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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

"FTurrah! Hurrah! Stop your watches.
ell you peoplel Time has stopped, and
81 it viii only stay stopped we viii never
'HurrahI' cried all the citizens.
How about New Year's?' asked the
butcher.
course" said the schoolnaster. at Wlll
BE December 81 all the time.
II can feel myself keeping young all
ready" said the mayor trying to hop
or one foot
The people OF PennyFil1e5 were
when they awoke they looked at the
town clock the first thing to see if
time had begun again. but the clock
never moved and then everybody
would shout and sing again.
So things went for two weeks.
Then the Grand Duke of BratWurst
suddenly remembered that he had
seen nothing Of the taxes which were
due from Pennyville every New. Years
day.
Hurry" said he to his treasurer:
put on your coat of mail and collect
the money, and don't lose any on the
way, and be sure to charge them in
terest for two weeks, and ask them
what they mean by keeping me
waiting"
The treasurer returned after a few
Gays and threw himself down before
the grand duke Sire, said he, with
GnaEEeTIn& AeeLns nave no money.
The people of PennyvilIe say that
time has stopped. and that New Years
has not come, and therefore they do
not owe any taxes"
what" roared the grand duke
Say that again. Or. rather, do not
say that again. Tt viii make me too
mad Get my eXecutioner and we will
see about this.
"How dare you refuse to pay
taxes?" he yelled when he arrived
au Pennyville.
The mayor told him how time had
atopped and the grand duke said.
what impudencel Do you suppose
that time could stop unless I gave
permission2 There is something the
matter with your clock. that's where
the trouble is"
The mayor struck his forehead and
exclaimed: why didn't we think Of
that2"
But the schooImsster 1nattered:
Impossible. IL it were possible, /
would have known q"
However. the headle climbed to the
nest of owls in the works. The mo-
clock and opened 1t and he found a
ment 90 was taken ont the clock COM
menced ca so again.
'See the trouble you have caused
me-" said the grand duke. IT really
think that / shall order a few heads
cut of this time, unless you do some
.hing very extra wise about this thing
TO amuse me.
'tFVe cannot DO wise things to amuse
sou" said the mayor with dignity. mot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

sometimes we glide along too much
For little girls like me.)
love the ice and snow and all
The signs Of winter time.
I Except when boys sit on the signsg
! That surely is a crimeD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31
hand on the harpoon that was SIC

hand on the harpoon that was stick
ing in the whale.
The brute was frantic by this time.
His terrible box-lilxe head was sweep
ing from side to side, crashing through
the sea and absolutely raising a con-
slant cascade in front of him. The
enormous jaws, big enough to take in
two boats like ours with all their
l5crews, were wide open and showed
the immense white teeth, which make
the sperm whales jaws so dangerous
as compared with the harmless Jaws
of the whale that carries the whale
bone.
Astern of us the vast tail was sweep
/ ing like the head. If either head or
1 tail had so much as tipped us our
boat would have been smashed into
| bits and we would probably have been
/ killed. But as if was, we lay where
neither head or tail could touch u.s.
Thus we sped along for another
mile or So, the whale going faster all
/ the time.
How do you like a Nantucket
sleigh ride?'' asked the whaling cap
tain, with a chuclxle. ''I guess We'll
put a stop to it now. We don't gem
| orally go so far, but I told my har-
/ pooner to give you a little time to en-
| joy it. Better give It him now, Bill"
he cried to his harpooner.
The latter lifted a long, slender
lance, with a blade sharpened to a
razor edge, from the checks in the
bow of the boat. Then he took a
hrmer grip than ever on the harpoon
that was sticking in the whale and
thus braced, he drove the lance with
all his might into the victim.
Three times he did this and then a
great black and red mass came out Of
the sperm bulls blow holes.
Ties found his life said the cap
tain. "Starn ALI" and the men imme-
diately rowed desperately to stern to
get out of the way of the dying fish"
The sperm bull went into his furry
almost before we had back clear He
swung around and around in a great
ring and beat the sea into lather for
half a mile in diameter. Then; sud
denly, he turned on his side ana the
next instant, with a great wash, his
fukes went up and back went down.
Late that night we saw rudy clouds
and black smoke hanging over the
whaler to tell that the prize was being
tried ont
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31
Ny NANTUCKET SLEIGH RIDE.
It Was a Sleigh That Ran on the Sea
and the steed an Ocean Monster.
(By Captain A. B. Hawser.)

by captain A. 1aWger.
If we can fasten a good fish tomor-
row when you are with US" said the
captain of the New Bedford whaling
bark Morning Star to me, 81 villa try
to give you a Nantucket sleigh ride"
We were on the three thousand
fathom curve off the Azores. The air
was soft and languoroas and the sky
was clear SUMMER North Atlantic
sky Sleigh riding seemed about as IN
seasonable a thing as any that could
have been mentioned
Don't know what. a Nantucket
sleigh ride is, Ell % laughed the cap
tain of the whaler- wen, live and
learn, think. you'll enjoy it."
I was dredging from a schooner for
specimens for a museum, and two lays
before we had fallen in with the whal-
er and had been able to render him a
service by picking VI. enc of his crew
after their boat had been. stove in by a
sperm whale Later we helped him
save the whale, too, and as a result ne
did me the great and rare favor of in
viting me to go with MIN in his boat
and experience the sensation Os max
ing fast to a big whale. Whalers
rarely have time or inclination to take
passengers in a whale boat and was
eager to take advantage of the oppor-
tunity.
Soon after breakfast the next morn
ing we saw a boat go down on the run
from the whaler. It darted to my
schooner and the captain, who was in
the stern welding a long steering oar,
said:
tumble in quick. There's a big
bull about a mile to leeward-'
Almost before we knew it the
splendid oarsmen in our crew had
driven US so close to the whale that
we could see his little pig-like eyes
and hear the water ripple and sluice
down the burrows in his skim
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

the attic to look for his money. None
was there. Rats had carried all the
nice soft paper bills out of the hiding
place and taken them off to their un-
known nests. And they had chewed
hole through which the loose change
had fallen, so that Ned, though he
fished for half day never recovered
more. than two dimes and a few odd
pennies.
For a while he felt just as bad as if
he had not determined to stop being a
miser- But all at-onee he remen bePed.
his resolve and said to himself:
1T serRes me good and right" And
from that day on he grew gradually to
be like other boys about money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

The people Of Pennyville had a town
clock that was the best clock that ever
was made. and they esteemed it so high
~ that nobody except the mayor was al
lowed to touch it. Each morning, the
citizens used to set their watches by it,
ana they were all sure that it never
varied a minute
But on the morning Of December 81,
terrible thing happened. When the cit
liens looked at their watches they saw
the hands pointing to 8 o'clock but the
town clock said that it was only Z.
Everybody at once set his watch back
an hour, but when the people looked
again the watches all said 8 o'clock
and the town clock said that it was only
half-pagt seven
1t kept going more and more slowly,
and when the sun was high overhead
the great clock of Pennyville said that
10 was only o'clock.
What can we do2 What can we dO2''
said all the people. I'VE are very hun
CRY, but the clock says that it is not
time for luncheon although the sun is
high"
1--WE can do nothing except to wait
until the clock shows noon" said the
mayor. Something has happened to the
day"
The sun began to sink and the clock
only showed H. Then it got dark and
ell at once the clock stopped entirely.
"Horrori" said everybody. But the
gchoolmaster clapped his hands and
shouted;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31
Feel AIyself Keeping Young Already Mayor.

Everybody tried to cure him of it.
His father, who wasn't a miser at all,
used to scOld and lecture and coax
him His mother used look so sad
that it actually made Ned feel bad all
over so bad, indeed, that once or twice
he almost resolved to be generous. But
he never quite got around to it. He
would think over it, keeping his hands
on his money all the time, and then
bit by bit, the thought of his mothers
face would fade from his mind and the
thought Of the beautiful, beautiful
money would grow and grow. and all
once he would say to himself:
q simply can't afford to spend 1t. I
guess that dad or ma will buy me what
want, and then I'll have the money,
too
This was all very lovely for a time
and Ned used to sneak up stairs to the
attic, where he had hidden his money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

Oh, merry. merry Winter time,
With all its pleasant joysl
lThat is, they would be, if Il were
Not for those hOrrid b0ysO
Oh. merry. merry sleighing time,
We glide along so free!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

ever to save our heads. But we are
sure to do something very wise, because
we never do anything else"
So the citizens met then and there,
and the beadle said:
"The matter is simple enough. The
clock has lost two weeks and the only
way to correct the error and give US
back our lost time is for me to climb
up and turn the hands around as Iasp
as I can until they catch up"
you are a very pearl OF a beadIe5
said the major admiringly.
The beadle Immediately began to turn
the hands very fast and the CLOCK
struck u and then 1 and then 2 and so
on in rapid succession. The people be-
low ran around as fast as they could
60 tumbling over each other and say
ing: f'Out of the Wayi Out of the way!
We have two weeks business to do
When the clock struck 9, the women
all seized the children and put them to
bed, and then they dragged them out
againal most Immediately, because the
beadle was turning the hands so fast
that the clock struck in the morning
almost before the bedclothes had been
tucked around them
Some of the people tried to eat
meal every time the clock struck noon,
and others tried to turn the hands OF
their watches as fast as the beadle was
turning the hands of the clock And All
the while everybody was saying:
I'VE feel ourselves getting older Iase.
We feel ourselves gettiT weeks
older! How queer!'
At last the beadle finished turning
the hands and the mayor raced off at
once and brought the f. ney and
the grand duke said:
well, I won't order any heads cut
off. because you surely did something
extra wise that time.
And the people of Pennyville trotted
away singing:
I'VE are SO wise that We cannot lose
our heads"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31
THE. LITTLE CANDLE.

ny Sarah Noble Ivise-IlIustrated by
the Author.l
The little Candle stood on the edge of
a ricketX dresser and spluttered dis
contentedly.s so that the grease all ran
down one side OF it, and made the old
brass candlestick look older and mould
Ter than ever It's feeble light f1ickered
on the walls Of a. poor room. high up in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

brilliant streets. out into the unknown
dark beyond the world.
The little candle felt that it must help
Beyond. the lights Of the town there
are stars" it whispered
The woman lay back and smiled. and
Grandmother Martin bending low over
her, heard her whispers.
Beyond the candle light; beyond the
city light; beyond the light of the stars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31
NED THE BIISER.
And His Little New Years Present and
What Came of 1t.
our head

Ned was nice boy in most every
way except. And that except is
a sad thing to mention. Ned was a
nliser; a plain, mean, common miser,
though he was only twelve years old.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-10
A IN TOWN.

The state board OF railroad com
missioners has been considering the
application of residents of Springfield
for better railroad facilities. Owing
to a dispute in early days between
The Milwaukee railroad company ana
c items of Springfield, the station OF
the company was located n and ne
half miles from the town, where it
has since remained, to the great in
convenience of the travelling public.
AS soon as President. Earling of the
Milwaukee company returns from
Cuba, the railroad commissioners, ac-
c~ompanied by three citizens of Spring
field, will go to Chicago and lay the
matter before him and ascertain what
can be done to give the people OF
Springfield the Improvement which
they desire.
Jones & Metcalf, grain buyers of
Madison, about a month ago filed with
the board of petition asking that the
firm be granted an elevator site on
the r~ight-of-way of the Milwaukee at
Ramona. The matter was taken up
by the board with the railroad com
pany, and now the board is in receipt
Of a communication from the petition
ers stating that they are likely to Sc.
cure the desired site without further
action by the board.
The Farmers Elevator company of
Corona has made application for an
elevator site on the ~right-of-way OF
the Milwaukee at that place. The
board will endeavor to secure the site
for the farmers company.
Schultz & Sons of Naples have APP
piled to the board for aid in securing
the transfer of a lease from the pres
ent holder of an elevator property at
Naples. The elevator is on the right
of-way Of the Milwaukee company,
which declines to make the transfer
from the present lessee. The board
will try to adjust the difficulty.
In the matter of the application OF
the citizens of Loomis, the first sta
ton north of Mitchell on the Mil
waukee railroad, for a station, the
board has decided to take the matter
up with the railroad company.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-10
SOUTH DAKOTA WINS VICTORY.
insurance Companies Give Up Fight
for the Nonce.

The officials of the United States
court in Sioux Falls have received
from the clerk of the United States
supreme court a copy of a mandate in
the case Of the Hartford Fire Insur.
ance company of Connecticut; the
Phoenix Insurance company OF Brook
Ign ct al VS.. John c. Perkins, commits
| sioner Of insurance Of South Dakota,
In which it is stated that the appeal in
the case to the fedora. supreme court
has been dismissed.
The case was instituted in the Unit
ed States court in Sioux Falls in 1903.
The legislature Of that year enacted
what is known as the a~nti-compact
law, and the suit instituted by the in.
surance companies sought to have the
commissioner Of insurance restrained
from having the provisions of the new
law apply to the foreign insurance
companies doing business In the state.
The case was argued before Judge
W. Abl0 vi lc WuO Ou
Dec. %. 1903, made a decision against
the insurance companies and in favor
Of the state commissioner Of insur.
ance, in which he denied the applica-
ton Of the insurance companies for
an Injunction restraining the commits
sioner from putting the provisions Of
the new law into effect.
The insurance companies afterward
appealed the case to the United States
supreme court. 1t has now been dis
missed In that court on motion of F.
w. Reynolds, counsel for the insur-
nnce companies.
Whether or not the action OF the
insurance companies in having the APP
peal dismissed is preliminary to max
Ing an effort at the present session of
the legislature to have the terms of
the anti-compact law materially modi-
fed or the law repealed is not known.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-10

The house session Thursday was
brief, the only business being the pre-
sentation of a bill by Clark, provid-
ing for organization and control of
trust companies.
In the senate an exciting debate
arose Over a discussion of the bill to
provide for organization and regula-
ton of life Insurance companies in
this state, which is an Aberdeen meas
ure to affect a company that it is pro-
posed to organize in that city. Bonney
attempted to amend by limiting the
field of investments of surplus to the
States of South Dakota, North Dako-
ia and Minnesota. Rice attacked the
bill. declaring that under the law as
drawn any seven men could organize
a company, regardless of their stand
ing and as it did not require a sur
plus until the first years premiums
had been collected, there could be
collection followed by a vanishing act,
and that he would as soon trust a
brigand with a bludgeOn as the aver
age insurance agent.
IL oNI&hSt VI 1IN Diiiy iNo oolb
that every age produced its Don
QuiXote who went about attempting
to right imaginary wrong, and that
the senator from Moody was in that
class. He named the men who are
back of the proposed company who
not in that class. Rice heatedly
lied that his remarks were aimed
at those particular men. The bill
went over to Wednesday.
Several new senate bills were pre-
scented, principal of which were: By
Cooper. to provide that every person
who was liable for road work must
comply or pay $3.50 a day, and provid.
ing that claims against estates must
be filed within the required time or
be barred; by Payne, providing for
exchange OF supreme court reports be-
tween South Dakota and other states.
Both houses adjourned to Tuesday
of next week.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-10
sTOCkMEN ELECT OFFICERS.
South Dakota Association Adjourns
Its Mitchell M%eetino.

The following officers were elected
at Mitchell by the South Dakota Live
Stock associations: President. j. Nj.
Brion, Mitchell; vice presidents, cat
tie department, George McEathron,
Huron: swine, P. w. Peterson, Yer
million; horses, j. M. Dunmire, Scot
land; sheep, j. c. Hall, Ordway; poul-
try, George E. Tuck, Waterfowl: sec
rotary and treasurer, J. w. Wilson.
Brookings agricultural college.
Resolutions were adopted urging
the building Of a permanent home for
the association in Mitchell. A com.
mittee of twenty-five prominent stock,
men was appointed to go to Pierre and
urge the legislature to pass an appro-
priation of $4,000 with which to n
struct the building this year.
The South Dakota Poultry associa-
ton held its annual meeting and elect.
ed the following officers: President.
X. F. Reinell, Huron; vice president.
A. J. Keith, Sioux Falls; secretary.
William Scallon, Mitchell.
The show was located at Mitchell
for another year. Over 1000 chickens
were on exhibition.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-10
FOWLS FEAST ON GOLD.
Northern Black Hills Poultry Con-
tain Gold Nuuuets,

Housewives in the Northern Black
Hills towns are not missing a chance
to examine the gizzards of ducks and
chickens in the hope of finding gold
nuggets. At Whitewood a woman
found a beautiful gold chunk in an
old hen which had scratched her liv-
ing on a ranch three miles north of
hat place. In the same town another
lady found o nugget large enough for
a scarf pin in the craw of a Pekin
duck. In Deadwood it fell to the lot
of a we'll known business man to find
a gold piece in a chicken which came
from a Nebraska town. At White
wood the finds have caused prospect
ing on the F. j. Ames ranch IN an en-
deavor to find the place where the
fowls did their scratching.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-10
Against Waugh's Bondsmen,

Judge Garland has granted judgment
for 1000 and costs against William
=. Hollister and Thomas Seaman,
Sioux Falls bankers, as bondsmen for
Frank Waugh. They are Unidentified
against loss by Waugh's attorney.
Waugh, who, it is alleged. was a
member of the Jack" Sully band Of
horse and cattle rustlers, was arrested
by the United States authorities last
year on the charge OF stealing horses
on the Rosebud Indian reservation.
The two Sioux Falls men, after being
Unidentified, were induced to sign the
bond for his appearance in the United
States court. He was indicted for the
offense charged against him, and fall
ing tc appear at the Aberdeen term OF
the federal court his bond was declar-
ed forfeited. Waugh is understood to
have fed to the British Northwest pos
sessions.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-10
"eEED SPECIAL" A BOON.
Farmers to Sow More Wheat Than
-. Usual in SprinC.

Usual in Spring.
Preparations for seeding are being
made by farmers around Huron by Sc
curing the best Of seed. Most Of tho
wheat to be sown in Beadle county
will be from that grown there last
season. Although nearly all fields
were affected by rust, there Is an
abundance Of good wheat for seeding.
Farmers generally Will follow the sug.
gestions made by the travelling seed
wheat specials" The visit of the
special put enthusiasm into the
hearts Of a number Of farmers who
had become quite Indifferent to the
growing of wheat. and the result will
be a wheat acreage as large and pos.
sibly greater than in the previous
wear. Macaroni wheat was grown by
many last year, and as 1t escaped seri.
Gus injury from rust, a large number
of farmers will use this variety for
seed this spring. Altogether the pros.
poets are that with an early spring
and favorable weather for seeding, the
wheat acreage in Beadle county will
be above the average.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-10
A Well Deserved Tribute.

The awarding of the Grand Prize to the winchester
Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn.,, at the St
Louis Exposition, confers upon this company the
highest mark of distinction attained by any manu-,
facturer OF guns or ammunition in the world.
Although a great number of medals were given 70
this class Of manufacturers, the only award OF .
Grand Prize was to the Winchester Repeating Arms
Co.; and given as 1t was In competition with the lead.
most decided way to the superiority OF Winchester
rifles, ~shotguna and ammunition over all other makes.
The success attained by the Winchester Repeating
Arms Co. at this exposition is simply in line with the
honors received in the past. At the Paris Exposition,
Winchester arms and ammunition received the
Grand Prix; and wherever they have been exhibited
they have always been given the highest possible
natural result of thirty years of careful and success
full eDdeavor in maintaining the high quality Of
Winchester rifles, ~shotguns and ammunition.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-10
SLUGGE DWiTH A PICK.
Murderous Assault Upon Chum to Rob
Him Leads to Arrest of Man.

HIM LeaCS 10 Attest OF Wan.
Lying in wait for his comrade, to
slug him with an old pick in order to
rob him of his small earnings, is the
accusation upon which rests the
charge of attempted murder brought
against George H. Beaver, to arrest
whom Sheriff Howard of Sully county
went to Pierre. Beavers alleged VIC
tim was A. e. Hoadley, who came here
last fall from Chicago. Beaver bid
Hoadley goodbye and came to town,
ostensibly for the purpose of depart
ing for some other place. After q few
days he returned to the camp, where,
1t is alleged, he m~urderously assaulted
Beaver and robbed the latter of a GER
tiicate of deposit, a small sum OF
money and some letters. The papers,
containing bloody finger marks, were
found on Hoadley's person when he
MAS arrested. His examination will
he held in Sully county.