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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-07-31

Thoss Smith, conductor on the
freight west. u packing his house
hold goods. preparatory to moving TO
Rapid City, where his family are new
located MI Smith leaves Pierre on
account Of the health Of his oldest
daughtet Tor whom physicians have
recomm epded out door life.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-07-31

The remains Of the late Geo SAM
ders, father of Russell Sanders Of
this city., were brought here from
Yankton Tuesday, - which place the
deceased had been for medical treat-
ment. The funeral was held alto
O'Clock yesterday morning from the
family home IN East Pierre, Rev.
wilkinson Of this Methodist church
conducting the funeral services.
Members Of the q. "a !. r NJ II. g.
and S. Of " attended the funeral IL
| . body Interunsnt 80 1ladA u
Liaysrsida e. aEy. s 3 z B M
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in the channel and supplies are car
ried to them by the harbor engineers
tug.
Cruising on an ice-breaker is not as
exciting as one might think. 1t is
not nearly as interesting as fighting
out a gale. There are no heavy seas,
no rolling, pitching or plunging of
the vessel. There is nothing but a
flat, white surface ahead and the
only relief over the monotony is spec
ulating whether the field is field or
pack ice.
Field and pack ice are similar, any
how, although the former is ice that
has recently formed, whereas pack
ice is made up of blocks and sheets
jammed together by the wind.
The greatest thickness to which ice
naturally forms on the Chesapeake
bay is IS to 20 inches, but great
sheets of this ice will overlap and
make up three to five feet of almost
solid ice and when this mass drifts
into the ship channels it is no easy
work to break it up.
During zero weather the ice-brcak-
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ers cruise about day and night. Each
vessel carries a crew Of - men, which
make up three shifts and they change
off every four hours. Most of the
time the steamers arc kept running
up II down the main ship channel,
crushing through the film ice as fast
as it forms and keeping the particles
of drift ice broken up,
1t is noisy cruising, too, for as the
steamer makes her way the particles
of ice roar past her steel sides, every
now and then the vessel trembles as
she strikes an extra large piece, while
an occasional cake is snapped up by
a paddle wheel and tossed about in
the wheel house to pound itself to
pieces.
Through film n trash ice the
steamer makes good speed, but one
can tell the momcn hat field ice is
struck, for there is q steady nj per,
ceptihle slowing down. not unlike the
sensation of going aground on a mud
bank. You are going ahead at a
lively clip and then You come to an
| abrupt but not uncomfortable stop.
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engines are so arranged that it is
possible to operate them independent.
This enables the steamer to maneuver
easily and quickly. AS her paddle
boxes are each Is feet wide the
steamer breaks a channel nearly 100
feet wide. Her forward body is built
something on the scoW model so that
she can be driven up on the ice and
break through by her enormous
weight.
After the Annapolis had been in
service 10 years the business of the
upper Chesapeake demanded better
service, so the city of Baltimore built
the F.. c. Latrobe, a sister ship to the
Annapolis, n now these craft, with
the revenue cutter and the steam tug
belonging to the harbor engineer,
carry on the fight.
These vessels go into commission
with h first heavy frost and remain
on duty day and night. Usually
they relieve each other when it is
necessary to go to harbor for coal
and supplies but sometimes, as was
the case las year, both vessels remain
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from that deposit by the American
farmer is nine billion dollars-twenty
times the worlds gold output.
There are great STRIKES and
rush" too, in his bigger mining
which has plows for it's drills, root
fibers for dynamite, and leaves for
stamping mills and chemical processes.
The Rand at Johannesburg, the
greatest gold discovery of history, has
produced as much of sheer
value, in real hard money, as a num-
Der of the mor notable spurts by
which agriculture is advancing to it's
rightful position as the greatest and
most profitable of all human occupa-
ions. And the wonder of it is that
while gold will fail, the ground, under
any sort of c%onsiderate treatment,
will never fail.
To go back into history, one of the
greatest strikes" in the development
of American agriculture came about
because a pleasant faced young
Yankee once fixed an embroidery
frame for his hostess. The lady was
the widow of General Greene of Rev
dictionary fame, and the young man
was named Eli Whitney. The lady
introduced him to a company of neigh
boring planters as "a gentleman from
Connecticut who can do anything"
and within less than a year Whitney,
who never before. had seen a pound of
cotton, had produced his gin, which
was practically perfect in the working
model that left his hands.
That was in 1893. Within ten years,
the land of the South had trebled In
value. according to a contemporary
authority. IT would be difficult to es-
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innate what cotton has contributed
to the wealth of the country since
that time, but in the past decade it
has amounted to $4,000, 900, 900, or more
than all the gold taken out of South
Africa up to 1908.
S~iXty-nine years ago Ephraim Bull
earned the gratitude of all Americans,
He never collected what he earned.
however, for although his name ap-
pears on a massive bronze tablet un-
der the "To Let" sign on his little
white house in Concord, there are few
persons in the United States who
know what he did there. As a matter
of fact, he first bred the. Concord
grape, thereby providing a hardy vine
that would stand the American eli
mate and produce a delicious fruit.
His work established the grape-grow-
ing industry of the United States and
the Ch~autauqua grape belt alone pro-
duces zoe, 100000 pounds of grapes a
year, or about 800 900 worth.
Some wanderers from Chile-thelr
nanles and condition will be written
in history n day, if they get their
deserts-brought to California a shrub
ny, sleAiihg, SIlaii-leaNed plant, very
green when it was growing. very dusty
looking when it dried. The Chilean
natives favored it because it would
grow forever without having to be re-
planted, because it stood drought
fairly well, and because their cattle
liked it. That was In the early 'fif-
ties, and twenty ears or so later the
plant began to spread outside of Cali
fornia.
1t was alfalfa, the greatest mine in
the world, compared with which Cecil
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unable to get off. Working together,
however, no field is too heavy to with
stand their assaults.
But in spite of the concerted eff
forts of both boats the channel
sometimes becomes so clogged with
ice that navigation is closed for DAYS
at II time, Last winter. for instance.
was the worst in % years, and the
only vessels that made their way to
and from the ocean were the largest
Even at that many got
into trouble and at one time there
were four that were forced aground
by the ice.
1t is difficult to appreciate the
power of moving ice. 1t is such that
no steamer, no matter how powerful
her engines, can get out of the pack
If she is caught. AS an Illustration.
the Norwegian steamer SIT was
caught by ice that was not more tina
five inches thick. She broke into he
Held and not until she had gone in
so far that it was not possible to
back out did she find IT impossible
to make any further Roadway. At
the time there was a brisk wind and
$3.50 "'' 'A'| i'tN " Iil'Nt LOW
shallow water.
Despite every effort of the crew the
Sif was irresistiblY carried along and
although she was drawing Il feet of
water she was pushed up on tho
shoal into Is feet Of water. or
course, as soon as her plight was dis
covered, both iCc-boatS, n revenue
cutter and n Sca-going tuEboat went
TO her. HaWsers We're made fast ana
the four boats began pulling. Even
TINS power. with the Sif's engine, cs-
timated 5000 horsepower, failed to
move the stranded vessel and it was
necessary to tighten her hy the re-
moNal Of several hundred tons of her
cargo,
OF course. all of the tug boats that
ply on the Chesapeake tit ont for
lighting their way through the ice
and they arm themselves with an odd
looking plough of strong timbcrs COW
cred with sheets Of steel, These
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In any other kind of n boat but an
icebreaker the hitting of n heavy field
of ice would probably mean a crushed
in bow, but the i~cc-brcakers are built
for just such collisions. They have
forward bottoms rounded like n spool
and when they strike the bow lifts
and he hull begins to slide out of the
water. All the time the paddle wheels
are kept revolving ahead at full speed.
This, in a few minutes, stirs up the
water under the ice. Presently, from
the weight of the steamer, the ice
gives way and the steamer gently
drops to level keel.
In fighting through a field of heavy
ice the ic~e-breakers will hardly av-
erage a mile an hour, for each attack
means the backing off of 100 or so
yards and the charging at fun speed.
Each time perhaps 80 or rs feet of
Roadway is made.
Unless the other icc-breakcr is near
neither vessel will ram a heavy field
for there have been occasions when
they have done 81 singlc-handed and
! have been stranded for hours, being
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desert" land, and has added tens of
millions to our yearly national wealth.
Like a gold rush, Il strike" in agri-
culture means a sudden readiustment
of men aud millions. But there are
more men, more millions and the dis
tribution is not exactly the same. In
farming nobody gets left. sooner or
later the least progressive farmer of
the lot fcols the benefit of the new
discovery, ana through the farmers tho
country at large,
The discoveries hat have been
named there are only a few. perhaps
not tho most important. But they
effect can be easily followed. The first
hoe was a STRIKE" the first plow a
revolution, and discoveries have been
multiplying ever since. The moving
machine, t~hresher, harvester, gang
pillow, the traction engine and the corn
binder have taken billions of value out
of the American land which might
otherwise have stayed there unused.
One other discovery, in its possibili-
ties more stupcndous than all the rest
together, has come within the last six
or seven years, 1t is the Whistling,
whirling, ~six-fool sheet of electric fire
from which free air drops down as a
ready to he thrown on the soil to feed
the grains that feed the world, So
long as water runs down hill,
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sugar beet culture will easily doubIc
the yield of crop grown after 1t.
Around the sugar factories of Cali
%fornia, Colorado. Iowa and Michigan,
the farmers are firmly persuaded that
the beet Is as good as a gold mine.
one factory in Colorado paid out $500,
900 for bcrts on a single monthly pay
day last fall. Land for miles around
the factories has uniformly risen in
value. In one county IN Ohio where a
factory started in 1911 the increase in
the value of farm property alone has
already amounted to $1,000, 900, and in
California land values have gone from
about 500 an acre to from $500 to $3.50
whore sugar boets were introduced.
And the beet rush" is still on, and has
no prospect of stopping until our
whole sugar supply Is taken from
American soil, instead of onc-fourth,
direct plumber of $340, OOO, 900 a year
from the soil in sugar alone. n an
increase of more than st 1000, 600, 900 in
the returns from wheat, corn and other
crops grown in rotation with the bects.
Another strike" as spectacular in
it's effect as the Introduction of the
sugar beet is the application of irri-
has made itself heard so pcrsistently
that it's miraculous powers in getting
riches out from underground do not
need description. Irrigation alone has
made fertile millions Of acres Of
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Chicago, Jan. 25.-Mining experts
say that probably the world has gone
on it's last great gold rush" New de-
posits of the precious metal will be
uncovered from time to time, but in
the opinion of the ~best-posted author
tiles, the Rand and the Klondike We're
the last big strikes that will ever
be made. This does not mean that
the worlds supply of gold will not go
on increasing.fo many years to come,
but that bonanza finds as a source
of great fortunes for prospectors
backed only by ''grub-stakes" are
practically at an end. The treasure
hunting of the future will be done in
more prosaic fashion. It's rewards will
be even greater and by it vast wealth
in the future as in the past will be
drawn from the earth
Within six fest of the ordinary
Americans boot soles as he walks
across the open fields lies a Golconda
of sleeping wealth which is only wait
ing to be rescued from the earth. las
one looks from the train window in
travelling across almost n part of
the United States, the fields he sees
In ten minutes run have. produced a
tremendous store of wealth since the
white man first titled them, but this
wealth is as nothing to the millions
they will yield in the next few gen.
erations. In five centuries some of
those very farms will have given up
more wealth than any gold mines ever
did-for he life of a gold mine is on
an average only fifteen years. and a
weil-tilled farm goes on yielding larger
and larger spells until the end of time,
The mere interest that is drawn yearly
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Rhodes himself would be but a pyg-
my. In 1899 the alfalfa crop of the
United States was $5,220.671 tons, and
United States Was 5,220,671 tons, and
hen il mas more nan doubled in guam
tity and has increased even more in
value. But for getting wealth out of
the ground alfalfa is less important
for it's direct yield than for the enor-
nous chemical service as a rotation
crop" or one grown to improve the
| yield of the land in other crops. Just
how much the plant has added to
American wealth in this way is hard
to say, but it is certainly not less than
the value of the alfalfa hay itself.
Corn, wheat and other nitrogen thieves
cannot exhaust in one year, or in two
or three, the extra store Of food which
the alfalfa roots nave laid away in
the ground.
Whatever may become of the gold
prospectors, there is no danger that
the end of great agricultural Strikes
is at hand Two great PUSHES" are
now sweeping through the country,
each likely TO prove a larger industrial
movement that the most important Of
the gold discoveries. They are maxi
ing. their influence felt not only in the
farming districts but also in the cities.
The sugar bect-the humble source of
the sWectening supplied to a rapidly
increasing proportion of the American
people, and which threatens, If no un-
toward legislation checks its spread, to
drive foreign-grown sugar entirely out
Of the domestic market, is one of
these. Like alfalfa, the sugar beet has
the miracle gift Of lettering the land
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on which it grows. Still more i'm
portant, the beet, unlike alfalfa. must
practically be consumed on the farm.
II it is to be profitable. goes to the
sugar factory and is sold there at Il
price which makes the crop a paying
n to the farmer aside from its wide
spread indirect benefits.
The sugar, be it said, is plain, white.
graduated sugar, indistinguishable
from that made from tropical can
In the year 1911, 1874 900, 900 pounds of
it were made from American hects.
At 5 cents a pound that output would
be worth $50, 600, 900, or about two
thirds as much as the gold mines of
the United states produced in the same
As in the case of alfalfa, how
ever an enormous gain in addition to
the direct product is made in the in
creased fertility of the soil. There>arc
subject based on a careful investiga-
ton OF the effect of sugar bcets on
the land. Records kept by over 100
farmers proved that after a crop of
beets their land raised 27h per cent
more corn, As per cent more oats, 40
per cent more wheat and 81 per cent
more barley. In each case, as was to
be expected of men who kept careful
records Of their crops, they were grow
ing, before they began to raise bcets,
from 90 to 40 per cent more of each
grain per acre than the average Amer
lean farmer. on ordinary farm land
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xlGIaQrZNX1N9

This is the season of the year when
the hardy navigators of the Chesa-
peake bay conduct their annual fight
against ice, their greatest foe, for the
huge n almost tideless sea that di-
vides the state of Maryland and
washes the shores of Virginia is held
tightly within the grasp of the frost
king. Only by special and almost
ceaseless effort is the ship channel
kept open to the m of the
world.
Unlike any of the other estuaries
of the Atlantic the Chesapeake bay
freezes over more quickly. This is
largely due to the upper part of the
bay being practically fresh water with
but little tide. In Boston and New
York bays and on the Delaware riv-
er there is ample ice, it is true, but
the rushing tide breaks it up almost
as quickly as it forms and whereas on
those bodies Of water there is much
floating ice there is not the solid
sheet OI frozen water TO be encOun-
tered as there is on the upper Chesa>
peake.
On h Great Lakes, those inland
fresh-water seas that separate the
United States from Canada, the use
lessness of fighting the ice has long
been recognized and on the first
touch of frost the gigantic fleet OF
steamers and sailing craft make ports
and lay up until spring.
Not so on the S~hesapeake bay!
There the state of Maryland and the
city of Baltimore combine in a siren,
Gus fight against the efforts of Jack
Frost and in his work aid is giver
by the United States government, q
revenue cutter being assigned to the
district to aid in any way possible.
In 1897 the state of Maryland built
the steamer Annapolis to be the Off
clal ice-breaker. She is 200 feet long
65 feet wide and has engines of 1,2OC
horsepower. Each engine operates a
huge, iron-shod paddle wheel and the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-31
PADS AND FASHIONS

Satin-faeed silks continue to hold first place.
 Double frtlls of net make a pretty sleeve finish.
 Gut jet is frequently seen on shoe buckles.
 Shaded velvet roses in sprays are seen on nuffs. | White pleated tulle is much used for sleeve friIls. Broad henns on handkerchiefs are Narrow fur bands are much used on children's coats.
 There seems to be no end to the vogue of fur cloths.
 Colored velvet fruit is spoken of for the spring hats.
 F7ounced tunics and tier skirts are taking the lead.
 Flesh color is great favorite for separate bIouses.
 The interest in printed cottons is in creasing for spring.
 Black velvet suits are apt to have brilliant green velvet gird1es.
 Shadow laces are made up into all sorts of Stocks and jabots.
 Smart fur ttstick-ups" are made for hats out of natural lynx.
 Cherry blossom parasoIs are already here in quaint designs.
 F1owered taffeta is used with much taste for tango dresses.
 Skirts of baby lamb cloth are ac- tuaIly draped like broadcloth.
 Si1very hairseal is one of the fa- vorite furs for automobile coats.
 Young girls winter coats are ire ouentIy made of astrakhan cloth.
 Everywhere among dressm akers is an intense seeking for novelty.
 White motor bonnets yelled with brilliant co1ored chiffon scarfs are the latest.
 Sable chfnchilIa4 fox, baby lamb and skunk are the oftenest-seen furs abroad.
 Fur mantles and fur coats are worn with fur toques trimmed with flowers
 Some of the new coats for children
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-31
SOME YEARS THOUGHTS. WISHES AND RESOLUTIONS

New Years is sort of summing time. Then every takes mental inventory for the months the things which toward those which to
 Each New Year brings goal to mort at least is yelled have lost this others have gained while past beyond that npenetrable
 Work, happiness and have up the past will up future year of three proportions. otherha happiness complete you enced both work and work enjoyed without the hopeless when frightened by the past joy.
 all readers wish work, happiness; happiness unbounded {and that includes ork) destined which suggestion the Years fering sentiment of James Lane Allen.
 tAs I cling to myself despite the evil to world despite all the evil that in the world in men, not humanity to justice down triumph of njustiee every wrong you weakly deal another another deals to fairness and beauty of what is right increasing from the imperfection Perfection that is above athe Perfection God.o
 MARION
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-31
WHAT FRENCH GIRLS
 DO FOR ONE ANOTHER

The young girls of France, in spite of the weight of tradition which ham pers them. are by no means inactive, and a change is coming over their e1- iStence very rapidly. Among other things they are responsible for more than one charitable movement, of which an excellent example is the or ganization called For Our Sisters.
 Every year the Assistance PubIioue places in the houses of peasants who are willing to adopt them the small girls abandoned by their parents or left orphans, with no one to look af- ter them While they are small they get doll at Christmas from For Our >isters- When they grow up and 7larry they receive rousseau. The association fS z1naeed entirely bv young girls and already 15,0oO dolls have been sent out At the zhent Exhibition the good work has just been awarded the chief diploma Of honor, recognition even greater than the gold medal.