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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

That there Is a wave of prohibition
sweeping the country Is shown In the
falling off Of the internal revenue re-
ceipts of the treasury department and
the government, to say the least, Is
surprised. Liquor dealers expected
hard times in their trade but the In
ternal revenue bureau, as far as its
personnel Is concerned, Is quite indie
pendent of internal The
clerks of that gigantic office will be
paid whether they collect anything or
not. They were not, therefore, on
the lookout and had no suspicion OF
the great monetary loss that the gov
eminent would sustain. A big deficit
Is being created IL the government
and congress will have to
take the matter up at the coming
session and cover the loss by impos-
ing other revenue taxes. There was
a deficit Of two million for October and
large deficits will follow in succeeding
months as the prohibition movement
spreads. 1t is said that the distillers
and Wholesale liquor dealers have lost
so much already that they cannot
stand any further taxation and remain
in business. The total loss in revenues
since July has been seven millions of
dollars. The loss on beers and other
fermented liquors in September
amounted to $500, 000. There are
some other curious and significant
losses given in the internal revenue
figures. These losses would indicate
that hundreds Of men have quit play
ing cards because the government
loss on cards was over nine
thousand dollars. That there is a
loss from this source is all the more
remarkable when it is considered how
many hundreds OF thousands of women
have taken to bridge.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

pie of that little burg are no doubt
used to high life, activity was brought
to a high pitch the other day by some
one dropping in with a jug Of whisky.
An i%nsurrection broke loose soon there
after but the local editor lived to give
the following account of the incident.
Someone brought a jug OF whisky to
town last Friday that must have been
distilled by the devil. Men who had
been lifelong friends took a drink from
the jug, pulled off their coats and
fought like demons. Others, who had
never been seer under the influence
of booze before, staggered along the
street and swore that they could lick
any man in the county. The wind-up
of the affair resulted in n man going
to Jail and another being fined $1,000
and costs. We understand that the
man who brought the whisky to- town
stole his W horse, rode home and
split open his trunk with an axe when
he had a key in his pocket."-Hen.
bricks Pioneer.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

In the township Of Silverton in
Minnesota one lonely vote made Oscar
Ostrom county surveyor. or all the
$500 or more voters in the county,
the one in Silverton was the only one
to vote for a man to fill the position.
no one having filed and no name APP
pearing printed on the ballot. BY
writing in the name of his %neighbor,
this voter elected Oscar Ostrom just
as effectively as though every voter
in the county had honored him with
their support.
In the early COS three Of our fool
friends succeeded in making a justice
of the a of us In the same man
ner. They followed 1t up by sending
a couple around to the office on press
day to get married. We tried our
best to dissuade the poor fellow from
taking the awful step, but he insisted
on us earning the dollar and a quart.
er, so we married them. You simply
can't hold Office without making enc
mics.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26
He Got the Prize

At Il church function each person
was required to wear conspicuously
upon his or her clothing some pictorial
or other device that should represent
in '"rebus" form the tide Of any we'll
known book, and all The others were
to guess ut the book Intended.
Paradise LOST" represented by ii
card upon which tiye dice had been
pasted, and from which two had evil
IDENTIFY dropped or been removed, was
easily guessed. Hard Times was no
puzzle. Neither was it hard to recog-
niZe "A Pair of Blue Eyes" '~Innocents
Abroad" Vanity Fair nor Uncle
Toms Cabin in spite of the pictorial
DISCUSSES.
One of the guests, however, had a
poser. Attached to one Of the buttons
OF his coat was ii card bearing simply
The inscription. Ter"
Every one at last gave 1t up and
asked for the solution.
why. that's easy" he said. 1T
means a Tale Of Two Cities Man
chester and Leicester. Last syllables
tail, in fact-of both. See?"
That's not fair" said the others.
Its the last syllable Of Chester. Lam
caster, Gloucester. Chichester and Ex-
eter. We protest.
We'll" he said. Il won't insist. Try
this one"
He turned the card over. 1t was in
scribed on the other side with these
three letters. Ans"
After a severe mental struggle every
body gave this up also.
THAT ought not to puzzle YOU he
said. ITS The Last Of the Mohi-
cans"
He got the prize.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26
Knew the Kind.

1T used to be. when d lady in
sisted on keeping her husband awake
nights to tell him how much better her
family was than his family and some
other Christening truths. that the po-
liceman took her of, and she was Ell
Their fined or ducked as a common
scold."
And, pray, what did they do with
the uncommon ones? Surely in those
days, as In ours. some displayed more
talent than others"
They probably knew better than to
monkey with the uncommon ones.
Man Is a bright creature who learns
by experience"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

Our good friend Keene of the Airing
ton Sun has issued over his own sig
nature and under his own seal n
Thanksgiving proclamation that wand
ers from the ~stereotyped form used
by mere governors and SIGH. 1t pos
sesses keene satire, keene wit and
much good sense, Of which Fl. M.
Keene has a large share of the COM
mon variety.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

It would be a difficult matter to
lay a hand on a man In the state who
claims to be a republican who con-
tributed less to the great republican
victory of last week than did Senator
A. b. Kittredge. Compare his action
with that of Ex-Governor Sam Elrod.
Mr.. Elrod had good reasons to think
that ne had not been treated fairly
when q convention turned him down
for q denomination as governor two
years ago. Did he sulk? Not on your
life. Like the loyal republican he was
and has always been, he esteemed
party success to be more important
than personal ambition, and he
buckled on his armor and advanced
upon the common enemy and con-
tributed not q little to the election
Of the man who defeated him in the
convention. Today nc man stands
HIGHER in the estimation Of all classes
OF republicans than Sam Elrod. But
what OF Kittredge? His conduct in
the campaign was that Of a very sell
nsh man to say the least. He has shown
the material he IL made Of. His poll
tical career Is run. He cannot hope
Tor IN eleetive once in the future.
ana Nj. TAFT could not well give him
Al appointivs ONCE in justice to the
hard working republicans Of the state,
-Madison Outlook. -
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26
ksocieca and the Roman Law.

Napoleon |. had al eItra,rdinart
mind. He appeared never to forget
anything be cared TO remember and
assimiiated information as the stom-
ach assimilateS food. retaining only the
valuable. IN incident viii illustrate
this remarkable quality Of his mind.
When forming the Code Napoleon
he frequently astoniShed the council
of state by the skill with which he il
Illustrated any point in discussion by
quoting whole passages from memory
of the Roman civil law. The council
wondered how Il man whose life had
been passed in camp came to know so
much about the old Roman laws. FL
nally one Of them asked him how he
acquired his knowledge.
when | was Il lieutenant" Napo-
leon replied. Il was unjustly placed I'M
der arrest. My small prison room con
tanned no furniture except an old chair
and a cupboard. In the latter was a
ponderous volume, which proved to be
a digest of the Roman law. You al
easily imagine what a valuable prize
the book was to me. 1t was so bulky
and the leaves were SO covered with
marginal notes in manuscript that had
l been confined 100 years ! need never
have been idle. When l recovered my
liberty, at the end Of ten days, l was
saturated with Justinian and the de-
cisions Of the Roman legislation. 1t
was then l acquired my knowledge Of
the civil law"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

you'd forget everything tuat soo hou
learned when it came to Il
They wouldn't stand for real proposals
on the stage, and the reason we make
love so well is that we don't care Tor
the girl. That's how we can give all
our attention to the lovemaking.
.Wben the right time comes you'll
know it, and you won't get down on
vour knees and say BE mine, be mine.
You'll lust gather her in, and it's all
over before you realize it,
bennington accepted the cigars that
Wisner thrust upon him. and Wlsner
went back to the store happy in the
possession of expert opinion. He puz-
zled over the comment through the
day, and when Lottie came in to see
aboutsome dress lining he gaZed hun
prily at the flushed face and
when the right time would come.
Apparently 1t was not the right time
vet for Lottie left the store with Il
bundle under her arm, and his nearest
approach to sentiment had been to
cut the price Of the lining , cents "a
yard.
He thought of a dozen clever
speeches he might have made, but not
until she had gone.
He was still thinking them over as
he dressed the window that evening.
Wisner made Il point OF frequent
changes in the display, and every Fri
day evening he fastened a canvas
screen outside the plate glass ana
changed the dressing, running out
many times to observe the effect be
fore he pulled down the inner curtains
and took down the screen, content
that the Saturday shoppers would be
attracted by his display.
He had Just commenced to dress the
window after removing the old stock
when one corner OF the screen was
lifted and Lottie's smiling face was
g through the glass.
Wisner smiled and nodded in reply
to her greeting, and he was about to
beckon fer to wait until he could join
her on the sidewalk when his hand
struck the stool on which rested the
new price tags. He caught up the top
one and pinned it on his coat, striking
an attitude in imitation Of the dummy
forms.
Lottie laughed at the sign, which
read. ~ Real Bargain ut the Price"
and the end of the screen dropped.
For one awful moment WiSner
thought that she had been Disguised
By the cloWnish appeal.
lie could not know that even eyes
that are gray and unrOmantic a tell
their story of love. Lottie had read
their plea, and a moment later NiSner
heard the store door open md close
again, and y moment later Lottie'S
face appeared ut the door to the win
dow.
Il think I'll take that bargain. Sid
ney," she said as her cheeks were
dyed Il deeper red. You can wrap it
UP, and I'll take it home with me-to
talk to father
The bargain sprang from the Win
dow. but it was half an hour before it
wrapped itself up-in its overcoat-
and was taken home to talk to Homer
Vincent.
Il thought you couldn't resist Il bar.
gain" he jubilated as they hurried
along the street.
Lottie gave the strong arm a little
hug. You'd be dear at any price,
she cooed.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

Dear whispered the clipping lover,
"what shall we do with the rope
ladder? We shouldn't leave 1t hanging
there"
"Oh, that's all right" replied the coy
damsel. PA said he'd pull 1t up again
90 we couldn't get back."-Philadel-
phia Press.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

1t will cost Minnehaha county ST.,
900 more to overcome the mistake of
injecting that Egan person into he
Kaufman case. Egan is n good deal
like a gold-tipped cigarette. Their
presence Is obnoxious, they harm the
user and cost toe blame much.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26
TRAPPERS BUSY NEAR DE SMET

Much money is being made in the
trapping industry at Lake Henry and
Lake Thompson. ear De Smet. 1t is
reported that two strangers have cap
tured nearly 1000 muskrats at the
two lakes. The White boys have thus
far secured about 800 skins as the re-
suit of their trapping operations at the
lakes.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26
PUBLISHERS ATTENTION.

The Register Publishing Company Is
now prepared to handle machine com.
position promptly, efficiently at
reasonable prices. Publishers In this
vicinity are respectfully solicited to
send US all Of this kind Of work pos
sIbIe. Well do II right.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

Governor Crawford has appointed A.
f. Taylor, one Of the best attorneys
in the state, as judge Of the Ninth
judicial circuit to succeed Judge Whit
ing, who was made a member or he
supreme court.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

Today we eat turkey. We thought
to have the bird stuffed with chest
nuts, but a careful search for some old
copies of the Brookings Press from
which to gather this delectable fruit
disclosed the fact that the mice had
eaten them, SO ma had to fall back
on bread crumbs and dried sage.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

Charles p. Taft gave 100000 to aid
in carrying on the presidential cam
paign Of his corpulent brother, w. h.
Greater love hath no man than that
he loosen his purse strings for his
brother"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

II. l.. Loucks of Altruria, Father
of Populism" and Il well known figure
in the early political history OF the
state, has assumed editorial charge Of
the WATERFOWL I mes.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

The republican campaign committee
collected 81, 200, 900 to aid in Taft's
election. 1t was worth a whole lot
more than that.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26
OUR TABLE.

Robert A. Storm and O. A. Brictson
were over from Brookings in the lat
ter's auto Tuesday afternoon. Mr..
Storm had just returned the evening
before from Rochester with his wife,
who some two weeks ago underwent
an operation at the hospital there and
who is now very much improved in
health. For some time Mrs. Storms
illness was of Il very serious nature,
and it is indeed very gratifying to
her host of good friends that her
ultimate entire recovery is now as
sured.-Volga tribune.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26
Everybody Satisfied.

B~raggs-Tm nothing If o original.
| like to be different from other peo-
pie.
Naggs-Well, that's all right. Doubt
less other people are satisfied to have
It so.-Chicago News.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

The rumor that the people OF Sioux
Falls have adopted a booster button
on which was inscribed The Crazy
Belt has been denied.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26
Feminine looic.

George, you seem to be losing all
contrcl over Jimmie"
what makes you think sou
why. he won't do a thing I tell him
to do."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

The following is a little gem: You'll
nave all you can do to pay for your
own ndiscretions Some day one very
dear to you may fall, the prison doors
may open to a son or a scarlet letter
e%ternally blight a daughter. When a
house Is in mourning over a tragedy,
the best thing that you can do is to
keep your mouth shut unless you can
say something that will cause a rift
in the clouds. Then again you know
that you may be no better than your
neighbors, the only difference is that
your neighbor was caught and you up
to date, have kept the exposure away.
Be charitable for you know not what
day or hour the blight will appear in
your own circle.-The Dakota Elk.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

Nels Wixstrom, a bachelor farmer
of Sully county, was burned to death
in his house Saturday night. Neigh
bors discovered the fact. The cause
of the fire is unknown.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

Mrs. Gray to place her in a resort in
a neighboring city for a time, MISS
WANT rebelled and the two became
involved in a wal of words, attracting
the attention of several passengers on
the train, which they left at a way
station. The following day, Miss
Wyant went to Madison, where she
obtained employment and where she
was later found and restored to her
mother. Miss Wyant says that Mrs.
Graz told her that she had induced
other girls in this vicinity to leave
their homes and enter places or vice
and disclosed the names OF one or
two who had assisted her as a pro-
curess. Authorities will make an in
yestigation of the whole matter and 1t
is probable that some interesting de-
velopments will be had
Announcement is made of the with
drawal of the name of Hon. Coe l..
Crawford from the law RIM of Craw-
ford, Taylor & Fairban <, of Huron.
Since his election as governor Mr..
Crawford has only been nominally n
nected with the firm. The business
will hereafter be conducted by Messrs.
Alva f. Taylor and A. b. Fairbank.
w. II. Monroe, who a few days ago
retired from the management of the
Sioux Falls branch house of a we'll
known creamery supply house, which
as abandoned its branch there, togeth-
er with Irving Jones and other well
known Sioux Falls men and capital
lists is organizing a monster creamery
supply house, which will probably have
its headquarters in the Twin Cities,
with branches in Sioux Falls, Fargo
and other cities of the Northwest.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

Mrs. r. NJ. Brude, a bride of three
weeks, died on a claim near Pierre.
Mr.. Brude is a well known travelling
man, having made that section for a
number of years for the Sherwin-
Williams Paint Co. The couple were
married at Egan three months before
the death. They went directly on to
the claim. Mr.. Brudc remained with
his wife a few days until he had her
comfortably settled when he left ON
one of his trips. Erysipilas in a severe
form developed and doctors from Pierre
were called, but the unfortunate
woman grew rapidly worse and died
Friday last. The remains were taken
TO the home of her childhood, Egan,
for burial.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

County Bar association the next SEES
sion of congress will be memorialized
to increase the salary of the judges
serving in the Emitted States courts.
The national body will be asked to
raise the salary of the United States
circuit judges from $4,000 per annum
to $4,000 and of the district judges
from $4,000 to 10000 per annum. In
this state the proposed increase would
only affect Circuit Judge Garland, of
Sioux Falls.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

An owl measuring 60 inches from
tip to tip OF its wings was brought in
from McCook county to be mounted
by a Sioux Falls taxidermist. The owl
which was shot in that county, just
across the line, was II of the largest
that has been killed in that vicinity.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

George Stevens commenced to serve
a sentence of six months in the Davi-
son county Jail, which was imposed
by Judge Garland Of the federal court
at Aberdeen. Stevens pleaded guilty
to selling intoxicating liquors without
a government license in the city of
Mitchell, having first been fined by
the local courts on the same charge.
Aside from a Jail sentence he will
have to pay a fine Of 500 and costs.
Paul Thompson and Fred Hollands
were convicted on the same charge
and were given light fines, with the
addition of costs. Two other local
parties were indicted by the court
on the same charge, and they will be
tried at the April term of the federal
court at Sioux Falls.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

Hayti IL n Of the booming towns
over In South Uakota established with
In the last year or 10. While the PEG.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

The hardware store Of the Schubert
company at Canton, was broken into
Sunday night and about 500 worth of
knives, razors and guns taken. No
clew of the robbers so far.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

Four men were held up and two of
them shot by a lone robber on Sat
urday night at the Milwaukee station
at Bath. The robber made his get
away with 81 stolen from a table in
the station, and robbed it by shoot
ing up the outside of the building.
The man was masked in the approved
style and made a dramatic and fitting
entrance to- the station just after the
east bound train had left for Groton
and with the west bound not due for
about fifteen minutes. The men held
up were Station Agent H. A. Parsons,
Night Operator Jack Hilbert and J.
Reynolds of Bath, and B. Bendickson
of Aberdeen. The two latter men
were shot. but it is believed that
neither was dangerously wounded.
Reynolds was shot under the arm
and Bendickson was shot over the left
lung, the bullet passing clear through
his chest and coming out under his
right shoulder blade. Another bullet
gave his neck a deep scratch, and each
was fired at close range.
Monday night, Irma Wyant, the 16,
year-old girl, who mysteriously disap.
peared on the night Of November II,
was returned to her home in Huron,
accompanied by her mother. The girl
was found at Madison were she had
secured employment in a hotel. II
appears from the story told by Miss
Wyant, tina. the woman who induced
her to leave home and who Is known
as Mrs. Gray. disclosed her real pur
pose soon after the two LEI. Huron
On learning 1t was the intention Of
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

The Yankton College football team
spent Saturday forenoon In lroquois
on their way home from Bookings
where on the day previous they had
walloped the a~griculturists to- the tune
of 81 to 0. The Yankton aggregation
were feeling pretty jubliant over hav-
ing scored such a sweeping victory
over a strong team.-Iroquois Chief.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

The sensational story of a procuress
spiriting a young girl away from Huron
to place her in a resort, which figured
as a sensation in a number of dailies,
turns out to have been a myth. There
was no mysterious Mrs. Gray" The
whole thing was an escapade of a girl
on her own motion, and the disgusting
story of fiction Of her own silly brain.
Huron Journal-World.
BY the grapevine route we are in.
formed that Sidney Marquis Of this
place who is attending school
at Brookings, has had his nose broken
twice in football games at the college
this fall. It would be a good thing
for Sidney II he would take on his
proboscis before entering a game
Clear Lake Courier.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-26

The Watertown Herald has purchas-
ed a Model 5 linotype, which will be
set up ready for use the first of the
month. The Herald will also install
a new Cottrell four-roller press and a
Gordon job press besides some new
fonts of type, making it n of the
best equipped offices in the state. We
have found that the linotype is alb.
solutely indispensable In an up-to-date
office and believe the Herald will have
the same experince.