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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-08-26
WHAT THE AGREEMENT WAS
Opinions of the Members of the Red.
field Capital Committee Given
to Our interviewer.

Red6eld Press: In order to ascer-
tain whether our idea of the capital
tripartite agreement between Red
field, Huron and Mitchell was cor
rect the writer has talked with e V
eral members of tile Redfeld COM
mittee. The committee was selected
at a mass meeting of the citizens
and consisted of q. A. Grain, W. C.
Kiser, I. S. Everitt, E. G. Isen-
huth, "a. P. Packard, S. Z. Morris
and w. +. Bruell.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-08-26
Mr.. Kiser In substance said:

MI. Kiser in substance said:
Eyes, l was a member of the Red
field capital committee and kept
quite familiar with all Its doings.
II / had not l would not have been
worthy a place on the committee.
We did enter into a compact with
Mitchell and Huron that we would
work jointly for resubmission and
each city for itself would strive to
win votes and that all three would
be bound by the result of a caucus
Of all the legislators who favored re-
submission. That caucus was to de-
termine which city should be pitted
against Pierre. 1t was we'll known
that but one city would be named in
the resolution. After the question
OF which city should be inserted
should have been decided, then all
were to favor the resolution, which
they did and to stand by the out.
come. There was no equivocation
and, so far as I am concerned, there
was no mental reservation. 1 am
for Mitchell just as l would have felt
that the Mitchell committee should
have teen for Redfeld had Red6eld
been named in the resolution"
What do you think led to the form.
alton Of the compact?
THAT is easy. In getting the
sentiment OF the state on that ques.
tion 1t was found that the desire for
removal was strong, but from all
sides there vas a DOUBT of the prac-
ticability because, it was said, II
either of the three towns find they
can not get it they will work to pre-
vent %resubmission and Pierre will
beat the movement by playing one
against the other. That this opin-
ion was we'll based appears from the
position that Huron low takes"
3. A. Grain had little to say.
"GLess you can poll me non-com-
initial. However, i have heard no
argument yet that changes my opin-
ion on the rem oval question:
". E. Bruell is out Of the city, but
is supposed to entertain different
views and to be for Pierre.
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w. f. Bruell is out Of the city, but
is supposed to entertain different
views and to be for Pierre.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-08-26

Ed. Isenhuth: "While, of course
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The concensus of opinion as given
above is not secured because The
Press presumes that any one outside
the committee Is obligated. 1t is
because there has been an attempt
by some papers to misconstrue the
compact. The men quoted ought to
know. 1t is true that without the
cooperation Of these other towns,
Redtield could have no mo!e secured
the passage Of the removal bin than
they could fly. 1t was our only
chance and had we won the press
and people OF Redtield would have
had no use for Pierre. We took our
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-08-26
REPUBLICAN JUDICIAL TICKET

Judge of Fourth Judicial Circuit
Frank 3. Smith Of Mitchell.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-08-26

q. A. Grain had little to say.
"GLess you can poll me non-com-
initial. However, i have heard no
argument yet that changes my opin-
ion on the rem oval question:
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pedoes, built a steam frigute which he
called the Demologos," or "Noice of
the People" but which is sometimes
known as the Fulton |. This, the first
steam warship ever constructed, had
her sides no less than thirteen feet
ash wood, a thickness absolutely i'm.
penetrable by any gun then afoat. In
1920 this vessel was blown up by ac-
cident, and was succeeded in The
American Navy by the Fulton II, a
ship which appears to have been pro-
tected by some kind Of iron armor.
Various proposals We're made TO use
iron plating to protect the sides of ships
Of war from this time forward, but
until The French constructed a num-
Der OF armor.plated batteries for use
in the Crlmean War, nothing practical
came Of the suggestions Of inventors.
Their success mt the bOmbardment OF
Kinburn demonstrated the value Of
armor plating. England mt once fol-
lowed suit with others of the same
kind, some of which are still doing
duty as hullSs. Then came the French
La GloIre, the British Warrior, the
ironclads and monitors Of the Ameri-
can war, and henceforward the steady
evolution of the armored fighting ship,
which has provided us with the ma
jcctic battleships of the present day.
Scientific American.
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Z .,,.o,,,,, H., &c.. 49,. -,
! TO n, ,,,a w. I'm ~ eneliy snot'
when ~ 'P'''ef " ueienu u narDor'
etc."
The Span Afds enus, ''oreu 70 I'M
prove ON this, ana hi 1882 hopSg gr'at
things from the celebrated 1oatiHsS hat
teries employed ut the great siege OF
Gibraltar by the DUE De Crillon.
The fate of these experimental ar
morclads offered no inGucement to the
naval eonetpurtorS of the day to make
further researches in, the direction OF
protection, 40 that till comparatively
recent times we And our sailors de.
pending only on their "woodeu waIlsy
to resist the projectiles OF the enemy.
The oaken sides Of the, British ships,
we may note In passing. were often
exceptionally stout and difficult to
penetrate.
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WISE WORDS.

We are never so happy or so unhap-
py as we e.-Rochefoucaul
Fault-fnding busybodies are like
common candles-they want well
snufiing.
Self-sacrlfclng workers, and not
sef-satlsfied critics, are needed in the
world to-day.
A man may not be able to do one
great thing, but he can do many little
things which win make the world bet
ter.
Wisdom is the principal thing;
therefore, get wisdom; and With NIL
thy getting get understanding.-Pro.
verbs.
lie that has never known adversely
is but half acquainted with others, or
with himself Constant success shows
us but one side Of the world.
We are firm believers in the maxim
that for all right judgment of any
man or anything, it is useful, nay. es-
sential, to see his good qualities before
pronouncing on his bad.-Thomas Car.
lyle.
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MnrrIage Service BIunders.

4 Hampshire clergyman relates some
Of the blunders he had heard made in
the marriage services by persons Of
the class who have to pick up the
words as best they can from hearing
them repeated by others. He said that
in his own parish it was quite the
fashion for the man when giving the
ring to say to the woman, with my
body thee wash up, and with all my
hurdle goods |, thee, and thou" He
said the women were generally better
up in this part Of the service than the
men. One day, however, bride star
tied him by promising, in what she sup
posed to be the language Of the prayer
book, TO take her husband ito aye and
to old from this day fortni't forbetter-
err horse, for richerer power, in sig.
gerness health, TO love cherries, and
to bay" What meaning this eXtraor-
binary vow conveyed to the wOmans
own mind, the incumbent said, It BAT.
fled him to conjecture,
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kind called the Santa Anna"
launched at Nice in the same year. The
Santa Annals leaden armor plates were
attached to her sides by bolts Of brass,
and it was claimed for her that she
could "reslst the artillery of whole
army" and at the same time could
sail or row as fast as any Of her I'M
armored contemporaries. She was
big ship, with six decks, a reception
saloon, a chapel, specially construct
ed powder magazine, and bakery.
She was present at the taking Of Tunis
in 1885, and played an important part
in Its capture,
Lead, it may be remarked in passing,
was not infrequently used at this Pc
Rod for sheathing ships under water.
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netting of iran was susb@8ded. to tIiG
sides Of men.of-war, which were also
strengthened by plates I'm the time Of
Henry VIII. and Elizabeth" No au-
thority is quoted, nor is the material
OF the plates" specified.
The Spaniards attempted to protect
their galleons OF the Invinci6le Arma-
da by building their sides four or five
feet thick, but the heavy English guns
flashed them through and through."
But now at last we arrive at a real ar
mored ship in the present day nccept-
ance of the word. Not only an armor-
clad, but a real ironclad. This was
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THE ADVERTISING ACE,
wise Business Men Know That PnbIIioiv
Brings Prosperlty

| N"N" hobVtbhgs
As the present age is I'm. iue In lav.
ing 2 prevalent competition system
! W hlch requires advertising. says the
Loi1fo1 Chronicle, and as this system
has begun to he displaced by a com
blnatioh system, the effect Of the con-
nict between the two systems has
been to heighten the necessity for adj
vertisement.
Every business pcospers In proper
ton as 1t is known. The length Of
time 4 business has been In existence
is, Of course, great factor. But adj
vertisement is the main factor or
course, the cheapness and the excel
lcnce OF goods, and the quality OF
service which concern gives to its
customers, are essentials of success.
People buy OF the concern that adyer-
tises, because the advertisement not
only gives the necessary information
as TO where articles needed can be
bought, but to great extent creates
the demand by exciting the desire Of
the public through published lists Of.
desirable things.
Therefore. the wise business man adj
vertises, because experience proves
that advertising brings prosperity. So
great is the prosperity Of n business
that Is largely advertised that when
the time comes for the great combna-
tions and mergers of our day to alb
sorb lesser concerns which are their
rivals, they adopt towards the well ad.
vertised concerns different course
from that pursued towards concerns
which have not the strength with the
public that much advertisement brings
Towards the weak and non-advertls.
ing concerns the great trusts adopt n
policy Of suppression. They undersel
them and take the business over to
themselves, With largely advertised
concerns, however, this cannot be done;
the great trusts, as recent business his.
tory has shown, are forced to buy them
out at large price,
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constructed In Antwerp in 1855, with
a view Of breaking through the lines
Of the Spanish army under Alexander
Of Parma, which was at that time
closely investing the city. 1t was a
large tiat-bottomed craft, with a cen
trail casemate or battery built of thick
balks Of timber and plated with iron.
1t was intended to be, and very likely
was, impenetrable to any artillery that
the Spanlards could bring against it;
and in hopeful anticipation that their
irOnclad ship would raise the siege
and put an end to hostllities, the men
of Antwerp chrlstened her the Finis
Bell. In addition to heavy battery
of guns, the Fmis Bell carried Il large
body of muSketeers, some OF whom
were stationed aloft In her four fight
ing tops, while the rest were well pro.
tected by the loopholed bulwarks on
the upper deck. UnluclSily for the be-
sieged Dutchmen, she ran aground be-
fore she had effected anything ut all,
and fell into the hands Of the Span
ldluSt W ~ nlthUdllltu ltI Nllt NuIul-
iamula or as we would say DOGGY"
They contrlved to keep her afloat and
brought her down to the camp of Alex
ander Of Parma, whore she became a
great attraction to the sightseers Of
the period As for the Dutchmen in
the doomed city, they henceforward
only referred to their fruitless expert
ment as the "Perditae EXpensae," or
Wasted Money" Ten years previous
to this, others Of the Dutch patriots
had built somewhat similar contriy-
ance which very possibly was also ar
morod. This was the ARK Of Delft"
n twin vessel supporting floating
fortress, which was propelled by three
hand-worked paddle wheels placed be-
tween the two hulls.
1t is a curious but well known fact
that if we go to the far East we can
find a parallel to almost any western
invention. Ii is therefore not aston
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i nis reign In 1916, covered two Of the
n atsest ships Of his feet with leather
Anjou. '' 0uarleS OF
,o Lnese' by the way, were not the first
th ,ot'n nele We have already seen
, .nat leather probably in the form Of
r raw, formed portion Of the mr..
NOR NOR Of the Saracen dromons while
,rad Of Montfewat, at the siege os
iSre, IN lls7, either invented or at oIl
o e,e , caused special class of lqath.
er protected vessels TO be built, which
we're called "barbotes" or "duckbocks"
rhes, would now probably be called
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ishing to find that the japanese pos
sessed a paddle propelled armorclad
in the year 1000. This quaint craft
like the old leatherclad "barbotes" Of
the twelfth century, was turtle.
backed, with ports for firing from, She
was covered with iron and copper
plates fitted together like the cells Of
a honeycOmb, mounted ten guns, and
like the Ark Of Delft, was moved by
central paddlewheel. Though there
is no record Of any more ironclad ships
before the nineteenth century, our own
navy, at any rate, used various de-
vices to protect its ships in the eigh-
teenth. According to French writer,
the SAILORS Of his country were aston
ished at the perfection to which the
English had attained in this direction
"Old cables he writes, "held in place
by pieces of iron, barrlcaded the whole
length of the bulwarks; mantlets of
old rope hung over the ships sides to
diminish the shock Of our cannon balls,
and beneath thick rope netting
stretched from poop to bowsprlt, the
English fought under shelter, maneu-
wiring without ceasing out OF musket
range. so as to riddle our detachments
OF fusileers with their cannon shot. So
we lost 200 men for every thirty OF the
English put out Of action"
This system Of armoring was, how
ever, soon adopted by the French, as
In Lescalier's "Vocabulaire des
Termes de Marine Anglols ct Fran
coils" published in 1T77, we find the
following:
Binder I'm vaisseau,' to cover the
ships side with tenders Of old cables
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4hL rAhnl lhoN SbAb, FlNlo bLL1i'
the construction Of the turrcts ana
towers with which the fighting ships
OF ancient and medieval times were
fitted, especially when used for harbor
defense, as in the Venetian twret ship
Of the ninth century here Illustrated.
Felt made an early appearance as a de-
fensiye armor on shipboard as we
find that in sea fight off Palermo IN
1871 between the Normans ana Sara
Gems, the former hung their galleys
with this material by way of de-
fensiye culrass. The Norman knights
had probably adopted this device from
their enemies, for felt had been used
for some time for this purpose on board
the huge "dromons" of the Saracens
These, the "battleships" Of those days
IN the Mediterranean, usually rowed
fifty oars side, each oar being
manned by two men, so that here we
have a couple of hundred seamen ac-
counted for at once. When the soldiers,
sail trimmers, and artificers who
worked the war engines ana slph0ns
for Greek fire are added, it is evident
that the crew must have been very
large and have required ship Of
considerable dimensions, These great
warshIps were armored with wooden
cloth soaked In vinegar TO render 1t
fireproof, and hung with mantlets OF
red and yellow felt, so that their cul-
rass was not only useful, but orna-
mental as we'll At this period, and for
many hundreds Of years later, addi-
tlonal protection was afforded to those
on deck by the ranging Of the bucklers
and shields of the warriors on board
along the gunwales. Later, in the fif-
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"turtlebacls," They would appear to
have been small craft covered with a
strong leather protected domed roof,
through portfolios or openings in which
the archers and crossbowmen could
fire without exposing themselves. They
proved very effective against the Sar-
acens, and in 1918 the entrance Of the
Nile was forced by seventy Of these
little armorclads.
But IN the meantime the Saracens
seem TO have gone one better IN the
evolution Of armOr protection, for 1t
Is said that the Great Dromon''-
whose capture by Richard Lion-Heart
Is stlll cOmmemorated by the stars and
crescent in the arms Of our greatest
naval pOrt-was equipped with leaden
arncr, This was in 1871, and probab.
~ lead was occasionally used for pro-
tectiye purposes throughout the next
two or three centuries. although there
is no record Of any ship so protected
until 1880.
IN this year the knights Of st. John.
those sworn opponents Of the Turk,
built one or perhaps two "leadclads."
At any rate, one account says that they
built such ship in this year at Malta,
while another describes a ship Of this
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-04-07

Samuel Il. STREET., a travelling man
whose work has taken him number
OF times into the South seas and the
Philippines, dlscoursed eloquently on
the wealth acquired by the United
States in cocoanuts in the new pos
sessions.
Several million pounds" he said,
twill make up the export this year,
The cocoanuts will be cut in halves
and dried, and are known commercials
~ as copra. Not long ago they pressed
the oil from the kernels and put 1t
into earthenware jars; but the jars
frequently broke. So barrels were sub
stltuted, but the barrels leaked, Final
ly an ingenious Yankee devised the
scheme of drying the kernels and ex-
porting them In that shape. This plan
Is now almost the only one used. A
thousand nuts yield about twenty-five
gallons Of Oil. 1t is used for cooking.
Illuminating and for the toilet Louis
Vile Herald.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-04-07

"Of course, this has been an unusual
ly cold winter, everybody knows that"
said the Germantown policeman. THE
Weather Bureau can furnish the sta
tistics; l don't just know What they
are, but do know this-that never in
my experience have | seen so many
dead sparrows as during the past
month. The sparrow isn't a migra-
tory bird. He makes his home in a
certain spot, and there he stays, year
in and year out A snowy winter like
this is particularly hard on him. I've
sort of made study Of the little bird,
and l know his habits pretty well, He
doesn't mind the snow for day or so.
In fact, l rather think he likes 1t for
n change, being a hardy sort OF bird,
but when there is snow on the ground
for a week at a time he suffers no
wants a warm perch once in II Nsplle9
and when everything is frozen he gets
chilled through, and really thlnli he
loses control Of his legs to such an ex-
tent that he topples over and freezes
to death. At any rate, I've seen more
dead sparrows lying around In the
snow during the past month than ever
before in the same period Of time
Philadelphia Record.
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EARLY
ARMORCLADS.
~6t~St-s3.S@s-
BY MAJOR C. FIELD, Glenn. ORE,
b ENGLAND.

,&oN. THOUGH armorclad ships
u are generally considered
q N Q to date only from the mid.
4 A die Of the last century. &c.
SSsoN cording to high authority.
armor. in the general extended use of
the word, has been used for the pro-
lection OF ships for hundreds, nay
thousands, of years. Not, Of course,
plckel-steel or even iron armor. but a
protective covering of various mate.
rlals, for as the warriors OF the past
.cvore steel. iron, brass, leather, and
even quilted cotton armor, so have
ships been protected by a variety of
different substances. The modern
word "cuirass," which we apply solely
10 body armor as worn by the Life
Guards, and which is OF French derl.
walton, is used also in France for the
armor of battlcship and reminds one
at once that armor was originally made
Of leather or CUR"
As with men so with ships. The
ships Of the ancient Greeks and Ro.
mans were often fortified with a thick
fence of hides. which served to repel
the missiles Of their enemies and af.
ford protection TO their own crews.
Hides, possibly brass and iron. and
certainly thick timber, entered into
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teenth and sixteenth centuries, special
"Davesades," or bulwarks, were pro-
yided IN lieu, composed Of large OBJ
long shields supplied for the purpose,
In addition to felt the time-honored
leather mmor also entered into the de.
iensIve panoply of the "dromons''
and la the war Of the ijiciliau Nespers,
Pedro III. Of Aragon- who commenced
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in the same way that copper is still
found so useful. Thus, the French
ship FRANCHISE. launched III
1927. one of the largest and most IA
nous ships of her day, was sheathed
with lead from her keel to the hrst
vale above her waterlne'
According to short paragraph IN
Hayden's Dictionary VI Dates, chain
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In the old days, before the deadly
magazine rife was invented, hunting
the grizzly was very different AFFAIR,
and no animal on the American CONT
nent was more dreaded, his fierceness
and vital force when wounded filling
the most reckless hunters with n
wholesome dread, 1t was not at all
unusual for a grizzly with n bullet
through his heart to pursue and tear TO
pieces the hunter, whose long single
barrelled muZzle-loadlng rife, with its
one round lead bullet, was altogether
inadequate for such a contest 1t is
strange thing, too, that while the griz-
zly bear is an omnivorous feeder, living
on anything from roots and nuts to
steer and buffalo meat, he has never
been known to deycw human 1esh.-
st. Nicholas.
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we United States sold $l930Oo00O
worth Of breadstuffs abroad last year,
an increase of $O,OOo0OO over the best
previous year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-02
HOW SERGE wAs ovERrHRoWN.

Hated as Witte was by the old mo- Ibility as paryenu; by the reactionar- ies, against whose projects he set him. self resolutely as interfering with his hopes of industrial development; by the
 Pan Slayists, who generally believed in free trade and found in him no syrnpa-
 thy with their hopes of Classification of everything: by the Church, because of 1 his utter indifference to religion, and by the war party, because, knowing the re- suits of the Turkish war, he set him. self against the financial strain which war would cause-l1e still went boldly | forward, secure in tn eapproyal of the
 Czar The first blow to count against Witte seems to have grown out of one | of his own creations. Among the many schemes was one for development of a mercantile marine, and at the head of the commission for this was one of the grand dukes of the imperial family. In spite of Witte's enormous borrowings (which have increased the direct debt Iof the government at least 00,00000O since he took charge, not to mention huge contingent liabilities, it was im- possible to grant a very large subsidy for this purpose; and the grand duke, probably at reactionary lnstigation, ap- Ipeared at Minister Witte's office and asked that the subsidy be doubled at least. Minister Witte, even by the re- bort of his enemies, never truckles to- rank, and he refused any increase, The request was renewed in the form of 8 demand, and thereupon Witte rendered his resignation to the Czar, with the re- mark that he could not attempt to man. lage the finances if grand dukes were to
 be allowed to dictate concerning allow
 ances. The grand duke was snubbed and Minister Witte restored to power; but weak spot had been found in his harness, and coalition ensued between | the reactionaries and the party of az
 gression, headed by Alexief and Bezo- brazof. which resulted in a few months more in Wittes retirement to sinecure. IN. T. Bacon, in Booklovers Magazine.