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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
ERRORS IN LIVING.
Mans Excessive Appetite and the Body,
Capacity For Food.

Mans Excessive. Appetite and the Body's
Capacity For Food 1
To the lay mind nothing seems to au-
CUR SO strongly in favor OF robust health
as a hearty appetite. Furthermore,
there would seem to be a strong con-
viction in the public mind, sanctiaed
BY tradition from time almost imme-
mortal, that the more q man eats the
better he is. The quantity Of food that
many people naturally eat is very large
as compared with their actual physi-
illogical requirements. Add to this the
many tempting forms in which food is
presented to the palate by q modern
culinary arts, the sharpening Of the ap-
petite by the ant%eprandial cocktail, the
stimulus afforded the appetite by a bot
tie Of good wine, and the result is often
the consumption Of an amount Of food
that simply overwhelms the assimila-
tive organs. Such indulgence, If unre-
stricted and habitual, taxes both the as
similative and the excretory organs to
their highest capacity, especially when
coupled with sedentary life, and, more
over, it lends an additional impetus to
the evils springing from the use of i'm
proper quality Of food.
The human celebrating and excretory
mechanism was evidently adjusted for
ordinary wear and tear to IN average
limited period Of about 20 years. Un-
der 40 per cent Of extra work we must
naturally expect impairment Of break
down of the mechanism much earlier.
It should therefore excite no special
surprise that SO large O proportion of our
we'll to do people die from Bright's dis
ease, heart failure and allied diseases at
50 or IS who should, and under prop
erly regulated lives and habits would,
have attained the natural age Of 70 or
over. Paradoxical though it may seem,
such people usually spring from excep-
tionally healthy stock and often point
with pride to the fact that their imme-
diate ancestors lived to advanced ages
Of 80 years or more. This paradox, how
ever, il more apparent than real, for in
vestigation will usually reveal the fact
that for the most part the parents in
such cases we're people Of more simple
habits, such as correspondent with New
England life Is or 100 years ago.
The truth is that the we'll to do man
of today lives in a faster age than that
Of his father and grandfather. He meets
with greater opportunities and posi-.
bilities and therefore greater stimulus
to all his energies. He more easily ao-
quires pecuniary resources, and in
larger amounts, and therefore be pos.
sesses greater luxuries of domestic life.
With these come greater temptations tc
excess. While he has often inherited q
splendid constitution from his ances.
tors, unlike them he has nj his phys
ical mechanism at q breakdown rate,
and it must of necessity more quickly
wear out. -Charles W. Purdy, NJ. D.,
in North American Review.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
Worst and WOrsef.

Lately one of the Aston constables.
who is an Irishman, while in the wit
ness box perpetrated a bull which
fairly set the court in a roar. Describ-
ing the conduct Of a man who had been
creating a disturbance, he said:
81 saw the defendant. He made the
worst row in the world, and then he
went up the street and made a worser. "
London Tit-Bits.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
Wrecked on Boston Shoals.

The young nan looked up from his
writing.
"The-ah-the-girl lives in Bos-
ton" be said to his chum. Don't you
think it would make a hit with her if
quoted a few lines of poetry?"
"Got the booky'
"No, but I know the verses by heart.
Don't you take any chances. / tried
the same thing once and got shook be.
cause I used a semicolon where there
should have been a comma. "-Wasn-
ington Star.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
The Ccmponte.
Literary.

II like to feel as if my books were
my personal friends
II can't do that somehow"
why not?'
"Well, you see, l begin by cutting
them, and I END by putting them on the
shelf. Pick Me Up.
A young English girl, at a reception
given to'a number Of literary lions, re-
marked to II Of them, after a survey
of the collection, "How very odd that
the better they write the uglier they
are!'
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
A New Dynasty.

No new dynasty would begin BY the
Prince of Wales ascending the throne.
1t would still be the Hanoverian dynas-
ty Or family. What is meant by change
OF dynasty is change of the reigning
family. The dynasty of the Tudors end
ed with Queen Elizabeth; the dynasty
of the Stuarts commenced with James
I and ended with Queen Anne.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
Chinese Mission Not Offered to Grant.

NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-Colonel Fred
Grant, who recently resigned from the
police board, was asked whether he was
a candidate for the American ministry
to China. Colonel Grant said: II do
Not think the president has considered
nv name for the Office. OF urse l
could not say anything when the place
has not been offered to me-"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
Archbishop Appeals.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. Arch.
bishop Katzer and the other defendants
in the alleged SANDER case brought by
Father Hellstern have appealed to the
supreme court from the order Of Judge
johnson, requiring them to appear be-
fore Court Commissioner j. G. Runsel
of Boston to testify under the discovery
Sf3fntp.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
Only a q Crop.

Topeka, Kan, Aug. 4.-Specials to
The Capital from every corn producing
county III the state show that this years
Kansas crop Of corn will not be over 90
Der cent Of last years.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
Calfskfns Are slides of Cattle.n

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-Assistant Sec.
rotary Howell has rendered a decision
in which he holds that calfskins should
be classed as ''hides Of CATTLE" and
therefore are dutiable under the new
tariff bill at Is per cent ad valorem.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
Wife Charged With Murder.

REDWOOD FALLS, Mimi, Aug. A.
John O'Connell, a we'll known farmer
and prominent politician Of Westline
township, was murdered at his farm
house sometime during the night. The
hous.. was then set on fire and de.
stroved. Children Of the deceased say
Their mother committed the crime.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
Good Hot Weather Story

FORT DODGE, Ia, Aug. Ar. B. Can.
field baked two apples in the sun last
week. No effort was made to concen-
trate the heat beyond laying the fruit
on a board where Old Soils rays struck
it fairly without obstruction. 1t took
two days to cook the apples through,
but at the end Of that time they were
done to a brown turn. Mr.. Garfield
ate them with cream and sugar.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
Paid a Big Dividend.

CoKATo, Mimi, Aug. 1.-The Cokato
Elevator company has declared a divi.
dend of 30 per cent. This company is a
local concern and has been very sue
cesstul.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
GREAT CRUSH OF PEOPLE.
Many Gold Hunters Unable to Get Beyond
Skagaway Eay and Dyea.

Many Gold Hunters Unable to Get Beyond
Skagaway Hay and Dyea.
VICTORIA, B. &C., Aug 4.-The steamer
Queen has arrived from the North. She
brought no late news from the mines,
but reports 400 people camped at Skaga-
way bay and so at Dyea. They are un-
able to get goods taken into the lakes,
as the packers cannot handle the bust
ness. There will be a terrible crush
there when the boats which left here
after the Queen, sever in number, ar
rive. 1t is safe to say hat not half the
men will get away from Skagaway bay
this year, and ever with the large num-
Der of horses on the way up, it will be
impossible to handle all the freight.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
Omaha Bridge Approach Slid.

OMAHA, Aug. A section Of the
western approach to the Union Pacific
bridge slid out, leaving 22O feet Of the
eastbound track without support. A
heavy passenger train had just passed
over. Traffic is not delayed, as all
trains are being handled over the single
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
Scarcity of Coal the Cause.

HOMESTEAD, Pa, Aug. 1.-The Mo
nongahela iron works at Six Mile Ferry,
near here, was compelled to close owing
to the scarcity of coal, due to the miners
strike.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04

Alexander the Great employed the
first submarine boat at the siege of Tyre
in the year 332 B. c., NJ. Perez in
formed the Paris Society of Civil En-
ginee1s recently.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04

Just try a 1Oc. box of Cascarets, the
finest liver andbowe] regulator ever
made.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
4 HAPPY COUPLE
Squire Moore and his Estimab1e
Wife Interest a Reporter.

They Speak of their Past Life, Their Trials and
Hardships, and how Sickness once Entered their
Home, ano for a While it Looked as if it.
Would Prove Fatal-It was Averted,
However, and they Dwell on the
Means will, Much Enthusiasm.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04

Large and rich goldfelds have been
discovered by government surveyors on
the east coast Of Siberia, bordering on
the sea Ct Ochotsk.
+, The Ccmponte.
Southern countries are usually ad-
vanced in cruel and novel methods of
punishment. Puerto Rico has one which
is known as the componte.
1t consists i'll beating the individual
with a"manate" until he faints. Some
times, however, it is carried out to the
extreme and becomes a form Of capital
punishment, the last blows being given
to persons sentenced to death with &
piece of iron.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04

According to the computation of the
Russian chronologists the creation took
place B. G.. 550e.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-04
Well Qualified.

''Wha makes you think Smoothly is
IN experienced fsherman?"
Because be is one Of the most nat
ural and artistic liars ! have ever had
,&be pleasure Of meeting. Detroit Free
srteaa.
The evening times., 1897-02-18

speaker said, Is exploded. Pain in the
limbs is due to rheumatism and needs at
tentiOn. a tendency to stiffness Of the
spine requires immediate care by a ply
sician.
The next subject, The Effects of Fear"
was the topic OF the three following speak
ers, being the result of some Investigations
by the WOnan'S AnthropologicaI Society,
OF Washington.
Mrs. Hampson said that the physical ef-
feet OF fear was u disarrange action OF the
heart and reduce vitality; the mental ef-
feet wasmorbid idapprehensiOB, weakening OF
will nd deceitfuiness- Panishmentmust be
used in a Child training, but the child must
clearly recognize it as the result OF its
own act.
Mrs. HOegiesburger said that arrested
inspiration was caused by fear, and recited
several anecdotes 10 show the lasting ex-
feet OF a fright in childhood
Miss Alice Fletcher said that in her ex-
perience with primitive races, where ir-
rational fear is universal, she found the re-
suit to be qualification OF intellect. They
do not reason about causes, but attribute
everything to Chance, and strive to pro-
pitiate the evil influences We are all
superstitious, as the heritage of abnormal
fear.
The speaker emphasized the importance
OF scientific study Of the effects OF fear.
The evening times., 1897-02-18
CAPT. HART'S TRIAL.

Testimony Showing That Witnesses
Are Getting Spanish Money.
Philadelphia, Feb. 1s.-The trial of
Capt. John d. Hart, on the charge of en-
gaging in a Cuban fiiibustering expedition
on the steamer Laurada, in August last,
was resumed before Judge Butler, in the
United States district court here today
The session began with a long cross-ex-
animation by the defense OF George w
Cowley, colored seaman, who testified
at length yesterday to events which hap
pened, he said, on the Laurada during the
voyage in question
Cowley WAS Questioned as to his ex-
perienCe as a sailor and the wages he was
accustomed TO make He said that he for
merly received $1S a month, but now he
was getting 81 o per week on account Of
being witness in this case. lie was asked
many questions regarding his former ca
reer, and admitted to having been in jail
four or five times.
On re-examination the witness said he
was never arrested for anything that az
fected his honestf. He also said that the
American consul bad detained him at Port
Antonio, and thcaefore he was a witness.
The evening times., 1897-02-18
GENERAL PORTER'S PLANS
He Will Return Here Tomorrow
and Arrange the Parade.
If the Weather Is Favorable, He
Says, the Affair VIII Be
Grand Success.

Grand Marshal Horace Porter will leave
New York tomorrow for this city, and Will
remain here until after March 4, deyoting
his entire time and attention To arranging
the details OF the Inauguration parade.
AS soon as he reaches here he viii be es-
tablished in an office by the Inauguration
committee, in which all correspondence re-
lating to his branch of the Inauguration
ceremonies viii in the future be conducted.
On Saturday Gen. Porter. with five as
assistants, will set about planning the or
der of marching. placing the numerous mar
shals and sub-marshals and arranging all
the innumerable details of the great pro-
cession.
IL is said at inaugural headquarters that
this will be done behind closed doors. but
that the results will be given TO the public
on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Gen. Porter said in New York today that
from the number of letters he has received
from organized bodies all over the country
he is confident that the parade will be a
grand success IL the weather is favorable.
Gen. Porter refuses to talk about the prob
ability of his appointment as ambassadorto
France. He said that all information on
that point would have to come from Major
Mckinley.
The evening times., 1897-02-18
WILLIAM psf. JOHN BURIED
Many Prominent People Present at
the 0bSequies.
Rich Floral Offerings Covered the
Casket of the Dead Banker-Rev.
DR.. Hall Officiated.

New York, Feb. 1S.-The funeral Of
william P. st. John, the ex-bank presi-
dent and well known advocate OF the free
coinage of silver, who died Sunday night
last, took place this morning from the
Madison Square Presbyterian Church, of
which Rev. Dr. Parkhurs is pastor. owing
to the illness of DR.. ParkhUst, Rev. DR..
John Hall conducted the services.
a large number of Che friends Of the de-
ceased, numbering prominent bankers and
politicians, were in attendance Interment
will occur this afternoon in Mount Hope
Cemetery, at Westchester.
The -caSket was covered with blanket
of lilies OF the valley, and surrounded by
many handsome floral offerings. Brief
services were held at the st. John resi-
dence by Dr.. Hall, before the body was
taken to the church.
The honorary pallbearers were: F. B.
Schenck, Robert A McBrney, Cleveland
II. Dodge, Charles W. Carpenter, Bolton
Hall and Arthur James.
Among those present at the church were
John c. Brown, Theodore E. Havemeyer,
Rev. Parker Morgan, Thomas E. Stillman,
eX-Mayor Smith Ely, Elliott Danforth, Prof
r. ogden Doremus, Frederick b. Fiske,
and John Brisben Walker. John c. Sheehan
appeared in the church shortly after the
services started, but he only remained a
few minutes.
The evening times., 1897-02-18
THE TREATY WAS DEBATED
An Executive Session of the
Senate Was Held.
SIBERIAN STIMULATES ACTION
Mr.. Quay Proposes TO Call Up the
House Bill Providing for a Labor
COmmi miSsiOn-The General Defi-
CLERGY Bill Was Reported TO the
H0use-A Joint Resolution.

The House Joint resolution, admitting
free OF duty needle work and similar arti
oles imported by the New y ork Association
OF Sewing Schools, for exhibition pur-
poses, was passed; also Senate bill TO ex
tend the uses Of the mali service.
1t authorizes the use in the mails Of the
postal cards and envelopes, with Coupons
attached, patented and owned by the Uni
ted States Economic Postage Association
the Postmaster General to test their prac-
teal operation in one or more cities. and
TO suspend their Use If the test be unfa-
yorable
1he routine morning business being de-
dared closed, Mr. Sherman moved that the
Senate proceed to the consideration Of
executive business, the arbitration treaty
Mr.. Quay said that he had given notice
that he would call up today House bill for
the appoint ment OF labor commission:
but a. he understood that the executive
session would possibly be productive OF
results he wotiid not insist upon that matter
now. but would call up his bill as SON
as the Senate came into legislative session.
At12.2o The Senate went into executive
session.
The evening times., 1897-02-18
In the House.

Mr.. Cannon, chairman Of the Committee
on Appropriations, reported the general
deficiency bill, stating that he should to-
morrow ask the House to take up and pro-
ceed to discuss ii before the week was over
A conference report was agreed to on a
biil prohibiting the playing OF billiards or
any similar game in room where liquors
are sold, within the limits OF the District
of Columbia.
MORE
A joint resolution, appr0priating S5 600
FOR the extra expenses of the Senate in
connection with the inaugural ceremony
was passed.
Mfr. Royse, from the Committee on Elec-
tions, No. i addressed the House on the
contested election case OF Hopkins. Re
publican, versus Kendall, Democrat, from
the Tenth Kentucky district, opposing the
Recommendation OF the ma jority of the
committee in favor of confirming ia his
seat the sitting member, who was returned
elected by a vote of l4,SA5, against
IL, 592 for his contestant.
The evening times., 1897-02-18
THE DANGER FROM TRUSTS.
Warner Miller says They Reduce
Prices and Labor.


Chicago, Feb. 1S.-Ex-Senator Warner
Miller, who has Just come from Canton, and
who is stopping at the Auditorium Hotel,
declined to give his theories and impress
sions of the political situation in New
York, but, when asked his opinion in re-
gard TO the Lexow investigation, he said:
Il have no impressions in regard to the
coarse of the invcSt cation, but l have de-
cided views in regard to trusts and monop-
olies. / know, from what has been told
me by the interested parties, that it is be-
ginning TO be understood that the modern
custom OF doing business on a colossal
scale is not good policy. The fact is,
centralized capital is throwing people out
OF employment, and producing distress on
every side. The main cause of it is the
putting down OF prices and the resulting
falling market. III it were not that am
expecting the present policy to be aban-
doned | should be absolutely hopeless as
to the future.
in regard to the Nicaragua Canal,
can assure you it will certainly be a sue
cess. The bill laid aside by the present
Congress will assurediy be taken up by the
new Congress and passed. Tbeworld needs
the canal and the world will have it. The
Rodriguez letter has made the impression
that we have forfeited our concession, but
there is not a grain of truth in that state
ment"
The evening times., 1897-02-18
ovERwoRkED BUSINESS WOMEN
Trying to Do Too Much and Pos
sibly Failing With 1t All.

Deeply implanted in the average female
mind is the idea that woman should see
to things herself. When the victim of this
notion is business woman the trouble is
frequently so serious as to call for medical
correction occasionally. In most cases it
is what the business woman does Mt home.
not what she does in the office, that causes
the breakdown demanding the attention of
a physician. Faithful attention to business
never killed anyone. man or woman. Worry
and the seeing to things idea these are
the two nails in the business woman's cof-
fin The ''seelng to things" idea is distinct
ly feminine No man ever had it, Every
woman is born with it. Men sit in a street
car and watch the driver of a truck groan
and tug and try to get his wheels off the
track. and not man will move to help that
driver or even sigh in sympathy. Every
woman in the caris edgins and peering and
wishing she dared go out on the platform
and see to that truck
That's the thing that kills women They
try to carry the world on their shoulders,
and they don't realize that the world / s a
great deal better off without their puny
strength under it.
Business women try to do too man kinds
of things They are, most of them, '.Jills
of all trades" When business man gets
up n the morning he takes his bath. goes
into the dining room and eats his break
fast, kisses his family good-by and goes
downtown to work, like a sensible man.
The business woman gets up early and goes
into the children's room and fuses around
for half an hour or SO. Ii you ask her
what she is doing, she'll say she's seeing
to things She hires seryant-and waits
upon her. She pays dressmaker-and sits
up nights studying fashion books for new
way to have dress made. She buys hat
and takes it home and tears 1t all to pieces
and makes it over again. She dictates to
a typewrter-an then takes the .'copy"
and corrects it herself. She works herself
ill over something she can't do, anl ought
not to do, and takes rueful pleasure in
a martyred spell OF illness. She worries
about other people troubles, she frets over
other peoples children, she almost takes
medicine for other peoples headaches, and
she puts all her friends into nervous irrita-
ton trying to 'ssee to thein.'' If the bust
ness woman is worth onc-haif her salary,
she puts all these things out Of her mind at
the office.
The evening times., 1897-02-18
OFFICE TO WAIT
Mckinley Can't Attend to Them
Until He Gets Here.
He Needs the Ten Days Before His
Departure for Rest and Re-
Election.

Canton, Ohio, Feb. 1s.-Major Mckinley
passed very comfortable night and is
a great deal better this morning. II he
continues to take good care OF himself and
refrains from work and seeing callers he
VIII be in his usual robust health by the
first of next week
There are not many visitors in Canton
this morning, and those VINO are here will
be unable TO see the President-elect. The
word has gone forth that officeseekers must
wait till he gets I'd Washington. The ten
days that remain before the departure OF
Maj. Mckinley are needed by him for rest,
for reflection. and for the formulating Of
policies. )ti.
Capt. II. o. Heistand, Maj. MoKinley's
confidential friend and secretary. is Sc
riously Ill with the grip, and shows no
very narkedi degree OF Improvement this
morning.
The evening times., 1897-02-18
LEGAL NOTICE.

OFFICE or THE COMMISSION OF
the District of Columbia, Washington,
February Ia. 1897. ordered: That the
amendment oi December Z, 1894, Of para
graph 2 section ,, OF the Building Regu-
latjOns. is hereby amended 20 read as fOi-
lows. No private stable shall be erected
within tweaty t2Ol feeto dwelling front
ing \ street or avenue, nor within twenty
f20l feet Of building other than those used
for mechanical or storage purposes, ana
dwellings fronting alleys, unless the writ
ten Consent of the owner or Eners OF such
dwellings, or buildings shall first be illed in
the office of the Inspector OF Buildings; but
the consent OF any such owner who has a
stable within twenty 600 feet of such
dwelling or building not belonging TO such
owner shall not be required. No private
stable shall he erected within SIX ieet Of
the building line OF any street or avenue, II
q door Opening is TO be placed in the street
or avenue front. nor shall permits be issued
to introduce door Openings in the street
OF avenue fronts Of stable buildings now
erected within SIX 80 feet OF the building
line. JOHN W, ROSS, GEORGE TRUES-
DELL, CHARLES F. POWELL, CoTnmis-
sionerS, ID. c. Item