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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-05-11
HER FLESH AS BAIT.

Woman Resorts to Heroic Means 60
Obtain Food For Children.
Fish dealers confirm a story that an
Indian woman living on q small island
north OF Vancouver, B. O.. cut piece
Of flesh from her body tn an effort to
procure food for her children when
they were starving.
The woman and children were in
desperate straits. The last scrap Of
food had been eaten the day before,
and there was no game. although the
woman searched until her strength
gave out
In this condition she cut strip Of
faesh from her body. This flesh was
used as bait to catch 6sh and thus sus-
tanned life until aid arrived.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-05-11
SENATOR LAFAYETTE YOUNG
ON ROAD DRAGGING
lo.xan Says II 10 Surprising What Good
Rssults Arc Obtained.


During recent interview Senator
Lafayette Young OF Des Moines, Ia,
expressed his satisfaction over the re-
suits from the dragging Of roads, says
the American Cultivator. lit Is sur
prising." he said. what good road
can be made Of dirt by dragging the
surface with what is known as the
King drag. This dragging is done aft
er rain. The soft earth is smoothed
over and the rough places filled up.
When roads have been dragged for a
year the surface becomes hard and
smooth and will dispose Of very
heavy rain"
The King road drag has been ex-
plotted by the department of agricul-
ture and by several agricultural ex-
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-05-11

Courtesy Good Roads.l
jority of such roads on account Of the
frequent difficulty of obtaining water
near at hand and the consequent ex-
cessive cost; therefore various arti-
fetal dust layers have been produced.
many of them acting with water to
produce the desired effect.
As compared with water sprinkling
for dust laying. the use Of the various
artificial palliatives is generally con-
sidered the cheaper.
Calcium chloride is a highly hygro-
scopic and deltQuescent salt. The COM
mercial form. known under the trade
name Of Solvay granulated calcium
chloride. Is byproduct Of the manu-
facture Of soda by the Solvay process.
It contains about Is per cent Of cal
cium chloride and about Is per cent of
moisture. Its effectiveness as a dust
layer depends very much upon its
property OF retaining moisture applied
to the road surface and absorbing
moisture from the atmosphere, thus
greatly increasing the effect of water
applied directly to the road, and also
making available that existing in the
air above it It is applied by either Of
two methods, the wet" or the dry"
BY the first It is dissolved in water and
applied from an ordinary sprinkling
cart, solrtion of from one pound to
one and one half pounds Of the nate
rial to each gallon of water being used.
The second method Is especially ap-
Rlfcable where water is not easily OBJ
tained. though 1t Is often used else
where: By this method the dry mate.
rial In fts granular form Is spread d.
rectly upon the road and allowed to
dissolve by the absorption Of moisture
from the air., i, =.
Dustoline II a transparent LIQUID Of
brpwn. OF plum color, practically
WITHOUT a9or. It Is shipped in barrels
q IA tank cars and is. applied directly
@ the road without heating or mixing
With water. Or other material. Ordi-.
nary water spfinkling carts may be
used to apply It, or It may be sprinkled
ty hand vith garden watering not,
Z acts a. q dust layer BY holding to,
gsther the 6ne particles on the. road
AEfsss =. Z moist condition, &hettsy
kssp1nG ths road free from dust.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-05-11
TEN-YEAR-oLD ROADS BEST.
Builders Arc Getting CareIsss, Kansas
CITY Judoe Saws.


City Judge Says.
"Why are the roads built ten years
ago better today than the roads built
three or four years ago?"
That question was asked by Judge
81. G. Gilbert of Judge E. L. Martin
and Judge e. E. Axline Of Kansas
City. The questioned Judges shook
their heads.
Simply because the plans and spec
ifcations made and carried out ten
years ago were for real rock roads
work and for the further reason that
the contractors who did the work ten
years ago were required to build the
roads exactly according to plans and
specifications" answered Judge Gil
bert.
There is going to be change in
this road building business" Mr.. Gil
bert said, and the other members Of
fered the additional bit Of Information
that there is going to be a decided
change.
Contractors in recent years haven't
been building the roads in strict COM
pliance with the plans and speciflca-
tions," Mr.. Gilbert added further.
'Some Of the contracts called for
roads twenty feet wide and others
sixteen feet wide. They are little
narrower than those widths in many
places-too many places. The same
contracts called for the macadam to be
fifteen inches in the center-little
enough-and nine inches deep at the
edges. The macadam Is not that deep
in manv places."
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-05-11
Something To Laugh At i.

Next to kiss laugh is the most
popular thing in the world. The sup
ply of kisses is limited, being largely
controlled by a fair but capricious
trust. The supply Of laughs, how
ever, is practically unlimited so long
as you don't get too grumpy to look
for them. One reason for the re-
markable success of EThe Chicago
Record-H Herald is its .haily recogni-
ton of the value of kindly, whole
some fun. The Alternating Cur
rents" column of Sc Kiser, the
humorist and poet, is one of the
brightest things in American jour
nalism. There is always smile or a
|, good laugh in Ralph .Wilder's car
toons, bringing a CHEEKY greeting as
as you pick up the paper each morn
ing.
But it is in The Sunday Record
Herald that one finds the most
chuckles. The colored comic section
is full oflaughter for young and old,
and these amusing illustrations are
free from the vulgarity and mis-
chlevous suggestions chat have
barred so many comic sections from
refined homes. Then there is always
lot Of high-class humor in the Sun
day Magazine of TheRecord- Herald,
led by Sewell Fordisf inimitable
Shorty McCabe stories. The delec-
table Shorty and his red-headed
rival. Torchy, have become SO pop
ular that one or the other now
appears in funny yarn every Sun
day throughout the year. So long
as Shorty and Torchy, are on deck
there will be something worth living
for. The Record Herald has the
right idea. Clean humor doubles the
welcome Of a good newspaper.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-05-11
Now Bridge In Forty. min. s.eond

New Bridge In Forty. nine Seconds.
A three span steel bridge 294 fee
long and weighing moro than Lon
tons to replace an old iron one spal
ming the Westfleld river on the BostC
and Albany railroad at Huntington
Mass. was successfully rolled into po-
sition here. the entire work Of taking
away the old and placing the new
structure requiring dalx forty nine sec
onds. Half an loutEI Iasss when the
wills Mere connected ~ ~ bridge
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-05-11
WATER AS ANAEsTHE1Ic,l

Being Used Successfully q Johns Hop
kins Hospital.
Lukewarm water IL now being used
ds an anaesthetic In most Of the oper-
ations for appendicitis at Johns Hop
kins hospital. Baltimore.
In an operation for appendicitis. said
one Of the surgeons. I'll that is neces-
sary Is to inject luksvaxm water In
sufficient quantities under the skin in
the vicinity of the part operated on.
I'VE have obtained great results
through the use Of water and In most
While the operation . In progress
the patient is said to feel no pain anc
to be fully conscioua
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-05-11
4 sev.n Mil. sten. Highway.

- Ssvsn Mile Stone Ht0hway.
There are probably few cities In
southern California engaged in a more
extensive campaign of road improve
ments thnn Riverside. Work now un-
der way and for which proceedings
have been begun amounts 70 approxi.
nately. NINETY city blocks. or seven
miles ,cS. hghway,,te be constructed Of
l0ck rcadbed with oiled macadam sur.
1acG
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-05-11
GOOD ROAD is LIKE A
BANK ACCOUNT.

A bad road is Iikened unto a
pickpocket and a good road to
a bank account that draws in
forest and constantly increases
in size. The state Of the roads
affects the farmer moro than any
other class, and tho farmer
should stand for good roads,
while the towns should help him
bear tho burden Of construction.
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of last year. Ten days later they be-
gan to be feverish. and an eruption came
out upon them just as it does on chlld.
The little animals developed all the symp-
toms and features of human measles and
the disease acted in the same way. Now
when the disease was just at the rignt
point certain of these monkeys were Kill
ed and their blood was used to inoculate
fresh monkeys. The monkeys so inocu-
lated took the measles and third SET
of monkeys inoculated with their blood
took the measles likewise.
From these and other cases DR.. Ander-
son finds that the period of infectiVlty
from measles, as far the monkey Is
concerned, begins about the fourth day
disappears as soon as the eruption has
passed away and the temperature of the
patient becomes normal. 1t must be the
same with humans, but as 1t is now,
when child has the measles 1t is kept
out of school for something like three
weeks. These Investigations show that
twelve or fifteen days time is all that Is
necessary. and ii is probable that less
period would be safe. The disease is
communicated from man to man, or
rather from child to child, for it is to
large extent a child's disease. by means
of the secretions which come from the
nose aud mouth Certain monkeys which
were inoculated with d fluid mixed with
these secretiOns took the measles, and 1t
is probable that the contagion comes
largely from such secretions. The saliva
and other secretions are mixed with the
dust of the streets and thus taken into
the system. For this reason children
with the measles should be warned
against eXpectoration.
Among others of the recent inveStiga-
ton of the hygienic laboratory is infan-
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again. 1t has been found that a serum
from the diseased monkeys Will arrest
the progress of the disease after it has
developed, and monkeys have been vacci-
natd with this and thus made immune.
1t may be that this vaccination will some
day be extended to children.
Infantie paralysis is found to come
from a germ but this germ is so small
that it will go through a stone filter.
The scientists have macerated the spinal
cord of a monkey having the disease and
have passed the water containing this
through such filter. drop of the wa
ter which came from the filter was then
injected into another monkey. and it got
infantile paralysis
1t is also found that the secretions from
the noses of the infected monkeys are
infectious and it is believed all the Sc
wise so. This indicates that the disease
may be transmitted from one person to
another by direct contact and that it is
contagious.
Another terrible disease which is caus-
ing much excitement in certain sections
of the United States just now is pelagra.
This. in the words of Surgeon General
Wyman, is "a veritable scourge in GER
tain parts of Europe. 1t is found IN
Florence. Italy, and Roumania, and it
occurs also in Spain and Upper Egypt.
In certain parts of Italy as many as "
per cent of the people have the disease,
and 10 per cent CT these are mentally at
fected.
Pellagra has only recently come to
America. 1t first broke out in the south
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in October. 1882 between King Leopold
and the French government under which
France permitted the International Arr
can Association. the forerunner Of the
* congo State to establish stations in the
X ongo: and confirmed in the letter re-
garding presumption which was addressed
to the president of the republic in 1884,
and laid before the Belgian chamber in
1895
How far this theory holds good In inter-
national law the Belgian cabinet itself
is by no means certain. 1t cannot well
be questioned until it is put forward and
before it is put forward Germany will
have taken good care to make her posi-
ton secure. England could only oppose
the transference of Frances right Of
prescription to Germany by insisting on
Belgium'S unfettered sovereignty over the
Kongo, but England has not as yet recog-
niZed the annexation of the Kongo by
Belgium. and complicated Is the situa-
ton, France has actually approached Bel
GUM with an offer OF her services with
England in return for Belgium's acqui-
escence in the present scheme
The transference of Frances rights over
the Belgian Kongo to Germany Is not
likely to be made public Immediately In
Belgium there will be no outcry about It.
Belgium is not the ally, she Is the
protege of Germany, into whose arms she
has thrown herself. All parties which
have real political influence in Belgium
are pro-German. The Catholic govern
tnent of Belgium and the great party at
it's back detests anti-religious France,
The fnanciers of Belgium dstrust both
France and England. and place their trust
in Germany and 1t has to be remembered
that finance rules the liberal party in
Belgium, and millionaire fnanciers lead
the Belgian socialists. The financiers of
Germany march hand in hand with those
Of Belgium. The richest bankers in
Brussels are Germans. Antwerp is full
of German traders and bankers. Great
Belgian enterprises. the Belgian national
mandatory of firearms itself. for ex-
ample, have been captured by German
capital German directors preponderate
on their boards. while Belgian capital has
been secured for the exploitation of the
companies in the German colony in kam-
eroun, which are managed by German
directors. Germany has won Belgium by
financial and diplomatic assistance, profit
able to giver and recipient alike.
The English campaign against the Leo
poldian regime in the Kongo would have
resulted otherwise than in the trasfer of
the Independent State to Belgium had
not Germany supported King Leopold and
Belgium. Germany, as an astute Eng
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they base their opposition to the transfer
OF the Ubango district on sentimental
grounds. and sentiment, much as 1t Is
mouthed and applauded, counts for moth
ing in hard PRACTICAL France. Orators
may protest against the infamy of hand
ing over a colony to the country which
"amputated two provinces from the
the eloquent protest Of Nine. de Brazza,
but the Kongo will be handed over to
Germany. nevertheless, If France re-
mains convinced that she gains by the
transaction.
The only opposition which Germany
fears in central Africa Is that of Eng
land The rumor that England Is about
to sever the remaining ties between
Egypt and Turkey and bring Egypt noml-
nally as well as actually within the Brit
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tile PARALYSIS This dread disease is like
the measles In that 1t usually attacks 1T
tie children. 1t is a disease of the spine,
which paralyzes the child either in part
or in certain Of its members and which
often causes death. In Sweden out OF 592
cases of children under eleven II died,
and in Massachusetts, in 62S cases the
state board of health found that 16 per
cent of the babies of less than one year
failed to recover. Among the others. who
got partially we'll, four had one thigh and
leg paralyZed, eight had two legs para
lived, and a number had leg. arm and
other members made dead, as it We're.
Infantle paralysis is not new disease.
Evidences of it have been found in an
Egyptian mummy which is almost 1000
years old, and it has long existed in Eu-
rope There have been number of out
breaks of it in various parts of the
United States within the past few years.
Massachusetts had one in 1907, 1908, 1913
and 1910, Michigan one in 1907 and l5oo,
PENNSYLVANIA one in 1910 and oregon,
South Dakota and Virginia were afflicted
with it during that same year 1t was
in 1910 that it broke out here at WASH
ington resulting in $50 cases and about
sixteen Deaths The youngest case was
siXty-four years.
:. x
In studying this disease there have been
many attempts to give it to guinea pigs,
rabbits, horses, sheep. dogs. cats. chick
ems, ducks and pigs. They have all failed
but it has now been discovered that 1t
can be given to the monkey, and also
that a monkey which has had the dis
ease once cannot be given the disease
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The Difference.

TOHN d. ROCKEFELLER, insisting OF
} the Importance of little things, SAID
to New York journalist:
Don't be like a music dealer who sent
a piece called Impromptu waltz 10
man who had ordered one called 'Vaise
Impromptu.
1.-The dealer, on being taken to account.
said cIustily that he didn't see, Tor MS
part, much difference between a 'valse
impromptu' and an fmpromptu waltz
THE patron retorted to this:
1.-The difference, sir. between 'valse
impromptu and an fmpromptu waltz
may be similar to the difference petweem
a blind Venetian and a Venetian blind ="
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guisedly imperialist in her colonial pol
icy Her African empire of tomorrow. as
it has been sketched for me by a Belgian
diplomatist who is neither Germanophi.e
nor alarmist but who is in position to
know what passes in the Wihelmstrasse,
extends across central Africa from the
Atlantic to the Indian ocean and from
Lake Tchad. in the north, down to the
Orange river.
Frances concession Of the Ubangi dis
trict, with an opening on the Atlantic, Is
TO be followed when the opportune mo-
ment arrives by the presumption OF the
Belgian Kongo which will join Kameroun
to German East Africa. and make pos
sible railway connection between ka-
meroun and Daar-es-S Salem. across the
Belgian Kongo, via CbangL Rio NUM- Is
to be bought from Spain. and the en-
pire Is to be rounded off by the exercise
of another right of prescription, that of
the western half of Portuguese West Az
rica which co.ony England and Germany
are to divide. with the consent of Por-
tugal, under the treaty of 1893.
What Belgium will obtain in exchange
for her complacency is not limited at, but
II is easy to guess. There will be no inn
mediate or undisguised transference of
sovereignty There will be. rather, d
commingling of financial interests. Bel
GUM has no wish to surrender or curtail
her independence. but she has a strong
desire to share what she believes to be
the security and the growing prosperity
of the German empire. federal
union is not unthinkable where
Belgium is concerned. The Belgians
have remodeled their army. Every Bel
gian family Is now obliged to furnish one
of its members for military service. There
is no grumbling in Belgium against con-
scription. If the young Belgians who en-
ter their country's army murmur at all 1t
is against the fate which deprives them
Of the chance of drawing their swords
in war.
The Belgians have never been lovers
Of peace. Neutrality was no device OF
theirs. They regard it and the political
situation Of their country today as they
did in 1856, when King Leopold l wrote
to Queen Victoria: This neutrality was
in the real interest Of this country, but
our good congress here did not wish 1T.
and even opposed it: 1t was imposed
upon them. A neutrality to be respected
must be protected.
France is acting perlously in playing In
to Germany's hands in the Kongo, what
ever the compensation she receives In
other parts of Africa. French politicians
outside the government realize this. but
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Certain English publicists, seeking TO
blind their readers To the Importance OF
Germanys advance. talk of the Sus val
ley in Morocco. Of which Germany has
not obtained possession, as Tom It'd
dler's ground. and describe the middle
kongo miasmic swamp; the Ubangi
district as light land. Such talk is idle.
The portion of the French Kongo which
Germany seeks, and France Is disposed
to cede in part whole. exported ivory
and rubber I'm 1903. the last year for
which returns are available. to the value
of s.. 531 .754. Its trade is in the hands
Of nine companies. whose concessions
cover $4,000, 900 acres, englobing the
whole of the equatorial forest situated in
the French Kongo. The profits OF the
largest of these companies. the Compag-
ME Forestiere Sangha Oubanghi, amount
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Most Dangerous Habit.

MISS HELEN DTTRIEI was talking
1VA at the aerodrome at Nassau Boule-
ward about the dangers of flying.
But flying, if you're careful ism Q
dangerous" she said. Then she laughed
and added:
"A man went to an insurance office TO
have his life insured the other day.
"'Do you cycle?' the insurance agent
asked.
No said the man.
"'Do you motor?'
No
do you, then, perhaps. fly
"'No, no. said the applicant, laughing:
i have no dangerous
But the agent Interrupted him curly.
Sorry, sir he said, but We no longer
insure pedestrians.
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ish empire is believed in the Wilhelm
strasse to indicate a move by England,
through Egypt, toward the Kongo, which
will strengthen her claim to a large share
of the Belgian Kongo il the question OF
partitioning 1t is brought forward.
There is preserved In the Belgian CO.
lonial Office in Brussels map made in
England eight years ago to illustrate the
project then before the English public
of the partition of the kongo. The writer
has obtained a copy of this map. a
glance at 1t is instructive. On 1t Eng
land and Egypt are allowed the largest
portions. which is but natural, seeing
where it was made: but the parts allot-
ted to Germany and France are situated
in the very districts which Germany
most desires. Germany might not object
to partition on these lines, but Belgium.
ready though she is to join in the feder-
alton with Germany. or to accept of
German dominion in fact, In return for
tariff concessions and protection, will not