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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08
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Much has been written about the
high class draft stallion. while the I'm
p~ortance of the high class mare has
been overlooked in exploiting the equine
breeding industry, says Drover's Jour-
nal. While "like begets like OF likeness
of some ancestor" the high grade mare
becomes a coequal factor in the i'm
provement of the horse stock Of the
country. When the industry was pros
trated and prices had declined below
the level of profitable production farm
ers were excusable in sacrificing their
best mares, but with the return Of
prosperous times there is no investment
that pays better than a good draft
mare ON the farm.
The farmer must needs employ teams
In cultivating his farm, and a span Of
good draft mares make ideal workers.
As a rule mares are freer workers,
truer pullers and less liable to ailments
than geldings and are qualified to per-
form the double function of farm serv-
ice and raising a foal every year. A
high grade draft mare mated to a good
stallion will produce a foal that at ma
turity will command $500 to $500 at
current prices. II the mare were nego-
tiated in the open market she probably
would command around 5000 to $3.50.
The raising of horses is attended with
no more inconvenience than the cattle
industry, while a car lot Of horses will
sell for more than double the amount
received for the same number Of cattle.
With a brilliant outlook for the horse
industry is there a better investment
than a few good draft mares on the
farm. each capable Of bringing a return
Of 5000 annually for her foal when 1t
is matured for commercial use? The
foal of the draft mare is a byproduct,
as If properly managed she will fill the
function Of a worker on the farm be-
sides performing her maternal duties.
Size and Speed.
The illustration, which is reproduced
from American Cultivator, shows one
of the most remarkable horses in the
world. He is seventeen hands high,
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08
Now and Then

The staff writer of the st. Paul
Dispatch in his ante-con vention
write.u up of the ST. Louis gather
ing drew some interesting COM
parsons of the present and for
mer democratic conventions and
conditions that were true to life.
Here is a part of the picture:
Eight years ago the name of Grover
Cleveland, if mentioned at all, was
Kissed and hooted with corn and his
picture was turned to the wall.
Today the only man whom the dem
ocratic party has elected president
since 1856 is very much in evidence.
His ruddy c~ountenance and strong
features look down serene from
hundreds of corridors and hooks
where delegates do gather.
He is considered a strong POSSIBLE
ity albeit the situation is SO uncertain
that the only safe thing to predict is
an old-time democratic row.
In Chicago eight years ago "Free
silver and Is to l" was the slogan.
Bry an with the cross of gold and
crown of thorns was deifed. AT this
writing Mr.. Bryan is plotting with
all of the energy at his command how
to defeat the nomination of Cleveland
or Parker. He has only a small
minority at his back, and even those
who are anti-Parker he cannot con-
troll.
And what changes, too, since four
years ago this day at Kansas City! At
high noOn the Declaration of Inde-
pendence was read and the life size
pictures of w. j. Bryan and Chas. A.
Towne we're dropped from the dome
of the big convention hall amidst a
seem which rivaled any Fourth OF
July demonstration ever attempted.
Today Mr.. Bryan is hiring boys
for a dollar each TO distribute his
newspaper, the Commoner, to all the
delegates and alternates to the con-
yention.
And Mr.. Towne is here depicting
the scenes of carnage for a syndicate
of newspapers. He is a tied-up Parker
delegate, with strong German ten
denotes.
In 1900 imperialism" was declared
to be the paramount issue. But now
the party leaders have gone back to
the old WORKOUT issue of the tariff
and while hardly any two of them
agree on what they want to declare,
it is pretty certain that tariff will be
the central feature of the resolutions.
As is usual in the preliminaries, all
is chaos and confusion. The dele
gates to this convention represent all
shades of democracy. Perhaps those
who are able to gauge their status
more accurately than any of the
others r the Hearst delegates.
These men in the convention know
that they were elected through the
liberality of their candidate, and they
ire in St. Louis now to further put
that prodigality to a greater test.
Not one-tenth of the Hearst followers
ever saw the man for whom they have
been instructed; they we're elected by
his personal representatives and they
are here to do his bidding.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

Scotland Citizen: What in
terest has the state in Pierre
more than in any other town?
The location of the capital is a
purely business proposition and
it should be deter mined by the
convenience to the general pub
lie. So far as development of
country west Of Pierre is con-
cerned the removal would make
no difference whatever. That
development will depend entirely
upon the productiveness of that
country. The cou utry west of
Chamberlain has been develop
ing more rapidly than that west
of Pierre, and that is certainly
not due to any capital location.
So far as the property interests
OF the state are concerned the
state would be the gamer by
removal, as the grants offered by
Mitchell are more valuable than
those that have been given by
Pierre.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

The rural free delivery service
furnishes one Of the most radical
changes in the history Of the
government. The service has
just begun but it is now in force
in 25,O00 routes, or will be July.
Inc petitions are coming in at the
rate Of shout 1000 per month,
ana are disposed Of with dis.
patch. thefe being only 4, 700 not
yet acted upon. That shows
that tho service is so Organized
49, ad - expansion is being cared
- Win complete success. The
xaane q The new facility has won
- Hays 70 = general public an.
peeclstaon, and that On short
ETHZ &e&S xET8E
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

The kilograms from St. Louis
state that the mention of Grover
Cleveland's name was cheered
for eight minutes when the
chairman mentioned the former
president, while the name OF
Bryan was greeted with hardly
a notice of an effort at applause.
Thus even q democratic national
convention has come to honor
the man who as a representative
democrat of the country refused
to bow down to the silver calf
when his party was led into folly
by W. J. Bryan. The eloquence
Of Mr.. Bryan has lost it's hyp-
motto power, and the democratic
party is again about to be clothed
in its right mind.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

When the reorganized democ-
racacy commenced to arrive at
ST. Louis the beginning Of the
week they made Bryan and the
Hearst followers look like 30
cents. Pennsylvania was the
first Of the uninstructed delega-
tions to throw its solid support
tor Parker, and it soon became
apparent that the democratic
party had had enough Of free
silver nonsense and that it was
about to shake itself free from
Organism.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

Armour Herald: Who ever
heard OF anyone considering
Pierre as o desirable town in
which to locate q convention.
Even the newspaper boys of the
state have quit going there
for their mid winter meetings,
though they have q section in
their bylaws which provides
that they shall meet at the state
capital during the Legislative
session.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

The exciting campaign for
the republican nomination for
governor in Minnesota was
brought to a close last week,
by the nomination of Robert
Dunn, of Princeton. At one
time it looked as if the contest
might result similarly to the
Wisconsin bolt, but the repub.
licans of Minnesota proved them
selves made of better stuff, and
the defeated faction gracefully
accepted the decision of the
convention.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

There are within three million
Of as many persons enrolled in
the Sunday schools of this
country as in the public schools,
there being thirteen million in
the former and sixteen million
in the latter. The total Sunday
school mem ership throughout
the whole world is twenty-five
million.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

The government has picked
q Chicago man-Mr. John Finley,
general manager of the Illinois
Central railroad-to engineer
the great enterprise of digging
the panama canal. His salary
will be $4,000 a year and it is
said it will take ten years TO
complete the ditch.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

The first worlds fair of any
note in modern times was held
ia London in 1851. This was fol-
lowed by that of Paris in 1855,
and one ia London in 1862-all
three being comparatively small
enterprise . Vienna in 1873,
Philadelphia in 1876, Paris in
1873 and 1889, Chicago in 1898,
Paris in 1900, ST. Louis in 1904.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

Of 9SA. He is one of the best known
Iowa buttermakers and is an active
member of the Eastern Iowa Butter
makers and Dairymen's association.
A skin Game.
Nine farmers out of ten run their
dairy herds on the lottery principle.
1t differs from the regular nickel-in-
the-slot lottery in hat it deals with
dollars instead Of cents and that if
the game is run long enough and on Il
large enough scale the chances are that
the fellow who plays it will lose out.
A farmer goes to the city and sees a
young man drop a dime in a slot. turn
a handle and get 5 cents in return. He
calls the %youngster ii fool. Then he
goes home and during the next year he
shoves $40 worth of good alfalfa and
milling trust bran into old Brindle and
gets $50 in return. OF course he does
not call himself n names because he
keeps no count either of the feed Brin-
die eats or of the returns she gives.
He cannot be expected to blame him.
self with a loss hat he knows moth
ing about. He knows that he paid of
$500 on the new forty and sUpposes
that Brindle did her share. She cer-
tainly did SO, but if she had not done it
her owner would have been $40 ahead.
The moral rests in the fact that most
men who operate dairies do not know
what it costs to produce a gallon of
milk.-Denver Field and Farm.
Stringent Dairy Laws.
There is no other food which finds
it's way to the human stomach which
liz SO susceptible to the influences which
control its manufacture as butter. says
e. X. Slater. From the cows udder to
the groceryman's counter the different
steps in its manufacture are those in
which the utmost cleanliness should be
employed. Any measures adopted by
the state authorities to promote clean
Illness should be enthusiastically well
coined by the butter consuming publ
lie. and the legislatures Of those states
which do not have stringent dairy laws
should wake up to the fact that they.
ire owing the public a debt which they
should lose little time in %liquidating.
Farmers Get the Small End.
1t is difficult to see why the farmer
should be expected to sell milk at 3
cents or less per quart when the milk
man receives S cents per quart for the
same milk delivered at the consumers
house in the city market, remarks
American Cultivator. The farmer pro-
vides the farm and buildings. the herd
Of cows. the hay and grain, the labor,
and takes all the risk Of the industry,
while the city milkman needs only a
horse and a milk wagon and plenty
Of assurance to inform the milk pro-
Queer that he must work like a slave
for mere subsistence.
Results Of = Failure.
Chicago oleo factories during the
month of August turned out 21,66S ff-
" pound tubs Of uncolored and 691
tubs Of colored cleo. This is 20 per
cent less than the August make of 1902
and 80 per cent less than for August,
1901. For a law that is a failure this
- doing very well.-Hoard's Dairyman.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08
Republican Ticket
For President
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
For Vice President
CHARLES w. FAIRBANKS

For Presidential Electors
HENRY 8. NORRIS of Roberts.
HENRY H.. 4ULSTINE Of Lake.
JOHN j. ANDERSON of Lyman.
D. Il. EVANS Of Butte.
Tor Congressmen-
CHARLES II. BURKE Of Hughes.
EBEN w. MARTIN of Lawrence.
For Governor
8. II. ELROD of Clark.
For Lieutenant Governor
j. e. MCDOUGALL of Marshall.
For Secretary of State
d. d. WIPE of Hutchinson.
For Treasurer
G. B. COLLINS Of Brown.
For Auditor
J.. +. HALLIDAY of Kingsbury.
For Attorney General
PHILO HALLE of Bookings.
For State superintendent
GEORGE w. NASH Of Lincoln.
For Commissions of School and Public Lands
G.. B. BACH of Turner.
For Supreme Court Judges
DIGHTON CORSON OF Lawrence.
DICK HANEY of Dawson.
HOWARD G. FULLER of Faulk.
For Railroad Commissioners Black Hills Dis
DIR. w. g. SMITH of Meade.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

The fiftieth anniversary of the
republican party was celebrated
at Jackson, Mich, July 5th.
Secretary of State John Hay,
who was private secretary to
Abraham Lincoln, the first re-
publican president, was orator
Of the day.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

Howard Spirit: Half of Da-
kota's half a million inhabitants
live within one hundred miles of
Mitchell. Less than one-tenth
of them live within one hundred
miles of Pierre. Is it surprising
that the resolution passed almost
unanimously.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

Consumption is a rare disease
in Japan. Even in winter coughs
are of rare occurrence. Japanese
look upon full deep breathing as
being the most vital function in
life.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

weighs 1850 pounds and has a trotting
record of 2:26. His owner, however,
believes he a reduce this to 2:2O this
fall. though he is thirteen years old. OF
course he is bred through trottlng lines
through Altar Clay COG and his dam,
Lady Ishpeming, who traces to Ham
bletonian. He will pillow or work at
horse or family pet. His owner, Miss
A. A. Marks of Sound Beach, Conn.,,
bitches him up and drives him any
where. She says he can draw a ton on
q good road at a three minute gait, or
he will be matched in any sum to out
trout any horse of his weight and size.
Horsemen who have seen him are won
be bred to combine great size and speed.
The stallion will be given a chance to
demonstrate this.
Alfalfa For Brood Mares.
Hundreds Of thousands of dollars
have been spent for English and French
stations because of their great bone
development. Is it not reasonable to
consider hat a few generations of full
alfalfa feeding, kept up the year round,
will make our horses what they should
be in this respect? asks Farm and
Ranch.
"A prominent Kansas breeder and ex-
porter of Percheron horses says that
for the past twelve years his pure bred
mares have had either alfalfa pasture
or hay every day. He reports that the
American bred colts from these alfalfa
fed mares have developed into heavier
horses, larger boned than their import
ed parents.
Twenty-Five years of observation of
horse breeding by Kansas farmers has
shown that the greater part Of the
benefits that might be secured by the
use Of heavy boned stations is lost be-
cause mares and colts are not properly
treated. Full feeding of alfalfa to
mares and colts will enable us to Sc
cure much greater influence and i'm.
provement from these sires.
Feed Grain to Foals.
"In cases where the brood mare must
work daily the colt needs careful atten-
ton in feeding. Whole oats make q
splendid ration, and so much the better
II these can be mixed with q little
bran," remarks a horseman In the Live
Stock Indicator. ut should be fed In q
manger by itself and should be given
only such quantity as will be eaten up
clean. II handled in this way the colt
from the working mare may be kept In
good flesh and will make practically az
much growth during the first year as
n whose dam is allowed to run idle.
In this case the weaving period is
passed through without any injurious
effect to the colt, so that at no time is
the strong. healthy growth interrupted.
It sometimes happens that corn is more
plentiful than oats or bran, and there
II some temptation to feed a little too
much corn. This, however. is a mis-
take. It will be profitable to sell the
corn and buy oats, because with horses
selling at present prices there is no
form Of feeding done on the farm that
will give better returns than in this In
stance, provided plenty Of frame max
Ing food is used."
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

For Judge of Fifth Judicial Circait-
JAMES II. MCCOY of Brown.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08
3. L. WOOD, Pres. &c, ELLIOT, Cashier
Farmers Bank Of Mnbank.

MILBANK, SOUTH DAKOTA.
Incorporated under South Dakota Banking Law
Transacts Farm Loans and Q General Banking
Business. Collections. Real Estate, Sire and
Hail
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

The mail order business of
Chicago amounts to more than
$50, 600, 600 a year.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

Does a general banking business. Writes in
eurance and makes loans on real estate on the
most favorable terms. 1t will pay you to see us
before placing your loans. When in Corona we
will be pleased to have you call at the bank and
get acquainted.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-08

of 9SA. He is one of the best known
Iowa buttermakers and is an active
member of the Eastern Iowa Butter
makers and Dairymen's association.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-09-13
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Suddenly, at $50, out Of the ST.
Then, out from the shadow of the
valley, black guns poked their shouts.
soldiers hurried about their business,
Cossack orderlieS clattered to quar-
ters, officers rose like warders upon
the crests of the hillocks. The play
of death had begun, and the overture
Numbered nightly.
In the positions in the valley, and
on the isolated kopje to the right
were the men of General the Baron
Stakelbergs First Army corps, 49,
900 soldiers wakened to comaat. In
the spurs of the hills to the east
ward were the $4,000 of General Sar-
ubaeff, the men of the Fourth Army
corps. The play of death did not
lack pIayers-50,0 900 men with an or
chestra of 112 guns:
Five thousand yards away. in the
hills to the southwark. was the Jap
anese army, ensconced in the mys-
terry of their recesses. It's batteries
doomed a bold antiphony to the cho-
rus of our guns. The mountains
shook with the thunder of the can.
nonade.
The spurs of the mountains on the
east were occupied by the men of
General Sarubaeff's corps. Against
them the enemy first directed his
fire. Across the plain the shells
came shrieking and thirsty for blood.
Above the hill they poised for an In
slant, silent and smoke
then swooped to the earth and rend-
ed.
The soldiers covered and crouch
ed. The ground was destitute of COW
er, sun-baked and time-hardened. The
flock of shells increased in number
hailed shrapnel upon the mound as
a thunderstorm in summer. The earth
sprang back in protest. The hill was
lost to view.
The flight of shells ceased. The
gaunt and grizzled hill emerged from
the dust storm. 1t was wrinkled
and twisted as tortured thing. The
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lang corps was being reaped with
shell fire.
The enemy found the mud huts in
the Chinese village-gnawed at them
visiously. Out from the houses
streamed the peasants old men and
children, women with babes at their
breasts, the dogs. and the squealing
swine. The farmers seated them
selves in a row, impassive.l awe
struck. House after house'cru mbled
to it's constituent mud fhe peas
ants sat as statues-a row of Bud
dhist images contemplating ruin
The play of death demanded ohange
of scene 81
1t was o'clock in the ev ening.
The sun was hasting on HI Is mission
westward. The sea glowed as a bur-
nished buckler. The fields Of the
morning were bedraggled straw lit
ter. The dust of battle hung low
over the landscape. The enemylsl
ened his fire. The brigadier of artil-
lery anxiously scanned the horizon.
Experience has taught the danger in
those silences of the enemy.
Half an hour passed. and then the
crash of guns reopened from the
westward. The Japanese had shift
ed their position. They were reach
ing the batteries through the wide
strath on the right having found
our true position only thus late in
the day. Evening fell, and darkness.
Now, for the first time, one could
learn the position of the japanese.
Red tongues of fire licked their way
through the gathering gloom Wick
ed snakes shapes of flame darted
across the distant blackness. The
play of death was closing in pyro-
technic display.
Night fell. and with 1t stiffness.
Away to the left the rattle Of infan-
try fire grew more insistent. The
lights of Red Cross parties and OF
weary gunners watering horses fieck-
ed the darkness. The play of death
had ended it's performance.
DOUGLAS STORY.
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ny Douglas Story.
Copyright, 1904. by Newspaper En-
terprise Association.)
LAO YANG, July 81. 1904.-The
full FLOODED Manchurian sun rose hot
and eager above the mountains Of the
Sioung-yo Chan on the morning of
Sunday. July "a. Men were to die
that day on the plain about Tash-
iackoa, and he desired to see the con-
fiict.
Silently, into the fields, ploded the
Chinese peasantry. Their interests
were not the interests of the men on
the mountains, of the soldiers behind
the guns in the valley. Their pur.
pose was to preserve life. not to des-
troy it. Russian and Japanese might
day and be slain, the Chinaman must
grow the grain to fill the little yellow
bodies in the mud-wahed howell he
called home. So, plough on shoulder.
hoe in hand, he trudged stolidly in
the early half-light, into the millet
fields, rocking nothing, thinking moth.
ing, of the tragedy about to be en-
acted in his midst.
The theater of the battle had been
admirably chosen, magnificently set.
Stretching to right and left, and out
into the wide sweep of the plain,
was carpet of cool and glossy kiao-
lang, the lance-stalked grain of the
country. Above it rose two tawny-
sided hillocks, the SCARED and riven
outposts of the purple range of moun-
tains on the left. On the right, and
outward to the front, it gently, lazi-
ly. rolled itself westward into the
blazinz blue Of the gulf of Lao Yang.
Save for the Chinese farmers on
the footpaths, the whole expanse was
empty. silent, reposeful, wrapped in
the peace of a perfect Sabbath morn.