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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-20
People Tell Each Other About Coos
Things.

Twelve years ago few people In the world
knew Of such a preparation as a Powder for
the Feet. To-day after the genuine merit
OF Aliens Foot Ease has been told year after
year by one gratifed person to another,
there are millions who would soon go
without dentifrfcs as without Aliens Foot
Ease. 1t is a Sleanly, wholesome healing.
antiseptic powder to be shaken into the shoes,
which has given rest and comfort to tired
and aching feet in all parts Of the world. 1t
cures while you walk. Over 10000 testi-
monials Of cures Of smartlng. swollen, per-
spring feet 1t prevents friction and wear
OF the stockings and will save In your stock
ing bill ten times its cost each year. lmita-
tions pay the dealer a larger profit, other
wise you would never be offered substitute
when you ask for Aliens Foot Ease. the
original powder for the feet. limitations are
not advertised because they are not perma-
nent.- For every genuine article there are
many limitations The imitator has no rep
utation to sustain-the advertiser has. 1t
stands to reason that the advertised article
is the best, otherwise the public would not
buy 1t and the advertising could not be con-
tinued. When you ask for an article adver-
tised in this publication, see that you get II.
Refuse limitations.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-20
WENT TO TEA
And 1t Wound Her Bobbin.

Tea drinking frequently affects peo-
pie as badly as coffee. A lady in Sails
bury, Nd, says that she was compelled
to abandon the use Of coffee q good
many years ago, because it threatened
to rain her health and that she went
over to tea drinking, but finally, she
had dyspepsia SO bad that she had lost
twenty-five pounds and no food seemed
to agree with her.
She further says: "At this time I
was induced to take up the famous
food drink, Postum, and was so much
pleased with the results that I have
never been without 1t since. l COM
menced to improve at once, regained
my twenty five pounds Of flesh and went
some beyond my usual weight.
II know Postum to be good, pure, and
healthful, and there never was an arti-
Gle, and never will be, believe, that
does so surely take the place Of coffee,
as Postum Food Coffee. The beauty of
it all Is that 1t Is satisfying and won-,
derfully nourishing. l feel as If d
could not sing its praises too loud
Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
There's q Reason" :
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-20
Chances for Lighting Companies.

T.. l.. Harris, United States consul at
Smyrna, makes an interesting report
on conditions in Asia Minor, and in
regard to electricity, says: The city
of Smyrna, with nearly 100000 popu.
lation. has no electric railway, cleo
tric light or telephone. There are cities
all over Asia Minor varying In size
from 10000 to 10000 Inhabitants where
there are opportunities of getting con-
ccssons for electric light and trac-
ton. 1t is strange for American elec-
trical concerns to turn their backs on
this field with the excuse that moth
ing under a Sl.O0O,CC0 concession would
attract thep."
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-20
Madame Midas
BY FerSus Hume

BY Fergus Hume

Madame Midas suffered severely from
the shocks she had undergone with the
discovery of everyone's baseness. She
settled certain income on her husband,
on condition she never was to see him
again, which offer he readily accepted,
and having arranged all her affairs in
Australia, she left for England, hoping
to find in travel some alienation, if not
forgetfulness, of the sorrow of the past.
\ good woman-a noble woman, yet one
who went forth into the world broken
hearted and friendless, with no belief in
anyone and no pleasure in life. She, how
ever, was of too fine n nature ever to sink
into the cynical indifference of a misan-
thropic life, and the wealth which she pos
sessed was nobly used by her to alleviate
the horrors of poverty and to help those
who needed help. Like Midas, the Greek
King, from whence her quaint name was
derived, she had turned everything she
touched into gold, and though it brought
her no happiness yet it was the cause of
happiness to others, but she would give
all her wealth could she but once more
regain that trust in human nature which
had been so cruelty betrayed.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-20
Old-FashiOned Simplicity.

"Our dads were lot of mossbacks,
weren't they?"
Deed they We're. Why, those old
chaps used to actually think that the
Black Crook was indecent."-Louis-
Vile Courier Journal
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-20
On the Fly.

He-Did you have nice vacationf
She-Splendid! Jack taught me t.
fish.
He-Catch anything?
She-Yes, / caught Jack.-Washing.
ton Star.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-20
Change.

Gunner-Cogger used to have such
an eXasperating horse laugh.
GIyer-It has all changed since hl
bought an automobile
G1nner-H'm! Now, suppose, be-
has the "horseless laugh"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-06-20

The man who marries for money ~
J1m becomes round-shouldered iron
Carrying what he getA
The Washington bee., 1907-05-18
The Native New Yorker.

i've been away from the city for
several years, said the Idiot, "and on
my return l find things very different
from what they were when l left. In
the late eighties of the last century,
for instance, you would occasionally
encounter a New Yorker, by birth, on
the streets, and. once in a while, you
would see one at the theaters on first
nights, but nowadays they don't seem
to be in evidence"
Have you tried Harlem?' asked the
policeman. with a grin. But, hold on
a second" he continued. Here's one
of our plain-clothes men. I'll ask him.
Hi. Moriarity," he cried to a prosper
ousIooking passerby. Say, is anybody
ever born in New York nowadays"
'Oh, yes, indeed" replied Moriarity.
"A good many-tney're mostly fur
riners."
And with that he passed on, and the
Idiot mournfully resumed his quest
John Kendrick Bangs, in Broadway
Magazine.
The Washington bee., 1907-05-18
.OLD WALL ROUND CITY
CAMPECHE, MEXICO, AS ROMAN
TIC AS ANCIENT SPAIN.
High Walls of the Once important
Seacoast Town of Yucatan Are
as Strong Today as When
Finished in 1853.

Mexico Clty.-In stories of Unknown
Mexico, which sweep in and out of
ones view and hearing, there is here
and there a touch that makes its last
ing impression. Ancient Indians, long
dead civilizations, and ruined abbeys
all have their own peculiar interest,
general in a way, bat in the final an
alysis of chief interest TO the arch
aeologist But there are other tales
of old Mexico which are calculated to
thrill or at least interest every read
er. Such a story would be that OF
walled city, still such a city as it was
when the walls were built, and now
tinged with the romance of the OH
days which has been sOftened by
imagination and the forgetting OF I'M
pleasant things. Here in Mexico Is To-
Gated at least one such city, and, prob
ably without doubt, the pOssessOT of
the only ancient walls which still re-
tain their shape, are still unbrOken,
and still serve in some measure as a
part of the city's life. Campeche, The
ancient capital of the penitentiary Col
ony of Yucatan is to-day surrounded
by the same walls which the Spanish
garTisons of the Vice-regal days erect
ed in the substantial fashion of the
past as a protection against maraud-
ing Indians and organized bands OF
Spanish and Mexican cOnvicts.
Campeche is one of the most inter
esting of hot country capitals. Once
the great outlet of the rich peninsula
of Yucatan, the city is now but little
more than a quiet hot-country town.
Campeche is one of the oldest capi-
tails of Mexico. Although the chief
port of the criminal colony of Yucca
tan, the histories tell also of its ex-
ports of the riches of the tropics to
the great ports of Europe 1t was
The Washington bee., 1907-05-18
Old Doc sianed His VIII.

New Augusta. Miss The first case
on record in this state of a dog max
ing its own will. and OF it being
offered for probate. is reported here.
Fifteen years ago DOC" McAllister,
the largest planter in this section.
dfed, leaving a pet hound. In his win
he set aside $3.50 for the care of the
dog until death. FOFd McAIlister, the
eldest son of the deceased, was given
control.
"Tobe," the hound, died recently,
leaving numerous progeny, of which
young McAllisteT is very fond. De-
string to preserve the beQuest for the
benefit Of the pups, when the old
hound was attacked by sickness the
boy drew up a will in proper form,
witnessed by two citizens. and placing
a pen between the claws of the aged
dog. the animal made its cross mark.
The Washington bee., 1907-05-18
ARMY VETERAN RETIRED.
Gen. Wade Has Served Country for
Nearly 50 Years.

Washington.-Maj Gen. James F..
Wade was retired from active service
a few days ago, having reached the
age limit Ga years. Forty-sM years
OF this time he has devoted to the ser
vice of his country.
At the opening of the civil war he
enlisted in the Twenty y-ninth regiment,
which was organized in this part Of
the state. Shortly afterward he was
made first lieutenant in the Sixth
United States cavalry. He was in &C.
tive service through the entire war
serving for some time on Gen. Sheri-
The Washington bee., 1907-05-18
MILL soon HEAD ARMY
IA WOOD TO SUCCEED BELL
as CHIEF OF STAFF.
g.. Educated as a Surgeon and He
Will Have Another Medical Man
Ir Gen. Ainsworth as
Ad lutant.

u-.sr.r-t0l.- The prospect is that
.s--a Theodore Roosevelt leaves the
MI House the army viii be under
Immediate control Of TWO men
-, r... educated as surgeons. These
Nj Gen. Leonard Wood and Maj.
. r... c.. AinswOrth. Army Off
" "A. O. rule. il is said, are not great
= rrn..E over the prospect Of men
y. .a.. gp through the medical de-
..--~-g. being placed in charge OF
E. .g-iua. 1t seems to be pretty
5.s--.. Understood that within the
. rs months Gen. Wood will sue
- Mai Gen. j. Franklin Bell as
.ss.r rf ...E. Maj. Gen. Ainsworth is
.-- -ra military secretary, or adju-
..-- genera. of the department. and
.... -..-. such efficient service that
t... .. .. prospect of a change in
mi .#.. during this administration.
The mn.l rise of Gen. Wood is pri-
-.-..r referred TO by army officers as
mi. .s The seven wonders of the
r.rr lg The retirement of Maj.
Zen lanes f. Wade. only recently an
-rr... Wood became No. 2 on the
rs- off major generals. The only man
,raaf os him was Gen. Arthur MacAr-
Hr- who went into practical retire
-a1r Oh the 31rh of April, Gen.
Macarthur is the only obstacle be-
tVaaB Gen. Wood and the office Of
chief of stan.
Macarthur has TWO years to serve
before he goes on the retired list, but,
rrlrelug. he is not ambitious to fill
Fa office of chief of staff. He has a
long and honorable record of service,
and bis friends here understand he
Is willing to step aside for Wood if it
shall develop that it is the wish Of
the gdui1.srr ion that this be done.
The Washington bee., 1907-05-18

dams staff, and also with Gen. Pleas
ontOn. Toward the close OF the war
he was in command Of the Fifth vol
unteer cOIOTed cavalry. He received
many breVets for gallantry and was
mustered out of the volunteer service
April Is. 1866 He did not join his
regiment, the Sixth United States cav
airy, but took a leave, and while
spending the summer in Jefferson,
was offered a majority in the Ninth
United States cOlOred cavalry. He
was with that regiment 13 years, serv-
ing most of the time in Texas and
New Mexico.
In 1879 he was promoted to Lieut..
Col. of the Eighteenth cavalry, and
served with that regiment in Texas
and Arizona, until 1887, when he was
promoted to colonel of the Fifth cav
airy, with service in the Indian Ter
ritOry and Texas, until 1897, when he
was made brigadier general and
placed in command of the department
of Dakota, with headquarters at st.
Paul, MINI. At the opening Of the
Spanish war he was made major gen
eral of volunteers and sent south to
assist in the organization of troops.
hoping and expecting that he would
be sent to Cuba.
At the end of the war, he was mus
tered out of the volunteer service and
returned to St Paul. In 1901 he was
ordered IN the PbiIinniDes and served
there nearly four years. During that
time ne was appointed major general
in the regular army and was in COM
mand of the division OF the Philip
pines for more than a year. Upon his
return TO the United States he was
placed in command of the division Of
the Atlantic, headquarters on Govern,
Ors Island, n Y. for the remainder OF
his term of active service.
The Washington bee., 1907-05-18

most prominent in the eyes of seamen
as the last sight of Mexico, often Of
America, in the long trip across the
Atlantic AS such, it was a port which
was watched closely by the pirates
who infested the sea in those days
when the broad American waters were
known as the Spanish Main To it
came the rich Spanish gaIleons from
Vera Cruz and COatzacOalcos, and
from it, with enriched cargOes, they
sailed for Cuba and for Spain. It was
a great city in those days, when the
ships could come close into its shall
low but we'll protected harbOr, and as
such it was we'll guarded and gar
risOned.
The work on the wall was begun in
1892 and an inscription over the prin-
cipal gate states that it was completed
in 1869, having been n years in build
ing. In form and walls spread over
an irregular. seVen-sided pOIygon, with
bastiOns at each of the corners, and
massive octagonal forts at the waters
edge. The walls are eight meters, or
26 feet high, and are four meters or
1919 feet thick, all Of solid masonry.
apparently as strong to-day as when
they were built, with the exception of
the four or five places where the walls
have been thrown down to make way
for roads communicating with the out
side.
A moat, now almost obliterated,
once surrounded the walls, and was an
added protection from surprise. 1t is
worthy of note that in the accounts
presented to Carlos " in 1869, the
cost of the Notifications of Campeche
are placed at $225,O24
AS the only walled city in Mexico,
Campeche demands a very special at
tention, but when it is realized that
those walls are perfect, that their
gray, sOftening grimness is real and
not a stage effect, and that old Spain
itself has no more romantic pictures
than those to be found about those
very walls, one feels that the sight is
worth the long trip, and even worth
the walks in the sun (thOugh it is
easy to let the sun convince one other
wise). The frOwning bastions of the
corners, where once protruded the old
iron cannons which are now stuck
muzzle-dOwn in the corners of the
gates, the forward walls of the main
gate, where rifemen could pick of
the parties of attacking Indians or
convicts, and the rare old main gate
itself, with its little lookout, the bal
cOny windows from which the chal-
lenges once came, are all touches
which one does not realize can be en-
counteTed anywhere but in Europe.
Yet here in Campeche they stand, as
romantic and silent and natural as
though they had been built in the
days Of FL Cid and not in the more
prosaic epoch of Charles the Fourth,
when walls were a questionable pro-
lection, and ehivalry was Of the type
of Don QuiXOJe
The Washington bee., 1907-05-18
Town BORN OF SPITE
VERONA, ME-, ONCE KNOWN AS
ORPHANS ISLAND.
Intended as a New England Metropo
lis, But Plan of Promoters Failed
NO Church or Post Of
flee in Village.

Verona, Me.-The intensely Yankee
town of Verona, with it's intensely
Italian name, was born out OF spite.
Long before the English fleet sailed
up the PenObscOt river in the autumn
Of 1914 and laid Bangor under heavy
tribute, the present town was known
as Orphans Island, and had been sur
veyed and mapped out as the future
metropolis of New England
A long bridge costing many thou
sands of dollars, was built to connect
the island with Bucksport and paid
for from the sales of a few choice
lots near the center of the unborn
city.
The Wetmores and Heaths and
Bowdoins and Bridgeses, who were
interested in the plan, looked down on
old John Jacob Astor as an amateur
in finance, and thought the rich men
at Boston were beggars.
Later on it was discovered that the
drawing Of expensive maps and the
making of elaborate plans would not
insure an immediate sale of real es-
tate. The promoters ran short Of
money and became plunged in debt
They appealed to Bucksport for help
IN repairing the great bridge.
When their prayers were not grant
ed, out of spite they asked the legis-
lature for a town charter, and were
made joyful when the new town of
Verona was born.
The decline of weir fishing and
shipbuilding nearly depOpulated the
island after the civil war, but recovery
has followed slowly through close at
tention to agriculture.
Though the town is seven miles
long and nearly three miles wide at its
bulge, though several of the residents
are wealthy, neither as Orphans island
nor as Verona has there ever been
settled clergyman or lawyer or doctor
on its area.
There is no church, and when
citizen dies he has to be taken across
the bridge to find burial in a cemetery.
There has never been a murder or
any serious crime committed on the
island since its first settlement.
No post office has ever been placed
on the charmed ground by a benevo-
lent and paternal nation.
No sheTiffs ever cross the bridge to
serve legal instruments.
No minister drops in to take supper
with wOrshipful parishioners.
When a doctor from BuckspOrt rides
through the neighborhood it creates
as much of a sensation as a circus
parade.
II undertakers relied upon Verona
for patronage they would go into in
sOlvency.
1t is a place where no baTber's pole
hangs out to allure customers.
No book agent ever calls.
The Washington bee., 1907-05-18

At every point and IN every depart
ment the work was progressing zig
orOusly and in harmony. Not a word
did we hear of criticism of one de-
partment with another, The person
mel of the management was admira-
BILE; keen, alert young men, all inter
ested in their work and all confident
Of success.
There was no unusual amount Of
sickness. The sick and death rates
were only % to 1000, and four and
eight-tenths to 1000, respectively, not
greatly differing from average of our
own country. By the official reports
for the last ten months, we found
there had been but one death from
yellow fever and two from smallpox,
while strangely enough the most fre-
quent deaths were from tuberculosis,
3S6.
Under Col. Gorgas there has been
an immense amOant of sanitary work
done. The cities have been cleaned
up as never before, good brick pave
ments have replaced the cObblestOnes
and mire, and foul disease breeding
cutters are a thing of the past.
If no labor troubles interfere l be-
lieve the canal will be completed in
seven to ten years. As to cost, I do
not pose as a judge of this, or of the
time Of completion, but we all thought
it would cost more than the original
estimate, quite a good deal more"
The Washington bee., 1907-05-18
THIS BOY CHEATS DEATH.
Youth Supposed to Be Fatally Shot
Amazes Surgeons by Recovery.

New York.-With eight perfora-
tions in his intestines and the
chance for life 100 to one against
him, Frank Garrison, IS years old,
walked a mile to a hospital, submitted
to an operation from which there was
virtually no hope of his emerging
alive, and finally amazed the ply
sicians who attended him by walking
out of the hospital the other day ap-
parently as sound and sturdy as he
had ever been in his life The sur
geons say his is one of the most re-
markable recoveries on record.
Young Garrison, who lives on West
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street
went huating dock rats in the neigh
bOrhood of One Hundred and Twenty
first street and the Hudson river. He
was examining a gun when it was dis
charged and its entire load lodged in
his abdomen.
Strangely enough, the lad did not
lose consciousness, but realizing that
he needed medical attention without
delay, he shOuldered his gun and
picked his way painfully to a hospital,
at One Hundred and Thirty-first
street and Amsterdam avenue, a good
miles distance
For several days afterward the
boys condition was desperate and the
physicians looked for his death at al
most any mOmenS Then there came
a sudden rally aRd from that mo-
ment the youthful patient steadily
improved.
The Washington bee., 1907-05-18

of Saghalin. Their cradles are not
rocked by hand. They are suspended
instead from the swinging branches
Of trees outside in fine weather, just
as they were in the days Of Peter the
Great. It is said that Russia's
famous ruler was when a child rocked
to sleep in a cradle of this kind, as
shown in the accompanying picture.
The cradle of the Gilyak baby Is
made from pieces Of bark bent to
the required shape and fastened to-
gether by thongs of deerskin. There
are a hood and two rings from which
to suspend the cradle, but there are
no rockers or springs.
On fine days the Gilyak mother sgs-
pends the cradle from the branch of a
slender tree rocked by the wind and
puts her baby to sleep there without
having to do any cradle-rOcking her
self. In disagTeeable weather it is
different. The cradle is suspended
from the rafters indoors.
The Washington bee., 1907-05-18
BABE IN INCUBATOR.
Weighed Two Pounds at Birth, Four
Months Before Time.

Elma, Wash.-There was born to
the wife of Milton Spurgeon the other
day a child which weighed at birth
but two pounds. So light and frail
was the tiny piece Of humanity when
it was born that Dr. Blair, of Elma,
the attending physician, in the alb
sence of better facilities, ordered a
chicken incubator Immediately pro-
vided for the newborn babe, and that
the child be placed in 1t at once and
the temperature kept at blood heat
With careful watching and attention
the child has continued to live; 1t is
kept drapped in a finest and softest
of batting.
Although the child was prematurely
born, four months before its time.
it now gives every promise OF living.
1t is not longer than a foot rule, and
is just able TO make a noise when it
cries. It's little hands, clinched, are
not larger than ordinary marbles.
Its breating is perceptible and reg
ular, the high temperature that is
maintained causes the little thing TO
perspire freely. The father and
mother of the child are living on a
farm about three miles from EIma:
the babe is their firstborn and is a
girl
The Washington bee., 1907-05-18
rooeREss OF PANAMA CANAL.
Michigan Congressman Tells of Visit
to the isthmus.

t.-Representatiye George A.
Loud, Of the tenth district of Michi-
gan, the only representative from this
state who was a member of the party
from Washington which made a trip
to the canal zone, has returned from
that expedition and was recently in
Detroit. The congressman comes back
to his duties a thorough Optimist on
the canal proposition and he has lit
tie patience with those who have re-
Gently been raising a cry of graft.
1t was the unanimous opinion of
our party" said Mr.. Loud, that the
work was magnifcently organized.