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The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-04-03
Respectfully Yours
JOHNSON &SAVAGE

Last Saturday evening the
barn OF Adam 6tedronsky, ia
east Wagner, was totally des-
troyed BY lire, also the team Of
gray mares belonging 70 the
drm OF 6tedronsky Bros. The
fre was like the big Chicago 6re
In that Il vas started lya light
ed lantern, in the hands Of the
proprietor himself. The loss 10
partially covered By insurance.
We ere prepared to locate any
mum Der Of people in the White
Owl Country, Meade Go. s. y.
This = considered 20 b the best
land vest OF the river and about
the last chance for . free home.
/ do not care 10 make the trip
with less than i've, and - many
more @ can 60. l expect to ~
on the next excursion day Dec.
Ord. Will those Who wish to 60
lot a. know in plenty Of time.
The trip will be more expensive
after the weather gets bad.
Kirkpatrick + Baker Land
Agency.
Miss Sylvia Baker Of Armour
i hsrs visiting her sister, Mrs.
NJ. p. 6avAGa.
.John Absher informs 40 that
~ machinery for The electric
Nehting plant . Aberdeen has
49, orderod and win ~ ship-
~ - sopn = ths building =
rondy Tor j.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-04-03

One night last week II. g.
Wilson and another man Who
lives near him were saved the
loss Of several hundred tons Of
hay. only BY prompt action and
hard work. The mischief was
started apparently by . piece OF
gross carelessness on the part
OF somebody. These gentlemen
had burned are breaks around
their hay, and there II alsoa
we'll Travelled road running close
to the stacks. The lire was
started In two different places
inside the 6re break, and along
the road. which makes Il look g
though someone driving along
bad either thrown down . light.
ed match, ashes from . pipe OF
. lighted cigar. In some places
the fire burned right up be
tween the stacks before il va
put out II appears 70 40 that
after % many warnings and
seeing the results Of such car.
lessness. that people would q
last begin 70 realise that Il pays
% b careful, and would take
some pains - go that thsy
were Mt The cause Of hesvy
Losses, n others. b ira
4rs. Sam AcFhrlAnd, ~
hear, = quite sick 6 her homo
o. ~ Hoetoed fnen.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-04-03

The Reform" element OF the
republican party met ct Huron
the 9Th inst, and "6xed" the
slate . force through il next
June's primaries. The meet
ing No small-made mp Of . se.
lect fex who are paying no ~
tenti0u 20 the rights OF the vo-
ters o the primaries. but are
generously ladling out nomina-
lions where they will do the
most good. Philo Hall has been
sidetracked for Glass, who Of
course has more claims on the
people (the new machine) by
reason Of his promirsncs tn The
Gamble Investigating commit
tee last winter. Now he must
be paid" ShOber will M
doubtedIy be thrown over, YES
sey given the g0vernorship, and
Shober have second place-if he
-uants that kind OF = sop.
Plans have besn outline ed for 4
vigorous campaign, which will
entail . lot OF editorial work for
the Reform" press by the in
surgent press bureau at Sioux
Falls.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-04-03

Last Wook ~ NoW IRA No..
lectod - make mentton fhat he
Hon. Cha b. Burko had a.
noanced biz candidacy ~ con-
groosiooal honors, suhject %
h viii Of Tho repablican voters
q III primarios next June. Ar.
Burke. IN announcing his candt-
dacy, etatos that he stands Tor
another term Tor Roosevelt nrst
and n not him then TAft-tho
presidents own choice, and lor
The retarn Of Hon. A. B. Kit
tredgo 10 Tho United States seu-
ste. Mr.. Burke has done much
In Congress for the stete he
represented: b has beeu tried
and proven himself true; "a I'll
know his record. Is i ono %
b proud oil, and the people OF
South Dakota can do no better
for themselves than 70 return
him % the position be NOW holds
for another term.
The New Era for one, know
ing the record Of Mr.. Burke.
viii do it, little best 20 help
make his nOmination sure.
Wa&N
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-04-03

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thonoop3ooo az ~ & q I. n,
woo phlyod 10 hruo md ap
urocfnAivo audionoa IL door
yecoipoD Woro over 1Orty-1yo
dollars and H. + q I. =. eAr
noooly thank tn people Tor
their pokronago and no0e who
- kisdly assistsd thsm Tor
sholr work.
IJbo "a naide were III there
from President Jane Joeephine
Oreoa - Betsey Bobbsk Many
hod oeouroa husbands; PAtience
Desire Mann brought her Count
With her. aleo Belinda Bluegrass
hoe In6iAn spouse Charity
IonglAce uas elegantly attired
- COW boy's wis and yoG
oonld eosily - Mary Ann IRA
AR had otruck : Kloudiko.
jrliet LOue. va broken down
Vith hard work and spoke Ger.
nan aueotly. Calemity Jane
vas tbere and although her dog
W. groau I'd into sausage-meAt
two years ego, she had another
aed y hAd he)psd her g secure
: husband.
r. Abigail Hodge bad failed -
eet : nan and had grown old
With her continued disapniut-
menk. Even Tine Short Wa
thoro with her nine step chill
dren and although they had 70
- coaxed md hired n b good,
when thov did coucent - per-
form foe the entertainment Of
tbe sAsis1srs" they did ad-
mirably.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-04-03

This paper and The Weekly
Inter Ocean for 81 30 for ono
year. Special deal
Rev. W. g. King; Of Sioux
EAlla, the general missionary
of tha South Dakota Baptis
Convention spenl Gst- 4Rnday
n Wagner. BE preachel two
excellsnt sef pons in The Bsp
list Church. y
It il said that au unmarried
Hungarian count is coming over
% attend the wedding Of MiGg'
Vanderbilt That means that
Ii the near future he will carry
across Tho water several mil
lions Of good American dollars
and Incidentally IN American
wifat
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The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
'1Katherine IreYalYan"

By Louise NJ Field. Published by the Mcclure
company New York. Price S1.bo
Let US call halt on the New York
society novel. We have been surfeited
with them. They grow worse and
worse, not always in plot or construc-
ton, but In the moral tone-lack of
moral tone would be better.
Miss Louise NJ. Field has pub
lished her first novel. and though it Is
a big piece Of work and very ambi
tious. IL is not in the least amateurish.
The things to criticise in it are faults
which are often to be found with the
experienced author, but one cannot but
copsider IL an error in judgment to
have chosen the particular phase of
New York life which she has to depict.
The book makes anything but pleasant
reading-nothing so cynical, so sa-
tirical, has appeared this year. So ex-
treme is it in tone that il rouses ones
resentment constantly while reading.
All the nastiness, the depravity, the
viciousness and the immortality which
We know to exist in isolated cases has
been condensed into this one book and
forced upon some half dozen or so char
acters. People couldn't live and be so
viliainous as these poor puppets are.
Katherine Trevalyan is young
woman in society when the book opens.
She is an orphan, enormously rich and
full OF pure and lofty ideals One is at
q loss to understand why she remains
in the very fast set she is with. for her
money would take her anywhere and
she could surround herself with people
Of culture and virtue and refinement,
which she seems TO long for.
She is very suspicious OF all men who
OFFER her any attentions, because all so
far have been poor and have not been
able 10 convince her of a disinterested
love for her. But just here the worst
rounder OF them all comes along and
takes her in completely. She marries
him, though the reader hopes against
hope, and II takes a bare two months
TO disillusion her. Then, of course, she
leaves him and goes to quiet retreat
on the sea shore, Stony point, where
there are only four other people. n.
playwright and his wife, a mining en-
Sineer and a young archaeologist.
whom she had met a few times in So
ciety and who always acted as much
out Of his element as she did. During
most melodramatic threatened wreck
they acknowledge their love for each
other, but, of course. they are saved
and separate, because she is too high
minded to consider divorce, etc.-oh,
dear, it's very tiresome
And then her husband is killed very
dead by combination accident of au-
toiHoDlie ana train kons the autnOr Is
determined to fix him, he has made so
much trouble)-and it all ends happily.
There is a lot of very interesting
character drawing-the villainous hus-
band Vermondee being very we'll
handled. The dialogue is often excel
lent-not over clever. for that "set'
are not clever. But there are pages and
pages and pages that one simply must
skip for the description of scenery
the analyzing Of the various characters
emotions are all superhuous and Ia
bored in style.
The book is full OF good ideas, but
is overdone and is a good third too
long.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
Architectural Composition

BY John Beverley Robinson. Published by D.
Van Nostrand company, New York. Price
$3.50.
The purpose of Mr.. Robinson's bank,
as he explains In a subtitle, Is ito or
der and phrase ideas which hitherto
have been only felt by the instructive
taste OF designers
Some years ago this author wrote a
series of articles upon the principles of
architectural composition, which were
published in the Architectural Record.
Later, when they were gathered into
book form. they were SO favorably re-
ceived that he enlarged upon his work
and used it as the basis of a course
of lectures, which he has given an
nually for some years at Columbia uni
versity before the students of the
school of architecture.
Mr. Robinson says in his preface
1.-The theories involved have never been
impugned, nor indeed, can they we'll be
AS they comprise only generaliza-
tions of principles which have long been
recognized In their Individual applica-
tion The present work develops these
theories in more coherent and logical
form, and 1t is believed. will serve to
simplify the acquisition of the sub
ject of which 1t treats
The book is divided into chapters.
some of them frankly conversational
and Others purely scientific. There are
nearly 100 illustrations, which are re-
productions of the famous examples OF
architecture of the world, besides MANY
sketches for the benefit of the student.
The book is beautifully printed and
bound.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

The Quest OF the Treasure Box shows
Dy Its pictures on the cover and all
through the book that il is a political
satire. On the cover we have Roosevelt
and Taft and Bryan horribly carfca-
tured and through the book one cannot
miss the ukenesses. 1t is clever in
spots and Will have an audience OF a
certain class. Published BY the Reilly
& Britton company Chicago. Price so
cents.
A very useful booA for children Is
called Our Holidays-Recitation and
Exercises for New Year, Lincolns and
Washington's Birthdays. Memorial.
Flag, Independence. Labor. Thanksgiv-
Ing and Christmas Days" 1t Is ar
ranged and compiled by Matilda Blair.
and she has shown excellent judgment
in her selections. Published by Nc
Laughlin Bros, New York
"Laureled Leaders for Little Folk"
by Mary Z. Philips GOthrop, Lee &
Shepard company. Boston s2). is an
even finer book than the previous one
OF similar nature by this author.
Laurel Leaves for Little Folk" This
book Is devoted TO three authors-"Dr.
Edward Everett Hals's Letter to the
Little Folk, The BoyhOod OF Thomas
Wentworth Higginson" and The Chill
dren's Longfellow" being the contents.
Beautiful illustra tions add to the inter-
est Of the text. and II would be diff
cult to find more perfect Juvenile de
luxe than this volume.
"Cuptd's Pack Of Cards" by Walter
Pulitzer (John W. Luce & Co. Boston,.
is one OF those little books OF which
there are SO many nowadays. 1t is q
poor Imitation OF the cynic's calendar,
though its dress is an attempt at orig
inality. Lack page contains the like
ness Of playing card in the proper
colors and with every card goes line
OF cynic philosophy. some of which is
fairly clever, but much OF which very
tiresOme.
"Diana's Diary" by F. W. Shaefer
Laird & Lee. Chicago. So, is wei la
beled mile and a nalf OF laughs. In
II she gives her sacred confessions and
her many and varied experiences at
Taffeta and Balbriggan. and with Sir
Chauncey the baronet. She has all sorts
OF good and bad luc-- and conhdes 1t
freely to her diary. This we are priEi-
legged to read, also 70 look on the spir-
tied drawings by A. D. Condo, which
add materially to the pleasure of the
text
OSCAR und Adolf; or. Comic Vaude-
Vile Stunts. Rollo and His Father and
Other Sketches" by F. W. Shaefer
(Laird & Lee. Chicago, 81, is the latest
bunch OF nonsense by these tun makers.
They air their opinions on all the ques-
uons OF the day, from airships 10 foot
ball. and their wit and humor is war
ranted to cure the worst case OF blues
In existence.
Man and Master" by Lawrencs L.
Lynch (Laird & Lee. Chicago, 80, is
the latest work from the pen OF this
famous detective story writer. At first
glance Ii appears to be a murder mys-
terry. but II soon develops into a psy-
Geological novel. which has found its
counterpart in real life only too often.
1t is well known fact that Robert
Louis Stevenson read Lynch's stories
with the keenest enjoyment. which, II
they need Endorsement, should give one.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
"A Modern proInetheus"

By Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianehi, author
Of Within the Hedge" etc Published By
Dufheld & Co., New York. Price $50.
"a Modern Prometheus" begins heav-
lily and drags wearily through tedious
explanations. The eheroine, a young
American girl travelling abroad, had
married foreigner. Something OF the
spirit OF this story Is shown in this
excerpt:
When the loneliness OF a welded
companionship first overwhelmed her
she was confused. then incredulous
Later she looked back upon that earlier
time with pity for her own ignorance
mingled with humiliation over her later
acceptance of the inevitable conditions
that surrounded her. Why had no one
warned her? her soul demanded angrily
Then pride crushed back her impulse
for flight at any cost, and resentment
against all social systems in general
and her own false position in particular
forced her to rouse her will to support
an evil bravely when she had hoped to
honor the unspeakably dear"
The theme OF the book is the same
as that of the play The Rivals"
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
folks Back Home"

By Eugene Wood. author Of Back Home. .
Published by the Mcclure company, New
York. Price SL5o
Like the homespun plays that hold
the public years after the dramas" Of
more ceremonious life have been for
gotten. Folks Back Home" by Eugene
Wood. will reach the hearts of the peo-
pie who appreciate the elemental peace
and happiness that come to those re-
mote from the complexities of living In
the buster parts of the world.
Mr.. Woods back home" is in rural
central Ohio. The country folk of New
England have had their scribes, those
OF the south have been equally fortun-
ate, and the middle west has been a
field for the writer's, but there is still
much to come out OF that section. Mr..
Wood has chosen his material with
sympathy and good taste and has GER
tainly added good volume to the lit
erature Of the country folk. He has
with discretion given the humor, the
tragedy, the life and love of the pea-
pie he characterizes. Folks Back
Home" is compilation Of 13 short sto-
ries
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
Mrs. Eddy"

An account Of the late suit In equity By
Michael Meehan. Published and distributed
by Michael Meehan. Concord, N. II. Price
cloth 1925, leather $3.50.
Frankly stating that he has Slightly
colored" what he has written in favor
of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Michael
Meehan has brought out a comprehen-
sive volume called Mrs. Eddy and the
Late Suit in Equity" 1t is a record Of
the various phases of the suit of next
friends" against Mrs Eddy, which
came to an abrupt close by the forma-
tion of board of trustees empowered
to handle Mrs. Eddy's fortune. the trus-
teeship including settlement OF eer-
tain allowances to her next OF kin
her son and his children.
Besides the court records. this vol
ume contains interviews with Mrs.
Eddy, her explanations OF some pub
lished statements against her and some
thing biographical of the people who
surround her and have played more or
less important parts in her work
After agreeing with the publisher
that he has slightly coIored' his de-
ductions and eliminated certain fea-
lures, 1t must be said that the book is
of interest to people outside as well as
TO those within the Christian Science
fold.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

Europe; it has spread as far to the
eastward as Japan, and to the south
as Argentina
Tn Socialists at Work" Mr.. Hunter
has made no attempt to discuss the
principles of socialism, but has con-
fined his efforts to describing the
movement and it's leaders In various
countries. For this work he is well
fitted, having spent much of his time
in the last 10 years studying and in
vestigating the social revolution in
Europe. Socialism presents a differ
ent front in different countries, as 1t
is modified by local circumstances, and
Mr. Hunter describes in separate chap
ters Its special characteristics In Ger
many Italy, France, England and Bel
gium. Other chapters deal with the
program of socialism, socialism and So
cial reform, socialism in the parlia-
ments. socialism In art and literature
the International,'' the movement in
other countries Ca supplementary chap
ter supplied by Charles Lapworth)
and photography. Nowhere else can
one gain so clear an idea of the mag
nitude of the movement, of what 10 has
already accomplished and it's irnme-
diate aims In different countries.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
.1Htn Ehe PrimlInso

By Robert Anes Bennet. author Of "For the
White Csrisf-" etc. Published By A. C..
AcClurg & Co, Chicago. Price 1.50.
Robert Ames Bennett has written a
new novel and though 1t cannot but re-
mind one Of Swiss Family Robinson"
and Robinson Crusoe." every word
and limo are interesting and one reads
10 the very end almost unconsciously
The beginning was at Capetown,
when Bake and Winthrope boarded the
steamer as fellow passengers with
Lady BayrOse and her party" A few
days later the steamer is wrecked on
a wild and Isolated coast and every
body on board IS lost but Blake, who
is an American railroad surveyor: Win
thrOpe. an En- glishman, and Miss Leslie
an American heiress
Winthrope. the Englishman. has a
suggestive air OF mystery about him.
lie has allowed Il to be understood on
shipbo2rd that he is a person Of title
travelling incoGnito on some very i'm
Dortant diplomatic mission He has
shown Miss Leslie marked attention
but she has received it very indif-
ferently. for her whole interest was
taken Cp in plans for the coming sea-
son, when Lady Bayrose had promised
10 present" her Winthrope had very
successfully snubbed Blake on ship
board and Blake. who had had a most
~ llLd4lLlnE education and experience,
had accepted il as one more grudge
from hard world and drank the
harder 10 drown his troubles Miss
Leslie is rich society girl who knows
nothing practical and looks down on
Blake, even though he is a fellow
countryman, because he is so far be-
meath her in birth and breeding. II
Is bad combination OF people to throw
together on a desolate shore.
Blake, the disappointed. the drunken,
the suubbed, finds his opportunity. He
alone Is strong, capable and resource
ful, and ne at once takes the reins
Of leadership IN his hands. When three
people Ike these are thrown into the
primitive" and have 20 struggle for
bare existence. their true natures are
bound 20 be revealed and the good or
bad predominating will come to the
7urface. This is shown IN these three
and the doctrine OF the survival OF the
dttest Is proven true in life. The love
story is pretty and natural and full Of
charm. Mr. BeRaets style is straight
forward and vigorous. well suited TO
the adventurous tale he has TO tell.
The book contains four Illustrations
by Alien =. Irua. a comparatively new
conner in the field but these drawings
are as good as anything seen recently
IN any work OF fiction. The feature
OF his work which is essentially diff
ferent from the usual thing in illus
trati0n is the quite remarkable color
effect he secures.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

make the reader wish that Willie Jor-
dan Junior had been given few years
in an American public school where
the boys would have given his head a
Dutch rub" and where he would not
have had the pet name of Achilles"
bestowed upon him. He would have
been called "Pain-in- the Face" or
Rafting Ribs" or skinny" or pie
Face" Any number of appropriate
names rise naturally to the mind as
one follows the adventures of this
weird hero.
At the age of IL he went forth in
his fathers care at the same
hour every evening he returned In the
same vigilant custody. Days grew into
weeks. weeks grew into months.
months into years, but the intimacy
OF time and the increase of stature and
understanding opened up no inter
course with the bther boys in the
school"
He sharpened knife which he had
in his clothes and when the boys who
had tormented him at school tried
their tricks again he said:
If you make me cry out again 1t is
my intention to kill you" For this
brave defense two other boys were
dismissed from the school. 1t is said
that silence and CONSERVATION" fell
upon them.
The hero is little short of an idiot.
What design the author has in mind
Il is difficult TO imagine unless he
means that a poet is little short of an
imbecile. 1t is not surprising that
such creature. thrown suddenly into
the vortex of modern commercial life,
comes. some strange croppers, but one
cannot follow the story with any in
terest; ii is too exasperatingly improb-
able.