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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-08-09
COAL CARRYING TRADE.
"A scheme Of Railroads to Knock Out
Lake Vessels.

"A scheme Of Railroads to Knock Out
Lake Vessels.
& DETROIT, Mich, Aug. ga local
paper has the following: Preparation is
being bade, and the experiment is being
tested during this fall and winter, to
deal shipping interests OF the great lakes
one of the severest blows that that in
dustry has yet receiued from the rail-
roads. Apart from the package freight
carried by the swift steamships there is
hardly anything for vessels to take from
Lake Erie to Lakes Michigan and Supe-
rior excepting coal. It is at this traffic
that the railroads are now casting their
eyes. and an attempt to gather it in
Is now being prepared for. At the
yard of the Craig Ship Building
company in Toledo, there are under con-
struction two huge peculiarly shaped
1huIls. They are $50 feet long, 52 feet
beam and 10 feet deep, and will cost,
when completed, about $50, 900 each.
They are for the Toledo, Ann Arbor and
North Michigan railaoad, and will be
completed this fall, and it is by the aid
Of these that the managers of that road
expect to gather in q large share OF the
coal, and also the traffic which is now
going on by water.
Each of tine steamers will be fitted
with four tracks, and capable of carry.
ing twenty-four cars. They viii be op.
ssrated between FrAnkfort, Mich, and
Kewaunee, Wis. The route il sixty
miles long, and can be covered in sir
hours. ghe projectors of the scheme
figure that cars can be taken across at q
cost of 81 each, against present cost Of
81 when bulk is broken. This refers to
the handling of general merchandise.
Bat il is in the coal business that the
best results are looked for.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-08-09
DiphtheriA Raging.

CARRoLLToN, O., Aug. .. -Diphtheria
> raging at Delroy and Sherrodsville,
mining towns near this city. Fifteen
Deaths have already resulted, and
twenty new cases are reported. The
state board Of health was notified.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-08-09
New EngIIsh Coal Field.

LONDON, Aug. IA new coal field,
with an ascertained area Of 1000 acres,
has been discovered ut Ashten-under-
Lyme, Lancashire. Coal was already
plentiful in that vicinity. ga
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-08-09
smal.pox IN Nem YORK,

New York, Aug. 9.--One more death
and two new cases of smallpox were re-
ported at the bureau of contagious
diseases. The two patients were re-
moved to North Brothers island.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-08-09
LATEST MARKET REPORT.
nainneapolis Grain.

EI8aINNKAPOLd5. Aug. =, I60z. s
WHEAT August closed. 7tsSc; September
closing. Tie; December opening. 77ke; high
est, 7g55a; lowest, 7sszc; closing nc. On
track No. hard Sl1<c; No. Northern, 6oc;
No . Northerns sB05sc old ssptembsr. 1886.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
rhn n..I,nn nf rnlIteno...

One reason for the decline of polite ness is found in the fact that wealtl now pushes itself everywhere, ant cultured society suffers by the intro duction of persons whose only clai. to recognition k tba'..ey have made money
 Making money does not necessarily make man vulgar, but pushing does Yet even this change is not altogether deplorable It is this na tional push that has filled the wilder ness with cities and turned deserts into corphelds. And in a progress almost revolutionary in it's pace there has been no time to keep the hat in the hand and to be picturesque and elegant Most social evils are re trievable, unless women take part in them; but in the general decline of politeuess women are undeniably in the transgfeSsiop They have airily permitted that indescribable moral phenomenon called the tone of so. ciety" to be lowered.
 The habits of gregaIious fastness have been constantly more daring and reckless. In the middle classes, women have gradually identified their work with the work of men, and in this social disturbance the most delicate graces of life are being lost, Amelia E. BalI ln Lipplncott's,
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
No caosD for Gr,eG

A story is told of woman in mourning and heavily yelled, for whom room was made in a crowded railway car in seat with another woman The curiosity of the latter was aroused by the evidently fresh and deep black or her companion which curiosity presently found voice,
 Lost friend, take iti" she be gan A nod replied to her
 Near relative, guess" Another nod, followed by brief silence,
 Mother, perhapsl" A shake of the yelled head met this question.
 "Son or daughter, maybel" A sec Ond shake. somewhat more vigorous, agnifed denial and rising impatience.
 Husband, thenY" confidently A short nod brought complacent eS' precision to the inQuisitor's face For some minutes she was satisfied, then she hitched about uneasily in her seat There was more she felt she ought to know, The silent figure felt it coming and waited Finally 1t came
 Professor" A short nod
 'Eife insuranceT Another short nod, with annoyed emphasis,
 Well then, whatre you SO yelled up fort He's all right and you too.
 The widow sought the next car. - Her Point of View in New York Times
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
A Pnir of Yri.rnn.

In a little shop on Munjoy Hill a large, pleasant faced old man, whose white hair proclaims his years. sits all day on his bench repairing and making shoes.
 Over his head hangs an antiquated flintlock nusket that was made in New Haven in 1915, saw service in the Mexican war was in San Fran cisco at the time of the great fire and was considerably scorched about the woodwork, then came to Boston around Cape Horn and thence to it's present resting place.
 The old man. whose name is Joel Bibber, is of course a veteran of the Mexican war. He is one of the eleven who are at present residents of this city Portland (Me.j Adver- tiser.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
A Tributs to inc old Folks.

When somebody comes home after m absence of generation in Aus tralia. he finds nobody 50 delightful as his grandmother and grandfather. The younger people have left of making twisted doughnuts and con demn pies as unhealthful, but grand mother assures them gIimly that her "doughnut pot hasn't been empty nor pie mlssin from her table single meal for fifty years, n she hain't afraid to set herself beside the worn an O nowadays nor the ten men and women that call her mother beside any children she knows of a-growin up" She has. no need to be ashamed when she looks back on her work or to fear for her reward in the future. Neither grandfather nor grandmoth- CT spared themselves, Their hands grew hard for us They made roads, they cleared fields, they invented and improved that we might enjoy and we are entered into the fruits of their labors. Lewiston Journal.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
RnssInn Mnmnn.

It is said that the peasant women in Russia are as ignorant today as they were in the times of Peter the Great, but girls of the upper and middle class receive g far better edu. cation than the women in Austria and Germany. The natives of Little Russia are very beautiful, but at the same time simple and unaffected. In the northern women there is more consciousness of the power to charm and a better knowledge of the man ner in which they should exercise such influence. Russians are less sentimental and more constant in their love than German and French women, approaching moro closely to the practical English girl Detroit Free Press.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
Moncy orders md Postal Notes.

New York city is the heart of the money order system, the pOstof1ice there being the central depository of fund At many postoffices in differ ent parts of the country there is an excess of payments on money orders over receipts In such cases the postmasters east of the Rocky noun tains are allowed to draw upon the postmaster at New York, while on the Pacific slope they are similarly supplied from San Francisco and | Portland.
 Postal notes are not so popular as they used to D. They are very con veniep- for sending small sums of .Goney by mail particularly where odd cents are concerned. and they have great usefulness in sections where silver almost wholly takes the place of paper as currency, but they afford no security, and people are apt to be reluctant to accept them Us cash. - Washington Star
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
Five Pennies.

X St. James avenue car was bowl. ing through Chestnut street, crowd ed with people on their way to the opera house. Two ladies boarded the car One who patronizes the railway often and by chance with this one conductor, is always unfor, tunate in having no change but five pennies, She related her tale of woe to her friend and proposed to swap her five pennies tor a ten cent piece, which was agreed upon The con ductOr equal to the emergency, took the ten cent piece, but before making change passed on to her friend. get ting the five pennies, and returned them to the lady who first had them to the glee of the passengers, who could not help roaring with laugh ter, while the conductor had to ram his glove in his mouth to keep in. The lady has decided to pay her own five pennies in the future. Spring. field Homestead.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
FINeEns egcoMe IHumsa

 faIr Typcwriters aalictci uith SeS
 and startling Disease,
 "Tyipw1iter's stub finger" is the name of the newest afiictian on the books of the doctors, and it threatens to become one of the formidable evils of modern civilization. The deform ity has gradually been introducing itself among it's unconscious victims. until now suddenly host cf type writers, fair and otherwise, have awakened to the starting discovery that their constant playing upon the little pianolke machines has utterly destroyed the shapeliness of their hands and transformed their fingers into thumbs.
 The first to realize this terrible re sll; were the pretty young type writers of the fairer sex, who beheld with horror the t>ss of their long. ttpeling fingers, upon whose charm they had 50 prided themselves In stead of their sweetly molded fin. gers taperins gracefully to the tips and al.istoel'atically curling. what was their oonsternation and chagrin to be struck with the fact that long ham. meling upon the little round keys had effectually fiattened out their Gn- ger tips and given each particular digit above the top joint, a gro tesquely and yIlgarly stubby appear anca. The doctors were immediately besieged oy despairing beyies of be witching typewriters who hid their distorted and fattened fingers in the depths of their mitts and gloves.
 Just to think. exclaimed one of the nearly weeping young women to her physician, Il had such long, slender hand, and was tho envy of that nasty Miss e.. whenever visit ors in the office gazad on admiringly at my fingers dancing over the keys. Even my employer used to smile ap- provingly, as he glanced over his papers, at my uimble, tampering fingers. And now
 She had to bite her lip to keep the tears back.
 Her tale of woe was repeated sadly by many young women to their doc tors and to their bosom friends. The male typewriters have also become as alarmed as their sister pr0fes. sionals Probably 500 typewliters in Philadelphia have become thus un- happily afflicted, and the rest are growing rapidly panic stricken, The public in general must feel an interest in wondering whether the affection is liable to spread and with the use of typewriters themselves give rise to future generation which shall be all thumbs and no fingers. .-Phila, delphia Record.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
ROMANCE.

Where breeding rain clouds grim and hoat Drag and drip for evermore On q sailiess sea, h.. a snllen shore. On the neither rim of a northern clime, Where year to year it is winter time. And Rll things taste of tho salt sea rme In brine bleached tower, with beetling walls, Where the raven breeds, and the seanew calls, But never shaft of sunshine falls. There lived maid, from her natal hour To whom the wllful Fates for dover Had given heart like a cactus flower Warm and vivid, and haneliSe keen. Such was her suul; but her face, weep, Was the ice cold face Of q polar queen. And l-l came from a land of Ire, Where thc pitilcss sun rUys parch and tire, And the shower aud the shade are a mans de
 sire.
 had drifted far on the sailless sea, 1 had come long leagues. For lt was to hc, And her woman's love leeped out 10 me. Time and distance. longing and hate wooing and winning, and all things, wait For the rounded sweep Of the sCythe of Fato And the Oars and the bonds, of sea or land. That the stride of R destined step withstand Are as bars of pith, aud as ropes of sand
 Chambers Journal.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
AuaIyEInr Motion.

The method of analyzing motion by the chronophotogaph, which has been so happily applied by Nj Marcy in the case of moving animals, such as horses running or birds and in. sects in flight has been employed by Nj G. Demeny to examine the move ments of the lips in speaking He has obtained results which show that the form of the mouth is quite def nite for the different articulate sounds.
 With these photographs combined in zeotrope he has reproduced the movement of the lips by synthesis. An ordinary person finds it difficult to reaCd the words by the animated pic lures; but a deaf mute who has been accustomed to read from the lips of a speaker finds it easy to do so from photographs. New York Telegram
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
NOW HE GOT THE HAMS.

 UacIc Ned Convicted Himself of Then.
 but the Court Acquitted Him.
 ''Ol Unc' Ned" was up charged with stealing four hams. They had been found in his possession, and as there was no getting around that, Unc Ned sought other means of de Tense.
 "Yala<S youah honah, mittlat dey was foun in my house; but pon my Oat, sah, didn't steal 'em,
 Uuc' Ned was short thickset man, with bandy legs, short beard on his chin and an unctuous smile, which he now turned on his honah" and the courtroom.
 You see, youah honah, on de night in question l was a-walkm home along de railro' track It was purty dark. sah, n couldn see very fur. IN den just all at once, sah, a man 'peared hefoh me Lori l was frighten', sah, turrible frighten. N stoppe-d-d, right stock still, youah honah
 And what did this man do, Uncle Ned :" inquired the judge
 Well, Sah, l dunno wevver you'll b'lieve it or no, sah. but dat man he'd foh bundles undah his ahm, 'n"--
 Which armr
 "Foh God, sah, can't quite disre member, but it must we bin hees of ahm. " den dis man come up to were l was standin n he says, says he Say. Unc' Ned, heah's foh ham-ms. N s'pose, youah honah. now dat l see how eberyting was, dey was the foh hams dat was pur- fscated, sah. Now, wen dat man says 'Heah's foh hams, didn't say nothin Dey might be foh hams an dey mightn', but det didh't 'sider me,
 But wen he went on n says, Say, Unc Ned, you take desc foh hams home n keep dem foh me til ne2 week-k n I'll gib yor two ob 'em, co'se took 'em,5R any colohed gem. men woulG But how do you spose dat l ,0d tell dat dey was stolen hams sah, is what w'd lak t know;' And thus Unc' Ned concluded his defense and took his seat, assuming very grieved expression
 Describe the man who met you and told you to take care of the hams for him, said the judge.
 "Wa-al, said Inc Ned slowly, cooking one eye and looking up at the ceiling to help his memory it's putty ha.hd to say, youah honah, fur it was dahk, turTible dahk. But ez near e l kin recollec' he was a short, thickset sort of a mar" speaking very slowly 'wid llindah bowlegs. putty big, wid bea 'yd on hees chin, n ez near ez could see he was kin dah dah-k complected, describing himself as accurately as any one could have done
 Then there was a roar in the court room. but Unc' Ned was finally ac- quilted, as no one could prove that be had committed the theft. Mime apolis Tribune
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
Sarcastic Advice,

It chanced that one of these in judicious persons, whose name is legion, on some occasion pressed through the circle gathered around Mir, Browning, and incontinently asked him to explain there and then difficult passage in one of his own poems a passage where probably the masterful thoughts elbovied each other for precedetcc Upon my word don't know what it means ' said the poet, laughing, IS he closed the volume thrust into his hands T advise you to ask the Browning SO ciety they'll tell you all about it. Temple Bar,
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
Yeast and Typhoid Fever.

Yeast has been successfully tried as a remedy for typhoid fever by Drs Embling. Lempriere, and Thom. son, of the Alfred hospital, Mel bourne. Thirty seven cases were treated, ten being severe, the tem. peratures reaching lO4 degs eight were moderate, the temperatures being l03 degs. eleven were mild and eight were very mild, the tenn peratures reaching lU2 degs In every case the recovery took place without relapse There is a theory to the effect that relapses are due to re-infection from the intestine. and Dr Thomson remarks in his report that yeast should destroy the bacilh in the intestinal tube, and so prevent re-infection. London Tit Bits.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
Mhr ne spoke to lhe CIerern,,.,i.

A working man called on a corn. try clergyman closely related to q ducal house. The applicant wanted a letter of recommendation to a neighboiing nobleman from whom he hoped to obtain employment. Why not go personally and see my lordf the friend asked. Well, you see, was the iieryOns answer I do not lik, speaking to Lord X. he may be proud and not care to listen to the likes of me. It's quite a different thing with yourself. for there's noth- ing of the gentleman in you ' San FranCi5Co Argonaut
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
Miniature Trees.

The Japanese art of making minia ture landscapes and gardens consists chiefly in starving the plants so as to retard the circulation of its sap or life giving juices. Furguson, who was one among the first of English adventurers to visit China and Japan mentions the fact that he saw at Canton a boye about the bigness of a ladyes snulfe box, which did not eontaine littyl dirt and sixteen tiny littyl trees, foure of which were in full blow the whole hoxe, trees and all so small that a man could put them in hys mouth together st Louis Republic
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
rhe neM Inrentor of reIegraphy

Weber was the first who established a permanent workable telegraph line, and thereby demonstrated the practical value of the electric tele, graph Weber's house in the city was connected with the astronomical and magnetic obServatolIes by hue between three and four kiluuetels lover two miles in length The gig nals were made by the deviatious of the needle of a galvanometer to the right and left and were interpreted according to 8 conventional alphabet The use of interrupted or reversed currents did not permit the trans mission of more than one or two words a minute, but the speed was increased tc seven or eight words by induced currents - Popular Science Monthly.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
CnItIxnlInn ef Fannie.

A plant proposed as a substitute for cotton k ramie. It is cultivated for the fiber of its Duk. which when properly prepared is long, silky, du- rable and very beautiful The yield also is large under favorable conU tous But these conditions are T warm climate (semihopicah and very rich soil mainly alluvial soil. These limit its cultivation Co certain regions. It could not be cultivated with any profit on the poorer grades of land on which so much of the cotton crop is grown. While runie win grow successfully or rery rich soil only, it also makes extraordinarily heavy demands upon the soil
 The richest land is soon exhausted by it unless constant restitution of plant food is made. When success fully grown and large yields ob tained three or four cuttings are made in one season, amounting to some 20.000 or more pounds of dry matter per acre The removal of so large a quantity of almost any kind of vegetable growth from an acre must, of necessity, take away a great deal of its plant food. But ramie takes more proportionally than other textile plants. Southern Farm.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
A MAR INCIDENT.
How Southern Sentry Discovered tho
 Enemys Signal Fire.

How a Southern Sentry Discovered tho Enemy's Signal Fire. The realities of war are terrible and grim, with their untold suffer ings and voiceleSs pain; but often a smile of the ludicrous breaks across the stern visage, and the grim wrinkles only serve to heighten the dimples of laughter In the glow of the charge, when the cannon's roar is shaking the ground, and blending with its belching smoke in the wards of sae dead and dying, we find flashes of wit brightening the gloomy back ground, a happy salve to heal the wounds of war
 | Oneof the most ludicrous instances, combining the serious and comical, occurred during the stay Of regi- ment of southern infantry in coun- try town in northern Virginia. The war was at it's height, and the air | full of wild rumors of the contending armies nights cf alarms and rushes to horse, and days of anxious skir- mishing, so with the strain of work and tension of anxiety the men were ever on the alert
 One balmy September evening the 1 picket was posted, ana as the twi- light deepened into night the soldiers sank to rest. in the clear harvest moonlight.
 On the crest of the distant noun, tains the golden crescent hung; be- low quivered the sleeping meadows in the dim autumn haze. A death like silence reigned supreme, broken sometimes by the sentry's solemn tread or the distant haying of dog Presently die moon sank behind bank of dark clouds, leaving only the white tents, gleaming like tremulous ghosts ip the darkness. But oGt from each bush s leafy cover sparkled glowworm. Then about in the shadowy gloom darted few timid streaks of flame lightning bugs !" n the old southern tongue.
 Suddenly an alarm sounded A wild call 10 arms rang on the soft autumn air and in a few moments the camp was alive with hustle and the bugle call ringing cheelily above all
 When all were ready the lnen, booted and spuTed, were drawn out into the highway Then the colonel called up the sentry, who had first given the alarm, to gather more explicit details.
 The enemy's signal fire flashed on the mountain thar, the man ex- plained
 Forward. march !" rang the order, and the colonel added, Men, now Is the chance towin your spurs Then came the neighing of horses and the trot down the dusty pike
 Colonel, whispered low voice at the officers elbow, and the colonel turned to see the picket at his side
 Well, was the laconic response.
 Er-colonel, came the reply slowly, "er-I must CT made a mis. take, sir You sees Ise kinder near sighted, and l dun find out that wasn't no signal fire, but dmn old lightning bug
 And the moon broke out in a smile from behind the piled up cloud banks.
 Virginia Stuart Mosby in New York Advertiser.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
He spolse His Piece.

An amusing incident occurred in the circuit court Monday. A negro boy being tried for stealing two pairs of trousers and having no lawyer, Judge Campbell asked him if he de. sired to speak. He promptly replied in the affirmative and 'ired" The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck" at the judge and jury West Point Miss Forum
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
festinr q IInr.e,s Fnet.

A novel method of testing the con. dition of horses feet is to attach one terminal of a light battery to the bit and the other to the shoe If the foot K improperly penetrated by the nails the animal will squnm under the test, but will give no token if there Is no irritation New York Telegram
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-23
A Minister Who Me, dod solo.,

A Baptist minister in Yorkshire for years mended sh',es, preaching on Sundays, Respectable people sneered, but common people heard him so gladly that ht effected more good than did many of his brethren who were attired in the bravery of gown and bands. London Tit Bits.