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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-07-12

concierge met me and said that Mr..
Adds desired me to pay him a visit,
and l went at once to the sick mans
room. He was far gone, indeed, with
acute malignant malaria. He told me
that he had contracted 1t in New
Guinea.
Il shall never go out aagin," he said,
until they carry me away from here.
1 have declined, however, to go to a
hospital, and l do not want nurse.
can manage myself"
AS he spoke he covered close to the
fireplace. l took out my small bottle,
and, u~nperceived by him, removed the
cork n let one of he spangled-
winged mosquitoes free. l then turn
ed and sat down near the patient.
Presently there sounded On my ears
b ~well-known musical hum of the
mosquito. 1t came nearer, and pass
ed me by, it selected the sick man as
a victim. A moment later and my
spangle-winged beauty alighted on the
invalid's hand. He was about to brush
it off, but l interposed. One moment"
l cried; this is most curious. Let me
secure this mosquito; it is surely not
OHS u Tic OluludTy hluu JIG ILLUS
here"
AS I spoke I laid my hand lightly on
the insect. 1t futtered in its unwel-
come prison. l secured 1t and slyly
slipped it back into the bottle. The in
valid gazed at me in surprise.
The brute has bitten me- he said.
1T is early in the year for mosquitoes
in Cairo, but l have been bitten be-
fore"
"Indeed!" answered, with eager-
ness. Yes, l see you have mosquito
curtains round your bed"
THE season has been SO warm that
they have not died off as is their usua
habit" he replied. Il think I shall go
to bed, doctor; l feel a chill coming
over me-"
From that hour Frank Adds was my
patient, and 1 visited him a couple of
times a day. l lac fed my mosquitoes
one by M from the veins of the ma
larious victim, but Lucifer INT Diabolis
1 still kept in a bottle by themselves
they were fully primed to do what mis-
chief lay in their power. Christmas
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-07-12
"And the man, she queried.

I'VE will speak of that later" I said.
My work could not be spoilt now.
Rachel, deprived of fortune and lover,
must ~assuredly turn to me. | nus
soothe n satisfy Marian later on,
but at any cost she must finish what
she had begun. Just then Rachel came
up to us. looking pale and anxious.
Il am so glad you are here" she said.
"Geoffrey is not we'll; he complains Of
shivering n headache. His symp-
toms are just like those from which
Mr.. Adds suffers"
l ran upstairs and saw Charming. He
had slight rigor, which | knew would
increase; he had also sick headache.
BY evening he was very i'll, and 1t was
clear that all thought Of the morrow's
ceremony must be abandoned. Marian
had taken her place as nurse for Chan
ming, and l managed to slip the glass
bottle into her hand. Early the follow
ing morning ! visited the patient.
Charming had got over the first attack
and was lying on his bed, weak n in
different. Colonel Denza asked me
what thought of the case.
~ IL q y NHoS vi Lieii liz
~laria," l replied. The fact is, he
ought not to marry for some time
He must marry before the first, or
he loses a %fortune!" exclaimed the
colonel aghast. Tomorrow is the last
day of grace"
Il don't believe he'll be able to go
through with it," I said.
Just h Rachel passed, going with
feeble steps to her room. | was struck
by her languid bearing n fastened
after her.
Are you Ill, Rachel?" l asked. is
this disappointment more than you al
stand?"
F.. 1T is not that" she said. 81 don't
know what Is wrong with me. I feel
just like Geoff did yesterday, sh1very.
tired, headachy."
I told her to go to her room and lie
down, and she obeyed. A vague fear
clutched at my heart. I went down.
stairs and found Marian reading a mag
azine. She rose when l approached.
Or. Matcham," she said with sneer-
ing emphasis, Il asked you for a prom
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-07-12
Ruling Spirit stiIl Strong.

Mrs. j. l.. Story, who has just pub
lished q volume Of "reminiscences, tells
of a lady relative who had all her life
been afraid Of damp sheets. When
she was dying Mrs. Story entered the
ROOM. to find the fireplace barricaded
with a large assortment Of bed linen.
She was having her winding sheet
warmed.
81 never have lain in damp bed
clothes while l was alive" said the
old lady in a feeble whisper, "and I'm
not going to do 1t when I'm dead"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-07-12

SkzRX
FIRE @a
YOUNG DRUMMER BOY A HERO
First Medal Of Honor Awarded to
Julian Scott, Fifteen Years Old,
of Vermont


The first soldier to win the coveted
medal OF honor was Julian Scott. a
ffteen-year-old drummer boy in the
Third Vermont infantry In 1862. The
act which gained him the medal was
performed several mcAths before the
congressional act instituting the re-
ward was passed.
The medal Of honor is the highest
decoration for personal valor awarded
to the soldiers and sailors of the Unit
ed States. 1t Is to Americans what the
Victoria Cross is to the English or the
Iron Cross to the Germans.
The act Of congress ordering 2,Ooo
of these medals to be prepared was ap-
proved by President Lincoln July II.
1862, and the first medal was issued
the following year. 1t "a a fve-po1nt-
ed star Of gun metal. tipped with ire
Toll. each point containing a victor's
crown of oak and laurel.
On official occasions. says Uncle
Sans Magazine. 1t vas worn suspend
ed around the neck n under the cen
ter line of the chin by order OF the
president. A bowknot OF ribbon IS
worn in the lapel of the oat in the alb
sence Of the medal.
In 1868 the Grand Army of the Re
public organization adopted a design
SO similar that 1t was misleading ana
steps were taken by the Medal OF
Honor Legion to have a new design
issued to replace the old one. Con-
gress in 1904 adopted the new medal.
1t Is Of silver. heavily e~lectroplated IN
gold.
The f~lve-pointed star has been re-
tanned and in its center appears the
head OF the heroic Minerva, the high
est symbol of wisdom and righteous
war. Surrounding this central figure
in circular form are the words. United
States of America" An open laurel
wreath. enameled In green, encircles
the star, and the oak leaves at the
bases of the prongs Of the star are
likewise enameled in green to give
them prominence.
It was on the morning OF April 10
that the afterward famous Vermont
brigade-Third. Fourth. Fifth and sixth
regiments-was ordered to
and to attack a strong fertilization
masked in a forest near Lees Mills,
or Burnt Chimneys, on the right bank
of Warwick river. When the command
reached the bank of the river under
cover of the fire of a light battery
four companies Of the Third regiment.
In one Of which Julian Scott was serv-
ing as a musician. despite desperate re-
sistance by the enemy. hidden among
trees and a dense underbrush on the
opposite side. succeeded in wading
across.
The water midstream was breast
high and soaked the paper cartridges
carried In little leather boxes on the
back. The rest Of the brigade failed
to come up. but the plucky advance
guard drove the C~onfederates from
their position I'M had pursued them
some distance before they rallied.
Then, unsupported and with worthless
ammunition, the Vermonters fell back.
AS soon as the enemy realized that
the %retreating companies had no de-
fence but bayonets they subjected
them to a merciless fire.
The climax to the catastrophe came
when the Vermont companies reached
the stream they had forded an hour
earlier n found 1t a roaring food.
While the fighting had been going on
the Co~nfederates had opened the flood
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-07-12
A Civic ntifx

Every business man should belong
to the board Of trade or the chamber
of commerce and be on a committee.
Such Is a civic duty"
Are you on a committee?"
ITO be sure"
And what committee are you orr
THAT is-wen, I can't remember
Just now"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-07-12
Cautious.

"Pfwhat would yez do II Casey cali
ID ye a loiar?" asked one OF Stanley's
men to another rs they were helping
get the wagons over- the Harpeth at
Franklin.
"Pfwhich Casey" he asked. "th' big
wan or tn little waoT
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-07-12
Strictly Up to Date.

Alice-How oddly some men pro-
pose.
Kate-I sould say so. A gentle
man asked me last week If ! felt ia
vorably disposed to a u~nification of in
terests.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-07-12

If some cooks land in heaven they
will be awfully annoyed to find that
they leave.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-07-12

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
tecthing, softens the gums, reduces iniamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie, Csc u bottle.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-07-12

Important It is that the blood be kept pure.
Garfield Tea Is big enough for the job.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-07-12

After they reach the age of 40 won
en- laugh only when they feel like 1t.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-07-12

Thus ended Matcham's confession OF
crime and repentance. Regarding his
discovery, l used the spirleen with
good effect in several cases, and there
is no doubt that however the dead
may have erred, he was a benefac-
tor of suffering mankind.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-03-22
A "WREArH OF BABIES"

F.! Imagination is the making of a
writer, so one has been led to believe.
! Perhaps; but some writer's go too
/ far. Just listen to this description
of bit of simple summer millinery
from foreign publication:
"It goes with yellow print frock,
| like the poets
"Buttercup-color was her print gown.
F.! So sweetly rare, so quantity fair!"
and here we had gray chip, very
coarse, but dull of surface, and but
iercup-yellow taffetas Winterhalter
bows, with raveled ends, sitting all
around the low crown, with thei1
fa7, short legs sticking out well apart
in front Of them, for all the world
like wreath of chubby babies.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-03-22
DON'T BE A FOOD CRANK.

Because you believe in rational
diet it is not necessary for you to be
crank. Don't be always paving
over your food and thinking how it
will work after it gets into your
stomach. That leads to chronic dys-
pepsia-and possibly insanity. What
would you think of the captain of a
big Atlantic liner if he should spend
most of his time sorting over the
coal, and examining every lump?
Fix upon rational mode of diet,
and then sforget it."
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-03-22
CHANGE IN MANNER OF
SELLING INDIAN LANDS
SECRETARY OF INTERIOR PROMULGATES
new RULES DESIGNED TO ExPE.
DITE MATTERS.

According to the Mobridge
News, the Secretary of the Interi-
or has recently issued new rules
and regulations governing proceed
ure in the sale of Indian lands.
Under the new practice, an allottee
desiring to sell his land must SUBJ
NIT petition therefor, through
the superintendent of the agency,
to the Secretary of the Interior,
upon receipt of which reports are
obtained from the geological sur
vcy and the reclamation service,
when it is determined whether the
petitioner should be permitted to
make the sale, and in heirship
cases full report of the probate
proceedings must accompany the
petition in order that the heirs may
be definately determined before
any action on the petition for adj
vertising is taken. In all cases
the petition must be submitted to
Secretary of the Interior and ap-
proved by him before the land can
be listed for sale.
While this is a radical change in
practice, it has been adopted with
view of reducing to a minimum
the delay in the approval of In
dian land sales after the purchaser
has deposited his money. Under
the new practice, when the sale is
actually made and the money de-
posted. the only question that
will remain for consideration is
tl1dadequacy Of the price. Sales
will be acted upon within a few
days after the papers are received,
and when approved the purchaser
will be given immediate possess
ion of the land.
The new practice will consider
ably increase the number of sales
in view of the fact that the pur
chaser is almost assured that the
sale will be approved within few
days after the submission of the
successful proposals to the Secre-
tary of the Interior, and that his
money will not be tied up by any
long probate proceeding, reports
from the geological survey, recla-
nation service etc. This will be
very gratifying to spectators and
to persons who desire to purchase
land for resale.
The local officials of the Stand
ing Rock and Cheyenne River res
ervations have been assured by the
Washington office that delays in
securing patents will be of rare
occurance under the new proceed
ire
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-03-22
SPOTTED.

GLOW do you know that man IL a
parlor fsherman?"
mo man can find time to do any
real fishing and at the same time
learn the names of SO large q col
lection of trout flies"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-03-22
CLEAN JOKE.

"What queer ideas Of b,Einess
women have!"
"What makes you say that?"
"My wife's been reading the pa
pers, and she asked me to get her
tub suit at one of those wash sales"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-03-22
CONGRESSMAN MARTIN
WRITES HOMESTEADERS
HAS FAITH IN THE AGRICULTURAL FUT.
URE OF WESTERN SOUTH
DAKOTA

Congressman E. w. Martin, who
is also something of a farmer, is
sending out the following letter to
the farmers of this section in which
he urges them to stay by the farms.
Successful agriculture in West
ern South Dakota is to a large ex-
tent a scientific proposition. Three
elements are required to grow good
crops in any country-soil. sunshine
and moisture. Nature has been
very liberal with us in soil and sum
shine. Our problem is to conserve
the moisture and apply it to the
growing of crops. This involves
the selection of seeds that are strong
in drouth resisting qualities, deep
plowing, and frequent and thorough
cultivation.
The average annual precipita-
ton over the west half of the state
for the past 80 years is II inches.
This is ample to mature good crops
one season with another, if the
moisture is kept in the field instead
of being allowed to waste down the
dry runs or evaporate. In certain
more favored localities in this area
the annual precipitation is from 20
to rs inches. Small reservoirs can
be constructed at slight cost in a
rolling country. They form good
watering places for stock and add
many times their cost to the value
of a farm. Considerable irrigation
can be done in small wav by
throwing an earth dam across a
dry water shed, and distributing the
flood waters over the field while the
storm is on.
Western South Dakota will ulti-
mately become successful dairy
country. A good dairy country
when fully stocked and equipped
is always one of the richest agricul-
tural countries in the world.
Alfalfa will always be our best
forage crop. Corn fodder is good
second. Turkey rcd wheat and
Fall rye are both proving valuable
in Our climate, for they get the full
benefit of the Fall, Winter, and
Spring moisture. Winter Emmer
should be given fair trial for the
same reason.
Il am fully aware that the settlers
in some portions Of Western South
Dakota are passing through most
trying experience, following two
seasons of drought. and that with
very many the problem of getting
through the winter and planting a
crop in the spring is a most serious
and difficult one. But in this in
stance, as in the settlement of al
most every new country. the man
who can stay by the country will
be the one who will prosper.
l am glad to report that | be-
lieve that by reason of some changes
in the laws which we are trying to
make at this session of Congress,
the way of the honest homesteader
may be made much easier than for
some time in the past. Bison
Pioneer.
|. uwREArA 0E RARJECU
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

that the Presidint is engaged rite now.
 He remains that way for about 90 minnits, which seems fore hours to you and in the meen time you air sitting in the cooling room' While there you air given time to reflect You do so. You begin to see sertain irregularities in that story aftur all. The moor you think about it the moor convinsed you becum that it is not so hefty a story, and sertainly has sum imperfect sions. Evvery time the door opens you can feel sumthing down in your stunmack nov ing round about tbe Size of q coconnt. You lose your confident air, and you begin, to wunder if it would not be bettur to go back to the store and cum back later. Only the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

reealizasion that you simply have got to have sum mummy keeps you on the job.
 Aftur while you air invited in, and i'll you go But you do not make the tryumfant entry that you had figured on. Rather you go in like feller who expects to hear the judge say "sixty days" or sumthing like that. You take sect by the Bankur's desk and solicitusly enquire aftur his health and merly. You also ask him how he likes the fall style of weather You try to impress him that you air just making soshall call and aftur while incidentally bring up the loan mattur. Befour you know it sumthing is sed of bizness and the Bankur will beet you to it, by saying Mummy is awful tite
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

air usually cold enuff to bring you down to few points below Zero befour you have been talking to him verry long.
 If you air in bizness you have been back there to see him several times and will likely go sum moor Evvery time you went you carefully planned out what you weer going to say the mite befour. You rehersed it several times till you could say it off with your eyes closed.
 Without telling single lyedirect- you could draw to that Bankur picture of your assets that would make them loom up above your liabilities like Pike Peek over a door-nOb You could-in rehersal--ware such an air of confidence and indifferince that would impress him with the fact that you considered it speshaf favur to the Bank to be allowed to loan you mummy. Go ing ovver the hole story carefully you could not find a flaw in it. It was just about as perfect a little peece of historick fictsion as was evver pulled off by Laury Geen Libby. So promptly next morning you hike down to the bank and walk rite in like Ty Cobb going to bat against bush leege pitcher. You tell the Cashier that you want to see the Presidint He goes back in the big room and you stand on one foot and whistle He cums back and tells you to have sect,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

VI who represent the bizness of this Cs4@z9 grate country air divided into menny classes but when 1t cr1ms rite down to division that will stand the assid test there air after all but two seperate punches between which you can draw a sharp line. Ono of these punches air Bankurs and the utlier ant There may be subdivisions arnung the Bankurs; they may be seperated according to there several standings as fixed by the size of the banks and the i'm portence of there jobs, but to the ordernery bizness man of commerce they air only Bankurs aftur all is sed and, beleeve me, they air verry cultivated lot.
 Bankufs air born Sum folks may dis pute this, but we have givven the matter sum studdy and we air reddy to prove it. and therefour we reaffurm that Bankurs air born. Sum air born with silver spoon in there mouths, and uthers just plain with out enny trimmins There air peepul who air reddy to swear that Bankurs air maid out of sement and pig run, with a Refrig geratur in there running geer, but this IS mistake. It is not evvery boddy that can be Bankur. All reel Bankurs air pretty much alike. Sum times feler may think that he is a Bankr when he ant but it newer takes long to show him up. It takes gennius to be reel Bankur.
 To be a successful Bankur boy must start rite at the bottom and wurk up. The prossess is verry slow and sumtimes takes lifetime. The successful heds of the big banking institusions of this country most always started as runners-a runner is the kid who takes round the collectsions to the bizness men, and evvery time he opens your door he lets in a draft-sum times two or three. If he is deserving aftur three or fore yeers he is promoted frum runner to the next highest job and gets a raise frum $4 per week to $5. This lerns him to be frugle and economical A boy just starting out to wufk ill bank is soon impressed with the cold fact that he is expected to live on a verry meeger stipend, and his relatives In this way he gradually gets used to assosiat- ing with mummy without it assosating with him. He must be verry sircumspeck if he expects to climb verry high with the Bank He must not smoke sigerettes, or cuss, or enny thing like that. He must at all times be prepared to make an affidavit that he conld not tell the difference between three card flush and Aces Up And he must shy at gin rickey like Tresnruer of cam paign fund at Preditory Wealth. for if he falls for ennv of these things-he will newer get in speaking distence of the paying tell CTS job-and its 75 bones per.
 After feller climbs rite on up to the top and gets to be the Presidint of a bank ing house, he gets to set way back in the green room with the long mahogginy tabull in a big revolving chair and ware gloomy looking cloths in North Pole atmospheer. | He IS the man you have to see when you 4want to renew note, or make loan, and altho it may be July, and your temperature 107 in the shade and your pulse IA when you finally get into his presents, his feet