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Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-11-17
LOCAL NOTES.

Ill& vi tllO SlONNliOiNNAS "a e'A~ ~~O>--
Growers Bank.
Insure your property at Stock
Growers State Bank. Best COM
panies and cheapest rates.
c. w. Boldt of Eagle Butte and
George Leach Of Minneapolis,
came in Monday by team from
Cheyenne Junction. They got a
ride to the Junction from Mobidge
on a snow plow.
Don't run the risk OF losing
your valuable papers. Kent a
safety deposit box at the Stock
Growers Bank.
Charles Wilson returned last
week from several months visit to
Bancroft, la. and other places in
that state.
Commissioner Felt informs us
that the railroad will not ship in
any more coal free of charge after
December 1st so that all orders
should be in at once. Orders are
also now being received to make
I'D couple OF cars Of shelled and
ear corn.
Line your houses with indie
structible wall board. A good
substitute for lath and plaster.
We have it in four foot widths
at Hollandsworth-G reenman Cos.
The material has arrived for the
construction of stock yards at this
place and the railroad company
will begin work as soon as weather
conditions permit. This will be
quite a convenience to people llv-
ing near here who have heretofore
been compelled to drive stock for
shipment down to Cheyenne Jun
ction.
For particulars as to place
where a young girl can board
while attending school, inquire at
the ADVOCATE office.
Rev. Emil Dietrich of Belle
Fourche, arrived last week and
will act as pastor of the congregat-
ional church here until a regular
pastor can be secured. which will
probably be some time next month.
Mr.. Dietrich has been here several
times before and has consequently
become quite well acquainted. He
states thst regular services will be
held next Sunday both morning
and evening at the usual hours.
LOST: One dark brown horse,
gelding, weight about 400 lbs.
S years old, blocky build, no other
distinguishing marks. Any infor-
nation concerning the animal will
gladly be received by E. H. Stat
ford.
The first attraction in the lecture
and entertainment course arranged
for the present winter, was Everett
Kemp. who last Thursday evening
recited the play, Seven Oaks"
He received perfect attention from
his audience and at the end of each
act was literally applauded. The
general opinion seems to be that it
was very artistic presentation of
the play but that it lacked to some
extent an opportunity for the i'm
personator to sufficiently act the
1OlC vi SOlllCuldll. AL ltlC COlIlCUy
feature of the entertainment was
due to his impersonation of chara-
cters, there being absolutely no
comical situations in the play itself.
Will consider applications for
loans from parties desiring to COM
mute. Address Box II6, Timber
Lake, S. d.
The services advertised for last
Sunday in connection with the ded-
ication of the new baptist church.
were necessarily postponed on
account of the first blizzard OF the
season. 1t happened however that
Rev. S. ?. Shaw of Sioux Falls,
who preached the dedicatory ser .
mon, arrived Friday, on the last
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19
CUFF

From the Cincinnati Times Star
 When Governor O'Neal of Alabama his opposition to the initia- tive, referendum and recall at the con- ference of governors at Spring Lake. N. J., on Tuesday, some of the newspa- per correspondents present, following a fashion of the day. at once began to speak of himsas a ''reactionary."
 Now that Sort of thing is all non- sense. A man may be opposed to the initiative, referendum and recall; he may still believe that the men who put free institutions in America on a firm basis knew as much about tho art of self government as some of the modern gentlemen who are striving so desper- ately to outbid each other in the con- test for radical support-and still not be reactionary. There are hundreds of thousands of Americans at the pres ent moment who take distinctly pro- gressive stand on political and social questions, but who take no stock in the initiative and referendum at all.
 We don't know whether Governor O'Neal Is reactionary or not His op- position to the initiative and referendum in It's broader application. and to the recall, certainly does not prove him to be one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19
The State Fair

The Alabama State Fair at Birming- ham opens two weeks from next Thursday. It promises to be the best fair ever held in Alabama, and that is saying good deal, for the state fair here last year and the year before were exceptionally good.
 In years past no exposition or fair on a large scale was ever ready on time. When the opening day came carpenters, painters and whitewash- CTS were busy, and they hardly fin ished their jobs before it was time for the exhibition to close. It is very different nowadays-in most cases, at any rate.
 President B. B. Burton of the Ala bama State Fair is new at the busi- ness, but he is a thoroughly equipped business man, and is brim full of en- ergy MT. Holcombe, who was presi- dent of the Fair association in 1909 and 1910, made grand success of this undertaking, and he and others who were active in former arrangements have aided MT. Burton in every way possible.
 The exhibits this year will be more extensive than ever. The free at fractions will be of very high class, and as for the music the concerts by Innes' band will be far ahead of any musical feature of any of the south ern fairs.
 The attendance last year was a record breaker, and there is every reason to believe that there will be a new high record in the attendance this year. Everybody in Birmingham will take in" the fair, and visitors will come by the thousands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19

of them have been harsh and cruel. But Stolypin was of a better type. While he was not progressive enough in his reform policies to satisfy nihil- ists, he had done a great deal to bet ter conditions in his unhappy land.
 The premier had been languishing in pain since Bogoroff shot him sev- eral days ago. The assassin belonged to band of revolutionaries whose displeasure he had incurred. and ac- cording to story told in Russia he had the alternative of killing the pre- mier or killing himself He chose the former. The statesman on his death bed spoke with compassion rather than bitterness of his then would-be slayer. "The little fellow was awful pitiful as he came up to me in the theatre" said Stolypin. "He was pale and bowed--a sorry figure"
 There have been so many regicides and assassinations of monarchical leaders within the past 50 years that the world is not so startled by these tragedies as it was in former times. They are most deplorable, neverthe- less, and there will be sincere lament over the untimely end of Premier Stolpyin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19
AMERICANS pLucKED ABROAD

From the Washington Post
 James H. OBrien, a wealthy contractor and builder of San Francisco, is at the Willard after a trip to Europe.
 ''I was first impressed on the way across" he said, when I discovered that more than 90 per cent of the passengers going abroad for a good time had not seen half of their own country. Some of them hadn't been a hundred miles away from New York. Is 1t any wonder that the people of Europe look upon the American as good things?
 T hadn't been in London a week aIntil I was homesick, and 1 found that most other Americans were in the same fix Then I went to Paris, and there they called me 'O-bre-ah.' Fine for an Irish man, isn't 1t? One time I wandered out to the entrance of my hotel, and was rather pleased to see at the door a real, black negro. who looked like he might have been at one time a porter in New York hotel. Close to the doorway I saw a picture of an American railway train, and I looked long and hungrily at it. The negor approached me and volunteered:
 DOut ' LOOK the same over nere, boss"
 I should say not I answered, still looking longingly at the picture
 Tse been over heah two years now and wants to git back. Tse savin' up to git money enough. Can you let me have a dollahT
 T thought he was really an American, and, naturally, I dug. He could have had A if he had asked A short time afterward I felt. like breaking his neck, for. I got next that it was his regular stall. Probably he paid a license fee for the privilege of playing foolish Ameri- cans. That's the way the Europeans have. They can spot Americans the mo- ment they see 'em, and there's no use trying to masquerade. They get on when you land and there is no escape
 Paris, added Mir O'Brien, lis Mona Lisa crazy. When it was discovered that the celebrated painting was gone, the pa pers got out extras, and there was more excitement about 1t than there was about the negotiations between France and Ger many over the Morocco difficulties The newsboys looked upon me as a crazy per son when refused to buy their papers. had suggested that I didn't even know Mona Liza Europe is a fine place, but l rather prefer America
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19
MORNING GLORIEs

By w. E. Vasser Their color deck the tassled corn, As though Old Glory there might flutter, Just when the rising winds of morn The first sweet strains of freedom ut-
 ter
 Red, white and blue. |, The corn fields through, The morning glories glow and flutter. The woven stuffs of Persian kings The Argive matron's loom surpasses And only natures weaving brings These silken flowers. in climbing massey - All fabrics fine
 Of mans design The morning glories bloom surpasses. The night has left some teardrops there Some dewdrops shine in mornings
 splendor; But myriad rainbows span the air About these blossoms, fresh and tender. ,. From out the night
 To greet the light The morning giories spread in splendor. The red Of patriots blood they show, The fadeless blue of skies unclouded, And white of conscience pure as snowz These hues the tasseled corn hal
 shrouded et
 And be our age s
 By that presagc, The morning glories home. uncleuded. Athens. Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19
MAINE AND THE LIQUOR PROBLEM

From the New York World
 Thfrty-six hours after the close of the polls in Maine the result of the vote was in doubt. with the figures slightly favor ing the "drys."
 In effect, poll so close is defeat for the Maine law. As the cities are grow ing faster than the towns, the state Is likely within very short time to enact high license law with local option, as it's neighbors have done. In New Hamp- shire license Is granted by a majority of voters and the fee rises to sl2o0. In Mass achusetts the fee Is 500 and saloons are limited to one for every 1000 inhabitants except in Boston. There one saloon Is allowed for 800 persons; and the dry towns about 1t make Boston one of the chief liquor selling marts of the country.
 The federal government prescribes local option and the sl00o fee for Alaska for the District of Columbia an $500 fee with a proviso that the consent of neighboring property holders be gained.
 In the states the cost of license varies from $50 year in Nevada to sl1O0 year in Pennsylvania, s120O in New York and elVuV III tNllouc lsldnu. ooiue SlateSt aS Indiana, Missouri and Ohio, have county option. It was fight over county license enforcement that the Newark tOhio) mob murdered Carl Etherington, the boy de- tective of law and order society. But generally local option is permitted to cities and towns. Some cities limit liquor selling to business streets, as saloons in residence quarters depreciate property. 1t has been proposed that in the large cities of New York local option by assem- ply districts be permitted. This would have the same effect-that of massing the saloons "dowptown.''
 The boldest experiment made by state was the South Carolina dispensary sys- tenn. under which the state itself sold liquor. It was abandoned after a few years trial for local option under county control. No American community has yet treated the problems of drunkenness with such success as Sweden and Nor way have done by rural prohibition under local option. and, in the towns, by the Gothenburg system of allowing no private profit to be made in selling spirits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19
Bank Deposits Increasing

One of the especially good features of the revenue bill enacted into law by the last legislature is the exemp- ton from taxation of bank deposits. Its practical effect is being seen right now. At this time of the year bank deposits have heretofore decreased. Funds were withdrawn from banks in order that taxation might be escaped.
 During the last ten days of Septem- Der the banks, even the very strong ones, found money tight, and tight money always means higher interest rates. Depositors of large means made 1t a rule to withdraw their money from the bank In September and send it to New York for temporary investment in low interest bearing securities. They would sell these securities in October to the tax assessor. It is very differ. ent now. The banks here in Birmins ham and throughout the state have more money on deposit than usual, and from now until October 1 deposits are expected to increase fast.
 When the matter of exempting banl deposits was discussed in the finance conference committee of the legisla ture last spring some of the member: failed to appreciate the far reachins importance of the clause, but whe, MT. Harding and other banker, showed that all classes of borrowers including farmers, would get the ben eft of this exemption, it was agreed to. Mir. Harding especially pointed out that instead of money being tigh the latter part of September whe, applications for loans were pressin it would be exceptionally plentiful The result of this exemption claus is now seen to be just as MT. Hari ing said. The banks will be caste at the end of this week than the, have ever been in any previous SeI tember.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19
Movement Now Popular

No movement for public benefit. in- volving large expenditure of money, is so easily understood as the good roads question. In most political propositions objections are easily pointed out. There are always two sides. But no bjection-certainly no sound objection-can be offered against the policy of spending county money for the betterment and exten- sion of county roads. The reasons why are now obvious to all.
 The little opposition to the good roads movement which was in evil dence in "the back districts" a few years ago, has practically passed away. H. B. Warner, editor of South ern Good Roads, and member of the Jackson Highway advisory commit tee, in referring to some of the ex- ploded objections of a year ago, says:
 "The argument that automobilists are the chief beneficiaries is false on bits face, because good road benefits all people; but take that argument, go a bowshot beyond, even, and say that given road proposition is en- tirely for the benefit of the automo- bilists, and you. will find yourself facing one of the finest of business propositions. For a good road at- tracts tourists, and tourists. spend money freely wherever they go. New England, always a leader in sound business methods to get money, has realized this, and Maine, New. Hamp- shire and Vermont are making money out of their investments in good roads, built especially to tempt the tourists. They have scenic attrac- tions and they class these with their assets. To utilize them and make money out of them, they construct modern highways for the man with the machine. Last year, the govern or of New Hampshire estimates, tour ists spent 100000 in his state, and this season much more will be spent. New Hampshire proposes to build three grand trunk highways, to cost S1 100000, and is going into such a costly proposition fully conscious that it is safely investing money for big dividends"
 The south is attracting more atten- tion today than ever before, and few states are being so favorably dis cussed in the north as Alabama. There has been some progress in this state in good road building this year, but we lack great deal of being up to the proper gait. Millions of dol- lars should be spent on good roads in Alabama during the next 12 months. No outlay would pay so well.
 Every farmer, be he renter or an owner, is vastly benefited by good roads, and every city, large or small, receives incalculable benefit. No ef- fort should be spared to heighten Alabama's good roads record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19

one of the few fair and ably edited prohibition papers in this country, says it shows a net loss in the prohi- bition vote of about 10000 and gain in the liquor license vote of about 36,- 900 as compared with the vote on the amendment in 1884. It says further: There is no evidence from these fig ures that any of the advocates of pro- hibition nearly 30 years ago changed their minds and that the result in 1911 Is proof that prohibition has been a fail- ure The vote shows the great change in the population of Maine, there being a large increase in the cities and corresponding increase in the wet" vote
 It Is to be remembered that for prac- tically half a century there have been no legalized saloons in Maine. The persons who led In the original cam paigns knew all the horrible condi- tions which are attendant upon the saloon. The present generation is ac- quainted only with the evils attendant dPOh bVtlicd SlHs OlihQ tA6 CA D. CNS.f anu they are informed that these evils are far greater than the open saloon and many have been persuaded that 1t is better to have licensed saloons. As experience with licensed saloons in the neighborhood of their homes would work a speedy cure in such cases. In the present campaign the liquor traffic of the nation centered its tremendous power upon the effort to repeal the amendment.
 The Virginian is doubtless true in inferring that the great increase in the wet vote corresponds to the in- crease in the population of cities. That journal reiterates the charge made by | prohibition politicians who campaign ed in Maine that liquor dealers pour ed money in to influence voters, and | every man who could be persuaded to | sell his vote was bought for a good sum-" That charge is probably un- fair. Most charges of that kind are | groundless or greatly exaggerated. | As Sterling A. Wood, with his char acteristic sly humor, said in speech | in behalf of Emmet O'Neal last year, "One of the fixed charges in every | campaign is that there is corruption fund.- Charges like that made with regard to Maine are "hack" phrases, but if prohibitionists can get any comfort out of the situation in Maine they are welcome to it.
 The prohibition wave is thing of the past. The few states that still have drastic prohibition laws will get rid of them in course of time. Local option is a democratic doctrine, and | it is a true American doctrine re- gardless of parties. Kansas, next to Maine, was regarded by prohibition ists as a model constitutional prohi- bition state, but blind tigerism and l liquor drinking are common Tn that state now. It may be some years be- fore Kansas tries a resubmission measure, but it is safe to say that within 10 years there will not be state in the Union with state wide nrohibition on the statue books.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19
RECORD FOR CHEWING

From the London Chronicle.
 It might be well for those who adopt the one meal day system to become chewers at the same time. A chewer according to dietetic experts, is one who chews all things so long as they have any taste left in them. Gladstone. it is rec9rded, used to take S2 bites to every mSunthful of food. This would be considered dangerously rapid eat- ing by the modern school of chewers "I have tried chewing conscientiously, writes MT. Eustace Miles, "A banana has cost 800 bites, small mouthful of bread and cheese 240 bites, greedy mouthful of biscuit (while I was walk Ing on Yorkshire moor) more than 1000 bites. It still seemed to taste about as much as at first; but I. knew that taste by then, so I swallowed?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19
The Maine Vote Analysed

Maine's vote on prohibition repeal has been of wider interest than any vote on liquor issue in recent years. The importance of Maine from a pro- hibition point of view is easily under stood. That state was the mother of prohibition legislation. The Maine law" became synonym of prohibit tion. The drastic sumptuary measures which Neal Dow had the legislature enact into law gave satisfaction to the many-to the many when the law was new; and even after some years of constitutional prohibition the law seemed to have been well observed in the rural districts and fairly well ob- served in most of the large towns.
 When many years later Kansas and other states started agitations for constitutional prohibition the leaders pointed to Maine as a splendid ex- ample of what could be done for tenn parance by writing prohibition in the organic law. But those sincere pro hibitionists failed to reckon with the history of fanatical isms, or with hu- man nature. People of Maine have long since been tired of state wide prohibition, and the democrats in that state only needed the opportunity for voting it out of the constitution.
 In analysing the Maine vote of yes tcrday week the Richmond Virginian,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19
KEMP AND THE FRA

New York Correspondence Cincinnati
 Times-Star.
 i've got to hand 1t to Fra Elbertus." said Harry Kemp, the peripatetic poet of Kansas. q think he's pretty bum philosopher and sour sage. but he's the best imitation of business man that Harry, the Wildwood Boy, ever ran across"
 MT. Kemp thereupon told of his ex- perience with the Roycroftie person. Kemp blew into East Aurora filled with the spirit of poesy to the exclusion of more material fodder. Fra Elbertus gave him the job of attending to the furnaces at one dollar a week. He could write poetry between times. It looked good to Kemp. He didn't mind the slenderness of his recompense, for he wanted to sit at the feet of the sage and sop up inspiration. By and by he produced a poem that was worth while and Fra Elbertus copped 1t.
 "IIe published 1t as his own. salu Kemp, and when I protested that l should have been given the credit, he tossed back that mane of hair. and put ms ndHu oH lily SHouAoSi "~ soulfully into my eyes. while he toid me that East Aurora was an ideal com- munity. We are equal shares in op- portunity,' said Elbertus.' Your poem Is mine. just as mine Is yours. Come into the golden glow of fraternal sum shine
 That wasn't just what he said,' Kemp admits, "but it approaches it. It didn't have any bearing on the fact that he had swiped me rhyme1child, but 1t got my mind off that subject. I gath cred the thought that each produced as he could and took what share of the common store, he needed. No one put me wise until one day I broke Roy croftie vase, that cost about $7 to manufacture. Hubbard went into spasm of poetic wrath. I told him we were even. He had gobbled my poem. and had busted his canister. You're a fool.' said Hubbard Any one can steal poem, but I can sell a vase. How long do you think 1t will take you to pay for that vase out of your wages of dollar a week?'
 Well" concluded Kemp, 'I may be a poet, but I'm not wild ass of the desert. I gave Fra Elbertus some of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Jackson Highway nenefit

"We are almost sure to have cool pleasant weather by the first of october and if we are thus favored I think there will be large attendance at the concert for the benefit of the Jackson highway fund.- said man interested In good roads and also in music.
 Quite a choice programme had been arranged for last Sunday. and am told there had been enough tickets sold 10 clear at least s100 but the carly after noon was sultry and there was shower. Under the circumstances the committee did we'll to postpone the entertainment. It was a mistake to advertise 1t for an earlier opening time than S:so o'clock. TWO thirty. the time announced for last sun day, was certainly too carly