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The Detroit times., 1908-07-15

and he seems TO think that such a
statement Is sufficient to dispose OF
the charges that have been made
against his company. As matter Of
fact, il is neither an answer nor an
explanation. There is always strug.
gle where there is business compe.
tition. but II need not be an unfair
or an underhanded struggle. the Gle.
ments of burglary or robbery need
not enter into IL. All the business
transactions that the world has ever
Witnessed cannot succeed in destroy
ing the potency OF the golden rule Z.
by that all men will be measured
and the greater their greed the great
or their punishment.
Let 1t not be supposed by those
who imagine that they are unfor:u-
nate. that the colossal fortunes heap
cd up by modern business methods
will add to the happiness OF those
who have allowed greed - have its
way. All the gold In the world Will
not buy an ounce of contehtment: its
purchasing power ceases where hap
piness is concerned. These statements
are platitudcs. of course. but il is
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15
BY W. HOLT WHITE.

through the doorway and peered down
the passage. and from the shadows
he saw gazing al him the pale face
OF Ludwig. Prince OF Sylvania.
CHAPTER XIV.
Strong peered al Ludwig's pale face
out OF the shadows.
You seem curiously anxious TO
avoid me- he said In that respect
however might return the compli-
ment. However. as | have no desire
10 cultivate your acquaintance TO any
great extent, there is something |
should very much like 10 say 10 you.
il you would do me the honor OF com
ing out into the light where / can
behold you plainly while | talk"
II am here on business" said Lud-
Wig.
That may be So" said Strong, but
I fancy the business that brings you
| here is not so urgent as the business
which compels me TO ask your atten-
ton now. Allow me TO show you the
door"
He took Ludwigs arm in a by no
means gentle grasp. and led him TO
the street. and then. still holding him
by the arm. marched the prince 10
the corner.
There he hailed a passing taxicab,
ard threw open the door
Pardon me" said Ludwig, but II
is impossible FOR me 10 accompany
you"
Strong laughed ~ him. Il can as
sure your royal highness there is moth
ing % be alarmed at | do not GRO
pose TO imprisoh "ou in any dreac-
sli dungeon. In feet. can assn - You
thar | do not even possess secre,
tower in Park street"
Ludwig WINGED.
What may Ultimately be your
fate" said Strong" If you continue TO
annoy me, is another matter but |
will leave that TO the future. In the
meantime, | want TO have a quiet chat
with you"
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15
An Invincible Team.

To make smashing football team
Perfection altogether.
For quarterback engage the man
Who kicks about the weather.
The man who kicks about the cars
Will make fullback winner:
For halfbaCk pick n citizen g.
Who kicks about his dinner.
For guard procure the man who kicks
About the cost of living;
For end pick out the man who kicks
About the cost Of giving.
Then TO complete the winning team
And make the prospects sunny.
Get men who Kick about the way
That others spend their money
-McIandburgh Wilson. in N " sun.
When your wife talks. listen; you
don't have TO hear.
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15
For A Quiet Life.

LIES too short at most To wrangle.
Let it slide
I'm opposed TO clash and jangle.
Hate and pride.
You'll he happy all the quicker
II YOU just forbear TO biCker.
30 as / do--let 'er Kicker.
Let 70 slide,
Cures less easy than prevention,
Let 70 slide,
Don't In any sharp contention
Long abide
Don't be 10 opinions welded.
DOVE !n bedrock fast imbedded
Don't be foolish and mule-headed;
Let II slide
Yes. I've found the plan Is bully.
Let it Slide
HELPS fellow wonderfully
once It's tried.
There are times it's application
wouldn't have my commentator.
But--with due discrimination
LIT 81 slide,
Chicago Daily News.
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15

U will leave your premises by
the servants entrance. and In
five minutes | shall be g"eas-
IL oil ged il you will go 10
stairs and inform the gentleman there
that | have left | promised TO com
municate with them in Ave minutes,
and that shall be my communi e..
t. H..
re manager was far too overcome
Lv The events OF the morning 10 raise
any protest or make any comments.
He simply led Strong down the serv-
ants staircase.
Emerging from a side door Strong
found himself in a narrow thorough
fare leading down Tower street. On
reaching this, he turned TO the right
and walked as far as Southwark
bridge.
Here he turned north again. and in
the comfortable assurance that his APP
pearance was unknown 10 the people
generally, he strolled up the hill with
the intention of hanging about the
outskirts OF the crowds which he
knew were still waiting for a glimpse
OF him.
He lounged against lamppost at
the corner of Queen street. and looked
down Cannon street over the heads OF
the surging people. He stood contem-
plating the extraordinary spectacle be
fore him for some minutes. and all the
while he smiled steadily.
He was thinking that this was a
very small TO do compared with the
greater sensations with which In four
months time he would be paralyzing
the earth.
He turned away still smiling. and
was conscious that a figure stepped
quickly into a doorway Instructive
ly Strong connected the presence OF
that figure with himself
Without any hesitation. he stepped
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15
She Knew the Place.

Where are we. Bobby she ask
cd
Il don't know. grandma" answered
the little boy.
Didn't the brakeman say something
Just now"
No. He Just stuck his head inside
the door and sneeZed."
Help me with these things. Bob
by" she exclaimed. hurried'y. This Is
Oshkosh. It's where we get on -
Youths Companion.
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15
An unwritten Law.

The smaller man bristled up
See here" he growled. you have
applied two unpleasant terms TO me"
Then he paused and scowled and came
q little closer. II just want you TO
understand that a third term doesn't
20 IN this country"
whsreupon the big man drew back
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15

well. once in awhile. To shake live
and wiggllng platitude in the face Of
the public. If only TO reassure some
of the hopeless ones that God Is in
His world, and all is we'll"
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15

While IL may not be exactly good
form for an automobile 10 proceed
rapidly on It's way after wrecking a
buggy In the highway, II Is extremely
automobuish.-India News
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15

If conversation should lag. don't
start anything. Learn TO let we'll
enough alone.
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15
Quite the Fashion

a little and said no more.--From the
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15

Detroit needs a convention
hall; big one.
AS a convention city we can
never hope to win first place until
we get it.
This fact is emphasized by the
general impression made upon
the Detroiters who were in Den
yer last week. that the Colorado
metropolis has an immense adj
vantage over us in the possession
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15
CHAPTER overwhelmingly

H.T)ITH your kind permission he
l said 10 that gentleman. i
V will leave your premises by
the servants entrance. and In
Ave minutes | shall be g-ea.-
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15

are others
Attempts longer regarded
a habit
the
ON % o OF sewers
defeat of St Louis
ado
many by the pursuing
actth he
Logan Crawford OF Petoskey high
Kentucky fell in with fell
married All Of Cawfords dives
including
will
like with welcome
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15

through the doorway and peered down
the passage. and from the shadows
he saw gazing al him the pale face
OF Ludwig. Prince OF Sylvania.
The Detroit times., 1908-07-15

Continued Fridsy)
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20
Not a Horseless Country Yet.

The notion that this country is en-
tering upon a horseless age gets a
black eye from the report of the gov
eminent census takers, which shows
that Weynow have more horses than
ever before by several Hundred thous-
and-3, 100000 more than in 1900.
With the increased. use of self propel-
ling carriages, wagons and machines
on farms and highways it would seem
that a diminished demand for draft
animals is inevitable and that such
would not be raised exported to lands
where they are wanted.
But this is a big country. Our de-
velopment is rapid. Horses are now
wanted where mules and oxen were
once used and also where there have
been neither mules nor oxen, not
even human inhabitants Every new
farm opened up means work for a
horse or two extra. More people can
afford pleasure horses, and, while you
think of it, there is horse sentiment
enough in the country to see to it
that the kind shall not be driven of
the course. A horse for every -four
persons is what the government Fl.
fiures show. That means 10000, 900
In the big cities there is only one
horse to every forty people. But the
farmer with fn,1r or 4 uo IN Al f,;,, 4 :,
will keep two or three horses. That
is .where the horses are growing in
number in spite of the machine riyal
and also growing in Importance. The
country is big place in these United
States.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20
NONE OTHER so GOOD

Lemars (Iowa) Democrat: Do you
know what we think is the best story
in the Bible2 1t may surprise you but
it's about Noah and the flood. We
say this even in the face of educated
folks, who turn UP their noses and
declare this story a fake. You re-
member, Noah had to work a long
time on the ark. 1t wrs up hill bust
ness too at best, to 60 on toiIing and
sweating day after day in the hot sun,
building boat away out in the dry
land, while the local anvil and ham
er club sat around, splitting tobacco
juice upon his lumber, whiting up
his pine boards with their jack knives
and telling him what fool he was to
expect big rain in country that
was too dry to grow alfalfa. But he
kept at it. Finally the flood came
and every mothers son Of the croak-
ers We're drowned This is the first
and only instance we know of, either
in sacred or profane history, where a
bunch of knockers got exactly what
was coming to them.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20
To Forest the Hills.

Brookings, S. D., Aug. 14.-Secre-
tary of Agricultural James Wilson
arrived here Thursday evening, on
his way east from the Black Hills
and will remain four days visiting
with his son, Prof. j. w. Wilson. In
the Black Hills, Secretay Wilson was
interested in finding suitable trees
with which to re-forest the Hills. 1t
is the intention of the department. to
restore all those portions Of the for
ests there that have been cleared by
the lnmbermen. Secretary Wilson
states that Prof. N. r. Hansen Of the
state college, now in Siberia for the
department., is having good success in
gathering alfalfas an clovers in
colder latitude than has ever before
haen attempted
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20
In Argentina

Mexican Herald: Argentina APP
pears to be prosperous and growing
in riches. Its wheat crop spells com
Portable trade statistics and implies
the ability to send abroad that which
vii! buy the gauds and luxuries of old
Europe. The resources of the far
southern republic are not illimitable,
but they are immense and will not be
seriously diminished for a century.
Given firm and progressive govern
ment, and the Argentines may, eat
drink and be merry for long years to
come. 1t is goodly land, and destined
to become very healthy.
Thoughtful writer's in the Argentine
press point out the danger Of wealth
breeding careless and enervating
materialism. Prosperity like a flood"
says our Buenos Ayres namesake,
'has swept over the whole republic,
and its silt has choked the federal
capital with a luxury that is appal-
ling when we come to consider the
consequences that must ensue on this
feverish pursuit of pleasure at all
cost"
And the same paper adds: "Work
is plentiful and food abundant. If
the latter is dear, judged by European
standards still the return paid to
labor is by so much the more increas-
ed. Civic rights and possibilities
are phrases which nobody troubles
to understand, whilst national duties
limit themselves to possible term of
service in a conscript regiment which
they may or may not be called upon
to perform. Thus, their work done,
they have ample time and means at
their disposal wherewith to follow the
pursuit.of pleasure. Materially, there
fore, as we have remarked, it would
be difficult to better the conditions
of the federal capital lives, moves and
has his being
The peril to the state is dry rot, de
cadence, the absorption of the people
in materialism. 1t would be indeed
curious to see SO new country as
Argentina becoming weakened by
luxury and entering Oh a period of de-
cadence morally and socially whilst
engaged IN feeding the old world.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20
Northwestern Sends Huge Engine.
This WAY.

Highmore Bulletin: AS result of
the increasing traffic that South Dakota
is giving the Northwestern railroad, it
has been found necessary to secure six
OF the largest engines used in the west
to handle extra work on this division.
They are known as Glass RI engines
the largest ones to be used on. this di-
vision previous to this being known as
Glass r engines. Three of the mon
sters were sent to Huron last week
and the others will come from the east
as the need demands. Additional are
being added to the equipement, for the
immense crop in South Dakota, will
have to be handled by the North west
ern and the officials are making these
preparations so they may not be caught
mapping
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20
Increase in Railroad Lines

A compilation of railway figures
for the state this year shows total
Of 1852 miles of which 500 is new
mileage. The average assessment is
s7,150 mile, an increase of Ss43 a
mile over last year. The total rail-
way assessments will be little over
s2s, 100000. The highest valuation
on any road is 50, 1913 per mile on the
Illinois Central line into Sioux Falls.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20
Large Orders for Rolling Stock.

Philadelphia Record: Ten million
dollars worth of steel cars for the
Gould railroads indicates that there
is an expectation Of increased trans
portation. All these cars are not go
ing to be delivered at once, but the
Northwestern has ordered a thousand
cars to be delivefed as soon as may
be, and instead of leaving it's damaged
cars until they we're needed the COM
pany has kept all its cars in repair
during the past months Of dullness.
The Northwestern knows that thera
are some crops to move.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20
Prizes Advance Price Of Land.

Lands in northern Mississippi ad-
vanced from SIS per acre to S25 and
$50 per acre because of an award won
by grower of alfalfa on his exhibit
at the st. Louis Exposition.
This story is told by Captain j. f..
Merry, general immigration agent of
the Illinois Central railway who has
in. his possession letters and reports
which substantiate his word, which
in itself is good with every newspaper
man in Iowa and Illinois.
There are some lands particularly
adapted to certain crops. No one
knew just what some of the Missis-
sippi lands would produce until the
farmers experimental with alfalfa.
When one of the Mississippi growers
won the prize, it became apparent
that the Mississippi lands were alfal-
ia lands and five crops per year are
now being produced on them. The
result is that the lands have been in
creased in value.
The National Corn Imposition which
is to be held at Omaha December 9-1o
will show the varieties best suited to
certain sections of the agricultural
region, even better than they were
shown at one of the worlds fairs or
industrial expositions. To learn more
abOllt clover and a lfa lfa &c cni rni,,x,,
enators is worth a trip to the eNposi-
ton at Omaha. Better crops mean
crop rotation, and this means an eff
fectiye way to get rid of many insect
pests. The result of seeding fields to
clover and alfalfa in regular rotation
with other crops, will beashown in
the magnificent exhibits which will
be shown at the Omaha Exposition.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20
Build Homes This Year

1t is a good time to get out of this
old and cruel business of living in
another mans property. No doubt it
will be true for long time YET that
only few of the workers in cites will
own their dwelling places; but it is also
true that the number is growing, and
that the example is spreading. 1t is q
sign. The man who lives in q
house that belongs to him is better
and more thoughtful citizen than he
was before, more likely to think before
he votes.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20
September % to October 3, 1908.

The Agricultural Exhibit at the
Mitchell Corn Palace this fall will I'M
doubedly be the finest collection of
farm products ever exhibited in the
State. The management has offered
some very attractive cash prizes and
the several counties that have been
fortunate enough to secure space are
putting forth some strenuous efforts
to win first prize. The bountiful
crops just harvested will afford the
exhibitors an opportunity to make a
most excellent showing.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20
The crop of prairie chickens in this
state is known to be short one.

It's sort of prosperity truce when
Mr.. Hartman attends to railroads
and Mr.. Roosevelt to politics.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20

Chicago Evening Post: Cheap beef
is said to be a thing of the past. 1t
certainly isn't thing of the present.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20

Uncle Sam is getting a standoff on
territory in the Aleution Islands owing
to the activeness of his VOLCANOES there.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20

Senior Castro might have been spong-
ed out long ago if Americans didn't
have sneaking likeness for his fool
BRAND of nerve.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20

Chicago Evening Post: Cheap beef
is said to be thing of the past. 1t
certainly isn't thing of the present.
Uncle Sam is getting standoff on
territory in the Aleution Islands owing
to the activeness of his VOLCANOES there.
Senior Castro might have been spong-'
ed out long ago if Americans didn't
have a sneaking likeness for his fool
BRAND of nerve.
The county local option law to be
voted on at the coming election in Nov
ember many has features that will be
Objectionable to the fair minded man.
1t is now claimed that the bottom of
the cherry box is placed SO high TO in
sure proper ventilation. What an ex-
pensive thing this ventilation is
The copious rains on the corn fields
of south Dakota give assurance of an
other bumder drop, provided that the
frost will be decent about the delay in
its appearance.
The light of day has not been shed
on the original draft Of the Declare
tion of Independence in five years, and
there is no likelihood of it's being
placed on view until 1928.
No wonder the American farmer
rides in his automobile. He is worth
twenty-nine billion dollare. We spell
it out because we are afraid to look
that many figures in the face on &C
count of a predisposition to heart
disease.
One Of the effects of the German
old-age pension scheme is rather Pc
culiar. The pension is forfeited if
weeks out of the SO on an average,
and this provision has been deter
rent to strikes.
China will receive back about S12.-
900, 900 of the unclaimed "Boxer" in
demnity paid to the United States.
That will go a good way toward pay
ing for educating Chinese students in
this country, and still farther in pro-
noting good will between the Ameri-
can and Chinese peoples.
A special Indian church conference
is being held at Mclaughlin, S. d.,
on the Cheyenne reservation, of all
religious denominations in the states
of North and South Dakota. Indians
from the Yankton, Lower Brule, Pine
Ridge, Sisseton, Cheyenne and Stand.
ing Rock reservations in South Dako.
ia are present as are representations
from this North Dakota reservations
That the farmers of the country
have the hog situation well in hanC
is evident from the ease with which
receipts respond to the advances anC
declines in the market. The farmer
has the hogs and he does not have tc
ship them till he is ready and prices
satisfactory. Within the past few
months it has been demonstrated that
corn is not an Indispensable article
in the hogs diet.
Bryan day at the corn palace ought
to be big thing and doubtless thou
sands of people will come here to heal
and see the great apostle of democracy
And it is distinguished honor that is
paid this city by bringing a presi
Dental candidate here when hundreds
OF other towns are clamoring for the
presence of the Nebraska gentleman
Mitchell, however, will assure Mr.
Bryan and his party an immense
crowd of people to talk Mitchell
Republican.
| 1t is true that there is widespread
feeling among all business men that
many railroads have restored to re.
prehensible practices and do not come
before the people with clean hands
when they plead to be permitted tc
increase freight rates. Some railroads
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20

The county local option law to be
voted on at the coming election in Nov
ember many has features that will be
Objectionable to the fair minded man.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20

1t is now claimed that the bottom OF
the cherry box is placed so high TO in
sure proper ventilation. What an ex-
pensive thing this ventilation is.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20

1t is true that there is a widespread
feeling among all business men that
many railroads have restored to re-
prehensible practices and do not come
before the people with clean hands
when they plead to be permitted to
increase freight rates. Some railroads
have been honestly conducted, and
some rates ought to be increased, es-
pecially those relating to freight which
must be shipped by fast lines in al
most as short time as passenger train
schedule, but we do not believe that
all railroads are entitled to like con
sideration or that there is any justi-
fication for a general and sweeping
advance in freight charges. Let there
be the most searching investigation
to determine what the actual facts
are in every case, and then all fair
minded Americans will cheerfully ac-
qnieace in the result.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20

The copious rains on the corn fields
of south Dakota give assurance of an
other bumder drop, provided that the
frost will be decent about the delay in
its appearance.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20

A special Indian church conference
is being held at Mclaughlin, S. D.,
on the Cheyenne reservation, of all
religious denominations in the states
of North and South Dakota. Indians
from the Yanl1ton, Lower Brule, Pine
Ridge, Sisseton, Cheyenne and Stand
ing Rock reservations in South Dako-
ia are present as are representations
from this North Dakota reservations
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20

The light of day has not been shed
on the original draft of the neclara-
tion of Independence in five years, and
there is no likelihood Of it's being
placed on view until 1928.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-02-26

G.. Hoefer. Dora Kuhlman and
Anna Vollersen drove to Charter Oak
to see play. Thursday evening
Claus Rusch of Schleswig was shak-
ing hands with numerous friends here
Saturday.
Mrs. C. N. Vollersen took the
train here Monday for Ida Grove
where she will help care for her little
niece. Blanche Krohnke.
! We are in receipt Of the news of
the marriage of Florence Lyons which
occurred at Soldier, Wednesday. Miss
Florence has been a frequent visitor
here and made many warm friends
who wish her long life of happi-
ness.
A crowd from here walked out to
the Jens Claussen home Wednesday
evening to charivari Mr.. Reisen and
wife.
Marie Brandenburg returned Satur-
| day from few weeks stay with rela-
tives near Denison.
The children of Claus Munster are
staying at the Thos. Munster home a
few days while their parents move
their goods from Boyer to their new
home one mile east of here.
Carol LinbIad spent Sunday with
her folks at Kiron.