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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06

<"Before / wrote to you, telling you how ]
felt, 1 had doctored for over two years steady
and spent lots of money on medicines besides,
but it all failed to help me. My monthly pc.
riods had ceased and I suffered much pain,
with fainting spells, headache, backache and
bearing-down pains, and / was so weak ]
could hardly keep around. As a last resort
i decided to write you and try Lydia Z. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound, and / am SO
thankful that / did, for after following your
instructions, which you sent me free of all
charge, / became regular and In perfect
health. Had it not been for you ! would be
in my grave to-day.
&c sincerely trust that this letter may lead
every suffering woman in the country to
write you for help as l did"
When women are troubled with ir.
regular or painful periods, weakness,
displacement or liberation of an organ,
that bearing-down feeling, infiamma.
ton, backache, fiatulence, general de.
bility, indigestion or nervous prostra.
ton, they should remember there is
one tried and true remedy. Lydia K.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once
removes such troubles.
No other female medicine inthe world
has received such widespread and un,
qualified endorsement. Refuse all sub
stitutes.
For IS years Mrs. Pinkham, daughter
tin-law of Lydia E. Pinkham, has under
her direction, and since her decease,
been advising sick women free OF
charge. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF
CI OVER

Those who ave had trouble in getting
a stand Of crimson clover, and most Of US
have had more or less trouble, realize that
the crop costs us much more perhaps than
anything we have raised. When we
learned that lime in the soil was essential
to success we had less trouble and less
cost but even then, perhaps, we did
not get all that we ought out of the crop.
BY this it is meant that all of us do not
plant the proper crop when clover Is a
part of the rotation. We know that clover
gathers not only nitrogen from the air but
that it brings from the soil, with it's long
roots, some crop food which might not
otherwise be brought within reach of the
crop which is to follow. This being the
case 1t is a question of good hard common
sense to follow the clover with our most
important crop in order that that crop
shall have the benefit Of the work the
clover has done. What that crop will be
depends upon the rotation but naturally 1t
should be the crop which will bring the
largest cash return. This Is a point in
clover growing most of us overlook but its
Importance should be plain to all who
read this item.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
Poor Little Chan.

OF the late Miss tombstone Bennett,
in whose death the American stage lost
a Coincidence Of exquisite talent, an
actor said.
Miss tombstone Benefits success
came easily to her. She could have
succeeded as a writer had h wished,
She never went out but she returned
with a host of striking episodes she
had observed.
zone day In the early summer she
said TO me, as she lunched on some de-
licious fruit:
81 was Summing yesterday. As ]
passed a fruit stand piled high with
black bananas, soft strawberries, green
watermelon and the like. a little ragged
chap of 6 or z stopped before 1t, and
/ heard him say to the dealer, as he
pointed towards the strawberries:
"'Gimme a cents worth o. rottens.'"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06

Nitrate of soda has attracted the atten-
ton of growers or fruits and vegetables,
but many of them are using II too profuse-
ly and defeating the very object they
hoped to accomplish. Nitrate of sod and
some other chemical fertilizers force a
quick top growth, but In the doing of IT
the root growth is practically destroyed, 80
that if one is forcing plants of which the
roots are the salable portion extreme call
ton must be observed in the handling
of such fertilizers. We nave seen such
used on cabbage TO the point where the top
growth became so heavy that there was
not enough roots to sustain 1t and this be-
fore the top had matured. Other CONNER
cial fertilizers, bone meal for example, Is
slower In it's action but the results are
better, particularly with plants which re-
quire the most of the summer to come to
~, at,rrttu
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06

vas from renal collie. After / began
using Doan's Kidney Pills l passed a
gravel stone as big as a bean. Since
then / have never had an attack OF
gravel, and have picked up to my for
mer health and weight. l am a well
man, and give Doan's Kidney Pills
credit for It."
Sold by all dealers. 80 cents a box.
Foster Milburn Co.. Buffalo, n. Y.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06

suffered q long,
long time with my
back, and felt drag
gy and listless and
tired all the time.
l lost from my
usual weight, 225,
TO 10. Urinary
passages were too
frequent and / had
to get UP often in
the night. | had
headaches and dir
~ spells also, but
my worst suffering
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
ANOTHER TREE FRAUD.

Sometimes one feels as IL some of the
laughs Of the city folk at the gul;ibility
Of farmers were justified. There are a
dozen or more frauds at work IN different
lines and all of them Offering farmers
some wonderful thing which the common
sense of the farmer should tell him is i'm
possible. 1t is to be expected that the city
man will buy tulip bulbs from street VEN
doris labeled THE Rose OF Japan" and ac-
c~ompanied by a colored picture with the
same label, the picture really being a fair
one Of the Rh~ododendron. 1t is also to be
expected that the farmer might be de-
ceived into buying a wonderful attach
ment to a furnace because he knows little
or nothing about such things, but Why a
farmer will buy compounds to keep milk
from getting sour. powders to keep trees
from being attacked by insects or trees
which have been budded In October so thai
they VIII come III bloom after all danger
from frost is over tthis is one OF the latest
scheme) Is past comprehension. Strange
though IL may seem II is not always the
men who decline to subscribe for papers
that do these foolish things. though they
are IN tho majority. but many men more
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
A Fishy Yarn.

From the Houston Post.
why are you swallowing me? %
queried Jonah.
Because" replied the whale, "in
years to come there'll be a great many
wise guys born who will insist that I
couldn't do it, and 1 want to show EN-
that / can"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
TORTURED WITH GRAVEL.

Since Using DOan's Kidney Pills
Not a Single Stone Has Formed.
Capt. S. L. Crute, Adjt. Wm. Watts
Camp, u. c. ", Roanoke, Va, says Il
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
KEEP THE ORCHARD Guilt
Waited.

If a hoed crop is being cultivated In the
young orchard and the work is properly
done and the crop is one that is not taking
too much fertility from the soil which the
trees should have, one is doing all that is
necessary to kept the orchard soil in good
shape. Care must be taken, however, not
to grow any crop which will need cultiva-
ton after the middle of July nor one
which cannot be harvested at that time for
cultivation much after hat period is in
citing the tree to a growth 1t ought not to
MAKE If 1t is to pass through the winter
In proper shape. If no crop is being grown
then the shallow cultivation should be
given up to the middle of July when the
seed for the cover crop shout be sown.
If you have never tried this plan of caring
for the young orchard 1t is worth investi-
cation for 1t Is based on the principle of
cultivation for the conservatism of mois-
ture in the soil and the growing of a plant
for winter protection which will at the
same lime be suitable to turn under In
the spring to add humus to the soil which
is greatly needed in all soils where fruit
is grown.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
SOME EXPERIMENTS IN FEEDING


After two years of testing we ave de-
cided that we can raise more chicks with
out the use of soft foods or mashes as they
are called h we can with them. Last
year our loss was twenty per cent. less
than in previous years and this year the
loss was merely nominal; that is, the loss
from bowel trouble which is the great des-
troyer of small chicks. No more mashes
for us. Last winter, on a moderate scale,
we tried the plan of cutting out the mash
and feeding the layers from self acting
hoppers; that is, they were arranged SO
that the birds could help themselves to
grain when they pleased and the several
grains were kept separate so they could
do their wi mixing. the only p~reeaution
aiken being that there was less corn Of
fered them than of the other grains; In
this way we prevented them from getting
oyer-fat. So successful was this idea that
we shall take the risk OF feeding all of the
focks the same way the coming season. 1t
is worth the time of any poultryman to
experiment cautiously along this line for
1t may be that the day Of the warm mash
Is over.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
FORCING GROWING PLANTS.

than reasonably shrewd in the affairs OF
l.fe. Presumably 1t is one of those things
for which no explanation can be offered.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06

The normal life Of a mouse is three
years
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
A FORAGE AND CLOVER CROP.
A BERRY PIckER's BASKET.

While the basket described is well known
to all growers of strawberries in the east
1t is not generally used except for this
purpose when, as a matter OF fact, IL
ought to be used for the picking OF fruits
and vegetables generally. II is made by
using boards six inches wide, half inch
thick and long enough so as to make a
tray which will hold. without crowding.
six strawberry baskets. Legs are fast
ened at each OF the four corners, using
the same material used for the frame, cut
ting them so that they will extend about
six inches below the frame. A handle is
easily made of a barrel hoop and thus
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
THE PROBLEM OF FARM HELP.

In many sections of the country it is
impossible to get farm help at all, In 9TH
er sections it can be had at a price farmers
cannot afford to pay. The problem is be-
coming a serious one and is likely TO be-
and takes the best from the rural districts.
In some respects we must look at home
for the causes of some of our roubles and
while an improvement in this respect will
not remedy the entire trouble it will do
much to help IL. We work men too hard
on the farm; no man who can get any 9TH
er labor will work from 4 or 5 o'clock in
the morning until dark, or later on moon
lit nights; yet these are the hours we ex-
pect OF men. Few men who work OF a
farm expect that the Eight hour rule"
will apply to them for they realize that
more time must be given TO farm work be-
cause Of the necessity for timely action.
We have had men who willingly worked
fifteen and eighteen hours in IN emerg-
ency because they knew that the minute
the strain was over their hours would be
shortened whenever possible so as to make
up to them the time they overworked. AS
nearly as possible we work our men from
z to 6 and if occasion requires that they
work longer at times, we pay it back to
them by letting them have shorter hours
or paying them for the overtime. In the
majority of cases we nave found that our
best man would prefer to work on the
farm from Z to 6 rather than go into town.
In many cases it is the hours OF labor that
drive them from the farm. hin 1t over,
Taad pr
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06

60 Bus. Winter Wheat Per Acre
hats NE xis.a q RED Ross MYnkID
lNTER WuEAT send z esnts In stamps for Prss
eH.pis 81 same, as also catalogue Of Winter whestl kys. Bar
VI. Clover, Timothy, Grsssrk. bnith. Trees, etc. for fn planting
GAlxER SEED CO. Bsx {. Lacrosse, Eiscsssis
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
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every htomtes \ I'VE
box lasts tho entire
season. Harmlsss D..
persons clean, psx&
and will noe ssil sx
RTshing. Try
them sslrs ard ysss
will newer be wiSA-
ontthsm. raoahspx
by dealers, semi pss-
paid feg roe. har~lst
Bomer< 40 DsGsh
AVE.. krsskiys. Ax
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06

ing OF the sheet. To max the sheet fit
snugly around the trunk of the tree it is
open on one side to the trunk of the tree,
see figure B, and a hole nine inches in
diameter is cut out at center and the
edges firmly bound with a strip of mustn't;
the sheet IS thus drawn quickly around he
trunk of the tree and the opening closed
with tapes or rings sewed to hemmed edge
which underlaps edges "a Al to which
harness snaps are sewed- Now have four
stakes Of very hard wood each three feet
long with a hole near the top large enough
to pass a strong clothesline through. This
rope runs through the harness ring at
Zach corner, through each corner post n
is then drawn taut and tied. One of the
beauties of this curculio catcher is that 1t
may be carried from field to field and set
up by one man when necessary. The IL
l%ustration with the above directions will
make the idea clear to anY one.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
SOW SOME RAPE NOW.

- IdLS Nv I'll Z Ddl Sun VIII
be fit for use in from eight to ten weeks
there is still plenty Of time to SOW the seed
and have the crop ready for foraging in
the early fall just at a time when it will
be valuable for the stock. The secret of
growing rape for forage purposes is to
nave the soil we'll prepared n the crop
seems to do particularly well when follow
ing a crop of rye so that If that field has
not already been planted TO another crop
try the rape. Use the Dwarf Essex and
sow the seed broadcast at the rate OF -four
or five pounds per acre. When it is seven
or eight inches high turn the hogs onto it
for a few hours daily alternating with the
regular range. Sheep too can ave a por-
ton of this crop to advantage and you can
still turn under what is left with great
advantage to the soil.
A FORAGE AND CLOVER CROP.
II the orchard has been worked in past
seasons, that is If It is a comparatively
young orchard, try this plan If you nave a
lot of pigs needing forage. Get the soil
In good shape by frequent workings, plow-
ing, disking and narrowing, doing the
work at intervals until the growing sea-
son of the trees is over, usually by the
middle of August. This is the time the
cover crop would be sown but this year
try sowing a mixture of two bushels of
rye and four quarts of timothy per acre.
In the spring sow a mixture OF two quarts
of Red and Alsike clovers and then turn
the hogs on TO NOW down the rye before
it begins to joint and going to seed. This
will furnish a good lot of forage and the
clover will be ready for later blowing un-
der or for forage still later.
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USE OF DEcoY LETTERS.

No Better Means Known for Cathing
the Mail Thief.
There have been several arrests and
convictions Of local postal employees re-
Gently for mail depredations, and in
discussing these instances a Postoffice
inspector said:
Although we use the same old bait
in catching postal offenders, and the
novice at the business and the old
hand know what 1t is as we'll as we,
they keep on just the same until the
time worn but deadly certain 'decoy
letter lands them high and dry in the
Ipenitentiary, to wonder and lament at
their leisure why they were SO weak
and foolish to bite at 1t.
The decoy letter, is such simple
thing that the average citizen may
wonder at its effectiveness, or why the
thief doesn't succeed in didging 1t. II
is the greatest silent thief catcher in
use by men who make it their business
to apprehend their dishonest fellows
will always remain so, and doesn't need
improving to insure its stability in the
criminal world.
There is an angle of delusion in
matters criminal as in honest affairs
and the postal thief's slant is that he
thinks he will not be discovered; at the
same time he knows perfectly well that
complaints of missing letters contain
ing valuables are invariably made to
the department, and that the depart
ment's machinery for the investigation
lis practically perfect, based upon
years of experience.
THE postal thief, emboldened by ini-
tial successes and elated by the pleas
ant novelty Of having in his pockets
ready and easy money for which he
did not have to work, goes along mer-
rily until the innocent appearing de-
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-11

Love doesn't cause everybody to rage
and murder, as is shown by a Kansas
case. Twenty years ago w. R. Smith
Of that State married an elghleen-year-
old girl. He was So at that time. They
have now two grown up children and
Mrs. Smith has fallen in love with a
young man by the name of Alexander
Estay. Mr.. Smith instead of making a
fuss over 1t, talked it over with his
wife and her lover. He said he was
70 years old and wanted home; that If
they were bound to love each other, he
would secure a divorce, but wanted to
make his home with them. They
agreed and all live In the same house.
The father is devoted to his children,
and his wife is devoted to her new
husband.
We don't suppose that this arrange
ment could be honestly commended by
good people, but 1t Is perhaps little
better than an arrangemnt would have
been whereby the disconnected wife
would have quietly poisoned the old
man, and thus made it possible for her
to marry the young man. We can at
least hope that she will be "happy"
now.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-11
The Fairy PIpers.

Weary is the way and I'm weary man
All, the fairy pipers that awoke me
long ago
When the mists began to SILVER at the
coming of the light,
And the wind was in the heather soft
and low.
The gray hills flushed to purple and the
east was like a rose,
They called me to the long road with
piping shrill and clear.
Rest and rust and dull content the NOR
tai never knows
Who may once the fairy pipers chance
to hear.
Over hill and valley he must follow till
he fall;
Jeweled gossamers at dawn that shine
about his feet.
Love and wealth and honor. he must
break and leave them all
When the fairy music calls him, shriil
and sweet.
Shepherds on the quiet hills, fishers by
the strem.
Light and life and laughter where the
busy city huns,
Grow and dwindle round him faint as
figures in dream,
Still the music calls him and ne
comes
Friends and comrades round me. went
forth upon my quest,
Never road too hard for us, and meier
a hill too high,
One by one they failed and fell. the
fairest and the best,
And the grass is green above them
where they lie.
Noon and weary afternoon, and now the
shadows fall
Longer down the valley, and alone
follow still
Where The fairy pipers moving through
the dusk before me call,
And the first star shines above the
hill.
Duncan ]. Robertson in Longmans.
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woman must resort In order to get in
and out of her clothes. Even their
best young men, provided they were all
ready proved trustworthy and discrete,
have been pressed into service by en-
terprising girls, who, farlng home from
some evening festivity, and foreseein9
battle and defeat awaiting them, have
permitted their escorts respectfully to
undo the central-always the most OBJ
durate-button in the back of the
bodice.
Even more desperate measures were
resorted to by bachelor maid who,
after a recent social occasion. having
returned to her bachelor fiat after
wearing with much satisfaction a
brand new dinner gown, discovered to
undo its posterior fastenings that one
or two of them positively refused to
fasten The bachelor girl lived alone,
there was no janitor and her sole maid
had left in huff the previous day.
What to do? She could not go to bed
In her best gown, and 1t looked as If
she would have to sit up all night.
After some moments of horrible re-
Election the distressed woman resolved
to brave the terrors of the street and
accost the first feminine wayfarer. She
therefore let herself out and interrog-
ated the midnight horizon for sail At
that moment passing car stopped and
a couple alighted. The too firmly
buttoned UP woman approached the
pair and, with humble apology, pre-
ferred her request. An irresponsible
fgrunt was heard to issue from the
otherwise silent lips Of the mantle
grunt Of one who had acquired through
experience a cynical disdain of faminine
follies-the grunt Of one who had sarv-
ed his time in doing and undoing re-
calcitrant bodices.
The woman, however, waved aside all
apologies and granted the request with
a ready warmth and hospitality that
indicated past sufferings Of similar
nature, and the bachelor maid, with a
light heart and an open bodice, was
enabled to return to her home and bed.
San Francisco Argonaut.
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coy letter is silently slipped in the
mails, to find its way to his hands as
surely as does the fish torpedo the
steel magnet of the battleship's sides
Do they try to dodge this missive of
danger? Oh, yes, they do try. Tee ex-
plosion does not necessarily follow the
launching of the first letter. If a postal
thief is suspicious of a letter he will
let 1t go through even though he is
morally certain that it contains the
coverted cash he is after In these cases
the decoy continues its part of the ST.
lent detective just the same If the dis
honest employe allow 1t to slip by 1t
tells the inspectors at the other end of
the line i'll its mute way that the en-
ploye is on; they just send another,
and still others, if necessary, until the
inevitably certain one lands in the
pocket Of the thieving employee, then to
change its role of detective to 'docu-
mentary evidence which winds up the
career of the victim Of his own cupid
|ity
1.-THE 'decoy letter contains all the
outward, and inward for that matter,
appearance of an ordinary piece &c
mail intended for the addressee, who
be some private citizen or business
house whose mail Is being tempered
with That's how we get me; they
can't tell the difference, it being a case
Of all looking alike to me- Only pos
tai thief is naturally cautious, and