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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-05-03

the season when it was known some
thing about what the spring wheat
wheat crop might be. The liquida-
ton of the May option is having
something TO do with the market at
this time. On Wednesday there were
! $4,000 bushels Of wheat delivered on
May contracts, and that for only one
day of the delivery month. Dat fea.
lures are following the strength in
wheat and September option closed
in Chicago at 363 cents, Il cents
above the day previous. 1t looks as
if alively time was due in the grain
market for a few days.
An Iowa woman has refused to
list a farm north of Huron for sale,
giving as a reason that she under
stands that a large city of prairie dogs
is locaten on the farm and that she
has contracted for the sale of 1000
dogs at S3 per head to English lords
whose estates in Ireland are no longer
good for hunting, owing to the ex-
termination of hares and rabbits, and
who want to stock them with prairie
dogs. The farm in question contains
the largest dog town east of the Mis-
souri,. 1t is evident, however, that
the woman is as as ignorant regard
ing prairie dogs as are the titled
fools who wish to introduce the pest
into Ireland. She says that she has
contracted to deliver 1000 dogs which
are to be shipped on a certain ship.
She will do well if she succeeds in
capturing 1900 dogs in twenty years
If that 1000 prairie dogs ever lands
in Ireland that country will have
need of several st. Patricks,
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-05-03

The Guild will meet with Mrs.
Theo F. Thompson next Tuesday af-
iernoon.
Word has been received from
Gene Whiting that be passed the
physical examination and that now
he viii be able to enter West Point
on his school standings.
DIR. j. G. Parsons, the Bookings
Oculist and Aurist, will be at the
Syndicate Hotel on Friday, May10th.
Practice confined to Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat. Glasses fitted. 32.2t.
We understand that John Day
has returned from Wisconsin and de.
cided to remain in South Dakota, al.
though we have not seen him since
his return. John has been renting
land for a few years and early this
spring decided to sell his personal
property and return to the old home
ia Wisconsin 1t must be that he
finds South Dakota all right.
August Moench was a caller at
the INDEPENDENT Office Monday. 1t will
be remembered that August sold his
farm in Bancroft vicinity last fall. He
received what he thought was a good
price for the land and concluded to
move into town. Later he changed
his mind about moving into town, but
when he looked around for another
farm he found thard to replace the
farm he sold. In fact, he found moth
ing in this section. He is now rent
ing a farm near Altamont, in Deuel.
county, but intends to make a trip to
the northern part Of Minnesota with
in a week or two to look at a farm
which he thinks will suit him. We
are sorry to see August leave this part
OF the state. He is one of the old pio-
neers and a irst-class citizen, but we
also hope that he will find a pleasant
home wherever he may decide to To-
cate.
The wheat market has had its
cups" and downs" the past week,
but on the whole the "ups" have ex-
ceeded the clowns" and the May OPP
ton Wednesday went a trine above
previout high point, closing at 86s
cents. The cause of the advance is
the extreme cold weather experienc.
ed all oyer the winter and spring
wheat sections. 1t is estimated that
the damage caused in the winter
wheat district has amounted to one
hundred million bushels, or course
this does not have the effect that
such an estimate might have later in
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-05-03

The United States has just sent a
shipload of flour to the starving peo-
pie of China, and the Chinese govern
ment has just placed an order for
two million new rifles. Argus-Lead
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-05-03
THE WEEKS WEATHER,

Below we publish the weather for
the week ending Wednesday, Apr.
oath, 1907, as recorded by j.. H.
Hall, weather observer for this
spntinn.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17
COULDN'T KEEP IT.
Kept It Hid from the Children.

1--WE cannot keep Grape!Nuts food in
the house. It goes so fast I have to
hide it, because the children love it so.
It is just the food have been looking
for ever so long; something that I do
not have to stop to prepare and still Is
nourishing."
Grape-Nuts is the most scientifically
made food on the market. 1t is per.
fectly and completely cooked at the
factory and can be served at an in
stant's notice, either with rich cold
cream; or with hot milk if hot dish
is desired. When milk or water is
used, little sugar should be added,
but when cold cream is used alone
the natural grape-sugar, which can be
seen glistening on the granules, is sui.
fciently sweet to satisfy the palate.
This grape-sugar is not poured over
the granules, as some people think,
but exudes from the granules in the
process of manufacture, when the
starch of the grains is changed from
starch to grape'sugar BY the process
of manufacture. This, in: effect, is the
first act<of digestion; therefore, Grape.
Nuts food is pre-digested and is most
perfectly assimilated: by the r. very
weakest stomach. - There's Rea.
SON" 2.>.'t~ - H. H. - g g. -
rs Made at the pure food factories Of.
the Postum CO., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little healtl classic, me
Road To- Wellville & ~ Ok 81.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17
WIGS OF SPUN GLASS,
Natural Supply Fails and Invention
Comes to the Rescue.

The enormous feminine demand for
artificial coils and troupees is leading
to famine in human hair. Formerly
Swiss, German and Hungarian girls
supplied the world of fashionable
women with luxuriant tresses of all
tintS.
But the governments of many coun-
tries are now making it illegal for a
girl to sell her hair or for an agent
to buy it, The supply in consequence
is running short and the prices OF real
hair are trebling.
A series of successful experiments
point to spun glass as the most effec-
tive substitute for human hair. Wigs
made from spun glass are wonder
fully light and fine and the texture
soft and beautiful.
It is easy. to produce any shade de-
sired, while curls and waves can be
manufactured at will to suit the fash.
ion of the moment. The imitation is
so realistic that it Is impossible to
detect the difference between it and
real hair grown on the head.-London
Mail.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17
Car Kills BiQ BADGER.

The pugnacity of the badger is of
world wide renown, but he would
scarcely be expected to assail street
car; yet the crew of Pacific Electric
Car No. 1913 assert that one claiming
residence on Rancho Santa Anita
disputed the right of, way last even
Ing.
About 9 o'clock p. M, as the car
swung around the curve in the vine
yard west of Arcadia, Motorman
Shearer saw large animal between
the rails. Repeated shrieks of the
whistle had no other effect than to
cause him to rear and bare his teeth
in defiance. Then he was a dead
badger. He weighed eighty pounds,
and his hide measures three and one.
half feet in length by two in width.
His immense claws are four inches
long. He is by far the largest of the
species ever killed in this vicinity
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17
Swiss Weather Prophet.

sure sign that bad weather Is CON-
Ing. If he energies from the water
and rests upon he,steps above it fine
weather may be expected, and the
higher he sits on the steps the finer
the weather is sure to be. He is also
supposed to give warning of bad
weather by croaking loudly before q
storm.
The magazine says that there is
really some reason to believe that the
green tree frog is somewhat expert
enced as regards climatic conditions
and acts accordingly. In fine weather
he skips about among the branches Of
trees, when at liberty, catching flies.
At the approach of winter he seek
the water and finds himself abed in
the mud until the following spring
calls him out to resume his war on
the flies.
Now the frog on the ladder with
out doubt watches the weather condi-
tons keenly and rises to look out for
flies when the circumstances seem
favorable. On the other hand, when
the weather is cold and damp he is
reminded of winter and instinctively
retires to bury his sorrows in the
imaginary mud which he seeks at the
bottom of his prison.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17
PIN FAITH TO FROG
GERMANS AND SWISS TRUST
HIM AS WEATHER PROPHET.
Kept In Bottle Halt Filled with Water,
He ForeteIIs Approaching climat.
ic Conditions with Accuracy,
It Is Said.

Few animals have survived the at
lacks made by science upon their
reputation as weather prophets. The
green tree frog is a conspicuous ex-
ception.
He is, to be sure; croaking
prophet, but plenty Of people still pin
their faith to him. Even SO scien-
tific journal as Symons' Meteorolog-
tcal Magazine has kind word to say
Of this little animal.
Here is a picture Of the frogs lad
der which is provided for this wealth
er prophet in Germany and Switzer-
land. In many houses tho frog is
kept In a battle half filled with wa
ter and provided with a ladder, and
the little fellow is carefully watched
as to his behavior in uncertain condi-
tons of the atmosphere. A number
OF weather maxims are based upon
his posture and activity.
1t he remains on one of the lowest
steps Of the ladder it is considered
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17
The kaiser's Precautions.

Thirty thousand metres of wire net
ting are to DE erected on the course
for the Kaiserpreis contest wherever
necessary at dangerous corners and
in villages,
The kaiser himself, accompanied by
Prince Henry of Prussia, made the
round of the course recently with a
view to examining the arrangements
for the building of bridges, to the
number of thirty, for pedestrians. The
route is to be subdivided into twelve
sections, and public safety commits
sion will be in charge of each.
It is intended that the course shall
be closed three days before the race
in order that it may be treated
throughout with dust laying prepare
ton.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17
TENTING IN THE DESERT.
Days Pass Quickly in the Health Civ
ing Air.


ing Air.
If a man or woman has a trifle of
independent initiative, if, for instance,
they have had the courage at. some
time to seek out the home of the brook
trout with the trials that often implies,
they need have no fear of tent life.
One must of course remember that
in leaving town environments the lux
uries are left behind. The tent house
will not have decorated walls, the
furnace will be small sheet iron
stove, the electric light will be ex-
changed for an oil lamp and the dain-
ty meals will be replaced by palmer
fare But if these things and friends
are more than the sweetest, most
health-giving air on earth they should
remain at home and die among
their gods. In tent life, aided by horse
or pony; a dog, books and perhaps a
gun, it is surprising how quickly and
pleasantly the days will pass.
Tents vary in size, usually II by IA
feet, but if one is fortunate enough to
have a companion, three-room tents,
from thirty to forty feet long by about
fourteen feet wide, can be found. In
this there will be only the bare neces7
stiles as to furnishings, and the ap-
pearance of the place will depend on
taste and thoughtfulness in arranging
fittings of ones own. A tent can be
plain and barren or coy and tasteful
according to ones Observation-Disclosures
f. Elliott in the World To-day.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17

couragement rolled Oft, the young
bucks sick soul like water off a
ducks back. Sly Fox had actually
reached the point where he no longer
cared to eat and was Indifferent wheth-
er he was painted peagreen or black.
Paul Frenzeny, the artist, as char
acteristically vagabondish Bohemian
as New York ever knew, was that sea-
son with the Wild West as pete, the
Cowboy Artist" doing the same work
in the arena as the cowboys and in the
intervals between performances paint
ing pictures in his tepee that were the
amazement of the people of Europe,
where he remained and is now. The
case of Sly Fox interested Pete i'm
mensely. The dramatic possibilities Of
the situation appealed to his French
blood. The apparent absurdity of fdel-
ity to, an ideal bringing to such pass
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17

ton while she was still a girl and no.
body but her father, Mad Bull, had the
right to club her.
Then Sly Fox evolved a good idea.
To Cody he said: why not take In
dian girl also? Show the pale faces
the beauty of the Sioux maiden. There
is one beauty you want. That is Skip
ping Bird. Take her, Bill, who is
under all circumstances an earnest
member of the committee on personal
charms, thought we'll of the young
bucks idea, particularly after he had
taken a good look at Skipping Bird.
But when the idea was preached to
Mad Bull, the girls father, he pro-
ceeded to live up to the reputation of
his name, and while engaging frank
ness swore that while he was not
averse to contributing a squaw and a
few papooses to help the show along,
for consideration, he would have the
scalp of the man who tried to take
away his most valued and proudest
possession, Skipping Bird.
When the time came for the Sioux
SOAIA1E3O4AL w JUL IuC olAO", CAApp1uSo
Bird was not among them, and it seem
ed to us that the squaws provided
were rather older, fatter, less attract
i've and better stocked with papooses
than any we had ever seen, though per-
haps they may have suffered by COM
parison with our recollection of Skip
ping Bird.
1T is all right, MAJOR said Iron
Tail. "Squaws look like these make no
trouble. Squaws look like Skipping
Bird, all time make trouble. Red just
same as white, all devils when young"
Sly Fox would have been glad to re-
sign his place in the Sioux contingent
and remain on the reservation when
he found Skipping Bird was not going
along, could he have done so without
thereby making himself an object of
ridicule among his people. But nobody
accepts the inevitable with better
grace than an Indian. Sly Fox gal
loped away In the troupe, imperturb-
able and smiling, but with bitterness,
rage and almost despair in his heart
That year the Wild West went to
London and spent the entire season in
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17


a forest Of pines grew clearer and
clearer, so distinct at last that the In
dian, felt that he could climb one of
them. Suddenly from behind tree,
the smiling face: of girl appeared, the
face of Skipping Bird, looking in his
eyes. He sprang up with cry Of JOY.
Instantly girl and trees vanished. The
clouds rolled and whirled once more
Hewas told that he must keep still, or
he would see her no more. Penitent-
ly he promised to be good.
Quickly she reappeared, not peeping
from behind a tree, but lifesize, stand
ing out upon a grassy space, with
look of affection in her eyes and her
hands extended toward him. And,
seemingly from her lips, in her sweet
voice, he heard, low but clear, Sioux
words, that being translated meant,
Come back to me, dear Sly Fox, your
Skipping Bird waits for you. Bring
plenty of blankets and the Mus-Zis-caw
(long green) and we will be happy
yet"
Just then the witch threw something
in the fire that made it blow up. The
figure disappeared and for moment
there was darkness. When lights
were brought no trace was left in
sight of the white mans magic, but it's
work had been done. Sly Fox cried
aloud: Eyes, Skipping Bird, I will
come back-many blankets will I
bring and heap, big heap, mus-zis-caw."
The effect on his health was truly
amazing, showing clearly that savage
though he was, the Indian nature was
as sensitive to the finer sentiments as
his white brother when wounded by
cupid's arrow.
He became the shrewdist economist
and speculator in the troupe, buying
up Indian goods from his less sa-
gacious comrades and selling them to
visitors at advanced prices. He also
devoted time and energy, with mar
velous luck, to poker, and when he re-
turned to the reservation it was with
plethoric pockets and trunks of Pals
ley shawls, etc. In fact, he returned
financier, and happily married the de-
voted and delighted Shipping Bird.
With good health and his accumula-
ted wealth invested in horses and cat
tie, and taught by his experience from
travelling with the Wild West, ito fol-
low the white mans road" Sly Fox
to-day, with his. well-preserved, proud
matron, Skipping Bird, and truly
lovely educated family, is most pros
porous and happy White River ranch
man-an example of the Indians abil'
ity to evolute OPPORTUNITY
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17
LIFE INSURANCE A SACRED
TRUST.
responsibilities Of Officers and D.
rectors.

Evidently President Kingsley Of the
New York Life Insurance company
has learned the great lesson Of the
times with respect to the responsible
ity and duty of directors of corpora
tons. Speaking to the new board of
trustees, on the occasion of his elec-
ton to the presidency, he emphasized
the fact that life insurance is more
than a private business, that life in
surance trustees are public servants,
charged at once with the obligations
of public service and with the respon-
sibilities that attach to going bust
ness which at the same time must be
administered as trust"
He also realizes that similar respon-
sibilities rest upon the officers of the
company. II understand" he says,
'your anxiety in selecting the men
who are day by day to carry this bur.
den for you, who are to discharge this
trust in. your behalf, who are to ad.
minister for the benefit of the people
involved the multitudinous and exact
ing details to which it is impossible
for you to give personal attention. My
long connection with the New York
Life-covering nearly twenty years
my service in about every branch of
the company's working organization,
gives me, as I believe, a profound ap-
probation, not merely of the heavy
burden you have placed on my Shout
ders, but of the standards Of efficiency,
the standards of faith, the standards
of integrity, which must be main
tanned at all times by the man who
serves you and the policyholders in
this high Office
Best of all, perhaps, he feels that
words are cheap, and that the public
will be satisfied with nothing short of
performance. my thanks, therefore"
he continues, "for an honor which out
ranks any distinction within the reach
of my ambition, cannot be expressed
In words; they must be read out of
the record make day by day.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17
Implying Conceit.

Many years ago Daniel Lord, Jr., as
he always signed his name, then one
of the shining lights of the bar in
New York, was arguing a case before
the court of appeals, when a country
lawyer asked Charles O'Connor the
name of the gentleman who was speak.
ing.
THAT" said Mr.. O'connor, who was
rather nettled at something Lord had
said, that. sir. is Daniel Lord, Jr., and
he puts the Junior after his name sc
that he may not be mistaken for the
Almighty"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17
SPOlLS OF AN OLD CASKET.
Carefully Hidden Dowry Of a Moham-
medan Bride.

Carefully Hidden Dowry Of a Moham-
medan Bride. !:
A true fairy tale concerning an ORR
entail casket sold by an antiquary to
Partisan amateur is related by the
correspondent of the London Tele-
graph.
The casket is of beautiful artistic
workmanship of olive wood, with In
crustations. It was evidently a we'd
ding present, such as it is the custom
to give bride in Mohammedan coun-
tries.
There is a perfume of rose leaves.
delicate far away fragrance of the
distant East, when the cover is lifted.
The antiQuary bought it at a general
sale long ago, and offered it to pur-
chasers amid Louis XVI. clocks, old
ribbons and out-of-date decorations.
A lover OF quaint antiques, M. Maui
rice saw the casket and bought it
AS it had been knocked about a
good deal in its long journey it stood
IN need Of repairs, and M. Maurice
gave it to an expert workman to re-
store. The workman tapped it and
was surprised to notice a metallic
sound inside. He found that the jew
Ell box had double bottom, and when
opened there were rows of old and
odd coins, which gl1ttered family, but
enough to show at once that they
were Of pure gold
A numismatist declared they were
gold sequins and worth about 100
pounds. It was sum which to a
young bride a hundred or two hun
dred years ago represented perhaps
fortune. The workman Informed M.
Maurice, and the latter told the an
tiquary. AS they were all three hon.
est men, each wished that the other
claim the brides treasure
They referred the matter to the po-
lice commissary, who gave a decision
worthy of Solomon. He divided the
gold coins into two equal piles and
told NJ Maurice and the antiquary to
take each a pile and then left it to
their combined generosity to reward
the honest workman. This they did,
each giving him a few of the gold
sequins, so that all had about an even
share in the treasure of the BRIDE
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17
There IS A REASON.
Tho Medical Times Explains Why
Doctors Oppose Patent Medicines.

The Medical Times for April in
moment of frankness explains the
whole opposition of physicians to pat
ent" medicines which are taken with
out a prescription, in the following
words:
eve will hardly repeat here the
specific statement to the effect that
in one year $62,0oO,O00 has been ex-
pended on patent medicines in the
United States. Enough to give every
practitioner in the country a yearly
income Of $4,000. In the face of such
facts as these, all talk of love of hui
manity, altruism, self-abnegation and
the like becomes cheap and nauseat-
ing. It appears to us that such bun.
combe should give place to homely
common sense"
Reliable authority states that the
gross amount of the patent" medi-
cine business is about $40,000,000 in
stead of $62,000,000 but taking the
Medical Times figures as correct they
represent an outlay of considerably
less than 81 per capita for home medi-
cation. The cost of doctors fees ex-
elusive of medicines except such az
are dispensed for the same period,
probably was approximately $3.50, 000,-
900. This is reached by allowing an
average income of $4,000 to each of
the $4,000 physicians in the United
States. Even allowing that a gross
business of $62,000,O00 is to be divtd-
ed between $4,000 physicians the in
come of each would not be increased
more than $40.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-17
GREAT ABYSS OF OCEAN.

More than half the surface of the
globe is hidden under water two miles
deep; 100000 square miles lie at a
depth of $4,000 feet or more. Many
places have been found five miles and
more in depth. The greatest depth
vet sounded is $1,000 feet, near the
island of Guam.
II Mount Everest, the worlds high
est mountain, were plucked from its
seat and dropped into this spot the
waves would still roll 1000 feet above
it's crest.
Into this terrific abyss the waters
press down with force of more than
10000 pounds to the square inch. The
stanchest ship ever built would be
crumbled under this awful pressure
like an eggshell under a stream
roller.
A pine beam fifteen feet long.
which held open the mouth of trawl
used in making a cast at a depth OF
more than $4,000 feet, was crushed
fiat as if it had been passed between
rollers.
The body of the man who should
attempt to venture to such depths
would be compressed until the flesh
was forced into the interstices of the
bone and his trunk was no larger than
a rolling pin. Still, the body would
reach the bottom, for anything that
will sink In a tub of water will sink
to the uttermost depths of the ocean.