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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-10
HEROISMOF AUTHORS
BRAVE BATTLES WAoeD AGAINST
the AGONY or DISEASE.

AASss~ture, ~ Well ~ Art and Set
snee spd Hassory, In Indebted ia
Pain ana wosry and suffering For
Some Of Its Choicest Gems.
There are heroes of the pen as well
as OF the sword, and the victories of the
study are quite as affecting and mem
orabie as those Of the battlefield.
II complete list of the fine exam
pies Of heroism of authors were com
piled 1t would reach well out into the
thousands and include large number
OF illustrious names. In fact, 1t is said
that few authors have done really great
work except under adverse circurn-
stances. Literature, as well as science.
art and history, is indebted to pain aud
worry and suffering for some of its
choicest gems
There are few finer examples of the
ksroism Of the study than that present
ID by Professor Finsen, the tiiscoverer
q the light cure for lupus. For the
list twenty years of his too short life
be suffered from painful diseases of
the heart and liver, to which dropsy
was superadded, and II was only by
daily self denial and the strictest diet
Ing that he was able to live at ALL
Yet for all these years. lived In the
very shadow Of death and In constant
suffering he stuck bravely to his great
hfe work. even studying his own dis
eases with the keenest attention and
writing articles on them for medical
j0urnals. The last two or three years
q his life were spent lying ON his back,
unable even to be carried to his be-
loved Institute few yards away, and
yet the lion hearted scientist never re-
hxed for a single day his gallant fight
for biz fellow men against disease.
The hero1sm Of the Danish profess
q suggests q similar brave battle
vaged by an. English professor J. X.
Green, the historian, aeainst disease
and pain It was n 1eoo, when the
d1seaos which lad assG1led hin for
many years finally prsstn4sd Nm and
when the dosto@ ~ ~ = heps Of
wing more than ~ neneAa that
0eesn - 70 wosk - vgto has famous
1hDrt H1stogy q tn Eng1ash ~
-" DAY s1Dr ~ ~ tsllsd At his
0k hendine desueEetsay On t. hfe
en6h . s>n4s Il esass1sss pain ana ex-
hausecn. anA - bsa~s w. De mars
s1<it that - sctuaIly prolonged his
~ ~ fve ysaSa. Dvsn be WIS bound
% eonfssA r woaGsr how N those
ysass q physinl pein end despond-
sncy ] eouId ever havs written the
49, &C all
osnssaI Gsxts nemsirs, whtch
oss1ght his Widow tn snormon sum
q >0oQo0Q were written under even
nnoss trying conditions than 0reen,s |
.aserys In 1884 TIE year before his
aeam. The ex-prssidsnt found himself |
BANKRUPT through TIE fnflurs 81 the |
7asaas bank ana fAea tn fsce With ths
~rf|. ~.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-10


There Is certain very little girl who
= also very cowardly. Her father,
nnding that sympathy only Increased
me unfortunate tendency, decided to
have serious tank with his Mite
daughter on the subject Of her foolish
fears. 7 -----T
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lecture. when ycu zee COW amt you
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NO, certainly not. Evelyn"
When you see a horse, amt you
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when Jon see q dog. amt you
Nor with emphasis.
When ycu see a bumbiebee, Amt
yCu fraidr
Nor with scorn.
Amt you 'fraid when It thundersr
mo-" with loud laughter. .Oh, you
silly, silly childr'
Papa" said Evelyn soIemnly, "ain't
rou 'fraid Of nothin' in the world but
mamma Short Stories.
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-10

Fire can be made to sing A writer
says: Take lighted candle and blow
gently against the fame. You will hear
peculiar huttering sound- The fiutter-
Ing sound Is fires first attempts at mu-
sic. Instead OF the unsteady breath of
our lips let us employ the steady blast
OF blowpipe. Instead Of the pale and
nickering light Of candle let rs use
tne bright and ardent glare Of chem
lists lamp. When you have lamp and
oiowpipe you can make fire sing in
earnest
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-10
CURRENT EVENTS.
Stolen From The Exchanges
That Come to Our Table.

uamageu by an early irost.
Sam Jones says it takes a lot Of
nerve to be a reformer. Sam might
have added however that it pays
fairly well. His income is $4,000
year.
Having obtained their seasons
supply of coal, the shippers and
dealers are about ready to issue
invitations for a universal strike and
big increase in price.
Prosperity has continued for so
many years that it no longer attracts
attention under that name, and the
advanced thinkers are now referring
to it by hyperprosperity.
The sharks are swimming around
in sight of the presidents summer
home at Oyster Bay, but he is driv-
ing them out Of nearly every depart
ment of the government.
1t is sad mistake to call Rookie
Teller the riches man in the world.
Ii would be much more accurate to
say that be has more money than
any other man in the world.
The Moscow Gazette says Russia
will make peace if Japan viii agree
10 get out of Korea and Manchuria
and pay small indemnity. Didn't
know there were any joke papers in
Moscow.
South Dakota farmers now contend
that the only disease which has
attacked their grain is the mumps.
They give as reason for this dag
n0sis, the swelled appearance of the
heads of wheat.
1t is claimed that the boilers of
the gunboat Bennington were old
and unserviceable. This would
have been valuable information
before the explosion occurred, and
somebody is clearly al fault.
Chauncey Depew and Robert
Fitzsimons came home in the same
ship. Both announced that they
were going to fight. Chauncey is
after the traducers of his fare fame
and Robert is after anybody who
viii have his face dislocated for a
price.
David B. Hill has also lost So, 900
year by the revision of the Equit-
able salary list. II is hard to strike
streak Of high finance" in this
country without uncover!ng soon
sentative democratic" politician,
either ON the ground floor or in the
cellar.
Senator Mitchell's fight is not to
keep his seat in the senate so much
as il is one to keep out of Jail. |
There should be several vacancies in |
the senate next year Of members
whose terms are not expired, but |
who have expired themselves in |
politics.
The Russian newspapers consider
it very tactless Of Taft to visit Japan |
just at this time. Let's see, this is |
about the time Kuropatkin was to go |
to Toxic, isn't itf Well, the Rus
SLAMS may console themselves with |
the thought that however warm the |
Japanese welcome for Taft, Kuropat-
kin would have had hotter one. |
A mail-order bank started in ST. |
Louis less than year ago, and now
on The list Of frauds issued by the
government, received more than two
and half millions Of dollars from
residents Of small towns and farm
ing DISTRICTS. Nearly all Of the
many thousand depositors will lose
Ano~sIv uo~o X !. -. H. ~
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-10
prospect OF dying DsnnIIssz and 1ssv-

prospect Of dying 6ennIIsSS and 1eav-
Ing his wife destitute II was at this
tsfrlble crisis that he began to write
the story of his stirring career. But
the cup OF his misfortune was not yet
full A cancer formed at the root of
h1s tongue. and the gallant soldier was
compelled 10 write day after day, suf-
6eS1ng constant and severe agony.
Mrs. Browning, too, wrote most OF
her beautiful poems confined to
darkened chamber, to which only her
own family and few devoted friends
could be admitted, in great weakness
and almost unintermittent suffering.
with her favorite spaniel as her com
panion.
The German poet Heine was another
martyr and hero of the study. The
last seven years of his life were spent
on his mattress grave" racked with
such excruciating pain that he had to
take doses Of opium large enough to
have killed several men In order to
give him q few blessed hours of free
dom from It Through all these years
Of torture he not only bore himself
with noble resignation and cheerful
ness, but produced many Of his finest
and most finished works, including his
Last Poems and Thoughts" and his
Confessions
Dir Walter SCOTS heroic struggle
with misfortune and falling health dur
Ing the closing years of hts life is per-
haps too well known to call for more
than mention. After the commercial
crash came which left him crushed
with debt and with shattered health he
set to work with wearied eyes and
worn brain" and toiled for years, often
~ much as fourteen hours a day, until
the end came and with 1t the lifting of
all burdens, including that Of his debts.
every penny of which his monumental
toll had paid.
In the list are also Frank Smedley.
who wrote his book ON "a bed Of an
suish; Edna Lyall. who kept death at
bay By her brave spirit and busy psu.
and Clark Russell, who cot q magntf-
icent example Of patience by his In
eustry when racked with Rheumatism.
e y also said that much OF Sir Arthur
suilivan's sweetest music was distilled |
nom pain--New YORK Herald,
tA4
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-10

for court house. ., so
Philip A. Gross, witness fees
paid himself ............... 4 40
Matt Tracy, commissioners
services ............. lO
j. s. Wyganowski, commits
sioners services ............ 8 so
M. b. Long, commissioners SER
vices. ........,,......... 81
w, H. Goodrich, commissioners
Services. .............. IS 40
Petition of Richard Schalker for
refund OF road polls in the year 1904
presented and ON motion same was
granted for LOO he being an ex-soldier.
Quarterly report from e. L Sheldon
presented and approved.
Quarterly report from Chas. Rathbun
presented and approved.
On motion the following application
from the permanent school fund were
Oscar johnson 5000.
Petition from Chas Burns to refund
school poll for 1903 and 1904 was pre-
sented and on motion same was granted
he being under age.
On motion the honorable board Of
county commissioners adjourned to-
meet on the 9Th day of September 1905. 1
Manson Rexford,
County Auditor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-10

!. - every dnty performed thess = e.
!schsd a inward sat1scacelon vo6ub
ossp@s w'eh ~ d1alcu16 4 - task.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-10
BOARD PROCEEDINGS.
Proceedings of the Board of
County Commissioners.
Webster, s. D., Aug. 1, 100

| Webster, 5. D., Aug. 1, 1905.
Board of county commissioners of
Day county, South Dakota, met at the
court house in the City of Webster, on
the first day of August 1906.
Members present, Chairman Good
rich, Commissioners Long, Moxness,
Tracy and Wyganowski.
Minutes of last meeting read and
approved.
Bids for county physicians We're
opened, DR.. T. n. Kjerland being the
lowest bidder was accepted as the
county physician for the ensuing year
On motion the following bills were
audited and allowed;
Fsank Sears, states attorneys
salary July ...................S 20 w
]. II. Lund, judges salary July 70 90
Oscar Grue, deputy registers
salary for July 60 90
Chris Grue, registers salary
Tor July .................. 100 %
S. II. Egeland, deputy.auditor's
and extra work for July. IS 90
j. II. Hetley, superintendent
salary for July ......... lbs 90
Ed Mccormick, janitor's salary
Tor July ................ % 10
Manson Rexford, auditors sal
airy for July. ............... 10 %
H. o. Wickre, treasurer's sal
airy for July ........ 1865 81
Janna Wickre, deputy treas
urers salary for July ... 60 90
Serena Aadland, clerk in treas
urers Office salary for July. 80 90
Joseph X. Irwin, pumping
water from cess pool. ..... IL 90
f. E. Long, superintendent of
poor farm salary for July. - go 90
William Robinson, fitting
screens ON court house 80. 10 80
William Magnus, digging well 50 rs
Mike Koenigs, boarding prison
efs. .................. % U5
Williams Brothers, window
screens for court house. 49,. 90 70
Commercial Livery, team to
poor farm .........,..... 2 COL
7. M. Loomis, checking the
treasurers and auditor books Is 90
J. #. Kelley, supplies to clerk
of courts office. ........ 3 80
Emiel Peterson, cutting grass
around court house grounds / sol
Board adjourned to meet at 1850
o'clock p, m.
Board met per adjournment, all mem
bers present.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-10

ne feilowhg lsttH was received
Nom his sister By . New Yorker who
wss away frsn hc0s sn,a Witt:
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18
CONNER WILL RECOVER
sHERHFF OF MACON COUNTY NOT
 FATALLY HURT.
Believed that Jim BEeBryae Will Ex- Spire of Wounds ReeeiyeH yghile
 Resistiug Arrest--Eais Brother Dead.

Tuskegee, Jan. I7.--(SpeciaI )---James McBryde, who was reported dead, Is still alive. The physicians say 1t Is merely artificial life caused from drugs administered. and 1t is only a matter of few hours before he win expife. He received two shots. One ball entee- ed near sthe left ear and lodged under the scalp back of the head. The other entered near the neck on the left side and ranged downward. coming out nenr the right shoulder,
 Robert McBryde was shot through the neck the bullet severing Che spinal cord and crushing the bones of the neck. Death was instantaneous,
 Sheriff Conner is some better this af- ternoon. Although he received sevefe cuts about the face and neck. 1t is believed he will recover.
 Deputy Lamar's wounds proved to be slight. His clothing was cut in many places and he received a slash In the legs.
 Marshal Taylor was not injured. though his clothing was cut in maiiy places Had 1t not been For his heavy overcoat. he would have perhaps rs- ceived bad cuts.
 The McBryde brothers were from Cotton Valley. a voting precinct about ten miles from here. They spent all of yesterday in town and were drink ing freely Sheriff Conner tried to pursuade them to go home but they refused Between and o'clock they got in q dispute with some negroes in the lower part of the town. They were near boarding house and were jerking the pailings from the fence to beat the negroes and using loud oaths The landlady of the boarding house informed the officers
 The officers immediately went in search Of the men and met them near East Main Street At the demand of the ohicersRober. McI3ryde gave up and the sheriff agreed to go his bond and allow him to return home bnt the other brother with an oath sald the officers could not arrest them. Opening his knife and calling to his brose CT Robert to hand him his gun. he began to cut and his brother foI~ lowed suit.
 Both the McBrydes were single. Jim was ti'frty-three years old and Robert. thirty-six.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18
DEATH OF $. E. BAKER.
Expires Very Suddenly and Suicide is
 Advanced as Theory.

Florence, Jan 17.-(Special )-S. E. Baker died suddenly this afternoon at 1:3O in the lavatory of the Sullivan and Hart Dry Goods Company. He reached the store at 10:30 this morn ing intoxicated. and was discharged by hls employer. J. P. May. After sitting by the stove for some time MT. May advised him to go home. He went into the lavatory instead where he talked with several of the clerks.
 At 1880. when Mir. May returned from dinner, he heard a strange noise and reached the door just as Baker fell on his face. A physician was called, but before he arrived life was extinct.
 The dead man had been drinking hard for several months and for two weeks had been in a condition which inca. pacitated him for business. It was thought at first that he had taken his own life. but thIs win not be known until a chemical analysis is made of the contents of an almost empty whiskey bottle which was found beside him. Before coming to Florence Baker was , engaged in the mercantile business in Courtland where his mother. Mrs. A. A. Baker. and his sister, Mrs F. o. Camp bell, reside. A message was sent to the
 family and this afternoon his brother in-law. E O. Campbell of courtland larriyed to take charge of the body. AIr.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18

that he hoped to be able to reserve these seats for Montgomery music lovers who were especially anxious to see the opera
 "Tannhauser'' will be sung by Q com pany of over 100 singers. accompanied by an orchestra of forty instruments. Reports from cities visited by the com pany indicate that the production will be the musical event of the year. The company will reach Montgomery Friday morning in a special train of twelve cars, coming here from Birmingham, where 'Tannhauser'' will be sung Thursday evening.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18
, DEATH OF SISTER MARIE.
Saintly Woman Passed Away nt ,
 Margaret's ApspitaE

61lntIy woman fa&8cu away Ws S~'
 Margarct's HfpspitnE
 When Sister Marie 'expired at St. Margaret's Hospital yesterday morning at an carly hour. useful and salhtiy life came to an end.
 Surrounded by sorrowing Sisters of Charity with whom she had been as- sociated in the work of caring for the sick, with priests at her bedside she passed away at 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning, The offices of the dead were recited after the solemn administration of the sacraments of the church had been performed.
 When Sister Marie is laid to rest this morning in Oakwood Cemetery, dis tinguished priests will officiate, Very Rev. Father R. J. Lennon. c. N., Elm mittsbure, Maryland and Very Rev. Father J. J. Sullivan. c. M. of Brook lyn. superiors general of the Sisterhood in America will attend the obsequies. They arrived in Montgomery yesterday morning. Other priests who will be present and officiate will be Rev. Father Dennis Savage. who will say the mass, Rev. Father Eaton. Rev. Father DeIseurne. S. !, of Mobile, and Rev. Father Tobin, rector of St. Joseph's College.
 Before her novitiate as a Sister of 1HdTltgt 6iStcE WdS Nkat1C nkot rissey of Richmond, Va, where she was born forty-two years ago. She was . novice at the Mother House. Em- mettsburg, founded in 1909 by Mother Seton and where reside 200 sisters. 60 novices and where is conducted a select school for young women.
 At the close of her novit"a'. Sister Marie was assigned to schools$n Balti- more, Mobile and New Orleans. By her gentleness. refinement and great talent, she won affection and admira- tion of all with whom she came into contact.
 For the past eleven years she was at St. Simeon's Select School in New Orleans There her health failed and in obedience 10 the Superior. she came to a more congenial climate, reaching Montgomery in September. 1904. She was cheerful when the end came and as the Holy Mass to which she was |extraordinary devoted, was about to begin, she passed away.
 The funeral services will take place at 10 o'clock this morning at St. Maj garet's Hospital. There will be a re- auiem mass and a solemn liturgical chant. Interment will be made at Oakwood Cemetery He Sister Marie leaves a mother, a brother and sister living in Richmond, a brother in Washington and a sister in Baltimore. --,s-...
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18
ALL SEATS SOLD.
Many Persons VIII Not Re Able to Hear
 0Vannhauser."

"Everything Is sold. We have not a seat in the house. I'm sorry"
 This statement was made scores of times yesterday by Sam and Arthur Hirscher, co-managers of the Mont gomery Theatre. to persons who sought to purchase seats for the production of ''Tannhauser't by the English Grand Opera Company at the Theatre next Friday evening.
 ' The sale of seats began at o'clock yesterday morning and more than 100 persons were waiting in line 10 reserve seats for the opera. Each person was limited to the purchase of eight seats and nearly every one in the line bought this nubmer. Many of them filled or ders they had received from out-of- town and several persons represented clubs formed for the purpose of se- curing seats for the opera.
 It Is not literally fact that every seat has been sold as the theatre man- aEers are still holding the seats in the gallery which are never sold until the night of a production. These seats will be put on sale at the Theatre box ofi& Friday evening at 1880 o'clock. sam Hirscher said yesterday
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18

covy ducks, pheasants from .he farm of Capt. ]. M. Falkncr of Montgomery. Belgian hares, Angora rabbits, pea fowls and guinea pigs"
 The GOODS used by the Association came from New York, and were used by the great poultry shows given at Madison Square Garden.
 H. J. McCafferty of Birmingham is the superintendent of the show. and Loring Brown of Smyrna, Ga, will be the judge of the awards.
 President Adams and other officers of the Association will be at the Audi torium throughout the exhibition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18
Two Killed by Explesion.

Washington, Ga, Jan 1.-Two persons were killed and two more very seriously in tured today by a boiler explosion which oe- cured this morning at Graves Mountain, In Lincoln County. The dead: William C. Martin. Jr, white. son of W, c. Martin. who owned the saw mill; Willie Johnson. eoioreg. saw mill hand. William C, Martin was bad Iy sealded about the face. 4 negro wheaa name is not known is badly burned about the body and an arm is broken He wtfi probably die
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18
Alabama at Departments.

Washington. Jan. Especial )--- Rural carrier routes to be established February IS in Alabama: Belmina. Limestone County, area covered. 20 square miles; population served. 35T x
 Postmasters appointed for Alabama Grant Marshall County. Clement C. Walls. vice H. D. Walls. resigned: Owens Cross Roads. Madison County. Isaac T. Elliot. vice John w. Buford resigned,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18
syveton commItted sulelde.

Paris. Jan. 17.--The official invesk- gation into the cause of the death of Gabriel Syveton. the member Of the chamber of deputies who was founc dead in his apartment at Nauilly, De cember 8. under suspicious circum. stances, has resulted in 8 report faw. orabie to suicide, according to the version of Mme. Syveton, wife of the deceased. One of the oficial experts dissented from the finding.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18
NIcCue oets . Rerrieve.

Richmond, Va, Jan. t7.--GovernoF Montague tonight granted a feprieve to ]. Samuel McCue who was to have been hanged at Charlottesville Friday for the murder of his wife. until February 10. to give time for the State Supreme Court to consider his amended appfI- cation made today for a writ of error and supersedeas.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18
Baker was 45 years old and was us married.
FAvoRs CHANeE oF DArE.
Congressman Livinsstene wants Elec-
 tioa nay Ftrst Tuesaay in sepf. '

W48 AfHI &tEwA &0E&&H# " H&U&f Y
 Washington, Jan. IT .--At heariug before the House Committee on the Election of President. President and Representatives in Congress, on the bill to fix the date of congressi6n- al elections on the first Tuesday in September and the time for conveninS Congress in October. Representative Livingstone fGa.) said objection to tho measure would come from those who go to Europe and do not care to retufn before October, He said if nothing more was accomplished than breakiug up this Europe business that would be something gained.
 The bill would equalize the sessioas. he said. Time was not given at the short session now provided for tho proper scrutiny of appropriation bills. Speaking of the inaugural date he said 1t was an outrage to bring people to Washington March because of the weather that usually prevails at tiial time.