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Naturally. a butter-in is usually a
sorehead.-Albany Journal
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the fog. was drowned by the Gray
guns opening fire.

the fog, was drowned by the St.a
guns opening fire.
Before the mine exploded, by the
light of the shell bursts breaking thelf
vast prisms from central spheres OF
flame for miles, with the quick Sc
quence of a movfng-picture nlcKer'
Fracasse's men could see one another
faces, spectral and stiff and pasty
white, with teeth cleaning where jaws
had dropped, some eyes half closed py
the binding flashes and some opened
wide as if the lids were paralyzed.
Faces and facesi A sea of faces
stretching away down the slope-faces
in a trance.
Up over the breastWorks, over rocks
and splntered timbers. Peterkin ana
the Judges son and their comrades
clambered. When they moved they
were as myriad-legged creature
brain numbed, without any sensation
except that of rapids going over fall.
Those in front could not falter, Delns
pushed on by the pressure of those III
the rear. For few steps they were
under no fire. The scream OF thelr
own shells breaking in Internal pande-
monium in front seemed to be power
as irresistible as the rear of the wedge
In driving them on.
Then sounds more hideous than the
flight of projectiles broke about them
with the abruptness of ltghtnings held
in the hollow of the Almightys mana
and suddenly released. The Browns
guns had opened fire. Explosions were
even swifter in sequence than the
flashes that revealed the stark races.
Dust and stones and flying fragments
of flesh filled the air. Men went down
in positive paralysis of faculties by the
terrific crashes. Sections of the ram
we're blown to pieces by the burst of
shrapnel shoulder high; other sec
lions were lifted heavenward by
she'll burst in the earth.
Peterkin fell with a piece of jagged
steel embedded in his brain. He had
gone from the quick TO the dead SO
swiftly that he never knew that his
charm had failed The same explosion
got Fracasse, sword in hand, and an
other buried him where he lay. The
bankers son went a little farther; the
BARRIERS son still farther Men who
were alive hardly realized life, so
mixed were life and death. Internal
Imagination goes faint; it's widest
SMILES grow feeble and banal before
anpSt1r,1 ~, a ion Of bpIl
But the tide keeps on; the torn gaps
of the ram are filled by the rushing
legs from the rear Officers urge and
lead. Such are the orders; such is
the duty prescribed; such is human
bravery even in these days when life
is sweeter to more men in the joys of
mind and body than ever before. Pre-
eision, organization, solidarity in this
charge such as the days of the death
or-glory" boys never knewi Over the
bodies of Peterkin and the BARRIERS
and the bankers sons. plunging
through shell craters, stumbling, stag
gering, cut by swaths and torn by
eddies of red destruction in their
ranks, the tide proceeded, until its
hosts were oftener treading on flesh
than on soil And all they knew was
to keep on-keep on. bayonet in hand.
till they reached the redoubt. and there
they were to stay, alive or dead.
After hell, more hell, and then still
more hell" was the way that Stransky
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The God with us" song was singu-
larly suited to the great, bull voice of
its composer, born to the red and be-
come Captain Stransky in the red
business of war. 1t was he who led
the thunder of its verses.
81 certainly like that song" he said.
Well he might. 1t had made him ia
nous throughout the nation. There's
Jehovah and birthstone in it. Now
we'll have our own"
But we're always losing positions!
complained one of the men. Little
by little they are getting possession"
They say the offensive always
wins, said another.
Five against three! They count
on numbers" said Lieutenant Tom
Fragini.
There you go. Tom! Any other
pessimists or anarchists want to be
heard?" called out Stransky. Just
how long. at the present rate, will it
take them to get the whole range?
There's a limit to the number of even
five millions"
Then the telephone in the redoubt
brought some news. The staff begged
to inform the army that the enemy S
casualties in the last three days had
been two hundred thousand! Immedi-
ately everybody was talking at once
in Stransky's parliament, as he some
times called that company of which
he was. in the final analysis. unlimited
monarch.
How do they know"
"Do you think it's fake?"
That sums up to pretty near a mil
lioni"
My God! Think of it-a million!'
We're whiting them down."
at doesn't make any difference
whether Partow or Lanstron is chief
of staff"
They're paying"
Paying for our fellows that they've
killed. Paying for being in the
wrong!"
Stransky, his eyes drawing inward
in their characteristic slant, was vel
| pleased with his company, and the
scattered explanatory badinage KEPT
| on until it was interrupted by the ar
rival of the mail Partow and Ian
stron, understanding their machine al
human in its elements, had chosen
that the army should hear from home
| "How's this!" exclaimed one man
reading from a newspaper. "They'r.
going to put up q statue Of Partow IL
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The Appropriate Thino

What did they do when that speak,
easy caught fire."
Sent in a still alarm"
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Eve invented temptation, but forgot
to patent it.
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important 10 Mofbera

Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that 1t
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after hell, more hell, and then still
more hell" was the way that StraLsky
expressed his thought when the en-
gineers had taken the place of the SD
of the Browns in the redoubt They
put their mines and connections deep
enough not to be disturbed by shell
fire After the survivors in the van of
the Grays charge, spent of breath,
reached their goal and threw them.
selves down. the earth under them, as
the mine exploded, split and heaved
heavenward. But those in the rear.
slapped in the face by the conclusion,
kept on, driven by the pressure of the
mass at their backs, and, in turn.
plunged forward on their stomachs in
the seams and burrows of the mines
havoc The mass thiekened as the flood
of bodies and legs banked up, in keep
ing with Westerling's plan to have
enough to hold"
(TO BE CONTINUED
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Have Hanford's Balsam on hand for
accidents. Adv.
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CHAPTER xVIlI-continued.

Far up on a peak among the birds
and aeroplanes, in a rooted, shell-proof
chamber, with a telephone orderly at
his side, a powerful pair of field-glasses
and range-f1nders at his elbow, and a
telescope before his eye, Gustave Eel
Ter, one time gardener and now acting
colonel of artillery, watched the burst
of shells over the enemy's lines. While
other men had grown lean on war, he
had taken on enough flesh to fill out
the wrinkles around his eyes that
shone with an artists enjoyment of
his work. Down under cover of the
ridge were his guns, the keys of the
instrument that he played by calls
over the wire. Their barking was a
symphony to his ears; errors of or
chestration we're errors in aim. He
talked as he watched, his lively fea-
lures reflective of his impressions.
"Oh. pretty. Right into their tum-
mics! Right in the nosei La, Ia, la
But that's off-and SOS that! Tell
Battery c they're fifty yards over. Oh,
beady-eyed gods and shiny little fishes
two smacks in the same spot
Humph! Tell Battery C that the
trouble with that gun is worn rifiing;
that's why it's going short Elevate it
for another hundred yards-but it
ought not TO wear out so soon I'd like
to kick the maker or the inspector. The
fellows In B 81 will accuse Us of mat
tention. It's time to drop a shell on
them to show we're perfectly impartial
In our fayors. La, la, la. Oh, what
a pretty smack! Congratulations
B u was the position of Fracasse's
company and the pretty smack the
one that broke one mans arm and
crushed anothers head
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-06-24
BOARD IN
ACTIVE SESSION
VOTES FREE USE OF HITCHCOCK
P.ARK.-TREE CENSUS SHOWS
MUCH NEED OF PRUNING.

or the 1850 trees in the parkings
on the streets between First and
Sixth avenues, eight blocks on each
side of Main street. there are 500
in need of pruning, according to the
report given by Park Superintendent
III. q. Lotus at the meeting OF the
city park board or Saturday evening.
About lis of the trees in the list
Should be removed. according to the
report. The census taken by Mr..
Lotus shows that there are $50
elms; 81 box elder trees: 1S3 ma
Pile trees; 140 popuar trees, 112 ash
trees and 10 locust trees. Mr.. LOTUS
was authorized to prune all the trees
on which it is necessary on the park
ings. All trees in TIE lots will be
pruned, if requested. the only charge
being for actual labor.
Between May ! and June Is. ac-
cording to Mr.. Lotus report, there
has been spent $2S6.20 for labor.
Hitchcock park received $139.50 in
labor, West park. $65.70; East park.
5000; and tie small parks and
hedges on the South Side. $3.50. In
addition, labor by hobos and prison
ers in the city Jail has amounted to
429 hours.
The board voted to give the Nit
chell baseball team the free use of
the diamond at Hitchcock park this
season, provided that the team stand
the expense of all repairs and all
damage done TO the property.
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HOOPS
TRAIL FOR THIEF
SHERlFF AND POLICE CHIEF
FIND MAN WHO DROVE PONY
~ HOCRS-VHIIl'T OC-
CURED SATURDAY.

lhe hoof-prints of Il pony belong
ing to N. Nj. Ovcreaard, 301 South
Edmunds street, which was stolen
with a buggy late Saturday afternoon
from the Overgaard home on the
South side. was sufficient trail for
Sheriff r. Y. Owens and Chief of Po-
lice Wood Smith to start out Sunday
morning and finally bring about the
thief's capture.
Mr.. Oversaard had hitched the
pony up and it was standing tied
near his barn when the thief entered
the rig and drove away. After driv-
ing all night. he came within about
eight miles of Woonsocket, when he
then turned east and finally started
south. He asked several farmers
along his route the way to Woonsock
ct, where he said he had a sister who
was sick.
The sheriff and police chief start
ed out early Sunday morning in the
latter's automobile and soon struck
the horses trail. They found where
the driver had stopped several times
to let the animal craze and rest and
finally discovered where he had turn
Iu aIt star td SOutlI- mere tltN
turned in a general alarm over the
rural telephone system, giving "A
of the man they We're
following and his rig.
w. l.. Driver. marshal at LOOMS
got the description of the man want
ed and about 8 O'Clock Sunday after
arrested him Just north of
He gave the name of Os-
car Berg. The prisoner waived cx-
before Judge w M. Her
bert in municipal court this morning
and was bound over to the next term
Of circuit court under $500 bonds.
Berg is a stranger and not the man
Of the same name who lives in Nit
chell. The pony. which had been
driven about "a hours without much
rest was in bad shape today.
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BRANCH C
FOR HIGH POST
MITCHELL MODERN BROTHER
HOOD OF AMERICA ENDORSES
local MAN FOR NATION
AL DIRECTORSHIP.

w. A. Branch last evening was en-
dorsed by the Mitchell NJ. b. A. lodge
for the position of director in the
supreme lodge and the delegates to
the state convention at Chamberlain
next month We're instructed to use
every honorable ean to ecu the
endorsement of the South Dakota
Modern brotherhood.
Mr.. Branch has taken a prominent
part in the work of the order in the
state and also participated in the
recent discussion in the order over
its rates. His position in the order
has been recognized in numerous
ways and it is believed that favorable
action at the Chamberlain owen
ton will terminate in his election to
the national board of directors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Branch, Mr.. and
Mrs. James e. Duncan, Mrs. Mary /.
Miller and Mrs. Birdie Wright We're
elected as delegates from the Nit
chell lodge to the state convention at
Chamberlain, which will be held on
July 81. The endorsement of Mr..
Branch was voted in a resolution.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. A. Loomer will be
sent by the local lodge to the nation
al secretaries convention at st. Louis
in August, to be held the day before
the national convention opens.
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MEETINGS TO
BE HELD AT MADISON

Madison, S. D.-The annual con-
and summer outing of the
South Dakota State Druggists as
sociation will be held in Madison
August II, II and IS. Secretary j.
C. Shutz has received more than 100
oredrs for room reservations at the
Grand View hotel on the lake shore
and a dozen summer cottages have
been engaged to be occupied by the
visiting druggists and their families.
The travelling mems auxiliary will
meet II Madison at the same time
and will conduct a grand ball on the
evening of the 18th. The program
includes sports and contests in ten
mis- baseball, shooting, swimming and
rowing on the 18th to conclude with
a big picnic dinner. SECRETARY Schultz
expects n of the largest meetings
of druggists ever held in the state.
The State Editorial association will
hold it's annual meeting and outing
at Lake Madison July % to August
2. A large attendance is expected of
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-06-24
REMAINS EARLY
ENGINEER HERE
p. W. SULLIVAN WHO DIED AT
ORTONNIlLE THURSDAY
MORNING TO BE BUR
led AT SHELDON.

The remains of p. w. Sullivan,
who was fireman on the first railroad
locomotive to enter Mitchell in
1881. arrived in Mitchell this morn
ing from Ortonville, Mimi, where
the deceased passed away at $ O'Clock
Thursday morning. The remains
will lie in state tomorrow at the p.
II. McGrath home. COS East First
avenue. Mr.. Sullivan was a brother
of Mrs. McGrath.
The deceased was probably one OF
tie best known engineers on the
Milwaukee system. For the past
thirty years he has been a resident of
O%rtonville, although he has driven
engines INTO Mitchell a number of
times. A delegation of railroad men
met the remains at the Milwaukee
station this morning and escorted
them to the McGrath home.
The body of Mr.. Sullivan will be
shipped tomorrow evening to Shell
don, Ia, where tie funeral will be
held at $3.50 o'clock Monday morn
ing at the Catholic church.
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TAX
LEVY is 9.49
VERY SLIGHT REDUCTION IN THE
AVERAGE is SHOWN BY RE-
PORT FOR WHOLE
STATE.

Pierre, S. D.-Nine and ninety
h%undredths mills is the amount
of taxation which will be placed
against corporation property in this
state this year, this being the average
on all property as certified by State
Auditor Handlin to the state tax
commission. This levy will be adopt
ed by the state tax commission in
making its levies against corporate
property for 1915. The tax commits
sion will for the first time make an
assessment against purivate car
lines operating within this state,
which action will be taken under the
provisions of Chapter 100, Laws of
1915, which law follows the recon-
m%endation of the state tax commits
sion in its first biennial report.
A comparison of the certificate by
Auditor Handlin, with th%e~auditors
report of 1914 shows that the aver
age in the state levy for 1914 was
two-hundredths of a mill lower than
it was for 1913, indicating a total
small general reduction over the
state.
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LUMBERMEN ARE
AFTER BANKERS
ISSUE CHALLENGE FOR BASE
BALL GAME ANY DAY NEXT
WEEK-WANT IMMEDIATE
ANSWER.

The lumbermen of Mitchell. hav-
ing plenty of wood in their respcc-
tive yards, have whitfield off enough
to make a respectable-siZed chip and
placed it on their shoulders for the
benefit of the bankers. All of which
leads up to the fact that the timber
magnates have challenged the finan-
ciers for baseball game of in
nings. to be played at Hitchcock park
on any day of next week.
The challenge for the game stated
that the time for the game is G:30
O'Clock in the evening and is for the
purpose of showing that the lumber
men can outplay the bankers at base
ball. 1t is requested that an answer
be published within three days. The
challenge is signed by the Robert
Burns Lumber company. the Fuller
ton Lumber company, the j. II. An
Lumber company and the
Davis e Daniels company.
'lIeinie" Scharnweber, manager
OF Mitchell's baseball club, is suggest
ed as the umpire for the fray. The
lineup OF the lumbermen for the
game is MacLean. shortstop; Geo.
first base: Treganza, pitcher;
Nolt, catcher, Wagner, third base;
Entsminger, second base; MAJ Nobls
field; Schilmgen, left field;
Moser, right field.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-06-24
PARTY TO
PACIFIC COAST
EDITORS AND OTHERS LEAVE
FOR THE EXPOSITION.

Sioux Falls. S. D.-About 81
South Dakotans. ~ OF them being
from Sioux Falls, leave today for
Kansas City to join the national edi-
tortal excursion to the Pacific coast
exposition.
Those who go from Sioux Falls arc
Geo. Schlosser. president OF the nat
ional editorial association, Mrs.
Schlosser. Mrs. Hazel Schlosser, Miss
jeanette Leyse, c. S. Searls and wife,
f. NJ. Mills, Mrs. X. B. Cressey. Miss
Marian Tufts. Miss Helen Tufts, Ma
rie jacobson, official stenographer
for the association, Mrs. A. Jacobsen
and son.
Others going from the state are:
Fred c. Kirch and A.. l.. Wilmarth
OF the Mellette County Pioneer:
Wood: w. c. Lusk, Dakotan, Yank-
ton; Miss Elizabeth Creal, Courant,
S~isseton: Miss Dorothy Reidesell,
Sisseton; John II. Craig and wife,
New Era, Parker; Chas. F. Hackett
and wife. Herald, Memo; j. |. Nc
Neal, Times, Washington; II. b. Dow
dell and wife, News. Woonsocket:
Chas. De Reed and wife, Courier,
Bison; Miss Ethel Dowdell. Artesian;
Geo. Widlon. Enterprise, Viborg, and
Mrs. j. M. Black, representing The
Enterprise, Cogswell, n. ID.
The Sioux Falls delegation leaves
today over the Milwaukee. meeting
other members of the state delega-
ton along the route and proceed to
Kansas City, from which point the
delegation of owe 400 mem
Ders of the national association will
leave for the coast on Thursday
morning at 10 O'Clock on a splendid
in two sections, routed over the
Santa Fe.
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CIRCUS
is BIG THING
ITS TENTS COVER TWELVE AC-
RES AND 1T TAKES FIVE
TRAINS TO TRANSPORT

A comprehensive herald. issued by
the management OF the Barnum &
Bailey circus. gives some informa-
ton that will be of interest to the
thousands who contemplate taking
hibits in Mitchell, Tuesday, June 30.
The publication calls particular at
tention to the following facts:
Every purchaser of a ticket, no
matter what price paid for it. is en-
titled to sec all the advertised attrac-
tons of the show, whether in the me
nagerie or the main hippodrome pa
vilions. Whatever auxiliary attrac-
tions there may be are never adver-
tised."
THE show is nevr divided. The
performances given in the small
towns are exactly the same as those
presented in New York and other
large cities"
THE performers are secured from
all parts of the world. by agents es-
pecially employed by the management
and, in engaging novelties, no limit
is placed upon effort or expense. Get
the best. no maiter what the cost
is a standing Barnum N Bailey or
der"
Every startling novelty original
ed in Europe during the past quar-
ter of a century has been introduced
to America by the Barnum & Bailey
show. This year the show more than
ever keeps up its record by present
ing several imported acts of such a
startling character as to seem almost
beyond the range of reason"
THE great tents cover twelve
acres of ground; it takes five trains
of double-length cars to transport
the show from city TO city; the en-
ployes number over twelve hundred;
there are $50 performers, represent
ing every civilized nationality on
earth; over 700 horses are utilized
for the various purposes of the show;
the Lalla Rookh spectacle presents
a vast display by hundreds OF gor-
geously costumed characters and bril-
liantly caparisoned horses, elephants,
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BRITISH VIOLATE u. S.
LAWS BY ENLISTMENT

New York City. Acting from in
structions from Washington. Assist
ant United States District Attorney
Wood obtained an order for the de-
t~ention OF il men. alleged to have
enlisted in San Francisco as British
reservists by Ralph Blair. 1t is
charged that the men are enroute to
England, and are expected to sail to-
morrow. Seven who have been To-
Gated by agents of the department of
Justice, are held as witnesses for the
federal grand jury in San Francisco,
which said that the Investigating al
legged breaches of neutrality of the
States.
All the men claim to be British
subjects. Special agents expect to
find the other four men in the party.
The maximum punishment for
conviction in the otfense charged is
a fine of $1,000. or three years. I'M
or both.
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D. A WRITES
FROM WAR FRONT
ALBERT BROWN. WITH BRITISH
ARMY. SAYS GERMANS WILL.
SOON BE CRUSHED.

Egan. S. D.-Describing some re
cent fights, giving expression to The
longing for home on the part of the
is completed and setting for the con
fidence of the British soldiers that
they will in the course of Il few more
months conquer the Germans, Albert
Bourne. a former resident Of South
Dakota. who for the past nine
months has been serving in the royal
field artillery of the British army in
Belgium, has written an interesting
letter to old friends. Mr.. and Mrs.
Relf. of Esan.
In writing OF the battle in which
the Germans for the first time used
poisonous gases, he says: You may
be sure the place is in an awful state,
the dead bodies and horses lying I'M
buried everyWhere; we had several
casualties. killed, wounded
and poisoned with gases, but the Ger
mans lost more than double in num-
bers than we did. Am pleased to say
that we are now, for the first time,
superior both in guns and the num-
Der of men also, and | do not think
the war can last a great many
months longer, as we keep getting
stronger in numbers and the Ger
mans weaker. and we are ali quite
OF winning a just cause for
the protection of Belgium"
The longing for home when the
enemy is conquered is thus set forth
the announcement of the
birth OF a boy to his wife, who is in
England: "Oh, how glad shall be
to sec them again, more than tickled,
you bet, after being out here facing
death 10Y for just over nine months.
but something seems to tell me 1T
won't be long and have always
seemed TO bear a charmed life.
81 don't know what it is for a man
in prison under sentence of death,
but | do know the awful strain on
our nerves here when you see your
old chums. good friends, all have
falling by your side, some lit
orally blown to pieces. The strain at
lines is so great that | have seen
men demented and look upon death
as a happy release from the terrible
noise and turmoil, when you have to
kill or be killed. to live"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-06-24
FEELING
HURT BUSINESS
SENATOR WEEKS SAYS ANTAG.
ONlSM DEVELOPED AGAINST
CAPITAL CAUSED DE
PRECISION.

Davenport. Ia,-Featuring the
opening days session of the twenty
ninth annual convention of the Iowa
Bankers Association an address was
made today by Senator John w.
Weeks of Massachusetts. In explain
ing the present depression in business
affairs of the country, Weeks said in
part:
81 believe it is largely due to the
antagonism which has been created
between different sections of the
country and between classes of our
citizens. producing distrust and en-
nifty inimical to the best interests OF
the country as q whole.
Those people whose minds have
been poisoned by such teachings en-
pect some kind of drastic legislation
to correct the things which they have
been taught are radically wrong"