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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20
NEW FACTOR IN
WORLD PROGRESS

From the New York World.

FROM the New YORK world.
There were at last accounts 1,127,94
registered motor cars in the United
States. less than half of 1 per cent
imported. The numbe has nearly
doubled since 1911. This year will see
more than $50, 1000 new cars built in
the country, of an average value of ST.
900 each or more. We shall probably
export $35, O00, 900 worth. There is one
car for every "a persons in the United
States. For every railroad locomotive
there are II motor cars; for every rail-
way passenger coach %. The pro-
portion Of them is greater in many
farming regions han in New York or
Chicago.
The dissolute son of a thrifty father
who kills with his car at dawn after
a nights debauch is not the true type
of the motor car used. He is merely
the best advertised handicap on the
growth of a new factor in world pro-
gress.
Even 10 years who could have
f%orseen what the auto would do? 1t
has put out of date the road inventions
of Telford and Macadam, and set the
world once more building cement high
ways as solidly as the Romans. 1t
has revolutionized war equipment. 1t
goes where the railroad train cannot,
with transport stores or hospital kit.
The Balkan general flashes to the
front from headquarters, 20, 40 miles
away, not on horseback but in a
touring car. h city truck, the farm
er's market wagon, the pioneers
vehicle on western plains, is of the
new type; a failure OF the worlds
supply of gasoline would now be
doubly a calamity.
Perhaps not the railway itself has
changed industry more radically than
the motor a is doing. The expositions
now opening in New York and other
cities show wonders accomplished.
Who can tell what motor cars will be
doing in 1924?
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20

Mrs. Robert Goelet. society leader of
New York n Newport, who went to
Florida following the commencement OF
her divorce action in Rhode Island. is
living a secluded life there, and, it is
said, is devoting practically all of her
time to her art. 1t is Mrs. Goelet's
ambition to become a famous painter.
This explains her determination to OBJ
tain freedom from her multi-millionaire
husband.
Intimate friends of Mrs. Goelet who
have known her since girlhood are not
surprised at her action in seeking a
divorce. Nine ears ago as the beau
tiful Miss Elsie Whelen of Philadelphia.
h was admired n courted by many
"desirable' suitors from both Europe
and America. 1t is sail that of them
all she loved but one-but he was poor.
Goelet had s35, O0O.O 900. He loved her
almost to the point of madness. He
"a the catch of the season'-of many
seasons, in fact. Her mother was very
anxious for the match. The girl finally
said Yes" though h word did not
come from her heart. Her great pas
sion, even then, was to paint. She
knew she could never love Goelet-in
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20
A Syrian in Marseiues.

Abraham Nitric Rihbany. in the Atlantic.
When we landed at Marseilles, T.
could hardly credit my senses. Every
thing Turkish had disappeared and I
was walking h streets of France. the
great country of which I had heard so
much. My friends, having studied at
the Syrian Protestant college. besides
having a fair knowledge of the English
language. knew some French. by the
aid of which we escaped on many oc-
casions from the hands OF interpreters
n ticket brokers OF our own nation-
atty. In Marseilles 1 first saw cleo
trio lights. which fascinated me beyond
description, and there 1 first marvelcd
at a railway train. I narrowly escaped
being run over nea the railway sta
ton, when I dashed across the track.
a very short distance from an incoming
train. A uniformed man, who, 1 infer.
was a guard. shouted at me so fiercely
that 1 thought he was beside himself.
was not fully acquainted with the fact
that a train would really run over q
hopeful and ambitious young man. It
was in Marseilles also that / first ex-
perienced a distinctly occidental sensa-
ton, when I cast off the soft Turkish
fez and put a stiff, and, incidentally,
Ill fitting. hat on my head.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20

spite of his millions-wnen she married
him.
Though Goelet's love for his wife has
apparently remained as it was when
he married her, their life together was
not happy. He showered hundreds of
thousands of dollars in gifts upon her
CAV her an unlimited allowance. last
summer begged to build a new house
for her that Should cost 81, 900, 000-but
all to no purpose.
1t is related by a friend of the pair
that after the birth of the second son,
Peter. three years ago, the happy hus-
band gave his wife Il new pearl neck
lace that cost over 500, 600.
Il would so much rather have a
studio fitted up with the money hat
cost was her only comment as she
accepted the gift.
From that time ON things went from
bad to worse. Mrs. Goelet then be-
lieved, and does now believe, that she
is cut out to do a great painter. But
she believes she can not give the freest
and fullest play to her owe until she
has obtained her freedom. The Rhode
Island court will dispose of her case
in March.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20
STORY OF A KANSAS
BELIEVER IN SERUM
Man Went Broke Experiment.
ing But Has Finally Landed
breaches the Doctrine.
From the Kansas City Times.

FtoIiI tIlt ~ vi IL IIlC
Five Years g "Mase" Peters hadn't
q dollar and was IN debt several thou
sand dollars.
To-day he is out of debt and rich. He
has made Il fortune in five years, in
business in Kansas City: and he has
made'hiS six sons rich, too.
"Mase" owns q $ 5000 motor car, owns
and lives in a $15.000 house, has wv
separate businesses and office in Kan
sas City n branches in five other
cities: hires a corps of veterinarians to
whom he pays salaries a~ggregating
$4,000 a year: he pays his six sons an
aggregate OF $40. 900 a year, and he does
a business of nearly 81 600. 900 a year.
BEGAN as a School Teacher.
All of this business success and
wealth has come from the manufacture
and sale of hog cholera serum.
Hogs and politics has been the bust
ness of Mason S.. Peters for 40 years.
He began life as a school teacher in
Plattsburg, Mo. He was as original
ing school as he has been since in pol
itics and the hog business.
To Congress on Populist Wave.
After he married he went to Kansas
and went int hogs and politics. He
was elected to congress on the populist
ticket from the Second Kansas district,
and was known as the "Jackrabbit
The first day he sat in two
pages were specializing as to what We're
his politics. Peters overheard them.
One boy said to the other:
I'll bet L can tell what his politics
are"
How will you do is?" asked the
other.
You stand down the aisle in front of
him and I'll stand behind him and give
him a push. If a jackrabbit jumps
out of his whiskers he's a pop" said
the other.
Peters told the story in the cloak
the jackrabbit statesman.
Studied the Cholera Germ.
When he returned from
Peters went into the hog business on a
larger scale. but the hog cholera kept
him from making a big success of it.
By years of observation and expert
ment he found that the germ or spore
of the disease is always present in the
soil n muck where hogs trample.
just as the germ of lockjaw is always
present in the soil, especially around
rubbish heaps. and may be picked UP
on a rusty nail that pierces a child's
foot or an old splinter that scratches
the skin.
In 1908 DR.. Marion Dorset of the bu-
reau OF animal industry, discovered
the first scientific and practical hog
serum and Peters, who had beer adj
vising and working with him in his ex-
periments, got the government to send
q veterinarian with some of the serum
to Kansas City, and he gave a public
demonstration at the stock yards here.
Following tina. Peters went into the
manufacture here of h serum in a
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20
Napoleon as Pathfinder.
From 1.-TWO Men With Brains by Tudor
jerks in the ST. Nicholas.

From 1.-TWO Men With Brains by Tudor
jerks in he st. Nicholas.
That Napoleon was as quick witted
as any of those he commanded is evi-
denced from the we'll known story Of
his cleverness in escaping from the
Red sea when crossing with his staff.
The ford was lost, and, as it was dusk,
there was 40 landmark to guide the
party.
Gathering his officers in a circle Ma
poleon made them all rid outward
from himself as a center, as if they
were following the spokes of a great
wheel. So ali the paths were tried and
the right one was found.
In reading UGH stories as his 1T is
most important to see the idea in them
as the mere way of telling them differs
with every author. In fact, the same
stories are often told Of different men.
But whoever was clever enough to
think of these things. it is we'll for US
to remember the facts themselves.
The moral is: Use your brains!"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20
commercial way. and he was the pio-
neer of that business here.
The Obiect Of Deris;on.

inc ODJeCe OF OerlSlon.
Peters was laughed at, of course, as
all pioneers are. He had lost every
dollar he had on earth and he had bor-
rowed from every friend who would,
lend him a dollar with which to carry
on his experiments.
Peters was classed as Il crank and a
visionary and a good deal of a nuisance
too, because he was always broke"
and always trying to borrow money
that went into more experiments.
But the public experiment at the
stock yards was the turning point for
him. The hogs he had vaccinated
there lived. while those in the same
nerd that were not v~accinated died of
cholera. Among those who watched
the experiment was one man with
money who believed what he saw and
he lent Peters $1,000 with which to
start a little hog serum business.
Inc business was u tremendous sue
cess. From that day business grew.
The orders came in faster than he
could fill them. A golden stream rolled
into his arms. He sold serum enough
IN n month to vaccinate 100, 900 hogs.
The orders came from everywhere. Tho
Kansas City plants We're swamped with
orders and Peters called in his sons.
SIX OF them. One came from the uni
versity of Kansas; where he was
working his way through; one from
South America, n from New York.
One was called from a Of
flee, where he had already become
successful. When this son hesitated
the father said to him:
A Monument A Mile High.
"Come on, boys; come with me:
here's riches ready to your hand"
Peters and his six sons, with five
branches in the big live stock cities
of the west, are working now to get
the government stirred SO that it will
be recognized everywhere that a hog
once properly vaccinated is immune to
cholera for life, and then every stock
yards will be IN open market for hogs.
and trainloads of hogs that go an
nually into soap grease watts will be
saved for food, the hog business will
be a safe and sure investment, and
the high price of pork come down to
q fair and livable basis.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20
The Realm of Music.
Alfred Hayes, in the Atlantic

AIITeu f1ayeS, IN the AtIantlc.
1t is with generalized emotion that
music naturally deals-with the photo
sphere, so to speak. Of a particular
emotion, rather than with the emo
ton itself. In tra~nscendent re-
gions OF tie vague and vast. the in
definite and elusive, the in%articulate,
where poetry begins to stammer, and
painting and sculpture to lose pre-
cision, there music enters and takes
command of domains which are hers
by divine right. There she moves and
reigns absolute mistress, unr~estrained
say by her OWL self-imposed laws;
and when she speaks of those large
moods, or of those lovely but fleeing
suggestions, that come to man he
knows not how or whence and are the
very iridescence Of the human soul,
she speaks with a voice of such au-
thority hat articulate speech Is
abashed.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20
Old Time Training.
Agnes Repplier. in the Atlant

Agfes ReppIer. IN the Atlantic.
The education of my childhood was
embryonic. The education of today is
exhaustive. The fact that the school
child of today does not seem to know
any more han we knew in the dark
ages is a side issue with which I have
no concern. But as l look back, / can
now see plainly that the few things
little girls learned were admirably
adapted for n purpose, to make us
parts Of a whole. which whole was
the family. / do not mean that there
was any expression to this effect.
Training for maternity" was an I'M
used phrase. and the short views of
life. more common hen than now,
. would have robbed 1T of it's SAVIOR.
Training for citizenship" had. SO far
as we were concerned, no meaning
whatsoever. A little girl was a little
girl. not the future mother OF the race.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20

knows-take me to Washington
- r. r." said.
Who is the president?" he was
asked.
Roosevelt" he answered. 81 was
carrying a message to Frisco for him
AN important message-take me to
Washington"
J. r. RS memory lasted only for a
brief period. 81 was with Dewey at
Manila-on the flagship" said the man
who was. Il served as lieutenant
Commodore Dewey knows me"
Immediately u. r. r." relapsed into
his former OF speech, which
consisted of answering "Hi- he'' to
questions asked. 1t was believed after
ms statements that j. r. RS "Hi-he''
IS a corruption of the nautical term,
"Aye-aye,'
y. r. R. when taken to Oak Forest
was identified as the man who escaped
from the state hospital at Rochester,
MINI, after he had been operated on
by the Mayo brothers there.
The theory is that he was slubbed
while en- route for Frisco. He was
found near Rochester. unconscious, his
head cracked. He was lying alongside
q railroad track.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20

Few women can relate experiences as
thrilling as that which betell Miss Fos-
ter who was telephone operator in the
McAlester, Okla, p~enitentiary at the
time of the recent outbreak.
Miss Foster saw the three convicts-
Charlie Koontz, Tom Lane and China
Reed-dash into the room in which she
was working and kill three men before
her eyes.
Then one of them grabbed her and
using her as a shield, started out the
door. The prison guards were afraid
to shoot because they did not want to
hit the girl. just as the prisoners
reached the front gate. one guard
fired. The shot entered Miss Fosters
right leg. The %convicts still refused
to release her and, climbing into IA
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20

nor the future savior of the republic.
One thing at n time. Therefore, no
deep significance was attached to our
possession of a doll, no concern was
evinced over our future handling of a
vote. If we We're taught to read aloud
with correctness and expression, to
write notes with %propriety and grace,
and to play backgammon and whist as
we'll as u intelligence permitted, it
was in order that we should practice
these admirable accomplishments for
the benefit of the families of which we
were useful and occasionally orna-
mental features.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20

waiting buggy, made her go with them.
She screamed and shrieked, but at the
same time begged the men to give
themselves up. She says two were will
ing. but the other refused.
Finally a sharpshooter whom the
prison employed stationed himself be-
hind a rock and prepared to shoot at
h escaping men. Reed held Miss
Foster in front of him. The guards
first shot struck the convict squarely in
h head, not over three inches above
the girls head.
Blood spurted all over her. A Sec
ond shot also struck Reeds head. just
missing her, and then she fell from the
buggy.
She lost no time in giving notice OF
her resignation.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20
STRICKEN Man SAYS
N0TABLES KNOW HIM
Mysterious u. R. r." Saws
Roosevelt and Dewey Would
Establish Identity.

RECOVERING his memory for a. few
DLieI dramatic seconds at the Oak
Man Who Was'-the speechless para
iytc whose life for the last seven wears
mas been stripped to the initials ~. r.
iI.N-has furnished the attendants of
his past.
This past. as indicated by the en-
CARNATIONS of j. r. r.. was laid in
washington in the highest official cir
eles. and the key to it is held by Theo-
The president knows-the nresiaant
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-02-20
Front Seats And Back Seats.
From the Christian Herald.

FTOm tHe Cnf1st1an Herald.
DR.. Joseph Parker of London on one
occasion was congratulated by a friend
of ours on the fact that his sermons
were very widely read. "Yes,' said
DR.. Parker, with q twinkle in his eye.
"tlle front seats of my auditorium are
in the Himalayas and the back seats
in he Rocky mountains"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
SPEECH FOLLOWING FASHIONS


WHILE we are seeking for purity in the
W writing and speech of the English
language, we seem to be going backward
with the fashions" said Thomas Nelson
Page, author, traveller, and now Ambassador
to Italy; 4but it is inconsistent. Why must
the women who wear diaphanous gowns and
parade in the strong sunlight insist on a
D and dash for common word that is not
blasphemy, and an H and dash to describe
a place abundantly described in the Bible,
and why must they avoid the expression
naked truth and call it the 'undraped
actuality'?'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

of raving mania, there are some who under
stand how to restrain her boisterous activi-
ties, soothe her fevered brow, and slip her
riotous cogwheels back into their appointed
places.
Our knowledge of the marvellous functions
and intricate chemistry of the ductless
glands is still limited but it was noticeably
more so-very recently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

lutely at their mercy. We should thank Our
lucky stars that Mother Nature is pretty
steady, 1evel-headed sort of old girl; that,
with all her multitudinous opportunities for
governor belt, and permits the physical
engine to race without restraint. And we
should also thank them that when she does
go on spree, and gets tuck with spell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
PLAYING THE GAME

Continued from page II
feel that way. l know you. Haven't l
played handball with you long enough for
that?"
RILL sat on the locker bench for a mo-
- ment, considering. His brow was knit
in puzzled frown-his mind was appar-
emily struggling with new idea. @Say,' he
exclaimed finally, that appeals to me-
what appeals to your"
2Why, that idea of business being sport,
like game of handball. I've always
thought of it as sort of rough and tumble,
gang fight in dark alley. And l guess it
is that way, more or less. But it. would be
fun to make real, straight game of it.
you're SO sure. I'd play fair in business.
l don't. never thought fellow could.
My motto was results, results, results and
to blazes with the man who gets in the wayl
Anything | could put over was 0. K, no
matter how l did it. Things I've been roast
ing these handball crooks for doing In play
I've been doing in earnest and thinking was
a mighty clever business man, when | was
nothing but bum sport. Why, the fellow
who was good sport in business struck me
as a sentimental fool!7
He chuck1ed. "And all the time was the
fool. I've been missing half the fun of the
game. Never thought of that before. No
body ever put it to me the way you have.
By Jove! that's great stuff. Joe. I've
learned something. Any fool can win by
And I've been patting myself on the back
because l was winning old way.
SAY, Joe, believe I'll try the other way
Bills eyes glistened with enthusiasm. Il
see where II have the time of my young life
All my competitors will be trying to dope
out what new line of bunk I'm getting away
with, and while they're running around in
circles figuring out some way to steal half
dozen points on me III smash some swift
returns to the board and beat 'em fair.
Sport-say, thatIl be worth while! Why,
Joe, old man, you've given me the best
bunch ever Thanks!' He seized Hender-
sons hand in crushing grip.
@That's all right, Bill. I'm glad I've done
that for you,7 said Henderson. Il only wish
Slocum could see things that way
well, you never can tell, suggested Bill
u sure hope he does. But, as you say, it
isn't ikely-I guess he. wouldn't see the
sport in it.
3No, reckon not, said Henderson dryly.
4He hasn't the sporting instinct I'll bet
he couldn't even play handball fair-that' S
where you have the bulge on him to begin
with
Bill clicked his locker shut, and put on
his hat.
$50 long!' he called as he moved toward
the elevator. Thanks again for the bunch.
And here's luck-brace up and give EN-
blazes!'
Henderson, who was not dressed, finished
his toilet and returned to his Office. But his
gloom did not lift.
Next morning he found this letter on his
desk:
DEAR JoE.-Apropos of our conversation
yesterday. relative to handbal1, business, ETC.,
I'm still enthusiastic about business as a sport
ing proposition. Going after it strong-watch
me and seel hope to see you at the M. c. A.
as usual this noon. and l hereby challenge you
to the swiftest game of singles you've ever
played. Cordially yours. BILL.
(Wm. D. Slocum. General Manager Univer-
sal Mfg. Coz
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-10-09

Perpctrator of the Crime Pleads Gull.
" i'm Court-Sentence Monday.

Aberdeen, Oct. 9.-Robert Reed,
who yesterday afternoon confessed
to manslaughter for the killing of
Theodore Christianson on May %,
last, will be sentenced by Judge Thos.
l.. Bouck in state circuit court on
Monday morning, October IL. Fol-
lowing Reeds confession, l.. w. Moy-
er, who was arrested at the anne
time that Reed was, took the witness
stand and told of the killing of
Christianson. He stated that Reed
was at his house and asked him if
he did not want to make some money,
that a neighbor named Johnson, had
brought out a man who was awful
drunk" to play cards; that they had
planted him in Meyers barn, and
Reed proposed that they take the
money. Mover claimed he told Reed
he did not want that sort of money,
| and told him to take the man Chris
tianson) out of his barn. The men
talked over the matter for a time,
Reed urging Meyer TO help him Ego
through" the old man, but Meyer
continued to refuse, according to his
story. Finally il was decided to take
| Christianson down town. and Reed
went to the barn, while Meyer stayed
in the house TO build a fire. As
| Mover went to the barn he said he
heard something hitting in there"
| and he jumped in the barn and found
| Reed standing over Christianson hit
ting him with a wine bottle in which
| Meyer had kept some harness oil.
Meyer said Christianson called out,
Don't hit me-" and he asked Reed
what he had struck Christianson for.
| and Reed replied he had decided to
put him to sleep that way If he
couldn't with drinks. Meyer then
tried to revive Christensen, and
| found he was dead.
Meyer said he proposed to call the
| police. but Reed told him If the po-
| lice found the mar dead in Meyers
| barn they would hold Meyer for the
murder, and after some talk, he was
persuaded not to call the police, but
| to permit Reed to bury the body
| somewhere and to say nothing. He
| said he went to the house and told
| his wife about the matter that night,
and next morning when he went to
| the barn Reed and the body of Chris
| tianson had disappeared.
The body of Christianson was
| found in an abandoned well, and the
| county authorities, after weeks of in
v~estigation, arrested Reed and Meyer
| on suspicion. Since hat time a net
| work of evidence had been worked
up against Reed, until he decided to
| plead guilty TO the lesser crime in or
| der to avoid the possibility of convic-
| ton of first degree murder.