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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19

main roads a much greater amount Is
spent, n on the minor roads consid-
erably less. The minister of public
works, too, is recommending that $780,
100000 additional be provided during
the next 10 or IL years for some btu
minous binder on 5000 miles of national
highways, where it is greatly needed.
Turning now to England, where the
road surfaces are, on the whole, better
than those in France, it is found that
the average cost of maintenance on the
27,S00 miles of main roads in England
and Wales is $475 per mile per n u
and that on the $4,000 miles of rural
roads in England the average cost Of
maintenance is $115. 1t should not be
forgotten. too, that wages are lower
there than here.
While these figures should not-and
in fact will not-discourage persistent
effort to improve highway systems
here, they may well be borne in mind
to silence those who see little good in
our own works and much good abroad.
True it is that in some sections Of this
country appropriations for a few Sc
lected routes have compared we'll with
those quoted, but taking the country
generally the amounts available have
been pitiably small as compared to
English and French practice.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19
Ono Way to Help Yourself.

From the Wofnan's Home Companion.
Charles e. Jefferson. pastor. of Brad
way tabernacle in New York city.
writes an entertaining and helpful ar
ttcle. entitled. The Uses of Biogra-
ply in which he shows how a study
of the lives of the great is of practical
use to the individual. Following is an
extract:
Life everywhere has a tendency to.
become monotonous and sordid. We
all fall into foolish ways of thinking
! and unhealthy ways of feeling. and we
need the healing touch OF lofty souls.
fortunately for us, such souls are al
ways within our reach. We may live
IN a city or ina hamlet, or In an iso-
lated farmhouse among the mountains
or on the plain, but no matter where
we are we can. when evening comes sit
down: and commune with the immor-
tails. The homes of the upper 400 may
be closed to use. but we are all
ways at liberty 10 dine with the
Kings and queens Of history. 1t is amaz-
ing that SO many men and women
throw away their opportunities to walk
n talk with the great. IL 1t be true
that a man is known by the company
he Keeps. then there is many a person
VINO has reason to be ashamed of HIM
SELF. A book is nothing but a man or
woman. and If one invites into his
home flashy ind trivial and vulgar,
writers-the ~scapegraces and dahblers
OF Hterature-he indicates by his choice
the manner of person he is. Ev COM
pany doth corrupt good manners as
Paul reminded the Corinthians long
ago. and it Is impossible to associate
with men. either In the flesh or in
books. without being brought somewhat
nearer this level. Many a maj is to-
day pessimistic because he has read so
many diseased and glooniy-hearted
nfthors. and many a woman carries an
unhappy heart because of the poison
injected by the books which she has
read. Life is too short to read any but
ter books than those which portray the
career and Interpret the character of
/ great rler.n
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19
An Era of Hospitals.
the ST. Louis Times.

The news report of an aged citizen OF
Philadelphia VINO killed mis- wife. at her
request, because she had been seriously
injured, and declared that she hadn't
much faith in hospitals, contains the hope
full reminder that the dread and mistrust
of hospitals, which used to be common
enough, is almost entirely a thing of the
past.
One of the most tragic figures drawn by
old woman in Our Mutual Friend" who
refuses to permit a little child that has
been placed in her care to be taken to the
hospital, where 1t might ave been re-
stored to health, until it is too late for
the physicians to be of any help. But
since Dickens day the hospitals have I'M
dergone a wonderful change, and popular
sentiment has changed correspondence.
In almost the average case the Doctors
first advice now is that the patient shall
recognized that all the medicines are less
potent to heal than the benignant nat
ural forces which begin to exert them
selves as soon as the invalid has been re-
with its bad ventilation, unsuitable food
and other ~unsanitary conditions.
The best medical ski can avail but lit
tie when it must combat these evils; lille
very little medical skill is enough in a
majority of cases, when the patient has
been removed to a place where the at
mosphere is conducive to rest, where air
and food are right, and where skilled
nurses are in attendance.
1t is not the least of the evidences Of
are now among the most common of in
stitutions in the larger cities, and that
ailing people are beginning to regard
them more and more with longing when
the processes Of vital waste lave been
going on more rapidly than the processes
of regeneration.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19
You Can't Keep Your Thoughts Secret

You Can't Keep Your Thoughts Secret
III the Woman's Home Companion
Ralph Waldo Urine writes a remark
able article entitled "Actualizing Ones
Ideals" an interesting extract from
which follows:
TT was that able writer Of the
minds processes, James Allen, who
said: 'Men imagine that thought can
be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapid
ly crystallzes into habit, and habit
solidifies into circumstance. !.
Man is a growth by law, and not q
creation by artifice, and cause and ef-
feet is as absolute and undertaking in
the hidden realm of thought as in the
world of visible and material things
And again he says: "A man Is literally
what he thinks, his character being the
complete sum of all his thoughts
AS within, SO without-always and
inevitably. A thoroughly scientific
foundation, we will find as we go deep
ly enough, underlies the statement: AS
a man thinketh in his heart SO. is he.
There is nothing by way of habit, char
acter, even achievement that can get
into a mans or a woman's life except
through the avenue of his or her mem
tai life. Search as carefully and as
critically as we will, we will find no
exceptions to this rule.
TT was that great seer, Emanuel
Swedenborg, who delved so deeply in
to the laws Of correspondence, who
wrote: Every volition and thought Of
nan is inscribed on his brain. Thus a
man writes his life in his physique, and
thus the angels discover his auto
biography in his structure"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19
HTS PROMISE TO DO BETTER
Hard to see how hodoarrier Could
Live Up 20 Il, Considering the
Circumstances

The late George A. Hearn, the mil.
donaire business man and art collect
OF Of New York, was noted for his
Kind and reasonable treatment Of his
employees. Mr.. Hearn used to smile at
the new scientific management craze,
Of which he once said at a dinner:
These scientific Management peo-
pie, with their impossible claims of
doubling and trebling a mans labor,
remind me of the humble hodcarrier's
impossible promise.
"A %facetious boss said to a new
hodcarrier:
"Looka-here, friend, didn't I hire
you to carry bricks up that ladder by
the day"
Yes, SIR said the h%odcarrier,
touching his cap.
well, I've got my eye on you, and
you've only done half a day today.
You spent the other half coming
down the ladder
The hodcarier touched his cap
again.
"Tn try to do better tomorrow. SIR
he said humbly."
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19
Care of Cuts.

The danger from a cut isn't always
in proportion to it's size. Few of those
received in work about the home and
farm endanger life by bleeding, for,
unless a large artery is severed, ma
ture has her own way of stopping the
flow before serious consequences en-
sue. But all cuts, whether large or
small, have within them grave posi-
bilities, for they mean that the skin,
that great protective covering for the
body, has been broken, and that the
soft tissues beneath have been exposed
to contamination by dirt and infection
by germs
Most wounds contain more or less
visible dirt, carried into them by the
cutting instrument, and this instru-
ment, no matter what it is, or how clean
1t may appear to the eye, is practically
always a carrier of germs; for germs
are omnipresent. In healthy tissues
nature is usually able to take care of
these invaders, and the only evidence
of the fight. that is going on between
them n the blood is the matter" or
apus, that forms while the wound is
healing. Occasionally sue germs as
find entrance are Immediately washed
out by the flow of blood, and If no
others are admitted the cut surfaces
unite without any pus showing. This
is the result to be hoped for, and the
aim OF proper treatment.
Knowing that the chief danger from
all minor wounds lies in the possibility
of their infection by malignant germs,
we have the key to their proper treat
ment. This is exceedingly simple, call
Ing for but two things; first, the at
tainment of cleanliness in and about
the wound; and, second, the mainten-
ance of that cleanliness. Soap and wa
ter are nearly always at hand. The
early use of these will often render the
use Of surgical measures, later, UNI
necessary. A roll OF soft white cloths
that have been washed and ironed
should have a place in every home
gency.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19
Corn No Longer King.
From the Drovers' Telegram

tNtSEEH.f- oAAs 1000.
The presence on the Kansas City mar
ket one day last week OF topnotch hogs
fattened IN wheat calls to mind the fact
that q failure Of the corn crop these days
try out Of business. Twenty years ago.
II not less, 9 drought such as portions OF
the west had last summer, put the kibosh
on feeding. Today the feeder simply goes
to the silo and pitches out a bunch Of
spinach: goes to the wheat bin, the sor-
ghum. alfalfa. hay, cottonseed meal. tank
ge, or other receptacle and forgets that
h corn crop failed to mak good. Back
in those days. when the farmer-feeder's
sole reliance was on the cornfield, a single
dealer in ~cottonseed meal products at the
City stock yards was given the
merry ha ha when he tried to sell some
Ct his stuff to the average man. Today
the numerous purveyors of those feeds
dispose of the entire product of h cot
tonseed factories, and In feeding seasons
few years 6 fat live stock was an incl
dent 70 the corn crop. Today the corn
crop Is ar incident to fat stock. The
= which was Jcoincident with di-
verssfied farming, ushsred in the mort
gage era and the subsequent owaership
By farmers OF the country banks.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19
WAR INuNITED STATES
'DEPLoRED BY MENCANS
Newspapers Tell of Outbreaks
in This Country-Sack-
ing Of Denver.
From the Mexican Herald.

LM LA
Under the caption OF ITO the formid-
able cry long live liberty! A revolu-
ton has broken out in the United
States; reports received at the last
moment coming from Laredo, say that
In the state of Colorado, two battalions
OF negroes have risen in arms and as
serted their claims Of citizenship; it is
assured that within a short time unless
they are heard, more tina 100, 900 men
who have suffered humiliation at the
hands of the whites will repudiate
President Woodrow wilson, Ell Her
aldo Nacional, in an extra edition said:
"For two or three days back. sensa-
lonal reports have circulated in the
north of the republic and particularly
In towns which are ear the line. re-
garding the uprising of two battalions
of negroes Of the American army, in
the state of Colorado.
Report Spreads.
In the foreign circles of this capital
and particularly among persons who
nave business with commercial houses
In the south Of the United States, the
report also has spread Of the uprising
Of the two battalions Of negroes, pro-
claiming h revolution of the colored
people against the American govern
ment.
Some of the Yankee gentlemen, how
ever, have given no Importance to the
affair because they consider the ne
groes inferior to the whites and doubht
that they will be able to prosper in the
rebellion which they are starting.
w held such sensational news in
quarantine until, from Laredo, Tex, we
received the confirmation Of the cry Of
liberty which has been started by the
negro soldiers, who carry a banner
which reads Death to Wilson and long
live Taft
Denver Is ss7ked.
THE first town to be attacked was
Denver, Col, where the negroes sacked
cial houses and set fire to many private
residences.
Abandoning this important town,
they destroyed the lines of commune
cation, both railway and telegraph.
government of the United
States has hushed up all that it knows
about this armed movement, giving as
explanation that it is merely a ques-
ton OF a strike, but already 1t is under
standing the Importance of the upris-
ing, since, very soon, it will see itself
opposed by more than 100000 negroes
are working for the abolition OF
slavery and of the lack of consideration
Yankees throughout the confederation.
Censorship Is On.
We expect more details regarding
this, although the government of
Washington has ordered a censorship
IN all it's forms on the kilograms which
cave the United States
The Herald has received no news re-
garding the reported revolution in Colo
RADIO and takes the above story YER
batim from it's better informed coll
El Feraldo Nacional, as it APP
pears that it was not SO fortunate in
avoiding the censorship at Washington
is referred to in the last para.
graph of the story.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19
Pearls Il Madeline.

Scotland still produces pearls. found
my in the fresh water mussel.
sUeopatra was not the only person
~ swallowed q dissolved pearl. I'm
M8comparatively recent times they
esss used incidentally In Europe and
kdsl spear IN the materia medica Of
Gldna According to one Chinese au-
snoEfty. pearl after being treated
9lth psInice stone and honeycomb,
mixed with the gall Of a serpent.
might be drawn out to the length Of
@fee orfour feet. Make it into pills
~ suallow them-henceforth food
~ be unnecessary The suggestion,
= not that the patient would be fna
lnhsd of. but that he would live, food.
lasss forever.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19
Tho coca-Leaf Habit.
Peter MacQl,een In the National

On my Journey through the cold up
lands OF the South American mountains.
II came upon the natives chewing coca
leaves. The habit Is almost universal in
the valleys OF the high Andes. Seeing
the people look 50 happy with coca leaves
liz their mouths, tried to chew some
leaves mysslf. fonnd them tasteless.
3ust likethay.SRut whenI swallowed some
Of the Juice from them, ] found 1t q most
delightful %stiynulant to the stomach. For
IS long time I had been suffering from an.
ulcer OF the stomach which was painful.
The coca leaves reduced the pain at once
for a month, and II did more for the cure
of the Ulcer Of the stomach than any
medicine that I had taken In Europe or
America for this trouble. r mention this
p~articularly. II doctors OF Bolivia and.
Peru last summer were In a hot dispute
about the evil effects thar chewing coca
leaves had upon the natives. One-half OF
medical fraternity ayowed that the
habit vas not injurious, while the other
hall maintained that the coca leaves had
4siIch effect upon the natives hat It
held them back from civilization infln-
eneeB.SANhAt shall q layman do when doc.
diksHFrrE q H R sGN5. Id .1AN5E.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19

appearance that had frightened tho
COW into making flight. After a mo-
ment's reflection Mr.. Stoddard went
into the house reappearing dressed in
the garb of his wife. Approaching the
COW in a distant meadow he found her
quite doci,e and willing to be led home
and MIXED. Mr.. Stoddard is con-
WINGED that the COW had been alarmed
at the sight of his trousers. She had
never seen trousers before, having al
ways been attended by the sex that
V wear them.
Strangers passing the Stoddard farm
are said to be amused at the sight Of
a man in petticoats milking a COW. MI.
Stoddard fears that he will always be
obliged to wait upon the new COW
tricked out in the garb Of his wife.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19

inmates of the Stoddard barn yard
by crashing sound of disorderly
riot issuing from the COW shed.
Flocking to the scene they saw the
new arrival in their midst, the COW
doing a running broad jump over a
near by fence, while the owner. Mr..
Stoddard, stood by. milk pail in
hand. in open mouth wonder. The
MIXED had given Mr.. Stoddard one
frightened glance and made for the
middle distance.
Mr.. Stoddard was severely perplexed.
He knew hat the sisters Case had
MIXED the COW for several years I'M
hafnpered by such bovine capricious-
ness. Obviously there was that in his
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19
y! s. oF PAsToR's FLOCK


=. Milo Hudson Gates, vicar Of the
AlpllS 81 the Intsrcession, 10 q benev-
p11nk md f&therly man. He has no
lhfl6rsn of his own. but lie godfather,
H. naarly 80. A few belong to his
4ands. but tho greater number are
na1dren who have been presented for
bAotism with no one to stand sponsor
them. A dozen or more bear Dr..
nates name.
Not long ago he was walking down
Broadway near One Hundred and Fiji,
ly]ffth street, and saw a small Italo.
American industriously digging in the
blrt Thinking there was something
ehmiliar about the youngsters appear.
moe he patted him on the head and
liked: What's your name. young
man7'
b boy looked up from his excavat
~ and replied: "Meelo Hud-so-a
oatus!s-New York Evening Post.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19

feet and what / did do was by a great
effort. / could not sleep at night and
of course felt very bad in the morning,
and had a steady headache.
"After taking the second bottle I no.
ticed that the headache was. not SO bad,
/ rested better, aud my nerves were
stronger. / continued it's use until it
made a new woman of me, and now +
can hardly realize that I am able to do
SO much as I do. Whenever I know any
woman in need of a good medicine I
highly praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound."-M Mrs. FRANK
CLARK, 3146 N. Tulip St, Richmond, Pa.
Women Have Been Telling Women
for forty years how Lydia 2. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has restored their
health when suffering with female ills.
This accounts for the enormous demand
for it from coast to coast. If you are
troubled with any ailment peculiar to
om why don't you try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound? It
viii pay you to do 81 Lydia E. Pink
ham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19
Excellencs Of Roads Abroad.

So much is heard about the excel
lence OF roads in England and France
occasionally sonle consideration OF
their cost is helpful to a fuller appre-
citation Of what will be necessary in or
der that systems of equal merit (traf-
be developed here. says a writer in a
recent issue of the Engineering Review.
The road mileage of France is 371, 900
and the cost, at time when wages
were very, very low, was S1,663. 000,0 900.
On this basis, to secure a system for
the 23, 900 miles of highways in Massa-
;chusetts would require the expenditure
Of S100. 00,000sS Moreover, France
spends $4,000 900 per annurn for MAIN;
tenanca This is about $3.50 a mile ID
year, a figure which. OF course, as an
average very little. since on tbs
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19
Qna Dry Snot

Henry Ward Beecher did not be-
16sye that the most juicy things in
Il world necessarily were sermons.
q vas visiting DR.. Alexander at
eyra1lnceton university. ana the vener-
eale Presbyterian president showed
Nm g polished cabinet In which were
~ the sermons OF his long New York
ministry There they were, standing
> stately array. .sThis Is q beauti-
nlEpresent made me by some OF my
peoplA," said the doctor. YES" said
peecher q am glad to see this place.
wy inquired Dr. Alexander.
gs1slls Am glad replied the witty
Slssacher, to know that this place
a existence. Or. Alexander, be-
nase. y ever there Is another food
VII start for this spot-there will
one dry place"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19
railways. The Duchy survived the
various wars of Europe, eve the
French revolution.
1.-THE Department of Forests"

French revolution.
THE Department of Forests"
Nothing reveals more clearly the alb
sence of communal and social IDEAL
ism in the revolution than the wanton
invasion Of the duchy in 1894. From
October, 1894, to June, 1875, Luxem-
bourg fortress resisted the siege. Fam
inc, not brute strength, beat down the
gates. The revolutionists styled the
duchy their department of forests"
and proceeded to fleece and tyrannize
over the people until in despair they
rose against their tormentors in he
peasants war. With the utmost bar
barity it was crushed. But not before
Napoleon had admired the LuXem-
bourg courage. The republic went
down. The French empire arose.
Prussia became paramount for a time.
Then Belgium and Holland settled
their differences in 1889, by the treaty
of London, when the nap of LuXem-
bourg as we know it was fixed.
Nationality and Language.
In 1866, France and Germany nearly
came to blows about Luxembourg. But
when 1870 saw the war in progress
Luxembourg was clear, standing as it
has stood ever since as a symbol of
independence without aggression. At
present there is a tendency to Ger
MAMIE the state. The mines are large
y eiAaS1 Nv iiett ~. LIN ~
laborers have had to be imported.
There are many Italians. But, as the
author says, both these races adapt
themselves. They have something of
the Jews leavenfng quality. For
trade purposes Luxembourg is in the
German Zollverein, and her railways.
Of which there are several lines, also
are German. And they are cheap and
GOOD. In the primary schools both
trench and German are spoken, but
alter French takes prominence as the
official language. There is, too, the
Luxembourg patois, borrowed from
celtic, Roman, Saxon, French and Ger
nan sources. Although the country is
50 small, there are at least four va
rieties of this dialect. When written
he taste and fancy of the speller'
dictate the form. What a paradise for
the simplified spelling societies!
A Holiday Place.
So many interesting reflections have
sprung from this wonderful book that
Its descriptions Of the country, of it's
Wine growing, its pleasures and pros
per1ty, have been neglected. One
would like to live through the exper-
fences. From the numerous pictures
Luxembourg is no parasite state ex-
listing upon the tips and amusements
OF moneyed American and British
tourists. 1t Is a self-respecting and
self-supporting land, with good and
reasonable accommodation for a class
OF people to whom a holiday does not
consist in mere sightseeing under the
superintendent of a human am
phone.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19

Mr.. Frank %stoddard, agriculturist of
near West Simsbury, Conn, has de-
raised lovingly by female farmers.
Mr.. Stoddard recently made a pur-
chase of one Holster COW from the
Misses Alice n Jennie Case, lady
dairy farmers Of North Canton. The
trafficking of the COW occurred late in
the evening AID Mr.. Stoddard led the
COW home with him that night. He
was assured by the Misses Case that
the COW was fresh, sound in wind, of
gentle blooded lineage AID in every
way a first rate, A No. / COW. Mr..
Stoddard paid the reckoning and led
the COW slowly home. AS pointed out
above; this was after dark.
Hens. horses. pigs, pullets and other
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-19

~ 4. :. Flssnor. Using your pills. and
eoeotyed to try them. I did. and took
- two boxes. and ! am now sound
- well.sI regard my cure % remark
-. I can recommend Dodd's Kidney
80 e any one who Ia suffering from
@dnsyHTrouble a. ! vas Write to MI.
Nsesnor about this wonderful remedy.
0odd's Kidney Pills, Soc. per box at
dealer or Dodd's Medicine Co..
De1alo, n. +. Write for Household
9ntss also music Of National Anthem
yAazish and German words) and reci-
- 9 dainty dishes. All 8 sent free
~.