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Nachrichten=herold. (Sioux Falls, SuÌˆd-Dakota) 1901-1907, 1905-06-22

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Nachrichten=herold. (Sioux Falls, SuÌˆd-Dakota) 1901-1907, 1905-06-22

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SurOpattins tpieoer gut MAIDEN, bat
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istttrten BaHeRifinRanO Der GrieOs
folgt, ju rtnommiren, tpie sr eptl. bic
Sapaner berm6belt baben unroe.
Nachrichten=herold. (Sioux Falls, SuÌˆd-Dakota) 1901-1907, 1905-06-22

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Delae oes lansen entnerbenOen 6rieoens
iiberiatt liRO, mohte es itbOn bebaeen,
tpegeu Der Rarotto.6rage nod sinmal
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nit ben einen 9ano cine Gault I'm Sad
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ausl6feln, tpeIne Der bsutIbe Raiier
sur fauOs abgepaBten 3eit ibnen eins
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Str internationalen Warotte=@ onTerenB
ihou gegeben nnb Der 8eutlbenIein0,
9oro Chamberlain bat io9ar ods 3us
seitdnonts MAIDEN mhhen, baB Der
goeutihe aoloB" 3ur 3eit tatIddli6
6err Der Situation in @uropa Iei
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breathless finality. you thought
that IL was like those-those other
women in the camp. And what are
you thinking of me now? Do you
dare to dream that the king" Turn
ing. she confronted the old warrior
fiercely. "Thorkel Jarl. ask you to
tell the Lord of Ivarsdale as quick
as you can what the king wants with
me-"
THAT I will not do" the Jarl said
quickly. "You know no prudence,
maiden. The Lord of Ivarsdale is
also English; a mishap might occur
if"
She flung the words at him: II care
not II I lose Canute his crown! If you
will not risk 1t, will tell him that
the king settles tonight with Edric
Of Mercia and his men. and that it is
to witness the punishment Of my kins-
mems murderer that he has sent Cor
me. As for my camp life, ask Rothgar
himself, or Elfgiva, or the king, or
any soldier Of the host! OF them all,
you alone have thought such thoughts
of me-" She flung up her hands
against him in kind of heart broken
rage. you! To whose high-minded.
ness I trusted everything l have!"
Hiding her face. she ran from them,
sobbing, into the house.
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thirst and fatigue he found himself
in possession of fine stretch of coun.
try over $4,000 acres in extent After
leasing this land for ten years he
sought fresh territory and marched
over into Tierre del Fuego.
He was the first Briton to pene-
t-ate into the country and the natives
resented the intrusion The tall Aonas
and the stunted Yaghanas came in
hordes, attacked his little castle and
lay in wait for him with arrows
An intrepid rider and an unerring
shot, however, he would ride away
concealed by the horses body and
shooting with deadly effect. For sew
eral years he carried his life in his
hands, but at last the savages began
to regard him with such respect and
fear that they christened him "Sorto,"
the native equivalent for "the devil"
For some years the Scottish pio-
neer has been uAdisputed monarch of
TERRA del ,Fuego. where he has
amassed a fortune. 1t is with the
bagpipes that he rules.
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That you were coming tonight to ask
1t, have the reward ready. Never
was recompense given with a better
will" Leaping to his feet, he hurled
the goblet in his hand against the op-
posite wall SO that it was shattered
on the stone behind the embroidered
hangings. At the signal the tapestry
was lifted, and in the light stood
Eric Of Norway. leaning on a mighty
battle-axe. To him the king cried in
loud voice. all the irony gone from
it, leaving it awful as the voice of
Thor at Ragnarok. DO your work
where all can see you, Eric Jarl, that
no man shall accuse me of being
afraid to bear my deeds. And let Nor.
man Leofwinesson die with his lord
for the Staying of Erode of Avail
comb"
A roar of hideous sound-a con.
fusion of overturned lights, of screech.
ing servants, of writhing struggling
bodies-above it all, the vision of that
glittering axe poised in the air-then
flashing downward-Randalin's recol
ieSliouo piulIeu, ldu lOS6lutE, and
faded out in broken snatches.
She recalled a brief space of some.
thing like sleep-walking as the SOL
diers led her through branching cor.
her attendant the only woman avail.
able. wench they had taken from
trencher-washing in the royal kitch-
en-. She remembered irritably re-
jecting the woman's clumsy services
and sending her to sleep on her pal.
let, while she herself walked to and
fro with her surging thoughts until
sheer physical exhaustion forced her
to throw herself upon the bed. After
that she nothing.
Il am glad that did not disgrace
my kin by screaming or fainting," she
reflected now. as she raised herself
stitfly. Il am glad l did that much
credit to my name" She flushed as
her hand touching the pillow, found
It wet, and for an instant the bearing
Of her head was less erect. II do
not remember what | dreamed" she
murmured, but full well know that
it was not because Norman Leof.
winesson is slain that shed tears in
my sleep" For a while she dropped
there, her eyes on the open window
outside of which a robin was singing
bliIhely among the cherries. But all
at once she seized the pillow with a
kind of fierceness. and turned it over
and piled the others on top Of it. cry
'rg under her breath. How dared
- How dared he! will shed no
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Shrewd Trick Of Banker

James Edoff of San Francisco and
the Auditorium Hotel tells how the
game Of high finance was worked out
IN Nevada in the SOS. He says:
Il had quasi uncle who was a
banker in town we will call Rose
bud in Nevada. l was employed in
his bank, where saw some things. l
can tell you. The distance from Rove
bud to Howling Mill was 14O miles
and there were more holdups on that
section of road in those days than
anywhere in the United States.
"A man We will call r. d. Roberts,
millionaire, came into the bank one
morning and told my uncle he wanted
to buy exchange for $4,000 on the
bank Of Howling Hill.
"'All right said my uncle; 1T will
cost you $500
Roberts declared it was cheap at
the price.
Now, my uncle had no account
with the bank at Howling Hill and no
funds there. He had to draw on a
San Francisco bank and request them
to arrange the exchange for him. All
this he told to Roberts.
When Roberts was gone he said to
me: Jim, go out and get candle
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box When l brought in the box he
packed 1t full of sawdust, put $4,000
in the middle of the sawdust, nailed
down the box and addressed il to the
cashier OF the Howlng Mill bank.
Il remember the stage wheeled
right up past the door of the bank
ard on the front seat by the driver
sat Roberts. My uncle came cut
with the box as the stage drew up.
"'Here. Roberts, catch this he
called. and he tossed up the candle
box to Roberts. AS you go by the
bank in Howling Hill throw it down,
will you? It's some quartz of some
mines here they want to look at.
Don't forget it
"'All right. l won't said Roberts.
and he tossed the box into the boot
along with other odds and ends.
That's how Roberts carried his
own money and paid $500 for the
privilege" concluded MIR. Edoff.
Mr. Edoff is rich and prosperous
now and is developing literary turn.
He is thinking strongly of writing a
book of his "reminiscences of early
Nevada and California. He has hun
dreds of true stories. all as good as
this one he told recently.-Chicago
Chronicle.
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ed to the wearers of Britain. It is
too fiamboyant in style. There is an
extravagant female clientele over
there, delighting in the most expens-
i've and obtrusive gems, which has no
existence on this side Of the channel"
Mr.. Newbegin gave it ss his opin-
ion that the stocks in the great jewell
ry shops of Regent street and Bond
street amounted in value to close on
G5,OOO,000. Single stones costing
from $4,000 to $1,000 are by no
means uncommon.
This great wealth, while it rests in
British hands, finds work for British
labor. The foreign jeweler opens on
ly one or two rooms in London. All
his work is done abroad. He imports
his manufactured jewelry free OF
duty, sells it at high, profit. and the
money goes back to his native land
without the payment of any income
tax to the British xchequer.-London
Daily Express.
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Stories OF Old QAya.

You never hear good stories now
The dear old-fashioned kind
To satisfy the mind.
/ wish someone would tell few
Like those we loved of old;
The ones we used to think were true
The stories mother told.
When l was just n little chap
AS soon as 1t was night
I'd climb up into mothers lap
And she would hold me tight
And tell Of fairies. giants, and
OF warriors brave and bold
Never have tales seemed half so granC
AS those that mother told!
Tale after tale she'd tell-and then.
When she would say she'd done,
I'd always make her start again
And tell another one.
Until at last, all tired out
My eyes would lose their hold
On wakefulness-Td dream about
The tales that mother told
Then. by and by. there'd come a knock.
And she'd let father in.
And as she pointed at the clock
He'd give a sickly grin;
His business kept him late. he swore
And he'd explain and scold.
Till mothers tales looked pale before
The stories father told!
Cleveland Leader.
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Carved Out a kingdom

In new kits and plaid and playing
a pibroch Of triumph on his pipes,
John Farquharson Macrae, formerly of
Scotland, but now of TERRA del Fuego,
strobe the gangway of steamer in
Liverpool the other day, bound once
more for South America. During twen-
ty-two years, spent for the most part
among the hostile natives of the
lands end of the Western continent,
Macrae clung to his pipes as he clung
to his Scottish accent. When he had
no human companion to converse with
his pibroch resounded over the wat
ers of the Magellan strait.
AS youth he left his native heath
for Argentina and reared cattle. At
ter few years he found himself in
possession of 500 horses and couple
Of thousand sheep.
These animals he marched 1900
miles, with the aid of compass and
chart, to southern Patagonia. He
watered and fed his flocks and herds
with only five men to assist him, but
at the end of year of hunger and
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Break Il Gently,

Richard LIE Gallienne spends much
of his time in New York. He affects
a decidedly poetical fashion in his
hair. which calls for sparing use Of
the shears. Near his lodgings is a
German barber shop, where he fire.
quently drops in to have his shoes
polished, but never for tonsorial at.
tention. much to the disgust of the
proprietor. who is possessed of the
true barber hair-destroying instinct.
The other day as the poet left, after
one OF his usual visits, customer
heard the barber say to the boy:
"See here, Fritz, der next dime dot
shentlemans comes in to get his shine
wants you to say Something's to him
aboudt dot shameless hair he got.
Doan get fresh. and make some Of
fenses-shust hint delicate. Say,
Boss, you looks like shackasses wild
dot hair; Why doan you git him cut.
already?"
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Value Of the Forests

river valley forests had the tremen-
dous effect of lessening SO great an
area OF water as the Caspian sea.
figured the comparison. and found
that, pro rata, six feet OF water would
be taken OF Lake Superior. eight of
Lake Michigan. eighteen OF Lake
Erie and twenty-seven OF Lake On
tario. / was staggered.
Then l found that deforsstation. as
we call 1t, has robbed the Vistula river
of twenty-six inches Of water. the mag
nificent Rhine OF twenty-eigh inches,
and the beautiful blue Danube of
fifty-fve inches. Let me hit you nearer
home. The Hudson has been called
drowned river because the sea en-
croaches upon it. But you're drowning
it more now by your deforestation.
and you'd better hurry up with these
Adirondack lands. The salt water
now, they say, goes up to Hastings.
The Schuykill is less In volume
than ever. So is the Mohawk. and SO
is the Connecticut. Even the fish left
the lower part of the Savannah river
but they're trying to do something
with that water now.
Another queer thing is that Chris
topher Columbus son. Fernando. who
crossed the ocean with him. was the
first man to start the question OF for
ests causing rainfall by his observa-
tions Of the wealth Of vegetation on
the Island OF Jamaica. New York
Cup
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A Dream Dispelied.

There was once an observing young
woman who took note of the fact
that the men seemed to be abashed
when in the presence of the maid who
ruled the kitchen.
So she went to cooking school and
took thorough course in culinary
science, graduating with honors.
On time she married man, and
she insisted upon getting the meals
herself.
But. alas! instead Of standing in
awe of her and allowing her to boss
the house he was quarrelsome and
dictatorial, and she was little better
than slave.
At last she threw herself at his feet
and begged him to tell her why a
man was not as much afraid Of his
wife as he was Of the cook.
"Huh!" he responded. I'm not
afraid you'll quit your job and disor.
ganize the household system"
This shows us that conditions knock
the plausiiblity out of theories right
along.
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CHAPTER XVII.
The Twilight Of the Gods

As she had seen it from the gal
1ery where the kings soldiers had
hidden her. Randalin saw again the
great stone hall. enshrining a feast
ing table around which throng of
mobiles in their gorgeous dresses and
their jewels and their diadems male
glittering halo. At the farther end.
the king sat in his shining gilded
chair. Just below her was Edric Of
Mercia with Norman Leofwinesson
beside him. The light from the taper
which a page was holding behind Nor
man of Baddeby fell upon the gemmed
collar that was his principal orna.
ment. The collar had been her faith.
er's; she could not look at it without
seeing again his ruddy old face with
Its grim mouth and faded kindly
eyes. Beside this vision rose another
the vision of this beloved face dead
in the moonlight, with Fridtjof's pear
II, his brave smile frozen on his young
lips. From that moment. softness and
shrinking died out in her bearing as
out Of her heart. and her blood was
turned to Gre '-!thin her-the liquid
fire OF the North.
When the ~ave ~ goodwill and TO-
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Sir Arthur SuIIivan's Error.

Sir Arthur Sullivan was at one time
greatly worried about what appeared
to him to be bad inconsistency in
THE Lost Chord" Sir John Robinson
tells the story: THE words are: I
struck one chord of music like the
sound Of great amen Now amen
is word Of two syllables SO that
there must have been two chords. He
did not notice this, he said, until after
the song had been sung in public, and
he was terribly afraid he would get
laughed at for it. Strange to say, no.
body ever seemed to have found it
out"
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j ewelry Of the World

London is the greatest mart in the
world for all precious stones. Hither
are brought from the mines of South
Africa, from the ocean reefs of Cey-
Ion, from the jungles of Burma, dia-
nonds, pearls and rubies. The finest
stones in the world are bought and
sold in London.
Britain is very proud of it's jewelry
trade. Whatever they may say in
Paris" remarked c. E. Newbegin,
managing director of the Goldsmiths
and Silversmiths' Company, 112 Re-
gent street, to an Express representa-
tive recently, the fact remains that
wealthy clients from all the world
over come to London to buy jewelry.
I'VE are not insular in our IDEAS"
continued Mr.. Newbegin. I'VE 90 to
Paris once or twice year to study
now designs. and sometimes we dis
cover something original. But, as a
rule, the jewelry Of France is insult
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Burmese Lack Of Grit"

Mr.. O'Connor thus sums up the Bur.
cese character: THE real fault of
the Burmese character lies in its lack
of grit Continuity of purpose, steady
determination. the faculty Of depth
these the Burman lacks. And the ex-
PLANTATION simply lies in this-that he
is racially still child; a very clever
and promising child with great apti-
tudes. with much latent power and
singular sweetness Of character, but
with the faults. the passionate temper,
the cruelty, the want Of self-control of
a child"
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Port Orford's First Twjns.

The population of Port Oxford is in
creasing at a 2:4O gait The stork be.
slowed its blessing upon the home of
George Forty last Sunday at 2:3O p.
m, and dropped into the arms of the
happy parents a daughter for each.
The doctor says they are as fine twins
as he ever saw, and that all parties
are doing nicely. They are said to be
the first twins born in Port Oxford
and the whole town is delighted at
their arrival. Here's to your health
and your family's, George; may you
all live long and prosper" and may
the example you set have many fol.
lowers.-Port Oxford (Ore.) Tribune.
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CAMEL Is AN oUTcAsT.
Perfect Picture Of Mental and Moral
Oepravity, Says Traveller.

Perfect Picture Of Mental and Moral
Oepravity, Says Traveller.
ANY ordinary horse on the street
might feel insulted at being named in
the same class as a domestic animal
with that four-legged impassive We
hicle, the camel" writes traveller.
Fidelity in a camel does not exist
An artist might as well depict a de.
voted crocodile fondling lost child
as faithful dromedary standing over
the corpse of its fallen master. Lock.
wood Kipling touched the core of the
matter when he avowed that a man
might as reasonably lavish his affec.
ton on baggage wagon. In short
the camel Is an unredeemed boor
more british than a mule, less sen.
sible Of endearment than even of ex.
tremes Of temperature and weather
Its virtues are of the body, its great
endurance compensating for a men.
tai and moral depravity that must be
labeled nothing sort of amazing"
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How many leaves do you think a
tree has?' asked the man who hal
read it all up, stopping his friend in
the park. 'Of course you don't
know. Some birches have 200, ,OOc,
and each leaf has 100000 mouths. l
know Of a sixty-year-old beech that
had $4,000 leaves and a thirty-five-
year old one that had only 5000.
Those $4,000 leaves, dried, weigh
ed only ten pounds, and the 5000 dried
only three-quarters Of a pound. But
they do tremendous work in a season.
During a spring and summer birches
and lindens have been found to ex-
hale 600 or 700 pounds of water per
pound OF dry leaves; the ash tree
about 500; beeches. 400; naples. 400
and oaks. $50. The conifers give out
about 100 pounds a tree. To stagger
you still more. an acre of beech for
est OF, say, 500 trees would exhale
about 100000 pounds.
"And the funniest part of it all to
me is that the water in a tree, or
the moisture, really amounts to more
than half the weight of the tree, or
from So to 60 per cent, while the wood
weighs but 40 to As per cent. In a
big forest what you don't see weighs
more than what you do see Funny,
isn't it.
AS to forests and water" contin-
ued the tree man, Il learned that a
partial cutting down of the Volga
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| lowship had reached it's height, like
| one who would ride in upon the crest
the Gamer rose to his feet and be
gan speaking to the king. The first
words Randalin heard distinctly were
Canute's. as he paused with upraised
goblet to look at the Mercian.
Strangely do you ask" he said
why should l give you more than
Edmund gave your"
She had no difficulty in hearing
Edric this time. Agsressively honest,
his words rang out with startling
sharpness. Because it was for you
that l went against Edmund, and from
faithfulness to you that afterward
destroyed him."
Out Of the stiffness that followed.
. voice cried, Are you mad?" and
there was the grating of chairs thrust
hastily back. But. after great
wrench, her heart stood still within
her as through the madness she per-
ceived the purpose. AS well as Edric
of Mercia she knew that the young
Vikings vulnerable point was his
craving SO unreckoning in its fervor
that-should he have the guilty con-
sciousness the traitor counted on
rather than endure his own reproach
for cowardice he would be equal to
the wild brazenness OF finging the
avowal in the teeth Of his assembled
court. Her pulses began to pound in
a furious dance as the same flash Of
intuition showed her the rock upon
which the Gamers audacious steering
was going to wreck him.
For no skulking guilt was in the
face Of the new king Of England as
he met the startled glances, but in
stead kind Of savage Joy that widen
ed his nostrils and drew his lips away
from his teeth in a terrible smile.
Now much do l thank whatever
god has moved you to open speech,
he said, "for with every fiber Of my
body have l long wanted to requite
you for that faithfulness. Knowing
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TRAVEL IN THE oLpeN TIME.
Loufs Joliet Had Few Comforts on
Long Voyage.

loufs Joliet Had Few Comforts on
Long Voyage.
II was a clear September day in
Montreal. 1872, that Louis Joliet, .
young Canadian. in the dress of q
'coureur du bois." ran down to the
river and. placing his gun in a canoe,
already provisioned with bag Of corn
and bag Of tobacco. sprang lightly
into the boat and was soon breasting
the strong current OF the St. Law
renee. The man carried a commission
from the French government author
izing him to lead an expedition from
Mackinac to discover and explore the
great river of the West. conjectured
to empty into the Gulf of California.
He also bore q commission to jacques
Marquette. Of the mission Of st. L.
mace. to be his assistant and com.
panion in the proposed expedition.
The prospect OF lonely voyage of
thousand miles in a canoe cansed
Joliet no apprehension OF discomfort;
for a companion had he not his gun.
for warmth and cheer his camp fire.
for solace his pipe? And for protec-
tion there was his inverted canoe, be-
meath which he could sleep unmindful
Of the elements.-L. X. Becker, In
Four-Track News.
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CHAPTER xxvI.-continued.

Anger leaped from the young
0oble's eyes as. in his turn, he came
between her and tine Jarl. He said
forcefully, mo one shall ask anything
Of you that you do not want. nor shall
any king compel you. Yet think |
have 4 right to know what his will
is with you"
you have not" the Dane contra
dicted. DO you think the kings pur-
poses are to be opened to the sight
,of every Angle who becomes his man! !
kEmd this talk. maiden. and give me
your promise to be obedient."
She gave 1t in a cry Of despair, Il
tmust-1 know 1 must" then sought
to make peace with her lover by lay
ing caressing hands on his breast.
But for once the Etheling's will did
not bend to her coaxing; his mouth
was doggedly set as he looked down
upon her. ~ trust no man l do not
know" he answered, "and I do not
know Canute the man. You have no
cause to reproach me with lack of
faith in you, Randalfn, for when every
ihappening-eyen your own words
made it appear as If it were love for
Rothgar Lodbroksson which brought
you into the camp. looked into your
eyes and believed them against all
else"
Love for Rothgar Lodbroksson?"
she repeated, drawing back. Then
you did believe that could love Roth
Igar?" Her voice rose sharply. "You
believed that followed him."
Too late he saw what he had done.
'"I said that I did not believe it." he
cried hastily. What l thought at
first in my bewilderment-that could
not be called belief
But she did not see; to hear his ex-
plnnation as she stood there gazing
,at him, her mind leaping lightning
like from point to point. 'It was that
which made you behave SO strangely
in the garden" she said, and she
spoke each phrase with a kind of