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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08
ROOT FENCE.

ready of the stumps, ETC., absorb plenty
of ''help." Stump pulling is done mostly
in the spring and fall, beginning as oon
as the frost is out of the ground in the
early part of the year and continuing
until everything is frozen hard in the
latter part.
There is q heavy decline in the bust
ness of late, due to some extent to the
fact that SO many stumpy fields have al
ready been cleared, but more to the pres
emit low price of agricultural land. Three
dollars a stump is allow price for pulling,
and yet there are sometimes from 90 to
90 stumps to the acre. IL land cleared
is not worth more than $50 or $50 an
acre, it will be seen that the expenditure
Of the money needed to take the stumps
out is q losing operation. It could not
be done at all il it were not that the
stumps may be used for fencing.
Pine stumps vary in obduracy accord
ing to the soil on which they stand.
Where it is fat and wet, the roots spread
out over the surface and the stumps
come up easily. Where 1t Is dry on
clayey, they run down into the soil some
times to great depths. Often the stump
yields after a half hours work. Some
times it takes q day or two to get out a
big one. The puller must of curse take
the risk Of running against . particular
ly hard one now and then, but too many
Of this sort take of the profits Of thu
business with great rapidity, and a run
of jobs on clay soil may bankrupt an op
orator whose capital is limited.
/. ID. MARSHALL.
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The Grand Duke Alexis right arm Is
adorned with a dragon which covers it
almost entirely from the wrist to the
elbow. The new Duke of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha is tattooed much the same way,
while the Duke of York has a couple of
crossed flags upon his forearm. King
George Of Greece, his second son and his
nephew, the czarowitz, are each of them
tattooed. Besides these there are among
the tattooed princes Queen Marguerite
of Italy's brother, the Duke of Genoa,
Archduke Stephen Of Austria and Prince
Henry Of Prussia, brother Of Emperor
William.
Princess Waldemar of Denmark, wife
Of the sailor son Of King Christian, has q
beautiful anchor and q crown tattooed on
her arm, halfway between her shoulder
and her elbow. and which Of course is
conspicuous whenever she wears . low
dress. Her husband likewise has naval
emblems tattooed on his arm, and 20,
too, has King Oscar Of Sweden, who
served for many years. in the navy before
ascending the throne. His sons have
followed his example.-Boston Herald.
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No,ice-Timber Culture.

U. s. Land Oaice, Mitchell. s. r !, Noy. 20, 1893.
-COmriaint having been entered Mt this ONCE
by Joseph BreuekDer aga MT the heirs OF Louis
Altpeter. deceased. for failure to comply with
law NJ TO timberc culture entry No. l3.5G2, dated
April %, 1886, upon the southwest quarter sec
ton 26. township 100 north. range 81 west, 9Th
r. NJ, IN Lake county, y. D., with . view TO the
cancellations OF said entry. contestant alleging
that the heirs and legal representatives OF said
claimant have wholly abandoned said land; that
said tract 10 not cultivated MS required by law;
that said heirs ana claimant have failed TO break,
plough or cultivate any OF said tract as required
by the Timber Cuitare law that claimrnt has
failed to plant trees, tree seeds or cuttings ON
said tract a. required by law; that there is no
cultivated land now on the tract, nor are there
any trees, tree seeds or cnttings now on the land
ms required by the Timber Culture law; that
said claimant or his heirs have not In any way
complied with the Timber Culture laws; that
said default still exists: that said heirs have
failed to break, plough or plant daring the
wears 1856 to 1893. The said parties are hereby
summoned to appear at this ONCE ON the I'd day
OF January, 1894. nj l O'Clock p. m, 10 respond
and furnish testimony concerning said alleged
failure. II. N. KRAFT, Register.
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ENAMELlNG THE BATHTuB.
~Ingenioas and simple Method or MAX
ing nm Old Zinc Tub Dainty.

An Ingenious and simple Method Of Max
ing an Old Zinc Tub Dainty.
The bathtub from which al and con-
slant use have worn away the bright
ness is the despair Of the model house
wife. who wishes to have everything
about her home show traces of care on
the part OF herself and her domestics.
How distressed she is when, after sew
eral Intellectual attempts to burnish mp
the metal lining, the dull, worn look re-
mains, and the unwelcome truth bursts
upon her that its polishing days. are
over and there must in the future hover
about the tub the air of dinginess and
neglect!
To avoid this sort Of trouble an in
g~enious idea is on the wing, which will
rs time advances gain i'm favor. Who
does not admire the porcelain tubs in
which fortunes pampered proteges take
their daily dipa To those but lightly en-
dowed with worldly goods the posses
sion of one Of these luxurious fancies
looks to be an utter impossibility. But
there is q means by which the mother
and her brood may secure a tub, which,
IL it is not quite up to the mark in point
Of quality, is certainly as daintily at
tractive in appearance as that of porce-
lain.
This is the enameled bathtub. When
the zinc or tin lining grows shabby, give
it a coat of white paint. After this has
dried apply several thicknesses of white
enamel, waiting for each application to
dry before adding the next. In this way
q thick enamel coating is laid upon the
metal, giving it the appearance when
completed Of porcelain. The enameled
lined tub Is not only very much daintier
in appearance, but an be kept in order
more easily than zinc or tin, q damp
cloth wiped the surface being all
that is needed to retain the purity Of
coloring.
AS company for q tab furnished mp in
the foregoing manner treat in the same
way the woodwork Of the bathroom.
Some faint hued enamel, pale blue, old
pink. violet, gray, cream or lemon, laid
upon the woodwork completes the deco
rative notion, while aesthetic conceptions
in pumpkin yellow, sage green or russell
brown contrast admirably with the
snowy lining of the tub.-Golden Days.
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..nrre..,nan simp.en.. badge.

Lou Bashan. an employee OF Gains
mill. found d badge yesterday in y a of
wheat ON which was engraved the words
.City Marshal" The badge was q very
old one and was made of a half dollar
dated 1875. The car of wheat came from
Medicine Lodge, KAN, the home of Jerry
Simpson. The badge was given to Chief
Weld. who happened TO show it to u
stockman from the vicinity of Medicine
Lodge. The stockmanimmediately rec
ognized the badge as the one worn by
Jerry Simpson when he was marshal Of
Medicine Lodge.-Atchison Globe.
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At the censu Of 1880 nearly "a per
cent Of the colored population was I'M
der 10 years Of age, while at the census
of 1890 only 90 per cent was under 10
years OF age. Samuel E. Tatum, q
Washington negro, in explaining this,
says; 1T may be . fact that the colored
population is constantly falling of in ito
increase. for which there maybe . great
many reasons. We should first take in
to consideration the vast number Of peor
pie Of color leaving the race yearly.
There are thousands who emigrate from
the south so light In complexion that in
the north they are supposed to be white,
and in this way y vast number of FAM
lilies in the course of q decade lose their
identity as people of color. Nv ashing-
ton Special.
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Notica on Herring oh Petition.

State OF south DAKOTA. county Of Lake In
county court. Whereae, John Hueeker having
applied far q druggist'e permit TO sell intoxicat-
ing liquors under the PROVISIONS and restrictions
of the laws of this Ptate governing the sale OF In
texicating liquors, at bis place OF business on
Egan avenue, in the city OF Madison, county OF
tice 10 hereby given, that the 12th day Of Decem-
her, A. q. 1893, ut the once Of the county judge,
In the said city Of Madison, In Lake county, =.
said petition. when and where any person quail
fed may appear and show cause, ~ny said petit
ton should not be granted.
Dated ct Madison, s. D., November II, 1893.
j.. u. WILLIAMSON,
County Judge.
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SOCIETY WOMEN BURGLARS.


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A Woman and Her Daughter, Both OF Ex-
ceilcnt Tsepate, Arrested For Stealing.
In an Adrian justice court sat two
well dressed ladies. Both were comedy
and apparently refined. The air and
dress of the women indicated that they
belonged to the upper walks of life and
were people Of quality. The elder of the
two, still below the middle age. sat erect
and wore an air of defiance. The other,
q young lady of real beauty and lastly
attired. was bowed with an air of sor-
row. ,
stances would have suspected for a mo
ment that these ladies were q pair of
burglars whose work rivals that of some
of the best men of the profession. But
such was the case. They were mother and
daughter-Mrs. Alice Church., a widow
of excellent repute, residing In Tecum-
sch, a village of 1900, 10 miles from
Adrian, and Miss Bessie Church. They
were under arrest charged with break
ing into the residence Of Editor s. G.
Stacy of the Tecumseh Herald during
the absence of the family and taking
therefrom a feather bed, bedclothing,
a big job lot of ladies' underwear, sever
al pairs of shoes, a quantity of groceries,
etc.
Entrance was effected in the night.
Saturday morning the man about the
premises noticed that a window had been
forced, and investigating he found that
the house had been ransacked and the
front door key taken. Officers were no
titled, and as the absence Of the key de-
noted an intended return of the burglars
two men were stationed in the house
that night. Near II o'clock the key soft
ly turned in the lock, and the forms OF
two persons, apparently men, as they
wore mems clothing, appeared. There
was a sudden rush. a clasping of the in.
truders In strong arms and q terrific
squabble. embellished with female
screams. Astonishment caused one OF
the officers to let one of the burglars slip,
and she fed. The other fought like q
tigress and laid about right and left with
what proved 10 be an insect powder
spray loaded with cayenne pepper. One
of her captors, Abner Wilson, SCOT it in
The eye" but held his girl, and the pris
oner was secured. Then she confessed
her identity and gave away her daugh
ter Bessie as the other burglar. Bessi.
was followed to her home and arrested.
What do you plead!' asked the cour
as he took off his glasses after receiving
the information. "We waive examina
ton, sir was the firm, clear and bust
nesslike response OF the elder prisoner
II will make your bonds $500 each" re
joined the court. Your honor, that il
too high; it is excessive" again spoke tn,
elder lady. Il must make it $500" sale
the court. Very well, sir. but it is coz
high; | cannot get it; we must go Il
jail" The prisoners then signifed to the
officer that they were ready. and the rus
tie of the silk skirts of the burglars wa
heard moving down the stairs. They ar,
in Jail awaiting trial.
The affair is the greatest surprise ant
sensation Teeumseh has had in many
day, and society experiences o tremen
dous shock.-Cnicago Tribune.
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Decidedly Unconventionai.

Mrs. Angelina Allen is at it again.
Mrs. Allen is the young woman who
nearly threw Founder Bradley Of Asbury
Park into fits last summer by appearing
on the beach in q bathing suit, in which
material was very scanty. She is now
riding around Newark, N. j., on q BIZ
cycle, wearing . pair Of tight fitting cor
duroy breeches, patent leather shoes, q
zouave jacket, . mans shirt, and posi-
bly, some other clothes not visible to the
general public. Tho natives watch for
her with bated breath, and her appear
ance IL the signal for q rush to all the
front windows along the street.-New-
ark On. j. Correspondent.
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driven away from the machine with much
straining of muscle on their part and
shouting and whip cracking on the part
OF the driver, or a winding drum may be
used. This machine is anchored at some
distance from the frame and is operated
by o lever, to which a team is attached
and driven in q circle. The chain is
wound upon this drum as it reyolves.
When the cha:a breaks, as it some
times does, some one is apt to be hurt.
That some one is generally the man who
tends the bullwheel. The strain on the
chain is really enormous. and its frac-
ture is followed by rapid revolutions
of the bullwheel i'm a reverse direction,
the broken end of the chain flying about
with each turn of the wheel. To be
struck by this loose end means a broken
leg or arm almost certainly, and some
times the bullwheel tender is killed out
right or so badly hurt that death ulti-
mately ensues
The lever is much more generally used
than the bullwheel machine. Its essen
tial parts are a long, strong lever formed
of a moderate sized tree trunk, divers
rods and chains and "A" shaped tim
Der constructions, technically known as
braces" These braces are of three
sizes. A .big BRACE is IS feet high, a
middle brace" IA and a t'little brace" 8.
The stump to be pulled is treated in ad-
vanc exactly as the one to be extracted
by q bullwheel. A brace is set over it,
the chains and rods are connected, a
team is attached to the free end of the
lever and started up, and the stumpcomes
out-that is, as before, il nothing breaks.
The sweeping end of the lever is sup
ported by a heavy wheel, which moves
in the arc of q circle. Near the other
end the lever is chained to a stump,
which acts as a fulcrum. and is for the
time called the anchor" and the take
up rods" which connect with the ''brace
rods" are hooked into eyes, shown in the
cut, first on opeiside of the fulcrum and
then ON the other, SO as to get apurchase
with the backward as well as the forward
movement Of the lever.
The men who tend or hook up the
takeup levers bear a somewhat similar
| relation to the operation of this machine
as the bullwheeltender does to the other
machine, and they are in about the same
physical danger. The breaking of q rod,
a hook or a chain link under the great
| strain is almost certain to result disas-
trously, and | have seen a man hit by
a broken rod thrown 20 feet away, to be
picked up unconscious. In this particu'
lar instance the man was not seriously
hurt, but his escape was regarded as al
most miraculous. Hardly a season passe:
with any stump gang" that some n j:
not badly injured.
A stump gang usually consists of 100
Is men, although the actual operation o.
either type of machine does not require
more than four or five. The contracting
stump puller usually engages to put tht
stunps into fence as well as to extrac'
them, and this work and the making
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PULLING FOR DEAR IIFR.

uon Is supported by specially built
trucks, is hauled over the stump to be
pulled, let down to the ground, and the
trucks are removed. Men have already
Ding about the roots and inserted strong
chains under them. These chains are
carried up. to the eye which depends
from the lower end of the $crew by q
collar, and hooked. The great chain or
cable has already been wound on the
drum Of the revolving nut, which ID
termed the "bullwheel." When all ID
ready, the chain is unwound, the bull
wheel revolyes. the screw rises, and the
stump comss out-unless something
breaks.
The unwindingo OF the chain may be ac-
oomplishsd BY attaching to It's free end
mo Or moEs strong teams, which ere
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Germs In Mnk..

Those fortunate people who have their
own cow have an extra care laid upon
them by their possession. Their milk
cans must be kept In an absolutely per
feet condition
They should be washed, scalded and
wiped perfectly dry after using. Then
they must be set out in the sun for ia
hours. or II that isimpossible, put before
the fire. Just before they are used again
they should be washed, scalded and
dried again. There is nothing IN which
germs develop 30 rapidly a. IN milk. and
extra care ID necessary to make sure that
the utensils contain no germs-Nsw
York World.
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Notice OF Hearing.

state Of South Dakota, county OF Lake. In
county court. In the matter Of the estate Of q.
Bullock, deceased. The state OF South Dako-
Ia sends greeting, TO N. c. Bullock and heirs Ut
law and next OF kin OF @. A. Bullock, deceased,
and to all whom these presents may come, No
tice is hereby given, that ". c.. Bullock has filed
with the judge of this court, . petition praying
for letters of administration OF the estate OF G.
A. Bullock, deceased, and that Tuesday, the 18th
day Of December, 1898, at 10 O'Clock q. m. of said
day, being q day of special term Of this court, at
the ONCE OF the county judge, in the city of Mad.
isop, county OF Lake, has been get for hearing
said petition, when and where any person inter
ested may appear and show cause why the said
petition should not be granted.
Dated az Madison, this 29th day OF November,
A.. ID. 1893.
j. Fl. WILLIAMSON.
Judge OF the County Court.
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sartoris.

Algernon Sartoris, Mrs. U. s. Grants
grandson, who Is now in Washington
with his mother, said recently that it
was his plan to be graduated at Oxford
and then to study law, after which he
intends to come to America to live. He
is a tall young man and is said to bear
tina Grant features more markedly than
either Of the generals sons. Mrs. Sar.
toris in a year is to return to this ccuD
try 10 make her home here.
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THE BIG BRACE ALL READY.
covery when he run acrost stump fences,
en- he's a-goin to make a lie paintin of a
corner in the fence in my 10 acre lot,
where the ROBBERY bushes is thick, with
his wife a-pickin berries into it. $
"He's a-goin to make another one, he
says, of the king stump of the fence
that's got roots that run Is feet up into
the air. Behind the stump stands a sug-
ar maple, en- CROWN close by en- in front
of the stump is some shoemake bushes.
That artist said when the leaves of that
tree en- them bushes turned in the fall,
their yeller en- red en- the purple of the
hill in the distance, with the dark brown
of the stump roots, made a great scheme
o. color. | didn't know what he meant
till he explained it to me en- showed me
the water color sketch he made Of it.
Then | understood it, en- | shook hands
with him. | see he he'd some sense,
though when he first come around en-
began to make pictures in the valley en-
on the hill where my farm is greed
with my neighbors in thinkin a full
grown man that couldn't find nothin
better to do than make pictures want
much"
When my ~friend-the Tioga county
farner-had got that far in his mono
logue, he stopped to draw breath.
That Teller" he went Of after a little,
''larnt me more about good lookin things
than / ever knew before. Ialwiz knowed
this here valley wuz a hanson place,
but | didn't know why it wuz so. En-,
ez | said, he made a friend of me by see
In the good looks they is in good, honest
stump fences"
Stump fences exist only in regions
originally covered by a growth Of pine
and some other varieties of practically
indestructible timber. The stumps of
pines do not DECAY in the ground, as do
those of hard Wood and most other trees,
owing no doubt TO the great amount of
pitch contained in the roots. Nor do
these stumps yield readily to the force
of dynamite. They may be split by ex-
plosion, TO be sure, but they are so firm
ly anchored by their long, strong and
sinuous roots that there is no practicable
method of getting rid of them save by
extraction. So large a proportion Of the
ground in which pine has grown is taken
up by the stumps that in order to make
it ~cultivatable with profit they must be
removed.
The man who discovered how to per
form this gigantic dentistry Of pioneer
work is entitled to a statue in every
township in the old time pine regions
and he who found that the extracted
stumps were excellent material for fences
and so made it profitable to uproot them
In entitled to similar honors. Theil
names, however, have not been preserved
but the root fences that are to be found
in many localities are, after all, sufficien
memorials to their ingenuity and sound
hard sense.
There are two general types of STUNT
pullers. In one the chief features are
strong wooden truss frame from 10 t.
10 feet high, a massive steel screw, a cir
cular revolving nut and drum of mann
moth size and a long, strong chain o
cable. The frame, which in transports
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Navigation Of the Dead Sea.

At length the Dead sea is to be navi-
gated, and two sailing boats, one rather
large and heavy for cargo and the other
smaller and neater for passengers, have
just been conveyed from Jafa to Jeru-
salem by rail and thence to the Dead sea
by road. The boats belong to the sui
tan, as does also the Dead sea, which
forms part Of the crown property, and it
is Abdul Hamid's intention to turn to
good account the salt, bitumen and sui
phur that abound there.
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R-egimental Journalism.

Few corps in the British army are now
without their regimental magazines or
weekly papers. The FIRST Of these publ.
cations was that started three years ago
BY the Ennisken Fnsileers. under The title
Of tsThe 6prig 81 Shiile,agh.r an appro-
pirate name, considering the number Of
men belonging TO this corps who are laid
mp all the TIME with broken heads. The
organ Of the Somersetshife regiment re-
tOices in the name Of The Light Bob
Gazette" l6g
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UPROOTING STUMPS.
THE soLloEsT YIELD TO THE POWER
or THE LEVER.

And When They Are Pulled They Are
Made Into a Fence That Is Rugged and
Strong and Impassable Forever. and Sat-
isles Also the Artistic Sense.
lyon may talk about yer hedges, en-
yer wire fences, en- yer stun walls, en-
yer rails al you've a min to, but tell
We they amt none. on EN- q comparin to
stump fences fer lastin, en- fer keepin
stock in. en- keepin it out, en- fer good
looks. / hev heerd some folks say
stump fences wuzn't hanson, but | dis
agree with them folks. think stump
fences is pleasant things to look at.
They wuz A. feller mp here in old
Tioge county last summer en- fall that
paints pictures fer a Twin, en- he made a
lot of sketches of the stump fences on
my farm. He said he he'd made a dis
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The paper mill at this place has made
from sunfower stalks several tons Of pa
per which win be Gent to experts in the
east. The paper is regarded - superior
10 straw paper. The mill Is now buying
sunfiowers. Last evening The Daily Re-
publican ran its entire edition On the
snnfiower paper. - Salina Kan.) Dis
patch.
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Exhibited the Remains.

In Philadelphia the other day there
was . striking evidence OF the intense de-
sire of some people to exhibit the re-
mains" at funerals. A man had died of
diphtheria, and the authorities very prop
erly refused to permit a public funeral.
So the family had the coffin containing
the corpse stood on end in front Of q
window of the house, so that the face of
the dead could be viewed from the street.
-Philadelphia Letter.