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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04
Paul Jones, commission2

To the Editor Of Public Ledger: Fol-
lowing the interesting communication
of DR.. Griffin, in this mornings Public
Ledger. on the title subject, this docu-
ment, copied from the fac-simile In
Smith & Watson's American Historical
and Literary Curiosities, Philadelphia,
1S47, No. %, will not be without inter
est:
Il Go hereby certify hat John Paul
Jones was duly commissioned and APP
pointed to command the armed sloop
called the Providence, and that this
sloop is now employed in the service Of
the thirteen United States Of North
America. Witness my hand. October
10Th, 1916. John Hancock, Pres'd."
AT the time of the publication of the
above it was owned by Edward D.
Ingraham OF this city, whose valuable
collection was sold by M. Thomas &
Son in 1856. Where Is It now?
Charles Henry uurt.
Philadelphia, Pa. June 6, 1905.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04
THRIFT OF THE DUTCH.
Their Large Holdings of American and
Other loans.

"The people of the Netherlands" says
Consul General Guenther, at Frank
fort, In a report, ARE thrifty and eco
nomical, excellent merchants. and, in
proportion to population, their nation Is
one Of the richest In the world. They
are cosmopolitan, and large minded in
the Investment of their capital. They
were the first and most extensive for
eign buyers OF United States bonds of
61-65, but did not touch the confeder-
ate issues. According 20 estimates Of
official statistical and financial sources
Dutch capital to the amoun of $544,-
see zee * invested Ia american b5iisis
and shares and $500. 000, 600 in Russian
bonds and shares.
Very large sums OF Dutch capital
are invested in Mexican government
bonds and in bonds and shares of Mexi-
al railroad and industrial companies;
also in the government and railroad
bonds of Austria-Hungafy, Portugal
aud numerous other countries, and d
large amount is working profitably in
the Dutch Indian colonies in sugar, to-
bacco and rubber plantations, the MIN
ing of tin and other metals, petroleum
wells, etc. A financial book OF refer
ence places the capital of all Dutch
joint stock companies at $744,16f, 900,
but this does not embrace the nulner-
Gus Dutch companies which have their
headquarters in the colonies and in for
eign. countries. The Netherlands, pos
sessing neither coal nor iron, is not a
manufacturing country of note, and In
this respect is ven surpassed by LITTLE
switzerland, also having neither coal
nor iron. The Dutch are full of the
commercial spirit and nave a large
merchant marine. The rural inhabitants
are given to dairying, cattle raising and
horticulture, in which branches they
axceln
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04
DRAINING THE EVERGLADES.
Wonderfully Rich Section of Florida to
Be Made Productive.

Success: There are great agricultural
possibilities in the Florida everglades.
Though they are yet merely an "a
sive waste of swamp and lake and jun
gle, / venture to predict that they will
be the location of hundreds of fertile
farms within ten years and will by de.
grees develop into one of the most pro-
ductive tracts Of land in, the world. The
barrier to the utilization of the ever
glades has been, of course, the water
which covers the greater part of them
to a depth of from one TO six feet. But
it has been found entirely practicable
TO drain off the water. Work to this
end has already been begun, and is be.
ing pushed rapidly. When it is com
pleted a tract of land 160 miles long and
sixty miles wide will have been opened
to cultivation. The size of this region
is not as important as the remarkable
productivity of the soil. The latter is
not only absolutely virgin, but has been
fertiliZed by animal and vegetable life
through many centuries. L am conf
dent hat its crops will lift Florida to
a place among the leading agricultural
states.
The project of draining the everglades
attracted the attention of Henry b.
Plant in the early COS, but he was by no
means sure that the scheme was feast
Bile, so /, acting under his direction, I'M
dertook an expedition through the re-
gion. Despite its proximity to centers
of population, it Was then for the first
time thoroughly explored by white men,
Ours was virtually a voyage of discov-
cry. We padded u light boats on
lakes n Camped on islands that, /
nave good reason to believe, had never
before been visited by any human be-
ings but Seminole Indians, and by these
but rarely. We underwent so many
hardships that some of u party were
compelled to urn back, but our eff
forts were not in vain. for we ascer-
tanned the important fact that the ever
glades along the whole 100 miles of the
eastern side are trimmed by a rock
ledge we furthermore learned tina all
of the lakes are several feet above sea
level. and we decided that there was
nothing whatever to prevent the water
of the lakes from flowing into the ocean
and leaving the land drained If vents
could be made In this long ledge OF
rock. The chief question before us per-
tanned to the practicability OF cutting
through the ledge in various places and
dredging out outlets into the Atlantic,
which is not more than two OF three
miles away at numerous points.
Experiment proved hat this work
would present no great difficulties. 1t
was merely a matter of a great deal
of digging. Henry M. Flagler took UP
the n~roject, and 1t is being carried out
by his ~lieutenants. We are not only
making artificial outlets through the
rock, but are also, by ditching and
dredging, turning large bodies Of water
into rivers and creeks which flow to the
ocean The work has progressed far
enough to enable me to predict conf
IDENTIFY the opening in Florida within a
very few years of a great tract OF land
OF almost unprecedented fertility.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04
TIE RENQkX.
~ M$MeEIHEXOEE.

self at all? Only towards commit Sur
eide. Ct Will kill him and let myself
be arrested. I shall be tried and shall
enjoy her sorrow and disgrace when she
Is called as a witness. / oan ever now
see her hide her face in shame when
my lawyer sums UP for the defense.
The sympathy of judge, jury and audi
ence will be on my side.
Here he was interrupted by the sales
man, who considered it his duty to en-
terrain his customer.
These monsieur, are new English
makes only just arrived; but again
assure you nothing equals the Amer.
lea make. A few days ago an Officer
bought one of these reyolvers from us.
He shot at the lover of his wife-and
what do you think, the bullet went
piano lamp, went through the piano.
killed a small spaniel and at last
wounded the wife. Wonderful effectl
and a great honor and advertisements
for our firm. The officer was arrested.
OF course, and will no doubt be sent tG
Siberia! First. because we live I'M.
der a~ntiquated laws; second, because
judge and jury always sympathize With
the lover. Why? Tout supplement,
monsieur, because they are all lovers Of
other mems wives and feel safer wheE
tAl& = 10 otIC ~ A@SV -
Russia. Society of today will be salts
fed when the government will send ali
husbands to Saghalien. The idea that a
mar should keep a wife for himself
alone is really atrocfous, and these fool
ish husbands will never learn to look q,
things in that light until the law teach
es them to do So" Z
THE idea Of being sent to Saghalien
for the sake OF such a hog! And tC
think thai when / was sent away shs
would probably marry again and de-
ceive a second husband. No; l will do
nothing of the kind. i will not kill my
self; / will not kill him, and not her.
I must find something which will pun
ish her more seferely. / know It'll will
stamp her as the faithiesss wife. l viii
begin suit for divorced"
IF monsieur will ook at this new
make of a hammerless revolver, abso-
lutely safe to carry in your pocket
But Sigajeff had reached a point
when he did not need any revolver, and
felt rather embarrassed for having
caused the salesman so much trouble.
II think" he stammered, hat / will
come back later or send somebody,
and
What is that?" he asked pointing
to q trap hanging on the wall.
A trap for quails."
Just the thing l want. How much
is ito"
Eight roubies."
Please wrap il up"
And the deceived husband paid his
eight roubles and went home to his
wife.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04
Crrom the Sioux CITY Tribune.l

lFrom the SIOUX CITY ~Trlbuhe.I
Fender, Neb., special: Prejudice and
poverty, creed and color-with q toss
OF his raven shock of hair, Black Hawk,
full-blooded W~innebago, has cast them
all to the four winds of heaven. He Is
Albert r., Nash now. and pretty Miss
Edna Theresa Kenton, a Philadelphia
p~aleface, is his bride-Mrs. Black
Hawk.
Not that there weren't countless OBJ
stacles. But Black Hawk swept them
aside just as his ancestors swept aside
their foes out in the prairie wilds years
ago. What mattered 1t to this SON OF
the plains that he was red and swarthy,
hat he was poor and a ward OF the
nation2 What mattered IL that he had
much to learn Of the white mans
ways Was ii not sufficient for him
that he knew something OF the white
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04

dian from the prairie, however clever
and good looking he might be.
This didn't keep the girl from grow
ing interested in the handsome abor-
igine. She introduced him TO her
friends and they liked him. too. But
their interest was wholly chronological
just as Miss Kenton's was, at first.
at least. AS a marriageable possibility
Black Hawk was neysr considered for
u moment Least OF all did Miss Ken
ton regard him as such. But that didn't
keep her from seeing the handsome
young red man every day and some
times more than nee a day.
Drexel institute did all 1t could for
Black Hawk and he entered the great
Phillips academy at Andover. Mas. 1t
was then, and then only. that the red
man and the pale face girl realized that
they had been separated. He wrote =
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04
Announcing a Subscription.

Philadelphia Ledger: A Birmingham
church warden was reading at a vestry
meeting a Est of subscriptions TO the
parochial funds. The list began as fol-
lows: THE vicar, a guinea; Mrs. -.
half a guinea; an donor. my
self, twenty-five shillings."
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04
Not Remarkable. but Queer

Public Ledger: Yes said the gray
haired traveller, I've still got the first
dollar / ever made"
That's rather remarkable replied
his new acquaintance.
mot at all. Since it was my first. It
was of course, very imperfect ana se=,
hard IN pass.0
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04
Fortune in II.

Chicago News: Timkins-So that min
ing enterprise of yours proved a failure,
Ell?
Simkins-Yes; a total failure.
Timkins--But 1 thought you said
there was a fortune in il,
Ssmkins-Well. mines In It.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04

philadelphia Press: SAY" sneered
the bulldog, you don't know much
about scientific fighting, do your"
Perhaps not" replied the porcu-
pine; 'if you want to try a little bout
with me, however, l. think I can give
you a few points"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04
peace a. Last.

philadelphia Press "Naggit and his
wife were having one OF their custom
airy Quarrels the last time I saw them
Yes. but they've decided never to
have another"
~"Indeed?"
Yes. they're applying for : divorce"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04
"a pos.;h;I;tv

Denver Republican: II presidential bus
mess Keeps on accommodating at the presen.
rate il may easily be that we shall have
to elect Roosevelt for another term In or
der to finish II up.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04
Literary Ball Games

Chicago News: "Homerl" shouted the
young man in the grand stand, as the
player paused at third base.
Dear n1e!' exclaimed the young lady
who was seeing a ball game for the first
time. II didn't know that ball games
were SO, literary"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04
How an Indian Won a White Bride

Black Hawk, Of the Nebraska Reservation, Courted . Phila-
deiphia Girl of Excellent Fa miiy. Won Her Heart and Married
Her Secretly sEight Months Later He Broke the News and Was
Forgiven %He Was a Distinguished. Athlete Of Drexel and Ap-
parcnly a Credit 10 Tribe of Red Men. " 70 ~
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04

Money.
Philadelphia Record: Money can ~
lost In more ways than won.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1905-02-24
The PrOspector.

The prospector is always liar. He
can not help it. The bright sunshine
reflects from the snow masses which
covers his beloved rocks, the vast
stretches of mountain ranges, looking
like frozen ocean spread before him
as he gazes from stan striking peak,
the vivid sunsets which he admires al
most daily, the exaggerations of the
atmosphere, his daily exuberancy and
abnormal bump of hope all these
make him liar even with himself.
Blessed be the prospector, and may
he, when his days are numbered, depart
to a realm where every rift in the
clouds disclose to his facinated eye q
pay streak of gold, and may he at least
depart to a place where there are
plenty Of canned Boston baked beans,
and a sufiiciency Of baking powder,
SOW bosom and flour. for the prospector
is the man who finds the mines that
furnish the gold for the world to do
business on.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1905-02-24
Edmund Ross.

Washington, d. c., Feb. 10. Ed
mund Ross, ex-United States senator
from Kansas, now a resident of Albu-
querque, was voted pension of $50 a
month by the house today. Ross was
the successor of James H. Lane He
voted against the impeachment Of Pre-
sident Johnson and was abused as few
other men who ever tried to serve the
state. When he returned to Lawrence
after the impeachment trial, Ross re-
marked sadly: even the dogs in the
streets would not make friends with
me"
Ross was elected to the senate be-
cause of his denunciation of James H.
Lane, Ross was editor Of a newspaper
printed in Lawrence and his abuse Of
Lane was savage. Ross of Kansas and
Henderson of Missouri, were retired
from public life because of their votes
in the impeachment trial. Henderson
is now living in Washington, is rich and
is leader in society. The pension
granted Ross is for his services in the
army. He was first a captain and later
major in the Eleventh Kansas regi-
ment.
The vote cast by Ross proved to be
his financial as well as political ruin.
He was in fairly prosperous circums-
tances at that time, but his subscribers
quit the newspaper and Ross found 1t
impossible to make a living. In later
years, Ross set type on small news
papers. Singularly Sidney &. Clarke,
who represented the entire state of
Kansas at one time, is now lobbying for
the passage of the statehood bill.
Clarke is now a resident of Oklahoma
and has represented that territory as q
delegate in congress.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1905-02-24
Advertising.

Money makes the mare go, but adj
vertising is the fire under the boiler
that makes the steam that makes the
engine whirl the wheels around.
Advertising is like q race-the man
who drops out is soon lost sight of.
Advertising is the lifeblood of bust
ness. Every good adj. is the stepping
stone to success.
Judicious advertising will start the
ball rolling and keep it rolling.
Continuous advertising creates conf
dence. The prevailing opinion is that
one cannot be constantly before the
public without being found out and
known for what he is.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1905-02-24
Miscellaneous.

The financial plank in women's plat
form is pin money.
When the Office seeks the man he has
a strangle hold on it.
The deserving poor are often those
who don't deserve to be poor.
The man who has sunshine in his
heart will show it in his countenance.
Whoever has good temper will
be sure to have many other good things.
Many a married man believes in the
control of one mind over another.
An old bachelor says there are nc
marriages in heaven because it is
heaven.
Don't hide your light under a bushel,
Use the bushel to cover you faults il
it's big enough.
Many a would be society woman isn't
in the swim deep enough to get hel
bathing suit wet.
There are many trusts in this coun-
try, but the poor man is expected tC
come up with the cash just the same.
Only God can tell how much wrong.
doing is prevented by one man doing
right.
There has never yet been a cloud il
this world that was not cleared away
by sunshine.
There is one consolation for the CIR
whose parents can't afford to send he.
to college: she would probably look
like blazes in cap and gown anyway.
When a woman carrying valisC
gets off street car, every woman in
the neighborhood says, "Goodnes,
hope she isn't coming here"
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1905-02-24

1t is easy to sit in the sunshine
And talk to the man in the shade;
1t is easy to float in a well-trimed boat
And point out the place to wade.
1t is easy to sit in your carriage
And counsel the man on foot;
But get down and walk, and you'll
change your talk
AS you feel the nail in your boot.
1t is easy to tell the toiler
How best he can carry his pack;
No one can rate a BURDENS weight
Until it has been on his back.
The upcurled mouth of pleasure
Can preach of sorrows worth;
But give it a sip, and a wryer lip
Was never made on earth.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1905-02-24


inhabitants, can only be guessed by
comparison with animal nature on this
small sphere of ours, More important
to us is a knowledge of ourselves
"KNow THYsELP" was an old Greek
thought. How to take care of ones
own body is not so simple as some think;
the human mechanism is a wonderful
thing and requires watching
One man who has done more to teach
the American people how to care for their
bodies than almost any other, is DR. r. V.
Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y, the Author OF the
Common Sense Medical Adviser" He
SAYS II is not the Srantity Of the food
eaten which produces strength and health
flor some people can keep strong ON a very
mcagrc dict) but IL is how much food u
absorbed and assimilated by the blood and
carried to nourish every organ Of the body.
II is, therefore, vitality necessary for the
body that the stomach be in q healthy
state II disease Of the stomach, or what IL
called stomach trouble" prevents proper
nutrition then the heart, liver lungs and
kidneys do not get proper food-they are
not fed on rich red blood, and In conse-
quence, begin to show signs OF distress.
Outwardly these signs may be pimples
and cruptious on skin, pale face, sleepless
nights, tired, languid feelings, or, by reason
of the nerves not being fed on pure blood,
they become starved, and we receive a
ud,HiRC in the pain we call neuralgia.
Rheumatism, too, is a blood disease. After
years of practice and study Dr. Pierce
found that an Alternative Extract, which he
named "Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Dis.
covcry, made from the extracts Of several
plants, invariably produced a tonic effect
absorption of the healthy elements in the
food and increased the red corpuscles IT
the blood, as we'll as eliminated the poisons
from the system.
Business is business No time for head.
aches Constipation causes them. Doctor
Pierces Pleasant Pellets cure them by cur.
ing the cause Laxative aud mild.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1905-02-24
Another Victim.

A fourth victim of an organization
known as the Fighting Division" in
Russia was the Grand Duke Sergius,
uncle OF Emperor Nicholas. One of
the division threw bomb beneath the
Dukes carriage, and the explosion tore
the imperial victims body to fragments
which strewed the snow for yards
around.
o, is this the only way Of redemp.
ton from despotism? Must all the
rulers in Russia be killed before the
people can have voice in that govern!
ment?
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1905-02-24

There is an anti-gambling bill drawn
in due form for presentation to the Ari-
IONA Legislature, but there doesnt seem
to he man in the assembly with suf-
icient courage to introduce it. Yet
three fourths of the people and a major
ity of the Legislature are in favor OF its
passage.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1905-02-24

Senator Burrows ba SEES his objections
to statehood for New Mexico on the
ground that polygamy exist. in the
territory; and he has been offered 81,
600 If he can name two men, in the
territory having plural wives.
Up to date he has not won the money.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1905-02-24
The Editor Had One.

us there literary club around here
anywhere?" asked the long-haired Wis
itor.
Yes" replied the editor, reaching
under his desk, ARE you a liter airy
MANI"
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1905-02-24
Beats 10 to |.

During the year 1904, there were
born at Carson City, Nevada, dfty-siX
girl babies, and about the last day in
the evening Of the year, a wee boy slid
down a ray of the aurora borealis into
a home in that city. He was the the
last of the lot for that year, and his
name is Finis or ought to be.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1905-02-24

bat" Masterson has been appointed
a deputy U. S. Marshal for the New
York City district. II there is any kill
ing to be done in that district, the right
man for the office has been chosen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

is now upon the motion of the senator
from Waldo to adhere. A., Co,
Mr.. STETSON: / move that tnt So SCI
ate insist, and that a committee Vi GU"
ference be appointed. 49,, ,o
The question being put. upon ilF mu
ton to insist. the Yeas and Nays W., W.
called for but a sufficient numoer aai,.u
to vote and the Yeas and Nays were ie
fused. ,:..;.,o,, w, g
The question being put. DIVISION wi =,
called for and had, Is senators NotIns ~
the affirmative, and II in the nes"'i'e'
and the motion to insist prevailed;
On motion of Mr.. Sturgls Oh Cuio ~, =
land. the Senate voted to reconsider tne
vote whereby the Senate INDEFINITE! pos.
poncd Resolve il favor OF WIDOWS rs. H.
land. The pending question was upon Tue
Indefinite postponement of the Dill
debate followed, for when see the Les
islative RecOrd) u,,, .,,..
On motion by Mr.. Morse OF WALDO the
On motion by MI. Clark or Hancock
the report of the committee on judiciary,
ma iOrity fought not to pass, minority
Fought to pass in new draft. ON he
solve proposing amendment to the con-
stitution tablishine the peoples veto.
was taken from the table. The same SEN
tor moved to substitute the minority re-
Uort for the majority report.
(For discussion see Legislative Record.
On motion by Mr.. HeSeltOn of kennebec.
the Senate here took a recess until
O'Clock p. Nj.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

On motion by Mr.. Allen of York. biil
AN Act to incorporate the Fan BROOK
Dam and Improvement Company. to-
sether with the report of the committee
on Judiciary fought not to pass, was tax
en- from the table. On further motion by
the same senator the bill was substituted
for the report On his further motion Sen,
ate amendment A was adopted. the bill
took it's first reading. and under SuSpen ,
sion of the rules took its second reading
and was passed to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr.. Brown of Eennepec,
the Senate adjourned 10 meet on Thurs
day. March %. 1865, 1T 10 O'Clock in the
forenoon.