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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10

~ have Just returned from the in
terror Of the state. where was
called upon 10 aid an indigent
preacher, said IA wei l-krOwn iIctrot
minister Of the gOsl ell to Free Press
reporter, and what ! saw there has
set me to thinking. There he was
with live small children and a wife.
and not more than $500 a year at the
fuNthcst coming into the house. OF
course they didn't have ever the bare
necessities Of lie. and had often SUI
fered IA. hardship, for the neighbJr~
were scattered and miles away. and
even when they did get together it
was tound that combined they were
too poor u help wen themselves let
alone anybody else, even thoUgh il
he their minister. His house wa a
small cottage. with rag carpet Oh the
DOR OF the front only, and IA
bare i'oOr when YOU had gotten lie,
yond that. | was shown their larder.
ana was So rriSed to see in il only a
few pieces Of cold meat and Il half
loaf OF bread, which / was assured
WIS two weeks Old. | am going TO
see what | can do TO assist that fam
lly by collecting money for their ben
ext, and / viii visit every church in
my denomination. and viii expect
them all to contribute literally.
The men who cater TO the amusc-
ment and tine StOmach> of the people
Stlnd the .lest show OF getting ricn.
There j. a wa.l,e poddlcr in this city
VINO Il lew years ago was too poor
even 10 buv a basket IN which to
cary his wares, Yet to-day he owns
Aa!' a dozen house, and lots, and can
probably count hi> POSSESSIONS up to
$4,000. Then there is Il popcorn
man who started in IN much the same
way. and now he is the proprietor of
a line place and is making money as
last as he can rake i Ia.
"A ballet dances j. paid 5000 4
week t. kick before the public. while
the spo0i minister, who caters TO
spiritual needs On.y, is forced to
st1rye on less than that amount a
YEAR. y good singer in an opera
company Is paid a like amount, while
n Il church choir he could not make
his salt. II shows me that there i,
much more attention paid to the
worldly needs OF the community than
to their spiritual equipment. This
i an enlightened country, ana the
churches had more 10 do with bring
Ing about this state OF affairs than
any other one agency, Yet it is not
more than half recognized"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
A CURIOUS TRADE.
pUBLISHEH

Men Who Exterminate Ants for q Liveli-
hood.
The f1ercenesS and strength Of the
ants in warm countries make them
truly formidable enemies and when
they found a,colony directly under the
houses OF human beings every means
has to be used to drive them away.
This necessity has created the ant
man. His stock in trade is an NOR
nous bellows. and a load OF a GER
tain kind of wood found in the neigh
boring forests. After stopp ny up all
the openings leading under the house,
except a central one, he cn,arges that
and forms it into a furnace that will
admit the pipe of the bellows
Then he lights a fire, and with the
aid of the great bellows forces the
smoke into the ant citadels under the
surface of the ground. or course.
these are very porous, and when the
smoke passes through them, 1t goes
out into the house above. Then the
ant.man leaves az assistant to wOr
the bellows, and going into the house
stops up every crack that he can
find.
Meanwhile there is a wild COM
motion among those doomed insects
whose home is being bombarded with
smoke. They understand their dan
ger with the very first puff that
reaches them and know that the r
only nope is in flight. They all hasten
to the central chamber, where their
precious eggs are stored. At a given
signal from their chief each one
seizeS an eng, then all turn in haste
into the suDterranean passages that
lead into the garden, DESERVING their
homes and carefully stored stock of
provisions, but holding fast to the
treasured eggs.
But there, before them, are the
cruel wreaths of blue smoke They
turn and rush to another passage.
Inc anne thing there. As a for
Torn hope the poor ants run into the
old deserted galleries or set to work
To make new ones. hoping the r
enemy Will not lnd them there
at least
But the ant.man is patrojling the
SibhIi'iH dtUCuN Llc liOt~c. - tIic
ola or new galleries are cleared out
ny the brave little ants the smoke
pcnetrates them and comes t. the
surface in a thin wreath. They are
thus BETRAYED as well as s%m0thered,
ANA a stroko Of the spade end, their
fra TIC effort at escape.
All this time fresh quantities Of the
hot smoke arr being forced through
their highways and hyWays, and the
fran bodi : of the formiga are shriNcl-
ling and dropping along their line Of
attempting retreat. soon they cease
to struggle. The can not breathe
the raritied. smONc-laden air. The
next DAY, Wien the soil has cooled
OF, they are found calciued in their
once busy gallcric>, Their roasted
eggs at their side. Poor little cieat-
urcs. But their human victim, call
the ant-man Il HES, NJ.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
His Destructive Bump.

1t isn't often that you see >uc"'
high development of destructlVene''
in a man as l observed while Oh q
titchburg train the other day, i.S
man was about 40, w~ell-dressed' WI"
clipped mustachc. When he hau liz III.
ished reading a letter he had III Il"
hand he tore it into small pieces
That was all right. But ne 10
newspaper out of his poke. anu ur :
that up, too, spreading the frasn N
Owe the car floor. When ne cdln IN
his last cigarette he tore the DoA he
with a vicious movement. lhen
started to cut the window ledge WI" tor
his knife. When the COnuu he
stopped him he looked as tnousn
would like to carve the Conouc'"'
Boston Post. 4
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
The Expense of Church Music.

The cX cn>e Of the music in the
church Is a perpetual problem, the
solution OF which must depend upon
the circumstances Of the church,
writes the Rev. LYMAN Abbott in an
able article on 81 he Church aud the
Choir" in the Ladies' Home Jour.
nal. Ny W experience leads me to
the conviction that the first thing
lor cnurch 10 do is TO secure Il good
organi>t and choir. master, and LAY
them a fair compensation. If it then
has surplus funds it may well cXpend
them in hiring a few leading singers,
but 1t should ncver cndeavor To make
a concert platform OF the Choir loft,
nor hope to draw people to church by
the same attraction which draw
them t. the cOnccrt-room.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
Sugar, Iong..

Tie use Of tong' .or taxing u
heated metals or smali lamp, OF any
thing was known 10 The Anglo+HaX-
tango. so were probably in vogue
as soon as the use Of '.umY" sugar
beclmn common. Fork, We're intro
du ed into England 10y Thoma, Cor
yat IN zoos, having seen them il
Italy. FIRST known there at the end
of the fifteenth century: and silver
fork, were introduced about the year
lsli; but two-rronged steel ones
were manuiartu ed at sheffield soon
after C0ryat employed II himself.
In the zine Of queen Elizabeth
tyncss MORRISON describes the use O.
a fork, as he observed i 1T Venice:
in his Itinerary.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
A shower OF Feathers.

the emlntent surgeon Sir A,t!Cy
Cooper was fond Of a practical Joke.
Dn one occasion he a,ccuded the
church tower OF a village i'll Nor
folk. taking with him enc OF his
mothers pillows, and finding the wind
below directly To the next town, he
let of handfuls o! feathers, until he
mad emptied the pillow. The local
papers reported this ''rcm1-kable
shower Of .leathers, and offered vari-
Gus c%onJectures TO &c cunt FOR il, and
the account was copied into other
papers, and was prODabiy received as
a perfectly natural occurrence -
Notes and Queries
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
In These .Agnosiic DAYS.

Here is Bishop IIurst's idea OF
you-arc-a-Christian." SAID he in his
address to the candidates represent
ing themselves to the Cincinnati
conference: "Iou are to teach the
people the Methodist doctrine and
usagcS You are not to apologize for
anything Of Methodist doctrine and
polity. Appreciate the honor Of
preaching in the Methodist Episcopal
Church," Evidently the bishopthinks
M~cthodi>m is the very best form OF
Christianity on earth But we think
the above would make an excel .cnt
eXhOrtation for Young men seeking
the ministry of our church, only we
would substitute Prcsby terian where
the Bishop employs Methodist OF
Methodist EDiscopi', We like to
hear the Bishop talk this way. II
sh w. he believes something, which
Is very refreshing in these days Of Il
don't know" and Il don't ~bclicyr.'
Herald and Presbyter.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
TOSethpr.

Two children, ven II both are
healthy, should not be required to
sleep together, says Childhood. They
are apt in their sleep to turn their
faces toward each other, and thus
mingle their brcaths. One may be
uncomfortable under the amount Of
covering needed by the other; one
may like the sensation of the fresh
night air on his chest and hands, and
the other be sensitive to the cold.
Very rarely are the necessities of two
temperaments perfectly adjusted to
each other. And fire. uently one child
awakens refreshed aud the other tired
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10

and irritable, showing that the al.
vantages have been all on one side.
1t is better to accustom a child 20 a
simple springlcss cot bed, his exclu-
sive property, than to oblige him to
occupy the most luxurious couch
shared with another person.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
tractive way.

tractlve way.
India has served many gods. he
says, and the monuments raised in
their honor are countless. 1t APP
pears to be generally believed at the
present day that the religion of India
is Buddhism. How this common i'm
preston gained ground it is hard to
say. When Sir Edwin Arnold pub
lished THE Light Of Asia" he did
not think it necessary to state that
Gautama the Master had no longer
any following in the country which
witnessed his birth and molly life: but
Sir Edwin'S book produced 4 religious
revival, or something very like it,
among a certain class OF semi-intel-
ligent readers who are continually
~foraging for some new titbit Of re-
ligiOn with which to tickle the dull
ems Of their immortality into a
relish for Heaven.
There are no BuddhiStS IN India.
There are many in Ceylon, and there
is d sect Of them in Ncpal. an indie
pendent territory TO the North, on
the borders OF BudQhistic Tibet. The
religion vanished from India in the
early centuries OF the Christian era.
The neO-BrahnIanS set up anti-Budd-
has. 50 TO speak. in the figures Of
kriShna, Mahadeva. and Rama-dem-
igOd> and idols OF the great neo-
Brahmanlc religions, Nishnu-worship
and Siva-wOrshin: and these swept
everything else before them until the
Mohammedan con .ucst and 1T the
present day, IN n shape or another.
these forms of belief are adhered to
by five siXth~ OF the population, the
remainder being Nu>,ulmaiIs. The
BuddhlSts are gone, though not with
out leaving behind them a rich legacy
of hilosophic thought, and many
moments OF their artistic genius.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
Rules to Follow in Conversation

Eail.ery is the finest part OF con.
yerSatlOa, but. rs is ourusual custom
to counterfeit and adu,terate what.
ever Is too dear tor Us. so we have
done with this, and turned it all into
what IS generally called repartee, or
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10

linz lCiuIio IoDS UO0 and man
steals from himself. "an
No LIFE can be a failure when End
reigns in the heart. 'Vu
The Bible offers no premium q,
lazincss or improvidence. I'd
HAVE faith in God, and Won wi,
never need anything else.
A MAN may have a good deal q, ,,
ligion and yet not have Christ,
MANY a man who has no fear NJ .
lion backs down before a gnat.
JESUS CHRIST never sought his ow,
popularity. Some preachers do.
AN unmerciful man is the on,.
kind of a sinner God cannot forpjvs
A WORLDLY woman would ratba,
be praised for her beauty than her
wit.
II is hard for anybody else to please
the man who Is well pleased with
himself.
II will hurt you more to live a dav
without prayer than to live it with.
out bread.
DECIDE to give up sin and see how
soon skcpticism will have to Ieave
your heart.
TIE people who disappo int God
most are those who try to fight their
own battles.
IT is one Of the first laws Of God
that the man who will not give Shall
not possess.
TIE blood of Christ was shed n
make every promise in the Bible
worth its face.
II takes some preachers a lone
while To find out that Tod employs
no hired help.
ALL true prosperity begins by seek.
ing first the Kingdom Of God ana hs
righteousness.
A revival may always be had in aDr |
church that is willing to give up The
world to get it.
SOME preachers are afraid to de.
clare that the wages of sin is death
for fear their pay Will stop.
ONE Of the hardest things the devil
has ever tried to do is to pat a long
face On ii happy Christian.
If you ale faithful to present duties
God will promote you to higher ones
As oOn as it is safe to do it.
TO BE willing for any kind Of sin
to stay in your heart, is to be willing
for the devil to W the earth.
JOB was the richest man in all his
country, and yet he vas far richer in
Heaven than he was on earth.
GOD would have his children to still,
be rich when moth and rust and rob,
ber> have taken all they Can take,
WHENEVER an oath falls from the
lips it is an evidence that the devil
is still having things his own way ia
the heart.
1t is all right for the dead to look
dead, but those who profess to es
alive in Christ ought to show 1t "
their looks.
THERE is no lifting power in The
life OF any man VINO performs his re-
ligiOus duties with the air OF a tired
man at work.
''WHEN We fast be not Of a sad
cOuntenancc," shows that God Is N0V
helped any by going to church witAa
long face.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10

'ARION w.
ford is a true cos
m%OpOlite, equally
at home IN Benares
on Broadway,
and yet his imag-
nation s e c nj S
mostly dominated
by the things Of
the Orient. In
the Century ne has
an i S t ing
article on "GOdS
of India" treating
the subject in his
own graceful, at.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
H GOSPELOF
ExPOUNDED BY OUR RELIGIOUS
EDITOR.

Marion Crawford COrreots a Very Com
mon SmpressiOn-ChOir Musicians Should
he Paid-Have the Spirit OF Your COmvic-
tiOrs- Brief But Pointed sermons
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
RAMS HORN BLASTS
Warning Notes Calling the WicL.,.
pent0nce. NJ

VERY time a
Dbl planes thlei
himself.
~ f wisdom
Goa e',Iti gives takes kln
with it all o the,
gifts. witt
SIN hates the
man who makes
itstop and think.
ITS r;oh..
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10

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One whole counter crowded with pretty,
new Wash Dress Goods, all sorts and
kinds, both light and dark colorings, at
Special Sale Prices.
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PERs oNAL AND PECULIAR.

Gen. James B.Weaver has got the
Democratic nom ination for Congress in
the 9Th Iowa district as we'll as the
populist nomination.
The will of Bavarian woman, provides
that $4,000 marks be set apart from her
estates to help the cause Of universal
peace. The in terest of $4,000 is to be
given to the German Peace Society in
Berlin and the interest of the rest is to
be sent to the International Peace
Bureau in Berne.
Mark Twain is not afraid of perpetra t.
ing joke on himself. He said the othe
day that it gave him real pleasure t.
hear that his works were almost the only
thing which Darwin read during tho
last year of his life, till he heard that
Darwin suffered from a k ind of mental
atrophy and was forbidden to read any
thing but the most absolute drivel.
A new plan tor mounting telescopes SO
as to avoid sunsteadiness resulting from
conclusion of the earth's surface has
been proposed by Sir Howard Grubb,
the English astronomer. He proposes
to mount the instrument SO that 1t shall
practically float on liquid support, and
in this way he hopes to do away entirely
with those slight jars which are so de-
trimental to stellar photography, max
Ing each star streak instead of dot.
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longer and see. The curtain has not yet
been rung Gown, though the play is sub
stanulally over. Wsit and see.
New York Herald, (Ind. u
Under compulsion of the darkest and
foulest conspiracy. in the annals of any
nation the House of Representatives has
passed the Senate tariff bill.
my Sun, (Dem.0
The House having thus surrendered
and accepted the party dishonor that fol-
lows party perfidy, and having asserted
Its doubtful claim to the possession of
the tariff bill and its right to pass the
same and send it direct to the President,
If Mr.. Cleveland. in his turn, should
take hand in the perfdy and accept
his share of the dishonor by signing the
bill he has denounced, or by otherwise
permitting it to become law on what
issue will the Democracy 90 into the
campaign soon to open for the control of
the tifty-fourth. Congress
God preserve the party that goes to the
people with such a record of perfdy,
such confession of dishonor!
my. Times, Qnd.}l
The party of tariff reform, after TWEEN
ty years of waiting, comes into plum
dered inheritance. 1t is lord of the fee,
but the estate has been ravaged. And
the robbers and ravagers are of it's own
plumber and joint heirsl The pride and
JOY of possession are changed to shame
and wrath. but if the Democratic party
would take vegeance on the spoilers, it
must strike down its own kin.
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The Tariff Bill.

springfield Republican, Qnd
Gormanism now remains to be Crap
pied with. 1t is question of just the
bigness of the anarchistie trusts.
BOSTON Herald, Ind).l
We hardly need say that in our opin-
ion, the complete surrender which the
House has made to the Senate in this
matter is very regretable, alike in it's
moral, its financial and it's industrial as
poets. We regret it all the more because
we cannot think it was necessary
Providence Journal, Und.)
It must certainly be thought that in
the approval of this bill by its represen-
tatives in both branches of Congress the
Democratic party has seen written it's
own death warrant, at least SO far as the
Immediate future is concerned. A party
which has adopted policy that it's own
best-known leader has declared to- be one
of "perfidy and dishonor" surely cannot
expect intelligent and honest men to sup
port it at the polls.
Providence Journal, Qnd.)
The Democrats may have to pass the
next few years in wondering where the
tariff discussion of the past nine months
has left them but one thing is certain,
the President of the Sugar Trust is a
bigger man than the President of the
boston Advertiser, (Rep).l
William L. Wilson is the Ancient
Pistol of the play. He has been osten-
tatiously wearing his leek in the shape
of free raw materials conspicuously
displayed upon mis- person, defyin all
corners to touch it. Arthur p. German
is Fluellen, who has unceremoniously
banged the leek about Pistols ears But
the cast of characters would not be COM
plete without a Falstaff. Who shall
stand for the fat knight? Who is it
that has been valiant in words, valorous
In valn-glorious Boosting. foremost in
professions of readiness to enter upon
Warilke excursions, but quick to take
TO mas heels when set upon by corpor-
airs guard OF men in buckram? Who
is 1T, portentous and portly, whose, high
swelling courage oozes out before n gen
ulne blow has been struck, who HACKS
his sword and swears twas done in fight,
who "lards the lean earth" in haste to
escape from imaginary perils, and echoes
the Falstaffian sentiment that "the bet
ter part OF valor is discretion?n Is there
any body at Washington whose physical,
mental and moral qualifications fit him
to play this part? Is there ANYBODY
taking his ease in his inn at the capital.
government inn, possibly, Though
commonly called by another name. whose
professions of consecrated fidelity bear a
proportion to his performance at this su-
preme crisis similar to Sir Johns ratio
of sack to bread? We will wait little
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The Argus seconds demand from the
Lewiston Sun that the PRESS enumer-
ate the benefits which Mr.. Reed has OBJ
tanned for his district. Two years ago
the Argus was making the same hack
neyed complaint, which it had probably
been repeating in every Congressional
campaign since Mr.. Reed was first nomi
mated. Mr.. Ingraham, thinking perhaps
that the point was new, put it forth Just
as Mr.. Daering has done in this cam
paign. The PRESS, at that time, took
occasion to enumerate some of Mr..
Reeds special services for the district.