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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-07-27
A Royal Shooting Diary.

". A. Baillie- Grohman writes an
article Oh ''Sports In the Seventeenth
Century for The Century. Mr.. Baillie-
Grohman, speaking of some of the old
recsu*s of the chase. says:
One of the most interesting records
of this kind is a manuscript folio vol.
ume Of $40 pages, gorgeously bound in
green velvet, with solid gold clasps,
which is the list of game hunted and
shot by John George /, elector Of Sax
ony, the foremost sportsman of his CEN
fury. 1t is supposed to be mostly in his
own handwriting and forms one Of the
treasures of the royal library at Dres-
den. From this punctiliously kept shoot
ing diary we learn that between July
IL, 1911, and the day of his death, Jan.
IL, 1856, this Nimrod and his suit
bagged 10, $50 head Of game, made up
of the unprecedented total of 1888 red
deer, 81, 145 wild bears, 1872 bears. SIS
wolves, etc.. the 20 beaver enumerated
among the smaller animals making up
the balance being, perhaps, the most
interesting, as showing the prevalence
of an animal at present almost extinct
in Europe.
The great weight Of some of the stays,
boars and bears brought to book by the
elector is as surprising as the enormous
totals we have given. Today red deer
stays of 800 pounds avoirdupois are,
with the exception, perhaps, Of Hunga-
lian red deer. considered unusually fine
animals. Indeed, Scotch deer of that
weight ~(clean) are today next to un-
known. How much. therefore, must he
race have degenerated when we read Of
stays killed by the above sportsman
scaling over $50 pounds a~voirdupois and
hear that he shot 4, 1879 stays which
weighed over 45O pounds! The antlers
of these animals were in proportion to
their bulk. Every sportsman knows that
today red deer antlers bearing more
than ii tines are exceedingly rare. How
one wishes oneself back in the electors
days. when one hears of great heads
with 80 tines and peruses his summary,
according to which he bagged SO stays
Of 20 points and upward and l, 735 deer
e IA points and upward!
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NY MOTHERS VOICE.

OFT in my happy dreams Of infancy
A voice was heard in that blest "long ago"
Now rising sweet and clear, then soft aud
low,
In ripping tones Of wondrous melody.
All through my childhood rang that happy
voice.
Which fainter grew, as youth came on apace,
Yet echoed on, when, weary of lite'S race,
I heard its tones, which bade my heart rejoice.
Far from that happy home, yet not alone,
wander, bearing in my heart hat song,
Which fingers, guarding me FROM every
wrong.
I ever hear its old. familiar tone.
Martha A. Kidder in New York Homo Jour.
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A Vain Search,
SEVERAL YEARS and THOUSANDS or DOLLARS EXPENDED.
An Expert Accountant and ~Bookkseper Of Detroit Troubled With
Hereditary ScrofuIa in Its Worst Form-Spsnds a Small
Fortune Seeking to Find q Cure.
From the Ecenfny News, Detroit, Mich.

James II. Wallace, the well known ex-
pert accountant and bookkeeper, of Detroit,
Mich, lately had a remarkable experience,
and q reporter called ut his pretty home 24O
Sixth Street. to interview him regarding it.
He found Mrs. Wallace in the midst Of house
cleaning, and after the reporter stated The
object Of his visit Mrs. Wallace said " You
had better see Mr.. Wallace at the Office Of
c. A. Haberkorn g. Co., table mandatory
on Orchard Street, and he will tell you OF
this experience much better than L." A visit
was made to the office Of the above concern
where Mr.. Wallace was seen. II am" said
Mr.. Wallace, "yet q young man, still l have
suffered untold agonies and fortunes. was
born with that awful hereditary disease
known as s~crofula, and what l suffered can
rot be well described.
The first physicians that treated me said
it was a constitutional blood disorder and by
constant treatment and diet it might be
cured. The blood purifiers and spring re.
NEEDLES I used only made the cruptions more
aggressive and painful. In 1888 was a
fearful looking sight and was in fact re-
pnlsive. On my limbs were large ulcers
which were very painful, and from which
there was q continual discharge. In three
years l spent over $4,000 in medicine and
medical services and grew worse instead OF
better. 1 tried the medical baths. and in
1898 went to Medicine Lake, Washington,
but was not benefited. then tried some
proprietary medicine, but did not receive any
benefit.
Zone day in the fall Of 1895 while reading
the paper I noticed an article about DR.. Will
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People, but did
not give it much attention. That afternoon
while moving some books I broke an nicer
on my leg and nearly tainted, the pain made
me sick and I had to stop work. Will" sit.
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ting in the chair l again noticed the DR..
Williams Pink Pills article in the news.
paper which was laying OIL the floor. l read
it carefully and Immediately decided to give
the pills q trial, as the account which l read
had been of q case similar to mine. ! sent
the office boy over to Frank Houp's drug
store for q box and took some that afternoon.
| continued their use and before / had used
one box | noticed an improvement. l grew
improvement, and after taking eight boxes
there was not a sore on my person.
II am covered with scars from the ulcers
but since that time l have not seen a single
indication of the old trouble. l continued
the use of the pills long after I was cured az
| wanted to get my system rid Of that awful
disease.
"lt l only had bought DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People at the start / would
be thousands of dollars ahead and had five
years Of health and happiness instead of
and my doctor says I am entirely rid of my
old trouble"
(signed> JAMES II. WALLACE.
DETROIT, MICH, May :, 1897.
Before me q Notary Public in and for
Wayne County,, Michigan, personally ap.
pearcd James II. Wallace, who being duly
sworn, deposed and said that he had read the
foregoing statement and that the same was
true.
ROBERT F.. HULL, JR.,
Notary Public.
WAYNE COUNTY, MICH.
nr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
are sold by all dealers. or will be sent post
paid on receipt of price, 50 cents O box or
six boxes for $3.50 they are never sold in
bulk or by the 1GO), by addressing DIR. vii.
lang Medicine Co., Schenectady. N. Y. {
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OUR GIRLS AND BRiTON
Why American Maidens Are Tempte1 t.
Wed Stolid En4lishmen.

Why American Maideus Are Tempte1 to |
Wed Stolid Englishmen.
Why does the American girl marry
the Briton? Has she any adequate jus.
tiication: Do you suppose it pays her,
and can such q choice on her part be
defended on large grounds as promotive |
Of the greatest good Of the greatest
number? Is it a fact, as has been flip
PANTY suggested, that she moves to
England to get country life because we
have no good roads here yet, or, or the
contrary, can it be demonstrated that
one reason our country roads are so bad
is that the American girl cannot abide
the country and promptly carries her
man off to town at the earliest moment
that sees his endeavors blessed with
the necessary income: Is it her fault
that country interests tend too much to
fall to the care of a residuum that is
too poor to get away, or has the
try life not much to do one way or the
other with her British ~propensities?
To be honest, there are other con
ceivable reasons for marrying all Eng
4ASA SCltACA0AA OCSAuSS lS COuuU4y
roads. He may be a charming gentle
man-they are said to be SO once in
awhile-who car win a wife by plain,
personal courtship, and whom any wom-
an would be justified in marrying on
general principles and without specific
excuses, or he may be a good ''aver-
age' sort of man whose advantage
over his American brother is a matter
Of size or complexion or hale appear
ance. I have known American women
who ventured to assert that the femi-
nine eye rejOiced more in the type of
male human that treads the pavements
of Piccadilly and Pail Mall than in the
contemporaneous pedestrians Of Fifth
avenue and Broadway.
Or maybe it is his superior stolidity
that electrifies in the Briton. It is to
be feared that there is truth in that tale
MIR. kipling or somebody was telling
Of how phlegmatic merchants of the
east had discovered that the way to
beat the American was simply to put
him of and let him fret himself reck.
less. Stolidity is not quite the same as
repose, but to persons who are suffering
from al acute dearth Of repose it may
appeal as a tolerable substitute, SO that
one can imagine an American maid,
worn with the restless aspirations of
her high pressure countrymen, turning
with sincere relief to pillow her fair
young head upon a bosom behind which
lurked no threat Of heart failure
North American Review.
An Optimistic Bookkeeper.
my dear SIR. your books are in
frightful disorder. Don't you have to
make up a deficit sometimes:"
"Oh, yes, sometimes! But, then,
sometimes there's a surplus. File
gende Batter.
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Spanish we'll. He spent II years on a
steamboat crossing the Gulf Of Mexico,
three years with the Wise family in St.
Johnsbury, and for the last Is years
with the Daniels family, who received
an offer of 500 for him six years ago
from the managers of Barnum's circus.
He laughed and seemed very bright al
most to the time of his death. New
York Tribune.
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The Daniels Parrot.

The Daniels parrot" that died in
st. Johnsbury, VT. the other day, was
81 years old. He was taken from the
nest when very young and lived for IA
years on the Isthmus of Panama. For
even years he was with the Spaniards
n Mexico on . cattle ranch and spoke
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-07-27
An Optimistic Bookkeeper.

my dear SIR. your books are in
frightful disorder. Don't you have to
make up a deficit sometimes!"
"Oh, yes, sometimes! But, then,
sometimes there's a surplus. File
gende Batter.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-27

pedo boats in which air is the power
The pneumatic dynamite gun has un-
dcrgone a successful test at Fort Win
field Scott, near San Francisco, where
it throws projectiles weighing over
1000 pounds nearly a mile. Conn
pressed air is used instead Of powder,
from the fact that any attempt to fire
dynamite out Of cannon with pow
der would be likely to result in greater
destruction to the gunners than to the
enemy. The government cruiser Ve-
suvius is equipped with three stationary
dynamite guns,
The government torpedo boat De-
stroyer will discharge a rrojeetilc by
compressed air at a pressure of 1000
pounds to the square inch distance Of
600 feet under the surface of the water.
ii explodes by contact The Whitehead
torpedo is itself propelled BY con-
pressed air. 1t is IL to 10 feet long.
with n diameter of 12 to Is inches.
With the charge of air in its reservoir
twill run soc yards. H that distance
it does not strike The ship Of an enemy
il may be set to either sink or rise. Itx
charge is 50 to 100 pounds of gun COT
ten. The cost of these torpeaoes to
the government is q, ,Df9 each.
a. 8 CIAIsaiAssl
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-27
[sIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1897.
II, 1897. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR

the button for the last time, Slle cards
are collected by clerk. he lime en-
tered in book. The services of a time
keeper are dispensed with by the use OF
the device.
Many other automatic and controlling
mechanisms are operated by COM
pressed air. 1t is said to be certain in
its action, without being subject to the
delicate conditions of electricity.
Tools operated by compressed air have
wide aud various field of usefulness.
Chipping and dressing iron, steel and
stone, riveting boilers. ealking the joints
of ships, sandpapering the sides ears,
cleaning car cushions. carpets and rugs,
and painting are few Of them. Dress
ing tools have wonderful effectiveness
Inside of a handle stock, a chisel is
driven by air at the rate of 300 strokes
to the minute. 1t takes strip half an
inch in width from the edge of half
inch piece of boiler iron, eight feet
long in 20 minutes. Marble or granite
may be chiseled at the same high rate
of speed. A modification of the same
little machine is used to rivet the joints
of boilers and for calking the seams of
ships. In the manufacture of cars, the
cars are built in some shops without
further dressing of the lumber than il
receives at the paaning mills. After
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-27
For Young Married People.

Try to be satisfied to commence on q
small scale.
Try not to look at richer homes and
covet their costly furniture.
Try to cultivate the moral courage
that will resist the arrogance of fash
ion.
Try being perfectly independent from
the first, and shun debt in all its forms.
Try to avoid the too common mis-
take Of making an unwise effort to "be-
gin where the parents ended"
Try going a step further, and visit
the homes of the suffering poor when
secret dissatisfaction is liable to spring
up.
Try to be cheerful in the family cir
Gle, no matter how annoying may be the
business cares and the housekeeping
trials.
Try to cooperate cheerfully In ar
ranging the family expenses and share
equally in any necessary sasfSser6als
end economies.
Try buying all that is nesesgary to
work with slziIlfu1ly, while aaorrang tho
house at first with simply what will
render it comfortable. Detfois Fro
Press.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-27
Andy Recoycrn Ranid1x.

"Eow, see if you can't manage so as
to let a few ideas soak through your
hair, whilst try to give you some Of the
mainest pints in the game" says Andy,
as he mounted and Grid on towards
heme.
THAT blame fool stranger which
traded with me back yonder has jest
simply swapped off the goose that lays
gold eggs and never goes to set, as it
were, and / saw through his trick like
flash. He calculated that when he
tools off his saddle and pulled the blan-
kets out Of the terrible hole in the
speny's back would be paralyzed on the
spot and dead cragy to rue the trade.
You would have took his bait like lit
tie sucker II you had stood In my shoes,
but, havin come down from a genera
ton of horse traders, Z didn't snap and
gobole down the bait any to speak Of.
He thought / would ask him and beg
him for rue, andsat last offer to swap
baets even in oTrierment to git rid
o. the seallop-back pony, and ID ilAaS'
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-27
PNEUMATIC LOCOMOTIVE.

tramways, notably in the suburbs Of
Paris, and in the Swiss mountain town
of Berne, where it has shown itself TO
be economical and effective. In the
United States. air as power for street
cars is in the experimental stage. 1t
has been tried in Toledo with salts
factory results. The Metropolitan Trac-
tion company, of New York, has shown
its faith in air by ordering seven cars
equipped with compressed air motors
for use on its elevated line. Within
two years, the company has planned to
extend the use of air to all of it's cross
town lines.
Another company to look with favor
on air as power is the Manhattan ele-
waited, of New York. 1t has ordered n
locomotive to be run by compressed air
on its lines, as a means of giving this
means Of propulsion thorough trial.
Experiments with air as power are
in progress on the Chicago General rail-
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-27
DwARFs OF THE PAMlRs.

Pigmies Whose Domestic Animals
| Are Also Dwarfed.
At the northwestern end Of the Hin-
doc Koosh range of mountains in Gem
tral Asia lies the wild desolate and all
most unknown Pamir plateau, which,
on account of its great elevation, is
known as the roof of the world" Few
travellers or explorers have ever ven
tured there, and those who did travelled
only in the southern and central parts
of the Pamirs, lying just beyond the
northwest frontier of India. But word
has come from ST. Petersburg that two
Danish officers, MN. Oloufsen and Phil
ipsen, have just arrived there from d
very extended journey of exploration
in the northern portion of the country,
having covered vast area hitherto un-
trodden by foreigners.
Their explorations are of great value
to the scientific world. They discov,
cred tribes Of natives entirely different
from those inhabiting the other parts of
the PaInirs, and they brought back with
them over 300 photographs of places
they have visited and types they have
met. The people are all dwarfs, and the
animals of the district. both wild and
domestic, are correspondingly diminu-
tive in stature. The inhabitants are di-
vided into numerous small tribes. Tie
herding of sheep and cattle is almost
their sole occupation.
During their travels the Danish ex-
plorers met, among others, tribes that
are still fire worshipers and are totally
uncivilized in their modes Of life. The
full-grown men and women are rarely
three feet in height. Their donkeys and
their horses, which in appearance re-
semble the ponies of the American
plains, are about the size OF large dogs.
The bulls and cows are no larger than
the ordinary European foals and the
sheep are no larger than small poodles.
These little savages have dark spins
and their eyes appear like little black
beads sunk deep In their sockets. Their
hair is very long and bushy, their
noses large, their lips thick and their
cheek bones large and prominent. Their
habits are extremely unc1ean. They dress
in skins, q long sheepslzin pelisse cover
ing the greater part Of their bodies.
Many wear long, loose skin trousers
split at the bottoms of the legs. They
use much grease on their hair and their
clothing is covered with it. Their tents
are made of skins.
The use Of money is unknown to these
strange dwarf people and their only
trade consists IN the bartering Of furs
and stock. Little respect is shown for
the women, and they are bought and
sold at the rate Of five and six cows or
Is sheep apiece Y. World.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-27
COMPRESSED AIR MINING DRILL

1
| way, the road started by ex-Congress
man McGann.
Nor are the experiments with all
for transportation purposes confined to
| cars. A companyehas been organized in
New York to put compressed air
horseless cab on the market, which is
expected to leave the cabbies without
an occupation. These cabs will be
running by April l. Another appica,
ton of air to the same purpose is by a
Chicago inventor, who has built com
pressed air tricycle.. The first use of
his machine will be- for the delivery OF
light goods and packages. 1t will be
for passenger use, for which great fu-
ture is hoped. Power for both classes
OF vehicles will be supplied from cen
tral compressing plant in Wabash ave-
nue.
Probably the most general use of air,
except for respiratory purposes, is in
the tires of bicycles. 1t has been sue
cessfully employed also for bicycle sad
dies and handle grips. In the big office
buildings of the cities it has found Il
wide and novel field. All of the clocks
in the Fisher building, Chicago, are
run by compressed air. In every office
OF the building is clock of peculiar con-
struction. 1t has neither springs nor
weights. Its hands do not move forward
with a slow continuous motion, but in
a series Of jumps, at intervals of 80 sec
onds. Neither has it a tick like other
clocks. 1t is, in fact, clock only in
regard to its face and hands. These
hands are moved at intervals of half a
minute by another clock in the base
ment, called the master clock" which
acts by compressed air, through sys-
tenn of pipes, on its subordinates in the
different Offices. A small engine in the
basement supplies the power. The sys-
tenn is said to be successful in its OPP
GRAFTON.
All of the steam radiators in the
same building are regulated by COM
pressed air. Connected with every radi-
ator is thermomostat. II the temper
ature rise too high, 1t acts on mech
anism which closes the steam valve in
the radiator. When the room becomes
colder than certain temperature the
Eane automaton opens it again. An
other use of compressed air in this
building is for opening and closing the
doors of the elevator shafts by touch
ing button. Letter copying presses
operated by compressed air are in use
LII the Office of manufacturing firm,
compressed air has been employed for
the novel purpose of keeping the time
OF the men, At the main door of the
shop is a board studded with num-
bered buttons. Each OF the employees
has number corresponding TO one of
the buttons. On entering the door, he
touches his button, when 4 device oper-
ated BY compressed air stamps his num-
her and the hour or hats hour on a card.
His leaving for lunch and arrival after
the moon hnHr are registered in The same
Uaancr. Af night the II workman touches
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-27

jump ten-rail fence any more, nor
kick college ball nor ride a bicycle.
but these things are nonessentials and
don't have to be done. We can look
after the grandchildren and point a
moral and tell them tale and teach
the young idea how to shoot without
carrying a pistol in a hip pocket. Sol
onon says that the glory of an old man
is his children's children, and he might
have said that the children who have
no grandparents did not have their
share of happiness in this world.
But old age has its trinmphs and con-
solations. It has passed all selfishness
and vain ambitions and takes comfort
in memories and philosophic medita-
tion. It realizes the wonderful progress
of art and invention, for we old men re-
member when there was but one little
railroad in the United States and no
telegraphs; when the old stage coach
carried the mails and postage was 25
cents a letter; when there was no kero-
sene oil and no matches, no steel pens
and but few books of any kind. Old
age is not alarmed about politics or
the downfall of the government, for
these same periodical exeitements have
agitated the country as far back as we
can remember. It is the same old song,
but it does not disturb our serenity.
When our old cook concluded to quit
she advised my wife to look round and
''get settled woman to take her
place" "Dese young niggers hain't got
sense enuf to stay anywhere long and
dey will be runnin' off after every s.str-
shion and funeral and picnic dat come
along. Better get q settled woman
Age does settle US wonderfully, and il
looks like pity that we have to shuf-
ie Off this mortal coil about the time
we have gotten some sense and learned
the lesson of life.
But we must accept our destiny with
grace and gratitude, and may the Lord
give us
"An age that me1ts in unperceived decay,
And glides In modest innocence away"
Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.