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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
TO Be A STATE PARK
Illinois to Preserve Grounds oil
Old Fort ChartreS.
This Stronghold Of tho French Was
200 Years Ago the Strongest
and Most Costly Fort
In America.

Chester, Il.-Among the appropria-
lions made by the late Illinois legis-
lature is $4,000 for a state park on
the site of old Fort Chartres. near
Prairie du Rocher, ILL.,. so miles south
of St Louis and between the Missis-
sippi and the Kaskaskia rivers.
In seven years this old fort will be
200 years old and at one time 1t was
the strongest and costliest fort In
America. Now there Is little lef. ex-
cept the outlines Of the stone walls.
the powder magazine and the two
larg> wells inside the garrison de-
signed to furnish q water supply in
case of a siege.
This fort was first built in 1718,
when 1t was hastily constructed OF
wood by the French under Command
ant Boisbriant. At that time It was
designed for protection Of the French
in case the spanisrds came up from
Santa Fe.
A new menace appeared in ALSO
when the English became aggressive
during the few years preceding the
French and Indian war. The English
troops were expected to march west
and the old fort was torn down to
make way for n built Of stone.
This new structure cost about $780,
900. far more han any other fort in
America cost until long after that
date.
The powder magazine was built of
dressed stone and is still in good con-
dition. So are the wells. which are
lined with stone. The material q
obtained from a quarry four miles
away and carried from the quarry to
the fort site by boat on a lake that
has since disappeared. The dressed
stones were all numbered at the quar-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
REGULAR TIME FOR MILKING
lob Should Not Be Performed by
Tired, Dirty Farm Hands, Just
In From Field.

There Is much loss in milking be-
cause of having this work done by
tired and dirty mixers, but the men
doing the work are not to blame for
being in this condition, says a writer
In the Kimball's Dairy Farmer. They
come from the fields with their clothes
covered with dust and perspirAton,
and as soon as they nave their supper
commence the milking. Is 1t any won
der that it is often only half done? II
farmers would make 1t a rule not to
compel the help to do milking out Of
seasonable working hours they would
experience much less trouble In Sc
curing help. The milking should be
made a part of the days work and not
an addition to it. Many farmers, espe-
cially where only ten or fifteen cows
are kept, look upon this Job as a side
issue; that Ia, the milking can be
done when they can't do anything
else. The milking is Is important as
any part Of the work. and whether
you are blowing or harvesting. make
your plans SO that when tho time
comes to milk it can be done without
any delay. Again. the best results
cannot be had from COWS unless they
are MIXED at regular hours.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30

~%5!Y.T 0~
&NAM

sad cream will not make good
butter.
Dairying is the most prominent
branch of farming.
A little laxative feed should be
given at the time of ~freshening.
Milk cows must have an abundance
of water or they will fall of in milk.
A COW hat milks for only five or
six months is seldom a profitable
COW.
~Irregularity and too much gener-
o-ity in feeding the calf are often
dangerous.
When your COWS do not pay for
their feed, it's time to change the feed
or the ows
Selling the products of the field to
the cows and hogs is delivering them
to the pest market .inown.
If there is a noticeable falling OF in
the milk, see If a change In the ra-
ton cannot bring back the flow.
The silo enables the datryman to
keep more livestock on the same mum.
Der of acres and al less cost in feed
and labor.
Never take a very young calf away
from its mother and put 1t on skim
milk. Taper 1t on from whole milk to
skimmilk gradually.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
HERE is A BORN 7 aDER"
Indiana Man Starts Out With 10000;
Has $50 and "Junk" at
Night.

Hammond. Ind.-President Franz
Nelson of the Lowell bank gave Frank
Coorse an old silver watch in the
morning. The watch ran when Coorse
ran. Coorse gave Is cents to a jeweler
to make the watch tick and sold It
for 81. With the So he bought a sick
horse from a farmer.
This he traded for an old buggy and
two extra wheels. He then traded the
two extra wheels for the body of a
road cart and put his buggy wheels
on the cart. trading the body of the
buggy for a set Of harness. For this
outfit a farmer traded him a blind
broncho Coorse did not know the
broncho was blind until 1t ran away
with him.
Another farmer. thinking the bron-
cho a spirited animal and not knowing
it was blind. gave him $50 for it after
Coorse had wept and Dld him he had
raised the animal from a colt. Nelson
is now ready to match Coorse against
any other trader.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
Prosecution a Check to Mail Frauds

day passed without the issuance OF
one or more against individuals or
firms who we're fleeing the people.
As a matter of fact, the get-rich-
quick schemers are coming to the
conclusion that the p%ostoffice admin
i~stration will o stand for them and
that in consequence it will be
healthier for them to keep within the
bounds of the law.
They know that If they conduct
shady enterprises nowadays they face.
not only the penalties of a fraud or
der, depriving them of the use of the
mails, but also stand a very good
chance of getting into the peniten-
tiary. The victory Of the government
in the Harrison case in Cincinnati
had a very salutary effect, and the
prosecution now being pushed against
the officials of the United Wireless In
New York Is another object lesson,
showing that the government is very
much in earnest in its determination
to send moneyed crooks to Jail. just
as readily as though they were men
of no means at all.
THE only cases that we are called
on to handle nowadays seem to be
the mail for lotteries in foreign coun-
tries"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
Nation Has a Great Naval Scrap Heap

THE fate Of the battleship Texas,
/ once the pride of the United States
navy, recently sen to the bottom OF
Tangier sound, in Chesapeake bay, by
the guns of her sister ships, as an ex-
pertinent in naval science, has called
public attention to the prodigious size
Of the nations naval scrap heap.
Not only is the government spending
more than $66, 900, 900 on it's new
Dreadnaughts now under construction,
but it is throwing away annually mil
lions Of dollars worth of ~battleship
construction of the older type. now
considered out of date.
On the naval junk pile in the last
ten years SO vessels have been
dumped. They cost the government
to build, or to buy ready built, $685.
1876. so. From the sale of the refuse
barely three per cent. or s~2s9,o29.4l.
has been received.
The ships which have been destroy
ed outright are but the smaller part OF
the number of abandoned naval yes
sells which total SO in the past ten
years. The greater part are those
which, while still technically counted
as a public asset, would be OF no value
in war and would never again be used
Tor that purpose. They are In use as
training vessels for the naval re-
serves of various states. The monitor
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
Frame New Rules for Federal Courts

which the United States court rules OF
equity practice were adapted have
long since beer displaced in the Eng
minor Jurisdiction in the United States
where they We're in force in the last
century have been abandoned for code
procedure or amended in accord with
modern ideas and practice.
Members of the bar in commenting
on the proposed reform without excep-
ton commend it. They say that the
rules as they now stand. If rigidly en-
forced, would involve litigation In an
endless snarl, and that the present
rules have been tolerable only by rea-
son of the disregard of many OF them
which have been found impractical OF
enforcement in modern procedure. But
in such cases they say that special or
ders and short cuts in suits are made
to fit the individual Ease and thus the
whole procedure is up in the all" or
in the discretion of the court WHICH
is in many cases just as bad.
No intimation was given by Ch1ef
Justice White or either member OF the
committee just what form h revision
will take, but it is agreed that 1t Will
look to the expediting of causes. n
the relief of litigants from the almost
prohibitive expense Of the present
equity procedure.
The committee is expected to report
it's recommendations to the Supreme
court early in he fall term.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
King VentiIating System.

They should have the outside opening
at least three feet below the inside
opening, with the inside opening at
the ceiling. provided with a valve or
shutter.
Foul air lues should be air tight
and non-conductors Of heat and cold.
They should have their lower opening
about one DOT above the floor level.
and with as few bends al possible
pass upward to a height Of at least
twenty-five feet. and should always
be two or three feet above the ridge
Of the roof or of any nearby roof. In
building these fues around a girt or
plate they must be enlarged In proper
ton to the size OF the obstruction
passed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
FOR PHYSICAL TEST
DooTORs WOULD SEE THAT FIT.
TING LAWS ARE ENACTED.
homeopathic and EolsotIc Schools
Take Advanced Grounds on
Marriage.

sioux Talls.-Physicians' certificates
ahovfng that applicants for marriage
kodnses are free from certain diseases
hak tend to break down the future
generations will be required in South
Dakota in future. If the members of
The South Dakota State Homeopathic
nd Eclectic societies, which have
>uG3 concluded their annual CONVEX
0ons IN Sioux Falls, have their way
Abevt it.
During their annual conventions
they declared themselves in favor of a
law requiring this, and pledged the
members Of the two societies to do
III within their power to induce the
nsxt legislature to enact a law max
ing this requirement for those who
apply for marriage licenses anywhere
IN South Dakota.
This action followed an extended
discussion as to what could be done to
prevent the marriage Of people phys
ioally unfit to enter the married state,
and as a result Of the discussion 1t
was decided that a law requiring ap-
phcants for marriage Licenses to pass
. osStain physical examination at the
hands Of a physician was Al the ut
most need and Importance.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
ibid You Happen to Know"

"Did You Happen to Know"
ern music by the best band in Kan
sas, and to speeches by Kansas silver
tongued orators.
The reunion of this year has been
the most successful of any meeting
held up to date, and several remark
able reunions were attendant upon II.
Soldiers were gathered from practical
ly every state In the Union, to the
number Of 1875 altogether. while 40
soldiers wives and widows and daush-
ters were registered. One hundred
and twenty-six tents were fitted up
with all housekeeping appliances, 90
cupied by old soldiers, their wives,
their sons and daughters and grand
children. The meeting brought TO-
gether many family reunions AZ wen
as not a few old soldiers who ~
fought side by side during the war
and had not met since.
A feature which attracted greatest
attention and warm praise and
aroused patriotic springs long dor
mant, was the Douglas drum corps.
Seven drummers and fifers who played
their instruments all through the Civil
war, in different regiments and from
different states. CHANGED at the close
OF the war to settle In Butler county.
adjoining Cowley county on the north.
These men discovered years ago each
others occupations during the war
and formed the Douglass Drum Corps.
AS much time as these men can spare
from their prosperous farms they de-
vote to playing at soldiers reunions.
A. p. Douthitt Of Cowley county and
William Hill, fifer of the drum corps
of Butler county, have lived within
twenty-five miles Of one another for 80
years. They were acquainted and
yet this reunion was the occasion OF
developing the following between
them for the first time. Douthitt was
OF the camping ground when Hill ar
rived. He CHANGED to ask Hill to
what regiment he belonged.
ITO the Second Wisconsin," replied
Hill.
Did you ever happen to kno .
drummer in that regiment named Her
shall Smalley?" inquired Mr.. Douthitt.
well, + should SMILE" Hill rep"cd.
HE drummed with me all through the
war. He was a prisoner at Anderson
vile, and | lost him."
You did," queried Douthitt. Well.
l found him. l was taken prisoner at
Chickamauga. In An~dersonville for
II months Smalley and / slept under
the same blanket every night. He got
smallpox and l never took it."
And it was my fife you heard when
we fellows came to release you" Hill
%rejoined. {
Such incidents were frequent during
the reunion. Crops were forgotten;
the excellence of the wheat; the fall
ure of the corn; the relative merits
Of millet and timothy; the superiority
of alfalfa over prairie hay, were not
mentioned. Nothing was discussed
but wartime adventures, trials and oc-
casional pleasures. Closer friendships
were formed and ties drawn nearer
through the "reminiscences which, ex-
cept for this model reunion, would
never have beer related.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30

Amphitrite, destined for use at ST
Louis, is a type of these ships which
are useful only in providing possible
future recruits for the service.
The Texas was the first modern bat
tleship constructed for h nav II
was surpassed in speed by the
the Oregon, and other vessels In the
battle off Santiago. but its name was
written as large as any on the page
which records that days fighting.
And it will now be but a few years.
according to the inexorable ule OF
the navy department, before the Ore
gon, Massachusetts,, Indiana and Iowa
follow the Texas as targets for the
projectiles Of newer vessels or are
relegated to the ignominy of the 1unk
heap.
The Oregon, most costly of the old
type of sea fighters, cost the govern
ment less than $4,000, 900. The New
York, biggest Of the D~readnaushts
now building at eastern shipyards. Will
cost nearly $13. OO0. 900.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30

The safe II a box Just big enough to
hold two bottles, side by side. and 10
divided into two vertical compart-
ments. The door has a spring lock
and the key is held by the house
holder. the milkman not requiring
any. In the fact that the mflkman
needs no key lies the feature of tho
device In the bottom Of n COM
partment is a trapdoor that strikes
the lock on the front door a. It 10
pushed up and opens he latter.
When = bottle is placed on the trap
door, however, and a sliding bar Nd
justed just above the bottle to pre-
vent its being raised. the mftkman
pan close the front dor Of the safe
with the assurance that no thief can
enter. At the side Of the box Is q
hook to hold any extra bottles.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
Maine Uncovering Has Been Gradual

4 RMY engineer officers at Havana
n have estimated that 1t would De
at least two months after work be-
gan on pumping out h water In the
Golfer dam about the battleship Maine
in Havana harbor before an expert
opinion could be formed as to wheth-
er It was an inside or outside ex-
plosion that sank the vessel.
With the water over he wreck
lowered four feet. the top and sides
of the wrecks afterdeck are in view.
It has beer expected that when the
water was lowered enough to expose
the top deck this would probably
loom up as a bank of mud as the wa
ter in the harbor is very muddy and
the vessel has been collecting de.
posits for 10 years. When work on
the upper deck is completed there
will be more pumping and more mud
until the water is lowered to the
deck below. Inspection of this deck
will then be undertaken without I'M
due haste. It is believed that the
lower down the water goes the more
difficult will be the work OF clearing
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30

VIyASHINGTON.-Chief Justice White
w Of the United States Supreme
court has appointed a commit
tee to revise the rules of equity prac-
ttce in the United States courts. The
committee Is composed of himself. JUS
tees Lurton and Van Deventer, tho
only members Of the Supreme court
who have had experience On the bench
OF the United States circuit court, Jus
tice Lurton since 1893 and Justice Van
Deventer since 1903.
This move is the initial step in q
great reform In federal court pro-
cedure, which has long been advocated
by Justice White, who has often cr1t1-
cised the a%ntiquated practice on the
chancery side of these courts.
The present rules were promulgated
in 1912. They are adapted in their en-
tirety from the ancient rules Of the
high court of chancery of England.
and are cumbersome and complicated
in the highest degree. lending them
selves to delays and embarrassing lit1-
cation rather than expediting causes.
1t is significant hat the rules from
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
losses at chanceIIorsvilIe.

Heavy losses were sustained by both
the Union and Confederate forces at
the battle of Charlottesville and
minor engagements connected with it
The Unions casualties were: Killed.
1906; wounded, 9,762; captured or
missing, 5,919; total 17,287. The
losses on the Confederate side were:
Killed. 1913; wounded, s,106; captured
or missing, 1,70S; total. 12.463. In the
battle of Charlottesville we're en-.
gagged on the Union side the First.
Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Elev-
enth and Twelfth corps, Army I tho
Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen.
Joseph Hooker. The Confederate
troops comprised the First and $50
ond corps Of the Army q Northern
Virginia. with artillery and cavalry d.
vislons.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
EXCELLENT QUALITY OF MILK
Jersey Cow 10 Unsurpassed for Beauty
Utility, Profit and Superiority
Of Product.

The milk of the Jersey COW will al
ways be in great demand with the
critical consumer, because 1t contains
far greater proportion OF nourishing
solids and rich. highly favored. but
ter fat than the milk Of other breeds.
The man who investigates the ad-
vantage of the Jersey COW over the
dairy breeds will generally invest his
money in a Jersey COW, and the profits
will demonstrate his wisdom.
The Jersey COW yields as much
profit as two or more ordinary cows.
She is healthy, vigorous, and costs
no more to keep than an inferior COW.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30

THE sleuths of the p%ostoffice de-
partment are growing stiff in the
Joints from lack of exercise, the Off
Gals OF the attorney-generals omce
are doing at their desks. and the ma
chinery that used tt be grinding out
fraud orders so merrily is rust1ng
from disuse.
The world seems to be growing bet
ter. or at least that part OF 1t which
formerly INDUCED in so many get
rich-ouick schemes seems to be less
active than in days gone by, and the
p%ostofice officials declare that 1t is
all due to the vigorous measures
taken by the present administration
to stamp out public fraud and protect
the unwary.
Months have passed since we have
issued a domestic fraud order sale
Jesse suter, the authorized publicity
agent Of the postofice department
whereas in former times scarcely q
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30

the mud away. The problem of in.
spection also will be made more diff
cult as the successive stages Of
pumping out progress as daylight will
not penetrate into the hull of the yes
sci and work will have to be done
with artificial light
What can be saved of the Maine
and what it is most expedient to do
with the vessel can only be well de-
termined when she is exposed to
view. Many engineer officers fear
she can never be ioated and will
have to be taken apart in sections If
it is decided to save her at all. 9th
er officers believe she will break and
fall to pieces when the unwatering Of
the cofferday gets well under way.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30

wa magazine AT fort (naTtFeS.
ry, according to the same system used
at this time.
In 1928. five years after the orig
inal fort was built. Philip Renault
came from Bermuda with his slaves
and settled near st. Philip. using the
fort for a s%torehouse and a refuge
when the Indians seemed hostile
Fort Chartres was the capital Of
New France until ceded to England
in 1853. In 1878 the fort was captured
from the English by Gen. George
Rogers Clark. commanding troops
under a commission from the COVER
nor of Virginia. Fort Chartres then
became the capital Of the great north
west territory, and the seat of gov
eminent remained there until states
were formed from the territory High
water, which occasionally flooded the
fort, caused Fort Gage to be built
near by. This was followed by the
final abandonment Of Chartres
When the French coded New France
to the English and the flag Of France
was hauled down. many residents of
that district refused to live under the
English flag and went to st. Louis
Among the families who moved away
rather than live under the English
nag are several whose descendants
became very prominent in the COM
mercial and social life of st. Louis.
OF the several old forts built in
the Illinois Bottoms more than a cen
fury ago, the only one that has any
thing left Of the original buildings
is Fort Chartres. Under the care of
a custodian appointed by the state.
the place will be made into a park
and preserved from further ruin.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
GIIdedI Milk.

L. Horton, M Of the biggest retail.
ers of milk in New York state. Is
charging twenty cents a quart for
some of the milk he sells. The milk
is produced by the owner OF a farm
at Newburgh. N. Y, and cleanliness
is insisted on to an extent almost IN
b~elievable. The cows are washed and
wiped with spotless linen, and when
the milk is obtained 1t is handled as
though it were champagne. The milk
is sold to the 'gilded rich" In New
York city.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
VENTILATION IN DAIRY BARN
Some Of Essential Points In Securing
Proper Amount Of Fresh Air
In Cow Stables.

The essential points IN securing
sufficient and satisfactory ventilation
In stables are according to the King
system of ventilation, as follows:
Stable walls and ceilings should be
practically afr tight and n~on-conduc-
tors Of heat and cold. Doors and
windows should At well.
Fresh air intakes should be not
more than ten or twelve feet apart.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
White soecks in Butter.

White specks In butter are ONE
times simply fine particles of milk
curd. resulting from lack Of care in
skimming. Sometimes they are small
specks of dried cream having been
scraped from the sides of the pan
and being too dry to thoroughly soften
and mix with the rest.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
Growth Of Y. M. c. A.

Notwithstanding te returns made
to the worlds committee of the Y. M.
C. A. there are 10Y 8,340 associa-
tions with q membership of 897. 600.
There was an increase of 300 asso-
Citations during the last year. OF the
property owned by the association the
American branches ave $60,O00,O0
out Of a total Of ST, DOC. 900; OF the
salaried o~ficers. 1900 out Of 5000.
Germany has the largest number of
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
How to Be Good.

Tommy is an fmpulsive little fellow.
who doesn't always find 1t easy to
live up to the expectations of his cid
ers. When. one day. his Sunday
school teacher asked him to tell the
other members of the class b way to
be good, Tommy gave this explana-
ton: Just think of the things you
wanter do and don't never do 'emi"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-30
Works Up Big Business.

An Oregon grocer in a dairy com.
munity has worked up a big business
by delivering goods to his customers
within a radius of five miles at the
same time he gathers up the cream
from the farm. Orders for goods pour
in to him by telephone every morning
before he starts out.