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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30
GOVERNMENTAL BAIT.
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There have been several arrests and
convictions of postal employees recently
for stealing from the mails. The postal
thief Invariably works under a delu-
sion that he will not be discovered, al
though he knows perfectly well that
complaints OF valuable missing letters
are always made to the department,
and that the departments machinery for
investigation Is practically perfect. a
postofice inspector tells, in the Wash
ington Star, OF the bait used in catch
Ing the thief.
Although We use the same old bait,
says he, the offenders keep on just the
same until the time-worn but deadly
certain ..decoy letter. lands them in the
p~enitentiary, high and dry, to wonder
why they were SO weak and foolish as
to bite at II.
This decoy letter Is such n simple
ness. Yet it Is the greatest silent
thief-catcher in use by mankind. The
postal thief, emboldened by early sue
cesses, goes on merrily until the limo
cent-appearing decoy letter is silently
slipped in the mails to find its way
surely to his hands.
The thief does not always bite at
the first letter. Another is sent, and
then another, all containing the coy
eted cash. At last, o or later. one
lands In the pocket of the dishonest
employee and later becomes document
airy evidence against him.
The decoy letter contains all the out
ward and Inward appearance OF an or
binary piece of mail intended Tor some
private citizen or business house whose
mail Is being tempered with. But their
private earmarks are as big rs a house
to the inspectors, and when they are
shown up in court, l reckon they look
twice as large to the thief ON trial.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

aSo. <Aito5SlhSl liz
owned 100000 acres of American land,
including: In Logan, Sangamon n
Livingston Counties, ILL.,, 10000; in
Kansas, $4,000; in Nebraska, 10000;
in Missouri, 10000. These lands he
leased to tenants for a cash rental.
incidentally he was widely execrated
by certain sections of the population
in the West for his attempt to foster
'Irish landlordism'' in free America.
So bitter did the sentiment against
law declaring an alien incapable of
holding lands in Illinois and requiring
all such to sell their holdings within
three years. This law was declared
unconstitutional by the United States
Supreme Court. Then Illinois passed
a modified law, and Scully became a
naturalized citizen of the United
States. File made his home in Wash
ington, where he lived without osten-
tation. In 1901 he came to the United
States to invest money in land. Land
ing at Philadelphia, he bought a horse
and a spade and started west search
ing for land. He rode ON horseback
from Philadelphia through the States
Of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Kansas. Nebraska and Wiscon-
sin, testing the soil with his spade.
He gave two years to the trip and then
he bought his land. Much OF his land
in Illinois cost him only $1.25 an acre.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30
~oNNooo

Modelling in breadcrumbs, which are
soaked in liquids of various colors and
are nade elastic and almost unbreak-
able ~ a special process, is the curious
new art of Suzanne Meyer, a French
woman.
The human breath has been found to
be a fair conductor of electricity, a
spark from a Wimshurst machine being
longer in breathed than in pure air.
Investigating further, Dufour has con-
Guided that the lung and skin exhala-
tons sensibly increase the leakage from
an electrically charged body, and it is
suggested that the vapors rising above
a flock of sheep or cattle may explain
the tendency OF lightning to strike the
huddled animals.
A novel charge is brought against the
common bedbug (Cimex lectularius) by
DR.. w. J.. Goodhue, medical superin.
tendent of the Molokai leper settlement,
who regards it as a chief agent in
spreading leprosy. 1t is believed to
have greater influence than the gnat,
for it eemes noiselessly. and during tile
patients Steep, anu DeOuluS among
icpers is too little disinfected. After
long research DR.. Goodhue has demon
strated the presence of the bacillus OF
leprosy in the mosquito (Culex pun
gens) as we'll as in the bedbug.
An ingenious apparatus for drawing
the profile of a river bottom is used by
Italian engineers. 1t consists Of a wheel
affixed to the bottom of q graduated
rod, which is fastened vertically at the
side of q boat In such a that
as the boat advances up or down or
across stream, the wheel at the end of
the rod runs continually upon the bot
tom, the rod rising and falling with
variations of level. BY noting the depth
at chosen intervals of time, the ele-
ments are obtained for tracing an ac-
curate representation of all the sinuosi-
ties Of the bottom of the river, and the
variations of depth. In the saving OF
time this simple apparatus possesses an
enormous advantage cver the ordinary
method of soundings.
Germany has for some time possessed
q dozen factories for the liquefaction
OF carbonic acid gas issuing from the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30
n,I|ffl1faE ra'z

"You look uncommonly cheerful" re,
Nor, as the latter threw back the
cover of his desk and prepared to at.
tack the mail.
do II" asked the senior, smiling. Il
didn't know it,"
you look as If somebody had left
you money" pursued the Junior. You
want to take care how you come into
the Office beaming like hat or the of.
flee boy will be asking you for a
raise"
The senior composed his features to
an expression of gravity for a moment,
but the smile came out again, broad
med and broke into u laugh. That's
not so bad either, considering" he said.
"But 1 give you my word 1 never
thought of it before"
"Of the boyF"
"Of-ha, ha! Say, do you know
things have been going wrong with me
this morning? / don't know when |
ever got up feeling uglier. See my
chinT"
~uL yohlSciiJ nun l yOu.
Yes, | cut myself, but that wasn't
h only thing. l got up late TO begin
with and that nearly always makes me
mad when | want to get up early for
any reason. l figured on finishing rak-
Ing up the leaves on the lawn and
burning them in the back lot before
breakfast. | worked like a mailer last
evening OF the job and l had quite n
pile raked up. Well, when I looked
out of the window ! saw that the wind
had come up and scattered them all
over where I'd raked. That was
enough to make a man mad, wasn't
it,"
Certainly" said the Junior sympa-
thetically.
Then, when l took up my trousers
the change fell out of my pockets and
II coin rolled under the bed. L
struck a match to see where it was
and the fame caught the fringe of the
counterpart and it got scorched pretty
badly. 1t was a counterpart that my
wife thought q great deal of, too. |
burned my hand a little beating it out
not enough to hurt a great deal. but
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

earth in the neighborhood of extinct
volcanoes. Last summer a large fac.
tory OF the same kind was opened near
the Puy de Dome, a famous extinct vol
cano in central France. The LIQUID OBJ
tanned by the condensation of these vol
canic gases is said to be purer than
that produced by solely chemical proc.
esses. From an excavation at A:sue-
perse, near the Puy de Dome, the GUAM
tity of gas given forth every day is
reckoned at about half a million liters.
Inc place Is known as the poison foun-
taln,' and the bones Of many animals
have been found in the excavation. In
Guiding those of Il horse, a bison and a
mammoth.
According to Cosmos, the employment
OF circular disks of iron, turning with
great velocity, but possessing no teeth
on the edge, for saving metal. has be-
come common in many workshops.
Among other places where such saws
without teeth are used is the celebrated
krupp gun works, where arInor plate
Is sometimes cut in this n The
process is not a newly discovered one.
As long ago as 1924 Barrier and Cola
don, at Geneva, experimental with
swiftly rotating disks of iron. They
found that when a disk about seven
inches in diameter turned with a per-
ipheral velocity of ten meters per sec
ond, it could be cut with a steel tool
pressed against it, but that when the
velocity was increased to twenty-one
meters per second the iron was unaf-
fected, but the steel too was damaged.
At a velocity of sixty meters per second
the iron disk even cut quartz and agate.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

ing her eyes, she returned it to the
postman with q sigh, saying that she
too poor to pay the charge.
\ Rowland Hill pitied her distress and
himself advanced the shilling. The
girl had said: ut is from my poor
brother in Australia, whom 1 haven't
een for years."
When he told her she was free to
open the letter, she manifested some
reluctance, and no delight. Her IN
barraSsed an aroused the suspi-
cions OF Mr.. Hill.
Before leaving the inn next morn
ing he questioned the barmaid at
length and finally drew from her the
confidence that she didn't need to
open the letter. since there was only
the envelope, upon which in faint char
acters were nOtations that told all her
brother had to say. Before the
latter left England. the girl said. she
and he had devised a system to cor
respond without expense. They agreed
that when either received a letter, he
or she was to handle it fondly, while
protesting inability to pay the charge.
and after reading the secret notations
to return the letter to the postman.
Rowland Hill went back to London
and devised the scheme to compel the
payment of the postage before send
ing the letter in the mail. Thus from
a poor girls cheating the government
of England out of a shilling was born
the modern postage stamp.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

SIR HIRAM MAXIM. Ity, # applied IN tHe oTulH0Fy Why
serves not only to aggravate the trouble by increasing
the number of the unemployed, but at the same time 1t
serves to diminish the birth rate of those who have TO
pay the taxes.
The man does not live who can suggest a plan Tor
relieving the poor which does not agSravAte the trouble
and make il worse. We may go on for years and CON
tinue 10 contribute ever increasing sums for the sup
port and increase of the unfit, but the time must eventu-
ally arrive when we get TO the end of our tctler.
We shall have bred such Il vast horde of the worth
less. the lazy and the unfit that they Will completely
oyerwhelm us. The laws of nature are such that if the
individual sins the individual has to suffer, but if the
nations sin, as they are SHINING ut the present time, by
tne artificial production of Il vast number of unfit citizens,
then the Aations must suffer.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

enough to make me feel like saying
things best left unsaid. | just caught
a glimpse of the coin and | took it for
Il So gold piece. | had Il couple of
them IN my pocket and I'd only picked
up one, so | crawled under the bed
after it. I'm q pretty tight fit for TIE
space, by the way"
You're not as slim as YOU used 10
be-" said the junior. G on; my heart
aches for you
Il got IL lock Of hair tangled in the
wire springs. You needn't laugh. |
haven't much hair, but ] had enoug,
for that. promptly extracted part OF
it and part of it | left there. Then
| got my penny and backed out, knock
ing my head against the sid rail as |
did so. As [ rose to my feet | saw the
50 gold piece nesting coyly against the
foot of the bureau. 50 it's no wonder
| cut myself when | shaved or that |
vas not exactly pleasant to my wife at
the breakfast table when | DlistereN
my throat with the coffee and she told
me | usually made such Il fuss if ii
wasn't hot.
II don't blame you said h junior
"But that hardly explains your pleasant
lumor now"
WELL said the senior partner, 81
started for the train full Of gall anC
bitterness, and with four inmates tt
make it. Wisner was ahead of me
You know Wisner, don't you? That
pursy, dignifed chump we met in the
drug store last time you were down
Well, here came the train in and | was
still 200 yards from the station anG
Wisner was a hundred yards ahead OF
me. when he Stubbed his toe and Went
rolling and s%prawling right into the
middle of the worst puddle OF mNd you
ever saw, his hat under him.
II didn't stop. | made Il squirt and
| Just got on as the train pulled out. |
looked back then and saw WisLer
scramble up, covered with mud. lie
grabbed his hat, made a short run
and then. seeing it was DC good, stop.
ped and shook his fist at the train. If
YOU could have seen him.
I'D been having hard luck myself.
but-well. I've been feeling happy ever
siuce."-Chicago Daily News.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

The lew Marschal College 1T Aberdeen, Scotland, which has Just been
completed, is shown in the Illustration. It IA dedicated recently by King
Edward during the quartrcentenary celebrations of the University Of Aber-
deem, of which, arschalC College n Kings College now form a part The
new MarchalC College is said Ito be n of the nos beautiful college buildings
DON for it. and among the houses demolished was the onceh handsome la
sion in which Lord Byron and his mother spent some years of poverty while
the poet was attending the Aberdeen grammar school Marschal College was
founded n 1a93 by George Keith, fifth Earl MarschaI of Scotland. who was
born in 1858, and who died in Dunottar Castle in 1923. Dr. George Campbell
the celebrated author of" THE Philosophy o Rhetoric" IA al me time ut
the aead of arischal College. As a memento of Byrons residence on te
site Of the school, it is suggested that a statue of the poet pferabv in
granite, be erected at the new college.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30
Had Not Learned 1. Yet.

A bank official, who has many anus
ing stories at his tongues end, tells of
a stolid German wona who went into
the bank one morning to deposit a fat
roll of bills. and open an account.
She was asked to sign her nam in
the book reserved for the signatures
Of depositors, and began to do so with
many twistings Of her face and pauses
after the painful completion of each
letter.
Suddenly she stopped. and after a
period of dismayed reflection looked APP
pealingly at the benevolent young man
on the other side of the broad writing
shelf.
II hat Katrina DONE" she said. point
ing to her work with the pen; 'but my
secont name, ! don't p'lieve ! can write
him. ] don't peen marriet to dis man
long alretty-ohly long as yesterday
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

is excessive toward coarseness, per
loses due respect for women from b
quarters with them.
The higher education for woman
and for man it must more often cul-
In the latter the boy often has his
tual awakening, such as the girl
literature, art, language, history.
today who is not a master in some
be. Girls acquire, appropriate. acc
the general testimony of teachers
90 to pieces when texts are laid
thrown upon their W powers.
evokes the best that is in a boy.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30
CHARITY PLAN NOT POSSIBLE.
Bv Sir Hiram N AKIN.

If the number of the unemployed, or
perhaps we should say the unit, was
a constant, as they say in mathe-
MATES, then we should know eNactIy
what we had to deal with. But. I'M
fortunately for the taxpayer. their
number is not constant on the con-
trary. it is an ever increasing guam
tity. BY the aid of charity they are
able to increase and multiply much
more rapidly than the well to do
classes. Every dollar given in char
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30
WHEN POWER OF LEARNING
By Pr

Old age is due to {
which the nerve fibers
Il child is born the men
denly animated and g
fundamental notions of
ton of its existence. I
ing, hearing, seeing, {
relationship to human
year the power of leaf
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

the woman teacher gives free rein to whatever
masculine ideals she may have, sometimes as If she I'M
consciously felt that. as male teachers We're becoming eX~
tinct, she must cultivate a biseXual character.
1t is said that association with boys makes the high
school girl less emotional. impulsive, romantic, her con-
duct more thoughtful, her life more regular. If so, this
l hold to be bad. The consensus of women teachers to
the contrary Notwithstanding. l urge that there is some
thing wrong with the girl in the middle teens" who is
not gushy, sentimental, romantic, ut least at times.
1t is said that the presence of girls is humaniZing for
boys; but l insist that there is something wrong with a
boy of this age who can be truly called "a perfect gen
tleman." If he is not Il milksOp, 4 lady boy, or Il sneak,
he is morally precOcious. This pin-featLer age ought to
bel don't quite like to say a little rOwdyish and bar
baric-but certainly uncouth, rude, rccalcitrant to prim
conventionalities; or else vigOr is sacrificed to form. \
blind, but strong and right, instinct, ripened through
millenia, now impels the boy to get away in certain
respects from both girls and women, be they sisters,
schoolnates, mothers, or women teachers; and if he does
not actually leave school where their influence FREEDOM
mates, one of two things is likely to happen; either he
suffers subtle eviration, and his masculinity swerves
from its proper orbit or else his reaction to femininity
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30
when sofia IRON Floats.

Experiments show that II a ball OF
eolid iron Is lowered into a mass OF
liquid iron by means of a metal fork
the ball at first sinks to the bottom
1T leaves the prongs and rises to the
surface, where it continues t. fcat un-
ii 1 + Il ;selss The rising is explained by
the expansion Of the ball, due to heat
ing, whereby 1t becomes, bulk for bulk.
less dense than the molten metal.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

and continues to decrease until
reached, and then it falls off ent
This is the case of the aver
course, as DR.. Osler says, there {:
to say, there are cases of men
power of learning even in old a
few cases where one does not Ii
new ideas into a mans head al
age Of thirty.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30
Two shining Lights.

The great American hen gazed soma
what proudly at the sun. sinking slow.
" to the west in a maze OF brilliant
tintS.
Were both set in our ways. me and
the sun" she Observation-Disclosures
American.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

....
city. He hopes to
increase the member
ship to 1000. For
years 1t has raised
from $50 to 400.
much OF it comprised
of u men who
come out of town to
seek their fortunes
in the big city. While
some remain in the
city permanently, a
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

at the age of SO,
leaving an estate
said to be worth
$4,000 1000. Scully
was a native of
Tipperary, Ireland.
He owned more
farms than any
other man in Amer
lea. He began buy
ing land in the
United States more
than fifty years
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

initiative instinct there so highly
quish all competitors in every mar
Where are these people to find
How are they to obtain the nece
question is already pressing upon
W where immigration concentrate
Sacking the national storehouSe to
over the seas and sold must be
which we shall consider the pres
provement of what is fundamen
tenance. For upon the cultivation
commercial activity, of what intri
is mainly built, and upon it deper
kind and the nature and stability
To a realization of u position,
ture, to a jealous care of our lam
quantity and quality, and to a M
shall at once multiply per acre
destroying productive qualities, v
delay if we are to escape disaster
in business or in politics, that 9
with this that looms already upol
future.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30
RockEFELLER's BIBLE CLASS.

Largely Made Up from Those Who
Are In New York.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., conducts
a Bible class every Sunday at the Fifth
Avenue Baptist church in New York
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

What has become Of the old fash.
toned breed OF pony known as a Buck,
skim" There neve was a mule as
mean as q sBuckskin. pony.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

Oh, life is like a sweet. sweet song
At least that's how 'twould be
If men would not so oft go wrong
And MARBLE off the key.
Washington Star.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30
RICHEST FARMER DEAD.

Vast Holdings in Central
West After Mexican War.
William Scully. more generally known
as Lord Scully,' the Irish landlord in
America, died in London the other day
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30
HIGH SCHOOLS THWART NATURES LAWS.
BY Prot. c. Stanley Hall.

How the high school interferes with the
laws of nature is well seen in Il several recent
studies which show that a large percentage
of girls actually wish they had been born
boys, and the ideals and tastes of many more
are increasingly masculine. Now, without
ideals the female character is
threatened with disintegration. Again, in
the rapid organization of our schools
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

Most Of US discover we need bread
after the wagon has passed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

Play on Golden Rule.
What you would not have done to
yourself never do unto others.-Alex.
ander Severus.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

err his class
the members.
a revelation
sees so little
Mr.. Rock,
quests for d
aware that |
the class me
out of it,, but
ture is SUCH
sincere fron
who come t
m achit
Teller assist
thinks needi
and %sincerel
Mr.. Rock
youth taugh
mas known
hands. AS
allowance q
money he q
from his II
posts arour
which Mr..
money he p
content to ]
DIS u Cullu
was strong
have his f
a from
the spirit
The none
amount th,
ceived fror
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

It Is safer to do business with .
mule than an unloaded gun
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

Every man who has been caught
breads the experience
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30
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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30
ORIENT TO MASTER WORLDS

The time is 4,
need our whea
sumption and $
will not yield
cost, the iron
manufactured
at home, and
of the Orient,
not hope to mi
machinery and.
, 1906-08-07
daughter of Senator C. D. Clark, to Mr.
Blythe of Salt Lake, last evening.
Rolling Mil i1otes.

The little mill was rolling break
down today for its own piles.
A machine lathe was added to the
equipment at the rolling mills today.
A carload of oil is looked for tomor.
row, when the west side will be start.
ed again.
R W. Standiford, the roll turner, has
returned from Denver and resumed his
position in the lathe room.
1t is hoped to start the continuous
rail joint tomorrow, everything having
been gotten in shape today, including
the housing of the rolls, the rebuilding
of the furnaces and the getting ready
of the punch, shears and shapers.
Joe Cush, the 19-year- old son of the
head roller on the bar mill, who receiv.
ed a bit of steel in one of his eyes
while at work about the rolls, was
treated by DR.. Stevens, who removed
the piece. The young man has a pref
ty sore eye.