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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31
How Frogs Hibern ate.

AS to their condition during The
winter season. u cOld-blOOded
friends pass the time in a comfort
able way, in a state of torpor called
Information. The place selected
seems anything but comfortable-a
tomb in the mud in the margin or
bottom of a pond. Hibernation is Il
state of entire or partial torpor. 1t
seems like sleep, but it is proved to
be not really the same. In torpOr,
the breathing, circulation of the
blood, digestion, are almost entirely
stopped; but in sleep these all go on.
An animal is awakened from sleep
by a mere jjOstling: while in complete
tOrpor it will not be reused even if
subjected to treatment usually fatal.
The frog is sustained, when he
ceases to eat, by lObes of fat stored
inside his body for that purpose.
This is another method CT Deeting
%privation which our amphibiOus
friends share with the camel, whose
humps are little else but stores of
fat.
AS to diet. the general rule is that
frogs eat, or are eaten by almost
everything. Slugs, water-bugs, grass
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31

lights were burning in the lower
rooms. Elsie was shown into a small
sitting-room. The kitchen door stood
ajar, and through it a short, thin
woman SOon entered.
Pm Mrs. Plympton. she said.
Its our daughter Henrietta. She's
been ailin', Oft an on. tour years.
We've tried no end of medicines. Our
doctor calls it angeling p%ectoris. He
made a deal of Henrietta; he meant
to marry her, miss"
Elsie checked this torrent Of speech
when she could and sat down in the
sick-rOom and watched her patient
who was a young girl, perhaps Is. On
the table by the bedside were bottles
and walls. She glanced at the labels
and shook her head in Indignation.
Its pneumonia, " she said. THE
girl has been treated wrong, alto
gether wrong. 1t is a%trocious bung-
ling"
The room was still vibrating with
her words when the attending physi-
clan entered.
III. IlOUdiU, SOUpOu ehS
but she could not go on.
There was a moment Of bewilder-
ing confusion. The family had With
drawn, and Elsie. stunned and almost
powerless, stood gazing at her nus
band. This man of many schemes
had grouped his way into a high pro-
fession: he had foated into a hap
hazard connection with some medi-
cal charlatan, and the few scraps'of
knowledge which chung to him be-
came in his unskillful bands so many
deadly instruments. His vanity so
bliIded him to his ignorance, that
here be was experimenting on the
girl whom, as had just been Toured
into Elsie's startled ears, he claimed
to love and even planned to marry.
No familiar word passed between the
two. Elsie spoke only, in burning,
trembling words, Of the wicked mis-
take. Her thoughts were chiefly at
this moment of the suffering girl.
II shall relinQuish it to you" was
all he said. and then he lett the room
and the house. Upon Elsie rested
the burden Of this young girls life.
She worked unweariedly, while her
heart beat wildly, to wrest her pa
tient from the influence of the
drugs: and just as a little CLOCK
buzzed II, the sick girl woke to con-
sciousneSs
After the dimness Of the sick-room,
the light in the kitchen seemed daz-
cling. The quick departure OF Dr.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31
Siberia Not All sterile.

Siberia is popularity supposed to be
a barren waste, extending from the
frozen ocean on the north to the
sands of the Cobb desert on the south.
But this popular impression is alto
gether wrong, according To the Phila-
delphia Record. Exclusive Of the
north and the deserts of Turkcstan,
Russia in Asia contains an area Of
). 900, 900 square miles Of land sUttv.'
BILE for agriculture or pastoral prT-
suits. Its population numbers ne2-Sy
IS, 600, OO0. There are several citi.s
with a population exceeding 80. (Np.
The agricultural products eXpOrsh"{.
which constitute only q very Sms!t
part of the whole. are Vailed at Dn
average of $40. GEO, 00O 4 year. Tas
output Of the mines exported fS W..
ued at upward OF $50. 600, 900 sans
ally, and the furS, ish. SkinS, ann
other products that come into Eu,
rOpean Russia from Siberia are worth
S., 600, 600 to ST, 900, 600. IL Was IGy
the purpose Of developing this VASE
territory and encouraging immigr1-
tion thither that the Government os
tuC Val ildS uIuSI tdNtu W CApChL
S33, 600, 900 upon the Great Siberiau
Railway. over 1. 900 miles long, which
will connect the Black Sea and the
Baltic with NladiVostock, on the SEA-
Of Japan. 1t is not expected that
the railway will pay the expenses OF
operation for many years to come.
But it will doubtless be an important
factor i'm the fnture economic history
OF the world. One result OF the com
pletiOn Of the road may be an entire
shifting Of trade routes: and it will
certainly oren Il new and productive
continent to settlement.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31
Made Him Raise the Fine.

A man from Troy told this story
the other day to a small company Of
friends about a police justice in a
lutte town in Rensselaer, County: 1t
was the law of the village that all
the shOwlnen, itinerants and organ
grinders must get a license before
dong business there. One day a fat
policeman, who had been on the
force about SIX months without doing
anything, concluded it vas time he
arrested somebody. Soon afterward
along came IN Italian with a per-
forming bear.
"Hev yez got yer license?" asked
the policeman.
NO." said the exhibitor Of the
bear.
''Then yer my p~riz'nerS," said the
policeman. and he triumphantly
marched off with them to the village
station house, he leading the Italian
and the Italian leading the bear.
Arraigned before the police justice
the Italian pleaded guilty and the
Judge o%tficiously gave him a most
severe and ScOrching lecture on the
enormity of his ofrense. ending by
timing him $40, the full extent of the
law. The culprit had IA lot Of small
change in his pocket. but beng
mostly pennies ana nickels it only
counted up TO $3.50. For a few mo-
mcntslthe Judge a. in a quandary.
He didn't wan to send the fellow to
jail, nor yet lose the $40. Presently
a bright idea struck him. happy
solution of the problem, and he said:
'Here, officer: Take this fellow
out to the market place and let him
perform with his bear until he makes
up the balance: and when be gets it
drive him out OF n.'-Butfalo
News.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31
Hobart was commented on, and Elsie

Hobart was commented on, and Elsie
listened in guilty silence.
II must take the early train" she
said, AS she gave her directions: IL
have to be at the hospital in the
morning. If there is a change for
the worse, you may send word to me
at once"
whats the name?" Mrs. Plymp.
ton asked.
Send t. DR.. Gay"
The woman looked at her in0uir-
ingly.
"Mebby you're his WIFE" said one.
"NO. l am not" and. with a good
bye, she followed the boy with the
smoky lantern.
The RObey depot was kept warmed
and lighted for the convenience of
early passengers. Elsie sat on one of
the hacked benches, while feyerish
thoughts crowded through her brain.
Your husband has basely deserted
you; call it by a milder name if you
will-this is what it means. Five
years ago he promised to come back
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31
Amusing Marriage Customs.

One of the Chinese papers describes
some amusing marriage customs. In
a small mountain village, between
Kaga and Etchu, the bride comes to
the bridegrOom'S gate, and bawls out
out to him.
''Halloa. brother; I've come"
The other replies
Glad you've come.'
The bride then appeals to him.
"IOu'lI never fOrSake me-"
well earn our living together. "
the bridegroom answers her.
With these assurances. the bride
comes into the house. followed by a
long procession of well-wIsherS, old
and young. Cheap, muddy sake s
distributed to them, and then they
begin dancing. and are not content
until the floor gives way, when they
clap their hands, crying, "IiOw au-
spicious." and take their leave.
At Kurita, in Echizcn. the be-
trothal takes place when the parties
are eight or n The boys parents
and a deputatiOn, numbering from
five to fifteen, proceeds to the girls
family, who, anticipating their com
ing, spread mats before the house
and await them. After the usual
salutatiOn, the deputatiCn presents
as betrothal presents pieces Of hand
woven cloth for cushions, and at the
same time praises the girls family.
who returns the compliment with
interest. Here the ceremony ends,
and the deputation take their de,
parture.
When the boy is IL, or Whereabouts,
he goes to stay with his betrothed's
family, and works like a menial at
the house for a year. after which he
is sent home in fine apparel. soon
after, the girl comes to her lovers
house, accompanied with rustic
music and songs. The noise and
hustle are as great as on the festival
day of the tutelary god.
When the girl comes to the house,
cushions made Of the cloth given by
her PARENTS, are piled, n upon an
other, for her to sit upon. On these
cushions the thrice-repeated eX-
change of the triple wine-cups, the
most important ceremony at d wed
ding, takes place.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31

hoppers, and oy!,er insects are
specially Telished. There is n pc u
liar arrangement for catching insects.
The tongue is hung by the outer in
stead OF the inner end. SO as to Zap
forward and back like Il fash, and
entrap its prey,
1t happens that insects, curiou,ly
enough. disappear for the winter and
reappear in the spring at just the
times when the frogs hibernate and
come out again. Bull frogs indulge
also in small fish, tield.mice and
ducklings. They will also eat their
own tadpcles. While in captivity
they will learn to eat almost any food
given them.-St. Nicholas.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31
PUZZLEFOR THE ANTIQUARlANS
Relics OF u Race w n Lived on an Island
OF the French Coast.

~
A lady whose home is in the South
of France writes to GOldthwaitc'S
Magazine ola visit she made recently
to an island on the coast of Brittany.
Those who have read the story Of
King Arthur and his knights will
the sea in pursuit OF the drag n. In
this, the MARKHAM Sea, is a little is
land which, can be reached from the
mainland only when the water is
smooth. The sole inhabitant is u
Breton shepherd, who lives in a little
hut and spends his time in caring for
his sheep. The party landed and
were met by the kind-faced old man,
who led them over the grassy slope
where his flock was feeding, and
showed them the way around a hill,
on the east side of which they found
the entrance to q tunnel This eX-
tended some distance, and its floor,
sides, and roof were made of inn
mense fiat pieces Of stone, covered
with hierOglyphS and figures ''lOok-
ing somewhat like wreatbS and again
llhc COlicu TpcHU Az Vic Gnu VI
this tunnel Was a hall, also tloored,
rooted and walled with the same
curious stones, and in the center was
an altar and a stone upon which it is
thought that human sacrifices have
been offered. The strangcSt part Of
all is that no stones or rocks like
those used in this tunnel can be
found on the island, and at no place
nearer than 100 miles inland. Who
brought them? How did they come
There is no record left at least none
has been fOund-to tell who these
people we're. or ANYTHING about them.
They must have lived many centuries
ago, but have vanished entirely. yet
their work is as perfect apparently as
when first built. 1t is thought that
they may have been Druids, who
came here when they left Great
Britain; others. again, think that
they were worshipers Of the serpent
god called Iloa. But it is conjecture.
All we know is that the stones are
there, strangely carved, skillfully put
together, but or the r builders there
is no trace.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31

'oush to attach. In the garden
tuA NORWOOD and thistles look
'"n on puny corn: there was a
purple in which wrecks Of furni-
nt aud the refuse of recent car
"I'y lay in a tangled heap; and in
house the prospect was not much
tt.ei' ElSle's poor sewing machine
aue everything that the creditors
rpUught worth taking.
'1'ie went back to her fathers
n the children. Her hus band
a,eled westward to one Of the river
Tvs lie would come back in a
while. he said: he would begin
over again and be her lover once
More than a year after his
wv were still ringing in her ears,
ne had never come back. The
Iusest links which bound them
snapped asunder; the children
lay buried in the graveyard on
cd nlllslde. The physician who
uu 10 save them was eloquent and
o,aht' In the early stages of the
asc ne prophesied their speedy re-
ny IN a few days it was an easy
or 10 predict their death. When
,asI child lay dead before her,
"ish 10 know what the nature
cihes was and what knOwl.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31

lowered carpet, while children scat
tered flowers; lately she had walked
On a kitchen floor.
Six years before, when Putnam Ho-
bart led his wife cut OF the little rus
lie church at Forsyth, the May sun
,hCne encoaragingly into his face.
smooth roads seemed to stretch out
in every direction. Things went
vel for a year. Then the financial
crashes anne and he began to 20
down He specialized with Elsie's
money and lost it. Then he became
4 clerk, with meager wages, and all
this time their home life. with little
money TO support it was becoming
unhappy, Finally on the ist Of June,
he was thrown out Of employment
entirely and since then he mad hung
iazliy about seemingly without am
htloG and with no aim to do any
thln.. 1t was now July and on this
nay, The 9TH, he was to accept a posi-
tl0n 0ut OF town for which Ee had ap-
pied in answer to an advertisement
and 1t was to enable him to catch an
early train that Elsie was preparing
Breakfast AT this early hour, while
Tie other villagers were still sleeping.
As She went about her work,
thoughts OF the past filled her mind
and made her angry, while looking
INTO the future she saw little hope.
Hell be back again, soOn," she
sad TO herself. THE work won't
suit him; ! know it"
That morning he went to take the
Place. Two days later he came back.
'le Cork was not to his taSte-that
was all he said. Two days after tha-,
writ, secured by some of his ere
tofs, Was served and then the ere
l'fs came. But they found lit
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31
UOCTOR HOBART.

,r,,u, q story BY Edward w. Fla9g, in the
New England Magazine
Elsie Hobart was lust "a trifle hot
,cmrered as she busted herself about
fine little cottage preparing an early
,reaLfas,. Her husband had been
mt OF work ove Il month and she
had been obliged to support him !.
tbc children sewing day and nigilt,
urtil naw she was almost disheart-
auni She thought of her wedding
,,r. when she walked from the
church, to the carriage on a bright
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31
The Burglars Joke.

A story IS going the rounds uptown
in which a 1acetious burglar figures.
to the discontinue and yet the relief
of a gentleman who lives in the vi
entity Of Eighteenth and Wallac,
streets. The residence was closed
during Easter, the entire family hav.
ing gone to Atlantic City. When
they returned the house was discoy-
cred TO have been broken into, and
everything was turned tOpSy-turvy.
The most careful search, however,
failed to disclose where anyth ny had
been stolen. and the supposiuion was
that the thieves bad been frightened
off while at their work. But the
true facts were developed when u
carefully worded and we'll written
note was found upon the dining-room
table. In this epistle, the facetiCus
burglar had taken the Eains to assure
the owner of the property that moth
ing had been taken away. I'VE
have tested your Silyerware,' the
note explained, land lind it to lie
plated. Your curta MS are of an in-
ferior quality, and the iewelry, such
as your wife and daughters possess,
is scarcely worth carrying off. We
had expected better things Of
you Although. g eatly relieved,
the gentleman Of the house could
not conceal his chagrin, and now
that the story has leaked out, he
doesn't like IT 4 bit.-Philadelphia
Record.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31
a SPRING MEETING.

uo,,o. Bob Wren.
Are F,v"' zee you so well and so merry!
iser wer" here
RAIN 1t / wish'd I'd a bite OF a cherry
zen me in the south,
,,t ~ in your mouth.
Men ~ you sorry to leave the sunny
"er" 6looin. and Of bees and honey?
sv and by here twill be n bright sn1n and Jolly
WI" ,,,nosphere seems melancholy.
Iht 4 ier4 : not a leaf on Il single bough,
lcI ~. Wind. oh, how it makes YOU shiver
any t Ln for the balmy mir that blows
a spa, dow he reeds that culver
Above some river
~ . YARN in tloridian sunlight flows.
dow, you any new songs to sing this season?
hn1f, 40 You know whore you are going to stop?
AZ" aiken rooms in the very top
nm'.Tb, Naple 49, prices quite within reason.
" va II Nat nearby that you We leased till fall =!
1ou nice, Then surely you'll came and call.
nTn,,ners Young People.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31

to you as your lover: tonight you
have saved the life OF the girl whom
he processes to love"
There came a sound as of some cHe
being dragged along the platform:
and a railroad f%unctionary emerged
from a little Office.
lis that Hobart? Don't say he's
ben"
NO, he hain't," With convincing
gestures; ''his breath's jes' like a
rose"
"But what's to pay, Toby? Where
was he:"
"Layin' on the track, close to the
switch. lie seems to he thawln'
out now" continued the man. medi-
tatively. II s'pose the trouble was
that Case O. Plympton'sgal. They'd "a
lost her if the consultin' doctor
hadn't come. She's a woman though,
an kind of a halfway allypathy."
The ticket agent, aware of Elsie's
presence, gave the man a nudge.
Elsie had left her seat, and vas talk.
ing in a low voice to the man who
Il II w ~ nv
Are you warmer now, Putnam"
she asked, when the men had disap-
peared in the Office.
YES"
His eyes shot swift. inquiring
g%lanceS, and she knew what he would
ask.
'She was better when l came away.
/ think she will get we'll"
1T would have been murder if she
had died. l called myself a mur-
derer when L left the house. | didn't
care what became Of me-"
lie detailed his miserable expert
ence before he came to Robey. He
had gone down and down until he be-.
came a very tramp. While the forest
fires were raging, and the sun one
day was waded in smoke, he lost his
bearings. and for days he travelled in
circles. 1t was night-fall when he
come into the village. 1t was rain
ing. else he would have sought shell
ter ~ the fields Or under a grain
stack. Fathers Of families glOwered
DIT him and pointed with their fingers
toward the county house, five miles
across the grain belt. At the Plymp-
ton cottage a young girl looked pitt
fully at him, and begged that he
might stay; and from that time he
had loved her as he could love.
Il am not worthy OF you; we ought
never to have met" he groaned,
allow can you say that and think
of the dead children? Was it a bar
gain for food and SHELTER: | want to
love you; you must live so that 1 can:
you must let me help you do it. We
must live together. DR.. Gay will
help you to get work. will go back
to Forsyth will do anything-but
we must not live apart"
Putnam Hobart came to the Beth
esda Hospital and, after a lingering
Illness did. DR.. Hobart went away
with the body and after a week re-
turned and began the old routine
again. DR.. Gay watched her day by
day as she moved in black about the
wards. Three months, six months. a
year went by, and then again he told
his love to the woman who now was
tree.
Forsyth. Robey, Bethesda, the
four graves, the great effort--all
seemed to cluster about this moment
of Elsie's broken life. She had made
the ascent alone. Should she 60 on
alone? She hesitated long: but n
night when the sun went down after
the long day. with a smile born of
sorrow, but born too of love and con-
tidencc, she took the hand which was
held out to her.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31
An important Omission.

Hope often exists without a sub.
stantial foundation. Ii many in
stances the nan who spends his life
waiting for his ship to come in wastes
his time, because he originally
omitted to send any ship out.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31

WOMEN can have good times, and
be good -natured afterward, but a
man can't.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31

easant stores
o related W
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; whose buIId
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IN some cause
fishing, when
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to one whose
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31

Hope IS recommended for rs many
ills as a patent medicine.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31
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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31
RS.

,nch race ~.
/ an amusing
by a Partisan
an had been
direct service,
baksi-Tapo by
|untry in the
, French had
As greatly de-
Fly went to a
10 obtain the
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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-31

| cavalier Of
Sut of the door
Journal which.
aiming yet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-07

ceit o. oorselves," and the answer to
the petition, when put up, is, it must
be confessed, seldom denied. The thing
may be hidden in reserve, overlaid by
shyness, dignified under gravity of de-
meanor, but all the same it is there, a
sort of inward conviction of that SUI
periority in mundane affairs we have
just noted.
You may soften it down by naming
it Self-poSseSsion or self confidence, IL
you will, but draw a Northern Briton
into conversation in any rank of life
below the gentle, and the strength OF
the sentiment win soon make itself ap-
parent. The history of his country.
his sangufnary and patriotic struggles
against the hated southern in days Of
yore, his extraordinary success in every
quarter Of the globe. the roll Of great
statesmen, distinguished viceroys and
proconsuls, soldiers, divines, literatf.
merchant princes, he is entitled to
boast of-all these are so many BAYS
in the garland Of laurel ne is ever
ready to entwine round the national
brow, to minister to his own self-satis-
faction.