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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
the cAMIoA LEADER
ARTHUR LINN,
Editor and Proprietor
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&c 0rresponden E /
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Grant Township.

April ID, 1909.
II tell you / don't want this room,''
protested On old lady from the cOun-
try TO the bellhop of q large hotel
who vas conducting her to her room.
this kind or q chicken coop with a
measly little folding bed in II. Don't
you believe 1t even II l am from the
country" 'Gets in mum, get in,o
ordered the boy" "This is the ele-
vator taking you up to your room"
Oscar Brandhagen was at Sioux
Falls Tuesday on business.
Ed Hanson was out looking for his
cattle. They strayed away during
the last snow storm.
Mn. Emil Aulwes and Blanche
Larson were out for . drive Wednes-
day. The ladies complained Of the
vet and muddy roads.
Melvin Sundvold sold and delivered
Z bunch Of hogs Wednesday.
We have : new mail carrier and he
seems to be q hustler. Ed McCumber
has retired from Uncle Sans service.
q. Lier delivered a bunch Of cattle
Saturday to parties In Lennox.
HFL
a card from George Randolph at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, conveys the news
that he Is 70 busy trying to get mar
ried that he hasn't time to write.
Thea and Carrie Larson were callers
ct Stubstein's Sunday.
Ole johnson Of Wagner came down
Friday and while making q drive !
down Ia Delaware township the same
evening, he got stuck and broke his
buggy. II was very dark and Mr..
johnson spent most Of the night get
ting back to Ole Gedstad's.
We met Bert Ostrander Saturday
going to town with . load Of eggs.
He had hired two men to assist him.
BE had enc stationed 81 hi back of |
The rig and one In front. He told us
be was going TO get his eggs to town
IAfe or bust several beautiful resolu-
lions.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-04-16
replied, I don't know.

81 replied, i don't know.
Why
lie promptly said Because
Washington is so fur" from
Waco.
"Thc ancicnts buildcd their Ell
ties down by the seas. They
established their martS and on.
trepotS of trade there where the
world met and transacted bust
ness This gigantic enterprise,
with It's home at the nation : Cap
ital. is 10 furnish the South and
all sections Of the country the
same opportunities the ancicntS
had Here the people of the
South and of every state may
come and meet in free business
intercourse and transact the
affairs of the American people.
Many men have flashed into
immortal fame by Il brilliant
stroke of genius. And the brain
that conceived this movement in
such thought combined genius
with common sense in so rare an
inspiration that his name will en-
durc and occupy an exalted place
not only in the annals OF the
South. but among the Republics
most noted achievements
we cannot better speak of the
progress of the South than refer
to Texas in relation to the same.
by a comparison OF her rCsour-
ccS and growth we may CLEAN a
clear insight into the progress of
the whole South,
In historic interest Texas Is
rich. and ranks with any State
in the Union. Her history al
ready shines with rcfulgont
splcndor in the nobility and
grandeur of her origin and inn.
portauCc uf achievements The
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-04-16

Bay, in Texas, and planted the
first colony. However, in 1918.
Pineda had visited Texas, more
than one hundred and fifty years
prior 10 La Sales coming. and
had explored her resources and
traverscd the greater portion of
her domain.
Referring 10 her glorious orr
gin, it is not improper to state
that her declaration of indepen
dencc was promulgated on March
>. lS3G, and her constitution on
March Il. 1886, and both these
documents will find Judgment in
history aS two enduring in>tru-
mcntS largely contributing to
the independence and welfare of
mankind. And the men who
wrote and promulgated them, in
education and refinement easily
rank with the fathers of the Con
stitution of l1S7, penned at Phi.
ladclphia. Indeed, in this Texas
convention there were rs many
college and university graduates
as sat in the elder convention at
Philadelphia.
Permit me. for Il moment. to
give YOU n few brief lines pcnnod
by that great wizard of political
foresight and statccraft, Thomas
Jefferson. These words were
written by him in $50, before
Mexico threw OIL the yoke of
Spain, prior to Texas disinthral,
ling herself from the dominion of
Mexico. and before Texas be
came an independent Republic.
but to Ms the province of
Tcchas will be the richest State
of the Union without exception.
Its southern part will make more
sugar than we can consume, and
the Red River, ON its north, is
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-04-16

horses. in sheep. in cattle, in
hogs. and in the establishment
of new banks every year, and al
ditional mileage in railroad build
inc. An these things Texas has
contributed and is furnishing to
thc progress of the South, and
has ability to make il 100 per cent
more. Aye, she will treble,
quadruple, and quintupIe these
material additions TO the glory
and achievements Of this South
crn country of ours.
Let me call your attention to
the fact that our land policies
have been the most liberal in the
Union. Our fathers. fresh from
the battlefeldS of San .)acintO,
and other conflicts, dedicated
one half the public domain to the
free schools of our people. We
wrote the first homestead eX-
emption provision in our organic
law. Our laws pertaining to sep
crate and community property
are the pride of the wiSeSt jurls-
prudence. We donated to the
building of railroads more than
thirty-tive million acres OF land.
When we were struggling
with Mexico for our freedom
Great Britain approached us and
offered Succor if we would but
surrender to her our lands. We
spurncd the offer, preferring to
fight alone against the tyranny
of our antagonist. When we
sought admission to the Union
the Federal government demand
ed that we cedf our lands. ana
again we declined to enter the
! Union on such terms. announc-
! ing our intention to retain the
vast public domain for our PEG
pie. their children, and posterlty.
More than forty years have
passed since the civil war Out
of the wreck and deSolation of
that supreme struggle the South
/ has proudly emerged. While
treasuring her traditions and re
vering her history and the patri-
otism of her soldiers, she has
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-04-16

the course of time would become
a State OF this Union and occupy
the proud place now accorded
her in the sisterhood of States.
Let us contemplate the size
of this great State. Texas has
an area of 26j, 80 square miles,
Within her borders could be
seated every person of the entire
world i'm comfortable chairs, Civ.
ing each four feet of elbow room.
As stated by one of the great
metropolitan journals Texas is
larger than the kingdom of
Spain, the kingdom of Italy and
the republic of France; she has
more territory than the German
empire; two JapanS could be set
down within her borders with
out uncomfortably crowding Ell
ther one of them, and five Eng
lands could be spread out there,
with some room left for Swit2cr-
land or two or a score or more
of Monacos.
There is ample room in Texas
/ for eight million farms of twenty
acres each without destroying
an acre of her superb forests,
and the farms already under
cultivationand yielding profit can
be counted in myriads. The
lone Star is also distinguished
/ by the fact that she has the larg
est public school fund of any
State in the Union and the lowest
tax rate among those which levy
direct State taxes.
We may compare Texas in
other ways. She is larger in
area than New England, New
/ York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland. Indiana,
and Ohio combined; nearly twice
the size of California, and sin
times as large ~ New York and
Pennsylvania. She is larger
than the original thirteen States
of the Union. In regard to hen
population. allow me to submit a
few comparisons. In the most
dcnsely populated part of Texas
we have twenty five people To tn,
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-04-16

square mile; in England $50; in
Holland, 1875; in Massachusetts,
$50: and in Rhode Island, go.
In comparison with some other
Southern States. Texas. with her
265. $50 square miles, exceeds
the combined area of South Ca
rolina, Georgia, Florida. Alaba
ma, and Mississippi, with their
24o.7 square miles. In cotton,
every year Texas produces near
~ four million bales, equalirg
the combined amount raised by
South Carolina, Florida, Georgia,
Alabama, and MissiS Sippi. In
corn, wheat, and oats she cN-
ccedS the production of the
States just mentioned.
The first railroad was con
structed within our borders in
1853. At the outset of the civil
war, in 1860. we had only three
hundred miles of railway; to-day
there are travcrSinG our limits
more than ll.0O0 miles. For
Il moment, let me ask your at
tcntion to our growth in popula
ton. We were admitted into the
Union in 1916, and under the first
census in lSl1 showed a popula-
ton of only l0O,50S people; in
1880. under the United States
census. we were the twcnty-tifth
State in the Union, with a popu-
! lation of PIP, 80. in lN6O we be
came the twentythird State,
with a population OF 6Ol, 2l1; in
I 1870 we advanced to the position
! of the nineteenth State. with a
population of NlN,J19: in lNNO we
were the eleventh State, with Il
population of 1891, 40; in 1890
we grew to be the seventh State,
having a population of 80, 253:
and in 1900 We were the fifth in
size. with a population of more
than three millions of people.
And when the impending census
{ is taken il will be aScertained
/ that Texas has a population of
more than -four million souls.
In addition to all this. Texas
is first in land, in cotton, in
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-04-16
ROBERT LEE HENRY
SPEAKS FOR TEXAS
SKETCHES HISTORY AND TELLS OF BIG
DOMAIN GROWTH or STATE.
Some Interesting Facts Concerning the Dc
selopmenls Of LONE Star State and
rs future.

In e recent address before the
southern Commercial Congress.
Congressman Robert l.co Henry,
Of Waco. one OF the brightest
young men representing any
state in the Union IN Congress.
made one of the most appropri-
ate speeches OF the many good
ones That he has over made We
give below the introduction made
hy the IoaStmastCr at the ban
quot at which The speech was
delivered, together with an cN-
ccrpt Of Congressman Henry :
address
What could the United States
have done without Texas. The
shade of Sam Houston arises be-
fore us, and think of the given
namo Of the gentleman who is
going to speak ! shall not say
another word, but introduce the
Hon Robert Lee Henry. of Tex
3~, on "TCNaS. - ToaStmastor.
We have just heard that the
ground upon which the home OF
The Brunswick news., 1909-07-23
FEARRINGToN'S NEW FoUNT
is NOW IN OPERATION

After several days of tearing out
and putting in, the handsome new
fount at Fearrington's drug store was
finished last evening, and now the
crowd that has been hanging around
this popular resort anxiously watch
ing and waiting for the work to be
completed, can have the opportunity
to test the products OF the new fount.
Now. don't all rush in at once, but
take things easy and drop in quietly
and take drink with a friend.
The Brunswick news., 1909-07-23
-'SF71i7,E>YaS Sla(sialE.7iAr

II people with symptoms Of kidney
or bladder trouble could realize their
danger they would without loss OF
time commence taking Foley's Kidney
Remedy. This great remedy stops
the pain and the irregularities. q:
strengthens and builds up these ar
gans and there is no danger 0'
order. Do not disregard the early
symptoms. For sale by Atlanta Phar-
macy.
The Brunswick news., 1909-07-23

Delay in taking roIey's Kidney REM
edy if you have backache, kidney or
bladder trouble, fastens the disease
upon you and makes a cure more ait
ficult Commence taking Foley's Kid
ney Remedy today and you Will sooR
be we'll Why risk serious malady.
For sale by Atlanta Pharmacy.
The Brunswick news., 1909-07-23

For ten years l couldn't rid4 a
horse without being in torture fr,sm
piles writes L. S. Napier of Rugless,
KY, when all doctols and other rem.
edies failed, Bucklen's Arnica Sale
cured me-" Infallible for piles, burns.
scalds, cuts, boils, feve: sores. eczema,
salt rheum, corns. CSC. Guaranteed
by Roses Drug Store
The Brunswick news., 1909-07-23

Phone Pepsi Cola Bottlino company
for Glenn Springs Mineral Water,
natures remedial offering for man
kind. Pepsi 8ottIing Works, agents.
The Brunswick news., 1909-07-23

For diseases of the liver, kidneys
and stomach, there is no better min
eral water in the world than Glenn
Springs Mineral Water. Pepsi Cola
Bottling Co, agents.
The Brunswick news., 1909-07-23

It's all right when you get it at
Fearrngton's, headquarters for med
icines, drugs, toilet goods, cold
drinks and Brunswick Smokers.
Phone AZ.
The Brunswick news., 1909-07-23

Hot soup fine free lunch, served
daily from II to I O'Clock at Willie
Waite's place, 1912 Bay stree.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-23

erful in 4 new community, had altered.
All this he who had been the outcast
could rot guess, but he felt the change
with satisfaction.
Till the sun was low he sat in the
cabin thinking. At length he called
the dog and fastened it in its accus-
toned place and began slowly to climb
the steep ascent toward the Knob.
When he came to certain vine grown
trail that met the main path he turned
aside. Here lay the spot where he had
first spoken with her, face to face
Here she had told him there was moth
ing in his past which could not be
buried and forgotten.
AS he parted the bushes and stepped
into the narrow space beside the jut-
ting ledge he stopped short with an
exclamation. The place was 10 longer
tangle of vines. a grave had been
lately made there, and behind it, fresh
chiseled in the rock. was Il statue-a
figure seated, chin on hand, as if re-
Sarding the nearby mound. As il u
dream he realized thai its features
We're his own. Awestraek. the living
man drew near.
1t was Jessica's conception of the
prodigal son as she had modelled it in
Aniston in her blindness, after Hugh's
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-23

xto u yttt PfopcftY, Hc otttu.
cry The portrait that hung above the
mantelpiece was Jessicas, in house
dress of soft Romney blue and sim
gle white rose caught in her hair. "The
old mans daughterr The words seem
ed to echo and re-edho about the walls,
voicing a new agony without name.
Then Jessica was his sister!
As he stared dry eyed at the picture
in the candle light the misery slowly
passed. He must know. Who she was.
what she was to him, he must learn
beyond peradyenture. He cast swift
glance around him. Orderly rows of
books stared from the shelves: the ma
hogany table held only pile of old
magazines. He strobe to the desk,
drew down its lid and tried the draw
ers. They opened readily. and he rap.
idly turned over their litter of papers.
written in the same grabbed hand that
had etched the one damning word on
the draft he had found in the cabin on
Smoky mountain. Most of the papers
the searcher saw at a glance We're OF
no import. and they gave him no clew
to what he sought. Then, mysteriously
guided by the subtle memory that
seemed of late to haunt him, though he
was but half conscious of its guidance,
his nervous fingers suddenly found and
pressed a spring. a panel fell down,
and he drew out a folded parchment.
Another instant and he was bending
over it with the candle, his fingers
tracing familiar legal phrases of will
laid there long ago. He read with the
| blood shrinking from his heart:
"To my son, Hugh. in return for the
| care and sorrow he has caused me all
the days of his life, for his dissolute
career and his graceless desertion,
do give and bequeath the sum of
81 900 and the memory of his misspent
youth. The residue of my estate. real
and personal, do give and beQueath
to my ward. Jessica Holme"-
The blood swept back to his heart
In q flood. Ward, not daughter. He
could still keep the one sweet thing
left him. His love was justified. Tears
sprang to his eyes, and he laid the
parchment back and closed the desk.
He hastily brushed the drops away as
the Waterman entered and set down
| two glasses and bottle.
'"There you are. That'll be worth
five miles to you!" He poured noisily
His guest drank. set down the glass
and held out his hand. Good luck'
he said
The dog thrust cold muZzle into
his hand as he walked down the gray
ell path slowly, feeling the glow of the
liquor gratefully, with the grudginl
release it brought from mental ten
sion. He had not consciously asked
himself whittier now. In some sub
conscious corner of his brain this haG
been asked and answered. He was
. going to his father. Not to seek I,
change the stern decree, not to annu
those bitter phrases-"his dissolute ca
reer, the memory of his misspen
YOUTH Only to ask his forgiveness
and to make what reparation was pos
sible; then to go out once more to tn
world to fight out his battle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-23

dark wainscoting. tie. marble mantel-
piece, dim paintings en- the wall and a
great brass baInd Korean desk in a
corner. What black thing had once
happened in that room? What face
had once looked at him from that
wheel chair? 1t was an old face gray
and lined and passionate, his father
doubtless. He told himself this calmly.
with an odd sense of apartness.
The others glance followed his pride
fully. '.It's q fine property" he said.
"The owners an invalid, l hear, with
one leg in the grave. He's in some
sanitarium and can't get much good OF
it. Nice pictures, them.' he added.
sweeping a candle round. THAT'S a
good locker over there. Must be the
old mans daughter, l reckon. Well.
III go and get you finger or two to
keep the frost out Of your lungs. It'll
be cold tonight. Make yourself at
home" The door closed behind him.
The man he left was trembling vio-
lently. He had scarcely reDressad a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-23

about white house. He hesitated
moment. then walked slowly up the
broad. weed grown garden path to-
ward its porch. In the half light the
massive silver door plate stood out
clearly. He had known instinctively
that that house had been part of his
life, and yet tremor caught him as
he read the name-Stires. The intui-
ton that had bent his steps from the
ntreet. the old stirring of dead memory
had brought him to his past at last.
This house had been his home.
He started. A man in his shirt
sleeves was standing by 4 half open
side door regarding him narrowly.
Thinking of buyingI" The query
was good humoredly satiric. "Or may
be just looking the old ranch over with
view to Il shakedown"'
The trespasser smiled grimly. 1t
was not the first time he had seen that
weather beaten face "You have Civ
On up surgery as a profession, l see"
| he said.
The other came nearer looked at
him in a puzzled way. then laughed.
IF II isn't the cove we picked up on
b, the railroad track" he said, dog and
all! l thought you We're far down the
coast, where it's warmer. Nothing
much doing with you, eh:"
! Nothing much" answered the man
he addressed. Others might recognize
him as the black sheep, but this non
descript Waterman whom chance had
set here could not. He knew him only
as the dingy vagabond whose broken
head he had bandaged in the box car.
I'm in better luck" went on the
man In shirt sleeves. 81 struck this
about two months ago as gardener
first, and now I'm kind of sort of a
Waterman. They gave me bunk IN
the summer house there"-he jerked
his thumb backward over his shoulder
but l know game worth two OF
that for these cold nights. I'll show
you. l can put you up for the night,
he added. IF you like"
The wayfarer shook his head. 81
must get away tonight, but I'm much
Obliged"
Haven't done anything. have your
asked his one time companion curl
ously. You didn't seem that sort"
The'bearded face turned away. I'm
not wanted by the police, no, but Tn
on the move. and the sooner take the
trail the better. l don't mind night
travel"
you'd be better for rest" said the
Waterman. but you're the doctor
!, Come in, and We'll have nip of some
I thing warm anyhow"
His guest followed him into spa
cious ball, scarce conscious of what ht
did. A double door to the left was
shut, but he nevertheless knew perfect
ly that the room it hid had tai
French window letting on to garden
where camellias had once dropped liz,
blood. The open door to the right lei
!, to the library.
There the yellow light touched til,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-23

the mountain where once more the one
time partner of Prendergast stood on
the threshold of the lonely cabin, senti-
mel over. the mounds of yellow gravel
that marked his toll.
The returned wanderer had met with
distinct surprise in the town. AS he
passed through the streets more than
one had nodded or had spoken his
name, and the recognition had sent a
glow to his cheek and lightness to
his step.
Since the daring feat in the automo-
bile the tone of the gossip had changed.
His name was no longer connected
with the sluice robberies. The lucky
find, too, constituted material boom
for Smoky Mountain and bettered the
stock in Its hydraulic enterprises. and
this had been written on the credit
side Of the ledger. Opinion. SO all DOW
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-23

comfOrt-that lie
had known at the last and had for
given Hugh. OF this she could assure
him when he returned. for she could
not really belieye-so deep is the heart
of woman-that he would not return.
In the days of vigil she had found re-
lief in the rough, hard work of the mall
let. None had intruded in that out Of
the way spot, save that one day Mrs.
Halloran. led by curiosity to see the
grave of the rich man whose within it
had been to be buried on the mountain
side, had found her at her work, and
her Jessica had pledged to silence. She
was no fool. was Mrs. Halloran, and
to learn the name of the dead man was
to put two and two together. Her
motherly heart Ove-fowed to the girl
who worked each day at that self APP
pointed task. Only the afternoon be-
fore Jessica had finished carving the
words on the base of the statue on
which the look of the startled man
was now resting: II will arise and go
unto my father"
The gaZer turned from the words,
with quick question. to the mound.
He came close and in the fading light
looked at the name ON the low head
stone. So he had come too late! II
he could only have learned the truth
learlier. II he might only put back
the hands of the clock!
Hours went by At length he rose
to his feet. his limbs cramped and stiff
)ened. and made his way back to the
lonely cabin ON the hillside. There
he found fuel, kindled blaze in the
| fireplace and cooked his frugal supper
He thought of the losing battle he
had fought there once before, when
tempest shrieked without-the battle
which had ended Ia defeat He
thought Of the will he had seen. now
sealed with the great seal of death.
He was the shorn, beggar, she the ben
leficiary What duty she had owed his
father was ended now. Desolate she
might be-in need of a hand to guide
and guard-but she was beyond the
reach OF penury. This gave. him a
sense of satisfaction. Was she there