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The sun., 1907-08-14

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first President OF the Continental Congress:
the old Bassett house. once the home OF
President Tyler; Ta1ewell Hall. the home
of Edmund Randolph. and q number OF
other buildings OF age and note. There
are interesting relics in the old powder
house. in the old church and in private
hands. Fort Magruder and other signs OF
the civil war may be seen on the outskirts
Of the village. There is much more 20 be
seen than II is possible TO describe or even
to refer to In a newspaper letter. The town
is easily reached by rail. an hours journey
from Old Point Comfort. There are sew
eral hotels, plain but comfortable.
Yorktown may be reached by boat from
any OF the cities in the vicinity OF the expo
sition or by a twelve mile drive over fairly
good country road from williamsburg II
is a sleepy old place charmingly located on
the south bank OF the York River which at
this point is more bay than river. High
on bluf overlooking the water Is the fine
monument erected by the Government In
commemoration OF the surrender OF Lord
Corvallis. the final event In the story OF
the Revolution. Near it 10 the old Nelson
house. occupied by Lord CORVALLIS In his
time and as Union hospital In the days OF
the Peninsular campaign Of the civil war.
Here are the first United States custom
house. the old Moore house. In which were
drawn up and signed the articles OF oapitula-
ton which ended the war, and number OF
quaint, old fashioned houses OF no special
historical significance except that they have
stood there through three important wars
and have played their part In each.
There is long list Of we'll known names
closely linked with all this region. from that
Of John Smith down 10 that Of Grant 20
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-12-26

Clyde Fitch was reading extracts
from one of his many volumes of
newspaper clippings.
Here" he said, "is an account
from q. Bay City paper OF the presen-
tation OF u gold-headed cane to the
Rev. John Hopkins, d. d. The story
must have gotten mixed somehow
with another about patent hog
killing machine. At any rate this ia
how 1t appeared:
Several of the Rev. DR.. Hopkins
friends called upon him yesterday,
and after a brief conversation, the
unsuspicious hog was siezed by the
bind legs and slid along a beam un-
til he reached q watertank. His
friends explained the object Of their
visit, and presented with very
handsome gold-headcd butcher, who o
grabbed him by the tail, swung him
round, slit his throat from ear to
ear, and in less than q minute the
carcass was In the water, Thereup-
on he came forward and said there
were times when the feelings over
powered one, and for that reason 9
would not attempt to do more than
thank those around him for the M: n
ner in which such q huge animal was
cut into fragments was simply ast, n
ishing. The doctor concluded his re-
marks. when the machine siezed him
and In less time than it takes to
write 1t, the hog was cut into frag-
ments and worked up into delicious
sausage. The occasion will he long
remembered by the doctors friends
as one OF the most delightful OF their
lives. The best pieces can be secured
or 15 cents per pcnnd, and we are
sure those who have sat so long un-
der his ministry will rejoice that he
has been treated so handsomely. lex.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-12-26
Western Post Cards.

$4,000 new post card, including
scenes OF the Scotty Phillip buffalo
herd. Indians in camp, roundup
broncho riding, horses, cattle, home
steading and many others typical of
this country.
Send Csc stamps or silver and we
will mail you a set OF one dozen OF
these cards all different.
Address,
Guy L. Hart & Co., Fort Pierre,
s. D., Dept. Z.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-12-26

Trial Catarrh treatments arebeing
mailed out free, on request, by DR..
Shoop, Racine. Wis. These tests are
proving to the people-without a
penny's cost-the great value of this
scien tific prescription known to drug
g!sts everywhe here as DR.. Shoop's Ca
tarrh Remedy. Sold by W. j..
Hughes Il Co.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-12-26

o. g, Woolever, one OF the best
known merchants of LIE Raysville, N.
Y, says: If you are ever troubled
with piles, apply 8ucklen's Arnica
Salve. 1t cnred ME of them for good
20 wears a9o.
Guaranteed for sores, won ds,
burns or abrasions, 25c at W." j.
Hughes & Cos store,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-12-26
ADangerous Deadlock,

that sometimes terminates fatally, is
The stoppage Of liver and bowelfunc-
tuDns. TO quickly end this condition
without disagreeable sensa tions. DR..
Kings New Lille Pills should always
lie your remedy. Gnarant,e ed abso-
ilutely satisfactory In every case or
MOI ey b ck, at W. j. Hugh's 8 4 Co.'S
store. 25c.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-12-26
LOCAL

wagon Sunday.
Mr.. Harrison was over from Crow
Lake this morning.
Mrs. Eta X. Ives is spending the
holidays In Sioux City.
Martin johnson is suffering from a
severe attack OF perezosa.
q. T. Hill and family were down
from Duncan for Christmas.
Nels Krog took couple OF loads
OF barley to Kimball Friday.
Ray Kinney took few days of
this week and enjoyed the grip.
Ray III. Dunbar is spending the hol
idays with bis parents In Dunlap.
Miss Winnie Sceats is up from
Chamberlain visiting A. q. Hills.
--Dr. Lockwood, Dentist, Office
over Express Office Chamberlain, =. ID.
Chas. Fraser came in and worked
at the merchantile business Satur-
day.
nyou are going to sell, or want
to buy more land, better see W. A.
Hoobler.
F. H. Wilson was down to Kim.
bah with load OF barley the first
OF the week.
Marfus Krog went to Kimball for
Kip lngerson Friday with q couple
ofloads OF fax.
A. Z. Parsons is In from Darling
ton, Wis, looking over his ranch
and stock interests here.
Hyou need a veterinary surgeon
address i. +. Lutes. Chamberlain
Hs will answer calls at any time
That special arrangement we've
made with The Weekly Inter Ocean,
$i.75for it and this paper for one
year, has made a hit.
). 9. Potter. who is teaching the
jim Tulsa school. left on Saturday
to spend the holidays with his wife
on the other side of the river.
Parties wishing to sell or buy land
in Buffalo County VIII do well to-
call on or correspond with Reynolds
and Kreuger OF Kimballso. Oak,
Owing to circumstances over
which he has no control, Pres. J. C.
Thull has been obliged to postpone
the next meeting ofthe Booster Club.
The Lady Helpers win hold their
next meeting with Mrs. j. q. Thull
on Friday. January 3rd, 1908. Ev-
erybody is cordially invited to at
tend.
Sheriff W. A. wooledge made a
couple OF trips to upper Elm Creek
tnls week summoning witnesses In a
espass case which viii be heard be-
fore Judge Gitchell Saturday.
j. A. johnson was down to Kim
ball the first,of the week and ship
ped one OF his Dnroc Jersey hogs to
breeder!at Midland. They know
where to.come when they want the
best.
Clate Tinan got out twelve page
pa per last week In order to get In all
his copy and ads, ana It wasn't a
holiday edition either as he is '.nnrs-
ny his wra tn" for AIRED hot annivers
ary number.
rhe stockholders of the Creamery
met last Saturday and elected the
following Board OF Directors for the
ensuing year: Max Machler, III. b.
Farren. and j. b. Ingerson. They
VIII meet and elect officers tomor-
row afternoon.
Would you be thankful on Thanks
giving? II you have something to
he thankful for you will. Then II
you would he thankful send 15c a
share for block of stock in the Lee
Goinstock Mining company, +. y.
box, 25S, Rhy olite, Nevada.
The Gam Valley stores put on
Metropolitan airs Saturday and the
happy, eager throngs Of buy ers and
their heavily laden conveyances on
the homeward trip looked like any
thing but financial stringency. AL
the merchants agree that 1t has be. 7
the best year In their history.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-12-26
Wanted.

To buy corn and speltz ut market
price, to be delivered at Model Ranch
three miles east of Gam Valley.
j. A. JOHNSON.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-12-26
Programme.

For the meeting Of the Literary Society on
Jan. 4. 1908.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-25
PHOENIX BABY
 DROWAS IN TUB

PHoENIx, May 23.-Roiiing from s
 porch in the rear of Mrs. 4. J. ston- CTS home on North Eleventh street
 in BrilIs addition, an 11-months-old
 girl, whose mother resides in Flag staff. was drowned in a bathtub full
 of water Mrs Booth, mother Of Mrs. Stoner,
 has had charge of the child for sever al months and intended raising it as her own, having taken the infant at the request of it's mother. Emma Wat son. of Flagstaff,
 Mrs. Stoner had left the infant asleep on a bed on the back porch, going to the front gate, where she
 spent five minutes in conversation
 with Miss Ellen Nj. Br2adbooks, ma tron at the Crittentoa thome. sr When Mrs. Stoncr returned she was mortified to find the infant in the bath tub, it's little body floating on the sur face. Screaming for help, she lifted ] it from the water. and after placing the child on the bed from which it had rolled, rushed for help.
 Dr. 4. S. Hawley was attending a patient few doors away, whom lie had under chloroform, preparatory to performing an operation. When asked
 to come to the relief of the child he had to refuse, fearing that to leave his patient might mean fatal results. Mrs. Stoner hurried back, picked up the baby and carried it as fast as pos
 sible to where Dr. Hawley was en-
 gagged He made an examination and found that life was extinct. Nothing could have been done that would save
 it
Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-25

Grand ball at the Rink every Satur- day night Rink for rent other nights.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-25

10 the presence of the secretary of the treasury he posts the boss" be- fore the stranger Is admitted to the sanctum sanctorum. Mir. Cortelyou owes to Pitts more than to anybody or anything else the reputation he has for a long and ever green mem ory.
 Pitts was born away down in Geor- gia. His parents moved north early in his childhood, and Pitts remained there until about fifteen years ago when he sought and obtained posi- ton as messenger in the treasury de partment His excellent manners. and his all around efficiency soon attract ed attention and finally Mr. Cortelyou heard about him. Pitts was invited to the White House. and remained there until Mir. Cortelyou started his swing around the circle.
 Soon after MT. cortelyou went to the treasury a change took place in the manner of doing business in the office of the secretary. Leslie NJ. Shaw Is free and easy going person, and while he was at the head of the department people passed in and out of his office much as they pleased. Assistant secretaries, and heads of ii- visions were at liberty to come and go: very fe wpeople were held up at the door. Mir. Cortelyou has great regard for the dignity of public office, and insists upon the application of certain fixed rules m the conduct of the department in which he happens to be located. He is as accessible as any member of the cabinet and can be seen by any one who has an excuse to see him either at his office or in ! his home. Officials in the department of whatever rank must be announced however, before they are permitted to enter into Mir. Cortelyou's presence This practice raised a great hullaba loo around the treasury department | during the first week or so of Mir lCortelyou's administration. but people
 who go there on business have now
 become used to the state of affairs. | To Pitts was entrusted the task oi Introducing the new order of proceed ure. For a time Pitts was disliked
 but it soon be:ame known that the faithful seryitor was merely obeyine orders from higher up" and that il
 there was any blame it was not in his
 part.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-25
PITTS SAPECULIAR
 COLORED SERVANT

WASHINGTON, May 24.-George Pitts is the name of the coiored mes senger who has stood outside the door wherever Geo. B. Cortelyou has happened to make his official home during the past ten years. Pitts Is one of the best known colored men in the United States. He has wide ae- quaintance among politicians and oth- public men who come to Washington from time to time for, one thing and another. Pitts was with Mir. Cortel- you when the latter was secretary to the president. When Mir. Corteiyou was placed at the head of the depart ment of commerce aad labor he took Pitt with him. Then Mr. Cortelyou temporarily quit the service of the government to take up his duties as chairman of the Republican national committee. Pitts was stationed on guard outside the door of the cam paign headquarters in New York. When Mir Cortelyou became postmas- ter-general it took an executive order to get Pitts name on the federal pay roll again. The order was issued by the president. at the request of MT. Cortelyou. It took mother executive order to transfer Pitts to the treasury when Mir. Cortelyou assumed his du- ties at the head of the great depart. ment as the successor to Leslie M. Shaw. Pitts record as a messenger is unique in the history of the gov ernment service.
 Secretary Cortelyou has a high re gard for Pitts. He could hardly get along without him. Pitts is a born diplomat He's as smooth as they make them. He knows the boss and the people the boss wants to see and those who should be discarded.
 A day or so ago man called al l the treasury whom Mir. Cortelyou had not seen for years. He waited in the ante-room for the secretary, and the latter on his way out to lunch stopped and spoke to him by name, recalled 1 the circumstances under which they had last met, and passed on.
 Marvellous, marvellous, said the caller. That mans memory for faces
 and names is beyond me. can't un
 derstand it."
 But Pitts could. Pitts is George D Cortelyou's animated memorandum He never forgets a name nor face and as it is his duty to escort callers
Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-25
AMSTER PRAISES
 ARIZONA COMMERCIAL
lGlohe Beltl

k11iOoe s3tilt
 N. l.. Amster, president of the Ari zona Commercial Copper company who has been in Globe for several days. said after visit to and a thorough inspection of the company's mines:
 q consider that the Arizona Com mercial property has improved 100 per cent from the time I was in Globe last December. We have an entirely new body of silicious ore opened in the Cochise claim. twenty-five feet of which was better than 6 per cent cop per, and have one hundred feet of ore on Copper Hill with both breasts still in ore which Is fifteen feet wide. and averages G per cent.
 We have been shipping over twenty tons per day to various smelters of silicious and sulphid cores but an ac- dent to the Old Dominion concentrator has temporarily shut of one hundred tons per day
 "The Arizona Commercial company Is now iH a strong position. It has its property all paid for, s250,000 cash in it's treasury, a railroad which cost about $125,000, and from now on its shipments will steadily increase.
 Within thirty days I expect the Arizona Commercial Copper company will ship three hundred tons per day. Development of our Black Hawk prop erty has been delayed by inability to get pumps and other machinery. We are sinking through a small prospect ing shaft to the 600-foot level and are now dowl 560 feet on the 9th level. Here we have encountered chicken quartz, indicating that the copper has leached through to greater depth. feel confident of running into a big rich ore body at depth. We have, however, on the 9th level on the east drift body of ore one hundred feet long and twenty to twenty-five feet wide which win average per cent"
 -F-
Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-25
NOTICE

Estate of Mary E. Morris deceased. Notice is hereby given by the under signed executor of the estate of Mary E. Morris, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them, with the necessary vouchers, within ten months after first publica- tion of this notice to the said executor at the City of Bisbee, Arizona, the same being the place for the transac- tion of business of said estate, in said county of Cochise.
 I. E. LOOMS, Executor of the estate of Mary E.
 Morris deceased.
 First publication April 2S, 1907.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-08
The Passing Of Courtroom Oratory.
Insnirafinn IL q Inst art IN tha nn1Irf

The Passing Of Courtroom Oratory.
n Inspiration is a lost art in the court
room. Nowadays no true lawyer adj
Vises, prepares documents or tries a
case without a careful preparation.
Forensic oratory has passed away. No
longer does the crowd gather In the
county courthouse to listen to and be
moved BY the wit, pathos and elo-
quence Of the advocate as for hours or
days he addresses the jury. The court
room may be filled, but 1t is largely
with the ubiquitous reporters, many OF
whom are as destitute Of tears as Sa-
hara Of water and as callous to emo
ton as the mummied sleepers Of
Egypt. No longer is 1t true that weep
Ing men and women with handker-
chiefs to their eyes are moved by the
eloquence Of counsel. Time is a press
Ing factor. Facts rather than elo.
quence is the demand. I'd. @. Brewer
In Atlantic.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-08
Convict Regiments.

At the beginning of the eighteenth
century the British army had a bad
reputation at home, and it was very
difficult to get recruits for it. For-this
reason 1t was officially proposed to find
the men by an impressment falling on
"any sturdy beggar, fortune teller or
the like idle, unknown, suspected fell
low in the parish or, If there be none
such, then any one that has already
been in a gaol or before justice of the
peace for his idle, disorderly life" The
advice was acted upon. Debtors were
released from prison on promising to
join the army or the navy, criminals
We're pardoned on the same terms. and
persons with no visible means Of sub
sistence were marched of to death and
glory. The system worked out better
than might have been expected In the
peninsular war, for instance, three new
regiments were composed entirely Of
conyicts, and one made for itself an IL
lustrious name.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

II doesn't take much 10 make tool
OF any one.
Being busy has kept many man ont
OF mischief
When a man does another man a
favor, somehow 1t seems to strengthen
his memory.
great many people do not talk
scandal, but they furnish the material,
which is just as bad.
Indulge in as little fool talk as posi-
bic People are quick to pick up your
foolish sayings and repeat them be-
hind your back. 5s5s.
Investigate and you win find that
jealousy sends more people to insane
asyIums than any other thing It win
even do up drink in making record.
Thank heaven, the multip lication ta-
BILE doesn't change! 1t Is the only
thing a mother knows that is the same
as when she went to school and which
she can speak Of without being cor
rected. Atchison Globe.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

The most acceptable form of polite
ness Is cleanliness. IS
Because you sa, you intend to do a
thing it isn't done.
About all some men are good for is
to second the motion
You may think you are entertaining,
but there are people lodging you all
the time. & =.
Don't send ten dollar flowers to the
funeral Of man whose family is left
without any income.
The man in a dangerous location
never thinks he is in a dangerous loca.
lion or he wouldn't be there. Il
The owner or horse and buggy
tries to be modest, but he can't help
showing that he feels a little superior.
The first insurance against trouble
that children learn about is to get a
promise from mother that she will not
tell father.Atchison Globe.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-08
SLEEP AND NERVE REST.
A Necessity That lis Overlooked In
the Modern Strenuous Life.

A Necessity That lis Overlooked In
the Modern Strenuous Life.
In the days when eight hours for
sleep were nominally regarded as an
hour too long for any self respecting
Individual the exhausting character of
modern life was unknown. There was
less wealth and more contentment; less
competition and more security; fewer
distractions, but more simplicity.
Work was easier, slower, and care.
anxiety, apprehension word, wor-
ry-did not feed, like the worm L tn
bud, upon the hours exempt from toll.
We are remorseless in oyertaxing the
delicate mechanism of our minds and
nerves. The best walker, for instance.
does not propose to himself to go regu-
larly sixty miles a day or to subject
the same set of muscles in any other
form of physical exercise to intense
and unrennitting labor. But that is
what we do with the immediate agent
Of our minds-the brain machine. We
cannot watch its operations. We otter
assume that its movements are as ligh1
and endless as the ripples Of the uni
versal air. We know and nevertheless
we forget that the brain is substantial
apparatus as liable to depreciation as
the fixed plant in workshop. Now
nothing is more certain than this-that
the potential capacity of the human
brain has not increased, if at all, il
anything like the proportion, Of the i'm
mensely aggravated demand upon it.
The modern man is subject to as
much mental and moral wear and teal
in day as his ancestors in no very
remote generation experienced In &
week. Yet in respect of sleep we have
hardly changed traditional habit We
keep later and still later hours. We
catch our trains in the morning as
usual There is no doubt whatever thai
we burn the candle at both ends with
unprecedented disregard of the laws OF
psychological economy, and that the
amount of rest we allow for nerve and
brain Is no longer adequate. London
Telegraph .
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-08
FALLING OF TIE LEAVES.
Z 1he Wind In the Autumn Really Has
Very Little TO Do with II.

1he Wind In the Autumn Really Has
Very Little TO Do with II.
When the storm clouds gather behind
the brown autumnal woods and cold
winds begin to blow. then the bright
leaves come drifting down In futtering,
fast thickening showers until it almost
seems as IL the wind were the active
agent and actually tore the leaves from
the trees. This, OF course, is not rhe
case The leaf fall only becomes posi-
BILE after a long preparation on the part
OF the tree, which forms a peculiar
layer of cells In each leaf stem called
the cleavage plate.
This cleavage plate, or separation
layer, consists of section Of loosely
attached thin walled cells with a few
strands of stronger woody fiber in
among them, SO, in the early autumn,
although the leaves appear as firmly
attached as ever before, they are really
only held on the tree by these few
woody strands and the outer brittle
skin or epidermis Of the stem. Now
only a slight shock or wind furry is
sufficient to break the fragile support
and bring the leaves in showers to the
ground. We may see these woody
strands broken through in the leaf scar
Of the horse chestnut. where they APP
pear as little rounded projections on
the broken surface and are often spok-
en- OF from their fancied resemblance
to the nails of a horseshoe. The hick-
DRY and ash among other trees have
similar markings on their leaf scars
and from the same cause. On the root
Of the wild sarsaparilla, which projects
just above the ground, like series Of
little projections will be seen upon the
ringlike scar which surrounds the bud
where the leaf stalk has just separated.
| Often the leaves separate and fall
even on the quietest days. for their
own weight is sufficient to break the
frail support These hushed and SUI
premely tranquil days we all remem-
Der, when our October walks are ac-
| companied by the soft, small sounds of
falling leaves, by the rustlings and dry
! whisperings Of their showering multi
1 tudes.- st. Nicholas.