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NEED NOT HAVE HESITATED Enraptured Maiden Was Eager for Oueetlon Hovering on the Lips Fond Lever. The dance was over, and now, ns Rupfield tenderly helped her on with Jier wraps the question that had been burning through her brain all the evening reached fever heat. Would his lips ask her what his handsome dark eyes had seemed to be asking mutely? She hoped so. She prayed so. She .and Rupfleld had known each other tor four months now, and never |,aU such a splendid opportunity for the question offered itself. He gulped. She trembled tl„ ni. tlclpatlon. Why was the poor boy so shy? Did he think for a moment she could possibly refuse him? Dear fool ish boy. "Miss Porgie—Helena—" he stut tered. "1—will you—would you Xes, ltupfield?" she encouraged with eager tenderness. 1 Would you flare to go somewhere for a bite to eat?" he finished breath lessly. He had actually asked It! Helena beamed gloriously and accepted with becoming reluctance, and in the bright ly lighted cafe, amidst the palms and soft music, her bite consisted of a lobster salad, a turkey sandwich, four glasses of fruit punch and two sau cers of ice cream.—Indianapolis Star. LEFT A NAME THAT ENDURES Memory of Noah Worcester, Known as First "Great Apostle of Peace," Worthily Honored. America litis produced more than one %ery famous cobbler. One of these was Noah Worcester, known us tin first great "Apostle of Vi-ace." He it was wlio founded :the first yveat "Peace Society of Massachusetts." Born in 1708, he went into the war against Great Britain when about 18 years of age, and fought at the battle of Bunker .Hill. He became so dis gusted with flie vices of the soldier's life and the horrors of the battlefield that he became a hater of war and ad vocate of |leave. He worked in the field all day and made shoes at night, besides studying as much as he could. He became a minister before 30, con tinuing to do farm tvork and cö'bble shoos so as to eke out an existence. He even tatight the children of his parishioners for no pay, conducting a school in his study, ft was in 1814, after lie bad written urging Christian unity, that he published hi-s famous pamphlet, "A Solemn Koview of the Custom of War," advocating tile abol ishment of war, interpreting literally the New Testament doctrine, "Resist not evil," In line with the teaching of the Society of Friends. Dying 'In his 80th year he nsited to have Inscribed upon Iiis tombstone: "He Wrote the •"Friend of Peace.' "Faust" a Real Personage. "Faust," hitherto regarded as a leg endary character, emanating from the brain of Goeflie, really existed as a self-styled prophet, quack doctor and peddler of fake horoscopes, according to ii discovery made during the re cataloguing of the Munich library. In ihe diary of Cation Kiilian Lieb there •was found this entry: "Faust, 5 June, 1528, when the sun and Jove meet in the same constella tion other prophets like myself will be born." Under this Canon Lieb had written: "Faust may believe be was a great commander with high-sounding titles undertaking a pilgrimage through Germany, but he was, as a matter of fact, a quack doctor selling faked horo scopes and remedies. The fact that he became rich was due chiefly to his ed ucation, he having been a graduate of Heidelberg In the class of 1487." Sycamore's Good Traits. Of all our forest trees the sycamore is the last to clothe itself in the spring. In fact, spring Is gone before the syca more has donned' its raiment of foliage. In early June, when all the other trees are at their best, the sycamore still displays its winter bareness scarcely veiled by immature leaves. It Is said that the sycamore's leaves, which come In May, are likely to be destroyed by a mysterious fungous disease, and that the foliage which finally matures in July is In reality the tree's second ^crop. If this be the true explanation kf the sycamore's tardiness, the tree Serves great praise. Such undiscour jble persistence is quite in har with the sycamore's rugged per #orianv_ What other tree would not upyiio fight were it thus hand! "Bled H»d tortured by a malignant "HP ¥i*re °Va,kin0 Too Much. ",'^9® ^P'^ied to advantage when peop practice tik old motto, that "si- lence.'S1S!®n."^X Ipeak riinro u« I* doesn't pay to re- injustice. -The fellow ftnd. (f| sure to. win Spnte folks are al l^MS^wnbave any fol •*i \recent pub- tort to that can In the hrnl [ways tali"In1 glowing to sf lie gatherb u fcence comnu s:i Intel»- oother by ^W«^*%ess [ny other man I sfow." Tt lit Ideas thiit 9bthe world »st advice that a \tig to js. "Don't of -»/"»t Man can say IHk tlian „ords he lese i^a Vly Röinething to' Ws It's a pretty goo1 pis who. always Ii seldom have the may not be strictly1 tilluklns nbout.T-C Jh-' 'At full bwr If wheat has become heated or moldy In storage or from any other reasons, it may not grow at all or else have only a low percentage of germi nation. It Is advisable therefore to make a few germination tests from dif ferent parts of your seed wheat. This may be done by taking an ordinary blotting paper, folded like a book. Wet it, open llat, count 100 kernels just as they come, place them on ono-lisjlf of the blotting paper so that they do not touch tear a strip of cloth about two Inches wide and ten inches long, put it in the fold of the blotter, fold as be fore. Pile up your tests, wrap a cloth The winter wheat crop now In the ground is disappointing. Last year the acreage was about 50,060)000. this year it is only about 30,000,000 and the condition was much higher all through •the winter season than it is this year, probably from 10 to 15 per cent. The normal crop for spring wheat Is 850,000,000 bushels on an acreage of (*.) N-ormal kernel ol wheat. (b) Cross section of normal kernel, (e) Smutted kernel or smut ball. (U Cross section of smutted kernel, (e) Head of wheal infected with scab. There/ are three serious diseases: Smut, scab and rust. Ilust cannot lie prevented by seed treatment. The other two can. Damage from rust can be partially avoided by selecting a good quality of Marquis seed and by early seeding in order to get an early maturity. Blow out with a fanning mill as many of the smut balls as possible or remove tlicni from the grain by other means. There arc_a number, of ways of treating the seed with formalde hyde. Perhaps the simplest and most successful method is to mix one pound of common commercial formaldehyde In forty gallons of water. Provide tjvo tubs or half barrels raise one of them on a box higher than the other, which may be on the ground. Fill the top tub about half full of the solution, then pour the wheat in loose. Stir it around until it is all thoroughly wet and the smut balls, trash, shriveled kernels and many weed seeds will float. Skim off the floating stuff and destroy it 'by grinding it and feeding it to hickens after it is drv. Don't feed it whole be cause many weed seeds, being indigest ible. will iiad their way back to the fields. After slti.nmlng take a short piece of Jinse. till it in the top tub and quickly üi-ß'.v one end of it over into the other riiir will act ns a siphon and ilT the solution. When drained the moist from the upper £%a Seed ~Wfxeat QermUxaiion Every school In the Northwest has been asked to help In the spring wteal cero* p&iKn by testing Heed wheal In blotting papers for each farmer in euclt school dlmrlcl. Good seed wheat should germinate ninety-live per cent. If It teata weak fan It again and again. The fanner must first become prosperous toeTore anyone else v.in prosper. Money to Be Made This Year—Winter Wheat Disappointing—Opportun ity for a Big Yield of Spring Wheat. While there is 110 government guar anty for the 1.020 crop, yet the world shortage will insure a good price. One •of the best authorities srys that the world's import requirement Is 760,000, 000 bushels and that the world Is con fronted with a shortage more acute than of any recent year. In flie reconstruction period follow ing the Civil war, the highest price of wheat was in 1867. two years after the •close of the war, so it Is reasonable to suppose that wheat will continue to «ell at high prices. or piece of waxed paper around the tests, leaving the ends open, letting the cloth strip hang down like the wick in a lamp. In a glass of water. This will keep the blotting paper always wet. Don'ti let the test freeze or dry out. Always keep water in the glass. Read the test after seven days, separate Into three lots: Strong, those growing ar. inch or more: weak, those just start ing with short stems dead, those which have not germinated at all. This test can also be made in a wet cloth or blotting paper in a plate. The tumbler method is better because there Is no danger of it drying outM^y: Sik YSS SISSETON WEEKLY STANDARD neat 212.000,000. Every acre should count because it: will be up .to the Nor lb west to furnish the discrepancy of wheat. There Is good money in wheat prop erly raised. Of course the weather has much to do with it, but wheat Is the standard of value in all the Northwest. Without wheat we should go bankrupt. Many farmers think that they will •not sow wheat, but what can they sow which will do any better? In some places they can put In corn and there Is much talk of live stock, but owing to the scarcity of ialmr and the com parative ease with which wheat is handled and harvested, there is noth ing more profitable as a usual thing' I than to grow wheat but grow it prop- I •erly and profitably. It is folly to argue that by reducing the wheat crop we can make "more money. What would it profit any man If he had little or no wheat to sell at a high price? He would have to buy back his bread and flour from a few farmers who perhaps would make a little money. a tub onto a clean canvas or platform. Reverse the position of the tubs ami proceed as before. Cover the treated seed with sacks or blankets or another canvas which have also been treated in the solution. Leave covered for several hours or over night. Don't let the seed freeze while damp. Another very successful method Is to put the wheat in a tight wagon box, drive along after the seeder in the field, sprinkle and shovel over the seed, then shovel the wet seed Into the seeder box and sow it wet.' Be careful that you don't clog your seed ing SJKrtltS. The formaldehyde treatment of the seed frequently, increases the yield more than would be naturally expect ed from simply replacing the smutted I heads with sound ones. A substantial! gain Is made from the use of formal-1 dehyde. Increases of over four bush els per acre have been found in spring wheat In which only a little over one and one-half bushels were actually de stroyed by smut. This i« probably due to the fact that the grain is af fected by other seed-borne parasites than srhut and scab and which are as effectually checked by the treatment. EARLY SOWING Spring wheat should be sown in ttie sQting as soon as the seed bed can be properly prepared. Germination takes place in the ground when the tempera tire is about 42 to50 degrees.. The acre-! age quantity of seed per acre sown is about 1% bushels. Sometimes a little less and sometimes a little more will he better. Your own experience wiK teir you how much. Drilling is better than broadcasting. The use of the cor- I rugated roller is' recommended. The seed usually should be sown about two to three Inches deep. The Importal: thing is to get it Into the «oil sufhcle ly moist to Insure germination heavy wet soil one or two lnchc be deep eno".v't. •ex and Muscular Strength. Two women graduates of Lei and Stanford university, California, have been invesi gating the comparative muscular si length of men and women. They have reached the general con ciuslAl that any difference that exists 111 this mailer is not due to sex as such, but in differences in the use of the 'ifltlisvles, brought about by the conventional limitations of activity or by dress. Thus women's back muscles are stronger than men's because their clothes are largely buttoned in the back. Certain of their arm muscles are also stronger, owing to the fact that they do up their hair, and also because the heavy coat sleeves of men limit tyie freedom of action of these? muscles. Oil' the other hand, the forearm of men Is heiler developed than that of women, because women wear tight sleeves and do not customarily lift heavy weights. Brain Is Inflexible. The size of a muscle max be in creased by exercise or even by tem porary, use. The bony structure of our limbs is inside and controls their size only to a certain extent. But In the case of the "head, the bony struc tWfe Is outside and encloses the soft tissues like a box. There Is absolute ly no opportunity for increase of size, permanent or temporary, after the growth of the body. Recent studies of the brain, we are told by an edi torial writer In the Journal of the American Medical Association, have, Indeed, shown that slight changes In Its bulk may be brought about, but only by altering the volume and pres sure of the other occupants of the skull—the blood and the cerebrospinal fluid. Business Directory J. W. POWELL, M. I Special attention given to Obstetric and Diseases o( Graduate of Ohio State Unlvcrslti Calls Promptly Answered Day orNight Phone 168 or Either Drug Store Sisseton, S. D. CHAS. WILLIAMS, D. V. S. -j VETERINARIAN ,-3l Cells Answered Day or Night Office at Blue Front Livery Phone 27 Sisseton, S. «i&WJWHW» ffwy» »m Women and Children Office over Guaranty State Bank Phone 120 Sisseton, S. 1. DR. A. R. SORBEL, 8. Sisseton, S. D. Roars—8:30 to 12:00—1:00 to 5:04) Office over Red Cross Drug Store -•A DR. GRACE KEAGY Chiropractor Office in Swedlund Bldg. Phone 307 Sisseton, So. Dak. DR. #. H. McCIJNE VETERINARIAN jiiililiiiilifflffiiiailiSGiiBBIiiKEH HEEDER 22-20 vMi Rods Mm* No. plowing mi£ is tzrdfer perfect control at all feiaa «SWS? tfean l.'2s cn&asy sulky, Sng pracEcüiEy every foctü of soil,. A foot pedal to the lcit of the oper ator's,seat controls the raising and low ering of the No. 19 at all times. Just press down on this pedal to raise the plow—and step on it again to lower the plow to plowing- position. 1-PZeßty of Clearance' T'-e automatic foot lift also provides rfj for Ugh lift, which means clearance. The lift on the No. 19 raises the plow from 8 to 12 inches out of the'ground, giving you ample clearance for trans porting from one field to another, for grossing railroad tracks, etc. AUTOMOBILE Mm 1 TRY A STANDARD FOR SALE AD I THEY BRING YOU BIG RETURNS This One Subject of xStreng?th ••".VT.maiWilfiw mrnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmiimmmmmmimtmmmM Sisseton NurseryfAnd Green House We offer for Spring 102 ()-.-a gctd as sortment of: Shade, Fruit and Orna mental trees Evergreens, Everbering Strawberry and Garden Plants. Our Stock is Dug Right and Sold Right Phone 303. SOLNER & JOHNSON Owners MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, A Bank is-as strong as its Resources— v: .. behind us we have the Federal Relj serve System with gold reserves $2,200.000,000. Your bank should be the sLrxzy:-" ready for' any emergency. Our facilities and resources are ai your service. First National Bank ''fPfr' jLjL it Fo3t*PesM Chntro! caa 1 3 backed feffico ns ract it iv'iKtCed cokusi"] 12 Yvxo Fb::3 Wcdz Don't forjret that 1:hc HEIDER 'z backed by 12 years zzt.:cA field work that it js equipped with the famous HEIDER Fnciioii Traacmiosion, whi eliminates bevel clutch end trans mission gears. AH three units arc in one —and as as there arc no transmission •gears to put in mcch, there are none to strip.. This feature racr.rn less parts, less trouble, and less expense. This type of drh'c also allows 7 speeds forward and 7 reverse, all with one motor^ speed and one lever tor either traction or belt work. 'I 2- ,r E mx -h about