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Have Been Appointed Agent for the
GREAT AUSTIN NURSERY.

Have all kinds of trees and shrubbery
and genuine good stock at fair prices.
VIII deliver promptly at any time.
Please call and leave an order for fine
fruit and other trees W. HI KELLY.
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If a woman says This is so
sudden" when a man proposes, he
knows she is a pernicious fabrica-
tor, but naturally he is too polite
to say so.
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OUR FUNDS are protected in a
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further covered by insurance
against burglary or daylight rob-
berry. Our officers are under bond
in the best surety companies.
People who intrust their money
to bank have a right to know its
financial strength. We recognize
this right and will cheerfully fur
nish any depositor statement of
our condition any day in the year.
Absolute safety is the best thing
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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26
PANTHER HUNT IN A HOUSE.
Shooting Big Game that Was Found
in u Bedroom.

Shooting Big Game that Was Found
in "a Bedroom.
An extraordinary adventure in a bed
room with a panther is told by Lieuten-
ant Colonel Rumble, the commander of
the Fifth Brigade of the Royal Field
Artillery at J~ubbulpore.
One afternoon Mrs. Rumble came out
of a portion of the bungalow hat was
seldom used and said she had seen the
tail of a panther protruding from be
hind Il large coil of mating il one of
the rooms. Colonel Rumble supposed
that the animal vas Il tame panther
which he knew n of his non-coms
owned, and sent for Il brother officer
to assist in dispatching it.
Opening he door enough to insert his
rifle barrel, he fired and wounded the
beast. The door swung open as the
wounded beast bounded against it. 1t
then sprang at Colonel Rumble, missing
him by about a foot, and bolted.
Colonel Rumble, with Lieutenant Ma
can, re%connoitered each room in turn.
Eventually the panther was found in a
spare room hiding behind d coil of
mating.
There was a window to this room
about fourteen feet from the ground,
and Colonel Rumble procured 4 ladder,
but before he could get his rifle up the
panther had seen him and sprang
through the doorway.
Lieutenant Macan fired three shots,
but neither proved fatal, and the pan
Their bolted out Of the house and across
the tennis court into the r. A.. mess
compound.
Here it gave chase to an inquisitive
sweeper, but was too badly wounded to
do more than make a clutch or two at
the mans clothes.
Finally it darted into an clubhouse,
where it was Observation-Disclosures
Pioneer.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26

C. W. CIIILDS. the United States navy
at the age of 13. He remained in the
navy for fifteen months. lie was only
II when he went to Philadelphia to
make q try for his fortune. Like Ben
jamin Franklin, he entered that city
almost pennileSs. He found employ
men in a book store on n pittance Of
wage but from this he managed to
take care Of himself and TO even save
a little. He was frugal and careful.
He knew what hunger was. and he had
experienced want. Furthermore, he
had made up his mind to win success,
and he was directing all his energies
toward the winning.
At the end of Il few years he had
saved a few hundred dollars, and open
ed q store for himself in the building
of h Philadelphia Ledger. His defin-
lite ambition was to make himself own
er of the paper and the building.
At 81 he was a member of Il pub
fishing firm and he was still 4 young
man when he anne into the realization
of his ambition. Despite apparently in
superable hurdles he had reached his
pOal.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26
Topsy-Turyy China.

Somebody is always poking fun at
the Chinese, not ill-naturedly, of course,
for thai would be in bad taste, but be-
cause they 10 so many things that seem
queer. We laugh at these things, with
out stopping to think that the Chinese
probably laugh at us for doing things
in our way. Here are a few illustra-
lions of how they turn things topsy-
turvy: The men Wear skirts, and the
women wear trousers. The men wear
their hair long, and the wear 1t
short. The men carry on dressmaking,
and the women carry burdens. They
begin dinner with dessert, and end
with soup md fish. They launch their
vessels sidewise, and mount their
horses from the off side. Books are
read backwards and "~footnotes' are
printed at the top of the page. Their
comes first, instead of last.
They SHAKE their own hands, instead of
the hands Of those they greet. Their
spoken language is not written, and
their written language Is not spoken,
So, you see, they do almost everything
backwards, according to our way OF
looking at it; but according to their
way of looking at 1t, we do everything
backwards.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26
MURDERS BY ROAD AGENTS.

An Early Day Period in Montana
When Reign of Terror Prevailed.
The discovery up to the fall of 1869
Of no less than ITO bodies of victims
OF the road agents had finally aroused
the feelings of the ~law-abiding citizens
to a pitch of frenzy. They felt that the
mysterious disappearance of many 9th
err men whom they had known was to
be traced to the bandits. Scores of
miners who had set out with large
sums of money for various places had
never been heard Of and had never
reached their destination. Murders
occurred daily, almost hourly. Had
there been the most perfect system of
legal procedure. time would not have
permitted of the orderly trials of of
Tenders, so frequent were the crimes
Alder Gulch continued to disgorge its
treasure in a steady stream, and the
very excess of its bounty excited the
most selfish passions of men. The
heart of q man possessed with the thirst
for gold is like the country where gold
is produced-it is wild and barren, and
the flowers wither.
1t must not be supposed that during
these long months of sickening dread
and doubt attempts had not been made
to organize justice. Rude courts were
established and he guilt or innocence
of offenders submitted to regularly
chosen juries, but the staggering out
laws would boldly force their way
through the lines of spectators and into
the presence of he qualified twelve
men, announcing their determination to-
avenge upon everyone connected witk
the case any verdict other than acquit-
tai. Witnesses and jurors, under these
circumstances. were afraid of their
lives, and justice had miscarried until
the outlaws, seeing the blanch of fear
everywhere, were supreme. In the early
stages of this reign Of terror some Of
the road agents had been tried, found
guilty and condemned to death by unan-
imous, vote, but as in the case Of the
nurderers of Dillingham;, between con-
viction and punishment motions to re-
consider had been interviewed, and the
vacillating mob. through fear Of relent-
ing doubt, had revoked the action Of the
previous hour.-McClure's Magazine.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26
How Be-sie Filled n Day


ut will be such a long day." sighed
Bessie. at does seem as though I
Just could not live it %through!"
"Why don't you fill it up with some
thing-then it won't be empty. Just
think of the nine hours that l am gone
as nine great dishes that must be
filled"
'What with?' asked Bessie, wonder
ingly.
almost the incest thing to put in
them is Notwithstanding useful. If
you could find something that would
make some one else happy, that would
fill faster than anything. 1t Is an idle
hour that is empty"
"Tell me how said Bessie, who was
watching her mother tie on her veil
and prepare for a day In the city.
Bessie was to stay with her Aunt
Helen and grandmother, but as the
country was a little strange to her,
she dreaded 1t very much.
"Well," said mother, come out to
the piazza, and while I am waiting for
the carriage to take me to the station
I will give you an idea of the things
you can put in your nine hours, and
they will fill up faster If you work
moderately-without rushing round.'
"Wait till I have a pei1cil,'' said
Bessie, skipping away to her room.
When she returned her mother be-
gan: "First, l think 1t would be very
nice to gather Aunt Helen a large bou-
ouet Of wild fiowers--she loves them
so well-and that will take you on a
pleasant journey Town the road.
When you have enough you can put
them in that large bowl and set them
in the corner On the piazza. Next,
would take a pile of those old picture
books up in your room, and paste the
tornA leaves very carefully, and carry
them down to that little lame boy who
lives by the church, for he has moth
ing to read and the days are very
long to him. After that l would sit
down on the piazza with Aunt Helen a
while, and very likely she will want
YOU to arrange all the spools in her
basket and look after the stray
threads, just as you fix mothers some.
tines
linen lHeTe Is gingerbread, DrOke
In Bessie, eagerly.
ooh. yes, there will be that and the
glass Of milk. But 1 see the carriage
coming. I'll just say that Mrs
Lorens baby is almost never taken out
In its carriage. because the mother has
no time; and there are the letters
! to bring from the mail, and grandma
does love to be read to and-good-by-
there are those lovely poppy seeds, ant
no one to gather them-good-by!" anC
the carriage turned out of the yard.
1t was just nine hours before she
saw her mother again, but how they
few, and the day was full Of surprises
Just because she was looking for pleas
ant things to put in her hour-dishes
Uncle Henry said that his men in the
lower meadow had nothing to drink
and there was lemonade made for then
as an extra treat, and Bessie rod,
down in the hay-rack to carry 1t. Sh,
had kept her list tackled to the blint
beside the piazza, and whenever sh'
was inclined to look at the clock sh,
ran to see What she could do next.
She met her mother with a beamin,
face. "They are just heaped" sh'
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26
An Important Guest.

When Miss Phoebe Washington re-
turned in her wedding finery to the
house where she had reigned as cook
for several years, she announced brief
ly that she had returned so a WHILE
and seemed disinclined toward explana-
lions until the next evening, when she
unburdened her heart to the mistress of
the household.
Nobody needn't ever go to tell ne
again dat thutteen amt a terrible on
lucky number, Miss Clemmy," she said,
gioomily. 81 guess l knows now how
onlucky it's. Dey wus thutteen pus-
sons, Miss Clemmy, at my wedding,
yest'day, and dat wedding nebber came
off It ALL"
"Why, Phoebe, how strange, how
very strange!" and the lady looked
most sympathetic. But whatever hap
pened," she said, conscientiously, "of
course you know, Phoebe, the fact of
there being thirteen persons at the
wedding couldn't have had anything to
do with it."
deed it did, Miss Clemmy," anal
Phoebe's face took on It's most deter
mined look. "Ain' you understood the
fo'teenth pusson would "a been dat tri-
fling SAMUEL rs expecting to martyr
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26

The death in an almshouse at Kings
ton-on-Thames of a man who claimed
descent from King Edward /. and col
laterally from Archbishop Cranmer is
only another OF the many Instances OF
the SLOW extinction of noble families.
instances well known to those who
study ~genealogy from the eugenic stand
point. The garrulous Burke mentions
how one co-heir Of u Plantagenet
kings became a shoemaker, carrying OF
his trade in a suburb of London. how
another was 4 butcher at HaIesowen.
and a third a tolibar keeper near Dud-
ley. And up and down the country
may be found many men who are the
sole representatives Of great and pow
erful fAmIlies that once held undisput-
ed sway over lordly acres. Hardy, as
every bookman knows. made splendid
use Of this fact In Tess of the Dur
bervilles.--Pall Mall Gazette.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26

A Lesson in Love Tactics


GO HE full realization of her love
Ill for Meredith came to Helen as
she watched him enter the draw
ing room with the avowed intention Of
proposing to her cousin Gweneth.
In her eyes still fingered the in
credulous smile with which she had
listened to his announcement, but as
the door closed behind him came the
appalling conviction that he had meant
what he said.
Life without Meredith-her Mere
dlth-the husband Of Gweneth: such
ideas were insupportable, With her
hand pressed to her wildly beating
heart, she turned and flew upstairs to
the work room.
Her brother was busy there carpen-
tering II not in the mood for inter
ruption. Shut the door, please he
cried, without looking up; "the winds
blows he shavings about"
Helen complied, then sat down at
his side.
Tom" she said, in a strangled
voice, something dreadful has happen
ed. Meredith has gone to ask Gwen
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26

bliss: "It's all right, Tom" she said,
"he didn't do tit was just a mis-
take"
Other sounds of bliss came to Tom
as, feeling no little relieved. but dis.
tinCtly out of It, he strobe up the gar
den between the SuntlOwers, brushing
the oobwcbs from his face.
What a silly business. :" be told him
self, realizing for the first time that
he was desperately hungry and wet to
the skin; land, hang it all! l have
quite spoiled that oak pancl."-Pall
Mall Gazette.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26
CALIFORNIA SEA GROWS.
Vast Inland Lake Threatens to Sub
merge 1000 Square Miles.

Vast Inland Lake Threatens to Sub
merge 1000 square Miles.
at will surprise most people," ays
Edmund Mitchell in the North Ameri-
car Review, "to learn that owing to the
diversion Of the course of the Lower
Colorado River, a lake now covering
over 400 square miles and growing larg-
err every hour, has been formed in
Southern California. 1t is already the
largest body Of water wholly within the
boundaries Of the United States, Lake
Michigan and the great Salt Lake OF
Utah only excepted. In fifteen days OF
June this summer the new lake rose
more than eight feet, and the infiowing
water bid fair to fill the Salton sink.
This sink is a great saucerlike depres-
sion, 1877 miles wide, which at its low
est point is 263 feet below the sea level.
The great Colorado River has hitherto
been flowing along the elm OF this
great hollow. In the summer of 1904
an irrigation company dug a ditch to
connect the river with IN irrigation ca
nal. This ditch and the canal, secured
out deep and wide by floods, has be-
come the channel of the river. Desper-
ate attempts to turn the river back into
it's former channel, by driving piles
and use Of sand bags and brushwood
mats, have failed, n the entire water
Of the river instead of passing on with
gentle flow to the Gulf of California
are pouring into the Salton sink and
have already transformed it into the
Salton sea. This sea is rising steadily
at the rate Of six inches a week. At
Salton the water is thirty feet deep.
The Southern Pacific Railroad has had
to change it's line, which ran through
the Salton sink, and whether the en-
cheering operations in progress to re-
gain control of the river will succeed
is an unsolved problem. If not, it is
estimated that the entire depression
will be filled in about thirty years, max
Ing a lake nearly 1000 square miles in
area, the over flow of which will event
ually reach the Gulf of California by
some wholly new channel"
Mr.. Mitchell believes that the only
hope of regainlng control Of the Colo
RADIO River and of returning its waters
to its former bed, lies in the great dam
which the United States government is
constructing at Laqua, some twelve
miles above the spot wherethe river has
left it's old channel. Here he believes
| that the river can be mastered in about
two years. The problem which CON
| fronts the engineers, however, is a most
serious one, and the outcome will be
watched with widespread interest.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26
NO PLACE FOR OLD CLOTHES.

"Hns Bccns" Not of Use Even When
1t Rains.
The passing Of the utility of old
clothes is a sad thing for the economist
to reflect upon.
The places where garments a bit
faded would formerly pass muster are
closed to them. 1t is the era where
every station and condition, however
obscure, has it's own distinct livery and
things grown too shabby to be contin-
ued in their original high estate may
be no longer, with lmpunity, be made
useful in lower spheres. The lower
sphere has its own character to main
tain.
Formerly, when Il thrifty fit was or
us, and we were overstocked with old
clothes not worth making over and yet
too good to throw away, we'd HE us to
some mountain f~astness, pine forests or
some sQueStercd seaside nook for Il
pan where conventions made no de-
mands. and where my old thing would
do to wear ut any old time and no
questions asked. But these go-as-you-
please resorts are no more.
No longer may silks and grenadines
too seedy to continue in their original
smart estate be sentenced to hard la
Dor. Hard labor has its own particular
uniform. and silk and grenadine must
stay where they belong. No utility
possibility is open to the declining days
of a French costume. No ear before
lasts visiting dress that we car find
may be amputated for southern beach
wear or interesting jaunts or expert
ments aquatic.
One rOughs it nowadays, evcn to the
uttermost wilderness of Mexico, or to
the obscure points in Florida, in the
latest regulation style of roughing-it-
costume, correct in every detail. If
you have any self-respect, there is no
worn offering of your old clothes that
will do. The athletic girl with her ra-
tional dress that proclaims the expert
enced tailor and her hobnailed shoec,
her sweater and her golf clothes. in
fact, with her every equipment. plays
havoc with ones old IDEAS of frugality.
Today one dresses technically at ev-
cry point, or one is not in good taste.
The idea that the large portion of peo-
pie who enjoy outdoor life and sports
must be appropriately CARRIED, in
fringes mistakenly upon the natural
p~rerogative of old clothes.
They have no place now to fill even
on rainy days. One is as strictly in
costume to battle with a storm as for
a ball or a boat trip.
Even the time which used to be sa-
cred to odds and ends of attire-the
hours of the morning before any callers
more important han the butcher would
call-has its uniform nowadays. No
old skirt and no antique tailor-made
bodice may grace the breakfast table
in the place of the neal shirtwaist and
cloth skirt or Of the trinity made house
gown.
If we attempt the use Of 'has-beens"
Of the toilet in the privacy of our own
domains, we have a guilty conscious
ness of d~isrcgarding the code laid
down, that each period and function of
the day should have its w distinct
character in dress.
The thrifty are ~forevermore denied
the thrill of pleasure occasioned by
wearing a garment to the bone, through
descending phases.-Pittsburg Leader.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26
so THE OLD FOLKS SAY,

The old folks say, The times are changing,
The bygone years were surely best;
Ger land and sea, for ever ranging,
Men wander now in vague unrest;
And faded are the green romanccs,
The morning light has died away,
The world has lost its golden chances,
SO the old folks say.
The old folks say, The days are duller,
The sweetest songs are left unsung.
The spring was full of scent and color,
Long, long ago, when we were young.
Above our heads the sky was clearer,
And warmer was the sunlight ray
1et heaven is now a little nearer,
So the old folks say.
uhe old folks say, IT'S Maytime wea Their,
Play, children. to your hearts desire,
But leave US hand in hand together,
Beside the swiftly failing fire.
For earthly chains are near their break
ing,
And eyes are dim and locks are gray.
But Loves a dream that knows no wax
ing,
so the old folks say.
Pail Mall Gazette.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26

eth to marry Lim-he told me so him
self"
This sudden information proved dis
concerting to the young man; his hand
swerved and he cut q deep notch in
the board he was planning for carving.
"GammOn" he cried, with twofold
disgust; what will you tell me next?"
Then he looked up and caught sight
of his sisters face. His own changed
instantly and he put down his plane.
The truth is" he said sternly, you
nave e playing the fool with Mere
dith. l gave you credit for more sense.
He is not a boy to be attracted by silly
caprice. Meredith is a man of the
world and my best friend. He has
made no secret to me Of his fondness
for you. 1t was quite understood be-
tween us that the object of his visit
this weekend was to clinch matters
with you. You cannot say" he con-
GUIDED, with some reproach, chat I
did not give you a lint as to his in
~tentions." Helen fdgeted. That's
just it," she said miserably. "You see
Il knew why he was coming"
Quite so,' her brother replied; "but
was that, 1 ask you, any reason why
you should have led him a dogs life
ever since he arrived?'
You may condemn me-" Helen said.
meeting his gaze with some dignity,
"but most girls under the circum-
stances would have lone the same,
"Girls!' cried her brother. almost
beside himself with chagrin and dis
appointment: "yes-you are right
there; 1t is not enough for them to
have a mans honest love; they must
make a fool-a spectacle-of him to
their friends. Pshaw!!"
Don't" Helen faltered. in a choked
voice. My hearts broken: is not
that %enough?" She was silent. then
she looked up with tears in her lashes.
'Tom, DEAR" she said, "try to under
stand me thlnk-if you were about to
propose to a girl-would you like her,
by her manner, to any way anticipate
your doing So?
Toms brown eyes met his sisters at
last comprehensively. NO." he said
etoutly. 81 don't know that should"
We'll" Helen faltered, blushing IL
the tips Of her little pink ears. you
see, knowing what 1 did-whatever he
would, l wouldn't"
"Ah!" her brother said, 81 suppose
that would be the situation. 1t seems
simple, but scarcely promising of re-
suit"
"Oh, it would have come right-in
time" Helen said, "only-there was
always-Gweneth."
"Gweneth! what on earth had
she-?"
'sYou see," said Helen "Gweneth is
so obliging. She is always ready to
make I'D for my many Gelinquecies.
When I scratched-metaphorically, of
course-she was there 70 bind up the
wound. I confess her conduct exas-
perated me I wasn't even as nice as l
might have been had she never left
Australia. 1, at times, regretted that
she was our fathers third cousin once
removed and had no other English
relatives to visit this autumn. at
last. when-when he did speak,
laughed at him, and suggested Gwen
eth as a substitute; and'-she con-
ciuded, with a wretched attempt at
.bravado, you see-he has acted on
my suggestion
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26
WILLIAM T. STEAD.

William Thomas Stead, who recently
for the first time visited 4 London mu-
sic hall, and later denounced the enter
tainment as "drivel for the dregs," is
one of the most noted of British editors.
He is the founder and present editor
of the Review Of Reviews, and founded
similar publications in America and
Australia. Formerly he was editor of
the Northern Echo and of the Pail Mall
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26

Gazette. Mr.. Stead, who is the son
of a Congregational minister, was born
in 1S49, and after receiving an academic
education was apprenticed to a mer-
chant at Newcastle-On-Tyne, but speed
lily abandoned the counting room for
literature. Among his notable books
are THE Maiden Tribute of Modern
Babylon" which caused his imprison-
ment for three months in 1885: IF
Christ Came to Chicago" "Satan's In
visible World" and "A Study Of De-
spairing Democracy"