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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-17
TOWN AND COUNTY.

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Notice the advertisement
of Uncle Toms cabin show.
There are indications Of
which would be very rain
acceptable.
Anna Strut is spending a
week or two In town with
her young friends.
Mr.. Edward Corrin is
here from Des Monies visit
ing his many friends.
/ J. l.. Reyes and family
now have an elegant new
surrey and harness and a
nice gentle horse.
Bert Clouse has returned
and bought the John Nc
Gowan business where he
will open a restaurant.
Walter Haefs has moved
This restaurant to- the Gross
building formerly occupied
by Ollie lawrence.
! Miss Ora Grabinski, Of
Miranda, renewed acquain-
ance with her many Miller
friends the first Of the
week.
The room formerly occu-
pied by Frank Crabtree as
a law Office is now used by
Pearl Clifford as a confec-
tionary store.
Attorney Frank Crabtree
has moved his office one
door south to larger quar-
tiers, demanded by his in
Rcreasing business.
! VIM. Anglin, northeast of
here, is building a large
barn and expects to build a
new house. The carpenter
work is being done by John
Malosh.
, The black rust that causes
the trouble in the wheat is
ia coating of rough black
specs or pimples ON the stock
that might be compared to
black measles.
Strangers passing this
office make fasorable com
.ments about the nice wide
sidewalk in the north end Of
town but wonder why such
a walk rs not laid in the
block further south. Strang-
ers always notice such
things.
The school board has
ordered cement walks about
the schooThouse, but the
grade will not be changed.
This will be better than to
have the walks built down
in the ground, leaving an
unsiOhtlv cut To fiji with
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-17
1st pub. Aug. 10-t3
Notice of Hearing Petition
for Letters of Admins.
tratiOn.
State of South Dakota, IS.
County of Hand.
In County Court,
Special Term, 1904.
In County Court,
Special Term, 1904.

In the matter of the Estate of John.
Peterson, commonly known as John
p. Miller, deceased.
The State of South Dakota sends
Greeting to Anders Sundberg, Peter
S~unstedt, Per Gustaf Peterson, l..
Erick Peterson and others unknown,
if any, heirs at law and next of kin of
said John Peterson, deceased, and to
all to whom these presents may come.
Notice is hereby given, that Anders
Sundberg has filed with the Judge of
this Court a petition praying for Let
tiers of Administration of the estate of
said John Peterson, deceased, to be is
sued to George Beasom, of Miller,
South Dakota, and that Thursday,
the 10Th day of August, A. ID. 1904, at
10 O'Clock in the forenoon of said day,
at the court room of said Court at the
Town of Miller in the said County of
Hand, has been set for hearing said
petition, when and where any person
interested may appear and show cause
why the said petition should not be
granted.
Dated at Miller, S. D., this 9Th day
of August, A. d. 1904.
&C. BRIGGS,
[seall Judge of the County Court.
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very probably has initiated Europes faults
 But Japan is what it is with its good qualities and it's bad. It is in a state of evolution like all the nations. It is emerging from barbarism and beginning to emancipate itself from serfdom. It appears to me to be almost in the con dition Russia was in under Catherine II. It pursues its evolution as we pursue ours and rest assured that its turn will come; it will develop and perfect itself according to the general law"
 W hen asked to point out the progress of the yellow races he replied that we do not know their nature well, and have neither studied nor penetrated into their conscience. For himself he has observed that the Chinese and Hindoos are not a warlike people; that they scorn war and warriors.
 According to the accounts of travel lers." he added, they are said to keep their word, do not lie, and can be relied Europe"
 When reminded that the Japanese resort to the eruelest of tortures with their enemies he replied that the Europeans do too.
 Where are the results of European civilzation?' he inquired.
 Does the world advance or fall back. When England went to the Transvaal did she not fall back?"
 When the interviewer observed that in this war perhaps it would be best for the progress of civilization that the Russians should triumph, Tostoi admit ted the active and educative force of civilization. but asked
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Americans Leave London.

The London season will not be notable for the nuinberi Of American residents in the British metropolis Mrs. Arthur Pa get who has the social interests of many of these at heart, has already sailed. She will be a great deal with Mrs. Bell this sum mer. Miss Van Wart. who Is most hos pitable, has also left America after quite q visit. Mrs Bradley Martin, who is in deep mourning, Is to visit New York within a few weeks. She comes over for the final settlement of the estate of her father and mother. Lady William Beres- for, formerly Duchess of Marlborough, has rather prolonged her stay in New York. She has not been going out much but has been entertained by some of her old friends. There is n rumor that she will take over with her to London, Miss Violet Cruger, who Is the daughter of Mrs. Tams, one of her best friends, and who was with her and acted a species Of matron of honor or bridesmaid or wit ness on the day which she married the late Duke of Marlborough.
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HATS OF EDWARD OF ENGLAND.
What His Majesty Will Wear During
 Coming Season.

From the London Mail.
 5, Before leaving England the king gave an order for about score of different kinds of hats and caps to be prepared for his majestys use during the forthcoming season.
 '. Silks" preponderated, although almost every variety of mead covering was com prehended in the order from a soft iron gray colored Austrian" to a motor cap with &. flat spherical crown provided with a ventilating arrangement which, if not actually designed by his majesty, was evolved under his personal direction.
 The style of silk hat chosen this year by the king will be seen on none but the royal head The hat will have a broader brim.l. with a well-aecentuated "cur,' a deeper crown and a little more "bell' sthan the hats which even his majesty's sbest-dressed subjects will wear. The king Iis the possessor of what is known to hat 1ters as "a good head" Those whom na- 1ture has not favored in this important particular may be interested to learn that his majesty takes seven and an eighth"
 Even if it were possible for an ordi- nary citizen to obtain the kings style of silk hat remarked an ex-royal valet, 'the proba bility is that he could not wear it. Not one man in ten thousand could wear 1t satisfactorily, for it is built on special Hines with careful regard to his majesty's exceptional breadth of should CTS, the configuration of the face, and appearance gen rally. Moreover it's shape gives the idea that the hat is unusually large, and yet when on the kings head there Is no smarter or more perfect-it- ating heaagear.
 't ''The king is very particular-almost
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bouquets of flowers, one panel being signed .eHainelin," and dated l1oS. The box is adorned with settings of Brazilian diamonds. which are valued at 925o. The three days sale realized upwards Of e54000. MT. Hawkins made it practice for a long period, to spend about GlO'OOo a year in objects of art. and it Is under stood that there are five portions more of his collection still to be offererd.
 The Duke of Sussex, uncle Of the late Duke of Cambridge and Princess So- nhia. his aunt were both buried in the forties, in accordance with their own written instructions, in kensai-green cemetery There was considerable dis cussion at Buckingham palace after the Duke of Sussex's death as to whehter Oueen Victoria should not overrule her uncles directions, and command his bur iaI in the royal vault at Windsor as George IT. had repeatedly expressed wish that all his children should be bur fed there, with their fatner and mother. The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Bedford, Lord Melbourne and Sir Robert Peel were all called into consultation bv Prinee Albert, but ultimately it was decided not to interfere with the direc- lions of the Duke of Sussex, especially as they were strongly supported by the wishes of the Duchess of Inverness.
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cater to that which is lowest in man. do not see that they confer any moral superiority whatever.
 When reminded that not. only war im- plements but machines to tighten labor were created by this inventive spirit he replied
 'Yes, they economize work. But work is good and healthy. Work is an excel lent, agreeable. diverting thing,
 When the hard labor of the miner was cited he said:
 There would be no hard work if there were nc violent wants. If people would restrain their wants there would be much less fs tigue. It is not work that needs to be abolished the appetities must be con- olered Mcdern inventions that develop the appetites only serve to perpetuate s.avery I am no admirer of the rail- road the telegraph and all those con- guests hy which man thinks to demon- strate his progress.
 We a.fn.ire the pyramids, and we ask ourselves. 'oi what use are they? All these inventions of our are our pyramids. [ believe that some thousands of years
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exacting if I may say so-in the matter of hats This applies to 'bowlers' as well as to the more ceremonious silks
 Careful though the king is in these details of dress it must not be conclud- ed that he is in any way extravagant His majesty Is nothing of the sort. There appears to be an impression that he dis tributes wholesale orders, after the man. ner of a we'll known man, recently de- ceased, who actually ordered four hum dred pairs of trousers from a Piccadilly tailor to give the tradesman a start in business, and who followed this up by ordering two dozen caps from well known firm of matters in Oxford street.
 "1here is no nonsense of that kind in his majesty's dealings with the royal warrant holders. And yet l saw the state- ment in one of this mornings papers that the kings present order for hats numbers close upon a hundred Nothing could be more absurd"
 When on the continent the king will wear Austrian hats of dark gray color His majesty has abandoned the Tyrolean hat Of green, with the curling cock s feather at the back.
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WEDDING ATTRACTS
 MUCH ATTENT 0N The Pratt Winchester NuptiaIS
 at Grace Church SPORTS ARE ON THE WAIVE Cold Weather Interferes With Coach ing and Little Interest Is Taken
 in out-of-door Sports.
 Society Gossip.
SPORTS ARE ON THE WAIVE
BY DIEDRIcH KNlckERRocKER.

New York April 30.-Considerable in- terest centred in the wedding of Miss
 Katherine Griswold Pratt, daughter of Mir and Mrs. Dallas Bache Pratt to MT. Lycurgus Winchester, son of Mrs. J. Marshall Winchester, of Baltimore, on Saturday Grace Church, Broadway and Tenth Street. was the scene of the wedding, which was one of the largest or the week. Four o'clock was the hour set for the ceremony and was followed py reception at the residence of MT. and Mrs. Pratt No 2i West Forty-eighth street Invitations to the ceremony were general while those to the reception were
 limited to relatives and the intimate lrlehds of the couple. The brides attend- ants included her sisters, Miss Constance Pratt and Miss Beatrice Pratt; Miss Ade- lalde Landon, a cousin: Miss Margaret Robinson, Miss Gladys Smith, Miss Ma tllda Leverich. of this city, and Miss Kathleen Bowdon, of Baltimore, a cous- in of the bridegroom -eect. Master Ma thaniel Rugsles Landon, son of Mir and Mrs Henry H. Landon, another cousin or the bride, also had a place in the prldal procession The gowns of the bridal party, which, by the way, were designed by Mrs. Hone made qui,e d sensation in the feminine world. They were of the Directoire period and the SIX bridesmaids looked like pictures of that period. The gowns are of soft white chitfon, trimmed with fols of polnt d.
 Alencon lace, and with them were worn the fncroyable coats, made of more in three colors, pink, hortensia blue and mauNe, two coats of each color. with the long ends falling to the edge of the slightly trained skirts. They carried white silk parasols, hand painted by Miss kittie Tucker. young society woman of Bermuda. Each corresponded in tone With the color of the coat and the flow CTS were the pink wistaria. blue horten- sla and purple lilac, cluster of natural flowers to be attached to the stick of each parasol. With these were worn picturesque hats of the period of white erin, tied under the chin with broad ribbons In coors to match the coats. Miss Pratts wedding gown. of heavy white satin, was of the 1880 period trimmed with superb point lace that her mother wore when a bride.
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Cold Weather Stops Coaching.

The cold weather-snow flurries and the lille-has nterfered much with the com forts of coaching. So far the parties have not been exceptionally brilliant.
 Alfred Vanderbilt and Reginald Rives are both enthusiasts, and they divide the honors of being whip on different days. This week, however. there will be some interesting and gay parties Ardsey will have some golf events, which will add to the zest and enjoyment of the day, It is yet q fortnight before the coaching parade, and this promises to be more than usually brilliant this year. In the park and along the river side drive the Ladies' Coaching club Is practicing for its parade which is put down for May 3.
 Unlike the coaching parade. there will be no resplendent display of spring frocks and hats, as the son ewhat severe hut be- coming uniform of the club wnl be worn.
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Portrait Collection Interesting.

Of interest to the entire social world will be the exhibition of portraits in the American Wom&ns collection at the St. Louis fair. About one hundred and fifty Of the smartest women in town will lend portraits there being not the least dif- ficulty in securing them after Mrs. As tor had taken the initiative. The galler- ies are certain to be crowded by everybody vino takes an interest in American so- oiety, for the New York leaders of fash ion are we'll represented, and are so much in the public eye that everybody has a desire to see what they look like. In Mrs. Astor's own set there will be re- presented Mrs. Gwendolyn Burden, younger daughter of the Townsend Bur dens Mrs. Elisha Dyer Jr.. Mrs. Charles Frederick Hoffman, Mrs. William Coad- by Loew. Miss May Van Alen. Miss Edith Clapp, Mrs. Price Collier. and the lat ter's beautiful daughter. Miss Muriel De- lano Robbins. Newpcrts cavorites whose portraits will be on exhibition will in- clude Mrs. Charles Mae Oelrich, and her daughter Mrs. Peter D. Martin, Mrs
 Harry O. Havermeyer Jr., Miss Anna
 Best Miss Ada de Acosta, Mrs. Charles A Childs, the Countess de Lubersac, Miss Madeleine Goddard of Providence, Mrs. William Rodgers Morgan. Mrs. Gib- son Fahnstock. Mrs. Thomas Shaw Safe. Mrs. Charles Betts Hillhouse of Buffalo; Miss Laura Swan of Baltimore, and Mrs.
 Russell Bellamy Other smart 4,ew York CTS included in the list are Mrs. Foxhall
 Keene. Mrs. Chauncey Nj. Depew. Mrs.
 F. Eserton Webb Mrs. Robert B. Roose-
 welt, Jr.. Mrs. Henry Sei3man, Mrs Gi- rard Stuyvesant. Mrs. T, Pearsal Field, Mrs Fl de Berkeley Parsons Miss Ma
 talle de Castro, Mrs Jules Monant, and Mrs. Dallas Bache Pratt.
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from now q people will come who, seeing our vestiges. will inquire, What were these singular people who imagined that to go rapidly from one point to another was an essential thing in life? They will he right l have never understood the utility of travelling. Journeys make men lose their tme; they are an obstacle to work
 The visitor inquired as to the truth of the report that Tolstoi had n.ade pres. ent of a thousand boxes of his books for the Russian wounded
 The count and the members of his fam fly present-his wife, his daughter-in-law and his son, Andre-all burst out laugh ing. He said there wasn't word of truth in it.
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PATRIOTISM SWANS COUNT LEO TOLSTO| Russian Reformer Greatly Inter-
 eS.ed in the War EMOTIONS OvERPOWER HIM While Denouncing War Tostoi Is Un- able to Restrain Enthusiasm
 and Rides 20 Miles to
 Learn Lates News.
EMOTIONS 0VERPOWER HIM
From the New York World.

From the New York World
 Paris.-Count Leo Tolstoi was visited at his Russian home in Yansnaia Poliana by George Bourbon, a French writer, who was anxious to get the great reformer- novelist's views upon the Russo-Japan- csc war. The count, in his usual peasant garb, received his caller in his big din ing room, where he had pinned on wall a French map of Corea and Man churia.
 Have you news of the war?' was Tolstoi's greeting question.
 Countess Tolstoi remarked that her hus- band, who denounces war as an abomin- ation can think of nothing else thar the conflict in the Far East and that one day he rode twenty miles on horseback through the snow to get telegram about it.
 Tolstoi confessed that patriotism still turks in his inmost soul, adding:
 Through heredity and education it per sists in me in spite of myself. l am
 obliged to call reason to my aid in order
 to remember my duty. No argument in
 the world can surpass the argument oe HuTldnliy. My conSclence teilS ne lilat
 murder, under whatever form committed under whatever pretext cloaked, is ex- ecrable; that war Is monstrous scourge;
 that everything which tends to prepara-
 tion for war is to be condemned As he spoke he grew much excited, his whole person seeming to vibrate with emotion and force.
 Tn the time of Genhis Khan" he
 went on. "only those people fought who were warli<e Those who were peaceably | inclined were allowed to pursue their career. But now every man is forced to | kill under pain of being killed. Men al- avs have the fine word liberty on their | lips. Banish violence and there will be l liberty"
 1 When Tostoi was reminded that this is a clash between the white and the yell 1 low races he exclaimed: q Am For Man."
 What does it matter? l do not dis 1 tinguish between races. l am for man | above everything. Whatever may hap pen, how will man benefit by this war? | The misfortune is that 1t shows to what point men forget or ignore duty. Super | for to the duties one owes to his family,
 to his country to man. is his duty to | God-if you permit that word; or if that l word embarrasses you, the N hole, with d 1 big w."
 | When told that the Japanese are hard, l cruel, hostile to foreigners, he inquired: I Are the Japanese truly what you say they are? I would like to have the proof. Pascal-he is an author I read often-has
 said: People do not initiate the chastity
 of Alexander the Conqueror but try to
 initiate his conquests.' Japan, likewise,
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Two Kinds of Appointments.

From the New York Times.
 Wilbur F. Wakeman, secretary or the American Protective Tariff league, was in Washington a few days ago and vis- tied the President. Among other mat ters some of Secretary Shaws recent Iowa appointments in the customs ser vice were mentioned.
 We have only two classes of treasury department appointments now, said President Roosevelt laughingly "one made up of those from Iowa and the oth- CT of those from the rest of the United States"
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Out-of-door Sports Lau.

In other out-of- door sports there hcs been only a languishng interest. Even the Meadow Brook tri-weekly drug hunts have been attended with rather slim fields and not to strong gatherings The hunting season is pretty well over, but there is never much sport in the spring time. Mems thoughts are turning more to polo and racing. Already there = a great deal of practicing by the various teams at Meadow Brook. at Georgian Court, and at Westehester There is some oisa appointment that West point and Squadron A. will not have their match games this year at Van Cortlandt park, hut there will be rolo there nevertheless, In town the riding club had pretty eN- hibition last week. It was the Easter ride and the children were out in force and did some excellent stunts to the applause of very fashionable auoience.
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 GOSSIP OF LONDON.
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BY HENRY pEvEREAux.

London, April 26.-There was an impor- tant book sale at Sotheby's last week. when some remarkably high prices were realized. A copy of Vanity Fair" in the original parts. as published at e1. was sold for e102 The very scarce pamphlet by Dickens entitled "The Strange Gentleman: Comic Burletta, by Boz, first performed at the St. James theatre, Thursday, September g, 1SS6e fetched s14. This farce is contained in forty-six pages. with an illustration by Phiz, and it was printed for Chapman and Hall by Bradbury and Evans in 1S37 About fifteen years ago a similar copy sold for eSo, and in 1892 the price had risen to z 45 Many years have elapsed since a copy has been publicly offered This farce is founded on "The Great Winglebury Duel" one of the tales in- cluded in the collection of Sketches by Boz
 The sale of the Hawkins collection on Thursday produced record in the bid ding for a Louis XIV. snuffbox, which was run up to f6400, Messrs. Duveen be- ing the purchasers. This box is an ob- long, SA inches long, by 21a inches wide, and 1A inches deep If is painted with
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Your presence is requested at band concert, East Lake, Sunday, May lst.
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You'd like cooking with Gas.
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Where Is Civilization?

Where is civilization? Why do you
 wish that I should locate 1t in Europe? Because the Europeans have created for themselves some artificial needs and em- ploy their genius to satisfy it? Because they have invented railroads. the tele- graph, the telephone and l know not what? All these achievements of pre- tended civilization appear to me to be inventions of barbarism They serve and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-24
FIELD DAY FOR FIREMEN.
Auspicious Tournament at the Big Fair
Grounds Today.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Worlds Fair Grounds,
August pa firemen's tournament under
the auspices of the National Firemen's As
ISOLATION. In which teams from twelve
states are represented, began today in the
stadium. The events embrace evolutions
pertaining to the work of fighting fire, In
Guiding the more snowy and spectacular
features Of tournament exhibitions
Preceding the tournament there was
parade. which traversed the principal ave-
nues of the worlds fair, headed by brass
band. President Francis of the exposition
and prominent fire chiefs attending the
convention of the national association rode
in carriages. A feature of the parade were
examples of ancient and modern freight
ing apparatus.
The concluding session of the National
F1remens Association convention was held
earlier in the day in the hall Of congresses.
The following officers were elected, the
president. ]. D. Mcneil of Fayetteville,
N. c., having been chosen at a previous
session:
Senior vice president, c. M: Chain. Bush
nell. ILL.,: secretary, P. B. McCarty, st.
Louis: treasurer. ]. A Schicke, Beatrice,
Neb:; corresponding secretary, L. b. Look
abill Roanoke. Va; national organizer b.
r. Staymates. Clinton. Ill. Honorary vice
presidents were elected to represent the
several states forming the association.