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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
The Busy Beaver.

Enos A. Mills. the author of "In
Beaver World" sums up the beavers
character thus:
As animal life goes, that of the
beaver stands among the best. His life
is full OF industry and is rich In repose.
He is home loving and avoids fighting.
His lot is cast In poetic places. . . =
He is practical, peaceful and industri-
Gus He builds a permanent house and
keeps 1t clean and in repair. Beside 1t
he stores food for the long winter. He
takes thought for the morrow. These
and other commendable characteristics
give him a place of honor among the
hordes Of homeless, hand to mouth
folk of the wild. During the winter
he has but little TO do except battle
and eat his two or three meals a day
f"om the food he has stored In au-
tumn. Toward spring. when his wild
neighbors are lean, hungry and cold,
he Is fat and comfortable. In the
spring he energies from the house,
but then his only work is occasion
ally to cut a twig for food. In the
summer he plays tourist. He visits 9TH
err colonies and wanders up and down
streams, going miles from home. In
the late summer or early autumn he
returns, makes repairs and haryests his
food for the winter.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23

Nearly everybody is obliged more CT
less to take - laxative. There are of
course a few exceptions. 4 great many
people also need occasionally to take a
tonic. Probably few households exist
that do not make use of tonics and
laXatives.
The remedy Peruna is a laxative
tonic. 1t not only operates as q gentle
laxative, but also as a tonic.
The benefit derived from such a
remedy is a great deal more in the
prevention Of disease than in the cure.
After a person has really become sick,
either with an acute or chronic all
ment, the rule should be to employ q
physician, or some one who can give
the case his personal attention. But
long before this happens the person
will complain of this or that symptom,
which is not severe enough to interfere
with his regular activities. If at this
place before the disease has really
gained a foothold In the system, q per-
son was to take a dose or two of a
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
LOSS ESTIMATED
AT ONE MILLION
New York City and Vicinity Swept
by Severe Storm.

New York, June 23.-Around $1,000
900 was the estimated damage when
New York and New Jersey took stock
of the terrific storm Of lightning, rain
and hail which swept this vicinity.
The storm broke just as workers
were on their way home. Thousands
vert tied up on the street.
There was q deluge of hail stones as
big as marbles. which dashed against
the windows in almost cyclonic pro-
portions. Scores of windows were
broken and apartments drenched along
exclusive Riverside drive. The liner
France, which was just entering the
bay, was struck and the foremost
ripped off. Eight men working on the
deck nearby were knocked uncon.
scious.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
sheridan's Double Marriage.

1t was in 1857 that the Gretna Green
marriages were made illegal. A glance
at its registers may yet Inspire the
novelist Of the future. One entry will
be sure to puzzle. Twice within q few
days occurs the record of the marriage
OF Richard Brinsley Sheridan to Miss
Grant. There was only one II. B. S.,
only n bride for the same gentleman.
The double entries are not the result of
any blunder on the part of the Rev.
Mr.. Vulcan. The parties were really
twice married at Gretna Green. Arriv-
ing on a Sunday they were duly we'd
.ded and sped away to Edinburgh.
There, however, Sheridan CHANGED to
glance at a newspaper in which ap
peared the lucubrations of a lawyer.
In these plainly stated was the fact
that no contract executed on a Sunday
Is binding. Clearly, then, their we'd
ding was not legal. Back to Gretna
Green they scurried, to be remarked
on a week day and leave the dual rec
ord to perplex later generatlons.-S
James Gazette.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
4 TONIC LAXATIVE
P~e-ru-na, an Up-to-Date Family Medicine That
Should Be In Every Home

good tonic laxative the great majority
of cases of sickness would be pre-
vented.
Peruna is a remedy that should be
kept in the house. Its virtue as a
preventive to disease is the thing /
wish chiefly to emphasize.
A slight condition Of constipation
may lead to serious sluggishness of
the bowels, biliousness, r~e-absorption
of poisonous material and finally
sickness. Or apathy Of the stomach
in which the food is not relished, may
gradually lead to atomic dyspepsia or
to the acquisition of some acute dis
ease. For either one of these condi-
tons q few doses Of the tonic laxative
Peruna would set matters right. This
is why the remedy should always be
kept handy by.
When once the value of Peruna as a
household remedy is understood mo
home would be without 1t. Cathartics,
pills and powders would be discarded.
Irritating tOnics would be no longer
taken. Alcoholic drinks would have no
place. With a few doses of Peruna a
vigorous appetite is produced and If
there be any sluggishness of the
bowels their function is gradually re-
stored.
Most laxatives are weakening in
their effect. A tonic laxative guards
against this weakening effect. Until
right living has become so thoroughly
established that all medicines are SUI
perfluous, Peruna will be needed. 1t is
exactly the remedy hat meets numer-
Gus necessities OF the household. Sold
at all drug stores.
Mr.. John b. Perkins, % Whiting St,
Plymouth, Mass, writes: 81 think Pc
runa is a number one medicine. l was
troubled with catarrh and bowel COM
plant. 1 tried several doctors, but
could only find temporary relief. I
took Peruna and am glad TO say that
it cured my catarrh and corrected my
bowels" PERUNA IS FOR SALE AT
ALL DRUG STORES.
SPECIAL NOTTCE-Many persons
are making inquiries for the old
time Peruna. To such would say,
this formula is now put out under the
name of KA-TAR-NO, manufactured
by KA-TAR-NO Company, Columbus,
Ohio. Write them and they will be
pleased TO send you a free booklet.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
IT'S 4 MISTAKE
Made b y Many M a d j s o n
Residents

Many people in a misguided effort e
get rid of kidney bacKache rely on
plasters. liniments and othel make
shifts. The right treatment is kidney
treatment and q remarkably recon-,
mended kidney medicine is Doan'
Kidney Pills. Madison is no excep-
ton.
The proof is at your very door. The
following is an experience typical OF
the work of Doan's Kidney Fills in
Madison.
Mrs. ". Morgan, 800 West Fifth st.
Madison, S. D., ssys: "About six
months ago / noticed that every time
made a sudden movement or tried TO
bend. / got a catch right across the
small of my back just as if something
had snapped Then a severe pain
would set in which kept me in misery
and robbed me of all ambition. ] was
unfit for any work. / began to get I'M
easy about my kidneys as nothing
took seemed did me the least good. |
finally began using Doan's Kidney
Pills. / had good results from the first
and after finishing two boxes, i was
'ured."
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
cents. Foster MilbuIn Co, Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
WILSON MESSAGE
ON The CURRENCY
President Urges Congress TO
Pass New Law.
ASKS FOR ACTION AT ONCE

Chief Executive Appears In Person
Before Congress to Tell the Need Of
Immediate Changes In the Banking
Laws--He Declares That the Revi-
sion Of the Tariff Will Not Be Com
pIete Without Further Legislation
Which viii Enable Business Men to
Take Advantage of the Changed
Conditions.
Address OF the president of the Unit
cd States, delivered Mt a joint session
of the two houses OF congress June %,
1918:
Mr.. Speaker, Mr.. President, Gentle
men Of the Congress-It is under the
compulsion of what seems TO me a
clear and imperative duty that / have
a second time this session sought the
privilege of addressing you In person.
/ know, Of course, that the heated sea-
son Of the year is upon us, that work
I'm these chambers and I'm the commit.
tee rooms is likely to become a burden
as the season lengthens and that every
consideration Of personal convenience
and personal comfort. perhaps, In the
cases of some Of us, considerations of
personal health even, dictate an early
conclusion of the deliberations of the
session. But there are occasions OF
public duty when these things which
touch us privately seem very small,
when the work to be done is so press
ing and so fraught with big conse-
quence that we know that we are not
at liberty 10 weigh against it any point
OF personal sacrifice. We are now in
the presence of such an occasion. 1t
is absolutely imperative that we should
give the business men of this country
q banking and currency system by
means OF which they can make use Of
the freedom Of enterprise and of indi
vidual initiative which we are about
90 bestow upon them.
Must Leave Tools of Action.
We are about to set them free. We
must not leave them without the tools
Of action when they are free. We arc
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23

A substitute in medicine is never
for the benefit of the buyer. Never be
p%ursuaded to buy anything but Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound for coughs
and colds, for children or for grown
persons. 1t is prompt and effective.
1t comes in a yellow package, with
beehive on carton. Ii contains no
opiates. Take no substitute for
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound.
For sale by all druggists. ADV.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
MINNEAPOLIS Grain.

Minneapolis, June 21.-Wheat-July,
90$c; Sept, $3.50. Cash close on
track: No, l hard, 92&c; No. l North
ern, 91A 092Ac; to arrive, 91A a
91&c; No. 2 Northern, 90A @90%c;
No. 3 Northern, STU @SSAc: No. 3
yellow corn, 53h @55hc; No. 4 corr,
52@54c; No. 3 white oats, 39@39hc;
to arrive, 3sc; No. 3 oats, 36@37hc;
barley, 46@5Sc; flax, $1.30h; to ar
rive, $1.30h.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
WOMEN BURN LABORATORY
Militant ~Suffragettes Destroy a ~"
Building With Great Loss.

st. Andrews, Scotland, June 3D.
Snffragettes carried out perhaps the
costliest act in their campaign Of
militancy when they burned the mt
rine laboratory of the university
rine laboratory of the university
ments lost.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23

Chicago, June observation-disclosures,
$7.25@S.30; Western steers, $1,000
$40; stockers, and feeders, $4,000
sos; cows and heifers. $3.S09S.40;
calves, s6.75@9.50. Hogs-Light, S.
50Q8.s5; mixed, $S.45@S.S5; heavy.
sS.25@S.75; rough. $S.25@S.45: pigs.
$6.75@S.50. Aheep-Native, s4.659
5.55; yearlings, $5.40Q6.40; lambs
s5.10m6.75.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
CHICAGO Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, June 21.-Wheat-July.
90%c; Sept, 90%c. Corn-July,
60Bc; Sept, 61%c. oats-July, 41kc;
Sept, 42c. Pork-July, $20.S0; Sept,
S20.45. Butter-Creameries, 27@27hc.
Eggs-17c. Poultry-Hens, 141Ac;
springs, Csc; turkeys, lie.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
PRESIDENT WILSON PRESENT
Cabinet Members and Wives Also See
McAdoo's Son Married.

Baltimore, June 23.-President Will
son motored to this city from Wash
ington to be present at the wedding OF
Francis McAdoo, second son of Secre-
tary McAdoo, and Miss Ethel Preston
Mccormick, st~epdaughter Of Captain
Isaac L. Mccain of Baltimore. In ad-
dition to the president the members
of the cabinet, their wives and many
local society leaders were present.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
A Worker Appreciates This

Vim. Morris, a resident of Florence,
Oregon, says: "FUr the last fourteen
years my kidneys aud bladder incspaci-
tated me for all work. About eight
months ago / began using Foley Kidney
Pills, and they have done what other
medicines failed to do, and now / am
feeling fine. l recommend Foley Kid
ney Pills" For sale by all druggists.
ADV
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
Guaranteed E zema Remedy

The constant iching, burning, red
ness, rash and disagreeable effects OF
eczema, letter, salt rheum, itch, piles
and Irritating skin eruption can he
readily cured and the skin made clear
and smooth with DIR. Hobson's Eczema
Ointment. Mr.. j. c. Eveland, of
Bath, H., says: II had eczema
twenty-five years and has tried every
thing. All failed. When | found
DR.. Hobson's Eczema Ointment |
found u cure" This ointment is the
formula of a physician and has been in
use for yeaIs-not an experiment.
That is why we ear guarantee it. All
druggists, or by mail. Price soc.
Pfeiffer Chemical Co., Philadelphia
and st. Louis. ADV.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
South ST Paul Live Stock.

South st. Paul, June 21.-Cattle-
Steers, $6.506S.25; cows and heifers.
S4.50Q7.50; calves, $6.O0@9.25; feed
ers, S4.S0@7.50. Hogs-$S.20@S.60.
Sheep-Shorn lambs, $4.5097.00;
shorn wethers, s4.7595.00; shorn
ewes, $2.00@4.50.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, June 21.-Wheat-On track
and to arrive, No. l hard, 931ac; No. 1
Northern, 92hc; No. 2 Northern, 80
@90hc; July, 911ae; Sept, CSC. Flax
On track and to arrive, $1.32H
July, $1.S1h; Sept, S1.34h; Oct,
S1.33%.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
Best Laxative for the Aged

Old men and women feel the need of
a laxative more than young folks, but
it must be safe and harmless and n
which will not cause pain. DR.. Kings
New Life Pills are especially good for
the aged, for they act promptly and
easily. Price 25c. Recon mended by
all druggists ADV.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-06-23

about to set them free by removing
the trammels OF the protective tariff.
Ever since the civil war they have
waited for this emancipation and for
the free opportunities ii will bring
with It. 1t has been reserved for us
to give II to them. Some fell In love,
indeed, with the slothful security of
their dependence upon the govern
ment; some took advantage OF the shell
ter OF the nursery to set up a mimic
mastery OF their own within its walls.
Now both the tonic and discipline of
liberty and maturity are TO ensue.
There will be some readjustments OF
purpose and point OF view. There will
follow a period OF expansion and new
enterprise, freshly conceived. 1t is for
as to determine now whether it shall
be rapid and facile and Of easy accom-
plishment. This 1t cannot be unless
the ~resourcefuI business men who are
to deal with the new circumstances
are to have ut hand and ready for use
The instrumentalities and conyeniences
Of free enterprise which independent
men need when acting on their own
initiative.
Constructive Statesman hip.
1t is not enough to strike the shack
les from business. The duty of states
manship is not negative merely. 1t Is
constructive also. We must show that
we understand what business needs
and that we know now to supply 1t.
No man, however casual and super
fetal his observation OF the conditions
now prevailing In the country, can fail
to see that one OF the chief things
business needs now and will need In
creasingly as 1t gains in scope and
vigor in the years Immediately ahead
of us is the proper means by which
readily to ~vitalize its credit, corporate
and individual, and its originatiye
brains.
What will it profit us to be free If
we are not to have the best and most
accessible instrumentalities of COM
merce and enterprise? What will 1t
profit us to be quit OF one kind of
monopoly IL we are to remain in the
grip OF another and more effective
kind? How are we to gain and keep
the confidence of the business com
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-01-03
ENDED THE COMEDY.
A Teleeraphio Dialogue That Closed
With the "Wires" Down.

Two telegraph operators were seated
In a downtown cafe recently when an
athletic young man and an exceeding
" pretty girl entered. They were plac-
ed at a table opposite the "key' men,
who were sitting side by side In a
position facing the girl As Is the
custom Of the craft when wishing 10
discuss some one In public place,
they tclegraphed to each other, using
their knives on the plate.
"Peacherino, isn't sheT one ticked
To the other.
"A tree full" came back the tapping
reply. "Wonder who the sack is with
herr
Search me-looks like a boob tied
up with wren like her"
BET they aren't married. II they
are, all she needs TO do to get divorce
is to exhibit that map OF his in court" "
While the two men werc'>enjoyinG
a laugh over their silent joking they
we're surprised and somewhat alarmed
10 hear some more table knife teleg-
raphy." The "peacherino" was doing
II. and she did not look at'all pleased,
either.
"You two had better look out while
you are all together" carelessly licked
ner knife blade while she listened tC
something her companion was saying
This sack and boob, as You called
him, with the divorce map, is my hus
band-safe mover by trade. He eats
fresh little boys
Something happened TO the wires
about that time. and all commnnica
ton ceased. Kansas City Journal.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-01-03
Star Distance.

Miles are useless in measuring as
Economical distances. Thcy have t.
use the rate of light-lSl.OOO miles q
second-in covering the mighty spaces
with which they are forced to deal.
Even then we cannot half understand.
let us say. the immense distance ol
Gamma, i'm the constellation Virgo,
Many, many years must light traYel
in order TO reach our little world from
these two suns They might even have
been extinguished hundreds of years
ago, and yet we should still 'see
them. so vast are their distances. In
the year 1877 new star suddenly
shone forth i'm the Swan" but many
did not know that the star really came
into existence hundreds Of years be-
fore. but its light did not reach the
earth until 1t was seen by the observer
In 1S77.-New York American.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-01-03
ENasperatinq.

A suffering salesman called ON a
New York buyer with an excellent
proposition. In well turned sentences
he proceeded TO lay before the buyer
his superb argument. But alas, III
every we'll turned sentence there were
.'bs" and "rns." and over these the
salesman suffered pitiably
The buyer before whom he was
plending was a caustic, nasty sort oi
chap. and after five minutes Of stutter.
ing at a point where the salesman wa
aoundering most dreadfully, the buyer
held up his hand aud said:
"rm afraid / can't understand you
Call again when you're sober
The salesman turned scarlet will
modification and rage.
"B-blb-but"-
"No." said the buyer, waving hin
resolutely toward the door, mot now
when you're sober"
And the infurfated salesman depart
Washington star.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-01-03
FURY OF A SPIDER.
An Insect Tragedy as Seen Through a
Magnifying Glass.

One day, rumaging In an old desk, !
found magnlfying glass. 1t was
September. and in n sunny, weed rid
den corner OF the garden | had dis
covered big black and gold spider
who had strung her web between two
tall burdocks and was doing thriving
business In grasshoppers.
Seated on the ground, ! now sur
veyed her through the glass for an
hour as she hung In the middle Of her
engine OF destruction. When j touch
ed the net with my finger she swung
frantlcally to ana fro, prompted doubt
less by some instinct Of self prcserya'
ton. but otherwise was rs motionless
as II carved ln jet
Grasshoppcrs were not very plenti-
full as yet, but at last "A large green
fellow flew plump into the tolls, the
spines on his legs that had so often dis
courscd sweet music becoming entan-
gled. Instantly the crafty spider was
all alive. Darling upon her victim,
she took her station above him, and,
hanging by two legs, seized him In her
other six and rolled him round ana
round. unswathing him I'm a band OF
silver silk until ne was as helpless as
mummy, and then she bit him I'm n
dozen places with fangs oozing with
poison.
At the spectacle Of her evil eyes
glitterlng with the lust OF killing, mag
nlfed as they were by the glass, !
turned sick and rolled over on my
face among the weeds and lay for a
long time miserably incrt.-Atlantic
Monthly.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-01-03
WHY Wife Waited,

A certain married man who boasts
to the boys that his wife never sits
up for him slipped out for cigar the
other evening after supper and failed
10 notice that his wife had her party
gown on. When he softly tiptoed
into the house at a. IN. he was
slightly surprised to see dewy eyed
lady trip down the stairway, turn her
back to him ana tearfully say:
"There are two hooks just couldn't
reach; won't YOU unfasten them so
can 20 to bedy'
Fortunately he could and did.-Chi-
rago Record Herald.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-01-03
THE FIRST WATCHES.
They Had Weights, Not Springs, and
Were as Big as Plates.

At first the watch was about the Size
of n dessert plate. IL had weights and
WIS used ms a pocket clock" The ear
licst known use Of the modern name
occurs I'm the record Of 1902, which
mentions that Edward VI. bad "one
iarum or watch of non. the case being
likewise Of iron Eilt, with two plum
NETS of lead
The first watches may readily be
supposed 10 have been of rude eNecu
ton. The first great Improvement the
substitution of springs for weights, was
i'm 1850. The earliest springs were not
coiled, but only straight pieces of steel
Early watches had only one hand
and. being wound up twice day. they
could not he expected TO keep time
nearer than fifteen or twenty minutes
I'm the twelve hours. The dialS were OF
silver or brass. The cases had no crys
tails. but opened at the back aud front
and were four or five inches in diam
eter.
A plain watch cost the equivalent OF
81 600 I'm our currency, and after one
was ordered II took n year TO make 1t
Exchange.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-01-03
A "Touchina" Story.

The young lady who had sat for a
crayon portrait was not altogetha
pleased with the result. 1T looks like
me, of course" she said, inspecting II
doubtrully, "and yet | think. there are
some things about 1t that ought to be
changed"
She suggested that the eyes should
have rather more of an upward look,
that the right hand should be little
less prominent. that the hair should be
made more wavy and that certail
changes ought to be made In the drap
cry.
"That would require n great deal OF
retouching," said the artist, "and
should have TO charge you about 81
additional"
"Oh, dearw she exclaimed, with
pout Il shall have to give 1t up
Papa won't stand my 'retouching' him
to that extent"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-01-03
Curious Russian Law.

Russia naS law winch To outside on
servers seems almost to put premium
OH theft bv which stolen gUOdS hr'oIIl'
the property ot the thlet " ne can
prove that ne naS had POSSESSION o'
them Tor owe, i've wears IN the thieves
mnrket- whiCn -. ot course. iireused ny
the police gnnuS that adnlnt"dN nave
been stolen tmore than i've yenrs To-
sores are opculy Offered for sale ana
the place n n veritahle Mecca tor tht
hght fingered geutry aud their enter
prisinr friends. as also for the ucr.
honest members Of society VINO SeN urs
many tempting bargain