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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-07
IF THE JAPS LOSE

Despite the lesson of the Boer war
| the japanese did very little open order
| and extended formation work in their
! last manoeuvres, but operated in solid
masses as trim and right angled as
though shaped with a spirit level
When Field Marshal Marquis Yama-
gaia was asked if Japan would not
change her field tactics to suit the con-
ditions of modern lighting, he replied
Japan will reveal her tactics in bat
tie. Be sure that they Will be those
necessary to insure victory"
This was not the self-confdence of
the unbeaten warrior. but the express
sion of the only spirit Japan knows, for
she never considers defeat even as a
remote possibility.
>On the sea officers and men are spoil
ing for a fight. From the crews of the
huge Mikasa and her sister battleships
down to the men on such craft as the
White-naped Crane and the Dragons
Lamp--torpedo destroyers-they are
swearing by every ancestor that, if let
loose, they will sink or capture each
consonant1y named Russian warship in
the Pacific. And do they not contem-
plate a possible defeat? Yes. but cap
ture no. Never Will a Japanese ship,
high or low, go into port a prize.
When the turrets are damned and the
big guns dumb, when the screws are
still and all defence is dead and done,
the men chosen by lot before the begin
ming of action viii from their station
in the heart of the ship perform THE
last full measure of devotion" in eX-
ploding the magazines, and the sixteen
petalled chrysanthemunl on the impe-
rial standard will go deep down in a
welter of blood and steam and smoke
till. ''streaked with ash and sleeked
with oil, the Iukewarm whirlpools
close" - Yokohama correspondence
London Daily Mail.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-07

HONESDALE, Pa, Jan. 21-The
death of James B. Salmon, aged 50, for
more than fifty years an engineer in
the employ of the Erie Railroad and
believed to be the last survivor of the
whaling crews that sixty years ago
put out from Sag Harbor on their long
and uncertain cruises, recalls the story
of a timeworn and weather stained
marble slab that stands at the head
of grave in Glen Dyberry Cemetery
at this place with this inscription up
on it:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-07
DIDN'T SEEM LONG.

Two young ladies on the promenade
of seaside resort had been watching
the vessel pass, through a telescope
lent them by AN old salt. On handing
the glass back one of the ladies re-
marked that it was a very good one
Yes, miss" said the ancient mariner
that ere telescope was given me by
Lord Nelson" Good gracious! Why,
Nelson has been dead nearly a hundred
years. We'll, I'm glowed!" replied
the salty one, quite unabashed low
the time do hy!"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-07
THE POET AND THE PRINTER.

CNew York Commercial Advertiser.)
Once Poet loved a maiden, as the
Poets often do,
And his rival was a Printer of very
inky hue;
But the maiden showered the Poet with
her favors all the time,
For she loved his gentle habit of ador-
ing her in rhyme.
Day and night the angry Printer swore
"Ha, ha!" as villains do
When he saw the weakling Poet with
his hating verses WOO,
And in vain he swat and struggled for
some loving rhymes to think
He had not the Poets genius, though
he had the type and ink.
BY and by the blushing Poet wrote a
rhyme of tender vein,
Telling how he loved his Lulu with an
ecstacy of pain.
Thus it ran: Upon the rubble of the
tangled garden close
Thou dost pine, thy cheeks more ruby
aye, more scarlet-than the rose!"
This the Poet sold one winter to the
leading magazine.
Where the Printer worked for wages at
linotype machine.
When the Printer saw the poem he de-
clared with baneful eye:
Maybe L can't fix the Poets hash-but
1 can fix his pie!'
Then he took the verse and set it, with
a dark and bodeful mien--
Came a strangely altered poem, like
god from the machine,
Thus it ran: Upon the rubber of the
tangled garden hose
Thou dost dine-thy cheeks more ruby
aye, more scarlet than thy nose!"
Came the day of publication and the
dark and fateful moon
When the maiden read the poem,
shrieked and fell into a swoon.
Then she wept in wild Mysteries and
they carried her away
Where she lay in misrepresentation for
a month at Oyster Bay.
There the scheming Printer met her
there were walks beneath the moon
There were hints of an engagement
there We're wedding bells in June.
And the Poet? Nought in life his for
mer ardor could restore.
Now he's teaching kindergarten and
will write in rhyme no more.
Moral.
Thus the very modern poet, though en-
titled to enthuse,
Still should learn to watch his Printer
as devoutly as his Muse:
And I have a fellow feeling for the
devotee of rhyme,
When the Printer pies my stanZas Gas
he does from time to time).
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-07
49,

children don't seem TO have as
much respect for their parents as for
merIy." NO" answered the cynic;
land I have never quite been able to
make up my mind whether this is be-
cause modern children are less dutiful
mr. more discerning. Washington Star
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-07

disloyal to the Emperor for generations.
Two days lie open before US; the
loyal way is to die. Let our motto be
TO continue fighting until we fall ex-
hausted
This is the most satisfactory solu-
ton. How DESTROYS. How joyful"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-07
Moral.
VERY LIKE HIS DAD.

NJ. Crepaud-Ah! So zis ees your lee
tie son? He look to be similaire to you
Popley-"Yes, he's very much like
me-"
NJ. Crepaud-Ah! How do you call
eet? "A cheep of re old blockhead.'' ees
eet not ?''-PhiIadelphia Press.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-07

Miss Sumrnit-"How that young
Monroe girl has improved" Miss Pail
sade-'Hasn't she? Why, can re-
member when she was such a modest
little thing'-Ex.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-07

The stayer-"Isn't it hard 10 LOSE
your daughter?' mo, not this ones
could have married her OF year aZ1-
It is her older sister that's hard ID
lose. Houston Post.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-07

The hand that cradles the rocks rules
the world.-Life.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11
South Dakota Building.

$. w. Russell, chairman of the South
Dakota board of worlds fair commits
s%ioners, says regarding our state build
ing. The state building occupies
what | consider to be the very best
location upon the grounds and it was
a great victory to secure ii, especially
for a building costing only $4,000 while
other states were spending more than
one hundred thousand, 1t stands in
one of tho most central locations IN a
fine grove of tall natural trees, with
two great principal avenue radiating
from il and with the intermurai rail
way Just behind. The building itself
will be of handsome design forty-eight
by seventy feet on the ground and two
stories high. 1t will be covered with
cement colored dark green, which will
form a very attractive contrast with the
light snuff colored buildings about
There viii be no exhibits in the build
ings, but there will be reading, writing
and retiring rooms with a great central
hall running up through the two stories
and handsomely decorated in many
scenes of South Dakota life worked out
in grains and grasses"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11
Editors Public Service.

In his address to the visiting members
of the national republican editorial asso-
citation, President Roosevelt said;
In the proper sense of the term, no
man is more essentially apublic servant
than the editor, the man who III the
public press not merely gives the news
but exercises so great a control eve the
thought of our country.
And speaking to you as my fellow
republicans, / wish you to know how
every man here in Washington who is
striving to do what in him Ines to serve
his party OF make that party serve the
country realizes the dependence upon
O and those like you throughout this
land for making his purpose effective.
1t is upon your Interpretation of the
acts done here that we must depend for
having these acts received at their
proper worth by the people as a. whole.
feel very strongly that what we
need is simply to have the exact tr0th
told, to have what we havs. done set
forth as it has been done, and to have
cur purposes interpreted in the light not
not merely of u words. but OF our
deeds
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11
EVENTS.
The Man From Chicago.

Inc iii &HtNukOs
He sat upon the front-most seat, the show
was to be bad;
The hero'd signed away the last brond
acre that he had.
Not knowing that the william wac q factor
in the case
Until the black proved creature snapped
his fingers in his face
And Missed: you're in me powcr-r-r! DO
your worst do not carer
The heroine, with purple lids and gay
peroxide hair,
Had swooned away, from running that the
hero might be warned,
And, coming to. had made her threat.
Beware a women scorncdP'
1t was the same old rotten plot, the same
old hannfat cast,
The same old melodrama of the dim and
moldy past.
As one by one the audience began 10 sec
the point
They rose and left the place and hurled
fierce curses ON the Joint.
They all had seen some bad before, had
expected it again;
But this was quite the worst that e'cr dis
graced a human PEN;
Yet through it all hat front-seat man
leaned forward toward the stage
And let that bum plot SWAY him from the
heights OF Joy 10 rage.
NJ length the place was empty save for
him who sat in front,
there he stayed until the last poor
Thespian did his stunt;
The others who had earlier left, hung
round about the door
see the human wonder that such play
ing couldn't bore.
lie comes at last, the tears are still undried
upon his cheeks,
\ curious one approaches MIN and thus
politely speaks:
" Pray tell us from what spot such inno-
ccnce arose?"
lie said; I'm from Chicago, where they
haven't any shows"
Exchange.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11

by great diligence wiped the disease
almost out but still there is an occas-
ional case let run until the animal dies.
Now comes a strange Development in
the matter. Wolves and coyotes that
have eaten Of the dead animals have
become infected and it is no uncommon
thing to see a coyote shivering. on the
prairie, utterly devoid of hair. Many
of the animals have died from the effect
of the cold, and stockmen believe that
the entire determination of the pests is
only a matter of a short time. As the
loss from the depredations of wolves is
much heavier than hat from the itch
the exchange lisa good one and cattle
men are not sore over the result.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11

Two men down in the neighboring
state of Iowa were arrested for the
wholesale slaughter of game. They
were given a trial and found guilty.
The presiding magistrate assessed a
fine of $4,000 to each of them and
in default of payment were to keep
each other company in the county
Jail for five hundred days. This
decision and Judgment will have a
wholesome effect in causing a proper
observance of the Iowa game laws.
A few such lessons in South Dakota
would go far toward stopping the
shooting for market and wholesale
slaughter of game that is carried ON
here every fall.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11

The interstate boundary commits
sion, appointed by the governors of
South Dakota and Nebraska, met in
Sioux City February 10th and form
ulated a recommendation which
viii be presented to legislatures Of
the two states relative to the dis
puted boundary question. The COM
mission recommends the cession by
South Dakota to Nebraska of a two
thousand acre tract, known as Halls
survey, cut off from South Dakota
by the Missouri river in 1878. In
exchange for this it is recommended
that the pocket near McCook
lake and the "Reniger cutoff he
given by Nebraska to this state.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11
The Japan Russia war is now on.

The Japan Russia war is now on.
Hostilities commenced on Monday.
Up to the present time all OF the
engagements have been between the
navies of the two nations, and in
each OF them the Japs have secured
L decided advantage. Several OF
the Russian war vessels have been
sunk and many others disabled. a
volunteer Russian feet was attacked
by Japan's navy and three vessels
and two thousand troops captured
No one can predict what the out
come viii be. The sympathies o.
the American people will naturally
be with japan because she is thu
smaller nation. All Of the othe'
powers of the earth have announced
their intentions to maintain stric
neutrality.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11

Melvin Grigsby, formerly attorney
general of this state, who organized
"A rough rider regiment during the
Spanish American war, said in an
interview in Washington since the
opening of hostilities between Japan
and Russia, that he would organize
another regiment and 60 to Japan's
assistance but for the fact that the
laws of neutrality between nations
would not permit.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11

The articles Of incorporation 2os
the Webster and Watertown raiiw-.y
have been fled with the ~secretar, If
state for South Dakota and the 49,
u surrey will commence in the Gear
future. The promoters Of the Jew
road predict that the road VII be
graded. ironed andin operation before
snow fies next fall. This proposed
line when completed will be a great
boos! to Webster Is il will probably
connect with one Of the great lines
now doing business in Waterfowl
and thereby give US a competitor TO-
the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Pau
railway company, who operate 81
ooly line At present reaching thi
~. The new project should and
- think, will receive the moral an
f.s5sisl support Of al interested !
~ spbuildIng and advancement .
Wohs(er and Day county.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11
schoo1 Omcers, Meeting.


Pursuant to Article II, Section 2,29S,
/ hereby give notice that the annual
school board meeting will be hel IN
Webster on February l6, 1904, at 2
O'Clock p. III.
II court is in session the meeting will
be held in the town hall.
The state superintendent will be
with us.
The following topics will be discussed;
Relation Of teacher and school board
Transportation and its problems.
Regular and special board meetings
Reports Of district officers.
Salaries Of district officers.
Tuition Of eighth grade pupils
Consolidation Of schools, by Hon. q
w. Nash.
Alice ". Holverson,
County Superintendent
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11
$4,000 For Chickens.

Secretary Taft wishes congress to
appropriate % to pay for chickens
looted from farm yards by soldiers,
during the animal a Claims
aggregating $21 200 were submitted,
most of the amount being for chickens
alleged to have been ssolOn. A board
however ont this to 3 2,l00.
In order that these claims may be
paid and that a fund may be on hand
for paying for chickens that the soldiers
may capture in the future, Lieutenant
| General Chaffse recommended that ccn-
gress be asked for 5000, and Secretary
Taft has made che request.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11

Notice is hereby given that the firm OF
Malmberg Company, consisting of Carl
Malmberg and A. T. Malmberg, con-
Quoting o jewelry business in tho city
of Webster, s. d., has been dissolved
by mutual consent. All bills receivable
and payable are to be presented to Carl
Malmberg. A. 7. Malmberg will con
tinue the business.
Dated Webster, S. D., February II
1901.
Signed:
Carl Malmberg.
A. r. Weinberg.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11

People who were interested in Kel-
logg's pictures of the Last Buffalo
Hunt" will be pleased to learn that the
state historical society has on exhibition
several splendid illustrations Of the
methods of hunting the buffalo in the
early part of the last century. The
society has had framed six beautiful
reproductions of Catlin's famous paint
ings, five of which represent different
modes of buffalo hunting in 1884 and
the six shows the cunning wayin which
the Indians of that day e~ntrapped the
deer. Catlin painted the originals Of
these pictures during his stay at Fort
Pierre ia 1884 and they are illustrative
Of scenes and hunts in which he took al
active part. There is quite a contras
between the buffalo hunt of 1884 ant
the last buffalo hunt.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Andover Notes

VIII Chambers, of P%ierpont, stopped
off here between trains.
Mrs e. G. Toy was an Aberdeen visi-
tpra few of days last week.
EMIL Meyers, of Webster, was here
last week transacting business.
s. III. Egeland, of Webster, regis
tered at the Hotel Waldorf last week.
Mr.. Howell, of Pierpont, was seen
going through here for Webster the
first of the week.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11
The Three G,s.

Grass. Grain and Cold" which are
becoming coupled so often with the
name of South Dakosa, is from the
fertile brain of Ben Hoover, who first
suggested the connections of the three
words when the silver set was given the
South Dakota. On some of the pieces
are engraved three large Gs, and else
where their significance is explained by
the spelling out of the words in small
letters.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11
Fifteen Eggs Cost $4, 500.

Horty-fv hundred dollars for fifteen
oGloriferoas eggs is the price the
supreme court has just put on this
article of commerce by a decision in the
action of Henry r. Seawell against a
railway company.
In the year 1900 Mr.. Seawell was the
republican-populist candidate for lieu
tenant governor of North Carolina.
During the campaign he went to the
town of Shelby to fill IN appointment
of Senator Marion Butler. In the
celrse Of his remarks he existed the
anger Of the democrats in his audience
by a scathing denunciation of the
methods Of their panty. The democrats
tried to prevent Mr. Seawell from finish
ing his speech, and he denounced them
in unmeasured terms for their rowdy-
ism.
After his speech Mr.. Seawell went to
the railroad station and q crowd Of
Infatuated democrats followed him. Mr..
Seawell bought his ticket and pro-
ceeded to promenade on the platform.
He was faultlessly derssed in n high silk
hat, a black Prince Albert coat, white
vest, doe-skin trousers and patent
leather shoes, and carried a gold headed
cane.
The democrats armed themselves with
eggs which had been in existence TO,
several months under a hot sur and as
Mr.. Seawell appeared ON the platform
the eggs were hurled at him. They
burst all around him and fifteen BY
actual count struck his apparel. In
addition to the disgusting appearance
which the contents Of the eggs gave Il
his clothes, the odor arising thcrefron
made Mr.. Seawell despise himself 70
the time being and kept his friends at
distance.
For this indignity and assault an
battery Mr.. Seawell brought suit agains
the railway company, because the agen
at the station and other employees of tn
company actively engaged in daslin
stale eggs against him. The case wa
tried in the superior court and Wa
decided in favor of the plaintiff. Th
supreme court has just affirmed I'll
) decision Of the superior cou with a
intmation that the jury might hay
increased the amount Of damages will
out making the sum excessive or exc
! bitant.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11

Instructions have been sent to
Rear Admiral Wise, commanding
the training squadron of the United
States navy in theD Dominican waters,
to shoot if necessary to protect the
American interest. The administra-
ton will have peace for our citizens
in San Domingo wen though we
have to fight for it.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11

Senator Hanna, who is second
only to President Roosevelt with the
people Of United States, lies a very
sick man. at his home in Washing
ton. The people of the entire coun-
try will hope that his able and use-
f1l life may be spared to his family
and the nation.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11
A Beautiful Valentine.

st. Valentines greeting to all who
lore to snuggie close to natures heart
a beautiful creation in water color,
with a handsome 1904 bicycle girl for its
center, her bloom of rosy health happily
blending with the sunshine of an OPEN
ing spring. If you want one free, just
drop postal to Pope Mfg. Co Hartford,
Conn or Chicago, H.,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11

LNH1IftxIO HAtHHt NSC"N
7. T. Phillips returned recently
from the second buffalo. hunt. This
time he was accompanied by George
Keyser and NJ. G.. Bradshaw of Fort
Pierre. They located the monster
buffalo M about the same territory as
the other one was captured-in the Fox
ridge country one hundred miles north
west. One shot from Toms trusty
rifle was sufficient to drop the outlaw.
The robe will be mounted IN few days
and after thoroughly curing, the pair
will be Grated and shipped to the st.
Louis exposition. They will be on exhi-
bition in the South Dakota Building.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11
Nav Put AID ON the Flag.

The state law of New York forbidding
the desecration of the national flag is
unconstitutional. The supreme conrt
held that the use of the flag i'll advertis-
ing devices and on trade labels is not
degrading.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-11
Thursday, February II, 1904.

The people o South Dakota
heartily appreciate the opening of
the Rosebud reservation and are
grateful to their Washington delega-
ton.