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Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-12-21
1t Hits the Spot.

When suffering from a severe cold
and your throat and lungs feel sore,
take a dose of Y----~-1 + o L + Y S
HONEY 81 TIA r, when
the soreness = will be at
once relieved, a warm crate
full feeling and sJ healing of the
parts affected will be experienced and
you will say: "It feels so good. 1T
HITS THE SPOT" Guaranteed.
f. n. Aldrlch.
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-12-21
TO CURE COLD IN ONE DA~

Take Warmers White Wine OF Tar
Syrup, the best cough remedy on
earth. % and so cents. E. N. Aldrich
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-12-21

Come and see US before Christ
mas. Our goods are worth look
ing at and better still worth buy
ing. In every department we will
offer the best and biggest values
of the season to attract the great
est number of buyers.
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-12-21

rrSIo to Advertise if you
| MIOdo this intelligently.
n.o1sTrR can secure you GUS
n'i,, Int YOU must treat them
nel;, ], order to retain them.
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-12-21

the soreness
once relieved,
full feeling and
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
Misplaced

There was once a paterfamilias who
was eloquently indignant about the
way his daughters imposed upon the
laundress in the matter Of white petit
coats in winter. "It was a shame at all
seasons, he said, ''but in cold weather.
with no excuse for wash skirts, it was
cruel to ask that poor, hardworking
girl to slave and toll over their wash
ing as she was obliged to do"
One day the paterfamilias, happening
to pass through the laundry, tore up
stairs, white with rage. to where his
daughters were. "Well, girls" he
cried, ''this is too much. White petit
coats in winter are bad enough, but
when it comes to such white p%etticoats
as I saw Della breaking her back over
just now down stairs-ruf1es from top
to hem and tucks and lace and en-
broidery-why, it's a days work to
look at n Of them. If you must have
such extravagant fripperies, for heavens
sake have them plain"
The daughters investigated. Since
the last paternal outburst they had
given up white petticoats, either ruff1ed
or plain, and in either spring, summer,
autumn or.winter. 1t was as they fear
ed; the '~'extravagant fripperies, ruff
fed from top tn hem, over which poor
Della was breaking her back, were the
property of poor Della herself.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
His Plan Wan Simple.

Freterick the Great once requested
his generals to submit to him plans of
campaign for a supposititioua '.sse. Hans
Joachim Won Ziethen, the famous cav
airy general, produced a queer diagram
in black ink. 1t represented a big blot
in the center, intersected by two black
ZINES, whose four terminals ended each
in a smaller blot. The king was furi-
GUS and uphraided his old comrade in
arms bitterly for what he considered
disrespect.
In explanation Won Ziethen said :
why. your majesty, l am the large
plot in the center-the enemy is any
pne Of the four smaller blots. He can
march upon me from the right OF, left,
from the front or real. II he does, I
simply advance upon any Of the four
lines and lick him where l find him."
Frederick was satisfied.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
In the Tap Root Of an Oak.

I remember a curious incident con.
nected with the tap root of an oak.
This oak, a good tree Of perhaps 200
years growth. was being felled at
Brakeman wood when the woodmen
called attention to something peculiar
on the tap root. On clearing this of soil
we found that the object was a horse
shoe Of ancient make. Obviously in
the beginning an acorn must have fall
en- into the hollow Of this cast shoe. and
as it grew through the slow genera
tions the root filled up the circle. car
rying it down into the earth in the
process Of it's increase till at length we
found wood and iron thus strangely
welded. That tap root with the shoe
about it is now or used to be a paper
weight in the vestibule of Brakeman
Hall. Rider Haggard in Longman' q
Magazine.
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made both the great beasts get IN and

made both the great beasts get up and
began to move on. As long as Harding
remained within running up distance
he continued to held the revolver raised
and leveled, sitting sideways on his
animal to insure an accurate aim. But
after a minute the camels broke into a
long, awkward trot. In two minutes
they We're beyond pursuit. Then the
professor pockcted his firearm and
thrsw his lc;, across the saddle. ''Your
own fault. remember!' was his final
greeting before he disappeared over the
top of the nearest sand dune.
When he had disappeared, Harding
looked about him, reviewing the situa-
ton. It was no cheering prospect that
met his eye-a dead waste Of sand hills
to north, south, east and west, white
hot in the glare of the tropical sun
Two dark blots alone broke the pale
surface of the wilderness, the %stiffen-
ing bulk of the dead camel and the limp
figure of the fever stricken camel driv-
er-truly no pleasant place to die in,
more especially if you happen to be
young and strong and the death to
which you stand condemned is death by
hunger and thirst. A rev hours would
exhaust the scanty remains of food and
water left in the skin and saddlebag
lying hard by the dead camel, and then -
Harding shook off anticipations of
coming torture to take stock Of his
wretched commissariat and, rummag-
ing in the bag, found a priceless treas
ure, nothing less than an untouched
bottle of quinine! Why, with this he
might hope tc revive the Khirgiz, whose
case, but for the supposed exhaustion Of
the expeditions medicine chest, had
never been a serious one. Escape was
yet possible.
Escape! From a trackless wilderness
in which they could only wander aim
lessly to and fro, having no single in
strument by which to determine their
position or point the way? Saving his
assistants pack. the professor had car.
ried off everything.
No, not everything. Even as this
thought sank like a stone into Harding's
heart his eye fell upon something gilt
tering at his foot. With a shaking hand
uc SIdSpeu IL, IllUcu At-duu UIOhc iutO
a cry Of mingled triumph and thanks
giving which startled the Khirgiz from
his lethargy. Pushing back his long
hair, the man made an effort to sit up.
'The master? Where is the master?"
he asked, looking about him in surprise.
Harding laughed grimly. Heaven
alone knows. since he has left his com-
pass here"
And heaven alone knows to this hour
the course of the wretched Kirkhoffer's
wandering. When Harding and the
Khirgiz, guided by the instrument
which he had dropped in his scutf1e
with the Englishman. reached, after
manifold tolls and sufferings, the con
fines of human habitation. they could
obtain no tidings Of their vanished
chief. And, although Harding insisted
on organizing a new expedition to
search for him, its labors were fruitless.
His fate remains as unknown to the
world as the history of that ancient en-
pire whose records lie buried with him
in the sands Of central Asia.-Chicago
News.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
Pure Water a Poiwon,

BY chemically pure water" we
usually understand perfectly fresh. dis
titled water. Distilled water is a danger.
Gus prouoplasmic poison. The same
poisonous effects must occur whenever
distilled water is drunk. The sense of
taste is the first to protest against the
use Of this substance. A mouthful of
distilled water. taken by inadvertence.
will be spit out regularly. The local
poisonous effect of distilled water makes
itself known by all the symptoms of Il
catarrh Of the stomach on a small scale.
The harmfulness of the process. 10 much
resorted to today. Of washing out the
stomach with distilled water is &C.
knowledged. National Druggist.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
They Ought to Unite.

Here is a story of a Milwaukee couple
who agreed to separate after Is years
of married life: They continued to re-
side within a block of each other and
to pass the time of day imllgsonally
when they met. When the silver ami
versary of the wedding came on. both
celebrated it, although separately. Two
church ceremonies were performed in
the church where they were welded 25
years before. the husbands ceremony
being at 8 o'clock in the morning and
the wife's at 9. That evening each gave
a reception at the residence at the same
hour, and the same friends called u
pay their respects, successfully going
from one house to the Other. -Milwau
kee Sentinel
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SELFlSHNESS.
We Nearly Always Discover 1t IN
Othe~s, hut Never In ourselves

we Nearly Always ~ IN
Oths~1, hut Never In Ourselves.
Probably the most insidious of all the
faults is that upon the absence of which
we most pride ourselves, and that at the
same time we notice most readily in
others, In some of US it il pride, in
others gossiping, Tho list is long, and
we know it without going into details,
hut that which we do not seem to real
tie is chat tho very most common fault
Of US all us a mass is sellshness
We do know that nearly every II
we meet is selfish, but We seldom dis
pover how selfish we are ourselves un.
less shown by a sudden touch Of deep
regret. Most of us discover, for in
stance, that we were. selfish in re!Er-
ence to some dear friend dead, but We
stop right there, and while we regret
the past and shed useless tears over the
lost chance we do Not make any now
overwhelmingly, that we are selfish
to u living friends-and while we
think that they are being unfair, un-
kind, to us w forget to be generous
ourselves, to look beyond the frown,
the hard word, the selfish act or neglect,
and SOC what it is that causes all this,
to see what strain u friend is bearing
and share it in so fur as patience, gener'
Gus forbearance, will tighten it,
Think how selfish most Of us have
been in time gone by, how quick words
have gone out to hurt hearts already
hurt, when from US at least that partlc-
ular GROSS friend had a right to hope
for better things.
DO not make a worry close eyamlna'
zion Of things in general ana SEQ whether
you are not yourself mt selfish than
are your friends, and h.,umber that
the greatest generosity in this world.is
to have patience with others in their
"seltishness, ~ for in half the cases at
least it is pain or worry, not real in
tended unkindness ut al. -Philadelphia
Times.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
A STROKE o. GENIUS.
1t Elected the uMbOundcd Admira.
ton OF the Fn rtner.

1t ELECTED the Unboundcd Admiral
ton of the Fnrrner
Only u few summers ago. among the
many others that visited the wild re.
gion adorned by one of Michigan's in
land lakes. was an artist. He had Il
wealth of scenery from which to select
and chose a picturesque view with Il
hill of rocks and jack pines rs a back,
ground. The owner of the property
transferred to canvas did not think
much Of the enterprise or Of the man
who would dawdle away his time in
such an undertaking, but the artist
paid the summer rates without a muir.
mur and never entered any complaints
against the accommodations. The next
season the painter was again among the
guests.
"How did TIT there picter of yours
come out, anyhow asked the curious
landlord.
"Oh. fairly well. You know that |
have my name to Lake yet. | sold it
for 81. 0OO.
"No," exclaimed the farmer excited
ly. mot 81. 0O0. You're chaffin me-"
mot a bit of it, laughed the artist,
81 got 81, 900 for that little view before
there was a frame on it,"
"Shake, stranger. l allus thought !
was purity slick IN Il decker, but I'll be
doggone if you don't, take the prize.
You skinned that Teller slick and
clean"
"How SOL" Indignantly. for his pride
was touched.
"Oh, don't play inherent with me.
It won't go no further. But you done
him brown. A thousand fur that spot
where you couldn't raise a bean to the
acre! If the critter that bought that
picter had seen me, I'd a sold him the
hull durn farm for 1915. Detroit
Free Press.
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go
DISCCNTENT.

yair are the fields in the spring with the sweet
perfumed breath of The meadows,
Fresh as the green messy dells where the
gorse flares its torches of gold;
Winter has gone from the earth and returned
3 to the kingdom of shadows;
Feelings rush out from The heart, like to
frozen streams losing their hold.
Yet as l stand in the light of the sun and in
gladness rejoice .-u. -@ "
Deep in my heart there arises a restless,
dissatisfied voice
"Life's hopes are never fulfilled; there is al.
ways left something to long for!'
Lillian Eleanor Carlow in Madame.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
Played Out,

Dull headache, pains in various parts
OF the body, sinking at the pit OF the
stomach, loss OF appetite, feverishness,
pimples or sores are all positive evidences
Of impure blood. No matter how it be-
came so, it must be purified in order to
obtain good health. Acker's Blood
Elixir has never failed to cure Scrofulous
or Syphilitic poisons or any other blood
diseases. 1t is certainly a wonderful
remedy and we sell every bottle on a
positive guarantee. Sold by Chapple
Drln Co.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
OUR JAWS NEED EXERCISE,
Lack of M~astlcntlOn Causes Dyspcp-
sin nMd Teeth Troubles.

NlV una lSetu ArOUOlehs
Mastication is rapidly becoming a lost
art, and, although we have become
hardened to the fact that th]ree.fourths
Of the dyspepsia is due to this cause, it
might surprise some Of US to know that
the early decay Of the teeth and diseases
Of the gums are oocasioned by this same
lack Of maxillary exercise.
A disease of the gums, called Eigs s
disease, which is every day becoming
more comm a. IL caused almost entirely
by the want of proper mastioation.
Twenty five years ago this trouble was
not considered Of any Importance by
the dentist on account Of its rare occur.
renee
Today it is given more care than the
decay Of the teeth, as he is frequently
consulted Ivy patients who have a full
SIT Of natural teeth which are quite loose
in the jaw, Aside from this they are
sound and healthy, and after a certain
development in the disease nothing can
be done to help them.
BY lack of exercise the blood which
should nourish both the bones and the
gums is not carried to the part, nor does
the blood carry sufficient material to the
teeth; hence the enamel formed is de.
~fective, aud early decay results. Free
quently, too, the mechanical develop.
ment Of the jaw Is arrested by this same
want Of motion.
Most Of the food among the better
class of people today is cooked so as to
require very little mastioation, and the
consequence is that the muscles have
become tabby, the jaws slender and the
processes for the attachment of the
muscles almost obliterated. Boston
Globe.
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A. Serious Omission.

"Here's something queer" said the
man who is always looking for flaws.
"What's that?' asked the man who
was reading the news over the Others
shoulder.
"This account Of the death Of Gap.
tain Biddleby. I've read it through
twice now and l can't find it said any.
where that 'thesnews of his death came
to bis friends with a shock. "--Cleve.
land Leader.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
What II shiloh?

a grind old remedy for Cough, Colds
and Consumption; used through the
world forhalf u century, has cured in
Vulnerable, cases OF incipient consump.
ton and believed many in advanced
stages. II you are not satisfied with tho
results w will refund your money
Price % cts, ~ cts. and 500. Sold by
Chapple Drug Go.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
Her MlAtAkN.

"How did it happen that Miss Single.
ton refused to marry the young clergy.
MANI
why. when he proposed to her she,
being Il little deaf, thought he was ask
ing her to subscribe to the organ fund.
So she told him she had promised her
money to some other mission. '-Har.
per's Bazaar.
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Pond of ulA DehCent,

O'Brien--And so Phelim is proud av
his descint. is he?
McTurk--Yes. he is terribly stuck up
about it,
O'Brien-Well, begorra, Oi've q BIT
av a DESCENT meself to boast about. Oh
DESCENDED four stories wanst whin the
ladder broke and niver shpilled a brick.
Answers.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21

Prizes given with Diamond &C" Soap.
Ask your grocer, or send your name on
postal card to Cudahy Packing Co.,
South Omaha, Neb., and they will mail
you free q catalogue OF several hundred
useful and ornamental articles. Prizes
include books, music, toys, games, ETC.,
and are adapted for old and young.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
Tn in Fractions,

Mamma Bessie, bow many sisters
he's your new playmate?
Bessie-.He has one, mamma. He
tried to fool me by saying that he had
two half sisters, but he didn't know
that I've studied arithmetic. Tacoma
Ledger
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
Young Mnthers.

Group is the terror of thousands of
young mothers because it's outbreak is
80 agonizing and frequently fatal.
Shiloh's Cough and Consumption Cure
acts like magic in cases of Group. It has
never been known to fail. The worst
cases relieved Immediately. Price Is
cts. 80 cts. and $l,00. Sold by Chapple
Drug Co.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21

"Are You related to each other" IN
quired the probate judge at Oklahoma
City of a German bridal couple bearing
the same name. And the groom replied
"Nein. Das is watts de matter. We
wants to be alretty. kansas City
journal.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
Reason

Maud-W hat made her change her
Wedding day?
May-lt was bargain day ut Rollers.
.-JeWish Comment.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21

Over 1000, 900 bottles. Of the value
Of $35, 600, are recovered each year from
the dustyards in London and returned
to their owners
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21

It's a long life, but devotion to the true interests and
prosperity of the American people has won for it new
friends as the years rolled by and the original mem
bcrs of it's family passed to their reward, and these ad-
mirers are loyal and steadfast today, with faith in it's
teachings and confidence in the information which it
brings to their homes and fresides. AS a natural con
sequence it enjoys in it's old age all the vitality and
Wgor OF its youth, strengthened and ripcned by the ex
periences of over half a century. 1t has lived on it's
merits, and on the cordial support of progressive
Americans. 1t is
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21
How IT Happened.

"Wbut time is it?' r-
"Ilayen't you got a watch?"
ayes, hut l don't wear 1t any more"
"Why Dot?:"
"Peoplo kegt bothering me asking
me what, time 1t was. '-Chicago Rec
ord.
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REMoRsE.

Red lips that dumbly culver for his kiss
And now but fondly touch his graveyard
stone
All. lips he loved of old, remember this,
He had not died if he had only knowni
Arthur j. Stringer in narper's Magazine.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21

Sick headache absolutely and posi-
lively cured by using Moki Tea, A
pleasant herb drink. Cures constipa-
ton and indigestion, makes you eat,
sleep; work and happy. Satisfaction
guaranteed Or money back, % cents and
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21

Diamond &C" Soap is a high grade
laundry soap that can be used in hard
or soft water.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-21

An open face nickel watch free to
users OF Diamond &c" Soap. AJAX your
grocer. !
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Send all subscriptions to THE GAZETTE
The morning news., 1899-12-04

It is difficult to estimate at its true value
an acre of good land devoted to edible
crops. Such an acre made as rich as it
should be and kept steadily planted to
beans. cabbage, potatoes, onion, green"
corn, asparagus, spinach beets, artichokes
and a few other vegetables may be worth
anywhere from SO to 500, according as
the situation is favorable TO market and
the gardener a man of push and capacity
as a salesman. Near our cities and large
towns there are many separate acres of
land that should yield the owners as much
as $500 a year, and we have no doubt
many are made to do it under the inten-
sive culture of vegetables. A person ex-
pert In growing plants for sale and equal
ly expert in finding customers can make
far more than this sum even. 1t is quite
possible for a farmer of intelligence to
eupport a small family the greater part
of the year In the products of an acre of
rich soil. IL can be made to produce
more net money than ten acres of cotton
or twenty acres of corn as usually culti-
waited. This is true.
The morning news., 1899-12-04
Teachers nd ThomasriIIe.

Thomasville, Ga, Dec. 3.-The Thomas
County Teachers Association held their
monthly meeting here yesterday. The
teachers at these meetings discuss many
questions of interest and profit to their pro-
tession. County Superintendent of Schools
X. t. MacLean addressed the teachers yes
terday. Capt. MacLean is an enthusias-
tic and effective worker in his position as
superintendent.
The ''cake-walking' fraternity have
about run the gamut here. The last was
a 'pickaninny cake-walk." 1t was a hi,
Chicken-fighting is still practiced by
some OF our people. They go over the
line in Florida, however. for their his
disputes" Such an event was recently
pulled Off.
The morning news., 1899-12-04
Waste Not!

If all the waste on Southern farms was
saved and utilized, what difference 1t
would make in the footing of the years
account People often wonder why 1t Is
that our foreign born farmers, especially
those from continental Europe, prosper
where our native farmers run in debt and
finally sell out and quit. There is more
than one reason, but a prominent one is
that they have learned in the hard lines
of the old country that waste makes
want, and consequently they come pretty
near to saving everything they produce
and putting 1t to some useful purpose. On
many of our Texas farms the annual waste
is enough 10 cut the years opera ations 10
per cent. short. We have seen farm ami
mails fed corn and hay in mud from one
to twelve inches deep. more than half
of the feed being wasted. We have seen
fields covered with grass that was left to
be killed by frost and burned off in the
spring 90 get ID out of the way of the
plow, while the cattle were suffering for
hay and the soil for humus. We have
seen cows and horses and hogs stinted in
food until double the quantity necessary
to keep them in good condition would be
required to reinstate them. We have seen
plow teams fed in soap boxes nailed 10
trees, 40 save the building of stables and
managers, though the amount of food re-
quired under such conditions is % per cent
greater than would be required if the ami
mails were made comfortable. What our
farmers need more than anything else is
to snake off the "d-l-rnay-care" habits
of the olden time end get Down to busi-
ness. making every edge cut" every
stroke of work count. throw away no op-
pOrtuuity. and substitute a carefully stud
led economy for reckless waste.