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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-03
The Thrifty

What is the reason that Japan has nc
poverty problem? One reason is proba-
bly, to be found in the land system,
which has given to every worker a hold
ing and encouraged him to supply his
wants by his own labor. There is, too,
in Japan a curious absence of ostenta.
tious luxury.
The habits of living are in all classes
much the same, and the rich do not out
shine the poor by carriages, palaces and
jewelry. The rich spend their money on
curios, which, if these are costly, is limit
ed, and the most popular agitation is
against the big European houses which
ministers build for themselves. Wealthis
thus not absorbed and is more ready for
investment in remunerative labor. The
last reason which occurs to the mind of a
traveller with comparatively few oppor-
tunities for forming opinions is the
equality of in all classes. Rich
and poor are alike courteous. 1t is not
possible 20 distinguish employer from
laborer by their behavior. All are clean:
all are easy; all are restrained.
The governor let's his child 60 to the
common school and sit next to the child
of the casual laborer, certain that his
child viii pick up no bad n and
get no contamination in thought or in
person. This equality enables rich and
poor to meet as friends, and gifts can
pass without degradation. The rich mo-
bles in the country, just as the universe
ty men with whom we met in Toxic, are
thus able to give to those whom they
know to be in need, and friendship be-
comes the channel of charity. The ques-
tion is, Will this survive the introduction
of the industrial system? 1t is possible
that some OF it may and that Japan may
teach the west how to deal with the poor.
-Fortnightly Review.
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The Electric Capstan.

An expert in railway matters declares
that the day is not far distant when the
switching engine will be entirely done
away with, its place being takensby the
electric capstan. The latter is already
in use to a certain extent on some of the
Pennsylvania lines. The motor, which
actuates the capstan by means of gear
ing, runs at the rate of some 1900 revo-
iutions per minute, and the gearing mo-
tor and switch of the capstan are all con-
tanned in a watertight iron case, the top
of which comes flush with the ground.
There is a cover to it which is readily re-
movable, 30 as to give easy access to the
motor for oiling and cleaning. The wires
containing the current for the motor are
carried through an iron pipe below the
surface of the ground, and the switch
for starting and stopping the motor is
operated readily by the foot of the at.
tendant in charge of the capstan New
York Sun,
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WAR ,s IMMINENT.

The Gsowing European Crisis Greatly A9s
gravated by Italy's Condition.
It is the italian situation which most
directly threatens in this growing Eu-
ropean crisis. France has shown SUR
prising and most creditable restraint
during the past two weeks. Her ambi-
tious purpose has not been misjudged by
those who have seen the sinister designs
behind her protestations Of peace, but
she is wise enough to know that the hour
for the execution of her plans has not
quite come. But il Italy assumes an ag-
gressive part she will play into French
hands. France is ready, and with her
new ally at her back will rejoice il one
OF her adversaries will assume the re-
sponsibility Of making the attack.
The situation In Italy does not inn
prove. It has become intolerable, and
some violent result Of the crisis seems
inevitable. There is some truth in the
statement that the trouble is caused
more by moral than material decadsnce.
Patriotism has waned. The country is
bankrupt-not because it cannot pay it's
taxes, but because it will not pay. The
reply of the Marquis di Rudini to Pre-
mier Giolitti is justified when he says it
is useless to impose additional taxes, be-
cause they will yield no more than the
old ones. The people best able to pay
will, the MARQUIS asserts, evade pay
ment with more ingenuity and persever-
ance.
Giolitti's government recognizes the
truth OF this observation, and it is this
fact which gives color to the reports
that the present ministry has been on
sidering a war with France as a desper-
ate remedy for the solution of it's dilem-
ma. The people would willingly supply
the sinews of war, but they refuse long
er to be victims of the thieves in high
places, whose guilt is notorious, but who
are protected by all the of the
government and crown. If winter were
just ending instead of approaching, it
would be a question of days only, in the
opinion of many people, when Italy
would FIRE the first gun in the greatest of
European wars.
Meantime the crisis Is most embar-
RAISING one for the present rulers OF the
peninsula. 1t is difficult to see how the
winter can be passed without a crash of
some sort. Already the popular discon-
tent is at the point of revolution in some
parts of the kingdom. The government
continues to pour troops into Sicily, and
it's newspaper organs virtually admit
that the aim is she suppression of sedi-
tion rather than the extirpation of brig
andage, although the latter laudable
work is proceeding incidentally. 1t has
been ascertained that the Easel or asso-
Citations of revolutionary socialists have
a membership of 3OO, 900, embracing all
classes in Sicily. Even some regiments
are tainted, and severe disciplinary
measures have had to be taken against a
regiment of artillery at present in the
garrison at Palermo. The Sun CORE
spondent says that serious disturbances
may occur at any moment.-Ne York
Suns London Letter.
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A Luscious

There is served at the house restaurant
and for that matter at the senate res
taurant-a dish that is fit for the interior
of any man, high or low, rich or poor.
old or Yong, whom the Lord has ever
suffered to live and sin. 1t is composed
of a couple of slices of tender beef, di-
vinely roasted, inclosed between slices
of bread, divinely Drowned, and over all
is poured a half pint of the golden juice
of the meat, vulgarly known as gravy,
but whose right name is ''ambrosia.'
This dish in it's entirety is down on the
bills as shot roast beef sandwich" 1t
had it's birth in the once famed Aston
House and is the favorite brain child of
Q cook upon whom one day descended an
inspiration. For a long time it was dis
tinguished upon the capitol cartes as "a
Ia Astor House" It has become so much
q favorite with the feeders in the big
building, however. that its New York
patronymic has been dropped.-Wash-
ington Post.
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The Review OF Reviews for January 10
particularly strong in it's editorial resume
of the closing events OF the stirring and
turbulent year 1893. DIR. Albert Shaw,
the editor, discusses tariff revision, the
relief Of the unemployed, recent strikes
and labor questions, the Hawaiian
question and the Administrators policy
with regard to that subject, civil service
reform as applied to our diplomatic and
consular as we'll as their branches of the
public service, and a great variety OF
other topics of the day. Foreign affairs
are briefly but clearly presented, and this
department, entitled 1.-The Progress of
the World" presents in some twenty
pages a broad and frank treatment of
affairs political and social from Canada
to Capetown. Among the portraits
interpreted are those of Hon. w. l..
Wilson, who gives his name to the new
tariff bill; Miss Clara Barton, the
American head OF the Red Cross
Society; aud the late John Tyndall, the
eminent scientist. This list is sufi.
GENTLY illustrative of the enterprise Of
the Review of Reviews in securing
and presenting each month the portraits
Of the men whose faces the reader of the
worlds news would most naturally pre-
fer to see.
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SHARP seeeARs AND DULL ONES.
Alms Solicitors who Choose Hetwecn th
ESs E~ntrmncca or N Cafe.

Alns Solicitors who Choose Betwecn the
Entrances Of q Cafe.
A well patronized restaurant In the
neighborhood of the city hall has an en-
trance on two p~opulous thoroughfares.
In front of the one ON the north q lean
and whining beggar nightly stands with
outstretched hand. Hemakes no audible
complaint, but mutters necessarily in q
tone that excites the imagination into
conjuring up every horror that waits
upon excessive poverty. In spite Of this
he fares badly, for more men come out
Of this door than enter by it, and as their
stomachs are full the thought of hunger
in others obtains n, sliding place within
their minds.
At the down town entrance there lott
ers, when the lounging policeman Is not
in sight, a beggar Of another breed. He
is sleek and round, with a fat and shiny
face and q merry twinkle in his lazy
eyes. More than oncethe writer caught
him c~oncealing a cigar behind his back
while he extended the other hand in o
beseeching way for aims. HIS sole prayer
is for food, intermingled with fervent
pr~otestations that he is starving, and
that he never drinks q drop OF strong
liquor. Many men hurrying into the
restaurant with a poignant appetite are
touched by his prayers and pause long
enough to drop a coin into his hand.
1t is clear that the sleek beggar knows
that a hungry man is more apt to be
touched by the hunger of others than he
who is well fed, and so he chooses as
his workshop the door at which the pa
irons of the restaurant enter, leaving the
one through which they leave to the stu
pid fellow whose need, like enough, is as
great as his mumbled prayers for charity
would indicate.-New York World.
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Johnson Bios. 4 Co.
What Is as Accident?

~ ""
To the nonlegal mind the term ''acci-
dent would appear to be easily defined,
but the late Lord Chief Justice Cockburn
thought not, and on several occasions in
surance companies have sought a defni-
ton in the courts of law. 1t has been
decided that a sunstroke is not an acct
dent, but that injury to the spine through
lifting a heavy weight is one. Even if
physical ailments contribute to an acct
dent, it is covered by the policy.
The relatives Of a man who, while
bathing in shallow water, was seized
with a fit and ~suffocated, sustained their
claim, as did those of a man who, when
similarly seized, fell under a train and
was killed. Again, a person having fall
en- and dislocated his shoulder was put
to bed and carefully nursed, but in less
than a month he died Of pneumonia.
The connection between that complaint
and a dislocated shoulder is not at once
visible, bat on the ground that the rest
lessness and susceptibility to cold pro-
duced by the accident led to the disease
which killed him, the relatives were
held to be entitled to the claim.
1.-The influence of Intoxicating liquor
has been autloritatively defined as lin
fluence which disturbs the balance of a
mans mind or the intelligent exercise of
his faculties. and injuries received while
in that condition are not covered by an
accident policy. Nor are those caused
by running obvious risk, as crossing a
railway, ever at a proper place, without
exercising due care to avoid passing
trains. Chambers Journal.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-03

At the opening OF the new year a re.
dictionary storm wave will have just ex
pended itself IN western regions, and a
cold wave with rising barometer will be
pressing eastward behind the storm. By
about the Sd, the colder weather with
clearing conditions viii. have reached the
regions OF the Atlantic. At the same
time the temperature will begin to rise
and the barometer will be falling in tho
wes'. The 4th is the center of a regular
storm period, with the new moon on the
9Th, calling for the crisis of the period
about the 5th, 9th, 7th. Expect rain and
snow during the passage eastward Of the
higher temperature and falling barome-
ter, but be on the watch for the cold
wave that is certain to follow. A par
tial relaxation from cold will center on
the 10th and 18th aad reactionary squalls
of rain and snow will appear at many
points along the progressive line Of
change from west to east. Renewed cold
will follow promptly and severely, filling
the time witty sharp wintry weather up
to the anvent of the next storm period.
The 18th is the central day OF the next
period, with the moons first quarter on
the evening OF the 14th. 1t will turn
warmer in ~westernly regions by the 14th
and during the, 18th to 18th, the warmer
wave will grow in extent and degree,
causing storms OF rain and snow in it's
regular advance eastward. A cold wave
will wind up the Disturbances of the
period and bring freezing weather gen.
orally lasting until the reactionary
changes on and touching the 21st and
22d. About these dates it will grow
warmer, and more storms of rain and
snow will appear, the crisis of the dis
turbances being reached about the time
OF the full moon on the 21st. Look for
the cold wave to bring up the rear
promptly and severely.
The last storm period OF the month
about the 10th, and ends about
the 3th. During its existence the regu-
lar changes IN temperature, barometric
wind currents and all phe-
nomena belonging to a regular storm
will show themselves, in regular,
progressive order.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-03

Hot Springs, s. ID. Star, %: B. w.
Soper. the recently appointed postmas-
ter at Fairburn, j. M. Daniels, a promi-
neut rancher OF that neighborhood, ac-
companied Deputy United State Marshal
Bray. to this city, Soper being charged
with the burning of the postoffice. They
went out home again this morning and
Mr.. Bray went to Lead On the b. g. NJ,
Mr.. Daniels having gone on Nj. Soper's
bond for $500 to appear before United
States Commissioner, Walter Anderson
on Friday to answer to the charge oil
arson.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-03

The supreme C 'urt OF Pennsylvania
has handed down an important decision
in favor o. the A. o. u. w. Mrs. Ella M.
Dickinson, widow Of a deceased member,
sued the supreme lodge for $4,000, the
amount of his policy in the order. The
certificate of membership says that as
sessments must be paid before the 18th
of each month and Dickinson had allow
ed January, 1888 dues to become over
due. He died shortly after and the order
refused to pay the amount of the policy.
The Allegheny county court decided in
favor OF the A. o. U. W., and the
supreme court has sustained the verdict.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-03

New Years in South Dakota was not
devoid of the tragic incidents of life as
we'll as the gay. The accidental killing
OF George Overhultze by Editor Hoff-
man, at yermillion, was perhaps the
saddest. The shooting OF Jerry Kelley,
of WATERFOWL by John Redington over q
contested claim on the reservation, has
also It's sad features, the victim of tiend-
ish hate leaving a wife and five children.
The killing of Samuel Irvine, Of Mime
haha county by Constable jackson at
Montrose was perhaps j%ustifiable IN the
ground that he was an ugly and danger
Gus man, cruel to his wife and de-
termined to escape from Jail and the
officer while under arrest for taking his
wife's property away from her house at
Montrose. A dance at Hartford, MIN.
niehaha county, gave rise to another
distressing affair in which a young man.
Henry Smith, nephew, OF Henry Smith,
of Wayne township, the populist leader,
shot and fatally wounded another
young mar by the name of Fred Foster.
The two got into a brawl over a quarrel
of Smit g with another man, and 1T is
said Foster struck Smith with a billy,
knocking him down and then got on top
or him to pound him. While lying thus
Smith pulled his revolver and shot
Foster in self defense. All these
instances of fatality are the result of the
demoralizing practice of carrying con-
cealed weapons when there is no occasion
for it.
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Aberdeen News, L: c. Boyd Barrett,
Sr. and Jr, were arrivals Saturday eve-
ming over the Milwaukee and were &C
corded an enthusiastic reception, both at
the depot and hotel, by many personal
friends and acquaintances. The major,
who apparently never felt better in the
world-and for a very good reason, too
expects to- enter upon the discharge OF
his duties tomorrow, ard says Mrs.
Barrett and daughter will return to
Aberdeen and assist him in commencing
housekeeping as soon as he can secure a
desirable residence and make the
necessary preparations for their
reception.
"Yes, | had a little fight on my hands
at Washington" said the major to-day,
shut | returned to Aberdeen with no
malice in my heart toward my political
enemies aud with strong gratitude in
deed for those who stood with me. Both
President Cleveland and Secretary Smith
declared my endorsements were super
ior to those OF any candidate ver sub
mitted from the northwest. / had all
the old timers and fighters in the state
on my side, also the leading citizens If
respective OF parties 10 my home com.
munity and others adjacent. My friends
at Washington stood by me like a stone
wall {Sonpresgman MI. r. BALDWIN. wh,
assisted me ten years ago in the organi
zation Ut the Brown county Democrat
in the Grand Hotel at Columbia, CAV
me the heartiest support OF which h
was capable, and ] want to say RICH
here that there lis no new member at tn
capital who can begin TO compare wit
Maj Baldwin in point OF, activity an
influence. Senator Kyle also never IA
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-03

WATERFOWL Journal, %: Wednesday
evening the editor of the Journal was
queried from Chicago regarding the ex-
istence here of a Mrs. J. Lutte Bartlett,
who was supposed to be the missing heir
of one, Nicholas Lutte, deceased, OF San
Francisco, who died, leaving ar estate of
over one million dollars. Inquiry
brought the Information that il must be
Mrs. Sarah e. Chamberlain, who resides
near Kampeska. The information
gained was sent in promptly. Further
information was sought yesterday and
sent ia last night. If Mrs. Bartlett
proves her claim, her friends will be
thicker than black birds in a corn field.
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A VIVID DREAM.
A Passenger Kicked Out q sleeper Window
and Threw Himself to the Ground.

A Passenger Kicked Out a sleeper windo~
and Threw Himself to the Ground.
A young business man of Minneapolis
bought a furnace and had it set up on
Saturday. Yesterday he worked all day
showing his wife how to run it SO she
would no burn the house down, and
last evening took IA sleeper for st. Louis.
Near Fulton he had a vivid dream.
He though, his house was afire and
his family was locked up inside. With
yells of desperation which fairly froze
the blood of the other passengers in the
sleeper, he kicked in the door and found
the floor burned away. his wife and
everything in the house cremated, and
he himself landed in the cellar with u
heavy thud. The blow awoke him. and
picking himself mp he found himself by
the side of the railroad track. CHANGING
about him, expecting to see the tram q
wreck and the other passengers killed,
he saw In the starlight his train vanish
ing in the distance. He had actually
kicked ont the double window of his
berth with his bare feet and thrown him.
self feet first through the window to
the ground while the train was run.
ming % miles an hour, and was unhurt
save three cuts on his left leg. caused BIZ
the broken glass.
The passengers notified the conductor
and when the train was backed they
found the man walking to meet it. III.
was clad only in his nightclothes. !
was ALMOST impossible TO believe BIZ
story. but his condition, and the deserted
berth containing his clothes, and tn
broken window confirmed it.-Molip'
AQlls.) Cor. 81. Louis Globe-D Democrat
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A sign Of the Period.

Circumstances have changed in
deed" said q down town merchant yes
terday. 81 had q load of coal thrown
in front of my store this morning. Usu.
ally I have had to hunt up . man to
carry the coal to the back part Of my
cellar, but today that pile of coal was a
sign-like q want advertisement-which
brought no less than 10 men who wanted
to carry it back for me. When / told
them / had hired some one to do the
work, then they wanted to know If they
couldn't. do something else-anything.'
-Pittsburg Dispatch. Y
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May I Have . Fit Here, Please.

Grocer Vessel Of Twentieth street and
Fourth avenue had q queer customer the
other morning. A well dressed woman
Of middle age walked into his store, and
addressing the grocer asked quietly:
please, may l have a fit here, sirY'
"Vot is dot?' asked the mystified Mr..
Vessel.
81 would like to have q fit in your
store" replied the woman, this time in
q hurried, excited tone.
''FitI" exclaimed the grocer. 1--WE
don't keep 'em, lady"
He had one IN the store q half minute
later, however, for his supposed Gus.
TONER fell to the floor in an epileptic con-
vulsion. An ambulance was summoned,
and she was taken to Bellevue hospital.
New York Sum.
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pa.eal.s Early Observation.

Blaise Pascal, who wrote remarkable
treatise on the laws Of sound, was con-
stantly observing the familiar occur
rences about him. even as boy. When
he was only 10 years old, he sat at the
dinner table one day striking his plate
with his knife and then listening to the
sound.
"What are You doing with that piSte,
Blaises' asked his sister.
"See," he replied. when I strike the
plate with my knife, it rings. Hark."
Again ne called forth the sound. :
when / grasp it with my hand So"
he continued, 1.-THE sound ceases. Iwon-
der why it isS'-Youth's Companion.
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A Novel Sight.

Our citizens were treated to q novel
sight this afternoon. Anderson Apple,
merchant ut Helix, six miles southwest
OF here, drove q flock or 100 geese
through town for shipment t9 the city
from Helix, and as they crossed the pub
lio square each particular gouse seemed
to be squawking against time.-Paoli
Dispatch in Indianapolis Sentinel.
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Miss Marie Delacy, the 2~4-year-old
daughter Of Peter Delacy, and her cousin
had a narrow escape from death or seri-
GUS injury Tuesday afternoon in front OF
the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York.
The carriage they occupied was caught
between two cable ears, the force of con-
tact swapping off rear spring Of the
vehicle. Hundreds u persons who wit
messed the accident expected to see the
carriage broken into pieces between the
two cars, but both ladies were helped
out faint with fear and shock, but unin-
iured.
Paris Students Ball. a
There Is just now a great dispute over
the question whether the students balls
shall take place this winter. Police in
reference with one of them caused last
summers riots in Paris. Prominent
members of the French Students asso-
citation have threatened to resign unless
the balls are abandoned.-Paris Letter.
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Each successive number OF The Book
Of the Fair, by Hubert Howe Bancroft,
let's us more and more into the plan OF
the work, which is such, while avoiding
too lengthy description, as to cover the
entire ground with sufficient detail,
presents in permanent form all the char
acteristics of the great Exposition.
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RARDW sRs.
ACORN
and RANGES

ACORN Ranges have sheet fues
on five sides of the oven and
consequently they bake with
less fuel than any other Range
on the market. Acorn Stoves
and Ranges are made from new
from only which is the reason
ior their popularity as the most
durable stoves on the market.
It will pay you to examine the
Acorn line before you buy your
new stove.