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The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1916-08-18
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More ducks, and more ducks. "Get
a duck, there's a, duck for you and a
duck for me. Take 'Katchke" home
for the Shabbes A Katchke, a duck,
a fat Katchke, a sweet Katchke, a
young KatchlSe, juicy Katchke!'
And SO on, and on ad imfnitum
We jostled along to hear about the
wonders of the Spanish Circus her
aided by Byronic youth who talked
through one side of his mouth and
then the other, alternately, and passed
on to the Alabama Crepe performers;
but above the din and rattle we
heard
"Katchkes, don't go home without
a Katchke. Take a chance on al
Katchke, Columbus took a chance, Oh
such a duck. My best friend should
have no worse"
A group of high school girls ran
past us merrily.
"Katchkes to the right of them,
Katchkes to the left of them.
Katchkes in front of them
Cackled and quackled,"
detained an embryonic Julia Mar
love-
"How do you like this, girls? in
terrupted another budding impress
sario,
"The ducks were here.
The ducks were there,
The ducks were everywhere"
Light occupations, girls, picking
feathers at duck carnival" .@
Goodnight, I shall dream Katch7
kes tonight"
With sigh of relief and part re-
greet we left the merry scene and the
last words that trailed on the waves
of sound we're
"Take chance, own a duck; Col
un1bus took :"
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1916-08-18

IDYLS OF OUR GASS
By Jeanette Frisch.

We turned to the baby doll stand.
What a sight for doll hungry miss
An orphan asylum of babies wanting
to be adopted. The children hoped
about nervously, apprehensively, their
eyes glued to that fatal mysterious
wheel. Now he starts it off.
Number liz is the lucky one this
time. liz will please step forward"
Oh the transports of joy for the
family Of number 112! How like
a conquering hero, he magnanimously
hands the spoils Of the victor to his
exultant little daughter. His wife Wis
IDLY expands with pride and his friends
pat him on the shoulder.
whats the use of brains if you
have luck, hey Jake -
We leave the "baby' stand and are
assaulted with cries of "Ducks, ducks,
take home a couple of ducks. Roast
'em, fry 'em, stew 'en, come ye one
and all. A duck for the trying"
Say, Dora, this is regular poultry
show, ducks and chickens in pens,
chickens and geese walking on foot"
said pop-eyed little man to his
spouse.
1T fails not horses, mules and DON
keys, SAM" modestly rejoined his
spouse.
We turned to the right. Ducks and
chickens in boxes encircling some
MISUNDERSTANDING barrels confronted
u.s.
'Wachur game, kid? ?" demanded an
athletic young person in palm beach
trousers.
"Shoot the balls in them barrels and
you get a duck. It's easy. Three
chances for a dime. Take chance,
ladies and gentlemen. Take chance
Columbus took a chance and look
what he got
But the barker of the "Strange
Girl Sadie," was vociferous1y claim
ing Our attention.
Look to your laurels, O Caruso.
For Icy interrupted that smoothly
flowing stream of a most enviable
conglomeration of adjectives with a
falsetto:
Sadie, my Sadie,
It amt no business for lady,"
The barker gave Icy glare that
was calculated to make the fercest
beast of the jungle feel as meek as
caterpillar.
"Oi such look" cried Icy.
90 my love won't you please put
down that window"
sang on the undaunted Icy. And the
h,,-1>o, &c 10 NC+,-o-,~o C...1 C,I.o,'
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30

the public highways Of the county
among the best improved in the state.
The report Of the condition of the
state treasury at the close of business
October 81 showed cash in all funds
$649,456. OF this the general fund car
ried S135,741; the game fund, $3S,113;
forest reserve fund, $15,342; twine
plant fund, $7O,476, county agricul-
tural extension fund. 1927; income
fund common school, $202, 235.
Diplomatic relations between Huron
and Aberdeen are apt to be severed as
the result of a football game between
the high school teams of the two towns
on the 18th, wnen the Huron team was
defeated by the Aberdeen team by a
score of Is to 0. A Huron spectator re-
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30

hours, four in the forenoon and four in
the afternoon, the winner to take the
purse and the other to receive 5 cents
the bushel for all the corn husked by
both. One husked las bushels and the
other las.
Inquiries from the officers of the
State Poultry Association at Mitchell,
have shown that egg and poultry pro-
duCtion in South Dakota is Il of con
siderable extent. The last available
detail figures are those of the 1910 fed
eral census which gives the number Of
fowls in the state at 5,251, 900, value
$2,356, 000. value of eggs Sl,244, 600,
value of fowls sold $4,000. The 1916
state census gives the number of chick
ems in state at 5,567, 900, and the egg
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30

ports to the Huronite that Aberdeen
won because it had the assistance of
the umpire and the referee.
\ homesteader and his wife, resi-
dents Of the Draper territory, We're ar
rested and fined 5000 and costs for
abusing and starving a little 6-year-old
boy who was making his home with
them. The case is an unusually dis
trcssing one, and for gear of arousing
the residents of the surrounding region
to a dangerous state of indignation the
names of the rancher and his wife
have been withheld by the authorities.
Two healthy young farmers e
Hudson IN Lincoln county entered into
q friendly corn-husking contest for a
purse of $50. The stunt vas for eight
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30

charged with the murder of an An
dover policeman last summer.
A marble statue concentrating the
days Of the Yankton stockade when In
dams menaced the peace of Dakota ter
ritorial residents is to be erected in the
Iankton county court house lawn. The
monument is a present to the COM
munity from the Daniel Newcombe
chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri-
car Revolution.
The engine and grader purchased for
road Improvement throughout Hand
county have been placed in winter
quarters. Much road building was
done during the season just closed,
and the good work will be continued
next spring, the purpose being to make
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30

production for the year previous at 80
27S,000 dozen.
At a special referendum election
held in Centerville the voters approx
ed an ordinance which places a license
Of $3.50 per year upon a motion picture
theater, and a similar amount on a
local dance hall. Promptly following
the nnouncement that the license fee
had been approved by the voters the
manager of the motion picture house
raised the price of admission for adults
to Is cents.
A new well is being sunk back of the
hotel at Astoria. 1t is reported that
this move has been caused by the
state going dry and people over there
believe in preparedness.
Away back in 1869 and 1870, -four
young fellows homesteaded section 8
in Garfield township, Clay county, and
the Beresford Republic notes that the
same four young fellows, a little older
in years, but as youthful as ever in
spirit, are still living on the same
homesteads on which they located
forty-siX or fOrty-seyen years ago, and
their families. Their names are Dan
iel Messler, Eric Messler, A. p. Carl
son and Claus Frick.
The Huron Huronite deplores the
fact that the voters of Bcadle county
at the last election, defeated proposals
to sink artesian wells in Lake Byron
and Lake Cavour, 1t says the cost Of
the wells would not be to exceed $780,
600, or $4,000 for each well, and insists
that is a small price to pay for furnish
ing the county with two ideal fishing
resorts. The Huronite goes further
and suggests that if every one of the
1896 voters who expressed themselves
in favor of the proposals would con-
tribute his share toward having the
wells sunk, it would cost each individ-
ual but $500.
Over twelve thousand dollars of in
heritance tax will come to the state
treasury through the recent work Of
Tax Commissioner Preston, who has
that phase of taxation in his charge.
This will cOme from the estates of
Nils Hanson and John II. Campbell.
l., Al, loco, .atnt. III 4ar l.. 90
058.38 on an estate valued at ove
$46,0 00. In the Campbell estate, the
value of the property was fixed at
$476 ,262.51, and the tax amounts to
$1l,362. SO. Mr.. Campbell died at For
eston, Illinois, September LIST. His
South Dakota real estate was valued at
1886, 600 and the balance was in mon
eys and credits.
At a meeting held In the Lyric thea
ter at Madison, members of the Civic
and Child Welfare league took steps to
wage an active warfare against the
deadly cigaret. Charges were made
that dealers are selling cigarets to chill
dren as young as 10 years OF age, con-
trary to law, requiring only a state
ment from the child that he was buy
ing the coffin nails" for his father. 1t
is claimed many Madison boys of ten
der years repair to barns and other
sequestcred spots, on their way home
from school, to smoke cigarets. Deal
ers will be prosecuted by the league
whenever evidence can be secured.
The league also look up the subject of
providing skating ponds for the chill
dren during the winter.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30
STATE NEWS

The state treasurer has issued a call
for about $4,000 of general fund war
rants, for November 2S, to register
number 164.
Madison dealers say folks in that
town keep on buying about the same
things they used to, three or four years
ago., despite the elevation in prices.
The local commercial club has ap,
pointed a committee to make the nee
essary arrangements for securing a
Carnegie library building for Miller.
Two men, Charles Wetmore and A.
c. McNeely, were arrested at Webster
and bound over to the district court
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30
VOLGA

From the Tribune:
Mrs. Pete Swartos, who is i'll with
rheumatism and other complications,
was taken to the hospital Tuesday
evening.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30

Mrs. NJ. II. Ulrich, of Miller, this
state, was a week end visitor at the
home of her brother, William Cor
coran. From here she went to Elan
dreau to visit other relatives.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30

Miss Inga Dahl returned Monday
from Huron where she had been taking
care of a case as special" at one of
the hospitals. Miss Della Kwekke-
boom, formerly superintendent of the
Volga hospital, is now superintendent
of the Huron hospital where Miss Dahl
acted as special"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30

Lewis Johnson is erecting a barn on
his farm just north Of this city which
is rented by his son-in-law, Fred Cam
erOn.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30

John ~Starkenburg and a couple of
young ladies had a tip-over in Johns
car recently. They were going down
a hill that was a little slippery and the
car slid around so it went off the grade
at the bottom and rolled over. Forum.
ately they all escaped with a few
bruises instead of serious injuries as
might easily have been the case.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30

The bridge north of town has been
completed and the road is again open
to travel. The new bridge is a much
needed improvement and was an alb
solute necessity as the old one had be-
come dangerous for travel.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30

Druggist Ennis has made up his
mind that he is not going to let his
next door neighbor get ahead of him
in the way of new machinery, etc, and
this week he has installed a handsome
"Butter-Kist" popcorn machine and
peanut rooster combined.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-30

Try a Popular Want.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-17
GENIUS ~ CONFINEMENT.

II is a mistaken tho common i'm
preston ays magazine writer thlt
Imprisonment behind walls or bars
necessarily has tho effect Of repress-
iul ~" spirits 90 thc Imprisoned
narrowing the mental outlook. lower
nr his intcllcctu1lity cxtnpuishine
an hls finer scnsos Uauynn and
DoI'oo are sufficient answers to that.
The finest writing Of tho middle ages
came from the cells ~ monks Some
Of the most remarkable bits of litcra-
uro the world has ever known have
been produced los pcrson. under
durosa Many modern writer's inn
prison their bodies in four blank
walls while their spirits are soaring
There is uo outside distraction To- uc-
cupy the mind. and genius holds its
sway unhampcrcd hy the calls OF lfc
around It,
Vet there be- danger that this
writer's view while correct. may bc
misunderstood II is NOT 10 bc thot
that imprisonment necessarily has
been m Incentive or AN aid Go tho
production ~ greater genius than has
freedom The mon who have done
thc world the most good hy their
Vrrurs have been mixers with the
people and betrayed a. deep sympn
tht with their emotions and their mo-
ur,s chat could only rAmc with
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-17
THE ROSE AND THE TIN CAN.

\ great many ~ our readers are
also readers of the Saturday Evening
Post, but the following is go good and
SO pertinent that, rather than anyone
should miss II. we reproduce IT here.
The other day We walked by par
ticutrrly attractive suburban resi-
dcncc. The house was good and tho
broad lawn showed both tastc and
care. Like. a pretty little girl in u
becoming Sunday dress. with her
hair curled. the premises made you
think pleasantly that somebody's ar
fection was ccntered upon 1t. II was
50 attractive that we turned into the
cross street In order To walk along
th" side OF the grounds 4 garage
stood at the corner Of the grounds.
abutting on an alley: and fairly in
the mouth of the alley. unavoidably
catching the eve Of whoever passed
down the side street, lay n heap of
Junk and offal. evidently thrown ont
from the garage and the house. The
alley itself looked as tho it might
lead TO pirsty
That is strictly typical The alley.
~ course, did not belong to the
householder and he did not care a
rap how il looked, so, with one hand
he offered the passcr-by a rose. while
with the other he hit him in the eye
with "a tin can Perhaps such negli-
gcnce is due to the pinonecr spirit,
10 which nature was just something
To bc subducd. as quickly and un-
udily ~ possible, 10 human uses But
We have the habit of blaming every
thing disagrceable on the pioneer
spirit and the Justification for it
seems pretty wcll played out
We do litter up the landscape
ahominably cities and towns should
not only have ordinances forbidding
unnecessary litter. but enforce them
Anywhere you will find city spend
ing 100000, or $1,000 600. to make
a beautiful park, and then tolorating
alh sorts Of needless ugliness Any
woman will tell you there is no use
in wearing "A fine dress along with
hat that has been fishcd out Of a gar
baEc can, for the dress simply en-
phasizcs the hat The more we spend
on parks and front yards the less
tolerable junk heaps and refuse piled
alleys become. What cities and
towns are insisting upon reasonable
sightliness
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-17

ner church had no connection with
the Mormons Of Utah and Incident
ally was loudly condcmnng the sin
Of polyRamy when asked on what
grounds she adjudgcd plural mar
ringe n sin, she referred 10 the Bible
as matter Of course. Tho writer
'hcrcupon gave her his name and
address ana requested her 10 drop
him note when she found In what
'haptcr and verse Of the Bible II was
commanded that man should have
not more than ono wifc That was
over two years ago ana she has not
found II yet II was another case Of
giving popular impression the force
II scripture authority Paul. II Is
frue, advises Christians to marry only
one wife, but neither he nor any
other inspired writer hns told us II is
sin 10 have more. Solomon got
into trouble on account OF his many
wives, but he suffered as the result of
two mistakes - first. ne violated
Jewish separntism by taking wives
from tho heather nations around him
hs political coup, and second, he
those hcathon women 20 in
flucucc him 10 be- untrue to Jehovah.
For these sins he was condemned. but
not for his number of wives. tho
doubtless had he been more reason
able in hts matrimonial ventures he
might have Jared better. But. |
II Is sinful TO marry too
much or not. this IS an instance to
7how how much people get their
ihble knowledge second hand and F..
how little they depend on their own
powers Of investigation.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-17

help 10 the aggregate Of reaching -
higher level The chief cause of pll
the failures 10 achieve better con
diton 81 municipal morals has been
the lack oi sympathy that word
gives us The key 10 the whole situa-
iiom Along with this has been a
dIctntorm attitude ON he part ~
many who esteemed themselves The
moral oousois Df the community ana
above the danger Of poccabiiitv
Amutomcuts have been condemned.
not bocnusc There was any sInfulnom
100 them or any liability 10 dcRroda-
ton. hut because certain moral wise
acres h1d get up % code that they
could mot hc mad" to ~ in The at
iitudc Of moral rolormorg has been
one Of uniappnism not to cyil per so.
hut tu those VINO were according To-
IH notion udulrng Jon or promoting
questionable things n such mon are
wrong. pg these rcformcrs assert
then the way ~ win them iH by per
s0nn suason not by making bitter
warfare upon tho men themselves
The effort of tho church influence.
and b. rnu to a great power for good
If rightly applied should be-. instead
of promoting and enforcing pur-
tnuu laws 'thc diminution OF per
souu immortality and the cultivation
Of personal purity" They should
deal with the person bon the iudi.
tdunl. rather than in the aggregate.
according 40 the example set hy the
lord whom they worship The ton
doucy ~ Impose cansnlcn views upon
ihc MASSES who know and care
nothing about church discipline. Is
unjust foolish and Ineffective We
mid ineffective. but il does have ono
effect II drives these men farther
away from our Influence and makes
1t douhly hard TO influence them for +.
good
As fur the churches lending their !
AID to SINFUL or unfortunate women. .
We oll know that they prefer 10 per f.
form this duty ut distance q safe P
distance. for fear their own skirts
viii appear to bc contaminated In the J
eyes Of the purists who would deem .
uo righteousness safe unless kept In !
cold storage Church people VIII not .
often deny that II is their duty to
reach down after these people and 7
ift them up. yet when It comes 20 .
personal work they halk and delegate .
heir work to some one who ls not .
afraid of losing the approval of men
~ long as hc has the approval Of his .
lord II is ~ no avail for the church
% condemn or suppress such amusc-
nonts ns II docs not endorse. for in go
loing il is only curtailing IT'S own in
1ucuco for good. but n mnst take
luld of those amuscmcnts and make
II them weapons for defending the
,uvs and girls from the pcrn Of evil
association Get on sympathstc
'lnnc with the people YOU want 20
ave. You can never win them hy
assumed superiority
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-17
BIBLICAL IGNORANCE.

We have often had occasion t. re-
mark that the majority of people
inko their Biblical knowledge more
from what some other person has
told them than from what they have
found uut from actual Investigation.
II ia beyond doubt that We are law
about confirming what are consid-
cred 10 be IuchalleuEcd scripture ut
'crrno's yet great many things
that arc credited 10 the Bible are not
:" hc found IN its pages al all Many
people even Ect credit for being
douhtcrs and scoffors because they
refuse Too bclicy, what other people
aver ~ gospel truth when" II the
actual truth was known they have not
~ offended they have denied the
assertion of other men. but have not
impuenod the reliability of the Bible.
When can We depend On people
taking tive word ~ the scripture itself
instead Of pinninr their faith 10 what
somebody elise believes the Bible SAYS.
whom they have not even read tho
book 90 find uu' whether II does say
So or not Many ludicrous mistakes
have been made by people who thot
they were informed on Bible topics.
hut whose information was all sec
ond- hand and colorcd Toy somebody
clscs prejudice. while great many
q Is.F IA
iions handed down from parents to
children without taking the pains to
verify them.
our attention has been called to
this pccullarity by the news item re-
latiur how certain people were ar
rested aud fined under a long for
gotten statute of Connecticut which
made it "a misdtmcanor to call into
question statements Of holy writ.
ppc Culprit was charged with having
denied the story that Adam fen be-
c'gsc hc ate ar apple and the oLe
That Jonah was swallowed hv "a
whale ON the strength OF popular
belief that these were Bible state
mouts he was found guilty and
punished We thot the old blue
uus' had am boon abolished. hui
here was one Of tho worst Of them
sU un the statute books and being
administered 10y an ignorant judge
For if m, officer who conducted the
trial had been Bihlc reader himself
ho would have known that nowhere
lu that book does II say that Adam
Ito nn apple or that q whale swat
lowed the obstinate prophet who was
afraid to go tp Niucvah Both Of
these stories are simply colloquial
tradition and have not Bible author
'fN u 's stated that Adam ate NJ "a
fruit which he had been forbidden to
take. and 1t does say that large
fish was the instrument of rrovi-
dcnco iu soaring Jonah into doing his
duty The idea that the fruit was an
applc and that the fish was a whale
are simply the coniecturcs of people
who have a passion for explaining
tho Uhlc ON the supposition that they
are making the scriptures easier to
understand Thcir work might be
commended Tor " good intentions
wcrc Il not for the tendency OF poo-
pie to forget what tho bible really
says and cling to the human explana-
tion This Connecticut case is only
one OF thousands Of instances whcro
great injustice has been done thru
trying to enforce the opinions of men
as tho they We're Bible truths.
Another instance of popular ignor-
sonal experience Of the writer A
lady belonging to the Latter Day
Saints was emphasizing the fact that
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-17
What lie Tllot,

what do you think of our place as
n whole" inquired the real estate
agent as they stood before the place
for sale
"You said it," replied the prospect,
as he looked at the back of the lot.
twenty feet lower than the front
THAT is what 1t looks like to me"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-17

There was an old girl In Seattle
who dearly loved tale-tclling tattle
A victim she met
And you can Just bet
Thoy pulled off n regular battle.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-17

Customer suppose these gold fish
should have more water during hot
weather."
Dealer Why. so, madam ?"
Customor-W Well, during the sum-
mor they would drink more of IT than
in winter, wouldn't they?
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-17
our Language Lesson.

My friend puts his
Words out of Joint
In talking of
lliS-rmbonpuint.
lie thinks we are
Bv long odds wrong
In telling him
It's om- bong pwouC.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-17
SUN GRINS
Cry II. II. HAMlLTON)


Here lies the dust
OF William Smell.
Who said he knew
There is no hell.
1t may be that
lie changed his views
Now that he has
More recent news.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-17

Elect any honest man to office and
nil the gazaboes in the county who
hunger for n chance at the swag will
begin to call him a CRATER before he
is sworn in.