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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07

heiSlum is dcnscr, and always has
'eel. The area of Holland is 12,64S
Square miles, and the population in
NV was 4.5Gf.5G5. Belgium is small
Ct, having 11,373 square miles, but in
4''V had = population of G,143,O4l, and
''us ii the two, with Il combined area
Uneth!rd that of the State of Missouri,
mere Is Il population about one-siXth
ui'' Of the United States. The pOpula-
'on or Holland is $50 TO the square
.N'1e' that Of Belgium about $50. Such
" population in such Il place is found
i'"here else in the world, and when it
remembered that these low-lying
~|ouhtrles have always been thickly set
neu' The statement that the ground on
"nich they live is a mass of putridity
van be easily understood. In a soil
logged with the refuse of ages, any
sort OF pestilence may lurk, and In view
X va dampness, the canals and the
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07

vas that no earthly power could
stop. A break would nee the inunda-
ton of thousands of acres, the blot
ting out of thousands of lives. There
have been several such breaks. In
1924 there vas II famous as the nun
dation of bort. High water in the
River Meuse occurred simultaneously
with a high tide. The dixie gave way,
and 100000 people persisted. In 1o3O
there was another failure of these de-
fenses against the sea. Heavy rains,
high water in the rivers. high tides.
and strong winds came together, and
the bikes seemed to melt away in a
hundred places at once. All the low
country was inundated and the drown
ed numbered more than 100000. There
never were more frightful disasters,
and that they are remembered in Hol-
land is proved by the zeal with which
the bikes are kept up and the interest
shown in them not only by the state,
but by every citizen.
In such Il country the problem of
drainage becomes of the first impor-
tance. Lying, as most OF it does, ut a
lower level than that of the sea, Il nat
ural drainage is impossible, and re-
course must be had to artificial means.
The extent to which this system of arti-
ticially carrying off the rainfall as well
as the water that insensibly ~percOlates
through the giant barriers that have
been raised can be appreciated only
by an actual inspection of the huge
pumps that are provided for the pur-
pose of raising and sending off the
superfluous water. When the Haar-
lem Lake was drained an enormous
steam engine was constructed for the
purpose of working eleven great
pumps, each of si%Xty-three inches in
diameter and ten-foOt stroke, and in
actual work these pumps discharged
s~ixty-six IONS of water at every stroke.
For four years the pumping went
steadily on, or from May, 1S4S, to July,
1852, when the work was finally con-
cluded, seventy square miles of area
having been cleared of twelve feet Of
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07
A BACK-ALLEY CANAL.

year and a large part of the other half
the walls of the houses, both within and
without, the woodwork, and even the
domestic utensils, feel damp and clam
my. To people who have been accus-
toned to a different climate, such per-
sistent dampness is very hard to bear,
and even the natives, accustomed as
they are to much moisture, suffer from
it, for diseases such as rheumatism,
consumption and others induced by
the climate, are very common.
But the n~ever-ceasing dampness has
another unfavOrable feature, which, to-
gether with the fiat and depressed
country and the innumerable canals,
render Holland peculiarly liable to such
Il disease as cholera. 1t is generally
understood that Dutch housewives are
the neatest people on the earth. The
housekeeperS of other nations may be
neat from principle; with the Dutch
n%eatness has become a mania. A Hol-
land housewife is never SO happy as
when she is scrubbing and washing and
polishing. The broom and dust-pan are
lltNtl Out VI Z IL iNtlt llillIS
about the house is as clean as o and
sand and water can make it: the floor
is white, the doors and furniture are
stainless; the kitchen utensils might be
used as mirrors. Most of the rooms of
the big Dutch houses are closed, and
entered once or twice Il week only that
they may be cleaned: the front door is
opened only on great OCCASIONS, for the
family and family visitors go in and
cut at the back door in order to save
soiling the front steps and hall. The
most fastidiOus man or woman could
take no exception to the energy and
zeal with which every detail of the
house is attended to, for the closest
scrutiny fails to reveal a spot that has
not been scrubbed and soaped and
sanded and polished until it shines.
At the same time, however, it should
be understood that while this craze
for cleanliness Is obvious and honest,
1t is not In the least intelligent. The
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07

engine, have in view. The Messrs.
Thwaite & Swinburne, in England,
too, in agitating the subject of
distributing electricity from the Mid
land coal districts direct to London
have contemplated the use of gas en-
CINE units of 3OO-horse power for a
10,00O-hOrse power station, so that the
era Of gas engines of several hundred
horse power each would seem to be
fairly ushered in. The Pantin mills en-
CINE, as a result Of a 194-hOur test,
shows q consumption of 1,043 pounds
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07

worlds history records no more des-
perate expedient than that adopted by
William the Stakeholder, who resolved
to cut the bikes and let in the sea, rath-
ny than submit to the French invaders,
but the device was entirely successful;
the French army was literally drowned
out of the country, and the Hollanders
remained v%ictors, though retaining SOW
ereignty Of only watery waste. Every
other year the bikes have been watch
ed with scrupulOus care. Day and
night watchmen patrol their whole
length with keen eyes, for the tiniest
leak would, in Il few hours, become q
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07
CANALS OF HOLLAND.
rurY ARE A CONSTANT MENACE
TO HEALTH.
,Iaud of Perpetual Moisture Where
Cholera Finds Easy Judgement
cities Built on the Refuse of Eight
Hundred Years.
D;scase.Brccding Waters.

GLANDS city
canals are sources
of constant peril to
health. 1t is true
that great precau-
tons are taken to
insure the purity
of the water, but
even with precau,
tons, the water
can not be kept
pure. There are
stringent municipal
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07

ter means of gratifying them than the
salary of a lieutenant, and Mario went
on the stage in 1887, to remain there un-
til 1867, when his voice gave way and
he retired. He had lived like a prince,
spending money for every whim, and
to crafty no only the caprices of him.
self but also those of his wife, the al.
most equally renowned Grisi.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07
quantity that would be required for the
best mountaineering engines.
The Stage Paid Better than the Army

Mario, the born tenor, was the son Of
an Italian count, and he himself was
formerly known as Mario, COnte Iii
Gambia, but Italian noblemen are not
always rich, and Mario's father found
all his exhausted when he
had bought his son q commission in the
army. Expensive tastes soon com-
PEELED the young conte to seek some bet-
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07

pencil from the same man, who is evk
IDENTIFY Il great traveller, for his letters
bear all the stamps of the world. Ha
informs the great novelist that he trains
animals to pronounce his world-fame1
name and then lets them 90.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07

Of coal per brake horse power per hourA
The consumption Of jacket cooling
water and water for the gas pro-
ducers and washer for the same test
was found to be $50 pounds per horse
power per hour. or very much less than
the best condensing steam engines
would use, though about double the
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07

houses are built in the most insanitary
manner, without the slightest regard
to modern principles of construction
or drainage, and from cracks in the
floor there often issue Odors always Of
fensive, sometimes very dangerous.
Amsterdam has been a city ever since
the year 100, and how much longer
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07

regulations against the throwing of any
hind of offal or refuse matter into the
canals. but to judge from the smell of
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07
A Sad Waste Of Time.

For the last fifteen years, at regular
intervals of three months, Alphonse
Daudet has received q note, written i'm
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07
Cherokee Coal Is Cheap.

Cherokee coal Is being laid down in
Kansas City to the packing houses II
from $1.15 to $1.35 q ton.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07

The only way out is to get out.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09
THE ANTITOxINE DISCUSSION.

Professor Drasche's Criticism Unfavorable
to the New D%iphtheria Remedy.
The physicians of two or three Euro
pean capitals are beginning to find seri-
Gus drawbacks to the use of the new
remedy for d%iphtheria. The subject was
carefully discussed at the Medical soci-
ETY. in Vienna this week. Professor
Drasche's criticism was unfavorable to
the new method, owing to the effects
which he had observed in 80 cases. He
found that injections of Behring's anti
toxine serum affected the kidneys seri-
ously. This observation was corroborated
by other doctors. They said that in the
presence of this fact it could no longer
be believed that the injection had no in
furious effects. 1t could not be a matter
of Indifference that a patient who was
recovering from a dangerous illness
should be subjected, through this rem.
edy, to a further serious malady.
Up to the present time, for observa-
tions have been much too short to per-
NIT a final decision as to the value of
the treatment, it is clear that it's appli-
cation should be limited. With regard
to the statistics which were supposed to
prove it's success Professor Drasche said
that in diphtheria, bare figures were NO
evidence. London Letter.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09

florist, of Broadway. On the morning
Of the funeral he told the reporters that
he had the contract to supply fresh flow
ers every day for a year for the grave.
For this he was to receive 500 a day,
he said, and in all he would receive
$40, 900 from Mr.. Astor. On the day
after the funeral Mr.. Fleischman sent
to the newspaper offices a typewriter
story of the alleged contract given tc
him by Mr.. Astor. He was. he said, to
furnish 4, 900 fresh lilies of the valley
and 4, 900 violets each day. He repeat
ed the statement yesterday to a reporter
of The Sun, and then, being confronted
with the facts, admitted that he had in
vented the whole story.
Superintendent Otto Meurer Of the
cemetery and his brother Albert, who is
sexton of Trinity church chapel and had
charge of the funeral, say that no such
order for flowers was given by Mr.. AS
tor to anybody. New York Sun.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09
InsDection of Soldiers Homes,

WASHINGTON, March "A report Of
the inspection of the several branches Of
the national home for disabled volunteer
soldiers, made by General J.. G. Breck.
inridge, inspector general of the army,
has been sent to congress. The duty Of
inspecting the several branches of the
home related to over $4,000 men, and
disbursements amounting to 81, 1853, 173.
There is probably nothing, the report
says which more deserves consideration
than the comfortable housing of :
soldiers. Eyw to secure the speediest
relief for these feeble and worthy men
in time for them to profit by it deserves
the most serious consideration. Every.
where, the report says, there wa talk Of
the unprecedented pressure for admission
to the home.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09
Hears With His Mouth.

A boy whose mouth is wonderful, in
that it does the double service Of tasting
and hearing, was in San Antonio today.
His name is John Mihand, and his home
is at Sabinal. He was born ten years
ago. Both ears were closed at birth,
and they have never been of service to
him. But by a remarkable freak of ma
ture his mouth has done what his ears
ought to have done, and he is not in
commoded in the slightest. Several local
doctors examined and tested the powers
of the mouth and pronounced the case
a phenomenon without a parallel San
Antonio (Tex.) Dispatch.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09
A Question Making Much Noise.

A discussion is raging in Erie owe a
question propounded by a schoolteacher
to her class, eff a tree located in a for
est should fall and no one should see it,
would it make a noise?" The question
has created much discussion among the
pupils to whom it was presented, and it
has spread into older and wider circles.
The debate turns upon the theory that
sound exists only in the ear, and that
there can be no sound where there is no
ear to receive and respond to the atmos-
pheric waves.-Oil City Blizzard.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09
A FLORISTS FAKE.
The Story of the blanket of Flowers" or
Mrs. AstOr's Grave an Invention.

The Story Of the "Blanket of Flowers" on
Mrs. Astor's Grave an Invention.
May women have visited Trinity
cemetery, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth
street and Amsterdam avenue, in the
past few days to see the marvellous
'blanket of flowers which was said to
"cover the casket'' of Mrs. William
Waldorf Astor, and which was to be
renewed every morning for a year, by
Mr.. Astor's order. Mrs. Astor was bur-
led on Jan. 8, not in a vault, but in a
grave, in the northwestern corner of
the Aston plot. On the day of the funeral
the mound of earth was covered with
pine boughs. The evergreens have not
been removed, end except at one corner,
which has been uncovered by inquisitive
visitors, the grass is covered with snow.
The laborers in the cemetery have swept
a path through the burial plot, and
about the grave a path has been trodden
by men and women.
The cemetery employees have grown
very tired of having their word doubted
by women who inquire the way to the
Astor vault and the blanket of flowers
on the coffin. No flowers at all have
been placed on the grave, and they can
| see for themselves that non can be put
on the casket. So the women insist that
the coffin is not in the grave, but in the
vault of John Jacob Aston, and they ask
to have the vault opened, so th:5 they
can see this wonderful covering. AL
though the man explains to them how
impossible 'and useless it would be to
comply with their requests, they de-
part unsatisfied and doubling his word.
The old gatekeeper, who has been
employed about the cemetery % years,
has to bear the brunt of their inquiries
and disappointments. He said that the
other evening, just as he was closing the
gates, two women begged for admit
lance, saying that they had come all the
way from East New York to see the
flowers and would not 60 home unsatis-
fed. Some come from other states, and
two came from what seemed to him the
antipodes-Staten Island.
All this annoyance and d~isappoint.
ment is due to joseph Fleischman. a
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09
Each Had a Dog.

The elevator in the Victoria hotel
lifted the following load the other day:
Mrs. Kendall, Mrs. Kendal's dog and
Mr.. Kendall, Miss Sibyl Sanderson, Miss
Sibyl Sanderson's dog and her fiance,
Antonio Terry, Mrs. Langtry and Mrs.
Langtry's pup. No wonder the coun-
try's going to the demnition bowwows
New York Letter.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09
Pistol Practice In Texas.

I'VE have Is, O1O mutilated and worn
silver dollars in our vault, said a SUBJ
treasury official at ST. Louis. "We also
have over 500, 600 half dollar, quarter and
dime pieces which have become too thin
for use. 1t is a curious thing. that the
mutilated dollars which we received from
Texas are deeply indented. This is a re-
suit of the target practice in Texas. The
crack shots down there think that a silver
d ollar is the best kind of a mark"
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09
A Sail on the Clouds.

There's a beautiful cloud feet passing by,
With white sails all unfurled.
Let's take a sail DER the blue expanse
And visit the mystery world.
Well sail and sail DER the spacious sea,
With the pilot Breeze to steer,
And never come back to the earthland sweet
For a day and a month and a year.
Well visit the place where the little dame
Flucks wool from the feecy clouds
And weaves it into the snow white robes
That are sent for the winter shrouds.
Well sail to the west when the day is done
And watch while the artists hand
Is painting the glow in the sunset sky
With gorgeous colors and grand.
And We'll see how he fills his treasure jars
With pigments of brilliant dye,
Where red and yellow and crimson tints
With the royal colors vie.
For these he must use when the harvest moon
Looks down on the ripened sheaves
And the time has come to brighten the earth
By painting the forest leaves.
Well watch the sun as his chariot rolls
Far down the horizons rim,
And he carries the beautiful day along,
And earthland is growing dim.
Then We'll sail to the north, where the Major
Bear
Is holding his dipper of rain,
And vel listen to hear how the flower laugh
AS he empties it over the plain.
Wen explore the place where the comet
abides
And brushes her hair of gold,
Or plays coQuette with the polar star,
Or dances with meteors bold.
Then We'll skim the cream from the Milky
Way
And make us a choice repast
And lay us TO sleep upon downy beds
And dream while the night shall last.
Then waking We'll sail to the reddening east,
Where morning comes in at the gate,
And watch the sun with his prancing steeds
Ride up to the door in state.
Then again DER the ~boundless blue We'll float,
Far off in the ether clear,
And never come back to the earthland sweet
For a Gay and a month and a year.
Mary l.. Wyatt.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09
CT MS IN We RISE.
The "New Woman"


The b.ave "new woman scorns to sigh
And count it such a g%rievous thing
That year on year should hurry by
And no gay sutton bring.
In labor's ranks she takes her place,
With skillful hands and cultured mind,
Not always foremost in the race,
But never far behind.
And not less lightly fall her feet
Because they tread the busy ways.
She is no whit less fair and sweet
Than maids of olden days
Who, gowned in samite or brocade,
Looked charming in their dainty guise,
But dwelt like violets in the shade,
With shy, half opened eyes.
OF life she takes a clearer view
And through the press serenely moves
Unfettered, free, with judgment true,
Avoiding narrow grooves.
She reasons, and she understands,
And sometimes it's her joy and crown
To lift with strong yet tender hands
The burdens men lay down.
e. Matheson.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09

81, 900, 900 for French %spoilation claims
and war claims were also passed.
Eulogies were pronounced on the late
Representative Lisle ky.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09
Our Actors.

1t is a remarkable fact that most of
the SO called Irish comedians in this
country are Americans, and most of the
English actors are Irish. New Orleans
Picayune.
2 FAKE.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09
Our Lady Of Oblivion.

The weak, the weary and the d~esolate,
The poor, the mean, the ~outcast, the op-
pressed
All trodden down beneath the march of fate,
Thou gatherest, loving sister, to thy breast,
Soothing their pain and WEAKNESS asleep,
Then in thy hidden dreamland hushed and deep
Dost lay them, shrouded in eternal rest.
james Thompson.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09

Justice, when equal scales she holds, is blind
Not cruelty nor mercy change her mind.
When some escape for that which others die,
Mercy to those, to these is cruelty.
Sir J.. Denham
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-01-18
BECOMING FREQUENT.
Report of Outragcs committed on the
Indian Reservations.

Report of Outragcs Committed on the
Indian Reservations.
Extreme measures must be rcsorted to in
order to put u stop to criminal assaults
which are becoming of frequent occurrence
on some of the Indian reservations inthis
state. Information from Pine Ridge and
Rosebud Reservations in this state is to the
effect that such crimes are becoming alarm
ingly frequent. The worst feature of the
matter is that in nearly every case of this
kind little Indian girls from s to II years
old are the victims of the burly Indians.
The capture of Thunder Hawk brings to
justice of the most desperate and dan
gerOus Indians of this sort oil the Sioux
Reservation. 1t will he remembered that u
week or two ago the dead bodies of a
sQuaw and child were found on the prairie
by some Rosebud Agency Sioux. An in
vestigatiOn fastened the crime on Thunder
Hawk and John Lance, an educated In
dian. Both are now in Jail at Hot Springs
awaiting the next session OF United States
Court, which cOnvenes in Dc2dwo0d next
month. Outrage was the object and the
squaw and her child we're murdered to
cover up the crime. Thunder Hawk, who
was formerly a lieutenant in the Rosebud
Agency police, but was discharged for his
meanness, was the chief factor in the deed.
Lance claims that all he did was to throw
one rock at the woman, and he had to do
this for fear of Thunder Hawk, who threat
ened to kill him Il he did not. Intense
feeling against the two criminals exists
among the Rosebud Indians, and the men
certainly would have been killed by their
people if the opportunity had presented
itself. The evidence against them is very
strong. 1t is probable that Thunder Hawk
at least will be made an example for other
Indians who are tempted to commit SINH
1or nri,naS
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-01-18
Dest,tution In south Dakota.

A letter received at vermillion by Rev.
Mr.. Rogers, missionary of the American
Sunday School Union, from Rev. George
Harding, Tulare, Sphinx County, says:
III am not able to tell you one-third Of
the suffering among tho people. Many
had no crops at all, therefore no supplies
for the winter. 1 can refer you to families
of from two to six and eight children who
have not been able to purchase a particle
OF clothing since last year and many chill
drcn are nearly bare. Money is needed to
purchase fuel. 1 found on calling on q
family that their only provisions were po-
tatocs, nothing to burn but green willows
to keep them from freezing. This is only
a sample case. Much of the suffering will
never be known. Anything in the shape
of clothing or money will be gratefully re-
ceivcd."
Many who have heretofore used hay for
fuel are now compelled to find something
else, as there was no grass to cut.
The destitutiOn in South Dakota lies
north and west of a line drawn from Yank-
ton to Canton, with Sphinx County about
the center of the droutll stricken district.
In some counties, notably Sphinx, Clark,
kingsbury, McCook and Miner and cuun-
ties west the destitution is severe.