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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02

afternoon, rallied Saturday morning,
but in the afternoon lapsed into un-
consciousness and failed rapidly until
the end came. All of his family, ex-
cept a son who is in California, we're
at the bedside.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02
AWAITS EMPERoR's SIGNATURE

Bill Extending German Tariff Ia +b.
United States,
6eriln' Eel. 24.-The federal coun-
Gil mas approved the reichstag's action
IN passing the bill providing for the
extension of the new German tariff to
the United States until June 30, 9 o
and sent the measure to the emnaror
for his signature.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02

and escaped. se'ooo
90 Ne seherai Office building and mart
" NO. Z machine shop of the Rath1a
mem Steel company at South path1e
aen ' ra.' were destroyed by fire Mon.
tas' entalllns a loss of about s2oO.000
" property and valuable records
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02
MOB APPLIES TORCH
MAKES DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO
: BURN NEGRO QUARTER At
SPRINGFIELD, o.

ored Men Starts the Rloting and the
Latter Are Taken Out of Town to
Prevent a Lynching-LocaI Troops
Are Called Out and the Governor 10
Asked for Assistance.
Springfield, O., Feb. 28.-Since 8
O'Clock p. M, this city has been the
scene Of mob disorder, the outcome of
feeling over the probably fatal shoot
Ing during the morning of Railroad
Brakeman M. M. Davis by Preston
Ladd and Edward Dean, negroes, both
OF whom had been placed under arrest
here, and, because of threatened lynch
Ing, hurried under cover of darkness by
the authorities to Dayton, where they
are now in jail.
When the mob learned that the
prisoners had been taken from the city
1t went to that part Of town known as
The Jungle" inhabited by colored
people, and began to burn and loot
dwelling houses and saloons. At
least six dwellings were burned and
the contents Of one saloon looted.
A force of seventy-fve members of
local military companies are guarding
the scene where the mob holds sway.
The authorities believe the two ne
groes were saved from being lynched
only by their removal from the city.
At an early hour in the morning
Sheriff Almoney had wired Governor
Pattison' for all available troops at
once and to hold others in readiness
for possible call later.
The authorities say that the scenes
are similar to those which ended in
the lynching of Richard Dixon, a ne
gro, In this city two years ago.
The mob looted a saloon on East
Columbia street. The owner and his
wife fled, leaving their threeschiadren-
asleep upstairs. The building was rid
died with bullets and stones and it was
only by the hardest efforts of police
and firemen that a way was forced
through the mob and the children res
cued. After the pillaging Of the sa-
loon drunkenness was an added fea-
ture Of the riot.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02
N RATE BILL
.[MMITTEE DECLARES
! OF MEASURE BY
(E OF 8 TO S.

! Feb. 24.-By a vote of
pate committee on inter-
Pe during the day agreed
Hepburn railroad rate
n%endment, but the reso-
reserved to the mem
Pmmlttee freedom of &C
Pc amendments offered
\ BY a vote of 5 to 8,
prevailing, Senator Till
'he honor Of reporting
/ a!'es to a Democrat
ueasuFe passed by a Re-
and endorsed by a Re.
ueA'' Senators Cullom
were absent and their
EoEded only on the main
"e resolution follows:
l;at the interstate COM
i.!ee report favorably
] DIS 1t passed the house
yves, it being understood
" 'i'e committee have a
'Aey choose on amend
iisF amendments in the
liberation OF the bill"
LIVER offered the first
o'ulion and Senator Aid.
''oA to amend by add
f,lon concerning amend.
t,uFlch motion prevailed.
I votes being Elkins,
F,lf,o foraker, Crane, Till:
anu Newlands. The
were Dolliver, Clapp
l0f the resolution as
e nuilon, Dolliver, clapp,
''n' carmack, Foster
Frane. hean'
BY CHINESE.
Id r.s and Their Two
Fes The British lepa.
'sed notice th.+ e..
cbiid a man, his wife,
N''ufen, have been
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02
QUITS STATE OF MISSOURI.
Mutual Reserve Life Serves Notice of
Withdrawal.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Feb. 26.-State
Superintendent of Insurance Vandiver
has received a letter from Vice Presi-
dent George D. Eldredge Of the Mutual
Reserve Life Insurance company of
New York stating that the company
will not file with the Missouri insur-
ance department a statement Of it's
business for 1905 and would withdraw
from the state. Superintendent Van
diver said that the reception of this
notification would relieve him from
the issuance of an order of custer,
which he had in preparation.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02
WORK OF CONGRESS-.
Thursday, Feb. %,

Senate-Mr. Knox (Pa.) introduced
his much discussed and long expected
railroad rate bill. Remainder Of day
devoted to listening to the reading Of
Washington's farewell address by Mr..
McCreary and the consideration of the
hazing bill.
House-Motion to adjourn in cele.
bration Of Washington's birthday lost
and the day was devoted to general
debate on the army appropriation bill.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02
Saturday., Feb. a..

House-Day devoted to pension leg.
1slation, 416 private bills being passed
in sixty-four minutes.
Senate-Not in session.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02
Monday, Feb. 26.

eenate-Hepburn railroad rate bill
presented by Senator Tillman, who
stated that a formal report would be
submitted later. Balance of the day
devoted to the statehood bill and bills
of minor Importance.
House-Early adjournment taken as
a mark Of respect to the memory of
former Speaker David B. Henderson.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02

at ,Nahcnang, IN the prov.
lnce or kiangsi. The city is the nre.
fectural capital and with the troons
there foreigners should be assured Of
protection. No details have beon ~
ceived.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02
. ROOSEVELT SEEKS
STRIKE OF II
MINERS.
L 10 John Mitchell Urg-
Ether Efforts BE Made to
|oreement With the op-
.nmunication Results in
h a National Convention
I Be Held March Is.

Feb. 27.-President
again interviewed as a
kotveen the coal miners
tors and as the result OF
(essed by him to John
dent of the United Mine
kmerica, a national con-
! United Mine Workers
q indianapolis March Is
an agreement with the
traitors in the hope OF
strike on April l in the
The presidents letter
blows:
very great concern the
\ late convention on the
agreement to come to an
|n the bituminous coal
hen as is threatened on
to the peace and
fe of the country. l urge
8 further effort to avoid
h."
Mitchell, when asked for
harding the probable Of
(dent Roosevelt's letter
! to the coal strike situa-
BE mere speculation for
now. 1t remains
convention to make the
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02
DAVID 3. HENDERSON DEAD.
Former Speaker of the House Expires
After Iona Illness,

Dubuque, Ia, Feb. 26.-Former
Speaker David B. Henderson of the
national house of representatives died
at 2 o'clock D. M. at Mercy hospital Of
p%aresis, which attacked him nine
months ago. He began to sink Friday
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02
rs TO CONFER.
Pittsburg to DISGUISE
katened Strike.

FlllooA' ~ 'o~S
(atened Strike.
FEB. 27.-Acting on the
|sident Roosevelt, made
III letters to President
of the United line
! Chairman Francis l..
be Pittsburg Coal com-
Ter of the bituminous op-
liter has called Q. confer
tty Of the operators COM
fare members Of the in
ment, in an endeavor to
means Of preventing a
E%bituminous coal miners
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02
Monday, Feb. 26.

John R. Stanton, a mining expert
and director in several large copper
mining companies, is dead in New
York city. He was seventy years old.
Major General Thomas J.. Wood is
dead at Dayton, O., aged eighty-three
years. He was the last survivor Of
the celebrated class at West Point Of
1845.
Theosophists from Missouri. Kan
sas, Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa met
in Kansas City Sunday and organized
the Missouri Valley Federation of the
~Theosophical society.
The repatriation of Russian prison
ers in Japanese hands, the number OF
whom is estimated at 1,42i officers
and 70,476 men, will be finished u
ing the present year..
Benjamin E. Valentine, a wealthy
Brooklyn lawyer, has been sentenced
to an indeterminate term of not more
than five years and three months IN
Sing Sing prison for forgery.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02
Tuesday, Feb. 27.

The Russian national assembly will
meet on May 10.
The Mutual Reserve Life Insurance
company of New York has Withdrawn
from Missouri.
The city board of health has found
twenty cases Of smallpox in Michigan
City, Ind. Most of the patients are
school children.
Mrs. William F. Sears Of Chicago
killed her husband and herself by
turning on the gas. Jealousy IS the
supposed cause.
Two masked men compelled FRED
erick Radel, a Millyille On. ID baker
to open his safe at the point OF a pls'
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-06
THE EVILS OF JURY DoDGING.

Once in while the Jury dodger, /"
the man who is unwilling to devote
any of his own time to settling dis
putes between his neighbors in the
law courts, finds himself in need of
an honest and intelligent jury to pass
on the merits Of a lawsuit of his
own. The writer is able to record at
least one such case. The "jury dod-
ger'' in question was large clothier
and had been accustomed to evade
jury service by the annual donation
of an overcoat where it would do the
most good, and he made no secret Of
this scheme by which, for perhaps a
dozen years, he had avoided being
"drawn."
He was, however, large real es-
tate owner, and one day an old Irish
woman fell down stairs in one of his
tenement houses, and, at the sugges-
tion Of a lawyer, she promptly brought
suit against him for a fabulous sum,
for her injuries. When the case
came to trial it happened that the list
of jurors from which his twelve men
had to be selected was precisely what
he deserved. The jury system, in
this instance, was just what he and
other jury dodgers of his class had
made it. A stupider or more ire
sponsible looking dozen of men it
would. be hard to get together any
where. When the case was tried the
weight of evidence was entirely
against the old woman, for she had
but herself for witness in her own
behalf, against four or five witnesses
called by the jury lodging adversary
But the jury, after listening apathet'
ically to the eloquence of the defen'
dents lawyer, brought in verdict oi
nearly four thousand dollars against
him. Geo. w. Alge'.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-06
NOBILITY OF TREES.

Directly in my path stood an an
cient swamp white oat, the great
est tree, 1 think, that I have ever
seen. 1t was not the highest nor the
largest round, perhaps, but individ-
ually, spiritually the greatest. Hoary,
hollow and broken limbed, his huge
bole seemed encircled with the CEN
turies, and in this green and grizzled
top all the winds of heaven had some
time come.
One could worship in the presence
of such tree as easily as in the shad-
ow of vast cathedral. Indeed, what
is there built with hands that has the
dignity, the majesty, the grandeur OF
life? And what life was here! Life
whose beginnings lay so far back that
I could no more reckon the years
than | could count the atoms it had
builded into this majestic form.
Looking down upon him from twice
his height loomed a tulip poplar,
clean, boiled for thirty feet and in the
top all green and gold with blossoms.
1t was a resplendent thing beside the
oak, vet how Enthusiastically the gnarl-
ed old monarch wore the crown His
girth more than balanced the poplar S
great height, and, as for blossoms,
nature knows the beauty of strength
and inward majesty and has pinned
no boutonniere upon the oak.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-06

which he seemed rather to feel than
to hear, in the same gentle and earnest
tone which his mother had used in
teaching him to pray gave utterance
to those words, of whose help stands
in ever constant need:
LEAD us not into temptation T. 1t
was his dead mother voice as it lived
in his memory, but in power and in
fluence as real as when in his child
hoods devotions, it had direction and
guided his own.
"Oh, God I thank thee !" he ex-
claimed, as load seemed lifted from
his struggling spirit. What, after
ALL" he reflected, ''are failure and
poverty, when incurred through no
fault of my own, in comparison with
the ever present and constant debase-
ment of even we'll concealed and sue
cessful guilt 2"
A tap at the door caused him to
open it. A clerk handed him some
letters that were just brought by the
postn1an. One of them he knew by
the superscription was from his debtor.
Hastily he tore it open. 1t contained
check for fifteen hundred pounds !
He didn't stop then to read the wri-
ter's explanation of the unexpectedly
favorable turn his affairs had taken.
It yet lacked fifteen minutes of three
O'Clock. He hurried to the bank
paid his note, and had three minutes to
spare
William Barton is now rich, hon
ored, and married to the woman of
his choice. Let us trust he will not
forget that in prosperity as in adver-
sity, our first daily supplication should
be, Lead us not into temptation -
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-06
GETTING OUT OF BED.

Don't jump up the first thing your
eyes are open. Remember that while
you sleep the vital organs are at rest.
The vitality is lowered and the cir
culation not SO strong. A sudden
spring out of bed is shock to these
organs, especially to the heart, as it
starts to pumping blood suddenly.
Take your time in getting up.
Yawn and stretch wake up slowly
give the vital organs chance to re-
sumo their work gradually.
Notice how baby wakes up. 1t
stretches its arms and legs, rubs its
eyes and yawns and wakes up.
First it stretches out one leg, then an
other, rubs its face, rolls over and
stretches the whole body. The birds
do not wake up and fly as soon as
their eyes are open. They shake out
their wings and stretch their legs,
waking up slowly. This is the nat
uraI way to wake up. Don't jump
up suddenly, don't be in such hur-
ry, but stretch and yawn and yawn
and stretch. Stretch the arms and
the legs; stretch the whole body. A
good yawn and stretch is better even
than a cold bath. 1t will get you
thoroughly awake, and then you will
enjoy the bath all the more.-Meas
cal Talk.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-06
MUST PAY FOR "puFrs.

A Western editor has come 10 the
conclusion that those desiring ''puffs"
in his paper must pay for them and
has established the following schedule
of prices For telling the public that
a man is a successful citizen when
everybody knows he is lazy as gov
ernment mule, $2.7o; referring to a
deceased citizen as one who is mourn
ed by the entire community when we
know he is "skinfint" and kicker
OF public improvements. and will only
be missed by few, $Io.I3; refer
ring to some galavanting female as
an estimable lady whom it is pleas
ure to meet, when every business
man in town would rather see the
devil coming, $50; calling an ordi-
nary pulpit FOUNDER an eminent di-
vine, sixty cents; sending doughty
sinner to heaven, SIS.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-06
THE "GRAFTER's" SUCCESS.

James B. Dill, whose recent speech
on graft" at Oberlin College, i'm
pressed the entire country, told re-
Gently, apropos of graft, story
about a swindling tramp.
"This tramp" said Mr.. Dill, had
the alert, INSCRIPTIONS, bold mind
that makes grating successful.
"He was walking down a city
street one day, where he saw little
boy stoop and pick up something.
"He crossed over to the boy quickly.
"'You have made find, my lad,
he said.
"'Yes, SIR said the innocent boy.
L have found silver ring.
"'I thought So, said the tramp.
It's the one I just dropped. Now,
amt it lucky had my name cut in
it?'
"'What is your name3' said the
boy, suspiciously.
"'Sterling, lad
"'Take it then. It's yours, said
the boy, handing over the ring with
a disappointed air."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-06
SHELTER FOR FATrEN1Ha STEERS.

In the fall of 1902 there were
planned series of experiments to
test the comparative merits of indoor
and outdoor feeding for fattening
steers, says T. I. Mairs, of the Penn
sylvania experiment station. These
experiments have now extended
through three seasons, upon practi-
cally the same plan. Twenty-four
steers were divided into two lots as
nearly equal as possible. One lot was
fed in large pen in the basement OF
the barn, the other lot was fed in an
open shed in a yard anjoining the
barn. This shed was enclosed on the
two ends and one side, leaving the
open side toward the southeast.
During the first season the lot fed
in the shed produced slightly smaller
gain and ate somewhat more food
than the one fed in the barn. Dur
ing the second season the lot in the
barn again produced larger gain but
ate more food than the lot outside.
During the first season it required
one and one-fifth pounds more feed to
produce pound of gain in the out
side lot than in the barn lot. Dur
ing the second season it required one
and one half pounds more feed to pro-
duce pound of gain in the open shed
than in the barn. During the third
season the two lots made practically
the same gains, there being only one
half pound difference per steer, and
that in favor of the outside lot. The
steers in the shed ate less during this
season than the steers in the barn.
During this season it required quar-
ter of a pound more feed to produce
pound of gain in the barn than out
side. Farmers Home Journal.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-06
FL0TsAM.
By N. A. BRADY.

1. Mediocre people are always the
fiercest critics.
II. Gossip, like buzzards, thrives
best on carriou.
III. A woman without vanity is
like an egg without salt.
w. Wit may contain wisdom, but
true wisdom is ever impatient of wit.
v. Of two evils choose neither
one will choose you fast enough.
VI. Never cast pearls before people
to whom wax beads are just as ac-
ceptable.
VII. All respectability is not good
ness; neither is all goodness to be
found in respectability.
VIII. One may study and gain
knowledge one must live to gain
wisdom.
TX. The methods of the Borgias
are crude compared with the weapons
of the intellectual women of today.
x. Tragedy and comedy are inter-
changeable terms depending solely on
the angle of vision.
XII. When we reflect how disa-
greeable are some wise and learned
people, we honestly admire the amia-
bility of fools.
XII. Combinations are net always
wise. A rare-bit is an innocef1t-con-
coction. Add stomach and there is
something to pay-generally doc
tors bill.
XIII. Some people are so wrapped
up in the ethics of their own lives
that they have no eyes for the pathet-
les of the lives of others.
XIV. Experience is school for
fools, many of whom would be bene-
fted by several postgraduate courses.
XIV. A kiss is little thing-so is
drop of acid, but there is no telling
how deep either will go.
XVI. Most of US get hopelessly
mixed up on "meum'' and 'tuum, "
especially in the matter of umbrellas.
XVII. Candor is an admirable trait,
but if we were to practice it, we
should have to go a-ound armed to
the teeth. -Byoadway Magasine.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-06
WILL SELL HIS LANDS.

The Marquis of Downshire has
agreed to sell his agricultural lands
in County Down to the tenants. The
estate is the largest in Ireland, and
is valued at about SIS, 900 900.
The Irish estates of the Marquis of
Downshire are Hillsborough Castle,
County Down, and Murlough House,
Dundrum, County Down. In all the
marquis owns about 100, 900 acres,
but this includes his English estate,
Hampstead Park, Nottingham, Berk-
shire.
Lord Downshire is the biggest land
owner in the Emerald Isle, and the
transaction in question represents
sum estimated at about $40. 900, 900.
Hebears name we'll known in Ireland
for he is descended in a direct line
from that first marquis of Downshire
who was secretary of state for the
colonies at the time of the outbreak
of the American war of independence,
and largely responsible for the foolish
policy which entailed to England the
loss of all those transpontine depend
encies that are now comprised in the
United States.
Lord Downshire is the head of the
house of Hill, founded by Sir Moyses
Hill, who was sent over to Ireland by
Queen Elizabeth from England in
1873 to suppress O'Neil's rebellion.
He settled in Ireland, where his son
was created hereditary constable of
Hillsboroughfort, a dignity still held
by the present Lord Downshire, and
from that time forth the Hills have
always been identified with the Pro-
testant cause in Ireland, Lord Arthur
Hill, the uncle and guardian of the
present marquis, being one of the
principal dignitaries of the order OF
Orangemen.
Lord Downshire has had the misfor-
tune to be involved frequently in legal
proceedings and has heard himself
described from the bench as IAN ex-
ceedingly foolish young man." the
ire of the presiding judge against him
having been excited by the almost in
credible manner in which he allowed
himself to be swindled by Arthur Sc
bright, brother of Sir Edgar Sc
bright, and who may possibly, in the
course of time, inherit the latter's an
cient baronetcy. Should this ever
occur, he will constitute an addition
to the number of baronets who have
"done time"