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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-27
ACROSS SAHARA DESERT.
|Debureaux Balloon Resting Over .
Verdant Oasis.)

on which France is at present
E%mplating in the dark continent in
etition with Britain.
Jacques Balsan, the balloonist,
also returned to France and has
shed a short account of his aerial
Be from Paris to a small town in
gary beyond Lake Balaton, which
miles southwest of Buda-Pesth.
accomplished this sky trip with
bel Corot, the distance trayersed
estimated at something over
kilometers, or 8O7 miles. The
taken was 80 hours. This voyage
not beat the record made by NM.
Vauix and de Saint Victor, who
to kietf, in Russia-a distance
900 kilometers, or 1,179 miles-in
tiles.
e leader of this daring aerial ex-
non, accomplished in midwinter,
without fear Of frost, fog or snow,
acques Balsan, is IS years old, and
Eends on the materials side from the
ous Surgeon Dupuytren. He is
n has had many adventures by
and sea. He once commanded a
l1an gunboat, andmade several yoy-
OF exploration for the Gillian
efnment. After having trayeledial
The world NJ. Balsan returned to
IS and took part i'll the aeronautic
apetltions organized in connection
2 the exhibition in 1900.
: was in the long-distance trip in
ch MN. De la Vauix and De Saint
sor distinguished Themselves, but
|naa TO descend in Prussia, near the
(seoVlte frontier. The failure did
discourage M. Balsan in the least,
ne seems determined to goson bal
n'ns until he achieved something
|naerful in the line. His present
eseat' the St. Louis, was construct.
ior him in 1900 by Louis GODDARD,
ne mas already made IS trips in it
iecelved many prizes. Last year,
Instance, NJ. Balsan won the LIE.
Ivy prize at Bordeaux.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-27
~. i. nm Unsafe Drink.

a ST. Louis girl drank a quantity
If I've. and the alkali burns, in heal
mo. caused the membranes of the
oasonhagus to grow together. Nour-
;shment was absorbed and injected
into her blood until she became sufh-
GENTLY strong to undergo the oPer-
a+;on which enabled her to swallow
after three years.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-27

position that Japan now holds among
the nations of the earth. In 1881 he
drew the constitution which brought
Japan from the ranks of oriental bar
barism into the van of modern nations.
Since that time he has been prime min
ister. with a few short intermissions.
Tn the great war with China the ven
cradle marquis was commander OF the
imperial feet. which destroyed the Chl,
nese squadron off the Yalu river and
practically ended hostilities. He has
always stood for modern ideas, in edu-
cation as we'll as in armament, and,
while he has ruled at times with an
hand, he has devoted all his energy to
the advancement of his country and
not to personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-27
The Noise Of Uhunder.

When a period of five seconds elapses
between a flash of lighting and thun-
der, the flash is a mile distant from the
observer. Thunder has been
heard over IA miles from the flash,
though artillery has been heard at 100
miles.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-27
n..n,red a Double. Fee.

Socrates. when a chatterbox apPlleu
him to be taught rhetoric, said
athat he must pay double the usual
Zoe because it would first be neces.
sary to teach him to hold ms 1onsue.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-27
Washed once Each Year.

!. Asked when he had last washed, a
small boy told the Creditor, England,
magistrates that he had e bath last
The father wa ordered to
prison for his neglect.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-27
Under aTerrlble OATS.

Ten young .men in Coudersport,
Pr, have taken an oath to marry
before January !, 1904.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-27
Girl Runs Grist Mill

GIrI Runs Gr16t MIL.
a 1~6-year-oid girl runs q grist mill
at Lititz, Pa.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-27
Foot Bali Saved.

The college men of the state will
be able to play football for the next
two years without m~alestation. In
vestigation reveals the fact that
through both houses passed an anti
football bill, in some way the mea-
sure was neglected on the last day
and there was a failure of the two
houses to concur This defeats the
which thus fails to become
a law in spite of the fact that it pass
ed both houses as reported.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-27
Secured a Verdict.

The jury in the case of Regina
Erickson against Andrew Stevenson,
B. F. Nichols and II. X. Lee at Flan-
dreau brought in a evrdict for $4,000
for the plaintiff. This was an action
for damages for the death of the
plaintiffs husband, caused by selling
liquor to him while intoxicated. The
defendants are the bondsmen of the
saloonkeeper.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-27
News Notes.

4 "-H news NOIeSs - =
This staid old town of Mound City
saHdA the new town Of Herreid have
again locked horns, this time over the
contemplated removal of the Method
list Episcopal church building from
this place to Herreid. Local Method
lists will oppose to the last ditch all
efforts to remove.
A building boom will be experience
ed this spring at Frankfort. Among
the new buildings will be an opera
house and a costly business block.
Troops Fl and E of the Thirteenth
cavalry, which were stationed at Fort
Keogh, have arrived at Fort Meade.
Work will soon begin on the new
town hall at Longford for which the
voters authorized the issuance of
bonds.
A volunteer fire department with
forty-fve members, has been organic
ed at Vienna.
The supreme court has reversed the
decision of the court of this circuit
in the case of the state ex-rel Robert
C. Hayes, for Lawrence county,
against the county board of equaliza-
ton, relative to the taxation of the
property held in Lead by Golden Star
lodge, A. F. and A. NJ, and Lead
City lodge, /. o. O. F.
Contracts for the erection of a Ma
sonic temple at Huron will be let
soon. It is proposed to have the build
ing ready in the early fall.
Scotland's new public school build
ing, which has just been completed
at a cost of $25, 900, contains three
stories and basement. It is. 1O3x6i
feet in dimensions. The basement ii
the full size of the building, is nine
feet high and walled with Sioux Fall,
granite. The superstructure is bull
Of pressed brick, with hard wall plas
ter, and is finished with yellow pine
The city council of Scotland ha
granted a franchise to Diehl & Bee
keN TO put in a gas plant.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-27
a Bio Convention.
Nearly Killed.

Stephen Horn, a prominent Gregory
county stockman, met with an acct
dent which came near costing him
his life. He was cutting down a large
tree, and as it was falling the wind
shifted, changing the course of the
tree so that it struck him and pinned
him to the ground.
His little children, who CHANGED to
be with him, gave the alarm and in a
short time he was released more dead
than alive. He is seriously injured,
but will probably recover
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-06
A REJECTED FAVOR.

They boarded an open trolley car,
says the Philadelphia Ledger. Silks,
feathers and flowers decked the girl,
while the young man smoothed his
pepper and salt trousers with pride.
They had eyes and ears for each
other alone, and when the girl re-
ceived a sharp slap on the shoulder
from behind she uttered a little shrek.
Eyes flashing. her young man turned
to see a rough, red-faced fellow offer
ing a dainty bouquet. tied with knot
of blue ribbon.
do not notice him at ALL" the young
man said, with great presence of mind,
and looked away.
Another rap upon her shoulder, and
she whispered: Harry, l think I'll say,
No. thank you to him. He's intox-
icated as anything, and may get Vio-
lent II ! ignore him. >" -fr.e
Harry turned and shook his head at
the man when the flowers were thrust
forward again. Then they weres flung
in the young lady's lap.
"Oh, Harry!" she cried, 'Ill faint.
Hold me! Oh, gracious me. l knew
she didn't sew them on tight.
It's the bunch off the right side of
my hat"
stop the carl" roared the excited
Harry, and they left, amid the UNI
concealed giggles of their fellow pas
sengers.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-06
AFTER FIFTY YEARS.

The Countess Won Waldersee, wife
of the famous Field Marshal Count
Won Waldersee of the German army.
and her sister, Mrs. Waechter-Lauter-
bach, arrived in New York last week
On the Hamburg-American liner
Moltke.
1t is nearly fifty years since the
Countess Won Waldersee, as a girl. had
left America, during all the interven-
ing years of which has never
revisited her native land. The Countess
was girl in her teens when she left
America, and was only is years old
when she became the wife of Prince
Frederic of Schleswig- Holstein. The
Prince was an old man when he mar
ried her, and lived only a few years.
and when he died he left her a for
tune estimated at several million dol
lars. In 1874 she married Count Won
Waldersee, then young officer in the
Prussian army. Their union has al
ways been spoken of as an ideal one,
while the influence of the Countess in
the highest circles of German life is a
subject that is often made a subject
of comment.
Countess Won Waldersee was, prior
to her first marriage, Miss Mary Es-
Their Lee of New York, her parents be-
ing New Englanders. She is now Sc
years of age, and is splendidly pre-
served and a very handsome woman.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-06
THE HAPPIEST WOMAN.

We have just read, says a writer in
the Philadelphia Ledger. of a poor
woman who, when asked by friend
what she had been doing to make her
self look so worn out, replied, Cook
ing and eating and washing the dishes,
cooking and eating and washing the
dishes, and oh! 1 am so tired!"
How many they are these poor souls,
and how ones heart goes out to them!
Theirs is a long, slow martyrdom. The
monotony of household routine wears
on them until the fretted nerves give
way entirely. They would not per-
NIT themselves to neglect a single
duty, but they cannot overcome the
WEAKNESS which is of the spirit rather
than the body.
We don't know that there is much
comment to be made, except in the
way of sympathy; but it will not hurt
to repeat a general caution against
being too particular" that conscien-
tious frailty of woman. A woman's
conscience is a perfectly awful thing
when she constantly hearkens to its
whisper of admonition on housekeep-
ing matters. 1t becomes spoiled from
overindulgence. so to speak. It re-
minds one of Dick Swiveller's soul
about which he complained THAT 1t had
a tendency to get into his dead.
It will always be found that the wo-
man who lives most happily in the
domestic relation and is most beloved
bv her children is the woman who
avoids being overparticular. Not that
she is slatternly, of course; but she
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-06
WI TING FANG ON LOVE.

Though WI Ting-fang is no longer
a resident of the United States, says
the Philadelphia Ledger, memories. of
him still continue to augment the
gaiety of the nation. At dinner par
ty the other night, a guest recounted
a speech of Mr.. Wu's. He was dis
coursing," said the guest, upon love.
He spoke POLITICALLY. 1t was delight
full to hear him.
He told how certain man.
DARN once determined to bring
ance of women. Accordingly he
took the boy to a hut upon a noun
tain top, and dwelt with him there
alone, teaching him to love the gods,
and to fear those evil spirits and dew
lis that modest mankind. In this man.
ner the boy grew into early manhood.
He was not aware that women exist
ed. He knew nothing but the precepts
of the philosophers of old time. He rev.
erenced all the gods; he hated all the
devils
Then, one day, his father took him
part way down the mountain, and by
i'll chance three maidens appeared in
the distance. They drew nearer. They
passed close by. The youth regarded
them with profound interest.
"'What are they, father? he asked.
"They are devils, my son. Hate
them the father replied.
From that moment the boy became
melancholy. He sat for long hours
motionless, gazing far away. He would
eat little. He sighed often. He grew
thin and pale.
my son., his father asked him
finally. what is the matter with you?'
Signing, the youth said only this:
"'Oh. father, that tallest devil! that
tallast deVill'"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-06
BEAUTY IN LONDON.

Julie Darcy writes to the Chicago
Chronicle about how beauty is attained
in London. She says woman in Lon
don is making a fortune going from
house to house restoring the hair. she
charges moderate prices and every hour
Of her day and a great many hours OF
her night are taken.
She takes hair that is just beginning
to turn gray and treats the roots until
it is all it's natural color again and until
the new hair that comes in is precisely
the right tone.
She takes the heads of those that
have had typhoid fever and treats the
hair so that it does not entirely fall
out She let's the worst and deadest OF
the old hair drop, but she renews the
roots of the rest of the hair so that the
patient manages to get through the
very disagreeable ordeal without re-
course to wig. One of her patients
whose head was as bare as billiard
ball soon had a nice growth of hair
without waiting for the slow process
by which the hair renews itself.
The treatment of the head after a
fever or after any other fit of sickness
is a critical, careful task and 1t is only
an expert who can do it.
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria
was noted for her beautiful head or
hair. All her pictures were taken with
her hair falling far below her waist
line. 1t was A inches long at the time
of her death and she a grandmother.
The tonic used by the Empress was
after her death placed upon the market
and sold for exorbitant prices. 1t was
warranted to make the hair grow thick
and long. The figures that were de-
manded for the invigorator were so
high that it's secret became exposed.
The tonic was nothing more nor less
than cocoanut oil. which was applied
to the scalp with the finger tips.
An after-dinner coffee spoon of the
oil was used twice a week. The night
before it was used the hair was treated
with quinine hair tonic, which con-
sisted of water and quinine. The. hair
was not allowed to be shampooed more
than once in three weeks, yet so little
Of the oil was used that the head did
not get greasy.
When hair falls it is generally be-
cause the little cells at the roots are
dried up. Very often the roots get dry
from excessive heat. In hot weather
the hair will fall and after violent
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-06
NO LONGER THE FASHION.

A recent and reliable fashion maya
zine says that the fiat has gone forth
from Paris that the blouse waist is to
be no longer a prominent style. Gar
ments are to be fitted to the individ-
ual figure, but will be more artistical-
" shaped than ever before. The I'M
calmly unsightly punching at the waist
line will not be in style. This will
be good news to many women, but
not for those nodded like fence rail.
For some time these latter had their
advantage, and have forced the more
rounded, symmetrical people to look
absurd with the preposterous punching
of waists and sleeves which the puny
ones intensified to add pulchritude to
their shapelessness. Now let US hope
that other kinds Of people may also
have their innings, and chance to look
once more like human beings, not
amorphous masses Of clothing, desti-
tute alike of grace or comfort for
their particular anatomy.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-06
WOMAN'S WORLD

headaches, when the scalp will become
heated 1t will also fail. Fevers burn
out the roots and sudden shocks cause
the moisture to leave Iaem.
o restore the oil to the roots is the
only rational way and so hot is the head
mat 1t Immediately absorbs the oil that
IS led to 1t, leaving the scalp as dry as
peIore. The oil must not touch the
halr, but must be fed to the roots after
the hair is parted off, so as to expose
the scalp in white lines. 1t takes an
nour TO treat the whole head. but 1t
Wen repays the time and trouble.
Dandrun is traced to various causes
1t is an unpleasant feature of the head
and no sufferer but wants to get rid of
IT, Dandruff really comes from some,
irritation of the scalp. 1t is always
worse where the hairpins are placed.
ana II is bad indeed when the hair is
tied with a string in the hairdressing,
1or the head becomes greatly heated
under the cord and the scalp is irri-
tated.
Shampooing the hair to take away the
dandrun is the most natural thing to
40 The dandruff disappears and the
head is temporarily clean. But the
next day it begins to come back and
WITHIN a week the head is almost as
bad as ever.
There are two species of dandruff-
the dry kind, which flakes off on ones
clothlng, and this is the kind of dam
drun from which men suffer and which
makes bald heads; and another kind of
dandrutf, which is the oily sort, which
cllngs to the scalp and looks exceeding
ly untidY.
Both kinds will yield to the same
treatment. The head must be gently
massaged with almond oil or with cas-
tor oil and the dandruff let alone. Next
day the head can be washed in plain
soap and plenty of water and after the
rinsing the oil can be massaged into the
roots again.
To perform this task part the hair
down the middle, dip two fingers in the
oil and run UP and down the parting
slowly but touching it in little spats
Part another strand and without dip
ping the fingers again spat this new
parting. Keep on this way, seldom
touching the fingers to the oil unless
they are so dry that they must be re-
newed. There are cool hands. that are
specially fitted for this, while other
hands are far too hot and feverish to
carry the oil well.
There would be few bald heads among
men if this course were pursued; and
men who have grown partly bald can
call the life back to the roots by trying
this method.
If a mans pate has grown shiny,
showing that the roots are dead and
buried, there is nothing to be done. The
head is bald for all time. but If the
hair is only thin and not really dead
as to the roots, it can be made as heavy
as ever. Men who are bald on top can
keep from getting bald on the sides by
treating the roots carefully.
The worst thing a man or woman
can do is to shampoo the hair frequent
ly. Once in three weeks ought to be
often enough. and the man who has
formed habit of rubbing his wet
hands over his head in the morning
when he is washing his face will be re-
warded by bald head long before his
time
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-06
LOVE AND REASON.

quite as we'll applicable to the pres
ent age, says the New York Tribune,
is a comment on Love and Reason"
taken from an almost century old
newspaper of the Colonies. With its
flavor of oldtimeness, it's shrewd, half
humorous, wiseacre comparisons, tnis
communication-for such it purports TO
be-shows abundant evidence that the
primal opinions OF human nature come
unchanged down through the ages.
I'm affairs Of matrimony" says this
long ago writer, some people are gov
erned by love alone and some by rea-
son alone. Each ought 20 have joint
concern IN these matters-they are
handmaids which go along with the
few who are 80 fortunate as 10 be
among the wise.
Love looks only 10 the honeymoon.
lie a. a near-fighted little mink. doesn't
see two inches before his nose, and ys'
depends altogether upon bis eyesignt
ana thinks he has = wOnderfuily clear
vision. He 10 not able 20 discover aay
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-06

carats from two to ten times as much
as the first-water diamonds.
In spite of the fact that emeralds
were among the earliest stones mined
by the anoients, and have since been
discovered in different parts of the
globe, there is practically only one
country in the world where they are
still being mined at a profit. And
even the mines there are not cOnsid
cred valuable enought to merit an ex-
penditure of money for improvements
and more modern machinery, and are
still being worked by the same crude
method that was employed almost
century ago.
Within the past fifty or sixty years
emeralds have been discovered in Rus
STA, on the Asiatic slope of the Ural
Mountains, in Austria. Australia, and
in North Carolina. Mines were opened
at all these places and companies form
ed to work them, but in a short time
they had to be abandoned as profit
less in almost every instance. The
present supply. which is limited, comes
from Peru, South America, from what
is known as the Muzo District.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-06

defects, and therefore most sober1y con-
cludes there are none. Conse 1uences
all lie utterly beyond his kenyon
might as we'll tell him the moon was
made of green cheese as that II atrI-
mony had a dash of trouble in its Cpm-
position. All this is the natural con-
sequence of his blindness.
Reason is to love what Tair of
spectacles is to a nearsighte1 man-it
enables the blind little fellow 10 look
beyond the fair cheek and the blue
eye, beyond the wedding ceremony and
the wedding supper and the thousand
things that cluster round the way idea
of marriage. He enables the boy TO
look beyond all these, to the domestic
fireside, to the kitchen comforts Of we'd
ded life, 10 the larder and TIE ledger,
to the pudding and the DurseN, 10 the
ways and means of living, as we'll as TO
the very simple business of loving.
" Marry the lass that has the cow
was the advice of an OH gentleman 10
laddie Who consulted him. on the SUD-
Ject of Il choice between a Eir. with
COW nd one that had no'hiaS 0.t
pretty fhce. 50 far as beauty is
concerned, there is not the difference 0:
cow between any two girls IN Chris-
tendom.' This is not my notion, no "
ever, though there Is something III it
, But marry the girl who will manage
your domestic concerns to advantage,
who is prudent sensible, economical;
get a good disposition; an accomplish
ed maid with it viii be ali the better,
and beauty if you find it united with
al these, will complete the tout ensem-
| BILE.
Don't marry for money, merely
there is neither love nor reason in that
1t may buy many fine things, but It
won't buy happiness, and without that
man is poor creature. Money is
no objection, it may be. indeed, an I'M
portant object, but every other con-
sideration bends to the point of being
! matched as well as paired. when love
and reason join hands., .. ~ v.