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times. Our friends in New England would be surprised, discouraged and disappointed if they could know how much of this feeling there is, and our friend here, of the, Christian Advocate
 would find in this incident, and others like it, support for his pessimistic views concerning the negro race.
 In this connection we observe that in the issue of yesterday our friend of the Advocate is deposed to modify his posi- slightly. As we understand, he now takes the ground that the negro should not have been freed and delivered until couple of centuries more of slavery and training under the influence of the white people. So far as that goes, we do not know whether it has occurred to our friend that in the South various kinds of white people owned slaves. Very likely, if the matter could be traced up, and we would find that very much of the vice and indolence of the negro race to-day reflects the vice and indolence and carelessness of the white owners of fifty years ago, just as the honesty, industry and thrift of negroes probably represents the good training and careful and humane guidance of former owners. It used to be a maxim that some families made good servants, while others ruined them. Whether the negro as a race would have been made better or worse by continued slavery is a wide open questions depending on the ! other question whether good or bad pre- ponderated among slave owners and what the respective proportions of these two qualities would have been if slavery had continued. Tn our view, slavery was enervating and demoraliz- ing the white people, and their enerva- ton and Generalization would have reacted surely and disatrously on those given into their keeping. The negroes on the ideal Virginia plantation, their physical and moral welfare conscientiously considered,
 treated as humble but valued and loved
 attachments to families; and the ne
 groes working in gangs and droves like lso many animals in the sugar fields and
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eeived permission to do what they could toward raising an education fund.
 The family was at Skagway then and 1t was summer time. The boys gathered berries and sold them. The money thus earned they invested in a boat and a site by the river for lumber yard.
 Then they turned their attention to the driftwood in the harbor, gatherered that and sold it. If it was useless for anything but ffreWood they sawed and chopped it and sold it at an increased price. %
 They made $7oo in, Skagway in one way or another. Then the family moved up to Dawson. The boys made more money there by lumber collecting from the Yukon and the picking berries and selling them.
 When their capital had increased a little they bought a claim on Skookum Gulch. All last winter they were sink ing holes through the frozen ground and there weren't any hardier miners in the camp.
 the coldest weather, and when the spring came turned their attention to washing out the gold from the gravel they had dug. When they cleaned up this autumn they had $2,0O0 and their mine still to fall back on. Thcsl they started for the home State they had left as little boys. They will go to schools at Newberg, Ore, and next vacation time will go back to the Klondike to see how they can augment their capital before re- turning to school. They are probably the youngest mine proprietors under a schoolmaster's care.-New York Sun.
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TWO scHooLBoY MINE OWNERS.
Sixteen and Fourteen Years Old, but
 They've Earned $2,000.

Sixteen and Fourteen Years Old, but
 They've Earned $2,00O.
 On one of the last steamers to leave Alaska before ice shuts in the Territory for the long winter night, there returned to the States the two youngest gold miners who ever came out of the frozen North-probably who ever came out of any mining region. They have come back to schools, and after school they are going to college on their own earn- ings.
 Even in the boys stories there are not many youngsters who are the equals of these two for grit, perseverance and shreWdness. One is 16, the other IA Through their individual efforts they have earned 1000 between them in the Klondike in the last three years, with the avowed intention of earning bet ter education for themselves than their parents could afford to give them.
 The two are the sons of Edward c. Heacock of Grand Forks. Other boys long to go to the gold fields, or the plains or some other adventurous dis tricts. These two saw all of the out skirts of civilization that they had use for and their longing turned toward col- lege life and good schooling back in the States, where these things were.
 Their parents couldn't afford luxuries of that sort to their children, but the boys lived at home, they were not bothered with schooling and they re-
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covered, who would believe his as-
 sertion that they were sham? The in-
 ference naturally would be that he was
 smuggling in valuable gems, and, al-
 though, Of course. he could prove his
 position. still he might be not only de-
 tained, but placed in avery disagreeable
 dilemma for a time, besides appearing in anything but an advantageous light to his fellow passengers. To put box
 in ones pocket containing jewels and walk off the ship certainly required sang froid, and Tommy did not feel at
 all sure that he had" "sand' enough to attempt it. Perhaps he thought, "it
 would be better to take the case of the box It certainly would take less room,
 and in fact might be a. meerschaum case or anything that was innocent and per-
 sonal. Still, he felt uncomfortable, and
 when the ocean liner steamed into port,
 and the Custom House officers boarded the ship, he would have given a good deal to be safely on his way to Chicago. As he stood chatting with a group of
 the other passengers the official who
 had asked them, as a matter of form, if lllCS lIc1u ally tll1liE lO ASCjctIC, WUulu
 have passed him by without attention if there had not been conscious look
 in honest Tommy's countenance that
 arrested his attention. That man has
 something on his mind." said the
 shrewd custodian of Uncle Sam to
 himself, and he gave detective who
 had come aboard with them a glance.
 The detective nodded comprehension and immediately put poor Tommy un-
 der surveillance. He noted that Tom
 my looked relieved when the official
 passed on, and also that his hand in-
 voluntarily pushed something deeper into his pocket. In short, poor Tommy
 behaved so suspiciously that when he was about to step on the gangway an
 officer came up to him and said he , would be obliged to detain him for a short time, whereupon, to avoid a
 search. Tommy produced the leather
 case and told the whole story. As he had imagined, it gained no credit A dozen reporters were waiting about to pick up news items. Tommy, in his
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TOMMY LACKED CHEEK.
He Had a Conscious Look of Cult that
 Put the Sleuths on Guard.

<
 Put the Sleuths on Guard.
 The coil of circumstances, which put a young man in a very unpleasant predicament,. but which in the end brought about his best happiness, is rather interesting to the friends of young married couples. and goes to show how curiously one thing hangs up- on another in this incomprehensible life of ours. If Mrs. Tiptoe's youngest daughter had not had her 18th birthday in December, the Tiptops would never have given their much talked of fancy dress ball for her debut. And if Caro- line A. had not desired to impersonate Undine it would not have occurred to her to cable her cousin Jack Smith, who was taking an architectural course at the Beaux Arts in Paris, to buy her $25 worth of sham pearls and send them over to her at once. Furthermore, If the sister of his particular chum, Tommy Stewart had not made point of her youngest brother coming home for her wedding it would never have occurred to Jack to ask Tommy to take over the lively pearl parure which he had pur~ chased for his cousin, which had cost only one hundred francs, but which, re- posing on it's blue velvet bed, might easily have deceived an expert.
 ''There is no need to declare it." said Jack to the inexperienced Tommy. That may delay you and give you some trouble. and I know you will want to catch the first train to Chicago. Just stick it in the pocket of the topcoat You are wearing, and you will not have the least bother. When you are once off the ship, leave it at the nearest express office. The address is on the outside box, so you really will have nothing to do., ,~.:- .*
 Tommy accepted the commission with alacrity, pleased to be able to oblige his friend, and he was half way across the Atlantic before he gave the packet a thought. Suddenly, without rhyme or reason, he began to feel a little nervous about 1t. Suppose the pearls were dis
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sTEER-TYING IN ARIZONA.
How the Excitingsand Picturesque Con- test is Conducted.

How the Exciting and Picturesque Con- test is Conducted.
 To those who have seen the Western cowboy only in the sawdust ring of a Wild West show, the gathering of the rough riding street tiers of Arizona and New Mexico are a revlelation. On his own pet horse, in his native sunshine and dust, hotfoot after a mountain steer, the "sure." He strikes one as very real, intensely natural and the shril1 yells from the crowded grand stand indicate that he is appreciated at home. There is not such an exhibit of chaps, and taps,' gold braid and silver mountings as you can see ir Madison square garden, but there is a whole lot of genuine hard riding. It k "Whoop-la'' from the jump.
 A wild steer is punched from th' chutes at one end of the inclosure rushed the line and down the field After him thunders the cowboy, swing
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innocence, was foolish enough to men- tion to them Miss Caroline As name and the next morning his name, with hers, appeared, in large type in the more sensational journals, with a full description of the magnificent jewels which he was endeavoring to smuggle through for her. Fortunately, the young woman had a sense of humor, and considered the whole affair in the light of a great joke. A meeting under the circumstances was inevitable and the subsequent result has already been told.--New York Tribune.
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inc his Iariats. When he crosses the llne a flag drops, and his time begins, When he has tied his steer his time ends. The man who makes the best time wins the contest. There are a thousand chances in steer tyinga mean steer, bad start, a broken rope a quick turn, seem too late--a1l these make the con- test a gamble 7 And yet the best man generally wins. Theoretically, luck is an impersonal thing in steer tying; the best ropers are generally lucky.
 Any man who misses his first throw loses his chance for first place, unless the whole field is unlucky. So it is with one intense eagerness that the cowboy rises in his stirrups for the first cast. No use to catch them by the neck or legs-experience has shown that the best hold is the horns-and for the horns the cowboy throws Then, as the rope set ties. he witches it taut, lashes the slack to one side of the flying steer, and runs his horse past him on the other side In moment the steers head is jerked down, his hind feet gathered up and he hits the ground-hard. Like a flash the rider runs to his victim. Hop ping astride the prostrate steer he plants knee in the heaving flank and lifts the hind leg into the air. While I.the steer kicks and struggles the cow boy seizes the tying rope from his waist, knots it about a forefoot,, and then wraps it about the hind feet. jerk brings the three feet together. There is a swift tightening of knots, and he throws his hands into the air 'Tied!" After the contest there are im- prompttu horse races flag picking, and then a general clatter and stampede for i town There, about feed corrals and sa- looms, the contests of the day are talked over, the winners of bets stand treat, and the champions tell how it was done ne--Leslie's Weekly,
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SLAVERY AS A SCHOOL.

A Thoughtful Article on a Subject of
 Continuing Interest. No doubt many thousand mne and women who used to be slaves would be glad to exchange their present, condition of neglected poverty and misery for the care, guardianship and freedom from responsibility they enjoyed in slavery
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
RondelI

NZLA|H A..Es2
E. P. Ashford made u business trip
to Aberdeen last Saturday.
The school clerk has received am
other list Of books for the library.
Surveyor Carpenter with his force
of men began surveying Mon. Oct. 70.
The friends will be grieved to learn
that the eldest daughter Of J. 8. Bry.
an is very sick.
Last Monday Mrs. Hagan stepped
on a nail. 1t pierced nearly through
the ball OF her foot.
Edna Olson returned Saturday from
her claim in North Dakota. She was
accompanied by Mrs. Strong.
Almanac and Arthur Robinson
hauled stone from Verdon Tuesday
and Wednesday for the surveyor.
The infant son of F. Rosson died
Saturday night. The internent was
made in lakewood Monday afternoon.
The town board held a special
meeting last Thursday afternoon to
finish the business of surveying the
township.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
home folks. returning to Aberdeen
Monday night.

home folks, returning to Aberdeen
Monday night.
G. 4. Cory is erecting q windmill
st his home, which will add much to
tighten work.
The recent snow was the cause OF
another threshers' rest, Of which they
have have had a plenty, this fall.
The missionary ladies Of the Con-
gregational church gave an Interest,"
inv service last Sunday evening, the
collection amounting to Oil.
Roy and Floyd Wilson of IrO4uois,
S. d., visited over Sunday with r. N.
Skinner and wife. Floyd will attend
business school in Aberdeen this
winter.
Steve Murphy is now running reg
ularly out Of Breckenridge on the
Great Northern as trainman. John
Murphy is freight conductor on the
same road making regular runs Of the
same town.
Columbia seems to be the wheat
market this year. Wheat comes from
east of the Big Slough, Putney being
reported to be strictly bum. The
result is Columbia elevators ri get
ting pretty well filled up.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
Bath

Thunten Boyton Of Clark is visit.
ing friends in this vicinity.
County School Superintendent Eddy
visited the village schools Wednes-
day.
Our depot agent made a flying trip
to his old stamping ground at James
lately.
Belle Holborn has returned from q
visit to the family of John Lath-
rop Of Gem.
Mr.. Smith of Canton, S. d., brother
Of Mrs. Geo. I. Simpson, is making
her family a visit.
MI. George Hilbert Of R~eedsburg,
Wis, has been visiting his brother,
Leonard, the blacksmith Of this place.
John Kerr. of Vermont a cousin Of
the Kerr children has been making
them a brief visit and departed for
Chicago Monday.
Mr.. Woodland of Campbell county,
drove down from Aberdeen where he
attending the M. E. conference to
visit his old pastor, W. o. Gram.
David Rowlands of Cambria town
ship, 'shipped his machinery and
household effects to Eau Claire, Wis
where he has purchased q farm.
Miss Anna Wenz returned Monday
night from attending a missionary
meeting at Mitchell accompanied by
her sister, Mrs. G. w. Hickman OF
Tracy, MINI.
The people of this locality were
greatly surprised to learn Of tie death
of Mr.. d. p. Cummings in Aberdeen
last Monday evening. MI. Cummings
moved to this township from Wiscon.
sin in the fall Of 1881, and lived on his
farm in the southwestern part OF the
eyer since, until about har-
vest time the family removed to
Aberdeen. His life has been an
active, industrious one and was ended
after q brief illness at the ripe age Of
about 80 years.
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Houghton, S. D., Oct. Is, 'O3.
Archie Titus has rented the Smith
quarter just west Of town.
We learn that there isto a social In
the church on the last Friday Of this
month.
Oscar Sandell, who has been in the
care Of MI. Sam Johnston since his
mothers death, is attending school in
Aberdeen.
&c. Campbell has returned from a
visit with friends near Sioux Falls
and other points in the southern part
OF the state.
Mrs. Congdon and daughters, after
9 brief visit with relatives Ia this vi
cinity, have returned to their home
a. the Cheyenne agency.
John Madden on the Bartholome
place, has tlreshed and reports q
yields of wheat eQlslSto Is bushels per
ACKNOWLEDGMENT his land.as
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Dwight Della, now Of Aberdeen,
visited his old home the other day.
Mrs. w. w. Della is still needing the
doctors care in Minneapolis, but
much improved and hopes to be home
soon..
Our old friend "Dick" Baker, form
erly Of the vicinity of Putney, but of
late member at large" shipped q
a couple carloads of cattle from this
place the other day. We hope he will
strike a better market than some OF
our neighbors who have tried it. Buy
ing and selling cattle of late is about
as safe as ''bucking the tiger"
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Northwest
Brainard

OMiss Blanche Harris Of Oneota
visited the Strachan family last week.
Colonel J. G.. Vincent is spending
this week with his son, Fred, in
Oneota.
L. c. Jensen Of Aberdeen was in
these parts Sunday, exercising his
fine driving team.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. Grantz and family
visited friends and relatives in
Dickey county last week.
Johh Nelson has returned from
North Dakota and reports threshing
very slow on account of wet weather.
A dancing party was given at Jim
McDonald's Friday evening, which
was we'll attended and a good time
enjoyed by all.
A conundrum. When a fellow
drives twelve miles out of his way to
take another fellows girl home from
a party, whom is the joke on, the
fellow, the girl or the other fellow?
What has become Of Wesport? 1t
is rumored that a lawyer and a doctor
have decided to locate in Westport in
the spring. II this be true we pre-
sumo Westport will engage Cora"
for the carnival next year.
Miss Mildred Strachan gave a sur
prise party at the home of Mrs. d. G.
Vaughan, for her sister, Miss Edith,
the occasion being her birthday.
About fifteen couple tripped the light
fantastic until the wee small hours Of
the morning. The event will be long
remembered by those who attended.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
Warner

Pearl Rogers will attend school in
Warner this winter.
Miss Van Meter is spending a few
days with friends In town.
Fred Richert bent his leg again and
now needs the aid OF a cane.
Mrs. Lou Cate is visiting her daugh-
ter Mrs. Heinrich, Of Ashley N. D..
Mrs. E. G. Moulton has purchased
lots east Of the track. They will not
build till spring.
Mr.. G. Gundersrn, of Virgil, spent
Sunday with his brother Ole Gunder-
son Of this place.
The w. B. A. Lodge has INFORMED
by Mr.. Ford. Fifteen new members
are soon to enter.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16

Mr.. and:Mrs. Howe have moved to
the Morgan farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Evans leave for
Oregon in near future.
The Catholic ladies met at Mrs. p.
Callaghan's Wednesday.
There is still a good deal Of thresh-
Ing to be done In this locality.
a great many Of our people at
tendedithe carnival and q good many
didn't.
Mrs. Hanson Of Hanson, N. d, ID
visiting her parents, MI. and Mrs.
.Arndt.
It ~ Kind ofslate ii the season for
bonnets. But I. G. Vincent says
NI&-AtS@G f%Ssf
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Plana

G. H. Greed is fencing his quarter
section this fall.
Rees Roberts is taking a course at
Minneapolis this winter.
Threshing is still going on and will
be going on for some time.
OJohn Roberts returned Friday from
a short trip to Minneapolis.
<Rumor has it that Putney means to
givs a dance in the near future.
Miss Blanche Robertson is teaching
again in the Sheridan Sschool Of
Columbia.
School No. l still lacks q teacher,
the greatest difficulty being to find a
a boarding place.
The two large wolves which have
hunted this neighborhood for some
time are now living in Perry's tree
claim and appear occasionally.
Having sold his farm Robt. Owen.
will hold and an auction Don to dis
pose OF his property and is buildin,
a house in the city Of Plana, where n,
doubt the citifed residents will laugl
at his rural appearance and shoutwitl
the singer
"Back, back, as far as you like,
Back, back, back along the pike,
Back, back, don't you ever com
back-back-back to the woods agar
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
Westport

EHal- HU.eEa taT#f ZMGs
MI. H. siemann is kept busy shovel-
ing coal.
Miss Ellie Doll is sewing for Mrs.
G. Gerkie.
We are having fine fall weather
now days.
Threshing in the vacinity is pro-
crossing rapidly.
Mrs. G. P. Siemann and Miss B.
Wiggeson we're Aberdeen visitors
Wednesday.
Mr.. P. o. Callaghan is having an
artesian well put down on his place.
Otis Gilbern is doing the work.
Mr.. Claude Morrison's mother from
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
good the year "round."

The surprise party atD.G G. vaughan's
Thursday evening was . very
pleasant affair. A good supper, dan
cling and good music were the order
Of the evening.
Mr.. P. 0. Callaghan is having an
artesian put down by the Gilborne
Bros. Jas. Wamock and Chas. Hah-
han, each have a gusher. Valentine
Bros. did the work fol-, them.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16

wANTED-FAITHFuL Person
vel and supervise force of salesu1
make collections for manufacturil
Straight salary 5000 a week and
Salary paid weekly and expense 4
vanced. Previous experience uni
Local territory. Business ~successf
tion permanent. Enclose self-addj
'velope. Superintendent, as4 Dearbt
,Cnlcago. gtnoy
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
VERY LOW RATES
TO DETROIT,

Via the North Western Ii
cursion tickets will be sold a
II. inclusive, with very fayo
turn limits, on account Of
Church National Conventions
TO Agents, Chicago & Nortl
5R'y. q
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
RAN 4 TEN PENNY NAH
HIS HAND

While opening a box, j. Z
o. Three Mile Bay, n. y, J
penny nail through the t,esl
bis hand, It thot at once
pain and soreness this WI !
me-" he says, land tmmedI
piled Chamberlain's Pain
occasionally afterwards. 7,
prise II removed all pain an,
andtheinjured parts were 50,
For sale by all druggists.