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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
The Art Of Cooking.

am heartily sorry for people who new.
or do their W cooking. Cooking IL an
art, not only creative hut social. It takes
the raw materials and converts them into
. product that 10 every way pleading. and
that brings h people who enjoy II into
social harmony. The immediate products
do not abide: the better they are the more
quickly they vanish. but they leave be-
hind something spiritual and permanent.
A busy mother. who wa q wonderful
cook. once said to me-, Sometimes 1t
hardly seems worth while to cool things
when they 20 no fast. but then. think,
after all they a behind them q MEM
DRY of q jolly home table that does last,
so perhaps it pays" I am sure she was
right. The memory Of that home table
has lasted 40 years and more, and does
not yet seem to be fading.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
Reflections Of q Beginning Husband.
l.. S. Martin in rper

80 ~ VA ~ ~
I like the tranquility OF being mar
ried-married, that is. to Cordelia. Wis.,
iting the wealthyis ii bit OF embroidery
on the fabric of life. but coming home
TO the fiat and staying in all the even
Ing, and reading as many of the con-
temporary periodicals as | can manage
to get hold of and get time to explore.
very web OF life. l seldom have the
sense of justification i'm life So strongly
as In these dolnesticated d~iscourses
with cordclia. l have got her to read
ing the contemporary periodicals and
the newspapers n keeping some
track of what is going on i'm the world.
l don't know what kind of radicals we
will turn out To be III We keep our minds
on that diet. But l get the other point
of view down town, where my employ
meift is largely to assist my boss to
help gentlemen with property to adjust
the management OF their concerns to
laws contriNed with intent to retard
their processes of acquisition. 1t is nip
and tuck In these days between the
gentlemen who make the progressive
political periodicals and the gentlemen
who control the railroads and banks
and trusts and their employees. to de-
termine who is going to run the coun.
Try. AS things are, the country Is to
run. after a fashion. The wheels do
turn II production and distribution
are accomplished. TO be sure. the
wheels screech more or less, and the
production is pretty wasteful compared
Will what the professional economists
say it might he. and the stream OF dis
lribution runs SO lumpy that it makes
you laugh; but fair proportion OF the
Lords Will seems to be done, and hope
ful people calculate that the proportion
is increasing. though you might not all
ways think SO to read the progressive
periodicals.. A large part Of the happy
activity of nature consists of the big
creatures eating the little ones. but we
complain awfully about it when we
think we see is going on in human So
soety, n the law. who's humble but
aspiring servant l am, was invented to
check 1t. Everything that is invented
to check that propensity tends to de-
velop an appetite OF its own. The law.
the church. the walking delegate, ali
have in them the ingredients Of yor-
ac1ty. and l dare say the same ingred-
n are latent in the progressive per-
iodicals. Who has the brains to gov
ern Will govern. and the mere substi-
tuition of lean masters for fat one is
not necessarily an advantage. sup
pose 1T liz largely our own conscious
ness OF that that restraints US from TAX
ing the country away from the inter-
ests and giving 1t to the periodicals:
besides. of course, 1t is harder, be-
cause h interests hang on 30 to what
IL theirs. n the law, which il me.
nnds SO mOny obstacles to detachinr
them.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
FROM THE HICKEYvT.LE
CLARION

Lem Doaks and family have bes,,n
to rave up for = Thanksgiving turkey.
pennies already and hope to have the
required amount IN ~ month or two.
There In only one poorer w.v -
make money than by running q h.rher
shop In a cemetery. and that n To mt
your coin up again some other fel,sr:s
experience In the gold minin' business.
When you see \ Teller lookln' n MIN.
self In u plate glass window. II /. mi.
another proof that nature makes :
MISTAKE once In Z while ni.A puts - nte
en- q fellcr when he should have skirs.
Am TilsOn. our gentlc,nAn)y ana nm
genial tOnAOr1aI artist. 10 sdverfisim-
shamps.os At reduced rates, but nost
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
THE RUBBER CANOE.

tFrGm the Hickeyville Clarion.D
Having nothing else to do one bright
afternoon Rem Purds and Hank Wig
gins Rol together and thought out an
invention which wou.d revolutlonize
water traffic throughout the world. 1t
was nothing more nor less than a rub
Der canoe. They had seen tin canoes.
birch canoes but never a rubber ca
noe. The advantage OF q rubber ca
noe was that it would not hurt 1t to
get wet. Then again when the rubber
canoe turned upside down. AZ canoes
Will. at the most unexpected moments.
It would not be necessary ia turn It
over again. The man who had been
spilled out of the canoe would merely
have to jump OF 1t as II lay upside
and 60 on his way rejoicing.
They could wee almost as many adj
vAntages to the rubber canoe as to the
rubber hot water bag. the rubber nurs-
ing bottle. the rubber automatic tire.
h rubber s~uspcnders Or the rubber
collar. and SO they got down to work
with a will. Within the fortnight the
hrst rubber canoe had been completed.
and the two inventors started from
Hickeyville up the river to Peavey
Junction In Il.
They padded as happily az two
school hOye. but they noticed that the
padding was hard. They were Obliged
to dig In for all they were worth to
make. any hsadwav Mt all. It some.
timts seemed ~ though they were ut
. ste ndstill. Firall:. after several
hours of terrific sxertton. they reached
Peavey junction and jumped nut on
the dock. 40 soon ~ they landed ON
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
Automatic sprinklsrs.

FTUM INBuT2nce ENRfneer7nK.
Records Of fires in buildings equipped
With automatic sprinklers. kept by the
National Fire Protection association,
show that out OF 1887 fires the protec-
ton was successful in 1885 cases, or
1901 per cent. the s%prinklers either ex-
tinguishing the fires or holding them
in check. In 1896 fires the operation
OF n sprinkler Was sufficient, and
SIG blazes were PUT out by three or
less before a larger number were
opened by the heat. About 50 per cent
of the fires occurred between 8 4. m.
and 8 p. M. and 8 per cent were dis
covered by employees. The fires &C.
Cured In l24 classes OF occupancy. The
failures or unsatisfactory hres (%.so per
cent? in buildings equipped with auto
matte sprinklers were due meinly to
preventahle causes.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
Line. to a Waterfowl.

etU0S 70 q W0v0VtOWls
Whittier MIDST falling dew,
While glow the heavens with the last
steps OF day,
Far, through their rosy depths. dost thou
pursue
Thy solitary way?
Nainly the fowler's eye
Night mark thy distant flight to do thee
wrong,
As. darkly painted on the evening sky.
Thy figure floats along.
Seekest thou the plashy brink
Or weedy lake, or marge OF river wide,
Or where the rocking pillows rise and
sink
On the chafed oceans side?
There is IL power whose care
Teaches thy way along the painless
coast,
The desert and illurnitable air
Lone wandering, but not lost.
All day thy wings have famed,
AT that far height, the cola, thin atmos-
phere,
Yet stoop not, weary. to the welcome land,
Though the dark night be near.
And soon that toll shall end,
Soon shall thou find IA summer home and
rest
And scream among thy fellows: reeds
shall bend
Soon Ger Thy sheltered nest.
Thou'rt gone-the abyss OF heaven
Hath swallowed up thy form; yet on my
Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast
given,
And shall not soon depart.
He who, from zone to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky thy
certain night,
IN the long way that must tread alone,
Will leaa my steps Alright.
William Cullen Bryant.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05

The domestic troubles of a Chicago
couple we'll known In the beef pack
Ing nobility which the man attributes
to differences in temperament" were
the topic of conversation at q New
York hotel where one OF the dissatis-
Ned ones Ia a guest. six months ago."
said q townsman OF the couple. IA
similar case had the attention Of the
beef world. Then the man put tie
blame on Incoinpatibility OF teinpera-
ture.' He wanted the bedroom VIM
dows open and his wife wanted them
closed. The case never got into court,
but was settled with the aid Of an
NrChitect."
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
A1AN.THE.SPU2
5UF.T
w By ROY T.. MOUCTON.

the dock they looked own at the wa
ter to see their anoe and it had dis
appeared.
1t was Il deep. dark mystery, but the
explanation came later. 1t seems that
shortly after they left H%ickeyville the
stern of the rubber boat had caught
on a snag and held. The padding was
very hard, for they were merely
stretching the canoe out. Neither had
had time to look back. They had man
the canoe out until the front end of 1t
reached the Peavy Junction dock.
When they had jumped out the canoe
had snapped back four miles to the
snag. where it was later found float
ing peacefully on the water.
THE OLD FASHIONED MAN.
Oh, what has becOm of the old fash
toned mar with the spectacles that
were square?
The man who wore arctics and ear
lnuffs. too. and was seen almost
everywhere?
The man with creased boots and the
flowing beard and mitten Of
brightest red:
The ma with moth eaten coonskin can
pulled tightly down on his head?
He used to sit round the old grocery
store and tell OF the days gone by.
An oracle he. of the rarest sort, which
nobody could deny.
oh. what has become of the ancient
sage who swore by the almanac.
Who used to have red flannel under
wear and plasters upon his back ?
He wrapped himself tightly in comfort
ers whenever he stirred outside
AND passed out the weather predictions
which never We're once decried.
lie chewed slippery elm for pastime and
dotted on good yarb tea.
The old fashioned remedies he pre-
scribed. for an old fashioned man
was he.
The old fashioned man is around here
still. but he doesn't look quite the
same
He's spruced up a bit as the years have
passed and he's in on the progress
game.
His whiskers are of and his mustache
trimmed and his clothing is up to
date.
For the old farm has paid and the
mortgage is now completely wiped
off the slate.
The sun has been shining in recent
years n he has been making hay.
The old fashioned man OF the wears
gone by is the new fashioned man
today.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
In the erection Of the building for

In the erection OF the building for
the state educational department at
Albany. N. Y. a saving of more than
$500, 900 was effected by the use OF terra
Gotta without In the least sacrificing
The appearance OF the structure. The
greatest Item vas in the capitals for
The columns surrounding the building.
There are 28 of these and the caps
are about IL feet high. 1t was Mt first
Intended that these should be carved
out of marble to match the remainder
Of the facade. but 1t was discovered
that the substitution could be made
without being apparent and SO the terra
Gotta was adopted.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05

Some strange occupations figure on
the Indian census schedules. At the
last census in many villages OF Hyder-
abad and the central provinces enthus-
iastic and devout enumerators returned
the village shrines and temples as
occupied houses" The occupant was
the Idol, whose occupation was stated
~ granting Blooms and blessings or
subsistence on contributions from the
tenants" Other callings returned on
the schedules include collectors OF
edible birds tests. receivers of stolen
goods, witches, wizards and COW pois-
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05

Mrs. Anna M. Albrecht is the only
woman blacksmith In New York city,
and perhaps in the entire country. She
acts as assistant to her husband, who
conducts a shop in Bronx borough.
Mrs. Albrecht has aided her husband
I'm his work the last two years. at
nrst h entire day. but now that he
q few hours q day. Che Is a sturdy,
well built woman. OF medium height,
y years old. and 10 the mother OF three
children.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05

The Italian chancellor Of the e <
chequet has granted 100000 lire for
the excavations to be made In Hercu-
laneum. The king himself has prom
Used to give 100000 lire for the same
purpose. It 10 curious to note that 60
houses have been built right over the
streets of the old town. These will all
have to be pulled down. Considerable
treasure. It Ia said. lies hidden be-
meath the ruins to be examined.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05

Pitchblende from Cornwall is so
rich in radium that Sir William Rum
sey declares a grain can be produced
every month. He claims to have re-
duced the time for extracting the
mineral from one year to two months.
This work is being done in the British
radium factory in London. Until the
new supply was made In London the
total amount of radium in the world
did not exceed five grains. About one-
third grain of the mineral is extracted
from a ton of ~pitchblende.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05

I
Mos gen'ally dcy has to stop.
Becase. heyon' de slightest doubt.
DoN has q m wo' dere engines out.
An when de engine. it done quit,
Dat always an de end of it.
Some tries de intermejit speed.
Dev hasn't got quite so much greed.
But still dey somehow likes to spin
As rapid as dey safely kin.
An when dey tackle dat ole hill,
Dey amt exactly stand1n' still.
Some of desc fcllers reach de brow,
But gcn'ally it seems as how
Dat Gey has nearly always got
TIC stop and tinker up a lot.
An while to Cooperate dcy try.
A lot of slower folks go by.
Some is contented to 60 slow.
An strike de hin of Life on low"
Dey spare derc engines on de climb.
An know deyll sho' get there in time
Becase. each Twin mortal hour.
Dey'rt savin' up Il lot of power.
Dey keeps a-pluggin' right along.
An am de ones what finish strong.
WlleL dcN gifts mp to dc plateau.
Dey's got enough power TO to go
Along de road OF Life so fast.
Dere amt nobody what gifts past.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
any Teller would rather pay a little
more and get a real PEG while he is

any Teller would rather pay a little
more and get q real peo while he is
about it.
Anse Judson's wife went down to
town to get her hair done up by a
professional hair dresser and when
she got back home, her husband treat
ed her real polite, thinking h was
some strange omar
Amos Butts, gentlemanly der
taker also livery, feed and sales sta.
bles. is bot Disguised with business
conditions. The last doctor we had!
moved out'n tow eight months ago.
and nobdy has died since.
Miss Pansy Perkins, of our village.
has wrote a pome which will surely.
be accepted and published by one Of
the high brow magazines because no..
body who has read 1t knows what it is
about and she doesn't know herself.
One burglar has got his punishment;
all right. He broke into Miss Euplle-i
MIA Timmin's house last Tuesday night
and she marched him right over to,
the justice of the peace at the point.
OF a revolver n married him.
Abijah Jones, proprietor OF the Hut,
tel Hickeyville, is quite stylish nowa-,
days. He has got some fancy bills oft
fare which he sent to New % fer;
and nobody kin read 'em. No mat!
ter what you order. you get roast beef.
oAAA 0AOWA eIoNS vi ROih ANU.
apple sass just the same. :.
A great many persons have Dragged
that they have made their %fortunesI
with thenr hands,. There is nothing,
particularly unique about this. VIII;
liam Whipple. the popular and con-.
genial groceryman OF our town. made;
his fortune with his hands, and ne is;
proud Of It. He has weighed at least,
one OF his hands with every pound Off
sugar, coffee or cheese thai he has sold
during the last 20 years. :.
ONE sOURLY SOLEMN THOUGHT.
l care not how the brides sing
Their charming farewell summer
lays.
l cannot say I'm crazy DER
The beauty of autumn days.
1 care not how the leaves may turn
From beauteous green to FURNISHED
gold.
I care not for the glorious skies
OF fall the poets have extolled.
There's just one thought I harbor now.
A thought that st:rs my very soul,
All else grows pale beside the fact
I've got to buy my winters coal.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05

\ man am IKE an
a~ut'mobile.
Resembles 1t quite
Il good deal.
Deere are o m G
fends fo' speed
who try
To make de hill of
Life on high
Can't bear to see
no one go past.
Dey tries to make
the grade too
fast.
Befo' dcy gifts up tc
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
DRESS SOM HINTs

Dress suits should never be worn
before 6 o'clock in the evening or after
6 O'clock i'm the morning.
The low neck vest is Il very import
ant feature. a man can get along,
without 81 swallow tailed coat easily
the function. Hc can crowd in where
the guests are the thickest and II he
sticks with the bunch nobody will
know whether there are IN tails on
his coat or not. A ommon ordinary
black smoking Jacket will do very
nicely. If it is ~ banquet. the sMok-
Ing Jacket will be 81 cinch. for there
ones cont il he sits on them all the
evening.
But the low ncsk ed vest is absolutely
necessary. 1t is proper to show a vast
expansc of white shirt bosom. ever If
IL Is ont. Il papcr fastened about the
neck. This sort of bosom is properly
known as the Richard. u common
usage has abbreviated it to the Dicky.
Splotches of tomato catsup and
gravy MAJ he removed from the shirt
front by tho judieious use of talcum
powder or chalk. 1t pays to carry a
piece of chalk arnund all the time. A
paper Dickcy should cot be worn more
than one season.
Pockets are omitted from dress suit
trousers n the hostess is thus en-
aDled to retain most of her solid silve.
teaspoons. Gentlemen who wear dress
SUIT trousers must carry their plug to-
bacco in their vest pockets.
Ihe dress suit makes Il fat mar look
like the salt pork barrel in the meat
market and makes the thin man look
like Il clothes-hotse in distress. 1t is
a misfit product OF a misguided civiliz-
atom which has To be put on with Il
shoe horn and removed with q; can
opener. Outside of that it is al right.
THE H1GHBROW.
Mary is a highbrow for she's been
away to college.
And she has picked up quite Il lot of
ornamental knowledge.
Mothers are pasSe and ia
theirs are just horrid.
Mary comments ON them in a manner
which is torrid.
Old folks don't know 10Y to eat,
And their meals are obsolete.
Old FOLK don't know how to dress and
Mary Is explaining
What to wear and how to act when
they are entertaining.
Dad must throw his pipe away and
wear his q at dinner.
Ma must buy a poodle dog IT, she
would be q winner.
Ihey must learn the Icy stare
And shake hands up in the air.
But this course Of training is at most
but temporary.
Fate is going to play a neat and nifty
Joke on Mary.
When she marries and she will, for
sure, some day or other
She will be old fashioned like her ia
ther and her mother.
Can he so all fired pnltto
When you're married. Amt it right?
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
Mers 70 the Dollar.
From the Mirror.

George AIDE. at the recent Lambs ram
boil In New York. objected to the extrava-
gance of the modern wife. ..It = true that
The married men Of today" he ended.
'.have better halves. but bachelors have
better Quarters."
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05

BY means of Il modification of the
m~icrOphOne, a French inventor has
been enabled to find springs OF water
as far as so feet under the surface OF
the ground and it is supposed that hia
instrument will be of great value to
miners. prospectors and persons SIM
ilarly employed. a we'll as u means
OF locating miners who may be en-
tombed by accident. A tube is thrust
into the ground for a few feet n tho
improved miscrophone is attached to
the upper end and the noise of flowing
or dropping water is clearly heard. At
ter this it is u simple matter to find
the exact location of the water. Thu
apparatus has been tried out and its
success demonstrated
According to information supplied by
h deputies themselves. the new Aus
TRAN parliament is composed OF 12a
landed prOprietors, SO advocates and
the same number of authors and jour
nalists, Al public officials. 40 professors,
36 persons I'm private employment. -
business men. II Judges, IA manufac-
turers, " burgonasters, 10 teachers.
nine doctors, nine diet members II
nine former cabinet ministers and
privy councillors. eight engineers, seven
merchants. five political officials. three
private persons, two clergymen and an
active cabinet minister, an artist. u
town councillor, an officer and a work.
tngman.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05

The Madrid Telephone company.
lh0ugh the priEcipal one In Spain. With
IN q leading cities. has only
!. Ssob subscribers.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05

4 new lnsulator for use ~ e,actr,..,
work 70 made by condensins rh.naii
end tormaldohyde. L % saSdi 4" s.',
setnbla japanese lacquer. ~
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
SALYE,

There are lots. OF folks who spread 1t.
And they spread 1t every day.
1T makes mp their conversation.
They can talk no other way.
Tellcr's always glad to see 'em.
You can see 'em for n block.
And their little bunch of salve IL
Always better than a knock.
Course. faint always hat they mean
But 1T sounds good just the same.
Ard 1t makes YOU sort of like 'em.
When they come and boost vour
game.
Even though you know they're Twin,
And their talk cannot he true.
You mehO can't help but feel thev
Take an interest in you.
They have got the hammer throwar.
Beaten by Il good long mile.
with their pleasant conversation
And a~ppreciatin' smile.
Now 1t doesn't cost n penny
To PASS out a word that's kind.
And 1t always seems to somehow
Soothc the other fellows mind
Amt nobody that is perfect
Or that amt mad no mistake
And there's surely consolation
In a heart.' old hands,ake.
1T has caused a lot Of comfOrf
1t has eased Il lot OF woe.
And the optimistic Teller
Is the man q want to know
In this world of disappointments.
It's Il blessing hat we have
Quite a lot of genial fcllers
Who Know how to spread the salye.