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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
The White House Is Closely Guarded

the corridor of the aain floor and an
other the corridor of the upper private
floor.
Outside there is constant vigilance
in front and in the rear, If the White
House may be conceived as having
any rear. The south front is as beau
tiful as the north front and indeed
more so. A policeman is always on
guard at the south portico, and espe-
cially so at night. One parades with
the regularity of a sentryman the
half covered corridor leading from
the White House to the executive Of
fees.
That the White House should have
to be thus carefully guarded may seem
strange to Americans who's CHIEF ex-
ecutive is after all only a democrat
who is a citizen temporarily, holding
a high public office. But 1t is neces-
sary. Three Presidents have been
assassinated, although none ever at
the White House. 1t would seem
none ever could be because of the
vigilance kept there. But a fierce
light plays upon the White House and
the occupants of it, especially the
president. 1t attracts all KINDS OIL
people, and cranks are ever danger
Gus. Many is the one a~pprehended
before he has gone far. And in this
land of liberty there are also other
people who have dangerous ideas cen
tering on the life of the chief mag
istrate.
Besides, Americans. and especially
American women are very fnquisit1ve
and given much to vandalism. They
come in shoals to Washington, and
their first thought is the White House.
They want to inspect 1t from bottom
to top. They want to miss nothing,
and many of them would like to take
away mementoes. Their a~udacity and
lack of and observance OF
other proprieties Is amazing.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
Uncle Sam Warns Against Mosquitoes

III lR on the mosquito al well as on
w the house fly has been declared
by the department Of agriculture. AS
a disseminator Of disease b mos
quito is branded as being as great a
menace to humanity as the fly. l.. o.
Howard. chief of the bureau of ento-
molegy, has issued a bulletin on the
protection Of communities from mos
ouitoes. He lays stress on the ne
osssity of abolishing breeding places
Of the insect pest.
Where the rain barrel and rain wa
ter tank are necessary they should be
screened. The waste places In the
immediate vicinity Of q house should
be carefully searched for tin cans, bot
Ties and wooden or tin boxes In which
water can accumulate, and all such
receptacles should be destroyed or car
ried away. The roof cutters should
be- carefully examined to make sur
that they are not clogged 30 as to al
low the water to accumulate.
.eThe chicken pans in the poultry
ward. the water in the troughs for do
nestle animals, the water cup OF the
grindstone are all places In which
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
WELCOMED BY MEN WHO
SMOKE

Particular men who smoke realize
how offensive to people of refinement
is a strong tobacco breath, and how
Objectionable to themselves is that
"dark brown taste" in the mouth
after smoking.
Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic is worth
its weight in gold for this purpose
alone. Just a little in a glass Of water
rinse the mouth and brush the teeth.
The mouth is thoroughly deodorized,
the breath becomes pure and sweet
and a delightful sense of mouth clean
liness replaces that dark brown to-
bacco taste.
Paxtine is far superior to liquid an
tiseptics and Peroxide for all toilet
and hygienic uses and may be obtain
ed at any drug store 25 and SOC a box
or sent postpaid upon receipt Of price
by The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston,
Mass. Send for a free sample.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

1t takes a good man a whole day TO
change one bill. Elves raised to tens
are the most frequent offenders OF this
sort. The workman thus makes So
a day.
And yet in spite of all care and all
precautions, counterfeiters are event
ually run to earth. Why? Three rea-
sons: Bank, secret service n system.
In the long run most money In circu-
lation comes into the hands Of some
bank. And there the counterfeit,
good or bad, eventually meets it's
downfall. Tellers and cashiers ham
die so much currency that they seem
to be gifted with second sight.
If he cannot tell at first glance
whether the money is bad, he consults
two monthly counterfeiting magazines
n usually finds what he is after.
The magazine people cooperate with
the secret service. And the next tell
er or cashier who gets the mate of
the note knows right off what the
counterfeit is.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
Graftinu Wax With Oil,

The wax is made of one pound bees
wax, five pounds of resin, one pint of
f1axseed oil and one ounce of lamp
black melted together. The object is
to get a wax that is soft enough to
be pliable without running and a little
practice will soon show whether the
wax needs more or less oil. A con-
venient furnace can be made for heat
ing the wax in the orchard by TAX
ing a coal oil can, cutting out the
top, placing lou wires across, two
each way about four inches from the
top, and cutting an opening to use in
placing fuel in the bottom. A wire
bail completes the furnace. A three
quart saucepan is large enough to hold
wax, which may be made as needed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
TREATMENT OF CANE FRUITS
If Not Wanted Young Suckers and
Shoots 5hould Be Dug Up-cut
Out All the Dead Wood.

The young shoots and suckers from
the old canes, if not wanted, should
be dug up. Cut out all dead wood,
leaving three thrifty stock in each
hill. If a new plantation is to be
made, dig up carefully with a ball of
earth the strongest young shoots
growing in the rows. Set these in
clean, mellow ground; mark the rows
five feet apart; set the plants three
feet apart in the row For the family
garden set two feet apart in the row
and train to a wire trellis. This is de-
cidedly the best method, as the bed
can be properly worked and more and
more and irmer fruit can be grown.
The Cuthbert is the leading red rasp-
berry. 1t is productive, hardy, with
large, healthy foliage. Golden Queen,
a yellow variety, seeding of the Cuth-
bert, Is a productive and hardy va
riety. Being of large size and of a
beautiful color, I consider it one of the
best for family use as well as for mar
ket. Cumberland is the popular mar
ket black cap.
Clean out the grass and weeds in
the rows; spread one forkful Of rot
ted around each hill; cult
vate the ground between the rows,
then throw a light furrow to the hills
on each side Of the rows.
The dead wood of the currant bush
Ell should be cut close to the ground,
fork out the grass and weeds, and give
the same fertilizing and culture as for
raspberries. The work. should be
done in the fall and not left until
spring.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
MULCH FOR THE STRAWBERRY
Protects Them From Injury of Freez-
ing and Thawing and Conserves
Moisture Fruit Needs.

The average farmer doesn't grow
strawberries at all and many of those
who do entirely neglect to mulch
them. The benefits of mulching are
%threefold; to protect from the injury
of freezing and thawing, to keep the
berries clean and free from grit and
to conserve moisture that the fruit
often needs at time of ripening. In
favorable seasons berries can be sue
cessfully grown without mulcihng, but
for a term of years there is no care
that pays better. The work is best
done the first time the ground is
frozen hard and any kind Of straw
that is perfectly free from grass or
weed seed Is good material, says a
writer in the Ohio Farmer.
! have made two bad mistakes in
selecting material. Once when | used
wheat straw that had timothy seed in
il and again when l used clover hay.
! la such a good stand OF timothy
and clover that l couldn't fruit the
bed the second season, but had to
pillow it and start new one While
the work is considerably more there
is no material quite SO good for mulch
ing as leaves. This season a strong
wind swept the leaves clean from
the lawn and lodged them in a great
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. no other
w building in America Is so well po-
Iced as the White House. It takes
40 men to do it daily. If n mis-
chievous stranger should seek en-
trance, he would not get far. Twenty
four men guard the outside of the
building and IS the inside. Eight are
in the executive offices. Fourteen
guard the White House within and
without at night. The number of men
enumerated does not include the Sc
cret service men who guard the per-
son Of the president and who are some
times in service to guard the mem
bers of the presidents family. Every
door in the White House has it's po-
liceman constantly on guard.
There are always two in the base
ment of the executive Offices, where
there is a large door leading from
the street for the reception of sup
plies. There is always a policeman at
the kitchen entrance. Two men in
livery, not policemen, guard the main
entrance into the White House at the
north portico. In the daytime there
is a policeman in the east room and
one each at both stairways that lead
to the private apartments Of the
president and his family on the upper
floor.
There is a policeman always in the
basement, the entrance to which is
from the east wing of the mansion.
At night a policeman guards the base
ment corridor Of the interior, another
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

these pests of mosquitoes will breed.
I'm slightly marshy ground a favor
lite breeding place is the footprints Of
cattle and horses. In n country
village, which contains many small
vegetable gardens in clay soil, during
a rainy season mosquitoes were found
breeding abundantly in the water &C
cumulating in the burrows.
Even in the house these mosQui-
toes breed in many places. Where the
water in flower vases is not frequently
changed mosquitoes will breed. They
will breed in water pitchers in unused
guest rooms. Public dumps are great
breeding places, because here accumu-
late Did bottles, cans, boxes, bits of
tin or iron vessels and other objects
In which water may accumulate for .
time"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
Peach Loss Caused by Insects.

Approximately $8,000,0 900 loss was
sustained by the peach growing indus
try in the United States east of the
Rocky mountains last season from
brown rot, scab, and curculio, a small
beetle, according to a department of
agricultural bulletin. The heavy an
nual loss has been investigated for
four years by the bureau of entomol-
ogy and plant industry with a view to
preventing or minimizing the ravages
on a fruit that in commercial impor-
lance ranks second only to apples. 1t
Is estimated that with liz, $50, 900
bearing trees last seasons crop ag-
gregated from $12, 00O, 900 to SIG, OO0.-
900.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
Clean Sanitary Floors.

Varnish, which Is commonly regard,
ed only as a beautiier, is an efficient
sanitary agent. Vanished surfaces can
be cleaned by wiping, and the microbe-
laden dust is thus kept out of the air.
A vanished floor is therefore not only
up to date, beautiful and easily clean
ed, but is wholesome. The National
Association of Varnish Manufacturers,
CSC The Bourse, Philadelphia, Penn,
are distributing free a booklet entitled
Modern Floors" which tells how
floors may be made and kept whole
some and attractive. Send for one.
Varnish Is cheaper han carpet and
far more satisfactory.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
Fitting.

did your nephew make a suitable
marriage?"
Eyes" replied the man who habitu-
ally thinks along erratic lines. H
has curly blond hair. and has never
done anything more herculean thai
to pick fawg on a guitar, and-wen,
he married a female baseball player"
Puck.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
Riaaest Apple.

The biggest apple In the world, prob
ably the biggest that has eve been
grown, was sold at Covart Garden re-
Gently. The apple sold, says the Pail
Mall Gazette, is a beautifully proper
toned and colored Gloria Mundi. was
grown at the Kings Acre Fruit Trees
Nursery, at Hereford, and weighs no
less than 81 ounces. 1t has a circum-
ference of 1917 inches and is 5 inches
In height.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
Fruit Growers.

Fruit growers are mostly in the for
estry business. They train their trees
to produce wood and wonder why
crops are late in appearing and dull
in color when they ONE They should
be in the fruit growing business, and
prune so as to let in light and air, also
to induce early productivity. 1t is as
easy to grow good fruit as poo fire
wood.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

Some men are anxious to get money
because they think it will enable them
to get more.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

moval of all rotted fruit and spraying
for the fungus, as e the calendar,
may be relied upon to ave a part OF
the fruit, but judgment and attention
to the details of the work are always
required. 1t is to be understood, also,
that checking the curculio is a sure
means of helping to check rot.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

1t sometimes happens that a woman
marries a man because she Is sorry
for him. But is not that a poor way
to show her sympathy?
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

There are times In the life of every
small boy when he would like to as
sumo the role of father to the man for
a few brief moments.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
DISEASES OF CHERRY TREE
Leaf-Spot May Be Prevented by Use
of Bordeaux Mixture-Mildew
Usually Found on Sprouts.

Leafspot and mildew-the first
named disease is caused by what is
called "Shot-hole Fungus and may be
successfully prevented by the S of
bordeaux mixture, except that only
half the strength of the mixture may
be applied with safety to the foliage
of the cherry. The mildew Is usually
found chiefly upon sprouts and young
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
Unkfnd.

Mrs. Benham-They can't say that
all your money goes on my back.
Benham-Not If they look at your
face.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

If your skin is marred by pimples an!
liver marks, take Garfield Tea. 1t vii
regulate the liver. cleanse the system AM
purify the blood.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

Unless he is home where he can
rage before the family about 1t, a bald
headed mar will pretend he doesn't
know there are such things as flies.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

To Take for a Headache.
What do you take for a h~eadache?'
Liquor, the night before."-Toledo
Blade.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

Garfield Tea will regulate the liver, Civ
ing freedom from sick-headache and bilious
attacks. 1t overcomes constipation.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup fer Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces innanna
tea. sllsys pain. cures wind collie. 25c q bottle
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

Newly Set Strawberry Beds.
Pick off all the blossoms from new
ly set strawberry beds; thus you ser
all the plants strength back into them
selves-into growth. 1t Is unwise to
let plants fruit the first season.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

Some men look upon laws as things
merely to be broken.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

There is no fool like the peacemaker
who interferes between husband and
wife.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

Ses. .nS %oss q2sss:a s2s.ssS, shi:p Tam. and
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

Anyway, there is nothing monoto
nous about the weather.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02

4 Percy-Weally, Daisy, I dawnced SO
Enormously in that last waltz that
me head feels light, doncher know.
Daisy-Indeed! I supposed that
Sensation was so common with you
that you had ceased to notice II
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-02
A Prudent PROGRAM.

body an umbrella" said MI. Growch-
err.
Good idea," replied Mr.. Grump.
IF you keep lending an umbrella
about there's no telling when it may
drift into the hands of the original
owner."
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-08-15
OCULIST'S NEW DISCOVERY
Theory OF Process OF Vision 10
Changed as Result Of Series Of
Experiments.

n new discovery with regard to the
phenomena of the sense of sight has
been announced by DR.. F. w. Edridge.
Hrcen. an eminent English authority
In visual research. He has found by
an interesting series of experiments
and tests that the process OF vision 10
not tho simple transmission by the
optic nerve to the brain Of objects
photographed upon the retina.
The new discovery in non-technical
language amounts to this: In front OF
the retina there is small chamber
or sac Of clear liquid which Is In con-
slant motion of currents or eddIes.
DR.. Green finds that this liquid itself
contains distinct perceptive nerve
power which plays an important part
In conveying impressions to the
brain.
In other words, this wonderful fiuid
contains liquid nerves. so to speak,
which transmit to tho understanding
considerable part of the impression
u receives of color. form. etc.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-08-15
GERMAN HEALTH RESORTS

The German spas, or watering
places, are we'll known and popular
resorts, not only for the people of
Germany, but for practically all
OF Europe. As they are under the
control of the state, and as careful
records are kept, it is possible to
secure accurate data tgarding
them. The Berlin correspondent
of The journal Of the American
Medical Association in a recent
letter give some interesting facts
about these resorts. There arc in
Germany 312 sea and mineral
bathing places, Of which 10 are in
Prussia, while l02 OF the ZIG
mineral spas are in Prussia. There
are lightweight watering places
on the east Sea. and twenty-eight
on the Moth Sea. The popularity
and prosperity of these watering
places is shown by the numtcr IF
visitors. In 1870 the total number
Of isitors at all of the baths was
SO, 1886, while in 1900 the total
number amounted to 584, 46J,
an increase of $50 per cent. The
visitors at the mineral springs in
1900 numbered 345, 900, while the
visitors at the seaside resorts in
the same year amounted to $780,
403. The number Of foreigners
has also increased greatly in the
last three decades. In 1870 only
401 Americans visited these
rssorts. In 1900 there we're
2,61l.
II Is estimated that each patient
spends an average of 500 at the
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-08-15


baths. $3.50 at one of the North
Seas resorts, and $50 at one Of the
East Sea resorts. On this basis
lis estimated that, in 1905, over
500, 100000 were expended at the
various health resorts of Pruss a.
In addition, the expectation of
medicinal and table water brought
in nearly 100000 more, making
the entire financial returns for
Prussia resorts in 1905 over $67,-
00o, 600; while the receipts for all
the German watering places in the
same year amount to 500, 900, 900.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-08-15
SOME WISE SAYINGS.

Labor is life.
Many truthful people are tickle ms
liars.
We must he in the dark in order o
see light.
A wise man will change his mind. a
fool never.
A picture and a battle are best seen
mt a distance.
Hope is OF use only when everything
becomes hopeless.
III you wish to know the value OF a
dollar. ask loan of 1t.
Beware Of the silent man and tie
dog that does not bark.
The sancst man often has the most
Insane dread on insanity.
Honor Is a luxury to n millionaire
but cold necessity to a poor man.
~, He who has Il tongue in his head
may find his way where he pleases.
What man can do is his greatest
ornament, and he always consults his
dignity by doing 1t.
Why should woman be so sus.
picious OF anyone who knew her hus-
band before she did?
Tho weaker and more indefensibIe
person Is the more we should re.
spect and try to help him.
The true epic of our times, not arms
and the Dian, but tools and the man
IN Infinitely wider kind OF epic a
We arc commanded to love our
nciEhbor because he Is usually the
most unlovable kind Of creature.
God and the doctor we alike adore
just on the brink OF danger. not be-
fore; the danger passed. both are alike
requitcd; God Is forgotten. the doctor
sighted.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-08-15
STEEL EMPLOYEES UNDER
PAID AID OVERWORKED

Secretary Nagel Of t"e depart
ment of commerce and labor yes.
tcrady made a special report to
the Senate or the conditions of
employment in the iron and steel
industry in the United States,
stating that "out of over 10000
employees covered in the. report,
the customary working week for
one-third Of them was seven-day
week, Sunday not differing fron.
other days. Approximately one
fourth Of the 5000 worked Sd
hours, or over, per week, which
in effect means l2-hour day
every day in the week, including
Sunday"
Secretary Nagel's report will
result in special investigation
made in response to a resolution
of Scnat"r Borah. 1t covers
practically all of the iron and
steel plants in the United States.
1.-THE fact that stands out most
strikingly in the study of labor
conditions in the iron and steel
Industry of the United States"
says the report, is the extent to
which the 12-hour day and woI k
seven days per week prevails in
this industry"
Much Sunday work is no m.re
necessary than in other industries,
says the report.
Nearly GO per cent of TIE en-
ployes are foreign horn, and
nearly twD thirds Of these are
Slavic. Almost half Of the 90, 600
employees receive less than 70 cents
per hour, onc-quarter under 25
cents per hour. A few very
highly skilled employees, however
receive $l.25 an hour. Those
receiving so cents an hour md
over number less than one
twentieth.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-08-15
A WISE PRNv|SION

Did you ever notice when a man
smltes his thumb with a hammer
while putting down a carpet under
his wife r supervision how quickly
h, thrusts the bruised and throb-
ing me mber into his mouth?
People think it is because the
application is soothing. But the
movement is purely involuntarily
like winking. The man cannot
help it The fact is that nature
knows what a man is apt to say
under such circumstances and so
has provided him with an
automatic stopper. Whenever he
hits his thumb hard enough to
hurt-and it doesn't take a very
hard blow almost to kill a mar
when he is doing something he
doesn't like to do-by a sort of
interlocking system his thumb
flies into his mouth, and for t he
critical moment speech is cut off.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-08-15
CATRRRH CANNOT Be cUIED

by local applications, as they can
not reach the diseased portion of
the ear. There is only one way to
cure deafness, and that IS by
constitutional remedies. Deafness
is caused by an inf1amed condition
of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is infiamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hear
ing. and when it is entirely closed,
Deafness is the result, and unless
the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out
of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred
DLhars for any case of Deafness
(caused by catarrh) that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars. free.
f. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for
Constipation. -I...