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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-23
Lots &LandforS Sale

1 have decided to sell my town lots
and for the next SO days will make
prices that shall move them.
Lots, l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and II. Block 7.
College Addition. @
Lots 10 and 20, Blk. 10, Rudolph Ad-
dition.
Lots 16 and II, Blk. %, Rudolph Ad-
dition.
Lots l and 4, Block IT, Hills Addi-
ton.
Lot 8, Block 5, Highland Addition.
Lots 2, 3, and 6, Block 8, Highland
Addition.
Lot 4, Block Is, Fitz & Bend Ad-
dition.
All of Block IA, Fitz & Bend Ad-
dition.
All Of Block 10, Fitz & Bend Adj
dition.
Ali Of Block l9, Fisz & Bend Ad-
dition.
N half Of Block %, F1tz & Bend Ad-
dition.
Also Z fraction containing 154 acres
midway between Canton 4 Harrisburg
ct al. 50 per acre.
THoA. Thomson, Canton. s. D.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-23
The Early Buyer
Avoids the Rush and
Has Penty Of Time to
Make Selections.
XMAS PERFUMES
Our Perfume Department is complete.
Nothing nicer Tor a Holiday present.
MUSICAL GOODS

In the Music Department we have every
thing from Pianos down along the line to Har-
monicas. A Piano makes an elegant Christmas
present.. and no one doubts the charm of a Pho
nograph, and at Noid's you will find them with
a great variety Of Records. A Photograph will
entertain a house full better than any other in
strument made. You will also find Guitars,
Mandolins, Accordians, Bandonians, Violins and
Concertinas with supplies for all.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-23
and elegantly dressed dolls will win your admi-
ration


The Stationery Department is very com
plete and you will find something to suit in fam
cy and plain Writing Material with Envelopes to
match, and a box of handsome Stationery makes
a very acceptable present.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-23
POST CARDS AND ALBUMS
ANNUAL STATEMENT
For the Year Ending December 31st,
A. Il. 1900

OF the condition of the
MYSTIC ToILERS
Organized under the laws Of the State
Of Insurance of the State of south
Dakota PursYamt 70 % the laws OF sac sa1o
February 3, 1899; Commenced Bust
ness. March Is, 1899: Principal Of
flee. Des Moines. Iowa
/. BALANCE SHEET
Amount of net or invested
assets December 31st OF
p Il. fNGo Sfar DUR1NG THE YEAR
Total received from MEM
Interest and rent ....: 4.2oa.6l
sources ........ 1871
Total Income ........... $7o.s9S.s8
Total net $164.s04.S1
III: DrsRuRsEMENTIsss e DURING THE
Salaries 1Ssss Of deputies and
Salaries and other compen-
sation of officers, trus-
toes, committees ....... 4.6So.5o
Salaries and other COM
ployes ...... s.ls5.oe
Medical examiners fees. $500
Rent. taxes, Advertising
N, ;'o s;n ses' issSs @ 4's sss:1s
Total disbursements -. 57.s742e
". LEDGER ASSETS
Loans on mortgage (frst
liens on real estate..... $93.480.00
Cash deposits in banks. 13.45o.os
sets NO.. 1870. 1890. ,1os.sso.ob
Interest due and accrued. ,s.24Ass
Assessments collected by
local lodges ........ -. 5,oOo.oo
Total Non-Invested as
sets ...... ............ $S,1&A.SS
Gross assets vf' i :iiif;i1ii '''''S'''''
Unpaid ........... ... 100000
Total actual liabilities 100000
p6SHsEss IN IN SSyTa H. PAxoTx Bur-
Policies or certificates is
sued and restored during >,u
ro sns ]yeiicies or "c.rtia.'
90: 1893 c;s;m; 90 no; e'+.00o'0'
cies and certificates in
CURED during he yea
r. tag receipts siti in the stat: NUM-"
Of South Dakota, dur
| Total expenses In SCUM
Dakota during the year SS.7S
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
Department Of Insurance.
Company's Certificate OF Authority
Whereas. The Mystic Toilers, q cor.
poration organized under the laws
q iowa, has filed in this ofics .
sworn statement exhibiting its oon-
lition and business for the year
4 ending Decnn ber ~. 1903. conformaole
to the requirements Of the laws of this
state re~sating the business of insur-
Ance; ana,
wh"-eas TIE said company has filed
in tHis - &c 4 daily certified copy OF
its charter, with certificate of orEant-
zatinn. in compliance with the require
! ments of the insurance law aforesaid;
Now, Therefore, 1. O. 8. BasfoHd
Commissioner of Insurance OF the State
Of south Dakota, pursuant to the pro
visions Of said y DO hereby csrsif!
that Tie above named COMPANY y XS1!3
empowered, through it, authottaoe
a9enta, 20 ransact Its appropriate bus.
iHo00 q ybAtsrnAl lAfo = ANol00t
la0ara00o d this STATE. a~0oole1A0 &
he leVD thereof. until the 18th ~
Il YOS9uarY. 4. D., 1871.
n testimony Whsreof. have here
into sof my hand and ohictal ssa1 q
YSo91o, this 1ord day OF February. A. y
o. s. B.aFoRD.
(Oo0l) Commissic ,"r "~~ce
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-23

Mrs. and Mrs WOODBURY. and
daughter Mary Esther, will be Thirst.
mas visitors at the Pattee home.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-23

Lee Stevenson lost a IS bill last
Saturday. He Is anxious to know II
the party who found it needs It as
much as he does. He is wiling to
arbitrate the matter with the party
who found it. That's fair.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-23
Poland Chinas For Sale.
/ have Is Poland China Marcel
Strayed.

stock hogs for sale.
22tf f. L. MINIS, CANTON.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-23
Take Caro-

Remember hat wha2 your kidneys
are affected. your lie is III
Mayer, Rochester, N. Y. says: my
trouble started with a sharp shooting
pain over my back which grew worse
daily. l felt sluggish aud tired, my
kidney action was irregular and infre-
quent. I started using Foley Kidney
Pills. Each dose seemed to put new
life and strength into me, and nowI
am completely cured and feel better
and stronger than for years.
Sold by SHERMAN & ROCHE
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-23
TOYS

The Toy Department represents the crea-
tive genius of man and woman to provide some
thing to amuse the little ones. Our Toy depart
ment this year is almost beyond descrip-
ton. You will find about everything from Fly
ing Machines to Warships and Rocking Horses,
and SC much more: You will have to call in,
look them over, and then you will be surprised
at the variety.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-23

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Commissic,or "~~ce.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22

new JERSEY STATE NEWS
Five Killed, Seven Hurt.

Five laborers were killed and sever
others injured in a premature explo-
sion of thirty-five pounds of dynamite
near Rosevil1e on the new Lackawan-
ma cutoff throughthe mountains. Two
of the men were blown to pieces. Four
of those who were killed were pre-
pairing the explosive for the blasts.
Several holes had been drilled and the
four handlers of explosives set about
tamping the dynamite into the holes.
The work was we'll advanced, but all
of the explosives had not been placed
in the openings when there vas a
small explosion. 1t was followed at
once by a series of heavier ones. The
four men who were at work over the
holes were killed. The others were
near by and were struck by flying
stones. Six of the men were removed
to hospitals. All the victims were in
the employ of Waltz & Reece, the con-
tractors on that section of the road.
Sheriff George M. Harris and Prose-
cutor Henry Huston went from New
ton to the place of the accident and
gave permits for the removal of the
bodies to a morgue. The four men
most concerned in handling the explo-
sive are dead. They were Sam Kup-
fer, the foreman; Stephen Rudh, Sam
Dubra and Michael Huldik.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
Natures Protest Against S~elfishness.

All along our eastern seaboard lie
abandoned farms. Some of these
farms, many of them, indeed, were
once as we'll cultivated and productive
as any in the land. At $50 an acre
they would have been called a gift.
Now no purchasers are in sight at So.
What is the explanation of the trag-
edy, for tragedy it is, which lies be-
hind the swathe of desolated farm
land, when men say the more acres
a man owns, the poorer he is, and
where the pine and the broomsedge
flourishing in undisturbed possession,
bear silent testimony to the grim
t%ruthfulness of the saying?
1t is natures own protest against
selfishness. For years man has been
getting from his land all he could
and giving back nothing. Men who
would not be so foolish as to suppose
that their horses could work or their
cows give milk without food have
thought that their land could go on
yielding without being fed. Now
they know better. But for many the
knowledge has come too late.
Ruined farms means ruined men.
=. Farmers are not the only people
guilty of such conduct. Every selfish
man is making the same mistake.
He is starving his farm. Some day it
will starve him. 1t must be so. Ma
lures laws must be obeyed.-Wash-
ington Herald.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
Great Sermon.

/ heard a big sermon this morning
walk in the Spirit, and We shaIl
not fulfill the lusts of the flesh"
so many think they are Christians
if they avoid certain evils; but you
can't describe a Christian by telling
what he is not; a Christian has to
walk not be passive. Best defense
is attack. Expulsive power of a new
affection. =.
Too. much religion is made up OF
Don'ts-that's Old Testament way,
not New. One may keep all the Ten
Commandments and be nc Christian.
Abstain is not the key of the Sermon
on the Mount. L did not come to
shut out things Life more abun-
dainty. You cannot shovel out the
dark with a scoop. Let light in.
MANY church members have no idea
of throwing themselves into church
work. Christian service is measured
by many by the least that they can do
and get on respectfully. Wish sucn
were not in the church. Ulysses put
wax in his ears; Orpheus made better
music, and SO was safe from sirens
And it is true-that's the worst OF
it.. | think a pastor must oftel-ee
more discouraged by the dead wood
in his church than by the sinners out
of it. And the preacher made me e
that l was just a bit of that dead
wood myself.-Dr. c. c. Bragdon, IN
lions Herald.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
A Prayer For the Aged.

oh, most merciful God, cast me not
off in the time of my old age. For
sake me not if my strength faileth-
May my hoary head be found in right
Preserve my mind from
dotage and imbecility, and my body
from pr~otracted disease and e~xcruciat-
ing pain. Deliver me from despond-
ency in my declining years, and en-
able me to bear with patience what
ever may be Thy holy will. l humbIy
ask that my eas may continue to
the last; and that l may be so COM
forted and supported that I may leave
my testimony in favor of the reality
of religion and of Thy faithfulness in
fulfilling Thy gracious promises. And
when my spirit leaves this clay tene-
ment, Lord Jesus, receive it. Send
some of the blessed angels to convey
my inexperienced soul to the man
sions which Thy love has prepared;
and, oh, may 1 have an abundant en-
trance m%inistered unto me into the
Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ.-Arehibald Alexander,
d. ID.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
BIG FLEET TO CIRCLE GLOBE
Taft and Secretary Meyer AM
bilious to Excel Roosevelt.
Admiral or Vice-Admiral in Command
Congress Must Provide Addi-
tional Personnel-25 Ships.

Washington, D. C.-To close his
administration by sending around the
world the greatest battleship fleet
ever assembled under any flag is the
ambition of President Taft and his
naval secretary, Secretary Meyer.
The program becomes operative
July 1, this year. By 1912 the plans
will have eliminated and the fleet
will begin a trip around the world
which will overshadow that which the
sixteen ~battleships made at the close
of Roosevelt's administration.
Protection of the Pacific coast and
of our Far East possessions Is prov1d-
ed for in the program. II Congress
allows the Administration a free hand
and acts upon the recommendations
of the President and Secretary OF War
by 1918 there will be a fleet on the
Pacific larger than the entire Amert-
can feet at the time of the Spanish
American War.
On July /, 1912, the fleet will be
made up for the closing year of the
Taft Administration, with twenty-one
b%attIeships, including the Wyoming
RAu a. h6A1oCPt
naughts just laid down.
The fleet which will assemble in
Hampton Roads for its special trip
will consist of the ~battleships Wyom-
ing, Arkansas, Florida, Utah, Della
ware, North Dakota, Michigan, Con-
necticut, Louisiana, South Carolina,
Kansas, Vermont, New Hampshire,
Georgia, Nebraska, New Jersey, Viz
ginia, Ohio, Minnesota, Mississippi n
Idaho, and the armored cruisers Ten
nessee, Washington, North Carolina
and Neutrality-suspicious. battleships
and four armored cruisers. The COM
mander-in-chief, it is hoped by MI.
taft and Mr.. Meyer, will be a vice-ad-
miral or a full admiral.
This. the most ~stupendous fleet
scheme ever adopted, will depend, In
a measure for it's successful operation
upon the passage of the bill now be-
fore Congress for a gradual increase
in the naval personnel.
If Congress fails to allow the per-
sonnet increase, the Secretary of the
Navy plans to shelye all Of the older
gunboats and cruisers in order to pro-
vide a sufficient number of men for
the new fleet. This, naval officers
point out, would be Gripping the Pa
cifc's fleet.
If the present program goes
through there will not be a single bat
tleship, cruiser or gunboat in service
which took part in the Spanish-Amer-
lean war. 1t is planned, however, to
hold the older ships in reserve, SO
that with a fleet Of twenty-five power
full vessels plying the Atlantic seas
there will be a second fleet of eleven
battleships-a fleet which will be as
powerful as the entire navy was
twelve years Ago..
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
PITH AND POINT.

Music Teacher "Why don't you
pause there? Don't you see that it's
marked 'rest?'" Eyes, teacher, but
I aren't tired."-Life.
what is a mud-guard, pa?" Il
believe it is intended for use on an
automobile, but it would seem to fill
a long felt want of a candidate for
ofice."-Judge.
Does Mr.. Smith live here?" mo,
sir" "Does he live in this street,"
Eyes, SIR" "Do you know his num-
ber?" mo, sir; but you'll see it on
his door."-Punch.
l love to see the hero strut
Throughout a play:
I'd like to be as noble, but
Not every day.
Crawford-"Don't you miss the
theatre, living out here in this one
horse town." Suburbs-"Why, man,
we see plays here that you never see
in New York!"-Puck.
Nell-"Has Maude been observing
Lent?" Belief should say she
has. Why, she has won enough at
bridge to pay for her whole Easter
outft."-Philadelphia Record.
He-"A philosopher says: The
only thing worth while in life Is try
ing to do something you can't-and
doing it," She (sweetly)-"Is that
why you play bridge?"-Life.
Visitor-"T saw your husband in
the crowd down town to-day. In
fact, he was so close that I could have
touched him" Hostess That's
strange. At home he is so close that
nobody can touch him!"-Puck.
The dudes a walking fashion plate,
With but a single charm;
Upon his watch chain it is found,
Where it can do no harm.
Chicago News.
"What a conscientious woman Mrs.
D'Eaubags isl" "Well I should say!
You know she made an assignment
for the benefit of her creditors last
week, and she listed all the party
calls she owed as liabilities!"-Cleve-
land Leader.
Little Girl-"Mother, that's such a
TASTY llIllG UOy, WnChONOi hS PcSSSS
me he makes a face" Mother-"Very
rude of him. 1 hope you don't do it
back" Little Girl-"Oh, dear, no!
I simply turn up my nose and treat
him with despisery."-Punch.
The Rev. DR.. Putemtosleep-"Dea-
con Goodleigh walked right out OF
church in the middle of my sermon.
I wonder if I offended him." Mrs.
Goodleigh-"Don't let that worry
you, doctor. He has been a somnam.
bulist for years. "-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Kind-Hearted Matron (giving him
a plate of beans) you were the
youngest in a family of ten? No
wonder you didn't turn out we'll.
Your mother had no time to look af-
ter YOU" Goodman Gonrong-"No,
ma'am. I wuz what they call the
submerged tenth. Chicago Tribune.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
Fled in Canoes to a Swamp.

Four young thieves, James Mitch.
ell, Leroy Miller, James Elliott and
George Turner, who had eluded the
police for six weeks, were captured by
Chief of Police Biggs, of Millville,
and several policemen. The youthful
quartet, it is alleged, has robbed club
houses on Union Lake, destroying
what they were unable to move. They
have also, according to the police, en-
tered and robbed business houses. At
ter each robbery they have thrown the
police off the scent and escaped in ca
noes to their rendezvous in a dense
swamp at the head of the lake, where
they were arrested. The policemen,
with drawn reyolvers, surprised the
camp at breakfast, and seeing that
any resistance would be foolhardy, all
surrendered.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
CHARGES AGAINST THE
MUTUAL LIFE COMPANY
Hotchkiss Exposes Settlement
of McCurdy Suits.
MORE PAID THAN RECEIVED
Committees Statement Called De.
ceptive When Not Untrue
Evasion of Law-Money Used in
Lobby at Albany.

AOOOJ
Albany, N. Y.-Superintendent
Hotchkiss of the State Insurance De-
partment severely criticises several
matters in the affairs of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company in the re-
port to be filed of his first extensive
examination of any life insurance
company since taking Office, and the
first examination accorded the Mu.
tual since the Armstrong code went
into. effect.
The examination was on the COM
pany's statement of December 81,
1908, and it deals with the Mutual's
affairs for the years 1906, 1907 and
1908.
Close to a quarter of a million
dollars, the report states, was paid
out by the Mutual v and above
the amount received in the final set
Element of the McCurdy suits, and
in this echo of the life insurance
investigation the present Superin-
tendent finds his chief criticism.
These suits, instituted for the
purpose of getting back some portion
of the vast sums of money which the
Hughes investigation disclosed had
been used for lobbying at Albany.
were put in the hands of a distin-
guished committee Of trustees.
The committee reported that the
aggregate amount of money claimed
to have been expended improperly,
restitution of which was asked,
somewhat exceeded 100000" but
because of demurrers and various
dilatory tactics interposed by the de-
PENDANTS, and also because of numer-
Gus Implications and complications in
the details of the claims, the COM
mittee, on the advice and with the
APPROVAL of its counsel, recommend
ed that all the claims be settled upon
a payment by the Mutual of $500 00.
This payment was divided equally
among Charles H. Raymond & Co.,
Robert McCurdy and r. A. McCurdy.
The Raymond & Co. account was set
tied when the company paid that firm
the difference between $~656,527.97,
the amount of their claims against
the company, and the $250,0OO
agreed upon as their share of the
restitution fund, which subtracted
from the company's treasury the
sum of $406,597.97.
The company settled the Robert
McCurdy account by paying him the
difference between $330,821.53, the
amount of his counter claims, and
$250,000, or $S0,821.53, which was a
total disbursement of $487,349.50,
which, with the additional restitution
of $250,000 on the r. A. McCurdy
account, made the net subtraction
from the company's assets on the mat
ter of the claims 237,349.5O.
Superintendent Hotchkiss brings
the fiat charge of deception.
The company's expenditures under
the head of Supervision of old
business" which amounted to 1884,
144.09 in 1908, the report says,
really we're paid out not for super
vising old business, but substantially
in the form of bonuses to those agents
who were most successful in getting
new business, thus defeating the pur-
pose of one section of the Armstrong
law, which limits the amounts to be
paid to agents for new business.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
Not in Stock.

A Boston sportsman, who has just
returned from the Maine woods, tells
of an incident which happened in one
of the small country stores in the
Pine Tree State. Laid up with a
cold one day, and consequently
forced to remain indoors, the hunter
went to the village store in search
for something to read. Robert Brown
ing he held as his ~favorite author,
so he promptly asked the rather ell
derby shopkeeper to look yer his
shelves and see if he had Brown
ing's works among a small array of
books tucked away in an obscure
corner.
Nope" replied the storeman, run
ming over his shelves; ives got blue
ing, backing and whiting, but ]
don'e see no browning anywhere
Boston Herald.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
Sick Child Reunites Dixons.

The sickness of the child of War.
rem Dixon, Corporation Counsel, of
Jersey City, resulted in the parents of
the little one being r~econciled. They
had been living apart for some time,
and the wife had been sued by the
husband for divorce. The Ease was
bitterly fought. The child became
sick and the parents were called to
her bedside. In the Chancery Court
at Trenton Vice-Chancellor Garrison
signed two orders which terminated
all court proceedings in the matrimo-
NAL affairs of the Dixons. He signed
an order withdrawing the petition
and amended petition filed by the
husband, and also the cross petitions
which were filed by the wife.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
Am Unappropriate BLESSING.

Is not God, Who made the sun to
shine, also willing and able to let
His light and His presence so shine
through me that l can walk all the
day with God nearer to me than my
thing in nature? Praise God. He can
do it. Why, then, does He do 1t SO
seldom, and in such feeble measure!
There is but one answer; you do not
permit it. You are so occupied and
filled with other things-religious
things, perhaps-that you do not give
God time to make Himself known.
and to enter and take possession
Andrew Murray
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
schoolgirI a wife For a Year.

When Miss Helen Radcliffe, OF
Frenchtown, left the graduating class
at the State school at Trenton it was
intimated that she was going to be
married. The news became known
that she and Charles Rowe, a young
jeweler of Trenton, had been married
for a year and that they had decided
to go to housekeeping, which they
have done at 845 Princeton avenue.
The real reason for the sudden house
keeping was that news of her mar
riagc reached the faculty.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
PLANS BUREAU FOR "KIcKs."
Fitzgerald Hopes to Save Valuable
Time of Clerks.

Boston, Mass.-Mayor Fitzgerald
announced his plan to establish a
bureau for kicks" 1t will be an
Office in City Hall, where two officials
will be stationed to listen to all COM
plants made by citizens about mu-
nicipal service.
Most Of the complaints made at the
City Hall relate to tax and water
bills, collection of garbage and con-
ditions of streets, and citizens who
have kicks" to register don't know
where to 60. The Mayor say the
valuable time of clerks is consumed
in listening to recitals of grievances
they can't remedy.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
WOOD ALCOHOL KILLS TWELVE.
One Victims Daughter Died of the
Same Cause Several Days Before.

Westerly, R. Three persons
died after drinking a connection said
to be of whisky and wood alcohol. In
all three women and nine men have
succumbed to the lethal stuff in West
erly and Hopkinton, R. l., and Ston-
ington, Conn.
Daniel T. Sullivan and John Nc
Avoy, of Westerly, died, exhibiting
the same symptoms as did the other
victims, including blindness, charac-
teristic of wood alcohol poisoning.
McAvoy was father of Mrs. Albert
Tucker, who died of the same cause
several days ago. Rosario Patti, of
Stonington, was the third victim.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
Reclaim Water Power.

The new owners of the Trenton
Water Power Canal, who include Da-
yid Wharton Pepper, Jr., of Philadel-
phia, Pa, have let it be known what
their future intentions are concerning
the canal which recently came into
their possession. The company will
erect a large power house on the
bank, either in Trenton or in Ewing
Township. The plant will be equipped
to supply power to manufacturing es-
Establishments and the officials of the
company declare that they already
have enough contracts to assure u C
cess. The canal will be thoroughly
dredged and cleaned.