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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-03-09

Coquillette's Administer rugs. are
beauties, see them.
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Edward Lowell went to Highmore
Saturday to visit a few days at the
home of his sister, Mrs H. Heming-
son.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-03-09

Miss Cora Mccoy visited friends
in Huron the first of the week.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-03-09

Trade the old sewing machine for
q new one at Coquillette's.- ADV.
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John Kuper has purchased the
Henshaw dray line.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-03-09

M. o. Routh and family have
moved to the H. P. Nelson farm in
Logan twp.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-03-09

Mark Woodward went to Iowa
last week to look after business
matters and visit relatives at Marion
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Money to loan on land. interest
per cent, no commission.
44tf Christ & Christ.
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E. F. Waite Is confined to his
home. East 3rd St., this week, by an
attack of rheumatism.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-03-09

J. II. Cole returned the first Of
the week from a visit of several
weeks at Pella. Iowa and Chicago.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-03-09

Mr. David Peterson deperted Mon
day evening for Oregon, to look
after his property there.
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H MILLER PRESS
AND
o BRIEFS,
THURSDAY MARCH 9, 1916

Albert Nelson buvs hogs.
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Diamond from the Sky" at the
Scenic every Tuesday. Wait for it
and see it right.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
New Gambling Scheme.

A successful gambling scheme has
lately become prevalent in the high
class apartment houses in the uptown
districts, The proprietor of each is
a woman and the players are for the
most part respectable married wom-
EN-, with homes and families. The
process is for some quiet-looking wom-
ar to take an apartment and furnish
it in the best home-sweet-home style.
Acquaintance is made with the wOm-
en- of the neighbOrhoOd. They are in
vited in for luncheon and a little
bridge. The first thing you know the
game is Il habit, running at full blast.
Each of the players is obliged to
feed the kitty" That is where the
hostess gets a rake-off. After a while
refreshments other than liquid are en-
tirely dispensed with as delaying the
game. One of two things eventually
happens. The gambling wife gets in
so deep that she pawns everything,
her perfidy is discovered by the hus-
band, and there is II grand blow-up, or
some fine afternoon a patrol wagon
backs up to the door and the respect
able women are given u free ride to
the green Observation-Disclosures
for police statiOn.-New York Cor,
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
Uncle Sans Chemists.

Despite the monumental work of
such government experts as Doctor
Rlttmann, the discoverer of a new gas
oline process; DIR. Harvey Wiley of
pure-fOOd fame, and the whole corps
engaged in fertilizer experiments, pub
lie opinion will not give credit for
any good thing to Uncle Sans chem
lists, the Wall Street Journal declares.
After making a low-cost record for
producing smokeless powder at Picka-
tlnny arsenal and producing "dannite"
our famous secret 'high explosive
'D'"-the workers in explosives have
succeeded in producing a fiashless pow
der. The great heat developed In
smokeless detonations causes flying
particles to become incandescent, pro-
ducing a flash, but this new explosive
produces only a pear-shaped iridescent
flow at the muzzle, invisible at two
miles. At night, a mask as high as a
mounted man Technically known as
mounted deflade") will conceal the
glow; the 'deflade" required at night
for III present explosive is not exact
~ known, but artillery officers have
been known to declare, pessimlstically
that a mile would be none too high
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

She will not heed it. She is too
busy. The little tablet on her desk is
scrubbed full of tasks for tomorrow.
If she can hold herself to that siren
uous schedule, she will rise at seven,
follow up her shower bath with cor
receive dancing to the victrola, thereby
effectively arousing the rest Of the
household, devote the forenoon to cul-
ture (not with a X, the afternoon to
Red Cross benevolence with a bee),
speak at a suffrage meeting in the eve
ming and read the Boston Transcript
before she goes to bed. There is a
lack of a in this program, but
the New Woman is not dependent on
omance "Be not idle, and you shall
not be longing" There is, however, a
memo. pad" on record with the entry
by date and hour, set in the midst
Of other sundries: Marry Mr.. r.
Contributors Club, in the Atlantic.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
Early M~asticators.

They say the American states use up
annually an enormous amount of chew
ing gum. The figures 1 do not recall,
but they form an offset by no means
negligible to the annual product of that
quiet (saye when she rejoices over Il
new lay) wealth-maker, the barnyard
heb. Gum used to be nearly all spruce
or wax, remarks a correspondent of
the Boston Herald.
In 1864, in Toronto schools, we
chewed wax, India rubber, tar, con-
gealed %turpentine, slippery elm, licorice
root, s~assafras root or wheat till it was
reduced to an o%leaginous state, and
sometimes the molasseslike glutinous
stuff from printers rollers! Chunks
of wax the boys stole from the altar
candles in st. Mary's church the tar
from caldrOns on the streets; the rub
Der from car springs, and it was a fear
fully laborious two days job for the
jaws to reduce the pure rubber to a
joyous, chewable consistency; the piny
spruce pried out from the interstices
of cedar and pine trees. AS almost
every s~chOolbOy knows, and horrible
To admit in these germ terrorizing
days, we often snapped gum! And
few succumbed! One cent would buy
a supply of pretty nice tissue-wrapped
wax or spruce gum then-now moth
ing less than five. But we hadn't the
cent very often.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
SHRINE DEAR TO HUNGARY
Chapel Near orsova Built over Spot
Where Was Buried the Regalla
of the Kingdom.

Orsova, the Hungarian frontier city
on the Danube recently occupied by
Roumanian forces, is only a few miles
above the Iron Gates, the last defile
of the Danube, and about an equal
distance below the scenically mag
nlfcent Kazan defle.
on the outskirts of Orsova. about
two miles from the steamboat pier,
there is mn attractive little park, in
the midst of which is one of the holi-
est shrines of the Hungarian people.
1t is the Kronen Kapelle Grown
Chapel) erected by Emperor Francis
Joseph over the spot where Louis Kos
suth and his fellow patriots buried
the Hungarian crown Of st. Stephen
and other regalia of the kingdom in
1S49.
The story of the hiding of the
crown is one of the most pathetic
chapters in the life of the mar who
is generally admitted to have been
Hungary's greatest rator and most
~incorruptible patriot. The revolution
against Austria (1S4S-49) having
failed, Kossuth and his devoted fol-
lowers were seeking safety in flight,
taking with them the national in
sigma. AS they neared the Turkish
frontier their patriotism would not
permit them to bear the emblems of
national existence beyond the borders
Of their country, so, in secret, the re-
gala were buried, each participant in
the act vowing not to reveal the hid
ing place except with the consent Of
his associates.
Some years later, however, after
Kossuth had gone to England and
thence to the United States, and the
cause of Hungarian independence
seemed hopelessly lost, the place Of
hiding of the regalia was revealed to
Emperor Francis Joseph, who had the
precious articles unearthed and the
spot consecrated by the chapel, in
which is u statue of the Virgin and
Child, n of the masterpieces of the
Austrian sculptor Meissner. The
chapel is approached by a splendid
avenue of tall poplars.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
PUBLIC LAND SPECIALIST

Charles d. Mahaffie of Portland,
Ore, has assumed his duties as solicit
tor of the department of the interior,
and has taken up the study of public
land cases, in which he is a specialist
and which he will be called upon to
handle principally in his new position.
He was born in Kansas, but spent
his early boyhood in Oklahoma, where
he was educated and where he was ad-
mitted to the bar. He had been some
time in Portland, Ore, practicing law
at the time of his appointment.
Mr.. Mahafie received his legal ed
ucation at Oxford university, receiving
the degree of D. G. L. he was award
ed a Rhodes scholarship from Okla
homa in 1905, after graduating from
Kingfisher college (Okla.) in the same
year. He was a member of the fac
ulty of Princeton university during
190S-9 as instructor in Jurisprudence.
At the time of his appointment he
was secretary of the University club,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

ton of its value. For a number of years charitable and missionary societies
have earned subsandal income from the sale If old newspapers and maya
zines. These societies have been given much of the surplus supply of gov
eminent documents. In some cases the revenue from this source has been
sufficient to maintain these institutions.
Paper has advanced to a price where secondhand stock brings a conad-
cradle income. The movement to have the schoolchIdren save old news
papers will result in q return to the District of approximately $4,000 IL the
interest is maintained.
ton that the parents of more than 95 per cent of the schoolchldren buy the
daily newspaper.
If an average of ne pound of paper is brought in each week by each
boy and girl lin the public schools 1t means that about % long tons of paper
will be collected weekly, or several hundred tons during the course of the
year.
Wit the money thus raised many desired articles may be purchased for
the school Fairgrounds and other social activities This of course, is n Of
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
one.sIded Plan.

There's really no necessity for man
and wife to quarrel" said Mrs. Patter.
"We never have any words in the
house. When | feel tired and irritable,
l wear a cardinal-colored ribbon. and
then Mr.. Patter let's me have my own
way, and l treat him just the same as
usual" "Oh-h-h !" exclaimed her
friend. 81 wondered why you'd been
wearing red so much lately. That ex-
plains It'll"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
Shin Pollen of Plants.

The shipment of whole plants for
breeding or experimental purposes,
with the attendant danger of carrying
plant diseases and insect pests, a be
obviated in many cases by shipping
only the pollen from such plants. Pol
len from citrus trees has been sent In
cold storage from Florida to California
and recently a shipment was success
fully made from Washington, d. O., to
Japan. The anthers were sealed in
glass tubes from which the air wa
exhausted. Some of the tubes after
the exhaustion of the air were dried
with sulphuric acid.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
The Pay
Envelope
By Florence Lillian Henderson


NSNRSHohNf Nt ~
Rodney Driscoll. searching in his
pockets for a stray dime or nickel,
found only n penny, gave it an angry
fling into the gutter and then sent an
envelope filed with several folded
sheets of paper after it.
"That for the high and lofty set of
recommendations !" he grOwled. I'm
down and out and I'll never get up or
"a again to need those Then he no.
ticed an acquaintance coming along,
butt 2nholed him, borrowed half n dol
lar and made for the nearest saloon.
Vance Denslow, clear of eye, neat Of
attire, not even a penny in his pocket,
came along, noticed the envelope,
picked it up and became Interested in
reading the half-dozen odd recon-
mendations covering the ability, eff
cheney and integrity of Rodney Dris-
coll In another city. The finder of the
same smiled wryly. He had no rec
concentrations, for he had come from
Il farm, and without such he had been
turned down at every place he had APP
piled foF -ork.
1.-THE very INSTRUMENTATION
galore - he unused. eff l only dared
10 use them! Yet here they are, use
less. Shall l set them to work, assume
this rather w~ell-looking name, Rodney
DriscOll-and call Il check on half
Starvation"
Six months previous Rodney Dris-
coll. leaving a sister and a fiancee be-
hind him, had come from another city
and had secured a good position on
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

mems of Uncle Sans paper money, ranging from the la currency OF Civil war
days down Ito the present time, and contains every Sort of paper currency
issued by this government since the sixties.
This fat money would be worth nothing If Uncle Sam weren't al honest
old gentleman who always pays up his l. o. us, for it has n gold or silver
back of it. 1t simply stated that the United States promises to pay s. many
dollars, and the United States, Of course, paid up.
which Uncle Sam stands ready to redeem all the paper money he now
issues which states whether it is payable in silver o in gold.
Major Quatfe, eighty years old, has been vault clerk at the treasury for
more than 80 years. Millions, even billions, long since ceased to trouble him.
"Mo, it doesn't make m e nervous" he said. III it had I wouldn't have
been here so years and still be alive. Some folks COZ n here and tell m
they wouldn't have this job for $4,000 a year. But I don't mind it"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
BRIEF

Amsterdam had the first crematory
In the Netherlands.
France after the val must rebuild
5000 ruined towns.
Because of the war Switzerland has
increased its acreage under cultivation
In grains by more than 20 per cent over
the 1914 figures.
A Maryland powder plant has chutes
instead of the ordinary fire escapes for
Its employees. When danger is near
the workmen slide to safety
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

I The banner day for the stork was September q. On that day the first
guanaco yer born at the local zo made its appearance The little guanaco
is a first cousin of the baby llama. The South Americans domeshcated the
guanaco and the tame animal became known a s the llama. Both mother and
baby guanaco are doing well.
A baby elk was also born o September 81, as weref five coypus, which
are by far the most interesting family in the park to those who admire
progressive and precocious children.
The appearance of the baby coypus IA scarcely noted by the officials of
their first lesson in swimming. Zoo officials themselves were very much
amused by the rather premature action of the mother, and expressed surprise
at the raphity with which the infant animals took to the art of moving
themselves about in the water.
The coypu is a species of large water rodent which makes its native
home in Argentina and Patagonia. Its fur is known at nuuia.
But these are not all of the infants. There has been a n interesting
addition to the family of Mr. and Mrs Camel, Baby Camel preferring to take
to have me of the keepers or officials of the ZOO hold her bottle for her.
Then there is the newborn infant of Mr.. and Mrs. Yak and another child
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Monkey. And in each case both child and mother are
doing well.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

the strength of his recommendations.
lie had fallen in with a fast set, got
to drinking, lost his first position,
found another, lost that, and his am
bitiOn and sense of honor as well, and
was practically a vagabond at date.
Vance Denslow did not know this.
He was taking a risk. but he also was
penniless. He smiled at the oddly of
his situation. Then he reflected grave
ly. He decided.
Before noon, as Rodney DriscOll,
and backed by the recommendations
he had picked out of the gutter, he
had been employed by Waltham &
Co. brokers, at a salary of twelve
dollars a week. The recommendations
had done it. His bright energetic
ways enforced this influence and on
the first of the next month his pay
envelope read: Fifteen dollars
Everybody knew him as Driscoll.
Luckily he had no friends in the city
and the deception was not prObed.
Two months after being employed by
iWaltham & Co. the senior partner
called him into his private Office, COM
mended his general diligence as to a
neat profitable investment he had
turned for the house and gave him the
post of office manager.
The very day after Driscoll was
called into the outer office. A young
man handed him the card of a local
collection agency.
whats this fOr?" inquired Denslow.
you'd ought to know, Mr.. Driscoll,"
was the reply. you've peer on our
books long enough. You skipped from
your last employment and we've just
located yOu. We have eight claims for
unpaid bills a~ggregating one hundred
and forty dollars. You've got to pay,
or Wen notify your boss and garnl-
shee your pay"
HIN - uttered Denslow dryly. And
again, "H'm?"
His sin had found him outl Here
was the penalty of dupllcity. Dens-
low WINGED. He thought quick. He
was getting fifty dollars a week. Could
he afford to pay the debts of the man
whose identity and recommendations
he had appropriated?
"See here" he said, chow would
twelve weekly payments do your"
"Finei" promptly responded the col
lector, "only, don't do as you did be-
fore-fall down on the contract. We're
bound TO get you in the end"
HIM" quizzlcally smiled Denslow,
and paid the first instalIment.
When the last instalIment came due
It was another collector who called
for the final payment. He explained
that his predecessor had left the col.
lection agency. He regarded Denslow
with a queer smile as he gave him the
receipt. Then he whispered in his
ear:
WHATS the answer?"
"To what?" ~propounded DenslOw.
You're o Rodney Drlscoll."
"Eh What? Why do you say that?'
inquired the staggered Denslow.
Because l know for sure. l useC
to collect of you a year ago. befor,
we lost you"
suppose I'm doing an act of kind
SessT ventured Denslow.
"Oh. It's your business of course
replied the collector nirily. "OnI,
there's another person as much inter
ested in this mystery as | am.".
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

A s~earchlight five feet in diameter
from which shafts have been seer 200
miles away has been built for the
United States navy.
To replace the unuru eyelets and
hooks on shoes, a Gerfuan has invented
clasps that fold dowa when shoe
strings are passed around them and
drawn tight.
Turning the handle Of a new cleo
trio water heater for bathrooms one
way permits hot water to flow. and
turning 1t in the other direction OBJ
tains cold water.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

NOW y
GREAT JUNGLE FIGHTER

A wonderful gift for the particular
kind OF warfare he is waging against
the Germans in East Africa is the
characteristic an English writer at
tributes to General SHUTS, the Boer
leader, who is pressing the Teutons
hard in their sole remaining African
colony.
His remarkable enveloping move
nnents invariably achieve their object
and one realizes how invaluable in
this part of the world is the experience
of the Boer cavalry. To his knowl-
edge of local conditions and the way
to deal with them he adds absolute Sc
crecy as to his plans. No one but him
self knows what he proposes to do un-
til the last moment. Such a general
would be the despair of the most skill
full espionage system in the world.
General SHUTS does not spare him
self in the field, and to see him up at
the front is to be afforded a revelation
of his energy. One would have smiled
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
JIMINEZ SEEKS REST

Gen. Juan Isidor Jiminez, who was
president of the Dominican republic
until May 8, when he resigned under
pressure from his congress, after a life
of storm and battle, is now seeking
peace for his nerves in the mountains
neal Wernersville, Pa.
General Jiminez was president of
Santo Domingo off and on for five
years. He administered his Office with
dignity and effectiveness. He led
armies. He defed a congress. He
stepped defiantly into a presidential
chair made vacant by assassination.
More than once he shook his fist in the
face of Europe. And now he wishes to
bide awhile in the tranquility that only
doctors ard trained nurses are able to
maintain in a disordered world. Such
is life for the adventures.
Up the hill came the veteran gen.
eral the other day in a big motor car.
On one side of him vas his wife, on
the other was his youthful daughter.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

to be even more subject to pollution
than the oyster, which now is consid-
cred virtually free from disease as a
result of the interstate shipment reg
ulations instituted by the department.
The clam is more or less mysteri-
u to federal investigators. Little ia
known regarding its so-called habita.
The investigation is expected to de-
velop what these are, as well as what
methods, If any, may be employed to
make good clans out of bad ones.
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