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Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
THE BEAVERS MEMORY.

Memory handed down through 80
generations is one of the perplexing
facts of science. The beaver -four
ished along French rivers until
killed off for it's fur, but is now
known only in about q dozen Of it's
villages on the Rhone near Avignon.
For three centuries these villages
have had no trees to cut down for
dams. The animals were compelled
to adopt new mode of life, and
have burrowed in the banks, shaping
mud with their tails as usual. Re-
Gently some of them were taken by
a Polish count to forests on his es-
tates. Very strangely, they resumed
the habits dropped three centuries
before they were born, and at once
began cutting trees and building
dams.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
BUSY PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN
Operates Drsdges for Pumping coal
and Sand From the River
Bottom.

Prominent AZ the oldest member
Of the old Ross family Of Buena Wis
ia, along the Susquehanna river, .
suburb of Harrisburg, is Ellen Boss,
who, although in her SEVENTEEN year,
carries on the unique business
among women of this section-that
Of digging or pumping sand and
coal from the bed of the Susque-
hanna river and disposing Of it as
fuel and building material.
The supply is unlimited and for
years the watermen along the place
where the Lykens valley joins the
Susquehanna in the north to a point
away below Harrisburg have main
tanned fleets Of boats with steam
pumps to get out the buckwheat
coal that lodges by thousands of
tons on bars and behind rocks and
the sand that forms in the bed OF
the river and is considered un-
cqualed for building purposes.
It was such an unusual business
for woman to engage in that her
neighbors laughed and predicted
that she would soon grow tired Of it,
says a correspondent of the Balti-
more News. But they didn't know
Mrs. Ross. She went at the bust
ness with vim and energy and has
kept at it ever since.
Every morning, when conditions
are favorable, the directs her force
Of fifteen men to the spots where
coal and sand are to be had, and
from time to time visits them to see
that everything is all right that
the men are working the pumps in
good condition and the stuff is be-
ing taken ashore and unloaded for
the market.
Despite her age she keeps business
going, and undoubtedly holds the
record as the most remarkable bust
ness woman in Pennsylvania.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
Guilty Of Petit Larceny.

Deputy Sheriff Bixby, OF Eagle
Butte, came in on the train Wed
nesday with three prisoners, whe
were taken before Justice Leve
and charged with stealing beer
champagne and other intoxicating
liquors from a railway car at Eag
Butte.
1t appears that between two and
three hundred dollars worth OF the
stuff had been taken but Attorne,
Potts of Mobridge, who represent
ed the railway company, and incl
ientally the state. the states at
torney being absent, concluded
that he could not prove that Z
single taking was of value exceed
ing $1,000, so petit larceny was
:harged and the defendants de
handed a jury.
Geo. Gilliland was the first one
.ried and the jury gave him IL days
n Jail and a $500 fine.
Attorney Morrison of Mobridge
Who is defending, took a change O
renue for the rest of his clients. sc
he scene of battle has shifted to
White Horse, that being the resi-
lence of the nearest justice.
Dwyer and Wilson are the
the names of the other defendants
The former, we understand, was
once a locomotive engineer in the
Employ of-the Milwaukee road.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
BUILT A FORT IN CANADA
Foolish 6iunder That Was Made BY
the United States Government
After the War OF 1912.

1t is not generally known that our
government once undertook to erect
a fort on British soil. The site Of
this fort, afterward called Fort
Montgomery, was about half a mile
northeast of Rouse's Point, N. Y,
not far from the foot Of Lake Cham
plain. Popularity it was known as
"Fort Blunder." It appears that
after the war of 1912 our govern
ment felt the necessity Of guarding
the entrance to Lake Champlain.
Accordingly in 1915 was begun the
erection of Fort Montgomery. The
original notion was to construct a
great fort. In those days that meant
q fort with three tiers of guns.
When the work had been in hand
for some time it was discovered that
owing to an error of early surveyors
the actual boundary between New
York and Canada, the forty-fifth
parallel of north latitude, passed
south of the fort. Work on the fort
was suspended for about rs years,
and not until the year 1912 was the
territory restored to the United
States. The agreement known as
the Webster-Ashburton treaty, estab-
fishing the northwestern boundary,
made the line between New York
and Canada conform to the old and
incorrect early survey. Thus 'Fort
Blunder" was again on United States
territory. The people of Maine, it is
said, never quite forgaye Daniel
Webster for giving up, as they
claimed he did, great slice of terri
tory to which they thought them.
selves entitled in order to save
Rouse's Point.
After the boundary question was,
settled the fort was finished, but it
was never manned by more than suf-
fcient men to keep it in order, and
it was never armed" -Harpers
Weekly.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
ADDITIONAL LOCALS
Good hay for sale.-F. l.. Mar

Good hay for sale.-F. l.. Mar
tin.
The latest magazines are kept
for sale at the drug store.
Andrew Wolfer returned Wed
nesday from his two weeks stay il,
the Twin Cities.
r. r. Shong, the Milwaukee
claim agent, was in town couple
OF days this week.
Paul Ekrem. a carpenter Of Mo-
bridge, arrived the first part of the
week to do some work here.
The basket social which was CIV
en- at the hall Tuesday night is said
to have been a huge success in
every way.
The base ball boys have an
nounced a dance to be given on
Thursday, March 2, to which all
are cordially invited.
DR.. Baer was called to Eagle
Butte Monday to act. in his capa-
city Of coroner, in connection with
the death Of Ed MARCEL, a quarter
blood Indian, whose allotment is
near Eagle Butte, and who was
found dead Sunday in his bed in a
rooming house at that place. DR..
Baer says there was no evidences
of foul play and thinks the man
died OF heart disease. He was
quite we'll known over the reserva-
ton country.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
WHY DO MOST WOMEN WORRY
They Lose Their Sense Of Values IN
Looking After Details Of
Work.

Women worry over little things.
This is one reason why there are
more cases of insanity among won.
en- than among men. Somehow wom-
en- lose their sense of values. Per.
haps puttering around a stove and
searching in tiny corners for dust
blunts their remembrance of the
bigness of the universe. Some even
ing, after hard day, when the
clothes wouldn't sprinkle right, and
the cake fell, and you tore the ruffie
on your newest gown, and you no
ticed a half-dozen gray hairs in
your head and a fly that you
couldn't catch, no matter how hard
you might try, buzzed about your
ears till you were frantic-some
evening, after some hard day, when
all these monumental horrors crowd
thick and fast upon you, 60 out in
the street and look up. You will sec
in the sky those shiny things called
stars. Let your mind saunter among
them for bit, down the spangled
Milky Way, into the brilliant Dip
per, across to glittering Orion.
Ponder for a minute on the giddy
vastness of that speck of the uni
verse which we see on the rolling,
rushing universes beyond our vision,
on the orderliness of that march Of
suns and moons and worlds so swift
and so serene, on the unthinkable
distances that separate us from the
stars and the stars from each other,
on the unutterable majesty of the
power which holds all this in its
grasp.
Then 60 back to the house and
worry about your fallen cake if You
dare.
Only, in your zeal to avoid wor-
rying, don't begin TO worry for fear
you'll begin to worry.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
NOVEL USE OF coRks.

Charles Hawkins of Peterborough,
England, has succeeded in building a
series of most interesting models, the
chief of which is large and compre-
hensive model Of Burghley house, the
historic seat of the marquis Of Exc
ter, near Stamford.
It took Mr.. Hawkins, in his spare
time, ten years to complete, during
which time he walked nearly 5000
miles in repeated visits to the house
in order to secure accuracy. The
model measures five feet in length,
four feet in width and three feet in
height, and no fewer than half a
million bottle corks were used in its
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
WHAT SUCCESS REALLY is
10 It Just Reaching the Standard, or
Beating Someone to II That
Counts?

Suppose all of Harriman's trans
cendent genius had been expended in
building up the best railroad system
that could be made, in vanquishing
time and space, and demonstrating
what could be accomplished by the
indomitable will and purpose and
untiring effort of the strong man.
Mightn't the net result have been
something finer and better than Har-
riman ever attained, and mightn't
he have gone from earth with some
finer memory to take with him Of
the world he had lived in than the
thought that he had met Stuyvesant
Fish and fought him and beaten
him? "Must game be played for
the sake of pelf?" as Browning once
asked. Can't our boys find some
thing else to inspire them than the
hope of beating another boy? If a
boy can ride his horse over the
fences, and swim across the lake,
and run swiftly, and hit the mark,
and feel his pulse beat strong and
true, and his nerves and muscles I'M
der sure control, does it make him
any more the master of the world
about him that he can beat some
other boy? Is it reaching the stand
ard, or beating some one to it, that
really counts ?-McC ready Sykes, in
Evervbody's.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
CAUGHT MONSTER GAR.

Thomas q. Pringle, while fishing
with George Dohr in Deer creek,
near Mount Sterling recently, pulled
out a monster gar three feet long.
Mr.. Pringle slashed off the head
from the long, snakelike body and
preserved it, as it is a decided curl
osity, a gar of that length not hav-
ing been taken on hook in that Vi
cinity for years.
The cruel jaws with the needle
like teeth are about four inches long
and the coloring Of the head is most
beautiful. 1t is light gray or sill
yer and is handsomely tinted with
purple slashes throughout. -Colum-
bus Despatch.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
PLANks SO FEET LONG.

Employees on TIE Lehigh canal on
Wednesday unloaded carload Of
white pine plank in the Central rail-
road yard at Weissnort. each plank
having the great length Of so feet
and every plank without knot.
These are the kind of planks out of
which canal boats are built at the
Weissport yard. They came all the
way from Seattle, WASH, and it is
said that the freight on the car is
$4OO.-Philadelphia Record.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
BROWNS TRUNK WAS PACKED
He Was Ready on Time This Day, but
tho House Keys Were Locked
up Also.

"This time," said Mr.. Brown, tri-
umphantly, GIVE got my trunk
packed long before the arrival of any
possible expressman. Everybody at
the breakfast table congratulated
him. The habits of Mr.. Brown in
relation to his trunk were we'll known
to all his friends and acquaintance.
They were such that Mrs. Brown had
long ago given up any attempt to
ameliorate them. She packed her
own trunk and left Mr.. Brown to
deal with his according to his nature.
As she sometimes said. "Mr Browns
trunk always gets to the train. but
l take care not TO be round when
he is packing it"
But this time Mr.. Brown had TAX
en- time by the fo-elock. The trunk
was packed and the expressman not
due for Is minutes. They all sat
down TO breakfast IN great SatlSIac-
ton.
Breakfast was half over when Mrs.
Brown had sudden ANTIQUE
thought.
"Have you the keys to the house.
Henry " she asked, pleasantly.
Mr.. Brown paled. He felt in all
his pockets. Then he rose nervous
" from the table, still holding his
napkin.
"My goodness" he exclaimed. 81
haven't! They're in the pocket Of
my other trousers in the bottom of
my trunk"
And as the ring Of the expressman
resounded from the back door Mr..
Brown disappeared with long leaps
up the front stairway to unpack and
repack his famous trunk.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
HISTORIC SLIP OF PAPER
Note Written by Duke o. Marlborough
at Close Ct Battle of Bien-
helm.

A scrap of paper that carries one
back to tie very atmosphere of a
great decisive battle in the worlds
history is among the historical treas
ures of Blenheim House. On the
paper are dozen lines scrubbed in
pencil. They were written at the
close Of the fierce struggle at Blen-
helm.
The tumult of battle was rolling
westward, where French and Ba-
varians were in disordered retreat,
with Marlborough's cavalry riding
fiercely in their rear. The slopes of
the hill and the marshy plain were
strewn with 10000 killed and
wounded. But Marlborough, with
the excitement of the great fight yet
strong within him, pulled up his
horse on one of the little rustic
bridges across the Schwanbuch and
scrubbed these dozen lines to his wife
in London to tell her Of the great
event.
He had been II hours in the sad
die, most of that time riding in The
very heart of one of the greatest
battles in all history, yet the letters
are firm in shape, a curious testi-
mony TO that serenely unsuitable
temperament that was Mari
borough's most striking Characters
tic.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
COUNTY OFFICERS.

COUNTY OFFICERS.
Commissioners-O. J. Felt, B.
c. Ash, c. A. Flowers.
Auditor-H. M. Kent.
Treasurer-S. M. Smith.
Register Deeds-O. A. Leonard.
Clerk of Courts-J. ]. J. Holley.
Supt. Schools-P. S. Jones.
Sheriff-Chas. Maupin.
States Attorney-Dawes Bris-
bine.
County Judge-Alex. w. Stow.
County Assessor-Henry Fielder
County Surveyor-H. H. LaRoy
Coroner-Dr. T. H. Baer.
Justices-C. c. Lever, Joe Ira
versie, w. Boldt, w. B. Patterson
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
M. w. A Lodge.

Meets every first and third Tues
day nights:
V. CIV. P Searle.
w. Al. D. Kimball.
Clerk-L. H. Langen.
Banker-G. E. Breckenridge.
Escort-Walter c. Lippert.
Secretary-L. L. McGovern.
Mgr. 3 years.. ]. Holley.
Mgs. years-O. ]. Felt.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
ITS NATURAL RESULT.

"Don't you think an empty stock
ing ought to appeal to the general
charity?"
eyes, it ought to make the folks
toe the mark"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
INEXPENSIVE.

ct wonder why it is SO easy for
poor man to get to heaven?'
Probably because the trip isn't
made in taxicab."
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
A REAL TOUCH.

"Do you know, I think my play
needs big touch somewhere"
"Make the hero borrow $500"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
A RECIPE.

sHe says he has lost his grip"
"Well, has he advertised and Of
fered a reward"
Ono; he's reading cheer-up verse"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
DIRECTORY.

Timber Lake Commercial Club.
Meets every Monday night prompt
at 2 o'clock.
J. J. Holley, Pres.
S. M. Smith. Sec.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
TIME TABLE.

TIME TABLE.
Train No. 1903, west bound due
to leave 2:4o p. m.
Train No. Io4, East bound due
to leave 6:Io p. m.
V. E. SMART, Ag't.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-17
HIS LIFE WORK.

Fl never let play interfere with my
business.
"What is your business?"
"T'm professional hilliardist"
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-03-25
CURRENT WRECKS A BRIDGE
Twenty-Seven Big Tlmbers Arc Cut
Through In One Day by Aid OF
Electricity.

One Of the most ingenious uses to
which electricity was ever put was In
the wrecking Of bridge over the Wa
bash in Indiana.
This bridge had been purchased by
the county authorities. who intended
to replace 1t by q steel structure erect
ed on the old piers and abutments.
The owner agreed to remove the
bridge In 80 days.
The chief difficulty lay in the short
time agreed upon for the removal Of
the bridge. Several wYeckers to whom
the matter was submitted declared
that It would be impossible within 80
days to pull down the old bridge with
out injury to the piers. i'
The structure might be blown up
with dynamite. but the explosion
would also destroy the piers. Were. II
fred, the heat would crack and injure
the masonry Of the bridge. The 30
days expired. and an extension Of one
week was granted.
The owner was at his Wits end,
when he chanced upon an electrician
who proposed, not 10 blow up the
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-03-25
REVIEWS ANTIQUE WAsHsTAND
Long islander Sells Piece Of Furniture
for Fifty Cents and Buys Il
Back for $40.

An elderly Long islander once at
tended an auction of old furniture.
Among the articles for which bids
were asked was a heavy marble
topped washstand. The Long Island
er bid ten cents for It, and as he was
the only one who spoke the wash
stand was knocked down to him
rather to his dismay. as he had to
have It conveyed to his distant home.
For several years this ten-cent antique
was an occupant OF the barn, its mar
BILE top being removed and the interior
Of the stand serving a. q receptacle
for cans Of paint.
One day clerk from q furniture
store In the neighborhood called at
the Long islanders and accidentally
caught sight of the unappreciated
washstAnd. He made some inquiries
concerning 1t. and eventually pur-
chased II for 80 cents. The clerk took
his purchase to the store, gave Il Q
thorough renovating and II became .
handsome piece of hardwood furni-
ture, the marble top adding the nm
ishing touch. Not long after this
transformation the elderly Long
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-03-25
A BALL FOR BABY

through the perforation in the card
board and then proceed to fll up the
hole by drawing the wool through and
through over the cardboard until no
more will pass. Cut It andltie It be-
tween the two circles and remove
these by tearing them away.
The ball should be sewn on to mar
row satin ribbon. blue or pink. as the
case may be, and to this ribbon
should be attached quantity Of little
gold or silver bells, which will Jingle
msrrily when the ball II swung 70 and
FRO by the ribbons.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-03-25

II ever love II stitched into gift
It goes into the one that celebrates
baby's first birthday. One Of the pref
tiest presents. which will give the
little one great Joy, is a large edition
Of those balls which the happy
mothers of today delighted to fashion
as children with two circles of card
board perforated in the center.
Instsed of making the circles an
Inch o5 two In diameter. make them
full ~ inches In size. and use pink
and white g PALE blue and white wool
Of . very neecy type. Tie the wool
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-03-25

built splendid home since the death of her
husband and the wealthy Mrs. Wyeth Of Phila-
delphia had her nephew-architect carry out
her ideas of distinctive home
In point of achievement, however unques-
tionably the greatest of all the house build
ers In the coterie of wealthy widows is Mrs.
Albert Clifford Barney, who inherited one
fortune from her father, Cincinnati pio-,
neer. and married another Mrs. Barney is of
a most artistic temperament and Is indeed an
artist Of no mean ability in both oils and
water colors. She spends much time in Paris,
where she and two of her daughters, who de-
vote themselves respectively to painting and
sculpture are much in their element. When
she Is in this country Mrs Barney divides her
time and her boundless energy between the
staging of Greek plays and other amateur the
atricals of a most ambitious character and the
designing and building of houses for love Of
1t. These unique habitations that she creates
Mrs. Barney sells or rents, and be It said to
her credit that she is clever enough business
woman to make her art profitable in dollars
and cents as well as in personal satisfaction.
In the field Of philanthropy American wild
ows have Of late years accomplished 80 much
good as to make these bereaved ones as
class the most respected and most admired
contingent of American multimillionairedom.
The generosity Of Mrs Phoebe Hearst in good
works has insured her place for all time In
our real hall of fame and Mrs. Harrimans gift
of q splendid park to the state Of New York
bids fair to be but the first OF a series Of no
table benefactions. Mrs. Russell Sage Is an
other woman who in comparatively brief
widowhood has helped the needy in many
ways, and the late Mrs. Gardner Hubbard.
widow Of the man who reaped the greatest
financial rewards from the invention Of the
telephone, was lavish during her lifetime in
good works.
There is one group of widows in the Unit
ed States in the members Of which-for all
that they are most Of them living very qui-
etly-the public is bound to take keen inter
est. This group Is made up of the widows of
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-03-25

EALTHY American widows
have come In recent years to
to play a most important part
in several important divisions
Of the worlds affairs. It is
not, either, merely here In the
United States that these mon
eyed women are making their
influence felt. On the con-
trary. their influence has pro-
ven fully as potent In many
circles abroad-so much 30,
indeed, that the good people
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-03-25

the Pennsylvania coal and Oil magnate, and
Mrs. NJ. A. Hanna, widow Of the late United
States senator from Ohio.
Mrs. Hanna's life since the death of her
husband, we may here digress to explain, has
illustrated how great is the latitude Of life
open to the modern wealthy widow in con-
trast to the circumscribed existence Of the av-
erage widow of prominent official Of a CEN
tury ago. who upon the death of her husband,
was wont to retire to his plantation or country
seat and live in the utmost quietude II not In
actual secusion. After the death Of her hus-
band Mrs Hanna lived for time, In fash
ionable hotel in Washington Then she built
a large house and occupied 1t for a time, later
disposing of 1t to a prominent army officer.
Next she had special apartment arranged to
her order in one Of the largest Of the new ho-
tells in New York, even providing a special
kitchen for Maggie" her Jewel" of cook.
Then desiring change. she hit upon the idea
of her present program of life, which calls for
an extended sojourn in Europe each spring
and summer and winter residence in Wash
ingtcn where she has two apartments OF IA
rooms each in fashionable apartment house.
Mrs. Hanna's 2S-room apartment might
seem pretty pretentious residential establish
ment for a lone woman to maintain. but 1t Is
scarcely circumstance to the enormous four
story mansion erected at the national capital
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-03-25

exactly the same with every span. Be
tween the turning on Of the current
and the fall of the span an hour and
40 minutes elapsed. Then the mass
of timbers fell into the water well in
side the piers, so that they were unin-
jured.
The cut made by the hot wire was
sharp and clean, and the wood was
not charred more than an inch from
the place of fracture.
The current was first turned on at
about five o'clock in the morning. and
at two in the afternoon the last span
crashed down to the river bed
Scientific American.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-03-25

bridge, but to burn It apart His pro-
posal was gladly accepted.
Each span Of the bridge was COM
posed of nine chords of three timbers
each. The 27 sills we're to be cut
simultaneously, 80 that the span would
drop between the piers into the river.
The cutting was to be accomplished
by burning through the wood with
loops OF iron resistance made red-hot
by the passage Of the electric current
Fifty-four resistance loops were
heated to wreck each span, and the
spans were wrecked one at time.
Sufficient current was used to heat the
iron wires cherry red. The result was