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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-01-11
ITALIAN JEWS DIMINISH.
Total About Half That Shown In 1870
Census.

Total About Half That Shown In 1870
Census.
What has become of the Jewish pop
ulation of Italy? The latest census in
dicates that there are no more than
10000 Jews In that country.
In 1870 they numbered 100000, and
by the natural laws of increase. stats.
be about so per cent more Striking
decreases in the Jewish communities
are noted in single cities, such as. for
instance. Pisa, an ancient site Of He
braic learning.
This city had until comparatively re.
cent times a considerable Jewish pop.
ulation, with famous schools and q
great printing establishment of world.
wide reputation. the property of the
Jewish community. where the best edi
tions of the Talmud and other works
of Hebraic lore were produced Ac
cording to DIR. Bloch. the demand for
works in Hebrew has declined se
much of late years throughout the
world that the printing establishment
got into financial difficulties and has
recently been staken over by the gov.
ernment. the result being that its pure
ly Hebraic character has been lost.
A subscription Is now being raised
among Italian Jews for the production
Of new prayer book. which will prob.
ably have to be printed in Russia OF
Germany. Dr. Bloch thinks that mix.
ed marriages and conversions are re-
sponsible for the great decline Of Jew.
~ In Italy
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-01-11
Kill More Than Wild Beasts.

The number of people killed yearly
by wild beasts don't approach the vast
number Ekilled by disease germs. Nc
life is safe from their attacks. They re
in air, water, dust, even food. But
grand protection is afforded by Electric
Bitters, which destroy and dispel these
deadly disease germs from the system.
That's why chills, fever and ague, al
malarial and many blood diseases yield
promptly to this wonderful blood puri.
tier. Try them and enjoy the glorious
health and new strength they'll give
you. Money back if not satisfied. Only
SOC at all druggists.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-01-11
A RRH- RAH REFORM.

president Lowell of Harvard SAYS
4 organized cheering is absolutely the
I. worst way Of expressing emotions
{ The game is on. But what is this
/. Amazing laetamorphosis?
Z No yip-yap-yawp9 No boom bah
5 siss9
7 No tiers of horns that blow?
4 Along the crowded stands we hear
!. The truly lovely Lowell cheer:
I "Syllogisms,
Prunes and prisms.
I Tlt-tat-toei"
True football spirit is revealed
I BY gentle murmurs, half concealed.
!. That float discreetly Ger the field
I And never louder grow.
I All vocal outbursts have been ban
ned
Except this whisper in the stand:
I "Baby-buntingl
! Papa's puntingl
+ Tit-tat-tcet"
All, what q boon when Harvari's
prey
!. Confines the raucous brek-ek- -elxs
+ To gentle duaveTinss from necks
I In cadence soft and low.
anu BettiefIEAlA StAGHf2tS cnant
!. This college war cry ululant:
I '"fidy-tattinRi
!. Cotton bctting'
Tit-tat-toer
4 All other college changes fade
! Beside the one that will be made
I When laryn1es no more are spray
cd
To yell fortlssi,no
I Alorg the Charles classic banks
'Tis in this form they utter thanks:
"Eeny-meenyt
! Browning beany'
Tlt-tat-toet"
John O'Keefe In New York World
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-01-11
Germans Regulate Shorthand.

Germans Regulate Shorthand.
A commission appointed by. FIVE Of
the larger German states has adopted
q standard system Of shorthand for
uso IN those states.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-01-11
Foley's Kidney Pills

Are tonic in action, quick in results
A special medicine for all kidney and
bladder disorders. Mary G. Abbott
Wolfeborc, n. H., says: II was affiict
ed with bad case OF rheumatism, due
to uric acid that my kidneys failed te
clear out of my blood. / was SO lame in
my feet joints and back that ID was
agony for me to step. l used Foley's
Kidney Pills for three days when / wal
able to get up and move about and the
pains were all gone, This great change
in condition ! owe to Foley's Kidney
Pills and recc mmend them to anv one
suffering as l have" Sold by all drug
gists.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-01-11
BANQUET" FIT FOR A KING
Alfalfa From Soup to Nuts-And Neb.
uchadnexxar Dead and Gone.


A menu which might have made the
mouth Of Nebuchadnezzar water in
the latter days Of that Biblical per
sonage's life has been prepared for a
banquet to be given at Rifle, Colo, in
celebration of the opening of an alfalfa
mill The succulent green plant will
appear in every dish on the board.
Biscuits will be made Of alfalfa
meal, the turkey will be stuffed with
alfalfa, mashed alfalfa will take the
place of potatoes and alfalfa leaves
will counterfeit spinach. Alfalfa salad
will be served. and for beverages there
will be alfalfa tea and alfalfa cider
At the end of the feast toothpicks
made Of alfalfa straw will be distrib-
uted.
For mental food the guests viii lis.
ten to Ex-Governor Alva Adams OF
Colorado discourse on Apples and Al
falfa.-
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-01-11
VACANT LOTS HEALTHFUL.
European Statistics Prove Their Hy
gienic Value to Cities.


That vacant lots as well as parks
must add to the healthfulness of 9
city is indicated by statistics on Eu
ropean capitals offered by Consul Gen
eral Gaffney of Dresden, Germany. He
says:
THE unbuilt spaces among the for.
ests Of houses in large cities are the
lungs that give fresh air to the city
The Importance of such unoccupied
spaces is proved by statistics recently
published by George Risler in a French
review, in which the percentage OF
deaths from tuberculosis is compared
with the percentage of unbuilt spaces
In London, Paris and Berlin.
According to these figures in Lon.
don, with IA per cent free space, Is
per cent of all the deaths are from
tuberculosis; Berlin, with 10 per cent
free space, has ID per cent, and Paris
with As per cent, shows death per
centage from consumption of 81 pei
cent In other words, London, with
three times the percentage of free
space that Paris has, loses third
the percentage of deaths by tubercu
losis and Berlin shows about the same
proportion.
This would seem to prove that the
sums spent in providing parks, play
grounds and so forth are well repaid
by the improved health Of the city
In Paris itself the districts around
the Champs Elysees, which are sur.
rounded by woods and parks, show a
death percentage from tuberculosis OF
only i per cent, while the congested
areas show 1916 per cent.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-01-11

Liverpoops Population Increases.
The population of Liverpool has In
creased from 517,951 to 76O,357 In the
last fifteen years. and In that time 49,
$40 dwellings have been built.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-01-11
CLUB FOR CUE CUTTING.
New York Chinese Decide to Encour.
aqe Amsricanixa alton.

A0o AmericAnlxation.
Tue newest club formed among the
Chinese of New York Is tsss Cue CSStt-
ting club. Its principal object is to en-
courage those who still wear pigtails
to cut them on.
It is said that more than one-half Of
the Cinnamon in New York are with
out cues now, and the wiser half are
trying to induce the rest of their coun-
trymen to follow their example.
Chu Sam Of Soy Kee & Co., who ID
well known In Chinese business CIR.
cles. said the club, of which he Is q
lsading figure, does not only promote
cue cutting, but also social activities
among the younger buainsss men q
~ eo0munlty,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-01-11
Eleven Steamers PLY on Tioris.

Eleven Steamers Ply on Tigris.
The British company which holds a
concession for navigating the Tigris
has added fourth steamer to its
feet. This makes eleven boats that
now ply between Bagdad and the sea
port Of r1-s at the mouth Of the
T1grjs.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

The disadvantages of an Adamless
Eden were humorously schown when
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, militant Eng
lish suffragette, arrived at the head
quarters of the Woman's Graduate
Club of the University of Pennsylvania,
says the Philadelphia Times
Miss Parkhust came in a taXicab
with big steamer trunk beside the
chauffeur and a miscellaneous collec-
ton of shawl-strapped rugs, travelling
bags and small hand luggage.
The trunk was deposited on the side
walk, in the snow The club is COM
posed exclusively of women members,
and they were in quandary how TO
get the heavy trunk to the room on
the third floor, which had been as
signed to Miss Pankhurst. The maids
at the club refused to carry the trunk
upstairs and some one was sent next
door to seek assistance. There was
not a man to be found in the neigh
borhood
Finally the newspaper men who were
interviewing the young English w0-
man took in the situation and volun-
teered to take the trunk upstairs. Al
ter it had been hustled up two flights,
Miss Pankhurst placidly resumed her
interview.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Captain Vernon Percy Smith and
Captain Alfred Hubert Harrison, two
British officers who wear monocles
and carry whangee canes, have been
staying at the Waldorf-Astoria since
last Friday trying to get away to
Wenatcho, Wash, says the New York
Times. The sights of New York how
ever. have proved to be SO attractive
and so interesting, don't you know, IS
they both expressed it, that they have
made the evening and the next morn
ing part of the same day. Six p. n,
has been breakfast hour, and l a. m.
dinner time, so that they have never
been able to get up and catch the
train for the West.
CAPTAIN Smith said that they were
going to bed at II o'clock at night so
that they would be up and have break
fast in time to catch the Lake Shore
Limited to Chicago at $50 p. m. Cap
tain Harrison, who was gazing through
his monocIe shudderingly at a man
eating cheese and apple pie washed
down with a glass of iced milk, said:
cone has to change ones habits
when one is away from ones own
country, hasn't one, Percy
And Captain Smith replied, Yes,
old chap, I should say one has
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05
AN ENTERPRISING ORCHARDIST.
Nashville TennesseeanD

Nashville Tennesseean)
News dispatches from Franklin an
uounce that H. c. Scruggs, who has 4
200-acre apple orchard four miles from
that place, has placed 5000 iron
smudge pots among his trees and
providing his workmen with 10000
gallons of crude oil to be used in fir
ing the pots should the weather turn
so cold that his apple crop is threat
ened
This is the sort of enterprise which
the Old Volunteer State orchards need
Georgia also needs it, and Alabama.
Walls of frozen apple blossoms and
peach blossoms and cherry blossoms
are heard in this and neighboring
states every spring, and all because
the fruit growers have not avalled
themselves of the most approved meth
DDS of fighting frost.
The expense of smudge pots and the
oil necessary to fight few nights OF
freezing weather is slight compared
with the value of a peach or apple
crop
Colorado, Idaho, Washington anC
Oraeon orchardists have taught the
world hoow to fight natures cold snaps
In many places fruit crops have beer
saved merely by building fires WITH
wet hay and brush throughout n
orchard not provided with regular
smudge pots. A heavy cloud of smoke
lowering over poisoning fruit trees Ii
an effective guard against frost
1t is high time that the news dis
patches contain reports of how Geor
gia peach growers have saved thei
fruit crop instead of the depressing re-
ports which are annually sent out tina
the fruit has been ruined by the cold
Georgia and Tennessee and Alabama
are far less subject to frost thai
many of the famous apple-growini
/, sections in the Rocky Mountains
where a fruit grower would conside
himself disgraced were he to allow hi
fruit to be caught by the cold weather
Telephone communications with I
: weather station and an abundance 0
smudge pots and oil are the best as
surance orchardists can place on thei
! fruit crops
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05
= STORIES
= WORTH READING.
Rectifying an Error.


Uncle Joe Cannon, at a dinner iii
Washington. said of speakers errors
according to the Detroit Free Press:
All speakers make queer errors nov
and then: Usually, though, they cor
rect them with addresses.
Once, in the Illinois legislature
there were two men, Montague Harris
son and Harrison Montague The first
was very short. the second very tall;
but the speaker, during a debate, once
addressed the former as the latter.
He recovered himself, however,
quickly. He said with a chuckle:
1T is strange that l should take
Harrison Montague for Montague Hag-
rison-that l should make such a
mistake as that-for there is a great
difference between you two gentlemen
as there is between horse chestnut
and chestnut horse.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Woggs-So you don't enjoy these So
ciety dances?
Boggs-No. Half the time I'm on
needles and pins for fear my ten year
old dress suit has ripped, and the other
half I'm worried because my partner
gown has become unfastened and
whether l ought to say anything about
| II or not.-PuCk
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05
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Gyary ia, IS At 5res,' beginning;
Every morn IS world made new;
You who are weary of sorrow and sin
ming,
Here is a beautiful hope for you,
A hope for me and hope for you.
All the past things are past and over,
The tasks are done and the tears
are she'd
Yesterdays errors let yesterday cover,
Yesterdays wounds, which smarted
and bled.
Are healed with the healing which
night has shed.
Let them go, since We can not relieve
them;
Can not undo and can not atone,
God in His mercy receive, forgive
them;
Only the new days are our own,
Today is ours and today alone.
Here are the skies all FURNISHED
brightly;
Here is the spent earth all reborn;
Here are the tired limbs springins
lightly
To face the sun and to face the
morn
In he chrism of dew and the cool Of
dawn.
Every day is a fresh beginning;
Listen my soul to the glad refrain,
And spite of old sorrow and older sin
p.ng,
And puzzles forecasted and possible
pain,
Take heart with the day and begin
again.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

you enjoy hearing people tell the
railroads what to do?"
YES" replied the rural editor II
divides things up Formerly they de,
voted their entire time to telling news
papers how they ought to be run
Washington Star
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

The race problem that is worrying
most people now has to do with who
will win the baseball pennants.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Miss Elderly (showing photograph
And this is the dear old house where
| was born.
Mr.. Dopey-StiIl standing? Well
we'll! They don't build them nowadays
so that they last more than so or 80
vears.-Boston Transcript
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05
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Mrs. Piffegilder complains bitterly
about the increasing cost of living
Yes. l understand she declares she
will be compelled to cut down her
divorces this year to one or two. -
Puck
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Presidentially speaking, it is just be-
fore the battle, mother The fight for
the nomination will soon begin.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Now that the war is on in Mexico,
the soldier" songs should become
popular again.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Now the Supreme Court must de-
eide when is a Widow"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

President Diaz is as shy on promises
as a "sixteen-year-old,"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

heard a parson preach one day
On Evils of the Modern Times,
I heard him parboil millionaires
And politicians for their crimes.
He talked about the tariff bill,
And corporations and their tricks,
Upon the men who dealt in stocks,
And landed like ton Of bricks.
He waded into woman fair,
And much condemned her for hel
rat:
He told her what she ought TO wear.
He blamed her choice of Sunday hat
He then discussed the price OF wheat
How much to live it costs each man
And. ere he finished, prophesized
We'd soon have war with Japan.
/ hear that stuff six times a week,
I taste ii with my breakfast hay,
Before a stranger starts to speak
I know just what he's going to say.
This pessimistic line of dope
MySery dreams begin TO haunt;
To hear it I don't go to church,
The good old gospels what l want
Six DAYS week is quite enough
To listen to the muck-rake song;
I'd rather hear parson preach
He'll fire and axe it good AMI
strong,
To hear and old-time sermon on
Salvation | would walk mile.
The good old gospels what | want,
I'm sorry it went out of style.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

o. Henry should be alive to interpr'
the Mexican -unpleasantness."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Macon has quit talking and has gone
to work for the capital.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

For live selling and reselling Of real
estate, there are few counties in Geor-
gia that can equal Sumter's record.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

The time has arrived when even
brewery employees will strike
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

We won't know all about the Next
can sitaat;U. I'll. J;>F London b~oiks
loose.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Jupiter Pluvius is practicing tn:
strictest economy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Postmaster General Hitchcock's po-
litical reputation is gone.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

did you ever gaze on royalty?'
Just once. 1t cost me 1915, and the
chap who held it drew two cards, too
Free Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

The rivalry between Atlanta ant
New York makes one "laff.'
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Teddy's big stick" policy proved
real boomerang.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Uncle Sans treasury is good fc
three million!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Just to think, it isn't very long after
Easter till the Fourth.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Democracy at last defeated Tam
many.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

The reign of the typhoid fly has be
gun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

rs she vain?"
well, she never stays home because
a March wind is blowing Detroit
Free Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

The next senatorial move is in Geor-
gia
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

After working so hard, hens must
be surprised at the Easter egg famine.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Uncle Joe Cannon isn't coming
back" any more.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

At last the baseball opening" has
arrived.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

No wonder there are storms brewing
in Mexico.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

New York's senators come high.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-05

Gyary ia, IS Al sres,' beginning;
Every morn IS world made new;
You who are weary of sorrow and sin
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-28
ELIZABETH M,GuInE.

The Mcclure family lived in a love-
~ house on riilby Avenue. in Balti-
more. The home was made moro
beautiful by the lovely yard, which
was covered with maple trees
The Mcclure household contained
Margaret Elizabeth, Helen. Clyde and
Alfred. Helen was a lovely girl of
nineteen. She had black eyes and hair
and her skin was real white Eliza
beth was not very pretty, but very at
tractive. Margaret was sweet child
and every one who knew her loved
her.
One day Eiizabe,h's friend, Ruth
Harrison. came to see her. and Ruth
said that she was going to tho sea
shore. Elizabeth was very much dis
turbed over this, for Ruth was Ellz-
abeth's dearest friend. and they were
together nearly all the time Eliz-
aheth said. Mother. let us all go 10
the seashore Ruth Is going and |
don't SEQ how can do without her
am sure you would get 4 great deal
better. for You are always complain
inS." Mrs. Mcclure said. My child
do you suppose ! am going to tho
seashorc and rent cottage. while
your father is working for our Nv
lnE?'
The McGuire's home had been left
10 them ny rich uncle. but the Nc
CURES We're not at all wealthy. E,liz-
nbcth was very sorry that she could
not go 10 the scashorc
Ono afternoon Ruth Harrison came
rushing in to sec Elizabeth: and said
All, Elizabeth. como out In the ham
mock, want TO see you and ask you
something" The two girls went rush
Ing out in the yard. Ruth said. LIZ
mother and ! have heen taxing about
shore with us. Please go, cannot do
without you
That night F1lizabcth had n talk
with her mother about IT and 1t was
decided that She should go. My. how
pleased Elizabeth and Ruth were. In
three days they were to go Thcy
were going on the IL o'clock train so
as TO get to the beach early in the
afternoon. -
When the time for bathing came
the two girls were ready, r.llzabeth
SO Ruth and her brother, John had
10 teach her One day when John
went TO The city, Ruth anu Elizabe
thought they would go out swimming
by themselves. They plunged into the
water and had fine time for a while
nut q II of - sudden a great wave came
and Elizabeth could not he seen. Ruth
saw boat near SO the Jumped in that
10 SEQ Ii She could find Eliza bet h. When
Ruth got long way from the shorn
she found that the boat was leaking
and II began To sink. and in few
minutes neither boat'nor girl were
TO he seen. man on the shore hal p
rened to SEQ q head come out Of tho
water and then 80 back in the water
and he went right after this person
He got TO the, girl and found IT was
Eliza beth Mcguire She was uncon-
scious. He carried her To the cottage
and she soon became better. Mrs IIar-
rson said, Where is Ruth?" She
could not be found anywhere. and. of
course. every one knew she must have
been drowned.
The man who got Elizabeth out of
the water and did 1t so bravely was
John Harrison, Ruth's brother. And
after this they were married. They
never will forgot the day In the water
nor the sad death OF his sister and
her dearest friend. Ruth Harrison
VIRGINIA ". WALKER,
Aged thirteen years.
Somerset Va.