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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
Pocket

Curious hand furnaces are used in
China during the winter months. chief
ly in the north, when the fire, in place
of being in the house, as we have it.. is
carried about the person beneath the
thickly padded cotton garments or in
the hand. AZ times ii is placed be-
meath the chair on which one is seated.
This co|ntriyance, resembling the char
coal pans formerly used before the
days Of the pit coal 10y the HEREFORD
shire straw plaiters. was first intro
duced to our notice when resting at Il
village in the Fullien province. which,
before we had investigated the cause.
we noted as Il place remarkable for the
deformity of its inhabitants. old men
and women with strange swellings pro-
jecting in the most unaccOuntable
places. Our speculations were, how
ever, speedily set at rest and the mat
ter satisfactorily explained by IN old
gentleman, who removed his greatcoat
and disclosed a small copper furnace
secured round his waist with Il band
and neatly covered with basket work.
This artificial mode of heating the body
Is only resorted to in time of extreme
cold, as on ordinary occasions the peo-
pie deem their thick clothing a sufi-
cient protection during winter-Golden
Penny.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
TURNER'S AM BlTlON.
The Great Painter Achieved Ii by
Years of Self Sacrifice.

Turner could not bear 10 sell q favor
lite painting. He was always melan-
choly after such u transaction. Il lost
one of my children this week. he would
sadly eXclaim. At a meeting 1T Som
erset House il was decided TO purchase
his two great pictures, the Rise and
the Fall OF Carthage" for the Ma
tional gallery. y Mr., Grifiths was
commissioned TO offer $1,000 for them.
"a noble offer" said the painter, IA
noble offer; but, no, l cannot part with
them. Impossible Mr.. Grifiiths.
greatly disappointed, TOOK his leave.
Turner ran after him. Tell those gen
tlemen," he said, that the nation will
most likely have the pictures after all"
Long before this Turner had matured
a purpose which continued To be his
dominant idea while life lasted. This
vas to bequeath TO his country a Tur-
ner gallery of pictures and TO amass
100000 TO build ana endow an asylum
for decayed artists. 1t was for this
great object that he denied himself all
pleasures that cost money, all luXurles.
Ills resolve, once nlauc, cOulu not DC
shaken. On one occasion he was Of
fered 100000 for the art treasures
locked UP in the den Give me the
key of the house, Mr.. Turner said II
Liverpool merchant, land here Is, the
money" no, thank you" replied
Turner. Il have refused Il better Of
fer" And that was true. BY his will he
bequeathed G140,000 To found an asy-
lum for poor artists born in England
and q magnificent art collection i'm his
country. This latter bequest was, how
ever, coupled with the condition that his
'Rise" and Fall of Carthage" should
be hung in the National gallery be-
tween Claude's Seaport" and Mill
Golden Penny.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
SIGNS r OLD.
In Ancient Greece They Were Used
ON Business ouses


The custom of marking Il business
house by means of a sign is of very
ancient origin. In the great cities Of the
east and among the ancient Egyptians
such a practice must have been unnec-
essary, as all trades were classified
and confined to certain sections of the
city. and then all wares We're exposed
e. full view. as they were displayed ia
oron booths.
The history of Grecian ~signboards IL
meager. yet the illusions of Arts
tophanes and Lucian TO signboards war
amt our belief in their use by the
Creeks. A%thenRus tells us. He huns
TIE well known sign in front OF his
house
Advancing TO Roman times. there H.
abundant evidence of signs. as the dis
coveries of Pompeii and EIeraculaneum
amply testify. In the Eternal City
some of the streets derived their names
from signs. just as hundreds of London
streets have been so named. The lio-
man street vicus Ursi pileati was
named from the sign, for. ms the name
indicates, it was the street OF The
Bear With the Hat on" But II was
not until late in the fifteenth century
that the custom gained q footing in
England. first of all among the taverns
and alehouses. Later came the neces-
sity of distinguishing between certain
shops brought about by tie fact that
the houses were not numbered and the
people could not read word signs
Julian King Calford in st. Nicholas.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
Valuable ShnreS.

The shares of the New River corpora
ton are the most valuable in the world,
and only fractions Of them usually
come upon the market. For many years
the shares We're sold ut e. apiece, and
indeed Charles /. reassigned his kings
shares to the company in return for a
perpetual annual payment of $500,
which sum, under the style Of the
kings clog" Is still paid. How bad
a bargain that was Is shown by the
dividend for years past having aver
aged over f2,000 per share, while a few
years ago n of the shares was sold
for E122,00 by public auction. The ac-
tuAl face value Of the shares is 400
London Standard.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
The Wilmington Giant.

The Long Man of Wilmington" pop.
ularly known as the wilmington Gil
ant" is a rude, gigantic figure of Il man
240 feet in length, with arms extended
upward and in each hand holding Il
long staff i'm a position parallel with the
body. The distance between these
slaves is 119 feet. The figure is well
proportional and reclines with both
legs outstretched. 1t lies carved on Il
bold bluff OF the downs facing the
weald and forms a conspicuous land
mark for miles round, especially when
the light falls -on ii ut a particular an
gle. There Is a similar figure ut Cernc
Abbas, in Dorsetshire, and, as both are
near religious houses, ii is supposed
that they may have been the work of
the inmates. The slope TO the south
Of the priory. on which the figure is
cut, bends downward ut an angle OF
fifty degrees, and the giant was orig
inally marked out by removing the turf
and exposing the glaring white chalk
beneath. In course of time the outlines
became grass grown and could only be
seen at certain seasons, so in 1873 Il
movement was set on foot for remark
ing the whole figure. This was success
fully accomplished, the outline being
plainly marked out by white bricks
London News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
, ouoiut PcopIe.

The heart Of Brittany changes,
but its face is rapidly losing many OF
It's prominent characteristics with the
leveling influence of tlie French repub-
lie. Ii is only far out of the beaten
track. now. or on special occasions. like
fetcs. that you see universally the cos
TUNES and Customs OF the old Armori-
can peninsula. Only an hours journey
from Quimpcr. the modernized chief
town OF Iinistere. and you are among
the Blgoudines. a people whose dress
suggests the Eskimos and Chinese,
whose faces are strongly Mongolian in
type and who in language, customs and
beliefs seem to have no relation with
the rest of France. More and more the
picturesque problem they present ID
coming to attract attention. Artists,
students and tourists alike are fasci-
mated by it.-Andrc Saglio in Century.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
A Weird

Some years ago the following strange
incident took place in a west end club:
There lay on the table in one Of the
rooms a list of members who had put
down their James for an approaching
house dinner. \ workman Oil a ladder,
who vas putting the finishing touches
to the decoration of the ceiling, let fall
a single tiny splash OF red paint, which
dropped on the first name IN the list
and obliterated it as il with the stroke
of a pen. Some of the members who
noticed this occurrence thought it a
very bad omen; others, like Hamlet, de-
fed augury. But, ~curiously enough,
the member whose name had thus been
struck out was taken i'll the neXt day
and died in the club on the night before
the dinner was TO have taken place
Golden Penny.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
ZIG Nases In Eaxar.

In Japan the nose is the only feature
which attracts attention. The nose de
termines the beauty or ugliness OF the
face, according as ii is big ,ev small.
This is probably due To the fact that
difference IN noses constitutes about
the only distinction between one .Japa-
nese face and another. The eyes are
invariably black. the check bones high
and the chin reccding. IN Japan a
lady who has a huge proboscis is al
ways Il great beauty and n %reigning
belle. There are Il fcw large noses
among ihc natives. and lucky is he or
she upon whom nature layislies one,
In ail japanese pictures representing
tho supposedly beautiful woman the
artist Invariably improves N nature
by dcpctip- this feature as abnormally
developed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
ENGLl3H AS SPOKEN.
1t Is In scotland, Says "A Critic. That
1t IL Heard at Its Best.

The query Where is the prettlest
English spoken is answered by a
writer in the London News, and,
strange to say, it is not in England. if
the writer be accepted as an authorita-
tive critic.
1t was the opinion of Sir Morell Mac
kenzie that those who should speak
English most musically were the i'll
habitants of Badenoch, shire.
Scotland. They had the reputation for
centuries of being perfect speakers OF
English; but, the writer says. he must
now 20 to the glens branching north
ward from the CALIFORNIAN canal 10 find
the language spoken in its purity.
'In the beautiful glen OF Moriston in
particular one has noted the most ex-
quisite speech it seems possible to i'm
agine. There is an almost tota! alb
sence of dialect and vocal disiigure-
ments, though IL quaint, delicately
marked rise and fall of the voice are
very family noticeable. The language
used is extraordinarily pure and free
from alien words, which is attributable
to the fact that the people acquire their
English direct from books and that SO
far dialect COMMUNICATIONS have not
penetrated the glen
The writer has a good word TO say
Of Celtic pronunciation of English gen
orally: The charm of Irish English is
undcniable. 1t has Il softness that APP
peals irresistibly to the ear, but uli-
fortunately it is linked with a certain
element of dialect which just places it
below perfection"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
Skec

The great event of the skceing clubs
of the western states is the jumping
contest. Only a skee runner knows the
sensation. Below, the endless hill
seems to stretch on forever into the cX-
panse Of the valley, the %steepness of the
incline lost in its whiteness. \ long
breath and you start. Faster and
faster you sc. till suddenly a fash Of
green in front. and the jump off is con-
ing. Crouching until your knees almost
touch your skees, with muscles strain
ed, out into the air you sail!
A strange lightness and feebleness
take possession of your limbs, and your
spirit shares the intoxication of soaring
into space. After long seconds you are
called back TO earth, first for half a
second softly, but then hard as iron
that seems to give you an electric
shock. You wabble helplessly from
right TO left; each foot seems glued to
the ground and still in the air, but you
have kept your balance and are shoot
ing forward. At'last you catch your
first breath. like a hiccough; then a
longer one. You are master of the
field, with n jump of n hundred feet or
more, and finish the victorious course
In a neatly rounded curve.-Country
Life In America.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07

When Daniel Webster's market man
had sued him for a long unpaid bill
and got his money he was so scared at
his temerity that he stopped calling at
the door for orders. The godllke Dan
lei asked him why n day, and the
man confessed that he supposed Mr..
Webster would never trade with him
again. oh" said Webster. sue me as
often as You like, but for heavens sake
don't starve me-" There was never a
time when the great man was not will
ing to owe as much as anybody was
willing to let him owe.-Springfield Re
publican.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
..spitc'' Tower.

spite fences or houses. but it is safe TO
say that quite the most costly and
elaborate enterprise of this kind in the
world is the famous Wainhouse tower.
in Yorkshire, England. It's builder,
john Edward Wainhouse, was the
m of q dyeworks in that valley.
Next TO his estate lay that Of nm Eng
fish lord. The two quarrcled. and
Walnhouse built the tower so that he
could always overlook bis n~eighbor's
grounds, although they lay much high
err than his own. The tower is nearly
300 feet high and cost $4,000 to build.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07

81 saw you ont walking with your
wife Yesterday"
81 didn't know you knew my wife"
81 don't"
''Then what makes you think it was
she that yon saw me With
You didn't appear to be saying any
thing to her."-Chicago Record-Herald
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
From Waubay Clipper.

from WauDay Clipper.
Floyd Taylor drove owe from Web
ster Wednesday.
Erv. Stage holds the track record
Webster to Waubay. Ask Lon Garrett.
w. II. Chard, of Webster, was here
invoicing the Williams Bros. stock Of
lumber.
Mark Ryder expects to 20 to Brook
ings the last part of the week TO take "A
course III engineering.
X. \. Fullmer was here from Web
ster Monday to visit his nephew, $. j.
leaving Tuesday morning for Mime.
apolis.
Clyde Herington and John Shultz
took a cutter ride to Webster Tuesday.
They report fine sleighing.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
Repartee.

4 Wifc-That's the third time you've
gteppcd on my dress. | wish you Were
not SO slow.
HuSlmnd-It It's You that are slow.
Wife Indeed. ] am not.
Husband Well. your train is behind.
~. a~hiacion Post.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-07
a FAMILY OF influence.

"He seems to be quite in important
parsonage now"
why, he always was, and so were
the other members Of his family"
Nonsense"
mot at all. He started as janitor In
q Nat. his brother IL a policeman, and
his sister In a cook lady."-Exchange.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-28
South Sea Island
Ship Builders

In the Marshall group of islands in
the South Seas is a little atoll of coral
known as Likieb Atoll. 1t is hun
dreds of miles away from any other
island, and the natives go half naked
like the other jewellers of the South
Seas. But they have learned one great
civilized art, just the same, and that Is
the art of building ships.
About forty years ago a Portuguese
sailor was. landed there from whal-
ing ship. When his vessel sailed away.
he remained behind, for the lazy
charm of the Pacific island life had
tempted him, and he had decided to
leave the restless sea and live the rest
of his days on the warm, sleepy
beaches, where no one worked.
Soon he married the daughter of
chief and became a trader. AFTER
many years an American captain WIS.,
tied the islands during a trading voy-
age in the South Seas, and when his
vessel shortly afterward became I'M
seaWorthy, he set to work on the
beach to build a new one.
The Portuguese whaler's two sons
helped him and learned a great deal
about the operation. The island had
0ne, nara WOOD OH IL, just the hlhu VI
timber that shipbuilders value, because
IL will not rot or waterlog readily.
The captain at last succeeded in fin
ishing a good forty-ton schooner and
sailed away in her.
Before long, the two boys had be-
gun to teach the natives something Of
what they had picked up, and soon, in
stead of the primitive canoes and dug
out that the Marshall Islanders have
been using for centuries, the folk Of
the Likieb Atoll began to build ca
noes made of carefully fashioned lum-
Der and pinned together with rivets.
Now there is a real shipyard on this
little speck lost in the wide Pacific.
A high roof under the palms on the
beach greets the mariner, and when he
lands he sees vessels on stocks, mod
ern tools lying around and everything
looking just as it does in shipyard
anywhere on the American coast;
only instead of workmen in overalls he
sees dark natives with hardly any
clothing.
The wood from which the knees and
timbers are cut comes from an island
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-28

the true state of my feelings you'd
have MYSTERIES"
Jimmy dear" she said, you're
funniest when you don't intend to be"
And particularly mirth-moving
when 1 ask you to marry me-" he sup
plemented with sarcasm.
Marry you. Jimmy? It's absurd"
she chuckled.
ooh, very" he said sourly. Beats
the funny papers all hollow, doesn't
it?"
She laughed od-naturedly.
Now, heart to heart confessions,
what put the idea in your head?" she
asked.
THE idea of marriage? Well" said
he, "in the first place, / have accumu-
lated sufficient years and sufficient eli
ents to have an establishment Of my
own. That's right! Giggle, now, just
want to reform and settle down."
HAS your past been so awfully
reckless?" she asked.
Did you know" he said darkly,
"I've actually been fishing Sundays?"
What monster you are!" she
laughed.
II wanted you to know the WHOLE"
he said.
GO on with your reasons for con-
templating matrimony," she command
ed, 'if you have any more"
1T is not good for man TO be alone"
Don't shift your responsibility,
she cautioned.
Pm not" said he. I'm merely sup
porting my argument. And with the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-28

, idea of matrimony once firmly inn
planted, you were the only girl"
Jimmy, please be as original as you
can. The only girl story did very
well in the dark ages"
you were the only girl l deared pro-
pose to-" he went on imperturbably.
She frowned and he chuckled.
Wed never get along together" sha
said.
"Why?" he questioned.
ooh, we couldn't agree. We'd tiff
horribly"
Just the point-just the point" he
declared gleefully What is mora
colorless than a life of perfect calmf
What more horrible than eternally
agreeing? OF course, we'd tiff. Think
of the gorgeous, lurd scintillating
tiffs we'd have! And have you ever
entertained the thought what unal-
Logged fun it win be making up againH
It's because you excel at-er-tiffings
that ] ask you to embark with me on
the matrimonial cruise"
She shifted rather scornfully.
you're not nice to-day" she an-
nounced.
"Going to try a little experimental
tiff right now?" he asked hopefully.
NO" she said shortly.
He rose and stood before her.
"Time to take my dolls and ga
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-28
THEIR ABSURD ROMANCE
BY JOHN B. OXFORD.

Mr. James Manton looked reproach-
fully at the girl, who, supported by a
half-dozen sofa cushions on a corner
of the divan. was regarding him with
open amusement.
Il knew you'd laugh" he said with
conviction in his tones. I'D have said
all this long ago, if 1 hadn't been
afraid you'd take it as something high
ly humorous"
Now, Jimmy" she demonstrated,
you mustn't be angry. If you are,
you'll have to take your dolls and go
home"
Il wasn't angry" he said, "only-
only"
only maids that it?" she question
ned with provoking solictude.
NO" he said. II desire to be, but
can't"
Such a lovely disposition you have"
she Knocked.
Angelic" he admitted modestly.
She made a quaint little grimace.
What on earth made you ask me?"
she said.
I'm light of the humor there seems
to be in the very simple avowal I have
just made" said he sardonically, II
fear if 1 undertook to reveal to you
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-28

on the western side of the lagoon. 1t
is called kauoe and is extremely hand
some looking much like black wal
nut. 1t has the valuable property Of
growing harder as it grows older and
makes fine vessels.
Tools-all of them of the best kind
wood for spars, etc, are shipped to
Likieb Atoll now from New Zealand
and the boats that are turned out in
the savage island have been compared
with American and English built ves-
sells that have touched at the place and
found to be excellent i'm every respect.
The savage ship builders have a
queer scale of prices. If chief wants
a schooner of say, twelve TONS built
for him, they charge him 81 900 for il;
but if poorer person wants the same
kind of a vessel they will charge
many hundred dollars less. They do
this quite openly, and explain il by
saying that the chief, being rich, can
afford to pay more than a poor per-
son for the same thing.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-28

home, imagine" he said. II regret
my deep and abiding emotions aren't
reciprocated. Besides,," he added.
gloomily, I'm horribly afraid of the
other girls 1 know, and there isn't one
of them can hold candle to you in
the tiff line. Bess."
Perhaps the practice you've had
this afternoon may help you" she sug-
%aSted.
Possibly" he returned. "Am I
really so ridiculous as a Lothario?'
quite So" she assured him cheer
fully.
''Thus endeth our romance" he re-
marked, picking up\ his coat.
Romance? How absurd" she said.
Exactly. NOur absurd romance" he
corrected. I'VE part as friends, 1 trust"
"Of course. you idiot"
Goodnight. Bess. Shall 1 coms
round tomorrow afternoon"
IF you'er not too busy proposing
Its hard to give you up" he said
with comic plaintiveness. Suddenly he
turned to her. $50 I don't think L shall.'
Indeed" she tainted him.
Wen end this absurd romanca
with a ridiculous wedding" said he.
His words were light enough, but
before something in his eyes her own
battered. The telltale color surged to
her cheeks. Her merry mockery had
he'd.
Nonsense! We really would tiff
horribly" she protested
And we'd make it up beautifully"
he declared.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-28
.RRssDeNr
HAot.eYs

of those men who did not want con-
sentative, but who held that Hadley
was not the right man for the place.
Then there was the outright Hadley
party.
The names of scores of leading
educators and other prominent men
were suggested for the presidency.
The executive of this college and that
was named. But ne is not Yale
man; we do not want to go outside the
faculty and the alumni for a new presi-
dent" said all three parties. One we'll
known Yale man after another was
proposed. "He is too LIBERAL" said
one party. HE is too conservative"
declared another. "He is a preacher"
was a standing objection, "and there
is well-founded conviction that the
next president should be our first
secular head" Only once were the
members of the new corporation any
where near agreeing. That was on
William H. Taft, the new Secretary of
War. But the corporations divided into
three well-drawn parties again when
it became known that Judge Taft's re-
ligious views were not orthodox.
All this time Hadieys name was be-
fore the corporation. Its members
could not get out of hearing of it.
They were repeatedly told that Had
icy was d ldy llldl1, lIlC OlAlJ l. cIlO AAAtlu
generally we'll known, a man who had
shown business ability in the manage
ment Of his private affairs, and Yale
needed a business man to direct it.
Alumni associations, especially those
in the West, constantly sent in petit
tions praying for his election; numer-
Gus individual communications called
for his election, as did also influences
indirectly connected with Yale, and
the undergraduate body was almost
a unit for him.
Students Wanted Him.
''Why are you students in favor of
Hadley?" a member of the corpora
ton who opposed him asked of his
nephew.
"Wen," replied the boy, Professor
Hadley may not be much for looks
and he may be gawky, but he's got a
dandy mind"
~Hadley's opponent turned to his
companion.
"Hadley is in the air." he said. 1--WE
can't get away from him.
That was the view taken by all
those opposed to Hadley, except
Dwight and his followers, when, just