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Smyrna times., 1912-10-02
MESSENGERS OF DEATH.
specters That Haunt Some Old World
Ancestral Homes.

Ancestral Homes.
That historic German ghost, the
White Lady of the Hohenzollerns,
would seem to have more than legend
ary basis. So far as | am aware. this
ghost has never been investigated by
properly qualified psychical research
ers. but its credentials are too well au-
thenticated to be ignored. The mission
Of the White Lady. apparently, is to
announce the death of some member
Of the HohenzOllern family, and her
most frequent haunting place is the
royal palace at Berlin. She was seen
as early as 1G2S, and since the time of
Frederick the Great her appearance
has been regularly chrOnicled on the
eve of the death of the king of Prussia.
For the ma ter of that, there are not
q few families whose ancestral homes.
according to tradition. are haunted by
death announcing ghosts. This is par
ticularly the case with certain distin-
guished British families. The York.
shire Middletons, a Catholic family, are
said to be warned of approaching death
by the apparition of a Benedictine nun
COrtachy castle, which belongs to the
earls Of Airlie, is haunted by ghOstly
drummer. who beats his drum when
ever death is near an Airlie. Two white
owls perching on the roof of the family
mansion are taken as sure omen OF
death in the Arundel of WardOur fam
lily. Finally, tradition has it that the
death of an Argyll is fOretOld in a mos
impressive manner by a phantom
hearse driving up to the doOr.-Metro
pOlitan Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1912-10-02
Porous Drain Tile
Coal, Wood, Land Lime, Cement
and Terra Gotta Pipe, Paving
Brick, Fire Brick and
Fire Clay.
Sale

FARM of IT'S Acres, 100 acres
clear, tillable land, two dwellings,
one of IA rooms and one 8 rooms.
Good stable for 10 horses and II
cows. Granary, implement and
Wagon Sheds, Poultry and Meat
Houses all in good condition. The
main dwelling is as good as new.
This farm is located near Odessa,
Del, in the finest farming Sec
tion and is the cheapest farm l
have ever offered. The land is of
the finest quality. Price, $40, 900,
easy terms.
FARM of rs Acres, 22 acres
clear, balance in wood, good dwell
ing of s rooms, stable, wagon shed,
pOvltry and meat houses. Plenty
of all kinds of fruit; III miles to
railroad. Price, s., 900.
L have many other farms that can be
purchased at bargain prices and on very
also have MONEY TO LOAN on
mortgage in sums to suit those needing it.
L am representing some of the oldest and
best FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES
doing business in this State and can insure
your crops against both Fire and Lightning,
also, your Live Stock against death from
any cause. Call and let US quote you rates.
II. g. JONES
Representing Ford s. Refs, Inc.
SMYRNA, DEL
Smyrna times., 1912-10-02
Rigid Rule.

usher. a cigar must have touched
my dress. 1t is smoking"
Then you'll have to be put out. mad.
am. No smoking allowed inside
Baltimore American.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
Oratorv No lonoer Scars

"Oratory Is lost art" said a Cleve-
land man the other day. Il used to go
down to the courts just to hear the
lurid speeches. Nothing doing in that
line any more The lawyers do not
talk about flowers, rainbows and sun
beams today.
There was a lawyer in Cleveland
years ago-Bill Robinson was his name
whose addresses to jury always at
tracted a crowd. l will forever remem-
ber one Of his sentences. The man he
was fighting in the suit had a reputa-
ton as something of miser
"'Who is this man-who is he? thun-
dered Robinson. You know and l
know that he boils his potatoes in wild.
ows' tears
This phrase caught the jury, and
Robinson won his case, but one does
not hear any such 'oratory' as that
nowadays."-Case and Comment.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
The Real Trouble,

"Oh, DOCTOR" sighed the patient, II
am so glad you have come. l feel
dreadful, and don't know what IN
the world Is the matter with me. My
husband says it is nothing but nerv'
Gus indigestion. but his mother Is posi-
tive / am going to have appendicitis,
and my mother declares l have inter
mittent fever, and my sister says IT
looks to her like creeping paralysis, and
Aunt Henrietta says I've got malaria
What do you think I've got, doctor?'
WELL" frowns the physician. from
these symptoms l should say offhand
that you have too many relatives.
Chicago Post.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
LIFE ON A BoER FARM.
The House Z Chamber Of Horrors, the
Housewife Hopelessly Dull.

An American woman travelling in
South Africa was detained by floods
and compelled to spend month Cd a
Boer farm. The first nights monoto-
n.y." she writes. was broken by the
roaring of the ostriches under our win
dow. We thought it was tame lion.
THE farmer and his family lived
chiefly ON sour bread and sour skim
milk, sand ] was therefore hungry
most of the time, and the ripe figs
hanging in clusters were pretty allur-
ing. After pushing back the skin Of
the f1g and enjoying the soft fruit.
with its tropical taste, l had refresh
ing nights sleep, only to awaken in
the morning pretty well scared. for my
tongue was so swollen and black that
/ could not talk.
1.-THE Boer wife laughed and enjoyed
my discomfort and explained that the
skin Of the fig had numerous fine
thorns and l had not been careful to
remove them when eating.
when l told the farmers wife that
I liked buttermilk in quantity | no.
dced that | had a cupful or so given
me. but she threw it by the pailful to
the pigs. They were Of far more con-
sequence to her than I. for they would
stay longer with her and were her ia.
miliars. was not.
Then, again. when l was hungry for
butter on my bread white. clammy
substance made from sleeps tail fat
was handed to me. and | could not al
low the farmers wife to see me Quiver.
She sold her butter in the village close
by at 70 cents pound, more or less.
Sour bread and green strawberries
(plenty of them) were considered good
enough.
This Boer family was one Of the
wealthiest of their kind. There was
not a ripple of fun or exuberant life
in anything but the live stock. Con-
versation was a dead language-un-
known.
THE women are mute beings. ac-
cepting their destiny with deep still
ness. The wife gives up her strength
TO the limit. and dies after giving birth
to a dozen or more children, to make
way for wife No. ., who gives another
dozen children to her country. Her
adobe house. with its dirt floor made
of ant hill clay mixed with beef gall.
is a chamber of horrors to an Ameri-
can traveller.
THE farmer depends upon his ten or
eighteen children of all sizes to help
him. A Kaffir as an employee is unde-
pendable as the winds that blow. Yet
that Kaffir is the hired man in the
mines and elsewhere in South Africa.
The white man as day laborer is
general failure. He cannot be worked
in droves like the Kaffir from the in
terror. whose language. in clicks and
vowel sounds. is hardly human.
"The Boer is not long lived. One
seldom met an aged Boer Of the old
stock Dom Paul Kruger. who was
seventy-fve years old when he died,
was an exception. Hatred toward the
uitlander and the lust for gold and
power were what kept the fires Of life
burning at white heat within him.
Health Culture.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
DANCING and Kissing.

The old time ballroom smacked of
the kiss. Without it the dance was
incomplete 1t was claimed as a right
And given freely. The very idea OF
such an omission would have caused a
strike, as these lines foretold:
But some reply. What foole would daunce
II that when daunce is doone
He may not have at ladye's lips
That which in daunce he woon?
London Taller.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
JoItino His LAWYER.

Church-What was the name you
called your lawyer?
Gotham-Necessity.
But that's funny name. Why do
you call him Necessity
Because he knows no law."-Yon-
kers Statesman
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
Hia Exact Location.

"Wombate was at the opera last
night"
"Ah, you saw him drinking in tho
melody"
mo; when l saw him he was drink
lng In the Seattle Post-Intelh-
gencer.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
LA TOILETTE SUPPORTERS

California branch OF the La
Toilette
La Toilette Head
quarters National Building San Francisco
trusts have ruled the land and
The should fight
for change Enlist under the leadership Of Senator La Foee
problems
fight Support him and then victory with him. he
fails the nomination june 1872 must make OF his
election in 1916.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Not Coal Lands-Serial No. 065s1.)
Department of the Interior, U. 5. Land
Office at Los Angeles, Cal, May 1S, 1872.
NOTICE is hereby given that TAYLOR
G. HOUSE, of FL Centre, Cal, who, on
April "a, 1912. made homestead entry No.
O65S1. for tract Ill, township 16 s., range
13 E., S. B. NJ, has filed notice OF IN
tention to make final five-year proof, to
establish claim to the land above de-
scribed, before the clerk of the superior
court of Imperial county, at El Centre,
Cal, on the oath day of June, 1912, at 10
o'clock a. m.
Claimant names as witnesses: William
H Pool James NJ. Youtsler. William r.
Wagele, John r. Havens, all of Ell Cen
tro, Cal.
FRANK BUREN,,
June IL Register.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
Whv Point II Out?

At the art museum the sign Hands
on" was conspicuousIy displayed be-
fore the statue of Venus de Milo.
A small child looked from the sign to
the statue.
Anybody could see that" she said
dryly.-Ladies Home Journal.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
Gixa and Take.

Howeli-Does be take things philo-
seghscally? PoweIl-Yes. but be doesn't
part with them philosophically.-Wo-
mans Home Companion.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
THE TEDFORD

APARTMENTS THAT ARE DIFFERENT
1917 West Tenth Street, Los AnqeIes
Lightest, airiest in the city; 6 to 10 WIN
dows each. Every modern convenience.
Direct phones. Very large rooms and
dressing rooms. Roof garden. Prices
right. Walking distance, or West Ninth
street car to Sunbury.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15

True merit is like river-the deep
Or It is the less noise 1t makes.-Haz-
utt
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15

The greatest nrmness is the greatest
mercy.-Longfellow.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
A Matter of Fractions.

A Matter of Fractions.
Biggs-My half brother is engaged to
my wife's half sister. Diggs-When
will they be made one?-Boston Tran
script
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15

An evil speaker only wants an op-
portunity to become an evildoer.-Qutu.
tlia.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
GRAIN MEN ATTENTION

Grain is high, but you must get 1t
harvested Good Header for SALE Ad-
dress v. E. Rice, Ell Centre R. F. D..
or call on him at ranch. v. {. RICE.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
TheBrentWOOd.
1920 w. Pico st. Los Angeles, Cal. !
(Just opened)

Easily accessible to shopping dis
trict, theaters, ETC.; furnished and 3
room apartments, modern, hotel SER
vice; special summer rates. Write
for information. Mrs. Eta johnson.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
s',%f tKEt

Velox prints, Brownies, Nos 1 and 2.
&c; other sizes up to post cards and AXIS
5 G. Send for complete price list. THE
WESTERN KODAKERY, 455 South
Broadway, Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA TRACTION FARMS


view w suites built for
reservations. " ' - =
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-15

1893 Trento. Pco and Figueroa. Los
Angeles. Just open. 124 apartments, 2,
and rooms; modern; sanitary kitch
ems and baths; spacious ball room, pri-
vate phones. Special summer rates S25
upward. Within walking distance of
center of city. Five car lines. J. P.
TRANSUE, Prop.
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enc head would be So and expenses:
and the maximum $40 reeardless Of
the number of cattle to be inspected.
While the board declares that
scabies are practically wiped out west
of the river, there are yet a few ar.
fected heards, and these are being
dipped. The disease is yet prevalent
in some sections east of the river. but
with proper care the state should be
we'll rid of it this year. To this end
one of the new rules provides for
notice to owners of stock running at
large to gather and confine them, if
they are found on inspection to be
affected with infectious disease Of any
kind, and in ease Of failure OF such
owner to comply, the board. by a rep
rCsentatiye, will do the gathering, an,.
charge the expense of such action 70
the owner of the stock.
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AN SCHEME

A meeting of the people OF western
South Dakota is to be held at Fort
Pierre this week for the forming Of a
Preliminary organization to work up
the scheme advanced by Judge H. C.
Barlow, of Presho, that of bringing
the surplus water from the upper
Missouri river country across the
western part of this state and North
Dakota, supplying water to sections
where irrigation can be used to adj
vantage a part of practically every
year. The scheme advanced by Judge
Barlow is for the creation OF an i'm
mense reservoir at the mouth Of the
Yellowstone river to hold the surplus
water and carry it through a ditch or
fumes in a southeasterly direction, to
a point near the mouth Of White
river. This scheme would not only
supply a large area with the water
which they desire, but would assist In
holding back some of the flood water
which does such a great amount Of
damage on the lower Mississippi
every year. The financial part of such
a project is admitted to be one which
there may be trouble in providing,
but the physical difficulties are not
considered to be serious, as the fall
would be nearly W feet to the mile,
and supply a large section of country.
The scheme has the backing of the
commercial clubs Of Presho ana Fort
Pierre in it's start.
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BRUCE

From the Herald:
We went to Brookings last night to
listen to the man who by a single
speech in 1896 made himself candi-
date for president of the democratic
party and leader of that party with
his sixteen TO one issue. The demo
cratic party had no great leader at
that time and he was given a second
nomination in 1900 although suffering
defeat in 1896. He was again de-
feated in 1900 but still not being salts
fed he was given the nomination in
1908 and vas again defeated. He told
of the part he acted at the Baltimore
convention last night and proved to
be a drawing card on the chautauqua
program. He is not a great orator,
but simply a good talker who has ac-
Quired a repitetion as the advocate of
certain democratic principles some of
which have proved to be good. A
large number went from Bruce and
there were probably some 1900 or
1900 people present. The singing by
the quartette of young men was much
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WHIT E.

From the Leader:
The base ball team went to Water
town Sunday, accompanied by about
twenty-five loyal r%ooters, and played
the Banner team of that city at Out
let Park. Our boys had about the
strongest lineup of the season and
won the game by a 7 to 5 score.
Adams, pitching for White, allowed
but five hits while Waba of the Watts
was touched up for eleven. Adams
struck out eleven and Waba found
holes in our boys bats five times.
Errors, Watertown, 8; White, 2.
Miss Ina Martin entertained the
members Of her Sunday school class
at a peanut party last evening. The
time was spent in games which tested
the nerves, minds, and muscles of the
contestants. In these the BOBBY
prize, a peanut doll, went to Jennie,
while Raymond captured the first, a
box Of candy. Partners for supper
were obtained by matching quotations
which We're securely tied inside pea
nut shucks. Refreshments consisting
of coffee, sandwiches, jello, and cake,
were served when each boy had found
his partner. After the eats had
vanished each fair maid escorted by
her brave knight ventured forth into
the darkness to make her way home.
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NEW INSPECTORS APPOINTED

The State Food and Drug Commits
siOner has appointed two new in
spectors, who have just begun their
their duties, says a Vermillion dis
patch. John p. Schall, a druggist Of
fourteen years practical experience
III a drug store in South Dakota, will
devote his time to the inspection of
drugs. 1t is expected that every drug
store in South Dakota, will be
inspected before the close of the
year. Mr.. Schall's qualifications
peculiarly fit him for this work. He
is giving good satisfaction both to the
department and the druggists.
The department begun the fiscal
year, July 1st, by prosecuting a drug
gist, who was fined $500 for selling
drugs which were not up to the stand
ard required by law. The Commits
sioner had previously warned him
that he should emove old, deteriorat-
ed goods from his shelves, which he
failed to do.
Frank Sherwood is acting as food
inspector. He will spend his time
Gambling eggs and looking after the
Net Weight law, which went into
effect July list. Grocers who sell
goods in packages from which are not
labeled to show the net weight will
be recommended for prosecution.
Mr.. Sherwood will also give attention
to linseed oil, soft drinks. butcher
shops, vinegar and various other food
products.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-18
sOCIALISTIC SHORT TALK

Socialism does not wish to abolish
private property or accumulation of
wealth, but it aims to displace the
present system of private capital by
a system of collective capital which
would introduce a unified organiza-
ton Of national labor.-Prof. Schaffe.
The historical function of capital
ism cover present economic SYSTEM
has been the development of produc-
ton from the individual to the social
stage Of it's evolution. Under it inven-
ton and organization have increased
production marvelously.
The primal struggle for existence
would now be no longer a struggle,
but merely a pleasurable occupation,
(relieved Of anxiety for the ~future)
for three hours a day, were the pres
ent waste and idleness eliminated,
which would be the case if the means
of production were socially owned
and den.ocratically managed as they
will be when the social democrats
occupy the seats of the mighty.
But there is the parasitic owners
who do nothing useful, and an army
of 5000, 900 unemployed laborers who
exist or starve because they cannot
have access to the means of produc-
ton and so those who do work must
toll long hours at a killing pace in
unsafe and u~nsanitary conditions,
that idle owners may reap great pro-
fits.
We are fast becoming a nation of
slaves. Wage slavery is more cruel
than chattel slavery for the latter
implies the care of the slaves while
the wage slaves can be turned out to
suffer and die when they are not
needed to make profits for the
owners. Private ownership is there
fore a menace to the liberty and life
of the nation for you take my life
when you take the means whereby /
live"
The ~inadequacy Of privately owned
capital Gas distinguished from wealth.
to meet the needs of modern condi-
tons and keep the nation on the up
ward trend, holds first place In the
preamble Of the socialist platform,
and it's first plank is for "the collec-
tive ownership and democratic man.
agement Of railroads, wire and wire
less t~elegraphs and telephones, ex-
press devices, steamboat lines and all
other social means Of transportation
and communication, and Of all large
scale industries"
Read the socialist platform. The
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-18
MAIL CARRIERS WILL FLY

This is an age of great discoveries.
Progress rides on the air. Soon we
may see Uncle Sans mail carriers
flying in all directions, transporting
mail. People take a wonderful inter.
est in the discovery that benefits
them. That's why DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Coughs, Colds and
other throat and lung diseases is the
most popular medicine in America.
1T cured me of a dreadful cough
writes Mrs, j. F. Davis, Stickney Cor
ner, Me-, after doctors treatment
and all other remedies had failed
For coughs, colds or any bronchial
affection its u%nequaled. Price soc
and $1.00. Trial bottle free at all
druggists.
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About the County
HENDRICKS

From the Pioneer:
The mechanical force Of The
Pioneer has been crippled this week
owing to an accident which befell
Leo Swenson Sunday while he vas
picnicing with a party Of young peo-
pie on the south side of the lake. No
serious result, however, will attend
the mishap. He was running and
scuffing with one Of the boys in the
party and the two went over a steep
embankment, and slid and tumbled a
distance of about twelve feet, SO the
boys say, but by the looks of Leo n
could easily imagine he slid about a
half mile. His face, arms and legs
were bruised and skinned to an extent
that necessitated DR.. Jensen patching
him up Monday morning, but nc
bones were broken and the bruises
will leave no marks. 1t is difficult to
imagine how he could hurt himself so
completely all over, and while there
is no humor in it for him the looks of
him Monday might have lead che not
acquainted with the circumstances to
surmise that he had just got home
from the republican national conven-
ton. Clifford Smelser, who went
down the bank with him, escaped
with a few bruises.
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BOARD REMoDELs RULES

The state live stock sanitary board,
at it's meeting at Pierre, practically
remodeled the rules under which it
works, and the amended regulations
will be out in a short time. One
feature which is Of especial impcr-
lance to stock owners is the fixing Of
fees for inspection. The list shows
a charge OF n dollar a head for
clinical tests; and 81 for malline test,
this with a minimum OF IS a day and
expenses for the inspector and a maxi.
mum Of $40 a day and expenses. This
means that the fee for inspection for
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social democratic party stands for
nothing that is not in it's platform.
When the struggle for industrial
freedom Is written the crimes against
free speech committed by capitalist
governments will show up as black as
those of the middle ages. The pres
ent day martyrs of free speech in our
own land are legion Notwithstanding
our constitutional guarantees. In San
Diego. the city owned largely and
dominated by one of the sugar princes
of our peutocracy. they are imprison.
ing men and wolcen without trial
under conditions that rival the "Black
hole Of Calcutta" for telling the truth
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Of modern conditions and prescribing
a remedy; nor have they hesitated to
apply torture to those they deemed
most offensive in this line.
In the early days of our nation the
idea was promulgated that "resis-
lance to tyrants is obedience to God"
If you are old fogey enough to be-
lieve that now, be CONSTANT and vote
the socialist ticket.
Alice B. Loomis.
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D. c. Bulen returned to his home at
Plainview, Mimi, the first of this
week. While here he closed a deal
for the residence property of Geo. H.
Thornton and for twenty acres Of
land from d. A. Johnson. The resi-
dence property is in the east part of
the village and the tract of land is on
the north side of the road running
east from town and with the east
line a half mile from Main street. The
consideration for the land and resi-
dent property was $4,000. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bulen have many friends in
Aurora and vicinity who will be pleas
ed to know they are going to return.
They expect to take possession Of
their new home some time this fall.
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THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND

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bad blood or foul breath. Avoid
these ~kill-hopes by taking DR.. Kings
Life Pills. New strength, fine com
plexion, pure breath, cheerful spirits
things that win men-follow their
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druggists.