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WL. XXVI. .. ...v. wmsm No Vacation. A&' ti and'cyclone I'J ijsAiiTwS !S2SK! I We Offer 20,000 Acres of rich, level farm land for sale, in Hughes, Hyde and Sully counties at low prices and on easy terms. Land that today can be bought for $20.00 and $25.00 per acre, will quickly go to $40.00 and $50.00 per acre. The time to act is now. Write for prices. LAKE & WANBAUGH Sui|e No. 12, Hyde Block. PIERRE, S. D. IF YOU WANT TO BUY ANY REAL ESTATE Or, if you want to make a Farm Loan or have an Insur ance Policy Written, call on J. L. Lockhart Land and Investment Co. FOR THE SAME, PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA CORNER DRUG STORE Paints, Oils, Brushes, Indian Curios and SOUVENIR GOODS. M. J. SCHUBERT, Proprietor. Pierre Business University PIERRE, SO. DAK. GiS BELT LAND and ABSTRACT CO. 1 J. A. DAVY, President JOHN I. NEWELL, Secretary PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA. Capital $ 00,000.00 Individual Responsibility $ 150,000.00 Also, Hughes County Abstract Company, Capital $25,000 OWNERS OF ONLY ABSTRACT BOOKS IN HUGHES COUNTY Abstracts of Title FnruWhcd promptly Guaranteed Sy $5,000 Bond. WE BUY AND SELL REAL PROPERTY OF ALL KINDS We Pay Cauli and Sell on Kanj- Term*. WE HANDLE THE FORD, BUICK AND FRANKLIN AUTOMOBILES And automobile supplies of all kinds. Satisfaction in all lines. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. Oifice, 325 Pierre Street. Telephone, 78 Oarage, North- Western Hotel Corner. Telephone 153 H. REFERENCES: Any Banker, Business Man or Farmer in Hughes County. H. E. CUTTING, (Established tu Flerr 28 Years—1580-1908) A & a c.. b« m. 1 After Schoof What? Why not learn Shorthand or Bookkeeping ENTER ANY TIME Call or write 1 aa ifron.ione\ PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOTA. INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE. AGENCY [insurance For Sate !t' 'h *\t Will Insure yonr property ani country stores In Ant-class companies. Taxes pal* tor non-reaUlents. List Your Property if You Want to Sell. Iftniu, Ranches 1 Summer is officially gone, iceman still lingers. More than half the troubles world come from the yeses ought to have been noes. Perry showg a photograph of the pole. Cook will probably come for ward with its Berlillion measure ments. Very distress!** to hear that the White house is overrun with rats. That comes of having a president who is not a good shot with the hors pistol or rifle. The American people spend $2,182, 000,000 a year for liquor, tobacco, chewing gum and candy, and one ninth as much for religion. An eccentric clergyman in New Jer sey is willing to perform his duties for $700 a year, which is less than the sum set aside for him by the church trustees. He should have waited to find out how the new tarrif law affects the cost' »f living. This man Voliva doesn't seem so bad a successor to Dowie after all. His pronunciamento that he is going out to convent Chicago looks a lot more like carrying out his predeces sor's policies than the conduct of some other successors we might name. Monday's advance of the United States Steel common to 87 ia the best possible indiction of what is happening in the iron and steel industry of the country. It has taken steel stock only six months to advance 41 points. Going back a few years, this same stock could have been bought for eight cents on the dollar. Pierre as a material advantage over the other registration points for the reservation opening, as it will have a rate of one fare for the round trip. The special rate is on account of the Gas Belt Exposition, and those who wish to visit the show and register may "kill two birds with one stone." -DeSmet News. The expenditure of $70, 000 which will be entailed dy the meeting of Pre sidents Taft and Diaz near El Paso shows that the affair wi 11 have all the accessories needed to make it impressive. That is just about as much money as the future meeting of Jeffries and Johnson will cost those who see it, Now they have whittled 3,000,000 miles tnore off the distance between the earth and the comet the 19th of next May. The distauce is now stat ed as 13,000,000 miles with the addi tional information that the earth will be swept by the comet's tail on that date, but will suffer no serious dam age. The tail is of very light material. Some of Presidint Taft's speeches on his tour remind us of the discus sions half a century ago on "faith and good works." The president is strong on political faith, but his pre. decessor was conspicuous for the "works" side of the question. Half a century ago they would have made a strong team—one to preach "faith" and other "good works," The price of South Dakota lands will keep going up all over the state until it is Ou par with Iowa and Illi nois. The time is not far distant when the food production in the United States will be a question of great concern, rather than the pres ent question of finding a market for our grain. The man who gets land to leave his heirs will be the greatest benefactor to the coming generation. Land is not appreciated now by thous ands who roam around in the undevel oped west. George Waters, whose ranch is 'lo cated on Crow Creek, will harvest a crop of apples this year which will probably not be beaten by any or chard of equal extent in this section of the country. His trees are loaded with an abnormal production and the fruit is of the very finest quality. One trie shows 90 apples,oach large as a man's fist, growing so thickly that they are confined within a length of t^n inches along one through.—Deeiwood Time*. PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, OCTOBFR 7, 1909. of the which Doubtless Commander Peary is by this time a firm believer in the old adage that too many Cooks spoil the broth. The Roosevelt policies were evidently tontine policies. There was no extend ed or paid—up insurance when they lapsed. With true scientific accuracy Sec retary Wilson points out the fact that it order to see real luxury the east should go to the west. Quite true! A day on Broadway will uot enable the visitor to see a single one of those fine $8.50 one-cylinder motor cars with which the Kansas farmer as saults the echoes along the roads leading to Junction City and Adilene. Augustan Rome never saw nothing like 'em. Let's look at this marketing prop osition a little further: The railroads carried out of South Dakota in the year ending July 1, 1908, four billion, one hundred million pounds of farm products. Can you digest that state ment? Look at the cold figures: 4, 100,000,000 pounds. Loaded two tons to the wagon that would require one million twenty-live thousand wagons to move it, and if the wagons occu pied 26 feet each, the procession would be four thousand eight hun dred and fifty miles long, or long enough to reach from New York City across America, through San Fran cisco and straight away across the Pacific, to Hawaii. .Wouldn't that make a magnificent advertisement of our resources? Four big tons of farm products, exclusive of hay, marketed for every human being, big, little, old young, white, black, Chiuem or In dian residing in the good sunshine state? This is not boom talk but the cold hard figures. —From the Ayres Land Co. Bulletin. If some of the magazine writers who write about, the "poor" farmers should drop out into this part of South Dakota they might be compell ed to revise some of their articles. One sample of conditions out here is shown by H. A. .Brooking, of Suily county, recently going to Gettysburg to market grain. Instead of a puffing team attached to a heavy load of wheat, he had a puffing traction en gine drawing nine wagons, Beven of wheat and two of fiax, which brought Mm $1,000 for the trip to town. Other engine owners are doing the same thing, and tneh when it comes to tak ing the-,family to town, anywhere within fifty miles, it means to many of the farmers a few hours' spin with their auto, and back home in time to do the evening chores, instead of a slow trip of two or more days with horses. Several Sully county farmers even took that method of visiting the state fair at Huron instead of paying railroad fare. Central South Dakota was the Great American home of the buffalo before white men came and took possession of it. Here the wild cattle pastured winter and summer in counties** num bers. Nowhere else upon the conti nent were they so plentiful. All of the early writers of western life testi fy to the vastness of the heads which subsisted upon the rich native grasses in the vicinity of Pierre. Catiin, Audobon and Fremont all testify to that fact. Fremont and Catiin shot buffalo on the very site of the state capitol. The buffalo were drawn to the region by the richness of the grasses and the ease with which it was obtained in the winters wiien the eastern prairies were buried deep in drifts. After the buffalo were des troyed, the cowboy came 'lither with his herds and the great Sioux range was recognized as the greatest cattle range in America. Pierre was the heart of the range. The homesteader has driven out the cowboy, but still the natural conditions exist which make this section supremely the live stock region of the west.—Rapid City Journal. ..* Th a ofl aa from the interior of the dome of the capitoi rev*?aling the completed plas ter work and it iB indeed a thing of beauty. The arch of the permltjtei t» carry it oat. HvTui!13 Wa?i!r W!8e a ema^ -#l-V" SENATORS BY THE PEOPLE It is evident that our forefathers acted with great foresight and saga city when they insured State equality in the Senate, but it is equally plain that the opponents of the election of United States Senators by the people are at fault when they insist that the adoption of the new method would pervert the Constitution. Popular election of Senators may not be wise, but it certainly would not be at vari ance with the vital principle on which the Senate rests. There would still be only two Senators from each State. The foundation of our national struc ture would not be disturbed. At present, the people elect the legisla tures and the latter choose the Sena tors. As proposed, the power now delegated to the members of the legis latures would be exercised directly by the voters. If, in the very begin ning of our government, there had been felt the confidence in the people which now exists, there is little rea son to doubt that popular election of Senators would have been authorized by the Constitution. At that Mme, however, it was felt that suffrage was largely an experiment. The right of the ballot was restricted, even in the matter of voting for Representatives, and our forefathers seemed to feel that perhaps it would be well to mo^e at least one branch of the na tional legislature to an appreciable degree from the people. In their and conserva" tive action. The Senate," accord- i° attnbuted t0 Washington, "is the saucor in which the hot tea of the House is poured to cool." It was the same thought which provided for the choice of a President by members of an electoral college. We know that today the people actually, although indirectly, vote for their candidate for President. The electoral college is now a shadow and not a substance. Our forefathers, however, intended it to be a serious affair. They constructed it as a safe guard against popular clamor, en thusiasm, passion and prejudice. They provided for the election of United States Senators by legisla tures for identically the Bame reason. CENSUS FORCE MAY BE SHORT. Washington, Oct. 1.—Unless-rnore residents from states in the far west make application to the United States civil service commission for the ex amination to be held October 28 for positions in the census bureau those states will probably fail to receive a full share of the appointments.* It was stated at the civil service commission today that as the census act provides for distribution of ap pointments among the states and ter ritories in accordance with the law of apportionment, the civil service com mission is anxious to have applica tions from persons in western states desiring appointments in the census bureau. It is expected that about 3,000 ap pointments will be made from the ex amination to be held in all the states and territories These appointments will be for terms of six months to two yearn, and will average one year in length. A BIG THING FOR THE STATE. A tract of land 90 miles long and 30 to 84 miles wide is tolerably large. It contains something like 4,500 square miles, is nearly four times as large as Rhode Island and just about the same size as Connecticut. With these com parisons, it may be easier to under stand the importance to South Dako to of the opening to settlement of 2, 237,049 acres of the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian reserva- fcioas- The scaffolding has been removed tract is situated in South Dakota A flin 11 .J- 1* .11 The land to be opened contains over 14,000 iarms, meaning ultimate ly a-j addition of between 50,000 and 00,000 dome finished in meridian columns between which are windows of art glass. These columns and windows rest upon an ornamental cornice, between which are panneied walls.resting upon a second and heavier cornice and be low this Becond cornice are the pend entives upon which the dome rests. The four SimmonB paintings will be mounted within seven foot circles with moulded border superimposed upon these pendentives. Highly or namental brackets have been placed at the bottom of the nicheB and the entire effect is superb. The interior is now natty for the decorators and ia All but 217,000 acres of this to the population of South Da kota. However, the benefits of settlement upon and cultivation of this great area of splendid farming land will go' not alone to any one city or portion of the state. It is one of the forerun ners of a bigger South Dakota, a big enough South Dakota for a half dozen husky cities.—Sioux Falls Press Mr. Andrews is upon theground with men with the machine had gone downl withga«olin. or^St a corps of assistants ready for busi- wiwa jfaBomwor wujfl, engines. nesB. His scheme of decoration ii simple sad in the best of taste and befove hi could be pulled out. it ehicfcmi WAS flnd8 NATURAL CAS IN PERKINS COUNTY Bison, S. D., Sept. a wdll at the Charles Pullman place last week gas was struck at a depth .. of 68 feet. Mr. Williams, .one ofthe fromwcientiMwatari*~MimM 24. In digging tj'a fiiitorioal SaMMf Nn.24 WHAT THE SCIENTISTS FIND. It was the boast of P. D. Armour that in the Chicago stockyards the packers used up every bit pf the pig**,\$$|! except its squeal. Ttidre wasn't a hair on its hide or a piece of that pig as big as a dime that wasn't turned by the packers into coin of the realms And now an eminent German scien-: tist has been doiug some figuring on the live body of man, that shows he has been just as busy analyzing him as the packers used to be when they^jl were finding new uses for the pig. The human body from the chemist's standpoint is a wonderful combina tion of elements. It contains phos phorus, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogeu, iron calcium and a lot of other things. After a lot of research the aforsaid German is convinced that a man of average weight, 150 pounds, can be duplicated, chemically speaking, out of the constituent part of 100 dozen hen's eggs! The same authority declares that* -, with proper chemical treatment a 150|ff pound man would yield 98 cubic? meters of illuminating gas. The pro cess might be uncomfortable for thar* man, but it probably would prove the. scientist right. Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are the chief constitut-:'r re- ents of illuminating gas, and they are found in abundance in the humaujlp body. By the same way of figuring, ha OAIUO TOBY U1 llKUriilK. Ill ^at there is enough pure hydro Sen in the 150 pounds of human flesh" Geoorge and bone to fill the bag of a full-sized dirigible balloon. Everybody knows tbat there is iron in the body, that it is found mostly in the blood, and that it's a good thing to be there. The German of figures and science goes us all one better. He finds that the iron, if extracted from his experimental man would make Beven tenpenny nails. If, after having survived the gas- 40, making and smelting processes reJ®& ferred to, there was any oi the man left, the German would not have any waste material on his hands. On the contrary, he would reduce the carbon into 64 grosB of drawing crayons aqd the phosphorus, which with carbon is in the bones, would make several^,, thousand matches. An argument for prohibition found in the fact, also proved by tha? German, that the body has 44 quarts. of water as part of its makeup. It's pretty ruthless to figure how easily the body would be destroy ed after a hen had laid eggs steadily for over three years to make the^rf materials for that body. We canf|§ learn things about ourselves we never "V knew before. But, as in the case of the pig of^^i|t" commerce, the German scientist haa-'^^jteP n't yet told us what squeals. to do with our® Ha The scientists do not find any souiQ-^ but anyhow it is hardly reasonable** to suppose that the water, oil, gas and bone do the thinking. There'-. must be something else which thetf^Vi scientists do not find. v, SOUTH DAKOTA LEADS That South Dakota raises corn to the acre than does Iowa^ Indiana, ing all the other products for one of the richest agricultural state* in the union.—Arlington Sun. wi,en into the well and was ahout exhausted devoting a good, (tjtaid acreage to alfai- hA AAll If) Klk mil 1 A -jffLl 1. 'ia --i". if- afterwards let down baoecmittadtocarrv it oat. kiw in ww ,, r«rsm- I TOPPED THE MARKET Col. Frank B. Ainsworth, of Cin cinnati, Ohio, has just returned ..his large ranch at Minnekatah, in the= southern Black Hills, and i&. pleasedi over the fact, that a shipment of gras* .^ steers from hie ranch "topped the mar-teg ket' in Omaha, $5.SQ tihs'. Vvfu 5 Missouri or Kansas, may news some, but it is a fact. South Dakotasr^f/ average yield of corn for the ten yeaxay^M is equalled only by Illinois, which ha® averaged a half bushel more to acre during the last ten years than tibisv state. Iowa is short by a bushel atsd half per acre of equalling the ygjfri South Dakota. Indiana's yield a half"" bushel less, Missouri's five bushels and. Kansas' twelve bushels, Sooth. Dakota is taking her place as a leading}^'" corn state, and with the corn are eom-v^ which mak» a A fa, twomB grass and fodder corn*andiaxettiiK the hundred. While up to ythe preassw'aU the farm ing on the ranch hsA been under "dry farming" methods, Mr. Ainimerth ia.v pflceMMy^: securing ,th«, watefti 'it 11 jC frXf? for that purpose. from-a. lary on the ranch, and from tmrnarous wallst'i