Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-06-28
SOUTH DAKOTA

Very few have ever seen the kaiser
on foot, except on his yacht, the Ho-
henzollern. He always drives or rides
The reason for this would be more APP
parent than it is were 1t not that M
wears very thick soled boots. His rea
height is five feet five inches, 50 Ii
thus among Europe's shortest mon
archs. But that is not the only rea'
son why he appears so seldom 0!
foot. He is partially paralyzed down
his left side and his left arm is al
most useless. That is why in all hi
photographs his left arm appears limp
Ian Maclaren, who died recently, was
talking to a group Of literary beginner!
In New York Begin your stories
well" he said, emphatically. There!
nothing like a good beginning. Indeed
it's half the battle. Always bear II
mind the case of the young man who
desiring to marry, secured a favorable
hearing from his sw~eethearts irasciblt
father by opening the interview will
the words: Il know a way, sir, where
by you can save money"
Benjamin Fay Mills, the well known
evangelist, is leaving the orthodox
pulpit because its teachings are not
aggressive enough to suit him. He o
~ III Cd%llAlIR lldl llS x iAo q wv
trineless doctrine" He is establishing
a new church in Edendale, which lies
I'm the San Fernando valley, in Californ-
IA. Mr.. Mills has worked in every large
city in America. He graduated al
Lake Forest university, Illinois. He
calls his creed the fellowship.
OF the $325,990 foreign immigrants
stirring from German ports in 1906,
1879 1874 were natives Of Russia, 100,
464 were Hungarians and S7,404 Aus
trian subjects (mostly from Bohemia.)
OF the 31,074 emigrating Germans
1926 were bound for the United
States, which was also the destination
point of 303.66S of the total 1853
foreigners emigrating via German
seaports.
The imports of American locomotives
into Brazil in 1906 were more than
threshold the value OF the imports in
1908, and more than six-fold the val
ne OF those of 1904; but German manu-
facturers, who had been all but driven
out OF the market, hav recently Sc
cured an order for seventeen locomo-
tives, in competition with American
machines.
immigration Commissioner Watch
0Tn, of New York, says; There is an
improvement noted in the mental ca
pacity of the present-day immigrant. l
have faith In the immigrant of today.
Look him over n you will see the
father OF a race who, after they have
passed through our institutions, may
not be known from the children of
American parents"
S~chooners are loading at West Point,
Va, the framing for a six-masted
schooner to be built by Perry & Small,
Bath, Me-, which is to be the largest
zoo sailing vessel in the world. She
rs for J.. 8. Wlnslow & Co., OF Bos-
ton. n is to be 800 feet long on the
keel. The framing was cut by A. Nc
Kay on the Pamunkey river.
Extract from 4 British schoolboy's
essay on how England colonies: IT
will tell you how England obtains her
colonies. First she sends out her ennis
saries, n they look about for the best
land When they have found it they
call the people to prayer, n when
then eyes are fast shut up goes the
Union Jack"
@. A. Kessler, the New Yorker, who
has bought Riverside, Bourne End, on
the Thames, where the Harvard crew
trained last fall, will spend $3.50, 900 in
renovating it. For one thing he will
put 5000 electric lights In the house
n grounds. The mansion will be
known hereafter Is New York lodge.
Announcement in a communist paper
In Moscow: Marie Petroff, OF Alexan-
droffsky Prospekt, Moscow, ask the
pardon of the Union of Moscow Cooks
n OF her cook, Marushka Ivanoff,
whom she struck In a fit of temper. She
paEs48 rubles to the funds of the Union
offMoscow Cooks"
= "a friendly old cur dog, which was
about to be killed at Wray because he
had no owner to pay his tax, was res
,GEJed by m Of the Rather force.
ywfho paid the necessary amount. It's
"a 10 to 1 bet that every man who was
In on the deal has slept we'll ever
since.
2 Every time the Kaiser visits Dantzig,
says a London Mail correspondent, all
the old war ships In the harbor are
sowed to a position where he cannot
see them. When the correspondent
wrote, the process was being gone
through In view of a visit now pend
ing.
The bishop of London has ruled that
ahe church OF England, not being re-
sponsible for civil marriages, a clergy
man of that church can o~fficiate at the
wedding of a divorced person who's
previous marriage took place In a reg
5siry office.
The human hair crop Is a profitable
and expensive industry. Five tons of
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