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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

A New York girl has had her lover
arrested because he kissed her too
much" One of the first things a
lover should learn is to kiss the girl
Just enough.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

Prof Henry Van Dyke is quoted as
saying IF l can persuade men to see
the difference between Shakespeare.s
writings and Fables in Slang Think
] win accomplish great task We
do hope, however, that Prof. Van DYKE
ready said. r shall accomplish"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

Joseph IT. Choate says the oppor-
tunities for young men are greater
than ever. This may be So but what
about the opportunities for mon who
ore over forty-five?
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

A German savant says the bite of
pretty girl is as deadly as rattle
snakes. If any pretty girl wants to
be shown, we offer ourself as a sac.
rifice in the cause of science.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

A New York girl has invented
machine by which she claims one may
count million dollars minute. John
w. Gates will no doubt hail this as
real boon.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

The English novelist who commit.
ted suicide in order to advertise her
new book set an example that the
most enthusiastic literary aspirant
will hesitate to follow.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17
PREACHER CAPTURES THIEF.
chases Man Who Robbed Poor 30,
and Pounds Him into Submission.

and Pounds Him into Submission.
st. Louis, Nov. 12.-After chase of
two blocks and prolonged struggle
during which he used his fists 10 such
good effect that his victim cried
enough, Rev. FIR. John r. Watson. as
sistant pastor of st. Matthews church.
yesterday captured a man who he
claims robbed the church's poor box
OF $21. The arrested man gave his
name as Castmirelwich and his. homo.
rs Chicago. He admitted the theft.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

The total profits of baseball this
season are estimated at 100000. We
wonder what the total profits were in
the other great American national
game.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17


| toms house and not taken to the exec
utive mansion. They will go through
! the regular routine and will he exam
| ined by the authorities without any
representative from the White House
| being present.
Criminal.
The Sandborn bank, Il branch of the
German National bank OF Vinccnnes,
Ind. was blown to pieces and robbed
of $4,000.
Judge S. f. Smith has called grand
jury to meet at Owosso, Mich, Dec. 4.
Rumors of corruption in county af-
fairs will be investigated.
Arnold " Peterson. an American
dentist, lately arrived in Winnipeg, is
| under arrest charged with burglariz-
ing w N. Browns fur store on Oct. 20.
Garfield Hines was shot and killed
by his wife at Cairo, III. Mrs. Hines
was arrested and placed i'll Jail She
says her husband was attacking her
with a knife.
Arthur e. Clark. theatrical man
ager who has been directing the re-
hearsals OF the company which will
present the extravaganza, "'rhe Gin
gerbread Man." committed suicide in
New York
S. w. Sangster, who was recently
arrested in Kansas following charges
that he had sent poisoned candy to
his wife and daughter, was arraigned
in court at Chicago. He pleaded not
guilty and in default of bail was taken
to Jail
The federal grand jury at Moscow.
Idaho, engaged in ferretins out land
frauds, has completed it's work and
was discharged. Eight indictments
were returned, but United States At
torney Ruicl1 declines to give out the
The grand jury of Marshall county.
Ind, has returned sixty indictments
against cigarette smokers. Plymouth,
the seat of Marshall county, is the
home of Senator Parks, author of the
anti-cigarette law, and he will prose-
grand jury.
Found guilty of manslaughter, be-
cause his careleSsness resulted in a
collision on the Boston & Maine rail
way at Fitchburg, Mass, on July 3, in
which three men were killed, G. e.
Powers, railway conductor, was SEN
fenced to eighteen months in the
house of correction.
Everett B. Thomas, former supervis-
or of the government forest reserves
in Southern California, has been IN
dicted by the United States grand jury
at Los Angeles, charged with having
presented false and fictitious claims
for expenses to the secretary of the
interior during his incumbency.
A sensation has been caused by the
arrest at Hampton, Ia, of M. G. Ogle,
agent of the Iowa Central, charging
larceny 1t is claimed that he was
implicated in the wholesale theft of
coal from the railroad, and it is said
that prominent citizens of the town
will be involved, and that other ar.
rests will follow.
John Cummings, arrested in Denver,
has been identified as Jack Havlin,
wanted in ST. Paul on the charge of
having murdered, Policeman Charles
Mayer on the night of Feb. 1, 1902.
Cummings escaped from Jail at Gree
ley, Col, few nights ago. He is be-
ing held on charge Of highway rob-
berry.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

The Empress of the Sahara" is
singing songs in German variety halls.
The Lord only knows what has be-
come OF Emperor" Jacques I.abaudy.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

Three bears have been killed In Du-
iuth, but the dispatches do not say
what stocks will be affected by their
denise.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

The people who have been accus-
toned to speak of the Atlantic ocean
as the big pond" now call the Pana-
ma canal ditch.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

An American who tried to introduce
the quick lunch in London has failed.
Perhaps he made the mistake of hav-
Ing coffee instead of tea on tap.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

revolution broke out the other day
IN Korea, but it luckily happened that
forty or fifty Japanese soldiers were
on hand to put it down.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

The Pittsburg embezzler who put
$4,000 in large bills into the fire
aoubtless thought he had money to
burn
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

II men ever do the cooking, at
least two proverbs will have to be re-
vlsed to the sort that father used to
make" and feed the dear"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

Statistics show that America makes
mere barrels than any other country.
And bigger ones, too. Look at Rookie
teller's and Carnegie's.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17
Fresh
Washington.

washington.
President Roosevelt informed del
egation of residents of Oklahoma that
he would recommend in his fOrthcom-
ing message to congress single state
hood for Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory.
Postmaster General Cortelyou will re-
main at the head of the postofiice de-
Dartment and will not be transferred
to the treasury next February when
Secretary Shaw retires. Several in
fluential persons have requested the
president to keep Mr.. Cortelyou at the
head of the postoflice department.
Notice was received at the George
town customs house that the foreign
gifts consigned to Miss Alice Roose-
Welt were to be examined at the Gus
toms house and not taken to the exec
utive mansion. They will go through
the regular routine and will he exam
ined by the authorities without any
representative from the White House
being present.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

castro is at present endeavoring TO
conquer the American language. He
may tackle America itself next.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

An Omaha negro has trained his
dogs to rob hen roosts, but water
melons will have to be lifted" in the
same old way.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

1t Is difficult for mere man to pick
nut the sound chestnuts from the
wormy ones, but bright-eyed little Mr.
Squirrel can do it every time.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

Nature is pretty wise, after all.
When she gave Alaska its climate she
also filled it with coal.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

Somebody suggests there is no dis
pute about the sex of Lucifer. This
takes the angel cake.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17
General.

General.
William Tod Otto, former district
court Judge of Indiana, friend of Lin
coin, educator and author, is dead at
his home at Philadelphia, aged SO
years.
w. D. Vandiver, state superintend-
ent of insurance Of Missouri, suspend
ed the certificate of authority of the
New York Life Insurance company to
do business in that state.
The United States army transport
Sherman sailed from San Francisco
for the Philippines with the Fifteenth
infantry and companies l and J of the
Fourth cavalry, which are being trans
ferred from Monterey to Camp Kelley,
on the island of Mindanao.
Preliminary figures indicate that
100000 tons of iron ore we're shipped
from the upper lake ports in the month
of October, bringing the total for the
season beyond 29,5OO,0OO. Shipments
this month are expected to bring the
total for the year to 100000, which
will exceed any previous yearly rec
ord by about 100000 tons.
In the death of Mrs. Alma Hake at
Hanover, Pa. a nurse sacrificed her
life for her patient. She was nursing
Mrs. Albert Rodgers and her babe,
when kerosene lamp exploded in the
bedroom. Unable to open the win
dows, the heroic nurse picked up the
burning lamp and carried 1t down
stairs. She was SO terribly burned
that death resulted soon afterward.
Neighbors removed the mother and
child and saved the house.
Keyed to such high pitch of excite.
ment after eleven hours of work. I'M
der trying and exciting conditions,
that his heart gave way, Matthew
Kurtz, aged %, Republican election in
spector of New York, died suddenly.
Kurtz was small, slight young man,
and the work was too much for him.
At meeting of the chapel of print.
ers in the composing room of the Bal.
timore News Office, Prince Louis Of
Battenberg was elected member, it
having been developed during his Wis.
it to- the office of that newspaper that
his highness learned the printing art
when he was a young man.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17

Castro gets more ultimatums than
picture postal cards and his wall-space
is limited.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17
Accidental Happenlna..

A fire in the lumber yards of Nc
Phee & McGinty at Denver destroyed
lumber and cement to the value of
$S5, 900.
Fire at Los Angeles completely de
stroyed the Bimin bath and santar-
ium in the west end of the city, en-
failing loss of $250,000.
One person, the engineer, was killed
and six were injured by headon col
lision of trains on the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton railway in the western
part of Troy.
Fire which broke out in the Ameri-
can house at Mauch Chunk, Pa, partly
destroyed that structure. Guests We're
compelled to flee in their night cloth
ins. Loss $25,ooO
Five persons were killed and sew
eral were fatally injured in a wreck
on the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western railroad about ten miles
south of Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Jacob Haugh, his wife and son jesse
were cremated in fire which destroy
ed their cottage, eight miles north of
Dayton, Ohio, Oliver Haugh, another
son, was seriously burned and was
taken to the hospital.
The Southern Pacific south-bound
coast limited passenger train dashed
into a train of tourist cars at Santa
Margarita station, fourteen miles
north of San Luis Obispo, Cal. Nine
teen people were hurt, several of them
seriously and two probably fatally.
William McManaway saved a spe-
cial train on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad from crashing through a
bridge over the Oakaw river at Pana
ILL.,, and but few minutes later fell
sixty feet while helping to repair the
structure receiving probably fatal in
iuries.
Mrs. f. Douzuk, wife of progress
sive Galician farmer, at Valley River,
near Douphin, Man, was found dead
at her home. The woman's death was
the result of gunshot wound. From
what can be learned Mrs. Douzuk S
death was accidentally caused by her
Youngest son, aged 10.
While running under full head of
steam, freight engine was blown to
atoms by the explosion of the boiler,
near Ennis, Tex. Practically the entire
train was derailed, seven of the cars
being ditched and four of them totally
destroyed. Two men were killed and
one probably fatally injured.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

would have been easy Of accomplish
ment.
He came out on the next street, di-
rectly opposite station Of the ee-
waited. Without reason, but follow
ing the instinct that had 50 often led
him to his quarry, he climbed the
stairs, passing on tip-toe the ticket
chopper DOING in his warm booth. a
stylishly-dresse young man paced the
platform, waiting for train south,
Cold as 1t was, he carried his over
coat on his arm, swinging It carelessly.
Jim stood directly in the mans path,
at the head of the stairs, and waited
until the coat brushed against him.
Then giving it a quick twist with both
hands he tossed it lightly over the
rail.
The man gave a cry OF astonish-
ment, but of what avail? There were
none to hear. He was alone on the
brilliantly-lighted platform. For In
one bound Jim was down the first
fight Of stairs, and ia another was on
the street. Ten minutes later, after a
mile of quick and devious travelling,
he descended into a foul-smelling
basement and handed the coat over to
'sMother Isaacs' for inspection. IL
was a beautiful broadcloth, silk lined,
with fur collar and cuffs. II was
worth ten dollars, at least. But the
Jewess sneered in his face, and he
was glad to take the six silver dollars
she flung upon the counter, 1t was
little enough, but 1t would help. Three
dollars must 60 for rent, and two
more for coal and oil. He was deter
mined that Alice should be comfort
able. That left a dollar-hardly
enough for a chicken, much less tur-
key. And the trimmings2 He thought
about 1t for some time. There was
only one thing to do--swipe the tur-
key from aAstore.
Like all criminals Jim was superstl-
tious, and in the past few weeks he
had encountered many bad omens.
Caution was a part of his very fibre
But be could not dlsappoint the little
girl. For Alice he must run the risk.
After an hours tramp he found the
pIace-a market store with a row OF
hooks outside, on which hung q doz-
en- turkeys. He came boldly up the
street, selected the last bird in the
row. and without a break in his gait
passed into the darkness, the bulky
burden thrust under his coat.
1t was q raw winters night
The moon shone at intervals through
scurrying clouds. Enough snow had
fallen to whiten the streets. Jim
llmped toward home, chuckllRg with
delight. In an alley he stopped to
wrap thesbird in a sheet Of paper
begged Tor that purpose. 1t would di-
vert suspicion, for he had still to get
the trimmings: and these he pur-
chased at q small store close to the
house. Thus weighted, and with a
light heart, he climbed the stairs and
entered the dark room. Alice was
asleep, but when be had made O light
be Weakened her, and with Juggling
heart strings watched her shining
eyes as she inspected the supplies. 1T
is q hne bird, be said glibiy. n se-
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08
Nassaehuse rs MiIHnersWarnea

The crusade against the killing OF
song birds for millinery purposes has
been waged for years, yet the vanity
of women In this matter OF personal
adomment has proven invulnerable
against diatribes Of reformers, ridicule
OF men. and the pleadings Of the hui
manitarian. Each fall the hats Of the
feminine sex have been adorned by
the plumage of some oe our most
beautiful songsters, In Massachu-
sets, moral suasion having failed,
the legislature has enacted a law pro-
yiding q penalty for 'the use of plum
age Of song or insectivorous birds In
the making of picture hats or other
head adOrnments OF women" Notice
las been sent TO the milliners of Bos-
ton and throughout the common
wealth by the State Game Commits
sion. II Is announced that the State
laws covering possession or wearing
for purpose OF dress or Establishment
the body, skin, feathers, or parts
thereof OF insectiyorous and wild
birds whether taken In this common
wealth or elsewhere. will be vigorous
~ enforced Persons having prohibit
ed birds and feathers IN their posses
sion whether wearera or dealers, are
liable TO arrest"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

1t was not Jim Wilson's fault that
he was born with a game leg. But
it was Jim's fault that the game leg
proved his undoing Reared in all the
luxury of southern dffluence before
the war he had squandered first his in
heritance, then a competence earned
sby shrewd speculation, and, finally, q
saug ten thousand dollars wrung
from its rightful owners by a series
of tricks that form in themselves
story of human perVersity, but are
without importance IN this account
These tricks were the third degree in
his career, however, for they landed
him behind the bars; and when Linn
py' Wilson returned to his old haunts
he fell to the lowest plane. lie de-
veloped into d frst-elass sneak thief
expert in "liftingn costly wraps and
furs from unoceupied carriages, from
theatre boxes and hotel parlors. How
he accomplished these slick abstrac-
tons was more than the average in
lividual could understand. III was his
beautiful assurance, his unObtrusiye
approach and departure, his suavity
and grace that made him fer a time
the foremost exponent of his art But
he went down hill steadily, and when
New York became too hot, Chicago,
wealthy and wide open, welcomed him
to the ranks Of the pickpocket and
the purse snatcher.
Jim had two passions: first, his I'M
comfortable mania for theft; second,
and dominating much Of his life, lit
tie Alice, daughter by his second wife,
who kept for him the tiny apartment
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08

on the West Side, In the very heart OF
the Polish quarter During her ter
wears of life Alice had never wayered
liz, absolute alteration of her father
and Jim returned her affection to the
limit Of his nature.
They say that criminals are born
not made. It is a true saying, in Jim's
case. at least. As boy be was in no
way abnormal, adhering in all re-
spects to the proud traditions Of his
stiff necked father, who owned broad
acres in Mississippi and ruled his hun
dreds of well-kept slaves with hrm
generosity. There was no mother. She
died during Jim's infancy. But at tif-
teen came a sudden passion for money
His monthly allowance was too slen-
der for his expensive tastes. He must
have more. He thought about It night
and day. And then cropped out q
strain Of low cunning that had shown
Mt intervals in his paternal ancestry
for generations uncounted. He formed
his plans deliberately, and one night
during his fathers absence he entered
the library. broke open the little iron
safe. and decamped with upwards Of
q thousand dollars in cash.
Ten years later Jim returned to the
plantation. Here he found strangers,
from the North, to whom his father
had sold the family home. To bis
credit be 1t said that he wept over the
old mans grave, and again when the
County Judge turned over to him, IN
securities and cash, all his father
property, for there was no Will and
Jim was the only heir. He had left
home boy; he returned man, ex.
perienced in the ways of the sea ana
In the paths of crime. But his sud
denly-acquired wealth, his recoilec-
tons of his father, and contact with
Old and forgivlng friends, seemed to
wine out the past He threw aside MS
degenerate habits. He became gen
tleman, and took up his abode In the
city of New York.
1t Is a far cry from the plantation
10 Chicago, and the little room In the
Polish quarter. Thirty years lay be-
tween-three decades Of steady degra-
dalton. Very bitter were Jim's recol.
lections this December night, as ne
iImped along State street beneath the
glare of the electric lights cycling
sharply every carriage waiting by the
curb. A raw wind blew in from the
lake. His hands were numb. Ills
whole BODY ached with the cold. Ills
game leg, which had been d0ct0red
during his term In Sing Sing, was be
ginning to bother him again. It had
4 way Of stlffening in the hip Joint
SO that his toe dragged little az
every step.
And as though the situation were
not sad enough already, fate threw
another burdeR en- his shoulders. He
had made n promise to little Alice
and II must be kept, regardless Of
consequences or effort She had slip
ned into his bed earlg thet pornlne
and euddled down beside him. "Ya
nat she said. ndo you know what day
tomorrow win be?'
aNot Sunday. surely" be replied
ne could attach no special Importance
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-08
II craft.RIdden PhlIadeIphla.

But the women of Philadelphia We're
equally active. Their aid was solicit
ed by the city party in the great work
of reform, to secure for the citizens
an honest. decent administration, and
a physically clean city. And right
well they did their work. In nearly
every one Of the forty-two wards
they assembled in enthusiastic crowds,
aud listened to addresses from promi-
nent women speakers, including Mrs
Rudolf Blankenburg, Mrs. Owen Wis
ter (wife of the author of "The Nir-
ginian'9, and Miss Jennings, sister-in-
law Of Mayor Weaver. In the Toledo
Morning Times appeared the following
trenchant comment on this feature
Of the Quaker City campaign:
In quiet, staid, preeedent-loying philadel-
phia the women are IN politics up to their
elbows.
They are so aroused in the battle against
political corruption and graft that they
are willing to stand shoulder to shoulder
with the men and fight
Precedent may 90 hang!
it Is a grand good thing to see them
come out Of their mossgrown sheltered
llfe, and put their shoulders to the wheel
lp aiding the accomplishment OF the
downfall Of the public evils that have
been made apparent in their city.
II required nerve for the first woman to
act. Formerly people didn't admire nerve
In q woman They do now.
Tile old manner OF sitting back and wait
Ing TO be protected" Is gradually disap-
pearing--po possibly because there were not
enough protectors 10 80 around; possibly
because they didn't want the job.
In every city a halt has been called on
tile ancient way wherein the woman's head
grew frantic over It's dull routine, her brain
rusted from disuse, and her mentality
SHRINK from the compression Of the "shel-
tered life
Now, she brcathes comparatively I'M
trammeled, the atmosphere OF the whole
world, and rejoices In the use Of all that
IS in her. Her pent-up activities have
leaped the barrier, and she Is, first of all,
human, with humanity's interests at
heart.
The women may prove a power for good
lii graff-rldden Philadelphia.
Whether or not this activity of wO-
man in municipal affairs is welcomed,
the practical efficiency of her efforts
in the recent fight against the bosses
cannot be denied