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DEWEY COUNTY ADVOCATE By the ADVOCATE PRINTING CO. TIMBER LAKE, 8. DAK, The sky man Is the man of the cen tarjr. Aviation Is, after all, less dangerous than football. The freak hat Is doomed, we are told. Ah, but which freak hat? Ddn't keep your mouth open when looking at airships. It Is a bad habit Ballooning Is somewhat like tobog ganing, but the walk back Is mors fatiguing. It is just as fatal to be killed In a football game as in an aeroplane catastrophe. Perhaps the hobble skirt is the cause for the new fashion of large pedal extremities. The man-bird should not attempt at this stage of the game too many •bines in the air. When a man lives In a hoarding house he lets somebody else worry about the price of coal. Aerial wonders top one another an til the general public is beginning to be surprised by nothing. According to reports, the govern ment will soon have to set aside res ervations to prevent the Yankees from becoming extinct. The Chinese may adopt a compro mise. When they stop pinching the feet of their girls they may put on them hobble skirts. A German banker spent eight months in America and did not mar ry. He is rich, so there must be some other reason. Dunning by postal card has been forbidden by the post office depart ment. Hereafter the dunners must use two-cent stamps. A Russian military balloon went up over 20,000 feet the other day. That Is enough to get out pf range of any ordinary Japanese fleet. We have grown as a people this year 6,275,000,000 bushels of corn, oats, wheat, barley and potatoes, and no one should go hungry. One woman of the "400" paid $11, 000 In duties on her gowns recently. The '400" has ceased to practise smug gling except at odd times. Everything seems to Indicate thai It Will he several years yet before the science of aviating can be considered entirely out of its Infancy. One of Yale's professors is afraid America is soon to become a mon archy. He probably has nothing els« at this time to be afraid of. A trick horse that had been stolen shook hands with the rightful owner, to the undoing of the thief. We defy trick automobile to do that The prune supply at a New York hospital was short and boarding house guests will be surprised to heai there is quite a fuss about It. The police have discovered a man leaning against a corner building whc bad been dead three hours. "Ali things come to him who waits." As to the consequences, thero does not seem to be much to choose be tween a woman automobllist turning thief and her machine turning turtle. People hooted at a woman in Colum bus, Ga., because she v/ore a hobble skirt in the streets. Can it be possible that the age of southern chivalry is past? Six billion cigarettes were consumed In the United States last year yet there are in this country a good many young men- whose fingers are not stained. I In Cranford, N. J., a thief stole a $100 gold watch from the pocket of a police sergeant while that official dozed in the police station. What that .policeman needs Is a chaperon. The life of the city boy is indeed bard. No more Fourth of July, no more Hallowe'en and an increase in the number of vacation schools is only matched by a condemnation of moving picture shows. Aviation Is becoming extremely profitable—if not for the country, cer tainly for the aviators. But the casi inducements to risk life and limb cause the science of airship building to get a move on. Wireless lighting is now announced by a Danish Inventor. Nature's light ing has always been wireless, and bete mere man only imitates. In St. Louis there is a robber who Is known as "the candy kid." He prob ably got the name owing to his pos session of stloky fingers. A western scientist claims to have discovered a chemical which is death .and destruction to germB. Is this cen tury approaching tbe climax of a di» .easeless world? COUNTESS, UNRECOGNIZED BY HUSBAND, WITH DOCTOR AT BEDSIDE. AT DIED STATION LONELY R. R. Great Russian Stricken en Has Way to Hermitage—Specialists Sum moned to Attend Him Fail to Save Life. Astapova, Russia. Count Leo Tol stoi died peacefully. Dr. Makovetsky and the other attending physicians and Countess Tolstoi were at his side when the end came. It was recog nized long before that his case was hopeless, and after the countess had been summoned and the other mem bers of the family had gathered in an adjoining room, the physicians issued a bulletin announcing that the activity of the heart had almost ceased and. that Tolstoi's condition was extremely dangerous. Sought Solitude in Vain. Tolstoi, accompanied only by Dr. Makovetsky, left his home at Yasnaya Poliana for the purpose of ending his days in solitude, to which he more and more inclined during his later years. His pilgrimage led him to the monas tery at Shamardine in the province of Kaluga, where he remained as the guest of his sister, Marie, who is a nun in the cloister. Learning that his retreat had been discovered, he insisted upon proceed ing on his journey to the Caucasus, where he hoped to spend his last days close to the Tolstoian colony on the shores of the Black sea. But during the railroad journey he was overcome with exhaustion and the cold and Mak ovetsky was compelled to have him transferred to the flag station at Asta pova where he was made as comfort able as possible in the rude wooden building. Specialists Fail to Save Him. For five days he had lain suffering, first from bronchitis and later from inflammation of the lungs. Special ists were called from Moscow and other places, but notwithstanding their utmost efforts, the heart of the great Russian responded but feebly to the restoratives and stimulants. Finally the attacks of heart fail ure increased alarmingly and many hours prior to the end the physicians had given up all hope. Countess Tol stoi was admitted to the sick room for the first time but her busband failed to recognize her. She had hastened to his bedside when she learned several days ago that his ill ness was serious, but the physicians had deemed it advisable that she be kept away from the count, fearing her presence might cause the patient emo tion. Other members of the family were from time to time admitted to his presence and his daughter Alex andria has been in constant attend ance. Life of Leo Tolstoi. Count Lyof Nikolaievitch Tolstoi was born in Yasn^ya Poliana, Tula, Sept. 9, 1828. In 1843 unti 1846 h"e studied Oriental languages and law at the University of Kazan. In 1851 he went to the Caucasus district as an ensign of artillery and served in the defense of Sebastopol during the Crimean w»r. To this period of his career belong his earliest literary works. He left the army on the con clusion of the war and went to St. Petersburg, where he made the ac quaintance of Turgeney and other dis tinguished Russians. Excommunicated by Syned. In 1901 he was formally excommuni cated by the Holy synod of the Rus sian Orthdox church, and in a reply to the edict of excommunication he clearly enunciated his religious and theological views. These included the denial of the Trinity, of the Diety of Jesus, and His vicarious atonement, of orthodox conception of the future world, of exery iknd of sacramenta! ism, and similar dogmas, and were substantially identical with those of modern spiritual Unitarianism. Major General Davis Dead. Great Bend, Kansas. Major-Gen eral P. M. E. Davis, U. S. A., died in a local hospital, following a stroke of apoplexy aboard a Santa Fe train. DAILY MARKET REPORT. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Nov. 21.—Cattle—Steady beeves, $4.40@7.40 Western steers, ?4.10@6.50 stockers and feeders, $3.50@5.60 cows and heifers, $2.20@ 6.20 calves, $7.50@10. Hogs—Weak to 5@15c lower light, $6.80@7.30 mixed, $7@7.40 heavy, $G.95@7.40 rough, |6.95@7.15 good to choice heavy, $7.15@7.40. Sheep—Steady native, $2.25@3.95 western, $2.50@4 yearlings, lambs, native, $4@6.10. Twin City Markets. Minneapolis, Nov. 21.—Wheat: De cember, $1.02% May, $1.06% No. 1 northern, $1.05% No. 2 northern, $1.03% No. 1 Durum, 88c No. 3 corn, 50c No. 3 white oats, 31c barley, 76c No. 2 rye, 73%c No. 1 flax, $2.60. Duluth, Nov. 21.—Wheat: Decem ber, $1.04% May, $1.08% No. 1 northern, $1.05%. South St. Paul, Nov. 21.—Cattle— Steers, $4.75 calves, $5.00@6.50 hogs $6.9S&7.20i sheep, yearlings, $4a 4.20. MOTHER PERIL OF THE HOBBLE SKIRT FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS VEtt OICT OF NOT GUILTY IK REBATE CA8B. U. S. FAILS TO PROVE CHARGE Company Alleged to Have Received Freight Concessions In Violation of Elkins Act—Government 8ought to Assess $30,000,000 Fine. Jackson, Tenn., Nov. 18.—Judge John E. McCall of the United States district court instructed the Jury in the case of the government against the Standard Oil company of Indiana to return a verdict of not guilty. Judge McCall sustained the conten tion of counsel for the defendant that the United States had failed to prove the allegations set forth in the indict ment. The oil company has been on trial for a week charged with receiving freight rate concessions in violation of the so-called Elkins lay. Suit Begun Under Roosevelt. The Tennessee suit against the Standard Oil company of Indiana was one of a number of federal attacks based on anti-rebate laws to be in augurated by the department of jus tice under the Roosevelt administra tion, and the line of prosecution fol lowed In a number of significant de tails the case in which a $29,000,000 fine was imposed by Judge Kenesaw M. Landis in Chicago, only to be set aside by the federal court of appeals. In the indictment as framed by the Tennessee grand jury the Standard of Indiana was charged on 1,524 counts with shipping its product from Whi ting, Ind., to the southeast, at rates less than the published and filed schedules. The same question came up as to what the basis of the unit of offense should be that confronted the court In the Chicago case and on Tuesday Judge McCall, having In mind the dis cussions that were held in Chicago, decided that the number of payments represented by the transactions in volved should be considered the num ber of offenses. Asked a Fine of $30,000,000. The government sought to have as sessed penalties aggregating $30,084, 000. There were only forty-six pay ments shown to have been made, how ever, in settlement of freight charges covering the disputed shipments, and the ruling that a payment should con stitute the unit of offense reduced the possible maximum fine to $920,000, and foreshadowed the failure of the suit. PANAMA CANAL WORKERS QUIT Aa President Leaves Colon Labor Strike Is Inaugurated for In crease in Wages. Colon, Nov. 18.—The labor situa tion reached a crisis when 100 boil ermakers employed on the canal gave the necessary five days' notice of their intention to quit, refusing to wait for the decision of the president to be announced from Charleston on the demand made here for Increased pay. The blacksmiths and others may follow. The strike, however, is not regarded as important. Only 25 per cent, of the American labor In the zone is Involved. The men who have struck now re ceive 30 to 50 per cent, more than men engaged in the same line of work in the Ilnited States, besides free rent, water, medical attendance, 30 days' sick leave and 30 days' Injury ^The president gave the men a full hearing and will decide the question by the time he reaches Charleston Monday next. The action taken will not delay work on the canaL John D.'s Nephew DIM. New York, Nov. 18.—Joel Francis Freeman, friend and nephew of John D. Rockefeller, formerly secretary of the Standard Oil company, and at one time president of the National Stand ard Insurance company, is dead at hin home in East Orange, N, J, He was seventy-four years old. Well Vfhat Wh«t are you vri'th •trousers! V SUFFRAGETTES' ARMY ATTACKS PARLIAMENT Women Descend on Session of British Lawmakers and 116 Are Arrested After Lively Fight. London, Nov. 19.—One hundred and sixteen of the 1,00 militant suf fragettes who marched on the parlia ment building were arrested after a lively fight with the police. Led by Mrs. Emmellne Pankhurst, the women made a determined at tempt to force the police cordon about the house of commons and, reaching Premier Asquith, to insist upon the in troduction of a woman's suffrage bill. The women made every effort with in their power to break the lines, bringing into play some rare military strategy and football tactics. Fight ers in the front ranks retired many times to make way for fresh reserves, but the police were too strongly in trenched. Orders had been given the officers to make as few arrests as possible, but it soon became neces sary to jail as many of the women as could be captured. After Parliament square had been cleared the three leaders of the dem onstration, led by Mrs. Pankhurst, were permitted to enter the lobby of the house of commons, where they were met by Mr. Asquith's secretary and informed that the premier would not see them and said that there was no chance for a suffrage bill at the present session. The women presented a sorry spec tacle when the battle was over. The hair of the most of them was dis heveled and there were many badly torn dresses. The only bloodshed reported was by a constable, who sustained a knife cut on the hand during the melee. INDICT MRS. LAURA F. SCHENK Grand Jury Returns Bill Charging Her With Administering Poison to Millionaire Husband. Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 19.—After considering her case for three and one half hours, the special grand jury in dicted Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenk on five counts for the attempted mur der of her millionaire husband, John O. Schenk. Four of the indictments charge the actual act of administering poison and the other charges an attempt. Prosecuting Attorney Handlan pur sued the same secretive methods in laying the facts before the grand jury that he has used throughout the case. He adopted extreme measures to pre vent any person from learning the identity of any of the witnesses who appteared before the grand jury. BANK HEAD CONFESSES GUILT Charles A. Belling Admits He Swin dled Various New York Institu tions Out of $35,000. New York, Nov. 18.—Charles A. Belling, the young third vice-president and director of the Bronx National bank, who was arrested at the in stance of tbe Knickerbocker Trust company on a charge of grand larceny and forgery, confessed to the theft of at least $35,000 from various banks through the use of forged stock cer tificates. His own bank will not lose a dollar through his thefts. Belling admitted robbing the Merchants' National bank, the National Reserve bank and the Northern bank of New York, as well as the Knickerbocker Trust. Belllngs' bail was fixed at $20,000. CRIPPEN'S FATHER IS DEAD Friendless, Penniless and Infirm, the Old Man Passes Away In Los Angeles. Los Angeles, Cal„ Nov. 19.—Myron H. Crlppen, the aged father of Dr. Hawley H. Crlppen, under sentence of death in London for the murder of his wife, died in this city friendless and penniless. His death, due to the Infirmities of age, was hastened by grief over his son's crime. The elder Crlppen was eighty years old. His death occurred in a room ing house and the only person at his bedside was the proprietress of the place. Doctor Crlppen was the sole support of bis aged father. REVOLTir MEXICO FORTY ARE KILLED IN BATTLE AGAINST DIAZ'S SOL DIERS. WOMAN SLAYS POLICE CHIEF' Pueblo, Seething With Rebellion, l« Scene of the Clash—Francisco Ma-. dero, Head of Revolutionary Party,! Claims the Presidenfljf. Mexico City, Mex., No*. 19.—Tbe slumbering fires of revolution broke into open flame last night at Pueblo, the second largest city of the repub lic. It is estimated that 40 persons were killed and three wounded. The troops have the situation well In hand. A woman killed the chief of police and another wounded a major of in fantry. A regiment was sent from here to Pueblo and a rumor says that the revo lutionists have destroyed the railroad bridges to prevent them reaching the city. This report, however, has not been confirmed. The government has made many ar rests and oaptured arms and ammuni tion here and in other cities. No Trouble In Mexico City. There is no indications of trouble in this city. Many arrests of supporters of Fran cisco I. Madero, the revolutionary leader, are being made all over Mex ico. Eleven Mexicans were arrested at Buena Vista and lodged in jail at Cananea charged with attempting to foment a revolution. At Orizaba numerous arrests were made and the police captured a large quantity of arms and ammunition. Anti-Diaz Conspiracy. Details of the anti-Diaz conspiracy have come to light. The conspirators had extended their operations to the state of Vera Cruz, Hidalgo, Coahulla, San Luis Potosi, Nuevo Leon, Pueblo, Jalisco, Guanajuata, Yucatan and Zacatecas. Circulars sent out by Madero or his agents from San An» tonio, Tex., outline his campaign and announce Madero as constitutional president of Mexico. The manifesto reads: "I, Francisco I. Madero, will place myself at the head of a revolutionary party against the government of Mexico. Between the 20th and 30th of November I shall lead my followers against the government of Mexico." Of the men arrested here for com plicity in the conspiracy one, Cosie Robelo carried a commission from Madero naming him as governor of the state of Hidalgo. No anti-American talk is being heard now. Arrests Are Not Important. "It is true a conspiracy against the administration has been unearthed, but it is a mistake to suppose that the participants, who have been ar rested are of any importance." So said one of the highest officials of the government. The official, whose name is withheld, continued: "The men under arrest are petty agitators and malcontents, who have affiliated themselves with every group which in the last year or so has or ganized opposition to President Diaz'a administration. These men were first Reyists, then Democrats, then anti-re electlonists more recently they have been supporters of Francisco I. Ma dero, who is suspected of supplying them with money. "They are incapable and have no prestige or any quality necessary to successful leadership. The present conspiracy had ramifications. The po lice seized arms and ammunition worth perhaps $6,000 or $8,000 in this city, at Pachuca and elsewhere." Francisco Madero was a candidate against Diaz at the late presidential election in Mexico. Madero was ar rested then for a "political offense" and jailed. He was released last month on condition that he leave Mexico. He hurried to Texas. AMERICAN TARS IN RIOT Two Hundred Bluejackets Are OWES HER EXP pelled From Cherbourg Cafe They Stone Gendarmes. Cherbourg, Nov. 19—Two hundred .alleged disorderly bluejackets from •the American visiting fleet were ex celled from a cafe here. They stoned 'the building and the gendarmes who Interfered. H. Weidlicli, a sailor from the Louis iana, fell into the harbor and was drowned. His body was recovered. Brest, France, Nov. 19.—A group of bluejackets from the American fleet lighted a wood fire on the water front. The flames spread until they threat ened to communicate with nearby bar rels of nitrate and alcohol. The police saw the danger and extinguished the iflre. London, Nov. 19.—The Pilgrims ^society gave a luncheon in honor of |the officers of the third division of ithe American fleet, now at Gravesend Vice-Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton jpresided and had Rear Admiral Jo iseph B. Murdock, commander of the [visiting battleships, at his right. Both admirals made speeches. Dlx Campaign Bill $4,172. ^lbaAny' N" Y- Nov- iS —Ckrv-Elect -John A. Dlx spent $4,372.32 in aid of his campaign, according to a state ment of election expenses filed with *too secretary of state. LIFE TO .V Lydia B. 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Every such suffering woman owes it to herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial. sen of If you would like special advice about your case write a confiden tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. Her advice Is free *nd always helpfuL It is better to inherit a fortune than to marry one. Somehow the average mother doesn't think she is doing her dut? unless she spoils her children. Pettit's Eye Salve for 25c. Relieves tired, congested, inflamed and sore eyes, quickly stops eye aches. All druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. Had Been Done. "I never saw such a versatile man he can do anything." "Why stop at 'anything?"' At the One Horse. Jere L. Sullivan, the head of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' In ternational Alliance, said in Cincin nati, apropos of Labor day: "Our American hotels, are better than they used to be, an^for this bet terment my organizatlon^ieserves no little credit. "We have today no such hotels as the One Horse of Tin Can, where, if you asked for a bath, they used to give you a shovel and tell you to go down to the hollow and dam the creek. "An English earl once visited the One Horse hotel. The landlord with out ceremony led him outside, pointed to a window on the fifth floor, and said: 'Thar's yer room.' All in Good Time. Seven-year-old William had become the proud owner of a pet pig, and in sisted upon having all the care of it himself. After a few weeks, as the pig did not seem to thrive, his father said to him: "William, I'm afraid you are not feeding your pig enough. It does not seem to be fattening at all." "I don't want him to fatten yet," William replied, knowingly. "I'm wait ing until he gets to be as long as I want him, then I'll begin to widen him out."—Tit-Bits. Got Out of the Habit. "I see you have got a young man stenographer?" "Yes." "Don't you. think a pretty girl stenographer adds a great deal to the attractiveness of an office?" "I suppose she does, but I can't dictate to a woman somehow. I s'pose it's because I have been married so long." HEALTH AND INCOME Both Kept Up on Scientific Food. Good sturdy health helps one a lot to make money. With the loss of health one's income is liable to shrink. If not entirely dwindle away. When a young lady has to make her own living, good health is her best asset. "I am alone in the world," writes a Chicago girl, "dependent on my own efforts for my living. I am a clerk, and about two years ago through close application to work and a boarding* house diet, I became a nervous in valid, and got so bad off^twas almost impossible for me to stafVi the office a half day at a time. "A friend suggested to me the idea of trying Grape-Nuts food which I did, making it a large part of at least two meals a day. "Today, I am free from brain-tire, dyspepsia, and all the ills of an ove^ worked and Improperly nourished brain and body. To Grape-Nuts I owe the recovery of my health, and the ability to retain my position and income. Read "The Road to Wellville." in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A one appear* from time to time* Tn*7 are genuine, true, and full of W1®* Interest*