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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-10

The afternoon session Of the senate
Friday took up the general appropria.
ION of the house and amended it by
adding $4,000 a year for the Spring
field normal school. The motion on
which this was done was made by
Chairman Branson of the appropria-
ton committee, who at first reported
the bill to wipe out the institution.
The amendment was accepted without
a dissenting vote and the bill returned
to the house for concurrence.
This was refused by a vote of Al
against for As for concurrence. On
motion of Chairman Turner of the
house appropriation committee that
committee was selected as the house
cOnferees. being antagonistic to the
normal. No report is expected until a
late hour.
Other principal house bills passed
by the senate were: To allow cities to
acquire property outside their limits
for sewerage purposes, and empower
ing cities to sell or lease municipal
water plants. which is the last of the
Sioux Falls bills to clear up their wa
ter works tangle.
The senate killed the Carroll house
bill to allow sureties on official bonds
to limit their liabilities. Carroll has
pushed this bill through the house at
two different sessions and both times
it has fallen in the senate. The house
calendar has got down to a point
where the principal bills are cleared
out, about the only measures of gen
eral importance left being that to Gre
ate a state standard fire insurance
policy and increasing the salary Of
public examiner.
Both houses started the evening SEES
sions with calendars SO nearly clear
that the waiting will have to be on the
appropriation bill and the work of the
e~ngrossing forces.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-10
CATTLE PRICES TO BE HIGH.

Cattlemen generally throughout the
range are feeling much pleased over
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-10

JUST SEM THIS NOTICE AND 16c.
and they will send you their big plant and
seed c~atalog, together with enough seed
to grow
1000 fine, solid Cabbages,
1000 rich, juicy Turnips,
1000 blanching, nutty Celery,
2,MO rich, buttery Lettuce,
1000 splendid Onions,
l,OOc rare, luscious Radishes,
1000 %gloriously brilliant Flowers.
In all over 10000 plants-this great offer
Is made to get you to test their warranted
vegetable seeds and
ALL FOR IT. 16c PosTAGE
providing you will return this notice, and
II you will send them &c in postage, they
will d to the above a big package Of
ealzer's Fourth of July Sweet Corn-the
Cory, Peep o Day. First Of All, etc. Nv. .U.l
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-10

The simple life is never found at the
bargain counter.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-10

The secret of power, intellectual or
physical. Is concentration.-Walph
Waldo Emersono.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-10
THE STATE LEGISLATURE

come in: requiring instruction in pub
lie schools, as to the effects of alcohol
and narcotics on the human system;
to provide for the organization Of life
insurance companies under the laws
of the state; making notes for light.
ming rods and patent rights non -nego-
table, and locating a northeastern hos
pital for the insane at Watertown The
last named measure was contested as
an extravaganza at the present time,
but it passed by a vote of 50 to 80.
The senate had a wrangle over the
Deadwood water bill. Cooper offered
an amendment, which was refused, and
it was announced that from this time
on it was to be a fight to a finish on
the measure, with no compromise.
The senate cleared a long senate
calendar, the principal bills being:
To reduce the legal rate OF interest
from IL to 10 per cent; providing for
a state standard frs insurance form.
and changing the date of the closed
game season from April Is to Sept. 1.
The senate passed house bills to appro-
pirate SIS, 900 for a building at the
Aberdeen normal school, and the Irvine
plant bill to locate a mandatory at
the ~penitentiary.
The Van Osdel resolution to make
pass-taking by public officials or their
families a felony was killed Thursday
nv q yoto nf re IN CE on motion IF lnl-
man, who said every man on the floor
except Van Osdel carried passes in his
pocket, and that there was no use Of
playing hypocrite.
The fight 10 a finish promised by
the Deadwood people on their water
bill in the senate came to-day, and af-
ter the smoke had cleared away, the
Deadwood people had been defeated
by a vote of SO to s. They are now
in worse condition in regard to getting
a city water supply than when they be-
gan the struggle.
The house bill to allow condemna-
ton of property for sewer purposes,
an Aberdeen bill, so closely followed
the Deadwood bill in some particulars
that it went down, but is back for re-
consideration and will be amended.
Gov. Elrod to-day appointed as the
members of the state live stock COM
mission, under the provisions of the
new dipping bill: Frank w. Stewart
Of Buffalo Gap, Frank c. Huss of Pc
dro, David r. Jones of Ipswich, c. l..
Eakin of Blunt and Daniel ]. Stafford
of Wakonia.
The senate accepted the house eau
Gus bill and the one providing a pen
atty for operation of bucket shops.
Both houses passed a resolution
memoralizing congress to create a de-
partment of mines and mining with a
chief of department.
The Springfield people have won a
complete victory. The senate amend
ed the house appropriations bill plac.
ing their normal school appropriation
IN the bill and the house will accept it.
The house to-day crowded along
more rapidly than usual with it's work,
clearing its calendar early in the fore
noon and handling a number of IN
ate bills. The only contests were
owe the appropriations for the state
fair at Huron, which met some opposi-
ton, but only enough to make itself
felt in talk but not In the vote.
Gov. Elrod to-day signed the CAPT.
toll building bill.
The afternoon session Of the senate
Friday took up the general appropria.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-10

The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse.
Wis, always have something new, some.
thing valuable. This year they offer
among their new money making vese-
tables, an Earliest Green. Eating Onion.
1t is a winner, Mr.. Farmer and Gardener!
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-27

New York, July 26.-Plans have been
completed for an effort by an exporting
company Of this city to extend Ameri.
cah Commerce TO foreign countries. A
floating exposition will be equipped and
sent on a tour Of the world. "The Am.
erican Floating Expedition as 1t will
be called will start from New York in
January 1906.
IL will carry q limited number Of sam.
pies OF various merchandise Of American
manufacture, the samples to be display
ed at each OF the ports where stops will
be made. Space will be allotted to ex'
hibitors and statesmen on the ship.
The trip will require 10 months and
over 10000 miles will he covered. 1t
will include Europe, Asia, Australia,
South America, and Ports in Central
America, and the West Indies. The
steamer will carry surgeon, and COM
petent interpreters OF German, French,
and Spanish. -
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-27
SUGAR RATE CUT.
Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Make
Concession to Western Refnnts.


San Francisco. July 26.--The South
ern Pacific and the Santa Fe companies
formally announced a reduction in the
rate OF refined sugar between this city
and the Missouri river and points in
Kansas and Nebraska from fifty cents
to twenty eight cents hundred pounds
in carload lots.
The cut has been made to meet c cut
made by the lines operating between
New Orleans and the same points mcn.
toned above, and for the purpose Of pla-
cling California refiners on an equal foot
ing with southern competitors. Recent.
ly the lines operating out Of New Or
leans, among them the Illinois Central,
the'Frisco, and several subsidiary lines
of the Southern Pacific, dissolved their
agreement relative TO sugar rates AMI
entered upon a war that ended few
days ago in the rate being cut from -
cents TO 10 cents hundrer pounds.
As result the California refiners
found themselves seriously handicapped
in their business and finally appealed
for relief to the lines running out of the
city, with the result that the cut was
made. The reduction, the officials claim,
brings the east bound rate down to the
lowest point in the history of western
reiicing
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-27
DREADFUL PolsoNs.
The Fumes of Mercury Methide WIZ
Produce Incurnhle IdiOcy.

The Fumes of Mercury Methide VIII
Produce Incurable Idtocy.
'The more dreadful polsons," said a
chemist. "are only known to few
men. Mercury methide. for instance,
the inhalation of whose fumes pro-
tiuces incurable ldiocy, can be manu-
factured by two Italians and by no
one else In the world.
"Dhatoora Is poison used In India.
II, too, produces incurable idiocy. A
British army officer told me of a sad
case-a case Of two rival tailors, one
Of whom gave the other a small dose
Of dhatoora. The victim OF the drug
remained an idiot all the rest OF his
life. He sat and moved his empty
hands as though he were sewing. lie
was a formidable rival no longer.
"Mercaptan produces melancholy
so great as TO terminate nearly always
in suicide. No government would per
nit the manufacture and sale of this
poison.
"Dhatoora, mercury methide. mer'
captan and some twenty other polsons
are neither made nor sold in any pub,
lie way. They are only experimental
with. Such poisons would be formid
able weapons in unscrupulous hands
Driving their victims to suicide or tC
insanity, they leave behind them moth
ing suspicious or untoward. The giyel
Of these poisons is secure from any
fear OF punishment
Hence it is no wonder, is it tha'
the learned men who know such pol
sons keep their knowledge to them
selves.-Chicago Chronicle.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-27
CAREFUL OF THE FIRE.
fhe stingy Hotel Keepers Of sDain
ana Southern Italy.


and Southern Italy.
In the smaller hotels Of southern
Italy and OF Spain, writes Mr.. Hart
In Two Argonauts In Spain" the un-
fortunate tourists slowly freeze. The
landlords display a touching solicit
ude about the stove, On days when
fire Is really needed to keep the guests
warm they sometimes spend half their
time trying to keep the servants from
putting too much fuel on the fire.
To prevent Americans and other
pyromaniacs from meddling with the
fuel they often keep the coal bin lock-
ed. II is touching spectacle to see a
group Of Americans shivering round a
little stove: to see the servant enter,
take out a key. unlock the coal bin.
put two or three spoonfuls Of coal In
the stove and then lock the bin again;
10 see the gimlet eye OF Granada
landlord fastened on him from the Of
Zee: then to see the hapless Americans
sink back into their overcoat collars
and wish they were back home.
As an instance OF the desperation tc
which these cold hotels drive people
once In a Levantine hotel saw an
elderly spinster seat herself in front
OF the stove In the mems smoking
room, with her hair down, while an
elderly female friend gave her dry
shampoo.
To the suggestion Of the scandalized
sevants that she should finish this
intimate toilet operation in her owr
room she replied briefly that she had
found the only warm place In the no
tel and proposed to finish the shampoo
| there, which she did.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-27
THE ElLLINoIs CENTRAL.

Maintains unexeelled service from the
west to the east and south. Making
close connections with trains of all
transcontinental lines. passengers are
given their choice of routes to Chicago
Louisville, Memphis and New Orleans,
and through these points to the far
east.
Prospective travellers desiring infor-
nation as to the lowest rates and best
routes are invited to correspond with
the following representatives:
B. H. TRUMBULL, Commercial Agent
l42 Third ST., Portland. Ore.
J. C. LINDSEY, Tfav Passenger Agent,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-27

daily papers through an organization
Of capitalists whereby two pages VI tho
papers are TO be printed at one central
place ard distributed TO the towns
where the remaining two pages are to
be printed with the local news.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-27
ATTACKS MONOPOLY.
Arkansas Attorney general Attacks n
ternationsi Harvester Co.

Little Rock, Ark, July 28.--Attorney
General Rodgers has filed suit in .ha
Pulaski County Circuit court against tn,
international Harvester Company Tor
penalties aggregating 100000 for al
legged infringement Of the antitrust
law passed at the last session of the
general assembly. The complaint re-
cites that the company Is monopoly
within the intent and meaning of the
act, for the purpose Of regulating the
prices Of haryesters and fixing their
output.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-27
NEW VENEZUELAN Law.
Regulates Distribution Of Income From
Castros' Customs Department.

Washington, July 26.--Norman Hutch
inson, in charge OF the American Iega-
tion at Caracas, yenzuela, has eahled
the department Of state that the NcD-
zuelan congress passed new law rro-
uIating the distribution of income from
customs. 1t is.Ggured that twenty fye
million bolivars will be the maxnuuri
income, sixteen millions from La Guara,
and Puerto CabelIo and nine millions
from all other ports.
All canfieting laws have been super
seeded. The American equivalent Of the
bolivar Is twenty cents.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-27
FLOATING EXHIBIT
Exporting Company Win Extend
Commerce.
EXPOSITION ABOARD SHIP

Company In New York Obtains Ship
and viii Place Displays Of American
Products on Board. Ship to Visit
Foreign Countries to Further Trade.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-27
NEWSPAPER COMBINE.

Iowa Weeklies to Consolidate and Be-
come Daiies.
Washington. July 25.-Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General Degraw, has
made public communication from his
department which states that fifty
weekly papers in various towns and ei-
ties in Iowa, are to be tranformel into
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
Russians soGdcn With Drink.

American Medicine believes that.
chronic alcoholism may explain in part
the japanese victories in Manchuria.
The soldiers Of the Mikado are mostly
total abStainers, while observers with
the Russians dwell repeatedly on the
drunken orgies of officers and men. The
immortality and drunkenness in Port
Arthur are said to have been so flag
rant as to be beyond description in
European or American journals. Ameri-
car Medicine feels, however, that it is
not occasional drunkenness, but habit
ual hard drinking, which does the mis-
chief. It declares that the mental de-
%terioration of "old alcoholics" is so
well known to physicians that public
ignorance in regard to it invariably
surprises the medical profession. 1t is
nlso hopeful that the American nation
will take the lesson OF japanese sue
cess to heart and not bestow military
places upon chronic alcoholics, so prone
to false ideas, perverted reasoning
powers, and enfeebled judgments" In
the British navy men who drink are
promptly shelved, however different
the practice in the days of Nelson.
But it will be a long time before our
graduates Of West Point and Annapolis
are held up to similar standards. Even
though, rs American Medicine predicts,
the temperance movement is bound to
win the fight with alcoholism, it will
probably be decades before Abraham
Lincoln's joking wish TO supply every
general with the same brand Of whis-
key used by General Grant becomes
an illustration of a bygone social Or
ler.-New York Post.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
Terlnerance Notes.

The cause of temperance has made
marked progress in Denmark during
he last quarter Of q century.
There are now about 10000 mcm-
tcrs of temperance societies in Dem
mark. and the Danish Congress ap-
Dropriates annually Il large SUN 20
further the movement.
The Toledo Blade states that there
are 100 saloons in that town and that
linety-five per cent. Of them are owned
y brewers who are responsible for The
open violations of the laws concerning
The sale Of liquor.
\ Springfield GLASS; physician who
committed suicide. after shooting two
men ard attempting to kill his be-
:rothed, is said to have attributed his
thirst for liquo- aud his h0micidal ten
lencies to the fact that his nurse in
infancy was Il woman who drank in
toXicantS.
In New South Wales temperance
teaching has been introduced into the
schools within the last year. In the
other states of the commonwealth all
that is done as yet is 10 give occasional
temperance lessons, AID to hang Up
temperance wall sheets il schools, hut
an earnest agitation is being carried on
snr more than this.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Proclamations on the part of China
r~etaliating upon the United States fo1
the exclusion laws have been making
their appearance in the Chinese quar-
tiers about Honolulu and the other Ha'
waiian Islands.
The steamship Alameda brought a
box of snakes, some Of them rattle
snakes, on her last trip, for exhibition
in a Honolulu zoo. Efforts were at
once made to prevent them being land
ed, as there are no snakes in the ISL
ands, and it has been a policy of long
standing to keep them out. Escapes
from the zoo were feared. The reptiles
were all killed before they got through
the Custom House by Collector Stack
able.
Chinese postersin Honolulu announce
anonymously that all Americans enter.
ing China will be fumigated at the port
of entry and must pay S. a head to
get in.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
CHAPTER III.

I must make mention of a peculiarly
in my habits to which I have been SUBJ
ject from my earliest remembrance. I
am a somnambulist It is not my pur.
pose to enter into any discussion Of this
fruitful theme; l am simply recording
those facts which bear relation to my
strange story.
Often in my youthful days was l
followed by my nurse and relatives in
the night, while I was walking in my
sleep, and carefully watched, in order
that I should not come to harm. My
wanderings were generally of a harm.
less kind, and sometimes afforded mer.
riment, as on occasions when I made
my way to the larder and helped my
self to the good things deposited there.
But there was one occasion when they
took a more serious turn.
I slept on the second floor of a semi.
detached house. In the adjoining house
resided a mana widower when I first
became acquainted with him-with a
little daughter, between whom and my
self some innocent love making took
place. The father of this little girl,
whose name was Elsie, married again,
and the stepmother was not kind to
the child. Indeed, when the father
was absent from home Elsie was cru
ely treated by this woman, and I used
to hear her cries through the wall
which divided the two houses. Elsie
slept also on the second floor, in the
room adjoining mine, and when she
was beaten in the night I could hear
her appeals for mercy very clearly.
These sounds greatly distressed me,
and my child-mind was excised as the
means by which I could rescue my
little sweetheart from the torture to
which she was subjected. On n
occasion business took the father from
his home for two or three weeks, and
during this time Elsie's undeserveG
punishment-I was sure it was undei
~served-was sharper and more FREE
quently administered. She showed me
the marks of the blows on her skin, and
1 remember crying excitedly:
II will kill her! I will kill her"
To be continued.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
London's Winter F'ocs.

London fogs have been %legislated
against, have been bottled, analysed,
dissected, inquired into and "sat upon
by endless committees, but We still
know no more about them than about
the aurora borealis. Only a couple OF
years ago the London County Council
took them in hand. A committee OF
experts was formed to investigate the
causes, cure, distribution and all other
eccentricities of fogs. Their report
stated that fogs could not be traced to
any special locality; that they seemed
to be rather the result Of general at
mospheric conditions; that a London
"pertikler" was usually formed by
sucking in suburban fogs and mixing
them up with the pail of smoke that
Invariably hangs over central London;
that fogs rarely occurred when the
temperature was over forty degrees
F., and that they were most frequent
after a night ten degrees colder than
the preceding day. / have seen estl-
mates which place the direct and indi-
rect loss to London by fogs at over
$50, 900. 900 q year. One day Of really
severe fog will cause the metropolis to
consume enough gas and electricity, in
excess Of her ordinary requirements.
to supply a town Of 10000 for a whole
year. Moreover. 4 fog mean 4 heavy
casualty list. The great fog of 1850
increased the mortality of London by
1904 in three weeks. The fog which
ended on January .. 1892. after en-
shrouling LonGon without %intcrlnis-
sion for Il fortnight OF end, caused an
excess of 14S4 deaths in one week.
Sydney Brooks, in IIarper's Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
ALWAYS Precise.

Del Valentine tells of a Kansas cler-
gyman he once knew WAC prided him
SELF on his precise and s~crupulous use
of words. One Sunday this good man
was praying for elevatinG grace and
renewed working force. "Oh, Lord
he pleaded. "waken Thy cause in the
hearts Of this congregation ami give
them new eyes to see and impulse to
do. Send down Thy lever or ieev-er
according to Wcbster's or Worcester's
Dictionary, whichever you use. and
Dry them into activity" This lawyer
and some of his friends who happened
to be there snorted just a little aid the
Amen" followed quickly and with a
jerk.-Kansas City Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
FOREIGN.

American Ambassador Conger was
officially presented to President Diaz
Of Mexico.
All Havana was in mourning over
the death of General Gomez, and $15,-
900 was appropriated for the funeral.
The Norwegian Storthing adopted q
reply to King Oscars letter, the act Of
secession being upheld.
In the explosion in Khantsisk. South
Russia, in the Ivan colliery, 500 per-
sons were killed.
Swedish residents in Norway urged
1 pacific settlement upon King Oscar.
France agreed to an international
conference yer Morocco.
Princess Margaret of Connaught and
Prince Gustavus AGolphus Of Sweden
were married at Windsor Castle, Eng
land.
Advices from Paris, France, said
that the situation regarding Morocco
was strained, but not grave, France
and Germany having almost reached a
deadlock. Premier Rouvier has de-
cided to retain the post of Minister Of
Foreign Affalrs.
Colonel o Wissmann, former Gov
errcr OF German East Africa, acciden-
tally shot himself in the head while
Devastating at Fischern, near Liet-
zen. Syria. His death was instanta-
ueouS.
The German steamer Tetartos was
sunk on May 80 by the Russian auXil-
larry cruiser Don, according to advices
Just received at Lloyds, London, Eng
land. Her crew was landed at Bata-
via.
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Com
pany, according to q report from Lon
don, England, will Don establish a
passenger service between Southanp-
ton ard New York CITY