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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01
PLANTS.
q Woman's Success With dollhouse
Palms In an Ordinary A~tmosnhere

q Wonan's Success With Hothouse
Palms in an Ordinary Atmosphere.
New York Sun: hi tried to
raise palms INC other indoor plants
In the usual way, only to see them live
for a short while in her gas lit house
and then pine away. She had no con
servatory and no means of reproducing
in her own house the atmosphere from
which the flowers were taken. She be-
gan to wonde after n while If it would
not be possible to take the plants at a
very early age and acclimatize them to
the air of an ordinary house and make
It possible for them to flourish in that
atmosphere. She resolved to make the
experiment, believing that it was the
sudden transfer from the dollhouse to
the drawing room that caused them to
die.
She began with two or three very
young palms bought from n nursery
man. After the first few days in the
house it looked as if they too would
succumb, and it was more thar a
month before they showed signs of i'm
proving. To this day these original
palms are in her possession, although
she has grown and sold many others
since to her friends eager to get hold of
plants which grew so we'll in the ordi-
nary house atmosphere. The plants
were not suddenly brought from the
hothouse to the house, but were trained
to the house atmosphere or succumbed
in the effort. Few of them ever did
succumb, however. and there is a de-
mand always for rs man of these
sturdy plants as their successful grower
is able to raise.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01
I MADE OF MILK.
Gtuid of Palm Fruit Becomes Hard
With Ace.

Gtud of Palm Fruit Becomes Hard
With Age.
'Ilewa in. South America there Is a
drnit~-producing palm that has quite met
amorphosed the button business, and
formed the nucleus for one of the most
important industries In the United States,"
said H. 1. Rawlins, a New York drummer
a, the Raleigh.
The seed of. this fruit contains q milk
that is sweet to the taste and rellshed by
the natives. The milk, when allowed to
remain In the nut long enough. becomes
ind1irated and turns into a substance az
brittle and hard as the ivory plant. Most
of the buttons now used in America.
whether termed ivory, pearl. rubber, horn
or bone. come from this ivory plant. Thus
the probabilities are that your buttons are
made from a vegetable milk, and they
grow on bushes.
The ivory plant is one of the marvels
OF the age. and is rewarding It's growers
with vast fortunes. The nuts are brought
20 the United States by shiploads. and are
shipped across the continent to the big
button factories. from which they issue
sorth In every conceivable design, color,
grade and classification Of button.
me ivory plant has recently been dis
covered In California, but the nut 1t pro-
auces In its wild state is of inferior quail
ny and Will not produce good buttons. Il
Is believed. though, with the proper Gull
avation the fruit would be as valuable a.
the Central American. II so, the growing
Of buttons In America would become an
industry of Importance second only to the
groWing OF corn, wheat and cotton, for
everybody wears buttons.
Ifie best ivory nut for commercial pur-
oosea is found on the banks OF the river
aagdaiena. In the United States Of Co
tombia, where by some 1t is called the
iasua palm. The fruit forms a globular
head about twice the size of a mans head
end weighs from 20 to % pounds. The
oead Is q kind of cluster Of bulbs, and IN
AL contains from so to 60 seeds. Tho seeds
are allowed to dry, and are harvested sew
sral times a year by the natives.
The ivory nut Is used almost solely in
the manufacture OF buttons. though some
'hctories also make poker chips from
hem. The nut, however. has superseded
ahe archaic mud. rubber n bone buttons
n vogue formerly. It admits Of wider
posa than any other known substance and
. easily worked. The United States con-
Sumes more than one-nalf Of the worlds
product Of ivory nuts, and nine-tenths of.
the vegetable ivory is manufactured into
buttons. Z,
Iory 1t is cut into three slabs. In the pro-
.ess of cutting the button is partially
,haped- Afterward the thread holes are
drilled and countersunk. The button is
:hen sent to the pollsher, who uses the
drawings and powder made In the drilling
10 polish them. Afterward they are sent
80 the designer. who traces on the buttons
n indeible dye the designs needed. After
receiving these outlines, II the buttons are
TO remain smooth and receive another!
scat, they are put into the dye, then they
are put Into a pressing machine fitted with
iies of the pattern desired"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01
INDIAN AGAINST INDIAN.
Terrible Battle in Which a Band Of
Sioux Were Wiped Out,

Sioux Were Wiped Out.
Milwaukee Wisconsin: One OF the last
survivors of the enemies OF the Sioux is
1e-On-Gesic, now passing his hundredth
birthday. Eighty-tive years ago the Sioux
tribe, Which invaded the west and entered
he plains Of Iowa and Dakota, sought to
dlslodge the Chippewas from the timbered
country in Minnesota and Wisconsin. They
nearly accomplished this undertaking, ow-
Ing to overwhelming numbers. They made
frequent incursions into the Chippewa
country and many sanguinary battles
were fought, eliminating in the massacre
by the Sioux Of settlers in southern Min
nesota in 1862.
Sixty years g Ye-On-Gesic was a IA
nous chief and warrior OF the Chippewa
tribe, and he tells the writer OF the last
great battle with the enemy west of the
Mississippi river. He says:
IT was When we were encamped on the
Yellow, Bone and Devils lakes that quite
a large party of Sioux were reported COM
ing up the Yellow river from the ST. Croix
to battle With the Chippewas. Our chiefs
believed they We're only scouts sent for
ward to reconnoiter. At that time l was
an amateur warrior. When the enemy
was reported within the country L was
given charge of q band of young men
numbering forty-nine and directed to I'M.
-tercept the scouts of the Sioux. For thai
occasion L was made a chief. 1t was the
proudest momen of my life.
With the young Chippewas under my
command l started down the Yellow riv-
err. All my men We're anxious for adj
venture. For two days we watched for
the enemy, but saw no signs. On the
morning of til, third day my scouts re-
ported a large wal party Of Sioux just
landed south of yellow AXE. Within an
hour my men had been surrounded.
!, Suddenly gave the Chippewa war cry,
and the battle began. 1t was a terrible
battle, lasting until the sun was high In
the heavens and there was no more life
In the woods. My party numbered less
than twenty-eight when we were through.
Today i am the sole survivor There were
no Sioux left. All We're dead"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01
FLYING REPTILES OF OLD.
Of Great Size, They Were Once Moro
Common Than Birds.

SSIi'ttioI tud1 otTQSs
From ST. Nicholas: We are apt to
think OF reptiles as creeping and crawl
ing things. forgetting that there was a
time when flying reptiles were more
common than birds. These reptiles, the
pterodactyls. or flying dragons. not
only flew, but some OF them reached a
size much greater than that of any
bird. for the largest birds do not fly.
The South American condor sometimes
measures as much as ten and one-haif
feet from tip te tip of outstretched
wings. and it is quite possible that the
finest examples of the albatroSs may
measure a little more. But the great
pterodactyls which flew about the sea
that in the days Of old reached from
tains, measured as much as twenty
feet. the width of an average city lot,
across their wings.
Most of us have seen an eagle flying,
and we can appreciate the size of this
ancient dragon by remembering that it
was nearly three times the size of an
eagle. 1t was not. however. three times
as heavy, for the body of this strange
reptile was so small and its skeleton so
wonderfully light hat the entire ami
NAL is thought to AVE weighed not
more than twenty-five pounds, or only
about rs much as a large condor. One
OF the largest bones OF the wing. two
- ~ 3ilo WV lllSllCo lDlOuSl was,
as Professor Williston tells us. no
thicker than q sheet of biotting paper,
AMI the great head, with a beak over
three feet long. was equally light. This
great toothless beak is believed to have
been used for swapping up fishes: and
we can imagine this huge creature sail
ing swiftly over the sea. now and then
swooping down to pick up a fish as
deftly, for all its size, as a real swal-
low.
But what did ornithostoma-this is
the animals nalne-do with his wings
and beal1 when he made an occasional
visit to the land? One would think they
must have been very much in his way,
and that the animal was as awkward
on the shore as he was graceful In the
air. And how did he start to fly? With
such enormous wings, we think Orni-
thostoma must have dwelt on cliffs
about the sea n launched off them as
the gannets do from Bird Rock. This
great flying reptile lived some six mil
lion years ago.; the sea over which it
flew long ago disappeared, and the
mud into which it's bones sank be
came chalk, and from the formation Of
these great chalk beds the time at
which Ornithostoma existed is called
the CretaciouS period.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01
BRAVERY ON THE RATTLEFlELD.
Creelman Writes of idoIatry Of tho
Present Day Soldiers.

Creelmah writes OF ldolatry OF tho
Present Day Soldiers.
James Creelman in Pilgrim: Who
can explain this unconquerable attrac-
ton of the garb of slaughter for the
feminine mind and temperament? Is
1t the suggestion Of romantic and chiv-
alrous deed? Is it pride in the physic-
al strength OF the nations2 Is 1t the
symbolism of sacrifice-the individual
standing for society? Is it attraction
by repulsion-the soft and mer1cful,
drawn toward the hard and pitiless-
the positive blending upon the mega
tive? Or is it q blending of all these?
The simple truth is that the MILL
tary coat no longer stands for what 1t
did In the days Of close range and
hand-to-hand fighting. The policeman
who arrests a burglar in the night.
the fireman who serves in a plague
district-each is Il more heroic figure
than The modern soldier or sailor. who
fights almost out of sight OF the enemy
and is seldom called to do battle with
an individual foe. Yet the policeman,
the fireman, and the physician are held
in slight esteem as heroes and thu
sight of them rarely excites the roman
tic Imagination of women.
L can say truthfully that I have
y 1891 - va -
l have seen men unneryed by the
sounding of bursting shells. but tha,
was always a mere physical weaknesa:
l never saw one who showed tho
slightest disposition to run away. on
the contrary. the trouble most COM
manders have is in keeping their men
from exposing themselves unnecessar-
lily. But the bravest man ]. ever saw
was a civilian without a uniform-the
barefooted Japanese ooolie who at
tended me during the first part of the
battle of Port Arthur. He was with
" a weapon Of any sort. but when ths
japanese advanced to storm a Chin
ese triple fort. the little brown fellow
stopped and picked up a stone. When
I asked him what he intended to dc
with it, he said that he would Kill a
Chinaman when we got close enough.
There was a hero Of the antique mold
That man stood for elements that len,
n romantic glory to the warriors OF
other times-the strong arm, the
steady heart. the clear eye, the pride
of individual prowess.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01
eEvERlDeE SECONDS ROOSEVELT
lndiana's Junior Senator Makes an
Elouuent Address.

a'i' SSiaoSSi t"oNSS otb
Eloquent Address,.
Chairman Cannon introduced Senator
Beverage of Indina, who began his adj
dress amid loud applause, %seconding
the nomination of Roosevelt. He said:
One difference between the opposition
and ourselves is this; They select their
candidate for the people, and the people
select our candidate for us.
This was true four years ago when We
accepted the peoples judgment and named
William Mckinley, whose perfect mingling
of mind and heart, of wisdom and of, ten
derness, won the trust and love of the ma
ton then and makes almost holy his mem
DRY now. HIS power was in the peoples
favor. his hrine is in the peoples hearts.
1t is true today when we again accept
the peoples Judgment and name Theodore
Roosevelt. whose sympathies are as wide
as the republic. whose courage. honesty
sum of whose qualities make him the type
of twentieth century Americanism And
the twentieth century American is nothing
more than the MAJ of 20 facing a new day
with the old faith.
Roosevelt and Mckinley.
Theodore Roosevelt. like William Nc
Kinley, Is the nominee of the American
fireside. So We're Washington and Jeffer-
Jackson when he said The union: II must
be preserved so was Abraham Lincoln
when. the republic saved. he bade us
bind UP the nations wounds and Grant
"lltli, NISlOhS - < AL llIs
the spirit of the hour and the peoples
prayer. When nominated by parties. each
of these great presidents was. at the pc
RODS named. already chosen by the pub
lie Judgment. And so today, the repub-
lican party. whose strength is in its
obedience to the will of the American peo-
pie, merely executes again the decree
which comes to it from the American
home in naming Theodore Roosevelt as
cur candidate.
rhe peoples thought is his thought;
American ideals. his ideals. This is his
only sfart of statesmanship-and no oth-
er Is safe. For the truest guide an Amer
lean president can have IS ;he collective
intelligence and massed morality OF the
American people. And this ancient -ule
of The fathers is the rule of our leaders
now.
Theodore Roosevelt is a leader who
purposes of the people. Our presidents
plans, when achieved, are always found TO
be merely the nations will accomplished.
And that is why the people will elect him.
Why He Will Win.
They will elect him because they know
that If he is president we will get to work
ane keep at work on the canal. After
thing done, they want it done.
They know that while he is president the
flag will stay put" and no American ad-
vantage in the Pacific or the world be
~ur.endered. Americans never retreat.
While he is president no ~wrong-doer IL
the. service of the government will go UNI
whipped of Justice. Americans demand
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01
Two Ports.

New York Daily News: The seen
vas Cork harbor. and the adventurous
mariner In the tiny sailing boat had
aad a perilously narrow escape of be-
ing ran down by a big steamer.
III have the law on we, We bla-
yyards!' he cried. Whats the name
ST that ship?"
White Rose said the captain of the
steamer; adding, What ship is that?'
This is the Mary Jane. Where are
you bound?"
Rio de Janeiro. Where are you
oound?"
"Corko de Corkero, We gibbering son
Of a seahorse!" replied the Hibernian
.yachtsman.
And then he put his tiller about, and
:elt he had given back sarcasm for
aarcasm.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01
Our

Sang.
aoomi
Set out 81 the way
Aud give US room!
Watch US spread.
Match the Red.
White and Blue rise
TIL the stan that bears IL
Touches the skies,
And its folds. uniurled,
Sweep round and hug tho world
To its swelling bosom.
And what Il bosom that Is! -.
Broad az the land II seas are
We are 1t.
We are the greatest family
Old Nam Earth
Ever gave birth
10. Think of it. please.
These
Are they
Who celebrate this day:
Uncle Sam. II strong man VII
Swings in his hand
over this land
And beyond 1t. ovcr two seas.
The Red. White and Blu 2
Banner of Liberty,
Beacon of light.
To unnumbered millions
Yet in their night.
The American Eagle.
Glorious bird,
Whose scream of Freedom
ls everywhere heard.
The Yankee Nation,
The D~oodledOoS
Whose soldier boys
And sailor crews
Are setting the pegs of valor high
Over against a smiling sky
For the new come millions
Tt pattern by;
These are they
Who celebrate this day,
The Glorious Fourth,
The day when we
Whoop it up
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01
How the Little Doa Went.

Philadelphia Record: Did my little
dog so by here?' asked a barehcaecd
young woman. who had run up in excite.
ment to a small boy playing on the cor
ner.
"Ycs'm, he did" aid the small boy.
Which way did he go? Tell me, qulck!s
said the young woman.
But the small boy hesitated n looked
shy.
"Comc, now said the young woman,
coaNingly. do tell me. See. here is a
penny and she fshed out a coin from
somewhere in her clothing. Now tell
me which way he went"
"He went this way" said the small
boy. taking the penny and, getting down
on his hands and knees, he trotted OF.
crying, "Bow-wow, bow-wow."
The prosperity OF the pipemakinr
industry in Birmingham. Eng, is be.
Ing threatened by a famine in amber.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01
Got What she Requested.

Mrs. Upptowne-The cook you sent
ne only stayed asfdayl
Agent-Yes. madam, you said you
wanted q cook in a hurry!
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01
Do Your Feet Ach, aud Hnrn>

Do Your Feet Ache and Burn,
Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot-Ease.
n powder for the feet. 1t makes tight or
new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bun
Ions. Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. Al
all Drugelsts and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample
cent FREE. Address Allen s. Olmsted, L.
Roy, N. 7.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01

Mrr. Winslow,s SOOTHING SYRUP Tor Children
MethinG; softens the gums, reduces hsmmatio al
Ays pain. cures wind collie. IS cents . bottle.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01

Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
Convention: We are here TO inaugurate
a campaign which seems already to be
nearly closed. So wisely have the people
sowed and watched and tended, there
seems little now 10 do but to measure up
the grain. They are ranging themselves
not for battle but for harvest. In one
column reaching from the Maine woods
to the Puget Sound are those people and
those states which have stood 50 long
together. that when great ~emergencies
arise the nation turns instinctively, to
them. In this column. vast and solid. is
a majority so overwhelming that the scat
raise another army. The enemy. has
neither guns nor ammunition, and if they
had they would use them on each other.
Destitute of the weapons of effective war
fare: the only violence of approaching
battle is in the tone and number of their
bulletins. There is discord among the
Each would fight in his own way. but be-
fore assaulting his republican adversaries
he would first destroy his WI comrades
weapons chosen by the other are not
only wicked hut fatal to the holder. That
Is true. This is the only war OF modern
stituted for the gun. Whatever fatalities
may occur, however. among the discord-
ant hosts now moving on s.. Louis. 10
harm will come this fall to the American
people. There Will be no opposition suftl-
cinet to raise a conflict. There will be
hardly enough for competition. There are
40 uemOCrallc IianS Tor inc Conduct OF
the fall campaign. Their zeal is chiefly
central in discussion as to what Thomas
Jefferson would do If he Were living. He
is not living, and but few of his descend
ants are among the democratic remnants
of today. Whatever of patriotism or wis
dom emanated from that distinguished
man IS now represented in this conven-
ton.
Democracy's Need of an Issue.
1t is a sad day for any party when its
only means of solving living issues is by
guessing at the possible attitude of 81
statesman who is dead. This condition
leaves that party always a beginner and
cratic party has seldom tired 4 problem
on its own account, and when it has its
plumbers hav been its only monuments.
It's courage is remembered only in regret.
AS long as these things are recalled that
party may serve as ballast, but Ii will
never steer the ship.
When all the people have forgotten will
dawn a golden era for this new democ-
racy. But the country is not ready Yet to
place a party in the lead whose most OK
get" That motto may express contrit,on,
but it does not inspire hope. Neither con
fidence nor enthusiasm will ever be
aroused by any party which enters each
campaign uttering The language of the
There is one fundamental plank. how
ever, on which the two great parties are
in full agreement. Both believe in the
equality of men. The difference is that
the democratic party would make every
publican party would make every man as
as the best. But the democratic
course will provoke no outside interfer-
ence now, for the republican motto is
of the great commander. never IN
terrupt the enemy while he is making a
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01

when the American mind was so nfamcd
and the American patriotism so aroused
when among al the eager citizens surgiug
to the front as soldiers. the man whom
this convention has already in its heart
was among the first to hear the call and
answer TO his name Preferring peace but
not afraid of war: faithful to every pri-
vate obligation yet first To volunteer at
the sign of, national peril: a leader in
the arts OF war that he grew almost in a
day to meet the high eXactions of com
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1904-09-14
Colorado Bidders Would Build
Dam.

Roswell, N. M.-Colorado contrac-
tors are the principal bidders for the
work of constructing the Hondo govern
mert reservoir. Some Of the bids fol-
low:
TaylOr-Moore Construction company
Denver, six schedules, Sl27, ,476, 49,;
Whitescarver Construction company
Trinidad, three schedules, $40, OBS. so;
W. w. Atkinson, Colorado Springs, six
schedules S23S, 800; orman & Creek,
Pueblo, six schedules, S199 766. so; De-
remer & Olson, Denver, six schedules,
1861, ,O9l.e0.
The work will be let in six sections,
The cost of the reservoir will be $780,
600. 1t will be erected twelve miles
from Roswell and will reclaim about
$4,000 ceres of the best land in the
valley,
The protest Of the Pecos Irrigation
company against building the reservoir
is being heard by board of examiners
consisting of Assistant Chief Engineer
A. P. Davis, Consulting Engineer W.
H. Sanders and r. NJ. Hall of the Unit
ed States geological survey
The bids were opened here and will
be examined in Roswell by the commits
sion. The commission will make deci-
sions here that will practical decide the
case. 1t is the contention of the ones
who are in authority that the protest
viii amount to nothing and that dirt
will be moving on the Hondo site in the
near future.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1904-09-14

As up-to-date advertisers Messrs
Taylor and Williams of Louisville Ken
lucky, distillers of the famous Yellow
stone brand Of whiskey, easily take the
lead. They generously donated $1,000 as
a stake for the 2:l3 pace. This race
will be pulled off on the day of the meet
ing and as a number Of entries have
already come in, it promises to be close
and exciting. Much credit Is due to
Messrs Taylor and Williams for this
handsome donation and everything will
be done by the fair association to make
Yellowstone Whiskey Day long remem-
bered by those attending the Fair.