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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-09-06

Dr. T.. W, fOrSee OSteOpdln.
school Shoe Sale next week. Gil
lespio & Rogers,
Mrs. A. Hoover departed for Sioux
Falls on Saturday morning to spend
a few days visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Nellie Gray.
Mrs. Frank Dressed returned to her
home at Elkton, on Saturday, after a
few days visit with her friend, Mr..
J.. p. Von AK.
Q. j.. bitterness and son. J.. J., mo-
.ord down to Deu Rapids. SATURDAY.
taking With them Miss Ida Otterno
Who "ill teach in the public school
there this coming year.
IT,. q. johnson and wife left Satur
day morning for Lanes boro, MINI, to
be present at the marriage of oscar.
their SON, to Miss China Eyenson,
which took place Tuesday.
Miss Eva Hansen arrived home Sat
urday morning. After spending most
of the vacation at La Crosse, she at
tended the conference of the Y. w. c.
4. at Lake Geneva. Wis, and visited
other friends.
Chancellor Avery and Dean Burnett,
of the University Of Nebraska. spent
Friday nieht at a hotel in the city.
Tbo,- ,,otornl Erido, IRON, EoroO
and went on Saturday on their way
home, to Lincoln.
Supt. S. f. Hargis went to Water
town Thursday evening and met his
wife and children, who were on their
way from the former home at Itch
field, Mimi, TO Br%ookings. They ar
rived in the city Fridty morning
from the north.
The aged women who appears in
"Civilization" is Anna Perry, IS years
old. She lives in Los Angeles. She
never appeared in moving pictures be-
fore, but has posed for a number of
artists. Matinee and night, CSC and
soc, Pleasant Hour.
Miss Mary Lockhart, who has been
spending most Of the summer with
her sister. Mrs. J. =. Johnson, al
White, visited here last week and left
for Watertown Thursday evening to
resume her duties for another year as
a teacher in the public schools.
When Fiske O'Hara, the Irish sing.
ing star appears here shortly in his
new play, THE Man From Wicklow
he will be seen in the role of Robert
Emmett O'Donovan, the title part
The character is a wealthy Irishman
who has made his money on the con
tinent and returns to Wicklow, where
he falls in love with Judith Norwood
a selfish, proud young woman, who
cares not for him, but for his wealth
Robert soon learns Judith's true feel
ing for him, and doesn't waste much
time on her. The principal story Of
the play concerns his love for Eileen
Judith's little sister, whose childish
love for him remains steadfast durine
the years of his absence from Wick
low, and he returns to find her de-
veloped into a beautiful young WON
an, who captivates his heart, and the
play ends with the little lady wrapped
in his arms, while he sings a charm
ing love ballad to her.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-09-06
TO r UP IOWA

Rev. X n. Holsapple. s%uperinten-
dent Of the South Dakota an~ti-saloon
league, has been elected s%uperinten-
dent of the Iowa anti-saloon league.
A big campaign has been in progress
in Iowa for constitutional prohibition
and Mr.. H%olsapple has been selected
by the National league and the Iowa
league TO head the campaign.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-09-06

James w. Wilson; value of the dairy
cow to South Dakota by Prof. G.. Lar.
sen.
Comfortable seats will be provided
The talks will be sho%rt-inviting dis
cussion with those who listen.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-09

disposition 10 talk humorousiy over
old times with her old friends, in
Guiding her brother and sister, and q
sort of dismayed acquiescence in the
smoky seriousness, the inadequate
civilization, of the city of her birth.
Toward Rose herself, the contessa
was. one might say, studiously affec-
tionate. She avoided being either dis
agreeable or patronizing. Rose could
see. indeed. how she avoided it.
About this time the question where
Rose and Rodney were going to live
after their lease on the McCrea house
ended. had begun to press for an an
swer. October first was when the
lease expired, and it wasn't far from
the date at which they expected the
baby. They spent some lovely after
moons during the days of the emerg-
Ing spring, cruising about looking at
possible places.
This was the situation when Har.
riet took hand in it. It was a situa-
ton made to order for Harriet to
take hand in. She'd sized it up at
a glance. made up her mind in three
minutes what was the sensible thing
for them to do, written q note to
Florence McCrea in Paris, and then
bided her opportunity to put her idea
Into effect. To her Rose was simply q
well-meaning. somewhat inadequately
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-09

no BE coNT1NyED.)
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-09

lying slack in her lap. all as If she
hadn't heard. The long silence irked
him. He pulled out his watch, looked
ut 1t, and began winding 1t. He mend
ed the fire so that it would be safe
for the night; bolted window. Ev-
cry minute or two he stole look at
her. but she was always just the
same. Except for the faint rise and
fall Of her bosom, she might have
been picture, not woman.
At last he said again, Come along,
Rose DEAR"
9TH be too late in October" she
said. "That's why wanted to de-
eide things tonight. Because we must
begin right away" Then she looked
up into his face. ut will be too late in
October" she repeated. "unless we be-
gin now"
The deep. tense seriousness of her
voice and her look arrested his full
attention.
"Why?" he asked. And then, "Rose,
what do you mean?"
"We're going to have a baby in
October" she said.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-09
CHAPTER xi-continued.

But she went steadily on. "You
were always so dear about it. But
tonight-oh. Rodney I" Her
SILLY. ragged voice choked there and
stopped. and the tears brimmed up
and spilled down her cheeks. But
she kept her face steadfastly turned
to his.
'"That's what I said about being
married and not sowing wild oats, I
suppose" he said glumly. ut was O
joke. Do you suppose I'd have said it
IL meant it?"
1T wasn't only that" she managed
to go on. ut was the way they looked
at the house; the way you apologized
for my dress; the way you looked
when you tried to get out Of answer
Ing Barry Lakes questions about
what you were doing. Oh. how 1
despised myself! And how l knew
sou and they must be despising met"
1.-THE one thing felt about you ali
the evening"" he said, with the pa
ttence that marks the last stage of
transportation. twas pride. l was rath-
II crazily proud of you"
GAS my lover you were proud of
Eue." she said. "But the other man
the man that's more truly you-was
ashamed, as was ashamed. Oh, it
doesn't matter! Being ashamed won't
accomplish anything. But what Well
DO Is going to accomplish something"
"What do you mean to do?" he
asked.
Il want you to tell me FIRST" she
Said. show much money we have, and
low much we've been spending"
II don't know" he said stubbornly.
II don't know exactly"
I you've got enough. haven't you,
o6 your own I mean, there's
enough that comes in every year, to
I've on. IL you didn't earn a cent by
practicing law? Well. what I want
to do. is to live on that. I want to
i've. however and wherever we have
tD-to live on that-out In the suburbs
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-09
Quite Happy.

Through the wild way of her good
for-nothing husband, a Woodworking
charwoman had to remove to little
two-roomed cottage, where there was
scarcely space to sneeze without shak-
ing the ornaments from the mantel-
piece.
Its hard lines for you to be brought
down like this, after what you've been
accustomed to-" said a sympathetic
neighbor. II don't doubt you feel very
miserable, Mrs. JONES'"
mo, I DON'T" the charwoman stout
~ denied. "1'm happier here by
long way than used to be in the old
place. For one thing, when my hus-
band comes home in brute Of tenn
per, he can't throw me down the cellar
steps, as he used to, COS there amt
none now"-Pearson's Weekly.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-09
Didn't Seem to Be "Free" Seeds.

Didn't Seem to Be "Free" Seeds,
An Indiana congressman recently
made a liberal distribution of free
seeds, sending them to his constitu-
ents in franked envelopes on which ap-
peared the regular warning, Penalty
for private use, $780," says the Indian
apolis News. A few days later one of
his supporters wrote:
Il don't know what to do about those
garden seeds you sent me. I notice
1t Is $500 fine for private use. 1 don't
want to use them for the public. I
want to plant them in my private gar
den. can't afford to pay $500 for the
privilege. Won't you see if you can
fix it so can use them privately? I
am law-abiding citizen. and do not
want to commit crime"
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-09
CHAPTER XII.

buS 0OOT Tat was 10 O0ens
What silly little idiot she'd been
not to have seen the thing for her.
self! She'd been, all the while, beat
ing her head against blind walls when
there was door there waiting to
open of itself when the time came.
Motherhood! There'd be doctor
and nurse ut first, of course, but
presently they'd go away and she'd
be left with baby. Her own baby {!
She could care for him with her own
hands, feed him-her joy reached an
ecstasy at this-from her own breast.
That life which Rodney led apart
from her, the life into which she had
tried with such ludicrous unsuccess
to effect an entrance. was nothing to
this new life which was to open before
her in few short months now. Mean.
while. she not only must wait
she could well afford to.
That was why she could listen with
that untroubled smile Of hers to the
terrible things that Rodney and
James Randolph and Barry Lake and
Jane got into the way of hurting
across her dinner table, and to the
more mildly expressed but equally
alkaline cynicisms Of Jimmy Wallace.
Jimmy was dramatic critic on one
Of the evening papers as we'll as bit
of a playwright. He was slim. cool,
smiling, highly sophisticated young
man, who renowned all privileges as
an interpreter of life in favor Of re-
naming an unbiased observer of it.
He never bothered to speculate about
what you ought to do-he waited to
see what you did.
Well, in the light of the miraculous
transformation that lay before her,
Rose could listen undaunted to the
tough philosophizings her husband and
Barry Lake delighted in as we'll as to
the mordant merciless realities with
which Doctor Randolph and Jimmy
Wallace confirmed them. She wasn't
Indifferent to it all.
"Jim's pretty weird when he gets
going" Eleanor Randolph said to Fred
erica. on the next day after they had
been dining at the Aldriches'. "but that
Barry Lake has sort Of surgical way
Of discussing just anything, and his
wife's as bad.
1--WE never got of women all the
evening. Barry Lake had their his.
tory down from the early Egyptians.
and Jim got of a string of pathology
ical freaks. And then Rodney came
out strong for economic independence,
only with his own queer angle on it,
Of course. He thought 1t would be q
fine thing. but it wouldn't happen I'M
til the men insisted on 1t. When a
girl wasn't regarded as manageable
unless she had been trained to trade
or a profession, then things would be-
gin to happen. I think he meant It,
too.
swell, and all the while there sat
Rose. taking it all in with those big
eyes Of hers. smiling to herself now
and then; .1aying things. too. some
times. that were pretty good. though
nobody but Jimmy seemed to under
stand, always. just what she meant.
They've talked before. those two. But
she was no more embarrassed than
as II we'd been talking embroidery
stitches."
So far az externals went, her life,
that spring, was immensely simplified.
The social demands upon her. which
had been 40 insistent all winter,
! stopped almost automatically. The
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-09
The True Word.

Two elderly New York clubmen who
have retired spend much of their time
gazing out upon the Fifth avenue
throngs from their leather rest chairs
Mt club lounge window.
Charles B. Towns was seated near
them the other day. A very stunning
woman of middle age passed in a
handsome turnout.
II wonder how old she ISL" said one.
"Woman is as old as she looks" was
the reply.
There was pause. "And man is
not old until he quits looking" said
the first-and both resumed their gaz.
ing.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-09
CARE FOR YOUR SKIN
And Keep It Clear by Daily Use Of
Cuticura-Triai Free.

A hot bath with Cuticura Soap fol.
lowed by gentle amounting with Cuti-
cura Ointment clears the skin or scalp
in most cases Of eczemas, rashes and
itching Of children and adults. Make
Cuticura your everyday toilet prepare
tons and prevent such troubles.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-09
sThxts Why Wanted to Deeid
Things Tonight"

somewhere. or in fiat, so that you
will be free; and can. work-be some
tort Of help"
"You can wash the dishes and scrub
The foors." he supplemented. land I
can carry my lunch to the office with
me In little tin box" He looked at
his watch. "And now that the things
reduced to an absurdity. let's 60 to
bed. It's getting along toward two
o'clock"
"You don't have to get to the office
I'LL nine tomorrow morning." said
Rose. "And. I want to talk it out
POW. And I don't think said any
lAing that was absurd"
RI shouldn't have called it absurd, !"
10 admitted after a rather long 81
hence. "But it's exaggerated and un-
nscessary. Next October. when the
Vase ON this house runs out, we can
manage. perhaps. to change the scale
b little. There you are! Now do stop
worrying about 1t and let's 60 to bed"
But she sat there Just as she was.
etating ut tie DYING flre. her hands
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-09

civilized young person, the beneficiary,
through her marriage with Rodney, Of
a piece Of unmerited good fortune.
When she got Florence McCrea's
answer to her letter, she took the
first occasion to get Rodney off by
himself and talk little common
sense into him.
"What about where to live, Rod
ney?" she asked. "Made up your
mind about it yet? It is time someone
with a little common sense straight
ened you out about this"
Harriet couldn't be sure from the
length of time he took seeing that
his pipe was properly lighted, wheth-
er he altogether liked this method of
approach or not.
Common sense always was q sort
Of speciality Of yours, SIS" he said at
last, "and Strengthening out. You
were always pretty good at it." Then
out Of a cloud Of his own smoke.
Sire away"
swell, in the first place." she said.
IF you had your house today you'd be
lucky If the paint was dry and the
thing was fit to move into by the first
Of September"
"But we've got to get out Of here,
anyway, In October. And that means
we've got to have some sort Of place
to get into. It is an awkward time,
Ill admit"
mo, you haven't" she said. "You
can stay right here another six
months, If you like. I've heard from
Florence. When I found how things
stood here, I wrote and asked her If
she'd lease for six months more IL
she got the chance. and she wrote back
and simply grabbed at it."
Rodney smoked half way through
his pipe before he made any comment
on this suggestion. ''This house isn't
just what we want" he said. I'm the
first place, it's expensive"
Harriet shrugged her shoulders,
picked up one of Florence's poetry
books and eyed the heavily fooled bind
ing with satirical smile before she
replied.
"rd an idea there was that in It."
she said at last. "Freddy said some
thing. Rose had been talking
to her" Then. after another little
silence and with a sudden access Of
vehemence: "You don't want to go
and do regular fool thing, Roddy.
You're getting on perfectly splendid
ly. But If you pull up and 60 to live in
a barn somewhere and stop seeing any
body-people that count, I mean"
Rodney grunted. you're beyond
your depth, Sis" he said. "Come back
where you don't have to swim. The
expense isn't a capital consideration,
I'll admit that. Now 60 on from
there"
'sThat's like old times" she OBJ
served with a not ill-humored grim
ace. II wonder IL you talk to Rose
like that. oh, know the house is
rather solemn and absurd. It's Flor
ence herself all over. that's the size
Of It. But what does that matter for
six months more1"
He pocketed his pipe and got up
out of his chair.
There's something In. It" hs I'd.
mitted. 'I1l think Il ever"
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-09
An Apology,

"Are you not ashamed to use pol
soned arrows?
I'm doing the best can in my lim-
tied way" whimpered the savage. "Of
course, poisoned arrows only get 'em
one at time. But we lack the me-
chanfcal facilities for wholesale opera.
tons with U-boats."
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-09

The Only Way.
"Senor, can you handle any villa
money?'
"That depends. Is 1t baledy"-Louia.
vile Courier-Jour1al.
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PERSONALS

Mrs. Frank Medley, of Edgemont,
was in town yesterday afternoon visit
ing Mrs. ]. Reitz Lake.
Mrs. Dan Thomas, of Thoburn, was
in Fairmont yesterday afternoon as a
social visitor.
Miss Lizzie Severe was in Fair.
mont yesterday evening attending to
shopping.
Miss Madge Grove was among the
social visitors in Firmont yesterday
afternoon.
Misses Lera Waters, Macell, Find
ley, and Opal Findley, students in the
Fairmont Normal were in town TEurs.
day afternoon calling on friends.
Mrs. A. Yost was among the callers
in Fairmont during the week.
Mrs. William Gaskins was in Fair
mont yesterday attending to shopping
Mrs. ma Davis, of Enterprise, was
among the social visitors in Monongan
Thursday evening.
Mrs. Pansy Martin, of Chiefton, was
in town last evening attending the 4
of p. banquet.
Miss Nina Lewis, of Enterprise, was
among the social visitors to Monon.
gah during the week.
Mrs. Alice Miller, Of Mount Claire,
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!; CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE. 8:

was my smiling rejoinder. I'VE have
cried many times over her story as
she has tried to picture to me the
heartbreak that was pressed into those
first years Of her orphanage."
Seems to me her aunt and her cou.
sins were more than unhumanly ne
glectful. 1 can hardly think, Margie,
there are women in the world that
would be as unkind to another woman
as Paula's Aunt Rachel is to her"
THAT is just the point, Pat" l said.
"The story of Paula's life will show
that all women are not angels nor all
men devils. 1t will show. however,
that the good and the bad are about
evenly divided between the sexes and
that both young men and women make
their first mistake because they do
not know. The innocence that their
fathers and mothers speak of with so
much pride as being a cherished at
tribute Is weapon which all unknow-
ingly they will use to hurt themselves.
when the great physical and psych-
illogical facts of life are taught to our
children in the home. when they are
discussed in dignified and moral
manner, then we will not make ribald
Jest of the most sacred things Of life
ITO my notion, one Of the pernici.
Gus so-called musical comedies with
its frank call to the senses is thing
do not want my daughter to see, as
1t makes joke of sin and light Of love"
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hill, but they're all away now. That
was month ago."
All right" answered the Judge cas-.
ually. There's not much money in it,
Just two dollars and something. "I'll
hunt up her address in the city when I
go home and send it to her. BY the
way. Mrs. Elder, I've had some import.
ant mail today. must go home for
while at least. Can l have dinner
early so l can make the afternoon
train?"
Yes, indeed, Judge Stratton; any.
thing you say goes, but we're sorry to
lose you"
The city was hot. dusty and noisy.
unbearable after the cool, fragrant
quiet of the country. The Judge did
not go home. He left his bags at ho-
tel and took taxi for Howard avenue,
the address on Miss Porter's card. But
the house was deserted. Then he
called up the editor of a society paper
and found that the Porters had gone
to Pinehaven in the mountains. That's
where Willis is" thought the judge.
Must be some place"
So he took the first train to Pineha-
y.
10 he was shaved, bathed and dressed
for the dance down stairs.
Willis found him at once. You old
dog! Got tired of sitting in a lonely old
boat all day, didn't you. l told Molly
I'd get you yet. This is corking
place. Wait till you see the golf course
and the girls!"
The Judge stood it as long as he
could, then he hunted up the girl. When
he saw her his heart gave great jump
and he cursed himself for tardy fool.
Perhaps he was too late. Those eyesi
And that hair!
There was moon, so they cut the
dance and went out. The mountains
with the sharp outline of the pines
against the sky were wonderful.
at doesn't seem as il l had been
fishing on a lonely river two hundred
miles from here at noon today"
How interesting! Did you catch
anything?"
Eyes, this" He gave her the purse
still damp and flabby.
"Why it's mine. dropped it out of
boat over month ago. There really
isn't much of value in it. Only "a"
she stopped suddenly.
"0nly a" he suggested.
Nothing
Eyes there is. My picture is in it,,
and you said you dreamed about me.
That's why I'm here. I've been dream.
ing of you, too. Do-do you still dream
or is there someone else, now?"
She shook her head slowly. mo, no
one else" she answered family.
And after they had fixed 1t all up,
regardless Of the gaze of the moon, the
judge remarked suddenly, Wouldn't
1t have been horrible il / hadn't land
ed that purse! And dearest, will you
wait here just a minute? I'll be right
back. I've an apology to make to Will
lis"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-02-24
ORRINE DESTROYS
LIQUOR HABIT

Keen interest in orrine, the scien.
tific treatment for the drink habit,
now on sale at our store continues un.
abated.
Yet this it not surprising when it is
realized that it can be given secretly
at home with absolute confidence, and
that it quickly destroys all desire for
whiskey and other intoxicants. Or
rine has saved thousands of drinking
men, and is sold under guarantee
to refund the purchase price IL, after
a trial It fails to benefit.
orrine is prepared in two forms: No.
l, secret treatment; orrine No. 2, vol
untary treatment. Costs only $1.00
a box. Ask for booklet. W. r. Crane
and Company, Cor. Main and Madison
SITS, Fairmont, ". Va.
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W. Va, is in M6nOngah spending sew.
eral days with Mr.. and Mrs. David
Levy.
Mrs. Densel e. Males. of Ida May,
spent the week end in town with
friends.
Mrs. Joe Murphy, OF Enterprise.
was in town last evening attending the
X. of 2. banquet.
]. ". Orr continues 10 be i'll AT his
home in Brookdale.
Charles Mpnden, of Fairmont. was
In town last evening viciting friends.
Mrs. Anna Davis. OF Bingamon was
in Monongah last evening as social
visitor.
Miss Ollie Jones was in Fairlnont
yesterday afternoon attending to
shopping.
Miss Angelo Love was in town Fri
day visiting friends and relatives.
Miss Elsie Hawkins, OF FairnoAt,
was in town Thursday evening as a
social caller.
Miss Clarice Hacker, formerly of
Monongah, has been in town during
the week visiting friends and rela-
tiYes.
Emory Norris was among the local
business transpctors in Fairmont yes
terday afternoon
Miss Sarah Kelley. of near Booths
vile, was in town yesterday visiting
friends.
Mrs. Charles retrick. al Enter
prise, was in town Thursday as a
social caller.
William Morris and Mr.. Watkins,
OF FaiImont were in town yesterday
evening attending to business.