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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-09-01
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rressmeB Farmer LOucks Re-
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Repubiica nism Rensscrted-Sug-
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enduR Entertained.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
Slow Eating MAY Be Bad.

According to The Journal of Mental
and Nervous Diseases, slow eating is
as bad as fast eating. 1.-The important
point is not that we eat slowly or fast,
but that when We do eat we chew with
energy. OF course where the haste is
due to some mental anxiety this may
injuriously inhibit the secretions. Slow
eating begets habit of simply mum
bling the food without really masticat-
ing it, while the hurried eater is in
clined to swallow his food before proper
mastication Hence hurried eating is
bad, but rapid mastlcation is advan-
tageous. 1t concentrates our energies
on the act i'll question, and hence more
thoroughly accomplishes it. Moreover,
energetic chewing stimulates the secre-
tion of saliva in the most favorable
manner. These various points are so
commonly misunderstood, at least by
the laity, that they demand our fire.
duent attention.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
Caught In His own Trap.

1t is always pleasant to read of in
stances in which would be practical
jokers have had chance to sample their
own wares. In "Life In California, :"
Alfred Robinson tells of Senor Lugo
who often amused the travellers by his
stories and eccentricities, and one even
ing attempted practical joke, with the
following result:
He had loaded a paper cigar with
gunpowder and placed it among his
cigarros. During his visit with me he
repeatedly asked me to smoke, but
fortunately missed the cigar he had pre-
pared, until finally, from the lateness
of the hour, he withdrew.
In the course of the night he awoke,
and feeling desire to smoke selected
from his bundle, quite forgetful of the
evenings amusement, the very cigar he
had prepared for me. Having lighted
it, he returned to bed.
The cigar was about half consumed
and he more than half asleep when a
sudden explosion carried away the bet
ter part of his mustaehe, and SO thor
oughly frightened his poor wife that
venture to say the event will never be
forgotten.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
Jack Tar at a Christening.

A sailor went up to the font to have
his baby baptized. Sailors as class
claim little stock in babies, and, nat.
urally enough, this one presented the
infant feet foremost.
''The other way said the minister,
and, accordingly, Jack turned the in.
fant upside down
Excuse me, said the clergyman,
II mean the other way So back came
the embryo foretopinan tn the first pc.
sition, to the discouragement of every
body.
Wind it, Jack, said the nautical
ASST istant, and with an AYE, aye, sir, -
Jack promptly turned the baby end for
end, and it was duly christened head
first.-"On a Man of war. :"
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
THE AMERICAN SAILOR.
Jacky Has Become Specialist and a Credit
to the Navy.

Jacky Has Become Specialist and Credit
to the Navy.
Jacky, who used to be more sailor
than gunner, is now more gunner than
sailor. just in proportion as he has
ceased to be part of the great engine
on which he lives, so he has come moIe
and more into the control of it, and as
the cardinal purpose of a warship is to
hit things with her projectiles Jacky
has become specialist in getting that
work out of her. He does it in two
places-at the guns and at the engines.
Correctly pointed guns are of no use
unless the platform on which they rest
is put in proper relation to the thing to
be hit and kept there. Equally it is use
less to get the ship into proper place
unless the guns are correctly pointed.
Men who can do either of these things
must have natural capacities and be sus-
ceptible to education, and only men Of
this sort are eligible for our navy.
Accordingly the 'beach comber, f." or
the crock scorpion, - or any other va
riety of that ruck of marine refuse
which drifts around the great maritime
ports and ships in any craft where
"grub' is plenty and work light, no
longer slings his hammock on Uncle
Sam berth deck, as he used to do, to
the shame of the service, in years gone
by. Nor can the tramp nor the jailbird
nor even the incorrigible black sheep of
the family thus be provided for, to the
relief of constables and long suffering
relatives. No man or boy can now pass
United States naval recruiting officer
unless he is clean, healthy, honest,
young, strong and intelligent, nor can
he afterward get that advancement,
which is certainly open to him without
fear or favor, unless he continues to
show aptitude and ability.-Park Ben
jamin in Independent.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
spanish Cruelty.

The cruelty of the Spaniard, or rather
his callousness his recklessness of the
lives Of others, and even of his own, is
a medieval and oriental survival, says
Irving Babbitt in The Atlantic, and
then, too, there underlies the Spanish
temperament know not what vein of
primitive Iberian savagery. Nine.
d'Aulnoy relates that ON certain day
of the year it was customary for court
gallants to run along one of the main
streets of Madrid, lashing furiously
their bare shoulders, and when one OF
these penitents passed the lady of his
choice among the spectators he bespat-
tered her with his blood as special
mark of his favor.
Insensibility to the suffering of ami
mails, though general in Spain, is not
any greater SO far as my own observa-
tion goes, than in the other Latin coun-
tries. Possibly medieval religion in sc
exalting man above other creatures. in
refusing to recognize his relation to the
x0st ofSnature, tended to increase this
lack Of sympathy with brute creation.
The Spanish peasant belabors his ass for
the same reasons that Malebranche kick
ed his dog-because he has not learned
to see in it being organized to feel
pain i'll the same way as himself.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
Dress Goods Sale.

Several fine lots of dress
goods bought below regular
prices are on the counters, at
prices that make every sort a
big bargain.
First lot-One hundred
dress patterns, fancy mixed
goods, 38 inches wide, in
thirty different color combi-
nations, usual SO cent a yard
goods, this sale
$2.65 a Dress Pattern.
Second Eight hundred
yards Fancy Mixed Dress
Goods, 38 in. wide, change
able blue, white, green and
brown effects, usual 80 cent
goods, this sale at
25c the yard.
Third lot-Three hundred
yards of mixed cheviot dress
suiting, SO inches wide, usual
soc goods, this sale at
81 1-2c the yard.
Fourth lot-Fancy Armure
Plaids for children's dresses,
women's waists, etc, this
sale at .
25c the yard.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
Mustapha Pasha Fehmi, prime mini

Mustapha Pasha Fehmi, prime minis.
ter of Egypt, decorated by Queen Vic.
toria with the grand cross of the Order
of ST. Michael and st. George, is known
throughout Egypt as the gloved pasha,
owing to the fact that no one has ever
seen his left hand barred since the day
two and twenty years ago when, as one
of the chamberlains of the late Khedive
Ismail, he helped his colleague, Sahmi
Pasha, to strangle the Egyptian minis
ter of finance at the close of supper
party given by the wicked old khedive
on board his steam yacht, lying at anchor
in the Nile at Cairo, just off the palace
of Gezereh
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
CITY FIRE FIGHTERS.
The Deadly Perils They Encounter In Saw.
ing Human Lives.

6e8V"
ing Human Lives.
A great tenement house was burning
like tinder wood in one of the poorest
quarters of the metropolis. The stairs
had gone up in smoke before everybody
had left the building, and even the fire
escape down the outside of the building
was cut off by the hot flames from the
lower windows, which had already
peeled off part of it. A young girl of
IA or Is was frantically shrieking for
help in one Of the top windows, and a
mother was wringing her hands in pitt
ful despair down in the street.
The chief called for volunteers to
save the girl, and three men came for
ward on the instant, without hesitation
and without awaiting to count their
chances for success. This is the custom
in such cases, for no one would take the
responsibility of ordering fireman to
hs possible death.
"A strong young fellow who had yet
to win his spurs was selected for the
task, and he disappeared quickly
through the doorway of the adjoining
building. When next the crowd saw
him he appeared at the window just
under the roof, and grasping the tin
CSrnice of the burning building next to
him, he swung out into the air and
made his way, hand over hand, for 80
feet through the dense smoke that rose
in black clouds from the lower windows
to the sill where the girl was seen.
She had fallen back into the room
unconscious and was overcome with
smoke by the time he reached her. A
thousand anxious faces in the street be-
low were tortured with fear for the
hero hundred muttered prayers went
up for his safety as the fireman disap-
psared into the black cloud, and thou
sand throats sent up lusty shout of re-
lief as he appeared again at the window
moment later with the limp form of
the girl in his arms.-Harper' Round
Table.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03

Each one of us is bound to make tie
little circle in which he lives bettei
and happier; each of us is bound to SCI
that out of that small circle the widest
good may flow; each of us may have
fixed in his mind the thought that ont
Of single household may flow influ
ences which shall stimulate the whole
world. Dean Stanley.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
H,orh Well Posted.

There is story current in Washing
ton of a charming girl whose partner
said to her as in waltzing they just
missed a statue of the Venus of Milo:
eve mustn't dance too near that OF
somebody will accuse us of breaking it. .
The girl turned her lovely eyes on the
statue Why said she. somebody's
broken it already
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
ARMY AND NAVY GUNS.
A Vast Difference In the Number of MeI
Required to Handle Them.

Required to Handle Them.
The number of men required to man
naval guns of the British, French Ger
man and American navles is about the
same, although the French are under
stood to have more men as rule for
some of the larger guns.
For the 4 inch and inch all services
require four men to work each piece
for the 6 inch, six men are needed, and
for the 10, IL and 13 inch the same
number.
AS nearly all our 8, 10, 10 and 1S
inch guns are used in pairs and mount
ed in turrets the 10 men working them
are protected by heavy plates of steel
For the little Founders three men are
necessary to work them rapidly, and
for the Founders and Founders four
men are assigned, and for the Hotchkiss
three men.
Treble the number of men seem to be
required to work the same caliber OF
guns in our coast defense system. al
though there is no special reason for
this, unless it be due to the fact that
the army guns are mounted on disap-
pearing carriages and are not provided
with turrets, which naturally limits the
space of the operators. An army inch
gun takes Is men to work it; 10 inch
gun requires 18 men, and IL inch
gun, the largest now constructed by the
army, calls for 81 men.
It will be seen, therefore, that 1S
inch naval gun is operated by six men,
while an army gun of one inch less cali
ber calls for 81 men. The navy gun can
be fired just as rapidly with it's six men
as the army gun can be fred with its
larger number. Boston Herald
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03

The Nose Lasts Longest.

Bone and cartilage enter SO largely
into the structure of the nose and de
termine its characteristics that it un-
dergoes little perceptible change, as a
rule, with the lapse of years The brow
becomes wrinkled, and crows feet
gather round the eyes, which them
selves gradually grow dim as time rolls
on. Cheeks lose the bloom which cos
metics cannot replace and lips their
fullness and color.
The chin, dimpled in youth, develops
angularities or globularities, as the
case may be, and the eyebrows become
heavy with the crop of many years
growth. The nose shows no mark COM
parable to these familiar facial indica.
tions of the approach of old age and
practically enjoys immunity from the
ravages which time makes ON the other
features of the face. Next to the nose,
probably the ears as a rule, show the
fewest and least obvious signs of old
age
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03

One of the most literary Of the Lon.
don evening papers makes the follow
ing startling announcement: A COM
plete set OF hydrants and fire applianc ces
will be arranged, and the stage is to be
fitted with double asbestus and steel
fireproof curtain, controllable by ont
man The latter is designed to be one
of the largest in London-namely, about
80 feet wide and so feet deep. elias.
pnW TimaS
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
Golf Capes---
Beauties.

We have received another
shipment of the very newest
things out in Golf Capes---
Imported Scotch Shawl Plaid
beauties---and this gives us
by far the best and biggest
assortment of these very fash
ionable and desirable gar
ments in this section. Prices
most reasonable
$3.50, 1895, $40 to $50.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
MOS. Pleasant Picture.

Photographers, in their constant study
of the face, find that the left side makes
the more pleasant picture and that the
profile as seen from the left gives q
more correct likeness than when view
cd from the right.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
Number 81.
AN Eye 20 Business.

Optician-My dear sir. your case is
hopeless.
Customer-And am I doomed to blind.
ness?
Optician-It is inevitable. I think
you'd better look at my beautiful line of
artificial eyes at tonce.-Jewelers Week.
10
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03

Miss Countrycousin-What are all
those badges that woman wears?
Mr.. Wheeler-Each one represents a
century.
Miss Countrycousin-Gr She
doesn't look to be 4Ol-Jewelers'
Weekly
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03

VOLCANIC ERUPTIoNs are grand, bat
Skin Eruptions rob life of JOY. Bucklen's
Arnica Salve cures them, also Old, Run.
ming and Fever Sores, Ulcers, Bnils, Eel
ons, 4Corns, Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burns
Scalds, Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Best
Pile cure on earth. Drives out Pains
and Aches. Only 25 cts. box. Cure
guaranteed. 2
Sold by A. G. Eaton, Druggist.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03

Mime. de Pompadour encouraged fan
painting and also collected fine speci-
mems of the work. Greuze, Vatican
and other great artists did not disdain
to lend their talents to the art These
pictures were done mostly on vellum or
chicken skin.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03

No RIGHT TO UGLINEss.- woman
who is lovely in face, form and temper
will always have friends, but one who
would be attractive must keep her health
If she is weak, sickly and all run down,
she will be nervous and irritable. II she
has constipation or kidney trouble, her
impure blood will cause pimples, blotch-
es, skin eruptions and wretched COM
plexion. Electric Bitters is the best med
icine in the world to regulate stomach,
liver and kidneys, and to purify the blood.
1t gives strong nerves, bright eyes,
smooth, velvety skin, rich complexion.
1t will make good-looking, charming
woman of a rundown invalid Only sc
cents. 2
Sold by A. G. Eaton, Druggist.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
S5c the pair
81 Trimmed Eass--ss.sS.

We resume the selling Of
those choice trimmed hats,
for women, at S3.o8 each.
The long counter is filled up
again. Come to-day.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
The Thrift, shopkeepers.

Mrs, Bargin Friend--I wonder how
those little / cent shops ever came to be
invented?
Her Husband suppose to use up
what's left of the dollar after the 80 cent
stores get through with it.-Toronto
News
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
QUEER OLD NATURE.

"Why is it." asked wondering child
(Sweet, simple little thing),
'sThat the foolish tree puts ON it's clothes
When the sun shines in the spring,
And then, when chilly autumn comes
And the winds of winter blow,
Why does it stand out there, all bare. Z
In the frost and sleet and snow ?" i
"Wise nature has arranged 1t thuss"
] told the little one,
''The rustling leaves can only live
Beneath q smiling sun;
The tree that In the summer time
Makes shady bowers for you
Must have its rest, therefore it stands
Asleep the winter through"
She sat in silence for awhile
And gazed far into space,
And lines of thought and trouble came
To mar her childish face,
And SO, at last, she turned and said:
"I'm sorry for the tree,
And glad that nature wasn't left
To fix things up for mel"
s. E. Kiser in Cleveland Leader.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
Kid Gloves
Special Sale.

Women's 2-clasp glace kid
gloves, perfect fitting, in tans,
browns, oX-blood, modes,
grays and greens, worth ST.
a pair, at
75c the pair.
Five styles of gloves at ST.
per pair. The very best
STYLES.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-11-03
5rUr f,es y alsaHare's

1S,R%@SG21SoeSS s.s.-SSSsH as ~
Springfield, November 1908.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
IL. and o. Presidents.

The recent annual meeting Of the
3altimore and Ohio Railroad company,
which was its seventy-first, brings to
mind the fact that the B. & o. has had
ZEN presidents in seventy-one years
IS follows: Philip E. Thomas,
Louis McLane, Thomas Swan, Will
am c. Harrison, Chauncey Brooks,
John w. Garrett. Robert Gar
'ett. Samuel Spencer, Charles F. May
n and John X. Cowen. The line was
put in operation to Harper's Ferry in
1884, was built to Winchester, Va, in
1886, and to Strasburg in 1870. West
ward 1t went to Cumberland in Novem-
Ter, 1912, and on to Wheeling, w. Va,
y Jan. l, 1853. The Parkersburg
branch from Grafton to Parkersburg
vas opened May l, 1857. 1t is the only
great railroad company that is being
operated under its original name and
:harter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09

Rev. Mary "A. hills the noted Evangelist
writes: II gladly give my testimony to
the healing properties of DR.. Kay's Lung
Balm. My son had a terrible cough every
winter for five years and he took dozens of
bottles of the leading cough medicines but
nothing seemed to help him or quiet his
cough. But two % cent boxes of DR.. Kay's
Lung Balm has cured him, and it has also
been a great relief to other members OF
my family when afflicted with colds "
We are positive that DR.. Kay's Lung
Balm and also DR.. Kay's Renovation have
no equals. If you have any disease write
us and give your symptoms and our physi-
clan will send free alvice and valuable
IS page book with SO recipes and giving
symptoms aud various methods of treat
ing nearly all diseases. We will also send
free sample of DR.. Kay's Lung Balm or
DIR. Kays Renovator. Address DR.. b. j.
Kay Medical Co., (Western Office Omaha,
Neb
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
The Way Up.

Another man Is rising from the throng.
Push him back!
Why should he presume to wish to get
along?
Push him back!
When. at last you stand upon the lofty
height,
Work against the wretch who tolls with
honest might
To emerge from neither darkness into
light
Push him back!
Another man is crowding to the fore,
Push him back
You're leader. there must not be any
more,
Push him back!
Stand together. we that glitter in the van,
Cry him down-the bold tresspasser-if
you can
ing man
Clear the trackv
S. E. Kiser in Cleveland Leader
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
RECENT INVENTIONS.

New York woman has designed a
SKIRT supporter composed Of a double
strap to go around the shoulders and
down the back, ending in two secur-
ing devices.
A Pennsylvania has patented gear
wheel and rail for trolley cars which
can be used to prevent slipping, the
teeth of the wheel meshing in notched
openings in the rail-
To assist in rolling barrels, pair Of
levers are hinged to form tongs. and
have small rollers to engage both the
inside and outside of the chine, the
rollers revolving as the barrel turns.
An adjustable necktie fastener for
bow ties has link chain on one strap
in the back, with hook on the oppo-
site end to catch any one Of the links
and adjust the straps to the proper
tension.
Belt pull,ys are being manufactured
which will hold the belt in the center
Of the pulley and prevent 1t from Slid
ing off, right and left spiral groove
being cut from the center to the edges
of the belt surface.
A new cuff fastener is composed OF
a wire link twisted into three hoops
with the connecting link fastened In
the end loop for inserting in the cum.
after which 1t is slipped into the CEN
ter loop to hold the cuff.
To assist in polishing stoves and 9TH
er metal work a new apparatus Is COM
posed of liquid receptacle mounted
over lambs wool polishing surface,
to which the polishing liquid is dis
charged through valve-controlled pipes
A handy device for cyclers consists
of a match box formed In one END OF
the handle bar, a spring being inserted
in the bar which presses against the
end OF the box and pushes 1t into view
when a lever is depressed to release
II.
An improved electric battery cell has
a removable bottom of woven fabric.
which permits the free passage OF IL
guilds into the jar. but prevents the de-
composed portions of the zinc from
dropping down and incrusting the cop
per.
An Englishman has patented a new
system Of belt gearing in which the
rims OF the pulleys are made hollow
and can be distended by forcing air in
to them, the belt being made hollow
and charged with liquid under pres
sure
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
BETTER THAN A SILVER MINE.

The editor estimates that the in
crease in yields had by the American
farmer by planting Salzer's Potatoes
and new creations In Wheat. Oats,
Corn, Rye, Grasses and Clovers the
past year amounted in round numbers
to $50,000,000. The reason of this is
Ealzer's farm and vegetable seeds are
bred up to big yields. Salzer is the
largest grower of grasses, clovers and
farm seeds in the world; 100000 bar
rels potatoes. $3.50 barrel and up.
Just Send This Notice with 10 Cents
TO John A. Salzer Seed Co.. La Crosse,
Wis, and get their great catalogue and
II packages farm seeds, positively
worth $40, to get start with. w.n.b.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
It's not cold
in the sOuth...

The weather this season in the South has
been all that could be desired, and all who
have already reached the resorts of Florida
and the Gulf Coast are charmed with their
locations. The Louisville a. Nashville Rail-
road Company's arrangem ents for through
service of Sleeping Cars and Coaches from
Northern cities are unsurpassed this win
ter. Tourist tickets, good to return until
May 3lst, are on sale by this line from all
points, at low rates. For full particulars,
write to c. p. Atmore, General Passenger
Agent, Louisville KY, or Geo. b. Horner,
ID. p. A., st. Louis, Mo.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09

A package containing a light-colored
powderly substance was found in a
closet she was cleaning, by Mrs. Phoebe
J. Wilson Of Long Ridge, Conn.,, and
she threw 1t into the kitchen stove. In
etantly there was a terrific explosion,
the stove was shattered, and Mrs. Will
son and her daughter-in-law were bad
ly burned. The package contained
white gunpowder.