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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13

The two couples sat down at ad-
joining tables. "You won't mind
my leaving you minute to telephone,
will your" Vivian asked her.
''I will not mind at ALL" she an
swered mechanically.
The other couple was unconscious
of them. The girl looked over the
bill of fare with the greatest interest.
She pursed her red lips together. II
am as hungry as bear r. she ex-
claimed. 'I want big supper, if
we never get married, so there r.
The man smiled. II bet you have
sold your picture r she continued.
"And now we need not wait any
longer. Oh, Love p
Lillian tried not to hear any more
of the conversation. She felt ashamed
for having heard SO much. Besides,
Vivian was coming back.
"They will be here for us as soon
as possible . he said slowly, wonder-
ing at Lillian's downcast eyes. II
am sorry we can't get anything de-
cent to eat here if you are really
hungry"
Lillian looked up quickly. Gould
/ have"
Anything you want that can be
procured" he replied gently.
"Then let's play we are poor art
ists-and in love-
Vivian smiled. "As full Of whims
as ever"
To have seen them no one would
have doubted their love. Lillian en-
tered into the play with great deal
of zest. She wanted to show that
other girl that she was in love, too
hopelessly, vulgarly in love. She
did not care whether or not it was in
good form; she lost herself COM
pletely.
Its all over now," Vivian said
as he saw the waiter coming towards
them. "But indeed, Lillian, I had
no idea you were so clever an actress.
You have actually made me happy
you have put me into fools para
disc, and l feel like boy"
"WilI you bring me here again to-
morrow nightl" she asked suddenly.
Lillian, do you mean that you
like the role1 That you-" His
heart bounded with delight.
1.-The carriage is waiting, sir, /" the
waiter said.
"Let it wait-that is, will be
there in minute" Vivian answered.
He could not take Lillian from the
little lunch room until she had ex-
planned what she meant.
It was her turn to smile now and
she laughed gayly. She hoped the
other girl would notice how big and
fine her lover was.
II wish we were poor" she said.
Zone can never be poor except
without love and"
"Then I fear we can never-be-
poor" she whispered.
"The carriage, sir p
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13
CURIOUS AND INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
THE SENSES OF BIRDS AND
BEASTS.


It is the destiny of all wild birds
and beasts to be forever preyiug upon
each other, and to be preyed upon.
Accordingly nature has not neglected
to provide them with keenly- devel-
oped special senses to aid them IN
avoiding their enemies and perpet-
uating the existence of their species,
as we'll as to assist them in preying
in their own turn.
All down the line from the hugest
animal to the most Insignificant in
sect the law of the survival of the fit
test spurs on these creatures uncon-
sciously to improve their best natural
means of attack and defense. The
horse, the deer and other long, clean
1imbed species, which do not prey on
other animals, but are preyed upon
in wild state, have constantly grown
swifter of foot throughout the ages,
as flight is their only means of de-
fense.
Certain birds and animals are set
apart from most others through spe-
cial adaptation of their senses-or
some particular sense-to the needs
of the chase and of their own preser-
walton. Most birds have very perfect
eyesight. 1t is the sense upon which
they must wholly rely. Their senses
of taste and smell seem dormant. The
owl, being night bird, has eyes
which gather every possible CLEAN of
light. Each is set in disc-like nest
of ofshining white feathers, which serves
as a reflector, sending and focus
ing beams almost imperceptable to
human eyes direct upon the pupil,
and enabling the bird TO see quite
we'll on the darkest night.
The eyes Of birds, set as they are
one on each side of the head, enable
them to have everything above, be-
hind, in front and beneath always
within their field Of observation. The
hungry hawk, poised motionless in
mid air, sees every bird and creature
beneath, and is only waiting an op-
portunity to strike. The birds see
him, too. The joyous song is hush
ed in the thicket, while those in the
open cover low to the ground to es-
cape detection or fit uneasily about
in search of more secure cover, and
woe betide the careless or luckless
wight that exposes himself through
nervousness or lack of caution within
range of the meteor like descent of
the feathered hunter.
With reptiles and four footed crea-
lures it is otherwise. The snake
creeping cautiously about, his keen
little eyes ever on the lookout for an
other victim, never seems to see the
gray laughing jack-daw seated on the
dead limb of the gum tree above him,
or to realize that Nemasis is on his
track till compelled "too late" to
strike in self-defence.
Snails have eyes at the ends of
tubes, which they can project like
guns from turret, enabling them to
see in all directions at once, whereas
most fshes-being without necks-
have to turn their entire body to see
more than a small part of their sur
roundings.-WezV York Ame,fcan.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13
WHY CHILDREN ARE "BAD."

Because they are hungry or thirsty.
Because they have been allowed to
overeat.
Because they have been given per-
nicious cheap sweets.
Because they have not had proper
sleep.
Because their clothing is not COM
Portable.
Because the room in which they
sleep or play is stuffy or ill-aired.
Because their parents break promi-
ses to them and buy them off with
bribes.
Because they are brought up on a
negative diet of continual "No, no,
no." instead of an occasional good,
hearty Eyes"
Because their activity is not di.
rected into the right channel. Even
from babyhood child must be doing
something, and if it is not wisely di-
rected its energies will find outlet in
"naughtiness."
If AT first you don't succeed, dc
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13
VOL. 81. WHOLE No. 214O.
oLD-rAsHIoHED ROSES.
By GRACE q. BosrwIcK.


They lOiter by the pathway
In the scented twilight gloom,
And all the other flowers can do
Is bloom, bloom, bloom.
They Chamber up the doorstep
And DER the window. too,
They fiaunt their bloom inside the room
To smile at you.
They creep along the stone wall
And underneath the trees,
They beckon In the garden to
The gay south breeze.
They smile up from the roadside
To drink the summer rain.
And when you cross the orchard, there
They nod again.
They loiter by the pathway
In the scented twilight gloom,
And all the other flowers can do
Is bloom, bloom, bloom.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13

"There are several popular errors
about the ways of bees which need
rectifying," said Ike Hubbard,
honey hunter. 1.-The average bee,
instead of being an example of indus
try, is about the LATEST thing that
flies.
Gwen in the busy season in mid
summer no bee will quit its hive until
after the sun is we'll up and has taken
off the heavier part of the dew, and
so soon as the sun slants toward the
hills in the afternoon every bee will
come flying home and 60 to roost,
though darkness is four hours away.
"Then there are few bees that will
hunt for honey from flowers so long
as they can find corn syrup or brown
sugar to steal. This fact is so well
known to apiarists that many bee
keepers buy corn syrup for SO cents
gallon and pass it along to the bees,
which convert it into something that
resembles honey, but is not honey,
and still sells for the genuine product
of the hives. When man can buy
syrup for so cents gallon and then
sell it back to the trader as honey for
So gallon he can get rich right away,
provided he has enough bees.
"The greatest mistake that is made
about bees is the belief that they fol-
low straight lines when carrying home
their loads of honey. I assure you
that the bee line one reads about in
the books does not exist.
"When laden bee is going home
with big load of honey in its stom-
ach and great wads of pollen on its
hind legs it takes the easiest course,
regardless of any line. In our hilly
Maine country no bee will rise in the
air to surmount hill when it can go
around the obstruction.
s'When sharp rise lies between
my honey box and the bee tree every
bee flies away on the arc of circle,
so as to avoid exerting itself by rising.
In such cases place my box on either
side of the hill and make my triangu-
lation nearer the apex. If one were
to go chasing after bee that was
| flying around hill his calculations
might lead him to China.
"The beekeepers tell us that white
clover honey is the best, but do not
agree with them. Domestic honey,
such as is gathered from white clover,
buckwheat and other cultivated plants
is too sweet.
ITO my mind wild honey that is
stolen from the blossoms of dogwood
and basswood and wild thyme and
mints and nettles is far better than
anything bought in the stores. 1t
has gamy flavor about it that sug-
gests wild woods and great trees and
singing brooks and everything that
lives out of doors and away from the
contaminating taint of mankind"
NAGGsBY-When a man and his
wife think the same thoughts stimuli
taneously it is a sign that they are
exceedingly congenial.
Waggsby-So! Well. then, my
wife and / are congenial, all right,
for the other night, when she said
that she wondered why I'd ever been
such a fool as to marry her, I had
been sitting there in silence for hall
an hour wondering over the same
identical thing.
WIGG-"What do the newspapers
do with all the war correspondents
when hostilities cease ?" Wagg-
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13

BLoBBs-"He hasn't cent to his
name, and yet he is the most egotis-
tical fellow know" Slobbs-"Yes,
the only capital he seems to need is
the capital l."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13

MRS. NEwRIcH-"What in the
world is that racket down stairs :"
Mr.. Newrich-"Calm yourself, my
dear; it's only the English butler
dropping few of his his"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13

WHEN the wedding march is being
played it's clumsy bridegroom who
would trip over the pealing of the or
gan.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13

HooK-"IfI 1 have my way + II mar
ry Miss Nagsby." Nye-"If you
do You'll never have your way"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13

"GoD created the first woman"
SAYS the cynical bachelor; "but the
devil was hanging around and swiped
the pattern."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13

THE best way for man to get out
of lowly position is to be conspicu-
ously effective in it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13

WIGG-"Wha do the newspapers
do with all the war correspondents
when hostilities cease ?" Wagg-
MAKE football reporters of them, I
suppose"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13

IT IS wiser to pay your debts than
to be talked to death by collectors.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13

If AT first you don't succeed, do
over, but don't over do it.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-11-02
BIG FORCE OUT AFTER UTfS
HOPE TO oVERAWE UNRULY IN.
DAMS WHO ARE COMMIT.
TING DEPREDATloNs.

Omaha, Neb., Oct. 30.-The repair.
ture from Fort Robinson, Neb., yester-
day of four troops of the Tenth cav
airy makes sixteen troops of cavalary,
total of 765 officers and men, en-
route to the scene of the depredations
OF the band of Ute Indians now sup
posed to be in camp on Powder river.
in Wyoming.
Col. Jacob A. Augur goes with the
detachment which left Fort Robinson
yesterday, and as senior officer he will
be in command of the entire expedl-
ton. No move will probably be made
until all the forces are joined.
lit is hoped by the display Of o
strong force to overawe the Indians
and prevent fight" said Maj. G.. A.
Noyes, military commander of the De.
partment of the Missouri. "They are,
however, we'll armed and very sullen.
and it is hard to say what will hap
pen. There are about $50 in the party,
including women and children. but
do not think there are over $50 fight
ing men among them"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-11-02

The wheels of justice turned rapidly
suspects arrested in Canton in connec-
ton with the robbery of R. l.. Browns
hardware store in Flandeau during the
livery barn fire in which three chill
dren and eighteen horses were Gre
mated
They were lodged in the county Jail
awaiting hearing, and when taken
before Justice Carter T. j. Clancy and
Enoch McCarty pleaded guilty to the
charge of burglary and were bound
over to the circuit court. They we're
taken Immediately before Judge Jones,
who sentenced them for three years.
and Sheriff Davis took them to Sioux
Falls. The other three proved to be
innocent harvest hands and were
turned loose.
1t is generally supposed that the two
men gave fictitious names and pleaded
guilty to the charge to escape punish
ment for a graver offense When ar
rested they had a quantity of loot that
did not come from the Brown hard
ware store, also a full kit of burglar
tools. nitroglyce.in, ETC. They were
desperate characters, for only the
quichness Of the marshal at Canton
with his shooting iron saved him from
receiving the contents of an automatic
Colts revolver. MThis revolver was
stolen by them from the hardware
store and was the property of Sheriff
Davis, he having left 1t with Mr..
Brown recently because he had no am
munition for it.
1t is generally thought that the fire
and burglary We're the work Of the
same men, but there were no grounds
to charge arson, while burglary was
met with plea of guilty.
Whoever F. j. Clancy and Enoch Nc
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-11-02

vorce. Dudley declares he was taken
back ard that there were none to face
him and the case was dismissed. He
believes he has been the victim of
plot, and that certain whites are in it.
He was fitting himself to take advan-
tage of the immense amount of Indian
litigation on his reservation now be-
ing handled by white attorneys, th3
reds having none from their own num-
Der. Dudley says the scheme has
been to disgrace him and destroy his
chances of success.
But he means to find out who is at
the bottom of the plot and to be
avenged. The manner of getting even
he will not disclose, but the Sioux arc
sure to find way, hence the uneasi-
ness OF those who had the accusation
brought against him.
Maybe, some time" Is the answer
given by the Indian, when asked If he
doesn't intend to finish his law course.
There Ia rumor on the reservation
that the woman whose name has been
used in connection with his, herself
had the proceedings started in order
to secure Dudley for husband, the
fact that she has been in love with
him for some time being generally
known. When she saw the young
mans anger when the officer brought
him back. it is said she was afraid to
continue her desperate plan.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-11-02
|AYRES CLEARED At SIOUX FALLS
Gov Loses Important Svts Charging Important Land
Frauds.

The first OF the alleged land fraud
cases to be tried in South Dakota, af-
ter having been on trial in the United
States court in Sioux Falls several
days, came to sudden end, when, on
motion of the attorneys for the de-
Tense, Judge Garland directed a YER
dict for the defendants in the cases of
Thomas H. Ayers, John l. Newell,
John F. Mcguire and Howard A. Bin
work of Pierre, stockholders and
agents of the Gas Belt Land and Alb
stract company, with headquarters at
Pierre.
1t was shown by the evidence pre-
scented by the prosecution that the de-
PENDANTS procured fifteen widows of
soldiers from New Ulm and other
points In Minnesota to go to Pierre
and make entry on fifteen different
tracts of government land; that all
their expenses We're paid by the
agents company from the time they
left home until they returned, 1T not
being necessary for the widows even
to pay the land Office fees The tracts
We're Immediately leased to cattemen.
In his decision directing verdict
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-11-02
TO LEASE OR NOT TO LEASE.
Famous Issue is Raised Again on the
Standing Rock.

A general council of all the Indians
on the Standing Rock reservation has
been ordered by Commissioner Leupp,
to be held at the agency. At this coun
Gil the Indians will decide whether
they will release the Lennon land for
another five years or not. The lease,
which is all under fence, contains
about 100000 acres.
The Indians are receiving at present
8 cents an acre, and not more than
one animal is allowed to forty acres.
At the time of the former leasing the
matter was written up in Eastern pa
pers and magazines by George Ken
nan and others, and it was asserted
the Indians were not fairly treated.
President Roosevelt finally sent out
his personal representative, DR.. Grin.
nell of New York, and Inspector Nc.
Laughlin, with the result that the
tract was leased.
The new extension of the Milwaukee
runs through forty miles of the lease
This 900 ,000-acre pasture is believed to
be the largest in the United States I'M
der fence, being fifty miles long by
forty miles wide.
Special Agent Downs of the Indian
department will be present, and every
Indian over eighteen on the reserva-
ton can vote on the proposition.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-11-02
INDIAN ALLEGES VERY DEEP PLOT
Says Whites Conspred to Prevent Him Finishing His Law
Course

Accusing self-respecting Indian of
serious crime and then fleeing before
the case comes to a hearing, is some
thing which has made a number OF
residents of Charles Mix county, this
state-some said to be prominent
very nervous.
David Dudley, a full-blood Sioux, a
second-year law student in the Uni
versity of South Dakota at Vermillion,
has had his career blighted, he be-
lieves, and has sworn to be even with
those who secured his arrest on the
charge Of seduction. Dudley, popular
and apt law student, has returned
from his home to which he was taken
for trial, packed up his books and left
the university. Hundreds or his
friends among the faculty and
students, tried to prevail upon him to
remain and finish his course. The In
dian stolidly refused.
Some time ago a deputy sheriff came
to Vermillion and arrested Dudley, the
complaining witness being Mrs. jose
phine Weston, rich squaw in tha
Yankton reservation in Charles Mix
county She is one Of the handsomest
and most attractive women on the res
ervation, aside from her property hold.
ings, and it is said Dudley was an adj
mirer of hers before she married Wes-
ton, from whom she soon got di-
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-11-02

in favor OF the defendants, Judge Car
land held in substance that at the time
the alleged offense was committed, in
July, 1908, rulings of the land depart
ment and federal laws authorized SOL
aiers' widows to make entry of public
land without the necessity of making
settlement upon, and also authorized
them to lease the land even without
ever seeing it, as was the case in this
instance.
The law, however,, was changed in
December, 1908. but too late to benefit
the prosecution in the case Of Ayers
and the other three men
At the April term of the United
States court in Sioux Falls an indict-
ment was returned against defend
ants, charging them with engaging in
a conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment out of tracts of land between the
Missouri river and the Black Hills, in
Western South Dakota. The indict-
ment contained twenty-three counts
and was one of the most voluminous
documents of the kind ever returned
by a federal grand jury in South Da-
kota.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-11-02
SIOUX FALLS MAN AsPAYxlATED.
Mrs. obert Found Her Husband Dead
WhAn She QaA1rnaa E.a.o Aiei4

Mrs. obert Found Her Husband Dead
When She Returned From Visit.
To find her husband dead in chair
was the painful experience of Mrs.
Wendell Obert upon returning to her
home in Sioux Falls from visit in
Canistota. Illuminating gas is sup
posed to have caused the death of Mr..
Obert, who was one of the pioneer -es-
ldents of Sioux Falls and was well
known through the state
When Mrs. Obert left last week for
her visit Mr.. Obert was in the country,
and 1t has not yet been established
just when he returned. When Mrs.
Obert opened the front door of the
house she was driven back by strong
odor of gas. After moment she and
her sister-in-law, Mrs. McKinnon, who
returned from Canistota with her, en-
tered he house and found Mr.. Obert
sitting In a rocking chair stiff and cold
in death.
He was fully dressed, including his
hat One Of the burners of the gas
stove was found fully turned on, but
not lighted, with a newspaper over the
burner. In his right hand the dead
man grasped newspaper. One theory
Is that Mr.. Obert accidentally turned
on the gas burner by carelessly brush
Ing against it, and that while reading,
fell asleep and was asphyxiated.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-11-02
SKULL OF AN AUROCHS.
Bones Of Progenltor Of the Buffalo
Found Beneath Bed of Missouri.

Bones Of Progenitor Of the Buffalo
Found Beneath Bed Of Missouri.
At depth of more than twenty
feet, the workers in caisson No. I, on
the new bridge at Pierre, found num-
Der of bones and an immense skull of
buffalo. The skull was perfect, but
the outside horn had disappeared, leav.
ing it to measure thirty-four inches
from stub to stub OF the inside horn
formation. The find was in bed OF
gravel and boulders, and the bones
must have lain there for years, as the
river bank has long extended far out
beyond where the sinking is going on
In years gone by, the channel of the
stream was probably at that point, and
the bones were swept to the bottom
with the gravel and stones, remaining
there to be covered by the accretion
with change In the channel The
skull is a peculiar one, showing
dome between the horns, while the av.
erage buffalo skull is almost straight.
The specimen has been placed on ex-
hiEition where it is attracting a great
deal Of attention. 1t is claimed by
some that on account of its size and
shape it is skull of an aurochs, a
larger animal, and progenitor of the
buffalo, instead of the buffalo itself, in
which case it has been buried in the
sands of the Missouri for many hun
dreds Of years.