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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

and sold for So and Sc, most of the
business being done through the ped
dler who had been the means of
bringing the saws to Mr. Halves.
At first the blacksmith made the
tools only at odd times when he had
nothing else on hand, but the demand
became so great that he had to make
special arrangements for their manu-.
facture, and the industry grew into
one OF rather imposing proportions.
MIR. Halves had been engaged in
the manufacture of the squares for
several years before it occurred to
him to take out patent on the new
Implement. He did this ultimately
and began the manufacture of them
in earnest, erecting a factory for this
purpose.
The plant has been enlarged sew
eral times, but steel squares are now
made on the site where the first one
was laboriously formed by the old
blacksmith.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

An 'en he is a pirate an he makes L..
chinnern play
AT we are in a shipwreck an tn crew is
cast away
Upon desert island Were his trea sure
chest is hid,
An we are only sailors an his name is
Captain Kidd
AN Wen we hear him comm he list roars
an 'en we run,
Cuz ne has broomsticks for sword an
pokers for a gun.
An after vile he kills us all but II DOM
hurt, an Wen
He sails away in his big ship we come
to life again.
En- after vile our mother comes an taps
him on tn head
An says it's time for bears an scouts
an things to be in bed
An leads us chinnern all upstairs an
maybe If We keep
Right still she'll let tn candle burn until
we go to sleep.
En- after vile our uncle Bill comes I'M Ia
say goodnight.
An sees how snug an warm we are an.
all tucked in so tight.
An en- he kisses us goodnight an zen
his eyes list blur:
guess we. make him sorry at he is q
bachelor!
j. w. Foley in New York Times.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04
0vEER BLESSING OF beasts

One old man passed me with a
strange glitter in his eye. His left
hand was thrust into his breast and
his shifting, restless glance made Inc
shudder. What was the secret thing
he carried in his bosom for a bless
ing? Strangely attracted, | moved to-
ward him, but soft sibilant hiss
made me see snakes and | gave him
wide berth.
A small pig followed the padre as
he wound his way through the crowd
San Antonio Abad is always followed
by pig, and in some Italian city
there is a famous painting called
The Saint and His Page" the page
in this case being pig. A woman
behind me couldn't understand this,
but an 1rishman explained it to her
satisfaction by suggesting that the
pig represented gluttony and to cast
out that devil was the greatest mira
Gle of all.
There was a good deal of kicking
and jumping about to begin with, but
whether the beasts were hypnotized
by the shining crucifix that preceded
the padre or their dumb souls were
touched by the Lord Himself, | cam
not tell. l do know that as Il e little
procession came out OF the church
door silence fell over the square.
The animals stood immovabe. Even
the parrots stopped their chattering
and heard quite clearly the sound Of
humming bee among the red bios
sons of a tree.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

the vortex. But no one supposed that
Nose Wilson could be affected or in.
1uenced in the slightest degree by
any religious movement.
Brickett one evening strolled into
the revival meeting, as much out of
curiosity as anything, and, to his great
surprise, saw Wilson there on hit,
knees, in the midst of very fervent
prayer. which greatly moved the
hearts of all his hearers.
After meeting was over Brickett ana
Wilson went directly to their room.
Wilson's sudden conversion was 40
surprising that Brickett, out of deli
cacy, refrained from mentioning the
matter to his friend, and the subject
was not mentioned by either until
Just before getting ready to Jump fnto
ped, Wilson, with all the solemnity OF
an elder, turned to his friend with thu
question: "Brickett, didn't I mako =
darned good prayer"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

A traitors hand has aided him
suspected one before My suspicion has
been verified"
You suspected one of our people?"
Yes; | suspected Francisco Did 1t
not seem strange to you that Francisco
should ask to have the rebels execu-
ton delayed till midnight'
Now that you speak of 1t, it certain
iy was strange; but | was so anxious
about Garzas daughter | gave the
other matter but little thought Fran
cisco said that Salvarez, his wife, his
daughter, all begged for twelve hours
more in which to say farewell-to pray
together"
Gomez pointed grmly to the dead
sentinel
We'll, they have prayed to some adj
vantage, it seems, and have said fare
well-to us, not to one another
But the knife" exclaimed Philip
Where did Salvarez obtain the
knife?"
Where. indeed, unless from Fran
cisco?"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

On Jan. II every person of San
Antonio, Mex, brings a favorite beast
to be blessed in the square before the
parish church, says a writer in the
New York Tribune. The streets are
narrow, and the patient file of horses
and burrows wendell their way to-
ward the blessing. Last January l
witnessed this curious spectacle:
Dogs, OF course, were more numer-
Gus. One dear little dirty, three
legged cur, dingy white and yellow
With precocious eyes, was held in a
baby's arms. The prettiest creatures
We're the turkeys. There is a pecu.
lar affinity between a peon and a
turkey. The Aztec name is always
used, although the Spanish "pavo" is
easier to say than "gaulajote." This
combination of letters, when pro-
nounced by the knowing. sounds ex-
actly like the turkeys talk, even more
characteristic than our english "gob-
BILE, gobble, gobble."
While waiting for the padre I saw
nan dozen men and women squat
ing. their arms carelessly thrown
over those red wattled, imposing
1o"l. There We're also parrots and
paroquets, pigeons and ducks and
swans, a dozen of them, ungainly and
serpentlike, out of their native ele-
ment, and pair of peacocks also.
Sheep, more black than white. for
black sheep are the fashion in Mex
leo, added to the biblical effect.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04
DIR. WILSON'S GOOD PRAYER

Away back in the forties George
E. Brickett and Moses S. Wilson were
classmates in college and woe also
roommates. In after life 10th be-
came eminent and highly respected
members of the medical profession.
Many thousand people in Maine and
Ill over New England will remember
Or. George E. Brickett as surgeon in
charge Of the Cony United States
general hospital at Augusta, Maine,
Turing the civil war DR.. Wilson prac-
iced medicine in Lincoln. Maine, for
upward of fifty years.
Both Brickett and Wilson were de-
,idedly of the "wideawake" class Of
students. Wilson. especially, was of
I wild. rollicking nature, not In the
east inclined to SERIOUS" thoughts.
A revival Of religion Of more than
Usual interest. was in progress. and
many Of the students were drawn into
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

Our uncle Bills a bachelor an it's an
awful shame
'Cuz he knows stories about bears an
knows 'em all by name.
An growls list like a really one an
makes you think bear
Is underneath tn table, but Of course il
isn't there.
An wen he takes you on his knee he
talks list like a book
An after vile your eyes get big an
you're a-scart to look
Wen he says: Men bear come out an
list went Boo-oo-oo!''
BecuZ YOU almost think a bear is really
after you.
An EN- he plays wild Indian an hides
himself somewheres
Vile we look in TIL corners an behind
tn parlor chairs,
An peek in tn dark closets an p'tend
were on scout
Till after vile he makes hoop an en-
comes ruShin' out
LIST like he's on tn warpath; an US chin
nern run upstairs
An hide in mamma closet an he makes
us think at bears
Are comm in to get us an he growls list
like he's one.
An my! were turble scarf an yet it's
awful lots O. fun.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04
Eminent Doctors Praise Its INGREDIENTS.

We refer to that boon to weak, nervous,
suffering women known as DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription.
DIR. John Fyfe one of the Editorial Stan
of The EcLEo1Ic MEDICAL REVIEW saws
Of Unicorn root (Helonias Dioica) which
is one of the chief ingredients of the ''Fa-
vorite Prescription"
"A remedy which Invariably acts as utter.
Inc lnvigorator makes for normal 40.
tivity Of the entire reproductive system )"
He continues "in Helonias we have medica-
ment which more fully answers the above
acquainted. In the treatment Of diseases Pc
culiar to women it is seldom that case is
seen which does not present some indication
says: The following are among the leading
Indications for Helonias Unicorn root. Pain
or ora aching 81 I in the back, with leucorrhea;
atomic (weak) conditions OF the reproductive
organs OF women, mental depression and ir.
I associated with chronic diseases Of
sensation Of heat in the region OF the kid.
neys; menorrhagia (1ooding), due to q weak
ened condition of the reproductive system;
periods, arising from or accompanying an
abnormal condition of the digestive organs
and an@mic (thin blood) habit; dragging
abdomen"
If more or less Of the above SYMPTOMS
are present, no invalid woman can do
better than take DIR. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription, one Of the leading ingredi-
and the medical properties of which x
most faithfully represents.
OF Golden Seal root. another prominent
Ingredient Bs OF ,",Favorite Prescription"
nett Medical College, Chicago, says:
1T is an important remedy in disorders OF
s sns wemp In al catarrhal conditions
Prof. John M. Scudder, M. D., late Of
Cincinnati, says of Golden Seal root:
In relation to its general effects on tho
system, tHere 70 no nssdicsas in Use about aohicH
there 70 such general undniuaity Of opinion. It
Is Is, un,yersauy regarded as the tonic useful in
Prof. Bartholow, NJ: D., of Jefferson
Medical College, says Of Golden Seal: w.
valuable in uterine hemorrhaee. menor.
rhagia flooding, and congestive dysmenor.
rh6a painful menstruation)."
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription faith.
fully represents all the above named in.
gradients and cures the diseases for which
they are recommended.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04
1.-The FilibuSterS of Venezuela.
Or the Trials of a Spanish Girl
SEWARD ".
by Rober

CHAPTER xTv.-(Continued. }

CHAPTER XTV.-(Contlnued.)
Jacnta's beating, bounding heart was
crowded with flood of emotions. Her
father would be saved. She also and
her mother would be taken out of the
power of the conquerors. She would
escape from the hateful alliance with
Francisco. She would be with him
the brave American-her hero.
A low whistle broke in upon her
meditations. Salvarez and Jacnta,
quickly snatching moment when the
sentinel could not see, sprang to the
window.
through the bars.
My pistol, said Medworth. "Phil-
ip's knife. The coast is clear. But
don't shoot If you can possibly help it.
Use the knife ii you must; it is silent"
Salvarez grasped the instrument of
bis salvation and breathed blessing
upon Medworth.
Jacinta caught his receding hand in
hers and kissed 1t.
Hurry" said Medwcrth. "Hide the
weapons. Shall attract the guard?'
Yes" whispered Salvarez, drawing
back from the window.
Immediately there arose outside the
window a low, peculiar cry, startling
and weird sounding like neither the
cry of man nor beast The sentinel
heard it.
He saw the three prisoners standing
in apparent fright, gazing toward the
window.
What is it?" asked the guard.
Jacinta, whose excitement might cas-
lily be taken for fear, pointed with
trembling finger toward the window.
mething-there! she said.
Again the wall, beginning in almost
nothing, rising. swelling until it seem
ed like the dying cry of a demon.
With murmur of surprise and
alarm, the guard sprang to the window
with his gun, ready to fire.
Like flash, Salvarez was upon him.
The desperate general hesitated not a
moment The knife flashed in his hand,
CLEANED as he poised it second above
the doomed man, and then descended
The sentinel groaned, staggered. gave a
despairing look at his executioner, and
fell at Jacinta's feet a corpse.
Gomez" said Salvarez They fol-
lowed him from the room, and in the
twinkling of an eye they had disap-
peared through the sliding panel.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04
Right In tho Swim.

Having obtained a situation there
he couldn't escape going to Philadel-
phia to live. On Chestnut street he
met an old time friend, to him ex-
planned the reason for his appearances
in the charming City of Brotherly Love
and said:
1--we taken lodgings on Spruce
street. Have done the right thing?"
Certainly. certainly. my dear fellowl
You couldn't have done better. you
know. You're right in it, in fact. Why,
the trolley cars run up Pine street on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays,
and come down Spruce street on Tues
days and Saturdays. New York
Times.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04
CHAPTER XIV.
Namampa, the Hero Doctor.

Namampa. the Hero Doctor.
While Medworth and Tempest were
exerting themselves to save General
Salvarez and his family, and were con-
graduating themselves upon the fact
that Don Juan's daughter, If not free
from the clutches Of the royalsts, was
at least temporarily safe. owing to a
slight illness, the truth was that Lola
was in 80 feeble and dangerous con
ditton that Don Juan. Philip and Co
mez were all very much alarmed about
her.
While the exciting scenes attendant
upon the escape of Salvarez were being
enacted, 1t might we'll be wondered
that neither Philip nor Gomez should
have been In the council room, or any
where near to prevent the successful
Issue of Medworth's plot.
Don Juan, who. Notwithstanding hrs
yaulting ambition. sternness and pride,
really loved his daughter, was torn
with anguish and bitterly condemned
himself for bringing her against her
will to place that now threatened to
be the cause of her death.
Nearly the same anxiety was shown
by Philip, and he did not conceal it..
Gomez. felt. in his own way, great
anxiety, but he skillfully concealed the
true state Of his feelings and appeared
rather the sympathetic friend than the
baffled lover.
After conference between the three
Mattazudo was dispatched for Namam-
pa. the herb doctor who lived three
miles distant. Mattazudos eyes gleam-
ed with triumph as he bore away to-
ward Namampa's hut
Gomez. perhaps. discovered the mis-
chief in Mattazudo's looks. for he
started to warn the half-breed against
any more treachery. But Philip stopped
him.
Don't go, Gomez" he said. 81 wish
to speak to you IN the council room, 4"
Then turning to Don Juan, he said:
My dear Cara, remain here with your
daughter, and let me know when this
herb doctor comea"
Philip and Gomez left together, and
went at once to the council room.
How Is this?" said Gomez, pausing
at the door. 1.-THE room where Sal
sarez is confined !s:t. without g1ardy
saw one there when left an hour
ago."
Strange carelessness," muttered
Philip. "The most dangerous enemv
We have left unguarded.
AS IL actuated by a common imnulsa
they ran to the door of the room Sal
rarez had occupied. All was silent
They entered. and looked hastily
around the large apartment.
There, under the window, lay the
guard. his face upturned and distorted
with the agony Of his sudden death.
By heaven!" exclaimed Philip. SAL
varez has escaped. What was this man
doing here? Did salvarez go out by
the Window
Comes shook his head in a gloomy
way.
mo. He could not have gone
through the window. The guard was
Ianticed in here TO be killed. But how
lid salvares obtain : weapon, and how
lid no know We were out Of the way?
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

There Catarrh in this section of the country
IMAM al other diseases put together and until the
lew years was supposed to be incurable For great
many year, doctors pronounced 1t local disease and
TO cure with local treatment p nounced it
science mas proven Catarrh be constitutional dis
ease ana therefore requires constitutional
Hairs Gatarrh Cure. manufactured BY F. j Cheney
e. CO. Toledo Ohio ts the only constitutional cure on
drops to teaspoonfu 1t acts directly on The hin
and mucous surfaces Of the system They offer one
nuhareo dollars for any case 1t fails to cure Send
for circulars and testimonials s 'eua
Sold by Druggists 75c W. Ao'eoo' onAo'
Take Halls Family Pills for conet,net,o,
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

The Notre Dame church In Paris,
which has heretofore been lighted BY
candles, is to be supplied with electric
lamps ut cost OF $4,000.
Consciousness 10 never satisfied tin
its mouth IL filled with earth
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04
No Doubt.

Shelf it weren't for my money
where would you be-"
He-"Probably a bachelor"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

Mrs. Winelow's Soothing Syrup.
FOR children teething, sofens the gums reduces ~
asmmston, sllsys pain cures wind collie CSC botts
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

Time devoted to the foundation
often saves rebuilding.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

Garfield Tea purifies the blood. Gar.
field Tea cures sick headaches.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

Perhaps the longevity of most actors
may be due to enforced walking as
means of exercise.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

He who looks for shadows sees
|hom
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04
Explaining 1t.

Explaining 1t.
Senator Tillman breaks out and
says the railroads are all robbers"
HE talks like q man who has been
up against sleeping car porter"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-03-30
GAMERS TO STRIKE.

Alto O'Clock last night the anthracite
scale committee at Indianapolis, Ind,
which has been formulating propo-
sition to submit to the operators, formal
ly decided TO order all the anthracite
miners to quit work on Monday, and
the order was sent out from headquarters
Immediately. The members of the
union are advised that negotiations for
scale have failed, that the award OF
the strike commission expires March 81
and that they will not return to work
on Monday.
A telegram was sent TO President Baer
notifying him of the action just taken
and saying that subcommittee OF the
anthracite scale committee would meet
him in New York on Tuesday for the
purpose OF reopening negotiations. The
action of the united mine officers in call
ing strike in the anthracite fields is
surprise to the delegates at Indianapolis,
As early yesterday evening it looked
AZ if there would be an agreement
whereby they would work 80 days long.
err, or while negotiations for a settlement
we're pending.
Without agreement on a wage scale
the conferences of bituminOus coal Oper-
ators and miners of the central COMPETE
i've district adjourned sine die yesterday,
leaving affairs in such condition that
strike of 275, O00 men seems probable
at the expiration of the present scale on
Saturday. March 81.
The disagreement came after a strug-
gle laqting 10 days, and disrupts the in-
terslate agreement which has existed
since 1898 between operators and miner,
through which wage scales and other
differences have been adjusted.
The final vote in the conference of
the central competitive field, on which
the other districts base their settlements,
was on a motion offered by President
Mitchell, of the United Mineworkers, 10
restore for two years the wage scale OF
1908, which would have been an in
crease in wages of 555 per cent. The
operators of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio
voted against the proposal and defeated
it. The disruption of the conference
followed. Operators of western Penn
sylvania and the miners of the four
States voted for the proposal.
Following adjournment, National Sec
retary w. B. Wilson, of the minewOrk.
ers, said
"There is no likelihood of anything
further being done toward settlement.
This means suspension Of work. The
national convention Of the miners will
meet tomorrow morning. The principal
business will be to determine general
policy. The question especially TO be
considered is whether the organization
will permit miners TO work in districts
and mines where the advance demanded
is offered"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-03-30
Woman's Weird Occult Power.

A story of a womsn's devotion 10 an
Indian idol and of her mysterious power
of transferring her physical ailments TO
her friends was told Tuesday during
suit in the Superior Court in Chicago. to
break a will Mrs. Ada l.. Garrus and
her husband, DIR. Minus Gsrrus, are
seeking to break the will made by her
mother, Mrs Elizabeth L. Taylor The
bulk OF a 500, 900 estate was left to
others.
The deposition Of a Paris physician,
Hippolite Ferdinand Barraduc, which
was read in Court, stated that MIS-.
Taylor had travelled from Peoria, H.,
to Indi, 10 search of a mysterious foun-
tain OF health. "She had theos0phy,
spiritualism, occult science" said the
physician, 'and mysterious power Of
transmitting her Affections to a second
person by merely holding the latter's
hands in her own. On one occasion,
when the daughter had spent the night
grasping her mothers hands, so AS TO
take the ills upon herself, she was al
tackled with strange GOODNESS. Her
blood CONCEALED. She uttered frightiuI
screams, and had to be relieved by cleo
tricity. My patient also offered sacri-
fees at the temples Of silva and DOga.
near an Indian river that winds through
the heart of great Jungle"
DIR. Gsrrus, magnetic masseur who
treated Mrs. Taylor, married the daugh-
ter, aud 10th were cut off.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-03-30
Miners Rescued.

Lens, France, March 80 Eighteen
miners who we're entombed in the Cour-
riere- mine at the time of the great fire
disaster there on March 10, were taken
alive from the mine this morning by a
searching party which has engaged in
exploring the mine. The men bad lived
for twenty days shut off from the light
and almost deprived Of air. With one
exception they were all we'll when reach
ed by the rescuers, although they could
not have lived much longer. When
they were cut of from escape by the ex-
plosiOn and FIRE which followed the
miners took refuge in a stable used for
the mules employed in the mine. They
had subsisted for days on the lunches
of their dead comrades which had been
taken down on the day OF the disaster.
When This food had been exhausted,
they restorted to eating wheat and oats
which were kept in the stable for the
mules. Water was also found aud in
this manner the entOnbed miners man
aged to sustain their lives. One OF the
rescued miners was boy OF fourteen,
who bad endured the hardsbips to which
all had been subjected with all the cour-
age manifested by his seniors. The sur
viying miners we're rescued at 1880
o'clock this morning. The exact num-
Der OF deaths has never been ascertained,
but il has been estimated at about l,zOo.