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Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-10-04
Harvest Hands Robbed.

Aberdeen.-Two harvest hands, Joe
Michael and Ernest APRON, were rob
bed of s64 and part Of their clothing
by a roommate in local lodging house
while they slept. The thief was ar
rested and gave his name OF Condo
After a sweating he admitted steal
ing the money, but said he had spent
sl2 OF it in setting up his friends. The
balance was recovered.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-10-04

Chicago, Sept 26.-Cattle-Receipt
l6.5Oo: market SLOW. generally steady
eeeves. s5,So@li: Texas "a =, steers e. 1850
ers, t2.sO@$: calves. ts@ll.75. Hogs
Receipts. $4,000; market strong to SC
$3.50: mixed. $S.l5@S.90: heavy. $3.50
$50: rough. s7;s5@S;.15: pigs. $5@S:
lower: native 1886 @4.40: western, $3.50
@4.40; yearlings, $4.50@5.5O: lambs.
native. $A75@7: western. $4.85Q7.S6.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-10-04

Doland-The mason work on the
new Christian church building ir
course of construction here has beer
completed and the carpenters now are
al work on the main structure.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-10-04
DAILY MARKET REPORT.


Minneapolis, Sept. 26.-Wheat, Sept.
IS " c-9OAc; No. northern, 85c-SSEc:
NO ! durum. S5c; No: 3 corn. zoe: No.
No. 2 rye. Sac; No. fax. s1.7S.
Duluth. Sept. 26.-Wheat Dec, $50:
No. northern. 9okc; No. durum. $50
steers. ,s75: cows. ;4.i5@5.75; Gives
s3.75@10; hogs. $S.10@8.75: sheep and
lambs S4.0QG65O ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
SAYS UNCLE CAV

The man who goes through life de-
Tending his own acts never gets any
where. You can get SO busy lighting
mosquitoes that you forget to move
on out. of the wet belt Nobody ever
won anything worth having by being
constantly on the defense. Progress
and aggressiveness are synonymous,
and the art of defense is a mere aux
Hilary. The difference between the
upper dog and the under dog is not
SO much a matter of strength as of
ability to carry the fight to the 9TH
er fellow.
For instance, there is enough moral
sentiment in the world to force every
offender against statutes or moral
laws to obey both. If that moral
sentiment were wholly aggressive
abiding earth tomorrow. Strength
is on the side of morals and obedience
to law, but aggress1veness is on the
other side. The aggressive man soon
learns that mere well timed agrees
siveness wins the day. He may learn
to disdain moral canons. to laugh at
law when it is not to his interest to
obey it. When such a man finally
ploys his aggressiveness to cozen and
cajole it, when sheer bluff fails to
accomplish the result.
There is a practical lesson in that
lesson, as big as a barn ana good
deal palmer than a pikestaff. Make
up your mind what you want and then
go after it. The chances are that no
body will say you nay. If you collide
with somebody of equal aggressiveness,
it means fight and a test of strength,
but nine times in ten the other fell
low will take your aggressiveness and
you won't have to strain muscle. ON
the other hand, an attitude of defense
is commonly interpreted as fear and
weakness, If not as an evidence OF
guilt. The strong man who spends his
time repulsing enemies finally finds
himself beset by multitude of little
opponents too much for any one to
repel singly and alone. The bold man
who ignores criticism, defamation and
blows to force the fighting is at once
at an advantage, and those who have
assailed him usually are convinced
that they have enough to do to come
off with whole skins without further
troubling themselves to puncture his.
This is one of the laws that govern
our struggle for existence and for pref
erence. It may be puzzling to the I'M
aggressive person, but 1t is no more
inexplicable than the law of gravita-
ton and it is just as immutab bile
(Conyrieht 1912 by w. E. WilliamS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
DEFENSE OF THE BOY.

A member of the State Journal staff
at a recent church banquet in the
course of an address on THE Conser-
walton of YOUTH made the following
observations:
4 am for the boy, unreservedly and
without qualification, whether he wears
the rags of poverty and the habiliments
of the gutter, or the silks and satins OF
afluence. The boy is continually mis-
Judged by men who have forgotten that
they themselves were once children
The standards that govern the man
cannot be used in gauging the youth
of the rising generation. The ebullient
spirit Of childhood must have vent
and if it occasionally takes the form
of a broken window, or an outlandish
sign painted on a fence, or even on
the side of a house, we should remem-
Der that it might have been worse, and
Judge accordingly.
There is too little sympathy exist
ing between the father and his son in
nearly every household. We men are
all prone, to shirk the responsibilities of
the home, and fail to exercise the pro-
per degree of patience where the son
is concerned. The father who does not
sympathize with his son. who does not
discuss with him the affairs of his child
hood, who takes no interest in the
! books he may read, or where he spends
his time. and in the little troubles that
come to everyone, both young and old,
( cannot hope to exercise his influence
after the child has passed the ADDE'S
AGENT age, and is budding into man
hood. Neither should he be surprised
when the boy who never has had his
sympathy and confidence breaks away
and gets into paths which lead in the
wrong direction and fails to respond to
parental discipline We are inclined
to leave the entire guidance of oul
children to the mother.
Il am proud of the youth of the
country. and it is not because of the
influence that is exerted by the fathers,
but rather because of the thoughtful
and earnest care and solicitation thai
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

No one has much faith in medicine
when he is well.
Not being a dog, people are apt to criti-
cize your laziness.
Ever occur to you that bird dog
wouldn't amount to much without gun?
False teeth are easily cleaned, but that
is no excuse for neglecting the home
grown variety.
Look at it the other way: Probably the
rich man envies your ability to go to
sleep after a full feed.
Among the other general rules is the
one that no boy should keep his hands
clean very long at a time.
1t is a hard matter to settle dispute
satisfactorily and unless you are a law
yer, it doesn't pay very well.
There isn't as much danger in the world
as one might infer from hearing men tell
OF their narrow escapes.
If there were not so many bald headed
druggists and BARRIERS, men of scant hair
might spend more money for hair tonics.
How would you like to go back to the
good old days when it was necessary to
shoe the flies from the table with a tissue
paper brush?
1t is hard for inpetuous youth to under
stand the time may come when its chief
amusement will be keeping the box score
for the thermometer.
You know how slow news comes when
you are looking for it, and it may help
you to sympathize with reporter; he's
always looking for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

The benefit we receive must be rem
9ered again, line for line. cent for cent,
deed for deed, to somebody. ''-Emerson
Why did you insist on paying Lucille
for doing those dinner cards?'' one yonl-
an questioned another; ''it is good prsc-
tice for her, and I'm sure she would be
glad to do them for nothing
My dear said the other woman, IF
pay Lucille ten cents apiece for those
Gunner CARDS, I'll be square with her and
III know just what they cost me. If I
let her do them for nothing, I'll be under
oohgat1on to her and !! shall not know
how much they cost until 1 pay back that
obligation. Let me tell you about the last
time l allowed myself to be put under
obligation. Last winter Mrs Rand took
care of the babies for me several times.
She offered to do it, and said she loved
to, but, of course, I felt under obliga-
ton to her. Well, in the spring, she told
me that her niece was coming to visit
her, so, of course, I felt in honor bound
to do 1t. Ordinarily, would have really
liked to, but the children had Just had
the measles, and [ had been up nights
with them until I could hardly see for
sleepiness; and the house was disgrace
fully dirty; and I was just breaking in a
new maid; and Fred was having a fearful
attack of hay fever; so, altogether the
party I gave for her was the worst
nightmare 1 ever had asleep or awake.
made up my mind then and there that
I'd never put myself under obligation
to anyone again.
Does this point of view strike you as
ungracious?
The lady certainly did make some rath-
er sweeping statements, but think there
is a good deal in her point of view,
nevertheless.
Some of US have the habit of accepting
favors with a serene sense of having got
ten something for nothing. But one never
gets something for nothing, even from
ones friends. If you have done some
favor for your friend, don't you feel at
liberty to call upon him when you are in
need of his particular kind of talent or
ability, or anything else which he has?
Well. then, don't forget that he will feel
the same towards you in reversed circum-
stances.
I do not think it is necessary to go so
far as to refuse to ever put ones self
under obligation. That would be to nulli-
fly the interchange of talents and oppor-
tunities, which is one of the legitimate
uses of friendship. But don't think you
are getting something for nothing when
you allow yourself to be put under obli-
cation. Remember that you are really
giving your note of hand to pay on de-
mand to bearer an unknown sum In un-
known currency, and be sure you are
willing to honor that note before you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
"SpOOnerSiunS."

A "Spoonerisrn' is the name given in
England to one of those involuntary in
versions of words that occasionally en-
liven conversation. AS, for instance,
when the returned traveller tells of
rambling up the scalps," while in
Switzerland and one knows that he
means "scrambling up the Alps" but
has simply perpetrated a "Spoonerism,"
so-called after the Warden of New Col
lege Oxford, who achieved a long and
exhilarating list of these slips.
Some of the more famous "Spooner-
lana" are recorded in the form of a
narrative of a returning vicar who on
reaching the station left his rags and
bug with a porter while he went to
the refreshment room for "a bath of
milk and a glass bum"
During the course of an address On
kindness to Animals" to the local
branch of the Girls Friendly Society.
he remarked that Gin Piedmont, where
would willingly follow a showing Loop
ard" The meeting in question was
very sparsely attended, most Of the
forms in the school room being unoccu-
pied; the vicar attributed this to the
fact it had been roaring with pain
ever since noon, and added that as it
was "beery work speaking to empty
wencheS,' they would close by singing
the well-known hymn, From Iceland's
Greasy Mountains"
The tale of his ecclesiastical mishaps
is long. One chilly Sunday morning
he electrified his hearers by informing
them, in the course of his sermon, that
he felt 'half-warmed fish" rising IN
his bosom To a lady whom he found
in possession of his stall in the college
chapel he gently observed: Excuse
me, madam, you are occupewing my
pie"
Among his other verbal ARRANGEMENTS
was his apostrophizing of an amazed
audience of farmers as You tons of
sofl;'' his inimitable rendering of a GER
tain line in 1.-THE Burial of Sir John
Moore;" AS his horse on the ramparts
we curried;" his inquiry as to the suit
able tax for tiPsy-cab," and his
complaint to the station-master of the
continued unpunctuality of the town
drain. London Strand Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
by THE WAY
BIZ HARVEY PARSONS.

A few days ago the first officer OF
the good ship State Journal reminded
US that the Titanic had been soused In
the briny deep for some time and that
the catastrophe was not a fit subject
for attempted levity. nor colyum
dedicated to near-levity the proper
place to print anything of a serious
nature. BUT
Although this colyum is willing to
drop the subject, it might be we'll to ad-
init, at this time, that said colyum
doesn't care a whoop what the Fifth
officer of the Titanic called Bruce
ISmay. So far as we are concerned
the reporters who worked on the con-
gressional investigation, did exactly
right in refraining from the transmits
sion of said conversation.
knowing something about sailors and
their pet names for close friends, we
have no desire to see in print the
name by which a peevish sailor desig-
mated the ofhcious Mr.. Ismay.
From the Los Angeles dispatch con-
corning naval accident, it may be
gathered that naval experts wanted to
see what a dummy rorpedo would do
to the hull of a warship and they found
out! Now that they have CLEANED the
desired information, they want to tack
the blame onto one of the torpedo
boats, their contention being, no doubt
that the torpedo boat pushed little
too hard on that particular torpedo.
The Fell-Short. wedding is reported
from Concordia. 1t is a dirty shame
to do it, but it is hard to refrain from
observing that she Fell for his game,
and will always be Short as result
OF course this department was Short
the fact that it Fell for anything
like that is sufficient evidence.
Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont's girl farm
has proven q failure. Details are lack
ing. but it is suspected that the farm
work was done with mules. No refined
girl, with the limited vocabulary COM
mon to refined girls, could make a sue
cess driving mules.
Every time we pipe a poverty str1ck-
en- country weekly, which contains no
hand-set matter except the Coon Hol-
low correspondence and an editorial
favoring Stubs and Roosevelt, we Won
der what $50 a month job Stubs has
promised that particular editor.
to suspect the neighbors. A cat is
nearly as hard to keep as a dollar.
A Great Local Tragedy has been mar
rowly averted. A horsethief, on trial
for his crime, DIDN'T throw an ink
bottle at the prosecuting attorney. At
ter the coat of whitewash the $3.50
per-day experts have smeared over
said prosecuting attorney, it would be
Simply Awful to smear his Wilderness
with ink.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
QUAKER MEDTTAT1oNs.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record. ]
SIGN Of err.i,, q saICaor, nAf 4Ln -.

lFrom the Philadelphia Record
A sign of spring-''Keep off the grass y
No man can get there with both feet
unless he uses his head.
Many a young man regards a wife as
one of the Inquiries he can't afford.
A bull in a china shop can kick up al
most as much of a rumpus as one in the
stock market.
Blobbs-"Swelldresser has six smoking
jackets" Slobbs-'I always knew he had
clothes to burn"
No, Maude, dear; we really couldr' t
venture to say how much it would cost to
build one of those S1,5O0 bungalows
do you believe two heads are better
than one?'' asked the mere man. 81 find
it So" replied the produce merchant. MY
principal trade is in cabbage
Wigg-'What do you think of young
SQuills as doctor?" Wagg-'fWhat that
fellow doesn't know about materia medfca
would fill a graveyard
Mrs. Dashaway-"How long had you
known your husband before you were
married?" Mrs. Gnaggs-'I didn't know
him at all only thought did"
Mrs Muggins-'I hear your husband is
quite versatile Mrs. Buggins-''Why, he
can actually stay out late every night IL
the week and not give the same excuse
twice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26

and discouraged, and took care of me
when l was sick. She supports herself
and her invalid husband. This is their
wedding anniversary. There was an
accident in our theatre today which
prevented performance tonight
L remembered it was CIemina's an
n1versary and insisted on taking her
place tonight so that SHE and her hus-
oand could have their. anniversary to-
gether. had te ne shabby and old
and a poor actress in order that I
should not be recognized either by the
audience or by the people in the cast
am not a great, famous star yet. but
nave a leading part in a good COM
pany. And, Dick, you said nothing
should come between US. You promised
not to refuse to marry me- I do care
Tor you, Dick I've always cared, but I
dld not realize how much until tonight
Wnen you told me you loved a shabby
old failure that you thought was I. And
my career? Is there a woman who
would not joyously give up a career if
she were offered in place of it some
tnlng million times better?''- (Copy-
right, 1912, by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
HYHAWKER JOTS

If you have the spring fever you need
not be ashamed of the fact, advises the
| Concordia Kansan. There are about
| l 200, 0000 900 in the same fix.
The man who has about seventy-five
cents worth Of garden sass does the
most kicking, says Walt Mason, about
the management of the weather
| A tip from Conner Davies: When a
man tells you that he is absolutely
satisfied, you need not tell him so, but
you can write him down another liar.
Johanathan Whang, of the Atchison
Champion, thinks it is strange that a
man can't remember, from one spring
to another, his limitations as a car
penter.
According to several of the Kansas
weeklies, corn planting has finally COM
menced in their localities. Talk about
your late spring seasons, this has been
one and no mistake.
Charlie Blakesley says that Thomas
L. Mason made such a hit with the
Kansas Editorial Association that
nearly all of the weekly papers have
volunteered to exchange with Life.
Speaking of a recent Roosevelt meet
ing at Norton at which Henry Allen
made a speech, the Norton Telegram
said: I'VE noticed great many Dem
ocrats in attendance, however, for the
reason that they regard Roosevelt as
more than a half Democrat anyway >
The first spring fisherman has been
located by the Jefferson county Trib-
une, and like the well known literary
fisherman, his first name is Ike. The
Tribune says: Ike Fairholm was the
first to venture forth with hook and
line this season. He reported a good
catch out of Fish Pond Creek the lat
ter part of the week.
The Pleasant Valley correspondent
of the Decatur County News, thus
lightly dismisses the fact that high
wind un-sowed all thewheat he sowed ::
"One thousand dollars reward leading
to the whereabouts of my wheat that
strayed last Friday, Saturday and Sun
day. We thought We seen a trace of
it N high real estate. (Nate.)
In a couple of columns of interesting
matter on his experiences at the meet
ing of the state editorial association,
Pip Daniels, who also happens to be
the son of Tom Thompson of the
Howard Courant, had this to say: "And
then a great many Frankensteins spoke
of my mother, and expressed a deep
regret that she was not in attendance
possibly, as dad is, but 1 should Judge
that she is just as favorably known. as
far as she has gone Many spoke of
her good, sound, womanly sense" ex-
pressed in good, sound, manly logic. -
L thought that was quite a compliment
to my mother. Logic, YOU know. is con-
s1dered rare virtue in the feminine
world. And so you are the Courant
product" they said to me. ''Prod11ct
or sum-which 81 am the remainder >,
1 answered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
HUAOR or THE Day

Mrs. Byron-Thats the kind of husband
to have! Did you hear Mr.. Dixie tell his
wife to go and look at some e20 hats.
Mr.. Byron-My dear. have ever deprived
you Of the privilege of looking at s20
hats?-Tit-Bits.
TTnl<ind.-"This wine" said Mr.. Bluffer
proudly, has been in my cellar for
thirty years" Mr.. Kauler, who IS some
thing Of a connoisseur, slipped his portion
critically Il don't wonder" he murmur-
ed-Cleveland Leader.
'IIow did you get your wife to forego
her desire for that expensive evening
aovn?'' Told her it was the thing a
6lain woman needed -'-Judge.
s.IIe is a Napoleon Of finance why.
didn't know he was wealthy He isn't,
but he is raising family of nine children
on s12 a week.-Houston Post.
He ought to Get ton what grounds
do YOU seek a divorce from your wife,
asked the lawyer. Simply because OF a
pun replied the long-sufrering husband.
You see. she's a sculptress, and IL gets
on my nerves to hear her remark twenty
times a day: Will you love me when I
mold ?''-NeW York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
THE FIRST BIRD,s TRuT.

Out in the woods I went the other day,
So faint and far along the distant hill,
1t seemed the echo of some long-loSt
May
1 heard the first birds trill
I heard the first birds triIl
As sweet and true as every other Spring.
The dotted halves and grace notes were
there still,
Only knew the same bird did not sing.
The little throat that warbled through its
lay
Long years ago when Life and I were
young,
Has finished out it's songs and had its
day
And other birds its pretty notes have
sung.
But, though the little wings can fly no
more,
Beating the air with happy, rhythmic
grace,
The melody is there just as before,
Another songster singing in its place.
So Natures law, by Gods appointed will,
Perpetuates the songs We love to hear,
And ours may be again the first bird S
Renewed with sweet insistency each
year.
Ethel Tanning Young. in the New York
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
JOURNAL ENTRIES

People who have to try to be anus
ing seldom succeed.
X X
When a man wants to do the rlght
thing he can generally find way.
Nor do the ideals of childhood
ever coincide with those of after-life.
X
When all is lost save honor, the
lack of a meal ticket is sure to be
felt worst.
X 3
Everybody stands aghast at wreck
like that of the Titanic but there are
many little wrecks daily in the sea of
life that are just as disastrous to one
or two souls-only few people ever
hear about them and care less.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
MORE ABOUT LIFEBoATs.

The demand for more lifeboats Is
certainly both natural and reasonable
in view of the tragic end of the Ii
tanic. That a line should be big
enough and modern enough to have
elevators and a swimming pool. and
yet too small to carry an adequate life
boat equipment is of course utterly
absurd.
However, it is not entirely reason
able to decide that because big liners
are to have plenty of lifeboats in the
future there will be no more great
tragedies on the sea. 1t may be a
century before another great ship goes
down under conditions so favorable
to the lifeboats as those which pre-
There was no wind and practically no
sea. Men of long experience said that
not in a quarter of a century had they
known so quiet a night in mid-Atlan-
tic.
1t is only under most exceptional
conditions that it is possible to launch
boats from both sides of great liner
in the middle Of the ocean. and then
have them safely handled by inexper-
fenced men and even young girls until
they are picked up by a rescuing
steamer.
This is no argument against life
boats OF course, steamship owners
should be compelled to provide enough
of these boats to take care of every
passenger and every member of the
crew But in the meantime II is fool
ish to delude ourselves with the idea
that because the Titanic went down in
a quiet sea, the Atlantic will be rob-
bed of all it's terrors If only we make
sure that liners have ample life
boat equipment in the future.-Cin-
cinnati Times star.