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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

''It pays sometimes to know little
of the family history of your clients"
said a business woman the other day.
1T would have saved me from making
a blunder II | had known the relations
that formerly existed between two
men who met In my office. Their bust
ness was practically OF the same ma
ture, and was obliged to leave
them together for few minutes while
attended to some telephone calls
thought II would be more agreeable
II | introduced them. They responded
rather stiffiy, but ! put that down to
temperament and went into my inner
office. When | returned quarter of
an hour later the younger man dis
patched his business as quickly as pos
sible and got out The other said:
~ was not aware that you were ac-
quainted with my -brother-in-law.'
'Brother-in-lawg ! asked stupidity.
"'Yes. My sister got divorce from
him last summer Brooklyn Eagle.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

or all known meats veal Is the hard
est to digest, requiring FIVE hours and
thirty minutes. The Italians are a
happy people. They are healthy and
hopeful Their favorite meat Ia veal.
Veal I'm the New York markets must
weigh exactly 100 pounds to the car
cass TO be perfect. That Is the stand
ard OF quality and price. All sorts Of
tricks are resorted to to bit the mark
precisely. The question Is. What is
best for the human race. food that re-
quires long time to digest or a short
time? Roast beef Is digested in three
hours. We Americans are great eat
ers Of pork. which is nearly as hard to
digest as veal. requiring five hours
and fifteen minutes. We are nation
OF dyspeptics, revealing I'm fresh bread.
which takes three hours and fifteen
minutes. China and Japan live on
rice. which digests In one hour.-New
York Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20
why ". 1s.v. On. sided Men.

Faculties must be exercised or they
will not grow Nature is too good an
economist TO allow us to keep any
faculty or function which we do not
employ. We can have just what we
use and that will constantly increase.
Everything else will be gradually TAX
en- away from us. Man becomes strong
and powerful and broad just In pro
portion to the extent and healthfulness
OF the activity of his faculties, and II
must not be one sided. not an exercise
OF one or two faculties or one set Of
faculties, or the man will topple over.
Balance In life comes from the health
full exercise Of all the faculties. One
reason why we have 80 many one sid
ed meu in this country Is because
they pursue one idea. exercise one
side OF their nature. and OF course
they cannot retain their balance. This
Ia one Of the curses OF specialties.
They are good thing for the race.
but death TO the individual who pur-
sues his speciality at the expense OF
the development Of the all around
man.-O. :. Marden In Success Maya
zine
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

Eggs are current coin In Mayo, Ker
~. Donegal and Leitrim. They are
everywhere received over the counter
in payment for tea. sugar. meal. Oil
bread. tobacco. patent medicines and
general haberdashery. Accounts are
kept open and goods supplied on credit
in eggs Predatory agents travelling
through the wilds with worthless teas
itinerant thinkers and musicians, hawk
ers Of tinsel jewelry and holy pictures
all accept this current coin. generally
unloading II at the nearest railway
town.-Dublin Lady OF the House. i.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

1t is said that Hon A. q. Somers, of
Strouston, who was speaker of the
South Dakota house Of representatives
for two terms, is in the hospital at
WATERFOWL dangerously sick with blood
poisoning, the result of slight acct
dent not long ago.
The Dakota Central Telephone COM
pany has presented petition to the
city council of Aberdeen asking per-
mission to place its wires in the bust
ness part of town underground. The
council will undoubtedly pass an ordi-
nance governing the subject The CON-
pany intends to expend at least $50 900
in improvements on it's local system.
The Lead Commercial club has taken
up the idea of getting better transpor-
tation accommodations into Lead. At
present this road runs only narrow
gage passenger tram between Dead
wood and Lead The reason assigned
is the steep grade and short curves on
this road. A committee was appointed
to call upon President Hewitt and find
out what could be done to improve
present conditions.
j. G. Vandagrift, farmer living
south of Huron. was driving in from
the country Saturday afternoon, an
automobile frightened his team and in
turning corner upset the surrey to
which they were hitched. The whiffle
tree broke Immediately and let the
horses loose. Mrs. Vandagraft's arm
was broken and one of the children was
badly injured The whole family was
then carried back home by the automo-
bile and doctor called to look after
the injured ones,
The state capitol commission consist
ing of Gov Elrod, Auditor Halliday,
Land Commissioner Bach and State
Secretary Wipf, met for the first time
Friday and organized, with Gov Elrod
as chairman, and Auditor Halliday, sec
rotary. They decided to ask for bids
for the sinking of an artesian well on
the state grounds, for water and gas,
ana to visit the Montana capitol build.
ing, the last Of this month, that build
ing being considered about the same as
the one desired in this state. No
further action will be taken until after
the Montana trip.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

When 1t is considered how old the
worlds civilization is II seems surpris-
ing that man should have only so very
recently learned how to make fire easi.
ly. The primitive flint and steel meth.
cd is practically but OF the last gen
GRAFTON. and that does not appear so
very far ahead Of friction with wood.
1t is not astonishing. on the whole.
that sayages should commonly sup
pose that fire really exists in wood
and stone since 1t is from these every
day materials that they secure por-
ton OF Prometheus' precious theft
from heaven.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

The phrase ITO sham Abraham" was
coined In Bedlam. or Bethlehem hospi-
tai. where there was at one time an
Abraham ward, the inmates Of which
upon certain days were permitted to
of the hospital. These mendicant lu-
natlcs were known as abraham men"
aud their success I'm invoking the pity
OF the charitable was such that they
had many unlicensed imitators. who.
when discovered. were said ito have
slammed Abraham"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20
Pulling Ostrich Feathers.

A man who runs an ostrich farm.
asked the other day as to the method
Of gathering the feathers, admitted
that they were pulled out Of the birds
once in every eight months. Was the
process painful!
"Well,' he replied, 'about equal to
pulling out your eyeteeth.' A good
many ladies who wear ostrich feath-
ers do 80 In the belief that they are
thereby serving the cause OF humanity.
As matter Of fact, they are encour
aging the most cruel and barbarous
torture which man can infiict upon q
bird.-Sporting and Dramatic News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

Elderly Woeer-I hope you are not
impressed by the silly sentimentalists
who hold that because you've married
once you ought not to marry againi
Pretty widow-Don't let that worry
you, dear. I've no such prejudice. My
own dear mother was married three
times. and only hope that I'm all
things may follow her example.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

A new civilization is holding up new
and better prizes. but he who would
win must have a better equipment
and finer training than the past re-
qufred. II the prizes are greater than
ever before the preparation also must
be greater. He only who Is prepared
for his chance can hope to succeed
Success Magazine.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

The comptroller the currency has
issued certificate allowing the First
National Bank, of South Shore, to begin
business The capital stock is is S25 900
This is conversion from the First
State bank of South Shore
Frank Horton, one of the field clerks
of the state land department, who has
been in that position for two years, has
resigned, and n. NJ Hanson, of Hurley
who was journal clerk of the senate at
the last session, will take his place.
Judge Gaffy, after hearing arguments
in the Walworth county-seat contest,
dismissed the proceedings, which sends
the records from Selby back to Bangor,
but allowed stay of sixty days for
appeal. Selby failed to get majority
but took possession, of the records and
if the supreme court sustains the lower
court, they will have to be moved
back.
The town marshal of Beresford, SD ;,
started for Elk Point with Harry Cum
ningham and Walter Adams, one day
last week, they ere charged with run
ming gambling house. Cunningham
asked for permission to go up stairs in
the hotel to change his clothes. He
escaped out of second-story window.
On the train Adams climed out of the
toilet room when the train was running
forty miles an hour.
George Beaver, the Sully county pris-
oner who is in the Jail at Pierre, charged
with assault with intent to kill Albert
Hoadley, of Minneapolis, ATTEMPTED to
tamper with the lock at the Jail last
week, and as result was placed in his
sell, where he is sulking and refusing to
eat. Jailor Logan had another such
case last year, and it took long time
to induce the sulky prisoner to again
take his meals. Just how long Beavers
will hold out is question.
Henry Robertson, a mixed blood
Sisseton Indian, was arraigned before
Judge Garland on an indictment con-
tanning three counts charging HIM with
having, by threats, offers of money and
ponies and by other means, attempting
to influence witness in the case of
Henry Goebel, indicted for selling
liquor to Sisseton Indians, not to appear
in the case OK to so alter his testimony
that it would not injure the defendant
Robertson pleded guilty. He will be
sentenced later.
While efforts are being made to secure
suspension of the cattle dipping regula-
tons in South Dakota this year, there
is general movement to comply with
the dipping law CT the last legislative
session, all but few counties having
selected their county inspectors, under
the provisions of the law. Stockmen
who have tried the plan announce their
intention to dip their cattle every
season, regardless of regulations, from
this time on. The dipping kills vermin
and gives the cattle better start in the
spring Several stockmen who tried 1t
last year say the difference ia the grouth
in the cattle in one season between
those which were dipped and those that
were passed more than paid for the
expenses.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

There is one place Vim ship where
the yoysger may be at rest This writ
er discovered II during mid-Atlantic
storm. when he went down TO the bath
room, tumbled into warm sea bath
and foated. The vessel was perform
ing the most amazing antics. but the
water In the bath kept Its usual gravi-
ty. and the bather fioated with a smile
upon its bosom.-London Chronicle.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

YES" said the cheerful idiot. ''there
ia one social chasm that politeness can
not bridge"
"what. for instancey" asked the tired
citizen in the hope that the idiot was
threatened with lucid Interval.
Sarcasm" replied the cheerful IDIOT.
laughing ghoulishly .-Baltimore Amer
lean.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

Els genius hereditary" asks scien-
tidc journal.
An editor replies: I'VE have not time
to investigate the subject. but we are
inclined to think that II Ia. At all
events. our youngsters are wonderfully
smart"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

"It took you an awfully long time 70
pull that fellows TOOTH" said the as-
sistant.
Eyes " answered the dentist grimIyi
'he married the girl loved-"-Detrott
Tribune.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

Mrs. Dobson-Bridget told me she
saw Mr.. and Mrs. Hobson going "a
church this morning. wonder what's
the matter7 Mr.. Dobson-Why. either
Dir. Hobson has had another attack Of
heart trouble or Mrs. Hobson has
new hat.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

NEWS1 STATE NOI ES.
Sidney Whiting strangled to death on
piece of meat at Bonesteel, last week.
Deadwood is planning $50, 900 opera
house to be built by public subscription.
Gregory county has let the contract
for eleven new steel bridges TO be placed
on the highways.
Mrs. Chas Nc Waters, of Marion, had
the misfortune to fell from a ladder,
last Friday and broke her forearm.
The first work on the new capitol has
begun, the sidewalk has been moved
away aud the graders are at work
+. Hendrickson, assistant in the state
insurance department, will about July
l, quit his present position and go to
California
The commissioner of insurance has
admitted the Empire State Surity COM
pany, of Brooklyn, N. Y, to do bust
ness in this state.
Congressman Barke, Friday, appoint
ed Wells Alger, of Pierre, to a cadet
ship at Annapolis, he will take his exam
ination ON June &c.
Governor Elrod has appointed DR.. w.
E. Moore, of Tyndall, member of the
state board of health to succeed DR.. A.
Peterman, of Parker.
United States Commissioner Babcock
at Sisseton has received orders to pre-
pare pay rolls for the payment of $780,
600 to Sisseton Indians
Land Commissioner Bach was busy
all last week affixing his name to school
land leases and says it will take another
week to finish the work.
Articles Of incorporation were filed
with the secretary of state Friday, for
the Farmers Mutual Telephone COM
pany, of Gregory county, with head
quarters at Fairfax, and capital of
5000.
H. Daniel Webster, a Sioux Falls
young man, is now instructor of
sculptural art at the Art Students
League in New York, the best art
school in America.
Indian Commissioner Lupp has issued
instructions to the Indian agent at the
Cheyenne Indian reservation, in South
Dakota, to have the pay rolls of the
Indians in readiness so that 800, 900
provided for in the act passed by the
last session of congress for the purchase
of certain lands from the Cheyenne
Indians may be paid to them May l..
The Indians on the different agencies
in the western part of the state have
formed cattle associations of their cwn.
conducted on about the same lines az
the associations of the white men. They
make roundup on the reservation
alone each year to look after their own
cattle, which are growing in numbers
every year, and while at that work take
mp trespassing stock on the reservation
which are held for damages, or IL not
claimed within certain time sold for
the benefit Of the Indians. They are
getting ready for their annual roundup
work on the different reservations and
soon will be out riding the range.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

Rather colo blooded person, Isn't
her
''Cold blooded! Say. that fellow can
attend . ball game without getting
excited. New York Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

There ID q strength Of quiet endur
ance a. significant Of courage a. the
most daring feats Of proves. TUCKER
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-20

Sidney Whiting strangled to death on
a piece of meat at Bonesteel, last week.
Deadwood is planning $50, 900 opera
house to be built by public subscription.
Gregory county has let the contract
for eleven new steel bridges to be placed
on the highways.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-11
Answering Lawson.

The answering Of Lawson BY Denis
Donohoe Of the New York Commercial
has proceeded to chapter three, and is as
full Of withheld and promised sensations
as Lawson himself. The replies Of MI.
Donohoe are better written than those
Of the Boston Vesuvius, in that they are
well arranged and more clear, but they
lack that element Of bravado that made
Lawson's earlier articles readable.
Mr.. Donohoe seems to be travelling to-
ward a denouement in which he will ex-
pose Lawson as an individual who is on
the make, who buys stocks when he adj
vises others to sell, and who has a regu-
lar s system" Of SHINING the market.
Mr.. Lawson also has his uvotaries, =
who are mainly ticket tonts who would
not be permitted to sit in the exchange.
One of these is 6 Diamond Jack =
Roach, a horsy sport who was an in
innate Of Lawson when the perfumed
exquisite of Boston ran a bucketshop in
Providence, r. /. This is not SO far
back as Bill Nye's Etruscan bucketshop
on the Pincian hill, but it is far enough
from the present issue.
Mr.. Donohoe intimates that Lawson
was concerned in the Munroe operations
thru Roachs Roach was one of the
Munro underwriters and with him
were associated Dave Bucklin, one
Iof Canfeld's gambling managers, and
1sH onest !, ohm Kelly, gambler, sport
and Tamlnanyite. ,Donohoe,s object
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-11
Saturday E ve1lirlg,

comes in part from him, It may yet be
doubted if it has a basis in fact,
Rather it is, that, from it's grapevine
private wire communication with the
mighty capitalistic aggregation that
has come to be SO potent q factor for
negative. influence in our legislative
halls, the street knows that nothing will
be done.
The senate has been called the rich
mans club and a. number of other
things. Perhaps it may come in time
to be called the Wall street buffer.
Between the people and the enactment
Of legislation hostile to corporate in
terests, stands the upper house. An in
fuence for good, in the prevention Of
measures too radical, it may in time
degenerate into an instrument for sup
preston of legislative remedy for the
people, if indeed the degenerative pro.
cess has not already begun.
Certain it is that the big bull argu.
ment Of today, the argument upon
which stock prices are expected to rise
to new high levels a little later on, is
the fact that the member Of the senate
who is supposed to be closest to the
financial combination of greatest
weight has gone abroad, leaving woro
that nothing is to be done during his
absence and that doubtless nothing will
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-11
MN the Long Boo.

o. will spring again little Charles shoot the
birds?
The States the Galapagos This either
disease bunch Indians presumably the latter
you mediang the dropping empty
on the next lot, cut it out It's wrong!
somebody Duluth estimate this coming
springs wheat cropq
century this
this remarked before
genuine fodder Of this country.
Austin Minn fad party.
try ladies Wednesday afternoon, each
her fad Mrs r. L. Johnson, who
perhaps the best She filed with
Of laces weigy
with bargain
Of the ladies representing their fad
babies II that should
knobby attire of bureau fad to be old
What your young
thinks that
reached the bewixt and betune where it necessary have your
features oned out by the modesto
cold bed with old
beauty is not marred by single line, age having
''written wrinkles that brow''
nevertheless haunted thought that sometime
where somehow wrinkle The world already divided
classes
wrinkes9 she asks Of other she has What
you ask 90, nothing much. Only she has
But really wrinkles the result of Nature
nodded thoughts
scous? Can into lines of beauty
We wrinkles but the right kind
sleep IN mask with whipped cream for a'corTectve A
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-11


Senators Eberhart of Alankato, Lay
bourn Of Duluth and Peterson Of Moor
head, all voted aye and helped to load
down the bill. This division in the
ranks Of the university and normal
school forces cannot be nything but
disastrous. They should stand together
for the single proposition. It ought to
win on its merits, and experiences has
shown that it can win III no other way.
i Senator Peterson, one Of the normal
school repre- sentatives, has given notice
Of a motion for reconsid Grafton Of the
Peachey amendment when the bill is
taken up again next Thursday morn
ing. It is to be hoped that all who
wish to see the university and normal
schools put on an independent basis
will join with him and send the bill to
the house in such shape that it can be
adopted. The difference between the
original bill and the amended bill means
the emasculation Of the board Of con-
troll act. The board Of control is a
fixed institution, and the temper of the
Minnesota house will not brook any.
thing designed to cripple it's real use.
fulness.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-11
Minneapolis and River Improve
ment,

On another page of today's jour
the problem of upper Mississippi
river Improvement is stated in interest
ing and convincing fashion by A. L..
Croker. Some Of the facts he pre-
sents will be eye-openers to those who
read them. Too many progressive
business men of Minneapolis have dis
missed the subject of river navigation
as being "out Of date' and imprac-
ticable. 1t is well known, however,
that railway improvement has never
shut out water transportation where a
suitable channel is found, and the mod
ern tendency is to use both in conjunc-
ton. With the Mississippi open for barge
transportation from Minneapolis to the
sea, an enormous bulk Of slow moving
traffic would be handled at mere trife
of cost compared with the rail haul,
for as Mr.. Croker says, the river has
no fixed charges to pay. ~.
e Imagine four-track railroad from
Minneapolis to New Orleans, maintained
by the government and free to all who
could supply engines and cars What
II CnanRo IL WOulO WOfh LII IidHSpoEta-
ton rates, and what an industrial cen
ter it would build up in Minneapolis.
Yet the scheme of river improve
ment worked out by the government en-
gineers would give the city a free
outlet, slower than the railroad, but
just as useful for freight not requir-
/. ing speedy delivery. The deepening of
the upper river channel, with the com
! pletion of the. two locks and dams be-
I low the city, will bring barge naviga-
/ ton to our doors. 5
The plans for this great work are
not chimerical. They will take a
] decade, perhaps, for completion. That
is all the more reason for activity now
The far-seeing business man prepares
for future contingencies. The decline
of the lumber industry. and the trans
portation perils that have threatened
the Touring mills warn Minneapolis not
to neglect this cheap and practicable
outlet. IS