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Show 0 i 'tom (UIMLS tiffin XTiESHHM MLAnPIS cmr (Bo lKIESinEAIEE!ir Iowana, as the City, la. Think of 125 human same neighborhood. blooming upon the pralrlea of colony Is called, is near Philips, S. D., almost In the heart of the rich 'utb Dakota! ij, rith their pretty hands reddened roughened by toll and their fair Iplexlons exposed dally to the tan-jj- . winds, that number of real socle-g)rfrom Des Moines and other are leading the strenuous cities jwa the pioneer upon what was te of the Rosebud Indian reservation. Homebuilders In reality, every one t these enterprising girls secured a that territory iaarter section when u opened to Bottlers two years ago. 4 they have turped their backs tpon the ballroom and the theater uid are herding cattle, tilling the soil md living the actual life of the prairie Ii for-ieri- y 1 Bonesteel country. An Iowa Colony. While the entire territory held down" by them covers many miles In extent, mostly all the girls have as neighbors Borne others from back home, and this makes the situation exceedingly pleasant and couipaojon-able- . Numbers of them find it convenient to meet on Sundays to discuss the old life and to exchange recitals of ex- periences. Now and then a dance Is planned and Is enjoyed Immensely, although a Con oeh tin prairie shack," even with its furnivie, ture removed, does not afford a spailoneer. su While the majority are farming or cious ballroom. lAeni devote them' More than in any other way exraising cattle, others lres to various enterprises. One Is cept fa actual farm work these dances Illustrate the difference betaking money and winning a reputatitween the days past and those of the on through the practice of law; , has become a preacher; still prosent When the girls first went to the Injothers act as guides through the ago hostile redskins wer( busy dian country many took with them the Wsting country where only a few elaborate gowns and fixings" that liheddlng the blood of whites. had been such a delight to the feminine heart and had turned the heads Yet these girls, many of whom reprd of young men before the exodus. esent families of wealth, seem with their experiences. But of what possible use Is a beauU troa are besieged with tiful gown or a picture bat when one Moreover, they proposals of marriage from the men seldom sees anyone else at least, no one except the farm hands oftener os the reservation. Perhaps it was a sudden freak of than once a week, and where the prefancy that caused all these Iowa girls vailing style in feminine attire la a homesteads when the short skirt, a shirtwaist and a rough to apply for Rosebud reservation was thrown open slouch hat? To be sure, the men who gathered to settlers. at the few functions in Philips or viThey had read of the success of who had staked claims In other cinity are greatly attracted by a gown sections. More than one poor girl sec- with a train. Dut as a hickory" shirt, ured an excellent farm or grazing corduroy trousers, a red handkerchief seres when the government lands In around the throat and a broad somOklahoma and the Indian territory brero topping all is the fashion for tere thrown open. them, articles of dreamy elegance ap- Daughters of Wealthy Homes. It Is true that many of the Iowa comfortable In prls already , had some cases luxurious homes, with lathers possessing bank accounts' amply sufficient to meet all tholr needs. What girl in this progressive age., however. Is content to be entirely do pendent upon others? True, the laws governing the taking that the ip of public lands provide claimant must actually reside upon, or hold down," as it is termed, for a certain length of time the land thus obtained, and this provision doubtless caused many a pretty brow to pucker v: Ik perplexity and the pursing of many pair of ruby lips. Secure those homesteads, however, When some of the boldthey would. er spirits announced that they proposed to become actual settlers in the sew country to be real farmers and ranchers a thrill of approval ran shanty, and more tnan one Iowa youth has learned, when too late, that ab-- 1 ence makes the heart grow fonder" but not always the absentee. ' Among the girls who have taken up elaims In the new country, one of the most popular Is Miss Lottie Rogers, formerly of Ames, la. She Is the only daughter of a weal-th- y retired farmer, so that from the REX ACTS AS GUIDE FOR HIS BUND MASTER. standpoint of financial necessity It was not Incumbent upon her to undergo the hardships of the pioneer. Happening to draw a homestead In KNOWS "ALL THE TRADE" a community almost entirely composed of bachelors. Miss Rogers had not been In her new home a month before Set of Signals Enables Canine and she had received several proposals of Master to Understand One Anon marriage. Now, It is said, her victims Rides other Animal number more than 100. Trains Like Passengers. Her first proposal came from an Arkansas colonist who saw her soon Indianapolis, Ind. Dogs have been after her arrival and who at once suc- taught to perform many kinds of labor, but so far as Is known there Is only cumbed to her charms. Unlike mos wooers from the ardent south, how- one dog that acts In the capacity of traveling salesman. ever, he conducted his campaign o! Tet this Is exactly what Rex does nearly every working day of his life, and he does it well. He knows every town where there are customers, and This Dog is $n-Ch- great-please- young, Intelligent, clever and the farm should owner of a start for Bonesteel and tho Rosebud without delay. There are about 231 young women homesteaders in the reservation of the entire number. about They are Just getting started on their spring work and the hired help problem is practically hopeless. Beyond doubt they are the best girls In the world, these capable, brave and energetic young women s who are founding homes for them the upon prairie. Among are women of social position and wealthy families, as well aa former school teachers, stenographers, bookkeepers and other business girls. A third of them or more are college graduates; all have more or less money; every one Is perfectly capable of making a good living for herself; every one has a good farm. In fact, they represent the finest 231 matrimonial opportunities I know Mr. Hollar's enthusiastic praise was widely read. In any event the homestead girls on the Rosebud have not been neglected In the way of first-clas- s one-fift- h them-solve- "Rack home" more than one society et It mourning the loss of a vivacious knd popular membor, and fashionable functions seem duller than before the exodus to South Dakota. U Is remarkable how those plucky Young women have adapted them-elve- s to the rather rough life of the kralrle pioneers. Girls who in days tone by were shocked If the sudden departure of a servant made It notes-rto wash the dishes or clean tholr Rwtis are tilling tho soli or herding tattl with the nonchalcnce of an y old-time- r. Those who left handsome and homes mn perfectly hap-JJ-J In tho little 10x12 shacks" that up-nthe majority of farms constitute to dwelling of the owners. Ry me good fortune in most snd by clover trading In oth-- r hoarly all these girls are la tho n Then there is Miss Philippe whose father owned a busines block In Des Moines and is estimated to be worth $1,000,000. Miss Watrous became a guide shortly after she reached Bonesteel and conducted prospecting parties over the country that a few years ago was red with blood shed in battle with warring In dian tribes. When she was allotted a claim and reached the Rosebud country she found that her farm was back in the foothills, 40 miles from the nearest railroad station. She went out and looked It over, however, and was pleased with the Hiring two men to build prospect. her a shack, she mounted a horse and rode back to Phillips to await the completion of her new dwelling. One day at the post office In Phillips she encountered a young man Just in from the enst who was looking tor a guide. At that time all the in habitants of the hamlet who could leave their homes were out on the reservation, and Miss Watrous volunteered to take the young man and the party he represented to their destiWat-rous- , terview as having remarked: The young man who wants a wife tf farms on the Rosebud. Shack." six-stor- y Philllps Society." pear Incongruous as feminine apparel So such costumes have disappeared and the transplanted daughters of Iowa are now dressing in the plain and sensible garments of the region. Would Make Good Wives. Soon after these young women settlers made their homes on the Dakota plains United States Commissioner J. D. Kellar of Donestcel visited Sioux City, la., and was reported In an in- From the Ballroom to "a 10x12 conquest at long range and intrusted the outpouring of his soul to the mail. Should this man ever return to his former home he will doubtless be in danger of being mobbed at the hands of the maidens of that state, as he was indiscreet enough to remark that Arkansas girls wasn't worth shucks." Here, Is the first letter that Miss Rogers received, laying a' palpitating heart and a quarter section of rich farming land at her feet: Dear Mis: Hev been lookin' In your direction and hev desired to ask you to mery me. I hev a good clams and all I nede Is sum wun to make my shanty seme like home, these Arkansas girls ain't wuth shucks, plese an ser soon, yure true friend. Miss Rogers did not answer, for before Bhe could concentrate her mind on this proffered good fortune she received several other proposals, and finally she determined to Ignore hem all. She has been visiting her parents in Iowa this Bummer, but she will return to her claim in the fall. A $1,000,000 Heiress. wearing short skirts, stout boots freckled faces as they bold town" the claims they were fortunate enough to secure In the distribution proffered matrimony, and most of those In the Iowana colony can count their proposals by scores. Among tholr neighbors neighbors. In this sense, meaning other settlers within half a hundred miles are a number of tingle men who also seized the opportunity to acquire good farms at the hands of a generous govern- ment Many a Romanes. Romance finds a ready hospitality on the fertile plains of South Dakota, despite the unenviable divorce records of the state. Several matrhes" have been made through the agency of tho claim i One of the freaki of nature In Indian Orchard, Mass., Is a cherry tree chimney. growing on top of an Then Goodwin went into business It Is a thriving tree, standing ten feet at his home town, starting a cigar above the cap of the chimney, and It Jobbing house under the firm of Good- has grown rapidly despite fierce wind win & Dille. Goodwin longed to bej which have bent It, almost double on on the road again for his own house, and one day he had an Inspiration as he displayed' observed the intelligence by bis dog Rex, then a pup. The experiment was tried and It proved successful, but Rex was quick to learn, and It was not long before he understood that It was to be his work to guide his master from place to place. Since he started he has never failed for a single day to do his duty. When he first made his trips with the dog Goodwin had to Inquire his way to the places lie wished to visit, but when once there he Introduced Rex, and Rex never forgot. He now knows :"all the trade," In the various towns the pair make," and the customers always have a cordial welcome for the Interesting salesman. He Rex never makes any mistakes. takes his master directly to where he wishes to go and loses no time In doing so. When they are through with a town be leads the way to the proper railway station. Mr. Goodwin holds him by a strap that Is fastened to the dogs collar, and a code of signals has come to be understood by them, so that each knows the meaning of every movement of the other. Goodwin can tell when he Is at a street crossing by the manner !n which Rex ducks his head, giving the trap a slight Jerk. Rex guides his master across the street safely, no matter how crowded Jr' Vr W him steers of and . clear It may be, a-r. ' r street cars, automobiles and buggies. I Master and dog have never yet met with an accident Cherry Tree on Lofty Perch. In violation of all rules Rex rides in the coaches of all trains and Intel IU lofty perch. Every spring It bloscars in Indiana, for he Is knows soms. and later comes the fruit, to the urban Rex Guides- Hie Master te All His to all the railroad folk, and all con- deRght of the bird colonies of the Customers. ductors have strict orders to carry the neighborhood. They have come to rehe knows the customers and they dog. gard It as their especial tree, grow ing likewise know him. Rex is a Gordon setter and Is a for tlielr benefit alone, and certainly Rex really does the principal part handsome animal. Even though he has no human being wants the chcrib-of the traveling, and his master. Miles the Intelligence of a man and devotes badly enough to scale the chimney for M. Goodwin, sells the goods. The the most of his time to doing a mans them. master Is blind, but with the traveling work he Is still a dog, and when the The chimney is a little weather ability of Rex he Is able to cover his occasion offers delights In doing some beaten at the top, the cap stones broterritory as he did before he lost bis of the things that it Is peculiarly and ken away and many of the bricks sight. Rex Is his masters eyes. particularly proper for a dog to do, knocked out by the ravages of the Goodwin lives at New Castle, near such as running" a rabbit. weather. Little by little the wind has One day- recently Mr. Goodwin was brought grains of sand and soil there, here, and the story of his affliction Is a pathetic one. He was a handsome, waiting to change cars at a little coun- and filled In all these little niches and well-buil- t young man and popular try station. He took advantage of the holes, until a small aerial garden is everywhere he went. He made friends opportunity to give Rex a Bhort out- flourishing all around the rim. Grass and was a successful salesman. For ing, and, releasing the dog from his and flowers are growing there in seveleven years he sold clothing on the strap, Rex was soon having the time of eral varieties, and can readily be disroad for an eastern firm. Then blind- his life In a field some distance away. tinguished with field glasses. But the ness came upon him. A few years ago As time for the train to arrive ap- most remarkable thing about this he was stricken with atrophy of the proached Rex was still busy, and lofty garden Is the cherry tree. It is optic nerve and he lost his sight. He finally Goodwin had to send some men probable that some bird is responsible spent years and large sums of money after him, and the traveling saiesdog for It, dropping a cherry stone there in trying to regain his vision, but it barely returned to his master In time while eating the fruit on the top of the to catch the train. had gone. chimney. The stone lodged in ooe of the dirt filled niches, where It sproutto be a most formidable feline, par; ed. It Is a puzzle, however, how t,he YOUNG HUNTER SPENDS roots of the tree have found room to tlcularly after dark. The lost man took to a tree. He spread so as to allow It to grow to a NIGHT IN WILLOW TREE confesses that he heard some blood, height of ten feeL ..h curdling scream that Immediately USE GIANT, ELECTRIC LIFT. Memphis Youth Is Lost In Miesistippi brought his decision to climb to a an tree old willow head. Into he a Cane Bottom and Has Terrifyquickly climbed, and there spent tbq Science Does Away with Neceisity for ing Time. night in considerable trepidations Tq Climbing Steep Hills. 80-fo- '- wo-tne- n sow and . mak. De through other breasts. And that is why 125 of Iowas most charming specimens of femininity are CHERRY TREE ON CHIMNEY. Remarkable Freak of Nature In Ma eachueetta Town. Cigar Salesman . - . a I . Lost for twenty-fou- r hours In a bleak Mississippi canebreak, and for over twelve hours in a tree seeking safety from numerous wild beasts which besieged him, Bert Lancaster, of Memphis, had an experience which he is not likely to Memphis, forget. Tenn. ' Lancaster, together with a companion, Billy Shea, recently returned from what Is commonly termed a pleasure outing trip." However, they do not refer to their escapade In the same happy phrasing, particularly Lancaster, who was mado a victim of his Ignorance of woodcraft. lie is exhibiting to friends myriads of mosquito bites, and emphatically discouraging hunting In the land made famous by PresbU nt Roosevelt a few years ago. Lancaster and Shea sought the cam-brakfor several Mississippi days pleasure In hunting and fishing, and Incidentally to recuperate from the Btorn realities of busluend. They went with all the necessary paraphernalia, nation. and because of the wildness and, Saved by Girl Guide. woollness of the region, carried ulong In There were two dozen members in addition a guide. Camp was pitched the squad that started out the next they were fairly successful hunting morning with the Des Moines society and fishing, and everything wynt belle at Its head. In the afternoon a along smooth until the fourth day severe Btorm came up and the home rolled around and completely altered hunters were forced to halt. all their plans. Karly the next morning the Journey It was late in the afternoon of that was resumed. The first stream to when Bert Imncauter decided to day which they cniue was out of Its banks, go hunting. Accompanied by squirrel while the bridge had been washed his guide, Lancaster walked about ford to was left The only thing away. three miles from the camp, when the it. left him, after admonishing him guide In this attempt the provision wagon, to keep close to a large lake til the from the caught In an eddy, got away vicinity, which had been fixed upon driver, the mules were drowned and by all as a good landmark. the supplies lost. The drenched party For some time tins ambitious nlm-romanaged to reach the opposite side. obeyed Instructions, but being Then the Intrepid girl guide took com- beckoned on by good luck, and bagmand. ging many squirrels, ho went further She asked a man to accompany her from the luke than he Intended. When Indian and together they rode to an to return the shudes of obtained bo started topee close by, where they beginning to thicken, and night The klnklnnlck." some corn meal and he was not entirely sure of his way. gruel made strengthened the In The inv of the perverse changed his the children women snd and he begun walking In a Course, on. party and tho company pushed Indian circle. This maneuver la continued That night they struck an until ho came to a complete realizasettlement, where they stopped for tion of the situation. rest and to make a hearty meal on tho To lie lost In a Mississippi bottom game which the Indians had killed. after nightfall Is enough to give the The second mornmg they resumed most stout hearted rigors. Ueara their Journey and completed It with- there nre and plant y of catamounts out further adventure. For this serv; in this territory, and everyone acIce Miss Watrous later received a quainted with i.e hit'cr knows him watch d . Facility of locomotion is a watchword of the times, and what with electric trains and tramways and other motor vehicles, engineers are seeing to it that we get about as easily as possible. Hills, of course, are a chief obstacle In the way of mechanical traction of all kinds. For cities and towns that are wholly or In part built upon high hills the giant electric lift, which we depict. Is now being made use of. As will be S: because ii jtmrn ta 1 : t jL ,A rwi The Lost Man Took to a Tree. add to his terrors, a terrific thunder storm came up during the night, and the wayfarer was exposed to Its full force. Lancaster was found the next day by a negro on a mule, who was one of a party of thirty engnged In the search for the missing hunter. The finder of the lost man was liberally rewarded. Electric Lift in Stockholm. readily understood, the passengers enter the car of the lift from the lift station, and are at once taken up perpendicularly to the height of the eminence to be gained. Along a light bridge the car then travels to the higher purts pf tho town, where the bill ascended without, as It were, any climbing, the passengers alight Met His Old Captors. Stockholm, the principal streets of David llilderly, a substantial citizen which are built on rising ground, has of Tampa, Fla., made his first visit one of these giant lifts In operation. to the south 40 years ago In the del- Cassells Saturday Journal. egation from Indiana sent down on United States business, says the NaForgetfulness Spoiled Life. tional Tribune. Whllo he end seven A tragic history has Just come tc comrades were guarding a supply light In Baris by the discovery of a train over the Cumberland mountain letter which was never mailod. If it Joe Wheeler swoon'd down upon had been, a bachelor would bnve beeo Hum. captured their train, piled the saved from a lonely life. Twenty wagons up, sot fire to them, took ths a young man met at a soldiers Into the woods, changed ayears ago,womanball, and fell straightway' young clothes with them, and told thery to In love with her. Though the young got for home as fast tho the Lord woman's looks signified that the pas Within 21 hours would let them. was mutual, the young nmn had Comrade llilderly and bis compaiw slon to declare himself, Ions were In blue clothes again, with not the courage homo went wrote and but letter muskets In their hands. While on no answer Instead. pussod; Days visit to Brandytown, Fla., Comrade came. The young man despaired, llilderly met the Identical raMorwhe grew disgusted with life, and thencetook his hat and boots and drove forth lived a sad, solitary life. Lately beat of mules. the The away pair a bachelor still. Ills heirs enemies bad a pleasant ho died, two went through his papers, and there tlrno together. among them was tho famous levs letter. Ho had forgotten to mall It i old-tim- ' |