The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-08-29
THOUGHTS
Without
Thinking
BY y. o. BRANES

great family journal by tAe way -
YOU happen to have, or nave not, an
item take a run in and see the way
Johr l.. Murphy, our city editor, has
fitted up his lair. AS IS we'll known a
real flesh and blood girl will scare
John half to death, yet he mas on the
walls OF his office hundreds OF pictures
OF young girls, girls, and old girls. IN
all shapes, sizes, complexlons- artln-
cial and otherwise-and N all stages
and kinds OF dress and undress.
Think he is practicing on the picture
ladies so that in time he may yet be
caught buying gumdrops Tor a 1--we glrl'
We are now told that Quantrell, the
leader of that cut-throat band OF guer-
illas which numbered the James
and Younger boys during the ClvIl
war, is alive and residing in Van
couver. This will be poor news Tor my
good old dad. The better part .. the
nearly four years he spent ID mat war
war given over TO chasing QuantrelI
and his gang, and he, as well as many
others doubt the AUTHENTICITY OF tnls
last report. QuantrelIs gang mace
no distinction between the blue ana
the gray, wantonly shooting GOWN
members OF either army Tor the Ioot
they could harvest. When q member
OF the gang was taken d rope was care
fully adjusted about his neck, the
other end tied to the pommel OF a sad
die attached to a live horse, and the
horse scared into a runaway. Ihere
are no reports extant TO the effect that
anv Of those so treated are now alive.
And speaking about TIE Civil war, !
was around to Col. OTIS the other day
and ne showed me the drum and pls-
tOl his brother was carrying wnen
killed in this war and also tie sabeI
he himself carried. Battle-scarred,
time-worn, old-fashioneG implements
OF war, yet they stir IN memory's nails
those awful days of carnage, suffering
and heroism, and the reminiscent CLINT
that shines IN the old warriors eyes
as be fondles these tools OF another
day, make the blood beat faster IN the
veins of us kids and stir within our
hearts a veneration for these dear Old
heroes who 50 we'll and nODly fought
that great fight.
Down in Indiana-where the poets
come irom-they have passed a law
regulating the business OF the horse
trader. Ii says that any person in the
State of Indiana who shall offer for
sale or trade a horse or mule afflicted
with the CHAMBERS or contagious d.
seases, or suffering with neaves, wind
broken, cribber OF wind-sucker, or who
shall use any trick or drugs 10 conceal
any unsoundness in horses or mules
when offered for sale or exchange,
shall, upon conviction, be lined NOT
more than five hundred dollars or 90
to prison not more tnan SIX months.
Shades of Dave Harum. We nave
ever contended that the ethics anC
morale of railroad and other great oas.
inesses shout square with the law, bu1
never dreamed tnat the time IGNORED
principle Of stretching a point IN
hoss trade would be assalled.
The manufacturers Of corsets nave
formed a trust and will boost prices
It's said. Well, girls, here's your OPP
portunity. Your fathers, brothers anC
husbands have been jumping on trusts
for some time back while You nave
mad to forego the tracas. Why mo-
resolve, collectively, TO forever qui'
squeezing the everlasting dayllgni'
out of your ~livers, lights and things
with a be-ribboned, w~halepOne stayeC
straight Jacket and draw a whole
breath, while putting this trust out o.
business. Ii there BE any sense IN s
woman making herself miserable JUS
to take on a shape that the Almighty
never intended for her why address mt
at Jacksonville, Missouri.
And then again Roy Wilson anC
Verne Kelley say that hugging a Cir.
encased in a corset is a good deal like
trying to squeeze a hard, uEfeeling
barrel.
| wandered into the Presbyterian
church last Friday evening and there.
fore am | glad. l had, while there,
the pleasure Of witnessing the presen-
tation Of diplomas to some sixty
graduates from the Eighth grade, by
Supt. Aldrich, and listened to an in
spring talk given them by DR.. Clark,
OF Nebraska. The doctor maintained,
and / agree with MIN, that our lives
are as we order them and that with a
firm determination, untiring zeal and
self sacrifice may attain any goal at
which we aim, no matter now lofty.
The bane OF the race is laziness, said
the doctor, and urged upon his hear
ers the beauties, pleasure and advan-
tages OF being producers rather than
parasites. The illustrated lecture by
Prof. Cameron on birds in Their
Native Haunts" wat not only highly
entertaining but instructive. The pro-
lessor has a fine collection OF plates,
taken from life, and a fund OF knowl-
edge upon the subject that is good to
listen too. His was an earnest plea
for the birds and his talks upon the
subject cannot help but bear good
fruit.
The physicians OF Miner and Lake
counties have formed a union and have
adopted q scale OF prices as follows:
Ordinary day visit to residence in
city, $3.50.
Night visits, from 20 D.. m. to 7 a.
M, in city, $500.
COnntrv viaits in dow t;mo .r~Jo