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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

The young man who sets out to be
the architect of his own fortune must
not scorn to be the bricklayer and
hod carrier as well-Westley.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

There is no Safer Remedy for n Cough,
or throat trouble than Browns Bronchial
Troches." rs cents a box. Sample free.
John /. Brown 81 Son, Boston, Mass.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

WHY suffer with eye troubles, quick re-
lief by using PETrII'S EYE SALVE, 25c.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

You might say of legal wedding.
Certainly knot"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums reduces in
Illumination, aays pain, wind collie. 25c bottle.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

Less than pint of whisky may
make a peck of trouble.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

The words coined in the mint do noe
increase our vocabulary
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

The more a girl smiles the less she
means it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

A happy medium ought to make
good at a spiritual seance.
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Imnortanf TO Mothera.

Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

ONLY ONE "BROMO OUININE"
That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look roi
the signature of t. w. GROVE. Used tho Word
over to Cure Cold In One Day. 25c.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

In Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
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So! And
aEH.

So! And
"Sir Agernon A1wyn presents his compliments Lord
Rock and Sir Winslow Sharper and he will be glad
at AIwyn Hall this evening when satisfy
any claims against his brother to the full his
Sir Agernons fortune.
Things are about black they be-and 1 don't
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

see a streak of liAht-if only,
Lucy hadn't thrown me over
I'm glad / didn't go to
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

Signature s1ats t1o &zHzzzzZM
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
MOTHERS AND HUSBANDS.

The following may be little exag-
gerated, but is worth thinking about.
Once | was young, now | am old,
and have never seen girl that was
unfaithful to her mother that ever
came to be worth one eyed button
to her husband. 1t is the law of
God. 1t isn't exactly in the Bible,
but it is written large in the miserable
lives of many unfortunate homes.
am speaking for the boys this time.
If any of you chaps ever come across
a girl that, with face full of roses
says to you as you come to the door:
II can't go for thirty minutes yet
for the dishes are not washed" you
wait for that girl. You sit right down
on the doorstep and wait for her, be-
cause some other fellow may come
along and carry her off, and right
there you lose an angel. Bill Arp.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
SAFE AND SURE.

No class OF Investment is SO alb
solutely safe as that of good real, es-
tate. " cannot be stolen; it cannot
be burned up and il bought at right
figures 1t will not depreciate in value.
More money has been made in good
real estate than in any other form of
Investment and when you consider
that nearly three millions Of people
are annually added to our population
competing with you in the purchase
Of homes IN town and on the farm,
you can be sure such competition
will advance real estate values.
Stocks and bonds Of nearly every de-
scrtption may fiuctuate in value ac-
Scording TO the purpose Of speculative
manage rs while real estate possesses
staple, Intrinsic values which can.
not be manipu lated and yields i fail
return upon investments Ia addition
20 the ~ yance ia the market price.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
latter city is the fastest growing city
an the American continent today.

latter city is the fastest growing city
on the American continent today.
Cold weather means good health,
energy, thrift and prosperity the
world over. A warm climate means
Incidence, and this brings disease,
and ignorance and dishonesty. Next
co has a nice warm climate, but no
one need ever expect to see that
country compare with Canada for
prosperity, progress and wealth.
A line drawn east and west from
the southern point of Illinois leaves
SO of the 35 largest cities in the Unit
ed States north of such line and only
two south of the line.
Such states as Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi so years ago had 10
times the population of Iowa, while
today Iowa exceeds the population of
any southern state excepting the en-
pire Of Texas.
The person who figures on warm
climate being favorable to growth
and prosperity must figure contrary
to the history of the world.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
.GROWINGoLD

A little more tired at close of day;
"A little less anxious to have our way;
A little less ready to scold and blame,
A little more careful for brothers.
name;
And so we are nearing the journeys
end,
Where time and eternity meet and
blend.
A little less care for bonds and gold;
"A little more zest in the days of old,
A broader view and a saner mind,
And little more love for all man
kind;
And so we are faring a-down the
way
That leads to the gates Of better
day.
Course can repeat the minister's
text, said q little fiye-year-old who
had just returned from church. He
| got up and rubbed his hands together
and said. Many are cold, but few are
frozen. q Chicago News.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
WEST OF PIERRE.

a ride through the country north
and west Of here gives one an idea Of
what the future of this county is to
be. Large dwellings and out build
ings, large fields Of all kinds of grain
have sprung up as if by magic during
the past year. We examined several
fields Of corn and believe that an es-
Innate OF fifty hush Gig per acre ia
none to9high. In all cases we found
that the farmers who had taken parti-
c.llar pains to pillow deep had the
best crops. A few more years OF
development like the past two and
land n this vicinity will be selling
for $50 per acre. Hayes Homestead.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04

General Lease Notice

Notice is hereby given that all of the Unbiased
school and endowment lands in the counties here
matter named will be offered for lease at public
auction, at the front door of the court house In
the several counties on the 30th day Of March
1909 between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. ana
o'clock p. M, to-wt:
Bon Homme Brookings, Brown, Bruie. Buffalo
Butte Campbell, Codington, Custer, Daylson
Deuel. Fall River, Faux, Grant, Hamlin, HAND
Hanson, Harding, Hughes, Hutchinson, Hyde
Lake, Lawrence, Lincoln, Lyman, McCook
Moody, Pennington. Perkins, Potter, Roberts
Stanley, Suy Turner, Walworth and Yankton
Tripp county having been attached to Gregory
county for leasing purposes, the school lands in
said county will be offered for lease by the audi
tor of Gregory county at Fairfax on the Both day
of March, 1909 The leasing date in all other
counties will be advertised later.
Dated at Pierre this Goth day of January. 1863.
o. C. DOKKEN,
Commissioner of School and Public Lands.
J29-9t-M25
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
MARY's LITTLE FARM.

Mary had little farm
AS level as the floor;
She placed on it a fancy price,
And struggled to get more.
She kept the land until one day
The country settled up,
And where a wilderness had been
There grew bumper crop.
Then Mary rented out her land
She would not sell you know,
And waited patiently about
For prices still to grow.
They grew as population came,
And Mary raised the rent.
With common food and raiment now,
She could not be content.
She built her upa mansion fine,
Had bric-a-brac galore
And every time the prices rose
She rose the rent some more.
What makes the land keep Mary sop
The luckless people cry;
Why Mary keeps the land you know z
The wealthy ones reply.
And 50 each one of you might be
Wealthy, refined and wise
II you would only buy some land
And hold it for the rise.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04

NATURAL GAS
Petroleum Oil and Natural Gas in Album
dance. These Resources Alone
Would Build 4 Great
CITY Here.

From Pierre Rustler.
Every deep well put down here in
Pierre finds a good strong supply of
natural gas. This natural gas comes
out with the artesian water and there
can be no doubt but that if we could
go through the artesian basin and
penetrate the water rock beneath
that we would discover an immense
supply Of dry gas and petroleum oil.
There has never been a we'll drill
ing outfit in Dakota that has been
able to penetrate the Artesian Basin
and the rock underneath. They gen
orally claim that they can do this,
but have not the machinery or tools
for doing SO, their business being the
drilling of artesian wells. There are
outfits in the Pennsylvania oil field
where they generally go about 5000
feet for natural gas and oil that could
put down deep holes here and it is to
be hoped that in the near future some
of these outfits can be brought in
here and this great oil and gas field
opened up.
the deepest wells here at Pierre are
about 400 feet, and most of the wells
are only about 1000 feet, but scien-
fists hold that we should go about
1900 feet here to find the real supply
of oil and gas. The altitude here is
about 14O0 fesG above sea level and
oil and gas are generally found with
salt water below the sea level.
One of the greatest coal banks of
the world, as shown on the geological
maps in the records at our national
Capitol, Washington, d. G., is the
one shown as running from Bismark,
N. D., where it crops out as Ignite
coal in the banks of the Missouri,
extending to the southwest thru
South Dakota and Wyoming, Colora-
do and New Mexico.
Petroleum oil is a product from
coal and to the down hill side of this
great coal field which takes in the
western one-third Of South Dakota,
great deposits of petroleum oil are
certainly located.
Natural gas is a product from Pc
troleom oil and wherever gas is found
1t is certain oil exists in close prox-
unity and wherever oil is discovered
1t is also certain that great coal banks
exist to one side, generally where the
land rises higher above sea level.
Dry gas has lately been discovered
in northern North Dakota, east of
Williston and also in southern Cana
da, but indications of oil are not SO
evident there.
Here we have the strongest indica-
tions Of oil in some places cropping
out on the surface ana in other places
tainting the water in surface wells,
and it seems a foregone conclusion
that q great oil field and natural gas
supply is located underneath this
city or close at hand to the north or
west.
An effort is now being made to or
ganize . company to put down a deep
hole 5000 feet, if necessary, here.
This will likely result in great dis
coveries and be followed by great de-
velopments in this Immediate locality
and fortunes will be made by those
who are owning property here when
these come which now seems assured
for the near future.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
SOUTH DAKOTA. CLIMATE.

South Dakota is not 30 cold as New
o. ork state. which il the wealthiest
sstate INT he union saermany is more
prosperous than Turkey OF Italy and
ast tersburg with 800, 600 people
q & miles north Of w innipeg This
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
LOST AND FOUND.
LOST.

LOST.
A rollicking baby with eyes of blue,
Good and happy, the long day through
Warm and rosy, and dimpled AND
sweet,
From her curly head to her tiny feet
FOUND.
A dear little grille with thoughtful
eyes,
Looking with wonder and sweet sur
prise,
On the many new things she sees
each day
Dear little maiden so loving and gay
Oh, dear chubby baby, we loved
you so,
We dreaded SO much to have you GO
But we welcome the grille, and love
her more
Than the precious baby we had be
fore.
New York Observer.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
For SALE.

Lots and 5, Block 3, Hyde's 1st
addition to Pierre.
CHRIS KEYLER,
Nashville Ill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-20

On the grourd floor of the state
louise can be found John Dawson. the
Scotchman. in the office of attorney
for the railroad board. Ascending to
the first story of the big building there
is Dave Leahy, the Irishman, in the
governors office. Dawson is Scotch to
the bone The piper who filled him
self with griddle cakes and played the
beautiful tune that told Lucknow that
the Highlanders were coming to raise
the siege was not more Scotch than is
Dawson He will walk the floor of his
office and tell you of the Macgregors,
and the Bruce and the Wallace, and
the Douglas and all the other gentry
who fought nightly with Claymores.
On the other hand, Dave Leahy will
rear back in his chair and paint a
word picture Of the glories of the r.
ish that would make a Galway man
rub the tears of pride from his eyes.
Somebody told Leahy the other day
about Dawson's propensity to place the
Scotch above all the other nations Of
the earth and Dave snorted with in
dignation.
Scotland was settled by the Irish. It's
q fact In the beginning the first Hib-
ernians came out of Scythia and they
landed on the Irish coast and called
the island Scotia major. Later some
of them went over to Scotland and
called it Scotia minor. OF course the
Scotch are great people. They were
descended from the Irish. I want to
get hold Of John Dawson and John
Macdonald some day and thresh the
matter out with them. There are no
PEOPLE greater, than the Irish. For ev-
cry kiitie that these two Johns can
name who has won fame in the great
arts of peace and war I'll name two
Irishmen. Scotland indeed. I'll admit
il is a great country. but it is not to
be named with the Emerald isle"
There will not be dull moment when
Dave and the two Johns get together.
A Harper county man wrote Secre-
tary of State Denton this week to urge
him to make a protest to Washington
about the cruel manner in which the
Mexican government is dealing with
the Yaqui Indians in deporting them
from their old reservation. Mr.. Dem
toms constituent is sore about it, and
from the tenor of his letter he expects
Denton to get Uncle Sam to slug Diaz
on the jaw for abusing these aborigines.
Tom Botkin states that Denton left
the state house Friday with a gun over
his shoulder and a belt full of ammu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-20

the aforesaid ten years, was accom-
piished only by the "skillful jugglery
of the trainers of this law" (The new
law
Don't See How Duty Raises Prices
With reference to the duty on lum-
Der affecting the price Of lumber to
any material, or any, extent this
of protective tariff. So long as pro-
lection is the policy of this govern
ment lumber certainly should receive
it's proportionate share. Under the
Dingley bill the average rate of duty
on all dutiable commodities was about
43 per cent. On lumber it was less
than II per cent. Under the new
will be less than IN per cent. while
the average rate probably will be over
40 per cent.
We do not see how 71a per cent
duty on lumber can appreciably affect
the price of lumber to the consumer,
especially after it has been handled
from one to three times. and these
handling charges. transportation
charges, etc. have been taken into
consideration, as they must be by the
dealers in figuring the price of their
stock.
We hope that the above may be of
some use to you. At any rate. it may
offer some suggestions which you can
enlarge upon and bring out more fore
IDLY and clearly than we have been
able to set them forth. If we can be
of further service to you in this or
any other matter please do not hest
tate to call upon US.
Again regretting the delay in re-
plying, we are, very truly yours,
J. E. DEFEBAUGH,
Editor American Lumberman. Chi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-20

pilation of the thirteenth census pop
ulation data have been adopted by Di
rector E. Dana Durand.
The card punching machines to be
used at the present census differ very
radically from those employed before,
and will, it is believed, not only in
crease the rapidity of the work but
tend to reduce the number of errors
on the part of the clerks doing the
punching. With the old punching
machine, if an error was made in
single item, even though it might be
the last item to be punched on the
card, the entire card had to be de-
stroyed. This consumed time and also
resulted in temptation to the opera
tor to let the error go uncorrected.
The semi-automatic electrical tabu-
lating machines to be used at the
present census will also result it is
believed, in a material increase of
rapidly and reduction of errors. This
is principally brought about by the
fact that the results of the count for
each unit of area are automatically
printed, whereas formerly, they were
registered on dials from which read
ings had to be taken and recorded by
hand. The reading of these dials took
a large amount of time, during which
the machine was idle, and inaccurate
readings were not uncommon.
All on SmaIf Card.
The new method of punching and
tabulation employs small manila
card, about by inches in size, to
represent each individual composing
the population April Is, 1910 For
this purpose alone. 100000 cards
have been purchased. A gigantic card
index system indeed.
In collecting the data, a schedule
is carried by the enumerators and
questions in it concerning each indiv-
fdual will call for the name rela-
tionship to head of family, color, sex,
race, age, conjugal condition, place of
birth, place of birth of parents num-
Der of years in the United States. cit
izenship, occupation, whether or not
employer or employe, and, if en-
ploye, whether or not employed at the
date of enumeration. and the number
of months unemployed during the
preceding calendar year whether or
not engaged in agriculture. school at
tendance, literary, and tenure OF home
and. whether or not survivor of the
Union or Confederate army or navy.
Taking the card as the representa-
tive of an individual. it then becomes
necessary to transfer to the card, all
the data on the schedule referring to
that Individual. This is done by
punching out the corresponding sym
bols, leaving open holes at those
points.
The semi-automatic electrical
punching machine, which will be used,
is built on the plan of a typewriter,
with a keyboard very similar in ap-
pearance. but having $40 different
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-20

keys. The machine. in its operation,
differs from a typewriter in most
important respect. As is we'll known,
in operating the typewriter, every
time a key is depressed, a letter is
printed and If a mistake is made, the
letter must be crossed out or correct
ed, with considerable loss of time and
disfiguring of copy. The new card
punching machine obviates this as the
operator, instead of punching one hole
at a time, can depress into position for
are necessary to record the required
facts. Each key is Independent of all
the others and can be released at will.
Work of Three Clerks.
With the old machine, a skiIlful
clerk could average 5000 cards day.
The new machine will enable an
in a day by one operator.
Another time and money saving
feature of the new machine is that
the feeding of cards to the punching
keys is entirely automatic. As the
blank cards are fed in from the rear
of the machine, the punched cards are
dropped into magazine in front
While the operator is punching a
card, the machine also, by means Of a
gang punch" is automatically apply
ing mark or designation to the card
number representing all of the popu-
lation in particular census area,
whether city, county or state.
The census bureau has ordered
5000 of these new punching ma
chimes, and it is calculated that the
facts on the population schedules can
be transferred to cards by a double
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-20
Rough
Timber
Total for 10 years. .s2S1. 369.S1 sS3 1914. 1872 Il
FIGURES to Bear Out Facts,

Do those figures leave any question
about the insignificance of the item
under discussion? Just for the sake
of argument. granting that the duty
on hewn timber was increased so per
cent over that of the Dingley bill, and
suppose it had been in effect during
the ten years quoted above, that so
per cent increase would have amount
ed to $6.476.S9 during those ten years,
while the decrease in amount OF duty
collected during that period on rough
lumber, IL the Is cents thousand de-
crease under the new law had applied
would have been $4,443 425.57! And
yet it would appear that the gentle
reader is trying to be made to swal-
low an inference that the rate on lum-
Der has not been greatly reduced! And
again, all this wonderful Increase that
would have amounted to the sum of
ss-476.S9 had it been In effect during
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-20

oAAl1I VI SilpiOyeS DIT the rate OF ABOUT
25O, 900, 600 cards a month.
Ready for Tabulating Machines.
After the cards have been punched
and verified, they are ready for the
new semi-automatic electrical tabulat-
ing machine, similar in many respects
to the one used in the Twelfth census,
which was invented by Herman Hol-
lerith. 1t is in the form of a heavy
cabinet, from the front of which ex-
tends a movable arm or lever attached
to the outer extremity of which is a
pin box" containing a pin for each
possible hole in a card.
Each tabulating machine can, if
necessary, carry so counters, but it is
believed that the tabulations neces-
sary viii only require about 20. as
that represents approximately the av-
erage number of facts punched into
each card.
A speed of $4,000 cards tabulated
per day on one of these machines
should be reached easily. Contracts
have been let for the building of 100
style machine averaged about 10000
cards owing to the fact that the
counters had to be read by the opera
tor and the results recorded by hand,
method productive of error and loss
of time.
After the transfer of information to
the cards has been completed, the
schedules are filed away in a fire.
proof vault for permanent preserva-
ton. The clerks handling the cards
can not tell from anything on them
the names or addresses of the indiv-
iduals for whom the cards stand. so
that in the tabulation and subsequent
statistical processes the personal ele-
ment is lost and the card is known
only by a number. After the census
is over the cards are boxed and filed
away in a great room.
One &Other machine is employed in
the work. 1t is an automatic cleo
trical sorter which separates into diff
ferent compartments the groups of
cards arranged with reference to the
character of the. statistical tables for
which they supply the facts.