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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
To Protect the ErOgS.

Is Il frog Il fish? This is the problem
which the officials of the Canadian
fishery department have recently had
to consider. Petitions We're forwarded
to the department from the inhabitants
of Northumberland, ont. praying for
Il close season for frogs. a lucrative
trade III the shipment OF frogs legs had
been done IL that county. but it was
discovered that the very time that the
frogs were spawning is II when the
greatest havoc is wrought among them.
Possibly Il change will be made in the
fishery laws so rs to embrace frogs.
The officers say that in their embryonic
stage frogs l. certainly fishes, but Ia
ter on they take an amphibious char,
HCtpr.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
If We Only Could Sec.

Our best acquaintance with tho
wonders OF the visible universe must
always be held provisional. The organ
w%herewith we are aware of it is an
imperfect one. insensible to the col.
Ors beyond the red and the violet
which certain insects appear to Der.
ceivc. Light itself is nothing but a
vibration OF what we call, without
understanding it, the ether. and
sight is a n easily deceived and of
very feeble range. 1t is probable that
only a slight exaltation Of the power
of the optic nerve would present the
picture Of the starry sky to us in A
very different aspect.
To our vision the waste of space
appears astounding, much as the
Pacific ocean seems far too large for
its archipelagoes. The boundless
vault looks as though wasted in con-
tanning at such enormous intervals
the tiny specs that are its worlds and
suns. Would it wear anything Ike
so open an aspect if we had Better Or.
different eyes,: TO see the stars att
all it is necessary to wait for the
darkness of night: to be aware of
those crimson fountains OF glory
streaming into space from the sun
we have to borrow the help Of the
moons interposed disk.
Since the heavenly bodies exercise
an influence, gravitatory and other
wise, upon all other bodies, it is con-
ceiyable that a kind of vision may
hereafter exist to which their mutual
contact and interaction would be per-
ceptible. We see nothing now which
is not Of the nature to reflect upon
our retinas or to project upon them
those light waves of which alone our
light-senSe can take any c%ognizance.
The fish which dimly p~erceives a
star through the water composed Of
oxygen and hydrogen is not in a
much worse position for reliable
astronomical observations than man,
with his limited visual spectrum, at
the bottom of his ocean of oxygen,
nitrogen, and the new gas. Sir
Edwin Arnold, in the North Ameri-
a Review.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

The United States Department of Ag-
riculture has issued Il circular asking
for information in regard to nut
grass" or "coco," /; weed that is very
| prevalent in some parts of the South.
and has extended northward. 1t is Of
subtrOpical origin. and Is said to have
reached the United States first ut New
Orleans among garden plants brought
from Cuba. 1t resembles small forms
of the scdge commonly known as chufa,
which often is cultivated as food for
swine. for which reason ii is important
that the distinction between the two
plants should be clearly understood.
The striking point of difference is that
in the chufa all the tuberS are cluS-
tered about the base of the parent
plant. and except in very loose porous
soils they usually are close to the sur
face. where hogs would quickly roo
them out. while the tuberS of the nut
grass are scattered along the root
stock. often several inches below The
surface of the ground and sometimes
two to four feet or more away from the
parent UidIi. me pam ol CdilUdlSh IL
to prevent the nut grass from maturing
seed above ground. The plant repro
duceS Il thousand times more from the
seed than from the nut. The secret of
success Is frequent stirring of ground
during growing time of summer, so as
to stimulate each tuber and SEED to
sprout. and then between midsummer
and frost time to cut down every tail
stem while in the towering state at the
latest. and the sooner the better.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

The news from China. if unexpected,
is not surprising. From the first the
superior discipline and intelligence of
the Japanese have given them advan-
tage over their advcrsaries. Nor should
the power of sympathy be overlooked.
The sentiment of civilization has been
favorable to the Japanese. The report
of n request for the European powers
to intervene for re-cStabliShmcnt OF
dence. does O sound strange when
made by China. But the result of the
action of he great powers may lead
to serious complications. There are
not many who believe that Corea can
MAINTAIN Il state of independence. 1t
is Il very weak and remarkably unprO-
gressivc nation; it occupies Il country
whose scaboard is coveted by powerful
nations. Russia and Britain certainly,
and Germany and Italy probably. are
among European powers that desire
possessions on The COrcan coast. and
it is absurd to suppose that Japan has
entered upon Il spirited and costly var
without hope of territorial ~aggrandiZe-
mcnt. 1t will be Strang if the Euro
ppan powers consent to act as media
tors between China and Japan without
demanding pay for their services, and
the pay is likely to be in the form Of
Corcan harbors. Japan, also, as the
now dominant Oriental nation, is likely
to get Il slice of the Hermit Nations
territory. Something like to that which
has happened in Samoa may be about
to happen in Corea, with. OF curse, the
addition of Russia to the number of
powers giving Il guaranty of "protec-
ton and independence to a plundered
nation.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

knives and forks. Babies and dishes
are all washed in the same water.
When sickness falls on one of the poor
wretches and he seems likely to die he
Is lifted from his bed and carried out
OF doors to breathe his last, in order
That the living may not have the bother
OF a dead man around, or incur the eX-
pense Cf a funeral.
III Is but fair to say that in this re-
srect OF treatment OF the dead and dy-
ing there is Il di ,tinct difference be-
tween the Italians and the Slavs,
greatly to the advantage of the former.
The Italians will spend the last cent to
pay for a doctor 5 attendance on a sick
relative or to secure a dead friend a
decent burial. The Slavs will re.
sort to any device to get a dead or
dying man off their hands without ex-
pen.e.
But it is not SO much their aborig-
lnal ideas touching the decencies of
life, their filth and their bestial habits
which have made these wretched pco.
pie more and more abominable in the
eyes OF communities on which they
have been implanted like social ulcers.
In these respects, it is true, the Dig
ger Indians would figure to 4~dvantage
by comparison. But it is their Grim
lnai pro ensitles, their murderous
savagery, which have been steadily
growing, until they have seriously
raised a question As to the possibility
OF forever enduring their presence in
the region.
Two Murders I;y"rv Week.
during the past eighteen months
there has beer an average of a murder
d week, while of murderous assam Is
with deadly weapons. many of which
terminated fatally. the u. eragc has
been two tr three Il week. And vet.
during all that time, there have been
only two convictions of murder in the
llrst degree, ana neither OF these was
Il fole, a SlaV or an Italian. There is
no longer any hope in police urotec-
ton. The officers of the law. in fact
nave been literally paralyzed by the
rising tide of murIer which has swont
over the region. Tens of thou-ands of
dollars and weeks and months of limo
nave been spent in ei1O Is to bring u.t
Il very few OF these ~.red-handcd butch-
ers to Justice, and yet not in two vears
ha' one OF them been hanged. IT. il
true that a few have bee. lod red in
the ~Eenltentiary, the notorious Nntz
gang OF Italian assassins being a con.
splcuous instance of last year work
but where ten ale caugnt and nm.
lshed, nlnet are never even appre.
hended. While probably there IS no
re!uiar organization of murderers
~ the Noble Alaguires, the Alollies
themselves never worked mO.e yea
ously or more cunningly to conceal
their murderets and suppress all evil
dences Of their crimes.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

The most dignified Of ali our Govern
ment institutions is the Supreme Court,
which holds it's sessions in Washington.
1t is composed Of elderly men who are
very solemn and never in a hurry, and
who are as slow in their various pro-
ceedings as they can very well be. The
courts business, indeed, is several
years behind, and there seems no like
lihOOd that il will ever manage to
catch up to the present. Each justice
receives a salary of $4,000 a year, but
still their job can't be exactly called an
easy one. They are in court six days in
the week for four hours, and the out
side preparation of their opinions re-
quires an immense expenditure of
time.
The court assemblies each day at noon,
and after putting on it's black silk robes
marches in procession into the court
room. There is a theatrical touch to
the entrance. The black-robed figures
glide mysteriously behind the pillars.
and then, as though at Il prOmpter'S sig
nal, appear ut the spaces between the
pillars and move to their places. These
places are fixed. and if you know the
order which is invariably followed In
assigning them you can answer with
out hesitation any question rs to the
chronological order of the associate
justices. The chief justice. of course,
sits in the middle.
When the justices enter the court
crier raps three times and says in n
sing-sOng tone: "Oyez, Oyez. oyez.
All persons having business before the
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

The travelling public owes a debt of
gratitude to the Master Car Builders
Association for the work it is doing 10
secure fairly decent ventilation in cars.
The season is now approaching when
more or less of us will have to suffer
with colds and pneumonia to satisfy
the hog in the seat ahead who persists
in keeping his or her window open. Ii
is possible to ~sympathize with anyone
who is forced to stay many hours dur
ing the winter in a modern vcstibule
train. with its glar!.G decorations and
its bad atmosphere. but it is mighty
hard to sit in Il freezing draught from
an open window. Cars ought not to he
ventilated through the windows at all
except in summer.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
Tote" Not a Negro Word.

In nothing is the student of Amer
lean folk-speech so liable to error as
in assigning geographical limits to a
word or phrase. The English local
dialects were pretty thoroughly
mixed. One gained a little more
dominance in one place, another in
another, but a stray provincial term
is prone to turn up in places the most
unexpected. tote" has long been
regarded as a word Of African origin,
confined to certain regions where ne
groes abound. A few years ago MIR.
Z. A. Stephens. in a story, mentioned
an "old tote road" in Maine. l wrote
to inquire, and he told me that GER
tain old portage roads, now aban-
doned, bore that name.
l find the word used in a "Remon-
STRANGE" from the people of Gloucester
County, Va. preserved in'the Public
Record Office in London. This paper
bears date 1917, when there were
four times as many white bond ser
wants as negroes in Virginia. Tote"
appears to have been a %wcll-undel-
stood English word in the seventeenth
century. 1t meant then, as now, to.
bear. BurlesQne writers who repre-
sent a negro as "toting a horse to
water" betray their ignorance. In
Virginia English the negro carries"
the horse TO water by making the
horse tote" him.-Thc Century.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
LIVE LIKE BEASTS.
ERlGHTFUL STATE OF AFFAIRS
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
European Hrigands and Cut-throats Filth
Ter than the Digger Indians and More
Murderous than the Awful Mollie Ma
guires-Two Murders Every Week.
Barbarians i'm America.

The people of the anthracite coal
counties OF Fennsylvania-LuZorne,
Carbon, ! ackawanna and Schuylkill-
make up such an chronological crazy
quilt as hardly can be matched in n
district Of corresponding size in the
world, says a W~ilkesbarrc correspond
ent. Arabs, Turks, Greeks, Slavs,
Poles. Italians, negroes, Germans,
French, English, Irish, Scotch, Yam
KEGS Il bewildc ing composite of race,
color II creed are all crowded 20
gether in Il little territory as small as
many OF the continental principalities.
The coniusion Of tongues heard on u
Saturday nj. hit on the streets Of any
mining town of the counties mentioned
is IKE what a con- ersa lone might
have been at the base of the Tower Of
Babel.
In the actual work of mining the
Slavs, Poles and Italians are princi-
pa ~ engaged. With the downfall of
that organization OF murderous scoun-
drels. known as the Mollic Maguires.
came Il series Of changes which event
ually resulted in the s%upplanting of
Irish, Welsh and scotch labor i'll the
mines. Naturally it was from the very
lowest strata Of sCc.ety in these Euro
pean C untrie3 that the ranks OF the
new stock of miners were recruited.
When a wretch had committed such
deeds of v~illainy that ever ,he rece5ses
of the Sicilian and Calabrian mountains
ceased to he a refuge fOrh him. he ma @
his way o e the seas and found a safe
haven in the anthracite region of
Pennsylvania, screened and guarded
by his fcllow-c untrymen. 1t was not
al done in II day. but the era OF cut
throat terro ism and nigh wage
opened by men of tnglish-speaking
races has at la t absolu ely given way
to an era which might almost be called
II of human vermln Il low wages.
Liv. o, Firth ami Vermin.
human vermin hardly seems too
strong Il term to II who takes even a
cursory view Of the manner in which
they exist. An Italian b airing shanty
along the lines of railroads or that of
the Croton viaduct in New York while
it was in course of construction was
bad enough: but an Italian boarding.
house of that Sariet is luxurio ; COM
pared with one in the mountains, here,
such as The miners live In. The stories
told of the filth, the vice. the bruta ity
in these Stew by those who have been
familiar with them for years are al
most beyond belief. a d zen men and
women + packed promiscuOusly into
one room barely large emo, gh for two
to live in with decency. The meals
are served In al ordinary washx wi or
dish an, into which the boarders
pl nge their hand, or their S oon.,
conveying their food to their mouths
without the inter IGNITION Of plates or
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

honorable the Supreme Court OF the
United States are admonished to draw
near and give attention, as the court is
about to assemble. God bless the Unit
ed States and this honorable court"
When the gavel first falls all those
within the bar Of justice rise and re-
main standing until the justices, at a
signal from the chief justice, take their
seats. AS they sit down they bow to
the attorney general and the members
of the bar.
The black robes which it has become
the custom for the judges to wear
though why no one knows. for there
is no law on the su~bject-have been
made by One for the last fifty
years. They cost the enormous price
of 500. The justice wears his robe
only when the Supreme Court. as Il
body, is participating in some official
ceremony. He may go gowned to a
funeral, if it is an official funeral. He
wears it at the inauguration of a
President; but ordinarily he puts it on
in the robing-rOom in the morning and
takes it off in the robing-room ut dusk.
He does not wear it even in the con-
Sulting room; so there is very little
wear and tear on it. and one robe will
outwear several suits of clothing.
Serving in the Supreme Court seems
conducive to longevity. Several JUS
tees have had terms OF over thirty
years. The oldest now on the bench
is Mr.. Field, who has already served
81 years, and hopes to make it "a.
which will equal Chief Justice Mar
ShalIS term. the longest on record.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
FEW DoODle have anV cOncqntion Of |

FEW people have any conception Of
the enormous extent to which news
paper advertising has grown in these
days. Millions of dollars are invest
ed every year in sounding the praises
OF various enterprises, and fortunes
are made and lost in the columns Of
newspapers. But notwithstanding
the latter statement, as the wiSeSt
men continue to advertise it is safe
to say that advertising pays. Indeed,
it has come to pass that business men
must advertise in some way or they
maintain their supremacy with diff
iculty. Not only is the volume of
business exceedingly large. but the
amount expended by individual adj
vertiserS is almost beyond belief. One
patent medicine man in Boston pays
the newspapers everyyear owe $500, .
600. A single firm paid 81, 600 last
year for one page in one issue of a
certain family paper. The largest
advertising contract ever closed is
believed to be one recently made
by a New York daily with a large
dry goods firm. The advertiser
agrees to take SO. 900 worth OF space
in this newspaper during the year.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
ACCORDING TO THE s,cn
Negro Gets His Head Shaved nv j..
for . Nickel.

Negro Gets His Head Shaved bv n H.
for q Nickel. ~
An uncouth cOlOred man stood
side a barber shop at Jackson ouI
state streets and saw a sign wbio
read: Hair cut 10 cents, shaw
cents" After a moments hesitot,.I
he shambled in. SHAVE my head m;]
ter" he remarked to the tonsor;a, n.1
list. The job was a lengthy one. dur;,,
which several razors were dulled nj
nally his head shone like the bali On
drum majors staff. and a hean Il
black, wiry hair lay at the barbon,
feet. The colored man suryeyed b;uI
self with immense satisfaction AN
proffered a nickel. l
Fifteen cents" said the barber
"No sah." replied the customer. Cpl
no means. nohOw: only 3 cents" !
a heated wrangle followed. which =.
suited in Officer Jones. of the Harriso,
street station. being called in to ta,''
to jail the customer who proposed swim
ding the firm. as the barber explaino1
out of Il dime. :
"LOok'ee here, mister officer" soi,
the negro. "look'ee here. sab: SEQ ,ha,
ar sign. Hair cut 10 cents, shave
cents. That's all l got. shave. sab
true as I'm Il living man. Not n tbin,
did he do to me, sab, 'cept use a razor .
No arrest was made and the nickol
all the negro had. went into the III,
This genius is employed at n drug stor,
at Both street and Wabash ayenuo
where he is known only as ".Joe."-Cbi
cagO Times.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

of over o,oo0.0o0 children in Gle.
mehtary schools in England on,y 500
ooo pay for their schooling. and of
'hese ooo,ooo pay no more than a pen
ny Il week. according to Il recent Of.
hclai statement. OF the "voluntary
SCHOOLS, In which the whole or part
OF the tuition Is paid by the parents.
1000 receive from 10 to 20 shill;ngs :.
mead Tor the children in attendance.
1000 between . and 10 shillings and
5000 under 8 shillincs.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
Mecca was visited last year by be

Mecca was visited last year by be
tween two hundred and fifty thousand
and three hundred thousand pilgrims.
Il much larger number than usual. as
the principal day Of the pilgrimage hap
pened to fail on Il Friday: ninety thou
sand came by sea. of whom nearly ten
thousand died of cholera. while of those
who went by land. most of them from
British India. fifteen thousand perish
ed. The mortality was ten per cent. Of
all the pilgrims.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

Two old school fellows met, fifteen
years after their graduation, and fell.
fguratively. upon each others necks.
"Well, well, dear old Smith," said
Green. How glad l am to see you!
What days those We're. Ha! ha!
Smith. you We're the stupidest fellow
in the class
"Yes. / suppose l was
land here you are now! Why" Qoci.
ing him over you haven't changed q
narticIe!"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

A law has just gone into force in
Washington prohibiting any building
" 40 feet high on business streets,
or over ninety feet high on other
streets. This action was taken whom
it was found that the upper stories Of Il
new fiat building 100 feet high could
not be reached by any engine or series
of ladders in the city.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
HERE is a new use for hypnotism

HERE is a new use for hypnotism
that promises great things for the
future: "Rockford, Ill.-In a justice
court Thos. Ryan sued Edward Col
Inns a:Id wife. Of Durand, for SOS for
clothing purchased of him last spring.
The clothing was never removed from
the package and the defense set up that
Ryan's agent used hypnotic influence
to Induce Mrs. Collins to purchase.
The defense won the case. This may
make a complete change in all sys-
tens of doing business. Statesmen
will be valued according to their hyp-
motto influence, and the man who
cannot hypnotic any n who comes
into the store will be Of little value.
A frst-claSs travelling salesman will
be able to stop off at an interior town
and sell goods to every man, woman
and child in it. Indeed, it will be a
mighty Door businessman who can't
sell a neglige gown to a bachelor or a
plug hat to a spinster once he gets
either under the spell of his eye. 1t
will only require a few passes for an
expert taaconvince & girl Of II that
he wants q complete smokers outfit
md a wax doll. Great are the posi-
ri ~hypnotism in the business
f,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

The carcleSSneSS of the user is the
salvation of the manufacturer of most
of the machinery used on the farm.
Yet a man careful of his machinery is
a JOY to the manufacturer thereof. as
takes good care of it is his best adver-
tiSemcnt.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
TOYS for the Natives.

In Australia great Inconvenience
is experienced in telegraph construc-
ton by the fOndness Of the natives
for wire for bracelets, ear and nose
rings, and their weakness for the
porcelain insulatOrs, which they
fashion into arrow heads.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
A Long Shake,

The greatest earthquake on record
within the limits of the United
States occurred in California in 1877.
For ten days the ground was contln.
uous!y agitated, not being perfectly
quiet for as long as a single minute.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

THE Ministerial crisis in Germany
is not without its benefits. II keeps
Emperor William from writing more
poetry.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

If Emperor William proposes to
continue in the poetry business we
advise him ia sign his name to all
manuscripts he submits.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
VICE PRESIDENT WICKEs is having
trouble with another union.

A CoRNCOB pipe is not ~aristocratic,
but 1t smokes a heap sweeter than
one that amt paid for.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

RICHARD WATSON GLIDER is at
work upon a poem on Tammany.
This is the most unkindeSt cut of all.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

WE have sweatshops right in our
midst. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Great Scott. Try Jamaica ginger.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

YALE made $40, 900 at football last
year. This brings her net hospital
expenses down to about $50, 900.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

New YORK coryphees protest
against Lillian Russeli's imported
chorus girls. They have a right to
kick,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

WOULD Mr.. Wiekes agree to sub
NIT his divorce suit to the National
Arbitration Commission?