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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-03
Learning and Work.

Cincinnati Enquirer. The establish
ment of institutions Of learning for his
benefit is not the way to bring the col
ored brother out properly. OF course,
he should have the means of learning
how to read and write. He should also
have instructions in other branches
that come somewhere within the defin-
ition of common school education"
What he Is IN greatest need OF is a sit
uation n encouragement to work.
The same is true of many thousands OF
white men. Higher education has car
ried a great many young men out of
their environment, and they have been
made useless members OF society. The
university is not the panacea for all
deficiencies. To be plain and homely
about 1t 1t Is impossible TO make a silk
purse out OF a sow's ear. Moreover.
there has to be a tremendous contin-
gent OF "hewers Of wood and drawers
OF water" The demand for wood-hew-
ers and water-drawers Is a thousand
times greater than 1t is for men with a
knowledge OF Greek roots. And. on the
average. the wood and water workers
are a great deal the most useful mem
hers of society.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-03
Alice RooseveIt's Gift to an Empress.

rIOIl lIc Al~liliICdpclIS JOui
When Miss Alice Roosevelt met the
empress of Japan during her recent
visit to Toxic. the latter was very
much impressed with the gown Miss
Roosevelt wore, particularly the way in
which it was stitched. Miss Roosevelt
explained that the work was not done
by hand, Japanese fashion, but by an
American inyention--a sewing ma
chine. The empress said she would
like to have one of the machines. Miss
Roosevelt said she would be happy to
send one. Then she cabled her father
at oyster Bay to have one made.
The machine is now in the curse
of manufacture at Elizabethport, N.
j. 1t Is to combine the most clever
American workmanship with great art
and beauty. 1t will be gold trimmed
and the fractional parts will be of the
finest polished steel. 1t will be sent to
Japan by special messenger, the pres
ident having SO directed. The messen-
ger will be an expert n he will ex-
plain to the empress the way it Is
worked
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-03
A Trinity of DANCERS.

From James Nj. Buckley's "Fanaticism
in the United States in the December
Century: The trinity OF dangers which
the republic has to fear are immortality.
indifferentism and fanaticism. immortality
produces one or the other. according to
temperament. Unfortunately, In the body
polite, indiferentism and fanaticism do
not antidote each other. The one is dry
rot; the other, combustion and swift de-
struction. Men who love their country
enough to be glad to serve II, and are wise
enough to steady II: who honor the law,
and therefore are careful what laws they
enact; men who can hasten ultracon-
servatives without losing their hold upon
them. are able to check fanatics with
out driving them to dotous, extremes: men
who discern where reform ends and de-
struction begins. who wish to possess only
what they can assimilate and benehcentiy
govern--these In each generation can save
the state. n these only.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-03
CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE THUNDER OF THE CAPTAINS
AMI THE GH1IrTING

The camp was astir early the next
morfiing. and IL soon became noised
about that we were to fall back, but
only 30 tar as might be needful TO find
a strong position. From this 1t was
evident that a battle was imminent.
though as yet there We're no signs of
the approach of the patriots.
From the camp talk we. Tybee and 1.
CLEANED some better information OF the
situation. A fortnight earlier Major
Ferguson had captured two OF the over
mountain men OF Clark's party and had
sent them to the settlement on the Wa
targe With a challenge in due form
or rather with the threat TO come and
lay the oyer-mountain region waste In
default OF an instant return OF the
pioneers to their allegiance to the king.
This challenge. sc our scouts told us,
had been Immediately accepted. Sewer
and Shelby had embodied some two
hundred men each from the Watauga
and the Holston settlements, and Col
mel William Campbell, the stout old
Presbyterian Indian fighter. had joined
them with as many more V~irginians.
Crossing the mountain these three
troops had fallen in with other scatter
| ed parties OF the border patriots under
Benjamin Cleaveland, Major Chronicle
and Colonel Williams of South Caro-
lima, until now, as the scouts reported,
| the challenged outnumbered the chal-
lengers. Learning this. Ferguson. who
was as prudent as he was brave,
thought Ii best to make his stand at
some point nearer the main body OF the
army; and so the Withdrawal from Gill
bert Town had fallen into a retreat
and q pursuit.
From what Captain de Peyster has
since told me, there would seem TO be
little doubt that the major to
fight when he had m~anoeuvered him.
SELF into a favorable position; this in
spite OF Lord CORVALLIS commands TO
the contrary. In his dispatches he was
continually urging the need for a bold
push in his quarter and asking for
Tarleton and q SUFFICIENT number OF the
legion to enable him to cope with a
mounted enemy. But be this as II
may, the garbied letter / had brought
him turned whatever scale there was
to turn. He had nov with him some
eleven hundred regulars and Tories. the
latter Recently well drilled; he had
every reaso to expect h needed help
from CORVALLIS: and. on the night Of
my arrival. he had word that anothef
A Tory force under Major 0iggs would
Join him In q day or two. at farthest
For his battle-ground Major Tergu-
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-03
XXXVIII.
IN WHICH WE FIND THE GUN
MAKER

AS you may be sure, Major Patrick
ferguson was far too good a soldier to
leave his camp unguarded on amy side,
and whilst we were yet a far annon
shot from the glimmering fires a sem
try's challenge halted us.
To the mans Halt! Who goes
there?" / gave the word Friends"
~:salving my conscience for the needful
aie as I might.
Advance, friends, and give the
tersign.''
/ confessed my ignorance of the
nfght-word. saying that we We're a
paroled prisoner and a bearer OF dis
patches, and asking that we be taken
to Major Ferguson's headquarters.
There was some little cautious demur-
ring on the part of the sentry, but
finally he passed the word for ghe
guard captain and we were escorted 10
the tent OF the field commander.
I marked the encampment as l. could
in passing through 1t. The little army
was tfifec-fourths made up OF Tory
militia; and there was drinking and
song singing and a plentiful lack OF
discipline around the camp-fires OF
these alixiliaries. But a different air
was abroad In the amp OF the regu-
lars; you would see a soldierly alert
ness on the part of the men, I'M there
was no roistering in that quarter.
Major Ferguson's tent was on a hill
ock scnse distance back from the
stream, ana sthiJiler we were conduct
ed: we, ! sas. meaning Tybee and my
self, for Uncanuola had disappeared
like a Whit of smoke at our challenging
on the sentry line.
Late as Ii was, the major was UP and
hard at work. His tent table, trans
formed for the time into a mechanics
work bench. was Uttered with gun
barrels and tools and screws n odd
shaped pieces OF mechanism-the dis
jointed parts of that breech-loading
musket OF which the ingenious Scotch
man was the inventor.
Being deep in the creative trance
when we came upon him, the major
gave us but an absent-minded greet
ing, listening with the outward ear
only when Tybee reported his mission
and his capture and parole.
From my lord, We say | hope ys
left him WE'LL was all the answer ths
lieutenant got, the inventor httins
away at his gun-puzzle the while.
Tybee made proper rejoinder and
stood aside TO give me room. 1 drew
a sealed Enclosure from fny pocket ant
laid ii on the work bench table.
II also have the honor to come from
my Lord CORVALLIS. bringing dis
patches"-so far I got In my cut-and-
dried speech, n then my tongue CLAW,
10 the roof Of my mouth and / couls
no more finish the sentence than coult
a maj suddenly nipped In a wise. In
stead OF the carefully uoctored original
i had given the major the duplicat'
dispatch taken from Tybee.
All my dears. that was a momen
for swift thought and still swifter &C
tion: and tits the Ireton genius to b
slow and sure and no wise "gleg q
the uptak',v as a Scot woul say. Re
for this once my good angel gave m
"a prompting and the wit to use 1t. 4
that elock-tick of benumhing despai
when the success OF the hazardou
venture, IND much more that / wis
not OF. hung suspended by a hair owe
the abyss of failure, I minded me Q
Il Ioyish trick wherewith l used t
fright the timid blacks IN the old day
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-03
The March of Liberty.
Leslie's Weekly.

Europe already has two republics
Switzerland and France. The American
continent has twenty-ope, beginning with
the United States and Mexico, n extend
Ing through the West Indies and Central
and South America to Cape Horn. Vir-
tually, too, Canada is a republic, and so is
Australia. But the sway of the republi-
can ideal does not end here. BY far the
Of the parties in the reichstag
of the German empire Is the socialist,
which aims to establish a republic. Re-
publicanism is powerful in Austria, Italy,
Belgium. Denmark and every other Euro
pean monarchial country. The republi-
cans In Spain are laying their plans to
repeat their experiments of thirty years
ago, when opportunity offers. John Nor
ley has called England a crowned re-
public"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-03
Difficulties Of Language.

From the washington Star.
The man who wants to pronounce every
proper name he sees In print laid down the
lexicon wiped his brow.
1.-THE Japanese and Russians may be
induced to cease lighting" he remarked.
Yes
They may cease lighting" ne continued.
but Z will be q long time before they
are on speaking terms"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-03
The Wronu Ian,

From the Cleveland Leader.
Fair Visitor-Here, my poor man, are
some roses for you. What can 1 do to
make you comfortable?
Prisoner-Guess you're maxim a mis-
take, lady.
Fair DISQUALIFICATION?
Prisoner-Im only here fer porch-climb-
in. Yer'l find the guy that killed his wife
in tn next cell.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-03
SUSPICIOUS.

From the M~eggendorfer Batter.
"But. Rosa, IL you have no TALENT Tor
PAINTING, why not a up chemistry
> Impossible, papa. The other members
II the Emancipated club would think 1
was trying TO learn cooking in a round
about way"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-03
Mo More GUESSING.

Yonkers Statesman: Church-"I see
the attorney general is going 70 stop
all this guessing business in the news
papers"
Gotham-"Whom do you suppose
that's aimed at? The weather bu-
rsau?"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-03

Only one out OF every 1000 married
couples live to celebrate their golden
Wedding.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-03

Catarrh OF the Blsdder and Kidney Trouble absO-
iutsly cured by DR.. David Kennedy's Fsyorite Rem
sdy. World famous for over 80 years. 4l.W q hottie.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-03

the moving around If their appetites were
satisfied. Be careful to use nall
in this manner Of feeding, wheat
being probably the best for the purpose.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-12-14
AMUSING ADVERTISEMENTS.

An advertiser in a British magazine
says: "Old artificial teeth bought Call,
or If forwarded by post, utmost value per
return. Messrs. Smith, manufacturing
dentists Oxford street, London. Es-
tablished 100 years"
From the London Morning Post:
"Irish lady, much reduced income, would
be most grateful to lady (young, medi-
um size) who would give her left-of
clothes to help her maintain social posi-
ton; references. Address -"
notification appears in o Surrey
(Eng) newspaper from a GuildfCrd
chimney sweep to the effect that, owing
to the increase in his business as a
sweep, he is unable to accept musical
engagements for public concerts, etc"
A tailor in Boston, Lincolnshire, Eng
land, has hit upon a novel advertise
ment. He has painted letter of his
name on the back of each of ten tor
toises and has placed the ten in the win
dow of his shop. He offers a prize Of
ten dollars to the first person who sees
the tOrtoises in line, so arranged that
the letters are in the order in which
they appear in his name.
OF eccentric advertisements the Lon
don Chronicle remarks: Probably to
the end of time respectable women will
want washing though it is hard to
reconcile their respectability with their
lack of personal cleanliness. Butchers.
too. who are prepared to kill anything
when in search of employment, are wen
matched by the dealer VITO, wanting a
salesman, predicates that he must 10
alive when wanted"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-12-14
IDEAS OF INVENTORS.

One OF the machines exhibited at the
dairy show recently held in London
was neat contrivance by which but
ter could be made out of fresh milk
in 60 seconds at the tea table.
Thewests gold output may be doubled
by the invention of resident of Colo
RADIO City. 1t is a simple machine for
saving flour gold. is run by a gasoline
engine, and may be taken anywhere.
Experiments on twiCe-treated tailings
or mine refuse show an accumulation
of five and one-half pounds of gold
in ten days.
An ingenious respiratory apparatus
for the use of firemen has been in
vented by Charles E. Chaplin, of Berke-
ley, Cal. 1t consists of a hood lined
with oiled silk to cover the head, and
an air cylinder whicn is strapped on
the back. The cylinder is divided into
three chambers, carrying under
pressure that can be regulated enough
air 70 last an hour.
TIE best paper cloth so far pro.
ducet seems to be that made by
patented process used in SaXOny. One
kind Is spun and woven from narrow
strips of paper; a second variety con-
tains cotton with the paper; and a
third grade-the best-results from
mixture of wool and paper. The new
material-though not so strong and
durable as ordinary cloth - yields
cheap, serviceable, and even washable
clothing.
An electric generator to be driven
by the draught of a locomotive IS
curious recent invention. The entire
apparatus comprises a fan motor
placed in the smoke stack, an electric
generator and auxiliary flues near
the bottom of the boiler. The theory
is that under certain conditions the
draught from the smoke box will sup
ply the fan with considerable power.
This will operate the generator cause
an electric current tC heat the aux
iliary tubes, and thus deliver the ey-
cess of energy of the exhaust to hea:
the water in the dead" space Of the
boiler.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-12-14
GOOD BLOOD FOR BAD
rheumatism and Other Blood Dis
eases are Cured by Dr.. Williams
Pink Pills.

"In the lead mines | was at work on my
knees with my elbows pressed against
rock walls, i'll dampness aud extremes of
cold" said Mr.. J G. Meukel, of 2975
Jackson avenue, Dubuque, Iowa, in de-
s2ribng his experience to a reporter,
"and it is not surprising that | COIL
tracted rheumatism. For three years |
had attacks affecting the joints of my
ankles, knees and elbows. My ankles
and knees became so swollen | cOuld
scarcely walk OH uneven ground and
little pressure from a stone under my
feet would cause me so much pain that
would nearly sink down. / was often
obliged to lie in bed for several days at a
time. My friends who were similarly
troubled We're getting nc relief from
doctors and | did not feel encouraged to
throw money away for nothing. By
chance | read the story of Robert Yates,
of the Klauer Manufacturing Co., of
Dubuque, who had very bad case of
rheumatism decided to try DR.. Will
! liams' Pink Pills for Pale People, the
remedy he had used. In three or four
weeks after beginning to use the pills, |
was much better and i'll three months L
was well. The swelling of the joints
and the tenderness disappeared, L could
work steadily and for eight years have
had no return of the trouble. My whole
family believe in DR.. Williams Pink
Pills. Both my sons use them. We
consider them household remedy that
we are sure about"
What DIR. Williams Pink Pills did for
Mr. Meukel they are doing for hundreds
OF others. Every dose sends galloping
! through the veins. pure, strong, rich, red
blood that strikes straight at the cause of
all ill health. The new blood restores
regularity. and braces all the organs for
! their special tasks. Get the genuine DR..
! Williams Pink Pills at your druggists
or direct from the DR. Williams Medi-
cine Co., Schenectady, NY.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-12-14
Owes Life TO PRAYER.

Louisville, Ky.-Thomas Langdon. {.
switchman, believes his delivery from
instant and horrible death was due to
prayer instantly answered Lang
don was crossing the tracks when his
foot caught in frog. At the same mo-
ment a switch engine came down the
track He set up a cry which was not
heard and at the moment when the en-.
ginc struck him, Langdon, who has al.
ways been a religious man, prayed for
deliyerance from death. The pilot
struck him, passed entirely over him
and at the moment when the front
wheels. which had grasped his cloth.
ing we're about 10 pass over his body.
the poudcrous machine came TO a dead
halt Laugdon was removed from be.
meath the engine and was found TO be
only slightly bruised. The engineer
says he neither saw Lauglou nor heard
his cry, but that he stopped his engine
because something told n!m that he
should.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-12-14

when I got strong enough | broke
through the quarantine guard and got
to Col Roberts, who had succeeded
Col. GreeEough as commander at
Manila. ! was fined six dollars and
sent back to the hospital prison |
still owe Uncle Sam the two fines,
amounting TO $11. He owes me for
about years enforced service in his
army, and refuses TO pay.
"On September 2G, 1902, an order
came from Gen. Chaffee to send me
back to the United States. / was
placed on the Sheridan, which sailed
from Manila on October /, and dropped
into the brig like any deserter. AS
soon as we landed in San Francisco
| was hustled off with the other pris-
oners to the Presidio, and there at.
tached as a prisoner to the Ninth cav
airy camp. | lived III tent, and for
two months | worked about the res
ervation with the other prisoners.
Exactly a year to the day-Decem'
Der 22-an order came from Washing
ton to discharge me-"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-12-14
AWAKES TO FIND
HIMSELF IN ARMY
BRooZIYN MAN HAS A WEIRD
EXPERIENCE.
FALLS ASLEEP IN FRISCO
OPENS His Eyes in Honolulu and Dis
covers He Is a Soldier En- Route
to Philippines-Protests
in Vain,

New York.-Sleep overcame him in
San Francisco. He awoke in Homo
lulu, prisoner in guardhouse, wear
ing the khaki fatigue uniform of a
private in the United States army. To
say that he was much astOnished
would be to put it in its mildest form.
He had not the least recollection of
having enlisted in his country's serv-
ice. His dazed eyes looked out on a
strange land. He had lost all trace
Of time. Even his name had been
changed
The man who had these weird ex-
periences is Frank J. Belyea in the
army records. He lives in Greenpoint,
n. Y, when he is at home He is a
graduate of a well-known eastern uni
versity and went west soon after TAX
ing his degree in engineering.
For a time he was employed as a
civil engineer. Then he tried his hand
as cowboy. He was a miner and
prospector with Indifferent success.
December, 1901, found him in San
Francisco. Christmas was only two
days off. and the bright lights of the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-12-14
Facts and Proof.

Hulett, Wyo., Dec. Attn (SpeciaO Am
ounce OF fact is worth a ton of theory,
and it is evidence founded on fact that
backs up every box OF Dodd's Kidney
Pills. The evidence of people who know
what they do. Mrs. Mary Ta5er, highly
esteemed resident of Hulett, says:
Il know Dodd's Kidney Pills are a
valuable medicine because / have used
them. | took seven boxes and they
cured me of severe attack Of Kidney
Trouble. They relieved me from the first
dose, and when | had finished the last
box had no pain and my Kidneys are
now acting properly"
Dodd's Kidney Pills are now recognized
all over the world as the greatest Kidney
Remedy science has ever produced. They
cure Rheumatism, Dropsy, Gout, Lum-
hago, Diabetes, Urinary and Bladder
Troubles, Bright's Disease, and all dis
orders arising from any form of Kidney
Disease
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-12-14
CHANGES FROM CHILD
TO 1o-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Remarkable Transformatio Wrought
in Miss Mary Scally in 48 Hours
Her Strange Malady.

Morristown, n. J.-Miss Mary Scally,
pretty 19-year-old girl of this city, has
just experienced something little less
remarkable than a resurrection. In
deed, the astonishment and awe Of her
friends as they crowd around her, look
into her eyes and feel her hands, scarce
ly could be greater if she had come back
from the grave.
The marvellous change was wrought in
4S hours. In every respect except as to
her physical stature Miss Scally haG
been as a little child. She drank milk
from tube. She was guided when she
walked as though she were tottering
babe. Her only interest in life was the
jingling of toy rattle. She could not
talk and her eyes wore the innocent,
aimless look Of an lS-months-old infant.
Learned physicians had tried in vain to
loose the spell.
Her aunt, Bridget ScalIy. who lives
with Mary and the girls father. Patrick
Scally, had given up hope OF the young
woman's recovery and had settled down
to care for her in the same way that sho
would for a baby when the girl, within
two days. leaped the span of 19 years of
mental development. And the working
Of this wonder left science as ignorant
as ever of the why or wherefore of the
psychological mystery.
The girl, strapped in her roller chair
and sitting at the window playing with
a rubber doll saw an exhibition of fire.
works which had been left over from
election time. The vivid lights and
flashes seemed to send forth waves of
force which penetrated into the dark, in
accessible depths of her mind and
straightway began to illuminate them.
The girl quickly but gradually recovered
her reason and consciousness. Her
first exclamation was one of thanksgiv-
ing
All of the other five children of the
household are overioyed at Mary's re-
cOyery, but nevertheless gaze upon her
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-12-14
CHEAP WAY TO SHOW OFF
to Lend an Appearance
of Wealth.

The portly woman in the cross scat Of
subway car was conhdng IN her thin
friend in n voice which was heard above
the rattle of the train, relates the New
York Press.
II had just picked out the table | want
ed-a trim little thing to fit in a corner Of
my paror-when who should come in but
that Eorrid Mrs Shoddy. | wouldn't have
her know, for the world, that ! was pay
ing Only $3.50 for the table, so | turned
to one marked SIS before she saw me.
g Buying table% she asked, with that
deceltfu! smile of hers.
Yes | said coolly. Il have almost
decided upon this one l said, pointing
out the expensive affair.
You should have seen her face.
Isn't it rather expensive" she said.
oh, no. ! said. You can't expect
to ret good things for nothing. Send
that table to my address, l said to the
salesman III pay for it on delivery
Then | walked out. | Iaited outside un-
til Mrs. Shoddy went away, then ran
back to the store, countermanded the or
der for the SIS table, and took the one
for $3.50. | was sorry afterwards that |
hadn't selected a table worth about 500,
just to spite that woman"