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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24
BROTHER OF BALF0UR
Is DEAD IN LONDON

London, Feb l5s-colonel Eustace
Anthony Balfour. brother Of A. j. Bal
four. m. D.. died today. He was for
merly an officer of the Scottish Guards
and subsequently, aide de camp to
King Edward and King George. He
was the afth son OF the late James
Balfour. IN. p, and in 1879 married
Lady France Campbell. NTH daughter
or the eighth duke OF Argyll.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24

Elk Point. s. d.. Feb. is. AT the
annual meeting OF the stockholders of
the Farmers Union Elevator com
pany OF this city. held at the court
house yesterday, the following direc-
tors were elected: Patrick Herrity. Ole
oOfstehage, Lewis Ranum. l.. L.. pike.
Thomas Gunderson and Edward DON
nelly
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24
v IA. c. A,

Sioux Falls, s. D.. Feb. 16. e. Many
men OF prominence in the work of the
Young Mems Christian association will
be present and make addresses during
the annual convention OF the state as,
ISOLATION. which will be held In Sioux
Falls. March s TO S. the state commit
tee having just made the selection OF
she Mace and dates.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24

american fire insurance companies
have not yet gone after the quite con
siderable insurance business OF For
NOSE. The British companies are well
represented there. There are i've Amer
lean tea houses In north Tornaosa
eaek carrying $50, 600 TO $4,000 insur-
ance. The Chinese Eers.sas.s ~, ,,,; ;,.a
AGAINST Insurance Is gradually passing
away.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24

According to a report just issued by
b ministry OF agriculture, so wolves
were killed in France during 1908. The
majority Of these animals were killed
In the departments cf the viepne,
Charentic and Hante vienne. She
French government pays d reward
varying from 20 francs 10 100 francs for
each Wolf.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24
ynsp ". WRIGHT, PuAIl.hsr.
,E sMET, SOUTH DAKOTA

Winchmore Hill woods. which have
fallen a prey to the fury OF the spec
alative builder, were among the ia
vorite haunts OF Charles and Mary
Lamb. 1t was at winchmnre I'll. that
Lamb on one occasion heard-or pre-
tended TO hear-the strains OF a musical
festival at Westminster Abbey when
Clara Novello vas In the choir and
Vincent Novelio at the organ. I'VE
heard the music in the abbey at Winch
more Hill" he wrote to Cowden Clarke
in June, 1884, a few months before his
death, land the notes were incompar-
ably softened by the distance. Novel
los chromatics were distinctly audible.
Clara was faulty in Il fiat. Otherwise
she sang like an angel. The trombone
and Beethoven's waltzes were the best
Who played the oboe?" Yes, the mu-
sic you imagine. Is always the best.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24

Mrs. A. L. McL4ana is the nresidAn.
" the Baltimore Association for the
promotion Of University Education for
Women. which has just offered q fell
0wship OF $500 for study at the Amer
can or.a European university. Pref
srence viii be given 10 Maryland wom-
IN and IN exceptional Instances the
fellowship may be held two successive
sears by the same person.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24

One instrument OF cleanliness found
e. q SrSt-class laundry is a rubber eras-
sr That Is needed 10 rub b pencil
marks from cuffs. said the manager.
I'VE used 10 throw that kind OF cor
rexpnncence into soap water n
tyg 10 wash Ii clean. bat marks made
BIZ some pencils soaked In instead OF
washing a. and left the cuffs
Fpa0gcned and streaked so they
are now treated TO a preliminary dry
anxuah. rE6.A
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24

There are already docks In South
Brooklyn capable or accommodating a
f.0e4foof ship. and docks 1000 feet long
sr@ soon 10 be built by the Mersey dock
and harbor board. and al the Same tinee.
TVe u-TanagefnKnt Of one OF the leading
transatlantic lines that it
viii begin the construction OF at least
one steaHner which viii be longer than
any other vessel. although not or
greater tonnage
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24
TO DRAIN LARGE TRACTS.

Mitchell. s. d., Feb. IA. - With the
opening OF spring some big drainage
contracts VIII be started upon, prin-
c1pal among which Is one in Hansen
county. which will be opened in ne
western part of the county. The ditch
- OF large dimensions and Will have the
capacity for draining a large territory
which has been Under water for q
number OF years. II reclairninr 8
large quantity III valuable farrlsn9
land The contract was awarded TO
Cnr,s Alexson OF Clear Lake. Ia, for
40 per cent for cash when the IN, -
completed.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24
A%PpORTIONMENT BILL
APPEARS IN DAKOTA
Patterned After Martin Wesley
Plan to Create Congressional
Districts.
MORNING SESSIONS FOR
DAKOTA LEGISLATURE

Pierre, S, D., Feb. ia
morning session will be held
each day starting tomorrow,
and there is some talk of an
extra session after the action
of congress on re-apportion-
ment If the matter is delayed
longer than March 4.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24

The national assembly OF China
ANONYMOUSLY Endorses the popular Dis.
mana for the early convocation Of Z
full parliament ON the western sg,a,,i
All the vsccroys except those OF Tien-
tsin and Nankin support the claim. the
prince regent ~ cordial. though non
connittal. The chinese press sunno,,fs
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24
HORSE THIEVES CAUGHT.

Buffalo, S. D., Feb. 15.-Z. e. Graysoh
and Charles Donovan, horse dealers
who recently operated at Camp Crook
have been bound over to the circuit
court by Justice Fred Wilson here, on
a grand lerceny charge. They ara
charged with selling the horses they
rode into Camp Crook. One animal
belonged to Mike Ward and the other
20 Oscar Giibertson, Dot OF this town
Bonds OF $500 each have been fur.
niShed.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24

The Krupp works at Essen. Ger
many. have e8 ses ursployes. The con.
sumption OF coal and coke Is $500. OOo
tons q year Tile works have $50 steam
engines. developing $3.50 horsepower
and gas works. There are .S7 miles az
railway, 81 locomotives and 1855
freight wagons
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24
WEATHER CLERK pRoMoTEn.

Huron. 5. D., Feb. 14-Sam w. Glenn,
director of the local Office of the gov,
ernrihent weather bureau, has been no.
tilted of the promotion of his assistant
v. T.. Jakl, TO be chief of the weather
station at North Platte, Neb. The va
cancy in the Huron Office will be filled
by j. A. Hackathorne, OF Milwaukee'
who will arrive here In a few days IA
assume his duties
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-02-24

s~ssss-f tEEtEfeu
the f~ortnIghtIy club u Bath. Me-
requested the committee - have as
q table and candles. Her request was
complied with. tfse chair contributed
being 225 years old, the table more
than 100 years old, and the brass can
dlestick nearly as Oil as the table.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
REGULATING CORPORATIONS.

Judge Gary, the directing genius Of
the United States Steel company, has
just expressed the opinion that govern
ment control and publicity of the af-
fairs of the big corporations of the
country is inevitable. 1t was only a
matter of few days before that Presi-
dent Delano. of the Wabash Railroad
company. insisted that the control and
regulation of all the big industrial cor
porations doing an interstate business
should be assumed by the government,
exactly as the conduct of the inter
state railroads was being controlled
and regulated by federal authority. 1t
was his argument that what was fair
for one gigantic industry in the coun-
try, the railroads, was also fair for all
other mammoth corporations.
Surely there is no one to dispute
honestly the argument presented by
Mr. Delano. 1t is tacitly admitted by
the conclusions of Judge Gary that a
government control and regulation of
the huge industrial corporations must
come. And it is a rather surprising
fact that the beginning of such an i'm
portant government activity has been
delayed so long The Sherman anti
trust law, vigorous as it has lately
been proven to be in handling corpor-
atoms that go outside of reasonable
channels in the conduct of their bust
ness, is not regulatory measure, al
though some people seem to think
| that it is the only law needed to deal
with the corporate evils that have de-
| veloped in this land. A number Of rail-
roads might combine together to follow
| a certain line of business that would
| bring them in violation of the terms
of the antitrust law. Such combina-
ton would be dissolved by the courts.
and perhaps the officials who perfect
! ed it would be punished. But there
would be nothing in this proceeding
which would be at all regulatory of the
conduct of the railroads in the trans
action of their every day business.
Their business, though, is regulated by
| the interstate commerce law.
| And similar regulation should be pro-
| vided for other industrial corporations
| doing an interstate business. Much
! comment has gone up that the railroads
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

need larger than fair rates for freight
and passenger service in order to pay
dividends on stocks and bonds of the
aqua pura variety. But when it comes
to water in stocks and bonds, many
OF the large industrial corporations OF
the country can give even the worst
OFFENDING railroads In this particular
cards and spades and beat them to a
FRAGILE. So why should these huge cor
porations be permitted to fix prices that
are necessary merely to pay dividends
on a tremendous volume of water in
their socks and bonds?
President Taft has repeatedly urged
the enactment of a federal incorpora-
tion law which it is believed will be
sufficient to provide the necessary reg
ulation for all of the large corporations
doing an interstate business. Congress
should take action accordingly. At any
rate it will be start in the right
direction. If it's scope is not learge
enough, future congresses can repair
the defects. The interstate commerce
law was not built up to its present ef-
fectiveness with one stroke of the con-
gressional pen. Indeed, 1t has taken
a score of years to make that law
what 1t is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
ANOTHER GRAFT.

Some sort of publicity company"
is sending oily-tongued strangers into
Kansas towns soliciting advertisements
and job printing. This alleged COM
pany has no plant or headquarters of
any kind. The agents take orders for
job printing, and then turn it over to
the concern that will do the work the
cheapest The local Offices never have
a chance at it.
A week or two ago the oily-tongued
strangers went to Sterling and worked
the town. They got a big bunch of
orders which they sent TO st. Joseph
and Kansas City.
Now, the town of Sterling has one of
the finest printing plants in the coun-
try, considering the size of the place.
John E. Junkin has $4,000 invested
in his printing establishment there.
He issues a paper that would be a
credit to town twice as large. He
employs many people and pays them
In cash. Every man, woman and child
on the town site should be proud of
up, and it should be considered a
pleasure and privilege to patronize him
in every possible way.
Yet q couple of takers go there and
spend a few hours canv&Ssing, and are
loaded down with orders for job print
ing which could have been done as
well and as cheaply in the home shop.
Year after year gJunkin has been
standing up for Sterling, urging the
people to patronize, home industries
and the merchants show their appre
citation of his efforts by having their
printing done in some basement print
shop long way from home.
Isn't it disgusting?
The advantages of the plan of deal
ing at home are so obvious that no
sane man can overlook them, yet the
people seem to fall over each other in
their eagerness to patronize the first
faker who comes aIong.-Great Bend
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
QUAKER MEDTTATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.]
Even the ba1d-headed actor may
have a good part.
The man who is invited to a conun-
drum party is naturally a guessed.
The ball player may make some
wonderful catches, but he can't always
grasp an idea.
In spite of the fact that a bride is
always given away, she is sometime s
pretty badly sold.
Scribbler: 1.-The more I think of it
the more am convinced that poets are
declining" Scrawler: $50 are editors"
Blobbs: "Of what use is thermom-
eter, anyhow" Slobbs: ''Well, 1t tells
us when the price of ice is going up"
Muggins: would you consider him
a man of average intelligence?" Bug
gins: well, he has never been drawn
on jury
If you have ever had any experience
with the chronic borrower you will
realize that one touch of nature makes
the whole world skin.
A fashion writer says the harem
skirt really scares the men. So the
natural supposition is that the girl who
wears one must be rather harem
scare'em.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
MOVING PICTURE HOUSES.

Fire Chief Wilmarth will be backed
up by all good citizens, or should be,
in his crusade to make the halls and
miniature theaters where moving pic
lures are shown as safe as possible in
case fire should start in any of them.
He Is merely seeing to it that the city
ordinances on this and kindred sub
Jects are fulfilled to the letter. That is
no more than his duty, and that he is
discharging 1t to the full shows his
capability and serviceabIeness as a
public officer in an essentially import
ant position. If any of the provisions
of these ordinances are unreasonable
and make unnec essary demands on the
proprietors of these show-houses, the
courts can be depended upon to right
the injustices.
Moving picture shows have become
almost something of a necessity these
days. They provide the means of fur
nishing the grown-ups and their child
rem with excellent amusement and en-
tertainment at price that is within
the reach of all. With their pictured
trips through foreign lands, their pre-
sentation of strange and unusual in
dustries in actual operation, their ma
ture studies and the like, they also
have an educational value that 1t is
well-nigh impossible to compute.
AS a general thing, the standards of
the pictures shown in the Topeka
houses are of high order. And these
photo-play resorts occupy an i'm
portant place in the activities of the
city. But that does not relieve their
proprietors of the necessity of making
the places where the pictures are shown
as safe as they possibly can be made,
and as comfortable from the stand
point of ventilation as the well-being
Of their patrons demands. Several Of
the moving picture houses in the city
fulfill all these requirements. Those
that do not should be mace to do so or
shut up. The most important feature
of the safeguards demanded concerns
adequate and easy means of exit for
the crowds that visit these places.
Chief Wilmarth is doing we'll to see
that the laws in this and other par
ticulars are being obeyed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
Exploring Ice Caves.

What is believed to be the NOSE ex-
tensive series of ice caves in the world
has just been scientifically explored.
The caves are situated near Obertraun,
close to the Lake of Hallstatt. and the
work of exploration occupied in all
more 81 hours, much of the journey be-
ing of an extremely perilous nature.
After a difficult entrance through a
narrow opening, the explorers found a
vast range of caves, extending consid-
erably over a mile, with many side
turnings and minor branches. First
they arrived in two church-like halls,
separated by an ice shaft 80 yards wide
and 35 yards deep, which had to be
crossed by means of rope ladders, and
in the second hall they found a won
derful glacier about 100 yards in length.
Farther on halls were found with ice,
but covered with stalactiform marvels.
London Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Clio

(Fronn the Atchison G1obe.l
1t Is just as easy to fall out of love
as 1t is to fall in.
Vacation advocates work overtime
at this season of the year.
A man who prefers to work on the
night shift is too blamed contrary.
The fact that a mule has strong
voice, doesn't prove that it can sing.
A side show frequently labors under
the delusion that it is the big top"
A child can't see much sense in eat
ing bread when there is cake avail
able.
If YOU really believe something
should be done, it is quicker to do it
yourself.
! Count MCGOWAN says his greatest
fault is that he never learned to sit
on his tongue"
You may have observed that the
supply of June brides is always equal
to the demand.
Another trouble with the party who
knows it all is that he is usually ready
to tell it.
A big league baseball player needs a
large salary in order to n eet the fines
imposed on him.
If a man is all right in other re-
spects, he can get by with a pretty
fierce line of grammar.
Don't be so anxious to win prize
that you are willing to pay more than
| it would cost to buy it.
1t is also possible that the restau-
rant boarder overestimates the excel
Hence of home cooking.
Higher education is all right, but If
YOU haven't it a good bluff will take
you a long ways down the line.
So many people not only expect
their favors to be paid, but they want
to charge compound interest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
AYHAWKER JOTS

Spring has come" says the State
Normal Record under date of June l.
A conclusion has been reached by
the Atchison Champion that "a holt
day is simply the postponement OF
work"
The price of bologna ought to drop,
thinks the Leavenworth Times, because
the police shot three hundred dogs in
Kansas City, Kan, last week.
Nine times out of ten you wouldn't
sting an agent if you paid him In
counterfeit money, reflects the Village
Deacon in the Osborne Farmer.
Advice to prospective suicides from
the Ottawa Herald: Motor racing and
cyanide are equally fatal although
cyanide has the advantage of being
less painful.
thinks tie Muscotah Record, because a
widow has brought action against a
newspaper which said her husband
had gone to happier home
These times of horselcss carriages
and wireless telegraphy are all right,
reflects the Hutchinson News. but it
insists that the country needs crow
less rooster and meowless cat
It is a mark of bravery for man
to rescue a drowning person by risking
his life, says the Hiawatha Democrat,
but the mark of bravery for woman
is to pull down all her lace curtains at
once and have them washed.
Some fellows never do anything, re-
marks the Trego County Reporter,
until they are forced to do it by cir
cumstances or law and then they think
a lot of credit is due them for the en-
terprise or consideration they have
shown.
Auto means to go alone, there
fore a feline that prowls in the dark is
an autocat," argued the Neodesha
Register recently. And the Wichita
Eagle added: "Yes? Then a spinster
is an auto-spin; and a bachelor is a
man who ought to take an auto-spin."
Judging from the amount of hot air
let loose by public speakers, the Hia-
watha Democrat insists that some sort
of an air brake attachment for the
platform would be as great an inven-
ton as the one applied to railway
trains and would be hailed as just as
much of a gOdSend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
FROM OTHER PENS
AN UNCONDITIONAL AGE.

The number of young men and
young women in colleges has been
growing much faster than the popula-
ton. The percentage of persons seek
ing liberal education is decidedly on
the increase. The endo wments of in
situations of education and philan-
thropy have been growing rapidly. Re
search into every department of
knowledge has been expanded and or
ganized till it has reached the status
of one of the professions.
The theological schools complain
that the number of their students has
been declining. But the number is
very considerable still, and SO far as
these institutions have suffered at all
it is not from the competition of the
counting houses, but from the read
justments necessitated by recent pro-
gress in science and history. Labora-
tory work Is going on as it never did
before. Not only has research into
disease in general been endowed, but
specifically the fight against tubercu-
losis and cancer has been endowed.
The courage of the battlefield was far
surpassed the other day when II young
men volunteered to allow themselves
to be inoculated for cancer in order to
test what they believed to be a cure.
Public sentiment is moving steadily
against war, but never was more cour-
age shown in the current records of
heroiSm. Men are making more money
than ever before, but more men and
women are seeking to advance the
boundaries of human knowledge or
find remedies for every i'll than in any
previous age.-Philadelphia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

on the go, not a nice, ladylike stroll
of dozen blocks, but miles and miles!
1t was uncanny to hear you describe
your symptoms-they We're so exactly
like mine! And symptoms is the
right word to use, because mother and
sister think it's a disease.
They didn't want to bring me down
mere, for people would think me
queer II l went off through the coun-
TRY as if in Seven-league boots. And
| to be queer seems worse than to be
bold. Mamma says no one ever mar
ries queer GIRL
Indeed" said Ellery.
Nellie wouldn't let me go on the
| mountain climb, because 1 might sug-
gest on reaching the top that We go
down the other side to make a worth
| while trip. I slip out early in the morn
Ing to the beach all alone, merely to
feel free of criticism. did twelve miles
the other morning-the day you met
| car so mamma won't suspect. It's one
| of her articles of faith that only TOM
boy really likes to walk
The sun was slanting toward the
west, but something besides its light
was in his eyes as Todd leaned forward
and took the girls brown hand between
his own. Darling, let's walk together
through life. The Lord made us for
each other. Let's go and get married
this afternoon. A college friend of mine
is minister at Pine Harbor. He'll be
glad to marry U.S."
He pointed to where a little town
nestled on the horizon, between a range
of hills and the shimmering sea.
Miss Middleton did not remove her
hand, but she answered him bantering-
ly, if wee bit unsteadily: You want
to marry me because I like to walk,
too; is that it? You don't really 10
like me for myself; now, do your
Sweetheart" he smiled, IT would
love you If you were like a Chinese
woman, and could not walk at all! If
1 had to carry you on my back"
" The sun is in your eyesy" she
warned him.
"And its light will never fail during
life," he replied. Come; it's only
seven miles,
He drew her to her feet and kissed
her ere they started, hand in hand,
toward the village on the horizon
Copyrighted, 1911, by Associated Lit
erary PreSsl