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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28
A Helping Hand.

A dollar spent in your own town is
dollar saved to the community.
The purchasing power of money
spent around your home is much more
than its purchasing power if spent
away off yonder. 1t buys the respect
OF your neighbors and standing for
yourself as a loyal citizen.
1t is funny to hear fellow preach
and prate about town loyalty when he
makes habit of using the mail order
catalogue as his saleslady or sales
man. Now, isn't that fact?
Maybe the reason that young friend
of yours resigned his job in the local
store and moved to the big city is that
you have been helping to build up the
city stores at the expense of your local
stores and your young friends sal
airy at home suffered accordingly
Did it ever occur to you that the COM
munity feeling, so to speak, is the
thing that makes life worth living in
any town? BY the community feeling
is meant, Of course, that condition
where neighbors are mutually depend
ent and helpful, one recognizing the
right of the other to be considered first
III any deal rather than an outsider.
and vice versa. And the motto of the
community feeling is this: 'PatroniZe
home industries"
If the mail order trade is hurting
your town, and in all probability it is
and you know it is, suppose you pause
moment and ask yourself what part
of the injury you are inflicting. Why
not?
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28

| Tucker should so east and organize n
er left Meriyale died, having charged
his partner to bear the news to his ia
ther and sister. Emily dared not at
present announce it to her father. She
determined to advise her neighbors of
the deception and for the present keen
it up.
fucker was successful in his bust
ness efforts and was making prepara-
lions to leave for the west. One even
Ing Deacon Merivale entered the living
room suddenly to find Emily in Tuck
er's arms.
1T beats all" he said at church So
cable the next evening, what broth
erly and sistery love there is between
my boy and girl. Last night they were
sitting on the sofa hugging and kiss
ing as if they'd been a pair of freshly
Matched lovers"
Inns speech was not long in gettin.
TO the ears of the pair. What was ia
be done! After long elaboration they
decided to be privately married and
MS sister to go west with him, take
their departure together.
1t was not an easy matter to perpe-
tfate an act that must be known TO al
lhe world save one person and he OF
the nearest relationship, but the place
was spall, and every one thought If
would be pity to break the news of
Edgar S death to the old man, he sup
posing his son had come home to him
IL made Emily's heart bleed to leara
her FATHER alone, but there was no way
TO avoid doing SO except by a confess
sion. The couple We're married i'm the
dominie's study, then went home and
babe adieu to the father.
from their western home they wrote
the deacon that the mine was doiug
Iamously and as soon as it's success
was assured they would bring him ont
TO JOIN them or return to him. XII;
nelghpors We're much interested in
hearing the old man talk about His
chlldrens affection for each other-so
great, III fact, as to render them insep-
, arabic. But as time passed and they
neither returned nor sent for him he
concluded to make them visit. He
disappeared one day, and his neighbors
at once inferred where he had gone. Tt
was generally admitted in the village.
that the secret would be out, but all
hoped that the shock would not break
the old mans heart In few weeks
II was announced that he had returned
The first to meet him was the parson.
well, Deacon asked the latter
have you visited the runaways?
Yes, replied the deacon, ''and found
them prosperous and happy. But ma
ture viii have its way. Emily, to
make up for her sacrifice in deyotinc
her life to her brother, has adopted the
prettiest baby you ever saw.
few months later the deacon died.
happy in his children's happiness. The
funeral sermon bore upon doing evil
that good may come.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28
Timely Agricultural Topics
LOSSES IN STORED CORN.
Government Tests to Learn Amount of
Shrinkage In STORAGE.

Government Tests to Learn Amount of
Shrinkase In Storage.
Farmers who hold large quantities of
corn in storage may learn some prac-
tlcal lessons from recent tests by gov
eminent agents in Baltimore as to the
amount that corn shrinks in storage.
The observations We're made on 3D.
600 pounds of shelled corn stored in
wooden hopper of Il Baltimore ele-
vator from Jan. 5 to May IA. 1910, the
corn then being run out and elevated
to the scale three times, after which
it was allowed to lie eighteen days
longer, making 147 days in storage al
together. From Jan. 5 to April 81 the
corn remained in good condition, and
the shrinkage in weight was approx
mately four-tenths per cent. but after
the latter date the corn became sour
and hot. with a maximum temperature
of 13S degrees E., and up to May IA
had shrunk about 90 per cent more
During the three elevations to the
scale the shrinkage was 1.65 per cent
on the basis of the weight of the corn
in the hopper just before handling.
From May II to June /, after the corn
had cooled to 80 degrees by handling,
the shrinkage was &c per cent. The
total shrinkage during the storage pc
riod of lat days was 1,522 pounds, or
about o. per cent. 1t was also deter
mined that as long as the corn remain
ed in good condition its rate of shrink
age was largely influenced by the
weather-by the degree of humidity.
for example, and the temperature of
the air.
Other facts learned We're that on
Jan. 5 the average moisture content of
the corn was 1873 per cent, while on
June l it was 14.7 per cent On the
same dates the corn showed power OF
termination amounting to S9.6 and l
per cent respectively and Il weight pc"
bushel Of 54.7 and so pounds respec-
lively. On Jan. 5, 97.1 per cent of the
corn was sound, while on June /. after
the severe heating, only IL per cent
remained sound
In all probability corn stored on the
cob would not deteriorate so greatly as
shelled corn, yet there would doubtless
be some loss under such conditions
Country Gentleman.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28
GETTING RID OF THE BUGS
WHICH SUCK PLANT JUICES.
How Oregon Expert Deals With Pests
Which Cause Great Loss to
Greenhouse Owners.

The tarnish plant bugs Uygus pra-
tensis linn, referred to locally in the
greenhouse as shippers, are common
pests all over the United States, caus-
ing much injury, especially to tender
greenhouse plants, by piercing the bud
stems and sucking the juices, thus
killing or blighting the buds. A. l..
Lovett of the entomology department
of the Oregon agricultural college has
made special study of the insect and
gives the following remedial measures
to be taken for their elimination.
Any arsenical is useless, since the
bugs suck their food instead of eating
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28
Save the Wood Ashes.

If you are using wood for fuel save
the ashes for I've. The I've, which is
leached from barrel, is invaluable
about the farm, but especially so where
your fruit trees are infested with scale.
A I've wash properly proportional and
applied leaves the bark clean and
smooth.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28
George Curry, One of Now Mexico's
Representatives In Congress.

senate, 1896, and was a captain in
Roosevelt's rough riders in the Span
ish-American war. He served as
sheriff of Otero county, N. NJ, for a
short time in 1899 and then became a
lieutenant Of scouts in the Philippines.
He was chief Of police of Manila and
organized the first civil police force
under American government, August,
1902. He was governor of the province
of Isabella, p. l., 19O4-5, governor of
Samar, 1867, and became governor Of
| New Mexico in June, 1907.
1t is told of Representative Curry
that during his war service in the
Philippines he once secured the sur
render of 1000 men by mere force Of
argument, advancing under a flag of
truce in the company Of but single
priest and convincing the insurgent
general that the latter's bread was
buttered on the American side.
ALL ELECTRIC TRAINS
That within twenty-five years cleo
tricity will entirely supplant steam in
country was the recent declaration of
President +. p. Ripley of the Santa
Be Railway company.
"It seems probable" he said, "espe-
cially in view of the remarkable evo-
luton Of the application of electricity
during the last few years, that the
next generation will see electricity
used as motive power of all trains,
freight as well as passenger and
transcontinental as we'll as local"
uNDERWooD's STATE
April / is Democratic presidential
primary day in ALABAMA, and April is
is Democratic state convention day,
when delegates to the national con-
yention will be selected. Alabama is
Oscar w. Underwood's home state, and
when Mr.. Underwood was listed among
presidential aspirants his Alabama fol-
lowing promised to make things hum
for him at convention time.
NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW
The Society Of American Florists and
Ornamental Horticulturists through the
national flower show committee has
closed a contract and will hold aninter-
national flower show in New York the
first week in April, 1913, when more
than $4,000 will be offered in prizes.
a number Of societies will contribute
gold medals and other trophies.
Representatives of foreign florists in
this country will exhibit flowers and
plants in competition with the products
OF the United States.
"a .FooTNoTE
Rings on her fingers, bells on her
toes, she shall have music wherever
| she goes.'' Now it reads, Rings on
her fingers and feathers on her toes,
she shall be noticed wherever she
| goes.'' In other words, birds plumage
| for milady's feet is new within OF
| the Partisan milliners. It is trans
| Ter from head to feet They have de-
creed that femininity's walking part
shall radiate a riot OF colors. These
gaudy hues will be gummed on to the
Heather. The golden pheasant, birds of
paradise and the ibis will be utilized
/ for milady's low cut, high heeled
! shoes, with which buckles Of paste or
little pivots Of aigrets or feathers are
worn.
But good news comes from London.
4 Il issto the effect that young English
linen 4, are gradually discarding socks
that rival the rainbow and the peacock
i ana asing their feet In hose with.
1 ~ unite u much fireworks
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28

ALFALFA WISDOM.

= Alfalfa may be successfully
X raised OH almost any type of soil
provided that it is we'll drained,
free of weeds and in reason
E able state of fertility.
x Good drainage must be pro-
5 vided.
The ground must be made free
of weed seeds.
Soils lacking in fertility should
be we'll MANFRED, as alfalfa re-
quires large amounts of plant
z food. If sufficient manure is not
( to be had it should be supple
{ mented With a commercial ferti
E lizer rich in phosphoric acid and
< potash.
{ If the soil is sour it must be
K lined before alfalfa can do we'll.
incubation of the soil will
X generally be necessary. Farm
E Press.
4 AMAHNAAAAAAAA xxAAAAAAAMA
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28
II Il least 100000 women will be
"a privileged to vote for a presi-
: dent Of the United States next

Y II least 100000 women Will be
privileged to vote for presi-
~ dent Of the United States next
November They constitute
! larger body than the total number OF
their sex in the thirteen colonies DUR
ing the memorable year 1776 and II
4 they voted solidly might decide the
presidency, as their strength exceeds
that of the usual presidential plurality.
Wyoming women are the suffrage
pioneers of the six states which let
!. women vote. Wyoming women have
voted since 1869, a year after the ter
ritory was formed. Official figures say
that o per cent of them register and
vote regularly. They serve as jurors
and have been named for pubic po-
sitions, frequently as school superin-
tendents and city treasurers.
Women of Washington voted when
Washington was territory. Woman
suffrage there was declared unconstitu-
tional in 1881 and women were denied
the ballotuntil 1910 Utah women have
voted since territorial times, and Colo
RADIO women were enfranchised in 1893.
Idaho women first voted in 1885, Cali
fornia women have yet to cast their
first vote for president. This they
will do this year.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28

Hens In the Orchard.
Hens do we'll in orchards of apple or
plum. They destroy insects and scat
ter their droppings evenly Do not put
them in peach orchards.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28
Survey Of the Worlds News

decision to council Of British, Ger
man, Dutch, French and Belgian art
lists, will consist Of mass of dark
porphyry, on which the principal group.
carved in white marble, will stand out
in relief, with bronze figures around it
representing the various nations en-
gagged in the fight. All the bones
found on the field will be laid within
this mausoleum, which will thus in u
measure become the tomb Of all who
fell at Waterloo.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28
A PICTURESQUE STATESMAN

One of the two spokesman in con-
gress for the recently admitted state
of New Mexico, George Curry, has
had a busy career. He was born in
Bayou Sara, La, April 8, 1868. and has
worked on sheep ranch. He was
member of New Mexico's territorial
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
THE QUIET HARVEST.

& Along the street are sounds of fife
and drum,
& And, 10, the people shout that ]
strength is come!
I But mightier far, tho trumpeted !
the less, !
Is strength that walks in ways of
quietness. :
3 The music fades, the Iuster dis
appears
Into the mist Of long forgotten
years, .
And scarce the echo lives a mo-
x nent's span
In the impulsive consciousness of :
s But, while in dust the pomp and :
( pageant roll,
Z The quiet harvest of an earnest J
soul
( Shall stand forever, needless Of !
{ decay, !
{ And grow more perfect to the
4 perfect day.
& Pail Mall Gazette. J
y 7 ~ w \ ~ Y Y y Y J. ~
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28
NOTABLE ANNIVERSARIES

The United States congress on March
%, 1862, passed an appropriation of
$13,0O0O00 for new ironclads and vot-
ed its thanks to John Ericsson for
creating the Monitor. President JEFF
ferson Davis Of the Confederate states
sent to congress at Richmond on March
30, 1862, a Recommendation to enroll
all citizens in Confederate territory be-
tween the ages of eighteen and thirty
five for military service On March
81, 1862, Henry Wilson of Massachu-
sets precipitated debate in the Unit
ed States senate by speech urging
the freeing of negroes held as slaves
in the District of Columbia John God
frey SAKE, American poet, died aged
seventy-four, on March 81, 1887.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28

LADY DAY
Lady day, on March 25, is one of
the quarter days in England and Ire
land, when rent is made payable. In
the Roman Catholic church it is cele-
brated as the Feast Of the Annuncia-
ton, and it is observed as feast by
the English church. In France the
day is called Notre Dame de Mars.
The earliest evidence of the celebra-
ton Of the annunciation Of the Virgin
Mary is found in canon of the
church council of Toledo, held in 656.
THE PRoHlBlTloNisTS
The basis of representation as fixed
for the national Prohibition convention
at Atlantic City, N. j., on July 10 is as
follows:
Each state and territory is entitled
to four delegates at large.
Each state is entitled to an additional
delegate for each 200 votes or major
fraction thereof cast for Eugene w.
Chain for president in 1908
The District of Columbia is entitled
to two delegates. Each state, terri
tory. and the District Of Columbia is
entitled to as many alternates as its
number Of delegates.
e .
ANOTHER INQUIRY
Investigations being the order Of the
day, Representatives Frank Clark Of
Florida and f. r. Bathrick of Ohio
recently demanded one made into the
department OF agriculture. The in
quiry relates to the alleged attitude Of
the department Of agriculture toward
companies exploiting under water
land in the Florida everglades.
These companies, which were sub
jacted to the investigation Of the fed
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-28
With the Short Story Writers
a Happy Mfsfake
BY GILLIAN II. JENNINGS

A YOUNG man stood with his hand
IA on the latch of house in the
~ country, admired the cheerful
+J,o
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
TO RESTORE PEACE BY FORCE
Mexican Government Will Destroy
Small Rebel Towns.

Mexico City.-That the Mexican gov
eminent is determined to carry out the
threat to resume the tactics employed
so successfully by General Robes in
the state of Morelos some months ago
is indicated by the report of the war
department announcing the total de-
;struction of several small towns and
villages in the northern mountains of
Oaxaca, where the revolution has been
rampant.
Another evidence of the govern
ment's intention to restore peace is
the announcement by an official that
5000 soldiers now operating in the
north, chiefly Coahuila and Durango,
will be sent against rebels in the states
of Mexico, Puebla, Guerrero and OAK
AGA. The government is convinced
that the situation in the country is now
SO nearly under control that small
forces will be able to restore normal
conditions.
Rheumatism Downs Orozco.
Rheumatism has conquered General
Pascual Orozco Jr., according to a re
mort. Unable even to mount his horse
the leader of the rebels is reported
resting under the care of an American
physician in a canyon camp amid the
Burro mountains, southwest of Eagle
Pass. Texas. Seven hundred of his
men are with him.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
Special Session of Congress.

Washington.-Clerk Of the house
ways and means committee have be-
gun work upon tariff revision bills for
the special session of congress, which
President-elect Wilson has stated he
will summon to meet next April. Dem
ocratic leaders have been confident
for some time that the incoming adj
ministration would force the tariff
issue to an immediate trial and much
of the detail of the work of preparing
the bills is under way.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
NEWS0F THE WORLD
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FRESH FROM THE DAILY
TELEGRAPH WIRES.
from FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FIELDS
Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Told In Brief Paragraphs ,
for Busy Readers.

Former Governor William Larrabee
of Iowa is dead.
At an initial cost of 100000 cleo
trification of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad will begin at once.
A plan has been inaugurated to make
a transcontinental highway for "joy
riders" through Death valley.
Woodrow Wilson, president-elect
and family have sailed for Bermuda
They will be gone until December 16.
The situation as regards the dispute
of Servia and Austria over the formers
demand for an Adriatic seaport is
again considered serious.
At Sturgis, S. D., recently Ed Gantze
shot and seriously wounded his di-
vorced wife and then shot and killed
himself They had quarreled.
"Queening," otherwise known as
s'spooning," has been officially and
formally condemned by the Y w. c. A.
goods at Whittier college in California
III. DdNlu H. OdlIOll, IL leduluS lludu-
cier of Baltimore, Md, is dead of
Bright's disease, aged 70 years. Up
to middle life Dr. Carroll was a Metho-
dist minister.
Reaching out across the Pacific
ocean, the Industrial Workers of the
World have begun a campaign of or
ganiation among the laboring classes
of the Hawaiian islands.
The weather office at Cordova, Alas
ka, reports that the precipitation be-
tween January 1 and November 1 of
this year was I'll inches. Six inches
of rainfall in day is not infrequent.
Making clothes for sc Plymouth
Rock chickens is keeping Mrs. Ellen
Buck of Middleton, Ohio, busy these
chilly days. Through some unkind
trick of Providence the chickens never
had any feathers.
The United Daughters of the Confsd-
eracy in recent convention elected as
president general Mrs. Alexander B.
White of Paris, Tenn; recording sec
rotary general Mrs. Orlando Hall Bur-
ton, Little Rock, Ark.
The flag that General John G. Ere
mont raised on the crest of the Rocky
mountains August 16, 1912, was un
furled in Los Angeles Saturday by the
famous 'Pathfinder's" daughter, Miss
Elizabeth Benton Fremont
1t has become known that $4,000 in
currency, while en- route from Rock
Springs, Wyo, to the coal mines al
Superior has disappeared from the
mail, and so far government agents
have been able to obtain no clue,
The American embassy at Athens
has notified the American Red Cross
that the Greek sick and wounded as 6
result of the Balkan conflict numbered
about 7000 In Montenegro there are
1000 sick and wounded and about 400(
prisoners.
An immediate and satisfactory effec
on the high cost of living in Berlin wa:
brought about by the importation o
Russian meat and the riots that at
tended the first attempts to sell it
Prices have since dropped in som'
cases more than so per cent.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
WAR STILL GOES ON
FROM HILLS AROUND CONSTANTi-
NOBLE FIRING CAN BE DIS
TlNCTLY HEARD.
BULGARIAN Army after THE TURKS
Experts Differ as to Fight Turkey Will
Make to Hold the Forts De-
Tending Approach to the
Capital.

London.-The general advance of
the Bulgarian army on the Turkish
lines at Tchatalja, the main obstacle
between it and Constantinople, begun
Sunday, and, according to Sofia re-
ports, already has met with some sue
cess.
The Bulgarians aim at attacking
simultaneously the forts of which the
line is composed, and with that object
the army is stretched across the PENN
sula. With every available piece of
artillery that could be gathered to-
gether it is marching straight toward
the works, which until the Turks suf-
fered the series of awful defeats were
considered by militory experts impreg-
nable.
Towns Are Taken.
The advance guards of this great
army of invasion have already reached
the village of Lazarkeui, near Lake
Derkos, on the Turkish right; the town
of Tchatalja, facing the center of the
line which takes it's name from the
town, and Arnautkeui, the town fur
Their to the south and near to the sea
Of Marmora.
All these places have been occupied
and from Arnautkeui the Bulgarian
artillery is Smelling Biyuk Chekmedie,
where there are two Turkish forts,
composing the extreme left of the
Turkish line.
Guns Begin to Speak.
At other points, too, the guns have
begun to speak, and from the hills
around Constantinople firing can be
heard. Some small accommodating par
ties have got around the flank of the
Turks right and are operating in the
country between Tchatalja lines and
the capital. But the various divisions
have only just begun the attempt to
make breach that will give them an
opening toward the city of their de-
sire.
Those who have visited the Turkish
front differ considerably as to the
ability of the defenders to hold the
forts. Some declare that the Turks
strengthened by achievements, with
an abundance of ammunition and pro.
visions, will make a good stand, while
others believe an army still containing
remnants of forces so badly beaten in
previous engagements can not hold
out.
Fierce Battle Raging.
Constantinople.-T great battle
between the Bulgarians and Turks is
on all along the line of the Tchatalja
Notifications, which stand between
the besieging armies and Constantine
pie; Nazim Pasha, the Turkish com
mander-in-chief, sends the following
dispatch:
"The battle, which began Sunday
morning with an attack by Bulgarian
infantry, lasted until one hour after
sunset. The enemy, who advanced
chiefly facing our right wing and oul
center, was repulsed by our infantry
and artillery fire. The Bulgarian bat
teries were destroyed"
All through the day the sound o
heavy guns booming distantly wa
heard in Constantinople. 1t ceaset
only with darkness.
The firing along the line was evi
} IDENTIFY preparatory to an infantry al
tack.