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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-11-15
Local and Personal Paragraphs,

Ladies have you seen the
knit top and near ht black under
skirts at
Mrs. PORTS
Mrs. HollingswOrth of Bristol,
who had been visiting Mrs + H..
BENEDICT, returned home Tues
day afternoon.
Axel Lingren of Marvin vas a
visitor at the county seat the
first of the week on court busi-
ness.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Empson
are re- ncing over the arrival Of
a fine little daughter at their
home last Monday.
Try the Everwear hosiery, 25c.
Soc and SOC a pair at Mrs. Ports.
ID. f. Filbert. the well drilIer
of Twin Brooks was IN town Sat
urday meeting his frIenCs and
attending to some business mat
tiers.
Mrs. Emil Johnson is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Emma kjalmer
at Mitchell.
Miss Eunice Pew of Mylrose.
township, went to Aberdeen Fri
DIV last week, where she expects
to remain during he winter. Her
sister Calista accompanied her
and the two will study music.
Mrs f. Il. Roberts, Mrs W. G..
Alderman and Mrs. II f. Ack-
errnan vii! entertain their lady
friends next Friday evening at
the home OF Mrs. Roberts.
1t is cheaper to attend a high
grade school in the first place
You will get The bes' if you come
to the Sioux Falls Business Col
lege, Sioux Falls, S. OAK.
Miss Ethel Hulwick, formerly
employed in the News office, left
for Watertown the first Of the
week, where she has engaged in
the dry goods department of one
of the stores there.
Chas Foss, ir., son of Charles
Foss Of Grant Center, had one of
his fingers shortned with a corr
shredder one day last week. Dr..
Jacotel dressed the injured mem
Der ard it is doing we'll.
Frank Miller and Helmer West
by of Big Stone, who are up a
tanding court as jurors, we're
visiting at the Odd Fellows lodge
Tuesday evening, both Of the
gentlemen being enthusiastic
three link members.
L j. Lockhart, who has been
in the employ Of the electric light
and power company for several
months, has resigned his position
and has engaged to go to Charles
City, Iowa, and enter the employ
ofHart Parr machine u fact
uring company. He expects to
leave this week for his new home.
Mrs. Wait keeney returned
from Lanark, ILL.,. Monday, where
she had been with the remains
of her late husband for inter
ment. Lanaik was the early home
of Mr.. keeney, and funeral ser
vice there was conducted by a
minister who was former friend
of Mr.. Keeney, and the pail bear
ers were Old soldiers, one Of
whom was the captain Of the
company 10 which he belonged.
= Mrs. E. G.. Rockwell of this
! city will accompany her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. D. p. Harrington
and brother D l. Harrington, of
Waubay to E,therville, Iowa nexl
Monday, where her brother viii
be united in marriage to Miss
Margarite L2XOn On Thursday
Novem Der 81. The young PEG,
pie will make their home a
Naubav. where Miss LlXOn has
o,, f.ionlc bavinr fprmnrlp
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-11-15
TOUGH LUIGI X.

"Who owns that homely face STAR
ing down at me?" asked the baby.
"That,' said the lady in the uni-i
form, "is your papa"
ooh, gee whiz" retorted the littleI
one. "And that's the guy everybody
says I look ike."-Detroit Free
Press. +.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-11-15
CONSIDERABLE OF A Feat.

"Have You ever noticed any signs
of intelligence in shellfish?o
almost human intelligence. Il
have often seen a clam bake dinner"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-11-15
ITS KIND.

"The doctor advises me that nv
tonsils must be cut out"
chats what | call very unpalat-
able advice"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-11-15

HORSE STRAYED-FrOm VIM.
Van Oferin's pasture, west OF
Twin Brooks. a four year old
horse weighing about 1900 or
1900 lbs, dark bay with white
spot in forehead. Reward will
be paid for return or information
leading to recovery.
NICK Burr,
r. F. d. 3, Miilbank.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-11-15

EVerwear hosiery, every pair
guaranteed at
Mrs. II. G.. Ports.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-11-15
For RENT-Five room house.
Cali on
MRS. JAS. WATSON.

FOUND-Pair of mems knitted
WOODEN socks. Picked up on side
walk last Friday. Call at Herald
Office.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-11-15

House TO RENT-SiX rooms.
Apply to
E. S. VANWALKE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28
Still Het Up.

A PROPOS Of the recent resolution OF
the Bible students convention in
Washington, Or. Philip Hale Curtin Of
Wheeling related this story 10 A re-
porter:
~ doctor. according 10 this story
saw. late one night. fine automobile
halted outside cemetery. He hid be-
hind a tree, for he suspected that
bodysnatchers We're al work: and. sure
enough. in few minutes he saw two
bodysnatchers stagger from the Gene
terry carrying a body. They placed IL
upright in the automobile. as though
IL Were alive. propping 1t securely in
the back seat, and then they hurried
back to the cemetery TO fill the vio-
lated grave again.
The doctor in their absence lifted
the body out OF the automobile. hid
il under hedge. and took Its place
himself.
Soon the scoundrels returned One
seated himself at the wheel and the
other seated himself in the back seat.
beside the body. 50 as to support IL.
Then. in the darkness. they glided of.
After a while the man in the rear
seat said in a rather awed tone:
This body seems mighty warm for
a corpse
The chauffeur reached back his
hand and touched il.
Don't il, though" he muttered. be-
tween perplexity and fear.
Then the corpse, in deep, sepulchral
tones exclaimed:
Warm? OF course I'm warm! And
if you had been where I've been for the
last two days, you'd be warm, too.
With loud yells of horror the body
snatchers leaped from the automobile
and fled. The doctor seized the wheel
and drove it home He has il. they say.
still"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28

lunch " veal an ham pie, with a chunk
iv tea, goes at wanst to tn game,
takes off his coat. hands his pipe TO
tn starter, an runs till a light per-
SEPARATION breaks out on tn forehead or
sinkin' feelin' in TIL neighborhood iv
tn stomach warns him ne has gone far
enough. Any wan who adhopts other
be barred.
There ye have 1t. But that amt all.
A cillybrated author comes out an he
says it wasn't an American team that
won at all. They were all foreigners.
TIL American comitymen whit to tn
extint iv ringin' in a Cherokee Indyan
as an American. What dye think iv
that? Cud bad spoortsmanship go
further thin that to pretind that an
assisted immigrant whose people
haven't been in this country FIR more
thin tin thousan' years was an Ameri
can? No wondher we won. But where's
tn honor to il II we cudden't win fairE
Annyhow. tn English ARE not goin'
to be vanquished mind ye.
They're a stubborn race. comfy
" four lords has been appinted to
gather In athleets firm livery corner iv
IN 'arth wherever tn flag iv England
floats Tinceforth twill not be nicis-
sary fr amy Englishman TO do amy
thing at these compytisions but drink
his cup " tea an cry. Well run. sir.
as his fellow-Bri on, ARA begoClijah
Khan iv Afganystan. butts the tape II
is announced that tn first British
stirring at tn mex Olympic will be:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28

~ My sn occasional and venture
some traveller passes over the
Broken road. yet in other days
that trackless stretch of hill,
sandy fields, swamp and then
more hill. was part of main north
south highway. Six and four horse
stages rumbled over 1t, colonial FAMILY
coaches toiled along it, and in the early
years of the civil war Union troops
marched over it. Artillery, ammunition
and commissary trains rutted the old
road a new way with easier grades was
built, and the road that had served the
people from very early colonial days was
abandoned and forgotten
An accurate map of the District OF Co
lumbia and the adjoining Maryland
county of Prince Georges will show a
stream having its source in the uplands
near the hamlet Of Oakland, a fraction
over three miles in a line southeast OF
Benning and a fraction over mile
south OF the southeast boundary of the
District. This stream winds through
gentle, graceful valley, IN some places
narrow, in others wide. but, as rule,
between steep, wooded hills 1t follows
southwest course and enters the Potomac
opposite Alexandria. For nearly four
miles it approximately parallels the Dis
trict boundary, then crosses this line.
flows about three miles through the Dis
trict, and then passes again into Mary
land and soon out into the great river
of this region. This stream is OXon run.
The map reader will note that the
stream is crossed by the Suitland road,
the Walker road the Wheeler road and
the Livingston road These all cross on
bridges To the west of the Livingston
road is one, the Gtesboro, which runs
along a narrow ridge, presenting fine Wis
tas east and west. The road is not drawn
any farther than the tip Of the ridge. or
Bald Eagle HILL where the land drops
sharply into the valley of Oxon run. The
road now turns and leads to the west,
down to the Old Folks Home on Blue
Plains, near Shepherds. Across the val
ley no road shows. but on the opposite
hills, a mile to the south, one picks 1t
up, and here and there in the marsh
land bordering the stream one finds traces
of the ancient way. 1t is this gap be-
tween the two ends that has given IL
the name of Broken road.
This was the course of the north and
south post roads 1t led from the New
England colonies through New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore. to point
near which Bladensburg came to be.
There it branched, one fork passing down
effecting a crossing at Mason's ferry,
near the site of the Aqueduct bridge.
passing on by what is now the east front
of Arlington, down through Dumfries.
Fredericksburg, the Carolinas and
Georgia. The other fork led to the early
settlements in southern Maryland, Pts
Getaway. Port Tobacco, Leonardtown. st.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28

There the road ends All trac. of il is
lost in the clay gullies and the sandy
flats, but pressing southwark one comes
upon a dense growth of timber and giant
weeds along OXOn run-here wide. swift
and turbulent in time Of heavy rain. This
ground IS moist and made gloomy by the
deep shade of sycamore. willow and
water oak Pools of stagnant water, with
black, brown and green scum. persist
even in dry weather. In this wet wood
land one picks up the trail OF the old
highway, reduced to a footpath worn by
the few people who cross this part of the
valley. Fordng the stream one strikes
again what is left OF the track of the ia
nous road. Quilted and washed till much
of the hilly way Is over yeritable series
of stone piles the road is scarcely practi-
cable for an oXcart. but a man on horse
back may get through without hardship.
Living by the wayside is an old colored
woman; her name Is Sarah Gray. widow
of Uncle Nat Gray. She has been living
there many years she cannot recall the
number She remembers the coaches and
four that rushed along that road. She
also remembers the long columns of
Union troops moving up and down the
state over the great post road 1t was
the soldiers what cut the road up no
body could use il. Then they built the
new way round and nobody never fixed
this road and nobody can't come and go
this way no more" is the substance Of
what she said.
Climbing through this quilted and
rocky way to the opposite side Of the
valley. and at the site of the ruin of
Oxon Hall, the manor house of the
Addison grant, one strikes that part
of the north-south post road that is
still very much in use.
At New Glatz, a mile and a half be-
yond, one may meet storekeeper
who knew this part of the country
we'll a long, long time ago. He said:
THE mail stages used to roar along
this road. There never was a bridge
over OXon run. the way you came over.
but the coaches always got through.
The coaches were like those you see
now in wild west shows or In museums
of ANTIQUITIES. The road across the run
became so bad during the war that 1t
was used with increasing difficulty.
and there was very little road repair
ing in the southern part of Maryland
in those days About the close of the
run on a bridge higher up the valley
was opened, and the old road has been
washing away and growing up with
trees ever since.
The through mail service over this
road was continued until 1863. when
were carried by steamboat between
Washington and Glymont. Stages ran
between the latter point and the prin-
cipal down-state towns. The mail stage
used TO leave Washington at am.
The first stop was Piscataway. The
first change OF horses was made at
Tray (now Berry,. On over Malta
woman swamp went the stage, maxi
ing Port Tobacco and Newport At the
latter place passengers spent the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28

claned be tn Chinese. If wan iv thin
laundhrymen runnin' thirty-four steps
to tn yard bates our representative I'd
abolish tn games. / cudden't bear tn
disgrace. Yet it may happen TIL
older 1 get tn more I've made up me
mind that tn on'y reason amy, wan
is a champeen is because enough peo-
pie don't thry to take it away firm
him"
We'll, anyhow. we won this time"
said Mr. Hennessy
I'VE did that" said Mr.. Dooley. 1T
may be tn last time. but I'm glad Nv It,
l don't know why l get so INTERESTED
in these things-me that cudden't roll
let alone run, a hundred yards an
wud be sure to dhrop tn hammer on
me toes If I thryed to throw 1t. But
l do. Why is 1t? I amt anything
like as stirred up be our intellechool
conquests as 1 am be a New York
polisman peggin' tn hammer tn length
iv tn stajum. There's d colledge in
Paris called tn Sourbun. an livery year
it asks professor firm this country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28
Divul ut will put in front iv another till ye give
says tn atheleet

pen to this Anglo-Saxon supremacy iv
ours If these here despised subjick
races gets started in our sports. A
few years ago ye'd as soon expict to
Eyetalyan or Frinchman or a
Bahaymyan winnin' a race. They cud
dent understand what we were doin.
They watched us an said: What is
that Englishman chasin' that American
FIR? Has he stole something firm him p
Hes just stolen a lap says the
SPECTATOR. Go on. Levi. FIR tn honor
iv tn Anglo-Saxon race But some
body put it into tn heads iv thin be-
as their supeeryors. an behold, a crew
iv Biljams-think iv that!-in long
whiskers an smokin' cigareets bates
tn English at rowin'. an Eyetalyan
ice cream peddler runs twinty-six miles
faster thin amy Nv our own la-ads an
man firm Lapland or Finland or
somewhere's else that I niver dhreamed
there lived amy wan that cud move
fast enough to keep warm in his fur
fellows that has had all tn advantages
Nv Christyan bringin' up an Anglo
Saxon Traditions. It's tur'ible. Hin
Missy. but I'll niver give up till we're
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28

to go over an give an exhibition iv
how high tn, American mind can jump
Some " our gr-reatest mintel atheleets,
with as much head above their spic
tacles as below thin. has enthered in
these sports an done great honor
to their native land.
But dye see me skimmin' tn
pa-apers to find out what Dr. Sary-
bellum, professor iv tautology at kaw
University, has done TO tn Frinch
champeen? If / did chances ar-re |
wudden't find 1t. Ye don't see amy
headlines In tn pa-apers. American
Professor Grabs First Money at Sour
bum No, sir I don't care whether
he did or not. l wudden't mind if he
was disqualified fr spikin' his OPP
ponent or speakin' Latin through his
nose. But whin an American goes over
to punch foreigners eye or row
against him or run him off his feet 1
set back in me rockin' chair, read livery
line iv TIL reports, an give three
cheers FIR him.
I'm proud to be riprisinted abroad
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28
No Poetry There.

vvy d. TIOWELLS. at luncheon at
W. Kittery Point. said of a certain
popular novelist:
There is about as much poetry in him
as there is in McMasters
"McMasters, you know, was walking
with beautiful girl in a wild New Eng
land wood
What is your favorite flower, Mr..
McMasters? the girl asked softly.
"McMasters thought A moment then
cleared his throat and answered:
We'll. believe 1 like the whole
wheat best"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28

My en occasional and venture
some traveller passes over the
Broken road, yet In other days
that trackless stretch of hill,
sandy fields, swamp and then
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28

Marys City ST Inieoes and Point Look
out. Passing as it did nearly parallel
to the river. but a an average distance
of a mile eastward of 1t, this was called
the River road
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28

Marys City ST. Inieoes and Point Look
ont. Passing as it did nearly parallel
to the river but at an average distance
of a mile eastward of 1t, this was called
the River road.
In the Library of Congress is an inter-
esting map drawn by Dennis Griffith in
1894. 1t shows the village of PiscataWay
as a junction of several important south
Maryland highways. 1t shows the river
road from Bladensburg down the Eastern
branch through what are now Twining,
Anacostia, Congress Heights, New Glatz.
Broad creek and Galicia to Piscataway,
and thence across Mattawoman creek on
TO Port Tobacco Another road over
Mattawoman creek runs southwest to
Pamunkey warehouse by way of Dent 3
dwelling (the home of member of Mrs.
u. S. Grants family, Burners mills and
Gen. Smallwood's dwelling. Another road
over Mattawoman creek passes on to Port
Tobacco by way of Thompson's tavern.
and near that old inn a road forks to the
southeast over Zakiah swamp to Bryan
town and Benedict. Running northwest
from PiScataway is a road that passes
Lanham's tavern, near the present TIP
pett's post office, and on by way of Cal
vert's mill and woodward to Marlboro.
A traveller leaving the new town of Con-
gress Heights-where about thirty years
ago there were no other buildings than
the decaying grandstand of the National
City race course inhabited by Mr.. Mof-
fat, a we'll known horseman OF that
period: the home of Policeman Lngan
Anderson and a blacksmith Shop-soon
comes to the ruin of Fort Carroll. The
road formerly passed eastward of and on
lower ground than the fort, but years ago
it was cut through the earthworks, and
the eastern half of the fort has been
leveled, beautiful home now covering
that part of the site.
The remains of the west half of Fort
Carroll may be clearly traced on the
a jungle of vines, honeysuckle. trumpet
vine, bramble and wild berry. In the
parade and on the ramparts grow trees.
jack pine, tulip, black locust, sweet gum
and pin oak. But for the woods growth
the prospect from these breastworks
today as it was to the man Of 61-65
South and west of Carroll the road
forks, the left hand branch being the
Livingston road which leads by the site
of the mill John Surratt ran before he
removed to Surrattsville, now Clinton,
seven miles southeast in an air line. but
about ten miles by road. The right hand
fork soon climbs a steep hill where ma
jestic views Of the Potomac river and the
Virginia hills to the westward may be
gained and to the eastward long yistas
may be had of green and hilly country,
woodland and clearing, up and down the
valleys of Oxon run and BarnabaS
branch.
Follow this road to the end OF the ridge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28

night At O'Clock next morning the
trip was resumed and the stops in
their order Were Chaptico. Head-of-
Bay and Leonardtown Edward -
Ware was the last contractor taking
the through mail over the post road"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28

be these young fellows. Europeans
usually get their idees iv America firm
tn Americans they see trudgin' around
tn churches readin' little red books
an steppin' on tn heels iv old ladies
sayin' their pather an ayes, or cursin
get withered bran FIR breakfast. or
telIin a cardinal how much Saint
Peters is like tn new courthouse at
Wanskaloosa. I'd like to say These
boys that We see hcppin around tn
thrack ARE tn rale representative
Americans. They are our ambassa-
dures. not tn la-ads ye see maxim a
ginuiixion befure tn king An TIL
foreigners wud look thin over an say:
What's tn use iv maxim war again
such a tur'ible people? If we shud an
fought Matt McGraw wud knock our
heads off. an If we run away Craig
wud ketch u.s. Let us make peace with
Thin Dear. O dear. Td've liked to
been in Stockholm whin Matt took tn
hammer, delicately, dye mind, between
tn thumb an forefinger, give it a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28
Some Nv Our Greatest
Mlnte Atheleets.

IL mus, OF soon O. .ater-that
these young fellows lost 10 shame,
actually thrained fr tn races
Here it Is. an exthract firm tn
London Daily Grcan. II was not tn
superiority iv tn American team that
give 1t tn victhry. but the thrainin'
methods iv these barbaryans firm
acrost tn water. It turns out that
many " these pretinded amachoors
stopped smokin' cigareets an atm pie
weeks befure goin' TO Sweden. an
that while our athletics were Twin
their ordhinry amachoor lives AN TAX
in no exercise beyant fghtin' with tn
wasps FIR possession iv tn breakfas;
narmylade their opponents were
practicin' runnin'. jumpin an putin
tn shot. so as 10 have an onfair ad-
vantage whin they entered tn races
" coorse they bate us. but thank
hiven that Englishmen have not adopt
cd these neefaryous methods, but whin
they win. though ii be sildom, do so
entirely on their merits.
Our idee iv these sports is that
they ought to be threated as a pleas
ant way " passin' tn AFTERNOON TIL
thrue amachoor wud disdain rnissiu' a
meal in ordher 10 run little faster
thin his fellowman. He ates a hearty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28

Wong Chin Foo iv Hongkong. Bahadoor
Boo iv Madras. Wapachoo iv Zooloo-
land, Sambo Sam iv British East
Africa an Achnut Bey iv Egypt. An
livery British heart will be supposed to
Anglo-Saxon undhersthudies sweeps
acrosst the field. TIL British flag will
be hoisted an tn band will play tn
British naytional anthem What's
that chune. Q son iv tn prophet? says
wan British atheleet to tn other. I
don't know says he, but it's tn same
tn band played whin til sojers were
chasin' me aged father UP an alley in
Cahool,' he says.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28

Il don't know how were goin' to con-
tind again thin. We have no subiick
races but tn Philippians, an cock
fghtin' onforchnitly amt wan Nv tn
ivints at the Olympic games. TIL on'y
way 1 can figure out to get tn best
iv thin Is not to let amy wan compete
who hasn't got vote where he comes
firm. 'Twud be a grand way iv spread
in dimycracy all over tn wurruld.
'Gunga Din.' says wan iv tn English
lords. goin up to a British atheleet
who is hittin' tn pipe undher a bam-
boo three an givin' him light kick.
i wan; We to go to Berlin an run a
thousan' yards FIR tn honor Nv or Eng
land 'Divul a fut will | put in front
iv another till ye give me a vote says
tn atheleet. An if tn English ARE
thrue spoortsmen he'll get it.
II don't know what's goin to hap