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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-18
Church ACTIVITIES
SOCIAL AND SOCIETY EVENTS OF
THE FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH.

The Ladies' Aid society of the
First Baptist church met with Mrs.
j. c. Palmer On Friday afternoon. A
large number of ladies were present.
The usual business meeting was con-
Quoted by the president, Mrs. Geo.
Matthews. A delightful social hour
was spent while the ladies did hand
work. The hostess served a delicious
lunch assisted by Mrs. Will Brown
and Miss Mabel Odell.
The Mission circle of the First
Baptist church met on Wednesday
afternoon with Mrs. e. A. Keller. A
large number of ladies were present.
Mrs. E. w. Ketcham had charge of
the lesson which completed the study
book. Mrs. Lawrence, Mrs. Palmer,
Mrs. Shaw and Mrs. Ketcham taking
part in the discussion. Quotations
ION prayer were read for the roll call.
The president asked that the day of
prayer be observed and that as a cir
Gle we resolve to be more prayerful
that more time be spent in prayer. A
season of prayer followed. The new
calendar for the year was read and
adopted and other business transact
ed. The hostess served a fine lunch,
The Sunshine class of the First
Baptist Sunday school met at the par
sonage on Thursday evening. This
was the elimination of a contest
which had been going on for some
time. The winning side was treated
with a supper by the losing side
After supper a short program was
given. The class had previously or.
ganized into a w. w. G.. chapter and
will now meet every month. Ten
girls were present and a very pleas.
ant time was spent.
Chapter 2170 of the World Wide
guild met at the home of Miss Dor.
othy Renner Friday evening. Miss
Zella Sears presided. The program
consisted of articles from missions
read by the members and songs from
the missionary hymnal. The girls
voted to begin the study of Mission
airy Milestones." The hostess served
delicious refreshments. After the
meeting closed Miss Ella Ketcham
favored the girls by singing several
beautiful solos.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-18
NEWS.

Eat at Jacks.
Highest market price for hides and
pelts-W. II. Stearns & Son.
Eat at Jacks.
Bring your hides to w. r. Stearns
d Son for tanning and lining.
Eat at Jacks.
Broken Lenses accurately dupli-
Gated while you wait. Eyes exam
ined and frames fitted.-Yaeger's
Optical Parlor.
All kinds of light repair work
sewing machines, guns, graphopffones
and furniture of all kinds.-C. A
Story, $40 Fourth street w.
Special for Sunday and Monday
Velvet caramel ice cream at Heinie's
High test gasoline at the Madison
Motor Supply Company.
Special for Sunday and Monday
Velvet caramel ice cream at Heinie's
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-18

from May ! next to october l.. Ex-
tensive improvements, both exterior
and interior will be made on all
buildings next spring, thus bringing
everything up to shipshape for the
oncoming c~hautauQua season.
Mrs. Clinton Smith and daughter
returned to Charles City, Ia, after
visiting at.the homes of A. B. Smith
and John Eller.
A deal was closed today whereby
Will 1.-THE becomes owner of the Pc
ter Snyder farm in Franklin town
ship. Consideration, sos per acre.
This is the first transfer of the farm
since it came into the possession OF
Mr.. Snyder as a government home.
stead.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-18
QUARTERLY MEETING
DIR. HOAGLAND WILL SPEND SEW
ERAL DAYS In MADISON
NEXT WEEK.

DIR. j.. S. Hoagland, of Sioux Falls,
formerly pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Mitchell, a
church having over 1,40O members,
will deliver a patriotic lecture in the
Methodist church of this city, on
Friday evening next. The lecture
will be free to all who wish to hear
1t. This Will be DIR. Hoagland's first
official visit to the city in the capac-
ity OF district superintendent of the
Sioux Falls district, and he will re.
main in the city for several days. A
reception will be given DIR. Hoagland
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-18
A Sad CASE
CORONER'S INQUEST IN CASE OF
GIRL WHO DIED OF PNEU-
MONIA TODAY.

Miss Katherine M. Hughes passed
out of this life nea s a. m. today
while a student of the Madison Nor
NAL school.
During the recent wave of the cpl
demic a number of the Normal stu
dents who were in the grip of influ-
enza or pneumonia were being cared
for at an emergency hospital con-
Quoted in n of the group of build
ings under the auspices of the school,
and it was here that Miss Hughes, a
girl of 81 years, laid down the cares
of life and made her spiritual de-
parture.
The deceased had contracted influ-
enza which o o developed into pneu-
monia. The parents of the dead girl
reside at Plankinton where the body
was shipped after burial preparations
made by A. G. Hallenbeck.
There are some circumstances in
volved in this death that, to say the
least, are regrettable. Kind nurses
and willing physicians offered every
| service to the girl at a time when
their assistance and knowledge might
| possibly have saved her life, but as
! the mother vas of the Christian
Science faith, she resented and for
babe those attentions and treatments
being administered and insisted that
those who sought to aid her desist
peremptorily. Now the daughter lies
| cold in death and that death has been
| the subject of a coroner's inquest
| which was called at IL O'Clock today
to investigate all circumstances sur
rounding the decease and the causes
that led thereto.
The inquest was held at the Hal
lenbeck undertaking rooms, and the
conclusion reached was to the effect
that the deceased came to her death
| by suffering from a mild case of
pneumonia which was preceded by in
fluenza and contributory thereunto
| by willful neglect through parental
| adherence to the Christian Science
| faith.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-18
LOCAL GRAIN MARKET.


J. r. Harper. l16 Navarro street, San
Antonio, Tex, writes: II consider Foo
leys Honey and Tar absolutely the best
cough remedy on the market. / know
whereof ! speak. having tried 1t in my
own family. Your remedy acts quickly
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-18
THE CITY.

Fair tonight and Sunday; not
much change in temperature.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-27
MOLLIE STEINER

Fror. the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
As the doings of the Reds" fill tho
newspapers, every once in a while
some one of the group who is thrown
TO the top presents all the character
Steiner. Mollie is again in Jail, will
fcl, historical irresponsible yoGng
Vast Siio New York Russian woman,
scarcely cut of her teens. She was
Gader $4,000 bail for interfering with
the draft and. having appealed from
a, federal sentence of 10 years. kept up
her Red" activities OF course, Mol
lie is not the first young person to
beA ~illful and headstrong, and many
families have to deal with sons and
daughters of this type, whose willful-
ness concerns itself usually only about,
social or family matters. But Moilie
represents the up- to-date soviet wo-
man. So her wNlfulness and caprice
is aimed at society and at government.
knows anything about public matters
or governments. but because, wholly
irresponsible and ignorant. she is like
The type is common enough among the
a blind baby playing with dynamite.
young men and women of the radicals
over here. and the most unfortunate
part about it is the stupid logic of
Americans who ought to know better
who. having encouraged the Moliie
Steiners to express themselves" with
cut restraint or reticence, then, VIXEN
the Mollies parade and threaten revo-
| luton, cry out that they exist because
the United States has done nothing
| for them" AS matter of fact, thil
| Is g1ittering untruth that might be
| called by shorter and uglier word.
| Is the boon of asylum which was given
them freely worth nothing?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-27
HARD TIMES FOR BELL BOYS

and keeps himself otherwise engaged
with the bellboy puts his grips where
they belong, opens the window, turns
on the lights in the bathroom, sees
there are clean towels and places the
key in the door correctly After which
the bellboy pauses, the guest looks at
him in a vauge sort of way. taking
great care to keep both hands as far
as possible from his change pockets.
The bellboy pauses some more and then
departs while the guest whistles mer-
rilys on.
Bellhops in Milwaukee hotel do not
have the best of fortune, Mr.. Bernier
asserts
1--WE do not get our meals at the hotel,
but buy them where I'VE can. We room
outside The bellboys are paid s1S per
month, but they have to pay $3.50 en-
on uniforms every payday. every two
weeks
Things were better before July l.
Then there used to be times when some
good natnred guests came along-~who
could be jollied until they would slip
fellow a dollar.
There were times when boys made)
SIS in a single day. but they were few
Now all you can take a guest is soda
water, or pop. or maybe matted milk,
and does he slip you dollar? He teeis
like sailing the drink at your head the
minute you open the door"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-27
THE CIRCUS

fidence? The circus is not vulgar
performance. 1t has it's clowns, yet,
also, it has it's dignified ringmaster and
its. majestic, spectacular and instruc-
tive features. 1t has it's freaks, like
wise it has its exhibitions of skill and
dexterity 1t has it's snake charmers,
it's fat men, its living skeleton. its Tom
Thumb, it's giant and it's Commodore
Mutt. yet, also, it has strange creatures
from all parts of the world, telling OF
the wonders of creation. 1t has the
burlesque battle of the clowns, yet. also
it has the magic of magnificence. 1t
has it's trained horses and seals and
bords. puzzling to the intellect; its
gladiators, rope dancers and trapeze
performers, dazzling to the eye
In this world Of worries and sorrows
the circus is a benefcent institution
making the journey of life a bit more
endurable. In Hard Times Dickens
tells of the joys which came to Tom
Gradgrind, the exile, from mere recol-
lections of Slearys CIRCUS. From
Phillip Ashley to Ringing Brothers the
alpha and omega of circus tumblers,
the world has been made happier by
this American institution.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-27

From the New York Evening Sun.
q S might be expected, there is sup
~ pressed excitement over DR..
Voronofrs notion that he has
discovered a method of perpetuating
youth and exte Gang life by inserting
it might prove as beatific in realiza-
ism of the aging and failing human
beings. The interest is not altogether
of the popular type. Scientific and
semi-scientific spectators are more or
less keen over the announcement. y
No wonder, indeed. for II there be
any truth in it the promise is the
most wonderful since the fatal blum
der in Eden, which brought death into
the world and all our VICE. Whether
it might prove as beautific in realfza-
ton as it is glittering>in prospect may
In this country have set a good many
people to quoting DR.. Muhlenbergs fine
old hymn, Il Would Not Live Away"
The number who would joyfully face
indefinitely prolonged life on the planet
Earth is a very uncertain quantity in
deed
Life is the most precious OF all
earthly gifts 1t is the indispensable
prerequisite to every good thing, yet
there are many who freely abandon it
every day, many more who try to do so
and many more who would, updoubted-
ly, do SO but for that well known fear
of something after. Nobody has ever
yet had to face the awful opportunity
of going on with it into dim futurity;
but, over against the rashly importunate
few, there are the millions@who strug-
gle to prolong the years of living and,
even when these are weighted with the
sorrows and sufferings of their own
number, cling to them and fight for
them-to the death.
For who. to dull forgetfulness a prey.
The pleasing, anxious being e'er re-
signed,
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful
| day,
Nor left one longing, lingering look be-
hind?
! The poets have so dealt with this
supreme tissue of mortality that the
temptation to quote on is almost ire
sistible. But, in fact, the general
| mind has been rushing to conclusions;
| DR.. voronoff has not come bearing i'm
mortality as a gift to mortality
whether rhapsodic or disastrous. All he
has accomplished or thinks he has ac-
complished is the prolongation of the
qualities of youth in the body of old
age Obviously neither he nor any
one can guess at the effect of any pro-
cess, unless it be lethal, upon the
F., course of life. Only the years them
| selves can tell.
| No conceivable process OF surgery
can eliminate the physical hazards
which beset existence and, generally
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-27

By Minna Irving.
They are falling, they are flying, they
are drifting. they are dying,
They are wheeling, Keeling, stealing
in the autumn sunshine pale;
They are piled along the highways,
they are gathered in the byways,
They are rallying by millions to the
piping of the gale.
From the oak and ash recruited, and
the birches silver-suited.
And the elm and beech and maple in
the long and frosty ewes,
Uniformed sin red and yellow and In
bronze of color mellow,
Unoer gorgeous scarlet banners como
the legions of the leaves.
Like an army blood despatched, By the
north wind charged and scat
tered.
With their torn and tattered colovs
tossing bravely to and fro;
Now advancing, now retreating, now
the blast in triumph meeting.
Now in fragments wildly fleeing
from the fierce. relentless foe;
Now in sheltered corners hiding, now
aloft by thousands riding
On the gust that sweeps and rAaps
them into gold and crimson
sheaves. =
Lo! at last to dust returning. by tAe
campfires brightly burning.
In a little heap Of ashes 49, ths
battle eeleaves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-27

From the Milwaukee Journal.
HEO1 AY, mister! Any time bellhop
~ averages 81 day in tips
thatll be his last day be-
cause he'll fall dead"
Roy ]. Bernier, chief page boy at the
Hotel Wisconsin. held in his left hand
a newspaper clipping. The article elab-
grated on the luxury and affluence of
the bellhop. In his right hand he held
nothing SO tightly that the knuckles
showed white. Mr.. Bernier was dis
pleased.
why, say! If one of these boys
makes SO on a long, watch he thinks
it's something to go out and celebrate
for, but he doesn't dare because he'll
probably make only sixty cents tomor-
row.
Now, listen BY the time a guest
tips the porter on the train, and the
redcap at the depot, and the taxi driver
and the doorman, and the clerk soaks
him 81 or SIS for a room, and mebby he
slips the elevator girl a dime-all he's
got left is a crouch. The bellhop hasn't
the heart to turn on the~lights in the
guys room because he knows he's goin'
to get stiffed."
"Stiffed," it must be explained, if
translated in to English, means the
guest steps into the room, goes blithely
about the business of removing over
coat and hat, handles his papers busily
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-27
-VORONOFFS PROMETHEAN GIFT

speaking, the strength and vzgor of
youth afford no protection whatever
against the myriads of enemies which
disease. The interstitiaHy retuve-
mated octogenarian of today may be
knocked over by trolley car tompr-
row or may wither in a year under tho
blight of tuberculosis.
DIR. voronoff himself points this out
quite frankly and his claim of benefit
to the race appears to lie rather In the
line Of adding value to the years which
are now sadly characterized as ~de-
Ginning" If man may or must live
to four score years or upward he may
be conceived as asking if it is not bet
ter that he shall enjoy activity of
Thought and action, actual capacity for
pleasure. full sensation of happiness.
such as only youth or at least maturity
permits, during his final stage. This is
a plausible question, but reflection will
show that the answer is not wholly I'M
complicated
Climatic adaptation to the good
things of life, unhappily, carries with it
an equal vividness of pain and sorrow
1t is a merciful quality of natural old
age that it softens and trivializes the
The individuals own end looming
nearer and larger with diurnal approach
takes the edge off partings and the
nearer perception of a new adventure
softens and dulls the aborted hopes
of the present. >The duHing of the
senses, the slowing down of the pas
sions, even of the intellect, are allie
viations of what might be otherwise
an intolerable period of bereavement.
Indeed, the complete success of DR..
Voronoffs method might force upon
those who, in the superficial sense,
profited most by it a new and bitter de-
cision. 1t might come to pass that for
those who escaped the accidents and
resisted the infections and who saw
their less lucky CD contemporaries
falling about them in the flower of an
artificial summer, the obligation might
arise of deciding the day and the hour
when they, too, would accept the uni
versal doom How would they do II?
BY refusing a, further Voronoffian re-
spite and at last fadingnoff into the
grave in the good old Way? Or by
the dagger of the hemlock?
Perhaps each would choose man
ner of his own. We can imagine the
narrowing scenes as children, friends,
begged for a few more days of com
partnership, or, realizing the beloved
ones pain, accepted the. blow for his
dear sake. A strange world we shall
have should the Slav sage realize the
dream of the ages. A strange world
indeed, Will it be better one, ana
who will add to it, to make it toler-
able thepgift of little controilable
happiness?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-27
Orchestras Increase, But
Few Visit the South.

NOTWITHSTANDING the fact
L V that the number of concert
orchestras has increased in this coun-
try, fewer 'ccme south than in other
years. This is not because music
lovers in the south are less apfrecia.
tive or less eager than formeriy, but
because the demand for high class
music is growing in the north.
The great orchcstras are too busy
lat home to plan extended tours. The
south suffers. 1t behooyes southern
cities like Nashville, Birmingham,
Atlanta and New Orleans to organize
orchestra courses and make it worth
while for our nearest orchestra-the
Cincinnati synphony-to come to Us
two or three times every year.
There are about eight or nine
famous orchestras in the United
States. The Cincinnati is one of
them. With a reasonable amount of
enterprise we might hear the Gin
cinnati orchestra several times dur
ing the season.
If the Music Study club is too much
absorbed with various activities, all
of them educative and delightful
how about some of our musical folk
organizing society for the sole pur.
pose of presenting symphony concerts
here at inexpensive season tickets?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-27
LUKE M,LuKE SAYS

Many woman marries man she
can't love because she loves man
she can't marry.
If the poor men could only have
their own way there wouldn't-b be many
church weddings
y This old pillar of piffle, as Dr. Jim
Faulkner would say. has noticed that
more men would hear opportunity
knock if opportunity didn't come
around disguised as hard work
IT is only step from virtue to vice
But it is about million miles from
vice to virtue.
We would all be- kept pretty busy
if we boosted our friends as often
as we knock our enemies.
One thing we like about a small
one-korse town is the fact that a la
tive never carries a cane unless he
is lame.
The fellow who used to believe that
fiye-cent cigar was made out OF
cabbage never carries a cane unless he
is lame.
When you do some men favor
they act like they were doing you a
favor in letting you do IT.
A thin woman may have her wor-
ries But her worries are mere piffle
when compared with thu worries OF
the woman who knows that she is
getting fatter every day.
OF course a woman will snort whch
she reads this. But the fact of the
matter is that a good deal OF visiting
is done to get even.
The trouble with lot of the med
ern catch as cat ch-can marriages. Il
that the bride and the groom Sol
Tired Of each other before the honey
moon ends
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-27

From the New York Herald.
NIX II HILE Alfred T. Ringing be-
wv. longed to the present genera s'-
death has turned the thought Of many
an oIdster to the performance of his
predecessors, who did so much to pro-
mote the evolution of distinctly AM
erican institution The first American
circus appeared in 1926, under the own
ership and management of Nathan A.
Howe and Aaron Turner. From that
day to this the circus has been an in
stitution which annually appeals to the
hearts of the American people, young
and old.
y Once Barnum, the prince of showmen
as he characterized himself, said that
the American people like to be hum
plugged. Yes, if theys are humbugged
by such clever men as Barnum and his
kind. In spite of his saying. Phineas
T. gave the people more FOR their
money than any Snowman of his day,
and the people were more than salts
fled with his "humbug.'
The circus appeals to the magma
ton, for it is spectacular and thrilling.
Can there be anything more unique
than a show new, studendous. dazzling
magnificent spectacular, educational
and awe-inspiring?"~ Is there any
thing in the English language more
characteristic or truly American than
Barnum's first announcement OF his
show as possessing geologic, ornith-
lologic. icthyologic. ethnologic. geologic.
anthropologic, conchologic, autologic.
numismatic, mechanic, calisthenic.
scientific classic and other depart
lments-the cry is still they they
come?p OF his own museum, MENACE
ries and hippodrome" Barnum said.
they are of such rich and varied at
fractions as to excite, the envy of a
Croesus or Bellerophontes'-in
Ben Lusbie. the lightning ticket seller
! and Professor Faber's wonderful talk
i ing machine
| 4 In the circus courage. industry, pa
i thence and faith are in evidence. Who
has witnessed the wonderful perform
ances. terrestrial and aerial, without
marveling at the nerve and GOODNESS of
the performers? Who has been thrilled
by the deeds Of daring without exper-
J fencing a new, flood Of faith and con-