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PLOUGHING BY STEAM.
Machines Kept Going Night and Day
Turning Up the Prairie Sod.

FAuLKroN, 8. D., June 5.-Climh the
court house tower in Faulkton any OF
these spring nights after the long Dakota
evening has settled into dusk and you
will see a puzzling sight II you are a
stranger. ;
As far az you can see through the thin.
clear atmosphere of the sunshine State
you will discover lights. all moving slowly
hut steadily in straight lines. This
spectacle has TO do with the filing Of the
nations bread basket or the production
Of it's supply Of linseed oil. 1t tells the
first chapter of the story that ends with
the grain elevator in the harvest days.
For every one Of the moving lights
belongs to a plough, or rather 10 a get
Of ploughs, and with each outfit ia u
steam traction engine. Eight. twelve.
sixteen. even twenty ploughs trail the
powerful engine az it moves deliberately
across the prairie. Horses cannot work
twenty-four hours a day, but iron and
teel need no rest. Men can take rest
by working in shifts.
Take out your watch and see how long
it tax es the outfit to overturn an acre
Of sod. 1t should not exceed ten minutes.
To plough the same O Of ground
the old fashioned single plough and the
out Of date team OF horses m ust travel
six or seven miles. according to the width
Of the plough. A few days ago Thomas
Mitchell. driving two rigs OF twelve
ploughs each, broke a full quarter section
in three hours over two days.
II the owner Of the land Is in a par
ticular hurry to get in his crops he will
hitch seeders behind the ploughs and
harrovs behind the seeders, and when
the traction engine has made the distance
he need do no more with his crop until
he drives into IL with his binder.
In Lyman county Ii Ia estima ted that
at least a hundred steam and gasolene
! ploughing outfits are ut work and there
are not less thar thirty in Faulk county.
these steam power rigs have been making
their way Back and forth across the
prairie land. This IL equivalent to saying
that they are producing 5000 acres of
plonshed land every day, .
To-day the man who buys virgin soil
in Faulk or "A similar county doesn't move
onto his land and bring a meagre outfit
Of horses and machinery with which to
til it. He stays OH the old farm further
East or In his town house and hires the
owner OF a steam plough 10 break his
land, seed it with fax n narrow it,
Fla nets tho seller IN average oil 81
a bushel and IL yields about fifteen bushels
TO the acre as q rule. That means n gross
revenue Of SIS an acre. The man who
does the ploughing charges 1850 a n acre,
making for himself about 500 a day az long
us the season lasts. Other expenses should
not exceed $3.50 an acre, 40 hat the
owner 10 pretty sure to realize ~ an acre
from his land, without moving on II or
investing a dollar In buildings or mnchin-
cry or live stock. Flax 70 the usual first
yssr crop,
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active tongued OF the lot announces
in a one that no would dare oontrs.
dict hat nobody q hats on steamers
now. Never heard Of such q thing
she states. What would you want b
wear a hat for?'
A third inquiries, Second class or
s~teerage?- and the rest look impressed
by her intuition and knowledge. 1T
must cost a lot to CO." she comments,
much as Ave hundred dollars. .Yesf
They say the storage is very nice now,
on the new boats" )
This all leads very nicely and easily
to the request for black cherries. and
when you make it you are not surprised
to learn that they have alspecial quality,
better than any you could get in the
other shops. The searcher returns with
n single bunch OF red raspberries and
says they are more fashionable: that
cherries AVE zone out. and when they
had them they couldn't sell them Boz
cause they were very unbeooming,
at il bad luck to wea them. too. Now
a wreath something like this'-the this
IL an herbaceous array OF some seventeen
varieties Of herbs and plants.
You prefer black cherries and your
preference u a storm Of protest. .
You resume your search and finally
come away with two hats. neither OF
which you need or want. and without the
cherries.
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assembled they simply refuse TO do any
thing else but play and howl that new
popular song Of his.
an such cases Of course the song
writer can't come out and beg them to
cut it out. That wouldn't look right.
! SO he has to sit and twiddle his thumbs
and stand for It. Before the blowout is
over they're bound to ask him to play
or sing the fool thing himself. and il he
tries to wriggle out Of doing that. why,
they consider him a sulker.
-Then the monographs OF course get
hold OF the song that has achieved a
hit. and that makes for more gloom on
the part Of the sons writer, gloom, ]
mean. Of another sort han because he
doesn't get n nickel by way OF royalties
out Of the canned music people.
Everywhere he goes. almost, he butts
into a photograph with u horn about
the size Of a tunnel. and as soon as the
photograph wne see him coming
they turn nineteen handsprings to get
out the record on which his song hit
is canned. Then he has to sit or stand by
while the internal thing Is squeaked or
rasped at him.
I'm the course of time the barrel organs
and street pianos get hold of the song
too, and what they do to il is a warning
to the wicked. A song. writer never
knows the depths OF real. sure enough
suffering until he hears one Of his own
20 horsepower street piano. The
song itself as it was written would
be bad enough shot out OF such an instru-
ment OF torture, but after the song has
been Ginneyized and filed full OF those
o%utlandish little %pizzicatti curlycues the
effect Is m%addening.
"A bunch Of %funnyists in this town
once gave poor Paul Dresser a horrible
afternoon. You remember how hack
neyed and SOU soaring Dresser's songs
Two Little Girls In Blue becamel Well.
after IL reached that fiendishly fraZaled
stage and Dresser had come to hate and
loathe and despise 1t 30 venomously that
he could hardly be restrained from fight
ing whenever he heard 1t. q gang OF Ores
ser's running mates put up the job on him
Uhey rounded up down In Mulberry
Bend about forty street piano wops whose
machines had the Two Little Girls in
Blue thing hidden away inside Of EN-:
the govt, and when Paul. a man who
weighed more than 800 pounds, had the
govt. why, he used to sit propped up In
an easy ohair gnashing his teeth and long
ing for people to come and visit him sos
he could kin EN-, .
i odd street pianos in front OF Dresser's
house and had 'en all start Two Little
Girls in Blue together In about forty
and odd different keys and tempos. The
Giuseppes were instructed not to play
anything else but to rattle right along
tilt further orders with Two Little Girls
In Blue
.The humorists seated Themselves com.
fortably nj the second story windows OF
a tidy on the corner across
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GERMAN CURE AT SARATOGA.
Plans for Health Seekers With the Springs
Under State Control.

Under State Control.
When Gov, Hughes signed the bill pro-
! vidipg for a New York State mineral
springs reservation at Saratoga Springs
an important step was taken toward carry
ing out the plan Of introducing the system
followed at German watering places.
In Germany every important mineral
water resort has a system as strict almost
as the political laws OF the country. No
patient who goes to the German spas
wanders about the springs as he likes
or lives his life there according TO the
dictates Of his own fancy. The proprie-
tors OF the German health resorts have
reduced the art Of getting well to a system.
There the waters are taken only under
medical instruction. The patient follows
a mode OF life outlined by his physician.
His method of recreation is laid down by
this same. authority. He arises in the
morning and he lies down at night not
az he Wills but as the physician directs.
When he walks into the dining room of
his hotel he does not wonder what the
chef he's prepared for dinner to suit his
fancy. He knows what he is to eat. His
physician has instructed him.
A couple Of years ago the village Of
! Saratoga Springs sent a representative
with instructions to visit the German
spas, to learn their methods and to ascer-
tain if the German regimen could he made
q possibility at an American resort Upon
this mans report the village laid out
plans along lines substantially the same
as those followed at the European spas
The purchase by the State Of the mineral
springs has given the final impulse needed
in this plan to transplant to American soil
the methods used so successfully at Ger
man watering places.
These cure plans Of course have nothing
TO do with the visitor who comes to Sara
toga for only recreation, rest or pleasure e,
They concern those who are seeking health
and who heretofore have gone TO Euro
pean springs. The central building at the
foreign spas Is a cure house. a public
place where patients meet, talk. listen TO
the band. read and meet Others taking
the same treatment. To supply this in
Saratoga Springs an option has been
obia mod on Richard A. Canheld's club
house, restaurant and Italian garden.
built at "A cost OF over 81 900 900. Here
under the present plans patients will
have a public recreation point,
The scheme also contempiates the pur-
chase OF Congress Spring Park in the
centre OF the village, to be used as an aux
Hilary to the cure house.
Exercise plays n strong part in the cure.
Walking is often and generally pre-
scribed, For the use Of patients n health
map of the village streets IL used. On
this the walks and drives for a radius OF
Ave miles are laid out and numbered.
These walks are recommended by the
physicians according TO the condition
of the patient, Some have n slight in
cline, some are level. some contain n steep
hin -" 'wo ~ - 49, ~ " he ~ q
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any. other continent. Ii was n hideous,
hellish wall as OF 1000. 900 eternaIly lost
and damned souls.
Instantly the awful uproar began
they saw Dresser. whose chair was by
the window Of his second story front
room, yank up the curtain and glare down
upon the street below. He shook hi.
but nix, the Sicilians had their instruc-
tions and they went right IN with some
Of Two Little Girls in Blue
"Ihen Dresser caught sight of his gang
OF cronies lurking at the windows over
the way. and it was something terrible
to listen to the scandalous things that he
beloved at them. After e~Ihausting his
voice Dresser began to throw things at
the hurdy- gurdvers, He had his nurse
fetch him everything in the room that was
loose canes, shoes. wash pitchers, man
telpiece ornamen and everything that
could be pried from whatever fastenings
it had, and he chucked the stuff at the
street pianists.
They lodged the missiles, but they
Girls in Blue 1t was a fine young after
noon for Dresser. all things considered.
and he wouldn't have done anything but
murder the people who framed it on him
If he could nave got hold OF them while
it was going on.
AS ! say, there's no chance for a
song writer to get away from the misery
OF listening to n Of his song hits. A
few years ago l unreeled a ballad-it had
something to do with an apple tree that,
greatly to my establishment and that OF
Egbert Van Alstyne. who wrote the music.
made a tremendous hit. 1t was, as we
considered, about the most inferior
song that we'd ever turned out. but all
the same It was a Knockout.
- hana ma M ainl nf that pnn1 u,ithtn -
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IN PEACHBASKETS
A HI IT FOR BLACK CHERRIES
IN Division STREET.
The tut Rate Millinery n the Enter.
prlsIns SaleswOnen OF the Fast Side
willow Feathers end Gorgeous
Flowers. hut No Fruit to He Had.

The cut Rate Millinery and the Enter.
prlsIns SaieswOmen OF the Fast Side
willow Feathers end Gorgeous
Flowers. but No Fruit to He Had.
Outside a store in Division street you
stop and ask the proprietress il she
happens to have any black cherries to
replace the bunch that has dropped
one by one from the front Of your Fifth
avenue peach basket c%onfection. You
ask it outside because she happens to be
sitting there. huddled up in a wet corner
with a triangular shawl drawn tight
! about her. She has laid n OBTAINING
hand on your arm, which accounts for
Eour choosing that particular shop for
our initial inquiry. She sta rts to answer
our question and then, catching sight Of
silver necklace Of the Oriental make,
grabs it instead.
Must have cost a heap Of money, hey?
Makes Tiffany look like a pawnbroker,"
she says. MY son stubbed his toe an
fell over a piece like that somethin'. only
| II had di'mints in 1t; he put it in his pocket:
thought it was glass until he had his
attention called by a police officer to an
sd. in the paper. Worth as much as
yours, | guess. Sweetheart? Better hang
on; they're slippery these days. Must
think heap o you. though. Five hun
bred dollars worth, anyway"
You recall her to the subject OF your
inquiry and point out where the cherries
have fallen from their high estate.
BLACK churries? My. we've got heaps
Of en- She looks critically at those
remaining. None as cheap as them,
though. Guess you got 'em over on
Grand street. Lots Of people make
that mistake; think there amt any
millinery except that, and it amt got
any more style to It than II you got it on
Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn"
She leads the way through an avenue
Of millinery boxes piled high on either
side to the rear Of the small store, The
floor is covered with excelsior and a
clothesline carries a horizontal decora-
ton Of pendant hats. You catch an
accompanying murmur Of remarks as to
the superiority Of her cherry harvest
over any in the neighborhood.
Finally her advance is stopped by the
seated figure OF a solitary man who ia
placidly chewing gum or something else
and has a proprietary air as he views
bis picturesque surroundings.
Pop, these ladies want some black
churries. | told EN- we had some fine
ones, but they'd have to pay; we don't
keep no cheap goods"
Pop looks his customers over. changes
the location Of the source of his serenity
and looks languidly at the shelves and
counters. where a meagre supply of milli-
merry equipment is to be seen.
we amt got no churries,- he replies
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vexatiou Of the rest.
Them Polish women all want little bits
Of hats. They've worn EN- all their lives
and their grandmothers wore EN-. and
now they come over here and expect to
wear EN-. We'd look grand, wouldn't
we, selling small hats with the present
style!- She clicks the doors OF the glass
cases and turns an inquiring eye.
You murmnr something about black
cherries. a little shamefacedly it must
be confessed.
The look Of contempt Is now directed
toward you. Possibly she suspects your
nationality. 1t couldn't be more patron
izing il she knew 1t.
Black what, ma'am? Oh, cherries. y
She turns toward the corps. She wants
black cherries"
They repeat it together. looking as il
you had said that you would like o dozen
or so green pumpkins. life size. "She
wants black cherries"
Fruits gone out. Nobody don't wear
1t no more" she says.
You apologize at length, explaining
that Il you had not got used to black
cherries by q month or SOS wearing you
Of course would not think of obtruding
such q foolish wish. and that to put any
thing except cherries would mean the
entire reconstruction Of the headgeaT.
Get 1t over on Grand street, she de-
mands.
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card nounc that it Is q special sale
and the price is $40.
The invitation is not taken and the
macintosh Is freed by a mastery effort
from the clinging fingers. while it's owner
and her companion saunter by.
-Sightseers!" snorts the proprietress
as she huddles herself anew into her
shawl and her wet corner. Amt buyin'.
just window lockers. Make me tired. a"
She vouchsafes you a parting word Of like
%amiability. If you find churries any
where's it'll be on Grand street. They
keep all the tag ends after the Division
shops get through
You try again further along the block
that is still punctuated here and there by
windows blossoming with all sorts and
kinds of millinery attractions. although a
passerby informs you that since the build
ing Of the new bridge the neighborhood
has rapidly changed and the majority
OF the famous shops Of this sort are seek
ing new quarters in nearby streets. pref
erably Grand. which Is to the Division
street milliner what Fifth avenue ia to the
uptown modiste.
Most Of the owners Of these shabby
looking stores have made money too
he adds. They've been at 1t for years
and are shrewd buyers. Lots OF nice
people come here. people from jersey and
The Bronx and Long Island. and they pick
up bargains too. There's been hundreds
Of thousands of dollars made in Division
street millinery in times past, but its day
Is practically over now"
Apparently the little lame girl Of
whom you inquire for black cherries
next does not think 30, She is very
quiet, almost shy in hef manner and has
;ttlo ~ tha onrr1.o,n.a " 81. ..,.i
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Gamekeeper's l:anoNs.

From the London Er'ninV STANDARD,
In olden DAYS the gamekeeppr re-, up his
vermin gaiiows In each OF hts big woods. II
was to his credit TO show that he had killed q
large amount Of vermln: on his gallows he
wrote his wi testimonial. Nearly all the
vermin he killed was duly displayed. Now
the dav OF the gallows IL passing.
Keepers have little time to give TO The dis
play; nor do employers always encourage
It.. No doubt there is a growing feeling
against the destruction OF wild life involved
by the preser walton Of game: the gailows
foster this and lead TO bitter. u often mis-
judged, attacks. Keepers are contentinR
themselves with a modified form OF eallows,
AZ the trunk OF a tree, "a. which the heads.
tails, or claws Of the malefactors are nailed,
Of course small eallows do not speak. Of the
Keepers successful wr wkging In the old
manner Of the old fashiohed, full measure
pattern, but there Is much In their favor
Az one old keeper remarked OF his tree
enough 10 set IN the scent NJ the flowers.
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one another and chorus. as II at rehearsal
Of a Greek tragedy:
They don't like it
Another hat is taken from the array.
this time OF the mushroom kind, with a
purple panache. 1t covers the head OF
the salesgirl who tries 1t on coquettishly;
even her couture fails to prevent the total
eclipse,
Perfectly grand!' shrek the rest Of the
sales corps. .
I'VE don't like IT, say the line Of
shoppers.
7 "They don't like 1t" repeat the visitors
on the row of chairs.
Another hat is tried and another and
Ldnother, with like result.
Finally. without any farewell, the row
turns as If on a pivot and stalks out.
The corps Of sellers watch them and the
head Of the establishment expresses the
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CAN'T ESCAPE his OWN SONG
MISERY OF THE SONG WRITER
WHO MAKES A HIT.

Friends. Street Pianos n Photographs
Hurl 1t At Him-A joke on Paul
Dresser When Laid Up With the Cont
Flight to Europe From . SONG.
There are times when ! wouldn't mind
being deaf said Harry Williams. the
song writer. Il mean the shines when
! have to listen to my own songs.
Not that the songs aren't all right in
their a I'm not knocking them.
They're good enough songs Of their sort,
but other folks can listen to EN- II they
must and will. I'm sick Of them, They
give me the tizzy-wizzy.
Because, you zee these songs are pulled
on me everywhere, and all manufacturers
Of songs have the same miserable ex-
perience. Take the folks that l meet
socially at their homes. here and in other
cities What is the first thing they do
generous souls!-to compliment me?
why, they hustle right over to the
piano and begin to whack out my songs
and to sing EN-. or course l ought to be
pleased when they do this-I've got ia
look pleased anyhow. ought to feel my
self complimented. as they intend.
However ] may look in such circum-
stances, | certainly don't feel happy.
It's up to me 20 smirk and look amiably
self-conscious and fAttered and all like
that, but when | look that way I'm the
most brazen fraud that you ever saw or
heard Of in all your born days.
You see the song writer ~ more or less
bound to become weary OF his songs long
before they are published. He gets tired
OF them in fact often enough while he's
throwing them together. I have heard
TINT there are some we'll known writer's
OF books who refuse utterly to look at
their writings after the stuff is put into
book form. It's the same way with
most song writer's OF my acquaintance,
Including myself.
'h'hesong Of which the writer becomes
weary while he's putting it together
makes a hit after il IL published then the
song writer ia in for it. He'll feel like going
10 81 itzbergen for a few years to get
away from the blamed song that has
made the hit.
III he drops into a vaudeville show he's
bound to hear the thing sung or played
some time or other during the perform
shce ~ he trudges into a music store
one or other Of the clerks Ia bound to
iomr over to a piano and begin TO knock
me tar out Of the air Of the song, with
he pathetic idea that he's making a hit
',th the writer Of the thing.
III he shows up at any little social
ssssut where . bunch Of his friends are
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out a sorawny hand pulls vigorously at
q passing macintosh.
The owner with her companion has
stopped to gaze with awe and astonish-
ment at the single hat in the window. II
Is Of the peach basket variety and It's
trimming resembles a country orchard.
From the base Of silk apples stuffed with
cotton springs a tower Of plumes, and wide
ribbons are tied coquettishly about the
holder, which represents a chin, A pla-
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all flowers now and plumes. you know
Here's some lovely ~layloeks. purple.
You'd have TO pay 500 for a wreath
like that on Fifth avenue. because it's
getting on to the end Of the season an
OF course We don't have the rents here
It's a bargain, | a tell yer, and It d
look lovely with that necklace.
"You don't care for it, you want chpr-
ries? Well. how'd this hat do? It's
Neapolitan and that jet buckle at the
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wearing churries. Pop, you know they
ANT wearing churries. You remember
Abe was in the other day. just back from
Paris. and he didn't see a whole churry
while he was gone"
She follows you to the door and de-
claims persistently on the lack Of UNDER
standing that causes you to prefer to
follow your own bent instead Of her sug-
gestions. However, she regains her good
nature as she takes her chair and putting
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side cost $50 at Wholesale. You can
have it fors4.?5. the whole thing; or here'sa
light blue chip with a bunch OF red feathers
That reds a smart color. amt it?
It's the feathers that make it cost, and
red. too. It's SO but il you tool the bunch
OF and put a ribbon bow there, purple d
be smart on that blue, you could nave it
for s..
you want churries' Why. they amt
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beautiful parts OF the village and sur
Bathing and gymnastio exercise are
important in the regimen Of the health
seeker. Two lighthouses have already
existed in close proximity to the more
important springs. To provide a third
and large bathing establishment, founded
after those in Germany. 500. 900 has been
subscribed. Additions have been made
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GRAND STREET PSYCHES.

at length. Then he resumes his inter-
rupted labors.
The proprietress is perfectly poised
as she listens TO this contradiction of her
assertion. She zigzags her way through
side lanes Of boxes and opens n or two
en- route.
They don't wear churriee no more;
they're all out Of style long ago.
We sold heaps OF en- when they
fnt came in months ago, but it's