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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-09-30
ON firing Line
WOUNDED AUSTRIAN OFFICER
DESCRIBES SENSATION OF
SOLDIERS IN BATTLE.

Rotterdam, Sept. 30.-The psy-
chology of the battle field gets a
rather thorough and able treatment
by an Austrian reserve officer, who
after having been wounded in an en-
.gagement with the Russians gave the
following interview to an Hungarian
journalist. The officer in question
was with Gen. Dankl in the fighting
southeast of Krasnik:
You feel little or nothing while
in BATTLE" he said. AT least you
forget how things affect your mind.
The eyes see and the ears hear, but
those are precipitations which do not
result in impressions one could CO.
ordinate. They do not even affect
your sentiments. But it is not cynic-
ism for all that, merely the lack of
appreciation of what takes place. My
captain, a most loveable fellow whom
l did not alone respect as an officer,
but of whom | also thought a great
deal personally, vas leading his COM
! pany into fire when three bullets hit
him in the abdomen. | saw him fall,
but thought nothing of it and march
ed on.
III Spli6 VI tue IdtI lHdI you nave
no i'll feelings against the enemy, and
may not even fear him, you destroy
him as best you can. On the evening
before our first battle, we were sit
ting about the mess table-most of
us officers of the line. None of us
had ever killed a man. said,
Friends, when | meet the first Rus
sian officer tomorrow my impulse will
be to shake his hand My comrades
agreed with me. But on the follow
ing day | was obliged to lay a num-
Der of Russians low.
My Slovacs are the most phleg-
matte people in the world, but excel
lent soldiers. They shoot without an
ger, but simply because they are fired
upon. One fights because one is on
the battle field and cannot do any
different. The terrible thing is that
often you are shot at without being
able to return the fire. But this is
not as fear-inspiring as it is discour-
aging. You learn to know what fear
is when you begin to realize that you
might be killed without killing some
body first.
"Of course, | have been scared.
That vas after | had been wounded.
We had been firing a long time and
when next we advanced we came into
a deep sandy road, out of which we
could not get because of the enemy's
terrible fire. We had to lie perfectly
still while bullets simply poured over
us. That was awful"
The officer omitted to state that
while in this position he was shot
three times in the arm, but continued
to lead his troops throughout the
action.
1T is a we'll known fact that the
soldiers see very little of the battle.
On August "a early in the morning
| we received orders to occupy a low
hill at the edge of a track covered
with brush wood. Forming part OF
| the reserve we were expected to re-
main under w In front of us
was a large open battlefield. To each
side of us were batteries which had
thundered away since early morning
| The result of this was that many OF
the enemy's shells dropped right in
front of us. | remember noticing that
| while the smoke of our shells had a
lilac color that of the enemy's was
| white"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-09-30

Carload of fancy hand picked iona
athan apples for sale at Buck &
Co.'S.
For Rent. Five room house.
julius Borchart, phone $50 yellow.
For Rent. Four room house two
blocks southeast of postoffice.-
Henry Kiner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Hines
mourn the death Of their infant
daughter, aged seven months.
Mrs. Williams of Sioux City is a
guest at the home of her sister, Mrs
C. w. Wood.
Mrs. Borland and Mrs. Elfert re-
turned this morning from Carthage,
where they attended a district Re.
bekah meeting.
M. G.. Drake was a morning passen-
ger for Minneapolis in the interest OF
his farm implement business.
Mrs. f. c. Smith was a morning
passenger for Vermillion to call on
her daughter, Miss Genevieve, stu
dent in the state university.
DR.. w. E. Kinney, the auctioneer,
will next Saturday hold a street sale
of any surplus property Madison OIL
Lake county people may have for
sale. List your property with DR.
Kinney or Guy r. Mitchell.
The Catholic ladies will serve their
regular 10 cent lunch in the basement,
of the church Thursday afternoon
The public is cordially invited.
For Sale. Good, gentle pony, safe
for ladies and children, also brass
bed, springs, birds eye maple dresser
oak writing desk, all new, Schiller
piano, stoves and other furniture
e. M. Bourne.
The county commissioners will
meet next Tuesday in regular October
session. Herman Christianson, who
has for the past few years occupied
the position of superintendent of The
poor farm and will be succeeded b,
Frank Beckner. Mr.. Beckner wa!
formerly in charge of the farm anc
gave excellent satisfaction.
Col. Luce of Minneapolis, presiden
of the Luce Electric Short Line, ar
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-09-30

For Failure to Transmit a Message

Mitchell, Sept. 30.-Papers have
been filed with the clerk of the mu-
nicipal court in a suit in which the
Western Union Telegraph company is
charged with neglecting to transmit
a message entrusted to its care at the
office in this city. The plaintiff is
Jack Furman, an employe of a Kan
sas City, Mo-, advertising agency,
who alleges that on the 23d of last
June he filed with the defendant at
the local office a message for trans
mission to his firm. He further
claims that he paid the charges for
the same, that the message was ac-
cepted, but that the telegraph COM
pany failed to transmit 1t. Damages
to the amount of $110 r asked,
with costs. The company is given
ten days in which to file an answer
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-09-30
LOCAL NEWS

Eat at Jacks.
For Sale. New boat, with cart
T.. M. Bourne.
Potatoes wanted. Will pay high
est market price for your potatoes
Il. Kelley & Son.
Eat at Jacks.
For Rent. Five room house
Albert Budde.
For Sale. New Radiant Home hard
coal heater.-Steve Olsbo.
Wanted. Chambermaid and strong
girl to do kitchen work at Jacks res.
taurant.
Get your fee cream at the Sugar
Bowl, 80 cents a quart, delivered to
any part of the city.
For Rent. First building south OF
my shoe repairing shop.-A. j
Peters.
Eat at Jacks.
For Rent. Five room cottage, fur
mace heat, electric lights, cistern
good basement.-H. III. Holdridge.
For Sale. A number of wheel
scrapers and drags.-H. M. Penn.
Talk to Osborn about wall papers
City property for. sale. Inquire al
Hotchkiss grocery.
For Rent. The e. j. Fawkes resi-.
dence and two acres of land, on East
Eighth street.-Geo. Kehrwald
phone l, G line.
Yardman wanted at the Lake Park
hotel.
Furnished room for rent.-Mrs
Grant Winesburg.
Reserve your seats for the Norma,
entertainment course at Smiths drug
store Oct. 3, from Sis to IL a. m
The first number is Oct. z.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-09-30
SUDDEN DEATH
j. ID. Reeves, Groton Editor, Drops
Dead on Street.

Aberdeen, Sept. 30. ID. Reeves,
former state auditor, and editor of
the Independent at Groton for the
past thirty-three years, dropped dead
on the streets of that town of heart
failure. He was born in Pleasant
Grove, Olmstead county, Mimi, in
1858. He learned his trade at Spring
Valley, Mimi, and established the In
dependent at Groton on Sept. 9, 1881.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-09-30
KIRK PHILLIPS ESTATE
Will Be Sued by the State to Recover
Interest Money.

Pierre, Sept. 29.-Attorney Gen
eral Johnson went to Deadwood to
file a claim against the Kirk Phillips
estate for $51,S92. This sum is al
legged to have been collected by Phil
lips while he was state treasurer as
interest on state funds.
Until a few years ago 1t was the
custom in South Dakota for state
treasurers TO collect interest from
state funds in various banks, and to
treat these interest collections as pri-
vate profit. The investigating COM
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-09-30
pixzy2 ainousp constipated7

DIR. Kings New Life Pills win cure
you, cause a healthy Low of bile and ribs
your stomach and bowels of waste and
fermenting body poisons. They are g
tonic to your stomach and liver and tons
the general system. First dose will cure
you of that depressed. dizzy, bilious and
constipated condition. 25 cents at your
druggist.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-09-30

mittee appointed at the legislative
session of 1913 uncovered a large
amount of money due to the state
from such sources.
The Phillips case, now started, is
the first test action on these unre-
ported interest payments. If this ac-
ton is maintained in courts suits will
be started to collect from other for
mer treasurers.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-09-30

No better medicine could be made for
coughs, colds, Group, hoarseness, tickling
throat, bronchitis, etc., thar Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound. That's why
they can't improve the quality and war
or no war, the price remains the same.
No opiates. Don't take substitutes, for
Foley's Honey and Tar is the best. For
sale by all druggists.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-09-30
THE CITY
WEATHER FORECAST.

Fair tonight and Thursday; warm
er extreme west portion tonight.
Evening star., 1914-04-26
HARARp ObsEFNNToR1 WrTFT ST. lr1TE bAcKGRouraD

shipments amount to more than ten mil
lion pounds weight every year. and they
have value perhaps of two and a half
million dollars. The leading exporting
houses of the city have their agents in
all parts of the Andean plateau, and
the wool is bought from the Indians and
haciendados and sent TO Lake Titicaca.
from where it comes over the railroad
to .Arequipa. Some of it is consumed in
the ,woolen mills here. but the majority
of the product is sent abroad. Nearly
all of the vicuna and alpaca wool
passes through Arequipa
Returning to the city itself. Arequipa
is quite manufacturing center. 1t
makes harness and saddlery, boots and
shoes, and it has large cotton mills
1t has also the railroad shops of the
Southern railroad of Peru.i which makes
this place its headquarters. There are
about 500 men employed there: they are
now making their own passenger and
freight cars, as well as all the repairs
for the rolling stock.
The town also manufactures chocolate.
1t has flour mill and it does a great
deal Of exporting and importing, being
the center of trade for southern Peru
and also for a great part of Bolivia. The
Southern railway is the chief gateway
to La PaZ. and it will always compete
with the other roads that go to and from
Bolivia and the seacoast. 1t is on this ac-
count that Arequipa will probably be i'm
proved by the Panama canal. The city
Evening star., 1914-04-26

that this cloudy condition is SO increas-
ing that Harvard University is seriously
considering the removal of it's observatory
from here to some other place.
l doubt not. many of you have heard
of the Harvard observatory. 1t is one of
the most noted astronomical stations of
the whole world. 1t is situated on the
slope of Mount Misti, 800 feet above Are
quipa, at such a place that its telescopes
have an unobstructed view of the heay-
ems. The institution has a fine plant, and
it is equipped with great telescopes. one
of which has lens two feet in diameter
enabling them to take photographs on
plates fourteen by seventeen inches In
size. The tube of that instrument must
weigh a ton, but it is SO deicately hung
that child could move it. There are other
telescopes for taking the portraits of
the stars and for the past two or three
decades these scientists of Harvard have
been making heavenly records of this
southern hemisphere. They have taken
as many as fifty night and thousands
a year The negatives after having been
developed are shipped to Cambridge.
where they are kept on file for scientific
work. There is no such collection any
where else and astronomers have to go
there If they would make certain classes
of study.
There is, 1 am told, nothing duplicated
in the sky. Each half of the world
has its own stars and consultations, and
there are some here that we never see
in the north. One of these is the south
Evening star., 1914-04-26

is 100 miles from Mollendo. the chief
port of the south for this part of the
world The landing is poor. however.
The ships have to anchor far out from
the shore and the swell is worse than
that of Jaffa. which tossed Jonah's ship
so that the sailors threw him out to the
whale. The Mollendo landing is often
so rough that passengers have to be
taken up by steam cranes from the
boats that bring them to the port from
the steamer, and goods have to be put
on and off of the launches by cranes.
The ocean was tanner than usual when l
came into port: but my boat went up
and down eight or ten feet. and | had
to make a flying leap, when it was on
the up grade, to get to the steps that
led to the custom house.
When ! visited Arequipa in 1898 it was
lighted by coal oil, and l do not remem-
ber that it had a car line. 1t has now
an electric light plant from turbines run
by water power and also an excellent sys-
TEN of tramways. which it is extending
out into the country. 1t is well equipped
as to telephones. both local and long dis
tance, and the telephone companies will
accept long-distance messages at tee-
graph rates, which are only l6 cents for
ten words. For ~ cents you may talk
for five minutes between Arequipa and
Evening star., 1914-04-26

Mollendo, a distance Of more than 100
miles. l venture the rate is less than
one-half that of the United States.
With the completion of the canal Are
quipa will become tourist resort. 1t is
place for breaking the journey on the
long ride up the Andes mountains from
the ocean to Lake Titcaca and Cuzco.
and it ought to have good hotels. The
best of those it has now is kept by an
Italian named Morosni. who quarters his
guests on one side of the plaza and feeds
them on the other side in a long, low,
cave-like vault which is known as the
comedor, or dining room. The food IS
good and the bedrooms are large, but
there are no modern improvements and
the sanitary arrangements are poor.
From sightseeing point | find Are
quipa quite as interesting as Lima. 1t
has a great cathedral, built of white
stone, which must cover an acre or so of
space. This faces on the plaza, filling
the whole of one side of the square. The
three other sides are occupied by stores.
more quaint than any in Europe. The
buildings are of only one story, and in
front OF them extend wide portales or
corridors with huge columns separating
them from the plaza. On the other side
of the corridors is wall of cave-like
vaults, lighted only from the front ard
the roof The stores are fifteen or TWEEN
ty feet wide and twenty or thirty or more
feet deep. and their ceilings are arched,
so that the whole looks like one long
vault The goods are hung from the
Evening star., 1914-04-26
A GREAT. CATHEDRAL BLlLT OE White ST ONE

ceilings and piled up on the floors. The
market seems to be a good one, and
saw many American articles.
Nearly all the houses of Arequlpa have
vaulted roofs, and on some of the one
story structures the roofs extend up in
oval domes or hoods. The city is under
the shadow of the volcano Mount Misi
and in the past has had serious earth
quakes. For this reason the skyScraper
will never be known, and today a five
story building would be the talk of the
town.
The city is one of the oldest towns in
America and it dates back almost to the
days of Pizarro. 1t is a place Of old
families, and Of considerable culture. 1t
is an ecclesiastical and political center.
1t has a university and several colleges,
and also school of arts and an agricul-
tural institute. Moreover, it boasts of
having the finest hospital in all south
America, and that although its climate is
one of the finest on earth
In fact I doubt whether you will find
many places that have finer weather all
the year around than Arequipa. The sky
is almost always blue, and the sun al
most always shines. At least this has
been the case until lately. The people tell
me there are more clouds in the sky
now than ever before, and | understand
Evening star., 1914-04-26
A Literary Axiom.

HC GOD writers make poor money. The
~ loftiest literary aim leads to the
attic. 1t is the commonplace alone who
become best sellers
The speaker was Ripley Hitchcock. the
essayist. critic and editor of New York.
He added, smiling:
The man with the true literary bent
is always broke"
Evening star., 1914-04-26

presumptive to the thrones of Austria
Hungary. whose accession cannot be long
delayed, is said to be suffering from con-
sumption; King Alfonso of Spain is suf-
fering from a weak throat. while one of
his sons is deaf and dumb: the young
czarewitch has been seriously afflicted .
the German crown prince, according TO
constant report. is suffering from a
throat malady that carried off his grand
father: while King George of England
in addition to constitutionally weak
throat. like his late father, for the pro-
lection of which he is compelled to wear
q beard is said to be nervous wreck
due to the long -drawn-out political crisis
into which he has been inevitably drawn
from the day he ascended the throne
OF late years there has ben fright
fully high death rate among European
Evening star., 1914-04-26

premium on this policy ever since he
was born. When the Grand Duchess Olga.
his first child, was born the car imme-
diately insured her life for S2,5eO,OO0, dis
tributing the risk among British French
and Russian companies. The czarina is
insured for half that amount The Ger
man emperor is said to carry close to
$l.0O0.O0o insurance, while the late King
Humbert of Italy was insured for a like
amount. King Emmanuel is said to be
satisfied with $3,5m,Oo
Some idea of the elaborate efforts that
are made to shield these precious men
from sickness may be gained by an
examination of the conditions at the Eng
lish court. which, despite it's enormous
expenditure. remains today one of the
most conservative in that respect. Re-
Gently King George has attempted to re-
duce the enormous cost of the medical
staff attached to his household, which
in numbers is out of all proportions to
the work they are required to perform.
but his majesty has quite failed to eff
feet any economy In this particular di-
rection. At the time of his succession
all the existing medical appointments in
the royal household were confirmed and
several young doctors and surgeons with
influence at court also received appoint
ments and none of the officials could be
discharged without liberal compensation,
unless for some weightier reason than
that their services were not required.
During the past twenty years the medi-
cal staff in the royal household has
grown enormously In the beginning of
the reign of Queen Victoria there were
but five physicians and two surgeons on
the staff. When King Edward came to
the throne this number had increased to
eighteen and King Edward, during his
reign. raised it to twenty-four. Now
there are actually thrty-three physicians,
surgeons. dentists and other specialists
on the medical staff.
The physicians in direct charge of the
health of the king are five in number.
They are selected from the best known
members of the medical profession and
each receives salary of 5000 per an
mum. The chief of these is Sir Francis LAX
physicians, as they are called. go through
the rather absurd performance every day
of seeing the king in regard to his health.
The interview between the sovereign and
one of his physicians lasts but few
minutes and could, of course. be easily
dispensed with, but it is one of the anti
auated customs of the court that the
medical profession is interested in main
tanning.
When the king is at Buckingham Pal
ace there Is no physician in residence:
the physician in attendance simply calls
at the palace in the morning to see the
king But when the court is at Balmoral
or any other of the royal residences out
Of London. one of the kings doctors
must be in residence with the sovereign
Evening star., 1914-04-26
Mushroom Bureau.

THE little town of Tarrare. near
: Lyons, France, boasts of a unique
institution. a theological bureau, where
expert judgment may be had concernins
mushrooms brought to it for examina-
ton.
The country roundabout abounds with
mushrooms OF many varieties and of
course, many of these are poisonous
Since the establishment of the bureau at
Tarrare no one thinks of purchasing
mushrooms without the bureaus ticket
of Identification and guarantee. All the
country peop'e for great distances bring
their mushrooms to the institution for
examination. One result of the work of
the bureau has been the discovery Of
scores of excellent edible mushrooms that
formerly We're considered dangerous
Evening star., 1914-04-26

aprfcots. peaches. apples and plums and
strawberries as big as walnuts. There
are oranges and lemons. bananas and
figs and bushels of paltas or alligator
pears. There are green watermelons as
big around as the waist of your sweet
heart some of which have as red
flesh as any that ever made a darky's
mouth w atef-a and others with flesh
as, yellow as gold, although the seeds
are jet black
In the vegetable quarters you find
fully as great variety. You people at
home are now in: the heart of midwin-
ter. but here on the other side of the
line ii is summer and they are selling
new potatoes and green corn. They
have bright red tomatoes. white cauli-
flowers and great quantities of cab
bage. They have also the yucca, sweet
potatoes and yams. Peru is the home Of
the potato. and / understand that our
Department of Agriculture has recently
sent men here to get new varieties.
* =
The valley in which .Arequipa is sit
uated raises great quantities of very fine
barley 1t has fields of alfalfa and pas
tures upon which are fed cattle and
sheep The city is the chief wool mar
ket of Peru 1t imports vast quantities
of alpaca and Sleeps wool from Bolivia
and the Peruvian plateau. and ships it
to Europe and the United States. These
Evening star., 1914-04-26
Unique Bridal Shower.

- I'VE the bride who is going into a new
" home a shrubbery shower, to which
each friend brings a bulb or cutting of
her favorite shrub, with directions as to
it's care. To have these lasting sugges-
tions of friends would make her new
grounds not only a place of beauty, but
a garden of happy memories,
Evening star., 1914-04-26

The five surgeons attached to the royal
household are Sir Frederick Treves. Sir
IIaveock Charles, Sir Hickman Goldee.
Sir Alfred F'ripp and Sir William Cheyne,
Thus between physicians and surgeons
$62..pm per annum is spent In securing
medical and surgical attendance for the
sovereign that could certainly be quite
efficiently provided for about $500 a
year.
In addition to the physicians and sur
geons there is a surgeon dentist and
surgeon occulist attached to the medical
staff; the first mentioned receives $4,000
Evening star., 1914-04-26
With an Ak.

GEORGE B. LUKS. the profound hu-
- NOR of whose painting has given him
a high place in the world of art. was
visiting a '-futurst'' exhibition in New
York.
Mr.. Luks paused before picture which
resembled an earthquake. though it was
entitled Portrait of a Sleeping Babe
and. with a smile and a shake of the
head. he said
How I wish sometimes | was a suf-
fragette,
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and another must hold himself in readi-
ness to come to the court at any moment
if required to do so.
4 j:
Thus $25,HD a year is spent i'll simply
ascertaining the fact every day that the
king is in good health But lest the
monarch should be attacked by some
complaint requiring the aid of a sur
geon, the services Of five of the most
distinguished men in their calling are re-
Evening star., 1914-04-26

tanned at even larger salaries than those
paid to the doctors. Each of the kings
surgeons receives $500 per annum and
none of them. when the king is in good
health. ever sees his majesty unless as
one of his guests One of the surgeons
has, however. always to hold himself in
readiness to go to the sovereign and each
takes it in turns to be what is called in
attendance on the king, which simply
means that he must not be out OF Lon
don during the time he is in attendance