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Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-08
Turnina tho Tables.

Clergyman Ito his wife, returning
very late from gossiping parity
Whatever made you stay out SO
dreadfully late, wifey2
Wife-Oh, / did not wish to dis
turb you in the preparation Of your
sermon.
Clergyman's Wife (ready, for the
fray on Monday night, to her hus-
band, returning very late from hi,
club Whatever made you stay out
so dreadfully late, hubby?
Clergyman-Well, you see, dear
est, | didn't want to disturb you in
the preparation Of your curtain lec-
ture.-fliegende Batter.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-08
FraternaI Orders.

Rockbl idge Lodge, No. 5S. !. .; o, r.
meets every Thursday night, at Odd Eel
lows Hall.
Lexington Lodge, No. 66, K. OF p
meets every Tuesday night, at odd fei-
lows Hall.
Liberty Lodge, No, 2, Daughters OF
Rebeka6, meets every Monday night at
Odd Fellows Hall.
Mountain City Lodge, No. 81, Ancient
York Masons, meets 1st and sra Moi
day nights at Masonic Hall
Natural Bridge Council, No. 1920 = Royal
Arcanum, meets 1st and 5rd FRIDAY
nights in each month, at ODD Fellows
Hall.
Lee jackson Council, No. ", Junior
Order American Mechanics, meets eVory
2nd and 4th Friday nights at odd Felo"s
Hall.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-08

"The baker," said the knowing
youth, "is the happiest man ever.
Everything he Stirs up, pans out
we'll All he kneads is his, he has
dough to burn, and his stock is still
rising. He certainly takes the cake.
He's stirring chap and does things
up brown. Though he is well bred
and somewhat of high roller, he is
not above mixing with his hands.
Besides, he is pieous and cheerfally
icing his favors for everybody. The
baker is the original wise man OF
the yeas" --Lippincott's Magazine.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-08
Geme In verse
The Three Angels.


6ometime and Somewhere and Somehow
Are radiant angels three,
In daylight and dawn and darkness
Who walk the world with me.
They tighten my hardest burdens,
They brighten my darkest hours
And scatter my bleaksst pathway
With the loyeliest OF flowers.
They strengthen me in my weakness,
They comfort me in my care
And I'LL me with hope as grateful
AS hope that comes after prayer.
They 'sndle for my Joy that liveth.
Though they will not weep for my dead.
But point with their fingers shining
To tn blue sky overhead.
Arthur Goodnoush.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-08
DANGEROUS Feat.

For a feat of dexterity and nerve
1t would be difficult to surpass that
of the Bosjesman of South Africa,
who walks quietly up to puff adder
and deliberately sets his bare foot
on its neck. In its struggles to es-
cape and attempts to bite its assail-
ant the poison gland secretes a large
amount of the venom. This Is just
what the Bosjesman wants. Killing
the snake, he eats the body and uses
the poison for bis arroyo
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-08
Well recommended.

There is story told Of the late
DR.. TAFT, archbishop Of Canterbury,
when he applied for his letters to
some village postmaster in the Land
O. Cakes. "And yell be the arch
bishop noo~ cried the little shop
keeper, peering urbanely at his
grace over his spectacles. "Weel,
I've hard tell O we frae my son, who
is weel placed in London and has
hard ye preach. And, indeed, he
was vera weel satisfied wi your dis
0opreep ----1 -. -
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-08
The Lifetime Of q Bell.

Comparatively few people know
that ringing a bell ruins it. That Is,
a bell has definite length Of life,
and after so many blows will break,
A $50 pound bell, struck blows OF
1873 foot pound Of force, broke after
1900 blows. A 1000 pound bell
broke after $4,000 blows Of $50 foot
pounds force. A steel composition
bell weighing 1000 pounds broke
after twenty-four blows of $50 foot
pounds, but its makers said it was
calculated for a lighter blow.--Ex'
enapge, '-~~-v"ss .,ssss.srFHs G
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-08

The secret marriage of DIR. Jessie
M. Thornton, the female physician
at the Western State Hospital in
Stanton. to DIR, Mcclure Scott has
Just become public. DR.. Scott
recently resigned as pharmacist.
They were married In Washington
on June 18th. Their most intimate
friends never suspected the roman
tic marriage,
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-08

ana checrfulness soon
disappear when the kid
neys are out Of order
or diseased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that II Is not uncommon
for a child to b, born
afflicted with weak kid
neys. 1.-THE child urin-
atcs too often. II the
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-08
Women as Well as Men
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind dis
courages and lessons ambition; beauty, vigor
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-08

urine scalds the flesh or II. when the child
teaches an age when II should be able to
control the passage, II is yet afflicted with
bed-wetting. depend upon It. the cause OF
the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble Is due to a diseased condition OF the
kidneys and bladder and not TO a habit as
most people suppose.
Women as we'll as men are made mis-
cradle with kidney and bladder trouble.
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect OF
Swamp.Root is soon realized. II Is sold
by druggists. in fifty EE
cent and one dollar IS. To-
sizes. You may have :jsi
sample bottle by mail az Ie.3
free. also pamphlet tell Home Of svHmpROos.
ing all about 1t. including many Of the
thousands OF testimonial letters received
from sufferers cured. In writing Or. Kilper
& Co., Binghamton, N. Y, be sure and
mention this paper.
Don't make any mistake, but remember
the name, Swamp-Root, Dr.. Nlmer's
Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton,
NJ, on every bottle.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-08

Having opened first-class restaur
ant and dining room on Nelson street
next to Mr.. Heck's carriage house oppo'
Baptist church, l will be glad to serve
the public. Seasonable food, satlsfact-
ory service, reasonable rates. Meals al
all hours. o
Ts,lsT Pm
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-16

his will when his son-in-law, the dentist, shot and killed him with shotgun.
 "Accident," said Dr. Simpson. But he is awaiting trial for murder.
 Look at Robert J. Ammon, college graduate and lawyer. His money hunger has landed him in Sing Sing, together with his partner, "52o Per Cent" Miller Ammon would have been free today had he given just tithe of their stealings to Miller's wife, who was starving But Ammon wanted it all, and Miller "peached' for revenge.
 I With them in states prison are a goodly company of men whose educa tional advantages fitted them for lives of usefulness, but whose careers were ruined by money hunger-the foolish striving after something for nothing.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-16
Something
 for Nothing
The Vain Wish that Lures Men and Women Into the Shares of
 the Designing.
York World.

1OrK W Oflu.
 Take cursorv glance oyer the daily newspapers. On almost every page can be found accounts of persons who have sacrificed everything-honor, position, good name, liberty, even the money they have acquired by the hardest kind of work-just in the vain attempt to get something for nothing.
 Or else, if this is not so, why do so many of the get-rich-quick schemes flourish like a green bay tree?
 Even the Spanish prisoner' sWindle works we'll yet. For ten years there hasn't been week when another new dupe has not told his story in the news papers.
 It was only the other day that a New Yorker sued the Western Union Tele- graph Company because it refused to deliver $4O0 to ''Don Luis Rodriguez Ohliger," in Madrid. Just for that tri- fling amount ''Don Luis Rodriguez was making the New Yorker guardian of his 14-yearold daughter, who was to get three-quarters of his vast estate; the New Yorker was to get the other quarter just for his kindness.
 The telegraph company very kindly held up the cabled $400 until ''Don Luis" could be identified Just for that the company was taken to task by the New Workers lawyer. Client and attorney both declared that such an unwarranted act had jeopardized the New Workers chances of large inheritance Fiddle sticks!
 Isn't it money hunger all right? Or, are we just going crazy?
 Take the case of Mrs Caroline Flower, in the Tombs for stealing from hotels. 1t is believed that money hunger has unbalanced the poor woman. So her mother says, at any rate.
 Mrs Flower was a music teacher and doing very we'll. The dollars came her way and she saved every one. Finally she had enough saved to pay first in- stalment on a studio apartment house at NO. L-O W SSU -lllliN olISSt. came her dream of wealth.
 Every penny she could scrape together went toward paying off the mortgage and interest on the apartment house. Her only dream in life was to get entire possession of the property. At first she rented the apartments unfurnished, but gradually she came to realize that if she could furnish the apartments she could gather greater revenue and pay off the mortgage the more quickly.
 Mrs. Flower was tempted. She called herself Thelma Paulson and took posi- tion as maid at the St. Regis. Piece by piece she stole to furnish her studios. A sheet here, a towel there; silver one day and set of glasses the next, she gradually furnished the rooms. She told the janitress that she had bought tLe marked things in the pawn shops. From one hotel to another she went, stealing right and left. Because of her refinement she was thought to be gen. tlewoman who had met reverses.
 At the studios she was Mrs. Flower, owner of the building, rich and culti- vated. At the hotel she wore cap and
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-16

l s0AN AiiS " icy eet7iNaN NoiiNi ''iiN' I thought I could.''
 Such is money hunger.
 Perhaps it is best defined by John $. Strosnider, confidence man, gambler and philosopher, who recently figured in the newspapers. Said he:
 Little Old New York Is the place par excellence to exercise ones ingenuity upon the criminally unsophisticated. 1 am willing to go on record as stating that no man who has been duped by myself or other men on the outlook for other peoples money through the prac tice of my particular speciality would have been so mulcted unless he had larceny in his thoughts. First find a victim who has no scruples against do- ing other people; then do him."
 This is real philosophy. One man comes to town to buy counterfeit money and is robbed. He expected to cheat others because of his oyermastering money hunger and is cheated himself. The man who goes into the wire tapping game expects to cheat others, but is himself cheated. Then he goes to the police with pitiful tale of how his partners have robbed him. The man who thinks he can cheat at cards or at I the races on some "sure thing ust misses cheating some one because he himself is cheated.
 New Workers fall every year to the crooked mining scheme - the bogus stock, the "salted'' mine.
 Take Cassie Chadwick and her money hunger. On mythical securities she got more than $2,00O, ,000 from men and banks. She was clever enough to make her dupes believe that they were going to dupe others themselves. Her loans were always secured by giving a consid- eration for the favor. The banker who lent Mrs. Chadwick $50, ,0OO of his bank s money thought he was doing her when he got bonus of $l0,O00 for the loan. Instead she pocketed the $40,000 and was content. The people who gave her jewels, autos, bric-a brac, on credit, overcharged her because they thought she was gullible. But she got the goods and let them whistle for their big bills.
 One man, Fri Reynolds, whom she ruined, had left of all his big fortune just $311. She borrowed $500 of it to come to New York to get money to pay him back At last accounts he still had the $11. But Mrs. Chadwick is in prison and doesn't need 1t.
 Take the murders here in New York due to money hunger. There was Albert T. Patrick, for instance, who has been convicted of killing old miser Rice, after forging will and forging checks for big sums. Today Patrick is still fighting for his life.
 And the mysterious death of old Mrs. Todd, the eccentric, who was found dead on the railway tracks after announcing that she intended changing her will. Or the shooting of Bartley T. Horner by the Fifth avenue dentist, Dr. J. w. Simpson. Old man Horner was about to change
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-16

chance caught her. She had disappeared from the St. Regis and the house de- tective looked up her references to see If she could be found Then, to his amaze ment, he discovered that the reference, Mrs. Caroline Flower, of No. 225 West Eighty third street, was none other than the missing Thelma. She had given her. self as her own reference She had even 1 left her husband, it turned out, because she thought they could live more cheaply apart and thus give her more money to buy the coveted apartment house.
 And now she is ruined, disgraced, in prison!
 And take the case of Felix, the rich importer. He has handsome home in Princeton, \. l., and place of business at No. 3S East TWenty-tirst street. But he wanted wealth quickly, or rather, he wanted to add more quickly to his for tune than the proceeds of everyday business could do. Mr. Felix is an i'm porter of musical instruments, and a i IlIelll VI ltlIlltl1Itllb stli'l CNlliSdlioiI.
 For all this, he tried gambling as a means to satisfy his money hunger. He droped $35, ,000 at one place, Lou Lud lum's, and $15, ,000 at another. One of his acquaintances over the roulette ta ble sympathized deeply and called upon the Respondent importer.
 l. man, but in reality he was Christopher J. Tracey, swindler. He suggested that they tap the wires of the Western Union Telegraph Company and in single hour make themselves rich beyond the dreams of avarice by beating the pool rooms. Felix was agreeable.
 Mason took him to a place in West ] Twenty second street, where there were all sorts of instruments and telephones, and loud cries of 'Place $50000 for Mr. ] Vanderbilt" ;" and "Double Mr. Gates's bet for him. Busy men in shirtsleeves ran hither and yon, instruments licked off messages and operators with their ears to phones did business in fabulous amounts.
 It was explained to Mr. Felix that this was the racing department of the Western Union. It took ten minutes, his friend added, to get the results of the races to the pool rooms, and that in those precious few minutes he could 1 learn the name of the winner, put up his money, land his bet and cash in, all within half hour
 Felix was delighted. He went to his bank and drew out $50, ,O00 in crisp new bills. His wiretapping friend took him to broker office in the Fifth Avenue Hotel and there introduced him to an other man, who was cashier for Maho- ney & Co.,, bookmakers-at least that was what he said.
 He bet on Old Stone because the wire tappers had told him the horse had won the third race at New Orleans and that the news had been held back He gave his 1000 to the cashier and waited.
 "Old Stone wins" announced the cashier.
 "They told me that Old Stone had won,' explained Felix at Tracey's trial the other day, "and l was just as happy as anybody around the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Then they told me there had haan a Oict lya in the horSa'S cOlOrS and
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-16

told me to lay aside my conscience and thought could"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-11-23

The M. s. Druecker Store
Is Flame SmllQon

Saturday nightat midnight sew
eral belated parties coming along
Main street dlscoyered that the
Druecker store was on fire. An
alarm was quickly given aud in
Is minutes the hose carts were
on the grounds and With little
delay a stream of water was
playing upon the flames from
the front windows. The fire had
gotten a good start, however,
and appeared to leap from place
to place, and when seemingly
subdued in one point would break
into sheet of flame in another
part of the store, and it was not
until two streams of water had
been brought to bear upon it,
and these had been playing for
some time, that there was a GER,
tainity of checking 1t from
spreading to neighboring build
ings. While the flames ON the
inside were burning fercely.
and gave the firemeu all they
could do to keep them confined,
happily the blaze was not able to
get through to the outside until
the firemen had things more or
less under control, and only in
one corner did the roof burn
through.
The destruction of the stock,
which was of general merchan-
disc, is complete. the salvage
practically amounting to nothing,
but the good work of the firemen
and excellent system of water
pressure saved The building from
total loss and adjoining proper
ties from possible destruction.
As it is the building will be but
q partial loss.
The origin of the fire is not
known. Mr.. M. S. Druecker,
the proprietor of the business,
had not been at the store for sew
eral days as he was quarantined
at his home with q sick child.
Edward Druecker, the son, closed
the store. and said that every
thing appeared to be all right
wtHn he left the building.
Thestock was valued at $12, 900
and there was $8, 800 insurance
upon it; the building was insured
for "a, 800. Mr.. Druecker has
been in business in Milbank
for the past twenty-five years,
and has suffered a complete
fire loss twice before, IN both of
the other cases the fire orig
mating in other buildings.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-11-23
To the Public

The city of Milbank is on the verge
of severe epidemic of diphtheria,
and 1t is advisable that we take it in
good time and try to stem the trouble
befOre,it gets as prevalent as last year.
The board of health alone can do only
q part of the work. They can adyise,
form rules and regulations and give
OF ders as to what should be done, but if
the public at large does not assist in
the work, it is uselss for tn board to
try to do anything.
The present epidemic shows NOR.
tality OF 70 per cent, and that means
severe form of the disease, so the
sooner it Is stopped the better.
The board of health in conjunction
with the board of education deem it
advisable that the schools should be
closed also the Sunday schools
and all other public gatherings
for at least two weeks, for it is much
better that the children lose couple
of weeks of school than undergo Ii.
ability OF contracting the disease. It
is we who are responsible for them
c...r ..rt- cOmpels us to look out so
let the people each and every one assist
allin their power to rid our city of the
dread disease which threatens to be
serious and take of a good many Of
our little ones.
w.. j. FERGUSON,
Pres. OF Board OF Health.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-11-23

A short letter recently re.
ceived from Thomas Thirsk, who
was at one time one of the prom
inent farmers of Grant Center,
states that he and his family are
getting along nicely. Mr.. Thirsk
had been in the general merchan-
disc business at Ferry Point, but
recently sold that store for
$11, 600, and has started at a new
point on an extension of the
railroad about 30 miles north of
Bawlf He states that from IS to
40 b ushels is not an un
common yield of wheat in that
country, and that land is steadily
raising in price He says that
j. B. Stone has located about
one hundred miles south of him
at place called Carstore.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-11-23
CIRCUIT COURT
The Calendar Cleared and the
Fail Term Closed

The Calendar Cleared and the
Fail Term Closed
The following cases have been
disposed of during the week in
the circuit court, and the court
was yesterday afternoon ad-
journed sine die:
August Brekmer VS. Ben Van
Duzen.
Bertha Brehner VS. Ben Van
Duzen. Verdict for defendent.
H. j. DeBuhr VS. Fred Habeck.
Continued by consent.
Ole Frostad VS. G. H. Busk.
Judgment of 5000 for plaintiff.
John Heber Haslam VS. L. H.
Bentley. Referred to Chas. M.
Stevens.
North Star Shoe Co. VS. Albert
Wallen. Settled.
Ludwig Raw VS. Louisa Mas.
Settled.
Dodson, Fischer, Brockman &
Co. VS. j. A. Samuelson. Judg-
ment for plaintiff.
Oscar Schmidt ct al as execu-
tors VS.. VIM. f. Raymond ct al
as to John Bucknell Judgment
for plaintiff.
H E. Jones and A. D. Jones
VS.. Eigin Dovenberger and Su-
san Dovenberger. Verdict for
plaintiff for 1886 90. Stay of
execution tor so days.
Susan Dovenberger VS.. H. e.
Jones Jury was out all night
but came to no agreement, and
the case was continued to next
term.
Bell City Manufacturing Co.
VS. A. G.. Anderson. Verdict in
favor Of defendant. Stay of ex.
ecution for so days.
James E Dore VS. Peter 0.
Froke. Continued.
City Of Milbank VS.. 3. D. Men
ard. Continued.
City Of Milbank Us. G. B.
Gibbs Taken under advise
ment by the court.
Gust Paul VS.. Ed. A. Murray as
sheriff. Dismissed by plaintiff
without prejudice
Bertha Eisenhaur VS.. William
Eisen haur. Divorce granted
plaintiff.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-11-23
Minneapolis & ST. Louis rail
road company VS.. the Dakota
Central Telephone company
Continued.


The discovery of several cases
OF diphtheria last week, and dealh h
re>Elting ia two of the cases,
was the cause of exciting con
rable alarm lest an epidemic
uf the disease was about to bre eak
out. A meeting of the city
board of health was held and
the matter discussed, the result
being that the board decided as
a matter of precaution to close
the schools for couple of weeks
and prohibit all other public
gatherings for the same length
Of time. While this measure
would necessarily create some
Inconvenience, the board beliey-
ed 1t was the part of wisdom to
take every possible precaution
against the spread OF the dis
ease before it, had become epi-
demic, and the order of the
board is published in another
column. The only new case
since last week is that of Flor
ence Dempsey, in the home Oh
d. Mclaughlin. All of the
several patients are now doing
we'll. and as a strict quarantine
has been established at the
homes where the disease is To-
Gated, it is believed that there
will be no further spread of the
infection.
1t is particularly desirable
that parents observe the order
of the board of health to keep
their children from congregating
on the streets and in public
places, for if this is not done the
order closing the schools will
have little effect in checking the
spread of the disease. A hearty
support should be given the
board of health in it's endeavor
to maintain the public health
and preserve the city from an
epidemic of the disease.