Hot Springs weekly star., April 25, 1913, Image 7

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SHARES A WILL.
fin Iowa Co-Ed Given Half of a Mli»
nehaha County Farm.
Sioux Falls.—By the terms of a will
filed in the probate court in Sioux
Falls, Miss Gwendolen Moore Garey,
at present
a
student in a college at
Griunell, la., is given one-half interest
In a Minnehaha county farm which is
valued at $35,000. The will is that of
Mrs. Alberto, Ross, who died in Jan
uary at Long Beach. Cal. Miss Garey
was her niece and during the past ten
years had been a mewb'ir of the Ross
household. The farm which Mrs. Ross
owned at the time of her death, and
which by the ^erms of her will is left
equally to her husband and niece, cca
eists of 336 acres, highly improve*,
and is situated six miles east of Dell
Rapids. Mr. Ross has been spending
the winter at Audubon, la., but in tha
near future will return to California.
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
Tlip Sherrard memorial committee
»r Pierre has acepted the model of
Mothr-r Sherrard and three, infants
submitted by Gilbert Reisvold of Chi
cago. The tablet, when finished in
marble, will be placed in the corridor
of the capitol in memory of Mother
Sherrard, of the Sioux Falls orphans'
home, the Sherrards having been in
charge of that institution a great
many years, carrying on an unre
manerative taslf of love and devotion
and tiare of hundreds of orphan ba
bies.
Lincoln garner of Kimball, con
fined in the county jail at Mitchell,
made an attempt to escape by digging
out through the basement wall of the
noun house, where the jail is located.
The noise aroused Deputy Sheriff
Owfcas, who discovered Warner in
the act and threw him into a cell for
the balance of the night. Warner was
recently 'sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary by Judge Smith on
a statutory charge.
Secretary of State Glassner will
send auto license No. 1 to Sanborn
county, with the request that it bp
given (o Representative Crawford,
who introduced the new motor vehi
cle law. The licenses and tags have
to be secured from county treasurers,
and do not go directly from the state
house, as formerly. Many applica
tions have been made for license
No. 1.
Clifford Ritter, a farm boy near Iro
tl'iois, saw a large eagle swoop down
zo the carcass of a d#ad caif in a
pasture, and. crawling up Oil the eagle,
shot at it. with the result that he in
jured one of its wings to such an ex
tent that ho was able, after a hard
struggle, to capture the huge bird,
which measures 7 feet ai-d 2 inclieo
from tip to tip.
.John M. Erion, a prossoetous fanner
four miles south of Mitchell, at one
time state senator, while sawing off
the iop of a tree fell to the ground
and broke both arms. One arm was
oroken just, below the wrist and the
oilier sustained two fractures between
the wrist and the elbow. Mr. Erion
is .Improving, but is unable to feed
or otherwise help himself.
The Indians have gradually changed
from wanderers, depending upon nat
ural conditions for subsistence, to
regular, scientific farmer*. At a re
c'?it farmers' institute at Cheyenne
agency a large attendance of Indian
farmers, keenly alive to improve
ments, methods and progress, was
noted.
John Feiok. lately of Alpena, S. D.,
formerly of Hutchinson county, will
on mploved the 1st of May as clerk
lr' the office of the commissioner oi
school and public lands. Feiok was a
clovk in the office of the secretary of
state when Dave VVipf of Hutchinson
county was secretary.
A complaint has been filed with tlie
state railway commission by the peo-
JI!O
of Alpena who are not satisfied
with the service given t^ieni by the
Milwaukee Railway company, and
ihc-v are asking the railway com
niirs.ion assist them in securing their
.demands for better service.
The right to take water for irriga
Hon from White river was granted to
Edward B. Kelley of Chamberlain
who will irrigate 623 acres on that
stream W. L. Bowler was given the
right to take water from Bear Creek,
in Pennington county, for power pur
posses.
Commissioner of school and public
lands has received word that the sales
of land on April 12, in Spink county,
totaled $?f.000,-jwith an average pricti
of f4C.25. The highest appraisal made
in the countr was ?65, and the lowest
SI 7.50. Only a small portion was
sold.
Ca'.en Potter has been elected chief
of vlie Faith volunteer fire department
to fill the. vacancy caused by the res
ignation of J. W. Gellenbeek, who vUl
take up his residence elsewhere. The
members of the department tendered
him a farewll reception and present
ed him with a handsome stickpin.
Children playing with matches set
fire to the prairie on the Fred Hertzel
farm near Herreid and a large area
of farm labd was burned over.
Tlie insurance adjusters have lade
cettlement with all the men who lost
buildings and stocks in a fire which
recently swept the business district
of Draper, and preparations now aro
being made to rebuild the burned dis
trict with structures much better than
those destroyed.
George Tiirkson, aged 12. of Madi
•on, picked up in the street what is
believed to have been a dynamite
cap. While examining it the cap «s
filoded, injuring his left hand to sucb
an extent that two fingers had to t»
5foputated
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May Day Possibilities.
Very soon the children will be say
ing, "Tomorrow is May day can't we
have a party?" and if you are a duti
ful, obliging mother you will say
"yes, indeed, but, begin your prepara
tions this minute." So they will get
tissue paper and braid it into neat
baskets if they can get the rope
crepe paper so much the better. Then
they will scurry off to hunt wild flow
ers, place them in water over night,
all ready for the early May day morn
ing filling, then they'll hang them on
the door bells and run away. Tucked
Inside there may be love notes and
even tiny gifts.
Perhaps you .111 plan for a costume
pageant with a May queen, recalling
Tennyson's favorite:
You must wake and call me early,
call me early, mother dear
Tomorrow'll be the happiest time of
all the glad New Year—
Of all the glad New Year, mother, the
maddest, merriest day
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, moth
er, I'm to be Queen of the May.
Most children know how to dance,
so you can have a group of milk
maids, Scotch highlanders, English
shepherdesses, Roman maids with
pipes and garlands, dainty Japanese,
and Robin Hood with his merry men.
Crepe paper and cambric will make
•the costumes, and girls of twelve and
over can do much towards making
their own, as I know from experience
that they love to do it. Dressing up and
"make believe," come perfectly natur
al to children, and they thoroughly
love plays with action. It is great fun
to wind a May pole and not difficult,
either, to braid the gay strips around
the pole and then undo them. There
may be any number of strips to wind.
I want to tell you of a book called
"Maypole Possibilities," by Mrs. Jen
nette E. Carpenter Lincoln. It will
tell you much that you all want to
know and I cannot take space to go
into details here.
An "S" Slipper.
Some years ago this "S" supper was
given to vary the monotony of the or
dinary church supper. It w^s a suc
cess and I copy the menu for others
who may like to try it. The card at
the top said "Supper Schedule."
Sumptuous! Superb! Satisfying
Substantials
Slimly Sliced Sandwiches, Stylishly
Shaped
Selected Sea-Fruit, Somewhat Sea
soned
Scalloped Sea-Fruit
Savory Salmon Salad
Scrumptious Salad Small,, Sleek, Sar
dines
Square Saltines
Sundries
Sharply Spiced, Slender Sweet Pickles
Sour, Stinging. Stimulative Sauce
Seraphic Sweet-Cakes
Silver Spiced Sponge Snow
Sweetmeats
Small, Succulent Sacharine slices
Sweetened, Solidified Strawberry
Syllabub
Soft, Smooth, Snowy, Slippery Sherbet
Sips
Sisters' Special Steeped Sin
Steaming, Soul-Stirring Stimulant
Sentiment Souvenirs, Suitably Selected
Supper, Six—Seven Sixty
Several Sweet Sisters Sedulously
Serving
Ideas for Lurtchecn Tables.
At an early summer luncheon, or
rather a "spring" affair as the sea
son is so late, have the centerpiece
of the most abundant flower available.
In the case I am describing apple blos
soms were used. A small but very
sweetly tuned music box was the cen
terpiece, literally covered with a
mound of apple blossoms. When
luncheon was announced there was
"music in the air" and the guests
found their places by cards decorated
with apple blossoms done in water
colors and a bar or two of Mendels
sohn's "Spring Song" done in gilt
Models of Hats Accepted
as Best of Season's Styles
across the top. Th* favors wen
candy boxes in the shape of musical
instruments and the hostess said sh«
hoped all her guests were "sweetly
attuned." The home at which this
pretty luncheon was given was in the
country, and after the repast all r©
paired to the orchard and gathered
blossoms, which they took home.
At another spring party the table
was laid out like a formal garden with
stiff little trees taken from "Noah's
arks" and purchased at the favor de
partment, as were the gilded garden
tools. Wild flowers were used in toy
wheelbarrows. As a pastime the lios
tess used some of the flower guessing
contests that have appeared in our
department from time to time. She
had made the cards on which the ques
tions were written In the shape of
flower pots, the outside being painted
to represent a potted plant. The
prizes were brown baskets of spring
flowers. The ice cream was served
in flower pots and the salad in tnrnip
cases. As it was made of vegetables,
this was most appropriate.
Ship Party.
Did you ever hear* of one? Well,
neither did I until recently, and I am
telling you all about it just as soon as
I can. This affair was given for a
boy's eighth birthday and he just
loved boats better than anything else,
so his mother had the tinsmith make
an oval pan four inches deep, which
she'fllled with water and put in the
center of the dining-room table.
Around the edge she Arranged ferns
and vines with moss, and in the wa
ter she placed the gold fish from the
aquarium. At the toy store she
bought ducks, miniature row boats,
sail boats, a little steamer, swans,
frogs and play fish. There was a
five-cent sail boat at each place with
the name of child on the side. The
cake had a sail boat done in pink icing
for decoration, with the boy's name
and date of birth and present date un
derneath. All this had been kept a
profound secret and all the kiddles
were wild with delight. This mother
is noted for her successful children's
parties and she says it's because she
has Just the same things for each
child to take home, and she usually
serves refreshments first, as ice cream
and cake are after all what makes a
real party to the average child, and,
served early, the supper hour is not
Interfered with. Then, too, she says
children are much happier and easier
to manage when their stomachs are"
full.
Moon and Morning Stars.
Hero is a Spanish game that I am
sure the children will enjoy these
warm spring days.' One thing is nec
essary, and that is bright sunshine
for this pastime. The girl who repre
sents the moon stands in the shadow
of a large tree or building and she
cannot go out into the sunshine. All
the other players are the morning
stars, and belong in the daylight, so
they stay out in the sun occasionally
they venture into the shadow calling
alluringly:
Oh, Ihe moon and morning stars,
Oh, the moon and morning stars,
Who dares to tread, oh!
Within the shadow?
The watchful moon keep, hei- eyes
open and pounces upon some too ven
turesome star, catches her and takea
her place among the stars and the
victim becomes the moon.
MADAME MERRI.
Frills and Furbe'ows.
In Pierrot frills there is a charm
ing novelty, the frill being of very
fine white kilted net veiled by a stilt
finer transparency of black net. Un
less you see this you will hardly real
ize how sweet it is and how lightly
the black rests miwtily on its under
kilting.
Debutantes, of course, have always
worn tulle, and equally of course they
do so still, tulle with pretty groupA
of roses and flowing girdles of broche
ribbon. At the same time older wom
en are making net the favorite ma
terial for blouses, and the choice Is
not altogether unwise, for a well
made net often wears better than
chiffon, and white net is not difficult
to v^ash and do up.
Novel Neck Frilf.
A charming Parisian actress has
adopted very becoming neck frills,
which she wears on all her gowns.
She has the gown cut in a small
and round this she wears a two-inch
plisse net frill put in double and in
front allowed to fall full. This dainty
fashion leaves the throat bare to
show a row of pearls, and yet there Js
no hard outline such as* a severely
turned-down lawn collar may show.
Notorious Criminal Who Became
a Soul Saver Succumbs.
Pickpocket Former Yegg Seeks to Be
friend Turns Against Him and In
directly Is Responsible for
His Death.
Chicago.—As checkers and contra
dictory a career as an,-' student of
mankind could hope- to i5r,d lias been
brought to a sudden conclusion by the
death of "Dick" Lane, safe-cracker
and robber, who turned evangelist
picker of pockets, who turned saver
of souls.
The inconsistencies of Dick Lane's
life—"Dead Kye. Dick" was his favor
ite nickname—may best be summed
up'm the three divisions of his career.
Here they are:
Childhood 12 years
Criminal career 40 years
Career as soul-saver.. 1G years
The dark passages in his life had a
marked eri'eci upon his mental and
physical being so did the happier
dayti after he walked into the Paelfie
Garden mission 16 years ago and con
fessed his sins. It was his desire to
help those who remained in the crim
inal career that he had forsaken that
.liuilly brought about his death the
other evening.
During the Christmas holidays Mr.
I.aae. »hcu seventy-six cert old, took
home with him a man who had c.tarted
o'r.t for a night's work as a pickpocket.
He talked to the man most, of the
night, ancl finally-convinced himself
that the pickpocket had
From that day on Mr. Lane's health
stPadily declined. Three weeks before
his death he insisted on going out in a
rain and snow art.er:n to address a
&
Hi
Dick Lane.
.street meeting, lie returned home
Iate, his body soaked wi.h the pene
trating rain and sleet that had fallen
all evening.
That night he was compelled :o take
to his bed. Although he realized that
he wouid not recover he was cheerful
and happy up to the last hour of his
life.
"I just hope that the last 1(5 years of
iny life have atmed for all of those
black years that came before them."
he whispered to Mrs, Lane after the
doctor said that he had but a tew
"•jinnies to live.
"D.-.ri::-*, they have atoned for aey-
'DEAD EYE DICK' DIES
deeieeci
to
lead the new life that he had chosen.
Several days later, led by the man
who was partaking of his homely nos
i'.itij.lity, three hold-up men were let
into the evangelist's house to rob him.
While Mr. Lane was preparing a meal
for them one of the trio struck him
senseless with ail iron weapon. Then
they picked his pockets, robbed the
hev.-.-o and fled.
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SCENE IN DAYTON AFTER THE FLOOD
A lino of refugees waiting for food, oil and clothing at one of the distributing depots.
thing that you could have done," Mrs.
Lane replied.
Whether he heard the words of com
fort she does not know. The closed
eyes wore never opened again.
A little more than sixteen years ago
"Dead-Rye Dick," then possessor of
the most unenviable reputation a crook
could desire, alighted from a train in
Chicago, broken in health and spirit
through the life of crime and idleness
he had been leading. Two hours later
Oapt. John D. Shea, then head of the
city's detective bureau, sent for him
and, after a brief conversation or
dered him to get out of the city with
in twenty-four hours.
The broken man slowly arose and
shambled out of the detective bureau.
He knew that ho atelied, ho
was penniless and lie was hungry.
Walking along Van Buren street he
heard music in a little back room.
Without knowing the nature of the
place, he entered and took a chair.
It was the Pacific Garden mission.
When the man walked out again he
was not "Dead-Eye Die!:," but Rich
ard Lane, evangelist. He walked to
the office of II. H. Kahlsaat, then pub
lisher of the Times-Herald. He told
I his story and Mr. Kohlsaat believed
in his sincerity, lie gave him employ
ment as a janitor, personally uuder
took to l".ad hitri into the paths that
were so new to him and continued to
be his ckr friend and aid up to the
time of his death.
GRANT TOMB IS INCOMPLETE
Thirty-One Years Have Passed Since
the Corner Stone Was Laid—
Work Still Walts.
New York—Although many yehrs
have elapsed since the corner stone
of Grant's tomb was laid the monu
niei'.t is not yet completed. The sub
r.cription fund of $350,000 for the
building of the tomb proved inade
quate to supply nine stained glass
windows which were planned, but out
Eritich War Office May Breed Re
mounts for the
/.j Army.
London.—The alarming deficiency of
army hoises in England, of which the
figures will stj&n be known, is largely
due to a direct conflict of interest be
tween two government departments,
and the conflict is becoming acute.
The board of agriculture is the only
authority permitted to spend money
on breeding horses, and military au
thorities fuel that the grant of $200,
000, chiefly given in premiums and for
buying mares, satisfies in no respect
the particular needs of the war ol'ice
'i hi*j conflict of opinion has become
emphasized in the last few weeks.
General Heath, who recently retired
lrom the position of director of re
nv/unts, which he filled with conspicu
ous success, has just joined the horse
breeding organization known as the
Master of Fox Hounds society. This
body, which
haB
DEARTH OF HORSES IS FELT
the only really prac­
tical scheme yet worked out in de
tail, la being strongly supported by
the war oKice.
Its most active supporter, Mr.
Pinckard, an ex-M. F. H., has recently
presented the lease oi 400 acres of
land ani stablec to the war ollice in
the hope that the gift may be used
as a breeding establishment on th?
German lines. The gift wal eagerly
acceptcd by the war o.lice, which sees
in It the nucleus of a new develop
ment, though at present it is largely
v.-2.sted because the war officc has net
free hand.
The society has pointed out thai, the
board of agriculture scheme is large
ly waste money that, of the $200,000
granted as much as $S0,00G is snenr. on
administration, and that the animals
bred under the scheme are not liKely
to profit the war office a penny. The
beet will certainly be bought for
French and German officers.
The board of agriculture is doubt
less the best authority, but while it re
fuses to pay the slightest heed to war
oflice requirements the whole meaning
and point "of Its schemes are lost
Quite naturally the development com
mii'Sionerfi, ^working with the hr-jr.1
of the city appropriation of $7,000
year toward maintenance of tht
mausoleum the windows at last hav«r
been purchased and placed.
Two other features original]]
planned, however, have not yet beer
realized These aro groups of stat
uary to decorate the top of the donif
and pediment., and landscape garden
lng. Out of the city fund the Gran!
Monument association now is trying
to save enough to provide thee*
groups of statuary, and the park do
partment is to ask a $25,000 appro
priation for landscape gardening, In-
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Grant's Tomb.
eluding the planting of a number of
trees along the board walk leading to
the entrance.
Among the thousands of visitors
who make Grant's tomb a Mepea,
there have often been comments of
the barren appearance of the site,
which at present is relieved only bv
two trees of any size, those planted
by Li Hung Chang.
are more Interested in the scientific
side than the practical and milnarv.
They do not care about military
horses, but at the same time they
stand in the way ol the1 otlu.r author
ity attending to this vital national
need.
A crisis will he reached p.-s soon as
the census of military horses, now
almost complete, is analyzed. It is
known from Colonel Seely, the war
secretary, that there are 100,000 fewer
horses on the larm than two years
ago, and of those left fewer are of the
I milfi.ary type.
HAVE PLAN TO CAMP I1\l CITY
College Girls Apply to Cleveland Au
thorities for PermisEion to Oc
cupy a Municipal Tract.
Cleveland, O.—A party of college
g'rls wishes to establish a community
camp and garden on the 25-acre tract
of city owned land overlooking the
Fairmont reservoir.
Application for permission to carry
out their back-to-nature program was
made by the girls recently at the city
ha'I.
The application was received by
City Forester John Doddv, who is ia
entire charge of the city's campaign
for vacant lot development. The water
works department owns the land
vhieh the colletre plrls wish to use
Tins i« the first camping application
received at the city vacant lot gar
(Uu.ing bureau. Many apii!:catiois for
permission to enter community garden"
plans have been received and a niim
bet of assignments made.
Hatpin Law for Berlin.
Berlin.—Women who persist in
wearing pointed hatpins without pro-'
tectors on thf:m will be subject to fine.1
Having failed to persuade the uamen*'
to discard the sharp hatpins or pro
vide protectors, Berlin's police presi
dent announces that the transgressore"
will be fined up to $15 for each of
fense, and if ilic-y do not pay
f.Uey
lie hnnriPonfd. -i-
will