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The Press., 1912-08-07
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
August 10. 1882.
Items of local interest taken from the columns
 of The Press, thirty years ago.

Most farmers here have been feed ing out hay to their stock because of lack of pasture.
 The girls library club netted $I5 at their festival on the Springs House grounds last week. The committee in charge consisted of Miss Amer F. Converse, Nettie M. Whiton, Nettie A. Snow, Edith Baker and Katie Beckwith. The committee in charge of the next entertainment is Eugenia H. Converse, Georgie Beckwith, Mabel Small, Annie Heald and Mary Newton. The club has set out to raise $l00 with which to make addi- tions to the library the coming fall.
 Monroe Chamberlin has bought the place of Mrs. l.. w. Ferry at Stafford vile, adjoining A. L. Eaton's store, for $500.
 Born. In Stafford Springs, 4th, n daughter to George E. Buck.
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-Four White. -EstIocks.

In France in former times d horse that possessed four white stockings had the privilege of being free from toll. There is passage in one of the works of Frederick NistraI. the fa nous poet of Provence, to the follow Ing effect: By the rule of the road there was an old custom. which was re spected by all that the carter whose leader had four white stockings whether going uphill or dOwnhill had the right not to leave the road that Is the narrow paved part when the res was in Il bad State-and thus arose th' proverb. Who has four white feet car pass everrThsAre
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MODERN WAX CANCLES.
Most ot Them Arc Made From C.
 cerIte, a Mineral Product

Most oF Them Arc Made From C."
 cerIte, Mineral Product
 1t is mistake to asSune 'haI ii these days of electricity. gaS and "i the wax candle hus been practically discarded Large numbers of them are today manufactured and sold
 It should be added. however. that the wax candle Is now very different from the article of olden times. Formerly many such candles were made of bees wax, but aside from the fact that these are now occasionally used in churches the bee plays no part in the manufacture of present day wax can dles. The principal ingredient em ployed is ozOcerite. d mineral wax ob tained from the earth at depths vary ing from 400 to 600 feet
 In our own country this mineral wax is mined in California and in Utah In Europe 1t Is found in Wales. Rouma mia and GalicH 'T?.....
 Ozocerite in it's natural state appears in translucent dark brown thin films which on being refined resemble bees wax
 The wax mines situated in Galic'ia present some features of curious inter est. The entire wax fields are "nl! fifty acres in extent. but more than Il thousand shafts have been sunk it that limited area and nearly LOOM men are at work there
 The veins of the mineral are fire QuentIy sixteen inches thick. and 1t is dug with shovels and hOistPd from the shafts by windlasses
 Many uses are made of this wax be sides holding it into candles. and for tunes have been made by the men in terested in these .strange mines. the value of the crude product being about 8, cents pound at the mouth of the mine.-New- York Tribune.
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First Recorded Yacht Race,

A race aross the Atlantic ocean would have seemed wild romance to King Charles H. when he took lead ing part in the first recorded yacht race. "T sailed this morning" says Evelyn on Oct l. 1861, with his maj esty in one of his yachts, or pleasure boats, vessels not known among US till the Dutch East India company pre- sented that curious piece to the king. being very excellent sailing vessels. 1t was on a wager between his other new pleasure boat. built fRigate-like. and one of the Duke of YoRk's: the wager, f1OO; the race from Greenwich to Gravesend and back. The king lost 1t going, the wind being contrary. but saved stakes in returning. There were divers noble persons and lords on board, his majesty sometimes steering hfmSolfO
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Trainino a Cow.

T. P.'s London Weekly relates how Major Miles Malony of Rallydun was amazed one morning to see from his bedroom window little lad driving COW back and forward again and again over a ditch and through fence on his land. Hurriedly completing his toilet he rushed out to question the little tres passer. What are ye after with that COW? Is it to kill the beast ye want! 'KiTI her: Shurc. it's to keep her alive want" Keep her aIive?" "Shure it's taiching her to get her own living I am. There isn't ditch or tince in the barony that'll hOld her in afther I've done wid her. Then the major understood. The COW. in fact. was be ing taught to tFespaSs in search of her own living.
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A Southpaw Winder.

'I wish you would tell me what is the matter with my watch" said the girl.
 It was her first watch, 8 birthday present, and as the jeweler took it and deftly wound the stem between the thumb and index finger of his right hand she watched him closely as if 1t were an operation involving some mys- terious incantation.
 ''It seems to be all right" said the jeweler. handing it back to her. You ought to keep it wound up though"
 "It looks very simple when you do it." replied the girl. but could wind it all day and it wouldn't go for me-"
 And then the jeweler saw where the difficulty was. ''No wonder" he said, laughing. T see you are left handed, and instead of winding it up you've been turning the stem the wrong way" New York Press. ...
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Old Parr's possibie Age.

One of the last services Dean Stanley did for Westminster abbey was to cause the almost effaced inscription over the celebrated old Paris grave to be recut. It is as follows: '"rho: Parr of ye County of Salop. Borne in AID 148S. He lived in ye reigns of Ten Princes viz., K. Edw. 4. K. Edw. 5. K. Rich. 8, K. Hen. 2, K. Hen. s, K Edw. 6, Q. Ma. Q. Eliz.. Ka. Ja. & K. Charles Aged 152 yeares. and was Buried Here Novemb. 15. 1885"
 The "old Countess of Desmond" who is said to have died at the age of 14O is mentioned by Lord Bacon. Archbish- op Usher and Sir William Temple The first assures us that ''she did dentige (renew her teeth) twice or thrice, cast ing her old teeth, and others coming in their place."-London Graphic.
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A Enr+una in His Laas.

During the reign of Queen Elizabeth an English gentleman of wealth named Corbet. of distinguished family near Shrewsbury bet that his leg was the handsomest in the country or kingdom and staked estates worth $4OO.ON on the,subject He won the, wager. and a picture is still preserved in the family mansion representing the process of measuring the legs of the different con- testants -.-.. V IVY. ! .,L...
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THE GROWTH OF
 OUR GREAT NATION
WWYE have no written record to
 wv prove that the makers of the first Fourth of July were

WWYE have no written record to A prove that the makers of the first Fourth of July were
 given to boasting about their possessions. If they were in the habit of writing letters to their Eng fish cousins, in which they casually referred to the fact that they owned a territory of over 1000 square miles, or some five times as large as all Eng land and Wales, neither Poor Richard nor any of the other dear old ch-on- Iclers made note of the fact.
 But, inasmuch as the colonists felt big enough and strong enough and rich enough to pitch into Great Britain and not only did pitch into her, but beat her after a fair fight, it would look to an unbiased person today as if the forefathers of the firecrackers had pretty good opinion of themselves and of what they had in hand. It is quite likely that after the unpleasant ness known as the Revolution, when the country was striding ahead with it's commerce, was selling it's cotton and its tobacco to every one that wore clothes or used the weed. they felt they had more reason to pat them selves on the back for the marvellous growth they showed before the eight eenth century was done.
 But just suppOsing one of the fram- CTS of the Declaration could read over few statistics and observe a few events that are at hand today! If you told him that since his day the coun- try-his country-has increased more than ten times in area, more than thirty times in population and more than 1000 times in wealth. how would he take the news? Would he still as sert, as some of our friends among the oldest inhabitants are prone to do. that the ''good old days were best" or would he not be more likely to sally forth in search of the beadle and make peremptory demand for your incar- ceration as a dangerous lunatic?
 Surely if truth is stranger than fic- ton figures are stranger still when measuring the vast strides that our country has taken since the Fourth of July, 1776 What one of the signers dreamed that in 1903, or less than thir- ty years after his ink dried upon that historic document, the United States would acquire a territory of 875,OOO square miles, or nearly three times the size of all the thirteen original states put together? But that was what we got when we bought Louisiana for $15,OOO,OOO. In 1919, when we took in Florida, we added more than 10000 square miles to our area; in 1845 we took in Texas, with its vast domain of 389, ,OOO square miles, and within three years thereafter had absorbed Oregon and the Mexican concession, adding i'll round numbers SOO.OOO square miles more.
 Every once in a little while Uncle Sam seemed to grow territOrially hun gry and would lunch off a promising fragment of the continent. The Gads- den purchase of 36,OOO square miles was made in 1853. Alaska was bought for $7,2OO,OOO in 1867, adding nearly 6OOOOO square miles to our map. and in 1897 we took in the Hawaiian Is lands to prove that we were not dis eliminating against the Pacific ocean in the matter of our favor. Then all in bunch. during the days of 1898
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MaaI1s and Eacaa-

Masks are of very ancient origin. Tn a tomb 5000 years old at Mycenae pr.
 Schliemann found two bodies with faces covered by masks of gold. One of the masks represented the head of a lion. Among ancient Greeks the lion mask was a sign of distinction. With the Peruyians of old it was mark of royal lineage. In a grave of considera- bIe antiquity in Peru silver mask was found on the head of mummy. The mummy of prince who lived in the reign of Rameses H., discovered in a small vault at Memphis. in Egypt, had mask of gold leaf over the face.
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TERRITORIALLY HUNGRY. .srs ... and 1899. we took in Porto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and Samoan islands.
 The Philippines totaled about 143.OOO square miles. and you'll hardly be able to suppress a smile when you are in formed that the Samoan islands that we took over in 1899 had the enormous area of seventy-three square miles. But even at that there's plenty of room upon those little ocean dots for cable houses. drydOcks and cOaling stations. A few thousand tons of coal stored at any one of those places may at some time in the future save the American battleship fleet and give it the power to overcome foe in the far east. Thus all told. when we add up the various breakfasts, luncheons and dinners of new land that our uncle has enjoyed since 1776. we get the tidy showing of 2,936, 731 square miles. .. 4
 This new territory cost the United States treasury exactly $87. .O39, ,768. or about $50 square mile. Add what we've bought to what we had during the Revolution and we get a total of N little more than 100000 square miles. of teTritory.-New York Herald.
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THE TRUE TEST.
Tried in Stafford Springs, It Has Stood
 the Test.

The hardest test is the test of time, and Doan's Kidney Pills have stood it we'll in Stafford Springs. Kidney sufferers can hardly ask for stronger proof than the following:
 G. w. Benton, shoemaker, West Main street, Stafford Springs, Conn.,, says: Sitting in one position caused my kidneys to become disordercl. | suffered from weak and aching back and also had acute pains in my sides. The passages of the kidney secretions were irregular and gave mo no end of annoyance. When l saw DOan's Kid ney Pills advertised I obtained a box at the Eaton drug store, and they proved to be just what l needed, This remedy not only strengthened my kidneys, but gave me relief from my aches and pains. Statement give Il August 3l, 1908.
 A LATER ENDORSEMENT.
 On July 27, 1911, MT. Benton was interviewed and he said: 'I still think highly of Doan's Kidney Pills and willingly verify my former en' dorscment of them. You may con. tinue to publish my name as a refer. ence
 For sale by all dealers. Price 5C cents. Foster -Milburn Co.,, Buffalo New York, sole agents for the United States.
 Remember the name -Doan's ant take no other.
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Eohla tha snakaa.

The Bengal grOsbeak builds a nest shaped like a bottle and always SC lectS for it's support long. 1.-the limb overhanging stream of water: The entrance is beneath. and, from the sit uation and peculiar shape. it Is abso- lutely impossible for snake to gain admission to the nest One naturalist records seeing fourteen attempts on the. part of serpents to get at the nest. but the hungry snakes always fell of into the water.
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STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLRDo,l ss.

Frank J. Cheney makes oath thatghe is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney @ O., 0olng business in the City of Toledo, County ana Si ate aforesaid, and that said firm will pay he sum oI ONE HUNDRED fDOLf4ARS for each apo every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Halls CataTrh Cure FRANK J. CH ENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pres ence, this 9th day of December, A.: D: iSS6;
 FAY E-y "A. w. GLEASON,
 tSEAL) NOTARY PUBLIC. Hall's CataFrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood ana mucous surfaces of fine system Send for testimonials free.
 Ed. CHENEY q CO, TOledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 16c.
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Wasted.

''I always was unlucky." he said' with a weary sigh.
 Whats the matter now, old manY his friend asked.
 ''I've spent over $500 on havin' my boy taught to play the fiddle, and now his hairs all Ycomin' out. ."--Chicago RacordsHerald.
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A Hood.raIkar

"Does your son take after you ?"
 ''I used to think he was going to. but now that he's in college he shows ev- cry sign of taking after his mother" "That so?
 'Yes; the only thing he's made since he's been there is the debating sO- ysp-Detroit Free Press.
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Dead Lanuuauee.

"Now. boys" queried the teacher. ''who can tell me anything about the dead languages2"
 .."They are languages that were killed by being studied too hard" answered the boy at the foot of the class.-Chi- cago News.
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rha Milky May.

"Grapdpa. said the small boy. from the city. pointing to a wayside plant. ''what is that r
 ".rhat's milkweed." was the reply
 'Oh know" exclaimed the, little fellow That's what you feed to the cows so they will give milk. ."-ChicagO News
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What impressed. Him.

''What impressed you most in our great eity9" asked the native.
 "Well," replied the man from the small town. "I've been here for week and noticed that nobody wears Sun day clothes on Sunday" - Cincinnati Enouirer.
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cago New

Most men postpone happiness until the future, and the future never comes -Epicurus.
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Fine Teachers.

Fond Mother Willie. where did you learn to swear ike that? Young Hopeful shaving. uncle's golf. grandpa's auto and your parrot. Life
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Charm strikes the sight. but merit wins the soul I'ope
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Wear-Ever" Aluminium Utensils

heat quicker and retain heat longer than cooking utensils made of other materials, you can save at least five minutes in cooking each meal. That means, in a year,
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take no other.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1912-02-03
POLITICS AND SERVICE.

South Dakota makes great claim to be-
ing progressive but we are far in the
rear of states which talk less about it,
80 long as We permit the charitable and
per al institutions Of the state TO be
ma, 0 tn, football of politics. States
like Iowa and Minnesota have long out
grown this idea, and a candidate for
Governor who announced that he would
"clean out" the state institutions, II
elected, would never come within gun
shot of being elected.
A discussion of this question was start
ed in this state at the banquet given to
the editors of South Dakota at the hos
pital for the insane at YanktOn. Since
then there have been many newspaper
comments on the question, and all OF
them in the same vein-that it would be
little less than tragic to select the head
ship of an institution like the asylum at
Yankton, because of the successful poll
tical activity of the aspirant
These institutions are maintained at
the expense of the taxpayers for the
public good Their success depends up
on their management. A politician at
the head of the state hospital for the in
sane would defeat the very purpose for
which the institution was founded and
is being maintained. The same is true
of the other charitable and penal insti-
tutions of the state. What the South
Dakota public must demand is expert
service. When the right man is secured,
he should be retained, no matter which
party is in control, or what faction wins
1t makes no difference 10 the helpless
insane of the state what the superintend-
ent thinks about the Aldrich currency
plan, or how he stands upon the tariff.
The vital thing with each inmate, and
with their friends, is that the superin-
tendent should understand the peculiar
ways of the insane, that he should insist
upon kindness on the part of every en-
ploye, and that the whole atmosphere of
the institution should be one calculated
to cure and help rather than merely to
restrain. This is what is meant by civil
service in the state instit itions. No man,
we believe, can be truly progressive who
does not favor it.-Argus-Leader.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1912-02-03
ALFALFA PLANT RECORD.
One Plant Has 41,300 Seeds This
Grade Will Transform Alfalfa
Industry.


The raising of Alfalfa in the Black
Hills is a proposition that is now receiv-
ing much attention among our farmers,
therefore the following from the Brook
inqs correspondent of the Argus-Leader
will be read with much interest:
Forty-one thousand and three hundred
seeds is new record established by one
of Professor Hansen's new alfalfa plants.
The fact was brought forth recently by
Professor Hansen at the Sioux Falls
Conservation Congress and at the State
Horticultural Society which met at
Brookings last week, when report was
made of the progress with the Russian
and Siberian alfalfas. 1t will be recall
ed that Professor Hansen was special
agricultural explorer for the United
States department of agriculture and that
he brought these plants back with him
in 1905 and 1908. One of these plants
was exhibited at the State Fair at Huron
last September bearing $4,000 seeds.
This was considered wonderful, but re.
Gently in checking up the seasons selec-
ton the Professor finds a great many
plants far exceeding this record inciud-
ing the plant already mentioned bearing
over Al 900 seeds.
According to Professor Hansen one
acre set with these plants at two by four
feet would yield in round numbers
eighteen bushels of seed, worth about
$500. 90 at present prices. One hundred
acres would yield 100000 lbs., enough
to transfer the alfalfa industry of the
State from an uncertain to a certain
foundation"
Professor Hansen visited the Black
Hills recently and made preparations
for test of these new alfalfas upon the
highest points where the climatic con-
ditions are more severe than upon the
lower levels and foothills. His alfalfa
breeding has two objects in view; first,
to produce plant for hay and second,
to produce harder alfalfa which will
grow upon rough lands unfit for cultiva.
ton.
Professor Hansen is preparing brief
circular describing the alfalfa work of
the season, which will be sent to appli-
cants as soon as published.
Next year will be great year for
the building of silos, according to Prof,
S. Larson, of the Dairy Husbandry de-
partment of the College. Contractors
and builders from various parts of the
State who expect to construct silos dur
ing the coming season are applying to
the dairy department of the College
either in person or by letter for expert
and special information relating to slos
and silage.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1912-02-03
DRY FARMING.

We have read the article in last weeks
CHRONICLE on this subject and while the
writer holds the same opinions in gen.
eral way be believes he will be pardon.
ed If he cannot agree fully with all the
statements made.
In addition to having the richest one
hundred square miles on the face Of the
earth the Black Hills has the finest eli
mate, more rainfall, less wind, and q
lower mean temperature than the sur
rounding plains.
Mark Booth is the U. s. Weather Re-
porter at Hermosa and the average an
nual precipitation on the Idlewild ranch
since the establishment of the station
has been 1928 inches, 76 per cent or
1912 inches of which falls during the
six growing months and So per cent or
1885 inches during May, June and July.
Itis generally conce1ad that the Hills
receive third more, and the tempera-
ture being lower the loss by evaporation
is not SO great but the gain in this direc-
ton is partly lost by the texture of the
predominating soil, in that 1t has not the
water holding capacity Of the heavier
gumbo and clay of the plain.
The years of 1909, 1910 and 1911 were
exceptional ones, each being dryer than
the last and the scant precipitation com.
ing at unreasonable dates was of little
value in agriculture, still it will be re-
membered that during the first two y ears
sufficient forage was raised to feed the
stock of the farmers and had 1911 been
year of normal conditions the drouth
would not have been disastrous.
During such year as the one just past
it is doubtful if any system of dry land
cultivation would produce paying crops
when the moisture content of the sub
soil was depleted entirely, except in
such favored localities where timely
rains fell or drifts of snow had lain dur
ing the preceding winter.
In the Palanoe country of Washington
where the writer lived, the annual rain
fall is seldom ten inches and profitable
wheat crops are invariably raised, but
no experienced farmer tries to raise a
crop every year, always allowing his
land full year between crops.
In Western Kansas where the rainfall
is seldom over eighteen inches the sue
cessful farmer usually growsa cultivated
crop of corn, potatoes or sugar beets be-
tween his grain crops-not to rest his
soil as some people suppose, for it does
not-uor that these crops take less fer
tility from the ground-for they take
more, but that by cultivation the mois-
ture may be retained.
Dry Farming in one locality may be
radically different than that in the next
township, and it is not probable that the
fallow is desirable in soil deficient in
humus such as the alluvial soil of the
Hills. The growing of a crop of pota-
toes usually conserving ample moisture
to insure a grain crop if properly pre-
pared in the spring.
A "DRY" FARMER.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1912-02-03
Northweste rn Burning Oil.

With ten oil.burning locomotives on
its line between Chadron and Lander,
Wyo., daily hauling freight trains, the
use of crude oil in place of coal is no
longer an experiment with the North
western road. The oil-burning locomo-
tives have been thoroughly tested out
and they are proving so satisfactory that
inside of ninety days every locomotive
on the Wyoming division and every To-
comotive on the Black Hills division will
be equipped with an oil burner.
The oil which the Northwestern is us
ing comes from the recently developed
fields around Casper, and test of it for
fuel purposes shows that it has no equal.
A test shows that 100 gallons of this oil
contains as many heat units as the best
grade of soft coal, while the cost of the
oil is but little more than 80 per cent OF
coal.
Already storage tanks of 5000 gallons
capacity each have been erected at Cas-.
per, Lander, Long Pine and Chadron
and plans are now in course of prepara-
tion for placing others at different points
along both the Wyoming and Black Hills
lines.-Omaha Bee.