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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

u
Chas. Perkins and Rob MAYNARD
were Webster visitors Saturday.
Mrs. VIM. Robinson ond Mrs. w. H..
McCumber, of Webster, were visiting
Mrs. Denny last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Cutting arrived
Sunday night from Portland, Ore, and
will visit relatives here for couple of
months.
We understand that w. A. Abbott
has purchased the building now occu-
pied by S. l.. Purdum and will move
the postoffice therein in the near
future.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Knapp and
children came over from Rusk town.
ship Saturday evening for a visit of a
few days with the lady's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. w. Alderman.
A band of gypsies were in town
Monday trying to work some of our
citizens by telling their fortunes.
These travelling gypsies are about as
big nuisance as can be found.
S. H. Groshong and family, of Wau-
bay, S. ID. arrived in Deer Park TODAY
and intend to make this their future
home. Mr.. Groshong has purchased
one of the ten-acre tracts from the
Arcadia Orchard Co., and is very
favorably impressed with this country.
Several of Mr.. Groshong's friends
have purchased tracts east of town and
will locate here in the near future. -
Deer Park, Wash, Union.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

John Longstaff, formerly editor and
publisher of the Huron Huronite, and
T. M. Roberts. former private secre-
tary to Senator Kittredge, have pur-
chased the Pierre Dakotan. AS both
gentlemen are thorough newspaper men
and loyal republicans they will soon
eradicate that yellow tinge with which
the Dakotan has been afflicted and
make it live newspaper.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

Dick Richards, the Huron letter writ
er and boss of the progressive machine,
had hardly -raaoHAssS-i-i.y-t 1Iyo TIN aftas
-. ~,rIIS IoSueu II SCaCe-
ment denouncing Senators Crawford
and Gamble, in which he claimed that
their record was largely responsible for
the failure of the progressives to
sweep the state. Probably the idea
never occurred to Dick that his own
actions were responsible for the defeat
of the majority of the insurgent candi-
dates. If the insurgents allow Dick to
perform much longer their faction will
soon be a minus quantity. If Richards
had not assumed the role of dictator
and had worked in harmony with the
principle of the primary there would
doubtless have been different lineup
on the state ticket.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

A Washington dispatch states that
when the news of Vessey's nomination
was received at the national capital
Senator Crawford hurried to the Presi-
dent and assured him that Gov. Vessey
was in perfect accord with the netsisnsoI,
had forgotten by that time the "Can-
nonism" DOGGY he and his co-workers
had attempted to raise.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

The republican voters of Day county
registed their protest against extrava-
gance by giving Elrod a plurality of al
over Wesley, 1t was expected that
Vessey would carry the county by at
least $50, but the result of the primar-
les show that the majority of Day
county republicans had more reform"
than they cared for.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

The primary returns indicate that the
stalwarts will be in control of both leg
islative bodies of the state. If this
proves true, there are a number of
industrious politicians who will not re-
ceive their usual generous "hand-
at Pierre this winter.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

defeat such an organization is almost
an impossibility, and the stalwarts
should congratulate themselves upon
being able to break even with the pro-
gressive machine in the number of can
didates placed upon the state ticket. I.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

Egan polled 264 votes in Day county,
where it was expected that he would
receive less than 100. Egan had sew
eral surprises up his sleeve to spring at
the primaries.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

The taxpayers are devoutly hoping
that Gov. Vessey will chop down ex-
penditures during his next administra-
ton.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

1sscorvrfo are Try
ing to figure out where Egan got his
vote. The returns indicate that he
drew a larger percentage from the
stalwarts than from the progressives,
probably owing to the fact that Rich
ards had an organization that served
to keep the voters in lie.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

Insurance Commissioner Basford can
now loosen up few insurance state
ments for the benefit of the reform"
press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16
For Sale.

My house and two lots in the City of
Webster for 81 $50 cash, for particr-
lars address..Mrs. Rebecca E. Curtiss.
1908 Sherburne avenue st. Paul, MINI.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

1t now looks as if Vessey will have
two more years in which he can tho
roughly enjoy the beauties of that
$1,000. 90 rug.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

Both stalwarts and insurgents now
have an opportunity to nibble on the
crow.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16
Wesley won.

Well, Egan was certainly in the
race.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-16

The states bloodhounds are bowling
with delight.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10
POISON IN MIDDLE ACES.

In the middle ages so little was known Of
toxicology that all sudden or mysterious
deaths were attributed to poison, but in the
light Of modern knowledge many of these are
now easily explained by such diseases as ap-
pendicitis or gastric ulcer. Even the Borgias
can be absolved from many Of the poisonings
laid to their charge. Nevertheless, says the
British Medical Journal, from very early times
in Italy poison was a favorite means of remov-
ing an enemy. In England, France and Ger
many cruder methods Of vengeance prevailed
and it was not until the sixteenth century
that the Medici introduced poisoning into
France. The fashion spread with terrible rap
idity and poison was employed in every rank
Of society to get rid Of inconyenient persons.
The art introduced into France by Catherine
de Medici and her followers took root SO
deeply as to blossom later into the black
magic Of Louis XIv.'s reign.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

ofered the girl his heart and it eventually
was accepted. But Lincoln's happiness was
snort-lived. Anne Rutledge sickened and died.
Lincoln was inconsolable.
Following this bereavement he plunged
into politics and statecraft and built the foun-
dation for his later life. During this period
he met Mary S. Owens. He wrote love letters
to her, but later on frankly told her that,
while he was willing to keep his engagement
with her, 1t were better for her own sake that
she should not hold him. She accepted his
honest explanation and his second romance
withered and died.
Still another woman who was instrument
tai in framing Lincoln's strong and impress
sionable character was Lucy Gilmer Speed.
Her husband owned the tavern at Springfield,
whittier Lincoln rode when the capital was
changed from New Salem. Lincoln became
their guest and throughout his remaining life
numbered them as his stanchest friends. He
often descanted on the sound counsel and sis
terly care bestowed upon him by Mrs. Speed.
Although he became at this time one OF
the foremost statesmen Of Illinois, his pre-
vious experience caused him to doubt his
own heart. He became engaged to Mary Todd.
After a brief period, doubling his love, he
broke the engagement. 1t even has been
charged that he deserted her when she was
attired for the wedding. To his bosom
friends, Joshua r. and Lucy Speed, Lincoln
described the parting:
when / told Mary | did not love her. he
said, "she burst into tears, and, almost spring
ing from her chair and wringing her hands,
as If in agony, said something about the de-
ceiver being himself deceived. To tell you the
truth, it was too much for me. / found the
tears trucking Town my own cheeks. | caught
her in my arms and kissed her"
So great was Lincoln's remorse that he
was watched by his friends lest Re commit
suicide. Here again came in the sound infu-
ence of Mrs. Speed. She and her husband
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10
YOUNG America.

The HIS lived in the country, kept
chickens and lived the simple life.
One of their daily diversions was to
sit on the front veranda and watch
the sunset and Roberta, aged four, sat
and watched with them, but it was a
rather tedious as well as solemn occa-
sion for her and one day, after watch
ing in silence for quite a while, an
explanation of the whole thing sud-
denly dawned upon her and with the
delighted enthusiasm of a discoverer
she exclaimed: ooh, mamma, know
now why it takes the sun so long to-
set. 1t has to hatch out so many little
stars!"-Los Angeles Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10
NOT WHAT He HAD PICTURED
Athletic Girl Hardly the Domestic
Jewel That Fond Fancy
Had Pictured.

Not long ago a man married an attn
letic girl, thinking how fine 1t would
be to have a wife who would be able
to wait on herself and build the fires,
if necessary, and keep the dust de-
mon on the jump without bringing on
an acute attack of nervous prostra-
ton. Said he to himself: "a girl who
swims and rows and plays a rafting
good game of tennis, not to speak Of
her fondness for walking and driving,
is sure to be a domestic jewel. If we
happen to be without a servant, she
can keep the household machinery
humming." Somebody must have told
that girl she was marrying a man with
money. Anyhow, she hasn't been able
to dress herself without the assistance
of a maid, and the only time she has
ever had the broom in her hands was
one day when she picked 1t up to hit
the cat with. If she'd clean house for
as much as half an hour she'd have to
go way to some fashionable springs
to recuperate. And yet. to look at her.
you wouldn't think she was SO deli
cate.-Exchange.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

it is still true that Lincoln may have died at
the right time for his imperishable fame. He
had conducted an immense nation through the
most tremendous civil war ever waged and
never committed a single serious mistake. He
did not possess Hamilton's brilliant genius,
but Hamilton never saw the future more sa-
gaciously. He made no pretensions to Daniel
Webster's magnetic oratory, but Webster
never put more truth in oratorical form for
popular guidance. He possessed Benjamin
Franklin's immense common sense and that
twenty-five address on the battlefield Of Get
tysburg is the high-water mark of American
contentious eloquence. 1t is fitting that after
such a career his own life should be the last
to be lost in that stupendous struggle. He had
called over 100000 heroes to lay down their
lives, and then his own life was laid down be-
side the humblest private soldier or drummer
boy Of Gettysburg or C~hickamauga."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the dis
eased portion of the ear. There 10 only one way 70
cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an intiamed condition OF the
mucous lining Of the Eustachian Tube. When this
tube is in1amed you have a rumbhng scund or I'M
perfect hearing, and when It is entirely closed, Deaf
ness Is the result, and unless the can be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal condi-
tion. hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases
out Of ten are caused by Catarrh, which Is nothing
hit an infamed condition OF the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case OF
Deafness Caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
FL. CHENEY & CO, Toledo. o.
Sold by Druggists, 76c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

which calls for something more than
the mere art Of man; the graces Of
the gods as well. What really takes
away the breath Of the Japanese OBJ
server in America Is not, as the Amer
lean thinks in his innocence, the
Grand Canyon Of Arizona or the auto
mobile rush Of life down another
grand canyon Of brick and stone in
lower Broadway. 1t Is the off-hand,
cheerful manner in which the Ameri-
cans try to make their babies good
simply by needing, for example, q
Biblican suggestion made to the Jews
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10
BEGIN NEEDED WORK EARLY

This, also, Is true--that when you put
your American baby side by side with
ours, you will see a difference. Just
about such a difference as that be-
tween the city of Mukden which our
soldiers saw while fighting through It,
and the n seen by the newspaper
men a week later.
With US in Japan, the baby Is (sup-
posed to be, at least) a work Of art
not a manufacture q work Of art, too.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

the age OF IL years. IhopelI - my
eldest of the three sons, lives in chi
cago. He is president of the Pullman
and has enjoyed a highly
successful business career.
Of Lincoln's attitude toward the es'
Unable woman who became his WIG
perhaps as good an estimate as any
nav be found in practically his last
words to her, spoken on the after
noon of the day of his assassination,
as thew rode through the streets Oh
Washington.
He talked to her of what they
would do when his term of office was
over and they could take up a quiet
life again.
"We have saved some money" ne
said, "and ought to be able to ave
some more. And with that and what
I can earn from my law practice we
can settle down in Springfield or Chi
cago and live cozily to a green old
age" :,
But God had otherwise disposed
Within "a hours the woman who, IN
the ultimate, had shared the tr1Dula'
lions and the adulations Of the great
emancipation was widowed and his
sons and the entire nation were or
phaned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

SAN 40 " pAthAt
tive cabin, set in the midst of a savage coun-
try, she created that modest and best result OF
a good womans heart, a happy home.
The young Lincoln grew rapidly. Always
an invidious reader, he ever found time for
reading. In this pursuit he appears to have
been tireless, but it seems not to have caused
him to isolate himself from the social life OF
his primitive neighborhood. By II he was six
feet four inches tall. His legs and arms were
long, his hands and feet big and his skin dry
and yellow. His gaunt face and melancholy
gray eyes we're set in cavernous sockets above
his prominent cheek bones, He was not, there
fore, a ladies man. but at the same time the
mysterious something that made him beloved
above the average of prominent Americans
stood him in stead. He was always popular
with his fellows, even as a spraddling boy.
A girl schoolmate has described him as he
appeared at this early time:
His shoes, when he had any, were low.
He wore buckskin breeches, linsey-woolsey
shirt and a cap made of the skin OF a squirrel
or coon. His breeches were baggy and lacked
by several inches meeting the tops OF his
shoes, thereby exposing his shin bone, sharp,
blue and narrow"
But this girl cared for him, even as, much
later in life, she was proud to haye known him.
Trivial as 1t may seem, the verse penneu
by him when he was II, at the time of his
sister Sarah's marriage to Aaron Grigsby, may
give som insight into his lifelong estimate
of the attitude of man toward woman. These
are the concluding verses:
The woman was not taken
From Adams feet we see;
So he must not abuse her,
The meaning seems to be.
The woman was not taken
From Adams head we know,
To show she should not rule him
IT'S evidently so.
The woman she was taken
From under Adams arm,
So she must be protected
From injuries and harm.
It was after he had passed through many
of his earlier vicissitudes that Lincoln encoun-
tered his first great romance. The family had
moved from Indiana to Illinois. When they
migrated from New Salem, S%angamon county,
Abraham, who has assisted his father, step
mother and the rest of the family to passable
a~fluence remained behind. He split rails, he
travelled down the Mississippi on a house boat
and had his first calculation of slavery In its
most hideous forms and Of the uncertainty
and responsibility of the negro race.
He returned to New Salem and became a
clerk. In drawing crowds Of villagers he
proved a popular acquisition. The job pc
tered OUT and he was elected a captain In the
Black Hawk war. His was a bloodless cam.
paign, but he came out of 1t with honors and
increased popularity. All the time he had been
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

Of a few thousand years ago (what a
beautiful comment on the up-to-date
genius Of the American people!) about
sparing Of the rod!
If the Japanese were to mother your
children, they would start-if they
only c~ould--the good work In the days
Of your great-grandmothers. Nobody
nobody in Japan, at least-ever
talks Of. much less attempts, making
d frst-rate acrobat In one genera
ton. When Mr.. Roosevelt takes up
jiuzjitsu at the tender age Of AS all Of
us feel much battered, but We do not
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

feel like running away from him in
the hour Of his anger. And we take
the rearing Of the child, the art Of
making Of man. very much more seri-
ously than the making Of an athlete.
Only, in the factory where man is
made, we take a little more time than
YOU do. We begin much earlier than
you do. Having had the start OF four
or five generations Of polite training,
1T would be strange indeed II our ba-
bies failed to come into life with a de-
cided hereditary inclination for gent.
Ter manners. Blood win ten.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

Every now and then the news of
the day contains the account OF some
person being burned to death while
smoking in bed. The moral of such
accidents" and all like them in that
disaster is generally one OF the prompt
est things in the world to come to n
when deliberately invited.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

The year begins in Europe with
some of the DISASTROUS experiences of
1909 tapping over. The storms which
have prevailed there recently resulted
in foods which have caused wide
spread devastation. Eastern Rou-
melia is reported to have been an es-
pecial sufferer, many persons being
drowned, while losses in crops and
livestock are particularly heavy. The
region affected is dependent chiefly
on agriculture, and the people being
poor the blow falls heavily.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10
In Japan the Training Of Children Ia
Started with the Great-Grand-
mothers.

Babies in Japan-you've heard this.
haven't you?-don't cry. A fairy tale,
of course. Babies will be babies-even
In Japan. Only In Nippon, when a
baby does cry, nobody thinks that the
world is coming TO an end. says
Adache Kinnosuke in the Delineatcr.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

made Lincoln one of their own family. sne
was a sanity woman and through her ne
learned, even more than by his reading, tne
story and the ~precepts of the Man OIL Naza'
reth that in later years enriched his vocaOu-
larry and did so much to guide his conduct
In two years Mary Todd became his Wlle,
It was a singular jest of fate that he snouio
have won her away from Stephen A. Douglas
who was later to be his rival in the great anu
slavery struggle that was ended only by mil
lions of armed men and that almost stimuli
taneous with its ending left Mary TODD q
widow.
OF the union we're born the sons Robert l..
"WiIlie" and "Tad." Willie" died In tne
White House February 20, 1862, and rad
or Thomas, died in Chicago July 10, 1871 al
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

reading every book he
could find. Later he en-
gagged In storekeeping
with a partner, but he
was not cast for a mer-
camille career.
When he first was elect
ed to the Illinois state
legislature in 1884 he met
and fell in love with pref
ty, authenticated Anne
Rutledge, daughter of the
owner of the tavern in
which he lived. His pas
sion seemed hopeless, for
the maid of II was
pledge to a young man
from New York. Yet Lin
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

A prize for one of the best papers on
"How Can Clean and Wholesome Milk
be Purchased at Least Cost for the
New York Market?" offered by the
health board of New York city has
been awarded to a mar who has for
several years been an inmate of the
State Hospital for the Insane at Mid
dletown, N. T., and the officials are
wondering where the laugh comes in.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

North Dakota is going back to the
old-fashioned spelling bees In the dis
trict schools to teach the children how
to spell. After all. any system is best
Judged by its results, and the spelling
Of the present day does not give start
ling testimony In favor Of the educa-
tional fads.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

The metropolis has received a bitter
body blow. The wife of a prominent
British public man has fed from the
noise of London to seek rest in such a
very quiet, sleepy place as she takes
New York to be. How Chicago will
chuckle and Boston beam!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10
Cheating the Law.

Man on Shore-I'm going ter have
you arrested when you come outer
thar!
"Te-he! l amt coming out-Tm
committing suicide!" (Sinks with .
bubbling grin. Life.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10
Lived to Death.

did you ever know a girl to die for
love?"
"Yes."
did she just fade away and die
because some man deserted herr"
mo; she just took in washing and
worked herself to death because the
man she loved married her"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

The assassination Of four promi-
nent officials in far and near eastern
countries In a single day may induce
grateful reflection in the minds Of
u public men who are only roasted
In the opposition organs
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

Boston had an icy tidal wave. 1t has
popularity been supposed that any at
tempt to bring added coldness to the
center Of intellect was like carrying
Goals to Newcastle, but the weather
man succeeded In the trick.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

In some localities, 1t is said, the
farmers are becoming so careless
with their motor cars that a town
man is almost afraid to drive his horse
out into the country.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

A~cetylene torches for use in dense
fog have been supplied to the Partisan
police stations. 1t would seem that
the London police would need them
more.