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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-02

down their handiwork. The wall can
be demolished by anyone who tries to
get at the foundation of the fiction.
Edward NJ House lives as open a
life as that of any American whose
profession or business does not call
him daily into the places where men
throng If one wants to know about
of the idleness of curiosity he can see
him and talk with him, and the
chances are that he will be told every
thing concerning the subject of his in
Quiring curiosity that any man of
modest mien and inclination naturally
would be willing to tell. Colonel House
is genial man who seemingly never
has sought to define for personal use
the meaning of either of the words.
coldness or austerity. He has a sense
of humor well developed, and tenn
peramental warmth.
Secret of His Power.
In Houston. Texas, In the year 1858,
Edward M. House was born. He was
educated at the Hopkins grammar
school, New Haven, Conn, and at
Cornell university. He has been active
oil his adult life In Democratic politics,
but never has been candidate for Of
flee.
Add to these admittedly meager de-
tails one fact and unquestionably you
will have the secret of this mans pow
er to attract other men TO him for the
purpose of consultation on really high
public matters. From the day that he
was old enough to undertake serious
study Edward NJ. House has been deep
In the books of politics. economics and
legislation. He has marshaled In his
mind all the greater events which have
happened In these three words. More
over, he has the men, the things and
the motives connected with each case
constantly In procession before him.
He Is quick to trace "A cause TO an ef-
feet, or to go the reverse route. He
has been a student of human nature
as 1t has shown itself In many of the
great problems of human life. This
means that he has In him, or at any
rate men believe that he has in him.
the qualifications which go to make
up a sound diplomat.
Through successive administrations
In Texas the governors of the state.
one after another, consulted Colonel
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-02
DAILY MARKET REPORT.

Minneapolis Grain.
Minneapolis, Nov. 2.-Oats, DecOm-
ber, SIN; May, SO.
Duluth Flax.
Duluth. Nov 2.-Flaxseed, Nov.
@1S; Dec, $3.12;, May, $307.
Chicago Grain.
Chicago, Nov 2.-Corn, December.
HIN; May. $1.15h; Oats, Dec.
SSA; May, 60h.
South ST. Paul Live Stock.
South St. Paul, Nov. 2.--Estimated
receipts at the Union Stock Yards to-
lay: Cattle. $500; calves, GOO; hogs,
1900: sheep. 2.30c; GERS, 375.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-02

to Locke's "Human Understanding"
and from this latter book Of "dismala-
ties" to the lighter minded reader,
down to everything heavy and semi
heavy which was published to the
week of his death. Senator Hoar kept
his mental condition balanced by turn.
ing not merely from the heavy to the
light on occasion. but to the actual
featherweights Of fiction. He read
"Nick Carter"
Woodrow Wilson, II Is said, turns
away from the studies of states. past
and present and In prospective to the
reading Of what the English call penny
dreadfuls, and what the Americans In
the old days called yellow backs. 1t
is said that the speaker Of the house
OF representatives, Champ Clark, stops
frequently his mental digging into all
Kinds of history to take up for relief
purposes books Of the kind which
make boy happy.
Reads Good Fiction.
In the library of Colonel House
there is plenty Of good fiction. He
does not turn to Nick Carter. nor to
''The Hidden Hand" OF Mrs. Il. ID. e.
N. Southworth, nor yet to "Owl Face,
The Pawnee" of Beadle dime novel
fame. but he manages to keep the men,
tai balance even by an evening lamp
hour or two with the writer's Of fc-
ton who can lay claim to what the
book reviewers call literary merit.
Today Colonel House Is entering up
on the work Of preparing material
which one day. perhaps far In the fu-
ture, will be serviceable to the Ameri-
can commissioners at the great peace
conference. Another has written this
concerning the choice by the president
OF Colonel House for this work: HE
is peculiarly qualified for 1t by his Dip
lomatic experience Of recent years. by
his study of political problems which
the war has raised and by his integrity
of mind and character"
sherlock, will you take on the
House Mystery CaseT
Mystery my dear Watson. thers
isn't any,"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-02
A Treatment
FOR NERVES
Woman Tells How Lydia e.
Pinkharn's Vegetable Com
pound Helped Her.

West Dandy, N. Y.-"I have had
nervous trouble all my life until I took
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-02

ingiy time enough has gone by ana
things enough have been proved or
disproved to give certainty to the
word that Woodrow Wilson has found
Edward M. House an advisory asset.
There hardly can be much of real
mystery about a man who twice since
this great war began las been sent
abroad as q special commissioner for
the president of the United States. Col.
onel House has been twice in Berlin.
five times in Paris, and frequently in
other of the great European capitals.
Some day 1t may be that Woodrow
Wilson will write what may be called
an photographed review of his ad-
ministration. IL he does II Is entirely
likely that the part taken by Colonel
House In the shaping of some of the
policies of the president may be given
the page place which many men be-
lieve that 1t deserves.
No Mystery There.
While living In New York Colonel
House resides In an apartment not
very far uptown. 1t Is a homelike
place where good books are found and
where good friends may come. IL Is "A
genial place and no curtain of mystery
hangs over the door of any one of its
rooms. Men go there and are well
come. They go and they talk. Man
learns as much from man as he learns
from books and more perhaps Ii we
believe the ancient saying about the
proper study of mankind.
asked Colonel House what his rec
reations are. He said, Friends, read
ing and walking" His library shelves
show the kind of books that he has
read, still Is reading and will continue
to read, for those In the book cases
are made the companions day by day
of the others as they come from the
hands of writer's worth while.
No man probably can read politics,
legislation. economics and history con-
stantly without getting some of DR..
Dry-as-Dust's characteristics. So Ii Is
that Colonel House does not read the
four formidables constantly. He turns
to fiction and here one finds something
of possibly more than passing human
interest.
George Frisbie Hoar of Massachus-
etts was one of the scholars In politics.
1t was said of him that he had read
everything from Aristophanes' Frogs
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-02
Butter, Eaqs and Poultry.

Minneapolis, Nov. 2.-BUTTER-
Creamery extras. per lb. 42c: extra
drsts, 4lc: firsts. 40c; seconds, 39c;
fairy, 36c; packing stock, 35c
EGGS.-Fresh prime firsts. new cas-
ss. free from rots, small dirties and
checks ont. per doz. 39c; current
receipts, rots out, sl0.s0; cold storage,
carlots. per case, $1O.50; checks and
seconds, doz 2ss; dirties, candled.
1oz., 29c. Quotations on eggs includes
cases.
LIVE POULTRY-Turkey fat. 10
lbs. and over, zoe; thin, small. unsal-
able; cripples and culls, unsalable
-oosters, hens, 4 lbs and over 17c;
TO lbs, lac; hens and culls, 100
l2c, ducks, l3c; springs. Ice; geese,
b., 10c.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-02
TEST WAR GASES ON DOGS
Army Experimenters Find Use for
,Superfiuous CANNES.

Stray dogs picked up In Bridgeport
Conn.,, and other cities, to be killed by
the dog wardens. are to be shipped to
New Haven, where they will be sub
jected to government tests with new
poison gases. which later will be used
against the Germans In the trenches
of the European battlefields.
Experiments are being conducted
with various forms of gases at New
Haven by the army and navy gas ex-
perimental committee.
Every effort is being made to make
the gas mixtures as humane as Is pos
sible, so that death because Of then
will be without suffering.
BRIDGE OF STATS
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-02
Unofficial Counsellor of the Pres.
ident Is a Modest But Well
Posted Man.
STUDENT OF WORLD AFFAIRS
Now Gathering Data on Economic and
Other Problems Which Must Be
Solved at the Peace TabIe-Has
Qualifications That Go to Make
Sound Diplomat.

AUTHORS NOTE-Men have made Q
mystery of the life and the doings OF Col
Edward M. House. the friend and adviser
of Woodrow Wilson IL there has been
mystery. II is none OF the Coloners MAX
ing. 1 venture the hope that whatever
may have seemed to be hidden is dis
closed In this article. the material for
which was obtained In the only way In
which such material can be obtained by
direct personal contact. inquiry and
ntudy
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-02

Lydia Z. Pinkham's 9
w e & e table Com
pound for nerves
and for female trou-
bles and it straight
|ened me out in good
shape. ! worknearly
|all the time, a. We
live on a farm and I
have four girls. / do
Jail my sewing and
other w ork with
their help, so it
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-02
Chicago Live Stock,

Chicago, Nov. 2.-Scantiness OF hog
receipts tended today to make the
hog market soar. Cattle and sheep
net with ready sale Hog receipts,
$4,000; strong; bulk. $16506172O;
light, $l5.5561720; mixed. s16.1O6
1880; heavy, s16.OOG1730; rough.
H6.o0@ 1880; pigs, s12@15. Cattle.
receipts, $4,000; steady. native steers,
$3.50 1880; western steers, S6.251
1915; stockers and feeders. $1,000
l1.50; cows and heifers, $5@1225;
calves, sSG14.75; sheep receipts. a.
O00; strong; wetliers, s8s0G13; lambs
k12.5061725.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-02
Even Small Dealers Affected.
LOAN TOTAL NOT YET KNOWN
Reports From Some Districts Disap-
pointing TO Treasury.

poIntino 70 Treasury.
Washington. Nov. 2.-Indications
are that the total of subscriptions to
the second Liberty loan will not bs
available this week
In several Federal Reserve dis
trtcts, 1t is understood. actual subscrip-
tions have failed TO reach the total
estimated subscriptions upon which
the Treasury department based its
prediction recently to the effect that
the $4,000, 100000 would be exceeded
There is every indication, how
ever. that the total will Approximate
so,OO0,OOO. 900, an oversubscription of
$4,000, 100000 OF the minimum asked
tor.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-02

railroads entering the yards report
ed receipts for the day by loads as
follows: Burlington, 1; Great West.
srn, L; Milwaukee, IS; Rock Island.
3; Omaha, SO: Great Northern, %;
st. Louis. IL; Northern Pacific, 1877;
500 Line, SO.
Cattle-Steers, $5750S00; cows,
f6.5Oqs.00; calves, $6.75613.25; hogs,
916.10; sheep and lambs, sS.O0616.O0.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-08-23
RUBBER BOOTS SAVED HIM
Barn in Which kipIinger Was
Standing Was Struck by
Lightning.

Charlotte. AIich.-The fine new
large barn on the C. b. Lamb farm
west of this town in Carmel township,
which is occupied by Grant Kiplinger.
was struck by lightning and the sid
ing was torn off from top to bottom
on both gables. the barn being about
so feet in height.
Mr.. Kiplinger was standing in the
barn Mt the time. and the stable doors,
within two feet of him, were slivered
and he was stunned, but not hurt by
the shock. The fact that he was wear
ing rubber boots probably saved him
from instant death.
The barn fortunately did not catch
fire. It is 40 by 80 feet in size, cost
$1,000. and is being built to replace
the large barn destroyed by fire last
autumn.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-08-23
81, 500 FOR FORGOTTEN BIT
SAVINGS Bank Account Accumuiates
Unclaimed in Brooklyn Bank
for Sixty Years.

New York.-A savings bank account
Of $500, which had been Accumulate
ing unclaimed in a Brooklyn bank fol
GO years, has just found its owner in
Yonkers, City Treasurer Albert Van
Houten said today. 1t goes to Mrs
F. A. Gastineau of Hancock avenue
Lincoln Park, that city.
Mr.. Gastineau, who died two years
ago, deposited a small sum Of money
in the Brooklyn Savings bank In 1857
He must have forgotten it. for he new.
er mentioned it to his wife.
For 40 years interest on the deposit
compounded, and it brought the total
up to $500. Delivery Of the money
was brought about through a new law
compelling banks to search for owners
Of unclaimed deposits.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-08-23
SQUIRRELS HOARD POTATOES
Rodents in Oregon Stole Them First
and Then Hid Them in
Their Holes.

Hood River. Ore-Luhr Jensen will
increase his paintings of potatoes by
three pecks.
Recently Mr.. Jensen scattered poi.
soned wheat around the burrows and
runways Of colony Of troublesome
digger squirrels near his barn. The poi.
son was apparently fatal, for all of the
squirrels disappeared. Recently Mr..
Jensen out of curiosity decided to in.
vestigate the underground tunnels of
the rodents.
As his excavations progressed he un.
earthed seven dead diggers and three
pecks Of fine seed potatoes that the
squirrels had stolen from the ranch.
er's granary and had boarded in the
storage retreats Of their underground
hou,a.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-08-23

for the working Of the draft itself and
for housing. provisioning and equip
ping the 100000 men that are to be
In environments some time after the
first of September.
Coincident with this the army has
had to perform the hitherto unheard-of
task of conducting sixteen training
schools for the making of officers and
OF three camps for the training of
officers of the medical relief corps.
Under-otiicered as every corps is in
the service they have had not only to
struggle along with the routine of the
service but also to handle the problems
OF this enormous expansion of the reg
ulars. the National Guard and the ma
ttOnal army that is in the making.
And with all this, the army has sent
to France General Pershing and his
staff. General Sibert and his expedi-
ti0nary force; has taken over com.
pletely the conduct of six of the Brit
ish base hospitals; has sent army sur
geons up to the firing line; has landed
Its first unit of woodsmen in England
fully equipped with sawmills and 9TH
er tools. and has Mt least one unit Of
aviators on British soil. And no.
where at home has the routine of army
life been allowed to drop below its ac-
customed efficiency, although the army
has had to handle the additional task
since May 1 Of creating two new de-
partmcnts and providing them with
headquarters staffs.
Praise for Defense Council.
"Crlicism and fault-finding have en-
tered like rumOr painted with thou
sand tongues but they have pretty
we'll disappeared since. in common de
cency. these elements have had to nc
knowledge the army and navy officers
have carried out their allotted tasks
efficiently and well. Europe has rung
| with praise of our men abroad. and
our enemy. by the tone of his abusive
language. is awakening to the fact that
we are Il foe to be reckOned with in
the field instead Of being merely Il
race of Gollar-hunters. On the civil
side of what has been done in these
three months there is another admir-
able tale of high achievement.
Through the council of national de-
Tense and its advisory commission the
matter of the purchase of supplies
fruitful source of scandals in the
! raSD has hrrn worked out in a manner
hitherto unknown in the history of the
wars of the United States. Through
| these bodies the railroads have been
brought into relation with the gov
eminent more close and practical than
most of us would ever have thought
possible. War has brought about econ
omies in railroad operation that were
frankly declared impossible a year
ago Manufacturing plants have also
been brought into really effective CO.
operation with the government. and 1t
would appear that the problem of sup
plying great air armada is also to be
brought about through this agency"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-08-23

Mme. de Ia Grange, wife of Lieut..
Col. de la Grange. head of the French
aero mission to the United States. is
one Of the few women who have ac-
cOrnpanied members of the foreign
missions to this country. She has
been exceedingly popular in Washing
ton. where she has attended many en-
tertatnments given In honor OF the
allied commissions. -
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-08-23

Signe Patterson, the favorite dancer
of the king of Sweden. who is here to
teach the folk dances of her native
land to the children of former subjects
of Sweden. is appealing to the women
of this country who were former SUBJ
jects Of Sweden to supply their coun-
trymen now serving In Uncle Sans
army with tobacco and pipes.
Putnam patriot., 1917-11-23
Gotham's New Cops"

The New York cop of 1917 will be Il physical prodigy, according to the New York correspondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch. He will have slim legs. Il 1eltline suggesting the wasp and low visibility. He will be boyish-looking, nave a clean shaven face and will have
 free. bounding gait. Many remember the old-time douhle-action, double thinned cop who could stand at q cor Ter and 1uel riot with one beelubbed iHnd in front of him while he reached the other hand to the rear and commit ted petty larceny from the peanut stand. Just keep that type of cop in mind and try to imagine him being or tered to peel off and step in the gym" ,or physical and mental test. Begin alng next week the medical and phy- sical examiners of the civil service commission will examine 1000 men who aspire to be patrolmen. An old fashioned cop would stand no chance ,f passing the gruelling physical tests hat are at present required for admis- sion to the department.
Putnam patriot., 1917-11-23
Executive Committee Meets

The executive committee of the Put. nan, Red Cross met Wednesday even ing at lhe Chamber of Commerce rooms. Depaniaent heads were also present.
 The following committee WAS ap- pointed to prepare budget of eN- penses for the next six months; Alex Gilman, Miss =. Elizabeth Clark, Mrs. ~ilss M Wheelock, Miss Aboie +. Keith and Ernest C. Morse, It was also voted that the heads of the ways and means committee, the publicity bureau mud the chairman of the sup ply committee be made members ot the executive committee, subject 10 tAe ratification of the next chapter meeting. These committee heads are, respectively, Ernest C. Morse, Malcolm M. Wiley and Mrs. \, NJ. Wheelock.
 Through an error, the name of Dr. M Bullard, IS chairman of the bu- reau of hygiene, was omitted from the tts, in last weeks PATRIOT, as WAS the name of Miss Minnie Cannon, as s men. Der ot the GhFistmas packet com miltee.
Putnam patriot., 1917-11-23
FRIENDSHIPS BRED BY WAR
Mans Inherent Instinct for comrade- ship Renewed in the stress ef
 the Great Conflict.

One of the most affecting and inspir- ioz side issues of the war Is the re- vfgal of mans inherent instinct for cmuradeship and all that that implies in its more fundamental aspects. We make friends even under our luxurious civilization But what Is that compared to the sense of comradeship developed under the fire of great guns ges bombs and all tbe destructive engines of warfare? Once mofe the ancient legends of sacrifice of friend fer friend are made real among men ia whom the primitive virtues were sfified n9f SO long ago by the maferialist.c impulses of an unhsroic period. In very mild say this Is Illustrated by this seaihu- moroHs extract from q letter 10 tho Vigilantes. apropos Of Miss Lynch's trip to inc French front
 "Our chauffeur gray-haired and heavily built, had been mobii,zed for this employment AT the hottest point of very hot road with the sun in the zenith. the dust choking reHonsfrances. of course the tire burst. He put him ~fii tO Npfkt rue DeFNIiidtlou a'tpIu- ing to scriptural injunction literally pouring in rivers from his face and head The sigh with which he accom- plished his work was more expressive than any AnglO-SaxOn sigh I ever lis tened to. A half mile or so further along we came up with car that had proudly passed us, also with il pune tured tire. Hopping from his seat our chauffeur put on the second tire and when he came back to us explained that he did fl because his companion chauffeur had little touch of heart trouble. If lie were hot and tired be- Ore, imagine his plight after this sec md effort but not word of complaint just the smile of 'camaraderie' and we who had been inclined to grumble a bit 1t this felt suddenly ashamed and re- apsed into an admiring silence. - From the Viglantes.
Putnam patriot., 1917-11-23
4 Great Patriotic Work by }. 4. K.
Giiis Rug Into Thousands. Liberty Loan
 10 Millions

Daughters Of the American ReVolu ton are doing great patriotic work. The afe upholding the tradition of the organization by helping in every way to provide for the army and navy of Lhe United States
 recent compilation of contributions from thirtyt three states shows the fol- lowing large total: Knitted garments, 87,300 or 9325 sets, valued at s37, 300; comfort knit bags, 972l, value, s20,977- D; sewing kits, 1873, value, sl l,47975 bafrak bags, sll2; jelly, l3,064 glasses value, Sl ,959 bUi mess fund, Sl ,574 Belgian relief, S5, ,346 30; misceI aneous e2l ,21l.27; national surgical dressings and Red Cross, S99 ,S69 26; training school scholarships, S75; French or phans, ST ,366 59 making grand total Of gifts of S2O7, 29o 59
 Subscribed to the first Liberty Loan, s2,47o, ,2s2. Total war expenditure as reported from 33 states for 8l.2 months, S2,6S4, l25 52
 Furthermore the Daughters in l3 states have pledged themselves to provide knitted garments for the period of the War to the crews of 34 United States ships of various classes and 22 states have contributed knitted garments to 54 other l.. S vessels, making q total of ss boats on which the men of today are wearing garments knitted by daugh ghters of the American Revolution,
 The Daughters have also andopted" companies Of soldiers to keep supplied with knitted garments for the period of the war, have given ambulanees and i'eld kitchens, have provided hot meals and box iunehes for departing troops, have presented regimental flags, have contributed to the ideal conditions sur rounding some of our camps, have ex. tended cheer and comfort to the lonely camp guards who are watching our railroad bridges, tunnels and other public property and have been leaders m establishing Red Cross chapters.
Putnam patriot., 1917-11-23
TABLET HARD TO SWALLOW
Physician Has Provided Safeguard Against Accidental Poisoning by
 Bichloride of Mercury.

At the annual meeting of the Ameri- ,an Pharmaceutical association. Louis Spencer Levy described "safe biehlo- -de tablet" The user is safeguarded against mistaking it for q headache nblet, probably the most frequent mis- .ake, by the addition to the ingredients If about 1 per cent of pungent oils, such as capsicum or mustard, and by shaping the tablet SD that it Is prec- ically impossible to swallow.
 Regarding the latter form of protec- ion the author says: "Nery few per sons find much difficulty ill swallow ng pieces of food of considerable size put anything of rodike shape, about li4 inches long, cannot be swallowed without great difficulty, If at all, even with water. 1 have. therefore, de signed tablet of this length. about 1ne-fourth inch wide and about one eighth inch thick, weighing about 1.6 grammes. If you try to swallow any hing this shape, you will get the sur prise of your life"