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about Shakespeare and Tennyson
about Longfellow and Emerson, and
what these great authors had written
and that could appreciate such things
even IL contained in books In paper
covers. They are the ones who own
what Is In those books.
So we may say of the trees, the
grass and the flowers that have been
asleep al winter, waiting for kind
nature to awaken them and send them
forward for the benefit and enjoyment
and appreciation of mankind Nature
speaks to all these things in the early
spring as gently as a mother awakens
her sleeping boy and gets him off to
school in time so he will not be tardy.
She cannot afford to let her boy dis
grace the family name by being late
to school. What is so beautiful in this
world as a tree? What so beautiful
as a grove of trees enlivened by the
music of birds? William Cullen Bry-
ant says, THE groves were Gods
first temples" No doubt of il, be-
cause people gathered together for
worship long before lumber yards
were thought Off But don't we love
trees? | know | do. / think more of
trees than ! do OF some people. They
do us 10 harm. They keep their
mouths closed, even if they do have
tongues. Shakespeare, you know, says
that there are tongues in trees, books
in running brooks, sermons in stones,
and good in everything" Plant trees
and o trees. Plant some ever
greens, because they can keep a sec
ret the yea round, says some one
that was Emerson, too, come to think
about it.
1t is in the spring that the sap
starts in the trees, circulating from
root to topmost branch, carrying the
ingredients of the soil up the tree,
leaving each deposit of freight at
the proper station, all in the dark.
What starts for leaf makes leaf, for
bark. makes bark; for fruit, makes
fruit. No mistakes. The little boats
on the canals of Venice, going back
and forth, do make mistakes, so do
the railroads make mistakes and have
collisions; but the buckets Of sap go
ing up the tree and empty buckets
coming down, passing and repassing,
make no mistakes. This shows how
careful Nature is 1t seems to me
that express companies, carrying large
shipments Of freight, might learn a
lesson from all this. Certainly man
could learn something from the birds.
They unite together in pairs and go off
by themselves and build their nests
and raise their young, and they teach
their offsprings how to make a living.
One naturalist told John Burroughs
that the birds were not without the
sense of the romantic in their social
life. He said that the goldfinches
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held a great festival In the spring. The
male birds composed the choir. ths
females the AT dience. After a few
days the females selected their mates
from the male singers. You may
not know what to- make OF this. I
don't know. Burroughs said he did
not know. 1t would seem. however,
that these ~feathered friends of man
must have some way of ascertaining
the temper and habits of each other
before they unite together to make the
great adventure in matrimony and
housekeeping. An old miner in Cali
fornia told Mark Twain that birds even
had a sense of humor. He said a blue
Jay gathered a lot of nuts from the
forest and dropped them in the Chin
ney OF an old abandoned cabin for
winter use. He worked at this some
time and finally began to be anxious
to know where his nuts had gon so
he few around the house, peeped in
the window and there he saw all his
nuts on the foor-nearly a ton of nuts.
The joke was on the bluejay. He was
so amused that he sent word to his
DAAu lIhSituS, a anu utdT, u come
and see The sight. They all pronounc-
ed 1t the greatest joke in the world
all except n old owl that had come
all the way from Nova Scotia. He
could see nothing funny about II. But
then he never could see anything fun
ny at home. He was like some peo-
pie who never can see anything anus
ing in this world-in fact, they think
1t a sin to see anything amusing.
don't vouch for this story. tell
it just as / get il from Mark Twain.
1t may be that birds, like some peo-
pie, see things from different view
points. President Wilson tells this
story: He had a friend who taught in
the same university that he did. A
young man who was in this professors
class asked him one day IL IL was
ever justifiable to tell a lie. The
professor said he could hardly an
swer right off, but he said he did
know this much: It required such a
nice distinction to know when TO tell
a lie in place of the truth, that he
preferred to tell the truth. The pro-
fessor could not afford to tell a lie.
Mark Twain could not afford to tell
the truth,-that is, when we were pay
ing him so much money for telling the
other thing. These two men saw
things from different viewpoints.
We must not let a little silly humor
cause us to overlook the fact that the
beautiful things in Nature we're made
for man and the owner of them is the
one who can appreciate them. / have
a share in the June roses now bios
soming about town in other peoples
gardens IL / only have enough sense
to appreciate them.
G. II. Carroll.
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May 10-t6.
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
Default. having been made in the
payment OF the interest and OF the
principal due upon the promisory note
the payment OF which note was secur-
ed by a mortgage dated March 18th,
1910, executed by Richard II. Raj
eigh, as mortgagor, to Oscar f. Nc
Kenney, as mortgage. and which
mortgage was, on the 18th day of
March. 1910, duly recorded in the Of
flee of the Register of Deeds in and
for Hand County, South Dakota in
book 95 of Mortgage Records on
Page 432. Thereafter the said Oscar
+. Mckinney died testate at Mount
Carroll, Illinois and Anna Lou Nc
Kenney was appointed In his will as
the ~executrix thereof. She duly
qualified as such executrix and was
duly qualified and acting executrix of
the estate OF Oscar +. McKenney.
Deceased, on the 28th day of May,
1913 at which time, in accordance
with the Order of the Court, she ex-
ecuted an assignment of mortgage i'm
writing by which assignment. as such
%executrix, she assigned and trans
ferred the mortgage h~ereinbefore de-
scribed to Anna Lou Mckinney, she
being the residuary legatee of the
personal property belonging TO said
estate. This assignment was record
ed in the Office of the said Register
Of Deeds In book SO of mortgages on
page 627,
No action or proceeding at law or
otherwise has been instituted to re-
v the money secured by said
mortgage or any part thereof.
The amount claimed to be due on
the note secured by said mortgage at
the date of this notice is the sum of
Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars ($2500l
principal, Five Hundred Two and IA
100 ($502.14) Dollars. interest, max
Ing a total of Three Thousand and
Two and 14-100 f$3, 002.14) Dollars,
besides the sum Of twenty-five ($25l
Dollars, attorneys fees allowed by
law and the costs OF foreclosure.
Now therefore. notice is hereby Civ
en- that by virtue OF the power of sale
contained in said mortgage and pur-
suant to the Statutes in such case
made aud provided, the said mort
gage will be f~oreclosed by the sale of
the m~ortgaged premises therein des-
cribed at public auction by the Sher-
in of Hand County, South Dakota at
the front door of the Court House in
the city of Miissr In said Hand Coun-
" On the 23rd day of June, 1923 at
two o'clock In the afternoon OF said
day. The said mortgaged premises
are described as the Northwest Quar-
ter (NWA) of Section Fifteen (15)
N Tawnhip One Hundred Ten (110)
Moth, OF Range Sixty-seven (67)
West of the Fifth p. NJ, in Hand
County, South Dakota.
Dated at Miller, South Dakota this
25th day of April, A. D., 1923.
ANNA LOU MCKINNEY,
Owner and holder of said mortgage
Nj. j. Butte. Sheriff.
&c. M. CARROLL, Attorney.
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BOND CALL
Miller, S. ID. June /, 1.

Miller, S. ID. June /, 1923
Whereas / 0,565.41 has been REMIT
ed to the Central Trust Company of
Illinois in Chicago, in payment of Mil
Ter City refunding bonds a~ggregating
$40, 500. and whereas said bonds car
ried a privilege of payment at any
time after ten years from their date
of issuance, namely $4,000. May /,
1911 and $4,000. April 1. 1912, bond
holders are notified to present their
bonds at the above named institution
as interest on same leases June l.,
1928.
c.. NJ. Thomson.
City Treasurer.
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June 14-1t.
NOTICE OF HEARING UPON AS
SESSMENT ROLL FOR
GRADING AND CRAWLING

Notice Is hereby given that the m
ployed City Engineer did file on the
18th day of May, 1928, with the City
Auditor of the City of Miller, South
Dakota, an assessment roll assessing
the costs of grading and g~raveling
that portion OF Broadway street com
mcacing at the south line of the
intersection OF second street and said
Broadway street thence extending due
south a distance of about $50 feet to
the north line Of Chicago a. North
western Company Railway track, for
the amounts assessable upon the real
property fronting and abutting upon
said Broadway street, in accordance
with the assessment roll hereinafter
stated, and that the Is day of June,
1923, at Eight O'Clock II. M. at the
City Hall in the City Of Miller, South
Dakota, is the time and place fixed
by the City Council for a hearing up
on said assessment roll, at which
time and place the City Council will
consider the assessment roll and hear
objections, IL any, thereto.
Dated this 4th day of June, 1923.
G. G. Briggs,
City Auditor.
BY Jessie Olson,
Deputy City Auditor
ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR GRADING
AND CRAWLING BROADWAY
STREET FROM SECOND STREET
10 THE RAILROAD TRACK.
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of the City of Miller, South
Dakota:
/, Jas. French, employed engineer
for the city of Miller, South Dakota,
herewith submit for your approval
the assessment roll for cost of grad
ing and %graveling that portion of
broadway street commencing at the
South line OF the intersection Of sec
ond street with said Broadway street
thence extending due South a dis
lance of about $50 feet to the NORTH
line CT Chicago & Northwestern Com
pany Railroad track, which is One
Dollar and twenty five cents ($1.25)
per front foot for each lot and par
eel of land fronting and AUDITING on
said portion of said Broadway street.
The following lots and parcels of
land are subject to the following
assessments for the cost of said inn
provement:
Supposed Lot Blk. Foot Amt.
Owner Frontage
VIM. III. Miller's Addition
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The wisdom of the county commits
sioners in planting the court house
yard with trees a few years ago can
not be too highly recommended. AL
ready the trees form a splendid shade
and are large enough to begin to pre-
pare the yard as a park. A few
gravel paths, some seats and a lawn
would make il the most beautiful
place In the county. 1t is hoped that
such improvements will be made in
the near future.
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TWENTY A AGO
FROM PRESS FILES JUNE IL. 1908

Thursday from Chicago where he at
tended the college of Physicians and
Surgeons. This Is Ports third year,
and he has one more years work be-
fore completing his course. He will
spend the summer on the Rec Heights
ranch,
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Assessor Wilbur Burke Is rapidly
bringing his work to a close.
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The county Jail is being renovated
with a new coat OF paint.
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chas Dryer went to Huron satur.
day.
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Mr.. and Mrs. f. e. Saltmarsh visited
friends In Huron last week.
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VIM. Redmond visited friends In
Huron yesterday.
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Chas. NJ. Carroll has been secured
as one of the instructors in the teach
ers institute which opens Monday.
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Port Mcwhorter returned home
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Hotel ---16 4 % fl. 31.25
Dated this 18th day of May, 1923.
Jas. French,
Employed Engineer
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-05
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

carrying hundreds per day, both,
east and west. am not greatly sur
prised for there are many people
among us, who are more or less
inimical to the southern negroes,
and who are expressing themselves
very forcibly upon this subject, and
who seem to be doing their utmost
to get rid of them, without under
standing what can happen. This
brings to my mind what was told
bme by a Boston woman, few
months ago, who was making huge
cutlery against the coming IN of all
sorts of European immigrants to
Massachusetts, and she had consid-
cradle to say, concerning their I'M
reliability as domestic employees in
the city she lived in.
The lady had been visiting her
son in Atlanta. HU had come south
some years ago, married a southern
| girl, and the mother said the colored
help in Atlanta was infinitely pref
| cradle to the uncertain people in
Boston, who were crowding into the
| United States from certain sections
of Europe. and who were ignorant
and unreliable, and very difficult
to manage~as domestic help, and as
cooks and nurses.
| I am not here to say, 81 told you
So" but 1 can venture to counsel
| the people who are obliged to hire
labor, at the present time lin these
times of stress and strain), to be
! careful in making a change, until
some door opens for the influx OF
immigrants, who are efficient or
agreeable as inmates of ones house
hold. A hint to the wise should be
worth attention.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-05

poultry raisers will tell you there is
nothing else like Avicol for quick, posi-
tive results. Chas. N Kittinger, Willow,
Calf, writes:
Twelve of my chicks had diarrhea
when the Avicol came. 1 Immediately
gave them some, and by the second day,
rhe trouble disappeared and now they are
all as lively as crlckets. If l had only
known of Avicol/ sooner, 1 would have
aaved lots of chicks"
Your sick, droopy chicks-wthin 48
hours after they get Avicol-will be just
as lively as MIR. Kittengers were. No
matter low fast you are losing them,
you can stop them dying, the very day
you get Avicol in their drinking water.
Last spring / bought 20 baby chicks"
writes Mrs John Shaffer, Owen, Wis.
when about week old, they began dy-
ing, would get droopy and in few hours
would die. When I had 10 left, I began
giving Avicol and they stopped dying at
once. did not lose another one, but
col all the credit"
Why sit back and let your baby chicks
die? 1t costs nothing to try Avicol.
Here's our offer: Send so cents to the
rrell-Dugger Co., SO Columbia Bldg.
Indianapolis, Ind, for package by mail
prepaid Cor pin a dollar bill to. your let
ter for the extra size holding nearly
3 times as much). If it doesn't stop
your chick losses Immediately, if it isn't
superior to anything else you ever heard
Of or tried, If it doesn't satisfy you in
every way, your money will be promptly
refunded. You don't risk a cent. Try
Avicol and judge results for yourself.
ADVERTISEMENT
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-05
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

but he was my only son, and / Wor-
shipped him, and l couldn't bear to
hurt him by forcing him to control
it," Mothers of thieves plead: Tom
always wanted more than I could
give him, and he didn't like to work,
and | loved him so much that l
hadn't the heart to make him earn
money, so I pretended not to notice
when he would pilfer from my peck
etbook." The mothers of the women
Of the street excuse themselves:
Sadie was always crazy for fun,
ami I never could deny her any
pleasure, so she got to running
around in bad company"
Love that is crueler than any hate
can be; tenderness that opens the
gates of hell; they are the mothers
aIbi for the weakness that kept her
from doing her duty to her chill
dren.
Business is the mans alibi for fail
ure as a husband and a father. He
gets absorbed in money-making. The
gamble of it gets into his, blood, for
business is the real-man's game that,
for thrill and excitement, makes
poker ard "rouge ct noir'' as tame as
IAuOlC w INNS LII AldlChlLIS MS WIS.,
his skill. his far-sightedness, his
luck against that of other men, the
man forgets everything else.
He forgets to be a lover and a
chum to his wife. He neglects to dc
his part toward making a happy
home. He does not take time to
get acquainted with his children,
and he takes no part in developing
their characters and shaping their
lives. His wife might just as we'll
have a cash register for a husband,
and his children a check book for a
father. Hsis an utter failure in the
two most important relationships of
life, and he tries to excuse his omis-
sion to do his duty by calling it bust
ness.
Too busy, lack of time, is the alibi
we all use for our sins Of omission.
The kiss we meant to give; the word
Of praise we intended to say; the ap-
probation we were going to voice;
the lonely people we meant to go to
see and to cheer up; the million and
one little kindnesses we intended to
do and never did-all these we lay
upon our lack of time instead of
upon our selfishness and our unwill-
ingness to take a little trouble.
Oh, we all have our alibis for our
faults and weaknesses. Otherwise,
perhaps, we could not look ourselves
in the face.
Copyright. 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-05
Just a Bad Cold

The prevalence and fatality Of in
f1uenza this spring and of pneu-
monia in the community where I
live has been much commented
upon-and the causes for the same
seem to have resulted from just
bad cold. There have been heads
of families carried off-among peo-
pie who have had good doctors, good
nurses and general good care in
various ways, and where it, seemed
death went straight to finish in
spite of all the helps here noted
amounting to sort of "flu" epidem-
ic-with many fatalities.
What appears to be only. bad
cold grows into pneumonia very
soon, and pneumonia is one of the
most dangerous ailments known to
the human family. If the heart &C.
ton is poor, the poor sick one has a
slim chance for recovery with in
famed lungs.
1t was remarked in my hearing
fifty years ago that a person habit
uated to intoxicating drinks rarely
RECEIVERS from pneumonia, and
have watched that feature of the
disease with interest since 1 was
thus informed.
We were in Washington city in
the 70s, and there was at that time
much indulgence in liquor drinking.
We were well acquainted with a
congressman, who bore a. fine repu-
tation at home and elsewhere
We heard one morning that the
congressman was sick, and in the
afternoon he was visited by some
of my own family and friends, who
reported the sick man as suffering
with a very bad cold. Before the
next mornings sun was UP in the
sky the congressman was dead
There was CONSERVATION and a great
shock of surprise. The doctor said
his heart action was bad and he was
secret drinker and fell prey to
acute pneumonia. which set, up sud-
denly, and he also said: eff l was
habitual drunkard and took pneu-
monia, I'd know 1 was a 'goner,'
because they rarely recover"
A bad cold may be las you see)
something more serious than the
name implies. If the bronchial
tubes are infected, it is, nine times
out of ten, fatal when pneumonia
sets up in the lungs.
Of course, tubercular patient
must always be on the watch when
sneezing and coughing begins to be
| troublesome. Just bad cold can
get to be something else very bad
ON short notice.
Measles come along in the guise
of a bad cold usually. Hopping
cough ditto. Thus, we see, what
we call bad colds can very easily
turn into something worse, and all
of these affinities, so to speak, will
bear close watching and careful pre-
caution to evade them.
Common bad colds without any
complications are unwelcome guests,
while the feverish time remains
but kind providence, which
watches over the lame and the
lazy" also cares for the majority of
human kind when bad colds get to
be very common in sudden weather
changes.
If the person is in normal health
and careful as to general habits of
life, the bad cold periods are light
and easily recovered from, but the
fact remains that fatal diseases very
| often get inside the system, along
with the unimportant bad colds.
that are, so to speak. the horse
they ride in upon"
| Labor Conditions
|
has reached almost a crisis as to
farm matters in the south. The
story may be exaggerated, but we
are gravely told by those who pro-
TESS to know that the railroads are
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we could we'll afford to get out and enjoy
these nice little things have been telling
you about. With all this work to look after
ourselves, it isn't as funny some folks
seem to think it is, who have never tried
it. Another thing, we don't have enough
good schools in the country. Where l live
we have five months of school a year. 1t
isn't any wonder to me that boys and girls
are leaving the farm and going to town. Dv-
cry town of any size has nine months of
school year. Why can't we have much
in the country? Good schools means good
educatons and the value of an education
is not to be estimated in dollars and cents.
An educated boy or girl, no matter how poor
they may be, may fight their way to fame
and honor, while the 'uneducated have no
chance whatever in its fashionable world
OF ours. I can sympathize with any girl or
boy who has been forced to quit school, as
1 have had to do. Hope some Of you other
cousins will write your opinions on this sub.
ject. Well, 1 have made my first visit
rather lengthy, haven't l? Sorry l have
consumed so much of your valuable time.
auntie. but simply couldn't stop. Hoping
1 haven't overstepped the rules otherwise, /
will bid you all adieu. 4 Ar peT COUSIN G6Tf1Ns
varnelIs, Ga, Route 1.
Knock! knock! Hello, Aunt Julia and
Cousins! Please open the door that may
enter in; am long way from home and
I am quite tired of our long journey. |
am an invalid, having tuberculosis. but
recovering now. We have a nice home,
while you will find me home in an invalid's
room porch. 1 dearly love Aunt Ju-
LAS counsel, also Dorothy Dix and Superior
Sex. How many of you love poetry and
music? l love both. l have had some few
poems published. My husband loves and
teaches music. You cousins come and eat
fruit with me. For fruits we have apples,
grapes, peaches, figs and strawberries and
some others. Haven't room to mention. ]
also love flowers, we have lilacs, roses Of
all kinds, buttercups and snowballs. Lis
ten! Will some one help me back into the
automobile, for I must be going? By-by
Aunt Julia and cousins.
(MRS.) BURTH1E MURPHY.
Hoschton, Ca, Route l, Box SO.
l. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: May I tell
You all where I live? l live in the dear old
state Of North Carolina, in Rutherford
county, near Henrietta, a mill town. We
live in the country and, of course l like it
fine. as l am married and have two small
children, little girl, five years, and a
baby boy, three years of age, and l think
it is just grand for little folks to be out in
the country where they can live among the
things Of nature and have plenty of sun
shine and fresh air
l agree with Hardie johnson. ] think
everyone ought to live a Christian life.
also think that we all ought to be more
thankful TO our heavenly Father for our
many blessings.
l surely do sympathize with Gustia
Bridges in the loss of her mother. 1 am
sure she is sad and lonely. MY parents
are both living. OF this | surely glad.
l live near them and see them real often.