that
many idiots every day.
Why is it that fat mans food seems
to make him fatter and that thin man s
food seems to make him thinner?
Some people are worried because of the
growing scarcity of beef. But as long
as the crop of goats holds out we will
always have plenty of lamb and mutton
You can't please them. When father
stays out two nights in succession
n ether bawls him out because he doesn't
stay at home like other men. And if
father yawns around the house for three
nights in succession mother bawls him
out because he sticks around the house
all the time and doesn't go out once in
awhile like other men.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-26

give them a chance to have some fun
singing good old sings that most of them
knew. So more and more of them came
in and moved close to the center. Then
they let out their voices a little louder as
soon as they realized that those about
them were doing the same thing, looking
a bit sheepish as they glanced around
them, yet after all compelled to admit
that it was good fun.
Mr.. Kelly actually succeeded in getting
a considerable number of the men to-
come and stand right around him and
sing a serenade to the ladies. What dol
you think of that? They sang Good
Night, Ladies' and How Can I Bear to)
Leave Thee" and repeated the secondI
verse pianissimo. After couple of trials
they made a very good fist at it., withs
several big fellows that growled out ant
impressive bass and some tenors who-
improvised real barber shop chords.s
Then the ladies applauded vociferouslyl
land the men grinned just as they useor
to years ago when they had done theirt
stunt at school exhibition. But through
it all you could feel the satisfaction that
comes from getting into the game ands
doing something for yourself instead off
being everlastngly out on the bleacherS
to talk to one another as though theyA
really were parts of great community
and not merely mutually antagonistiq
atoms with none but disagrfeeable rela1
tons with one another.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-26
HOTEL LOBBIES
"stick To 1t. Pm caudIe.n

A married member of The Age-Her-
aid staff turned in this note intended
for Pa Caudle (Mr r. F. Lackey) last
night
1T was very refreshing, Pa Caudle,'
to note in Sundays Age-Herald that
you got your nerve up to the stick
ing point and answered Mrs. Caudle.
Strange as it may seem, you got word
in eogewayF, for Mrs Caudle is the
original talking beel and in order to
right your wrongs you certainly took
your life in your hands for one brier
moment, but let US hope with good ef-
feet.
There are two sides to every ques-
ton and if men could only talk like
women they would stand some show.
but when Mrs Caudle turns her con-
cealed weapon (Which is her tongue, as
we all know no wonder the worm
turned and asserted itself.
eve are glad to have you take up
the cudgels, IA Caudle,' in behalf OF
poor downtrodden men and we hope
you'll give Mrs. Caudle as good as she
sends.
you will undoubtedly get vote OF
thanks from the rest of the Pa Cau-
dies IL the women had the vote 1
wouldn't oe so sure of you carrying
your home town.
Anyway, continue to stick up for
your rights. PA Caud1e.' 1 don't be-
lieve. Mrs. Caudle can down you"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-26

From Cartoons Magazine. ;,
Once we knew it as mo Mans Lana,
hut now we call it THE Garden OF sleep.
Winter gave it the first name and sum-
mer the latter, and each in its season
was true and appropriate.
A novice in war. saw 1T first on
winters day; one of those dread No
yember afternoons that seem now almost
like a bad dream, a gray lowering sky
a damp, penetrating cold. never ending
drizzle, and everywhere mud,
mud, mud.
Mud! Even the very word looks ugly
i'm print. and, oh God, how we hated the
very sound of it! Was there, we Won
dered. anything left in the world but
mud? Was the world being overwhelmed
by an onflowing tide of mud? Had we
ever known an existence free from it?
Mad questions, perhaps, but there were
times when men of strong brains asked
themselves such things in all serious
ness We lived like rats in mud. and
rats alone lived with us. All other de-
cent animals would have scorned an ex-
istence under such conditions. and it
was left for the highest and the lowest
of the animal race. to dwell together.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-26
THE LIGHTNING ROD REVIVAL

FROM the Youngstown Telegram.
Travelling through the country now
adays one Is struck with the reappear-
ance of the familiar old lightning rod
on the great, well kept barns. Their
shiny brightness testifies to the fact that
they are new and not mere relics of the
lightning rod days of quarter of CEN
fury ago. Their recrudescence must be
taken as a proof that the farmer has
found them actually beneficial agency
In other years he succumbed to the glib
conversation of a flashily dressed agent,
but the farmer of today is brought TOD
much into contract with urban life to fall
a victim to mere fluency of tongue. 1t is
a noticeable fact that the swindler de.
votes his energies largely to the cities
in these days. The urban dweller is far
more gullible than his country cousin
1t is still profitable to engage in the an
cient ayocation of palming off tin boxes
filled with waste paper, but a city Glen
tele pays best The ruralist is too sophs-
ticated.
So the lightning rod is probably com.
ing back because it is really useful. Per-
haps it never should have gone out of
fashion. Perhaps it suffered, like many
human being, through its associations
rather than through any actual dement's
of its own.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-26
INVENTION OF MATCHES

From the New York Morning Telegraph.
To the ordinary man matches are quite
inconsiderable, since he thinks of them
by the box, so often obtained for nothing
or next to it. But it was less than a
century ago that one John Walker, an
apothecary of Stockton-on-Tees found
the release of the smoker from the finder
box or the live Goals in the CRATE.
1t was an accidental splling of a solu-
ton that took fire which gave the hint,
and not long afterward, in 1927 he placed
on the market his boxes of matches-luci-
SO EACH at one shilling.
They lighted on sandpaper. But he neg
lected to patent his invention and the
reading schoolma ster, Isaac Holden, who
little later on hit on the same idea
made the same mistake. 1t was not long
before the box of matches fell to a
penny, finally to be given away to the
purchaser of tobacco.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-26
A NEW FRENCH LINER

From the Providence Journal
The launching of the Paris, the largest
steamship ever built in a French yard,
indicates that preparation is active in
that country for the maritime competi-
ton that will be revived afer the war.
Indeed the French merchant marine has
actually been growing instead of dimin-
ishing, with the war on according to a
report of the representative Campagnie
Generate Transaltlantique. 1t has suf-
fered much less than the British mercan-
tile fleet though the latter, too, has held
its own, with new tonnage replacing that
destroyed by the submarine warfare. So
far as public information goes, however,
the Lusitania.
The new Paris is not a giant compar-
able to the last of the British and Ger
man liners put into service in the years
Immediately preceding the war She is
of only moderate size, indeed, by the
standard developed in the competition
between Germany and Great Britain-639
feet long, $1,000 tons displacement, and
45, 900 horsepower, with a passenger carry
the lamented Lusitania or her surviving
sister, the Mauretania.
Two of the latest colossus type of ships
must now be about completed-the Bis
marck at Hamburg, and the Britanic at
Belfast; the former one of celebrated
trio more than 800 feet long and between
$4,000 and $1,000 tons displacement. The
Imperator first of these huge Hamburg
American liners, was at home when the
war broke out But the second, the
Vaterland, after her maiden voyage to
New York, was forced to seek refuge, and
has been at the Hoboken dock ever
since.
What new shipbuilding Germany is do
ing has not been reported. But the
French and British will evidently be in
shape to meet her on the sea, after the
war, with new merchantile tonnage to
overcome the advantage she now has
in preserving her fleet-though she can
not use it-in her protected harbors or in
neutral ports where shelter has been
found from the enemy commerce chasers.