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1per isa* I' CENT A WORD for Insertion In the Want Ad columns ot The Republican Special rate by month of 75 cents line—A line will usually contain six words. No advertisement taken far is* than 10 cents. Advertisements waj be or dered to run until ordered out. But advertisements ord ered t* ran a specified num ber ot times must be paid for. HELP WAN TIC 1) AGENTS WANTED FOR KENT FRONT—Suite of rooms, modern, 119 W. 2nd. MODERN—Furnished room \V. 2nd. Hope, Taconito, Minn. .. FOR SALE OR RENT—-Typewrlt ers ot every make. Such machines as l. C. Smith, Underwood Monarch, Oliver, Royal, Remingtdn and Smith Premlor lor sale at half price and lfess.—Mitchell Publishing Company. SOFT—Water delivered $1.50 per tank, $2.60 for two. Call 3283 S. Hicks. FOR SALE—Several good heavy pine doors. Phone 3G32. C. T. GREEN'S soft spring water, #1.75 per tank. Phone 3768. FOR SALE—New and second-hand e&rom and pocket-billiard tables, and bowling alleys and accessories bar fixtures of all kinds, easy pay ments, The Brunswick-Ballte Col lander Company, 426, 428, 430 Third StreeJ South, Minneapolis, Minn. BURR—Spring water. Phone 2129 or 2085. Spears & Victor. IUCAL ESTATE FOR 8 ALB FOR L4ND—Bargains «ee Bldwell REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION—On the sealed bid plan. Bids opened at our office every Saturday at 1:30 p. m. Appraised priced are annexed as follbws NEK 23-104-64@ *70 per acre NE% 21-106-73, $40 W WANT ADS If You don't see what you want, read The Republican Want Ads. 110 FOR RENT—Modern house on west 4th, also 2 small houses at mod erate rent.. Commercial and Saving" bank. 1 SEVEN ROOM COTTAGE lor rent —608 East 2nd Ave, FOR* RENT—House—218 E 3rd. J. Schllmgen. FOR RENT—Or sale, 8 room house'at 013 S. Sanborn. Phono 3185 $ FOR RENT—At once one good bcd-rootu, on Becond lloor, partly modern, gentlemen preferred, rates reasonable. Phone 3885. FOR RENT—Eight, room house on 9outii:8tde. Partly modern.—408 South WlRCOJiBln i'hone 3788. NICEXiY-^crnlphed modern rooms, close in.—Phone 3177. r^iwT— r— FOUR nice rooms over' the Lakota, electric lights, gas and batn. Inquire *, at Woelfei's Jewelry Store. Fon HALE HUP,MP BILE feain. Good ock Box 332. -Runabout nt, bar new tires. FOR SALE—Pure fock cockerels. Mrs. J. 4, Mitchell. bred barred F. King Route .. FOR-SALE—Cheap horse, harness and cutter. Phone 2397. FOR SALE—Nice bright straw, $2 per lond aid millet seed for chicken fHeitv Half mile out. IHvone A&62.-^-Fred Rudlaff. m- 1» SPECIAL,—Sale 10,000 No. 1 ceder fence posts 7 feet long cut from •live timber and pealed at the follow ing price 4, 5, 6. and 7 inch lops. 09 10, 1.2 and 14 cents each f. o. b. or c. o. d. 10 per cent with order. 1/ W. NW%'. 11-101-62, $70: E% NW *4,11-101-62, $70 NW*4 NW%, 36 102-C1 $70 NW%.NW%, 14-102-60 $90 S^ SW. 20® $70 N%, NW1 A r*\ 29© $44 S%, 34-113-GG, $35 C18 1st ave. west $1400 404 4th Ave. west $4,000 CIS Duff St. N. $5,000. No reservation made except right to reject any bids not up to prices nam ed. Terms 4 cash, Vi each year for three years at 0 per cent from Oct. 1st. Did what you regard the prop erty worth, whether below, at or above prices named. Buy now, when cash is dear and property is cheap. All this land will be $100 and over Bome day. Weller Land Co., Mitchell S. D. ARE YOU COIXO TO HHY LAND —If so you should read the Farm and Heal Estate Journal. Its edi tor are authorities. They will keep you informed on the possibilities in all sections o£ the country and will save you money and mistakes in buying. Only publication of its kind. Established 19 years. Send 10c today for 4 months trial sub scription or 25c for one year. It will bo stopped at the end of the time ordered unless you renew. Farm and Real Hstato Journal, Box 28, Traer, Iowa. FOR SALE— New house, 5 rooms and bath room cistern,' furnace lights, chicken house and yard, and some shrubbery East Side a bar bargain on easy Icrnis. Call ii!0 IC. Gib or I'hone 3033. FOR SALK Good residence lot. ist Fourth, eighth block/ iPhone East. 3 4 !I0 MISCELLANEOUS WANTED.—Milwaukee stock yards shelled and ear corn. Highest market, price.—A. J. Harmon. WANTED—Five or six room mod ern house. Address, Wl, care Repub lican. 1IA1R SWITCHES made from your own combings $1.50, good work guaranteed. Mrs. Ilenry Ziogler, Hartforil, S. D. THE DOCTOR AND THE DRUGGIST ifcOne Prescribes a Remedy, the Other Prepares it The suffering patient, is to be cured—so as quickly as pos sibly a learned physician is called. MAT HIS Paperlianger. Phone 3335. Country work solicited. 'Tbe matter of deciding on a remedy is important, but it should be a matter of equal importance to have that remedy pre pared just rig ht. It must be prepared accurately and from pure, active drugs. Prescriptions put up her£ aire invariably right, and the price Is also right. DIEHL DRUG CO. 'f Truth, Quality, Service Let Earl Rowley do it. Insurance. New Location The Only Way Tailors Clothes Cleaners 7 Beckwith Block 7 KAISER LAUGHS AT WORLD RULE SAYS THIS IS NONSENSE THE llNMES'l VSENSE THAT EVI-ilt HAS BEEN TOjlil) OK IIIM. Mujnich, Germany.—Br. Gang liofer's interview with Emperor Wil liam recently is published here, (iang hofer said that on one occasictfn the emperor remarked "When they say in other lands it is my intention to found a world's empire, that is the funniest non sense ever said about me. Hut in the morale, industry and conscience of the Germans will be found a con quering power that will open the world ..i'or them." 7*""' EMPEROR WILL VIEW WARSHIPS IvAISKlt (JOES TO WILHELMSHAV EX TO SEE VESSELS THAT WEUE IN NORTH SEA FIGHT. Berlin. Germany.—Emperor Wil liam will leave for Wilhelmshaven the second moat important naval sta tion in Germany, to inspect he war ships stationed there. He will take this opportunity to look over the units oil the squadron which parti cipatecTW the recent North Sea bat tle. New Location The OnlyWay Tailors 77 Clothes Cleaners 7 Beckwith Block Let Us Serve You DEM PENULT* IS' ABOIMDIY CLOSE VOTE III THE SENATE Governor's Suggestion Finally Approved by 2 4 to is TO CURB PARDONS They Will Be Made More Difficult Since Death Sen tence Is Abolished. I'roin Monday'., Dnilj.— IMerrc, S. I).--The senate Satur day took up the discussion of S. B. •I, a small bill in size but mighty in it* possibilities, anil one on which the senate members have been "play ing for position" for several days, the net to repeal the laws ot the state which provide for capital puniush ment. The bill passed, LM to IS, and now goes to the governor for his signature, lie will sign it. The galleries were filled with spec tators, even before the house mem bers rushed over following adjourn ment, and the audience was a large one. Becbe opened for the bill which carries his name as the introducer, with a plea for the bill, on the ground that errors occur, tne prosecutor anxious for record urges conviction, and the man without money is more likely to be convicted than the one with money tij make a legal fight, lie is opposed to hanging oivany and all grounds. Peckham opposed the bill. He said each senator represented a thousand men capable of serving on a jury, and the senate should be willing to trust the disrretion of a jury. Whit temore defended the bill and declar ed legal executions to be only cow ardly assassinations by the state. Mc Lean declared his belief that the in junction "Thou Slialt Not Kill" meant the public as well as the individual. Bailey opposed the bill and took position (feat it had not been 'mis used slnctf statehood that pardons are too easy to secure and that the criminal can come back and revenge himself on witnesses. With no death penalty there is no repentance and the mind is all on release. Minnensota is attempting to have the death pen ally restored. Stephens supported the bill saying courts and lawyers would strike from limbs the last shackles of barbarism and that terrorism is no longer an element of justice and circumstantial evidence too much re lied upon. Vandemark opposed the bill. He declared that pardons are too elsy and that with the present pardon law we must have capital punishment, ln noncent men will be killed by lynch ini»s if there is no executions. "A man with money can't be kept in the South Dakota penitentiary through life un less he dies pretty quick." There have been 103 homicides in South Bakota since statehood, and but five executions he pointed out. Waters of Hand and Lund ley of Gregory were for the bill. Hayes op posed, saying such a law would take from the state its most powerful weapon with nothing left to take its place. Society must trust society to keep down mob law. Lincoln opposed and pointed out Brown lounty cases. Time may come when we. are educat ed enough but not yet. Hagen was for the bill. On the final vote, those voting Aye were: Amsden, Anderson, Beebe', Bickel. Bobb, Erieson. Frost. Hagen, Kuhns, Laurson, Lundly. Mil ler, Morris, McLeai:. McMasters, Od lan'd. Paterson, Stephens. Stiles, Slieafe, Urdahl, Waters, Whitlosk, Whittemore, total 2 4. Those voting no were: Berndt, Brooks, Bailey, Hale. Hayes. Howell, Lincoln, Marvick. McOlintock, Mc .Kinnon, Peckham, Pearson. Print up. Stoner. Stutenroth. VanOemarU. Ziebach, Zoske, total IS. IJILL FOR TIIUESIIEltS' LIENS. VOTED DOWN IN THE HOI SE. Pierre, S. B.—-In the house Sat uday, an early session was held to alow the members to hear debates in the senate on the tail for repeal oi the capital punishment provisions of law of this state. The bill to abolish the stale high way commission, which was reported back without recommendation by the highway commission, was placed on the house calendar and will be up Mondav. 1 i\ On the third reading, the first bill up was House Bill S3, regulating threshers' liens, with Kuhlman and Johnson of Spink for the measure, and Roberts. Crawford. Boreson and Tscharner in opposition, and the bill went, down by a heavy vote. II. .T. U. 9 memoralizing congress to provide for education of Indian children was passed. House Bill 88, appropriat ing $4,450 for equipment at the state training school, ^as passed, after a warm discussion as to passing any deficiency appropriations for any pur nose. PaUerson declaring it as his intention to vote against and detl- ciency for any person or any thing I from this time on. H. B. 120. approp riating $250 to nay H. K. Saunders for an oil painting of former fiov jernor Crawford, started several into action, resulting in the bil's going to the judiciary committee with instruc tions to frame an act which would provide for the picture in question, one of former Governor Yessey and one of Governor Byrne. "Swappiim" Act Repealed. On third reading of senate bills in the house, senate bill 5. regulating the surplus of mutual insurance com panies was passed S. B. 1. providing for a method of transferring real estate owned bv counties was passed, as was the hill authorizing cities to donate land to counties for court A house purposes. These two bills arc to cover a situation in Grant county, where a new court house on a new site Is desired. S. B. 41 was next, be ing the repeal of the Richards "Swapping" act of two veins ago. •Jacobs moved to add the emergency clause to prevent a referring of the repeal, and it was passed. Weller ot Davison said he opposed the emer gency act. as his lirm tried to get sweet clover seed through the pro visions of that act. last spring, and as it had not yet obtained the seed, 'lie emergency would forever make it impossible, while if it went throue.h without, this clause lie would have a few months more to win out in. Would liaise oiiiiiiissioners' l'ay. New House Bills are Kill, (ludahl request, requiring county comnns sionors to give the publication of one minority political paper in each county 170 Weller, regulatinu school consolidations 171. Green, •ilisrilutoly prohibiting Sunday araus incuts 172, Jacobs, fixing compensa tion of commissioners at five dollars per day 17:!, Gudahl. regulating the llowage of artesian wells to prevent waste 171, ^olem, regulating hear ings in insane eompalints 175, Knight of Hamlin, providing for track scales where'railway commi sion declare same necessary, and at the expense of petitioners 177. Bie lski, fixing status of judgment claims in relation to oilier claims 17x, Courtney, requiring school district officers to publish financial state ment in newspaper nearest such school district. II. .1. It. 11. Solem, request, placing the state penal insti tutions at penitentiary, insane hos pital, and reform school, under the control of a state hoard of charities and corrections and all other state institutions to be under a board ot regents of education^ which board may he from live to nine members. I'ass Cciimis ISill. In the senate Peckham presented petitions asking for the 911 •lctnietil of the bill he introduced au thorizing towns to make levies for musical entertainments. The first bill up was S. B. ill. providing for the taking of the state census, and mak ing the salary of the superintendent $2,000 a year. Laurson moved to amend to $1S00 and McMasters op posed on account of the needs of the work. Laurson said the salary should not exceed that of elective state of ficers. Amsden thought the $2000 too much and supported the amend ment. Stutenroth opposed and the amendment lost. Urdahl moved to strike out section three to allow the sending of a messenger after statis tics nt sent in 011 time, in which he was supported by McLean, and Ilays, with Stephens and McMasters oppos ing. The amendment carried, and the bill passed. S. B. 4, fixing terms of court in the fifth judicial circuit passed: as was S. H. titi, the food and drug bill which provides tor food inspection by the head of the state department. New senate bills were: luS, Frost, regulating issuance of tax deeds to counties 109, Frost, regulating pro ceedings required in taking tax deeds 110, Hayes, appropriating $5!»0.(I0 &-to eo. ('. Hull, for supplies furnish ed Spcaffish normal 111. Paterson. fixing license for motor vehicles, automobiles $•!, liiotor cycles, $2, Dealers $5. 112', Bailey, appropri ating $3000 to equip office and labor atory of. state food and drug depart ment at Vermillion university. MIST TRAINING SCHOOL TAKK BACK ITS OLD NAMHV Pierre, S. I).—A constitutional is sue was raised in the house Satur day evening over a hill to appro priate money for equipment at the state "reform school," or training school as it is known by the legisla ture since. 1907, when the name was changed by the provisions of Chapter 222 of that session. While the issue was raised by llielski that the bill attempted to carry both an emerg ency appropriation, and a deficiency appropriation in the same maesure, March of Hughes also raised the point that so long as the constitu tion in. section 1 of Article XIV, gives that institution the name og "Reform School," there might be a constittu tlonal question raised as to validity of an appropriation for the State Training School. On the issues rais ed the bill went back to the'judiciary committee for further consideration before it was finally acted upon. This brought tip further conning of the section of the constitution re fered to. and raises another ques tion. That section defines the char itable and penal institutions of the states as: "A penitentiary, insane hospital, a school for the deaf and dumb, a school forthe blind, and a reform school." This raises the is sue as to the constitutionality of any other charitable or penal insti tution without change in the provis ions of this section of the constitu tion and if such should be the hold ing it would place a stumbling block in the way of the location of the proposed insane hospital in the north eastern part of the state at Water town, or another in the Black Hills section of the state, to be known as •the Western Hospital, and which is being considered as a matter to 111 e sent to ihe present session. To Curb Pardons Now that each' house has passed an act repealing the provisions of the South Dakota statutes in relation to capital punishment, the opponents of the repeal arc preparing a bill to regulate the granting of pardons to persons convicted of murder in this state, providing such regulations as to practically prohibit a pardon un less positive proof of innocence can can be shown atfer the trial. This could only limit the powers of the governor through an act limiting the power of the pardon bos.rd of the I state as the governor Is given full I pardoning power, but. by a proviso I this power 011 his part is limited ex I cept in cases of sentence of two years! or less,. Any offender with a greater punishment than a two year sentenoe must first secure a recommendation at a a re ecutive clemency ran be granted, andi the work of this board is specifically I made subject to legislative regulu-: tion. I The bill to authorize the state fire' marshals to enter and examine and condemn buildings which are consid ered to tye a lir^jinonace to cities and towns met overwhelming defeat in the house a few days ago. A like bill in the senate has been amended in the com mil toe to meet, the objec tions which were raised to the bill "t "V A ar 111 the house, and as. the senate is fai vorable to the bill, the house will get another opportunity to act on the measure at an early date. The bill is urged by the state insurance de partment on the grounds that it is the lire menace of old buildings which forces up the insurance rate 111 the cities and towns of the stale where such buildings are allowed to remain in the hufcness sectons. and that proper supervision would materially lower the rate in most towns of the state. The heads of the various sta:-.' in stitutions are coming in to look after legislation affecting the institutions under their charge. Among those in at present are Dr. L. ('. Meade, of tile state insane hospital at Yank ton It. Slagle, President ot the State I niversitv at Vermillion and 10 C. Perisho, head of the State col lego of agriculture at Brookings, who are all interested in matters be fore the legislature. Wants in I'm- Government Aid President Perisho ot the agricul tural college is very i\iuch interested in agricultural extension work under the provisions ot the Smith-Lever Act. and desires that the legislature make the proper appropriations to take complete advantage ot the pro visions ot the Act. The state, under the provisions ot that art gets Irotn the National government Ten Thou sand dollars a. year lor held work in agriculture and household eco nomics. I11 addition to this they get from the government an additional Five Thousand Dollars each year for a period of seven years, bringing the total government amount to the state seven years from now up to Forty-Fiv Thousand Dollars a year, but to secure this the legislature must appropriate an equal amount for each year, less the Ten Thousand Dollars which comes to the state re gardless ot any state appropriation. A bill has been prepared and will be introduced to take care of tne appropriation required tor the next, bi-ennial period, and it is 111 tins bill which President Perisho has strong interest, along with othei legislation affecting the slate college IIOTKL KEGl'LATIONS LIKIII.V TO '«)Vi:i: ALL HOTELS OI' STATK Pierre, S. D. House Bill 110, which seeks to amend the law in re gard to hotel inspection called out so much discussion as to its proper scope, in the meeting of the commit tee of the whole of the house that t. was put over to a future date for anal action. The amendments are intended to strengthen the work of the inspector, and place more stringent requirements upon the keepers of hotels. One of the main issues was as to whether the act as drawn applied to all hotels of the state, or merely those in towns of a certain clc The gn.oral sen timent, expressed by house members was to the effect that the provisions sought to he incorporated should ap ply to all hotels in towns of all sizes. One of the changes seeks to make 1 the orders of the hotel insepctor carry the power of law, if they have been endorsed by the attorney gen eral. and are not in conflict with any existing statute. Another provision places the source of water supply of hotels under inspection as well as the buildigns themselves. Another pro hibits the use of the roller towel, the common comb and brush, and com mon drinking cup In all hotels of the The issue of consoldiation of state institutions is far from dead, and is likely to come out into the open at any time 011 some of the institutions. One feature proposed as an economy measure is that the school of mines and the Spear.'isli Normal school he consoldiated. with another that there could be consoldidation of the deaf school and the blind school, which are put up as I'easible and measures of economy, even though they mean abandonment of state investments, and a money loss in the sale of the structures, as they would reduce ap propriations by reducing the expen ses of the maintenance of two sspar atc institutions. Weller Would Cut Off Tuitions Representative Weller has pre sented a little repealing act in the house which on its face proposes re gulation of tuition in state educa tional institutions, the real feature of which to cut out the statute which allows a member of the legis lature to favor s^ome of his consti tuents with free tuition at such in stitutions, the holding of Weller be ing that there is 110 logical reason why a legislative member should be granted this favor at the expense of the people of the state generally. The farmers of the house them selves Saturday evening placed a fin al finish on the bill to grant any ad ditional appropriation for farmers in stitute work, other than that of the appropriaion made for he year at the session of two years ago, and the work will stop this year about the first of March for lack of funds to continue it. Senator Browne, of Brown, has been confined to his room for several days by illness, and a delegation of his friends from Aberdeen who were in the city made a call on him at his rooms Saturday evening. JANUARY ABOVE NORMAL WARMTH WEATHEIt LAST MONTH WAS DEGHKES MOKE THAN AVKK AGE—PHEt'll'ITATlON AllofT rSl-AL.^SSc January was :i.S degrees above the normal temperature for the past 34 years, according to the monthly re port of E. Blystone, federal observer at Huron, The average tem perature was 1 ,S degrees above zero. In 1SS1 the mean temperature for -Tanuary was 24 degrees above zero, which is tne maximum. In 1S88 the temperature avera-:ed 1 degree be low zero for the month. In the past A--" First Class Friends TOLD OF FRISCO EARTHQUAKE FEAR Long ago we found what makes friends,— and holds them. IT IS SERVICE TO CUS TOMERS. .. EVANGELIST EXPLAINS THAT (J ItEAT CALAMITY NECES SAHV TO MA K|: SOME PEOPLE ItEALIZE fhir/i nf 1 uwuics tiuu bat «uii meir teacliers. r* been as The chorus composed of more than degrees above in Jan-, fifty young uan' and as cold as 43 degrees below Monday night at, the First Meth odist church, Dr. J. W. Maliood, the evangelist, took some of the experi ences he had in the midst of the San Francisco earthquake to illus trate some great spiritual •truths. His text was. "What, shall I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord •lesus Christ. "He said in the midst of the quaking foundations of the earth and the roar of the flames which made furnaces out of sky scrapers, with death and destruction all about almost^ every face, almost every eye as well as thousands of Voices were asking the question, "What shall I do to be saved?" "Pity," exclaimed the preacher, "that men will wait until they are surrounded by overwhelming cal amity to ask that question." He said "it was the earthquake at Phil lip! which brought this same ques tion from the jailer, what shall I do to be saved?" Dr. Mahood said three things were Involved in sal vation. First, a man must be sorry for the sin of the past and turn from it. No man believes on Christ and is saved from his sin' who will not do this. Second, he must confess his sin.. There never have, been successful secret disciples! If ye 1 a The precipitation for.tho month di^ly'"^!^ 'the dlrcctfon^of^lrs^tr totalled .45 of an inch, with 5.2 E. Murray. One of the delightful .1 •H® In a month or so the busy work of spring will open. Then you may wish to feel you are more than a customer at a bank. rfc When busy, our friends bank by mail, banks by telephone,—they never hesitate to call on us,, for special service. We consider it their right, We consider it a pleasure. That's what bank ing means when you bank here. First National Bank, Mitchell, S. D. Under II. S. government Supervision Your Wife's Share "Share" seems to be abetter word than "allowance" for the part of your income your wife receives, for undoubtedly she earns it just as much as you do yours. Perhaps she is a better saver than you are, too. Give her a chance, anyway, to see what she can do with a savings account at the The Commercial and Savings Bank 'inches of snow. On the last two days of the month the precipitation was state. Another is that all bedding the greatest, amounting to .31 of an and carpets must, be kept cleaned and inch. The precipitation was ,0G less aired so as to be sanitary, and the old law erquiring "efforts" 011 the part, of the hotel man to exterminate vermin, 'is made a compulsory pro vision in the amendments. than normal. The prevailing direction of the Wind was northwest, witht. an average hourly volocity of ll.fi miles. Kleven days were clear nine partly cloudy •ind eleven cloudy. .. -r. ,, features of the service was the solo by Miss Vesta Murray. Dr. Mahood spoke at 3 o'clock to day and Miss Mahood resumed her health culture class work after the meeting. Tonight the sermon theme will be. "The Unpardonable Sin." Tomorrow afternoon Dr. Mahood will give a special address to wives and mothers on "The Christian Home." The cottage prayer meet ings were resumed this morning in all parts of the city and will be con tinued each morning this week ex cept Saturday. Tonight at 7 o'clock Dr. Mahood and the pastors will meet in the rear part of the auditor ium, all who have started in the Christian life and all who have been reclaimed. SIX WEEKS~OF WINTER AHEAD THAT IS, II' vol" confess me betore men I will confess February is generally followed by you before the Father. "Confes- severe weather and 1- ncaLuci- uuu a late and sion of sin implies making wrong changeable spring. In Germany the badger bills the bill of the wood chuck as a weather forecaster, in the Scandinavian countries, the bear in England, the hedgehog and In things right as far as possible. "A man was seeking pardon night after night and got no where. One morning his wife saw him go out to an old dry well. He went down in to it and soon was throwing out shovels, chains, forks and other things which he had stolen from his 4 •3 BELIEVE THE OLD GKOrXD-llOG THEORY ON THE WKATHEIt. I 'ronj Tuesday's Daily. As a matter of record, 110 one has ever seen a ground-hog emerge from his winter quarters when once he has commenced his annual hiber nation. But if the reader happens to retain a little of the old myth, he may have the satisfaction of be lieving that winter will persist for six long and chilly weeks. There was 110 doubt that tne ground-hog, woodchuck or American marmot, whatever ho is called, could have seen his shadow had he made his appearance around Mitchell to day. After hiding behind the clouds all morning, the sun came out by noon in full glare and started on the task of melting down the snow that had accumulated in the snowstorm of Saturday and Sunday u'ghts. The belief thta cloudy weather to day means that the ground-hog can terminate his winter nap appears to be based 011 the fact that u" uiu iaci inat clear France and Switzerland, the mar mot. The day appears in the church calendar as Candlemans day. Pope neighbors. He took these back Sergius is said to Jurve originated ob asking his neighbors forgiveness and 'servance of the day. It has bee.i as then God forgave him also. Sal- serted by scholars that the modern vation also implies faith. Faith legend is a descendant of a Roman that God will do exactly what he custom. The Romans, by sacrifices says he will do. Salvation is not and penances, squared themselves an act of feeling it is an act of with their gods on February 1. Feb faith. Get saved first and you will ruary was the last month of ttiu get all tile feeling of jcy and pvaue Roman calendar. that you need." I The name Candlemans is supposed Twenty-two came forward last to have been given the dav from the night. The evangelist briefly ex- fact that on that dav candles Hvere plained the simple way of entering the Christian life and most of these made their start last night. The attendance was the largest yet of any week-day service. Many of the Sunday school classes attended in bodies and sat with their teacliers people and assisted hv number of young men with violins $m 1 given to the priests by the people. The priests blessed the candles and they were returned. If burned in the homes or kept near the people they were believed to guard against evil spirits. Many customs mark the day in various parls of the country. In Scot land the day is usually one for the payment of all taxes. In England it is set aside as a legal holiday ana at Oxford the day is. featured^by one of the biggest celebrations of the -W V'V-! •'1.. .-V.. -. i-,-" v. '.' UQ 1 UUC Vv