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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
SALARIES A SHAME
Striking Pastor Utters Criticism
of CIergy's Income.
Advocates State Board of Control Over
Establishment of Congregations
Pictures Preachers Often
Near Starvation.

Lebanon, Ind.-"The manner in
which the pastors of many OF the
churches in rural communities and
small towns have to exc out misera-
BILE existences on the pitiable salaries
given them, is disgrace to Christian
ity, reproach to American civ1liza-
ton and g reflection upon present.
day church government" declares
Rev. E. I. Greenleaf. who recently
resigned the pastorate of the Leban-
on circuit of three rural Methodist
Protes alnt churches, because, in view
of the present high cost of living. the
salary was not sufficient to provide
an adequate living for his family,
and who, because of the publication
of the reasons for his resignation, was
left by the conference without an APP
pointment for the ensuing year.
The business world today does not
know the conditions surrounding the
financial affairs OF the ministry" CON
tinued Rev. Mr.. Greenleaf. THE
church itself covers up the matter
because If the truth became known
lu6 Wllol6 IGIlSlOuS luSLlluulOu WOulu
be shamed. The ministers them
selves suppress the facts because of
their fear that the pulpits of churches
would be closed to them in the future
or because of belief that the money
mad world would charge them with
being mercena1y If they should de-
mand more pay. 1t is time the facts
became known.
Salaries Of ministers in rural COM
munities and small towns do not
grow appreciably larger as the years
go by. On the other hand. the preach
ers' old-time perquisites are passing
away. Railroads have withdrawn, or
are withdrawing, transportation con-
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
Rev. E. T. GreenIeaf.

cessions. The local merchants are
gradually abolishing the old-tims
complimentary methods of selling
goods to ministers. All of the other
avenues OF outside help are becoming
more and more clogged, until they
will soon be closed entirely. The
calls upon the minister's purse are
not lessening in number or insistence.
He is considered legitimate and easy
prey by many persons, members OF
his own flock included While all this
is true. the cost of living is steadily
mounting higher and the salary that
several years ago might have been
ample to provide living is no longer
sufficient
NO matter how small his salary.
whether it is barely sufficient to keep
him and his family from starvation.
or not. the minister must wear good
clothing and dress his family we'll. be-
cause the pride of the congregation
demands it. What shame it is that
this Christian pride does not extend
to the point that the parishioners are
Wiling to pay their pastor salary suf-
ficient to enable him to dress as he
should without sacrificing his own or
his family's physical we'll being in so
doing.
Ministers belong to the noblest
profession on earth. They deserve
better treatment than they are re-
ceiving. They are not beggars. In
the very nature of their profession
they cannot be and probably to that
fact is due the disposition of churches
to pay them the least salary possible.
Few churches are paying what they
can afford. The tendency is all the
other way"
The Rev. Mr.. Greenleaf is forty-s1x
years old. His family is his wife. five
daughters and one son. He came
here from Indianapolis. where he was
employed In the city engineers Office
as a mechanical and civil engineer
craftsman. He thought that by extra
work as craftsman he might earn
sufficient funds in addition to his SAL
ary to support his family here IN
comfort. However. the work of min
istering to three country churches
took too much Of his time and the
opportunities for doing outside work
were few.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
A FINE N,GHT-cAp
The Best Thing in the World to Go to
Bed and Sleep On.

MY wife and find that teaspoon
fuls of Grape-Nuts and cup of hot
milk, or some cream, with it, makes
the finest night-cap in the world" says
an Allegheny, Pa, man.
We go to sleep as soon as we strike
the bed, and slumber like babies till
rising time in the morning.
ut is about years now since we be-
gan to use Grape-Nuts food, and We
always have it for breakfast and be-
fore retiring and sometimes for lunch.
/ was SO sick from what the doctors
called acute indigestion and brain fag
before began to use Grape-Nuts that
could neither eat, sleep nor work with
any comfort.
1 was afflicted at the same time
with the most intense pains, accompan-
led by racking headache and back
ache, every time tried to eat any
thing. Notwithstanding an unusual
pressure from my professional duties,
l was compelled for time to give up
my work altogether.
Then I put myself on a diet OF
Grape-Nuts and cream alone, with an
occasional cup Of Postum as a runner.
up. and sometimes little dry toast. I
assure you that in less than a week I
felt like new man: had gained six
pounds In weight. could sleep well
and think well.
The good work went on. and was
soon ready to return to business. and
have been hard at it, and enjoying it
ever since.
Command me at any time any one
enquiries as to the merits of Grape.
Nuts. You will find me always ready
to testify" Name given by Postum
Co.. Battle Creek. Mich.
Read the little book, 'sThe Road to
Wellville." in pkgs. There's reason 50
Ever read the shove letter. A new
one appeafu from time to tlne. They
are genuine true, and full 03 hpWaA
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
Damon and Python.

A certain great publisher of rathe.
exacting temperament and not espe-
cially easy to get along with, secured
an editor after many other editors had
passed through his Office.
This editor tanned the exacting and
sometimes queruious publisher. and
they became great friends. The ed
itor. apparently, hac the stuff in him
to compel pleasant treatment.
One day the editor and the publish
er came into a luncheon club arm
in arm.
Look at them." said another pub.
Usher. There come Damon and Py.
thon!"-Saturday Evening Post.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12

to utterly destroy for two or three
years at least all danger of neuralgaic
pains. Others have managed to exist
without a stomach. The keen knife OF
the surgeon having trimmed this or
gan from the body and nature having
come forward to aid, they live for
years with but little inconvenience
The enormous tumors that are some
times lifted from the cranial cavity
sometimes destroy a part, at least, OF
the gray matter, but somehow or 9TH
er the patient goes on RUNNING like
an engine upon one cylinder. This is
the most daring type of fooling death
A generation ago there we're ten,
fifteen, maybe twenty diseases that
were looked upon as absolutely incur
able. The number has been getting
smaller. Every now and again some
man finds new way Of attacking an
old disease. Others aid and the fight
goes on. Another of the so-called In
durable ones are vanished. Just how
many there are, this day, no one likes
to say. Something might happen by
tomorrow that would make any state
ment ridiculous.
We used to die of typhoid, sept1-
cemiae. tentanus. yellow fever and ma
lar1a. The fighters were firing and
stabbing in the dark so far as any real
results were concerned. The under
taker looked complacent and the grave
yards waxed large. Some man work
Ing in the fever swamps learned how
tc IN,
YER by studying mosquitoes. Still an
other man watched the fly and dis
covered that death in typhoid would
be easy to battle If the housefy could
be eliminated
Diphtheria, infantile paralysis and
others of the diseases of childhood
have been and are being gradually
walled off and made helpless by bar
rier of serums, vaccines and solutions
that seem quite simple enough now
that we have become accustomed to
them. Death is being fooled daily
with some colorless fluid and tiny
hypodermic needle.
In southern Illinois, twenty years
ago there was much fever and ague,
oftentimes resulting in death. The
same conditions then existed in south
east Missouri These two localities
are being cleared of the timber that
covered them. The sun is getting
into the lowlands where it's rays were
strangers. There is not much ma
laria in these two localities any more.
The sun has sterilized the earth so
far as the malaria a-breeding mosqui-
toes are concerned. They do not breed
any more in such number. and there
is not the chance Of infection as there
used to be when swarms of them flew
out of the creek bottoms at night
fall.
Death is being baffed and puzzled
by such instances everywhere. Men
want to live and they are studying the
means and methods by which they
can fool death and live longest. The
scalpel and the little vial or serum are
the worst foes of the rider on the pale
horse.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
Two Of a Kind.

Il find that my husband has been
having the office boy call me up every
day and humble terms of endearment.
That's a nice way to fool his wife.
He's been going to the ball game"
How is it that you didn't catch on
to the voice?"
We'll, I'm busy at bridge every day,
and I've been having the cook answer
the telephone"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
The Climatic Autocrat.

''What 1 should like" said the self
tndulgent person, would be to have
wealth enough to permit me to live
In cool place in summer, and regu-
late the temperature according to my
own fancy in winter.
I You don't need wealth. What you
want is the job of janitor."
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
Yes, and How About Pins?

Nothing is ever lost or totally de-
stroyed." said the professor of physics.
I'm that case" said the simple and
frank person. .how do you explain the
fact that everybody loses umbrellas.
and you never meet anybody who has
found one?'
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12

Be sure your sorrow is not giving
you its best, unless it makes you a
more thoughtful person than you have
ever been before.-Phillips Brooks.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
Cow Caused Fata, Railroad wr.ck

sterlington, La.-Engineer West.
brook was killed, his fireman probably
fatally injured and four passengers
seriously hurt when q north.bound
Iron Mountain passenger train struck
= COW and was derailed.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
A Paraphrase.

You take close notice of the places
to which people are invited"
Yes, replied Mrs. Cumrox; I'm
our circle Invitations are the sincerest
fiattery."
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
He Mioht cue...

And where" demanded his wife.
with flashing eyes. would you be now
only for me?"
The man glanced at the clock. It
was verging on midnight. He sighed
and was silent.-Puck.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
American Shoes Superior.

European shoe manufacturers are
unable to compete successfully with
American skill in the designing OF
lasts and in the cutting Of patterna.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
q aihiionhile.

HE has a collection of books that
almost any man might envy"
"Indeed?"
"Yes. They show a sum total os
$4,000 in bank deposits.''
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
The llkenes.

ri crows could swear. what kind Of
Z political gathering would their Ian.
guage resemble?"
= suppose It would be something Of
cav cuss. :
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
Forbidden Fruit.

Forbidden Fruit.
Mrs. es-White-Your luncheons
are always SO successful, dear. Do tell
me how you select your menus
Mrs. Smith-Brown-My physician
gave me list of things l shouldn't
eat and choose the dishes from that.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12

Magistrate-Thi officer says you an
preached your wife. spoke to her and
she tainted.
Rastus-Dat's right, Jedge.
notwithstanding did you say to
her?
Rastus-Jes' tole her dat loved
her. sab.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12

A man never gets too old to remem-
ber some of the things that never oc-
Cured when he was boy.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12
Not Knocking slattery,

Not Knocking slattery.
Mrs. Coogan-An' the little thing is
the divil's own image of his father.
Mrs. Slattery-Yis, but don't moind
that SO long as he kapes- hilthy.
Puck.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-12

Two Of Kind.
Going abroad this summer. Mrs.
Leeder?"
"Why-ah"
Isn't that a coincidence? I'm not
either"
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-06-30
BUYING TURKEY
BREEDING STOCK
Secret Of Success Is In Getting
Little Poults Well Started
Should he Allowed
Much Range.

In buying your breeding stock be
sure and get good strong. healthy
birds. Don't 90 around among your
neighbors and buy few of the cheap
est scrub turkeys that you can find,
but be willing to pay a good price and
be satisfied with nothing but good
birds. The secret OF turkey raising is
to get the young turkeys well started.
Eternal vigilance is the price OF
success. The young turkeys will not
need any feed for "a hours after
Matching And then don't feed too
much at a time, but feed often.
Turkeys enjoy a variety In feeds.
Table scraps are good and the term
should include not only portions OF
cooked food. but rinds. grape seeds.
apple cores. etc. While grain should
be the basis for a satisfactory ration,
these accessories are very helpful.
The potatoes which are too small for
table use. II boiled and sailed a little.
are devoured greedily by fowls. They
should be fed twice a week at least.
The more We try to domesticate and
COuline luem lHe UlOTe susceptible
| they become to disease. Even in the
most severe weather. turkeys should
be allowed to roost out doors and for.
| age as widely as they please.
There is only one sort of weather
from which II is advisable to house
the birds. This is the wet, sleety
weather. when snow or ice may cling
and freeze to their plumage. When
such a night impends the old turkey
raiser rounds up the flock and gently
drives the whole aggregation into a
large. roomy shed kept ready for the
purpose. The next morning they are
set at liberty bright and early. fed.
and then allowed TO roam again. But
II the nights are dry. no matter how
cool the season. they are allowed to
roost in the air. away up in the
branches Of the large trees near the
barn.
Turkeys are very different from
other farm fowls. They are brought
to the most prime condition when al
lowed the most freedom. They should
no more be forced to eat and drink
with chickens and ducks than horses
should be obliged to feed with hogs.
They should be fed at the barn daily,
but be more or less free to forage In
the corn lot. the grain field and the
meadow and wood lands. II not too far
from home
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DISCOVER NEW
POTATOE DISEASE
wart Is Enemy Of Crop Which
Is AttraetinS Attention In
Europe and Is Liable to
BE Introduced Here.

The wart disease is a new enemy Of
the potato crop which is attracting
great attention In Europe. and which
is liable TO be introduced into the
United States at any time. II affects
the tubers. forming large rough I'M
slightly warts. and. in severe attacks.
completely destroys the crop. Once
the fungus gets into the soil. II is i'm
possible to grow a crop Of potatoes on
the land for several years.
The fungus which causes this dis
ease was discovered in 1896 In po-
tatoes grown in Hungary. II is now
prevalent in many places in England
and there is great danger that IL may
spread to Ireland. II is also found in
Germany and some other European
countries. II has been carried TO
Newfoundland. but has not yet ap-
peared In the United States.
II is spread by using affected po-
tatoes for seed. and. as this country
imports considerable quantities Of Do
tatoes every year. there Is danger that
II may be introduced.
The United States department Of
agriculture has recently Issued a circs-
lar for free distribution. giving a brief
account Of this disease.
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ShkSsAkAsAkhSASSga aSsSaSAssAssSAAssAAsk
THE HILL of HOPE
BY MARTHA McCULLOCH-WILLLAMS


Alaster's heart had named Il the
hill OF hope-a bare rise, looking east
ward over great breadths of farmland.
and down miles Of turnpike. That
way, said her heart, the fairy prince
would come riding. some day, to take
her out of the gray stagnation Of
things.
Alaster was fanciful A girl IS apt
TO be when she has never known
ought save the fussy cherishing of an
elderly household. Her mother had
died when she was born. OF her
father. the two great aunts. spinsters
both. would never speak. They had
money enough--a spare competence
Sc me day it would all come TO the
child. She would have no need 10
mix in the world-as TO marriage.
that was to b. stunned as deadly.
Had IL brought anything but heart
break 10 her mother, the first Alas
ter? She had been wild and wilful.
beauty. fiercely courageous. also
fiercely loving. and hating. She had
chosen. and welded whether or no
To come back in a year, alone, and
crushed. tC welcome death. even
though baby tugged at her heart
Her heart must be saved from such
shipwreck. Thus the good aunts.
They kept her close. She never had
a play-fellow. and was not sent to
school. Aunt Susan taught her the
three RS. Aunt Debby music and
embroidery-for the rest. there were
books. a whole roomful. old but good
leather bound mostly. and smelling of
cedar shelving. Alaster browsing hap
ply among them. learned of life as
though she saw II inverted in a mir
ror. She had a sense of not belong
ing in the household. The aunts we're
fair. dumpy. placid-even their small
tempers had not brought wrinkles.
though they were past sixty.
Alaster was tall. and thin. rangy
In motion. full of delight in freedom.
wildly alive throughout. She pinned
for action, for stir and change.
When the pining had grown so wild
I. was pain. Mallows came. Not ro-
mantically. II she did spy him first
from the hill Of hope. Mallows by his
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very look put romance out of court
He was stoutish. red of hair, freckled
as to face, with swapping blue eyes.
.shrewdly set. Notwithstanding he
was neither common nor common
place-there was too patent an air of
efficiency for that.
He was hopping mad. and very busy
when be met Alaster's gaze. There
vas need OF rush work, In running a
transit line-and the men he was de-
pending on to help him had not shown
up. Worse still. he could not go hunt.
ing them-he had promised to meet a
high parsonage exactly at 10 o'clock
there at the foot of the hill Spying
Alaster's straw hat upon top of the
rise. he mistook her for curious
country lad. and shouted:
Say. there! Want to earn n quar-
ter? You can-if your legs are long
and light"
Make II a half End I'll talk to
you," Alaster called back. She sensed
Instantly his mistake and spoke as
gruffly as she could
In answer Mallows swOrs a. her for
. greedy clodhopper. but sEss1 by
promising the half. il she wOzld but
run to the village. a mile u S1d
hurry up those men idling here
With a delicious thrill OF adventure
Alaster came out OF hiding ran past
him. nodding gayly as she did 50. and
sped on TO the goal And thus she
came plump under the eyes OF the
high personage-the nnancier who
was back of the new railway enter
prise. He stared at her-he had seen
nothing anywhere to match the deer
lift Of her throat. the pantherins
grace Of her easy stride. She would
not have checked for him. but that
he refined in. almost In front of her
asking:
lis this the nearest way to Drew
ett's-the spring there. ! mesnr
Keep on. You can't miss II unless
you shut both eyes," Alaster said
the last word over her shoulder as sh'
shot past
~. When he came upon Mallows b,
had an odd smile lowering In hi
eyes. Mallows also was bit on key
After a second the two, they wer'
most excellent chums. understood. an
both laughed
Hit you. too. square between II
eyes," Mallows saiA
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A Valuable Rioht.

American came TO ask for a con
cession.
President Of a South American Re
PUBLICAN what is re concession
monsieur wants?
Americana want the sole rights OF
taking the moving pictures OF you,
next reyoluticn.-Judge.
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setting the plants. The setting OF the
plant in the left is too shallow; that
at the right is too deep: the center
plant is properly set. with its crown
even with the surface of the ground
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Smoke Volumes Only.

Architect Showing plans)-This
room will be your library.
Mr.. Newrich-My hb'ryf oh. yes
Of course. I must have Q place ts
smoke.-Exchange.
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Mrs winsiov's Soothing Syrup for Chiidrss
ieething. softens the guns. reduces innamms,
lion. AllAys pain. cures wind collie. 4se |. bossla
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Life without love 10 like a good din
ner without an appetite,
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-06-30

A lot Of the money people marry
for n counterfeit
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LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES

AIDES CAN wEAW SHOES
one size smaller after using Aliens Foot-EAsa
the antiseptie powder 10 Be shaken into th.
shoes- II makes tight or new shoes feel easy
dress Allen 8. olmsted. Ls Roy. n. y.
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II the hens are confined to a small
yard. a portion OF the yard sould be
dug up once a week and little finely
ground bone and meat fed three times
during the week to take the place OF
the worms and insects they would
pick " whom at large.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-06-30

When one stops to consider the stu
pendous fact that Philadelphia. Chi
cago and New York consume 100000
cases of eggs annually. some idea
may be obtained of the number re-
Quired to feed Uncle SANS rapidly
increasing family all over the country.
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Grow your tomatoes on trellises
this year and see il you do not have
better crops than ever before. Trel
Uses should be set in the ground
about Is inches deep when the plants
are set out and the vines trained from
the start.
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CBy LIE ROY CADY. University of Min +,
ueSOta1
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-06-30

Be careful not to overcrowd the
birds during the hot season. Fresh air
and cool quarters are conducive to
health these warm days, and proven,
ton Is better than cure with chickens,
seeing that the best cure for sick
fowl Is death.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-06-30

A remarkable thing about alfalfa
is its perennial youth. When one
growth is removed another one comes
on Immediately to take its place. and
SO continually as long as moisture
and temperature conditions are IA
yorable.
The St. Mary banner., 1911-08-19

Piece Of Humor That Lifted Diffident
Professor to the Highest
Submits of Joy.

1t IS told that after Professor Ay-
toun had made proposals of marriage
to Miss Emily Jane Wilson, daughter
Of Christopher North, he was. as a
matter of course, referred to her ia
ther. As the professor was uncom-
monty diffident, he said to her;
Emily, my dear, you must speak to
him for me. | could not summon
courage to speak to the professor on
this subject"
Papa is in the library" said the
lady.
Then you had better go to him."
said the professor, "and I will wait
here"
There being apparently no help for
It, the lady proceeded to the library.
"Papa's answer IS pinned to the
back of my dress" said Miss Wilson,
as she re-entered the room.
Turning around. the delighted suitor
read these words:
With the authors compliments."- -
Success