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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-02-21
SMOKER
TONIGHT

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Tor the urat ttur this eycud1 The
demand fof admission tickets has
hasu - ersAt that superintendent
fueilu has adhetrd % his original ies
tantl0n 81 allon none hut club meme
hers a. be admitted.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-02-21

wsli backed financially. we ean fore
see nothing but good fortuue ! have
every reason to export that the race
IN the Eastern League viii be hard
fought from start 10 fihinh hy Eight
strong teams
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-02-21

van have been matched "a m...
fore the Arcadia Athlsiie eI,5. 's
Lon Angeles The fighters w,,, y
eslyo 30 per cent If the go - -
eaiptB splitting % 10 The -, y.
and 80 % The loser inner
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SEATTLE TEAM TO
PLAY At EVERETT

Manager Bedford. % the Seattle
hlEh school basketball team. will
takn the boys 10 Everett neat Hat
ustsY far a game With the Everett
high The Evsrrst aulnfei Suffered
defeat al the hands u The locals at
the last game. hu, the slnokeaiack-
ers ASSERT that theY can give the
Seattle boyH a good druhhinE on
their home Kruuuda.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-02-21
SPORTING BRIEFS

Coach thinker. Of the ~" base
ball team. Is encounteriuR all kinds
~ trouble IN biB efforts 10 secure O.
pitching staff Homer Dean la tho
only capable man az present but
when the "u' has a schedule ~ five
games poP week one pitcher looks
very bad.
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LAST CHANCE FoH RABY DAY.
Next Saturday. the atth. from ,
- ~ a N. We wiii photograph. free
of charge. any baby Yeare or uH-
der. EzGan 4 Erickson. Studio.
Elssi huiidinE. Second and Pfka =
&C.
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TACOMA. Fob. IA Al.
ended fne game ~ raoews '.uls
might between tho Taeama "a r, -
land s. n q a. teams. 49,, .Ii'
iafkeY awarded The game 70 p,,.
land. Z IT, o. VT
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Two points for a victory, one
point Tor draw,
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Js Cans and Mike crwln) sali
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
IN MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.
President Emphasizes Necessity Of
Coast Defenses.

Washington, March 6.-President
Roosevelt has sent a message to CON
gress accompanying plans for coast
defenses prepared by a joint board of
army and navy officers, in which he
emphasized the necessity for further
defenses and reviews the history of
the defensive works in this country.
The president calls especial atten
ton to the recommendation of the
board that the entrance to Chesa-
peake bay be added to the list of
places IN the United States to be de-
Tended. He says the insular posses
sions cannot be longer neglected If
the United States desires to hold them.
Defenses are recommended for Ma
Mia bay, Pearl harbor, Guantanamo,
Guam, San Juan and Honolulu because
their strategic locations. Defenses
are recommended for entrances to the
Panama canal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
THE ATMOSPHERE.
First Attempt to Weigh IL Was Made
by Aristotle.

II we are to believe both legend and
history, the first attempt to weigh air
was that made by Aristotle, the great
Greek philosopher of the fifth century.
He first weighed an empty goatskin
bag and then inflated it and again put
II in the balances, and because he
found no difference in weight under
the two conditions announced to the
world that air was a substance wholly
without weight.
With modern laboratory apparatus
most any high school scholar can dem
onstrate the fact that a flask Of ten
cubic inches capacity weighs fully
three grains more when filled with air
than it does after being placed under
the exhaust Of an air pump. The nu-
merous experiments hat have been
made on the weight of air warrant the
scientists in announcing that the
weight of the whole terrestrial atmos-
phere Is about equal to that of a solid
copper ball slxty-two miles in diameter.
The philosophers have also shown that
the weight of the atmosphere must be
limited to where gravity overcomes the
centrifugal force. If it were Of equal
density throughout its height above the
earth, it could not extend a greater aIti-
tude than PISS feet, which would
leave about 1000 feet of Mount Ever
sticking out above the atmosphere.
IL is a well known fact, however, that
air loses it's weight and density as we
ascend from the sea level, and calcula.
lions which have been made on that
&c to show that there may be a
stratum of very thin air at a height Of
II 1000 miles.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
IN r
Changed According 10 the Calendar
and Not the Weather.

A characteristic of the Koreans
which has helped TO their undoing as
a nation was the fact that they were
guided wholly by precedent. When a
new situation presented they did o
cope with IL In the light of the day
they were living. but were guided en-
tirely by the old saws and the ancient
maXims OF wise men who had been
dead a thousand years or SO. A strik-
Ing illustration of this national trait
was furnished in the matter of their
wearing apparel. which was changed
according 10 an ancient calendar and
without any regard to the temperature
of the day.
Korea is a land of great extremes OF
heat and cold, and the man who draft
ell the calendar by which all clothing
is changed, though a Chinese sag it
is said, was not a success as a weather
prophet, unless, as SCR maintain, the
climate in the course Of the hundreds
of years which have elapsed has chang
ed. When the calendar announce now
begins the period of greatest cold the
conservative Korean. although the air
may be soft and balmy. pads out his
white garments with six or seven
thicknesses of cotton wadding, until
the thin man becomes a fat man and
the stout party swells up to such enor-
nous size as to- block up the streets
when he walks. or, rather, rolls. abroad.
though spring and early sum
.er may have come and the heat pre-
vailing be almost tropical, the Korean
'welters about in his wadded clothing
N perspiring veneration of his heredi-
AIRY calendar,-New York Herald.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
ON COUNSEL'S ADVICE
BERTHE CLAICHE PLEADS GUILTY
TO MANSlAUGHTER IN THE
FIRST DEGREE.

New York, March THE trial of
Berthe Claiche for the murder of
Emil Gerdron came to sudden termina-
ton during the day when the young
French woman pleaded guilty, on ad
vice of her counsel, to manslaughter
in the first degree. That this, how
ever, is not the end of the case and
that an attempt will be made to con
tinue 1t as an investigation of a GER
tain class of policemen, with Berthe
Claiche as states evidence, was made
plain by statements both of the Judge
before whom the trial was conducted
and by the defendants own counsel.
The plea of the defendant was made
after her counsel had held a confer
with District Attorney Jerome.
The prosecution at the beginning
declared that Gerdron was iured to
his death on July s, last, by a plot in
which a policeman assisted the de-
PENDANT.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
wind Lona WIN Zoe nenr,

The army rules are that two inch ice
VIII sustain a man or properly placed
infantry; four inch ice will carry a man
on horseback or cavalry or light guns;
SIX inch Ice, heavy field guns, such as
eighty Founders; eight inch ice. a bat
terry OF artillery. with carriages and
horses. but not over 1000 pounds per
square foot on sledges, and ten inch ice
sustains an army or an innumerable
multitude. On fifteen inch ice rail-
road tracks are often laid and operated
Tor months, and ice two feet thick
the impact of a loaded pas
senger car after a sixty foot fall Tor
perhaps 1.500 tons). but broke under
that OF the locomotive and tender for
perhaps 1000 foot tons).
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
lady Jane Grey.

Lady Jane Grey was the most learn
ed child Of which history has any rec.
ord. Before she was nine years old
she wrote a beautiful hand and was
able to play on many different instru-
ments. She could speak several Ian
guages. both ancient and modern. be-
sides being well grounded in phlloso-
ply. When other children were plar.
Ing she would amuse herself by read
Ing writings of the philosopher Plato in
the original Greek. Perhaps 1t was be-
cause she had led a very lonely life
when she was a child, as her mother
and father were often away at court.
leaving her to the care of her govern
ess and her schoolmasters at the
gloomy family place called ERADICATE.
The big square house was built on the
edge OF a great forest surrounded by
acres of uninhabited land. There were
very few books and not any newspa-
pers at the castle, and Lady Jane Grey
had no riaymates. as her governess
would not allow her to play with the
servants children. and there were no
Others suitable for her companions
within miles.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
The Origin Of winhfnu

The origin of the expression wind.
fall.' which is used when one wishes
TO refer to a streak OF coed luck, dates
back TO the time of William the Con
queror. At that time II was a criminal
onense 10 cut timber In the British for
ests without royal consent. All that
could be gathered for fuel or other
purposes was such limbs as the wind
should happen TO break and cast TO the
ground. On this account the peasants
nailed a great wlndstorm as a bless
Ing, because 1t was apt to cast enough
or "windfalls" for winter ireyood
From this old time forestry custom
comes the modern application Of the
expression. AT one time it was decreed
mat only such limbs and whole trees
rs should fall during the three summer
months could be used as irewood. bur
the unjustness of the act was so plain
" apparent that no attempt was ever
made to enforce it.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
& OF ANIMALS.


The following interesting letter con
corning the relative speed of animals
appeared In the London Field:
The fastest animal we have is the
greyhound. The next are the race
horse. the red deer and the hare. and
then m the good, big. bold dog
fox, which is a fine galloper on good
going. In comparison with any OF
the above the fastest foxhound on
sound fat turf is as slow as a man
moving grass for haymaklng. But If
you radically alter the trial ground the
above does not hold good. For instance.
on rough clods. whether melted or not.
Q hare cannot run at all: hence she gen
orally takes care not TO go there. and
where greyhounds are kept she habitu-
ally lies in her form near the fringe of
a rough fallow that when coursed she
may quickly be on good going. With
such long. powerful hind legs a hare
can beat anything up a steep hill. A
foxhound can easily beat any horse
over deep clay pillow, because the horse
weighs as much as twelve hounds and
therefore sinks deeply. In stag hunt
ing the red deer tires earlier than the
blood hunter, though the horse may not
be faster, but great consideration must
be made for the discretion of a good
horseman, who avoids exhauSting deer
which the deer plods through.
A run of eight miles within the hour
IN either of the three wet wintry
would leave the body of the
ield behind. but it would be easy TO a
'iding man on a galloping horse when
he March winds have dried the coun-
ny and the obstacles are only ordinary
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
The DeceitfuIne.. of Fur.

IL detracts somewhat from ones feel
ing Of pride In a handsome fur garment
to know that after the furrier, chem
list and dyer have got through with the
rabbit skin II may be a "sealskin," a
sable" an ''otter," a siberian squir-
REL" a mink" a ''marten," a beaver"
or any other fashionable fur. The
transformation takes place In the shops
which sell felt to hatmakers, carpet
weaver and felt manufacturers, and
Paris and London are the principal
centers for this industry. In those
cities millions Of rabbit skins are dress
ed and treated. and bogus furs are sent
out to robe men and women Of all
parts of the world. The skins are pur-
chased o after they have been strip
ped from bunny's back and are stiff
and hard when they are unpacked in
the sorting room. Experts examine
each skin, and those which come up TO
the established standard are sent 10
he furriers. but the torn. understood
and punctured pelts are turned over 10
the men and women who strip the hide
or Its hair for the felt maker.-Ex-
change.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
Mu.zled women of Mn...

Women of the better class in Muscat
aii wear muzzles, which barely allow
hem 10 open the mouth or see with
.ne or sneeze. IL there happens to
DC y cleopatra in Muscat she will ney-
er iascinate any Antony by the beauty
OF ner well shaped nose. for 1t Is kept
IA q specially made. ugly case, In which
u Is impossible to tell its shape. Bur
WIN all Its faults this Is a far better
system than that of cutting of the nose.
as men In the Kangra district In India
are wont to do when any of their
epouses have proved too fascinating
Allahabad Pioneer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
THE BRAIN.
The Organ That Enables the Hemf-
spheres 10 Act In Haruoux

spnefes 10 Act I'm Harmony.
Near the base OF every well organ.
lied human brain there is situated n
curious little spongy body called the
corpus eallosum. This all important
little organ consists of a double chain
OF white nerve ibers. and ii Is trough
these that the two portions Chemi-
spheres) OF the brain are enabled TO act
in harmony by being continually
brought into anatomical and physiolog.
ical relations with each other.
Several years & a well known Phil.
adelphia physician and surgeon. DIR.
A. H. Stevens, made the announcement
that, in his belief, the corpus callosum
was the seat Of the soul. His peculiar
Ideas were given quite an airing
through the press at that time. hut the
whole theory fell pretty fat when DIR
A. +. Sawyer Of San Francisco proved
that a certain west coast worthy had
survived twenty years after having the
entire corpus callosum shot out of his
thought tank and that another. had
lived eleven years after sustaining a
similar injury. The psychologists were
pretty wei agreed that a mans life
terminate the moment his soul
its exit on the lead Of a pistol
cartridge. II was these well attested
cases Of men living after losing the cor
pus eallosum that caused DR.. Stevens
soul theory to relapse into ~obscurity.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
Royal Gamblers.

The fascination which games Of
chance have exercised over gentle and
simple is well illustrated in the de-
scription by Stow of the entertainment
gwen by Henry Picard, mayor of Lon
don, In 1857, when the kings of France
and Scotland. being prisoners in Eng
land, and the king of Cyprus on a visit
10 Edward Ill, the mayor kept his
nall against all comers that were will
ing 10 play at dice and hazard. The
Lady Margaret, his wife, did keepe her
chamber to the same intent" The
mayor, having won so marks from the
KING OF cyprus, returned him the mon
ey' saying, My lord and king. be NOT
aggrieved, for | covet not our gold
but your play."-Chambers' Journal
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
The Use of Quinfua.

People who suffer with the liver and
VINO get run down in nerve strength
sometimes complain that quinine does
them no good, says a physician. The
reason is this: When q~uinine passes
INTO the intestine it is acted on by the
bile and forms with it a salt that ls
soluble only in a great excess of bile,
so 1t passes out of the system without
entering the blood at all. To prevent
uis 5iliou persons ought to clear out
re bile by a good liver pill or a saline
purgative before the quinine is taken.
Even when the liver is not affected II
Is always best to take such medicines
before using quinine.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
GLASS or THE ANCIENrs


The BlOwers of Thebes Were Exn.
Many Centnries Ago.
The glassblowers Of ancient Theho,
are known to have been as proficient
in that particular art as Is the mo-,
scientific craftsman of the same trad
of the present day after a lapse q,
forty centuries Of SO called progress
They are well acquainted with tho
art of staining glass and are known n
have produced that commodity IN
great p%rofusion and perfection. Ro,
selini gives an illustrh ton Of a piece ~
stained glass known to be 1000 years
old, both In tint and design. In This
case the color is struck through the
vitrified structure, and he mentions do
signs struck entirely in pieces from .
half inch to three-quarters of an inch
thick, the color being perfectly incor.
porated with the structure of the piece
and exactly the same on both the oh.
verse and reverse sides.
The priests of Ptah at Memphis wara
adopts in the glassmaker's art, and no,
ILL., NNN 49, H"NN IoNlOi ttS lOT mann.
featuring the common crystal variety
but they had learned the vitrifying Of
the different colors and the imitation
of precious stones to perfection. Their
limitations of the amethyst and of the
various other colored gems were so
true to nature that even now, after
they have lain in the desert sands from
1000 to 1000 years. 1t takes an expert
to distinguish the genuine article from
the spurious. 1t has been shown that,
besides being experts in glassmaking
and glass coloring, they used the dia.
mond in cutting and engraving glass.
In the British museum there is a beau.
piece Of stained glass, with an
engraved emblazonment of the mon.
arch Thothmes Ill, who lived 3,4OO
years ago.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08

Never suppress a sneeze," said the
trained nurse to the young woman who
had just performed that polite act. 1T
Is @ great strain on all the nerves and
blood vessels of the head, as it throws
all the action to the back Of the head
instead OF letting 1t come out Of the
mouth safely and naturally. The unu-
suai and hard strain on a little blood
vessel that may be weak is likely TO
ourst II and cause instant death. A
loud sneeze does not sound very nice.
out 1t Is a safe thing to do every time"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
BANKER is ARRESTED
JOHN r. WALSH OF CHICAGO AC.
CUSED OF VIOLATING FED.
ERAl BANKING LAWS.

Chicago, March 3.-John r. Walsh
president of the defunct Chicago Ma.
tlonal bank, which closed its doors
Dec. lS, 1906, was taken into custody
during the day on a federal warrant.
Wnich charges him with violation of
the national banking laws in making
raise returns to the comptroller of the
currency, and also asserts that he
converted to his own use without
proper authority funds of the bank
amounting to 5 3 1000, 900.
he was released after giving bonds
of $50, 600.
The arrest of Mr.. Walsh came as the
direct result of the last examination of
the books of the Chicago National
bank. made by Special Bank Examiner
Arthur L. Curry, sen to Chicago from
Washington.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08

according to experiments with the
dynamometer, a man is precisely at his
weakest when he turns out Of bed.
our muscular force Is greatly increas-
e by breakfast, but 1t attains to its
highest point after the midday meal.
1t then sinks for a few hours. rises
again toward evening, but steadily de-
cines from night to morning. The
cnief Toes Of muscular force are over
work and idleness.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
TREACHEROUS RIVER BEDS.
A Homestesder's OUTFIT when Caught
In the Q~uicksands.

IN the 8ufchsauuss
The movers" wagon. canvas covered
and travel worn, is always picturesque.
The travelling home for a family and
all their worldly goods, from furniture
to poultry, is still a familiar sight on
western roads. The spirit of dissatis-
faction and longing for newer fields
that turks under that broad brimmed
hat is a spark of the same fire that has
been the theme Of our history. BY
some stream under the cottonwoods of
an evening you may sometimes see this
half gypsy. and the fire. with its ac-
~companying smell of bacon and beans
or the song and accordion. will suggest
as YOU drive by why the rowing has al
ways its fa~scinations.
There are. however, the long dusty
days of travel and sore backed horses.
the occasional swollen fords. and al
ways present, though seldom encoun-
tered. are the qUickSands of the dry
bottom streams. They are indistin-
guishable and silent. The shallow rib
bons of water flow over them as over
all the rest of the river bed, but once
fairly in their grasp there is a remorse-
less. certain settling. which a struggle
only hastens and which ends in an ever
lasting disappearance. Cattle and
horses are caught in it o~ftenest. and, if
in time, can be pulled out with a
rope and horse. but into its hungry
nav have gone horses, wagons and
men, and even a locomotive. going
through a bridge. has been known to
disappear in this bottomless mystery
Allen True In Outing.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
A Divided Sentiment.

Little Agnes is twelve years old. She
is a poetess. She has, maybe. a sense
OF humor and, positively, she did not
IKE her stepmother. On the latter's
birthday the youthful rhymer put forth
all her powers to please the lady who
nad usurped her W mothers place.
The quatrain ran as follows:
thank you for you kindness.
thank you for your love
And hope God will reward Won
BY taking you above.
Her stepmother hardly knew whether
tnis was to be taken ~prematurely or
not. She supposed not.-New York
Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
The Earth and Man Comnar.d.

III 1t were possible for a man to con-
struct a globe 800 feet in height-much
less than twice the height Of the Wash
ington monument-and to place upon
any portion of its surface an atom one
Tour thousand three hundred and eight
ieth or an inch In diameter and one
one hundred and twentieth of an inch
In height, 1t would correctly denote the
proportions man bears to the gigantic
globe upon which he stands.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08

se~ntriioquism. which is described al
speakinS from the belly" has its first
historic mention. as far as we are
aware. IN Isaiah XXX. 4, "And thou
shalt be brought down and SHAH snesr
OUT o. me ground. and thy speech shall
% low out Of the dust. and thy voice
mall be as n that hath a familiar
splr't q Of the ground. and thy
speecn shall whisper out Of the dust"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08

very curious is the method Of fishing
Ioiiowed Dy the Chinese in the strait
o. Maiacca. The fisherman lets dow
from the side of the boat a screen Of
wnite canvas stretched on wood. The
snoai OF fish mistake this for some
noating obstruction and try to leap
over IT, with the result that the 6sh
UNI into the boat and are thus cap
ssreu- Ihis method Is employed by
Malays in their waters.