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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1905-06-24
THE coon RESULTS OF DRAINAGE.
Timely and Interesting Letter From DR..
Paul Foster on the Subject.

Il
Paul Foster on fhe Subject.
Mr.. Editor.-We recently paid a
visit to Rev. and Mrs. Fl. S. Johns
(the latter a sister of ye scribe9 at
Gueydan, La. It is needless to say
we were highly entertained, for all
who are acquainted with our host
! and hostess know that that goes
| without saying.
This Gneydan section of Vermi-
lion parish is called the Holland
of America. We were Impressed
with the IosalIness of the country. .
Nature has adapted it to imigra-
ton. We were told that there
were fields OF rice there containing
l6o acres with only one ordinary
levee around the outside borders
of the field-no cross leyees at all.
These vast expanses of beautiful
prairie land, as they stretched out
before us almost on q dead level,
with large canals vending their
serpentine courses hither and
thither, presented a view pleasing
to the eye. Here and there could
be seen in the distance deep well,
indicated by the smoke as 1t issued
from the smoke-stack and drifted
off lazily, borne upon the bosom of
the breeze.
We visited the Il. & Ell. Canal
Co.'s pumping plant, situated seven
miles northwest of Gneydan, and
were kindly shown through it by
Mr.. Wallet. who has been connected
with the plant for several years.
This is said to be the largest pump
ing plantin the world. Itoperates
six pumps, four Of 10000 gallons,
and two OF 10000 gallons capacity
per minute, thus affording 100000
gallons per minute. This water is
supplied by the Bayou Que de Tor
tue and the Mermentan river.
The water flows off the main
canal, which is about eighty feet
wide, from four to five feet deep
and about twenty-five miles long.
From this main canal numerous
laterals make off in different direc-
tions. This plant irrigated last year
about 10000 acres OF land. They
used for fuel Jennings oil, direct
from the field.
Another thing which struck your
scribe favorably was the wide,
straight public throughfares, which
were in marked contrast to most Of /
our narrow, crooked roads, which
in some instances present quite
geometrical proposition.
The rice crops were very late.
Great many still planting. Gney-l
dan is only eight or ten years old,
and would have been quite thriv-
ing place by now had not the price
of rice dropped SO low, but the re-
cent rise in the price has started 1t |
on another boom, which promises
to make quite little city out of |
the place in the near future. They
have a goodly sprinkling OF North
ern people there, which seems to be
an impetus and inspiration to
things. But the main thing to
which [ wish to refer to is the |
drainage system which these peo-1
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1905-06-24

Charles M. schwab will head a
new big steel concern.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-13
Inve stiSatins Standard Oil

Topeka, April 1O.-James Ru-
dolph Garfield, commissioner of
corporations, arrived here to be-
gin his investigation of Standard
Oil methods in Kansas. He is &C.
companied by L. P. Caswell, Chas.
Earl and Luther Conant, three
employees of his bureau. They
will assist him in making the in
vestigation.
II have no news to give out
about the proposed investigation, :"
said Mr.. Garfield. II have just
reached the scene and must first
get my bearings. l want to learn
something of the situation in Kan
sas before / complete my plans.
/ will have a conference with Gov.
Hoch today on the matter. There
is no telling how long it will take
to make the investigation. Ihave
three men from my bureau with
me and we will get busy at once
and stay that way until the case is
closed up.-Norfolk News.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-13

shin Of yonr real fo;th and vonr
evident welfare. The curse of all
parties is the compulsory loyalty
that come from environment or
heredity. The democracy and tho
plutocracy have great battle
which must be fought out. Let us
fight it honestly and let us have
no half-hearted or lukewarm fol-
lowers in either camp.
There is no use to get mad about
it. There is no way to drive the
republican democrats out of the
party. The only thing to do is to
commit the party to principles
and platforms so essentially demo-
cratic that their fellows will have
neither motive nor excuse for re-
naming.
We will never have a real demo-
cratic party representing the ma
jority of the American voters un-
til these fellows go.
We can never sal! into port I'M
til we unload this ballast.
| have sometimes asked myself
whether the democratic party must
die before it can be born again.
might find it easy to quote his
tory to prove that no party 80
radically divided as ours ever came
into effective harmony again with
out a burial or a revolution. It
was so with the Free Soil party.
1t was so with the democratic party
which split into fragments at the
Charleston convention of 1860 and
never came together until a civil
revolution had washed away it's
antagonisms in blood.
But we cannot afford to die now.
The South is held intact by the
shadow of negro balance of pow
err, real or imaginary. The party
at large is held together by the
fact that the real democracy is es-
sential to individual and popular
liberty, and because no other party
of possible relief looms upon the
horizon except in creeds so radical
that the thought and judgment of
the people is not ready to receive it.
And we must not die now. The
democratic party is worth fighting
for and worth living for. Its
principles can never die, and it's
organization along normal and
traditional lines is too vital to the
people and their interests.
Least of all can we who love the
grand old party stand by and see
it go down to even temporary dis
Indignation without a brave and
honest effort to reform it's broken
lines, to redeem it's drift from the
faith of the fathers, to bring it
back to the old creeds of the peo-
pie, to rebuke it's enemies within
it's ranks, and at the cost of all the
truth, and all the courage, and all
the criticism which it's errors may
require, to rally once more the
great people who are it's faithful
followers, and to carry it once
moro to wholesome and glorious
victory.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-13
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Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-13

WANTED-3OO head of cat
tie to Craze on my range this sea.
son. Plenty of grass and water.
Apply to A. E. HUTCHINSON,
1913 Valentine, Neb.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-13
Must Democracy Die
To Be Born Again.
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.

By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
Theodore Roosevelt will be re-
nominated for president of the U.
S. in 1908, and he will be re-elect-
ed. Through his domination of
the party organization and his
control of the post office depart
ment, Mr.. Roosevelt already has
the nomination in his own hands.
There will be no trouble about OBJ
tanning q majority of the delegates
in the national convention. He
will be re-elected-not merely be-
cause he is the idol of the people
or on account of his virtues or by
reason of the mistakes that add to
his popularity, but because there
will be no real opposition. The
democratic party is and will be
hopelessly divided against itself. )"
This is literal extract from the
New York World whose editorial
columns we're the ablest written
advocates of Alton B. Parker in
the last national campaign.
1t is an editorial utterance de-
liberate, definite and stated with
out limitations as the judgment of
one of the most influential of the
great American newspapers which
generally support the democratic
party and its candidates.
The World usually trains with
the ultra-conservative or Eastern
wing of the democracy, and it's
views may be reasonably construed
as representing in a large degree
the attitude and opinion of Eastern
democrats. This makes the utter
ance significant and especially
worthy of note.
1t is exactly the political position
foreshadowed in the pessimistic
prophecy of the World which has
been in my mind as an apprehen-
sion since the election and which
has been the inspiration of ma
jority of the letters which | have
contributed to the discussion.
An utterance like this from a
source like this is enough to chal-
lenge every democrat voter in
America to serious thought and to
vigorous action.
There is no doubt that President
Roosevelt is riding the crest of the
popular wave at this time. Even
the South is relaxing-if it has not
already relaxed-the prejudices
aroused by his negro appointments,
and there are democrats all over
the country who are thinking and
saying, in view of the Presidents
courageous and vigorous admins
tration, that Roosevelt is better
democrat than Parker.
The Presidents party, if not
sympathetic, is at least quiescent,
either through establishment or
timidity, and he is going straight
forward in great career.
Now, what are we doing in dem
ocratic ranks! Wrangling, as u.s.
ual, with undated ferocity. The
Eastern democrats are eagerly
urging William j. Bryan to break
away from his engagement with
the Iroquois Club in Chicago and
to come instead to the Jefferson
dinner in New York. To this in
sistent invitation they are adding
the questionable entreaty, but
if you don't come to us, for Gods
sake don't tie up with those radical
democrats in Chicago"
Where is the hope of harmony
in an attitude like this.
There in congress we saw John
Sharp Williams, leading the demo-
cratic minority, deliberately turn
his back upon the best and sound
est railroad reform bill that the
generation has produced, and COM
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-13

What do you think of 1.-THE late
assembly of anarchistic lawmakers
that sat as a legislature?''
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-13
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1905.

NIT his party to a hasty and i'm
perfect measure which needed con-
slant amendment, for no other
ostensible reason than that he was
unwilling that the credit for this
vital reform measure should go to
William r. Hearst, who had al
ready done Titan's work in ef-
fective democratic warfare against
the trusts and the public gratis of
the time.
And where do we find the hope
of getting together in spirit like
this!
The Eastern democrats are even
now coquetting shrewdly with the
rising fortunes Of Joe Folk, of
Missouri, who has had the good
sense to hear their Establishments,
to eat their banquets and to hold
his tongue.
And out yonder in the great wide
territory of the Central West there
arc hundreds of thousands of the
same sturdy democrats, who stay
ed away from the polls at the last
election, just waiting grimly to
see what the democratic party of
their faith and the democratic
party of their fathers is going to do.
1t may just as we'll be repeat
ed here that the difference between
the wide wings of the old demo-
cratic organization is deeper and
wider than the difference between
the platforms of the two opposing
parties in the last campaign.
How are we going to get them
together!
Now this, if ever, is time for
plain speech and definite under
standings.
There is no need for any man
to be afraid to speak his mind.
The next campaign is three years
away, and this interval must be
filled full with the frankest and
freest agitation that great party
has ever known.
Faithful are the words of a friend,
and that democrat is most loyal
and most worthy who does not
hesitate in this vital period to criti-
else, to challenge and to demand.
Ii the democratic party has any
chance in the next election, it lies
in the complete separation of itself
from the republican party, with
which it has grown too intimate.
And we cannot separate from the
republican party until we separate
from the republican democrats
who have led us into bad company.
Let the fellows who do not be-
lieve in the things for which de-
mocracy stand go to some other
party. Don't be afraid to let
them go. For every man who
deserts the party of the people be-
cause it stands for the people there
will be found a hundred to come in.
We are now compelled to sepa-
rate the democratic democracy
from the plutocratic democracy.
Oil and water will not mix. The
democratic party cannot any long
er survive half-plutocratic and
half-democratic.
1t is high time for q reorganiza-
ton Of parties in the Republic
anyhow. There are democrats
who ought to be republicans, and
republicans who ought to be demo-
Gratis. Let these men find their
political level. Let them seek the
camps to which they belong.
Don't be afraid. Go where your
convictions lead you. Ifyou are not
a democrat, don't be false to your
political conscience, but go right
on to the republican camp. If you
are not a republican, and your in
terests lie with the democratic
party, come right into the fellow
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-13
Sparks Quilts.

|
Dick Allen has moved a shanty
onto his homestead.
Mr.. Callen's mother came down
from town Saturday.
| Miss Pearl Jelly is staying with
Mrs. Callen during the latter's ILL
ness.
Miss Gertrude Allen went to
town Saturday to make FINAL proof
on her homestead.
School commenced in Sparks
Monday morning with Miss Noy
Ashburn as teacher.
The dance at Mr.. Osborne's and
the one at MIR. Polen's were we'll
attended Friday night.
DIR. Lewis was down to Sparks
Monday to see Mrs. Callen and we
are glad to report her improving.
Mr.. Meyers father is out to
spend the summer. Hope he will
enjoy the summer breezes of Neb.
Mrs. Cora Archer was down to
visit her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Grady of Norden, last week, re-
turning Sunday.
Clyde Kuskie has bought him a
nice brown driving team and we
advise parents who have eligible
daughters to be strictly on the
look out.
An officer from the fort drove
down to Sparks last Saturday with
the intention of buying a nice sad
die horse. He found some nice
horses and also some nice prices
but did not buy anything.
VIM. Barker, editor of the Val
entine Republican, George Trace
we'll, Mr.. Webb and Mr.. Ander-
son, of Valentine, were in Sparks
Saturday evening to attend the
sale of the Sparks creamery. Mr..
Tracewell was auctioneer. About
one-third of the stockholders were
there and the property sold for ]
it's original cost.
rORCUP1NE's sOLILOQUY ON THE
LOST MULE.
NV mule he was creature queer,
With slender legs and great long ears;
His fur it looked just like bear.
He never liked good hay and corn,
But always dined on ham and eggs.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-13

PORCUP1NE's SOLILOQUY ON THE
LOST MULE.
My mule he was a creature queer,
With slender legs and great long ears;
His fur it looked just like bear.
He never liked good hay and corn,
But always dined on ham and eggs.
Two weeks ago last Sunday morn
He left his feed of hay and corn,
And ham and eggs and all such things
And went of on a bum methinks.
-PORCUP1NE.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-13

We have three different
makes of riding Cultivators
and also carry in stock Lister
Carriages suitable for convert
ing any steel beam walking
lister or plow into a riding lis
ter or a riding plow.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-08-25

Dog days begin, according to the ira
ditions of boyhood in certain parts of
the United States, when the green
scum, algae, begins to appear on the
surface of the lakes and rivers. Then
1t is supposed to be unsafe to go in
cording to the tradition of many adults
as we'll as of boys, dogs most frequent
ly go mad. All nations ANA races of
civilization apparently have had "A pc
Rod during the summer known as dog
days when many maladies We're sup
posed to be common. But the madness
of dogs, bydrophobia, was never associ-
ated with dog days by the ancients.
Dog days are rather indefinite pc
Rod, according to this green scum rule,
but there is il disagreement of author-
ties as to when dog days really do be-
gin and end. According to the diction-
airy, dog days are part of the year
about the time of the hoiacal rising of
the dog star, Slrus'-that is, when the
dog star rises in conjunction with the
sun or as nearly in conjunction as may
VI.
3 to Aug. Is have been assigned for
the beginning OF dog days, and they
are given various durations of from
thirty to fifty days.
1t seems to have been from the hela-
cal rising of Sirius that the ancients
most commonly reckoned the dog days.
Thus at the present time dog days
would begin July 8 and will end Aug.
IL. Sirius is the brightest star in the
heavens, and it was easy to associate
the mutual heat of the brightest star
and Of the sun with the hottest and
most unkindly period of the year. Hip
pocrates $50 B. o. declared the dog
days to be the most unhealthy part Of
the summer
Dog days are continually dropping
farther back in the calendar. Now
they are twelve days behind the sched-
ule to which they held in the period Of
the pharaohs In time Sirius may rise
in the dead of winter The Egyptians
maintained that the first indication of
the rise of the Nile took place on the
morning of the longest day, when as
they said, the sun and Sothis (Sirius)
rose together. They attributed the rise
Of the river entirely to the great heat
generated by this star in conjunction
with the sun.
Sirius is situated in the mouth of the
constellation CAMS Major (the great
dog'J. The Latin name of dog days
was dies canicularis,' and from this
comes the term "canicular year.
which was known among the Egyp-
tians and Philippians. Ii was computed
from one heliacal rising of Sirius to
the next and consisted ordinarily OF
365 days. every fourth year having 366
days.-Chicago News.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-08-25
Aug Is, Sept %
NOTICE aF MoRTeAG E SALE.

T..
WHEREAS default has been made in the
w conditions or certain real estate morn
gage. dated the Goth day of May. 1868 made
executed and delivered by Wilhelm Nlchler
ana Louise Eichler his wife. mortsagors, to
John II. Jones, mortgages. wherein and
whereby SAID mortgagorS mortgaged TO said
mortgagee the real estate situate in the coun
ty of Roberts and state OF Sou.h Dakotu, de
scribed us follows to-wit: The west half of
the southeast quarter of section thirty.one
81 in township one hundred twenty
9th principal meridian, containing eighty
acres more or less according TO the govern
ment survey thereof, to secure the payment
lars and Fifteen Cents and interest at the
rate of twelve per cent per annnm. according
70 the terms OF one promissory note for S25505,
note for Ss55.O5, dated MAY %, 1903. due Octo
Der ], laa; one note for $1,000, dated Febru
airy ;; 1905, due October l, 1903; and one noie
May %, 1908, duly recorded in Book 80. OF
mnortgages =, at page 2sS IN the office of the
Dakota. which said default consists of the
non.pavment of the first three above de.
serieed notes when due BY reason OF
debt imme dia,ely due ana payable, and there
is now due and owing on said notes and mort.
gage the sum of S1lolO1, therefore
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the
power OF sale in said mortgage contained and
the statute in such case made & provided. said
VIII De loreCiOSeQ Oy sale of said |
mortgaged premises, at public auction by the |
Sherin OF said Roberts County, South Dakota
or his duly authorized deputy, on Saturday |
the Sptll day of Sept, A. ID. 1905, at one O'clock.
p m. of said day, at the front door OF the
court house in the city Of Sisseton, in said
county OF Roberts and state of South Dakota.
g satisfy said Indebtedness oftl, l0I. n now due
on said mortgage, together with the accrulng /
interest attorneys fees, the amount of de-
costs OF foreclosure
Dated August In 1906
JOHN r. JONES,
MORTGAGE
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-08-25
NEIGHB0RHOOD NEWS.
I'eever

T. Casey has gone TO veblen Tor few
weeks.
H. l.. Spackman and c. C knappen OF Sis
seton were in the village Monday
Earl Aney has commenced the erection OF
n residence east of the track
Joe Femrite received new Reeves thresh
ing outfit this week which ne purchased from
A. w. Lindquis,.
Thrcshermen. see the latest in threshers
ac cunt books and monthly ,lme books, for
sale at the STANDARD once In Ssseton.
the Milwaukee Railroad Company viii
build stock yards at Peever for convenience
in shipping stock
George Phelan. The Milwaukee agent al
Peever, has been trans ferred to Wahpeton. n
ID. and Editor Opsal OF The Pilot viii act as
agent.
Carl A. Schmidt has bought out the Anev
barber shop and pool room and he will here
after run the same in connection with ms
lunch room. He intends 10 get Il first class
barber TO ran the tonsoriai part OF it,
Harvest is about over in this sectlon and
49, '-'i'i w WV thiS7'+ie Hid'h!Uc VIII soon
be heard in The land as it thrcshes the golden
grain to be turned into golden dollars
Alfred Nelson purchased the building for
merry occupied by Sampson Rerville as n
harness shop Of III. l.. Spackman Monday and
VIII move his store and postoi,ice therein nj
once 1t is understood ,ha, Spackmap nc.
CURED II quarter section Of lnnd i'm Harmon
township rs part OF the deal.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-08-25
Ordinance No. IL

AN ORDINANCE providing for the commit
ment OF persons to the City work house until
the tine imposed for the violation of any
ordinance OF the City is paid and providing
Tor the employment of such persons and the
credits to be allowed ON such fine on accom-
OF such employment.
BE III ORDAINED by the Conncl of The
City OF Sisseton in the County OF Roberts.
State Of South Dakota:
ANY person on whom any fine may be inns
posed for the violation of any ordinance OF
this City may uponorder OF the Court before
whom the conviction is had be committed to
the City work house in the manner and for
the time provided by such ordinance and
while SO committed may in the discression of
the Court be required to work for tho CITY.
under the direction and supervision OF u
policeman OF said City. at such work as his
strength will permit not to exceed ten hours
each working day: and for such work the
person so employed shall he allowed. exclus-
I've OF his board, one Dollar and Twenty Ave
Cents for each days work on account OF such
fines and costs.
Passed first reading July S 1906
Passed second reading August 1905.
Approved August 1905,
J. A. Rickert
Attest: Mavor
l.. g. Emerson.
City Auditor.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-08-25
Aug % Sept Z
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION FOR
DISTRIBUTION OF ESTATE.
state of south Dakota County of Roberts, IS.

State of South Dakota County of Roberts. IS
in County Court.
In the matter OF the estate OF Inkan-i-cage'
FNHE STATE of South Dakota sends greeting
win tor Mary RobertSon), the said Takan-i-
of kin OF Tukan-i-cage-win(o Tor Hannah Grover
may come.
Notice is hereby given, That L. w. Cahill
has filed with the judge of this court a veri-
fed petition in writing setting forth that said
deceased left estate consisting of one hundred
and sixty acres of real property, which he
alleges to be wholly exempt from execution.
ing that said estate be distributed among the
heirs at law ana next Of kin Of said deceased,
without the regular administration thereof as
provided by the Probate code,
And that Friday. the 18th day OF Septem-
ber 1905, at 10 O'clock u. M, of said day, being
q day of special term OF this court, at the
court room OF said court, At .he city OF Sisse-
ton. in the county OF Roberts, have been ap-
pointed as the time and place for hearing said
petition, when and where any person interest
ed may appear and show cause why SAID peii
ton should not be granted
Witness the Hon. j. o. Andrews. Judge of
The county court. and the seal OF said court,
This 2sd day 81 August, A. d. 1905, at his office
n the city OF Sisseton, county of Roberts.
state of South Dakota.
lSEAL1 j. q. ANDREWS,
ID. JONES. Judge of the County Couri.
Attorney for Petitioner.