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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-08-21

ANNUAL Statement
For The Year Ending December 31st,
A. D. 1907,
or the condition Of the
GERMAN MUTUAL INSURANCE ASSO.
CATION,
of Iowa, made to the Insurance
Commissioner of the State of South Da-
Ppss,d Pgrsua y t. t. the p,I laws of v said state.
dent, Henry Becker: Secretary R. J.
koehler. Incorporated. Feb. IS. 1901.
Commenced business, April /. 1901.
Principal office. LIE Mars, Iowa.
l.. CAPITAL STOCK.
Net ledger assets; Dec. 81 of
IL. INCoME DURING YEAR.
Net cash actually received for
premiums S11, 642. II
Total income .............. Sill ,642.2 p
III. DISBURSEMENTS DURING THE
YEAR.
Net paid policyholders...... S.. 6o5. rs
Commissions to agents....... 634. IS
Salaries, etc. of agents. ETC.,
not on commission account. 1,OOS.3l
Salaries, etc. of officers, etc. 7,2U
Sundry expense ............ 2S9. 90
General printing and station
cry 2l1.0
All other items ......., l77.56
-
Total disbursements ....... s. ,I7l.23
Balance $l4. $40. 36
". ASSETS.
Cash deposited in banks..... s., 471.23
--
1otal $o,411.2}
lotal admitted aSscts...... $5.41l.23
". RISKS.
Risks outstanding at the date
OF preceding statonent..... 1897, lO2 60
RISKS written since preceding
statement .,............... 2nt, 11lW
lofal RISKS ................ $500. 2I3W
Risks Cancelled and expired
during the year. 1O2. 5000
----
Balance S4I9. % 90
-------
Net IN force .......... S419. 1o3.~
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-08-21


Encouraged by the action of the
board of county commissioners of Bon
Homme county in deciding to submit
to the voters of that county at the No
vember election the proposition of is
suing bonds in the sum of $4,000 for
the construction of a new county
court house building, the residents of
Potter county are taking steps to have
the commissioners of that county also
to the voters in November a
similar proposition, but calling for
only $4,000.
While attempting to swing under a
baggage car as a passenger train was
pulling out of the ST. Paul depot ID
Sioux Falls, for the purpose of steal
ng a ride, a hobo who gives his name
as Sol Goldsmith, had n foot crushed
10 such an extent that it had. to be am
putated.,
An unknown man was horribly
mangled on the crossing at Wessing-
ton by a gravel train. He had attempt
ed to step on the pilot of the engine
and was pulled under the wheels.
Both legs and one arm were cut on
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-08-21

1t is likely that the big drainage
ditch which has been scheduled for
Sanborn county, and for which a con-
tract has been awarded, will be
stopped by injunction proceedings.
A farmer living along the proposed
route of the big ditch has filed a pro-
test on the ditch being dug and has
started injunction proceedings.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-08-21

Anthrax still continues to cause
great uneasiness in Yankton county.
and the dread disease has appeared in
stock only three miles from town. Vac
cination is being used in a wholesale
manner. The loss has been heavy and
the custom of leaving cattle that have
died Of anthrax in pastures or burying
them in shallow graves is helping to
spread the disease.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11
KITCHEN ECONOMIES.
Odds and Ends of Soap Utilized to
Save Pennies.

The housewife who squanders all
her odds and ends of soap should learn
nA-lessop in Thrift. She Is reckless, be-
cause these bits, no matter how small,
a be utilized In a way that saves
more pennies than n would think.
Ii you are one of those who are care
less in this respect, mend your ways.
Gather together once a week all the
ends of kitchen and laundry soap into
one jar and all the ends of toilet and
household soap into another jar.
As most housewives use the same
brand of soap year In and year out,
1t will make no difference If there is,
as the result will be much the same.
1t might be just as well to label each
jar In a clear manner. On one put
''Kitchen Soap on the other, Toilet
Soap"
When you have both jars full go to
work In some idle hour and shave
these pieces of soap with a sharp old
kitchen knife. Have two pans or bowls
for the purpose, and when you are
through with the soap pour into each
pan two or three pints of boiling
water.
Keep this water at the boiling point
until every particle of the soap is dis
solved, stir it with a clean wooden
spoon, and when 1t becomes soft and
thick pour back into the jars while hot
and cover each one.
Put them away to cool. and when
this is done you will find each jar is
full of a smooth, even, clear jelly.
This will keep for any amount of
time. The kitchen jar is left In the
pantry, and the toilet jar Is put In the
bathroom.
This soap jelly is just as good to use
as a cake of soap. Some women Ere
fer it. For shampooing the hair 1t is
far ahead of a lather.
A tablespoonful of 1t may be put into
a bottle of boiling water with a little
bay run If one likes the odor, then
shaken into a thick froth and used on
the head.
Half the bottle is used at first to
cleanse the scalp, and when this is
rinsed off the other half of the bottle
is used to wash the hair itself.
Clear hot water Is used for rinsing,
then a pitcher of cold water to close
the pores, and the hair is as clean as
though the expensive hairdresser had
done the work.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11
HER HOUSE IN ORDER.
China Closet the Pride of Up to Date
Housekeeper's Heart.

GouSckScpST f1Saf1
One of the first things that the house
keeper to be thinks of when she has
finished ascertaining the bare necessi-
ties of the household life is the china
closet and its contents.
Few are the women who do not
pride themselves on their china closet.
Well arranged and full of handsome
wares, it ranks among the best
ments In the house. But a common
trouble is that each meal finds 1t de-
pleted for the table and the harmony
of its arrangement destroyed. Now,
silver of any sort has no standing in
the china closet. 1t should be kept in
separate boxes In the buffet drawer.
and purely ornamental objects of sill
yer, silver-gilt and cut glass ought to
be confined to the buffet, for properly
the china closet holds only china, glass
and heavier clay wares.
In at least half the houses it is built
into the wall. This disposes of loca-
ton. But it Is imperative to have
good shelves and plenty of them.
Sometimes it Is possible to make the
very high shelves answer by screwing
hooks on the under sides and hanging
there cups, mugs and little pitchers.
Hang the saucers against the wall
back of the cup by means of fiat wire
china racks. There may be a double
or even a treble row of the racks. In
filing them study colors as much as
-.~ .slI1 WITH so41anr.u mt tho hio-
gest at the bottom unless this arrange
ment disturbs the color scheme. Leave
the shelf surfaces plain and cover
them with heavy linen cut to fit and
ornamented with q line of drawn work.
Heavy butchers linen is best, and a
pad of the same will safeguard the
glassware shelf.
Claret jugs can be hung from the
shelves. A corner position is best for
them. Salvers and other fat things
may go In racks at the back. In that
case the shelf needs a padded linen
at the back, like the shelf proper. Test
hanging things by swinging them, 30
as to make certain they will not strike
anything else.
Keep plates carefully sorted and
piled, size and pattern together. Give
big platters room on the lowermost
shelf. If 1t is not properly grooved for
them tack strips Of lath along 1t and
cut the linen for it wide enough to go
In and out. Stand the platters on edge,
the biggest next the wall, graduating
them toward the front With a very
high shelf space they look prettier on
end, the highest in the middle and get
ting smaller toward the sides.
Make the most of every good bit and
set In a row in front of the fiat ones.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11
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meaning to them. and, happening to
turn the paper back side before, she
saw that her figures made the words
test pie" and hal Willie's read pie is
tiptop." OF course she was somewhat
disappointed hal Willie had disposed
of her baking. but when he explained
the matter she couldn't blame him, for
the figures read plainly enough. You
car satisfy yourself of this by turning
this page over, holding 1t up to the
light and looking at them, OF, better
yet, by copying them on a blank piece
of paper and looking through 1t from
the back side. This shows how care
full We should be when we make fig
ures SO that other people will not mis-
take their Observation-Disclosures.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11
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of some articles she was going to look
up in the encyclopedia on those pages,
but Willie got the piece of paper wrong
side before, and, looking through it to
the light, he made them read test
pie" Not wishing to disoblige his
mother in SO small a matter as this, he
did test the pie and found 1t so good
that when he was through there wasn't
enough of it left to be seen with a mi
croscope.
Then he wrote under his mothers
figures the numbers 2 1910 and 907, 917
and made himself scarce. When his
mother came to look for the pie she
only found these mysterious figures.
She concluded there must be some
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11
Santa Claus
By LAURA FROST ARMITAGE.

copyright, 1908. by American Press Assoc
ciation.l
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11

SPY U.s."
him by making believe we were Moth
er Goose children right out Of the
book?
Dorothy-How could we do that?
Fred-We could dress like them and
then stand perfectly still as if we were
made Of wax or something, just the
way you do in a tableau, you know.
He might think it was some kind of a
show of wax figures.
Earl-Oh, my! l couldn't keep as
still as that.
Harry-You could if you really want
ed to see Santa Claus.
Earl-Oh, L will! / will! See mel
(Poses.)
Gladys-wil we have to stand SO
very long?
Fred-Oh, not very, very long! We
must all be ready before u o'clock.
We must dress like Mother Goose chill
dren, and I'll fix you in your places.
I'll be Boy Blue. We a find some
dress-up clothes in the attic.
Harry-I think I'll be Jack Horner.
1 can have a pie.
Dorothy--I want to be Bopeep. A
cane with a hook handle will do for q
crook.
Gladys-May / be Miss Muffet?
Earl-What can Ruth and l be?
Fred-You might be Jack and jill
and carry a pail Of water. An empty
pail will dc. Now let's be off and see
what we can find. Then Wen go to
bed, and III lie awake, and after para
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11
A REMARKABLE PLANT.
South American Orchid That Seemed
Endowed With Reason.


A naturalist has discovered in South
America n of the most remarkable
plants known to botanists. 1t is an
urcnid, Hnd It's peculfafify consists in
the fact that 1t has a tube by means
OF which 1t takes a drink of water
when it needs it-you might almost
say when 1t wants it. for the plant
really acts as If 1t had v~olition and the
power to reason.
The naturalist was sitting one after
noon at the side of a lagoon on the
Rio de la Plata. Near by was a for
est of dead trees which had evidently
been choked to death by orchids and
climbing cacti. One of the orchids
was growing from the branch of d
dead tree that overhung the water at
a distance of about one foot. From
the center of the plant hung a stem
about one-fourth of an inch wide. The
stem reached down into the water to
a depth of four inches.
There was nothing remarkable about
that, but when he approached the plant
and touched the stem the latter at once
began to coil itself up like a roll Of
tape. Subsequent examination show
ed him that the stem was a tube, open
at the lower end and connected with
the roots of the plant by a series of
hairlike tubes. Ordinarily the tube
remained coiled in the center of the
plant, but when 1t needed water it
slowly uncoiled itself, let its lower end
dip into the water and then coiled it.
self up again, the water from the tube
pouring out into the roots.
He saw this remarkable action re-
peated time and again, just as If the
plant felt thirsty and would reach for
a drink of water as a man would do
in the same circumstances. He found
many of these orchids, some of them
over places where water had been, but
was no longer. These would uncoil
their tubes and reach about over the
ground In search of 1t, which made
him feel more than ever as If the thing
had human sense.-Chicago News.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11

and go upstairs I'll call you
and We'll come down very softly.
(Exeunt.)
II.
children come tiptoeing In in cos
tune, stockings in hand.)
Fred-Now, we'll hang our stockings
first. (All hang them) Then we'll get
into place. Bopeep, you stand here.
Hold your crook so. Miss Muffet, you
must sit on this footstool, and you
must be eating. Put your spoon to
your lips, so. Jack Horner, get into
that corner and hold up your thumb
with the plum on 1t. Jack and Jill,
stand over here and take the pail be-
tween you. l will stand here and hold
my norm to my mouth, so. Now, we
mustn't move our eyes. It's getting
1afe. Now, all readyt tAll pose,t
Ruth after awhile)-Oh, dear! This
pail is so heavy ever if it is empty.
All-Sh!
Gladys lafter awhile)-How my arm
aches!
All-Shl
Carl yawns aloud.)
All-Shi
Harry-My thumb is tired of stand
ing up.
Dorothy-I'm-so-sleepy (yawning>.
All-Sh!
Jack Horner's hand drops, then his
head. Bopeep drops crook and leans
against wall. Jill lets go of pail and
slides to floor. Jack loon does the
same. Miss Muffet's head drops for
ward. Boy Blues eyes close and horn
falls. This rouses him for a moment,
but his eyes soon close again, and he
leans against the wall.)
Enter Santa Claus. (All fast asleep.l
Santa Claus-Ahl Well, well, we'll!
Some Of the children of my old friend,
Mother Goose. But what are they do
ing here? CWalks about and looks at
them closely.) Aha! I know these
children. They're not Mother Goose's
family. Ahal I see what they are up to.
They're waiting to see me, and they
don't want me to know them. But
they can't fool this old fellow. Just
as If he didn't know every child in the
world. I've found children waiting
for me many a time, but they always
fall asleep and miss me-. I'll fill the
stockings, and won't they be surprised
when they wake up and find they've
missed me after all. ellis stockings,
then puts toy or candy into Miss Muf-
fet's bowl and into Jack and Jill's
pail.) Now l must be off. But l be-
lieve I'll try hat norm of Boy Blues
once. Blows and runs off, dropping
horn near door. Children rouse up a
little at sound, then fall back into for
mer position9
Morning.-Fred (rousing)-Oh. I sayl
Wake up! What are you all asleep for?
Harry-Who's been asleep?
Dorothy rubbing eyes)-Not L.
Earl (yawning)-Did-he-come?
Ruth almost crying)-I was SO
sleepy. Did you all see him?
Others-Oh, no, no!
Fred-Well, I'm afraid we were all
asleep. But l heard him. He blew on
a big horn.
Harry and Dorothy-I heard him.
Gladys-And there's your horn, Fred,
over by the door. He blew on that.
Ruth-See what's in our pail! Hold
ing 1t up.)
Gladys-And in my BOWL
Harry-And see the stockingsl
All-Oh, oh, oh! (All run to get the
stockings)
Dorothy-Oh, why couldn't we have
kept awake?
Fred-Well, we've missed him this
time sure. But next year we'll try 1t
again, and We'll all keep awake.
All-Yes, indeed, we will.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11
Il gas almost revolutionzed the glass

raj gas almost revolutionzed the glass
industry.
South jersey sand was at one time
considered the important item that
would keep South Jersey the centre of
the glass industry, but oil and natural
gas are more important items, and the
centre of this great industry has been
gradually moving westward.
The government is a large purchaser
of oil. There never was a cheap salts
factory oil for the use of the lighthouses
and light-ships until all those lights
were cut on a coal oil basis in 1889,
since which time a chain of lights sur
rounds the country and dots rivers and
harbors so that the mariner car hardly
go out of the area of one light before
another beacon shows him the safe
channel.
In 1907 oil burning locomotives reach
ed their highest point of efficiency and
travelled "A, 900, 900 miles, fired by fuel
oil, and at present almost $4,000 miles
of railroad are operated on an oil basis
We may not be capable of judging as
to how good or how questionable have
been the ways Of developing the BUSH
ness of the Standard Oil Company, but
we are impressed that a business could
not have been built up SO successfully
without brains of exceptional calibre,
honesty in business methods, and prop
er treatment of customers. No corpora
ton in the country has been SO assailed,
no corporation so talked about and
abused, and yet no corporation has
more loyal employees.
The great point of assault has been
the great wealth accumulated. That,
however, is largely due to the fact that,
the oil supply has been ten thousand
times larger than any one suspected.
1t was like striking a gold mine with
the idea of getting a thousand dollars.
and finding millions, as it was digged
deeper, and millions upon millions
more as the diggers went deeper still.
Without forceful business methods and
persistence Standard Oil could not have
accumulated the wealth it has, but
these methods, coupled with more and
more and still more oil, did the bust
ness, a BUSINESS which is bringing mil
lions upon millions of dollars into this
country every year, paid by the foreign
ers for the privilege of using our OH
products.
We presume that during the first ten
years of their oil experience, Rookie
Teller and his business partners, had
many sleepless nights and restless days.
The uncertainty as to whether the oil
supply would hold out, the burning of
an oil tank here and there, or the de-
struction ola refinery now and then by
fire, the fierce competition, the diamond
cut diamond business methods then
in vogue, must have made the men
with scant means at their command in
the beginning, step around, some.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11
The speaker and thl Hons(

From the Philadelphia Press.
Most of the criticism which is being
leveled at Speaker Cannon is really d.
rected not against the Speaker himself,
but against the House rules, which he
administers and enforces with vigor
and success. The rules were adopted
to give full effect to the will of the
majority and enable the House to do
business. 1t is a reaction from the prac-
tice under which endless dilatory mo-
tons, the refusal of members to vote
and at times the objection of a single
member could and frequently did pre-
vent the House from doing any BUSH
ness whatever.
The new rules are now eighteen years
old. The Democrats controlled the
House a portion of this time, but they
retained the system and in substance
the rules which Speaker Reed had pre-
suaded the Fifty-first Congress to adopt.
These rules enable a majority of the
House by a majority vote to take up
and dispose of any piece of business it
selects for such disposition. Inciden-
tally it gives the Speaker a larger dis
cretion in the recognition of members
and the direction of business than a
Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives presumed to exercise before the
time of Mr.. Reed. The individual
Congressman is reduced in import
ance and this many of them resent.
The present Speaker seems to confront
a larger accumulation of resentment on
the score than any of his predecessors
under the same practice.
If a majority of the House do not
like the Reed system, with its compar-
alive effacemento of individual members
and its complete organization of
majority control, it a easily change
this. 1t is certainly not wise to create
a certain condition or acquiesee in its
creation and then quarrel with the
necessary and legitimate results of it.
The House itself makes the Speaker
and makes the rules, and there is
nothing to prevent it making both to
suit itself. We do not believe it will
consent to go back to the old practice.
Speaker Reed made a reform that had
become necessary and having made it
the reform will stay. 1t has proved it's
value and has made the House an
efficient body, which a do what it
wants to do and do it at the time it
suits itself.
If the discretionary power of the
Speaker is greater than the House APP
proves it can modify this if it wishes.
The Speaker is only what the rules
make him, and the House creates both
the Speaker and the rules. 1t is idle.
therefore, to abuse Speaker Cannon for
exercising the discretion and discharg-
ing the responsibilities which the
House, by its deliberate vote, has i'm
posed upon him.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11
PeriIs of Bad Company.

There was once a farmer whose corr
was destroyed by the cranes that fed
in his field. He grew angry and de-
clared he would stop the nuisance. So
he put up a net and caught not only
the cranes, but a fine large stork that
had come down from a neighborins
roof to chat with the crane
"T1l wiring your necks," said the
farmer. "You are pests and have hurt
my fields"
"Spare mer' cried the stork. I'm
innocent; indeed l am. l never touch
ed any of your belongings"
"That may be true" answered the
farmer, "but l find you among thieves,
and l judge you accordingly"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11

lSOPJA Bin ASOt " @A'oO
ciation.l
1.
- ARL Ito Ruth)-Oh, I just wish
- we could see him.
Fred-See whom?
Ruth Why, Santa Claus.
Earl and l have just been talking
about him, and we were wishing we
could get a peep at him once.
G~ladys-Oh, l wouldn't like to!
Dorothy-Harry and l tried it last
year.We- down apd-hidl eJe<
front hall, but papa found us and sent
us to bed.
Fred after thinking awhile)-I'ye
thought of something. Santa Claus
wouldn't come in If he should spy us.
but If he thought we were not real
children he might. Couldn't we fool
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11
Young Folks
FIGURES" OF SPEECH.

Misintsrpreted Numbers Cause Disap-
pearance of Pie.
One day Willie Billfuzz came home
from school very tired and hungry.
and, going into the pantry, he saw a
beautiful apple pie there looking SO
tempting that he could hardly resist
eating 1t. Then he happened to notice
a slip of paper bearing the figures you
see here-namely, 1887 and $40. 1t aft.
erward turned out that his mother had
put these figures down to remind her
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11
sardine Salad.

To make a pretty and good tasting
sardine salad drain the OIL from the
American sardines. which are larger
than the genuine imported sardines;
dip them in French dressing and lay
them on lettuce leaves. Bits Of water
cress may be added or a red beet sliced
into little strips.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11
The Zoo.

If polar bears were on the stairs.
If tigers came to tea.
II fearsome bats and silver sprats
Came in to call on me
And giant snakes ate all the cakes.
How happy l should bel
If leopards gay arrived to stay
And brought the kangaroo,
II parrots red within my bed
Should put the cockatoo.
I'd laugh with giee. because. you see
] just adore the zoo.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11

and go upstairs I'll call you
and we'll come down very softly.
(Exeunt.)
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-12-11
New Garment For the Stout Woman.

New Garment For the Stout Woman.
For the stout woman who would
wear the new styles there is a COM
bination garment which unites a well
known brussiere and knickerbockers.
The knickerbockers are fitted like a
glove not only at the hips. but are cut
with a taper at the knee to avoid any
unnecessary fullness.