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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-11

River Remains High at Flooded hi.
nois Town.

Cairo, Ill, April 11.-As a result of
excessive rain the river still is high
here, the gauge registering 54.5 feet.
Plans are being made here to send
a delegation to Washington to urge a
million-dollar appropriation for the
Cairo and drainage district levees. A
sixty-foot levee will be urged.
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Move Botanic Garden 4?
Christian Science Monitor.

IRON the Christian Science Monitor
One of the attractions of the National
Capital are its botanical gardens. sit
uated between Pennsylvania and Mary
land avenues. at the foot of Capitol
Hill. They are, however, rather a mu-
nicipal ornament than a national insti-
tuition. In their present location, ex-
pansion of the gardens would be prac-
tfcally impossible. Merit, therefore, is
TO be found in the proposal that bo-
tantcal gardens upon a much larger
and more comprehensive scale be es-
tablished by the government in Rock
Creek Park. For the benefit of those
unfamiliar with the District of Column
bia. 1T is well to explain that this is a
tract of picturesque land. comprising
about 1900 acres, purchased by the
federal government for S1.200,000 in
1890. Half the purchase price was COW
cred by local taxation 1t is stretch
of great natural beauty, having almost
every form of wild growth peculiar to
the section, from the smallest flower
to the most stately forest tree. 1t has
been laid out with charming drives and
rambles, while its wildness has been
carefully and successfully preserved.
IT is commended. and not without force.
that IL the government is to maintain
a botanical garden that shall represent
all the plant growths of the nation
and it's dependencies, then il should be
on something like a commensurate
scale. The present collection, beautf-
full and valuable though IL may be. is
neither ample nor representative All
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that VIII be required would be the re-
inoVai OF the present gardens to the
new location Here they would become
nucleus for a collection that would
contain specimens from all the states
contiguous territory and island pos
sessions No purchase of land would
pc necessary in the future to provide
Tor Iurther expansion.
In anticipation of the objection that
IN Rock Creek Park the gardens now
80 easily accessible. would be too far
removed. IT Is held that they would
be more conveniently situated for the
general public than they are at pres
emit They could be reached by pedes-
TRANS. by street railways by automo-
biles and carriages. In such inyit-
ing environment il is believed, their
beauties would be viewed by many
thousands more persons monthly than
enter the limited area occupied at
present The idea would be to make
them a national institution and a capi-
tai attraction in the highest sense. a
place for the student as well as for
the lover of beauty. for the tourist as
well as for the resident. 1t would not
be necessary at all to strip completely
the present gardens in order to ac-
complish all this. The matter is one
with which Congress must deal and
the proposal has been so well received
thus far that it is likely to have leeis-
lative attention without delay.
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The feet are shod with felt slippers which
enable the boy" to dodge swiftly and
silently around tables and along corrl-
doris, or floor carpet.
These boys" are keen observers. 9th
erwise the few occidental words whica
they have managed to pick up would no.
fit them for their duties anything Xix.
ii. in hotels. They make ii their business.
in fact, to interest. themselves in their
clients, and when "A visitor has been al
tended by certain boy for scNera I
DAYS the latter begins to understand hi
habits and anticipate his wishes. OF his
readiness in this respect some amusins,
stories are told. Thus, a guest al p
king hotel wished 10 obtain raw car
rot. that he might moisten some tolScco
which the heat had dried. Nainly no tried
in English and French to make his wan
known TO his Chinese attendant. At
length. a last resort, he drew pic
ture of the yegeta BILE. which. with its
leaves. he colored in appropriate red ami
green. TIL. boy. delighted. ran of an
came back presently with radish In eN
cuse however, il should be added thai
the Picking radishes are large and shaped
, long. Moreover the boy hal provided
himself with a carrot in case the radish
did not satisfy
Chinese servants are the despair Of
housewives. Domestic thefts. indeed. form
part of an official system. \ boy who
considers he mas bean unjustly dismissed
from a family lures away with him his
fellow servants. and the establishment
is placed under ban. TO find substi-
tutes while the alleged grievance remains
unremedied is impossible. 1t happens
therefore, at times. that an unfortuna 4.
family, deserted by their help. take up
their abode with a compassionate ac-
qG2.ntanc The servants OF their host
announce to him. however. that his Wis
ftors are boycotted and that they them
selves will leave in a body if the inter-
dicted ones continue To enjoy his hos
pitality-
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Revenue Cutter Service

While twelve young men were gwen
permission to take the examination, at
this city for appointment as cadet in the
revenue cutter service school of instruc-
ton at New London, Conn, only five pre-
scented themselves for the mental tests
and one of them withdrew before the eX-
animation was over. The four young
men who completed their examination
finished work Friday evening last, and
their papers. with those of the large
number of candidates that took the ex-
animation in other cities. Will be sent to
the Treasury Department for examina-
ton and marking. and it will be two
weeks or longer before the successful
candidates are known. Out of about 1c0
throughout the country. only two ap-
pointments will be made.
Aid to vessels in trouble was rendered
recently, according to reports on file at
the department, by the cutters ramona,
Pamlico, Acushnet and Woodbury..
While cruising in Boring sea the cutter
Tahoma found the American fishing
schooner Fannie Dutard showing distress
ed that one of her boats with man in
it had gone adrift and the man was in
danger of losing his life. The Tahoma
cruised around and in a short time found
the missing boat and man and returned
them to the schooner.
The crew of the Tahoma turned also
fire fighters and way up in Unalaska the
men from the cutter were instrumental
in saving the home of Sarafene Sapos-
nikof The fire, when seen from the cut
ter. was eating up the light frame struc-
tllre but with fire exrinsuishers and a
bucket brigade the flames were soon
checked.
Responding to a request for aM TIE
cutter Pamlico went TO the assistance
of the schooner Guy A. Gaskins. ashore
in Pamlico sound. about tive miles west
of Hatteras inlet. The vessel was noated
uniniured. and was able to continue her
voyage without further assistance from
the cutter.
The work done by the Acushnet con-
sisted of floating the schooner Regina
from Great Point Rip, Nantucket Island,
and taking her into New Bedford. The
vessel was badly strained by grounding
and it was necessary TO take her into
port where she could be hauled out Tor
repairs. as she was leaking SO greatly
that her pumps could not keep her free
After wreckers had given up the
schooner NJ j. Small, which went ashore
on MOSQUITO Island. Maine coast, about
two weeks ago, and had stripped her OF
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THE DAILY STORY.
ALIENS.
Copyright. 1913, by W. Werner

copyright 1913, by w. Wefner.)
"G'wan,' roared the conductor. How
do know where you want transfer to?
Get i'm off the platform and quit blocking
the way. None of that lip. You got your
right change, all right
Hans sullenly went into the car, finger
ing a green transfer doubtfully. Six
months In the new country had not given
Hans the necessary command of language
to tell that conductor what he thought of
him. And what was the use, any way? 1t
was merely a sample of the treatment
that Hans. big limbed, awkward,
clumsy of tongue, ignorant of the Ian
guage, the people and the whole new
country, had received from every one with
whom he came in contact. He had found
work, of course. His muscles were too
firm and big to lack for use, bat it was
work that chafed his spirit and fretted
the lungs used to outdoor air. And even
now, after six months, he had not been
taken into the camaraderie that included
every other worker in the shop.
The foreman, a little, black haired brute
from Italy, Knocked his slow speech and
clumsy ways Two OF the men We're from
Hans own district in northern Denmark.
but they had been over several years and
were American from their derby hats to
American wives and their children fifteen
years hence would be ashamed to talk
with an old country accent. But Hans
perhaps because Of Unborn lack of adap-
liability, could not change. He bought new
clothes, but they did not tit him--they
simply emphasized his alien appearance.
And he could not twist his slow tongue
to the new language, though he tried with
all his might, pored over books at night.
went to night school, tried to pick words
out in the newspapers that 1t seemed the
Americans could not produce enough of.
But ii was all wasted. Every morning
when he crawled out of the bed that he
shared with a fellow from the same shop
he felt more out of place, every night
when he trudged back to the close, dark
room. life was less worth living. Nos
talgia fell upon him. and more bitter be-
cause he knew there was no going back.
! He had come because there was no work
in the old country and food got scarcer
every year. The small WORKOUT farm
barely produced enough to feed his old
father and mother. Even now they We're
watching the mail for letter with the
overdue remittance from the son who had
gone to America, the land of promise
They confidently supposed that he would
keep them from want in their old age;
they were even hoping that through him
they would at last get a small taste OF
the luxurSEthat some of their neighborS
were enjoying because of sons and daugh-
tiers who had gone across the ocean.
Hans had only made enough to keep
himself for three months. Then he had
learned a few necessary tricks about cut
] ting doegn expenses and saved share OF
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his wages to send back. And then. on
street car one night, coming back from
the school. his pocket was picked. Frantic
with rage he had reported the loss. as his
companions in the shop advised, and the
police had listened indifferently. Why
should they get excited? That happened
frequently. People shouldn't he so fool
ish as to carry money in a pocket. Put
it in bank.
Hans stolidly left the station and
went to work. He had learned an
other lesson in America. Presently
his education would be completed.
After that his temper changed. He
snarled back at street car conductors
and gave the foreman such ugly looks
that the fiery Italian threatened to
fire him. He rowed continually with
the other men. and ate his meager
meals in sullen silence-very meager
meals, for Hans was saving to send
to the two disappointed old people.
Steady, unremitting work, scant
food, inconsistencies and an utter lack
of congenial companionship put
man in a dangerous condition. Hans
full. ruddy face was losing all its
placid good nature. More than one con-
ductor, looking UP in time to meet the
nasty CLEAN in Hans blue eyes, had
choked off an impatient sentence
Hans was on his way now to see an
other foreman out west somewhere
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given him some degree of confidence,
than TO try it now, when the black
ness of night only Jared with the arc
ilshts and scattered what knowledge
of the city he had been able to muster
Again he looked az the transfer. 1t
was punched east, and he was sure
that the man who told him of the shop
had said that it should be punched
crusty-- A black, ugly look shot into
Hans eyes, darkening them. He got
up stolidly from the seat and went
back to the platform. The conductor
and Hans muttered an American oath
would give him the needed informa-
ton, or there wound be such an arm
singing and tanning of fists that one
railway employe would not forget
soon.
This transfer" Hans growled.
But the conductor was having an
other alteration. This time with a
girl. light haired and fair skinned. who
was trying to explain in Hans own
broken tongue that she didn't Just
know where the street war 1t was out
west-Robey street. she thought.
Ii wan snarled the conductor.
You bloomin' foreigners give me
pain. Why don't you learn the name
of street? j amt no encyclopedia
He suffered into silence under the
food of Danish invective that Hans
hurled at him. Hans had drawn him
self up and lowered angrily over him
like fierceeyed. raging giant The
conductor shivered.
= don't know where she wants to
GO he pleaded to Hans Honest, I
don't. I'd just as soon tell her. I
amt been on this route but Il week"
Shut up bawled Hans. and then,
III tone soft and mild, a tone that the
old people in Denmark would have
recognized as Hans ordinary voice. he
spoke to the frightened girl.
In answer she poured out a pitiful
story. She had come over two months
before. and her brother, who worked
somewhere in Chicago should have met
E"i But her letter had miscarrie0
me had not been able to find him And
she had loolled-and worked. And she
didn't like the new country She was
homesick. If she could get back, But
it was no use to go back. Besides, she
had promised to send her old mother
money.
Il understand" said Hans, softly
Who, indeed. could understand better?
And the language-it is SO hard
she sobbed, sensing that in Hans she
had found a friend.
Hans questioned her further, and then
whooped with joy. Her brother worked
in the shop beside him. Hans had been
over to his house for supper one night
couraged him to come again Bat then
-. He looked at the girl with shining
eyes.
Alma is my name, she told him.
she Will ike you, AlInd, SAID Hans.
composedly. mo one could help it. And
if she doesn't. oh. well, you will soon
be acquainted and there will be another
place for you to live!
Alma blushed Hans tone was un-
mistakable, and Hans was planning with
a speed that he must have learned in
America. Back in Denmark things were
not arranged SO fast. But Almas blush
was not discouragin2. Homesickness and
loneliness have a certain potency And
Hans. when the sullen bitter look left
his face, was clean. handsome young
fellow.
BY the time they had ridden back
and were walking up the narrow street
where Alma's brother lived Hans was
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everything valuable, the cutter Wood
berry went to where the vessel stranded
and succeeded in getting her anOat ana
taking her into Port Clyde, Me-. Wnefe
she was turned over to her owners.
On her way to Valdez, Alaska, where
she will take aboard the United States
district Judge for Alaska and his court
officials. the cutter Thetis has arrived
at Puget sound to make repairs to her
radio outfit. During the summer the cutter
will visit different ports in Alaska and court
will be held aboard the vessel. Cases both
criminal and civil will be disposed of by
the floating court, which is said to be the
only one of its kind in the world This
court-carrying cruise has been the reg
ular work of the Thetis for several sum-
mers past.
After grounding on ledge of rocks
in Lake Superior, Mich, in fog. and
punching a hole in her bottom, the cutter
Tuscarora is at Manitowock, Wis, for
repairs, which will be completed In few
days. and the cutter will return TO
service.
The cutters Apache and Onondaga from
the sapeake and Norfolk stations are
in Tangier sound, Chesapeake bay, en-
gagged in big gun target practice Record
of the work done by the gunners on the
cutters i'm hitting the targets is being
kept and will be sent to the department
here.
W. c. Besseleyre, jr., one of the two
constructors in the service, died at Baltl-
more i'm the past week, following short
illness of typhoid fever. Constructor
Besselievere was stationed at the office or
the superintendent of construction and
repair at this city, and left here June /
on a months leave of absence, which he
proposed to spend with his family at Bal
timOre. Soon after arriving home the
disease developed. He entered the service
IN 1907, and took an active part in plan
ming the fine new cutters built in recent
years for the service
Orders for the weeh are AS follows:
First Lieut.. B. L. Brockway. granted
ten days extension OF leave of absence.
Second Lieut.. LIE Roy Reinburg. detailed
to take charge Of the regatta of the Oak
mont Yacht Club, to be held on the Al
legheny river. July 4.
First Lieut. {. W. Cairnes. granted
flfty-five days leave of absence.
Capt S. NJ. Landrey, directed to pro-
coed to Pensacola. Fla, on duty in con-
nection with the public health service.
Senior Capt. I'll. Emery. directed to pro-
coed to Manitowoc, Wis. in connection
with the repairs to the Tuscarora.
Capt j. NJ. Moore. directed to proceed
TO Washington. ID. c.
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The Chinese Boy"
From Harper's Weekly.

T
Chinese boys" or walters, have their
virtues-also drawbacks. In appearance
they are picturesque enough. True. the
pigtail has been discarded by many, but
half of their number at least still stick
to the old-fashioned queue. Nor has the
Chinese waiter come as yet to wear the
regulation attire OF his occidental broth
er. The usual costume consists of long
blue linen robe open at the side and bor-
dered at the neck and wrists by thin
white stripe, the whole worn over white
trousers that 1T tightly at the ankles.
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saving: 81 didn't like the country-until
-until-but now | do And the LANGUAGE
e hard but maybe it will be easier if
we learn it together.
Maybe" assented Alma shyly.
And from that time Alma and Hans
were Americans.
(THE END.
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In Plunkville.

From tine Louisville Courer-Journal
Il was tricked into taking the nomi-
ma ton for mayor"
Who tricked yoar"
MY creditors cooked il up OF course
when I got the nomination. I went
around and paid them all something on
account"
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A Woman's Question

From the Boston Transcript.
Paying Teller cannot cash this
check, madam.
She-Why not?
Paying Teller-There isn't enough
money here to meet IL.
She-Then- can't you meet il half
way:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-29

1t matters little what 1t is that you
want-whether a situation or a servant
a want ad in The Star will reach the
person who will fill your need.
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Was Lying Down, Probably.
the Boston Transcript

From the Boston TranscriH.
Gritty George-This paper says that
prosperity is advancin' by leaps an
bounds.
Prayed Philip-If OATS so, il must er
jumped clean over me.
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ME- a PAIN.
haywood or Mayville The multiplicity
OF names was confusing, and the man
who wrote the address for Hans was
not an adept with the pencil. But he
said that this shop paid much better
Hans probably could get twice what
he was receiving at present He well
any change. Since all the new
country offered was work. he wanted
the work that paid the most.
He looked at the transfer doubt
fully. Perhaps he should have changed
three streets back He did not know.
Chicago had so many. Streets so many
street cars. so many transfers. 1t
would have been better to wait till
Sunday, when daylight would have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-29

Ii pays to read the want columns Of
The Star. Hundreds OF situations are
filed through them.
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After grounding ledge of rocks
in Lake Superior, Mich, in fog. and
punching hole in her bottom, the cutter
Tuscarora is at Manitowock, Wis, for
repairs, which will be completed in few
days. and the cutter will return TO
service
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-23
SUES TO RECOVER
FARM FROM SON

The story OF an aged couple who
decided their property to a son relying
on the promise that they could spend
the evening OF their lives in peace and
free from the burdens of hard labor
through which they had saved to buy
the property; and then found them
selves dispossessed. without "A home
and without means Of support, is told
III a complaint filed in the circuit
court Monday.
Leon M~roczkiewicz n Wiktoria.
his wife. the aged couple and Sadie
and Martin Szizisny filed the suit
against Louis Mroczkiewic2, the son.
1t is alleged that on oct. 80. 1909. the
old people decided their farm which
with the house was worth $4,000 10
Louis on the promise that he would
support them and that they would not
have to do hard work any longer.
Louis was TO assume a mortgage for
$1,000 carried On the farm but gave
no other cOnsi6 Grafton, the complaint
charges.
Immediately afterwards he made
his home on the farm and soon began
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-23
CHOIR LEADER IS
HONORED GUEST
Homer Rodeheaver, Who Di-
reCted Work of Local SUM-
day Chorus, Tells of Work
With Evangelist.

Homer Rodeheaver. the favorite Of
the Billy Sunday party was greeted
at the Y. NJ. G.. A. Monday night by
over 800 members Of the old chorus
hat sang at the meetings at the re-
vivaI last spring.
They received the singer with loud
shouts and compelled him TO sing all
OF the favorite songs in the Red BoO
and several others which have been
written by Ackley since the party left
South Bend.
In a snort address the singer ex-
emplided the faithfulness Of the big
chorus in its regular attendance last
spring. saying that although not the
largest it was the faithfuIest.
He pointed to the big results Of the
campaign at JOhnstOwn and said that
at the next meeting To be held at
Pittburgh. starting next week the
largest revival ever held contcm-
plated. The chorus for that city Is
made up OF over $500 voices n will
be four times the size OF the one for
this city. The mammoth tabernacle
there will seat several thousand peo-
pie more than the one here n with
the city's largest population one Of the
biggest revfvals ever conducted by the
baseball evangelist is expected to be
held.
The chorus OF this city may be kept
permanently. This will be decided
by a role Of the members who are
expected to mail letters to the chair
man stating their willingness TO con
tinue with the work. =. F. Angus
tine spoke at the meeting, introduce
ing "Rody." who gave a full history
OF the present party. Several new
members had been taken into il and
that Rev. VIM Asher and his wife
are no longer a part OF II, he said.
A buffet luncheon was served after
the reception.
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e assign tasks for the father. In
July. 1913. the elder Mroczkiewicz,
who is past p years old. was felled BY
sun stroke while stacking wheat at his
sons command.
on the nex day when the father
was Ill Louis ordered both parents
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-23

away from the farm it is alleged.
The suit asks that the deed be set
aside and the property restored TO he
parents.
Suit for the partition Of several
parcels OF real estate in South Bend
was filed in the circuit court Monday
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-23

by Lowell Parker against Nellie
Booth and Joseph Bevere. The COM
plant asks the sale OF the property
and the division OF the proceeds
among the three.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-23

NEws-TIMEs WANTS ADS. PAY.
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