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The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-11-16

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Mighty uncertain weather.
Try a sack of Excelsior -four
for sale by J. A. Naeve. 10 26
Have you had the whooping
cough.
Frank Terry is down from his
Lyman county claim.
Ladies and mems winter coats
in large quantities at Naeves. 1926
Have you paid your election
, bets?
George Mazourek is suffering
from an attack of pueumania.
When you want the best in
groceries call up No. ID. 1926
The Kennedy hall is being re.
painted, papered and otherwise
improved.
A carload of bran and shorts
just received by the Dakota Ele-
yator Co. lille
The Woodmen lodge have rent
ed the Kennedy hall for another
year.
Miss Jenney Ehrisman return
ed to her home at Monticello,
Iowa, Monday.
j. w. Lindsay and L. II. Skill
lings of (ieddes were Wagner
visitors this week.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Radmer ON Wednesday, Nov. IA,
a girl.
Buy your -four of the Dakota
Elevator Co., they handle the
best grades. 1I-16
A brother OF John Harter
came oyer from belmont this
week to work in Naeve's store.
Geddes News: Frank Stroh-
behn was in town Monday. Be.
sides being engaged in grain and
banking business he is having
100 steers fattened for the
spring market.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-11-16

70 reiaoge her TO Mrs, Clias. Nc
Fariandss. where sie remained
under the care of . nurse until
Monday evening. when she sss$<
enough better 70 take her 70 her
home 1T Jefferson. this state.
John Absher informs The New
Era that they have BY no means
given up the idea OF building an
electric road to the Like, and Ia.
tend pushingit for all it Is worth
in the spring. Ii the firm Of
Grimes & Absher have a. good
success with this project a. they
have in giving as electric lights
the road. is an assured thing,
and win be of inest.mable beue.
fit to Wagner and the surround
ing country.
Last Friday the Wagner
schools were closed for At ieast
week and psrhaps more, On &C
count of measles and whooping
cough which seems 70 have tak.
en- q pretty strong grip on the
youngsters of the town, and
some Of the adult youngsters -
well. Some Of the sick ones are
having pretty serious time 81
il. but now that our citizens are
awake 10 the serious possibilities
Oh the disease We are hoping
that Ii will soon be stamped out.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-11-16

West avenue could vt present
more appropriately be named |
Hospital avenue, as nearly every !
house on the street contains one
or more sick people, some Of
them seriously i'll.
What does a Baptist church |
stand for? Will be answered by
the Baptist pastor next Sunday
morning. The evening service
will be '.The Glorious Gospel. /"
You are cordially in vited TO at
tend their services.
Reed & Reich began moving
their stock of furniture into
their new cement block building
Wednesday. They are now To-
Gated in the finest furniture
store in this part OF South Dako
ia, If not the finest in the state.
i For Sale Duroc Jersey male
hogs, eligible to register
Coarse boned and over one year
old. w. E. Kirkpatrick, Al
miles west Of Wagner. 11-9
| Geo. Mildrum. who used to
live down near the river, has
moved with his family to a claim
near Pike, Neb. He ordered the
New Era to follow him, as all
good people do when they leave
this part of Charles Mix.
higgins & Nelson have just
finished a fine three inch tuLu
lar well for L. w. Picking, VIII
lives SIX miles northwest of Wag
ner. They struck good supply
of water at two hundred and five
feet.
At present election returns
seem TO the main topic of con.
versation; and as we have alread Y
gave a short resume OF the
two great parties in the slxtieth
congress, il will be in line 10 dc
| likewise for the legislature oi
this state.
Murray Scott left about two
weeks ago, saying he was 90.
ing for a shot trip, but the rum
or has now reached u that Muir
ray has or soon will. obtain the
desire of his life a wife. When
we count up the number III mar
riageable, unmarried damsels IN
Wagner, we wonder why Muir
ray had to go away from home,
The republicans of south Da
J kota will this year be repre- sent
ed at Pierre by thirty fcnr Sena
tors and seventy eight represen
tatives, provided of course, that
& they all attend long enough to al
: least draw their salaries. This
J. democrats will represented By
n eight members in the senat and
Q She same number in the house,
This gives the republicans good
working majority in both branch
. es.
, From now on the New Era il
going to publish column Of IN
I r .stiug items and comment IL
j the 50 called reform spelling
T Ii will not be doue as joke. 5ni
!, 10 show the people exactly whai
refosm spelling means, and Is
! We snail conform a. near as pos
sible 10 the rules laid dowf
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

his mothers customers, he found the
watch lying upon a table.
"Hermann will do anything to get
money-always must he haf money"
his mother told the visitor. "He will
come by me first, und wen he gets all
1 have. he will go out and stole some.
Once he took a wash which gave bill
of seven dollars and sold it for elm dol
lar. Dat boy was crazy NIT de theay-
ter. Dere amt no night what he amt
went dere since long time"
Such cases are exceptional, however.
Most often squalor, misery and hunger
can be traced in deep lines through the
stories of the asylum's charges. -Four
tots were before the children court
not long ago for lack of proper guar
dianship. The home from which they
came would seem to iustify-would GER
tainly explain-any length of absence
on any boys part.
When the visitor knocked at the door
the father was away and the mother
was seriously i'll at a hospital. The
kitchen stove had been cold for a
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
Children Found in City Tenement Homes

Bobbs Ferry there is a picturesque
little Italian, Romilio, who lately
abandoned his home and mother.
Though Romlio is fluent In certain
branches of English, his mother-a tiny
woman whose bright eyes are the one
lively feature of an expressionless face
can still speak no language but that
of her peasant home. She wanted to
hear about her boy. though, and his
new life in the children's village, so
she called in as interpreter a neighbor,
another tiny daughter of Italy on
whom the impress of the east side had
been deeply fixed.
The two women, with their broods of
little Giovannis and Francescas cling
ing about their skirts, stood talking
with the visitor in the only spot i'll the
kitchen not cluttered with dilapidated
furniture, unwashed kettles, pans and
dishes, refuse rags and papers, or dirt,
pure and simple. And in the riot of
disheveled uncleanlness, the children
were the most disheveed and uncleanly
objects. When the visitor asked what
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

earn. Begging for money followed
naturally. Then Jimmy, realizing that
he was the real support of the house
mold. began to stay away when he felt
like it, spending the proceeds of his in
dustry for himself. When the home
broke up entirely, as it eventually did,
of course, the household goods that had
represented the comforts of life for
three persons were sold at public auc-
tion for SO cents and the boy was re-
luctantly compelled to learn how to
earn an honest living in the industrial
shops of the juvenile asylum.
There is no greater contrast between
the wretched hovel with it's SO cents
worth of furnishings and the tidy little
rooms of Philips mother than between
the boys that represent the two homes
In the institution at Dobbs Ferry. The
philanthropist, the criminologist, the
intelligent reformer have come to
realize the full meaning of this, and the
youngster guilty of no greater crime
than improper guardianship is no
longer treated as if he were an incor-
rigible rufflan, predestined to states
prison.
The old-fashoned barracks that
served as institutional dormitories a
few years ago have made way for at
tractive. homelke cottages. Broad
lawns and blue skies. fresh air. pure
food and healthful exercise are depend
ed on as a subtle. permanent tonic for
minds and bodies that have grown un-
wholesome in the poisonous atmosphere
of the brick and mortar wilderness.
The New York Juvenile asylum one of
the oldest and most far-reaching phil
anthropies in the country, has sue
ceeded in shaking off the dust of the
city, but only the most necessary build
ings have yet been erected. The COM
pletion of the children's village Is still
far off in the future; it will take slow
ard patient work, but it has shown
itself so important to the great city
twenty miles down the Hudson, and
indeed, to the vast country of which
the metropolis is the chief gateway
that it is hoped it's possibilities may
be expanded fast enough to keep pace,
in some degree with the grave prob
lens it does so much to solve.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
TO AN OLD LOVER

There is silvery frost on your hair,
old boy,
There are lines on your forehead, too
But your clear eyes speak of the peace
and joy =.
That dwell in the heart of you.
For the passing of youth you have no
regret,
No sghs for the summer CLEAN
And the lovers moon. They are with
you yet
In the light of the lamp at home.
In your summer of youth, in that sunny
hour
That will come to- you never again,
When you wooed your love, as the bee
the flower,
The sweets that you gathered then
You have hived and stored for your
later life
And your heart is the honeycomb-
All! I've seen your face when you kissed
your wife
In the light OF the lamp at home.
o, you rare old lover; o, faithful knight!
With your sweetheart of long ago,
You are many days from the warmth
and light
OF the summers you were wont to
roam
o, the light for the hearts that are
growing old
Is the light of the lamp at home!
Catholic Standard and Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
Uncle Sam: Worlds Greatest Hay Maker

has been very poor due to mystic
rious malady called, for lack of bet
ter name, the "clover sickness" Gov
ernment experts have been trying hard
to discover the cause of this clover
sickness. and they now think that it
comes from planting the seed too early
in the spring, while the frost is still in
the ground. When planted at that
time a certain fungus adheres to the
seed and causes all the trouble. The
remedy they say is to plant the seed
in August.
However, even If the clover should
regain it's pristine strength as a crop,
it is a matter of doubt whether or not
alfalfa hasn't taken its place among
the hay growers of the east. Alfalfa S
chief attraction to eastern farmers is
that it can be fed to dairy cows to the
exclusion of all other foods and they
will do very well, as we'll indeed as II
fed on bran and other grains. This
substitution of alfalfa for a grain diet
will result in cheapening to q consid-
cradle degree the price of dairy pro-
ducts. Another reason why alfalfa
should be popular is that as a pasture
for hogs it is unequaled. AS a fat
tener of hogs it is almost equal to corn
and far less expensive. The most pros
porous ranch owners in the southwest
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

instance, in the rather bleak Montana
the man who gets two good cuttings
a year is lucky, while in California
three and four cuttings is the rule ana
frequently six can be had
Very frequently regions naturally
the most barren and arid are, when
once the magic stream of water is
brought into play, the most fertile and
productive There is Nevada, the home
of the great American desert and the
synonym for barrenness and aridity
throw water over it's desert stretches
and it produces on the average 3.C5
tons an acre. What is still more
strange is that the first state in the
Union for yield per acre is Utah. The
yield per acre there is 3.54 tons
The value of alfalfa is finally being
realized by the eastern farmer, and in
the last few years it has been expert
mented with on a large scale east OF
the Mississippi. Only this fall the gov
ernment has been sending an alfalfa
and Corn Special train through the
southern states. On the special were
many eminent experts on the growing
of alfalfa, who, at the different sta
tions gave good practical lectures to
the farmers on how to grow this very
valuable forage food.
At present the eastern farmer is in a
very receptive mood because, for the
last five or six years, the clover crop
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

flowing from the main ditch and the
land is flooded. The amount of land
covered, of course depends on the ele-
walton of the lateral" and the
amount of drop the water has. After
the land is covered by about two
inches of water the head gates of the
main ditch are closed and the water
is allowed to soak into the ground.
AS soon as all the water has been
thoroughly absorbed the 'laterals'
are again filled and the thirsty ground
flooded once more.
Easy When Started
The number of times this flooding
process must be repeated depends en-
tirely upon whether it is a wet or dry
spring. If nature is kind-as a rule
she is not out in the land of sage
brush and alkali-and sends the ever
welcome rain the ground need only
be flooded a couple of times, other
wise the "laterals' make frequent
calls on the main ditch.
Once a crop is started it is not nee
cssary to seed again. All that is re-
quired is to plow and to furnish the
all important water,
While water is the sine qua non of
alfalfa raising, the soil and tempera-
ture have a great deal to do with the
quality and quantity of the crop. For
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

month. A table and a sink, above
which hung a cracked mirror, alone
kept it company. In the other room a
gorgeous. new pink wall paper was the
background for a table, one shaky chair
and sewing machine-nothing else,
except dirty, upholstered sofa, spread
over with cheap red quilt which was
half thrown back. just as the father of
the family had left it in the morning.
Drink and Sickness
The specters of drink and sickness
stalked through this "home." The
man spent his money in the neighboring
saloons, and could never be depended
upon to furnish regularly the SO de-
manded for the privilege of dwelling
for a month in the pinched, desolate,
repellant quarters. The woman. like
many of her sisters of the tenements,
had been slowly crushed by the struggle
to exist in the face of this added diff
Guilty. So only the sheltering arms of
the asylum were left for the children.
In the asylums motley company at
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

Romi's father was doing for living
the group of matted heads chorused,
Father drunk'-which gratuitous bit
of information was rewarded with
specially imperative call for silence and
a particularly pointed menace Of fisti-
cuff Mild curiosity, a dull, perverted
sense of importance-these seemed to
be the only feelings excited by Romi's
predicament: and the eight besmirched,
neglected youngsters evidently had all
the inducements in the world to follow
him as fast as their wobbly legs would
carry them when their opportunity
arrived.
Into the Street
From homes such as these the tram
sition to the street is so easy as to be
scarcely perceptible. In some cases the
lad is actually driven out. and in many
he has no apparent reluctance about
going. The parents of one little fellow
now in the asylum, preferring whisky
to work, began by sending him out to
beg for the food they were unwilling to
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
When an Opera Company Is on the Road

escape with SIS for seats in the or
chestra.
In Kansas City the immense conven-
tion hall has been remodeled for opera
and two performances will be given be-
fore 10000 subscribers. Seats on the
arena floor are worth SO and So, while
in the more remote portions of the
great inclosure there are seats for 81.
Boxes are to be had for $5.
Denver is hungry for grand opera,
but the busy Colorado city does not
possess a theater large enough to make
it worth while for the itinerant singers
to stop, so jump of more than 1000
miles will be made to the Pacific coast.
Sixteen performances will be given in
the Grand opera house at San Fran
cisco, and the enthusiasts in the me-
tropolis of the coast are not grumbling
because they have to pay 81 for an
orchestra seat. The company will
sing in Los Angeles probably at 81,
but this is not settled.
Sometimes Especial Consideration"
Especial consideration" demanded by
certain of the stars has turned gray
some of the blonde hair on Mr.. Goer-
litz' head In many Instances it has
been found necessary to send leading
singers on ahead of the private train.
This arrangement did not please the
masculine element. They insisted that
not less than three of them should be
sent forward at once. Mr.. Goerlitz
scratched his head and asked why.
"Well." pleaded a tenor and two of
the baritones. "it will be lonesome
travelling alone and then. Herr Goer-
litz, two men cannot well play poker"
"Ah, you have become such good
Americans as all that have your
answered the personal conductor.
"Well, 1 will see what I can do to fa-
cilitate your fondness for poker with
out endangering the operatic prospect
Another special consideration is
found on the menu forwarded to the
Pullman people to be inserted in the
meal contract. 1t reads, "plenty of
good beer" and ripe bananas"
Does such a costly operate prop
osition as this pay with daily expenses
to be figured in the thousands?
The company will travel 1900 miles
in a special train of sixteen cars and
give forty-seven performances of opera
to audiences aggregating 100000 per-
sons. The average price of admission
will be $3.50. Thus the income will be
$1,000 from the sale of seats alone
There is an additional income from adj
vertising in theater programs and the
sale of librettos.
The herr direktor who will accom-
pany his troupe for a part of the tour,
at least, is not in the opera business
for arts sake alone.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
SPRING COMES TO TOWN
met young Spring in the street toda.
Daffodil daffodil gay

met young Spring in the street today,
Daffodil daffodil gay.
Baskets of gold in the dun and grey,
Set in the midst of the toilworn way,
Smiling at all, as daffolids may;
Daffodil, daffodil gay!
saw the hooks where the Spring had
been,
Daffodil golden and green!
Here she had lingered-I saw the sheen,
Daffodils gold, with the leaves between,
Here she had crowned street that was
mean;
Daffodil golden and green.
1 met young Spring in the town of woe;
DaffodiI, daffodil, blowl
cried to her, Spring, thou shalt not
go!
winter has broken our spirit, and, o!
Give us thy gold and thy pink white
Daffodil. daffodil, blow!
Pail Mall Gazette.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

TT is estimated that of New York's
$4,000 children-a number which
= does not include the swarming popu-
lation of infants-14,000 boys and girls
between the ages of and 16 are in the
city's hands as destitutes, as Improperly
guardianed or as criminals, petty or
great. In other words, more than "a
per cent of the next generation of New
workers. are today in the shelter or
asylums, reformatories and charitable
substitutes for homes in general.
Only a few years ago the enort Oh
philanthropy would have been to cast
these thousands in one mould, ike SO
MANY buttons, subjecting them all 10
the same treatment regardless or tnelr
Individual characteristics. The wiser
noIicv of today gives the personal equa-
tion first consideration. 1t beglns py
making acquaintance-the intimate ac-
ouaintance. such as can be gained ohly
nv nersonal contact-with the surround
i,,ss that have produced the young un-
fortunates and the people who have
been responsible for their care. Inc
New york Juvenile asylum. for IN
stance-the Protestant institution 10
which. with the Catholic and HEBREW
nrotectories, the city authorities con-
sign most of the waits who come dl-
rectly under their notice-employs
visitor to cultivate this personal ac-
ouaintance in the light of which SO
much of it's work is done.
story of Philip
There has been at the Juvenile asy-
Iun for a month now a well grown Ger
man lad of 10 whose peculiar indlner-
ence and hardness always attracts at
tention His mother, at home IN three
rooms of a tenement on the East Side'
cries about him every day, calling him
"my Philip" :,
"He vas not bad boy, my Philip,
she SAYS to the visitor, 'only he mas
cursed so hart and vas always init de
bad boys. Nights he would stay oud'
mt den, because he is afraid or gettlhS
a vipping of his papa, he don't dast
come back. Sometimes he comes back
und sleeps in der hall outslte; put ne
wouldn't never come in.
"Den. one morning, ven he mad peen
avay tree nights, he comes in unit says
MAMA he says, Won't you gif me a
cun of coffee?" Unit l tell him L must
take him to der judge to put him away
because I vas not able to keep him from
der had BOYS. But he has broke my
heart" wept the patient, stolld-looklng
German woman.
Yet in this nome tneTe appears w po
nothing to drive a boy away. Ihe
rooms are bare. but they are clean and
wholesome; there is even an attract
tyeness about them. The mother, dis
tressfully thin and sad, has touching
tenderness of manner toward her chill
dren: the father Is a sober, hard worker
who uses his authority with his family
Justly and kindly. 1t seems to have
been the Course of the pavements" that
made Philip unmanageable.
He Stole Watch
Only two doors away there is another
German mother whose boy was sent to
the asylum from the children's court
for stealing a gold watch. Here, too,
there are many things that might help
a youngster to be good; certainly there
is nothing that need estrange him from
the home influence. But Hermann sue
cumbed to temptation one day, when,
taking a bundle of washing to one of
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

, today are those who breed hogs and
fatten them on alfalfa.
To drive home the unusual propor-
tions of the hay industry in this coun-
try nothing is better than to give a few
railroad statistics. Last year there
were needed 1858, ,636 cars to move the
hay crop throughout the United States
When one thinks that all the corn
could be moved in 2650,O0O cars, and
that the wheat, that king of American
products, only required 712,OOO cars, he
begins to realize what a factor Ii
American products hay is.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
Newest Books for
General Reader

TT seems to be a sort of fad among
a certain class of writer's these
days to devote their pens to novel;
izng the wickednesses supposed to per-
meate what they term society" Mrs.
Edith Wharton's 1.-The House of Mirth''
is a case in point-a severe pessimistic
tale of the petty doings of those who
pose as the envied of their fellows, not
because they possess superior merit or
learning, but because they either have
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
The nworId Power Folly

OF course Germanys finances are not
in satisfactory condition. The world
power folly is a debt-builder for any
country.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-25

Miss Beulah Morrow, highly re-
spected young lady Of II years, ar.
rived from Gibbs on the hack line,
registered at the Palace and was
by Mr.. Dlsmukes, who was on duty
at the hotel. assigned to room
No. 20. which is on the second floor
adjoining the parlor. Miss Morrow
was on her way from school at Pa
ducah to her home at Hickman, and
was compelled to remain in the city
until 6 40 the next morning to get
train home Late in the night
the negro entered her room upon
two occasions, gaining admittance
through the window. When she
discovered him in the room she
screamed and the brute fled. The
young lady was badly frightened
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-25
Attempted Criminal Assault.

City Marshal Frank Pardue last
Saturday morning went to the Pal
ace Hotel d arrested Albert
Scaggs, who has for some months
been acting as night porter at the
Palace, and turned him over to the
State authorities. General d. J.
Caldwell took charge OF the case at
IL O'Clock Saturday. AT 30 o'clock
the grand jury returned an indict-
ment. At 9 o'clock Monday morn
ing the negro was arraigned for
trial. decision of 10 years in the
penitentlary was agreed upon by
the lawyers, and at 2 o'clock the
same day the negro was on his way
to Nashville.
Friday night at about 5 80 o'clock