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Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04
CONSUMPTION IMPROVES THE HUMAN RACE
BY q. ArchdaH Reid.

BY u. AFChdaU Reid.
tuberculosis Injuries the individual but con-
fers resisting power On the race. Every race is
resistant to every disease strictly In proportion to
its past experience Of it. Thus Englishmen, who
have suffered much from tuberculosis, are more
resistant to it than West African negroes who
have suffered less, and much more resistant than
Polynesians, who have had no previous expert
ence Of It Establishment. under given conditions
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04

Better temperance pledge than a
pawnbroker's.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01

Remembering them, forget we not
The liberty and union bought
BY shedding Of their blood.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01
soothed and ca!med the widow. or did
nature send solace and blessed aleep

soothed and Gained the widow. or did
nature send solace and blessed uleep
with the rain?
Az all events the widow slept.
When she awoke with q start the
ealth was dripping. She rose on the
instant. all her faculties s~harpened.
Ihere was no rain of iron or lead now.
IL was Gods merciful gift to man that
refreshed and sweetened the slopes once
more.
She experienced no difficulty in pass
ing the weary battle worn guards.
Ihey scarcely turned to look at the ST.
lent figure fitting past them.
She turned a bend in the road. There,
not 200 yards distant. she saw her
house. A dull CLEAN of dying embers
Told her some n was lying there. Per-
haps it was Battery B. AS she neared
the house shadowy forms resolved
themselves into tired men buried in
sleep, the embers into neglected camp
fires.
But where were her sweetpeas? Great
rents were cut through the vines, half
at least had been trodden into the
ground by mems and horses feet. Yes.
and there was a cap. She picked it up
and beheld the letter B.
Now h was seized with a horrible
trembling. She put a hand over her
heart and pressed on. on through her
was heard but the gentle plash, plash
of the early morning rain.
What if Jack were lying here? Sleep
ing men We're huddled near the dead
N dying fires.
She moved cautiously now. There
just behind a clump of vines left stand
ing-yes, merciful God. a human form
lay there. She a toward 1t. The face.
pressing the wet grass, was turf ed up
nllick1V Thara was mo crN NOT a moan
as she rained kisses upon the cold lips,
the eyes and cheeks of the dead man
she found lying behind her sweet peas.
The widow had found her son.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01
Ancient Weapon Is Found.

From the New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat..
A gentleman of Monroe county,, Miss.
While fishing in the Tombigbee abont
two miles south of Aberdeen. found in
the edge OF the river, partly imbedded
In the soft clay. an old Spanish hal
berd. ~
There is a peculiar interest In this
find, because there is little doubt that
it is a relic of the expedition of Her
nando de Soto. then or his way uncon-
s%ciously to the discovery Of the mighty
river SO closely associated with his
name. There is no remnan of the
wooden handle the metal is heavily in
crusted with rust. and the once keen
edges ave worn away, but the form Of
the weapon is we'll preserved, and when
struck against a hard substance the
steel rings almost as true as when 81
left the arnlorer's hand more than 300
years ago. w
1t has the spear point on top, battle
az OF side and a urv knife on tie
other, reminding one of the ancient IN
structions to h h~alberdier in training.
who was taught that If the AK stroke
should fail. to repair his mistake with
a prompt thrust of the piked head"
De Soto went into camp for the winter
the remains of his i~Etrenchrnents were
In evidence a few years ago and may
possibly be still visible. In April. lh4l.
he continued his march to the north
west until he reached what is now De
Soto county, where he turned due west
and came out upon the bluffs overlook
ing the Mississippi, which he here saw
for the first tirae.
H-N4
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01
ONE BIG GUN
An Incident of the Capture of savan-
nah During the March to the Sea.

Once more the old story of Sherman's
capture of the city of Savannah Is go
ing the rounds. Although it has been
told time n again at every reunion
since the war. it will bear repeating,
for the reason that it is still a. good
story. In the capture of Fort McAllis-
ter by General Hazen, the federals Sc
cured possession of a long range can
non that would throw shells for a great
distance: General Hardee,. COMMAND
ing the confederates IN Savannah was
not. however, aware of this fact. He
supposed that Sherman was without
long range guns, which superstition
was correct SO far as it went. the one
above mentioned being the only piece
of ordnance Of that character possessed
by the union general, and this he took
from the enemy.
So when General Sherman sent a. dag
of truce into the city to ask General
prevent the shedding of innocent
blood" h latter replied that if he
(Sherman) could convince him that he
was in a position to ''shed innocent
blood" he (Hardee) might then enter
tain his request for the surrender of
he city, n not before. This mes
sage was conveyed back to General
Sherman, who Immediately ordered the
big gun loaded with an extra charge
and fired in the direction Of the city.
The shot had the desired effect. It
burst in the heart Of the business Sec
ton. and when General Sherman again
sent a flag of truce to the city those in
charge of it met a delegation of citi-
Gems and city officials coming out. They
surrendered the city as civilians, say
ing that Hardee was then making prep
arations to leave.
The federal army lost no time in
fastening into the city, and Just as they
reached the water front they saw the
rear guard of Hardee's army disappear
ing across the Broad river bridge into
South Carolina The long range gun
had done the work. the confederate
army occupying Savannah and the uiti-
Gems taking it for granted that Sher-
man had in some way unknown to them
secured a battery Of long range siege
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01

she seems to have acquired the knack
of reading letters through the other
PERSONS eyes, she wastes very little Of
our time bringing us unimportant mis-
takes. In other words h does not
work mechanically. She uses her judg-
ment in HI slightest duty which she
may have OF hand.
IF 1t is a clerk, she does not allow
work to slip by which some other girl
has shirked, nor is she content to put
any put her best efforts into n sale
which she makes or into finishing up
thoroughly and infinitely the seemingly
%unimportant details Of her position.
when l first started in as an en-
ployer 1 thought it was rains that
made a girl worth money to me. After
learned hat it is the girl who applies:
whatever ideas h may have to liz
work in hand, always with a view as
to whether or not it is the thing we
want. In fact, half the battle of every
successful employee is in studying the
methods and the whims of the person
over her. The attention of the man
higher up is invariably won by thts
delicate form of fiattery, and it tells
in the size of the weekly or monthly
salary every time.
I'm direct contrast to the tactful girl,
for this is no more nor less than what
l would call the first class of employees,
is the girl whose work is valuable be-
cause it is original. New ideas are al
ways at a premium, whether they be
schemes for making work easier or
ways of turning Ole ideas and goodseto
up to date account. Show me the girl
who can present a novel suggestion
and l will show you the girl who does
not have to ask for a raise in her SAL
airy. We need her, and we won't run
any chances of her giving the profits
of her inventive brain to another con-
Germ who will pay her more money.
The public is clamoring for the new
thing in every line of business, without
exception, and we spare no non in
salaries where we see the possibility
OF securing novel returns"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01

barely room to squeeze an ordinary couch
into the space, which is surrounded by
miniature pillars, so that 1T is impossible
for one sleeping there to fall to the ground
below. For protection in heavy weather
w curtains nave been arranged, but
Mr.. Clendenin has, on five or six occa-
sions, had to retreat to the more certain
shelter of the neighboring room.
When seen a few days ego, MI. Glen
denim was in excellent spirits.
Il think 1 feel as well us can be expected
of a man Of my age" he said. I'm fifty
two. YOU know, and DR.. Russell says that
my health is fully restored. Have gained
twenty pounds during the treatment, and
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01

for a man like me, who never was par-
ticularly rugged, hat means quite a lot.
mo, L don't mind sleeping out of doors,
and canno see where it can be harmful II
to suppose that one must freeze TO death
in order to obtain the best results from the
treatment. It is quite rigorous enough
without adding that Ingredient TO the cure.
Fortunately, 1 began last summer, when IL
was a pleasure to sleep in the open air,
and as the cold weather wore on / became
more and more accustomed to 1t. Still,
there were a few very stormy nights last
winter when l retreated to the chamber
in the attic.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01
HOME Of rev. Trank.M.
ClendeNln at chappoquo
Arrow shewe hi. open an bed room

New York special: Tuberculosis can
be cured" That is the never ceasing cry
of medical experts, who have given such
close study to every phase of the disease,
that their opinion must be considered.
And it is unnecessary for the sufferer
to go to Colorado or some far western
state in search of relief, for it is being
proved that by taking proper precautions
an afflicted person can with comparatively
small expense cure himself of tuberculosis
at no great distance from home.
OF this theory the Rev. Frank NJ. Glen
denim, rector OF st. Peters Protestant
Episcopal church, West Chester, has be-
come a firm convert. Having for a long
time noticed that his physical vigor was
becoming impoverished through the deep
1nroads of the disease, he needed the
warning of his medical advisers and re-
solved to submit himself to the outdoor
treatment which they prescribed. Since
last July he has been living in the man
sion, remodeled. from a large barn, on the
former estate estate of Horace Greeley.
father of Mrs. Clendenin, at Chappaqua,
and in eight months declares that he is
again his former self, and this statement
is substantiated by DR.. Russell, of the
POSTGRADUATE hospital, his physician.
Although his condition was extremely
serious when the treatment began the cure
is not considered remarkable, but is re-
garded simply as a proof that tuberculosis
can be cured.
Situated on one of the highest hills in
that section of Westchester county, thirty
three miles from this city, the old mansion
is admirably adapted to the experiment
which Mr.. Clendenin has tried with such
success. 1t is a spacious house, Of two
and one-half stories, overlooking the val
ley and directly in the path of the purest
and most invigorating breezes.
1t is on a small space, or porch roof
that the former invalid has arranged what
may be termed his bedroom. There is
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01
eaIloways for Alaska.

From the Seattle Times. =
Realizing the need Of giving every en-
couragement to the promotion Of cattle
breeding and development Of the dairy in
dustry in Alaska, the United States gov
has decided to branch out in its
experiments in that line.
For many years the department OF agr1-
culture has had cattle breeding stations in
Alaska, one having been established at
Saldovia in 1889. Most Of the experiments
have been conducted with native cattle
born OF imported Holstein and Jersey
stock. 1t has been found, however, that,
do not stand the rigors Of the Alaskan
winters. being shorthaired and not agEres-
sive in foraging. fol-, themselves.
II has been determined to try out some
of the more hardy breeds, and after weigh
ing the merits of different strains, Prof.
c. G. Georgeson, who Is in charge Of the
departments work, with headquarters at
sitka, selected the bLack Galloway as the
animal best fitted for the country. He is
now in Seattle on his way to Alaska with
a small selected herd Of Galloways, picked
from the best stock to be found in the
middle west. Part OF the herd will be sent
to Wood island, near Dokiak island. and
the balance to Renal, on the Kenai PEN
insula, about eighty miles from Saldovia,
WIlelG lIlcIc Is d SldLlONH unQef SEAa charge
OF p. II. Ross. At these points expert
ments will be made in in-breeding and
cross breeding with native cattle with a
view to securing an animal that will proye
a good mixer and yet stand I'D to the
climate.
The Galloway is a we'll built. sturdy
animal. with a heavy coat of thick. black
hair and a handy forager. The breed orig
mated in Scotland, where the cattle are
accustomed to severe weather and used to
picking a living from the steep hillsides Of
the country.
With four large breeding stations at
Sitka. kenai, Copper Center and Rampant
the government will be well equipped to
provide nuclei for local herds and the set
tiers in the Alaskan country will be en-
couraged to give the animals a trial in the
hope that eventually they will be able to
provide their own dairy products and not
be dependent upon canned supplies. az ut
present.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01

All Honor to "our Boys"
In memory OF 'our Boys in blue,''
OF warriors bold and patriots true,
We meet and speak today.
For US they left sweetheart or wife
To meet the foe in deadly strife
And perish in the fray.
With brightest flowers Of sweet perfume
Their grass-grown graves are oyerstrewn
In token OF u love.
Their deeds of valor we recite,
And praise their sacrifice for right,
That we in peace might live.
Remembering them, forget we not
The liberty and union bought W.
BY shedding Of their blood.
But let Memorial day recall .
The precious price paid for 1t all,
With heartfelt thanks to Cod.
All honor to those men who died,
Be heard their praise on every side.
To either oceans shore.
Flower-strewn their graves, their memory
green,
BE kept for years. for years be seen
BY children yet unborn.
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01

Long f1ngernails a d.spo-
sition 70 scratch.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01

For US they left sweetheart or wife
To meet the foe in deadly strife
And perish in the fray.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01

With brightest flowers Of sweet perfume
Their grass-grown graves are overstrewn
In token OF our love-.
New-York tribune., 1906-06-17
Some Berg Tragedies

TEN years previously, in August. the steamer
Eicksburg sunk by collision with a berg in
the same region when siXty-fIve persons perished
and in 1903 the Canadian was also sent to bottom
by one, with loss OF forty-five persons The next
July ernigrant vessel from Ireland to Montreal
perlshed there by ramming berg, and of one hun
dred and s1Xty-twO persons aboard only four
capped. Another terrible tragedy occurred in MAY,
1897, when the French fishing schooner Valiant
pumped into frozen wall on the Grand Banks, and
seventy perlShed four survivors out OF twelve who
got away in two boats barely being able to keep
themselves alive, they being adrift six days and
nights without food water and suffering dread
fully from frost-burn because of being unshetered
and only partly clad
Newfoundland mariners are always on the alert
for bergs, because they absent from these
waters, and even the vigilance and eXpertness of
the hardy fsherfok do not prevent many fatality.
The bark Nellie left St Johns one May morning two
years ago and before nightfall the solitary
vivors OF her crew of ten were back again having
been picked off a spar by fishing smack the vessel
and the other eight having gone to bottom through
the ship fitting against berg IN sodden Jog. The
schooner AlbatrOss, with crew OF twenty-five seal
men, was heard of after she sailed in March,
1908 and the general impression is that she struck
a berg and went down. In April, 1904 the steamer
Grand Lake, while engaged in the seal fishery with
two hundred aboard rammed big berg
the Banks and narrowly escaped laundering getting
back to St Johns with all her crew busily occupied
pumping and baing her out. A like mishap befell
the Newfoundland which engaged in the
hunt in April, 1898 and her plight even worse,
for her sides We're crushed by foe she tried
escape, and she reached port in almost a sinking
condition
New-York tribune., 1906-06-17

ward the end OF January their advance guard was
sighted OF the Newfoundland coast. and every
week since then they have been larger and rler-
tier. During March and April these rarnI1arts
admit were a constant menace TO the big liners
which, trying TO make fast passages, had to risk
more chances than mere freighters, so that more
than one greyhound came within an ace of meet
ing her end thereby. As early as March 20 1908
the steamship SavOie, arriving at New York
reported sighting ice-field two hundred miles
long floating directly IN the path OF incoming steam
boats
As an instance OF the magnitude of this iceberg
peril IN recent wears there may be mentioned the
case OF the Kaiser Wilhelm II, which on Sunday
April O. 1908, counted thlrtvtwo large bergs within
the range of vision. The Teutonic the next dav
sighted th-ty-Tllne and the Caronia TWO davs later
passed fOrty-six. The Toronto IN the same week
counted SeVentv-twO between sunrise and sunset;
the Majestic saw tlfty-Ve about the same time:
the Chemnitz lodged among eighty or more OF
them. and the Minneapolis brought a report of
siXty-three.
All these icy masses which infest the North
Atlantic steamer track have their origin in the
soid Niagaras. are formed from the vast ice-cap
Tesstlessly TO the sea, where each summer they
dividing and subdividing again and again, become
the beTgs so much dreaded by the sprlngtIrne VOy
age-. These northern TnOnarchs are borne down
IN stately procession from the dreaded Batfn Bay
the Labrador current, which sweeps past the
eastern coast OF Newfoundland, across the Grand
Banks and into the Gulf Stream, where they grad
uallv disappear under the influence OF the increas
inglv powerful TaVs OF a vertical sun and the
higher temperature OF the surface water
New-York tribune., 1906-06-17
Escaped On an Ice Raft

THE most extraordinary narrative IN the annals
Of absolutely authentic adventure IS that of the
escape OF the crew OF the exploring steamer PoarIs
who o. October :, 1872, went adrltt on mass OF
ice tverty-seyen persons in all northern Green
land waters. and after being one hundred and
riretv-flve davs on this strange raft Were picked
1r, safe and unharrned by the Newfoundland seal
ing steamer Tigress. April 80, 1873, after having
drifted southwark eighteen hundred miles and es-
capped countless and almost incredible dangers.
During their long journey down past Labrador
and Newfoundland, the bergs do not remain OF the
same shape as when broken of the parent glacier or
s,lrdered again by internal fractures or grounding
on reefs but frequently turn a somersault TO
accommodate themselves TO the changed center OF
.--s,irx of the berg. Admiral Markham IN his eX-
TlOring cruise in Melville Bay, counted between
seven hundred and eight hundred bergs, all under
WAY for SUMMER clies and OF them exceed
1rlqlv large. One OF them he estimates TO have
been SIX hundred feet high and eighteen hundred
long The tallest berg ever reported about the
liner track was one observed by the steamship
Mineola IN June 1890, which was seven hunqred
feet from yyater-line 10 summit; while the Hans,
II Mav 1902. sighted which was over SIX hun
dred feet high. Bergs three to four hundred
feet high and one thousand to fifteen hundred
feet long are by no means uncommon along the
Newfoundland coast but they usually ground on
the Grand Banks are bu1eted by storms, and sIilt
themselves into many lesser fragments.
These bergs are not dangerous IN clear
weather. because they easily be made
ont when long distances away, and can
New-York tribune., 1906-06-17
Many Marrow Escapes

THE Saa1e another liner that ramned berg
striking it a glancing blow as she swung round on
sighting 1t; but the pressure of the mighty mass
flung her her side until it was feared she
would sink. Indeed, the coal in her bunkers ran
over because OF this and she made port with heavy
list. The Portia, when off Newfoundland in 1905
berg to enable some passengers to snap
shot II; but went upon sunken portion of the
ice, disturbed its equilibrium, and was being lifted
up out of water by the swaying mass, when her
weight broke off the fragment which held her and
she sank back into her native element again. The
Caspian with five hundred and fifty emigrants
aboard, bound for Montreal, Cape Race in 500
thick fog, drove against a berg and shattered
her bow SO badly that she was barely able to reach
St. Johns, fast did the water gain her pumps
The Erl King, in 1892, met like mshap when enter
ing Belleise Strait with seven hundred and twenty
emigrants and had to make this port stern first to
relieve the strain on her leaky forward bulkhead.
The French liner Gascogne, with SIX hundred
aboard, came near being overwhelmed by ice the
Grand Banks in April, 1893 having been caught
there with a broken shaft and in extreme peril
for several DAYS, until the foe swept her bodily
southwark into warmer water and then dis
persed by a stiff breeze, which set her free. The
German liner Bulgaria, in 1901, COM
PEELED to seek harbor at St. Johns with
- nearly thousand passengers having
81 injured her propeller amid the foes.
New-York tribune., 1906-06-17

GlentWet, to mention only a few were similarly
smtten. All these had TO get wooden bows to
continue their voyages. What small prospect of
escape the crews OF such crafts have is proved
by the of the Castegate which in March
1898, crushed and sunk off Newfoundland
her taking to the foe and being adrft thereon
for two days and nights, till rescued by the sealer
Diana at the beginning of a blizzard which they
could never have survived, for it battered the ice
into Chowder and would have overwhelmed them
Big passenger steamers frequently find themselves
in dire peril from bergs the experience of the
liner NOr1nannla, the French FLYER l. 'Aquitaine
on the Grand Banks on May 81, 1900, when, having
threaded her way through a wide array of bergs she
put on speed and racing ahead till fog shut
down. Then crystal barrier interpoSed which
she escaped impaing herself upon only BY the
prompt working OF her twin screws in opposite
directions causing her to spin round her heel and
just Craze the berg with her side as she passed it.
The City OF Berlin struck a berg in fog on the
Banks three years later but fortuna ev was going at
reduced speed else she would have torn her fore
part asunder Even it was, her stem was tee-
scOped, her fore part shattered, and the falling
of hundred tons of ice about her decks made a
wreck OF all the gear and fittings from the bow
spirit to the fOremaSt. Her sister ship the CITY of
Rome hit a lOw-lying berg IN September, 1000, and
knocked off her stem below the water-1 leaving
an aperture large enough to admit an automobile
The crash alarmed the passengers who were at
lunch at the time, and panic-StrCken crowd rushed
on deck; but there was seen to be no cause for
alarm. The Swedish steamer NOrdcap with four
hundred emgrants, hit similar berg off Cape Race
IN MAY, 1901, and sustained such damages that she
had to put into St Johns to effect repairs This was
also the experience of the French Burgundia
French fishermen aboard, whom she transport
ing to that port to engage the Cod-fsherV and of
whom twelve perished by the dsmantling of the
fOrecastle in which they were lodged.