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Gil [exa6a25; : !6si? COUNTRY Place.
''BAtEdMard Riddle RdSeH:sc-

and even twelve feet high, with big,
thick. promising ears.
Some corn. chr" laughed Mr..
Townhred.
"Yes. 1 believe It will be a fair
yield-something over sixty bushels to
the acre." replied the more practical
Mrs. Townbred.
Sixty bushels? Why, that isn't
much, according to tho reports I've
read Of the yields Of tho various Gov
eminent Corn Clubs"
Mrs. Townbred smiled. Certainly,
Ruthvin. But there's big difference
between Corn Club farming and tho
general sort. Now II you want to Join
q Corn Club next year and get out
with your hoe and do intensive farm
ing on our cornfeld why-why, my
dear, you may even win a trip to
Washington and q diploma from tho
Secretary Of Agriculture. along with
the other boys. But since you haven't
done that this year. and since to tho
best OF my knowledge this is the Grst
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II Find,

time you've honored this cornfield with
your presence. don't turn up your nose
at my sixty-bushel yield"
Mr.. Townbred, no doubt, should
have felt properly squelched-but he
didn't. Instead he remarked quite
blandly. II dare say you are right.
Trieda. And I reckon we've done
pretty well for our first year"
Mrs. Townbred gasped for breath
"we've done we'll" and "our FIRST year."
But she made no effort to correct the
error, since her husband seemed SO
intent upon claiming tho lions share
of whatever credit might be coming
to her.
II want to pick out two Of the big
gest ears We can find. Frieda," he
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are so becoming to tall and slender
women.
But the way Of the stout woman
will be hard one with the new styles
for no provision seems to have been
made for her too, too solid flesh.
There is to be no compromise In
sleeves: either no sleeves or Ions
sleeves are to be worn.
Skirts Of soft materials such as
tulles, nets and the soft silks are
shirred from waist to hips whence they
fall in graceful folds; but these too
are among the things which can be
worn only by very slender women.
The black and white fad has now
extended to jewelry and combinations
of jet. onyx, pearls and brilliants are
made up In necklaces. pins. bracelets
and earrings.
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HAIR NET A LUXURY,

III MONG the expensive luxuries of
"a woman's dress should be num-
bered the hair-net." said the
stenographer. Il was led into wear
Ing hair net by q friend who does
not have to consider expense. Try 1t
once and you will never be without It,
1t will make you look SO neat in the
Office, said she. tried 1t and was
lost. 1t did mako me look neat; it rid
me of all anxiety concerning the con-
dition Of my hair. BUT. and here's
the rub. the only sort of net that I
could adjust properly costs 25 cents
apiece and 1t lasted with care a week.
Now 25 cents q week Is q good deal
to me, just as Is dollar a month, and
Sl2 year. So I consider q hair-net
luxury and l am trying to think of
some way to reduce the expense Of it,
but as yet I have been unsuccessful
It's luxury. the hair-net. and yet
queerly enough it Is a necessity too.
So what am / going to do about II? 2"
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who commutes to town each day and
a real farmer who gets out and digs.
Still. Mr.. Townbred came something
Of cropper the other day concerning
his corn crop which-but let's begin
at the beginning.
1t was only a week or so ago that
the corn at Five Oaks was cut and
shocked. since Mrs. Townbred. through
extreme pressure Of work, had been
late in planting It, But It was fine
corn and. fortunately. there was no
frost.
On the Sunday after It had been cut
and shocked Mr.. and Mrs. Townbred
took walk through tho field to thrill
at the sight Of the fruits of their own
land. The stalks were eight and ten
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ASONABLEdOIT|NGS.

@UR flowers are among the novel;
ties. They are used to loop up
the tulle overdresses Of evening
gowns, an admixture of materials
which is peculiar to the season.
Muffs are of medium size, neither
so small as some of last winters, nor
so large as those of other seasons.
Scarfs too. are of medium length.
Fur coats are often Of two sorts Of
fur, seal trimmed with skunk, seal
trimmed with ermine, ermine trimmed
with mink and so on.
Though evening frocks are of pastel
shades the advance notices declare
that purple and red will be among the
good" shades for tailored suits; Bur-
gundy. Bordeaux and claret are among
the new tones.
Trains will be worn on evening
frocks. the long, snakclike sorts which
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family expenses: 1t has caused
~ the roadside tea-house to spring
up like a mushroom and to flourish
like a green bay tree, If the mixture
of horticultural metaphors is admissi-
BILE.
No matter how remote the part Of
the country into which the motorist
penetrates; no matter how far from
base, somewhere in it. perched on the
side Of the road. its sgnboard swing
ing in the autumn breeze. he will find
q tea-house.
Sometimes It's the Blue Bird Tea
House, and sometimes it's the Blue
Flower Inn, and sometimes 1t is the
Tea Cup Inn, but always 1t is artistic
inside and always there is something
appetizing to be chad to eat within
Cinnamon or honey toast, or thin
bread and butter or sandwiches and
tiny cakes. And always there is on
tap the cup that cheers, brewed ad-
mirably and served with lemon or
cream as the drinker wishes.
A number Of women are making a
good living out Of these wayside inns.
and a number Of travellers who used
to go hungry are enjoying their fra
grant hospitality to the utmost.
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PAINT THE FLOWER POTS.

nAINT the pots of house plants
white. Implanted the pots are
ugly and far from decorative to
Il room while II they are placed in
jardinieres the plants themselves
do not thrive. Painting the
pots then Is an easy alternative. and
green may be used instead Of white
when 1t Is so desired.
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BY the Horns

~ HERE was once a certain Young
Ian who was a firm believer in
Deferring to his Betters. as he
- was pleased to phrase 1t. AS
Wheel that kept his Employers bust
ness in motion he was an excellent
Cog. He would no more have thought
about Running out Of his accustomed
Groove than of walking up to the Boss
and pulling his Whiskers.
He was a Stickler for Form and
Office Etiquette. And he had 1t all
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IL. And even when mans wife
~ does actually run "the farm"
surely he. as nominal head Of tho
house, is entitled to take unto himself
some Of tho glory and-among his
men friends in the city who are not
In q position to know the facts-refer
to tho gardened products Of the soil
as specimens Of his own handiwork.
At all events. Mr.. Townbred was so
minded. And. for the past few weeks,
the way he had been swelling around
among his friends in the city and tell
ing Of the number Of bushels of late
potatoes he raised. and his winter cab
bage and hay and corn-well had
Mrs. Townbred who had done all the
work heard him he might, to say the
least, have had impressed upon him
the difference between an agriculturist
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haven't a single subject Of conversa-
ton. I've thought and thought and
cannot think of a thing to say. 1t is
simply awful"
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Harvest Home

0HERE'S no use being an agricul-
turist and not Dragging about
it. And even when q mans wife
does actually rim "the farm"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
5000 HOMELESS BY FLOOD
Thousands Of Acres Of Rich Farm
Lands Under Water in Ar
kansas Section.

Little Rock, Ark, Aug. 3O.-More
than 5000 persons are homeless with
in a radius Of 200 miles of Newport.
Ark, and many others, marooned in
tleir houses by the flood, have been
living in upper stories or on roofs with
only scant food supplies for four, five
and even six days, it was said here,
last night by d. c. Welty, agricultural
commissioner of the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern railway. After
a motorboat trip of a week through
the flooded section, Mr.. Welty report
ed h a he found conditions serious,
thousands of acres of rich farm lands
under water. heavy loss in live stock
and personal property, but that ap-
parently there had been no loss of
life and refugees were being well cared
for in various camps.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03

end concluded to let him remain.
Such determination promised good
work, If the man survived the break
ing in. Besides, he must be in dire
need.
Pennington had a little room over
the secondhand store where he pur-
chased a coarse suit of working
clothes, but he had not brought money
to pay the room rent. He possessed
a cheap silver watch, however, and
this he left as security. With his
first pay envelope he redeemed the
watch.
In his room were cot, a chair, and
a rusty little stove propped UP with
wooden blocks. But not until the
third week did he start a fire in the
stove and make disastrous Intellectual
attempts to cook his breakfast.
BY this time the blisters had disap-
peared under rough Jumps and ridges.
How he had lived before this no
one knew but himself, for until he re-
ceiyed his second pay envelope he
did not commence crossing the street
to the restaurant for a noon lunch.
When he sat down for a few min
utes at the noon hour he did not double
over in a tremulous heap as he had
done at first, and though his face
was thinner and whittier, its flesh was
firmer than when he first came, and
his eyes were clearer.
AS Pennington's hands acquired q
working knowledge of the materials,
and his mind began to more thorough
ly grasp the details, the boss gave him
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foundation. 1t was muscle-making or
muscle-breaking work, and for the
first few days-or weeks event
seemed wholly of the breaking.
But there was an under element Of
doggedness in Pennington's nature
which had never come to the surface,
and though his limbs trembled with
WEAKNESS long before the days we're
half over, and at noon he sank into a
crouching heap upon the nearest board
rather than cross the street to a res
taurant, he struggled on in some way
until the hour OF dismissal came.
The second day the boss told him
grufly that he could not afford to
pay him than half wages, and
the third day that he should pay him
nothing at all. for he was worth moth.
ing.
This was tantamount to q discharge,
and 30 the boss meant it, but it was
not mi In actual words. Pennington
disregarded It.
The boss looked toward him doubt
fully from time to time. but IN the
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The world was an unsatisfactory
place at best, and if it was to be
hedged in by high walls, what pleas
ure would the little cells be?
A band of music was approaching,
and his gaze went to it with the
crowds.
Behind the music came a great
block of marching men, and behind
them another and another, and still
another. Then Pennington under
stood. 1t was Labor day, and this
was the trades parade.
Under other circumstances Pen
nington's gaze would have turned
away indiferently; but there was
only the sidewalk or the street, and
of the two the street was the less
tedious. 1t was at least a moving
bore.
The first impression that came
clearly to his understanding was n
of the strong, stalwart units Of the
blocks; the next, their contented and
ever happy looks.
How happy and strong they are"
said a voice at his side, and Penning-
ton looked down, a quick glow COM
ing into his face, and fading yet Orc
quickly. 1t was the girl who had
tinged his dreams, who had since
grown distant and somewhat scorn-
full.
"Yes, they seem strong and happy,
Esther" he answered, lin spite of be-
ing in the trades"
Because OF being in the trades"
she corrected swiftly. a vibrant ring
in her voice that brought his eyes
again to her face. She vas looking
out at the marching blocks, her gaze
steady, but with a RIGHTEOUSNESS OF
the delicate lips that somehow remind
ed him of the odd note in her voice.
The next day there was a rumor
of Pennington's going abroad; his
housekeeper ha6 received a note to
close the house, the agent to look
after the affairs until further instruc-
tions.
Down on one of the back streets, a
street unknown to Pennington's old
life, were many dingy offices, meager
in appointments, but representing a
vast a%ccretion of labor. At one of
them a line of men were seeking en-
ployment, passing in front of a keen
eyed foreman, who accepted or re-
jected them almost without a glance.
But the reflections were few. Men
were wanted for new blocks Of build
ings going up, men of skill, Of
strength, Of merely carrying capacity
any man who could add his strength
to the labor force and hasten the
work.
So when a white-handed man of
confessed incapacity stepped in front
of the foreman's desk he was looked
at askance, but finally accepted and
set to carrying brick from the side
walk to the men who we're laying the
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
CUTICURA SHAVING
is Up-to-Date Shaving for Sensitive
Skins. Trial Free.

Prepare razor. Dip brush in hot
water and rub it on Cuticura Soap held
in palm OF hand. Then make lather
on face and rub in for a moment
with fingers. Make second lathering
and shave. Rub bit Of Cuticura Oint-
lent over shaven parts (and on scalp
if any dandruf or itching) and wash
all of with Cuticura Soap and hot
water, shampooing same time. One
soap for all-shaving, s~hampooing.
bathing and toilet. It's velvet for sen
sitive skins. No Shiny mug. No germs.
No waste Of time or money. Free
sample each, II you wish. Address
postcard. "Cuticura, Dept. KY. Bos-
ton." Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
SOME HINTS FOR BUILDERS
ton Of the Most Substantial
Roofing Material.

If you were without preparation or
plan, rudely placed in a wilderness,
your first thought would be of food
supply and your next Of shelter, for
these are the two most vital necessi-
ties OF mankind. It is therefore
natural that the best thought, and
study are put upon these two essen
tials.
More forward steps have been
taken in the building industry in the
past fifteen years, as regards comfort.
service and architectural beauty than
in the fifty years previous.
Only in recent years has the hand
ling of cement in building work been
understood properly, and progress Is
still constantly being made with 1t.
Modern hotels and Office buildings
are being equipped with sheet metal
mouldings and steel veenered doors.
Nearly every important change in
building construction is away from
the fire hazard Of wood.
One Of the most significant develop
ments of recent years is the crushed
6ldl5 SuIldCCu dSp1IdlL 0Illil6lC WIiCH
is, on new construction and old, rapid
ly supplanting the wooden article.
There are many reasons for this. The
slate surfaced shingles add beauty to
any building-in fact, there is really
no comparison from an architectural
standpoint. Crushed slate of pleasing
tints Of red or green, is employed as a
surfacing. The shingles are uniform
ly eight inches wide and are exposed
four inches to the weather. No paint
ing is necessary as the red or green
crushed slate is natural and therefore
cannot fade.
The purchaser, however, should
guard himself against buying a slate
surfaced shingle that is not guaran-
teed by a reliable and responsible
manufacturer. There are so many
kinds of roofing and shingles on the
market today each claiming to be the
best that it becomes necessary for the
buyer to get some satisfactory assur-
ance that the roofing or shingles ri
represented honestly.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
LEFT THE BOokIE GASPlMG
Waiter Had Good Right to Claim Hav.
inc the Better Of the Exchange
Of Repartee.

The following conversation took
place at a fashionable hotel between
one of the walters and a bookmaker.
who was living there:
Il say. waiter" said the "bookie."
you are the slnwest lot of walters I
eve saw"
Peg pardon, sir" was the reply,
its not or first-past-the-post principles
here"
What do you know about f1rst-past-
t~he-post?" inquired the bookmaker.
You should be home in Ireland Dig
ging turf"
We'll, sir" said the waiter, IF
was home in Ireland, shure. ! would
be sleeping with the pigs; but here,
shure. | have only to wait Oh them"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
SCORE HURT IN Il" ACCIDENT
Chicago Elevated Runs Into Rear Of
Railroads.&c. Passengers
Severely Shaken.

Chicago, Aug. 3o.-More than a
score of persons were injured and
about 200 severely shaken when an
elevated train on the Metropolitan
Elevated railroad ran into the real Of
an Aurora-Elgin and Chicago railroad
train which was standing at a station
in the suburb of Oak Park. The rear
car of the standing train was partly
t~elescoped. The tracks at the place
where the accident took place are
not elevated and are used by both
roads.
The injured persons were taken to
a nearby fire engine house and all
the physicians in the vicinity sum-
moned.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Seemed to Be Directing the Work.

occasional jobs of oversight or author
ity, for he seemed the best man at
hand for them.
At first an hour or two of keeping
the mems time, the stock taking of
some of the materials, or perhaps a
commission downtown to purchase
things that required inspection and
could not be ordered by messenger or
telephone; then, after a year or so, he
began to be left in temporary charge
during the enforced absence Of both
foreman and boss.
And by that time Pennington's
hands were as firm and hard as the
average workingman's, and his thin
face and narrow shoulders were filling
out with good, solid flesh.
At the end of three years the fore
man started out as an independent
contractor and the BOSS took his place.
Pennington would have then become
boss. but the new contractor asked
him to go with him as foreman, and
Pennington, with an odd feeling OF
exultation and wonder, consented.
All this time the Pennington agent
had heard nothing, and an expression
of speculative concern was beginning
to appear in his face.
OF course Pennington must be dead,
for he was a man who required a
great deal Of money, and being in Eu.
rope made the money more impera.
two Tho oUort mos in holf mind RI
communicate with the nearest rela.
tive, but hesitated and concluded to
wait a little longer.
A small portion of Esther Kilton's
property consisted of downtown tene.
ments. In the last few years she had
become infected with the reform
movement, and was remodeling them
with regard for the inmates wei
fare than her rem roll.
Several blocks had already been re-
built and occupied, and recently tc
hasten the work she had given a block
to a new contractor. When the old
buildings we're demolished and the
new walls were up a dozen or more
feet she went down to look at the
work.
Poised on the very end of a timber
almost above her was an alert, com,
pactly built man who seemed to be
directing the work.
Something about him drew her gaze
back again and again; yet ven while
her eyes kindled they filled mistily.
He was SO like and yet SO unlike; Sc
what the other might have been, and
a not.
Presently the mar sprang lightly
eight feet away, explained something
about the work to a new man, then
crouched and dropped to the ground
u feet below.
As he turned he stood facing the
owner, and they gazed for some mo.
ments into each others eyes. He had
been SO absorbed in the work that b.
had not noticed her presence.
Esther he cried.
Ralph Pennington" wonderingly.
Il thought you were in Europe"
No; / have been here all the time.1
In work like this?"
He nodded.
She looked at him with the color
rising warmer in her face; in her eyes
was inquiry, then comprehension, Joy.
Ralph" she said softly, after .
long silence, will you come up this
evening and-and tell me about IT."
There was . smile In Penning.
tons eyes. though his face remained
grave.
Yes. Esther" he answered, II win
come up and-and ask you about Il. 7
an now n the tradeA"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
AWAITS GERMAN D!sAvoWEL
WILSON LOOKS FOR SOLUTION or
SUBMARINE CONTROVERSY.
Won Bernotorff Is Confident Note from
Berlin viii Dispose Of Arabic
Problem.

Washington, Aug. 81. - President
Wilson has decided definitely to re.
main in Washington until the situa-
ton between the United States and
Germany is cleared up. Officials have
been urging him to go to Cornish, N.
H., for a rest, but he has announced
that he will stay here pending the
receipt of further word from Berlin.
Looks for Disavowal.
The President, it was said, authori-
t~atively, has been led by the state
ments Of Count Won Bernstorff, the
German ambassador, to Secretary
Lansing, and reports received from
American Ambassador Gerard at Der.
lin to hope that a solution for the
submarine controversy with Germany
will be found. He is waiting, how
ever, for the imperial governments
formal disavowal of the attack on the
Arabic and assurance that the lives
Of Americans travelling on unarmed
merchantmen will not be endanger-
ed again.
Won 6ernstorf Confident.
Count von Bernstorff left for the
summer embassy on Long Island. He
still was confident that within a short
time a formal communication would
reach Washington from the Berlin
foreign office, %disposing of the situa-
ton growing out of the sinking Of
the Arabic and paving the way for
an amicable adjustment Of all issues
between the American and German
governments. The ambassador prob
ably will not return to the capital
until the note from Berlin arrives.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Offered an Appropriate Hymn.

A special preacher, about to ascend
The pulpit III a country church, was
asked if he would like a1.y special
hymn to be sung to agree with his
mt
No, no." he replied: "as a matter
of fact, | hardly w know what I'm
going to say until | an, in the pull
pit"
"Oh, we'll, in that case" said the
vicar, 1--WE had better have the hymn
For Those at Sea-"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Edison Burned BY Chemical.

West Orange, N. j., Aug. 27.-Thom.
as A. Edison, while at work in one
Of his laboratories at Silver Lake, near
Newark, was painfully, though it is be.
lieved not seriously. burned about the
eyes by the accidental splash OF a
potash solution.
MI. Edison was leaning over q filter,
when his assistant opened the wrong
stopcock and the solution was thrown
into his face. He quickly bathed his
eyes and first aid was administered
from . kit kept in the laboratory for
emergencies.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
The Modern Correspondent.

Our war correspondent got in this
morning" said the managing editor.
That's good" exclaimed the chief.
What pictures lid he bring hack?"
He has about th%irty-eight snap
shots Of himself in striking poses and
two or three of generals"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03

DUTCH NEUTRALITY is
VIOLATED BY ZEPPELIN

Amsterdam, Aug. 26.-The
TELEGRAPH learned from viieIand
that a Zeppelin dirigible balloon
passed over the island Of the
Netherlands, travelling from an
eastern to a northwestern direc-
ton. Vlieland 10 off the en-
trance to the Zuider Zee and in
a northwesteriy direction lies
the northeast coast Of England.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Reward for Murderer,s Arrest.

Dassel, Aug. 30.-A $4,000 reward
for the arrest and conviction of the
murderer or murderers of o. NJ. Palm
quist, cashier of the Citizens State
Bank, murdered Nov. 5, 1914. has been
offered by his widow and a brother of
PalmQuist and the bank directors.