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A .")• Jl. & %. w, 7.\* *k Kr 4" 5 s •fk C|je JDailp leaner MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA mmmi w«a IXTURDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1920 !•!will at Madison postorric* u s«c «M daae mattsr. i Pierre.—Apparently circuit judges Will have to wait for a time to get H|e money for their expense accounts. The last legislature appropriated $7, »0 for such expenses, that being tiled on the allowance of $600 per War expense account for each of the drcuit Judges of the state. The Wf«i have been drawing the new amount since the beginning of the fis cal year and the appropriation is ex hausted, or will be the coming month, and there will be no fund out of which to pay expenses of the cir cuit Judges. Brookings.—The State Dairymen's association has recently presented the three sliver loving cups won by three State college students for placing first •r second in the national judging eontest last fall, as follows: Rudolph Bucholz of Brookings, first in judg ing dairy products Bernard Iverson, Madison, second in judging dairy Products, and David Gilgerson of Ar mour, second In judging dairy cattle. These men were also awarded gold medals by the national association. Aberdeen.—Five years ago George Wwm of Claremont, who makes a OPOrtalty of rust resistant amber dur wheat, won a gold medal at the BUILT FOR ALL ROADS The high power and rugged strength of the Oakland Sensible Six make it the choice of persons whose journeys run over many different .kinds of routes. And their appreciation is heightened hy the economy in use of fuel, oil and tires for which this automobile also is noted. ttUNTIMER-PATTON MOTOR CO. MADISON, S. &» TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION •all. 1 JTMT It.M •ail. m*ntba l.g* orilit, mt tMk n J. F. STAHL, Proprietor. E A. IMBL, Business lltuftr. STATE NEWS Aberdeen.—Dr. Karold W. Foght, president of the Northern Normal, one of the foremost rural education authorities in the county, will speak on the teacher question at the mid Winter meeting of the National Edu cation association at Cleveland, Ohio, aext week. Whitewood.—The local commercial ehib is working on the project of hav ing several of the school districts oi this vicinity consolidated with the Whitewood district. A special com as it tee of the club was appointed to Arrange for the transportation of the pupils living at a distance when the Consolidation is effected. Aberdeen.—Miss Dorothy Rehfold, flluth Dakota's representative at the victory convention of the National American Women's Suffrage asso- Cw tion and the first national con of the League of Women Voters, Will address the convention on "Lawn Concerning Women" on February 12. opening day of the conventions. Miss Rehfield is the leading woman Attorney of South Dakota. Volga.—The local board of educa tion has re-elected Prof. A. A. Coul son superintendent or the Volga Sperintendent tools for the coming school year, Coulson is one of the •Ost known and most popular educa tors of the northwestern section of South Dakota. Two years afco he was One of the leading candidates for •Omlnation on the Republican ticket to the office of state superintendent of public instruction. Francisco fair, but he did not of it until this week. Charles (fee, state Immigration commis told him of his prize. Pier wheat sample won first prize at Chicago international show this and at Dallas in 1914. It also first place at the Watertowu s -4lf 0. the State Grain Growers. •MMf19**l!a. Setting March 5 and for the first gathering from all parts of South Ji# probable that a state ptemben association will be hore at that time. The Dakota meeting will come to Sioux Falls on March 5 and 6 to assist in the meeting here. More than 100 plumbers are expected to participate in this first convention of master plumbers, and in all probability a permanent organization will be com pleted. Sunning No Risks. **Acofl(Ttng to the testimony of the witnesses, you were caught Just as you were getting out of the window with the contents of the till In your pocket. Now, what excuse have you got?" said the judge, fiercely, to the prisoner, who stood, wth a jaunty air, In the dock. "I know it, your honor. I shall al ways be grateful to the man who canght me. When I have these som nambulistic fits I am in danger of fall ing nut of windows and hurting my self." "That never occurred to me," re marked the judge, pensively. •That being the case, will direct the offi cials—H "To turn me loose?" "No but to have an extra bar put across the window of your cell so that there may be so danger of your fall ing out" Cement's Adhesion 4e fren. The adhesion of cement to Iron that gives strength to reinforced concrete is found by Vasilesco Karpen to be un like the gluing effect of mortar on bricks. The cement does not stick to the iron firmly. If at all, but the ad hesion is given by a gripping of en doited Iron as the concrete contracts In v«ttine. o TIRED, WORN-OUT AND MISERABLE Mand Madison People Ave is This Condition, There is little rest for many s kid ney sufferer. The kidneys feel congested, sore and painful. The urinary passages are often ir regular and distressing. The sufferer, tired, worn-out and depressed. Weak kidneya need quick help. They need a special kidney rem edy. Doan's Kidney Pills have stood the test. A remedy especially for kidney ailments. Ask your neighbor. Can any Madison reader dowbt this statement? Mrs. H. G. Killion, 1H2 N. Blanche Ave., says: "I had attacks of lum bago and my back ached so I could hardly straighten up when I bent over. I was miserable all the time and my work was often neglected. I felt tired out and languid and had dizzy headaches. My kidneys became weak and I was greatly bothered on this account. Doan's Kidney Pills strengthened my kidneys my back was soon all right and I felt better in every way." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Killion had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. 8100 BIWlBD. aim The readers of this paper will b« pleased to lsarn that there la at least one dreaded dlaeaee tnat science has been able to cure la all lta stagee and that Is catarrh. Catarrh betna greatly lnflu- S eaeed by constitutional conditions re Irssconstitutional treatment. Ball's tarrh Medicine la taken Internally and acts thru the Mood oa the muoous sur face* of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the dlaeaae, tfvtag the stre^ by aiding up the con stitution and assisting nature In dc 4*he proprietors hare se Wth in the eurauve iota, and officers Master Plumbers' wttl stteM the North SEA TREASURE LURE TO DIVERS Ingenious Mechanisms Devised to Recover Some of Wrecks Beneath Waves. ARMORED SUIT IS DESCRIBED Inventor Explains Device Which En ablea Him to Work Freely Onder TjiOO-Pound Pressure Two Claim Dce|-8ea Record, New York.—Before the Germans sank a single vessel In the late war, it was estimated that there were strewn upon the floors of the Seven Seas, $7,000,000,000 worth of ships and cargoes, and records indicated that a large part of these were recoverable. Since the war the sum of the ocean's buried treasure Is practically Incal culable. Naturally nations now vie with one another for the recovery of choice morsels of this treasure trove, and Individual inventors are devoting ge nius and energy to the evolution of salving devices ranging In size from the one-man diving suit to complicat ed mechanisms so large that they dwarf the seagoing vessels of which they are integral parts. Benjamin Franklin Leavitt of Hrooklyn, inventor of diving suit, who claims the deep-sea record, talk ed enthusiastically yesterday about what can be accomplished in recov ering the shimmering treasures of gold and silver and precious stones with which old ocean's floor Is car peted. Incidentally, Mr. Leavitt protests most emphatically against the assump tion of world-record honors for any Other diving armor than his own. He hacks his protest in these statements: "I not only hold the record for deep sea diving, but for deep-sea salvage. I went down 361 feet in Grand Tra verse Bay, Michigan, and remained down for 45 minutes the first time, and at another time nearly two hours. This is the world's record descent. Capt. John Morgan of the Morgan Transportation company, a cousin of the late J. P. Morgan, did the sound ing. He took three soundings, using a wire sounder, and there Is no possi bility of error. Twenty-six persons witnessed the descent. This was In 1916. Two Claim Deep-Sea Record. "1 see by some of the newspapers that a Mr. Turner claims the world record. The statement Is made that Mr. Turner went down 360 feet 15 miles off Graves Light, Massachusetts. Look at this chart. Conceding that Turner went down and did everything he said he did, if you can find a 360 foot depth anywhere 15 miles off Graves Light I'll eat the map. Here's 49 fathoms—294 feet—the deepest wa ter 15 miles off the light." Coming now to the question of his diving suit, Mr. Leavitt said that its principal point of advantage is in the air-supply arrangement. "My suit," said he, "is self-contain ed, carrying enough air for a four hour submergence. The oxygen tank is connected with a reducing valve which reduces the pressure from 1,800 pounds to 2 pounds to the square inch, and, spraying through a nozzle, sucks nitrogen through a caustic soda cartridge. It mixes with the nitrogen and is discharged over the shoulder of the diver from a tube. The caustic soda absorbs the poisonous carbon dioxide and moisture. To protect the man from the caustic soda, I use an automatic valve that closes in three seconds after the water reaches It. "The suit itself weighs 350 pounds and with me in It weighed Just 500 pounds. The suit's buoyancy, how ever, counteracts 425 pounds of that, leaving a balance of 75 pounds that I bear on the bottom of the sea. Mr. Leavitt regretted that he could not show the armor Just as It was when he went down in Grand Tra verse Bay, but he explained, he had made several Important Improvements aince that descent. "I learned a lot," he said "in fact, I might say I learned more from my first 45 minutes actual experience down on the bottom, in my armor, than I learned from years of theoriz ing. Take the Jointed strut rods down the sides of the legs and both sides Of the arms, for Instance. They were added after my descent." Leavitt's Diving Armor. Here he reassembled the armor to show how it worked. The legs and arms, which are very flexible, are made of hard-rolled copper tubing, guaranteed to stand 700 pounds of pressure to the square Inch. "These hinged strut rods down both sides of the arm," said Mr. Leavitt, "take the pressure from the wrist to the shoulder. The shoulder is a solid casting of manganese bronze and has a ball-bearing which allows the man within to move his arms, which would not be possible without ball or roller bearings." Here Mr. Leavitt whirled the arm around freely to Illustrate his point. "At a submergence of 361 feet there Is 6,664 pounds pressure here." He called attention to the fact that the cable attached to the top of the helmet has a guaranteed lifting strength of 20,000 pounds. In the cen ter of the cable Is the telephone wire, connected directly with a small com plete telephone in the top of the hel met The diver is "connected" simply with dictaphone eor pieces. The hol mm* net tb fxiso quipped with glasses# which are triple and nonshatterable. Thti top of Mr. Leavitt's desk boast a miscellaneous assortment of orna ments. Here is a piece o{ hardwood brought up from a wreck, l^ho wood had been 52 years beneath Lake Hu» ron, Mich., but shows no 111 effect fr ni Its long submergence. Less pleasant*, if more interesting. Is a strange oler black shoe with wide square toe. "A piece of the foot of the girl whd had been wearing It slipped out ol the shoe after we'd had it here S while," said Mr. Leavitt. all Salving a Copper Cargo. He wears a strange old ring fdbed up during his salvaging operations. This was found In connection with the 350 tons of copper which went down in the Pewabie in Lake Huron, in 1865. The copper was salvaged! from a depth of 180 feet. Mr. Leavitt says other salvagers had tried to get it and failed, and no less than seven divers in rubber suits had lost thelf lives in vain attempts. "It Is not possible to do salvaging work in winter, except In souther® waters. Winter is the off season," said Mr. Leavitt. "But next suminei*, along about June, we propose to gt after the Merida, which went down f2 miles off Cape Charles. She wai carrying $1,800,000 in silver bars alone. Silver then was worth only about 49 cents an ounce, and it has gone up a lot since. Besides that, there Is $100,000 In money In the saff In the purser's office." It was pointed out by Mr. Leavitt that £1,000,000 sterling had already been recovered by British government divers from the White Star Dominion liner Laurentlc, which wns sunk in 1917 off Fasad Light. When questioned about the possibil ity of getting good divers, Mr. Leavitt replied: "Good men are scarce, as you know, for diving or anything else. Still, you can usually get a man, and. If you direct him, he can do almost any thing. But usually, If thrown on his own resources, he will be almost help less." When asked about the possibility of getting the cargo lost when the toe» pedoed Lusltanla went down, Mr. Leavitt said It should certainly be poO» Bible. "In my armor, I can, if necessary, descend 1,000 feet," he said. "The Lu eltania Is In 285 feet of water. As to the value of salvage, there Is $2,500, 000 gold In her and $5,000,000 worth of Imperishable freight, such as cop* per, brass, iron, etc. There are also $5,000,000 worth of negotiable securi ties, quite apart from the valuable!, Jewelry and cash of passengers. "Trie Arabic, lying about sixty miles from the Lusltanla. has $5,000,000 gold In her. She is In about 315 feet of water." Mr. Leavitt said that the position at these ships would not change percepti bly, as there was at most, a four-knot current at such depths. AMERICA WINS INDIA'S TRADE With Japan, Haa Taken Ovor Co# test Powers' Old Busi ness. London.—The United States and Japan have taken over slnte the begin ning of the war virtually all of the big export trade which the central powers had with India, says an official report which adds that, undoubtedly, American competition In India hao come to stay. The place of the central powers has been taken by the United States so far as Iron and steel and machinery are concerned. Japan has taken the trade in electrical accessories, copper, paper, glassware, textiles and beer. The primary season for the In creased shipments of American manu factured goods to India has been the Inability of the established British ex porters to supply the market owing to war conditions, says the report. West Locomotive Is Placed on Exhibition Sacramento.—California's old est locomotive, the C. P. Hunt ington No. 1, has been placed in the plaza, near the Southern Pacific railway station here, as a monument to the achievement of pioneer railway men of the West. The locomotive was built in the East, shipped around Cape Horn In 1863 and was the flrst locomotive to be operated in California, rallroadr official de clare. It was brought to1Sacramento by the original Central Pacific company, of which O. P. Hunt ington was president, and for years was on the rut* between Sacramento and Ftolsom' then a prosperous mining town. Dtosffreed Over Dog's Clolor. New York.—The color o£ the bull dog owned by Mrs. Margaret P. Miller recently was the means oi freeing Mrs. MIOer of a suit for $10,2«$6 dam ages brought against her by Mrs- Ber die Wheeler. Mrs. Wheeler alleged that the dog had bitten her. Several of her witnesses testified concerning the dog, but none of them was able to identify the animal. One said the dog was black, an other said brown, while a third thought the .atitaial was white. All of this cauoetf Judge Myers to die miss the esse. Attorneys for Mrs. Wheeler lmuedifeteiy Sled another suit and meantime ttatdfeffs colOf win %e & is What Lincoln said (From an address fcjr Abrahtm Lincoln to the Workmen's J# cistion in 1864) "Property is the fr«H of labor: property to desirable: is a positive good in the world ... Let not him who houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work dili gently and build on* for himself, thus by ex ample assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when BETTER DEAD Life is a burden when the body racked with pain. I Everything worries and the victim becomes despondent and downhearted. To bring back the sunshine take COLO MEDAL The national remedy of Holland (or over 200 years it is an enemy of all pains re. suiting from kidney, liver and uric acid troubles. All druggists, three sizes. Leek (w the mm Gold Medal om everf fee* Independent Dray Line HEAVY AND LIGHT TEAM WORK of all kinds. We do ev erythtig in the way of Hauling. Phone 2119 or Call on DR H. GILBERTSON GRADUATE VETERINARIAN and GENERAL AUCTIONEER Nonda. S. D. DR. C. H. R. HOVDE Physician and Surgeon Office Over Dakota State Bank Hours: t-11 a. m., 2-6, 7-8 p. m. Office Phono SI77 Roe. Phono 1178 Madison S. D. E. SHERIDAN & SON REAL ESTATE Get Workman's Compensation INSURANCE DBS. KELLOGG and ALLISON Physicians and Surgeons TELEPHONE 2133 4 MADISON, & D. They couldrit be built now for twice la never out of date, ment to its fireside. DRS. WESTABY & BAUGHMAN PHYSICIANS and $7LOOO When the talk turns from politics to railroads, and the traveler with the cocksure air breaks in with, "There's an awful lot of 'water' in the railroads," here are some hard-pan facts to give him: American railroads have cost $80,900 a mile—road bed, structures, stations, yards, terminals, freight and passenger trains—everything from the great city terminals to the last spike. A good concrete-and-asphalt highway costs $36,000 a mile—just a bare road, not coumkig the cost of culverts, bridges, etc. Our railroads couldn't be duplicated today for $150,000 a mile. They are capitalized for only $71,000 a mile—much less than their actual value. Seventy-one thousand dollars today will buy one locomotive. English railways are capitalized at $274,000 a mile the French at $155,000 German $132,000 even in Canada (still in pioneer development) they are capitalized at $67,000 a mile. The average for all foreign countries is $100,000. Low capitalization and high operating efficiency have enabled American railroads to pay the high est wages while charging the lowest rattt,* Qfiis advertisement is published by the Association of Slailway executives Those desiring ii\formation concerning the railroad situation may obtain literature writing to The Association of Railway Executives, 61 Broadway, JVirxo York Old Fashioned Thrift The family that Bares brings content- As often as you invest in sound securities tbo easier It becomes to save. You want every dollar you invest to yield you and yours a substantial return and there is something sl most sacred about your savings. We know how you feel and we realise our responsibility when we encourage hundreds to deposit in our Savings Depart ment, and come to us for securities. We can always suggest sssaething well adapted to your needs. We will be pleased to have you call at our office and secure a little paper on Economic Conditions, Governmental Finance and United States Securities, which is lewod oak month. FIRST NATIONAL BANK CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000.00 SURGEONS Hours: Madison Hospital, 8 a. m. to 10 a. m. Office, 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. Evening and Sunday by Appointment Telephones: Office, 2228 Dr. R. S Wootaby, Residence, 2277 Dr. D. 8 Baughman, Residence, tttt Drs. Goldman & Rognej DR. RENSVOLD PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS DENTIST Office Phone 2323 Office oyer Smith's Drug store Rour# i to 12 a. m. 1 to I b2To^So!svs Mu»o SltS MADISON IRON and METAL CO. R- E. HARTIG, Manager We buy Iron, Copper, Braas, Lead all kinds Scrap Metal. Rags, Rubber, Hides and Fob. Phone 2320. Located block west Colmim Lumber yard in old store building. •ffice oin Lannon-Cook Block ••J. U»di»n P. 8. D.