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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
LOCOMOTIVE HAS A RECORD
New York Railroaders Point With
Pride to the Exploits of Their
"Frisky Old Maid."

No. 999, the locomotive which be-
gan making herself famous back in
1892 by hauling the express in a way
that clipped off seconds in the speed
records, has been cutting up high
jinks again. The other day she
pranced into WATERFOWL, jumped the
track and c~avorted across the sta
ton platform. She did ne more dam
age than to cut her mark into the
platform and raise the advertising
potentially of the station. Railroad
folks now point to the lines in the
platform and say: NO. 999 did it,
They pause a minute to let you gloat.
and then they go on to tell Of some
Of the things which the old engine has
been through.
Shes a frisky old maid" said II
Of the railroad men. She was born
in 1S92-that is to say, that Is when
she was constructed. SO you see she
became old enough to vote this year.
Her age shows how remarkably we'll
she was PUT together. According to
the reports made by the officials OF
INC mot!Fe power department VI lue
railroad TO the public service commits
sion, the average life of locomotive is
go years. So you see she has shown
that She had three lives, and she
promises to equal the record Of any
cat you eve heard of. | suppose it
would be hard to fine many pieces Of
original iron in her, for her boiler,
wheels and a lot of other fixings which
go to make up a proper locomotive
have changed time and again. She's
two jumps ahead of those Rockefeller
doctors who are planning to give you
a new .eg. or a new artery, or Il
new heart when tbs old ones are worn
out.
No. 999 amt particular what work
you put her to. She's on the Great
Windy branch Of the R., w. Il O., be
tween Cape Vincent and Carthage,
and she will labor ahead of a lumber
ing freight train or sneak across the
pine plains with a passenger train
with equal will."-New York Tribune.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
RAILROADS OPENING UP CHINA
Lines Beinq Built Will Develop the
Resources of the Great Territory
Of the East.

Railroads are China's greatest need
Some have already been built, but
these tap only a very small part OF
the vast territory suffering from in
suti cient transportation facilities.
One of the first efforts of the proyi-
sional government after the first In
stalment of the siX-power oar has
been received will be to construct
more lines. A new track has just
been opened. 1t is a short cut from
the entry port Of Shanghai, on the sea,
to Pekin, far in the interior. Early
in December through traffic vas
opened from Pukow, on the Yang-tZe
river opposite Nankfng) to Tientsin.
and a journey is now possible
from Shanghai to Picking III forty
hours. as against five days by the
previous shortest route. The only 9th
er line from the Yang-tZe to Picking is
that from Hankow, a distance of 755
miles. The newly-opened line from
Pukow to Tientsin is 626 miles. and
to that has to be added the seventy
three miles from Tientsin TO Picking,
making the total rail distance from
Shanghai to Picking some $50 miles.
which is broken only by the Yang-tZe
river at Marking. The first-class fare
from Pukow to Tientsin is $42.10 The
trains are provided with dining cars
and comfortable sleeping cars.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25

yellowfsh tint. The collection in the
Commercial Museum shows not only
these cloths, but the looms on which
they are made.
Another class of fabric of even
greater beauty than the rabannas are
the lambas, made of silk. both in the
natural tint and in various colors,
and showing designs of striking his
torical interest. These silk garments
are naturally more expensive than the
.rabannas, are worn by well-to-do per-
sons and are especially treasured for
burial garments. Those displayed in
the Commercial Museum average
rather more than seven feet in length
and from five feet to SIX feet in width.
They are made generally of two or
more narrow strips sewed together
lengthwise, as the native looms do not
admit of weaving strips more than 80
inches wide.
While many of these lambas show
only conventional lozenge patterns,
those of better workmanship almost
always indicate the origin of such de-
signs from an early bird and tree pat
tern, symbolizing the tree of life, and
going back apparently to folklore and
beliefs that antedate both the Moham
medan and Christian eras.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
All He anted.

A Boston mar tells of a certain IT.
~repressible bore wko always made
use Of a formula when anyone sought
to put him off and thus spare the OBJ
jeCts OF his attention the annoyance OF
an interview with him. This formula
was: But ! assure you | want but one
word with him-only one word"
On one occasion he sought out a
noted lawyer. The ~latter's clerk met
him very solemnly with Why,
haven't you heard? Mr.. Blank died
last night
The words were scarcely out of the
clerks mouth when the applicant was
saying, conciliatingly: But l assure
you | van but one word with him
only one word"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
An Order Approved.
The secretary

Washington, d. C.-The secretary
of the interior approved an order Of
the commissioner of the general and
office granting to persons who filed on
land in Mellette and Benntet counties.
S. D., and whose six months time
WITHIN which to begin residence has
expired or is about to expire. an extern
sion until May j. Of the time within
which to begin residence. The order
was issued at the instance of Repre-
sentative Burke and will permit what
Senator Sterling hoped 10 accomplish
by a bill which he introduced a few
days ago. Mr. Burke SAID these lands
were valuable and that the concession
will be a very great accommodation
to a large number of homesteaders, a
large number Of whom reside in Iowa.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
East lime on EARLY Lines.

Some high speeds were attained by
the early English railroad trains. The
Illustrated London News of August 10,
1874, records that four days previously
the journey from Slough to Padding
ton was accomplished in less time than
the distance had ever been traversed.
The eighteen miles and a quarter only
occupied fifteen minutes and ten sec
onds." So early as 1841 it was an
nounced hat Brunei, for a wager OF
SIS. 900 was about to run a train from
Bristol to London within two hours.
This feat Toes not appear to have been
accomplished. Five years later, how,
ever, between Exeter and S%tarcross,
Brunei accomplished the journey at a
speed of 70 miles an hour.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Gives Saloon Law Construction.

Pierre.-AttorneN General Johnson
has rendered an opinion on the new
600 population saloon law. He holds
that all towns may have two saloons
up TO 691 population, and further says,
in relation 10 the proviso Of TIVE sa-
looms being allowed in smaller towns
or townships as follows: The pro-
yiso and the section of which it forms
a part should be construed together,
so as TO restrict the number of sa-
looms to one for every 600. or major
fraction thereof. This construction
may be against the strict letter of the
statute, and some of its provisions.
but it arrives at the Legislative intent.
] understand that the proyiso was in
serted. by amendment, for the express
purpose of allowing at least two sa-
looms in every city, town or township,
but of course the intent of the legis-
lature must appear from the law
ITSELF
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
NEW POTATO EXPERIMENTS.
Potato Growers Should Use Larger
Seed Pieces, College Says.

BroOkings.-The bulletin on pota-
toes being sent out by the experiment
station demonstrates the advantages
of using large seed pieces rather than
small ones in planting. The potato
rover who plants selected tubers
rather than culls is likely TO secure
as much as 20 to 28 per cent greater
crop than the grower who is not care
full in seed selection. The professor
in the agronomy department OF the
college carefully worked out all the
tests made in the bulletin in last sum
mer's crop, ever to the hoeing OF the
potatoes. Boiled down in a few
words the bulletin states that planting
large seed pieces:
l. Produced a higher yield of pota>
toes per acre.
2. Produced larger potatoes.
3. Produced potatoes of more uni
form type-and gives the figures to
prove it.
All farmers and others interested
in the production of good potatoes are
invited to send for new potato bulletin
No. 140, which is written by DIR. A. n.
Hume, agronomist and Manley Cham
plin, assistant aaronomist. Address,
Director Experiment Station, Brook,
ings, S. d.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25

American Magazine remarks, railroad
mileage in this country has increased
only q per cent. but the number OF
locomotives has mounted up by 81 per
cent; the number Of tons carried one
mile, SO per cent. and the num5er of
passengers carried one mile, So per
cent.
In 1902 the heaviest locomotive on
one of the greatest railroad system
weighed l66 600 pounds. Last winter
the same company had locomotives
which tipped the scales at 500 500
pounds, an increase of 81 per cent.
But there are now being built loco
motives which will weigh 1852 600
pounds. machines so vast that photo
graphs have lately been taken which
show an ordinary switching engine
safely e~nsconced. with room to spare
in the fire box of one of them. Per
haps you will say these are extreme
cases. But, in general. locomotives
have Increased in weight SO per cent
in IS or 20 years, and in a great
number of cases the increase has far
SACetueu ludt NSuTe. LARS, 100, naNt
grown as much.
But assume for d moment that the
weight on each wheel is no greater
than it used to be, because there are
more wheels; the track IS battered
just so much longer; it has just so
much less nance TO r~ecuperate. Put
ten drivers, il you will, on each side
of the huge engine. OF curse the
weight is distributed over a great
length, say 125 feet. But the track is
battered for a longer period of time.
But there has been no decrease even
In wheels loa as. On the contrary,
there has been a slow increase in
wheel loads in addition TO the tire
mendous increase III the number of
such loads, You may put 20 drivers
on a great machine, but when the ma
chine weighs 500 900 o 700 900 pounds,
you still have a weight per driver far
in excess Of those in existence some
years ago.
The increase in locomotives has
taken place in both freight and pas
senger service. On one railway the
increase from the heaviest freight To-
comotiyes in 1902 TO 1911 was 81 per
cent: in passenger engines it was 65
per cent. In 1911 the engines which
carried the IS-houT flyers between
New York and Chicago weighed TO-
000 pounds more than even the heavi
est freight locomotives in 1902, and
Go. 600 pounds more than the heaviest
passenger locomotives in 1901. Look
at the mounting strain from still an
other point of view. In the last ten
years the average freight train load
has increased at least 80 per cent.
and perhaps 40 per ent There has
also been a fairly steady increase in
the number of loads passing over each
line. Density of traffic has enormous
ly increased, SO that with a roadway
little heavier than it was at the time
when far lighter rolling stock was
used, there is continually a greater
volume of traffic being carried over
the rails in a given period of time.
Upon the tracks fall more blows thar
formerly, and harder ones at that.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
SCHOOL LAND SOLD
SCHOOL LAND SALES CLOSE AND
AVERAGE PRICE PROVES TO
BE S50.o5 PER ACRE.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capitol City, the Various
State Institutions and From
MANY Different Parts of
the Sunshine State.


plerre'-The sales of state school
lahuS .or the present year were CLOSED
oy the offerings in Brown county and
aho" an average price OIL $oV.Vo, OF
praclicaliy - hlsher than the aver
age TOT safes last ear. Brown county
showed the highest average with
aol.-z per acre on a httle over l,Zoo
acres. Inc department says the aver
age was kept do"l by the TACT that a
larger amount OF low priced land was
sofa imam IN former years, some or IL
pelng sloughs or very rough and going
no"h TO sZ9 per acre. BY counties
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Indian Farmers Are Progressive.

Pierre.-At a recent farmers insti-
tute held at Cheyenne agency, there
was a large attendance of the Indian
farmers over the eastern part of the
Cheyenne River Indian reservation,
coming to hear the ways of the white
man in getting a living from the soil.
The progressive Indians know that
they must come to securing their live
lihood from either farming or stock
raising, and many Of them have been
taking up the agricultural part of pro
gress in the past few years, and this
class are eager to learn anything
which viii help them along the Dad
they have chosen.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Japanese Medal for Boy.

San Francisco.-Duncan Fitzgerald,
a schoolboy. who saved a Japanese
from drowning a year ago, was deco
rated at Redwood City with "kojuhos
ko," a medal conferred by the Japan
was made a public ceremony. and 400
American school children sang the
japanese national air. Consul Gener-
al Ojiro Ohara of San Francisco CON
ferred the decoration.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
.OOO DISPLAY OF ART
Collection Of Native Handicraft
From Madagascar Island.
Exhibition Shown In New York Dou'
bly, Interesting Because Art Is
Passing Away With Influx Of
Cheap Foreign Goods.

New York.-There has recently been
ylaced on exhibition in the CONNER
cial museum, 34th street below
Spruce, an important collection show
ing the native handicraft of the island
Of Madagascar. Not only is it a rep
resentative display Of a high form of
primitive art, but 1t is doubly inter
esting because under the recent
French occupation of that great
island the native arts are steadily
passing away before the great influx
Of cheap foreign-made goods. NADIA
gascar is known to Americans princi-
pally as the largest producer OF raftia
fiber. which is In such general use by
florists and agriculturists and for
basket weaving, etc. The raffla as IT
comes to our market is In the form of
long, thin strips. These are obtained
by the natives peeling off the outer
skin from the leaves Of the palm tree.
These soft strips are then carefully
dried, made up into hanks and wrap
ped in bales. The palm tree produc-
Ing them grows wild in great alum
dance throughout Madagascar. espe-
cially in the moist valleys of the IN
terror. II has a short stem and a
crown of enormous leaves: the sepa-
rate leaves are often as large as 40
feet long and each leafet 2 to 5 feet
In length.
In Madagascar itself raff1a is used
for many other purposes than in this
country. The natives weave from IL
very beautiful cloths in long, narrow
strips, which they call rabannas and
use for clothing. The cloth is not cut
and made up into garments. but is
used in the strip, being wrapped
around the body and fastened more or
less III the same way as the Roman
toga. Sometimes both raffia and cot.
ton fiber are used in making this
cloth. 1t is made up on the primitive
hand looms used by the Madagascar
natives in very narrow strips, and
where greater widths is desired the
strips are sewed together ~lengthwise.
Some of the rabannas exhibited at
the Commercial Museum are eXquis-
itely fine, showing more than Sc
threads to the inch. They are colored
with vegetable dyes, principally in
dull shades of green, red and brown,
which harmonic beautifully with the
skins of the natives, which are Of a
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Conqo Problem Being Solved.

The problem of communications is
the most vital in the Congo, Africa.
There are 5000 miles of n~avigable riy-
ers in the Upper Congo and 80 miles
in the Lower. Between Matadi and
Leopoldville dangerous c~ataracts rem.
der ma vigation impossible and the on
Meeting link is the neutrality-suspicious.
railway, constructed in 1894 at a cost
it is said, of 50, 600, 600. This railway,
which might we'll be called the artery
Of Congo commerce, is probably the
richest line in the world, all things
considered. The dividends have been
enormous and the original shares have
increased many h~undredfold in value.
The total length OF the line is 246
miles and the cost of a tirst-class pass
age, which takes two days, is $3.50.
with freight rates high in proportion.
Ii costs $500 to transport n ton Of
cloth from Matadi to Leopoldville. The
total receipts since the beginning OF
operation in 1898 have been s2e,936.
769.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Educational Bureau Works Well.

One Of Americas great railroads
has an educational bureau which virtu-
ally conducts a complete ~correspon-
dence school for employees. The in
stTuction is offered to any worker
whose desire to better himself is
strong enough to make him willing to
study. The lessons carefully corrected
and graded by officials OF the railroad
and returned to the men. Record
sheets are also furnished in order
that the men Tay keep an OF
the work done and the percentages
received. The lessons are practical
in subject matter and method. Writ
ing, spelling, grammar and punctua-
ton are not taken into consideration
in assigning per cents.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Makes a Saloon Ruling.

Pierre.-The latest proposition to
be put up to the attorney generals
department is the right of towns of
more than 600 population but with
less than 901 to have two saloons.
The law allows two saloons in small
towns, then fixes a population basis.
and some state's attorneys are appar-
emily holding that as soon as a town
passes 500 population it under
the population basis alone in fixing
the number of saloons. The ruling of
the department is that any town, re-
CARELESS of size, is entitled 10 two sa-
looms under the law, and that the pop
ulation basis applies when the at
tempt is made to increase that num-
Der in towns of more than 500 popu-
lation.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
incredibly Low Death Rate.

Pierre.-There were 10 more mar
riages in South Dakota during the
year 1912 than in 1911. as shown by
the report of vital statistics just fin
ished, There Were ia more births IN
1912, and 61S less deaths, although
South Dakota's death rate is exceed
ingly low in comparison with other
states. AS a matter Of fact it is so
low that the bureau of the censu IN
Washington refuses to believe that the
report can be accurate. Divorces also
decreased, there being 50 less in 1911,
and naturalizations increased, being
112 more than in 1911. The totals
for the two years are as follows:
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Dakotan Loses Place.

notwithstanding appointment OF
Robert II. WOoley of Virginia to be
auditor for the war department, an Of
fee which for the last twelve years
has been held by South Dakota Re-
p~ublicans, was anticipated. The South
Dakota Democratic organization had
indorced l.. c.. Campbell OF Sioux Falls
for this job, but he was opposed by
Tom Ayers and other supporters of
ex-Gov. Andrew r. Lee, and this dis
sension in the ranks may have intiu-
enced the treasury department to
award the plum to a Democratic state
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Portrait Of kittredqe.

Pierre.-A. X. Saunders, an artist,
who has been spending tAe winter in
Pierre. has just finished a portrait of
Senator Kittredge which is pro
nounced an excellent likeness. Saun-
ders has painted pictures of Govern
ors Elrod and Crawford, which now
hang in the corridor Of the capitol. 1t
is not announced what disposal is to
be made of the portrait.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Returns to Capital.

Pierre.-Gov. Byrne has returned
where he has attended a number of
road meetings at various points in the
state. and reports al active interest in
road improvement all over the state.
Every meeting was we'll attended and
the Indications. in his opinion, are for
a large amount OF road i'm provemeat
in South Dakota this year.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Agent Lance on Hand.

Pierre.-O. w. Lange. a special rep
resentative of the department OF the
interior, is here to investigate charges
of persecution of homesteaders by
special agents of the general land
department. The special agent was
SEN out in response to a resolution
of the legislature asking for action
on the part of the government.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Welcome Railroads Beoinnino,

The first sod on the western end OF
the kalgoorlie-Port Augusta section of
the Trans-Australian railroad was
turned, a few days ago. and the cere-
mony was witnessed by many thousand
people, who came from all parts of
western Australia. The governor was
parts of the commonwealth attended
the ceremony.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Battered Wife.

London.-What amounted to the
barter of a wife occurred when Justice
Deane granted a divorce to Raymond
Moraud and approved the millionaire
correspondent agreement to pay $27.-
500.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25

opponent a mlgn-
ty blow which
reels the man
over like & child.
He lies in a cor
ner, helpless for a
time, and then
just as the count
is about to come,
~groggily ar S e S
and continues the
fight, p G h q p $
winning it. But
suppose, instead
of one k~nockdoWn
blow, there were
We're a series, a
Dozen, a score, a
hundred or more.
Since 1902, a
ritter in til g
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Landscape Gardener Chosen.

Pierre.-The state capitol commits
sion selected Phelps Wyman Of Min
neapolis as the landscape gardener
to lay out the work on The grounds of
the state capitol and start operations
on active improvement.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25

st. Lawrence is going ahead with
preliminary plans to build a $4,000
school house to take the place OF the
one recently destroyed by a fire, set
by a boy who was tired of school.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
IRRIGATION Projects.

Pierre.-The right to take water for
irrigation from White river was grant
ed to Edward b.. Kelley Of Chamber
lain. who will ~irrigate 623 acres on
that stream. w. l.. Bowler was given
the right TO take water from Bear
creek, in Pennington county, for pow
er purposes.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Pierre Receives Cannon.

Pierre.-Four civil war twelve
FOUNDER cannon have been received
from the Rock Island arsenal. Two
Of them will be located On the state
house grounds, one in the court house
yard, and one at the central school
building.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Makes Splendid Railroad Ties.

Half a century of use as railroad
ties has been obtained in Australia
from wood of the "stringg bark tree,
a species of eucalyptus.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
EMPLOYEES Wages Increased.

The Victorian government has au.
thorized increases in the wages of rail,
way employees which will involve an
additional expenditure of about 1925,
900.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Superinte ndent of Wind Cave Park.

Washington.-Secretary Lane, of
the interior department. has appointed
Thomas G. Hoy of Keystone, s. d., as
superintendent of the Wind Cave Ma
tional park IN South Dakota.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Byrne Grants Parole.

Pierre.-Gov Byrne has granted pa.
roles to Earl F. Mitchell. sem from
Minnehaha. and Charles r. Bailey
from Roberts county.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
Pardoned by Byrne.

Pierre.-Gov. Byrne has granted a
pardon to f. G.. Kurtz. sent from Trip
county on a charge of embeZzlement.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
lmmenae Railroad Revenue.

American railroads in 1912 received
gross revenues aggregating S3,U4l,
307 sos.