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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04
SIGN OF THE FUTURE.

Estherville Enterprise: There is not a
happier man on earth than prosper
Gus farmer Here where seasons are
favorable, where the soil is the best
and most productive and where irriga-
ton is not necessary is a little paridise.
Few living in this beautiful state realize
the great future that awaits. Think of
the remarkable growth in the last twen-
ty years, and then gain an insight into
the great future The next twenty
years will see farms cut up into little
tracts and farmed as farms should be
farmed. Now enough goes to waste on
farms every year to feed multitudes of
people. When farming is reduced to a
science and the farms are well stocke q
then the farms will bring wonderful
interest on investment. Dairying is
the salvation of the farmer.
In a few years many of our citizens
who are now going to other states will
cast longing and lingering glances back
to their dear old home, they will wond-
er why he left such a magnificent state.
The present day prosperity of the
thrifty farmeris but sign of the. fut-
ure
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04
EXPLANATION NEEDED.

Fremont Tribune: A few days ago
the weather bureau forecasted storm
of unusual proportions that would
sweet over the entire country from
west to east, during the past week.
It's exact movement was given and so
many days in advance of schedule
that we said "That's business; that s
weather predicting of the proper kind,
for it gives us ample warning. 1t is
pleasure to have storm under such
auspicious circumstances But we
are all bitterly disappointed. The
storm does not come. Instead there
is nothing but exquisite Indian sum
mer, golden, hazy mellow. What eX-
cuse can the weather bureau offer?
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04
KNOWLEDGE MEANS SUCCESS.

In these days of new methods and
modern development there are great
possibilities, but at the same time It.
is easier than ever before to fall be-
hind the procession and become :
chronic tail-ender. Carelessness and
indifference have to pay severe penal
ties. There has never been time
when the demand for brains was keen
er or rewards for ideas more substan-
tial than they are today. The high
tension of our civilization is felt In
every branch of, intellectual effort,
and the fight for success calls more
and more for the expert and the spe-
cialist. This is the result of the a.
mazing complexities of modern civil
ization. President Eliot, in q recent
address, directs attention to the mar
velous change which has taken place
in the production and business, max
ing necessary the creation Of the
school Of business as q remarkable
sort of climax of the revolution in
organization of American industri eS.
That business men should demand
the trained product Of this school 10
significant sign of changed stand
ards. 1t is not SO long ago that the
practical business men turned up his
nose at the college graduate; now Ne
is finding out that he cannot got
trained men fast enough to satisfy
the demand. Business is coming
more a battle of brains, III which
training is a big factor of success.
AS time passes, the Indifferent man
is more likely to be only botched
job at the best.
To one in the midst of this indus
trial and business revolution, IL ii
difficult to appreciate the marvellous
changes to methods and conditions
which have taken place in the past
fifty years. The entire world has
been condensed and energized bys
steam and electricity. Railroads,
steamship, telegraph, telephone. and
q host Of other inventions OF moder n
Industry have given q new reading to-
the gospel of the brotherhood Of man
and the new era Of progress is only8tn
it's dawning. Even In agriculture. J.
the Oldest industry In the world, the
revolution is manifest. Nothing II
done as it was forty years ago.
Men who drift along with no am bf-
tion to accomplish results men who
simply trust to llck-soon becoms
only driftWood. The time when the
dividing line between success and
failure is wider than 1t formerly was.
and ii one man knows more than
another it is because he has taken
care to learn more. Nobody, knoWs
anything at the beginning all know
ledge must be acquired. The man
who has no ambition for knowledge
and skill is to be pitied. His future
Is not bright.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04
RIVER Dixie TO BE BUILT.

The county commissioners have let
the contract for the construction of
the first dixie to be built in the state.
1t will follow the course of the Yer
million river above Centerville and
will protect about l 900 acres which
have previously been oyerhowed each
spring. The levee will be from three
to sight feet high and will cost about
S $1,000. Survey for this work was
made by government surveyor a
year ago, and if this first dixie proves
successful similar embankments will
probably be built farther down the
river in Clay county, where thousands
of acres are rendered valueless by the
floods each spring.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04
ISOLATED TRACTS SELL WELL.

At the land office in this city
Wednesday, several isolated tracts of
land in Stanley county were offered
for sale at auction. and on some of
them there was spirited bidding, one
tract near Manila being bid up to
ss.s5 an acre. Other tracts were
sold at prices ranging from 50 30 an
acre up to S4.2o an acre, These were
all cash sales in section of the state
where the land lay open for entry for
many years, with no one thinking
enough Of it to attempt filing tees up
,f,n it 9Esl lll.8 H.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04
THE FARM OF THE FUTURE.

Provisions are becnming so high in
price that the stockmen are asked to
raise more cattle, and the farmers to
raise more grain and produce, in order
to keep the world from resorting to half
rations. The condition is an unusual
one.
A thousand men are meeting this
week at Billings, Mont, not to talk
politics nor seek office not to give
signs or exchange passwords, but to
consider seriously the way to get more
and better acres for the American
farmers.
1t is pointed out that production
of foodstuffs is not keeping pace with
prod' ction Of consumers, The wheat
crop is good, but the crop of children
and children is better. Presently
there will be SO many mouths to feed
that Uncle Sam will be looking else
where for supplies, mayhap not find
ing thdm at all
To put off this evil day as long as
possible is first in the minds of those
who meet at Billings, for the fourth
dry farming congress.
More acres-a familiar cry which
forms the basis of every new land
rush. 1t is back of the big govern
ment lotteries with raw praries as
the PRIZE.
But to the wertern farmers more
acres just now means raising wheat.
corn and cotton on land formerly giy-
en- over to the coyotes and the COW
boys. A big ranuh doesn't stand
long before that propaganda. Like
mushrooms there now appears the
little farm home with cottages, gar
dens and groves; then comes the one
room red school houses on the hill
tops,
Better acres--also an old problem
never quite solved. By tillage, won
ders have been accomplished. The
kind that is used is called scientific
soil culture by Campbell, the pioneer
farm investigator, who has shown
how to make the acres produce 25 to-
so per cent more on an average. This
is not only dry acres, but all sorts Of
acres, unde best conditions as we'll as
worst. It's all in the knowledge Of
how not to waste water if water ID
scarce, and it may be ditch water or
rain water.
Scientific soil culture, tillage, plow-
ing at the right time, packing the
ploWed soil, stirring the surface, fre-
quent cultivation, biennial cropping,
seed selection, acclimation of crops
these are Transforming the half de-
serts of the world. Tt means more
and better acres; acres that have lain
idle for centuries put under the plow,
and acres only half used made to
yield their limit.
And the best Of it is that all this
advance has been by reason Of the
diligence and the genins of plain and
practical farmers whose only labora-
tory has been right out in the open
fields.
A Japanese bank in California will
barely pay out Is cents on the dollar !.
Excessively initiative people, those
Japanese.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

Eastern educator thinks "Thou
Shalt Not Drink should be added to
the ten commandments. If the pro-
hlbltion wave keeps on we won't need
the amendment.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

President Taft didn't mean it when
he said that in four years he will step
down and out. That would leave
many without an occupation.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

Jack Johnson and James j Jeffries
(the negro insisted that as present
champion his name should go frsD
signed articles in New York to fight
forty-tive or more rounds to a finish
not later than July 5, 1910, before the
club offering the best financial induce
ment, the winner to take side bet of
$4,000 and IS per cent of the purse
the loser to take 25 per cent,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

Five thousand girl necktie makers
are on strike in New York. 1t ap-
pears to be prosperous business,
but the proprietors are opposed to di :
viding any of their prosperity with
the girls The ties are made from rem
nants and odds and ends, but they
bring a good price when they reach
the consumers.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

The st. Paul Pioneer Press thinks
that Xmas will fit the case better
than Xmas the coming Christmas
prices have gone up SO high.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

One load of 200 bushels of flax
was hauled by a traction engine from
the Brookings farm in Sully county
to the Gettysburg market and brought
the owner $1.55 bushel. This was
a good sized marketing, but other
loads of grain from the same farm
this year have netted the owner
practically as much.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

Overin Spain Alfonso and the rest
are trying to prove an alibi in the Fer
rer tragedy. Probably trying to work
out theory that Ferror Drained him
self by pounding his head against a
cream puff when the reactionaries
weren't looking,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

The anniversary of the surrender
of CORVALLIS recalls an impression
formed in our school days that this
military gentleman to begin with was
hopelessly unfortunate in the choice
of a name.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

The government has caused to have
placed in the United States land
office notice for bids for surveying
two townsites in township 6 north,
range east, and township I south,
range 3 east.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

Federal regulation Of corporations
has been advocated upon sound prin-
ciples, but now and then it is demon
strated that the hand of the govern
ment is still very weak because it's
machinery for applying the law is
very slow in movement. The situa-
tion reminds us of the fellow who
wanted laws to prohibit the sale Of
intoxicating liquors, but was opp0s-
ed to their enforcement.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

When Hartman died his fortune was
estimated at 100 millions. It's now
given out that this was too low and
that the estate is really worth 267 mil
lions. from which the income is nearly
a million dollars month. This fortune
was accumulated by Mr.. Hartman in
the last ten years of his life, which
causes an eastern newspaper to ask if
there is a man in the world who can
honestly earn 25 million dollars in a
year.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

The registration for the opening f
the Cheynne and Standing Rock lands
closed at midnight last Saturday
night with 81, 900 registrations as
with 5000 for the Rose
bud in 1904, and ia, 900 for Tripp
county last fall Thee lack o inter
est is great disappointment to the
towns.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

The fourth assistant postmaster
general has issued an order perm it.
ting localpostmasters to suspend rur-
al free mail delivery thirty days when
the carrier reports habitual neglect
of roads by any patron, overseer or
trustee. If the road is not made good
within thirty days the local postmast-
er is requested to recommend the bad
ly kept potion be permanently with
drawn from the route.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

In some quarters it is suggested that
The Panama canal, instead OF being for
tilted, should be kept forever as neutral
ground in time of war. In other words,
it would be closed to our fleet just when
it wants to get somewhere in a hurry.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

Topeka Capital: About the most
tremendous human interest" docu
ment going just now is Judge Zen
Lindsey's Autobiography appearing in
Everybody's Magazine. 1t beats any
of the "thrilers' of fiction. Governor
Fort of New Jersey, who knows some
thing about similar conditions in his
state, declares his pelief in Lindsey S
story, while Lincoln Steffens begs
everybody to read it. In spite of tri-
bulatons, Judge Lindsey has
accomplished something great in Den
yer, which is the model, in fact, for
efforts along similar lines everywhere.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

=
The other day the Methodist Minis
ter's association of Indiana adopted
in resolution censuring Governor
Marshall of shat state for saying:
"When the average man joins a
church Mrs. Millionaire looks at
him with turned up nose and says;
lie 81. 81. IL my pew; he does
not belong to my set.' When the
average woman joins a church her
standing in the church depends on
the cut of her gown or the style Of
#her hat II the church of the living
God you'd get back to when every
man and every woman was q brother
or q sister the churches of this state
would soon be filed with commune
no, 3s93sa ssa
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-04

A Japanese bank in California will
barely pay out Is cents on the dollar
Excessively initiative people, those
Japanese.
Evening star., 1909-05-30
IN SKIDMoRE'S FAVOR.
Representative of Hackmen Defend
ant in a Test Case.

The case against James Skidmore
which came on for trial Friday before
Judge kimball was decided in favor of
the defendant yesterday. Skidmore, who
is public hackman, drove his carriage
upon the portion of property of the ter
minal company which is designated and
set apart for the taxicabs of the Ter
minal Taxicab Company.
Skidmore, who represents large num-
ber of hackmen, drove there for the pur-
pose of making test case to determine
their right to stand in and around the
Union station. He was promptly ar
rested and was charged with lettering on
the taxicab stand. The evidence pre-
sented against him at the time of the
trial showed that the place where he
was standing was not upon any public
street or highway, but upon the property
OF the terminal company.
Upon motion of Almond W. Scott,
counsel for the defendant, the case was
dismissed upon the ground of the recent
decision of the court of appeals, rendered
in the case of the District Of Columbia
VS.. jeremiah Tickling, In which the court
held that though the place set apart for
the taxicab company at the Union sta
tion Is a public hackStand for the pur-
poses Of taxation, yet it is private prop
erty SO far as the question of control is
concerned; and therefore public hack
man would not be liable for a charge Of
loitering upon the said premises.
Evening star., 1909-05-30
BOY BROWNS IN MIDSTREAM
YOUNG TRUMPETER ATTEMPT
ED TO SWIM CHANNEL.
Bathing With Marine Barracks
Companions, Who Were Unable
to Reach Him in Time.

Mitchell Priluker. sixteen years OF age.
a trumpeter at the marine barracks, was
drowned yesterday afternoon while at
tempting to swim across the channel Of
the Eastern branch near the west end Of
the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge. His
body was recovered some minutes after
the accident occurred and before the
arrival of the crew of the police boat.
Futile efforts were made to resusCitate
him. and his body was removed to the
morgue.
Priluker and several compa Mons went
to the branch to enjoy swim and had
been there some time before the drown
ing occurred. 1t is stated that Priluker
was a good swimmer and just before div
ing into the water from the coal chute he
said he would swim across the channel
When he was about half way across he
raised his arms and called for help, but
before assistance could reach him his
body was beneath the surface.
A number of boys on shore jumped into
the water, but were unable 10 reach him
in time to save his life, and all they
could do was to search for the body.
Telephone messages were sent to the har-
Dor and fifth police precincts for assist
ance, and the launch Maj. Sylvester
reached the scene about the time the
body was recovered
Coroner Nevitt viewed the body and
gave q certificate of accidental death. Ar
rangements were made later in the even
ing for the removal of the body from the
morgue to be prepared for burial.
Evening star., 1909-05-30
TWO-DAY OUTING PLANNED
LADIES' TAILORS' ASSOCIATION
GOING TO BAYsIDE,
New York and Washington Locals
Have Appealed to Chamber of
Commerce Against Importers.

In furtherance OF the plan to affair
supremacy for the American idea'' ir
the designing OF gowns for women the
officers of the New York and the Wash
ington locals of the United Ladies' Tailors
Association of America met last night
at dinner at Gerstenberg's.
Incidentally arrangements were COM
pleted for a two days joint excursion to
Chesapeake Beach today and tomorrow,
in which the members Of the Washington
and the Baltimore associations and their
families will participate.
Besides the meeting Of the tailors last
night and the sessions projected for to-
day and tomorrow, still further progress
In the struggle was noted yesterday In
the appointment by A. LeftWich Sinclair
chairman of the committee on law and
legislation of the Chamber Of Commerce,
of subcommittee to consider a communi-
cation from the Ladies' Tailors' Associa-
ton. This communication urged that the
chamber confer with the District Com
misSioners with a view to requiring i'm
porters of gowns, dresses. etc, who offer
them for sale in Washington to take out
licenses. The subcommittee to consider
the matter consists of Charles w. Darr.
chairman; Frank P. Milburn. Thomas d.
Hume, James A Toomey, George C. Cert
man and Walter B. Guy
Fifteen members of the Baltimore asso-
citation and sixteen from the Washington
association will take part in the excur-
sion to Chesapeake Beach. Most of Sun
day will be devoted to pleasure, but sew
eral matters of business will be consid.
cred at the sessions to be held at the
Belvedere Hotel Monday.
The officers who made arrangements
last night for the excursion today were
Samuel PAUL. of New York. grand mas
ter of the tailors' association; r. N
Nadoolman of Brooklyn, Robert Pluym
president. and F. c. Chorley, secretary.
of the Washington local.
Evening star., 1909-05-30
NEGROES TO BE TAGGED.
Scheme for Aid of Social Settlement
Plan in Southwest

The colored philanthropists OF the Dis
trict, especially those who are engaged
In the uplift movement on the social set
tlement plan, are arranging for big tag
week.
Thousands OF little tags bearing an ex-
planatory inscription will be printed
These tags will be placed in the hands of
agents wearing Colored Social Settlement
badges.
The agents will be scattered over the
District. They will pin badge on every
member of their race who is willing to
part with 3 cents for a most worthy
cause.
The nature of the cause is explained by
Il. Bibb. who Is taking a leading part in
the movement. He says:
THE new building which has been re-
Gently erected and dedicated to social
settlement work among the colored people
of Southwest Washington is under a debt
of 5000. To equip the new building
$500 Is needed. The trustees and work.
ers of this institution hope to raise the
$500 among the colored people of Wash
ington and not tax any one more than a
very small sum-
To raise the necessary fund it is pro-
posed to have the tag week from June 6
TO June 13. 1t will be followed by a
mass meeting on Howard University
campus.
Evening star., 1909-05-30
Doings Of Pleasure Graft.

The power launch Minnehaha, one Of the
largest hunting cabin type power launches
owned here. arrived at this city a day Or
two ago from Seaford. Del, where she
was built, and is being fitted out for
pleasure cruising on the Potomac. The
launch is owned by Thomas Pickford and
is forty feet long with a beam of ten fee,
~ is equipped with eighteen horse
power gasoline motor that is expected ia
give the vessel a speed OF aboat eight or
nine miles an hour. She has "A big.
roomy cabin, with sleeping room for
eight or more persons, and on a day trip
could easily carry twenty five persons The
boat is ready for service. Her interior
furnishings and decorations are being put
In place todal.
The gasoline power yacht Mareta III
has been lying in port here for the past
day or two with a pleasure patty aboard.
The yacht halls from Newport News.
whence she came on a cruise and while
mere she attracted much attention from
yachtsmen and others. The yacht left
port yesterday afternoon and will return
to Newport News.
Evening star., 1909-05-30
SCHooLHoUSE NOT FIT.
Complaint of Citizens Association
About Tenleytown Structure.

Complaint Of Citizens Association
About Tenleytown Structure.
"A public nuisance" and "a disgrace to
the school facilities Of the National Cap
ital'' are the epithets applied to an old
church building In Tenleytown used as a
schoolhouse. by the Citizens Northwest
Suburban Association. in resolutions
which have been sent to the District Com
miSsonerS.
The resolutions declare that "the old
frame building located Immediately south
and adjoining the Tenleytown school
house was formerly used for church pur-
poses and now used as a manual train
ing school, is wholly unfit for school pur-
poses by reason of it's dilapidated, insani-
tary condition, not only detracting from
the beauty of the school grounds, but be-
ing a public nuisance in the village of
Tenleytown:
Therefore this building is a disgrace
to the school facilities in the National
Capital and should be promptly removed.
and the honorable Commissioners and the
school board should be earnestly requested
to abate this public nuisance
After investigation District officials
have found that the structural condition
of the building Is such that it could not
be condemned as unsafe or on account of
it's extent of depreciation. The matter
will therefore be referred to the board Of
education, with the query whether or not
the building is necessary to accommodate
the pupils in Tenleytown.