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Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-09

the low country along the border
between Mt. Carmel, Illinois, and
Princeton, Indiana. The director
figures that because of the land
boom in Oklahoma and Texas it
is just like the center of population
to have started off in that direction
but of course he knows it hasn't
got very far away from where they
found it ten years ago.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-09
MANY QUEEN WAsPs,

At the annual show of Burghfcld
and Sulhampstead Horticultural So
ciety, held in the grounds Of Sir
Wyndham Murray at Burghfeld,
England, the number Of queen wasps
exhibited was by far the largest ever
collected, there being 1914.
Ernest Chance of the Manor
house, Burghfeld, gives the COL
lectors a farthing for each wasp,
and this year he has paid out just
over e1o. The majority Of the col
lectors were children.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-09
May Open Rosebud Lands.

Washington, Dec. 5.-Senator
Gamble will tomorrow introduce a
bill providing for the opening of
the remaining lands in the Rose
bud Indian reservation in South
Dakota, including all of Todd and
small part of Bennett county. He
also will present bill for opening
of lands in Washington county, in
the Pine Ridge reservation. About
100, 900 acres of land will be az
fected by these bills.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-09
LUCKY.

The Black Hole of Calcutta
laughed gratifedly.
"Lucky for me-" it chuckled,
"that 1 got in among the classic hor-
rors before the facilities for Dress
ing in the upper berth of a sleeping
car we're perfected, otherwise l
should be nowhere"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-09

ri can't wait--1 have just had a
letter from Cyrus living"
"Cyrus Twing-yoa know him"
eyes"
"But he is q sailor who left seven
years ago, and YOU have lived here
only three"
81 know-but l knew him-be-
fore l came"
Something in her manner, some
thing furtive, stung him into the
demand. "What is he to your
She held out an ilnploring hand.
Don't ask NE. Only give me- the
money. He has forged a note. Tn
less can get money to him tonight
he will be arrested, and it will all
come QUIT will all come out"
She sank in a huddled bunch at
his feet. His eyes softcned as he
looked down at her. "Tcll me- lie
said: 'surely You can trust me, Clio
ria:'
"Ycs," she whispered. "Yes, l
can trust you"
F'Then tell mc-vhat is Cyrus
living to you?"
She threw up her head and faced
him. "Hc is-my husband"
"Your-?' But no sound came
from his lips as he stood staring at
her. blankly.
Eyes, and Bcnsic is my child. !
was married when l was very Young
and lived on 4he coast-anl Cyrus
came home from India, and he gave
me string of pearls and cora!
comb, and he told me tales of
strange countries until I was fasci-
mated. And we were married with.
out his mothers knowledge. CYRUS
Jared not confess, because he was
afraid she might leave away from
him the few paltry dollars that are in
that box. At first did not under.
stand. I thought it was because he
loved me SO much that he wanted to
have me all to himself, but later I
learned that he had y sweetheart in
every port. Then his mother moved
west, and l came too, for Cyrus
sailed away on long cruise. and he
promised that when size died, for
she was old and i'll, he would confess
his marriage to me. But | told him
after Bensie's birth that l did not
want the world to know had
found him out, and | did not want
Densie ever to have to own such
father. So I worked and shaved and
have made place for myself, and
now"
There are strange things in this
world" said Gabriel, heavily, his
mind dwelling ON the fact that she
was wife and the mother Of a
child. Il will take the box to him
tonight, and will tell him that he
must go away, and never come back
10 trouble YOU"
But when he returned from his
journey he had message for her.
"Your husband is likely to die,
Gloria; he wants you--hc is rackcd
by cough, and his end is near"
She looked into his sad eyes. ~
don't love him." she walled.
II know"-for a moment his
hands lowered over her. "But-his
eyes haunt mc-he is such a poor
thing-and some day you must come
back to me-"
She stayed with her husband un.
til he died, and her own little world
thought that she had gone to visit
relatives, so that when she came
back there was no gossip.
"Why should Bens;e ever know
that he had such a father as Cyrus
Twing?" she asked Gabriel, pitt
fully.
LET me be father to him, Clio
ria," Gabriel answered, and with a
little sob she leaned against him,
and mid her face in his coat, and
cried as any weak woman might.
And when he whispered, "Will you
be my wife?" she murmured, at is
what l have wanted all these years,
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-09
THE CENTER OF POPULATION.


We can't say that the center Of
population is elusive, although that
is a characteristic we were about
to declare that it possesses. but the
center OF population can't deny
but what it is headstrong. If the
center of population takes it into
its head to come your way, there
no use trying to push it back for it
is just like trying to hold back
some forty-fve million people,
more or less. And if a fellow
wanted to keep the center Of popu-
lation from going away from him,
the only thing for him to do is to
forget it. No use trying to hold it
back. 1t would simply pull you
right over, even though you had
both feet braced against a lamp
post. 1t goes along utterly oblivi-
Gus to the wishes of anybody else.
1t is unmoved by tears; you can't
soften it by entreaty, or brighten it
by a bluff. You can't direct the
steps of the center of population
any better than you can drive a
hog.
To show you how it has acted
we have but to point you to histo-
ry. When the center of population
was discovered by the first director
of the census in the year 1890. it
was sitting quietly on gentle rise
of ground, which commanded a
good view of the surrounding
country, just twenty-three miles
east of the city of Baltimore. The
director of the census located it in
1900 and again in 1870 and both
times it was jogging along slowly
in a westwardly direction as if it
had plenty Of time and proposed to
make the trip by easy stages. In
1880, however, the director flushed
it. 1t started off in southernly
direction and the director thought
for a time it was going to fly over
the Ohio river at point near Gin
cinnati but it finally settled down
in Ohio near that city. AS mat
ter of fact it didn't cross the Ohio
until ten years later. The farthest
south the center of population ever
got was in 1920, when they found
it sixteen miles north of the town
of Woodstock, Va.
To show you that it is not out
for a record and wouldn't be in the
class with Weston, say, and simply
monkeys" along the road even
worse than we used to years ago.
of a hot, sunny day in June while
on the way to school, the longest
trip the center of population ever
made was from 1850 to 1860 when
it travelled from Parkersburg, w.
Va, to Chillicothe, Ohio, a dis
lance of eighty-one miles.
Ten years ago the director of the
census ran across the center of
population hurrying along at 4
pretty good clip. for it, on a dusty
road, twenty-five miles west of
Columbus, Ind. From 1890 to
1900, a period of no years, it
travelled sos miles. At the present
writing we are informed that Di-
rector Durand, assisted by blood
hound, an English pointer and a
Pinkerton detective, is beating up
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-09
Friday. December 9, 1910.
TT WAS WRIT

W ~ - = - "
Ter on Moral Science who
said that every evil act,
though done upon = desolate
island, has its pernicious in
Auence upon the human race,
and that every deed Of kind
ness performs its good. Thus
considered, it is better to be-
gin the day with a ringing word
Of cheer, whose echo, in natur-
!e's magic manner, may catch
the ear Of some respondent far
away, than to growl out a word
that may darken the sunny
morning of a golden-haired
little girl somewhere.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-09
oNE.MiNUTE BIRTHDAYS.

Mrs. a. b. Endicott of Atlantic
CITY, celebrates onc-minntc birth
days every three in four years. She
was born on February 20, and when
it is not leap year celebrates her
birthday while the clock is striking
12 between February 25 and
March /.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-09
ITO ARMS! TO ARMS! We BRAVES. .

The Duprec Leader comments
upon OUR answer of two week S
ago, to an article in the Leader a
week before, and predicts that
right will finally prevail as it did
at Appomatox in spite of the re-
verses at Bull Rum"
1t would appear from such
language that the Leader has
knowledge OF foul play some
outrage, which it dare not openly
decry but must content itself by
reference to in covert language.
Right will finally prevail Such
speech presupposes outraged inno-
cence; smacks of blood and dag
gers; suggests the cause of the
Minute Men of '76; flashes before
our eyes the picture OF the inspired
young Frenchman penning the
Marseilles. Come thou Leader
man, speak the horrid truth, though
to utter the words causes thy clas-
sic face to become red with blush
es. Point your finger of accusation
at the specific deeds of wrong;
name the cvil-doers and let us hur-
~ the culprits to justice.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-09

Senator Hale of Maine, doesn';
look for congress to do much a,
the present short session. He says:
Should an expiring congress, in
its last days, undertake, by
any deathbed action. to rob the
victorious party of its natural in
heritance it will be resisted to the
utmost, and nothing will follow
but protracted struggle, which
will shut out certain important
measures which otherwise may,
perhaps, carry in both houses.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-09

DR.. O. N. Hoyt. superintendent
of the state board OF health, has
compiled his October reports or
contagious diseases as sent in BY
the superintendent of the county
boards of health. From such re-
port it appears that the leading
contagious disease for October was
diphtheria with seventy-one cases.
only FIVE of which were fatal
Next in number of cases was scar
let fever, fifty and one death; infan
tile paralysis, thirty-onc cases,
three deaths; typhoid fever, twenty
eight cases, one death, and small
pox, twenty-one cases, Of which
none were reported as being fatal.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-09

DR.. Cook sold his fake story and
now has the nerve to emerge from
his London retreat to sell his con-
fessiOn as to the fake.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-06-19

There was once bluff over which
many men had fallen situated at the
edge of a town and the citizens said
too many lives have been lost, too
many limbs broken, too many homes
desolated or rendered poor and bare
and forlorn because of that cliff; let us
put a good strong fence there so that
no more people shall fall over 1t, and
no more of our homes made miserable.
The people met and agreed to buI4d
the fence and always keep I in re-
pair, each paying the portion he could
easily give to do so. The fence was
duly built and the homes made DESC
late were entered and made, more
cheerful by the builders as well as the
frequency of the accidents greatly re-
duced until the fact that a fence was
there became so commonplace that
people forgot the fence would be of
little use If it was not kept in repair,
and so the days went by and the needs
Of the fence were forgotten until one
day the fence was unable to meet the
strain ard the people awoke to realize
that once more in the place they had
promised to keep accident proof a
great disaster had happened because
they had not kept the fence in repair
as IUey ldO Sdlu lHSy NOulu, duu nou
begun to think its need was not so
great after all, but it was too late to
save the fence and they had to build
a new one with sorrow and self-re-
proaches for the suffering their tardi-
ness had caused.
So is it with the societies and re-
forms we organize many times in our
sympathy and desire to alleviate suf-
cpapo tn think If nnccih1p
for them to run without our personal
interest and assistance once they are
started.
No organization is automatic, and
none can run without the genuine in
terest that keeps the fence always in
repair and ready for even the excep-
tioal strain that must some day come
upon it.
We have the idea that the summer
is an easy time to get on, and that
hardship among the poor is at its
lowest tide then, but that is not true
of our city.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-06-19
MEMORIAL FOR
THE DEPARTED
!. D. D. f. MEN
BROTHERS WHO HAVE GONE TO
THE GREAT BEYOND WILL BE
MEMoRIALIzED BY SURVIVING
BRETHREN TODAY.

Impressive memorial services will
be held by the I. o. o. F. lodges IN
this city this afternoon. the exercises
to begin at the lodge rooms and to
take on a very touching feature, in
memorializing the departed ones. All
branches of the order, including the
Daughters of Rebekah, will take part
and will be remembered in the cere-
mony.
At the lodge rooms a sermon will
be delivered by Rev. Thomas Lennox.
to be followed by an address by Hon.
Scott NJ. Loftin, of this city, who is
member of high rank in the order.
Following these services committees
will visit each of the cemeteries and
decorate the graves of the departed
loved ones with flowers, and citizens
are urged to bring flowers in any
quantity to either the lodge rooms or
the cemeteries.
The public is invited and urged to
attend these services. Extended prep
arattons have been made to make
them just as Telling throughout as
possible, and those who attend will be
greatly interested.
While the exercises at the lodge
rooms will start at o'clock, the exer-
cises at the graves will be extenoe~
long past that hour.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-06-19
Think SHARKS
DEvOURED BODY
OF FISHERMAN
BELIEVED THAT FISHERMAN,
PADDY DAILY, FELL VICTIM TO
MONSTERS OF DEEP SOON AZ.
TER HE HIT WATER.

1t is the impression with many peo-
pie who know of the circumstances
surrounding the drowning of Paddy
Daily, the fisherman off the Kwasind.
that the body fell a victim of sharks a
second after it had touched the water
For some time large sharks have been
known to exist in countless numbers
in that immediate vicinity, making
their way from the gulf to the inner
bay and lounging about the navy yard
and in the channel. 1t is nothing I'M
usual for one exceeding twelve feet
in length TO be taken off the navy
yard. While the attack of a shark is
unknown in Pensacola bay for a GER
tainty, still there is every reason to
believe that they are voracious when
such a large number of large ones are
known to be about, and the idea that
the fisherman's body was torn to bits
by them is strengthened by many in
stances cited wherein sharks were
known to nab anything quickly drop,
ping from the decks of small boats.
Although lookout was kept for the
body by craft of all descriptions and
classes yesterday, no trace of it was
found. The belief that sharks nabbed
At was strengthened as the day wore
on and no trace could be brought to
light.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-06-19
JUST AN ALLEGORY
By CF1as. p. Hall

Work is usually lightest then, the
ness is frequently as great and as Sc
rious as at any other time of the year,
because many people are not careful
enough about their diet, the care of
their premises, and their own bodily
safety. tuberculosis knows no times
or seasons and takes no vacations, and
so at a time when people leave the
city in the vain delusion that they can
find a better summer resort than Pen
sacola, the calls on the services of the
workersat the Associated Charities
grow heavier and the expenses greater
while the income is at its lightest.
So many people in this great city
could do so much good by making per.
sonal descriptions to the work of this
the noblest work done in our city,
and regularly sending their contribu.
tions to the Office of the Associated
Charities in the Brent building and
being enrolled as members. 1t would
be well worth anyones while to call
there and see how busy this wonder.
full organization is and how splendidly
It's affairs are managed. Here ro-
mances that discount In their facts
the choicest fiction of the novelist are
of everyday occurrence, while thu
stories in which the minor strains
predominant are many and heart
arousing in the extreme. Go and see
how the work is done and I am sure
you will be eager to delight the offic
staff with your subscription in SUI.
stantial amount which you can send to
DR.. Hall at the office in the Brent
building. One seldom finds people
more delighted at the prospect of en-.
larged means for doing good than
those earnest workers in this office.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-06-19

The subject of Pensacola as a year.
round resort has been handled by va
riOuS boosters in such a variety of
ways since the idea first took root in
| the minds of a wide-awake few, that it
becomes difficult nowadays to put up
a bunch of words sufficiently different
| and sufficiently alluring to awaken
| fresh interest along a well-worn route.
But the idea should certainly not be
| allowed to be relegated to the back
| ground, and people should not be al
| lowed to grow luke-warm on the sub
| ject.
Pensacola has every endowment OF
| nature to become the best summer re-
sort of the South.
| The trouble is away down here on the
gulf coast, however, where the breezes
blow always and the lazy, hazy, day
| days of poetry and music are as COM
mon as old shoes, it's might hard
sometimes to shake yourself sufficient
| ly and to wake up to things.
There isn't anything really to be de-
sired, when you consider the town and
| its surroundings as good, live, salts
| factory summer resort.
There is, for instance, the big, de.
| lightful San Carlos hotel as your city
headquarters; the bay and It's numer'
GUS picturesque tributaries; the gulf
and it's surf bathing-the situations OF
historical and romantic interest-the
various delightful little places about
the water where you can throw con,
| ventionality gaily aside, and dance for
the sheer joy of living-and so on and
| so onl
Did you ever spend a summer or a
part of summer in Pensacola?
| And wasn't it cooler and more de.
Iightfu1 generally than many high
priced places in the north?
| II you had actually reached that
stage of civilization where you belfev
ed really in screens, thereby excluding
Mr.. Housefly and festive Br'er Mosqui
to-you didn't have much to kick on
did you?
| You weren't particularly bothered
with fevers and so on that are sc
popularity supposed to exist down here
| either, were you-especially II you
| forebore from the use of these espec
| tally constructed disease traps which
are commonly known, l believe, as
bed nets?"
| On the whole, the town and the sum
mer combined, with the free surf bath
| ing and the fresh salt winds combined
was pretty fine sort of combination
wasn't it?
| 1t was that!
| The trouble is, when you once see q
really good thing, you ought to EN-
phatically boost it along and see thai
everyone sees it-providing, of course
you're a well ordered optimistic per
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-06-19

COMMISSION
AGENT HERE
CHARLES N. BRADY, SPECIAL
AGENT, HAS BEEN HERE FOR
TWO WEEKS PURSUING AND IN
CURRY RELATIVE TO TER
MINAL FACILITIES.

Charles N. Brady, special agent of
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
has been in the city the past two
weeks pursuing an inquiry relative to
terminal facilities at this point.
Terminal facilities at the gulf ports
as we'll as the Atlantic seaboard ports,
are receiving the attention of tire COM
mission, and Mr.. Brady has been
making a special feature Of this work
for over a year, beginning at Portland,
Maine, and visiting and reporting on
every port of consequence as reached
Mr.. Brady is apparently a man of
wide experience and those who have
met him feel sure that the Deep Wa
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-06-19
States, has already become a booster

States, has already become booster
to do your heart good; he spends lot
of time and enthusiasm, too, in looking
to the town and the stranger within
its gates-and l believe his social po-
us!
Democracy and boosting go hand in
be accomplished, too!
There isn't after all, one of US who
wants to see Pensacola calmly lay
down and die in the summer time
when she possesses absolutely every
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-06-19

son, and alive to the various interests
of: your town.
NoW-AItogether!
Pensacola people are rapidly uniting
into one great boost-factor in the inter
ests of the town; and the matter OF
becoming live summer resort-oi
t1ding over until the winter season
sets in is most important problem
just now-important to the business
interests in general of the town, and
infinitely so to PNsacola's biggest
and most promising proposition, the
new San Carlos hotel.
When Pensacola people once gel
these regular summer visitors tc
actually approaching the beau
ties and native attractions here
abouts, they ought, instead Of
perhaps regarding them judicl
ously and suspiciously from afar
to give them the gay, glad hand oil
good summertime fellowship, because
you see, stiffness and snobbery and
so on aren't exactly in line with the
things your summer tourist will be
looking for.
Not exactly.
Now while the idea is being launch
ed, at any rate, a certain spirit oil
democracy should prevail-and ever,
far-seeing, enthusiastic Pensacoliar
should at the slightest provocatior
appoint himself as an entertainment,
committee of one to extol the known
and unknown good qualities of the
town and it's surroundings
One of the chiefest opponents, too
of this very idea just now is Rear Ad
miral Young at the Navy Yard
The admiral, who is one of the mos
popular naval men in the United
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-06-19

thing in the world to make her tho
Invest kind of a resort town
The way to avert this thing, too, is
to not only boost Pensacola-but to
boost Summertime Pensacola altogeth-
er and with an enthusiasm which will
count for something in the long run.
r Summertime Pensacola?
Certainly, Summertime Pensacola:
where the moonlight is the brightest
and the breezes blow the lightest-
where the salt waves murmur low, and
the night birds sing the sweetest
Pensacola!