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Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27
Snail Millions Of Years Old.

A petrified prehistoric snail embed.
ded in the heart Of large piece O,
blue las stone. was discovered a few
days ago by quarrymen working at
Cheddar Cliffs. Wales. upon some
large boulders of stone which were
displaced in the landslide which oc.
CURED some years ago The discov.
cry is distinctly interesting to tho
biologists on account of the great age
OF the find. as. stu tied upon a very
low strata. 1t must be millions Of
yeasu oinno IL aAall lived.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27
/%zx~11a
fPI IS .!lSt
THE BEST MEDICINE
hfor COUGHS & COLDSu
A Broken Bone.

Your first duty, after notifying sur
geon, is to provide support for the IN
Jured member in the form of an i'm
provlsed splint. Flat pieces Of board.
as broad, If possible, as the limb and
slightly longer than the broken bone.
canes, umbrellas, in fact anything that
wall accomplish your end may be used.
IN adjusting these. pad with any soft
material that is at hand; straw, leaves
or cushions made of grass may be
used. Avoid any pressure on the in
Jured part. cover it with cloth, and
Keep wet with clean. cold water.-Wo
mans Home Companion.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27
Good Guess.

Il can see you standing alone be.
fore crowd of people," said the
trance medium. They are fighting
and struggling to be placed in your
care. and before you there CLEANS the
bright light OF leadership that seems
to point ever onward"
That's me all right" replied her
patron as he showed out a quarter:
Il am a motorman"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27
General.

Violence marked the arrlVS. Oh
strikebreakers at New Orleans.
Senator LaFollette is to begin tour
of western states early in November.
John Arbuckle says the tariff on
raw sugar is wiced kind of tax.
Urging the cause of arbitration,
President Taft declared war to be a
curse.
Express companies of the country
are unlikely to be gobbled by the rail-
roads.
According to witnesses for Senator
Stephenson, beer and whisky are
necessary adjunct Of campaigns.
The town of Ortiz, Sonora, was de-
stroyed by the recent tidal wave and
seventeen lives were lost
1t is now or never for Chinese re-
form declare members of the oriental
race in San Francisco.
The annual report of the Chicago
& Northwestern railway shows little
work done in the west during the past
year.
Japanese officials see prospects OF
a long struggle in China. Japan will
stay out of it as long as her subjects
are protected.
Plans for the dissolution of the
American Tobacco company, in COM
pliance with the decision of the SUI
preme court, were made public.
The German and French govern
ments have decided to keep the ma
ture of the Moroccan agreement Sec
ret until the second part also is COM
pleted and signed.
The Wholesale Druggists associa-
ton in convention at New York pas
sed a resolution recommending legis-
lation to regulate interstate COM
MERGE in habit-forming drugs.
The trial of James B. Mcnamara,
first of the defendants in the dyna.
mite cases, was begun at Los An
geles.
The duke and duchess of Coon
nought, who are to preside over Ri
diau hall at Ottawa as representatives
of King George for the next few
years, arrived at Quebec.
A dispatch to the Temps from
Rome says it is learned from author
itative sources that friendly over
lures between several powers and
Italy on the subject of peace have
been made.
The Indian reservation system was
criticised and demands were made
for She immediate regeneration OF
abolition by the first annual congress
of the American Indian in Colum
bus, o.
The Krnpp company of Germany
failed in its suit against the Midvale
Steel company charging infringement
Senator Bourne takes Cardinal Glib
bons and Archbishop Ireland to tasl
for their criticism of the initiative
referendum and recall.
Six coal miners received broken
legs and two others were probably fat
ally injured when the cage in a mine
at Nokomis, ILL.,, fell eighty feet.
The report of the statistician of ;
Texas railroad says that the none.
paid out for personal injury claims
about as much as the earnings on tn
capital invested
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27
WHAT
| WENT
THROUGH
Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Natick, Mass. IT cannot express
what I went through during the change

|OI uIe Dcl0r0 / tried
Lydia E. Pinkham's
" eye table Com
pound. / was in such
a nervous condition
i could not keep
Is till. M y lin b 8
were cold, I had
creepy sensations.
and l could not sleep
nights. / was finally
told by two phys
icians that I also
had a tllmOr. 7 read
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27
THE CURSE
HEREDITY

HREE HUNDRED THOU
!. ! : ! : ! !
= sand feeble-minded per
sons are running al
large in the United
States. Eighty per cent
Of the feeble-minded chill
dren come from 10 pei
cent of the community
Idiocy - feeble-minded
ness, is simply another name for it.
is matter of heredity.
There has been a terrible increase
in the number Of feeble-minded chill.
dren in the past few years.
predetermined mothers are twice
as prolific as normal women.
''The country cannot build institu.
tons rapidly enough to house and take
care Of the feeble-minded.
THE only solution Of the problem is
the unsexing of all feeble-minded per.
sons to prevent them from breeding
more feeble-minded children, and the
training of the predetermined who are
now here to be self-supporting."
These are a few Of the conclusions
reached by Prof. E. r. tombstone
and DR.. Henry H. Goddard Of the
training school for feeble minded chill.
dren at vineland. N. j.. after a care.
full study of more than $50 families
in which feeble-minded children have
been born for several generations. In
four OF these families the records of
200 individuals were traced, of which
number 687 were feeble-minded. or
nearly one-fourth of the entire mum.
Der.
At the present time DR.. Goddard,
who is in charge of the research de.
partment Of the institution, is engaged
In tracing the records OF the members
of single family which promises to
rival If not actually to surpass the rec.
ord of the notorious Jukes family,
Jukes. 1t will be remembered. is the
famous family of criminals usually
cited as the most glaring example of
heredity in crime. More than two
thirds. of the descendants Of the orig.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27

Kid n y ssecretions
were troublesome. 7
was fast in bed four
months. Three dor.
tors said there was
no cure for me and I
was given up to die,
Being urged, l used
Doan's Kidney Pills.
Soon I was hott..
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27
An Unbelieyer.

Sir said the naughty American
to his adhesive tailor, Il object to this
poorlsh dunning. would have you
know that my great-great-grandfather
was one of the early settlers"
And yet" sighed the anxious trades
man, there are people who believe In
heredity "-Argonaut.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27

and in few weeks was about the
house, we'll and strong again."
"When Your Back Is Lame, Re.
member the Name DOAN'S." SOC a
box at all stores. Foster-Milburn Co.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27
BED.souND FOR MONTHS.

Hope Abandoned After Physician,
Consultation.
Mrs. Enos Shearer, Yew and Wash.
ington Sts., Centralia, Wash, saws.
"For years l was weak and run down
could not sleep, my limbs swelled ana
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27


randa feeble
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27

It is quite possible for man to-
be hot-headed and still get cold feet.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27

SEVENTH GENERATION
zoo INSANE DESCENDANT
TRACED AND 2O4 ElTHER
EPltEPTlCS OR NORMAL
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-27

SIXTH GENERATION
~ OF THESE 342 CHILDREN
WERE INSANE OTHERS EplLEpTIC5.
REMAINDER NoRrAAt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-13
Ealkinesg I'm :tlorseM

Some horses have learned to balk
by being overloaded and abused. Their
courage has been overtaxed and they
rebel, disheartened at the task they
are called upon to perform. Other
horses appear to balk from natural
inclination and appear foaIed full of
innate stubbornness. Baking, like
Wind-sucking, cribbing, weaving and
halter-pulling, is vice developed by
natural inheritance. In breaking
young horses to harness too much
caution cannot be observed in asking
the youngster to pull light loads to
begin with. The balky horse cannot
be conquered by brutal treatment, but
may be induced to pull by many de-
vices intended to attract his attention
from his resolution not to pull To lift
the forefoot and pound on the shoe,
to put handful of grass or dirt in
his mouth, to give him a lump of
sugar or an apple to eat have all
proved successful in some instances In
inducing horse to pull.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-13
American Author Broke Down While
Greeting Charles Dickens at Din
ner in New York, but English
man Comforted Him.

when Charles Dickens was max
ing his first visit to the United States,
in the latter part of 1841 and early
part of 1912, he spent some days in
New York CITY," said the late Parke
Goodwin, son-in-law of William Cullen
Bryant, whose career as journalist
and author dated back to 1897 After
his return to England, Dickens pub
lished, think in the year 1874, his
novel Martin Chuzzlewit,' in which
SO many chapters are devoted to the
Characterization of some of the crude
personalities in American life as he
had met them.
Some of my literary friends, after
the publication of Martin Chuzzlewit,
attempted to identify several of the
places mentioned in the book, and we
did establish to our own satisfaction
the identity of the boarding house at
which Martin Chuzzlewit and Mark
Tapley were entertained after they
came to New York. We also tried to
identify the original of the character
of Jefferson Brick, the newspaper man
whom Dickens so wildly caricatured,
and finally we made up our minds that
Brick was a composite Of several
newspaper men who were rather Of
ticious and presumptuous in their ap-
proaches to Dickens. Jefferson Brick
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-13
A Dipping Plant.

them in warm two per cent solu-
tioN OF coal tar dip and repeat the
treatment in ten days or two weeks;
or apply the solution freely with a
spray pump and rub ii in with a brush.
The addition of flowers of sulphur at
the rate 16@ pounds to each 100 gal
Ions of dip mixture renders the so
luton more effective and such a com
bination solution should be freely used
for all forms of mango or chronic dis
ease Of the skin In hogs.
To destroy lice, a mixture of equal
parts of kerosene and machine oil, or
one part of turpentine and two parts
of machine oil, should be applied to
every part of the hog by means of a
rag or swab of cotton waste; or it
ears to tail, with a common machine
oil can and allowed to ooze down the
sides of the hog. Repeat the appli-
cation in ten days. AS a remedy for
lice on black hogs crude petroleum
oil is successfully used. Tt is mixed
with an equal amount of warm water
and applied with spray pump or
brush. A repetition of the applica-
ton, in ten to fourteen days, ,eradi-
Gates lice with certainty Irritating
applications, such as undiluted kero-
sene, cannot safely be used on preg-
nant soWs, as abortion may follow
their use.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-13
William T. CorneII's Story of the
New York Farmer and His Sud- 3
denly Acquired Fortune in
Railway Bonds.

In an experience of q quarter Of a
century as a banker, 1 witnessed the
effect in several cases of a sudden &C
cession Of great fortune, and in two
or three cases the reverse effect Of
the sudden loss of fortune" l was
once told by the late William T. Cor
nell, at one time president OF an i'm
portant trust company in New York.
But L think the strangest Of all the
experiences was one that happened
at the time l was cashier of the old
Union bank in New York, an institu-
ton which is no longer in existence
That experience knocked galley west
my preconceived notion that a poor
man who suddenly came into posses
sion of considerable fortune would
be so bewildered or excited that for a
time he would not know whether he
was on foot or on horseback
There came into the Union bank
one day in the late seventies a decid-
eddy rustic looking man, who was, |
should say, about forty years of age.
He wore the conventional chin whis-
ker and there was a decided twang
in his voice. He was apparently sus-
picious of everybody. He asked for
me, and when l had gone to him said
that he was a little curious to know
whether the bonds of an old railroad
company, whose name he mentioned,
were worth copper or not
will look the matter up l said,
but it is my impression that the rail-
road has been absorbed by the New
York Central
Well said he, "just for the fun
OF 1t, and because I'm a leetle curl
Gus, suppose you find out and let me
know. I'll come in again by and by,
or I'll sit right down here and wait
1T was easy to see that the man
was not inspired by pure curiosity.
l therefore made inquiries, and speed
lily learned that the time Commodore
Vanderbilt took over some of the rail
roads of western New York, incorpo-
rating them into his New York Cen
trail system, there was among the
number one which was built from
Buffalo southerly. 1t had been built
upon stock subscriptions from the
sale of bonds to the people of the dis
trict through which the railroad ran.
The commodore offered to take up
the underlying bonds and to pay for
them in cash or with stock in the
Central He secured all of the bonds
except one block. This block repre-
sented face value Of $60,000-al-
though learned that when the bonds
were marketed they were sold for
about so cents on the doIlar-and the
commodore advertised for 1t and
caused his agents to hunt high and
low for it, but could get no track of
it. Still, those bonds were a lien on
the property, and would be until paid.
Il told the rustic that l thought the
bonds to which he referred could be
easily SOLD for cash, and be asked me,
How much can anybody get for
them" l took him over to a firm of
brokers, who represented the commo-
dore in New York Central matters,
and after a long siege with the stran-
ger we got him to admit that he had
the missing bonds somewhere in his
pocket.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-13
Breederaf Notes.

A breeder cannot be too careful in
learning not only the blood lines, but
also the characteristics Of the an
cestors for several generations of his
brood mares and the stations with
which they are to be mated, says the
Horse Breeder. When an ancestor in
a brood mare. within five or six gen
erations, has been noted for some I'M
desirable quality, or a cold-blooded
cart-horse cross, which is detrimental
to speed, as are all cold-blooded
crosses, she should not be mated
with a stallion any of whose ances-
tors were noted for c similar unde-
sirable quality or cross 1t is diff
cult TO eradicate the influence of an
undesirable cross Of any nature, when
it has once been introduced. 1t will
continue to crop out for generations.
Sometimes it may remain latent for
ane. two or several years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-13
On Men.

And that leads me to say that men
often remind me of pears in their
way of coming to maturity Some
are ripe at twenty, like human largo
nelles, and must be made the most of,
for their day is soon over Some
come into their perfect condition late,
like the autumn kinds, and they last
better than the summer fruit And
some that like the Winter-Neils, have
been hard and uninyiting until all the
rest have had their season, get their
glow and perfume long after the frost
and snow have done their worst with
the orchards.
Beware of the rash criticism; the
rough and astringent fruit you con-
denim may be an autumn or a winter
pear, and that which you picked up
beneath the same bough in August
may have been only it's worm-eaten
windfalls. Milton was a Saint-Ger-
main with a graft of the roseate
Early-Catharine. Rich, juicy, lively,
fragrant, russet-skinner old Chaucer
was an Easter-Beurre; the buds of a
new summer were swelling when he
ripened.-Holmes
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-13
; Nav News =
Or YESTERDAY
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learned. But he kept the money in
his house, paying it out from time to
time for farms and lands he bought
or took mortgages upon. 1t seemed
that the mans father, unbeknown to
anybody in his family, had bought
the bonds at the time they were is
sued and hidden them away in the
house, and died without saying any
thing to anybody about it. He had a
miser's hoard from which he drew to
pay for the bonds. In rummaging
around the attic, preparatory to max
ing some repairs, the son found his
short cut to riches"
Copyright, 1910. by E. J. Edwards All
Rights Reserved.)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-13
Major General Thomas Refused to At
tack Hoods Army Until Conditions
Were Such That Success
Was Certain.

On December IA, 1864, after battle
lasting two days, Major General
George H Thomas, who, In September
of the previous year, had just gained
the title of The Rock of Chicka-
manga crushed the Confederate
army commanded by Gen. John B.
Hood, so that it was not heard Of
again in the Civil war. And it was
this great victory, which history knows
as the battle of Nashville, that led to
the immediate appointment of Thomas
as a major general in the regular
army and led congress to give him a
vote of thanks.
General Thomas right hand man In
this conflict was Maj Gen. Andrew
J. Smith, one of the most gallant and
able generals in the war, the man who
saved Banks army on the Red river,
who was terror TO Price, Van Dorm,
and other Confederate chieftains, and
who, at the battle of Nashville, dis
played such great gallantry and merit
that he was brevetted major general
in the regular branch of the army.
Resigning from the regular army in
1869, General Smith became postmas-
ter of St Louis, and while he was
resident of that city he and James n.
Brown, also a st. Louisan and a sur
viving veteran of the war, many times
talked over their fighting days. 1t was
on one Of these occasions that Gen
eral Smith told his companion of his
meeting General Thomas Just before
the battle which annihilated Hoods
army
81 was ordered to take my CON-
mand, which was the Sixteenth Army
corps, and go by boat from St. Louis
to reinforce Thomas" said General
Smith. when we got to Horpeth
Shoal, in the Cumberland river, some
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-13
The TeIeQraph In Alaska.

There are more than four thousand
miles of lines of communication in the
Washington-Alaska military cable and
telegraph system. There have been
few Interruptions due, as usual tc
storms. land-slides and forest fires
The latter have always been prevalent
in summer along the Yukon river west
of Fort Gibson, but are yearly be-
coming less destructive with the pass
ing Of the forests. The system com
prises 2,5e2 miles Of submarine cable,
204 miles of double and 1,159 miles of
single land line, and 554 miles of
wireless.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-13
Profitable Hons

The profitable hog is, the one grown
quickly, made ready for the market
IN about six months. I am speaking
from small feeders standpoint. says
a writer in an exchange. Large farm
ers with large clover acreage may find
it profitable to grow large hogs, and
depend partially on pasturage, but l
doubt if such a course is as profitable
as marketing them earlier. The man
who feeds but few usually has some
milk and with middlings a slop can
be made for feeding pigs that if iu-
diciously fed viii make rapid growth
But you must have a good place to
feed, a good feed trough, clean and
dry with a good floor of cement or
wood on which to place this trough
and a good cover over it. This slop
must not be given ice cold, never be
low so or 70 degrees in cold weather.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-13
DEMANDED HIS 100000 IN CASH

Wen, to make a long story short,
he negotiated all that day with the
brokers, and they, having found out
by telegraph that the man was re-
liable, at last agreed to pay him a
hundred cents upon the dollar for the
bonds, and made out a check for $780,
600. One of their employees
came to our bank with the man and
the check. l asked the man If he
wouldn't like to take draft on Buff
falo for the amount, telling him that
he could conveniently carry it in that
form and get the money in Buffalo.
Look here, said he, is that piece
OF writing good for s60,o00?'
IT certainly is I said
Well, then, 1 want 100000, and I
don't want any writing. I want
| money that I know about
1t may be dangerous for you to
| carry so large an amount upon your
person. l said
There amt nobody slick enough
to get that money away from me- he
replied. I just want to see what
100000 looks like. what it feels like,
and whether it breaks my back to
carry 1T around with me- I never had
more than $50 at one time in money"
I'VE cashed the check and gave
him bills of large denominations. He
handled each bill as though it were a
treasure, closely scrutinized it, and
| placed it with the others in a piece of
brown paper Of the kind shopkeepers
| do up parcels in. Then he tied up
the paper parcel with a stout cord,
took little chain from his pocket
| fastened one end of it to the cord
and the other to his wrist and went
away.
He got home safely, I afterwards
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-13
MADE HIS ESCAPE IN TIME
Metaphors of Millionaire Found No Re,
spouse in the Breast of the
Farmer.

The millionaire accepted the farm
er's cordial invitation to ride, and with
much scrambling gained a seat ON top
of the hay
My good man." said the millionaire,
Datronizingly, this swaying, rolling,
sweetscented divan is a couch upon
which | could win slumber and be ir-
resistible to the arms of Morpheus
whenever / oourted sweet sleep"
The farmer stiffened. I'll hear no
more OF your talk; I'm a respectable
married man, an I'll ask you where
you're goin so l can avoid the place.
Dreamily the millionaire smiled.
I'm getting back to Mother Nature,
who has been outraged and abused by
me for years; l am a broken man,
and she will forgive me and bring me
back to health"
The farmer stopped the team and
pulled a three-tined pitchfork from
the brace socket-but his passenger
was Success Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-13
Those Raised in Mines Are as Good
as the Ordinary and the
Cost Is Less.

do you see those?" remarked a
man who raises mushrooms as he
pointed to a pile. of mushrooms
We'll, l happen to know that those
mushrooms came out of a coal mine
in Pennsylvania Quite a few mush-
rooms are taken out of the mines
now. Occasionally they help to glut
the market, too.
''Of course, as everybody knows,
mushrooms are raised in cellars and
two essentials are proper fertilizer
carefully applied and an even tenn
perature Some bright person who
knew something about mushrooms
discovered that when it came to grow
ing them artifcially the dark cham
bers of a mine were as good as the
ordinary cellar and that you could
raise mushrooms at less cost in them
In the first place, the mules fur
nished just the right kind of manure
and then the temperature of mine is