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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
ALMOST FRANTIC WITH
ITCHING ECZEMA

Eight years ago l got eczema all
over my hands. My fingers fairly bled
and 1t itched until 1t almost drove me
frantic. The eruption began with
itching under the skin. 1t spread fast
from between the fingers around the
nails and all over the whole hands. /
got a pair Of rubber gloves in order to
wash dishes. Then 1t spread all over
the left side Of my chest. A fine doc
tor treated the trouble two weeks, but
did me no good. I cried night and
day. Then | decided to try Cuticura
Soap and Ointment but without much
hope as l had gone so long. There
was a marked change the second day,
and so OF until l was entirely cured.
The Cuticura Soap we have always
kept in Jul home, and We decided
after that lesson that 1t Is a cheap
soap in price and the very best In
quality. My husband will use no other
soap in his shaving mug" (Signed)
Mrs. G. A. Selby, Redonda Beach,
Cal, Jan. Is, 1911. Although Cuticura
Soap and Ointment are sold by drug
gists and dealers everywhere, a sam
pie Of each, with 32-page book, will
be mailed free on application to
"Cuticura," Dept. "a X. Boston.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
Briqand Also a Patriot.

Gravely, solemnly, with enthusiasm
and a large mixture of national pride,
the Turkish newspapers publish the
following remarkable piece of news
(says the London Globe). A brigand
chief, one Salin, who has been carry
ing on operations for some time in
the mountains of Gambiek, In Bithy-
MIA, not a great distance from Con-
stantinople, and for whom the Turkish
gendarmerie have for long sought in
vain, alive or dead, has placed his
talents and services at the disposition
of the Turkish authorities. The brig.
and's letter is a curious document.
He says It is against the wishes Of his
heart to give up his calling. but the
audacity of these Italian brigands"-
an expression which frequently occurs
in the letter-in waging war upon the
Ottoman empire and brutally Selling
IN Islamic province, impel him to offer
his services, with those of his band,
consisting Of a hundred men, to
avenge the national honor and to
chastise these infidel brigands.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
PULLED IN Different WAYS
Ordinary Man on tho Street Some
what Puzzled by Seeming Rusl-
ness Contradictions.
Life is full Of contradictions"

Life is full Of contradictions"
"Yes?"
For Instance, about six months
ago a life insurance agent got after
me, and bounded me nearly to death.
l told him at the start that ! had all
the insurance ! was able to carry, but
he kept right on trying to persuade
NE that needed more and, finally, in
sheer desperation, ! consented to take
out another policy. Then the com
pany's doctor began trying in every
way he could think Of to make it i'm
possible for me to get the insurance.
He acted as II ! was voluntarily try
ing to beat the company In some way,
and when failed to pass the examina-
ton both he and the agent appeared to
think | had wronged them by taking
up their time"
That's nearly as bad as my case.
Several months ago representatives of
a piano house got after me for the pur-
pose Of persuading me to buy a piano
on the installment plan. Just to get
rid Of them | at last agreed to buy.
Now they've got a corps Of men out
trying to dig up proof that l never
could or would pay for the piano II
they were TO let me have IL. Business
Is a great thing"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
"A HEALTHY,
HAPPY OLD ACE

May be promoted by those who
gently cleanse the system. now and
then. when in need of a laxative
remedy. by taking a tablespoonful
of the ever refreshing. wholesome
and truly beneficial Syrup Of Figs
and Elixir Of SIENNA. which is the
only family laxative generally ap-
proved by the most eminent ply.
sicians. because it acts in a natural,
strengthening way and warns and
tones up the internal organs without
weakening them. tits equally bencG-
hcialfor the very young and the mid
die aged, as tits always efficient and
free from all harmful ingredients. To
get its beneficial effects it is always
necessary to buy the genuine. bear
ing the name Of the Company
California Fig Syrup Co.-plainly
printed on 1.-THE fontof everypackage.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
The Rackteriolouist.

A Richmond darby CHANGED to meet
on the street a friend who complain
ed Of much misty" Indeed, the af,
hicted n was in despair, so tuck
Sred out" was he.
"Wot seems to be de natter" ask,
ed the first negro.
Jim" said the other with a moan
and a gesture indicating the portion
OF his anatomy that was giving him 80
much trouble, Use got sech awful
pain in NAH back heah!"
Jim assumed an air of great solem.
nifty and wisdom. I'm that case" said
he, "dere's only n thing TO- 20 to do.
o yo' put yo'se'f in de hands O. dat
Doctah Blank. / hears dat he's de
finest backteriologist in de whole
souf."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
BEAVERS FELL COTTONWOOD
Little Animals Accountability Cut
Trees for Posts and
Fire Wood,

Rapid City.-George V. Warren. q
ranchman On Spring creek. has a grove
OF fine cottonwood trees growing on
his place near the creek. Recently
he rode through the grove and noticed
that a colony of beavers had felled
one of the largest and best trees.
Warren hitched on TO the butt OF the
tree and dragged it far back from the
stream, thinking later 10 use the tree
Tor fence posts. A day or W later
he again passed through the cotton
wood grove on the opposite side of the
stream and found several more fine
trees cut by the beavers. These trees
Warren hauled back from the stream.
as he thougka out of the way Of the
beavers.
A few days later he had need OF
several posts to mend A break in his
fencing. Going To where he had
hauled the beaver cut trees he found
that those industrious lit'Ia animals
had transformed the trees INTO posts
as far as possible and the rest into
fire wood lengths and had cot the
branches off and transferred them to
their homes in the cheek. Warren
carted his fire wood home and sent
for Levi Reber, Of Caputa, an old
Black Hills trapper. Reher set his
traps ard captured Ave beavers, the
pelts of which are worth a neat sum
of money.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
,Jones Admitted If

Jones and Brown argued rs they
always did when they had time
enough. They had dined together
and as Jones lived at a distance and
t was very late Brown offered t.
put him up for the night.
On the way home they fell to dis
cussing the strategy Of the Civil Wa
as indicated by the campaigns of
Lee and Grant. The topic was elac,
tic enough to keep them going for
half an hour, and reached its height
as they neared the Brown house.
Then Brown lost his temper.
Jones'" said he, "if you don't admit
that Grant was a greater general than
Lee, you can't sleep here"
1t was then two o'clock in the morn.
Ing, and Jones was eight miles from
bome.-Chicago Post.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
FIGHT ON INCREASE
Higher Rates on Second Class
Mail Opposed.
BULLETIN FROM PUBLISHERS
Postal Committee of the A. NJ. p. A.
Calls the Post Office a Badly
Managed Business.

Washington.-The protest OF the
publishers against the proposition to
Increase second-class mail rates as
the congressional post Office commits
sion desires is growing stronger daily.
The Illinois Daily Newspaper Publish
ers' association registered it's objec-
tons recently, and now the American
Newspaper Publishers associations
postal committee, of which the chair,
man is Don c. Seitz of the New York
World, has issued the following bull
letin:
The extent to which the post
office department does not carry Sec
ond-class matter is we'll revealed in
the following abstract Of inquiry Of
publishers conducted by house COM
mittee on expenditures in the post
Office department (William A. Ash
ume. weight and handling of the out
put Of publications entered as mail
matter of the second-class for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1911:
Inquiry was made Of all publish
ers, approximating thirty thousand, of
which nearly seventeen thousand are
weekly publications.
More than ten thousand returns
were received, embracing sixty-six
plus per cent. of all tonnage of pub.
locations.
The publications reporting repre-.
sen an annual output of more than
six and one-half billion copies, the
weight of which was one and three
quarter billion pounds.
THESE publications delivered by
mail in such period weighed 633, 012,.
902 pounds.
They delivered by their own car
S40,466,574 pounds, of which an unas-
certained percentage was carried to
destination by express and other rail
shipments outside the mail. They de-
livered by express, POP, 729,510 pounds,
and by other rail shipments 121,491,.
74S pounds. The rate by express and
rail varies from "A to l cent per
pound, but the bulk of these ship
ments went at a rate of "a to n cent
per pound.
The post Office for the year end
ing June 80, 1911, handled STOOL
669, and excluding one-half million
pounds free in county matter, 1t re
ceived N cent per pound
All this goes to add to the alb
surdity of the proposed Hitchcock leg.
from one to two cents per pound, and
limiting the privilege to publications
that carry as much reading matter as
they do advertising.
THE proposition was stupid enough
when the postal deficit reached ST.
600, 900 two years ago. 1t becomes
preposterous in face Of a surplus.
What business has a ~transporta-
ton corporation, which is all the post
Office is, to prescribe how a business
shall be conducted?
Newspapers cannot afford to ex-
pand their columns beyond the call
Of the days news, nor a they DO
expected to control the requirements
of their advertisers who have a right
to reach the public as copiously as
they care to.
1T cannot be assumed that such
legislation will eve get by congress.
But publishers are requested to fight
the theory that the right to send their
output by mail is a privilege" The
figures show it is not
The post office is a badly man.
aged business. That is all. We
should fight It's dictation. its censor
ship and It's inefficiency."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
How He Found Out.

"Mr. Chairman" shouted one Of the
delegates to the convention, Il move
that the nominating speeches be linn
tied to one minute each!"
Second the notion" yelled a dozen
others.
A storm OF protest arose, but the
chairman put the motion.
1t was lost by a vote of At to IS.
II merely wished to find out, Mr..
Chairman" explained the delegate
who had made the motion, how many
ambitious orators there are in this
convention. There are forty-seVen."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
Feminine Rebuke.


The suffragette was conversing with
the eminent African traveller.
And you don't believe in woman
suffrage" said the lady.
mo, madam" the hunter Of big
game replied. 81 believe that the femi.
nine traits, gentle, humane, tender, fit
your sex for the home rather than for
the sterner duties OF life or the posi-
BILE necessities of the state"
Yes" the suffragette replied. 81
have heard those arguments before.
And now may / ask how you received
that deep scar on your cheek?"
1T was given me By a ~lioness,
madam"
The ~suffragette smiled.
Good for the lady lion," she said
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
Her RESIGNATION.

Papa" she said. Il am very angry
with Geraldine"
whats Geraldine done?" asked her
father.
why, l told her a secret last sum
mer," said the little girl, Indignantly
land she has just told me, she's 60
ing to tell it,"
Has she any ~excuse?"
why, l told her it was wicked to
tell a secret, and what do you think
she said? "She said: oh, / know,
but I've resigned from that secret"
Papa" she concluded, earnestly,
you can't resign from a secret. can
you?"
The mental processes of children
r past finding out.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
TIED COWN.
70 Years Slavery-iow She Got FREQ
dom.

A dyspepsia veteran who writes
homes to tell how she won victory in
her 20 years fight, naturally exults IN
her triumph over the tea and coffee
habit:
81 feel 1t a duty to tell you," she
says, how much good Postum has
sire to let others who may be suffering
as l did, know Of the delightful meth
Cd by which I was relieved.
II had suffered for 20 years from
dyspepsia, and the giddiness that usu-
ally accompanies that painful ailment,
and which frequently Frustrated me.
I never drank much coffee, and cocoa
and ever milk did not agree with my
impaired digestion, so / used tea, ex
clusively, till about a year ago, when
! found in a package of Grape-Nuts the
little book, The Road to Wellville.'
After a careful reading Of the book
let l was curious to try Postum and
sent for a package. / enjoyed it from
the first, and at nee gave up tea in
Its favor.
II began to feel better very soon.
My giddiness left me after the first
few days use of Postum, and my stom-
ach became stronger SO rapidly that 1t
was not long till / was able las l still
ami to take milk and many other ar.
ticles of food of which l was formerly
compelled to deny myself. have
proved the truth Of your statement
that Postum makes good, red blood.
81 have become very enthusiastic over
the prr!ts of my new table beverage,
and during the past few months, have
conducted a Postum propaganda among
my neighbors which has brought bene.
at to many, and / shall continue to tell
4 my friends of the better way In which
I rejoice" Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book. 1.-THE Road to
MELVILLE" In pkgs. There's a rea.
SON"
Ever read the above 1etterF A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF human
interest.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
Think Of Ill

Two brothers, each Of whom Is near
ly six feet and a half tall, were one
day introduced by an acquaintance to
a young lady. AS she sat gazing up at
the pair of giants in wonder and awe
she exclaimed:
Great heavens! Suppose there
had been only one of you!"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
Altered the Case,

Mrs. de Mover-"Good gracious!
This is the noisiest neighborhood
eve got into. Just hear those children
childers, num-" Mrs. de Mover-"Are
they? How the little darling are en-
joying ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
A Little OF,

Senator Penrose vas talking in
Washington about the dreadful hunting
accidents OF last month. When buck
fever seizes a man." he said, he goes
as far OF his aim as the old lady went
In her definition of the word 'belli-
cose.' She was talking with q friend
about q bishop.
Hes a fine man. said the friend,
a fine. handsome man. His only
trouble is that he's a little b~ellicose.'
"'Bellicose?' said the old lady with
a surprised frown. He must have
changed, then. The last time / saw
him he was tall and rather slender"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
Called.

Il asked the audience to lend me
their ears" said the verbose speaker.
But in three-quarters OF an hour they
were doing" Il see," replied tho
6nancier. They called the loan"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04

Squilbob-Don't know how to court
the girl? Well, my boy, you Just tell
her that you know she despises "jol-
lying" and is the one woman In the
world who can't be flattered.
Squilligan-Well?
That sort of CUFF will fatter her!"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
1hoSe Dear Girls.

Maud am told I got my good
looks from my mother.
Ethel wouldn't repeat that II I
were you.
Maud-Why not!
Ethel-People will think your moth
Oh was stingy.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04

II fought yous said yous kin lick
me wild yer hands tied behind yer
back?"
"I-I-can! I'm Just goin' now
TO get a string to tie emil"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04

Could Eat Without Changing.
eats.
Geraldine-But suppose he is a lob
ster at the start?
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04

1t seems that to make both ends
meet requires no end OF money.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04

A oma falls In love gracefully.
but a man usually stumbles into II.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take BROMO Quipine Tablets
Druggists refund money II IL fails TO euro. II. w.
GROVES signature Is on each box. no.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-02

" addition to the line OF English edu-
Gators in fiction; his sympathizing, un-
derstapding sister is an attractive figure
in the background. And so Tiger
the schoolboys' unerring perception
found the nickname-takes his chance IN
this preliminary world Of school, his sup
posed secret, so flercely guarded. known
in reality to all from the very first. he
takes his chance with this world Oh hu,
man various" in miniature. good ana
bad. gentlemen and cads in the growing
bullies and towards. sneaks and boys OF
honor and right feeling, and from the
depths Of him. up through the deposit OF
early environment. struggles up MS
character. The world Of school has
made the best Of him. he has made the
best of himself there-he has found nim-
seIf-when It sends him forth into
wider world. Mr.. Forming has fuhy
just,fie1 he boldness of his venture
New-York tribune., 1912-03-02

Francis Saltus and Maurice Barrymore,
actor, unsuccessful playwright and nov
elist on at least one OCCASION Ihere
was that early best seller Archlbaid
Clavering Gunther, man OF some
peculiarities. And George Parsons
Lathrop the coterie that met at
Oscars" in Fourth avenue, as their
seniors had met at 'Pfaffs." And there
was the Grand Vatel," patronized by
the New York bohemia of that day. one
wonders if Mr.. Rideing does not remem-
ber the Cherrieres and their Restaurant
de Paris" in Washington Square. at
somewhat later period. THE Black Cat
was tawdry at best. 1t never ha the
true atmosphere.
On the social side there were the sun
day evenings Of Mr.. and Mrs Oliver Bell
Bunce-Bunce of the undecipherable
chirography, the disconcertingly short
temper and much genuine kindness Of
heart, an influence in letters in New
York during his long service as the APP
pletons' literary adviser. Mr.. Ridelng,
one believes, has only begun to recall his
memories of these days. He must have
material left for many another volume.
However great the ignorance OF his
juniors Of a most interesting period I'm
the artistic life of New York. and Of the
people who played their brief parts in it,
there are enough Of his contemporaries
left to welcome this book, with its echoes
periences
New-York tribune., 1912-03-02
THE WORLD OF SCHOOL.

FATHERS OF MEN. BY f. w. Hornung.
12mo.. PIP 1863. Charles Scribner's Sons.
Mr.. Hornung boldly enters with this
story the field where TON Brown" has
set the standard, the field in which Dean
Farrar labored for a while, in which
Kipling has worked with questionable
success, and in which OF late years
American authors have tried their hand,
Mr.. Owen Johnson not the least among
them. Fathers OF Men" is, however,
more a story for older than for younger
readers, or, at least, that Is the impress
sion 1t leaves on the present writer. Mr..
Hornung returns TO the older English
type of the genre. with this difference
always, that he pays heed to the advance
which psychology has made In fiction
since the fourth quarter Of the last CEN
tury. The English public school, asserts
one of the masters in this story, Is "a
melting pot for characteristics, but not
for character. The child, and not the
school, is the father Of the man."
The boy who Is the leading character
and In a way the hero Of this story Is
the offspring Of a mesalliance, the son Of
a gcntlewoman who eloped with a groom.
She died shortly after the boys birth.
disowned by her family. the child, what
ever the measure of its maternal in
heritance, growing up In its fathers en-
vironment-that OF the stable and tho
coachman's quarters. When the father
dies in his turn the boy, then nearly
fourteen years old, is hastily prepared
for public school by his proud, unfor-
giving maternal grandfather. He enters
the institution lout. socially uniformed,
taciturn, with curiously mixed character
istics, true delicacy of perception being
overlaid by views of conductive boyish
sense OF honor-that differentiate him
from the "gentlemen's sons" among
whom his lot is east. And the son of
the gentleman in whose service his
father had died is among them. VIII
this boy betray him? The conduct OF
this boy in the matter. not revealed to
him until the end, is not the least deft
Of Mr.. Hornungs touches.
True To the tradition of the genre he
devotes almost as much attention 10 the
psychology Of the teachers, from the
head master down. an In that NJ the boys.
One Of them-Mr Heriot-is ..ae, man.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-02
MlSCEllAN EOUS.

AMATEUR GARDENCRAFT. a BOOK for .tn, tn,
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Setting forth the Fundamental prlne'pnd "a
OF gardening, how TO make the lawn "a
how to take care OF t.; what shrubs. wv, y,
and flowers TO plant With chapters oA
arbors, pergolas. window boxes, etc.
MY I.ADY's TOILETTE. illustrated isn,o.
no pagination. philadelphia; The y :"
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A reproduction OF a series OF illustrs,loy~s 10y
designed and executed more than cent.ss
ago by a Virginian lady. on eaen III
there is an Illustration and rh'"~
counsel.
MORE GUESSING CONTESTS DAME " n
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Containing more than a hundred 1rss om
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book party, a Shakespeare contest. = sss
and candy guessing contest, an aueuVn ,anns.
OF paintings, and concealed American ""
There Is key for each contest :, a
HOW TO SAVE MONEY. BY Nathssnsm,csa
Fowler. jr, i2mo. pp <, -"
A. C. McClurs co.. "a.
Advice as TO the saving OF money ,n,,,ss, anu
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THE CIvIL-wAR PENSION LAck1ooso Of
TEM A Four-Thousand-Miliion hee'c CEN
legislative Incompetence Tending 70 wrsncis
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Adams. 12mo. pp. ~, SO. (cnar'es
Adams.) ,.r
The chapters which make up th" "yoorlds
have been reprinted from ms
Work"
New-York tribune., 1912-03-02
EDUCATIONAL.

ALL THE CHILDREN OF ALL The PEOPLE.
A Study OF the Attempt 10 EDUCATE livery
body By william Hawley Smith. lano'
I'd. *. 5as Crhe Macmillan Company
EyGIJsH FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS By
w. F. Webster. l2mo. pp vii. BE- Crhs
Houghton Niffln Company
Setting forth the principles Of composition
and forms OF INSTRUMENTATION, descr1p'
ton. exposition and augmentation. With a
list OF questions and an index.
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