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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
Mrs. Leona Wells Is Chief
Clerk to Senate Committee
ON Appropriations.

From the Philadelphia North American.
l-eoi"> NJ. Wells. of Wyoming and
" ashihs'on. a thoroughly American prod
Hrt. corn ~ Illinois and raised in Iowa. is
probably TIC most envied woman i'm gov
einnent service today because, forsooth.
she is the most highly paid. .And she is
an entirely legitimate object of envy. not
re. e$ea!i.N because she is the highest
Priced woman on Uncle Sans payroll. but
hecsuse sie has found her work and can
90 u. Ma. more. she likes doing it; as
$50 atFst.. says. she address it.
81. is sisted as assistant chief clerk of
the United States Senate committee on
appropriations and her salary is yarious!y
n'iotHa a. anywhere from $3.50 to s4,5G9.
She says Il IS neither the one nor the 9th
az. ""t somewhere in between" But,
i'leAss. . cont like being marked IN plain
figures Ike the goods i'm the department
~ste.ss.
rs natter of fact. with all respect to
Mrs. Wells prejudice against tagging. the
higher agure is not so far Off. and her.
saba. exceeds that of the confidential
SECRETARY to the director OF the mint, who
has heretofore been reported as the gov
eri.sn"at's most highly paid woman.
There are possibly other things which
one n..sht envy this girl from the golden
west; her ~youth-she is Isl the early 3Os;
her yooG looks.
II is rather a far cry from, sticking type
in q job printing office in a small Iowa
town to the running" clericaliy. of per-
haps Tie most important committee of the
United States Senate. and that is what
Mrs. Wells, has achieved in "A co!npara-
tive:y short time. She says she Just es-
caped hein. a newspaper Her
father was editor of Il country paper and
.s .<, lot --fAt., .-A. Ill.
mcat ION the side" Even country edl-
tors have to live. Little Miss I.eona
learned to set type almost as soon as she
learned to read type. ard she later did
suburban reporting for a DeS Moitles
paper. Her Brother Rodney is even
now city editor of an Iowa paper.
But fase led her out to the Rocky
mountain country about the time when.
had she been a man, she might have cast
her first vote in Iowa. and deposited her
in Wyoming. where the fact that she was
not a man did not in the least interfere
with her casting her first vote. SO this
highest paid woman In Uncle Sans en-
Iluy is a s~uffraget-not of the rampant.
roch-tirowing sort. but a fcrvently con-
+imcc< one for all that. She not only
Sotes. but she takes an active interest in
hsr ..ar.y's campaigns from the primaries
to the polls. She went out to Wyoming In
1sa3. and in 1900 was secretary to the
chairman Of that states central republic
an conamittee-Francis Emroy Warren.
who was incidentally. and still is. United
States senator from Wyoming.
Her First Big Work.
Al the close of that campaign Of 300.
which. resulted in the election OF Mckin-
lay and Roosevelt, Senator Warren con-
cluded that he needed his clever young
SECRETARY in Washington. and she came
on to ae a clerk in the Senate claims COM
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
s0UTHR0NS FIGHT
RIDING ASTRIDE
Confederate Veterans Start q
Crusade to Induce Women to
Return to Side Saddle.

Little Rock, Ark. Special: Tho
United Confederate Veterans and the
United Daughters OF the Confederacy
nave undertaken a campaign to induce
the horsewomen of the south to return
to the sidesaddle. The custom OF rid
Ing astride Is becoming more popular,
end these organizations fear that un-
less 1t Is stopped it will become az
general here n 1T is throughout the
north n west.
Gen. James F. Smith. commanding
division. is leading the mOve-
ment. Women who appeared on horse
o s~idesaddleY. The custom OF the
western plains is not the accepted
equine pattern for the Old southland.
which still retains many of it's ancient
pre1udices and views of the styles that
most pertain to wOnlaniy modesty.
Women riding astride may be seen on
h streets OF Little Rock, but they
have not become SO numerous that
they have not become SO numerous
they do not still occasion remarks
and cause people to turn for a second
look.
Confederate veterans all over tho
state. upon In request OF Gen. Smith,
are adopting resolutions against this
fashion and an effort will be made to
secure its adoption by every camp Of
veterans n chapter OF the Daughters
in Arkansas.
This action is resented by many OF
the city's best women. who feel that
their prerogattves are being questioned
In = diScourteous manner. They cite
the testimony of medical authorities
that 1t Ia much more beneficial for
women to ride astride.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
Tho Poets.
From the Kansas CITY Star.

tIle hdiI3dS Civ Mar.
1t IL said. Stevenson somewhere re-
marks. that a poet has died young in the
breast of the most stolid. Died is hard
ly the word. Day by day the malls are
choked with poems on their way to
various publications. Every magazine re-
celves thousands In the course of a year.
Newspapers generally use comparatively
little poetry. yet 80 or 40 poems are re-
ceived in the Star office every week.
They come from every variety of con-
tributor. Hard headed business men OF
city and country. married women. young
and old, shop girls, clerks, college stu
dents. all have their visions, which they
seek to express in poetic form. Appar-
emily few OF the writer's have had liter
ary training. In perhaps four cases out OF
five they are unfamiliar with the prin-
ciples OF meter and rhythm. Even OF
those who handle the mechanical features
of the verse correctly only q small pro-
portion have the poets feeling for words.
or his inspiration in ideas. The diction
IT most Ii merely rhymed prose.
Yet the very fact that the poetic form
appeals to 80 many persons IL evidence OF
q lice Of the spirit that IL generally hid
den. One rarely knows his next doc.
neighbor. To all appearances he IS a
doctor, absorbed in the details of his pro-
fessional work, OF a butcher, with never
q thought beyond the packing house and
his customers, or a broker. Immersed In
securities.
But beyond the doctor or tho butcher or
>.le broker is a personality that people do
tot see. dwelling afas in Z world Of
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
Mathematics and Fertilizer.

They have an arithmetic Of their own
! Page county. Iowa. according to q
recent article I'm Success Magazine. In
1t are problems OF the farm, and not OF
the counting room. IL in the top soil
Of your field there Is phosphorus to tho
weight OF 200 pounds. and a crop Of
corn takes off 10 pounds. how many
crops OF corn car be grown before the
SOIL comes exhausted?" How much
IL this phosphorus worth at the pres
ent market price OF phosphates pa
What would 1t cost you per acre to
keep the phosphorus content OF tho
Ian up to Its present richness. at the
present price Of phosphates?"
If a crop OF clover. through the bac-
terra In It's roots. adds nitrates to tho
soil to the value OF $50 per acre, what
Is h real value of a clover crop, IL fed
to cows. and K percentage of the fertil-
ity OF the clover returned In the ma
nure. assuming that the COW will pro-
duce y butter, and it sells for z a
pound!" If a hen OF a good laying
breed will lay 200 eggs a year.. and q
market price of seven dozen eggs to
pay the hens keep. how many hens of
the pure laying strain will 1t take to be
worth a lock OF 100 scrubs?" Make
an inventory of your farm property
Now when the pupils Of the Page
county schools began bringing '.surns''
OF this sort home to work. Page county
farmers began to prick up their ears.
There was some sense in his. This
wasn't any new-fangled useless folder0l.
This made the boys and girls worth
moro on the farm. And 1t made 'em
more o~Ontented. too, by gum.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
Booker Z. Washington on Culture.
Erom WOeld,a Worlc

I have been especially inter-
ested in discussing the question of the
particular label that should be at
tached to my form Of education: I
have taken much interest. for
example. In discussing whether the
form Of education which we have been
giving our students at Tuskegee was
cultural. vocational. or both. But I have
discovered that what has been done,
for example. by DR.. r. H. Boyd In
teaching the negro people to buy negro
instead OF white dolls for their children.
'in order" as Dr. Boyd says. ito teach
the children to admire and respect their
own type" that what has been done ct
Fisk university to inspire in the negro
q love Of folk songs; that what has
been done at Tuskegee in our annual
negro conferences. and in u National
Business league. to awaken an interest
and enthusiasm In the masses OF the
people for the common life and prog
ress of the race: has done more good,
and. in the true sense Of the word.
been more cultural than all the Greek
and Latin hat have ever been studied
by all negroes in all the colleges In the
country.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10

visions. stirred by impulses which hl
would be ashamed to let his neighbor,
know.
Occasionally these impulses find express.
s1on IN verse-in verse that falls 10 an
pail,hgiy short of what the writer In.
to expressNthat halts and linn,
along. and is prose after all.
Tn copy reader to whom these versa.
ind their way in the Offices of pub,ica.
tons often is unable to make out what
the impulse was that created them. Rut
he knows that in general there must hay.
been some blind stirring OF the spirit lie.
hind them all-some significant human
experience.
for q profound mystery is personality
Always 1t struggles to break these non.
OF time and space. Always 1t means SC
much more than 1t is able to tell.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
Riah. FooJ Makes Handsom. Faces

From TAG New OK AIISTtCdu.
You can according to Che opinion
of a distinguished foo expert. alter
your %child~en's feature by varying
their food.
II your lietlc daughter. for instance.
has too heavy a face. too massive a
chin. and YOU are afraid that she will
grow up unI:repossesslng. cease to give
her foods With tarch in them. and
size will became dainty and graceful.
Should shs. on the other hard. be
too slender OF feature. with a tiny chin,
you can deIelop rounded curves by
giving her rHpre starch than she has
been having.
Mar is what he eats" says this
expert and hA then mentions sucn di-
y~ergencies from the normal facial type
as starch coin" '.Onion chin.'' tea
drinkers teeth" full Tipped sugar
mouth" and potato lip" These di-
vergtncies, he says. are caused by the
articles Of die: named.
The food eaten makes an enormous
though 1t canrOt alter the framework
OF the adult face. 1t can that Of young
children while their bones are still
growing.
The child who has too much starch
develops puffy flesh all over the face.
which then appears too massive.
such a child should he given more
heterogeneous food. such Is meat and
green vegetables containing the proper
mineral salts for building up strong
well shaped bones. and much less
starchv food, such a. rice. potatoes OF
white bread.
such vegetables are spinach. spring
cabbage, turnip tops. celery or car
rots. BY their action better muscular
bone tissues arc built up over stronger
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
Youns Wives and Husbands.

Margaret &. Sangster says, in the
course of an interesting article in the
Wcman's Home Companions:
Two households may stand side by
size on tho same street. two families
live within haiiing distance of one an
other tor years in the same commune
ty, ard vet have opposite tastes, senti-
ments and convictions. The children of
"h:a growing up together may marry
ard. until they reach the period of new
adjustment, never suspect how antag-
on!stic mas been their early training.
of marriage is so beset With briers and
thorns. Everybody knows that until
people actually dwell under the same
roof they do not mutually become ac-
qlaintcd. A single "eek spent with a
friend at a house party does more to
promote intimacy or Indifference than
years of superficial social intercourse
The t"uci'-and-go meetings incidental
10 re;.!s and receptions arc the merest
suggestions of personality. but when
one sits day after day beside the fire
or at the table with Il neighbor. each
ceasing to be on guard. real under
Standing begins. Even correspondence
which. !" a degree, Is in the nature of
revelation. does not make people so
Wen acquainted and is BY 40 means
so TRUE a test of disposition and tenn
peransnt as the test is of living to-
sether. During cou-tsiiip and betrothal
an engaged pair are on probation.
Without effort each displays qualities
OF charm that cannot fail to he at
tract'He. TIE most ordinary speech has
= Favor of compliment. The future
usban and wife are walking through
a land ri dreams. Shall the dream.
come true: They surely will If On
both sides there are fixed principles OF
honor. justice and fidelity"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
kean's Wonderful othepo.

William Winter, IN the Century.
The a,nplest and most superb impersona.
ton OF Othelio that ever was exhibited. ~
the numerous and almost Invariably on
:hus.astic accounts OF 1t which exist can
be credited. and perhaps the most decisive.
ly effective representation OF the uart
show.i in the course of the 18th century
was that of Edmund Kean. The store OF
superiativcs with which the English lam
guage abounds has been weli-nigh ex-
hausted in the celebration OF it.
Hazl.tt designated Kean's Othello M
'.the finest piece OF acting in the world"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
Looking Up History.

As the small boy was standing on ono
rs the best library chairs and ella wing u,,th
his srubby hands some OF the choices,
bindings in the bookcase. his ~prosen,tor
entered suddenly and cried rather sharply.
what are you doing at that bookcase
Wtifrcd?"
TRYING to find n History Of the
United States. father"
what for?"
''Why. joe Billings at our school sav.
Mike Don;in played with the Giants 49,
before last AeA } sAy he dIda't"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
She snok. o.,+

From the F1iegende Blaetter.
Father Ito his daughter whom he 400.
whispering to her mother)-Elsie. how
often have I told you not to do That's
Speak out II you want anything.
EisierWell. father. I wanted to knou
why tho lady near me has such a raj
nose.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
How lndaad1

From E~verybody's Weekly.
The Neformer-Ah, friend. what Ne .~-
striving for Is fewer overcrowdcd Sums,
larger villages. more pleasure for In.
people and less drink.
The Uncovered One-But 'ow are wa
going ter ave moro pleasure IL va .as
SAes beas3
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10

bones. and the result is alert. dainty
features.
If. however. he face is too thin.
more starch should be given, as we'll
as proteids and the vegetables here
named. and then the rounded contour
80 necessary to beauty will he built
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
rhsir Faverits Abb

Cook-How do you get out Of II when
the missis scolds you for not answertnr
the bell?
Waitress-.l always tell her I was
making mayonnatse.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
hia Raa

From the New York Globe.
He-So young March and his fathar
are carrying on the business?
0he-Yes. The old man runs a
business while young March does tho
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-03-16
GOOD ROAD ERA HAS BEGUN
Once Constructed, Highways Should
Be Looked After ReguIarIy-Dust
Preventative Is Needed.

The good road era has begun in
many states, and already the steam
roller, the piles of crushed rock along
the roadside and the digging out of the
original roadway are familiar sights in
many of the eastern states The
roads built are generally Of approved
macadam construction, which, COM
pleted, are perfect strips Of white rib
bon running through the green fields
and Mills of the rural sections
These roads are perfectly built, and
as soon as completed the farmers and
other ratepayers contentedly sit back
and exclaim: These roads are now
good for generation or more without
trouble" This is serious error, and
one being made In many states. That
1t is an error is borne out by the dust
cloud raised by passing car travel
ing at 20 miles per hour, or perhaps
faster
Many fail to realize that whenever
dust is raised road is being de-
stroyed. says the Motor Age. This Is
particularly the case on smooth mac
oNe@hA oAi loSOoS WAClC luSi . AoLulAS
to hold the dust on the road, and
where every cross wind blows off any
loose material.
AS soon as roads are built arrange
ments should be made to keep them in
repair. With roads it is essentially "a
stitch in time saves nine" Some dust
preventative should be used immedi-
ately macadar roads are completed,
in order to prevent dust
Oil, tar and many special prepare.
tions are now on the market, and the
| communities should be educated to
looking upon these additions as a le'
Ultimate part of the road maintenance
California has It's oiled roads over
which motoring is pleasure to the
motorist and not dust-bath to the cit
izen who happens to be on the road
the same day. OF who has the misfor
tune to reside along q well-traveled
highway
Massachusetts, proved last year tina,
road treatments are success anc
more economical than continuous ap
plications Of water; and in England
dust preventing is always considered I
part Of the road problem.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-03-16
lcopyrlght 1908 BY Bobbs- Merrill Co..
SYNOPSIS.

Capt. Nathaniel Plum. OF the sloop
Typhoon, lands secretly on Beaver island,
stronghold of the Mormons.A He Is sud
denly confronted by Obadiah Price, an
eccentric old man and u member of the
Mormon council. who tells him that he is
expected. Price ignores Mats protesta-
tions that he has got the wrong man, and
sloop. He binds Nat by a solemn oath to
deliver package to Franklin Pierce.
president of the United States Near
Prices cabin Nat sees the frightened face
of g young woman who disappears in the
darkness, leaving an odor of lilacs. 1t
develops that Plum's visit TO the island
Is to demand settlement from the king,
Strang, for the looting of his ship some
time previously. supposedly by Mormons.
Casey. the mate, has been left in charge
of the sloop with orders to lombard St
James II Nat does not return within q
certain time Price takes Nat In the
darkness. TO. the kings home. and
through a window he sees the king and
his wives, among whom is the lady of
enth wife. II Plum calls at the kings Of
fce, where he Is warned by a young
woman that his life Is in danger. Strang
receives Plum cordially processes indig-
nation when he hears the captains grieV-
ance, and promises to punish the guilty.
ger He rescues Neil. who is being pub
llcly whipped. The king orders Arbor
Croche, the sheriff and father of Winn-
some. the girl who warned Nat, to pur-
sue and Kill the two men. Plum and Neil
plan to. escape on the Typhoon Plum
learns that Marion. the girl Of the niacs
is Meits sstsr She Is not yet married
70 Strang. Plum suggests carrying her
of on the ship. Nell approves.
4I,tfa
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-03-16
WOULD LIE AWAKE ALL NIGHT
WITH ITCHING ECZEMA

Ever since can remember I was
a terrible sufferer of eczema and
other irritating skin diseases. | would
lie awake all night, and my suffering
was intolerable. A scaly humor set
tied on my back, and being but a
child, I naturally scratched it. 1t
was a burning, itching sensation, and
utterly intolerable, in fact, it was so
that 1 could not possibly forget about
it. 1t did not take long before it
spread to my shoulders and arms, and
I was almost covered with g mass Of
raw flesh on account of my scratching
it. I was in such condition that my
hands were tied.
"a number of physicians were call
ed, but it seemed beyond their med
ical power and knowledge to cure
me. Having tried numerous treat
ments without deriving any benefit
from them. I had given myself up to
the mercy Of my dreadful malady, but
thought l would take the Cuticura
treatment as a last resort. Words
cannot express my gratitude to the
one who created The Cuticura Mira
cles,' as 1 have named them, for now
feel as If never suffered from even
pimple. My disease was routed by
Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and I
shall never cease praising the wonder
full merits they contain. I will never
be without them, in fact, can almost
dare any skin diseases to attack me
SO long as 1 have Cuticura Remedies
in the house. I hope that this letter
will give other sufferers an idea of
how suffered. and also hope that
they will not pass the ..Cuticura Life
Saving Station" (signed) G. Louis
Green, 929 Chestnut St.. Philadelphia.
| Pa. Aug. 20, 1910.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-03-16
TRAY is GOOD SEED TESTER
Device Enables Seed Grower to Deter
mine on What Mixture of Soil
Is Best Suited.

One of the most ingenious devices
for the testing of seeds yet put out
is that designed by Minnesota man.
1t enables seedgrower to determine
which mixture Of soil is best suited to
a particular seed. A tray has layer
Of some moisture retaining material
in the bottom, and on top of this Is a
removable cover with a number Of
holes, all numbered Little conical
cups, open at the bottom, fit into these
holes and the cups are filled with diff
ferent mixtures of soil. having differ
ent proportions Of loan, etc. In these
different soils seeds are planted, and
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-03-16
Kind but Careless.

John P. Irish, the San Francisco
orator and off1ceholder, was entertain
ing Joaquin Miller. the poet, one
night. Upon hearing a particularly
funny story by the host the poet fell
off his chair in paroxysm of mirth.
Irish thought the poet had seizure
of some kind and he rushed to the
sideboard, took bottle of whisky and
stuck the top Of it into Miller's mouth.
hoping to revive him.
Presently Miller waved his hands
feebly and Irish removed the bottle.
What Is it?" asked Irish solicit
tously.
Remove the cork!" whispered the
poet, hoarsely Remove the cork!"-
Saturday Evening Post.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-03-16
oA1s-25e Blu. Per Acre.

That is the sworn to yield of Theodore
Harness, Lewis Co., Wash, had from
Salzer's Rejuvenated White Bonanza oats
and won handsome 80 acre farm. Other
big yields are l4l bus, ll9 bus, l03 bus,
etc, had by farmers scattered throughout
the u. S.
Ga salzeF Ts Pedigree Barley Flax Corn.
ers are famous the world over for their
purity and tremendous yielding qualities.
We. are easily the largest growers of farm
seeds in the world.
Our catalog bristling with seed truths
free for the asking, or send loc in stamps
and receive 10 packages Of farm seed nov.
Vicious oats together with big catalog.
John A. Sazer Seed Co.. 1872 South 9Th St.,
La Crosse, Wis.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-03-16
MILD, GENTLE LAXATIVE

So many Of the Ills Of women ara due
to habitua1 constipation. probably be-
cause OF their false modesty on the sub-
ject. that their attention cannot be too
strongly called to the importance Of keen
ing the bowels open. II is always impor-
tant to do that, regardless OF the sex. but
It Is especially important In women.
struate until menstruation ceases she No !.
always vastly better prospects Of comm
through healthy II she watches her howai
movements. II you ind yourself consti-
pated. with bad breath. pimpiy compiler
ION. headaches. belching gas and other
symptoms q Indigestion and ooastipst Nm.
= smaA dose Of Dr.. Caldwsirs ayrun