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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14
CATALONIA GREAT SEA W
Spanish Province Centuries AGO Held
Undisputed Naval Sway-People
Still Proud OF Achievements.

The Moors were expelled from Bar
celona In the ninth century. Catalonia
had more than four centuries start
over Seville and six over Malaga. II
Is little wonder, therefore, that Span
ish enterprise. IL such a term is ap-
plicable, Is seen at Its best In Gaia
lonia, because 1t has had a real oppor-
tunity to express itself. Catalonia has
always looked beyond Its geographical
limits. 1t has, in fact. looked sea-
ward. 1t was or the waves that the
men of Barcelona found riches and
glory. They were the rivals of the
Pisans. Genoese and Venetians. and
Barcelona can boast of a naval his
tory as great perhaps as theirs. Cata-
lonia for a time held sway Of the sea,
and 1T was only upon the consolidation
OF Spain at the beginning of the six
teenth century and the rise Of the
great modern states that the city was
eclipsed al a sea power. The Cata-
lonians, proud of their achievements.
looked with little favor upon Column
bus discovery of America. an enter.
prise which had been promoted by
neighboring CASTLE.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14
SELLING BONDS
WATERFOWL TO TAKE OVER
WATER PLANT.

Waterfowl, Jan. 1.-THE sale OF
$4,000 worth of city bonds for part
payment on purchase of the water
works plant from private wne to
the Minnesota Loan & Trust company
will be complete IL the trust COM
pany attorneys approve a serial ma
turity option which begins at the end
of the 10th year, included in the of
fer of the company. The bonds are
to run for 90 years at 5 per cent, but
the 10-year maturity option was
wished inserted because city officials
believe profits from the plant will be
sufficient to pay interest and retire
at least a portion of the bonds by
that time. The trust company bid a
premium of 1910 for the bonds on
this basis.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14
Japanese Activity in Siberia.

Canadian papers are commenting on
the activity of the japanese through
out the maritime province of Siberia.
Agents of japanese syndicates are re-
ported to be negotiating for the pur-
chase of a large number of mines,
flour mills, brickworks, 'sawmills and
other industrial undertakings, while
commercially they are making every
effort to extend their influence. The
japanese firms, which for the most
part have only recently been estab-
lished at Vladlvostok. are enlarging
their operations and endeavoring to
obtain as large a share as possible of
the trade of the territory. The scouts
of these firms are reported to be scour-
ing the country for scrap iron, hides
wool, bristles, beans and other ST
berian and Manchurian products re-
quired in Japan.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14
FOOTBALL is ANCIENT SPORT
Was Popular Among the Old Romans
and Also Found Some Favor
With the Florentines.

Can you imagine julius Caesar play.
Ing quarterback on the Rome univer-
sity eleven, or Brutus skirting the ends
In those days when the forum was as
busy as a three-ring circus? No? New
ertheless 1t was a probability, for 1t
appears now that football originated
with the Romans.
A few uneducated persons used to
think that football was of Greek in
ventfon; but Trench and Camps
trained news hounds, aided by Italian
propagandists. have fastened 1t on
Rome. The Romans, not really know.
ing that it was football, called it zeal,
cium." 1t appears to have been a
goodly, rough-going game, full of
spirit. feet and broken elbows, played
more on the soccer order than the
Rugby style In common favor.
With the fall of the Roman empire
calcium" also fell out of the spot
light, not to appear In favor until the
time of the F1orentines and their
Medicis. There is no record of Ma
chiavelli having participated in the
games, but we imagine that if he did
he played a foxy, clever game. Clio
vanni de Bardi, a well-known Floren-
tin newspaper man, wrote as follows
In 1880:
THE CALICO (later name) is a<public
game played between two groups Of
young men on foot, not armed, who
playfully compete in making a ball, by
means of their feet. pass outside of a
certain line back of the opposite
group. The ball is mediocre in size,
niled with wind, and the game is
played purely for the honor of win
ming"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14
EVERY STREET In MADISON
Has Its Share of the Proof that Kid
ney Sufferers Seek.
Backache? Kidneys weak?
Distressed with urinary Ills?

BackacheY Kidneys weak?
Distressed with urinary ills?
Want q reliable kidney remedy?
Don't have to look far. Use what
Madison people recommend. Every
street In Madison has its cases.
Here's one Madison mans expert.
ence.
Let J. L. Todd. carpenter. 507 Lin
coin emu N. tell it.
He says: II believe my kidney
trouble was brought on by overwork
and exposure when working out OF
doors. I first felt a weakness in my
back and began having sharp pains
through my kidneys. That trouble
grew worse until I became almost
helpless and my back gave out entire
ly. Then I was also in misery with
bladder troubles. The kidney secre-
tons were highly colored, filled with
sediment and burning. Doan's Kid
ney Pills. which I got at Smiths Drug
Store, quickly helped me. After us
ing three boxes, I felt like a different
man. All the aches and pains and
other kidney troubles had left me-
Statement given September s, 1910.
On October s, 1917, Mr.. Todd said:
II gladly confirm all / said praising
Deans Kidney Pills. Doan's surely
helped me when / needed them and
/ know they are reliable"
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-gei
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Todd had. Foster Milburn Co..
MFRS, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14
SOLDIERS CRITICIZE
COMPLAIN OF CHARGES MADE
BY THE Y. NJ. G. A.

Sioux City Journal: Dissatisfac-
tion with the Y. M. G. A. canteen
service in France is expressed by
overseas soldiers passing through
Sioux City daily. The burden Of
complaint appears to be that charges
were made for all commodities fur
nished. that the prices were excessive
and that there was too much OF a
patronizing air when ar envelope
and a sheet of writing paper was
supplied to the American soldier.
Activities and donations of the
Red Cross, the Salvation army and
the knights Of Columbus are praised
by returning soldiers that have been
questioned in Sioux City.
Henry c. Gladding, of Springfield,
s. D., who exhibited a chevron indi-
eating six months of service in the
railway artillery section of the army.
expressed the opinion that the COM
plant of the service of the Y. M. c.
A. was quite general among the re-
turning soldiers.
"Officers of our battalion purchas-
ed about 30 cartons of cigarets of the
Y. M. G. A. They were resold to the
soldiers. In every package we dis
covered signed cards stating that the
tobacco had been contributed by cit
liens of the United States. We were
told that these cards were returned
by the officers to the addresses Civ
en-, but / do not know whether any
replies were received or not. / have
seen pictures of the Y. M. c. A. repre-
sentatives appearing in the rear of
the first line trenches in France, but
so far as my experience extends saw
none Of them near the first line
trenches"
Private Gladding's discharge pa
pers show that he was a participant
In the battle of st. Mihiel and sew
eral other historic actions in France.
Private ". l.. Wikstron, who was
returning to his home in Ponca, Neb.,
after having arrived in France on
September / of last year, confirmed
the statement that the service extend
ed by the Y. M. C. A. in the manage
ment of the canteens was unsatisfac-
tory.
The Sioux City Red Cross canteen
station at the Chicago and North
western railway is visited daily by
many returning soldiers, many of
them from overseas. There were
about so of the latter class yesterday.
AS many as 270 soldiers have been
accommodated in one day at the can
teen station. Sandwiches, hot coffee,
fruit and tobacco are supplied to all
soldiers In uniform without charge.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14
Russia Destitute Of Scythes.

Before the war Russia's need of
scythes was estimated at 6,000,00 an.
nually, of which about half were re-
CURED In Siberia. To fill these re.
quirements about 100000 scythes
we're imported annually and the re.
mainder manufactured In Russia. Ac-
cording to latest information there are
hardly any scythes to be found, Rus.
sian industry being at a s~tandstill and
the importation closed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14
Notice to Land Owners and Township
Supervisors Warning to Remove
Trees Along Ditch Lines.

Notice is hereby given by the board
trees growing as well as the stumps
thereof, along the following County
Drainage bitches Nos l, 2, 3, a, 5,
6, Z, 8, 10, IL, IL, IA, 16 and II,
also Lake-Moody County Drainage
Ditch No. 1 shall be destroyed and
removed for a distance of at least
five CD rods on each side of said
bitches.
The object of this order is to re-
move the danger of tree roots break
ing through the tile, filling them up
and thereby destroying such drain
age for which the bitches are con
structed.
The board further gives notice that
it will not be responsible for the re-
pair of any bitches, which may be in
jured or destroyed, by the permitting
of trees to grow along such ditch
lines, but that the cost of any dam
age to such drainage sustained by
reason of such trees and the roots
thereof will be charged to and col
lected from any parties not comply
ing with this order.
Dated January @, 1919.
Board of County Commissioners OF
Lake County. South Dakota.
M. Cosgrove,
Chairman of Board.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14
F0RERUNNER OF THE BICYCLE
veIocipede Mas Considered a Swift.
Moving Vehicle When First intro
duced Into This Country.

The v~elocipede made its appearance
In Washington 80 years ago, much hav-
ing been heard of this new device,
which had developed a veritable fever
In France. In an article in the Wash
ington Star of November 20, 1868, it
was noted that the use of this vehicle
had been brought to such perfection
that 1t is claimed 20 miles an hour
has been made with it," The Star
said:
Lately the velocipede has been in
troduced in this country, and our
young Americans, who at one time
had the boxing. mania, followed by the
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14

In tracing the history Of shaving II
should be sufficient to 60 back to the
Greeks and Romans. upon whose civil
cation u own is based. Boards were
highly esteemed among the former up
to the time of Alexander the Great,
who was smooth shaven. One reason
for the abolition Of the beard among
soldiers was the fact that 1t afforded
the enemy something to lay hold Of.
At an earlier period the wearing Of
certain types Of helmet and gorget had
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14
CARD OF

We wish to thank u friends and
neighbors for their generous assist
ance in the sickness and death of our
brother, Melvin. Also the generous
floral gifts.-Peter Hegdahl, Mrs. H.
.Gilbertson, Mrs. A. Johnson, Clara
Hegdahl, Oscar Hegdahl, Arthur
Hegdahl, Victor Hegdahl, Abraham
Hegdahl.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14

Don't miss this. Cut out this slip, en-
close with 5 cents to Foley & Co, 1885
Sheffield Ave, Chicago, ILL.,, writing your
name and address clearly. You will re-
ceive in return a trial package contain
ing Foleys Honey and Tar Compound,
for coughs, colds and Group, Foley Kid
ney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets.
Sold everywhere.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14
STATE NEWS.

Oanova-H. ID. Lynn, of Canova, is
the owner of a highly priced relic OF
the sreat war, which was sent to him
by mis- brother-in-law, Joseph Gurtel,
q South Dakota soldier serving in
France The relic Is in the form of a
riag wE'ch Gurtel TOOK truri so o.
the fingers of a dead soldier. The
ring has the German national colors
on 1T, a cross and the words "Welt
Kreig."
Sioux Falls - Information has
reached friends here of the suicide
at Camp Shelby, Miss, OF Henry
Clauson. for some years a resident OF
Sioux Falls. News OF his death was
sent by the commanding officer at
Camp Shelby to Clauson's sister at
Howard. II is believed he committed
the act while respondent over ILL
ness, as no word had been received
from him for five weeks. Clauson
was % years old.
Watertown-Closely following the
adoption Of the woman suffrage
amendment In South Dakota, comes
the first recognition of the gentler
sex in filling appointive offices in the
city government here, in the naming
Of Miss Brownie Mather as city au-
ditor. She succeeds Harry G. Wood,
who was elected clerk of courts and
has now qualified for that office.
Miss Mather was formerly deputy
clerk OF courts.
Pierre-The state immigration de-
partment Is receiving a greater num-
Der OF Inquiries than usual for rental
lands In this state for the present
year. The general prosperity of the
state and the crop showing for the
past few years is such as to attract
many men to the state, who, while
not having enough capital to pur-
chase farms for themselves, do own
farming outfits, and have been rent
Ing In other states, but to whom the
showing Of South Dakota is too at
tractive to pass by IL they a secure
lands In this state.
Rapid City-Amos B. Kellogg, Sec
retary of the Rapid City Commercial
club. has suggested a plan whereby
Rapid City can erect a memorial to
the soldiers and sailors who served
In the war from this city and the
same time give the city's youth some
thing Tor which they have great need.
He has suggested that instead of
erecting q memorial In the form of a
monument the city build a commu-
nifty building, to be conducted some
thing after the form Of a Y. M. c. A.
Canova-Prof. Martin T. Ander-
son, Of Genesee, ILL.,, Is the new super
intendent of the Canova high school.
He came originally from Madrid, Ia,
whore he was graduated from the
high school. He later attended coll
lege at Rock Island, ILL.,, and received
an A. b. degree. He has been prin-
cipal of the schools at Ashton, Ia,
and last year was an instructor in the
Northwestern college at Fergus Falls,
MINI. Late in the summer Of last
year he was summoned to the colors.
Some weeks after the ending of the
war he was mustered out of the
service and returned to civil life.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14

Chairman of Board.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-14
BOYS AND GIRLS PIG CIUB.

A postponed meeting of the Lake
County Boys and Girls Pig club will
be held at the courthouse on Satur-
day, January IS, at 2:30 p. m, An
imitation is extended to all interest
ed boys and girls.
James l.. Sunde,
Paul H. Brown.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-10-02
Preserving Morale.

Morale implies morals, and more
1t may be possible to be perfectly clean
morally and yet have low morale.
Morale implies hope, courage determi-
nation. Many good man lacks these.
He is good morally, but has lost his
grip on the world and himself. In
spite Of his goodness he is doomed to
defeat. On the other hand man can't
have the highest morale if his life is
not clean. Mental and physical i'm
purity are bound to leave their. stain
upon the life. Then in time of stress
something will give way and the papers
win talk about collapse and overwork
and things. The only way to meet
life's problems is to keep fit. That
means more than mere eating and
drinking. 1t means the proper care of
the whole organism.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-10-02
PLANES IN MISSION WORK
Gospel Workers Believe They Can
Be of Considerable Value in
Spreading the Word.

A flying boat or an airplane mas
soon form a part of the equipment of
modern missions in Africa, according
to a letter received by a motor corpo-
ration from the Congo Mission of the
Disciples Of Christ, the headquarters
of which are at COquilhartville, Bel
gian Congo, says the New York Eve
ming Sun.
1--WE are interested in the matter of
the purchase Of flying boats to replace
wholly or in part the fleet of launches
which we have been planning for serv-
ice in communication between our va
rious stations" the letter stated. 1--WE
have large river steamer for trans
portation between stations which sea-
planes might supply. Our area is
about 800 miles east and west and 200
miles north and south in extent
"The whole area is covered well by
an extensive system of waterways. In
inland points landings might be made
in small machines in the straight,
smooth, central streets of the native
towns, which in this section are usual
ly clear Of grass and other obstruc-
lions and are not less than 100 feet
wide"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-10-02
Most Austrians Suffer From Raw
ages of the Many Wartime
MaladieS.
CHILDREN ARE EVACUATED
scrawny, Limp, ListIess From MaInu-
triton and Seldom Smile or Play
American Red Cross Is
Helping.

London.-Dr. Ethel Williams, a New
castle doctor of 80 years experience,
recently has returned to England from
Vienna. She attended the Woman's
International conference at Zurich,
where she heard so much about the
conditions of disease in Austria that
she decided to see for herself what
those conditions really were. She
spent a week in Vienna, visiting the
hospitals and the school kitchens,
studying medical statistics, interview
Ing representative people, and seeing
as much as she could of the city.
Speaking TO Manchester Guardian
representative, she said:
"What impressed me most was the
appalling condition of every old per-
son l saw, and of % per cent of the
children. The old people were like
walking deaths heads. There are so
many things that persons over sixty
cannot digest. The mortality among
the old has increased by $50 per cent.
'What struck me most when walk
ing about the streets was that there
were no tOddlers. Children of three
and even four years were carried by
their mothers. The children did not
run about, or shout, or quarrel. It
vas four days before l saw a child
playing.
) Most Children Emaciated.
At least % per cent Of the practical
y well children We're painfully enact
nted. with discolOred circles, around
their sunken eyes and the tendons Of
their necks showing like those Of old
people. Even middle-class children
have these scrawny necks, and when
they run their cheeks flap like those
Of old people. But they seldom run.
They are all limp and listless
"The scene in the out-patients' de-
partment at the biggest state chill
dren's hospital was pitiful-no sound
or attempt to play. The children sat
quietly on their mothers knees or
against n wall
81 saw several cases of osteo-mala-
CHA, a disease so rare before the war
that the only two cases I had ever
seen had been shown to me as a curl
osity. 1t seems to come from lack of
fresh food, and there have been $50
cases in Vienna, and l heard of an
other epidemic in a German town.
The bones soften and become dis
torted, the pelvis bones fold inward.
In early stages it is durable, but a bad
case never will walk again, and a
rather bad case always will have diff.
Guilty in walking.
The cases We're those of older chill
dren and adults. They told me that
the hospitals were receiving about Is
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-10-02
USE TACTICS OF QUAIL

ell bands do the same thing when a
superior federal column approaches.
Often Villas band will number ., 900
men under his chiefs, Angeles, Lopez,
Diaz and Garcia. They make a col
umn which coils across the plains like
a giant snake and leaves a great dust
cloud in its wake.
But let General Castros government
troops approach with artillery. ma
chine guns and cavalry mounted on
former American army horses and the
column will break up into little bands
Of 100 under petty chiefs, will disap-
pear in some mountain canyons and
go into hiding until the federals pass.
Once the danger of attack is over the
column reassembles, occupies some
town in its path and again disappears
with its loot.
Villas men have been known to
hitch their horses to plows in the
fields of the irrigated districts and be
industriously blowing when the fed
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-10-02
VIENNA'S AGED
DYING ON FEET

cases a day, and those they had to
turn away inevitably must become
worse. used to test the condition of
the children l saw by feeling their
fleshlesS arms. When l touched one
child the father said: Don't touch
him. He has this bad new disease, and
it hurts him so much l realized ut
I had hurt him, but the child was too
listless to shrink from the pain.
THE doctors could do practically
nothing for the out-patients who could
rot be taken to the hospitals. The
mothers were in despair. The doctors
said the greatest want of all was for
cod liver oil. Funds raised in England
had sent a supply, but it only lasted
two days. Practically every child TN
der two is rickety.
Suffer From Starvation.
ut is extraordinary how little Wen
ma has suffered from war epidemics
such as typhus. The enormous increase
in sickness is due to starvation disease.
Almost all of its child population is
stunted, starved, left without vitality,
vigor or energy. An enormous num-
Der are tubercular and considerable
proportion of these will die. Another
considerable proportion will for all
their lives probably be stunted in mind
and body, and all will be handicapped"
The children of school age provided
with one meal of soup and bread in the
day by American Red Cross workers at
a special kitchen she visited were
watched lest they should take the bread
home. You must eat the bread" the
workers told them. "All that we can do
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-10-02
FAMINE IN MEN
TO FIGHT FIRES

One large fire in the Pack river dis
irict northern Idaho, burst entirely
beyond control and spread over forty
five square miles of territory without
showing the least signs of dying down.
Men to fight it We're few and far be-
tween.
War Against Flames.
In Spokane as well as the coast
cities the forest service is waglng re-
cruiting campaigns similar to those
carried on during the war. 1t is a
war-against flames almost as destruc-
tive 10 America as the flames that
broke out in Europe.
Lumberjacks, those big-shouldered
veterans Of the forest life, make the
finest fire fighters. This summer they
have had little chance to engage In
their regular work of cutting timber.
and have bent all their efforts to saw.
ing the forests that house the nation.
The forest service maintains n cease
less lookout. AS soon as smoke Is dis
cerned the news is flashed to head.
f"'A ~ a. NANN - itoAAig IINA
and equipped, and sent into the burn
ing area with full supplies of food,
tools and bedding.
But they have little chance to use
the bedding. Fire fighting is an all.
night all-day job
How Fire Is Beaten.
The only successful method Of stop
ping a fire is TO get in front of 1t,
clear a wide trail, and widen 1t by
backfring.
A slight change of wind will make
the back fire cross the trail and en-.
danger the workers lives.
Blazing trees frequently fall with
the wind, across the trail. and undo
the work Of a day.
One result of the epidemic of fires
in the present summer will be q Wig
orous effort, on the part Of lumber
companies and forestry men alike, to
secure from congress a greater ap-
preparation for the forest service than
ever before. Americas forests are no
longer so numerous and well-grown
that the trees can be sacrificed with.
out national suffering.