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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-08-19
Death Sometimes

A pathetic story Of
fact is told by an ex-
Confederate soldier
Of one dark night
on the skirrnisl, line
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-08-19

md T1p'a'n Seebach is from Red Wing,
bia,n...a b captain OF Company G. Captain
kom ~s'aa was from st. Paul and in
l,nnaaAl.u lAu OF Company II, Thirteenth
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-08-19
Look at the Slaughter on Tinware

No SCopper bottom boiler tin
NO. copper bottom 90 galvanized pail 10
~ Il. larlnS th pan &C. Tor 10 It. tea pot
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
mamma 50; besides, you are GO clever

'A~AAAAS ~ OOsAOoS, yOV 0AO EO C1cSCA
at It." .,@ b
"Oh, ! don't mind" admits Shell,
rather GROSSLY. "Of course one Of us
must play at being fond Of it, since we
can't afford maid. Only 1t does rath-
er annoy me for any one to be so insane
as really to imagine that prefer work
ing on morning like this to being out
Of DOORS" and she heaves sharp lit
tie sigh as she glances out at the wav-
ing tender-green boughs of the newly
budded trees.
why that heart-rending sigh, my
sweet sea-Sheil?" asks tall, willowy
girl with blue eyes, who has just en-
tered the room. AS she speaks she
girls firm shoulders.
She is quite overcome at the pros
pect of cutting me out second wash
ing dress." answers Ruby, in a tone
which implies Hasn't she an unfor-
tunate temper?"
"Oh, dear-and I was just going to
ask her to fix my buff print, because
she is so clever at that sort Of thing!"
says Violet, in a tone Of CONSERVATION.
"All right, vi dear-I adore cutting
out" laughs She'll Bring your buff
print by all means--and any other ma
terial that you can lay your hands on.
In for penny, in for pound" 1t
is a pity that We are not all three the
f~,, IN 40 ont
out half-a-doZen at the same time"
do you seriously mean you would
lie kind enough to do more than one
because there is my new flannel tennis
frock to arrange?" asks Violet coax
ingly.
"Ill do It," answers Shell rather
shortly" if do all the cutting
and fixing and trimming, l must bar
gain that you and Ruby help with the
machine work"
Eyes, dear, of course-Only that stu.
pid old machine will never work for
me-" responds Ruby, with vicious
look at that useful but inartistic piece
of furniture.
IL Hlake IL "C!k iol me, UT ii
know the reason WHY" laughs vi
seating herself before the machine and
commencing to arrange her cottons
Now Shell, toss me over your skirt
child"
How can you he so energetic, vi
after our long Walk" says Ruby, rls
ing from the sofa with slight yawn
Il have quite headache with the heat
and must rest till lunch, or l shall be
fit for nothing during the remainder Of
the day." and then she leaves the room
with a languid step, and the click
click" Of the old sewing machine
echoing pleasantly in her ears.
(To be Continued.)
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
ON THE STAGE.

Gladys Wallis has joined William II.
Cranes company to appear in Eugene
I w. P"eshrey's new comedy, Worth 4
Million"
1t is said Lottie Collins recent at
| tempt at suicide resulted from grief
over the condition of her S-year-old
| son, who was born blind and has now
| become deaf.
Investigation has proved that the es-
tate OF the late Fanny Davenport was
much overvalued, it is said, and that
her husband, Melbourne Mcdowell,
will receive no more than $4,000 and
| Miss Davenport's plays, about 100000
being divided among other relatives.
Ellen Beach Yaw made her debut in
London recently and was we'll received.
London commended her without refer
ring to those high notes which used to
be her chief in-trade. It was
the exploitation of them that enabled
{ her to travel through this country with
financial profit.
The present years membership OF
the Anglo-Chinese College at FoochoW
makes it the largest Christian college
In China. 1t has this year 260 students.
The First Church Of Christ (Scien-
tist of Boston, Mass, received this
month 952 new members. making now
a total membership in that church Of
over 10000.
1t is stated that lola is working
hard to make up his lost time in the
Dreyfus suit and is engaged on se'ies
of novels whose heroes are to be the
four evangelists, Matthew, Mark. Luke,
and John.
The Observer says they have
breezy vicar in England who in answer
to the remark of the Bishop Of London
that the clergy are the Queerest peo-
pie in the community charges that
while this is so the Bishops are queerer
still, for they are recruited from the
ranks OF the clergy
The proposition OF the Methodist
Church to raise $2O,O00,O00 as thank
offering for the completion of twenty
centuries of Christian history is, says
the Outlook, the largest sum ever asked
Tor in the interest Of any denomina-
tional work. 1t is thought that the
Methodist Church can raise the
amount.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
WOMEN WHO COOK.

The Princess Loui.e, marchioness OF
Lo"ne. is an accomplished cook and is
familiar with the rationale of every de-
partment of house-wifery.
Clara Morris (Mrs. Frederick Har-
riotD is an accomplished cakemaker,
but tells her admiring friends: Now
don't count the eggs and butter and
cream. for must have everything ga
lore, galore!"
Mrs. Hetty Green says that the talent
for cooking comprehends the talent for
all other womanly success. Probably
Socrates would have defined it so DE-
cause it is another EXPIRE 'sion of the
power of constructing.
Lord Dufferin's second daughter, the
Lady Hermione Blackwood, is late
reinforcement to the ranks of ladies
learning the virtues of apple soup and
prange-hower drinks for the sick. She
Is a probationer in the Chelsea hospital
at London.
May Riley Smith, the poet who wrote
"Let Us Gather Up the Sunbeams' and
sometime" is one of the most accom-
plished housekeepers in America. 1t
Is picture to see that lavender flower
like lady, in exquisite costume, go into
her kitchen and, only turning back the
lace frills at her wrist, prepare dainty
dinner for a partie caree. But her
housekeeping arrangements are an edl-
ton de luxe and as dainty in their do
main as the appointments of her drav-
ing-rComs in theirs, says What to Eat.
The Comtesse de Gaze of Anglers, but
who lives part of the year in Paris, has
written a charming letter to circle Of
ladies in the south describing her own
duties as nurse and lady president OF
societies for the relief of the wounded
during the Franco-Prussian war: -7ten
she was kept busy binding wounds,
nursing or going to funerals all day.
Some days there would be scarcely an
interim for dejeuner between the at
tendance at the funerals from morn
Ing till night. She pays high tribute
to the virtue Of fresh lemons for keep
ing we'll soldiers in condition and cur
ing sick ones.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
Origin Of the BusIness-HOw 1t Has
Been Built Up.

| The announcement that the Night
Lunch-Cart Company. in which Wopz
cester people are the chief stockhold
ers, has just declared dividend of 1S
per cent on capital stock of 5000,
while it may seem astonishing to some
people, is really = pretty small profit
in comparison with those made by
some of the lunch carts in Worcester
in the early days of the industry.
Three or four hundred per cent on the
investment was not at all uncommon.
One of the pioneers in the lunch-cart
line in this city at one time boosted
that he started without any capital and
made over $4,000 in few years time,
says the Worcester Gazette.
He was sorry afterward that he made
the boast, as it induced a great many
other people to 90 into the business in
competition with him, and thus cut
down his profits materially in the next
few years. Another local lunch-cart
man says that before the coming of
the hard times of 1893 he frequently
took in as much as $50 night from
one cart. and on Saturday night he has
done from $40 to $25 better than that.
During the hard times there were
good many nights when a cart occupy
ing the same stand took i'll less than
81, and $40 or $12 was considered an
exceptionally good night The number
of lunch carts doing business in Wor-
cester decreased during the hard times,
and there have never been so many
carts on the street.
The night lunch-cart business. orlgi-
mated in Providence. r. l., was per-
fected and developed in Worcester, and
now there is chain Of lunch carts ex-
tending from Bangor. Me-, to Denver
Col. A man named Scott originated
the night lunch cart. He had at one
time been in the restaurant business
and had accumulated modest Tor
tune, which was swept away in the
Vineland. N. j., real estate speculation
bubble Returning to Providence al
most penniless he started in to oull"
up his fortune anew by peddling lunch
es on the streets at night. At first ne
used to take large basket on MS arm
and can of coffee in his hand. linen
he got second hand bakers wagon
and a horse and used to drive about
selling lunches from the cart. BY de-
grees the bakers wagon evolved into
cart that resembled small freight
car with windows in it as much as any
thing else. Sam Jones brought the
idea to Worcester. and little later
took it to Springfield, and in the course
of a few years there was hardly town
of any size in New England that DID
not have one or more lunch wagons
doing business ON its streets.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR,

Feb. l5-Battle ship Maine blown up
In Havana harbor.
April 20-President authorized by con-
gress to intervene in Cuba with
army and navy.
April 22-.Blockading proclamation is
sued. First gun of the war fired by
gunboat Nashville in capturing the
prize Buena Ventura.
April 23--President calls for $4,000
two-year volunteers.
April 25-War with Spain is declared.
April 29-Cervera' fleet sails for Cuba,
May Rear Admiral Dewey destroys
entire fleet of Admiral Montejo in
Manila Bay.
May 11-Ensign Bagley killed at Car
denas.
May 19-Cervera's fleet seeks refuge in
Santiago de Cuba bay.
May 25-Presdent calls for $4,000 adj
Citional volunteers.
June 3-Hobson sinks the Merrimcc in
Santiago harbor and is taken pris-
oner with seven volunteers who ac-
companied him.
June 10-Six hundred United States
marines landed at Caimanera.
June 13-Camara's feet sails from
Spain.
June 22-Shafter's army lands at Bal
quiri and Siboney.
July 1-Lawton and Kent and rough
riders take San Juan Hill, losing 231
men, with 1884 wounded.
July 3-Cervera's fleet DESTROYED by
SIMPSONS squadron.
July 17-Toral surrenders Santiago
and eastern portion of Cuba.
July 25-Gen. Miles lands in Porto
Rico near Ponce.
July 26-Spain proposes peace through
French Ambassador Cambon.
July 31-Battle OF Matte, near Ma
Mia.
Aug. 12-Spain and United States sign
peace protocol defining terms.
Aug. 25-United States peace commits
sion named.
Nov. 2S-Final terms Of United States
accepted by Spain at Paris.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
RECENT INVENTIONS.

A handy mucilage or backing bottle
has been designed, having a removable
cap, which keeps the liquid from dry
ing up when not in use, sponge being
inserted in the nozzle with all outlet
through which the gum is fed to the
surface.
Bags are supported for filling by a
handy new holder. composed of base
carrying an upright post, with curv-
ed band at the top. adapted to grip
the mouth of the bag and hold it open,
the band being adjustable on the post
for bags Of different lengths.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
BEWARE OF THESE.

Lady's slipper poisons in the same
way as does poison ivy. The bulbs
seem to be the most harmful. Lilies
of the valley are also poisonous
The berries of the yew have killed
many persons, and it is pretty we'll
known nowadays that it is not safe to
eat many peach pits or cherry kerr
pels at once.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
CHURCH AND CLERGY,

There are now 10000 Indians III
school outside the five civilized tribes.
Darlington Booth says that on Man
haitian Island there are 100000 young
men who do not enter church.
Many a man." once said Phillips
Brooks, "can say I did the things my
father told me, but the man | am, my
mother made me-"
The originality of some wags is all
picked up in the street.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

To accept and believe a staten ent
without adequate and dispassionate In
yestigation is an intellectual crime u
tho first order.-Allan North.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Strong. rs we'll as handsome. Can
be ordered in either Oak or Mahogany
finish. Height is "A inches, width 50
inches. depth II inches.
Just the thing for Il practical
christmas present Convenient Tor
home use.
(PaekinS SOC Fx:va.)
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

DECEmE Err REDUCTIONS
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: ;:$::":> ": ::':.' $3.50
g.: :;$ $ :; I'M: : $2.75
reduced O............
$::;$ ; IT,; F.:' &c: $3.75
; $:;;:; 81: II T.; is: $3.50
Steel Ranges. With ~ ~
warming clSGst, Ill
worth $500, ZJe>yu
rehuctd to............
5: :;: ;: IF; H.: In. $500
reduced to..........
81: IS: S: ";: ::::; $3.50
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s.: e.; y: =: $2.48
reduced tO............
e: s; 81; :: ;:: $575
Cook Stoves. No. I M m
size. good cookers III
and bakers, worth W Nv
$3.50, reduced to-.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-04
Road Making by Steam.

From experiments with steam drill
the New Hampshire station draws the
following conclusions which are stated in
a recent bulletin:
First-There is need of a large amount
of rock work upon the average country
road
Second-The steam drill is absolutely es-
sential for the economical handling of
considerable rock masses. and is capable
of doing exceedingly economical work in
portable form for small amounts of work
in place.
Third-The ownership of the necessary
plant. especially with boiler and forge
omitted, is within the means of large
number of townships.
Fourth-A good opportunity for starting
such an innovation as above outlined may
be found frequently in connection with
the carrying out of some single large i'm
provement involving rock excavation. In
such case the total expense of plant may
be saved the first season.
Fifth-The obvious objections are con-
rected with the lack of permanent organ
ization OF the department of roads ana
the frequent changes of management in
the country. This is illustrated by the
fact that probably two-thirds of all the
road machines in the state winter in the
open air.
Sixth-On the other hand, steam drill
is not bulky and would be left sually in
the care of the person who had learned to
run it, In that case it would receive all
necessary attention.
Seventh-A steam drill is simple in con-
struction; is made to stand banging, and
is less liable to get out of order than
many articles of modern farm machinery
in common use.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-04
The rnuItrx Bnsiness.

Winnebago City Press-News: NO one
can get fair or adequate idea OF the
amount of poultry that has been handled
in WiSlebago during the last month or
two just by noticing the loads seen upon
the streets. He must figure little
During the seven or eight weeks last past
German &, Pendergast can show hgures
and facts for something over twenty-five
tons of different varieties of fowls winch
this firm have bought here and shipped.
Over $4,000 pounds is considerable
poultry and represents considerable
money. At the very low average of u
cents per pound all around it amounted to
over $4,000 cash, which was paid out to
the farmers in this community. The most
of this poultry has gone to Blue Earth
City, to Ellingson Bros, who dress, pack
and ship to Boston, where it is put in cold
storage to be sold next summer. The
figures given above do not include the
stuff handled by other dealers and the
butchers, which. added to the above,
would swell the Winnebago poultry bust
ness very materially.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-04

The Wisconsin ASrlcuituriSt: Inc Chr
cago Record reports a pretty lively ad-
venture which befell flve-year-old Iowa
boy last summer. He had gone out in
the wheat field where his father was
driving the harvester, and had begged to
be taken up on the high seat by his
fathers side,
The harvester was one of those Won
derful labor-saving machines of which
farmers use so many these days. 1t
cut the wheat swept it into sheaves,
bound them and tossed them aside.
For a time all this was very interest
ing to the little fellow. Then he grew
tired of sitting still, and began to
squirm, and before the father knew
what was going on the boy had tum-
bled off.
He sore lmed as he found himself go
ing; but before the horses could be
stopped the machinery had caught
him, rolled him up in bundle of wheat
bound him about the legs and the neck
with Irvine, and there he lay ON the
ground.
He was not hurt. A little skin had
been scraped from one of his shoulders.
ond he was. or thought he was, almost
choked. That was all; but he was very
much frightened.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-04
1erislnting Against Hook Agents.

A bill has been introduced in con-
gress providing that no person hold
ing a copyright for any book, map, or
pamphlet shall enter into any agree
ment, combination, or understanding
with any person or persons whereby
the parties to said contract shall have
the exclusive privilege to sell books,
maps, or pamphlets, or into any agree
ment. combination or understanding
for the purpose of controlling or reg
ulating the output of books, maps or
pamphlets. or for fixing, establishing,
regulating, controlling or influencing
the price for which books, maps or
pamphlets are sold" The penalty pro-
posed by the bill is a cancellation of
copyright.
This curious bit of legislation is
aimed directly at the person who seeks
to gain livelihood by canvasslng for
books of all sorts. While the book
agent has bad name and is consid-
cred the most intolerable bore in ex-
istence, it seems scarcely fair to shut
off his means of getting a living
Surely, all things being equal, he has
quite as good right to follow his
trade and calling as the lightning-rod
man, the sewing-machine agent and
the vendors of adhesive compounds
and patent kitchen utensils. AS
rule, the book handled by the agent
is tolerably good one, and this is a
great point in his favor. He is not de-
ceiving his customer to any extent, nor
is he obtaining money of that worthy
under false pretenses. His book is
good, and while it may be, and prob
ably is, very high priced edition, it
has the merit of wholesomeness and
is rarely menace to society.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-04
The Hen and the Cow.


Crookston Times: The farmers mere
and hereabouts have sold pretty close 10
their needs for the coming year, ana there
Is little left in the granaries ana stoch
barns that they can turn into money until
another crop is ready to turn. Inc prices
that they have been able to realize LOT
their grain and produce have been UNI,
,ormIy good, and many have been tempted
to sell beyond the amount their Judgment
warranted They have devoted the pro,
ceeds to the payment of their debts, anu
to-day the mortgage indebtedness OF the
county is smaller than 1t has been at any
time during the past ten years. Notlce-
able shortage of stock is one of the most
deplorable results of the system OF farm
Ing that is in vogue. To-day the people Oh
Crookston are practically doing without
veal and mutton on their tables, oWlhs
to the scarcity of these two easily raised
and good paying kinds of produce. one
of the local butchers states that he can
not for any price, even beyond that whlcn
has been standard during the past Two
years, secure anywhere near enough 10
meet the requirements of his trade. II
now looks as if the hen and COW would
have to bear the burden of supplying the
farmers table with the summers grocer
les.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-04

Home Doctor: That impure water may
be rendered pure by filtering through
charcoal.
THAT brooms should be hung in cellar
way to be kept soft and plant.
That to wrap cutlery in coarse brown
paper will keep it from rusting.
That lemons are improved by keeping
in cold water until needed for use
That a pan of hot water in an oven
prevents the contents from screening.
That all corks should be washed, thor
ouShly dried and kept for any future call
That a spoonful of grated horseradish
will keep a pan of milk sweet for days.
That bouilli is not soup. but is the
beef which has been boiled in making
broth. 49,, -.
That reaches and creeping things are
best destroyed by the use of hot alum
water. -
moved by the use of spirits OF turpen-
tine.
That an old newspaper cleans a looking
glass more effectually than linen OF
chamios. -,
That herbs should be gathered when
beginning to blossom and be Kept IN pa
per sacks. -, IL. +;, too
THAT kerosene oil will make TIN tea
,,ottIes as bright as new. Rub with a
wooden rag. ,,,,.
That at a tennis tea the tennis balls
NAV be initiated by serving medium
sized oranges skinned. ~,
That the fiber of a baked apple Will
cook evenly only when the core Is re-
moved before cooking. A.
That a spoonful of vinegar put INTO the
water in which meat or fowl is polleo
makes them tender
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-04
Swine Plague in wisconsin.

| The outbreak of the swine plague in
| Southeastern Wisconsin Is serious
blow to the farmers. Thousands of hogs
have died from the disease, and many
farmers have lost all they had. Every
known remedy has been tried without
| satisfactory results. 1t is not the hog
| cholera; some of the sick hogs recover
from the disease. There are many
reasons advanced for it's appearance. A
plague of English sparrows appeared
about the same time, and some level
headed farmers blame them for it. Others
say it was the new corn, as the plague
began about the same time new corH was
ready for feed.
Farmers must change their methods
in feeding hogs or it will be a losing
business; there is very little money
in it when we can raise them Tree
from disease. The trouble is we can
raise corn too easily and we feed II
with a lavish hand. If we fed our other
stock the same way we feed our
swine they would be diseased and die
too. Corn is king, but it is cruel mas
ter when used too lavishly. l believe
another prolific source of disease In
swine is sour swill. A hog will gorge
itself with it till he can scarcely breathe.
A little of everything goes into the swill
barrel; it is a veritlple witchs caul-
dron. A swill-fed hog is an abomination.
1t is more than that, it is poison.
Is it any wonder that our pork is
barred from foreign countries? They
have good cause to believe it to be
diseased. They read in the papers OF
hog cholera all the year around and OF
farmers rushing their hogs to market
in order to escape the disease. Why Is
it the Canadians get better prices Tor
their pork than we in the states! 1t
is because they cannot raise corn as
easily as we can and their hogs are rat
tened ON other grain, barley, oats and
peas. l have raised and fatted swine
in Racine county every year for the
last thirty-five years and l have never
lost any hogs from disease and l
do not expect to lose any during the
present epidemic. Although farmers
living within half a mile of me have
lost nearly all they had from the
plague and there are PLENTY of spar
rows around the hog house all the time.
1 feed oats ana peas and barley
mixed on u board floor in the morning
and corn in the evening, with nothing
but pure well water to drink. The
floor is cleaned every day and fresh
bed is given them every night. They
have warm sleeping apartments and
small yard to run in during the winter,
but they are not allowed to root in the
manure-Soaked ground.
Try it, brother farmers, and you VIII
find your pork nicely streaked with lean
meat. and you will have pork steak
that is fit for the gods. So writes Joshua
Spriggs.