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The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-10-05

are entertaining a boy ut their
home. He arrived last Tuesday
and has announced his his inten.
tention of remaining.
| Mr.. and Mrs. S e Mcfarland
returned Monday evening from
their trip to Parkersburg, Iowa.
where they went last Friday to
the funeral of Mr.. Mcfarland
| fail er.
Communion service will be
held in the Congregational
church next Sunday morning,
Every body is INVITED and the
members are especially urged TO
be present. Pastor
The ladies' If Wagner will give
a dance in the hall here the even.
ing of October 10. This is not
leap year, and Il rs a question
with us as 10 bow they are going
to invite the gentlemen.
Among the prominent demo.
Gratis who were here last Monday
we noted: L. j. Remington, Jas.
III. Exon, M. p. Steel, Otto Lind.
skog, G. l.. Kirk and w. FL. Men.
zie.
| L. H. Skillings. county sheriff.
was an east bound passenger
Monday morning He was en-
route to Sioux Falls to get Floyd
Pu-vis, who was arrested on ths
charge of forgery. He is &C
cused of forging two checks, az
gregating ninety dollars.
The family Of Henry hewkirk
has been having a pretty hard
time lately. Three of them at
one time were down with diph.
liberia. butat the present writing
they are reported AS being out
of danger, and rapidly recover.
ing.
Last week the Wheeler Courier
came To our table AS Vol. %, No.
!. The Courier has done good
business since locating in Wheel
err, the advertising patronage is
good, and the whole paper shows
that Bro. Exon is enjoying his
share of good old repu olican pros
perity.
The aspirants for Office on the
democratic ticket met in Wagner
Monday In elect their central
com mittee for the ensuing two
years. w. III. Menzia W ~ again
selected as chairman, with in !
structi"ns To appoint the score
tary 10 sni: himself and the chair
man and secretary were elected |
AS members of the executive
committee.
l.. H. Frudenfeld, travelling rep
re-entatiye of the Queen City |
Fire Insurance 10, was in town
Monday and Tuesday Of this
week. MIR. Frudenfeld inform.
ed Us that at present the com
pany had paid out some $3.50, 700 |
ia settling their claims ia the San
Francisco disaster. They ara |
paying the claims at one hundred |
cents on the dollar as rapidly as |
they are adjusted.
Armour Herald: r. j. Gibson /
the popular Charles Mix county
auditor, was in town Tuesday on !
business. Fred was renomIna. (.
ted, and will probably succeed
himself. ;. Charley Hrdlicka,
living southwest Of Armour. just
over the line in Charles Mix |
county, came near losing his
life on Wednesday evening of
last week while driving home
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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-27

time. The royalties Of Dickens, Thack-
cray and Scott have amounted to vast
fortunes, but their earning capacity
greatly outlasted their terms Of life.
When Kipling's income in the height
of his popularity reached the sum of
$4,000 a year, the world was astound-
ed. He was tho first of the prodigious
literary earners, and he made a dent
on the pages Of books that will last
as long as the English language. 1t Is
safe to say that Eipling's income is not
one-fourth that Of AIDES to-day. Kip
ling's splendid novel, the greatest novel
Of the 10th century, The Light That
Failed, was practically failure as a
play, though it was very shabbily
dramatized. 1t Is doubtful If altogether
the earnings Of this book will amount
to that of The College Widow when
the latter's career as a play alone is
done.
Roughly speaking. IL years ago, AIDE
was working for S. a week. To-day he
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-27

Is earning over $500 day. There Is
only one other man in this country who
could rival AIDE as a literary financial
success. This man refuses to compete.
He Is Finley Peter Dunno. who created
Dooley, and, although his copy is worth
dollar word he makes no attempt to
produce It. Humor pays. Both of these
men evolved in Chicago newspaper
Offices.
Mrs. Wharton, whose hlman insight
and literary workmanship Is incom.
parable, William Dean HoweIls, Gilbert
Parker. Mrs. Humphry Ward and
Mark Twain are all large earners In
the world Of books, but their combined
annual income does not largely exceed
that of AIDES alone. Robert Louis
Stevenson, who, like Kipling, has not
yet come into his own. did not receive
$780, 600 in all his writing days. The
united earnings of Copernlcus, who
discovered the shape of the earth and
the movements of the stars; Harvey.
who discovered the circulation of the
blood, and Darwin, one Of the pioneers
Of evolution. did not amount to AIDES
annual income.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-27
CHANCE FOR LION HUNTERS.

Cougars Multiplying Too Rapidly In
Yellowstone National Park.
Mountain lions have increased SO
rapidly in Yellowstone Park of late
that they threaten the extinction of
deer, elk and other wild animals that
live in this great government game
preserve. So numerous have the coug-
ars become that the government,
through President Roosevelt's recon-
mendation, has given John and Homer
Golf, celebrated guides and hunters at
Meeker, Col, contract to clear the
lions out of Yellowstone Park. John
Golf is the guide who won fame TAX.
ing President Roosevelt on his success
full cougar-hunting trip to Colorado.
The work Of hunting lions in Yellow
stone Park will, 1t is estimated, take
several seasons, and in the meantime
there Is demand for lion hunters in
Colorado, Wyoming and other cattle
states, where stockmen are suffering
great losses from these predatory AMI
mals. Cougars are said to be on the
increase in the Rocky Mountains.
Owing to the enormous number of
mountain lions in Yellowstone Park
the government will not have to pay
a large bounty to the Goff brothers.
The hunters will receive a bounty of
So on each mountain lion they kill, in
addition to a salary of SIS a month
each for their work. Most of the work
will be done between the spring and
fall. for the winters are very severe in
Yellowstone Park, the climatic condi-
tons being almost arctic, owing to the
moisture generated by many geysers.
The Goff brothers have the largest and
finest pack Of cougar hounds in the
world.
For some reason the mountain lion
prefers the flesh of a colt to that Of
any other animal, and cougars have be-
come the terror of horse raisers In the
Rocky Mountain states. 1t is estima-
ted that as result of the ravages of
mountain lions in the last year not
fifty colts are left alive on the ranges
between Phoenix and Prescott.-San
Francisco Bulletin.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-27
THE OLD WATER MILL.
Its Passing Brings Many q Sigh OF
Genuine Regret.

Its Passing Brings Many Sigh OF
Genuine Regret.
The on-rush Of civilization has re-
moved to a great extent one Of the ro-
mantle and pleasant features Of the
pioneers theme for painters and
poets from days remote. In these days
of much haste and swift machinery, it
perhaps would not at In with the times
to 90 to mill on horseback and await
ones turn at the old water Mill, but
still it was not SO bad, after all. to sit
about In the mill yard half q day at a
time and play marbles, pitch, Quoits. or
fish.
Those were the days when people
were not In such hurry as they are
nova time when hours were not
worth Just so much each, like eggs In
basket-and they were given few
extra years to make up for the time
lost in going to mill and hunting the
cows-a time when backlog cracked
in the wide-mouthed fire place and a
man had an opportunity to get ac-
duainted with his family.
The old water mill and the accom-
panying mill pond seem to have been
a halfway point between savagery
and our present civilization and a de-
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-27

cidedly interesting epoch to those
whose memory goes back that far.
There were the delightful days Of fish
Ing In the leafy months, the dark pools
below the dam, the little sand-bars and
RIFLES, and the log projecting out over
some particularly inviting spot, where
big sunf1sh came up to hooked cricket
or grasshopper without hesitancy or
suspicion-and there was always water
In the creek. That was why there
were always flowers and green grass
along the shores, and why the boys
could always find a place to wade and
wade and wade until their am les
turned purple in the swirling waters.
Then when winter came the scene,
changed. There was never a better
place to skate than on an old mill
pond, and the skaters did not have
fancy clamp skates which one can put
on and take off in two seconds. No, they
were the old-style strap skates with a
screw an inch long to be bored Into the
heel. The young man fortunate enough
to get hold of two worn out files or a
discarded saw blade was the hero OF
the community. He could make skates
out OF them with long, graceful turn
ups In front which were the envy of all
the beholders. 1t was a small hard
ship to sit on snowy log half an hour
boring at refractory heel, but the
end justified the exertion.
In those days every little settlement
had Its own grist and sawmill COM
Dined. To be sure the mills did not
grind very fast and the saws would
not do for cutting mahogany veneer
Ing, but they answered the purposes Of
the times-the days of the candle din.
the tin lantern and the punctured hide
sleeves, step In advance Of the period
when breadstuffs were secured BY
pounding grain into meal Sometimes
two or three mills would be found on
little stream ten miles in length. One
acted as reservoir for another. and
kept the valley moistened the whole
season through, the little stream a live.
running brook. Now, those streams are
either a raging torrent or In turn an
dry and parched as brick pavement.
This Is one of the penalties of adyanc-
ing civilization.
As land became more valuable, like
the poor Indian, the old water mill had
to move on westward. There was too
much good land under water to suit the
thrifty owner, and he substituted steam
for water power, and the old mill which
seemed to be part Of the landscape
was no more. The settlement mill L.
a thing Of the past with all Its at
tendant pleasures and hardships. The
old water mill was to our ancestors
what the trolley car and the electric.
light Is to us-a means 70 an end-and
when something else was found to-
serve the purpose better they adopted
1t, but still we cannot part with the old
mill Of our youth without a sigh Of
regret.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-27
The Approved Type.

We were about to engage 9 new
chauffeur.
"TwO hundred a month, the salary
you demand. IL reasonable enough" VI
said; "but can you furnish q references
from your last employerr"
"Ou'a- monsieur; In one month" thu
applicant replied.
I'm one month";" we objected. "But
why not nowT
The fellows explanation was volubls
and ready.
"Helas, monsieur" he said. my 70.
mer employer Is In the hospital and /,
will b quite q month before hs win IN
able TO write again"
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-27
MAKES $4oo PER DAY.

George AIDE, Former Reporter, Now
Money King of LitsYature.
George AIDES income from his playr
and books is now $4,000 q year. This
Il the annual interest at Q per cent on
S2.o0o,0oo George AIDE In all probable
ity will b the first literary man Ia the
history Of the world to earn 81 yooo, 900
from his writings; that ID. the FIRST man
10 rrsaavs this amount dnstas his ilss
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-27
SIS
opulzes1sI'8'I|Sienoe'

1
| St Petersburg is now considered to
he the unhealthiest capital in Europe.
Disappearing paper is a French nov
city. Ordinary paper is first stepped
in sulphuric acid, diluted according to
the intended durability, and is then
dried and glazed, the acid being par
TALLY neutralized by ammonia vapor.
The material is adapted for temporary
use. Sooner or later it falls to pieces,
however, and 1t Is recommended to
those whose correspondents forget to
burn their letters.
Medical thermometers are expected
20 be accurate, as much depends upon
them. Since the beginning of vertical
tlon recently at French laboratory,
410 of these instruments have been
tested, and SO per cent have failed to
satisfy the required conditions of ac-
curacy, their errors exceeding the ad.
INVISIBLE 0.15 degree. French patients,
therefore, appear to have been mostly
watched with faulty thermometers.
Growing In the spray Of the great
Victoria Falls In South Africa, new
gladiolus has been discovered, and
named the Maid Of the Mist" -Four
bulbs Of this plant, sent to England,
have been induced to sprout and bloom
by virtue of constant spraying in hot
house. There the interesting discovery
was made that the petals of the flower
are SO arranged as to form a pent-
house to protect the stamens and pistils
from the unceaslng downpour to which
they would otherwise be subjected In
tho native haunts Of the plant.
In strong contrast with the uncer-
talnty about the population of China is
the exactness of the figures gives for
the population of Japan in the Japan
csc Blue Book for 1906, which has been
printed In English by the japanese
government The population of the
islands constituting Japan proper is
47,S12, 702, and that Of the Island of
Formosa $685. 35. Japan comprises
100 main islands and nearly 500 small
islands, making the name "Island EN-
Iire" peculiarly appropriate. The to-
tal area Of these islands Is about 161,-
600 square miles 1t 10 noted that there
10 a close approximation to equality In
the division Of the population between
the two sexes.
DR.. @. A. White of the Smithsonian
Institution points out that the theory
Of Doctor de yries Of Amsterdam, ac-
cording to which new species Of plants
come into existence. not by a long pro-
cess Of natural selection, as Darwin
supposed. but through sudden muta-
lions, the cause of which remains un-
Known, applies equally well to new spe-
cies of animals. The giant dinosaurs,
for instance, whose remains, az found
In our Western bad lands" excite 90
much amazement, appear by paleonto-
logical evidence to have sprung sud-
denly into being and as suddenly to
have disappeared. All the other animal
types also seem to have been well char
acterized when they first made their
appearance. The theory of the origin
Of species by mutation, when applied
either to the plant or animal kingdom.
does away with the demand made BY
the natural selection theory for inordi-
natefy long periods of time. during
which existing races were brought grad
ually to their present condition.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-27
A Reelection Amplin.d.

"All the worlds stage" quoted the
melancholy man.
YES" answered Stormington Barnes,
land the average lifetime isn't long
enough to provide a good rehearsal,
let alone a frst-class performance
Washington Star.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-27

She looked little sadly around thu
poets bleak. bare attic
"a nice enough ROOM she said. Inn,
how do you heat itr'
WELL when It gets too soadr sa,d
b. Il Light q match
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-27
Making Use of opportunitx.

I'VE Americans eat too much" said
the scientist
Yes" said the ordinary citizen. "we-
see the cost Of food going up so fast
that we feel there is no time to lose."-
Washington Star.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-27

One German woman in about every
twenty-seven works in a factory.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-09
st. Nicholas.

mother drove to the CASTLE wasn't ten minutes
before the two little girls had forgotten syness
and were playing together with the black kitten and he
white kitten Before the to take Fraulein
Angela back to the castle, Gretchen had told her all
about Karl and how he wanted to be gatekeeper after
ne got thru serving his time soldier and how Gret-
chen and grandmother hoped they might be allowed to
keep the gate till he could come back Frauein Angela
promised to tell her father all about it. and she must
have kept her word for the next day the was
driving by he stopped to say to grandmother
80 what's this [ hear about your fearing YOU III bo
turned out of the lodge, Nanettea Who would bake
cookies for Frauen Angela and if you weren't herei
Wen find man to help you open the gates till Karl
comes home and then he shall be gatekeeper like his
iather and grandfather and great
Morning Star. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-09

lowed to keep living at the lodge where lived
all her life and the gate herself the few times each
outside wanted to in. ~r.. -I<~:
- But now that Herr Baron is coming home" grand
all day long and far into the night and maybe Herr
Baron will think too old If only were home!''
Karl was Gretchen's big brother who was serving
two years in the army. When he had served his time
he wanted to be porter his father grandfather
been before him. ~'~ --- 80.
For days and weeks beforehand there was scrubbno
and cleaning in the castle. The furniture which Gret
chen had never seen uncovered stripped it's wrap
pings and great rugs were brought out of the
rooms and spread the stone floors Everything
to be as like as possible to the way it years
FORE when Herr Baron had gone away foreign land
that busy woman would let her.
At last the day arrived when Herr Baron was to
the CASTLE Grandmother let Gretchen wrap herself in
wooden shawl and climb the top Of the wall to
watch for the carriage; for this very old castle,
all the morning, and about she two travelling
carriages coming straight toward the hill which the
castle situated She climbed from the wall and
by the time the carriages reached the CASTLE the gates
wide open and Gretchen grandmother were
courtesylng again and again.
In the first carriage was Herr Baron and the baron
eSs and their little girl who was just Gretchen's SIZE
Why, here is Ninette this surely her little
granddaughter, whom [ never have before,
), The old woman was 50 pleased to be remembered
that the tears down her cheeks and she cried
20, Herr Baron, to think of your remembering me!''
Remember you" replied the baron, laughing; esdo
you think ever viii forget how you boxed for
stealing cookies when was little fellowf'
Then he turned to his little daughter and said Angela
you ask Nanette if she will make you cookies like
the kind she boxed my for stealing.''
Now Angela had heard the story Of those cookies
many times from her father Gretchen heard it
many times from grandmother, and both little girls
looked at each other and laughed Gretchen said right
out before she thought to be shy go Fraulein Angela
there are some in the cookie jar, now After she had
spoken she very much frightened and hid her face
in her grandmother's skirt but the baron
just laughed.
was allowed to get out of the carriage go into the
lodge to eat cookies with Gretchen while her father and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-09
THE ROAD TO TOWN.

The big straight walk that leads to town,
Has walks on either side Il.
And when go long way down ..-~-
The street is just as wide;
But if stand and look, instead,
The sidewalks seem to meet III
And somehow I can't understand
= What happens to the street.
--Appleton's Magazine
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-09
Gretchen at the Lodoe

~ HERE great excitement in the CASTLE and
great excitement in the lodge at the castle gates
~ where Gretchen lived. In the castle, because
Baron Hegel the owner, was coming back after ten
years OF absences ten years. during which time the great
stone castle had been shut up except few rooms lived
in by the caretakers. In the tiny little lodge where
Gretchen and her grandmother lived, the excitement
was as to whether not they should be allowed keep
on living there The way of it was this:
When grandmother was little girl, her father had
been gatekeeper when grandmother grew to be
keeper; when he died. her son, father was
gwen the office. Gretchens father had died several
years BEFORE but since the castle closed to all but
few caretakers and servants grandmother had been al
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1906-04-21
Five Persons are Drowned, a Number are In
jured and Others Narrowly Escape
Death. much Damage Done.
NEW RUBBER COMPANY FORMED.
Promising Enterprise at Nahku Launched The Report
Of the Committee on Territories in ful.-Strong
Reasons why the Bill Should Pass
Fatal disaster at Waikapu.

About 2:30 A. M. on Thursday, the
new Emmesly reservoir above Wal
kapu, broke its embankment and
rushed me dley down the steep hill to
the vegetable and taro lands below
where II mber of Japanese were
peacefully sleeping, five of whom
were to awaken only for moment
before beginning the great sleep that
must come to all
So sudden was the on rush of water
that none were aware of the danger
until 1t was too late to save all.
About wenty persons who were not
in the central on rush of the waters
climbed trees while some remained in
their houses that were washed away
Although these people were not kill.
ed several were badly bruised and
cut. In few moments the water
had gone down and friends came to
seach for the missing.
A mother and two little girls were
found nearly half mile below and all
day the search was kept up for the
bodies of two other children. While
but three bodies were discovered it
is certain that five were lost.
Several persons were washed down
the decline and miraculously ESCAPED
death. One man was washed into a
tree and held on until the waters
went down. Another was washed
gainst post and held on until after
the danger was over while one
women and one little girl were wash
ed down to the lower reservoir. The
little girl was badly hurt ald left in
the deep silt unable to extricate her.
self but is not DANCE rously injured.
Head luna G. M. Roberts with a
large force of men searched all day
for the missing while Manager Wells
lent all assistance possible.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1906-04-21
COMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES
SUBMITS REPORT.

Through the courtesy of County
Attorney d. II. Case, we herewith
give in full the rel ort to Congress
of the Committee on Territories
relative to the House resolution
introduced by our delegate, Kala-
nianaole.
This resolution was the one that
led the public spirited citizens OF
Hawaii nei to send committee to
Washington to assist Mr.. Kalani-
anaole, of which committee, Mr..
d. H. Case was one of the most
active.
The Congressional Committee
heard our delegates and have sub
mitteG the following report to Con-
gress which will show what inn
preston our delegation made on
the members of Congress, and will