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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-14

Mrs. Karl Burkart went to Parks
ton Thursday to remain a few
days with relatives and friends.
Miss Alice Barlow arrived Thursday
morning from Plankinton, where she
has been visiting friends and re]a-
tives.
Miss Pearl Jackson, one of the
teachers in the city schools, was
given a surprise party at her home
Wednesday evening by the pupils of
her room. The young folks brought
their own refreshments and after
playing all manner of games, these
were served. The evening was en-
]oyable to all present.
Since Jos. Swift has returned from
Fedora he has taken a position with
the Electric Co. in putting up new
wires. Over at Fedora Joe was RUM
Ing a creamery for a man named
Sherman, who went to the wall.
Sherman was running a number of
creameries and Swimming stations
IN Miner county and when he failed
. large numoc4 OF farmers lost sums
ranging I'm S5O u 5000. Ouc farmer
nLu saved ulo .Al> ..4ecK until lie
had secured D20J al with thit e
was go ng to lay OF the morlgd, { On
his farm. but Sherman S fai IRE made
his checks worthless.
The Fargo agricultural college foot
ball team, which was scheduled for
a return game with Dakota Univers-
lty's eleven on Thanksgiving day, has
just notified the managers of the
University team that they will not
appear in Mitchell on that day. We
don't know of any other reason than
that they just won't come, but it is
limited that the north-state team
wants TO retain the hold she acquired
over Mitchell in a crippled condition.
1t is possible tha6 arrangements will
be made to pick up a Mitchell team
and play it against the University
eleven for a Thanksgiving game.
We believe that a great game could
be arranged, and it is hoped that
the two can be brought together.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-14
ENTERTAINED THEIR FRIENDS
Mesdames Grace and BEDFORD Gave
Reception Wednesday After
noon to Large Number.
noon to Large Number.

Mrs. . Lawrence Grace and Mrs
Frank Redford gave a reception at
the home of the former Wednesday
afternoon from 2:3O to S O'Clock. The
weather was not at all in sympathy
with the occasion but despite that
there were a large number of ladies
who called during the afternoon,
and the hacks were kept busy max
ing the round trip.
The door Vas attended by Sarah
Bras. Mesdames Grace and BEDFORD
were assisted in receiving the guests
by Mrs. H. L. Bras and Mrs. G. G..
Bras. In the sitting room, where
punch "a served, the following
young ladies had charge Of the
service and looked afJer the comfort
of the guests Misses Blanche Rowley,
Pearl Harker, Zadia Brown, Maude
Hager, Goldie Beebe and Ella
Wilkinson. One corner of the room
was very attractively draped with
lace curtains and Japanese lanterns
and there was placed the punch bowl
In the dining room Mrs. A. E.
Hitchcock psured the coffee and the
guests were served by Mrs. Virgil
Boyles and Mrs. C. w. Downey. The
decorations in the various oolns were
pink and white chrysanthemums,
while smilax was utilized for drapery.
The afternoon was a pleasant one tc
the guests, and the hostesses are to
be congratulated OF the success OF
the affair.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-14
II. C.. 7APP
Jewehy Store
Ma" street, Mitchell S, o
Freaks of the Tariff.

The following amusing details of the
freaks of the custom house are told in
the Munchener Zeitung: A German gen
tleman returning from southwest Afri-
ca brought with him a tiny monkey
weighing about two pounds. From
Tanga to Genoa the animal was con-
veyed gratis. Thence to the Swiss
frontier 15d. was charged on it as "a
bird" The st. Gothard railway Of
fcials, however. viewed it as "a dog"
and charged is, while on the Eastern
Swiss railway it became a mere "pack-
age" liable to Sd. Through Baden and
Wurttemberg the animal was passed
free. but at Stuttgart it again became
"a dog and cost another It'd.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-14
NOTES OF NOTABLES.

Henry Ernest Cooper, the first secre-
tary at Hawaii, has arrived in San
to place his son at school in
David Turpie, formerly United States
senator from Indiana, is passing his
declining years in his comfortable In
dianapolis home.
A young Danish author named Mad
sen fell downstairs in his house in Co.
penhagen recently and was choked to
death by his high collar.
General De Wet objects to being
termed a "guerrilla leader" The Bloem.
fontein Post so referred to him and
subsequently withdrew the phrase at
the Boer generals request.
Colonel W. Heckert Of Toledo, O., is
doing his best to prove that Yankees
are not the greatest inventors. He
has already patented 100 of his notions
and is brimful Of ideas yet.
DR.. William M. Beardshear, the pres
ident of the Iowa State Agricultural
college, who has just died, was ar
Ohioan by birth and was m Of the
youngest recruits to take part in the
civil war.
"Is your respected mother still alive
May she teach you discretion" was
the reply of Ras Makonnen to a Pa
risian reporter who asked him whether
the Abyssinians liked the English o.
the French better.
Charles M. Schwab has doubled hi
gift Of $65, 900 to the Pennsylvania
State college. It is also announced
that he is to build a residence TO-
the Rev. Eugene A. Garvey, the frs
bishop Of the Catholic diocese Of Al
toona, Pa.
The champion sneezer Of Pennsylva
mia is John Hamilton, a druggist o
New Castle. While at work on a pre-
scription he felt a neeze coming o.
and to steady himself clutched a rail
ing. The force of the nee was 8
| great that it threw his shoulder out o
joint.
No n has amassed millions so raI
idly as Mr.. Alfred Belt, the South Al
rican millionaire, who is reputed to b
the wealthiest man in the world. Hi
wealth is said to exceed $1,000, 100000
and the whole Of this colossal forum
was made within a period of twenty
five years.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-14
Embroidered Efect..

The embroidered effects are new ana
exceedingly handsome while eminentIy
well suited to their use. Many Of the
plain colors are exquisite and include
a variety Of shades. The newer basket
weaves and Grape flannel are charming
and will add materially to the comfort
as well as the beauty Of the season to
come. They are lighter than flannel Of
the accepted sort, yet retain much OF
its quality and offer a wide range Of
shades and combinations.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-14
Watches.

We are always ready to sell you
the right Kind of a time piece at the
right kind of a price. There is MOTH
ing better than the best and no hon
est man can sell an honest article
lower than the low wafer mark.
There is a limit both ways and we
come up to those lir1its and offer
you as good as you can get as cheap
as it can be sold. If you want an
honest, reliable watch, at the lowest
possible price, come and see our
watches, which includes a splendid
variety OF the latest in ladies' and
%gentlemen's styles.
Watch repairing is our business
and we give careful, palnstaking
tention to it.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-14

1t Keeps the Feet Warm and Dry.
Ask to-day for Aliens Foot-Ease,
a powder. 1t cures chilblains,
swollen, sweating, sore, aching
damp, feet. At all druggists and
shoe stores, Csc.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-14

WAIST OF DESIGN.
back and which appear to extend over
on to the tops of the sleeves, where
they are finished with scrolls.
The yoke, tucked all over in fine
tucks, forms a deep point in front
The sleeve is made with a group of
tucks at the bottom and finished with
a cuff trimmed with the scrolls, as In
also the collar.-Mode Elegante.
Taking the world as a whole, Is per
cent die before they reach the age of
seventeen.
Experience worries more men than IL
teaches.-Chicago News.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-14
Original Design.

Silk blouse trimmed diagonally with
pipings or narrow bands Of the ma
terial forming VS. in front and in
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-17
HEARD Ia PASSING

Last year, when potatoes were Sl per bushel, it was the Dingley tariff, alias the republican party, that did it. This year, with potatoes at 15 to IT cents per busheI and the same tariff in vogue, it is the abundant crop that does it! Here is republican campaign logic for you.-Anolza Free Press.
 In stentorian tones every republican orator of 1900 shouted that "the repub- lican party could be depended on to deal with the trusts" In the light of more recent events we are inclined to think they were confused in their phraseology. They should have said Ideal to the trusts" White County Democrat.
 The Boston Transcript remarks to this effect: ssThose who talk of the waning influence of churches should ponder the fact that in Sha1nolzin the pastor asked for coal, and the miners immediately went to work and put eighteen tons of anthracite in the church cellar. Morgan could do no more. New Haven Register.
 The death of Banker Nicholas Fish of New York in consequence of a drunken brawl in front of a saloon in Thirty-fourth street may make some other men of equal birth and breeding a little more cautious in regard to their habits. It was an ignoble ending of life for an inheritor of one of the most distinguished and respected names in New York.-Hartford Times.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-17
The Chinese Language.

It has long been the popular i'm, pression that the Chinese language like the Chinese people themselves was a curious compound and almost beyond the comprehension of an oc. cidentalist. But it is a matter of in. terest to know what some of it's pc. culiar difficulties are, as they were stated by Pros. Herbert Allen Giles. the English orientaist, in recent lecture before Columbia university It seems, according to this authority that there are really two distinct Chinese languages, the spoken and the written. The former may be cas- lily acquired, but the latter, the s.book language" is a study of lifetime. Few people can read Chinese book or write Chinese letter, and women in particular seem to fail in this. The Chinese never possessed a grammar. Chicago Chronicle.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-17
LEADERS IN COUNCIL
Senators Talk Politics With
 the President.
NO MARKED POLITICAL CHANGES.
Republican so1ons Decide Against Tariff Revision and Uphold Roose- veIt's Position Regarding the
 Trusts and Cuba.

OYSTER BAY, IN. T., Sept. 17.-Sen- ators Hanna, Spooner, Allison, Aldrich and Lodge and Postmaster General Payne spent several hours with Presi- dent Roosevelt yesterday and discussed with him the entire political situation. having special reference with regard to the conditions in the western states which the president is to visit on his approaching trip
 The parties to the conference were very close mouthed after they returned from Sagamore Hill, but it can be stated on reliable authority that it was decided to make no attempt to revise the tariff at the coming session of con- gress, that the president is to maintain his position as to the trusts and further that he is to insist in his demand for reciprocity with Cuba. It is understood that he will fully outline his policy re- garding this latter question in some of the speeches he is to make on his west ern trip. It also can be stated on ex- cellent authority that the coal strike was not discussed.
 The presidents purpose in having this conference was to ascertain if there had been any marked political changes in the different sections of the country during, the past year. The con- ference, it is said, showed that there had been none.
 .aThe conference was entirely harmo- nious," said one of the gentlemen who participated in it, but who declined to allow his name to be published. No differences of opinion developed, and the presidents position on the different questions discussed was indorsed. We talked over the entire political situa- ton, especially that in the states through which the president is to pass. The coal strike was not talked about
 The senatorial delegation arrived at 1920 D. m. They came from Long Is- land City in the private car of Presi- dent Baldwin of the Long Island rail- road and refused to see a number of newspaper men who were on the train. On their arrival here they were driven at once to Sagamore Hill in President Roosevelt's traps. They left in the pri- vate car at 10:10 D. n. for Long Island City. Postmaster General Payne came over earlier in the day from Center island. He left at 6:35 p. m. for New York.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-17
RESCUED HER CHILD.
i St. PanI Woman shows Rare Pres- ence of Mind in an Unlocked
 For Emergency.

At St. Paul the other day, Mrs.
 Mary Mckenzie proved herself a heroine by rescuing her three-year-
 old boy from a cistern into which he had fallen and was drowning. The cover of the scistern was a part of the floor of the kitchen, and in or der to draw water from the cistern "a trapdoor5 in the floor had to be
 lifted. Mrs. Mckenzie had just lift
 ed the door and turned to pick up a
 pail, when little Percy toppled head long into it, falling into five feet of
 water. It was six feet to the water
 line, and the mother was helpless.
 She ran. into the yard screaming for help, and when two women neighbcrs
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Texas is spending three quarters of ! million annually on the education of ner neg@oes.
 The Wesleyan s5,0oo, GOO twentieth century thank-offe fund, while awaiting distribution, drew interest to the amount of over SITS, 5,OOo. | The pope has a grievance against the Methodists in Rome He thinks they have no lbgsihess there and that they are entirely 4oo aggressive in their re- igious and educational work.
 The library of Washington and Lee university has recently been enriched by number of valuable books and doc- uments contributed by Dr. R. Under wood Johnson, associate editor of the Century Magazine, who is an alumnus. of the institution.
 Prof. Melville NJ Bigelow, Of the University of Michigan, who has just been appointed dean of the Boston uni versity law school, was born at Eton Rapids, Mich.s in 1846. He was grad uated at the University of Michigan in R866 and receiyed the degree of doc tor of philosophy in Harvard uniyer~. sity in 1879. sf
 Some persons believe that students graduate from college much younger now than formerly, other persons think that the average age increases. Yale statistics do not show any per- ceptible drift either way. In 1863 the average age was 22 years, 10 months, 17 days; it is now 22 years, 10 months, and 21 days.
 It is stated in England that prom inent brewer is building church as a memorial of King Edwards corona tion. Dean Swift's cathedral-Sf. Pat rick's, Dublin-was restored by the late .distiiler, Sir Benjamin Guiness. It was a famous distilIer, too, who re- built the Protestant cathedral of Cork and another distiller restored Christ church in, Dublin. One of the famous brewing firms in England has erected no less than six churches at various times.
 The bishop of Exeter, England, who is apronouneedlo owchurchman, said when consecrating the church at Shaldon that, although he should continue to be faithful friend and brother to the clergy so long as they were faithful to the law, he had been obliged to decline to consecrate the church until written agreement had been signed by the clergy and wardens that cer. tain illegal things, including the stone altars, should be removed with out de-. lay. The crucifx and other figures h the church had also been objected to, but they were not illegal and merely stood as works of art.''
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-17
The Hawaiian as n Diver.

The working crews of the islands were quartered in suitable camps near their field of labor. They were native Hawaiians, good fellows, will ing workers, admirably adapted to the duty required of them, which was largely in boats and in the wa. ster.1 well remember one who ex- rcel1ed- in diving. On certain oeca- sion, when the placing of "a deep. water mooring had just been accom- plished, it became necessary to de tach under water the end of a. haw- ser, wnich had been made fast to the submerged part of spar-buoy, about 40 CT 50 feet below the surface of the sea, The man was told to take his sheath-knife down with him and cut the hawser as near it's end as he could, so as to lose as little as possi, ble of the valuable cable. Taking his knife in his teeth, he disappeared be. meath the water, and remained out of sight so long that he was almost given up for lost, when he suddenly reappeared, and, on being asked ii he had cut the hawser as he had been told to, reported that he had unbeno it without cutting off any part of it whatever.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-17

The Pittsfeld accident to the presi- .denfial paSts1 which came nsaf proving fatal to the president of the United States recalls, says an exchange, the provision made by congress in 1886 10 meet such an emergency as that which would have arisen if President Roose- welt had been killed The constitu- ton provides only for the succession of the vice president, in case of the death, removal or disability of the president. For more than a hundred years there was no provision for the succession in case there was no vice president when the president died, re- signed or became disqualified. On January 19, 1886, congress passed an act which declares that '.the secretary of state, or, if there be none, or in case of his removal, death, resignation, or inability, then the secretary of the treasury shall act as president until the disability of the president or vice president is removed or a president shall be elected The act which we have quoted provides that following the secretary of the treasury, the sec retary of war, the attorney general, the postmaster general, the secretary of the navy, and the secretary of the interior in the order mentioned shall succeed to the presidency At the time of the passage of the act pro- vision was made for convening con gress, presumably to enable that body to consider and determine upon the ad- visibility of authorizing the holding of a special election. It provided "that whenever the powers and duties of the office of president of the United
 States shall deyolye upon any of the officers named herein, if congress be not then in session, or if it would not meet in accordance with law within twenty days thereafter, it shall be the duty of the person upon whom the said powers and duties shall devolve, to issue proclamation convening con gress in extraordinary session, giving twenty days notice of the time of meeting" It will be noted that the act of January 19, 1886, does not spe- officially state that special election shall be held for the election of presi- dent and vice president It is, how ever, held that such is the meaning and the purpose of the act. The ne- cessity for the converting of congress is for the purpose of enabling that body, in it's discretion, to authorize the holding of 8 special election. The acting president has no option in the matter of converting congress in extra session unless a less period than twenty days should intervene between the death or disability of the president and the time appointed for the regular assembling of congress.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-17

Against the advice of Mckinley, the adjuration of Roosevelt, the pledges of the republican platform, the good faith of the government, and the dic- tate of humane consideration for q suffering people, the republicans, rath- CT than diminish the unjust profits of the sugar trust, refused to do justice to Cuba. It was but the triumph of greed over right and Justice. The re- publican party owes it's lease of power to the trusts and it cannot get far enough away from them to deliver an effective kick. Through the protec- tive tariff, the infant industry has grown so rich and strong, at the ex- pense of the consumer, that they are now, through the republican party, riding roughshod over the rights of the people. These monsters the tariff has created have turned upon the nation and now hold it by the throat. And yet the Dingley bill is still in force Still it compels the oppressed consum- CT to pay over tribute into trust cof. fers when he buys their goods. An the evils of the trusts which were ere ated by the tariff continue to grow greater so long as the tariff remains Is it not time for revision? Is it not time to elect a party to power which has always been the consistent enemy of trusts?
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-17
Died of a strange Disease.

Rudolph Fliedner, of New Bruns- wick, N. J, is dead, after lingering illness from a rare disease of the skin known to scientists as penn phigus yulgarus. No other case of the disease has ever been known in the United States, it is asserted. Fliedner's skin became as if scalded, and his nurses had to swathe his en- tire body in cotton. Mr. Fliedner first became i'll in May. Specialists were called who studied the case with great interest, but could do nothing to relieve him, and he died from exhaustion. He was A years old, and, starting as 1aborer, had built up large business.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-17

responded she made them understand and asked that they take her, one by each foot, and suspend her head down into the we'll.
 Without tremor the mother lay down, and was let slide down toward the water, head first The child was coming up for the second time when her hands reached his skirts, and, after a strong pull altogether, the two women holding to Mrs. McKen- zie's ankles, drew both mother and child from the water. The child was revived in a few moments, and neither was the worse for the ex- perience the next<day.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-17
DECEPTIVE DISTANCES.
Something About New York and the

Something About New York and the
 nockies.
 The New York man just returned from the west was talking. "Possi> bly," said he, s'it is the clear air of the west that makes those big noun tains seem so near to you, but 1 don't believe it is altogether that. I think size and altitude have great deal to do with it. We are accustomed to judge distances by the size of the smaller objects we see around us, and when we get alongside of those big mountains our standards are so chang ed that we miscalculate. come to this conclusion from my experieIice in New YorK city Before we had the mountainous buildings which are now all over the island. 1t looked long, long way up Broadway, say, from Twenty third street to the bend, or up Fifth avenue from the same point to the crown of the hill at about Fortieth street, and it strained the eyes to get the outlines of the low structures at the farther end. And if one got a view down toward City ha1l from q church steeple somewhere about Forty-second street, he was prepared ito swear that it was a days journey to the end of
 
 big buildings towering heayenward, it seems but a step up Fifth avenue from Forty y-second street to Forty-ninth. with the high buildings apparently so close that he can reach out aLu touch them. And I am pretty sure noD. v looks from top-story window about Madison square and sees the high buildings at the lower end of the island without being almost startled by their apparent nearness.
 We do not realize the enormous size of the buildings in New York un- til we get them at long range and com pare them with other conspicuous ob- jeets in, tne Landscape. When we have judged 'dfstanees, or the clarity of the. atmosphere if you please, by three, foalui or five story isTf lctNResE rising forty to- sixty feet, . we ncaInot reach the same conclusions that we do when we judge by a building 300 feet high. We work on an entirely new angle of vision and the results are surprising. to say the least. New York Sun.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-17
The suggestion that the ancient

The suggestion that the ancient Egyptian sphinx be reproduced in St Louis for the worlds fair has been received by Mayor Rolla Wells from Mrs Bertie Cortland Longworth or Paris. France. Mrs Longworth is a sculptor and has made a plaster model of the sphinx after four years of study, this being the only model in existence. The idea is to reproduce the sphinx in cement, thus making it more durable than stone. Mrs Long worth says the sphinx is crumbling, owing to the bringing of rains into Egypt as the result of the extension of