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Druggist Complete Optical Room CAME CENSUS MOVE, Audubon Society's Pian to Ascer tain Amount Hunters Kill. SPORTSMEN ARE INTERESTED Purpose Is to Find Oa* How Fwt Birds and Animals Are Being Ex terminated—Attempt to Be Made In All Legislatures to 0+tt.SMH Pw mitting a Count. To measure the contents of Uncle Barn's game bag during the new year Is the object of a concerto*! effort in Which sportsmen from every section of the United States and the National As sociation of Audubon Societies in New fffork city are joining hands. It is prb ^gtosed that detailed records of each |pay's shoot be secured from every true Jiportsman and required by law of gtvery one else in all states where the udubou and sporting interests can Obtain the necessary legiHlatiou. Un (jjpess the annual inroads upon the rap gldly decreasing game of America are jglhus determined, so the leaders of the ||ew movement declared the other day, *i|hooting as a healthful recreation will foon be killed in almost every region ©f the continent. That the health, crops and woods, as well as the sport, of many extensive localitlfi are today seriously menaced by the threatened extinction of game birds will be demonstrated through the latest scientific investigations by gov ernment authorities at Washington. Waterfowl and shore birds will be Shown in their natural capacity of de stroying the anopheles mosquito, as well as many other recognized disturb ers of deadly germs. Gulls and many ®ther varieties of sea and inland water lirds will be proved by ornithological experts to be wholesale destroyers of .grasshoppers and a multitude of the in fects which cause an annua! crop and forest loss of nearly a billion dollars. tT more than the entire national debt, according to the most recent calcula tions of the government bureau of en tomoloary. Tlw case of Knit T.nkn f'ffv, jvhose pen| If »-e recti il in ,i *1 Watches! Watches! WATCHES! There is no question but that we have as nice aM assortment of WATCNES as any firm in the county. We are in a position to show you a complete assort ment of these goods and to make you prices that must meet with your favor. All the Standard makes are repsesented in our stock. Before buy inga WATCH it would be as well if you were to drop in. A N E S O N to the gulls that saved all their crops from destruction by an Insect plague, will also le cited. In every one of the forty-four state legislatures which convene in the new year special efforts will be made to ob tain legal provision for this game census, says the New York 1'ost. Where a hunters' license law is al ready in force the addition of a law to enforce the recording of all game birds and animals shot will be urged. It is proposed, in order to protect the true sportsmen and to detect market hunters, to punish failure to report the season's shoot by a forfeiture of li cense and false returns by proceeding as against perjury- Special blanks for the purpose are being prepared as an attachment to all hunters' license cards. When the purpose and necessity of this widespread checking up of the nation's game bag are realized by tin* people at large, the labor of com piling the records of the individual prowess of millions of hunters will be begun. In this gigantic task the offi cers of the National Association of Audubon Societies have been prom ised the hearty assistance of the di rector of the national conservation commission, of which their organiza tion has become a co-ordinate branch by special invitation of the author ities at Washington. This conserva tion movement they will forward as one of their principal activities for the new year, together with their regular work of education, bird care ou reser- 1 vations and legislative campaigning for general bird protection. "The conservation of the dying races of the game birds and animals of this continent is an object for which we are finding every true sportsman ready and eager to co-operate." said William Dutcher. president of the National As sociation of Audubon Societies, at its headquarters In New York city the other day. "The proposed cen#us Is the only sure way of determining the extent of the existing commercial bird butchery and the means to check it. Though we shall, of course, have to tight the organized and financially pow erful market hunters at every step to ward /his end. I feel sure that the sup port »f the sportsmen will help us greatly aud that we may rely upon the uttpoort of every patriotic Amer ican well Th»» whole pnbHe debt Baking Powder Absolutely Pun The only baking powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar. Jeweler A. F. Laity, Optician as $997,349,751. With a known annual loss of many millions more than this due to the growing inroads of the in sects which our game birds destroy, I do not think Americans can ignore this •abject much longer." ROJESTVENiKY'S "SEEMED BRAVERY. How the Russian Admiral Sank Three Turkish Ships. Vice Admiral Sinovi Petrovitch Ro jestvensky, who recently died at St. Petersburg, was called "the silent ad miral" by his men. He commanded the 111 fated Russian fleet which was anni hllated by the Japanese in the sea.of Japan in May, 190."». During the Russo-Turklsh war Ad miral Itojest.ensky was the hero of uncommon feats of bravery. Pr. M. W. Pickard, a Russian by birth, who •pent several years in the Imperial Naval academy at Odessa. l|ild as fol lows how the admiral won his St George cross for bravery: "The story Is told differently In Rus •ia from the way It is here. The story I learned at the academy tells of sink ing three Turkish vessels in bis first engagement. "The boat Vesta was a little vessel, not more than 1H0 feet long, and was engaged in carrying munitions of war from Russia's larger cities to %e Dan ube. Captain Popoff was in command, with Rojestvensky second. One day in 1877 this little vessel was steaming along toward a point on the Rouma nian coast, traveling through a fog and mist. Suddenly it came in sight of a ship and, as usual, cleared its deck for action. The Vesta carried few guns, just enough to protect it in case of at tack. "The Vesta started into the big ship, but when it drew nearer it found itself confronting a Turkish battleship which had two obsolete vessels with it. The battleship turned a broadside loose at the Vesta, and at the lirst shot Captain Popoff was killed. Rojestvensky took command and fought out the battle. Ills gunners did their work so well that the battleship and the two smaller vessels were sunk. The Vesta itself was disabled, but managed to get back to the island of Pheodonis, or Snake island, where it was beached. It was afterward raised and taken to Odessa fvud repaired. For a number of years it was used in passenger service in the Black sea. It was ever afterward known as the Rojestvensky ship. "A peculiar feature of the Vesta his tory was its ending. In 1887, while sailing uear Roumania, it ran into a storm and went down with all on board. The ship sank not ten miles from where it had fought its fight wUJbt the Turkish vessels." %ttseV Earrings a New Freak. This is a freak season for jewels. Quaint, old fashioned rings have been as popular as the old fashioned pend ent earrings, which have been gener ally worn, though they seem to add years to the most youthful face. Now the craze for fancy jewelry has taken the form of tassel earrings. These are seen usually as seed pearls in tassels that drop an inch or two from the ears. They are even more barbaric In effect than the pendent pearls and diamonds and also tend to rob the wearer $£ yontlt MADISON. SOUTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY. JANUARY 30, 1909 First Survivor tc Reach America Tells Vivid Earthquake Tata LIKE WORLD'S END." "Thought I Was In Purgatory," Says Giuseppe Cutroneo, Who Witnessed Sicilian City's Fearful Fate—T«Ukl Wave a Terrifying Sight. Giuseppe Cutroneo, a butcher of Messina, who lost his wife and three children in the recent earthquake which devastated Sicily, is the first witness of the great disaster to reach New York. In telling of his escape from death he said in part: "I was in the cattle business in Mes sina, and to this fact I owe my life. On the morning of Dec. 28 I got up at 4 i:» o'clock to take a trip into the country to buy steers. All was quiet as I left my home, 188 Corso Victor Emmanuel, and walked to the station, about a mile distant. As it happened, the car in which I took my seat was the last coach, which stood outside the train shed. Had I taken a forward car I doubtless would have been killed. "Of a sudden the car shot up In the air, falling with a crash on one side. A deafening roar filled my head. The air became suffocating. My body seem ed to grow numb all at once. I don't know how long I lay in a sort of stu por before I realized that there was a hole over me, through which I climbed. "The spectacle again stupefied me. 1 thought the world ha-* come to an end and that I was in purgatory. I could not at first recognize what I saw as Messina. Still the earth trembled, and quakes came intermittently, each one toppling over walls that had been cracked or left standing by the first shock. I looked back at the station. It had collapsed, and the train shed had fallen on the forward part of the train and crushed it almost flat. "As soon as I realized that I was still alive I thought of my wife and three little children. I rushed back into Messina, although now fires had started in all directions. Here would tower the flame of a broken gas main, roaring and leaping like a gigantic torch. There the wood skeleton of a house blazed like a hundred bonfires In one. The air was full of smoke and dust, yet I could see close to the shore a great rift, where the earth had been torn apart. Into It many of the houses bad fallen, catching fire as they fell, so that the smoke that rose mude the ditch look like an elongated volcano. "I looked seaward and was trans fixed by the most terrifying sight of all. A wave was advancing toward the city that grew as It approached until It seemed as high as the light house. It tumbled the ships about like toys, turning them turtle or tossing them on their beam ends. It came with tremendous velocity, but to me it seemed an age before it swept over the lighthouse and engulfed the city, tearing away the piers like paper and swallowing the shore front. Far In land it swept, extinguishing many of the fires. "The people running about In the streets acted like lunatics. Some were clambering over the ruins in their nightclothes searching for relatives. Through cracks the people that still lived cried to those they feared were dead. Other survivors whom I met had wound around them bits of carpet or bedclothes, while others had for gotten all about apparel. "I found only a heap of bricks, twisted Iron and wood splinters where I used to live. The five stores had tumbled into a heap about fifteen feet high. My home was ID a four room flat on the first floor. It had been buried at the bottom. Without think ing how impossible was the task I be gan to dig in the ruins. Down below I could bear moans, and they made me work like a madman. "I would sometimes think I heard my wife's cry. and I would yell down Into some crevice, 'Floria, Floria, here is your Giuseppe!' and then I would call to my children—to Diego, my six year-old little boy to Tony, who was four, and Natalina, the baby. I was still digging when some Russian sol diers came and asked me if I did not want something to eat. Eighty people were in the house where I lived, and only one or two besides .myself escaped. "For two days and a night I wan dered about Messina until I thought the sights of crime and death would drive me crazy. Ghouls began to prey upon the dead, digging up corpses to rob them. When the soldiers caught these fiends at work tbpy would riddle them with bullets. "Never will I forget my run toward my home. I saw many persons. Sev eral had been injured by falling walla. One man, with his legs broken, worked his way painfully along, leaving a trail ef blood behind htm. Again I saw a woman cruwling over a mass of ruins, clinging to a child. God! If I live a thousand years I can never for get those sights! JfJere an old man was making 111'? way, along, searching wildly among the rwnoklng ruins for loved ones. saw another man scram bling over the mis calling his wife's Syruprffigs ^Elixir sfSpnim i'Cleanses the System Effect ually Dispels tolas andHead CK'lies clue to Constipation Acts naturally, acts truly as a Laxative. i Best forMenV^mrn an lfren-Vaunt) pany trout Mr. Saucernian is reputed to be worth $1,500,000. The new organiza tion he is perfecting to help boys Is to be known as "the trimmer band." To demonstrate bis earnestness he has de posited in the name of "the trimmer band" $5,000, which is drawing Inter est. The plan as outlined by Mr. Saucer i man is to take boys from the age of nine to sixteen and organize them into plants or companies of fifty or a hun dred. lie would have these boys hold monthly meetings, at which time they would discuss and be taught economy, finauce and how to earn money, clean living and everything in line with in dustry and morals Each boy on join ing the club will receive $1. The boy must deposit with his dollar 50 cents to show good faith. Starting his bank account with $1.50, each boy will re ceive a penny per day for three years, aud at the end of that period he will receive au additional $1. This will give him $12 if he has not saved a cent himself. He urges all boys to save their nickels and dimes so as to be prepared to start life right. The pledge each boy takes on joining "the trimmer band" is to abstain from "tobacco in any form, intoxicating liquors, gambling yf_any kind and pro fane and slang language." Mr. Saucer.uuu has already organiz ed one club in Des Moines. He is not going to be coutent with accepting the boys who will come to hliu. On the contrary, he has hired out of his own pocket a state organizer, who is to travel all over Iowa inducing boys to do away with tin ir bad habits and start hank a. counts at the Des Moines phiiai.. i11' i'i e::p-iise. J. B. Ham uioiid lias en secured as an organizer.' Beware of the Cough tli.it hangs on persi breaking your night's rt st ana txliaustirigyi'U with the violence of the paroxysms. A few dose* of 1'iso's Cure will relieve won (itrfully any cough, no matter how far acivancrii or serious. 11 --i .othes and hea Is the irritated surfaces, clears the clogged air pa^ ages and the cough disap pears. At all druggUu', 25 eta. e a n No Question as to the Superiority of CALUMET Baking Powder RtcuTeJ HlfWst Awari VerU'i Pare Fee* EiyiMhl CUcage, 1907. a. CHAS. Child• mul OIJ, 1T, get its ]^enc|tciulE||ects Always buy the (retunne which has ine jutl name oj"the Com CALIFORNIA Fio SYRUP CO. mom it is munujr.ctiirrrl. printed on the «m-v jnu-ko^t' b.y SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS, Jite .wr only, regular price 50• p"- bottle. name as 1 was doing. A year was lived In that day. "On the evening of Dec. 28 about 200 of the survivors, including myself, went aboard the Regina Marguarita, which the government had made use of as a transport. We were carried to Palermo. On reaching Talermo I went to a hospital. On my way I met a well dressed man, who on learning I wanted to come to America gave me $38 for my passage.** PLAN TO HELP BOYS. Philanthropist Will Give Cent a Day to All Young Iowa Teetotalers. To every boy in Iowa who will take a pledge to use neither tobacco or liq uor Samuel Saueernuin, a wealthy Des Moines resident, will give a dol lar, a cent a day for three years and another dollar at the end of the three years, says a Des Moines dispatch. At the same time he urges the boys who accept his proposition to save the nick els and dimes I hey would otherwise have spent for tobacco and alcoholic drink and put them with their account, lie has figured out that If the boys will do this none will arrive at the age of twenty-one years without having enough to take them through college or give them a good start in life. KENNEDY President Y-fEVER —THE ELY'S CREAM BALM Sure to Cive Satisfaction, civca RKLicr at onck. It cleanse**, soothes, heals and protect the ji:sea.wd membrane resulting from Catarrh ir 1 drivos a wuy a Cold in the Head quickly. 'I.to (.'3 the Senses of Taste and Smeil. Kit to ufif. 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Fin ished in japan and nickel—an ornament anywhere. Every heater warranted. it t)ie lamp lor the student or readrr. Il gives brilliant Seady light thai makes sfudy a leisure. Made ol brass, nickel plated and aquippW with the latest improved central drah burner. Every Ump warranted. II you cannot obtain the PcrlecBon Oil Heater or Ravo ytw dealer write to our nearest agency lor descriptive ciraJar, BTAMDARR Oil. COMKAHf it ,X',t v Lasy insi (Inr*rpor*t«4) linuuiumwiMu \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\m\\u\\w\\\\\\\\\u\\\\\\\\\\\v ATARRH '~A #1 7 s u Bottle beer WESTERN CANADA More Big Crops In 1908 60,000 settlers from the United States In 19U6. New Districts open* ed for settlement. iX*0 acres of land tot EACH SETTLBR lioo free homestead land 160 acres at Iouly $3 per acre, "A vast, rich cooo •try and a contested, •prosperous people. [Extract from corre spondence of a Wk Kansas Editor, whose Ivlsit to Western Can-, ada In August, 1908, was an In splration. Mun y li ave paid the entire cost of their farms and had a bal ance of from S10.00 to S20.00 per. acre as a result of one crop. Spring and Winter'Wheat. Oats, liarler. Fins sad Psai are the principal crop* while the wild grasses bring to per fcciion the best cattle erer sold on the Chicago market. ffflttfflfrl aft localities moatoflbeae prtoee or to J. M. McLACHLAN, .* 4A V: -I A & 4* 1 n, ivfv#