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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

Hon. Miles ode, of Des Moines,
states attorney for the anti-saloon
league, of Iowa. arrived in the city
Monday for a visit with his cousin,
Auditor Chas. OGle and wife.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

Eyes tested and glasses fitted by
M. Bryed Wilson, Optometrist, of
Huron, S. D., at Wilson's jewelry
store in Miller, Monday and Tues
day, July 26th and 9th.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

John Wilson, of Howell twp, de-
parts tomorrow for his old home in
Scotland. Mr. Wilson is a pioneer
of Hand county and this is his first
trip back to his old home.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

Mrs w. B. Wilson went to Huron
Tuesday to visit relatives for a few
DAYS. She was accompanied by his
mother, VINO has been visiting here
the past two weeks.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

CAas. and Allie Carroll departed
Wednesday for Seattle, where they
will take in the sights Of the expo
sition. They also intend to stop
off at several other western points.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

Robert Mathews and Miss May
Butler visited with VIM. Butler at
Washington between trains We'd
nesday evening.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

A dance will be given at the skat-
ing rink, July 20, q and p. VOeg-
ellis Harp Orchestra will furnish the
music.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

Clifford & Marley, of Grinnell,
Iowa. we're here this week looking
after their land interests in this
county. This firm is one of the
largest land owners in Hand county.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

Alma Tams returned home last
week from Davenport, Iowa, where
she has been attending Browns
Business college.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

C.. L. Ostrander returned Sunday
from a trip to the Seattle exposition.
Carl expresses himself as well pleased
with the exposition. Mrs Ostrander
will spend another month visiting
friends and relatives in Los Angeles.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

Chas. C~orcoran returned Wednes-
day night from Mitchell, where he
has been attending the races.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

We make buttons send in cloth
stating size wanted.
A. II. Churchill.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
Additional Local

J. B. Morrison made a business
trip to Minneapolis Wednesday.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

Mrs H. Beeby, of Bridgewater.
is visiting her daughter, Mrs James
Bard in the city this week.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15

A. c. Knudtson was in Wessing-
ton last evening on business.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30
A WOODLAND TRAGEDY

HE prayeth best who loveth best.
both man and bird and beast" sung
the wise poet, and there was certain
ly ample opportunity to demonstrate
the truth of his lines in the woodland
retreat occupied by boy Charlie and
myself. No sooner had condescended
to strip off my aggressive individuality
for while, and put myself implicitly
into the general order, and drift with
the ordained arrangement, than the
general order came inQuiringly up to
my threshold and held out paws and
beakS and mandibleS, and wagged tails
as If it carried in its poor, half-de-
veloped consciousness a kindly desire
to renew the paradisaical truce. 1t is
astonishing how quickly the gossip Of
the wood carries. The birds told the
squirrels and the squirrels told the
woodchucks: THAT man and his boy
in the Hotchkiss hut are not killers 1t
is incredible, but true, they haven't
destroyed anything since they ar
rived"
This rumor appeared to have excited
the curiosity of every bug and beast
and creeping thing within half a mile
of us. There was one adventurous
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30

shortened it to Jack" and by that
name he was known in the family as
long as We stayed in the hut. Late
in the fall he had the impudence to
come with companion and make
nest in a corner of the woodshed,
much to the annoyance of Gabe
Hotchkiss, who ranked him as vermin,
and to the standing amazement of the
yellow dog, that could never get it out
of her head that it was not an in
fringement Of her proprietary right in
Charlie.
That this squirrel somehow spread
the news that we were a pair of in
comprehensive and effeminate buffers
who lived on peanuts, without suffi-
cient masculinity to interfere with
anything, and that the whole animal
creation ought to take advantage of it,
l have not the slightest doubt, for it
was not long before a woodchuck came
in the morning and sat up like a kan
CARGO on our wire grass, and tried to
guy us, casting occasional mild and
inquiring glances at our open door,
One Sunday morning Griselle had in
sisted on taking Charlie to church.
She had come in extra muslins, look
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30
KING EDWARDS HEIR
Prince of Wales Taking Keener
Interest in Public Affairs.
Points TO Own Observation-Disclosures
That He Was Kept Too Much in
Background During Queen
Victoria's Reign.

New York.-The increased public
activity of the prince of Wales in re-
cent months has been very evident to
anyone who follows the English press.
With this increased activity there has
come an increase. or perhaps more
correct word would be a growth OF
popularity, which probably pleases no
one more than the king.
A writer whose knowledge or
things is second to none says that he
has the highest authority for declar-
ing that this marked advance in pub
lie Importance of the prince of Wales
is entirely due to the king. The lat
ter recently told the prince of Wales
that though he himself had had to
fulfill much public duty during the life
of Queen Victoria, yet he had been
kept aloof from political and diplo-
matte influence, and it was not until
his accession that he could show him.
self to the empire in his true light. He
does not want this to occur with his
son.
At all times the king has shown
himself most affectionate father, al
ways DESTROYS of having his children
with him. There can be no doubt
that not so long ago the prince of
Wales showed symptoms of that de-
preston which has grievously OPP
pressed his two elder sisters. The
king saw that he needed rousing. At
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30
Solitude"

chipmunk which, having heard these
find out for himself, and being of a
reckless disposition, he sat on our win
dow-ledge one morning, and pushed
his impertinence over the table where
there were some peanuts that Charlie
had left scattered about. We stood
still and watched him, and he sat up
and tasted the new order of nut with
trembling kind of bravado, carrying
away one of them with him to cor
roborate his story, knowing very well
that he would be called liar If there
was a crow about He must have
for the next morning several of them
came to watch him go through the per-
Torrance that he had evidently boast
ed of. He was such a pretty picture
OF tiny electrical energy, and so in
capable of interfering in any way with
our lax duties, that could not find 1t
in my heart to brighten him. This fell
low became quite familiar and visited
US regularly as though he had a per-
feet right to come and go ss he
pleased. Even when the window was
barred with mosquito netting he went
around and came in through the kitch-
en- door, always being rewarded with
few peanuts. If he ever possessed
the quality of shyness he had COM
pletely forgotten what it was. Charlie
and 1. he appeared to look upon in
the light Of creatures created by far
seeing Providence for his own exclu-
sive benefit, and he never failed to
take advantage of the goods that the
gods had generously provided Hav-
Ing at some time called him Jack
o'lantern," with reference to his mar.
velous swiftness Of motion, Charlie
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30

ing very crisp and blossomy. Together
we had polished up the boy, and then
they had gone away hand in hand,
very happy, without even looking back
or giving me thought. Charles last
instruction to me was: Don't forget
to give that apple on the table to Mar
mlon when he comes in, and give him
the other one when he comes back"
This led to the explanation from
Charlie that the animal always carried
the first apple away, and ate the Sec
ond one contentedly on the lawn, be-
cause he had young ones somewhere.
I rolled the two apples out on the
wire grass, took my stick, went of
for a solitary walk and, coming to an
inviting cloister on the edge of the
wood, | sat down under a cedar can
opy to take some deep breaths of Sun
day solitude. The tinkling bell OF the
distant chapel added a faint melan-
choly rhythm to the air as 1t mingled
with the low and inarticulate psalm
that went up from the earth, making
a cathedral of immensely for the ever
lasting worship without words"
Everything was at fest and breathing
TIE Deum
Suddenly there broke in upon it all
the discordant sound of mems voices,
harsh and Earring. accompanied by
eager dog barks-that blend of screams
and yaps that indicates intense ami
NAL excitement, and l started OF to
find out what was the matter. 1t was
not long before l came upon group
OF stalwart young men with their coats
on. working like mad at a stone wall
to get at something hiding therein.
They had with Incredible labor and In
applicable enthusiasm and noise pulled
down about six feet of it, cemented
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30

wormseed showed an average of 1000
pounds to the acre. fetching twice
the net revenue of a cotton crop
sown in similar soil.
Lobelia is another valuable plant.
Many states have put it on the black
list, the laws requiring that it be up
rooted wherever found. 1t is quite
poisonous. but is very efficacious in
certain diseases. The seed fetches
from 10 to 20 cents a pound. Then
there is the burdock. Fully $4,000
pounds of the root of this are import
ed annually into the United States
from Belgium. The native stalk would
bring a good profit to those who would
taAe the trouble to harvest it, as the
root is worth from three to eight
cents pound and the seed from five
to ten cents. Boneset or feverwort,
Unison or stinkweed, pink root and
pokeweed are but a few others of the
medicinal weeds we have so strangely
failed to derive financial returns from.
Some OF the native stun, grown by
the experimental stations of the de-
partment of agriculture, has Melted
more per pound than the imported
products.
Nor are the swamps and lowlands
to be neglected. If farming is to be
made as profitable as possible. The
believing elusive frog may be pressed
into service as a moneymaker. The
average annual catch of these cpl
curean dainties from the marshes,
creeks and sloughs aggregate 5000 900.
We eat more frogs legs in six months
than France does in a year. So large
is the demand that without Ques-
ton the American market would take
at least $1.0O0,O0O in year.
TO begin this industry successfully,
about three acres of land are required.
AS a start one should build single
small pond. about 60x20 feet. where
the eggs may be Matched unmolested.
As for the stock" itself, that costs
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the same time Sir James Reid has
tried to induce the king to shift some
of the burdens of his position onto
other shoulders. "To be Europe's in
ternational minister is sufficient task
for any man getting on for TO-" were
his words.
The king then sent for the princess
of Wales, in whose judgment he has
great confidence, and after a long talk
with her, he told the prince of Wales
that he must henceforth be more in
the public eye. This is the true story
of the evolution of the prince in the
past few months
Like his father, the prince is not
good speaker; but he can say what he
wishes to say, and, If he speaks terse-
ly, it is always to the point, while he
is an exceptionally able man of bust
ness. So far as can be judged. the
princes sympathies are not SO wide
as those of the king, but his interests
are multifarious.
At the present time he is a practical
expert on airships, and of course his
naval knowledge is profound. Probably
no one knows as much about hospital
management as he does, and his re-
cent speech about the Brussels ex-
hibition won marked notice not only
in this country but on the continent.
The prince has been somewhat
troubled by dyspepsia, and for. the
present is not drinking at all with his
food, and only has one whisky after
each meal. He has also restricted
the number of his cigars, which had
been growing excessive. By inclina-
ton his tastes are sedentary, except
that he is fond of shooting, but al
most daily he rides for an hour.
The prince of Wales is going to pay
one of his rare visits to his duchy. the
estates of which are steady increasing
in value. The Duchy of Cornwall COM
prises some 1900 acres in Cornwall.
nearly $4,000 in Devon and 5000 in
Somerset. In addition to the rentals
from these properties there are vari-
GUS mineral and other dues payable
to the duke.
The charter which made the duchy
estates the perpetual property of the
heir apparent to the English throne
was passed in the reign of Edward
Ill, and his son, the Black Prince,
held his court at Restormel castle,
now a mass Of picturesque ruins.
When Queen Victoria assembled the
throne the duchy income was about
212,000. At the date of the marriage
Of Edward VII. in 1863 the amount
- -
year the prince Of Wales received over
100000. The estates are well man.
aged and the duchy authorities are
considered among the best landlords
In the west of England.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30

That five acre lot away off on the
northeast corner of your farm, unfit
for cultivation, too poor for pastur-
age. given over to nothing but weeds
and a sheltered horde of grasshoppers
ana chirping crickets-may be turned
into as profitable a piece of ground
as YOU may have on your whole quar-
ter section.
And those very weeds which in
summer time overrun the little patch
in thick rank growth, impregnating
the air with their strong heavy odor,
from which you turn in disgust, and
in Indignation, too, that these several
acres are going to waste, can be made
the source of this revenue"
So spoke an old botanist to one H.
linois farmer who was grumbling over
a particularly sterile piece of soil, says
a writer in the Pittsburg Dispatch IL
Illustrated Magazine.
And the old botanist spoke truly
For instance: Every year at least
10000 pounds Of digitalis is imported
into this country from abroad Digi-
'N'i' 10 lAiNCl oLily dpplISu ny lHS
medical profession as a remedy in GER
tain forms of heart trouble. The
source of this drug is the common
weed, foXglove, also known by a score
of other names. 1t sells at a good
price, too. Yet none of the home
product has ever been used, despite
the big market for 1t.
The United States department of
agriculture is alive to the economic
value of our despised weeds. The bu-
reau of plant industry has established
stations where several crops of di-
verse species of weeds have been
raised at good profit At the South
Carolina station a plot of American
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30

Trying New VegetabIes.-Interest-
ing tests of new vegetables have been
made by H. B. Fullerton at the rail-
road experiment station in Long Is
land. Mr.. Fullerton carries on a COM
mercial market garden, shipping the
products directly by express to con.
sumers, hence is able to get a variety
OF opinions of the merits and Quail.
ties of the different varieties, taking
into account, also, the productiveness.
He finds the Palmetto asparagus the
same as the Argenteuil and a fairly
rust-proof variety. The Globe arti.
choke he thinks will prove profitable
in competition with importations of
this vegetable. Among string beans
the Green Pod Stringless and Brittle
Wax are favored.
The Fordhook Bush Lima is a IA
vorite shell bean. A good, all-round
table bean is found in Black Redball
Brussels sprouts, especially the i'm.
proved dwarf variety, are recommend
ed as profitable, and affording an in
come after most other crops are done
green cucumber is recommended
Among egg plants the Black Beauty is
considered best.
Golden Queen lettuce is placed at
the head among early kinds, and
Warehead for later. Improved to-
matoes include the Early Pink, Match
less and Dwarf Stone. Golden Ball
turnip is recommended for its deli
cate fiavor.-American Cultivator.
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nothing. The spawn can be found in
ponds and bitches, wherever, in fact,
the matured frogs abound Twenty
or thirty quarts of this will hatch
from 10000 to 10000 tadpoles.
AS the tadpoles begin to turn into
frogs, additional ponds must be avail
to hold the lively youngsters, now too
large and too many for their original
quarters.
Five classes of ponds will eventually
be found necessary; those containing
the tadpoles, the partly grown frogs,
the one year, two year and three-year-
old frogs respectively. The time to mar
ket frog is when he is in his third
year.
AS for food, frogs will eat minnows,
insects, spawn of their own breed, tad
poles and-each other. The frog is an
inveterate cannibal. One man who
attempted the various phases of frog
culture all in one pond found present
ly that a most desperate war of ex-
termination, dictated by the necessi-
ties of gastronomic demands, was be-
ing carried on. After peace had been
declared but several vigorous old bulls
were discovered to survive. They had
swallowed the whole tribe.
From frogs to alligators is not going
so far. And the alligator is we'll worth
investigating, for certainly for those
who know how, he is a moneymaker.
A half-grown alligator will fetch more
in the market than the primest steer
that was ever shipped into the stock
yards at Chicago, Omaha or ST. Jo-
seph. His teeth alone are worth from
two to four dollars a pound. The
legislature of Florida has recognized
the gators commercial value by CIV
ing him closed season against
| hunters.
The sun is the natural agent that
fetches the young from the she'll.
Man has substituted the incubator for
the suns rays and has found the
method most successful. Several al
ligatOr farms already have been es-
! tablished in various parts OF this coun.
| try. Florida, Arkansas and California
all have such farms within their boun-
|
| Springs, Ark. H. ]. Campbell, the pro.
prietor, owns 500 of the reptiles. He
raises them just as a rancher raises
stock for the market. The young and
the eggs find ready sale. One pair
of alligators will breed 200 or more
young in years time.
In the quest for breeding still more
satisfactory draft animals, the bureau
of animal industry, located near Wash.
ington, has produced a curious cross
between the Mexican burro and an
African zebra, presented to Theodore
Roosevelt during his presidency by
King Menelik of Abyssinia. The de.
partment expects to develop an ideal
| breed from the combination. Perhaps
some day, in the near future, too, the
farmer of Missouri will raise his
"burro-zebras just as today he rears
his mules
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-06-30
In the Law.

The client-How much will your
opinion be worth In this case?
The lawyer-I'm too modest to say.
But I can tell you what I'm going
to charge for it-Cleveland Leader.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-11-11
A Clever Acrobat.

A diverting anecdote is told in can
nails Of the Liverpool Stage" of an
unrehearsed episode that occurred al
the Hop, a cheap but popular place Of
entertainment. A troupe of acrobats
were engaged, and one of their num-
Der gave a 'single turn" in which he
displayed his skill as a. champion
weight litter. Somebody, however, on
mischief bent, changed one Of the fif.
ty-six pound weights for one made Of
cardboard. The strong mans vision
was impaired by the loss OF one eye.
but In this instance not unfortunately
SO. He took the first and second
weights, and after having manipulat-
ed them he took the third, the one
made of cardboard. Realizing in an
instant what had been done, he as
quickly decided to turn it to his own
advantage by throwing three ''flip-
TAPS while holding the dummy
weight. he was greeted with per-
feet round Of applause, and the audi
ence declared 1t to be the greatest
feat they had ever witnessed.
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SELLING; QUIT /

I am going west and offer for sale
my dwelling house and AZ lots on
Second st. Good 5 room house, with
basement and with well of fine water
in house. A plastered .shoney house,
Barn with well and chicken houses
and garden, 48 fruit trees, part Of
them just coming into bearing. An
abundance Of small fruit, Al Ever
greens, 5 buternut and 2 walnut trees.
25 roses, many shade and ornamental
trees and shrubs and perennial flow.
ers, and first rate vegetable garden
and lawn. One Of the most desirable
location in the city. Also 100 colonies
of Italian bees.
Two good improved lots east Of
Court house Square.
Store building on First ST., opposite
9. N. depot, size "a K 40, with good
living rooms upstairs and good large
store room below, suitable for bust
ness, with new cement walk and sew
er and water works ready to connect.
Also offer my collection Of wild
birds andmammals, game heads, for
rugs etc. at about the price for mount
ing or less. p. L. BROWN.
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The Distinguished Guest.

Captain Raabe was a man whose
name had weight in the French caval-
ry. He was a tall man, belonging to
the middle aged trooper type. With
military qualities of the highest kind;
he had singular bearing, savage
sort of misanthropy and cynical
tongue. which stood in the way of pro-
motion. When he was in the Sixth
lancers, on garrison duty at Com
mercy. one of his comrades brought
his father to dine with him at the
officers mess, man of humble posi-
ton and unpretentiously dressed. Cap
tain Raabe, considering that this
guest had not been fifty received, gave
expression to his opinion, saying that
if the executioner of Commercy had
come in evening dress he would have
had better reception. The officers
demurring. he made no rejoinder, but
shortly afterward came to mess with
a guest whose dress was irreproach-
able. Every one lavished attentions
on the unknown. When dinner was
over Captain Raabe, raising his glass,
proposed the health of 1.-The execution
er of Commercy.''
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-11-11
arget Work
OF Uncle Sans
Big Ships

UHEsE are the days when Fa-
Their Neptun, is nursing se-
= we're he;,dache and the mer-
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-11-11

the greatest ever seen in this or any
othr country. Horses, whose lineage
dates back into the dark ages will be
seen in the ring beside the most
splendid specimens of the English and
Scottish types, whose equals have
never before been brought together in
such numbrs in the history of the
show ring. The number of exhibitors
in the sheep department exceeds that
of any previous year, and in quality
this exhibit will far surpass any
thing ever seen here in the past, as
the entries show them to contain
some of the choicest importations
made to this country in recent years.
In the swine department all the lead.
ing types will again be represented
and the quality will be superior to
that of any show ever seen on this
continent. All these and many other
new features give promise of making
the coming exposition the greatest in
the history of this splendid series of
events, and no one, be he ever so dis.
family connected with livestOck-the
right arm of our basic industry, az
riculture-can afford to miss this ex.
ceptional opportunity for education
entertainment and a pleasure trip in
one.