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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

A Japanese fisherman has caught at
Honolulu a new and strange fish,
which, so far as known, is unique. The
fish is called the frog fish, because OF
fhe fact that besides fins and gills it
four well developed legs and feet,
tho feet being even provided with toe
nails.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

The monograph has been turned to
account In the teaching of foreign LAM
guaEses. In some English schools
French is now taught In this way. The
machine delivers suitable specimens Of
French oratory, poetry and songs while
the children listen and acquire the ac-
cert.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27
WRECK ON
Freight Train Ditched at Warner il.
Brown County,

Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. 20.-Late Mon
day night a special freight train at
Warner was wrecked and on Tuesday
all southbound Milwaukee trains were
run owe the Northwestern tracks be-
tween Aberdeen and Wolsey, s. d. The
wreck was caused by a broken journal
on a a loaded with barley, which
caused five cars to leave the track.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

Officials I'm the Italian army have
been troubled over a question of tailor
ing IL Is not q matter of tunics or
.Iheaddress, but of officers trousers. of
(which 1t is said that their infinite va
lriety exhausts all the colors of the
spectrum. A limited scale of appro-
pirate shades Is being submitted to
vote and on the result viii be based a
selection which will simplify army tall
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27
CHOLERA APPEARS IN SWINE.

: Huron. s. D.. Oct. 2i.--A disease.
somewhat similar to cholera. and fully
as fatal. has made its appearance
among swine In this locality. A mum
Der Of farmers have suffered the loss OF
hogs and although various remedies
have been applied the disease continues
to spread. 1t Is thought that when
cold weather sets In the trouble viii be
CHECKED.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

Most people think white grapes make
white wine and dark grapes make red
wine. 1t Is a popular error. Red wine
is made by fermenting grape juice and
craps skins together. and white wine
Is made by ~fermenting grape juice
lore.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

An English railroad company recently
had one of its employees arrested on the
charge of stealing a trowel. At the
trial II developed that 10000 trowels
had been stolen from the company in
two years. and the officers thought that
Ii was time TO stop this little leak.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

The SCATTERING effects of lightning
upon trees may be accounted for. in
some degree. by the sudden evolution
of heat and expansion OF gases in the
wood and the vaporizing OF the water
In the sap. A veritable explosion may
thus be caused
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

Di. Albert A. Van der veer. of AL
bany. N. ". has just received one OF
the highest honors that can be given
to "A surgeon. He has been chosen
president OF the National Surgical as
sociation, His works on surgery are
standard.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

Frankfort has just celebrated the
centenary OF the fr~ankfurter. The in
.ventor of the famous sausage was Jo-
ham Lahner, a citizen Of Frankfort.
who opened a pork shop in Vienna in
179S. In 1905 he invented the sausage.
1t was received with open mouths, so
to speak. Even the emperor ate 1t.
Lahner made his fortune. Frankfort
was proud.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

More than 49, 600. 900 visits are paid
every year 10 London p~awnbgokers.
The exact figures are on the average
$1,000 times a day. Throughout the
whole country the number of pledges
is said TO amount TO 1901 900. 900 per an
nun.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27
rc-siOuI City Independent List.
DoubIy Poor.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
II am a poor man." a John a. Nc
Call. And" he might rave added. "a
poorer life insurance president"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

rfr. Feathertop-Just a moment, Miss
Tartum Let me tell you what / think
Miss Tartum-Certainly; / can wait lonG
enough for that.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27
"Smooth" ANYWAY.

CDR. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy cared
me Of Bright's Disease and Gravel. Able physicians
failed" Mrs. L. 2. Miner. BurGhill. o. S1O0 a botLS
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27
Could Spare Time for That.

5Irs. Winslow,s soorHING SYRUP ror Chiidrsn
teething; softens the gums, reduces Inflammation. 81
lays pain. cures wind collie. 2j cent o bottle
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

find Piso's Cure for Consumption the
best medicine for croupy children.-MrA
r. Callahan, ia Hall street. Parkersr
burg, w. Va, April 16, 1901.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

Al Frenchman Who died In Corssanti-
nople recently. left $4,000 III his
nephew. ~. D'Albi. who lived IA Paris.
to Cossstartinople 70 fetch the legacy.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

Carrie Nation was for once silenced
by a quick witted conductor in south
missouri recently. A half intoxicated
imam was talking, when Carrie stood
jup and said. Conductor, do you per-
init drunken people TO ride on your
ltrain?" Yes, / guess So" replied the
imam I'm the uniform, III you keep still
land behave yourself" Carrie sank
Unto her seat silenced.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-27

Users of tobacco should, according
to a German Investigator, filter the
lsmoke from their pipes through cotton
the fumes of the essential oil, of the
hydrogen sulphide, the cyanhydric
acid and about half the nicotine and
its products OF decomposition are got
rid of, while the smoke is not deprived
of it's aroma.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-25

the spehcn on the Monsouons. Cut tt~,
differ from them IN form and feature.
They are tall and well-built OF bronze
color, the hair is wavy sometimes
tightly curled not like that Of their
Eskimo nelghbors They are inclined
to be stocky and have great powers of
endurance
Az in Lapland the people may be
! cossed as coast people and reindeer
people. The reindeer people are stur-
dier. but they often come down to the
coast and mlngle with their klnsfolk,
bringing deer and skins to barter for
goods obtalnable there-fsh, seal,
meat. tobacco and tea and whatever
else the foreigners have brought Ia.
The Chnkchees are very independ-
ent. self-suficing people. who do not
take over words or customs from other
races. such as the Eskimo, whom they
find here and there along Behring
straits, or the Kamtchatkans, whom
they touch on the south, or even the
Russians. who have settled as traders
in certain spots, or the Americans
whom they meet on the coast. They
fabricate their own words for foreign
ers and foreign things. The Russians
they call Malhi-Tannitan, 'fretools
foreigners" or else Leluremkin
bearded people" The American
whalers they call Lelutvilit, "whisker
boat men," from Lelutvet, "whlsker
boat"--as If the long whiskers of our
whaling captains had impressed them
forcibly. Another term is Pnaukulit or
'file mongers from PnaUxum, whet-
stone. probably because iron files were
traded by the Americans for skins, but
their language knew only the stone
which the iron article supplanted.
Only fourth Of the Chukchees dwell
on the coast, and they have a pretty
hard fight for subsistence. suffering
from famine. diseases brought by sail
ors and the dangers attendant on a
ishermans life The reindeer Chuk-
chees are a healthy race, have been
little affected by foreign influence.
Within Chukchee territory reside
few Russians. Lamuts and Yakuts;
the Lamuts are people of northern
Kamtchatka, the Yakuts a picturesque
folk inhabiting a wide territory in
northeastern Siberia.
The Chukchees have peculiar Gus
toms. games and sports, and these are
described in a book that is now in the
publishers hands a work by a Rus
sian. Pan Waldemar Bogorus. For
seven years Bogorus dwelt among the
Chukchees on the River Kolyma.
whose waters empty into the Arctic
ocean; and spent two years more in
Kamchatka. Anadyr, and the Chukchee
peninsula. The record of personal ex-
periences among this little known peo-
pie will be of greatest interest.
ALFRED WHITEHOUSE.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-25

RACE DWELLING in FAR COR
NER OF ASIA
Sturdy and Independent ~ Once
Taught the Russians Lesson
Coast and Interior Chukchees
Differ Very Materially.

Who are they. where do they live?
rhe name sounds Indian. are they
Americans? They are crowded pretty
Rose to America. as close as they can
Eet without falling into Behrng
straits. They dwell 10 the uttermost
northeastern part of Asia, in far east
srn Siberia.
Get out your. map and you will mo-
lice. unless your map Is like three or
four provoking ones came across be-
fore lighting on one that allowed Asia
her last fraction of territory, that
there is great peninsula stretching
put from Asia into Behring straits and
almost touching America. This is the
land OF the Chukchees, people whose
name implies they are rich in reindeer.
The Chukchees are little known
people. An occasional whaler comes
back with tales of coast Chukchee, an
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-25

occasional northern expedition brings
to the outside world some scant knowl-
edge of this stalwart people, a people
sufficient unto themselves. A writer in
the New York Times says: "As their
land has apparently neither gold nor
coal. it will not be worth the while Of
Russians or other civilized peoples to
invade their land and destroy them. "
They are a prolific people, number
to-day about 10000 The Chukchees are
strong and courageous, and they have
convinced the Great Bear of this fact.
The Russians endeavored to test their
courage in the years 1870 and 1747,
and both times were defeated. At last.
in 1854, they abandoned Anadrysk, the
furthest northeast fort. Some time
later intercourse was renewed between
Russians and Chukchees, and since eff
fort has been made by the cars not
to offend the people way up there at
the edge of the world.
The ChulIchees' language is akin to
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-25
Thanksgiving Box

The Daughters of the Confederacy
will send box to the Confederate
Home at Peewee Valley, which will
be packed in the Flack building
Monday, Nov. 9th. No canvass will
be made for donations, but volunta-
ny contributions will be thankfully
received.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-25

Never have we known so much
quail shooting as this fall, and ev-
eryone who goes into the field finds
something to shoot at.
The sun., 1905-09-10
line in other capa cities.

line in other capacities.
Besides the vast army Of nearly hve
million women roilers in Germany, it Is
interesting to note that. there were s,!ls
women employers. As in the case Of the
workers these include practically every
form Of industry. AS a rule. the women
had inherited the business from parents
or husbands and in majority OF cases
they carried 1t on with the aid OF men
superintendents or managers.
In the case Of the self-supporting women
1. .O89 OO7 are classified as -sebststandige,
or independent; that is to say they work
on their own account, while 3,I45, 455 held
situations at stated wages.
One of the objects of the agitation regard
ing womens labor has been to secure their
exclusion from some few occupations which
have demonstrably disastrous effects upon
their health andupon the function OF mother,
hood. Among the considerable number OF
women who were engaged in lead works,
it is stated, it was the exception rather than
the rule to bear children to normal terms.
Even then, II Is said, 7S.5 in the hundred
were born dead. while OF the 2l.5 born alive
10 died before reaching the age Of year.
ton showed death rate of 20 children out
Of every 100 in the first year Of their lives,
the death rate for women looking glass
makers children was 85 per cent. In the first
year and for glass polishers' s. per cent,
while children Of makers Of artificial flowers
and workers in rubber also showed deadly
effects from their mothers occupations.
The correction Of the abuses of women's
employment In Germany. seems to be
hopelessly tangled up in the general eco
nomic problem Of the country. The change
from the period Of home industry, when
the entire family helped the head Of the
house, to the factory system has not brought
with it any adequate change in the pay of
the man, the head Of the family, so that
he is not and cannot be the breadwinner
in anything like the sense that the American
workingman is.
Those who have given the woman ques-
ton most thoughtful attention freely say
that it is secondary and dependent upon
that of the men, II men come to earn
wages enough to support their families
on, married women will speedily drop out
of active industry by a natural Law, and thus
the glut Of female labor, which depresses
wages and compels those seeking employ
ment to accept any hours and any con-
ditions, moral and physical, that may be
imposed on them, will at once be abolished.
The sun., 1905-09-10

'ductod rent for the room from their wages.
witha all the hardships OF the women work.
ers' lives. their pay is miserable almost be-
yond belief A recent writer on the sub
iect summarizes the results Of an inquiry
into the pay of women and girls. other
than domestics, earning their living In
Berlin The figures cover 90, Oooindividuals,
grading from bookkeepers, stenographers
and saleswomen down.
The highest grades Of wages, he says, we're
from is to II marks a week, about $3.75
to S425; the lowest from to marks, or
81 to 1925; the average was about 10 to IL
marks, or $3.50 to 3275. Out Of this the
earners had as a rule to pay from " to
S225 for board and lodging.
In Posen the same observer says women
were earning from half to three-quarters
OF a mark per day OF eleven hours by home
sewing. In almost every case the wage
paid to women and girls was almost exactly
half Of what men received for exactly the
same work.
The wages paid in Berlin rule much
higher than those Of smaller places. Av-
erage figures for the empire are decidedly
lower The reason is the enormous COM
petition for all the work there is to do
This competition is one Of the reasons
for the appearance Of women in such
bizarre occupations as sweeping the streets
Of Munich. 1t Is one Of the reasons why
a large element Of women are to be found
in all the essentially male occupations.
The German woman must live. II she
has no husband and no pension she must
live by her own labor. If she has no trade
or can find no opening in female craft she
must take what she can get, even if it is
street sweeping Those who reach this
lowest stage are, Of course, as rule the
victims of peculiar misfortune or their
own misconduct They are aged widows,
left late In life without natural supporters,
or they belong to the semi-vagrant, semi
criminal class. who cannot get respectable
employment.
But there is no lack Of precedent for the
mere masculinity OF the employment.
The sun., 1905-09-10

The other remedy for the extreme Of tho
evil is being tried In Germany a. elsewhere.
Legal enactments have been made limiting
the hours OF employment Of females in fac
tories. But, here again, all sorts Of devices
are invented to escape the letter OF the law.
The emergency loophole for over time
Is worked for all IL is worth. The smaller
employers-always tho worst--deliberately
keep down the number Of their employees
so as to escape the definition OF factory
and 80 get more hours than the law allows
out Of those whom they do employ.
One printing establishment Is quoted as
horrible example, wherein the proprietor
fitted up a room adjoining the comp sing
room as living and sleeping room for his
two young women .journeymen. and
therein they continued to set type every
night long hours after their nominal days
work was finished, What is more, he de-
The sun., 1905-09-10
GERMANY.

There is hardly any sort OF work that
women don't do In Germany in these days.
It would be hard to think Of any calling,
however masculine that has not enough
female followers TO be caught by an imperial
census taker, duly tabulated and worked
out to percentage.
Tho question of woman's work is burn
ing one In Germany. Parties have taken it
up. Societies discuss it. Conventions are
held to reform IL.
Books and pamphlets are written about it.
The police are kept busy by the agitation
over 1t, and not few women have had to
pay fines or go TO Jail because they ex-
pressed their opinions about it too freely.
Not that any one wants women to stop
working Nothing could seem more un-
natural than that to the German mind.
Work, hard work, is the natural law for
man and woman. 1t is the sort of work
that woman should do and the conditions
under which she should do it that are earn
estly, even angrily. discussed.
According to the latest industrial census
reports available, there are 28,3el ,123 women
In Germany or these, so57,s35, including
The sun., 1905-09-10

hear the band on the porch.
@Just when l began to get sentimental
there came an awful humping right below
us, and the deck ripped open. The engineer.
a quick witted fellow, for all his years,
shut off the power instantly, and we began
to drift.
Every person on board. even the captain
at the helm, ran back to learn the trouble.
1t didn't take long to find out. The pro-
peller shaft had broken in the middle and
had kicked itself through the flooring.
"The captain and the engineer pulled up
about half an acre Of flooring andinspected
the break. There was long argument
on whether it was flaw or an oVerheated
bearing that had done the damage, and
everybody was listening intently, when l
chanced to glance at the shore.
I'VE were in midstream, a good half
mile below the hotel, hustling along with a
lively current. Two miles below were the
falls, sheer drop Of seventy-five feet.
with enough water to float US at the brink,
l yelled out like fool and there was a
general rush for the edge Of the boat-a
sort Of a panic.
"The captain was game, though. and
Gained everybody while he and the
mate broke loose q dinky anchor. When
it went overheard We were mile above
the falls and could hear the roar distinctly.
For a minute the anchor held. 1t was
Of the mushroom type and stuck like a
burr, but that current was something weird.
Every once in while 1t would work
the anchor loose and tho boat would jump
fifty yards nearer the falls.
"The anchor would catch again and the
hewser snap taut in a way that gave me
shivers to see. l knew just about how
long any rope could stand that, and it made
the falls seem like certainty.
when We passed the hotel, none of the
boats lights had been lit and none of US
thought OF them afterward, 3d. Of course,
we had passed by unobserved l sug-
gested that some one blow the whistle,
and the Sacramento man volunteered.
-The whistle wasn't very healthy under
the best conditions, and with the shaft
broken and the gasoline leaking, It's efforts
on a peanut vendors roasting can. We
lit the lights after the failure Of the whistle,
but the old tub had drifted too far down
the stream for them to be any USE.
in the meantime the anchor had been
making periodical jumps until we were a
quarter OF a mile above the falls. The
party was a game lot, the engineer being
the only one to be nervous outwardly. He
told me that it would hurt the engine to
60 over the falls, and guess he was right.
There wasn't enough Of It left the next
The sun., 1905-09-10

morning to pay junkman for his trouble
in fishing it out Of the stream.
Just when it looked as If everythin &
but that jump over the falls was finished
the old anchor caught on a rock and held.
We waited minute and then let out yell.
-The widow, who had been keeping stiff
upper lip during all the trouble, turned
and began to weep on my shoulder, and the
captain was able to light his pipe We were
still in trouble, though, for the old hawser
was rubbing back and forth across a rock 8
edge in a most distressing manner. It
was an easy guess to say that 1t wouldn't
hold two hours.
Right opposite US on the shore was q
house, and from the upper deck ] could see
fellow sitting at the table reading. The
window wasn't 200 yards away, and 80
We all got together and gave yell.
I'VE tried it five or six times In unison,
but the man in the house went right on read
ing. The noise OF the falls was 50 loud
that he couldn't have heard twenty tons Of
dynamite on his front lawn.
1T was clear that somebody would have
to swim to the Shore or rather, make try
for it. Our only chance 1t seemed.
when we made a canvass Of the party,
only two persons were found who knew
how to swim. One was the old engineer
and the other was the little fellow, the
widows suitor.
"He was a good swimmer and we all de-
cided that 1t was up to him to tie rope
around his waist and try to reach the shore
and bring aid. That's where got my
surprise. though. He funked 1t cleanly;
said he'd take his chance on the boat.
Il felt like kicking him into the water
and making him try it anyhow, but when
l suggested it the captain said the mate
could make the shore all right. The big
golfer and the captain made a line fast
around the old man and he was ABOUT to
jump off when my big fellow stumbled
across his golf clubs. which he had brought
home with him, preparatory to leaving
next day.
Hold on there a minute, he shouted,
and we all turned to look at him.
He dumped the clubs out Of his bag in q
minute and found four balls In the bottom
OF the pit. Then he took his driver out.
.Get me a roll of waste from the engine,
cap he said. cool as you please. Well
see II we can't break up that reading party
over there in that house.
Il eau ght on to the scheme in minute,
but no one else did. They trusted him.
though. and the captain brought the roll
Of waste. My friend took little Of 1t and
carefully teed one Of the balls on 1t.
Then he sighted the house and went
through all the little preliminary swings