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The Newtown bee., 1903-01-16

The annual meeting of the commit tee of St Mary's church was held at the rectory, Monday night, at 7.30. Officers for the year were elected as follows: Trustees. Patrick Wixted and Patrick Troy; pew rental collectors, William Carroll, Martin Grove, James Gallagher, Patrick Carney, Charles English, Patrick McMahon; assistant collectors, George Carroll and Thomas Tubberty. It was reported that the past year had been most prosperous one, the church being clear of all in- dehtednesS with balance on hand of $500.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11

the endurance and ability OF the
horses. When the command would be
suddenly shouted to make ready the
horses would be drawn up, the en-
gineers Oh the battalion would start
the gasoline engine and dynamo, sup
plying electricity to the sending In
strument, while others Of the bat
talon would send a kite soaring
through the air heavenward several
hundred feet and carrying the aerial
wire which is ordinarily suspended
from a mast. simultaneously the re-
ceiving apparatus would be adjusted,
and II was found that 1t required
Just FIVE minutes to get everything
into working order to send and re-
ceive messages.
The object of these maneuvers was
TO determine whether or not the deli
cate and sensitive instruments en-
ployed in wireless telegraphy would
be able to withstand the hard usage,
as well As the value from a strategic
point of view.
The instruments of the portable
military outfits are similar to those
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11

visible electric waves by means OF
the aerial wire. The generator is an
induction coil, having a spark-gap con-
nected to a copper cylinder, or "arti-
fetal earth" as II is termed, and the
aerial wire. The induction coil is
fed by the dynamo, which is in turn
operated by the gasolene engine.
The receiver, occupying the second
carriage, employs a coherer for de
tecting the presence of the electric
waves bearing the message and the
Morse printing register, which indi-
Gates and translates the ether strains
into readable dots and dashes.
One of the salient differences be-
tween the ordinary system of wire.
less telegraphy and that devised by
Prof. Braun is that the former re.
quires a ground connection with the
instruments, a piece of sheet copper
being buried in the earth and con-
nected with the sending and receiv-
ing apparatus.
In stations where the equipments
are located permanently cylinders
made of copper are substituted for
the earth, and are therefore termed
artificial earths," but in the portable
sets the tire of the carriage is used
to make connection with the earth.
The first attempt to use wireless
telegraphy in actual warfare was
made by Marconi at the request of the
Pritish War Office during the South
African war 1t was the intention of
the War Department that wireless
communication should be established
at the base Of supplies and on the
railways, buL when MarcOnis assist
ants arrived the officers we're exceed
ingly anxious that the Instruments
should be sent to the front, realizing
the immense advantage such a mode
of communication would be, and so,
on Dec. II, 1899, the apparatus was
conveyed to the camp at De Aar.
The operators, however, on arriv-
ing at De Aar, found that no arrange
ments had been made TO supply the
masts, and the counIly at that point
being barren of trees, the instru-
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11
Saved His Life,

Whitehall, H., June Sth.-Mr. Lon
Manley had Bright's Disease and
after his home doctor had treated
him for some time he finally told him
that he could do nothing more for
him and that he would surely die.
A friend who had heard of what
Dodd's Kidney Pills had done in
cases OF Kidney Trouble advised M.
Manley to try a treatment of this
remedy.
He did so and every one was sur
prised and delighted to see an I'M
provement IN very short time. This
improvement gradually kept on as
the treatment proceeded, till now Mr.
Manley is well. He says:
"The doctor said he had done all he
could for me. He gave up. A
friend advised me to take Dodd's
Kidney Pills and in few weeks !
was nearly all right again.
81 am not dead and can truthfully
say that feel better today than |
have for years. Dodd's Kidney Pills
are wonderful remedy and | will
always praise them and recommend
them to every one suffering as did"
Mr.. Manley's recovery has caused a
profound sensation, as no one ever
thought he would recover.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11

In the next war wireless telegraphy
will prove an important factor!
Whether the battle be waged on land
or sea, between armies or navies, the
wireless transmission Of intelligence
will loom up, a gigantic spectre
dreaded by the enemy like a mirage
in the desert by the traveller.
Ever since the advent of this seem.
ing miracle, equaling in every re-
spect the telepathy of which we have
so long dreamed, the Powers of the
world have been testing it's merits
so that when the next war is on and
the crucial moment arrives, troops
or vessels may communicate with
each other even though a distance of
fifty miles separates them.
The military wireless telegraph
here illustrated is known as the
Braun-Siemens & Holske system, and
is the invention of Prof. Ferdinand
Braun, instructor in electrical en-
cheering in the Physical Institute,
Strassburg, Germany, and the appa-
ratus is manufactured by the Sic
mems & Holske Electric company Of
Berlin.
The equipments we're specially de-
signed for the recent German army
maneuvers and We're placed in charge
of the Royal Military Airship Bat
TALON. During the trials of trans
hitting and receiving wireless mes
sages after hard runs and forced
marches the results were witnessed
by the Kaiser, who evinced his ap-
proval Of the operations.
The conditions under which the bat
TALON rendered its telegraphic service
were severe in the extreme, as, for
instance, in the cross country runs,
when the carriages were carried over
land at terrific speed, limited only by
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11
MISTAKEN IDENTITY AGAIN
Some More of Dickey Davis Press
Agent Matter.

Agent Matter.
Richard Harding Davis, after tasting
the success of a playwright, has sailed
for London, where he will tempt the
gods OF the stage again. A number Of
years ago, during a first visit to Eng
lands gloomy capital, he met plain
looking man at social function. The
rooms were crowded, and they got into
conversation without being formally
introduced.
Great many literary lights here"
said the plain little man.
YES" replied Davis.
II hear that woman's novel writer
Davis is here from America. Can you
point him out to me.
NO." came the reply.
81 don't see what the public wants
with such books when they can get
good Scotch stories"
That's So" answered Davis. "They
have the pleasure in reading these
Scotch stories Of finding persons who
are more deficient in the language
even than they are"
"Sir, am a writer of Scotch stories.
II"
81 am Mr.. Davis"
There were no Anglo-American cen.
gratulations.--New York Times.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11
Wr kilograms to Headquarters Dur
ina the o Army.

ments were rendered useless until, at
the suggestion of Major Baden-Powell
and Capt Kennedy, some kites were
manufactured and communication was
at once established.
The experiments we're not always
successful, for the wind was con-
stantly shifting and variable, and 1t
often happened that when gale was
blowing at one station there was not
enough breeze to fly kite at the OPP
posite station with which they were
attempting to communicate.
This partial failure was due to the
lack of proper preparation on the part
of the local military authorities and
not to the iron in the hills, as was
reported at the time. On days when
the kites could be raised and main
tanned, wireless telegraph messages
we're easily transmitted between the
De Aar ard Orange River stations,
a distance of seventy miles.
The modern portable military wire
less telegraph is not hampered by
NdTldUlc WlHuS, lOi win SoSh Wv Va
instruments are included small hydro.
gen balloons, with cylinders of COM
pressed gas for initiating them, SO that
in the event of calm, still day, when
it is impossible to fly the highest kite,
the balloons are brought forth, in.
flated, the aerial wire is attached and
the whole is permitted to soar grace
fully upward through the realm of
air and ether
The experience which was purchased
at so great a price in the South Afri-
can war has not been without its value,
for from that day to the present time
tests have been conducted by the mil
itary authorities of the world to de-
termine on the best method for elevat-
ing the aerial wire, and the results of
these rigid trials have shown that
kites especially adapted to the We
Iocity of the wind must be used.
Thus it is that il slight breeze is
blowing the aerial wire is best raised
by means of tailless kite, such as
the Malay kite, or, as it's improved
form is called, an Eddy, or, what is
stin better, Horsman keel kite,
which is like a Malay kite, but is
provided with deep fin or keel along
its flying face, which keeps it true as
Il scars on the breeze. In heavy
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11

weather when the wind is blowing a
stiff gale Blue Hill box kite is best
adapted. The harder the wind is
blowing the smaller should be the sur
face of the kite exposed to it. Know
ing the value of kites, and under this
new dispensation, the conditions aris-
ing at De Aar will not likely be re-
peated.
Besides the German government,
the United States, Austria and Danish
army and navy departments are also
testing the Braun Siemens & Holske
system of wireless telegraphy, and, be-
sides this, all the Powers on land and
sea are trying out every new device
for wireless communication that tends
to show the slightest advance in the
art. All is being done, however, with
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11

as much secrecy as possible, but sys-
tematically the investigation and tests
are being constantly made.
The English Admiralty has thirty
two men-of-war carrying Marconi in
stallations, the Italian navy has TWEEN
ty vessels supplied with the same sys-
tenn: over fifty vessels and land sta.
tons have been equipped by the Slaby-
Arco, another German system, while
the De Forest company has equipped
several United States men-of-war and
furnished instruments to the United
States army and signal corps. It will
be seen that the various governments
realize the immense strategic value
of wireless telegraphy in the event Of
war, and that the same serious care
and detail is being given TO 1t that
has made the fighting armament what
it is to-day-a marvel of ingenuity,
strength ard power.
When the war in South Africa came
on wireless telegraphy was yet young,
and its inherent characteristics were
not very well understood. 1t is not
difficult to imagine what its bearing on
the issue of the campaign would have
been If Ladysmith, Kimberley and
Mafeking had been equipped with sta
tons before they were besieged.
When the roar of cannon again
awakens the world to the horrors of
war the potency of unsee, unheard and
unfelt electric waves traversing the
omnipresent ether with the rapidity
of light, carrying on their wings fresh
messages of death, will add another
bond tending toward the great univer.
sal peace.-A. Frederick Collins in
New York Herald.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11
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The Worlds Greatest
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The Worlds Sweetest
Toilet Soap.
sile Greater Than the WOrli'S Product
Of Other Skin Soaps.
Sold Wherever Civilization Has
Penetrated.

Millions Of the worlds best people
use Cutlcura Soap, assisted by Cuticura
Ointment, the great skin cure, for pre-
serving, purifying and identifying the
akin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts,
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for baby rashes, feelings and chatngs,
for annoying irritatlons, or too free or
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weaknesses, and many sanative, anti
septic purposes which readily suggest
themselves to women, especially moth
ers, as well as for all the purposes of
The toilet, bath and nursery.
Cuticura Soap combines delicate
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est of cleansing INGREDIENTS and tho
most refreshing of flower colours. No
other medicated soap ever compounded
istO he compared with IL for preserv-
ing, purifying and identifying the skin,
scalp, hair and hands. No other for
egn or domestic toilet soap, however
expensive, is to be compared with 1t for
ali the purposes Of the toilet, bath and
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at one price the most effective skin and
complexion soap, and the purest and
sweetest toilet, bath and nursery soap
ever compounded.
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a. form Of Chocolate Coated Ps 25c per val OF 6Jl
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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11
Local Demand.

Those iceboxes are made for our
Chicago trade" explained the manager
of the factory.
ANY different from the rest?" asked
the visitor.
Yes; they are fitted up to be com.
Portable when bartenders are locked in
them by hold-up men,"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11
One on Bad BILL

Amber Pete-"The boys played a
good one on Bad Bill the other day.
They bet him there was a chap over
at Eagle Eye that he couldn't make
throw up his hands,"
Bowlder Ben--"Wall, did Bad Bill
VIM"
Amber Pete-"No; when he got over
thar he found the chap was an arm.
less wonder in a side show"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11
Smart pruqqlst.

What In the world are you doing
with cloves on your soda water coun-
ters?" asked the man who had dropped
in for a celery and vichy.
"Oh, that's for the benefit of the
Willie boys" explained the druggist.
They MUNICH them and then tell the
girls what a racket they have been
on"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11
Successful Experiment.

Mabel married that awfully dissi-
pated young Flutterly to reform him"
Aud is she satisfied withS her
choice?"
Il should say she Is. His uncle died
last week and left him half million"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11

The Comedian-"T hear the dramat
ic profession is making rapid strides
out west"
The Tragedian-"Yes at times; es-
pecially when 1t is necessary e. sur
render the right of way to an APP
preaching train"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11
His Gain

LaMontt-"He is the meanest man
/ ever heard Of"
LaMoyne-"Well, If he is so mean it
is wonder he allows ais daughter to
be in love-"
LaMontt-"Oh. that tickles him. He
heard that people in love don't eat
much"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11
Worlds LARGEST police station

The largest police station in the
world is that at Scotland Yard, Lon.
don. 1t has accommodations for 5000
policemen.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11
salmon Is ! sprlnter.

The salmon can. for short distances.
travel at twenty-five miles an hour;
the swiftest of marine creatures are
those Of the whale family.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11

of the permanent station sets, and the
general principles underlying the
construction of the apparatus are the
same as those of the Marconi system
that is to say, the transmitter, car
ried on one OF the carriages, consists
of a generator for sending out the In
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11

When In doubt as to the value OF n
stock watch it a month. Whatever
goes up must come down.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11
Results
Count f!

There are some things that have 20 depend on
catchy talking points in order 10 induce sales.
there ere other things that sold solely on their
merit and on account Of RESULTSf notable
Example OF this Is found in the New Itfftn
wagon which owes its supremacy SOLELY to
KESULTS. Its wonderful durability and capacity
tor Carrying enormous loads, and the remarkable
Ease with which IL runs are some OF the results
which have made IL famous wherever known:
INSIST ON your dealer ordering one for you y y
n srssgsss @ do 50 wIse IHE Is IN
VIII tell you who handles this superior wagon
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-11
IMMIGRATION,
Wheat Field,
ln RAralI.I

A. Tleida
tn Parallel.
ORD -Herald)
lted a vey
year and she
' that she i,
way to nee,
the first -four
doors Of tn,
S72 persons,
pared by the
} and coloni.
parliament
large as the
'rresponding
fully thres
the respec
Id 1898.
.ners have
Eat lands n,
They have
9 and they
to a great
fitting
st stage Of
ines.
this spring
come from
ling l6,45z. |
rye as the |
correspond.
year, and /
number Of /
States at |
and Ire. |
lis spring. |
immigrs- /
lers came |
} per cent |
year, and |
.ope, a 4e
into Can.
COMPARE
D entered
lie period,
more i'm
.da S pop
'urs, but
ifteenths
remem-
n
xon ana
mmigra.i ii
9 up Of III
to the II
tons to
North.
but the
he near
es Is to
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-12-09
forty Years Ago.

President Lincoln was attacked by a
mild form of smallpox, business at the
White House being transacted practically
under quarantine.
The siege Of Knoxville, Tenn, was
abandoned by the rebels under Gen.
Longstreet and preparations were made
to retreat.
Gen. Longstreet's rebel army was re-
pulsed in a fierce assault ON Fort San
ders, at Knoxville. Tenn. that city and
Burnside's imprisoned Union troops be-
ing finally saved from capture.
President Grant, in his annual mes
Sage to Congress, reported that the navy
was being put on a war footing because
of threatened hostilities with Spain and
that the Madrid government was fast
losing it's authority in Cuba because OF
the intrigues of the slave holders there.
The capture of Knoxville, Tenn, where
Burnside's Union army was imprisoned,
was attempted by the rebels under Long
street, who made partly successful as
sault on the outworks of Fort Sanders
just before midnight.
The army of the Potomac, under Gen.
Meade, began its march across the Rapi-
dan upon Gen. II. H'fee's rebel force al
Mine Run, Va, the movement being de-
layed by the hardness of French's troops
and the mistakes of the engineers.
The Thirteenth Illinois regiment at
tackled the rear of Bragg's retreatine
rebel army at Ringgold. Tenn, and was
repulsed by Gen. Cleburnes troops wiHl
loss of 432 men. including So killed.
The battle of Missionary Ridge, Tenn.
was fought. the Union army under
Hooker, Sherman and Thomas driving
the rebels under Bragg from the vicin-
ity of Chattanooga. with loss of 5,616
Northern troops and 9,100 Confederates,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-12-09

Alexander II. Stephens of Georgia,
former vice president of the COnfederacy,
in an interview at Washington declared
the Omitted States must get Cuba at all
hazards, with or without war with
Spain.
Jay Cooke &c Co. of Philadelphia. at
that time the best known banking firm
in the United States, and famous as the
United States governments fiscal agent
during the Civil War, was placed in a
receivers hands.
Secretary Robson reported the United
States navy inferior to that Of any re
spectacle" naval power, there being only
forty-eight ironclads. with 121 guns
Henry Ward Beecher, in a sermon,
urged moral suasion and education as a
cure for Mormonism, and the repeal Of
the anti-polygamy law, which, he declar-
ed, only made martyr of the sect.
James 6. Blaine was reelected Speak
er Of the National House of Representa-
tives, and Alexander II. Stephens, for
mer vice president Of the Confederacy,
was sworn in as Congressman from
Georgia.
Spain yielded TO the demands Of the
United States and consented TO surrender
the steamer Yirginius and salute the
American flag.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-12-09

The twentieth anniversary of the evac-
uation of New York by Sir Guy Garlic
toms British army was celebrated in
that city.
Hundreds of adventures are locking
to New Orleans as a result Of President
Jefferson's message recounting the i'm
mense riches of the new Louisiana terri.
tory.
English citizens were fright ned by re-
ports that 1900 vessels We're building
and 100000 Frenchmen under arms
ready for an invasion of their island.
Hayti secured its independence Of
France after three years of revolutionary
war.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-12-09
Seyenty-fixe Years AGO.

The Postmaster General reported &c.
956 persons employed in the United
States postal service, with 1854 horses,
railroads being practically unknown.
The first American tin was extracted
by Prof. Hitchcock of Amherst College
from ore found near Goshen, \. Y.
Galena, ILL.,, surveyors reported that it
would require canal only one and one
fourth miles long, with one lock, to con-
meet Lake Michigan with the Mississippi
river.
Bolivar was asked to accept the impe-
rial crown of Colombia because of the
continued disturbances there, executions
for political crimes taking place daily at
Bogota.
The quantity of cotton manufactured
in the United States yearly was estimat-
cd at 120,59S bales.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-12-09

A young couple with matrimonial in
tent, fresh from the green fields of
their rural homes, went recently to the
parsonage of a clergy in Maryland.
The nuptial knot was tied. In the
pause which followed the newly-made
Benedict looked embarrassed as he fish
ed about in his trousers pockets as if
looking for something.
Whats the price?' he finally blurt-
ed out.
The State allows me a dollar" said
the clergyman, but" and paused
Some pauses are more eloquent than
words. Evidently this was not.
Well" finally remarked the groom
as he handed the astonished divine a
quarter, IF the State allows you a
dollar, take this and the job will have
netted yor a dollar and quarter
Good day"