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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10
PRISON PROVED TO BE
BLESSING IN DISGUISE

The American magazine has been
holding 4 contest and offering prizes
for the best letters IN the subject
MY Biggest Piece of Luck" Follow
ing is one of the prizc-winning letters
taken from the january number:
"You wouldn't expect to strike luck
through being sent to Jail. would YOU?
Nevertheless, that is what happened
to Il friend of mine. For obvious rea-
sons l use Il fictitious name.
Robert FillsOme WAS AN exception
ally talented Young man. He MAS adj
mitted to- Ihe bar i'm New York. and
his future seemed bright and assured.
But he went into politics. fell into bad
company, and took to drink. He lost
his practice and descended literally to
the gutter. The taste for liquor once
acquired, it is almost impossible to
free ones self from it. II becomes n
disease. 1T did With Fu!sume. sapping
his will-power. and he had not the
means tn be treated for it. There
seemed no hope for him. and he gave
up to despair. The las, blow came
when he got into Il drunken brawl and
was sen to Blackwen's Island for
three months. But the penitentiary
proved his saving and making. AS
long as he was free lie was able to
get liquor-the vilest sort of stuff-in
adulteration of foods. but we allow
saloons to exist which sell alleged
whisky at prices that on their face
prove the stuff they dispense il ter
ribly adulterated and rank poison.
In the pen Fulsome was compelled
to lead IA regular. clean life on whole
some. plain diet. and it was impossible
for him to obtain any intoxicating
liquor. Al first he suffered terribly
from the deprivation. but at the end
of two months he was II new man in
mind n body. and had entirely lost
the craving for drink. Now he WAS a
very handsome. attractive man. and
fell under the notice of n wealthy
charitable woman who one day vis-
tied the prison. She learned his his
tory from the deputy warden and de-
termined to give him a chance to re-
deem himself. She visited the prison
again. n had a long talk with him,
the result of which was that upon his
agreeing to take the pledge-though he
felt now 1T was unnecessary-and go
west to her home city. she promised
to o ok after him and provide literally
Tor his necessities until he should be-
come able to provide for himself.
This happened five years ago. To-
day Tulsome is her son-in-law. is
wealthy. and is n of the most promi-
nent lawyers and respected citizens in
his state. He has never again touched
q drop of strong liquor. and the very
odor of whisky sickcns him. He told
me that the pen cured him more eff
fectuplly than any sanitarium could
have done. and that tho luckiest thing
that ever happened to him-and 1t
certainly was-was the thing that at
| the time seemed the climax of his mis-
fo~Ituncs-being sent to Jail! 1t proved
a blessing in disguise. as do so many
things that at the time they occur
crush us with despair"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10

Ter rat of cheese in 1909-994, 651, 900
pounds and 9.406. 400 bounds respective
N-was considerably less than the pro-
d%uction for the Year 1899 as given
IN the published reports of the 18th
census. but this difference is doubtless
due in part to the fact that the latter
included some estimates for farms with
incomplete reports. The manufacture
OF butter and cheese is, however,
gradually being transferred from
farms to factories. The combined farm
ana factory production of butter was
:6lS.4la.OoO pounds in 1909 and 1,491.-
during the decade was thus 127, 663, 900
pounds. or Sc per cent. The factory
production alone increased 4S.7 per
cent. or the total product. that made
IN factories constituted 1886 per cent
IN 1909 and 1872 per rent in 1899.
me production of cheese on farms
n IN Factories was 32O. $50, 900 pounds
in 1909. an increase of "a per cent.
Al both censuses much the greater
part OF the cheese was made in fac
tories. but the proportion i'm 1909 (s7.l
per cent? was higher than that in
lSS9 CS4.5 per cent?
VI the total value of dairy products
i'm 1909 Excluding the value of milk
n cream consumed on the farm
where ~prOduced,) the east north CEN
tral division reported $3.50. 1000. or 2S.s
per cent, the middle Atlantic division
SlSo.773.WO. n PIG per cent and the
west north central division Sos, s25, 900,
or 49, per cent, these three divisions
together reporting over two-thirds of
the total. 1t is probable. however. that
the relative Importance Of the home
consumption of milk and cream IL con
slderably greater in the south and
somewhat greater in the west than n
Is In the north.
According to the figures reported. the
average production of milk per COW
Chased on h number of dairy COWS
In 1910 on farms reporting milk pro-
duced i'm 1909 and the quantity of milk
produced in 1909 was very much
greater i'm the New England. Middle
Atlantic. east-north central and pa
clf1c divisions than in any of the rest.
I'his doubtless conforms approximately
tn the facts.
The quantity OF butter made on
was less I'm 1909 than i'm 1899 i'm the four
geographical divisions of the north.
and also in the Pacific division. but
i'm all of these divisions. except the
Middle atlantic and the New England.
the factory production was decidedly
greater i'm h later year than in the
earlier. In the three southern d.
visions. where practically all butter
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10
Most People Secondary Stars
In Competition With Men
of Genius.
SILENCE VS.. TALKING
SILENCE
BY JOHN HUNTER sEoGwick.

We begin our paper with certain
cooling words on which the reader may
ponder a while. maybe ITO his improve
ment, ii not reform. The quotation is
taken from the letter to Sir Watkins
Phillips. of Jesus college, that occurs
In Humphrey Clinker." The reader
can go to the original for 1t. OF IL his
letters have u to a cross between
Chaplain and Illinois. he may with
propriety see II set forth in T~hackeray's
lectures on the English humorists:
Il have observed that those who
shine most I'm private company are but
secondary stars in the constellation of
genius. A small stock OF ideas is more
easily managed n sooner displayed
than a great quantity crowded togeth-
err. There is very seldom anything ex-
t~raordinary In the appearance n adj
dress of "A good writer: whereas, a duh
author generally distinguishes himself
by some oddity or extravaganza"
These words. ii received in "a spirit
Of philosophic detachment and of that
loving humility of which we all nave
SO much to- say. may act as restorers
of the sense of the value of silence.
Not. reader. that what just now tinkled
from your lips Was not of II very high
quality indeed, not that by bottling
your thoughts within the golden re-
cesses of your mentality for n little,
you may express something that shall
wv 'tN1S s's N"' y0
Smollett was II very sensible man with
vast practical experience n as
Thackeray points out this letter to the
baronet no doubt describes What Smol-
let had seen and heard. Thinking is
no little adornment to a pleasant prose
style and can be accomplished after dill
igent practice. Talking, in the n
of opening ones lips and emitting ar
ticulate sounds. is more easily per-
formed and as Smollett says. on Il
smaller stock of ideas. This smaller
stock is more easily managed, more
easily turned about and dangled before
the delighted hearers. Nine-tenths of
the talk that is uttered is a waste of
time, and the remaining part could he
diminished With profit To everyone. Few
people have anything to say that is
interesting and this element generally
can come only from an "e~xperiencing'
power. as Walter Bagehot called IT. You
must think about what YOU see. either
at the time al afterwards. and always
remembering hat the same thought
has likely come tn somebody else In the
same circumstances. even when one
! does think and does talk well, that is
quite Il different matter from putting
1t on PAPER Somebody has exclaimed
on how many good books have not been
written. Heine said of Alfred de Mus
set, that he Mas "A man with Il very
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10
Frogs and Love Songs.
John Muir. in the Atlantic.

The love songs of the frogs seemed
hardly less wonderful than those of
the birds. their musical notes varying
from h sweet. tranquil. soothing.
peeping and purring of the hylas to
the awfully deep, low bass. blunt bel
lowings of the bullfrogs. Some of the
smaller species have wonderfully clear.
sharp voices. and told us their good
Bible names in musical tones about
as plainly as the whip poor-will. Isaac,
Isaac; Yacob. Yacob: Israel. Israel;
shouted in sharp. ringing. ~far-reaching
tones. az if they had all beer to school
and severely drilled in elocution, In
the still. warm, evenings, big, bunchy
bullfrogs beloved, Drunk! Drunk!
Drunk! JOg-o'-rum! Jug-o'-rum!"
and early in the spring countless
thousands of the commonest species.
up to the throat in cold water. sang
in concert. making a mass OF music.
such as it was. loud enough to be
heard at a distance Of more than half
a mile.
Far, far apart from his loud marsh
music. is that of h manly species of
hylas, a sort OF soothing. immortal
melody filling the air like light.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10

Tor valor: but he viii have the con
seriousness that he win have written
one of the brightest pages in the his
tory of medical achievement.
iquitos is a big. boom. camp of reck-
less advent:ifers drawn by the lure of
IA fortunes in rubber gathering.
The town is a Babel of English, Ger
man. Spanish, Chinese coolies, Nor
Coco Jews. n native Indians. some
OF them cannibals-the prospectors go
ing out to the sWamps for the precious
rubber iateX. the traders bargaining
TOY the commodity at the docks where
1T Is brought in dugouts. barges and
small steamers Life and death are
secondary to the current quotation for
rubber. The city is utterly without
sanitary arrangements.
The United States government
brought pressure to bear on Peru to
sanitate h city. which today ia ex-
lstlng as a menace to health at the
Panama canal through which much of
the trade originating in Iquitos will
eventually flow.
Converse Has eia Job.
Dr. Converse will construct water
and Sewerage systems. drain the adj
1acent sWamps. cover mosquito breed
ing pools with oil. clean up the breed
ing places of flies. enforce rigid
screening regulations, exterminate the
rats of the city. and make the build
inss and water front rat proof.
When PERI requested a medical en-
gfneer. Secretary Knox selected DIR.
Converse because of his fine service
record during the San Francisco
plague scare. AS a young surgeon
fresh from European universities and
practicing in San Francisco, DR.. Com
verse at that time volunteered his
services to the government, At first
he Vas given charge of San FranciscO's
fashionable residence section. in the
plague prevention campaign, but his
thorOughness SO attracted the admira-
ton OF DR.. rupert Blue. now surgeon
general of the United States. tina he
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10
DAIRY PRODUCTS OF UNITED STATES
Export of Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of the cnu. #

Washington. Special: A bulletin
summarizing the data collected for
dairy products in the United States
sfor 1909 has just been issued by Di-
rector Durand of the bureau of the
census department of and
bor It was prepared under the SUI
pervision of John Lee Coulter. expert
special agent for agriculture.
There were 5,140,86 farms in the
United States for which h
tors reported dairy COWS on April Is,
1910. For only 4,413,3 1893 of these farms
We're dairy products of any kind report
I'D as produced in 1909, and for only A.
duced in 1909 stated. The total mum
Der of dairy cows on farms April Is.
1910. was reported as 20,625, 900, while
the number on farms which reported
the production of any kind of dairy
products in 1909 was 18, 746. 900, or 9O.9
number on farms which reported the
production of milk in 1909 was 49,
N69, 600, o 77.9 per cent of the total.
In considering these figures it should
be borne in mind that there is no
precise distinction between dairy COWS
and cows not kept for milk. In "a
good many cases en~unerators probably
reported as dairy cows animals which
in fact We're primarily kept for breed
ing purposes and which We're only
.1nilked for hor periods. if at all. dur
ing the preceding year.
The total production of milk reported
for 1909 vas 1914, 900. 900. gallons. The
true total probably exceeded this by
not less than 10 per cent There We're.
ON April Is, 1910. 1903 900 dairy cows
ON the farms reporting this milk. As
uming that there We're the same num-
her i'm 1909, the average production of
milk per COW would he 362 gallons.
The total value of dairy products
of farms i'm 1909. exclusive of milk and
cream consumed on the farm. Was
reported as 1896, 413, 900. This represents
the sum of the receipts from the sale
OF milk. cream and butter fat (amount-
ing in all to 1872, 400. OOO,) and the value
of all butter and cheese produced on
farms, whether sold or retained for
home nse amounting to $224, 01O. 5000
Value Of Dairy Products.
The total reported value of dairy
products sold in 1909 was $473. 100. 900.
of which the value of milk. cream
and butter fat. sold represented nearly
f"ur-tiftlls n that of butter most
of the remainder. The quantity of milk
sold as such was reported as L.
937. 600. 900 gallons, enthusiastically one
third of the total reported as produced.
but it should be borne i'm mind that
ITO creameries for butter making is
paiG for on the basis of the cream or
butter fat content. in which case the
quantity of such cream or butter fat
was usually reported on the census
schedule and not the quantity of milk.
The greater part of the milk reported
as sold was doubtless consumed as
such. chiefly in cities and villages. but
n considerable quantity represents
milk delivered to condensed milk and
cheese factories. and some small part
milk delivered to creameries for the.
production of butter and reported as
milk instead of on the basis of the
cream or butter fat contained.
The reported farm production of but :
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10

is still made on farms. there was an
increase in farm production between
1899 and 1909, the percentage Of in
crease for the three divisions then to-
gether being H., or the two divisions
In which the greater part OF cheese
Is made in factories. the Middle At
lantic division shows a marked de-
crease in production, while in the east
north central there was an increase of
50 per GER in the combined farm and
factory output.
Leading Dairy States.
In 1909 the leading dairy states. as
judged by the total value of the farm
production excluding milk and cream
g at home.) were New York. Wis
consfn, P~ennsylvania, Illinois. Iowa.
Ohio. Minnesota. Michigan and Cali
fOrnia. HI eac OF which the value re-
ported exceeded $50, 900. 900. In produce
ton of butter ION farms and in fac
tories combincd,) Wisconsin was the
leading state. followed by Iowa. Mime
sofa. Pennsylvania, Michigan. Ohio.
Illinois and New York. A large part
of the milk produced In New York is
sold for consumption in the cities. and
u large proportion is also used i'm max
ing cheese. New York ranked next
to Wisconsin in the production Of
cheese, and in no other state did the
cheese production equal one-seventh Of
NihC ItSStuStlOII ia AN0N IOIh. III GULL
bined production Of butter and cheese
Wisconsin led, with 279. 49,. 600 pounds.
followed by New York with ia, s44 900
pounds.
In total value of dairy products sold
by farmers in 1909, the east-nOrth cen
trail division ranked first. followed by
the Middle Atlantic and w~est-north
central. these three divisions together
reporting % per cen of the total for
the United States.
Average Value Of Butter.
The average value OF butter solo by
farmers i'm the United States as a
whole was PAP cents per pound in
1909. AS compared with 1871 cents in
1899. an increase of 44.9 per cent. In
1909 the average value was highest in
New England. 2s.9 cents. and lowest in
the east-south central division. 21.3
cents. The average value of cheese
sold increased from 81 cents per pound
in 1899 to 12.1 cents In 1909, or 33 per
cent. In the latter year the average
ranged from 1O.1 cents in the Middle
Atlantic M east-south central di-
visions to 15 cents in the mountain
division.
The following table gives statistics
of the production of dairy products on
the farms of the United States by
geographic divisions:
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10
In Search Of Adventure Young American
Physician Goes to Slay Deadly Fever Germ
BY ROBERT E. WILSON.

A ricn young man of the Pacific
coast. who entered government ScrN-
ice for adventure, is now getting ii.
Somewhere ON the broad Amazon.
that lordly waterway which gives a
channel for ocean vessels over 2.0G0
miles INTO the heart OF tropical South
America. the came on which DR..
George Marquis Converse is Il p:tssen-
ge" is winding today through =, SOM
Der jungle which rocks with the howls
of animals and darkles With the flight
OF brilliant birds and butterflies. At
the journeys end lies the great add
Nenttire-the adventure that may cost
the rich young man his life.
DIR. Converse is seeking big game
not the panthers. anacondas and other
beasts and reptiles swarming i'm the
Amazon forest, but bigger, deadlier
game. He goes to Stay the yellow
fever mosquito and it's cousin the ma
laria carrying gnat. the housefly that
cholera and typhoid. the rats. and
ground animals that communicate bu-
bonic plague to men. The American
state department has designated DR..
Converse to spend Peru's 1000. 900 APP
preparation for the sanitation of
lquitos, the new metropolis Of the up
per Amazon rubber district.
The young medical officers brother
surgeons in the public health service
here say that his chances for coming
out alive at the end of his two-year
mission are about even. Iquitos is
notorious as the deadiiest tropical pest
hole on earth.
His Life in Danger.
In the scourges OF disease that app
pear from time to time. tho $4,000
population die 300 in 1,OO0.l 1t is
the only own of any size left in
the world where yellow fever is en-
DEM, or always existent. A single
bite of a mosquito may he the death
injunction which is as quick and ia
tai as q murderer's poison.
Malaria, too, is most fragrant. so
that more than half the population
continually burns and shakes with it.
and there are many deaths. The mos
quito s;xarms rising from the swamp
are envenomed with malaria.
Plague and cholera shoulder there,
and at intervals break out and con-
sumo their scores OF victims. The
dreaded. contagious elephantiasis,
also exists.
Another Deadly Peril.
4 terrible sickness in Iquitos. known
I'm no other region on earth, is YER
rugas fever. or Cartons disease-fa-
talits in the name. for the Peruvian
surgeon Carbon lost his life studying
1t. From it's intense form no sufferer
has ever been known to recover; it's
milder form results in the skin erupt-
ting in unsightly warts, but is not al
ways fatal. The contagiOn is believed
tn come from the decaying soil Of the
Jungle.
such are the dragons DIR. Converse
goes to STAY. In his hand-to-hand fight
with death he will face peril greater
than confronts the big game hunter.
II he succeeds there will be no medals
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10
Historic Newspaper Yarn.

From the New York World.
Winters first blast last night caught
six wild tiucks near Winste0.
Conn. The ducks lit In q shallow lagoon
In Highland lake abOu usk. The mer-
curry dropped 46 degrees in the night, to
zero. and the water about the ducks frose.
Bill Bland had no difficulty getting All
six ducks without shot or shell.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10
Wipina Out History.
From the Baltimore New

Fifteen years g some $4,000 Greek
troops We're assembled on the Tlaes-
SALON frontier, ready to oppose a Turk
ish invasion. The Turks turned their
position night by the old. old trick
Of coming through the mountains by a
despiseG and weakly guarded footpath,
and morning found the Greeks in Inn
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10

% Excluding milk and cream used on farm producing.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10
From the Boston Her.iA

New York gOt a revenue OF SIG. s71
from hunting licenses this year. and
the Broadway mar hunters are not H.
censed at that.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10

assigned DR.. Converse to the badly in
fected. Chinatown district: and later
DR. Converse was placed second in
command to DR.. Blue himself. In this
work Dr.sCOnverse became aswOrld au-
thOr1ty on CITY rat proofing.
The Calumet news., 1913-12-24
OPPOSES SUNDAY
CLOSING OF P. 0.
First Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eraI Favors Opens Offices

Daniel G. Roper first assistant post
master general, is SAID 20 be- opposed
Ia the closing of postOhices ON Sunday.
In his annual report MIR. Roper says
that the act prohibiting Sunday serv-
ice In the postOffices has added largely
10 the cost of the postal service and
has materially lesscned its efficiency
lie suggests that il would be in the
interest Of both the service ANA tho
employees To amend the law so as 10
authorize Sunday work ana grant COM
pensatory time off la employees assign
ed to, Sunday duty
More than year ago several hun
dred thousand commercial travellers,
merchants and other business men
petitioned the postoiiicc department To
open the postofilces on Sunday for the
delivery of mail The movement was
started by the Commercial Travellers
organization and was taken mp by sew
.ral other societies. The congressman
were asked 10 use their influence Ia
have the postoffices opened FOR a short
time ON Sunday
l'nder The present plan only those
who have lock hoXes in the postotiires
can secure their SUNDAY mail In many
cities where postmasters, VIII" are not
inclined 10 be ohliging. observe the
rules 10 the letter
The opening of the postolll'es on
The Calumet news., 1913-12-24
';|LOdGe NeWSS :
Await Further Details.

Local members III the Modern
Woodmen are awaiting further ad-
vices from the head camp. relative to
the abandonment by that body of tile
proposed rate Increase Witch has
been under consideration for abou'
three years. and Whirh mas lead to
considerable discussion elsewhere
Ericf information concerning this ac.
tion was conveyed Ia the publ"
through telegraphic dispatches which
appeared In The press, hut II is "X-
pected the head camp will set forth
its position in an extended statement
Il short time later The action evi-
IDENTIFY was taken 10 promote harmony
among members OF the order and it Is
known that the initiative for any fur
thcr adjustment of the rates vii! have
10 be taken from the membership
ranks.
The Calumet news., 1913-12-24

SUNDAYS ana holidays would he great
ly welcomed. Many contend that a
Preat injustice is done hy keeping the
offices closed on holidays denying
subscribers of newspapers published on
that day the privilege of getting them
and other mail.
Mr.. Roper reports that the expert
mental delivery of mail in the villages
has been failure and he recommends
that the service be discontinued on
June ~. 1873. lie recommends that
the compensation of rural mail car
lere be changed from a mileage Ia an
eight hour hasis ana thai the carriers
he permitted Ia deliver mail regardless
of the distance from the postohice, or
the corporate limits Of the town, Ill"
also strongly urges thai many small
non -supportinr postolIlccs he discon.
timed and bc rc-cstablshcd as sta
tiors Of hearby large offices.
During TN" year ending June 30.
1913. I.52s presidential postmasters
were appointed, l,lSl having been
named subsequent Ia March when
the present administration assumed
control of tn. postal service. No person
has been appointed, the report said.
who has failed To satisfy the depart
ment as to his capacity for eilicien;
service and his purpose Ia render serV-
ice commensurate with the salary of
the Office"