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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-03-14

This Section VA visited with q nice
cost OF snow last night being tho first
snow of the season.
John Schuiy of Gay county was
visiting his brother VIM. Monday.
A. NJ. Woolsey and Jonu Bremen
made a business trip to Watertuwn
Saturday.
Bruse Lycan is one of our La Grippe
patients this week..
John Stedheim of Dexter Twp. was
doing business in our burg Monday.
e. r.. Cowing OF Blooming Valley
Twp. was calling on friends here
Saturday.
The dance given by Messrs. Elmer
Leve and Albert Redlin Friday night
was well attended aud a good time in
general. The music furnished was
good.
Anton Xix of South Shore was a
caller here the first OF the week.
Emil Heuer gave a party to his
many friends Tuesday night. A good
time in general is reported py all.
Hon. Geo. Stoddard and wife re-
turned from Pierre Sunday evening.
F. j. Xix was ut Summit Saturday.
Lewis Jacobs and family spent Sun.
day At J.. G.. Maxwells.
Earl Johnson is home from Omaha
Neb.
The checker players met at D. S.
MOrcahan's Saturday right. Henry
Hagen and F. Il. II .athcote being the
winners. The rext meeting will De 1T
Henry Hagens Wednesday night.
Lee Grinols and wife came out from
WatertOwn Sunday to spend "a few
days with old friends.
Our school board are doing a little
needed YORK At the Center school
house, putting ia a new floor and a
uOby front porch. Messrs. f. M.
Heuer and w. e. Schulz having the
contract for the work.
The Twp. election was a very quiet
affair and the following officers elected.
Supt.-3 years F. L. H-athcote.
Clerk-F. j. Xix.
Treasure E. M. Heuer.
AssessOr-A. NJ. Woolsey.
JUSTICE. C.. Maxwell.
COnstable-Andrew Markve.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-03-14
Elrnlra

Preaching at the Blacks school,
house next Sunday
Mr. Donaldson and wife visited a,
the home OF John Hopkins over Supday
Mr. Garvey and son went to Madison
MINI, q day this week They drove
to RevillO aud took the train from
there
The Miss ion Club will meet with
Mrs Kidman Thursday y m March 20
Elsie Kinball had to close school a
few days this week as she a not
we'll enough to teach she is having
the grippe rather hard
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-03-14
Strandburg

swan Anderson and p G. siovail
vent TO LangfOrd to make some kind
OF q property deal Monday
1t appears J Abrahamson is a pref
" SICK man Since he came back from
the hospital III st Paul, he had to 90
10 Madison, MINI, to see DR. Gam
mel.
Leo Holster and family are back
from their visit in Marietta and Re-
villO
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-03-14

Mr. Thos McKernen and wife we're
visiting Ia our neighborhood . few
days lately
Mt stevens is at home again from
bis visit in Iowa
Mrs Twartes has gone to Iowa on a
visit to her old home and parents
Arthur Williams e saturday
and sunday At OrtOnville visiting his
sister
Th.s Christensen and family have
returned home after spending most of
the winter at the Hot Spring.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-03-14
NOTICE OF REGISTRATION

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Regis
tratlon OF the CITY Of Milbauh. South Dakota,
Will be in session ut the Office of the City Audi.
tor at the city hall, Tuesday, April 1st, 1913. from
? o clock IN the morning unit! 3 O'Clock in the
evening, ALEC on Tuesday, April 8, 1913, from 5
O'Clock IN the morning until I O'Clock in even
ing. for the purpose of registering the
names OF the voters for the annuni city election
to be held Tuesday, April Is, 1913. All persons
desiring to vote 1T SAID election will observe
this notice aud see that their names are duIy
rrgiatered to avoid trouble and delay at the
polls.
Dated at Milbank, S. d., this 10th day of
March. 1913.
NJ. &. NILES, City Auditor.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-03-14
Notice to Creditors
State OF South DHkOtal

otdle o. SOnth UNk Ota1
lss In Coun ty Court
County OF Grant
In the Matter of the Estate of Samuel Milton
Boyer Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigne ed
Administratrix of the estate of Samuel Milton
Boyer, deceased to the creditors of, and all per.
sons having claims sgainst the said deceased, to
exhibit them, with the necessary vouchers,
within Elk months after the drst publication OF
tnis notice. to the said administYatrix Clarissa
Boyer, At the office OF Th&d l.. Fuller IN the City
kota.
Dated q 4ilbank.S s. D February Ssh. 1918.
CLAKlssA BoYR9
Adminietrasgix of the estate
oeSAmuel Milton Boyer deceased
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-03-14
Lease Of School and Endowment Lands

Notice is hereby given that on March 81. 1913,
all OF the nnleaeed common school and endoW-
Inent lands in Grant Comfy will be offered for
lease at public auction between the hours OF IA
o ciock u. M. and s o'clock p. m, at the court
house in said county.
Dated at Pierre, January 19. 1913.
NJ. BklNkER,
Commissioner OF School aud Public Lands.
Jan 1s.y- Mar. 81
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-16
SAME OLD RIVER METHODS

| From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
| Speaking of proposition to operate a
line of self propelled barges on the Mis-
sissippi river, the New Orleans Plea
yune remarks that there is no reason why
water transportation should not revive
'under a proper adjustment of facilities
to meet the new conditions
The Picayune points out that ION the
| great lakes, on the Hudson river and in
every European country where water
| water transportation facilities are avail
able water borne commerce is on the in
crease and competes successfully with
rail transportation
Commerce on the Mississippi river has
shrunk until it is a mere shadow of what
it used to be. Traffic on the Ohio river is
largely local. For large part of the
year navigable conditions are not good on
either river, but aside from this there has
been a decline in the through traffic which
once made for activity all along these two
great waterways from Pittsburg to New
Orleans. Railroad construction and COM
petition are largely responsible for the
slump in the steamboat business, but the
commerce of the country is growing and
the rivers are not carrying their proper
share of it.
! 1t may be, as the Picayune suggests,
that there is too close adherence Ito old
| traditions and to obsolete types of ves-
| sells" In truth the types of steamboat
that are now most generally seen along
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers do not diff
fer materially from those of 40 years ago.
In most cases. too, the methods of hand
| ling freight have not changed. There is
no line of enterprise in the world, per-
ltaps, in which there has been less prog
ress than in steamboating on these great
rivers.
| The improvements that are in progress
on the Ohio river give promise in future
| OF all-the-year-round navigation. The an
ticipated early opening of the Panama
canal will, or should be, stimulus to
river traffic. These new conditions" cam
not be properly met without some radical
Improvement in steamboats, and steam
| boating methods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-16
The 1911 Skirt

The Chicago Garment Manufacture
ers' association is in session, and the
styles for 1914 are being decided on
The association claims that the fash
ions it fixes are authoritative. Thus a
preliminary prospectus of its inten-
tions becomes of great interest.
Hamlet without Hamlet" or "you
can have your cake and eat it," will
be the motif" of madam's garb next
fall, it is prophesied. There will be
Sits without any opening, shadow
skirts without any view. 1t will be a
season of compromises.
But no one is sounding any retreat,
1t is declared. Skirts will be just as
thin and just as slit as they are this
year, but with difference. A .propa-
ganda for the eoneealment of hosiery
is to be promulgated. A gown with
rows of ruffles and flounces running
oiOuliu VIC UObCOHi Has DSSH devised.
The skirt is slit and of transparent
texture, but the thick circles of flounc-
ing make for impenetrability of vision.
And then there Is to be the tango.
This, according to advance descrip-
tions, is to be built along the architec-
tural lines of the coat shirt. That is, it
buttons around instead of going on
over the head. 1t mas the added ad-
vantage of an elastic slit, sliding
scale Of frankness. The wearer can
leave as many of the lower buttons
unbuttoned as her sense of modesty
will permit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-16
Large Crons in AInhnma

The summer is nearly gone and we will
soon know the size of Alabama's crops. .
said prominent citizen. In most parts
of the state the seasons have been fine
for cotton and other crops.
There is every promise of Alabama 5
cotton crop being next to the largest, il
not the largest, ever produced. We will
probably have 60,00O,O 600 bushel corn crop
and | would not be surprised to see It go
even above that Up to two years ago
the state was doing fairly well, it was
thought, to produce 4O,O00,0 900 bushels, but
in 1911 we had a 6O,00O000 bushel crop and
last year about a 55.000,0OO bushel crop.
About the same acreage was planted this
year as last, and as the farmers are learn
ing to make more of everything to the
acre, my guess is that there will be about
a 65,000,000 bushel yield.
"As the drouth has injured the corn
crop In Kansas and other western corn
states, the price will be high and Ala
bama viii profit accordingly Within the
next two or three years this state should
get up to 10O,0OO,0O0 bushels a year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-16
Music In the Park

The splendid Wagner programme rem
dered by Memolis band in Capitol park
Thursday night gave pleasure to the vast
crowd assembled on that occasion, hut
several of the numbers would have been
even more enjoyed than they were had
the police kept better order around the
bandstand." said a well known music
lover.
Il saw policeman present, but he did
not seem to appreciate the Importance of
preventing, children from running and
romping around the band stand while the
music was being played. When the chill
dren are skipping and hopping and dane
ing the grown-ups who have come to en-
JOY the music are naturally annoyed and
therefore much of the enjoyment is lost.
Another thing the police should prevent
is the popcorn and coca-cola vender cry
ing his goods while the band is playing.
He could pass through the crowd quietly
with his wares without disturbing any
one and when the band is not playing he
might shout out as much as he pleased,
but for him to yell during the performance
OF the music is simply intolerable 1 hope
Chief Bodeker will give these matters at
tention. The band will play only a week
or two longer and it is hoped proper de-
corum will be enforced throughout the
rest of the summer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-16

was sold to a London dealer for an
American purchaser. The dealer has
now been warned not to part with the
precious papers for the present.
The action in the courts, it is given
out, will be based upon the contention
that the manuscripts, which were
presented to the Athenaeum over a
century ago by DR.. Currie, had only
been loaned to him, and that they now
belong to the nearest heir of the poet.
who is Miss Annse Burns.
Even should DR.. Currie's ownership
be established, it is said, it will be
set up that the Athenaeum, which re-
eeived them from his widow as an
unconditional gift, virtually coven-
anted to keep th,m perpetually and
had no authority to dispose of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Active Fall Trade

Manufacturers and jobbers are look
ing forward with lively interest to the
fall trade. said L. T. Huffman of Phila-
delphia. Business conditions are brighter
now than they have been for a year
past
In the spring and early summer there
vas good deal of pesslmistie feeling in
the east Now every body is an optimist
The large crops have. of course, been the
basis of optimism in the business world
but the better conditions in Europe have
also contributed largely to the bright out
look in this country. 1t is generally be-
lieved that prosperity in every part of
the United States will be in evidence from
now until the holidays.
''I have visited the south every few
years since 1898. This whole section has
progressed in a marked degree. Every
town and city in the south has grown
and as for the large cities, such as Rich
mend, Norfolk Charlotte. Atlanta, Jack
senville. Savannah. Memphis, Nashville
Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile and the
cities of Texas they are making wonder
fnl strides. Atlanta and Birmingham are
probably the most progressive and the
most rapidly growing cities.
New Orleans, of course, will hold It's
own. but it has been depressed in the
last three years from one cause or an
other. The opening of the Panama canal
will certainly help New orleans and Mo-
bile and it should also help Birmingham
and all other southern cities"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-16
The Burns Manuscrinfs

Europe resents the raiding of it's
libraries and art galleries by Ameri-
can millionaires, and concerted
movement has been begun to keep
the rare treasures of literature,
painting and sculpture on the other
side of the Atlantic. j. Picipont Nor
gan spent many millions in the pur-
chase of art, and masterpieces of the
worlds masters are now on view for
the citizens of this new nation. Hoe
spent life time in collecting famous
books and manuscripts, and the Hoe
library, before its distribution through
sale, was one of the worlds greatest.
The older countries were gradually
being denuded of their most precious
possessions. The rich men of Europe
could not compete with Americans in
financial battle for these cherished
possessions. Pride could not measure
SWORDS with purse.
Recently, howevei,, the courts have
been called upon to prevent the ar
tistic and literary enrichment Of
America at the expense of England
The Liverpool Athenaeum sought t.
dispose of the Glenriddel collection o.
manuscripts Of the poet Burns, and i
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-16
These are the nights for star gazing.
FICTION AMONG THE HILLS


From the South Atlantic Quarterly.
The typical home of the mountain,
whites the rougn and ill-kept cabin,
which appears so often in current Htera-
ture. Is preposterous. Such may be a typi-
cal cabin, although the unrepresentatlYe,
the worst cabin of all, Is usually shown:
but cabins constitute only a small percen-
tage of the homes. Beautiful dwellings,
worth from $1,000 to $4,000, are in almost ev-
cry community, while residences costing
from 5000 to $4,000 and even Sso00O are
not at all uncommon. How absurdly false,
then, is the statement that There is being
a general uplifht through the establish
ment of model homes of missionaries
through this region by many of the home
boards Of northern churches"
The colonial household articles, which
are said to be in every we'll stocked noun
tain home, can scarcely be found at all.
| Those who are fortunate enough to pos
sess them, value them, not as articles of
common use, but as heirlooms The class
ic spinning wheel, the reel, the bake oven
and the candle molds, which are so IA
miliar in literature, have except in rare
|
the mountain children know of their Use
only through stories told them by their
parents and grandparents. 1t is true that
there are scattered here and there indi-
viduals who own and operate the hand
loom to supply with home woven car
pets many who prefer this kind to any
other. though more costly modern COW
erings are in general use In my day I
have never known of the hand loom be-
ing used for any other purpose.
Improved farm machinery-mowers
rakes grain drills and reapers-are in
common use everywhere. OF course,
many of the leading farmers have noun
tain lands where these machines cannot
be operated, yet. for the most part such
land serves for grazing purposes the val
Hey land only being cultivated. In some
sections. where mining and numbering are
1 the chief industries can be seen little
patches of corn and garden truck which
are cultivated with small though not
primitive, tools. Such cultivation repre-
sents the avocational rather than the yo-
cational farmer The same thing Is true
of the border land of good farming COM
munites where dwells the laborer on his
little plot of ground which he takes pride
in cultivating. Yet in the MAN, he OBJ
tains his living from the nearby farmer
for whom he works.
The poor of the Virginia mountains have
opportunities as good as, perhaps better
than, the poor of the cities. Poverty,
squalor and degradation, such as one can
see in the slums of any large city, is very
uncommon among the mountain people ut
Virginia. There the poor are not segre-
gated. All classes attend the same
churches and the same schools. The
farmer sits at the table with his laborers,
and all partake of the same kind of food
The land owner and the tenant visit and
mlngle with each other on terms 1p-
preaching equality. Under these condi-
tions, poverty is not SO Calling nor such
a barrier to those aspiring to better their
fortunes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-16
BY deed-achieying honour newly
nam'd. -Corioianus.
The Government Derelict

At a convention of the international
Brotherhood of Stationary Engineers,
held in Pittsburg, President Healy
told the delegates that the poorest
paid powerhouse employees in the
country are in the government build
ings, and that they have not received
a wage increase in 20 years. Mr.
Healy told of many visits to Wash
ington, made in hopes of remedying
the situation, but nothing has been ac-
complished. Everybody is in favor of
raising the pay of these faithful en-
ployes, but they go on year after year
drawing the same stipend.
Viewed in one light, the wages Of
ths engineers working for the gov
ernment have been gradually dimin-
ished. The purchasing power Of the
sums they draw constantly becomes
less and less. In 20 years the cost Of
living has been increased to an enor,
nous extent. Therefore, measured il
the actual value of their wages tC
themselves and their families, govern.
ment powerhouse men, instead o1
prospering with the country, have
been victims of that prosperity.
A whole lot of red tape must be
unraveled before these employees car
be given an increase in wages. No
titled to it. Our cumbersome, inef
ficient methods are at fault. Hop
still has the habit of springiny
eternal. There may come a chang,
some day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-16
The Tariff Vote

Senator Works, Washington dis
patches say, has left the national cap
ital for his home in California to be
gone until December. He will not be
on hand when the final vote is taken
on the Underwood Simmons bill, and
he is not paired with democrat.
This fact gives greater assurance
of the passage Of the tariff measure
in its present form. The cath of Sen
ator Johnston and the illness of Sena-
tor Culberson had caused apprehen-
sion among the democratic leaders in
the Senate. 1t now appears that the
bill is safe, even should Alabama and
Texas be represented by only one SEN
ator each at the crucial test.
The hegira of Senator Works and
his failure to arrange for a pair is
indicative that the progressive repub-
licans are not irreconcilably opposed
to the Underwood Simmons bill. 1t
will be remembered that when the
Payne-Aldrich bill was pending some
of the most virile attacks upon it
we're made by republicans, notably
LaFollette and the able Dolliver. In
the final analysis, vote against the
Underwood Simmons measure is a
vote for a continuation of the Payne
Aldrich schedules.
All along it has been SUSPECTED that
the democrats could command the
vote of Poindexter of Washington,
should it be needed. Crawford, Gron-
ma, Norris, LaFollette and others also
may be brought to realize that the bill
row under consideration is superior to
that on the statute books. 1t had been
the hope of President Wilson and 9TH
er leaders, however, to pass the bill
without having to depend upon sup
port from outside the party. This
could be easily accomplished were il
not for the recalcitrancy of the two
senators from Louisiana.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-16
AT A cHILD's GRAVE

BY Robert H. Ingersoll.
My Friends: [ know how vain 1t is to
gid grief with words, and yet | wish TO
take from every grave its fear. Here Is
this world, where life and death are equal
kinds, all should be brave enough to meet
what all the dead have met. The future
has been filed with fear, stained and pol
luted by the heartless past. From the
wondrous tree of life the buds and BIOS
SONS fall with ripened fruit, and IN the
common bed of earth patriarchs and oaoes
sleep side by side.
WHY should we fear that which VIII
come to all that is? We cannot tell we
dc not know, which is the greater blessing
life or death We cannot say that death
IS not a good. We do not know whether
the grave is the end of this life or the
door of another or whether the night
hero is not somewhere else a dawn.
Neither can we tell which is the more for
tunate-the child dying in its mother
arms, before its lips have learned to form
a word. or he who Journeys all the length
of lifes uneven road, painfully taking the
last slow steps with staff and cruteh.
Every cradle asks us ''Whence? and
every coffin 'whither?' The poor bar
barian, weeping above his dead, can an
swer these questions just as well as the
robed priest of the most authentic creed
The fearful ignorance of the one Is as con-
soling as the learned and unmeanlhS
words of the other No man, stanoihs
where the horizon of life has touched
grave, has any right to prophesy fu-
ture filled with pain and tears.
Maybe that death gives all there is OF
worth to life. If those we press and strain
within our arms could never die, perhaps
that love would wither from the earth.
Maybe this common fate treads from out
the paths between our hearts the weeds
of selfishness and hate. And | had rather
live and love where death is king than
have eternal life where love is not. An
other life is nought unless we know ano
love again the ones who love us here.
They who stand with breaking hearts
around this little grave need have no rear
The larger and the nobler faith in all that
Is and is to be tells us that death, even at
its worst is only perfect rest. We know
that through the common wants of life
the needs and duties of each hour-theli
grief will lessen day by day, until at las'
this grave will be to them place of resi-
and peace-almost a joy There is fol
them this consolation-the dead do not
suffer. If they live again, their lives VII
surely be as good as ours. We have ne
fear. We are all children of the same
mother, and the same fate awaits us all
We, too, have our religion, and 1t is TINS
LII, FOR the uvIng-Hone for the dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-16
The Iron Market

Matthew Addy & Co.'S Cincinnati re-
port, just issued, says in part
There is very general feeling that
the storm is over and that from now on
there will be fairer weather in the iron
trade. Prices are firmer and higher The
vey low prices in Birmingham have dis
appeared. AS good a sign of the times as
any is to be found in the fact that already
there is an inquiry for 1914 delivery ana
some orders for this forward shipment
have been booked.
Business this week has been of fair
volume and well scattered. There have
been no transactions of the first magni-
tude, but a great many small ORDERS and
full asking prices have been obtained
I'm the south there is noticeable de-
cline in production. An unusual number
or furnaces there are out of blast from
one cause or another, but none of them
are in a hurry to resume operations, as
the present market Is not attractive. In
the north the high price of coke is going
to put out some furnaces and keep out
others which might otherwise go in. Tn
doubtedly there is an improvement in de-
mand. Liberal buying of late has allowed
the furnaces to ship freely and in conse-
quence there is better feeling, but much
lost ground must be regained before
every one is happy"