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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08

here, but advance supplies of new,
fresh goods from stocks made up for
the succeeding season. The straw hat
season in this country really opens in
Florida in winter, and the hats we are
now selling for wear there are of the
styles of 1906, such as will become ia
miliar here later, when, in due time,
the straw season shall have opened In
New York"
W begin making straw hats for
the next years trade on August L."
said a straw hat manufacturer, 'and
this work goes on actively all through
the fall and winter. When people here
in New York are going around In heavy
oyercoats and furs we are selling straw
hats for future delivery, and the dis
~tribution of straw hats to more dis
tant southern points begins in winter,
so that the jobbers and retailers at
these points may have their stocks
ready for the opening OF the season.
The straw hat season opens I'm Flor
ida, not only for the tourists. but for
dwellers In the state, about February
L. In New Orleans and Mobile and
along the gulf they begin to wear straw
hats about April 1, n so with the adj
vancing season straw hats begin to
blossom further and further north un-
til we get the opening of the straw
hat season here in New York about the
last of May"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08

open; He can come walking in smok-
lIS ms Perfecto any old time. If he
cal sleep at night he can get up and
go GOWN TO work, and if he don't get
uoWh until 5 or 6 o'clock in the after
noon after having been out on a little
automobile racket, why, it's all the
sane-the bank is still open.
me old rule about "depositors having
enough money to Cover their outstand-
ing checks before the bank closes
uocsh go any more. In fact, experts
say many Of the old time day banking
ruIes and regulations will change. Quite
d lew depositors hope there will be no
more of those hideous old signs the
uay banks used TO hang out once in a
"ilile when the bank examiner came
around, saying: Bank Closed by Or
oer OF the state Banking Department"
An effort will be made to have the leg
isIature take away the power OF the
state banking department to close up
banks that never want to close.
quite 4 saving is anticipated to the
stockholders under the new system. As
Is well known, all of the bankers who
have failed during the last few years
have had fine homes. But there will be
no extravaganza in country palaces
with the all night banker. He will, of
course, sleep in the bank. We can't
say that we envy him his job of curl
ing up on top of a hard steel safe, after
putting in a t~wenty-four hour day and
taking q sleep. These modern safes
may be oil right as playthings for
burglars, but as folding beds or lounges
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08
NEW YORK CITY now HAS,
BANK that's OPEN ALL NIGHT

New York special: After many years
yof very sad experience we have finally
learned that the best time to do our
banking is in the middle Of the night.
Nothing on earth gives us more pleas
ure now than 10 wake up out of a sound
sleep at two a. M. n rush off to the
Midnight Safe Deposit company and
soak away a few thousand dollars Of
fathers hard earned graft.
Then too, the never closed bank is
very handy when you reach your wife's
home some morning just prior to day
light n she say tearfully, AS she
clips you on your way up stairs with a
hand mirror n a couple OF military
hair brushes:-
Where have you been, you loafer?"
only to the bank, my dear one"
you reply softly, ito get you some
money for the new gown you spok,
about when l vent away a few days
a-o."
Well she says, modulating her
fearful screams of anger, did it take
you all night to draw out $50O?"
Yes, my love-" you go on as you get
nearer the dead line, there was a line
of men a block long drawing out money
to give their wives when they got home
this morning, and of course, l was de-
termined to stick until l got yours"
"Oh! you poor lear fellow she says.
as you hand over the $500. He had 10
stand out in the night air all night to
get his dear little wife some money!
Now you are in right. She takes you
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08

3 o'clock in the morning with the
pockets OF her bath robe literally
packed with SO, 900 gold certificates.
If some men keep on making money
all the time the always ready bank will
be in a very short time absolutely in
dispensable. At present their incomes
are only $4,000 a minute for every
minute in the twenty-four hours. and
Of course they can pile this money up
in a corner and keep 1t over night, but
when their incomes increase as they
will II they go on growing at their pres
ent speed, to $1,000, 900 a minute then
it can be plainly seen that they cannot
go to bed and sleep twenty-four hours
without going to a ban n getting
rid of some of their waste paper. And
it may not be so very long either be-
fore some Of the boys who are grow
ing up here will have to be running out
every five minutes of the day and night
and making a deposit Of a few hun
bred millions. Then, and possibly not
until then, will the public realize what
a great blessing h nighthawk bank is.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08

from the tree. Make holes about four
inches deep and about a foot apart on
each circle, Put about a gill in each
hole. By counting you will find that
there are several hundred, n you will
readily ascertain the quantity required.
Incidentally, il you have some aged
fruit trees which are not bearing salts
factory fruit or not carrying to ma
turity what they do bear, they will re-
spond TO the treatment recommended
for forest trees.
The planting Of so-called English
ivy TO climb on young, healthy trees is
not to be commended. On the health of
OIL trees having rough, thick bark Ivy
has no appreciable effect when the
growth Is confined to the body of the
tree. Any climber permitted to ramble
out over the branches is a positive In
jury To health. Ivy is not a parasite, as
many suppose. but derives its sus-
tenance from the earth. You may. II
the trees have passed their useful
ness, permit the ivy to grow as II
pleases. III the trees have some vigor
yet do not permit the ivy to grow, ex-
cept on the body and the bases Of the
large branches. n no injury To the
tree will result"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08

teller, and he not only has never been
outside of the building or wasted n
more of the houses time than the pay
ing teller, but he has lever stopped
long enough to speak to a living soul.
Strange to relate, however, the firm
thinks no less of the paying teller be-
cause he has spoken during his long
service than it does of the receiving
teller who has never uttered a word.
This is due perhaps to the fact that
the paying teller never speaks except
when he protests about paying out
money. The receiving teller never has
to protest against receiving moneys,
and naturally he realizes that If he
talked during the office hours he would
not be doing his whole duty to his
employer, the all night banker"
Ho for the Midnight Run!
1t will also be interesting to read
about the Great Midnight Run on the
Insomnia Bank wherein is described
how the Fifth avenue bachelors dashed
out OF their apartments in "DePs' n
other places and made a wild rush for
the deposit vaults in their pajamas. A
number of society women drew their
fortunes out and carried them home in
their nightdresses. One very much eX-
cited old millionaire bolted into the
bank at daylight, breathless, and ar
rying a large clothes basket to put
his money in, but he had no trousers
on. Mrs. S., who was not believed to
be so wealthy, was seen going home at
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08
The First Air Brake.
From Success Magazine.

Persons who should have known bet
ter thought Westinghouse visionary
when they were told hat he proposed
to stop a train by air. Nobody seemed
inclined to let him try his plan on n
real train, but they did not object 20
his working a model of it in a shop
where he couldn't do any harm, nor
involve anybody else in expense. He
knew his scheme would work, but he
could not make anyone else believe It.
So he continued to sell his invention FOR
replacing derailed cars on the tracks,
and to ak about his brake to any rail-
road man who vas willing to listen.
We'll nave you ever stopped a train
with this air thing Of yours?" they
would ask.
No, he couldn't say that he had done
so. Nobody would let hin try 1t even
on a train of dump cars.
One day he arrived in P~ittsburg, sell
ing his other invention and talking
about his brake notion to a mar con.
nected with a railroad out there.
That's a great idea of yours" said the
man, I'VE will try it on our line!"
So the officials of this railroad per-
mitted Westinghouse to put his new
''kicksaw" on one OF their trains. But
he had to agree TO indemnify the road
for any damage lat might be caused
to the train as the result of the trials.
The train was equipped. On the desig-
mated day the confident inventor and a
group of skeptical railway men boarded
the train on which the first air brakes
were fixed. OF went the train on its
trial trip. The engineer put on full
speed, and just as he had rounded q
curve he saw ahead, at a grade cross
ing, and in the middle OF the track, a
loaded wagon, a man and a boy, and a
balky horse. The engineer moved his
little lever, n the first train that aver
was stopped by air pulled UP at a stand
still several feet short of the obstruc-
tion.
Thus, on its first trial, the westing.
house air brake save life and prevented
damage to property. Thenceforward
talking was unnecessary; all that iad
to be Ion was to make brakes. The in
ventor thought of that clause securing
compensation to the railroad for any
damage he might do to the train and
he laughed. His fortune dated from
that day. He was then only %.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08

fraternity he told the following story on
himself:
Once out in Nebraska / went to protest
against my real estate assessment, and one
OF the things which / particularly com
planned was assessing a goat at SIS.
claimed that a goat was not real proper
~ In the legal sense OF the word and
should not be assessed. One of the assess
ors, a very pleasant faced old man. very
obligtngly said that l could go upstairs
with him and together we would look oven
the rules and regulations and see la
could be done.
We looked over the rules and finally the
old man asked: Does your goat run
loose on the roads?'
well, sometimes" said i, wondering
what the penalty was for that dreadful
offense
Does he butt?' again queried the old
man.
Yes" / answered, "hs butts"
We'll" said the old man. looking az
me, this rule says, tax all that certain
property running and AUDITING on the
highway. l don't see that I can do any
thing for you. Goo day. sir"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08
MANAGEMENT OF MILK FROM
COW TO CREAMERY.

The essential matters In the man.
agement Of milk are comprehended I'm
the two words. cleanliness and cooling,
Milk should be drawn from clean
cows, In a clean place, into clean
pals and stored in clean pans. Prac-
teal cleanliness is a somewhat rela-
tive term. The patron of a creamery
is not to be expected to conform to
all the requirements necessary to pro-
duce certified" milk. He cannot at
ford to wash and scrub his cow stable
every day, or don a white suit at
milking time, or invest In a steam
plant for sterilizing his milk utensils
and milking clothes twice a day, but
he a keep his stables and his
clothes and his milk pals and cans
so clean that they shall not be con-
spicuously offensive to sight or smell,
or become breeding places for all kinds
OF bacteria.
Milk pals and cans should be
cleaned every time they are used, and
scalded at least once every day. To
do this successfully, first rinse In cold
or moderately warm water, then wash
in hot water, using a brush and not a
cloth, and e scald witt boiling va
ter and let them dry without wiping.
Store these, when not In use, in a clean
place away from dust, and preferably
where air and sunlight can reach them.
Do not stir up manure or litter or
hay just before milking.
Brush udders and tanks OF cows
before milking and IL necessary slight
ly dampen these parts to prevent dirt
and hairs falling into the pail.
Strain the milk into cans, n IL
cloth strainers are used. have them
washed first in warm water and then
boiled before used q second time.
Do not leave cans of milk In the sta
BILE, but remove TO a clean, cool place;
leave cover partly off or cover with
tain muslin SO that the e nay pass
off. Set cans in cold water when pos
sibie and stir two or three times so
that cooling may be uniform.
Do not mix warm milk with the
cooled milk.
IL Is also desirable. and In the long
run economical. regard being had to
the life and appearance of the cans,
to cover them with a blanket or cam
vas while in transit from farm to fac
tory.-Hoard's pairyman.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08
chauffeurs 200 Years Ago.

fTOm Figaro.
C~hauheurs existed long before there
were automobiles.
History tells US hat along about the
year 1875 there sprang up in France.
principally I'm the eastern and central
regions, Enthusiastically dressed men with
their faces blackened with SCOT and
their eyes carefully concealed who
gained admittance to farm houses and
other isolated dwellings al night and
committed all kinds OF depredations
and outrages.
They had ar atrocious habit especi-
ally from which they obtained the
name that posterity has preserved for
them. They first garroted their VIC
tins, and dragged them in front OF q
great fire, where they burned the soles
OF their feet. Then they demanded or
them where their money and jewels
were concealed. Such heterogeneous
could scarcely be resisted.
II Is from this that is derived the
appeallation of chauffeur. which once
sc terrified old ladies, out which at
present evokes In US only cheerful and
pleasing thoughts OF automobilism and
OF voyages and excursions at twenty
five and thirty miles an hour, In which
there IL nothing but the roads and
paved streets that are scorched.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08
of openings

'an and puts lot towels on your heart
and rubs our feverish temples with an
ice cold Wh!Sk broom.
AS soon as you go to sleep she takes
n rest of yOur money out of your
pockets n when you wake up the next
evening she has been out and bought
two gowns instead of one, and she 1as
a nice cold supper waiting for you.
Still, the never sleep bank is a good
thing in other ways. If you should hap
pen to go to bed some time without any
change, and after you got to sleep you
should conclude you might need a lit
tie cash before o woke Up, you can
simply write out a check dated In
bed at midnight, ETC." and send the
bellboy out to get it cashed.
One of the greatest blessings OF the
new nocturnal banking system is that
1t cashes small checks in the wee small
hours of the dull. gray morning.
Greatest Breakfast Money Scheme.
Although thousands of rich men have
for years been trying to devise a COM
prehensive plan for giving every person
breakfast money, N plan has ever been
patented which comes up to anywhere
near the cant shut up the bank idea.
It is a most remarkable thing that
nobody ever before thought Of conduct
ing a bank along the dairy lunch lines.
Now, however, that we have seemingly
solved a very difficult problem, how ma
tural 1t does come for modern finance
TO go trotting along hand in hand with
the Owl lunch wagon?
Just think. too. what a blessing this
is to the poor, overworked bank clerk.
He used to LAY to get down to work
at 5 o'clock In the morning and he sell
dom got home before 6 or Z at night.
1t was a terrible thing for him to have
TO keep this up. day In and day out.
year upon year. but he had TO be dow
ut s or he would not be ready for bust
ness when the bank opened at 9.
Under the new system the clerk has
a regular snap. 1t doesn't matter when
he comes down. The bank is always
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08
THE CARE OF OLD TREES.
Wood Ashes and Boncdust a Tonic
When Ivy Is Injurious.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore sun.
Some valuable information regarding
the care and treatment of old shade
trees is given by N. f. Flitton, super
intendent of the Clifton district Of the
park system and one of the most prom
inent horticulturists in the state.
When nature has reached the limit
OF time at which she can send the in
MIGRATING sap owe a large surface a
surgical operation has become a neces-
sity for prolonging the life of the
tree" he said. The head must be
the sap can easily reach. The applica
ton Of stimulants will not accomplish
this.
After the branches are shortened
.C, however. a little ~persuader In the
shape of bonedust and wood ashes. the
one in the autumn and the other In
the spring, would act as an excellent
tonic. Please kindly bear in mind that
there are many grand old trees now
passed into a state of decreptitude that
would have thrived for a good many
years had the proper attention been
given them at the right time. Dead
wood is a load that no tree can carry
without injury. and should be prompt
ly removed.
why is 1t necessary TO put bonedust
in holes and scatter ashes on the sur
face?
THE pone Is needed there, and II Is
no. desirable hat ii should be carried
off by rains or melting SHOWS. scatter
soil on the surface after the bone Is
put on and rub IL into the holes WITH
the back Of a wooden rake. Scatter a
good coat Of Canada hardwood. UNI
ieached ashes in the spring. Ii VIII
leach down and will not wash away.
How far to extend?
"Take a line and tie 1t loosely around
the tree so that II will turn on II, hav-
ing one free end. Describe a circle SIN
or eight feet from the boie OF Tree
lenythcn the lire a foot for each circle
and continue Il, fifteen or eighteen fee
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08
The Old Mans Letter.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
The old man answered the letter of
he young man at college, as follows:
Dear Billy: ! got your letter, which
on said you wrote in Greek: but I
idn't read IL TO yer mother, as you
now she Is afeared o. lightnin', an
didn't want TO risk II with her. as II
oke like a zigzag llghtnin' In print
-as ef o had took a snapshot AT a
hunderbolt, an Ii landed upside down.
Vii that l did git the hang of wuz the
,ostscript-where o drawed on me
fer 500 in the American language.
You'll oblige me, next time you write.
By writin' la American. and drawin'
,n me In Creek"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08
Wanted in Wyoming.

At the international Sunday school
convention, at Louisville, KY, in an
swer to the roll call OF states, reports
were verbally given by the various state
chairmen. When the Lone Star state
was called, a brawny specimen of
southern manhood stepped out into the
aisle and with strident voice exclaimed:
I'VE represent the great state OF Texas.
The first white born in Texas Is
still living-she now has a population
of over three millions"
There was a pause OF bewilderment
for a moment. and then a voice from
the galleries rang out clear and dis
tinct:
send that woman out to wyoming
we need her!"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08
Irishman and Mules.

From Inc P~hlIadeIphla ledger.
Out in a small western town a building
operation was going on. The material had
to be carted five miles. and a young Irish
man was employed to drive a team Of
mules.
1t had been raining for two days and the
roads were a sight. II was as much as the
teamsters could do TO keep their teams
going, so bad were rhe roads.
The next morning 1t was raining as hard
as ever. The driver went &c the stable
with a shovel.
Where are you going. DAM asked the
boss.
ITO curry the ears OF me nevis" an
swered Dan.
Why are you only going to curry their
ears?' asked the boss.
Sure, thifn's all ov i'm remains out OF
the mud, scr"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08
STRAW HATS SOLD IN WINTER.
From the New York Sun.

1--WE always carry a good stock OF
straw hats in winter" said a New
York halter, ''and the severer the win
ter the more straw hats We sell. The
simple reason for this is that In sucll
a season more people go south, and
IL is to people going well south that
we sell straw hats here in winter.
They are wearing straw hats In
Florida now, south OF st. Augustine
| You would find some straw hats worn
in that city, but at Ormond. Palm
Beach and Miami and elsewhere
throughout the Florida peninsula south
OF ST. Augustine straw hats are o
commonly worn and are required for
comfort.
THE straw hat stocks that we carry
in winter here and at our agencies in
Florida are nc; Of hats left owe from
the stocks OF the preceding season
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08
there are lots of things in the market
which answer the purpose better.
Bic Chance for Faithful EmpIoye.

which answer the purpose better.
Big Chance for Faithful Employe.
1t would probably be difficult to
frame up an institution where the ever
faithful employee" could better show his
fidelity than in our never-go-to-bed
banks. There are always some men
in a large business house who like to
put in long hours for the good of the
boss. After the never eat or sleep bank
has been In vogue for a few centuries
the president can hire some guide to
show strangers around.
Here. ladies and gentlemen" the
guide will say, is our wide awake pay
ing teller. He went on the job May /,
1906, and not only has he never been
to bed during the last hundred years,
but he has never tasted food, neither
has he ever so much as sat down for
a brief rest. He, however, does not
equal our receiving teller. Step right
this way and watch the kindly old fell
low rake in the cash for the firm.
H went to work with the paying
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08
From Nav LIP

From Nav LIppincott Magazine.
Last year william Jennings Bryan Wis
ited Cornell university. While being en-
,ertataed AZ a dinner BY Z prominent legal
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08

A smoking prize was won In the
Concordia CLUB. Of Berlin. q short Tina
ounce Of tobacco. In 4 pipe OF : certain
spectned ssss. Ia eighteen minutes
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1906-09-01
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